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hypothetical to Lavine on this point. “Let’s say I’m walking over to Shortshop Deli, and a couple officers come up to me and they know me,” Kane said. “And I go crazy and pull out a gun. When must they turn on the camera?” “As soon as it’s safe to do so,” Lavine responded. In most cases, officers will turn off their cameras at the end of their call. An officer may exercise discretion under the order to turn off a camera, which requires stating a reason on the recording before stopping it. Those reasons may include interviewing witnesses who won’t cooperate unless the cameras are off; interviewing confidential informants; or dealing with victims whose privacy “may be at issue, including but not limited to

Faculty Union Heads City Police Plans on For the Table at IC 70 Body Cameras art-time and adjunct faculty at Ithaca College will now be members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 200, based in Syracuse. Over three-quarters of part-time faculty voted for a union, with results announced by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on May 28 of 172 votes “yea” and 53 “nay,” as reported by The Ithacan. The 76.4-percent vote in favor of unionization reflected organizers’ expectations, according to Brody Burroughs, a studio art instructor and a member of the organizing committee. They had submitted cards to the NLRB asking for a vote that represented more than half the approximately 320 parttime faculty at IC, well more than the 30 percent required to force a vote, and in anecdotal conversations before the vote organizers had estimated about threequarters of people were in favor of the effort. Now, the newly formed chapter of SEIU Local 200 must look to the next step: bargaining with the IC administration. There is a “bargaining survey” now circulating among part-time faculty that asks what should be prioritized at the table. Burroughs and fellow organizer Rachel Kaufman, a writing instructor, say that since they started talking about unionization last fall, the conversations they’ve had have reflected issues in academia nationwide, with pay and job security often mentioned. “The issues are all concentrated around the idea of a more sustainable job, a more secure job, one that makes us a better resource for students,” Kaufman said. “How we get things that will work for people here, IC-specific ideas, those are what we’re trying to learn from everybody now.” Right now, they are “putting out the call” for members of a bargaining committee that will be formed for contract negotiations that are likely to start in the fall, Burroughs said. “This is a transient profession. It’s going to keep us on our toes, letting [new faculty] know why we unionized and what we’re here to do,” Burroughs said. “We’re hoping to build a community that can negotiate a contract for themselves and also help part-time faculty acclimate themselves to IC in a way that hadn’t gone on previously.”

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he peace officers of Ithaca and Tompkins County will soon be joining the national trend toward wearing cameras on their uniforms to record their more tense interactions with the public. Under the city’s policy, the cameras will be attached to an officer’s uniform and record video in 30-second clips at all times, but will only activate the microphone and start saving recordings when an officer turns on the device. The county’s policy for cameras on deputy uniforms is not yet released, but a draft version provided to the Ithaca Times is nearly identical in detail to the Ithaca Police Department camera policy first presented to the Community Police Board on May 27. TASER International employee models the Axon body camera (Photo: TASER International) City police will be required to turn on their cameras at victims of rape and domestic abuse.” the beginning of each “Law Enforcement IPD officers are not required to Operation,” according to the department’s inform citizens they are recording, but general order, which includes when they must disclose that they are if asked by respond to a call. Not every meeting with anyone other than a suspect. a citizen falls under the category of law Chief John Barber told the board that enforcement. costs for the first year of body cameras “An example is someone asking the are anticipated to be between $75,000 and Commons officer ‘Hey, where’s a good $90,000. This includes buying 70 cameras coffee shop,’” city attorney Ari Lavine told the police board on May 27. “That’s not the from Axon, a TASER International sort of interaction we’re talking about.” continued on page 5 Board member Shirley Kane posed a

▶ Beware of cat poisoners, Three of the four cats brought to the Tompkins County SPCA Sunday with symptoms of poisoning were humanely euthanized yesterday due to the severity of their signs, according to the Cornell veterinarian overseeing their care. The fourth cat was dead on arrival. A fifth cat, brought in yesterday, presented with much milder symptoms and appears to be improving. All five cats were members of a feral colony being managed by caretakers in Ithaca’s Collegetown neighborhood. Two of the four that are deceased had

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already been spayed and neutered by the shelter’s TNR program. The Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell and the CVM toxicology lab have been working with the SPCA to identify the toxin. The problem still appears to be limited to Collegetown. Neighborhood residents who are concerned that their own pets may have been exposed should watch them for profuse drooling, tremors, and unusual amounts of urination. Call (607) 253-3060 for more information.

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What do you like most about the ithaca Festival?

“The food and the vendors. And it’s a celebration of Ithaca.” —Allison Graffin (from Ithaca)

Urban Public Art

Giant Flowers Add Color to Concrete

T “The music – such a good variety and selection!” —Derek Gould (from Pennsylvania)

“The community feeling. I love this festival!” —Kelly Garafolo (from Syracuse)

“The people and the diversity! And people in Ithaca love art!” —Sally Khawaja (from Syracuse)

“Good business, good crowd, and great people.” —Santi Arinango (from New York City)

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he first of nine murals that will adorn the Dryden Road parking garage is now available for viewing, with the remainder of the public artwork to be completed this year. Kellie Cox, who painted the blackeyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) and bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) on the Seneca Street parking garage, completed a study of the southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) inside the Collegetown garage during the third week of May. While the Seneca Street work took Cox about three weeks, the inside mural was finished in about four days. Having a roof helped make it a pleasant and easy week, Cox said. Cox’s process begins by looking at the space, then making a preliminary sketch. She starts her work on the mural by cleaning and priming the wall and laying out the whole design in a quick sketch in grays. “I start with four or five base colors, then work back into the shading and highlighting,” Cox said. “Once it’s finished, you put a varnish on to protect the paint and color, which keeps it going for a very long time.” Cox said she chose to paint a study of the southern magnolia because, like her previous murals, it is a native plant, the beauty of which she tries to promote in her art. Blowing up a flower to wall proportions allows the viewer see details that, perhaps, she might have missed walking by a patch along the sidewalk. “With the black-eyed Susans and being able to look at the details of the plant up close, the main stamen has a black speckle to it. There are these really cool patterns you can see when they’re made on a bigger scale.” Cox currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area after spending six years in Ithaca, and still plans on making it back for more projects. Friends are asking her put plants and blooms on their

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Southern magnolias in the Dryden Street parking garage. Painted by Kellie Cox. She also has added black-eyed Susan and bloodroot blossoms to other parking facilites in the city. (Photo: Brian Arnold)

sheds and outbuildings. An electrical been used to repaint over graffiti was used box on Aurora Street features her work to pay for this artwork.” (as part of the 21 Boxes project), and Last July, the Public Art Commission she also painted the city’s newest “flower received 22 applications from artists to van” last October, a 1990 paint the nine murals, Dodge van that carries part of the city’s plan to equipment for those who “continue to brighten up tend flower beds around the garages and make them town. With a background a more pleasurable space,” in horticulture, she got Nagy said. her start in painting The Junior Youth murals with several Group has begun the movable pieces for the second mural in the Plant Sciences building Dryden Road garage of at Cornell, which led to the summer. According to working for the city. Caleb Thomas of the Public Part of the money for Art Commission, other Kellie Cox (Provided) this latest mural, Cox said, artists who will be painting was moved over from the there this year are Steav city’s graffiti cleaning fund. Kim, Margaret Reed, Andy “Art work on a bare white wall does Dolan, Dan Bergevin, Kurt Pillar, Nate seem to discourage graffiti artists from Waterman, and Eric Lindstrum. • tagging our location,” city parking director — J o s h B r o k aw Frank Nagy said. “Money that would have facultyunion contin u ed from page 3

“At this time, we can’t speculate on what impact an adopted contract will have on the college’s current practices,” President Thomas Rochon said in a statement, “but I am confident that together, we will continue to strengthen our commitment to providing a premier educational experience for our students.” The statement also noted the NLRB still needs to certify the election results for them to be official. On April 30 Rochon sent out a letter to all part-time and adjunct faculty in response to a request from union organizers that the college administration remain neutral on the subject of unionization. The college president was baffled by the request. I responded that we would not and could not be neutral,” said Rochon. “I offered specific examples of the kind of information we would share with parttime faculty—examples that can now be found on the website we created. Instead of silence, I committed the administration

to a respectful and fact-based dialogue, a commitment I believe we have upheld.” The college set up pages at their website (www.ithaca.edu/unionchoice) to present information about SEIU and the “union environment.” In warning their faculty away from union membership the college offered the following: “Although it is not our decision, from the college’s perspective as an employer, we would prefer to maintain a direct working relationship with each member of the part-time and adjunct faculty based on open communications, flexibility and individualized treatment, mutual respect, and a spirit of collegiality.” In this spirit of mutual respect and collegiality Ithaca College has been paying their adjunct faculty $3,900 per course, well above the national average of $2,700 per course, but if they taught three classes per semester—an uncommon circumstance—they would still be making less than $24,000 per year. According to the American Association of University Professors, the national average salary for a tenured professor is $84,000 per year. • —Josh

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hough discussions over building affordable housing have sometimes turned contentious in Ithaca—recall the 2014 fight over the Stone Quarry apartments that are being built now on Spencer Road—the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services project at 210 Hancock Street seems to be getting only mild resistance from some of its neighbors. Or so it seems from comments the city Planning and Development Board received at its May 26 meeting, when the two-acre proposal from INHS came up for its public hearing and site plan review. INHS bought the parcel—once home of a P&C supermarket and then the Neighborhood Pride grocery store—in October 2014, and held a number of meetings for locals to assess their plans for the site before submitting a development proposal to the city. The plans, as they stand, now call for a four-story, approximately 65,000 squarefeet building with about 53 apartments and three ground-floor retail spaces; 12 two-story townhouses along Lake Avenue, which will be closed to motorized traffic; and 70 parking spaces, with about a third of those underneath the four-story building. The only discouraging words on the project came from Bob Sherman and Trevor MacDonald, both homeowners in the neighborhood who aren’t fans of Bodycams

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subsidiary. About $20,000 of that is going to be funded with Park Foundation grant monies. Ongoing operational costs will be between $20,000 and $35,000 a year, Lavine said, a number which does not include paying staff, including increased duties for the IPD administrative sergeant, to oversee the program. All recordings will be stored for at least six months in a cloud-based system run by EVIDENCE.com, another TASER subsidiary. Basic plans on the website are quoted as starting at $15 per month, with five gigabytes of storage and range up to $99 per month for the “officer safety plan” that includes unlimited data storage and a camera upgrade after two and a half years. “Your digital evidence is everywhere and piling up fast. Get it in order with EVIDENCE.com,” reads the home page copy there. “It’s cloud-based, so data is stored remotely and securely. Uploading is simple, and managing and sharing are as easy as clicking and sending a link.” “The integrity of the video will be preserved,” Barber told the board in response to questions about who might

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putting a four-story building in the middle managed by INHS, she had great trouble of Northside. finding a place to live where she felt happy Sherman, a homeowner since 1986, and safe. told the board that without changing “I don’t always see eye to eye with stagnant wages, lowered rents won’t INHS. It’s like a relationship, you love change the affordable housing problem in them one day and hate them the next,” Ithaca. Brown said. “But I see the effort they make “This is completely out of character so that people who look like me can live with the neighborhood,” Sherman said. in a decent place … I look out my window “This building is larger than anything and see the birds eating seeds from where in that area, the industrial park, the I put them. I’m happy all day because I’m wastewater plant, the bus garage.” happy to go home.” MacDonald echoed the sentiment, Laura Lewis, an INHS board member, telling the board that while he’s in favor of said that having a two-acre site available “giving everyone an opportunity, he had for developing housing was an “historic not spoken to any neighbors who were opportunity.” excited about the four-story structure. Otherwise, the INHS project received nothing but plaudits and praise. Nia Makepeace, an assistant professor of education at Ithaca College, told the board she has lived on Second Street for six years and, as a single mother of three boys, only because of INHS could she afford to rent. Portion of Lake Avenue to be closed to traffic. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) “I immediately decided I wanted to be here when I heard the objections to the Scott Reynolds, director of real estate project,” Makepeace said. “If the primary development for INHS, told the board “70 concern is noise and potential drug percent of people prefer this plan.” dealing, I was immediately offended with “We realize it’s not perfect,” Reynolds those concerns when there’s the possibility of bringing people together and advancing said. “Some of the people here who’ve them through housing people can afford.” been helped by INHS have said we’re not Phoebe Brown told the board she perfect, and we’d agree with that. There’s a limit to how far down we can bring rents moved from Harlem and, before moving into Cascadilla Green, the former Mutual continued on page 7 Housing project on First Street that is now be able to change recordings. Under the order, the mayor and the chief can authorize access videos to others. The EVIDENCE.com software will provide the city with a “very robust listing of any interaction that somebody had with the data,” Lavine said. Questions about public access to the recordings were raised at the meeting. Under the city policy, video asked for under a Freedom of Information (FOIL) request “will be reviewed prior to release and may be withheld or redacted for the same reasons as other police records.” “It’s important to note this footage will document one of the worst days of someone’s life, whether a victim or defendant,” Lavine said. Since so many police departments nationwide have moved quickly to add body cameras in recent months, redacting recordings—which in most cases means blurring faces or other identifying features, like license plates—has become a topic of some dispute. According to an April 17 Washington Post report, proposals have been made in a dozen states to restrict public access to footage, citing concerns over the time it takes to change video so it doesn’t harm people’s privacy.

▶ Energy saving winner, Urban Green Council, the New York affiliate of the U.S. Green Building Council, today announced finalists from around the country for the EBie Awards™. The EBies™ (EE-bees, short for Existing Buildings) recognize improved environmental performance in existing buildings among building operators, facilities managers, owners, engineers and other professionals who conceived and implemented the work. Mark Howe of Cornell University won in the category of “Power to the People: Exceptional Energy Savings.” If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Running at the airport, On Father’s Day, June 21, Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport (ITH) will host their first ever 5k Race, looping the runway and taxiway. The course will be flat and fast, with a limit of 515 entries. Time: The race will fire off at 9:00AM and runners will have one hour to complete the course. Packet pick up will be from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Go to getentered.com to register. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of May 27-June 2 include: 1) Spencer Man Arrested for Candor EMS Burglary 2) Newfield Toddler Being Treated for Leukemia 3) Texas Roadhouse On Track For Early 2016 Open 4) The Music of Ithaca Fest 5) Ithaca Festival: It’s Better Than a Holiday

In New York State, Assemblyman Nick Perry (D-Brooklyn) introduced a bill on May 22 (A.07682) that amends the criminal procedure law to include body camera footage explicitly under materials that have to be disclosed in full if a prosecutor is planning on using them in a case. CPB member Richard Onyejuruwa raised a more philosophical concern at the May 27 meeting. “The downside of cameras is the perception that this solves the issue (of community-police relations),” Onyejuruwa said. “This is a preliminary, basic first step, and doesn’t necessarily resolve the dominant issues. I’d like to reaffirm the understanding this is a step in that direction, but this is not a resolution.” Barber agreed. “These will enable the public to better see what we do, to understand and hopefully build more trust,” the chief said. Barber and Lavine will make their presentation on the body camera policy at the June 3 Common Council meeting at 6 p.m. in City Hall. No council action is required to put the policy into place. • —Josh T

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About Middle-Income Housing Getting Our Daily NPR By D ow n t ow n It h ac a A l l i a nc e Sta ff

ecently, our community has been engaged in an important conversation about the high cost of housing in Ithaca and Tompkins County. Driving this discussion was the reported cost of new downtown housing, much of it appearing to be not within the affordability range of a significant segment of our population. There are certainly affordability issues at the low end of the wage and earning scale. Less discussed but equally difficult is the lack of housing opportunities for middle income wage earners—young professionals, families, and seniors, just to mention a few of the folks who fit into the vast middle of our housing spectrum. Last week, a CityLab (citylab.com) article reported, “It’s getting harder and harder for recent college graduates to afford a place to live in the booming U.S. cities where the most diverse pool of jobs can be found.” A few weeks prior, the Ithaca Times noted that housing costs in Ithaca rank eleventh in the nation relative to income—just one spot below New York City—and stated: “For many Ithacans, this was supposed to be the bucolic escape from NYC headaches like finding a decent place to live. What’s needed in Ithaca is more ‘affordable housing.’ How do we get some more of that?” This has been a question we ask at the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA). We want a city and a downtown where

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all levels of households can live—from those with limited earning capacity to our most fortunate and everyone in between. It’s an easy question to ask and a much harder one to answer. How do we build the needed units of housing at all levels? Let’s start by recognizing several facts about housing in our community. First, housing projects are challenging to undertake and accomplish here in Ithaca. Our regulatory process is strong and robust—good in one sense but also a process that takes time and resources and can slow down the production of units. Second, downtown development is also expensive, due in part to limited real estate and complicated construction requirements. Third, in Ithaca the cost of producing a unit of housing in an urban setting is pretty much the same whether that unit is high, middle, or affordable income housing. Most of the cost resides in the land, the building construction, the elevators, and the other systems. This last statement poses a particular problem for a community anxious to obtain more affordable and middle-income housing. If the costs of production are similar, that explains why much of the housing being built in recent times is aimed at higher incomes. A developer seeking to obtain a desired return on investment will gravitate to rents that best support their continued on page 7

You can still hear Tom and Ray Magliozzi (“Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers”) on Car Talk on National Public Radio (locally, on WSKG from Binghamton), even though the brothers retired from producing new shows in 2012, and Tom Magliozzi died in 2014. Since 2012, the broadcasts have been edited re-runs, without regular acknowledgement of it—not even, at first, after Tom’s death. Now, in a nod to the changes, the show is introduced as “The Best of Car Talk.” Probably the only show on NPR more popular than Car Talk is Prairie Home Companion (also heard locally on WSKG), and NPR must be worried about that shoe dropping, too, as host Garrison Keillor hints about retirement 40 years after creating the show. NPR has acknowledged its evolving problems in addressing a changing audience. Serving varied ethnicities is probably the biggest issue. It also needs to reach the young. So it must be chilling when your traditional audience won’t give up its shows—doesn’t want change—even when the hosts retire, want to retire, or die. Ithaca is a big NPR town, despite not having a station affiliate of its own. Ithaca is a big part of WSKG’s listenership and donating membership. NPR’s programming is squarely aimed at listeners with a certain type of world experience. College education is practically a given. In his regular monologue last week about his fictional hometown of Lake Wobegon, Keillor featured a character who graduated college and was moving to Portland, Oregon to work in “a calming coffeeshop,” where the drinks are “laced with lavender” and staff cats nestle on couches with customers, who are encouraged to linger for hours or days. It might be for the educated, but college-level or not, NPR’s programming has a strange similarity to entertainment for children, in its focus on familiarity and even repetition. When Keillor announces his (seemingly off-hand) monologue with the precise same words each week (“Well, it’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out there on the edge of the prairie”), the audience

unfailingly erupts in cheers. When Ray Magliozzi gives the Car Talk address each week as “Cambridge, MA,” he could no more fail to pronounce it “MAH”—nor Tom then to sing out, “Our fair city”—than you could skip a page in a child’s bedtime story. There must be a vice president or two at NPR analyzing the question of whether dependable popularity thwarts necessary change, and what to do about it. Ithaca might be a worthwhile area of study. We are a good radio town, with no television station of our own, and in fact practically no TV reception at all without cable, because of our hills and remoteness. Radio is Ithaca’s main mass medium. We have at least four local stations that are either entirely or at least significantly independent in format and production. One of them is owned and operated by the community. We also have a talk station that, while syndicated, is progressive, which many larger cities lack. WICB, at Ithaca College, calls itself “the station for innovation,” and demonstrated it in the exemplary case of the evolution of its Hobo’s Lullaby program. The show was started in the 1970s by Gene Endres as a program of American folk music (the name is taken from a song by Woody Guthrie). By the 1990s, fans of such music were developing interests in so-called world music: artists such Thomas Mapfumo from Zimbabwe, Ali Farka Toure from Mali, and Alash, throat-singers from central Asia. Endres opened the borders, so to speak, of his show to embrace such interests (which he held himself), creating a show that was no less defined, just more broadly so. A few years ago, Endres retired, but not before extensive apprenticeships for subsequent, younger hosts, who continue the show today, still in the time slot it has held for four decades. NPR researchers can find pertinent problems in Ithaca, too. I have a friend who listens to Prairie Home Companion every week. Last winter she went on a Florida cruise the show sponsors. This is a fan. When I mentioned the issue of Keillor’s retirement, she waved off the discussion as untenable. I persisted enough to say, “He has to. He’s old. He’s starting to whistle the letter ‘s’.” The discussion indeed stopped, but at least with a laugh. •

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In our follow up to the school board elections (“Meeting Three New Faces on the School Board”; May 20) we identified new board member Ann Reichlin as being associated with the national organization SOS (Save Our Schools). In fact, she is a member of the local group, SOS Election Boosters,

which is working to end Albany’s gap elimination adjustment (GEA). “Although,” said Reichlin, “we also highlighted the linkage between the governor’s proposed budget and his controversial proposed education reforms, the Common Core test itself has not been the focus of our advocacy.”

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When School Is Far From Home By M a rjor i e O l d s

On a visit to a friend’s home Shuo Pan heard her first piano. Her mother Peiqing Li could barely get her four-year-old to leave the piano and go home. Before long Shuo Pan’s parents found their lives focused on their daughter’s love of music.

I was born in a middle-class family. My mother is an accountant and my father is an engineer; nothing to do with music. Instead of following their traditional path, I decided to be a musician. They respected my choice and fully supported me, especially my mom. She always encouraged me to study music, and I didn’t give up studying the piano by listening to her words. Now, I find piano and music are indispensable parts of my life.

After a 13-hour flight from her home in Jinan City, China Pan arrived at Ithaca College two years ago, not knowing one person. The language, the food, and the entire American way of life were all strange to her. Once Pan was guided to the Steinway concert pianos in IC’s Whalen Hall, she savored this one familiar part of her life, practicing piano five or six hours every day.

Pan began to apply to doctoral programs in the U.S., enhancing her chance to win a university teaching position, her ultimate goal. Each day Pan practiced piano, and studied for the English language test required for a doctoral degree. She researched programs, sought input from her circle of advisors, and after many applications and interviews she flew to Tucson for an audition at the University of Arizona, her first choice.

Music is so different from other majors; it needs a calm and natural heart inside, which is Shuo Pan and her mother. (Photo provided) easier being in this kind of serene place. And that is one reason for me to As she began to pack for her choose Ithaca College to get my Master’s degree in concert pianos. I feel so close upcoming move to Arizona, she described to nature and comfortable getting along the support she drew upon during her two with people here. I did travel while in the years in Ithaca, 6,900 miles from everyone US—Boston, New York City, and Miami. and everything she knew and loved in Ithaca was the best place for me to be China: calm enough to enjoy everything around Most important was that I had the me. I love Ithaca and the slow pace of chance to study with my amazing life here. Many people gave me so much professor Jennifer Hayghe. She gave me kindness and help to adjust to my new so many encouragements and [had so life, which has a totally different culture much] patience when I went through a from China. hard time being an international student. Chinese people are usually very shy Also, she made me fall in love with and modest. They express their emotion music from the bottom of my heart. She and moods often in a conservative inspired me to feel music and listen to the way, speaking quietly, rarely conveying music that I played. opinions in class, lacking confidence The style of teaching here is so in their performance, which are all my different than in China. During my characteristics in the first year here. I undergraduate time in China my teachers could not believe American students were good at magnifying my weakness can feel so confident. They dare to speak and mistakes. Instead of inspiration, they their ideas loudly in class and they often made me realize that my performance express their emotions suddenly and could not reach their standards. That’s strongly.” why Chinese students usually have less While studying piano, music history, confidence than American students even and theory Pan also feverishly began when they do something they are expert preparing for her next chapter: With at. American teachers can always find China’s large population the quest for students’ improvements to highlight. a university faculty positon is intensely American music teachers help students to understand the emotion competitive. Since a doctoral degree in inside the music. When I was in China piano performance is not offered in China,

my piano repertoire was full of virtuosic piano pieces to show people my skillful technique playing the piano. With Professor Hayghe, I played more small character pieces, in order to understand the emotion inside, while creating good control of the sound.

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Pan also lauds the classes she took to perfect her ability to speak and write English:

My speaking teacher encouraged me to speak English bravely and not to worry too much about making mistakes. She taught me how to make friends with American people, so that I would not feel embarrassed to speak English. “You should open yourself first to let people come in. They will give you patience if they want to be your friends!” In addition, my writing teacher spent a lot of extra time reviewing my papers with patience over and over again until all of the grammar mistakes were corrected and the words that I used were all in a proper way.”

Shuo Pan found a sympathetic psychologist an essential guide during the loneliest times.

When I felt stressful or depressed, I loved to talk with her She always could find effective ways to help me feel positive and relax. With her help I overcame the tension of being on stage, so that I had more attention to devote into performance and enjoying the music. In my last recital at Ithaca College, I will never forget how much I enjoyed the music inside from my heart, even though I was playing the piano on the stage.

Now Shuo Pan’s parents have made the long journey from China to celebrate her receipt of a Master’s Degree at graduation. Before they return home and their daughter moves to Arizona they will travel in the U.S.

Time flies fast. I have so many good memories; I feel sad to leave Ithaca and say goodbye to my friends. But that is life! We are destined to lose something and get something new to keep life balanced. Life always forces us to move on and grow up … •

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and bring house prices with the programs we have available for funding.” Board member John Schroeder offered his enthusiasm for the closing off of Lake Avenue, which will extend the park there by a block. That move was proposed at least as far back as December 2012 by Neighborhood Pride owner Tony Petito. Joel Harlan of Newfield offered the board some encouraging words at the end of the public hearing. “I’ve been in Syracuse and Cortland, and they’re putting big buildings up. You can’t keep doing that rinky-dink single (story) thing,” Harlan said. “You must build up because you don’t have much room to shred up.” The 210 Hancock Street project will come before the planning board again at its June 23 meeting and will go in front of the Board of Zoning Appeals on July 7. • —Josh

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investment—typically higher rents. New York State and the federal government offer several programs to help provide subsidy assistance for developers of low-income or affordable housing. While these programs are highly competitive, they at least exist. We have been fortunate that we have nonprofit developers such as Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services and Pathstone here in our community who are adept at using these programs and have created projects such as Breckenridge Place. Missing, however, is any help or support for middle-income housing. Absent any real state or federal government program to assist middle-income housing, developers default into either upscale or affordable housing and skip over mid-range housing altogether. The City of Ithaca Planning Department has proposed one option that could help stimulate both affordable and middle income housing: the creation of incentive zoning. This tool has been used in places like Seattle to provide incentives like their Residential Bonus. Seattle allows developers in moderate- and high-density zones to build extra floor area above the base height limit in exchange for housing that is specifically geared towards Seattle’s moderate-wage workers. Developers have the choice of either building affordable or moderate income housing as part of their project or making a cash contribution to the city to fund new affordable housing. The city proposal currently suggests that the incentive be for affordable housing. It can and probably should also apply to middle-income housing. Another possibility is the expansion of our downtown tax abatement incentive program to include affordable and moderate-income housing projects. We could provide extra tax incentives to urban projects that deliver low- and moderateincome housing. A good case study is Washington, D.C., where property taxes can be negotiated down for a period of time dependent on the number of affordable units created and their level of affordability. Municipal property taxes can be a significant part of operating costs for affordable housing—often over $100 per unit per month, according to a recent study by Bob Pohlman, Executive Director of the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development—and as a result landlords can reduce rents by at least that amount. If we want to materially address our housing affordability issue here in Ithaca, we the community will need be creative in providing incentives to help encourage developers to produce housing at these levels. The market demand is clearly here – our challenge is delivering funding tools that will help make such projects viable and attractive to investors. Whether it be incentive zoning, enhanced tax abatement, or both, now is the time to work toward creating the mechanisms that will help Ithaca be able to provide housing for all. • i m e s

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Staying Downtown Tompkins Financial Group serves as a role model ByBill Chaisson

he Tompkins Financial Group, which includes the Tompkins Trust Company, has 280 employees spread through five buildings in downtown Ithaca. They have decided to build a new seven-story building on East Seneca Street to bring all of their employees under one roof and bring in 20 from an office in the town of Ithaca as well. On March 24 Greg Hartz, the president and chief executive officer of Tompkins Trust Company, appeared before the city Planning and Development Board to announce Tompkins Trust’s intention of staying in downtown Ithaca and to construct a new building. “Occupying five separate buildings has become inefficient and ineffective,” he said. “Our lease at the Rothchild building expires soon, and we want to create a facility with better space and more interaction.” On May 19 Hartz addressed a public information session that concluded the process of applying for tax abatements under CIITAP (Community Investment Incentive Tax Abatement Program), which is administered by the city. His presentation outlined the history of Tompkins Trust. The bank was formed 179 years ago and merged with the Ithaca Trust Company in 1935. The Bank Alley office was originally the home of Ithaca Trust, and this space will be sold as part of the consolidation at the proposed new headquarters. In 1936 the trust company

acquired the First National Bank of Trumansburg. In 1995 under CEO Jim Byrnes, Tompkins Trust formed a holding company—Tompkins Financial Group— and began to grow again, in 2000 forming Tompkins Insurance (by merging a number of smaller agencies) and acquiring banks in Castile and Mahopac, New York. In 2006 they added AM&M Financial Services, in 2008 the Sleepy Hollow Bank, and in 2012 they acquired a bank in southeastern Pennsylvania called VIST. They now employ 1,100 people, and a quarter of them work in downtown Ithaca. “We’re a slow, steady company,” Hartz told the planning board in March, “but we anticipate growth.” Tompkins Financial Group hired U3A, the consultants Cornell called upon to convince New York City the Roosevelt Island campus was a good idea, to advise them as to how to go forward. U3A told them that their plan to consolidate the operations downtown was a sound one. “We decided to bring all our operations to the city core,” said Hartz in March. “Our employees wanted us to rent the NYSEG building, but we wanted to stay in the core.” The site of the new building is 118 E. Seneca St., presently an oddly suburban feature of downtown Ithaca: the bank’s own drive-through branch. Plans for the new 110,000 square-foot building include moving the drive-through across the street and putting it under their Seneca West

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S t r e e t Vi e w o f To m p k i n s F i n a n c i a l H e a d q ua r t e r s . ( I m ag e : H o lt A r c h i t e c t s) building, which was, as it happens, its original location. “The majority of our employees in this community are ‘back office,’ said Stephen Romaine, the president and CEO of Tompkins Financial, at the end of April. “We expect further growth in employees and the facility pressure that goes with it.” Romaine was appointed head of the financial group in 2007. He had been president and CEO of Mahopac Bank since 2003. “We added 20 more employees just by acquiring the Pennsylvania bank.” Romaine said that the company undertook a two-year investigation in order to make such an important decision. He recognized that Tompkins Financial was by far the largest employer in downtown Ithaca. Gary Ferguson, the executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, estimates that between 3,000 and 3,500 people (it varies seasonally) work in the downtown area, which means that Tompkins Financial accounts for nearly 10 percent of the total. “We did look at moving to green space,” admitted Romaine, “and we certainly did so in concept, but we decided that we’d been here for 179 years, so we should stay here.” Although there was a question about where they would do it, there was never a question about whether they would consolidate under one roof. “We’ve got

lending groups in different locales from insurance groups,” said Romaine, “and they have the same clients. They really need to be in closer proximity to one another. The need to solve this is clear.” One of the difficulties they face is finding parking for all their employees. At present the company has a number of different arrangements spread all through the downtown where they either rent or own space. Because they are vacating buildings and creating new office space, when new companies fill the vacated space, the overall number of workers downtown could increase by another 300 people. “It’s a problem and an opportunity,” said Romaine, who lives downtown and walks to work. “We need to find space to bring 300 people in. The spread into residential neighborhoods could be avoided with a solution … but we don’t what it is.” “We’re looking at the other projects coming in,” said Hartz, referring to the hotels under construction, “and wondering ‘Will there be parking?’” Hartz explained that some of their personnel need to get to clients regularly and easily, and so need immediate access to their automobiles. He described the parking discussion as “on the table.” He was aware of the space in the Green Street and Seneca Street garages that will soon go

to the Marriott and Hilton Canopy guests, respectively. Tompkins is doing an internal assessment of their employees parking needs in order to resolve the problem efficiently. • • • Ferguson cited a study he had done while he worked for the downtown Dayton, Ohio organization. “People who work downtown spend four times as much there as someone who is just visiting on an errand or attending a festival,” he said. “People who live there spend eight times as much.” “People who work downtown,” he said, “eat downtown and use services downtown.” It isn’t a political act, but a question of time management. Ferguson looked forward to “backfilling” the space vacated by Tompkins Financial. “It won’t sit empty,” he said. “We don’t know who it will be, but we are thinking about it.” It would be easier to fill than the unbuilt Harold’s Square, Ferguson said, which is looking for clients to fill “big chunks of space.” In Dayton the downtown organization had an aggressive campaign to fill vacant space, but in Ithaca space is so scarce that such a campaign has not been necessary. “This could shift,” said Ferguson, “and we could find ourselves doing more of that.” He already sees outside interest from the technology community, companies similar to GiveGab and groups emerging from the downtown Rev offices. The Downtown Ithaca Alliance is also talking with the city about freeing up parking spaces by developing “alternative transportation” methods: van pooling, ride-share, walking, biking, and TCAT. “We’ve been talking to the Trust Company about the new building for a year,” said Ferguson, “and we’ve suggesting various sites for many years. They set an example with this decision. They work with appraisers and the legal community downtown. Now they will stay because [Tompkins Financial] is staying.” • • • At the end of April Hartz and Romaine said that they had been working with Holt Architects, but there was no design to present at that time. At the May 19 public information session Tompkins submitted preliminary renderings of the building. Holt’s early design has a stone exterior on the first two floors and brick on the remaining five (the inverse of its taller neighbor, the Hilton Garden). The ground floor will replace the customer lobby on Bank Alley and promises to be grand like the old one, but in a fashion more suited to 21st century banking. The present route that brings cars around to the drive-through lanes will become a covered entrance to a parking lot under the rear of the building with 18 spaces. Hartz said that when the plan is 80 percent complete the company will be able to present it to contractors and assess the probable costs. He predicted that the final design would be ready in fall 2015, but

B i r d s - e y e o f To m p k i n s F i n a n c i a l H e a d q ua r t e r s . ( I m ag e : H o lt A r c h i t e c t s) the construction of the new drive-through The standard abatement period is office should be underway later this seven years. Applicants may ask for the summer. Romaine described this schedule “enhanced” 10-year abatement if they as “aggressive, optimistic, but doable.” can show financial need. None of the “We know we can fit in the space,” said documents that demonstrate this need Romaine. “But we also want to continue are made public; they are viewed only by to provide meeting space for community members of the TCIDA board and TCAD groups. On the other hand, we need to staff. enforce security. • • • “The things that typically derail a At the May 19 meeting Hartz was project,” he continued, “aren’t there: you at his most emphatic about why the want eight stories and you’re allowed consolidation had to happen. “The new seven, or you need an anchor tenant.” building is about bringing the whole Romaine said that Tompkins Financial company together,” he said, “and getting intends to construct a building that will a kind of synergy. Right now we have still be there a century or two in the future. literally zero benefit of being in same “It’s got to be done properly,” he said. company. If I don’t see someone [who I Seneca Street is also Route 79 need to see], I won’t just run into them. West, a New York State highway. The state Department of Transportation must approve any change in the curb cuts on a state highway. The shift from the drive-through to the headquarters building will, however, be reducing the width and number of curb cuts. • • • The process of building the Tompkins Financial Headquarters will travel along parallel L o o k i n g We s t o n S e n e c a S t r e e t. paths: one route ( I m ag e : H o lt A r c h i t e c t s) through the planning process with the Planning and Development Board and the city There’s no natural connection within the planning department and the other route [existing] building, and that’s true for just toward the tax abatement decision by the about everybody. We’re very excited about Tompkins County Industrial Development having a place where this group of 300 Agency (TCIDA). people would be together.” Heather McDaniel is a vice president Steve Hugo of Holt Architects was at Tompkins County Area Development present at the May 19 meeting, which (TCAD) and its Director of Economic was the first time anyone saw what the Development Services. TCAD staff serve building might look like. “One of goals of as administration for the TCIDA board. project,” the architect said, “was creating She said she is working with Tompkins high-functioning office, headquarters, Financial to fill out the application for a and retail location. We explored changing tax abatement package. She hasn’t received the two connected buildings on Seneca. the full application yet, but expects to get But in all those options there was just the full package on June 2. lots of inefficiency … and phasing on the The I thaca T

site would be complex.” By building the new headquarters on the site of the drivethrough, only those staff have to be moved in order for construction to begin. Hugo also made clear that the retail part of the business—the banking hall— will be right on the street. The front of the building will parallel the front façade of the adjacent Hilton Garden hotel (behind its massive pillars). He noted that he had received favorable reaction from DOT about moving the drive-through and the curb cuts. “Ideas and words keep coming up when we think about old bank buildings,” said Hugo, “words like permanence and ideas of monumentality in terms of scale.” • • • According to JoAnn Cornish, the Director of Planning and Development for the city, the project has been granted site plan approval, and the next step for Tompkins Financial is environmental review. There will be a public hearing on June 11 where the Planning and Development Board will make a determination—mostly likely negative, said Cornish—about whether the project would have a detrimental effect on the environment. (Cornish, who grew up in Ithaca, recalled that the site of the drivethrough was formerly a movie theater.) Cornish expects that Tompkins Financial will be done with planning board approvals by July. “Then,” she said, “we’ll start delving into the construction documents to get a building permit.” To prepare Hartz for his May 19 CIITAP information session Cornish gave the Tompkins Trust president a checklist that included all the questions that are usually asked at such public meetings. Among other topics Hartz was asked to provide information about the pay scale of Tompkins Financial Group employees, their longevity at the firm and the quality of the health benefits. Employees at Tompkins Financial who work in the city core have an average tenure of over 10 years; 95 downtown workers have been there for over a decade. The average hourly wage for non-exempt positions is $17.88 per hour. The average salary— excluding those of top executives—is $80,855 per year. After this presentation a committee composed of Mayor Svante Myrick, Cornish, and Nels Bohn, Director of the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, determined that the headquarters project meets all the CIITAP criteria. It will be up to TCIDA to make the final determination as to whether Tompkins Financial receives a tax abatement. “After July it will take a couple of months to get documents through Building [a division of the city planning department], and they will build the new drive-through,” Cornish said. “We’re doing our best to keep their schedule. They want to occupy the building by late 2016 or early 2017. That’s not very far away.” • i m e s

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ompkins County municipalities are moving forward with a study of court consolidation ideas. The possibility has been under discussion for a few months now, and back in January the Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG) approved creating a task force to explore court restructuring. Originally, the idea came up during discussions about how Tompkins County municipalities could meet the shared services and efficiencies requirement of the governor’s tax freeze. Last winter, County Administrator Joe Mareane said that court restructuring would only save a modest amount of money, but that it could help improve the consistency of justice across the county. Some of the ideas bandied about thus far include replacing all town and village courts with a single district court; creating an arraignment court; and merging courts in adjoining towns. Although some of those ideas could be implemented with only local approval, others would require changes in state law. At the Thursday, May 28 TCCOG meeting, Mareane informed council members that the task force members have been selected and meetings could begin as soon as mid-June. Membership will include District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson, local defense attorney Ray Schlather, drug court attorney Jason Leifer, City of Ithaca Judge Scott Miller, Cayuga Heights Justice Glenn Galbreath, Enfield Justice Betty Poole, 6th Judicial District Special Counsel Lisa Smith, and Mark Solomon, who is acting as a representative of Assigned Counsel Supervising Attorney Wes McDermott. Also, two TCCOG representatives—Dryden Supervisor Mary Ann Sumner and Ulysses Supervisor Liz Thomas—are on the task force. Also at the May 28 meeting, TCCOG representatives unanimously passed a resolution in support of single-payer healthcare. A similar resolution, voicing local supports for the New York Health Act, recently failed to pass the Tompkins County Legislature. However, Thomas reported that it passed unanimously at the Ulysses Town Council. The New York State Health Act would effectively lower property taxes by eliminating one of the largest state mandates, the county’s payments toward Medicaid. Thomas said, “I think part of the advantage we see of this is it’s shifting the burden back from property taxes to income taxes.” The council also heard a presentation from Deputy County Administrator Paula Younger on the county’s compliance program, in hopes that council members could consider new ideas to implement in their own municipal compliance

committee. Second, written policies and procedures, including a code of ethics. Third, there is training for staff and elected officials. Fourth, the county routinely identifies compliance risk areas through internal audits. Also, there’s a discipline protocol for failure to report any suspected problems, and there’s a system for responding to compliance issues, and a communication line to the Compliance Officer. Finally, there’s a formal non-retaliation policy. The program was first established in 2011 and in 2012 staff training and a documented whistleblower policy were implemented. More information about the county compliance program is available online at www.tompkinscountyny.gov/tccp. •

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of Tunisia and a rare exemplar of conceptual and aesthetic s befits a university Germany. rigor. Exposure 105 (2013) is a row of three museum, June sees Most of Ultrachrome prints: the first on the left in the winding down of a Bourke-White’s color, the next two in black-and-white. Shot cycle of exhibitions scheduled prints here simultaneously via a radio-controlled automatic around the school calendar. were made in shutter release, we see three diverse perspectives Mostly drawn from the 1965 from the that coalesce into a—more or less—unified collections of the Herbert F. original negatives, scene. We see two vases and a tiny globe Johnson Museum of Art, the under the artist’s displayed atop a wood and glass cabinet. A following six shows will go supervision. She faintly visible bubble and the image of a skull down in the days and weeks died in 1973 from on the wall symbolize fragility and morality: to come. 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n The Mother of Invention, a new novel by Ithaca writer Nina Miller, Claire, a professional woman at midlife, must re-evaluate her life, ultimately re-creating a new and more authentic way to live and relate to the world. She isn’t re-inventing herself, according to Miller, because she’s exploring the world and discovering what her real values are for the first time. Miller is well positioned to know the difference. After majoring in writing in college, “Life took over,” she said. For 13 years, she was the director of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services in Ithaca. When she left that job, she took seven years off to explore writing, producing short stories published in literary journals—20 of them—affirming herself as a writer before she was asked to be interim director of Planned Parenthood, of which she was a founding member. “I realized how much I missed being involved with human services,” she said. Offered a job at Hospicare of Ithaca, she said she quickly realized how much

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ccording to Charles Simic (in an April 2 New York Review of Books essay) James Laughlin is remembered primarily as the founder and editor of New Directions Press, but he—the friend of many poets—was also a poet. William Carlos Williams told him “Anything is good material for poetry” and Laughlin believed him. Use simple words that a child of six knows and take out all the words that aren’t really doing anything, Ezra Pound told him. Laughlin did things like type out the first line of a poem and then made sure that each subsequent line was within two spaces of the length of the first one. The other Uncle Ezra makes a brief appearance in Mark Fleisher’s collection Moments of Time. The eccentric Ezra Pound buried six feet underground, though he is lost we’ll make do with Frost. This brief verse (“Lost and Pound”) shows some of the traits that are typical of Fleisher’s poetry. Not all of his poetry is rhymed, but certainly more than you usually encounter in the work of a 21st century writer. He is even disciplined enough to bring off several villanelles. And there is preference for Frost (literally) over Pound. Except for his anti-war poems—which are among his best—Fleisher mostly comes across as a steady, middle-class kind of guy, rather than as an anti-establishment ranter. Finally there is his sense of humor. It will strike some younger readers as corny—Fleisher is in his early 70s—but it is regularly sharp or even a little mordant (which is not a word a six year old would know). You find this veteran’s war poetry in a section called “Turbulence.” Fleisher was a combat reporter for the Air Force in Vietnam. It begins with “A War Haiku”: “Fragments of metal / invading his innocence / He comes home too soon.” There is a trajectory to this section that begins with the writer’s own experience (“Red Dust”), followed by a description of someone less lucky (“Lucky Man”), one about a Vietnamese girl (“Shared Ingredients”), and then the going home (“Freedom Flight”) and the struggle with the memories of carnage and violence. In these poems the lessons of modernism are well heeded and the lines can pack a punch because of their understatement and apparent dryness: A dark-skinned, dark-eyed 10-year-old brandishes a grenade, a 20-year-old grunt shoots him dead, the grenade falls to the ground not exploding but bouncing among the other rocks, the soldier hardened beyond his years, hardened for all his days, a damaged soul drowned in guilt. That sentence includes a lot of

information, not least that the “grenade” was a rock. “October Trilogy” is much more on the lighter side. These three villanelles commemorate three Octobers in the 1950s during which momentous things happened in the history of the Dodgers (yes, Fleisher grew up in Brooklyn). Villanelles are 19-line constructions with a complicated rhyme scheme, several lines that must repeat at set junctures. Fleisher does not manage to keep the stable meter (most 20th century villanelles,

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like “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas are in pentameter), but the formality of the form set against the informality of the subject conjures up (pleasantly) Ernest Thayer’s immortal “Casey at the Bat.” Another section called “Al a Carte” takes Williams advice to Laughlin to heart: it is all Favorite childhood Food memory about food. “‘The’ Sandwich” is a delightful Beef Stew & Rice that my description of a sardine, onion and cheese gRandma uSed to make Restaurant Name: Solaz sandwich that ends with the oblique lines: “Unseen and unmade / the gauntlet untaken Favorite Food as a child Hometown: Ithaca, NY / only I accept the dare.” Fleisher, who spent Bologna & chutney SandwicheS Signature dish: Tamales his professional life in journalism and as a Food tried that othersfor might Find “gross”in Taste government employee, has a serious affection Reason participating maRmite for coffee. “Turkish coffee, so dense a spoon

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great and why it still matters. As Marlon Brando changed the conversation about acting style, West Side Story did the same for the American musical. Of course, this New York City story set in inner city mean streets was based on Romeo & Juliet, but it was also created in the wake of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. As I sat down to watch the show for the first time, I was also reminded of West Coast jazz, cary lightning flashes and Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Hubert Selby, and the torrential rain chased me early performances of John Cassavetes. from Ithaca to Auburn last As the Jets and Sharks begin the show Saturday night, and it seemed fitting that by dancing preening the outdoors were and climbing the rumbling at the same chain link fences time Merry Go Round onstage, we enter an Playhouse was staging urban jungle, maybe an indoor rumble the first; as the gangs onstage. As to which prepare to go to war, was more intense, it the chain link fences was a toss-up. box them into close The Finger Lakes quarters, which ups Musical Theatre the physical stakes Festival (FLMTF) for everyone. has once again begun Maria (Kim for the summer Corbett) and Tony season in Auburn, (Daniel Berryman) New York and to spend the entire kick off the start of show hoping that the festival there is their love can no better opener survive the violence than the classic West between the two Side Story. Featuring tribes. Corbett and a book by Arthur Berryman each Laurents, music by have magnificent Leonard Bernstein, voices that elicit and lyrics by the onegoose bumps when day-to-be-legendary they sing together. Stephen Sondheim, There are so many there are perhaps great dance moves few other musicals West Side Story dancers (Photo Provided) from the prologue that are loved as to the school dance much as this one, and to the Jets urging each other to “Stay probably for good reason. The original cool, boy” that Corbett and Berryman are 1957 Broadway production was directed allowed to plant themselves and belt all and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. those Sondheim-Bernstein gems with no This production at Merry-Go-Round dancing at all. Playhouse is based on Mr. Robbins’ There’s not a weakling in the concept and is most certainly not to be ensemble, whether it’s the somewhat missed. maternal turn by Penelope ArmsteadIt is odd having been this long Williams as Anita (“America” and “A Boy writing about the theater and never Like That”) or Michael Warrell as Riff, having seen West Side Story, but this and Philip Colgan as Action; Colgan’s was my first time seeing it on the stage. comedy chops serve him well for “Gee, I’ve seen the 1961 Robert Wise-Jerome Officer Krupke.” Robbins film, and we had the soundtrack Lim’s set angles buildings like LP when I was a kid. Even having not German expressionism so that the walls seen it, I know the show’s influence, so are pressing down on these kids. The much so that the director-choreographer buildings also fold out and extend in Parker Esse uses the original Robbins smart ways that are fun to watch as they dance moves. No one here is trying to change onstage. Best of all is the stage reinvent the wheel, save for Czerton backing, a low angle vision of a Brooklyn Lim’s atmospheric and versatile settings. brownstone, a vision that’s more Martin This production has gone back to 1957 Scorsese or Spike Lee than the 1950s. • to remind us why West Side Story is still

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The incident could have been caused by ssayist and art critic Maggie Nelson once mentioned that art and writing any Circean Femme, any mythological female whose beauty and magnetism are, for her, acts of obsession. You resulted in the demise of others. become absorbed by one idea or thought The show’s title, “Dispositio,” is or detail, and that obsession begins to borrowed from Six Methods of Theory and manifest itself in your work. One flower becomes a million photographs of flowers. Practice, by the Roman architect Vitruvius, and translates as “to lay out,” but what One dot becomes a canvas covered Merrick is laying in pointillism. out here is a bit For Nelson, her ambiguous. There compulsion about are numerous the color blue artworks, but resulted in an one after another entire nonfiction they begin to book entitled repeat themselves: Bluets. For Tim the same color Merrick, a local schemes, the artist whose same splattering paintings are technique, currently on the same (or display at Corners remarkably Gallery, his similar) own obsessions architectural undoubtedly came shapes, forms, into play with his and outlines. work as well. Tim Merrick, untitled piece (Provided) The architectural “Dispositio” references and is a solo show of recent work by Merrick, whose inspiration allusions are an addiction, an obsession, a compulsion-drive productivity. It’s a came from studying nineteenth century continued attempt to address an idea, American architecture and architecturewhether that idea deals with passing time related treatises from ancient times. or the emotional states of body and mind The canvases, rich with the scent mentioned in the show’s statement, and to of oil as paint and wax are splattered express it to its fullest potential. across their surfaces, are an enigma to Still, the trickiness of the exhibition examine with their abstractions somehow with its repetitive ambiguity is quite countered by the sharpness of straight possibly its genius. At first these canvases lines. One untitled piece presents the may all look the same, but with focus and outline of a building with four columns attention their minute differences take represented as rectangles, supporting a triangular roof. The lines are articulate and hold. You begin to wonder what makes one canvas separate from another, why simple, drawn atop a sporadic spattering this one architectural form is significant of grayish blue and periwinkle paint that enough to explore to such depth. You covers the canvas. An ochre-reddish begin to notice which buildings seem wash reveals itself in bits and pieces from completely drawn and which were stopped under the paint, as if the artwork is old mid-drawing, soon overtaken by paint and scraping away. One section of the and age. Several of the artworks hint at painting particularly rich with periwinkle meanings through their titles—from careens up from the bottom left corner Eurythmia, which is another one of of the visual space, obscuring a portion Vitruvius’ terms relating to grace and of the drawn lines as if in the process of erasure. Perhaps due to its use of color, the proportion, to Eros/Thanatos, relating to love and death—but the relationship painting seems like an ancient blueprint, between title and image are never slowly disintegrating but still read-able. explicit. Even so, by providing only bits Another piece in the show, Circean of guidance, this leaves so much more to Femmes Fatales II, tells its own story. discover in each painting: an entire canvas A similar building is outlined on the left for exploring and the emotions and canvas, only this time created with red ideas that canvas may very well unearth. paint over black with remnants of a You can never be certain what you will grid still visible. The red splatters are find through the abstractions, and it never thick, sticking out from the canvas, and hurts to look again. • eliciting fearful alertness in its onlookers at the recognition of some violent act, “Dispositio” is on display at Corners though the specificities of that act remain Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Road, through undefined. Still, its presence is there, June 27. vividly sensed despite the abstractions.

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Johnson’s collection. Central to that show— especially in its earlier, full incarnation, but also here—is a pairing between the great Spanish romantic Francisco Goya and the contemporary Mexican artist Enrique Chagoya, both etchers as well as painters. Chagoya is a skilled printmaker and talented as a pasticheur and parodist of Goya but his etchings have more life to them when he departs from rigid translations of the master’s compositions. Such is the case with his Goya conoce a Posada (Goya meets Posada), taken from a portfolio published in 2003. The freefalling animals that crowd the margins are taken from the elder artist’s Folly of

Young Bulls, Rain of Bulls—a mesmerizing print displayed by its side. A group of three gathers in the center. The Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada and the skeletal woman “La Catrina,” drawn from his work, form a couple. The pair has been appropriated from a mural by another famous Mexican artist, Diego Rivera. Chagoya has added in Goya himself, who is shaking Posada’s hand. That this intricate chain of references is played out in a work of charming economy and immediate appeal is nothing less than remarkable. “Revolt” is also strong in photography, particularly in black-and-white. Three haunting, gothic images by the American William Klein show street performers associated with butoh, an avant-garde

Japanese movement that emerged in the late ‘50s. A 1952 print by BourkeWhite memorializes another side of the nation’s postwar discontent in its depiction of Communist rioters holding banners and engaged in what looks like a choreographed rush. This implied link between political and artistic radicalism is also suggested by a selection of photos documenting the various student outrages that took place at Cornell during the 1960s: ranging from countercultural artistic Happenings to anti-war and pro-free speech protests and the 1969 student takeover of Willard Straight Hall by black militants. (These documentary images have been across the inside walls of a specially constructed gallery-within-a-gallery.)

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If “Revolt” aims for the transgressive, “Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy” (through July 19) looks into the legacy of deep tradition. The show centers on pieces from Cornell’s collection of plaster cast replicas of classical statuary—once central to pedagogy in art and art history, now mainly of specialist interest. A display of large Venus figures present archetypes of femininity with lasting reverberations in contemporary culture. Electrotyped metal reproductions of ancient coins and daggers provide a compelling complement. So too do a generous selection of Renaissance and post-Renaissance drawings and prints that either depict classical models directly or adopt them for compositional motifs. “An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection” (through June 21) features superb Dutch Baroque paintings from a prominent private collection with a focus on work by the fijnschilders (fine painters), paragons of a meticulous, astonishing realism. Finally, there is “Jack Squier: The Arts Make Life Worthwhile” (through August 30), a selection of sculptures by the respected Cornell alumnus (MFA, 1952) and emeritus professor. Scattered around the downstairs lobby of the museum’s new wing, these pieces from the fifties and sixties show an evolving engagement with the art movements of the day. The earlier pieces are all free standing and are being presented on pedestals or in a long glass case. Most are in cast bronze or iron aggregate with one memorable piece, Blind Animal, in finely finished carved wood. They show off abstracted but recognizably humanoid forms influenced by Pre-Columbian art as well as European modernists like Picasso and Henry Moore. Triple Torso (1968) epitomizes the cooler aesthetic characteristic of the sixties. Three near-identical forms—evoking waves or idealized female bodies—have been hung from the wall atop each other. Executed in the then new materials of polyester resin and fiberglass and spraycoated in an acrylic lacquer, their surfaces are a smooth and reflective black. In contrast to artisanal, hand-worked quality of Squier’s other pieces here, Torso has the impersonal feel of an industrial product. Using epoxy resin, fiberglass, and aluminum compound, Emerging Figure II (1960) is a tall, wall-mounted relief in a richly textured overall gray. Squier’s biomorphic forms emerge from a flat surface. The style of figuration and the conflation of painting and sculpture recall the mid-sixties work of Eva Hesse. Summer is traditionally down time at an academic art museum. Later in this season will see new exhibits going up. (A full list can be found at museum.cornell. edu/exhibitions.) The first and most unusual of these will be “Locally Sourced,” curated by Andrea Inselmann and featuring work by eleven Ithaca-area artists. (It opens June 20 and runs through August 16.) This writer’s tastes in contemporary art are admittedly quite different from Inselmann’s. Nevertheless, a show of this sort is a rarity at this museum—and, at least in principle, highly welcome. •

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A local bank to help it thrive. | Headstrong Victorian Beauty has choice of three different suitors. Adaption of Thomas Hardy novel. | PG-13 119 mins | 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 | The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Dynamite expert Allan Karlsson’s life, and the unlikely events following his escape from the old folk’s home on his 100th birthday. | 114 mins R | 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 | Slow West | The film follows a 16 year-old boy on a journey across 19th century America in a search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas. | 84 mins R | regal theater

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Entourage | Actor Vince Chaseand pals maintain a strong bond as hey navigate Hollywood’s cutthroat world | 124 mins R | Aloha| Military employees fall in love while navigating through past romances. | 125 mins PG-13 | San Andreas (3D) | The legendary Fault finally gives and the story of an estranged family ensues. | 114 mins PG-13 | Poltergeist 2015 (3D) | Master filmaker Sam Rami directs the classic tale about a family whose surburban home is haunted by ghosts. | 93 mins PG-13 | Tomorrowland | Disney’s riveting mystery adventure about a jadded scientist and an optimistic teen and their story of unearthing an unknown 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 annd Earth’s Mightiest Hero’s are put to the ultimate test. | 150 min

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PG-13| 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 |

Stage Always a Bridesmaid | 7:30 PM-, 6/03 Wednesday through 6/09 Tuesday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | A comedy about four high school girlfriends made a vow to be in each other’s weddings…no matter what. More than thirty years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making “the long walk” for each other. The Velocity of Autumn | 7:30 PM-, 6/03 Wednesday through 6/09 Tuesdday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Highway 12, Greene | A humorous and touching look at the often fiery nature of family relations and the fragility of love. The play asks: When is the right time to intervene if an elderly parent no longer appears competent to live alone? How do you deal with it when mother threatens to blow up her building if the police even knock on her door? Performances May 22 – June 14, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., plus Sunday matinees at 2 p.m The Roar Of The Greasepaint-The

Extremely talented local rapper and producer brings her insightful hard hitting lyrical flow and unquestionably awesome beats this Friday. Joining her are fellow rappers Sketch Tha Cataclysm, Vinyl Cape, and Eyukaliptus. Don’t miss this great lineup. Ithaca Underground presents.

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Ali Abu Awwad and Hanan Schlesinger | 5:30 PM-, 6/03 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Leading Palestinian activist and Israeli Orthodox Rabbi share their joint peace work. Open House: New Roots Charter School | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | New Roots Open House. Give your student the opportunity to thrive at Ithaca’s regional, college prep high school. Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com. Conquering the Interview Workshop | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 6/09 Tuesday | Center Ithaca Building, 171E. State St., Ithaca | This course will help prepare you for professional interviews. What to expect, basic guidelines, and strategic approaches.

Learning Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And

Special Events Apalachin Fireman’s Field Days | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/03 Wednesday through 6/06 Saturday| Apalachin Fireman’s Field Day Grounds, 9 Field Day Drive, Apalachin | Rides, games, refreshments, chicken bar-b-que every night Weekly 8-Ball Pool Tournament | 7:00 PM-12:00 AM, 6/04 Thursday | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Pool players of all ages welcome. Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 6/05 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Sit, sing,and drum around a sacred fire outdoors. Roller Derby Bout | 7:00 PM-, 6/06 Saturday | Cass Park Rink, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | SufferJets v. Suburban Brawl Southern Tier Craft Beer & Barbecue Festival | 5:00 PM-, 6/06 Saturday | Tag’s, 2679 Route 352, Big Flats | The Festival features a Brewers Exhibition and Tasting, Amateur BBQ Cook-Off, Live Entertainment, Arts & Crafts Vendors and the Blessing of the Beers Woofstock 2015 | 12:00 PM-, 6/06

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The artist’s new exhibit entitled “Dreamscapes: Landscapes and Skyscapes Reimagined” showcase a combined passion of art and science. Various landscape paintings include structured elements such as circles, lines, and grids, foretelling such eternal mathematical laws that the artist clearly believes in.

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Notices

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, 6/05 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. Walks and Talks in the Six Mile Creek Natural Area | 8:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/06 Saturday | Six Mile Creek Natural Area, , Ithaca | Explore Your Watershed. Birds (and other beautiful flying things). Led by Meena Haribal. Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/08 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.

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Smell Of The Crowd | 8:00 PM-, 6/05 Friday | TiAhwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | The allegorical plot examines the maintenance of the status quo between the upper and lower classes of British Society in the 1960’s. Commonn Time: “A Musical Potpourri” | 7:30 PM-, 6/06 Saturday | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | We will bring to the audience a joy of singing through a potpourri of genres of music.

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: Meet the Employer Session-Cornell | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 6/05 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/05 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. ReUse Volunteer Orientation | 4:00 PM-, 6/08 Monday | Finger Lakes ReUse Center, 2255 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Meet great people and help make donated items ready for sale. CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM-, 6/09 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Saturday | Americana Winery, 4367 EAST COVERT ROAD, Interlaken | Bring the kids, the dogs, family and friends to Americana’s annual Local Shelter & Rescue Benefit benefitting Fetch a Friend Rescue, Beverly Animal Shelter, Browncoat Cat Rescue and the Pet the Pet Program. Finger Lakes Cheese Trail Open House | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 6/06 Saturday | Various Locations around the Finger Lakes, , | Find addresses and directions at ccetompkins.org/ cheesetrail or visit Finger Lakes Cheese Trail on Facebook. Tortoise and Hare Trail Run | 9:00 AM-, 6/06 Saturday | Buttermilk Falls State Park, , Ithaca | 23rd Annual Rich Lawrence Memorial. 10-plus km trail run. Plantations Spring Plant Sale | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/06 Saturday | Plant Production Facility, 397 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca | Take home some of our gardeners’ top picks for your own home landscape! This spring’s offerings will include a wide variety of perennials, and some new additions to the horticulture trade. Recess Coffee of Syracuse will be on hand selling some amazing brews! Third Annual Super Star Bartender Bash | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/07 Sunday | The BoatYard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | A friendly, amateur bartending competition between Local Celebrities, Business People, and Community Do Gooders. Our Musical guest will be DJ Toby, Standup Comedy with Kenneth McLaurin, Maryanne Donnelly, and Bryan Van Campen! Industry Night | 4:00 PM-2:00 AM, 6/09 Tuesday | K-House Karaoke Lounge and Suite, 15 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca | Every Tuesday is K-HOUSE’s Industry Night especially dedicated to local hospitality workers offering food & drink specials all night long.

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City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM-, 6/03 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor. Common Council Meeting | 6:00 PM-, 6/03 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | New York. Your attendance is requested. City of Ithaca Commons Advisory Board | 8:30 AM-, 6/05 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca

City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 6/08 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca City Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 6/09 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM-, 6/09 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Nature & Science Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 6/05 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. Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM-, 6/06 Saturday, 6/07 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.

Health & Wellness Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | NY, , | Meets multiple places and days. For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www.foodaddicts.org. Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 6/03 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/

| 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 6/07 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public. Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/08 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835. Multiple Sclerosis Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 6/08 Monday | Lifelong Center, 119 W. Court St., Ithaca | Support group meeting. Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/08 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). Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 6/09 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine. Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 6/09 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/09 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

Local Hard Rock band Baku in their element. They have a CD Release show this Friday 6/5 at The Dock with Amongst The Monks. (Photo provided by Band Website) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/03 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, 6/03 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. Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM, the first Tuesday of every month | Multiple Locations | A free group providing information and support for people with lyme or their caregivers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contactlist, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441. Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | The Consciousness Club, Cornell would like to invite everyone in the Cornell community (and beyond!) to experience a deep guided meditation in our weekly meetings every Wednesday on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome. Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick.Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015Every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/03 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 Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/04 Thursday | 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).

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com. Free Buddhist Meditation and Dharma Talk | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/06 Saturday | PADMA Center, 114 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and lively discussions exploring our innate goodness qualities. All are welcome. 607-865-8068 or www. padmasambhava.org for more information. Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 6/07 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. Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 6/07 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm

Kids Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: After School at Belle Sherman Elementary (grades 2-5) | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | Belle Sherman Elementary School, 501 Mitchell St, Ithaca | Have you ever wanted to learn to survive in the woods? Have you ever wanted to explore the wilds, and step off the beaten path? Come join Primitive Pursuits each week, and learn the tools of survival right in the forests

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CAP Art Space, Friday, June 5, 7:00 p.m.

Americana Vineyard and Winery, Covert Saturday, June 6, 12 p.m.

Watercolor and Acrylic paintings of everday life around Tompkins County. Kathy has lived in the area for a year now and this exhibit showcases her impressions of the Finger Lakes Region this far.

around your school. Together we’ll work on making fires (without matches!), build rain-proof shelters, and find wild sources of food. Each week will be a new adventure full of challenges & games to push your skills to the limit. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com. Sciencenter: Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 6/03 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Parents with their little ones (4 years old & under) explore science through hands-on activities, stories, and songs. Every Wednesday and Saturday. Sciencenter educators will also share research-based parenting tips in an interactive, fun environment. www. sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600. Plus, on April 15 enjoy special Week of the Young Child hands-on activities. Art Classes for Kids | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/03 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. Hangar Theatre Summer Kids Workshops Registration | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | , , | A variety of summer theatre classes available for students entering third grade and up, at multiple experience levels, and taught by professional artists who work nationally and teach the most current techniques in their disciplines. For details, fees, and sign-up visit http://www. hangartheatre.org/next-generationschool-of-theatre.html Registration For Music in Motion “Angie’s Music Camp” | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/03 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. Register online at www.mumotion. com/summercamp-register. 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.

This is an event for the whole family including your dogs. Americana has this benefit every year to raise money for local shelters.

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Legos at the Library | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 6/06 Saturday | 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 own Lego art! All materials provided.

Books A Novel Idea - Book Club | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/03 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Come spice things up, catch up with friends, and get your intellectual side out over delightful cocktails and books that you will not want to put down. Hosted by Buffalo Street Books’ Asha Sanakar. Diane Ackerman | 8:00 PM-, 6/06 Saturday | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Best selling author reads from selected works. Mark Fleisher | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/06 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Fleisher reads from his latest poetry collection, Moments of Time. Wolfsmouth | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 6/08 Monday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | William Downing Reading Room.

Arts Daniel McPheeters Gallery Reception | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/05 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Dreamscape: Landscapes and Skyscapes Reimagined, new work by Daniel McPheeters Kathy Armstrong Gallery Reception | 5:00 PM-, 6/05 Friday | ArtSpace Gallery, 171 The Commons (171 E. State/MLK Jr. Street), Ithaca | Getting to Know You: One Artist’s First Year Impression of the Finger Lakes Region, watercolor and acrylic paintings. Photography: The Science Behind the Art, and the Art behind the Science | 5:00 PM-, 6/05 Friday | Elevator Music and Art Gallery - at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 11th grade students at New Roots Charter School present photographs related to major concepts

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

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omorrowland, co-written and directed by Brad Bird, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14. I’ve been doing double duty rehearsing roles in Henry the IV: Banish All The World and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Ithaca Shakespeare Company; did you see me in the Ithaca Festival Parade? That was fun! These days, I’ve been watching screeners, Netflix and VOD at home, and I had fallen behind on my summer blockbusters. Time to catch up! Well, of course I liked Tomorrowland, or as I’m calling it, Walt Disney’s An Inconvenient Truth. Why? It has jet packs in it! JET PACKS! WHEEEEE! Tomorrowland captures that early ‘60s excitement about space and technology. Whirling from the World’s Fair to the greatest comic book store ever built, it manages to touch on just about every sci-fi film’s iconic imagery and characters. Sure, it’s odd to have a huge conglomerate release a film that slaps the world’s wrist for global warming, a water shortage, and all the rest of the world’s ills, but somehow it manages to turn themepark pulp fiction from nostalgia into a eulogy for a future that never was. The film’s entreaty to the world’s from the Science field. First Saturdays on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/06 Saturday | Greater Ithaca Art Trail, , | Artists exhibit in studios across Ithaca and Tompkins County. More information at www.arttrail.com ongoing Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca || Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist, through 6/07 | Staged, Performed, Manipulated, through 6/07 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present:

Britt Robertson as Casey Newton in Disney’s Tomorrowland. (Photo provided) “dreamers” recalls how Star Wars got kids interested in science, space, and solutions. I don’t want to spoil much of director Brad Bird’s plot due its original, offbeat nature; it also has a fairly punk-rock approach in establishing the story that’s pretty cool. A smart teenage girl (Britt Robertson) who “knows how things work” and even better, questions authority, finds a small pin with the initial “T” that transports her into an amazing, blue-sky futuristic society: giant glassy spires, monorails and—oh yeah—jet packs, taking the architectural style of the Disneyland attraction and fusing it to America’s big, blowhard love of progress.

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 Rockwell Museum: Two New Exhibits | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | As our neighboring institution, The Corning Museum of Glass, is celebrating the opening of a new contemporary art gallery, the Rockwell teamed up with glass specialists at the Traver Gallery in Seattle, WA, to install a celebratory display of nine contemporary glass pieces of the Pacific Northwest on the ground floor. The exhibit will be on view through Memorial Day. Also on display is “The Photography of John

Open house at various locations Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The region is the home of a growing number of cheese makers and the variety is increasing too: Dutch, English, French and other styles from cow, goat, and sheep milk. For directions to locations see ccetompkins.org/cheesetrail or look at Facebook.

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Doddato: In Pursuit of the American Landscape,” through Feb. 2016. Yvonne Fisher | 7:00 AM- 8:00PM | Gimmee Coffee, 430 N Cayuga St, Ithca | Grand Doodles, exhibit of bold and vibrant drawings. Runs June 1 to June 30. 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 | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Exciting works in ink, watercolor, and oil. Runs May 1 to June 30. Daniel McPheeters | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W State St. #2, Ithaca | Dreamscape: Landscape and Skyscapes Reimagined.

This is Brad Bird’s second liveaction feature; he made his live-action debut with Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, which was okay, I guess. Before tackling these films, Bird was one of the top animation directors in the business; he helped achieve many of the best cinematic gags in the early days of The Simpsons, and Tomorrowland feels a lot closer to the Cold War invention of his sleeper classic The Iron Giant. And I can’t help but feel that if Bird can make films like The Iron Giant, The Incredibles (look for Mr. Incredible’s cameo in Tomorrowland), and Ratatouille, he shouldn’t stay away from that medium very long. •

Naomi Edmark exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | 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 | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Road #3, Ithaca | Disposito / Solo Exhibition of recent work from the proific artist. Kathy Armstrong | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | 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. Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/22 Friday | Central NY Living History Center, 4386 US-11, Cortland | A national traveling exhibition which focuses on Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to meet the constitutional challenges

of the Civil War. Runs until June 19. Visit www.cortlandhistory.com for more information.8.

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Maxie’s Supper Club and Oyster Bar, Monday, June 8, 7:00 p.m. This New Orleans based blues player combines the city’s street rhythms, swampy backbeats, jazzy dreamscapes, with an honest and original take on American music. He plays with his band on Brisket & Blues night this Monday. Don’t miss out!

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Transporting people to parallel worlds reminded me a lot of Jack Sawyer, flipping back and forth between our world and “The Territories” in Stephen King and Peter Straub’s classic 1984 fantasy novel The Talisman. I was also reminded of Metropolis, Dark City, and Time Bandits, and all favorably. George Clooney is really good here; he bided his time for the right “general audience” family film to fit his particular talents and the role takes him to risky, odd places. But the film really rests on Robertson’s likable, spunky leading performance and also Raffey Cassidy as a child with a wellkept secret that informs her unsettling connection to Clooney’s character.

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he home at 3979 County Route 141 was built in the 1980s, but inside and out it is redolent of the 1960s, when the “Ranch” house was at its peak. The red brick exterior gives it a solid appearance and likely contributes to the quiet and stillness of the interior. The landscaping around the house—boxwoods and other evergreen shrubs—is immaculately maintained. It is built at the edge of a sloping hill so that the front appears to hug the ground, while the rear presides over views of much of the four-acre parcel, which has been maintained as lawn scattered with shade and fruit trees, all of them mature. As you enter the front door you step onto 12-inch tiles. The entryway is separated from the dining room by a low wall also surmounted by tiles. Overhead a skylight brightens the room subtly. You initially encounter a large Lshaped room that includes a dining area and a living room that wraps around a central fireplace place that burns either wood or coal. A set of three glass doors lets you out of the living room and onto a large deck that looks down toward Cayuga Lake (which is just out of sight amid the trees). There is a hallway leading away from the living room into the southern wing of the house (which has a T-shaped floorplan). This is where you find the two smaller bedrooms, a full bathroom with a tub/shower, and a master bedroom suite where the bathroom includes a sink with a stone counter around it and double-sized shower stall. Most of this house is floored with wall-to-wall carpeting and the clear pine interior trim is nicely finished and has obviously never been painted. The dining room is separated from the kitchen by wall, the gable portion of which has been removed. This has the effect of making the kitchen feel not entirely isolated and makes you aware that the ceiling

goes right up to the rafters in this portion of the house. An island in the middle of the kitchen is topped with a granite counter and other counters are black stone flecked with gold with a tile backsplash. The cabinets are oak and routed in the classic raised-panel crown-top pattern. There is an eating area in the kitchen with enough room for a table to seat six. Beyond the kitchen, behind the twobay garage is a laundry room, a half bathroom and the stairs down to the finished basement. The stairs lead to a large family room that includes glass doors that open out under the deck and another door that open into the backyard. There is a pellet stove here and a small room that could serve as a guest room. The rest of the basement is unfinished and set up as a workshop. This area includes an abundance of shelving and another wood-burning stove. The home is heated with hotwater in baseboards using a propane-fired boiler. It also has central air-conditioning. County Route 141 leads down to lakefront at Sheldrake and Kidders, where there is a grocery, a restaurant, and a winery. •

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