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Harm Reduction

Floral rebuild

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Prevention L aw Enforcement

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Looking back

Michael Boyd abstracts at Cornell PAGE 19

Bachelorette Number 3

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra hosts conductor try-out PAGE 22

Cliff Notes

A Four Pillar Plan

Bard

The mayor’s bold drug policy explained

abridged Shakespeare for ADD crowd

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Presidental Campaign

Ithaca City Schools

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About 50 people were in attendance for the event, which served as an opportunity for Secretary Clinton’s supporters to sign up to work the phones and pound the pavement for their candidate.

“We’ve never had in modern American history a candidate more qualified for this office,” Mayor Svante Myrick said of Clinton.

Myrick praised Clinton for being a progressive who went from Yale to Arkansas, and someone who has already spent “eight years in the crucible that is the White House.”

“She’s always been pulling this country left,” Myrick said. “It’s easy to judge by the standards of today what she did in 1994, in 1992, but she’s always been pulling left.”

Myrick said Clinton has prioritized stumping for “candidates she knew very little about” throughout her career because she knows “to make change in this country, you have to make power at the local level, at the state level, at the federal level.”

Irene Stein, chair of the county Democrats, said the “essential question” to ask was “is our candidate electable?”

“Bernie Sanders is excellent. We all know it. I certainly believe it. But we can’t take a risk now,” Stein said. “This woman is inspirational in her strength. In her youth as a lawyer she was accused of corrupt deals that were investigated. No such thing. She was accused as the cause of her husband’s infidelities. Come on. She has weathered storm after storm.”

Other speakers on the evening included Elie Kirshner, who last fall campaigned for a seat in the county legislature, and county legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden).

Clinton has the “most sophisticated plan to rein in the kind of risky behavior that led to the collapse of 2008,” Kirshner said. “She’s not Wall Street’s president. She’s our president.”

Supporters of favored Clinton seem to have an uphill fight in Tompkins County. An analysis of fundraising by zip code posted by crowdpac.com on Feb. 24 found that campaign donors in 14850 had the second-largest skew toward Sanders nationwide, behind only the Mission District of San Francisco.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

in their first communication about the results: the pipes hadn’t been flushed properly, and the initial August samples were of water that had been sitting over the summer months.

“We were pretty sure going in there with proper flushing, the problem wasn’t going to be worse than it already is. That wasn’t the case,” Withey said. “We flushed and flushed and flushed, so we knew the water (we tested) was coming from the water tank.”

Withey said W20 shut off the water intake around 10 p.m. the night before testing so the water could sit for about six hours before they started taking 1-liter samples early in the morning.

When the results from the W20 testing of Feb. 5 were released, over 40

tudents at all Ithaca City schools are drinking their water from bottles and coolers until the district can ensure that its buildings’ faucets and fountains aren’t adding too much lead or any other environmental contaminant to the drinking water supply.

In a letter sent Feb. 24 to school staff and families in the district, Superintendent Luvelle Brown said that drinking water sources had been shut off at all schools, and the district had hired a civil engineer to audit infrastructure at Caroline and Enfield elementary schools.

The action was taken after several weeks of accumulating revelations about lead levels in drinking water samples at the two schools. Routine testing last August found a number of Luvelle Brown, superintendent of Ithaca schools lead levels above (File photo) the federal “action level” of 15 parts per billion; a second test performed in January of the 90-plus sources tested at Caroline were above the 15 ppb (parts per billion) and released at the same time as the standard, with the highest 5,000 ppb in a August results found much lower levels in bathroom sink in the music room and 15 the same sources. sources at 100 ppb or more. At Enfield, 11 Many district parents demanded of the 65 points tested were above action more information, so ICSD retained level, with the highest 640 ppb in the W20 Operators of Cortland to do a more boiler room. comprehensive battery of tests on the The piping in most of both buildings, water at Caroline and Enfield.

Before testing, Doug Withey, principal Withey said, is most likely copper with of W20, had the same assumption as continued on page 4 the one the district shared with parents

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▶ LEGO Library, This spring, the Tompkins County Public Library will celebrate those successes and unveil plans for a 21st Century library with thousands of actual building blocks.

Library staff, patrons and community organizations are being asked to work together to create a 6-foot by 6-foot LEGO® model of the newly reimagined TCPL, featuring a soon-tobe-constructed teen center and a 21st Century Learning Lab, from nearly 100,000 colorful LEGO bricks.

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For more information, contact Tompkins County Public Library Foundation Executive Director Suzanne Smith Jablonski at (607) 2724557 extension 231 or ssmithjablonski@tcpl. org.

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Creating Jobs With Car Dealerships

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Who Will be your choice in the presidentary primary?

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hil Maguire’s proposal to put a new dealership in the long empty Carpenter Business Park between Route 13 and the waterfront of the Cayuga Inlet will go before the Common Council on April 13. He has already brought the proposal to the city planning board, where he felt he got a favorable reception and several good suggestions as to how to improve his project.

In the course of preparing his proposal for the city Maguire sought help from Tompkins County Area Development (TCAD). He used his own records to calculate the number of jobs his new facility would create and how much revenue it would generate.

Heather McDaniel, TCAD vice president and Director of Economic Development Services, said that her office has software called InPlan that has access to databases and algorithms that can, fore example, calculate “indirect” and “induced” job creation.

“When you create jobs in a particular industry,” said McDaniel, “that drives a need for commercial services; people need to go shopping and buy gas. There are multipliers.” For Maguire, who runs a retail automotive business, the multiplier is 1.25. So, if Maguire states that he will create 57 new jobs, then the multiplier effect will produce 71 combined direct and indirect jobs during the three years following the establishment of the new dealership.

McDaniel said that any of the construction jobs that are created only during the building of the dealership are not counted in the above analysis.

Maguire said his numbers were basically a forecast. “We looked our current revenue and traffic counts [people visiting the showrooms],” said Maguire, “and extrapolate from what we know and have.”

The car dealer said that he has been feeling the need to expand for a number of years. Maguire has outgrown all of its locations, he said, and has been trying to expand. The family business purchased the Carpenter Business Park last year and made sure that they got approval for the use they intended.

At that time it had been zoned as industrial. The city, in keeping with its plan to gradually adopt form-based zoning, has since decided to re-zone it for mixed uses.

The business park is part of two areas that were the focus of the Form Ithaca charette last year. In addition to the waterfront, Form Ithaca also looked at the intersection of King Road and Route 96B (Danby Road).

The power lines that run through the Carpenter Business Park have large

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setbacks and easements that have limited aesthetic changes to the appearance of what could be built there. According to the dealerships. His attempts to call this Maguire, the design of his dealership an “artisanal” approach were not well would be able to accommodate the existreceived when he used the terminology at ing easements and setbacks. He said that the Town of Ithaca; he had proposed a new there were also problems with the soils lot on the site of the Gray Haven Inn. He is under the parcel, which were also immano longer using that terminology, but the terial to his plans. changes he is proposing remain the same.

Maguire intends to move his Ford, “We intend to move the building Lincoln, and Nissan dealerships from the closer to the road,” Maguire said, “and to lot in front of Wegman’s to the Carpenter add some green space, which will be landBusiness Park parcel. The Hyundai and Subaru dealerships from 318 Elmira Road would then be moved there, so that that lot could be renovated. In this way he would be able to expand his service staff and also continue business without interruption.

“If you have more stalls,” he said, “then you can employ more techniPhil Maguire of Maguire Family of Dealerships (Photo: Diane Duthie) cians.”

Maguire explained that the size of the car lots are scaped.” He said members of the planning determined by acknowledged formulae in board gave him input in this part of the the industry. “Inventory levels have guide- project when he met with them last week. lines,” he said. “You are basically looking at The Maguire project does not qualify a 45-day supply or, to put it another way, for Industrial Development Authority one and a half time times what you are tax incentives,” said McDaniel, because it selling in a month is what you should have is a retail business. By state regulations, on site.” These numbers are calculated for retail has to be part of a larger mixed-use each make and model that you carry. project, and a minor part of it, in order to While Maguire intends to follow this qualify. time-honored method of determining – Bill Chaisson the scale of his lots, he does want to make editor@ithacatimes.com schoollead contin u ed from page 3

some lead soldering, given the age of the buildings. He said the highest levels found at Caroline were in the “addition area,” whereas at Enfield there were neither lead nor copper problems in the newer portion.

A 1986 amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act banned using lead in solder for water piping.

The two schools are of similar age. Construction began on Caroline Elementary in 1958, with an addition put on in 1967 and the newest six classrooms built in 1991. Construction at Enfield Elementary started in 1959, with additions put on in 1969 and 1990.

Typically, Withey said, “acidic, aggressive water” is the type that leaches lead into drinking water. The water at Caroline is “perfectly neutral” with a 7.53 pH. As water superintendent for the City of Cortland, Withey saw very little lead contamination. In Cortland, the water is

heavily calcified (basic rather than acidic), which encrusts the solder points.

“They’re not alone; this is a problem all over the countryside,” Withey said.

“We’ve got newer and better products than we had in the ‘50s, but nobody knew back then. When copper came out, it was a great replacement for iron pipe, which got all rusted up on the inside. Now all the polys work really great. So far there’s nothing we’re testing for in the polys, but 50, 60 years from now maybe it will be something else.”

According to Teresa Lyczko of the Tompkins County Health Department, about 70 children have been tested for lead and there have not been “any confirmed cases of elevated blood lead levels from drinking water;” neither has there been any history of such cases in Tompkins County. Parents who want help getting their child tested can call the Health Department at 607-274-6688.

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he Ithaca Health Alliance Board of Directors is pleased to announce the selection of Norbert (“Norb”) McCloskey as its new executive director. He fills the vacancy created by Abbe Lyons departure in January. The selection was made after a comprehensive nationwide search and selection process.

McCloskey brings more than two decades of nonprofit and corporate experience to the IHA, most recently heading the Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc. in Pottsville, PA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing public health resources to underserved disparate and rural popula-

▶ Women in Wikipedia, Only about 20 percent of the editors of Wikipedia are women and their contributions to the online encylopedia amount to proportionately less that individual male contributors.

To remedy that Cornell is holding workshops on Saturday, March 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Johnson Museum, Rand Hall and Olin Library. Bring a laptop. There are articles to add and articles to improve. More info at #artandfeminism

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est State/Martin Luther King Street might soon find itself going on a diet.

The planning process to put the street on what traffic engineering types call a “road diet” around its intersection with Seneca Street and Pete’s Grocery began on Feb. 18 at Lehman Alternative Community School.

About a dozen interested citizens gathered together in the cafeteria to contribute their thoughts to the process.

The “diet” would consist of converting a four-lane area on the bridge that crosses the flood control channel into two lanes with medians and new turn lanes: a westbound left turn lane onto Floral Avenue/13A and an eastbound left turn lane into Pete’s parking lot. A well-marked or even signalized crosswalk, similar to that on Green Street near the library, is also a possibility. $1 million in federal funding is allocated to the project, with an aimed-for construction date of 2018, according to city engineer Tim Logue. It is a separate project from the new Brindley Street bridge, which is further along in the planning process, but the two projects will definitely be aware of each other, Logue said.

The concern was broached by several residents that cutting down two lanes to one there might cause further backups in an area known locally for its rush hour traffic jams. Logue replied that the “putthrough” capacity of streets is far more related to intersections than the number of lanes. Since Route 13/Fulton Street tends to take the through traffic priority, not only State, but also Seneca and Buffalo streets, become “stacking spaces.”

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If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

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Heard&Seen Proposed improvements to intersection of Floral Ave. and Route 79/Hector Street. (Photo: Google Maps)

Karim Beers, who lives just up the hill on Hector Street, said that the sidewalk is so narrow on the bridge, “it doesn’t feel like a welcoming place.”

“If you’re on a bike you’re riding on the sidewalk and need to stand in the road to let somebody by,” Beers said. “On the road it doesn’t feel like you’re supposed to be there at all.”

Greg Perreault said he commutes via car over the bridge every day, and as a New Jersey native accustomed to bottlenecks, he “would hate to see it go backwards.”

“Some diets don’t work,” Perreault said.

He suggested a cantilevered widening of the bridge to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic, rather than taking out lanes.

Logue was of the opinion that at 15,000 to 17,000 cars per day going through, the three-lane strategy could handle the

traffic. “But we have to show that,” he acknowledged.

The protected sidewalk area on the Buffalo Street/Route 96 bridge was praised by several people as something close to ideal for bicyclists and pedestrians. Everyone was in agreement that with so many people walking and biking to places in the area, like LACS, Linderman Creek, and West Village, safety improvements were definitely needed.

“We’re all pedestrians at times, some of us ride bikes, and most of us drive,” Logue said. “We don’t want to pit one group against another.”

An earlier version of this story was posted to ithaca.com on Feb. 18 with the headline “West State/MLK: Time for a Diet?”

tions.

“We are extremely pleased to announce this appointment,” said C. Kelly White, Board President. “The board is excited to have Norbert join the Alliance team. His leadership and breadth of perspective and experience are vital as we work with our dedicated staff and over 120 volunteers to grow and expand the Alliance’s programs and services that play such an important role in the healthcare safety net in our community.” He will begin his new position at Ithaca Health Alliance on March 8.

As executive director of the Ithaca Health Alliance, McCloskey will oversee an organization that connects more than 1000 un-and-underinsured individuals to quality medically integrated health care services every year. Others have obtained quality health information, as well as the services of financial advocates who foster financial health by helping individuals

access assistance programs and navigate bureaucracies.

“It’s an honor to join the IHA team,” McCloskey said. “IHA has been an important part of the community for nearly 20 years. IHA has helped thousands of residents unable to afford health insurance receive needed medical care.

I believe access to quality health care goes beyond being affordable; it is a basic human right. I welcome this opportunity to help the staff and volunteers of IHA continue to provide needed services to the uninsured and underinsured of our community.”

McCloskey has a professional background that includes general management, marketing, operations, human resources, customer services, project management, database systems development, non-profit management, program development, funding acquisition, and interactive instructional design. •

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▶ Go Nuts, Nut trees can provide highly nutritious food for centuries. Local nuts can be used for anything from holiday snacks to staples like flour, oil, and butters.

This class, taught by experienced nut growers Brian Caldwell and Akiva Silver, will provide information on growing nut trees in a changing climate, the best types of nuts for growing in NY, harvesting and processing nuts, and samples of several types of local nuts. This class was sold out in fall 2015, and is back by popular demand. Pre-registration is required, please call (607) 2722292 or email Chrys Gardener to register. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Feb. 24 to March 1 include: 1) Trumansburg Farmer Goes “Living Wage” 2) Letter | Acting Like Adults in Caroline 3) Newfield Residents Worry About Spreading Slurry 4) Two Champs in South Seneca 5) Cayuga Power Plant to Close For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Do you still take illegal drugs?

Please respond at ithaca.com.

L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Would you like to see a supervised heroin injection site in Ithaca ?

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Local Armistice in Drug War The national media, yea, the international media is abuzz about the proposed legal heroin injection facility that is included in the “Ithaca Plan” released by the Municipal Drug Policy Committee (MDPC) put into motion by Mayor Svante Myrick. The focus is on the “shooting gallery” because, as U.S. law stands now, it would be illegal to set up such a place without the declaration of an emergency by the governor or the President.

Isn’t it just like the national and international media to make a big deal about something that has so much prurient interest and yet is really just a small part of a much broader, more ambitious, more practical campaign?

Perhaps by emphasizing the least possible element of the plan, they hope to send the whole thing into the weeds?

Why do that?

The Ithaca Plan does something mighty: it calls off the War on Drugs.

President Richard Nixon coined the term in a June 1971 press conference and 44 years later we are still fighting and losing this ridiculous “war.” The text of the plan acknowledges this historical context on its opening page: “There is a growing acknowledgement among policymakers that the war on drugs—the dominant drug policy framework for the past four and a half decades—has failed and new approaches are needed.”

Myrick didn’t invent this out of whole cloth, but he is getting on board a progressive movement to change the

approach to dealing with our perennial drug problem. Drugs have always been ubiquitous and for centuries were largely unregulated. One of the first comprehensive pieces of legislation, Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, continued to allow cocaine, heroin, cannabis, and other such drugs to be legally available without prescription as long as they were labeled.

We have long struggled with whether to consider drug use and addiction a public health problem or a crime. In August 1969 psychiatrist Robert DuPont urine-tested everyone entering the jails of Washington, D.C. He found that 44 percent of them tested positive for heroin. A month later he started the first public methadone treatment program.

The official perspective on drug use as had multiple-personality disorder since.

The organizing principle of the Ithaca Plan has four “pillars”: prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and law enforcement. The MDPC, inaugurated in September 2014, includes law enforcement officials—district attorney Gwen Wilkinson, police chief John Barber, judge Judy Rossiter—but it also listed among its members the leaders of local non-profits who deal with populations impacted by illegal drug use: Lillian Fan of Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP), Liz Vance of the Ithaca Youth Bureau, Angela Sullivan of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse continued on page 7

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Get the Lead Out

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r

Get the Lead Out With the exception of this year’s presidential election, it seems like nothing happens that hasn’t happened before. History has lessons for us, if we will heed them. With that in mind, and referring to a certain recent local news story, I submit the following transcripts of historical episodes, certified to be 100 percent accurate: Rome, March 4, 19 B.C.: a garden courtyard in the house of CAESAR AUGUSTUS. The municipal water inspector for the city of Rome, FLATUS ODIUS, has come to pay homage to the emperor.

AUGUSTUS: Ah, Odius! You catch me on my way to the vomitorium.

ODIUS: Again, your Excellency? It seems you’re becoming a regular visitor.

AUGUSTUS: Yes, well, I’ve noticed increasing abdominal and joint pains as well as a decline in mental functioning lately. I’m told a good purging will help.

ODIUS: Your Imperial Greatness, many of the citizens of Rome who have lead plumbing have noticed similar symptoms.

We suspect there may be a connection.

AUGUSTUS: Hm. When was this discovered?

ODIUS: Half a year ago. In the month of Sextilis.

AUGUSTUS: Better not tell anyone just yet. It may all work itself out. This sort of thing just stirs people up. By the way, I’ve been taking sort of a poll. What are your thoughts about re-naming that month after me?

• • • Richmond Palace, England, March 4, 1590: an anteroom to the royal chamber.

Two of Queen Elizabeth I’s most trusted advisors, LORD BURLEIGH and FRANCIS WALSINGHAM, are conferring quietly by a window.

BURLEIGH: By my troth, Walsingham, that cosmetic paste Her Majesty is using doth make her hair fall out in great patches and addles her brain. It is naught but white lead powder and vinegar!

All her ladies-in-waiting who use the stuff

are weak and foggy-minded, too.

WALSINGHAM: Forsooth, I have marked that the lot of them have no more sense than a dungeon toad. Pray, how long have you been aware of this?

BURLEIGH: Lo, these six months.

Since August last.

WALSINGHAM: We should be content to say nothing, Sir. Such is the nature of people that they might worry unduly. We shall keep this to ourselves. Come, Burleigh, let us sup on jellied eels and speak no more of this foul topic.

• • • 28 Broadway, New York City, March 4, 1925: Standard Oil of New Jersey’s headquarters. The venerable founder JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER has been quietly summoned to a conference with HOMER CORNSTARCH, plant manager of Standard Oil’s Bayway Refinery in Linden, New Jersey.

CORNSTARCH: Sir, since we started putting lead in the gasoline, the incidence of illness among workers has spiked. Why, five of our workers have actually died since fall!

ROCKEFELLER: Pish posh, my good fellow. The stuff ’s as healthy as rainwater.

CORNSTARCH: Actually, Mr. Rockefeller, each gallon burned emits four grams of lead oxide, which causes hallucinations and difficulty breathing. Not to mention madness, palsies, and spasms!

ROCKEFELLER: Cornstarch, you’re becoming hysterical. Let’s look at this calmly. How long have you known about all this?

CORNSTARCH: Well, since last August, I guess.

ROCKEFELLER: My boy, there’s no good to be had by starting a public panic.

We should keep this to ourselves, for the good of everybody. Why, if it was really dangerous, don’t you think there would be laws against it? Cornstarch, what would you say to a promotion to headquarters here?

There’s a nice little raise in it, too!

CORNSTARCH: Gosh, sir … you bet!

And so History trudges on …

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As you are well aware, we families with children, spouses and friends at the Enfield Elementary School in Tompkins County, the Ithaca City School District (ICSD), have been having a serious problem with high lead levels in not only our school, but at other schools as well. Some organizations were very generous and had donated some bottled water at the school and are attempting to solve the ongoing problem of high lead 6

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Counsel, Marcia Fort, Travis Brooks and Leslyn McBean-Clairborne of GIAC, Judy Hoffman of the Ithaca City School District, among others. Bill Rusen of Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS) was the original chair of the MDPC; Wilkinson and Fan took over as co-chairs in February 2015.

The second part of the 58-page final report of the MDPC (The Ithaca Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy) is called “The Scope of the Problem in Ithaca.” In this chapter the committee drags together what meager statistics exist locally to document the scale of drug use here. They present property crimes in the city of Ithaca and in Tompkins County, which have been rising steadily since 2005 (because addicts steal to raise money for drugs). Drug law violation arrests, however, have been generally fallen over the same period in the city—after Myrick asked the police to make marijuana arrests a low priority— and generally increased in the county.

In 2010 the Controlled Substance Act was amended to make procuring prescription drugs illegally much more difficult. People taking Oxycontin, Vicodin and other opiate-based painkillers, suddenly could no longer get the pharmaceuticals to which they were addicted; they turned to cheaper, more available heroin in droves. Between 2011 and 2013 in Monroe County, where the medical examiner’s office keeps death statistics, four out of five heroin overdose deaths are white males with an average age of 35 years old. Most of the victims were from outside the city of Rochester.

We don’t know as much about the demographics of our local opioid problem because there is no public record of who overdoses or dies from what. The county health department was able to provide the MDPC with numbers for “drug-related deaths” between 2004 and 2014. They jumped from between one and eight per year before 2010 to between 10 and 15 per year after. Given our relatively small population (104,000 in the whole county), we are experiencing more drugrelated deaths per 100,000 residents than Onondaga County (467,000 residents) in every year since 2005.

The MDPC documents the dearth of drug treatment available locally: very few Suboxone prescribers, no methadone clinic, no detox facilities, and a long line for treatment programs, which demand that you enter clean and sober and remain abstinent. It addresses the limited availability and access to education programs designed to prevent young people from slipping into chronic drug use and explores the shortcomings of law enforcement as a tool, including accusations of structural racism.

The proposed supervised injection facility comes under the “harm reduction” domain. STAP’s needle exchange program is the most prominent harm reduction program in place, but the MDPC found that few local people understand the

Northside residents watch the demolition of the former grocery store. INHS is beginning a mixed-use project on the Hancock Street site. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

concept of harm reduction. Not only does the public needed to be educated about illegal drugs so they won’t start taking them, but they need to be educated about who takes drugs and why.

The MDPC suggests we treat illegal drug use as primarily a public health problem, with law enforcement playing only a supporting role. It is time to lay down our arms. •

If you need any further information or have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact either Greg or myself.

Thank you so much for your time and consideration.

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donation of re-usable water bottles for the children and the staff. If we can secure 300 bottles, we would be able to provide one bottle to every child and every staff member at Enfield Elementary School.

There would even be a few left over in the event a child lost or damaged the original bottle they received. The children would be able to decorate or mark their own water bottle, to refill and use until this water issue is resolved. This would also be of assistance so there is never a shortage of water cups (currently being provided but sadly I don’t know if that will always be the case.)

We are just a family with children enrolled at Enfield Elementary. It is easy enough to do “just for our children)” or “just their class.” We are hoping to provide for our school, so no child has to do without. The only request I do have is that is that they would be BPA-free if you are able to donate plastic ones, or metal bottles are fine as well. Anything you are able to do would be greatly appreciated.

After looking into this a little further, we are expanding our little goal. Our goal is to now get a reusable bottle into the hands of every child and staff member in the ICSD! I’m sure I speak for parents and taxpayers alike, that we would rather have the money go to fixing the problem, not for paper water cups the kids are instructed to throw out after ever use (per OSHA rules).

Anything you can contribute to this would be great! If you would prefer to make a cash donation, we are going to be buying some as well, maybe making them individual to each school (Enfield Elementary, South Hill et al.)

–Tracey (607-227-1699; sully143@aol. com) and Greg (607-592-9461; grgoody@ gmail.com) Goodrich, Ithaca

Governor Cuomo is traveling throughout New York State rallying support for a $15 an hour living minimum wage, an increase that 66 percent of New Yorkers support. Closer to home, the Tompkins County League of Women Voters recently held an informative panel about the living wage from a variety of perspectives. Like Governor Cuomo, the New York League supports legislative action raising New York’s minimum wage to a livable one.

The problem of low wages remains particularly acute in Tompkins County where high housing costs place even more pressure on many working people. Given this reality, it is not surprising that both the Ithaca City Council and the Tompkins County Legislature passed resolutions favoring a living wage. Tompkins County Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton also supports an increase. Until New York State enacts a $15 an hour minimum wage, too many of our citizens will remain stuck in real or near poverty, relying on food banks and tax payer funded social services to meet their basic human needs.

Despite this overwhelming support, a livable wage in New York State most likely will remain out of reach in 2016. The problem rests in the fierce opposition of the New State Senate Republican caucus, which includes Senator Tom O’Mara (R. Big Flats) who represents Ithaca and much of Tompkins County in Albany. Senator O’Mara, who earns $80,000 a year for his “part-time, legislative position and another estimated $100,000 from his law practice, calls a $15 an hour wage a “job killer.” He flatly states that stopping it is among his chief legislative priorities.

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– Judy Jensvold, Ithaca

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ithaca com We got this comment at ithaca.com in response to our story on the proposed bike lanes on Tioga Street between East Seneca Street and Cascadilla Avenue: I really like that the city is being progressive and improving the level of safety for the most vulnerable people on the road, those who ride their bicycles (as well as other pedestrian improvements being made throughout the city, including the Sidewalk Improvement District). When we think of great places that welcome people on bicycles to ride they had to start from somewhere. There will be changes made to the streets that will improve safety and convenience for both people driving and people on bicycles (people that bike often ALSO drive sometimes--it's not an exclusive action). There can easily be 10 minute parking across from the US Post Office. The City could just mark a few spaces by the corner as 10 minute, and meter the rest.

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Tompkins County Sheriff Kenneth Lansing said his department was not consulted in the development of the drug plan.

“We all know that people that are doing things they shouldn’t be doing are paranoid, and I’m just not sure how safe they’re going to feel going to a facility that’s going to allow them to do this,” Lansing said about the injection facility.

“There are hurdles with the legality to look at. Nothing against the mayor; I think he’s doing a hell of a job, no doubt about it, and the plan has some great ideas. I just can’t accept [the injection facility], and I can’t support it.”

Ithaca police Chief John Barber said that as “an officer of the law, I have to uphold the law.”

“I applaud Mayor Myrick for coming up with a plan that’s not business as usual,” Barber said. “I don’t agree with all aspects, but [the plan] could do a lot of good and ultimately save lives.”

Even if the injection facility comes to be at all, it’s certainly not happening immediately. The facility does have the backing of Gwen Wilkinson, the Tompkins County district attorney, but as Myrick said at the Feb. 24 press conference the city has “no interest putting time and resources into something that will be shut down a couple days later.” Getting the power to open such a facility will likely take a legal 8

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One major recommendation in the “Ithaca Plan” does not face any legal hurdles: starting a“law enforcement assisted diversion” (LEAD) program. The LEAD concept was pioneered in Seattle in 2011.

The “diversion” in LEAD means that police can use their discretion to “reroute people into the intake process, rather than court,” Barber said. One of the findings in the Ithaca Plan is that drug courts “are not a sufficient solution” because of the strict John Barber requirements like total abstinence from substances.

The gist of the LEAD idea is to get people struggling with addiction some help, rather than adding to their complications by further entangling them in the criminal justice system or taking them back to the emergency room for one more night that doesn’t solve any of their underlying problems.

“We can’t, and neither can the hospitals, take these frequent fliers—the people who are constantly taking up the professional facilities,” Lansing said. “The hospital doesn’t have the time or the staff to deal with that, and other than putting them in a cell by themselves there’s not a r c h

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much that we at the jail can do. It’s a very difficult thing, withdrawal.”

In July 2015 Albany became the first New York city to approve the concept, and it has since received at least one grant of $70,000 from a private foundation to hire a staffer.

The memorandum of understanding passed by Albany’s Common Council to start their LEAD program calls for a protocol-making committee made up of representatives from law enforcement and relevant county and city departments, like mental health. Non-profit service providers and the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City nonprofit that played a large role in writing the Ithaca Plan, serve at will on the committee in an advisory role.

In July 2015 Barber attended meetings on the LEAD concept hosted by the White House. He said at the Feb. 24 press conference that he came back “renewed” after seeing how a plan could be “put together for a specific person, and then it’s working.”

Barber couldn’t provide numbers offhand, but said that people with drug problems are responsible for well over half of property crimes in Ithaca.

“People who are addicted are stealing to support their habit,” Barber said.

“There are a small number of people in the community who are in and out on a regular basis, and the way we approach it now is not working.”

“Police officers are in the field every day building a rapport with people,” Barber continued. “[LEAD] is really another form of community policing.” •

An addict’s perspective on the drug plan

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On Feb. 23, the night before Mayor Svante Myrick officially announced the city’s new drug plan, there was a panel discussion on the history of municipal drug policy. Ithaca resident Herebeorht Howland-Bolton, 26, surprised the audience of about 150 people gathered at Cinemapolis when he spoke up during the question-and-answer period.

He told the audience he had overdosed just four hours earlier in his apartment on the Commons. His girlfriend, Janice, 20, who asked that her last name not be printed in this article, found him unresponsive on the floor and called 911.

Howland-Bolton has been struggling with heroin addiction for ten years. He said that he supports the proposal in the plan for a supervised drug injection site in Ithaca. Herebeorht and Janice took the time Friday morning to sit down for coffee at Waffle Frolic and answer a few of our questions about their experiences with Narcan, which reverses the effects of a heroin overdose, his perception of how drug culture in Ithaca is changing, and why he believes the new drug plan is a step in the right direction.

Ithaca Times: You were in the hospital just hours before the forum Tuesday night. How did you end up at the event?

Herebeorht Howland-Bolton: On the HH-B: I got it indirectly from the way to the hospital, essentially. My brother needle exchange, from a friend. The needle told me about it, and I told [hospital staff] exchange—a lot of people go there. If I wanted to go, and they didn’t see any you’re going there, it’s obvious you’re going problems with it. there for a reason, but once I’m inside IT: Janice, the other day you found the place I feel really comfortable. When Herb unconscious and called 911?

I’m in active addiction it’s one of the few Janice: Yeah, I didn’t know how to places I feel safe. I feel comfortable there, use Narcan. We had Narcan in our first which is really cool. aid kit, but by the time I found him I was IT: After hearing about the new too busy doing CPR to read the very vague “Ithaca Plan,” what aspects of it do you instructions of how to use it. I was trying think would help addicts most? to figure out how to put it together, and it HH-B: The supervised injection said intravenous so I didn’t know if I was site. I’ve been kicked out of here [Waffle supposed to inject it, but then it also said Frolic], and I don’t remember why I got subcutaneous, so I was trying to figure out kicked out, but it might have been because what is the method of using this thing, so I was using in the bathroom. You’re going I just ended up telling the police to come to go wherever you can to use. You can because I couldn’t figure it out. die if you overdose and you’re in a locked HH-B: One second I was standing bathroom. there, and the next I was on the floor.

IT: Some critics of the plan argue It was the first time I had used in a that addicts have to hit rock bottom and while, and I was on Suboxone. Being on that an injection site would encourage Suboxone, what it means is that technically people to keep using when they might you shouldn’t be able to get that high. You have otherwise quit. What are your shouldn’t be able to feel anything, which thoughts on that? means whatever I shot up was incredibly HH-B: I’ve hit rock bottom many, potent. I’m pretty certain—no, I know— many times. I turned 21 in prison, and that it was Fentanyl. The ambulance it’s not like you can really get much lower had to come onto the Commons. It cost than that. And I’ve gone to jail and rehab the taxpayers money and made my life and slowly built myself up, and it was incredibly embarrassing. It’s not a good painful, but I did actually get somewhere look. The neighbors don’t think you’re cool. Your mom isn’t proud. And the thing is, it doesn’t have to happen like that.

No agency in Tompkins County keeps track IT: How long have of how many deaths are caused by heroin in you been using heroin? particular. The statistic quoted in the Ithaca Plan is for “drug-related deaths” and the numbers come HH-B: Since I was 16, from the county health department. and I’m 26 now. Back when I started there were more It is hard to find a comparable number in drug dealers than there other counties, as they do keep track of heroin deaths, but not “drug-related” as an umbrella term. were users. I used to know Onondaga County, with a population of 467,000, the whole community of tracks deaths by opioid (heroin, morphine, people who used, and now fentanyl, oxycodone, oxycontin, oxymorphone, I’m amazed when someone acetylfentanyl, methadone, hydrocodone and dies and it’s someone who hydromorphone) overdose. was telling me years ago When calculated per 100,000 people, the not to use. number of “drug-related deaths” in Tompkins IT: A big part of this County exceed “opioid related” deaths in plan is educational. Do Onondaga County in every year between 2010 you think that if someone and 2014. had shown you how to use Drug Deaths per 100,000 residents Narcan you would have been able to administer 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 it in an emergency Onondaga 5.1 5.3 8.6 8.8 10.3 situation?

Janice: I would have Tompkins 5.7 14.4 12.5 9.6 13.5 had no problem using it, it’s just that I’d never seen it done before, but the instructions on the box were incredibly in the end. I was able to get through. vague.

IT: What are your thoughts on the HH-B: It’s really complicated. Just need in Ithaca for a detox center? providing the Narcan I could see not being HH-B: It’s crazy that we don’t have the best thing, you would need to educate one. To get into a detox in Ithaca you have people how to use it. With basic education to call other cities’ detoxes, leave within you can learn CPR, and CPR can keep a an hour’s notice of them contacting you to person alive for up to 45 minutes. Think get a bed, and the only other strategy you about the amount of lives that can be can use is to go to our hospital, and if they saved with just that knowledge. are worried about you harming yourself IT: How were you able to get the or someone else you can get a semiNarcan? treatment, like a half treatment detox. I’ve

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IT: What is your opinion of drug court?

HH-B: It started out with good intentions. I failed out of drug court.

Basically it’s turned into the opposite of what it’s supposed to be. An alternative to incarceration is what they call it, and my experience is I got incarcerated more times and ended up doing more time than I would have in the first place. I’ve been to misdemeanor drug court. I’ve been to felony drug court. I’ve been incarcerated 16 times. I’ve been through a one-month rehab, a three-month rehab, and a 16month rehab. I’ve pretty much run the whole gamut.

IT: What do you think is the biggest thing that addicts need most to recover?

HH-B: Just the support of people who will be there for them and not judge them. Most of the reason I’m doing really good right now is because of Janice. She’s why I can sit here and be sober. I’m on Suboxone, but as you can see I’m not nodding out. Heroin doesn’t take over our entire relationship; it’s more something really annoying lurking at the edges.

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HH-B: Some days I get my dosage right, and it’s wonderful and you wouldn’t know I was on heroin. That’s what people don’t know. To them it’s like you’re either on heroin or treating it or off it. I have severe anxiety and depression, and it’s been debilitating at certain points in my life. I missed 90 days of sixth grade because of it. That’s not normal. That’s where a lot of aspects of what would lead to my addiction later on started.

I’ve always wondered if in a perfect world, if everything was right, if it could be measured out and I got to choose the difference between giving myself 0.054 or 0.052 milligrams of heroin would I have actually been able to treat myself.

IT: If there was a supervised injection site in Ithaca do you think that drug addicts would use it?

HH-B: I know if the option was there I definitely would try it out, and that means if I would try it out, and if I didn’t like it, then someone else would try it and like it. It would be just another option.

A year ago I took a drug that I thought was MDMA and it turned out to be Ketamine or PCP. There are drugs with similar side effects. Basically they make you hallucinate that monsters are coming at you—horrible things. I ended up trying to commit suicide by jumping into a gorge.

It was 80 feet down, and I caught myself by grabbing onto a tree 10 feet from the ground. The first responders who found me thought that I was trying to climb the side of the quarry. Basically it was a situation that could have been prevented if there was someone there to supervise me while I was injecting the drug.

IT: How did it feel to speak up at the forum and get the response you did?

HH-B: It felt amazing. The number of people who showed me support and stuff, it made me feel a lot stronger than I did prior to that. It was a high point of maybe even the last few years of my life. It was very intense.

I felt that overall people were pretty positive towards me, and I think having that communal aspect of it in which people could talk more would be a great thing. There were definitely people in that room who, if they met me on the Internet, would have talked about me as a terrible, horrible person who should go to prison.

Those people were in the room, and they didn’t come up to me and say anything negative.

To be able to say, “Look, I am a living example of why change needs to happen,” being able to say something like that in front of a ton of people and have them just act like it was OK to say it has essentially given me a whole lot of strength to feel like I can actually do something with my life. • cover story continued on page 10

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Mayor Svante Myrick said last week that one of the plan’s “low hanging fruit” could be convincing more physicians to prescribe Suboxone, the brand name for a combination of buprenorphine, an opioid, and naloxone, which reverses the effects of opioids; the combination deters use by injection. Under federal regulations, a doctor can only prescribe the drug to 100 patients at a time.

“If the mayor has a special

relationship with the President and he would like to sign an executive order to lift the cap, that would help,” Dr. John Bezirganian, one of four doctors in Tompkins County currently certified to prescribe Suboxone, said of Myrick and President Barack Obama.

Bezirganian has a private psychiatry practice and is medical director for county mental health and the Alcohol and Drug Council (ADC). Since he started prescribing Suboxone about 15 years ago, he’s treated 520 people with the drug—

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about 20 of his initial patients are still with him today.

In earlier days, if someone came to him off the street and asked for Suboxone, he told them to go to the ADC, and then he could generally promise to get them onto the drug once they graduated from treatment. Because of the limit on prescriptions, now he has to make choices about his patients.

“To some extent I’m playing God a little bit, but I have to pick the best available people,” Bezirganian said. “If I have to make a choice of a single mother who’s sober and working against someone dabbling in other drugs, a young single

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guy might say that’s not fair. And it’s not fair. But that’s the way it goes.”

The original limit was 30 Suboxone patients per practice, “but they raised it to 100 because no one was signing up,” Bezirganian said.

A special Drug Enforcement Agency number must be issued for a Suboxone provider. There is a seven-hour course to get certified on the drug, some of which is mere “hoop-jumping training,” Bezirganian said. More so than the training itself, he thinks that more doctors don’t participate because of the effect they think prescribing Suboxone might have on their private practice.

“I think many primary care doctors would be fine if they have five people they like and can do it for them, but they don’t want 30, 50, 100 people coming in the door saying ‘Hi, I want Suboxone,’” Bezirganian said. He gets four or five calls a week, and keeps a few spots open in case someone in special circumstances, like pregnancy, needs the drug.

“If I had the spigot open it’d be limitless,” Bezirganian said. “If all doctors could prescribe it, I don’t know how big it would be.”

Nicole Pagano of the Green Street Pharmacy said, since she opened her shop in 2010, she has developed a “good working relationship” with ADC and Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS).

“I can spend hours and hours and hours on the phone to figure out insurance,” Pagano said. “We try to work out insurance ahead of time. Sometimes we can use coupons for the medication to help someone cover the cost for the first few days. If we can’t treat someone today, they might be lost tomorrow.”

Pagano strives to foster a “judgmentfree zone” at her pharmacy; she said many people going on Suboxone are in a situation where they’re afraid of losing their children.

“With no other disease do you have the pharmacist look at you like, ‘Oh, another one of those,’” Pagano said.

“Everyone who comes in here is dealing with something. One day of heroin use is more dangerous than a lifetime of Suboxone.”

Right now people in recovery with the help of methadone have to leave Tompkins County to get their treatment. The Ithaca Plan recommends adding a methadone clinic here or even, as Myrick has floated, a mobile unit to distribute the drug.

Monika Taylor, director of chemical dependency at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, said that there are currently seven patients commuting from Tompkins County on a daily basis to the Crouse methadone clinic. Her clinic can serve up to 650 people at any one time under state regulations, with a waitlist about nine to 12 months long and about 350 people deep right now. The program admitted 265 people in 2015, the most in a year since opening in 1975, and it is currently serving about 550 people. •

attaining your goals. pollinating Dan Segal, birds and owner of The insects. The Plantsmen Nursery following is a in Groton, and local list of invited landscape architect speakers: Rick Manning Don Knezick, are the founding owner of organizers of INPS. Pinelands Eight years ago they Nursery in believed there was Columbus, a dearth of native New Jersey; plant information Jesse Hoffman, sharing in central preserve New York; they saw steward and a need to promote botanist the native plant at Albany industry to a wider Pine Bush audience. Along with Preserve; Ron Bridget Gaines, Dan Segal, and Rick Manning, organizers of the Bridget Gaines— Rohrbaugh Ithaca Native Plant Symposium. (Photo provided) The Plantsmen’s Jr., assistant general manager director of the and symposium coordinator of public Conservation Science Program at Cornell relations/marketing and registration— Lab of Ornithology; Uli Lorimer, curator Segal and Manning selected this year’s of the Native Flora Garden at Brooklyn nine speakers who will illustrate the Botanic Garden; Ernest Williams, William importance of ecologically sustainable R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus at applications of native plants in both Hamilton College in Clinton, New York; created (designed) habitats and natural Laura Hansplant, director of design of habitats.

Roofmeadow, a green roof engineering Representing four regions—the and design firm in Philadelphia; Chris Finger Lakes, Long Island, Albany, McHugh of the Long Island Native Plant and New Jersey— with an emphasis Initiative; and Akiva Silver, owner of collaborative land use perspectives and Twisted Tree Farm in Spencer. locally grown native plants, the conference The symposium’s focus on “true will cover the following topics: seed stories and real models for regional collection and storage, growing and selling success” means that native plants from plants, plant selection and installation, Albany or Long Island are being locally design challenges, and selecting plants for grown from seed sources in Albany or

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ere’s some good news for those of you with a professional or neophyte’s interest in native plants and their uses in the landscape. The eighth annual Ithaca Native Plant Symposium (INPS) will be held this week on March 4 and 5 in downtown Ithaca at Cinemapolis.

This year’s symposium theme “Ideas to Reality: True Stories and Real Models for Regional Success in the Native Plant Industry” is intended to appeal to anyone: practitioners, educators, students, urban gardeners, rural landowners, and other interested parties.

If you are a student or a grower interested in combining ecology and horticulture into a viable native plant business, a landscape architect or an engineer investigating bioengineering erosion control techniques, an architect or urban dweller curious about how to apply meadow-design principles to green roofs and similar depth-limited landscapes, or a rural landowner eager to develop healthy, natural, and sustainable open spaces that support native wildlife, then this is the conference to attend. Event speakers will throw open a window onto the processes that will guide you toward identifying and

Long Island in an effort to restore and preserve ecological habitats—important in today’s world of rapid climate change.

Native plants grown from seeds collected in the wild—locally or regionally—are best for the local or regional designed habitats and natural habitats that support pollinating wildlife and insects. Over time the native-grown plants adapt more readily to predicted higher temperatures that researchers attribute to climate change, enabling mutually dependent plant and animal life cycles to sustain themselves.

When asked, both Manning and Gaines agreed INPS’s primary audience for the past eight years has mainly been professionals, with landscape architects comprising about a third of attendees in addition to land managers from New York State Department of Transportation and Department of Environmental Conservation, and not-for-profits managing large areas of state lands and city parks. This event is an opportunity for both urban and rural denizens interested in creating sustainable landscapes for not only plants but also wildlife such as birds and butterflies.

The reproduction of most flowering plants depends on a variety of pollinators.

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he United States Geological Service (USGS) is at work right now performing a flood hazard analysis of Ithaca.

The USGS will be “modeling the creeks as they come into the flat areas of Ithaca,” according to Mike Thorne, city superintendent of public works.

“We’ll look at Fall Creek, Cascadilla, Six Mile, and the Inlet,” Thorne said.

“USGS will use hydraulic models for what a two-year, 10-year, 50-year, 100year, and 500-year storm would do, and run the models under three lake levels— wintertime, summertime, and when the lake level is at its highest.”

The model USGS uses for this work is the Hydrologic Engineering Centers River Analysis System (HECRAS). Engineers use laser-based Lidar technology to survey the surface of the creeks, and they also do spot checks with underwater surveying equipment and do surveys of some sections to verify their models.

“USGS is coming up with their flows based on stream gauges and certain equations to adjust for the locations of those gauges,” Thorne said. “They’ll look at how much water enters those creek segments for each of those storms.

The software takes a look at the creek channel—there’s only so much room in a creek channel—and it puts bridges, sediment build-up—all of that—into the models.”

The initial work will be to use USGS to model the creeks’ existing conditions,

a project that should cost the city about $70,000, Thorne said. The city has set aside $150,000 in capital funding, which was matched by another $150,000 from the New York Department of State “Local Waterfront Revitalization Program,” disbursed as part of the 2015 round of Regional Economic Development Council funding.

With the remaining funding after the initial study, Thorne said the city is planning to “model mitigation measures” to figure out what kinds of work would have the “most bang for the buck.”

“Once we have the existing condition models, we can see what happens if we, say, dredge Six Mile from this point to that point. The channel section will look different, and we can re-run the model to see if it helps alleviate the flooding.”

Thorne said further study could also look at what actions can be taken further out in the creeks’ watersheds, before they come down the hills into the Flats on their way to Cayuga Lake.

The winter of 2015-16 has been fairly kind thus far when it comes to flooding threats, unlike two years ago when public works backhoes were breaking up ice jams in Cascadilla Creek.

“We’re keeping our eye on the creeks,” Thorne said. “There’s been a couple localized problems, but not really big newsmakers. We’ve had a few flood catch basin inlets back up, that sort of thing. We haven’t seen anything threatening yet.”

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com The City of Ithaca Department of Public Works has asked for a modeling study to determine what parts of the city would be under water given a set of conditions, that is a certain amount of rainfall over a certain amount of time at a particular time of the year. (Image provided)

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r. Carolyn McMasters is using a technology that was developed in sports medicine and applying it in her veterinary practice. The machine is called a Class 4 Therapeutic Laser and it uses high energy light waves that penetrate the skin and stimulate the metabolism.

Which is to say, it speeds the healing process.

“It reduces pain,” she said, “by speeding up the metabolism. It has been particularly helpful for repairing ‘degloving,’ when the skin is ripped off an animal, when it is hit by a car, for example.” In the past this would have meant months of skin grafts, bandage changes, and antibiotics.

“With the laser,” McMasters said, “we recently had a cat that had six treatments in 35 days. Nothing can beat that. It’s noninvasive and it doesn’t hurt.” Endorphins and other pain-reducing chemicals are released in response to the laser treatment.

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The energy of the laser can be adjusted to vary the amount of penetration; lower settings are used for skin ailments and higher setting for internal problems.

“We use it for skin disorders that are hard to treat, like ‘lick granulomas’ that are caused by constant licking. The skin becomes ulcerated and swollen. It’s hard to break the cycle.”

She also uses it for “hot spots” (acute moist dermatitis), which otherwise must be treated with corticosteroids, and ear infections.

The origin of the technology in sports medicine becomes more obvious when she begins to list the internal injuries that can be treated with a laser.

Primary among them are spinal injuries. These are chronic problems in breeds of dogs that have long spines and short legs or have crooked legs. The disc become abnormally shaped by the breeding, resulting in chondrodisplasia. The disc loses its elasticity and is pushed out from between the vertebrae.

McMaster’s practice is called Briar Patch Veterinary Medicine. She and her colleagues treat pets who have a lot of the same problems that humans have. Animals get thoracic disorder like pleuritis, bladder infections, and heart problems. All of them can be treated with laser therapy.

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“I’m not aware of a lot of local doctors using laser therapy,” said the veterinarian, “but I’m told that professional football and hockey teams had laser treatment first.” She invested in the somewhat expensive technology five years ago and said that the veterinary school at Cornell also uses it.

McMasters gave a wellness talk at Greenstar on Feb. 24, where she described approaches to “pet wellness,” including the use of the laser, but also including use of supplements, acupuncture and other non-Western techniques.

She made sure to tell people not to extrapolate the use of herbal supplements designed for humans to use them to treat their pets.

There are two reasons for this. First, you can’t really gauge the correct dosage. Second, the FDA did a study recently, which Cat receiving laser therapy for a bladder infection. (Photo provided) was widely reported, that found that most of the widely available herbal said there are often many choices that have supplements did not actually include the varying additives. She said there are 10 components listed on the label, but rather different kinds of rabies vaccination, some entirely different ones. with additives to stimulate the immune This is dangerous because some botsystem and some with recombinant DNA anticals that are analgesic or harmless to added. humans are deadly to other animals. For McMaster’s next public lecture is on example, McMasters said, salicyclic acid, dental therapy and will be part of March which is in willow bark, is deadly to cats, Dog Madness at Morrison Hall at Cornell. but is the basis for aspirin and found in 4H sponsors the day-long event on Satursome herbal supplements. day, March 19. McMasters uses laser theraAlso in the area of ingredients not necessarily on the label, McMasters tries to py to treat the pain that follows removal of teeth associated with stomatitis. • allay pet owners fears of vaccinations. She

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also slow down runoff, Service maps preventing the kind of were created storm damage to roads, from aerial ditches, and culverts caused photographs by heavy rain/flooding on film, new conditions. technology Wetlands, explained has made Darby Kiley, Town of more accurate Ulysses planner, are defined mapping as transition zones between possible. aquatic and terrestrial Hollingshead habitat: they have three is using LiDar, jurisdictional criteria. a surveying They are wet; they have technology hydric soils, and hydritic (the term vegetation. “They’re “lidar” was critical habitat for rare and actually endangered species,” said created as a Kiley. portmanteau of While municipalities in light and radar) New York State are allowed that measures to develop their own laws, distance by said Kiley, “There are a lot illuminating of inconsistencies in the a target with maps that are available.” a laser light However, 19 percent of and GIS. the wetlands in Tompkins “For the most County are not on the part, LiDar map, and therefore not made this Canoga Marsh on Cayuga Lake (Photo: Bill Hecht) protected. “The wetland possible,” said maps for Tompkins County Hollingshead. date from the 1980s,” said The imagery Nick Hollingshead. Hollingshead was was collected in March, “when saturation there to report on the Wetlands Mapping of the ground is visible.”

Project for the Cayuga Lake Watershed Wetlands in New York State, to be Network. He first got started on the protected under DEC law, must be larger project by mapping wetlands in Dryden than 12.4 acres, Hollingshead explained. in 2014. While the old Fish and Wildlife However, significant wetlands exist that

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lthough federal and state laws protect wetlands, the Cayuga Lake Water Resources council estimates that nationwide over 100 million acres of wetland have been lost due to draining and filling. Fifty percent of New York State’s wetlands have been lost to development or agriculture. According to conservation group Ducks Unlimited, “Although freshwater wetlands cover only 1 percent of the Earth’s surface, they hold more than 40 percent of the world’s species and 12 percent of all animal species. Of the more than 900 bird species that breed in North America, about 138 species in the conterminous United States depend on wetlands.”

On Thursday, Feb. 25, the Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG) heard an update on efforts to map the local wetlands. The maps currently in use are out of date and may be underestimating the wetlands in the area.

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don’t meet that criteria. The wetlands mapping project’s ultimate goal is to provide accurate data to municipalities in order to support regulatory protection of local wetlands. The Water Resource Council has drafted a local wetlands law, but “better data would be helpful,” said Hollingshead. To this end, the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and the county have hired Hollingshead to do the mapping project using LiDar. Hollingshead said that the DEC counts 5,600 acres of wetlands “whereas my data is 15,000, which I believe is closer to the actuality.” The DEC mapped 81 wetlands larger than 12.4 acres; “I mapped 197,” said Hollingshead.

In order to test his accuracy, Hollingshead mapped known wetlands within Cornell’s purview, gaining a 97.5 percent accuracy score.

“There are always questions. Am I mapping them too big? My wetlands, on average, the border is in 14 feet from the actual size. Generally, I underestimate in size.”

Hilary Lambert, of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, cautioned that the new maps Hollingshead is creating, and which will be available on the cayugalake. org website, “do not have regulatory authority. He’s going to share them with the DEC. The map can be used by municipalities to determine whether to protect certain areas.” •

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n Wednesday, March 9 at 7 p.m., there will be a public meeting at the Space at GreenStar on Buffalo Street to present the findings—so far—of the Cayuga Lake Modeling Project (CLMP).

Liz Moran of the CLMP traveled from Cazenovia, New York to give a similar presentation to the members of the Tompkins County Council of Governments. The CLMP is paid for and directed by Cornell University, and was instigated by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as part of permitting Cornell to build the Lake Source Cooling project on East Shore Drive. “The Clean Air Act eliminated the use of chlorofluorocarbons for air conditioning,” said Moran, “which led to the Lake Source Cooling idea.”

The cooling project pipes water from deep in the lake up to a heat exchange at the East Shore Drive plant; warmer water carries heat downhill from Cornell and is cooled at the exchange. Moran emphasized that the water itself is not mixed or exchanged, just the heat.

Overall, she said, the project has a positive environmental impact: “It reduces demand on the electrical grid by about 25 million kilowatt hours a year, and it reduces demand at peak demand times.” When air conditioners are running during hot weather, that creates a peak demand on the electrical supply. The LSC also provides cooling to Ithaca High School.

Cornell became involved in the

project because the DEC did not have the resources to do a modeling project.

“The DEC is trying to inch toward a holistic environmental management policy, not separately considering air, water, and land, but looking at them all together,” Moran said.

The CLMP has two phases: one, data collection, which took place from April to October of 2013; and two, modeling, which is taking place now and will conclude this December. The DEC provides a technical advisory group; the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a model evaluation group; and Cornell, along with paying for the project, develops and manages the technical team.

Of the findings of the modeling project, said Moran, two stick out: one, the circulation of the lake is faster and more total than they expected.

The south end of the lake is considered “impaired” by the EPA, which is a concern. However, the project found that the lake flushes the water out of the south end within a few days—faster than it takes algae to grow. Therefore, even though the water flowing into the southern end is high in phosphorus content, it doesn’t seem to be causing the harmful algae blooms one would expect.

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The second finding was that the high phosphorus content of stream runoff into the south end of the lake is largely attributable to sediment washing down during heavy rain. “The phosphorus in mud is low in bioavailability,” said Moran.

Bioavailability in mud is measured in the lab, she explained, by incubating the mud with algae over a 30-day period.

Researchers are beginning to believe that “total P,” or measurements of phosphorus, “is a flawed indicator of algal growth potential.”

To further questions, she said that the water at the intake pipe is very clear, and the pipe has a filter on it. Some citizens have been concerned that the LSC is adding to the phosphorus load in the lake; it does, according to charts presented by Moran: about 6 percent of the phosphorus flowing into the lake comes from water recycled through the LSC. Walter Hang of Toxics Targeting,

an environmental database service, said he has mounted a 17-year battle against the LSC project, which should never have gotten a permit in the first place.

“The EPA was very concerned that the discharges approved were insufficient to protect the lake. … The LSC increased the level of chlorophyll-a at the most impacted area of the lake by 50 percent,” he said.

Hang said that the 5 or 6 percent contribution of phosphorus by the LSC is not negligible, and he is hoping the plant will be required to move the discharge pipe from near the plant, four meters down, to deeper in the lake.

Meanwhile, the sediment from agricultural runoff is “probably one of the more significant factors,” said Moran. “But we won’t know until the CLMP is done.” • – Glynis Hart editor@flcn.org

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Rural landowners who live with idle pastures or marginal farmland can learn about the conservation of bird species dependent on open spaces with biologically diverse native grasses, forbs, seedlings, and shrubs that serve as critical food sources for all organisms.

Instead of land expansion (deforestation), Manning said, our thinking needs to shift to sustainable intensification through habitat restoration as a means to decrease carbon emissions as part of the struggle to mitigate climate.

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City of Ithaca is slowly embracing the use of native plants in some of their planting projects. He cited two projects: the recently completed Cayuga Waterfront Trail and the future restoration of the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary in Stewart Park.

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Managing Director for Lands at The Nature Conservancy, states, “The land sector is the only sector that can switch from being a net source of carbon to a net sink.” The energy sector—wind and solar power—has made significant progress in technological innovation, mainly due to government incentives, Adams said.

He believes the land sector ought to be brought into mainstream conversations about implementing natural solutions to mitigate environmental challenges while sustainably balancing environmental health and human priorities. These conversations can start at the local or regional level.

Although the Ithaca area community is known for its staunch support of all things locally grown or produced in the Finger Lakes region, similar support has been slow to take hold for local native plant nurseries that grow plants from seeds collected within the region. Why hasn’t the idea of a home garden that supports both plant and animal habitat become Ithaca’s status quo? There are plenty of knowledgeable people devoting their lives to sustainable land use practices that benefit humans as well as wildlife and insects. Oddly enough with today’s climate change concerns about implementing “green practices” and “sustainability,” the focus seems to be on new building construction. The use of native plants in ecological land use planning has not managed to infiltrate general landscape design or land management practices in central New York. Manning suggested that our region has not experienced a significant loss of open space, unlike the bulldozing of metropolitan New York and New Jersey critical habitats to construct sprawling shopping malls and housing complexes. • Find out more about speakers and program schedules at IthacaNativeLandcape.com. Online registration will be open until Friday, March 4. Walk-in registrations at the door (both Friday and Saturday) are welcome.

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Cornell and Brown’s tie for first in the standings was the first time two teams matched scores for the title since the first Ivy meet in 1977.

• • • I enjoyed reconnecting with some former gymnasts and longtime friends, as I was a Cornell Athletics staff member when Karen Walsh, Jill Ryer, Mara Horwitz, Kelly McGoldrick, and Birgit Zeeb were ruling the Teagle Hall apparatus. Those alums—all looking leotard-ready—were there, along with their coach, Betsy East, and the memories flowed freely.

McGoldrick remembered her broken back; Zeeb one-upped her with her broken neck story. It was great to see these classy women back on campus.

• • • They say you don’t appreciate things until they are gone, and that rings painfully true right now. For the past 16 years, when baseball season started, I would meet up with my close friend Ron Reposh to get lunch and discuss the Great Game. Well, Ron would annoy me immensely, as the conversation would soon move to the Yankees, and I would remember that he was not a baseball fan, but a Yankees fan. Ron passed last week, and I miss him a lot.

Yogi—you connoisseur of the language—I hope you have enjoyed meeting your match. Tell Ron I said hi. •

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ome sporting events are, without question, easier to watch than others. For example, I know that wrestling is an exciting sport for those who understand it, but I have been to dual meets and watched grapplers try to outstrategize one another and dance around for what seemed like hours. And I will be the first to admit that my favorite game— baseball—can be like watching paint dry.

That said, I tried to do a sales job— complete with bribery—to convince my sixth-grader that it would be fun to go to Cornell for the Ivy League gymnastics competition.

“It will be fun,” I said. “And if you go, I’ll take you to the mall.”

Well, the gymnastics meet was a lot more fun than the mall, and for the better part of two hours, my pre-teen companion never showed a single sign of boredom.

For a middle-schooler, that is rare.

With four Ivy teams there—Penn, Brown, Yale, and the host Big Red—the gym was abuzz with fans and friends.

The gym at Newman Arena was set up like a four-ring circus, with the vault, the uneven bars, the balance beam, and the floor exercise all set up within the main gym. The gymnasts needed to dial in their highest level of concentration, because they never knew when the crowd might erupt at the conclusion of a routine.

For example, I saw a gymnast steadying herself on the beam, taking a deep breath, preparing to do a difficult maneuver, and at that moment, another gymnast nailed a double back flip on her uneven bars dismount, sending her teammates and fans into a high-decibel frenzy 50 feet away.

This level of concentration, focus, and fortitude makes me laugh at the protocols in some other sports, which demand complete silence while the competitors do their thing. If a gymnast can nail a back flip on a 4-inch wide beam with a few hundred fans screaming, a golfer should be able to drop a 10-foot putt if someone coughs.

Cornell was looking to win its first

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Ivy Classic since 2010, and the chance to do so in front of the home crowd added fuel to the fire. They did win the title; actually, they tied for first with Brown, with 193.325 points. It was the Big Red’s 11th win at the championship, and Cornell’s final team score ranks as the second highest of the year and the fourthhighest in school history. The effort was helped along by 1-2 finishes on vault and beam, coupled with a pair of victories by freshman Kaitlyn Green, who tied for first on bars with a 9.850. Teammate Malia Mackey scored a 9.875 on bars, and also won vault with a 9.775.

Cornell’s Classic win was also helped along by several top 10 finishers, like Sara Schupp and Lyanda Dudley on vault, and Green, Mackey, Krystyn Chiellini, Morgan

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Architect Thomas Schickel showed the board drawings of the NYSEG rightof-ways for power lines on the site, which prohibit putting any buildings within 50 feet to either side of the lines.

That's a “significant impediment on the site any developer would confront,” Schickel said. “There's a perception this is waterfront, but it's really sandwiched between the highway and railroad.”

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t their Feb, 23 meeting, Ithaca's city planning and development board got their first official look at the Maguire family's proposal for a new Ford Lincoln Nissan dealership on Route 13.

The Maguires bought the Carpenter Business Park last September, a tract of long-unused land which adjoins the community gardens and sits between the

Street across Route 13, with a traffic light if the state should be willing to approve that change.

John Schroeder of the board was most excited about the Maguire proposal to put in a sidewalk across the entire frontage of the site. “Adding a sidewalk to Route 13 would be of enormous benefit to this property,” Schroeder said. “The city comprehensive plan does demand this area be considered as a boulevard for pedestrians and bicyclists, a real city street, not just a limited access highway.”

The board also asked about public access to a proposed coffee shop and rooftop terrace on the dealership – Maguire and Schickel responded that they could be open, at least during reasonable business

hours.

“I'm feeling impressed with the presentation,” Schroeder said. “I like that you're trying to think creatively. Obviously, we appreciate the cafe, the green terrace, the water features and especially adding the sidewalk.”

The dealership proposal will need to go before Common Council for city approval, because of the area's status as a “planned unit development” zone; only after their say-so would the project go further in the design process. Maguire asked the Board, if there was a consensus support, to provide a written note of endorsement to council.

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t least since Museum of Modern Art founder Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s pioneering 1936 exhibit “Cubism and Abstract Art”—accompanied by its iconic historical flowchart— an ever-proliferating range of abstract painting styles have been neatly sorted into “geometrical” and “non-geometrical” branches. However reductive, the habit is hard to break, a useful shorthand as long as one is willing to keep looking and shifting expectations.

Typified by straight edges and flat, even application of color, geometric abstraction can be a hard sell. Seemingly austere and introverted, it helps sustain the myth of modern art as something only for the few.

At the same time—over a century since its introduction in Europe and (yes) the United States—it can no longer hold the claims for radical novelty made on its behalf by some of its most distinguished practitioners. At any rate, “cutting-edge” art has moved on—often bypassing painting altogether.

“Non-geometrical” abstraction, perhaps best realized by American Abstract Expressionism, has a considerable purchase in Ithaca. I have written about several talented local practitioners over the past decade.

Exhibits highlighting serious abstraction in the geometric vein are less common and thus particularly welcome.

Michael Boyd, who died last September due to complications following a fall, was an emeritus professor in Cornell’s Department of Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA), a part of the university’s College of Human Ecology. Born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1936, and educated in art with a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa in 1959, he was a professor in the DEA department between 1968 and 1996.

According to a written statement prepared by department colleague Franklin Becker, “Mike brought his passion for not just for painting but also for design, and especially

(Top Left) Michael Boyd’s “Curlew” 1986 (Above) His painting “Bazaar” 1972 (Photos Provided)

graphic design to the [DEA] for 28 years.

Hundreds of students taking his introduction to design course learned how to think more clearly and convey ideas and emotions more effectively in his studios.”

Boyd was able to sustain a distinguished parallel career as an abstract painter in New York City, maintaining a studio there and spending weekends and school breaks in the city with his wife of six decades, Verlaine Boyd.

He exhibited there frequently: in the ‘70s at the Max Hutchinson Gallery and later in particular at the Andre Zarre Gallery. He had a traveling exhibition of his “Cathedral” paintings—based on the floor plans of French Gothic structures— which was shown at Cornell’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum in 1991. His last solo show in Ithaca was held in 1995 at the much-missed Upstairs Gallery—a retrospective, covering the years 1969 to 1995.

The “Michael Boyd Memorial Retrospective,” currently on display in the DEA Gallery in Cornell’s Martha van Rensselaer Hall, forms a sort of follow-up. The exhibit features sixteen paintings completed between 1966 and 2009. Nearly all are acrylic on canvas and many feature multiple stretched canvases—conjoined and sometimes forming

irregular shapes. Some pieces are framed while others are not, the exposed edges offering hints of Boyd’s process. Also included are a video presentation of other paintings as well as a long glass shelf holding vintage exhibition catalogs and sculptural paper maquettes—the latter reflecting the artist’s “day job.”

It’s an impressive little show, filled with unfashionably contemplative and sensuous work. (That it is tucked away in a space that I’d never heard of says a lot about how hard it can be to find good contemporary art in Ithaca.)

Boyd’s paintings display a sophisticated and independent engagement with the contentious (and often arcane) debates that engaged abstract artists in the sixties and seventies. That he continued to explore these questions long after they had ceased to hold the attention of those interested in “advanced” art, speaks volumes about his intelligence and his integrity.

Never doctrinaire, Boyd’s paintings contrast and fuse the painterly and the hard-edged, color and form, the illusionistic continued on page 25

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Breaking the Fourth Wall

Film visits Stanley Milgram’s 60’s experiments

By Br yan VanC ampe n Experimenter, written and directed by Michael Almereyda, at Cornell Cinema March 4 at 7 p.m., with the film’s editor Kathryn Schubert MA ’05 in person.

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To enforce the art of the tests—or the con—he casts warm, empathetic actors like John Leguizamo, Anthony Edwards, and Jim Gaffigan as some of the lab rats we see trying to retain their humanity when told they must continue shocking another human being. The result does beat to the pulse of the biopic, but Almereyda is smart not to do the “cradle to grave” approach; the film covers the years of Milgram’s life that are the most interesting, and yet he does it in a way that may be due to limited means, but feels more offbeat and personal.

Experimenter editor and Cornell alum Kathryn Schubert ‘05 will appear

alk about apt titles. Michael Almereyda’s latest film is called Experimenter, and Almereyda has always been an experimenter on everything he’s ever made. In his big business version of Hamlet (2000), Claudius becomes King and CEO of “Denmark Corporation.” Another Girl Another Planet (1992) was a romantic chamber piece, a black-and-white, onehour featurette shot with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera. Nadja (1994) was a comic vampire film shot on 35mm with Pixelvision inserts.

Experimenter tells the surprising stories behind social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s infamous “obedience experiments” conducted at Yale University in 1961. “Inspired” by what the Nazis had done, the experiments observed the responses of ordinary people asked to send harmful electrical shocks to a stranger. (I first heard of Milgram when I heard a song called “Milgram’s 37 (We Do What We’re Told)” on Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album So.) What Almereyda has achieved here actually feels like one of the great profound con artist movies; it would make a great double bill with the Andy Kaufman biopic Man On The Moon or Catch Me If You Can. Peter Sarsgaard stars in Experimenter (Photo Provided) Peter Sarsgaard has always had an effete, remote quality to what he does, and here Almereyda has him breaking the fourth wall whenever at Cornell Cinema’s March 4 screening he wants, making us his confidant as at 7 p.m. Schubert studied philosophy at he explains the set-up and rules of each Cornell but has been working as an editor experiment and tells some secrets that on independent films for several years, not everyone may have heard. In one including acclaimed indies Life During characteristically odd shot, an elephant Wartime (assistant editor), Beasts of the follows him down a hallway as he talks.

Southern Wild (first assistant editor), Sarsgaard plays Milgram like a guy and Only Lovers Left Alive (associate standing in the corner at a party sizing editor). Schubert will participate in the everyone up.

President’s Council of Cornell Women The film alternates between Film Panel on Saturday, March 5 at 1:30 Milgram’s experiments and him meeting p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre, an event and marrying his wife Sasha Menkin that is free and open.

Milgram (Winona Ryder). Sasha actually NOTE: Adam McKay’s The Big Short assisted Milgram and was certainly in the got some Oscar love on Sunday night, workplace most of the time, and so Ryder winning for Best Adapted Screenplay. See gets to do a lot more than the usual two it again or for the first time when Cornell or three “dutiful wife” scenes typical of alum & actress Adepero Oduye ’99 the biopic genre.

(Pariah, 12 Years a Slave) will introduce Almereyda also shoots certain and take questions in advance of a sequences on sound stages backed with screening of the film, in which she plays blown-up photographs and what may the role of Kathy Tao, on Saturday, March be paintings. The effect is similar to the 5 at 9:20 p.m. • opening credits of Rosie Perez dancing in 20

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Not So Hard to Handel

Ithaca College presents engaging musical drama

By Br yan VanC ampe n Handel’s Semele, directed by R.B. Schlather; scenic design by Daniel Zimmerman; lighting design by Erik Herskowitz ’16; costume design by Greg Robbins; musical direction by Blaise Bryski; technical director by Guthrie Park ’16. Remaining performances March 1, 3 and 5 at 8pm.

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side from liking The Messiah when I hear it during the holidays, I can’t claim to be any kind of expert or fan of George Friedrich Händel, so when I went to a recent matinee at Dillingham Center, I really had no idea what Semele was about, other than the fact that it was presented in three acts. Would this be something like a staged reading, with the singers on stools reading from music stands? What was the story of Semele?

This is no staged reading, but a very theatrical full-on production conceived with such spirit, comedy and invention that I’m loathe to go into too much detail; I wouldn’t want to spoil the many surprises in R.B. Schlather’s stirring production.

As I learned, at the heart of Semele is the forbidden love between the mortal Semele (Laura McCauley) and the king of the gods, Jupiter (Joseph MichalczykLupa, clad in a shiny gold “Roxbury” style suit). As you might imagine, Semele has no shortage of potential lovers and rivals on Earth, including Athamas (Nicholas Kelliher, who has a truly unusual voice and a great capacity for physical comedy) and Iris (Andrea Bickford), dressed here like a Rocky Horror groupie nymphet in red go-go boots. Hovering over the proceedings in a wooden lifeguard station is Juno (Hector Gonzalez Smith), smoking and reading Life magazine.

According to Schlather’s director notes, Semele was written by Handel as an oratorio and was not originally intended to be staged. First produced in 1744, the piece was considered scandalous and wasn’t performed again for nearly two centuries.

Operas were intended to be performed, and oratorios sung. But as Schlather writes, “Semele cries out to be staged. It begs for it.” And he has certainly staged this rarely performed piece with a very strong sense of melodrama and style.

The style is that of Brecht (The Threepenny Opera), and so this production of Semele is a virtual compendium of Brechtian alienation devices. That is, the audience is aware from beginning to end that they are watching theater. Scenic designer Daniel Zimmerman has plopped a forced perspective performing box with a revolving back panel into the middle of the stage, and the back and side walls of the theatre, as well as the door to the adjacent scene shop are in plain sight, as are the actors making entrances from the back

doors. The intermissions are called from an intercom like announcements broadcast in a sweatshop. The cast disrobes and changes costumes in plain view of the audience.

This enables the talented cast to bring much more theatricality and personality to a much bigger, melodramatic vision of the

piece. As expected, all the vocals are executed with impeccable diction, projection and technical excellence, and aside from one of McCauley’s solo arias, the balance is perfect. The lyrics are projected overhead at the top of the proscenium, like a flipped subtitle track on a Criterion DVD. Schlather even makes time at the beginning for a projected joke, so keep an eye peeled.

As good as Semele sounds to the ears, there is much onstage to entertain the eyeballs as well.

Joseph Michalczyk-Lupa and Laura McCauley star in Semele, as Tickets can be purchased at the the characters Jupiter and Semele. (Photo Provided) Ithaca College box office in Dillingham Center or online at ithaca.ticketforce.

Tickets can also be purchased over the phone com. The box office is open Monday– at (607) 274-3224. Tickets range between $8 Thursday noon–5pm, and Friday noon–4pm and $16. •

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Third conductor candidate leads CCO concert

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his week the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra meets its third music director candidate, Cornelia Laemmli Orth, who will be on the podium Saturday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Hall. She conducts a program from the Viennese classical period—an

overture by Schubert, the Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major with soloist Clive Greensmith, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major. The preconcert chat begins at 6:45.

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angle of Tennessee—she lives about 20 minutes away from Kingsport, where she is in her tenth season as music director of Symphony of the Mountains. She also works as interim music director for the Appalachian Philharmonic and the Appalachian State University Opera Program in Boone, North Carolina, some 50 miles away. Her musical programs extend to many smaller communities scattered all around this region.

Cornelia grew up in Möriken, a village of about 1800 people in northern Switzerland, where her earliest training came in the public schools. Children start out playing the recorder—“an easy instrument to carry around and fairly easy to learn,” she told me. She wanted to study the flute, however, but there was a piano in the house and so she took piano lessons. Early on she became dedicated to music education and was engaged in leading choruses. She earned her degree in piano from the conservatory in Winterthur, not far from home, and went on the University in Zurich where she got a master’s in music education and choral conducting. In 2000 she came to this country and earned her master’s in orchestral conducting at Northwestern, where she studied with Victor Yampolsky.

Since then she has taken numerous workshops with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Joann Falletta, and Robert Spano. She told me that becoming a conductor was a gradual process for her, and as she learned more and more, she became increasingly dedicated. After Northwestern she planned to return to Switzerland but in 2002 got a position as associate conductor and later principal guest conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee. “And now I am still here.”

From her home base, aside from conducting an orchestra of about 90 members who perform in several configurations, Cornelia does considerable work going out to rural areas, bringing the orchestra and its members to family and school programs, and providing performance opportunities for young artists. Our aim, she says, is “entertaining, educating, enriching.”

The orchestra also has its own chorus, which performs major works. She gives concert lectures, makes regular TV and radio appearances, and collaborates with regional art organizations, making her a vital part of this extended community.

And she has served as guest conductor both here and in Europe.

When researching the position here, she realized that she has encountered many colleagues and students with connections to Ithaca. “This orchestra is very much in alignment with what I believe in”—high-quality concerts and emphasis on education. It is “too early to say” what she might do here if chosen.

She wants to meet the orchestra, and to find out about previous programs. “I hope to meet a lot of people.”

To open the program she chose the Schubert Overture in B-flat major, composed in 1816. “It is pretty, and less known,” and makes “a nice frame” with the Beethoven fourth symphony in the same key. She has never conducted it, and is very happy to have the chance.

It’s “really gorgeous, an absolute masterpiece.” She admires the contrasts in the work, “he takes us everywhere.” As for the Haydn cello concerto, she laughed.

Several seasons ago her orchestra had to reschedule a concerto at the last minute and find a work that the orchestra knew and that a principal could perform. It was this Haydn cello concerto, and Cornelia found herself learning it in four days.

“Now I get to do it again with more calmness and reflection.” She has not met Greensmith, who told me that he has taught this work for almost 30 years, but has never performed it. With a very distinguished career—he was cellist of the Tokyo String Quartet from 1999 to the final concert in July 2013—he now teaches at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. “Haydn is one of my favorite composers,” Laemmli said. He would like the audience to “really experience the elegance, imagination, and creativity of this supreme musical mind.”

Do come to hear delightful music, with a special soloist and a charming and dedicated conductor. •

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there basically is no fourth wall during the performance. An actor might be sitting next to you, you may be called onstage to do something odd, and you may end up doing a goofy dance move with your hands for the whole crowd if one of the cast members thinks you’re not really putting your all into it. Hey, it happened to me on opening night. So if you’re the shy, retiring type, maybe don’t sit in the front row.

The Hangar version was performed here is some serious silliness going by three actors, but this production makes on in the Flexible Theatre in the room for five fast and furious clowns, Schwartz Center for Performing doubling and tripling wigs and costumes Arts. If you like laughing a lot for 100 like a decathlon version of Greater Tuna: minutes or so, I don’t think you will regret Ezioma Asonye, Christian Kelly, Jacob my recommendation of Jeff Guyton’s Kuhn, Julie Locker, and Sam Morrison.

Hellzapoppin’-inspired production of The Just to mess with all that gender stuff, from time to time Locker sports a very handsome codpiece, and all the guys look really cute in wigs. Topics, scenes, and Marx brothers-style asides keep tumbling forth, one after another. Proving that brevity really is the soul of wit, the troupe polishes off the Scottish play in about five minutes, while the choppedlimbs-and-tongues Grand Guignol of “Titus Andronicus” is re-thought—perhaps for the better, if you’ve ever seen that one—as a three-minute cooking show.

With that kind of Starring in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) lightning speed, Act One ends [revised]” at Cornell University are, seated from left, Jacob Kuhn, Sam Mor- with only one play left to play: rison and Julie Locker; standing, Ezioma Asonye and Christian Kelly. (Photo Hamlet. And so Act Two is a Provided) rough half-hour comedic boildown of what many scholars Complete Works of William Shakespeare and fans think of as Shakespeare’s finest (Abridged) [Revised]. There are three work. performances left, and if you miss it, all The cast of five cavorts in front of a your friends will tell you how good it was, vaguely Globe-like stage setting with three and you will be sad. curtained doorways that allow for quick The play offers up condensed versions exits and re-entrances as the cast blows of every one of the Bard’s works—including through dozens of characters at breakneck all those sonnets!—in just about 97 minutes speed. The actors work it in what I call with intermission. I saw it at the Hangar “Godspell” style; that is, each actor goes by Theatre back in the ‘90s, and while the their own name, but the pace and volume play is credited to Adam Long, Daniel of the comedy ensures they’re always in Singer, and Jess Winfield, it seems to have character and ready for anything. been written to allow each production to Kent Goetz’s set looks kind of like change references, update jokes, and just the Land of Make Believe version of plain make it their own. For example, I Shakespeare à la Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. can’t remember any mention of Quentin I especially liked the guitar made by the Tarantino, Harry Potter, or Selena Gomez prop department for a very specific music in the ‘90s version, because, well, they gag, and all the pigeons nesting on the weren’t things yet. roof, which was somehow daubed with If you’re the kind of person who tastefully-stratified bird droppings. It was gets very uptight when the actors break just another little touch that reminded that fourth wall and maybe make you do the audience, as Troy Barnes said on something for the ticket you bought …

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Here Comes the Zoo

Animal man brings traveling show to the State

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or someone who claims he never least you admit it. watched TV and never wanted to JH: [Laughs] Yeah, Trump’s kinda be on TV, Jack Hanna, director like that, but in a different way than me. emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Put it this way: it’s a lot of fun. It really is.

Aquarium, has logged countless talk When people leave, they’ve been educated show hours giving viewers close-ups of and they don’t know it. Because, do I talk animals we never thought we’d see closeabout some serious issues sometimes? Yes, up. Hanna will bring his stage show Jack I do. But we do have families involved. I Hanna Into The Wild LIVE to the State don’t get into showing a poaching movie Theatre on Sunday, March 6. Hanna spoke where an animal’s head gets blown off. I to the Ithaca Times about the show, his could show those to adults; I have those least favorite talk show moment, and kinds of videos. I have videos for the much more via phone from his offices at whole age range, for the whole family. But the Columbus Zoo. that’s a different situation. You have to be Ithaca Times: Can you give us an able to appeal to many different types of overview of what the show will be? folks.

Jack Hanna: Yeah. Basically, I’ve IT: Do you have a favorite talk show been doing this for quite a few years, moment? doing shows in theaters around the JH: Gosh, I got so many of those. country—also for zoos and other places. I really enjoy doing it. We have a purpose of teaching people about the animal world, because I wish everybody could go out in the animal world, but a lot of people can’t do that. So their animal world is, there’s an animal park or an aquarium in their area.

That’s where they go. 176 million people went to zoos or aquariums last year. People are surprised by that. Visitation to zoos Jack Hanna with penguin friend (Photo Provided) and aquariums today is the largest recreation in America, bigger than pro football or NASCAR or any of that.

To have a favorite one, you’d have to go It’s growing every year. And I usually sign back to hundreds and hundreds of shows. autographs before the show. Not many [Laughs] We had an ostrich that had people do that; I do it because I can read diarrhea on Good Morning America; that the audience. I talk to people, I hear their was pretty funny. On the David Letterman concerns, I hear what they’ve liked, or show, we had a bird fly up in the rafters; what they like about animals, what they we got him about four hours after. You see in my shows, or what they do—all this couldn’t go up there, you couldn’t catch kind of stuff. I always create what I speak him during the show, so that was a funny about when I see who I’m talking to. thing. I’ve had so many things happen on IT: So it’s not canned. the show. One thing that wasn’t funny, I JH: No, this is not canned. [Laughs] was bitten by a beaver on a show once.

You’ll see.

IT: So that would be your least IT: I would guess with all your talk favorite moment? show appearances, you kind of have to be JH: Yeah, a 60-pound animal biting ready for anything. my hand.

JH: You’re one of the first reporters to IT: Do you have a favorite animal? say that. You’re absolutely right. You do all JH: My wife. [Laughs] those talk shows; it’s all about that. It does prepare you for a different speech every Read the full interview with Jack time. I never know what I’m gonna say. If Hanna at Ithaca.com you ever watch [Late Night with David] Letterman, you can tell I have no idea The State Theatre is at 107 W State what I’m saying.

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and the literal. A closet jazz singer and pianist, he played with associations to both music and architecture. He used obscure and seemingly arbitrary geometric systems to generate compositions that nonetheless have an intuitive rightness. Color—alternating between somber and luminous—is more immediate, lyrical.

As he wrote in a statement: For me, painting is a medium of expression capable of communicating profound visual experiences solely through its own elements: color and structure. Color and light are rich and important features of our experience of the world and of our inner life. The task of structure in my work is to create a framework of possibilities for expressive color. A painting of mine may be inspired by something I have seen or be the outcome of an abstract process. More often, it is a combination of both. I usually work in series characterized by specific compositional ideas and methods.

An early oil, Signal (1966), hints at the artist’s Abstract Expressionist roots with areas of looser facture coming up against the tightening pull characteristic of his mature style. The piece features a square canvas on the left, conjoined to a right-angled triangle, pointed rightwards.

A dull blue-gray background is played off of areas of more insistent color: narrow strokes of pale and darker purple-blue around the edges, as well as—towards the right—sawtooth mountains of red, pinks, and burnt orange.

In two large square canvases, Zodiac (1970) and Bazaar (1972), Boyd decisively rejects both Expressionist brushiness and Minimalist literalism. He uses smooth gradients of color (“fills” in the language of graphic design) to create a space that is both illusionistic and manifestly unnatural. The former piece evokes sky with its dark-to-light blue obscured in the center by two silvery pale vertical bars. The latter is softly tinged in pink, rose, and purple. The center is an even pale pink, while a frame like border echoes the edges without touching them.

The two paintings (and others from the early ‘70s, not in this show) seem to represent an extreme. Later pieces here take a more painterly, less severe approach.

Petro (1974), the show’s mural-scale centerpiece, is exemplary. Magisterial and solemn, the piece is composed of four tall contiguous canvases, each a slightly different gradation of blue-green-gray.

Dividing this background expanse into three equal bands are four narrower horizontal strips, in foggy bluish-gray.

Using a pattern found in many of Boyd’s 70’s works, similarly colored little squares puncture these strips—resting inside as well as on-top and below, like musical notation.

Writing in Art Journal in 1991,

the artist explained of his work of the period, “I began to develop a complex compositional process combining systematic and intuitive elements in a grid-based format. The process evolved over time, but in general involved the distribution of elements on a grid to create a scheme providing an array of constrained compositional choices.”

An obsession with the grid dates back to the early geometric abstraction of Piet Mondrian and others and found a new urgency in the ‘60s among artists eager to move beyond Abstract Expressionism—which many felt had grown stale and clichéd.

Curlew (1986) and Bridge (1989) are the most engaging of Boyd’s later works here. Painted on a single upright canvas with an indentation at the upper-left, the former memorably merges color and geometry. Divided by a clean vertical border, the left two thirds or so is a solid, saturated red, while the right is a filled with a wispier baby blue and accented with a clean black bar that goes around the upper right corner.

The latter piece has an atypically rough quality to its brushwork. It is made up of two canvas panels: a narrow horizontal one at the top and a square one anchoring the left side below. The top canvas projects further from the wall, accentuating a sculptural aspect that also characterizes other paintings here. The noctilucent purple-blue square of the bottom canvas extends to the top one, creating a weird disjunction between image and object. The top canvas is otherwise colored pale blue, patterned with crisp, horizontal and vertical bright orange bars.

I’m conscious that these dry descriptions don’t do justice to the remarkable poetic force of these paintings. They deserve to be seen in the flesh, assembled together—ideally for an extended period of time and over several visits.

“Retrospective” is the result of discussions, going back a couple of years, between the artist’s widow, Verlaine Boyd—well-known locally as a poet—and former Human Ecology senior associate dean S. Kay Obendorf.

Viewers interested in the history of geometric abstract painting would do well to also visit Cornell’s Johnson Museum, which is currently showing “Revealed: WPA Murals from Roosevelt Island.” The special exhibit (which runs through May 29th) features three Depression-era works carefully excavated from the interior walls of Goldwater Memorial Hospital—recently demolished to make way for the university’s New York City Tech campus.

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“Michael Boyd Memorial Retrospective,” which opened this past Feb. 1, has been extended through March 11.

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Rob Stachyra | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Alternative Country, Country Rock.

Slabtown String Band: WVBR Bound For Glory | 8:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Old-Time, Folk.

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Paul Kempkes: Dr.K | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Solo guitar with attitude.

Swing Thursdays | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Come on down to The Dock and kick up your heels! Featuring Jim Scarpulla, Andrew Battles, and Mike Wellen, we’ll be leaning a little more to the blues side of things.

Whistling’ Dyl and the Wild Cowboys | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Social Music. Every Thursday.

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3/02 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With the Crucial Reggae Social Club. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser

3/04 Friday The 5th Annual Winter Squabee | 3/04 Friday | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Enjoy 27 bands with lovely view of Seneca Lake. Food & beverage available for purchase. All proceeds go to We Are Seneca Lake. www.WeAreSenecaLake.com. Fri March 4, 4pm-11pm, Sat March 5, 11am-11pm; Sun, March 6, 11am-4pm.

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

Doug Keating | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Cocktail Hour music. Every Friday.

Dynamo, Scopes Monkey Trial | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | R&B, Funk , Jazz, Hip Hop, Electronica.

Jazz at the Bakery | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Ithaca Bakery, Triphammer Marketplace, 2555 N Triphammer, Ithaca | Jazz.

Kitestring | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Alternative Country, Alternative Rock, Americana, Rockabilly.

Single Barrel | 7:00 PM | Heavily

3/03 Thursday Aceto-Liberman Quart | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Ithaca Swing Dance with the Aceto-Liberman Quartet.

Acoustic Brew | 7:30 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Acoustic Blues, Electric Blues, Rock and Folk.

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

Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Curtis Osgood & Friends Traditional American, Jazz, and Celtic standards

Brewing Company, 2741 Hayes Rd., Montour Falls | Modern Southern Rock, Outlaw Country, Rock and Roll.

Spectacular Average Boys | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Alternative Folk, Bluegrass, Indie Rock.

The Jeff Love Band | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Funk, Soul, Rock.

The Sweats | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Original Blues, Rock, Country.

White Woods & David and Valerie Mayfield | 8:00 PM | Rock, Americana, Roots.

Parts, Slewfoot, Hot Wings Cold Feet, Melanie and the boys, Travelin Foo Band, The Young Brothers, and a Grand Finale Pick-Up! There will be food, drink, and picking rooms available downstairs, so bring your instruments.

The Ithacats | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Under Construction | 7:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Company, 2741 Hayes Rd., Montour Falls | Originals, Rock, Blues, Country, Funk.

Under Construction | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Company, 2471 Hayes Road, Montour Falls | Rock, Blues, Country, Funk, 50s & 60s.

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David & Valerie Mayfield | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Dynamic Bluegrass Duet.

Jimmy Pinchak and the Blues Company | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Blues.

Johnny Dowd, B33T Juice, Badhand | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Rock, Punk, Blues, Psychedelic, Funk, Experimental.

Marcus King | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

Milo, Sammus, Izzy True, Red Sled Choir | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Rap, Hip Hop, Folk, Experimental. Ithaca Underground presents.

Nathan Kalish and the Last Callers, Let’s Be Leonard | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Country Rock, Rock, Alternative, Funk, Progressive Rock.

Penny Midwinter Bluegrass Day | 11:00 AM-6:30 PM | Vestal American Legion, Jensen Road, Vestal | Performances by Gospel Way, Spare

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3/04 Friday Cornell Chamber Orchestra | 7:00 PM | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell College, Ithaca | Kisun Sung, conductor.

Features Britten’s Sinfonietta and Simple Symphony.

Ross Bennett Comedy | 7:00 PM- | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow

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I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Celtic Festival with Goitse and Girsa | 7:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Girsa has captured the hearts of audiences everywhere with their melodious voices, electrifying musicianship and witty banter. Their energetic and enthusiastic performances of Traditional Irish music, song and dance have been met with outstanding acclaim.

Gaelic Storm | 8:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Gaelic Storm’s musical output includes pieces from traditional Irish music, Scottish music, and original tunes in both the Celtic and Celtic rock genres.

3/06 Sunday Cornell University Wind Symphony | 3:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | James Spinazzola, conductor, with oboe soloist Emily DiAngelo. Features an engaging mix of wind band favorites, including works by Morton Gould, John Mackey, and Edwin Roxburgh, as well as the East Coast premiere of Christopher Stark’s Velocity Meadows for oboe, chamber winds, electronics, and video.

Crazy Quilt - John Corelli & Friends | 2:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Covelli’s friends come together to create the patchwork pieces of a crazy quilt of musical adventure in this must-hear concert! The evocative and compelling Cowell’s Tocanta returns by popular demand with cellist Hakan Hromek, flautist Nina Stutzman and countertenor Steven Nanni.

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

Brookton Bridge | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | Passionate & Savory Folk Rock.

All original music.

Dead Night with Ship of Phools | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Every other Sunday come to the Haunt for the best Grateful Dead jams around! Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock, Jam. Gerard Burke | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Mississippi Delta Blues.

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

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

MSZM | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster

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

Skin Graft, Dissilient, Dog Lady Island, Breaking The Will | 8:00 PM-10:30 PM | Harsh Noise, Power Electronics, Noise, Ithaca Underground presents.

St, Johnson City | A Stand-Up Comic for people who say they don’t like Stand-Up Comics.

Westfield Center Symposium: Keyboard Networks. | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Unauthorized Versions: Dogma and Heresy in the Performance of Chopin, Liszt, and Mendelssohn. Includes performances of Chopin Études, Mendelssohn’s Fantasy on The Last Rose of Summer, and Liszt’s St. Francis Walking on the Waves. See https:// westfield.org/conferences/keyboardnetworks/

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Jonathan Schakel | 5:00 PM | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Organ and harpsichord, with guest violinist David Sariti.

The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble: All-Schubert Program | 4:00 PM | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The concert features two gems from Schubert’s oeuvre—the Piano Trio in B-flat and the Octet in F. Tickets can be purchased at the door. For more information: (607) 272-4839 or FingerLakesChamberEnsemble.org

PhotoSynthesis Productions. Speakers include pioneering producer Lucy Jarvis ’38, freelance film editor Kathryn Schubert, M.A. ’05, Mary Fessenden, director of Cornell Cinema; and student filmmaker Kimberly Scarsella ’16.

Honor Diaries Film Screening | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | 2013 documentary film traces the work of nine women’s rights advocates who came together to engage in a discourse about gender inequality and honor-based violence.

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3rd Annual Streets Alive! Film Festival hosted by Bike Walk Tompkins. | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/03 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | A slew of short films about biking and walking. The first half is devoted to films that spark creative solutions for active transportation, and the second half are artsy poignant adventurous re-screened Filmed By Bike films.

Cornell Women in Film | 1:45 PM-3:15 PM, 3/05 Saturday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Features a panel discussion about movie making, moderated by filmmaker Deborah Hoard, M.P.S. ’78, president of Ithaca-based

Friday, 3/04 to Thursday, 3/10.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Where to Invade Next | To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” them to see what they have to offer. | 110 mins R | Son of Saul (Saul fia) | In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. | 107 mins R |

The Wave (Bolgen) | Even though awaited, no-one is really ready when the mountain pass of Åkneset above the scenic narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger falls out and creates a 85-meter-high violent tsunami. A

geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it. | 104 mins R | The Lady In The Van | A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that’s parked in his driveway. | 104 mins PG-13 | Spotlight | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. | 128 min R| Me andEarl and the DyingGirl | High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer. | 105 mins PG-13 | Cornell Cinema

Wednesday 3/02 to Tuesday 3/08 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Sembene! | Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon. | 82 mins NR | Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict | A portrait of a patron of the arts extraordinaire who transformed a modest fortune and impeccable taste into one of the premiere collections of twentieth

century art. | 96 mins NR | Creed | The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed. | 133 mins PG-13 | Experimenter | In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.| 98 mins PG-13 | The Wonders | A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. | 110 mins NR | Riot Acts | Riot Acts is a ‘transfabulous’ rockumentary representing the multi-faceted lives of transgender and gender variant musicians. | 76 mins NR | Breaking Baksbat | A moving psychological portrait of Cambodia decades after a devastating genocide, examining how baksbat (Khmer for “broken courage”) continues to impact modern Cambodia. | 90 mins NR |

Stage To Kill a Mockingbird | Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street,

auditions. Contact the director, Douglas Lockwood, via email: dlockwo2@twcny. rr.com Performance dates for the show are Thu. April 28, Fri. April 29, Sat. April 30, and Sun. May 1. For more information contact Encore Players at encoreplayers.ct@gmail.com or 607-387-3953 Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | Chili’s, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Newcomers welcome. RSVP lldalve24@yahoo.com Library Seeks Poetry Submissions | In anticipation of Poem in Your Pocket Day, Tompkins County Public Library is seeking original works from local poets of all ages. Poem in Your Pocket Day, held in recognition of National Poetry Month, is an initiative designed to spark interest and excitement in poetry by sharing free poems with the community. TCPL librarians will distribute free cards, featuring submitted poems, in the Library, on the Downtown Ithaca Commons and in additional locations throughout Ithaca on April 28. Individuals, creative writing groups and classes are encouraged to submit up to two poems of no more than 15 lines on or before March 18. All poems meeting these requirements will be included in the celebration. Submissions can be submitted at http://tcpl.org/ events-exhibits/poetry-submission. php or delivered to the Information and Learning Services Reference Desk.

For more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at (607) 272-4557 extension 272 or poetry@tcpl.org.

Community Fellowship Dinner | 6:15 PM, 3/03 Thursday | St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church, 120 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Dinner includes lamb with Greek style potatoes, Greek salad, and dessert. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available. Please bring your own wine. A donation is requested with all proceeds donated in support of the St. Catherine “A Taste of Greece” Festival to be held May 6 and 7, 2016.

Questions or if you can volunteer to help, please contact Paul Karakantas at 607-227-3771 or Bill Manos at 607-273-4170.

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/03 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Cornell | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 3/04 Friday | Tompkins

Notices Auditions for Trumansburg’s Encore Players Community Theatre’s upcoming production of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, by Jethro Compton | 7:00 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | Trumansburg Presbyterian Church Chapel, 69 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | Audition times are Wednesday March 2nd at 7 p.m. and Saturday March 5th at 2 p.m. Actors will be asked to perform a cold-reading from the script and are welcome to present a short prepared monologue if they wish. Previous acting experience is preferred, but not necessary. We are looking for 6 men, 1 woman (speaking roles) and others who will play parts of non-speaking townspeople and students. Ages teen-adults of all ages.

Anyone interested in participating with other aspects of the production, (i.e. costumes, props, set construction, tech, etc.) is welcome come to

Barbara C. Harrison

State of the Art Gallery, Friday, March 4, 5:00 p.m.

Elevator Music and Art Gallery, Friday, March 4, 5:00 p.m.

Fifty-five photographers from the Ithaca area, New York City, Rochester and as far south as Virginia have work in the “27th Annual Juried Photography Show” at State of the Art Gallery. Sixty-seven photographs were chosen and Jean Locey, Professor of Photography in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell, will award up to $600 in prizes. Show director David Watkins, Jr. says that most of the work is digitally based with a few traditional exceptions. Show dates: March 3-27, 2016.

Elevator Music and Art Gallery hosts a dynamic new exhibit by the photographer Barbara C. Harrison. Her work is sharp, focused, and gravitates towards the bold. Her statement for the exhibit is thus: “The visual artist wanders the environs, eyes in motion–delving into textures, patterns, colors, and lines painted by light. Expanding the view a scene presents by altering perspective. Viewing Patterns, the observer has a chance to visualize the possibilities, rather than what is.” The exhibit opens this Friday during Ithaca’s Gallery Night.

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Syracuse | 7:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday Harper Lee’s classic American story of courage and justice. In a small Alabama town, a black man, Tom Robinson, stands falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many townspeople would see him condemned, but attorney Atticus Finch defends Tom and demands justice. Through the trial, Atticus’ children Scout and Jem and their friend Dill come face to face with realty of racism in their small town.

Runs February 24 through March 26.

For info and showtimes visit syracusestage.org The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged | 7:30 PM, 3/04 Friday, 3/05 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield and Directed by Jeff Guyton.

The Whiskey Tango Sideshow: First Annual Empire Burlesque Festival | 8:00 PM, 3/04 Friday , 3/05 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Whiskey Tango Sideshow will take the the Hangar stage again this year with guests from across New York State and beyond! Featuring burlesque, cabaret, and sideshow in two unique and effervescent performances. Friday Night Headliner: Calamity Chang, New York City, NY with other Special Guests. Saturday Night Headliner: Red Hot Annie, Chicago, IL with Other Special Guests. More info at hangartheatre.org

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Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University.

New Roots: Winter Open House | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 3/05 Saturday | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Come discover what New Roots has to offer at our upcoming Open House.

Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM, 3/06 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing is a low-impact aerobic activity that stimulates both mind and body. Easy and fun for people of any age. Sunday Squares is free and open to all. We dance to a wide variety of popular music, and learn dance steps used all over the world. Come alone or with a partner. No special dancing skills required.

The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 The Commons, Ithaca | Please join us for tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future.

Every Tuesday Night at 7 O’Clock.

what they do and how they do it is sometimes unknown to the people that live here. If you plan to attend, please send an email to holly@greenstar.coop Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build training sessions | 6:00 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | Lowe’s, Ithaca | Learn everything you need to know about how to select and install tile at your home (or, in a Habitat house!). This is a hands-on session, come prepared to learn and give it a try. Questions? Contact Shannon at Shannon@tchabitat.com Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 4:15 PM-, 3/03 Thursday, 5:45 PM-, 3/08 Tuesday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. More info at www.

YogaFarm.us Kathryn Gleason: Living Architecture: Herod’s Maritime Palace. | 6:30 PM, 3/03 Thursday | Room 208, Center for Natural Sciences of Ithaca College, Ithaca | Finger Lakes Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association will host Kathryn Gleason of the Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture. Her talk will demonstrate how Herod the Great’s architect constructed a palace in the surf of the Mediterranean by designing it into a vermatid reef at Caesarea Maritima, Israel. Parking is in Blue Lot O on the Ithaca College Campus.

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by Zen priest Masaki Matsubara | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/03 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Space is limited; RSVP eas8@cornell. edu and please bring your own yoga mat or towel. Free. 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police | 4:30 PM-, 3/03 Thursday | Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Award-winning scholaractivist Ruth Wilson Gilmore will discuss proposed policing reforms and the possibility for change as Cornell’s 2016 Krieger Lecturer in American Political Culture.

The Facing Project: Storytelling for Change | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/04 Friday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | A talk by J. R. Jamison and Kelsey Timmerman, co-founders of The Facing Project. Jamison and Timmerman will share their stories of becoming engaged citizens, which led to the founding of The Facing Project,

Learning Art Classes for Adults | 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.

Celebrate Farming in Tompkins County: Panel Presentation and Networking | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Celebrate Our Amazing Farming Community! Hear about what area farmers are doing to practice sustainability and how they contribute to the social well-being of our community. Farmers are an integral part of the Tompkins County Landscape and our Community, however,

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2016 CSA Fair | 12:00 PM-, 3/05 Saturday | Boynton Middle School cafeteria, 1601 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | The 2016 CSA Fair is coming up. It’s a great way to meet CSA farmers and we get largely positive feedback from the people who attend.

I’m pasting the link to the Facebook event below, and I’d greatly appreciate it if you would share and invite your friends. Soon I will also send out a press release that can be forwarded to any listserves/email networks that you are on. www.facebook.com/ events/342929005831030/ Ithaca Red Tent | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 3/06 Sunday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Ithaca Red Tent - A place for women, created by women, where we can explore all that it means to be a woman. Join us: first Saturday of every month from 10:00 – 3:00 PM. For more information, please visit www.

IthacaRedTent.com Nimat Hafez Barazangi: Qur’anic Shari’ah: Gender Justice in Islam | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, 3/07 Monday | 182 Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Dr. Barazangi will use examples from her recent book, Woman’s Identity and Rethinking the Hadith, to argue that Islam is neither a law nor a dogma of submission. Rather, each individual Muslim, male or female, has the right and responsibility to intimately read, understand, and apply the Qur’an free of others’ interpretations.

Oh, the Women!: Writing Workshop | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Facilitated by Irene “Zee” Zahava, this workshop will provide participants of all ages and genders with the inspiration and encouragement to write about and share stories about the special women in their lives. To register, contact Zahava at (607) 273-4675 or zee@twcny.rr.com.

Special Events Square Dancing & Dessert Night at Belle Sherman | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/03 Thursday | Belle Sherman Elementary School, 501 Mitchell St, Ithaca | Featuring our very own Randi Beckmann and her band “Long John and the Tights” with caller Nancy Spero.

8th Annual Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium | 12:00

AM-11:59 PM, 3/04 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | March 4 and March 5. Information on the symposium, speaker lineup, CEU credits and a registration link can be found at www.IthacaNativeLandscape. com.

The 5th Annual Winter Squabee | 3/04 Friday | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Enjoy 27 bands with lovely view of Seneca Lake. Food & beverage available for purchase. All proceeds go to We Are Seneca Lake. www.WeAreSenecaLake.com. Fri March 4, 4pm-11pm, Sat March 5, 11am-11pm; Sun, March 6, 11am-4pm.

Benefit for the family of Louis Sinn Jr. | 1:00 PM-6:00 PM, 3/05 Saturday | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Dinner includes spaghetti, toss salad, bread and a dessert. There will be 50/50 raffle, face painting, bake sale, many baskets with various gift certificates, items , etc to raffle.

Benefit is to help pay for the funeral and medical costs from the unexpected death of Louis.

Cayuga Hematology Oncology Associates presents: Blue Bottom Boogie | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/05 Saturday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, , Ithaca | Come visit Cayuga Hematology Oncology Associates booth and enjoy our tables of information, along with interactive exhibits such as; jazzercise, kickboxing, Zumba and more!

Dance the Night Away | 8:00 PM, 3/05 Saturday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Dust off your dancing shoes and join us for delicious food, great cocktails, and fun dance tunes from Little Joe and the Big Shots.

Dance the night away and watch local celebrities take the floor in exhibition dances. This is the sixth year of this fabulous party.

Groton Cabin Fever Festival | 12:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/05 Saturday | Groton High School, , Groton | Day Activities from 12-4pm. Community Roller Skating Party 6-9pm. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GrotonRecreation-142721545899979/ Jack Hanna Into The Wild LIVE | 2:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | As the director emeritus of the famed Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Jack’s stories range from brushing a hippo’s teeth to eating with wombats!

IPEI’s Adult Spelling Bee | 2:00 PM-, 3/06 Sunday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | IPEI’s 18th Annual Adult Spelling Bee is a fun fundraiser for IPEI’s grants for teachers. Before

Spectacular Average Boys, The Dock, Friday, March 4, 8:00 p.m.

This youthful collective clearly have feet planted in both the past and the present, drawing from folk and Americana roots that are passed down as tradition, while also showcasing the loud, aggressive elements of the 90’s music they raged while growing up. The haunting beauty of life in Upstate New York, a life full of back roads and long winters, shines through in their music. Their music pays homage these backdrops and lays foundations for the future as well. Check the Boys out this Friday at The Dock. h e

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For more information, see www.ipei. org or contact 256-IPEI (4734).

Record Fair | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/06 Sunday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Thousands of records, CDs, DVDs, bargains and rarities available. Music from Bach to Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk, Jazz, Avant-garde, and most everything in between. Info: Jack at 607-427-9698 or nyrecordfairs. com

Meetings City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

City of Ithaca Commons Advisory Board | 8:30 AM, 3/04 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Community Advisory Group (CAG) | 6:00 PM, 3/07 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | CAG is concerned with Ithaca’s contaminated sites. It convenes to promote greater public participation in clean-up projects, and to help citizens and involved government agencies make better-informed decisions.

City of Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca City Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC) | 5:30 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The ILPC is charged with administering and interpreting the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Ordinance.

Books A Novel Idea - Book Club | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Come spice things up, catch up with friends, and get your intellectual side out over delightful cocktails and

books that you will not want to put down. Hosted by Buffalo Street Books’ Asha Sanakar.

Coloring: Stress Relief | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | GM Asha introduces you to the stress relief that is coloring. Yes, coloring. All the rage these days, but many have known for years how taking a colored pencil to a page can ease the mind. We will have colored pencils and pages to color, or you can bring your own book.

Free and open to the public Jacob M. Appel, Leslie Daniels, & Jacob White | 5:30 PM, 3/03 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Readings by Authors. PM-7:00 PM, 3/01 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Open mic Spoken Word/Poetry night led by Meredith Clarke, and featuring YOU! And your original literary works.

Kids Storytime and Art Project | 10:30 AM-, 3/03 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Every Thursday morning the Ulysses Philomathic Library will hold a storytime with an art project.

Join us in the children’s area at 10:30 am every Thursday from January 7th to May 26th for themes such as Robots, Dance, Opposites, Trains, Outer Space, Dinosaurs, Kites, and more!

Lego Build | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/05 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Make an awesome structure every Saturday at the library.

Sciencenter: Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 3/05 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Parents with their little ones (4 years old & under) explore science through hands-on activities, stories, and songs.

Every Wednesday and Saturday. www. sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 3/06 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Sciencenter: Chemsations! | 2:00 PM-, 3/06 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Watch as local high school students demonstrate chemical reactions with color changes, bubbles, and light.

Milo, Sammus, Izzy True, Sacred Root Kava Lounge, Saturday, March 5, 9:00 p.m.

This Wisconsin rapper first started out in the hip-hop trio Nom de Rap and released his first solo mixtape I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here in 2011. With a debt and style similar to rappers like Sage Francis and Blackalicious, his lyrics run a personal and unique tongue. Milo’s beats drift into avant-garde, trip hop, electronic, and modern cuts, that flow heavy with his rhyme scales. The night’s bill packs an eclectic punch: with hometown heroes Sammus, Izzy True, and Red Sled Choir opening up. Ithaca Underground presents.

Nature & Science Permaculture Design Studio | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 3/02 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Sean Dembrosky of Edible Acres will lead an informal design studio to help you incorporate permaculture design into your own garden or homestead. Call (607) 272-2292 to register by phone, or save time by registering online here http:// db.ccetompkins.org/programs/civicrm/ event/info?id=623&reset=1 Cayuga Bird Club Field Trip: Montezuma Wildlife Refuge | 7:30 AM, 3/05 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | All field trips are open to the public, both experienced birders and beginners. For Information and updates, refer to the bird club’s website: http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | 4:00 PM, 3/08 Tuesday | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening at 4 PM. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Art Artist’s Talk: Korakrit Arunanondchai | 5:15 PM-, 3/03 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY 11: Artist Korakrit Arunanondchai will discuss his work and the new exhibition The fire is gone but we have the light, which features his work alongside that of his friend and mentor, Rirkrit Tiravanija. Free.

607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu Contemporary Conversation: Art in Cuba | 5:15 PM-, 3/03 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Sonja Gandert, the Museum’s curatorial assistant, will discuss art in contemporary Cuba. The Museum is open tonight until 8:00 PM! SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery: Sculpture Show | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 3/03 Thursday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland | Featured sculptors are Kevin Dartt, Gavin Kenyon, Elizabeth Kronfield,

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His Intonarumori, a group of musical instruments he designed to perform the music he proposed in his Art of Noises manifesto (1913), stand as one of the high points in early 20th-century fabrication, design, and innovation.

He was a visionary—a seeker of the inbetween. A century later, his methods live fruitfully on, in an underground music scene stretching the globe far and wide.

Sandusky, Ohio’s Dissilient, a harsh noise duo consisting of Chris Bilecki and Paul Markus, combine Russolo’s machinedriven noise ideologies with their own contemporary industrialized mechanisms, channeling the inner-terrors of a musical landscape representative of its climate.

Bilecki recently talked with me about some noise stuff; his band is set to play a very looked-forward-to noise super-show at the Tompkins County Workers Center this Monday night.

Ithaca Times: Is there a fine line of what is and isn’t noise? Is there a fundamental difference between the noise artist Merzbow and, say, an artist like Geir Jenssen (Biosphere)?

Chris Bilecki: Noise encompasses

Marie Lorenz, Lionel Maunz, Nikki Moser, Margherita Raso, Matthew Wicker, Jeff Williams and Vaughn Randall. Show runs February 29-April 15, 2016.

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/04 Friday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | On the first Friday of each month, art galleries in downtown hold their opening receptions for exhibitions. Visit www. downtownithaca.com for details 27th Annual Juried Photography Show | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/04 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | This has become a highly regarded photography exhibition in the Ithaca area. Up to $600 in prizes will be awarded by Jean Locey, professor of Photography, Cornell University, Runs March 2 through the 27, 2016. www.

(Above) Dissilient’s tools of the trade (Right) The duo doing what they do best: making noise (Photo Provided) supernatural. It can be a direct link to your emotions or come from somewhere else entirely.

IT: When you play live, is the music composed or improvised? Or is it a combo of both?

CB: It is definitely a combination of both for us. We usually start with a structure or an idea of where we want to go and end up, while leaving plenty of room for improvisation and experimentation along the way.

IT: What got you into creating noise?

Was there a particular defining moment?

Was it a process through a vast sea of musical experience?

CB: This requires separate responses.

For myself, Paul gets all the credit for getting me into noise. He introduced me to a vast array of different artists and styles a few years ago, and I was instantly hooked, borrowing any and every tape, CD, and record he would let me have.

Noise was like a revelation to me, that I didn’t have to stay tied to all of the standard genres of music I had known my whole life. There was this other world out

such a wide variety of sounds and styles that it is hard to define it. While we appreciate and enjoy both sides of the spectrum, we tend to lean more towards the harsh side of noise when it comes to our own music.

IT: What kind of a set-up and electronics do you guys use/have?

CB: We both use a combination of loop pedals, mixers, and effects pedals, coupled with various electronics, field recordings, and tape. We also incorporate any number of different objects depending on the set we are playing.

Some examples are a homemade string box, pieces of scrap metal, chains, wire brushes, and a beer keg.

IT: Where do some of the inspirations you use in creating your sound come from? Is noise music natural, supernatural, or both?

CB: For the most part, our music usually has a very personal element to it. We often use home recordings of our family and work life. Sometimes a single sound itself will inspire a piece. In our opinion, noise is both natural and

soag.org Barbara C. Harrison | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 3/04 Friday | Elevator Music and Art Gallery - at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Artist Statement: The visual artist wanders the environs, eyes in motion–delving into textures, patterns, colors, and lines painted by light. Expanding the view a scene presents by altering perspective.

Viewing Patterns, the observer has a chance to visualize the possibilities, rather than what is. Photographs printed by Stan Bowman. You can reach him at 607 277 4950 or cell 607 279 1314. Website: http://www. stanbowman.com/ Cultura First Friday Gallery Night and Open House | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/04 Friday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca |

Come celebrate the inauguration of of CULTURA’s new art piece by local artist Kevin Cruz. We open our doors to the public for a fun evening of free food, drink, and connection!

Let’s Do This: New work by Nicholas H. Ruth | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/04 Friday | Creative Space Gallery, 215 The Commons, Ithaca | This artist’s new work focuses on modern mechanisms that aid in communication, and how these metaphorically portray our values and desires. He contrasts these cold synthetic tools, such as billboards, utility lines, and cellphone towers, with bright patterns and colors to create his visual message.

Art + Feminism Wiki Edit-a-thon | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/05 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell is taking part in this year’s

there with so much amazing stuff that I now feel honored to be somewhat a part of, and I owe it all to Paul.

As for Paul, he has always leaned towards the experimental side of music.

He has a background in music, having played in many different bands, but he started experimenting with tape and contact mics. He started going to shows and meeting people, and a couple of local dudes—Matt Bahnsen and Cody Kirkendall (Darger)—had a house space where they would host different noise acts, and they finally talked him into playing. He never looked back from there.

IT: Who are some of the most exciting noise artists out there now?

CB: Skin Graft, Constrain, Breaking the Will, Aaron Dilloway, Plague Mother, Faangface, Deterge, Shredded Nerve, Sunken Cheek … These are just a few that come to mind. There are so many great artists putting out awesome stuff right now that it is hard to narrow it down. • To read the whole interview with Chris Bilecki visit Ithaca.com

Michael Boyd Retrospective Exhibit | DEA Gallery In Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University | Gallery hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.| Professor Emeritus Michael Boyd’s retrospective exhibit has been extended until March 11, 2016. Showcasing powerful abstract paintings from the artist’s dynamic collection of works from the many decades of his career.

Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-athon, designed to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to encourage female editorship.

Join us at the Museum to participate in updating and entering entries on art and feminism at this drop-in event during our public hours today. Free.

607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature: Framed | Tompkins County Trust Co, Main Office Lobby, 110 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | Monday through Friday, 9 AM - 5 PM | Artist statement: Using varied textures and materials my focus is to connect the visual and emotional contrast of observing nature through the window of my childhood, with the calm and richness of being surrounded by the natural environment in the present.

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Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Sunday, March 6, 5:00 p.m.

Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild takes viewers on excursions around the globe through the eyes of America’s most beloved animal adventurer and his family. More than just an assemblage of animal escapades, Into the Wild provides insight into the protection and conservation of some of our planet’s most precious and endangered species. The show is unscripted and action packed – it takes you on a crazy ride, leaving you with a renewed appreciation for all creatures, great and small.

Come out and experience the thrill this Sunday at the State!

Doctoral student Jonathan Schakel--playing organ, harpsichord and guitar--will be joined by University of Virginia violinist David Sariti to present “La Suave Melodia: Seventeenth-Century from Italy.” The program will include works by no less than seven Italian composers. Mr. Schakel will perform two solo works: Rossi’s Toccata quarta, (played on the 1746 Agustinus Vicedomini organ), and Frescobaldi’s Cento Partite sopra Passacagli, for harpsichord. The night promises to be epic!

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Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the office of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax district and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Debra Parsons, City Chamberlain, City of Ithaca, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY, 14850. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last Day of Redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as Tuesday, March 15, 2016.

STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY COURT: TOMPKINS COUNTY

Service of Answer: Every person having any right, title, or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure.

Such answer must be filed in the Office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption.

In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens by : Proceeding in Rem pursuant to Article Eleven of : The Real Property Tax Law by the City of Ithaca : 2014 Proceeding

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LEGAL Notice

Petition and Notice of Foreclosure Index No. 2015-0915 The above captioned proceeding is hereby commenced to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or other lawful charges that have accumulated and become liens against certain property.

The parcels to which this proceeding applies are identified on Schedule A of this Petition, which is annexed hereto made a part hereof. This document serves both as a Petition of Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure for purposes of this proceeding.

Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the Court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Nature of proceeding: Such proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described

Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default.

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Dated: 12/04/2015 Enforcing Officer: Debra Parsons City Chamberlain Krin Flaherty, Esq. Assistant City Attorney, Of Counsel On Behalf of the, City Attorney Attorney for the Tax District: City of Ithaca 108 E. Green St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607. 274.6504 Schedule A Year Tax Map Property Location Property Owner Total Due 2015 27.-5-8 410 Utica St STEVEN HERTZBERG $4,204.27 2014 27.-5-8 410 Utica St STEVEN

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