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new student organization at Cornell’s law school was founded in February in response to what organizers say is a concern with rising anti-Semitism on college campuses, including Cornell’s.

Ken Marcus founded the national Louis D. Brandeis Center in 2011 to serve as a legal watchdog for discrimination against Jews on campuses. Marcus is now the president and general counsel for the center.

“The university should address antiSemitic incidents in the same way they do racial, ethnic, or sex discrimination,” Marcus said. “Jewish students should receive the same protection as other groups, no more, no less. Unfortunately, the university does not respond with the same seriousness in [incidents] with Jewish students, especially in cases perceived as connected to the state of Israel.”

The “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” (BDS) movement that calls for economic action against Israel in response to its actions in the West Bank and Gaza against Palestinians has been “heatedly argued on college campuses,” said William Jacobson, a Cornell law professor who blogs at Legal Insurrection. “[BDS] pervasively uses double standards,” he said, “against the state of Israel—when boycott proponents argue for sanctions against Israel and not any other country, one has to wonder what their reasons are.”

Marcus, Jacobson, and others opposed to BDS argue that the movement is, at its heart, dedicated to the complete eradication of a Jewish state rather than modifying that state’s policies.

Marcus cites the“3D” test introduced

by Natan Sharansky as his guiding rule for when criticism of Israel’s policies crosses the line: “When it involves doublestandards, demonization of Israelis, or the delegitimization of the Jewish state.”

Noga Benmor-Piltch, Cornell Law ‘16 and a Brandeis Center member, said that there is a distinction between criticizing a state’s policies and questioning that state’s right to exist.

“There are many things the Israeli government does that I don’t agree with,” Benmor-Piltch said. “Many, many Jews across the world never thought the Israeli government should have created settlements … it was not a move they believed would bring about peace.” continued on page 4

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recounted the basic event timeline. Also concluded were areas in which a police response could be improved in the future.

Primarily, the areas for improvement included the need to communicate better with outside civilians and local officials, the need to have the sheriff on scene more quickly, whether to use the Rook—a piece of equipment used to dismantle the house—only as a last resort, and the need to address logistical issues better in the future. Also, the report outlined the total expenditures for the incident, which included $13,444 in overtime costs and more than $10,000 in munitions.

During the public comment period, Dietrich echoed his request at the January Public Safety Committee meeting, calling for an independent review of the incident.

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he much-awaited after-incident report regarding the standoff on Hornbrook Road in Danby is now publicly available. At the Monday, March 16 meeting of the county’s Public Safety Committee, the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office presented the report to legislators and members of the public. Although the report offers more detail about some aspects of the incident, the full autopsy is notably absent.

As Undersheriff Brian Robison explained, “We still have not received a final autopsy report [and] have no idea where it’s at.” After the forensic pathologist completes the autopsy, a final autopsy report will be issued by the New York State Police. Robison said that many state staff are involved in the ongoing Cal Harris murder trial in Sheriff Ken Lansing, Undersheriff Brian Robison, Schoharie. and IPD SWAT team leader Sgt. Jake Young. (Photo Bill Chaisson) At the start of the meeting, “That’s what I’m asking for,” he said. “I still Robison read aloud the first seven pages would like that independent investigation.” of the 35-page report. SWAT Commander Tom Seaney, a Danby resident, asked Jake Young took over the presentation, whether any of the officers heard the reading more from the typed report. After gunshot that Melissa Cady—David Cady’s Danby Supervisor Ric Dietrich offered widow—and others have said they heard some criticism about the value of reading around 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31. from a publicly available report, Ithaca Young said that the officers did not hear a Police Department Investigator Michael gunshot at that point, but suggested that Gray offered an unscripted presentation. witnesses could have confused the sound In addition to providing information about David Cady’s history, the report continued on page 5 and accompanying presentations again

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The service that Fiberspark provides will have much greater bandwidth than is available from other local providers.

For $69.99 per month Time-Warner’s “Ultimate” package provides customers with “up to 50 Mb per second.” Fiberspark cable will offer 500 Mb per second for $59 per month, but can provide up to a local company called “Fiberspark” gigabyte per second, if needed. Very few wants to build a “fiberhood” in Americans, said Shaffer, Collegetown. Google have access to this kind has coined the latter term and is of speed. bringing extremely high-speed “It is the same cable Internet and television to places as the one that goes like Kansas City, Austin, and under the ocean,” he Provo, Utah. Jeff Shaffer and Pam said. It is much less Wang are running a company expensive than copper that is a bit smaller than cable, and it provides Google. Along with Jay Pound, so much more than they presently add up to three you typically need that employees, and they also have it never slows down or seven volunteers. Shaffer and shuts off.”

Wang have spun out of a Cornell Their pilot network research group, but Pound is has been jury-rigged a communications industry by stringing cable from veteran. building to building in Like Google they want to central Collegetown. It create a fiber cable network that has taken Fiberspark will put U.S. communities on par a year just to get the with the quality of connectivity permits necessary to that is available in other string their cable from countries. (South Korea is the utility poles. They are high-water mark in this regard now ready to start right now.) They already have Pam Wang (left) and Jeff Shaffer (at computer) with fellow Fiberspark staff. building the Collegetown customers in Collegetown, but (Photo: Tim Gera) network and have a they want to grow to serve all of contractor ready to string Ithaca. those interested to get on Facebook to find cable from pole to pole. The cable itself is “This will drive economic “off the shelf,” and made by Corning, Inc. out more about the service. development,” said Shaffer, “and that will “We’re the ‘dumb pipe,’” said Shaffer, Their initial build-out will take place attract young people who live here. Small by way of explaining their business model. in the high-density residential portion of companies need fast, low-cost Internet.”

“We are engineering this to be open Collegetown, but in Phase II they hope to The Fiberspark network will be quite access, as it is in Sweden. There will be a different than what is available from Time- expand into adjacent the Belle Sherman single fiber cable going to every home. It and Fall Creek neighborhoods.

If every Warner, he emphasized. “Their last mile is will be available to any Internet provider third house shows interest, said Wang, [copper] cable, and it’s built for television that wants to use it.” Fiberspark earns their that will be enough to run cable through access, one-way.” income by charging the suppliers that use on poles along that street and send service Fiberspark’s starting point is the their network. • lines to the interested households.

Starbucks at the corner of College Avenue “We want to be a company that people and Dryden Road. “We are figuring out like,” said Shaffer, “not one they hate.” In where the demand is,” said Wang, “using —Bill Chaisson speaking with landlords Fiberspark heard

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A resolution was brought before the Cornell Student Assembly in April 2014 to support BDS. Jacobson says the timing of the resolution, during Passover, “would have made it difficult for many Jewish students to attend the assembly.”

“The level of anger exhibited when the student assembly voted to table [the resolution] I thought was quite aggressive,” Jacobson said.

In 2014 the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center’s “Jew Hatred on Campus” campaign named Cornell as the number-two campus in the country for anti-Semitism in part because of the introduction of that BDS resolution.

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some Swedish software to establish zones by getting expressions of interest.” When they reach a critical mass, they run the fiber to the people.

Fiberspark employees and volunteers have reached out to landlords with large properties, and they have posted on neighborhood listservs. But they have also gone the old-fashioned route of distributing flyers (on paper!) to initially reach out to students. The flyers encourage

BDS resolution was tabled and turning it into an “open mic,” and several outdoor protests held during the fall semester.

The Horowitz Center’s citation contains several links to articles and videos posted on Legal Insurrection and the conservative Cornell Review and reads like this: “Cornell’s SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] chapter has used open force to intimidate Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus, and has erected scores of anti-Israel signs across the campus in addition to interrupting a student government meeting and erecting mock ‘checkpoints’ on campus.”

Emad Masroor, a Cornell sophomore and SJP member, said the Horowitz Center accusations are a “tactic of silencing us.”

“We believe we do retain every right to criticize Israel without anti-Semitism being thrown at us,” Masroor said. “What the state of Israel believes in, I don’t think

most Jews believe in it. But [there are] Jews who do are very vocal about it. [The state of Israel] doesn’t believe it’s practical to expel all Palestinians from the occupied territories. What they’re doing is making life miserable for them.”

The BDS movement acknowledges the international recognition of Israel, Masroor said, and BDS proponents are following the will of “grass roots organizations” from Palestine that in 2005 called for the implementation of boycotts, divestments and sanctions. “[SJP] has always been clear, we’ve never tried to hide what we’re about,” Masroor said. “Somehow to say that we’re here calling for a discussion of whether Israel should exist is something that should not be ascribed to us.” • —Josh

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Years of Activism Led to Legislature

▶ The dean’s list, Megan Ludgate, a Brooktondale (14817) resident, was named to the 2014 fall semester dean’s list at Simmons College in Boston. Her major is Economics & Mathematics. To qualify for dean’s list status, undergraduate students must obtain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, based on 12 or more credit hours of work in classes using the letter grade system.

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ompkins County Legislator Will Burbank (D-12th) ended up where he is today as the result of an epic roadtrip. Back in 1972, he and his future wife hopped into their red 1965 Datsun and set off in search of a place to settle down.

After driving literally thousands of miles, stopping in cities from San Francisco to Denver to Minneapolis, the couple set foot in Ithaca on Dec. 31, 1972. “My first memory was hearing the chimes,” Burbank said. “I was in Collegetown and we wandered up to the clock tower and they were having a New Year’s party and the snow was falling—and it seemed like a magical place.”

The couple decided they’d found their new home.

Before coming to Ithaca, Burbank had studied international relations at American University in Washington, D.C. At first, the New Jersey native dreamed of being a diplomat, but eventually he realized that, in the midst of the Vietnam War, he had a profound disagreement with U.S. foreign policy. Instead, after graduation, he and his future wife, Ellie Stewart, went off to do anti-poverty work in rural Virginia before embarking on the roadtrip that landed them above Cayuga’s waters.

After settling down, Burbank worked a few different places around town. In the early 1980s, he did media relations for the Cornell Cooperative Extension before moving on to work as the coordinator of Cornell’s now-defunct Eco-Justice Project.

The project focused on creating public awareness about environmental and social justice issues.

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of a gunshot with the sound of flashbangs —non-lethal explosives—that were being used around that time.

Melissa Cady vehemently contested that assertion. She said, “I know the difference between a gunshot and a flashbang.” During her turn at the microphone, Cady contested other aspects of the report. While the report notes that the last conversation with David Cady occurred just after 4 a.m. on Dec. 31 when he told officers, “I am armed up. Come get me,” his widow disputed that. Melissa Cady said that she talked to her husband immediately after his last conversation with police: “The last conversation you all

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Heard&Seen Tompkins County Legislator Will Burbank outside the chambers of the legislature.

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a landlord and a long-time substitute teacher. In the 2000s, he helped organize a local union for substitute teachers. He said, “We went something like 13 years without any pay increase in an inflationary period. So I was a part of a group that organized a substitutes’ union … and as a result of that the pay rate for substitute teachers in Ithaca is better than in surrounding areas.”

Around the dawn of the new millennium, Burbank decided to try his hand at local politics. In a sense, running for government was an extension of his interest in activism and community development: “Years before being in local government, I was a community activist, literally for decades.” He continued, “After years’ worth of being on the outside, I suddenly realized that if I was in a decision-making position, I could make the decisions rather than influence them.”

Burbank began by running for Ithaca town board. In the 2001 primaries, there were four candidates for three seats— and

the other three were all incumbents. “The day of the primary election,” said Burbank, “just happened to be September 11, 2001.

It was the only time in my experience when elections were called off mid-day.”

Elections were rescheduled for two weeks later, though, and Burbank won—not just qualifying for the general election but also solidly garnering more votes than any of the three incumbents.

In 2009 after serving on the town board for nearly eight years, Burbank decided to run for county legislature after Legislator Tim Joseph resigned to become a regional director for New York State Parks. Six years later, the District 12 legislator still enjoys what he does.

Burbank said that, unlike state and federal representatives, county legislators are able to be incredibly accessible. “Every time I go to Wegman’s,” he said, “I end up getting into a political discussion with someone. And that’s great. People still have access to their local representatives.” •

had with him is a lie. I was the last person who talked to him.” She noted that officers were aware of her conversation as one was with her when it occurred.

The report included pictures of guns placed throughout the house, but as Melissa Cady commented, “The guns you guys showed pictures of, most of them didn’t have bullets in my house and you know that because you have it in evidence.” She concluded, “I’m not saying that he should not have turned himself in, because of course he should have. But it isn’t all him what happened up there. It was boys with toys. You destroyed a home, you literally destroyed it.”

Another speaker during the public comment, Joanne Cipolla-Dennis, drew applause when she said, “As a former

corrections officer … to hear that police officers are now not willing to risk their lives to save somebody’s life because they might get hurt is disgusting to me.”

At one point, in response to a comment, Gray said, “Had he decided to drink and drive one last time and had gone out and killed a family of four, what questions would you have for us then?”

Similarly, Legislator Martha Robertson thanked law enforcement for “trying desperately to keep the people who are so irresponsible as to drive while impaired … off the roads.”

Visibly incensed, Melissa Cady left the meeting after telling Robertson, “For you to just sit there and justify is ridiculous.” •

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f Unity House had come to the Danby town hall and told us, honestly, we would not have been as furious. We would have been anxious, but not furious,” said a woman at the Danby town hall meeting Monday night.

At issue was the non-profit agency’s purchase of a house on Nelson Road with a plan to house therein two men with sex offender status. As the meeting wore on, Unity House director Liz Smith and other officials were able to, somewhat, answer people’s questions about the decision and the relative safety of having the two men in their neighborhood. The two men, whose IQ is 70 or under, committed their crimes 25 and 30 years ago; one man is 75 years old. Both are under 24 hour supervision seven days a week, 365 days a year, Smith explained.

Officer Kevin Cowen, whose job it is to supervise all the sex offenders in Tompkins County (around 165 individuals), explained that these two men are under 24-hour supervision (the Nelson Road house will also have alarms on all doors and windows) not because of their crimes, but because of their developmental disabilities. Individuals of normal cognitive ability with similar SO status live all over Tompkins County.

While people at the meeting were not entirely satisfied with the answers they were receiving, elsewhere in the county, other community members weren’t entirely happy with public information, either.

In Trumansburg, parents and

community members demanded answers from the school district after an incident in which a deer carcass with a frightening note on it was dumped in the high school parking lot. School superintendent Michael McGuire was roundly criticized for not releasing enough information about the incident early enough, and finally did issue a long letter giving all the details; he also held a public meeting at the school, where about 30 angry residents showed up.

In Ithaca, the county public safety committee meeting was full of members of the public looking for answers about the Hornbrook Road standoff in Danby this January, which ended with the death of David Cady, who was wanted on a DWI warrant. Information in that case is still incomplete, as the autopsy report has not been issued, so expect public resentment to continue for a while: many people feel that the police response was out of proportion to the situation, and want reassurance that SWAT response will be tempered in the future.

All three incidents, however, bring up one central point: withholding information from the public because it might upset people only backfires in the end. It may be that the pace of information has picked up in the internet age, and people expect answers sooner than they used to. In the Danby/ Unity House situation, Unity House director of residential services Amy Santibianco said they tried contacting continued on page 7

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the business they can get, with or without f the Internet is to be believed, a large drool. Enforcement is difficult for police majority of Ithacans would love to take because it’s very easy for someone who’s their dogs for a walk on the Commons caught with a poodle on the Commons to whenever the downtown pedestrian mall say, “Oh, no, my Fifi is a service dog.” Those gets to looking fresh again. papers are easier to acquire than your Mayor Svante Myrick asked his 7,259 Wednesday Ithaca Times.

Facebook followers their opinion both last Sniff those winds of prevailing September and in late February: should opinion. Stop into a Lake Street tavern the 40-year-old ban on canines on the where a pit bull has claimed a stool. Watch Commons be lifted? Over the course of a passing strangers, man or woman, young couple hundred comments between the or old, having an oh-you’re-soooo-cute two strings, the Yays outnumbered the squeal over one another’s poodle or pit Nays about three to one. bull. It seemed decided “Why not Fido?” that Ithaca and its asked the online dog “If one asked a was gone to lovers. “S/he goes selection of Commons Commons the dogs. with me everywhere,” merchants their The only obstacle they said. “Dogs are everywhere in Europe, opinion, several said was a vote of Common Council at their March and Paris/Rome/Berlin is beautiful.” “Whenever we they welcome in four 4 meeting, where they were to consider a whole visit City X (Burlington, -legged patrons.” package of Commons law Asheville, Portland, any rewrites on everything weird little city, really), from outdoor dining no one there has any problem with dogs downtown.” Mostly, the boundaries to a move-along rule for affirmatives said “yes,” “yeah,” or “YES YES buskers. This was when Fido’s foes showed up in force. A force of a half-dozen or so, YES.” but they were there.

If one asked a selection of Commons The no-dogs minority had stated their merchants their opinion, several said opposition on the Internet strings. They they welcome in four-legged patrons. If said they were either allergic, or afraid—of they weren’t welcoming, they seemed doggie disputes, of scaring the kids, of unconcerned, even blasé, about the issue. the few ruining it for the many, of poop One found it “very interesting” that a smeared upon the shiny new Commons ban existed, and then complained about pavers. Besides one Ithacan arguing for a smoking on the Commons. Some thought statue of Odysseus’ hound (Argos) these allowing dogs might help business, as were the people council heard talk. And tourists tend to bring along their pets— council said, “Well, dogs can wait,” because especially the yearly tourists-and-theircouncils give more weight to people who greyhounds bus group. One merchant of show up than those who do not.

26 years said that dogs have been on the Council is not required to read Commons “since Day One” and there’s no Facebook comments—though 50 or so way to keep them off, “legally or illegally.” old-fashioned emails to one alderperson Economic impact and certainty or another, which do go on record, might in enforcement were the two driving have changed the debate’s tone. There reasons why the Commons Advisory wasn’t one. And a lively Facebook presence Board recommended dogs be legalized.

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Liz Smith, the director of Unity House, and Amy Santibianco, director of resident services for Unity House, answered—or tried to answer- people’s questions. Officer Kevin Cowen of the state police, whose job it is to monitor sex offenders in Tompkins County, also addressed the public, as did Danby supervisor Ric Dietrich and Rebecca Brenner of the Danby town board.

Unity House, a nonprofit agency, operates a number of group homes for adults with developmental disabilities, “what used to be called mental retardation,” Smith explained. “It’s individuals with a cognitive level below IQ of 70.” She said they bought the house on Nelson Road because it came within the agency’s budget, and the house has been renovated for the residents’ needs. There will be three adult men with developmental disabilities in the house, with a minimum of two staff supervising at all times, including being awake overnight; doors and windows will have alarms on them. Only two of the men have sex offender status.

New York State is closing the campus of Broome Developmental Center in Binghamton, in concert with closing other developmental centers around the state and deinstitutionalizing people with developmental disabilities. The facility had two units dedicated to individuals who had interfaced with the criminal justice system; these individuals, Smith explained, are being returned to their counties of origin, or contiguous counties, and placed in supervised group homes.

The two men, Smith said, “are not violent or predatory. Nor are they allowed to walk around unsupervised.”

Officer Cowen explained that the men have Level 3 Sex Offender status and will therefore be registered on the county website, where people can learn their names and see their pictures. Level 3 is considered most likely to reoffend (Level 1 being least likely) but the level designation is determined by weighing several factors: the seriousness of the crime committed is one, but the offender’s past history and psychological profile, including cognitive level, are also factors. For instance, said Cowen, the sexual crime might be less serious, but if the offender had a past history of petty theft that would affect the level. “Mental capacity is a factor,” said Santibianco.

Cowen said that the high level of supervision for the men is preferable to that of SO’s without developmental disabilities, who are living in the community, or to that of Level 2s, “who, you don’t know where they live. A Level

Liz Smith of Unity House addresses Danby residents unhappy with new group home on Nelson Road.

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2 can live next door to you and you don’t know it.”

Given the anger expressed by some of the neighbors, residents of the group home might more need protecting from others than the other way around. Raymond Mayo, a neighbor, asked Cowen, “If one of these guys comes into my yard and I’m beating his head in with a baseball bat, how long will it take (law enforcement) to get there?”

Aleksandr Karandayev, who with his wife Natalya and their five children live next door, took issue with the idea of a group home: “It’s a mini-prison,” he said. The Karandayevs said they had not been contacted by Unity House, although Santibianco said they had talked to the neighbors. “You’re a liar,” said Natalya Karandayev. “You never came to my house.”

“I don’t sleep well since I found out Friday,” said Aleksandr Karandayev. “I have molestation happen to my family; you don’t know how it hurts.”

Danby supervisor Ric Dietrich said that town officials only found out last Friday, and legally, “our hands are tied. It’s a frustrating position—the town has no jurisdiction.”

Town board member Rebecca Brenner said, “This should have been a community conversation, but instead people found out from their neighbors.”

Although residents spoke angrily and at length, and Smith and Santibianco addressed many of their questions, quite a few appeared to walk out in disgust. “It’s a done deal?” asked one woman. Smith said she would go back to her agency and “discuss what we could have done better,” which garnered expressions of disgust from the audience, but made no response to shouts that Unity House should sell the house and leave.

Cowen supervises 163 sex offenders in Tompkins County, he said, and has held this position for seven years. In that

time, he said, there has not been one case where someone in the care of Unity House­ which has six individuals with sex offender status—has gotten out into the community and offended against someone. He urged the community to “inform yourselves” and protect themselves by being vigilant, not just against SOs but burglars and other criminals, and by talking to their neighbors.

Several residents wondered about the legality of the housing itself: couldn’t it be classified as a business, not a home?

Others said that the home is classed as single family. Brenner repeated that the town, legally, couldn’t do anything: three unrelated individuals living together are considered a family for purposes of zoning law. There are dozens of group homes scattered around the county, with some already in Danby, and they are not considered, legally, places of business.

“There isn’t anything in the law to say where they (sex offenders) can live,” said Cowen. “The town of Lansing had a law restricting sex offenders from living within a thousand feet of a school ... the NYS Court of Appeals struck it down.”

Cowen repeated that information about these individuals will be available to the community as soon as they move in and that neighbors are encouraged to be informed and share information with one another. “You cannot, however, use that information to harass the individuals,” he said. “If you do that, you will be arrested.”

Information on the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services lists only two level 3 sex offenders living in the Binghamton center: Charles Howard, born in 1939, and Gerard Rober, born 1959. Howard was arrested by Dryden police in 1991 for a sex offense against a boy of 14; Rober is on the sex offender registry of Colorado but no other details are provided. •

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We got many, many responses to our poll about the proposed boycott of Israeli goods at Greenstar. This is one: Boycotting is not the answer to solve the conflict. Many Palestinians work in Israel (www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Number-of-Palestinians-working-for-Israelis-doubles-392960) and on average make more money than the people who work in Palestine. Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East and while it is not perfect it does give rights to Palestinians.

There are Arabs in the Knesset. Are there Jews in any other middle eastern government? The Jews were kicked out of the other Middle Eastern countries throughout the latter half of the 20th century. When you kick people out they need to live somewhere. The BDS movement is anti-Israel more than it is pro-Palestinian.

Having gone to Israel and seen Israelis and Palestinians coexist, it seems as if the movement is lead by people who do not understand the dynamics between the moderate Palestinians and Israelis. They are very focused on the extremists. A two-state solution will never occur through boycott.

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might make national reporters drool, but it doesn’t give Mayor Myrick the power to tell council to roll over.

Perhaps it’s true that all this means is that “people in Ithaca know the law is soft,” as the one, dog-opposed, Commons merchant who showed up March 4 said.

Maybe Ithacans do “laugh at the signs.”

Until Ithacans start telling their government what to put on the signs, though, no one should be whining when, on a trip with Toto to the pretty new Commons, an officer of the law says, “Get off there! I said, GET OFF!” – Josh Brokaw Ithaca Times reporter Surroundedreality contin u ed from page 6

the neighbors as soon as they knew- but, that was only last Wednesday. They didn’t have time to contact everyone who would be concerned, and town board members were caught off guard by the revelation that the house would be a dwelling for sex offenders. “People heard about it from their neighbors,” said town board member Rebecca Brenner. “This should have been a community conversation.”

Her words were followed by an outburst of applause- the only sign of approbation in an otherwise tense and ugly public meeting. In the end, all three meetings- Trumansburg, Danby, and Tompkins County- broke up peacefully, and people went away grumbling. But, they got answers, and in the end that was all they were asking for. • / M

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What’s needed in Ithaca is more “affordable housing.” How do we get some more of that?

Defining Our Terms

For the purposes of this article “affordable housing” will not mean “public” housing, in the sense of dwellings owned by a government agency. For one, technically, most of the funding for the affordable housing projects presented here comes from money given away by private corporations. People using housing vouchers like Section 8—generally those with families who have incomes of less than 50 percent of the local median income— may live in these developments. So may people with incomes that are more than 50 percent of the local median.

“Affordability is a problem for a lot of people who make the median income or less in this area,” said Paul Mazzarella, director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS). “It’s not just the cost of housing, but the relationship of how much money people have to pay for housing. If 8

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At Breckenridge Place, the 50-unit INHS building opened in May 2014, 31 of the units are reserved for people making half of the area’s median income. For a single person, that ceiling is $27,594 and for couples $31,531: salary ceilings that many cooks, students, artists, and experienced reporters have never cracked. There are also units reserved there for people making 60 percent and 90 percent of the median income, and their rents are somewhat more depending on pay: on the whole, apartments there range in price from about $650 to about $1,150 per month.

If there’s one point affordable housing developers want to make clear it is that their tenants have full-time jobs.

“Saying affordable housing invokes a response in some people that’s a response to a perception or an outdated view of what modern housing is and who it serves and what the demographics are,” said Monica McCullough, vice president for housing at Pathstone, a non-profit Rochester developer that assisted in the Breckenridge project.

“Sometimes those concerns are valid and grounded in reality, and sometimes those concerns are grounded in stereotypes and fear. When we’re proposing a development we’re always doing some explaining and educating.”

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Wherever the development, “the biggest challenge is NIMBYism,” Crossed said. “People hear affordable housing, people think low-income individuals, and people say we’re not going to support this in our backyard. Just getting support and approvals for projects of our type is a very tall order.”

Wait For the Trickle-down

Beyond any fears of new neighbors, there were undoubtedly legitimate local concerns from Spencer Road residents when the Stone Quarry INHS project pictured on this newspaper’s cover was in the planning stages in summer 2014.

Adding 35 new housing units on a tight road with inadequate sidewalks in an area with about a dozen existing homes might very well be dangerous. Working through those issues is necessary before a developer applies for funding.

“If you’re proposing a project and you don’t know with certainty you can build it, you’re kind of shooting yourself in the foot,” Crossed said. “We’ve had many situations where everything seems to be moving in the right direction, and you get to a public hearing and there’s a lot of opposition and everything goes south.”

Nick Martinez worked in affordable housing financing in New York and now studies at Cornell’s Baker Program in Real Estate. He thinks the size of a city like Ithaca makes building more difficult

because the democracy is more direct.

“It’s not as easy to get major barriers in the number of people. That opposition gets traction a lot easier in a small town,” Martinez said. “In New York [City] there’s a ton of special interests that say ‘Let’s get it done.’”

Achieving even planning approval has one even earlier prerequisite: there needs to be a place to put the new building.

“It takes a long time to get anything built in Ithaca,” said Frost Travis of Travis Hyde Properties. “There’s not a lot of available land. Even market-rate construction [downtown] is not able to happen without some kind of public assistance.”

In Ithaca, where there’s so many singlefamily homes, any affordable housing development likely can’t help but increase density, and thus change the “character of the neighborhood.” Land acquisition costs make it a necessity to build densely so projects make financial sense.

The ideal affordable development should be somewhere that allows people to cut costs by reducing their commute and putting them close to services, groceries, and whatever they may need. That is, near a downtown.

“If I can get you to drop your car because of location, you’re now saving $9,000 a year,” said Susan Cosentini, who developed the Aurora Pocket Neighborhood on a co-housing concept. “It creates a comprehensive affordability.”

INHS policy is to find sites “that allow people to walk or take public transportation

to stores, services and recreation,” Mazzarella said. “We seek to put our projects in the urban core rather than in a remote suburban or rural area.”

With land and approvals in hand, now the building must happen. This will also take money and time, particularly since these buildings are going up for the long haul. Construction costs at Breckenridge were $206,240 per each one of its 50 units.

The Stone Quarry site will come in at $195,000 per unit.

“Breckenridge Place was expensive because it is a masonry high rise building served by an elevator,” Mazzarella said.

“Stone Quarry was built on poor soils that required a more expensive foundation.”

“It costs the same to build affordable housing as it does market-rate housing,” Travis said. “It’s a specialty and a mission.”

“There used to be a day when you’d build, and the municipality would put in your infrastructure,” Cosentini said. “Water, sewer, those things are crazy expensive.

People don’t recognize that aspect of any construction project. You have to incorporate that into all your housing prices.”

Getting funding for affordable housing is a byzantine process. So much so that some developers feel the market should simply be allowed to bring down the cost instead.

“The theory that relates to affordable housing as it applies to people or developers like myself,” said John Novarr, who developed Collegetown Terrace, “if you build enough housing to meet the student demand, then the people who are living the farthest away from campus, in the worstquality apartments, will ultimately stop doing that. To me in some ways it sounds a little like Goldwater’s trickle-down theory, which I didn’t really buy, that if you let the rich people get really rich all the leavings will be there for the less fortunate.”

Free Money

All the challenges of developing affordable housing discussed so far also apply to a project done with traditional, market-rate financing. Where a traditional developer really says “No, thanks” to the affordable housing game is when it comes to the money—which is strange, because the money is all given free. But not really.

“I go to trade shows for real estate development and people ask me why we mess with the tax codes and the affordable housing industry,” Conifer’s Crossed said. “It’s what we’re set up to do. It is a very different business than traditional development.”

All the complications have never appealed to Novarr.

“It’s a pretty specialized field,” Novarr said. “I suppose if I were passionate about helping the underprivileged, I suppose I could learn it faster than the average guy on the street. The way this stuff is financed is totally different from the way we do things.”

The affordable housing that INHS and others build relies heavily on funding received from the “Low-Income Housing Tax Credit,” written into the 1986 federal

tax reform when Director of the Office of Management and Budget David Stockman and his associates realized they had eliminated previous means of incentivizing development in the early ‘80s during the first Reagan administration.

The quick and dirty primer goes like this: Affordable housing developers receive federal tax credits, which have been allocated to their projects by a state agency—in New York it is the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (HCR). Private corporations grant funding through syndication firms, which bundle the funding and give them to affordable housing developers in exchange for the credits. “[Corporations] give us millions of dollars, but they get even more tax credits that they use,” Mazzarella said.

“Roughly, for every dollar of tax credit we give them, they give us 90 cents.”

Getting those tax credits from the state is not easy.

“The competition for tax credits is extremely cutthroat and competitive,” Crossed said. “The state will receive these applications in the fall and make decisions in the spring, in April there might be 120, 130 applications, and they might fund 30 or 35 of them. Something in the order of one in five gets funded.”

In New York State, all projects, including those from New York City, are placed into the same pot.

“Obviously there’s going to be a constant ‘float of ask’ out of New York,” Martinez, who worked with a syndication firm, said.

“In New York you have the 80/20 mixed development—you have that incentive to build affordable housing while building market rate housing.”

All projects are graded by HCR on what Mazzarella calls a “points system.”

Criteria include things like downtown location and access to transit; green building initiatives; amenities for residents; community support; and any outside financing a developer can bring to the project.

The outside monies are where a city and region can show its support for a project, said Nels Bohn, head of development of the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency. Cornell, the city, and county have all thrown in on one pool of money with the “sexy title of Housing Fund,” which gave the Breckinridge project $200,000.

“Those multiple levels of [local] support show some strong commitment to the state,” Bohn said. “It’s not easy to convince multiple parties to join together and contribute on a regular basis.”

What’s most important to the creditgivers at HCR and the money-givers across corporate America is whether a project will “keep itself keeping on,” which means showing the profit adds up over the long term. The low-income tax credits are granted for at least 15 years, and if a project goes under it does hurt the funders.

“There’s quite a bit of evaluation of the project itself and the financial viability of it,” Mazzarella said.

“There’s evaluation of the track record of the developer.”

The 2014 HCR application for tax credits stretches for 70 pages and asks for professional market studies, debt and cash flow expectations, utility costs, average area incomes, and housing needs. The “free” money comes with all sorts of strings, too. For example, Mazzarella wanted a meeting room included in Breckenridge to be available to the public, since the Women’s Community Building it replaced was often used for community functions.

“We put in a pretty good meeting room, but only Breckenridge residents can use it,” Mazzarella said. “We Developers John N ova r r , S u s a n Cosentini, a nd Frost Tr av i s ( P r ov i d e d) asked our funders if we could make it open, and they said that under the rules, the only people with a median income same as people who live there are allowed to use it.”

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For all the obstacles before affordable housing developers, everyone, regardless of income, needs “a place to hang their hat,” as Novarr put it.

Mazzarella stated it flatly: “The best way for us to make housing more affordable is to build new housing. Frankly, the amount of units we can produce in a year is a fraction of what’s needed.”

Typically, INHS has only two or three units open at a time. By the end of the year, when this year’s projects and their merger with Better Housing of Tompkins County is complete, they’ll have almost 400 units in for-sale or rental housing. “[INHS] has grown. They have a capital base now,” Travis said. “They can afford to pursue more affordable housing projects. Not at the rate the community T

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Beyond further development on the low-income tax credit model, ideas to make more places more people can afford are mostly improvised right now.

Cosentini gets as creative as she can with her properties. Buyers of her Aurora Street properties did receive funding so they could put down the first payment on a mortgage. That meant the home’s price had to stay under a certain number.

“I didn’t do floors. I painted the subfloor for them,” Cosentini said. “They have to do that themselves. I’m fortunate the bank was amenable to doing the subfloors like that. They might say, ‘You need all your finishes, sweetheart.’”

Cosentini was salvaging materials off Craigslist to keep costs down.

“Most builders are going to have an aversion to that, because it sucks,” she said.

“You’ve got nails sticking out, cabinets not square. All kinds of [crap] like that.

Nobody likes to do that. But there’s stuff the university is tearing down that’s perfect.”

Whatever it takes, “cracking the code of affordabilty” is Cosentini’s goal with her co-housing developments.

“Someone with 80 percent of median income around here gets you a white graduate student,” Cosentini said. “Getting real diversity is really rocket science. That’s unfortunate because that’s where you get the vibrancy. I don’t want to create affluent ghettos. That’s no fun.”

The city has maybe a half-million dollars per year to spend directly on affordable housing development, from federal Housing and Urban Development grants.

Spots must be picked, Bohn said: “The difference between affordablity and market rate is probably in the area of $70,000 per unit. We work to try and leverage that as much as we can.”

Other tools the city and county might consider include zoning like New York’s 80/20 model, where a developer might get an extra story or two if they promise to add some affordable units, or inclusionary zoning, which just says that a developer must build those units.

The good of all this need for places to live that don’t burn holes in bank accounts?

That means people want to live here. It also means INHS has fulfilled its initial purpose when it began 36 years ago, which was to rehabilitate run-down homes downtown in an era of decline.

“He’s taken that organization over about 35 years,” Novarr said of Mazzarella.

“About the same length of time I’ve been in development. He’s taken it from rehabbing crappy houses downtown, to building apartment complexes. That’s pretty significant given it’s all done pretty much with funny money.”

“Our affordability problem is a consequence of we live in a very nice place,” Mazzarella said. “We’re fortunate to live in a community which has a strong economy and jobs are here, and people want to live here. That makes the price go up. We’re kind of like an island of prosperity in the middle of upstate New York.” • / M arch 1 8 - 2 4 , 2 0 1 5 9

who graduated 42, then 27. I was part of a good from Ithaca number of his wins, and I’m College last May, proud of that.” and started going I asked Colby—who now to Valesente’s works at Northeast Elementary camps and clinics School and is gearing up when he was 7 for another summer stint in years old. He the Pecos League, playing went to as many independent baseball in Texas, Coach Valesente gets His 1,000th Win camps and clinics how Valesente is able to put George Valesente (Photo: IC Photo Services) as possible, and such a quality product on

By Ste ve L aw re nc e then attended the field year after year, and hen you coach for 42 years, you York Maritime, and getting to 1,000 at his “Showcase” he said, “Coach Valesente is will see some milestones. Ithaca alma mater means even more. Valesente camps as a high-school player in search of very ‘old school’ in that he is very tough College baseball coach George got there last weekend, with a 2-0 win over a college. Colby landed at IC, had a stellar on players. He does not tolerate messing Valesente hit the magic 1,000-win milestone Spalding in Redlands, California, as the 4-year career, and said, “I thought about it around—players are dressed up before and three years ago—and that meant a lot—but Bombers wrapped up their spring trip. the other day, and in my freshman year, we after games—and since he likes players with the first 90 wins came during his coaching To get some insight from a player’s had 18 wins, then 30 as a sophomore, then a strong mentality, he runs a tight ship.” stops at Brockport, New Paltz and New perspective, I reached out to Colby Gee, Continuing with the nautical theme, Gee added, “If you’re not on board, you’re not even on the team, much less on the field. He puts players out there that are serious.”

Valesente was a three-sport star at Ithaca College in the mid ‘60s, and he “We saved three lives that day. chased his Major League dream for four years after that, getting as far as Triple When someone you love hears they have A ball. Since returning to South Hill in cancer, they’re going to be scared and 1979, George has guided the Bombers to frightened. The most important thing you can two national championships (1980 and do is make sure they don’t rush into treatment 1988), 10 World Series appearances, and 29 or surgery without getting more information.

NCAA post-season berths in all. His teams have never had a losing season and have I had young woman pregnant with twins who won nearly 70 percent of their games. The was told that she was going to lose her babies Bombers have captured 17 league titles and because of a cervical cancer. When she came two runners-up finishes during Valesente’s career. Ithaca has won 11 of the 13 Empire to see me, we did a more precise review of 8 titles. He has also guided 18 players to her biopsy, and determined she had cervical All-American status and, and mentored dysplasia, which is not a cancer. By spending 31 players who have signed professional just one day with us, we spared her a serious baseball contracts. surgery, and today when she comes back to Valesente’s right-hand man is also an see me, she brings her kids.” illustrious IC alumnus. Frank Fazio was a pit bull of a player at Ithaca College (he — Dr. Peter Frederick was Valesente’s teammate), and his sizzling Surgical Oncologist .488 batting average in 1965 is still the stuff of Bomber legend. The two also played basketball together, and in Fazio’s words, “Hung out a lot as friends.”

Given that Fazio signed on as Valesente’s assistant coach in 1979, and has held that position except for a five-year stint as the Ithaca High softball coach, I said, “So, Frank, you have been a part of a lot of those wins, eh?” “Faz,” in typically self-deprecating fashion, replied, “Yeah … maybe too many, if you ask him!”

I asked Fazio if Valesente is held in high regard around the college baseball world, and he said, “Oh yes. George was a Rules Committee member, he has traveled to South America, he has intereacted with some big-time coaches, and he was elected to the baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.” He added, “George is very highly respected, and deservingly so.”

Fazio appreciates the core values of the BEFORE THEY MAKE ANY SURGERY OR TREATMENT DECISIONS program and the resulting success, and said, “We have compassion for the kids, and we treat them fairly, but we have a ‘Do your job’ type of expectation. It’s about character, the JustOneDayWithUs.Org way you dress, the way you look, the way you discipline yourself … Not too many of these kids will play professional baseball, Please call 1.877.275.7724. Elaine Bauer and her team are here to assist. so we focus on the life skills that will serve them well. It’s not just about baseball.”

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When Photographs are Staged, Performed, Manipulated

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On top: Right half of Warriors, by Anthony Goicolea, On bottom: Left half of Warriors, by Anthony Goicolea (Photos: Provided)

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usan Sontag once wrote that, “to collect photographs is to collect the world.” Each photograph provides some insight into an instant in time, a moment in space in which existence lay before the camera lens. The shutter clicks, and we bear witness to our own reality, reproduced as a physical object (a photograph) as evidence of our lived experience.

But what happens when photographs are staged? What happens when we, as viewers, become divested from the notion of photographic objectivity, confronted by images that lay claim to their inherent fictitiousness?

“Staged, Performed, Manipulated” is a photographic exhibition currently hanging at Cornell’s Johnson Museum through June, and its title at least relieves its viewers of the need to question the subjective nature of each photograph. A group of works chosen from the Johnson’s permanent collection, the exhibit showcases fourteen contemporary artists, from Gregory Crewdson to Barbara Probst, each of whom challenges the boundary between reality and fiction, the act of perceiving versus what is actually perceived.

In fact, there are a multitude of lenses one can take when viewing the exhibition, from voyeurism (the act of looking and watching, often sexually) to studies of subculture and cinematic technique.

Case Study #1: Yo Mama’s Last Supper by Renée Cox

A woman, performed by Cox herself, poses as a nude Christ overseeing her disciples. It’s the Last Supper and her palms face upward, eyes focused on the heavens. The disciples look every which way, some eating while others exchange whispers. Their expressions range from concerned to conspiratorial. In the photograph, only Judas is of white descent.

The print is unapologetic and bold: a comment on over-sensationalized representations and the contrast between African American and Euro-centric depictions. The artwork is political, racial, and arguably feminist in its emphasis on Cox as Mother and as Christ. It’s a challenge to its viewers to both see and accept the scene before them, the proposition that traditional, European

representations of religion are not the only possibilities, and for Cox to stage a scene that reverses assumed roles of power.

All the while, the work addresses other issues as well, issues that concern not only Cox’s piece but “Staged, Performed, Manipulated” as a whole.

For one, there is the interplay between who is looking and what is seen, Cox’s nudity potentially deemed empowering or sexually dismissive depending on the observer, while all but one disciple diverts his eyes from any onlookers, victim to each viewer’s judgment. Meanwhile, there is the blatant fact that Yo Mama’s Last Supper is contradictorily both photographic and yet wholly fictional and staged, opposing the typical assumption of photography’s inherent link to reality. If to collect photographs is to collect the world, then like other art mediums this need’t imply that every photograph presents events exactly as they were, devoid of manipulation or stage direction.

Throughout this exhibition, we as viewers see people and objects that are, in fact, actual, captured by a machine, but like Magritte’s Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe), each person is not entirely as he or she appears. Rather they are all characters taking on their parts in stories that may or may not be real, existing somewhere out in this universe or the next.

Case Study #2: Warriors by Anthony Goicolea

A group of young boys, perhaps 11 to 14 years old, are ready to revolt. They cluster in a backyard, raucous and angered. Some rush forward, some carry weapons, and some stand still in idle enragement. There is no clue as to what prompted this uproar, but their eagerness for battle is apparent. Perhaps the boys are there to protect their neighborhood, or perhaps they are at summer camp taking in the vigor of their newfound independence, prepared to challenge their counselors. Whatever the case, there is an adolescent energy to the photograph, a rush of activity that distracts from the fact that, on second glimpse, one realizes how every face is the same. Every boy in the image is played by Goicolea, who himself was thirty at the time of the photograph, and yet each character projects

his youth and individual personality. The scene comes first: action captured in a still. The reality of the image, in all of its acting and digital manipulation, is secondary.

“Photography resonates with me because it manipulates our perception of the world around us,” James Casebere, one of the photographers in the show, said of his own work. “I am interested in photography as a means of persuasion, of propaganda and constructing histories. I am interested in how photography creates and reconstructs reality.”

In a visually inundated world, one intoxicated by the realistic falsehoods of advertisements and a constant stream of Internet memes and editing effects, it’s an acknowledged truth that even photographic images can be altered in some form. But as long as we are aware that the photographs are fictitious, then that brings a different circumstance than questions of legitimacy.

Our minds are free to wander and better accept what we see. The mental barrier is decimated and we enter into the space expecting deception, therefore able to immerse ourselves all the more into those images that confront us.

Case Study #3: Demons by Anneé Olofsson

A woman stands alone, her back turned to us against a backdrop of black night. Her body glows as if a car’s headlights are pointed at her, the blonde strands of her hair intensified in contrast to the utter darkness that surrounds her.

We are sucked into the black and into the crevices and long-deserted footprints populating the snow at her feet. There is an eeriness to the image, the temptation of wanting to absorb yourself in the narrative, and yet the fear of becoming too involved in this night that seems at once beautiful and yet dangerous in its beauty. The setting unearths a foreboding sense of anxiety, something unlikely to subside if we ever dare to uncover the bits of story that remain unknown to us, that perhaps we are not meant to know, about this woman and what brought her here. Our eyes are drawn to the snow and the realization that continued on page 17

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Cary Grant (L.) and Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (Photo: Wikipedia)

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he great thing about being a film fanatic is the fact you’ll never see every movie. That might sound like a negative, but it really isn’t. For instance, a few months ago I saw The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) on DVD at home, and when I heard that the new The Family Classics Picture Show was showing it at Cinemapolis in February, one of my Richard II peers and I were planning to attend—we’d heard that the first film in the series, Singin’ in the Rain (1952), had nearly sold out—but we were too tired.

This brings me to Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938). This is classic 1930s screwball comedy stuff, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a wacky dame and a leopard named Baby.

I’ve never seen Bringing Up Baby, but thanks to The Family Classics Picture Show, I’ll have my chance when it screens at 2 p.m. on March 22. Ithaca City School District teacher (and Cinemapolis board member) Allison Andersen spearheaded the series. (Andersen worked at the old Cinemapolis and Fall Creek Pictures when Lynne Cohen and Richard Szanyi owned them. For many years she noted my presence and sold me my concessions.)

She developed an educational series of similar screenings at Cinemapolis for the K-5 classes at Fall Creek Elementary, and decided to open up the notion for the community.

“Teachers can write grants for projects that would be too expensive to do in the schools, so I wanted to combine my need to teach children’s literature with my love of cinema. Most of the big themes are the same as the big themes in children’s literature: friendship and love and family.

But kids get it a lot easier if they see it in a movie.”

The result is a monthly series of kidtested film titles running through the year.

(I’m not certain how the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup teaches us all that much—see sidebar for the full schedule—but I’m not saying anything in gratitude for a new generation of boys and girls seeing one of the greatest anarchic comedies ever made.)

And each movie is introduced by actor and magician David Moreland (Frasier, Donnie Darko). The show includes custom enrichment guides to keep the discussion open. Best of all, the show offers discounted tickets: $3 for adults, $2 for kids, or $10 for a “family pass” of up to five people.

“We’re both parents,” said Moreland of Andersen. “And I get the idea that we both like to introduce our kids to classic movies at home. It’s not that they’re inherently better than new films, but they are great films that kids don’t get to see. And I get a little distressed when my girls come home from school and say, ‘Oh it was a snow day so we watched a movie.’ I’d say “What did you watch?’ and it was one of these movies from the last three years. I mean, that’s all kids see, over and over and over again.” • The Family Classics Picture Show March 22: Bringing Up Baby (1938) April 19: Duck Soup (1933) May 17: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) June 21: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) July 26: Shane (1953) Sept. 20: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Oct. 18: Oliver! (1968) Nov. 22: What’s Up, Doc? (1972)

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Going It Alone

Solo Play Festival coming to Kitchen Theatre

By Ros s Ha ars ta d

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ong-time patrons of the Kitchen Theatre will recall this alliterative phrase: “Kitchen Counter Culture sponsored by Foster Custom Kitchens.”

Each season the theatre would feature solo performers in their own works.

With the move to their new space, and the decision to have one overall season, these solo artists largely disappeared. But Artistic Director Rachel Lampert, a solo performer herself, always planned to bring them back.

Starting next week, theater-goers can sample four performers in three shows: Lorraine Rodriguez-Reyes kicks off the Solo Play Festival with Mami Confessions (March 25–29), followed by Darian Dauchan in his new play Black Sheep (April 1­–5), ending with a double-feature: Michelle Courtney Berry’s Mother Land and Ryan Hope Travis’s June 16 (April 8­–12). Performances are Wednesday through Saturday evenings with a closing matinee on Sundays. The festival is sponsored by PPM Homes.

Solo performance, as part of theater practices generally grouped as “performance art” has been a vital and cutting-edge trend on the national scene since at least the 1960s. Ranging from simple storytelling (Spalding Gray) to elaborate mixed-media efforts (Laurie Anderson), the common thread is a DIY ethos that allows artists (especially actors in this case) not to wait for the next rejection, but have work they possess, develop and tour.

Kitchen Theatre has featured a wide range of artists over time, including leaders of the field such as Tim Miller (Lay of the Land) and Deb Margolin (Index to Idioms, O Wholly Night). Brian Dykstra has developed work here that goes on to New York City and Los Angeles (Selling Out) and Alice Eve Cohen has brought her solo work as part of the regular season (the recent breathtaking What I Thought I Knew). KTC also served as a launch pad for Haitian-American poet-playwright Lenelle Moïse (Expatriate).

Mami Confessions, 2014 winner of THE ONE festival in New York tells “true stories of Mamihood, from the Dolor-itos to the Faja-bulous.” Inspired by the birth of her first child, RodriguezReyes collected mothers’ stories; the play channels the lives of fifteen women combined with her own experiences.

Rodriguez-Reyes received her MFA from Harvard’s A.R.T./Moscow Art Theatre Institute, has appeared Off-Broadway and in regional theaters, and on television (The Sopranos), as well as producing new work by other playwrights.

Dauchan is well known to Kitchen

audiences as an actor (The Brothers Size, The Whipping Man) and for previous solo shows (Entertainer’s Eulogy, Media Matters). His Death Boogie, A Hip Hop Poetry Musical, was the 2012 winner of two Edinburgh Fringe Festival Musical Theatre Matters Awards. Black Sheep is

theatrical exploration on those “who despite their skin don’t fit in with their own kin,” and brings such characters to life as “a drag queen standing up for herself on the subway, a Black cop making sense of his chosen profession, and a Black Republican reeling at the election of Barack Obama.” The show has been workshopped at the Kitchen and All for One in New York.

Travis landed on the Kitchen stage last season as Steven in the world premiere of Judy Tate’s magical Slashes of Light. Based in Syracuse, he said, “I am an actor. My ‘bread and butter’ is creating plays. This enables me to work as a performer and director. I am drawn to devised plays/ productions/movement pieces that come from the lived experiences of community members.” Travis serves as Director

of Syracuse University’s Community Theater Initiative. June 16 looks at the phenomenon of single-parent formation in the African American community.

Derived from interviews with nine fathers, it “is a journey of absence and hope.”

He’ll share the stage with local favorite Berry (Labor, The Month of Not Speaking, Breathe). Mother Land “is a richly-sewn quilt of stories and hilarious tales from her new memoir, Horizontal Parenting.

It features such life-altering events as interracial marriage, motherhood, elder care, a recent trip to Africa, and everything else in between.”

As a bonus, Saturday, March 28 at 2 p.m., you can catch another solo artist, Ithaca’s Leslyn McBean-Clairborne, in an encore performance of What Took You So Long? •

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Stage ‘Catch Me’ Less Dark

Tony Award Winner Comes to Ithaca High School

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show, said Meyerhoff, that poses questions about values, truth and greed.

“It’s pretty fascinating that it’s based on a true story,” Meyerhoff said. “What [Frank Abagnale] went through at such a young age!”

Last year’s Legally Blonde triumph has cemented Ithaca High School’s reputation for theater and vocal excellence. Given the directors’ extensive experience and the high caliber of student performers in Ithaca, it’s no surprise that the IHS shows are well worth seeing.

In a proof of just how theater-rich Ithaca is for young people, Emmy Bataille (ensemble) says her family recently moved to town just because of the great theater opportunities for her here.

She says that in addition to being more professional than she’s used to, the IHS production has been much more of a “family” experience.

A fun one too, said stage manager April Carroll.

“We’re a very goofy cast; at pretty much every rehearsal Cast of “Catch Me If You Can” at Ithaca High. (Photo: provided) there’s something we can laugh about”—which will translate into a lot of humor on stage. “Cheesy cop, con man, a phenomenal.” While on Broadway Catch little romance: serious points are always Me was nominated for four Tony Awards, including best musical. And in a nice local followed by comedic relief. It will be a fun experience for the entire family, from twist, two of the Broadway leads, Kerry adults to young kids.”

Butler and Aaron Tveit, graduated from The set, designed by Terry Perry Ithaca College. and built by Steve Brookhouse, puts the When Frank Abagnale Jr’s. (Christian orchestra on stage on a raised dais. “It Henry) parents, Frank Abagnale Sr. gives it a big band, jazz style,” said music (Honor Meyerhoff) and Paula Abagnale director Nathan Parker. “Like the old ‘20s (Keara Byron), break up, he discovers a and ‘30s orchestras.” world of make-believe is much more fun Brookhouse has been building the to live in than reality. He passes himself off tech program at IHS for the last two years, as whatever strikes his fancy, writing fake and the hard work and commitment from checks to pay his way—until Agent Carl the students in the program shows in the Hanratty (Jason Wang) gets on the case. fine details of the set and the ability to use Along the way Frank Jr. falls in love with extensive LED lighting to set the mood. nurse Brenda Strong (Jewell Payne), and Liz Woods’ costumes add another has to deal with her parents Carol (Lisa important element to the visual design.

Podulka) and Roger (Ben Salomon). But “Think of it as a Vegas show,” says Winans, will love or law will win the day? “with production number after production “Frank [Jr.] is a much more complex number when reality stops.” And all those character than I expected,” said Henry. numbers have matching costumes. • “He’s like everybody else, a kid with problems at home he wants to escape. But Catch Me If You Can runs one weekend the way he found to do it ends up putting only, March 20-22, March 20 and 21 at him on an emotional roller coaster.”

7:30 p.m.; March 22 at 2 p.m., in Ithaca Those who’ve seen the movie will High School’s Kulp Auditorium. Tickets are find the musical less dark, although it available at the door or on-line at www. still follows Abagnale’s real life and 1980 autobiography, with its tragedies as well as ihsdrama.ticketleap.com. Students and seniors $8, adults $12. its triumphs. There’s a moral fiber to the ver longed to escape your life and just become someone else — that successful doctor, perhaps, or a dashing airplane pilot? One young man did just that, and the story of his life is now the musical Catch Me If You Can, playing March 20-22 at Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium.

Director Robert Winans says he chose the show because the music is “absolutely

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Animal Instincts & Bunnies Cosmic Joke Collective at Lot 10

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he Cosmic Joke Collective, a monthly artist salon at Lot 10, has roots in New York City. It has been transplanted to Ithaca by a charismatic promoter named Mickie Quinn and celebrates its half-year anniversary Saturday, March 21, with a variety show at 7 p.m. that will feature a half-dozen performers. The theme, “Spirit Animal Instincts … and Bunnies” is as freewheeling and playful as the emcee, and past incarnations have included music, poetry, and puppetry. This installment will feature novelist Bob Proehl, and musicians Peter Glanville, Nick Gilbert, Jamie JonesRounds, Beverly Stokes with Brooks Miner, and Dan Aloi.

Quinn explained that the Cosmic Joke Collective abides by a single rule: that to become eligible to participate on stage, artists must attend—and love—a full performance. Performers then are given a time slot to curate their own performances, either solo or with collaborators and accompanying artists.

“It is a place where performers can bring works in progress, work out larger pieces,

or just follow their inspiration.”

Ithaca’s first Cosmic Joke Collective show in October 2014 featured curated sets from Hank Roberts, Michael Stark, Jennifer Middaugh, and Bronwen Exter; subsequent incarnations have included Anna Coogan, Mary Lorson, Jennie Lowe Stearns, and Gabe Tavares.

Quinn described the collective as a “family,” and though in Ithaca it is more a seedling than a big family tree, it has a long history and many now-famous participants. Alumni include Jesse Harris, Joseph Arthur, Jonathan Rice, and Jennifer O’Connor.

“People were perplexed how I would swing a first show and still stick to the rule,” Quinn said. “But there were so many Ithaca artists that had already performed it was really easy.”

Hank Roberts, who performed in October, wrote of the Cosmic Joke: “Despite all of the challenges of being a working musician, what an honor and a positive thing that it is to do: to work collectively on a creation that’s important for you and others, and then to bring it out

to share with the community. Watch this She added: “It would also be cool to collective grow and thrive.” do a cosmic joke at other events.” One Quinn emphasized that though the imagines that it would fit perfectly in collective will frequently feature first-time the Cabaret Hall at GrassRoots, or at the performers: “[I]t is not an open mic; it Ithaca Festival. is a performance collective.” She added, “But mostly I just hope that we will however: “By populating the stage with all continue to get a diversity of performers. sorts of acts, it avails a first-time performer Though it has historically been musicof an audience, without the necessity of centered, we have had poets, and we have the rigmarole of promoting a show.” even had puppets down in the city. We “You want to give everyone an opportunity … but you don’t want it to suck, and so having past performers vouch for future ones really help.” Quinn paused, and added: “Also the fact is that sets are only 15 minutes long.

So if something happens to be a terrible trainwreck, it is Members of Cosmic Joke Collective at Lot 10 (Photo: Provided) going to be over soon!”

Looking forward, Quinn hopes that have had dancers, comedians, and the the Cosmic Joke Collective will become variety fosters the spirit of inspiration.” • an essential part of a vibrant community.

“What I am hoping is that this year I am The next Cosmic Joke Collective will planting seeds, and collecting performers, be held Saturday, March 21, at Lot 10. The and folks are getting to know each other. show runs monthly from 7 to 9 p.m.

The hope is that in the next year we will see a lot more collaborative efforts.”

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There is a strong sense that much of this is autobiographical rather the poet making up a persona or series of personas to think, feel, and act out these dramas of a deeply-felt life. Whether that is true or not, it gives the work resonance.

Donnelly returns to some themes repeatedly: music, water, birds, mathematics, and (apparently) her mother.

“Darwin’s Finches” explores a mother’s passion for the evolution of finch beaks in the Galapagos. Donnelly conveys ambiguity effectively, at first being slightly derisive:

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This technique of looking at a document or a work of art and imagining the events recorded as if she were present is another recurring device. “The Dove House” uses Winslow Homer’s Cullercoats paintings as an inspiraton. “Three Poems”

documents a trip to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. “Reading Thomas Hardy” wishes that Jude the Obscure had ended differently. “The Goldberg Variations” meditates on Glenn Gould’s recording of the Bach piece. “Watershed” quotes the website of the environmental group, The Riverkeeper.

These aesthetic experiences are generally attached to memories, but sometimes they represent the poet simply diving into the art or the past or both.

In “Tuning A” Donnelly plunges into the mind of composer Robert Schumann, recreating a horrific vision he described in one of his letters.

He knew Schubert’s voice, back from the dead, or his unborn children, their lips unbuttoned, their thin arms swelling around him.

As can be seen in the above examples, Donnelly relies heavily on enjambment.

Often, when the language is mundane, she will break up the lines for dramatic effect: It was always dusk. It was always a long way to go.

Some of these poems are remarkably prosaic. They don’t rely on startling uses of arcane words, muscular rhythmic patterns, grotesquely striking imagery (although her fascination with blood-letting comes up repeatedly), or any other showy tricks so common among younger poets. Instead they rely on detailed observations or recollections that—when they work— seem real to the reader because they evoke one’s own memories of having made similar connections and associations about, for example, “Ways of Entering Water.”

Donnelly does not rely entirely on enjambment. “You Walk Into a Room” is essentially a prose poem with numbered paragraphs. It repeats the title several times, but not so often that it becomes an incantation, which would be a bit dramatic for this poet.

Donnelly is actually a bit frustrating on the subject of science, which she seems to look at as an outsider. She ascribes the evolution of finch beaks to climate change and changes in the scientific names simply to the constantly evolving nature of science. These are not the conclusions of a scientist or even a science enthusiast.

In the end of “Instructions for the Binoculars” her mother appears again, produces a book, and explains some bird behavior adroitly. Science as an emblem of power, exerted by a mother; this is the poetry of the emancipated. • Laura Donnelly will read from and sign copies of Watershed at Buffalo St. Books, March 25.

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there are two shadows against the white.

The blue strip of a shirtsleeve, a police badge partially obscured, reveals itself, barely visible against the woman’s side.

Fiction comes in many forms, some more surprising than others, and the mind is often at odds with itself, uncertain whether to accept or reject the images it perceives and the emotions those images trigger. When seeing a photograph in person, hung against a wall with its intense physicality, there is little impulse to mentally reject what you see, at least given that the photograph doesn’t appear overtly nonsensical. And so, regardless of fact or fiction, we become absorbed into the stories presented to us, the possibilities each image bears.

In fact, there is a filmic quality to the works in “Staged, Performed, Manipulated” that becomes apparent upon stepping into the gallery at the Johnson. On further thought, it’s easy to see why: because of the complex narratives each photograph suggests. Turn in one direction and you’ll see plastic toys hazily posed into scenes; turn another and you’ll witness a young girl with her back to a house in flames. Photographs are, after all, cinematic stills. Or, rather, film is composed of streams of photography moving before our eyes. Walking into the exhibition is like entering a movie theater, faced with a hallway of doors behind which varying experiences and outcomes

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i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Home On The Grange! featuring The Ambassadors of Sound | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Particle with Greenhouse Lounge | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Show at 9, doors open at 8.

3/19 Thursday

Jim Hull | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Hank Roberts | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | A jazz cellist and vocalist, Hank’s style is a mixture of rock, jazz, avant-garde, folk, and classical influences.

3/20 Friday

West Hill Billies | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Happy hour old-time music with Gary Graeff, Mikey Levy, Kal McMannis , Matt Noonan, and Jason

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Friday Happy Hour with Bendher | 6:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Cielle | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Soulful voice and acoustic guitar.

Casey Max | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Live Jazz.

The Pelotones | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Spirit Speaks | 6:00 PM- | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | A New Moon/Equinox celebration with Daniel Kaiya Shedd and Friends. We will begin with subtle music at 6:00pm. At around 7:00 p.m. we will open a chanting collaboration.

Join us with percussion introducing sacred chants for the room to share.

The Grey Wolf Band | 7:00 PM| Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St., Trumansburg | Salsa Night at The Dock | 8:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | 8 PM Lessons, 9:30 PM Dance Party.

The Cats | 9:30 PM-1:00 AM | The Log Cabin Inn, 8811 Main St, Campbell | Jon Kaplan | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Acoustic Indie.

3/21 Saturday

Steve Southworth & the Rockabilly Rays | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | The ultimate 50’s & 60’s tribute band.

Paul Kempkes “Dr. K” | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Solo guitar and vocals with attitude.

The Analogue Sons | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca |

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Cornell Contra Dance Club | 7:30 PM-11:00 PM | Risley Hall Dining Room, 535 Thurston Ave, Ithaca | CCDC presents a contra dance with the band Party of Three and caller Peter Styx.

7:30, Beginner Workshop; 8-11, Dance!

Michael MacDonald | 8:00 PM| Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St., Trumansburg | Pale Green Stars with Black Is Green | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Blind Spots | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Show at 9 p.m., doors open at 8.

The Falconers | 9:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Hailing from Binghamton, with influences ranging from Joni Mitchell to Foo Fighters and The Pixies.

The Better Barn Burning Bureau | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge, 139 W. State Street, Ithaca | A fun-loving, good time having, brothersister duo born from the depths of the Finger Lakes featuring J.P. and Meaghan Nawn. Backed up by local sweethearts, they draw inspiration from hand-picked, foot stompin’ cover songs.

Gadje | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Gypsy Rock.

3/22 Sunday

Casey Max Duet | 12:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | American Standards.

Rosie Newton, Steve Selin, Stefan Senders | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | MSZM | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Sunnyside Combo Vintage Jazz | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Oasis Dance Club,

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1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Gold Dust Lounge | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | From Miami with a brand of surf/spy, mod-exotica that will have you swimming through decades of cultural references.

Diana Leigh & Ed Clute | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Bound for Glory: Small Potatoes | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca | Yes, they were the guests on Bound for Glory’s 1000th live show. Rich and Jacquie, past winners of the Best of Bound for Glory award, and a very eclectic and charming duo. Lots of fun.

Please welcome them back, and come sing! They did a live albums at the show. smallpotatoesmusic.com .

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park

3/23 Monday

Diet Cig, Earl Boykins, You Still Have Friends, Eukalyptus x A Houseplant | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Angry Mom Records, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground.

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

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

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Christopher Gerard | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

The Evil City String Band - Special Fundraiser | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | The Evil City String Band plays the Chicken Fried Fundraiser for the Museum of the Earth!

Ed Clute | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | Join us every Tuesday for a lively performance from jazz piano virtuoso Ed Clute.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | concerts

3/18 Wednesday

Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo | 7:00 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Music by Hummel, Cervantes, Jobim, Simas, Machado, and Albéniz.

3/19 Thursday

CU Music: Midday Music at Lincoln | 12:30 PM- | Rm B20, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ithaca Flute Duo, Juliana May Pepinsky and Elizabeth Shuhan, withAndrea Merrill, piano Eric Ross Avant Trio | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Eric Ross will present works from his recent CD “Music from the Future.” Free and open to the public.

3/20 Friday

Cornell Concert Series: Ravi Coltrane Quartet | 8:00 PM- | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, , Ithaca | Grammy-nominated saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, son of the legendary John Coltrane, has matured into an artist at the height of a career built on his talent, not his name.

Wind Ensemble | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Stephen Peterson, conductor

3/21 Saturday

Centennial Sinatra | 7:30 PM| Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | Presented by Binghamton Philharmonic. Frank Sinatra would have been 100 years old in 2015. Reminiscent of the young Sinatra, Bobby Darin, and Harry Connick, Jr., Steve Lippia moves from crisp, popping swing tunes to lush, poignant ballads with ease.

CU Music: Cornell University Jazz Band | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite.

3/22 Sunday

Rick Pedro Ragtime Piano | 2:00 PM- | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Enjoy as local favorite Rick Pedro tickles the ivories with stimulating ragtime piano.

CU Music: Cornell Wind Symphony | 3:00 PM- | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | James Spinazzola, conductor. Part of “Cornell at 150;” music of Cornell composers, including Steve Reich, Steven Stucky, Karel Husa, and Roberto Sierra.

3/23 Monday

Jazz Jams | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | A Johnson City tradition. Jazz Jams are hosted by Al Hamme.

3/24 Tuesday

CU Music: Philip Thomas, piano | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Program: “Christian Wolff at 80,” including a new work by Wolff and birthday tributes from Howard Skempton and Michael

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Special events this week: (Preview Screening) Connie Cook: A Documentary | Visionary, reformer, and legislator Constance Cook was a Republican Assemblywoman who decriminalized abortion in New York State in 1970; Roe V Wade was based on her work. Tickets $10; benefit for Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes and the documentary. | 7:00 PM, 3/18 Wednesday.

Streets Alive! Film Festival | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/19 Thursday | There will be a door prize raffle, and the first 75 people will also get free popcorn.

Hosted by Bike Walk Tompkins, a new local initiative building a movement where all can enjoy the benefits of walking, biking and rolling for transportation and recreation.

Bringing Up Baby | The Family Classics Picture Show continues with the classic screwball comedy starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Discounted tickets for these special Sunday events. | 2:00 PM, 3/22 Sunday.

Continuing: Schedule starts Friday, March 20.

Visit www.cinemapolis.org for showtimes.

GETT: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem | Brother and sister team Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz complete their trilogy about Viviane Amsalem with an at times comical but especially oppressive court drama as she tries to obtain an official separation from her uncooperative husband Elisha after a long and unhappy marriage. | 115 mins NR | Leviathan | In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. | 140 mins R | Red Army | A documentary that tells the story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its captain, Slava Fetisov. | 76 mins PG | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | A hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny, and it’s making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina. | 122 mins PG | Still Alice | Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is

a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested. | 101 mins PG-13 | The Triplets of Belleville | When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him. | 78 mins PG-13 | What We Do in the Shadows | Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane - like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts. | 86 mins NR |

Five Uneasy Pieces

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Once part of the Treman Weeping Willow, a living heritage tree in the Newman Arboretum that succumbed to age in 2011, sculptor Jack Elliott reworked five segments. Exhibit runs through April 30 at the Cornell Plantations Nevin Center; artist reception, March 19, 7 p.m.

Visit cinema.cornell.edu for showtimes.

It for Others | Duncan Campbell won the 2014 Turner Prize from London’s Tate Gallery for his 54-minute “essay film” that uses dance, the IRA, Marxism and anthropomorphic ketchup dispensers to explore the value of art. With the short Bernadette. 3/18 Wednesday.

Dear White People | In supposedly post-racial-America, black students at the fictitious Ivy League Winchester University navigate the social and political implications of what it means to be black at an overwhelmingly white university, particularly on the heels of an incendiary “blackface” party thrown by white students. | 3/19 Thursday, 3/22 Sunday.

The Edge of Heaven | “Fatih Akin’s superb film about the eternal pull of family ... sets a tale of mothers and daughters, a father and a son against contemporary turmoil in Turkey and Germany.” | 3/23 Monday

dance groups, in the Kiplinger Theatre.

“Sensorial Extracts,” Thursday-Saturday; Impact Dance Troupe Performance, Sunday. In conjunction with LGDF will be a Hip Hop Symposium and film screening, listed elsewhere in the calendar.

Ithaca High School Spring Musical: Catch Me If You Can | 3/20-3/22 Friday-Sunday | Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Runs March 20-22; Fri-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm matinee. Based on the Steven Spielberg film. Get tickets at the door or on-line at www.ihsdrama. ticketleap.com.

DuffleBag Theatre’s Rumpelstiltskin | 11:00 AM & 2:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | The audience helps this professional troupe create the laughs.

Sesame Street Live: Make a New Friend | 3:00 PM & 6:30 PM, 3/24 Tuesday | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington Street, Binghamton | Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, and their Sesame Street friends welcome Chamki, Grover’s friend from India, to Sesame Street. Together, they explore the universal fun of friendship and celebrate cultural similarities, from singing and dancing to sharing cookies!

Flight of the Heart | 3/24-3/29 Tuesday-Sunday | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College, Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | Three Ithaca College choreographers with distinct styles delve into the light and darkness of the heart and explore where emotion lives in the body. 8:00

SCHWARTZ CENTER WAVE: A True Story In Hip Hop | 6:00 PM-, 3/20 Friday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Part of the Schwartz Film Forum. Held in conjunction with the Locally Grown Dance Festival.

Stage Locally Grown Dance Festival/ Hip Hop Symposium | 7:30 PM-, 3/19-3/22 Thursday-Sunday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | In its 5th year, LGDF features a variety of student and faculty work with pieces from several student

PM shows Tuesday and ThursdaySaturday; 2:00 PM matinees, Saturday & Sunday.

Meetings Town of Ithaca Town Council | 4:30 PM-, 3/23 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Note: meetings on the 2nd Monday of a month start at 5:30 p.m.; those on the 4th Monday start at 4:30 p.m.

City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 3/23 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 3/24 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Notices Ithaca Rotary Luncheon Series | 12:15 PM-, 3/18 Wednesday | Country Club of Ithaca, 189 Pleasant Grove Rd, Ithaca | The Ithaca Rotary Club gathers every Wednesday for luncheon meetings. The public is welcome to attend and learn more about Rotary.

This week’s topic and speaker: Cornell in Washington – Joel Malina, Cornell University Relations Vice President.

IC Geronotology Institute: GenSilent | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/18 Wednesday | Textor 102, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Free screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their friends, their spouses - their

entire lives in order to survive in the care system. Presented in partnership with the Ithaca College Center for LGBT Education, Outreach & Services.

Tompkins Learning Partners New Tutor Orientation | 3/19 Thursday | Tompkins Learning Partners seeks volunteer literacy tutors to meet on a weekly basis with adults needing help improving basic reading, writing, and math skills, and immigrants needing help learning English and preparing for the U.S. Citizenship Exam. Orientations for new tutors will be held in March and April at TLP. Please contact for dates; pre-registration is required as space is limited. To register, email Shannon Alvord TLPShannonA@gmail. com, or call 607-277-6442.

Namaste Montessori Open House | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 3/22 Sunday | Namaste Montessori School, 1872 Trumansburg Rd, Jacksonville | The Namaste Montessori School will be holding an Open House for our elementary school. For more information, visit http://www. namastemontessorischool.com/ Landlords Association of Tompkins County | 4:30 PM-, 3/23 Monday | Ramada Inn, N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | This month’s speaker will be City Court Judge Rick Wallace, discussing “The Five Mistakes Most Often Made in Court.”

Special Events Trumansburg Library Spring Book Sale Advance Notice | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Trumansburg Ulysses Philomathic Library will hold its Spring Book Sale April 16-21. Further details as the sale approaches.

United Way Benefit: “Hunger Hero” Competition | 6:00 PM-, 3/20 Friday | Collegetown Bagels, 203 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The 2nd Annual “Hunger Hero” Competition is sponsored by Collegetown Bagels (CTB) and Ithaca Bakery, at CTB’s N. Aurora St. location.

Mayor Svante Myrick will reprise his role as culinary judge. The winning sandwich will be added to the menu at CTB and Ithaca Bakery, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to United Way of Tompkins County (UWTC) to increase food security in our community.

Bacon on the Lakein | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Cayuga Lake Wine Trail | Involving all participating wineries. Join us for the first and original Finger Lakes Bacon event on

Getting Started with Vegetable Gardening

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CCE Education Center, March 23

Small Potatoes (Jacquie Manning and Rich Prezioso), past winners of the Best of Bound for Glory award and the guests on BfG’s 1000th live show, return this weekend.

THE class for the beginning vegetable gardener! Learn where to site your garden, how to prepare the soil, when and how to mulch, and more. Pre-registration strongly recommended.

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Book Fair for Caroline Elementary School | 10:00 AM-7:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Mention the Caroline Elementary School Book Fair when you’re making your purchases, and 10% of that sale will be donated to Caroline Elementary School.

Cornell Cinema’s 11th Annual Elegant Winter Party & Fundraiser | 8:00 PM-, 3/21 Saturday | WSH Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | A Black & White Ball to celebrate CU Cinema’s 45th anniversary, with food & drink courtesy of some of Ithaca’s finest dining & catering establishments, black & white film clips from classic gems, live music, and much more.

Exhale: A Teen Cabaret “Giving Voice to Dreams” | 1:00 PM-, 3/21 Saturday | Center Ithaca | A talented group of young teens will lift their voices to raise money for a scholarship so that talented young teens can have the opportunity to train their own singing voices. They hope to raise enough money to continue the scholarship, established with their 2013 cabaret, for teens who can’t afford the private lessons necessary to succeed as a vocalist. Admission free, but donations for attendance and baked goods will be requested.

Grand Opening 2300° | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Free & open to the public. Great food & drink, live music & glassmaking. Join us for a grand celebration of our new North Wing expansion. Free and open to the public.

Mac ‘n Cheese Bowl | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Ithaca High School Cafeteria, Ithaca | All proceeds benefit Foodnet Meals on Wheels home meal delivery. Advance tickets Adults $10, children 5-12, $8; available at Foodnet Meals on Wheels, 266-9553, Lansing Market, Wegman’s 607-266-9553. At the door: Adults $12, children 5-12 $10.

Statewide Maple Weekend, Arnot Forest | 8:00 AM-4:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Arnot Forest, Jackson Hollow Rd (Schuyler CR 13), Van Etten | Pancake breakfast, public tours, syrup tasting, and displays and demonstrations explaining new and old maple syruping technology. 1 mile north of NY Route 224 between Cayuta and Van Etten, NY. Information: call the Arnot Forest Sugarhouse at

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Benefit for Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance | 3:00 PM-, 3/22 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Temple Beth-El will host the Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus in a concert to benefit the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance, a leading organization of LGBTQ people and their allies in the heart of Israel’s capital.

Lenten Study of Incarceration | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 3/22 Sunday | St John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Five-part series including book study of “Locked Down, Locked Out” by Maya Schenwar. Held in the Chapman Room.

Richie Stearns Akwesasne Freedom School Benefit | 9:00 PM-, 3/22 Sunday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | All proceeds support the projects LACS (Lehman Alternative Community School) students will work on in May at the Freedom School in May; the school’s mission is to sustain the Mohawk language and culture.

Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts 4th Annual Pie-O-Rama | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/22 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | TCFA is again calling for the area’s skilled bakers to bring in their best and vie for a fabulous trophy plus a $100 cash prize. Limit of 20 entries.

Registration closes March 20, 5pm; pies must be delivered afternoon of March 22. Guest auctioneer Peggy Haine will auction off all pies; all proceeds to benefit TCFA. Rules and entry blank online at: http://tburgconservatory. org/2015/03/08/4th-annual-pie-orama-party-sunday-322/ and fees may be paid via Paypal; forms can be mailed or dropped off. TCFA will confirm entrants’ participation.

Museum of the Earth Fried Chicken/Tofu Fundraiser | 5:00 PM-, 3/24 Tuesday | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | From 5pm to 11pm (or until all the dinners sell out). For every chicken or tofu dinner sold, a $5 donation will go to the Museum of the Earth’s Rock the Future II campaign.

Health & Wellness Ongoing:

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30-7:30 PM, Tuesdays | Ithaca Community Recovery, W 518 Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Nicotine Anonymous is 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.

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Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Alcoholics Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Rd, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday, 9-11:30 a.m.

Appointments available Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30- 3:30 pm. Call 274-6604 to schedule an appointment or ask for further information.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday | Ithaca College, call for location | The group provides a casual and comfortable place for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder) to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, Wednesday | Multiple Locations | We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall, 5th floor lounge, Cornell University, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca

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Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM Wednesday| ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome.

Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers. Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 272-2433.

Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, Tuesday | 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions, 272-1505.

Walk-in Clinic | This group meets several times per week. | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited.

Yoga School Classes | This group meets several times per week at various locations--pre-registration required. | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca

Specific for This Week: Powerful Tools for Caregivers: Pre-Registration Notice | all day, 3/18 Wednesday | Tompkins County Office for the Aging, 214 W. Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | Powerful Tools for Caregivers is a free, six-week educational program designed to help family caregivers manage the stress and challenges of providing care for an elderly relative.

RAVI Coltrane Quartet

Bailey Hall, CU, March 20

Not “John Coltrane’s son,” saxophonist Ravi Coltrane is very much his own artist with a substantial career all his own. He brings his group to Ithaca as part of the Cornell Concert Series.

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Runs six weeks on Mondays, March 30-May 4, 5-6:30pm at the Tompkins County Office for the Aging. Early registration is required as class size is limited. Call David Stoyell at the Office for the Aging, 607-274-5492, to discuss the program or to register.

Memory Maker Project: Meet Me at the Movies | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/19 Thursday | WSKG, 601 Gates Rd, Vestal | The Memory Maker Project is a cultural access and advocacy project for people living with memory loss and their care partners. Short clips of classic films followed by lively discussions; light refreshments. RSVP by Mar. 12; 607-240-6204 or Christina@memorymakerproject.org.

The Listening Workshop | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Ithaca Community Childcare Center, 579 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Please register by emailing your name and phone number to the listeningworkshop@ gmail.com. You will walk away with a life altering skill that if practiced and applied, will shorten the time between conflict and resolution, build strong bonds of connection and intimacy and enhance performance and productivity in all areas of your life.

Monthly Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 3/24 Tuesday | 316 E Court St—enter Court St side, Ithaca | Participants are encouraged to bring a memento and/or a photograph to share. For information: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-2733063, or email petloss@gmail.com.

Nature & Science Ongoing:

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 9:00 AM- Saturday & 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. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Hike Series | 4:00 PM-, 3/24 Tuesday | Multiple Locations, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 2 to 3 hour hike every Tuesday in varying locations. For location details, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Specific for This Week: Cayuga Trails Club Tioga County Hike | 8:00 AM-, 3/21 Saturday |

Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 5 - 6 mile hike in Tioga County. Meet at 8:10 a.m., East Hill Plaza, Collegetown Bagels. For more information, call 585-975-9312 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

Lectures Finger Lakes Native Plant Society: Talk/Slide Show | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 3/18 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | Arieh Tal will speak on “From Coltsfoot to Aster: A Visual, Guided Tour of Our Native & Naturalized Sunflower Family Species.” This photographic presentation will lead you on an informative, colorful overview of some of the amazingly diverse, beautiful and intriguing Sunflower family species of northeastern North America.

2015 Hans Bethe Lecture: More Perfect than We Imagined | 7:30 PM-, 3/18 Wednesday | Rockefeller Hall, Cornell University, | William Bialek, John Archibald Wheeler/ Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton University, explores life’s “most beautiful phenomena” in a public lecture, “More Perfect than We Imagined: A Physicist’s View of Life.” The talk will be held in Schwartz Auditorium.

Bronfenbrenner Center Talks at Twelve: Helping Parents Help Their Teens | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 3/19 Thursday | Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Rd, Ithaca | Janis Whitlock, BCTR, will speak on “Helping Parents Help Their Teens: Lessons Learned from Parent Stress and Support from Research on Self-Injury and Families.” Beebe Hall conference room, Plantations. Open to all; lunch served.

See www.bctr.cornell.edu for info.

Reppy Institute Seminar: “Endgame in the Ukraine” | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 3/19 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell University, Ithaca | Brown bag luncheon. Speaker: Robert Skidelsky, A.D. White Professor at Large.

Visit http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/ Brake_seminar for more information.

Cornell English Dept. Lecture & Seminar: Derek Attridge | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 3/19 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave, Ithaca | Derek Attridge, University of York, will speak on “Character and Counterfocalization: Coetzee’s Kafkan Modernism.” From 10 a.m. to noon that day, there will be a seminar with him on “The Work of Literature” in the English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith

Hall. Refreshments served; please rsvp for the seminar by email: ser93@ cornell.edu CU Survey Research Institute Annual Speaker Series: Juan Miguel Lavista | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 3/20 Friday | Statler Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Microsoft data scientist Juan Miguel Lavista will talk about the power of big data and data science, myths surrounding big data and the problems and successes of data science. Free and open to the public.

Girls Explore: Dolls as Rolemodels | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Ms. Randy Allen, Senior Lecturer at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, will give a presentation on Girls Explore, the business she has founded.

School of Massage Lecture Series: Seven Herbs to Befriend | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 3/24 Tuesday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Tammi Sweet, co-director of Heartstone Herbal School, will talk about seven or so of her favorite herbal friends. This group of herbs is great for beginning herbalists and their families.

Learning Art Classes for Adults | all day | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Spring Writing Through The Rough Spots | all day, 3/18 Wednesday | | 10-week series; class times = Wed. 7-9 pm or Thurs. 10 am - noon or 7-9 pm.

See website or email schmidt.ellen@ gmail.com for more information.

Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Conquering the Interview | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/18 Wednesday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | How to research and prepare prior to an interview, what to expect during an interview, how to follow up after an interview, and how to avoid common problems. Pre-register at 272-7570.

Tompkins Workforce: Binoptics Meet the Employer Information Session | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/18 Wednesday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State

Exhibit: Tyopgraphies Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland

Artworks in various media by Cornell MFA alumnae Claudia Sbrissa and Lindsey Glover, through April 10. Ms. Sbrissa will visit for an artist’s talk, 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 25..

St, Ithaca | Binoptics Corporation manufactures laser components. A company representative will talke about the firm and answer questions.

Wine and Cheese pairing | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 3/18 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Delight your taste buds as you learn about pairing cheese and wine with Annemarie Morse, wine educator, writer and consultant.

Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Tompkins Workforce: Sector Series Information SessionsManufacturing | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/19 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This month will feature a panel of speakers who have local job openings in the Manufacturing Industry.

Panelists will represent entry level to advanced level positions, and share information regarding skills, education, certifications and experience necessary to obtain them. Free and open to the public. NOTE: because these sessions start at 9 a.m. and the library doesn’t open until 10 a.m., please use the side entrance door to the library by the bus stop.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/20 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. This is the same group that used to meet at Lifelong. Located down the hall from Ohm Electronics.

Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Civil Service | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 3/20 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Learn how to look up exam and vacancy information for various forms of government. Will look at the application process and provide an understanding of navigating the process. Pre-register at 272-7570.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Information SessionIthaca College | 9:00-11:00 AM, 3/20 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Hip Hop Symposium | 9:30 AM-4:30 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Held in conjunction with the Locally Grown Dance Festival.

Soapmaking 201--Beyond a Trace | 1:00 PM-6:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | 612 W State St, Ithaca | For people who have experience making cold process soap and/or have taken a basic soapmaking class. Class limited to 6

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ow in its fifth year, the Locally Grown Dance Festival, which runs Thursday March 19 through Sunday March 22 at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Cornell, has welcomed collaboration among college students, faculty, and community members from the greater Ithaca area. Directed by Senior Lecturer Byron Suber, a choreographer who casts a very wide net in his dance pieces, this year’s theme is “Sensorial Extracts,” and audiences should in Suber’s words “come to expect the unexpected.”

“With the festival people can find what they like, what they are used to,” said Suber, “but also perhaps come across something they didn’t expect and grow from it.” In addition to the longer choreographed pieces featured in “Sensorial Extracts,” which will commence at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the dance festival will also feature a day-long “Hip Hop Symposium” on Saturday March 21, and

participants; pre-registration required.

For questions and registration info, email Sharon at sharoney44@gmail. com or call/text 607-592-5575.

Washi Paper Gourd Vase Workshop | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | Get creative in this workshop and decorate a fully prepared gourd with colorful washi paper and other Asian-inspired embellishments. Fee includes all materials needed. Bring a pair of small sharp scissors if you have them. Please also bring a bag lunch or snack. Pre-registration required.

Yoga and Activism Speaker/ Audience Participation Event | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Join yoga practitioners and people committed to social and environmental activism to learn more about how yoga can inform activism.

Contact: Jennifer Karius <jenkarius@ gmail.com>.

Cooperative Extension Class: Getting Started with Vegetable Gardening | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 3/23 Monday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | THE class for the beginning vegetable gardener! Learn where to site

a performance by IMPACT Dance Troupe on Sunday, March 22.

Organizers Suber and Chu have curated a festival that features a variety of performances that include a slew of unique dance styles, movement, and choreography. Many of the movements featured in “Sensorial Extracts” were created by students, as are performances in the Hip Hop Symposium.

More than simply a collection of performances, the Locally Grown Dance Festival serves as a chance for the performers to demonstrate that dance is not just entertainment, but rather, “a different way of forming knowledge.” Suber also hopes audiences will appreciate the complex and experimental nature of the choreography LGDF Rehearsal (Photo: Provided) and recognize the talent and technical merit of and the Locally Grown Dance Festival the dancers on stage. will challenge audiences to rethink what With an intriguing, intense, and thought dance can do. provoking inspiration, “Sensorial Extracts,” • • •

your garden, how to prepare the soil, how to start seeds, how to plant, when and how to mulch, and which easy veggies to try first. Pre-registration recommended. Call 272-2292 for more information or registration.

Red Cross Trainings at the YMCA: CPR for the Professional Rescuer | 12:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/24 Tuesday | YMCA, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Course length 6 hours (2 sessions, 6-9 pm; must attend both). Ages 15 and up.

March 24/25 and April 11/12. For information contact Ryan Allen at ylifeguard@ithacaymca.com.

Two-Part Series: “Exodus and the Conquest of the Land” | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 3/15 Sunday | Congregation Tikkun v’Or, 2550 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | The classes will compare the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and their arrival in Canaan with archaeological evidence; both will examine the relationship between history and tradition. Open to the public. For more information, contact info@tikkunvor.org.

Art Artist Reception for “Five Uneasy Pieces: Reworking the Treman

Willow” | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/19 Thursday | Free and open to the public; light refreshments provided. Exhibit runs through April 30. Nevin Center hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m., TuesdaySaturday. For information call 607-2552400.

Dual Opening at Handwerker: As They Saw It & Taxing Times | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/19 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | As They Saw It: The Easby Collection of Pre-Columbian Art; Taxing Times: work by Elise Engler.

Michael Sampson: Paintings and Prints | all day | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Runs through March 31st.

Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland: Topographies | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM | Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland | Features works by Ithaca artist Lindsey Glover and NYC-based artist Claudia Sbrissa. On view March 2-April 10, 2015.

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Green St, Ithaca | For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or 607-272-4557 ext. 274.

Sciencenter: NanoDays in Ithaca! | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/21 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Free admission to the Sciencenter ALL day!

Enjoy 20+ special hands-on activities, and participate in family-friendly presentations: Science Together at 10:30 am, Super Small Story Time at 12 pm, and a special Showtime! at 2 pm.

Easter Bunny at the Ithaca Mall | all day, 3/21 Saturday | The Shops at Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Road, Ithaca | The Easter Bunny arrives at the Ithaca Mall Saturday, March 21st at 11 a.m., and will be hanging out daily through April 4th during mall hours. While there, guests can also help a U.S. child in need by making a donation to Save the Children.

Sciencenter Showtime! Seeing the Super Small | 2:00 PM-, 3/21 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Learn how scientists and engineers use special microscopes to image things that are too small for our eyes to see.

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

Ongoing: Sciencenter Winter/Spring Exhibition: “TreeHouses” | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/18 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Explore an indoor tree house while you look, listen, and smell for signs of animal tree dwellers.

Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273-8364.

CircusYoga Workshop/Camp Registration | all day, 3/18 Wednesday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts| TCFA is excited to welcome CircusYoga back for a special engagement Monday thru Wednesday, March 30-April 1. Open to kids ages 7 to 14. Contact TCFA for cost.

Registration closes March 25.

Art Classes for Kids | | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org.

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T’burg Conservatory, March 22

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The area’s skilled bakers vie for a fabulous trophy and cash prize. Guest auctioneer Peggy Haine will auction off all pies not completely devoured, with all proceeds to benefit TCFA.

Eric Ross will present works from his recent CD “Music from the Future.” Free and open to the public.

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Also at Cornell, the saxophonist Ravi Coltrane will bring his quartet to Bailey Hall Friday, March 20. Just shy of 50 years old, the son of John and Alice Coltrane reminded everyone of the greatness associated with his surname with his last release, Spirit Fiction, a 2012 record with Blue Note.

• • • The very likeable local drummer Jeff Tripoli has served as the spine for a diverse group of bands—from the R&B Free Booty Ensemble to the old-time-oriented Blue Sky Mission Club—but Pale Green Stars, which is a trio that takes to the Dock this Saturday, March 21 for a show with Black is Green, is a rockabilly upbeat feel-good group.

“I’m into Americana music,” Tripoli said. “Zydeco, a lot of stuff like Little Feat, The Band, and heavier stuff as well. The reason I’m a drummer today is because of Nirvana.”

Black is Green, the opener (set at 10 p.m.) is more experimental, a swirling mass of music that will make you swoon.

Also Saturday, the Blind Spots will return from their tour of the Southern Tier with a show at the Haunt. The Danbees, a catchy three-piece with roots at Ithaca College, will open.

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Wethersfield, CT needs 5 temporary workers 4/1/2015 to 12/15/2015, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period $11.26 per hour. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020.

Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #4559244.

One month’s experience and working knowledge of the following areas and work unsupervised after directions Operate tillage equipment, tractor style harvester and forklift. Operate, set up and take down irrigation equipment. Apply chemicals under supervision. Stack sod on pallets, repair pallets. Identify and report problems with equipment, verbally and in writing to shop. Perform simple maintenance Driver’s License is Required.

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTOMOTIVE 435/Health Care

AUTOS WANTED/120 ACTIVITIES

Cash for Cars Any Car/Truck,Running or not! Top Dollar Paid.We Come To ASSISTANT You! Call for Instant Offer FT & PT POSITIONS: Seeking 1-888-420-3808 individuals to assist in the planning, www.cash4car.com scheduling, coordinating & conducting of (AANCAN) the activities program for our residents.

Creative personalities who have an interest in cooking, music, & more are desired. HSD or GED required plus 3 months experience in LTC, recreation or education preferred.

Apply in person or Boat Docking send resume w/ cover letter to:toHuman $600 Season.

Next Resources,Kelly’s GCHCC, Inc. 120 Sykes Dockside Cafe St., Groton, 607-342-0626 NY 13073 EOE Tom

BOATS/130

CARS/140

HOME HEALTH AIDE

2001 VOLVO V70 WAGON, Part-time, 24 hours/week, 4:00pm- 149K. $4,500/obo 10:00pm; Tuesday, Wednesday and 216-2314 every other weekend. Must have current NYS certification as a Home Health Aide. Must be able to push, pull, lift and transfer residents weighing up to 250 pounds. Good organization, time management and communication skills are essential. Current certification in CPR, First Aid and CNA are desirable. Supports activities of daily living by providing hands on care to residents including but not limited to bathing, dressing, toileting, meal preparation, light housekeeping, transportation and medication assistance as directed in the individual plan of care.

Submit resume and application form.

Applications accepted until position is filled. Apply: www.kai.kendal.org or at Kendal at Ithaca reception desk, 2230 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY or at Workforce Development Center, 171 Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. EOE

SENIOR CAREGIVER

Privately hired caregiver/companion.

Over 30 years experience! 607.761.6187

510/Adoption Services PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. (AAN CAN) 2008 SuzukiAWD hatchback. Loaded with extras including cruise control. Very good condition. $10,100.

607-229-9037 A dream is a wish your heart makes, Stock #11077E 2010 Honda Accord our wish EX, is a baby love. We’re lov-miles Coupe Auto,toBlack, 33,001 ing, educated, close family. Expenses $16,997 Certified paid.Stock Danny/Lorraine 1-866-997-7171 #11033 2012 Honda Civic (NYSCAN) Hybrid CVT, Silver, 26,565 miles, $17,997 Certified ADOPTION:A childless young mar#11171E Honda Insight riedStock couple, hands 2010 on mom/devoted EX, CVT, white, 35,224 miles, $14,997 dad (she - 30/he -37) seeks to adopt.

Certified Financial security,2010 expenses paid.

Call/ Stock #11124E Mazda 3 Wagon text.

MaryBlue, & Adam.

1-800-790-5260 6-speed, 44,329 miles, $14,997 (NYSCAN) Stock #11168E 2012 Mazda 2 Hatchback Auto, Red, 32,427 miles #12,997 Honda of Ithaca 315 Elmira Road Ithaca, NY 14850 www.hondaofithaca.com

Stop in and play one today!

GARAGE SALES/245

the place that’s right for you with Conifer.

Linderman Creek 269-1000, Cayuga View 269-1000, The Meadows 2571861, Poets Landing 288-4165

ANTIQUESCOLLECTABLES/205 630/Commercial / CASH for Coins!

Buying ALL Gold & SilOffices ver. Also Stamps & Paper Money, Entire

Collections, Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NYC 1-800-959-3419 PRIME LOCATION (NYSCAN) DOWNTOWN ITHACA WATERFRONT Across from Island Health & Fitness.

3000 Square Foot + Deck & Dock. Parking Plus Garage Entry. Please Call Tom 607-342-0626 U-Pick

FARM & GARDEN/230

Organically Grown Blueberries $1.60 lb. Open 7 days a week. Dawn-toDusk. Easy to pick high bush berries.

Tons of quality fruit! 3455 Chubb Hollow road Pen n Yan. LAND FOR RENT 607-368-7151 Hay or Pasture. Danby. 60 acres. $1500/ year. 607-272-4576

660/Misc.

PIANOS

• Rebuilt • Reconditioned • Bought• Sold • Moved • Tuned • Rented

Complete rebuilding services.

No job too big or too small.

Call us.

Ithaca Piano Rebuilders DeWitt Mall

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700/Roommates

520/Adoptions Wanted

BUY SELL TRADE You’re Sure to Find

(607) 272-6547 950 Danby Rd., Suite 26

South Hill Business Campus, Ithaca, NY

MUSICAL/260 Ultimate

Taylor 518e NEW FOR 2013 / 1060/Mortgage natural finished non-cutaway Grand

BUY SELL

TheThe Cats Shops Athletics in Featuring Jeff Howell

Orchestra with premium grade tropical mahogany back and sides, Sitka spruce bridge, 500 top, ebony fretboard and Partner.

Your Homeownership Theappointments include black/white/black State of NY Mortgage Agency offers up multi-binding, abalone sound hole to $15,000 down payment assistance.rosette, pearl inlaid diamond position www,sonyma.org.

1-800-382-HOME markers and headstock ornament, gold (4663) (NYSCAN) Schaller tuning machines. Expression system electronics, w/HSC list: $3518 yours: $2649 IGW 272-2602

Garage/Yard Sale at 6056 West Seneca Rd. Trumansburg; follow detour.

Household goods, furniture, misc. No clothes. Sat. August 4th from 9:00-2:00.

Taylor 712 12-Fret NEW

glossy vintage sunburst stika spruce top and natural finish rosewood back and sides grand concert size, ebony bridge and fingerboard with ivroid inlaid “heritage” fretboard markers with 12 frets clear of the body, slot peghead with w/HSC, list: $3378, Yours: $2549 IGW 272-2602 VIOLINS FOR SALE: European, old and new, reasonable prices, 607-277-1516.

Andre and Ulrika Groszyk Farm Enfield. CT

MUSICIANS/350

Friday, August 2, 2013 The Log Cabin 8811 Main St. Campbell, NY 9:00pm - 1:00am

on Wednesday, March 25th at 2pm Ultimate Athletics in The Shops at Ithaca Mall

ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roomate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates .com! (AAN CAN)

610/Apartments

WASHER & DRYER STACK $1000 (Etna Rd) Just over a year old still new, use once aNY week, guarantee until Feb, UPSTATE WATERFRONT! 11 acres $900 or closest offer. Cal Hilda - $69,900 Beautiful woods on bass lake 607-220-7730 5 miles to Cooperstown! Private setting for camp, cabin or year round home!

Terms avail! 888-479-3394 NewYorkLandandLakes.com (NYSCAN)

Finance Speaks Lift Off for Autism

AUTOMOTIVE

New Arrivals from A truckload of Telecasters, Tube Amps and New Strats with the “Shawbucker” pick up, unrivaled in tone and quality!

OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND. Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800638-2102. Online reservations: www. holidayoc.com (NYSCAN)

on Wednesday, March 25th at 2pm EMPLOYMENT BUY SELL COMMUNITY Ultimate Athletics Lift Off for Autism Speaks in The Shops at Ithaca Mall Wednesday, March 25th at 2pm

jeffhowell.org Cool Tunes Records

LOST AND FOUND/360 LOST Prescription Sunglasses LOST around 7/22. Fossil Frames, brown lenses. Probably lost between Trumansburg and Ithaca. Mark (607)227.9132

needs 3 temporary workers 8/5/13 to 12/ 1/13, work tools, supplies equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days ro 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $10.91 per hr. Applicants to apply contact Ct Department of Labor at 860-2636020 or apply for the job at nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #4559149.

Must be able to perform and have prior experience i following duties: Plant, cultivate and harvest broadleaf tobacco.

Use hand tools such as but not limited to shovels, hoes, knives, hatchets and ladders. Duties may include but are not limited to applying fertilizer, transplanting, weeding, topping tobacco plants, applying sucker control, cutting, hooking, stripping, packing and handling harvested tobacco. May participate in irrigation activities, repair farm buildings.

Must be able to climb and work at heights up to 20 ft. in the tobacco barn for the purpose of hanging tobacco lath weighing up to 50lbs. 2 months experience required in duties listed.

at Ithaca Mall

825/Financial Support Dr. Scott Noren as he challenges himself to Childrenʼs Choir Support Dr. Scott Noren as he challenges himself PETS/270 clean and jerk lifts to raise money for Autism Speaks Director (Ithaca, NY) to clean and jerk lifts to raise money for Autism Speaks.

The picture above isFor his Sale daughter, Rachael!

BOXER PUPPIES MERCHANDISE/250 CHURCH CHOIR DIRECTOR FOR Registered, Vet checked, 1st shots and

LARGE DOWNSIZING SALE. Something for Everyone. August 2 and August 3 8am-5pm, 2 Eagleshead Road, Ellis FREENY BANKRUPTCY Hollow, Ithaca, 14850 CONSULTATION Real Estate, Uncontested Divorces. Child Custody. Law Office of Jeff Coleman and Anna J. Smith (607)277-1916 BARREL TABLE Four Swivel Chairs in Green leather. Vet nice condition. $275.00 564-3662 Four Classic Seasonsweed whackHomelite HLT-15 Landscaping er, new never used. $60. Inc. 607.272.1504 216-2314 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, RED MAX WEED WHACKER used very patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landlittle. $50.00 scape design + 387-9327 installation. Drainage.

Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find SAWMILLS from only $4897.00 us on Facebook!

MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill-cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info/DVD: 1-800-578-1363 ext. 300N THINKING SOLAR? www.NorwoodSawmills.com Call us for a FREE solar assessment.

(NYSCAN) Paradise Energy Solutions 100 Grange Sofa Double,NY green plaid. $150.

Place,Bed Cortland, 877-679-1753 257-3997

EMPLOYMENT

The picture above is his daughter, Rachael!

Support Dr. Scott Noren as he challenges himself to moreto information to donate,for visit: Autism Speaks clean and jerkForlifts raise ormoney GENERAL/430 http://bit.ly/18w0qWS The picture COMMUNITY above is his daughter, Rachael!

wormed. Need loving home, very beauFor more information or to donate, visit tiful. Parents on property. $450/obo.

607-657-8144 830/Home http://bit.ly/18w0qWS

STUFF 855/Misc.

Only small kitchen appliances; 1 LazyBoy recliner and anything else you can AUTO INSURANCE STARTING AT $25/ think of. I might have what you want.

MONTH! Call 855-977-9537 (AAN CAN) Mostly new, no junk.

Call for list: 607-273-4444

$$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income@ Assembling CD cases from Home!

No Experience Necessary! Call our LIve Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 http://www.easywork-greatpay.com (AANCAN)

CHILDREN--The First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca is seeking a director for its Children’s (K--5th grade) Choirs. He or she will prepare students to sing in worship on a regular basis. Submit a resume of qualifications and experience and a list of three references electronically at office@firstpresithaca.org or by mail to Children’s Choir Director Search, First Presbyterian Church Ithaca, 315 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

Ithaca Autism Speaks Fundraiser Lift OFF ACTIVITIES/310 www.facebook.com/events/770378553047188 Coaches

For more information or to donate, visit http://bit.ly/18w0qWS Cayuga Lake Triathlon Sunday 8/4/2013

The Cayuga Lake Triathlon will take place at Taughannock Falls State Park on Sunday, 8/4/13. Cyclists will be on NY89 from Taughannock Falls State Park to Co. Rd. 139 in Sheldrake. There will be a temporary detour on NY89 between Gorge Road and Savercool Road form 7am to approximately 12pm while the triathlon is in progress. Please consider choosing alternate routes. Spectators are always welcome to come enjoy the triathlon or register to volunteer!

For more details on the Cayuga Lake Triathlon. visit: http:// www.ithacatriathlonclub.org/cltrace/.

AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Technician training. Financial aid for qualified students - Housing available.

Job placement assistance. Call AIM 866-296-7093 (NYSCAN)

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for Newfield Central School. Looking for Asst. Football, Varsity and JV Volleyball coaches for upcoming sports seasons.

Apply on website at http:// www.newfieldschools.org/node/72 by 8/16/13.

EARN $500 A DAY Airbrush & Media Makeup Artists For: Ads-TV-Film-Fashion. Train & Build Portfolio in 1 week.

Lower Tuition for 2013. www.AwardMakeupSchool.com (AAN CAN)

NEW LatiNo SpEciaLtiES

1040/Land for Sale COOPERSTOWN LAND SALE! 5 ACRES -$24,900 5 mins to Village. Gorgeous wooded setting, priced at 60% BELOW MARKET! Town rd, utils, ez terms!

888-905-8847 or newyorklandandlakes. com (NYSCAN)

NEED AFFORDABLE LAND

for a Home, Recreation or Agriculture?

Buy or Lease only what you need!

(607)533-3553

FOUND antiques • vintage • unusual objects

spring Sale 20% Off

Large Cheese Pizza $5.00 + tax Mon, Tue & Wed. ALL DAY Pick up or Eat in only

227 Cherry St. 607-319-5078 foundinithaca.com

Open every day 10-6, except Tues.

Pick up or Eat in only

607-272-6262 • fax: 607-272-6255

607-272-6262 • fax: 607-272-6255

2 Medium Cheese Pizzas $10.00 + tax

Cheese Sheet Pizza 32 Slices $10.00 + tax

everything!

Saturday 3/21 + Sunday 3/22

Large 2 Topping Pizza $10.00 + tax

Pick up or Eat in only

Pick up or Eat in only

607-272-6262 • fax: 607-272-6255

607-272-6262 • fax: 607-272-6255

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Housekeeping*Windows*Awnings*Floors

Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

High Dusting*Carpets*Building Maintenance

Same Day Service Available

24/7 EMERGENCY CLEANING Services

John’s Tailor Shop

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4 Seasons

Beginner Classes in

Landscaping Inc.

Ithaca’s largest and best paying Taxi Co.

Middle Eastern (Belly Dance)

has Driver positions available!

& Romani Dances (Gypsy)

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Up to $13/hr earnings potential

607-272-1504 lawn maintenance spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning

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Professional Oriental Dancer

patios, retaining walls, + walkways

We also offer benefits as well!

Call or E-Mail to Register

Call Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm

landscape design + installation

607-351-0640, june@twcny.rr.com

(607)277-2842

drainage

www.moonlightdancer.com

www.ithacataxi.biz

snow removal dumpster rentals

* BUYING RECORDS *

Ithaca’s Friendly local Game Store

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES

Board Games, Geek Collectibles,

PUNK REGGAE ETC

Educational games for Kids

Angry Mom Records

The Enchanted Badger

(Autumn Leaves Basement)

335 Elmira Rd. Ithaca

Find us on Facebook!

AAM

319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

ALL ABOUT MACS

Enjoy yoga & healing massage!

Macintosh Consulting

THE ART OF RELAXATION

LIGHTLINK HOTSPOTS

John Serferlis - Tailor 102 The Commons 273-3192

MOBIL COMPLETE OIL CHANGE only $24.99 with Greenback Coupon Mobil 1 Lube Express 348 Elmira Road 607-273-2937

OLD MADE NEW Restoring your old house? We can help www.HistoricIthaca.org

Protect Your Home with a Camera Surveillance System Les @ 607-272-9175 SUNDAY FUNDAY with Hilby the

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Skinny German Juggle Boy

hotspots@lighlink.com

Sunday, March 29 @2 pm

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Saturday, March 21 1-3pm $38

(607) 280-4729

MIGHTY YOGA

Load it Up

(Plain St) $5 per person @ the door

www.mightyyoga.com 607-272-0682

Any large Pizza with

Sponsored by Hoopla Buttons.com

Immaculate Conception School Gym

up to 4 toppings + cheese

Affordable Acupuncture

Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows

Only $11.99 Save $6.00 with

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range of human ailments

South Seneca Vinyl

Papa Johns

Paradise Energy Solutions

315-585-6050, 866-585-6050

Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture

Love dogs?

100 Grange Place, Cortland, NY 877-679-1753

Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A.

Half OFF

Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

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NYS Auto Inspection

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care!

We Buy, Sell, & Trade

with Greenback Coupon

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Black Cat Antiques

at Monro Muffler/Brake

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