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No Bike Lanes for North Tioga Street

City Cell Phone FallZone Law Changed

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fter three months of discussion, the Board of Public Works decided on May 9 to extend the North Tioga Street bike boulevard past the county courthouse and post office on the 300 and 400 blocks with sharrows and possibly speed bumps. The resolution leaves all parking spots intact and does not add bike lanes, but does add a working group to further study implementing bicycle infrastructure.

Mayor Svante Myrick, Claudia Jenkins, and David Warden voted for the sharrows and bumps, with commissioners Bill Goldsmith and Jonathan Greene dissenting and in favor of trying bike lanes for a year. The decision was made despite a number of bicycle advocates commenting, again, that installing bike lanes on the stretch was integral to implementing the city’s transportation policy that calls for more bikers and fewer drivers.

Planner David West urged the board to consider that the 18 parking spots eliminated in earlier bike lane proposals on North Tioga Street would represent only half of one percent of all the parking spaces downtown; West said he’s estimated that there are at least 3,000 spaces downtown.

West Hill resident Andrejs Ozolin told the board that Ithaca is not “a safe city to get around” and said there have been years of promises for cyclists that don’t come to fruition.

“Time after time, when it comes down to the wire, the thing is pulled out, and then we have nothing,” Ozolin said, while expressing his gratitude for the Cayuga Street bike lanes. “I don’t even know all the reasons … the parking couldn’t be moved. The paint was too expensive.”

Advocates for keeping the parking on North Tioga Street cited the importance of serving people from around the county visiting the courthouse, post office, and town hall, and concerns about accessibility for the elderly and disabled.

At a March 28 BPW meeting, Myrick had signaled his support for sharrows, saying he has taken his “political whacks” for bike lanes before, but that traffic is “so naturally calm” on the stretch of North Tioga Street in question that it “didn’t seem necessary to take parking in order to provide a safe atmosphere for bicyclists.”

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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than the 87 his team showed the planning board last September. The project, as drawn up by Noah Demarest of STREAM Collaborative, will contain studio “microapartments,” complete with folding Murphy beds—a boon for any Ithaca College film student with an interest in early American comedy traditions.

Fox and O’Connor were visibly pleased at council’s decision after the meeting. Fox said they have been working to develop this property for about two years. At the property’s last transfer, it was valued at a price that anticipates development; Skyline Investment Properties, an LLC with a Missouri address, bought it from Fish Jr. in 2012 for

he lone cell phone tower inside the Ithaca city limits will soon have less personal space.

At its May 4 meeting, Common Council passed a change to the city telecommunications ordinance that reduces the required “fall zone” surrounding a cellular phone tower from twice its standing height to 120 percent of that distance.

In effect, the change in law serves as a zoning change for Todd Fox and Charlie O’Connor of Modern Living Rentals, who want to build student housing on a 2.5-acre parcel at 815 S. Aurora St. The property is a short stumble down South Hill from the Ithaca College campus, just across from the Route 96B/Danby Road entrance to the Emerson Chain Works property.

City’s lone cell tower behind Emerson Power Transmission At a height of 170 (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) feet, the existing fall zone ordinance meant that nothing could be built for $1.7 million.

340 feet in any direction from the tower, In June 2015, Fox and O’Connor came which was granted an easement by former before the board of zoning appeals with property owner Harold Fish Jr. in 2003. studies from Taitem Engineering and Except for a couple of corners, building SPEC Consulting in hand, which showed on the five-sided polygonal parcel was that the double-the-height fall zone was outlawed. With the new, 180-foot fall zone, unnecessary for safety purposes. They Fox and O’Connor will be able to develop urged the board to consider that “pretty a student housing project that they’ve much every other municipality in New already shown off to multiple city boards York State” has a fall zone ordinance with in preliminary form. much less required space than a radius Fox said after the meeting that their of double the tower’s height. They were project should be arrive in sketch plan in June, perhaps with a few more units continued on page 4

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▶ Reading the Forest, Guided Hike: Reading the Environmental History of a Forest Sunday, May 15 (1 to 2 p.m.) at the Cayuga Nature Center. A free guided hike through the Cayuga Nature Center’s grounds, where you will learn to read clues that tell the history of a forest. How long has this forest been around?

Who has been here before? How has the forest changed in the past, and what changes are likely in the future? Find answers to all of these questions and more as you explore the forest firsthand. This is a great program for families and nature-enthusiasts of all ages, and may

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be of special interest to visitors who attended our Mother’s Day hike this past weekend. This guided hike is proudly supported by the Park Foundation. ▶ Library Input, Join an hour-long, judgment-free focus group, facilitated by Linda Bryan of Family and Children’s Services of Ithaca and Tompkins County, Thursday, June 2 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Library’s Ezra Cornell Reading Room. Lunch will be provided.

To register, contact Carrie WheelerCarmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org on or before May 20.

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Moving and Being...................... 17 Local artist releases illustrated memoir

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By Josh Brok aw

How has your relationship with books affected your Loved ones?

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“I was told I couldn’t buy anymore: I’m still reading books from eight sales ago.”

—Justin and Margaret Tillinghast

“I mostly got called out for not socializing as a kid .My parents weren’t big readers, so I was considered the ‘weird one.’”

—Kit McGrath

“It gives us much more to talk about. And it makes me unavailable for periods of time when my significant other wants to do something else.”

—Michael Matteson

“My parents encourage me to get a library card, but I love collecting books.”

—Rachel Brock

“They frequently say, if the roof fell down when I was reading, I wouldn’t know.” ­—Sue Warner

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Huda for the mosque must be held in a trust that does not collect interest, and the construction costs must be paid for up front, with no financing. After Sept. 11, 2001, fundraising definitely slowed down, Ahmed said, but he felt that the backlash to the terrorist attacks of that day were more mitigated in Ithaca.

“When in a highly educated place or community, it does feel much more he Al-Huda Islamic Center of the safe,” Ahmed said. “There was never any Finger Lakes is working on building violence after September 11, where you see a mosque and community center in this all over other places … People who are the village of Lansing. far away from education and knowledge The Al-Huda center, a not-for-profit only know from the media that that has been working on somebody they don’t know has this effort since the 1990s, attacked other people.” has already purchased an With a building of their acre of land on Graham own, Ahmed hopes that AlRoad with donations from Huda can increase its social its members and friends. activity and outreach to people The location is behind the of other religions, to increase Cayuga Mall Plaza where understanding about the Big Lots sits. There is no relations between Islam and mosque in Tompkins other beliefs and cultures.

County; the closest ones are “There are so many politics in Big Flats, Johnson City, around religion,” Ahmed said. and Syracuse.

“As a child in Egypt, we didn’t Ahmed Ahmed, a feel any difference. You’d go to senior research associate church, and I’d go to mosque, at Cornell’s College of and then we’d play together. It’s Veterinary Medicine, has about the relationship between been involved in efforts a person and his God and we’re to build a mosque for connected in our treatment Tompkins County for between people. Really over 20 years and is vicereligious people should treat president of the Al-Huda other people nicely.”

Rendering of the interior of a proposed mosque in the village of Lansing (Photo provided) board of trustees.

The Taste of Muslim “We not only want a Culture event will be held mosque for a place to come Saturday, May 14, at GIAC, and pray,” Ahmed said, 301 W. Court St. from noon “but also for education and to 3 p.m. There will be henna tattoos, a the past four years or so, with Al-Huda outreach, to teach the kids what is true trying on of capital clothes, with a $10 Islam. How to deal with others, how to live collecting preliminary estimates from donation requested for tasting trays. For contractors that are coming in between with others. The young people and even more information about Al-Huda, visit the older people, some of them don’t know $650,000 and $1 million.

Under Islamic law, Ahmed said, the alhudaislamiccenter.org. anything about the Quran or the true roots funds needed to build a mosque must not of Islam.” be tainted by usury, the lending of funds – Josh Brokaw The Al-Huda center now rents a suite with interest.

Even funds donated to Alreporter@ithacatimes.com of apartments downtown for Sunday school lessons and other youth-oriented activities, and rents a room at Cornell for The law was already in place by then, Celltower Friday services. On important holidays, JoAnn Cornish told a February committee contin u ed from page 3 Ahmed said, 250 to 300 people come meeting. But the original motivation out for services. Due to Ithaca’s transient was more about aesthetics than a studied hoping to receive a zoning variance, but nature, people do come and go among the reaction to safety best practices. city attorney Ari Lavine determined the Muslim community here, Ahmed said.

“There was a lot of talk about BZA could not override a council-made He’s lived in Ithaca since 1986, when he telecommunications equipment being law, so changing the law became necessary. moved here after completing doctoral colocated with buildings,” Cornish O’Connor thanked council on studies in his native Egypt. said of the ordinance’s origins, “and we Wednesday, calling the project a “win-win “The Muslim community here is very didn’t want one going on the top of the for the neighborhood” that should take diverse,” Ahmed said. “You have Muslims Holiday Inn [now Hotel Ithaca]. There student rentals pressure off the South Hill from different cultures with different were not a lot of templates to follow with neighborhood.

Fox said that he has met habits, all melted into one pot. Everyone telecommunications ordinances and that’s has their own differences inside them, and with the South Hill Civic Association and how we thought we could best protect the all are living together. I don’t feel like there received their endorsement. city.” • In the course of deliberating on this are divides between Shia, Sunni, any other issue over the months, several people branches, I don’t feel it here.”

An earlier version of this story was speculated on the motivation for the The Al-Huda Islamic Center will posted on ithaca.com on May 5 with the existing, double-height cell tower law.

It be hosting a “Taste of Muslim Culture” headline “Council Cuts Down Cell Tower was suggested that it was a reaction to fundraiser on Saturday, May 14 from Fall Zone.” the 2010 scare, when it was thought the 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Greater Ithaca state Department of Transportation might Activities Center (GIAC) The diversity – Josh Brokaw allow a cell tower on its property near the of Ithaca’s Islamic community will be reporter@ithacatimes.com Farmers’ Market. reflected in the tasting trays on offer,

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according to Nagiane Lacka, a program director at GIAC. “Women of the Muslim community are collaborating with local Muslimowned businesses to put the event together,” Lacka said. “The recipes and food served is based on the ethnic background of the women of the community. So the Egyptian women decided on the foods to represent Egypt and the women who identify as Saudi Arabian developed their menu for tasting.”

Ahmed said that fundraising efforts for the mosque have increased over

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Public Safety

Gorge Rangers to Be Fitted w/ Body Cams

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ith summer approaching, local officials’ thoughts have turned toward dealing with swimmers and divers at Second Dam in the Six Mile Creek gorge.

The long-time swimming destination has become increasingly popular in recent years, as youthful, often beer-drinking enthusiasts of sun, water, and cliff-jumping have discovered the spot via internet posts and videos.

Last July 26, a 20-year-old man lost his life jumping into the water at Second Dam; his death brought attention once again to years of attempts to enforce the no swimming rule there.

Since 1984, Six Mile Creek has been patrolled by “gorge rangers,” people who are paid by the city and asked to advise swimmers that they are breaking the law, Illegal swimmers on Second Dam last summer. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) but have no power to enforce the law.

Their limited hours and lack of ticketing power has led advocates for a safer Second Dam to call for more patrols from law Holcomb said, “or take them down.” premiums have not increased this year. enforcement—to which law enforcement On Monday, May 9, the Ithaca town The Tompkins County legislature has replied consistently over the years board heard from Logan Bell about a voted on May 3 to earmark $7,500 to help that they do not have the resources (see petition effort to “free the gorges” which pay for the gorge rangers program. The our Aug. 19, 2015 cover story “Diving at had collected about 120 signatures in a city had already renewed its $15,000 line Second Dam is Hard to Stop” for an inweek online (ipetitions.com/petition/ item in the public works budget, which depth look at the history of this problem). freethegorges). would pay for a total of 40 This summer, if financial “I’ve heard the status quo arguments,” assistance is granted from “We’ll either need hours of patrols. Now, if Bell said, “and we’re advocating for the the town passes $7,500 in Tompkins County and the to invest millions funding at a May 23 meeting, free use of gorges, around all the creeks.

Town of Ithaca, the city to bring [the dams] the funding will be there to Residents want slip into a creek and hopes to double down on the to current safety have a nice dip without fear of a $200 put two teams of rangers gorge rangers, with a twist: ticket—we don’t want the issue to be standards or take in the gorge, seven days a the rangers will now have boxed into college kids being irresponsible week for about eight hours a body cameras to record their them down.” and partying at Second Dam. This day, Holcomb said. The plan interactions with Second —Julie Holcomb, Ithaca for what the city is calling disproportionately affects working-class Dam visitors. city clerk people who are looking to cool off on a hot a pilot program is to focus “Through [body summer day.” the rangers’ hours at the cameras’] use on IPD Bob Nape, a Lansing resident, also times when crowds might officers, we’ve found it modifies the appeared before the board to read a letter be expected to peak, with a more robust behavior of people when they know expressing his concerns about the gorge data collection process to help make those they’re being filmed,” said city clerk ranger program. staffing decisions.

Julie Holcomb. “We were lacking video “The death of the young man last After a new pair of gorge rangers evidence of what these situations actually summer was certainly a tragedy, as are started last July, they began keeping a log look like … there have been multiple all accidental deaths, but the lesson of crowd estimates, tracking day of week, instances of 60, 75, 150, up to 250 learned should be how to make it safer,” time of day, and weather. Holcomb’s office swimmers at a time. It’s no longer safe to Nape said. “Hiking and swimming in also collected incident reports for 2015 send one person in to tell people they’re the gorge have untold positive benefits, from the city police and county sheriff, doing something illegally, to stop or get mentally, emotionally, physically, and all of which were consolidated into a out of the water.” psychologically … Our need and urge to spreadsheet and mapped, using GIS. The Holcomb said the city will put into be in harmony with Mother Nature is a place a policy for the rangers’ body camera city hasn’t yet collected actual tickets powerful force within us that draws us written, but that map shows 120 observed use; since they are patrolling public “events” from May to October, with nearly away from the concrete, glass, and steel of property, people who are disregarding the the urban environment.”

1,500 people engaged in illegal activity at posted, and often spray-painted covered, The Town of Ithaca board will vote on those times. “no swimming” signs near Second Dam a $7,500 contribution to the gorge ranger “We’ll monitor what levels of success have no expectation of privacy. According program at its May 23 meeting. we’re having, and if it’s not working then to city attorney Ari Lavine, because of we’ll definitely revisit the program for next signage and prevention efforts, “city year,” Holcomb said. liability for illegal activity at Second Dam – Josh Brokaw “We’ll either need to invest millions would be inappropriate.” Controller Steve reporter@ithacatimes.com to bring them to current safety standards,” Thayer confirmed that the city’s insurance T

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▶ Champion of Change, Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) executive director Rob Scott has been named a Champion of Change by the White House for giving prison inmates a fair chance at earning a college degree. He was recognized at an afternoon ceremony at the White House on April 27, along with nine others from around the country who have expanded opportunities for currently or formerly incarcerated people.

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

Heard&Seen ▶ Pushing Reset, A ReSET Tech is a 10-week, unpaid entry level job training program at the ReUse Center.

Candidates for either program may fill out our online application form through our website or may make an appointment with Bren Hill at (607) 257-9699 ext. 9925 to fill out an application online in our offices at 214 Elmira Road, Ithaca, New York. The next session of ReSET Tech will start June 20 2016. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of May 4-10 include: 1) Candor and Spencer-Van Etten School Sports Merge 2) Agricultural Courses to Start at S-VE 3) Ithaca Boxing: The Chet Cashman Program 4) The Camaraderie of Flying Small Planes 5) Stuffed With Passion: Ciao! a hearty restaurant with A+ service For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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School Taxes: You’ll Pay More A t a recent meeting members of the board of education of the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) expressed their unhappiness that the 0.35 percent reduction in the school tax rate that is included in the proposed 2016-17 district budget was not more extensively covered by the media. Instead, they said, we the media are fixated on the fact that there is lead in the drinking water at several of the schools. Given that lead has been shone to cause developmental delays in children, while a 0.35 percent reduction in the tax rate isn’t actually going to translate into a smaller tax check, we think this is understandable.

But let’s look at this year’s school budget. You will have the opportunity to vote yes or no on it this coming Tuesday, May 17.

• • • When the financial markets collapsed in 2008 it put a real dent in the state revenue stream. When the 2009-10 state budget was put together, government officials found a big hole, so they deployed the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA), the State of New York’s delightfully Orwellian term that translates into “We’re broke, so we’re going to give you some money, and then you’re going to give some of it back to us.” In the 2015-16 budget year the ICSD had to return over $1.7 million to Albany. This was out of a total state aid package of about $27 million. Of what the state gave the district, which is, by

the way, less than 25 percent of the ICSD budget, it took back 6.3 percent of it to help plug the holes in the state’s finances.

This year the GEA finally went away, and state aid to ICSD actually increased 8.4 percent compared to 2015-16 to over $29 million (still about 25 percent of the $119 million budget).

So the school district has to raise the other three-quarters of what it costs to run the schools. Where does the money come from? Every taxpayer should start to seek answers to this question by going to the ICSD website (ithacacityschools. org) and selecting “Budget” from the District drop-down menu. The budget summary document is available as a PDF. A fascinating section of the revenue page is labeled “Other Revenue.”

The total here is $3.8 million with $1.9 million derived from “other miscellaneous revenue.” This is an increase of over $300,000 (20 percent) over last year, but we don’t know its source. (We could ask chief operations officer Amanda Verba, but she has never to our recollection responded to a query from any of our staff.)

The district will once again roll over a $2 million fund balance from the previous year, but the lion’s share of revenue is raised via the real property tax from among you the property owners.

The amount—the tax levy—the district is asking you to approve by casting a yes continued on page 6

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It’s Collegetown...

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

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t was a mid-May afternoon in Ithaca, a city with a reputation for brainy dames and Tibetan prayer flags. Down on the Commons, the latté-drinkers rubbed elbows with the paraphernalia vendors while tucked high above street level, in a cluttered and forgotten corner of the fourth floor of the Old Cigar Factory, was a door labelled “J.J. Gittes – Discreet Investigation.”

By sheer chance, Jake Gittes was in his office that day, studying dust motes as they swirled aimlessly in the shaft of sunlight that struggled through a window that hadn’t seen a wash rag since the first Clinton administration. The door swung open with a bang, jerking him out of his reverie and revealing a woman with a pan that could fracture Marcellus shale. Gittes’ heart commenced a tap dance on his rib cage, but business was business, and she looked like she had a case.

“You’ll have to make an appointment, dollface, I don’t take walk-ins,” Gittes declared, straightening up in his seat. The woman slowly surveyed the office, which looked like it had been tipped on its side and righted. She swept the debris off a chair and sat down, lighting a cigarette in one fluid motion. She tossed the pack on his desk.

“The name’s Evelyn Mulwray, and I’ve got a mystery for you, gumshoe,” she purred through a cloud of smoke.

“Then I guess you’re in luck, baby. No better detective in the city,” said Gittes, pushing his battered fedora back on his head. He nonchalantly withdrew a cigarette from the pack, inserting the tobacco end in his mouth and lighting the filter.

Mulwray raised an eyebrow. “You sure you’re up to this, Sherlock? It’s big. Could land us both in a world of hot water, poking our noses where noses ought not to be poked.”

“I’m in,” he sputtered, through paroxysms of coughing, “lay it on me.”

Mulwray pulled her chair in to the desk and leaned forward. “OK, tough guy, I’ll give it to you straight. There’s a quiet little road up on the East Hill, Ferris Place, see, and there’s a stretch of that quaint little lane that is a no-parking zone. I’m going to spell the mystery out for you … there’s

no good reason for it! You know there’s nothing more valuable on East Hill than parking. Not oxygen, not water … nothing.

Am I right?” A coughing Gittes shrugged, still struggling for breath. “The answer’s ‘yes’, genius. So what’s going on? Why can’t people park there? Something’s fishy here.

Very, very fishy.”

“Well, I’m quite sure the city board of public works has a good handle on this.

They certainly wouldn’t just designate a random stretch of residential street as a no-parking zone for no good reason,” said Gittes, reaching for his phone. “I’ll just give Frank Nagy a call …”

“Don’t be a sap, Gittes!” hissed Mulwray, clamping the receiver back down on its cradle. “I’ve talked to ‘em all. Nobody knows anything. Besides, what if he’s in on it? What if …,” she gave the office the onceover and lowered her voice, “… they’re all in on it?”

Gittes sat back in his chair and whistled a low whistle. The room began to spin like the Stewart Park carousel. “In on what?” he asked. “It doesn’t add up. Who stands to benefit from a hundred feet of no parking?

What’s the motive?”

Two cigarettes later, Gittes was sucking on a toothpick in the leafy residential quietude of Ferris Place, across from number 110. Evelyn Mulwray was right. A random no-parking zone right out in plain view. As Gittes puzzled over the riddle, an unmarked black IPD SUV pulled into the driveway behind him and Lieutenant Lou Escobar descended from the driver’s seat.

“Jake, you shouldn’t be here,” Escobar said in a stage whisper.

“I’m waiting for a bus,” replied Gittes.

“You and me go back a long ways, Jake,” Escobar pleaded. “Do yourself a favor … let it go.”

“Lou, it doesn’t make sense,” said Gittes, flicking the toothpick. “There used to be a retired county legislator and former Common Council member who lived at 110 Ferris, but she moved. Why can’t people park there now?”

Escobar grabbed Gittes by the arm and fixed him with a dead-eyed stare.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Collegetown. It’s just …

Collegetown.” •

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I am a native of Ithaca, and have lived in the Ithaca City School District for the past 40 years. I graduated from Ithaca High School, as did my two daughters. Since 1991 I have written to and met with many of the Ithaca High School staff and administrators, more recently with the superintendent, Luvelle Brown and chief academic officer, T

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Liddy Coyle, Jason Trumble, principal of IHS, as well as mayor, Svante Myrick, all of whom agree that having a “Healthy Relationship Skills” course at the high school is a good idea. We are not taught how to have healthy relationship skills and therefore are hearing all the time of bullying continued on page 10

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WICB (Ithaca College’s FM radio station) t’s no secret that Ithaca College as a summer DJ. I arrived back in Ithaca students frequent downtown and the after a semester in Los Angeles on May Commons more often than those who 20, 2015. My mom and I had finished our attend Cornell. Those on East Hill have second cross-country drive of that year, Collegetown and Cornell itself, with its and man, it felt good to be back in my sprawling 745 acres, on which sits the second home, especially at the beginning of Cornell Dairy Bar, Cornell Plantations summer—warm temperatures, sunny skies, and the F.R. Newman Arboretum, the and no homework. That summer, I worked Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell about 20 hours a week at the station, but Orchards, Cornell Cinema, the Herbert other than that, I had no obligations. I had F. Johnson Museum of Art, and the free time galore to explore Ithaca, and now Fuertes Observatory, among other leisure with a car, I could explore other areas of activity options. Collegetown includes the town and upstate New York. a Collegetown Bagels location I went to the Johnson Museum open until 2 a.m., multiple bars, a of Art for the first time, and I Starbucks, a few restaurants, and went back almost every week Insomnia Cookies. after that for the Wednesday Up on South Hill, we have workshops. I tackled Stewart Park, the Ithaca College Natural Lands; Taughannock Falls, the Lively an observatory that is open to Run Dairy Farm. I walked around students maybe three nights a Trumansburg, and visited the semester; sporadic Thursday Corning Museum of Glass. There through Sunday screenings of were also days when I walked the recent movie releases hosted by trails near IC’s campus, swam in the Student Activities Board in Jessica Afrin the outdoor pool, or read a cheesy one of our lecture halls; Dolce young adult novel—procured Delight, a café you have to walk from the Tompkins County Public up sidewalk-free Danby Road to get to if Library—while lying in the hammock you are one of the many students without outside the house on Grandview Avenue in a car; and Rogan’s Corner, a sub and pizza which I was subletting a room. joint folded into a gas station-convenience Even this school year, I found that store that, if one does not drunkenly order there were still spots in Ithaca that lay delivery, you have to walk down sidewalkundiscovered, waiting for me. I fell in love free Danby Road to get to. with the iced tea at The Shop, I attended Therefore, if Ithaca College students my first concert at The Haunt, and a friend want to see a new movie, eat out for a showed me the old, rusted abandoned cars change, engage in some shopping therapy, hidden in the Natural Lands. This school or go to a bar—alcoholic or kava—we have year was also a lesson in the community to leave campus. Without a car, which I did connection between Ithaca and Ithaca not have until my junior year, one resorts College. I’ve been a part of VIC Radio—IC’s to using the TCAT. I’m not knocking the other radio station—since my first semester TCAT. I love the TCAT; I rode it every week to get to the Ithaca Times office, where freshman year. And while I’ve always participated in VIC’s yearly 50-Hour I was a copyediting intern this past school marathon, through which the station raises year. But to get anywhere other than the funds for a local not-for-profit—this year Commons from IC’s campus via TCAT takes a ridiculous amount of time that most Ithaca Underground, to which we donated college students prefer to put towards other over $3,800—last month was the first time I participated in the yearly scavenger pursuits. hunt, which occurs on the first night of My freshman year of college—fall the marathon. I gathered a motley crew of 2012 to spring 2013—I went down to the competitive friends, most of whom had Commons almost every weekend. Over only met each other once or twice, and the year I explored the five or six blocks prepared myself for what was sure to be a surrounding that area, looking into and crazy night. learning almost every nook and cranny, At 11 p.m., the marathon coordinator every storefront and hidden basement handed us the scavenger hunt list. People record shop. I discovered Buffalo Street dashed out of the first-floor doors of the Books, Collegetown Bagels (the Commons location, unfortunately only open until 8 or Park School of Communications, hopping into cars and gunning it. I immediately 9 p.m.), Petrune, and Café Dewitt, perhaps the cornerstones of any trip I make into the headed downtown, while imploring the heart of downtown Ithaca. And I shared all four people yelling in the backseat to please of these places with my mother, when she choose a first task and destination. Between came to help me move out at the end of the the hours of 11 p.m. and 2 a.m., members year. She has fallen in love with this town of our group proposed to a guy at a random just as surely as I have, with its dedication Cornell frat house; hugged a stranger for to good food, good coffee, good art, and six minutes at the Collegetown location good people. of Collegetown Bagels; did an interpretive I thought I knew Ithaca, but then I dance in the street to a classical music cover stayed here this past summer to work at 92 of “Once Upon a Dream”; got a stranger in

the Walmart parking lot to call into the VIC Radio studio; told corny pick-up lines to drunk bar patrons on the Commons; dyed parts of our hair purple; and much, much more. It was a whirlwind during which I saw more of Ithaca and talked to more Ithacans than I usually do in one week, let alone one day.

I cannot imagine not coming back to this place. I cannot imagine never again attending the Apple Harvest Festival, the Chili Cook-off, or the Ithaca Festival.

I cannot imagine never seeing Cayuga Lake again, not from the balcony of my on-campus Gardens apartment, nor IC’s picturesque fountain, the fifth floor of the Johnson Museum of Art, and Route 13. I can’t forget this place, or these people. So this is my love letter to Ithaca. I would be a different person had I not stepped foot in this town.

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or no vote on May 17 is $83,901,290, or 2.1 percent more than the 2015-16 total.

The increases in the other sources of revenue—state aid and “miscellaneous”— do not cover the $4,074,349 (or 3.54 percent) increase to the district’s budget (its expenses), so the levy must make up the difference. The tax levy must ultimately total $4,194,349 (a 3.72 percent increase) because this year the district will not be contributing $120,000 toward expenses from a capital reserve fund.

• • • The number of taxpayers in the school district hasn’t changed significantly since last year, so that means pretty much the same number of district property owners will each have to kick in more.

What has changed is the assessed value of homes in a significant portion of the school district. The county assessor’s office revalued properties in the city and town of Ithaca. (Properties in the towns of Dryden and Lansing and their villages, and in the village of Trumansburg were also reassessed.)

The total value of taxable properties in the town and city of Ithaca accounts for 90 percent of the property value within the school district. The assessed value of taxable property in the town and city of Ithaca is $6.7 billion compared to a total of $742 million in the towns of Caroline, Danby, and Enfield.

The average increase to the assessed value of properties in the city of Ithaca was 10 percent. So if you owned a $100,000 house last year and paid $18.16 per $1,000 of assessed value, then you gave the school district a check for $1,816. This year your house is worth $110,000 and, if you approve the budget on May 17, the rate will be set at $18.02 per $1,000 of assessed value, you will write a check for $1,982, $166.80 more than last year.

The median value of a home in Ithaca (2014-15 tax rolls) was $190,000, so adding 10 percent to that brings it to $209,000. The increase in the tax bill for the median home will be $315.78 to T

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In other words, the Ithaca school board now has something in common with administrators at colleges and universities: they are publicly pleased about reducing the size of the increase in your cost. •

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ithaca com We got this comment the quality of taxi service in Ithaca in response to “Cabbies Give the Hairy Eyeball to Uber” in the May 4 issue: Mr. Kadar, owner of Ithaca Dispatch, says, “...if they (Uber) come, think about these things, and think about leveling the playing field.” I would argue that there has been only one team on the playing field, and that team is losing nonetheless.

Here is my first and last experience using the taxi services in Ithaca: shortly after moving here, I called and arranged for a very early morning pickup to take me less than two miles from my home to the airport. The cab was over a half hour late, by which time I had called twice with little reassurance that I would get to the airport on time. When the cab arrived, it was stuffed...one seat that I could squeeze into, no space for luggage except on my lap.

For this late, crowded and inconvenient ride of less than 2 miles, I was charged $16 (this was base, without tip). The driver collected twenties from all the passengers. I expect fares have increased in the past five years, but I have never called a cab in Ithaca again. I would have been a regular user, but - Anything but! I have a bus pass and make arrangements with friends and walk. The playing field needs new teams.

– Clover “Ithacating” blogger responds to Krys Cail’s April 20 guest opinion: I think Krys’s general argument is sound, but the suggestion of the golf courses ignores that Newman (the city’s) is on a spit of land that is part of the lake’s floodplain during melt or high-precipitation events, it floods out. Housing there just isn’t an option.

As for Cornell or the Ithaca Country Club, they’re privately-owned and can’t be forced to close - at least not without intense opposition from users, who are over-represented by the county’s monied elites. In support of Krys’s argument, the town is adopting an approach of establishing targeted areas for walkable development - South Hill and East Hill - and those have potential. And though perhaps not as far along, the city is just starting plans to create a denser, more walkable development along the less flood-prone parts of the waterfront, which historically has been sparsely-populated and used mostly for warehousing or industrial space.

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Sale has raised money for the library since 1945

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eryl Barr’s voice, with its distinctive New Zealand accent, has welcomed shoppers to the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library (FOTL) book sale for the past dozen or so years. Book lovers will still hear her over the loudspeaker as the sale gets under way this weekend, but this time Barr will just be a very experienced volunteer for one of the largest library book sales in the nation.

“I’ve managed for seven of the past nine years, and co-managed before that,” said Barr, who started with the sale as a volunteer when her youngest daughter entered high school and substitute teaching proved to not take up enough

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of her time. “But it’s not healthy for one person to be in charge for too extended a period of time,” Barr continued. “You want everyone involved to feel some empowerment. It’s not that we are in a rut, but it’s time for some new ideas. And it’s been a rough year for me. My brother died, and my husband is going to retire in a few years, and we’ll go back to New Zealand. I knew it was time to step down; I don’t regret the decision.”

Barr’s husband is Dr. Steve Barr, professor of veterinary science at Cornell University. The Barrs and their two daughters came to Ithaca for Steve Barr’s job in 1989 via Australia and Louisiana.

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[perfection] surrounded by reality,” Beryl Barr said of Ithaca. “It is a great place; it is intellectual and passionate. There is music and arts, the Museum of the Earth, the Hangar Theater, and, of course, the colleges. What is there not to like? And it’s a great city to raise children.”

The Pull of the Book Sale

Not to mention the pull of the book sale, which is held twice a year in the FOTL building on Esty Street between Fulton and Meadow streets. Barr said she and her family shopped it many times before she decided to volunteer. Held each May and October, the sale lasts the better part of three weeks, with prices decreasing each

day until the bag sale, during which items sell for a dime or a quarter. On the very last day books are a dollar a bag.

Nearly 300 volunteers work for months in the warehouse before each sale, sifting through hundreds of thousands of items—books of all types, CDs, DVDs, games, magazines, artwork, records, and VHS tapes—that are donated throughout the year. There is a book drop next to the front door, equipped with plastic bags to put your donations in before you push them through the slot.

“We have more items for sale this time than ever before,” Barr said. “We have 317,929 items. Our last sale, we had 270,951.”

Of the 300 volunteers needed to

prepare and run the sale, many of them have been there as long as or longer than Barr. Many of them are retired teachers and former librarians who enjoy working in their favorite sections: cookbooks, history, paperback and hardcover mysteries, and young adult and children’s literature, to name a few. The materials are divided into 80 different categories before they are placed in the massive warehouse.

Others volunteers come from various community organizations. They sign up to work on specific days, mostly at the checkout during the sale.

from Santa Cruz, California 10 years ago.

Greene retired as an administrator at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and she and her husband Stephen settled in Ithaca.

“My husband did his undergrad at Cornell, and we wanted to retire to a lake,” Greene said. “[Cayuga] was the best lake we found.”

The city’s liberal atmosphere, beautiful scenery, friendly people, and the spring and fall weather attracted her, even if she is not so crazy about the winters, Greene said.

“We tried the snowbird thing and spent a winter in Florida, but we found that wasn’t for us,” said Greene. “So The coming together of the community we decided to settle here permanently.

Some buyers arrive a few days before the for the book sale has been a tradition since Besides, that leaves me more time for the sale starts, to get on line. It is not unusual 1945. It originated to help raise funds book sale.” to see tents pitched and lawn chairs set to purchase books for the library. Now, In 2008, after meeting Barr at a library up. The Tompkins County sale is the nearly 70 years later, it and the Tompkins event, Greene started to volunteer for eighth largest library book sale in the U.S., County Library Foundation cover the the book sale. Her first job was “rough according to the blog Literary Tourist. library’s entire acquisition budget. The sorting,” or going through the hundreds Barr said people come from out of state book sale’s contribution is $250,000 of thousands of items that are donated to and Canada to attend. annually. The money also benefits the each book sale. The materials are sorted The first day, shoppers can only entire Finger Lakes Library System, which into categories, but much of the initial purchase up to 50 items at a time without receives $60,000 a year to distribute to check weeds out items that book sale having to go out and get back in line. It libraries throughout the region. The FOTL volunteers say are not fit to put on the makes it fair, Barr said, since so many group also offers competitive grants to shelves. people want to get into the warehouse for libraries and nonprofits for programming, “It was like a baptism by fire for me,” the prime pick of science fiction titles, and opens up the sale itself on special days Greene said, noting that there were so puzzles, and games, the best of which fly to seniors, students, and other groups. many donations this time around—more off the shelves the first day.

“This year, there are people coming than had ever been received The event attracts before.

“A lot of what was ardent bibliophiles, young donated has already been families, and students recycled to make new and faculty from nearby books.”

Cornell University and She does not know why Ithaca College. It attracts donations were so heavy those looking to fill out this year, but she wonders collections and just about if it might have something anyone who loves a good to do with people divesting book at a bargain price. Barr themselves of physical books estimates that about 17,000 in favor of electronic readers. people come through the Fortunately, however, door for each sale. They are if previous sales are any given floor maps so they indication, there are enough will know exactly where to people who still want to find what they are looking own actual books to sustain for. Volunteers constantly the efforts of the FOTL restock shelves as items are group. There has not been a sold. downturn in the demand.

Neither the donations “I keep waiting for nor the shoppers seem to the big scare, the big cliff,” be affected by the growing Greene said, indicating a C u r r e n t c o o r d i n at o r C l a r e G r e e n e , pa s t c o o r d i n at o r B e t ta H e d l u n d , popularity of e-readers. drop-off in the demand for m o s t r e c e n t pa s t c o o r d i n at o r B e ry l B a r r ( P h o t o : D i a n e D u t h i e) “We have seen fewer new books. “But it hasn’t come. books at some sales, but If anything, the demand for not consistently and not at books has gotten greater.” down from St. Lawrence County, from this sale,” Barr notes. “We have so many She said as the sale goes forward, put items in their proper places. She said libraries up there,” Barr said. “We want beautiful books that have been donated. there may be some minor tweaks here she is appreciative of the volunteers who to connect as many people as possible People are still very happy to have books and there in protocol, but she is satisfied make the sale possible. to books. We try to recycle everything. in their hands.” with the way the sales are run and the “I want to spread [the gratitude] to Under her watch, the sale’s Collector’s We don’t want to throw anything away if camaraderie of the people who give their the volunteers, because this is really a someone can use it. It’s not even so much Corner, where some of the sale’s most time. community project, and I want to thank “I hope [the sale] just continues the idea of making money. There are exciting offerings end up, has been Clare Greene, who is taking this over for forever,” she said. • people who come and can’t afford to buy remodeled and expanded. It is where me,” Barr said.

Go to booksale.org for information. books any other way.” book sale customers find rare and vintage Dates of the Sale: This year’s sale to She said she loves to interact with books; first editions; signed copies; benefit the Friends of the Tompkins County the shoppers at the sale, to see what they collectible records, ephemera, and toys; Public Library started on Saturday, May 7 Like her predecessor, the new coordinator are buying and to thank them for their and valuable works of art. at 8 a.m. and continued May 8 and 9. The is not an Ithaca native. patronage. She said she is pleased that “One year, someone donated a Jewish final days are May 14 to 16, and May 21 to Clare Greene, who flew solo with many Mennonite and Amish school cookbook from the 1880s, really a book 24. There are other special dates for nonthe sale this time around—although representatives use the sale to stock their about how to set up and run a kosher profits, seniors and students.

Barr was not far away—moved to Ithaca

Bibliophiles’ Paradise

household,” Barr said. “We did a little research and found out it was the first book of its kind to be published in the United States.”

They contacted Sotheby’s, and in an auction of Judaica it sold for $7,000, astounding the book sale organizers.

“It was the only item we’ve ever sent to auction like that,” Barr says. “Anything pre-1900 we usually check up on, and we have found valuable stuff. They usually end up in our Collector’s Corner. But we don’t catch everything.”

The Purpose of the Book Sale

schools, because they know they can find traditional literature and other books that are not easily accessible.

“It is absolutely the best place to go book shopping,” wrote Ithacan Debbie Clover on the FOTL Facebook page.

“I’ve built a whole personal library from the FOTL book sale. In fact, I go every weekend for both the spring and the fall sales. It’s not to be missed. And they can always use volunteer helpers.”

At the end of the sale, everything that is left over—after nonprofit organizations from Tompkins County and elsewhere have taken what they want and volunteers have exhausted all possibilities of giving the rest away—is picked up by Better World Books or other book recycling organizations.

The warehouse is cleared from top to bottom, and preparations begin for a new sale. Barr said cleaning the warehouse was a tradition she started. Everything is dusted and swept, and none of the books are saved, so everything is new for the next sale—although it not unusual for items to be re-donated.

She said one of the most satisfying parts of the sale is the moment when everything is in place and the doors are getting ready to open. Up until then, she said, there are things everywhere; the aisles are full and people are hurrying to

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and domestic violence and an onslaught of addictions—heroin now killing many youth; it is a national crisis—not to mention the still near 50 percent divorce rate.

As a marriage and family therapist for close to 30 years, I have much experience with many dysfunctional relationships from everyday people like you and me.

(Most of the many Ithaca psychotherapists have full loads and are turning potential clients away.) Why aren’t we doing any prevention in our high school by teaching healthy relationship skills that create success and happiness in our life much

more basically than a career?

What does love have to do with success, I ask? Everything.

Because there has been no implementation of the relationship skills course at IHS, I gathered over 100 signatures as required to run for the Ithaca City School District Board of Education this spring. I was initially accepted, and then informed the following day that I do not live in the Ithaca school district, but in Lansing’s school district even though I live at 15 Stormy View Drive, Ithaca, New York. I was unaware of this as I have an Ithaca address. Yet, according to the lawyers, I have no redress to this technicality.

I moved to Stormy View last August as a renter and plan to move again this

summer where I’ll be in the Ithaca school district. I am disappointed that such technicalities override my residential history and desire to make our high school more successful for our students.

I want to thank all those who not only signed my petition, but also support my goal to create a pilot course or elective to meet the essential needs that create a successful life … HEALTHY LOVE. New York City has instituted such a course in 16 of its schools provided by the curriculum from The Relationship Foundation.org.

With hope for parental support to write to the administration.

– Dianea Kohl RN MFT, Town of Lansing

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Proposed Building at 201 College Is Too Tall

The apartment building planned for 201 College Avenue wouldn’t overshadow just my little house next door. This 70 foot tall, five-story box-like structure would dwarf all the neighboring houses. The location is not central Collegetown—where such a building would better belong. It’s on the periphery, a neighborhood of two- and three-story houses built in the last century or earlier.

Directly across the street from 201 is the Snaif house, an older Victorian house with a recent addition that maintains its style; three houses up is the Grandview House, another beautiful landmark. Both of these houses have official historic designation. What would the new massive glass and cement building at 201 look like in this context?

The three tall spruce trees currently growing in front of 201 are perhaps 100 years old. Their greenery and all it brings to the world—especially to those walking or driving by, or who see them from a distance—would be irreplaceably lost.

They would be cut down to make room for a building that would cover 70 percent of the lot.

Of course Ithaca needs housing— especially for low-income people. The city has targeted Collegetown for increased density. Whether or not this makes sense and who ultimately gains in this realworld Monopoly game, the building proposed for 201 College Ave. is way out of place. (Even the students I’ve talked to don’t want it.) It needs to be seriously redesigned to fit better within the context of the neighborhood, and to save the tall trees out front.

–Neil H. Golder, Ithaca

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Several months ago I was challenged to look at all my eating habits, my consumption of meat in particular, and how that impacts our environment.

One of my earliest childhood memories is “helping” my stepfather skin rabbits and squirrels he had killed. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. Our evening meal was often game, including squirrel, rabbit, and venison, along with fish we had all caught.

We enjoyed homegrown vegetables from gardens both at our home in Elmira and our summer cottage on Waneta Lake. How we enjoyed picking fruit along Seneca Lake and in Canton, Pennsylvania: apples, peaches, plums, cherries, strawberries, and a variety of other berries.

My mom canned and froze them for us to enjoy throughout the year.

Fast forward from the 1940s and ‘50s to present day. I don’t hunt animals or fish.

However, I do grow vegetables and pick fruit, and eat about 75 percent less meat and poultry.

In high school home economics class we studied Adele Davis and her book Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit, and I have continued on page 12

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researched Jane Brody, Michael Pollan, and Ithaca’s own Priscilla Timperlake and Lewis Freedman and have had rave reviews of their famous Friday night supers, and have come to my own personal conclusion. It can be summed up in these seven words from Michael Pollans book , Food Rules: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants” I will eat a four-ounce steak on occasion, and I will continue using bacon grease for flavoring. I will be selective with my meat choices, eating only what I have researched and feel comfortable with. I will eat more wild greens like dandelion, mustard, and watercress. They are abundant and free and in our own back

yards. I will continue to enjoy amazing food and friends and Loaves and Fishes, and to share new recipes with my buddies at Autumn Leaves.

Life is good.

– Sandy Ferreira, Ithaca

A Critic Should Face the Facts—All of Them

I write to respond to Bryan VanCampen’s recent review of Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings (“Can’t Take the Heat: A Divisive Play Drives to the Heart”; May 4), a theatrical production presented by the Cornell University department that I chair, Performing and Media Arts, in collaboration with local theatre company Civic Ensemble. The production was directed by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., a

lecturer in my department and one of the founding members of Civic, a group whose work is devoted to investigations of pressing political and cultural issues and to making theatre for social justice and community engagement.

Mr. VanCampen explains in his review that, because he “could not take the impact of the tragedy” of O’Neill’s play as depicted in this production, he “fled” the Kiplinger Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, where the work was presented, “20 or 30 minutes before the end” of the show. To generate a review of work that one has not seen in full is deeply unprofessional and indeed unethical, a practice that no journalistic organ like the Ithaca Times should accommodate and thereby endorse.

Yet if this failure to maintain a professional standard were the only aspect

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of VanCampen’s review to which to draw attention, I am not certain that I would respond as I do now. Far more important is the fuzziness with which VanCampen explains that, precipitating his departure from the theatre, “Something about the play and my place watching it really got to me.” That place, VanCampen reports, was in a room in which audience members were seated based on the ushers’ perception—which could, it was well understood, be a misperception—of their race. Simmons and his collaborators plunged audiences into a racially divided environment, similar to the world of O’Neill’s play. This environment was strategically created to provoke challenging thoughts and difficult feelings about the histories of racialization and racism in the United States, alongside their ongoing legacies.

By leaving the theatre early, VanCampen declined to participate fully in this theatrical and political experiment, which culminated every night in a talkback led by facilitators who received training from Civic Ensemble. Had he remained through the end of the show and for its talkback, perhaps he would have been able to identify with more precision the “something” that “really got to” him and that caused his white flight from the Schwartz Center. If he had engaged in the conversation to which he was invited, would he have also “really got” that there are any number of everyday circumstances from which minority subjects do not have the luxury, as he did that evening, to walk away?

As VanCampen notes, his walk away testifies to the intended power of our production to prompt unbidden and uncomfortable responses. All the better when such responses are collectively examined, but even in the absence of that examination, Mr. VanCampen wrote a review that shows us why we have so much work to do to talk honestly about race and how we may be proud that our production, encouragingly playing to packed houses, insisted on the need for that shared dialogue.

Sincerely, – Nick Salvatore, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University

Spotlight on Science

The article in the April 27 issue of the Ithaca Times put a welcome spotlight on the hands-on learning that now supplements and enriches local STEM teaching in elementary and middle schools in Tompkins County.

The photo at the beginning of the article shows Bill Foster, director of the Floating Classroom, helping elementary school students complete a biological assessment of a local stream. These students are preparing to release trout they have raised for six months in their classroom, and they are highly motivated to know their stream is healthy. The continued on page 18

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carry on conversations in Dutch, English, remember writing a story about 15 French and German, and I was the guy years ago in which I reported that who took I.D. cards and handed out Yvette de Boer of Ithaca had been towels. It didn’t matter … Tob treated me the first finisher—female or male—in a with respect, always taking the time to two-day, 100-mile cross-country ski race listen when I answered his questions, and I in Canada. A reader stopped me on the liked him immensely.

Commons and said, “That last name is I got to know Joan—who was a fine familiar. Was it her sister who swam the athlete in her own right—and Claire was length of Cayuga Lake in 1984, taking close friends with one of my housemates, 20 hours to swim the 39 miles?” I said, so we became friends “Yes, it was her sister, as well. Yvette gave me Claire.” The reader plenty to write about, as replied, “Wow, that’s she was at the front of the impressive, and it’s pack in virtually every hard to believe.” I race she entered—be it told him he was halfrunning, biking or skiing. right. He asked what I met (Tob and Joan’s son) I meant. I said, “It is Maarten a few times, and indeed impressive, all of the de Boers just but I know Claire and emanated kindness and Yvette’s parents, Joan class. and Tob de Boer, and Yvette and I spoke it’s not that hard to a few days after Tob’s believe. That big heart passing, and I got a little and belief in one’s choked up conveying to ability to push evermy friend how much I farther are inherited liked and respected her traits.” dad. I brought up the Tobias “Tob” de world-class athlete and Boer passed on last towering intellect traits, week at age 85, and and Yvette brought it when I met him in all back into focus by 1981, he was three saying, “Yeah, my dad years removed from was a really good guy.” I setting a national asked her about the 100record for a bicycle mile ski races and the endurance race. Tob— 39-mile lake swims, and then 48 years old—had she said, “Those things ridden for 24 hours, were an extension of our and had cranked out upbringing … our sense an incredible 448 of ‘Sure, you can do that.’” miles. That’s a month’s I told Yvette how total for many cyclists. much I enjoyed talking I saw Tob every to her dad when he day for seven years, returned to Teagle as I was an athletic Tob de Boer (Photo provided) Hall after a grueling department guy and workout, and she said, he rarely missed a “That was his passion, midday workout. his high. He just loved Some visitors to to run, to bike, and to ski in the woods.”

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Local artist releases illustrated memoir

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ow you react to the stories that make up Annie Campbell’s memoir, The Whore Next Door, will depend on your age and whether you were ever part of the counterculture or not. The time period covered—from 1965, when she was 18 years old, to about 1982—rather perfectly bookends one of the most footloose and uproarious eras in the history of American culture.

Her short, candid, and funny stories show that Campbell was a veritable poster child for the zeitgeist. She had a yen for adventure, a willingness to take chances, a love of sexual escapades, an emotional openness that allowed her to connect with all kinds of people, and enough sense to get out when the going got a little too weird.

Younger readers will be fascinated by Campbell’s personal and detailed depiction of “The ‘60s.” Perhaps because she is a visual artist, the author’s recollection of events and places that are over 40 years in the past is astounding. You don’t hear about the great events of the era: she didn’t go to Woodstock or march on Washington; this isn’t Forrest Gump.

Instead she recreates a particular evening in the late ‘60s in Ithaca when her roommate Ricky mystifies the bass player from B.B King’s band with an elaborate card trick, which Campbell describes in detail. She is able to recall the décor in several rooms in a house in Michigan where she was attending

a pretty wild party. And here she is at a stoplight in Berkeley in perhaps 1967: … we ogled the crowd of interesting people crossing the street: a dude with a giant foot-wide Afro with his arm around a tiny man wearing a long flowing purple robe covered with gold stars, a handsome man with a long flowing beard hugging a laughing woman in a giant sunhat, a woman with a ridiculous poufy hairdo leading a poodle on a leash with a poof on its head just like hers, a little boy expertly eating an enormous ice cream cone, and people of all shapes and sizes dressed in wild garish colors, or barely dressed at all.

For older readers who know Campbell and are perhaps part of or peripheral to her social milieu, this book will be a perhaps stunning trip down memory lane. She has “changed the names to protect the guilty” in some cases, but many people in The Whore Next Door retain their real names. Most local Boomers will recognize the sleight of hand artist in the story above as Ricky Jay, and other folks, like Tony Potenza and Jürg Bütler, are presented undisguised as their own charming selves. This memoir is a fascinating reconstruction of the local counterculture assembled by someone who was connected in one way or another to many of its local institutions and personalities. She is like the talented character actress who you see in movie after movie and remember better than

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Moving and Being

by Bill Chaisson

Annie Campbell at home with illustrations (Photo: Diane Duthie)

you do the stars.

She began getting paid for her artwork in high school and in 1986 one of her commissions was to repaint the horses on the carousel in Stewart Park. But before beginning this book the self-effacing Campbell had never considered herself a writer and had always been reluctant to focus on herself.

“It allows me to do any commissions [for artwork] that I get very quickly,” she said.

“But when I tried to do my own thing I was attacked by a lack of energy.”

But it wasn’t until about nine years ago that she turned her attention on herself. She got sick and was temporarily forced to stop working. “I was allowed to just sit around and do nothing,” she recalled. “My mind wandered. I asked my subconscious, ‘Why can’t I focus on personal projects?’ and it just hit me: if I was as mean to anyone as I was to myself, they’d just run screaming. I promised myself I would stop being like that.”

She then found the energy to go upstairs to her study and write one of the first stories—“The Pissing Window”—and in three months she had written the entire book. Then she put them all in chronological order and put the manuscript away for a while.

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here was a time in America when neighbors helped neighbors. When parents lived near both their children and their parents; the generations took care of each other, as the youngsters grew strong and the elders’ time neared an end.

Kinship networks grew like oak trees, gaining branches and deepening their roots in villages or city blocks full of people who worked played, traded, and procreated together every day. What is called a “sense of community,” or solidarity today was what they had without thinking of the topic. It was just life.

And then came industrialization, world war, the interstate highway system.

Madison Avenue sold fears of nuclear war and personal inadequacy – Buy Now! Look Good! You’ll Die Young Anyway! – and people became consumers of prepackaged food and broadcast entertainment, often in tinny suburban enclaves, the borders of their consciousness limited to the edges of the television set.

Some of the elders of today can just remember that earlier time, before haste and waste conquered all. Elena Flash, the newly named director of the newly created not-for-profit Love Living At

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Home, recalled growing up in an Italian neighborhood of Rome, N.Y., her grandma making soup when someone on the street was sick, her grandfather going out to help someone fix up their home.

“That natural fabric which existed a couple generations ago has really frayed,” Flash said. “The village model is elegantly simple. We help each other out not because there’s a several hundred page manual of regulations imposing it on us, but because we care about each other.”

Love Living At Home, announced on a recent afternoon for the media’s benefit at the law offices of Hancock Estabrook, is based on the “virtual village” model, taken nationwide by the Village to Village Network. The gist of the virtual village idea is that elders who want to grow older at home need companionship, advice on services, help in gaining transportation.

“I’m part of the Baby Boomers, and we’re very independent people,” said Kathy Garner, chair of the Love Living At Home board. “We don’t self-identify as seniors … this is about creating a strong, vibrant community of seniors within the greater community.”

Garner said that she realized, after she was widowed about 10 years ago, how many things she did at home, alone, that might be dangerous, or which she wished she had someone to ask for advice. She saw press coverage on virtual villages and started talking to people about the idea. Before long there was a steering committee, which “developed rapidly into a board.”

Garner stressed that Love Living At Home does not want to duplicate any

Elena Flash and Kathy Garner (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

services provided already around Ithaca, already abundant in not-for-profits. During the planning process, there was much consultation with the county Office of Aging, Garner said: one impressive number that they provided, and is otherwise circulated by people who think about aging: over 90 percent of seniors want to stay in their homes.

While that’s something of a relief in an area without enough housing, like Ithaca, keeping people in the Baby Boomers’ “silver tsunami” connected to things they need, like social interaction, home maintenance, outings, and transportation is where Love Living At Home comes in.

Volunteers will help to check in with members, along with house sitting and pet care. They might also help with simple handyperson tasks, or recommend

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someone off a list of “neighborsuggested providers.” When volunteer drivers are available, the service will provide door-to-door rides anywhere in the county. And there will be one “Pick of the Month” event, along with member-organized social events for members and “walks with a purpose,” as Garner termed them: The idea would be to perambulate for a while about town, then end up at an event like an art gallery.

The membership dues for Love Living At Home are $450 for an individual, and $575 for a household of two or more.

The founding sponsors are the Triad Foundation, Tompkins Trust Co., and Warren Real Estate.

Love Living At Home has scheduled four information sessions in coming months for people who might be interested in becoming members: Wednesday, May 11, Kendal at Ithaca Auditorium, 2230 North Triphammer Road, 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 18, Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, July 12, Cayuga Medical Center, Howell Conference Room, 101 Dates Drive, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, August 6, Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Visit lovelivingathome.org or call (607) 319-0161 for more information. • – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com Youropinions contin u ed from page 12

Floating Classroom, working with Trout Unlimited and other local partners, now ensures that every fourth grade classroom in the ICSD has a tank of trout fingerlings to raise and later release in appropriate habitat. In addition to demonstrating basic ideas about the need for clean water, adequate food, and the right water temperature, the creative teachers in the ICSD have found ways to use Trout in the Classroom as a basis for art, math, and other classes.

The Floating Classroom also takes over 1,500 local students onto Cayuga Lake each year, where they do citizen science projects that measure changes in the water column and study the creatures that call our lake home. We believe these hands on activities engage kids in science and inform the citizens of tomorrow.

In addition, the data they collect is compiled and archived, so it is a basis for documenting the changes to our lake over time.

For more information on the Floating Classroom and its projects, please visit us at the Farmers Market this summer, where we will be happy to show you around and even book a cruise for you, or stop by floatingclassroom.net. We also welcome contributions via the Center for Transformative Action… ­– A. Thomas Vawter, advisory board member, Cayuga Lake Floating Classroom

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J OIN U S FOR O Since U R 1976 Se as on “I did a lot of Todd Meredith as Buddy Holly (center in blue) (Photo Provided) research on it. There O UR 39 TH S EA SO N WILL BE one of anticipation and excitement as we get closer to naming our next CCO Music Director. We’ll feature our “final four” candidates throughout the Orchestra Series are discrepancies out there. Some Call 607-273-8981 for S EA SON T ICKE TS people say he ended with ‘Brown-Eyed Meredith has played Holly in 11 SINGLE TICKETS ( on sale end of August) : Online at brownpapertickets.comOr by phone: 1-800-838-3006 Handsome Man’ that night. And some previous productions, and even CCOITHACA . ORG people say that he called Ritchie back out though he comes across as scrawny Saturday, May 14th, 2016 ford hall, ithaca college and they ended with ‘La Bamba.’ That was at first, he clearly knows what he’s concert: 7:30pm actually the biggest song out at the time. doing, and when it comes to the pre-concert chat: 6:45pm ‘La Bamba’ was huge. There’s a book by guitar parts, he’s got them all down, auction Starts at 6pm Larry Lehmer: The Day the Music Died: even using a capo the way Buddy ORCHESTRAL CONCERT The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big did. Meredith knows all the riffs, Bopper and Ritchie Valens. We got a lot J ofoin U s for o Ur licks and fills, and when he straps MuSic director candidate: 2015-2016 Se as on the information out of that.” on his brown sunburst Stratocaster, DAviD HANDEL It was a tragic end to a very tough Meredith is a great ball of fire.

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He was living in said Meredith. The show is called “The SponSor ic Student rush available New York City, which is more expensive Night the Music Lived,” a flip on “the day (ic Students with id only) than Lubbock, so he needed to go out and the music died,” coined by Don McLean adult: $28 / Senior: $25 / tour. ” in his song “American Pie.” (The date was Student: $7 Tickets are available by calling 800February 3, 1959.) !

427-6160, visiting the box office at 24 “If you saw the musical in Cortland, Port Watson Street or online at www. it’s basically what that last 25-minute cortlandrep.org. • concert is,” said Meredith. “We just add first saw Todd Meredith in 2013 when he played Buddy Holly—and note-perfect versions of all of Holly’s guitar parts—at Cortland Repertory Theatre (CRT) as the star of BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story, one of those jukebox musicals. I’m a huge fan of Gary Busey in the 1978 film, The Buddy Holly Story, but it was so rife with inaccuracies that the Crickets wrote a book called The Real Buddy Holly Story. Meredith is all about getting it right; here’s what I wrote about his performance:

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Number Theory

Exploring the passion of pioneering mathematicians

By Br yan VanC ampe n The Man Who Knew Infinity, written and directed by Matthew Brown, opening at Cinemapolis May 13.

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love when a movie teaches me about a time and culture that I knew nothing about, and I learned a lot from Matthew Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity, based on the book of the same name by Robert Kanigel.

No one should ever substitute a film for a trip to the library when it comes to studying history, but this story stretches from India to the United Kingdom just before the outbreak of World War I. Above and beyond the build up to war, there’s a lot of great material, smart, fascinating characters and an underlying passion for knowledge that makes the film feel bigger and fuller than the conventional BBC bio-

pic. Not for nothing, but the film opens with a lovely quote by Bertrand Russell about the beauty of mathematics.

The film stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician who after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel start in “The Man Who Knew Infinity” (Photo Provided) becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his an almost holy fervor. At his job in India, professor, G. H. Hardy (played by Jeremy Ramanujan never uses his abacus because Irons). Here is a man who seems to be he says his brain works faster. able to process and analyze numbers with The film was actually shot at Trinity

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College, Cambridge, and at one point of the film, Irons as Hardy takes Ramanujan on a campus tour and shows him the tree where Isaac Newton was (supposedly) hit on the head, along with the important documents and papers accomplished by Trinity alums on display in the libraries. Bertrand Russell is a character here, played by Jeremy Northam; I remember Northam’s brief Hollywood hunk phase in the mid-90s, and it’s nice to see him cast all that off and become the character actor he was always meant to be. Toby Jones co-stars as John Edensor Littlewood, another Trinity Fellow in the field of mathematics.

While some at Trinity are more supportive than others, the film is really about the relationship between Hardy, the atheist, an emotionally buttoned-down Irons who’s all about doing the grunt work of proofs for every single equation, and Patel as Ramanujan, the impassioned idealist who sees all the numbers in his head, so why should they be incorrect?

Hardy starts out quite tough on his protégé, but as they spend time together, argue and begin to learn about each other, he becomes quite taken with him, referring to their time together as the most romantic period of his entire career.

Brown’s film is largely disciplined and unsentimental about the inherent racism and tentative nature of Hardy’s “experiment” in accepting Ramanujan at Trinity. Not only did he experience resentment and condescension from some of the faculty and students, which certainly escalated when the war broke out, but back in India, his mother (Arundhati Nag) hid all his letters from his wife Janaki (Devika Bhise), who came to believe that her husband had abandoned her. So damage was done on both sides, although the Trinity College staff comes off as insensitive, to say the least, and racist to say the most.

Best of all, Patel plays the impassioned student as a geeky, emotionally open vessel, while Irons is careful not to allow Hardy’s emotional reticence to dribble over into the usual bio-pic sloppy sentiment. At its core, it’s about two men who loved what they did, even as they didn’t understand how the other man did what he did. This is good, smart and involving stuff. •

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Dedication to the Muses

Composer set for first colloboration with vocalist

By L e a h K al l e r

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that are commonly found in Masses or Requiems. “Christopher’s use of word painting,” she said, “intensifies the power of each phrase. The pieces fit my voice like a glove and are extremely gratifying to sing.

Loy tells a story of being led to a piano at four years old. When he sat down at the keyboard he began picking out Brahms’s Lullaby on the black keys.

His parents realized that they should get him piano lessons. He wrote his first musical work, a sonata for French horn and piano, during downtime at his high school job. After graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, he was accepted into the master’s in music program at Cleveland Institute of Music.

Loy attended the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s premiere performance of Husa’s Trumpet Concerto and said that concert convinced him that Cornell was the right place to continue his education. Loy eventually wrote his doctoral Tamara Acosta and Christopher Morgan Loy (Photo: Diane Duthie) dissertation on the very piece that inspired him to come to Ithaca.

Loy was fortunate to be able to with the area and stayed here upon the study with two Pulitzer Prize-winning completion of his studies. composers. He said during one semester Today Loy is the organist/pianist at Husa had six graduating students, and the First Baptist Church and also teaches piano and composition at the Community he was overwhelmed with dissertations and exams. He asked Loy if he would School of Music and Art. Each year he be willing to study with Steven Stucky presents a program that highlights new for a year. Loy said that Husa would music that he has composed. This year pour over a score and give suggestions. his concert is called “Sacred Airs,” and features soprano Tamara Acosta. The duo Stuckey, however, was a much more hands-on teacher, which Loy says was will premiere Loy’s “Four Sacred Songs,” and perform selected songs by Schumann very beneficial to him at the time.

Loy continued to send him scores in and Barber. Loy will also play some solo subsequent years and the two composers piano pieces, including a set of works would occasionally run into each other dedicated to the late Steven Stucky.

Loy often composes with a particular around town. Ithaca’s music community and the entire classical music world artist in mind. “Four Sacred Songs” was suffered a devastating loss with Stucky’s written for Acosta and is at the heart of untimely death in February. Several the program. Acosta said, “Four Sacred years ago Loy composed a piece called Songs" evoke a sense of contained “Homage to Steven Stucky,” and this excitement and anticipation, achieved through a complex harmonic structure Sunday he will include it the set of piano underpinning beautiful and accessible works dedicated to him. In this set he melodies.” will also premiere “In Memoriam: Steven The text is in Latin, even though art Stucky.” songs are traditionally composed in a This concert is the first collaboration living language. Loy said that he feels that between Loy and Acosta, both graduates he had more freedom with the language of the Cleveland Institute of Music. • and that the vowel sounds are pure. Some of the text is taken from the Psalms, but The concert will be held at the Loy also borrows from the Roman Missal. Unitarian Church, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, He chooses words that speak to him, and May 15 Acosta commented that some of the Latin words were new to her and are not ones n 1985, Christopher Morgan Loy’s piece for Two Trumpets and Organ was performed at the commencement ceremony at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Esteemed composer and Cornell University professor Karel Husa received an honorary doctorate from CIM on the same day. At the reception Husa told Loy that he liked his piece and invited him to come to Ithaca and work with him. In 1988 Loy enrolled at Cornell and began working on his doctor of musical arts degree in composition. Loy fell in love

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A Maestro’s Touch

CCO’s grand closing concert this weekend

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his Saturday evening, May 12, marks an exciting time for the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Their season-closing concert at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Hall will be led by the fourth—and final—conductor candidate, David Handel, along with violin soloist Geoffrey Herd, and will include music by Alfonso Leng Haygus, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Felix Mendelssohn. Soon after this decisive concert the orchestra’s search committee will make their recommendation and the CCO’s new musical director will be named.

Also on Saturday the orchestra’s major fundraiser, the Silent Auction, takes place in the auditorium lobby. The pre-concert chat with conductor and soloist begins at 6:45 p.m.

This week David Handel has the customary full schedule of rehearsals, meetings with the committee and friends of the orchestra, and a visit with school musicians.

A native of upstate New York, he grew up in Williamsville outside Buffalo, where he started conducting at age 14, and took lessons with the conductor of the Buffalo Youth Orchestra. He decided to

attend the University of Michigan for its “top conducting program,” and majored in violin and learned conducting.

Before finishing his master’s degree at Michigan, he received a university grant to Leipzig, where he auditioned for Kurt Masur, who promptly named him his apprentice conductor with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. “It was the greatest experience of my life,” Handel said. After returning and completing his degree, he worked at various occupations.

Advised by Mazur to be on the podium as much as possible, he accepted a position in Bolivia, “a good place to build my career.” Soon offers came from all over South America, but he settled on an extended stay with the National Symphony Orchestra in Bolivia. In 2010 came Handel’s debut with the Moscow City Symphony— Russian Philharmonic (a “terrific orchestra”) and soon the appointment of principal guest conductor, a post he holds today. After 14 years in Bolivia, he returned to the States, making his home base in St. Petersburg, Florida.

This conductor’s choice is a work he is convinced no one here has ever heard—

the Adagio for Strings by Leng Haygus (1884–1974), considered the grandfather of Chilean classical music. “It is something new for the public and the musicians,” and is a “passionate, simple, and touching piece.”

The Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor (1880) is “not played all the time,” Handel said, but it’s a “great piece of music. I love it.” He last conducted it in 1999, but performed it in graduate school and understands the challenges and complexities of the score.

He and soloist Herd are friends and just performed the Tchaikovsky concerto in Buffalo in February. “He’s a wonderful violinist,” Handel says, “we had a great time.” Herd also knows the CCO, as his early studies were here in Ithaca, and he worked with the orchestra’s Kirsten Marshall and retired concertmaster Linda Case.

Closing the program is Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107, called “Reformation.” Considerably more weighty than the composer’s betterknown symphonies, the “Scottish” (No. 3) and the “Italian” (No. 4), it was written before them, but was later revised and published only in 1864, long after Mendelssohn’s death in 1847. It shows great understanding of musical language of the Viennese classical period and also looks back to Bach, whose major choral works were revived by Mendelssohn and performed with his Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. In the final movement comes a setting of the noble Luther chorale “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”(A Mighty

David Handel (Photo Provided)

Fortress Is Our God), which Bach used for his eponymous chorale Cantata No. 80.

In Mendelssohn’s rendering, “one could imagine this set for chorus,” Handel said. It is indeed a noble way to close the season.

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A Forbidden Love

Colorful play delivers all-around wonder

By Ros s Ha ars ta d Paloma by Anne García-Romero, at the Kitchen Theatre through May 22

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aloma’s crystalline structure throws off glints of joy and sorrow, trailing refractions of centuries of time as it delivers a modern Romeo & Juliet romance, of lovers sundered by generations of distrust.

Contemporary, sexy, concise yet vibrant, funny and piercingly sad, the play marks the Ithaca debut of playwright Anne García-Romero, a wondrous debut in Kitchen Theatre’s rapturous production under director Margarett Perry.

Ibrahim and Paloma meet in an NYU graduate seminar, students of writer

Alexandra Lemus and Fajer Kaisi as Paloma and Ibrahim (Photo: George Cannon)

Ibn Hazm’s The Ring of the Dove, an 11th century Islamic treatise on the practice of love. Reading the text out loud to each other begins as an excuse for flirtation, which quickly ignites into passion. Yet the flip in this case is that the woman is eager to go to bed, the man demurs.

Paloma is a Latina raised Catholic, but generally non-practicing, while Ib is a devout Muslim, adhering to rules about chastity. In an attempt to solve his dilemma, he books passage over spring break for the two of them to Spain. They trace the path of the poet Hazm, and the peaceful co-existence that once lived in the cosmopolitan air of Moorish Spain, where all three peoples of the book easily mixed: Muslims, Jews and Christians.

This journey is told to us in fragments, García-Romero begins with a heated argument between Ib and his best friend, and now his defense attorney, Jared Rabinowitz. Something tragic happened in Spain to Paloma, and back in the States Ib is facing trial.

The play adopts the flashback style of mysteries and noirs, but uses this nonlinearity to pursue the fractal nature of passion, history, time. The heart of the play is Ibrahim’s anger and deep grief, set against the memories of a coltish, impulsive, teasing young woman. The three actors in the play double in roles that ghost the central characters: Paloma’s mother; Ib’s father.

The effect is a meditation on love as surrender, a cri de couer about the centuries that have driven a civilization apart, a contemporary collision of cultures in conflict rooted with great detail in a familiar story of two kids heads over heels.

García-Romero unapologetically invokes the iconic: Jared, Ib and Paloma all at some point talk on the importance of their names: Ibrahim, or Abraham, the patriarch that ties together the stories of the Torah, the Koran and the Bible. Paloma is “dove”—the beloved in The Ring of the Dove, the symbol of hope in the story of Noah. Rabinowitz, the rabbi, in whom Jared locates his sense of justice, descendant of a rabbi grandfather lost in the Holocaust.

Under Perry’s deft touch, the play explodes with feeling and rapture, humor and pain. Scintillating lighting by Erik Hershkowitz kisses the sculptural set of Gary Smoot. Smoot combines two structures evoking steps against a sky bisected by an open geometric design, a line in Arabic crosses the polished floor, with occasional breaks into tiles. Along with the sharp sound design by Nate Goebel, it constantly echoes the worn steps of Granada, the burn of sun on the desert, a gap between now and forever, the evanescent nature of desire. Lisa Boquist’s costumes attach us to the present, except when the scene extends into the supernatural.

Alexandra Lemus limns a Paloma brimming over with youth, headstrong yet smart, giddy with desire, yet never the naive. She transforms with ease into Paloma’s haunted mother, riven with sorrow.

Jacob Heimer’s Jared is brash against practical, arguing with the urgency against the obdurate Ib, a mix of the gravid and the light, a touch wry, stubborn.

Yet more stubborn is Fajer Kaisi in his portrayal of Ib. An impish charm and a quick tongue give way to a confused boy when desire and love tear at the principles of his faith. Loss becomes a deep well in Kaisi, he is heart-crushed, we notice the terror and fury in his eyes, as he gropes toward an answer.

The play moves towards hope, tantalizingly, gingerly, but steadily. Hope against the despair of centuries of mistrust.

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eyes,” Campbell said. “Then I rewrote it and made it better. Then I started the paintings.

I had always felt sorry for grownups; their books don’t have any pictures in them.”

She produced three to four drawings for each of the 106 chapters. Most of these didn’t require a lot of revision, but she made 27 different attempts until she finished a self-portrait—for a chapter called “The Letter”— that satisfied her.

Campbell’s work is familiar to many people because it has graced the cover of every Grassroots program since

Pages from “The Whore Next Door” (Photo Provided)

the festival’s inception. Her vibrant watercolors often have the feeling of R. Crumb channeling Marc Chagall with colors borrowed from poster artist Stanley Mouse. Her subjects can be exuberant or thoughtful, but they all seem to float in their saturated contexts.

While she was producing the artwork, she also gave the manuscript to her best friend from high school, Nancy Williams, who had become a professional editor. The manuscript also made the rounds among numerous friends and family members.

The memoir largely skips over her childhood, although there are some flashbacks. “When I read a book about someone’s life,” she said, “I find the early years rather dull to read about. I like to read about what happens when people leave home.”

Campbell’s father was Wolfgang H.J. Fuchs, a mathematics professor at Cornell from 1950 until his death in 1997. He and his wife Dorothee, both had some Jewish ancestry, and they left Germany separately in the early 1930s, meeting in Aberdeen, Scotland. While her father moved from one temporary appointment to the next in his early career, Campbell was born in Swansea, Wales, and her younger brother John was born in Liverpool, England.

Her sister Claudia, 10 years younger than Annie, was born after the family had settled in Ithaca.

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a nightmare for me. My parents and teachers encouraged my drawing because I was terrible at everything else.” Her stories about her behavior suggest she was what would be politely called a “spirited” teenager and at age 16 was sent off to the Cambridge School in Massachusetts.

“My teachers thought I was a sweet girl, but they thought I was nuts,” she grinned.

“I was sent to the school psychiatrist, who told me, ‘You’re not much of a student, but you’ve got a good head on your shoulders.’

“I was a typical hippie girl of my age group,” she said. “I pierced my own ears in high school, and I found the counterculture in Boston. I loved the blues scene and R & B; I found music like Joan Baez and Peter, Paul, and Mary insipid. I was sort of reverse prejudiced; I loved Ike and Tina Turner and Motown.”

Readers of The Whore Next Door will be struck by Campbell’s pioneering lifestyle.

Like all pioneers, she is headed out into unknown territory, but she inescapably brings a little of the Old World along with her. As the book opens she is in Lansing, Michigan because she’s decided she’d rather live with her boyfriend than go to college.

It is in her first apartment in Lansing that she encounters Lois, the prostitute in the book’s title. In what becomes a pattern in her life, she doesn’t just speculate on the motivations of the people around her.

Instead she becomes good friends with them—regardless, or perhaps because, of their eccentricities—and they invite her into their lives.

In 1965 she has no stated plans for a career, but only hopes for a fulfilling domestic life. The pioneering aspect is that her definition of “fulfilling” includes sexual fulfillment, and when she doesn’t get it from her first husband, her solution is quite modern: she leaves him and hits the road, moving to Boston, Ithaca, and San Francisco. Her subsequent liaisons take on some of the qualities of a quest.

After she has been disappointed in love, the purpose of the quest for a while becomes to have a good time, but she always resumes the original search: for a love that is reciprocated, both emotionally and physically.

“I think young people will like the book,” said Campbell, “because I’m brutally honest about myself without judging. I wrote it as I remembered it.”

As it happens, Campbell is the same age as Hillary Clinton. But at the same time Clinton was taking an interest in Goldwater campaign, Campbell was sneaking into Boston from the Cambridge School to hang out in blues bars. If you have taken a path through the decades more like Hillary’s than Annie’s, you are likely to find The Whore Next Door enlightening.

“I lived during a period when penicillin was available for VD,” Campbell said, “we had the pill to prevent pregnancy, when everyone was open minded, and you could live for practically nothing.”

“Young people now have such a hard time supporting themselves,” she said, “and they have to worry about things like AIDS. It makes sense for them to live a more controlled life.” •

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5/11 Wednesday Dan Forsyth | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Driftwood’s own Dan Forsyth. A night full of acoustic and americana favorites awaits.

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

D¡a£ectš, Eamonn’s Daemons, The Bibliographers, Water Bears | 7:00 PM-10:30 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Post Rock, Post Metal, Progressive, Indie Rock, Rock, Electronic.

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.

Jimmy Pinchak Band | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

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

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

DamodarDas.com. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans,

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 | With Grassanova. Bluegrass.

Rocky Burning | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | A high-energy face melting soul hitting performance.

Steve Strauss and Co. | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Singer Songwriter.

Sundown Sally | 8:00 PM | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St. Unit 2, Ithaca | Folk, Americana.

Thursday Swing with the Pelotones | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Jazz, Swing, Old-Time.

5/13 Friday Bender, Johnny and Lonnie Band | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Rock, Modern Rock, Hard Rock.

Cielle | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Roots, Americana, Folk, Soul.

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.

El Camino’s | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Rock, Blues, Soul, Alt-Country, Funk.

Greg Humphreys Electric Trio | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca

| Rock, Jazz, Blues, Soul.

Ironwood | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Country, Roots, Blues, Modern Folk.

Leonidaes | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk duo.

Long John and the Tights | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Old-Time, Bluegrass, Americana.

Marco Benevento | 10:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Funk, Psychedelic, Rock, Progressive, Jazz, Soul.

Obnox, Sammus, Quail Turret, Pilgrims | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Garage Rock, Punk, Hip Hop, Soul, Hard Jazz, Progressive, Rock. Ithaca Underground and Angry Mom Presents.

Preston Frank & Kevin Wimmer | 8:30 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Zydeco Extravaganza.

Rhythm & Brews | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Rock, R&B. The Pelotones | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Original Jazz, Blues and R & B.

Ithaca | Americana, Folk, Pop, Soul, Blues.

Meghann Wright & The Sure Thing: Nothin’ Left to Lose Tour | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Pop, Soul.

Pollen, Cubbage, Ben Zucker, | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Singer Songwriter.

Rebecca & the Soul Shakers | 6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Roots Rock, Southern Rock, Blues, Rock, Folk, Soul.

Richie & Rosie | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Appalachian Folk, Blues, African, Rock, Country, Americana.

Shore Acres Drive, Polyphony, The Planet You, Department | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Post Punk, Emo, Pop Punk, Math Rock, Hardcore. Ithaca Underground presents.

The Peter Novelli Band | 9:00 PM-12:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Louisiana Roots & Blues.

The Sweats | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Rock.

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Eastbound Jesus, The Blind Owl Band | 8:00 PM-11:45 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Old-Time.

Gerald Burke | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Mississippi Delta Blues.

Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk Rock, Rock, Blues, Country, Folk.

Meghann Wright & The Sure Thing | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave,

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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.

Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Davey O. | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Songs written like a conversation with your next door neighbor and as comfortable as a well-worn pair of shoes.

Dead Night with Planet Jr | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Grateful Dead covers. Rock, Folk, Progressive, Blues, Psychedelic.

Frank Raponi (of the Small Kings) | 2:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Covering songs from various genres including folk, rock, pop, country, reggae, beach, grunge, etc.

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

Kiefer Sutherland | 6:30 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Americana, Country.

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Sara Pajunen | 7:00 PM | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Finger Lakes Finns welcome Finlandia Foundation National’s (FFN) 2015 Performer of the Year, violinist and composer Sara Pajunen of Minnesota. For more information about the Finger Lakes Finns, visit fingerlakesfinns.org

5/12 Thursday George Thorogood & The Destroyers | 8:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | More than 4 decades, over 8,000 live shows, and some 15 million albums sold worldwide later, that same maverick guitar-slinger is still making electrifying music, still thrilling audiences, and still the most bad-tothe-bone performer in rock.

Martin Sexton: Mix Tape Tour | 8:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Remember that mix tape your friend made you way back when - the one that’s etched in your soul? Martin Sexton’s new album MIX TAPE OF THE OPEN ROAD is that musical cross-country trip, blazing through all territories of style, as you cruise through time and place.

5/17 Tuesday 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.

Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Radio London | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Rock, Pop, Soul, Blues, R&B, Jazz.

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

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

5/13 Friday Comedy At Night | 7:00 PM | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Comedy At Night presents 5 comedians.

Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2545362 Jazz Combos Showcase | 7:30 PM | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Features the Appel Sextet, Bissett Quintet, and For-Credit Quintet.

Love Beyond Borders: Benefit Concert | 7:00 PM | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | An evening of uplifting and soul-filled music in honor of international refugees, supporting Ithaca Welcomes Refugees and First Baptist Church of Ithaca’s Parable of Talents. The concert will include performances by: Mark A.B. Lawrence, Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus, Burns & Kristy, Opera Ithaca, and Savage Club of Ithaca.

Studio 342 Recital: Voice students of Patrice Pastore | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca |

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5/11 Wednesday Johnson Follies | 7:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Johnson annual talent/variety show. Funded by the GPSAFC. Open to the Johnson Cornell University

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The Night The Music Lived | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Friday and Saturday, May 13 & 14 at 7:30. BUDDY HOLLY IS BACK in an all new concert!

Starring Todd Meredith and The Rave-Ons! Central New York’s favorite 1950’s tribute band returns in a NEW concert never seen in Cortland before!

Bluegrass, Psychedelic, Ambient.

X Ambassadors | 7:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Alternative Rock, Indie Rock.

5/15 Sunday Greer Memorial Jazz Concert | 3:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | A reception will follow the performance when the audience can mingle with the artists.

The concert features three favorite singers of the area, bass-baritone David Neal, baritone Steve Stull, and mezzosoprano Danan Tsan of Syracuse, with John White on piano and Peter Chwazik on bass and guitar.

5/14 Saturday Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 7:30 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Classical.

Cornell University Jazz Band: Swing Fling | 8:00 PM | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Swing Fling features big band arrangements with dancing and refreshments, plus dance instruction at 7:00 PM. Ithaca Community Orchestra Concert | 4:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. James Mick, will present Overtures and Opera. The orchestra will perform the overtures to Verdi’s Nabucco, Herold’s Zampa, Beethoven’s Egmont, and Wagner’s Renzi.

Studio Recital: Piano students of Ryan MacEvoy McCullough | 1:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The Jauntee | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Funk, Rock, Jazz, Progressive,

5/17 Tuesday Blue Man Group | 7:30 PM | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | Delight in an amazing display of physical and technical skills used to create unique performance art from the best seats in the house!

Ithaca Children and Youth Chorus: Passing the Torch – and the Light Shines On | 7:30 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Young vocalists from the Ithaca area will present a wide range of repertoire from traditional Israeli and French-Canadian songs to pieces by composers Antonio Vivaldi, Michael Haydn, and Ralph Vaughan Williams to contemporary

choral works by Jim Papoulis, Allan Naplan, and more.

Film Deadpool | 2:30 PM, 5/14 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopting the alter ego Deadpool. For more information, contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org. | 108 mins R | Offbeat Films with Ron Krieg | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 5/17 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This is a series of 12 films that evoke a director’s independent vision and fearless exploration of eccentric or mysterious subject matter. Included are Frankenheimer’s, Seconds, Altman’s, Three Women, Scorsese’s, King of Comedy, Weir’s Picnic, at Hanging Rock, Strick’s, Tropic of Cancer, and 7 more unique films. More info at www. tclifelong.org cinemapolis

Friday, 5/13 to Thursday, 5/19.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Everybody Wants Some | A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and respon-

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The Man Who Knew Infinity | Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy. | 108 mins PG-13 | Midnight Special | A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child’s special powers. | 112 mins PG-13 | Green Room | After witnessing a

Hail Caesar! |A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio’s stars in line. |106 mins PG-13 | The Mermaid | Xuan’s estate project involving reclamation of the sea threatens the livelihood of the mermaids who rely on the sea to survive. Shan is dispatched to stop Xuan and this leads them into falling for each other. Out of his love for Shan, Xuan plans to stop the reclamation.

Unfortunately, Shan and the other mermaids are hunted by a hidden organisation and Xuan has to save Shan before it’s too late. | 94 mins R | Internet Cat Video Festival | This year’s showcase features a new selection of videos curated by Will Braden, the creator of the Henri Le Chat Noir videos, so you’ll be in good hands (or should we say paws?)! The new reel will feature approximately 100 cat videos culled from nominations by the public in the categories of Comedy, Drama, Animated, Musical, Action, Vintage, and Documentary. | 65 mins NR |

Stage Paloma | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Runs May 1 - 22, 2016. By Anne García-Romero. Paloma and Ibrahim meet at NYU in a graduate literature course. He is devoutly Muslim, she is nominally Catholic, and their immediate attraction comes as a surprise to them both–and presents serious problems for dealing with their families. When they make an

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 5/11 Wednesday | Little Venice Ristorante, 49 E Main, Trumansburg | RSVP fleischmann_hans@yahoo.com Red Cross Blood Drives for Tompkins County | Wednesday, May 11th at the Ithaca Moose Lodge from 1:30pm to 6:30pm. Thursday, May 12th at the Ithaca Elks Lodge #636 from 1:30pm to 6:30pm. Please call 1-800

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sibilities of unsupervised adulthood. | 117 mins R | The Congressman | Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance, he knocks out another House member, confronts his angry ex-wife, and faces denunciation by the media for attacking one of the most cherished patriotic symbols in America.

As his life spirals out of control, Charlie embarks on a journey to a remote island in the Atlantic whose eccentric inhabitants are in the middle of a shooting war over their fishing grounds. | 98 mins R | The Family Fang | A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared. |105 mins R |

Wednesday 5/11 to Tuesday 5/17 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes

impulsive decision to visit the ancient cities in Spain where the world’s great religions once coexisted in peace, it has life-changing consequences for everyone. A beautiful play about faith, love, and the cataclysmic moment when tradition and passion collide.

Show times: Wed & Thurs @ 7:30 PM, Fri & Sat @ 8 PM, Sun @ 4 PM, Thurs matinee @ 2:00 PM (May 12 only).

Boynton Middle School presents: The Gypsy Robe and The Cave | The McCalmon Theatre, Boynton Middle School, 1601 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Performances are Friday 5/13 & Saturday 5/14 at 7:30pm and Sunday 5/15 at 2 pm. | 2 One Act Plays by Tim Kelly. The Gypsy Robe is an intriguing story about a magical robe that is given to a young actress who is making her debut. The Cave is an off-beat exercise in total theatre where the cast enters wondering what they are about to perform. Opting to create life in a dark cave, they are threatened by fear of the unknown. A decision must be made: stay or leave?

R2P Presents: Little Mermaid | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, Ithaca | Runs one weekend only: May 13-15, Friday and Saturday at 7 pm, Sunday at 2 pm. | Walt Disney’s magic comes to Ithaca with Running to Places’ (R2P) production of Little Mermaid, the perfect family musical, complete with dancing guppies and singing seagulls.

Tickets are available day of the show and available on-line at www.runningtoplaces.org. Performances are in the former Sears store, with entry through the food court.

Crimes of the Heart | 7:00 PM, 5/16 Monday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Directed by Ross Haarstad. Stage Manager, Lucy Walker.

Warmhearted, irreverent, zany, and brilliantly imaginative, this play teems with humanity and humor as it examines the plight of three young Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions. Play by Beth Henley

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Sacred Root Kava Lounge, Friday, May 13, 5:00 p.m.

Do you enjoy writing? Do you enjoy hearing other people’s writing?

Do you enjoy drinking hot delicious tea? If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, Young Writers Night, sponsored by New Roots Charter School Creative Writing and Spoken Word, is for you!

Within the cozy confines of Sacred Root Kava Bar, there will be an open mic where anyone and everyone can read their writing. and the night will wrap up with a wicked poetry slam. YWN is a great opportunity for young writers to get together to share their work and support and encourage one another.

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murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads. | 95 mins R | Sing Street | A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes. | 106 mins PG-13 | The In-Laws (1979) | In preparation for his daughter’s wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom’s father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America. | 103 mins PG |

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Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/11 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 5/13 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace,, Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

24th Annual Letter Carrier’s Food Drive | 5/14 Saturday | This event is the largest one-day food drive across the nation. Community members are encouraged to place non-perishable, canned food and personal care items (no glass please) in a bag near their mailbox for pick up by their letter carrier on May 14th. These items will go to local food pantries and community organizations in Tompkins County for distribution to families. Items can also be dropped off in advance at 757 Warren Road or 213 N. Tioga Street U.S. Post Offices in Ithaca, NY. Trumansburg Fish & Game Club Chicken BBQ | 11:30 AM, 5/14 Saturday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds | Dinner only.

Free Books | 9:00 AM, 5/14 Saturday | TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by First Book, AFT, NYSUT & Local Associations. Come pick up free books: Pre-K to 12th grade: 9:00-10:00AM. School Personnel with ID / 10:00-12:00PM Families and Community Members.

Tioga Downs Opening Day Of Antique & General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 5/14 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2016. Also open Monday, July 4 and Monday September 5.

Tree Planting | 2:00 PM, 5/14 Saturday | Tree planting in honor of the

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Cayuga Nature Center’s Summer Camp Program, 2015 recipient of the Richard B. Fischer Environmental Conservation Award, Saturday, May 14th at 2:00 pm along the East Ithaca Recreation Way, just north of the Honness Lane trailhead.

Amnesty International Ithaca monthly meeting | 7:30 PM-, 5/17 Tuesday | Cornell University Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Info: 273-3009, ewb2@cornell.edu. Always the third Tuesday. Come sign a letter, defend prisoners, stand up for human rights around the world. All welcome. angela.crowley@cortland.edu, crowley558@gmail.com Blood Drive | 1:30 PM-6:30 PM, 5/17 Tuesday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | The Enfield Volunteer Fire Company is hosting a blood drive thru the American Red Cross. Please come and donate. You can call for an appointment by calling the American Red Cross at 273-1900. Walk-ins are always welcome.

Women’s Business Meetup | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 5/17 Tuesday | The CommonSpot, 126 3/4 The Commons, Ithaca | Whether you’re a business owner, manager, entrepreneur, non-profit leader, change-maker, or dreamer. It will be an informal gathering for building connections, discovering opportunities, and strengthening your support network.

There will be food and drink for purchase. Event details will be coming out soon via email and on the CommonSpot facebook page. For now, you may RSVP by emailing meetup@ commonspot.org.

Learning Satisfying and Sustaining Smoothies | 8:30 PM, 5/11 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Get your daily allowance of fruits and vegetables.

Come to this class with Debra Walsh, and try some delicious and healthful smoothies. Registration is required sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 5/11 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active

postures and soothing stretches. Then we will move towards more passive postures and meditation to relax and rejuvenate the body and mind. This class is open to all levels and all bodies.

Sculpting Science By Candlelight | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 5/12 Thursday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | A candle-lit evening and light refreshments with world-renowned paleoartist Terry Chase learned his trade under George Marchand, who was a master of precise sculptural techniques to create museum exhibits. 273-6623 x29 or cantori@priweb.org to reserve a spot How to Determine your Ayurvedic Body Type | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 5/12 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Acupuncturist and herbalist Amanda Lewis will discuss basic principles of Ayurveda, a traditional healing modality from India. Registration required - sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

The Importance of Meaningful Activity for Aging Gracefully | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 5/13 Friday | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | FREE Silver Service Lecture. Special presentation by Eleanor Liebson, OT, Cayuga Medical Center Occupational Therapy.

Beginner Bird Walks | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/14 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, http://www. cayugabirdclub.org/calendar.

Cayuga Trails Club | Walk, Look and Learn hike with the Cayuga Trails Club in the O.D. von Engeln Preserve in Malloryville. For further information visit our website at www.cayugatrailsclub.org The Raptor Project With Jonathan Wood | 10:00 AM, 5/14 Saturday | Waterman Conservation Education Center, 403 Hilton Road, Apalachin | The Raptor Project is an extraordinary and outstanding array of Birds of Prey: eagles, hawks, falcons and owls displayed in an exquisite natural habitat. Reservations required. Contact Info: 607-624-2221 info@waterman-

center.org Groundswell’s CRAFT Network Farm Tour: Kingbird Farm | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 5/15 Sunday | Kingbird Farm, 9398 W Creek Rd, Berkshire | Info at groundswellcenter.org/event/craft-networkfarm-tour-kingbird-farm/ Guided Meditation Walk in Sapsucker Woods | 10:00 AM, 5/15 Sunday | Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary, 150 Sapsucker Woods Rd., Ithaca | Description: Learn about mindfulness and meditation as well has how to listen for birds during this quiet walk along the Sapsucker Woods trails. The walk will last about 45 minutes but participants may stay as long as they wish. Wear comfortable shoes and meet in front of the main entrance to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. www. gannett.cornell.edu/meditate Groundswell Technical Course: Grazing & Pasture Management: Class 2 | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/16 Monday | Northland Sheep Dairy, 3501 Hoxie Gorge Freetown R, Marathon | Bale it, Clip it, Graze it? Early season pasture management. Northland Sheep Dairy, Marathon NY. Info at groundswellcenter.org/event/grazing-pasturemanagement-class-2/ Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | 5:00 PM, 5/17 Tuesday The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening at 5 PM. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Special Events Evolution of A City: The Growth Of Auburn | 6:30 PM, 5/12 Thursday | Dr. Joseph F. Karpinki Sr. Educational Center, 6880 East Lake Road Rt. 38 A, Auburn | Michael Long will be the guest speaker. He will look at the evolution of downtown Auburn from Hardenburgh Corners through the Mr. Long’s power point program is a must see for local history buffs. It will contain an overview of Historical Auburn, including the dramatic changes that impacted Auburn’s profile and it’s people into the 21st century. For additional information contact Martha at 315-252-1446 0r vmshaw@aol.com Doug’s Fish Fry Fundraiser | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 5/13 Friday | CFCU, East Hill Plaza, 1022 Ellis Hollow Rd., Ithaca | Benefit for the Caroline Elementary Parent Teacher Organization (PTA) funded Programming for Teachers and the Caroline Wilderness Campus.

Spring Garden Fair & Plant Sale | 9:00 AM-2:00 AM, 5/14 Saturday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | More than 40 area growers and 12 garden groups will offer a huge variety of plants at the largest and most complete Garden Fair in our region! You’ll find organically grown and heirloom vegetable transplants, colorful annuals, fragrant herbs, hanging baskets, small flowering shrubs, hardy roses, fruit crops, evergreens, and specialty perennials.

SNAP benefits can be used. For more information about the event and a list of vendors, visit http://ccetompkins. org/plantsale 23rd TST BOCES Annual Car Show | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 5/15 Sunday | TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd, Ithaca | The event will take place rain or shine and will feature flea market vendors in addition to the antique and classic cars. There will be a $500 door prize, entering contestants do not have to be present.

Kindness Connects Festival | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 5/15 Sunday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Music, Acts of Kindness Storytelling, Games, and Surprises.

Community Planting of the Kindness Tree. More information at www.collaborativesolutionsnetwork.org The Dryden Community Center Cafe’s 4th Annual Spring Tea | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 5/15 Sunday | Dryden Community Center Cafe, One West Main St., Dryden | This is the Café’s 4th Annual Spring Benefit Fundraiser, Hats Off To Sue, a Tribute Tea in honor of Sue Cardwell. The menu will include decadent food creations, fresh scones, finger sandwiches, petite sweet treats and of course, perfectly steeped tea.

Rabbi Scott Glass Celebration with Rabbi Jack Moline | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Temple Beth-El Recognizes Rabbi’s Forty Years of Service. On Monday, May 16, at 7:30 pm, Rabbi Moline’s topic will be Adventures in the First Amendment, an address about interfaith relations.

On Tuesday, May 17, at 7:30 pm, his topic will be A Guide to Political Values—from the Mishnah! about the 2016 presidential election. This is Jack Moline’s second visit to Ithaca.

Science Cabaret Presents: Date Night with an Antibiotic Researcher | 7:00 PM, 5/17 Tuesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Explore the work of five antibiotic researchers in a fast-paced evening!

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Pre-order your meal using the form on the Caroline PTA website by May 11th. On the day of the event, orders can be called in from 11am to 4pm at 607-423-5996 or you can order when you arrive. For order form and more information, carolinepta.org The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary Rummage Sale | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/13 Friday | The Salvation Army, 150 N Albany St, Ithaca | Friday, May 13 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and Saturday, May 14 from 9:00 am to noon. More info at (607) 273-8705 / ngould1@yahoo.com Young Writers Night | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/13 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | The New Roots Charter School Creative Writing Class and Spoken Word Club is sponsoring a Young Writers Night. All area teens are encouraged to participate. Slam artists can sign-up at the door, first come first serve, or sign up in advance by emailing Sue Schwartz at: sschwartz@ newrootsschool.org.

Friends of the Library Book Sale | Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty St, Ithaca | Runs May 14 - May 16, Senior and Student Day May 18, May 21 - May 25. Books, CD’s Vinyl, DVD, Collector’s Corner, Comics, Rare Books, Magazines, Games, and Much, Much, More. For more info and times visit www.booksale.org Heritage Village Craft Beverage Expo | 12:00 PM-, 5/14 Saturday | Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes (formerly the Patterson Inn Museum), 73 W. Pulteney St., Corning | Join us between 12-4pm for local craft beverage tastings, as well as seminars on Intro to home beer making, history of hops, home brew contest, and more.

Tickets are available online at www. heritagevillagesfl.org or in person.

Must be 21 and over to purchase tickets. ID will be checked at the gate.

There will be a special appearance by Ben Keene, Managing Editor for Beer Advocate Magazine, who will hold a special discussion on the Past, Present, and Future of Craft Brewing in America.

Ithaca Roller Derby vs. Lansing, Michigan | 7:00 PM-, 5/14 Saturday | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr., Cortland | Doors at 6pm, game at 7pm. Ithaca League of Women Rollers, Ithaca’s premier all-female flat track roller derby league home season opener. The 77 ranked Ithaca SufferJets will compete against the 98 ranked Lansing Derby Vixens from Michigan.

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Cleveland’s Lamont “Bim” Thomas has pursued varying musical forms for quite some time. Working hard in garage and punk band across the Sixth City wide, Thomas leans on a hard scrabble realism to deliver emotional stuff. With Obnox he’s explored hip hop, punk, soul-noise, and garage rock forms. Lately, and particularly with 2015’s “Boogalou Reed”, Obnox is gearing towards a strip downed version of punk, noise, and garage, with inlets of noise-R&B, stoner grunge, and rap-metal. It’s a form you don’t want to miss!

Walt Disney’s magic comes to Ithaca with Running to Places’ (R2P) production of Little Mermaid, the perfect family musical, complete with dancing guppies and singing seagulls. R2P will provide some extra magic for the audience by transforming the former Sears store in the Shops at Ithaca Mall into a full-fledged theater for the performance (entrance through the food court). The show runs one weekend only, May 13-15. Don’t miss out!

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Gordon Bonnet | 5:30 PM-, 5/11 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his new book Sephirot.

Alana Apfel | 5:30 PM-, 5/12 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses her new book Birth Work as Care Work.

Barry Deutsch | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 5/13 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Meet author Barry Deutsch. He will be signing books from 5-6pm. The cartoonist’s 2010 graphic novel Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword was the first graphic novel ever to win the prestigious Sydney Taylor Award, and was also nominated for Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz, and Nebula awards.

Reading by The Healing Muse contributors | 2:00 PM-, 5/14 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Authors include Tish Pearlman, Bruce Bennett, Elizabeth Lawson, Elaine Mansfield, Eric Howd Machan, Laura Glenn, Rebekkah Frisch, Pam Freeman, Gloria Heffernan, Victoria Korth, Eric V.D. Luft, and Joyce Holmes McAllister.

The Whore Next Door: Annie Campbell’s Illustrated Memoir | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/14 Saturday | The Widget Factory, 220 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Annie Campbell’s Memoir The Whore Next Door.

Nate Pritts and James Meetze | 4:00 PM-, 5/15 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Authors read from their latest collections.

Sarah Freligh and Jennifer Litt | 5:30 PM-, 5/17 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Authors read from their collections.

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pring’s trying to crack its bubbly head into our lives here in Ithaca—but it’s having a time of it. Perhaps this is just the norm here in the city of Gorges: eternally cold and dark, particularly in the morning (my memory of last summer has been completely wiped away)—but regardless; I’m dreaming of the sun, the surf—the mist from curly bonsai trees of eternal wisdom. It really doesn’t matter where I am, as long as I keep focused on dreaming. The waves are always crashing somewhere—you know what I mean. Keep dreaming. Keep living. Keep inventing modes to sift through. You’re there. You’re surfing that big break as we speak.

Speaking of somewhat bleak skyscapes: Glasgow, Scotland is pretty parallel to the doom and gloom of Ithaca (or so I’ve heard). Progressive instrumentalists, Dialects—from said locale—visit us Wednesday night as part of a nifty mid-week Ithaca Underground excursion. They practice in the art of lucid dreaming—with extended sea-like realms, tumbling dimensions, and loose and ethereal moods. Even though the show lands on a Wednesday, I wouldn’t miss it.

Just get yourself ready. A few shots at the home-piece, a few Coronas (we’re thinking warm here peoples) and you’ll be right and round: getting dizzy and lean.

Garage spacers Eamonn’s Daemons—from Ithaca—are one of three

Berkeley Arts Center in Berkeley CA, the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle PA, Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery in NYC, the MFA City Gallery in Baltimore MD, and the Kleinert/James Art Center in Woodstock NY. cornersgallery.com ongoing Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Jari Poulin: Dance Images/ Southside Emerging Photographs.

Jari Poulin exhibits a body of work featuring polymer photogravures, a contemporary variation on photogravure, which is a process dating back to the early years of photography.

Her work draws from her “Dance/ Memory” photography series and upon themes of trust, ascension, and the transformative powers of dance. |

Art Ruth Sproul: OneTwoThree | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 5/13 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | This new collection of paintings will be on view May 10 through June 30. Ruth Sproul is a self-taught artist, grew up in central New York, and began exhibiting in 2004. Some of her monotypes and/ or paintings have been shown at the

local acts opening up for Dialects. They float around in a sort of spiritual 60’s bath-haze. One where dreams count tenfold, and extended levels exists for plunging and occurring. I like the band’s submerging atmospherics: resting firmly in punchy late-60’s rock and fuzz.

Shades, beers, black shoes, and more Corona are highly recommended.

Another IU gathering on Friday night at the same spot (The Chanticleer Loft), presents us with some really sick underground punk, rap, jazz, and overall freak-out music. Obnox, existing somewhere in the nexus of Hendrix, Guitar Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, and The Dead C, headlines, and will have you swirling, twirling, ripping, rapping, and head-banging all the way to Montana. Wait, make that Florida; we want to keep the sunshine theme going on; and Montana’s scary. Ever been to Joker’s Wild—holy—now that’s a place.

Have the bartender at the Chanti mix you a Pineapple Rummy (dark rum, pineapple chunks, and sparkling ice) before you go upstairs. You’ll be singing to the heavens in that mystic Gary Snyder land, ready to bounce around to some punk junk, rap (Sammus), hard jazz (Quail Turret (sort of like Bad Plus meets Medeski Martin and Wood)), and throwback snowflake garage (Pilgrims (Ithaca)). Come to think of it, this is a pretty epic little show. Friday night—I

www.csma-ithaca.org Creative Space Gallery | (215 The Commons) | BANG! Ithaca College students will showcase a variety of art practices, including painting, sculpture, printmaking and more.

Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Spring Loaded, The Art of Melissa Zarem, opens May 6th and runs through Jun 26th at eye gallery on the Commons. The collection will feature many new, never before seen paintings and the black and white imagery from her new coloring book, Spring Loaded, published by eye.

Gimme! Coffee | 506 West State Street, Ithaca | “Stacked: A New Way of Seeing”. Photography by Jon Bosak | Through the end pf May. www. gimmecoffee.com Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave.,

509 Etsy St. Ithaca Runs May 14-16, May 18, and May 21-25 Ithaca’s biggest and best book sale is a wicked behemoth of used sections ranging from books, magazines, DVD’s, CD’s, vinyl records, games, children’s books, comics, cards, and more. You name it, they probably have it. Wondering about something, it’s probably there. There’s still two more long weekends to go with this thing, so the only question is how many times are you going to stop by and fill your backpack. Probably a few!

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Ithaca | Revealed: WPA Murals from Roosevelt Island - January 30-May 29 | The fire is gone but we have the light: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai - January 23-May 29 | Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in East Asian Art January 23-June 12 | Works from the Johnson’s collection explore how Chinese cultural images and artistic styles were adopted and adapted in Korea and Japan. | www.museu cornell.edu The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | I See You, IC/ CU: The Ink Shop is pleased to host the first joint show of prints by faculty and students of two strong printmaking programs at Ithaca College and Cornell University. These works are richly diverse with unique approaches using traditional methods, ranging from beginner to advanced practitioners |

(Clockwise from Top Left) Obnox; Polyphony, Dialects, Surfing (Photos Provided) Instead, hit up Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams the night before at the same spot. They take a real old-school Americana rock-and-roll pillow approach to their tunes. You know—long roads, dark nights, whiskey bottles, mustaches, beards, big sets of hair, Eric Clapton guitar solos, husband and wife duo—stuff like that.

Really good times, and perfect for drinking and smiling and dreaming.

Dreaming of that wave on the crest of infinity, soaking in the suds of the wake, making for that escape…. dreaming… dreaming…. dreaming away. You’re already there. Cheers! •

607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Moosewood Restaurant | 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 607-273-9610 | Jay Hart and Patty Porter. Prints and Paintings. Through May. | www. moosewoodcooks.com Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Lynn Capani-Czebiniak: Breathing Dreams. Goddess lore and mystic dreams are the palette from which artist Lynn Capani-Czebiniak draws, transforming the ordinary into magickal journeys of the soul. With pencil, pastel, acrylic and watercolor, she calls up the spirits of lost memories and the ghosts of childhood’s dreams. | www.sacredrootkava.com State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | “Members’ Show” Artists at State of the Art will hold a Members’ Show of paintings, prints,

drawings, photographs, sculpture, collage, mixed media and more in both of its galleries. There is curbside parking with ADA accessibility. soag.org Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | “Four Artists.” Local art critic Arthur Whitman presents the work of a quartet of diverse and talented picture-makers which includes Madeleine Bialke, Scout Dunbar, Stephen Phillips, and Gizem Vural. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@ tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org | www. tcpl.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Sabah Light, a freelance artist and student at IC, working mostly in paint but has started to experiment with print as well. The show will run through May 31 | www.wafflefrolicking.com

Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, The Dock, Saturday, May 14, 6:00 p.m.

Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer Larry Campbell, whose childhood playground came with a view of the 59th Street bridge in the Big Apple, forges his talents with actress and musician Teresa Williams, who grew up in the midst of a West Tennessee cotton patch. Whiskey bottles, Eric Clapton guitar solos, Bob Dylan-inspired folk rock, mustaches, big sets of hair, colorful hues, beards, country flair, and spirited breeziness, await you Saturday night at The Dock.

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might have a date at the Chanti with you.

And yet another IU happening on Saturday night at the same spot (Chanti), will be exhibiting all sorts of punk, mathgroove, emo, and general youngness to the masses of the tiny, but shiny, city of Gorges. Polyphony, from New Jersey, bring a particular sense of urgency to the form of said states, with their grappling math-Nintendo-hazy boom. Shimmering with ripples of stake-knife game-core, these guys are pretty sweat, and definitley worth checking out. They share a bill with fellow dirty-Jersey math rockers The Planet You, Syracuse’s Department, and headliners and Ithacans, emo stalwarts Shore Acres Drive.

I’d say go see Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) play country songs at The Dock Sunday night, but it’s sold out.

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is accepting applications for the following positions: Specialist in Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Ithaca Youth Bureau. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website. Salary: $39,871. Exam: An exam will be required at a later date. Residency: Applicants must be residents of Tompkins County.

Application Deadline: May 18, 2016.

Custodial Worker: Currently, there is one temporary vacancy in the Department of Public Works. Duration: May thru mid October. Mini um Quals: None.

Salary: $14/hr. Hours: 7:00 pm-11:00 pm. Saturday & Sunday. Applications accepted until position is filled. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850, (607)274-6539, www. cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce

Harvard, MA needs 3 temporary workers 5/23/2016 to 11/1/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the day. Transportation reimbursement and sustenance is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at, North Central Career Center, 978-5431481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #7086274. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivation and processing of fruit and vegetable crops, including, but not limited to, driving or operating farm machines, maintaining buildings, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing and harvesting. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and how. 1 month experience in duties listed required.

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Danby

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Relaxed country setting without the commute. Comfortable Cape: lg LR w/frplce; kit; formal DR w/built-ins; BR; den/office; half BA. Upstairs: 3 BRs + full BA.Park-like yard, Back porch overlooks pond!

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Studio, Fall Occupancy,Furnished, Spacious, Large Rooms, Hardwood Floor, Quiet Building, Heat Included, Reasonable Rent, Walk to Central Campus or Downtown. Available August 1st.

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Available Now Downtown 1 Bedroom in Historic Building. Intercom/Security/DW. Carpeted, Furnished. Bus near by. Heat Included. Carol, CSP Management, 277-6961. CSP Management.com

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Four Seasons Landscaping Inc. 607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage.

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Needham MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2016 to 11/28/2016, work tools, supplies, and equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the workday.

Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at Employment & Training Resources, 275 Prospect St. Norwood, MA 02062 781-769-4120, or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #7160849.

May perform any combination of the following tasks: planting, cultivating, and harvesting of vegetables and fruits, work as a crew member. Dump seeds into hopper of planter towed by tractor.

Rides on planter pushing debris from seed sprouts that discharge seeds into plowed furrow. May operate farm equipment. Plant roots and bulbs using hoes and trowel. Cover plants with plastic to prevent frost damage. Weed and thinning blocks of plants. Transplanting seedlings using hand transplanter. Closes and ties leaves over heads of cauliflower. Picks, cuts, pulls, and lifts crops to harvest them. Ties vegetables in bunches. May be identified with work assigned such as blocking, cutting, stringing, irrigating various crops. Transplanting, moving, spacing of flats. Carts and trucks plants to and from greenhouse floors, and benches. Washing vegetables, cleaning barns, farmstand, and greenhouse.

Setting up and breaking down farmstand.

Cutting down trees, pruning trees and bunching brush. 1 month experience required in fruit and vegetable duties listed.

Summer Tutoring Available

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Office space available in a historic professional building conveniently located at 109 E. Seneca Street. The Frontenac Building, near The Commons, the Courts and Parking Garages. Shared services available. Good signage and visibility.

Those interested can obtain more information by calling Bonnie Cady, Office Manager,Shaw & Murphy, PLLC 607273-2900, or by email: bmc.shawlaw@ verizon.net

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A Mouse in the House Kennel

offers individualized care & daily companionship in clean, comfortable, and spacious accommodations for dogs of all sizes, including private and social fenced-in outdoor spaces on the beautiful Wixom Farm in Mecklenburg, NY.

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30 acres - $249,900 MUST SELL! Rustic cabins on a beautiful unspoiled lake just 3 hrs NY City! Mature woodlands, tumbling stream, incredible setting! 888479-3394, WoodworthLakePreserve.com (NYSCAN)

Looking for Experienced Roofers Top Pay and Great Crews to work with.

Must pass drug test and background check.

Apply at our website: lakesidekangaroofing. com or call Tammy 315-573-2289 305988 secluded & sPectacular - Private Preserve

$269,000

Dryden

Gorgeous! extra large rooms, beautiful light. Definitely a house worth making your homestead. Giant eat in kitchen, vast dining room, living room, and spacious den. Lovely nook and crannies.

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$329,900

Hand-scribed log home on 10.2 acres overlooking a spring-fed pond surrounded by mature forest with separate log sauna and carport. Only 15 Mins from Cornell. Property next to the Roy H. Park Preserve.

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ReALty USA

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versatile ranch-style home

2333 Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 14850

(607) 257-0800

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#1 Real Estate Company in Central New York for the 6th Straight Year!

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Dryden

$269,000

Cul-de-sac in ellis Hollow. Radiant-floor tiled entry, great FR, deck & fenced yard. Hrdwds, Open custom kit. 3 BRs, 2 full BAs, including master suite + studio. Close to Cornell & eH community center

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Most of the interior walls are sheetrocked, making a striking contrast to the darker logs and defining the spaces nicely.

Near the front door there is a wood stove in a sitting area and a view out the picture window that looks across the front deck.

Beyond that is a passage out to a sunporch covered with curved glass. This room has a fine view of the pond and the forest beyond. Another door provides egress to the front deck.

There is a galley style kitchen that is well designed and shows its seriousness with a commercial-grade Bosch stove. There are butcher-block counters and the cabinets are a deep-blue with a matte finish.

You take one step up into a full bath that has a bay window looking out into the forest and a tub, but no shower.

The loft upstairs is presently used as a Log cabin sauna (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) study and the floors are plywood. It has a large dormer that looks out onto the pond. gables. There is a frontier-meets-Native The ground floor is a complete level American culture theme running through with walk-out doors. You descend into a the aesthetic of the whole property. workroom/study with a laminate floor.

There is a broad deck in front of the There is a separate bedroom (beneath the cabin. When you enter the front door you are in a two-story space that extends up to sunroom) and there is a large window between the bedroom and workroom to the peak. An open staircase winds up to let natural light in under the house. the loft in front of you. Another staircase The ceiling beams in the bedroom are under it disappears down into the lower carved with a simple repeating pattern that level. is reminiscent of Haida patterns from the Off to the right there is a living area that extends across the south-facing side of Northwest. There is a bay window in this room that provides a broad view of the the house. The floors are knotty pine and the ceilings and some of the walls are faced raspberry patch between the house and

he driveway winds back from Irish Settlement Road and the log cabin appear rather suddenly. It is up on a bluff overlooking a small pond and is surrounded by naturalistic landscaping with ornamental flowers planted at intervals that add a splash of color to the greenery.

There is actually a log carport at the end of the driveway with a shed built into the back of it for tool storage. The carport, the house, and the sauna are all decorated with carved animal heads at the top of the

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the pond.

The rest of the ground level includes a laundry room that also houses the utilities and a full bath with a shower stall.

There are mowed paths that lead around an approximately two-acre area that is basically a clearing in the forest. The property is surrounded by land owned by the state and the Finger Lakes Land Trust.

A path winds from the house down to the pond between a raspberries on one side and a blackberry patch on the other.

A log sauna overlooks the pond on low pilings. Inside you find a wood stove

surrounded by a cage full of smooth rocks that re-radiate heat. One side of the room is lined with a cedar bench. The fire is fed through a door on outside wall of the structure.

Irish Settlement Road runs through Barton Valley in the middle of the Dryden Hills. These promontories are between 1,400 and 1,600 feet above sea level and nearly 1,000 feet above Ithaca. You get more snow here in the winter and it is cooler in the summer. It is one of the wilder landscapes in Tompkins County. • homeowner insurance

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