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will the Masonic temple finally get a use?

highway budget shortfall will force a decision

group show at the library probes the unconscious

Cortland Rep puts Founders on stage

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a July 31 deadline with New York’s Main Streets program, which recently increased its maximum grants from $100,000 to as much as $500,000 for properties, like the Masonic lodge, that qualify for “anchor property” status. “We’re anxious to continue working with the ownership group to put together an application that makes sense,” Ferguson said. Ferguson described for the committee a letter sent by Nathan Lyman, Fane’s attorney, on June 17 describing studies Ithaca Renting has undertaken on the property’s possible uses. He said the landlord has been in preliminary negotiations with the History Center of Tompkins County to take over the space. “That would be their first choice and

Highway Shortfall Possible Plan for May Lead to Tax Hike The Masonic Lodge

uring a meeting on Monday, June 22 the Ithaca town board began discussing the possibility of raising the average homeowner’s tax bill by roughly 5 percent in 2016 in order to cover an expected $500,000 shortfall in the highway portion of the budget. Budget Officer Mike Solvig said that while the possibility of a tax increase was first broached last year, this is the first time a discussion has involved actual numbers. Currently at $1,000,000 Solvig said the highway fund would be $500,000 short of the money needed to cover all expected road projects in 2016 and going forward. “We don’t have money for the capital projects unless we bond or increase taxes,” Solvig said, adding, “Prior to 2011 the town didn’t do much major roadwork. Infrastructure needs this work, if you don’t do it the roads will just crumble away.” The 5-percent increase, which Solvig said would translate to roughly $69 extra on tax bills for homeowners who own a house worth $190,000, would be a longterm addition to the budget. It would also put the town over the state tax cap, resulting in residents being unable to get the state rebate associated with staying under the cap. “[The highway fund] would remain at $1.5 million going forward, but we are projecting that this would reset the tax cap for the town portion, which means we could be back under the tax cap the following year,” Solvig said. Much of the discussion between board members centered on whether it would be best to increase resident’s tax bills, or to try to spread the hit by taking out a bond to cover the costs. “This is the start of this discussion. I think the bottom line is that we are in decent shape, which is why we have some choices. We have choices, the question is what choice are we going to take,” said Herb Engman, town supervisor. Solvig repeatedly voiced his displeasure with the prospect of bonding out for the money, saying the end result is the town taking on long-term debt, paying interest instead putting money toward working on the roads, and the town will be stuck in a bonding cycle that is hard to break. “I don’t like paying for road projects by bonding, the maximum a highway bond can be is 15 years, by the time you get to 15 continued on page 4

he “white elephant” of downtown Ithaca might soon have a new lease on life. The former Masonic Temple at the corner of North Cayuga and East Seneca streets has sat mostly empty since its historical designation in 1994, which has led Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) director Gary Ferguson to call it the “white elephant” of downtown rental properties. The approximately 20,000 square-foot historical building was completed in 1926 in the grand lodge style, meaning that it has very large rooms that don’t lend themselves well to the bar and restaurant uses that have been tried there over the last two decades, like a martini lounge and “a really good restaurant called Europa” that city economic “The white elephant” of downtown: the Masonic temple at Cayuga and Seneca. development (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) director Phyllisa DeSarno recalls. probably the highest and best use for that Subdividing the building and renting property,” Ferguson said. Other uses under the property out to more than one tenant study include subdividing for commercial at a time requires renovations that bring spaces and building housing. it up to Americans with Disabilities Act In an email, Lyman clarified that all standards, including installing an elevator. three thrusts of study are “alternatives Ferguson appeared before the City being considered in parallel at the present.” Administration Committee on June 17 Fane confirmed his staff “has been to ask their support for writing a grant in preliminary talks with The History for renovations to the property, owned Center,” saying via email that “I believe by Jason Fane’s Ithaca Renting. Common Council needs to approve the proposal continued on page 5 at its next meeting for the DIA to make

▶ Community Read Announced, Tompkins County Public Library, in partnership with Cornell University’s New Student Reading Project, has announced the selection of Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, as the 2015 Community Read. Published in 1969, Slaughterhouse-Five is recognized as Vonnegut’s most popular book--blending science-fiction with historical facts, notably Vonnegut’s own experience as a prisoner of war in Germany during the Allied firebombing of the city Dresden in early 1945.

Copies of Slaughterhouse will be available for circulation at TCPL beginning July 1. Now in its 14th year, the Community Read encourages community members to experience the bond of literature by reading and discussing the same title. Programs related to the 2015 Community Read will be announced in the coming weeks. For more information, or to request free copies of the book for a book group or community agency, contact Community Read Coordinator Teresa Vadakin at (607) 272-4557 extension 272 or tvadakin@tcpl.org.

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Who do you think will win the 2015 women’s world cup?

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Regulating the Cost of Cab Rides

xpect to meet confusion if you ask around Ithaca about what a rider might expect to pay for a cab to say, the airport or the hospital, or the fare home from a late-night spot on a weekend evening. Right now, taxi fares within the city and town of Ithaca are regulated, if not always followed. Outside of those bounds, fares are something of a game of chance. It’s true there is a chart on the site for Ithaca Dispatch that shows the estimated fares to, but the company that owns Cayuga and Ithaca taxis, among others, is careful to state that fares are at the final discretion of the dispatcher. Without a meter to pull that shows the customer an exact price, Ithaca’s cabbies have freedom to name their own price and the curse of explaining to riders their fare totals. The Ithaca Dispatch chart “was my saving grace,” said Monica Weimer, a graduate student who drove for Point 2 Point, a two-van operation on South Hill, for several months in 2014. “Some people would feel ripped off. They’d say ‘It was only $5 yesterday, why is it $12 now?’ I could tell them, ‘I don’t make up the prices,’ and show them the sheet that I got them from.” The fare sheet was more a defense against the aggrieved than a weapon against the impecunious for Weimer, she said. “I got in trouble for not following {the set fares} because I thought they’d be too expensive. My boss would look at the log sheet and say, ‘You can’t be charging people $6 for a ride.’ For a short ride just up the hill, $10 or $12 seems wicked expensive.” Weimer usually drove late-night

“ Colombia.” —Diego Alzate

“Germany will win.” —DJ

“I think Japan will win.” —Sadie Carey-Arnold

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years you need to put more money into the same road so it creates a circle that is hard to get out of. By 2020 if we keep bonding we’ll be paying $160,000 a year in interest, that is a lot to pay and not get any asphalt out of it,” Solvig said. However, Councilman Rich DePaulo brought up the point that bonding might still be the best option. He said that interest rates, despite the looming reality of rate increases, will remain relatively low for the future, and that recessions don’t impact the Ithaca economy the way it does other municipalities because it is a studentdriven economy based on institutions of higher learning that should remain in high demand.

“USA.” —Shimeles Damtew

“Colombia!” —Viviana Obando

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understanding on how the rate structures work,” Holcomb told the committee. “We’d like to see that any fare originating in Ithaca be exactly what that rate is supposed to be.” The proposal Holcomb and others are working on has in-city fares at $7.50, and $8 at night, wherever one might be going within Ithaca. Right now, there are six fare zones divided on a east-west line that runs along Buffalo Street then up Dryden Road, and north-south lines that follow Meadow Street and Stewart Avenue. The official rates within the city now are $4.60 for a ride within a zone, $5.10 to adjacent zones, and $5.60 to non-adjacent zones. There’s also a $1.15 discount for seniors over 65, 50 cents charged for each additional passenger, and a 50-cent late night surcharge from Outside of the city and town, taxi fares are unregulated. (Photo: Brian Arnold) 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. For those who use cabs for grocery runs, it’s good to know there is no charge for up to 5 paper or 10 line to a discounted cab ride. plastic bags, but exceeding that limit costs Common complaints about local cabs a quarter for each additional bag. There’s sporting better-or-worse fares is why city no mention of a charge for reusable bags. clerk Julie Holcomb would eventually There’s also a fuel surcharge like to see a countywide rate system. That determined by the city controller every development, however, Holcomb told the three months, which adds anywhere from Planning and Economic Development a nickel to the base charge when gasoline Committee on June 10, will require either prices are between $2.10 and $2.19 a “enabling legislation” from the state or gallon, to a dollar if prices are above $4 at a common effort through the Tompkins the pump. County Council of Governments. Both of “All these additional fares and fees get those efforts could take some time. For now, Holcomb said, the city should very complicated very quickly,” Holcomb said. “Obviously the taxi companies consider reforming its rate structure, are interested in a rate increase—but I which, with some modest increases would think the city interested in simplifying make the taxi companies happy—they haven’t received a rate increase since 2006. rate structures so people can easily understand.” • “My personal belief that a lot of the issues we have with taxi cabs is a — J o s h B r o k aw lack of communication and a lack of hours, sometimes taking the time to drive when students were returning from break and looking for rides from the bus station. Then, she had a $10 minimum, but squeezing in more friends only cost an extra $1 or $2 per person, meaning a cheaper ride for the students and often good tips for the driver. Repeat customers found Weimer a good woman to know—once they had her personal cell number, they had a direct

“I think the way to do this is to raise taxes, because it’s the honest way to do it,” Councilman Eric Levine said. Levine added that by raising taxes, it shows exactly what is needed, how it will be paid for, and protects the town from long-term debt. “It’s not the way I would want my last budget to go, ideally” Engman said, “but this is looking like the right time and right way to do this.” Engman added that while the tax increase would prevent residents from receiving state rebates for being under the tax cap in 2016 for the town portion, the school district is expecting to be under the tax cap for the first time in years, creating at least some offset. Solvig said that it was an ugly choice any way you looked at it, but reiterated throughout the meeting that it was a choice

that had to be made if the town wants to properly maintain its roads. However, he did add that despite his concern over the looming roads fund shortfall, the town is financially in good shape. The board also voted to authorized upgrades for the Ithaca Wastewater Treatment Facility Influent Building and dewater equipment up to $1,448,117.99 and capital improvements totaling $108,000, with roughly $61,000 coming from the City of Ithaca, roughly $44,000 coming from the Town of Ithaca, and roughly $2,000 coming from the Town of Dryden. They also voted to allow the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility to negotiate a final contract for the upgrades. The votes were unanimous, with Bill Goodman and Pat Leahy absent. • — Benjamin

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▶ Place-maker acknowledged, The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) inducted Paula Horrigan into the ASLA Council of Fellows for 2015. Fellowship is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and recognizes the contributions of these individuals to their profession and society at large based on their works, leadership and management, knowledge, and service. Locally, Horrigan put a great deal of time into the planning the redesign of the downtown of Trumansburg.

Legislature Divided On Old Library Future

fter nearly five hours of discussion and public comment, the Tompkins County Legislature failed to approve any of the proposals for the old library site development. More than 80 members of the public showed up to the June 16 meeting to watch the legislature’s discussion of the three remaining project proposals. At least 40 people spoke during the two-hour public comment, and most supported the Franklin Properties proposal, which would offer 22 condominiums. The other alternatives were the Travis Hyde proposal for 60 market-rate senior apartments with space for Lifelong and the Rochester’s Cornerstone Group proposal for 63 affordable housing apartments for seniors. During public comment, John Schroeder, a member of the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board, described the Franklin Properties project in near-poetic language, calling it “miles above the rest” and concluding, “It feels like Tompkins County, it feels like Ithaca, it feels like home.” Others supported the Franklin Properties proposal because its reuse of the building would be environmentally friendly and because the project offers less housing density than the other proposals and would thus have less impact on the surrounding neighborhood. Legislator Mike Sigler (R-Lansing), who is on the Old Library Committee, said that for him, “It really came down to density.” He explained that he supports housing density in the downtown area, which is why he would not support the Franklin Properties project. With an opposing view on density, Legislator Dan Klein (D-Danby) spoke in masonicbuilding contin u ed from page 3

that their needs and this building are a good fit. They might share the building with, or sublet parts of it to, other history groups.” Ferguson characterized Lyman’s letter as saying that Ithaca Renting showed “a willingness to expend in excess of a million dollars in doing renovations for this project.” “The anticipated cost, regardless of which avenue is selected, is expected to be in excess of $1,000,000,” Lyman wrote. The Main Streets grant requires that it cover no more than 75-percent of project costs. Putting in an elevator to meet ADA requirements would require “modification of the interior walls/structural supports,” a “significant expense,” Lyman wrote.

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The Franklin Properties design (above) has been popular with the public, but not with legislators. (Provided image)

favor of the Franklin Properties proposal. He cited strong public support, including both the speakers at the meeting and the “hundreds” of emails from constituents. Klein noted that currently “zero people live there” so even the 22-unit Franklin Properties project would have a substantial impact on the area. Also, he said, “The environmental difference is really important to me,” adding, “There is a real, true environmental case to be made for preserving the foundation that is there already.” Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden) cited the housing shortage and Cornell’s plans to admit a larger number of students over the next five years as a reason to support the higher-density projects. Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Trumansburg) said that the Franklin Properties project didn’t preserve all that much of the building. Quotable as ever, he responded to arguments in favor of preserving the historic building by saying, “That building is historically ugly to me.” Legislature chair Mike Lane (D-Dryden) noted that the city previously expressed interest in high-density housing. Although some members of the public pointed out that Lifelong could

possibly become involved in any of the projects, Lane observed that Lifelong has only chosen to be involved in the Travis Hyde project and called it “arrogant” for members of the public to assume another arrangement could work. Legislator Will Burbank (D-Ithaca) said, “I don’t think we should assume that if we go for Franklin we are hurting Lifelong.” Before voting on a proposal, legislators approved adding an amendment to attempt pursuing a ground lease instead of selling the property outright. Representatives of the two developers present—Travis Hyde and Franklin Properties—said that a ground lease could work but might present some difficulties. Initially, seven legislators supported the amendment, but it still failed because it would have required eight votes to pass. Later, Legislator Nate Shinagawa (D-Ithaca) requested reconsidering the amendment and in a second vote it passed 8-3. (There were two absences, as Legislators Kathy Luz Herrera (D-Ithaca) and Peter Stein (D-Ithaca) were excused.)

“[E]conomic realities of construction, ILPC designation, and governmental requirements limit the opportunities of the owner.” “As for financial commitments, I haven’t seen any proposed budgets, so there is nothing to decide,” Fane wrote. “The History Center’s concept might cost $1 million or more, and probably most of that might come from their fundraising or government grants, but they could tell you more about their plans.” “Dividing the building into several commercial spaces should be considerably less costly and could also reach a broader market of tenants. This is a good approach pending long term development,” Fane continued. “Apartments or condo development would serve a proven market, but is the most expensive. If the Landmark Commission supports this approach, it is

a good long-term use for the land at 117 North Cayuga Street.” In 2012, several community groups, anchored by the nonprofit State Theater, discussed buying the Masonic temple, partially to replace the community space lost when the Women’s Community Building was torn down to build Breckenridge Place. Over $1 million in loans were guaranteed for the project, but Fane had no intention of selling. “In the long run, the best strategy for the site and for the city is to build a new large building there and one that would keep the property on the tax rolls,” Fane told the Times in September 2012. “Ithaca already has too much property that does not pay property tax, and it would be irresponsible to make this problem worse.”•

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Heard&Seen ▶ STEM money, The Cornell Public Service Center, partnering with the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives and the Ithaca City School District, will use a New York State Department of Education Science Technology Entry Program grant to provide pre-college support to 99 lowincome or underrepresented minority Ithaca students in grades 7-12. The grant will provide just under $200,000 a year for five years to hire professional staff and tutors to provide academic enrichment in science and mathematics content areas. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of June 17-23 include: 1) Why There Are No Falls in Seneca Falls 2) Will FEMA Help in Newfield? 3) Spencer Picnic Parade Route Announced 4) Rik Daniels: Dancing and Looking Forward 5) Finger Lakes Field Work: Talking with Local Farm Laborers For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Who Tells Students What to Do? The Trump Card T W he original intent of our cover story this week was to talk to high school guidance counselors to ask them what they advise students to do after graduation. Should they go on to college or should they go directly into the work force? We were following up on a comment made by Jake Benninger, the head of the apprentice program at the local electricians’ union. Benninger believes that local schools steer students toward college and discourage them from joining the trades. We have also heard hearsay to that effect from parents with children in the local schools. Our staff photographer approached the guidance counselors first, candidly telling them the proposed topic of the story. They immediately became defensive and did not want their photographs included in the story unless they knew exactly what the content and slant of the story was going to be. For this week’s cover story we did get in contact with Luvelle Brown, the superintendent of Ithaca city schools, who stated that it is the school’s policy to help the students get where they want to go, whether it is into the trades or some sort of post-secondary school. In correspondence between the Times and Sharon Gublo, an Ithaca High School guidance counselor the Advanced Placement (AP) coordinator, Gublo said, “There are so many other factors, including societal and parental pressures that play into a student’s choice of career and post-secondary plans.” So, the unions say it is the schools,

the schools say it is the parents. Maybe they would blame the media. The media is indeed filled with stories about, on one hand, the enormity of college debt, the state of the university curriculum, and the questionable employment prospects for graduates with many kinds of degrees. But on the other hand, the numbers are clear. The National Center for Educational Statistics shows that if you have a college degree you are more likely to be employed. Furthermore, if you are employed, you make more if you have a college degree than if you have a high school diploma, and the gap is widening. According to U.S. News & World Report, in 1965 the difference was $7,499 and in 2013 in was $17,500, and over that period the median annual income for high school graduates has actually fallen $3,400 to $28,000. These are the numbers that parents are looking at. What numbers are the union shops looking at? U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that union membership has declined from 32 percent of the working population in 1948 to just 11 percent in 2010. It is really worse than that for trade unions. Today nearly half of all members of the AFL-CIO and 30 percent of all new union members are white-collar workers (including graduate students and adjunct professors), according to the AFL-CIO. According to SEIU (the union continued on page 7

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not a man of the people. You may call him e skip ahead exactly one month to July 24, 2015. The location: The either. REPORTER 1: Mr. Mogul, sir, how is Commons, Ithaca, New York. Or your vision for Ithaca different from Mayor at least we think it is. There is a large metal sign labeling the site, but it is almost entirely Myrick’s? TRUMP: An excellent question. obscured by traffic control devices. Still, it’s On one important issue, we’re not that a festive occasion indeed. The Republican Party is holding a press conference, jammed far apart. Both of us see a future where 2,100 new hotel rooms are added within with national media representatives, city limits in the next 36 months. Being a because the local GOP is unveiling a highvisionary, however, Donald Trump also sees profile candidate to challenge incumbent waterfront casinos on Lake Trump as the mayor Svante Myrick in his re-election bid this year. Fresh from his obligatory doomed next step for this community. I’m going to make Ithaca great again! presidential campaign is the straightREPORTER 4: Lake shooting, not-a-clown, “There are 8.7 Trump, sir? Great American Success TRUMP: We can Story himself: Mr. Donald billion reasons why hammer out naming rights Trump! Let’s listen in … Donald Trump is after the election. The point REPORTER 1: Mr. Trump, I see you’re wearing more qualified than is: Donald Trump is bringing Stanley Myrick to high-end jobs to Ithaca. And a bearskin hat. Would you mind symbolically be Mayor of Ithaca. who doesn’t like casinos? ’throwing it in the ring’? It He’s probably out They’re cash cows, you can take Donald Trump’s word would be a great photo op. grubbing funds as on that. TRUMP: Donald we speak ... ” REPORTER 2: Mr. Trump was warned there Trump, any truth to the would be wise guys today. rumor that you are a bloated My friend, this campaign —”Donald Trump” egomaniac blowhard who is about nothing less than just craves attention? revitalizing the American TRUMP: None whatsoever. My people Dream in Ithaca, New York! I’ve come to the have looked into it. And this place needs rescue. me. In fact, there are 8.7 billion reasons REPORTER 2: Why Ithaca, sir? The why Donald Trump is more qualified than incumbent mayor’s a pretty popular guy Stanley Myrick to be mayor of Ithaca. He’s around here. probably out grubbing for funds as we TRUMP: Actually, my people tell me speak, while I’ll be funding this campaign he’s vulnerable. Even a Man of Teflon is myself. I did mention that I’m rich, did I going to have to answer for Commonsgate. not? Anyway, enough chit-chat. Donald And what about his backstory? I mean, what’s the guy’s net worth, like ten thousand Trump declares that the return of the American Dream starts right now! Free dollars? I’m a billionaire! The numbers Gucci gift cards for everyone! speak for themselves. Besides, Donald Trump is making a statement. Even At this point, $50 Gucci gift cards drop liberals should have a chance to bask in my from several hovering Trump drones into the greatness. crowd of reporters and pandemonium ensues. REPORTER 3: Mr. Trump, do you What a relief—it’s going to be an interesting prefer “mogul” or “tycoon”? election after all! • TRUMP: Donald Trump is nothing if

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Second Dam Safety Before Ithaca Falls Gate

How ironic. In its plans for improvements to the entry of the park at Ithaca Falls, the City of Ithaca demonstrates a new concern for public safety in a gorge by including a gate to block access to the falls at times of high water. This new concern comes after years of turning a blind eye to the wildly dangerous activities that take place in another gorge, the 30’ dam on Six Mile Creek. Although the city has hired two gorge rangers to monitor this natural area, they are subjected to abuse and harassment 6 T

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by the rowdy crowds brought to the site by social media accounts of cliff-jumping and parties. Injuries and deaths have occurred here, leaving the city vulnerable to lawsuits. The only way to prevent further injuries and deaths is with the clout of law enforcement by the Ithaca Police Department or Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department. It’s way past time for the city to show the same concern for gorge safety at 30’ dam that they apparently now do at Ithaca Falls. – Ashley Miller, Ithaca

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At Night at a Local Museum A By M a rjor i e O l d s

s sleeping bag toting folks amble alongside Barbara Page’s majestic tile Rock of Ages, Sands of Time at the Paleontological Research Institution’s (PRI) Museum of the Earth, you hear people scoping out where they will bed down for the night. At Night at the Museum of the Earth little kids, older kids, grownups, and oldies, are busily weighing the pluses and minuses of sleeping in the Ice Age Glacial Tunnel, or by walls of windows alongside the moon and the stars. Big kids want to sleep by Jaws, the Snapping Turtle; some fathers and their kids set up base camp on either side of a huge boulder containing Devonian fossils, located directly below the huge Right Whale keeping watch overhead. Ximena, a four year old, is not picky; she will sleep in any nook, “so long as I get to sleep next to my Mommy.” Libby and Theo peek into the darkest exhibit alcove and their Grandmother Sandy obliges. Dessi and Dylan claim the Tunnel, which mother Diana finds surprisingly comfy. Cassie, 8, is waiting for her best friend to arrive for their first ever sleepover before she claims a site. Sleeping bags squirreled away, Andrew Blodgett, the Museum of the Earth’s new Educational Program Coordinator, fresh from Iowa, begins the party. Andrew, who arrived a month before Night at the Museum, had the perfect training to be master of ceremonies for this odd mix of one-night campers. With a background in Geology from the University of Iowa, Andrew had already travelled across that state in a Mobile Museum, spinning true stories of the Ice Age wherever he came upon folks of any age interested in natural history. Andrew understands the drama behind glaciers, the power of ice, and the overnighters at the Museum of the Earth are drawn into his stories. He loves fossils too, and everyone at the slumber party feels a bit like a budding geologist after they have made flowing glaciers with cornstarch and water, played Ice Age Bingo, gone on a Fossil Scavenger Hunt, eaten fossil shaped food, and examined as many local fossils as desired. “Fossils teach us about the past. These plants and animals trapped amongst the rocks eventually broke down under the crush of millions of years, creating “fossil fuels” –oil, gas, coal. All that remains in the museums are the outlines of past lives, which we study to learn about what came before us.” Andrew is now the Museum leader of Kids Discovery the Trail, a project of the Discovery Trail and local schools. KDT also visits the PRI’s other public educational setting, Cayuga Nature Center; plus visits to the Sciencenter, the Lab of Ornithology, the Plantations, and the Public Library. Kindergarteners up through Fifth Graders from the Ithaca City, Trumansburg, Groton, and Lansing School Districts visit each of

these sites annually. At the Museum about 40 kids at a time make their way through four of the big exhibits: The Right Whale (“Now one of the most endangered whales on our planet”), The Devonian Era of Time (“When NY was under the ocean 400 million years ago”), The Dinosaurs (“A Crowd Pleaser; important since they lived 200 million years ago, existing for a huge span of several hundred million years before disappearing”), and The Ice Age (which certainly left its mark on the Finger Lakes region during the past few million years). “These four exhibits span a long Time.” What else does the new Educator do when not presenting programs inside the Museum? Andrew may be leading a hike and field trip in a local prehistoric gorge, surrounded by remnants formed by the glaciers described in the Museum’s Glacier Exhibit. Sometimes he treks to the Cayuga Nature Center, PRI’s sister site, most recently to borrow a Hedgehog, a Crested Gecko, and a Millipede. “The tiny Millipede who visited the Museum of the Earth is the descendant of a 7-10 foot long giant carboniferous insect. The Crested Gecko and the Hedgehog are nocturnal animals. Each of these Cayuga Nature Center pets illustrates adaptation over time. The Museum of the earth is all about Time. Most mammals have evolved over time to develop nocturnal abilities to hunt and travel at night. During the time of the dinosaurs we speculate that smaller animals needed those abilities to coexist with dinosaurs, perhaps venturing out while the big guys were sleeping. “The Cayuga Nature Center is a fine rustic place to observe, study, play in the world around us today. This Museum tells the story of our past. We are able to see how these two views are connected. As we study where we came from to be who we are today, we develop critical thinking...We ask and seek answers to lots of questions. And we have fun.” It was unanimous that the Night at the Museum was really a great time. Plenty of activities, crafts, discussions, and flexibility ensured that kids and grownups all did what they liked best. No one was rushed. Everyone was free to wander and touch and ask. We had all the time in the world. While there was a fee for the event, the Museum no one was turned away because they couldn’t pay. “Access for all young people is important to us at PRI. Moving forward, we aim to make all of our venues and events readily accessible to any Tompkins County young person who would like to come, regardless of ability to pay. We’ve developed a new accessibility program called Young Naturalist Access Program,” Explains Stephanie, the Director of Marketing and Development (or simply “Mommy” to Ximena at this event).  “Yes the party turned out fine, even

New steel goes up on the Carey Building “overbuild” on East State Street. Four stories are being added by Travis Hyde to the historic two-story building. REV, the downtown business incubator is already in the second floor. Existing business in the first floor are remaining open. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

though I had just arrived from Iowa. The only little glitch may have been the food I selected. I’m a single guy and I didn’t know what kids eat at a slumber party. I also forgot the coffee. Luckily we had coffee drinking staff attending to save the day. But I’ve got a list started for next year...” Visit the Museum of the Earth and Cayuga Nature Center at priweb.org •

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that organized the Ithaca College adjunct faculty), the median wage of a union worker in 2010 was $917 and for a nonunion worker it was $717 (equivalent to an annual salary difference of $10,400). The message: even if you have a college degree, it’s good to be in a union. The interviews with the two apprentices in the electricians’ union apprentice program reveal a phenomenon that goes beyond numbers: these were two people who went to college because they thought they had to. Getting on the uniontrack simply wasn’t emphasized—even though one of them had a parent in a union—and they accumulated debt and wasted years of their lives wondering why they were not satisfied with (never mind excited about) what they were doing with their lives. We tried to get high school guidance counselors to weigh in on this phenomenon. If students come to them T

interested in the trade, we would have liked to know what they tell them. It would have been their chance to get it out there that they realize some people would be more fulfilled by going into the trades. And then the media (the Ithaca Times) and the schools would be breaking it to the parents together. •

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Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) proposed an amendment that would change the resolution to designate Franklin Properties as the developer, although it failed in a 6-6 vote. Finally, at 10:13 p.m., Dennis called the question. In the final vote—on the resolution designating Travis Hyde, plus the amendment regarding ground leasing—six legislators voted in favor and six against. While Legislators Robertson, Lane, Sigler, Dennis, Dave McKenna (R-Newfield), and Glenn Morey (R-Groton) all supported the Travis Hyde resolution, Legislators Shinagawa, Chock, Klein, Burbank, Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga Heights), and Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca) opposed it. Either of the legislators not present at this meeting could move for reconsideration of the matter at a future session of the legislature. • —Keri / J

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GettingHandsOnSkills There is another road out of high school besides college B y J o s h B r o k aw

C o u r t n e y Va n O r d e r b e n d s P i p e i n t h e E l e c t r i c i a n s’ A p p r e n t i c e P r o g r a m ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d)

n this world of economic uncertainty, there exists a fiveyear program that gives the student a full-time work-study wage and guarantees a good living when schooling is complete. One might expect, with that guarantee, there would be enough people applying for this program that the rejection rate would rival that of Harvard or Yale. The catch, though, is that this program requires hard work. And not just mental work, though there’s plenty of that—when one enters the trades as a carpenter, a plumber, a welder, in trade labor of any kind, hands do get dirty. “It’s dirty, it’s grimy, it’s rough on your body,” said Bryan Allen, business manager for Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 267. “You make a pretty good dollar, a living wage, make a nice retirement and have health insurance. It’s a real good career path.” Apprentices in Ithaca’s electricians joint apprenticeship program start out at $14.42 an hour as they work in the field 40 hours a week. That pay gradually

climbs over five years until apprentices are making 85-percent of union scale in their fifth year of classes, putting their yearly pay in the mid-$50,000s before graduation to journeyman status. In the same five years, apprentices put in a total of 1,000 classroom hours and receive 56 college credits at the end. That time is not all spent staring at the projector screen. Apprentices put in lots of time in the back room at the training center behind Wegman’s on Cecil Malone Drive, fixing and tweaking example circuits inserted into work booths on 91 interchangeable boards—things like fire alarms, building automation controls, motor controls, basic switching problems, and conduit bending are put before the students to solve. There’s also online classes and homework, a “blended learning” approach. “When I was a young electrician, we had three-hole punch papers and put our notebooks together—now they have the huge advantage of googling stuff,” said Jake Benninger, training director for the Ithaca Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee. “Is it always true? Is it perfect?

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No, but it’s pretty good.” The local joint apprenticeship program covers most of Tompkins County—except for Groton—Spencer and Candor in Tioga County, and eastern parts of Schuyler County. In life experiences, apprentices in the electrician program come from “all over the map,” according to Benninger. “The only requirement is that you be 18 and have a high school diploma or GED,” Benninger said. “We’ve had guys in their 50s apply and have had some apprentices in their mid-40s, taking on a second career. We have a bunch of members who were Cornell grads or came from IC.” Speaking with two electrician apprentices just finishing up their second year of classes at Ithaca’s training center illustrates the winding ways one might come to the trades. Chad Worsell, 29, graduated from Trumansburg High School in 2004, and went off to college in South Carolina before transferring to California University of Pennsylvania. He started off studying computer science, then switched to sports management.

“The major reason I went to college was to play a sport, D-II baseball,” Worsell said. “When I got injured, I told myself, ‘You have got to have a plan, dude.’” Worsell took a job at Borg Warner, where he didn’t expect to see day shift for 15 years. He started talking to friends in the electricians’ trade and decided to apply for an apprenticeship. “If I had known then what I do now, the trades would have been the way I would’ve gone,” Worsell said. “One of these (apprentices) just turned 21—in two more years he’s going to be making $65,000, $70,000 a year, and by the time he’s 27 he’ll be building his house.” Worsell is currently working on the Klarman Hall renovation at Cornell, where he’s on the “distribution side,” setting up transformers, disconnects, switchgears, and automatic transfer switches for backup power, among other work. He’s also done some work with another company at Cayuga Medical Center. Benninger said his program usually likes to rotate apprentices between different contractors every year to 18 months, which gives them more exposure to different projects

transformer—neither should they, without really spending any of your own and puts their face in front of several technically. It’s a bunch of friends, a bunch money—you invest time, but you get a employers for future reference. of dudes, and I get along with dudes better job.” Worsell calls himself “more of a “We’re always actively trying to recruit anyway.” hands-on learner,” so working in the field Whatever gender or skin color, Allen fresh talent,” Allen said, “we don’t turn full-time helps reinforce the concepts and Benninger say that it is increasingly that part of it off. All the schools, all the learned in the classroom. He wasn’t difficult to recruit new apprentices. BOCES, everywhere. We put flyers up particularly handy before starting his “It’s way tougher to recruit people and run special programs down here apprenticeship, though. than it was 10 years ago,” Allen said. “I to encourage specifically women and “If you told me to change the oil think it has to do with society’s mentality minorities to apply.” in my truck, I couldn’t do it,” Worsell that if you don’t go to college, you won’t The Skilled Trades Diversity Program said. “This work helps you figure stuff earn a living. This is the other five-year takes 10 weeks, is run through the out. You’re working with tools, problem degree, so to speak.” plumbers and steamfitters union, and is solving, troubleshooting how to get this Benninger questions whether schools “set up to attract people who wouldn’t piece of pipe into here. There’s a lot to be or parents even give their children the necessarily consider this for a career.” learned working side by side all day with choice of the trades, as opposed to going “We take them and walk them pipefitters, carpenters, so I’m learning a through everyone’s lot about how other things work, too. I’ve program for a couple built a lot of friendships with people from days—electricians, different walks of life.” carpenters, bricklayers,” Courtney VanOrder graduated from Allen said. “They get all Marathon High School in 2010 and then the safety equipment went away to college in Utica.” they need to go to “I think I wanted to be a teacher,” job site and get some VanOrder said. “I had so many different certifications … so ideas they put me in liberal arts.” they’re a couple of steps As she neared graduation, VanOrder up when they go into realized that the market for history interviews.” teachers was not promising. Benninger said “I was so close, I finished and got that that his program piece of paper,” VanOrder said. “Then, usually takes a higher when I was unemployed, I had a long percentage of women time to think long and hard about what I and minorities than wanted to do.” apply. For his last class, Without going back for a masters’ of 25 total applications, degree or redoing her college education, four were women. VanOrder decided that pursuing the teacher path wasn’t the direction she to college. wanted. Doing a stint “For some of secretarial work reason, we cannot made her realize she get the schools wasn’t cut out for a interested,” desk job. She also got Benninger said, a job at BorgWarner citing one instance as a machinist, and in which he said eventually, after his union’s spot at talking with her a middle school father, a electrician, career fair day decided to apply to was canceled the union. the week before. “I didn’t think it “We can’t get any was a place for me,” interest if they VanOrder said, “but don’t let kids know if you can do the what’s going on. work, they’ll take you. We’ve gone to the I thought it was a school board, the great opportunity. I superintendents definitely don’t regret H a n d s - o n l e a r n i n g (a b ov e) a n d Ta k i n g a n E x a m (b e l ow) i n a of schools, going to school, but l o c a l A p p r e n c t i c e P r o g r a m ( P h o t o s : B r i a n A r n o l d) and guidance I wish I started soon counselors don’t want to talk to us about “There’s still—in construction—that as I got out of high school in the union. You get the same education you would in a thing out there about women construction it. They want to fill out the card that 90percent of kids went to college. They don’t workers,” Benninger said. “It’s a lot better college, but get the hands-on stuff too.” want to talk about how they got employed than it was 20 years ago—still not quite The enthusiasm of those apprentices or their student loan encumbrances.” where it needs to be, but a lot better. And who do enter the program mystifies the Ithaca City Schools superintendent Dr. when you’re working at Cornell, places like trades unions as to why they don’t have Luvelle Brown calls Benninger’s comments that, they don’t tolerate any of that b.s..” more people applying. There are enough “a very bold leap.” For her part, VanOrder feels plenty applicants to fill classes, say Benninger and “We’re not a school district that’s comfortable on the job site. Allen, but they think that more should be going to guide kids to a pre-determined “When I first got there, a lot of the looking into the deal they offer. location,” Brown said. “If they want to guys you’re working with have daughters “This is an opportunity where we go into one of the trades, we’re going to my age or younger, so occasionally pay for people’s books, they earn while support them in that. If they want to go they’ll ask ‘Do you need help lifting they learn, and there’s no student loans,” to a two-year or a four-year college, or this?’ And I know I can’t lift a 120-pound Benninger said. “You get a real career

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whatever, it’s our job to provide them with skills that will support them wherever they may go.” (Ithaca school district guidance counselors were not made available for comment on this story.) Tony DiLucci, director of career and technical education at TST-BOCES, said that he does hear complaints there aren’t enough entry-level tradespeople, “mostly from independent contractors and smaller businesses.” “I don’t know what drives students’ decisions not to enroll in certain programs year to year,” DiLucci said. “It’s not easy to predict what’s popular one year and why it’s not popular the next year. I guess you’d have to ask the students.” “I don’t really recall teachers, counselors, mentors, anyone ‘pushing’ the trades,” said Worsell, “saying ‘Oh, this is a good career opportunity.’ Most people who talked about the trades were people born into it. ‘My dad’s a plumber, I’m going to be a plumber.’ Whenever you talked about what you wanted to be when you grew up, you’d say ‘I want to be a firefighter or an astronaut or play baseball.’” VanOrder does think there is an emphasis on college—“Back in high school, if you didn’t have a college plan, everybody thought you were doomed. Everyone thought it was kind of what you had to do.” For those who might consider the trades, Benninger said there’s “no secret formula” for an applicant. His apprenticeship program has about a 90percent retention rate. “We have taken people from high school, and those a couple years out of high school. There are categories we use as part of the application—education, work history, an aptitude test. Job experience is good, but not necessary. Motivation and interest, those things are something people have to figure out for themselves.” Allen said he will “take a veteran over anybody else. “It’s a night and day difference,” he said. “They have some work history, they come to work on time, and they do what they’re asked to do.” Anyone considering the trades should keep in mind that it’s good work, and it’s hard work. “I’m super happy I took the opportunity,” VanOrder said, “and I suggest it to anyone who asks me. Just try it – it’s hard work, and you have to be willing to do the work, but you can’t find a better job. It’s stable. You can take it anywhere you want to go, and awesome benefits everywhere you go. And your hands get dirty.” •

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are choosing to to see them hit a maintain their ball, thinking they college eligibility, “got it all,” go into they all have their a home run trot eyes on the next and then look on level, and they are in disbelief as the hungry to prove ball is caught 10 themselves. feet in front of the I really enjoyed warning track. Summer, Baseball, and Mr. Goldberg seeing so many dads Not only and their baseball was it a great day By Ste ve L aw re nc e glove-wielding for a ball game, kids, turning their there was some Dunn Field in Elmira (Provided) attention away from real drama as the t’s difficult to imagine a more idyllic in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball their cell phones, Pioneers got lit Father’s Day, sitting with my daughters League and feature players from collegiate hoping to catch a souvenir, and I pointed up for seven runs in the first two innings, at a baseball game, smelling real grass, programs like Florida State, Penn State, out to my daughter that this is the first then clamped down defensively, never hearing the crack of the wooden bats Siena and Bucknell—and while they are time most of these players have ever used gave up and came away with an 8-7 win. and eating cold and stale pizza. We went still amateurs, they put a very quality a wooden bat, and that it is entertaining I must say that going to historic Dunn to see the Elmira Pioneers—who play product on the field. While the players Field, and seeing the old photographs of Babe Ruth, Earl Weaver, and a host of other greats is a wonderful experience for a lifelong baseball fan like me. Seeing BRINGING TOGETHER THE BEST IN CANCER CARE granddads and dads and kids sitting together, enjoying a game on Father’s Day, did my soul good. • • • On the darker side of baseball, new information has come out via ESPN that Pete Rose did, contrary to his prior claims, bet on baseball as a player in the 1980s. I have always believed that if Rose bet on baseball while affiliated with the game in any official capacity it justified the lifetime ban, and the fact that he lied about it for 15 years (coming clean just in time to promote his book), further cemented the case, and to those who say “this information will effectively keep Rose from ever being reinstated,” I say Emily Emmick “good.” Rose is and always has been an Cancer survivor, mom, and wife arrogant, self-serving man, and given that Lansing, New York every clubhouse displays a sign reminding players and staff that betting on baseball will get you kicked out, Rose is either arrogant or illiterate and deserves to have the door to Cooperstown shut in his face. • • • I’d like to extend my condolences to my good friend Mark Goldberg on the Cayuga Cancer Center passing of his father, Stan. Clinically linked with Roswell Park Mr. Goldberg was an Ithaca Cancer Institute businessman and I knew him casually, as I was a sometime-customer at Bishop’s • Comprehensive individualized cancer care Home Center, and he was the owner. • Nursing staff nationally certified in oncology I saw how hard Stan worked, and how he treated people with such respect services and professionalism, and when I began • Two convenient locations, keeping treatments working at Cornell, I met Mark, who close to home had been a student intern at the Sports • Patient education and support for appropriate Information office. Mark was hired fulltime upon graduating, he was an utterly therapies tireless worker under Dave Wohlheuter, Physicians caring for Emily: and then went on to establish Momentum Media, an Ithaca-based company that Julie Campbell, MD publishes several magazines in the fields Board-certified medical oncologist, of Athletic Training, Athletic Management Cayuga Hematology Oncology Associates For more information, call or visit us online: and the like. Mark is still a tireless worker, and Cayuga Medical Center works many, many hours to keep the 101 Dates Drive magazines going and his employees’ jobs Ithaca, New York 14850 John Powell, MD intact, and his advice, input and support (607) 274-4046 Board-certified radiation oncologist, have always been extremely helpful to (607) 252-3927 Roswell Park Cancer Institute me as a sports journalist. Mr. Goldberg was a very kind and classy man who cayugamed.org made significant contributions to our community, and the proverbial apple does not fall far from the tree. • sports

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The Power of Imagination on Display at Public Library By A rt h u r Wh itm a n

ntentionally or not, the title of “Dreamtime: Surreal, Allegorical, & Fantastic Art” recalls another exhibition. Curated by legendary founder-director Alfred Barr, “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism” was a seminal 1936 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It was instrumental in establishing these genres as central to modern art in America. This one is of course far more modest, but it does highlight an important stream of contemporary art-making in Ithaca and beyond. Curated by State of the Art Gallery members Frances Fawcett and Margaret Nelson, it just went up at the Tompkins County Public Library and was put together with the assistance of Sally Grubb, the library’s head of exhibits. (It runs June 14 through Sept. 15.) Most of the work is from artists living in and around Ithaca, and the show includes several current SOAG members. I spoke with Fawcett and Nelson at the recent reception for the show, and it was clear that this show was a labor of love for both of them. Both artists have a background in scientific illustration and an interest in the fantastic that goes back to childhood. They are showing their own digital art. Fawcett’s contributions, printed on small canvases, are perhaps the most unusual here in that they were originated in a “mod” for a popular video game, a homemade modification to its look and feel. They have a cartoonish-realistic style that doesn’t announce itself as her best work—although it presumably makes more sense in the original setting. Nelson is well known for her digital renderings and hers here are by far the best such in the show. They combine her interest in ecology with a Japanese-influenced aesthetic and a taste for fantasy and narrative. As typical for shows like this at the library, work by serious artists shares space with work that can only be called amateurish. And given the theme,

it isn’t surprising that there is kitsch: work where the artist’s enthusiasm for the otherworldly is matched by apparent innocence regarding style and technique. The best artists here prove that it’s possible to

Sunday Drive by Jane Dennis (Photo Christopher Harrington)

combine childlike wonderment with a grown up rigor. I will focus on this work below, particularly from artists who are less familiar, or whom I haven’t written about extensively before. Stephan Phillips is the sort of artist that critic Donald Kuspit might label a “new old master.” An oil painter of great refinement and subtle tonalities, his most familiar work is still life, done in a manner that recalls the Italian modern master Giorgio Morandi. There’s a weird frisson to his Exotic Animal, which depicts a creature leaping up

in a seemingly futile effort to escape an intricate net. It’s a tiger, more or less—the subdued orange-brown is the strongest color in this landscape of grays and browns. But the body is oddly proportioned, like a toy dinosaur. The anatomical incorrectness has an “off ” quality, in strange tension with the sophistication of the technique. Milly Acharya is known for her meticulous botanical illustrations. Here she is showing wildly fantastic, boldly colored ink and watercolor images of dragons. These are hyper-detailed in a different way, her sheets of paper covered in abstract tapestries of texture: dots, scales, calligraphic arabesques. Although she writes in her statement that these were inspired by the past decade’s premonitions of war, these beasts present themselves as pure fantasy. The largest of these is MahaDadu Dragon, done on a wide sheet of paper mounted to a canvas covered board and shown behind glass. (Her smaller works on paper are matted and framed more conventionally). The dragon, recognizably Chinese, folds himself up, the curl of his tail echoing that of his tongue. The white of his eye (we see his face in profile) is left largely empty, in contrast to the rest of the image. We thus come to eye him as he appears to eye us, a sentient presence amidst the cosmic proliferation. Jane Dennis may be Ithaca’s best practitioner of mixed-media assemblage, incorporating painted and drawn—as well as found photographic—imagery in to her work. Her boisterously colored Sunday Drive is the only freestanding sculpture in the show, an elaborate construction of wood, metal-plates, fabric and paper coverings, and other assorted materials. Drive is a double-sided map of the United States: one topographic, the other a road map. It is mounted on four spoked wooden wheels. It has the quality of a toy (“did you roll it?” asked continued on page 16

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By Br yan VanC ampe n The Wolfpack, directed by Crystal Moselle; The Overnight, written and directed by Patrick Brice, both opening July 3 at Cinemapolis.

• • • Patrick Brice’s The Overnight is a perfect example of the kind of microbudgeted indie shot on a Roger Corman schedule and budget that still manages to be the kind of film that gets under your skin. Brice is a newly emerging protégé of Mark and Jay Duplass—Creep, his first film starring Mark Duplass, just hit iTunes—and the Duplass influence is very clear. The Overnight stars Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling as Alex and Emily, new parents who have just moved to Los Angeles. When their toddler plays with another kid at the park, Kurt (Jason Schwartzman), the other kid’s dad invites them over for pizza night. Once the kids

hen it comes to documentaries, I always say that if you can find the right subject, you’ll have a compelling documentary. Crystal Moselle, director of a new doc called The Wolfpack, found hers when six impeccably dressed young men passed her on the street. She ran after them, heard their story, and knew she had a great film in front of her. The Wolfpack is the best film I’ve seen about the importance of creativity to combat family dysfunction since Terry Zwigoff ’s Crumb. The six impeccably dressed young men are the Angulo brothers: six lanky Nuno Bettencourts with Chiclets teeth. We see them first in their New York City tenement apartment, dressed in blackand-white suits with homemade prop guns, reenacting scenes from Reservoir Part of The Wolfpack hanging at Coney Island (Photo Provided) Dogs. They also play guitars and at least one of are tucked in, the booze and weed are them is a very talented artist, based on broken out, and soon Scott and Schilling his recreations of iconic movie posters are watching breast pump videos starring that we see. They have a whole system: Kurt’s wife, Judith (Judith Godrèche). one of them sits down with the DVD A “one crazy night” film in the subtitles and transcribes the lines and tradition of Who’s Afraid of Virginia makes scripts, and they fashion their own Woolf and the John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd costumes and props out of whatever’s comedy Neighbors, The Overnight is able around. One of them sports a Batman move past do-they-want-to-sleep-with-us? costume that looks expensive, but it’s all gags into more interesting acting arenas, as corrugated cardboard, duct tape, and little the two couples break down the hypocrisy cereal boxes. of the social conventions and begin It turns out that the boys do this stuff confessing real insecurities and hurts. because they’ve been kept indoors for Schwartzman’s ability to establish himself almost all of their lives. The father doesn’t as a particular type of hipster and then work because of some lofty philosophy break himself down sets the tone; Scott has about bowing to the man, but mostly he been a reliable comic actor for more than drinks and has various violent episodes; a decade, but allows himself to be much the mom home-schools them, which more flawed and vulnerable as the night amounts to the only income the family grinds on. Schilling and Godrèche get receives. The kids are sweet—their default expression is a shy smile—but we can read their own little weirdo detour that changes the evening yet again. in volumes about what they won’t reveal Best of all, the film employs a certain about their upbringing. kind of male prosthetic that hasn’t been The great thing about discovering seen onscreen since Boogie Nights. • a film like The Wolfpack is watching it Read an interview with The unfold. So I won’t say anything else except Overnight’s Patrick Brice at Ithaca.com. to recommend it most highly. It is one of the best films of the year.

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producer, and who is a really great player, avid Crosby’s music career a really great writer. And we co-wrote a began in earnest when he began lot of the stuff, and we had a blast doing recording music in the early it. You know I am really proud of it, 1960s. He formed the rock band the Byrds, but was dismissed from the group and I think it’s a really good record and by Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman in everybody seemed to like it. And it was certainly a joy to do. 1967. He then formed Crosby, Stills and I’ve been busy doing other kinds of Nash, with the Woodstock performance records, Crosby/Nash records, Crosby/ of August 1969 being CSN’s second live Stills, Nash records, and Crosby, Stills, performance. The band grew to add guitarist Neil Young, and in 1971 Crosby Nash, and Young records, and hadn’t began to perform as a solo artist and later done any solo ones in a long time, and this one is really a joy. As a matter of fact joined the group CPR (Crosby, Pevar and Raymond; Raymond is Crosby’s own I’ve already started another one. IT: Who son). would you like After more to work with than five decades musically, but have in music, Crosby, not yet? who is 74 years DC: Oh man, I old, has been have worked with inducted twice an awful lot of into the Rock people, and those and Roll Hall are the ones I want of Fame with to work with again. the Byrds and Someone I haven’t Crosby, Stills, worked with. and Nash. He Donald Fagan. I’d is also in the like to work with Songwriters Donald Fagan. He’s Hall of Fame. terrific, the singer Currently, Crosby from Steely Dan, is on tour and and he’s a great will be singing songwriter. and playing IT: Is it harder acoustic guitar at or more enjoyable intimate venues. to be touring now? “This is about DC: Touring the songs. The has always been tale telling,” said hard and it’s still Crosby. “Taking hard. There is not you on a voyage David Crosby (Photo Provided) much joy in hotels to my world for a and bad food and moment.” never getting more Crosby will than four hours of sleep in a row, that perform at the Smith Opera House in kind of thing. Not a lot of joys that. The Geneva on June 27. joy is when you’re working. Singing, Ithaca Times: After more than five that’s a joy. Playing is really fun. But decades of playing and writitng, what is it about music that is still special for you? being on the road and away from your family and away from home. That’s hard. Does it help to heal or reveal? It’s always hard. David Crosby: You know, it’s a joy. IT: Would you like to add anything In the first place music is a lifting force; else about your music and would like if wars are a depressing force, music is a people to know? lifting force in all of the human race. So DC: The thing I would talk about that is a good thing. And personally I just is these shows are very much about the love singing, and I love writing songs. songs. And they are really a joy that way. So, doing it is still a complete pleasure I love the words. I love being able to for me. It’s being on the road stuff that have the words count. And if it’s just me makes it hard. But the singing, singing is and the guitar, and it’s acoustic and solo, fun, writing songs is fun. then the words really count. And I can IT: Your recent album, Croz, was really like that part. And for the people a different undertaking for you. What who love songs, it’s a really fun show. The made this release special? audiences seem to love it, and it’s pretty DC: Well I was working with my great. • son James Raymond, who is a brilliant

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1776, music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone; co-directed by Kerby Thompson and Dustin Charles; scenic design by Ola Kraszpulska; costume design by Jimmy Johansmeyer; sound design by Seth Asa Sengel; at Cortland Repertory Theatre through July 4.

that yearn to be free” issue that George Carlin pointed out. Nicholas Carroll is in fine voice as Thomas Jefferson, but we don’t hear about his mistress Sally Hemings. Daniel Wisniewski, playing as South Carolina’s Edward Rutledge, touches on the hypocrisy of the subject of slavery in “Molasses to Rum,” and in this boisterous batch of male energy, Bob Finley and Coleman Hemsath are stand-outs. Yes, the show is almost entirely male, the exceptions being Caitlin Diana Doyle as Adams’ wife Abigail; Horton and Doyle communicate

n interesting phenomenon is happening with regard to my theatre reviewing this summer, in that everything I’m seeing are shows new to me, particularly musicals like the Merry-Go-Round’s production of West Side Story and Cortland Repertory’s new production of 1776. I’ve been covering the theatre beat for nearly 30 years, and you’d think I’d have seen these shows at least once by now. (You’d be amazed at how many versions of certain plays and musicals I’ve seen, as they go in and out of fashion over the years.) 1776 premiered on Broadway in 1969, ran for over 1000 performances and America’s Founding Fathers in the musical 1776 (Photo Provided) won three Tony Awards, including Best Musical. through numbers based on their letters At the time, we were still deep into the to each other. In fact, Peter Stone’s Vietnam War, and the show received a book uses quotes and aphorisms lot of attention, contrasting where we were in the late ‘60s with the contentious from several members of the Second Continental Congress. Rachel Womble and lengthy attempts to draft the is also winning and in fine voice as Declaration of Independence. It was Jefferson’s wife Martha, newly arrived made into a film in 1972, which I did in Philadelphia as an incentive for her see; it was one of the first films to play husband to complete the Declaration of on HBO in its infancy. Independence. Cortland Repertory has certainly 1776 is a fine show indeed, even mounted a handsome and accurate though it’s not the kind of show staging of the play, which takes place that sends people out into the night in a chair-clogged, overheated room, humming the songs; numbers like “Sit the Second Continental Congress in Down, John” and “Yours Yours Yours” Philadelphia. The show opens in high don’t usually get a lot of play on WICB’s gear with Greg Horton as John Adams singing for “independency,” as the rest of “Best of Broadway.” It’s the plot, the characters, and the overall vibe that help congress breaks free from an elaborate tableau based on historical paintings and it to cast a shadow, not catchy tunes and cool choreography. In that sense it is sui shouts at him to “Sit Down, John.” We generis, and in the Broadway pantheon, get to watch as arguments foment and it still stands alone. Appropriately, this sides are chosen. There is a 30-minute show about the birth of patriotism scene with no musical numbers that closes on July 4. I can’t think of a more shows the representatives of the 13 interesting way of saluting our nation’s colonies struggling to come to a “independency” than a look back at consensus. The show does sidestep a few issues, 1776. • namely the whole “white slave owners

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omenica Brockman is both an artist and a businesswoman. (She owns the upscale clothing store, Petrune, on the Ithaca Commons.) I love this woman’s work. I discovered it on a Gallery Night. It’s hung at the CommonSpot, which is a shared office space (focusing on progressive community organizations). The paintings are of the natural world, specifically, here in upstate New York. The art is representational, realistic, but simplified and abstracted enough that it is more-or-less expressionistic. The artist of which it most reminds me is Arthur Dove. (Arthur Dove was from Geneva. He painted expressionistic landscapes. He was part of Georgia O’Keefe’s circle in New York City. I discovered his work in a museum in Seattle in 1996.) At the CommonSpot Brockman has two rooms of winter paintings and two rooms of spring and summer. They are all wonderful. But I’ll zero in on the ones I find most compelling. Winter Sun 2: This is a painting of rolling upstate New York hills in winter. There is a layer of white snow on the fields,

and the trees and forest are stripped down to near black, so the image is simplified to black-and-white. A pale, ghostly sun hangs over the hills. This one has a real Arthur Dove feel to me. Winter Corn is an upstate field in winter with clumps of dark forest on the horizon. Again the colors are pared down to black, white, gray and a touch of gold. And the stalks of the snow-covered cornfield are composed as a dance of Van Gogh-like abstract slashes. There are several paintings – Late Afternoon, January 2015, Sunset Path, Late Sun and Winter Branches where Brockman works a theme. All of these feature a wild, dark tangle of forest foliage with muted winter sunset light streaming through the forms. (It is curious that I find myself so attracted to these paintings where Brockman finds the stark, melancholy beauty of winter…given that I loathe the season. I am a summer person.) And, speaking of Brockman’s summery paintings – there is a painting called Untitled …a painting of a swamp in spring that I find incredibly appealing. The trees are reflected in the swamp water –

the branches stylized into a very effective a hyper-dense impressionist forest at the abstract slashing. The foliage is rendered shore of a silvern river flowing through in near abstraction that nonetheless the forest. perfectly conveys the feeling of being in Sunset at the Farm is a miraculous full the real world. shot of dense green summer foliage and And I adore the painting Sheep in the what looks like a path running through Forest—a the forest … the painting of greens going all two sheep, lit the way from by rim-light, glowing near standing in white to shadowy a November near black. forest. The There is a sheep are lovely painting adorable. called Central Essentially, Park Spring they are with a jaunty, realistically almost cartoony rendered— impressionism. but in the And a expressionist fall painting use of the called October paint, they Pokeweed that are slightly somewhat stands Domenica Brockman flanked by her recent works (Photo Provided) cartooned alone, looking – which like a Matisse – somehow an October field conveys the magical life of the animals. with swirling liquid forms of red-and-gold Some of the paintings feature fuller, vegetation, dark green leaves, and grapewide shot visions of the upstate landscape. like clusters against a distant field of light These would include: Winter Morning, green and a light white-and-blue sky. Winter Drive, and Taughannock Trail. To wrap up here … these are works Winter Morning is of the rolling snow- worth seeing. (And the CommonSpot is a covered farm landscape of the upstate marvelous shared community space worth winter, Winter Drive shows a road curving visiting.) • into the rocky, forested Southern Tier, and Domenica Brockman’s exhibition at Taughannock Trail captures the shale and The CommonSpot, 126 ¾ The Commons, siltstone gorges and flowing creek beds of Ithaca will be on display through the month this remarkable area. of July. Phone: (607) 592-2222. Visit: www. I particularly like Smith Woods CommonSpot.org. Summer—where we’re looking through

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a curious onlooker) while displaying a sophisticated approach to materials and imagery. Her wall hanging Metal Map covers similar territory – mental maps conflating geography with history and personal imagination. Like Dennis’, Margaret Reed’s work exudes a sort of urbane folksiness. Strategically crude in style, her drawings are informed by a literate interest in religious and mythological themes. Here her chalk pastel Concupiscence (Outside the Dark Woods) depicts the She-Wolf from Dante’s Inferno with her characteristic wit. Better still is her St. Brigid (The Magician), a densely toned and textured charcoal portrait of the Irish saint as a femme fatale, elaborately clothed with a peacock headdress, match in hand, the objects and architecture around her an iconographer’s errand. Brian Keeler, a sometime cover artist for the Ithaca Times, is an accomplished painter. His magical realist oils combine a nuanced observation of figures and/or landscapes—often Ithaca area scenes— with a sense of light and color that can be enchanting or cloying, depending on your taste. He’s showing three very different pieces here. The most compelling of these is the large, elaborately worked pastel Auspicium. The image, a homage to the Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte, is a selfportrait. The artist is young and full haired,

wearing a beret, a red shirt and dark pants. He is painting in a room, wooden floorboards and a corner to the right. He applies his brush to the canvas on the easel before him, rendering a romantic twilight landscape: the bank of a river or lake, flying swans. Representation and “reality” intermingle. The landscape leaks out of its customary confines and fills the walls behind the easel. A swan flies out to greet us, holding a long pink ribbon. Keeler’s two oils explore surrealism as well. Country Fish Sing a Road Song shows a quartet of silvery trout standing in the middle of an outlandishly pink road, their mouths agape. The road dominates our field of vision, as if we walking along it. It bends and waves off into the distant rural scenery. The small Minotaur shows the legendary beast in a suit, his pink maze behind him. An illustrational and narrative tinge inflects even some of Scott Pardee’s straightforward landscapes. In two oils here, he lets it go. Cumulous Cow shows the blackand-white spotted animal posed near the lower right corner, standing off-angle, in apparent contemplation of the heavens. A scenic landscape of fields, forests, water and hills spills into the distance. The pale blue sky is filled with little puffy clouds—the largest forming the shape of a cow. Although it’s pretentious to read such things into such a sweet image, one imagines the beast as a stand-in for the viewer of the painting (or any representational painting) seeing visions in

the brush-marks. Pardee’s other painting is an enormous untitled piece rendered in shades of black— with white and red—and showing a nighttime lightning strike that startles a group of mountain hikers. It lacks the quiet charm of Cow but the narrative outlandishness is well suited for this show. Eileen Seeley Schlag of McDonough, Exotic Animal by Stephan Phillips (Photo by Christopher Harrington) New York, is showing a pair of modestly sized oil Abstraction is an under-explored on board paintings that blend symbolism route in this show. A fusion of abstract with abstraction. The larger and more leanings and playful fantasy was the compelling on these, One Small Hand, most enduring contribution of that incorporates small images into an great modernist, Paul Klee, and was an architectural looking scaffolding: a important strand within Surrealism as window, a door, tiny houses, a poppy well. To be sure, it is difficult to get exactly flower, and—sticking up from the bottom what you want (or need) when putting edge—a hand stretched palm out. Schlag together a thematic show from an open quotes the 18th century Jewish mystic call for submissions. Still, it would be Baal Shem Tov: “Alas! The world is full of interesting to see work like that of Scout enormous lights and mysteries, and man Dunbar or Syau-Cheng Lai—both SOAG shuts them from himself with one small associated artists whose exemplary bodies hand.” of work merge exotic figuration and

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an open-ended experimentation with materials and process. Of course, all art is abstract in some sense and indeed fantastic in proposing a different way of experiencing the world. Phillips’ artist’s statement includes a great quote from Morandi: “nothing is more abstract than reality.” I don’t wish to criticize artists who are students or who lack necessary familiarity with the wider world of artistic approaches and techniques. And there is a place in our local culture for exhibitions that are inclusive and populist. However, it would be welcome to see the occasional group show (with many artists, not just a few) organized around a more selective approach. When it comes to shows of local artists, such efforts are all too rare. Still, an exhibit like “Dreamtime” can be counted a success by Ithaca standards. It includes a critical mass of work by serious, accomplished artists. Especially in the local context, it is the rare “theme” show where the theme does actual work rather than acting as a mere excuse for yet another presentation of the same. The art here is diverse in conception and technique, but you can sense the best work here coming together as a larger statement. As the curators point out, fantastic and surreal art are part of local artistic bloodstream, and this show makes that current visible and concrete in a way that it has not been before. •

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Open Mic | 9:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | DJ Freeze: Tipsy Tuesdays | 9:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Level B Bar Lounge & Dancing, 410 Eddy St, Ithaca | Deep House, Grooves, Electronic. I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Emil Altschuler and Thomas Pandolfi | 7:30 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Schwartz Performing Arts Center, 340 College Ave., Ithaca | Acclaimed violinist and pianist will collaborate on a program featuring works ranging from Beethoven to rarely performed modern gems by Bennett. Both of these virtuoso performers studied at the Julliard School, with Pandolfi earning his master of music degree there while Altschuler continued his studies at The Yale School of Music. Classical. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Jazz, Post Bop, New School, featuring Peter Forlano on Tenor and Soprano Sax. Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | 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. Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday. Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

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A local bank to help it thrive. Pandolfi | 7:30 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Acclaimed violinist Emil Altschuler and pianist Thomas Pandolfi will collaborate on a program featuring works ranging from Beethoven, Bach, and Paganini to rarely performed modern gems by Robert R. Bennett.

Film Kingsman | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Based on the popular comic book of the same name, ‘Kingsman’ tells the story of a secret spy organization that recruits a street kid into the agency’s training program just as a global threat from a twisted tech genius emerges. Guardians of the Galaxy | 6:00 PM-8:15 PM, 6/26 Friday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | We’re celebrating the start of our superherothemed teen summer reading program with a free screening of Guardians of the Galaxy. Get your hero on with these unlikely heroes from the Marvel cinematic universe. cinemapolis

Friday, 6/26 to Thursday, 7/02. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes A Little Chaos | Two talented

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landscape artists become romantically entagled while building a garden in King Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles. Kate Winslet stars. | 117 mins R | Ex Machina | Science Fiction thriller about a young programmer’s experience with artificial intelligience in the form of a breathtaking female. A.I. | 108 mins R | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | A teenage filmmaker befriends a classmate with cancer. | 104 mins PG-13 | Love & Mercy | In the 1960’s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson loses his grip on reality as he attemps to create his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980’s he is a broken and confused man under the watch of his therapist. | 120 mins PG-13 | I’ll See You in My Dreams | A widow and former songstress discover that life can begin anew at any age. | 92 mins PG-13 | The Midnight Swim | A Psychodrama with Supernatural undertones about three-half sisters who travel home to settle the affairs of their mother after she goes missing in a haunted lake. | 84 mins NR | The Wolfpack | Locked away from society at an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world throuh the films they watch. |

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Wednesday 6/24 to Tuesday 6/30 Contact Regal Theater Ithaca for Showtimes Insidious: Chapter 3 | Psychological Horror that ventures into the neurouniverse of a troubled teenager’s mind. | 98 mins PG-13 | Spy | CIA Analyst Susan Cooper is forced into her first real field work and trys to save and revenge her fellow agents. | 115 mins R | Jurrasic World (3D) | Visitors at the famed theme park run wild when the genetically engineered Indominus Rex and other dinosaurs go on a rampage. | 124 mins PG-13 | Ted 2 | Buddies John (Wahlberg) and Ted (MacFarlane) encounter trouble when the law decides Ted to be a piece of property and not a person. They promptly seek justice with the help from a legendary Civil Rights attorney. | 115 mins R | San Andreas (3D) | The legendary Fault finally gives and the story of an estranged family ensues. | 114 mins PG-13 | Tomorrowland | Disney’s riveting mystery adventure about a jadded scientist and an optimistic teen and their story of unearthing an unknown

Agava, Friday, June 26, 9:00 p.m. This local band composed of battle tested veterans of the New York State music scene, combine the dynamics of Progressive Rock, the openness of Improvisation, and the unquestionable heart of the late 60’s and early 70’s Psychedelic Bands. It’s always a trip watching them, don’t miss out!

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Stage Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs. Princess Ida | 7:30 PM-, 6/24

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth

Development Program | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com. Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/25 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions. New Roots Charter School Commencement Ceremony | 6:30 PM, 6/26 Friday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Ceremony celebrates newly graduated scholars from the Charter School. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December. Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking. Community Forum on Heroin and Opiates | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/29 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Our panel of four experts will provide a local overview of the topic. Our panel represents law enforcement, treatment, medical, and recovery. There will be time for questions from the audience.

Learning Canning Jar Swap | 9:00 AM-4:30 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Do you have canning jars you no longer need or use? Could you use more canning jars to preserve food this year? Art Classes for Adults | Community

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The Nines, Friday, June 26, 10:00 p.m. These young Ithaca musicians sound years beyond their age, and play an interesting blend of insightful Folk Americana with a Modern edge. This crew is designing their own unique sound, and have a lot of potential. Come out and share the experience with them!

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place in space and time. | 130 mins PG | Mad Max: Fury Road (3D) | After the collapse of civilization the five wives of a despot join an alliance with a loner and try and escape. | 121 mins R | Pitch Perfect 2 | The Barden Bellas are back in the follow-up to 2012’s smash hit. Elizabeth Banks stars and pens. | 115 mins PG-13 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | When Tony Stark jumpstarts a dormat peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heros are put to the ultimate test. | 150 min PG-13| Dope | Malcom is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. | 105 mins R | Inside Out| Disney Pixar’s new film about a Midwestern girl whose life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. | 102 mins PG |

Wednesday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Gilbert & Sullivan performed by the Cornell Savoyards, this adaptation investigates the social and political milieu of Cornell’s founding, reproduces the campus culture of several regional colleges, and honors the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention. 1776 | 7:30 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | This musical puts a human face on our Founding Fathers: proud, uncertain, irritable and ultimately noble figures who are determined to do the right thing for a fledgling nation. Thin Walls | 7:30 PM- 6/24 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West State / MLK, Jr. St., Ithaca | Alice Eve Cohen’s solo play about a New York City residential hotel, its recent arrivals, and its ghosts. Rachel Lampert directs. Wednesdays, Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 4:00 p.m. Spring Awakening | 7:30 PM, 6/25 Thursday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | In this electrifying musical, a group of 19th-century German students navigate the highs and lows of self-discovery, love, and loss. The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, SPRING AWAKENING has redefined contemporary musical theatre. Based on the 1892 Frank Wedekind play which was banned in Germany for two decades after its publication. Comedy FLOP’s | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | FREE and fun weekly event featuring improv comedy (think Who’s Line is it, Anyway?) performed by a gang of local performers. Peaches and Crime’s Do Bad Things Burlesque Show! | 8:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday | Tiahwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine St, Owego | Be transported back in time to a glamorous bygone era with the Vaudeville and Burlesque escapes of Peaches and Crime! With all original music, and authentic costumes, they bring the Prohibition age of jazz and traditional burlesque back to life! Featuring special guests: Domino Trixx, Scarlet Stiletto, Luzy Haze and Introducing Jolie Cherry Noir!

School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org. Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza. Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/29 Monday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A master artist will guide you through creation of a 16x20 acrylic masterpiece in about two hours, while you enjoy delicious food and drink. Tickets available at www. paintnite.com

Special Events Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen | All day, , 6/25 Thursday | 6/26 Friday | 6/27 Saturday | 6/28 Sunday | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | One segment of the Tequila Patron North American Endurance Championship. Haunted Ithaca Tour | 8:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | DeWitt Park | Hear the chilling stories of the 1879 bobsled accident, the cursed wood of the Columbia Inn, Old Greeny – Cayuga Lake’s monster, the 1960s UFO craze, and spirits that still linger in Ithaca. This tour covers all things mysterious and grim, from ghost stories, to the city’s most sordid characters, to Ithaca’s paranormal past. Reservations required. Call or email to reserve your spot. Syracuse Balloonfest | 4:00 PM-11:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | Jamesville Beach Park, 4110 West Shore Manor, Jamesville | Balloon Flight Times: Friday 6-7:30PM; Saturday & Sunday:5:30AM & 6-7:30PM (weather permitting) Varick Winery’s 11th Annual Cherry Festival | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday, 6/28 Sunday | Varick Winery, 5102 State Rte 89, Romulus |

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Public Art Commission (PAC) | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday |

Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The PAC is charged with overseeing a public art program to enrich the visual and aesthetic environment of public, private, and semi-public spaces within the city of Ithaca. Community Police Board (CPB) | 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | CPB is charged by the City of Ithaca to act as a community liaison to the Police Department and actively foster positive communications between police and all segments of the community. Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, 6/25 Thursday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The IURA secures and manages resources to improve the social, physical, and economic characteristics of the City of Ithaca by expanding access to quality affordable housing, strengthening neighborhoods and the local economy, and supporting other community development activities. Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Planning & Development Board Special Meeting (Comprehensive Plan) | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | This is a special meeting for the Planning Board to review the final draft of the City’s Comprehensive Plan. The Planning & Development Board (“Planning Board”) ordinarily meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month to review Site Plan Review applications, proposed Subdivision applications, proposed City ordinance revisions, zoning appeals, and other matters it is charged with reviewing.

Nature & Science Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 6/26 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night. Night Hikes | 6:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Held during the evening. Hike our wooded trails under the big sky of our back

Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/30 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604

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The California Honeydrops perform Wednesday, June 24, at 8:00 pm at The Haunt (Photo Provided) fields or around our ponds. Find out who is awake and stirring under the moonlight. No need for a flashlight— you’ll be surprised how much you see without one. Please call ahead for availability: 607-273-6260. Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 6/27 Saturday, 6/28 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar. Maple to Monarda: Gardening with Native Plants | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Learn how to use Native Plants to help support healthy ecosystems. Tips on Landscaping, garden styles, and growing conditions.

Health & Wellness Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New

or returning skaters of any level are welcome. Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers. Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/ wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www. DamodarDas.com. Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592. Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick. Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015 Every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, , | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Summer Open House | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 6/25 Thursday | Nutrition Wellness

Center, 520 W Green St, Ithaca | Mingle with Ithaca’s Experts on Health, Wellness, and Beauty! Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/25 Thursday. 6/29 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Writing Practice as Self-Inquiry | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/27 Saturday | 108 S Albany St, 108 S Albany St, Ithaca | Leslie Ihde is forming an ongoing group to run alternate Saturdays. Members will learn to write poetry and short prose inspired by their own perceptions. The goal of the group will be to encourage self-discovery first, and good writing second. Friendly group discussions will be facilitated. No experience necessary. Beginning and experienced writers are welcome. For more information see http:// www.spiritualself-inquiry.com or call 607-754-1303. Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 6/28 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited. Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 6/28 Sunday |

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Guardians Of The Galaxy,

Johnson Museum of Art, Friday, June 26, 5:00 p.m. Runs through August 16

BorgWarner Room, Tompkins Public Library, Friday, June 26, 6:00 p.m. A free screening of this Science Fiction Superhero film will sure to inspire young and old alike. A great way to spend a family outing, this Marvel Comc film has received rave reviews for everything from its story, characters, sound, and imagination. Make it a family night!

This is a curated show of mixed media work by artists who are based in and around Ithaca. These artists have shown their work all over the globe and continue to push artistic boundaries. Mara Baldwin, Ron Judy, Gail Fitzgerald, and many other talented individuals are part of the exhibit.

Art Classes for Kids | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Classes and private instruction for children and teens in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org. Registration For Music in Motion “Angie’s Music Camp” | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Angie’s Music Camp – Songwriting and Audio Production for Budding Musicians” is a coed music day camp, ages 5-12 (no experience required). August 10-14 and August 24-28. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., held at Acting Out NY studio in Center Ithaca (before and after care available for extra charge.) Children are encouraged but not required to sign up for both sessions. Early bird discount deadline May 15, general deadline Aug. 1. Fees: $250 early bird, $200 siblings; $265 general registration, $230 siblings. Contact Miss Angie directly for questions about scholarships and other infromation at angie@mumotion.com. Little Voices Music and Motion / Registration for Songs of Summer | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/25 Thursday | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Rd (Rt 34B), Lansing | Begins the week of July 13th. Please register by July 6th. Locations include the Lansing Town Hall and Jillian’s Drawers. Go to www.LittleVoicesMusic.com for class schedule and registration. Legos at the Library | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Weekly, free-build Lego program. Legos at the Library encourages children to use their imaginations or Lego books from the TCPL collection to create their

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own Lego art! All materials provided. Moreland the Magician | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Join David Moreland the Magician as he searches for heroes -- everyday heroes, famous heroes, and superheroes -- in our library. His high-energy 45-minute show blends magic, puppetry, comedy and audience participation, and culminates in a musical melodrama skit starring children from the audience! Sciencenter: Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM, 6/28 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Watch local high school students demonstrate optical illusions, bending light, and making sound waves visible. Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 6/28 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Books Joe Ricker | 3:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Joe Ricker discusses his new book, Walkin’ After Midnight: Crime Stories.

Art Locally Sourced | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Mixed media exhibit featuring work from Mara Baldwin, Joshua Bonnetta, Leslie Brack, Gail Fitzgerald, Matt Glaysher, Jeremy Holmes, Ron Jude, Nicholas Muellner, Ann Reichlin, Michael Robinson, and Melissa Zarem. Runs June 20 through August 16. ongoing Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca || An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu Yvonne Fisher | 7:00 AM- 8:00PM

HeadsUp Art Collective Rager by Rudy Gerson

very summer, a little artist community living in a refurbished barn on a little plot off land off a nondescript road in Mecklenburg opens their gates to host a not-so-little party. This weekend (Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28), people will flock to the Carman Road Artist Quarters—CRAQ for short—to partake in two nights of dusk-to-dawn installation art, live music, and youthful revelry. Only 20 minutes West of Ithaca, CRAQ normally provides a handful of resident artists living and studio space, away from the humdrum of city life in creative seclusion. But, on special occasions, local musicians, mixedmedia artists, and other positive spirits converge on the property to transform the quaint community into a chaotic carnival that knows no bounds—legal, spiritual, or otherwise. In recent years the summer party has grown in popularity, so much so that this year’s organizers are expanding the party to a two-day mini festival. As a first-time attendee of last year’s Phil Collins-themed party, I was warmly welcomed into the collective merriment. People shared drinks. Food was laid out for open grazing. Little did I know that this display of mutual aid was a precursor to the feelings encouraged at Grassroots less than a month later. Approaching the CRAQ barn (6340 Carman Road), you’ll follow a rather typical farm road and find parking on the shoulder. As you enter the grounds, a “guard” will greet you to do a hurried inspection (BYOB!), and then kindly let you in. Moving

| Gimmee Coffee, 430 N Cayuga St, Ithca | Grand Doodles, exhibit of bold and vibrant drawings. Runs June 1 to June 30. QUALIA / The Essence of Transitional Light | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Creek Side Cafe, 4 West Main St., Trumansburg | Nicholas Down showcases his Oil Paintings. Wednesday through Saturday 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Sunday 9:00 AM to 1:00

The CRAQ barn in Mecklenburg. (Photo provided) through the remodeled barn, visitors will encounter handsome wooden walls adorned with visual art made by current and former CRAQ residents. This year, ARTe will have installed other visual and interactive art scattered in the field. Contemporary metalwork is set against a backdrop of pastoral farmland in a beautiful blend of the technical and the romantic. The $15 weekend entry fee includes keg beer. Gorgers and Star Truck will be supplying food, and come Saturday, attendees will be aglow in the light of the five-foot bonfire that will blaze late into the night. The more experienced of partygoers bring tents and sleeping bags

PM. Runs through July 31. Annie Eller exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca, | Intricate and illuminated drawings. Runs May 1 to June 30. Jen Fisher & Laura Sinclaire exhibit | 9:00 AM-8:00 PM | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Exciting works in ink, watercolor, and oil. Runs May 1 to June 30. Daniel McPheeters | Wednesday

This hard-edged poet in the tradition of Bukowski and Kerouac, writes of the underground and haunted places few dare to visit. His vast and diverse background in a great many things makes for interesting conversation. He reads from his recently published book about crime, Walkin’ After Midnight: Crime. .Stories.

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Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Road #3, Ithaca | Disposito / Solo Exhibition of recent work from the proific artist. Kathy Armstrong | Monday through Saturday 10:00 AM-6:00PM, Sunday 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | CAP Art Space, 171 E. State/MLK Jr. Street, Ithaca | Getting to Know You: One Artist’s first year Impression of the Finger Lakes Region. Runs June 5 to June 31.

Got Submissions? Send your events items – band gigs, benefits, meet-ups, whatever – to arts@ithacatimes.com.

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Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, Sunday, June 28, 7:00 p.m.

Gettysburg, PA Blues man who delivers stories and music rooted in traditional blues and jazz. His passion is akin to the legendary blues icons, and his tastes delve into Indie and Pop Rock. It’s sure to be fun night!

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Buffalo Street Books, Saturday, June 27, 3:00 p.m.

through Friday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W State St. #2, Ithaca | Dreamscape: Landscape and Skyscapes Reimagined. Naomi Edmark exhibit | 7:00 AM-1:00 AM | Stella’s Cafe, 403 College Ave Ste B, Ithaca | Naomi will be showing her series of photos from May 11 to June 30. Tim Merrick |10:00AM - 5:00 PM |

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