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rotesters awaiting trial for charges stemming from protests at Crestwood Midstream’s natural gas storage facility in the town of Reading will now have a new judge presiding over their cases. Over 600 protestors have been arrested and charged with trespassing for protesting plans to store propane (LPG) gas in underground salt caverns.

Tom Angie, 63, of Aurora, was being tried in Reading town court on June 28 on charges of trespassing before Justice Raymond Berry. After Schuyler County assistant district attorney John Tunney had rested the case for the prosecution, Berry twice said he found Angie guilty, according to a release from We Are Seneca Lake. Defense attorney Joseph Heath had entered a motion for dismissal, but had not had a chance to present his case yet.

Prosecutor Tunney explained to the judge that his verdict was premature since Angie had not yet presented his defense or called his own witnesses to the stand.

Heath, noting Tunney’s attempt to explain criminal procedure protocols to Judge Berry, respectfully moved that the case be transferred to a law-trained judge.

“The judge showed that he has no understanding of the criminal procedure law or trial procedure and found the defendant guilty when that wasn’t even at all proper at that phase of the case,” Heath said. “Then when the prosecutor started to run the trial, as was always the case, and explain to him what he should be doing [Justice Berry] said, ‘I find him guilty anyway.’”

Tunney then moved for a mistrial.

Second defense attorney Sujata Gibson later moved that Berry recuse himself from all cases related to We Are Seneca Lake’s protest campaign against gas storage in salt caverns at the Crestwood facility.

Gibson said Berry showed a pattern of prejudice in actions, like forbidding the defense to use a cell phone in the courtroom, but allowing a Crestwood attorney to do so.

Upon accepting the motion to recuse himself, Berry’s “specific words were ‘done,’” Gibson said. “It was surprising because I’ve been asking for this on the record for a year and a half.”

A call to the office of Schuyler County district attorney Joseph Fazzary was not returned, but he told the Elmira StarGazette in a June 29 story that county judge Dennis Morris or the state Office of continued on page 4

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Thomas ended his comments by invoking the spirit of U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch, who asked Sen. Joe McCarthy during his Communist hunt “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

“I would ask of this good committee,” Thomas said, paraphrasing, “have you, at long last, have no sense of empathy?”

Other speakers who supported Golder included Betsy Darlington, who speculated that if in 20 years this kind of development should reach her neighborhood, “I would be completely heartbroken. It would probably kill me … though in 20 years we’ll all be dead anyway.”

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fter the city Planning and Development Board gave it preliminary site plan approval on June 28, the student apartment building proposed for 201 College Avenue is now one board approval away from completion.

Developer Todd Fox and architect Noah Demarest brought the project—five stories, 44 units, 76 beds—back before the board with a few tweaks, including moving it back from the sidewalk, so zoning variances weren’t needed.

More than an hour of public comment was heard about the project.

Many people came out to speak with concern for Neil Golder—a 44-year Collegetown resident whose home is next to 201 College Ave., and who has gathered signatures to save the three spruce trees there. Golder also Proposed building for the corner of College Avenue and Bool Street. created a Facebook group Looking southwest. (Image: STREAM) called “Save the Soul of Collegetown,” which encouraged people to similar lines in support of Golder. An come and speak out about the 201 project, engineer from Taitem Engineering, which calling it “a monolith completely out of installed solar panels on Golder’s home character with the Lower Collegetown in 2014, asked the board to consider neighborhood.” the investment made in the home. A Gary Thomas said he commented contractor working on Golder’s house now on the Collegetown plan seven or eight said it “haunts me, the view [Golder] is years ago, and there was “nothing like the going to have out of his windows.” massive building proposed here—it’s so Karla and Robert Terry of West Shore out of character.”

Apartments said that the 2012 Danter Drawings for the stretch of College housing study didn’t include the landlords’ Avenue showed a four-story building association and that the vacancy rate is with a pitched roof, Thomas said, and he thought at the time: “Cute. I can live with continued on page 5 that. What we got was a bait and switch.”

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▶ Barber at the White House, The Ithaca Police Department is pleased to announce that chief of Police John R. Barber has been invited to The White House on Wednesday July 6 to participate in a briefing with senior administration officials on the President’s Task Force On 21st Century Policing Initiative.

Regarding his invitation to this briefing, Chief Barber stated “I am pleased to be a part of this important law enforcement initiative. I listen intently to the concerns of our community. I am eager to incorporate what

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City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick also stated “This is a great honor for Chief Barber, and I am eager to see how President Obama’s Task Force On 21st Century Policing Initiative impacts our community. Chief Barber and I are duly committed to working together to enhance what the Ithaca Police Department does for our community.”

See cops.usdoj.gov/policingtaskforce for more information.

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If you were a farmer, what would you grow?

T “I would probably grow hemp. It’s edible and can be used for clothing, it’s multipurpose.”

—Gregory Rosen

“Corn, I would love to watch it grow.”

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he Things Network (TTN) is an international initiative that aims to implement wireless intelligence networks in cities across the globe. They are hosting a community gathering at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday July 12 in the Borg Warner Room at the Tompkins County Public Library to discuss the formation of a free device-oriented data network in the Ithaca area.

This initiative is a part of a recent technology movement often referred to as “the Internet of Things” (IoT). The IoT assigns network connectivity to everyday objects, allowing them to send and receive data. The Things Network initiative will specifically use mechanical devices like sensors and switches to measure and monitor processes in agriculture, weather, and various other tasks. The local meeting is intended to introduce the public to the TTN concept and recruit volunteers for the initial build-out.

Since 2015 the TTN initiative has reached more than 150 communities worldwide and provides free, unlimited internet access to any number of devices.

TTN implemented the program first in Amsterdam and is currently launching it in New York City. The Things Network initiator Wienke Giezeman said that Ithaca’s urban and natural landscape creates an exemplary place for the organization to pilot the program.

“With Cornell University, the wellknown green emphasis of the city, and the surrounding agricultural communities, and the local high-tech scene, Ithaca is ideally positioned to convert the innovative potential created by The Things Network into new applications and use cases that will be useful world-wide,” Giezeman said.

Terrill Moore heads the local project.

He is the owner of Moore Computer Consultants Inc. (MCCI) in Trumansburg and leads the TTN initiative in New York City.

“MCCI is proud to be taking a leadership role in sponsoring the efforts to launch The Things Network in Ithaca and Tompkins County,” Moore said.

“This allows us to extend our strategy of standards-based connectivity into wireless applications, and at the same time stimulate the adoption of IoT and Smart City technologies in our home town. The more vibrant the tech community is in the Finger Lakes, the better it is for MCCI and MCCI team members.”

Moore intends to install the first sensor within the next month to two months and hopes to cover the local area in the next year. Ithaca’s mix of small city and agricultural economies is one

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Each TTN station or sensor can cover up to 5 to 6 miles and this varies depending on usage, Moore said. The TTN stations also allow for any user to connect to the device.

“One of the interesting things about The Things Networks is that it is an opensource network. It’s organized in a very innovative way in the sense that anybody can just add a gateway network,” Moore said. “This gateway accesses a server that is connected to [information in] The Things Networks that would eventually end up on your computer or mobile device.”

Moore stressed that data on an individual or a privately owned sensor is not available to the public and can only be accessed by the owner through the sensor’s identification code.

The TTN initiative in Amsterdam cost around $30,000, and Moore projects the total cost in Ithaca would be about the same. Funding for the project will be received through fundraisers, grants, and private donations.

“In Ithaca MCCI CEO Terrill Moore, initiator of the local Internet of Things network. we’re just getting (Photo: YouTube; Take 5 with Warren) started. This is going to be platform for innovation and is going to be greatly beneficial. People are footprint. This is done through the going to be able to some really important LoRaWAN technology (a type of lowand interesting things,” Moore said. power wide area network) that the Visit thethingsnetwork.org. for more initiative uses. This technology creates an internet without 3G or WiFi usage and information. does not need any WiFi code or mobile subscription.

-Erica Dischino of the reasons why Moore believes it is a great place to pilot the program before eventually implementing it in the rest of New York State.

“The small-city aspect,” Moore said, “gives us a way to do some interesting projects to try to help reduce the city’s overall cost of operating and keep it running efficiently.”

Specifically, Moore said the TTN initiative would provide a cost-effective way of increasing productivity for agriculture and reduce the carbon

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Court Administration would decide where the protestors’ cases now go. Justice John Norman Jr., the other Town of Reading justice, had already recused himself from these cases because he works for Crestwood subsidiary U.S. Salt.

Of 606 arrests since the We Are Seneca Lake campaign started in October 2014, 370 cases are still open. Sue Kinchy and Barbara Barry were both found guilty of trespass in the Town of Dix court in late June.

Fazzary’s office requested in February that the cases against 111 We Are Seneca Lake protesters be dismissed “in the interest of justice” because it was found the protesters, arrested and charged with trespassing, were actually on state land rather than Crestwood’s private property.

Confusion over property lines has been a key point of contention in many of these cases [see “Seneca Lake Gas Storage Protests Dismissed,” Feb. 24 Ithaca Times].

“We don’t know what’s next,” Gibson said. “We believe justice can only be served in these cases if we have a law-trained judge, and we’re pursuing avenues to make that happen. We respectfully demand all of these defendants be rearraigned.”

The We Are Seneca Lake defense attorneys plan on entering a necessity defense for the charged protesters: “that if what you’ve done would technically constitute a crime or violation of law, there is a defense for doing it with motivation of preventing a greater harm,” Gibson said.

The judge in any trial would have to rule on whether the necessity defense can be argued.

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here can be no doubt that streaming media services like Netflix, iTunes, and Hulu have changed the way we access content and even the nature of the content itself. (See “Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created?” June 19, New York Times Sunday Magazine.) The Tompkins County Public Library has recently made hoopla digital available to its patrons. It’s a lending library version of Netflix, offering music, audio books, films and television shows that can be loaned out for limited periods of time. hoopla (no, there is no initial capital letter) is an ondemand internet streaming media service of the Holland, Ohio-based company Midwest Tape.

Shelby Gonzalez, PR representative for hoopla digital, and not affiliated with TCPL, spoke to the Ithaca Times about what hoopla digital is—and what it isn’t.

Ithaca Times: How does hoopla digital differ from streaming services like Netflix?

Shelby Gonzalez: hoopla digital functions much the same way with a few differences. Unlike Netflix, hoopla digital is completely free for library patrons.

However, once you “borrow” a title on the service, you only have access to it for a limited time. (TV shows and movies: three days; music: seven days; eBooks, comics and audio books: 21 days). The number of titles you’re allowed to access per month 201college contin u ed from page 3

more than the one percent it’s often said to be.

Speaking in support of the project was Patrick Braga, a fifth-year Cornell planning student who said that in its bulkiness, the 201 proposal is “surprisingly similar to early 20th century boarding houses,” like the Grandview.

“We may be seeing the rise of a new modern vernacular architecture in Ithaca, which I think is a great thing,” Braga said.

“Toronto in the 1980s had a 1 percent vacancy rate—it’s inappropriate for Ithaca to be a place like Toronto was like in the 1980s.

Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Council chair David West also spoke in support of the building, citing the environmental benefits of density. West and frequent commenter and can collector Joel Harlan both noted the safety improvement achieved by replacing the 12-room boarding house on the property, “a firetrap.”

“This will turn the students from partying in the big dining rooms and

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free mobile app (available for Android and Apple devices). An internet connection is needed to access content, but you can borrow and download titles for offline viewing.

IT: How much content is available?

SG: There are over 500,000 titles available through the service from major studios, record companies, and publishing houses such as DC Comics, Walt Disney Studios, HarperCollins, Warner Bros.

Music and more. hoopla digital has content for everyone from toddlers to adult. For parents worried about their child having access to inappropriate content for their age, they can enable the new Kids Mode feature. Enabling Kids Mode filters out any titles—across all six formats—that are deemed inappropriate for children ages 12 and under, such as titles with nudity, violence, etc.

IT: Where else is hoopla digital available?

SG: hoopla digital is currently available in almost 1,000 library systems Tom Fredette of the Tompkins County Public Library is in charge of managing across the United States and hoopla, the new media streaming service. (Photo: Diane Duthie) Canada, and has garnered positive reviews from patrons and librarians alike. Starting July 5, there Library System. will be 45 library systems in New York IT: How can people access it?

State that offer the service.

SG: You can access hoopla digital on your personal computer through the -Bryan VanCampen website (www.hoopladigital.com) or on our smartphones or tablets through the also varies by library—I believe Finger Lakes Library System allows three.

IT: Who can access it?

SG: hoopla digital is available to anyone with a library card from one of the 33 member libraries of the Finger Lakes

living rooms, there’s hundreds of people in there getting drunk and all that,” Harlan said. “It deters them. If they’re in a brick building there’s not much room. I’ve been around that area up on that porch many times on 201. There’s a lot of partying, lot of cans and bottles and cups. The older buildings they smash.”

In his response to comments, Demarest noted that the zoning was changed in 2014, after the Collegetown plan was completed.

“The developer is responding to what the actual law says,” Demarest said.

“One thing that is somewhat ironic … the illustration in the 2009 plan shows Neil’s house redeveloped.”

“This project is a direct response to Ithaca growing,” Fox said. “There’s a housing crisis. We’re fortunate to live in a place with those kinds of problems.

Otherwise go to Elmira … it feels like this conversation is about what’s best for one member of the community, and that’s Neil. While I’m sympathetic to Neil, it’s not about one person, it’s about what is better for the community … Everyone says to me ‘This is a beautiful building, it just doesn’t belong in Ithaca. I disagree. If it’s a beautiful building in New York City, it’s a

beautiful building in Ithaca.”

After board member John Schroeder noted that the 14-foot allotment per floor “is crazy,” members expressed their general pleasure that the 201 College Avenue project has improved and voted unanimously to give it preliminary site plan approval.

• • • In other business, the board approved a nine-unit apartment add-on for 107 S. Albany St., and got their first look at the new State Street Triangle project from Newman Development Group of Vestal.

“The last project here certainly got a lot of publicity and hopefully we’re able to learn from that,” said Newman press man Jeff Smetana. “We want to be accessible, engaged, proactive, responsive.”

The “City Centre” plan calls for nine stories, about 250 residential units, and about 10,000 square feet of retail space. The board members encouraged Newman’s architects to take a look at opening up more street frontage along State Street; the project will return for more feedback in July.

Ups&Downs ▶ Giving Credit, CFCU Community Credit Union proudly presented 17 graduates from various local high schools with $40,500 in scholarships and awards on Tuesday, June 21, at a reception at the Country Club of Ithaca. The awards include the Richard V.V. Stringham Scholarship and CFCU’s Community Service Award.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Living Wage Contest, The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) announces its first-ever “Living Wage Visioning Contest”.

Contestants will produce an original creative work that gives artistic voice to their vision of how their life and the life of their family would change if they were paid a Living Wage. The Contest is open to Tompkins County residents or non-residents 17 years or older who work in the County. Entries will be accepted from July 1, 2016 through September 15, 2016, with winners announced on September 30, 2016. See TCWorkersCenter.org/ LWVisioningContest ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of June 29-July3 include: 1) Groton Man Wins $1 million in NY Lottery 2) Scaling the Heights at the Hangar 3) 3 Local Runners Take Top Spots with Teamwork 4) Three Arrested After Taunting Gorge Rangers at Second Dam 5) Body Found in Berkshire Confirmed to Be Missing Coin Shop Owner For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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little while ago the fate of been designed by Noah Demarest (not Collegetown was transformed included in the slide show of lovely old by a zoning overlay. This homes on his website). This building mechanism allows developers to build will have 76 bedrooms, rise over 70 feet, five-story buildings on a large swath of and literally blot out the sun from Neil’s College Avenue, along with four-story house—not to mention his solar panels. buildings on Linden Avenue, Catherine Right across the street major developer and Cook streets. Given the grip that John Novarr already owns a cluster of major developers already have over properties waiting for their conversions Collegetown, and a general to five-story titans, and assumption that anything that another on Cook Street. happens up there matters only Novarr also just bought 215 to Cornell students passing College Ave. Neil’s home will through town, it’s understandable soon become a blacked-out how disengaged many locals dollhouse under the shadow are from this profound change of Noah Demarest’s vision, in our city. If Collegetown blinded further by John turns into privatized dorms Novarr’s five-story curtain for upscale students, what’s dropped in front of Neil’s view. the loss? Shouldn’t five-story But isn’t that just what Joel Fredell towers of student apartments happens with progress? We in long concrete canyons fence sacrifice some people for the student renters into their own greater good and Neil must monoculture while lowering rents for be the only remnant non-student left everybody in the flats? Won’t that be there, so no big deal to throw him under good for Ithaca? The developers currently the bus, right? Wrong. This canard gets dropping huge sums to buy up property repeated often, despite the fact that there would really like you to believe that. other longtime Collegetown neighbors But consider the case of Neil Golder. have come to city meetings to state their Neil owns and lives in a beautiful 1890 objections. Not just Neil will go under house at 203 College Avenue. Neil served the sacrificial knife, and not just some on Common Council from that house. more upset oldsters. First, the dominoes Recently his wife passed away in that of 90 houses over 100 years old in this house. He’s just renovated that house and zoning overlay are poised to fall. A put on solar panels. Thanks to the zoning substantial part of Ithaca’s residential overlay a developer will demolish the house on the south side of Neil. A new continued on page 7 five-story building for this small lot has

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ne of the countless perks of being an Ithaca Times columnist is almost complete anonymity. Even so, from time to time, I am called upon to perform a public service, and such was the case last week when I was asked to be one of the judges at the first Annual GIAC “Your Mom’s So Ithaca” Throwdown.

Considering that these were elementary school kids, I was impressed enough by the entries that I thought it appropriate to share some of them, with my scores.

Your mom’s so Ithaca, her Commons playground has a squishy surface. (A very solid entry. 9.5) Your mom’s so Ithaca, she charges $1,225 a month for a micro-unit apartment. (I’m not really sure what a micro-unit is, but I gave the kid a 9 for topicality.)

Your mom’s so Ithaca, she braids her nose hair. (Kind of old school. 8.5) Your mom’s so Ithaca, people keep trying to develop her State Street Triangle.

(And these are grade school students! Still, it had a certain classical flavor to it. 9) Your mom’s so Ithaca, her gorges are drying up this summer. (Ouch. Again with the topicality, though. 8.5) Your mom’s so Ithaca, she thinks Grassroots is a hair dye. (This boy, though clearly confused, got a 7.5. It was in fact an insult, and he managed to work Grassroots in.)

Your mom’s so Ithaca, she can’t build enough hotel rooms for all her ‘visitors.’

(Vaguely suggestive. 9) Your mom’s so Ithaca, she gets her

potholes filled year-round. (Some themes are eternal. 8.5) Your mom’s so Ithaca, when she says ‘dam’ she means a place to swim. (Meh. 7.5) Your mom’s so Ithaca, her inlet has more clogs than a Dutch shoemaker. (This kid was later banned from competition by the IAAF and won’t be going to Rio this summer. Nonetheless, for use of innuendo and creative footwear-related wordplay, I gave her a 10.)

Your mom’s so Ithaca, people need two jobs to afford her. (This was a crowd favorite, so I gave it a 9.)

Your mom’s so Ithaca, her water comes in leaded and unleaded. (This one was a hit with the younger members of the audience.

8.5) Your mom’s so Ithaca, chickens roam freely in her back yard, if you know what I mean. (I really have no idea what that does mean, but it still made me chuckle. 8) Your mom’s so Ithaca, her favorite color is tie-dye. (More of the old school.

8.5) Your mom’s so Ithaca, she came here to go to college in 1975 and never left.

(That’s just getting personal. 8) Your mom’s so Ithaca, she pays her school taxes with Ithaca Hours. (The sheer genius of this idea earned this contestant a 9. I’m trying this.)

Your mom’s so Ithaca, her ‘front porch’ is decorated with Tibetan prayer flags. (I’m not at all sure what this is about, but the kid used air quotes really effectively and I gave her a 9.) •

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Environmental Effects Need More Coverage

To the detriment of your readers, you are missing huge issues in the development of Maplewood, Trebloc, etc. They are the sources and amounts of energy to be used and the increases in greenhouse gas emissions which will result.

As has been uncovered in the runup to the SEQR (State Environmental Quality Review) Scoping Document for Maplewood, two documents issued by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC’s The SEQR Handbook, 3rd ed., 2010, and its Guide for Assessing Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in an Environmental Impact Statement) require municipalities such as the Town and City of Ithaca to address matters of increased energy and greenhouse gas emissions in building projects where such increases create potentially negative impacts to the 6

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The underlying logic is that individual building projects can negatively affect air quality, public health, and safety as well as contribute to climate change and that such contributions must be altered or mitigated.

The impacts of projects like Maplewood and Trebloc easily qualify.

The short of what the DEC has prescribed for towns and cities is to write SEQR scoping documents requiring developers to provide quantitative and qualitative descriptions of their proposed energy uses and greenhouse gas emissions in both the construction and operations phases, to describe viable alternatives such as more efficient building envelopes and HVAC technologies like air and ground source heat pumps, and to offer ways to continued on page 7

signs that rents are going down this year in Ithaca? A neighbor in the flats has just had contin u ed from page 6 her rent in a multi-unit old wood-frame character is about to be destroyed. OK with house raised by almost 50 percent starting August 1 of this year—that neighbor’s rent, that? You like urban canyons and expect that Collegetown will become a progressive the landlord said, has to meet local market rates. utopia of pedestrians and public transit?

The economic theorists in city As it happens, in a gift of awesome value government are not discussing this actual to developers planning to build solid data in public, preferring the glowing walls of such monoliths through the main simplicity of supply and demand as a sections of Collegetown, no parking spaces pure and invisible market force without at all are demanded by the city as part of distracting evidence from effects driven the requirements for the new buildings. by millionaire players rather than small If you believe that none of the wealthy landlords. These developers are deeply Cornell students occupying these new knowledgeable about market rates, and betting heavily that the premium rents they charge will remain stable or go up. Another point the economic theorists in city government are not discussing in public is whether rates set by these major developers shape the rental market in Ithaca as a whole, pushing up rents in ways small landlords could never accomplish.

Want to bet that rents will go down for all of us thanks to those privatized dorms? Developers are dropping huge sums on the other side of that bet, while my neighbor is being pushed out of the game.

Developer of 201 College Ave. Todd Fox (File photo) Only Common Council has the power to stop this transformation.

The passed a zoning overlay without its original protections, and privatized dormitories won’t have cars, with no approved design rules. Express your bless your heart, but don’t try to drive or concerns to your friends, your neighbors, park on College or Linden avenues or and most of all your city representatives.

Cook or Catherine streets—there is going Ithacans are good at that. Otherwise, to be some serious old-fashioned urban congestion soon. And they will drive down lower your expectations and strike out a once-charming part of East Hill from your to the flats as well. experience of Ithaca. It’s dead to us now. • Second, there’s the viewshed. Quite simply, on those same four streets a Long-time Ithaca resident Joel Fredell magnificent view of Cayuga Lake and lives in Northside and teaches medieval West Hill opens up before the viewer. studies at Southeastern Louisiana.

Never noticed it? Right—don’t go there now. The viewshed will soon be available only in luxury student apartments with Youropinions premium positioning. Thus, one of the contin u ed from page 6 joys of Ithaca—currently free to all—will be privatized by Novarr and his fellows mitigate the impacts such as on or offfor those lucky students. We cannot blame site solar and wind. Finally, there is a the developers: their job is to monetize requirement that the potential impacts the land they own and the airspace the be compared to the the Town or City’s city grants them in the zoning laws. For plans for reductions in energy use and the rest of us, though, a concrete blackout emissions. curtain of multi-story monoliths will The DEC uses the word “prescribed” be pulled down the length of College in the Handbook to indicate that SEQR Avenue, Linden, Cook, and Catherine requires municipalities to conduct the streets, transforming an important public analysis described above. The Guide is good into a cash cow for a small group of then incorporated apparently because it millionaire developers and into private offers more detailed information about views for deep-pocketed renters. analysis procedures and protocols.

But won’t our rents go down? City To their credit, the Ithaca town officials sanction this Marriott-lite planning board has begun to apply these monoculture because, they say, the law rules to Maplewood and its developers, of supply and demand will drive down Cornell and EdR. The city has the same rents across Ithaca when those apartments obligation regarding the new Trebloc. For come on line. The thing is, in the actual the same reasons, these projects are where rental market no such effects have been the Ithaca Times needs to start reporting observed—much like the claims that and informing the public on these crucial property taxes would go down. Novarr’s issues.

Collegetown Terraces added 1,150 (1,400 is the rumored total) bedrooms to this same – Joe Wilson, Town of Dryden market recently; several other projects have brought to market many more. Anyone see Guestopinion

“Going to these festivals for years is how we started GrassRoots. We thought, ‘We go to so many we can put on a good one by taking the best from all of these.’

Now we’re trying our hand at putting on the camp.”

Workshops will be held all day on July 18 to 20, with five hour-plus sessions a day available from 10:15 a.m. until dinnertime.

On Sunday night, July 17, the original People who want to learn how to move iteration of Donna the Buffalo will be their hands, stomp their feet, and raise playing in the dance tent to kick off the their voices like the performers of music Culture Camp; that lineup hasn’t played and dance that GrassRoots Festival brings together “in probably 15 years,” Nevins to Trumansburg every year will have their said. chance at Culture Camp, to be held at the Culture Campers will have their Trumansburg Fair Grounds from July 17 choice of taking Irish step, zydeco, to 20.

Latin, and line dancing classes, some GrassRoots has run a Culture Camp yoga sessions, and a whole mess of the past two years at their festival at musical workshop offerings. There will Virginia Key, Florida, held in February. be bluegrass and old time banjo playing “The workshop thing is something workshops with Richie Stearns, Brian a lot of festivals in the country now do,” Vollmer, and Mac Benford. Rosie Newton, said Donna the Buffalo’s Tara Nevins, Claire Byrne, Oona Grady, and Judy Hyman will be teaching fiddle classes. Hank Roberts and Eric Aceto will teach improvisation, and every day will feature a songwriting panel of six veteran musicians.

There are also some “oneoff ” sessions, ranging from Afrobeat drumming with Andrew Klein of Big Mean Sound Machine to playing Moog synthesizers live, with Big Mean’s Dana Billings and Paulie Philippone. John Pita and Avi Snow will lead a session on guitar effects; Jeb Puryear and Jim Miller will teach people to make two guitars work together. Nevins will be leading a scrubboard session.

Once the day’s workshops are done, neither the learning nor the fun will Keith Secola leads a workshop at the Virginia Key Grassroots, where the be over. Dinnertime is also Culture Camp was first held. (Photo provided) an edu-cultural experience, with visiting artists doing the cooking, too.

Preston Frank, for example, who’s coordinating Culture Camp. “We’ve will be teaching accordion and making the been to several of them over the years. It’s gumbo on Wednesday night. a campout where you get to spend time The dinners will be themed to go up close and personal with teachers from along with the act playing the dance that bands you admire.” night: T’Monde and members of the Pine People who come for the Culture Leaf Boys and Feufollet will be playing on Camp and stay for GrassRoots proper, Monday night, after an Italian meal. Santa scheduled for July 21 to 24, can “extend Palabra, a band that’s never been outside their GrassRoots experience.” of Cuba, will be playing the Tuesday night “People hang out, so a community forms, which sort of rolls into the festival,” dance along with Miami-based Fabi, and Nevins said. “We’re furthering the cultural Frank will play with Keith Frank and the community, and furthering the traditional Soileu Zydeco Band on Wednesday night.

Check-in for Culture Camp begins music we love so much, too. Traditional the afternoon of Sunday, July 17, with musicians come to further their learning, options for people to just come to the there’s young people just starting out, and dances (for $15 an evening); to attend one young children. It’s really an inspiring party, an atmosphere with a lot of learning day of classes, dinner, and the dance; or to stay and camp the whole time. • and sharing.”

To purchase tickets to Finger Lakes Black Pot Festival in Louisiana and GrassRoots Culture Camp 2016 visit the fiddle and dance camps held at the fingerlakesgrassroots.org.

Ashokan Center in the Catskills are two – Josh Brokaw inspirations for Culture Camp, Nevins reporter@ithacatimes.com said.

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Music Instruction Offered at Fairground

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Farm Life Lessons WWOOFing: it’s all kinds of work

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ey, kids! You want to become a farmer! We have got an opportunity for you! Check it out!

It’s called World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (or WWOOF)—and you can become a WWOOFer, too, if you’re ready for the country living that farming entails. Or the suburban living of a budding permaculture garden. Or perhaps doing some pottery in an urban homestead.

The pay is in room, board, and knowledge. Worried about the impending collapse of mechanized civilization?

Maybe you’re just the right person to grow the food that can keep you and yours alive—a valuable skill, if transportation networks fall apart like they tend to do every half-millennium or so.

“If things completely come to a halt, the amount of food we have in Ithaca will last about three days,” said Jane-Marie Law, an associate professor of Japanese religions at Cornell.

Law and her family are building up a suburban homestead on Muriel Street, in the town of Ithaca’s “cigarette street” neighborhood. (There is also a Winston Street.) The area was developed in the 1950s as a classic suburb: the homes were built by National of Lafayette, Indiana, shipped here in a box and constructed in a week.

Since last year, Law has had three WWOOFers visit, with one, Lisa Malloy, a Cornell student, staying on as an intern.

“We want WWOOFers who have something they can teach,” Law said. “We can teach them several skills—how to bake their own bread, how to can jams and chutneys, we can give them some skills with bees.”

Sean Dixon-Sullivan, one of Law’s 2015 WWOOFers, taught a community workshop on inoculating logs to grow shitake mushrooms.

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“What we have to start doing is sharing skills,” Law said. “If every time we have a workshop we have to make a buck off it, we’re f***ed.”

Law and her husband purchased the home of their next-door neighbor, “a committed ecological activist,” after her death last year and there founded the Fallen Tree Center for a Resilient Future. There, Law is starting pollinator gardens—funded in part by a minigrant from Sustainable Tompkins—and has a community vegetable garden, where neighbors can come and grow their own veggies. They renovated the three-bedroom house, with rooms for visitors, including WWOOFers, created a meditation room, and put in a sustainability library in the living room— along with the previous owner’s excellent classical music selection on vinyl.

“We’re working on finding how the average American living in suburbia can relearn the skills necessary for sustainability,” Law said. “Can we recreate the cigarette streets so you can live here without a car?”

The area was intended to be a transition zone, out of the city into farmland—before the later waves of suburban tract-home building; all of those “McMansion” developments were farms.

“The saving grace of this neighborhood is all the lots are threequarters of an acre or an acre and a half,” Law said. “Originally, in our deed, we could keep hens … F.H. Fox [a wellknown veterinarian who passed away in March] lived in this neighborhood; he had a pony and sheep.”

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How to Dig a Hole

Every WWOOFer host is different; for many who go WWOOFing, they are just learning the basics of what and how to work.

Lily Gershon went WWOOFing in Hawaii with friends about 10 years ago.

“We worked on some lovely orchid and anthurium flower farms, hauling lava rock, planting shade trees and harvesting flowers for sale,” Gershon said. “On weekends our hosts would sometimes take us to black sand beaches, or town markets or we would hitch-hike around the island getting stuck in the rain. It was a great way to explore the place and have somewhere to crash.”

Gershon said Hawaii was where she “learned to dig a hole.”

“You’d think it was self explanatory, but in my first battle with a shovel and all the underground world I would come to the farmer-host about every two minutes with an impossible root or stone, to which he had a simple and obvious solution. By the end of the week I was damn proud of my holes.”

It was while when WWOOFing that Gershon was convinced that she wanted an off-grid homestead; now, Gershon and friends have their first WWOOFers coming to join them at the 16-acre Dacha Project, in Freeville.

“We hope to get help taking care of our small farm—weeding, landscaping, feeding chickens, small construction projects,” Gershon said. “But we also want to tailor things to our guests, and teach them what they are curious to learn about homesteading or green building or whatever they are into. And of course, there are always more holes to dig.”

In the three days of chasing

WWOOFers for this story, a theme from host farmers was that coming into a visit, expectations must be clear. Courtney Sullivan of Humble Hill Farm, Spencer, said that she lays out a work plan for potential WWOOFers before they arrive.

“We definitely don’t consider WWOOFers our labor force,” said Shannon O’Connor of Daring Drake Farm, Ovid. “Labor-wise, you’re not sure what you’re going to get. It’s added assistance, but we don’t rely on it. It’s interesting to get people to talk to.”

“We’ve had good experiences and learning experiences,” Sullivan said of hosting WWOOFers at her and husband Rick Tarantelli’s one-and-a-half-acre farm and inn for the past five years. The couple has teenagers; there’s “too much going on right now” to host very young WWOOFers, Sullivan said.

“If you’re from San Bernandino, California, haven’t been anywhere, and come out to Spencer where there’s not even street lights, there can be a lot of culture shock,” Sullivan said. “You need to have some formative, ‘Wow, it’s a big world out there’ experiences—if you’re 21 to 25, you’ll be fine.”

“There’s a give and take,” Jacob Eisman of Six Circles Farm, Lodi, said.

“You can see their profile on WWOOF[. net], people leave comments on your page, and you can leave comments for them for other farms. A lot of it is teaching them about pace—educating them in what farming requires.”

Sullivan’s best WWOOFer was a Suzuki cello teacher who insisted on camping out; she was “so well-rounded and very meticulous. She paid a lot of attention to process and was so into doing a great job.”

W WO O F e r S e a n D i xo n - S u l l i va n w i t h b ru s h f e n c e (l e f t) a n d J a n e - M a r i e L aw w i t h h e r h i v e s . ( P r ov i d e d a n d J o s h B r o k aw) Other WWOOFers have stayed at the Humble Hill inn, or, as that’s become more consistently full, in a motorhome that was Sullivan’s mother’s residence until recently.

WWOOFers “come out alongside us,” Sullivan said, “weeding, watering, harvesting, washing, and cleaning— keeping the crops alive and getting them out of the ground.”

The option is available to work exclusively alongside Sullivan, to learn the ropes of running an “agri-tourism destination,” she said—but “that’s not as sexy as what my husband does, working outside.”

O’Connor said that European visitors seem more eager to do work; often, a WWOOFer will wake with the roosters’ crows at dawn, expecting to get to work, but her husband John Reynolds doesn’t get to tending the orchards until later in the morning.

WWOOFers at Six Circles participate in all the on-farm activities and come to the Ithaca Farmers’ Market.

“We give them a chance to roam and talk to other farmers,” Eisman said. There’s also people who are “interested in wine and don’t know how to get into it,” so they can talk to some of the many winemakers on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake.

Jacksonic, a New York City native who has returned to Six Circles for four straight years after his first WWOOFing trip there, released nine tracks under the title “J.G.O.A.T.S.” in December 2015: the acronym stands for “July Garlic on August Tomato Sandwiches.”

The album is dedicated to Six Circles Farm “for teaching a young boy how to grow food,” Jacksonic wrote on his Soundcloud page. Cuts include the opener “Fresh Manurientation,” “Scapes On It,” “Weeding Interlude [Heaven On Earth],” and the closer “Carrot Field [feat. Lael].”

In a video shot at Six Circles and at the Farmers’ Market, Jacksonic raps: “Vegetables like what. All I had to do

was take a five-hour bus. And all these market customers love it so much.”

A few other choice lines from Jacksonic’s oeuvre include: “USDA organic, and Monsanto mad at me. ‘Cause I’m growing all these veggies, and I’m happy as can be,” “Wish my grandpa could see this day. I’m out here running this CSA,” and “Open your third eye with my veggie stir fry.”

Advanced Placement

WWOOFers are not right for every farm.

“Our scale is big enough that we’re pretty mechanized—there’s not a lot of hand work,” said Emily Thompson of Remembrance Farm, Trumansburg. “It’s not a great first-time experience in the romantic sense that WWOOFing has done a really good job of offering.”

An inexperienced WWOOFer could, in theory, work in Remembrance’s packing house, Thompson said, “if someone would want to do that, but I’d assume they’d want to be outside using a range of tools and meeting other people their age.”

Thompson’s husband Nathaniel, the farm manager, is “interested in inspiring knowledge in people who have already got farming skills.”

“We’re passionate about education, but it’s more advanced,” Thompson said. Remembrance does offer an apprenticeship program in biodynamic farming practices for people who are about ready to strike out on their own; they have had a couple people come to their program from the Rochester Folk Art Guild farm, in Middlesex, who got into farming as WWOOFers.

The 350-acre Folk Art Guild property hasn’t had as many WWOOFers this year, said Nicole Hummel, one of the Guild’s potters. No farm manager was found this year, so the focus is on feeding guild members and visitors; in years with a farm

manager that’s into it, the guild has gone to three farmers’ markets a week. Hummel first came to Middlesex five years ago as a WWOOFer. “It was kind of part WWOOFing and part working in pottery,” Hummel said.

“It worked out great for me. I really loved a lot about farming and preserving food.

It’s not just working on the farm, it’s bigger than that—it’s part of the community here.”

WWOOFers at the guild farm typically stay one to three months, and work five days a week; in exchange they get free room and board and have a day to work in one of the craft studios.

“The incorporation into the craft shop is a pretty essential part of it, too,” Hummel said, “that’s what continues year round. It’s the bulk of our economy.”

A WWOOFer applying to work at the Guild writes in a letter, and they’re invited for a trial period of about a month. At the end of that time, for people interested in continuing there, the Guild—which operates by consensus—holds an evaluation meeting to “make sure things are going good on both ends,” Hummel said.

Not All Wine and Roses

Every WWOOFing experience is different, of course; it’s not all sunshine, basket weaving, and jamming out on kale guitar. As “a loose network of national organizations,” as the Wikipedia page puts it, both WWOOF hosts and visitors need to do their homework beforehand. Law has heard from one of her WWOOFers of a farm in Pennsylvania where 14-hour days are expected, with WWOOFers cooking their own meals; Law’s daughters had to practice some deception to get to the train station and get out of an isolated spot in France where the farmer was creeping on them.

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The law is “foggy on WWOOFers,” according to Elizabeth Henderson, head of Peacework Farm in Rochester and a board member of New York’s Northeast Organic Farms Association chapter.

“As volunteer workers who exchange labor for room and board and the “experience,” they do not come under the heading of hired labor,” Henderson said. “However, unless a farm depends on WWOOFers for labor … the likelihood of a [Department of Labor] inspection is low.

Nationally, only a few farms have been inspected by the DOL and fined for not paying apprentices like regular workers— but the fines have been high for those few who have been snagged. For the most part, DOL does not have enough staff to enforce labor laws carefully or there would be a lot less wage theft directed at migrant workers, especially undocumented ones.”

There’s certainly a class angle to the WWOOFer experience: Sullivan theorizes that she hasn’t had any conversations with potential WWOOFers this year because “kids who were kept comfortable by their parents before are getting told ‘you need to get a job.”

Rich or poor, everyone’s got to eat. At the least, a good WWOOFing experience exposes people to what it takes to grow food.

“WWOOFing is a powerful medium for growing the next generation of people who are interested in the food economy,” Sullivan said. “People who are interested can give some value back into the food economy, whether that means being good customers who never bat an eye at the prices we have to charge to stay afloat.

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Trail racers are OK with the dry weather

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don’t hear anyone actually rejoicing that we are in the throes or a dry spell, but there is a group of local trail runners that was very pleased that this year’s conditions at the Finger Lakes 50K Trail Race were not like last year’s.

I talked to Brenda Michaud, who ran the 25K race on Saturday, and she said, “This year’s conditions were perfect. It was a little chilly in the morning, it was dry, and last year it was the muddiest race ever.

The mud was so thick that people actually lost their shoes!”

In addition to the 25K contest, there is also a 50K and a 50-mile ultramarathon. The race is held in the Finger Lakes National Forest in Hector, and this was the 28th annual running of the event.

It is an extremely popular event, and the 250 slots fill up within a half hour. The race’s website info states, “The course is a 16.5-mile loop covering single-track trail (85 percent), grassy pastures (5 percent) complete with grazing cows and cow pies,” and Brenda told me, “It’s true … you have to close the gates behind you, and one of

the themes is “Don’t let the cows out!”

After running a three-plus-hour trail race, Brenda said she was “feeling both beat and accomplished.” She said she is grateful for all the work that goes into putting the event together, and said, “It takes days to set up and tear down.

They need people to put up the signs, the caution flags, the trail markers—it really is a lot of work.”

The Finger Lakes 50s is a part of the Finger Lakes Trail Circuit, and the ninerace series covers a lot of territory, from Buttermilk Falls State Park to Hammond Hill to the Highland Forest to Tanglewood Nature Center (in Elmira) to the Finger Lakes National Forest to the Virgil State Forest to the Danby State Forest. The racing schedule runs from May through October, and the events range from a 1-mile fun run to a 50 mile ultra. Many runners swear that trail running is not only more scenic and safe, it also saves a lot of wear and tear on the body, given the surfaces are more forgiving than pavement.

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All-American award was Robbins’ second as a Big Red thrower, as he also earned that status in 2013.

Cornell rising senior Lucas Reisch also had a respectable showing, as he placed 94th out of more than 130 of the nation’s fastest swimmers in the 100 butterfly at the Olympic Trials in Omaha. His time of 55.17 placed him seventh in the seventh heat. The top 16 swimmers in the prelims advanced to Friday evening’s semifinals. Lucas Brenda Michaud (foreground) on the trail. (Provided) will be a team co-captain for the upcoming 2016For more information on the 17 campaign, and last local running scene, go to www. season he earned recognition as the team’s fingerlakesrunners.org Hardest Worker.

• • • Alex Evdokimov—Reisch’s teammate It really is cool to watch so many at Cornell—did the Big Red proud as well, athletes with local ties at the Olympic finishing 10th in the 200 Breaststroke.

Trials, and some already in the Games.

In both the 100 and 200, Alex won his Rob Robbins—who graduated from preliminary round heat, and in the 200, Cornell a few weeks ago—must love he set an all-time personal best of 2:14. He boarding a plane to Eugene, Oregon. Last ultimately finished less than 1 second over month, Robbins competed at Hayward the time for the final qualifying spot, and Field at the NCAA’s, and earned a firstwith two years left in his Cornell career, team All-American recognition in javelin.

Evdokimov hopes to break many more Over the weekend, he returned there and personal records. exceeded all expectations (except perhaps Congrats also to rower and Ithaca his own), as he was seeded 15th in the College graduate, Meghan Musnicki ‘05, round to earn a spot in the finals, and he who has been selected to represent the stepped up big with a heave of 237 feet, United States in the women’s eight in Rio 7 inches to finish seventh of 24 throwers de Janeiro this August. • to earn a spot in the final. Last month’s

Survivors and those currently dealing with cancer, as well as family and friends, told stories about their experiences with the disease and expressed their hopes for the future at the summit. Many wanted a holistic approach to care that included not only research, but also an overall integration of physical, Local effort to double cancer research emotional and spiritual wellBy Er ic a D i schino being. n June 29 at the Greenstar Space, the need for research Several the Cancer Resource Center action. Specifically, CRC survivors, (CRC) of the Finger Lakes director Bob Riter wanted current cancer hosted a Cancer Moonshot Summit in to advise local leaders on patients, and collaboration with Vice President Biden’s cancer prevention and their family initiative to double the rate of progress care. members toward a cure for cancer.

“It’s really important spoke of the Over 40 people attended, including to attach a local face need for a cure, those who currently receive support from to cancer. There are so but others, the CRC services, cancer survivors and many developments in including Jerry their families, and town officials. cancer research and very Dietz, a CRC Cancer Resource Center director Bob Riter The Cancer Moonshot is a White impressive big picture board member (Photo: Diane Duthie) House effort that aims to increase the ideas, but we also want to whose wife amount and types of treatment in the emphasize the importance died in 2012 from ovarian cancer, said Unites States by conducting 10 years of support within the local community,” there was a need for emotional support. worth of research in five years. On June Riter said.

Dietz spoke of the impact cancer had had 29, many cities across the United States Riter said the Cancer Moonshot on his life and how the resource center held programs like the CRC’s Moonshot Summit is a way for the community to greatly helped him.

Summit in solidarity with Biden’s summit, come together and support an issue that “You learn the language of cancer. You which was held in Washington D.C. affects everyone. learn words you never wanted to know.

Biden’s son Beau, Delaware’s 46-year“I give credit to Vice President Biden You become a part of a club that you never old former attorney general, died in 2015 for heading this up. We’re very happy to wanted to become a part of. You learn after a two-year battle with brain cancer. be the local contact for this. Now there are about insurance and doctors and how your This sparked the Vice President’s drive to about 14 million survivors of cancer here time can get chewed up and how tired you find a cure. in the U.S., and there are probably about become,” Dietz said. “But that’s why the The same urgency was present during 3,000 survivors in Tompkins County.

Cancer Resource Center is so important. the CRC’s local event, but it went beyond That’s a lot of people,” he said.

We are so blessed.”

The Cancer Resource Center is nonprofit that provides support services for cancer patients, survivors and their families. This support ranges from individual and group sessions to wellness activities, from yoga to wigs for patients undergoing chemotherapy. The center also conducts free cancer screenings through the Cancer Services Program of Cortland and Tompkins Counties.

The Cancer Moonshot Summit was designed to act as a catalyst for cancer research, Riter said, and this research is conducted locally at Cornell University.

CRC hosts one of the only programs in the nation that allows graduate and postgraduate students from a university to educate those affected by cancer about the research they are doing.

“It’s really important to expose the students to the human side of cancer.

They’re in labs all day long doing really important research but they are not exposed to individuals going through treatments,” Riter said.

The program not only benefits the students, but the patients as well.

“Lots of people with cancer want to know what is going on with their bodies and want to prevent it. The more we understand the underlying biology of cancer, the better we can target treatments that are more effective and have fewer side effects.”• The CRC is located on W. State Street and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information visit crfl.net.

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The Colors of the City

A celebration of a NYC Latin neighborhood

By Ros s Ha ars ta d In the Heights with music and lyrics by LinManuel Miranda, book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, Hangar Theatre through July 16

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n the Heights at the Hangar, under the ebullient direction of Suzanne Agins, mixes hot and cool rhythms, generous splashes of color and a huge beating heart to seduce you from its opening number.

Miranda’s debut project (his second being the mega-hit Hamilton) is a valentine to the pulsing neighborhood of Washington Heights (just above Harlem and to the west of the Bronx), a celebration of the immigrant neighborhood of a Latin New York, especially Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban: all seekers of opportunity with roots in the islands.

It’s about a community that gossips, fights, loves and helps each other out in its ups and downs. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Hudes’ book (widely misjudged in most reviews) offers up little melodrama, but plenty of spirit; the characters are drawn with broad strokes (think Guys and Dolls) but given strong personalities,

it’s a collage of small stories stripped of melodrama.

Miranda puts them in motion with a musical mélange that mixes salsa, merengue, bachata and hip-hop with sharply honed lyrics. Usnavi (Perry Young) is the second-generation owner of the local bodega, and the narrator, pulling us in and painting the scene with a stylish rap; ironically, when it comes to wooing his crush Vanessa (Gerianne Pérez, full of flash), he’s tongue-tied, and it’s up to his smart-ass cousin Sonny (an ingratiating and bubbly Nick Martinez) to set them up.

Sharing the corner is Rosario’s Car Service (a taxi dispatch) and a Unisex Hair Salon. Only child Nina Rosario (Natalie Grace Ortega) is back for the summer from her freshman year at Stanford with bad news for her parents, and a (forbidden) hankering for her father’s worker Benny (Austin Scott). Vanessa struggles with finances while working for the sassy Daniela (Donnie Hammond, owning the boards), trading gossip with starry-eyed Carla (a perky Maria Christina Slye).

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Your New Pole Star?

Fall Creek’s place to wine and dine

By Peg g y Haine

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igure you’re eating out three squares a day while you’re having your kitchen redone, installing a twostory addition, shoring up the foundation, and tacking on a deck and chicken coop in your hopes of transforming your $165,000 Fall Creek home into a $299,000 Fall Creek offering for next spring’s market.

You’ve happily aced breakfast (with the City of Ithaca crews) and lunch (with everyone else who can squeeze in) at the Lincoln Street Diner. But what to do about dinner?

Northstar House has become Fall Creek’s meeting and dining place, and even if you’re supping there several times a week, there’s a choice of two comfy outdoor venues—an umbrella-tabled patio and a serve-yourself, limited-menu beer garden—as well as the cozy restaurant and bar with high-rise tables and chairs, along with standard-issue window seating. Casita del Polaris, the restaurant’s adjoining performance space, brings in a panoply of music performers, and there’s no cover for the Thursday evening

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Aggravating day with contractors and sub-contractors? The bar is well stocked, the bartender friendly, and the pours generous (6-ounce wines, 2-ounce liquors), and we were pleased to find one of our favorite ciders, a fizzy South Hill Soundpost, on tap. The wine list offers some of the finest Finger Lakes wines, and the restaurant goes out of its way to stock provisions from local farmers, producers, even the local florist. Which is why we were surprised to see few, if any, local beers. Oh well, nobody’s perfect.

The night we visited the bar was peopled by a group of aging hipsters, chatting about golf, and the restaurant full of 20- and 30-somethings, with and without families. The place is kid-friendly, offering many of the foods most kids love—a daily-changing mac-and-cheese special, focaccia pizzas, fries, and burgers.

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Adding to the street vibe is the piragua seller (a softly beguiling Jeffrey Nunez) and grafitti tagger Pete (a joyfully goofy Josh Rivera.)

The heart of the community and its oldest resident is Abuela Claudia (Amy Jo Phillips).

Miranda mixes up styles constantly, creating a sound and rhythm collage, some songs are fairly short, more arioso than aria, but the show flows from morning to a scorching evening to a suddenly bleak July 4th morning. (While simple in its outline, the musical is totally Perry Young stars in “In The Heights” (Photo: Rachel Philipson) subversive in bringing really Latino work to Broadway: witness how alternating fondness and stern feminist many of the actors in this production are fury. repeating roles from previous productions!)

Usnavi is the glue; Perry is dynamic The elders own the strongest songs: and captivating, carrying the story forward Danny Bolero hauntingly sings of his with rue and humor in equal measure. feeling of uselessness in the face of his Julio Agustin’s superb choreography obdurate daughter, recalling days in the (joyous to sultry) is full of Latin moves, a sugar cane fields (Bolero’s performance is bit of jazz, and much hip-hop, done in a rich, varied and nicely layered.) Phillips character-driven manner, with few unison brings down the house with the majestic or showbiz moments. Design is top-notch “Pacienca y Fe (Patience and Faith)” a from the romantic setting by Raul Abrego, striking catalog of a life from leaving Cuba to the summer urban-tropical lighting with her mother in the ‘40s till this day,

by Hangar vet Matthew Richards to the vibrant with pride and yearning. Phillips stylish costumes of Kendra Johnson. Music digs deep into this kind woman’s fierce director Diane Louie weaves in the varied emotions. rhythms.

Once Ortega begins her exchanges The placement of the band onstage with the warm and slightly devilish Scott against the brick back wall does cause as Benny, she blossoms as an actor, their the singers voices to be sometimes morning-after duet is very touching. Celina overwhelmed, a small drawback to an Polanco commands as Camila Rosario, otherwise fabulous occasion. • garlic burger (stoutly standing under melted cheddar, greens, tomato, onion, and garlic aioli on a brioche-type roll) served with a side of Caesar salad, and the “Sorrel, I’m not Sorrel” burger (Autumn’s Harvest ground beef, tart sorrel pesto, Lively Run feta, & garlic aioli on a housemade brioche bun with parmesan potato wedges), both done perfectly medium rare as ordered, totally juicy, and too big to fit into a normal mouth without some serious squushing. Setting the tomato slices aside for later helped. We saw some nice salads and grains passing by, and were tempted by the grilled kale Caesar salad and the beet and Lively Run goat cheese salad with candied pecans and maple balsamic dressing. Next time.

Dessert was a warm peaches and cream bread pudding, kissed fragrantly by vanilla, surrounded by a loop of crème anglaise, and topped with whipped cream and local peaches at the height of their season—in all, with two spoons, very sexy for a dessert. We were tempted, too, by the honey lavender custard tart and the ginger orange chocolate cake, which registered as luscious despite being both vegan and gluten free.

The space happily occupied by Northstar Pub has a noteworthy culinary pedigree, having previously housed Café des Amis, Renée’s, and Willow, each great in its own way. There must be some terrific juju in that little kitchen. Casita del Polaris once held Fall Creek Cinema, now morphed into Cinemapolis.

In the restaurant, the noise level allowed private conversation, with reggae

Customers dine at Northstar (Photo: Diane Duthie)

music playing softly in the background.

Service was professional, and friendly enough, the greeting sincere, with a welcome lack of upselling by our waiter.

Service was prompt, considerate, unfussy.

They don’t seem to keep up their web site, so you’ll just have to go check ‘em out yourselves. The restaurant takes reservations on line, but not for the day of, so plan accordingly. There’s plenty of parking right outside the door.

Northstar House, 202 E. Falls St., Ithaca. 607-216-8580, www.northstarpub. com Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/dining

Summer and Shakespeare

We could all do with a few laughs. I’ve got a feeling we’re going to need them more than usual before long.

– Harry Potter, The Goblet of Fire

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ne of the absolute best things in the Ithaca summer (right up there with the gorges) is the Ithaca Shakespeare Company (ISC).

Their summer performances are not to be missed. They’ve been putting on performances at the Cornell Plantations for 12 years, but for 2016 they will move to the shores of Cayuga Lake. This summer the ISC is mounting two plays: Twelfth Night (or What You Will) and Henry VI: A Tiger’s Heart.

First off, the Perspicacious Reader needs to know that Henry VI is part of a series of Shakespeare’s history plays that the ISC is producing.

In Shakespeare’s time, his most popular plays were an eight-work cycle of history plays: Richard II; Henry IV, parts 1and 2; Henry V; Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3; and Richard III. They function as a continuous meta-story, like a mini-series of the era.

Here in the 21st century, they are among the least produced of Shakespeare’s plays (with the obvious exception of Richard III—nobody can resist a funny, charming monster).

The reason for this is that Elizabethan era audiences were familiar with these historical figures. To a modern American audience, it would be the equivalent of biopics about, say, Jefferson or Hamilton, Lincoln or FDR, or the Kennedy, Bush or Clinton dynasties.

However, it is worth pointing out, once again, that, in Shakespeare’s time, these were his most popular plays.

And the ISC is undertaking the entire cycle as a two-year project. They began with Richard II back in February 2015, and the final

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(Above) Viola (Emily Loewus) and Fabian (Michael Doliner) star in performance of Richard III will take place in ISC’s production of “Twelfth Night” (Photo: Stephen Ponton) November 2016.

The ISC’s artistic director, Stephen Ponton, cappella group, lute players and more. who is a Shakespeare scholar, has cut the metaIt will function like an outdoor story arc down to five plays, one for each king. mini-Renaissance festival (ISC assistant Ponton has characterized the meta-storyline as director Michael Donato referred to it as “a “The Original Game of Thrones.”

At the launch of the series, in the Richard II Shakespearean tailgate party”), and the ISC playbill he wrote: “Shakespeare’s cycle of history suggests arriving at least an hour before the performance to experience it. plays may be his greatest single achievement.

• • • Taken together they form an astonishing epic I visited the forest glade stage in the marine adventure that can rival any modern fantasy or park over four days in June and hung out with adventure epic—and was a major inspiration the cast and crew of Twelfth Night and Henry VI for most of them.” as they rehearsed.

The inspiration to mount the meta-play It was a huge amount of fun. It was like cycle was to commemorate two Shakespeare th being lost in one of those Robert Altman anniversaries: 2014 was the 450 anniversary of movies with a big sprawling ensemble cast. the Bard of Avon’s birth, and 2016 is the 400th And the Treman marine park is anniversary of his death. astoundingly beautiful. It is so beautiful it is (William Shakespeare lived from 1564 to disorienting … like one is in some sort of weird 1616. He died relatively young at age 52. Not afterlife … the play of light on the water, the unlike Upstate New York’s own Rod Serling wind rustling the leaves of titanic trees out of a who died all-too-young at age 50. Both writers Hudson River School painting, boats drifting by created work that will endure as long as there on the inlet like objects in a dream. are human beings on the planet.)

The first day I visited (June 22), the cast • • • did a run-through of Henry VI … the first on The next important thing the Everthe outdoor stage. (Previously, they had been Perceptive Reader needs to know is that the rehearsing at Fall Creek Studios.)

ISC is moving its summer performances First they worked on their sword fighting to the Allan H. Treman State Marine Park. (“Taste my steel, mate!”). Jacob Lehman, the The performances will be held on a stage fight director put them through their paces. constructed in a beautiful meadow at the north Actors were sword fighting everywhere … end of the park, bounded on one side by the onstage, in the groundling area before the stage, Cayuga Inlet and encircled on all other sides by alongside the stage, backstage, in the meadow a grove of towering trees. … you couldn’t get away from them.

Another important thing to know is that Then they did the run-through … at the ISC is planning pre-show entertainment a brisk pace, as time was limited. (Director and refreshments. There’s about a five-minute Ponton said, “Act hard. Talk fast.”) walk from the parking lot to the forest glade stage … and to fill the meadow on the way continued on page 20 the ISC has invited all kinds of artists and musicians, including opera singers, an a T

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Movie Crawl IV: The Return

A classic tale revisited and an exploratory winner

By Br yan VanC ampe n The Legend of Tarzan, directed by David Yates; playing at Regal Stadium 14; Swiss Army Man, written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, playing at Cinemapolis,

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ummer vacation means time for another movie crawl: seeing as many films as I can before deadline. Strap in, kids. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover.

Aside from Carol Burnett’s Tarzan yell, I never really got the whole Tarzan thing.

So I was surprised by how much I enjoyed David Yates’ The Legend of Tarzan. Yates is the house Harry Potter director, but his vision of Burroughs has a lot of pleasing echoes of Fitzcarraldo and Apocalypse Now. The origin of Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) and Jane (Margot Robbie) is only seen in brief flashback. Accompanied by Samuel L.

Jackson as a version of his character from The Hateful Eight, the dashing married couple returns to the jungle to confront the corrupt Captain Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz), a Belgian captain sent by King Leopold of Belgium to find diamonds and control the region.

I’m not sure why the veddy British Robbie speaks in a flat American Val-voice, and there’s a scene between her and Waltz that’s a direct steal from Raiders of the Lost Ark. But with Jackson there for back-up and wisecracks, at least this Tarzan is fun.

I’ll just warn you up front that extreme flatulence isn’t just a gag in Swiss Army Man, like the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles. Oh, no. In this surreal two-hander starring Paul Dano (Love & Mercy) as a shipwreck survivor who encounters a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) with amazing abilities, epic farting is an actual plot point

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and a big part of the film. Though Swiss Army Man has scenes that test an audience like the toilet scene in Trainspotting, this outermost survival comedy/ultimate bromance has more to offer than just naughty bodily function gags.

This odd little $3 million indie is the debut feature from a duo billed as “The Daniels”: writer-directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Even though most aspiring filmmakers end up working in the studio system, it’s said that a filmmaker’s first film should be as off-beat and worthy of comment as possible. That’s Swiss Army Man. While I believe less you know about it the more you’ll enjoy the film, as the story develops, Radcliffe evolves from a deceased Rube Goldberg device that can rescue Dano from any danger in the wild, to Dano’s more idealized alter ego (and better half?).

Put another way, this is wild and wooly stuff, just about 180 degrees from the cheap “dead-guy” gags you’d see in the Weekend at Bernie’s flicks. It’s like the sweet bro story of Chasing Amy crossed with the palm-frond construction jokes in an episode of Gilligan’s Island. And still, with all those references, Swiss Army Man feels utterly unique and sui generis. •

laugh when he announces that if we got rid of all gays in the military, the army would have to go on holiday.

Whether it’s men of G Company, or the sergeant, or Prew singing, the constant outpouring of emotion tends to melt the needed military rigor. Not to mention calisthenics as choreography. And along with too many songs in ratio to dialogue and lots of smooching, this show feels overproduced, full of busy-ness. Kevin Heard’s two-story multiple-screened bamboo building offers no clear focal point; a constantly moved staircase is distracting; and endless superfluous projections wash over everything. (Do we really need to see an enlarged copy of Prew’s reenlistment papers or be informed, “Bombs Fall on Hawaii”?) And then there’s that cartoonish full moon.

Dan Ozminkowski’s lighting is serviceable; Corinne Aquilina’s orchestra solid as always. But there’s so much going on here that it’s hard to digest the whole in this uneven, ambitious musical. •

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One Busy Affair

Ambitious musical struggles to keep itself in order

By Barbara Ad am s From Here to Eternity, directed and choreographed by Brett Smock. Music by Stuart Brayson, lyrics by Tim Rice, book by Bill Oakes and Donald Rice. At Merry-GoRound Playhouse, Auburn, through July 20.

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his Dec. 7 marks the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, apt timing for the U.S. premiere of the musical From Here to Eternity. Staging the show, which opened in London’s West End in fall 2013, is a coup for Auburn’s Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival and artistic director/choreographer Brett Smock.

The adaptation had long interested Tim Rice, whose formidable credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King. The musical is based on James Jones’s lengthy and celebrated 1951 novel, or rather the unexpurgated edition of 2011, which includes stronger language and gay sex.

We’re in Oahu in the days right before Pearl Harbor, moving mostly between Schofield Barracks and the New Congress Club, a Honolulu nightspot. Career soldier Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt has just requested a transfer to the base’s rifle company, having quit boxing in his previous unit after blinding an opponent.

But Captain Holmes, who wants a promotion via a regimental boxing trophy, is determined to break him. Negotiating between them is First Sgt. Milt Warden— disciplined, decent, and all-army.

These three stubborn men—and their diverse portraits of military manhood—are complicated by the presence of women, of course. There’s Holmes’ discontented wife Karen, who in the face of his constant infidelity has picked up a sexual life of her own (along with his gonorrhea, leaving her unable to have children). She responds to Sgt. Warden’s interest; their proscribed affair contrasts with dirt-poor Kentucky boy Prew’s falling for equally-poor-butaspiring-to-respectability call girl Lorene.

Strong acting and singing—the heart of this production—distinguish all five characters here. Corey Mach’s Prew has a consistent, quietly winning presence, and W. Joseph Matheson’s Holmes is dislikable sans stereotyping. Kevin Aichele’s sergeant—tall, ruggedly handsome, charming, and yes, kind—isn’t the movie’s inexpressive tough guy but a fellow with feelings, his friendship with Prew a noticeable difference.

In a catchy number, “Ain’t Where I Wanna Be Blues,” the two happily jam, and Aichele plays a mean harmonica; his own rendering of “At Ease” is heartbreaking.

The women, relatively unsympathetic

in the film, have greater dimensionality here, thanks to the nuanced acting and splendid vocals of Aleka Emerson as a more sensitive Karen and Paige Fauré as a clever, more humorous Lorene. Each engages us as a distinct, independent personality, a welcome contemporary note. But this striking blonde and brunette absolutely look like ’40s women, thanks to thoughtful casting and Lucy Brown’s fabulous costumes (throughout, especially of the bar girls, with fine hairstyles by J. Jared Janas and Dave Bova).

This musical lacks a defining atmosphere or theme, touching on several so thinly it left me wondering, “What’s this show ultimately about?” And the new gay presence adds little, except to make

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Lorene (Paige Fauré) and her co-workers in “From Here to Eternity” (Photo: Ron Heerkens Jr)

Prew’s sidekick Private Maggio (a winning Michael Tacconi) less comical (he rolls gay men for cash) and earn the sergeant a big

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| The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Come on down to The Dock and kick up your heels! Featuring Jim Scarpulla, Andrew Battles, and Mike Wellen, we’ll be leaning a little more to the blues side of things.

The Suitcase Junket | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Folk, Blues, Folk Rock.

Tenzin Chopak, Nicholas Walker, and Greg Evans | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Jazz, Folk, Chamber Music.

Accident Prone, Mill Bastards, Water Bears | 9:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St., Ithaca | Metalcore, Speedpunk, Hardcore Punk, SludgePunk, Psychedelic-Heavy Blues.

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7/06 Wednesday Mac Benford & Up South | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Old-Time.

Open Mic Night | 6:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Sign Ups Start between 6:00 pm and 6:30 pm, Music Starts around 7:00 pm.

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.

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. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

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7/08 Friday Under Construction | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards, 5712 State Route 414, Hector | Funk, R&B, Country, Rock and Roll, Blues.

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

Judy Hyman, Jeff Claus, Mac Benford, and Sally Freund | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Hive 45, 45 E Main Street, Trumansburg | Old-Time, Americana.

The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Rock and Roll, Blues, R&B, Soul, Country, Jazz, Americana.

Acoustic Rust | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd., Interlaken | A Tribute to Neil Young.

The Geronimo Line | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Westy, 516 W State St #100, Ithaca | Spaghetti Western, Reggae, Folk, Grunge, 80s pop, African Groove, Latin Ballads.

Miller’s Wheel | 7:00 PM | Silver Line

7/07 Thursday Frank Raponi | 6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Folk, Rock, Pop, Country, Reggae, Beach, Grunge.

Ageless Jazz Band | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Jazz, Swing.

Alyssa, Jaclyn & Lora | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | A 3 songstress evening.

Tom Savage | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Singer Songwriter.

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Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Southern Old Time, Early Jazz, Show Stoppers, Originals.

The Hello Strangers, Chris Merkley | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Indie Rock, Folk, American Roots, Blues.

Ampersand Project | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Rock, Pop, Country, Acoustic.

Dreamt, Road Man, Intrepid Travelers | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Indie Rock, Folk Rock, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Psychedelic.

Mosaic Foundation | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Reggae, Roots, Dub. David Graybeard Band | 10:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Folk, Roots, Americana.

Evan E. | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls |

7/09 Saturday The Purple Valley | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Finger Lakes Distilling, Rte 414, Burdett | Rock and Roll, Blues, R&B, Soul, Country, Americana.

The Gully Hubbards | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd., Interlaken | Americana, Alt-country, Rock, Folk, Pop. Nick Kody and the Creek Road Band, Rare Breed, Brian Tyneway | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Blues, Rock, Country, Southern Rock, Classic Rock.

Dan Africano | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Dan Africano, the bassist for John Brown’s Body, will be joined by a few friends.

Griot Rumbero | 8:30 PM | The Dock, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca

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Music and Mimosas with Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Roots, Soul, Acoustic Jerome Attardo and Guests | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St. | Classical Piano.

St. Vith | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Folk, Blues, Rock, Jazz, Jam. StratCat Willie and the Strays | 3:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Rock.

Nick Kody & the Creek Road Band | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Roots Rock and Hill-Country Blues.

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Lora Pendleton & Pat Burke | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Old-Time, Indie, Country, Jorge T. Cuevas & the Caribe Jazz All-Stars | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Latin, World, Jazz.

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

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

The String Cheese Incident, Twiddle | 6:30 PM | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown | Progressive Bluegrass, Country, Neo-Psychedelia, Jam, Progressive Rock, Funk, Rock.

Coracree | 7:00 PM | Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca | Coracree melds a transatlantic mix of traditional Celtic, old-time, European, and original music with a playful, improvisational style.

Buttonwood Deck Party featuring The Destination | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | BBQ, Wine, Beer, Music.

The NYS Blues Festival | All Day 7/08 Friday and 7/09 Saturday| Clinton Square, Syracuse | The New York State Rhythm & Blues Festival, Inc. showcases a collection of regional and national artists from multiple genres, all with roots steeped in tradition and vision, and arranges them for a continuous river of music. This year’s gets includes Soul of Syracuse with The Fabulous Ripcords, Sonny Landreth, Butch Trucks & the Freight Train Band, and many more.

Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.

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7/06 Wednesday Concerts In The Park: Reckless Marci | 7:00 PM | Hickories Park, Hickories Park Road, Owego | Kick back in the grass and enjoy free concerts by local and regional musicians.

Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds | 7:30 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Acoustic, Rock, Alternative, Pop.

7/07 Thursday An Evening with the Avett Brothers | 8:00 PM | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | Folk, Folk Rock, Indie Folk, Bluegrass, Americana.

Vans Warped Tour | 11:00 AM | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Punk, Hardcore Punk, Pop Punk, Skate Punk, Heavy Metal. Full lineup at vanswarpedtour.com Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM | DeWitt Park, , Ithaca | Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite, Clarinet Candy, Fiddler on the Roof, Disney Film Favorites and more.

Caribe Jazz All Stars: CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Latin, World, Jazz, Salsa.

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Palleon | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Synth Pop, Electronic, Pop. The Analogue Sons | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Dub, Soul, Instrumental.

Grassonova | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Bluegrass.

East/West Blues Band | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

| Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Americana, Alt-country, Rock, Folk, Pop.

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Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra | 8:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Classical.

Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Alter Bridge, Saint Asonia | 6:30 PM | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Alternative Metal, Nu-Metal, Hard Rock, Industrial Rock, Rock.

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7:00 PM-, 7/09 Saturday | Taughannock Falls State Park, Bath House Stage, Trumansburg | Rock, Pop, Indie.

Del Rey | 8:00 PM | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Fabulous and much acclaimed guitarist, uke player and vocalist from Seattle who performs selections inspired by country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie. Tickets available at the door or online via http://bit.do/delrey

7/10 Sunday Phish | 7:30 PM | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Rock, Progressive Rock, Experimental, Funk, Heavy Metal, Barbershop, Noise, Soul, Blues.

7/12 Tuesday Music in the Hollow: The Pelotones | 6:00 PM | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Jazz, Rhythm and Blues.

Bob Dylan and his Band | 7:30 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Rock, Folk, Country, Americana, Punk.

Crimson | 7:30 PM | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Melodic and rhythmic blending of Latin jazz and world music from the past and present

Film Family Screenings: Zootopia | 11:00 AM, 7/11 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At 11 a.m., the Library will offer a screening especially for children with sensory integration challenges. A second screening, open to all families, will be held at 2 p.m.. Refreshments will be provided during both showings.

Zootopia follows rabbit, Judy Hopps, as she fulfills her childhood dream of becoming a police officer. Life on the force isn’t what she’d imagined; however, and she must enlist the help of her animal friends and family in order to hold on to her badge. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Passfire: A Film About Fireworks Culture Across the Globe | 7:00 PM, 7/12 Tuesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | The Film was shot in 23 different countries, and explores the tradition of pyrotechnics. It was created by 2 local filmmakers, and will be premiering at Cinemapolis with an afterparty at the Ithaca Ale House. cinemapolis

Friday, 7/08 to Thursday, 7/14.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes The Music of Strangers | Cellist Yo-Yo

Ma and other international artists of The Silk Road Project discuss their philosophies on music and culture. | 96 mins PG-13|

Swiss Army Man | A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home. | 95mins R | Wiener-Dog | A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch. | 90 mins R | Our Kind of Traitor | A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch’s plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. |117 mins R | Weiner | An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and the landscape of today’s political landscape. | 96 mins R | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. | 119 mins R | Love & Friendship | Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is

determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. |92 mins PG |

Stage From Here to Eternity | 7:30 PM | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Sir Tim Rice’s new musical makes its US premiere right here in Auburn. Don’t miss this epic, sweeping story of love, redemption and hope set against the backdrop of a beautiful but conflicted paradise.

Tickets and info at fingerlakesmtf. com/2016-season/from-here-toeternity/index.html In The Heights | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, In the Heights uses contemporary music and dance to tell the story of the American Dream. For showtimes visit www.hangartheatre.org Baby Boom Baby | Ti-Ahwaga Community Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | National Lampoon veteran Tommy Koenig sings original songs and parodies from The Beatles to Lady Gaga in the musicomedy “Baby Boo. For tickets and showtimes visit tiahwaga.com Running to Places presents: Rent | Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West State / MLK, Jr. St., Ithaca | Runs July 6-17. The groundbreaking Tony

Award-winning Broadway classic Rent comes to life in the Running to Places (R2P) production of the school edition.

The production is part of the Kitchen Theatre Company’s Kitchen Sink Series.

West Side Story | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | One of the greatest musicals of all time in its CRT debut! In this breathtaking musical, two rival gangs struggle for control of their west side New York City neighborhood. Amidst the chaos, star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria find themselves wrenched between their worlds. Beautiful, passionate, with shades of violence and heartache, this innovative adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet still dazzles after more than fifty years! The treasured songs Something’s Coming, Tonight, I Feel Pretty, Maria and America have become classics in the American Songbook. Don’t miss it!

Wedge Season: Oh Oh You Will Be Sorry | 10:00 PM, 7/07 Thursday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Runs July 7th & 8th at 10:00 PM. By Claire Kiechel. Directed

by Katie Lupica. Five women gather for champagne brunch in a suburban living room. But, sorry, does anyone know what we’re celebrating? Or whose house this is? Are we missing anything?

Or anyone? A brand new dark comedy about what’s known and what’s unknowable among even the closest of friends.

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Runs July 7, 8, & 9. Based upon the story by C.S. Lewis, dramatized by Le Clanché Du Rand. Discover the enchanted world of Narnia with Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy as they join the ultimate battle between good and evil. Will good prevail? Find out in this exciting theatre fantasy. Showtimes and tickets at hangartheatre.org The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night | Allan Treman State Park, Taughannock Blvd. (Rt. 89), Ithaca | An exploration of love in all its forms, the crowning glory of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies is a richly layered and endlessly entertaining play.

Hilariously funny and deeply romantic, Twelfth Night features: a shipwreck, a clever heroine in disguise, twins that no one can tell apart, multiple cases of mistaken identity, and much more. For dates and showtimes visit ithacashakespeare.org Last Gas | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene),

Notices Adopt-a Highway clean-up | 5:30 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | Cayuga Trails Club invites any interested in joining the Adopt-a Highway clean-up. For further details about this event, visit our website at www.cayugatrailsclub. org.

American Red Cross Blood Drives | Thursday, July 7th 1pm to 6pm at the Shops at Ithaca Mall, Friday, July 8th 11:30am to 4:30pm at the YMCA, Friday, July 8th 1pm to 6pm at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Tuesday, July 12th 9am to 3pm at the East Hill Office Building.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | ZaZa’s, 622 Cascadilla St., Ithaca | RSVP pjsmall1@ yahoo.com Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join

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Kitchen Theatre Company, Runs July 6 - 17

Chanticleer Loft, Thursday, July 7, 9:00 p.m.

La vie Boheme! They’re not gonna pay! This seminal modern Broadway classic comes to vivid life. With minor revisions by the Larson estate to make it R2P-friendly, the show still has plenty of bite. R2P is a youth community theatre company that brings together middle & high school students from across the area. They’re in the business of youth development, helping raise the community’s children and making excellent theatre in the process. Rent’s a musical with bite, hipness, and brawn: expect some fireworks!

Norfolk, Virginia’s metallic hardcore pummelers Accident Prone make a quick jaunt to the Chanti this Thursday, bringing their exploratory and brutal ways tenfold. These guys thrive with infinite buckets of energetic, progressive, and punishing forms.

Shades of Dillinger Escape Plan, Car Bomb, Converge, Trash Talk, and Trap Them merge with an original mix of oceanic gusto.

Doom-psych locals Water Bears and Ithaca’s hardcore punk masters Mill Bastards open up. It’s a killer night!

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Tickets can now be purchased online at www.chenangorivertheatre.org, or by emailing tickets@chenangorivertheatre.org. 607-656-8499.

Wrongful Rustlings at the Rhombus R Ranch | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W Main St., Montour Falls | Runs July 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7:00 p.m., and July 10 and 17 at 2:00 p.m. A western themed story of love and skulduggery set on the texas plains in the mid 1800’s. There’s a sinister villan, a charming heroine a city slicker and granny and Cookie for fun.

The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: A Tiger’s Heart | Allan Treman State Park, Taughannock Blvd. (Rt.89), Ithaca | When Henry V dies and leaves his young son on the throne, the divisions in the kingdom break open and England erupts into civil war. The Wars of the Roses pit the house of Lancaster against the house of York — one led by one of Shakespeare’s most formidable women, and the other driven by the ominous rise of the future Richard III. For dates and showtimes visit ithacashakespeare.org

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in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Vendors Sought | The Remember the Big 6 Committee is looking for vendors to participate in the Remember The Big 6 Youth Fair/Country Fair on Thursday July 28- Saturday July 30, 2016. The Fair is Held at The Agricultural Museum at Emerson Park. Food Vendors, Craft Vendors and Merchandise Exhibitors are needed. This is the third year of the fair and it is getting bigger every year. If you are interested and for more information call Tim Quill at 315-252- 7644 or e-mail him attquill@ cayugacounty.us East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | The Market features local produce, local organic and pasture raised meats, baked goods, plants and more! For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Trumansburg Central School All Class Reunion | If you graduated from Trumansburg Central School, mark your calendars and plan to attend the All Class Reunion on Saturday, July 30, at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds. It’s a wonderful event to reconnect with classmates and past teachers. There will be food and fun activities. Mad Dog ’77 band will be performing at 6 pm with fireworks at night. Info at www. tcsalumni.com 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/08 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

8th Annual Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway of Valor Tribute Ride | 11:00 AM, 7/09 Saturday | N.Y. State Route 38 | The 100 mile ride kicks off at 11 am from Owego and then will stop in Groton, NY for gas and food, before it continues on to the American Legion in Hannibal, NY, where there will once again be food and entertainment…The ride is free and is open to the public. Please

Coracree’s style is playful and improvisational, melding traditional Celtic, oldtime, European, and original music. Award-winning fiddler and clawhammer banjo player Jane Rothfield heads up the band. They play the Cornell Arts Quad this Friday, July 8 (Photo Provided)

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register on the day of the ride. For more information about the ride, call Dan @ (607) 229-8153, or Harvey @ (607) 898-3507 or Bill @ (607)222-6357.

Bement-Billings House Open For Tours | 12:00 PM-, 7/09 Saturday | Bement-Billings Farmstead, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | nvhistory@ stny.rr.com / www.nvhistory.org Dryden Farmers Market | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/09 Saturday | Dryden Agway, 59 W Main, Dryden | Enjoy local fruits & veggies, honey, eggs, cut flowers, canned salsas & sauces, artisan crafts and so much more.

Ithaca Folk Song Swap | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 7/10 Sunday | Crow’’s Nest Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | The theme for the July 10 event will be Birds. Got a song about Birds? A song you learned from a Bird? A song that reminds you of Birds? But of course all other songs on whatever topic are still entirely welcome.

The 14th Annual Fall Creek Garden Tour | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 7/10 Sunday | Thompson Park, , Ithaca | Bring your friends and the whole family and enjoy a free self-guided walking tour of neighborhood gardens that are sure to inspire.

Bement-Billings House Open For Tours | 12:00 PM-, 7/10 Sunday | Bement-Billings Farmstead, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | nvhistory@ stny.rr.com / www.nvhistory.org Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 7/12 Tuesday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead 4-5 mile hikes every Tuesday

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Learning Karl Pillager: Advice from the Oldest (and Wisest) Americans about Love, Relationships, and Marriage | 7:00 PM-, 7/06 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Free lecture.

Mental Health First Aid | 12:30 PM-4:30 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, 301 South Geneva St., Suite 103, Ithaca | Runs July 6th + 7th, 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Mental Health First Aid teaches a 5-step action plan to offer initial help to people with the signs and symptoms of a mental illness or in a crisis, and connect them with the appropriate professional, peer, social, or self-help care. To register, please email Jacob Parker Carver at jpc@mhaedu. org. If you do not have access to email, call Jacob at 607-273-9250.

Dr. Karl Pillemer | 7:00 PM-, 7/06 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell University | Dr. Karl Pillemer, director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research and professor of gerontology in medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, will share insights from elder Americans about love, relationships, and marriage.

Summer Exhibition: Motion Mania | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Design a roller coaster while making discoveries about force, energy, friction, and stability. Explore the science behind what it takes to build

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Lockwood Lavender Farm, Saturday, July 9, 9:00 a.m.

Home of the Finger Lakes Lavender Festival, Lockwood Lavender Farm is a 120 acre lavender farm overlooking Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

Established in the early 1800’s the farm has been in the Lockwood family for five generations. The annual Lavender Festival is host to a plethora of artists, crafters, farmers, educators, workshops, and so much more. Lavender is a beautifully scented herb with a myriad of uses.

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Live Demo: The Coolest Science | 1:00 PM-, 7/06 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Beat the heat this summer and experience the coolest science right before your eyes! Join our educators to discover how different items react to the extreme temperatures of dry ice and liquid nitrogen. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Beginner Belly Dancing Series | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites adults of all ages to exercise their minds and bodies this summer by joining Belly Dancing Basics With Regina, a four-part introduction to belly dancing. This fun-filled, judgment-free program will be facilitated by TCPL Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro and feature—through beginner-level movements--an introduction to Middle Eastern dance. To register or for more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@tcpl.org.

How to Naturally Increase Your Energy | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 7/07 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come to this class with Health Coach Nathan Walz to learn what you need to do to consistently have better energy and feel great. Registration is required sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Kids Exploring Science! | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 7/06 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you explore science through self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn different science processes each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Sciencenter Mini-Golf | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Enjoy 18 holes of science fun! www. sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 7/08 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and newborns under 18-months-old

are invited to join Library staff Fridays for music, rhymes, movement and books. This storytime is followed by an hour-long Baby & Toddler Playtime.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Candor Free Library Friends of the Library: Children’s Book Yard Sale | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 7/09 Saturday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | 50 cent bag sale from 1 PM until 2 PM. Downtown Scavenger Hunt | 10:00 AM, 7/09 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | An opportunity for children, families, teens and adults to get active while exploring downtown Ithaca.

For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org.

Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 7/12 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers Market, , Ithaca | Children and families are invited to join library staff for lively stories, music and family fun, and stay for lunch and shopping at the Market.

For more information, contact the library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Anime Club | 4:15 PM-6:00 PM, 7/12 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Anime Club is open to young adults ages 11 through 19 with an interest in anime and Manga.Participants will watch films, discuss titles and share what they are reading during free Club sessions.

For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Special Events Tioga County Fair | Marvin Park, Route 17C, Owego | The second oldest in NYS! Shows and fun events for all!

Separate price for Carnival and Grand Stand. 4H Exhibits, Midway, Open Dairy, Horse Barrel Racing, Baby Contest, Demo Derby/Powder Puff Derby. Email: knewell@tiogacofair.com sandy@ tiogacofair.com www.tiogacofair.com Bike Night | 6:00 PM, 7/06 Wednesday | The Parkview Restaurant, 145 Front Street, Owego | Live music, chat with friends, eat good food, and look at motorcycles! A different band will be playing each week.

Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival | July

7, 8, 9, 10 | 231 Ketchumville Road, 231 Ketchumville Road, Berkshire | A 4 day family oriented event featuring Bluegrass music with 22 bands including: Newtown, Chasing Blue Band, Jim Hurst, Mathews Family Tradition, Bottom Dollar String Band, Plexigrass, Slewfoot, and many, many more. Info and tickets at www. busybirdbluegrass.com Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM, 7/07 Thursday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Every Thursday Night. Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com 57th Annual Skaneateles Antique and Artisans Show and Sale | 7/08 Friday | Austin Park Pavilion, 1 East Austin Street, Skaneateles | Runs Friday, July 8th and Saturday, July 9th. Over 70 quality antiques dealers inside the pavilion featuring a wide selection of furniture, jewelry, collectibles, and more. Over 40 artisans on the lawn presenting a wide variety of crafts.

Antique appraisals available both days from 10 am to 3 pm for a small fee.

Food available from Doug’s Fish Fry with delicious homemade baked goods for sale as well. More information: Facebook: Skaneateles Antique Show, web: www.skanantiqueshow.com, email: skanumc@gmail.com, or call: 315-685-5963.

Get Your Flea Fix on Rt. 96 | NYS Route 96, Owego, | Runs Friday July 8 and Saturday July 9 ,2016 on NYS Route 96 (96b) from the Owego village north thru Candor, Spencer, West Danby to Willseyville, NY. Indoor & outdoor flea markets w/vendors selling antiques, handmade items, crafts, household; roadside yard sales along Rt.96 and 96b. Food, BBQ, refreshments & fun.

Roots Rock World Funk Dance Party Benefit | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/08 Friday | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St., Ithaca | Kick-off fundraising event, a monstrous soul-rockin’ dance party! Reggae, Funk, Rock & Roll, African, Zydeco, and Hip Hop. Vist www.morningsongcsfarm.org for more information.

Masquerade Party Fundraiser | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 7/09 Saturday | American Legion Post 770, 4431 Seneca Rd., Trumansburg | For SPCA & Pet-to-Pet Program. Enjoy a delicious buffet dinner, music, karaoke and raffle drawings at a Masquerade Fundraiser benefitting the Tompkins County SPCA and the Pet To Pet Program. Info Contact Sara Stickane sassydoggroomingsalon@aol.com.

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Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd., Sterling, Every Weekend July 2 through August 14

What to expect while deep in the woods, in the town of Warwick, England? Better to ask yourself, what not to expect? The antics, while often merry, are unpredictable at best. Those who come for finely crafted wares are often overtaken by the thrill of the knights fiery joust. And many, seeking to revel in a fine ale, all too often become smitten by the generous young wenches, only to return again and again. Step into the realm of 1585 Warwick, England and live an unexpected adventure of your very own.

Sterling Renaissance Festival, Fraden Rd., Sterling | Join the crew for the 40th Anniversary Season at the Sterling Renaissance Festival! Show schedule, special events, and more at www. sterlingfestival.com. Stage acts this year include Warehouse Productions, Clan Tynker Circus, Draiku, Honor For Hyre, Jacques Ze Whipper, and many more. Info and tickets at sterlingfestival.com.

49th Annual Keuka Lake Art Show | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/09 Saturday | Village Square, , Hammondsport | Keuka Lake Art Association’s annual event. Info: 607-569-3564 Finger Lakes Lavender Festival | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 7/09 Saturday | Lockwood Lavender Farm, 1682 West Lake Road, Skaneateles | fingerlakeslavenderfestival.blogspot.com/ Ithaca’s Rotary Rally | 1:00 PM-, 7/10 Sunday | The Rink, 1767 East Shore Drive, Lansing | Get Your Motor Running and join up for the third annual ROTARY RALLY! The FUNdraising rally is open to everyone and is a real blast! Bring the kids, the dog, and the neighbors – all are invited to join in this fun activity.

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Homestead Farmer & Gardener Network Meeting: Ott Homestead | 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, 7/10 Sunday | Ott Family Homestead, , Trumansburg | More info: groundswellcenter.org/ events/

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rewery Ommegang has built up quite a reputation. Boasting a beautiful property, luscious scenery, and a mouthwatering selection of craft beer, Ommegang serves as an idyllic setting for concert-goers and foodies alike. This weekend, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals will be playing under the stars in Cooperstown to kick off their international tour in style.

It’s been a busy year for Harper. For the first time in a decade, he’s backed by four of his past band-mates—the Innocent Criminals. Though they played together throughout the ‘90s and ‘00s, rising tensions led to a falling out in 2008.

They haven’t recorded since. After a year of slowly reopening communication, then another year of writing, recording, and re-recording, Call What It Is released early in April of this year. The album is best described as eclectic; it ambles in reflection, wallows in despair, celebrates serenity, and still offers the relevant social commentary Harper has become lauded for.

Trayvon Martin, Ezell Ford, and Michael Brown—three names serve as a metonym for American racial injustice and police brutality in the title track,

5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/08 Friday | 171 Cedar Arts Ctr, 171 Cedar St, Corning | Art-lovers unite in 171’s Houghton Gallery for a display of ceramics, paintings, photography, and drawings submitted by regional artists. The reception to honor all of the exhibiting artists will include light refreshments, and is free and open to the public. All artwork will be available for purchase via silent auction during 171’s Artful fundraiser on Thursday, July 21. ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Catherine Montgomery: Illustrations. This collection of bright and beautiful illustrations by local artist Catherine Montgomery, feature intricate figurative and floral patterns in gleaming gilt images | www. benjaminpeters.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Rafe Harpending:

the clearest of the album’s political poetry: They shot him in the back/ Now it’s a crime to be black/So don’t act surprised/When it gets vandalized. Twelve albums, a threetime Grammy Award winner, and the singer-songwriter of Obama’s 2008 campaign song, Harper is an icon and one who readily wields his influence.

During the 2004 election, he participated in a national tour organized to encourage people throughout swing states to vote.

During the 2004 U.S. presidential election Harper participated in the Vote for Change concert tour organized to benefit Moveon.org and encourage people in the swing states to vote. He is part of the historic group of artists No Nukes as well, but more than protest music, Harper weaves his bluesy personal style of storytelling into the thread of the American experience as an invitation for listeners to dance, sing, laugh, cry, and shout alongside him. The fifth track on Call It What It Is, “Shine,” is the perfect summer dance number, head-tiled back, lungs open, and arms spread wide.

The Americana-folk rock of Harper and Co. will be the yin to the yang of opening act Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, who bring a dirty brand of Louisiana funk that’ll fill the sunset-sky with explosive horns, hip-hop jazz, and soul-squeezing downbeats. (Some may remember Trombone Shorty from last year’s Grassroots festival.) And for only $15 per person, you can secure a camping

Amateur Hour. A mix of geometric and stylized landscape illustrations. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Personal Abstractions: Paintings and Collages by Laura Glenn. | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Gabe Carraher, “En plein air”, featuring oils and watercolors done in California. | www.thecellardor.com Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Nature Made.

Don’t let modernization make you forget the taste of real food. | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Fifteen: Celebrating 15 Years of the Quilt Divas. In celebration of their 15th anniversary, the Quilt Divas present an exhibition of contemporary fiber art by 23 past and present member artists. | www.csma-ithaca. org

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals (Photo Provided) spot, a mere stone’s throw from the stage and continue the party late into the night, making the tricky organizing of DD’s and exhausted drives home irrelevant.

Better yet: head to Ommegang a day early to catch imaginative juggernauts String Cheese Incident and Twiddle as they begin the weekend of music. Expect festival vibes as the committed among us warm up to psychedelic bluegrass on Friday and cap

Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Barbara Mink will be showing works on paper at Decorum Too for the months of June and July. | 319-0944 or visit www. decorum-too.com Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman bring the lush expanse of the plant kingdom to the Commons.

Home Green Home | 215 East State/ MLK Street | Water & Life: Fernando Llosa and Ryan Curtis. An invitation into a spiritual experience of Nature, featuring two local nature-centered artists. | www.homegreenhome.com The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Conceivably Plausible/Heidi E. Marschner. This exhibit presents prints from the collections of Beauvais Lyons and Jennifer Scheuer that test the limits of belief. | www.ink-shop.org Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Anke Hoffstaetter will be displaying her abstract series at Lot 10 through August. Stop by enjoy

the weekend with Americana roots-rock on Saturday. With artists Norah Jones and the Lumineers rounding out July for Ommegang’s Summer Concert Series, this weekend of shows will be the epic blastoff to a summer of good music and great vibes in Cooperstown. • Brewery Ommegang is located at 656 County Highway 33 in Cooperstown.

some great food by Luna, exceptional cocktails and amazing local art. For more info visit www.ARTeFLX.com. | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Patty Porter’s oil paintings and Drawn Meditations show an up-close and intimate interpretation of landscapes, both real and imagined.

Both focus on color, depth, and texture, bringing the artist’s unique sensibilities into play. | www.padmacenter.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | The Map is Inside. A voyage of paintings and recycled creations by Alice Muhlback of Spirit and Kitsch.. | www. sarahspatisserie.com/ State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Bowman, Bowman, and Kather. This is a lively and colorful mix of photographs, digital manipu-

lations and sculpture by three gallery members during July. | www.soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Landscape Paintings of Ithaca Scenes by Nari Mistry Landscapes in watercolors, acrylics, oils and a few pastel paintings make up much of his work. His paintings reflect his fascination with the theme of water in the natural landscape.

Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Rose Gottlieb will be exhibiting select drawings. Rose graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied illustration. | www.wafflefrolicking.com

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Venturing from the most well known pyrotechnic centers, to remote enclaves where the cultural traditions of unique fireworks have lasted generations, the highly anticipated Passfire is the world’s first definitive documentary on fireworks. Travel to twenty-three countries on six continents to experience the planet’s most amazing fireworks and celebrate with the people that make them. Join in for a Q&A with the filmmakers, composer Robby Aceto, and an after party at the Ithaca Ale House.

The fabulous and much acclaimed guitarist, Del Ray, is a uke player and vocalist from Seattle who’s bringing her distinctive stylings and engaging performance to the Trumansburg Conservatory this Saturday. Del performs selections inspired by country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie. She’s sure to whip the crowd into a frenzy with her colorful dynamism and lucid toppings. Don’t miss out.

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s if we need more testament to the varied and impressive array of art emerging from upstate New York, this month the Community School of Music and Art (CSMA) showcases yet another genre: quilting. “Fifteen: Celebrating 15 Years of the Quilt Divas” is a show designed to do just as its title proclaims, celebrating fiber artists, who founded their local group the Quilt Divas in 2001 and have since continued to exhibit their love and fascination of the craft. The show contains two parts: a 15th Anniversary Challenge, in which artists created 15 x 15 inch works that reference the number, and numerous open format new works and favorites by the artists.

What interests me about this show is the artists’ bridging of the forced dichotomy of craft and fine art that unfortunately continues to exist in the art world of today. Historically (at least in more modern times), quilting has been viewed as a domestic art, potentially amusing but undermined, thanks to its inherent utility. But the Quilt Divas’ works, though some more traditional than others, all

aim to subvert previous notions, paying respect to the rich history of the craft while also experimenting with technique and purpose. Thus they inhabit two realms: at once domestic while also entering more fully into the institutional, so-called high art field.

Take In the Grate for example, a piece by Joan Lockburner Deuel that is raggedly shaped. Different colored fabrics and stitches add definition, emphasizing bends, and the entire piece has wired edges sculpted three-dimensional, the sides folded over and protruding forward.

Graphing lines only add to the newfound dimensionality: an artwork previously flat but eager for definition. Deuel’s work contains quilting aspects and materials, but it challenges normal two-dimensionality and quite literally breaks into a new realm.

A personal favorite and immediate standout in the show is Cross Section IX and X by Rebecca Howdeshell. Equally abstract, both are squares of white industrial felt, in which shapes have been formed with thick patches of stitches (also white) that populate the otherwise soft

material with texture. At first the shapes appear like simple abstractions, but with a step back their imagery becomes more clear, revealing spinal columns and the curve of a tail. The utter whiteness of the visual scenes, then, appears more fully appropriate, as white is also the color of bone, and felt and fiber, at least initially both natural materials, bode well with a natural subject.

But “Fifteen” as a whole contains handfuls of topics and visions from artists who each display their own unique ways of seeing. I Don’t Know! I’m Not Ready! by

‘Shakespeare’

in England … beginning as class warfare and lurching hideously out of control to where the rebels are slaughtering anyone who can read and write. (This is where the famous “first, let’s kill all the lawyers” speech comes from.)

In Act III, Shakespeare introduces Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, who will become Richard III in the final play in the series. What can you say about Richard III? Gleefully, exuberantly evil, hunchbacked and clubfooted and eternally beloved by theatergoers, Richard seems, to me, a pure archetype like the Joker in the Batman comics and films.

• • • The next day (June 23), I watched a complete run-through of Twelfth Night.

I read Twelfth Night a couple of years ago. And found it remarkably funny. It made me laugh out loud. Hard. Bloom, in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human writes, “Twelfth Night is surely the greatest of all Shakespeare’s pure comedies.”

A few days later (June 26), I watched Steve Ponton fine-tune specific scenes from the play.

At the core of it, the actors playing the lovers Duke Orsino and Viola are marvelous. Adam David is appropriately zany as Orsino, and Emily Loewus is adorable as the ostensible protagonist Viola, with all kinds of appealing, subtle, comedic touches.

And Daniel Kiely, Andrew Korzenik and Michael Doliner, the actors playing, respectively, Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Fabian, function as three

inspired clowns … sometimes I felt like I was watching animated cartoon characters, like Ren & Stimpy or something.

And Jack Sherman’s Malvolio was revelatory.

Critics often complain that the trick played upon Malvolio in the play is too cruel for comedy. It doesn’t bother me.

Malvolio reminds me of so many people I’ve worked with in the film industry— people who suck up to everyone above them on the food chain, and oppress everyone below them. So, actually, I enjoyed watching the evil bastard get his comeuppance.

• • • Somewhere, in a parallel universe, I’ll get a chance to use all the interviews I recorded at the Marine Park rehearsals.

But, as I’m running out of room here, I’ll conclude with a few words on the production by director Steve Ponton.

At the end of four days of non-stop work, he sat down at a picnic table by the Cayuga Inlet and told me …

“I think we’ve got two great productions …

“Twelfth Night is hilariously funny, but it’s also a very rich and layered play. It’s not just comedy. There’s romance, and there’s hints of tragedy. There’s a lot of interesting dynamics going on between the characters … on top of the crazy comedy of mistaken identities, and twins you can’t tell apart, and the drunken pranks that Sir Toby is playing...

“It’s got so many different tones and moods to it … from wild comedy to

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Henry VI, parts 1,2, and 3 are among the first plays that Shakespeare wrote.

Shakespeare was young when he wrote these plays; he was 25 to 27 years old.

The Shakespearean scholar, Harold Bloom, in his magisterial book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, maintains that these plays are relatively crude efforts for Shakespeare, that he was so young he was imitating the work of the contemporary Elizabethan era playwright Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, who was a bit of a rough customer, a street fighter and a counterintelligence agent in the Elizabethan-era secret service, wrote blood-and-thunder, somewhat bombastic plays, and Bloom suggests that the young Shakespeare was riffing on them.

Regardless, though the plays may be a bit rough-edged, they are wildly vigorous … and when they were first produced they were wildly popular.

I worked as a story artist and scriptwriter in the film industry for three decades … so I have three-act formula beaten into me. And, with Henry VI, with three plays condensed into one, I tended to view each play as one of three acts.

In Act I, Shakespeare, incredibly, gives us a portrait of Joan of Arc, as she leads the French in driving the English out of France.

(England occupied France in the previous installment, Henry V.) In Act II, Shakespeare gives us the terrifying Jack Cade, who leads a rebellion 20

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Joan Lockburner Deuel behind her piece “In The Grate” (Photo: Diane Duthie)

Alice Grant depicts a playful scene of foxes playing music as a black bear and a crow sing along. Safe in My Mother’s Arms and Nesting, both by Donna Faivre-Roberts, are surprising as they are sculptures that seem reference to classic mythology and visions of intimate motherhood. Noel Keith’s The Distance in Their Eyes is a larger piece, created using a more usual quilting square method, that contains a spectral of colors from bright yellows to the darkest of reds.

The shapes and shades merge with one another, creating abstract eyes that look onward.

The quilts in the 15th Anniversary Challenge are also engaging and diverse in how artists chose to go about the theme.

Braggadocio 15, another work by Noel Keith, is straightforward as it explores the shape and nuance of the number 15 fifteen times in braggadocio font. Scene 15 by Kristin Thompson leaves a little more up to the imagination: a sunset watched at a lake.

Its title adds intrigue as it implies there is more happening, a narrative within which this scene is only one part. Sally Dutko’s 15 Years of Creative Spark is also worth mentioning, with its intricate design and stitch work, all centered around a middle focal point of what looks to be a startlingly immense night sky.

All in all, “Fifteen” is enjoyable to see, whether the works are appreciated for their techniques or the depth of thought that lies between the stitches.

Fifteen is on display at the CSMA, 330 E. MLK/ State St., through July 29.

moments that are very moving … and moments that are very disturbing. So it’s a really rich play and a great viewing experience.

“And regarding Henry VI: I’ve been banging the drum for these history plays for some time … because they’re such a great epic story.

“And you don’t get to see any of the Henry VI plays done very often. And you certainly don’t get to see all three of them compressed into one evening. So it’s going to be a unique experience. There’s so many exciting moments in this play … so many fascinating characters … like Queen Margaret and Richard III appearing for the first time … so much action … so much political maneuvering going on … you’ve really got this Game of Thrones heating up to a boiling point …

“And I think it has a lot of resonance for modern audiences … especially in the Jack Cade rebellion … where you have this grassroots uprising of common people rebelling against the nobility they feel are oppressing them. It feels very modern. And we wouldn’t be surprised to hear of this kind of thing happening today.

“And it’s all going to set up what happens in the final play in the history series with Richard III. “Plus … there’s a ridiculous amount of sword fighting …” • To purchase tickets online, and for more information about Ithaca Shakespeare and its upcoming shows, visit.ithacashakespeare. org

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is accepting applications for the following position and exam: Parking Lot Attendant: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Parking Division. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website. Salary: $15.29/hour. Application Deadline: July 20, 2016. Electrical Inspector #62-973: Currently, there is one vacancy in Planning, Building & Economic Development. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website. Exam Date: September 10, 2016. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 East Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850, (607)274-6539 www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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