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t its May 23 meeting the Town of Ithaca council passed a contribution of $7,500 to help double down on the Six Mile Creek gorge rangers program.

The same amount was put up by the Tompkins County Legislature last month to help the city fund approximately eight hours a day of two-person patrols in an area that sometimes becomes a party hot spot during the summer months.

A petition started by Logan Bell to “Free the Gorges” had garnered over 200 signatures by Monday’s meeting; numerous speakers emphasized their position, stenciled on T-shirts, that “Swimming is Not a Crime.”

Jeremy Veverka admitted that swimming is a crime in the local code, but argued that “cliffjumping is the big danger” and that Gorge swimming advocates no signage in the (Photo: Josh Brokaw) gorge addressed that particular activity.

Veverka, Bell, and others speaking up said they were not necessarily opposed to the gorge rangers and their educational mission; just that people swimming shouldn’t be targeted versus those who were bringing down loudspeakers, cliffjumping, and otherwise make Second Dam a party spot.

Town supervisor Bill Goodman praised the speakers’ ideas on a few occasions, and encouraged them to take their concerns to the city’s Common Council, which holds the regulatory power over Six Mile Creek—the city drinking supply.

Neighbors of the gorge spoke about the many years of inadequate efforts to enforce order in Six Mile Natural Area.

The gorge rangers, a program started in 1984, have no legal authority to issue tickets. Their role is purely advisory and they must call for law enforcement assistance if they need it. • – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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Noah Demarest of STREAM Collaborative was clear in saying that the intent for 201 was not to “fit into the character of the street” as it stands. Next to Golder’s home is an apartment building owned by Josh Lower, then the next two buildings are the Grandview and 215 College Avenue, a 16room apartment house bought last year for over $5 million and likely to be redeveloped by a John Novarr-led group.

“It’s unfortunate we’re the first movers,” Fox said. “If you look at it in reverse, if we were the last project to be developed on College Avenue everyone would be thanking us. If all the buildings met the envelope that was proposed this would be the perfect piece to fit right in.”

he five-story, 76-bed building proposed for 201 College Avenue by developer Todd Fox sits at a corner at the end of Collegetown’s MU-1 zoning district, which was created in 2014 and allows developers to build up to 70 feet by letter of the ordinance.

The planning and development board held a public hearing on the project at its May 24 meeting, and had to decide whether Fox’s proposal had submitted enough information about its environmental significance and if the board should recommend a couple of variances regarding entrances and setbacks for approval to the board of zoning appeals.

The discussion that ensued over the project amounted to a wholesale philosophical inquiry into how new development Present conditions at 201 College Ave. including the three spruce trees. should fit into the current (Photo: Josh Brokaw) landscape—should it follow only zoning laws?

What possibilities of future Board member John Schroeder noted development should be considered? that historic resources on the block, Neil Golder, who’s lived in the house including the Grandview and the Poat 203 College Avenue for 44 years, was on family-owned building at 140 College hand again to present over 300 signatures Avenue across the street from 201, “are he’d collected from bypassing pedestrians supposed to be there forever.” in favor of saving three approximately 70“I think this building will be alone for a foot tall spruce trees in front of the current long, long time,” Golder said. “It will stand building at 201 College. out as out of place.” “[Students] had comments like ‘We “I’m kind of with Neil. I’m thinking like living in houses; this is a charming part the street is not going to change any time of Collegetown,’” Golder said. “I think this should be worth something, though I know soon,” David Beer, whose family owns the it will be criticized.” continued on page 7 Before the public hearing, architect

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What are you Grilling on Memorial Day in Stewart Park?

Theater at the Festival

New Schedule and New Locations

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he 40th Ithaca Festival will be “Mixing It Up” this year from June 3 to 5 with new artists, a new stage location, and a new time for the Ithaca Festival parade.

In a change from previous years, the parade steps off at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 3, from Cayuga and Lewis streets with Mayor Svante Myrick, Sheriff Ken Lansing, and IPD Chief John Barber leading the charge and the Ithaca Fire Department closing it out, with dancers, dancing Volvos, musicians, and all your favorite marchers in between.

Festival artist Rahmel Mack used the idea of the pinwheel for this year’s festival art, because when you spin a pinwheel “the four elements make one solid element.”

“I thought about what would make an awesome festival in Ithaca,” Mack said, “and it’s love, the diverse people, music, art of all kinds—painting, drawing, sculpture, glass, dance. I wanted to show love to every culture that represents Ithaca for it to truly be a good festival, a mixed-up festival that has a mixed batch of people. And there has to be love, because without love there’s no fun.”

Mack called on longtime collaborator Jay Stooks, the 2014 Ithaca Festival artist, to create the background for this year’s art.

“I always liked his perspective of how he sees Ithaca, when you look at the library mural,” Mack said of Stooks, “and I wanted that style in the background.”

Mack and Stooks, as Ave Mack and Cz Nutz will be playing with Izzy B as Empire Kings on Sunday evening at 5:40 p.m. at the stage in Markles Flats on Court Street across from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), with The Gunpoets closing out that evening there. The new stage will be accompanied by a beer garden on Court Street, featuring Ithaca Beer brews and Six Mile Creek wines.

“I’m pretty hyped about it,” Mack said of the new festival footprint. “I think it’ll be interesting to get that feel of Stewart Park, more of a loose feel. You can get that feeling of grass and carefreeness on Sunday.”

The 2016 GIAC Festival will be mixing it up with the Ithaca Festival, with talent shows, interactive art spaces, and kid-friendly acts like The Nate and Kate Kids Show (11 a.m. Sunday) playing in the Markles Flat park. Pony rides will also be available on Court Street, along with a kids’ area in the GIAC playground. On Saturday night, Mosaic Foundation (4:50 p.m.) and The Sim Redmond Band (6:15 p.m.) will be closing out a full day of music in Markles Flats.

The Ithaca Festival will also have full use of downtown for the first time since the Commons reconstruction began in 2013. When you end up down at the

“We’ve got corn, chicken, and lamb ribs going.”

—Kaiya & Miya with friends

“Beef tips and gravy, and we’ll have apple pie in a little bit.”

—Kibbles

“Chicken, steak, hamburger, hot dogs, greens - the usual. We get our whole family together here every year. ” —Leroy Barrett

“Mainly veggies - corn, asparagus, veggie burgers.”

—Matt Finegan

“Burgers, dogs, zucchini, and some stranger corn left on the grill. ” ­—Spencer Carr with friends

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Dancer in the Ithaca Festival parade. (File photo)

Bernie Milton pavilion on the Commons on Friday eve after the parade, and The Horse Flies will be playing a set at 8:30 p.m. Other Bernie Milton headliners include Driftwood, the Wassa Pan African Ensemble, and Samite on Saturday evening, with El Rumbon, New York Rock, and The Blind Spots playing there to close out Sunday evening.

A full schedule of buskers will be entertaining on the Commons all weekend, including Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy, and Ithaca Community Circus on Friday and Sunday. Harpist Anna O’Connell, string band Blue Sky Mission Club and the Fall Creek Brass Band will be entertaining on Saturday eve. New Roots Spoken Word & Theater and the Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus will be there on Sunday afternoon.

Another beer garden will be in Bank Alley, where patrons of age can buy brews and drink them while catching the music, just like the Summer Concert Series.

In DeWitt Park, dancers, singers, poets, puppets, and drummers will do their thing all weekend. June & Chandani Belly Dance Troupe, a favorite of this paper, will perform at 2 p.m. on Saturday, but swing or waltz or samba by at any hour for your words, music, and rhythm fix starting at 4 p.m. on Friday with an African dance and drum workshop through Sunday evening, when the Ithaca Community Sing starts at 6 p.m.

For comedy fans, at Cinemapolis, there’s a Comedy on the Commons show on Saturday at 4 p.m. and the Cosmic Joke Collective will be at Lot 10 on Saturday from 7 p.m.

Check out the parking lot next to Press Bay Alley on Saturday, where Ithaca Underground will have an all-day lineup fuzzing and slamming and rapping and math rocking.

Craft vendors will be set up on Cayuga Street, and food vendors will be on State Street between Cayuga and Geneva all weekend. • See ithacafestival.org or get the mobile app at m.ithacafestival.org.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

o many people the approach of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit represents the set up for a bad dream, especially if you are inclined to put yourself in the shoes of the actor. Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour insists that the performer find the script on stage in a manila envelope and see it there for the first time. He also involves members of the audience in the proceeding; you don’t just watch, you share the delight of discomfort.

As the play becomes more well known it will be more difficult to find actors who have never heard of it before and have no idea what to expect, but the Cherry Arts performances this past January were New York premieres, so no one on or off stage had a clue. Ithaca Festival audience will get a chance to have this edgy experience on Saturday, June 4 at 6 p.m. at Acting Out NY in Center Ithaca with Dean Robinson on stage and Sunday, June 5 at 5 p.m. at Cinemapolis with Darcy Rose performing.

Along with the envelope the actor finds a vial of deadly poison. The MS of the play instructs an audience member to stir the poison into one of two glasses of water on stage. The politics of the play begin to become apparent: a bystander is potentially involved in a murder.

Various audience members are invited on stage and assigned animal roles that seem lifted from a parable of uncertain origin. Eventually they are instructed to imitate other animals, regardless of sense, and White Rabbit is suddenly referred to as the Red Rabbit.

The actor assumes the role of Soleimanpour, referring to the playwright in the third person, in an increasingly labyrinthine metafictional narrative. He explores the tradition of the theatre as a representation of reality, with the implication of misrepresentation and all that this infers when you live in a country like Iran.

The tone of the play and its methodology reminds one of Tom Stoppard’s self-conscious manipulation of identity and history, but channeled through the landscape and characters of Lewis Carroll and with the ominous mood in the humor that one inescapably associates with Russians. • – Bill Chaisson editor@ithacatimes.com

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icole LaFave was elected to the board of education for the Ithaca City School District on May 17 with 661 write-in votes, the only new member to be elected to the board this year, along with re-elected incumbents Eldred Harris, Robert Ainslie, and Brad Grainger.

LaFave and a friend, Meryl Phipps, posted a campaign page on Facebook on May 13 after Phipps sent a message telling LaFave she would be a “good voice for all the kids” on the ICSD board. LaFave, an Ithaca College graduate, is employed

by Cornell’s Public Service Center, is a member of the Community Police Board, and is mother of three children, two of whom attend Beverly J. Martin Elementary. The Ithaca Times interviewed LaFave shortly after her election was certified by the ICSD board.

Ithaca Times: So what made you want to be on the Ithaca school board?

Nicole LaFave: I’ve always engaged in social justice work since my Ithaca College days, and we’re seeing the disparities in wealth and income are huge between white, black, and Hispanic families. Your professional career is very reflective of what your higher education is, unless you’re maybe an actress. We tend to isolate the miracle incidences like Oprah Winfrey and we’re like, ‘Any kid can do it – she came from nothing.’ The fact you can pinpoint a number of folks who were able to come from nothing to talk about screams there’s a problem.

As part of being on the board I actually want to look at the equity report.

We have 90 plus percent graduating—how many are college-ready? How many were pushed through because of [No Child Left Behind]? … I was born and raised in Harlem, and thinking about my experiences at IC—so many students and roommates made it out of the ‘hood. a) Because Harlem wasn’t that bad and b) I’m not that exemplary. We have to be fighting that stereotype that’s branding certain kids as throwaways.

IT: Beyond making our children ‘career-ready,’ what do you think is the power of education?

NF: When you think about the American Revolution and the formation of this country, education has never been stated as a basic human right, it’s always been a privilege. Men with land were allowed to be educated. Women weren’t.

Slaves, obviously, couldn’t even read. It’s a dangerous tool to the one percent if we give it to anyone, in my mind—that’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just facts. There’s a small percentage thriving, and once people realize what capitalism breeds, which

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NF: I live in Fall Creek and did open enrollment at BJM. I thought it was an amazing school. It’s a warm, welcoming environment, a very diverse environment.

I think of Ithaca as incredibly racially segregated—as well as class-divided—and when I went there I didn’t feel that. It seemed a better representation of the world we live in. My children are biracial and it was important for me for them to go to a school reflective of who they were and not to make them feel like the other.

Going to IC, most times I was the only brown person in my class and didn’t want that experience for my daughter or my son.

IT: In a Q&A on your election Facebook page, you expressed hesitations about the district’s Chromebooks for all students program. Can you explain your thoughts on that?

NF: It’s got pros and cons.

They’re obviously a great resource for children to have, but I question how much time the child in front of the screen and how much time it’s taking away from face-to-face interaction. I wonder how many will be able to use them paycheck if they’re going home with from being the kids—there are plenty working of students who don’t have class and internet access at home. working IT: Are there other class district programs or people philosophies you’d like to take scared another look at? of being NF: I’d like to take a closer look middle class at the tracking system and see if there because all these are alternative solutions. I understand subsidies get taken away. there are plenty of parents who are are There’s lots of people pro-tracking because it puts their children still just barely making it, at an advanced level and I understand the especially in this town where importance of [Advanced Placement] rent is so damn high. courses to get into higher institutions.

IT: Are there any I think at the same time it’s putting particular initiatives or students who are on a remedial track emphases you’d like to focus at a disadvantage because you’re not on for ICSD? allowed to exit the track once you’re NF: It’d be great for the on it. You might have a student who’s school district to look at not much good in algebra, but the diversity of its arts able to kick butt in geometry and and theater programs, they don’t get the opportunity. and ask if diverse students In the younger grades they have aren’t engaged in these advanced math groups. for any reason besides It’d be good if we could take personal interest—if it’s advanced students to work with something they don’t see those who may not be excelling, themselves in. use them as a resource. Kids can relate I can remember getting better to kids better than adults can. We into an acting program as a kid should make those who and it wasn’t Nicole LaFave (Photo: Josh Brokaw) aren’t excelling part of a path my the group and not isolate mom was them, just because they’re willing to let learning at a different rate as other kids. • me move further on, because I was in the first generation going to college. I grew up – Josh Brokaw in New York City and had never been to a reporter@ithacatimes.com play, until it was accessible in a school trip.

IT: You have two children at BJM now. is inequality, we’ll have a revolt.

We keep singing this song, our kids can be whatever they want to be, and it keeps us all feeling like we’re not trying hard enough. I know a lot of people trying hard every day and they just can’t get a break.

There are a lot of middle class folks one

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Ups&Downs ▶ Aging Info, What can long-term and endof-life care look like in cohousing and other intentional communities, for persons of any age? Long-time EcoVillage residents Deena Freed and Martha Stettinius attended the U.S. Cohousing Association’s conference “Aging Better Together” in Salt Lake City May 19-21, and they look forward to sharing what they learned with EcoVillagers and other interested groups.

Thursday, June 9, 7 - 9 p.m. at EcoVillage FRoG Common House 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 ▶ Artists in Schools, If you are an artist interested in working in the public schools, BOCES is doing information sessions on subjects that can guide you in your programming. RSVP is required. Feel free to e-mail Sunshine Miller at smiller@tstboces.org. ) CAP has grants for “Arts Education” that are due in November for 2017 residencies. All information is on artspartner.org. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of May 25-31 include: 1) Home for Women Needing Place to Stay 2) Man Arrested for Attempted Murder in Candor 3) Ithaca Police Investigating Fatal Crash 4) Cornell No Longer Recognizes Psi Upsilon Frat 5) Hear the Cider Boom For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Need: Follow-through in Varna Give By Tasting V C arna has only come to the attention of the Ithaca Times recently. The hamlet is in the southwest corner of Dryden, the largest town in the county, but its location directly adjacent to the town of Ithaca and half a mile down the road from the agricultural campus of Cornell University has the effect of drawing it into the orbit of metropolitan Ithaca.

Anyone who passes through the settlement on Rt. 366 (Dryden Road) on their way from Ithaca to Rt. 13 can be forgiven for being a little puzzled about the appearance of Varna. Like a lot of hamlets and villages in upstate New York, it has the look of having contracted into itself slightly. That is, you can tell that there was once more to it than what you are seeing as you drive through.

This is not say that there isn’t anything in Varna. There is a community center, a couple of auto repair places, the offices of a financial consulting firm, and a laundromat. The site of the laundromat, at the junction of Rt. 366 with Freese and Mount Pleasant roads, appears to have once had more businesses in it. In any case, it does not add up to a functional commercial center; anyone who lives here is going to have go elsewhere to find food and other amenities.

It is primarily a residential hamlet and includes a wide variety of residences: single-family homes, apartment complexes, single-family homes

converted to apartments, and a large trailer park. Some of the homes are older, distinguished-looking, and well cared for; others are not any of those things.

The Town of Dryden commissioned the development of a comprehensive plan for Varna, which, after a period of public input, was assembled and adopted by the town board in 2012.

The plan includes suggestions for development at specific location in the hamlet that are deemed under-used or unused. Residential developments of a particular densities and styles are suggested for four different locations.

The two larger developments include mixed-use components, but suggested build-out at the junction of Freese/ Mt. Pleasant roads and Rt. 366 includes over 20,000 square feet of “mixed use,” which in this context seems to mean “not necessarily residential.” Although a fair amount of space is devoted to describing the various suggested residential developments, no space is devoted to the “mixed use” development.

Our community newspaper, the Dryden Courier, has followed the path of a proposed development at 902 Dryden Road in Varna (on the corner of Forest Home Drive) through the town planning process. The site is not one of the four identified for residential development in the comprehensive plan. One of those is about 100 yards down Forest Home

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

hances are if someone asked you to save twenty-five cents a day for a year and donate it to a program that helps feed children, you would do it.

The Share Our Strength organization asks you. In return they invite you to a big party, called Taste of the Nation.

Taste of the Nation is an annual fundraiser for Share Our Strength. It features contributions from culinary sponsors in an evening of food and beverage tastings.

The event is held each June in fifty cities across North America. Share Our Strength links the events, but they are essentially autonomous by community. The beneficiaries are anti-hunger groups local to each community. Ithaca’s event benefits the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, and smaller community groups providing healthy meals and snacks to Ithaca schoolchildren.

Ithaca is one of the smallest cities to host a Taste of the Nation event. Most cities our size don’t have the culinary strength. A big contributing contingent of local eateries gives credence to the popular canard that Ithaca has more restaurants per capita than any city in the U.S. Our regional wineries are also a major presence and the event is practically a wine tour in one room.

Additionally, there are many local microbreweries and artisanal food producers.

One gets the idea that, along with restaurateurs, Ithaca has a large per capita population of do-gooders, both organizing the event and supporting it.

It is not a cheap ticket, by Ithaca standards, at $100. But this is where the speculative math of twenty-five cents per day applies: that’s really all it takes to buy a ticket each year. Considered that way, it’s a pretty do-able figure.

It is a pretty snazzy event for Ithaca.

Not everyone, but a lot of people take

the evening as an excuse to dress up a little (a rare enough thing in Ithaca) - not extravagantly, but maybe at the level of a wedding. Well, maybe not an Ithaca wedding. But, you know, a normal wedding.

It’s a special, fun, and exciting night.

Local musicians The Destination provide music. They’re a big band, with multiple vocalists and a horn section, playing a selection of hits and standards.

The band starts when people have finished eating but not necessarily drinking (there’s that wedding aspect again). There is dancing. It goes until 10:30 or so.

The event starts at 6:30 on Tuesday, June 14, at the Athletics and Events Center at Ithaca College. (There is 5:30 admission for V.I.P. patrons, at $150 a ticket.)

If you go, and maybe gain a few calories, no problem: you can burn them off five days later, on Sunday, June 19, at another premier Ithaca do-gooder event, the Peter DeMott Peace Trot, at the Cornell Plantations.

This is the seventh annual race (for the serious competitor; “run, trot, walk, stroll, roll, or crawl” for all others, say the organizers) in support of local peace efforts, and in memory of Peter DeMott, a great peace activist, community member, and family man (the event is held on Father’s Day each year, led by Peter’s wife, Ellen Grady, and their four daughters). It benefits the Ithaca Catholic Worker, an historical peace and justice group where Peter worked.

The group maintains a house of hospitality on South Plain Street named for Peter, and is currently active in the campaign to stop drone warfare operating out of Hancock Field in Syracuse.

More so than most places, Ithaca makes it easy to do good and feel good as a community. Get out this month and join in. •

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The Next Collegetown?

Dear Mr. Brokaw, Thank you for reporting on Varna’s recovery from a long sleep. The wolves have pounced, and your article seemed not to pick up the howls of concern.

Mr. [Jim] Skaley [of the Varna Advisory Board] asked for affordable single-family housing and cites the 1061 [Dryden Road] proposal as sapping consideration of more beneficial owner occupied housing. His verbal comments described the project as “terrible”.

My letter begged the board to consider the “established character” of the parcel of land. My single-family home would be inundated with constant noise, industrial6

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What safeguards do I have for my safety? Currently break-ins in dense Collegetown are common.

Prof. [David] Weinstein’s [of the Varna Advisory Board and the town planning board] letter is copied below, reminding you that the “community voiced complete opposition to this proposal, pointing out a load of specific problems.”

Dr. Skaley and Prof. Weinstein have served long and with great dedication to the Varna community. This is our home.

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Some Long-lived Retail

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hile we often use this space to update the community on new initiatives and developments in downtown Ithaca, now turns out to be an excellent time to recognize some institutions that have been here for a long, long time.

This Friday, June 3, Handwork (102 West State Street) will be celebrating their 40th anniversary. From 5 to 8 p.m., they’ll have pottery demonstrations, storewide sales, giveaways, wine tastings, and, of course, a birthday cake.

We had a chance to sit down and chat with Jill Hoffman, an assistant manager at Handwork and a great local artist in her own right, about the store’s enduring place at the heart of the downtown Ithaca business community. “Handwork wouldn’t be as successful as it is today without the 300-plus artisans who have been members over the years. They are not only crucial to the day-to-day operation of the store but are involved in long-range planning about what direction the store is headed.

Being a cooperative, we are well suited to grow and adapt to the changing downtown environment. When we gain new members, we also gain new perspectives and ideas.”

Right on the tail of Handwork’s birthday announcement, we learned that The Bookery (Dewitt Mall, 215 North Cayuga Street) is also in their 40th year of enriching the cultural life of the Ithaca community. Quips founder Jack Goldman, “Anyone who chooses to do the same thing for 40 years either must lack imagination or must take pleasure in what they do. For myself, I prefer the latter explanation.”

Goldman also gives credit to his many talented employees over the years, “none with more ability and commitment than Gina and Gabriela, who are my present colleagues.”

These two upcoming anniversaries got us wondering about how many other downtown merchants have been around for four decades or longer. We’re well aware of the national statistics about the staying power of retail businesses: according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, 50 percent of retailers close within the first year and 50 percent of those that do make it past the one-year mark close within three years. Even large, national businesses outside the famously mercurial realm of bricks-and-mortar retail are hardly immune to aging and death: a recent study from the Santa Fe Institute found that the average lifespan for a publicly traded company is ten years.

It was a very pleasant surprise, then, that a cursory scan of the 1976 Ithaca phone directory—lovingly archived at the Tompkins County Public Library— elicited a robust list of familiar stores and

restaurants: American Crafts by Robbie Dein (then known as People’s Pottery), Book Sale Gallery, Bool’s, Café Dewitt, Contemporary Trends, Hal’s, Homespun, Ithaca Cayuga Optical, Ithaca Guitar Works, McNeil’s (which moved to Lansing for a while in between, but happily returned downtown in 2012), Moosewood, Pete’s Cayuga Bar, Schooley’s, Simeon’s, State Smoke Shop, The Chanticleer, and The Outdoor Store. Beyond these, we are sure that we—or the directory—missed a few, and for this we apologize!

Among the aforementioned, the prize for Longest-Lived Downtown Ithaca Business goes to Bool’s Flower Shop (209 North Aurora Street). When they opened their doors in 1894, Grover Cleveland was president, motion picture film had just been patented, and five cents could buy you a nice ham and egg sandwich in most cities. Today, 122 years later, Bool’s is as relevant as ever. Explains Doreen Culver Foss, who has owned the shop since 2006, “We’ve been able to be a part of the community for this long by providing topquality floral products and outstanding customer service. Plus, our building is in a great location both for walk-in traffic and as a central hub for deliveries.”

We at the Downtown Ithaca Alliance spend a lot of time thinking about the recruitment and retention of new retail businesses. We’re proud of the fact that last year we cut ribbons for no fewer than 12 stores and restaurants on the newly rebuilt Ithaca Commons pedestrian mall and in our surrounding pedestrian-friendly business district. These new businesses are essential to the vitality, diversity, and economic strength of our downtown.

Thanks in large part to them, our groundfloor vacancy rate is at a record low of 3.5 percent and our tourist footfalls are higher than ever. But the same can—and must—be said of our veteran retailers.

Without them, downtown Ithaca simply wouldn’t be the vibrant and beloved social and commercial hub that it is. So, to all our beloved merchants who have shown remarkable perseverance and resilience over the decades—and even centuries—we salute you! • Editorial contin u ed from page 6

Drive and the suggested build-out is larger than the 10-unit complex proposed by Modern Living Rentals.

This development was bitterly opposed by some immediate neighbors and more technically opposed by Cornell Plantations for impinging on the flood plain of Fall Creek. Although it was not one of the sites singled out for development in the comprehensive

May sky over Lansing as seen from Trumansburg. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

plan, it was in an area designated for redevelopment. After several meetings of both the planning and town boards, the latter approved the project (modified to reflect the Plantations’s concerns) unanimously.

The northeast corner of the Freese Road/Rt. 366 intersection has been filled extensively, covering vastly more of the Fall Creek floodplain than what was proposed by Modern Living Rentals.

The filling has already been done and yet we are unaware of any comment from Plantations. The “Tiny Timbers” residences that are planned for the site, as illustrated on Brian Crandall’s Ithacating blog, are rustic-looking homes that look like they belong in a Rocky Mountain ski resort town, not in a fairly thickly settled part of Tompkins County. Furthermore, there has been no mention of anything other than residential use of this parcel, even though the comprehensive plan suggests mixed use.

A proposed apartment complex at 1061 Dryden Road is up the hill east of the hamlet past the railroad bridge. This is outside the area considered the hamlet by the comprehensive plan. While not particularly far up Rt. 366, there are no sidewalks on the state highway and the recreational way that skirts one side of the parcel is not complete down to Mount Pleasant Road. That is, you can’t really walk into the hamlet from there.

Frankly, with nothing other than residential development proposed four years after the plan was accepted, there is very little to walk into the hamlet for.

The plan, which for all its fanciness, didn’t really do much more than make suggestions about residential development, isn’t being followed anyway. The plan, which had public input, didn’t really suggest a sustainable community and now that proposals aren’t even following the plan, there seems little hope that Varna will be anything other than a more densely populated suburban area near Cornell, but in the town of Dryden.

Neither the town nor the residents seemed that interested in doing much more than buffing up the quality of the residential landscape. The 901 Dryden Road and Tiny Timbers projects are at best oblique responses to the Varna plan and the 1061 Dryden Road ignores it entirely.

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Grandview, added. “The developers can certainly make an amazing building that’s more in context and a little softer than what’s proposed.”

Fox responded to the sentiment that his project would stand alone during the public hearing, an unusual move for a developer: “I don’t think that’s going to be the case,” Fox said, noting that Novarr has also bought properties on Catherine Street.

“This area is going to get developed in the very, very near future.”

Schroeder said he had been “doing some soul searching” on the project.

“Zoning doesn’t set the vision. The plan sets the vision,” Schroeder said. “The Collegetown plan talks forcefully over and over again about graceful transitions and contextuality … Honestly, this building really is in isolation.”

Schroeder asked that the massing be broken down, with stepbacks to avoid the potential of creating an “oppressive tunnellike atmosphere” on College Avenue like that exists on Dryden Road.

Fox replied that land acquisition costs make the project “no longer viable” if the board requests taking off a floor or removing units for stepbacks.

“It’s either one or the other,” Demarest replied to the discussion. “You’re either getting the canyon effect or there are historic buildings with setbacks. There’s some natural variation in the streetscape, which in other words is not going to create a canyon effect if this is a transition zone.”

The board will further consider the fate of the 201 College Avenue project at its June 28 meeting. •

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ny veteran Deadhead who has upgraded to an RV and buys pre-sale tickets after a youth of hitching rides and sneaking into venues can dig the Farm Sanctuary’s 30-year trip so far.

“We used to be out in the parking lot in our VW van, selling vegan hot dogs at Grateful Dead shows,” said Farm Sanctuary president and co-founder Gene Baur. “Last year the Grateful Dead had their 50-year Fare Thee Well tour, and they had vegan hot dogs for sale at Soldier Field. It’s a statement of how far things have come, how normalized eating plantbased is.”

Origin Story

Farm Sanctuary began in 1986 as a natural extension of the work Baur and his then-wife Lorri Houston were doing, documenting nasty conditions in stockyards and factory farms. They were taking pictures of a pile of dead sheep in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and one dehydrated sheep raised her head. Finding that sheep, named Hilda, a place to stay led to opening what is now a 175-acre farm west of Watkins Glen. There, some 500 farm animals live their lives without the pressures of being used in agricultural processes.

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From its grass roots beginnings, Farm Sanctuary has grown into a substantial not-for-profit with a three-prong missions animal rescue, educating people about agricultural practices and plant-based living, and advocating through legal and electoral channels for laws regulating some farming practices. They have partnered with organizations like the Humane Society of the United States and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to work on various ballot initiatives and petition drives. In 2002, Farm Sanctuary was part of an effort that won a ban on pig “gestation crates” in Florida; in 2008 they won, with over 63 percent of the vote, a ban on crates for veal and hog gestation and small “battery” cages for laying hens in California after a campaign in which both sides raised more than $8 million.

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On their website, Farm Sanctuary asks supporters to sign petitions supporting a ban on shipments of live animals, to close a federal meat research center in Omaha, and to pass more stringent federal laws on various slaughterhouse practices.

More Sanctuaries

In 1993 Farm Sanctuary opened a 300-acre West Coast operation in northern California, and in 2011 took over management of Animal Acres, a 26-acre sanctuary in Acton, California founded by Houston. In 2017 Tracey and Jon Stewart will be opening their 12-acre farm in Monmouth County, New Jersey as Farm Sanctuary’s fourth location. “Tiny houses” are under construction near the Watkins Glen site, increasing the number of visitors the farm can host for weekend getaways and conferences.

Farm Sanctuary’s growth has accompanied a more mainstream awareness of factory farming and of vegan living; its mission sits at the confluence, Baur believes, of three major movements: for animal rights, for better health, and for the environment.

“From personal experience, people are seeing that eating animal foods makes us sick, and a lot of people are tired of getting sick,” Baur said. “There’s a lot more

awareness of the environmental impact, of livestock’s long shadow as one of the top contributors to climate change … and you see McDonald’s doesn’t want to purchase eggs from hens in these small cages anymore. There’s a massive shift from the cruelest practice to getting people to recognize these are living, feeling creatures that do suffer in the production of meat, milk, and eggs.”

Farm Sanctuary is increasing its focus on helping people find their way to a plant-based lifestyle. Design of a new master site plan for the Watkins Glen farm, based on permaculture principles, is underway; part of the plan is to have a production garden to show visitors how to grow some of those plants for their own sustenance. Farm Sanctuary has rebranded its internet and social media presences on vegan living as “V-Lish” and in April 2015 Baur released his second book, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life, a how-to guide for plant-based living with more than 100 recipes.

“There’s more information about the solution of eating a plant-based diet,” Baur said. “Over the past three years vegan awareness has just taken off, and one of the reasons is there’s more and more tasty vegan food available. We like to think of human beings as being high minded and conscientious, but it helps if something tastes good. Even Ben & Jerry’s has a

couple of vegan ice cream flavors now and there’s all kinds of alternatives to cow’s milk and meatless meats widely available in mainstream grocery stores. Businesses are responding to this desire to be healthy and it’s snowballing.”

Out On the Farm

Imagine a very large party, where you know the host and nobody else. She is gracious enough to take you around the room and introduce you to everyone else there. People move toward her as you make the rounds; if they are friendly they might say hello, or take no notice of you and focus their attentions on the host.

Your head is so filled with new names and faces that only a few can be recalled a few hours later.

Walking around the Farm Sanctuary outside Watkins Glen with Susie Coston is much like that social experience, except the people are not people—they are the pigs, chickens, cows, ducks, goats, turkeys, sheep, and a couple of donkeys that live on the farm. Alpacas live here, too, but they are the curmudgeons of the Sanctuary despite their lovable face. And whether social animal or not, Coston, Farm Sanctuary’s national shelter director for 16 years, knows everybody’s name.

Coston and director of visitor experience Michelle Waffner greet us at the Melrose Small Animal Hospital, a yellow building opened in 2013. It’s equipped with oxygen cages, microscopes for fecal sampling analysis, an autoclave for sterilization, an exam table, and rehabilitation suites, particularly helpful for treating birds on-site. Cornell veterinarians come by to treat the animals, and larger animals for more serious procedures—like adult neutering—are almost always sent to the veterinary hospital.

“We couldn’t really function without Cornell,” Coston said. “We give them a lot of business.”

After leaving the gleaming hospital, the first sanctuary residents to be seen

are chickens, strutting freely along the dirt road. Many of them are named after apples—“Oh, there’s Red Delicious” is a phrase one might hear at the farm.

The first gate we enter leads into a pasture and a barn, predominantly populated by turkeys, mostly the midget whites used in commercial farming.

Knobby-headed and bald, these creatures are curious: a couple of them walk up to the photographer kneeling at their level and try look through the viewfinder.

“We have people cry when they meet the turkeys. They’ve never seen a turkey,” Coston said. “Most turkeys are dropped off in the middle of the night. We never get them anywhere else but from factory farms.”

Sometimes, a note comes with a Rubbermaid container or box full of turkeys telling where the farm is from whence they appeared. Birds of all kinds that are dropped off at Farm Sanctuary are put into an immediate quarantine, until their blood work comes back, Coston said; avian flu can affect birds within a 10-mile radius.

There are not only turkeys in the turkey space, though. Cows and pigs get their own pastures at Farm Sanctuary, while the sheep, goats, and birds might be integrated into one space for a variety of practical reasons.

For example, there’s Scott, a lamb with a goiter from an iodine deficiency who was dropped off by a local farmer . Rocking a shaved patch on his midriff after an ultrasound, Scott was lounging in the hay bales in the turkey barn. Scott had been living with an old goat, who was put down and then the lamb cried all day, Coston said.

“We put Scott in with the sheep and they were all butting him,” Coston said.

“So he’s here—the goats usually pick who will be the little buddies.”

In the “special needs” bird area, there’s Hank, a turkey showing off his plumage.

Hank can’t be with the female midget whites because they’ve been bred to have such large chests, unsupportable by their

legs, that Hank would “break them” if he tried to mount them. Ditto, a duck, grew up in a pet shop with a rooster named Darnell and thinks he’s a chicken. Coston excuses herself to interrupt Ditto’s attempt to express his identity: “Hold on, he’s trying to mount a chicken.”

With Ditto underarm, Coston picked up her two-way radio to talk to one of her staffers.

“Ditto is becoming a weird pervert,” Coston said.

“With ducks or with people?” is the response.

“People like these cross-species relationships; they think they’re so cute,” Coston said, after dropping Ditto in a cool-out zone. “A duck that thinks he’s a chicken could hurt them. People say look at the pit bull sleeping with that rat, until the day the pit bull decides he’s going to eat this rat. Which it probably does. People were writing in, ‘please never separate them,’ and we didn’t. We’re hoping Ditto meets another duck and falls in love and stops playing with chickens. People think if we just give animals freedom to do whatever they want, it’ll be OK. They do need to be with their own people or they get confused, like a child raised by monkeys.”

Farm Sanctuary tends to keep animals it gets with special needs, but re-homes the majority of animals it receives through its Farm Animal Adoption Network, especially the birds. They sometimes make trades with other sanctuaries; a trio of arthritic pigs that weren’t fans of upstate cold recently retired to Florida.

“We adopt to vegan and vegetarian homes and don’t care if you eat eggs,” Coston said. “You have to keep chickens when they’re out of production and meet their health needs. They’re not cheap eggs; they’re very expensive eggs.”

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We treat potato chips better than that, because we don’t want them to break.

We’re not viewing these as living animals.”

A goose named Pisces waddles through the special needs yard, all of 25 years old.

“Pisces bites you in the face; she’s awesome. She was here before I got here,” Coston said. “She’s slowing down enough that she’s not trying to kill you.”

Taking Care of the Animals

The health of geese, relatively diseasefree until a teenager, when arthritis kicks in, supports a point made several times on our tour: the genetic modification of agricultural animals for faster production of meat, milk, or eggs have given them health problems. Hens bred for incessant egg-laying are given an implant. On cows and pigs, it’s the legs that go. Goats often suffer from caprine arthritis encephalitis, a retrovirus first identified in 1974 that weakens their rear legs and joints.

One of the Watkins Glen Farm Sanctuary’s 20 employees is dedicated to pain management; with 130 animals on meds it’s a full-time position. The Farm uses lots of carprofen [marketed as Rimadyl for arthritis in dogs] and sees lots of issues with infections in feet when bones go.

Many of the pigs are slathered in sunscreen—bred for white skin free of gross brown splotches, they aren’t equipped for dealing with the sun. The pigs, designed to go from birth weight to 250 pounds in six months, get one meal a day to control their weight. Their snorting and squealing at feeding time disguises an internal order: the top hogs, like Ms. Joan

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Young animals are given milk, Coston said: “We’re not saying ‘We’re vegans, no milk for you on this farm.’ Sourcing our milk is important.” Adults are mostly kept on grain, grass, and hay, depending on the

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species, with half-ton bales for the winter already being stacked up in May. Older animals with worn away teeth get a mush blend in the winter.

In the sheep barn, a family sits head to tail, while Roger and Bruce, goats boarding here from recent rescues in Orange and Cattaragus counties come up to visit. They have an affection for notebooks. Roger was “really sick and gross and skinny” with a high parasite load when he was rescued; his family came along once handlers realized that his mother was banging around furiously once her kids were in the Sanctuary truck.

“People have a problem with herd animals and think they can’t function alone,” Coston said. “They’re prey animals, [being in a herd] is a smart thing.”

In a nearby fenced area, Grace, a sheep, is laying down, waiting on stitches from a full internal surgery to remove cancer to heal, so that she can rejoin the herd.

“She’s happy and no different than she was before the cancer,” Coston said.

“We had to make a decision while she was under. If it required chemo, we wouldn’t do that.”

The caregivers have a weekly meeting to discuss the animals’ health. “Once discussion starts, everyone is swayed to the side of doing the right thing,” Coston said. “With death, who knows. It’s such a weird decision to make.”

The cows mourn when one of their number is put down in a field.

“They come up in a circle and surround you and make this low, guttural sound,” Coston said. “They wouldn’t let them take the body for like 10 hours. We never use a prod, and they do everything we ask. In a situation they need to mourn, they mourn. When they’re happy, they can be happy. This is a place where they can allow their self to come out and be who they’re supposed to be.” •

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recall a televised interview that aired a few years back, and a sports marketing executive was asked why it was such a challenge to get men to watch women’s soccer or the WNBA. The man said (something to the effect of), “Because men want to watch people do things they cannot do—like throw a football 70 yards, take off from the foul line and dunk a basketball or hit a baseball 450 feet.”

I am not sure how accurate that assessment is on a broad scale, but he is right about what I want to see. When my friend Bill and I rode over to Cooperstown this past Saturday for the annual Hall of Fame Classic, I was as giddy as a 12 yearold. I knew the players who would take part in the Home Run Derby were past their prime, but I also knew that while their legs had aged to the point where they could no longer play in the major leagues, they still had the sweet swing and bat speed necessary to put on a real spectacle.

Andruw Jones would take part in the Derby, and it would be a treat for any

baseball fan to watch Jones hit. In a 15year career that saw him suit up for several major league teams, Jones hit 434 home runs, with 51 in 2005. Jones was also a Gold Glove outfielder for a decade-plus, and I couldn’t wait to see him throw 300foot lasers from the outfield.

Travis Hafner—three years removed from his last MLB game—would launch a few moon shots of his own, as would Melvin Mora, who would represent the Baltimore Orioles in the Classic. I was pleased to see Terrence Long suited up, as I remember watching him hit an upper deck bomb at Yankee Stadium a dozen years ago, and I knew that several other formers Big Leaguers would take advantage of their time in the spotlight at the hallowed ground that is Doubleday Field.

I watched through the eyes of that giddy 12 year-old as the players—using wooden bats, of course—hit balls far over the fence, the 6,284 people in attendance “oohing” and “ahhing” as each monster

Lawrence at Cooperstown (Photo: Bill White)

blast took seemingly a full minute to make its climb into the sky before settling far over the fence, bouncing off rooftops and crashing through trees.

The game itself was a lot of fun to watch too, as 53 year-old Jamie Moyer took the mound, still bringing the heat only four years removed from the Bigs.

That’s right … Moyer was still pitching in the big leagues at 49.

Detroit Tiger icon Alan Trammel was there, and I finally got to watch a player do something I could do … Trammel hit

a bouncer in front of the plate, and pulled a hamstring coming out of the box. Hell yeah, I could do that.

Shortstop Jack Wilson—who last played for the Pirates in 2012—got a cheetah-like jump on a line drive hit hard to his right, and made a stunning, fully laid-out catch. He looked like he could play in the Majors today.

Jones, playing right field, caught a sinking liner on one hop, and using his momentum to his maximum advantage, threw a ball to third base that travelled 250 feet and never got more than 8 feet off the ground.

Some legendary Hall of Famers were there, coaching bases and signing autographs, and Ferguson Jenkins was a crowd favorite. André Dawson was there, Rollie Fingers, Ryne Sandberg, and grown men wearing the jerseys of these legends waited in line, imploring them to come over and sign autographs.

Bill and I struck up conversations with several fans, and when some of them learned we had driven only two hours to get to the Holy Land, they expressed their jealousy. Some had driven for many hours, across many states, and they will do it again next year. “You must come here every weekend!” one said. I felt guilty when I said I did not.

As always, it felt like a pilgrimage to a holy place, but after riding a motorcycle for four hours and sitting in bleachers, I sure did not feel like a 12 year-old the next day.

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friendly housing for our children and their families. : In a coup last week, the Dryden planning board voted, against some loud objections, to propose a change to the allowable density for all rural residential (and rural agriculture) properties served by sewer and water from 2 units per acre to 6 units per acre. This means that 40 properties, 60 acres, between the hamlet and NYSEG, are ripe for strip sprawl development. It also means that the applicants for 1061 Dryden Rd can scrap their PUD application if a special use permit (SUP) would be easier to obtain, since they now are allowed 36 units with a SUP. This proposal goes before the Dryden town board for approval.

– Carol Whitlow, Dryden

What Is Varna and What Is Not

To members of the Dryden town board You will be determining whether a proposal for a planned unit development at 1061 Dryden Road shall be sent on to the planning board for consideration. This is an inappropriate concept for a PUD in this location and I strongly recommend that you reject this proposal and do not send it on to the planning board.

According to our zoning, a planned unit development (PUD) should meet the following conditions: a) designs that preserve critical environmental resources, b) provide open space amenities, c) incorporate creative design in the layout of buildings, green space and circulation of vehicles and pedestrians; d) assure compatibility with surrounding land uses and neighborhood character; and

e) provide efficiency in the layout of highways, utilities, and other municipal Facilities.

This plan meets none of these conditions.

The concept plan presents itself as being in the hamlet of Varna (pg.

1, contradicted later) and therefore furthering the goals of the hamlet, but this area was explicitly not included in the hamlet and was purposefully kept as a lower density area for the following reasons.

1. The Varna plan’s goal is to focus density in the hamlet proper, which is some distance to the west of this property.

This property is poorly connected to the hamlet proper, and would remain so even once the rail trail is completed.

2. The entire collection of sewer districts on the west-central side of Dryden has only 150 hook-ups of capacity left. This PUD would use up 20% of those in a way that does nothing to further the goals for the hamlet.

This attempt to use the PUD concept for this property is nothing more than an attempt to get around our zoning that intentionally restricted density in this area to allow the available sewer hookups to be used predominantly within the hamlet proper.

Finally, let me mention that this plan was presented to the Varna community at a Planning Board mtg. several weeks ago.

Anyone who was there will tell you the community voiced complete opposition to this proposal, pointing out a load of specific problems. The developer and his architects proceeded to submit the plan to your board with no substantial changes that I can see. This kind of tone deafness does not warrant the plan to be considered by the Planning Board.

– David Weinstein, Dryden (Weinstein is on the town planning board)

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pring allergies are dominated by reactions to tree pollen. The nonbotanically inclined are surprised to hear that tree actually flower. The showy flowered trees, like magnolias, tulip polar, or fruit trees, are generally pollinated by insects. Most trees, however, have innocuous flowers that go unnoticed by many people and the pollen is disseminated by the wind. Whereas insect-disseminated pollen tends to be large, sticky and relatively few, windborne pollen grains tend to be small and extremely abundant.

Marvin Pritts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell, notes that trees generally flower in association with their “bud break”—when they begin to leaf out. As you may have noticed in the past several weeks, different species leaf out at varying times; walnuts and locusts have just gotten leaves in the last several days, but maples have been fully leafed out since mid-May this year. This is due to the alternating warm and cold weather this spring, which has stretched out the waking period of deciduous plants. Two or three weeks of flowering is typical.

“Last year it was cold for so long,” said Pritts, “that when it got warm everything released at once. It was also a dry spring.”

Rain washes pollen out of the air.

A pollen grain is a protein coat around the genetic material of the male plant. These proteins vary by species

and some are more reactive with human immune systems. Some of the trees that most commonly give people problems are oaks, maples, and elms, although the list of “the worst” is much longer.

Our immune response, said Pritts, is basically a flawed response to a perceived poison. With an allergic response “a body can’t distinguish between harmful and not harmful,” he said. “Over a long period evolution might straighten this out.”

Dr. Stella Castro of Allergy and Asthma Associates said that there are two steps to allergy treatment. First, there are medications to treat the symptoms, but the second line of defense is immunotherapy, which over time may greatly decrease or eliminate an individual’s immunological response to an allergen.

Castro suggested treating the specific reaction: if your eyes itch, you should use eye drops; if your nose runs, then you should use nasal spray; if you get an asthmatic reaction, then you should treat that.

“Immunotherapy is using the immune system to shut itself down” said Castro.

“First, we figure out what you are sensitive to, and then we treat the over-reaction.”

The offices of Allergy and Asthma Associates have a library of allergens, including pollens, which they make into solutions that are applied with a prick or can be injected subcutaneously into a patient’s back or arm in an ordered

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grid. Reactions vary from simple redness to swelling and are apparent within 15 minutes.

Once it is determined what an allergy sufferer is allergic to, a very dilute solution of the allergen is prepared. “We start with almost nothing,” said Castro, “gradually escalating the dose [concentration] for about six months.” Once the dose has reached a certain concentration it is administered for five to seven years, every week during the allergy season and every fourth week outside of the season. If you are allergic to more than one thing, your inoculation will include a mixture of allergens.

Castro said that this treatment works for 70 to 90 percent of patients. It has been, she said, the standard treatment for decades.

In her experience it is usually covered by health insurance.

Some trees, she said, are more potent allergens than others and it is usual for an individual to be allergic to more than one species. The flowering season for trees is from the spring into the early summer. Grasses flower during the summer and “weeds” flower from late summer until the first hard frost in the fall.

The northeastern U.S., said Pritts, is a hotbed for tree pollen allergies because we have such a diversity of trees here. “Other places don’t have all the allergens,” he said. “In the southern states the period of pollination is more compressed. The desert Southwest might be the best place.” As one might expect, the Midwest is not the place you want to live if you are allergic to grass pollens. One of the upsides of the Northeast, Pritts noted, is that it rains here more frequently than the Midwest, so the air is cleansed of pollen more frequently. •

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Citing the criminal prosecution of former Senate and Assembly leaders of the New York State Legislature, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the unanimously passed resolution—with Legislator Mike Sigler (R-Lansing) excused—states that the failure of the state legislature to “effectively act to address the root causes of the actual Rich John and perceived corruption with comprehensive and rigorous ethics reform creates the appearance that the body tolerates the misuse of the powers of office by some legislators, and is willing to allow such corruption to continue unhindered.” “… Effectively unlimited and undisclosed sourcing of campaign contributions has created the presumption that ‘pay to play’ is the normal method of Albany politics,” the resolution states, which was initiated by Legislator Rich John (D-Ithaca) and unanimously recommended by the members of the legislature’s Government Operations Committee.

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2. Transparency by requiring the disclosure of the names of individual donors to a candidate or independent expenditure committee, even if made through a corporation or limited liability company.

3. The creation of term limits for the positions of Speaker of the Assembly and Majority Leader of the Senate to provide the legislature with leadership from a wider range of New York State citizens and prevent the long term consolidation of power in specific individuals.

4. Restrictions on the sources of legislators’ outside income to reduce conflicts of interest.

5. Adoption of a redistricting process through use of an independent nonpartisan commission modeled on the Iowa State system that takes into account contiguity, compactness, existing municipal boundaries, and an area’s commonality of interests.

The resolution will be forwarded to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, senators and assembly members, and it requests that members of the New York State Assembly and Senate that represent Tompkins County respond with their positions.

“Thank you everybody—this has been great. I’m sure they’ll listen,” said John, to which the room erupted in laughter.

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“In this resolution, instead of just asking New York State to pass meaningful ethics reform, which I’m sure they would tell us they’ve already done and done very well, we’ve tried to be fairly specific,” John explained. Being specific tends to lead to a lot of conversation, he said, and he thanked Dan Klein, chair of the Government Operations Committee, for his patience. “We got to a 5-0 vote, but it was not fast,” John said.

The resolution “implores the New York State Legislature to legislate comprehensive and meaningful ethics reforms” to include 11 bullet points, five of which are listed below.

1. Amending the New York Constitution to allow denial of pension benefits related to legislative service to legislators who are convicted of violating the public trust conferred by their membership in the legislature through misconduct in office.

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ne of the most striking things about the visual arts in Ithaca is that a city with so few conventional venues can support such a number and range of public displays. One can count the number of formal galleries that mount regular exhibits on two hands. But in following the goings-on year after year, one finds cohesive— sometimes-powerful—gatherings of work in the most unlikely places.

Before a recent invitation from former Johnson Museum director Franklin Robinson, I had never been on the grounds of Kendal at Ithaca: a planned retirement community in Lansing, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and is putting finishing touches on a new expansion. That the corporation-run Kendal has been hosting exhibits of local and resident artists since the ‘90s was news to me.

But it makes perfect sense.

Robinson’s engagement with the local visual arts community is unusual. A man of tremendous stature and professional accomplishment, he is a regular sight at local exhibition openings. (He’s also been a great supporter of my work as a local art critic and occasional curator.)

Robinson’s background is as a scholar of seventeenth-century Dutch art, having received his Ph.D. in art history from Harvard in 1970 with work on Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667). Following tenures as head of the museums at Williams College and the Rhode Island School of Design, he came to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell in 1992. He stepped down from the position in 2011 and worked for several years in alumni fundraising. Now fully retired, he moved to Kendal earlier this year with his wife Margaret, also a former museum administrator.

I met with him at Kendal on two successive occasions and was struck, as usual, by his openness and enthusiasm for his

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current projects and for the (Left) Greg Page - “Large Palm: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg, Scotland” (Right) life of art in Ithaca. I was also Stan Bowman ‘s “Hay Rolls” (Photos Diane Duthie) struck by his informality. The besuited director has loosened quality,” he said “but this isn’t a museum.” The up in his retirement. question of what sort of work is suitable for One of many such resident groups at a domestic setting is a pressing one, as is the Kendal, an art committee helps determine question of whether and how to label work. what goes on the walls. (With its Quaker • • • roots, the community has a strong emphasis Seven Ithaca-area artists, all of them on self-governance.) In addition to active, make up Kendal’s current loan displays.

Robinson—the newest member—the group The overall level of the work is high. includes Kathryn Durant, Janice Esman, Jean A painterly mixed-media monoprint Jagendorf, Lois McManus, Robert Silsbee, and by Treacy Ziegler, When the Sea Reaches Irene Silverman.

My Grandmother’s House, hangs outside According to him, “Kathryn, Janice and Kendal’s indoor swimming pool. The image, Irene were all deeply involved in the Upstairs printed as a circle against white paper—a Gallery—several of them are collectors—and tondo—portrays an old house on Swan’s Bob is an accomplished photographer. It’s Island in Maine. Rather than contour or a committed group of people.” (An anchor color per se, Ziegler’s paintings and prints are of the local scene for over four decades, the rooted in chiaroscuro (light and dark) and her Upstairs Gallery closed in 2009. Its absence distinctive, day-for-night style of dramatic can still be felt.) contrasts and lurid, unnatural colors creates a Robinson stressed that there are “three aspects to the visual art here.” First, there have distinctive dream-like ambiance.

Ziegler’s work at Kendal reflects her been shows of “mostly local artists,” dating back to Kendal’s early years. This dimension is longstanding interest in art as a form of in apparent flux given the recent construction. social engagement. The artist received a degree in social work before studying at the Second, there is Kendal’s “permanent Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and has collection,” of which he estimated that taught in prisons. At the same time, she has there are “maybe one hundred pieces.” Not expressed a tough-minded skepticism towards everything is on display. sentimental ideas of art as a form of therapy Third and finally, there is the loan or moral uplift. Nevertheless, an interest in program, which Robinson is helping to spearhead. Artists donate pieces for six-month reaching out to non-traditional art audiences is clearly part of her mission. terms (possibly longer), resulting in a rotating Photographer Dede Hatch has been display of work. a long-time presence on the Ithaca scene “Our intention is for this to be a with both her commercial practice and celebration of the arts in this area,” Robinson her personal work. Her relationship with explained. Most Kendal residents are from Robinson is not just one of friendship, but that around Ithaca, many of them affiliated with the university. “We want to be part of this area. of a former collaborator. A 2011 book, Soft We want to form a symbiotic relationship with Applause for the Day features her images in equal partnership with Robinson’s (Englishthe community.”

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dreamy pop incantation. Lush vocals and melodic strumming melt your brain into sleepy Corn Flakes. Have some orange juice with that. ANANSI turn the clock back forging spacey garage rock with some late 60ish punk heft. They attack, yet stay laid back: and so it goes. Hits Like A Girl weaves natural and unnatural space to form with their lush trip-hop cellar drone: equally melancholy and dreamily abstract. This should be a real nice existential set.

Viva Mayhem brings a spicy and grungy script to head around 4 p.m. This

Misses Bitches bring their caravan of sunshine freak-folk to the home plate around 5:30 p.m., as the mini-fest really gears up for a violent wind of ferocity to close things down. The female-powered punk folkers have a knack to playing strong to many hands. Be it Grateful Dead inspired togetherness or Pretenders-like wavy punk, this band gets it done. Let’s hope they play “Heartbreak Shoes”: what a great f***ing song! Sammus is hip hop royalty round these parts. She plays next, forging conscious and poignant raps via her own intergalactic beats. She brought the parking lot down last year: and there’s no reason to think she won’t do it again this year.

Grindcore terrors Escuela practice in the art of speed via insane speed.

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heat of the sun (fingers crossed), smiles, freak folk, doom, back flips, indie-ness, and some karate monsters, the whole lot will shape and shift towards one circular whole Saturday, as one hell-of-a lineup rages for over nine hours. If you dig music there’s surely something here for you: and if you don’t: I don’t believe you. Here’s your run down: The Bibliographers open the whole thing up at 12:15 p.m. sharp. With their low-sunny aquatic assemblage weaving oblong pop, this group sort of squeezes towards a moon-shaped dark cheese. It’s cool stuff. Teencat rock-cat-pop: a sort of singular indie rock march towards a land of feline glee-punk. Washy guitars and lean simplicity drive this group, as they poke their cute visions across the Finger Lakes region. Slumbers do their namesake justice: slumbering your spirit into a cocoon of

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summon the spirit of their pulsing music.

Expect to be pummeled into the sweating blacktop and curded to eternity. Fittingly, Itahca’s most excellent and realest hardcore kings Mill Bastards, close out the epic festival. Hopefully the whole f***ing city is crowded into Press Bay Alley to see them lay waste to everything: torching, spiraling, linear, and whipping their way to the sacred land. They’re a killer band: bringing the vox populi in streaming and relentless ways.

What a packed day. Be there or be square. High Tops from the 90’s recommended. •

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race Stumberg is energized when artist? she is performing and writing GS: At first touring was behind the music. The Buffalo native has scenes for me. I wasn’t singing nor was I supposed to say that I did while working focused on simple songwriting that draws as a guitar tech for Joan Baez. Eventually upon a pop-rock sound with elements one thing led to another and one day of funky-folk music. She first became she asked me up to sing harmonies with familiar to audiences while touring with her. I was thrilled. It has been an honor folk icon Joan Baez in 2011. Since that to become friends with the Indigo Girls time Stumberg has formed her own band, through Joan Baez and share a song or two and continued as the back-up singer for Baez while on tour with her. Stumberg has here and there when we meet on the road.

Opening for Josh Ritter in my hometown also opened for artist Josh Ritter and the of Buffalo at Ani DiFranco’s Babeville Indigo Girls. was also a very memorable experience.

Recently, she has begun to tour more It was the biggest on her own and will gig I ever had and perform at the Dock I was terrified, but on June 3. as soon as I started Ithaca Times: playing I drifted Where does your off. All of these love of music come experiences molded from? me into musician Grace Stumberg: that I am today. I’m My parents. always learning, Growing up my growing, and mother and father writing on the road always had a Beatles and I love it. or blues record IT: Some artists playing. I would find touring tricky, hear the guitar and but how do you think I really want make it fun and to do that too! The interesting? singing came later GS: It is after I discovered extremely tricky. how much I loved You literally enter to sing and play a different reality guitar at the same or time zone when time. My first you tour. You go on musical infatuation crazy adventures, was Sheryl Crow’s meet all types of Tuesday Night Music people and make Club album. I would Grace Strumberg (Photo Provided) awesome music in sing to that all day more places than long! I still do. you can remember.

IT: When did You float in a beautiful dreamland you first begin to write songs? seeing things your eyes can’t believe.

GS: I was a senior in high school You experience such highs and the next when I wrote my first few songs that thing you know you’re back in your little touched on using music to change the apartment feeding the cat and serving world as well as singing about everyday coffee before you head out to the bar gig. issues in society that I felt needed to be They’re totally different worlds! But I sung about. couldn’t imagine a life not on the road. It IT: Can you talk about the song feels more home than home now.

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IT: In your spare time can you share GS: “Appreciate” was a prayer really. how you relax? Are you an avid reader?

I felt angry and stuck. I was unhappy GS: In my spare time I relax by going and had lost sight of what I had. In the out to my family cabin and being in the midst of complaining and self-loathing green grass and in between a bunch of a voice came through and just said, ‘You trees. I enjoy silence and open space. I know what Grace, people kill for the simple things that you and so many others am not an avid reader, but I am currently dabbling in a book about tapping into take for granted. So we must learn to your “shadow self.” It’s called The Shadow appreciate.’ It’s all in the lyrics!

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Summer of Discontent

Classic stories told in new and strange light

By Br yan VanC ampe n

X-Men Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer; Alice Through the Looking Glass, directed by James Bobin, Regal Stadium 14.

that Deadpool guy, 2016 is shaping up as the Year of No Comix Fun. The thing is, I expect affecting toil from the X-Men movie series. They’ve always been about bigotry, racism and homophobia … and amassing a huge cast of characters at different ages, so the growing cast of mutants can be shuffled

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ryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse is murky and brooding, and aside from Spider-Man, Ant-Man and

like a deck of cards from film to film.

Whether they’re good or evil depends on their level of emotional misery.

Following Singer’s ‘70s time-travel yarn, X-Men: Days of Future Past, we fast-forward to 1983 as a mutant named Apocalypse/En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac) from 3,600 B.C. gets resurrected and, like most demagogues, sets about eliminating the weak (i.e., the world). Meanwhile, at least four characters from the first two films have been recast as X-Men Babies: Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Scott Summers / Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Ororo Munroe / Storm (Alexandra Shipp). Other character are introduced, and at times it’s hard to remember what their powers are, but

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The young X-Men (Photo Provided)

whatever. If you loved Evan Peters as Quicksilver in the Pentagon sequence from X-Men: Days of Future Past, he has reprised the role in X-Men: Apocalypse, and he’s along for the whole ride this time. On the heels of his (Jim Croce’s) “Time in a Bottle” sequence, he tops it with another bravura set piece set to Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” It is, as they say, worth the price of admission.

• • • Alice Through the Looking Glass, or as I’m calling it, Lewis Carroll’s 12 Monkeys, sure is the proverbial feast for the eyes, as it’s based on the 2010 Tim Burton film.

I’m one of those horrible Americans who couldn’t be bothered to read Carroll, and even I had the sneaking suspicion that saying the movie is based on Carroll’s characters is like saying the characters have the same names. I’m pretty sure that one of the first literary sequels wasn’t about Alice (Mia Wasikowska) playing Back to the Future II, zipping back and forth through time in order to reunite the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) with his estranged family.

You can’t fault Wasikowska. This thing may be Carroll in name only, but she plays the title character as a brave, forthright and intelligent heroine, never a bad thing at the movies. Time, a “character” mentioned by the White Rabbit, is now the movie’s clockwork antagonist, played by Sacha Baron Cohen. (I did like the Time World’s repository of human souls, represented as endless rows of dangling pocket watches.)

Meanwhile, at least two elements of the book—the Jabberwocky and the Walrus and the Carpenter—are nowhere to be seen. Disney clearly wants to squeeze the most out of these stories as the series will warrant, despite the efforts of veteran Disney scribe Linda Woolverton.

Trouble is, Tim Burton-style movies that aren’t directed by Burton rarely work out well, as those who have seen Monkeybone and Mom and Dad Save the World can attest. Director James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords) works so hard to maintain the Burton house style that he never finds the charm that he brought to The Muppets. The result is commonly referred to as curdled whimsy. As inventive and eccentric an actor as Depp can be, you can see the disappointment of the contractual obligation, of being stranded in a shady sequel without Burton, in every moment of his performance. He’s really the Sad Hatter. The whole enterprise is doubly sad, as it is the last performance by the late Alan Rickman, as the voice of Absolem the butterfly.. •

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The Artist’s Artists

Spring TCFA exhibit showcases visual diversity

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ntrinsic significance is what art criticism has traditionally been about.

But there’s no doubting that a variety of external factors shape the way we approach artworks. One is the space in which pieces are displayed.

Housed in a re-adapted 19th century Greek Revival church, the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts is awkward for exhibits. Works—particularly smaller ones—tend to get lost going around the perimeter of the cavernous main space. The walls are anything but unobtrusive. But a

Kadie Salfi’s “Tippy Toe Dancer” (Photo Provided)

make-do spirit results in some memorable shows nonetheless.

The TCFA holds a big exhibit about once a season. For spring’s “Artists’ Choice,” (through June 5, see tburgconservatory.org/ events or call (607) 387-5939 for irregular open hours) the conservatory invited landscape painter Domenica Brockman and photographer Jason Koski—both of Trumansburg—to each invite an additional artist. Brockman chose Ithaca printmaker Kadie Salfi, while Koski brought in his uncle Steve, a woodcarver based outside of Perry City.

Brockman has a studio in Trumansburg but is known to Ithacans as a proprietor of Petrune, a women’s clothing store on the Commons. Her unframed oils recall the work of early Expressionist artists such as Van Gogh and Munch. But they have a mood of their own, suffused with a tough austerity.

Her canvases here imagine familiarlooking landscapes caught between day and night as well as winter and spring. In pieces such as Spring Sunset and Winter Sky in Pink and Blue, pale but grimy pinks, blues, yellows, and whites play against dark, hulking silhouettes. Cloudy skies seem to

press against the skeins of barren branches.

Long Winter pares things down further to black masses of trees and land-edges amidst the cool off-white of earth and sky alike.

Audacious Moon, a larger upright piece, places us in a forest on a midwinter night, the snow marked with tracks—animal or human.

Salfi spent part of her art school years in the early ‘90s working at Gemini G.E.L., a prominent Los Angeles print studio.

She worked as an assistant to several wellknown artists, among them, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Their spirit, as well as that of Warhol, presides over Salfi’s work here, which is in the tradition of what has been called “hand-painted Pop”— combining her own and found photographs with decorous color and facture indebted to abstract painting.

It’s an approach of which I’m wary, but Salfi can pull it off with grace. Her works here are cyanotype prints on stretched or unstretched canvas: uniform in their rich blue tonality and accented with patches of paint or metal leaf. Images of ballerinas—a recurring subject for her—are prominent.

In pieces such as Tippy Toe Dancer and Misty Copeland, these anonymous bodies exude grace and poise. Other images, mostly smaller, show camels, racecars, and palm trees.

Jason Koski works as a staff photographer for Cornell. In a delightfully droll artist’s statement, he contrasts career against the more personal imagery shown here, shot on film. “Once I get home and I have shed the space suit of my 9-to-5 world,” he writes, “I am finally able to slow down a little.”

Unframed, Horse and Dog is a blackand-white diptych, evocatively blurred: we follow a mounted figure—with his two animals—traversing shallow water.

Like many of Brockman’s canvases, Koski’s framed photos are squareshaped. Fish Crates is an eloquent study in patination and geometric structure.

Both black-and-white, Bike Bars and Tall Bike display flattened-out space and playful composition—the latter bicycle has mounted by a figure but his head and shoulders have been cut off above.

Steve Koski, who also works as a mason, is showing four hand-carved wooden reliefs in which he imaginatively reconstructs a series of historical scenes from around upstate New York. The period detail, the complex settings, the use of perspective, and the tiny figures all are quite marvelous. The unfinished, easel-mounted Seneca Falls: Seneca-Cayuga Canal, 1880 is perhaps the most compelling of these, showing a downward gazing panorama spanning city and countryside as well as the furrows of road and waterway. •

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Park, Circular Side Show: Ithaca Falls, and Leaves View: Taughannock Falls, Hatch juxtaposes the near and far; the clear and the amorphous; plant-life with rocks and waterfalls.

That Day in Gloucester and Dunes in Sandwich/October, are exemplary works by local pastel realist Diane Newton. Both may be familiar from “Engaging the Edges,” her

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language) haiku.

Her three small digital prints here are characteristic. Hatch finds unexpected resonances through careful cropping and emphatic manipulation of depth of field. In Beyond the Bridge: Treman State

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superb two-person show—together with painter Leslie Brill—at the State of the Art Gallery last summer.

Newton, who splits her time between Ithaca and Boston, is one of the strongest artists here—and indeed, working today locally. An effective test of a strong image-maker is that one starts to see the world around oneself through new eyes. Wandering around the grounds of Kendal after my second visit, I was struck by how Newton-ian they appeared. The ring road, the long asphalt paths, the neat landscaping, the unassuming cottage-like architecture—all of these could be from her world.

Gregory Page is a professor of art at Cornell and a distinctive printmaker, known for his black-and-white lithographs of pressed botanical specimens from what he has called the “global backyard.” Motif from ISU Greenhouse Selections II and Large Palm, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland have both been exhibited in town recently, but their tonal and textural richness are worth revisiting.

I’ve been on record as a skeptic about the work of Stan Bowman, a retired Cornell professor of photography and digital art.

I find it encouraging that he is showing a pair of relatively “straight” photographic images rather than his signature digital photo-abstractions—which are unsubtle, to say the least. The approach seems to play to his strengths.

Art professors at Ithaca College, printmakers Minna Resnick and Susan Weisend, also share an eclectic approach.

Both combine their own draftsmanship with appropriated imagery and a range of drawing and printmaking techniques, creating dense layerings of image and symbol.

• • • Moving on to the collections, it is necessary to take a balanced view of what is being shown. As Robinson explained, this collection was unsought, and came

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together largely through serendipity: the result mostly of gifts from former residents.

Not everything is of the greatest quality or of notable historical interest. But wandering the labyrinthine hallways of Kendal’s central areas, I was struck by how much good stuff there was.

Most of the artists were new to me—in several cases, fresh revelations of the wealth of talent that Ithaca seems to hide away so well.

Given the sort of place Kendal is, it’s inevitable that many of these artists—most no longer alive—were distinguished individuals for reasons that have little to do with their art. Often they are the spouses of distinguished Cornellians.

This is not the case however for the painter Lori Schleisner (1925-2013), who ran a children’s art school in New York City for many decades and lived at Kendal—and in Ithaca—only during the final eight years of her life. A refugee from Nazi Germany, she studied as a child with the German Expressionist Ludwig Meidner and later at the Art Students’ League in NYC. A modernist painter of museum-worthy significance, her work is represented here more extensively than anybody else, with canvases (not all are visibly dated) going back at least to the 1960s.

Her most interesting works here come from her “closet series,” investigations of hanging clothes that recall her background as a dress designer. Fluid black lines and characteristically pale, luminous colors often evoke a human presence—perhaps more compellingly than her actual portraits.

Another memorable artist, also new to me, is Mary Kahn (1920-2015). She was married for many years to Alfred Kahn, Cornell economics professor and dean of airline deregulation under the Carter administration. Her work here consists of color block prints (I believe woodcuts) with clean contours and compelling designs.

An untitled, tall-format watercolor

by Susan Booth Titus shows us a hillside Ithaca winter scene with unexpected vivacity and telling detail. The dark silhouette of a bare tree near the foreground spreads its serpentine branches, covering much of the right of the image in its intricate curtain. An oblique jumble of houses and other buildings trail off into the distant haze.

Other works and artists of note include ornithological illustrations by Karen Allaben-Confer and Japanese-influenced prints by Daphne Sola, both still working.

Art by distinguished Cornellians includes striking travel and nature photography by former president Dale Corson (1914-2012) and a characteristically ethereal studioscape canvas by legendary Cornell art professor John Hartell (1902-1995).

And on and on, as one perambulates Kendal’s main complex. Although Robinson emphasized the public nature of these displays, the visitor is advised to be mindful of the residents—and staff—and the often-subtle distinctions between communal and relatively private areas. A visitor curious about local art can easily spend hours getting lost. •

Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Featuring Janet Batch, Thru Spectrums, Toto’s Magic Show, Ilium Works, Water Bears, and Stranded With A Kiss / Rock, Grunge, Punk, Funk, Alternative, Electronic, Drone, Experimental.

Roll, Soul, Country.

Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Hound mouth, Los Colognes | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Folk, Rock, Americana.

Dyado | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Folk, Alternative Country, Chamber Folk, Americana.

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

I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans

6/05 Sunday Music

| The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With The Crucial Reggae Social Club.

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6/02 Thursday

6/01 Wednesday Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Group Therapy | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Funk, Rock.

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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Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Join hosts David Graybeard and Mitch Wiedemann. We are looking for local songwriters, poets and authors to showcase their work.

Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions 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.

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM

Cayuga Blue Notes | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Country Blues.

Burkes Blues | 6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Rock.

Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Local musicians playing from 6-8 pm.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Mel and the Boys | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Americana, Bluegrass, Blues, Rock, Folk Valerie June | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Americana, Folk, Blues, Soul, Gospel.

6/03 Friday Grace Stumberg (of Joan Baez band) | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk.

Tribal Revival | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Performing the music of The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers, Los Lobos, Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison and a more.

Eric Aceto, Harry Aceto, and Doug Robinson | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Hive 45, 45 E Main Street, Trumansburg | Jazz.

Randy Z | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Trop-Rock, Classic Rock, Blues, Country, Americana.

StratCat Willie and the Strays |

7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Rock.

WonderMonday | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Pop, Art Rock.

Nick LeDuc | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Refined Groove Rock, Electric Acoustic.

The Gunpoets, The Blind Spots | 8:00 PM- | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Funk, Hip Hop, Soul, R&B, Rock, Electronic.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught. Dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

Mutron Warriors, Jeff Love Band | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Funk, Rock, Soul, Blues, Gospel.

Southern Tears | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Country.

MisfitFest | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Featuring Bad Hand, Dave Streater, Angie Beeler, Brain Bishop, Brandon Schmitt, Junkyard Theory / Rock, Folk, Progressive, Pop, Freak Folk, Electronic, Psychedelic.

Misses Bitches with Special Guests | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Rock, Folk, Punk, Freak Folk, Psychedelic, Roots.

6/04 Saturday Ithaca Underground Stage at Ithaca Festival | 12:00 PM-9:00 PM | Press Bay Alley, 116-118 W Green St, Ithaca | With Mill Bastards, Twin Lords, Escuela, Sammus, Misses Bitches, Imperials, Viva Mayhem, Hits Like a Girl, Anansi, Slumbers, Teencat, The Bibliographers. Indie Rock, Punk, Metal,

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Under Construction | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Swedish Hill Winery Paradise Party, Rt. 414, Romulus | Rock and Roll, Country, Soul, Funk, 50’s, Blues.

Under Construction | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Montour Falls Moose Club, 2096 Rt. 14, Montour Falls | Rock and Roll, Country, Soul, Blues, Funk, 50’s.

Loudon Wainwright III | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Rock, Blues, Comedy.

The Graveling Brothers, Randy McStine and John Kanazawich | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Southern Rock, Rock, Blues.

The Sweats | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Rock.

The Overrated | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Party Rock.

The Big Mean I-Town Revue Pt. 2 | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Performances By Tenzin Chopak of Rockwood Ferry, Maddy Walsh of The Blind Spots, Elliot Martin of John Brown’s Body, Matt O’ Brien of Thunder Body, Rochelle Mathews of the Crucial Reggae Social Club, Jay Spaker of J-San, John Brown’s Body, Club Rub a Dub, and many more.

Dead Set – From VT | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Grateful Dead Covers, Rock, Blues, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic, Folk Rock.

Delta Mike Shaw Band | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Delta Blues.

Tough Old Bird | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Original Americana.

MisfitFest | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM |

Eric Aceto Duo | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Jazz, Folk, Classical, Americana.

Blue Skies | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Vintage Jazz and Blues Standards.

Grey Wolf Jam | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Early R&R, Country, Blues.

Sean Farley | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Original Blues.

MSZM | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz, Free Jazz.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Dead Night with Planet Jr. | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Grateful Dead Covers, Rock, Blues, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic, Folk Rock.

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

6/07 Tuesday Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian EmbaDyssy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

Immortal Jellyfish | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Blues, Rock, 50’s, 60’s, Rock and

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2016 Geneva Music Festival | All Day | Various Locations | A spectacular season of music which will run June 2nd through June 18th and will showcase a diverse programming that includes chamber, vocal, organ and bluegrass music, as well as a week-long Latino Cultural Celebration, highlighting their rich heritage of music and dance. During these exciting three weeks you will hear chamber masterpieces from Mozart and Mendelssohn to contemporary composers such as Augusta Read Thomas as well as some good old American music and fiery Latin music and dance. For more info and all the schedules visit: genevamusicfestival.com Crow’s Cage, Kevlar, Lost Elysium | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Hard Rock, Metal, Rock.

An Evening with Ithaca Flutists | 7:30 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | This evening of music will be filled with flute solos, duos, chamber ensembles and flute choir! Performers include: Opus Ithaca Flute Ensemble, Opus Ithaca Flute Students, Ithaca Flute Duo (Elizabeth Shuhan & Juliana May Pepinsky), Ithaca High School Flutists, Flute & Guitar Duo

Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats.

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Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM | Lodi Historical Society Building, 2162 Grove St, Lodi | The program features Kodály Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Barber Dover Beach for Baritone & String Quartet, and Shostakovich Piano Quartet. For more information, call (607) 272.4839, or check out our website at FingerLakes ChamberEnsemble.org.

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6/03 Friday Seepeoples, Continental | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock.

Depot Friday Nights: Rick Marsi: The Changing Face Of Nature | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Free! Doors open at 6 pm. Refreshments available..

Formula 5, Michael Mwenso & the Shakes | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Progressive Rock, Progressive Groove, Funk, Soul, Jam, Rock, Electronic.

Common Time: A Musical Potpourri | 7:30 PM | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | We will bring to the audience a joy of singing through a potpourri of various genres of music.

Mind The Gap, Sun, One Level Lower | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Pop, Rock, Electronic.

6/07 Tuesday Bela Fleck & The Flecktones | 8:00 PM | Binghamton University, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Jazz, Fusion, Bluegrass, Classical, World, Ambient, Progressive.

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Not So Silent Film Series: Nosferatu with The Magnetic Pull | 7:00 PM, 6/03 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | SIlent Film coupled with live music written and performed by local & regional bands and musicians. An instrumental band, The Magnetic Pull performs an original score to one of the most famous silent horror films, Nosferatu.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | 8:00 PM, 6/03 Friday | State Theatre of Ithaca, Itahca | One fake sick day sends high school senior Ferris Bueller, his

6/05 Sunday Duo Sopranos | 2:00 PM | St. Catherine of Siena Church, 302 St. Catherine Circle, Ithaca | A concert by Anna O’Connell, harp and soprano, and Karen Dumont, soprano. Info at 607-257-2493 or istcathe@dor.org

girlfriend Sloane and his best friend Cameron on the adventure of their young lives, as they ditch school and take off on a raucous journey through Chicago as they stay one step ahead of their principal and Ferris’s sister.

Offbeat Films with Ron Krieg | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/07 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This is a series of 12 films that evoke a director’s independent vision and fearless exploration of eccentric or mysterious subject matter. Included are Frankenheimer’s, Seconds, Altman’s, Three Women, Scorsese’s, King of Comedy, Weir’s Picnic, at Hanging Rock, Strick’s, Tropic of Cancer, and 7 more unique films. More info at www. tclifelong.org

Friday, 6/03 to Thursday, 6/09.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes A Bigger Splash | The vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter. | 125 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 |

Downtown Ithaca, Friday, June 3, through Sunday, June 5 The Ithaca Festival is a four-day music and arts festival held in Ithaca, NY. Its underlying mission is to celebrate the artist in everyone. For over 30 years, the Ithaca Festival has grown into a true celebration of community that is rich in talent, bringing together people of all ages, interests and origins.

This year’s theme is “mix-it- up” and you should promptly do so: there’s so much to choose from, the art will be how you do it and what you see.

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The Man Who Knew Infinity | Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy. | 108 mins PG-13 | Sing Street | A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes. | 106 mins PG-13 | Viva | When his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club. | 100 mins R | Regal Cinema

Wednesday 6/01 to Tuesday 6/07 | Contact Regal Cinema Ithaca for Showtimes Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | When their new next-door neighbors turn out to be a sorority even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there, Mac and Kelly team with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down. |92 mins R |

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Oklahoma! | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | It’s been 18 years since we visited the prairie and we’re excited to return!

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit classic captures Curley and Laurey’s budding love story set against the rivalry of the farmers and the cowboys. Showtimes and tickets at http://fingerlakesmtf. com/2016-season/oklahoma/index. html How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying | Ti-Ahwaga Community Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | An ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder in this Frank Loesser musical that provides lyrics with an edge and tunes with a grin. Noted as the blue

chips among modern musicals this production is crafty, conniving, sneaky, cynical, irreverent. Impertinent, sly, malicious, and lovely...just lovely. www.tiahwaga.com White Rabbit Red Rabbit | 6:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | The 2016 festival theme is Mix It Up; the Cherry is thrilled to be mixing up the Ithaca Festival’s usual programming by adding innovative live theatre to the schedule. Two performances as part of Ithaca Festival: Sat. June 4 @ 6:00 PM at ACTING OUT NEW YORK in CENTER ITHACA (Dean Robinson), and Sun. June 5 @ 5:00 PM at CINEMAPOLIS (Darcy Rose). Tickets can be purchased at www.TheCherry.org John Crist Stand Up Comedy | 7:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | First Baptist Church, 8414 N Main St, Interlaken | John Crist continues to gain momentum as one of America’s young rising stars of comedy. Crist’s style of edgy but clean comedy keeps him on the road for a whirlwind schedule of over 250 live shows per year.

Notices LEGO Build | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) is hosting a LEGO Build, the community-wide construction of a 6’ x 6’ model of our iconic downtown Ithaca building. 100,000 LEGO bricks will be assembled between May and mid-June, culminating in an installation and unveiling of the completed model on Saturday, June 18, in TCPL’s BorgWarner Room. Be a builder, be a supporter. Visit www.tcplfoundation. org/#!tcpl-lego-build/tivro and select either Click to Reserve or Click to Donate. Contact Josiah Jacobus-Parker at jjacobusparker@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 ext. 261.

Ultimate Frisbee Summer League | Interested in Ultimate Frisbee? Summer league registration is now open, league starts in early June . All levels of experience welcome – show up and play! Go to www.iaua.com to register or learn more.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 6/01 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s

Quilt DIvas,

Commuity School of Music and Arts, Friday, June 3, 5:00 p.m.

The Quilt Divas are fiber artists who reside in the Finger Lakes region.

They founded the group in 2001 as a satellite of the Tompkins County Quilters Guild but separated in 2005 to expand membership beyond the guild. Members meet monthly for critiques, discussion and exploration of new techniques. Their work is as varied as their backgrounds in art, medicine, education, and the sciences.

Creations range from realistic to abstract and to sculpture. It’s all on display at CSMA this month.

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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 |

The Angry Birds Movie | Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to.| 97 mins PG | The Nice Guys | A mismatched pair of private eyes investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. | 116 mins R | Money Monster | Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.| 98 mins R | Captain America: Civil War | Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. | 147 mins PG-13 | X-Men: Apocalypse | With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. | 144 mins PG-13 | Alice Through The Looking Glass | Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. | 113 mins PG-13 | The Jungle Book | After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo. | 106 mins PG | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat. | 112 mins PG-13 |

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Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/01 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/ Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 6/02 Thursday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA, Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 6/02 Thursday | All Saints Church, Rt. 38, Lansing | 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/03 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

Palestine for Peace: Ithaca Festival Parade | 6:30 PM-, 6/03 Friday | # 67, W. Jay Street, between Cayuga and Auburn., | Everybody is welcome. Join us in a show of solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian people everywhere.

Walk with us to live Middle-Eastern music while the kids dance Dabka, a traditional Palestinian dance. If you have any questions about the second ever representation of Palestine in the Ithaca Festival parade, please send e-mail to sophiezapala@aol.com.

Cayuga Trails Club’s 4th annual celebration of National Trails Day | 9:00 AM-, 6/04 Saturday | Find further details for this event at our website at cayugatrailsclub.org 11th Annual Live Like Liz Timed 5K Race/Walk | 10:00 AM-, 6/05 Sunday | Watkins Glen High School Track, 301 12th St., Watkins Glen | Registration is in the WGHS field house, the race begins on the WGHS track and continues on the Catherine Valley Trail. Register at: livelikeliz.org/events/ race-registration Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | 5:00 PM-, 6/07 Tuesday The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening at 5 PM. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Circle for Healthy Eating and Wellness (CHEW) | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 6/07 Tuesday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | A peer-facilitated support group for people in recovery or recovered from eating disorders. An affiliate of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated

Americana dynamo Valarie June visits The Dock this Thursday, 6/02 at 7:00 pm. Don’t miss out on her killer and soulful mix of varying styles. (Photo Provided) Disorders (ANAD). Info at chewithaca@ gmail.com

Learning Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/01 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation.

Square Foot Gardening | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 6/01 Wednesday | Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Learn what this intensive method is, how to do square foot gardening, the pros and cons of the method, and see a raised bed SFG kit. Pre-registration preferred. Please call 272-2292 for more information or registration.

Preschool Bookmakers: Children’s Bookmaking Program | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/02 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A four-part program facilitated by local artist Mary Beth

Ihnken, this program will help children ages 3 through 5 discover the beauty of wordless books while creating their own illustration-only stories. All supplies will be provided and children will leave the final session with their own completed book. To register, or for more information, contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

Ithaca Red Tent | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 6/05 Sunday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Ithaca Red Tent - A place for women, created by women, where we can explore all that it means to be a woman. Join us: first Saturday of every month from 10:00 – 3:00 PM. For more information, please visit www.

IthacaRedTent.com Explore Your Watershed | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 6/05 Sunday | Six Mile Creek, , Ithaca | A walk along the woodland trails that parallel Six Mile Creek, the source of Ithaca¹s drinking water, led by Watershed Coordinator Roxy Johnston. Meet in the parking lot of the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve.

Contact Roxy for more info: 607-2734680; roxannaj@cityofithaca.org.

Agency Merger: The View from Inside | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/06 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | With Sue Dale-Hall, Child Development Council; Dale Johnson, Hospicare; Paul Mazzarella, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing; and Warren Allmon, Paleontological Research Institution.

Firefighter Storytime | 11:00 AM, 6/06 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library will host City of Ithaca Firefighter Thomas Basher, Jr. for a special storytime. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

It Depends on the Lens: Addressing Unconscious Bias in the Staff Search Process | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/07 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | With Dane Cruz, Vivian Relta, and Jum Warritay.

T’ai Chi Classes | 11:30 AM-, 6/07 Tuesday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing | John Burger - Instructor. T’ai Chi promotes balance, flexibility, coordination and can reduce pain.

Communication tools for small businesses with Erica Marx | 3:00 PM-4:30 PM, 6/07 Tuesday | Alternatives Federal Credit Union, 125 N Fulton St, Ithaca | In this workshop you will learn the single biggest mistake that sabotages effective communication, and how to correct it. Through exercises and real-life examples you will experience the difference skilled communication makes on the trajectory of a conversation. You can learn more by visiting www.businesscents.org/ training.

Kombucha Brew Class | 7:00 PM-, 6/07 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Registration is required and space is limited. For more information contact the Ford Library: 607-869-3031 or ovidlib@rochester.rr.com. Events can be found online ovidlibrary.org.

Special Events Ithaca Festival | Friday, 6/03 through Sunday, 06/05 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | The Ithaca Festival is a weekend music and arts celebration, the premier event of its kind in Tompkins County. Over 1,000

talented local musicians, painters, dancers, clowns, community groups, and ensembles perform throughout the Ithaca Festival weekend. Enjoy multiple stages of entertainment, some special kid’s activities, a craft show, a parade, a local film festival, an arts for social justice area, and delicious festival food at various locations. For a full schedule and performers visit ithacafestival.org VVA Chapter 480 Joseph Kinney Memorial All Night Catfish Derby | 7:00 AM-, 6/04 Saturday | Hickories Park, , Owego | $3000 Grand Prize, $1000 First Prize, 13 Cash Prizes, Adult and Childrens Divisions! Registration 7 am-12 noon on Sat. Email: gunsup@ epix.net / www.vvachapter480.webs. com 6th Annual Herbal Hoedown | 9:00 AM-6:30 PM, 6/04 Saturday | White Hawk Ecovillage, 11 White Hawk Lane, Ithaca | Discover what is available locally, meet other herbal lovers and take classes that will cover a wide range of topics. The day will be filled with classes, walks, herbal market, and music. Classes include Medicinal Mushrooms, Poor People's Pharmacy, Harvesting & Drying Herbs, Plantain aka Life Medicine, Gemmotherapy, and many more, Herb and Tree walks, Kids’ classes, and so much more! For more information, please email herbalhoedown@gmail. com Old Ways Day | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum Dr. Joseph F. Karpinski Sr. Educational Center, 6880 East Lake Road Rt. 38 A, Auburn | Come Revisit the 1800’s. Visit the Blacksmith Shop, One Room School, Old Fashion Mercantile, Dairy Room, Country Kitchen, Bedroom and Parlor. Tour the Museum. Model T Car Rides, Horse and Wagon Rides, Demonstrations of Crafts of the Past Continuous Music, Antique Tractor Displays, Farm Animals on Display.

GIAC Festival | 11:00 AM-8:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | GIAC, 301 N Albany St, Ithaca | The GIAC Festival will still have free games and bounce houses, local food and craft vendors, community organizations and basketball events and games. GIAC participant groups performing as well as other local talent on stage from 11 AM to Noon and 2 to 3 PM. For more information, please contact us at 607-272-3622 or giacmain@cityofithaca.org.

12th Annual River Fest | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | Grove

Street Boat Launch, Elmira | Riverfront fun will include kids activities and games, music, great food, vendors, activities, exhibits, the Cornell Raptor Program, a bounce house, and more!

A live broadcast with Ally Payne from WINGZ 104.9 and then DJ Darkside will play all your requests from 1:00PM – 3:00PM. For more information, call 733-4924, e-mail nearwestside@stny. rr.com or visit www.nwnainc.com 4th Annual Woofstock | 12:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Bring the dogs, family & friends to Americana’s annual Local Shelters & Rescues Benefit for a day of games, raffles, live music all day starting at noon donated

by El Caminos, Radio London & The Purple Valley; food & wine, pet & people vendors, and new this year, the Woodstock themed Doggie Divas Fashion at 4:30! Free admission, but we WILL be collecting cash and pet-supply donations in a $1-4-$1 exchange of Doggone Fun tickets to use for food, games, wine tastings, auctions, dog show votes & more!

Toro Run Winery: 3rd Anniversary Party | Toro Run Winery, 3050 Swick Road, Ovid | Music by Bad Juju. Event will be held rain or shine with a 1pm shotgun start so arrive early! www. tororunwinery.com Jacksonville Park Community Picnic: Celebrating 50 Years | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, 6/05 Sunday | The Jacksonville Community Park, 3038 Swamp College Road, Trumansburg | Events include an opening ceremony, children’s games, and a dish to pass. There will be free hot dogs, hamburgers and beverages while they last! The picnic will feature live music performed by the Zydeco Trail Riders.

Attendees should bring a dish to pass, and their own plates and silverware.

Additional chairs or blankets to sit on are appreciated.

30th Anniversary Barnyard Birthday Bash | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 6/05 Sunday | Farm Sanctuary, 3150 Aikens Rd, Watkins Glen | Cake, Vegan Ice Cream, and other Delicious Animal–Free Birthday Snacks, A Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, Games, Fun for all ages! Visit farmsanctuary.org Dairy Parade: Cow of a Different Color | 6:30 PM-, 6/07 Tuesday | Downtown Cortland, Cortland | The parade’s theme this year is Cow of a Different Color - celebrating community diversity. mbrance at Veterans Memorial.

4th Annual Woofstock,

Greater Ithaca Art Trail,

Americana Vineyards, Saturday, June 4, 12:00 p.m.

Various Locations, Saturday, June 4, 10:00 a.m.

Join American Vineyards with your family and dogs for Woofstock 2016! It’s their 4th annual and dedicated to Miss Rubie, who went across the Rainbow Bridge last fall to join her brother Max. Live music, kids games, 50-50 raffles, pick-a- prize auctions, prize basket raffles, pet & people vendors and of course food, wine & beer all afternoon long with all the proceeds going to the local shelters!

Admission is free, but bring cash and supply donations in exchange for Dog-Gone Fun Tickets you can use for all the activities!

A Seection of art trail studios will be open on the first Saturday of each month (except January, October, and November. This week the trail welcomes the artists Stan and Mary Ann Bowman (Mary’s sculpture is pictured), Hillary Gifford’s fibert art in Trumansburg, and Anke Hoffstaetter’s paintings in Ithaca. For more info about the artists and the events in general visit ArtTrial.com.

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Book Signing with David Figura | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | David Figura, outdoors writer for The Post-Standard, Syracuse.com and NewYorkUpstate.com is holding an author chat/book signing for his book So What Are The Guys Doing? Info at www.davidjfigura.com

Weekly Pairings

by Christopher J. Harrington

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an, there’s a boatload of stuff happening this weekend. For you, dear reader, this means choices.

This means lots of varying pairings. Odd pairings, long pairings, gross pairings: the kind of pairings that’ll you’ll remember forever. Like that time you swallowed a half bottle of Jose Cuervo at that strange punk show in Eugene, and became so ill your arms were hung over for two weeks: now that’s a bad pairing: we don’t want that. In fact, anything with Cuervo is a bad pairing.

Looking at the week ahead of us here in the elastic city, you owe it to yourself to invent some inverted and safe pairings.

You work hard; and it can’t all be madness.

So take a break.

Of course you have Ithaca Festival all weekend long, so the possibilities are extended, and in many ways infinite.

Friday afternoon: you’re out of work, and you want to start things off right. Grab an Ithaca Pale Ale at Viva with your f**ing spicy Tofu Mole, scarf it down and head to the Bernie Milton Pavilion (BMP) to catch the transcendent Dakar rapper Reskape at 4:15 p.m. He brings an ambidextrous vitality to the art form, switching from French to Wolof raps like butter on bread.

This is a serious jam. The steel flavor of you

Art Proposals for Commons Boxes: An Electrical Box Mural Project. | The City of Ithaca Public Art Commission (PAC) is excited to announce a call for proposals for Commons Boxes: An Electrical Box Mural Project.

PAC is working with the Commons Management Team to create murals on three large electrical boxes located on the newly redesigned Ithaca Commons.

Successful proposals for these three boxes take into consideration the natural beauty of the area, a sense of community, and/or the Commons as the heart of Ithaca. Attached please find more information about the project as well as application instructions. This information is also available on the City of Ithaca’s website at: http://www.cityofithaca.org/353/ Public-Art-Commission Proposals.

Deadline: Proposals must be submitted

by Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.

Perrywinkle’s Paint and Sip request | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/02 Thursday | Perrywinkle’s, The Shops at Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Rd., Ithaca | In order to participate in this and/or view the painting for that night, please register and pay through the Wine & Design website: www.wineanddesign. com/locations/ithaca Creative Drawing Class | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 6/03 Friday | Eco Village, 100 Rachel Carson Way, Ithaca | Creative drawing class.

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/03 Friday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | On the first Friday of each month, art galleries in downtown hold their opening receptions for exhibitions. Visit www. downtownithaca.com for details Jim Self: Paintings / Works on Paper | 5:00 PM-, 6/03 Friday | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Full bar open all day / www.jimboself.com

Never Before Seen at SOAG | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/03 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Gallery members have invited artists who have never shown work before at SOAG and on exhibition are paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture and more. Contact info: 607-277-1626 and www.soag.org Quilt Divas 15th Anniversary Fiber Art Exhbit | 5:00 PM-, 6/03 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | The Quilt Divas, fiber artists from the Finger Lakes region of New York, present both old favorites and innovative new works on display in the first floor gallery at CSMA. For more information on the Quilt Divas, please visit www. thequiltdivas.com.

Handwork’s 40th Anniversary Celebration | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/03 Friday | Handwork, 102 W State St, Ithaca | Pottery demonstrations by Renata Wadsworth and Chet Salustri.

Tastings by Treleaven Winery. Birthday

I.P.A. will reinforce your perma-smile. After, plant yourself at the bar stool at Lot 10 and order up a Perfect Storm (blackberryinfused Gosling’s rum, lime, Ithaca Ginger Beer): the perfect get the sunny weekend happening kind of drink. Then stumble out to the Commons to see Molly and the Badly Bent Bluegrass Boys rip through some old-western- gun slinging-hope we live forever -good time bluegrass. They rage around 6:00 p.m.

Longtime town favorites (I assume) The Horse Flies play the BMP at 8:30 p.m. and should have half the city in a psychedelic-eastern- old time-folk haze of righteousness. Seriously, these guys are where the cows go to trip out when the vegan farmers have gone to bed. Don’t miss it: better yet, drink a glass or two of some Barnard Griffin Merlot from The Cellar d’Or before hand, so your dip-anddive dance looks good and solid.

Afterwards you should head over to the Chanticleer Loft to really let the star angels in. Both Friday night and Saturday night Ithaca’s favorite rock bar will be hosting MisfitFest: a festival within a festival within a festival. Loads of bands and artists will be performing from 9:00 p.m. onwards on both nights, and the amount of sickness that’s happening is stellar. Highlights on Friday include Junkyard Theory, a wicked mesh of triphop, dub, electronic, and tripped-out fun, and Dave Streater, a local pianist, who’ll hopefully be laying out some Chopin and some Ray Charles, but truth be told, I don’t know what he’ll be busting out: all part of the mystery.

Saturday you have Ithaca Underground Stage in Press Bay Alley:

cake and refreshments provided.

First Saturday on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 6/04 Saturday | various locations | For artists and event listings visit ArtTrail. com ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Marie Sanderson: The Golden Cap. Watercolor illustrations of an immigration narrative set in early 20th century Netherlands. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Rachel Philipson photographs, “La Habana” through June 15th. Rachel Philipson photographs of the streets of Havana, Cuba. Her small scale photographs capture the intimacy and pace of the streets of Havana, Cuba.

Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland

Farm Sanctuary, Sunday, June 5, 11:00 a.m.

The number one issue of your time is the inhuman treatment and insane slaughtering of sentient farm animals. Farm Sanctuary stands not only as an important metaphor, but also shows the vital importance of all life on this planet. You don’t need to eat meat to live, and you shouldn’t participate in the slaughtering of animals that this planet is deeply invested in. It’s destroying this planet, and rightly so: the love and mindfulness humans show all it’s relative sentient beings will be the manifest of their destiny.

Come out and party with the animals on this day! Celebrate life!

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the lineup is your best section of extreme and underground bands for the whole day; you know all about that, but if you should astray from that locale, and you should, and will, check out Neo Project at the Markles Flats Park at 12:15 p.m. These guys lay down some serous funk and soul: lengthwise, outreaching, and lush. This’ll serve your funk onging for the day; and the rest of it will just damn flow. Around this time drink some water: add some lemon and lime to it; maybe get a Kombucha somewhere: some vendor will have it. Play it healthy: Saturday’s a long one.

Mr. McBean brings his killer raps to the Markles Flats Park at 1:20 p.m. It’s gonna rule. Mosiac Foundation brings the dub and roots reggae same place at 4:50:

Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center) Ithaca | OneTwoThree, a solo exhibit of new work by Ruth Sproul, is on view through June 30. | www.cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Marty Kepecs: Bold in Charge This show is of painting, collage, and assemblage.

Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Spring Loaded, The Art of Melissa Zarem, opens May 6th and runs through Jun 26th at eye gallery on the Commons. The collection will feature many new, never before seen paintings and the black and white imagery from her new coloring book, Spring Loaded, published by eye.

Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Keepers of the Sky: New Paintings by Nicholas Gecan Gecan says, “I’m painting spaces— fragments and moments of the ephemeral fabric of the natural world. I often feel I’m not the artist, that nature

So there’s that. You could have a Corona at some bar to really play to the heat. Maybe sneak into Silky Jones for that. They’ll probably be some DJ there laying down some house and techno (hopefully). Silky Jones is the second coolest bar in Ithaca.

So give it a go.

MisfitFest has a plethora of behemoths playing Saturday night: Thur Spectrums, Ilium Works, Water Bears, and Stranded With A Kiss to name a few.

Will you still be standing to check them out: I don’t know; only you will. My advice is to never drink more than four drinks in the span of five hours. Of course you can, and probably will, but that’s just my advice.

Big weekend out there: cheers and be safe! •

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Candor. The house looks out over cleared Beyond the bathroom is a walk-in acreage and there is mature woodland on closet in a short hallway that leads directly the slopes above it. The front of the house to another large includes numerous bedroom that has windows, some of windows on the them floor to ceiling, back side of the to take advantage of house and facing this spectacular view. east.

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