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ather than landing in t he emergenc y room or local jail, Tompkins County residents in the midst of a mental health, behavioral health or substance abuse crisis will soon have a new alternative for care. With a unanimous vote, the Tompkins County Legislature recently approved a resolution authorizing a 24/7 Mobile Crisis Team run by the Tompkins County Mental Health Department.

The Mobile Crisis Team will provide its services to individuals of all ages 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 365 days per year. When called to respond, the team will do a crisis assessment to evaluate whether there is any immediate need for emergency services and, as time permits, assess the person’s current life situation, mental health problems and support network.

The tea m is most li kely going to find its first interactions through the the local 911 center, said Frank Kruppa, Tompkins County Mental Heath Commissioner, who gave a presentat ion at t he Tompkins County Legislature December 20.

Kruppa explained that the request to the legislature to start up a Mobile Crisis team will not result in a change in target funding from the County as the project is designed to support any additional expense sustained by the Department.

One of the project’s goals is to be self-sustaining with any additional expenses to be covered by the revenue generated from the project.

The mobile crisis team will consist of one lead crisis clinician who is a diagnosis trained Masters-level qualified health professional. He or she will be supported by a care manage-

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t the year’s final Planning and Development Board meeting, sketch pla ns for t he long-delayed construction project at 323 Taughannock Boulevard were introduced, restarting a yearslong effort to develop housing at the site.

The new plan consists of eig ht tow n houses of t hree floors each which, depending on configuration, can become 16 different units. Each house has the option for either a studio unit on the bottom f loor, or that it can function as a living or work space.

Architect Noah Demarest of Stream Collaborative said the previous proposal for the site was an apartment complex, but that it would have required parking be built underneath the building. While still in the early stages, the cost projections became too steep for the

developer to follow through.

During the meeting, Demarest mentioned that the company would be using the same materials as it had previously proposed in order to possibly expedite the review and approval process.

He said the company plans to submit their application in January.

The 323 Taughannock Blvd. project, which was once slated to contain 20 units, received approvals in 2014, but it ran i nto what developer Steve Flash called “a conundrum of issues: parking, soft soil, relatively tight space.”

There was an “unexpected issue” that came up, Flash said, with the project, requiring “a sharper look at the engineering” to make the costs work.

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T a k e ▶ LACS Art Teacher Gary Bercow is putting together a gallery show called “30 Year Calling.” The show brings together 13 people that have been students of his who are still, years later, in the act of creating visual pieces of artwork. The show opens January 6 (First Friday) at the Mezzanine Gallery, upstairs through Benjamin Peters on the Commons.

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meeting that the key to the townhouse project is versatility among the units, shown by the accessory bottom floor.

“It’s nice to have that flexibility,” Demarest said. “Somebody cou ld buy t he whole thing and rent part of it, or buy it and use it all, or they could rent from the developer one of the units so the developer could hold onto some of the parcels.”

Any project on the waterfront, which is currently zoned under a Temporary Mandatory Planned Unit Development, would be subject to the oversight of Common Council.

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ey, do you guys hear t hat high, k ind of a trill chirp? Yeah, there.

We’re going to find that bird, that’s a Brown Creeper. That would be a really good bird, I’d love to get my eyes on one of those.”

Jody Enck glanced around, settling on a tall tree in front of him and raising his binoculars.

There’s another high-pitched call, piercing the general forest noise surrounding them.

Assisting his search were his two sons, Aidan and Sawyer Tierney, as well as the boys’ friend, Matt.

“I keep hearing it, it’s so close.”

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ment team of registered nurses, social workers and Bachelors level paraprofessionals, who will be on a week ly on-call rotation.

Expenses for the program are projected at about $38,000 per year for personnel salary and mileage. According to Krupa, the estimated yearly revenue is $67,900, generated

by Medicaid and Managed Care, Care Compass Network, and State Aid. Ca re Compass Net work is a not-for-profit, community organization created to champion new models of providing Medicaid beneficiaries with higher quality care while reducing expenses through care coordination and community-focused care and education.

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season. It quickly evolved into a way to track trends of the area’s migratory bird population, wit h t he Cay uga Bird C l u b ’s c o u n t around Ithaca traditionally taking place on New Year’s Day. T h is yea r’s cou nt y ielded the highest total amount of birds counted on record, with 41, 876 tot a l birds, about a n 11 percent increase from the average count over the la s t 10 ye a rs , coming from 90 different species of birds, which Jody Enck (with binoculars) searching fot birds on New Year’s is the same as last Day (Photo: Matt Butler) year. More t han 140 counters paremerge after several minutes, ticipated, combing the 15 mile and the group continued on diameter circle divided into the snowy trail into the thick nine areas. of the forest in the Cornell RecThis year’s numbers defy reation Connection Park. Any what Enck has said has been and all bird sights or sounds a steady downward trend in are recorded by Enck, a lifelong birder who has worked with the total number of birds counted Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in during his time participating a notebook after the species is in the count.

After about a mile walk, identified, while the boys periEnck’s group returned to the odically venture off the trail to house a nd ta l lied up what cover more ground.

T he a n nu a l nat ionw ide they saw, later adding it to the Christmas Bird Count, held birds they observed around the sometime between mid-De- feeder at Enck’s house. They cember and early January, was found 10 different species and introduced as an alternative to 51 individual birds. It’s about the normal start of the hunting what Enck expected when they

first set out, though he said this year’s numbers could be affected by a few factors, including the prolonged summer drought that crippled plant growth, which would serve as food for the birds, in the area.

Since he started participating in the count event, Enck has noticed a few trends of interest, some t hat ca n be attributed to global warming, such as the prolonged presence of Turkey Vultures in Tompkins County, while others may just be random blips. The past several years, the government’s assigned start date for Water Fowl hunting season has coincided with the count, which can also suppress numbers as birds flee the gunshots.

In addition to serving as the Cayuga Bird Club president, Enck is aiming to spread birding internationally. He took a five-week trip to Honduras during the fall, making connections in the birding community and working on establishing a sister bird club in the South American country.

As New Year’s Day draws to a close, the Bird Count participants gather for a potluck Compilation dinner, recounting the day’s f indings over homemade food and stories of any notable sightings. A Ross’s Goose finding in Stewart Park

by Ken Rosenberg and other birders proved to be the year’s most exciting, a bird that had never been recorded before on a count day in Ithaca.

The Department of Mental Health plans to enter into a professional services agreement with Compass Network to receive the financial support for those individuals who are unable to pay for services through conventional means.

The Care Compass Network will provide startup funds for the first two years of participation in the DSRIP (Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment) supported project.

“We are projecting that it will be sustainable after those two years are over,” Kruppa told the Legislature.

In addition to performing a crisis assessment, the Mobile Crisis Team will provide a face-to-face, short-term, intensive mental health service. The team will help the person cope with immediate stressors and

911 center to explain what we do and do not do,” Kruppa said, adding that operators for all of the various partnering organizations with call centers all have different skill sets.

“911 certainly will be a key part in this,” Kruppa said.

According to Kruppa, the program relies on county-wide community partnership during on-site assessments with lega l, a mbu la nce, housing and substance use services as needed. The team will reroute calls to and from police dispatch, 911, Suicide Prevention hotlines, Cayuga Medical Center, ambulance companies and, if violence or the risk of violence is suspected, the local police or sheriff.

begin to return to the level of functioning that existed before the crisis or emergency. The person undergoing care will be linked to urgent treatment based on the assessment.

This is all done with the goal of increasing public safety in mind. The presence of the team within the community will ideally decrease unnecessary hospitalizations and incarcerations and increase client participation with behavioral health providers.

“Shouldn’t it go through 911?” Michael Sigler, (R-Lansing), asked Kruppa at the Legislature meeting. “You may have a situation where a person might be dangerous, and I just don’t know if you’re going to be equipped. I wouldn’t want your team getting hurt.”

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s one looks around a t y pica l street corner in the West End, two things become immediately obvious. First, the demand for second-hand goods in Ithaca is extraordinarily high. Second, this area of Ithaca stands in stark contrast to the bright lights of the restructured Commons.

Development in the West End has been slow for several years, as the eyes of local developers have shifted to the lucrative Collegetown and Downtown areas of Ithaca. But local officials believe that era may finally be coming to an end.

The West End, looking down State Street past Elmira Savings Bank’s new location.

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reverse a prolonged period of sculpting the West End to be a main vehicle thoroughfare.

Further complicating the matter is the fact that Route 13 is a state highway, so any attempts at a more appealing walking experience, such as wider sidewalks or more greenery, must be agreed upon through the New York State Department of Transportation.

“The walkable city idea represents a major shift from 15 years ago,” Murtagh said.

As mentioned previously, some businesses have shifted to the West End already.

“I don’t think it’s an unattainable goal, but Holt Architects recently it’s going to require a lot of energy to get to moved from downtown the point where we can make improvements to a location on the 600 block of West State Street, to that Route 13 corridor. I don’t think it’s directly between Fulton impossible, but it’s definitely a challenge.” a nd Meadow i n Apr i l.

–JoAnn Cornish Graham Gillespie, president of Holt, said their business has not been at As Collegetown and Down- technological innovations in all negatively affected by the town become saturated with foundation construction have move, particularly because development, Common Coun- mitigated some of these con- Holt has some room for parkcil member Seph Murtagh said cerns, but it remains a factor ing. It is also important to point he believes the natural new that can scare away certain out that Holt would not attract much foot traffic regardless of frontier for developers will be developers.

Route 13 has emerged as the its location, though Gillespie the West End, which remains relatively untapped compared main challenge that has proven said the move has made the to its more central counterparts. tough to overcome. For years, business more accessible and Achieving that goal, however, the city emphasized Route 13 easier to find.

“We like that there’s a revidevelopment, but that now remains a murky task.

JoAnn Cornish, the city’s serves as a barrier to Ithaca’s talization going on down here,” Di rec tor of Pla n n i ng a nd more recent focus on creating he said. “I think it’s going to be Development, said there are a more walkable city. Murtagh a pretty exciting area, and we already some very successful and Cornish both said the street wanted to be in the middle of commercial operations in the now presents as both a physical that.”

Gillespie said he might like area, such as Ithaca Bakery, and issue, but also a psychological to see some overall improvenew housing projects on the blockade of sorts.

With a renewed focus on ments made to the streetways, horizon, which show that there is opportunity for growth with creating a more pedestrian- but essentially is happy with the right investment. She said friendly environment, city offi- the location and how his busishe thinks a successful future cials are effectively trying to ness has adjusted to the move. of West End rests in mixed-use properties, a combination of residential, commercial and office space, and Murtagh cited Clinton House and Dewitt Mall as prime examples.

Several unique problems are specific to the West End and the Waterfront district, not the least of which is the quality of the soil. The soil is much softer and weaker there than other areas of Ithaca, which makes construction a far more difficult task, and it can cause serious structural problems down the road. Cornish said certain

Similarly, Ken McKinney, who owns Marmalade Mercantile, said they have benefitted from the other, established businesses in the area that have a large brand presence around Ithaca but are based in the West End, namely the Friends of the Library and the Ithaca Bakery.

He said he was slightly hesitant about the location since it is a bit “out of the way” in terms of retail areas, but that since they had a shared parking lot he felt it presented an advantage over some other businesses in their proximity. Like Gillespie, McKinney seems happy to have been able to snag a spot in the neighborhood before development continues and demand grows too high.

“It seems clearly slated for more development, there are a lot of things happening particularly over closer to the Inlet,” McKinney said. “It seems like it’s an up and coming area in a lot of ways.”

The West End also hosts much of the transitional housing in the city, though Murtagh said from what he has seen, any concerns over crime in the area have been mostly assuaged by the 2015 installation of a new Ithaca Police Department district office. Coincidentally, that building – police department on the first f loor, residential housing above – represents the mixed-use future that many envision as the beneficial path for West End. Though subtle for now, certain plans have already been put in motion that will aim to increase t he at t ract iveness of bot h t he West End and the Waterfront. Murtagh said Phase II of Plan Ithaca, the city’s comprehensive plan published in 2015, includes the Waterfront Planning Process and a commitment to reexamining zoning regulations in the West End and the Waterfront by the middle of 2017.

These efforts, among others, are geared towards adopting the urban mixed-use future indicated in the Future Land Use Map published along with the Plan Ithaca document.

“I don’t think it’s an unattainable goal, but it’s going to require a lot of energy to get to the point where we can make improvements to that Route 13 corridor,” Cornish said. “I don’t think it’s impossible, but it’s definitely a challenge.”

Ups&Downs ▶ Svante Myrick Was named to a Forbes List this past week. No, not THE Forbes list of Trumpian dreams, but the magazine’s 30 Under 30 list for people in Law and Policy. The only elected official on the list, he is joined by rising White House communications director Hope Hicks, Calvin Coolidge Foundation Executive Director Matthew Denhart and numerous movers, shakers and entrepeneurs. ▶ New Year’s Eve Cover Charges We get it. New Year’s Eve is a big night and you want to be able to cover all the stops: the good band, the free champagne, the cost of the extra staff. We just wish not everybody in town did that.

Hey, some of us like to keep moving around all night!

Preferably, without being charged at every door we walk into.

But maybe we’re only complaining because we’re broke.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes. com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ McNeil Music Is celebrating a “wrap party” to mark the closing of the venerated retail establishment on Saturday, Jan. 21. The BYO affair kicks off at 5 p.m. and will feature appearances by Stranded With A Kiss, Stereo Ark Sound System, Ithaca Bottom Boys, Park Doing And Friends, various members of Grey Gary and an end-of night Ithaca All-Stars jam.

The night, which will be filled with jams and reminisince, will happen at the store and will go until whenever.

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L ast Week ’s Q uestion : H ave you ever tried fact chacking a local news story ?

69 percent of respondents answered “Yes” and 31 percent answered “No.”

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Musing on local media as the world gets weirder he new year, as we’re all familiar, is a time for resolutions. If you’re having trouble thinking of one, why not join us in ours: working to perfect our local media.

Nationwide, newspaper staffs are dwindling. In Ithaca, there are about as many reporters total as there were writers in the Ithaca Journal newsroom two summers ago. Because of this, news is suffering. Meetings are missed, events are skipped and, to fill the pages, depth in stories can sometimes be neglected.

The idea of a paper is simple: it’s to serve as the voice of the community – it is a resource, not a commodity. The people who staff it aren’t creating a product. They’re working for you, their salary less a reward for their work and more a means to support them to do the legwork citizens with day jobs can’t. With limited resources, how we use that time is something we in the media have

to consider carefully. We figure the best way to start is to listen, whether it’s to what you think is important or ways you t hin k we c a n i mpr ove .

What you can do as a reader is be critical, pay attention and i f you not ice something, find s ome one a nd give them a direction to send them in.

Media used to be about competition. Today, with roughly one adequately-sized newsroom split between a half dozen outlets, it’s about service, and about fulfilling that service as effectively as possible. While we don’t have as many eyes as we’d like or the energy to keep going from 5 a.m. to nine at night each day, if you walk into a newsroom with an idea I guarantee you’ll only find people who are ready to get to work.

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egarding Ithaca and the arts, es, and the roving audience (which I generally think of us as a includes many musicians) is so large music town. Not exclusively, that the city shuts the streets. but primarily.

I realized recently that Ithaca is a Each July, the GrassRoots Festival strong movie town, too, when “Manattracts 15,000 people, about seven chester by the Sea” opened here. times the population of host town I had never heard of it. I just needed Trumansburg, and a movie to go to, a half the permanent Saturday matinee, “I was glad for population of the because my apartthe length of metropolis ten miles ment was bei ng south. The festival painted.

‘Manchester,’ presents some bigI saw online that though, considering name acts (includCi nemapol is had my whereabouts ing, over the years, not only a 4 o’clock Los Lobos, Rickie situation for the day. matinee, but also a Lee Jones, George In no hurry, I stayed 1 o’clock. The early Jones, Merle Hagone was perfect. through the end of gard, Lucinda WilI knew that Cinl i a m s , Old Crow the credits, although emapolis normally I was pretty sure Medicine Show, et doesn’t have such al.), but also dozens an early showing. I there wouldn’t be of local acts deemed any comedy bloopers didn’t stop to wongood enough to go der why. It was like thrown in.” up among the stars. the patron saint of Each Ju ne, t he apartment painting Ithaca Festival features local acts only. was blessing me.

There are enough to keep multiple When I got there, I found out why. stages busy for four days.

Despite the rare and early running And while it might not be strictly time, there was a long and expectant true that you’ll hit a musician if you line. The movie was showing on two of spit out your window, it might be so at the theater’s five screens.

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here appears to be a misconception in the rules and regulations in electrical licensing contracts. Several years ago I met with Dr. John Keshisglou , a professor from Ithaca College at a dinner engagement. He informed me that it was his understanding that the electrical contractor that he uses is licensed. I then informed Dr Keshisglou only the contractor is licensed in the City of Ithaca , but that is the only city and or town that you have to be licensed to perform electrical work in Tompkins county. Dr. Keshiglou lived in the town of Ithaca and it is not a requirement to be licensed in the Town of Ithaca. Also, I would like to point out that even in the City of Ithaca only the contractor has to be licensed and that the holder of the City of Ithaca Electrical License may

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NEVER be on the project at all.

The electrical workers in the city are not required to hold a electrical license and also are not required to have the formal training necessary to be a qualified electrician. If one hires a contractor that is affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 241 from Ithaca, you can rest assured that they are properly trained.

The next time you are having electrical work performed at you home or business , stop and ask the contractor, where his or her employees received their training. Keep in mind that once again, that only in the City of Ithaca inTompkins County one is required to be a licensed electrical contractor and this only applies the contractor and not the worker.

Michael Talarski Business Manager IBEW Local 241

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“Manchester by the Sea,” it turns out, won all kinds of festival awards before its December release, and is expected to win many Oscars.

It wasn’t that all these people were having home renovations. It’s that they knew their movies. They wanted to be among the first to see this special one.

It didn’t mean anything to me.

I was just happy it wasn’t a British movie, which I feared at first from the title. There’s something about British accents on screen that annoys me or puts me to sleep.

Instead, it was set in New England. That’s a more palatable accent to me, from a nearby region, and the film is about working class people, another plus.

Unfortunately, these people have problems, big ones, and one leads to a tragic event you wouldn’t wish on anyone, although apparently a lot of people want to see it on the screen.

Personally, I would rather have seen “Why Him?,” a movie I saw subsequently at the mall, a comedy starring James Franco and Bryan Cranston

which was poorly reviewed, deservedly, but contains some character humor combined with people falling off balconies and such.

I didn’t officially notice, but “Manchester” probably had a longer running time than “Why Him?,” although actually they both felt pretty long.

I was glad for the length of “Manchester,” though, considering my whereabouts situation for the day. In no hurry, I stayed through the end of the credits, although I was pretty sure there wouldn’t be any comedy bloopers thrown in.

Most of the patrons, in fact, stayed through the credits, a sign of serious movie-goers. Despite my jokey apathy, I was happy to be among them, people who care about quality, in a theater that strives to serve them, in a town that knows and loves the arts.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears bi-weekly.

Letters Saying Thanks The South Hill Civic Association sends it’s thanks and a toast for the fine services provided to our community.

To our Visionary Tompkins County Recycling & Solid Waste Manager - Barb Eckstrom and her team; To our amazing Finger Lakes ReUse Center Executive Director Diane Cohen and her fine staff; To Ray Benjamin and Phil Davis and their folks in the City of Ithaca Department of Public Works and Streets & Facilities, ready to assist 24/7; Out before the sun is up to collect our solid waste and help us recycle.

Best wishes for a safe and satisfying New Year.

The South Hill Civic Association salutes you! ​John Graves President South Hill Civic Association

with him in it. The gift of his life is beyond value.

I urge you to take the step to become an organ donor. There is a tremendous need for organ donations in New York State.

Nearly 10,000 New Yorkers are currently waiting for an organ transplant, and every 13 hours someone dies waiting for an organ transplant in our state Only 24 percent of New Yorkers age 18 and over have enrolled in the NYS Donate Life Registry, compared to the national average of 51 percent Just one organ donor can save up to eight lives and improve the lives of up to 50 people by donating tissues and corneas You can donate through the New York State DMV when you get or renew a driver’s license or by following directions on their website. A few minutes of your time could make a huge difference.

Carolyn Belle Abbott, Ithaca

This Holiday, Consider The Gift Of Life Fellow Ithacans, One family’s holiday tragedy became my family’s holiday miracle this year. My brother Ken, 51 years old, received a heart transplant on December 23. He is an amazing teacher, father, husband and brother, and the world is a much better place

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A Contract For T’Burg Teachers For nearly two years our teachers in the Trumansburg Central Schools have been working without a contract doing the most important job in our society, that of teaching our children. More and more pressures are put on teachers today with new educational methods and testing, and our teachers in TCSD have met these challenges in order to continue to do what they love: teach our children to be prepared to be tomorrow’s

citizens. My husband and I moved to the Trumansburg School District six and half years ago because it is an excellent district thanks to the professional and successful work of our teachers. I support our teachers and I urge parents and community members to contact the TCSD Board Of Education in support of a Contract for the teachers of TCSD. –Cynthia Mannino Trumansburg

Cayuga Medical Center Faces Second Labor Board Hearing

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ayuga Medical Center will once again be the focus of a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board on January 9 regarding allegations of dissuading nurses from organizing.

The new allegations come by way of former nurse Anne Marshall, who was the subject of the previous hearings last summer, which resulted in the NLRB ruling in favor of staff’s right to organize in October 2016.

Marshall, who said she was terminated before that ruling along with a fellow nurse for violating a hospital blood transfusion policy, said that this latest charge comes not because she did not violate the policy (which she doesn’t dispute that she violated), but the fact she and her fellow nurse were allegedly singled out for it. The violation, she said, was regulary committed in the intensive care unit but rarely, if ever punished.

In an email, the hospital responded with the following statement and, with the permission of the patient who filed the complaint, included the letter the patient sent to the hospital as part of her grievance. A copy of the document obtained by the Ithaca Times – originally sent as an email to the hospital’s Quality and Chief Patient Safety Officer – was copied and pasted into a word document by a member of the hospital staff on October 6, 2016 – 22 days before the NLRB decision.

The full text of the letter is as follows: “In July I started needing to have blood transfusions. From day one the nurses talked me through the protocol they would be following whenever they administers a blood product for me. Call for blood, wait.

Get Tylenol and Benadryl. Blood arrives, 2 nurses are in the room with the blood. They scan my name band, they ask me my name and birthdate. They read my name and number off my wrist and compare it to the paperwork. They then read the numbers on the blood bag and compare it to the paperwork numbers. If everything matches, then they start the blood.

Unfortunately I ended up in the hospital on September 5th. All my blood numbers were very low and I had an infection somewhere. In the next few days numerous blood products were hung and the protocol was Th e

followed. On September 11th it was determined that I would need a bag of blood.

Nurse calls, we wait. My sister and aunt were in the room. The nurse comes in hangs the bag and starts the blood. I looked at her and said “What about the protocol?” And she said “Oh, we did that at the desk.”--and left the room. My sister, who is an RN in the state of Maine, ran over to the blood to check the numbers. I said “This isn’t how it’s ever been done.” The numbers checked, so I relaxed, but when Scott come into the room (I think he was charge nurse for the day) I voiced my major concerns to him. All previous nurses had made me aware of the protocol and led me through it---this nurse did none. Scott told me he would speak to the nurse, and let me know after he did. I need the hospital to be aware of this breech of protocol and seriousness I felt being vulnerable in my bed.”

The hospital also provided a scanned copy of Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures Sixth Edition, pages 742-747, detailing the protocol in question. Both attachments are available for review on Ithaca.com.

“This particular incident relates to a written complaint from a patient informing us that one of our nurses did not follow the standard of care for blood transfusions requiring two registered nurses verify the identification of the patient at the bedside and check the patients arm band,” said hospital spokesman John Turner. “This complaint was taken very seriously and we conducted a thorough investigation. From this investigation, we determined that the two ICCU nurses who administered the blood transfusion willfully and recklessly disregarded the well-established safety procedures and then falsely documented in the patient record that the procedures were followed.”

“We are fortunate that the patient in this case did not suffer any physical harm,” the statement added, “but this incident serves as a lesson and a reminder to all of us that there can be no shortcuts when it comes to patient safety at Cayuga Medical Center.”

The hearing begins at 1 p.m. in the Tompkins County Courthouse at 320 N. Tioga St.

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‘The Year That Was’

Making Sense Of The Insane 366 Days Of 2016

By Nick Reynolds

Protestors rallying against a crackdown on enforcing a swimming ban in Tompkins County’s gorges in front of Ithaca Town Hall in August. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) Below: Bleeding Iron-tinged water from a fire hydrant. (Photo: Diane Duthie)

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his comments serving more to set a more momentous context to the day’s events than any other grand opening: he talked about today’s times – 2016 in particular – as the center of a “defining period” in Ithaca’s history, one that will be looked at in a similar vein to the urban renewal period of the ‘60s and ‘70s and in the far future, be contemplated by historians as a significant period in Ithaca’s growth.

But in 2016, more happened in town than just a Marriott opening its doors. In 2016, the city turned a corner economically, began its first step into the future as the comprehensive plan began to be implemented and made national headlines

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more times than one could imagine in recent memory. 2016 was a loud year in the city: important people died, small people made their voices heard and, in legislative chambers from city hall to 121 E. Court St., decisions were made that could have major implications on the years ahead.

With our year in review, we will look to provide some context to the year’s biggest stories and reflect on what they mean to the big picture to see exactly where we find

ourselves at the start of 2017.

The Water Crisis

Across the northeastern United States, the summer of 2016 marked one of the driest periods in recent memory. Due to a combination of factors, including a lack of runoff in local creeks and rivers from a warm winter the year before and a severe lack of rain, the entire region experienced a significant dry spell. Things were so bad in

Tompkins County that Trumansburg was Carey, associate vice president of facilities pinpointed by several media outlets as the at Ithaca College said at the time. “Every bit driest spot in all of upstate, with just 0.43 we don’t use is water for someone else.”

With the city’s newest water treatment inches of precipitation total for 2016 before plant coming online late in the summer, the the summer’s first real rain, on July 25.

In a city with a water system like Ithaca’s, City of Ithaca did, in fact, end up having which counts two different systems draw- to ask Bolton Point for help. But later that ing from creeks and reservoirs, this lack of summer, a mix of new water entering the water proves to create significant problems. city’s pipes began the next headache for city In the city, which relays on the flow of officials: the brown water conundrum.

At the peak of the drought, many people water from Six Mile Creek, threats to the water system became apparent in early July, in the city began reporting discolored water just weeks after the the Northeast Regional coming through their pipes, often yellow or Climate Center at Cornell University de- even a deep brown in color. According to clared mild drought conditions in June. By the city, this came from the rust and minAugust, the area was pegged as being in ‘se- erals which had accumulate inside the iron vere drought’ -- a first for Ithaca in its driest water mains, the flow blamed for increased summer since 1910 -- prompting massive water flows for irrigation and the chemical water conservation efforts throughout the feeds of the city’s new water plant, which at city. To help further the cause, the city even the time were still being adjusted to meet created what Rachel Cera of 14850.com re- the higher water demand. Though it wasn’t ferred to as a game-like monitor of water a health issue, the city’s water supply as still levels in Six Mile Creek to give people a vi- testing for high levels of manganese at the sual means of gauging how much impact end of August.

Despite some stability being created by a their water use reduction had. Across the city, people chipped in to keep the “orange mix of increased rainfall and conservation, line below the blue line,” taking measures as of December 20 Tompkins County was from limiting the pouring of glasses of wa- still considered to be “Abnormally Dry” ter at restaurants (unless you requested it) by the NRCC’s drought monitor. However, the yellow water issue, at least for some, has to shortening their showers.

At Cornell, which draws its water sup- been resolved. ply from Fall Creek, similar efforts were undertaken to limit water consumption on A Shifting Economy campus. On July 28th, the university issued a campus-wide limit on potable water use, Economically, 2016 was a fascinating aiming to cut its typical consumption of 1.3 year for Ithaca. New, high-end businesses to 1.5 million gallons a day by 30 percent. opened shop or began planning their grand Sprinklers were shut off, paper plates and openings, the local tax rates dropped to plastic cutlery became standard in the din- pre-2003 levels -- called by some in city hall ing halls and a drought planning team was to be the result of the “biggest tax cuts in created to brainstorm methods of avoiding a decade” and, on the development side of problems in the futhings, new constructure and eliminating tion has created milthe inefficiencies of lions of dollars in new the present. revenue that will only Patrons of t he put the $3.5 million Ithaca area’s third wadeficit Mayor Svante ter system at Bolton Myrick inherited sevPoint -- which draws eral years ago further its water from Cayuga in the rearview mirLake -- got off luckiror. er. At Ithaca College, “When I first despite no threats to took office, we really A very dry lawn at Cornell.

(Photo: @ThankTankCr8 via Twitter) their water, the flow streamlined streamof the school’s famous lining departments fountain was reduced and at night, shut off and merging technology to automate a lot in an effort to be “good stewards,” college of what we did before,” Myrick said, the day officials told the Ithaca Journal in August. the 2017 budget was passed. “That meant “...we took the steps (to reduce water we had to make some really hard decisions. usage) anyway because what if this is a re- Four years ago, we had a $3.5 million budally prolonged shortage and other areas are get deficit, but because we made those hard going to ask Bolton Point for help?” Tim decisions, this year and into the future, I

think we’ll be able to lower taxes several “Feel The Bern” chicken sandwich, upsold times.” by a sunglassed Senator Sanders on a chalkThe future does look bright as far as the board deli sign. city’s plans for revenue generation continAs far as politics goes, it’s a common resues. A push for tourism -- and the hotels ignation that Ithaca skews left to the point that support it -- will only work to increase of being statistically anomalous. In 2008 cash flow from both sales and room taxes for instance, the last time a Democratic and the density-centric comprehensive presidential primary was held, Democratic plan will only serve to encourage the type nominee Clinton soundly defeated Barack of construction that calls for more capac- Obama by a wide margin, garnering 57 ity, more taxes paid percent of the vote in and (hopefully), less the state. But, out of of a burden on local the state’s 62 counties, residents. she lost just one — Yet, at the county Tompkins County, by level, a different story six percentage points. was being told, with This year’s support for reduced sales taxes Sanders served only reported across the to confirm Ithaca’s county and, despite heav y lean toward this, an increase in esprogressive politics, timated sales tax revthe 14850 zip code beenues in 2017 to help coming the eighthbalance the budget largest donor to his which, ultimately, still cause nationwide and Bernie Sanders, in Binghamton.

(Photo: Josh Brokaw) called for a small ingiving him a massive crease in taxes. In a victory over Hillary bit of unfortunate news, Mettler Toledo, Clinton in the democratic primary, winone of the area’s oldest manufacturers, an- ning the vote of 63 percent of local demonounced it was moving away to Florida, crats. Thousands of people even signed a however some other businesses focused failed petition to bring him to Ithaca but, on high end sales and student-centric ser- even with that effort falling short, the day vices (similar to storage squad) announced he held a rally in Binghamton, the city had they would be opening their doors. Though a festive vibe akin to the Super Bowl where, sales tax revenue was down (approximately after it was all over, the Commons was 7 percent, mirroring a trend statewide), job packed with people young and old returncreation was up (though not as high as the ing from Binghamton University clad in figures say) and the future, for the time be- campaign garb. ing, looks bright, with organizations like At the campaign field office, activity was REV seeing alumni move into formal office a constant. space while others, like eHub Cornell, have “It’s really felt like a day working the deli paid for extensive renovations to expand counter,” volunteer Kris Hodges, a 58-yeartheir presence. old market researcher and Ithaca resident told the Ithaca Journal in April.

Bernie Mania

In April, just after taking a job at Vox in Washington, D.C., Ithaca Voice founder Jeff Stein penned a piece for the online national upstart entitled “Welcome to Bernieland, the New York town full of true believers in the political revolution.” In it, he described a Bernie Sanders-supporting utopia where, in a single day, you could drive past a barn painted up with a massive “Feel The Bern” slogan on its side on your way into the city to participate in a phone bank at the Bernie Sanders field office (ironically located, this reporter once wrote for USA Today, on Clinton Street) before attending a Bernie Sanders benefit concert that evening.

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At the end of 2015 after years of work, the City of Ithaca passed its new comprehensive plan, a document laying out a roadmap to the city’s future development centered on rezoning several of the city’s neighborhoods and promoting density and walkable development. It could be seen as day one of a new era in development. But in Collegetown -- which has had various zoning regulations put into play over the last few years -- change has already been happening, as developers converted homes and, occasionally, knocked them down to create large, high capacity student housing /

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But it was one debate this year that seemed to indicate a turning of the corner when Neil Golder, who lived next to the site of a proposed midrise at 201 College Ave., attempted to contest the validity of Visum Development’s project under the zoning regulations intended to create context and a feeling of transition for buildings that size between Collegetown and the surrounding neighborhoods.

Proposed in March, the 70-foot tall complex was standard fare for recent developments in the neighborhood. But one small snag – the length of one facade of the building – created a headache for the project team as the city decided whether or not the building was in compliance with the city’s code. All of this was done under the shadow of a lawsuit by Golder, who was challenging the board its decision to approve the project, arguing approval was “made in violation of lawful procedure, was arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion and should be annulled.”

That suit was dismissed in August as the site went up for sale and the decision went to the board of zoning appeals for review but, in October, the project finally began to move forward greatly unchanged from the day it was introduced nearly seven months earlier.

A Good, But Slow Year For Development

Beyond the battle for 201 College Ave., 2016 was a relatively slow year for development in the city. Major projects like Maplewood and City Centre stayed largely in the

210 Hancock began construction earlier this year.

meeting rooms of city and town hall while others, like the long-anticipated Harold’s Square project, have been stalled, despite renewing its building approvals earlier this year. Meanwhile, plenty of other proposals remain in limbo, including Maguire’s plans for the waterfront and the infamous Old Library, which has been extremely slow in moving along.

On the other hand, some smaller projects in the city made great strides. A Noah Demarest-designed pocket neighborhood on South Cayuga Street broke ground and is well on its way. Some condensed townhouse projects were on the fast track to approval and in Collegetown, a large building on Dryden Road is underway, Cornell’s Johnson School is good to go and a Steve

Fontana-owned midrise opened its doors to students, however late for the beginning of term at Cornell. And of course, large projects for Tompkins Trust Company’s new headquarters and 210 Hancock -- the big story of 2015 -- began construction and did so loudly.

The Ithaca Plan

On Feb. 22, members of the local media woke up to an Associated Press alert on their phones that sent them scrambling: an announcement that Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick was set to release a radical plan to combat heroin and drug addiction. Considered by the Drug Policy Alliance to be the “first report of its kind” in the United

States to propose a comprehensive municipal drug plan based on ideas of harm reduction, Myrick’s plan focused not on a buckling down on law and order but with an eye on community well-being, harm reduction and an attempt to focus on drug use not as a criminal matter, but as a public health issue.

Written with the guidance of numerous members of the local healthcare community, the plan had four “pillars” of harm reduction, treatment, prevention and enforcement laid out in a similar fashion to a plan rolled out in Vancouver in the early2000s and called for, among other things, more treatment facilities, a planner intended to implement the ambitious policy and, what gained the most attention of all the proposals, the creation of a supervised injection site, something the national media latched onto with a fervor. The plan was covered almost universally by the mainstream media, with a quick Google search yielding articles from the New York Times, NPR, the Guardian and CNN, for example and in the international sphere, the plan even gained the endorsement of the former president of Switzerland, Ruth Dreifuss, who visited the city in November.

There had been some strides locally: in July, it was revealed that a 25 bed detox center -- the area’s first -- would be coming sometime in 2017, something the Ithaca Plan required but lacked.

Since its introduction, the plan has largely been to sell the plan, rather than to implement it: even with the best intentions in mind, becoming just the second city in North America with supervised injections will require major victories both in Albany

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‘Officer Colin Reporting For Duty’

A Rescue At The Cargill Mine

At Cornell, Heartbreak & Hope

asily the feel good story of the year, 9-year-old Colin Toland, who has brain cancer, was sworn in as Ithaca’s youngest police officer over the summer in front of a dozen cameras and hundreds of classmates. From making videos of public safety tips to meeting with members of the public all the way to arresting the Grinch, Colin has been an active member of the force and, in even better news, learned his cancer had begun to back off just in time for Christmas.

What a fine year.

ate on January 6, 17 miners travelling down to their night shift in the Cargill Salt Mine in Lansing were trapped 900 feet below the surface. After an overnight effort, they were all rescued by noon the next day. For several weeks afterward, the mine was shut down as investigators comprised of workers from from the Office of Emergency Management, Office of Fire Protection, and the Department of Labor’s Division of Safety and Health learned more as to what caused the elevator’s mechanical failure. Work resumed in February.

ragedy struck the Cornell campus in March when news broke that, after a brief fight with colon cancer, Elizbeth Garrett had died within a year of taking office. The university’s first female president and 13th overall, she will be succeeded by Martha Pollack, who was named to the post in November after a stint as provost at the University of Michigan.

Pollack is considered to be one of the preeminent minds of artificial intelligence and, at Michigan, was involved in integrating various fields at the school to work together.

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and in the arena of public opinion. So far, Myrick has been working hard on the second part: every several months it seems, a new video or article comes out online and, as it was noted in a Cornell Daily Sun article from September, the timeline for the plan’s rollout has been vague. However, the mayor is adamant in the plan and the basics of it: Asked at the introductory press conference about the contentious nature of proposals like the supervised injection facility, Myrick responded that the ideas put forth in the plan “are neither progressive nor conservative -- they just work.”

A Green Future

While 2016 was a growing year for the city and county, the conversation as far as the environment goes was about maintenance and reduction of greenhouse gases.

From debates over wind farms to the expansion of solar energy use, the environment proved to be a hot button topic this past year, whether for better or worse.

We start with the peak of the Black Oak Wind Farm fight, which a decade after its conceptual introduction as Enfield’s community-owned wind farm seemed poised to move forward this year. Some site work had been completed in 2015 and last September, with financing looking like it had been secured, it seemed a project to provide Cornell university with enough power for 5,000 households (from seven turbines) was ready to kick off. Then, difficulties began to arise.

That September, landowner Rich Teeter, named by some as the project’s biggest supporters for nine years, backed out of his lease, putting one of the turbines firmly

Ithaca College Faculty Organizer Brody Burroughs.

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off the table and sending the project team scrambling for a new site. All this occurred under intense neighborhood opposition, many against the setbacks involved, the 60 decibels of noise that would be created and the “flicker” created by the rotating blades.

The biggest issue, it seems, has been in the regulations. GE, which would be involved in the project, say setbacks for the 483-foottall turbines should be about 990 feet from buildings and 192 feet from property lines of non-participating lands, which the project complied with. However, the neighbor’s arguments say turbines shouldn’t be any closer than 1,500 feet away from buildings, despite Enfield’s Wind Energy Facilities law allowing Black Oak to site its turbines as close as 532 feet from buildings.

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major undertaking to limit the geese population. The legalization of backyard chickens. The topic of legislating our avian friends captured the amused attention of local media this year, as throughout the winter and summer, the saga of 1) legalizing the illicit – but commonplace – practice of raising chickens and 2) limiting the local geese population played out in the city’s meeting rooms. Geese have been tagged to monitor their population, landscapes are being engineered and yes, chickens are legal.

In an October 7 Ithaca Times cover story on the issue, it was noted Enfield’s Wind Advisory Committee -- formed for the purpose of this project -- came to the conclusions that illness caused by noise from wind turbines is a phenomenon not proven by science at this point in time and that a majority of the “evidence” cited by the project’s opposition was easily debunked: “In sum,” the piece’s author Bill Chaisson wrote, “there is no science-based reason to object to the wind farm, but residents anticipate being annoyed by it.”

Meanwhile, there were some other protests related to energy. While the West Dryden pipeline, stalled in July by a 180 day moratorium on utilities projects, is still technically on the table, a proposed expan-

sion by Dominion to add additional compression stations to its existing New Market pipeline system was put in doubt in part due to local environmentalist Walter Hang’s pointing out of a small technicality created by various small spills along the pipeline, some so small that there was no way they could possibly be cleaned up to state standards. In October, approval for the New Market-Dominion pipeline was delayed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation after the agency extended the public comment period. Meanwhile, Ithaca became the 13th and smallest city to label itself as a 2030 District, an initiative which uses public funding but allows commercial businesses to buy into programs to improve the sustainability of their structures. In practice, membership connects businesses with the buying power of the larger national 2030 District, network, which helps to fund cost-saving improvements to buildings. So far, 0.2 million square feet of property has committed to participating in the program in Ithaca, adding to a larger effort in Tompkins County to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.

A Banner Year For Labor Rights

If the year 2016 is to be marked by anything, it may very well have been considered the year of the rights of the working stiff.

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Free The Gorges!

A Year To Be Heard

ollowing the death of a cliff jumper at Second Dam in 2015, the City of Ithaca – which oversees the regulation of the gorge in which it sits – began working out legislation to dissuade people from swimming in the gorges and instituting a new gorge ranger program to prevent wild parties, jumping and other actions typical in the gorges in the summer months. This prompted protests from many fans of the gorges, who rallied around the cry of “free the gorges” in their efforts to reduce the reach of the legislation and allow swimming.

ne month, hundreds of people attended a vigil on the Commons to remember the 49 people killed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Several times through the year, allies and advocates of the Black Lives Matter movement marched through the streets in solidarity with movements throughout the country. In many areas of the country, 2016 was a year rife with activism and new voices screaming to be heard and in Ithaca, the freedom to assemble was a right Ithacans used to full effect.

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considering unionizing. But it seemed that 2016 was the year for the labor movement came to a head. Earlier this fall, a federal judge determined that Cayuga Medical Center violated labor laws in its efforts to stall a push for unionizat ion , i ncluding the alleged demotion of employees for t hei r efforts, dissuadi n g c onversations among employees related to salaries and urging the reporting of any unionization activities.

At Cornell, an August decision from the National Labor Relations Board ruling student assistants at colleges and universities are employees protected under federal labor law helped pave the way for a motion for its graduate students, many who carry their fair share of the undergraduate course load, to unionize, signifying a major victory for a movement that had taken hold earlier in the year. The issue had earned the opinion of administration in May that organizing would be damaging to private sector education, an amicus brief at the time arguing that “there is no compelling reason” to offer the rights of full time faculty to students, arguing that – on top of financial assistance

– argues graduate positions are part of “a fully integrated educational experience,” and that “the market value of any teaching services provided by doctoral candidates is not taken into consideration when determining stipends provided to students teaching during their graduate programs,” t he C ornell Daily Sun wrote at the time. Despite this, by late Aug ust, t he university formally acknowledged the movement, adding an FAQ on graduate student union representation to the university website. However, in late October interim president Hunter Rawlings expressed his concern that “selecting a labor union as the exclusive bargaining representative for students is not in the best interests of graduate education at Cornell.”

Meanwhile, at Ithaca College, the college’s part time faculty have unionized and are currently in contentious negotiations with administration, marked throughout the year by various protests and vocal demonstrations on campus. As things stand right now, the college’s part time contingent faculty has all but declared it will go on strike if a deal is not reached soon.

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“You certainly find out who’s going t h roug h it when you do,” sa id Ju l ia .

The couple, when they started dating in 2009, were the image of your typical modern couple, both coming at life the responsible way preached by most of our baby boomer parents: they went to school, got degrees and immediately dove into professional life, both putting their careers first, setting a stable ground for themselves and working to build a foundation for the future they’d been taught to expect: save money, buy a house, start a family.

But after being laid off in the wake of the recession, the couple lived a life described

by Greg as “a roller coaster.” The following years were filled with ups and downs, the pair biding their time focusing on building stability for their own selves, rather than immediately diving into the endeavor of starting a family in their 20s: something that today seems to be a relic of a bygone

era. Once they’d dated a few yea rs , Julia and Greg eventually got ma r r ied in May 2013, fresh off a year of caring for Greg’s mother in Pennsylvania. Immediately after, counting four years togethe r, t h e t w o decided they would tr y to start a family.

“I wa ited,” Ju lia sa id, “But t here’s a risk to waiting. You might be responsible, and think you’re doing the right thing, but now you’ve gone beyond this time period of things just working out.”

They tried for a few months, thinking eventually it would happen, but one day the pair got to the point where they were going to local doctors, trying to figure out what the problem was. Sometime last year, they decided to see what the next step looked like. This, the couple said, led them into seeking professional, medical help.

The process of starting a family with a doctor’s help is nothing new. In Vitro fertilization (the act of conceiving a child outside of the body) has been around since 1978. Artificial insemination, or IUI, has been around even longer. But for many couples, especially given drastic changes in socioeconomics and family structure over the past few decades, IVF and IUI have become much more common in practice, recently earning the atten-

tion of NPR, where Greg and Julia were recently featured in a story on the subject.

Their story has a bit of a twist to it, however: the couple are crowdfunding the procedure.

The reasons they give, however, are good ones.

The pair started their story with IUI -which costs approximately $700 per cycle -- in November 2015, which is covered by insurance in New York State and “less intrusive,” Greg said. To carry this out, little more is required other than a check up every several days to monitor the bodily effects of the hormones that are injected during each cycle to make sure no ill effects come from the dosage. However, Julia was overstimulated on the higher third dose, meaning that from that point on, Julia possibly could have given birth to triplets or quadruplets, something their doctor, given Julia’s age, said could have meant a high risk pregnancy.

That effort unsuccessful, the couple moved onto IVF, which is an actual, laboratorial procedure involving sedation, a somewhat surgical procedure and unlike the IUI treatments, which could be carried out in Syracuse, a trip to Albany to see a specialist.

What they were looking for, they said, was an opportunity. What they found was a $12, 000 to $20,000 per cycle cost for the treatment -- all of which comes out of pocket with no guarantees. So they decided to crowdfund.

The decision wasn’t made without doing prior research: The couple looked extensively into the ways they could possibly dodge the high cost. They looked to move to Massachusetts, where an IVF procedure was covered by insurance. The looked toward South Africa, which they decided might have been a little too odd. They even looked into IVF “vacations,” where they would go to a foreign country for several weeks and have the procedure done at a fraction of the cost.

But in today’s world, where people will crowdfund anything from an independent film to a Gucci purse, the logic seemed more along the lines of “why not?” than anything else: there was no harm, they thought, in putting the idea out there and seeing how warm the water was.

“We’re at the point where it might not happen on our own,” Julia added. “For

us to save up for something like that, it would take us quite a bit of time and for us, every year that goes by is another year my chances of conception go down.”

According to the American Society For Reproductive Medicine, A woman’s best reproductive years are in her 20s, with chances of conception gradually declining in the 30s. Time becomes more of the element later down the road, particularly after age 35, where the chance of conception is somewhere around 15 to 20 percent each month. By age 40, a woman’s chance to conceive is less than 5 percent per cycle, so fewer than five out of every 100 women are expected to be successful each month.

But, of course, the human body is not a machine and as such, the process of conception isn’t cut and dry. Just because your birthday came around, Greg jokes, doesn’t mean your chances go down five percent. And while they could try naturally -- there is a chance, after all -- the time for them is now and, hopefully, they’ll be preparing for family life later this winter.

They just wish it was a little easier.

“I just wish (IVF) wasn’t so expensive,” Ju lia said. “I get it’s an expensive pro c e du re , but i f you’re c overing IUI, it’s really not all that different.”

“I read the comments (on NPR) after our story aired and people were like, ‘if they can’t afford this, how can they afford a child?’ and suggesting we go through adoption but… we made the decision we want to do it this way,” Greg said. “If it doesn’t work out, we have to prepare for that. But we’re remaining unbelievably optimistic that by this time next year, we’re going to have started a family. If someone wants to give us $20 to help that happen, great.

If someone thinks we’re awful people for doing it this way, fine… we just want to tell this story because we’re going through it.

You can bottle it up and be quiet about it or you can tell the story. We want people to realize they’re not alone and there are other people going through these things as well.”

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he new year is often a time when we write the date on something, scribble it out and write in the correct year, then we scratch our heads and say “Wow, the River of Time flows swiftly.”

I had one of those moments recently when I checked the box score of the Cornell women’s basketball team’s game against Binghamton, saw Taylor DePalma’s name, and realized that the Ithaca High grad is now a senior. What?

I have been friends with Taylor’s dad, Bernie, since we met as colleagues at Cornell in 1981. I was a sports camp guy, Bernie was an athletic trainer, and he has since climbed the ladder to become the Ithaca TimesTrainer and Assistant AthHead Athletic letic xDirector 4.9 2.7 at Cornell. We were friends, we played softball with some of the other staff members and coaches, and we spent some time playing some hoops and tossing

a disc. I knew that any future offspring would be fortunate to have a combination of Bernie’s smarts and athletic skills, and then, along came Mary.

When Bernie married Mary Turner, I told him, “You know, marrying a Division 1 track star (University of Pennsylvania) really upped your game from a genetic standpoint. Well played.”

That seems like about five years ago, but in fact, it was 20-plus years ago and now both of the DePalma kids – Taylor and her brother, Turner – are good students, good athletes and hard workers.

Longtime readers know how much I love it when local kids do what it takes to become college athletes, and a local athlete suiting up for the local university makes it extra special. I recall watching Taylor move up through the ranks, and when she made the Ithaca High varsity team as an

Taylor DePalma (Photo: Cornell Athletic Communications)

8th grader, I knew she was on her way to playing in some collegiate program. I did not know whether she was D-1 material, but she obviously is, and her 5-year varsity career as a member of the Little Red was a decorated on by any measure. She was named All-STAC numerous times, made the All-NYS Section 4 team and was the Little Red’s captain as a senior.

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game, not even paying attention.”

Over the years, Taylor got a lot more focused, played AAU ball in addition to attending many camps and clinics, and she started thinking about Cornell a long time ago. She told me, “I always knew I wanted to be here. It’s an amazing school, close to home, my dad works here, my mom went to grad school here… Cornell has been such a meaningful part of our family’s life.”

Her brother is now a senior at Ithaca High, is also an exceptional athlete, and he plans to attend Cornell as well. He is following his sister’s footsteps in another way, and you can believe me when I tell you that it was not by choice. Taylor said, “On October 8th of my junior year in high school, I tore my ACL. On October 7th, five years later, Turner tore his as well.”

Having spent a few hundred hours around the training room as kids, both DePalma siblings knew what it would take to make a comeback, and Turner is now working hard to do just that (and play football at C.U. this fall).

At this writing, the Big Red women are 8-4, and are about to start their Ivy League schedule. “The Ivy tournament will feature the top four teams,” Taylor told me, “and getting there is our main goal.” The fact that it is her final season stokes the fire, and she said “There’s not a lot of time left. “ I asked her how it feels to be a starter now, and the point guard offered “Given I didn’t play much in my first three years, it is definitely a special time for me. I stayed with it, I stayed confident, and honestly, I’m proud of that.”

As you should be, Taylor.

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don’t do the traditional “Top 10” list as you’ll read, but I’ve tried to organize my picks in double and triple bills. If a film didn’t fit a particular genre, I left it alone.

As usual, a number of films from the end of the year, like Martin Scorsese’s Silence and Ben Affleck’s Live By Night, haven’t opened here yet; you’ll be hearing about them in the New Year.

BUDDY MOVIES Swiss Army Man / The Nice Guys The bromance concept gets a radical makeover with Swiss Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Swiss Army Man, making for one of the most twisted examples of the buddy movie genre. Paul Dano washes up on an island and as he’s attempting suicide, a corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe appears. In ways I’d rather not spoil, Radcliffe becomes the title notion – a man who can provide everything Dano needs – including being a friend. You may be surprised at how moved you are by the end.

In The Nice Guys, Ryan Gosling is back, this time teamed with Russell Crowe as two sad-sack private investigators who become reluctant partners during a series of seedy events that have farreaching consequences. Shane Black’s perversely funny buddy movie is not only set in the 1970s, but looks as if it was made in the 1970s.

SCI-FI Arrival/Midnight Special/10 Cloverfield Lane Amy Adams stars in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival as a linguist engaged by the government when 12 massive egg-shaped pods land on Earth. Much more intriguing and thought-provoking than the usual B-movie comic book stuff, Arrival is delivered in a low-key intelligent style with enough ambiguity and twists to give you lots to talk about on the drive home.

Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special is nominally about a little boy who may be an alien. What it really is happens to be one of the tensest and

most gripping chase films I have ever seen. Nichols regular Michael Shannon and Jaeden Lieberher play a father and son that go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child’s special powers. Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst and Adam Driver co-star.

If there were any justice, John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. would all be nominated for what amounts to a triple-hander classic in 10 Cloverfield Lane. A sequel to Cloverfield in name only, it feels like the greatest episode of The Twilight Zone that you’ve never seen, and since it relies so heavily on actual narrative surprise, the less you know, the better.

ANIMATION Anomalisa / Kubu and the Two Strings In Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson’s Anomalisa, an author of best-selling books on the hospitality industry (voice by David Thewlis) arrives in Cincinnati for one night to deliver a lecture.

Everyone he meets and sees sounds and looks exactly the same. (Tom Noonan stars as everyone else.) So the moment he hears Jennifer Jason Leigh’s voice, it’s fate. They have an encounter, things get weird. In other words, it’s typical Charlie Kaufman. You have to be in the right mood for Anomalisa, but it’s worth seeing.

There were many good animated films this year, but Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings (directed by Travis Knight) in 3D was one of the most stunning screenings I saw this year. Accompanied by his samisen, Kobu tells stories to a village’s locals by magically manipulating origami that moves under music that he plays. He winds up on an epic journey running from dark forces that will claim his other eye.

Boasting some of the finest stop-motion animation ever filmed, like the best of Disney and Pixar, this folk tale isn’t afraid to be bold, to be scary, and to be sad. Charlize Theron is charming but real in the dual roles of Kubo’s mother and Monkey, a woman reincarnated in a little Japanese snow monkey charm. Art Parkinson in

the title role and Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara and George Takei are also standouts in this terrific tale.

COMIC BOOKS / FANTASY Deadpool/Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them / Dr. Strange For most of the year, Deadpool has been the sentimental favorite. In a year when most comic book movies stopped being fun, the most fun one turned out to be the R-rated upstart with a great sense of humor that wasn’t afraid to take risks. Ryan Reynolds’ Marvel character has a pleasing alliterative name – Wade Wilson – and he does play a guy with superpowers trying to protect his girlfriend (Morena Baccarin) from the obligatory British bad guy (Ed Skrein). But the whole thing is blown so far over the top with profanity, obscure pop references and meta breaking of the fourth wall, that it sure doesn’t feel like the same ol’ same ol’ superhero stuff. Reynolds finally finds his signature character, and from the hilarious opening credits to the use of Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning” (and the reference to Ronnie Milsap), Deadpool is easily the comic-book movie of the year and the first good X-Men spin-off.

David Yates’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, from a gem of a first screenplay by J.K. Rowling, sure gets the adjective right. I may like this Harry Potter spin-off more than some of the Potter films. Eddie Redmayne stars as a collector of the title characters in 1926 New York, as anti-wizard forces are massing. When some of the beasts go missing, Redmayne must track them down in a dizzying, laugh-out-loud adventure that keeps springing delightful surprise after surprise. He is joined by a great cast that includes Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell, Alison Sudol, and a comic turn for the ages by Dan Fogler as an aspiring Muggle baker who gets pulled into the continued on page 16

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Shull, Paralanguage

Shull’s an avant-garde leaning duo from Ithaca, forging jazz moods and experimental tensions, with a math-rock mentality. Pulsing, extended, and angular, their new album Paralanguage has a palpable deepness, warming your ears and also piercing them with rigid and formulaic excursions. These guys move how they want, with a fortitude and freeness that recalls the Minutemen, Don Caballero, and many artists on the ECM jazz and classical label. One thing’s for sure, Shull doesn’t seem to play enough

around town: hopefully that’ll change in 2017.

Escuela, Non Serviam

Grindcore renegades Escuela deliver substantial speed, destruction, and power. Holding fast with a grimy and arty aesthetic twisting tenfold, their debut Non Serviam, is a ripper. The Ithaca trio digs in deep with dark and rigid manifestations that swarm in powerviolence, realism, and hardcore spirit. This bold cassette release will have you whipping your neck to the Gods of the underground, chugging long and strong in bleak and perfect harmony.

11 tracks in under 11 minutes: the perfect tape to reach the fifth dimension on lunch break.

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Tempered Exhaust

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Sunken Cheek, the noise, industrial and experimental project of Ithaca’s Weston Czerkies, is one of the most intense, dynamic, and prolific noise enterprises out there. The new album, Tempered Exhaust, showcases a textural and psychological brazenness that runs deep in lucid noise and ambient demonstrations. The album is dark, meditative, durable, and artful, assembling moods of detachment and horror, equally, with transcendence. Czerkies runs the label Prime Ruin, a pot at the end of the rainbow for underground noise, punk, and experimental music. This album though, was released through Nova Scotia’s Aught/Void label.

Binghamton’s finest oldtime traditionalists Driftwood, manage to capture

Fireflies

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heist-crime film”, but this tense nail-biting thriller feels like Elmore Leonard, as two brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) carry out a series of bank robberies to save their family farm, against a desolate rural backdrop of “For Sale” and “Closed” signage. Jeff Bridges adds another indelible old coot to his resume as the Texas Ranger on the case.

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something large with something sparse.

Their sound is a refined extension, garnering power with harmony, patience, and artful tendencies. The band’s latest release City Lights is their best yet, showcasing three songwriters at the peak of their powers. With folk ballads, old school country anthems, pop undertones, and a continually underground and DIY spirit, the band is particularly adept at entering your mindscape: their new album enters full, gleefully pacing in brilliant colors and lush technique.

John Brown’s Body, throw the ultimate holiday bash in hopes of landing a new client (Courtney B. Vance). The party goes from boring to ridiculous with the help of a great cast that includes Olivia Munn, Jillian Bell, Vanessa Bayer, Courtney B. Vance, Rob Corddry, Randall Park, Kate McKinnon and Jennifer Aniston.

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Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Doctor Strange (Photo provided)

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Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange is the 14th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but its kaleidoscopic, psychedelic visuals make it feel completely unique. This movie may be about magic, but it owes nothing to the world of say, Harry Potter. Benedict Cumberbatch is perfectly cast as brilliant surgeon Stephen Strange; as good as RDJ’s Tony Stark, but odder, more sardonic and darker in humor. All the Marvel beats play through, but with a haunting, lysergic spirituality.

By the time all of Strange’s trademarks are established - the goatee, the cloak, the amulet – we feel like we felt at the end of Iron Man, that we have finally met the character.

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Comedies usually get short shrift because they’re just jumbles of scenes, but the raunchy fun of Office Christmas Party comes from what I call the Caddyshack factor, where there’s a comedy flavor for anyone who’s ever worked in an office. Jason Bateman plays the patented Jason Bateman part, as he and T.J. Miller

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JBB are local legends and have been blasting intergalactic dub and reggae for over 20 years. Their newest release is a behemoth of roots rock, old school dub, and blazing club anthems. Perhaps the band’s best album to date, Fireflies, ties contemporary moods with an old-school realness that made bands and musicians like Scratch Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Black Uhuru, and Culture so timeless and special. JBB sits right there with those giants, continually churning out blasters that move, shake, and burn with deep passion and deft technique. Pick this album up and explore the islands of an eternal mind.

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Pieces in Space

Local rapper and producer Sammus is a dynamo on the microphone, whirling and tunneling an eclectic and inspired vision. Her newest LP, Pieces in Space, hits hard with social introspection, heavy beats, and crafty raps. The instrumentation flows like shiny water, swirling around Sammus’ particular tone and universe, heavy, vibrant, and for real. Pieces in Space sounds underground while being contemporary and accessible. There’s anger, persistence, and a penchant for individualism throughout, complete with guest appearances by luminaries like Open Mike Eagle, Latasha Alcindor, Alex Attard, Izzy True, and more. Dynamite! •

burn media frenzy. As Spinal Tap nailed the grainy 16mm rock doc, Popstar is all about Autotune, TMZ and social media.

Samberg and company make credible music tracks, with just the right surreal twists. What gives the film weight are the celebrity cameos by the likes of Questlove, Ringo Starr and Pharrell Williams, all testifying about the impact of Connor’s music.

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping – the first official Lonely Island movie from Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone – didn’t find its audience in theaters this summer, but it’s the funniest and smartest music mockumentary to come along since This is Spinal Tap (sorry, CB4 and Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo). Samberg nails the naïve idiocy of pop stars as Connor, a boy band front man who throws his mates under the bus and goes solo in a hilarious crash-and-

Everybody Wants Some!!

Everybody Wants Some!!, a spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused, may be the most laid-back sports movie ever made.

The college ball players depicted as the fictional Texas Cherokees only play one game, and it’s the first warm up. This is a Richard Linklater joint, and takes place over the last weekend before classes start at a Texas college, seen through the eyes of Jake (Blake Jenner), a freshman hotshot high school ball player about to start the new semester. The rest of the guys are a motley but funny bunch of unknowns: Jenner, Will Brittain, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Glenn Powell and Wyatt Russell. Zoey Deutch is also sweet as Beverly, a theatre major that Jake has his eye on.

It’s a movie that’s more about the hang, more about the guys getting to booze, do bong hits, chase college girls and bond than it is about getting them on the field. • Read Bryan VanCampen’s full and extended picks at ithaca.com

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Tender Cruncher soars with vision and poetry

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in many ways the unifiers that glue the freeness and existential innovations that otherwise would take the music completely beyond the stratosphere. This is the beauty of the sound—the fine line that is straddles—orbital, dark and truly poetic.

“Darkness is definitely present in my songs,” Lindsay said. “The compositions come straight from the heart—there’s catharsis in being able to bare my darker thoughts in a song/art format. I think that there’s something to be said for exploring darker elements through song. I find that there isn’t a lot of emotionally challenging and confrontational music around, so this is an avenue I pursue.”

ne dynamic and crucial element to Ithaca’s avant-garde electronic experimentalist Penelope Lindsay, the musician behind Tender Cruncher, is the resolution to simply go for it. The music she creates is strange, but vivaciously real.

Minimalism meets Dada in some nexus of weirdo electro acid pop: the results are often lifting and always unique. Lindsay manages to blend high art and punk mentality into a boiling abstraction. There’s an honesty to Tender Cruncher that shines through in the poetry, the oddness, and the nakedness of the compositions. The music attracts through intensity.

“Experimental and avant-garde art, writing and music have always appealed to me, so I think that the influence is definitely there,” said Lindsay. “I never quite consider them my direct influences, but seeing other people make experimental art/music inspires me to continue making my own and pursue my own vision. More than these art forms though, I think that punk really influenced my approach to music, because I just decided to start makPenelope Lindsay, the force behind Tender Cruncher ing it, and didn’t care about my skill (Photo: Casey Martin) level or adhering to any particular sound structure.”

New York City label Haord Records Tender Cruncher realizes its vision released Tender Cruncher’s newest experiwith swift, often escapist electronic beats and Lindsay’s subdued, yet powerful vocals. mental classic Crybabe this past June. The album was released as a cassette and has There’s a particular dimension she’s found the vibe and texture of something wonderwhere Tender Cruncher can perform its fully analog. Experimental pop ballads dip axiom in a natural state. And even though and dive with angular psychedelic soundthis state is in many ways far from what scapes and hard-hitting hip-hop beats to one could call natural, with proper inspecform a journey of absolute individuality. tion one can detect the general influences For every extreme excursion on the album, and patters that make the totality work. there’s an equally lush and uplifting séance, “To be completely honest, I think the blending the whole complete and firm. first electronic music that really permeated into my subconscious was video game And as a cassette it’s destined to be collector’s dream, all weird, arty, radiant and full music, since I spent so much time gamof life. ing as a kid,” Lindsay explained. “It’s also “Releasing a tape on Haord Records extremely repetitive, so the loops would get was awesome, because I feel like that label, very stuck in my head. As I grew up, Devo more than any other around right now, was definitely one of my primary musical really jives with similar sonic sentiments as influences. It’s funny because in retrospect mine,” Lindsay said. “I went on tour with I realized that Mark Mothersbaugh was Haord Records head honchos Macula Dog composing a lot of video game/children’s this past summer around the east coast show soundtracks, so I think his music has down to Florida, which was an amazing influenced me my whole life. Beyond that, experience. This was my second tape, and I I’ve always really loved hip-hop and dance felt pretty excited to have more fleshed out music, so I think that vein of bleeping song ideas on it. I’ve been actively workand blooping has definitely influenced my ing on new recordings, and hope to have sound too.” a new tape out sometime this year, so stay The hip-hop and dance nuances that tuned!” • run through Tender Cruncher’s music are

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By Gly ni s Har t The Funx, AWI fundraiser concert, Friday, Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m.

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n American Idol contestant, a seventh grade English teacher, an acting coach and a computer engineer all walk onto the Hangar Theatre stage this Friday, January 6 at 7:30 p.m., and what do you get? A blend of amazing voices, first assembled in Ithaca, and now resounding on the national level.

The Funx come fresh from victories at the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards, having been named Winner of Best Collaborative/Studio Project Song of 2016 (along with Duwende) for “Electric Lady” following on their 2015 success for Runner-Up for Best Pop/Rock Album of 2015 for Louder. Along with other achievements, the Funx were invited to open for Jay Leno on his 2015 tour.

The Hangar concert is their second appearance together on that stage, since a year ago they were there to fundraise for

local theater group Running to Places. This year’s concert will raise funds for the Actors Workshop of Ithaca; AWI offers scholarships to aspiring actors who need help with the class fees.

Currently, the Funx is working on a new album. While the standard in the a cappella world is to have fun with covers, superstar groups like the Pentatonix (see ithaca.com /entertainment/ pentatonix) are big enough to put out albums of originals.

“We’ve had two EPs released with one or two originals in the past,” said Arbisser.

“This will be a little more exciting. Obviously, it takes more time and energy, and more risks. It’s a more challenging sell, but a more fulfilling one.”

“The a cappella world is only getting bigger,” said Arbisser. Although occasional a capella hits have always shown up in the pop charts (think, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” by The Nylons, or Billy Joel’s “For the Longest Time”) the all-vocal singing style has gone viral, thanks to modern

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technology and beatboxing, in which vocal effects provide percussion. Propelled by the movie Pitch Perfect and television shows Glee and The Sing Off, a cappella music now has six or eight major festivals a year, and former “choir nerds” can set their sights on making the big time.

The Funx began formally five years ago, but the members of the group go back farther than that. Ariel Arbisser, the group’s manager and sole female voice, said she and Robert Dietz, who arranges the group’s music, knew each other from college. “At some point we had all sung in various school groups,” she said. Arbisser went to Cornell; Dietz, Harry Nichols and Nate Tao are Ithaca College alumni.

Between the five members of the Funx, they cover almost all the singing groups in Ithaca, including Ithacappella, the Chordial (Cornell’s co-ed choir), and Ascending Heights at Ithaca High School.

To preview The Funx’s music, all you need is a cell phone or a computer. Their videos, filmed in the style of the Brady Bunch opener, have the lighthearted, upbeat feeling that is a capella’s main strength.

“A cappella” is Italian for “as in the chapel,” from when instrumentation was forbidden in church. Nowadays, with electronic substitutes for every instrument there is, the all-vocal music style brings a human element back into popular music. Athough many people would sing if they felt free to do so, the ready examples of vocal perfecAlamos. A historical thriller may sound like an odd choice for a writer who sent shockwaves of his own through the science fiction community when he detonated the Hugo Award winning Hyperion back in 1989, but Simmon’s ability to move from one genre to the next, through horror (Carrion Comfort, Summer of Night), historical/literary revisionism (The Terror, The Fifth Heart), and back to high-concept science fiction (Olympos, Ilium) at whim has proven well suited to versatility.

Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

Notoriously reclusive and known to operate at a glacial pace when writing and releasing information on new works, McCarthy surprised the literary arts community when he appeared at a multimedia event in Santa Fe in 2015 to share excerpts from his new novel. Drafts of The Passenger have been floating around since 1980, the plot involving the daughter of a scientist in Los Alamos; a young woman struggling with mental illness. The excerpts were described by the author as part of his most “scientifically themed” work to date, contained discussion of quantum theory. Eagle-eyed McCarthy forum users are suggesting the release will come in two volumes, the first dropping sometime around March of 2017. After a detour into Hollywood that produced the critically divisive screenplay for The Counselor, the literary community is the on edge of its collective seat to see the Pulitzer Prize winner back in his native element.

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tion that surround us intimidate many into silence. However, a Warsaw University found that most people can actually sing, and they feel happier if they do. “People tend to be incredibly affected by the human element,” said Arbisser. In other words, when you get out of the concert, even if you couldn’t make it onto American Idol, you’ll feel like singing.

Patreon, a crowdfunding site for singers, artists and creative people, helps fans give direct support to The Funx. To become a patron and help sponsor videos, go to Patreon.com. •

Joe Hill, Strange Weather

If you’re unfamiliar with Joe Hill you’ve probably heard of his father, the reigning monarch of modern horror Stephen King.

Hill came out of the gates writing like a kid with something to prove nearly a decade ago, opting to write under a pen name to obscure the connection to his father and build a foundation on his own unique vision. The goth-tinged Heart Shaped Box garnered notice in 2009, followed by the Kafka-esque Horns which was sharp enough to be adapted into a feature starring Daniel Radcliffe in 2012. However, it was the Christmas-horror time hopper NOS4A2 and apocalyptic 600 plus page epic The Fireman in which Hill began to emerge as a truly inventive and unique successor to his father’s legacy and even started to establish connections to his father’s conceptual universe with deftly scattered easter eggs. In his latest work Hill has organized four short novels, two of which were described as being in final draft form by the author as of August. One of the novellas, titled Snapshot 1988 has already been optioned as a film by Universal, and involves a 13-year old boy serving as a caretaker for an elderly acquaintance he fears is succumbing to dementia. What he doesn’t know is that her memories are in fact being stolen by an evil man named The Phoenician who uses a camera that steals memories. •

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is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. | 137 mins R | La La Land | A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. | 128 mins PG-13 |

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Moonlight | A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. | 111 mins R |

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz, and Gospel Music, featuring Angie Beeler, Travis Knapp, Leon Arguello, and Special Guest Stars.

Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups.

The Easy, Joey Demon | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Jazz, R&B, Alternative.

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CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Devinne Meyers | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Folk, Pop, Indie.

The Outer Loop, Forevers | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Indie Rock, Rock, Alternative.

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PM | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Electronic, Progressive Electronic, Psychedelic, Art Pop, Noise, Avant-Garde, Experimental. Ithaca Underground and The History Center present.

Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock and Roll, Folk, Country, Roots, Blues.

Brian Spencer Blues Project | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

Brothers MacRae Reunion | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Road, Freeville | Americana, Folk, Bluegrass.

Nate Miner and Matt Furstoss of Underwater Tiger | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Acoustic, Rock, Alternative.

Wingnut | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Experimental, Jazz, Free Jazz, Progressive, Trance.

5th Gear | 9:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Pop, Rock.

The Spring Street Family Present RHCP’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik with ToTs and the Homefries | 9:30 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Tribute to Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Tyler Pearce Project, The Neo Project | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Rock, Funk, R&B, Soul.

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Fresh Vintage | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Father and Daughter singing duo.

Rebecca & The Soul Shakers | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Rock, Southern Rock, Soul,

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Fireside Collective, Melanie and the Boys | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Americana, Folk, Bluegrass, Rock, Progressive Folk, Newgrass.

Barroom Philosophers, Boogie Low, Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Reggae Rock, Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Punk.

State St, Ithaca | Swing, Blues, Jazz.

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

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

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Phil Shapiro and Carrie Shore: The American Folk Tradition | 6:00 PM | Montour Falls Library, 406 West Main Street, Montour Falls | Folk.

Funx Cocert, AWI Fundraiser | 7:30 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A concert to benefit the actor workshop of Ithaca. The Funx are a soulful supergroup dedicated to bringing more original music to the a cappella world. Featuring a complete arsenal of a cappella weapons: Ariel Arbisser (The Jeff Love Band), Robert Dietz (arranger for NBC’s The Sing-Off), Crawford Doran (The Water Boys), Harry Nichols (Harry Nichols Band), Nate Tao (American Idol, Ithacappella).

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

Vocal Jazz Jam hosted by Diana Leigh & Jesse Collins | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | The Range, 119 E. State St, Ithaca | Jazz. Instrumentalists Welcome.

Frank Raponi | 4:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Acoustic, Rock, Pop, Reggae, Alternative.

Vocal Jazz Jam with Diana Leigh and Jesse Collins | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Nate Marshall | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Folk, Americana.

1/09 Monday

Dead Night with Pearly Baker’s Best | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Grateful Dead Tribute Band.

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Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday.

The Pelotones | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E

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Krish Mohan | 8:00 PM | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Krish is a socially conscious Indian stand-up comedian and writer who regularly performs at small theaters, bars, comedy clubs, colleges and DIY venues across the country. He focuses on idea based stand-up tackling race, religion, immigration, relationships, political and social issues.

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25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family | 118 mins PG-13 | The Eagle Huntress | The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter. | 87 mins G | Jackie | Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s historic legacy. | 100 mins R | Manchester by the Sea | An uncle

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Notices Local Auditions: Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival / Merry-Go-Round Playhouse | Local auditions to be held Jan. 27-29 for the playhouse’s upcoming 2017 season.

Shows include: Guys and Dolls, Parade, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Ghost The Musical, and Always…

Patsy Cline. Auditions will be held by appointment only. All roles are available. Equity and Non-Equity.

Paid positions. Internships and Observerships also available. For more information and to request an audition appointment, please visit: FingerLakesMTF.com/auditions.

Ihaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 1/04 Wednesday | Chili’s, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | RSVP mavashgaldjie@yahoo.com Square and Contra Dance | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 1/07 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/08 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast or Waffles, Sausage & Bacon or Ham, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Sausage Gravy & Biscuits, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages.

Enfield Volunteer Fire Company: Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM, 1/08 Sunday | Enfield Fire Company, 172 Enfield Main Rd., Ithaca | Plus, the Ladies Auxiliary holds a Bake Sale at each BBQ. Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 1/08 Sunday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | The theme is time. Got a song about alarm clocks, wristwatches, pendulums or calendars?

Time travel? Aging? Sprigs of thyme?

New Years? Love until the end of Time?

Ithaca-Cortland PFLAG Meeting | 4:00 PM, 1/08 Sunday | Interfaith Center, 7 Calvert Street, Cortland |

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Mary Poppins | Syracuse Stage/ Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Runs through January 8.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Showtimes and dates at syracusestage.org Krish Mohan | 8:00 PM, 1/07 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St,

Auburn | Krish is a socially conscious Indian stand-up comedian and writer who regularly performs at small theaters, bars, comedy clubs, colleges and DIY venues across the country.

He focuses on idea based stand-up tackling race, religion, immigration, relationships, political and social issues.

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All interested people are welcome to attend. For more information visit www.pflagithacacortland.com Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 AM, 1/09 Monday | V.F.W., Route 13, Dryden | Lunch is served at 12:15 p.m. with announcements starting at 11:45 a.m. Table service will be provided. The meal will be meat lasagna tossed salad, garlic bread, fruited jello with whipped topping.

The speakers will be Harry Weldon and Mary Streeter who will talk about the history of the 60 years of the Dryden Seniors.

Cayuga Bird Club Monthly Meeting | 7:30 PM, 1/09 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | This month will be the annual Share Your Photos night. For information, email president @cayugabirdclub.org or refer to the bird club’s website: cayugabirdclub.org

Learning Creating Family Ceremonies with a Connection to Nature with Julie Kulik, Earth Arts Director | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 1/05 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Located at the Classrooms at Greenstar.

Client Services 101 with Gretchen Rymarchyk, PhD, and Vikki O’Connor, PhD | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM,

1/06 Friday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A workshop for new/newer health and human service staff at all levels. Visit www.hsctc.org/ workshops for details.

Morse Aviation: From Bicycle Chains to Aeroplane: with Don Funke | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 1/07 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | The presentation is part of a series related to The History Center’s current Made in Tompkins County exhibit. Morse Equalizing Spring Company, later named Morse Chain Company, was established in 1880 by Everett Fleet Morse. This presentation will focus on the early years and include insight into the events of 100 years ago. The presenter, Don Funke, is President of the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation and heads up the restoration efforts of the Thomas-Morse Scout produced in Ithaca 100 years ago.

Winter Veggie Garden: Kitchen Garden Tour | 1:00 PM, 1/08 Sunday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, South Lansing Location, Lansing | Tour a ‘high tunnel’ (and a low tunnel) which supply much of the household’s winter produce. A high tunnel is a tall plastic-enclosed growing area that relies on sunlight and captured heat to grow hardy greens. This early January tour will showcase the veggies at their most abundant. Sunday Jan. 8: please arrive for start of the tour

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Lot 10, Friday, January 6, 10:00 p.m.

The soul-tinged island-like pop rock of the Tyler Pearce Project moves in waves and mellow grooves, finding a place in your heart with its naturalness and sneaky technicality. Tyler Pearce leads this nimble quartet made up of Pearce on guitar and vocals, Greg Broadhurst on drums, John Cannon on Bass and backing vocals, and Chris Vandenbos on lead guitar.The band forges a hard fought and strong musicianship that gives the music much deep and extra heft.

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Address and directions available upon sign-up. Limited parking. Limit of 15 participants. Please pre-register by calling Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (607) 272-2292.

Kids Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 1/06 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | During these fun-filled 30-minute sessions, Library staff will share books, songs, rhymes, baby signs and early literacy tips. Baby Storytime programs are followed by hour-long Baby and Toddler Playtimes, which encourage socialization and learning through unstructured play. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Special Events 11th Annual Celebrity Chef Pasta Nights | 5:00 PM-8:30 PM, 1/05 Thursday | Glenora Wine Cellars Inc, 5435 State Route 14, Dundee | Pasta Night returns for its 11th year! Join Glenora Wine Cellars for their favorite winter tradition and enjoy fresh pasta dishes prepared by local celebrity chefs every Thursday at Veraisons.

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Reserve a table online or call 800.243.5513 Annual Twelfth Night Community Celebration | 7:30 PM, 1/07 Saturday | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | An evening of story-sharing, merrymaking, and imagination, to mark the end of the holiday season. The Annual Twelfth Night Celebration, an Ithaca tradition for four decades, is a rare example of what happens when people decide to entertain themselves, instead of letting someone else do it. Twelfth Night is presented by various members of Ithaca’s folk music community.

For further information: Phil Shapiro 844-4535, pds10@cornell.edu.

Meetings Tompkins County Government Operations Committee | 3:30 PM, 1/04 Wednesday | County Of Tompkins The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome.

Common Council | 6:00 PM, 1/04 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E

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Twelfth Night Celebration, Unitarian Church of Ithaca, Saturday, January 7, 7:30 p.m.

The Annual Twelfth night celebration encourages participants to turn off their T.V.’s, hide their cell phones, and share with others, some stories and poems. Or simply come and listen to others and be part of tradition that dates back to the dawn of man. A traveling band of players and dancers called the Champeons (sic) of Folly, will also stop by at some point in the evening. Don’t miss out! (Photo: John Henderson of Lodi tells a story at 12th Night. Photo by Mary Ascenzi.)

Green St, Ithaca | Includes privilege of the floor interval when public may speak.

City Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 1/09 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca Town Council | 5:30 PM, 1/09 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Includes a privilege of the floor interval where the public may speak.

Art Call for Entries: Recycled Runway 2017 | The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes’ signature fundraising event, Recycled Runway will be held Saturday, June 3, 2017 at The Corning Museum of Glass.

They are looking for designers of all ages to participate in this fundraising fashion show featuring one-of-akind creations, using recycled or repurposed materials. Materials used by designers in the past include plastic bags, feathers, warming blankets from a marathon, CDs and DVDs, newspaper, old tarps, candy wrappers, vinyl records, used videotape, and much more. Sew, weave or assemble your materials. Proposals are due Friday, February 3, 2017. For more infor contact Connie Sullivan-Blum at 607-962-1332 x204 or director@ eARTS.org Uniit Carruyo | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | A series of mixed media paintings ranging in size from 2’x3’ to 4’x5’ featuring acrylic, ink, fiber, light and glass. The style is abstract landscapes under water.

TCPL: Exploring Human Evolution | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A multi-media exhibit offering a detailed look at evolutionary history. For more information, contact TCPL Exhibit Coordinator Sally Grubb at sgrubb@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 232. To learn about Ithaca Explore Human Origins, visit www. tcpl.org State of the Art Gallery Artists: Tompkins County Bicentennial | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Gallery artists open the new year with art that represents Ithaca’s past and present.

State of the Art will celebrate Tompkins County Bicentennial with half of our artists showing their work in January and the other half in February. The

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016 was not the greatest year for movies. Most of the year’s tentpole franchises came out misshapen and sour, particularly the first Star Wars spinoff – doubly sad with the recent death of Carrie Fisher – and the unfunny reboot of Ghostbusters.

I take no pleasure in ripping on Star Wars, but I couldn’t swallow the Lucasfilm Kool-Aid on Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One. It wastes the most diverse cast in the series on a story that’s a foregone conclusion: the tale of the ragtag band of rebels who managed to steal the plans for the original ’77 Death Star. But since fans of SW know that the plans were found, how much tension and conflict can be mined here?

My beef with Ghostbusters is not a “women aren’t funny” argument. Whoever decided to waste Kristen Wiig as the straight woman of the group should spend some time in movie jail. I sit here stunned that Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones aren’t very funny on their own terms, much less in comparison to Ivan Reitman’s 1984 comedy classic.

Many hours clearly went into the effects, cinematography, animation, editing, costume design and prop design, and maybe a week on the script. Even the cameos from the original cast feel desperate and sad.

2016 is the year when the comic book movies stopped being fun. Since Batman

January show runs from January 4-29. soagithaca.org and 607-277-1626.

Nature in Printmaking: The Fiber Art of June Silberman | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Handwork, Ithaca Commons, 102 W State St, Ithaca | Using a gelatin plate and hand dyed fabric, June will be demonstrating how she creates her mixed media fiber art using leaves and ferns that grow in her gardens. Snacks and refreshments provided. Details at www.handwork. coop David Geer: Seasons | 5:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | David M. Geer is an award-winning artist from Endicott, NY. He began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil, and started selling his pictures to classmates for a quarter a piece in grade school. He began formal

V. Superman: Dawn of Justice sounds like the worst civil suit ever, I’ll call it Exhibit A. Snyder gets Batman, but since Man of Steel has proven to be absolutely wrong for Superman. Hey, Supes, if the crux of the movie hangs on the public perception of you, maybe smile once in a while. Christopher Reeve had warmth and humor, but Henry Cavill plays the role like a glowering sociopath. Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman feels like an afterthought, and all the promised DC cameos show up in an email.

After the ‘70s time travel fun of the last X-Men movie, Bryan Singer’s XMen: Apocalypse is the worst film in the series (along with the Wolverine sequels).

Aside from another bravura Quicksilver sequence, bad re-casting and poor plotting sink this one. David Ayers’ Suicide Squad wants to be The Dirty Dozen, but this flat romp with C-list DC baddies doesn’t have the courage of its lack of convictions.

Is there anything more disturbing than PG-13 nihilism?

If you like stock characters, situations and dialogue that were clichéd back in the WWII era, and if you like the stilted soap opera approach to alien invasion movies to the point where you’re rooting for the aliens, you’ll love Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence.

Every once in a while, Disney makes an animated feature that lets us see ourselves the way they see us, and in Zootopia, the vision is chilling. Zootopia tells us we can be anything we want, but from the looks of the citizenry, all the critters in this animal farm have settled for a lot less. Life is a theme park populated by overweight, low-grade, low forehead morons glued to their devices, waddling around buying things they don’t need and instagramming their uneventful days away. They may wear pants, but they probably don’t believe in climate change.

Stephen King fans know that for

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Emily Koester: Ignes fatui | 5:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | This display represents the development of a novel artistic medium that combines color and light projection. The collection includes original templates and constructions, photographs of projection, and art prints.

30 Year Calling | 5:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Benjamin Peters, 120 on The Commons, Ithaca | A collaborative show put on by Gary Bercow and his past students, commemorating 30 years of teaching middle and high school art in both Spencer-Van Etten and the Lehman Alternative Community School.

McKayla Macomber: Beatitude |

every filmmaker like Brian DePalma, Rob Reiner and Frank Darabont that have done right by King, there are dozens of middling to awful films of his novels out there, and the cheap, generic version of his techno-zombie novel Cell is one of the worst. King’s book wasn’t the usual Romero zombie stuff and deserved better, even with a cast that includes John Cusack

5:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Hilton Garden Inn, 130 Seneca St., Ithaca | Focusing on little intricacies and the things in life that bring happiness and inspiration, McKayla Macomber gives her art the ability to develop on its own.

Jude Meyers Thomas: Continuation with Single Reclining Spoon | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 1/06 Friday | Elevator Music and Art Gallery - at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Jude Meyers Thomas explores color and form as separate but related vocabularies and is most creative in the fulsome space between pure representation and pure color. Vivid hues, daring shapes and a deft exploration of possibility bring solace as we all wait for the Solstice. www.newrootsschool. org Ron Krieg: Captured Moments

(Clockwise from top) “Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice; Samuel L. Jackson in “Cell”; Michael Fassbender as Magneto in “X-Men: Apocalypse” (Photos provided) and Samuel L. Jackson. (Despite a script co-written by King, the few good moments are Jackson’s ad-libs). •

| 5:00 PM, 1/06 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Ron Krieg, a native of Queens, has made Ithaca his home since 1989. His photography is influenced by his experiences as a NYC taxi driver, foster care caseworker, postal clerk, and his love of history, political science, cinema and literature.

Ron’s photographs will be exhibited at Lifelong through the end of February. ongoing

visual arts interests of our community.

TCPL | 101 E Green St, Ithaca | On Being Human: A complimentary, multi-media exhibit, to TCPL’s Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human, traveling exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the American Library Association. “On Being Human” is curated by Terry Plater and features the work of ten local artists, including Plater, Ben Altman, William Benson, Jane Dennis, and Gurdon Brewster.

CSMA | 330 E State St, Ithaca | Annual Open Show | Curated by acclaimed painter Joyce Stillman-Myers, CSMA’s Open Show presents work in a variety media by more than 50 local artists.

Representing traditional to contemporary styles, this much-anticipated show celebrates the vibrant and diverse

Got Submissions?

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Stark, strikingly deep, dark and highly acclaimed, “Jackie” follows Jackie Kennedy at the time she was First Lady in the White House and her life after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. The film offers in inside peak into the beloved American idol’s private world, highlighted by a stirring performance by Natalie Portman and masterful filmmaking by Pablo Larrain. The cast is deep and powerful, with Peter Saragaard, Grete Gerwing, Billy Crudup, and John Hurt also playing starring roles.

Krish Mohan is a Indian stand up comedian devoted to a socially conscious and philosophical take on race, religion, immigration, relationships, and political and social issues.

His breezy and hilarious approach had captivated audiences of all backgrounds and all ages. Mohan has a had highly rated and hit show at the IndyFringe & Capital Fringe, and has been featured on NPR and in the Arch City Comedy Festival. Come out and get some laughs!

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