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Last Year is Over Building on their successful 2016-17, Cornell women prep for season opener.

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he Green Street Garage proper t y is now i n t he hands of the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency after a vote at last week’s Common Council meeting confirmed the transfer.

More intriguing than the actual legislative action, though, was the public comment segment of the meeting, specifically those brought by a local consultant working as a public relations representative.

An Ithaca development scene veteran, Vicki Taylor Brous is best known as a spokesperson for the long-awaited $45 million Harold’s Square mixed-use housing project. According to the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, the 114-apartment building on the Commons is set to commence demolition and subsequent construction in the near future after years spent in a holding pattern to secure financing and tweak project specifics.

The building would be basically adjacent to the proposed Green Street Garage redevelopment.

Brous stated three main objections during the meeting which centered on an allegation that, with the property transfer resolution set to take place, the City of Ithaca was violating New York State’s segmentation laws: a complex set of rules that boil down to forbidding slicing up parts of a project in order to bypass environmental review. Think of it as if a landowner has 100 acres and wants to build 100 houses. Instead of proposing the entire project at once, they would propose it in smaller pieces to lower the potential environmental impact of each proposal, making it easier for a project to receive approval.

Here’s where things get technical. Certain circumstances can legally warrant a “segmented review” if the lead agency, in this case Common Council, provides evidence that the project’s development future is too speculative to be certain, might not actually happen, or is independent of the current action. Since this was only a property transfer, the city considered the proposal to meet those three criteria.

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ith the sky threatening rain, a number of volunteers trudged down Ithaca’s Bank Alley with 1.5 cubic foot bags of soil hefted on their shoulders, plopping them down on the ground to fill several new planters abutting the fountain.

Shorter than the last ones, these planters were nothing too special: movable, brown and durable, they’re much shorter than the last ones – allowing you to see the city’s nearly halfmillion dollar masterpiece – and today, are now filled with the same beautiful plantings so characteristic of the rest of the city’s downtown.

But the soil in those planters – the thing people are likely to notice least – might be the most special thing about them.

These planters were being

filled with a special blend of soil made by local premium soil company Greentree, a company whose scientific roots allow for soils to be engineered specifically to certain growing environments.

Greentree, owner and soil scientist John Gaunt says, is founded on technologies with a relevance to the world around us, one supportive of everything from the local food ecosystem to making whatever dent it can in the global issue of climate change.

The secret is in the ingredients. The company’s soil blends use things like coconut coir – a byproduct of coconut production – as an alternative to peat, a natural carbon sink preserved, Gaunt said, as the company’s small contribution to the climate change equation. The particular blend being laid on the Commons was

T a k e ▶ Handwerker Gallery turns 40 this year. Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year by showcasing several special exhibitions throughout the semester, each connected by an overarching theme: “Shapes of Time.”

The first exhibitions to kick off the celebration came from art professor Susan Weisend and local artist Leslie Brack. Both exhibits are now open and will

John Gaunt examines his soil as they fill the planters on the Commons last week.

a soil called Ithaca Blend, one tailor made for the Ithaca climate blended with a material called biochar: a carbon sequestration strategy contained in the soil that influences the amount of carbon returned to the air through photosynthesis.

“Which is exciting for anyone who cares about climate change,” Gaunt said.

But then there are the subtle interactions between plant and soil, where a nutrient balance tuned to facilitate improved fertility in each individual plant is employed in conjunction with the environment in which they are planted, engineered in a way that provides the appropriate nutrients for certain plants to maintain their hardiness in particular climates.

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run through Oct. 18.

Upcoming exhibits in the “Shapes of Time” series include Anna Von Mertens’ “Another Time,” Christine Elfman’s “Objects & Apparitions” and “Stay Awhile: A Cabinet of Curiosities from Collections of Ithaca College,” which includes a collection of objects and specimens found across the Ithaca College campus. Each exhibit runs from Nov. 1 through Dec. 17.

Handwerker Gallery was founded in 1977 by Ithaca College Board of Trustees member Murray Handwerker. The gallery has featured over 200 exhibitions from an array of international artists, as well as artwork from Ithaca College students.

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“The Stranger”

By C a se y Mar tin

If you could watch the World Series with one person (dead or alive) who would it be?

Corey Hammon, a native of Blaine, Minnesota, sits on the sidewalk outside of the Aurora Street Garage last week. Here by way of San Francisco, he hitchiked to Ithaca via a kind stranger from Rochester. He could be found last week asking the questions “What of this?” and “And then what?” of random strangers on the sidewalk.

When asked why, he responded: “Because I like to perplex people.” He said he likes it here.

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“Meadowlark Lemon.” ­—Eliot Thomas

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City Ups Spending, Calls Out Cornell

“Michelle and Barack Obama!” ­—Annie Eller

I “Mel Brooks. He is the funniest -- that would be a fun game!” ­— Chris Peterson

thacans tired of paying higher taxes may have some extra rea son to celebrate New Years this year.

The property tax rate will stay the same at $12.04 per $1000 of value. It is the second time the tax rate has remained the same since 2001, and the fifth year in which it has not increased. The mayor also noted it is the lowest overall tax rate since 2003.

The city’s total tax levy, or total amount received by the city through property ta xes, will increase by $621,508 or 2.8

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“My Dad – he gets really pumped about the World Series and he puts up with my stupid questions.” ­—Winnie Ho

“Anyone who wasn’t around to see the Cubs win the series last year. That would be a trip!” ­—Ivan Rios

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To counter, Brous claims since the city has laid out a relatively specific set of intentions for the site’s future development and that the project’s future really isn’t very speculative at all. The city’s list of demands, so to speak, is indeed fairly particular: a conference center, around 350 units of housing of which “a substantial amount” must be made affordable, street-level active use on Green Street, retention of the Cinemapolis movie theater and at least 450 parking spaces total from the garage renovations.

Beyond that, she feels that because Ithaca Properties, LLC approached the IURA and discussed an initial proposal which got the ball rolling on this current redevelopment effort originally,

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percent from last year. That is under the state’s tax cap of 2.94 percent. This was attributed to the city’s total taxable assessed value increasing from $1.84 billion to $1.90 billion.

“Mostly it’s because we’ve grown,” Myrick said. “We can keep the rate the same, and that new value means we can still do what we want this year.”

Along with an urge for higher state aid (Ithaca’s aid from New York State has stagnated between $2 and $3 million since 2010), Myrick also renewed his criticism of Cornell’s massive tax-exempt property, which represents 85 percent of the total tax-exempt property in the city and, according to the Mayor’s presentation, is worth more than all of the taxable property in the city.

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the IURA’s selection process for the site’s “preferred developer” does not present a fair chance for other interested developers, like her client David Lubin, to potentially contend for the rights.

With her obvious attachments to the nearby development, Brous can’t honestly be called a neutral actor. She was also involved with the defunct Campus Advantage housing project, which had previously been planned for the site that will soon be the City Centre apartment building. She feels that project received much more scrutiny, and earlier in its process, than the Green Street Garage redevelopment has so far.

She acknowledged that her work with Harold’s Square influenced her decision to come forward publicly, though she also maintained that her motivation was at least in part due to concern as a private citizen.

The process has drawn mild ire from local developers, including Todd Fox of Visum Development and Lubin himself. Both appeared before the city’s Planning and Economic Development Committee last month to ask for a more cautious and transparent approach to developing the site, echoing some of Brous’ sentiments about fairness as well.

IURA Director Nels Bohn said in an email he agrees the project should undergo a full Environmental Assessment Form due to its proximity to the Commons, which is a national historic district, but he disagreed with the other points Brous asserted.

Some of Brous’ objections deal more with what she views as improper procedural operations rather than legal violation. There is going to be a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the IURA, which would theoretically provide

Tiny Uptick In Town Taxes

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pending will be going up again in the Town of Ithaca this year, an upsetting fact for any average homeowner up in arms over the additional $3 more in property taxes they’re set to pay this year.

In the preliminary town budget released on Thursday, a small tax increase of 0.21 percent was announced to help fund an additional $850,609 in spending over the 2017 budget, a number come to largely to support more than 9 percent increases in personnel costs ($534,270 over last year)

and personal services ($348,825 over last year.)

Though the increase in taxes is small (about $3 – bringing the average tax bill to $1,403 for an owner of a $190,000 house), the property tax rate is actually going down from a rate of 2.165 percent last year to 1.87 percent this year. However, the property tax levy overall is rising at a rate of 5.09 percent, exceeding the New York State Property Tax Cap of 2 percent, which the Town of Ithaca elected to override back in August – a routine occurrence in the town’s budget-making process. A public hearing on the decision was held the same day, August 7, with nobody in attendance.

A public hearing on the budget will be held on Oct. 16 at Ithaca Town Hall. the “level playing field” that Brous is calling for in terms of allowing other developers to compete for the right to the project. But Brous’ contention is that the field is inherently askew: the parameters the city has requested be included in any submitted proposals were spurred on by the initial proposal from Ithaca Properties.

At this point, the proposal and negotiation process seems poised to continue as scheduled Though it was not mentioned in her public comments at the meeting, Brous did not rule out her client, the Harold’s Square project, bringing a lawsuit against the city over the matter when interviewed.

“I’m not sure we can speak to that at this time,” she said, noting that other developers could also decide legal action is the best recourse.

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he actions of the teachers to hide and protect children at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 have become folklore to this point, a tragic but profound example of bravery in the face of a mortifying crisis.

For most, the teachers’ heroics live on in the countless accounts of what happened t hat day.

For some, like Leanora Erica Mims, the stories have motivated

action.

Mims, a fabric artist by trade who a lso teaches about t he Underground Railroad through her craft in the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) system, was so moved while listening to a lecture by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, who saved her 15 first-graders by keeping them quiet while the attack unfolded, that she wanted to bring the mes-

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the sprawling district (the geographic size of which is around the size of New Jersey) on foot in order to “better understand the voters and the issues they view most important.”

Ten days into his trek Friday afternoon, Golden estimated he had knocked out approximately 170 of the journey’s 450 miles.

Broken down (assuming he had run about 70 percent of the distance), Golden estimates he has averaged somewhere around 12 minutes pace per every mile, enduring days that can hold anywhere between seven and 25 miles on foot.

“So far, the legs are holding up,” he said from the road last week. “Yesterday, I really started feeling it for the first time. The back half of it will probably be spent walking.”

He works to stay as on-schedule as possible (that aspect of a traditional campaign remains) with events set in place ahead of time and, at the end of the day, he’s gotten a lift home to Ithaca to be able to see his daughters

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uilding buzz and getting face time with your prospective constituency is hard as an upstart candidate for the United States Congress, especially when that constituency is spread across nearly 7,400 square miles.

One of Tompkins County’s two congressional candidates (three, if you count Cornell cybersecurity expert Tracy Mitrano, who kicked off her campaign last week) has been trying to do just that in 30 days. And he’s been doing it on foot.

E a r l i e r t h i s m o nt h , I a n Golden, a local entrepreneur and former All-American dista nce r unner at It haca College, announced he would be be traveling 450 miles across

Leanora Erica Mims (Photo: Casey Martin)

sage to her community.

Luckily, she didn’t have to look far for an opportunity to do so, eventually finding a connection with Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit organization formed by parents of victims of the 2012 shooting that took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children.

The group provides scholarship funding and a network to fight both school violence and gun violence, two causes Mims identifies with strongly. Additionally,

they have organized three different week-long events throughout the year to push variations of this message, which is how Mims jumped on board.

Schools nat ionw ide have agreed to take part in the scheduled programs, but the upcoming Say Something Week to be held in DeWitt Middle School from Oct. 16th to the 20th would be the first of its kind in Tompkins County. Mims hopes to hold similar future events at Dryden High School, Newfield High School and New Roots School in Ithaca early next year as well.

The week is full of events built on one foundational fact: according to Sandy Hook Promise and cited in other research, 80 percent of school shooters had told at least one person of their plans prior to the act but even so, nothing was done to stop it. The program is designed to put more of the onus on and empower students to speak up if they see or hear something troublesome from a classmate. Mims said it’s meant to make students more comfortable with reacting to certain warning signs they may encounter from their classmates, such as posts on social media, which could indicate future violence.

“What we’re trying to do is to educate children to take leadership positions within their school and in their community,” Mims said. “How they can take responsibility for their school environment and make change [...] and continued on page 10

Ups&Downs ▶ The City Of Ithaca For doing Indigenous People’s Day. Whatever you say about Columbus – who was actually imprisoned on his return to Spain for torturing prisoners in Hispaniola – we think it’s fair to give the day away after 80 years. And to those who say it’s an affront to Italian-American heritage, may we suggest the City of Ithaca implement Robert DeNiro Day as a work holiday instead?

That guy’s awesome. ▶ Aldi’s for giving us an incorrect press release (which we published) last week. They actually open Oct. 12.

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 ▶ The Guy Who Does Magic On The Commons has new duds: new suit, new hat.

This isn’t really something we heard or anything, we just wanted to say he looked pretty fly out there this week. ▶ Top Stories On Ithaca.com This Week Are:

1) As plans progress, a battle looms for historic Collegetown 2) Wrestling an Octopus 3) Ithaca congressional candidate to kick off campaign with 450 mile run 4) Soccer teams clinch title berths; volleyball scores 5) DIA: Harold’s Square demolition moving forward “soon”

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each night he can before setting off again the following day.

“The Alfred/Hornell neck of the woods will start to be tough, and hopefully people will be able to open up their couch or their f loor, or maybe I’ll just camp out.”

A r u n ner a nd a busi ness owner, Golden described the ef for t as a “genuine bridge” between people. But what it also serves as – in the modern social media-driven era of mass communication – is an attempt to tap into the virality of an out-

Ian Golden, meeting with voters out on the road. (Photo via Facebook)

Do you still shop at bookstores on a regular basis?

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L ast Week ’s Q uestion : S hould Common Council move to landmark the remaining historic buildings on C ollege Ave .?

of-the-box idea, an avenue to use the power of word of mouth (and the “share” button) to circumvent the more than milliondollar warchest assembled by Congressman Reed in a recordbre a k i ng f u nd r a i si ng ye a r.

According to the most recent filings with the Federal Elections Commission, the incumbent

72.7 percent of respondents answered “Yes” and 27.3 percent answered “No.”

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t’s been a fascinating year in the long canon of local politics.

Spurred largely by the shock of someone as coarse and unrefined as Donald Trump becoming president, numerous members of the community with so many varied stakes in its success – from nonprofit leaders to community activists – have suddenly rediscovered the principle of civic engagement, running for office at both the city and county level in unprecedented numbers.

This is an ideal tenet of a democracy – to get involved at its highest level – and for the everyman to make the transition from a role as civilian to public servant. This is stepping up as a representative of a constituency in its most intimate sense, choosing to open one’s self up to their neighbors to hear their chief concerns, letting the people who live next door; the street over; the other side of the ward, decide who among them is most suited to speak to the attitudes of their neighborhood.

But within those neighborhoods are also ward committees with limited memberships, each aligned with a specific political party that may not apply to all in the neighborhood. These are the groups, regardless of how small or tightly-knit the neighborhood may be, that offers the most cherished opinion of anyone’s in local politics: the gift of a com-

mittee endorsement, an established party infrastructure and several hundred dollars in extra campaign funding.

We argue that it’s time to do away with this practice.

Our first argument is the practice immediately prevents a barrier to access: While some may not be discouraged to run by failing to get their endorsement, it immediately presents a blow to the losing seeker’s credibility as a candidate, labeling them as “not good enough” in the eye of the established party. This is important, especially given the dynamics of voters in Tompkins County. Though roughly half of the voters in Tompkins County are Democrats, an additional quarter are unaff iliated. And though registration among Democrats has been growing (as well as the population of Tompkins County) since 1998, a new trend presents trouble ahead for the longevity of those numbers: among millennials (those born 1980 and later), voters with an independent affiliation have risen 8 percent nationwide between 2008 and 2016 according to the Pew Research Center. The same research also indicates their tendency to lean left has risen four points in that same time, to a 57 percent mark among the 18-35 year old demographic.

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Buy The Book I

opened i n midtow n ’ve gotten notice online – maybe you have too – from Buffalo Street Books Manhattan in 1920, closed in 2006. about an “emergency meeting” on Coliseum Books, in Manhattan since Thursday, October 12, at 7 p.m., “to help 1974, closed in 2007. Dutton’s Books in Los Angeles closed around the same determine the fate of our store.”

The notice went far and wide, pre- time after almost 50 years. Cody’s Books sumably. Buffalo Street Books is pub- in Berkeley, where Mario Savio once licly owned by hundreds of investors: worked and Allen Ginsberg, Maurice “Ithaca’s Community-Owned Coopera- Sendak, Muhammed Ali, Jimmy Carter, and Alice Walker spoke, closed in 2008. tive Bookstore,” as its website says.

I n 2 011, B u f f a l o S t r e e t B o o k s This emergency is not the first the store has faced. It was crisis that re-cre- announced its closing.

But in Ithaca, David bounced back, ated the store as a co-op from a private with a plan by bookbusiness in the first store stalwarts to save place, six years ago.

“There is no question Buffalo Street Books, The bookstore but that this beautiful by forming a cooperaopened in the Dewbookstore must survive. it t Ma l l i n 1981 a s It shows only health that, tive to buy it.

The plan worked.

The Bookery II. (The after six years, the store Bookery is a sibling asks for new help when it Hundreds of people s t o r e i n t h e s a m e needs it. You needed new united, raised money, and created an orgabuilding, specializhelp, didn’t you, after nization to maintain ing in rare books.) In birth, every six years or the store.

2009 the owner sold so?”

But t hat was si x the business to a new years ago – a fairly private owner, and the name changed, but the store looked and long time for any small business, especially a revamped one in a troubled felt much the same.

W hi le on t he su r face not much industry.

Now, it seems, the store is again on changed, the foundation of retailing bookselling had shifted mightily, with shaky ground, and a call for help is out the arrival of big box chain stores such among owners, and to prospective ones.

Any bookstore is an asset to any as Borders and Barnes and Noble, and community, but Buffalo Street Books is online sellers such as Amazon.

Goliath was winning and indepen- special. It’s a beautiful shop in the heart dent bookstores were waning. The death of downtown in an historic building list of victims was long and distressing.

The Got ha m Book Ma r t, which contin u ed on page 7

YourLetters Against A Constitutional Convention

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n November 7, 2017, a simple question will be asked of the citizens of New York State: “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend same?” The answer to this question is also simple.

Voters throughout the State should vote NO. Considering the risks, it is neither necessary nor prudent to open the New York State Constitution. As it stands, there is a relatively common, easy, and free way to amend the State Constitution. Any amendment must pass through two successively elected legislatures, then we the people vote in a referendum. We have amended the NYS Constitution over 200 times in our history. Additionally, with cost estimates for a possible Constitutional Convention ranging as high as 350 million taxpayer dollars, how can one say that we must follow this expensive and

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unnecessary path? If there are changes necessary, then it is time for elected officials to do their jobs and amend the Constitution without tearing our existing document to shreds and rolling the dice on a new law of the land.

Many well intentioned good-government organizations have mistakenly labeled the Constitutional Convention as a “people’s convention.” However, if a Constitutional Convention were approved, three delegates from each NYS Senate District would be elected to the Convention. Who is more likely to be elected to these positions? Honest noble citizens, with jobs, families, and personal lives to attend to? Or politicians, career bureaucrats, and lobbyists who already have political networks, campaign experience, and cash on hand to run a race? History is clear on this question. At the last Constitutional Convention in 1967, 4 out of 5 Convention delegates were career politicians and Albany insiders. Additionally, the convention was led by sitting legislators.

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where Moosewood Restaurant and other important local businesses reside.

On its website, the store describes itself as “a downtown resource” with “a comprehensive and eclectic inventory.” The store partners with many civic groups engaged in education and literacy issues. It regularly holds artistic events and author readings.

A few years ago I wrote and selfpublished a humble little book and took it to Buffalo Street Books to sell. They have a nice section of local authors and now I am there with a number of writers I don’t deserve to be among.

Beyond this honor, the store asked if I would like to promote the book with a reading. I said sure, and we scheduled it.

They didn’t tell me that in addition to publicizing it online and in local papers and providing the space and a lectern and microphone and setting up a bunch of seats, they would also film it.

(I wish I had known, because I would have cut my hair, or at least combed it.)

Anyway, it was a nice surprise. The store featured the reading on their website a while and then posted it on Youtube, where it remains, with hundreds of hits.

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The book is also available for sale to the wide world on Amazon, but I can tell you Amazon has not offered me any promotional opportunities.

It’s hard to know what the answers will be for Buffalo Street Books. It’s even hard to think of what the questions will be. But that’s what this public forum is for, to start thinking and planning together.

There is no question but that this beautiful bookstore must survive. It shows only health that, after six years, the store asks for new help when it needs it. You needed new help, didn’t you, after birth, every six years or so?

Wit h a l l t he k no c k s bac k w a rd this country has taken lately, we need every show of cultural and community strength we can muster. Sometimes you look at the news and despair about where we are going and what anyone can do. Keeping this bookstore, the last independent one we have, is a good local goal which you can help now.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.

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who are sitting in Albany to rewrite the legal document that governs every other law currently on the books and any law that will come after? No, we do not and this is why we must vote no on November 7.

Finally, we must all remember that we live in a post-Citizens United world.

If a Constitutional Convention is held, special interest groups and their wellfunded, well-trained lobbyists will flood New York State. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent in an effort to influence the outcome of the convention. The Convention will be seen as the perfect “case study” for every left, right, and center think-tank from Albany, to Washington, to Silicon Valley and back.

Let’s keep these lobbyists at home and vote no this November 7.

For our taxpayers, for our citizens, for our children, for our future, we must reject the Constitutional Convention by turning our ballot over and voting no on Proposition 1 this November 7.

–Chris Sielaff Binghamton Editor’s Note: Union spending on lobbying against a convention, so far, far outweighs any money being put into any existing campaign to urge voters to vote yes. And, no matter how well-funded a group would be, the economic feasibility of pumping money into multiple local delegate races in every district (that’s 189 seats) has been labeled my most editorial boards to endorse the proposal as a fearmongering argument.

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am writing to express my support for Laura Lewis for the City of Ithaca Fifth Ward Common Council. I am a resident of the Fifth Ward and I’m also an urban planning consultant. In the latter capacity, I’ve watched Laura at work in her role on the board of directors and on committees for Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services.

When I heard Laura was running for this common council seat, I was thrilled. Laura cares deeply about key issues such as affordable housing for people of modest means and even middle means who are being priced out of the private housing market in Ithaca.

And because of her years of experience volunteering and leading INHS, she knows the challenges, the solutions, the funding sources, the builders, the ways to authentically engage with neighborhood residents, and how to navigate the regulations at the national, state and local levels. She works with INHS staff to manage all of these variables to get beautiful homes built that add to the character of the community but are affordable to the people who live there.

This is not easy, and Laura is already on the leading edge of the possibilities.

Beyond the specific issue of affordable housing, I am glad Laura is running because in every situation I see her in, she’s the “grown-up” in the room. She has a unique ability to facilitate discussion among disparate groups and frame issues in ways that allow everyone to contribute their best and feel great about the process and the outcome. Leaders like Laura are rare and we need them to help us effectively tackle every issue in our community.

Laura can always be seen volunteer-

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ing at neighborhood events like Porch Fest, and helping to organize community events like the Ithaca Women’s March. She is dedicated to showing up and rolling her sleeves up whether it’s at a City Council budget hearing or a Planned Parenthood Celebration, leading a board meeting or wo-manning a crosswalk.

I am so proud to support Laura and hope my neighbors will, too.

ly among a growingly progressive electorate, may no longer be a priority for many voters, especially those who are beginning to mature as a more inf luential demographic in the city. Given that, according to Cornell ’s Program on Applied Demographics, the county’s four largest age groups by population are between the ages of 14 and 29, this contingency is only maturing into the stage where civic engagement is highest:.

But it’s not just demographics that show the potential for a deemphasis on party politics is coming: in a liberal-leaning community that wholly endorsed the Bernie Sanders movement of 2016 (Sanders won 62 percent of Tompkins County’s vote against Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary), it’s clear the county as a whole, across all platforms, is willing to back a candidate whose substance defies party and who presents progressive ideas outside of traditional party frameworks.

They’ve proven they’re a constituency willing to take chances.

But party values loyalty, and endorsements based on history and loyalty present bad optics. One case study can be found in the race for a Common Council seat in the city’s Fifth Ward. While there is no doubt Laura Lewis – the ward’s longtime committee chair – has innumerable amounts of experience in local politics and would make a fine candidate for the city’s Common Council, an endorsement in this case, with numerous first time candidates, does little more than leverage fundraising from a monocultural political party to discourage others from running or continuing their campaigns.

Aryeal Jackson,a political newcomer, has proven herself an active and passionate individual who has long been a fixture in the city’s meeting rooms and Melissa Hall, also new to politics, offers the perspective of an average citizen that, for years, has been reluctant to make the jump to local politics. Keep in mind: a contribution of several hundred dollars from a committee, however small, can buy a lot of yard signs. That means a lot against someone from the neighborhood just trying to take their shot at making a difference.

Party endorsements, with this in mind, are not to be dismissed as a cutesie aspect of our political culture, some form of affirmation from a club where you either belong or you don’t. In a progressive town so clearly split in its definition of progressive politics, particularly in the Democratic party, this presents nothing more than an exclusionary practice in contradiction with the values of the local community. Ithaca is proving it is becoming one that doesn’t give weight to party values or traditional red and blue identities, that it’s becoming tired of the norm and wants to get engaged for the better.

Maybe it’s time to rest the machine a little while and give organic democracy a chance.

–Marcia Nedland City Of Ithaca

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ow fortunate we residents of Fall Creek and Cornell Heights have been these past two years, being represented on the Tompkins County Legislature by Anna Kelles. Her energy, commitment, and passion have propelled her to a vital role among her peers- introducing important national issues while not losing sight of vital local issues, and working to build consensus.

From helping to make Tompkins County one of the few sanctuary counties in the state, to fighting for the preservation of the Affordable Care Act, to insuring the maintenance of expert oversight of gas storage permitting, Anna has provided behind- the- scenes and out-in-front leadership.

As Chair of the County Board for five years, I know what it means to make hard decisions, and how important it is to communicate with all county residents. I can’t think of anyone better to provide that kind of representation on the Legislature than Anna Kelles.

–Barbara Mink City Of Ithaca

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ryeal Jackson listens. In discussion of controversial topics and ideas, she takes the time to understand different perspectives, analyzing sources and evidence referenced to support views across the spectrum.

This is why she has my wholehearted support as a candidate for the Common Council.

Aryeal has the courage to facilitate hard conversations that need to happen in our community. As a journalist, she has tackled divisive issues in her writing and her radio show, including a series on race and racism and analyses of community organizing connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Through interviews and thought-provoking questions, she brings the community into the conversation in a way that engages with complexity and illuminates ideas about the way forward. I have participated in these conversations with her both on and off the air, and her thoughtful approach to inquiry has consistently led to powerful learning, reflection, and action.

With her empathy and curiosity, Aryeal bridges divides and brings people together to seek solutions. She recognizes that the people impacted by policies need to be included in the political process and that marginalized voices need to be heard. Aryeal Jackson stands out as the right choice for the Common Council.

–David Rhodes City Of Ithaca

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“Last Year Is Over” Building on their successful 2016-17, Cornell women prep for season opener.

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t was a fairly quiet month of September in Lynah Rink on the Cornell University campus, not atypical for the time of year. The ice was laid down. The Cornell Hockey Association Welcome Picnic came and went. A book, “Forever Faithful: Celebrating the Greatest Moments of Cornell Hockey” made its way through the Cornell University Press and is set for release later this month.

As other hockey programs around the nation began their seasons – 2016-17 runner-up and No. 1 ranked Wisconsin has played six already – the defending Ivy League champion Cornell women’s hockey program lay dormant.

Well, in a way. Though full practices didn’t begin until Sept. 29, the Big Red have been on the ice skating and off the ice bonding. And when games do start up this month, particularly facing down an opening weekend against two of a fellow seven teams to make the 2017 NCAA national tournament, those

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two aspects that defined its offseason will combine nicely for the No. 7 ranked team in the nation.

“I think that [being closely knit] was a big reason for our success,” sophomore cocaptain Kristin O’Neill said during the first day of full practices last month in the Lynah Rink locker room lounge. “So I think this year, we’re really focusing on becoming unified and together as one team and I think that will really benefit us in terms of the season starting.”

O’Neill, named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and an ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year finalist, led the team in goals last season with 14 and is the leading point-getter returning (14 goals – 12 assists – 26 points).

She and another former ROY winner, Hanna Bunton ’17, led the Big Red to the Ivy title, their first solo title since 2012; a spot in the ECAC championship game, another first since a 2010-14 run; and an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament.

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Last year was a good year – hence that No. 7 ranking out of the gate – but, as head coach Doug Derraugh said, those polls are based on then and “last year is over.” Now an incoming class of seven has filled an outgoing class of five, the national rankings are filled with teams already in play and it’s go time on a new chase that Big Red faithful hope ends in Minneapolis at the Frozen Four.

“To win the Ivy League, to win the ECAC, those are all our goals,” said O’Neill, who is filling the captaincy alongside senior defensemen Erin O’Connor and Sarah Knee. “But just to get there we’re focused on the process right now. We don’t want to focus entirely on the end goal but we know it’s there. We can see that in the background.”

Cornell finished the 2016-17 campaign with a 20-9-5 mark, including a record of 13-4-5 in the ECAC (and 14-2-2 in front of the faithful at Lynah). The Big Red lost 1-0 to Clarkson in the ECAC title game and 3-1 to Clarkson the following week in the NCAA

Sophmore Kristin O’Neill, and Seniors, Sarah Knee and Erin O’Connor (Photo: Casey Martin)

quarterfinals.

“For us, I think it’s (key) to continue from where we left off from last year as far as our defensive work ethic (and) commitment to the defensive side of the game,” said Derraugh now in his 13th year at the helm of the program. “I think that we have to maintain that and continue to have that mindset going into this year but we also need to realize that in order for us to be successful this season we’re going to have to get more offense and that means more production offensively from everybody.”

Behind a core tandem of O’Connor, Knee, Hart and Sydney Smith ’17, the defense tallied five shutouts last season and allowed a total of three goals over six postseason games until the closing loss to Clarkson, which included a final-minute empty netter.

Cornell outscored opponents 82-57, winning four ECAC match-ups by three goals

or more. Top production came from Bunton (10-19—29), who will make a return to Lynah this week to line up against the Big Red in an exhibition game; O’Neill; the graduated Kaitlin Doering (10-6—16); Micah Hart (5-11-16), who is with Team Canada this season in the lead-up to the Olympics; and sophomore Jaime Bourbonnais (5-11—16). Only two of those players are back at Lynah for ’17-18, though seven of the top 10 leading scorers return.

“I don’t think that we’re a team that will rely on one line or one player to create all the offense for us. I think that’s going to have to be a total team effort,” Derraugh said. “So I think that’s the challenge for us as a coaching staff and as a team to find ways to create more offense overall. We’ve added a number of new freshmen who we think will help in that regard so we’re just excited to get going.”

For O’Neill, it’s about staying in the moment. That begins with a special opportunity Friday night in the team’s exhibition game.

It continues with a long regular season in a stacked ECAC and a postseason tournament to which they hope to make a repeat return.

The story lines to Cornell’s 2017-2018 hockey season: Continuously Growing the Game As her final collegiate season was crashing to a close, Bunton sat in one of the empty Lynah Rink locker rooms last February with three freshmen discussing their future. In regards to her own, she said she wanted to stay in hockey as much as she could for as long as she could.

Six months later, she donned more red as the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) expansion squad, the Vanke Reds, selected her with the 28th overall pick (fourth round) in the 2017 draft. She’ll return to Lynah Rink from the team’s base in Shenzen, China for a 6 p.m. showdown on Friday against the team she led in scoring last year.

It’s a requirement to play an international squad and while Cornell usually does so against a Canadian university, the schedule wasn’t lining up well for that this year.

“It was really just looking for a game that I thought would be a fairly good match for us, fairly competitive, and I think they’re taking some of the best players from the NCAA,” Derraugh said.

The Vanke Reds are one of two Chinese expansion teams playing in the CWHL as the country grows its hockey program in advance of the 2022 Olympic Games. Digit Murphy ’81, the player the school’s MVP trophy is named for, is coaching the other team, Kunlun Red Star. Combined the seven CWHL teams drafted 113 players from nine countries including the U.S., Canada, China, New Zealand and Turkey.

“I don’t know about the Chinese national players, how they compare to the top NCAA players, so that will be interesting,” Derraugh said.

The CWHL began paying its players this summer as well, joining the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) in doing so as there are now 11 professional women’s hockey teams in two leagues to which college hockey players can advance.

“The opportunity that she (Bunton) has right now is extremely, it’s just really cool to see women have that opportunity to make money while playing hockey,” said O’Neill, one of the freshmen with her in the locker room last February. “It’s something I may want to do in the future so it’s really cool to see her getting that opportunity. She was in my spot once. She probably never knew she’d get that opportunity after college so I’m really excited to see how her team does.”

My Hart is in Calgary The Big Red will go the year without would-be junior defenseman Micah Hart, who was one of 28 players selected for Canada’s centralization roster in Calgary as Team Canada prepares for the 2018 Olympic Games in the Pyeongchang.

“Certainly it’s a big loss for us but a great honor for her to have this opportunity to potentially play in the Olympics,” Derraugh said.

The team is practicing on a full-time basis with Hockey Canada and will be whittled down to a 23-player roster likely by late December. The games are Feb. 10 through 25 in the South Korean county 78 miles east of Seoul.

Hart was fourth on the team in points as both a freshman and sophomore. She had one goal and 17 assists as a freshman. The co-captain, Derraugh’s first sophomore to earn the role, had five goals and 11 assists last season with a plus/minus of seven.

“You don’t replace those kind of players that are Olympic-caliber players,” Derraugh said. “So not only will we miss her on the ice, but we’re going to miss her off the ice.”

As a “leader in many different ways for our team,” he said, her steady presence in both aspects and her leadership will be missed as she’s physically away from the team and campus for the year. They’ll look to fill her void with numbers, specifically from the new class, three of whom are defensemen.

O’Neill, who is now the second sophomore captain under Derraugh, said the team feels Hart behind them thanks to communication like tweets and texts to each other on the first day of practice.

“She’s a part of the 2020 class now, so [our class is] not missing out on her for a year,” O’Neill said. “We’ll have her for two more years, our class in general.”

“Yeah we’re going to miss her but I think we’ll be even more excited to have her back for two years.”

Seeing 2020 About that class. The seven-member class of 2020 made waves last season, especially early, and ended the season netting 42.1 percent of all goals scored. The six forwards and one defenseman had 37 of the team’s 82 goals, contributing a total 80 of the 206 points (38.83 percent).

Even in the midst of a stellar season last February O’Neill, Bourbonnais and Valérie Audet were adamant they wanted to avoid being complacent as they strive to continue working. Derraugh will look to them to beat what many dub the sophomore slump and help contribute to a team that looks to get points from all around. O’Neill, Bourbonnais and Amy Curlew make up three of the top five returning point-scorers. The other two are juniors Diana Buckley and Lenka Serdar.

Neighboring Talent Lindsay Browning is one of seven freshmen to make up the next Cornell University graduating class and her name might ring familiar. The 5-foot-3 goaltender is a product of Rochester-area Penfield High School in Section V and played on the boys varsity team. She had the most shutouts (five) and best goals-against average (1.50) going into the Section V Class A tournament this past winter, in which Penfield held the No. 1 seed for the first time in the program’s 45-year history.

Derraugh said he and his staff recruited the All-Greater Rochester selection, who won a state title with the U16 Buffalo Bisons in 2016, for similar reasons for which they recruit most players.

“We found that over the years the players that have really developed here at Cornell are ones that have developed that character and that have that discipline and work ethic and she certainly has all that,” Derraugh said.

“She also has really impressed us in the net.

So when you’re a goaltender that has the agility, the speed, the quickness that she has and then you combine it with the discipline, work ethic and commitment she has that usually makes for a very strong combination over four years.”

Browning will learn behind Marlène Boissonnault, a 5-foot-10 junior who had a 1.52 goals-against average in 13 games last season.

She was 10-1-2 in net with a .925 save percentage playing behind Paula Voorheis ‘17.

“She’s kind of been mothering me along and helping me catch up with the college level of athletics,” said Browning, who got a crash course in knee pads this preseason. “I’m happy to be her goalie partner because she shows, just watching her on the ice I can see Th e

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‘This I what I want to do now. I really want to do that like Marlène because she’s so good at it.’ And so even during our little goalie world sessions I just watch her and sort of figure out how to do things better.”

Stacking the ECAC There’s a lot of talent in the ECAC Cornell will have to battle it out with this season.

A team’s first task is always to get out of its conference as champion, earning one of four automatic bids given to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), Women’s Hockey East Association (WHEA), College Hockey America (CHA) and Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). The final four are at-large and based on a selection process.

Three teams of the eight in the tournament came out of the ECAC last season: Cornell and No. 4 St. Lawrence received at-large bids while No. 2 Clarkson won the conference and went on to win its second national title, the only non-Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) school to win one. Princeton (receiving votes), Quinnipiac and No. 8 Colgate were all at the top of the conference as well with 20-plus win seasons and conference win percentages over .610.

“I feel like it’s getting very exciting, the ECAC, because the league is getting stronger and stronger and the teams from top to bottom are very equal,” Derraugh said. “It’s making for very exciting games throughout and certainly makes the league standings very interesting once again.”

Women’s hockey has grown on the international, national, collegiate and youth levels over recent years: according to membership statistics from USA Hockey, registration for girls age 8 and under grew by 1,400 and has swelled to 76,000 players overall – about 10,000 players more than were registered in 2012. With that comes more parity, and Derraugh has seen the change over his decadeplus as the head of the women’s hockey program.

“I felt like there was a lot of disparity between teams 12 years ago. It was sort of, for lack of a better phrase, the have and the have nots,” Derraugh said. “Now I feel like from top to bottom if you’re not ready to play, you’re going to lose. So it’s nice to see women’s hockey get stronger and stronger. And the competition between the teams is getting closer and closer and narrower and narrower each season. It’s good for women’s hockey.”

Cornell will play the Red/White game Oct. 21 then will have to be ready to play the opening weekend with a top-caliber trip to the North Country: The Big Red open their season in Canton against St. Lawrence Oct. 27 and in Potsdam against reigning champion Clarkson Oct. 28. •

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what kinds of things can you do in your school to change the climate of your school to make it more inclusive.”

More generally, the goal of Say Something Week is to arm students with knowledge that can help them intervene in common school situations like bullying or alienation of other students; as Mims puts it, to make them “upstanders, not bystanders.” She wants students to have more agency to do something about potential problems they see among each other. Things like “Know Your Classmate Day,” held during Say Something Week, are aimed at breaking down the barriers among students in a notoriously clique-filled environment.

Mims’ personal touch on the week isn’t hard to spot either, in the form of her artistic background. She has been gathering materials from around the world and creating a hanging cloth to remind the students of their activities throughout the week. Other visual representations of the week, like a handprint collage, will be on display, something students can create themselves, hopefully taking ownership of its lessons -- another extension of the empowerment the program tries to instill.

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Congressman ended the month of June with more than $775,000 on hand; a number bolstered by more than $1 million in funds raised in the first six months of 2017. (The next most funds raised were by the committee to support Rick Gallant, who raised close to $29,000 in the campaign’s first six months.)

With the Congressman’s founding of the bipartisan, headline-making Problem Solver’s caucus, a healthy slate of Town Halls regularly held across the district and increasing popularity on the public affairs television circuit, that exposure is vital in order to build familiarity, especially competing against a field that has now expanded to 10 candidates. (Brian Clasby, of Enfield, as well as newcomers Karl Warrington and Charles Whalen have each filed with the FEC in the past several months).

“I don’t know how good it would be for any candidate to try and run a traditional campaign toe-to-toe against someone with so much money and so much media exposure, almost daily,” Golden said. “We’ve seen the shift in media, for better or for worse, where viral media hits tend to be more impactful for growing and creating a movement than something paid.”

He’s achieved that attention so far, even earning a mention in Capitol Hill-based newspaper, The Hill, a week ago and numerous mentions in the local press districtwide.

But the strategy and intent behind the campaign, Golden said, goes beyond the simple nature of a public relations stunt.

Golden, by his own estimate, has already spent 90 percent of his time outside Tompkins County to be sure he’s really reaching people outside the immediate network of the county, working on getting a “broader sense” of the issues facing NY-23 through whatever events he can attend, be it his prospective

“When they leave their school environment, this is something they can take with them,” Mims said. “Even whey they go to college, they can take these lessons. It gives them a chance to empower themselves, and have a sense of accomplishment.”

DeWitt Middle School’s principal, Mac Knight, said the idea spoke to his school’s efforts to promote and embrace diversity among students, and felt the program would fit DeWitt’s culture well. They are constantly looking for ways to combine classroom learning with lessons about the world that might not be obvious to its students yet, but with high school just around the corner, may soon penetrate their educational bubble.

For Mims, this may be just the beginning of her involvement with this type of additional educational efforts. She’s someone who admittedly struggles with some of the bureaucratic processes required of teachers to move up in the educational world, but this has given her a way to influence valuable change for, and work directly with, students.

“This is the level that I can do it on,” she said. “I’m not a political person, I can’t do that. But I’m good at this, it’s a way to work within the school system that makes sense to me and that empowers and values me and what I believe in.”

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rival’s town halls (which all the Democratic candidates have been known to follow) and various meet and greets across the district.

But what he’s also starting is what, demographically, will be a unique campaign as far as his strategy goes: the game, Golden says, is about recognition across the district writ large, regardless of party while the Democratic nomination to face Reed, with little money down from the party and few candidates having received endorsements, looms safely in the distance.

“The tendency going into a primary is to focus on the core primary people,” Golden said. “Chatting with Democratic committees, using the voter lists, you’re only connecting with Democrats. While that’s strategically valuable, it’s not really contributing to your overall perception of the district at large.”

What is also valuable, he acknowledges, is financing. With zero dollars reported to the FEC in the last filing, Golden admits, yes, he does need to raise some sort of money in order to put up legitimate competition.

But he said he believes his ethics, and ideals, should be the first priority and with it, the money will follow. He’s assembled a small staff: his campaign manager, Brian Batrowny, a member of the Board of Directors at New York Cannabis Alliance and former campaign manager for candidate and schoolteacher Rick Gallant – who’s focusing his energy on the school year and his job at Corning-Painted Post – came on board in mid-August and a friend is working as a marketing person while the rest of the staff, Golden said, is all volunteer: Golden stating with a full campaign field so early in the race he anticipated a reluctance for anyone to donate early on in numbers needed to sustain a full staff.

“I’m looking to be sensitive with my priorities, and with a genuine intent rather than being forced into some other model,” he said.

–Nick Reynolds

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Ithaca: A Techie’s Land Of Opportunity?

Three local success stories show national renown can come from even the smallest places

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t’s hard to go a week without running into some sort of article blaring the inspirational success of the local economy.

Where places once reliant on retail (Elmira) and manufacturing (Binghamton) have stagnated, Ithaca and Tompkins County have been touted as the rare success stories in a region rife with economic depression.

Long-bolstered by its regional hospital and its world class university (not to mention a pretty decent college on South Hill as well), the Ithaca economy has been bolstered not only by stable, high-paying jobs that are continuing to grow in abundance, but also in a healthy inflow of tourism helping to support a strong hospitality, service and retail sector as well.

But a sector with some of the highest potential for growth in the county may prove to be the economy’s safest bet for sustained success in the coming decades.

According to a review by Tompkins County Area Development back in January, the tech

sector – with an anticipated annual growth rate of 0.5 percent over the next decade – is expected to be one of the area’s highest gaining job sectors, one outgained only by educat ion (0.6 percent) and standing slig ht ly higher than t he c ou nt y ’s overall growth rate of 0.2 percent across all industries. This is thanks, in part, to a combination of replacement demand for workers to replace those retiring as well as new job growth, coming from a generally strong economy and spurred by local initiatives in tech and job retention.

But what the local economy has been for technology, for a long time, has been a font of opportunity, one where even the smallest startup can find a market for themselves on a national scale.

The National Player: GrammaTech While tech in Tompkins County may seem like a new thing, GrammaTech – a multinational developer of software-assurance tools and advanced cyber-security solutions based in Ithaca – has been at it for 29 years.

Begun as a spin-off from the pHd research of Thomas Reps and his mentor, former Cornell professor and CEO Tim Teitelbaum, GrammaTech has been a player in cyber security from its headquarters at 531 Esty St. both on the governmental and commercial level for

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And its future only looks brighter.

A little more than a week ago, the firm was awarded a three-year, $9 million contract from the Office of Naval Research (a division of the United States Department of the Navy) to perform research and development into cutting-edge techniques to protect its software from cyber-attacks by advancing the field of transforming existing software applications so that they are tailored for “highly specific” situations now facing the Navy. The result, they say, will be simplified programs that are safer, more secure and more efficient.

With the grant comes growth, the money going toward the addition of 20 workers across the company and likely bringing the roster close to 100 across the firm, which has a presence in 16 states. The hires won’t be entirely local, but then again neither is their workforce: while some people come to Ithaca for the quality of life (some employees, Teitelbaum said, may have spent time in Westchester County working for IBM or elsewhere before seeking a change), others may see the action happening in Silicon Valley and, looking to take on that talent, Grammatech will hire them on to work remotely from across the country. Doctorate-level computer scientists with talent, said Teitelbaum, are worth accommodating in order to get them on the team.

For its significance, $9 million is not even the biggest contract they’d ever gotten – they’d once gotten a $14 million contract and just several months ago, the company earned a $4 million contract it hadn’t even bothered to publicize – but as far as its meaning for the firm and the nation as a whole, the grant marks a highly visible undertaking: the firm will be participating in a major, federal program to address serious concerns in cyber security, representing a new approach to try to reduce the “attack surface” of the nation’s cyberinfrastructure.

Though notable for governmental research,

Grammatech also has a commercial side which has also seen a steady increase in market share, selling to numerous Fortune 500 companies and where most of their products come as market-ready products of their research, their success measured by how much commercialization has happened from an entity’s initial investment on your research. Graded by something called a commercialization index, concepts are literally scored based on on their return on investment and, when a firm like Grammatech applies for new contracts, reviewers get to examine a company’s success rate to determine whether or not further investment equals further greater payoffs. Grammatech, so far, has achieved this in high frequency: small business innovative research contracts, which they won “well more than half of,” are a major source of pride for the company: for comparison, a typical “win rate” for a firm like this is about one in 11.

“We’re not just a research house,” he said.

Because of their reputation, Teitelbaum said the firm has grown approximately four times the size of what it was over the last decade. The catalyst? A solid winning streak, both on their commercial front as well as in their government research division, gained through hiring solid employees who wrote compelling pitches, earned large contracts for the company, and allowed them to hire even more talented employees to allow for furthered success and the capacity to compete for bigger contracts. The significance of this is not to be played down: the firm typically finds itself in competition for contracts with universities, research houses and some of the “primes” favored by the Department of Defense, like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Boeing.

“That’s how we grew,” Teitelbaum said. “If you start to grow and you hire great people, and the great people help you write better proposals, then you win even more. That’s kind of how it goes.”

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The game changed for Ithaca grocery delivery company Rosie Applications the day Amazon bought up Whole Foods.

When the online retail giant bought up the hippest grocery store in the United States (sorry, Trader Joe’s) it stoked something of an arms race for grocers nationwide. After slashing prices and cutting its competitor’s clientele by up to 6 percent in some cases, retailers began to notice innovation was needed. WalMart began to offer the option to have your groceries delivered to you in the parking lot.

Kroger, Costco and even Target began to look toward shoring up its online businesses in order to compete.

And smaller stores, without the infrastructure to compete immediately, began to look toward the private sector toward companies like Ithaca’s very own Rosie Applications – a locally-based grocery delivery app – to outsource the job to someone else.

“If you want to stay with the times and you want to stay competitive, you really need to offer online grocery shopping,” said Alyssa Nappa, Marketing Strategist for Rosie Applications. “That is what it is. So when that deal was announced, we had a lot of retailers coming up to us and saying ‘what can you offer?

Why should we partner with you?’ And we had a lot of new business coming in.”

So much that the company has announced the opening of a new office in Boston and, over the next year, expects to double in size across all departments – from sales to product development all the way to customer support – in order to scale up with the demand.

With more than 100 retail locations across six states, the company already has managed to establish a strong reputation in the region.

But, because of the Amazon deal, grocery chains across the region are queuing up to become clients, Rosie most recently signing a deal with Brookshire Brothers, which has more than 100 locations.

But has their growth been a product of reputation? Or is it still a prolonged grind that

got them here?

“It’s a mix of both,” Nappa said. “With as many retailers as we have, reputation is important. We want to make sure we are always putting our customers first because, although it may not seem like the case, the grocery industry is small; people talk, so we want to maintain our reputation. That said, with 26 employees there’s still a grind.”

Having earned a reputation enough to get those people talking, the company now has to grapple with a future as a brand identifiable on a larger, regional scale. And though the company got their start in Ithaca – Rosie was the brainchild of two Cornell alums and its beginnings are tied back to the coworking space offered by Ithaca’s small business incubator, Rev – it has also begun to notice the need to continue to recruit the top talent to keep it competitive in a similar echelon as Amazon. Boston – considered the fourth-best tech city in the nation by real estate research firm Cushman & Wakefield – might be able to provide that “in.”

“It’s a tricky market,” Nappa said. “Obviously, it’s going to be much easier to acquire talent in Boston than it is in Ithaca. That said, we do have employees that work remotely, and that works well. We get a lot of applications from applicants who aren’t local, and the first question we ask is whether they’re interested in relocating.”

So far, Nappa says, Rosie hasn’t had trouble with people being reluctant to relocate. Why? Simply put, people want to ride the wave, to be directly on the cusp of something gamechanging which Rosie; an exciting, upstart start-up in direct competition with massive, national brands can offer.

“It’s a fun place to be right now,” said Nappa.

The Local Player: GreenFork

When Anton Burkett, Chief Executive of Early Morning Farm, decided to take on recipe delivery company Blue Apron with a

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locally-sourced alternative called GreenFork, he had big city ambitions: Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. So far, he’s found building small is paying off just fine.

“That may turn out to be true down the line, but when we really evaluated who was signing up, we found it was mostly people in Ithaca, Lansing,” said Burkett of his CSAsupplied delivery service. “Tompkins County was two-thirds of our customer base.”

Realizing that, Burkett and cofounder Tracy McEvilly saw an opportunity to go toward something which had yet to be tried by the cardboard and paper bagged service offered by the likes of the big, hip delivery services: The concept of sustainable packaging, a challenge that has proved nearly insurmountable for the top-down, nationally scaled recipe kit delivery services currently out there.

Already spending a fair amount of his money on fresh packaging each week through Challenge Workforce Solutions just to package the food and, with a small enough clientele, Burkett figured he’d take a gamble: he invested in buying a pair of Igloo-style coolers for each customer, each containing a week’s worth of food: one would be used to drop off food in week one, and the other would be delivered, full of food, to replace the first cooler in the second week. Instead of using paper bags, the ingredients into reusable, tupperware containers, which is picked up and sanitized each week.

Since introducing the concept, the yearand-a-half-old company has doubled its client base to about 80. And the best part? The container concept paid for itself in “about a month,” Burkett said.

“Our customers love it. It’s so much more effective and efficient for them and they’re hardly throwing anything away or even, needing to recycle anything,” said Burkett.

“Once we went to the sustainable packaging, we realized ‘yeah, there’s a little more upfront cost,’ investing in the packaging. At first.

But with this system, we see better customer retention and over time, it’s cheaper. Over a month or so, we’ve already recovered the

cost over the traditional cardboard box style delivery.”

Sustainable packaging has paid off for the company in other ways as well. Over the past month, local membership has doubled to 80 members largely via word of mouth; all without significant advertising or adding staff. This eclipses the approach of national firms like Blue Apron, whose high customer acquisition costs, rooted from high marketing expenses and even steeper packaging costs, have had an impact on their company value.

According to a report by Eater reporter Whitney Filloon early in the summer, Blue Apron’s customer acquisition cost was somewhere in the range of more than $400 to recruit each new customer, despite making only $236 a customer a quarter: a number far above the estimate of $94 given by the company during its initial public offering in June.

“If you spend $150 getting a customer and you’re only making $15 on every box, you have to keep that customer 10 weeks before you make anything,” Burkett said. “And they probably only keep half those customers for that amount of time.”

Thinking optimistically, could this be the evolution of a great idea like a step-by-step gourmet meal delivered in raw ingredients?

Could this ground-up approach to the business, rather than an inflated, venture capitalfunded pursuit be like Facebook was for social media in the aftermath of Friendster and Myspace? The spin on a great idea that finally got it right?

“Hopefully,” said Burkett, but the key, he said is to keep rooting for the sustained success of recipe delivery kits, where the concept is a brand in itself.

“You kind of want them to do well,” Burkett said. “You think of recipe delivery kits, themselves, as a brand on their own. And you want that brand to do well so you can do well.” •

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uffa lo Street Books is facing where we were calling on owners to save the dire straits once again, as the store on a regular basis,” he said. “Which is DeWitt Mall bookstore’s Board to say, the crisis right now is really serious. of Directors has called for an We waited until we felt like we had no alteremergency native before calling meet i ng to d iscuss on the entire owner“The crisis right now is ship to meet.” t he loca l literar y really serious. We waited icon’s future.

Buffalo Street The meeting will until we felt like we had no Books has been saved be held on Thursday, before, coming to the Oct. 12 at 7 p.m at alternative before calling brink of extinction the store. and could on the entire ownership to i n 2011 before t he decide t he fate of alarm bell was rung meet.” the longtime downand the community t ow n f i x t u r e . T h e rallied around its last announcement, widely distributed via independent bookstore to buy it out before letter last week, said that while the store’s a liquidation sa le. Over $250,000 was losses have decreased every year since its raised in two months, and the store reorgaownership reorganization to a shareholder nized with a co-operative ownership with controlled co-operative in 2011, the Board around 700 shareholders, modeled after the of Directors’ continuous cycle of “cost- neighboring GreenStar grocery store. The cutting measures, loans, ownership drives, store has been at its current location across and dedicated and creative management” from DeWitt Park since 1981, starting as to keep the store af loat is no longer fea- the Bookery II before switching to Buffalo sible.

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Any member of the public is invited to But unfortunately for BSB, even the attend the meeting. reformation has been unable to withstand The President of the Board of Directors, a combination of factors which have conRob Vanderlan, said the board held out tributed to the store’s current financial as long as it could before reaching out to problems. National factors like sweeping the community even knowing the risks of changes to the book marketplace, spurred allowing the financial hole to become too most notoriously by the ubiquity of Amadeep to overcome, but years of non-profitability has finally taken its toll. contin u ed on page 13 “We didn’t want to be in a situation

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he Ithaca Business Index inched backward to a level of 169.95 in August from a revised mark of 170.31 in July. This amounts to a dip of 0.2 percent. A nice pop in home sales was not enough to offset modest decreases in employment, retail sales, and hours worked. Help wanted advertising and the size of the labor force remained unchanged. Compared to August 2016, the index was 1.9 percent higher.

The Ithaca metropolitan area, which is the same as Tompkins County, lost 300 jobs in August bringing total employment to 65,300 on a seasonally adjusted basis. The number of

percent in August, a minor change for this volatile indicator. Compared to August 2016, help-wanted advertising was down 10.8 percent. Changes in help wanted advertising can signal future changes in employment.

After making a big upward push in the first few months of the year, the Ithaca Business Index has basically held steady through August. The early gains were driven by job growth and this buoyed other sectors of the economy. July and August were marked by modest job losses and the other sectors lost what little vitality they had managed to show.

This scenario need not continue. Two months of lackluster performance does not

jobs was up 1.9 percent compared to August 2016. Job growth has been the main factor driving the economy in 2017.

The Ithaca labor force held steady at 51,200.

The labor force consists of all the people living in Ithaca who have jobs or are looking for work. The labor force is a critical resource in the economy. A larger work force means greater economic potential.

After showing signs of life in the early summer, retail sales in Tompkins County have returned to their moribund ways. Retail sales volume fell 1.0 percent in August and was 2.2 percent lower than a year ago. Employment in the retail sector amounted to 4,800 persons.

The all-time high for employment in retailing is 5,500 set in December 2005.

The average work week in Ithaca fell to 32.9 hours in August, down from 33.6 hours in July on a seasonally adjusted basis. That amounts to a dip of 2.1 percent. Compared to August 2016, hours worked per week was up 1.9 percent.

Ithaca realtors sold 72 homes in August for a seasonally adjusted pop of 34.4 percent over July. Compared to August 2016 home sales were up 2.4 percent. Home prices increased marginally over the year. The median home sold for $215,000 compared to $213,000 in August 2016.

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make a trend. A good September would show that the previous two months were a pause in what has been a pretty good year for the Ithaca economy.

In January 1985 the Ithaca Business Index stood at 100.00. In August 2017 the Index reads 169.95. This means that the Tompkins County economy has grown 69.95 percent in those 392 months.

From 1985 until 1989, the Ithaca metro region grew at a rapid clip. The average annual growth rate was 5.7 percent. The Ithaca Business Index reached a peak of 130.78 in April 1989. A recession brought the Index down to a level of 111.70 in April 1992. This 36 month slide was much longer and more severe than the national recession which lasted only 8 months. Since then, the County economy has recovered, but annual growth rates of 1.0 percent are more typical these days.

There was a less severe version of the Great Recession here in Ithaca that started in April 2008 and ended in July 2009. The most recent recession began in October 2014 and ended in May 2015. There was no national recession during this time, but economic activity in Ithaca fell 0.2 percent in 2014 and 1.4 percent in 2015.

2016 registered a growth rate of 2.1 percent. The all-time high for the Ithaca Business Index is 172.03, its reading in February 2017•

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zon, have obviously had a negative impact overall, but even when it looked as if there might be a resurgence in local bookstore interest in Ithaca, Vanderlan said the longterm reconstruction of the Commons tempered any potential boost in business. Sales did eventually pick up last year, but by that point it was too little, too late.

To go along with that, one of the store’s primary methods of spending reduction was to keep payroll costs low. Keeping “We’re going to come to that meeting with a plan to for what we can do collectively to ensure that Buffalo Street Books remains [...] but it is a plan that requires the support of ownership and a lot of involvement.”

staffing numbers down has an obvious drawback, though: employees were never able to get regularly-scheduled fundraising efforts rolling in earnest, which had been an essential piece of the co-op plan several years ago.

Though Vanderlan didn’t want to reveal too many specifics, he said the two main goals of any plan to save the store must include raising money, quickly, while also devising a method by which to make the store actually economically sustainable

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for the future so a similar situation can be that would translate to participation in the avoided again. Hopefully, Vanderlan said, meeting, or the effort overall. Much of the the plans will be able address both the store’s foreseeable future rests on Thursshort-term needs and long-term problems day’s turnout, and whether the community BSB must overcome in order to survive. has the energ y to resuscitate BSB once Part of the reason for Thursday’s gathering more, just over six years after its last brush is to evoke that kind of input from owners with closing. a nd t he communit y alike. “ We ’r e g o i n g t o come to that meeting with a plan to for what we can do collectively to ensure that Buffalo Street Books remains [...] but it is a plan that requires the support of ow nersh ip a nd a lot of involvement,” he said.

Asked how much time the store has left in its cu rrent state, Vanderlan said “Not a l o t ,” w i t h a n e rvous laugh. The letter announcing the meeting expressed doubt Gary Weissbrot, the store’s former owner, in this 2011 file photo. the store could continue past the end of the year without the “active commitment and involvement from owners.”

Vanderlan knows the store might have While public reaction to the meeting’s spent some of its public goodwill with the announcement has been positive and sup- 2011 fundraising campaign, and he seems portive, Vanderlan said he was unsure if prepared to deal with the ramifications

if BSB is unable to get a lifeline this time around. At the time, Bob Proehl, the outreach coordinator at Buffalo Books, wrote in the initial plan to save the bookstore he had an idea: “Understand I’m not talking about a bailout,” wrote Proehl in a column at The Ithaca Post, an active site at the time, that quickly made the rounds on Facebook. “I’m talking about a community buy-out. At the end of this process, the participating community, and I’m talking a cooperative of dozens if not hundreds, would own the bookstore outright.”

Then, it was an estimate that it would take $200,000 to buy out the bookstore, and he proposed doing that in small shares of $250.

This time around, though, the campaign is focused on emphasizing t hat t his round, however, is about completely reconfiguring the store’s approach to business, working to improve the very model it was based on.

“That is certainly a concern, and we would have to understand that and accept that if that was the decision,” he said. “But this is not just a rallying cry to save the store. It’s partly that, but this is to make the store sustainable going forward.”

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B usiness T imes impact of these “float” periods. The most important element in ensuring good cash flow from customers, is establishing strong and retain good employees…” billing and collection practices. Once the money has been collected, most firms then When cash is received in exchange for proceed to concentrate the cash into one products or services rendered, many small center. The rationale for such a move is to business owners, intent on growing their have complete control of the cash and to company and tamping down debt, spend provide greater investment opportunities most or all of these funds. But while such with larger sums of money available as surpriorities are laudable, they should leave plus. There are numerous mechanisms that room for the business can be employed to to absorb lean finan- “As bankers, we know concentrate the cash, cial times down the all too well how ironic it such as wire transfers, line. The key to sucautomated clearingcessful cash manage- seems to our clients that house (ACH) transment, therefore, lies it’s often easier to borrow fers, and checks. The in tabulating realistic money when you have tradeoff is between projec t ions , mon icost and time. t o r i n g c o l l e c t i on s money! Finally, poor cash and disbursements, flow makes it difficult “…there is a establishing effective to hire and retain good tradeof f between bi l l i ng a nd col lecliquidity and profittion measures, and employees.” ability which disadhering to budgetcourages firms from ary restrictions. having excessive liquidity…”

Cash collection systems aim to reduce the time it takes to collect the cash that During dow nturns in t he economy, is owed to a firm. Obviously, an envelope declines in sales and poor cash managemailed by a customer containing payment ment can spell the death knell to a small or to a supplier firm does not arrive at its des- startup business. In tough times, such as tination instantly. These “f loats” are time the recession of 2008-09, banks may tighten delays that add up quickly, and they can up the revolving credit or short-term loans force struggling or new firms to find other that businesses often rely on to sort out cash sources of cash to pay their bills. management troubles. Some business ownCash management attempts, among ers resort to trying to keep their companies other things, to decrease the length and afloat by raiding their personal finances -

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BizBriefs Downtown Ithaca Welcomes New Salon Downtown Ithaca and Mayor Svante Myrick recently welcomed downtown’s new-

est hair care service, Hare and Bristle Salon, during a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony at the salon.

Hare and Bristle provides a nontraditional salon setting featuring a creative and cozy vintage space with a rotating collection of rare and decorative art pieces. In this artsy space, Hare and Bristle Owner Danielle Kearns, a multi-talented lead stylist and color correcting expert, and her highly skilled staff provide their customers with unique and inspiring haircuts, indie and cutting-edge styles, and fabulous hair color.

“My vision was to create a space that feels like home. I want customers to come in here and have a relaxing experience while we give them a cut and style that makes them feel confident and beautiful,” says Kearns.

Hare and Bristle shares space with

Petrune, an extremely popular men’s and women’s vintage clothing boutique at 126 E. State St., The Commons. This partnership joins a growing list of hair care and clothing collaborations in downtown Ithaca. Narrative Space, 213 N Aurora St., and Gia’s Elite Style, 121 S Cayuga St., also pair these services under one roof.

United Way of Tompkins County Investments Unite and Build Community United Way of Tompkins County (UWTC) Board of Directors has recently awarded over $900,000 to support the health, education and financial stability of people throughout Tompkins County and beyond. Grants were made through the Community Care Fund, the Focus on Community Understanding and Service (FOCUS) Fund from the Dryden Middle School, and the Hunger & Food Security Fund.

The United Way’s funded partners help people meet immediate basic needs while creating lasting change by strengthening the building blocks for a good life. The Community Care Fund awards of $877,052 support 90 programs. Hunger and Food Security

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Fund awards totaling $36,400 were invested in nine programs projected to assist 18,648 local residents gain access to an adequate supply of nutritious food.

FOCUS grant awards totaling $2,000 will support programs at four different nonprofits that serve the Town of Dryden.

Students of Dryden Elementary School reviewed grant applications and made funding recommendations for applying non-profits.

FOCUS allowed the students to share their views of their community’s needs and invest funds to make a difference.

Community Care Fund and Hunger & Food Security applications are reviewed by community volunteers. The review process includes a discussion of current community needs and an evaluation of each program’s design, finances, outcomes, and performance. Final investments are recommended

by UWTC’s Community Investment Committee and approved by the UWTC Board of Directors.

In addition to these funds and donordesignated gifts, UWTC recently funded special initiatives: the Urgent Rx Prescription Program, and the Get Connected, Volunteer Center.

Ithaca Cold-Crafted (Formerly Ithaca Hummus) Appoints New Chief Operating Officer Ithaca Cold-Crafted announced this week that Frank Cavallaro has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer. Frank comes with a wealth of experience within the Industry, having spent the last 25 years at LiDestri Food & Beverage, a

premier contract manufacturing company which operates five SQF level 3 certified state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities throughout the United States. In his most recent position as Vice President of Business Development, Frank played a critical role in developing the company’s new High Pressure Processing (HPP) facility.

Frank joins Ithaca to direct the anticipated growth of the company’s highly differentiated line of hummus, which features coldpressed, raw ingredients and utilizes Frank Cavallarro the HPP process.

Ithaca Cold-Crafted is a natural foods company producing a line of premium hummus that features cold-pressed, raw ingredients and a signature fresh out of the blender taste. The company prides itself on its use of 100% all natural ingredients, no preservatives, no citric acid, and no heat pasteurization. In August of 2017 Ithaca began using the HPP process as an alternative to the heat pasteurization step traditionally used by hummus brands to preserve their products.

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Exhibition at History Center celebrates women’s suffrage

By Christie Citranglo

Top: Carrie Chapman Catt; middle: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; bottom: Harriet Tubman (All drawings by Christine Heller.)

League of Women Voters Broadcast, Oct. 8, circa 1946 (first names unknown): “Stainton: When you come right down to it, everything leads back to the polls, doesn’t it?

Our local government, our state and legislation … even our foreign policy … can be no better than the men who shape them … the men we elect every November.

Adams: When you think how important our votes are, why do you suppose that a third of the people eligible to vote stay home on election day?”

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his year, 2017, marks the centennial anniversary for women’s suffrage in New York State, a battle that began long before the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. White, landowning men had the power to shape government and policies through voting since the beginning of American history and women of the nation, left out of the conversation, waited until 1920 for the right to vote.

To celebrate the 100-year anniversary, on exhibition at The History Center in Tompkins County is Truth is the Only Safe Ground to Stand Upon: Portraits of NY State Suffragists by artist and former Ithacan Christine Heller. This collection features portraits of 15 prominent women in the suffragist movement throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Heller also includes lesser-known women who are

often erased throughout history, notably the women of color involved.

Heller created her series of drawings by recreating portraits of women suffragists.

When she wasn’t in the studio drafting an image, she spent her time researching different suffragists at the New York Historical Association in Cooperstown. She filled her notebook with their poignant words and searched for the faces of forgotten women.

“Half my day was researching,” Heller said.

“Since I’m not a historian, I wanted to make sure my information was correct. I would read about somebody for half my work day, get excited about who she was, then I’d go to the drawing table. I’d have this energy I’d put into the drawing.”

Each drawing began as a detailed outline with a soft lead pencil. Once Heller found the appropriate photos for her subjects, she redrew the women and stripped them of any docile mannerisms: soft eyes became jaded with frustration, and jawlines became rigid with determination.

“I looked at one woman, and her face looked like an old lady or my grandmother,” she said. “Then I thought, ‘This woman worked so hard for so long.’ I put more into her eyes, and I put more into the set of her jaw without really changing her from the photograph, but just enough to show the perseverance, the determination and the courage she had.”

And once her outline was completed, she transferred her drawing from pencil and paper to crayon pencil and Mylar. Mylar — an eponym for the shiny material used for helium balloons — was a difficult enough surface to work with, Heller said, that adding the use of a wax pencil didn’t ease the process. The combination of the soft media created the illusion of depth and rigidness in the portraits of these women that would have otherwise been lost on pencil and paper.

Another challenge posed for Heller was determining which women to include. The exhibition features a couple of women from Ithaca — Louisa Lord Riley and Juanita Breckinridge — and a three women of color.

Finding women of color was a challenge, Heller said, because so few were recorded in history as part of the suffragist movement.

Heller features portraits of Harriet Tubman and Mary Burnett Talbert, two AfricanAmerican women who were pioneers for the movement. “[These photos] were hard to come by, and some of them were just so bad,” Heller said. “There was a young black woman, she’d done some interesting projects and she had an interesting face, but I couldn’t see her well

Heller’s portrait of Mary Burnett Talbert.

(Photo: Christine Heller)

enough to draw her. That was odd because that determined some of the choices: if I could get a good photograph, and if I could find a woman I really admired, then she made it into the collection.”

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The lack of resources on women of color, Heller said, also speaks to the racist side of the suffragist movement.

While many of the suffragists were also abolitionists, several were disheartened to learn other abolitionists were advocating for black men’s right to vote before all women’s right to vote. This led to racist remarks from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, including, “No; I would not trust him with all my rights; degraded, oppressed himself, he would be more despotic with the governing power than even our Saxon rulers are.”

“It’s important that we know about the racism, but it’s a tricky thing,” Heller

in New York, it also celebrates women’s liberation in the midst of a presidential administration that continues to rid women of rights. Heller began working on and brainstorming the collection during the height of the 2016 presidential election, and after the inauguration in January, she was ready to protest with art. With the administration’s recent rollback on mandated employer coverage for women’s birth control (based on religious or moral objection), Heller said she’s only felt a stronger need to help young women.

“I want to help younger women, even if I have to be out on the streets picketing. It’s just so important: birth control, education and the vote — those are the three things,” she said. “Without those, you don’t have power.”

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Heller working on the mural for The History Center’s exhibition.

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said. “I think we need to recognize there was racism in the suffrage movement, but also recognize that the suffrage movement was long and had so many eras within the body of the movement itself.”

Heller’s portraits capture each woman’s character. Some were placed in a strategic manner suggesting, some of the suffragists had more progressive ideas than others. To further enhance the personality and beliefs of each woman, the accompanying placards for each suffragist rounds out her character. For instance Tubman’s placard ends with a comment she made to a friend about why she believed in women’s suffrage: “I’ve suffered enough to believe it.”

While this exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage

Center, Heller plans to continue exhibiting around New York for the anniversary. A dream for the project, Heller said, is to take the portraits nationwide, highlighting women from each state who fought for women’s suffrage.

“The legacy from these women — we got the vote because of them — so it’s really important for everyone to vote, women especially, but everyone,” Heller said. “What they did for us and how long they worked — we have to vote.

Otherwise, what they did doesn’t mean anything.” • Truth is the Only Safe Ground to Stand Upon: Portraits of NY State Suffragists by Christine Heller, on exhibition at The History Center in Tompkins County through Nov. 4.

music

Folk with a Dash of Activist John McCutcheon crafts folk music for all

By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o John McCutcheon, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, The Hangar Theatre

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olk singer-songwriter and storyteller John McCutcheon is no stranger to the stage — and he has 38 albums to prove it.

Beginning his career back in the mid ’70s, McCutcheon has produced music and told stories that both delve into the innocent, whimsical parts of his personal life and the heavy realities of politics.

McCutcheon has written songs for and about his sons and has performed several songs about immigration and immigrants’ rights in the U.S. “One of the things that music is able to do is humanize issues,” McCutcheon said.

“One of the things I’ve always believed as an activist is to not only change people’s minds but to also change people’s hearts.

I’ve found that by creating characters in my music and humanizing them and inviting them into that world — it displays the complexity and yet the intimacy of the whole thing.”

Growing up as a child of the ’60s, McCutcheon was first captivated by rock ’n’ roll, although that medium didn’t stick with him for very long. Folk, as a genre, drew McCutcheon in because of how portable and participatory the medium is. If he wanted to perform, he didn’t need a big band and he didn’t need to deal with the awkwardness of toting around an amp or a drum set. All he needed was his acoustic guitar.

McCutcheon also noted the interac t iv it y of fol k mu sic . Fol k i nv ites listeners to join in with their own tunes and anecdotes, crafting new stories that are tangential to other tales.

“Folk wasn’t just a spectacle or performance: that’s what got me involved,” McCutcheon said. “It introduces a whole new generation of music back to this country and to its culture, especially in an era like today where people have almost literally the whole world at their disposable.”

McCutcheon will journey through Ithaca on his tour, stopping by the familiar grounds of his favorite roots musicians

and pioneers of folk in Central New York.

Bands like noted local group The Horseflies have inspired McCutcheon, and other groups comprised of Ithaca and Trumansburg natives have left strong impressions on him.

Since Ithaca has heavy roots in folk, McCutcheon said he doesn’t feel the need to justify his work — everyone who goes to his shows understands his origins and his style. He can begin with an old favorite like “Christmas in the Trenches,” divert into a story, loop back into the music and then dive into another piece without any hesitation.

“A l l t hose g uys are just bri l lia nt, and some of the best shows I’ve had involved playing at those festivals with them,” McCutcheon said. “It’s an audience that I don’t have to explain myself to; I can just kind of go out there and do it. It’s as if [Ithaca’s] got a folk music honors program.”

McCutcheon’s work covers a diverse range of topics, from alternative facts to the messiness of eating a watermelon.

He has eight albums in his discography dedicated to children’s music, and what’s refreshing about these tracks is they lack any auto-tuned voices or silly sounds. The music was created for children, but the piece behave like songs for adults.

W hen c re at i ng a r t for c h i ld ren, McCutcheon said many musicians forget that children are people. He’s performed at shows where children request songs with more adult-like themes, and McCutcheon attributes this pattern to children’s intel-

ligence that is often overlooked.

“A lot of [kid’s music] out there was really unmusical and really condescending,” he said. “I wanted an album that would suit my purposes, and I wanted an album that would settle an argument between the children and the parents on the way to the beach or the lake. ‘What are we going to listen to that everybody would be happy with?’”

After more than 40 years in the folk

John McCutcheon (Photo: Irene Young)

business, McCutcheon still keeps his work fresh and interesting. There’s so much to still discuss and tackle, and he doesn’t see his folk journey ending without a bang.

“There’s a lot to be excited about and interested in,” McCutcheon said. “Just because you get some miles on you, doesn’t mean you get to coast. It seems to me that you ought to get better at your job, and if you like, you should figure out how to make what you’re doing more effective.” • PRECOR FTS GLIDE

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Dark Side of The Machine The Machine comes to the State Theatre

By Br yan VanC ampe n

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he Machine (Joe Pascarell, guitar, lead vocals; Tahrah Cohen, drums; Ryan Ball, bass, lap steel guitar, effects, vocals; Scott Chasolen, keys, vocals) is one of the oldest U.S. Pink Floyd tribute bands in existence.

Formed in 1988 by Cohen and Pascarell, The Machine began as a cover band who played gigs local to the Rockland County, New York, area and did not play Pink Floyd Music exclusively. In 1989, it was suggested that the group performs Pink Floyd full time. (I saw The Machine in the early ’90s at the Johnson City Music Hall.) In the nearly three decades since their formation, the band now plays Floyd shows around the world.

The Machine returns to the State Theatre of Ithaca on Friday, Oct. 13, to play Pink Floyd’s landmark album, The Dark Side of the Moon. The Ithaca Times spoke to The Machine’s guitarist and founding member Joe Pascarell about this, that, and the most difficult Pink Floyd song to play live.

Ithaca Times: The Dark Side of the Moon runs a little over 42 minutes, so

that’s kind of a short show. What else will the band be doing?

Joe Pascarell: Yeah, that album, there’s only one set, you know? So, we’ll be doing a whole other set of musical selections.

It’ll be a cross-section of all the material. It’ll be Dark Side and a little bit of everything.

IT: I really think that David Gilmour is one of the top 10 guitarists ever, and if you’ve spent that much time mastering his style — hats off.

JP: He’s always been one of my favorite guitar players, ever since I was a kid. I’ll date myself, but growing up, that’s how I learned to play, by listening to those records and trying to figure that stuff out.

Even by the time The Machine started, I knew most of the music already, because I’d been playing it my whole life. That’s how I learned the guitar.

IT: I saw a YouTube clip of one of your symphonic shows, doing “Great Gig in the Sky.” Who was the vocalist doing Clare Torry’s vocals?

JP: That’s a friend of ours, Michele Zayla. She’s great — she’s freakin’ great.

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We have a few different vocalists that we use, but she’s our first call.

IT: I’m curious what it takes these days in terms of equipment to recreate such an iconic album.

JP: Well, a regular Machine show is the four of us playing. When we do the Dark Side show, we bring a vocalist and a sax player with us, so it’ll be a six-piece band.

We need the saxophone for “Money” and “Us and Them.”

IT: Have you ever done the Wizard of Oz thing? (Dark Side of the Rainbow or The Wizard of Floyd — pairing the Pink Floyd album with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.)

IT: Being a four-piece band, how do you tackle the triple harmony guitars on a song like “Dogs,” from Animals?

JP: It’s a challenge. Probably the most challenging song to do is “Dogs.” There’s an electric guitar that’s tuned down a whole step, and an electric guitar in standard tuning. I came up with a way to cover all that stuff. We’re all gear-heads, so my guitar sounds like an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. And the keyboard player covers some of the guitar parts, and I play two parts at once sometimes. That’s probably one of the most challenging things to do on the guitar.

And of course, I’m the singer so I have to

The Machine performing a Pink Floyd song live. (Photo provided)

JP: [laughs] Many, many times. You sound like you’re old enough to remember. There was a while there [in the mid’90s] when that was a big thing, you know? We were doing that a lot in the mid-to-late ’90s.

do that, too. But I have to say, we do it, and I feel like if we couldn’t do it to where it honors the song and sounds like the song, we wouldn’t do it. But I think when we do it, it sounds really, really good. •

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Lace ’Em Up

A look at this season’s cross-country

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have always liked Rich Bernstein, the coach of the Ithaca High crosscountry teams, and I was very pleased when I learned that he was selected to be one of the coaches for Team USA at the 2017 Junior Maccabiah Games in Israel.

When we talked about this year’s Little Red runners, I asked Rich about that experience, and he said, “It was an amazing, eye-opening experience and it took me two weeks to recover from it!” I asked if working with unfamiliar athletes in such a compressed time frame was helpful, Rich answered, “It was. I had to get to know the kids really quickly, and given we have such a young team this year, it was useful.”

The 2017 cross-country roster is comprised of thirty-two young women and twenty-nine young men. Bernstein said, “The girls’ team is the largest we have ever had, and twelve of them are freshmen.

Half of them have never run competitively – some came from hockey, some from lacrosse – and while they’re pretty good, there is a lot of teaching involved.”

I asked Rich if he wished he could call a timeout in the middle of a competition – like other coaches can – and he laughed and said “I wish… We do some training planning, some race planning, but once they go, they’re gone.” Unlike other sports, where the roar of the crowd can inspire athletes to reach deeper, cross-country runners need to cultivate an internal motivation.”

“Parents can come to cheer them on,” Rich said, “and they see them for 20 seconds as they go flying by. That internal motivation is, however, something you can build on as a life skill.”

Speaking of flying by, Little Red senior Silas Derfel did somet hing no ot her Ithaca High runner has ever done when he won the McQuaid Inv itationa l in Syracuse last weekend. In Bernstein’s words, “His talent is far and above a lot of the other kids. He puts in 70 miles per week, and he often runs for some time after the rest of the team has finished. The McQuaid Invitational draws elite runners from New York and Ohio, and he ran a 14:43 for three miles.”

As I am sure you can calculate, that is considerably under 5 minutes per mile.

Flying by indeed… Next year, Silas will lace ‘em up for Syracuse.

In the immortal words of Meat Loaf, “Two out of three ain’t bad.”

Two of our three local football teams came up with “W’s” over the weekend, and the third continues to impress me with their stick-to-it-iveness.

The Big Red of Cornell picked a fine time to step it up against pre-season Ivy

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favorite Harvard, as they had come out on the short end in their first three contests of 2017. In front of a home crowd, Cornell clawed its way back from a 14-0 deficit to take a 17-14 lead on Zach Mays’ 27-yard field goal with under 10 minutes to play.

The Big Red defense then clamped down, limiting the visitors to 11 yards in twelve plays to close it out. Pounded the Cornell rushed for 223 yards, which was the most yardage the Crimson had given up on the ground since 2011. The win puts Cornell at 1-1 in the Ivy League, and the Big Red will welcome non-conference foe Bucknell on Saturday, Octo-

One of the runners. (Photo provided)

ber 14 for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff.

Things also went Ithaca College’s way on Saturday, as they drubbed the University of Rochester 46-6 in the first-ever meeting between the two schools. The Bombers rolled, despite the fact that the U of R had the advantage in time of possession (31:04 – 28:56), but Ithaca had the advantage in passing yards, rushing yards, total yards and most importantly, points.

The win but the Bombers at 3-0 in the Liberty League, and they will travel to R.P.I. for another Liberty League contest on Saturday.

The Ithaca High Little Red has yet to find the win column, but as stated in last week’s column, they will play their hearts out every time they step onto the field. A lot of teams would have given up, but they show up, step up and never give up. • Th e

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Katagami is the Japanese craft of carving paper stencils.

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Movin’ Out, Movin’ Up

Wade Preston comse to Cortland Repertory Theatre

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ade Preston may be best known “America” from West Side Story. as “The Piano Man” for his IT: What do you like from Billy Joel’s work on t he origina l Tw yla catalog that would classify as deep cuts?

Tharp production of the Billy Joel musiWP: “Miami 2017.” I guess “Allencal, Movin’ Out, but he was also onstage town” and “Angry Young Man” are both the night Chubby Checker performed hits. “Vienna” is one of my favorites.

“Limbo Rock” for the last time. It’s sto- [plays the song.] It’s so weird, and such ries like that, coupled with his impressive a beautiful melody. For me, whether it’s technical virtuosity on the keyboards, the “Movin’ Out” band or I’m doing a that has allowed him to forge a career as solo concert because of the theme of the a solo artist. An original cast member of show and the popularity of Billy’s music, Broadway’s Movin’ Out, which featured people expect to hear a certain amount of all of Billy Joel’s greatest hits, Preston Billy Joel from me. And it’s music that I is credited with having performed the love, and I’m very honored and grateful show more times than anyone else over to be included in the Billy Joel camp, but the full three-and-a-half year run. When I’m always throwing other stuff in there Joel was preparing and mixing it up a bit. for t he Last Play There are always cerat Shea concerts, tain songs that you he hired Preston as have to play. I make his stand-in for the the joke often that if months of rehearsyou don’t play “Piano a ls, preparations Man,” somebody will and sound checks. knife you in the parkPreston will i ng lot . I do t r y to bring all those stomake it my own. The ries and all those show that I’m gonna songs at 7:30 p.m. do in Cor t land is a Saturday, Oct. 14, solo concert, so it’s at Cortland Repunderstood that I’m ertor y Theatre gonna play a healthy Downtown. d o s e of Bi l l y Jo e l , Ithaca Times: but I’ ll throw some What are some of of my ow n st u f f i n t he songs you’re there, too, and some likely to play when of the boogie piano you’re here? that I was pretty well Wade Preston: k now n for on t he We l l , t h e r e a r e West Coast before I some songs t hat ever got involved with I absolutely have the Broadway show. to play. I have to The shows have been play “Piano Man” pretty successful, so and I have to play I’m looking forward “Scenes f rom a n to it.

Wade Preston at the piano. (Photo provided) Italian Restaurant.”

IT: Just the styles of I always play “Root music, say from “The Beer Rag” (a song St r a nger” to “P re s from Billy Joel’s 1974 album Streetlife Ser- sure,” that’s a huge leap. I was kind of enade). Not a lot of people play it because stunned reading all the titles. It’s such a it’s kind of technical, and it’s kind of a variety of different styles. busy piece. It’s kind of an obscure Billy WP: I would agree with you, and one Joel instrumental, but real Billy Joel fans of the really great things about it was that know that song, and they freak out when even though it was all Billy Joel, it was someone can actually play it. I’ll play “My pretty eclectic stylistically. It was all over Life,” I’ll play “The Ballad of Billy the the map, and I found that to be really Kid.” Depending on the vibe of the audi- enjoyable. But people love Billy Joel’s ence, I might throw an original in there. music, so you can go from one style to the “Just the Way You Are,” “New York State next, and if it’s a song that they recognize, of Mind.” I have some other impressive then of course they’re gonna love it. That instrumental things I do that aren’t Billy aspect of it was really fun, and I really Joel pieces, like “Bumble Boogie,” which enjoyed being a part of that. • is actually from the ’30s and a takeoff on “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Rim- Read more about Wade Preston at Ithaca. sky Korsakov. I have my own version of com.

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A Psychotic Shift in Cinema 78/52 examines an iconic scene in film history

By Br yan VanC ampe n 78/52, written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, opening Friday, Oct. 13, at Cinemapolis.

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he title of Alexandre O. Philippe’s 78/52 refers to the 78 camera setups and 52 edits that make up one of the most iconic sequences in 20th century cinema, and a true game changer.

Trust me, this makes for a great brain teaser for all you film fanatics out there.

Maybe you’re thinking of the bulletridden climax of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), or maybe the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) with the giant boulder. Maybe a scene from Citizen Kane or The Wizard of Oz.

culture when Hitchcock was making the film, the last third or so of the movie is revealing: a host of filmmakers including Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro, Eli Roth and Karyn Kusama break down the shower sequence shot by shot.

As you might imagine, some of the most gifted insight comes from film editors Fred Raskin (The Hateful Eight), Bob Murawski (Spider-Man 2, Army of Darkness) and Wa lter Murch (Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti); Murch points out edits that would be classified as jump cuts, very outré and jarring for American narrative film.

But Phillipe’s film doesn’t just talk to people behind the camera. 78/52 also

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features interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Illeana Douglas, composer Danny Elfman, Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and Elijah Wood. It also points out numerous spoofs and parodies of the shower scene, from The Simpsons to Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), enacted

by Bugs Bunny and a personal favorite.

Jamie Lee Curtis talks about turning down many offers to parody her mother, Janet Leigh, and why she finally agreed to do so for the TV series Scream Queens.

The film even tracks down Leigh’s body double, who worked for a solid week on that one sequence.

As I pondered the film in retrospect, it occurred to me that the reason people keep writing and talking about Psycho is the same reason that people still write books and make documentaries about the Beatles. As the reputation and influence of these cultural landmarks continue to grow and affect countless generations, we’ll all keep having our reactions to them, and people will always want to document those reactions.

Psycho is like a combination of Rorschach test and aftershock. Even now, its images produce a half-life. •

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A shot from the documentary “78/52,” which analyzes Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” (Photo provided)

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It’s the infamous shower sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Psycho can rightly be credited for being the first truly modern horror film, that took the genre out of European tradition and Gothic castles and put in a sad little motel in the middle of nowhere. It killed off its leading lady in the first act. And the money that she stole, the $40,000 that seemed so important? It never pays off, in screenwriting terms.

Phillippe’s film is not the first film to be made on this subject, to be sure. A classic like Psycho has inspired reams of critical analysis and in-depth coverage of the film’s production. The Blu-ray has a very good documentary by Laurent Bouzereau, as well as features on the film’s music, storyboards of the shower sequence done by legendar y graphic designer Saul Bass and a commentary track by Stephen Rebello, author of the 1990 book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. There’s a lot of information out there, so to call 78/52 unprecedented is a bit naïve.

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Tenzin Chopak Band | 8:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Harry Nichols | 9:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Singer-songwriter)

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10/11 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | 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, 10 11 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | (Local bands, Soloists) Blind Pilot, Tall Heights | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Reggae Night with The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae) Echotest, Deaf Scene | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Rock, Reggae)

10/12 Thursday

Dino Losito, Brian Murphy, Terry Light | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | (Jazz)

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10/13 Friday

Bob Bunce & Rural Delivery | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (Folk, Country, Rock) John Rybak and Friends | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Ridgeline Duo | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Acoustic, Pop, Rock) Songs from Nightingale Alley | 7:30 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Louiston | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Singer-songwriter) Ironwood | 8:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Dead Night at The Dock | 9:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead covers) The Districts, Pine Barons | 9:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Folk, Roots, Rock) Taz Neideraurer | 9:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Rock)

10/14 Saturday

The Purple Valley | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Heavily Brewing

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10/17 Tuesday

10/15 Sunday

10/12 Thursday

Jen Middaugh and Tom Sayers | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | Bandwagon Farm Brewery, 3582 West Ave, Interlaken | (Jazz, Folk) Sam Swanson of Handsome Young Ladies | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Covers) Lucky Old Sun | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Blues, Rock, Jazz) Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted

by Dennis Winge Trio.

Sons of a Beach Hurricane Relief | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | The Range, 119 E. State St, Ithaca | (Jimmy Buffett tribute band) The Floozies, The Funk Hunters, Late Night Radio | 8:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Funk, Hip-hop)

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Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 17 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, 10 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv)

Folk musician and storyteller John McCutcheon now has 38 albums out, and he’s bringing his mysticism with him to the Hangar.

Dan Bern & Pepper and Sassafras | 8:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | (Folk, Acoustic) The Machine | 8:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The Machine performs Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon.

Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble | 8:15 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Ithaca College School of Music, Ford Hall, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | The Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble performs their first concert of the 2017-18 season, featuring music of Duke Ellington, Bill Holman,

10/14 Saturday

Anette Richards | 5:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Cornell University Organist Annette Richards performs Reformations III: Women at the Organ in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

Midday Music: Percussion Day | 5:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | University Organist Annette Richards performs Reformation 500: Women at the Organ in the Shadow of Martin Luther. Music

by Buxtehude, Scheidemann, Kuhnau, and J.S. Bach.

Joni Mitchell Tribute Concert | 7:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Community

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CU Music: Midday Music at Lincoln 10/12 | 12:30 PM-1:15 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Lincoln Hall, B20, Dept of Music, 101 Lincoln Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Midday Music: Percussion Day, featuring samba, gamelan, steel drums, and orchestral percussion. Learn about these instruments from Steven Pond, Christopher Miller, and Michael Sparhuber and try your hand at playing them! No experience necessary.

At the Ink Shop through Oct. 28 is an exhibition of woodcut prints. This project is in collaboration with BIG INK, the group who brought a 48” x 96” mobile printmaking press to the Ithaca Commons (Art: Pamela Drix)

10/13 Friday

IU: No-Comply, Beau Mahadev, Ali in the eighth | 7:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Just About Music Program House, 142 Program House Drive, Ithaca | At 7 p.m., there will be a talk with Bubba Crumrine of Ithaca Underground about DIY music and volunteer work in Ithaca’s underground music scene.

John McCutcheon | 7:30 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

and Mike Titlebaum. Special guest appearance by vocalist/arranger Ginny Maddock!

Jazz Ensemble Concert | 8:15 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Concert by the Jazz Ensemble, featuring new music written by Mike Titlebaum for the project Music Because Music.

School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Ithaca area musicians and devotees of music icon Joni Mitchell will again pay homage in the Joni Mitchell Tribute Concert, a tradition now in its eighth year of benefitting the arts education programs of the Community School of Music and Arts.

Symphoria Masterworks Series: Beethoven Eroica | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Crouse Hinds

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Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Music Director Lawrence Loh conducts this work, which is paired with Saint-Saens single movement Cello Concerto No. 1, performed by acclaimed young cellist Julian Schwarz.

Concert by the Choral Collage | 7:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Concert by the Choral Collage, featuring works by Bach, Byrd and Elder.

Klezmer Kings | 7:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Dana Mandel brings together a group of talented Klezmorim, from soulful Yiddish tunes to rollicking hora dance pieces, this group plays them all.

Ray LaMontagne | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | (Acoustic, Singer-songwriter) Latif Bolat | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | (Traditional Turkish)

10/15 Sunday

Ithaca College Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony | 4:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | Ithaca College School of Music, Ford Hall, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | This concert will also be webstreamed live and available on-demand four

days after the event at www.ithaca. edu/music.

Guest recital by renowned Lithuanian cellist David Geringas | 7:00 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Guest recital by renowned Lithuanian cellist David Geringas, gold medal winner in the International Tchaikovsky Competition.

10/17 Tuesday

Concert by the Chamber Orchestra | 8:15 PM, Tuesday, 10 17 | Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Concert by the Chamber Orchestra, featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, op. 92.

Film Thursday Movie Night & Intermission Trivia: Casablanca | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Movie starts at 7 with trivia for prizes during intermission.| Cornell Cinema

Leon Morin, Priest | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | When the men of a small French town leave to fight in WWII, the women are left alone, with only one man, Leon Morin, priest, young and handsome enough to tempt them.

Endless Poetry | 7:15 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In the latest entry of cult icon Alejandro Jodorowsky’s cinematic memoirs, a young poet joins a bohemian artist commune in Santiago. Also showing Oct. 15 at 4:30 p.m.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde w/ live accompaniment by The Invincible Czars | 7:30 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | The Czars have created their most understated, minimal soundtrack to match the introspective, philosophical nature of the film, and incorporated music by Eric Satie and Claude Debussy, for what promises to be a spine-tingling evening.

The Asphalt Jungle | 7:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A gang of thieves falls apart after attempting a daring robbery is a taut, unsentimental study in character and relative morality.

Spider-Man Homecoming | 9:30 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Willard

Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In Spider-Man’s first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a young Peter Parker adjusts to his new double life as a high school student and a superhero as he battles a new villain.

Also showing Oct. 14 at 7:15 and 10 p.m.

Jackie Brown | 7:15 PM, Sunday, 10 15 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | When she gets set-up for a sting, she decides to team-up with her bail bondsman and run off with all the loot.

Solo, Solitude w/ filmmaker Yosep Anggi Noen, producer Yulia Evina Bhara, & actress Marissa Anita via Skype | 7:00 PM, Monday, 10 16 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Riots break out in Indonesia in July 1996, and Wiji is suspected of dissident activities.

Elective Affinities w/ filmmakers Daïchi Saïto and Tomonari Nishikawa in person | 7:15 PM, Tuesday, 10 17 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Since the early 2000s, the two filmmakers have continued to produce celluloid-based work in 8mm, 16mm and 35mm Cinemapolis

Friday, 10/13 to Thursday, 10/19. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes

Brad’s Status | A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life’s choices. | 101 mins R| Battle of the Sexes | The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs. | 121 mins PG-13 | Victoria and Abdul | Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. | 112 mins PG-13 | Columbus | A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams. | 100 mins Dolores | In the 1950’s, a workingclass wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer’s union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality. | 95 mins Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, the polyamorous relationship between his wife and his mistress, the creation of his beloved comic book character Wonder Woman, and the controversy the comic generated. | 108 mins R Welcome to Willits | Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by mysterious creatures that have plagued them for years. | 82 mins R Buster Keaton Shorts | A collection of Buster Keaton’s short films.

Julius Caesar (1953) | The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. | 120 mins

Wednesday, 10/11 , to Tuesday, 10/17. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes American Made | A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s. | 115 mins R Flatliners | Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife. | 110 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 My Little Pony: The Movie | A dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their home. | 99 mins PG Stronger | Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope following the infamous 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. | 116 mins R The LEGO Ninjago Movie | Six young ninjas Lloyd, Jay, Kai, Cole, Zane and Nya are tasked with defending their island home, called Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors, using their skills and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy: high school. | 101 mins PG 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 It | A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children. | 135 mins R |

Angels in America Part 1: Millenium Approaches,

Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca Saturday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.

Clark Theatre, Dillingham Center, Ithaca College Through Friday, Oct. 13

As part of an annual tradition, the Community School of Music and Arts will hold a Joni Mitchell Tribute Concert.

Ithaca-area musicians will perform their favorite Joni Mitchell songs, and the funds raised at the event will go to the Community School of Music and Arts.

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Taking place in 1985, this play discusses the AIDS epidemic and the Reagan presidency, touching on the approach to the new millennium and what that means for the people of America getting overlooked by the sitting president.

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Home Again | Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her. | 97 mins PG-13 | The Mountain Between Us | Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. | 103 mins PG-13 |

2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Lifelong is having a party to celebrate their 65th year, and you’re invited.

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Pine Barons will be performing alongside The District at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at The Haunt. The band’s name comes from Southern New Jersey’s nature-rich environment, The Pine Barons — where the band members grew up together.

(Photo: Abi Raymaker) seeks to get to know her late sister through Dungeons & Dragons, is set in the mid-1990s and was first performed in NYC in 2011.

Nate Staniforth: Real Magic | 9:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Magician, writer, traveler and host of the Discovery Channel’s international hit TV series, Breaking Magic.

Girls Night Out, House of Merlot | 9:00 PM-, Thursday, 10 12 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | My Other History | 4:30 PM-6:30 PM, Friday, 10 13 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Set in a time of Sri Lanka’s move toward political reconciliation, My Other History explores the idea of reconciliation as a moment of remembrance, a process of letting go, an act of listening as much as that of confrontation.

Wade Preston | 7:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Wade Preston performs classics by Billy Joel in Billy Joel’s Piano Man. Preston was an original cast member of Movin’ Out, a production which featured

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The Speed of Darkness | Wednesday, 10 11 | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | An old-fashioned drama about an unsung Vietnam hero adapting to everyday life.

Always ... Patsy Cline | Wednesday, 10 11 | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | One of America’s biggest musical legends, Patsy Cline catapulted to fame and sold over 10 million records in her short but legendary musical career.

Always… Patsy Cline is based on the true story of Patsy’s friendship with Houston housewife Louise Seger, with a story taken right from their pen-pal correspondence.

Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | This contemporary classic, subtitled a gay fantasia on national themes, explores love, sex and religion amid the AIDS crisis.

Directed by Robert Moss.

Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show | Thursday, 10 12 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Kitchen Theatre Company transforms into a comedy club featuring a very unusual stand-up routine in the second play of the season.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up.

Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Trampoline Thursdays: The Big Show Down! | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | The second Thursday of each month is a night of competitive storytelling where the public is invited to share their tall tales.

She Kills Monsters | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Lansing Middle School, 6 Ludlowville Road, Lansing | This play, in which a young woman

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Charades Fundraiser | 8:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The community charades challenge is back again for its final year as the annual benefit for Hangar education programs. This light-hearted fundraiser pits local personalities against Hangar stars on four teams, which will compete by acting out entertainment clues.

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Community Game Night | 6:30 PM-6:30 AM, Thursday, 10 12 | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Community Game Night, hosted by First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. There will be board games available or bring your own.

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Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, 10 14 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m Friends of the Library Book Sale | 10:00 AM-5:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty St, Ithaca | One of the nation’s biggest book sale. For more information visit booksale.org.

Ithaca is Foodies Culinary Tour | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Downtown Ithaca | Join us for a narrated, guided walking tour showcasing a variety of Ithaca’s restaurants as well as historical, architectural and cultural points of interest. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free diets are welcome. Visit www.ithacaisfoodies.com to purchase tickets.

Cornell University vs. Bucknell University | 1:30 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Schoellkopf Stadium, Cornell, Ithaca | Home football game between Cornell University and Bucknell University.

Lifelong Celebrates 65 Years |

Charades (Fun)draiser, Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, Sunday, Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m.

Former Hangar Theatre Artistic Director Robert Moss will host a battle of charades at the Hangar Theatre to rise funds for the company. Hangar stars from the mainstage season will be competing, feturing Robyn Payne, Alex Purcell, Mimi Quillin and Jose Useche. The challenge begins at 7, and light refreshments and drinks will be served beginning at 6:30 p.m.

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Treasure Hunt on the Reuse Trail | Wednesday, 10 11 | Take a stroll on the Reuse Trail during the whole month of October, solve a puzzle, and enter a raffle to win prizes of $40, $80, $120, and $200 in gift cards from participating stores. Solve the bonus question to win a custom prize from Pirate Perl of Pastimes. For rules, prizes and a list of participating stores visit www.ReuseTrail.com.

Oktoberfest On The Lake | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, 10 13 | The BoatYard Grill Restaurant, 525 Old Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Beers right off the Southern Tier Brewery Truck, Oktoberfest inspired food.

Fall Fiber Arts Festival | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Little York Lake Pavilion, 6799 Little York Lake Road, Preble | Featuring a wide variety of vendors selling knitting and spinning supplies, felting, yarn, pelts, raw fleeces, blankets, shawls and more.

Fall Family Festival at Shtayburne Farm | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Shtayburne Farm, 2909 Chase Road, Rock Stream | Hayrides, farm tours, lots of kids games with prizes, pumpkin decorating contest, petting zoo, bounce house, play area, cooking demo and local vendors means.

Cortland Holistic Living Expo, Food Drive and Psychic Fair | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Ramada Cortland, 2 River St, Cortland | Come meet and speak with 14 Professional Psychics. Practitioners and vendors specializing in, Reiki, Kinesiology, Acupuncture, Polarity Therapy, Feng Shui, Massage, herbal products, oils, incense, books, jewelry and other fineries.

Books Marlon James Reading | 4:30 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Marlon James is a Jamaican writer, and has published three books titled “John Crow’s Devil,” “The Book of Night Women” and “A

Brief History of Seven Killing.”

Learning Girls Who Code | Wednesday, 10 11 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The 10-week club is designed for girls in grades 6-12. The club is part of a nationwide effort that is designed to address the gender gap in computer science and technology related careers.

Rites of Return: NAGPRA and Native American Activism Before and Beyond The Law | 6:00 PM-8:15 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This talk will examine the origins of the repatriation movement, the language of the law and the pivotal case of the Kennewick Man in order to disclose NAGPRA’s successes for Native people, and its limitations.

“Music of Soccer Chants,” an Ithaca Music Forum presentation

by Eduardo Herrera | 5:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Ithaca College, Whalen Center | Music of Soccer Chants, an Ithaca Music Forum presentation by Eduardo Herrera, a musicologist at Rutgers University who researches soccer chants as participatory music making.

The Case for Sustainable Capitalism: Paul Polman | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall, Cornell University | Part of the 2017 Hatfield Lecture Series. This lecture by Paul Polman will explore the need for sustainable capitalism.

American Sign Language Class | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Meets every Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. For more info, or to receive registration form by email, contact@fliconline.org, 272-2433.

Writing with Alexi-ese: A Community Read Creative Writing Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This event is part of a series associated with the Community Read 2017, Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie.

This nonjudgmental workshop will encourage participants to creatively respond to Alexie’s stories by writing and sharing short fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry, inspired by his collection of stories and selected

Marlon James Reading,

Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca Thursday, Oct. 12, 4:30 p.m.

Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist, publishing three books in total. His pieces are titled “John Crow’s Devil,”“The Book of Night Women” and “A Brief History of Seven Killing.” James is the first Jamaican author to receive the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, onw of the U.K.’s most prestigious book awards.

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word, title and theme prompts.

Weather Makers by Tim Flannery | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | A book talk and discussion on Weather Makers

by Tim Flannery. Part of Southworth Library’s series on climate change.

The Politics of Sports and Sports Journalism, Dave Zirin | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Ithaca College, Emerson Suites, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | A talk by provocative journalist Dave Zirin, host of the weekly Edge of Sports podcast and author of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down.

Audrey O’Connor Lecture | 7:30 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | Gates Hall, G01, Campus Road, Cornell University, Ithaca | Plants, magic, and molecules: The search for new cures from old remedies.

Wilderness Weekend - Hide Tanning | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Participants will have the opportunity to take a deer hide from start to finish, ending with buckskin and learning all the steps to get there.

Ithaca Underground Sound Engineering Training | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Saturday, 10 14 | Chanticleer, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Want to learn how to run sound for IU shows? Come to Sound Training where IU will have professional sound engineers providing training on the IU sound equipment!

Fundamental Rights Under the Indian Constitution | 4:15 PM-5:45 PM, Monday, 10 16 | Room 285, Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School, Ithaca | The Cornell Law School’s Berger International Speaker Series, International Human Rights Policy Advocacy Clinic and the South Asia Program present, Fundamental Rights Under the Indian Constitution.

Honorable Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Supreme Court of India.

Unifying Leadership in Adverse Times | 7:00 PM, Monday, 10 16 | Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | A Jahn Family Civic Leadership Series presentation by retired U.S. Army Capt. William B. Reynolds III, an Iraq War veteran who has competed in the Invictus Games and co-founded Outdoor Adventures for Sacrifice in Service (OASIS) Adaptive Sports.

Toastmasters Cayuga Club Meeting | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday,

Heads Up Young Blood

by Christie Citranglo

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, The Range.

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ock legend Jimi Hendrix shook the musical world in the 1960s with his masterful guitar skills. Iconic chords and crazy licks sprung from his fingers, crafting tunes that enchanted Woodstock and radio stations.

And now, 47 years after his passing, a new artist takes the stage to perform his music — and he’s only 14.

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer will take the stage 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at The Range. He’s on tour, performing covers of classic songs from famous artists.

Niederauer became interested in guitar playing at the age of 8 after watching School of Rock, starring Jack Black.

He expressed his interest in learning to play to his father, and his father found him a teacher — a classical teacher, not a rock ’n’ roll teacher.

After overcoming humble beginnings, Niederauer eventually made it onto The Ellen DeGeneres only two years

10 17 | , 205 Riley Robb Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | We practice together in a supportive, friendly and fun learning environment with 21st-century learning resources and great mentorship. Come visit a meeting and learn to find your voice as an effective speaker.

Freeing Your Voice | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, 10 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.

Kids LEGO Minifigure Swap Day | 2:00 PM-4:00 PMSaturday, 10 14 | Alphabet Soup, 171 E State Street, Ithaca | Come down to Alphabet Soup and trade out LEGO minifigures. Swap your duplicates for figures you’ve been waiting ages for and marvel over the vast array of LEGO minifigures.

Cortland Repertory Theatre Fall Classes |

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer performs live 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at The Range. (Photo: Nick Sonsini) after first learning how to play.

And then came the Broadway auditions.

Four years after watching School of Rock, Niederauer became a part of the very production that inspired him to be a musician. Niederauer played the role of the lead guitarist, “Zack Mooneyham,” in the production directed by Andrew Lloyd

Saturday, 10 14 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | A variety of theater classes for children and adolescents from Kindergarten through 12th grade. For more information, visit CortlandRep.org/for-kids.

Health Qigong for Breast Wellness | 5:30 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | T-Fit Fitness, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Learn 7 simple moves that increase the flow of energy through the breast area. Where there is flow disease can’t grow.

The Dragon’s Way 6 week Qigong program | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday, 10 11 | T-Fit Fitness, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Lose weight by getting healthier! For more information call or text Shawn Tubridy at (607) 279-6543.

Breast Wellness Awareness | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Shawn

Webber.

Starring in a Broadway show meant living among the New York City music scene. Niederauer worked with prominent musicians in the area, including the Allman Brothers Band, Stevie Nicks, Lady Gaga and more.

Niederauer doesn’t have any albums out, but listening to him rip on the guitar

Tubridy to learn about Qigong, herbal medicine and breast wellness.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Saturday, 10 14 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating. No dues, fees, or weigh-ins.

Long-term help for overeaters, undereaters and bulimics.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, 10 15 | 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.

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New York State Suffragists: Drawing and Lithographs Celebrating the 2017 Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Thursday, 10 12 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Visit The History Center

and bring a youthful air to old hits lights up the stages he plays at. He’s also working on his acting repertoire, beginning with School of Rock and now branching out into films. He played Bartholomew in a soon to be released film called Here Comes Rusty. •

to explore the new exhibition New York State Suffragists: Drawing and Lithographs Celebrating the 2017 Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State by Ithaca native Christine Nobles Heller.

Reverence | Friday, 10 13 | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland | An exhibition by two artists, Ben Altman and Robert Knight, on view from Aug. 28 to Oct. 13. The duo exhibition features photographs, participatory installations and audio, video and projection pieces.

Big Ink Ithaca | Friday, 10 13 | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings | Saturday, 10 14 | 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.

Marjorie Hoffman | Sunday, 10 15 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State

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Latif Bolat,

Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca Saturday, Oct. 14, 8 p.m.

Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, Thursday, Oct. 12, 6-8 p.m.

Latif Bolat wil be performing at Barnes Hall in Cornell University, as part of the Cornell Concert Series. Bolat performs traditional and contemporary Turkish mystical songs, tapping into his cultural background. When singing live, Bolat accompanies himself with the traditional baglama, which is a type of long-necked lute.

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Diane Newton & Patty Porter | Monday, 10 16 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Newton shows drawings in pastel and charcoal and Porter shows oil paintings of landscape. Opening reception for the artists, Friday, October 6, 5-8pm, Gallery Night in downtown Ithaca.

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