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ity residents interested in weighing in on which sidewalks get replaced in 2017 should contact city staffers just about now.

The official comment period for input on the 2017 sidewalk plan ended on June 21, but city transportation engineer Eric Hathaway and sidewalk program manager Johnathan Licitra say they will be happy to take further comment before the Board of Public Works (BPW) is asked to approve next year’s work schedule. That will likely happen in August, according to Hathaway.

The city has about $860,000 from fees assessed to property owners that it will spend on sidewalk repair and design next year. Individual home owners paying a $70 per year fee and larger residential buildings and commercial properties pay more. Ithaca is divided into five sidewalk improvement districts. Engineers have been presenting the tentative plans for next year’s work in open sessions throughout June, soliciting feedback from residents about how much money to put toward simply replacing sidewalk versus how much they’d like to see funds spent on designing sidewalks for places where there are none.

This year’s sidewalk work plan is available on the city’s website, cityofithaca. org. John F. & John P. Wenzel Contractors, of Elmira, started work on the 2016 plan in the second week of June, and will be working on completing the plan through the end of September, Hathaway said. • Email Licitra at jlicitra@cityofithaca. org for details about the 2017 plan or to give input. A copy of the plan should be posted at the city website, too.

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We don’t have any beef with the carpenters or anything like that.”

According to Colton, there’s no timeline for the picketing to end, with another banner campaign planned for Binghamton. Colton pointed the Ithaca Times to the state Department of Labor website for guidelines for wage numbers.

The current prevailing wage is listed as $27.32 for a carpenter in this county, before benefits; what the “area standard wage” might be is unclear. On their flyer, the union says that it has a labor dispute with McPherson Builders, the contractor that 619 West State Street LLC hired to renovate the new HOLT office space.

“The dispute is over what the carpenters call the area standard wage, plus benefits, which they think every carpenter

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icketers representing the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, Local 277, continue to demonstrate outside the recently opened West End office of HOLT Architects at 619 W. State St. A flyer handed out by a demonstrator standing with the banner, who said he couldn’t speak about what he was doing, proclaims “SHAME ON Holt Architects For Desecration of the American Way of Life.”

“A rat is a contractor that does not pay all of its employees the Area Standard Wages,” the flyer’s text begins, “including either providing or making payments for family health care and pension benefits.”

The “banner people,” as they were “Banner people” outside HOLT Architects’ office on W. State St. (Photo: Diane Duthie) called by Local 277 Horseheads team leader Scott Colton, are not union members. in the world should be paid,” said Jerry The demonstrators are outside HOLT’s Stevenson, president at McPherson new office “like clockwork,” said HOLT Builders. “Of course, most aren’t. $47 or principal Graham Gillespie, four days a $48 an hour is what they’re asking, and week for about six hours each day since most people don’t get paid that kind of March. money for doing that kind of work.”

“We’ve asked them a couple of “We’re nonunion, so there’s really no times what it’s going to take,” Gillespie standard wage,” Stevenson continued. said about ending the picketing. “We “We pay our people anywhere from well certainly understand their piece, that they over union scale in base pay to well below would like more work to be union work. union scale in base pay.” That base pay, Normally, that’s not up to us as designers.

Stevenson said, is about $25 per hour. In This situation is a little bit different; the LLC that did renovations here does have continued on page 5 some of the partners involved in that …

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Assessment Law Waits For Cuomo

By Er ic a D i schino

How you decide where to go out on Friday night?

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“It depends on my schedule but normally I go where my friends are.”

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“It depends on what live music events are going and everything else follows. That’s definitely my priority.”

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“I usually just walk around and see what’s going on.”

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he New York State Senate and Assembly have both passed a law that will allow assessors to assign a value to a property that takes into account restrictions associated with being part of a community land trust. However, to go into effect the law must still be signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Existing real property law requires that all properties be assessed at 100 percent of its value on the open market. Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) builds houses with the help of grant money, which keeps the price of the house below market, making them affordable to lowincome buyers.

“When they sell the property in future,” said Paul Mazzarella, the executive director of INHS, “there is a limit has to what it can be sold for. In order to maintain permanent affordability, it is not allowed to appreciate more than 2 percent per year.”

If an owner is being taxed based on a much higher value, then their tax bill is higher. How much higher? Mazzarella used a home at 409 Elm Street in Ithaca as an example. INHS built it in 2010. It was sold to a new owner in 2015 for $132,000, but it was assessed as worth $220,000. This $88,000 difference meant that the lowincome owner paid $3,325 more in taxes.

“The inequity we are trying to resolve,” said Mazzarella, “is that the right value is the actual purchase price.”

According to Jay Franklin, director of assessment for Tompkins County, before the passage of the new law the New York State Office of Real Property Tax Services ruled that, “voluntary restrictions in sale price should not be taken into consideration when determining an assessment.”

Should the bill be signed to law, “The assessment process of these properties will not change,” said Franklin, “but an exemption will be applied for those taxing jurisdictions that want to offer this exemption.”

Franklin is referring to what Mazzarella called a “wrinkle” that was added to the law by legislators. “Tompkins County must pass a local law to authorize [use of the new exemption],” he said, “and each local taxing district—city, school, town, village—must opt in.” This most immediately refers to taxing districts in the county that have INHS community trust properties.

The owners of INHS homes purchase only the house, not the land it is built on; INHS retains ownership of the parcel itself.

Franklin provided an example of a house his office had assessed at $170,000. The conditions of the INHS land trust limited its resale value to $108,064, but this did

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$47,000 for two, and $52,850 for a household of three people. “These are people with modest incomes,” said Mazzarella. “They are mostly working people, although some of them are retirees.”

INHS is actively trying to grow the community land trust program.

“There will be seven new units at Hancock Street,” he said, “and if [the law is enacted] that will affect our ability to sell those.”

INHS is also a lender. One of the benefits of reducing the property taxes, the director said, would be to enlarge to pool of people who could qualify for a INHS house at 301 Madison St. (Photo: Sheryl Sinkow) mortgage. The existence of the law might make it easier for INHS to not include the value of the land it sits on, get grants for future projects; if which the county had assessed as being more people qualify to buy their houses, the worth $30,000. projects are more like to be viable.

As part of the terms of the new law, the He mentioned the Greenways project value of the land will essentially be ignored, in the town of Ithaca as an example of according to Franklin. He stressed that the development that didn’t go forward. It values he provided in his example shouldn’t always costs INHS more to build the house be generalized. than the eventually selling price will make “Each house is treated differently by back; the difference is filled by grants. “We INHS,” said Franklin, “and the maximum had to abandon Greenways because the resale value will have to be calculated by property taxes were driving up the cost of INHS each year and supplied to me. And ownership,” he said. “’[The grant] wasn’t while I mention INHS, this is applicable enough to subsidize Greenways.” He also to any not-for-profit that is subject to a cited the rising cost of materials and of regulatory agreement and operates in a putting in infrastructure as factors. manner consistent with the above example.”

“It can be many months before the According to Mazzarella, before the bill governor gets around to acting on a law,” passed in the state legislature, the city, town, Mazzarella said. “It’s not time-critical for us and school boards of Ithaca, had all already until next March, when the assessor values passed resolutions in support of the bill. properties again.”

In Tompkins County INHS defines “low income” as being 80 percent of the – Bill Chaisson median income here. For on person that editor@ithacatimes.com means an income of $41,000 per year,

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eople aged 24 and older who are considering continuing their education should take a look at the Pathways scholarship program offered by Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3).

The Pathways scholarship is open to “nontraditional students, who might be coming back to school if they have a long break, or if they’ve never been able to start their journey into college,” according to Patty Tvaroha, the Pathways program coordinator.

Pathways is funded by a $2 million grant from Arthur Kuckes, founder of Vector Magnetics. When the program was started in 2008, there were eight students; now up to 80 students can participate at a time. The program is for students who haven’t completed a college degree, who have not earned more than 15 college credits over the last five years, or have been out of college at least five years. Pathways

participants have to be residents of Tompkins, Cortland, or Tioga counties.

Scholarships can be as large as a total of $7,000, with $1,750 available for fulltime students over four semesters and $875 available for part-time students over eight semesters.

Students accepted into the Pathways program also receive support services.

“Non-traditional students, of course, have a lot to deal with other than just school,” Tvaroha said. “We’ve become really good at connecting people with the resources they need so they can focus on their studies more. Sometimes that means rental assistance or food assistance … food insecurity is a big worry for a lot of our students.”

The program has become competitive in recent years, Tvaroha said; the deadline for applications to receive support in the fall 2016 semester is July 1. People looking at starting school next spring should apply

by December 1 of this year. • For more information, visit tompkinscortland.edu/foundation and select the Pathways page; email Tvaroha at pathways@TC3.edu or call the Pathways office at 607-844-8222, ext. 4261.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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Changing Anti-LBGTQ Blood Donation Rules

▶ Cancer moonshot, The award-winning Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes www.crcfl.net will host a Cancer Moonshot Summit on Wednesday June 29, 1-2:30 p.m., at the Greenstar Space, 700 W Buffalo St., Ithaca, in concert with a national summit led by Vice President Joe Biden. .Ithaca Mayor Myrick has declared June 29 as Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes National Cancer Moonshot Summit Day in the City of Ithaca, noting the Center, “has been an invaluable community leader and asset in this field, and is increasingly considered a national model.”

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t was mid-April during Ithaca College’s first student-led initiative IC Color, a week long event devoted to recognizing typically underrepresented populations. On the day dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community, recent graduate Kyle James noticed a Red Cross truck for a campus blood drive.

But according to the blood donation guidelines by the U.S. Food and Drug Ithaca College students cover themselves in fake blood for the “My Blood is Good” Administration (FDA), he would not campaign spearheaded by Kyle James. (Photo: Marlowe Padilla) be able to donate blood as a result of his previous sexual activity. He decided to take a selfie in front of the truck instead. at all. donate according to the FDA’s revised “[The FDA guidelines] prevented me “There was an assumption that [the recommendations for reducing HIV from even trying to donate blood. I’m a transmission: a man who has had sex with homosexual community] had an unusually person who normally would donate too. high sex-drive,” James said. “We want the another man within the past 12 months, a A few people I know went to donate their FDA to research in a less discriminatory female who has had sex with a man who blood and were actually way and stop assuming that a certain had sex with another turned away at Ithaca man within the past 12 population has high-risk sex practices.” “ [The FDA guidelines] College because of their James saw the need for more months, and those with sexuality,” James said. prevented me from awareness around the issue and wanted to recent tattoo, ear or This is how the gather support in order to effect a change. even trying to donate body piercings. idea for the “My Blood He immediately contacted two other Specifically for blood. I’m a person is Good” social media transgender individuals recently graduated Ithaca College seniors, campaign began. who normally would the recommendation Marlowe Padilla and Chris Kelley, after The campaign, the blood drive. Within two weeks, the states, “In the context donate too.” launched May 5, went campaign was launched on social media. of the donor history viral after the mass —Kyle James, “There’s an urgent need for blood questionnaire, male or shooting in Orlando, “My Blood is Good” donors in our country. There are female gender should Florida June 12 and communities who otherwise could donate be self-identified and World Blood Donor Day but can’t because of their identity. We self-reported for the on June 14. need to do everything we can to help purpose of blood It features Ithaca College students each other and right now these laws and donation.” against a minimal white background with discriminatory practices are preventing These policies are there to regulate their faces dripping in blood. Each image these giant communities from doing that,” the blood supply of those who have an has the FDA guideline applicable to the James said. increased risk of HIV infection, which subject that forbids them from donating In a press release from is most commonly contracted by having along with the #MYBLOODISGOOD December 2015, the FDA changed its unprotected sex, or not using a condom, hashtag. with a person who has HIV. Those who The images show four groups of fall under the guidelines are deferred 12 continued on page 7 people who are presently unable to months from donating or cannot donate unionprotest contin u ed from page 3

his understanding, Stevenson believes the carpenters’ union to be asking for wages that reflect a deal they have struck with Cornell.

In a letter that HOLT sent out to West End neighbors early in June, the firm said that the difference in bids was 18 percent higher for union labor on the approximately $2 million office renovation.

“Ours was a small project, relatively speaking,” Gillespie said, “but there’s only so much we can finance or it’s coming out of pocket. If it’s coming out of pocket, it’s not going to employees … the project has has to be financially feasible—not only to us, but to the bank.”

“The laborers holding the sign in front

of our building told us they are temporary workers, not union members,” HOLT’s letter to neighbors reads. “Presumably they are not being paid union wages. Or union benefits.”

In that same letter, HOLT said that in 2015, it designed more than $75 million in projects, with 74 percent of them using union labor.

The “shame on” rhetoric and placing banners in prominent locations seems to be a national strategy of the carpenters’ union; reports of the practice can be found in numerous states around the country over the last half-decade. Locally, McPherson projects at Magnolia House and at Simeon’s have also been picketed from time to time. On the “rat” flyer, the union asks concerned citizens to call HOLT; Gillespie said the firm has not heard from anyone voicing concern,

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 ▶ IC prof remembered, Ithaca College Professor of Marketing and Law Michael LaTour passed away in November 2015. The Michael LaTour Memorial Fund for Research Excellence will recognize the research and accomplishments of faculty in the college’s School of Business. Grants from the fund will support professors performing high-quality, impactful research that can be published in top-tier academic journals.

LaTour himself was a dedicated researcher and prolific author who had a significant impact on the field of advertising. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of March 9-15 include: 1) Editorial | A Liberal Bubble Bursts 2) Be Who You Are: The transgender issue in local schools and libraries 3) The Space Between: Eclectic rockers Dave Matthews Band play new Syracuse venue 4) Stewart Park Redux: Renovation plans in progress with more changes to come 5) A Trail from Ithaca to Taughannock Falls For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

though they have fielded questions about the demonstrators via word-of-mouth.

“If the community wanted to engage in a wider discussion about local labor, about union labor, that’d probably be a healthy thing,” Gillespie said. “There’s a lot of work going on here, and I know they want to get their share … I don’t agree with their tactics, certainly.

“Having them out there is not fun obviously,” Gillespie continued. “It’d be nice to get some outreach rather than them just showing up on our doorstep … It might be we can do something, it might be we can’t. We haven’t heard anything, so we don’t know.”

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We Are With George

Foul Weather

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n our June 8 issue we published an article called “Be Who You Are,” about the discomfort caused among some parents when their 10 year-olds brought home George, a book about a transgendered fourth-grader. We talked to a parent who said she wished she had been notified ahead of time, and to a school board member and the superintendent of schools, neither of whom were aware of the communityread choice. The superintendent received six phone calls from upset parents, and had no idea what they were talking about.

In the same issue we published an editorial called “A Liberal Bubble Bursts,” which suggested that the library and the middle school libraries should have reached beyond their usual orbits to spread the word that George was the community read. It was the hope and intent of the editorial to point out that there was no subterfuge going on it was instead merely oversight on the part of well-meaning public servants.

Four days after the publication of the article and editorial, a gunman killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub, many of them gay and some of them transgender. This shocking event made our criticism of any attempt to educate the public about their transgender peers seem utterly

misguided and tone-deaf.

The editorial was motivated by a sincere wish that George be read, understood, and its message embraced by as many members of the Trumansburg community as possible.

As members of the press, we follow the national news closely and are aware of the ignorance and fear surrounding the transgender issue everywhere in the country. The statistics for not just prejudice but violence against transgender people are awful. For example, the U.S. Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime reports that half of all transgendered people will be sexually abused or assaulted at some point in their lives. We are also aware that LGBTQ students have been bullied in Trumansburg schools. It was a good idea to select George as a community read.

Our June 8 story was about transgendered children. Our correspondent, Glynis Hart, the editor of the Trumansburg Free Press, interviewed the mother of a transgendered child who lives locally.

We didn’t interview transgendered children or adults in part because the article and the editorial were not really about the issue per se, but how issues continued on page 7

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ince 2001, 34 national science academies, three regional academies, and both the international InterAcademy Council (IAC) and International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (ICAETS) have made formal declarations confirming human-induced global warming and urging nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

CANDIDATE TRUMP ON WEATHER: Actually, we’ve had times where the weather wasn’t working out, so they changed it to extreme weather, and they have all different names, you know, so that it fits the bill. But the problem we have, and if you look at our energy costs, and all of the things that we’re doing to solve a problem that I don’t think in any major fashion exists. I mean, Obama thinks it’s the number one problem of the world today.

And I think it’s very low on the list. So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather. I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up again. And it changes depending on years and centuries, but I am not a believer, and we have much bigger problems.

ASE-CERTIFIED AUTO MECHANIC: Sir, your brakes are wearing quite thin and they should be replaced immediately. Your car’s not safe in its current condition.

CAR OWNER: Cars stop, and sometimes they go. If you look at my car payment and gas, and insurance, I don’t think there’s a problem that in any major fashion exists. I am not a believer and I have much bigger problems. Mechanics have been wrong in the past!

ABMS-CERTIFIED THORACIC ONCOLOGIST: You really should stop smoking. These x-rays show suspicious spots on both your lungs, and your cough broke the window in our waiting room.

SMOKER: Everybody coughs sometimes, even non-smokers. Could

be a cold, or natural fluctuations in lung capacity. Now we’re calling it ‘lung cancer’ and all different names. Not a believer, and I need proof, not x-rays.

AMS-CERTIFIED METEOROLOGIST: The Doppler radar shows a class 4 hurricane will make landfall on the beach in front of your house in approximately 45 minutes.

You should evacuate immediately.

BEACH HOUSE OWNER: Oh, so now we’re listening to weather forecasters?

Please! The skies have gotten this dark before and nothing bad occurred. It happens every night, in fact. I’m not going anywhere.

JONAS SALK, M.D.: This vaccine will prevent polio.

FUTURE POLIO VICTIM: People have been ingesting medicine and getting shots for years, and polio is still around. I’m not going to listen to some pencil-necked scientist. I know what I know.

ISAAC NEWTON: Don’t sit under this apple tree. You might get hit in the head. By an apple.

GRAVITY DENIER: What do you know, Mr. Science? Ouch!

GALILEO GALILEI: The sun is at the center of the solar system and the planets revolve around it.

SUPREME SACRED ROMAN CATHOLIC INQUISITION: We find you guilty of heresy and sentence you to lifetime house arrest.

2011 ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS REPORT: Hey, Ithaca, if you don’t dredge the flood control channel, there’s a one percent chance every year that the flat parts of Ithaca, including commercial properties with a total assessed value of more than $245 million, industrial development assessed at $9 million, over 600 dwelling units, four churches and one BOCES school (total assessed value of all damage: $420 million) will be flooded.

ITHACA CITY GOVERNMENT: (fingers in ears) Lalalalalala … •

YourOPINIONS

Standing By Selection of George

Dear Community, Since there is a great deal of misinformation and gossip about the community read; I want to provide the facts.

I proudly stand by Alex Gino’s book George, as a community read choice for all of us. This story is about a girl who feels she doesn’t belong. The response in the local press illustrates why she would feel isolated and alone. Any title could be challenged, and our responsibility as a library is to provide information to our 6

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entire community. Our selection process has a long history and meets our library standards. If our choice makes one child feel more welcome, helps them understand that gender identity is part of human growth, or that we all belong without needing to conform, then we are doing our job.

We distributed the school’s community read selections for Seedfolks (teen pregnancy, hunger, poverty) and I am Malala (child shot in the head); selected continued on page 7

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that are associated with controversy can be better handled so that more people are reached and more understanding spread more widely. But when the issue became associated with horrific tragedy rather than controversy, our concerns seemed beside the point.

We will cover the transgender issue itself in future issue. The Ithaca office of Planned Parenthood is the only one in upstate New York to offer transgender hormone therapy. This presents an opportunity to learn more about this issue from the point of view of health care providers, transgendered people seeking the treatment, and educators who are helping both transgendered people and the people who know them to understand who they are. • Youropinions contin u ed from page 6

by the school for similar reasons without comment. How saddened I am that a story about a transgender child raised intolerance. Parents have the right to choose whether their own children read the selected title or not. And parents were informed.

The library sent 2300 newsletters into the community, advertised on Facebook, our website, and sent numerous press releases out to our regular distribution lists including the community newspapers. On May 24, I sent the flyers, bookmarks, stickers, and bookplates to the school and the Ovid Library so they could also publicize the read, as promised. We didn’t warn or notify, but we certainly did offer publicity for the opportunity to read and learn.

This project was funded by the Myrtle Dee Nash Memorial fund of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County. I invited participation to the Edith B. Ford Memorial Library in Ovid, and to the School Library in Trumansburg and received overwhelming support from both. I did not have an agenda beyond choosing good story that would invite thoughtful conversation, or only use the Ovid library or school for distribution, but rather offered the opportunity for mutual benefit. While the public library would have proceeded without the school or Ovid library we welcomed both.

We also recognize that children participate by being part of a community of peers that struggle with their own issues while growing up. A goal of our grant is to provide a thoughtful, understanding conversation where fear does not make people hide or censor.

I look forward to the opportunity to speak with you directly, rather than through the press. Please read Melissa’s story and come to our book discussions in August.

Thank you, – Annette Birdsall, Ulysses Philomathic Library Director, Trumansburg

Opposing the Car Dealership Plan

Last week, the Project Growing Hope community garden voted, in essence, to support the proposed Maguire car dealership near the farmers market. I have been a gardener at this location for 11 years. This decision saddens me to no end. The garden board has essentially ratified car culture and endorsed the city’s unsustainable and unprogressive approach to development.

If this car dealership goes through (and I plan to fight it in every other way I can), the garden community as well as the greater Ithaca community will regret it profoundly 20 years hence (maybe even sooner). We are facing a crisis of civilization, one that is in no small measure the result of our addiction to automobiles. The fact that the community garden board and so many other entities in Ithaca are facilitating this addiction is dispiriting to say the least.

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recommendation that men who have sex with men to be indefinitely deferred, which has been in place for 30 years, to 12 months since the last sexual contact with another man.

James believes this is still the wrong approach.

He wants the campaign to change the FDA’s research focus to be on highrisk activities instead of targeting specific identities. The shocking images as well as petition on change.org that will be delivered to the FDA, James hopes, will help do that. The campaign currently has 12,925 signatures and is growing daily.

These signatures rapidly increased after the Orlando shooting at Pulse on June 12. James said it was because it shed light on a lot of the same issues. It was also due to the large amount the LGBTQ community wanting to donate and realizing they could not.

“It’s really tragic that something that negative and that big has to happen before people realize that discrimination against the LGBTQ community is very real and occurs on so many different levels,” he said.

He said the campaign has increased the conversation so far and hopes that it will eventually speed up the FDA’s process of reviewing their policies and research studies. He also urges for the studies to become more diverse instead of generalizing homosexuals as a whole.

James said this can be done by relooking the way the FDA conduct’s their subject topics.

“The [LGBTQ] community has given me so much as a person. It’s helped me figure out who I am and has given me a family and so many people who generally care about me. I want to do everything I can to give back to this community and this campaign does that to a certain extent,” James said.

– Erica Dischino

sports

Playing the Game They Love

Professional lacrosse players don’t make big bucks

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n his best-selling book, Outliers: The swag, so their incomes are supplemented Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell significantly, but for now, Seibald (a looks at the top-of-the-food-chain midfielder for the Boston Cannons), performers in many areas—from sports to Buczek (a middie for the Florida Launch) business to music—and he puts forth the and Pannell (an attack man for the NY assertion that it takes about 10,000 hours Lizards) are likely very happy to just of practicing the correct way to achieve keep playing the game they love. This this world-class expertise. will be Pannell’s second straight All Star Given this is a sports column, we will appearance, as the leader of the Lizards’ take a look at the outliers who have risen potent offense is currently fouth in the to the top of their worlds, and given it league in goals (with 21) and fifth in is a local sports column, we’ll talk about points (with 33). Seibald and Buczek are how three lacrosse players who played also among the league’s top producers, and at Cornell and are are currently tied for now Major League the lead with four twoLacrosse All Stars point goals. are finally making • • • some money.

Speaking of If a hockey outliers, it was an player makes it to amazing experience to the NHL, he will watch the Cleveland likely be pleased Cavaliers claw their to know that the way back from the minimum salary is brink and become the $555,000 (while the first team ever to win average is around an NBA championship $2.75 million). after being down three A Major League games to one. It is baseball player or difficult to imagine an NBA player will a better scenario for see a minimum the NBA, and the of $507,000 (with new kings (Stephen an average of $4 Curry, the two-time million for baseball MVP and his powerful and $5 million for supporting cast that a hoopster), and an won a staggering 73 NFL player will see a regular season games) Rob Pannell (Photo: bigredcornell.com) bit less, as $420,000 would take on the “real” is the minimum King (LeBron) James, (with an average just who had returned to north of $2 million).

Cleveland with the promise that he would When one hears all these “Major bring the city its first NBA championship League” references, and hears that Rob ever. What a script …

Pannell (Cornell class of 2013) Connor While it did seem that King James Buczek (’15) and Max Seibald (’09) have and his team “should” win the series from been selected to play in the Major League a scripted and sentimental standpoint, it Lacrosse All Star game on July 9 in was difficult to consider them the favorites California, one might assume those guys against the mighty Warriors. will roll up in Bentleys, Porsches or even a The first ominous sign came when the private jet. Well … probably not.

Warriors’ Draymond Greene continued While these three elite players have his ridiculous pattern of dirty play, and got indeed risen to cream-of-the-crop status himself suspended for kicking James in the in their sport, lacrosse has some catching crotch. Having the player that Warriors’ up to do to make its players wealthy. In coach Steve Kerr and called “the heart fact, given the minimum salary is $7,000, and soul of the team” watching from the and the average player make between 10 bench gave the Cavaliers even more fire in and 20 grand per year, most of these guys their collective belly, and the improbable have full time jobs in addition to their comeback was underway. In Game 7, lacrosse careers. two images will endure: LeBron James The former Big Red players will sprinting the length of the court to catch not be thinking about that when they up to a driving Warrior and block the shot take the field at Cal State Fullerton next a foot above the rim, and Curry flipping month, as they all knew that their chosen a (totally unnecessary) behind-the-back sport would not make them rich. Many pass out of bounds to turn the ball over at do work a lot of camps and sell a lot of a crucial time in the biggest of games. • T

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“There is product readily available most every day,” said Kevin McKenna, who’s in his eighth year as an investigator with the Ithaca Police Department. “Early on in 2009, only a select few would have any heroin available. To see the increase in availability only shows that the market is flooded. However, with that surplus the prices are still fairly solid because they know the demand outweighs the supply … We’ve seen heroin grow from a small, tight circle of addicts, who mostly kept to themselves, underground so to speak, to the epidemic it is today.”

A decade ago, when he started using heroin, Herb said there were maybe two dealers who operated in downtown Ithaca.

“Now there as many dealers as there were users back then, 30 or 40,” Herb said.

“You can only imagine how many users there are … You see lots of new faces.

There are old faces around, but not that many.”

It’s often said, and reported, that much of the recent heroin boom has to do with the increase in prescribed opioid painkillers from the late ‘90s into the mid2000s, then the sudden restriction of that supply by state actions like the 2012 New York law called I-STOP, which created an electronic database for prescriptions and made fraud extremely difficult. That narrative generally hews to what was seen on the street by users over the last 10 years or so.

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“There were a ton of people doing pills,” said “George,” who used and dealt heroin in Ithaca until the latter part of last decade. “Pill junkies were upper class, that martini crowd. They’d say ‘I’m not doing heroin’ and spend $80 on an Oxy.” Oxycontin was easily accessible on the street, Herb said, with 80 milligram (mg) Oxycontins (the brand name for oxycodone) coming in for about $15 and salable for $50. He had access to maybe 200 80-mg pills a month, along with bottles containing 30 20-milliliter (mL) doses that cost $100 to $150 a bottle. The increase in access to prescription drugs also changed the character of the people using on the street, Herb said; knowledge about “natural harm reduction” passed down over the years was lost.

“When Oxycontin came out, you didn’t need to go to an old timer,” Herb said, “you could go to a doctor. Then, all of a sudden everyone had heroin.”

Oxycodone was developed and put into clinical use after 1916; Herb’s speaking of it as “coming out” suggests an expansion of its use.

The difference between the peak of the street market in Oxycontin and today’s heroin market is in the consistency of supply.

“With heroin today, there is never a time I can’t get it,” Herb said. “Six to eight hours is the longest time period. With Oxy you could go days.”

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“The quality really fluctuated for a while,” Brian said. Around 2009, a “uniformly average” price was $20 for a bag of heroin, or $180 for a bundle.

A bundle is 10 bags; the standard is to divide a gram of heroin into 20 bags, or “25 to a gram if you’re a scumbag,” according to George.

At his peak, George was buying quarter-kilograms already bagged up for about $35 a bundle, 500 bundles at a time.

“Cutting was too much of a hassle.

I bought it bagged up,” George said. “I learned from some real old-school guys you let the drugs sell themselves. You don’t add or subtract. All you have to do is answer the phone and be there.”

Today, an average price for the end user is $15 a bag, with $10 per bag and $100 per bundle available, according to Herb. He said a user might pay $180 a bundle “in the outskirts, in Groton or Enfield, if you don’t know anybody.”

McKenna said he saw the market change drastically in early 2012, when the price dropped from $180 a bundle in the winter to “less than $100 for a bundle approximately six months later.”

It was also 2012 when McKenna said he started seeing heroin offered by weight on the street, in half-gram or gram increments.

Brian said he saw weight offered at first at about $75 for a half-gram and $150 for a gram; then “a gram of pretty high

quality came down on average to about $120 a gram, $60 a half-gram.”

Five years ago, “it was a rarity” to see heroin sold by weight, Herb said. It’s less hassle for dealers, though, in his opinion: “It’s easier to sell a half gram or gram of dope. To make 1,000 bags takes a while.”

“To our knowledge,” McKenna said, “there is not one person charging exponentially more than others. All of the prices are within ballpark ranges of each other.”

McKenna said the profit margin from New York City and other major metropolitan areas is over 300 percent. So, if a dealer purchases a quarter-kilogram (50 bundles) for $35 per bundle, or $1,750, and then sells it for $15 per bag (500 bags = $7,500), then the profit will be $5,750.

“People are used to paying a higher price upstate because of the lesser availability,” McKenna said. “Dealers know they can charge more upstate for the same product they bought in bulk for a lesser price downstate.”

In his using days, Brian said the ambitious user/dealer could go to New York City and “get a brick” for $200 to $250. A brick is five bundles of 50 bags, and salable here for at least twice its price in the city.

“You’d go to 145th [Street] to 139th [Street] along Lexington and find some Dominican guy posted up there … If you keep your eyes open, generally people are going to approach you as long as they don’t think you’re a cop.”

A runner would typically approach you, Brian said, and if he should go off to find another with the information you’re looking for $500 worth of heroin, “you want to meet that guy.”

“As long as you’re willing to shoot a bag of heroin or sniff it real quick to show the person you’re not a cop, then you can start talking business,” Brian said. “You can make more money going down to the city and bringing it back, but there’s a lot more risk with that.”

poppy’s growth include a mountainous have become more common, with the band through Asia that stretches from practice often blamed for rashes of Turkey to China, Southeast Asia’s Golden overdose deaths.

Triangle that takes in parts of Burma, According to Major David Krause, of the New York State Police Community Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia; and portions of South America and Mexico.

Narcotics Enforcement Team [CNET], Which of those regions is the world’s “fentanyl is cheaper than heroin.” primary opium supplier has fluctuated “It’s a way they can increase their in modern times, depending on the profits,” Krause said. “As far as where political situation and the whims of the that’s occurring, a lot of times it is in Central Intelligence Agency; Afghanistan the major metro hubs. There are a lot of has been the world’s biggest supplier heroin mills packaging and processing in recent years, the heroin. Sometimes according to United it gets stepped on Nations statistics. multiple times through The strength of the heroin has Most of the the process.” decreased, according to both George and heroin in upstate “It used to be Herb. In the ‘90s, George said there were New York is coming heroin cut with bags that could get four to six people from Mexico or fentanyl,” McKenna high. At the height of his run as a user, South America via said. “We’re seeing pure George was shooting up to 1,000 bags major metropolitian fentanyl being sold in over two weeks, and up to 10 bags at one hubs, Krause said, lieu of heroin a lot of shot—beyond that concentration, “it gets the time.” “primarily from New impossible to shoot, like syrup.”

York City, with some “A bad batch The highest percentage of pure in the western part [of doesn’t mean bad heroin in a bag is 15 percent, Brian upstate] coming up heroin,” Herb said. said, with an average of 7 to 8 percent from Pittsburgh.”

“It either means it’s “generally a good purity.” Even the Krause’s state very good heroin or “legendary bags” referenced in the film trooper team doesn’t fentanyl-laced …

American Gangster were 85 percent see any specific gang people I know from Herb quinine, eight percent heroin (this connections to the time to time have ( P h o t o : J a i m e C o n e) combination is called “benita”) and the contemporary heroin fentanyl for sale. rest was Lidocaine, an anesthetic. trade, at least in its Generally you don’t die “The reason so many people are travel to outlying areas like Ithaca. from fentanyl, if you’re buying fentanyl.” overdosing is there’s also a lot of really “It’s more informal networks of “If something goes wrong, the stuff s***** dope out there,” Brian said. people who have contacts, in either on the street is taken off pretty quickly,” Users are searching for “the magic Mexico, Puerto Rico or other areas,” Herb continued. “The reason you see bag,” George said. “One bag might be Krause said. “It’s organized to a point, more deaths is it’s already been sold … perfect, another weak.” but not much different than if you know nobody wants someone to die, especially Users talking about drugs available somebody in Virginia who sells cars, and dealers. They don’t want to go to prison on the street might praise it by saying for 20 years off a bag of heroin they made you introduce them to someone who’s “this s*** is some fire,” calling it looking for southern cars, or “real decent dope,” or say “this what have you.” s*** is correct.”

Part of the appeal for dealers Bags will often come coming to Ithaca is Tompkins stamped or printed with “brands,” County’s emphasis on treatment, using everything from movie rather than incarceration, titles like “Predator” or “XXX” McKenna said. to the names of presidential “Dealers can be arrested candidates and newspapers like for felonies and potentially the “Daily News” or grocery enter drug court, claiming they chains like “Shop Rite.” A recent have an addiction. Once they report out of Philadelphia said complete drug court, their that dealers were stamping bags conviction is reduced, no time with the face of Golden State served,” McKenna said. “This Warriors point guard Steph allows them to be on the street Curry to indicate their product’s during the time they attend high quality. drug court, potentially doing “They had Obama bags what they were doing before during the last election,” Herb they were arrested. [New York said, “and I guarantee you they State] is also releasing prisoners have Hillary bags and probably S h a r p s b o x e s o u t s i d e S o u t h e r n Ti e r A I D S sooner, dealers are included in Feel the Bern bags.” this. They’re serving shorter P r e v e n t i o n o f f i c e o n We s t S tat e ( F i l e Lately, people have been sentences and being paroled—if p h o t o) looking for darker dope, Herb approved—back to their said, which makes “no sense because it’s communities, allowing them pick up $5 off of.” supposed to be completely clear.” The where they left off.”

“If you’re putting fentanyl in the idea might be that the darker dope has Heroin could be coming from heroin, it’s garbage dope,” George said. been less adulterated, or “stepped on,” as about anywhere, according to those it has been processed and shipped from who have used. George lists Brooklyn, wherever it entered the country.

Philadelphia, Rochester, “even Montreal” Opium, heroin’s botanical source, In recent years, reports of fentanyl, a as origination points. Herb lists Newark, synthetic opioid analgesic (pain reliever), cannot be grown in North America; Philadelphia, Rochester, Syracuse, “or the climates that can support the opium being sold as heroin or cut into heroin city.” •

THREE NEW STATE LAWS

The following laws have been passed by the state legislature and are awaiting the governor’s signature.

Eliminating Barriers To Treatment This legislation: · requires insurers to cover necessary inpatient services for the treatment of substance use disorders for as long as an individual needs them. In addition, the legislation establishes that utilization review by insurers can begin only after the first 14 days of treatment, ensuring that every patient receives at least two weeks of uninterrupted, covered care before the insurance company becomes involved. · prohibits insurers from requiring prior approval for emergency supplies of these medications.

Similar provisions will also apply to managed care providers treating individuals on Medicaid who seek access to buprenorphine and injectable naltrexone. · requires insurance companies to cover the costs of naloxone when prescribed to a person who is addicted to opioids and to his/her family member/s on the same insurance plan.

Changing Grades of Heroin

Treatment Enhancements The legislation · allows families to seek 72-hours of emergency treatment, an increase from the current 48-hours, for their loved one to stabilize and connect them to longer-term treatment options while also balancing individual rights of the incapacitated individuals. · requires hospital medical staff to provide discharge-planning services to connect patients who have or are at-risk for substance use disorder with nearby treatment options to provide continuous medical care. · authorizes trained professionals to administer naloxone in emergency situations without risk to their professional license. · extends the wraparound program launched in 2014 to provide services to individuals completing treatment including education and employment resources; legal services; social services; transportation assistance, childcare services; and peer support groups.

Prevention The legislation: · lowers the limit for opioid prescriptions for acute pain from 30-days to no more than a 7-day supply, with exceptions for chronic pain and other conditions. · mandates that these health care professionals complete three hours of education every three years on addiction, pain management, and palliative care. · requires pharmacists to provide educational materials to consumers about the risk of addiction, including information about local treatment services. · requires the State Commissioner of Health to report county-level data on opioid overdoses and usage of overdose-reversal medication on a quarterly basis.

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“The only thing holding it in place, keeping it from being torn off in a good wind storm, is where it’s tied down at the edges of the roof, and if that were to fail we would have no way to keep rain out,” said James Turner, director of facilities at TC3. “It could rip and kind of fold back to a point where it would hit something else on the roof like heating equipment or skylights.”

The main building houses administrative offices, classrooms, faculty

suites, laboratories and a library.

The college was anticipating that it would have to do something to fix the roof on the 42-yearold building within the next three or four years but was not expecting the need for a total replacement this year, according to TC3 president Carl Haynes.

The State University of New York (SUNY) will pay for half the repairs.

If the project moves The main building at TC3 needs a new roof. Now. (Photo: Jaime Cone) forward as planned, Tompkins County will pay 63 percent of the remaining half ($1.1 capital sponsors, the two counties. He said million) and Cortland County will pay the SUNY assured TC3 that as long as the two other 37 percent. counties were in agreement the college “We’ve been in contact with SUNY, would not have to go through the usual and there are some emergency funds approval process but could receive funding available for just this kind of need,” said right away.

Haynes. Even though the community The Tompkins County Legislature college is not a state institution, he said, is expected to vote on the matter at its the state shares an investment in it with its meeting June 21. The agenda includes

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Life Is Large Enough

Pere Ubu leader talks emojis and Faulkner

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Pere Ubu’s only constant has been singer and songwriter David Thomas. He now leads both the latest iteration of Pere Ubu and a resurrected Rocket From the Tombs, and lives in England.

Ithaca Times: I’ve read that geography is an important factor in Pere Ubu’s music.

Do you agree? If so, how does your origin in Cleveland affect the music?

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We are not from the confessional singer/ songwriter herd. We pay attention. We see the stories everywhere around us and we tell them with as little personal intervention as possible. And we don’t flinch from any inconvenient truth.

IT: What was the Cleveland music scene like in the mid-70s when Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu began?

DT: As a teenager, Charlie Parker got on stage at a jam session with Lester Young and his band in Kansas City. Young and his fellow musicians did everything in their power to humiliate Parker, to burn him down, to reduce him to a mass of quivering jelly. That was Cleveland. We are not touchie-feelie people. Man up or shut up.

IT: Do you have an idea of what it is like now? (I take it you no longer live there?)

DT: It’s probably suitably touchiefeelie. I don’t know. I don’t care.

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going concerns, so what do you enjoy about doing each of them? To put it another way, do you put something different into each of them? E.g., is your approach to the singing different?

DT: My approach remains unchanged for 40-some years - the world changes, we don’t. I have gone through probably three major changes in how I sing - I don’t reinvent my clothes, I reinvent my mind. So how do those two statements marry up? Well, that’s the differences between emojis and Faulkner, isn’t it? The one is continually confounded by the nature of reality and the human experience and so withdraws into a world of retardation, the other finds how inconvenient shapes can be viewed so that they make sense together.

Study what doesn’t fit - that’s where truth can be found.

IT: What is the role of improvisational theater in your live shows? Are you consciously going for something slightly larger than life?

DT: Life is large enough. There is no theater involved. What some might call theater is simply serious people going about their business on stage. Every time I step on stage I feel the metaphorical ghosts of all the people who lived and died in pursuit of truth looking over my shoulder and they’re saying, ‘Whataya got kid? Get it up.’ We don’t need your stinkin’ theater, gringo.

IT: You have an enormous catalog and are touring to play the 1975 to 1982 era. Is this to coordinate with the box set releases (even though the bracketing is a bit different)? How much do you vary the set list from night to night?

DT: The set of songs doesn’t vary, once we sort out an effective running order. We learned 20-something songs

a resolution endorsing the project and a bond resolution authorizing the issuance of up to $1.1 million in serial bonds and notes.

“I think it’s one of those situations where we wish we had a little more notice, but we’re trying to protect our building, and it’s a pretty important asset for both counties,” said Michael Lane, chair of the Tompkins County Legislature.

Cortland County is expected to authorize the project at its legislature meeting Thursday.

“Assuming all goes well and they approve the project, by early July we’re looking at starting the design phase, and following that it will go up to bid by late August,” Haynes said.

“We’ll award the bid by the early part of the fall, and hopefully we can get that done before the snow flies in a serious way this winter.”

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and we play them. The encore set varies a little. It’s usually a mix of some solid songs that people want to hear and some songs that I’m not quite happy with that need work and experimentation. We settle our contractual obligation to the audience in the main set. The encore set is, therefore, open season for anything I want to work on.

IT: You mention (on the website) of striving to use the Chinese whispers method with the band? Could you explain this further?

DT: Yes, there’s a 150-page book that goes into it in some detail. But you also probably need to read my 250-page Book of Hieroglyphs as well. •

Writer journeys through the comicverse

by Bill Chaisson

A Hundred Thousand Worlds

By Bob Proehl (Viking Press, 2016)

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Through all of these commitments, plus private ones that including being a stepfather, now a new father, and a husband, Proehl has managed to apply himself to his fiction writing in a regular disciplined fashion that has brought him through production of multiple drafts of at least two novels. He has managed his time so as to spend the requisite hours alone and writing with the equally requisite hours of talking with his fellow writers about the professional hoops and hurdles of the trade and, for A Hundred Thousand Worlds, visiting comic book conventions.

Ithaca Times: Why write a book about comic book culture?

Bob Proehl: I’ve been a big comic-book reader since I was in my teens. I worked for a comicbook dealer when I was a kid and would go to shows around Buffalo, helping him out. And I’ve been to conventions as an adult. So that is where the impetus for using that as the environment came from. When I started [writing the book] it was going to be this large-cast anthropologyof-the-subculture thing, but that got quickly discarded as the main story became more apparent and more interesting to me.

IT: The way that you had the cast of characters set up, there seemed to be a comic-book-like divide: there are the idealists and the pragmatists.

Everyone was one or the other. I thought that was actually a fairly touching part of the structure, because these people are blundering around in the real world.

BP: There is a bit of prolonged adolescence to that kind of fandom. And I don’t mean that’s necessarily a bad thing.

I was working on [this idea in] an essay for somebody else, and I was thinking about it in the way that I also felt about music when I was in

Writer Bob Proehl hanging out in Comics For Collectors (Photo: Diane Duthie)

my 20s, and it’s a teenage feeling, this hyperbolic thinking about everything. There’s something to be said about that level of engagement in media.

And that’s another thing that attracted to me to writing about comicons, because that’s a place where that gets showcased and highlighted. It is given free rein. And there is the idea of people who are professionals in that industry, and how do they react to that and how do they operate in the world. What do you do when you clock out from writing Superman all day? What does that do to your personality? Or what kind of personality does it attract?

IT: What I got from the book was that there are basically two responses. One is that you can be hard-boiled about it and the other is that you can be an idealist about it and really revel in the fact that you’re working in your pajamas and that you are just immersed in these worlds.

And that the ideal would be not to be wed to either Timely or National and to have a successful independent comic. Right? Have you been to enough comic book conventions to know that that is a pretty accurate representation?

BP: That seems to be the state of things right now. Going back to the ‘60s there has always been a contingent of writers and artists in comic books who came directly out of fandom.

Obviously that’s not the original generation.

It starts with these guys that are working their jobs, guys like Stan Lee, like Jack Kirby, like Steve Ditko. They’re like, ‘I clock in, I draw Spider-Man all day, then you pay me, then I leave.’

Right behind them you have guys that are letter-hacks, guys that were writing into the columns of these comic books in the early ‘60s and then get hired by Marvel in the early ‘70s and that keeps refreshing, well … to an extent refreshing [the industry]. There’s something that ends up being constantly derivative about that.

You still have those kinds of writers and

ob Proehl likes people. It shows in the version of reality that he creates in A Hundred Thousand Worlds, his new novel about the community created by comic-book conventions in their role as a subdivision of the science-fiction-producing industry. Although the novel is about what are traditionally low-brow forms of media, this is literary fiction, which is to say that the writing is crafted and there are actual ideas about the nature of humanity expressed in the course of telling a multi-threaded story.

Many writers of literary fiction—Jonathan Franzen, Joyce Carol Oates, and Don DeLillo come to mind—populate their books with characters that are perpetually venal and morally incompetent. Although any serious person has to acknowledge that such people exist, some authors’ stories seem over-populated with such personalities or those characters are given more power than they in fact have in the real world.

In A Hundred Thousand Worlds we meet actress Valerie, the divorced mother of a soulful 10-yearold named Alex; Brett, a comicbook illustrator and his writerpartner Fred; and Gail, a feminist comicbook writer.

These people are certainly flawed, but they are on the whole quite decent and when called upon to make a moral decision, they generally do the right thing. Not even most comic books or science-fiction television shows are populated with characters like these anymore. At one point in Proehl’s novel Gail explains to Valerie the comic convention of “passing the idiot ball.” This is a device— used by sloppy storytellers—to advance the plot by having a perfectly intelligent character behave like a real idiot at some crucial moment.

The existence of the idiot ball is a good example of how Proehl brings you fully into the world of “comicons” with an easy knowledge of the vocabulary, traditions, and history of both comic books and science fiction. This novel has already been compared to Michael Chabon’s The Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, but Chabon was writing about the origins of comic-book superheroes and created a fictive world more nearly out of whole cloth. Proehl has essentially written a roman de clef about the comic book industry as it is right now. DC and Marvel are called National and Timely, respectively, their “Golden Age” names from CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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As Gould puts it, every movie is meant to represent the greatest adventure that the lead character could have. In other words, we’re watching the film because the events therein are the most lifechanging imaginable. The problem is that the sequel doesn’t have the right story.

So: Is Finding Dory as good as Finding Nemo was 13 years ago? Well, it can’t capture the surprise factor, and a fairly frenetic storyline with lots of crazy chases and reversals has been invented to try and cover up the fact that we’re basically seeing the same story with a different character going through the same changes. Since it turns out that there’s a lot of water around, at least we get to see lots of new underwater habitats and scenery, and meet lots of engaging, funny new players, particularly a chameleon-like squid named Hank voiced by Ed O’Neill and two hilarious sea lions, Fluke and Rudder (Idris Elba and Dominic West).

Since Ellen DeGeneres’ Dory turned out to be the breakout character in Finding Nemo, the movie makes the most of her warmth and her ditsy personality.

If you recall, Dory suffers from shortterm memory loss, and so the first 10 or 15 minutes take us back to when she was a little fish living with her parents (Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy). And since Pixar is no stranger to leading with sadness, Dory’s separation from her folks is as traumatic and upsetting as you might imagine. (Kudos to the other voice actors playing Dory at younger ages; they’ll break your heart.)

So the new adventure is all for Dory, with Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) tagging along for the adventure. Aside from a few returning critters like the slipstream turtles, Dory meets a lot of new fishes and other creatures. As mentioned, I especially liked Ed O’Neill’s performance as a colorchanging octopus who wants the life of Riley as a zoo animal. He’s such a selfcentered mercenary in the ways that he helps Dory that her natural friendliness melts him just enough to be hilarious.

And yes, I loved the sea lions and the otters. (Every time I visit the Monterey Aquarium, I can sit for hours in front of the otter house).

If any movie deserves a sequel, it’s this movie, and not, say, Shark Tale. I especially liked the voice casting; like Craig T. Nelson in The Incredibles, an actor like O’Neill is perfect casting, even if he’s not a major movie star. You’ll also meet two whales, Destiny (Kaitlin Olson) and Bailey (Ty Burrell) that lend a fin in Dory’s quest. And yes, that’s Kate McKinnon and Bill Hader as a husband and wife fish pair, and one of the greatest celebrity voice cameos in years, which I will not reveal. That’s the kind of surprise that has really been a hallmark of the best Pixar films. •

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Local artist showcases unique form at solo show

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n an artistic community as transient and youth-oriented as Ithaca, Kumi Korf stands out for her creative longevity as well as the breadth and quiet majesty of her work. A local resident for over five decades, the Japanese-born artist received an MFA in printmaking from Cornell in 1977, where she studied with the legendary painter-printmaker H. Peter Kahn. Korf ’s work embodies a living memory of twentieth-century modernism.

Although trained as an architect and also an accomplished painter, Korf has been best known over the past 20 years for her mixed-method intaglio prints as well as her innovative artists’ books. The former are

Kumi Korf’s “Blue Shadow” (Photo Provided)

the focus of “Sublime is the Color,” her solo exhibit this month (through June 26) at the CAP ArtSpace.

Rich blends of linear and tonal techniques, her copper plate prints combine brushy markmaking rooted in East Asian calligraphy with colors, forms, and textures indebted to classic European abstraction and surrealism. The clean, bulbous forms of Jean Arp’s sculptures and reliefs—evocative of bodies. Henri Matisse’s punchy late cutouts. Joan Miro’s admixture of narrative whimsy with fields of raw color. Paul Klee’s late, large-scale pictographic landscapes.

On the main wall of the one-room gallery, Korf has arranged several large, mostly wide-format pieces. Visibly produced from several plates, they have a sometimes-messy complexity to them that shows her printmaking at its most ambitious, if not always its most assured.

She has printed them on her signature akatosashi: a warm-toned Japanese paper.

Petroglyphs, Red and Green is perhaps the most daring of these. As with most of her other large prints here, there’s an almost collage-like translucent overlapping of motifs. Here this creates a sort of triptych effect. A thin upright strip at left plays un-inked Matissean shapes against a field of luminous blue. A wider block of scratched-up ghostly green follows it to the

right. Intersecting it further rightwards is a wavy column of red. Finally, towards the right edge, the other side of the column is overlain with little bits and pieces in black.

The piece has an disjointed, unruly quality. I think it makes a stronger unity taken in sequence—like one of her books— rather than seen all at once.

Towards the back of the main wall and around a corner hang six pieces emphasizing bulbous, corporeal forms.

Their gorgeous, virtuosic overlapping of translucent color planes evokes colored glass. Drawn and brushed forms form a sort of background; these include patterns suggesting branches and basketry.

The series dates from 2012 and 2013 and was also featured in “Paper Play,” a mini-retrospective of Korf ’s work held at Cornell’s Johnson Museum in 2013. More than anything else here, they show off her talent and range as a colorist. Coming Home and Starr’s Garden have an acidic feel, softened by their translucency. Two White Ponds is austere in pale aqua and dull purple. Blue Shadow—my favorite— combines the bold and the subtle, with a dark blue emerging at left in sharp contrast against a variety of subdued warm tones.

On the opposite wall hang a group of smaller, upright prints. Printed on either akatosashi (previously reserved for her large pieces) or white European paper, their elegant concision is a welcome counterpoint.

Particularly striking, Promised Dance, from 1999, is one of two older prints on display here. (Heart Tied On, Blues is from 2000.) A dense, Pollock-like field of abstracted calligraphy fills the picture space in translucent layers. Symbolizing the promise of the title is a knotted gray form that bisects the field diagonally.

Around and behind it is a layer of marks in dark red—including what looks like a “K” toward the upper left. Finally, paperwhite scrawls appear against a terracotta background.

Korf is also exhibiting two of her artists’ books in a glass case. Alphabet of My Phobias, a collaboration with her singer-songwriter granddaughter Maïa Vidal, neatly unfolds; while Delirium, with poetry by Bhisham Bherwani, scatters into several pieces. Although hard to see, both beautifully combine Korf ’s color sensibility with typography, narrative, and evoked sound.

“Sublime” is a fine show and notably Korf ’s first one-person exhibit in Ithaca since “Paper Play” in 2013. Although it would have taken some work to put together at the ArtSpace, a less perfunctory display of her books would have added to it immensely. •

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Intimacy Within a Small Space Rachel Philipson photographs Cuba

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“Mostly,” Philipson commented of her work, “I wanted my photos to have the feeling of what it was like there, the textures.”

Cuba’s historic richness emanates from the images, tangible through the cracked paint on walls, worn architecture, and roaming dogs who too carry a presence that implies the wisdom of experience. Red Car presents two cars parked in a line against what appear to be old apartments, the street and buildings tan and rugged.

Dog and Phone, a feat of astute and enviable compositional prowess, divides the visual scheme in thirds: on the left, a black dog lies on its stomach on the sidewalk, behind it a light turquoise-painted wall; in the middle are white doors, possibly phone booths, with uniform black windows blocking out the sun; and to the right, in

slight shadow, a woman in white leans against the turquoise wall. The photograph is intriguing with its balance and narrative that isn’t fully explained. It expresses an essence, an ordinary scene that somehow implies depth with its glimpse into a culture that we (here, in the United States) barely know.

“You feel like you’re in a different time,” Philipson said of Havana. “It really has this old Hollywood feeling, and you just sort of expect someone to come out in a linen suit and a little hat, very 1920s. And you can see it, even though things are falling down it still has that glamorous feel to it.”

Strikingly, the title subjects are not always the main subjects of the photographs themselves. Take Nurse, for example, in which a woman in a white nurse’s uniform is photographed from behind as she walks to work or home. Her image is taken from a distance, blurry as if in the background. The forefront of the photo is an expanse of chipped yellow wall, its details in focus. Rather than idolizing the subjects or telling their specific stories, Philipson’s pieces serve as a more general and expansive cultural immersion, transfixed in the atmospheric whole of a place. Each person functions within the overall culture, the overall experience: the ruggedly beautiful, captivating whole.

Tourists also distracts viewers’ focus.

Technically speaking the photograph does contain tourists, but it’s not quite about them. They are photographed off to the side, stopped in the middle of a walkway to glance at a phone or camera, admiring some pictures one of them took. They are flecks of color and light, identifiable but again blurred. In focus is a maroon wall with column-like details. The relationship between the two elements appears at once disparate while simultaneously connected through their presence in modern time.

Even while a bit foggy, the tourists seem emblems of the contemporary through their dress and technology; the architecture surrounding them is an echo to the past.

With each photograph printed a mere 4 x 6 inches, La Habana is a show that will definitely get you looking, peering in closely to each scene. The photographs embody the “glamour Hollywood” feel, embracing and admiring Cuban culture’s philosophy of working around the past, adding to it as opposed to obliterating its presence in favor of something new. And all the while, Philipson achieves this goal while doing so with an intimacy and innate sensitivity of artistic eye, something that deserves respect and praise.

La Habana is on display at Cellar d’Or, 136 the Commons, through the end of June. •

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artists. But then there are guys that are a little more pragmatic about it. I think that the state of the business right now has driven some people to leave [the big publishers] and do creator-owned stuff, just because of shifts in how the economics of it work.

IT: Is this idealist/pragmatist divide sort of a comment on adult life in general?

BP: I think so. It’s a guarded one. There’s something to be said for growing up and getting a real job. And there’s something to be said for not doing that.

• • • IT: Are you a writing school graduate?

BP: No. Not for lack of trying. [laughs] No, I never went for an MFA. I majored in philosophy in college and then in English in grad school, but not in writing, in literature.

It’s just been something I’ve done in my spare time, and then about four years ago I started to actually get some traction.

I got the short book [a volume in the 331/3 series, Gilded Palace of Sin] out and that got the NYFA [New York Foundation for the Arts] fellowship for fiction in 2012.

One of the advantages of an MFA is when you’re putting work out there, it signals that you’re vetted in some way. I’m sure there are other benefits; it’s a credential to put in your introduction letters. The NYFA fellowship sort of filled that spot for me, and it also gave me time. That’s just a grant; they give you a check. It let me work for a month and get sort of started on this and get cleaned up on another project, and it gave me a chance to start doing it full time for really the first time.

And then the year after that I got a residency spot at Saltonstall, which is where I drafted [A Hundred Thousand Worlds]. I don’t know if I would have been ready to work the way I did at Saltonstall if I hadn’t taken the time off the year before.

Coming off those [events] was when

my wife and I had the conversation—when I had a draft—that this was the time to take some time and make a go of it, if I was going to do it.

And then this book sold in what turned out to be a fairly early draft. My editor and I worked a lot on it after that and it has been through six or seven drafts now, but it was really in like a second or third [draft] when it sold. I was convinced that it still needed work and then someone picked it up for representation.

When it was in its third draft I had a bunch of people read it, telling them, ‘It’s not done. Tell me what’s not working,’ and everyone was like ‘It’s good!”

And I ended up sending it to an agent that I knew. I’d sent him a different book two years earlier and we went back and forth on it for quite a while, through three drafts, and he ultimately passed on it. So I said, ‘I’ll send it to this guy and he’ll either take it or he’ll tell me it’s not ready and maybe give me a little bit of direction on what needs to happen.

It turned out that neither of those things happened. He was like, ‘It’s really good. I don’t want it. I’m not the best advocate for it.’ With that go-ahead from him, that it was in the shape that it needed to be to go to agents, I started looking around at other places and ended up with [Seth Fishman].

IT: It’s my understanding that there is a backlash against MFAs now. They are getting very samey and nobody wants to read their books anymore. I think it’s stronger in England that it is here.

BP: I’ve heard that. There is a genre of MFA fiction and it’s a shame that everyone gets smeared with that brush.

But sometimes I’ll pick up a book and I’ll think, ‘This is workshop porn.’ There’s a whole genre of books that are about being in writing workshops, and that gets a little old. I think the workshop concept is being reconsidered by a lot of people, the effects that it has on writing, on the demographics of writers, on individuals as writers. There’s a great three part piece, I forget the author

… Matt something … he teaches in an MFA program. He addresses the fact that the workshop itself has certain biases that are reflective of more subtle biases, it tends to quiet minority voices, it tends to quiet female voices; it’s very white-malecentric as a form of pedagogy. [Dominican American writer] Junot Diaz has written about being at Cornell as the only person of color. I think there is a concern that the MFA programs pull everything toward the middle. I don’t think that’s universally true.

IT: I don’t know if it’s the middle, actually. It’s just a certain place. One is too similar to the other.

BP: Yeah, but for a while there was that MFA versus NYC debate. How do you break in? You have to either be in a program or be in New York. Living in New York [City] has certain homogenizing influences on a person. If every book being published comes out of Brooklyn …

• • • IT: Do you know why agents and publishers were interested in your book??

BP: I think that was an element, yeah. They didn’t address comicons specifically, but one thing that my editor Andrea [Schulz] mentioned in our first conversation together was this … at that point when you’re talking to acquistions editors, marketability is an element, and she pointed out that this could be aimed at an audience that has not really been served, which is, particularly, a female fandom.

Because a lot of this stuff skews male and that’s not accurate anymore. That’s not reflective of that audience, if it ever was.

Convention attendance now if roughly 50/50, just in the past five years.

IT: So the fans are evenly split by gender, but the producers of the comics are still heavily male?

BP: It’s still heavily male. It’s shifting, but it’s shifting more slowly. [Returning to the subject of who the book is for] But yeah, I think it was that we had a little bit of a built in audience.

IT: Comic writer Gail Pope will appeal

to the female half of this audience?

BP: That’s the hope, yeah. She began life, when it was a more sprawling novel … I had these three writer characters who had one or two conversations, who were at the time very clearly based on actual writers, and as I kept writing Gail kept on popping up in scenes because she’s the most fun to write. Oddly, she’s representative of a certain generation of female creators in that industry. There’s already a bit of shift in what that looks like. • Proehl will have a book release party at Cinemapolis on June 29 at 7 p.m. He will be joined by author Eleanor Henderson to discuss “what it’s like to be a comic book geek.”

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the 1940s. Superheroes are given alternative names that will allow fans to recognize them and the allusions and alterations to their histories are full of in-jokes that will please dedicated comics readers and not matter at all to the rest of Proehl’s audience. (Although knowing more about Alan Moore’s eccentricities will make his extended cameo as “the Mad Brit” funnier.)

In the American tradition of letting events unfold on the road, Proehl sets his book largely during a cross-country tour of comicons. Valerie is a former star of an old sci-fi show called Anomaly, which is still popular six years after its end, making her a strong draw, perhaps in part because she never before attended these conventions. Brett and Fred make an independent comic called Lady Stardust, and they attend to increase their audience and make connections with Timely and National.

Gail, a contractor for National, is walking a line between advancing the cause of women in comics and making a living in the business. She attends to make an impression by participating in staged panel discussions.

Why Valerie is taking this crosscontinental trek with her son is revealed in bits and pieces. Proehl hands over the narrative to his four narrators in successive chapters. The reader meets Valerie’s mother, Gail’s brother, and Brett gets a new girlfriend. Alex and Brett collaborate on a story that reveals how comic books function as parables for the more fraught events of our own lives.

Genuinely bad characters, like Andrew, Valerie’s ex-husband, are introduced as plausible causes for why things go wrong in the lives of good people. Some characters like Brett’s partner Fred and Tim, the creator/director of Anomaly, are simply not reliable people.

Minor characters are brought fully to life in chapter after chapter, making A Hundred Thousand Worlds into an immersive experience. You meet the shapely “cosplayers” (costume players) who parade around the conventions in revealing outfits, armed with only dossiers on their characters, as most of them are aspiring to other roles and are not fans. Levi Loeb (probably comic artist Steve Ditko) appears in a scene that seems almost out of King Lear.

When you finish the book and return to your own life, you will not only miss Proehl’s alternate reality, but you may look at comic books differently too. •

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Claire Byrne and Brian Vollmer | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Country, Bluegrass, Old-Time, Roots.

Floodwood | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Americana, Newgrass, Bluegrass.

Grey Wolf Jam | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | The Crooked Rooster Brewpub, 223-301 N Franklin St., Watkins Glen | Early Rock and Roll, Country, Blues.

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6/22 Wednesday 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 Mac Benford & Up South | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Americana, Appalachian, Old-Time, Bluegrass.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Scott Adams | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | Acoustic.

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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Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With The Crucial Reggae Social Club.

6/24 Friday Mectapus 19th Anniversary Show | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Liam and the Sweats | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Blues, Retro.

Rachael Yamagata | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Adult Alternative, Indie.

Radio London | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Blues, Soul, Pop, 50’s, 60’s.

Brookton Bridge | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville | Folk Rock.

Leigh & Wiles | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, 203 N Aurora St,

6/23 Thursday Tylor Hubbard, Leon Arguello, Spenser Blinn | 7:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Teaming up with friends for another great Thursday night.

Diana Leigh & the Savoy Stompers | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Jazz, Swing.

Don Slatoff Jazz | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jazz.

Ithaca | Jazz, Folk.

Toivo | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Hive 45, 45 E Main Street, Trumansburg | Finnish, Tex-Mex, Waltzes, Schottisches, Polkas, Mazurkas, Two-Steps.

The East-West Blues Band | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Westy, 516 W. State St., Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

Paul Kempkes (Dr. K) | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Fretless Bass Intensive, Bluesy-Jazz Improvisation.

Still Hand String Band, Serene Green, Chris Mollo | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Progressive Jamgrass, Bluegrass, Rock, Jazz, Country, Psychedelia, Reggae, Classical.

RUST | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Classic Rock Cover Band.

City of the Sun | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Post Rock, Gypsy Jazz, Flamenco.

JayStreet, Lil Fe, Bravo Blane, Ayo, Naseem Blas-Williams | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Rap, Hip Hop, Underground Hip Hop. Ithaca Underground & Helen Stride present.

Powder The Moon | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk, Avant-Garde, Psychedelic, Blues.

Grassanova | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Bluegrass.

Mary Lorson | 8:00 PM | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St., Ithaca | Alternative Rock.

Under Construction | 8:00 PM | Mickey’s Pub, 581 Broad St., Waverly | Rock, Blues, Country, ‘50s, ‘60s, Funk.

Greg Humphreys Electric Trio, Laila Belle | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Rock, Blues,

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Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Stella’s Barn, 1346 Elmira Rd., Newfield | Rockabilly, ‘50s, ‘60’s, Rock, R&B, Early Rock and Roll.

Under Construction | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Swedish Hill Winery Paradise Party, Rt. 414, Romulus | Rock, Blues, Country, ‘50s, ‘60s, Funk.

The Ed Iseley Experience | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | Acoustic Folk, Rock.

Tink Bennett and Tailor Made | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Country, Blues, Southern Rock.

Somat 2016: Ithaca 90’s DIY Bands Reunion Show: Tuesday Said, UFOs, Stab, Fatfinger, Cement Babyhead. | 7:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Punk Rock, Rock, Experimental, Trip Hop, Metal, Classic Rock. Ithaca Underground presents.

The Purple Valley | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Country.

Travis Rocco Duo, Quona Hudson, Adam Gates | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Acoustic, Roots, Folk, Rock.

Rhythm & Brews | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Acoustic.

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6/27 Monday Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

6/28 Tuesday Greg Schatz | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz, Soul, Funk, Roots, R&B. Old Man Status | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

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Beet Juice | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Progressive, Funk, Rock, Experimental, Blues, Avant-Garde.

Blue Skies | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | Vintage Jazz, Blues Standards.

Jerome Attardo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano.

Milkweed | 12:30 PM-3:30 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Folk, Bluegrass, County & Blues.

Distilled | 2:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Cielle & All Sounds | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Alternative, Soul, Indie, Blues, Rock.

Miller and the Other Sinners | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Roots, Blues, Soul, Gospel, Groove.

Melanie and the Boys | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Americana, Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, Rock.

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

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

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Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

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.

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 concerts

6/23 Thursday CFCU Summer Concert Series: Stone Cold Miracle | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Soul, Gospel, Funk, Rock.

Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Every Thursday Night.

Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com Mochester, Let’s Be Leonard, Boogiehood | 8:30 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock, Progressive Rock, Jam, Funk, Reggae, Dub, Experimental.

6/24 Friday Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.

In Cold Blood, Gator King, Gazzan, Headsplitter, Soured Ground | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Hardcore, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Hardcore Punk.

The New Daze, Space Bacon | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock, Progressive Rock, Funk, Jam, Electronic.

6/25 Saturday Weezer, Panic At The Disco | 7:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Alternative Rock, Power Pop, Pop Punk, Emo, Indie Rock.

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Against Me! | 8:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Punk Rock, Alternative Rock, Folk Punk, Anarcho-Punk.

6/27 Monday Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Tesla | 7:00 PM | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | NWOBHM, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Pop Rock.

6/28 Tuesday Karen Wonder Dumont | 7:30 PM | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell College, Ithaca | An evening of song ranging from Irish folk songs to American standards, plus musical theater favorites and excerpts from Britten, Delibes, and Verdi operas.

Film Anomalisa | 6:00 PM, 6/22 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Filmed completely in realisticlooking, stop-motion animation, Anomalisa is the latest film from Charlie Kaufman, director of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. For more information, contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org.

Summer Cornell Concert Series: Annie Hall | 8:15 PM, 6/22 Wednesday

| Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Woody Allen and Diane Keaton star in the relationship film of the 1970’s, one of Allen’s most romantic (and funniest) comedies. Doors at 8:15 pm/Screening at 9:30 pm.

Streets Alive! Ithaca Film Festival 2016 Redux | 6:30 PM, 6/23 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Second public showing of the Film Festival originally shown on March 3, 2016. If you missed it on March 3 or want to see it again, come on down.

Summer Jewish Film Festival: Dough | 7:00 PM, 6/23 Thursday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | (UK 2016, 94 minutes) stars Jonathan Pryce and Pauline Collins. The comedy focuses on the relationship between an old Jewish baker in London’s East End and his young Muslim apprentice.

When the apprentice accidentally dumps marijuana into the challah dough, sales really begin to pick up. For info call 257-9924 cinemapolis

time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. |104 mins PG-13 | Weiner | An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and the landscape of today’s political landscape. | 96 mins R | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. | 119 mins R | Love & Friendship | Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. |92 mins PG |

Dheepan | Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris. |115 mins R |

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Dark Horse | An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse | 85 mins PG |

Wednesday 6/22 to Tuesday 6/28 | Contact Regal Cinema Ithaca for Showtimes

Genius | A chronicle of Max Perkins’s

Free State of Jones | As civil war divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of rebels

against the Confederate army. | 139 mins R | Independance Day: Resurgence | Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat.

But will mankind’s new space defenses be enough?. | 120 mins PG-13 | Me Before You | A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recentlyparalyzed man she’s taking care of. | 110 mins PG-13 | The Nice Guys | A mismatched pair of private eyes investigate the apparent suicide of a porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. | 116 mins R | The Shallows | A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. | 127 mins PG-13 | Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping | When it becomes clear that his solo album is a failure, a former boy band member does everything in his power to maintain his celebrity status. | 86 mins R | The Conjuring 2 | Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. | 133 mins R | Now You See Me 2 | The Four Horsemen resurface and are forcibly

recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. | 129 mins PG-13 | 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 | 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 | Finding Dory | The friendly-butforgetful blue tang fish reunites with her loved ones, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way.| 103 mins PG |

songs and parodies from The Beatles to Lady Gaga in the musicomedy “Baby Boo. For tickets and showtimes visit tiahwaga.com I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | This mouth-watering comedy celebrates the story of Giulia, a single New Yorker looking for love and her Italian home cooking. For showtimes visit www.hangartheatre.org West Side Story | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | One of the greatest musicals of all time in its CRT debut! In this breathtaking musical, two rival gangs struggle for control of their west side New York City neighborhood. Amidst the chaos, star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria find themselves wrenched between their worlds. Beautiful, passionate, with shades of violence and heartache, this innovative adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet still dazzles after more than fifty years!

The treasured songs Something’s Coming, Tonight, I Feel Pretty, Maria and America have become classics in the American Songbook. Info at www. cortlandrep.org

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American Red Cross Blood Drives | Thursday, 6/23 Fraternal Order of Eagles # 1253 11:00am to 5:00pm / Friday, 6/23 Ramada Inn Ithaca 1:00pm to 7:00pm / Friday, 6/23 The Shops at Ithaca Mall (By Kay Jewelers) 1:00pm to 6:00pm / Saturday, 6/25 Arthur E. Bouton Post 770 7:30am to 11:30am Vendors Sought | The Remember the Big 6 Committee is looking for vendors to participate in the Remember The Big 6 Youth Fair/Country Fair on Thursday July 28- Saturday July 30, 2016. The Fair is Held at The Agricultural Museum at Emerson Park. Food Vendors, Craft Vendors and Merchandise Exhibitors are needed. This is the third year of the fair and it is getting bigger every year. If you are interested and for more information call Tim Quill at 315-252- 7644 or e-mail him attquill@ cayugacounty.us Dryden Area Intergenerational Band and Chorus | All Tompkins County residents are encouraged to join a free summer band and chorus, the Dryden Area Intergenerational Band and Chorus. The two groups, coordinated as one, are open to all ages, and meet for six weeks of non-competitive, quality music-

The Wedge Series: H. Leivick’s The Golem | 10:00 PM, 6/23 Thursday, 6/24 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Drenched in the magic and mystery of Kabballah, The Golem retells the legend of a sixteenth-century Rabbi in Prague who defies God when he molds and animates a huge earth-made figure to defend the Jewish community from pogroms. Originally written as a poem in 1921 by Russian expatriate H. Leivick, the play carries with it powerful echoes of the dilemmas still faced by our civilization today.

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 Baby Boom Baby | Ti-Ahwaga Community Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | National Lampoon veteran Tommy Koenig sings original

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Cortland Repertory Theatre, Runs Through July 9

The Arts Committee of Temple Beth El invites you to its second Jewish film festival with a series of three uplifting films this summer. The first film is Dough, staring Jonathan Pryce and Pauline Collins. The stellar comedy focuses on the relationship between an old Jewish baker in London’s East End and his young Muslim apprentice. When the apprentice accidentally dumps marijuana into the challah dough, sales really begin to pick up.

This production marks the CRT debut of one of the greatest musicals of all time. In this breathtaking show, two rival gangs - the Jets and the Sharks - struggle for control of their west side New York City neighborhood. Caught in the chaos, star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria find themselves wrenched between their worlds. Beautiful, passionate, with shades of violence and heartache, this innovative and unique musical still dazzles after more than fifty years.

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Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 6/22 Wednesday | Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, 2300 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | RSVP pjsmall1@yahoo.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/22 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/ Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/23 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/24 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

4th Annual Benefit Ride: The Ride for Heart Health | 9:00 AM-, 6/25 Saturday | King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | To register, go to Active. com and look for Ride for Heart Health; see www.rideforhearthealth.com for more information or email rideforhearthealth@gmail with questions.

Dryden Farmers Market | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/25 Saturday | Dryden Agway, 59 W Main, Dryden | Enjoy local fruits & veggies, honey, eggs, cut flowers, canned salsas & sauces, artisan crafts and so much more.

Groundswell’s Homestead Farmer & Gardener Network Meeting: Fournier Family Farm | 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, 6/26 Sunday | Fournier Family Farm, , Ithaca | More info: groundswellcenter.org/events/ Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 6/28 Tuesday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA. Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | 6/28 Tuesday | The

A prolific and engaging musician, Rachael Yamagata has colloborated with the likes of Ryan Adams, Toots and the Maytals and Ray Lamontagne, among others. She brings her brand of contemporary indie to The Dock this Friday, 6/24 at 6 pm. (Photo: provided) Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/28 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us!

Learning Employment Law 2016: Time and Attendance | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/22 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | With Emily Rockett, Attorney, Miller Mayer. A workshop for anyone with any responsibility to account for time and attendance. www. hsctc.org/workshops for details.

Build It -N- Keep It | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/22 Wednesday | Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons, Ithaca | Learn how to build your own computer and take it home along with the tools for free! There will also be a special guest builder - Miss New York! The Ithaca Build it Keep It at the Ithaca Commons is reserved for teens, but our traveling Build It Keep It workshops are open to all. Registration is required. Visit www.

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Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/22 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation.

Summer Desserts | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, 6/22 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to make glutenfree, dairy-free, vegan desserts with Priscilla Timberlake Freedman, whole foods cook. Samples and recipes provided. Registration is required sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Small Fruits for Home Gardens | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 6/23 Thursday | CCE Tompkins, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Small fruits are ideal to grow if you are short on space and time.

Currants, gooseberries and jostaberries will be ripe in the CCE gardens, so we will do some tasting of these lesser-known fruits. We will also explore more common fruits such as raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries. Pre-registration is required. Go to ccetompkins.org/ events/2016/06/23/small-fruits-forhome-gardens for more information or to register online, or call 272-2292 to register and pay by phone.

Beginner Bird Walks | 6/25 Saturday

JayStreet, Lil Fe, and More Sacred Root Kava Lounge, Friday, June 24, 8:00 p.m.

Ithaca Underground has cooked up another killer rap show featuring JayStreet, a 20 year old artist/producer born and raised in Auburn, NY, who started making music at the age of 15; Smacked Records’ Lil Fe; up and coming New York artist Ayo; Bravo Blane, who Spends time between NYC, Upstate, and Atlanta, and has been running and rapping his passion for hip-hop since middle school in 2007; and Naseem Blas-Williams. A heady crew indeed! Check it! h e

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| Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, http://www. cayugabirdclub.org/calendar.

Watch Honey Bees Choose Their Home with Tom Seeley | 10:00 AM-, 6/25 Saturday | Roy H. Park Preserve, Irish Settlement Rd., Freeville | Tom Seeley, Cornell University biologist and the world’s leading expert on honey bee behavior, will provide the rare opportunity to watch and discuss the fascinating, democratic process of a honey bee swarm choosing its home.

Sharing Our Stories: Collecting the Oral Histories of LGBT Older Adults with Lisa Holmes | 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, 6/28 Tuesday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | The Tompkins County Working Group on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Aging has been collecting the oral histories of older members of the local LGBT community since 2012. During this workshop, Lisa Holmes, Director of the Office for the Aging and members of the LGBT Working Group will share information about how they developed their focus, created permission forms and interview questions, identified and approached individuals to be interviewed, and how the interviews will be archived for future use. Please RSVP by contacting Kayla Sewell at (607) 273-8284 x 227 or Community@ TheHistoryCenter.net

Kids Open Registration: Little Voices Music & Motion’s Songs of Summer | Little Voices Music & Motion is a research based class for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, with parents or other caregivers along for the fun. We sing, we dance, and we play with instruments and movement props to music that varies widely in tonality, rhythm and style. Scholarships are available for all Little Voices Music & Motion classes. Please go to the website www.LittleVoicesMusic.com for registration instructions.

STEAM Book Club | 3:45 PM-4:45 PM, 6/22 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle-graders are invited to explore

science, technology, engineering, art and math through lively book discussions and hands-on activities.

For more information or to register, contact Kate DeVoe at (607) 272-4557 extension 277 or kdevoe@tcpl.org.

Theatre Games for Children | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 6/23 Thursday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Registration is now open for an added section of Imagine That, the extremely popular creative play program that introduces children to theatre games. Children will learn and understand storytelling, art, movement and music concepts through guided acting instruction. Children develop their imaginations while building confidence and group skills. Instructor is Camilla Schade. To register, go to www.iybrec.com, write to iyb@ cityofithaca.org, or call (607) 273-8364.

Summer Reading Kick-Off Party Starring Moreland the Magician | 2:00 PM-, 6/25 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | David Moreland’s high-energy, 45-minute show uses magic, Vaudeville slapstick, storytelling, and audience participation to celebrate the wonderful world of reading and the magic found in books.

After the performance, children will be treated to balloon animals from Cayuga Twister.

The 1st Annual GrotonCon Summer Reading Kick-off Party | 10:00 AM-, 6/28 Tuesday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St., Groton | Kids and families of all ages are welcome!

Register for Summer Reading- special goodie bags to the first 175 kids and 25 teens! Come dressed up as your favorite superhero, or don one of the library’s costumes. Enjoy games, Minecraft, legos, & LittleBits. Live Music by Josh Dwyer, Balloon Fun with Sr. James, Face Painting by Maria Montreuil and more!

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info at bigflatscommunitydays.com SSCA Majors Super Tour | 6/24 Friday through 6/26 Sunday | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | The annual SCCA Super Majors Tour at Watkins Glen International. For more information on Sports Car Club of America, please visit www.SCCA.org.

Free Lunch With Ithaca Hummus | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 6/24 Friday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | Join Ithaca Hummus for free lunch on the Commons on Friday, June 24th from 12-2pm and tell them why you think food made in Ithaca is so good.

They will be giving away free Ithaca Hummus Wraps made fresh with quinoa, kale, roasted red peppers, sprouts, and of course, Ithaca Hummus!

They can’t wait to see you there! More information at bit.ly/1tAhoin Varick Winery’s 12th Annual Cherry Festival | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 6/25 Saturday, 6/26 Sunday | Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, 5102 St. Rt. 89, Romulus | Rain or shine. Enjoy cherry picking, wine, apple chuckin’, food, arts and crafts vendors, and music. Fun for the whole family. www.varickwinery.com International Mud Day | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/25 Saturday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden,, Ithaca | Fun muddy times are expected with mud slides, mud pools, mud pies, and more. For more information, visit ithacachildrensgarden.org. If you are interested in volunteering or donating materials, email Alex Cote at alex@ithacachildrensgarden.org City Sizzlin’ Summer Kick-Off | 4:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/25 Saturday | Exchange Street Plaza, , Auburn | Featuring two live band performances on the Showmobile stage, fine artist displays; food vendors serving up your summer favorites, plus beer, wine and cider sales. This event will happen rain or shine, with the City Parking Garage serving as the back-up venue. More info at 315.252-7874, or visit www. auburndowntown.org.

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Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-, 6/25 Saturday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701

Varick Winery Cherry Festival, Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, Saturday, June 25, 9:00 a.m.

It’s time for the 12th Annual Cherry Festival! Two full days of fun and entertainment. Live music by Just Joe on June 25 and by Connie Patti and Jim Van Arsdale on June 26. Fabulous reptiles displayed by Dan The Snakeman. Experience a once in a lifetime chance to see and interact with pythons, rattlesnakes, alligators, spiders, and other exotic creatures. Hug, love and adopt a pet offered by Beverly Animal Shelter and other groups. And as always, you can pick sweet and sour cherries from five acres of beautiful trees!

Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Ithaca SufferJets (ranked 90 in the world) will take on Ontario’s Royal City Brute-Leggers (ranked 93).

Burger Brawl | 1:00 PM-, 6/26 Sunday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Local Bars and Restaurants sign up to make burger samples from 1 pm-4 pm. Guests puchase a ticket and get to sample as much as they would like.

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Books Patricia Schwartz | 6:00 PM-, 6/27 Monday | Montour House Cafe & Tapas Bar, 401 W Main St, Montour Falls | Poet and fiction writer, grows herbs and perennials on her 35 acre property, Sage-Thyme Haven, in Waterloo, in the Finger Lakes region of central New York. She teaches at The Writers & Books Literary Center in Rochester, as well as volunteering to conduct an ongoing poetry workshop in Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum security men’s prison in Auburn, New York. Her work has been widely published in small press journals, as well as in book form.

Art Ellen Wiernicki and Jill Leichter | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 6/26 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | A show of oil and watercolor paintings

by Ellen Wiernicki & Jill Leichter. The two artists have a shared space at Howl Studios. 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 CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Kumi Korf: Sublime is the Color Kumi’s exhibit features intaglios print on Akatosashi paper. The artist states: “It is a magic moment, each time when the dampened paper is peeled off from the plate, revealing the transferred image from plate to paper.

I love the surface of the copper plate, polished, worked, inked, and wiped. | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Rachel

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by Jacques Lamarre from Giulia Melucci’s memoir; directed by Michael Barakiva, starring Larisa Oleynik. At the Hangar Theatre through June 25.

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In the one-woman show I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, adapted by Jacques Lamarre from Giulia Melucci’s memoir, Larisa Oleynik (10 Things I Hate About You, Mad Men) bustles around an elegant and well-appointed kitchen (built like a set for a Food Network show by scenic designer Ken Goldstein) to songs by the Police and Cyndi Lauper from the moment the audience walks in. The kitchen setting is made dramatic with a sweet backdrop depicting a reflecting view of the NYC skyline rendered with tomato cans, olive jars and wine bottles.

Oleynik as Melucci tells us tales of true love and the kitchen as she prepares a three-course meal – antipasto, salad

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.

Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Fifteen: Celebrating 15 Years of the Quilt Divas. In celebration of their 15th anniversary, the Quilt Divas present an exhibition of contemporary fiber art by 23 past and present member artists. Works range from realistic to abstract, each expressing an artist’s personal vision while challenging the dimensions of fiber art through manipulation of techniques and materials. | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland 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

and homemade pasta—for eight lucky patrons seated at four special stage-side tables, And when I say homemade, we see Oleynik measure out pasta flour, crack eggs and later, roll out and process a tidy pile of noodles; one of the lucky eight even gets to get onstage and crank the pasta maker.

I’ve had a lot of food service jobs, and it’s a lot like the Jon Favreau movie Chef; you get burned from time to time, and every once in a while you go to the emergency room. As I sat waiting for the show to start, watching Oleynik in her element even before the show starts, I kept thinking of that classic SNL sketch where Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child “cuts the dickens” out of her finger and bleeds to death on the air.

There’s nothing to fear here; I can think of lots of actors who could tell all the stories in the show, but could they be as good as Oleynik is at all the foodie stuff?

The comingling spell of theatre and food makes you see things you might not notice in another show: in the black out at the end of Act One, you can see the coal-orange glow of the stove burner in the dark. After all, pasta water waits for no man, not even intermission.

The show opens with Oleynik as Melucci on her cell phone talking to her mother. This will be a recurrent theme as she gets down to her foodie business and opens up her love life for us to examine. I’d say it took Oleynik about seven minutes to completely win the

Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Marty Kepecs: Bold in Charge.

Kepecs says “this show of painting, collage, and assemblage, is the result of allowing my mind to go wild with shapes and colors. I think this work speaks to the beauty and freedom of life in the Finger Lakes.”

Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Barbara Mink. Decorum Barbara Mink will be showing works on paper at Decorum Too for the months of June and July.

Best known for large mixed media canvases, these small to medium sized pieces are more contemplative, featuring saturated color achieved by working with various inks. | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too.com 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

Larisa Oleynik stars in “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti (Photo Provided)

audience over with her litany of stories about the boyfriends over the years that might have been more.

Her stories sure sounded like the stories I heard from my female friends as they got into the work force after college and started looking for Mr. Right.

When she posed a question and asked “Is that too much to ask?” the woman sitting next to me answered “No!” When

her new coloring book, Spring Loaded, published by eye.

Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Benjamin Slatoff-Burke will be exhibiting his series of abstract paintings through June 30 | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Marina Delaney: 19 Nudes – Works on Paper. A study of the female form through varying prisms: beauty, naturalism, dreams, humor, and modern masters (both literary and artistic). Inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, this show seeks to exalt in the deep connection between body and soul as the essence of all human experience.| www.sacredrootkava.com Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St.,

the audience talks back, you’ve got their attention, and Oleynik kept it up for more than two hours (and a 15-minute intermission for the pasta water to come to a boil) and a well-deserved standing ovation.

On the way out, I spoke to a few of the eight diner-viewers down front, and they confirmed that the food was, like the performance, delicious. •

Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | “Four Artists.” Local art critic Arthur Whitman presents the work of a quartet of diverse and talented picture-makers which includes Madeleine Bialke, Scout Dunbar, Stephen Phillips, and Gizem Vural. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@ tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org | www. tcpl.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Wright/Fisher. Michelle Wright and Jen Fisher will be exhibiting their work through the month of June. | www.wafflefrolicking.com

Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Mary Beth Ihnken: The Fowl Show. A series of large canvases of different types of fowl. | www.sarahspatisserie.com/ State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Never Before Seen at SOAG. Gallery members have invited artists who have never shown work before at SOAG and on exhibition are paintings, drawings,. soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Victoria Connors: Needle Felt Paintings. Inspired by the landscapes that she sees in her local community of the Finger Lakes region, Victoria Connors creates scenes from Cayuga, Seneca, and Canandaigua Lake. Combining skills learned from oil landscape painting and the techniques she learned creating felt hats, and using materials from local sheep and alpaca farms, the result is a needle felted “painting” that combines texture in 2D and 3D dimensional forms, giving her art its own unique appearance.

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Musician Will Bradford’s longtime independent cult alt-rock project whose stylistically manic collection of ethereal electronics, agitated guitar rock, atmospheric pop, and acoustic-based song craft collide in a massive melodic bang that serves as the bedrock for the band’s intense, brooding lyrics and bright, sunny pop melodies. Through four albums and hundreds of live shows, SeepeopleS have created a rare beast: a narrative of timeless songs that challenge the mainstream, speak universal truths and embrace deep originality.

Soprano Karen Dumont, a featured performer with Savoyards Musical Theatre, will present “A Summer Evening of Song” in the Klarman Hall Auditorium. The concert marks the beginning of the six-week free summer events series sponsored by Cornell’s School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. Dumont’s program will include a wide variety of composers and styles, from “Summertime” by George Gershwin to folk songs by Benjamin Britten.

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he house at 46 Elm Street in Trumansburg has been used as a bed and breakfast and more recently as a vaction rental for large groups and families. Given this kind of use, the home is in wonderful condition, in part because the owners have continued to renovate it up to the present day.

When you enter the front door you are immediately struck by the wide plank floors of yellow pine and the straightness of the staircase that hugs the right wall up to the second floor. The railing and spindles of the stairway are mahogany, which contrasts smartly with the white steps and rises and the Oriental runner.

To the right you find the living room, which has a newer oak floor. The trim around the doors and windows is large and in good condition and the original porcelain and wrought iron door knobs and handles are still present.

The vintage 8-over-8 pane windows have been left in the front (albeit reconditioned) to preserve the historical appearance, but the windows on the sides of the house are modern 6-over-6 inserts.

A gas fireplace has been added to this room and the mantel trim has been fashioned to mimic the historical trim of the room.

To the left of front hall is a smaller room that was perhaps originally a receiving room, but is now used as an office. It has a narrower-planked yellow pine.

A hall leads back into the house past a half bath with Mediterranean tiling on the counter around the sink and 10-inch

At A Glance Price: $460,000 Location: 46 Elm Street,

Village of Trumansburg School District: Trumansburg Central Schools MLS#: 305854 Contact: Rebecca Driscoll, Associate Broker, Warren Real Estate; rldriscoll@ warrenhomes.com Phone: 607 342 1073 (cell) Website: www.warrenhomes.com

earth-tone tiles on the floor. There is also a door from this hall on to the outdoor patio.

The kitchen was remodeled last year and features travertine-like Corian countertops and a five-burner countertop range. There are two in-the-wall ovens.

The working area of the kitchen is floored in tile while the rest of the space has a maple floor. The tiled area is separated from the rest of the room by an island that includes the sink and raised counter to serve as a breakfast bar. There is an entire wall of custom made cabinets, painted white with steel pulls.

The adjacent dining area—a deep arm off the overall L-shaped space—is beneath a gallery that holds the second floor. The rest of the room is two stories high, pro-

46 Elm Street, Trumansburg (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

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There is a stone-floored room behind the kitchen that can be used as a prep room or pantry.

When you go up the back stairs you find yourself in an open room under the eaves that would make a good hang-out space for reading and media consumption.

There is a small bedroom in the back of the house with a skylight and recessed lighting controlled by dimmer switches.

The master suite includes a large sleeping area and then you descend three steps to the bathroom, which includes a jetted tub and a gas fireplace.

There are two more bedrooms on the opposite side of the second floor hall. The hall itself is wide with a wide-planked yellow pine floor.

The grounds include an in-ground swimming pool. You enter via a wisteriacovered gate and there is a covered patio off to one side.

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