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s the highs of last week’s off-year election fade away, progressives in Tompkins County have to deal with a political feeling that seemed distant just one year ago: success.

Even with a batch of newcomer candidates unaccustomed to the political environment, Democratic candidates ran completely unopposed in half of the 14 County Legislature elections. But many of those electees declared their candidacies in the turbulent first few months of Donald Trump’s presidency, and nearly all said they had been motivated to run by dismay at the results of the national election.

Out of that dismay rose one of the most diverse County Legislatures in history, seeing an equal split between women and men for the first time. Last Tuesday was a welcome night of celebration for the Tompkins County Democrats, who retain a 11-3 advantage on County Legislature, unanimity on the city’s Common Council and good showings in the elections in Dryden and Lansing to their credit as well.

While somewhat disappointed in off-year election turnout last week, local Democrat figures think it’s possible, but are relying on some outside factors to keep the public motivated towards progressive causes at least in the short-term while they regroup after the campaign efforts.

Newly elec ted Tompk i ns Cou nt y L eg islator Debora h Dawson, a member of Tompkins County Progressives replacing the outgoing Carol Chock, said the main goal now is to mount a viable threat to Representative Tom Reed. That effort will feature the launch of a new political action committee (PAC), Your NY 23rd, which will aim to unite liberal progressives from the continued on page 4

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T a k e ▶ Learn how to raise chickens sustainably Backyard chickens are legal now. Learn how to take care of them with reduced impact: on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 6:30 p.m. the Cornell Cooperative Extension – for the cost of $5 to $10 – will be hosting the farmers of Edible Acres as they explain their unique set-up and methods to raising their feathered friends in a sustainable manner. Payment is based on a sliding scale.

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▶ Show off your geographical prowess GeoWhiz, a team competition to test your knowledge of geography, will be held at the Varna Community Center on Saturday January 27 at 1 p.m.

GeoWhiz will be open to teams and audience members from anywhere and the registration fee is $30 per three-person team. For more information, contact Janet Morgan: chair@ VarnaCommunityAssociation.org

▶ Are you a student? Want to learn about Albany?

Nominations of Tompkins County junior and senior high school students are sought for an allexpenses paid trip to the 18th annual Students Inside Albany conference, which is scheduled to be held May 20-23rd in Albany.

For more information, contact Megan Nettleton 330-962-5448 at or via e-mail at Nettleton.Megan @gmail.com.cc by November 27.

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Will The City Start Requiring Affordable Rooms For Tax Breaks?

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Hey VIVA MAYHEM – If you opened Ithaca’s newest rock’n’roll club, what would you name it?

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“The Empty Room.” ­— Cam Cig

“I would open a seniors only (55+) rock club, call it FOSSIL.” ­—Emily Hoyt

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“The Beatniks. ” ­—Rob Natoli

“The Geological Survey. It’s a literal ROCK club.” ­—Dave Bairds

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massive sprawl of the 23rd. Dawson said the PAC is not associated with TC Progressives but does aim to raise funding and support for causes across New York’s 23rd Congressional District ahead of the election. It was born out of the Bernie Sanders campaign effort in the lead-up to the 2016 primary.

Part of what they hope will keep people invested in local issues is what is playing out on the national stage. With Republicans’ in full control of the government but fumbling Affordable Care Act repeal attempts and now pushing a controversial tax reform bill, Dawson thinks progressives around the county and the 23rd Congressional District as a whole will stay motivated.

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Diversion (LEAD) program, presented this week to the public for the first time.

Drawing dozens to the gymnasium at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center Monday night, a diverse crowd that included several Tompkins County legislators listened in on the possible new path for the Ithaca Police Department to deal with drug offenders outside of the criminal justice system. The point of the program is to help people dealing with drug addiction and the troubles that routinely come with it – like homelessness or petty crimes – in ways allowing offenders to improve their quality of life on their own terms.

Organization of the program has been helmed from the law enforcement side by Ithaca police officers Caprice vanAuken and of voters, regardless of local outcomes. She said she noticed that even aside from the increased interest in running for political office, she felt there was more d iscussion a nd engagement among local voters this year than in the past, a possible indicator that the political fire lit last year still burns. Sullivan said results from other parts of the state also encouraged her, and that harnessing voters’ displeasure with the Trump administration, which currently holds a significantly negative approval rating in the latest polls, will be crucial.

“I think a lot of people woke up Wednesday morning and were happy,” Sullivan said of the Democratic reaction to last week’s election results. “But then they woke up on Thursday morning and Donald Trump was still our president, and Tom Reed was still our representative.”

That’s Sullivan’s mantra, and it may remain enough for others who share her political views as well. But retaining some focus on local issues, with help from

Najja Morris (L) speaks at the gym at GIAC on Monday while fellow presenter Keith Brown looks on.

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Mary Orsaio who first presented the idea for the program to the Community Police Board in July to positive reaction. It was noted during the presentation that the local Catholic Charities branch and the Multicultural Resource Center have been involved in outreach.

Keith Brown and Najja Morris were the presenters, both of whom have worked w it h previous establishments of the program in Albany and Seattle respectively. Both have been involved with LEAD startup programs in the past, and told continued on page 13

entities like prominent area progressive Leslie Danks Burke’s Trailblazers PAC and the upcoming Your NY 23rd, and staving off political complacency are going to be the most important long term goals for progressive groups.

Dawson and Sullivan both said while they were happy with the overall results, figures like total turnout, which was unspectacular in the city’s elections but higher than normal countywide, only provided limited encouragement. Dawson described it as “cautious optimism.”

“It’s kind of hard to not read all the stuff in the national media, especially when you stack the elections in New Jersey and Virginia into it,” Dawson said. “I tend to be a little more cautious.

Of course I’m happy, and we’re pleased with our local candidates, but I’m not sure how much that can be viewed as the barometer of what will happen next year.”

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ignificant changes to the City of Ithaca Incentivization Tax Abatement Program may soon answer public calls for the city to encourage more affordable housing development.

The proposed changes to the program are working their way through the Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) now, having been presented at last week’s meeting and sent back for further review and clarification before it is discussed at length. If the proposal is approved, CIITAP would not only add a long-awaited affordable housing requirement (“For any project with more than 10 residential units, 20 percent must be affordable in order to be eligible for CIITAP”) but also expand its boundaries beyond downtown to include the waterfront district and to modify the pre-existing three-story minimum requirement for CIITAP eligibility to include “one-story industrial and water related uses.”

The CIITAP boundary expansion means land at the waterfront district can now be considered for Planned Unit Development (PUD), which is an exception in the zoning laws that allows for new projects which don’t meet zoning requirements, but bring enough positive contribution to the city that the violation is ignored.

The revisions were formulated by the Waterfront Working Group, which had been tasked with fostering development on the Waterfront particularly in light of the vast new zoning changes recently instituted in that district, which the working group was also responsible for. Those changes were passed

by Common Council in August and would split the waterfront into four districts. Those districts each received new zoning that would allow for more residential and entertainment development, while retaining the area’s strong continued on page 13

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Cases Of Whooping Cough Brings Attention To Vaccination

▶ Tompkins County Legislature Due to the nature of the field of candidates, this was close to inevitable, but it’s great that we’re finally at a place of equal male/female representation on the county legislature. A bonus thumbs-up goes to new Police Chief Pete Tyler who, after years of serving the Ithaca community, was tapped by the mayor to be its chief of police. We have a blurb on that choice on p. 7.

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hen cases of the highly in three years, the figure is a contagious respira- misleading one. Especially once tory disease Pertussis, you consider that, since 2014, also known as whooping cough, just seven cases of the disease were reported in three area ele- have been reported in Tompkins mentary schools last week, ques- County. tions were raised in a number of While a lot of this is due to the online forums whether or not efforts of medical professionals the risk of the disease’s spread and New York State law, which could have been avoided. includes a secondar y review Whooping cough, after all, is process for things like religious defined by the Centers For Dis- exemptions from vaccinations ease Control as a “rare” disease in school districts, a large share in the United States with fewer of the credit in encouraging vacthan 200,000 cases reported cination comes from parentnationwide each year. It’s also a focused groups like Ithaca Is disease for which, Immunized, “That is one reason vaccinat ion is a pro-vacwe’re empowering of ten sta nd a rd cine group people to speak up, so for infants, comi nt e n d e d t o parents can look to i ng w it h a f ive celebrate other role models in dose schedu le vaccination the community that of shots k nown a nd a s su a ge are speaking up about as DTaP (diphmaternal fears immunization.” t her ia , tet a nus of the process a nd p e r t u s s i s) since its 2015 between the ages of two months inception. and six years. Yet, for all the “We’re not i ntere ste d i n hype the three cases received combat or debate,” said Ellen and the fact that the rate of the Mary Abb, one of the group’s disease this year – 34.3 cases core members. “We’re here to per 100,000 individuals, accord- empower other pro-vaccine paring to the Tompkins County ents to speak out about their Board of Health – is the highest choice to immunize.”

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s the Village of Cayuga Heights continues to mull its wide-ranging zoning rewrite, students may now have a more difficult time finding rental space in the upscale neighborhood that boasts gorgeous houses and a stone’s throw proximity to Cornell University.

While the village’s proposed changes to short-term rental policies have created some backlash from community members, more limitations on the longterm rental market may have just as much of an effect on the neighborhood’s future. Though it is subject to change, the pro-

posal would currently cut the number of unrelated individuals allowed to rent a house together for more than 30 days from four to three. Any thing less than 30 days is legally considered a short-term rental within the village.

Mayor Linda Woodard said in an interview that the reduction is in the interest of balance, similar to the intentions of the simultaneously proposed Airbnb limitations. But with her own residential experiences weighing on her mind, and recent episodes of problems in South Hill, she said there are significant risks in allowing such student housing practices to go on unregulated for too long.

“I lived in Belle Sherman for 20 yea rs, a nd I watched the overtaking of a number of residential neighborhoods by rental properties that were being rented out almost exclusively to undergrads,” Woodard said. “I think everybody on the Board

Sta r ted a f ter t he g roup’s founders noticed some anti vaccine messaging gaining prevalence in the community, Abb – along with local mothers like Danielle Scofield, Nadia Nikulin and Melissa Schillinger – looked to create a mechanism both online and in the region to respond to it in a way that would avoid the start of an endless debate between them and the other side. Completely volunteer, they based their model on one employed by a group called Voices For Vaccines, a national pro-vaccine outreach group that reformed in 2013 as a community centered on positive, evidence-based discussions around vaccination. The idea of the community the group created is to empower people and has lived in the area for a considerable time, and South Hill is just the latest example of the constant pressure from both of the colleges for the students to go out in the community.”

Woodard said the move is somewhat pre-emptive, attempting to head off any problems before they reach a “crisis” as she said, and more importantly before there is too much financial investment into properties meant solely for rental purposes.

The situation is dif ferent in Cayuga Heights than the town or South Hill, both of which are maneuvering around student population situations, in one significant but subtle way: for now, at least, most of the Cayuga Heights renters who are students are pursuing degrees in graduate school, meaning they are a bit older and theoretically more mature than their undergraduate counterparts. She also acknowledged the objections of some in the village, and said that

Ellen Mary Abb (L) and Danielle Scofield.

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make them feel good about their decision to vaccinate, creating a sort of magnetism to the concept reinforced by socialnorming: a nuanced communication method utilizing positive reinforcement and encouragement to engage its membership.

“Our approach is an evidencebased approach, and a lot of the evidence is that community has a profound influence on people’s immunization decisions,” said Abb. “That is one reason we’re empowering people to speak up, so parents can look to other role models in the community that are speaking up about immunicontinued on page 12

portion of the ordinance will be reexamined for clarity to avoid surprises for future property owners.

Woodard said some of the neighborhood’s natural characteristics, like the expensiveness of its properties, have insulated it from the “student creep” for the time being. But other characteristics, such as location, make it so convenient that an inf lux of absentee landlords, naturally followed by student renters, seems like only a matter of time.

“That might be one of the reasons why it hasn’t really taken hold yet,” Woodard said. “But we’re so close to the university [...] We’re very attractive because of our location, and I t hink there’s always going to be pressure to live in this area if at all possible.”

While Cayuga Heights looks to be proactive, the complaints of

▶ Jimmy Boeheim for a pretty gnarly shot to open Cornell’s basketball season on Friday night (in front of his dad, no less). Welcome to Ithaca, my dude. Make yourself at home.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Svante Myrick called out Congressman Tom Reed on Monday for his efforts to repeal the SALT deduction as part of his efforts to rewrite the tax code, WSYR reports.

Color him “Baffled.” ▶ Top stories on Ithaca. com: 1) Women equals number of men on legislature for first time ever 2) Did voter turnout change for the 2017 general elections?

3) Congregation takes a stand against intolerance 4) Ithaca College’s ‘Wonderful Town’ nails the story 5) Jim Dennis Leaves the Tompkins County Democratic Committee

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Thanksgiving is coming. Is your residence large enough to actually host anyone?

Please respond at the Ithaca Times Web site www.ithacatimes.com.

L ast Week ’s Q uestion : D o you understand what ’s going on in the tax code debate?

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The IT’s Legislative Wish List A s the Ithaca Times staff milled about the banquet room of the Hilton Garden Inn last week, the mood among the hundred or so Democrats was high as the election results rapidly began to roll in. Their candidates won, their favored candidates in other states won and, as the “blue wave” washed over the country, the mood in the room presented a stark contrast to the miserable scene this reporter found himself mired in just 365 days before.

But for all the joy in the room, there was a lurching in my heart as, in a crushing blow to my optimism and faith in the state electorate, Proposition 1 – a measure that would open up the jumbled mess that is our New York State Constitution for review – was revealed to have been defeated soundly.

It was actually quite pathetic: According to the New York State Board of Elections, 83 percent of the state (and about 75 percent in Tompkins County) voted against this once-ina-generation opportunity to take the legislative process into the voter’s hands, elect delegates and work to untangle the convoluted document that lacks critical protections for women, has crucial blocks to ballot access for thousands of minorities across the state and does little to nothing to hold those who betray our trust accountable.

In an editorial leading up to the vote, we characterized the vote as one of fear versus

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faith. And okay, Tompkins County, we get it: You didn’t want a Constitutional Convention.

You were afraid of what would happen. And that’s okay. But we still have faith in you and, since your faith seems to have been placed in the legislative process as-is, we’ve come up with a list of things we can all agree to work on passing – relying on our elected officials, of course – that we as an editorial board were yearning to accomplish on our own.

Wish #1 – Elect More Women And People Of Color To Office, Immediately.

When the body of our current New York State Constitution was passed in 1894, there were no black men in the room when the measure passed. (In fact, New York State didn’t even see its first black legislator, Edward A. Johnson, elected until 1917; its first latino, Oscar Garcia Rivera, until 1937.) Women? Forget about it, they couldn’t even vote in New York State until 1917 – 50 years before the last Constitutional Convention was initiated, and failed. (for those who like their history: the first female legislators in New York State, Ida Sammis and Mary Lilly, were elected in 1919.)

But the times have changed, no? Representation in New York State has surely grown to reflect the diversity of our times, right? Hardly: of the 150 seats in the New York State Assembly, just 40 – less than 27 percent – are occupied by contin u ed on page 7

very subject, and we’re prepared to make the following subsidy proposal: No taxes for one million years. Or no taxes ever. Whichever you prefer.

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ver the last two months, Amazon. com Incorporated has received 238 proposals from cities across North America wanting to host the company’s second headquarters. The world’s largest retailer said it would invest $5 billion and create up to 50,000 jobs for “Amazon HQ2”, and that is a juicy plum no rightminded city would pass up. Apparently, there’s an application form to fill out, and the Ithaca Times has obtained a couple pages of the document submitted on behalf of Ithaca, New York by one “S. Myrick”…

What are the real estate taxes in your community? Our Common Council, City School District and the County Legislature had a joint meeting on this

Are there colleges and/ or universities in your community? We have an Ivy League employee mill right on the premises, and have had extended conversations with the institution’s president, Martha Pollack. Pending approval by the Board of Trustees, she’s indicated the university’s willingness to change its name from “Cornell University” to “Jeff Bezos.”

Can your community provide an educated, dedicated workforce? Educated? You have to have a master’s degree to get a cashier’s job at Byrne Dairy.

And we’re loaded with millennials who stand ready to embrace Amazon’s work ethic. Studies have shown that work-life boundaries are for chumps. 1:00 a.m. conference call? Great! 100-hour work week? That’s a ‘vacation’. I’ve seen these people jockey for position on Meadow Street, and it’s a cutthroat generation that would make Charles Darwin cringe in terror.

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am very happy that the Ithaca Times is focusing on the tax bill currently making its way through Congress. I also appreciate that the Times pointed out the critical role that our Congressman Reed (NY23rd. R.) is playing in its passage because of his membership in the powerful Ways and Means Committee.

Quite frankly, Congressman’s support of the bill betrays the voters of the Southern Tier and Finger lakes who sent him to Washington to look out for our interests. It is a bad deal for the middle class, students, those who struggle with big medical bills, those who want to adopt and almost any of us who pay property taxes and work. Here are some of the provisions that will hit Ithacans hard: •

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of us pay property taxes in excess of $10,000 on houses we purchased decades ago. A couple consisting of a teacher and a police officer in their late forties who pay state income tax and own a house they purchased years ago but that is now assessed at $300,000 will most likely pay more federal tax.

Cornell graduate students who receive “free” tuition as part of research or teaching appointments will pay tax on the approximately $50,000 waivers they receive, as well as their average $24,000 stipend.

Individuals with large medical bills, casualty losses and who adopt will lose tax credits and/ or deductions.

A tax on college endowment fund income means fewer students from middle and working class families will be able to attend schools like Cornell University. The endowment

Amazon is looking at other cities, and this is no time for diplomacy. Let’s take a look at some of the so-called ‘top contenders’. Atlanta? Austin? Pittsburgh?

Trump state, Trump state, Trump state.

Clearly not places where people are capable of making sound decisions. Any east coast city will be underwater within the next two decades, so you can scratch Boston. We hear Toronto is on the short list. Great choice, if you’re selling maple syrup, eh?

So what about Ithaca? You mean the ‘Coffee Capital of New York State’? One of the ‘Ten Best Places to Live’? Number four on the ‘Ten Cheapest Urban Cities for Twentysomethings’? ‘Smartest City in America’? ‘Best Artisanal Cheese Scene in the Finger Lakes Region’? That’s all us. And in case you’ve heard about our old motto, “Ithaca is Gorges”, that was from the pre-digital 1970s. Already, there are burnt orange bumper stickers that say “Ithaca is Relentless.”

Does your communit y have a n infrastructure that can handle an Amazon headquarters? 35 miles from downtown Ithaca is a 1,050,000-squarefoot structure that stands ready to be an Amazon Fulfillment Center. (It’s still technically the Arnot Mall, but we predict the last retail store will be shuttered sometime late in the afternoon of Black Friday this year. We stress that

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makes needs blind admissions possible. $1.5 trillion cuts in Medicare and Medicaid fund much of the tax deduction that will go to corporations and the rich. The tax bill is literally built on the backs of the old and economically disadvantaged.

Reed’s support of this abomination demands immediate and massive pushback by Tompkins County residents.

Think about turning up at the town meeting the Congressman will hold at the Horseheads American Legion Post on Monday, November 20th at 6 pm (71 Old Ithaca Rd., Horseheads). At the very least, call his DC (202-225-3161) and Corning (607-654-7566) offices to tell him he is support of the bill is a betrayal. He needs to stand with us, not Paul Ryan and the powerful special and corporate interests behind the tax bill.

–Ann Sullivan, Ithaca

Qualms With Cayuga Heights’ Stance On Short Term Rentals

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our coverage of the Cayuga Heights zoning revision process (Nov 9th, “AirBnBanned?”) was welcome but did not convey how unreasonable the process and resulting proposal have been.

The chorus of resident voices at the

this is nobody’s fault.) Also a charming, soon-to-be-vacant location for corporate headquarters in the DeWitt Mall.

(Buffalo Street Books. Again, nobody’s fault.) Furthermore, as demonstrated by this month’s decision by our Common Council (tie vote broken by Yours Truly!) on the Chacona Block in what used to be Collegetown, we are perfectly willing to sacrifice historic structures on the Altar of Progress and Development. We’ll do what it takes. Attached as Appendix A are preliminary plans to convert Stewart and Cass Parks into an international airport.

What is your community’s greatest weakness? That’s easy. We’re too ready.

We’ve been building hotels at the rate of 35 new rooms a week for four years.

City housing prices are pre-set for high-paid tech employees. There are already over six hundred places that deliver pizza citywide. (It’s a college town.) Both Seattle and Ithaca average 37 inches of rainfall a year. Coincidence?

Who can say, but if there’s such a thing as Fate (and we’re prepared to believe in it, if that’s what’s called for), Ithaca seems like the obvious choice for Amazon HQ2!

Charley Githler is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. His column, Surrounded

By Reality, appears biweekly. recent public hearing made clear that short-term rentals help keep the village affordable and diverse for owneroccupants as residents age or encounter various family or fiscal needs over time.

The mayor’s response that such affordability considerations are “not…valid” is breathtaking in the contempt it shows for her constituents.

This hardline position is especially senseless given that the village has never posited a sound rationale for banning short-term rentals in owner-occupied homes and there is no evidence that these rentals pose a problem in the village. Rather, as justification the mayor has repeatedly made the bogus claim that residents renting space in their homes for periods under 30 days are running businesses—citing IRS regulations that clearly state the opposite.

The trustees should reject this heartless approach and instead craft a balanced policy on short-term rentals that addresses actual impacts of concern while minimizing harm to existing residents.

In Washington, we already have a chief executive who disregards the needs and legitimate interests of a diverse populace and who justifies unsound policy proposals with “alternative facts.” We do not need a leader like this in Cayuga Heights.

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members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus. In the senate, fewer than one out of every four State Senators can claim membership to the caucus. Keep in mind that many of these representatives come from districts located in New York City, representing New York City interests and their voices outnumbered by whiter representation upstate.

And women, despite making up 51.8 percent of the population, make up just 20 percent of all seats between both houses of the New York State legislature.

If you want ethnic and women’s issues to take a legislative priority, you better get more people in office who understand and have experienced the problems firsthand.

Wish #2 – Demand Serious Ethics Reform, And Now. Raise your hand if you remember the Moreland Commission. Now raise your hand if you hesitated to vote “yes” on the ethics reforms outlined in the second question on the back of your ballot on election day because of the gaping loophole that would allow anyone convicted of a felony before 2018 (or who cried financial hardship) to keep their pension.

New York State’s leadership clearly does not take messing with the voter’s trust and tax dollars seriously. And, after the governor’s State of the State address earlier this year, we’ve heard few tangible ideas on the matter. We need to show them that while they might not take this seriously, we certainly do. If not? Well… term limits are always an idea too.

Wish #3 – Improve Voter Access.

Since the New York State Legislature has done little to fix its ludicrous timetable for voter registration (a bill has been put out to enact automatic registration that currently, is sitting in committee), each and every person who voted against the convention should immediately call their local League of Women Voters chapter and volunteer for a voter registration drive. In your downtime, you can call your legislator’s office, and ask questions about where their money comes from until that pesky LLC loophole gets closed which, to the governor’s credit, was first attempted in 2016. (The New York State Assembly approved its own version of the bill earlier this year.)

Wish #4 – Get Mayors And County Administrators A Seat At The Table.

If you haven’t noticed, the way school district funding is allocated is a joke. County and city leaders alike constantly complain about unfunded mandates, or the false promises of its superficially limited home rule status. Who better to fix it than the people who know it best?

This might all seem like a lot. A lot of it may seem hard. And we get it, we really do. But this is the way, apparently, that 83 percent of the voters wanted to go. Let’s get to it.

–Jeff Milder Cayuga Heights

IPD Acting Chief Tapped as Police Chief Ithaca High School graduate and acting police chief Pete Tyler, despite failing his first attempt at the civil service exam, will likely be the city’s next police chief.

The first person of color to serve in this role, Tyler, a veteran, will bring what Mayor Svante Myrick called “a diverse and uniquely qualified background” of more than 26 years of Law Enforcement and Volunteer service if approved by Common Council. During that time, Pete was promoted up through the ranks and served in a variety of supervisory rules to include Administrative Deputy Chief, Sr. Deputy Chief overseeing Operations and most recently Acting Chief of Police since March of this year.

County Administrator Announces Early Retirement Tompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane announced Monday he will be taking a medical leave from county business, effectively ending his more than nine year tenure running the county.

County Legislature Chair Michael Lane announced his plans in a press release Monday, noting that Mareane’s new official retirement date will be Thursday, Nov. 30 in order to allow him to “focus on his recovery.” According to a news release, Deputy County Administrator Paula Younger will be serving as interim administrator. Younger has served as the County’s Deputy Administrator for the past eleven years. An announcement on Mareane’s successor is expected next month.

County Looks forward to one of its most diverse legislatures ever

As election day came to a close last Tuesday, this year’s class on the Tompkins County Legislature had a historic connotation to it: the first legislature to ever have as many women on the board (two of whom are members of the LGBTQ+ community).

The closest the legislature has come to this level of support was in 2005 when the race potentially could have turned out six female winners. But that year, once again, they were stuck at five.

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Reaquainted with History

After a few tough years, here’s how Southside got back on track.

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hen Southside Community Center – one of the city’s oldest and most storied community institutions – decided against a City Hall-assisted effort to take the reins of the center, hire a new executive director and set off on a mission to “restore faith” in the organization, as theninterim director Nia Nunn told the Ithaca Times that summer of 2016, the announcement was seen as big news.

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The more than 80-year-old center, after all, has one of the most monumental legacies of any institution in the city outside of Cornell (what other organization in this city can claim a visit from Eleanor Roosevelt?) and the place itself, once a modest operation run by the all-black Francis Harper Women’s Club out of a single family home on Plain Street in the segregated city of the early 20th century, has long standing as a bastion of black culture that has sought to maintain itself in the decidedly diverse – if

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not majorly white – confines of these six square miles.

Though the maintenance of its building and much of its budget comes from city coffers, independence had long been a defining mark of the organization back to the year $220 was set aside to help fund the building’s completion in 1938. (For $1, the story goes, it was agreed that as long as the building continued to serve the community, Southside could always remain independent.)

Even with fiscal and organizational issues plaguing the place for several years, the organization’s leadership decided to, rather than fully consolidate as a city department similar to the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, attempt to work things out on their own. In August 2016, its board chose the late Leon Lawrence to be the next director for the center, the places third director in as many years. The organization looked to rework its programming, to serve not only its traditional role as a neighborhood organization but in a capacity serving all ages, citywide. The intent then, as Lawrence told The Ithaca Journal that summer, was to refocus Southside on where its inefficiencies lay, how it could expand its reach beyond the neighborhood and, ultimately, how it could continue to serve its historic mission: as an independent center – culturally and socially – for the city’s black community.

Lawrence, who sadly passed away this past January, wasn’t around as long as the community hoped. But he, as well as those who had dedicated countless hours of their lives to the center’s mission, had a vision to work from.

It was a good thing, then, that the center’s new leadership were already wellversed in the greatest – and not so great – aspects of operations at Southside.

Longtime volunteers – including Nunn and then-deputy director Thia Harriett – put themselves to work on this new focus, wearing a number of different hats to try and return the place to a place of stability. That same August, Nydia Blas, having wrapped up her Master’s Degree in Photography at Syracuse University just months prior, stepped up to become the center’s Visual Media Arts Director, lending her artistic talents as a point of inspiration for a number of children at the center to discover

sions the possibilities that could come of the audio gear waiting to be set up around the room. There’s the gymnasium, which the center is currently fundraising for, that has been put to work often as a rental space this year and, for many teens, has served as a monthly place to dance and socialize in a scene that even parents have begun to take notice of. There’s a computer lab – busy even late on a Sunday afternoon – where kids can be tutored, organize events or simply hang out in a supportive environment for several hours at a time. The meeting space can even be offered for free, as an in-kind trade, if the organization taking advantage of the room has a mission aligning with the goals of Southside itself.

“If there’s a service to offer the community, there’s always space,” said Nunn.

But it’s what’s new here at the center that has people really excited. ***

their own unique vision of the world.

Just a few months later, Blas was running the place.

“It has been an absolutely vibrant year,” Nunn said with a smile this past Sunday in the cramped but busy corner office of the facility.

The last time Nunn and this reporter had spoken on the record about this place, Southside was in a period of reassurance, its faithful but, albeit, disorganized staff working to “restore the faith” in the building and remind people of the facility’s origins and its pride. But it was also, Nunn said, a period of defending itself and reminding the public of its worth. On this day, the old bricks of 305 Plain Street seemed to echo once again with the voice it had once spoken in so strongly all those years ago.

At its first open house in a long time on Sunday, the walls of its old gymnasium were lined with posterboard displays touting the two dozen various programs the center’s modest staff provide throughout the year.

Beside it, a massive community meal of beans, stewed greens and fall-off-the-bone chicken emanated a rich smell throughout the room as children laughed and played between the legs of several dozen cheerful adults, some alone while others milled about in groups – just another day at Southside.

For those who have lived in Ithaca for years, few might even realize how significant a change this old building has un-

dergone in the past 11 months. But the differences, especially to those associated with this place for years, are practically night and day, even so from the enthusiasm seen in the middle of the decade that led some to proclaim the place as being in the midst of a “Southside Revival.” *** Tradition isn’t something to take lightly at Southside.

From the wall of its gymnasium, a frowning portrait of Jerome “Brud” Holland – the first black football player at Cornell University to be named an All-American – looks over the kids at play during open gym, a fitting place of memorial for a man who once descended from the hill each week to teach the neighborhood kids how to play football. On the wall of its arts and crafts space – newly built this year – a portrait of Ithaca’s first black police officer, Levi Spaulding, hangs just feet away from an open space where, Nunn cheerfully tells, the first executive director of Southside Community Center, James L. Gibbs, used to sleep.

“I love taking people into this space to see images of our history, and the purpose of this space,” she says with a schoolteacher’s enthusiasm while leading a small tour of the building on Sunday.

As Nunn walks the compact, but efficiently organized floor plan of South-

side, she’s quick to channel the ghosts that shaped this place; the stories of her childhood scrambling over a playground since sent to the junkyard, the faces people from Nelson Mandela to the late neighborhood staple that was Frances Eastman (who actually cared for Nunn and countless other children at Southside over the years) smiling down from the chipped, but vividly colored mural overlooking the new equipment.

She’s quick with a story of the place remembered from her childhood, the tour seeming more like a visit to the home of a close friend rather than the leader of a nonprofit.

Then again, it basically is.

“We wear multiple headwraps around here,” said Nunn. “We have this inside joke that it’s ‘garbage to grants’ for us here. We really do it all, whether it’s completing a report or writing a grant to mopping the floors, we just get it done. We do it. And I think that’s another way to describe why we’ve been successful and why we’ll continue to be.”

Every so often on the tour, the memories would accentuated with a plug for one of the center’s many programs, some old and some new: there’s the center’s twicemonthly kitchen and food pantry, which was once one of the few places the city’s black community could go for basic provisions. There’s the Unity Studio – a recording studio opened a number of years ago that has since, gone underutilized – that will be reopened soon, Nunn beaming as she enviN ove m ber

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There’s a murmur of a different type of Southside Revival this year. One of the biggest changes, its leadership will note, comes not only in a found-again, refocusing of enthusiasm around its mission, but in a sort of renaissance of identity: the start of a journey of discovery not only in the center’s tangible purpose, but in the emotional purpose it serves among the city’s black community.

The Southside neighborhood – like the rest of the city, Blas notes – has changed significantly from what it once was. The faces occupying the houses up and down Plain and Cleveland Streets are whiter, a consequence of the city’s rapid gentrification over the past two decades and the people the center once traditionally served – the largely black population of the immediate neighborhood – has since been pushed to the city’s outer fringes on West Hill, the Northside or even outside the city limits.

“People think that our constituents are sort of in this neighborhood and they’re not anymore,” said Blas. “Historically, it’s always been ‘Southside serves the Southside neighborhood.’ But people of color, people who have historically been in this neighborhood, people without resources who may be socioeconomically disadvantaged… they’ve all been pushed to the outskirts of town.”

Part of the new revival, both are quick to say, is a change in how they go about providing these services but also, in redefining the boundaries of what the black community in Ithaca really is: no longer a neighborhood bound by the border of Green Street, it seems, but a community dispersed from the southernmost reaches of town to the dormitories of Cornell’s North Campus in need of cohesion and a place of unity. This approach is evident in its new slogan, “Building black 2 0 1 7

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unity, and y’all can come too,” a mission for the center that goes beyond tutoring and gardening programs. Through initiatives like a writing project around the concept of blackness to hosting discussions on maintaining one’s self while navigating predominantly white spaces, the center has turned its focus on teaching its clients as well as the greater community the value of black identity.

Racial consciousness in Ithaca, Nunn notes, has become a visible and concerted effort in the community. You have groups like Talking Circles and efforts like the New Jim Crow community read, Nunn said, that have made a lot of progress toward build-

ing self-awareness among the community in how its members perceive and discuss the concept of race. But when it comes down to who the audience actually is, you’ll notice one thing about the crowd: the faces out there are predominantly white ones. Southside’s mission now, they say, is about spreading the experiences of black people both in a modern and historic context to not only reaffirm unity, but to preserve and discuss the idea of what blackness “really means” in a society where the concept of racial harmony – for many in the white community – has taken on a policy of colorblindness at best and ignorance at worst, rather than a recognition and respect of each other’s culture.

“That work is beautiful, amazing and great, it’s providing this sort of ‘Race 101,’” Nunn said. “But in places like this, we’re sort of ‘interrupting’ this sort of colorblind society that is often taught to black folks and other people of color… that’s what this writing project is an example of: Building black unity is like internally giving ourselves an opportunity to reflect on our relationship with

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blackness.”

Building that relationship with the physical space is an important part of the equation, a place where the community as a whole can gather to celebrate the center’s ideal of “unapologetic blackness,” as Nunn puts it: welcoming people to come learn about and engage with this idea within one of the few places in town that is a predominantly black community center. As the city and the political climate has changed, the center realized it needed to change as well.

Last year it successfully raised funds for a new van, to connect people from all areas of the city to the house on Plain Street. Blas and Nunn have worked to develop even closer relationships to the colleges – especially important during several years of heightened racial tensions on both campuses – to better connect students to the larger community ready to welcome them in the city’s flats.

“Thinking about Cornell and some of the incidents that have happened there, I’ve made a point to reach out and say to the students that ‘you have a home in Southside,’” Blas said. “That tension, those issues and the political climate we’re in has made that connection even more special… it attracts them to the space.”

But the biggest thing for them, Blas said, is to operate a space to encourage and foster a new generation of leaders in the community, to nudge some of the youth who’d come up in the organization – as they had been – to step up into roles of greater responsibility needed to keep the center on the rise.

“As someone who has grown up in Ithaca and lived here my entire life, spending my time in spaces that are predominantly white is why it’s so important to have places like Southside,” Blas said. “When we’re talking about building unity from the inside, that’s what happens all the time here. There are people who are in here every day asking ‘what can I do to help?’ or ‘let me help do something.’ You can tell it’s building… there’s just this love here.”

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he photographers had to keep backing up as more and more people kept stepping into the frame…

It was the National Letter of Intent Ceremony at Ithaca High School, and the five Little Red Athletes who were there to sign letters were asked to pose together. Then, their parents were asked to join in. Next up were the coaches, then the athletic department members, then the school board members. Indeed, it takes a village.

I appreciated the invitation to attend, and it was nice to connect with some parents and young athletes I have known for some time.

My friend Rick Kuhar and his wife Donna were there, and anyone who has read this column for a few years knows that Rick would be on my Coach’s All-Star Team if there was such a thing. I have watched his enthusiasm rub off on kids and parents across a variety of sports, and when his son, Richie, signed his letter of intent to play baseball at Le Moyne College, I was happy for all of them.

I remember seeing Richie play as a gangly kid in the Cal Ripken League, and he’s now a very solid player and I expect to see him put up some big numbers next spring.

Henr y Mi l ler w i l l join Ku har at Le Moyne, but he will play lacrosse rather than

baseball.

Giulio Ciaschi will be among the incoming freshman on the St. Bonaventure lacrosse roster and his teammate, Ryan Sposito, signed his letter of intent to play lacrosse at West Point. Little Red lacrosse coach Frank Welch was there, and while he sends off numerous players to play at the collegiate level every year, it was obvious he’d never be one to miss a signing ceremony. Welch’s to formulate a game plan, but Silas ran it grin was as wide as those of the players, twice. He told me there was a hill, and if anyand given he has known these kids since one was hanging with him at that point, he’d they were youth league players, it was a big try to lose them there. Well, he and another moment for him too. kid were shoulder-to-shoulder, and Silas Master of Ceremonies Rich Bernstein picked it up and at the top of the hill he had was proud of all the athletes, but his pride a 20-second lead.” Rich added, “We always Georgia@ithacatimes.com was a little more evident when he watched preach to the607-277-7000 kids that x220 hard work pays off, track star Silas Derfel sign his letter toNewspaper: run and Silas works harder than any athlete I at Syracuse next year. Bernstein is the Little have ever coached.”

Red’s cross country coach and NCAA liaiI also spoke with Lou Sposito – Ryan’s dad son, and he spends a lot of time making sure – after the ceremony, and he expressed his these athletes are able to navigate the com- gratitude to the school for putting on such a plexities of the recruitment process and the nice event. I told Lou that my first memory ongoing juggling act of being a successful of Ryan as an athlete dated back to a fullstudent-athlete. (A side note: Both Bernstein speed sprint across Newman Arena when and Derfel were smiling even more on Satur- Ryan was about 5 years old. (The youngster day when Silas won the New York State Class was terrified of the Big Red Bear, and he set A Cross Country championship). Bernstein a kindergarten sprint record running away told me, “Most runners run the course once from the imposing beast.) A few years later,

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zation.”

The communit y, Abb said, was a lso intended to fill a need she hadn’t seen in the community previously. A former member of a local parenting group wary of vaccination, Abb said her experience in talking to and connecting with pro-vaccine parents encouraged her to come down from “the top of anti-vaccine mountain,” she jokes, and begin to build a community to reinforce an atmosphere of positivity around the topic.

Trust, the group acknowledges, is an important aspect of the discussion, especially when fears of vaccination – similar to the phenomenon of the “bendable iPhone,” have become amplified in certain circles.

Working closely with a pediatrician, Abb said, is a big part of becoming comfortable and familiar with the vaccinating process and where they can get that positive support. Some pediatrics practitioners do rounds of the local hospitals to supply information to new mothers on getting vaccinated, so you do meet providers after giving birth.

“Establishing trust with your medical provider is one of the key pieces of being able to trust what they’re saying,” Scofield said. “Most doctors are going to be the type to say ‘yes, it’s a good thing to vaccinate your kids.’”

But even if you’re late in the game – like Abb was with her children – pediatricians and physicians alike are willing to work with parents to get them caught up.

“One great thing about the Ithaca community is that every pediatric practice we have will work with a non-vaccinating family,” she said. “In other communities, one thing that is an issue for parents is the pediatricians refuse to accept non vaccinating families into their practices, forcing them to seek out family physicians or naturopaths. But here, they will work with you to come up with a plan you’re comfortable with.”

–Nick Reynolds

What Did They Find?

Using a mix of emissions data, residential health surveys and several different monitoring methods at 25 locations around the compressor station, EHP attempted to determine not only what chemicals were being put in the air by this facility, but to establish a baseline picture of resident’s health in order to compare data several years out to prove whether or not the toxic compounds had any demonstrable effects on the neighborhood following a period of heightened exposure.

Though the Borger Compressor Station – ranked 14th out of the 18 stations monitored as far as its annual emissions go – produces just a fraction of the emissions released by facilities in Herkimer and Schoharie Counties, toxins found at other, higher-producing sites around the state were detected in the same air breathed by residents in Ellis Hollow. According to EHP, dozens of chemicals – including several known carcinogens – were detected in the air around the facility and, even though they were detected in quantities far below action levels, experts warned the compounded effects of these chemicals combined could have severe impacts to one’s personal health.

According to Dr. David Brown, EHP’s Public Health Toxicologist and Director of Public Health Toxicology, 95 percent of all emissions detected around the state involve seven chemical classes found to have potential negative effects on one’s respiratory system, nervous system and respiratory system as well as, in some cases, potential impacts on reproductive health or cancer. Not only can these various chemicals, even in trace amounts, interact with each other, Brown said, but they can also accumulate in the body: something Brown said the Environmental Protection Agency does not take into account when it sets its safe levels for exposure.

This, he said, is a problem: 31 chemicals in the cocktail discovered around Ellis Hollow, he noted, are associated with circulatory diseases like heart attacks and strokes. An additional 59 of those chemicals are carcinogens, including 23 classified as “known human carcinogens.”

Surveying 142 separate individuals along the route of the entire pipeline, Dr. Sujit Jog-

inpally – another member of EHP to speak from northwestern Pennsylvania into Albany on Friday night – said there already was a and eventually connecting with another pipedemonstrable difference between those living line, this one running from New York City to near in-operation compressor stations along sources of natural gas in Canada. With the the pipeline’s route. Using a 36 item, self- New Market Project already under construcreporting quality of life survey on emotional tion in most places, the group’s focus is now and physical health crafted by the Rand Cor- on documenting the negative health impacts poration (and used by the staff for Medicare created by these pipelines on their surroundand Medicaid), researchers relied on a widely ing communities in order to force Dominion used to monitor health impacts called the to take the health of the public into account.

SF36, using age-specific questions to isolate For the past several months, the organizasymptoms and maintain tight control on tion has been fighting to convince Dominthe data along the route to observe who was ion to spend money on creating a cleaner healthy where, and to correlate what toxins compressor station in Ellis Hollow – which they were exposed to. currently contributes an excess of 12,000 And what did they find? Symptoms like tons of pollutants per year, according to 2015 eye irritation, vision emissions data from problems, ringing in the DEC – through a t he ea r, joint pa in, number of upgrades to runny noses, headits systems that would aches, sinus problems, emit fewer pollutants weakness, fatigue and into the air. Dominnausea were typically ion, however, has not reported at higher levexpressed interest in els where a compressor doing so; at least until station exists than at its current project is sites where comprescompleted. sor stations are proMoving forward, posed.

Mot hers Out Front De spite t he ci ris now work ing on cumstantial evidence, s e ve r a l i n it i at i ve s however, the research surrounding the projteam left the audience ect, including buildwith a few caveats to ing a coalition of all the data: no direct conthe town supervisors clusions can be drawn a long t he pipel i ne about the local health to f ight for cleaner impacts of the comimprovements to each pressor station until facility. Locally, the Dr. Sujit Joginpally. another survey can be group wants to create a completed a year from public notification sysnow and, due to geographical anomalies like tem for high-emissions periods at Ellis Hola nearby quarry that could produce other low, commonly referred to as “blowdowns,” toxins not related to the compressor station, in order to alert neighbors of when the air will it’s hard to prove definitively what pollution is be most toxic. In the more immediate timecoming from where. frame, the group hopes to get the Tompkins County Health Department to pay for the What’s Being Done About continued monitoring of people’s health in the neighborhood similar to what other county It? health departments have done for those living In New York, Mothers Out Front – as a around natural gas infrastructure. group – are generally against any expansion Phase 1, which was organized primarily by of natural gas infrastructure in New York Mothers Out Front, was wholly self-funded.

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of South Hill residents centered on the student disturbances already in the neighborhoods. After extensive public comments, the City of Ithaca recently enacted a temporary overlay zoning district for the South Hill neighborhood in order to stem the practice of buying properties and building additional dwellings in order to pack more students into smaller spaces.

The new zoning in Cayuga Heights also comes as the Town of Ithaca is grappling with its own rental oversight issues. A new rental housing registry program, an increase of severity for property violation punishments and other regulatory implementations, mostly aimed at non-owner occupied student rental properties which were becoming problematic throughout the town, were met with criticism by legions of town landlords at a public meeting last month, who say the measures are too punitive and intrusive.

“The Landlords Association understands the need for any regulation,” said Karla Terry, a member of the Landlords Association of Tompkins County board. She explained that most of the anxiety regarding new regulations around the area comes from confusion about how to follow the rules and the financial cost associated with them, not the rules themselves. “People don’t know what’s next, what hoop are we going to have to jump through next to make sure everything is okay? [...] But there is a willingness to follow the rules.”

Fred Cowett, a Cayuga Heights resident who was also on the Zoning Review Committee, said he is far more concerned with the possible abuse of property in the neighborhood through real estate speculation than he is with the actual students who live there currently, especially those who live in owner-occupied houses. That would lead to the loss of neighborhood identity South Hill residents lamented.

What discourages Cowett is when he looks through the tax parcel files and sees property owners with mailing addresses from places like Rochester or even as far as Arizona who are renting out full houses to students. That, to him, seems like the true creeping threat to Cayuga Heights.

“I don’t see it as keeping students out, I see it as keeping speculators out,” he said. “I have no problem with students living here, what we don’t really want is absentee landlords buying up properties [...] The idea is that we would like to prioritize single-family and two-family homes, not necessarily to the exclusion of students.”

Woodard’s sentiments are eerily similar to those expressed by City officials, and South Hill residents, as that situation played out publicly over months of special forums and committee meetings.

“Having some students in the neighborhood is good, and stimulating,” Woodard said. “But having it be nothing but students is not.”

option besides the norm in the form of diverting offenders to the LEAD program. contin u ed from page 4 “Up until LEAD, the only options were arrest them or ignore it,” Brown said. “The the program can be molded for differ- officers, when this becomes ingrained, it’s ent people. For example, a case manager another tool they have.” assigned to each new participant can be as Brown also noted statistics of people involved as the person wants them to be as who are admitted or not admitted are long as the participant meets certain guide- tracked to hopefully detect any disparities, lines, such as a meeting 30 days after their including along racial lines. He emphasized initial legal incident. that LEAD represented a way to keep someThe program’s core components were one safe without necessarily pressuring defined as a combination of harm reduc- them toward a life. Also broached during tion, pre-arrest or pre-booking diversion the meeting was how LEAD can help avoid (t hat depends on jurisdiction), a non- potential biases against minorities that abstinence based approach and searching exist in government services or the crimiout trauma-informed sernal justice system. vices. Some of the phras“Folks are focused on es were fa mi liar: harm drug cour t, t his is not “What I came reduction, for instance, drug court,” Brown said. away with is that has been bandied about “Drug court is based on this needs to be a city drug policy often in abstinence, t his is not community-driven that [...] It’s about workrelation to Mayor Svante My rick ’s safe injection process. The key is ing with the person in a sites proposal. Others are the collaboration.” different way.” somewhat new, like trauOne of the main ma-i n for med ser v ices, aspects of the program which involves considering the circum- will be engaging police officers and makstances that brought someone to crime ing sure they are not only on board with instead of taking the crime at face value. the project, but also comfortable with the As it was explained, the program is built more empathic policing aspects they will upon enhancing engagement and commu- be asked to accomplish. The public seemed nity relations between police officers and to sense that as well, asking questions about people involved in drug use, usually facili- t he t y pica l interaction bet ween police tated by a case manager associated with officers and possible LEAD diversion canthe LEAD program. In terms of drug treat- didates. Taili Mugambee, who attended the ment, it’s fairly customized to the individu- meeting and works in Equity and Inclusion al as well: there is a psychosocial assessment at Cornell Cooperative Extension, said he that is required before LEAD participation, expected representatives from the Police and the case management is based upon the Department and local mental health serperson’s self-identified needs. vices to be present and thought the public “There’s all kinds of trauma, so under- shou ld have a chance to communicate standing that the person before you might directly with police officers. He felt that have layers and layers of trauma that prob- even more strongly after the meeting ended, ably hasn’t been tended to or healed,” Mor- though he noted he thought the program ris said about allowing the participant more sounds “amazing.” agency over their path. “That’s why we don’t “What I came away with is that this work from an abstinence based philosophy, needs to be a community-driven process,” because it’s harm reduction. How can this Mugambee said. “The key is the collaboraperson have less harm in their life?” tion, if we don’t have everybody working It also includes harm reduction training with a unitary purpose in mind then it’s for local police officers to get them more going to fail.” accustomed with the new approach. Brown and Morris said they have seen success –Matt Butler with trying to reform some police practices simply by giving law enforcement another

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industrial roots (hence the one-f loor industrial exception above).

Though the affordable housing requirement recommendation comes from a working group dedicated to the waterfront, JoAnn Cornish confirmed it is meant to apply citywide. One crucial matter to be decided is how the affordable housing recommendation will be implemented: as a straight requirement, or as an addition to the six criteria that are used to determine the validity of a tax abatement claim.

“We hear it over and over from members of the public, every time we have an application for a tax abatement,” Cornish said of people’s calls for the city to use CIITAP as the carrot to prod forward affordable housing construction.

All of these boil down to the conclusion that the city wants to revitalize the waterfront, taking advantage of a spot that has seen stalled non-industrial development for years.

The waterfront has long been a challenging place the city and developers alike, as its soft soil can sometimes lead to nearly football field lengths of pile-driving before a firm enough foundation can be established. That extra work, which makes building several stories very difficult, strongly reduces some of the financial motivation for developers to look there for new projects.

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Tibetans in Ithaca celebrate their culture and religion

By Christie Citranglo including a day of cultural celebration. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, St. Paul’s will fill with people new to Tibetan culture and those who have been involved with the association for years. The church transforms into a center for Tibetan culture and religion, complete with a sand mandala demonstration, Tibetan dancing and Tibetan food.

“We’re very happy in Ithaca: Ithaca is a very peaceful place, it is an educational place,” Dhondup said. “All the Ithacans are very smiling faces. We have not faced any problems, and we’re very fortunate.”

Since the Chinese invasion, more than 1.2 million of the six million Tibetans have been killed and more than 6,000 monasteries across the country have been destroyed. With the invasion of the independent land, there came a loss of culture and a loss of rights for the indigenous people. Even today, human rights and humanitarian organizations are still denied access to prisons and detention centers in Tibet, Dhondup said in the association’s annual bulletin.

According to Free Tibet, an international organization dedicated to getting Tibet’s independence back from China, Tibetans are becoming a minority in their own country.

Chinese have continued to move into Tibet, which makes living as an indigenous person increasingly difficult.

Religion is a key component to Tibetan culture, and with Chinese rule, Tibetans are limited in what they can practice. China has jailed thousands of Buddhist monks and banned images of the Dalai Lama in Tibet.

The Dalai Lama self-exiled himself to India, and several others have joined him there in order to have a sense of religious freedom outside of their home.

Dhondup also said Chinese and Tibetan cultures are often lumped together as one, A place of worship in the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies. The Dalai Lama is photographed in the when they are entirely separate cultures with center of the shrine. (Photo: Christie Citranglo) separate values and beliefs.

“Everything [between China and Tibet] is totally different,” Dhondup said. “Tibet’s land ince 1992, Ithaca has been the per- Ithaca’s community helped him feel comfortable is huge land, less population than China — less manent home to a few dozen Tibet- quickly. than six million Tibetans. We call it the top of ans who no longer have a home in The Tibetans who moved to Ithaca arrived the world. … In 1959, the Chinese came and their country. With a climate and because of an agreement with the U.S. Congress invaded the Tibetans, and about 100,000 Tibetlandscape similar to Tibet, Ithaca to find a home for about 1,000 Tibetans displaced on a surface level wasn’t difficult from China’s 1949 invasion. Since then the Contin u ed on page 16 to move into. And when President of the Tibetan Ithaca Tibetan Association has brought Tibetan Association Ngwang Dhondup arrived, he said culture to Ithaca through several avenues,

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ans left their country for India as Tibetan refugees.”

Dhondup said most Tibetan values lie in respect and helping others through compassion. China’s main values revolve around harmony and coordinated balance, according to the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy.

“Main thing is that you should be a compassionate person,” Dhodup said. “If you can help someone that is excellent, if you cannot help someone, don’t harm them.”

The Tibetans living in Ithaca have had a way to preserve their culture. Along with the yearly celebration, the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies hosts meditation sessions three times a week to the public, participates in festivals on The Commons and provides other services to Tibetans living in Ithaca. Cultural preservation is key, Dhondup said, even for future generations.

“And the main thing is to preserve the Tibetan art and culture, especially the language and tradition, and it should go to the younger generations,” Dhondup said.

“Which is very important: the younger generations are changing the culture, which is all right, but even the traditional cultures should be preserved.”

This year’s celebration at the festival will include several festivities for children, including face painting, dancing and the chance to partake in various Buddhist activities. Even though a bit of Tibet thrives in Ithaca, it still differs greatly from what life was once like in Tibet.

And there are still several ways to get involved with Tibetan culture and with the monastery. The annual celebration is a good stepping stone to get involved, Dondup said.

“Tibetan is a loving culture and also it is a caring culture and respective of each culture,” he said. •

Some of the religious tokens used by the tibetan monks in Ithaca. (Photo: Christie Citranglo)

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What the monestary has going on throughout the year Aside from the annual festival, Ithacans can get involved with the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies throughout the year. The monastery is located at 210 Tibet Drive in Ithaca.

Weekend Intensive Retreats: The monastery holds intensive retreats on certain weekends. These retreats explore different avenues of Buddhism and often a guest lecturer is invited to teach the course.

These courses begin Friday evenings, take place all day on Saturday and end on Sunday.

Meditation sessions: On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the monastery holds meditation sessions that are free and open to the public.

Core classes: During the fall and spring semesters, the monastery offers semester courses. These courses cover the path to enlightenment, philosophical tenets and the Tibetan language.

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A Funky, Dapper Crew

Band Dapper Dan finds its home in Cenral New York

By Kyl e Far r

together has helped them break through.

The members have stepped up their game with the shows they have played and are in the planning stages of recording their first full length album at Ithaca’s Studio Zoot.

The plans for the new album are in very early stages so there’s much still up in the air, but we are told to expect the Dapper Dan’s first official single sometime this fall with an album being released sometime in 2018. The band has written a number of great songs lately, so much so, that Dapper Dan still could not decide which song would be released as the single, but nobody seemed to mind. The members admitted that this is a very good problem to have.

W he n I a s k e d t he m a b out t he i r recent shows, you could sense the excitement about their recent success and the momentum the group has begun to build.

The support of Two Goats Brewing in Burdett clearly made a big difference in their careers, as Dapper Dan has become a house favorite there. Seedstock was also a big step forward as the band was able to play on the same stages with the likes of Sophistafunk, Digger Jones, Floodwood,

Mosaic Foundation, The Blind Spots, Root Shock and The Unknown Woodsmen among many others. This allowed the band to grab the attention of several new fans who hadn’t had the chance to hear them yet. The members were also featured in a Finger Lakes Music Press video during that performance that has gotten well over 2,000 views since it was released.

The Fools Hill Festival in Spencer was also an event that helped push the band forward.

“I think Fools Hill was one of the best sets we’ve played,” Bassi said. “There is something about the vibe and the people there that makes it a really special place to play. Throw in a double rainbow and a beautiful sunset and our set just felt magical to me.”

Finally, everyone seemed to agree that Apple Fest was the culmination of everything Dapper Dan had been building over the past couple of years. The band had one of the biggest crowd it has played for to date, but more importantly Dapper Dan was interested and receptive of the music, and all the guys were thankful for that experience. •

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f you haven’t heard Dapper Dan yet, you will soon. It is one of Ithaca’s up and coming bands, and the group is determined to bring the funk and take their spot in the always-talented music scene. After a successful summer on the local circuit, gracing stages from people’s backyards to the Bernie Milton Pavilion, the band has but two things to credit for its breakout success on the scene: Perseverance and hard work.

Dapper Dan is a funk fueled jam-ish band made up by Tylor Hubbard on guitar and lead vocals, Nate Cowles on the bass, Steve Bassi on guitar and backing vocals and Pat Barnhardt on drums. It can be said the bands that stay together longer and have the best chemistry are the ones where the members are friends before they become bandmates, and that’s the case here.

Cowles and Hubbard were good friends through high school, bonding over their love of music. After graduating, the two of them began to play some with Josh Ross of Kitestring (another up-and-coming band you should check out) and after that project ended, Hubbard and Cowles decided to stick together.

“Our musical connection is something, and he’s my best friend. We feed off each other and continuously inspire one another,” Hubbard said. “We loved to jam and improvise, it was very hard to find anybody else to fit in with our style, but once I met Steve, I knew he was the guy.”

Bassi and Hubbard met when Bassi began teaching in Newfield and instantly, the pair formed a bond over music. Hubbard mentioned that he wrote some songs,

referring Bassi to a few recordings he had put on YouTube.

“As soon as I heard Tylor sing, I was hooked,” Bassi said. “From day one, I was hooked on Tylor’s voice. And Nate is such a monster on the bass … He just owns the bottom end like no one I’ve ever played with.”

On drums, the band has recently made a transition from Spenser Blinn (who left to front his own band on good terms, they said) and have just began jamming with current drummer Barnhardt the past couple of months. Oftentimes, changing the roster of a band can be a stressful process as you learn your bandmates’ tendencies and build a chemistry, but this seems to be an instant hit. Hubbard, Bassi and Cowles all had nothing but praise for Barnhardt as he has “done his homework, learned the songs, and the past few gigs with him have been amazing,” adding the band is “really looking forward to what the future has in store.” Despite the changes, this band clearly has built a chemistry that most bands would envy.

This summer has been a kind one to Dapper Dan as it has made tremendous strides in the past few months. When asked about their success, the members attributed it to their hard work and dedication. They also stressed that you can’t get discouraged by a poorly attended show every now and then, emphasizing that even if you’re only playing to small crowd, that other people know you’re out and busy working and that still means something. That combined with working with other artists in the music scene and expressing an interest in moving forward

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When we spoke last week, O r t h w a s c le a rl y e nt hu siastic about this program of 20t h-centur y music, which notably is the first season to present repertory she has chosen herself. When I suggested the Shostakovich concerto as the highlight of the evening, she politely countered, “they are all highlights.” She does have especially accomplished soloists for the Shostakovich, however. Tessman, a native Russian, has studied and performed with world-renowned cellist Rostropovich and is a winner of multiple competiNove mb e r

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tions worldwide. Bond, a jazz musician to start with, turned to the classical repertory as a grad student and since 1992 has been a regu lar member of t he Met ropol ita n Opera Orchestra.

Openi ng t he prog ra m is “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten,” composed by the Estonian Pärt (b. 1935) and premiered in 1977, shortly after the death of the English master, whom Pärt greatly admired.

Written as a canon with a single melodic motif — a descending A-minor scale (thus in the Aeolian mode) — the piece is scored for string orchestra and one bell. Each section, except the viola, is split in two, one playing notes from the scale, t he ot her on ly note s f rom the A-minor chord (a, c, e).

The bell strikes three times at various moments. The work is “very special,” as it starts with a scored silence, then come three bell sounds, far away, then the strings at pianissimo.

The music bui lds, w it h t he

strings scored to play in different speeds, to a fortissimo at the end in A minor. The strings fade out, the final bell sounds and reverberates in the silence.

Listen carefully and the overtones are audible, especially the fourth, mak ing a major chord that perhaps suggests hope, resurrection, or redemption. Cornelia describes the effect as mesmerizing.

The Shosta kov ich concerto, an early work for piano, trumpet and string orchestra in neo-baroque style, had its premiere in Leningrad in 1933 with the young composer at the piano. Coming at a time when Shostakovich was the “darling of the Stalin regime,” Cornelia explains that it’s a happy, fast kind of piece: “it makes you smile,” she said.

With an amusing orchestration, things seem to be not together, timings are off, and then with humor it all comes out a l l rig ht. W hat sta r ted out in the composer’s mind as a concerto for trumpet and

orchest ra developed i nto a piano concerto with trumpet, which makes sardonic interjections that add to the humorous and witty expressions of the piano.

After intermission comes the tota lly different “Metamor phosen,” composed by Strauss when he was 80 and in ill health. The work was commissioned by his friend Paul Sacher as “a suite for strings” to be performed in Switzerland, part of a scheme to get Strauss out of Germany. It was written quickly in 1945, when the 12-year reign of Nazism was coming to an end following the destruction of all the major European opera houses.

It premiered in Switzerland but Strauss was not allowed to leave. The music reflects the composer’s grief and desperation, and although there is a more hopeful middle section, the overall effect is “almost a funeral hymn for German music and culture.” Strauss in fact quotes the funeral march from the second movement of Beethoven’s third symphony as well as music from Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll,” and includes echoes of Bach and Brahms, among others. Scored for 10 violins, 5 violas, 5 celli and 3 double bass, each player has his or her own solo part, making for a very rich texture. Cornelia calls it the “one of the most amazing string pieces ever.”

The rest of the CCO season promises more amazing music.

The Holiday Pops Concer t, in Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium on Dec. 10 and a family-friendly event for the whole community, features the Ithaca Children’s Choir, musicians from ITE, the Festival Chimes Bell Choir, a singing Santa (Steve Stull in a white beard), competition winner and pianist Daniel Wang, all to be accompanied by the entire orchestra led by Cornelia. On March 10 in Ford Ha ll, t he concert presents the great bass Edgar Meyer in a concerto by Bottesini and one by the soloist. Cornelia has worked with him several times, “whatever he does turns to gold,” she adds.

To close the season on April 28 are works by C.P.E. Bach and a Vivaldi f lute concerto with CCO’s principal Wendy Herbener Mehne, plus the great Mozart Requiem, in the traditional Sussmayer version, with the Ithaca College Choir directed by Janet Galván, and soloists Tamara Acosta, Iv y Walz, Nathaniel McEwen, and Marc Webster. •

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When we spoke last week, O r t h w a s c le a rl y e nt hu siastic about this program of 20t h-centur y music, which notably is the first season to present repertory she has chosen herself. When I suggested the Shostakovich concerto as the highlight of the evening, she politely countered, “they are all highlights.” She does have especially accomplished soloists for the Shostakovich, however. Tessman, a native Russian, has studied and performed with world-renowned cellist Rostropovich and is a winner of multiple competiNove mb e r

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tions worldwide. Bond, a jazz musician to start with, turned to the classical repertory as a grad student and since 1992 has been a regu lar member of t he Met ropol ita n Opera Orchestra.

Openi ng t he prog ra m is “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten,” composed by the Estonian Pärt (b. 1935) and premiered in 1977, shortly after the death of the English master, whom Pärt greatly admired.

Written as a canon with a single melodic motif — a descending A-minor scale (thus in the Aeolian mode) — the piece is scored for string orchestra and one bell. Each section, except the viola, is split in two, one playing notes from the scale, t he ot her on ly note s f rom the A-minor chord (a, c, e).

The bell strikes three times at various moments. The work is “very special,” as it starts with a scored silence, then come three bell sounds, far away, then the strings at pianissimo.

The music bui lds, w it h t he

strings scored to play in different speeds, to a fortissimo at the end in A minor. The strings fade out, the final bell sounds and reverberates in the silence.

Listen carefully and the overtones are audible, especially the fourth, mak ing a major chord that perhaps suggests hope, resurrection, or redemption. Cornelia describes the effect as mesmerizing.

The Shosta kov ich concerto, an early work for piano, trumpet and string orchestra in neo-baroque style, had its premiere in Leningrad in 1933 with the young composer at the piano. Coming at a time when Shostakovich was the “darling of the Stalin regime,” Cornelia explains that it’s a happy, fast kind of piece: “it makes you smile,” she said.

With an amusing orchestration, things seem to be not together, timings are off, and then with humor it all comes out a l l rig ht. W hat sta r ted out in the composer’s mind as a concerto for trumpet and

orchest ra developed i nto a piano concerto with trumpet, which makes sardonic interjections that add to the humorous and witty expressions of the piano.

After intermission comes the tota lly different “Metamor phosen,” composed by Strauss when he was 80 and in ill health. The work was commissioned by his friend Paul Sacher as “a suite for strings” to be performed in Switzerland, part of a scheme to get Strauss out of Germany. It was written quickly in 1945, when the 12-year reign of Nazism was coming to an end following the destruction of all the major European opera houses.

It premiered in Switzerland but Strauss was not allowed to leave. The music reflects the composer’s grief and desperation, and although there is a more hopeful middle section, the overall effect is “almost a funeral hymn for German music and culture.” Strauss in fact quotes the funeral march from the second movement of Beethoven’s third symphony as well as music from Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll,” and includes echoes of Bach and Brahms, among others. Scored for 10 violins, 5 violas, 5 celli and 3 double bass, each player has his or her own solo part, making for a very rich texture. Cornelia calls it the “one of the most amazing string pieces ever.”

The rest of the CCO season promises more amazing music.

The Holiday Pops Concer t, in Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium on Dec. 10 and a family-friendly event for the whole community, features the Ithaca Children’s Choir, musicians from ITE, the Festival Chimes Bell Choir, a singing Santa (Steve Stull in a white beard), competition winner and pianist Daniel Wang, all to be accompanied by the entire orchestra led by Cornelia. On March 10 in Ford Ha ll, t he concert presents the great bass Edgar Meyer in a concerto by Bottesini and one by the soloist. Cornelia has worked with him several times, “whatever he does turns to gold,” she adds.

To close the season on April 28 are works by C.P.E. Bach and a Vivaldi f lute concerto with CCO’s principal Wendy Herbener Mehne, plus the great Mozart Requiem, in the traditional Sussmayer version, with the Ithaca College Choir directed by Janet Galván, and soloists Tamara Acosta, Iv y Walz, Nathaniel McEwen, and Marc Webster. •

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A Different Kind of ‘Hamlet’ Hamlet Wakes Up is Provocative and ambitious

By Barbara Ad am s

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scape” is t he t heme for t h is season’s programs at Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts. And escaping the confines of an authoritarian regime, both physica lly and psychologica lly, characterizes the current show, Hamlet Wakes Up Late.

The production, an English language premiere, is a bold and many-layered experiment, fascinating if f lawed. The or ig i na l work — f i rst per formed i n Damascus in 1978 — is by the prolific Syrian writer and translator Mamduh Adwan (1941-2004); the faithful translation by Margaret Litvin; and the current adaptation, updating some language and references, by Cornell theater professor Rebekah Maggor, who also directs.

The last 30 years of the 20th century saw many diverse, creative appropriations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Arab world — the core tale of a faltering, inactive heir apparent in a corrupt society serving as a veiled reference to current civil conditions. Parody and satire ostensibly avoided state censorship, though the political views of these plays are so overt the censors would have to be tone deaf not to catch the critique.

Just as Hamlet sought in his “mousetrap” to snag “the conscience of a king,” playwrights like Adwan reproached both powerful oligarchs and immobile intellectuals. His Hamlet is not “woke”: The self-absorbed prince realizes too late that his nation has been betrayed, its leaders motivated by greed and power, their profits gained at the expense of exploited masses. In this version, King Claudius strategically welcomes the archenemy, Fortinbras, entering into mutually advantageous business deals. (Many aspects of Adwan’s play refer to specific political events in Syria and Egypt, but these 20th-century references are lost on most of the audience.)

Successful business requires stable government, and since t he dissident Hamlet is such a loose cannon, he has to go. This production opens with the lastact fencing scene and Hamlet dying in Horatio’s arms, begging him to tell his story. The rest of the play is narrated by Horatio.

Adwan’s Hamlet avoids the demands of leadership by drinking heavily; he vacillates (like many in the Arab world then) amidst righteous anger, over-intellectualizing, disillusion, hopelessness and despair. It takes a man of the people (the actor he hires) to arouse him, but Hamlet’s protest is too little, too late. His friend Lorenzo has been tortured and

killed for his resistance to the state; Hamlet himself is put on trial with trumpedup charges and ultimately executed; even Horatio is beaten and carried off.

In this bitter tragedy, the state triumphs. Director Maggor sees the work as full of humor, but Shakespeare’s comic relief is gone (no gravedigger, and Polonius is no fool but a virtual Bannon); only a stray line or two evokes an ironic grimace. Whether now or 40 years ago, this work is an anguished cry.

Can activist art substitute for real action? Is holding a mirror up to nature enough? Adwan raises these questions and more, as does Cornell’s production.

But still it’s difficult to appreciate a work at four or five removes — already indirect and coded (as in its frequent Christian references), translated, re-adapted, addressing now less-familiar historical events. And a lengthy, unevenly paced production, with little Shakespearean poetry extant, taxes the viewer.

But the show’s visual context is effective: Kent Goetz’s six huge rotating panels, illuminated by E. D. Intemann, behind which shadowy figures loom. Sarah Bernstein’s costumes mingle Elizabethan and modern garb (Ophelia’s tasteless tart getup and Fortinbras’ iridescent pastel paisley jacket the most garish; ruffs abound; Hamlet of course in somber black).

To this theatrical mash-up, Maggor has thoughtfully added music, a three-

man string ensemble featuring the exquisite music of Sy rian-American guest composer and cellist Kinan Abou-Afach.

She’s also introduced more women, with a female Polonius (implying women can be as Machiavellian as men, rather detracting from the historically responsible parties) and two female dancers embodying Hamlet’s father’s ghost (again, a visually interesting but thematically odd choice, omitting the presence of the commanding patriarch).

An international cast with accented

pragmatic Claudius; and Ritwick Ghosh’s Actor is a breath of fresh air. The cast is highly committed and engaged, but acting skill ranges from competent to far less so; most never forget they are “acting.”

This ambitious production finally educates its students more than its audience — which is also worthwhile. • Hamlet Wa kes Up Late, by Mamduh Adwan; adapted and directed by Rebekah Maggor. At Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts through

Allen Porterie plays Hamlet in “Hamlet Wakes Up.” (Photo: Rachel Philipson)

English underscores the global message of corrupt power, the actors coming from the U.S., Mexico, China, Ecuador, Nigeria, India, Singapore and Uzbekistan.

Allen Porterie excels as Hamlet, from fear to fury; Irving Torres-Lopez is a

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Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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Wilson holds audiences and doesn’t let go

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Woody Harleson stars as Wilson in Craig Johnson’s “Wilson.” (Photo provided)

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o you ever get a movie from Netflix and wonder when — or if — you’ll ever be in the mood to watch it? The days go by and that red envelope sits waiting on the coffee table.

That happened to me this week with a film called Wilson. In it, Woody Har-

relson really tamps down much of his own likeability to play a misanthrope like this, one of those guys who’s, shall we say, uncomfortably honest, the kind of guy who latches onto you on a nearly empty bus or train and kinda gets in your face.

He loves his dog, Pepper, but his friends have moved away.

In attempting to track down his exwife, Pippi (Laura Dern), a dark soul with

addiction issues, Wilson finds out that he has a daughter, Claire (Isabella Amara), that was given up for adoption. The film’s odd mix of pathos and humor comes from watching the socially awkward Wilson try to be a better man, ex-husband and, now, father. He’s just not very good at any of them.

So, Wilson is not a spin-off of Castaway about Tom Hank’s volleyball/desert island companion. It’s based on Daniel Clowes’ 2010 graphic novel of the same name. Wilson the graphic novel is as prickly and idiosyncratic as his previous works Eightball and Ghost World: the book is structured as 70 one-page gag strips around Wilson, with days or even years passing between the strips. Clowes says, “The story is really what you interpret happens in between each strip.”

I can’t really account for my lack of enthusiasm before finally throwing the Blu ray into the player the other night, but the movie had me from the moment Harrelson as Wilson wakes up and realizes that his wonderful dreams are over, and that he’s stuck with this life.

At 101 minutes, Wilson zips by like a series of strip-mall Zen koans and haikus. Enigmatic and episodic, it dips here and dips there. Stuff happens. But even I couldn’t have predicted where Wilson’s story ultimately takes him, and reminded me that for all of life’s stifling sameness and boredom, things always happen to all of us that we never could have predicted in a million years.

For such an odd stick in the mud,

Wilson ends up spending most of his time with Dern and Amara, and also the fantastic Judy Greer as a sympathetic dog-sitter and, in one of the best scenes in the film, a funny, frank and charming date with a woman played by character actress Margo Martindale. For an actor who, apart from her almost Shakespearean work on “Justified,” tends to play fusty, matronly roles, here Martindale charms Wilson (and us); there’s a wink in her performance that lets him know he’d be lucky to have her.

Wilson is directed by Craig Johnson, who made the much-admired (by me anyway) indie The Skeleton Twins, starring Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig. Much like Terry Zwigoff ’s Ghost World, the world of Wilson is small, verging on cramped.

Shot by the great cinematographer Frederick Elmes (Blue Velvet and Synecdoche, New York), the film concentrates on the urban effects on small town life, like the martial arts school signage on Wilson’s building. The characters drive clunky cars and eat at Denny’s.

Everything is shot in intimate, slightly uncomfortable oppressiveness or the ironic distance Zwigoff was going for.

Wilson would make an apt double bill with American Splendor, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s film about the blue-collar exploits of underground comix writer Harvey Pekar. • Recommended: Bottle Rocket, The Nightmare Before Christmas at Cornell Cinema.

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he original Rogues’ Harbor Inn, which opened in 1830, has nine guest rooms along with a bar area and two pleasant dining rooms.

Breakfast is served for the overnight guests but otherwise it’s dinner only, which starts at 5 p.m. daily.

I think of Rogues’ Harbor as a bastion of casual comfort food: it’s neither pretentious nor a fine dining venue. The bar is often more crowded and lively than the dining rooms, a trait that makes dinner there feel like I’m eating in an English pub. The setting is on the austere side with lots of dark brown wood on the floor and walls and dark green paint where the wood leaves off. Much of the lighting comes from an eclectic mix of Tiffany-style lamps hanging from the ceiling. The straight

back, armless chairs with thin padding are functional but uncomfortable. A porch can be utilized for al fresco dining in clement weather, however the inn is located at a busy intersection and personally, I’m not wild about motorcycles, cars and trucks in the immediate area when I have dinner.

One of the more valuable lessons I’ve learned in the more than dozen years I’ve been reviewing restaurants in the Ithaca area is if I don’t want to attract gobs of critical, and often strongly negative, feedback, I should avoid writing controversial sentences like, “The best place in the Ithaca area for pizza is … ” or “The best wings in greater Ithaca can be found at ….” So suffice it to say that Rogues’ Harbor Inn in Lansing serves really good wings. They’re never over or under cooked, are always

plump and juicy, and are accompanied by a choice of a dozen different sauces of which my favorites are Garlic Parmesan and the medium version of Buffalo. The wings cost $8 for eight or $12 for 11. However, if I’m in the mood for good wings on a Tuesday, so much the better because Rogues’ Harbor has a Tuesday special on wings where you can get “Two pounds for $12”. Two pounds turns out to be 16 wings. My servers, who have always been friendly, attentive and efficient have been happy to split an order into two servings of eight with a different sauce for each.

As you might expect with a casual eatery, there are more than twice as many appetizers as the six entrees.

In addition to the wings, I like the spinach salad ($12.75) which features fresh leaves mixed with cranberries, walnuts, bleu cheese and pickled onions, and I am always pleased at how generous the portion is. For an additional $3 for chicken or $5 for steak, you can add a protein and make a more substantial meal out of the salad.

Among the entrees is another comfort meal, a grilled cheddar jack cheese sandwich ($10 with a side) served on wheatberry bread along with tomatoes, cilantro, green chilies and caramelized onions.

Personally, I’d prefer a tangier cheese and more of it. When I order a side at Rogues’ Harbor I opt for the homemade coleslaw and avoid the standard commercial tater tots which arrive at the restaurant frozen and are subsequently deep fried.

My vegetarian partner has enjoyed the

Vegetable Kofta ($17.95), which is served as a trio of dumplings made of sweet potato, cauliflower and butternut squash in a mild curry sauce. The Kofta is also available as an appetizer with just one dumpling.

There are several other offerings suitable for vegetarians.

If you’re not a vegetarian I don’t think you can go wrong ordering one of the half-dozen burgers on the menu ($12-$13).

I’m perfectly happy munching on an Inn Burger with carmelized onions, bacon and cheddar cheese with a side of coleslaw.

Along with a beer, it makes for a satisfying dinner.

Speaking of beer, you can choose from a dozen draught offerings by the pint ($4$7) or mug ($5-$8) and from an interesting selection of craft beers as well as the standard brands. If you prefer beer by the bottle, you’ll have almost two dozen to choose from.

I have spent years making my own wine and drinking commercial selections; however when I’m seated in one of Rogues’ Harbor’s funky, pub-like dining rooms, I skip their 14 wine bottle possibilities (strength at the $30 price point) and let my server steer me into one of the craft beer offerings. Beer just seems to go better with a burger or wings!

Rogues’ Harbor Is a fun get-away only about a 10-minute drive from Ithaca’s downtown concentration of restaurants.

It’s a pleasant out-of-town alternative for a family, (there is a small children’s menu with five basic choices) to enjoy a casual dinner at reasonable prices. •

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11/15 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz and Gospel Music) Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | (Local bands, Soloists) The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae)

11/16 Thursday

Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Bandwagon Farm Brewery, 3582 West Ave, Interlaken | (Folk)

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Dino Losito, Brian Murphy, Terry Light | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | (Jazz) Let’s Be Leonard, Baked Potatoes | 8:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Reggae, Rock) Mike Titlebaum Quintet | 8:00 PM10:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz, Swing)

11/17 Friday

Lynn Wiles Trio | 6:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Long John and Son | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, 45 E Main St, Trumansburg | (Oldies, Folk) IU: Ensemble, Et. Al; Magnetic Coroner; Brad Nath; Motorcyclez | 7:30 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | The Big Takeover, Viva Mayhem | 9:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Motown, Jamaican pop) Off the Rails Blues | 9:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Soul) Dead Night | 9:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead covers)

11/18 Saturday

The Pelotones at Americana Vineyards | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | (Swing, Jazz) Garlic.band | 6:00 PM-9:00

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11/19 Sunday

TOiVO! | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Bandwagon Farm Brewery, 3582 West Ave, Interlaken | (Dance) Bryan Spencer | 3:00 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Grace and Holy Spirit Church, 13 Court Street, Cortland | (Classical guitar) Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | Dark Hollow | 9:00 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | The Range, 119

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11/21 Tuesday

November 16, 17 | Hockett Family Recital Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | The program, for voice and guitar/lute, will include Airs de cour et de boire, by Estienne Moulinié; a selection of Schubert Lieder; Canciones Españolas Antiguas collected by Federico Garcia Lorca; Appalachian Triptych, by Daniel Nightingale, and Rodney Stucky’s arrangements of several Spirituals.

Harpur Jazz Ensemble | 7:30 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway

Steppler and Sofia Östling present Reformation 500: Organ music for four hands and four feet, including Naji Hakim’s Die Apostel (pieces based on Cranach’s woodcuts), Kenneth Leighton’s “Martyrs,” and others.

11/17 Friday

Symphoria Spark Series: Harvest Festival | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Cross Creek Nursery, 8390 Cazenovia Road, Manlius | Music director Lawrence Loh leads Symphoria in music from Our

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, November 21, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, November 21, 17 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Andrew Alling | 9:00 PM, Tuesday, November 21, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Part of the weekly study group series.

I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, November 21, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv) concert

11/15 Wednesday

Sofia Östling | 12:30 PM-1:15 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Midday Music for Organ: Guest On exhibition at the State of the Art Gallery through Nov. 26, is“Then and Now: organist Sofia Östling (Sweden) A Visual Exploration of Jazz.” The pieces are by Janet Byer Sherman and explore music by the Jesse Bennett Jazz Trio.

(Art: Janet Byer Sherman) Zin! Zin! Zin!: A Violin! | 4:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 Garden, and The Birds, and Symphoria East, Binghamton | The Harpur Jazz E Green St, Ithaca | This fun-filled, musicians offer chamber music Ensemble studies and performs musical storytime will bring to life interludes at beautiful Cross Creek big-band repertoire and appears the acclaimed picture book, Zin! Zin! Nursery in Manlius. frequently on and off campus.

Zin!: A Violin! by Lloyd Moss. Zin! Zin! Adrian Legg | 7:30 PM, Friday, Joe Bonamassa | 8:00 PM, Thursday, Zin!: A Violin! introduces readers to November 17, 17 | Trumansburg November 16, 17 | State Theater Of ten instruments, all taking part in a Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | (Blues, musical performance. at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Rock) Mary Stucky, mezzo-soprano Award-winning fingerstyle guitarist.

Organ duo recital | 8:00 PM, and Rodney Stucky, lute and Cornell University Wind Symphony Thursday, November 16, 17 | Anna guitar | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, | 8:00 PM-, Friday, November 17, 17

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Strawbs: Hero & Heroine Tour | 8:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer |

11/18 Saturday

Ithaca Community Orchestra | 4:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | This concert will feature two young artists and is in collaboration with Opus Ithaca.

Cornell Chamber Singers | 7:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Cornell Chamber Singers; Stephen Spinelli, conductor presents Re-Formation, a community-wide celebration of music as a catalyst for change, with guest vocal ensemble Variant 6.

Jimmy Web | 7:30 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Palace Theater, 2384 James St, Syracuse | Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox | 8:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Postmodern Jukebox creates vintagestyle covers of modern popular music.

Combining swing and funk vibes, the band first reach stardom through YouTube.

11/19 Sunday

George Winston | Sunday, November 19, 17 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Cornell Chamber Orchestra | 3:00 PM-, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor.

Dark Star Orchestra | 8:00 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Dark Star Orchestra continues the Grateful Dead concert experience.

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas | 8:00 PM-, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Folk)

11/20 Monday

Cornell Music: Piano trio | 8:00 PM-11:59 PM, Monday, November 20, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Piano trio featuring Miri Yampolsky (piano) with guests Xiao Dong Wang (violin) and Zvi Plesser (cello).

Film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 5:30 PM-, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El

Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise — and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues and drinking buddies.

The Godfather | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Movie starts at 7 with trivia for prizes during intermission.

attend college in England will absolve the years he regrets spending in the country.

Bottle Rocket | 9:45 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Fresh from a mental institution, Anthony joins his pathetic neighbor Bob on an ineptlyexecuted string of heists planned by the so-called brains of the outfit, Dignan (a young Owen Wilson), in this

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Friday, 11/03 to Thursday, 11/09. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times

The Destruction of Memory w/ filmmaker Tim Slade | 7:15 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Based on the book The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan, the film examines the alarming rise of cultural destruction, the intentional annihilation of irreplaceable artwork, artifacts, historical sites and their stewards in desperate attempts to erase collective history and identity over the last century.

Graduation w/ intro by Saviana Condeescu | 7:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Doctor Romeo Aldea thinks that his daughter Eliza’s ability to leave Romania to

comedic caper flick.

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The Killing of Sacred Deer |Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister. | 121 mins R | Lady Bird | The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year. | 93 mins R | Wonderstruck | The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection. | 116

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Wednesday, 11/15 , to Tuesday, 11/21. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Thor Ragnarok | Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization.| 130 mins PG-13 Wonder | Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. | 113 mins PG Daddy’s Home Two | Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.| 100 mins PG-13 Murder on the Orient Express | A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery.

From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of

thirteen stranded strangers & one man’s race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. | 114 mins PG-13 Murder on the Orient Express | A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery.

From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man’s race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. | 114 mins PG-13 LBJ | The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.| 98 mins R A Bad Mom’s Christmas | A Bad Moms Christmas follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. | 104 mins R Jigsaw | Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for ten years. | 91 mins R | Only the Brave | Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.| 133 mins PG-13 | Blade Runner 2049 | A young blade runner’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for 30 years. | 203 mins R Kingsman: The Golden Circle | When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. These two elite secret organizations must band together to defeat a common enemy. | 141 mins R Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween | Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed.| PG-13 | Happy Death Day | A college student must relive the day of her

Scott Bradlee’s PostModern Jukebox

Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca Friday, Nov. 17, through Sunday, Nov. 19

The State Theatre of Ithaca, Saturday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m.

The holidays are coming up, and so is the stress of holiday shopping. Regional wineries are making things easier wtih a weekend-long shopping spree. At Six Mile Creek, Treleaven, Long Point and Montezuma Wineries, you’ll get a souvenir wine glass, a grapevine wreath, an ornament at each stop, a shoppers card, wine and food.

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Take a trip back in time with the performance of Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. The group reinvents favorie pop hits with a retro twist. The band first received recognition through its videos on YouTube, and they’re now touring worldwide.

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mins PG | Goodbye Christopher Robin | A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne. | 107 mins PG | The Florida Project | Set over one summer, the film follows precocious 6-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World. | 111 mins R Loving Vincent | In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. | 94 mins PG-13 Captains Courageous | A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he’s made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work. | 117 mins

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Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Thanksgiving Luncheon and Monthly Meeting | 1:00 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Turkey will be provided, please bring a side dish or dessert to share, and your own table service. Included this year is a silent auction that includes Finnish military apparel, Finnish artwork, Finnish China Victory Dishes and a Pentaque Lawn Game. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Finger Lakes Finns Scholarship Fund.

murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer’s identity.| 96 mins PG-13 Justice League| Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. | 121 mins PG-13 The Star | A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas. | 86 mins PG

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Special Events

Dark Star Orchestra will perform 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, at The State Theatre of Ithaca. The orchestra is known for covering and recreating Grateful Dead hits. (Photo provided) baked goods. Contact Arron Bound by telephone at (607) 844-1500 or by email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com.

Alcestis | 2:30 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Cornell University, Black Box Theatre - The Schwartz Center, 430 College Ave 14850 (10/19) RhodesRawlings Auditorium, 232 East Ave 14853, Ithaca | The Department of Classics and the Ancient Theater Performance Group of Cornell University present Alcestis, in English translation.

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Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m.

Democratic Congressional Candidate Forum | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | Space at Greenstar, 700 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | The Tompkins County Democratic

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Warren Miller’s Line Of Descent | 6:30 PM-, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Travel the globe, by land, air, and sea, exploring the ties that bind us. Learn more at warrenmiller.com.

Open Mic @ Kilpatricks Publick House | 9:00 PM-11:55 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Kilpatricks Publick House, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | Songwriter, Instrumentalists, Poets, Storytellers, Comedians, Magicians, Creators alike.

Every Brilliant Thing | Thursday, November 16, 17 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | In Every Brilliant Thing, a young boy attempts to ease his mother’s depression by creating a list of everything worth living for. Through adulthood, as the list grows, he learns the deep significance it has on his own life.

Cooking with the Calamari Sisters | Thursday, November 16, 17 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | An annual production put on at the Auburn Public Theater. Through Saturday.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show.

Open Mike Night | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Come share your songs, stories, poems and enjoy your favorite coffee or tea and delicious homemade

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Committee, in cooperation with the Tompkins County League of Women Voters, will hold a forum for all seven Democratic challengers in the 23rd District. Space is limited; the event will also be livestreamed at http:// tiny.cc/democraticny23debate.

Lifelong: Crafts & Collectibles Sale | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | With the holiday season approaching, what better way to get in the spirit than with a crafts and collectibles sale. Interested in showcasing at this event? Please call Lifelong at 273-1511 to reserve a table or fax in the space reservation form to 607-272-8060. Also on Saturday.

Family group Square Dance Fundraiser | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Lehman Alternative community School, 101 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Come out to the Lehman Alternative Community School and kick up your heels to the tunes of the West Hillbillies, with Nancy Spero calling the squares.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker

Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Forest Home Chapel Pie and Craft Sale! | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Forest Home Chapel, 224 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca | What began as a Drive-By Pie Sale last year, has now become a Pie and Craft Sale, featuring homemade pies and crafts from specially selected local crafts people for the holiday gift giving season.

Recycling/Restring Event | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Hickey’s Music Center , 104 Adams Street, Ithaca | Musicians can bring in their old strings for recycling and have their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with new strings furnished

by D’Addario, for free. Details about the instrument string recycling program can be found: http://www. terracycle.com/en-US. Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Cayuga Medical Center Auxiliary at Trumansburg Fair Grounds: Doug’s Fish Fry. Call ahead 607-423-5996 (Oysters available today).

Royal Court’s Dragiversary Show

The Range, Ithaca, Thursday, Nov. 16, 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Cassanova’s Royal Court is celebrating its first anniversary as a drag collective. The Royal Court will be celebrating with The House of Merlot at The Range, which has become the home for Thursday-night drag shows in Ithaca.

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24th Annual Holiday Shopping Spree | Friday, November 17, 17 | Six Mile Creek Winery, Ithaca | Cross items off your gift list as you sample before you buy. You’ll get a souvenir wine glass, a grapevine wreath, an ornament at each stop, a shoppers card, wine and food!

Crafts and Collectibles Sale | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Meet the Creative People of Press Bay Alley Cocktail Party | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Press Bay Alley, 118 W Green Street, Ithaca | While enjoying the best party currently scheduled for all of Ithaca meet us the entrepreneurs, artists, craftspeople and creative thinkers of Press Bay Alley.

In-between periods of dancing and smoozing we will show you our latest work.

Harmonic Temple | 9:30 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Part of a monthly communal gathering of sound, vision, art, music and movement. Relax your mind and transform your soul on the dance floor to the sounds of DJ Nataraj.

St. Mary’s of the Lake Holiday Bazaar | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | St. Mary’s of the Lake Parish Center, 10th Street, Watkins Glen | Holiday Bazaar featuring a variety of vendors, food, raffles, cake booth, homemade baked goods, Santa’s Workshop for the kids, live alpacas,

Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive at noon.

Heavily Brewing’s 3rd Anniversary Party | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Come celebrate Heavily Brewing’s Third Anniversary Party, featuring The Overrated.

Celebration for the Turkeys | 1:30 PM-8:30 PM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Farm Sanctuary, 3136 Aikens Rd, Watkins Glen | Spend time with farm animals, see turkeys enjoying a Thanksgiving feast, eat a catered Thanksgiving meal at the Harbor Hotel in Watkins Glen and bid on items at the silent auction.

Books Come Write In | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites aspiring novelists of all ages to Come Write In, and get started during the Library’s annual writing workshops in celebration of National Novel Writing Month.

Meet the Author Event with Former Congressman Robert Mrazek, David Nelson Wren, Sharon Sassler & Michael Barakiva | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Featuring regional favorites like former congressman Robert Mrazek, David Nelson Wren, Sharon Sassler, Michael Barakiva and more.

Learning Girls Who Code | Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The 10 week club is designed for girls in grades 6-12. No prior computer skills or experience are necessary.

Finding Flow: Dance and Somatics Class | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, Ithaca | Delve into the many dimensions of fluid physicality, embody the capacity for dynamic change and heighten your readiness to respond through your reflexes.To register find information at info@insitudance.org.

Guest Artist Master Class | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Guest Artist

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Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca Thursday, Nov. 16, 7-9:45 p.m.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of those whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.

We will be remembering those who have been killed in 2017 because of their perceived gender identity and/or expression.

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Science Cabaret | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Scientist Josue San Emeterio, a graduate student in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, will guide attendees in an exploration of electricity with demonstrations of Tesla coils, cathode ray tubes, electromagnets and more.

Invasive Aquatic Species | Thursday, November 16, 17 | Finger Lakes Institute, 601 Main Street, Geneva | Join Emily Staychock, Cornell Cooperative Extension Watershed/ Environmental Educator to learn the impact these invasive species have on the region and the programs that have been developed to halt their growth.

Black Ash Basket Making | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Arnot Forest, 611 County Rd 13, Cayuta | Explore the process of making Adirondack pack baskets from the beautiful black ash tree with Primitive Pursuits.

Silver Needles Machine Knitters Monthly Meeting | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Cortland Masonic Lodge, 1883 Rt 13 North, Cortland | Please note new meeting location. Bring any kind of machine to work on a group or individual project, get help, and learn from club members.

Visit www.fingerlakesknitting.com/ silver_needles_knitting_club for details and information.

Beginner Belly Dance | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, November 20, 17 | Finger Lakes Fitness Center Incorporated, 171 E State St Ste 115, Ithaca | Experience the fun and expressive art of belly dance. All are welcome and no experience is necessary.

Freeing Your Voice | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, November 21, 17 | Ahimsa Ashram, 125 West Green St, Ithaca | Engage in exercises that support health, vibrancy and vocal stamina. Explore toning and movement practices that open us to life force energy. Experience the uniting and uplifting nature of simple multicultural songs. Embrace the joy of vocal improvisation over live drumming

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ress Bay Alley, just around the corner from The Commons, has become a home for local artists and craftspeople. With shops such as Amuse, Boxy Bikes and Nothing Nowhere; the community space of Circus Culture; and the workshop of Ithaca Generator, the alley is packed with passionate artists and creators.

Despite so much local fare in one concentrated spot, the alley is still an alley, overlooked and overshadowed by the towering community of artists and entrepreneurs. Aware of this disparity, one of Ithaca Generator’s founding members created an event to familiarize Ithacans with the creatives of Press Bay Alley.

Laurence Clarkberg was instrumental in designing the event, “Meet the Creative People of Press Bay Alley Cocktail Party,” which will consist of a series of presenta-

Fight Against Hackers, Attackers, and Other Threats | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 17 | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, 215 Garden Ave , Ithaca | The 2017 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture features Christopher Painter. In his talk, Painter will describe how cybersecurity has metamorphosed from a niche issue of interest to technical experts to a core concern for national security, economic security, human rights and foreign policy.

A Century of Observing | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, Friday, November 17, 17 | Appel Commons, third floor, North Campus, Cornell University, Ithaca | For a hundred years, Fuertes Observatory has inspired Cornell undergraduates and visitors to investigate the mysteries of the skies.

The facility, which was inaugurated in 1917, honors beloved faculty member Prof. Estevan Fuertes.

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tions by local creatives 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, in Press Bay Alley. There will also be opportunities to mingle with and get to know the artists in Press Bay over drinks.

Clarkberg said one of the main reasons why locals are unfamiliar with those in Press Bay is largely because no one has had many chances to meet the faces behind the work. Ithacans pass through Press Bay, but many haven’t met the creatives who make the work happen.

“I thought rather than sell the product, sell the vendors themselves as people who make beautiful things and are doing great things in the community,” Clarkberg said. “So you aren’t just buying the product, you’re supporting a person. In order to do that, you need to have some sort of event to meet the people.”

Caleb Harrington, owner of Nothing Nowhere and a speaker at the event, said Press Bay is the “most micro of microcosms,” and getting to know such a specific community can be difficult — especially if you aren’t someone who spends much time in Press Bay. He also said Ithaca is known as an arts community on a surface level, but for many Ithacans, understanding the artists and the community is often pushed aside.

“You have a lot of local small businesses, but at the same time, you have these large sprawling malls in and around the area,” Harrington said. “ … People think of Ithaca as kind of arts and culture hub for upstate New York. But inside of the

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Body Bar Fitness Class | 8:30 AM, Saturday, November 18, 17 | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, November 19, 17 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect.

Art Pedro Huamani: National Native American Heritage Month | Wednesday, November 15, 17 |

Victoria Hantout’s wool creations. She is one of the featured creatives. (Photo provided) community, it feels like it can get forgotten about.”

Ithacans will now have the chance to meet the artists, further closing the gap between large and small businesses — just

Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | Pedro Huamani’s exhibition features paintings that examine the mysticism of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic influence in pre-Columbian Peruvian art.

New Handwerker Gallery Art Exhibits | Thursday, November 16, 17 | Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Another Time, featuring works by Anna Von Mertens exploring the rifts and connections between past and present; Objects & Apparitions, featuring photographs

by Christine Elfman exploring the temporal wane of objects, images and memory; and Stay Awhile: A Cabinet of Curiosities from Collections of Ithaca College, featuring objects and specimens from across the college placed in a curiosity cabinet, inviting viewers to pause to appreciate the interplay between Ithaca College and the world that surrounds it.

The exhibits open on Nov. 1 and run through Dec. 17 in the Handwerker Gallery.

The World Bewitch’d: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell

Collections | Friday, November 17, 17 | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | The exhibition features rare and unique books and documents from 15th-century witch hunting manuals to 20th-century movie posters and it examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands.

Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings | Saturday, November 18, 17 | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | More than sixty impressions from across Rembrandt’s oeuvre will show the artist’s process, including how he made changes to his plates and detail his use of a variety of printing supports. Works from the collections of Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Syracuse and Yale Universities, Oberlin and Vassar Colleges, the University of Kansas, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections will feature subject matter ranging from portraits and self-portraits to genre scenes, religious narratives,

landscapes, study plates and academic nude studies.

Marjorie Hoffman | Sunday, November 19, 17 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Marjorie Hoffman will be exhibiting her new mosaic works at Madeline’s on the Commons. The show extends until Nov. 26.

Then and Now: A Visual Exploration of Jazz | Sunday, November 19, 17 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | An exhibition of paintings and drawings

by Janet Byer Sherman.This work was inspired by music of the Jesse Bennett Jazz Trio.

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

The Big Takeover, Viva Mayhem

The Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, Through Dec. 11

The Haunt, Ithaca Friday, Nov. 17, 9 p.m.

In Every Brilliant Thing, a young boy attempts to ease his mother’s depression by creating a list of everything worth living for. Through adulthood, as the list grows, he learns the deep significance it has on his own life. Visit the Kitchen Theatre’s website for more information about showtimes and tickets.

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The Big Takeover merges punk, ska and Jamaican music all in one. Each of the group’s songs is original, with a spin on what traditional music is typically thought of.

Viva Mayhem will also be joining The Big Takeover. Viva Mayhem is based out of Ithaca, and the band performs a mix of ska and punk.

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