Ithaca Times October 29, 2014

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Time to Make a Choice

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Painter, dancer and guitarist Brian Keeler

Pamela Drix puts politics aside, mostly

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and possess the highest reputation for honesty, integrity and good character."

"I wholeheartedly support Rick Wallace, Democratic candidate for Ithaca City Judge. I believe he will do an excellent job." —PAM MACKESEY,

“When it comes to drug and alcohol cases, Rick gets it. Let’s elect a judge who really understands these issues.�

—ARPI HOVAGUIMIAN, Former Director, Alcohol and Drug Council of Tompkins County

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"Rick Wallace has been there for my family and our community for his entire 24 year career. Vote for Rick on November 4th!" —LANA MILTON,

“Integrity, experience, honesty and character.

Rick Wallace has all these qualities to be our next City Judge� —GARY HUNTER,

"I'm supporting Rick as our new judge because he has the experience, integrity, and community support a judge needs to be successful." —TIM JOSEPH, Former

"I'm so impressed with Rick's IJEQC rating of highly qualified. It's rare for a new candidate to get that rating. It's a reflection of his professionalism, record and experience.

I'm pleased to endorse Rick Wallace for City Court Judge." —KRISTINE SHAW, ESQ., Attorney

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w s l i n e develop an objective screening process, update our policy and procedures manual, and initiate accountability measures for improving Ithaca City Drug Court outcomes.”

Peacock noted that winning the WFP vote and running under that party has not changed anything about his campaign.

“My campaign has always been about working families,” he said. “My story of moving from a truck driver to an attorney and now judge is a working family story.

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elevision screens on Collegetown trash bins will not be happening anytime soon, and most likely never will. City of Ithaca Board of Public Works (BPW), during its Monday, Oct. 27 public meeting, informed CladNetwork, a company founded and run by three Cornell juniors, that its proposal to install six waste receptacles equipped with flatscreen televisions throughout Collegetown and the Commons will not be moving forward.

“It is with regret,” City Attorney Ari Lavine said in a letter, “that I report that New York State law does not permit the city to proceed with your proposal.”

The students, Viswesh Swaminathan, Nyan Gadepalli, and Nick Rainier— founders of CladNetwork, are focusing on creating the “next generation of billboards” via a waste unit that is “a weatherproof rectangular wooden frame with an embedded 40-inch LED TV, three galvanized 31-gallon steel waste bins, three waste openings, and two waste bin access doors.” Fiberglass panels would seal a plywood roof from the elements.

Additional technology would include tracking of how full the bins become, and the trio noted their company would empty the bins upon 80 percent capacity. But their idea will not be seen, locally at least, due to New York legislation.

“New York State law is clear,” Lavine wrote, “that, ‘except in connection with a proprietary activity or pursuant to express statutory authority, it is not proper municipal purpose to raise revenues by selling advertising space on municipal property.’ [Atty. Gen. Op. 92-31] The exception to this principle for proprietary activity refers to activities undertaken by a municipality that are more traditionally undertaken by the private sector. The collection and removal of trash, however, is a governmental function, and thus not a proprietary function in the eyes of New York law. [Nehrbas v. Village of Lloyd Harbor, 2. N.Y. 2d 190. 194-95 (1957).

Lavine did, however, leave communication lines open between the city and CladNetwork open for future ideas.

“As a result,” he continued, “the city will not be able to proceed in partnering with CladNetwork on this proposal, though you may well be able to partner with a private property owner in locating your proposed receptacles on their continued on page 4

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lthough local attorney Rick Wallace edged out fellow democratic candidate Seth Peacock 745 votes to 675 votes in the Sept. 9 Democratic primary, Peacock took home the Working Families Party (WFP) vote 8 ballots to 6. The latter gave Peacock, currently the interim city court judge, a platform to run on for the Tuesday, Nov. 4 election.

Neither Wallace or Peacock have slowed down their push for the bench in the aftermath of the Sept. 9 results.

“After winning the democratic primary in September,” Wallace said, “I took a much needed break with my wife and children. Although they all helped me with my campaign, we missed out on some of the other quality time we always have in the summer. I wanted to make that up to them and also give my very tired campaign team a much-needed break.

“After that,” he said, “I went back to work on the campaign and also back to work representing clients. For many years, I have had a very busy private practice at my firm, including several current matters in full litigation. It is very important to me that I am able to participate in this campaign while maintaining my professional obligations to my clients and the court system, as well as my family.”

Peacock said he wasted no time taking his message right back to potential voters.

“I have been spending my time talking to voters,” he said, “about how important the November 4 election is for our city. In addition to campaigning I have been working as judge hearing cases and presiding over Ithaca City Drug Court.

My goal is to work toward a more efficient, accountable, and equitable legal system.

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Democrat Martha Robertson challenges Republican incumbent Congressman Tom Reed

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Artist, dancer, guitarist: Brian Keeler lives it up

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Together with sure-fire hit Moreland the Magician and Hilby The Skinny German Juggle Boy, world renowned Clown, Circus Artist, and Comedian will bring you countless laughs and memories, as well as raise money for the Ithaca School Districts Elementary schools’ PTAs. Be there! Or have nothing to talk about the following Monday! ▶ Deer Permits Available, The (DEC) announced that remaining Deer Management Permits (DMPs) in several WMUs will be available to hunters beginning Nov. 1. Go to www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor for more information.

▶ Community Radio Support, WRFI Community Radio is seeking volunteers to help with its third annual fundraising marathon.

Sunday, Nov. 2 through Sunday, Nov. 9, help is needed answering phones, recording pledges and more. Write gm@wrfi.org to get involved and help keep independent media alive -and well- in Ithaca and Watkins Glen. as an introduction to their work. ▶ Fall Creek School Fundraiser, The Wacky Hour on Nov. 2 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Kulp Auditorium is where you want to be.

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If there was a movie about your life, who would you want to play you?

“ Ray Liotta. He’s got some of the darker side of life. I don’t want anyone too good looking.”

—Dan McCullin

“I’m training to be an actor.

I’d like to play myself.”

—Divyanshu Tiwari

“Raquel Welch.”

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ity of Ithaca Director of Parking Frank Nagy has made his presence felt in his first 14 months, and more changes are on the way. For the last 20 years, taxpayers have subsidized parking in the city to the level of $2 million per year. Nagy’s mission is to make parking a revenue source in the city, not an expense.

“Parking costs money,” Nagy said.

“Road conditions, curb lines, equipment— it all costs money to make it operate. No matter how you look at it, whether it’s street repairs or sidewalk repairs, it costs to have that street in front of your house or business. Therefore, that expense needs to be recouped. The city alone, right now, gives away $30,000 dollars a month in free parking.”

A big part of this transition has been automating the city’s three garages. Two of the garages have already been automated, and the Green Street garage will join its peers in early 2015. That change has already made a big difference, as automating the Dryden Road garage and Seneca Street garage netted the city more than $35,000 in just four months after the change, which began in Aug. 2013. Nagy noted that not having the exit verifiers was letting city funds “escape out the door.”

“When I first got here in June [2013],” Nagy recalled, “one of the first things I noticed was that the city had bought pay station equipment, but wasn’t using it. The question I had was ‘Why?’ The reason was they had never bought the exit verifiers that go along with the system to make it work. So you had two pay stations sitting

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property, if that proves feasible. Again, I thank you working to improve your community, and I hope that despite the city’s inability to partner in this particular endeavor, you will bring forward more great ideas in the future.”

City Ponders Fate of Fulton-Court Parking Lot BPW, also during its Monday, Oct. 27 public meeting, discussed two options to modify the existing public parking lot at the corner of North Fulton and West Court streets to permit only parking.

City Transportation Engineer Tim Logue explained the lot is currently being under utilized.

“Most recently,” Logue said, “we got to the point with the most recent owner where we asked, ‘Does this parking lot have any public purpose anymore or just private purpose?’ We struggled with charging people to park there. It seemed like if it was free, people would park there,

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waiting to see what was going to happen there—what equipment we’re going to need to work with the hotel, and the hope that the hotel would pay for some of that expense—which didn’t happen. So now that’ll go out to RFP [request for proposal] by the end of the month, and hopefully by January 1 [2015], Green Street garage will be 100 percent automated.”

Some Ithacans have wondered what the automation of the city’s garages does mean—and will mean—for the cashiers who once did the same job the new technology is now responsible for. Nagy said those workers are simply using their time in different ways, and that the parking department does not plan on letting any staff go, and has even hired a new employee in An automated exit verifier keeps the gate down at night in city parking garages. recent months.

The time in this photo is 11:15 p.m. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) “[The cashiers] are night] at Seneca Street, and they would still in the garages,” he said. “No one has lost their position. They have become open the gate. Now they keep the gate ambassadors. Now, because they don’t closed, forcing people to use the pay have to sit inside the [booth], they’re able station.” to do projects inside the garage. Their The Green Street garage, which didn’t responsibilities also include meeting and have the pay stations inside of it when Nagy took the reins, has been slow to join greeting people as they come in to the the evolution because its future neighbor, garage, to be available at the pay station, the downtown Marriott hotel, has not yet at the exit verifier so that they’re there for broken ground, and they will benefit from people who aren’t use to the system.” • use of the garage and its added revenue.

“The delay on the third,” Nagy – Michael Nocella said, “had a lot to do with the hotel and there for five years doing absolutely nothing. So we got the three exit verifiers that we needed for the two garages [Dryden Road, Seneca Street]. (The Cayuga Street garage was already outfitted with this equipment.)

“We’re still only charging what we’ve always charged,” he continued, “but we didn’t [collect] it before because we didn’t have a cashier there [to enforce it].

Cashiers would go home at 8 o’clock [at

but if they had to pay, no one was really all that interested in it. In my estimation, this lot doesn’t have much public purpose anymore. It has a private benefit sure, but it doesn’t serve the public in any way anymore, or at least a significant one.

Certainly not one that out weighs our responsibilities to maintain it.”

Option one would be to sell it to Wink’s Auto Body Shop, which has approached the city and offered to purchase 20 monthly parking permits for the lot. This option, Director of Parking Frank Nagy said, would be a pretty straightforward arrangement that would net the city some extra funds on an annual basis.

If the city sells the parking lot to Wink’s Auto Body Shop, Nagy said, the city would bring in about $5,000 a year, and Wink’s would take care of all the maintenance.

Option two would be to discontinue using the parking lot, triggering the “reverter” clause in the agreement with New York State, and sending the property back to the state via an auction process.

Whatever price the lot brought would go to the city. This, Logue, explained, would be a more complicated option than selling the lot directly to Wink’s, but would give the city more immediate funds from the transaction.

“The scary thing [about the second option],” Logue said, “is the lot is big enough that we don’t know what the state would do with it. They might not just offer to sell it to the adjacent owner, so there’s really no control for the city in terms of what the state would do with it. It seems like a big enough lot that isn’t required to be parking under city zoning, but it is a pretty developable lot. It’s one of the busier streets in the county. I would think it would be very attractive to the private sector.”

BPW ultimately decided to table their decision until the first meeting in November, when can receive further input from City Attorney Ari Lavine and Mayor Svante Myrick, as both were not in attendance Monday night. • – Michael Nocella

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owie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor of New York State, is a Teamster, now working as a UPS truck unloader in Syracuse. He was in Ithaca on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 4:30 p.m. to address a crowd of supporters in Press Bay Alley, behind the Greenstate building. Approximately 30 people gathered under tents in the pouring rain.

Hawkins begins his stump speech with statistics that show how Syracuse is suffering while Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in charge in Albany. The poverty rate in Syracuse is 38 percent. They are closing treatment centers, fire stations, and have let go a quarter of the teaching staff in the city schools. “Because this governor wants to give tax breaks to his campaign donors,” said the Green candidate for governor, “and makes us pay for it with service cuts and tax hikes.” Hawkins noted that 331 people gave the Cuomo campaign over $40,000 each, which accounted for $22 million of his $45 million war chest. Cuomo’s average donation is $70,723; the average donation to Hawkins campaign is $77 and the median is $30.

The “Green New Deal” is the centerpiece of his electoral strategy. He supports an immediate shift to use of alternative energies, a ban on high-volume hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and gas pipeline construction, and a halt to the plans to expand gas storage underground at Seneca Lake outside Watkins Glen.

Hawkins cited studies done at Cornell, Binghamton, and Stanford that claim it is possible for the country to switch to 100 percent clean energy by 2030 using technology that exists now.

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invitation to have young people visit the court for field trips is to let the children of those working families know that the courthouse belongs to them and that they can work in any role in that court including judge. But this race is less about party politics and more about creating a new vision of what it means to be an Ithaca city court judge.”

In the Wallace campaign, on the other hand, there have been some developments.

“There have been several changes since the primary,” Wallace said, “including a constantly growing list of endorsements and supporters. I am truly humbled by the extent to which people have come out from all corners of our community to offer their support.

“Two differences since the primary stand out the most,” he said. “The first, I completed the extensive evaluation process

Green Party candidate for governor, Howie Hawkins (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

“It’s not only technically feasible,” he said, “it’s the best economic stimulus that we could think of, because their studies show that there would be 4.5 million new jobs and it would cut electric rates in half.

I mean, what are waiting for?” Hawkins stated that the only reason we are not doing this is “oily money” that influences politicians to do nothing.

The Green Party candidate has organized his platform around the State of the Union address made by Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 70 years ago, and reintroduced during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Roosevelt suggested that were six basic things that everyone had a right to in a civilized society.

The “Green New Deal” is a six-point plan that Hawkins is up front about having lifted from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1944 State of the Union Address, which included “some of the New York State Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission and received their highest rating of ‘Highly Qualified.’ The other standout feature of the current campaign is that I have now received the endorsement of my former opponent, Kristine Shaw. Kristine is well known in the legal community as a skilled attorney with the highest ethical standards, integrity, and commitment to our community.”

Both Wallace and Peacock said life will go on, win or lose in the Nov. 4 election, as both have successful lives and already play important roles in the Ithaca community.

“Although I am grateful for Mayor Myrick’s appointment as city court judge,” Peacock said, “I took a chance by taking this temporary appointment because I had to shut down my law practice. I thought it was worth the risk because it is important to serve this community as judge. If the voters choose not to allow me to continue as judge, in order to continue to support my family, I will reestablish my practice.”

basic things that everyone ought to have in a civilized society.”

In addition, Hawkins believes people have “the right to a stable climate and a clean environment” and as such he is opposed to all the fossil-fuel industry aspects of the Cuomo administration’s energy plan, which he describes as largely a switch from coal to gas.

Hawkins’ six-point platform begins with the right to a job and the right to a living wage. He predicted that the development of alternative energy technologies would provide jobs and recommended that civil service jobs analogous to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s be deployed again.

Hawkins wants to see a minimum wage of $15 per hour. In 1963, he recalled, during a march on Washington, they were asking for $2 per hour minimum wage. If you adjust that for inflation, it would be $15.55 per hour, he said, adding that perhaps it should be rounded up to $16 per hour.

The right to healthcare: He prefers a single-payer system to the mixed system we have now, citing a study that claims single-payer would save $28 million by 2019. Hawkins said that 30 percent of your healthcare costs go to overhead now, while Medicaid has only 2 to 3 percent overhead.

The right to affordable housing: Half the people in New York State, he said, are paying more than 30 percent of their income in rent, and one-third of homeowners are paying more than 30 percent of their income in mortgage and property taxes.

The right to a good education: Hawkins said that Gov. Cuomo has balanced the budget by cutting aid to schools. In Syracuse, he said, the school district has lost a quarter of its staff since the governor took office. He noted that although Ithaca has increased its budget 8 percent this year, it still had to “cut pre-K programs that date continued on page 12

Wallace joked when he considered the possibilities of life after the election.

“I am an old sports guy,” he said.

“Basketball was my passion and has been my passion since grade school. I played in youth league, junior high, high school, and into college. I would still be playing today if I could take back twenty years and three sports-related knee surgeries. My focus is on winning the election. Apart from that, my plans have been the same since my career began. I am back here in my hometown to help as many people as I am given the opportunity to help. Being helpful to others is a philosophy I try to live by. It keeps me centered and motivated. I truly believe that city court [judge] presents a powerful opportunity to be of service to others, both people who are appearing before the court and our community as a whole. I hope to have that opportunity.” •

Ups&Downs ▶Perdue Scholar, Zoe LaClair, a student at Cornell University, was selected as one of five recipients of the 2014 Joe Perdue Scholarship. The scholarship is rewarded

by The Club Foundation and was established in honor of Joe Perdue, CCM, CHE, a longtime educator and pillar of the club management industry. It provides tuition support to students who are pursuing careers in club management.

Since its inception, The Club Foundation has awarded 177 student scholarships totaling more than $320,000.

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 ▶ Park Foundation grant awards, Among its third quarter grants the Park Foundation gave three to the City of Ithaca. Body Cameras for Police Officers ($19,560); Mentoring and Youth Leadership Programs for Secondary Students ($20,000); Ithaca Youth Bureau’s Recreation Department Scholarship Fund (ECHO) ($15,000). The Center for Transformative Action also received $50,000 for the Groundswell Farm Business Incubator. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Oct. 22-28 include: 1) Football Mom Blames School District 2) Woolly Bears On The Move 3) Man Flown to Trauma Center After Falling 60 Feet Into Cascadilla Gorge 4) Cornell, Ithaca College Implement Community Approach to Sexual Assault Prevention 5) Body Found on Chestnut Street Saturday For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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very election season a certain contingent of people vocally opposes voting on the grounds that it’s pointless: both parties are the same. They say that both Democrats and Republicans disappoint on the all the important issues and therefore voting is futile. This is not just a lazy, reductionist political view, but one that is incorrect in many important ways.

Yes, there are many issues on which both parties have failed to take substantive action. Corporations hold a discomfiting amount of sway on both sides of the aisle.

Both sides have used gerrymandering to gain advantage. Both sides have shown little reluctance about entering frequent military conflicts. Both sides have permitted significant invasions of privacy.

Regardless of affiliation, most politicians fall into an economic bracket the average voter can only dream of. Neither side is immune to corruption nor scandal; there is a disquieting number of each every year.

The list goes on.

That being said, there are many important ways in which the sides are different. There are certain issues – gun control, abortion rights, gay rights, minimum wage, healthcare, the death penalty—where the differences are very clear cut. For me, the differences are very clear and very personal when it comes to at least one particular issue—drug laws. It was a Republican governor who championed and ultimately signed into law the notoriously harsh Rockefeller drug laws back in 1973. After decades of escalating prison costs, in 2009 a Democratic governor repealed the mandatory minimum sentences that those laws entailed. Just a little over a year

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later, I was arrested for a non-violent drug possession charge in the end of 2010.

Under the old laws enacted by one side, I would have been doing 15 to life. Instead, because the other side had those laws, I did just under two years.

Today, when people tell me both parties are the same, I tell them that one party would have had me incarcerated possibly for the rest of my life and the other is willing to recognize that I can be a productive member of society. To me, the space between left and right doesn’t get any clearer than that.

Given that, it is perhaps predictable that one of the reasons I will be voting this November 4 is because if it were up to one party, I wouldn’t be voting at all. I’d be in prison for at least the next decade. I recognize that there are issues on which both sides are completely failing. However, there are issues—some of which have a very real affect on my daily life—in which only one side is failing. I vote because of those issues.

Granted, this isn’t to say that everyone should vote Democrat—that isn’t the purpose of this piece. The purpose of this piece is simply to show that Republicans and Democrats differ in myriad ways that affect many lives irrevocably. Just because both sides are failing to make substantive outcome on any given issue does not mean that they are the same.

Making that claim requires relying only on a lazy political philosophy. Don’t be lazy. Recognize there are differences—real differences—between the parties and vote.

Whether it’s left, right, or center, just vote.

– Keri Blakinger, reporter, Finger Lakes Community Newspapers

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

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randparents’ Day never took off as a holiday, despite the best efforts of the Hallmark people, but the commercialization of Halloween has certainly succeeded in the U.S. Our nation’s Halloween spending has not yet surpassed yearly expenditures on infrastructure or education, but give it time.

Ithaca deftly sidesteps many commercial trends, and Halloween’s popularity here—it is robust—seems more involved with the traditional roots of the holiday than its modern, material offshoots.

The roots include a celebration of the harvest (we’re surrounded here by agriculture, after all), and a farewell to warm-weather fun, with a last blast of outdoor frivolity.

Offshoots such as hundred-dollar Disney costumes are rare here. Imagination and craft are more prized. (I know a couple now working on their 3 year-old’s desire to go as a forklift.)

I lived in New York City and D.C. before (returning to) Ithaca, and neither place has Ithaca’s affection for Halloween.

New York has enough real havoc without welcoming much in make-believe. D.C., of course, has a way of making everything less fun. Big cities: there is too much else going on for much focus on a homespun holiday.

When I first came to Ithaca, as a freshman at Cornell, I was surprised by Halloween’s popularity on campus. At 18, I hadn’t thought about Halloween in years. It emerged, or practically exploded, as a way to blow off steam after two months of study, before weeks of being tested and graded.

Among college kids, Halloween is perhaps a way to hold on to a bit of childhood, while otherwise trying to shed it.

For adults, Halloween might be a way to recapture lost youth. A lot of adults dress up for it these days.

For me, even as a child, Halloween was not a day of carefree fun, but its opposite: an employment opportunity. It was a day to go out and earn currency of coin and candy.

I wasn’t too fussy about costumes. I might get an eyepatch from the drugstore,

wear a scarf of my mother’s on my head, and go as a pirate, or color a beard on my face, wear an old hat and jacket of my father’s, and go as a bum (sorry, Dad!). The main thing was to get out there and work.

I lived in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn, but certainly wasn’t chaperoned.

That would only slow one down, and hurt one’s street credentials. Plus, I was out there all day and night.

Along with accumulation of delicious name-brand candy (no apples or “Jim’s Wafers,” please), your goal was not to get your ass kicked and candy stolen by bigger kids. You made numerous stops home for secure drops of goods. The idea was to get enough candy to last until Easter. It was a lot of effort.

Carefree fun on Halloween was further negated for me by my background as a serious Irish-Catholic.

Halloween, for Catholics, is the “holy evening” before 1 November, All Saints’ Day, a holy day of obligation, which means go to Mass, or go to Hell. The following day, 2 November, is All Souls’ Day, a day of prayer for the souls in purgatory. This all kind of cuts down on your enjoyment of Snickers and Chuckles for a while.

Just as intense was the Irishness. My mother’s parents were from Ireland and believed that on Halloween, the worlds of the living and the dead came closest to actually meeting in their annual orbits.

Don’t be surprised by the sight or touch of a ghost that night. They’ll be there in the room with you.

It was superstition, I suppose, but they believed it. I tried not to even think about it. It wasn’t easy, and I still think of it every Halloween. My grandfather died on Halloween of 1977, and my grandmother on Halloween of 1989.

Maybe commercialization of holidays is not just to make money, but purposely to lessen the potency of the days’ real meaning.

The mysteries of life can be pretty profound, once considered. Life is a lot easier the less you think and feel. •

YourOPINIONS

Some Election Thoughts

Barbara Lifton—who represents us so well in the New York State Assembly as a champion of public education and environmental sustainability, healthcare for all, real campaign finance reform and progressive taxation—definitely deserves reelection. We need her!

New York State needs a governor who sees that job as one of leadership to address all residents’ basic needs, not Astorino’s conservative ideology nor Cuomo’s personal 6 T

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ambitions and closed, dictatorial and vindictive style. I have listened to Howie Hawkins well-articulated vision for New Yorkers—for example, a “green New Deal” with economic democracy, civil rights and racial justice; healthy food, protected farms, sustainable ag and food justice; net neutrality and digital democracy; higher state minimum wage including tipped workers; criminal justice reform and workers’ Barbara Lifton Barbara Lifton Barbara Lifton rights; healthcare for all; real campaign finance reform and progressive

taxation—and can enthusiastically vote for him (rather than facing the usual “lesser of two evils” choices).

Proposition 1 addresses the required every-10-years statewide redistricting— not by creating an independent redistricting commission (the courts removed the word “independent” from the ballot language as being inaccurate!) but by doing the opposite: making the NYS Legislatures’ ability to draw district lines part of the NYS Constitution! Bad idea.

Vote “NO” on Prop. 1.

community I cannot more emphatically urge you to vote for Rick Wallace for City Court Judge.

– Jonathan A. Orkin, Esq., King Ferry I’m very impressed with Rick Wallace’s IJEQC [Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commissions] rating of “highly qualified.” It’s rare for a new candidate to get that rating. It’s a reflection of his professionalism, record and experience. Rick will be the impartial, fair, engaged judge Ithaca deserves. I’m pleased to endorse Rick Wallace for City Court Judge.

– Dooley Kiefer, Town of Ithaca

Supporting Seth Peacock

I write in support of Seth Peacock for Ithaca City Court Judge. It is not unusual in Ithaca to find a candidate for office who possesses professional and intellectual competence, and Seth is squarely in those ranks. His education, his experience in law practice, his community service on the ICSD Board and elsewhere demonstrate that. The endorsements of Judge Rossiter, Mayor Myrick, and individuals we’ve met while canvassing for Seth also attest to it. But it is far more unusual to find a candidate with the cultural competence to expand the reach and responsiveness of a legal institution to the least well served members of the community. Seth Peacock is the candidate with that competence, already seen in his actions as acting judge and his ideas for the court. Please join me in voting for Seth Peacock for Ithaca City Court Judge on the Working Families Party line on Nov. 4.

– Mark Ashton, Town of Ithaca I urge you to vote for Judge Seth Peacock on Tuesday, Nov 4. In a few short months since he was appointed as city court judge, he has made some important changes toward a more equitable legal system. Former Judge Rossiter has publicly endorsed Judge Peacock and commended him on his performance as judge.

– Karen Friedeborn, Town of Ithaca

Not a Peacock Supporter

I have been following the City Court Judge race very closely.

I was stunned by Seth Peacock’s deceptive answer at the voter’s forum about not having been banned from courts. He was banned from at least three! Recently, he publicly endorsed a gubernatorial candidate, a blatant violation of the judicial campaign ethics rules. We are watching.

– Mauro Marinelli, Ithaca [Ed. Note: the writer is referring to the “Rules of the Chief Administrative Judge.” Part 100, Section 5 forbids judicial candidates from attending political gatherings during the campaign.]

Wallace Supporters

Rick Wallace, with 24 years of experience representing clients in a wide variety of cases, is the best choice for City Judge. With experience comes technical

– Kristine Shaw, City of Ithaca City Judge candidate Rick Wallace has shown he believes in upholding the law, while focusing on restorative justice.

This approach addresses the needs of the victims, the offenders and the community.

That’s why he was recently rated “highly qualified” [by the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commissions] and why I will be supporting him on November 4.

The paving stones are going in on Bank Alley. At the far end of the alley, the pieces of the new Bernie Milton Pavilion are waiting to be assembled and erected. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

skills to make good decisions in the fastpaced courtroom setting and the ability to balance compassion with common sense when considering alternatives to incarceration.

the depth of his capacity to understand the intricacies of social justice and the knowledge that behind every safe and viable community is a person and a family.

He has spent years familiarizing himself with community development and has demonstrated a clear understanding relative to interventions within the judicial system that buoy safety for community members while providing justice for victims and opportunities for rehabilitation for those who meet specific criteria. He doesn’t only talk about supporting systemic community change but is a change agent himself as demonstrated through his volunteer work.

The Ithaca community is his heart, having grown up right in the heart of the town.

He is a man of exemplary integrity and action, serving the Ithaca community in a holistic capacity for many years. He has earned my full confidence and trust.

– Pam Bleiwas, Ithaca About nine years ago, when I was a new attorney in town, Rick Wallace was very helpful and supportive in my transition to this legal community. Rick is an experienced lawyer, but I also believe that his generosity and communitymindedness are why Rick is the right choice for Ithaca City Judge.

– Jason Leifer, Dryden I have known Rick Wallace for 22 years and know him quite well. I have broken bread with him and his family many times and have also left my grandchild in his care as her godfather for many years when she was a baby.

I first met Mr. Wallace in my capacity as Program Manager for Ithaca’s Community Dispute Resolution Center, and as a board member for the local domestic violence agency in Ithaca. As a former resident of Ithaca, woman of color and survivor of domestic violence who has worked in the field of domestic violence for over 25 years, co-writing domestic violence bills and working to transform those bills into laws (Candice’s Law, North Carolina), I strongly endorse Rick Wallace for Ithaca City Court Judge.

Not only does he fully understand the complexities of domestic violence, but also the difficulties of marginalization and disenfranchisement that imbues the everyday lives of people of color.

I am continually impressed with

– Rita Anita Linger, CEO SERA, Raleigh, N.C.

I first came to Ithaca in 1971 as a student and went on to teach in the Ithaca City Schools. After attending law school in Syracuse, I have practiced law here for the past thirty-one years the majority of which has been spent in one courtroom or another before many, many judges.

I have known Rick Wallace for many of those years. I am also familiar with the other candidate. Rick knows our community. He is a gentleman with a perfect judicial demeanor. He understands what a litigant will be going through as he/she stands before the bench. I do not believe the choice we have to elect our next City Court Judge is even a close one. Based on my knowledge of who he is as well as my experience and knowledge of our T

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Robertson Supporters

Tom Reed’s campaign tactics show he is unfit to hold public office.

Among other questionable actions, his campaign has been twisting the truth of Martha Robertson’s ironclad support for our Second Amendment rights. It is a well-documented fact that as chair of the Tompkins County Legislature, Robertson voted against the SAFE Act. In contradiction to the Reed campaign’s misinformation, Martha also signed SCOPE’s pledge to repeal it.

Shortly thereafter, the Democrats cut national-level television and radio ad funding for Martha, not because they doubt her victory, but likely because they are afraid of politicians who cannot be controlled by money. Tom’s campaign is so worried about the unpopularity of their message that one staffer illegally attempted to siphon votes away from Robertson by putting Green Party member Darren Robbins on the ballot, much to Robbins’ surprise.

So ask yourself who you would rather have fighting for you in Washington: A maverick Democrat with the courage to stand up to her own party when she believes them wrong, even to the point of losing vital campaign funding; or a Republican who believes so little in his own politics that he has to resort to cowardly tricks and lies just to win reelection?

– Joseph Prusch, Ithaca Martha Robertson is not a patsy for sale while Tom Reed is owned by the Koch Brothers and big money interests.

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Time to Make a Choice Democrat Robertson challenges incumbent Republican Reed on the issues

By Louis DiPietro

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n Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, voters in the 11 counties of the 23rd Congressional District— including Tompkins County—will make their choice as to who will be the voice of 716,000 constituents for the next two years in Congress.

There’s Republican Tom Reed—the 42-year-old, twice-elected New York State Congressman, former Corning mayor, attorney, businessman, lifelong NRA member, proponent of small government, husband, father, brother and a war veteran’s son.

He will again face another Tompkins County challenger in Democrat Martha Robertson—the 63-year-old longtime member of the county legislature and four-time chairwoman, a self-described champion of bipartisan politics, guardian of Medicare and Social Security, former kindergarten teacher, businesswoman, wife, mother and sister.

The Issues If the two warring factions jammed within the hallway of Elmira’s Clemens Center were any indication, there are very different and conflicting views on whose and what values should be guiding the Southern Tier in these next two years.

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Thirty minutes before last week’s debate between Reed and Robertson—the first of three leading up to Election Day—the charged-up local Reds and Blues went to work on one another, chanting for their candidates, lobbing pep-rally invective, and toting campaign signs and inked up posterboards.

Only after a woman, presumably an organizer with the Clemens Center, hushed the crowd and made an appeal for peace did both sides get their collective blood pressure in check and offer conciliatory golfclaps in agreement. This, after Robertson supporters were told by one Reed supporter to “Go back to Tompkins County where you belong,” and after the “We need Reed” chants by the Republicans received an amended “Gone!” from the Dems.

Hunkered down in this maelstrom was 76-year-old Nancy Rehner, an Elmira native and one of 20 volunteers there on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons. Wearing a bright red AARP T-shirt with a “Vote Financial Security” sticker, Rehner sat in her dual walker-chair amid the waiting crowd. She said she attended the event to rally for continued support of Social Security and Medicare, a federal health program that covers people aged 65 and older.

“Medicare needs to be altered, but

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M a r t h a R o b e r t s o n a n d To m R e e d at t h e i r d e b at e at t h e C l e m e n s C e n t e r i n E l m i r a o n Th u r s d ay, O c t. 2 3 ( P h o t o s : Ti m G e r a) it needs to be there,” said Rehner, whose Medicare coverage pays for her kidney dialysis in full.

“I’m lucky,” she said. “I’ve got a good insurance plan, but some of my friends do not. Do they buy food or medications?”

As she would later recount during the debate, Robertson described how her own mother worked well into her 80s for fear that Social Security and Medicare wouldn’t be there for her upon retirement. She has vowed not to cut either of those benefits.

“Older Americans have paid into this all their lives,” she said in an interview with this publication prior to the debate. “I will fight for Medicare and Social Security.

When elected, that’s the fight I’ve made.”

Robertson’s solution? Leverage buying power and negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for fair prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients.

“It’s insane to me that we don’t negotiate for prescription drug costs for Medicare,” she said. “We have the biggest buying group, and we should be leveraging that power for better prices. That would save taxpayers. It’s a big giveaway to pharmaceutical companies.”

In the debate, Reed speculated that both Social Security and Medicare are

headed toward bankruptcy in 2033 and said politicians are working proactively to prevent that from happening.

“I went to Washington, D.C., to do something, to solve problems, and Social Security and Medicare going bankrupt in 2033, it’s wrong not to deal with it proactively and prevent the catastrophe that would occur if they continue to do what we do in Washington, D.C., in regards to just kicking the can down the road. We’re going to keep working hard to proactively solve this problem.”

Once the doors to Mandeville Hall were opened up, viewers filed in to claim limited seating, while those unfortunate enough to find themselves at the back of the line were kindly reminded that the debate would be broadcast on television.

Inside, Bob Conley, 68, of Elmira, occupied a seat in the back row. A poster board he carried read,“Vets for Tom”.

“I like his views,” the retired state corrections officer and Navy veteran said.

“I’m against the SAFE Act [the state’s controversial gun control law], and I would like to see fracking.”

Nearby states like Ohio and Pennsylvania are pulling in revenue from fracked gas, he said. “Why shouldn’t we

percent of her total donations.

Robertson said federal incentives for have a piece?”

Tucked within Reed’s FEC filings, alternative home-energy options like solar Like many other issues central to under “Transfers From Authorized panels need to be made permanent instead this election, high-volume hydraulic Committees,” one can find an unusual of temporary. fracturing—prohibited in New York since backer at the top spot. Elliott Management “Right now, we’re subsidizing oil and 2008—is what Reed would call “a clear Corporation is a $25-billion hedge fund gas,” she said. “We need to subsidize new contrast” between both candidates. energies and new efficiencies. It’s almost $40 firm whose employees, including the Robertson’s stance against fracking is company’s founder, have routed more than no revelation. As a county legislator, she was billion [in subsidies] to oil and gas. That’s a $80,000 into Reed’s campaign this election. good start. I’d take that.” a notable figure at several anti-frack rallies What interest a Wall Street fund has in Continuing with renewables, in Albany. the New York State 23rd Congressional race Robertson said the next big ideas for clean, And, in December 2011, as chair of the alternative energy could originate right here. is a bit unclear—an Elliott spokesman said it county legislature, Robertson oversaw the legislature’s formal approval of four separate She said the Southern Tier region, with the doesn’t comment on employee giving—but resolutions that called on the state to tighten likes of Binghamton, Corning, and Cornell media reports and a look at the company’s “could be an absolute magnet for the next up regulations within its SGEIS regulatory holdings provide some explanation. big solutions that can solve these problems, document on fracking, to side with local Paul Elliott Singer founded Elliott create entirely new industries and businesses Management Corporation in 1977 and municipalities on the issue of home-rule we don’t even know about now.” authority, to enact a frack ban in the Finger has since amassed a net worth of $1.86 Lakes and—as if Tompkins’ position were not clear enough—to ban fracking statewide. Robertson voted yes on each resolution.

Conversely, for Reed, hydraulic fracturing for natural gas is key to reigniting the district’s manufacturing industry and sparking a job boom.

“An all-of-the-above energy policy, to me, makes sense, but my opponent doesn’t want to support that,” Reed said in the Elmira debate. “As she talks about blocking the development of natural gas and adamantly is opposed to the development of natural gas and hydraulic fracturing that has made it possible to unleash those resources, I have been committed to that, but there needs to be an energy policy that has a short term, mid term and long term. That’s why I remain committed to the alternative and renewable energy sources out there.

We have supported—and our record shows our support for—an all-of-theabove energy policy that I believe S o m e c l e a r d i f f e r e n c e s i n t h e d e b at e au d i e n c e . ( P h o t o s : Ti m G e r a) is the future for America. With natural gas, we are cleaning up the environment.”

Robertson supporters John Dennis and billion, enough to earn himself a seat among The Cash Allen Green traveled from their homes in Forbes’ 400 richest Americans. Singer’s In terms of total campaign the village of Lansing and the Freeville area, Elliott Management made a name for itself contributions, Reed surpassed Robertson respectively, to attend the Elmira debate. as a “vulture fund” for its tactic of buying $3 million to $2 million, according to the Global warming, fracking and energy up discounted debt (i.e. bonds) and then most recent filings with the Federal Election playing hardball for full payment as those reform were some of the issues that stuck Commission. That $1 million difference out to them. bonds inched toward default. As a recent can be attributed entirely to the campaign Dennis—who, like Green, has solar example, Elliott Management has been dollars given to Reed from various political panels on his home—spoke passionately hovering over the government of Argentina action committees (PACs) across the about the need for alternative energy for a decade now, fighting in U.S. court for country and from one prominent Wall reform. Dennis said he has enough solar payment of an estimated $1.3 billion in Street hedge fund founder. panels on his home’s roof to power two defaulted debt, according to Forbes.

With the help of dozens of PACs cars, all of his electricity, and leave him with An activist investor, Singer has made like Corning Incorporated Employees, an energy surplus to then sell back to the a conscious effort to channel dollars grid. The problem, however, is that he’s paid Chesapeake Energy, and Committee for into causes like the legalization of gay Preservation of Capitalism, Reed socked wholesale rates by the utility company—a marriage (he’s a strong supporter) and, away nearly $1.8 million in PAC cash, few cents per kilowatt hour—which isn’t most fervently (in dollars, anyway) the accounting for more than half of his entire nearly enough incentive to encourage more repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act, which campaign war chest, according to those of what he calls “energy entrepreneurs”. The had tightened up regulations on financial same FEC records. Robertson, too, got some institutions following the housing market issue is particularly urgent in the town of Lansing, which, he felt, could benefit from a help from PACs, but not nearly to the tune collapse in 2008. Starting in 2008, Singer of Reed’s sum. PAC contributions from the users-as-entrepreneurs approach as officials and Elliott Management began funneling likes of American Association for Justice, decide whether to convert the town’s larger donations to conservative PACs and Ameripac, and the International Association Republican candidates, according to data coal plant to natural gas or invest in new of Firefighters chipped in $313,000 total to transmission lines. from the Center for Responsive Politics and Robertson’s campaign, making up just 15.5 Asked to comment after the debate, opensecrets.org. Since that time, he’s given T

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$9.2 million in individual donations to the Republican Party, and more still to PACs. For the 2014 election cycle alone, Elliott Management has contributed $7.5 million total, primarily to conservative groups and PACs. Reed isn’t Elliott’s only New York state play, either: The company has also donated more than $200,000 to two other Republicans in state Congressional races, the 19th district in the Hudson Valley and the 21st in the North Country. According to the Elliott’s latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the managment firm is most heavily invested in energy (42 percent of holdings).

Interestingly, it was Robertson’s camp that received more contributions from individual donors, nearly $1.7 million versus Reed’s $1.2 million. Robertson alluded to this when asked about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s decision earlier this month to renege on $465,000 in advertising funds to her campaign. As reported by Roll Call, the DCCC—House Democrats’ main campaign arm, according to its website—opted to shift those funds to other races.

“We’ve always had a grassroots campaign that depends on voters in this district,” Robertson said. “The DCCC has great confidence in our campaign. It was a national decision. We’re moving forward and expanding our campaign every day. I know we’re going to win.”

Where Have You Gone, Tom Reed?

In his 2012 bid for the 23rd Congressional District seat, Tompkins County Legislator Nathan Shinagawa came within roughly 10,000 votes from unseating Reed, garnering a surprising 48 percent of the vote district-wide. In Tompkins, Shinagawa destroyed the former Corning mayor, taking 70 percent of the vote.

In 2014, facing another Tompkins County candidate, Reed’s campaign chose to find votes elsewhere in the district and leave Tompkins County to its leftist leanings.

Case in point: extremeithacaliberal. com, a Robertson-bashing website created by the Reed campaign and intended to paint the Dryden resident as a big-government proponent, a near Nancy Pelosi clone and a tax-junkie with “extreme” political tendencies. The site also employs liberal use of trite stereotypes aimed at Ithaca, like a flower-power banner image and campaign videos involving a psychedelic van and verbiage like “far out” and “stoked.”

When this publication contacted Reed’s campaign offices several weeks ago about the site, they were transparent, candid even, about their role in creating it. Yes, that’s our work, they said, and that’s what you do to win an election.

Robertson was not stoked.

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he’s got nothing to run on. His record is great if you’re one of the wealthiest Americans, if you’re outsourcing jobs. He’s not for voters or the middle class. He’s got nothing to say.

“I’ve never seen a Congressman offend thousands of his constituents,” she said.

“He’s supposed to represent them.”

The Ithaca Times asked the Reed campaign why anyone from Tompkins County would vote for Tom Reed. If he’s elected, how can Congressman Reed assure residents of this county that he’ll have their

backs, that he will stand with them, and speak for them despite having used them as a hackneyed punchline throughout the more Republican regions of the 23rd Congressional District?

It’s a question, along with several others, for which the Ithaca Times waited weeks for an answer, but Reed’s camp ultimately chose not to return our requests for a brief interview. Likewise, emails with questions and follow-up phone calls with Reed’s campaign yielded no response.

The Aftermath In the ensuing days following the debate, Robertson was pilloried on news

blogs for accusing Reed of being part of a “war on women,” a statement that brought jeers from members of the audience.

“It shocked me when he stands there and says he supports women, when he’s had all these votes that are disastrous for women, and women know it,” she said afterward. “He wants us to think something else. It’s clearly ‘Don’t watch what I do, watch what I say.’”

Robertson claimed Reed supported continued wage discrimination and voted against women’s right to choose. Reed responded by saying Robertson’s argument was “political rhetoric at its worst.”

Robertson was referring to votes Reed cast

in the House to prohibit federal funding of Planned Parenthood (House Amendment 95, Feb. 18, 2011) and a vow that he made this year to do everything he could to keep the Senate’s Paycheck Fairness Act from coming to the House floor.

“My opponent wants to continue to go forward and try to bring up this issue of the war on women,” he said. “It’s just not accurate. One of things that I’ve heard in these town halls as we’ve traveled around the district and listened to people, listened to women in particular, they are worried about the future of their kids. My wife and I talk about the future for our kids here in western New York so they can call it home.

This is what we should be focusing on, is making sure kids have the best opportunity to succeed in America.”

Elsewhere, Robertson refuted both Reed’s claims that she approved of the SAFE Act (she voted against it at the county level) and that she supports a $22 per hour living wage for Tompkins County (It’s unclear where Reed got this number. The county’s living wage is determined by Alternatives Federal Credit Union and is currently $12.62 per hour, with benefits).

The debate was a bit of an eye-opener for at least one Reed supporter. Conley, the Navy vet for Tom Reed, said he thought both candidates made good points.

Though he may be a registered Republican, Conley said he’s more “independent in my opinions.”

“After hearing [Robertson] speak,” he said, “she’s not as out-there as I thought.” •

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to the Sectional final for this group,” ilbert Antoine is in his fourth Gilbert explained, “and two years ago, season as the head coach of the Ithaca High boys’ soccer program, we were extremely young, and we lost 1-0 at Vestal. Five of those players will be and I was a little surprised when I asked starting against Corning, and my guys are him if winning the STAC championship ready. We beat them 7-2 in the regular (for the first time since 1997) was among the team’s pre-season goals. Most coaches season, and we know their strengths and weaknesses.” do offer up such a list of tangible goals, That said, Antoine was quick to but Antoine replied, “No, actually, our add, “We also understand that the 7-2 goal was to stay focused and disciplined, win doesn’t mean anything now. It’s one game at a time.” history. When Corning takes the field on That strategy paid off, as the 11-3 Saturday, they will be a new team, as will Little Red is now the conference champ, we.” and they will take the pitch against A side note: I found Antoine to be a Corning on Saturday, Nov. 1 to try to very interesting individual, and I asked add Section 4 champion to their list of him where he played his collegiate soccer. accomplishments.

He explained, “In Haiti, we don’t have According to Antoine, “We had a college soccer, per se, but I did play on couple of tough losses, but they were my high school team, and then I played good for us, because they allowed us to focus. By the time we got to the STAC final (against Vestal), we knew what to expect.”

That “knowing what to expect” component will be crucial on Saturday, when Ithaca travels to Oneonta to play Corning. The match will be the third this season between the two teams, and team parent Pierre Clavel explained that if the Little Red brings their best game, he’s optimistic.

Little Red boys’ soccer team. (Photo provided) Clavel (whose son Pierre is a junior on the professionally.” One might not expect team) has been a student of the game a man who is so talented with his feet for many years, and he remembers to be equally adept with his hands, so when the great Ithaca High teams of the I was surprised when Gilbert added, “I 1980s (under coach Terry Habecker) am a cellist, and I had to choose between rolled over opponents, putting together soccer and cello, and I decided I had a an incredible 51-game winning streak. better future as a cellist.” Now, Antoine Pierre said, “They are capable of playing plays in the Finger Lakes Symphony a very nice possession game, they move Orchestra when he is not coaching the ball very well, and they are at times soccer or working at DeWitt Middle able to dictate what the other team does.”

This was evident in the most recent game School, where he is a teaching assistant specializing in anti-bias education. against Corning, and Ithaca prevailed • • • convincingly. Earlier in the season, it I have been in several discussions was Corning that dictated the game, regarding two school-related issues recently, and Clavel said—speaking figuratively— “Ithaca was off their game, and tried to go and I’d like reader input on two questions.

One: Should private schools (that are able through a wall, so to speak, rather than to recruit players from any district) be go around it, and Corning won 3-0.” He allowed to play against public schools (that added, “The game is played best when are limited to kids within their district), all 11 players on the field are involved, or should a public school that loses to a and when they do that, they can be very private school be allowed to advance in good.” the playoffs despite the loss? Two: Should A lot of these players have played homeschooled kids be allowed to play on together for many years—playing yearround club soccer in addition to varsity— public school teams? Why or why not?

Please see the online version of this story and the fact that there are 13 seniors on at www.ithaca.com and reach out via the the team bodes well in Coach Antoine’s comments section. Thanks. • eyes. “This is the third consecutive run

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billionaires and corporations, too? Not if Martha wins on Election Day. We need a Congresswoman whose focus is on people first, who supports issues that don’t appear on Reed’s platform such as women’s reproductive rights, robust support for education, protecting Social Security and Medicare from false claims that it is going bankrupt.

Martha voted against the County Resolution to repeal the Safe Act but Reed lies in his campaign ads saying Martha voted for Repeal. Come on, Tom… first you faun for the money, now you’re reduced to gutter level in order to win.

Dishonorable.

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Robertson has the guts and courage to do that. Vote Martha Robertson on Election Day Nov. 4.

– Richard Driscoll, Newfield For most of my life I’ve been represented in Congress by outstanding public servants: first Matt McHugh and then Maurice Hinchey. While it was great to be represented by people with intelligence, compassion, integrity, and a real commitment to serving the interests of their constituents, there was one notable drawback. When I was unhappy with Congress and the direction of my country, as was often the case, I wasn’t able to vote

for change. My representative was already fighting the good fight for justice and progressive change. All my vote could do was keep things from getting worse.

Things have changed. Now I’m represented in Congress by a fanatical right wing Tea Party activist, Tom Reed, who thinks that the most insulting thing he can say about a person is that they’re from Ithaca. Reed proudly proclaims his dedication to slashing services to ordinary people; everything from roads, bridges, public transit, to Social Security, medical care, and education. He would eliminate regulations protecting public health, the environment, and consumer rights. All in the interest of increasing profits and lower taxes for the wealthiest corporations and individual.

Martha Robertson is running to replace Reed. When I served on the Tompkins County Legislature with Martha, I saw someone who cared deeply about those she represented and who served with intelligence, compassion and integrity, just like McHugh and Hinchey.

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Gov. Cuomo has said that New York State spends more per student than any other state, but said Hawkins, we also have the seventh worst distribution of that money. He said that in Syracuse half the students do not graduate from high school. Hawkins wants to see a free public education from pre-K through college at CUNY and SUNY campuses. He said it would cost $1.5 billion about the present $140 billion budget of New York State.

“That’s a little bit over 1 percent,” he said.

“We can afford it. It’s a good investment.”

How is he going to pay for all this?

Increase taxes on the wealthy. The top 1 percent in this country used to get 10 percent of all income, he said. They now get 30 percent of all income. The top tax bracket rate has been cut in half and the bottom bracket rate has been doubled, said the Green Party candidate. “If we just restored what we had in the 1970s,” he said, “95 percent of us would get a tax cut, the state would have 20 percent more revenue, we could restore the revenue sharing we had back then—it’s now less than 1 percent—we could go back to 8 percent. That would multiply by eight what your city is getting and the state could pay for the mandates. You could lower your property taxes and improve your schools and services.

“It’s common sense,” said the candidate.

“I think these are the things that a majority of the people are for. I’ll be your next governor, and we can set an example for the rest of the nation.” • – Bill Chaisson

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his week, I would, once again, like to write of the Ithaca-based artist Brian Keeler. I have written of Keeler before. But I don’t think I did a very good job of it. It isn’t often in life that one gets the chance to go back and correct an error, do something over. What an opportunity!

I wrote of Brian Keeler’s work in an article in the Nov. 2, 2011 issue of the Ithaca Times. At that time, I thought of him as primarily a landscape painter, like, say, Thomas Hart Benton.

(And Benton was no slouch. Although foolishly labeled a “regionalist” by fatuous art critics, he was a great multifaceted master. And he is my favorite American painter.)

Then, sometime later in 2011, Keeler asked me to pose for him, for an instructional DVD on painting in oil that he shot at the Community School of Music and Arts here in Ithaca.

Keeler had a selection of his oil paintings at CSMA for the event—portrait and figurative work. And I realized (with a certain amount of wonder) that Keeler painted like a Renaissance master—like, say, Titian or Tintoretto (or perhaps Vermeer, who isn’t exactly Renaissance, more like the end of Renaissance moving into the Enlightenment).

Then, sometime later again (Feb. 24, 2014), I wrote an article for the Ithaca Times on a dance-themed art exhibition called For the Joy of Dancing at the Tompkins County Public Library. Keeler had several pieces in the show. And those works, in oil and pastel, struck me more like the work of a 19th century impressionist master … say as if Degas had lived and painted dance in the 21st century.

And then, sometime this summer, I was looking at one of Keeler’s paintings reproduced in our own Ithaca Times (a summer scene outside of Gimme! Coffee on Cayuga Street) and it struck me like great magazine illustration work … like, say, the 1940s era illustrations of Andrew Loomis (and a bit like the quiet, theatrical work of Edward Hopper).

And, taken altogether, I realized that Brian Keeler is a sort of multi-faceted Renaissance man of an artist … a 21st century master.

It is also worth pointing out that Keeler plays guitar. He plays jazz guitar with an ensemble called Sunnyside at the Oasis Dance Club here in Ithaca. (As it happens, I play guitar. I am a simple rhythm player. But I know enough to know that jazz guitar … with those wanky cocktail chords … is really hard stuff.)

And, if that wasn’t enough, Keeler is also

a dancer, salsa and swing dancing (especially a California swing dance called “Balboa”). He also teaches it—again at Oasis.

Talk about a life well spent!

The ancient Greeks had a saying I admire: “A gentleman should be able to play the flute, but not too well.” The idea being that a human being should be adept at many things. Have a full, rich life (as opposed to our culture where we are encouraged to do one thing to the exclusion of everything else.)

And Keeler is certainly a Renaissance Guy … successful at many aspects of life … engaging in

many of the arts.

And, lately, Keeler has two shows at the Titus Gallery (newly rebuilt and reopened after being damaged during the tragic summer Commons crash). The current show Ithaca in Autumn will be up until Tuesday, Nov. 4.

And then will be replaced by an all-new show Luminous Lakes, Glorious Glens, Recent Paintings of Brian Keeler that will be up until Dec. 31.

And Keeler has published a 2014 book Dramatic Color in the Landscape: Painting Land and Light in Oil and Pastel (which is available at the gallery).

I dropped by the Titus Gallery to take an opening look at the show. This is an exquisite exhibition and well worth the time of the ArtLoving Reader.

It is a beautiful collection of fourteen paintings … of rolling farmlands and autumnal

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There is a soft long downshot on Seneca Lake at sunset … and some fabulous paintings of the Cascadilla Gorge here in Ithaca … light flaring, colors shimmering and dancing … somewhat more expressionistic works. Scullers ply the Cayuga Inlet on a July day under towering summer cumulous clouds, and there is an impressionist pastel evening on Wyalusing Creek in Pennsylvania as soft and mysterious as Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

Artist Brian Keeler in his studio. (photo by Tim Gera)

• • • I drove out to visit Brian Keeler with Susan Booth Titus (an outstanding Ithaca-based artist and owner of the Titus Gallery) to Keeler’s home and studio in the country on Ithaca’s West Hill, on a magnificent, wet, overcast, East Coast autumn day.

The Keelers have a beautiful home and grounds, and an old barn, the lower portion of which is a gallery of Keeler’s paintings. (The charming, cozy, early 20th century farmhouse is also a virtual gallery of Keeler’s work.)

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was a Famous Monsters of Filmland kid. Ever since I discovered Forrest J. Ackerman’s movie monster magazine at Mayer’s Smoke Shop, I picked it up and devoured it every month. FMOF taught me about Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre and Vincent Price, and why they mattered.

Sometime in the summer of ’74, FMOF put Linda Blair on their cover, with a feature about The Exorcist. I just looked at the front cover online: a gorgeous painting of Blair in full possession makeup (by Dick Smith, who just passed away this year), looking left, and her tongue jutting out of her mouth like a green pepper. I bought it, read it and threw it on the pile.

For the uninitiated: William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was released theatrically on December 26, 1973. The film earned 10 Academy Award nominations, winning two: Best Sound Mixing and Best Adapted Screenplay. It became one of the highestgrossing films of all time, grossing over $441 million worldwide. It is also the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture.

1974 was a heavy year for a lot of other reasons. My parents started divorce proceedings, my mom got a new house and Nixon resigned. Then that FMOF issue arrived, and opened up a lot of ugliness and fear that went past old blackand-white monster movies. I’d always been a worrisome kid, but that mag cover and the photos and description inside …

I always think of late summer 1974 as the moment I connected with true dread.

It started on a late summer night. My brother was away at band camp. I woke up

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screaming one night, and the next night I was so messed up I slept in my mother’s room— the last time that happened.

I should have been immune. I was already starting to notice actors’ and directors’ names, the name of movie studios, and all that. To this day, I find that reading behind-the-scenes stuff about special effects helps take away some of that fear. But there I was—a 12-year-old kid.

Linda Blair was 12, so if that could happen to her, it could happen to me, right?

Nothing ended up happening to me, except my learning to sprint up the stairs in our house in Brooktondale after I’d seen a really scary movie on HBO. And a couple of days after my two-night freakout, my mom threw out all my FMOF magazines. To this day, I have never seen The Exorcist.

Maybe the time to see The Exorcist has come; The State Theatre’s Classic Movie Series presents The Exorcist, with a special introduction by film composer David Borden, on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. Borden will talk about the film’s director, William Friedkin, and his relation to music, how he reached out to Borden to compose the score, and how he came to choose excerpts from many composers instead of one composer for the soundtrack the film. Borden will also share information on the filming of The Exorcist and its role in the context of the early 1970s.

I’ll never forget that time. For some reason, whenever I think of Richard Nixon, I think of Linda Blair.

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Drix is a lecturer in art at Ithaca College and a member at the Ink Shop Printmaking Center in town. The experienced artist Pamela Drix is the featured artist at Burdett’s Damiani Wine Cellars. recently completed (photo by Tim Gera) a two-year “low residency” MFA in supporting posts suggest the bodies of Visual Studies at the Art Institute of Boston dancers while the horizontal vine-forms in conjunction with Lesley University. Her evoke a stylish cursive. Towards the upper thesis show was held in Boston this past left, things trail off into a dark fog.

January and included an eclectic body of In contemporary cultural theory, work that extended her work on paper to “heterotopia” denotes a space—physical encompass sculpture and installation. or metaphorical—that cuts against, so to She currently has an exhibit of large speak, the dominant social order. charcoal on vellum “Drawings” at Damiani In a series of Heterotopic Planes Wine Cellars in Burdett, near her home. drawings, Drix gives concrete form to this (The winery’s store holds a selection of potentially unwieldy notion. (Unwieldy rotating exhibits, put together by Ithaca for visual art at any rate.) These square curator Allison DeDominick.) With one scenes are an extension of her experiments clear exception, these pieces from her MFA with folded paper. The angular, abstract work eschew the more polemical side of her landscapes echo cubism in their broad areas work, going instead for a kind of moody of diagonal faceting and their fragmentary, pastoralism. intersecting views. Drix has also cited the As befits the busy non-gallery space, influence of the contemporary geometric most of the drawings have been hung abstractionist Dorothea Rockburne, at above-normal height. This seems who has made paper-folds and worked to enhance their power: the dizzying with similarly faceted forms in a range of convergences that characterize most of mediums. them enhanced by the physical fact of one’s Heterotopic Planes #2 is one of the most having to crane one’s neck up a bit to take in visually striking pieces here, as well as the the scenes. most loaded in its imagery. Drix, like many The translucent off-white paper area artists, is active in the anti-fracking vellum has been densely toned and marked movement and an important strand of her up, giving these pieces a palpable sense work depicts or alludes to the topic. of internal movement—of branching, The atmosphere invoked by these ten spinning, circulation, cutting. Eraser marks drawings is not an unsuitable one for these add to the depth and expressiveness of these surroundings: heady but sophisticated. painterly drawings.

Both the focus of the show and the range Eloquently stylized images of vineyards that Drix finds within the focus are highly are a dominant motif in this show, finding welcome—as is her negotiation between echoes in even the more abstract pieces the rawly physical and the historically here. Drawn from imagination like most of informed. • the work here, The Vineyard and Vineyard “Drawings” will be up through Friday, Dec. and Prana are relatively literal and yet 5. Drix will be included in “Diverging Series,” an they read as states of mind, more so than upcoming (Nov. 13-Dec. 14) faculty group show at concrete physical locations.

Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery. Handwerker Seen off-angle, as if we were hovering director Mara Baldwin will curate the exhibit. slightly above them, rows of grapevines According to a gallery statement, it will explore span a hazily suggested slope in the former “the multiple, the sequence, and the collection.” piece. The upright forms of the trunks and

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However, this being the age of Judd Apatow and the Farrelly Brothers, Teel’s sense of humor is much more scatological than Ward’s alterations of classic European folk tales.

Teel’s versions of these stories are shorter than the originals, leave out much of the plot, and instead substitute a lot of one-liners and observations regarding verisimilitude that range from wry to silly.

In his version of “The Three Little Pigs” the eponymous heroes attempt to save their lives by pointing out that they are talking pigs, an endangered species. If the wolf eats them, they will never reproduce, and therefore the wolf will never eat talking pig again. Teel is at his best when he is integrating sound, albeit only tangentially relevant, logic into these tales in a breezy, off-hand style. The wolf ’s preference for short-term gain throws the local ecosystem into chaos with dire consequences down the road for the wolf.

Teel’s target is often the moralizing tone of these stories. In fact, many of the goody-goody aspects were added during the Regency and Victorian periods and weren’t part of the original oral traditions at all. Case in point is Teel’s next target, “Jack and the Beanstalk.” In the original story Jack is a conniving liar who infiltrates the giant’s household by gaining the confidence of his wife, stealing from him repeatedly, and then killing him.

Sanitized versions portray him as merely desperately poor and deserving. Teel’s take on the story makes Jack and his mother into morons on par with Steve Martin’s The Jerk and leaves out the giant’s wife and the serial burglary altogether.

Teel ventures into the German folk tradition by taking on “Hansel and Gretel.” Here he rather meets his match, as the Grimm Brothers version is quite dark, with an abusive stepmother and a cannibalistic witch. In Teel’s take, the stepmother isn’t so much cruel as incredibly self-absorbed and determined

to hold on to her prized Clydesdale (!), which precipitates the jettisoning of the children. The conversations between characters in these stories sometimes recall the deadpan absurdities of Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (in “The 2,000 Year Old Man” and all of their movies. Reiner, for example, made The Jerk.)

When her father refuses to allow them to go live with the Fairy Folk because they might become fairies themselves, Gretel points out that this requires “mystical genetics” and that fairy traits can’t be acquired.

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Recently, the staff at Northside Wine & Spirits blind tasted 26 Pinot Noirs from California, Oregon, the Finger Lakes region, and New Zealand, all priced under $30. While there were fine examples from each locale, the top two wines of the tasting hailed from California. In fact each of the staff ’s top picks come from regions in California that have become associated with the production of quality Pinot.

The top wine of the tasting was the Roth Estate 2012 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir ($25). The Sonoma Coast, as the name implies, runs along Sonoma

“You’re seven, sweetie,” said her father.

“You don’t understand things like the evils of Fairy Folk and how to hide the meaning of your metaphors.”

“You call that hidden?”

“You two packed up?”

“We don’t own anything,” said Hansel.

The Marx Brothers, this isn’t, but Teel does have his moments.

In “Hansel and Gretel” (and several others stories) he wraps up his story in fashion that is simply the opposite of the traditional ending, which can be gratifying to those who find cheerfully clever children to be really obnoxious.

Teel seems to draw at random from many versions of these tales and occasionally characters from one story will intrude on another, as when Snow White finds Goldilocks in a remote cabin.

The latter is puzzled that there is seven of everything instead of triplicate and departs in something of a huff. This kind of crosspollinating in-jokiness recalls Disney’s Once Upon a Time television series, and Teel is fond of satirizing Disney, as when a long list of adorable forest creatures visit a lost Snow White. Eventually, un-Disneylike millipedes, dung beetles, and fire ants visit her and finally a prairie dog on the wrong continent.

The audience for this book would seem to be college students and 20somethings of a somewhat cynical disposition, and it is perhaps meant to be read out loud at parties after everyone has had a few. Some more permissive parents might be OK with high school students reading this stuff, although it frequently deploys a few of George Carlin’s seven dirty words and sexual imagery that goes well beyond innuendo. •

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novelist releases two books perfect for halloween

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ho wouldn’t want to have a wonderfully annotated collection an owl under the stairs of primary sources, and Howe’s wry deliver a letter unlocking commentary provides running narration secret powers?” asked Katherine Howe, that transforms texts from colonial the bestselling novelist who has spent the America and the late 17th century and last year at Cornell’s brings them to life. graduate school Structured in four MFA program. sections: “English With two new Antecedents,” “The books—Conversion, Early Colonies,” an entrancing new “Salem,” and then work of fiction “After Salem,” aimed at younger Howe mixes firstreaders but hand accounts with appropriate for all editorials from ages, and editor of newspapers and the Penguin Book even the Salem of Witches—Howe jury’s apology for caught up between the witch trials. The dates of a book tour result is a rapid read and an appearance for a research-based compendium. on NPR’s Weekend Conversion, also Edition Sunday. released this year, is a “Witches are about gripping story set in power and wishfulfillment,” she both contemporary said.

New England and Witches make the time of the Salem appearances around Witch Trials.

Halloween and “I came to fiction Author Katherine Howe. here and there writing as a refugee (photo by Laura Dandaneau) in contemporary from academia, and popular culture, what’s rewarding about but Howe’s Penguin writing historical book drills down in a way that goes fiction is it provides a [window] into the beyond thrills and chills, addressing the past,” she said. current political and social climate. “The These strains are incorporated big reason to be interested in witchcraft seemlessly in her edited anthology. is the question of scapegoating—we use Some of the most terrifying the term ‘witch-hunting’ to describe material—a sanctimonious apology a very particular American political

by Samuel Sewall, the bizarrely banal phenomenon. But my feeling is the flip Daemonologie by King James I, and side of the scapegoating is about power— other more obscure work—is the most the exact thing that is unsupportable is surprising. An Anti-Federalist pamphlet also enticing and appealing.” from 1787 suggests that persecution was, “We live in a time of economic as Howe writes, “real … and present … scarcity and paradoxes,” Howe continued. threatening enough to warrant stoning a “On the one hand, the Internet creates this woman in the street to her death.” impression that you have total knowledge, but on the other hand it creates “It would have been treated as a uncertainty.” very ridiculous supposition, a year ago,” With two of her ancestors believed to the pamphlet reads, “that the charge be witches around the time of the Salem of witchcraft would cost a person Witch Trials, Howe was already attuned her life in the city of Philadelphia, to connections between Salem of the 17th yet the fate of the unhappy old woman called Corbmaker, who was Century and contemporary culture when beaten, repeatedly wounded with she was working on her first book, The knives, mangled, and at last killed Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. “The in our streets in obedience to the plot of my first book was really a historical commandment which requires ‘that we thriller. The main character goes into the shall not suffer a witch to live,’… should archives to research witchcraft [it is set be an example to warn us how little in 1991], but so much is now available to we ought to trust to the unrestrained anyone with an Internet connection.” discretion of human nature.” • The Penguin Book of Witches is

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Insight Through Literature a q&a with author amara lakhous

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funny, but it’s not easy. To be funny is a very ach summer, Cornell’s Reading difficult craft. You need maturity, creativity, Project selects a book for all and positivity. incoming freshmen to read, and IT: Your book portrays the dynamics of provides thousands of copies to the Ithaca immigration and details of immigrant life community through the public library and in Italy. How much comes from your own other organizations, turning the town into a experience? How much from study? big book club once a year.

AL: My novels, especially Clash of Last August, the Ithaca Times wrote Civilizations Over An Elevator, are based about the project and this year’s selection, on my personal experience. I left Algeria, Clash of Civilizations Over An Elevator in my native country, in 1995, and I lived in Piazza Vittorio, by Amara Lakhous.

Lakhous was born in Algeria and lives in Italy. His novel, translated from the Italian, is a farcical murdermystery that frames issues of global immigration and its effects on societies, cultures, and individuals.

Lakhous will speak at Cornell on Tuesday, Nov. 4 on “ Immigration as a Gift, the Gift of Immigration” at 4:30 p.m. at Kaufmann Auditorium.

A reception at the A.D. White House will follow.

The Ithaca Times corresponded last week with Mr. Lakhous in anticipation of his visit.

Ithaca Times: How did the Amara Lakhous speaks at Cornell on Tuesday, Nov. 4. selection of your book for the Cornell Reading Project come (photo by Christian Del Monte) about? Were you aware of its consideration before the actual Italy for almost 18 years, first as a refugee, selection, or not until?

Amara Lakhous: My publisher informed then as an immigrant and finally as an Italian citizen. So I personally experienced me after the selection. It was really a big the burden and difficulty of immigration. surprise for me. Cornell is one of the most I dedicated my studies and research in prestigious universities in the world. anthropology to Muslim immigration in IT: How did your career as a writer Italy, and I wrote four novels about the big begin? issues of immigration like identity, diversity, AL: I decided to be a writer after reading Madame Bovary, the masterpiece by and memory. So I consider myself an expert on this topic. the French novelist Gustave Flaubert. I was IT: Reading your book, it occurred to 16 years old. I was fascinated by his style of me the setting could be New York City as writing, the construction of characters and easily as Rome. Do you think there are core the personality of the author. Then, I started realities to immigrant issues and experiences to read a lot, and I discovered great writers that transcend particular places and like Ernest Hemingway. For me, literature is ethnicities? the best way to understand the complexity AL: Speaking about immigration, I of reality. I like authors who don’t talk a lot think there are no big differences between about their personal lives but instead try New York and Rome, between the past and to help us understand our societies, the the present. Amedeo, the main character past, the world. Other favorite writers are of Clash of Civilizations, says: “Tonight I Cervantes and Raymond Carver.

IT: Your book is so funny that a number saw a great film on TV, with Alberto Sordi and Claudia Cardinale, which tells the of times I had to put it down for laughing. I story of a certain Amedeo, an immigrant got the sense that humor is something you feel the urge to incorporate in your work, no who works in Australia. The life of Italian matter how serious the context or theme. Or immigrants in the past closely resembles the life of the immigrants arriving in Italy are you just naturally funny? today. Throughout history, immigrants have AL: This is a very interesting question. always been the same. All that changes is I’m convinced that humor is an effective their language, their religion, and the color instrument to narrate stories and involve of their skin.” I agree with him. • readers. In my daily life I’m trying to be

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Brian Keeler’s career in painting, which includes landscapes, the figure, portraits, contin u ed from page 13 still life and allegorical work … In a certain sense, however, the light actually Pennsylvania and Maine, Italy, and France, becomes the subject for Brian, and the and, of course, Ithaca. scene or depiction takes on a secondary or Keeler gave us a tour. (And his supporting role.” significant other Linda fed us some I mentioned this to Keeler, and he excellent cookies.) We rambled at random laughed, “The light is sort of the main through the house, Keeler’s studio, subject, and the scene or the topography or and the barn-gallery … the paintings the buildings are sort of supporting actors.” sparking questions and conversation.

Which brings us to the golden hour, a (Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “Art is one half of a film industry term for the light at the end conversation”.) of the day (or the early morning hours) that And there were so many different kinds makes for magical image making. of paintings. Where to begin?

Keeler will often block out a plein air There were many painting on location and then paint landscapes from Italy at rapid speed at the golden hour. … from Umbria and He said, “I just pull my truck off Tuscany … and a and sit down and set up my easel painting of the Tiber and get them blocked in an hour or River in Rome (at the so … so I really have to race with same spot where the time … And a half hour later the painter Jean Baptiste sun’s set and the whole thing is in Camille Corot painted shadow so it’s a great exercise … it) with St. Peter’s and sort of like the equivalent of life Castel Sant’Angelo in drawing but with a landscape.” the distance. Keeler calls I could go on all day here, but this one The River of the I’m running out of space.

Poets because all along I’ll attempt to describe one the river are placards more painting—my favorite. with quotations from Keeler painted it this spring. It is the great ancient Roman Work from Brian Keeler (left to right): August Morning - Ithaca Falls, Sheldrake Pt., NY – Equinox Light, and Street Corner Called Inspire. a painting of Keeler himself, seated, poets like Pliny the Younger (Photos provided) from the back, painting a nude and Elder, Cicero and Ovid. model in a landscape in Italy.

And speaking of poetry It is both figurative and a landscape … balloons into the summer night. Keeler’s One was almost surrealist—a painting … there was a painting of the Rubens immensely charming paintings could easily and Keeler’s miniature painting within the of the Minotaur in the Labyrinth, but with Room in the Louvre Museum in Paris with painting seems to float in the air, giving it a be illustrations for Bradbury’s stories. an upstate New York suburban landscape in a troop of poets reciting poems through gentle surrealist Rene Magritte feel.

And then there is the matter of light. the background. long Styrofoam tubes. (One whispered a And the work is a riff on both Susan Booth Titus and I were both Another one I admired was based on poem in English by Emily Dickinson into Vermeer’s self-portrait The Art of Painting marveling over a painting Keeler had done the myth of Daphne and Apollo, which Keeler’s ear.) and an echo of the famous self-portraits Keeler based upon a stature by Bernini, and of sunlight pouring in through the trees And there was a painting from Rome, of Norman Rockwell. It is a magnificent on Enfield Glen in Treman State Park.

And then added a very upstate New York pine a night scene called Starry Night of street painting—a masterpiece. it reminded me of something that Keeler forest in the background. musicians in Rome on New Years Eve …

Well. We must come to an end here. I wrote in his book: Another one I adored was an an extraordinarily beautiful painting … an don’t know if any of these works will appear “Expressing and describing the allegorical painting of Silenus (“in classical impressionist work like a Degas. Regarding in Keeler’s November through December beauty of light has been the focus of mythology, the companion of Bacchus, it, Keeler said, “I was talking to one of my exhibition at the Titus Gallery. But I suspect that the Art-Loving Reader can make arrangements to visit Keeler’s home gallery.

Life can be incredibly painful and difficult at times, but it seems to me that the arts are one of the best things we’ve got to get through it.

And Brian Keeler’s work is up there at the top of the list. friends there. He said it’s a lot calmer on New Year’s than it used to be. He said it was a tradition in Rome to throw all your garbage out the window … and people on the top floors would often throw their refrigerators out. You could walk down the street and a refrigerator would come crashing down!”

(Not exactly art-info, but certainly a fascinating factoid.)

And there was a whole category of allegorical paintings … where Keeler painted some classic scene from Greek or Roman mythology—but set it in an upstate New York or Pennsylvania East Coast landscape.

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represented as a jovial, drunken, sensual old man,” according to my enormous Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary). And, here, I was doubly enchanted because not only did it look like an upstate landscape, but also even Silenus looked like an upstate New York character.

I particularly loved two or three paintings of people sending up fire balloons on a summer night. (Fire balloons are little, candle-lit, miniature hot air balloons.)

These paintings had a resonance for me because my favorite writer, Ray Bradbury, wrote both stories and essays of his childhood, with his beloved aunts and uncles and grandparents launching fire

Brian Keeler’s first exhibition Ithaca in Autumn will be at the Titus Gallery 222 the Commons, Ithaca, N.Y. until Nov. 4. His second exhibition Luminous Lakes, Glorious Glens will be at the Titus Gallery from Nov. 7 to Dec. 31.

Keeler’s 2014 book Dramatic Color in the Landscape is available at the gallery.

(Opening reception and book signing on Gallery Night Friday Nov. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m.)

Keeler’s jazz ensemble Sunnyside will next play at the Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. on Nov. 2 and Nov. 16, 6 – 8 p.m., and at Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca, on Nov. 30, 6 –10 p.m.

Keeler will teach a four-week swing dance class at Oasis starting Wednesday Oct. 29 at 5:30 p.m.

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Event Solo Piano Recital: John Vineyard | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Including works by Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Henselt, and Moszkowski

11/01 Saturday

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Djug Django | 06:00 PM-09:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | hot jazz Joe’s Open Mic | 07:00 PM- | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Hosted by The Grey Wolf Band.

Sign-ups at 7 p.m. PA, amps, drums all available.

Jam Session | 07:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Wolvhammer / Mortals / Bastard Eyes | 08:00 PM- | Just Be the Cause Center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 09:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | -

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Caribe Jazz Allstars | 06:30 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 07:00 PM-09:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | David Cast’s Groove Merchants Band | 07:00 PM-10:00 PM | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Route 414, Burdett | Open Mic Night & Artist Invitational | 08:00 PM-10:00 PM | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 Rt. 414, Burdett | share your musical & artistic talents.

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Long John and the Tights | 05:30 PM-08:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Richman & the Poorboys | 06:00 PM-08:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Live Blues.

The Pelotones | 06:00 PM-08:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Mayhem Attack Squad / Negative Externalities / The Newman Brothers | 07:30 PM- | TC3 Student Center, 170 North Rd., Dryden | Big Mean Halloween | 08:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Big Mean Sound Machine, Wonder Mics, Lanzallamas, and Grey Gary.

Oasis Halloween Party | 09:00 PM-01:00 AM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | R&B, swing Latin & funk! Costumes encouraged.

Reggae Dance Party | 9:00 PM- | Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar, 139 W. State Street (entrance on Geneva), Ithaca | - featuring DJ Solid ‘GHOUL’d The Newman Brothers / Samuel B Lupowitz and the Ego Band | 10:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca | -

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Scratched Vinyl | 06:00 PM-08:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock-n-Roll Tenzin Chopak | 07:00 PM-10:00 PM | Crooked Rooster Brewpub, 223-301 North Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | Samhain Celebration – Remembering Our Ancestors| 7:00 PM- | Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar, 139 W. State Street (entrance on Geneva), Ithaca | Featuring Ryan B.

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Curtis and In the Dream, Mullen-Stout Girls, David Rucci, and DJ’s Solar Lion and Wolf Council Spiritual Rez and Unknown Woodsmen | 09:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Thru Spectrums | 09:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | with the Rumble Scene The Purple Valley | 10:00 PM- | Agav, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Rock and Roll, Blues, Swing, Country Rock Rob, Marc and Mike | 10:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca | -

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Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 07:00 PM-09:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 08:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 08:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 09:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |

Charlie Young and London McDaniel | 12:00 PM-02:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Eclectic Folk, Pop, Rock, Western Jen Cork and the Good Hope | 07:00 PM-09:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Ithaca-based folk-jazz outfit, The Good Hope, blends the smokily textured vocals of singersongwriter Jen Cork with the instrumental stylings of some of Ithaca’s long-time favorites.

Bound for Glory: Aztec Two-Step | 08:00 PM-11:00 PM | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca | Acoustic Open Mic Night | 09:00 PM-01:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park

Djug Django | 06:00 PM-09:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | hot jazz Joe’s Open Mic | 07:00 PM- | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Hosted by The Grey Wolf Band. Sign-ups at 7 p.m. PA, amps, drums all available.

Jam Session | 07:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst. org.

Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 09:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | -

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Lisa Hilton | 7:30 PM- | Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Jazz composer and pianist

Open Mic Night | 08:30 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm. Free draft beer for performers.

Blue Mondays | 09:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats

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Halloween Organ Extravaganza | 8:00 PM- | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Geatures the 1920 horror classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with live organ accompaniment by guest

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Six Mile Creek’s Fall Music Series: Immortal Jellyfish | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Cayuga Wine Trail, Rt. 89 and Rt. 96 (west side of the lake), Fayette | Time TBD CU Music: Chorus presents Twilight Concert | 5:00 PM- | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | First-Year Parents Weekend: Twilight Concert sung by the Cornell University Chorus; Robert Isaacs, conductor.

Professor Louie and The Crowmatix | 8:00 PM- | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | -

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Battlefield Band | 2:00 PM- | West Kortright Centre, Catskill Turnpike & W Rd, East Meredith | Faculty Recital | 2:00 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Recital of Music by Pan American composers: Carlos Guastavino (Argentina) | Daniel Binelli (Brazil) | Egberto Giasmonti (Brazil) | Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Cornell University Jazz Band | 3:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Guest artist and baritone saxophone player Gary Smulyan will join the Cornell University Jazz Band in concert. Led by director Paul Merrill, the band will perform pieces by Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and more--as well as the premiere of a new work by Steve Brown.

Tru Bleu | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Guest Recital: Kelly Thomas | 7:00 PM- | Ford Hall, Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca | tuba/euphonium Rockin’ and Readin’ | 7:30 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Music by Starry Mountain Sweetheart Band, J. Robert Lennon, Adam Price, Elizabeth Watkins Price, Lauren Schenkman and John Lynch. With

readings by Regi Carpenter, Brian Hall, Mary Lorson, Joanie Mackowski, Kenneth McClane, Ernesto Quinonez.

The Mavericks | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 West State Street, Ithaca | Eclectic though traditionally minded country band that looks to everything from Tex-Mex to rockabilly to classic pop to get their sound.

Cornell Concert Series presents the Prague Philharmonic Choir | 8:00 PM- | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, , Ithaca | The Prague Philharmonic Choir is a first-class vocal ensemble and one of the most renowned representatives of Czech music worldwide. For CCS they will perform Rachmaninoff’s Vespers.

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Schumann’s Late Chamber Music: Formosa Quartet | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ji Young Kim, fortepiano, and Mike Lee, fortepiano. Features Schumann’s Piano Quintet, op. 44, and movements from several chamber works.

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Schumann’s Late Chamber Music: Formosa Quartet | 10:00 AM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ji Young Kim, fortepiano, and Mike Lee, fortepiano. Features Schumann’s Piano Quintet, op. 44, and movements from several chamber works.

Midday Music for Organ: Jeffrey Snedeker | 12:30 PM- | Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features organ music by Gottfried August Homilius and Franz Tunder Nirinjan Kaur | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Auburn Public Theater, Genesee Street Studio Space, Auburn | This concert will be preceded by a yoga workshop.

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The Night of Fools | A Jewish underground movement in Algeria during WW2, with only 400 men, succeeds in taking control of the city of Algiers, in which there are 25,000 French pro-Nazi soldiers. They keep control for one night, handing the city over to the Americans, who land on the city’s shores the next morning. A docu-drama sponsored by the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies. | Mon 11/03 7:15 PM, free, with filmmaker Rai Kimchi in person.

Sun: 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Thu: 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Horns | Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses. | 123 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 In the Company of Men | Two frustrated young executives vent their pent-up rage via a childish prank and end up paying a price in this psychological black comedy. | 97 mins R | Thu: 7:00 PM 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, 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: 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Sat & Sun: 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Mon: 4:30, 9:10; Tue: 7:10, 9:10; Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10.

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: 5:10, 7:15, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 2:45, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20; Mon - Wed: 5:10, 7:15, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 7:15, 9:20.

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The Deer Hunter | Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Christopher Walken respectively star as Michael, Steven, and Nick, small-town Pennsylvania factory workers whose lives are forever changed when they enlist in the Army to fight for their country in Vietnam.

Like few films before or since, director Michael Cimino’s three-hour character study sweeps grandly through the human soul in search of light in dark times and comes up raw. | Wed 10/29 7:15 PM. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | An extraordinary combination of expressionist visual style and psychological horror story, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the most striking and influential of all silent films.. | Thu 10/30 8:00 PM, in Sage Hall, free, with live music by Dennis James.

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? Follow the tiny snail’s amazing journey, as seen through the eyes of an adventurous young girl and her seafaring father.

The Piano Lesson | 2:00 PM-, 7:30 PM- 10/29 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 10/30 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 10/31 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 11/01 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/02 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 11/05 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | Haunted and haunting. August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. The past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-akind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano’s original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson’s finest.

Lonely Planet | 7:30 PM-, 10/29 Wednesday; 2:00 PM-, 7:30 PM-, 10/30 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 10/31 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 11/01 Saturday; 4:00 PM-, 11/02 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 11/04 Tuesday | The Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | By Steven Dietz. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, with countless friends falling around them, Carl and Jody enlist their wit and sense of absurdity to navigate these new and troubling waters. A smart, touching exploration of the need for human connection and keeping memories alive.

Mineola Twins | 7:30 PM-, 10/31 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 7:30 PM- 11/01 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | in Class of ‘56 Flexible

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | 8:00 PM-, 11/04 Tuesday | Hoerner Theatre, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying tells the story of young and ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch’s hilarious climb from window washer to board chairman of the World Wide Wicket Company with the help of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Finch’s unconventional business practices not only put his career on the line, but also his romance with secretary Rosemary Pilkington.

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-, 10/29 Wednesday | Zaza’s, Corner of N. Meadow & Cascadilla St, Ithaca | 607-277-6036 or atp20033@yahoo.com Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/29 Wednesday | Location TBD | Community Theater Group is now forming for a Spring 2015 production of the acclaimed “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters. Rehearse short, interrelated monologues in which dead citizens speak about their past lives. Free and open to all adults. No experience necessary; most are beginners. Just show up, or email Dennis Dore at ddore@zoom-dsl.com for more info.

Tompkins County Economic Development Committee | 3:30 PM-, 11/03 Monday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca Town Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 11/04 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca City School District Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 11/04 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca |

Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM-, 11/05 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

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.

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 | Learn how to respond to autoimmune disorders by redirecting immunesystem attack away from healthy tissue, and repairing damaged tissues and organs naturally. Instructor Dr. Bernard Straile, BS, DC, is the owner of the Total Wellness Center in Camillus.

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.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 11/02 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested.

Ithaca Freeskool | Call for time, 11/02 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join Ithaca Freeskool give an introduction to the board game “Coopoly.” This event is an opportunity to begin conversations among people interested in the co-op movement.

More info can be found at http://www. coopoly.coop.

Intermediate Microsoft Word Course | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/04 Tuesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Taught by Matt Barkee. Registration is required, and class sizes are limited. To sign up, please stop by the circulation desk, call 607-387-5623, or email director@ trumansburglibrary.org.

Astrology Learning Group | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 11/04 Tuesday | Crow’s Nest, Above Autumn Leaves, on the Commons, Ithaca | Open discussions appropriate for beginners to experts.

Contact Tim at turecekt@gmail.com.

Healthy Homes Workshop | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/04 Tuesday | Groton Public Library, 112 E. Cortland st., Groton | Presented by Carole Fisher, Extension Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins, and the Tompkins

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Lectures Stoikov Lecture: Arnold Chang | 5:15 PM-, 10/30 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | Arnold Chang will provide insights into the realm of Chinese painting past and present at this year’s Stoikov Lecture.

Copenhagen | 6:30 PM-, 10/30 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | On the Verge presents Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, directed by Claire Gleitman.

Mineola Twins: Performance Encounter | 4:30 PM-, 10/31 Friday, 4:30 PM-, 11/01 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.

Art in Unseen Partnerships: The Beauty of Small Things | 4:00 PM-, 11/04 Tuesday | Mann Library Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca | with Margaret McFall-Ngai. Opening lecture celebrating Mann Library’s exhibition Shifting the Paradigm: Microbes as Animal Helpmates

Nature & Science Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 11/01 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 11/02 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Bird walks around Sapsucker Woods are sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club and are targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Cayuga Trails Club: 11-mile hike on the Finger Lakes Trail in Chenango County | 8:30 AM-, 11/02 Sunday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca

| Meet at 8:30 am, East Hill Plaza near Ellis Hollow entrance. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Fighting Crime with...Feathers: The Casebook of a Forensic Ornithologist | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, 11/03 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Monday Night Seminar w/ Pepper Trail, Senior Forensic Scientist/Ornithologist, National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory Pepper Trail is likely the world’s only full-time ornithological crime-fighter.

Cayuga Trails Club Hike: Cayuga Trail | 4:00 PM-, 11/04 Tuesday | EMS Parking Lot, 722 S. Meadow St, Ithaca | 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 Halloween in Downtown | 10/30 Thursday | The Commons, State Street, Ithaca | 1st Annual Fermentation Festival | 11/01 Saturday | Cayuga Ridge Estate Winery, 6800 State Route 89, Ovid | Presented by Cayuga Ridge Estate Winery & Copper Oven. See cayugawinetrail.com for event details.

Thirsty Owl Wine Company, Annual Barrel Tasting Polka Party | 11/01 Saturday | Thirsty Owl Wine Company, 6861 State Route 89, Ovid | contact the winery for more info.

NY CD and Record Fair | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 11/01 Saturday | Empty storefront at, 123 The Commons (East State/MLK St.), Ithaca | 100,000 records, CDs, and DVDs for sale. Bring your unwanted recordings to sell/trade with the dealers.info contact jack at 607-427-9698 or go to nyrecordfaird. com Cornell Football: Princeton at Cornell | 12:30 PM-, 11/01 Saturday | Schoellkopf Field, Cornell University, Ithaca | Historic Ithaca’s Annual Halloween Graveyard Tour | 2:00 PM-, 11/01 Saturday | 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. Enjoy the sweeping views and champion trees that make the cemetery a favorite spot for the living, while getting to know the famous and infamous

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American jazz composer and pianist Lisa Hilton makes a stop in Ithaca this week for a performance Cornell’s Barton Hall. Hilton has released 16 albums of music and has worked with some of the premiere musicians in jazz today, like Christian McBride, Nasheet Waits and Rudy Royston.

Downtown Ithaca celebrates Halloween with a parade and trick-or-treating on the Commons. Meet up at 4 p.m. at GIAC to walk in the parade to Center Ithaca, where there will be music, food, face-painting and a doughnut-eating contest.

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County Health Department. What is a Healthy Home? Learn more about the hidden hazards that may be in your home; lead based paint,radon and mold, and what you can do about it.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/04 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

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residents and the stories they have to tell. Cider and donuts will be served.

For more information call (607) 273-6633, email christine@historicithaca.org or visit www.historicithaca. org/halloween/ Festive 33rd Annual Candlelight Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 11/01 Saturday | The Presbyterian Chapel, Main St , Trumansburg | Events for the evening will include a potluck dinner (bring your own beverage), thanking volunteers, voting in new trustees, a literary quiz by Scott Sutcliffe, the work of guest artist, Denise Milito-Stockwell, and live music by Alice Ploss. Please call 607-387-5623 with any questions or to sign up.

McKenzie Wheated Bourbon Single Barrel Release Party | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 11/02 Sunday | Finger Lakes Distilling, 4676 Rt. 414, Burdett | live music by Whiskey Sunday, food from Murder Mike’s Hot Truck Election Night Dinner | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/04 Tuesday | Enfield Valley Grange Hall, Enfield Main Road, | Home cooked turkey, gravy, dressing, mashed potatoes, squash, mixed vegetables, coleslaw, cranberry sauce, rolls, homemade pies, and beverage.

Election Night Dinner at Jacksonville Methodist Church | 4:30 PM-, 11/04 Tuesday | Jacksonville Community United Methodist Church, 1869 Trumansburg Road, Jacksonville | Until sold out. The menu includes chicken and biscuits, pork, mashed potatoes, green beans, harvard beans, sweet potato casserole, cole slaw, roll, drink, and a yummy dessert. ongoing East Hill Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/29 Wednesday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Trumansburg Farmers Market | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/29 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, 10/30 Thursday | 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, 10/30 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 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 11/01 Saturday and 11/02 Sunday | 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, 10/29 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, 10/29 Wednesday; 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 11/06 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-, 10/29 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, 10/29 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 10/30 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 11/01 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/03 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/29 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/03 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/29 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, 10/29 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, 10/30 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 11/03 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca

St., Ithaca | First come, first served (no appointments).

Free Zumba Gold Class | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 10/30 Thursday | Ithaca VVFA, 638 Elmira Road, Ithaca | w/ Nicole Bostwick, Stephanie Wright and Cindy Hoffman.

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 10/31 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-, 10/31 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Free Buddhist Meditation and Dharma Talk | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 11/01 Saturday | 2145 Mecklenburg Rd #2, 2145 Mecklenburg Rd #2, Ithaca | Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and lively discussions exploring our innate goodness qualities. All are welcome. (607) 865-8068 www.padmasambhava.org Power and Control Dynamics in Relationships | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 11/01 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Finger Lakes Women in Transition Seminar. Kristi Taylor, Adult Community Educator with the Advocacy Center, will examine power and control issues in relationships. Free, no pre-registration required. 607-275-3675.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 11/02 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, 11/04 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-, 11/04 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, 11/04 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, 11/04 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 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.

Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes our Fortunes | 4:00 PM-, 10/30 Thursday | Mann Library - Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca | Book Talk with Tom Hirschl, who notes in his new book Chasing the American Dream that some 80 percent of the US population is at risk of economic vulnerability at some point in their lifetimes.

New York City poets Bhisham Bherwani and Margot Farrington | 6:00 PM-, 10/30 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | New York City poets Bhisham Bherwani and Margot Farrington read from their latest collections First-Year MFA Reading Series | 6:00 PM-, 10/31 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Come out and support the MFA program’s new writers as they read fiction and poetry selections. w/ Samson Jardine & Tess Wheelwright Robert Lieberman | 2:00 PM-, 11/01 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, DeWitt Bldg, East Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Filmmaker and novelist Robert Lieberman as “All The Dark Secrets of his Life Revealed”. Robert will discuss his life in the arts, his latest novel, and upcoming projects.

Graphic Novel and Manga Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 11/03 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner, 101 E Green Street, Ithaca | For teen readers. The club meets every other Monday in the library’s Tompkins Trust Company Study Room. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@ tcpl.org.

Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile... | 4:30 PM-, 11/05 Wednesday | Room 107, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | ...The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the 14th and 15th Centuries.

Book Talk with Cynthia Robinson.

Cortland Book Club | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St., Cortland

| The Adult Book Club will meet to discuss “My Beloved World” by Sonia Sotomayor. Registration is not required and new members are always welcome. Please contact the library for more information or to reserve a copy of the book. http://www2.cortland. edu/home/

Arts CSMA Seeks Artist | 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. Opportunities are available for artists in all disciplines to organize benefit performances, create independent projects, participate in a gallery show, raise funds by crowdfunding, or donate to the Marathon online auction. Visit www. artsforallmarathon.org or contact info@csma-ithaca.org or 272-1474 for information.

Artist Demonstration: Arnold Chang | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 10/29 Wednesday | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | As part of his Stoikov Lecture visit, Arnold Chang will demonstrate traditional Chinese landscape painting and discuss the materials, techniques, and philosophies of this practice. ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Monday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Thursday, 10:00-8:00 PM | 273-1371 | Carl Schofield: SchoPhoto, opening 10/03 | www.benjaminpeters.com Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | 533 Tower Road, Ithaca | Monday-Friday, 09:00 AM-5:00 PM | 607-227-6638 | Fraom My Backyard, botanical portraits by David O. Watkins, Jr., up through October Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Abandoned. Lost. And Rescued., oil paintings by Judy Keil, opening 10/03 | www.buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Overrun, woodcut prints

by Clarissa Plank, opening 10/03 | www. artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | 12:00 PM-8:00 PM Monday through Thursday; 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, Friday; 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM Saturday; noon to

6:00 PM, Sunday | Michael Sampson, oil paintings, opening 10/03 | www. thecellardor.com Chemung Canal Trust | The Commons | photo series by Nancy Ridenour, up through 10/08; Finger Lake Landscapes,

by John Whiting, opening 10/08 through 12/31 Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | Leaf Art, images by Madeleine Ulinski; A Nature Walk, digital variations from Jacob O’Neil, both opening 09/05 through September | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | New Latin@ Art (Nuevo Arte Latino), work from 13 local artists, opening 10/03 | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | TuesdayThursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Scratching the Surface, mixed media on paper, by Jane Sangerman, up through 11/08 | www.cornersgallery.com Dance/Memory Gallery | 108 W. State/MLK Jr. St. (second floor), Ithaca. | 09:00 AM-5:00 PM Mon-Fri | Platinum/Palladium and Ziatypes, recent photographs from Jari Poulin, opening 10/03 | www.jaripoulin.com Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Helena Cooper: Forms Interconnected, paintings, opening 10/03 | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too.com Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | Celebrate People’s History – a visual journey through social movements past and present, opening 10/03 | newrootsschool.org Finger Lakes School of Massage | 1251 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | FuLang: Let Go, paintings, opening 10/03.

The Frame Shop | 414 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM | Oil paintings by Neil Berger, opening 10/03 | www.theframeshop.com Gimme! Coffee | 506 West State Street, Ithaca | Buildings in our Midst: Their Souls and Stories, photography Exhibit by Michael Duttweiler, opening 10/01 through October | www. gimmecoffee.com Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | New Work from Ryan B. Curtist,

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San Diego-based reggae six-piece Tribal Seeds plays a Halloween-eve show at The Haunt.

Felicia’s Atomic Lounge welcomes locals Long John and the Tights for Halloween happy hour. LJT plays southern Appalachian mountain music from around 1920 - 1940, mixing in Celtic, bluegrass, and northern square & contra-dance music. Stick around for Felicia’s Halloween party at 9 p.m.

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Friday, Oct. 31 For the fourth year in a row, The Big Mean Sound Machine will hit the stage for a special Halloween performance. “We moved over from the Haunt this year,” front man Angelo Peters said by phone about the annual gig, “and we are doing it at the Dock this time after a sold-out record release party in May.” “Grey Gary will perform as a duo in between sets. What we are going to do is use the drum riser as a separate stage, and they’ll set up as a duo on that, and play music in between. We wanted to do this instead of a dj – have an extra set up and music all night.”

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Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Prints by Clarissa Plank, up through October | www. wafflefrolicking.com

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Cornell Plantations | Nevins Welcome Center, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Tuesday-Saturday | Plant Portraits Through the Season, digital prints

by Margaret Corbitt, ongoing | Ögwe ö:weh Consciousness as Peace, in collaboration with Cornell’s American Indian Program, ongoing | The Seasons of Cornell Plantations, photographs by Rene Corinne, through October | Victus Acernis,

by Jack Elliot and Cornell Students | Gourds Galore!, vessels, utensils and more made from gourds | www. cornellplantations.org Corning Museum of Glass | 1 Museum Way, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM every day | René

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by Kumi Korf, up through October | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Branching Out: Paintings by Kent Goetz, opening 10/03 | 272-0403 or www.kitchentheatre.org PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Landscapes by Michelle Kiefer, up through October | 607-351-7145 | www.padmacenter.com Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Charismatic Megafauna: paintings by Christi Sobel, opening 10/03 | www. sarahspatisserie.com/ SewGreen | 112 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Paintings by Elizabeth McMahon, opening 10/03 | www.sewgreen.org | Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM-1:00 AM | New photos by Justin Zoll, opening 10/03 | www.silkyjoneslounge.com Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | Paintings by Patrizia Levi, opening 10/03 | www.solagallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | WednesdayFriday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Greater Ithaca Art Trail Preview Exhibition, opening 10/03 through 11/02 For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Stella’s | 403 College Avenue, Ithaca | paintings by Jen Ospina, up through October | 607.277.1490 Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Fairy Fun, mixed media by Erick Clasen, opening 10/03 | 319-5260 Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 AM-6:30 PM; Friday- Saturday, 10:30 AM-8:30 PM; Sunday, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM | Celebrating Our Lakes, paintings by Brian Keeler, ongoing. | www.titusgallery.com Uncorked Creations |102 N. Tioga Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca| New Fall Art Work and Open Paint Night, opening 10/03 | www.uncorkedithaca.com or 222-6005

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Also on Friday: Avant-garde ska and punk of the Mayhem Attack Squad, gender-bending folk, punk, and funk Newman Brothers.

With Negative Externalities, courtesy of Ithaca Underground, at the Student Center, at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Solid ‘Ghoul! A reggae and dub dance party. SacredRoot Kava Bar. Trance, jazz, and fusion from Solaris.

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Composer and pianist Samuel B. Lupowitz fronts the funky Ego Band, who received high acclaim from the local music press back in 2012 with their prior record.

Equally influenced by Led Zeppelin and classical jazz, the act offers music with souls pitched forward. They’ll join the Newman Brothers, who will perform pop originals as well as seasonal classics. The Nines.

Saturday, Nov. 1 Harry Houdini, Liberace, and the Sasquatch all get a fair shake in the songs of the Sutras, a psychedelic orchestral and power pop hybrid that returns to Ithaca for a show at the Chapter House.

Fronted by the immensely talented multitasker A.J. Strauss, the band transforms hurdles and horrors into sunny-sounding bursts of energy that last three minutes.

Mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, death and loss: all find their way into the Sutras’ pop symphonies, which somehow

Lalique: Enchanted by Glass, through 01/04 | Designing for a New Century: Works on Paper by Lalique and his Contemporaries, through 01/04 | Never in Your Wildest Dreams: Connections Through Imagination, junior curators, through 12/31 | www.cmog.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | JIE (Boundaries): Contemporary Art Taiwan, through 12/21 | Surrealism and Magic, inspired by the library of Kurt Seligmann, through 12/21 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 06/21 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing | www.museum.cornell.edu The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Switched On: The Birth of the Moog Synthesizer, opening 05/02 and ongoing | www. historicithaca.org or www.thehisto-

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Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/ Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon www. museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum of Western Art | 111 Cedar St, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | On Fire: The Nancy and Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery, through 04/2016 | Untouched

by Chaos: Karl Bodmer and the American Wilderness, up through 03/2015 | Lock, Stock & Barrel, historic firearms, up through 01/2015 | www. rockwellmuseum.org Sciencenter | 601 First Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; open noon Sunday. Closed Monday | New: Mars Rover exhibit, opening 11/04| www. sciencenter.org

Smulyan Sits in with Jazz Band Sunday, November 2 – 3 p.m.

Guest baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan (pictured) sits in with the Cornell University Jazz Band for a Sunday afternoon gig in Cornell’s Barnes Hall Auditorium. Led by director Paul Merrill, the band will perform pieces by Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and more – as well as the premiere of a new work by Steve Brown. (Photo by Antonio Porcar).

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Strauss and company are stepping Big Mean Sound Machine play Halloween night at The Haunt. into big (photo via bigmeansoundmachine.com shoes, as the Halloween promises to be a leap forward for the sixshow at the Chappy for many years piece horn-centered act that has always belonged to Plastic Nebraska, who would been well received in town. A decade of often appear complete with Papier-mâché touring has electrified an act that might costumes. But openers Insect Brigade, otherwise be moribund on arrival. Toft who have been compared to Spaceman Willingham looks the part of an early 3 and are equal parts dark, brooding, and ‘90s grunge rocker, but has a certain sexily sinister, will be sure to warm the verisimilitude in sound to Toots and true crowd up for a great Day of the Dead. As Rastafarians. Further, the Berklee School Strauss sings, “out in the wild things are of Music graduates have a knack for pop never quite the same!” songwriting.

Also on Saturday: At the Haunt: Neal Massa’s daughter At the Dock: “Don’t Be Afraid”, the Amanda had performed with her father’s lead single from Spiritual Rez’s release bluesy and jazzy acts before, but the Thru from late last year, is scary in the way that Spectrums add funk and R&B to a groovy it synthesizes and re-creates the ska and musical equation. The vocalist has the reggae suburban sound of mid-period power of Revi Roza, another funky Ithacan Sublime and early Reel Big Fish. But these act, but her brother Joe is an equal star Bostonians are no replicants or Southern here, offering deeper and deeper funk with Californian zombie marauders. Apocalypse each track on Rhythms of the Mind. • Whenever, due for release this winter,

Susquehanna River Archaeological Center | 345 Broad Street, Waverly | Tuesday-Friday, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Native American artifacts, ongoing | www.sracenter.org.

Ulysses Historical Society | 39 South Street, Trumansburg | FridaySaturday 2:00 PM-4:00 PM; Monday 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Civil War shawls, 1909 Brush car, Hoffmire Farm exhibit, Abner Treman exhibit, Ag exhibit, all ongoing | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM; Wednesdays 11:00 AM-8:30 PM | 6880 East Lake Road Rt. 38A, Auburn | Central New York and Atlantic Seaboard Paintings, by Tom Hussey, ongoing

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-, 10/29 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 10/30 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, 10/30 Thursday | Dryden Baptist Church, , | Every Thursday night for kids ages 3 to 8th grade. Any questions please call 607-898-4087.

Preschool Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 10/31 Friday | Southworth Library , , Dryden | Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 10/31 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Preschool Story Time & Activity | 10:30 AM-, 10/31 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Reader’s Theatre at Ulysses Library | 10:00 AM-, 11/01 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM-, 11/01 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca |

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Come off the Halloween sugar high when Latin-Country band The Mavericks play the State Theatre. Mixing in the sounds of Miami and Nashville, The Mavericks regrouped and released the high-energy LP In Time last year.

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