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n September 7, Ba ldwinsville resident and journalist Tyrone Heppard went back to his two bedroom apartment in the Syracuse suburb, logging onto the Facebook page of progressive online news site, Truth Against The Machine, and produced a Facebook Live video entitled “Tyrone on the New York Constitutional Convention,” a discussion on a measure New York State residents have the opportunity to vote for every two decades.

A one-time canvasser for Bernie Sanders, Heppard – a former reporter turned advertising account manager for The Cortland Standard (which, in full disclosure, is a place where Heppard and this reporter were once colleagues) – had logged into the site as a normal part of TATM’s social media strategy, where writers are asked to discuss pieces they had written in more depth than they could in writing.

“The Constitutional Convention story bugged me, even a few days after I had written it and put it up,” Heppard said. “So I figured, ‘hey, I have to get my presence out there anyway’ and I wanted to talk about it.”

Over the course of 16 minutes, Heppard contested a number of arguments given by opponents of a convention – from a loss of union rights, a hijacking of the convention by special interest groups and others – to argue that opposition to a New York Constitutional Convention was a campaign based largely on speculation and, in his eyes, the best way to force institutional change at the state level was through the convention.

“To say that we can’t try to change things because s--t might go bad,” Heppard said in the video, “is weak.”

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a l l i ng for a “mora l revival,” the orator and activist Rev Dr. William J. Barber II urged about 500 people to join a national campaign of civil disobedience in Binghamton last Tuesday night.

The multiracial, multigenerational crowd, which packed Binghamton’s United Presbyterian Church and included many from Ithaca, couldn’t wait to get started.

Barber was making a stop on a 15-city national tour to organize 40 days of coordinated direct action around the country next spring. The “Poor People’s Campaign” has progressive political goals, but its organizers say that its ambitions and tactics go far beyond politics.

“Paying a living wage, guarReverend Dr. William J. Barber II anteeing a basic income and uni(Photo: Brad Edmonson) versal health care, challenging the war economy, healing the planet, insisting on equal justice a day-long workshop following under the law−these are moral the event, is a 2008 graduate of issues, and this is a movement Ithaca College. Her colleague for moral revival,” Barber said. Alicia Swords, professof of soci“It’s time for action in the public ology at IC, has been connected square.” to the Kairos Center, which coMany in the audience looked chairs the campaign, for the last l i k e t h e y we r e 18 years. old enough to The Bingham“This is a remember the ton meeting was movement for or ig i na l Poor sponsored by five moral revival,” rel ig iou s orgaPe o p l e ’s C a m paign. Jeff Furnizations along Barber said. man, Sara Hess, w it h t he state “It’s time for D on B a r b er, teacher’s union action in the Laura Bra nca, (N YSU T), t he public square.” Labor-Religion Kirby Edmonds, Nancy Bereano, Coalition of New and other longYork State, and time Ithaca activists who knew the Food Bank of the SouthBarber by his reputation made ern Tier. It opened with Ithaca’s the drive to see him in person. Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers The Rev. Emily McNeill, direc- performing “Eyes On The Prize,” tor of the statewide Labor-Religion Coalition that sponsored continued on page 12

T a k e ▶ Anyone into aliens? On Thursday night at the Center For The Arts in Homer, newspaper columnist and Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) Statistics expert Cheryl Costa will be giving a free lecture at 7 p.m., sharing New York State UFO statistics with a focus on the UFO sighting activity in the Central New York. ▶ Explore Ithaca’s History by flashlight This weekend, Historic Ithaca will be kicking off its flashlight tours of Ithaca’s corners and alleys, digging deep into the mystery and intrigue of

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Ithaca’s history and the stories its streets have to tell. Though registration is closed, don’t fear: Historic Ithaca has a lot of cool events very similar to this all the time as part of the Ithaca Heritage Tour Series. ▶ It’s Wizarding Weekend this weekend. For those of you who love magic and Harry Potter, get excited! It’s the most magical day of the year! For embittered townies who hate fun, we’ll meet you at the Creeker for a pint or two while this whole thing blows over.

▶ The History Center is hosting a discussion of women’s suffrage and political offiice next Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. The lineup is packed, featuring a panel including Martha Robertson, Pamela Bleiwas, Deb Mohlenhoff, Liz Thomas, and Deborah Cippola-Dennis who will cover such questions as: “Are you conscious of being a role model for young women?” and “What message do you have for young women about voting, being an involved citizen and politics?” •

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Election 2017

PHOTOGRAPHER “Playing Poor” For A Day, Locals Learn About Trials Of Poverty

Golden Wins WNY Straw Poll

By C a se y Mar tin

It’s that time of year again…What costume or idea for a costume has been your personal best?

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“I had this idea once, I wanted to dress as a dumpster and fill it with junk, then go to a party and let people dumpster dive.

Would’ve been a hit.” ­—Jeffrey Teague

“I wanted to be Rosie the Riveter this year but I decided on Leslie Knope from Parks and Rec.” ­— Courtney Roth

“ An inconsistent Trump voter.” ­—Sean Fath

othing can truly show someone the obstacles poverty produces to living a comfortable, functional life except experiencing poverty itself. But the goal of things like poverty simulations, organized last weekend by Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga, is to give at least a taste of that experience to people who are in a position to help.

The event, held on Saturday at St. Catherine of Siena church, was established to give people a representation of a life in poverty, hopefully inspiring some empathy for the challenges marginalized populations face in their daily lives. This version of the simulation was developed by the Missouri Community Action Network, where kits can be purchased to produce the simulations around the country.

T he si mu lat ion covers one month of time under fiscal duress, dividing each week into 15 minute segments. At the beginning, participants are randomly assigned a name, age, family and situation. Some are

I destitute to begin with and facing joblessness or the departure of a spouse, others may have just gotten home from incarceration or have a small child to care for. There are requisite monthly financial obligations, like paying the mortgage or utility bills, along with weekly expenditures like food.

Once the simulation began, its intended stress was immediately evident. The activity operates on a delicate plane: the more people buy in and assume the roles they’ve been assigned, the more effective and realistic it becomes. Fortunately, Saturday’s group of about 50 people were ready for everything, including the inherent frustration and frantic nature of trying to rush around to places like the bank, the grocery store, the community action agency or the utility company, all located at tables along the border of the room.

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emerged as probably the most difficult elements of the game.

Long lines at the Social Services table and the General Employment office hamstrung some people’s abilities to accomplish more than one thing during the allotted time but, as was emphasized by the organizers, that’s not at all an uncommon experience for people who need to maneuver within those systems.

Meanwhile, going almost anywhere cost one transportation pass for each destination, quickly leading to the small orange tickets becoming one of the most valuable and sought-after items among the throng.

The knowledge that it’s just an artificial hour long scenario doesn’t stop your heart from continued on page 16

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Activists To Remember A Local Leader “Last year my husband and I were Thurston and Lovely Howell from Gilligans Island. By far my favorite costume.” ­—Karen Lauretti

“One year I was a Reindeer and my friend was an Elf. She had a golf cart and dressed it up as a sleigh. It was awesome.” ­— Grace Brosofsky

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When he died last January, it was a surprise to many here in Ithaca: even at the age of 74, Lawrence – a pillar of the community since moving here to take a job at Cornell in 2001 – had shown no sign of slowing down in his final years. Known largely for his role in the Arts, Architecture and Planning college’s Office for Diversity and Inclusiveness, where he mentored students of color for the next eight years, Lawrence was

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known moreso across the city for his role in just about every organization on the local front for social justice, from the local Office of Human Rights to his role as one of three founding members for Black Lives Matter Ithaca, a man willing to work on everything from the brainiest corners of local policy to the legwork of painting banners and designing signs.

W hen he s te pp e d out of retirement to take the reins of Southside Community Center in August 2016, all anyone close to him could see was a man full of life: committed to his com-

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munity and willing to give all he could to it.

“He was very excited to head up Southside,” Russell R ickford, a Cornell professor and a continued on page 15

thaca Democrat Ian Golden emerged victorious in a Congressional straw poll held over the weekend, pulling out a four point win over his closest competitor in the first event of its kind so far.

The field of candidates vying for the Democratic nomination in New York’s 23rd District is crowded and doesn’t show any signs of thinning soon. While incumbent Tom Reed so far looks to be unchallenged for the GOP nomination, there are currently seven Democratic candidates (Golden, Tracy Mitrano, Rich Gallant, Max Della Pia, Karl Warrington, Charles Whalen and Eddie Sundquist) and two Independent candidates (Brian Clasby, James Hertzler) who have declared so far, according to filings with the Federal Elections Commission.

While Golden received 30 percent of the votes to win, Sundquist received 26 percent of the vote, Mitrano received 24 percent, and Della Pia received 14 percent to round out the top four finishers.

Whalen, Hertzler, Warrington and Gallant all received less than 10 percent of the vote. Clasby, a resident of Enfield, has just recently filed with the FEC and was not included in the poll.

Golden’s win comes in the wake of his trek across the sprawling congressional territory, a 450-mile tour by foot to “better understand the voters and the issues they view most important.”

Meanwhile, in terms of fundraising efforts so far, Golden has placed third according to the FEC. Sundquist, a Chautauqua County family lawyer, has raised the most among the Democratic challengers, checking in at just over $45,000 according to his last filing, of which he has spent nearly $30,000. He is followed by Gallant, who has received the endorsement of the state teacher’s union and raised just over $33,000 and Della Pia, with just over $7,000 raised so far.

Early endorsements for the seat have begun to trickle in, though Golden has not received any of note. Della Pia garnered the support of former congressional candidate and current Tompkins County legislator Martha Robertson, who soundly lost a challenge to Reed in the 2014 midterm elections.

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t ’s her f i rst t i me g iv i ng t he tour of t he new teen space and maker’s space at the Tompkins County Public Library and, though still memorizing all of the details about the most recent additions, all new director Annette Birdsall wants to talk about is the library.

Birdsall officially started as the new TCPL director on Oct. 11 af ter the librar y board of directors whittled down their list of candidates and went with the long-time local. Of Birdsall’s numerous qualifications is an infectious love for libraries, what they represent and their poten-

tial as a force for positive change in the community.

Before taking the reins at TCPL, Birdsall was the director of the Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg. Just before leaving, Birdsall and her staff were able to get UPL to a financial position that allowed the library to go fine-free, something she noted during the interview process for TCPL director as one of her “proudest accomplishments.” Making the library accessible to as many people as possible, she said, is her passion.

“I think that the community who doesn’t know me

Tye’s family, profoundly so for her parents. Tye, who is 36, said her motivations partially stem med f rom her pa rents’ childhood in China and living through the Cultural Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s, when communism took over and her father’s family lost considerable wealth and business, as

fter the 2016 election, a few students at Tompkins Cortland Community College found themselves frustrated.

Not just by the results, mind you. Rather, they found themselves exhausted by the divisive nature of the campaign trail, the spillover of unhealthy dialogue into our everyday lives and a world divided outside the polished hallways of Washington, one more willing to debate and disagree than find ways to come together.

“Regardless of how you voted in the last election, there was obviously a great level of toxicity,” said Kerry Curran, a professor in the English Department at TC3. “It appeared like people were unable to get together even on the smallest issues.”

Recognizing this, Curran – along with biolog y professor Kelly Wessell and a number of students at the college – got together over the coming months to discuss ways to address this problem in their own small way, discussing ways to build positive change in the campus community, both in the short term and in the long run. What resulted last February was a group called Students Take Action and Negotiate Dialogue (STAND), an initiative conceived as a way to help increase student awareness of political dialogue and civic responsibility – and empower them to take meaningful action in these areas.

“When it started last semester, it was mostly just a small group of students who were just fed up with everything that was going on,” said Jessica Proctor, a TC3 student and a member of the group. “Talking to friends of mine, we were all wondering what we could do about it and, through another friend, I found out this club was starting. And now we’re here.”

Now counting t wo dozen members, the group focuses not only on bridging the gap between divided groups, but basic civics:

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Annette Birdsall (Photo: Casey Martin)

may not realize how passionate I am about library access and that it really does answer many socioeconomic questions and I think it’s an incredible resource that I’m just so passionate about,” Birdsall said. “They may not realize that. They will.”

H er first real library job was at The Gathering Place in Norwich before she even had her MLS, working as the parent educator and workshop coordinator. Part of her job included coordinating a small lending library with books about grief and parenting resources.

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n It h a c a n a t i v e w h o wasn’t even looking to study science in college is making waves at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and getting national recognition in the process.

Earlier this month, Kay Tye, an Ithaca High School graduate and the daughter of two Cornell professors, was named to the “Top 10 Scientists to Watch” list

by Science News for her work in the neuroscience field on the relationship between emotions and behaviors, and more specifically her current work on how the mind molds our perception of individual experiences.

“I’ve always been very curious about how we feel the way we feel or do the things we do,” she said.

“What is everything that goes on that makes us individuals, or

makes us perceive the world the way that we do.”

Despite initially applying to schools as an English Language major, Tye’s long-standing study of the brain began as an interest in psychology which, though interesting, left her with more questions than answers as she took classes in college (she was convinced to abandon her English aspirations after she saw her father cry for the first time at her acceptance to MIT). That’s when her focus shifted to neuroscience. Her wonder stayed the same, but the methods seem to have given her more clarity and a more satisfying journey.

Ultimately, Tye said she’d like to contribute to bridging the gap between neuroscience and psychology.

Education is important to

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Ups&Downs ▶ The Nines lives! As I’m sure you’ve probably heard by now, the old historic building which houses The Nines has been saved from imminent destruction as Visum Development has backed out of the deal.

While the building may be safe, the business could go away sometime soon: ownership deserves to retire, and it remains up to the new ownership to decide what business would fit best there. ▶ Why so racist? Racism against black students on campus up at Cornell. Now, antisemitism. Nice.

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 ▶ A Bruce Beem-Miller sent this response to last week’s Ups & Downs: Clearly 58% of your readership may already be visiting the greatest bookstore in the Fingerlakes: The Tompkins County Public Library! A percentage of my taxes support a fine library. I take out an armful of books (that I actually READ!!!) and a few weeks later return them for a new selection.

Does your Ups & Downs writer not know how a library works? Using this system, I do not have moldy, mildewed boxes of books, nor shelves of dust collectors. My walls are clear and serene with only a small shelf dedicated to family photos, child sculptures, curios, and... yes a dictionary and atlas. I reserve much space for artwork and peaceful blankness.

What, indeed, is wrong with your “Ups & Downs” writer? Does he or she want to meet in front of the library for a duel? If I don’t show up(I may be reading), start without me. The library staff will have seconds, thirds, fourths.

Etc. willing to stand for me.

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Overcrowding Laws Are Misguided Trafficking T W he Tow n of It haca to add Accessory Dwelling has proposed a new Units, is to supplement their law called the “Resiincome to pay the very high d e nt i a l R e nt a l O p e r a tproperty taxes that this law ing Permit Program.” The will force to go even higher! stated purpose of this law Hiring new Code Enforceis to compel all landlords ment Officers will add to the to “meet basic health and Town’s costs. safet y standards” and to T he c omp e t it ive f re e “reduce overcrowding.” I market in Ithaca is sufficient am a lifelong resident of to ensure that tenants can Ithaca, a Cornell Engineerfind housing that meets their My ing graduate and have years requirements. Additional of experience as a tenant government intervention is Su p l i m e n ta l a nd a l a nd lord i n b ot h unnecessary. If tenants are st u den t the City and the Town of unhappy with their living Ithaca. situation, they are free to h o usi n g I a m out r a ge d at t he let their lease expire and r e l at e d Town for proposing t his move out. Most landlords legislation. This intrusive want to please their tenants. i ncom e a nd d i s r up t i ve l aw h a s Frequently, my own tenants far-reaching unintended have requested reasonable consequences for both tenchanges to their lease which ants and landlords. Once I have honored. If tenants passed, it will create a shortage of compliant have a bad experience with an irresponsible housing in the area. That shortage will create landlord, they can post on ratemylandlord. upward pressure on rents. Rents are already com. The landlord will be forced by the free high, primarily due to Ithaca’s property taxes, market to improve or go out of business. which are among the highest in the nation.

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hen I moved to Ithaca from Washington DC in the 1990s, a mayor a l c a mpa ig n wa s underway and it interested me, with one candidate progressive and studious and the other conservative and not overtly cerebral, which seemed a stark and compelling choice. But I never heard much talk about the race, and the progressive lost. Not so much on the issues, I think, but from voter apathy.

Like DC, Ithaca is a political town (adjusted for size). Still, to win elective office anywhere you need to get people fired up, or at least enthusiastic, or at the very least aware there’s an election.

Talking about the tax base and the school budget and zoning doesn’t necessarily do that. What might is talking about traffic.

It might be cynical or pandering, but I bet you could become mayor of Ithaca with a simple platform of fixing the traffic.

There are many more important issues, of course, but this is one people feel.

Last Friday there was a lane closure on Route 13 North near Buffalo Street and it had traffic bollixed up for half a mile. It might have amounted to a ten

minute delay crossing town.

When I lived in DC there was a ten minute delay on my commute every ten minutes, so I didn’t find this situation particularly troubling.

Others did, though.

Later that day I saw a number of outraged postings on Facebook asking what in the world was happening with Ithaca traffic today.

One person simply posted the word, “Horrible.”

Of course, it wasn’t really horrible.

What happened in Las Vegas is horrible. What’s happening in Puerto Rico is horrible.

But this is the point of my premise, that you could become mayor of Ithaca solely with the vapid promise of easier driving.

So, what would one propose?

Remove most of the “no turn on red” signs around town. There are a lot of them.

On Tioga Street at the corner of Seneca you can’t make a right on red (which is the way 100 percent of the traffic is going, as Tioga ends at Seneca, a oneway street), but when the light turns contin u ed on page 7

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ennis Winge, known to many as an accomplished musician, also goes by the spiritual name Damodar Das, which means “Servant of God”. During his many successful years in music as a studio and freelance musician in New York City, he played at top venues – Carnegie Hall and the L.A. FAME Awards among them – and played with musicians who were in bands led by famous artists such as Billy Joel, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Stan Getz, Tony Bennett and Herbie Hancock.

One night Winge was playing jazz in a wine bar in Beacon, NY when he met a musician whose business card said “kirtan wallah” on it. He asked about it and she responded; “Well, we sing to God and…”

“I thought it sounded a little weird,” Winge recalled, “but I decided to try it.

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I went to a ‘kirtan’ led by her band BlisSing and was blown away.”

Dennis was the fourth of five kids in his family. As he grew up and became more successful as a musician, he would from time to time acknowledge a longing to find a deeper channel for the music he was playing. As a child, his older siblings had played guitar in church and Winge had loved that quite a bit. But by the time he reached the appropriate age, the church guitar group was no longer.

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green, there is a torrent of pedestrians, so you can’t turn then either. (I am as often a pedestrian or biker as a driver at this corner, so I’m not taking sides, just reporting.)

Some of the signs are in school areas, which is fine, but they’re there all day and night, while schoolkids aren’t. Maybe replace these with signs banning turns between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. or so.

Turns should be allowed at midnight.

Stagger green lights better. This might seem like a big job, but one could start with the two major east-west streets, Buffalo and State.

Next time you’re at a red light on one of these streets, look at the light at the next intersection. It will be green, but red by the time you get there.

At either end of Buffalo and State you will find road-raging drivers who just spent five minutes going ten blocks stopped by six lights.

Road rage leads to inconsiderate driving, which worsens matters. Harried

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drivers in Ithaca have a distinct distaste for letting other drivers change lanes.

For example, if you want to make a left off Route 13 North onto State, Seneca, or Buffalo, you better get in the left lane a minimum of 1,000 feet in advance, because the drivers who have already scurried to that lane will sooner commit vehicular homicide than let you in, even if you were the first car in the middle lane and they’re the 30th in the left. This means we have a lot of nonturning lanes going unused, because nobody wants to die.

Of course, safe and considerate driving that helps the flow of traffic can’t be mandated, only suggested, and encouraging civil behavior is not necessarily a winning strategy in politics, at least not anymore.

So if you want to be mayor, maybe just say you’ll fix the signs and signals.

Or don’t say anything specific at all, or anything that makes any sense. That seems to work these days.

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

“If Ithaca tenants are demanding a government stamp of approval on their apartment, then why didn’t a single tenant come to the public hearing on the matter to voice their support for this law? Instead, the Town Hall was filled with displeased landlords.”

In devotional (bhakti) yoga, the ancient words (mantras) themselves are the essence of Divinity (like Jesus or Buddha), he said. “They harmonize with home as well as the whole next day. After our bodies’ energy centers (chakras), the third time, I felt good for three days and raise our energy and our spirits. straight.”

No matter what your mood is when you “Then I took a Krishna Das CD out begin, you are bound to feel better after of the library and I was blown away even chanting.” more. I decided to learn as much as I Eight years after first discovering could about chanting, and support other sacred chanting, Damodar Das has been Kirtan musicians as much as possible.” leading kirtan chanting regularly in the “In 2012 I heard that Finger Lakes for five conKrishna Das was coming secutive years. He has also “ It is a wonderful to chant at the State Theplayed at many well-known way to build ater. I volunteered to take spiritual centers such as a sense of tickets…Every seat in the Omega Institute, Kripalu, community and State was f illed. Clearly and Ananda Ashram, and spread peace there were many people of and love through at many chanting festivals. all ages interested in sacred Damodar has four the world. As it chanting. I was glad to turns out, all that chanting cds that can be make friends with many one needs to do is downloaded from his webof them, and soon a weekly just sit down and site DamodarDas.com. You chanting group was started can participate in chantsing.” at Ahimsa Yoga in Ithaca.” ing either with Damodar Chanting itself is nothDas Kirtan or Ithaca’s welling new to the culture. Gregorian Chants, known devotional band One Love Chant Buddhist chants, Sanskrit-Hindu chants every Wednesday. Check out www. go back for centuries. What brings folks DamodarDas.com or “Damodar Das back week after week to sacred chanting Kirtan” on Facebook for a complete in Ithaca? Damodar Das, Dennis’ spiri- schedule. tual name, finds the coming together of On Saturday November 4th, a big regulars and newcomers to give grati- chanting celebration will take place to tude for their abundant lives and to set commemorate Ithaca’s 5th Anniversary prayer intentions is powerful. of Sacred Chanting from 7 to 10 p.m. at “Chanting is easy, fun and uplifting,” Sacred Root Kava Lounge (103 S. Geneva he said. “This is a non-religious spiri- Street). Facebook “5th Chant-iversary” tual practice that welcomes all belief for more details. systems. It is a wonderful way to build a sense of community and spread peace and love through the world. As it turns Marjorie Olds is a columnist for the out, all that one needs to do is just sit Ithaca Times. Her column, “Commudown and sing.” nity Connections,” appears monthly. contin u ed from page 6

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public hearing on the matter to voice their support for this law? Instead, the Town Hall was filled with displeased landlords. If tenants really do demand government-approved housing, no new laws need to be passed; they can simply choose to live in the City of Ithaca instead of the Town of Ithaca.

One of the stated reasons for this proposed legislation is overcrowding. If overcrowding really is a pervasive problem in the Town of Ithaca, it is due to an acute shortage of affordable housing. This legislation will only exacerbate that shortage since the number of tenants who will be evicted by landlords and forced to find new compliant housing will skyrocket.

A spike in the number of tenants looking for housing will bid up rents even more! If the intent of this law is to increase the availability of housing and make rent more affordable, it will achieve the exact opposite.

This onerous law has severe penalties for landlords. I live in an owner-occupied duplex.

According to this law, if I were to allow my Residential Rental Operating Permit to lapse for one year, even if my attached rental is unoccupied during that time, I would face 52 violations of the new law – one for each week.

Each violation carries a penalty of $1,000, and one to six months of imprisonment. I would have to pay $52,000 and spend between four and 26 years in prison. Landlords know that it can take time to find a contractor and schedule repairs. It can also be difficult to meet with tenants and Code Enforcement officers to perform inspections. If a repair takes longer than expected, the fines and prison time will quickly accumulate.

Finally, landlords are frequently unaware of situations where tenants illegally share their room with a friend to split the rent.

According to this unjust law, the landlord will be punished with jail and fines for the tenant’s wrongdoing!

I urge the Town to stop trying to penalize people who provide affordable housing in Ithaca. Stop penalizing middle-class homeowners like me who are doing whatever they can to make ends meet and to pay high property taxes. The town should be focusing its energies on ways to reduce the cost of housing in Ithaca. They could start by repealing burdensome laws, encouraging personal responsibility, reducing government dependency and wasteful spending, and empowering rather than restricting individuals.

Richard Ballantyne is a local engineer and landlord.

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County Officials Discuss Sharing Law Enforcement Services Tompkins County officials are now ready to move a discussion on the sharing of law enforcement services across municipalities countywide, the legislature’s Public Safety Committee said Thursday.

A little more than a month since the release of an analysis on the county’s resources by the Rochester-based Center for Governmental Research, the committee will soon begin reaching out to the communities funding several various police forces within the county to weigh political appetites to potentially consolidate Tompkins County’s law enforcement resources under one singular entity. The hope, lawmakers say, is to craft a strategy to evaluate CGR’s recommendations, examine the study’s findings, break them down and begin to look at ways to share services across departments in a way that works for everyone, whether it be a comprehensive overhaul of the system or smaller, more manageable tasks.

“We’re going to do this big thing,” said Rich John, who chairs the Public Safety Committee. “We’ve never done it before, and we have to think about how we go about this. We need a recipe: we need to know where to go and the ingredients we need.” .

County Discusses Measures To Combat EMS Crisis Tompkins County Legislators Thursday heard the first series of suggestions on how to improve the county’s failing emergency response infrastructure as well as some of the barriers – legal and social – standing in the way of significant reform.

Committee chair Irene Weiser – joined by officials from the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response – highlighted some potential ideas to look into as the county thinks of creative ways to stall what was once characterized as an “impending collapse” of the county’s emergency services.

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Two weeks from election day, the question stands: Will you vote this fall? Do you even know how?

By Asha Sanaker

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t first glance, Tompkins County seems fired up. The election of Donald Trump galvanized a new political verve here. Every day, our social media newsfeeds are crowded with political articles. Tompkins folk are volunteering for local government committees, attending party meetings and registering to run for local office.

And yet, the local primary election in September, in which numerous races were contested, saw an average voter turnout, countywide, of 4 percent.

Sure, local election turnout is always much lower than turnout for state or federal races. In those, more people are eligible to vote which, compounded with the rowdier, attention-grabbing nature of federal politics, often means greater turnout.

But 4 percent? Really?

Let’s look at that number: Of all registered voters in Tompkins County, only four in every one hundred voted. Compare that to the total population of each voting district and it gets worse. Trailblazers PAC, a local

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political fundraising organization founded by former New York State Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke, recently surveyed data for every 2017 primary election across New York State.

The average percentage of voter turnout compared to population? 3 percent.

Measuring against total district population, the turnout in the recent local primary in Tompkins County ranged from less than one percent (In District 4: 81 people out of 7,409) to 3.31 percent (In District 3: 249 people out of 7,530).

By contrast, 43,000 Tompkins County residents voted in the 2016 presidential election – That’s 78 percent of registered voters and 40 percent of the total population.

It hardly needs to be said that voting is the foundational activity of a participatory democracy. But not every vote has the same impact. Though federal politics deserves our attention, our potential for impact as a single voter on the federal level is fairly small, while our potential for impact as a voter on a local level is disproportionately huge.

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out in the September primary for Rich John, who was running for County District 4? They made the decision about representation for the next four years for the other 99 percent of the population in their district.

What Keeps People From Voting?

Local elected officials are at the front lines of voter activation efforts, year after year.

They’ve put a lot of thought into how to activate voters, and what prevents people from getting to the polls.

Danks Burke argues the central problem is being bombarded with the places to go to get information, but without any clear paths to acquire the information that is clear or accurate.

“I think as voters we don’t have time in our lives to become as fully educated as perhaps the Founding Fathers idealistically imagined that we would,” said Danks Burke in an interview. “Now we have all these tools at our disposal for learning information. At the same time our lives are so much more complicated in a way that makes it really

difficult. That is the single greatest barrier to voting. There is just too much out there to know and navigate. The answer is not to eliminate information, it’s making it easier for voters to access paths to information.”

The Tompkins County Board of Elections does have a website, which is part of the larger Tompkins County site, with a wealth of voting information and links to local government sites, but the interface is not intuitive and some links to contact sheets for legislators are broken.

The staff at the Board of Elections are responsive to questions and do go out into the community to educate groups about our electoral process. Election Commissioner Elizabeth Cree says that, unfortunately though, when people are interested in talking about elections is during election season when staff time is extremely tight administering voting.

Cynthia Brock, Ithaca City Common Council representative for Ward 1, acknowledged that it’s very hard to educate yourself as a voter: “I know how to find things on the city

website because I use it so often,” said Brock, “but I can’t find things on the county website, I can’t find things on the town website, because I don’t work with it. And if you’re coming to it for the one time, to find the one piece of information, it’s going to take you a long time to get through that.”

Another barrier to voter participation is the dizzying complexity of the election schedule, local officials noted. There are up to eight potential separate voting dates in presidential election years in Tompkins County, including village elections, Lansing’s separate village election, federal primary, state primary, local primary, school district, special election, and, the big contest, the general election. Most years there are at least four separate dates to vote in Tompkins County, and sometimes six.

A single voter could be eligible to vote in up to seven different contests in a presidential election year. That’s seven different dates to remember.

New York state is also a closed primary state, meaning you can only vote in primaries if you’re registered in one of the two major political parties. If you are registered in a minor party, or are unaffiliated and want to participate in the federal primary in spring of 2018? You’re out of luck. You would have had to change your registration to one of the major parties by Friday, October 13, 2017.

New registrants have until 35 days prior to an election.

Anna Kelles, County Legislator for District 2, noted additional barriers to voter participation, including a lack of transportation to polling sites and the difficulty of finding and understanding the rules around absentee ballots. Danks Burke added that many people don’t know they have the Constitutional right to take time off of work to vote, and may not have the resources to fight their employer if they’re denied it . She also suggested that many voters don’t feel they know enough about the candidates and issues to have an opinion in the first place.

Basic civic education is a real issue, as well, and it starts with kids. Kelles lamented that government is largely taught to New York high schoolers as if it only existed in the past, which she believes reinforces young people’s political disengagement.

“Government is often taught in high school from an historical perspective,” Kelles said. “Not a hands on, ‘what’s going on right now? What are the influences? How do these current policies affect you?’ It fosters people just entering into the rat race. Incomes are flatlined, the cost of living is increasing.

You’re spending more time to make the little bit of money you have without any opportunity to step back and say, how can I change my situation? The feeling about government is: You hurt me, you hurt my children, you

take from me. And that general feeling of helplessness stems from never understanding the impact of government or having constructive, critical conversations about it when you’re learning about the world around you.

It starts young, the disengagement.”

Both Brock and Danks Burke point to systemic disenfranchisement of voters as well. Brock’s concern was primarily with student disenfranchisement, which has a significant impact in a college town. The National Center for Education Statistics states there were 17.3 million undergraduate students in the U.S. in 2014, and likely to be closer to 20 million by 2025. The Campus Votes Project has worked to mobilize them, because despite their numbers, the millennial generation has the lowest voter turnout of any age set. Factors depressing turnout include the timing of registration deadlines, which Brock raised as an issue that she sees locally.

“I don’t believe that the structure currently in place is designed to encourage voter participation,” she said. “We are a college town. Two-thirds of our residents are between the age of 18 and 25. The timelines are not set up to allow or encourage young people to vote or to become engaged on a statewide and federal level. [The deadlines are within] weeks of when they arrive on campus and they’re not thinking about these things.”

Danks Burke believes that powerful, monied interests are actively working to discourage voter turnout and gain a political advantage.

“I think the best path [for voters to get information] is voter to elected official direct engagement. There are huge barriers sitting in the way of that direct communication,” Danks Burke said. “Powerful interests in this country, that are nonpartisan, that want to direct the entire conversation. I’m talking about pharmaceutical corporations, religious institutions, large energy production corporations. They don’t care about political party.

They’re not people. They don’t have emotions at all. But they are very powerfully directing the conversation away from voter-elected officials and toward their interests.”

When fewer people vote, it can be easier to affect opinions and turn the tide of a primary. And since many districts are so heavily weighted towards one party or another, as they are throughout New York State, the primary becomes more crucial than the general election in deciding who our representatives are.

What Gets People to the Polls?

Ducson Nguyen, Ithaca Common Council member for Ward 2, admits it’s often anger that drives engagement, so candidates have to figure out how to channel that anger into constructive change.

“One thing that I feel drives voter engagement, unfortunately, is anger...When there’s something controversial, when people are excited about something, that seems to drive turnout,” Nguyen said. “Quite frankly, engaging dissatisfaction – hopefully in a positive way – is the way to boost turnout. I try to add something positive. But that’s the way to do it.”

Another factor that drives people to the polls is when there are hotly contested races. Uncontested races are commonplace in Tompkins County, and drive down voter turnout. Seph Murtagh, who’s currently running for his third term as Ithaca Common Council member for Ward 2, had an opponent for the first time in his recent primary (Josh Dolan, who declared his intent to run but moved out of district before he could get on the ballot). He acknowledges that contested races mobilize candidates to clarify their intent and reach out to voters: “Contested elections are important because it forces people to talk about why I’m better than the other guy, why they need to vote,” said Murtagh. “When a vote is uncontested you’re not getting out there with the same enthusiasm. I wrote a whole statement of my vision for my third term on my website. Would I have done it were it not contested? No. Contested elections make you do that.”

Nguyen faced a highly contested primary and general election for his first campaign in 2015 against candidate Shawn Gannon, who eventually earned 65 percent of the vote. He agreed that, as much effort as it entails, it’s gratifying to connect face-to-face with constituents and allows candidates to provide necessary voter education: “The usefulness of contested elections is that someone actually reaches out and tells you what your ward or district is,” said Nguyen. “Yes, it’s a self-serving message because they’re also saying vote for me, but at least you’re making them aware. I’d like to think that the slightly higher turnouts during the 2015 primary and general are because my opponents and I fought so hard. Being forced to do it – to campaign and connect with voters – all the things that come out of a contested election do raise awareness and can boost turnout.”

Another step toward increasing voter turnout, County Legislator Rich John argues, would be the proposed New York State Constitutional Convention (the Con Con).

New Yorkers will vote on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention in the November election. The Con Con could alter the state constitution to create an independent commission to prevent the manipulation of districts to privilege one party over another, called a partisan gerrymander: “When you have districts that are comTh e

pletely one-sided it’s hard to get excited about a race,” said John. “One side cannot win.

They cannot run viably in most of the congressional districts in the state. I understand the risks of the Convention, but I don’t see that we’re ever going to get significant reform in Albany if we don’t have a convention. If that doesn’t happen we’re just going to continue as we are and I think that’s really corrosive to people’s trust in government. Why vote if you know the system is not fair?”

Several local officials interviewed brought up the idea of the general election being declared a federal holiday to increase voter turnout. Brock also argued for schools to be closed on election days.

“I grew up in Hawaii and election day was always a school holiday so everyone could get out to vote,” she said. “Because school was closed and the buildings were fully available, everyone could get out to vote easily and quickly.”

Brock also pointed to the public financing of elections as an important step in diversifying the candidate pool, which she believes would drive up voter turnout: “Publicly funded elections and campaigns would allow a broader demographic to engage both as candidates and as constituents,” she added. “People would see greater opportunity for their voices to be heard and you would have the funding to do that outreach without being beholden to large donors or business people who are going to donate to your campaign.”

Other ideas to increase voter turnout that officials advocated for included same-day or automatic voter registration, ballots by mail, simplifying the election schedule and even tax credits for voting.

But most of the ideas for increasing voter turnout require changes to state or federal legislation. Organizing for changes to legislation and voting for candidates who will support those efforts go hand in hand. Danks Burke exhorts everyone: “Vote! Do everything you can to get to the polls and vote. Even though the odds are completely stacked against you. Anyone who actually makes it out to vote is a hero in my view, and deserves great applause. But we have to do it. Because if we’re not voting then there’s no way that we’re going to be able to change the rules to make it easier for people to vote.”

The Tompkins County Board of Elections can be most easily accessed at www. votetompkins.com. Sample ballots for the general election can be viewed there now.

You can also sign up for free text and email reminders for every election date you’re eligible to vote at TurboVote.

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Takeaways From Cornell’s State Of The University

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Capping off a busy month which included ribbon cuttings for Cornell’s Roosevelt Island campus in New York City and the recent opening of the Johnson School’s Breazzano Family Center for Business Education in Collegetown, Cornell President Martha Pollack

gave a short but optimistic briefing to the Cornell community at a time where momentum, Cornell Board of Trustees chairman Bob Harrison, feels “stronger than it’s ever been.”

A Focus On Housing

In his opening remarks, Bob Harrison, chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, outlined an upcoming plan to improve the campus’ capacity to house all incoming freshmen and sophomores on-campus, something that for years has had a negative impact on Ithaca’s housing stock and created a heavily student-centric rental housing dynamic within the greater community. Looking to increase overall enrollment by 1,100 students over the next few years to keep up with programming demands (approximately 275 stu-

dents per class), Harrison outlined a goal of adding 2,000 beds in North Campus by 2021, which will allow for housing for all freshmen and sophomores and ease up on the housing shortage in the city. For those still living off-campus, Harrison said the university has partnered with the City of Ithaca to create a property safety database which, eventually, will include all units in Ithaca whether or not they are listed or not. The theory behind this is, with a self-reporting system where people can objectively compare the cost and quality of one unit against another, the university can de incentivize the levy of high rents for housing of questionable quality.

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Pollack, in her address, said she has a vision to turn Cornell from being not just one of the world’s best universities, but a worldclass model for what a 21st century university can be: a place that leverages its research capacities and international connections into a force for good in a rapidly changing world.

First, the university must combine globalfocused, experiential learning with the traditional standards of rigorous scholarship, combining intensive classroom learning with actual, practical applications of the knowledge they had obtained. Examples include Cornell’s systems approach to public health (including a new program in a master’s of public health), Cornell’s Neurotech program – what Pollack called “one of the most important” scientific endeavors of the 21st century – that could be used to combat issues like alzheimer’s, dementia, and schizophrenia, and a number of civic projects focusing on addressing some issues with the structures of modern society, working to help combat issues like systemic inequality in America’s cities.

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Pollack, who was well known at the University of Michigan for bringing various disciplines together on campus, seemed a perfect candidate at the time of her selection to carry through Cornell’s “One Cornell” initiative, an attempt to leverage all of Cornell’s resources in Qatar, New York City, Ithaca and in cooperative extensions all over the state in order to have the greatest impact.

Though early in this effort, so far Pollack has named the examples of the Johnson School and Dyson School now working closer together and with greater collaboration across other disciplines and, in as many cases as possible, Pollack said administration is looking to find additional collaborative opportunities not just between majors, but between campuses as well.

In a year where Cornell has been a microcosm of elevated racial tensions on a national level, Pollack said she would have a particular focus on improving inclusion on campus, fostering diversity and encouraging an atmosphere of respect and kindness.

Touting Cornell ’s present racial and socioeconomic diversity in the Class of 2021 (12.9 percent of undergraduates in the Class of 2021 are first generation, Harrison said, while more than 25 percent are underrepresented minorities or multi-race), Pollack said she would continue to have a focus on increasing diversity in the classroom, putting more focus on recruiting and retaining low-income students and forming a task force on the climate of the campus, a program announced Oct. 11.

“We do not expect a perfect set of ideas; the goal is to move us forward as a community, recognizing that our campus is a reflection of our society,” Pollack said at the time, “and that we cannot entirely eliminate attitudes and expressions of intolerance and bias, but that we can and must redouble our efforts to respond to them in a way that reaffirms Cornell’s founding principles.”

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During the election, it apparent to many in the group that a large number of TC3 students lacked specific knowledge of not only how the electoral process works, but how to register to vote, find polling locations or how to engage with their political representatives: the things professors suddenly realized they or other teachers had never taught their own students how to do. This, the group saw, was a longterm way to create change: by giving people ownership of the legislative process, they could instill in people the knowledge they needed to motivate real change, real action, simply by performing their basic civic duty.

But to get people excited about the longterm change, the group first needed to bring people together in the short term, on common ground, in order to get the conversation started.

Thinking back to the acronym, STAND is not merely about dialogue: it’s about action.

As part of the nonpartisan organization’s mission, the group seeks to take an issuebased approach to the issue of division, using current events and volunteerism as a springboard to engage students in the issues that are important to them. When a hurricane devastated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico several weeks ago, the group – recognized by the college only in August – saw an opportunity to make a difference. What they never anticipated was how enthusiastically their efforts would be received.

Armed with a wishlist of supplies fielded

by Wessell from a Cornell graduate student with Puerto Rican ties, the group set up a table on campus last Monday to raise some money to help with the crisis, hoping to be able to afford a few things on the list to help the community of Caguas, a city of 142,000 people about 20 miles south of San Juan.

Expecting nothing more than just a few dollars, in just a few days’ time – from Monday through Thursday – the group collected over $1,200 in cash and change, an unprecedented amount for this small college of a little more than 5,000 students.

“Different clubs do things all the time,” said Peter Voorhees, the college’s Public Informations Officer. “But the money these guys raised is off the charts. We see fundraisers around here all the time that might raise like, $40. For them to raise that kind of money in a week is phenomenal, especially for a new club.”

“We were just looking for change, no pun intended,” Wessell said. “The generosity that the college community responded with to our ask was heartening and impressive.” Just lasted three days.

Though the island will need millions of dollars, if not billions in aid over the next several years, the impact this small school in Dryden will have is significant. The water treatment supplies they were able to purchase – from purification tablets to water filters – will go toward treating more than 500,000 gallons of water that, before, was undrinkable. Other supplies they sent, from spray lotions and medication like Ibuprofen acetaminophen to Pedialyte and diapers, will have immeasurable impact for people on the island not receiving supplies from other, more public sources. And in doing so, the group managed to create connections on campus

From L to R: Kerry Curran (faculty co-advisor), Sophia Faller, Jonathan Hatala, Carrie D’Aprix, Sophie Janowsky, Jessica Proctor, Kelly Wessell (faculty co-advisor)

they never thought they would have and build a conversation around something not even Conservatives and Democrats could disagree over: helping their fellow human.

“One of the students came over and mentioned she had family in Puerto Rico.,” said

Jonathon Hatala, a student who was part of the project. “She got a little teary-eyed when she found out this is what we were doing… it’s just really nice to feel that sort of connection with somebody.”

With early success in hand, the group

sees immense potential to grow in the future.

They’ve already been reached out to by a pair of groups on campus – the Gay/Straight Alliance and the African-Caribbean Club – to collaborate on future fundraising and dialogue building relationships and, after training with the Cornell Interdialogue Project, they’ve managed to have some influence on the college’s office of diversity which now is even looking into ideas to incorporate some of the group’s principles into its own initiatives next semester.

“I think there’s a synchronicity happening,” Curran said. “There’s a need, and I think a strong desire for every student from top to bottom asking ‘how do we do this differently?’ And we can probably do it better.”

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“Presbyterians are called God’s frozen chosen for a reason,” she said. “We’re not clappers. But we’re learning. I think this is what the reign of God looks like.”

Many who attended looked as if they were old enough to remember the original

Poor People’s Campaign, which the Rev. Martin Luther King was organizing when he was assassinated in April 1969. Antipoverty activists have always wanted to carry King’s work forward, according to Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the new campaign. A year and a half ago the nonprofit Kairos Center, which Theoharis directs, started laying the groundwork.

Theoharis says that the new Poor People’s Campaign is inspired by King’s radical vision of change. “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values,” he said in 1967. “We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and prop-

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with a librarian who was right across the street at the Guernsey library in Norwich and she would give me books when I told her what my theme was,” Birdsall said, “she gave me all books related to my theme and also craft books and so I put workshops together for preschoolers and after-school aged students, so I was a youth services librarian first.”

Youth services is where her heart stayed.

Birdsall was an English major and her family would jokingly ask if she was going to become a librarian. It wasn’t until her job at The Gathering Place that she realized being a librarian was exactly what she wanted to do.

Her kids were going to middle school while she attended Syracuse University to get her MLS while also working as the circulation supervisor at Olin Library on the Cornell University campus.

There are some staff at TCPL who already know Birdsall well. Some of them know her from her time as a youth services librarian in Ithaca, some from her time working for the Finger Lakes Library System. Some know her from her most recent position at UPL, a job she started in 2012.

Just a few days after starting, Birdsall’s new library opened up two newly updated and furnished spaces: the teen space and the makerspace. Before sitting down to talk about her new responsibilities she first wanted to show them off. Movable dry erase boards, comfortable and quiet working spaces, a 3D printer, and sewing machines are some of the new toys that dot these spaces. But utilizing them fully is just one of the many short-term goals Birdsall has for herself.

“I am a steward of all of this new and exciting transformation of this library that has

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as even becoming separated from other family members.

“They came from a world in which the only thing nobody can ever take away from you is your education,” she said of her parents. “The only thing you can keep with you is what you know [...] That got me interested in not only emotion, but also learning and memory. So that’s basically what I study now: emotional learning, emotional memory, and how they influence everything else.”

As Tye has ventured forward in the science and technology world, she has learned some things about herself too. Earlier in October, in addition to her inclusion on the Top 10 list, she was awarded the National Institute of Health’s Pioneer Award. The award is for “exceptionally creative scientists pursuing new research directions to develop pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research” and was given to 12 scientists from around the country. Tye was the only woman among the 12 recipients.

While this was indicative of the broad diversity issue scientific fields are often scrutinized for, something strange struck her beyond that: she hadn’t noticed that she was the only woman, not right away at least. It took someone else pointing it out for her to realize. These are the types of things that she said show her own biases, the ones she holds in her mind despite the fact she has to face

happened and that’s exciting to me because we have so much potential just in exploring,” Birdsall said. “We haven’t even begun to imagine all the ways the new spaces can be used so that’s a fantastic opportunity.”

Before officially joining TCPL, Birdsall told the community gathered at her presentation that she would also like to initiate a bookmobile to make some of the library services mobile. Since joining, she has learned that is a project already in motion. But her passion drives her to think to the future as well.

“Longer term, I think that it’s really important to provide a library where there’s free and open access for everyone and that there aren’t barriers that maybe you just don’t perceive from the inside,” Birdsall said. “So we want to make sure that those barriers are explored and those that we can remove we do remove.”

Focusing on community engagement, becoming a part of the community, and reflecting the community are what Birdsall sees as a library’s job. Being a member of the community herself for so many years is likely going to give her an advantage while stepping into this role. She knows the geographic limits of the library’s reach, the social concerns inherent in the community and the economic challenges for area residents. But she’s still learning a lot about TCPL specifically. The robust programming that TCPL offers won’t see many changes yet, as Birdsall and her dedicated staff evaluate what is working and what’s not. In fact, Birdsall says she relies on the staff for programming, and anything that meets the library’s mission will stay.

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“What does it say about my own gender bias that when I first opened the page, I didn’t notice,” she said, noting much of what she has experienced is implicit bias, not necessarily outward hostility. “It’s really improbable, that it would be one out of 12.”

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“And the rest is history,” said Heppard.

“I didn’t know about their group when I was researching or writing that story. I had no idea that they were doing what they were doing. I didn’t put that video out there with

the intention someone would use it […] I thought I was just going to be some guy on the internet spouting his opinion.”

In the weeks leading up to the Proposition 1 vote on Nov. 7, groups both for and against a Constitutional Convention have been doing their best to not only inform people of what the vote is and what it’s about, but also what could happen – in their eyes – if the voters were to approve the convention. On one side is the Vote No camp, made up of a strange collection of big money interests including unions and lobby groups from Planned Parenthood to the New York State Pistol And Rif le Association. On the other, the Vote Yes camp, consisting largely of individuals privately funded grassroots organizations like The People’s Convention and others who,

with limited funds, have tried their best to get across the state and inform as many as they can on their perspective.

How both camps have gone about reaching prospective voters have, in many ways, been similar. Both have worked to hold town hall-style forums on the topic. Some, like The People’s Convention has done with The Ithaca Times, have reached out to meet with editorial boards in an effort to reach greater audiences. Both have put money into campaigns on social media, sharing video, text-based advertisements and custom frames for one’s Facebook profile picture in order to spread awareness of the measure – and their stance – as widely as possible.

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In June, a coalition of more than 100 separate interest groups across the political spectrum called New Yorkers Against Corruption launched a “multifaceted” campaign against the convention which included digital advertising and yard signs powered in part by more than $1.5 million in funds contributed largely by its members. In contrast, four groups in favor of Proposition 1, according to filings with the state board of elections, have raised a combined $392,000. Unions, like the New York State United Teachers, have distributed literature urging its memberships to not only raise awareness of the campaign but to urge its members to vote no, highlighting specifically how measures recommended to the voters by the 204 member delegation could threaten their standing. Black lawn signs, paid for by New Yorkers Against Corruption, have been popping up all over lawns across the state paid for by what Politico New York’s Bill Mahoney has described as “dark money.”

A media contact for New Yorkers Against Corruption did not respond to The Ithaca Times for comment when emailed for perspective on the group’s strategic messaging philosophy.

As far as awareness, so far it’s been a strategy that seems to have worked: Where few at the beginning of the summer had even heard of a constitutional convention, a Siena College poll in early October noted awareness had risen (up to 20 percent in September, up from 14 percent in July) with narrow support (44 percent to 39 percent, slightly down from recent months) for a convention.

However, those in favor of the convention – its greatest supporters often more liberal, younger and lower income with more black and Latino voters – greatly jives with the demographics of its whiter, more conservative and/or union affiliated opponents.

“Not surprisingly,” Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg wrote earlier this month, “voters from union households are much more negative towards ConCon than those voters from non-union households.”

How each camp – Vote Yes vs. Vote No – gets its information could be a factor.

Working through member communications like local newsletters, listservs, social media and the union meetings they already have on a consistent basis, these groups at the local level have been able to take advantage of their memberships to educate them on all the arguments against a constitutional convention.

“We are following our state and national affiliates to spread the word to our membership to vote no,” Adam Piasecki, President of the Ithaca Teacher’s Association said in an interview. “There’s a couple different messaging things we’re utilizing, from the New York State AFL-CIO to some things produced by NYSUT and other affiliate groups… they’re all kind of the same material but the documents all look a little bit different.”

As a result of these efforts, members of New York State’s unions are unsurprisingly the most aware of the upcoming vote: according to an article written by J.H. Snyder for City & State last month, NYSUT – which represents all of New York’s unionized teachers – has more members (over 600,000) than the entire continued on page 15

“It looks different,” he said, “but it’s more effective in the modern world.” contin u ed from pg. 14 The theory, he said, is to capitulate on a newfound enthusiasm in politics by a group supporters’ coalition: all of whom had been characterized as the “new electorate,” a demoreceiving communications from their union’s graphic based on a number of studies on leadership since the spring. For unions, the behavioral politics and political polarization biggest advantage is of being the first point of among those under the age of 35. contact, of being the first group to reach out “They don’t associate with institutional to people and shape their initial impression of organizations anymore, they’re more interthe issue. But for all the influence of unions, ested in the more agnostic approach: they there is still tend to not the need identify with to appeal a group or a beyond party,” Benone’s memninghoff bership. said. “Over This is 50 percent of why u nion that demoofficials like graphic DoraLeland, doesn’t identhe Regional tify with any Politip a r t y, a nd c a l Ac t ion t hat trendCoordinator line is growfor NYSUT ing. They’re representing also not A sign urging New Yorkers to vote ‘no’ on proposition 1 this November. a large swath likely to join of the Southlocal demoern Tier, have been hitting the road. cratic groups but on the other hand, their A member of several nonpartisan com- civic engagement is high – they do a lot of munity organizations and a leader with the community service and participate in other Chemung County Democratic Committee, groups. They like to do it with nuance.”

Leland – using her connections with various This, Benninghoff said, is the group where groups around the region – has tried to reach they’ve focused. Looking at the previous state out to people in various ways, from letters to elections in 2013 and 2009, Benninghoff said the editor to personal postcards on the issue, they evaluated the demographics of those to in order to educate them not only on the Con- turn out, in order to create a model of what stitutional Convention itself, but why they they consider to be the ideal group to vote for should say no. She has attended numerous their campaign. What they’ve found is that community forums, knocked on doors, even the typical white male majority so characterorganized the Chemung County Democratic istic of previous years does not quite apply as Committee (which has come out against the it has in previous years. convention) to phone bank and reach out to “We do quite well with upstate Republican its voters list to urge all registered members of men, but the majority likely to turn out this the party to vote against the measure. election will be more female, more people of “I don’t want to say it’s one-sided, but I color and more younger people by a few perwould say it’s a fair representation,” Leland centage points: that’s going to swing things said. “We describe the process, how it works, in our favor,” said Benninghoff. “All those and then we describe the risks that are groups are pro-Constitutional Convention involved. But I also tell them why the argu- more than they are against.” ment on the other side is understandable, but While the four main groups favoring a why I disagree with it.”

‘Yes’ vote have worked well together, the Vote On the other side, people like political No camp has appeared to be largely disjointed operative Al Benninghoff – former campaign from top to bottom: Facebook copypastas of manager for Wisconsin congressman Paul unknown origin have appeared and sourceRyan’s 2012 opponent Rob Zerban – has been less myths and rumors (like, for instance, an working a more frugal, grassroots communi- abstention on your ballot being counted as a cations strategy. ‘yes’ vote) have been promoted, enough for With no space to use, no mailing lists Benninghoff to describe the statewide opposiand little in the way of funding, Benninghoff tion efforts as a “propaganda campaign.” has gotten creative. Working with the relaThis leaves a lot of the work up to oppotively frugal Committee for a Constitutional nents at the local level.

Convention ($66,000 raised, $41,000 spent “The lack of transparency is curious to as of July 2017), Benninghoff has focused on me,” Leland said. “If you’re not willing to put building support for the measure from the your ideas and opinions out there, I don’t bottom-up, working instead to identify small know how you can consider their ideas to activist groups – six to twenty people – with be dependable. We hide nothing – NYSUT which to meet and work with to help amplify has been very clear on why it stands against their voice across social media and in their a Constitutional Convention: it’s not hyperown communities. When interviewed several bole, it’s not propaganda, but it is stating the weeks ago, Benninghoff answered the phone risks. If there’s a genuine fear and worry over en route to a community forum with the something, that’s not fearmongering, and I Oswego-based Action Women’s Network, a feel there are clear concerns here. To minivery new organization in the area, the theory mize that is worse.” being that once informed, those groups will organize to spread awareness on their own.

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cofounder of Black Lives Matter Ithaca remembered last week. “It was one of those supreme ironies that his term was cut so short… he was just so delighted about that opportunity and so ready to pour all of his energy into the place. That’s sort of a testament to who he was… he was really special.

There aren’t too many like Leon. He wasn’t about the talk so much, he would show and prove.”

This week, all those who knew him want to make an effort to reward those who embody everything Lawrence stood for: a civic-minded selflessness to make his community and those who live in it better in some way.

This Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., a bene f it ga l a w i l l be held at The “There aren’t Space @ Greentoo many star in order to like Leon. He raise money for wasn’t about a schola rsh ip f u nd i n L awthe talk so renc e ’s n a me much, he would for students show and who encapprove.” sulate similar ideals to those Lawrence stood for. Organized by a wide list of community organizers and headed

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mission, the evening will be one perfectly emblemetic of his personality, featuring everything from dancing to auctions for some of his favorite things, from tickets to see Patti Labelle (one of his favorite artists) to the Lion King on Broadway (one of his favorite productions.)

To truly nail down a scholarship accurately representing Lawrence the man, Rickford says, will take some time: partly because the group wanted to reflect a number of aspects to embody who Lawrence was and what he stood for, from his civicmindedness, commitment and persistence in life.

“You learn in life to value people like that,” said Rickford. “They’re few and far in between.”

Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the door. To purchase electronic tickets, search for Leon Lawrence on EventBrite or, for printed tickets, direct your inquiry to Jamila Walida Simon via email at jws62@cornell.edu. For more information, visit the event page on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2wmSsfP –Nick Reynolds

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Poverty racing as you try to scrounge up enough money to keep a roof over the family’s head.

Beyond that, the game sends out a criminal or two to derail people’s efforts, either via robbing them or attempting to sell them drugs which inevitably led to police involvement.

At the beginning of the second week, families had to pull a random card in a lottery, either drawing something good like extra money or a housing payment voucher, or something terrible like suffering a house burglary.

Of course, some people did turn to illegal means. For instance, this reporter took on the role of Emily Epperman, a 34 year old single mother of two teenagers with only $10 to her name. Desperate for some breathing room from bills and needing transportation passes, Emily purchased a gun (in the form of a small water pistol) from a roaming black marketeer and used it to rob a pawn shop and a bank, yielding half-price passes and $300 in cash – an admittedly embarrassing bounty.

But soon, Emily was sitting in jail, both children left to fend for themselves with only the ill-gotten $300.

Organizers Ruth Marchetti and Laurie Konwinski, from Catholic Family Center in Rochester and Catholic Charities in Ithaca respectively, were happy with the outcome after the event finished up, even though the group they were able to attract was nearly too small to successfully conduct the simulation.

“People really do get into the roles, and they bring the skills from their real lives, which only works sometimes,” Marchetti said. Marchetti’s running another simulation at St. Joseph’s Church in Penfield, a town in Monroe County, in November.

Through participating in one simulation herself and then subsequently going through training, Marchetti said she learned the value the simulation can hold for people from a variety of different backgrounds.

“It can be really great for schoolteachers,” she said. “To understand why that kid just can’t get his homework in or doesn’t have money for the field trip or is tired every morning.”

It did seem like the message resonated with those in the group. Basically nobody was able to get by the entire month without either falling dangerously behind on bills and risking eviction or starvation, or spending time in prison. Obviously, this isn’t exactly representative of the impoverished experience in America; some poor people might turn to crime to survive, but the majority try to fix their problems by legal means. But, Marchetti and Konwinski said, it does give a sense of the desperation poor people must factor into each decision.

Participants gathered at the end to share their experiences and reflect. The feelings of stress and frustration were universal, even among the volunteers who were running the different imitation service offices and tables.

Some of the volunteers were people who had experienced intense poverty in their real lives, and were able to attest to the validity of some of the hour’s challenges: having to wait weeks for welfare benefits to begin even after being approved or having to rely on food stamps for weekly groceries.

While Konwinski isn’t sure when or if she will be involved in another poverty simulation in Tompkins County, she has an idea why attendance was somewhat lower than expected, besides a suboptimal time-slot: complacence.

“Some people think ‘I volunteer at Loaves and Fishes’ or ‘I do the food pantry so I get it,’” Konwinski said. “They think they understand it, so they don’t have to go.”

“Those are exactly the people who need to be here,” Marchetti added.

–Matt Butler

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October 25 2017 • A Special Supplement

Food Trucks: The Cool Kid’s Wedding Banquet

By Nick Re y nol d s

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eddings are a lovely song and dance. There’s a lot to look forward to, after all: Great music, a chance to see your friends or family members live out one of the happiest days of their life, the opportunity to reconnect with people you may not have seen in years.

from the big rooms and tedious routines for decidedly more adventurous settings: places where you can’t simply set up a buffet table or lug out an overworked catering staff looking to be somewhere else.

You know what people don’t look forward to? Starving to death through a two-hour ceremony, followed by a 90 minute wait to be called to the buffet for a thin slice of ham, luxuriously served up by an unsmiling caterer from a red-lit carving station.

When Katie Foley, one of the proprietors of the Ovid-based Silo Food Truck, first started the business with her partner, Jesse, the two wanted to keep an open palate in terms of entertaining all sorts of events: music festivals, private gatherings and more. What they quickly learned is that the Finger Lakes – home to a large student population who often met at school – often feel a

Hotels and banquet halls for many, are becoming a tired relic of the past, adventurous couples now shying away

And so, for many couples now, food trucks are becoming the way to go.

connection to the area and, because of its beauty, come back to tie the knot. It’s a beautiful area, after all, and with the region dotted by picturesque wineries, p a r k l a n d , barns and other unorthodox venues like the Farmer’s Market, Foley said she noticed people have begun to get more creative with their choice of venue, especially given so many options beyond the same old banquet hall.

“I find couples who opt for a food truck at their wedding do so because they want a little more of a laid-back

Kate Foley in the window of her Silo Food Truck (Photo: Casey Martin)

vibe for their wedding,” said Foley on a slow period between orders on a recent night at Argos Inn. “They want it to be fun, they want it to be interactive, they want to be able to give their guests something they can do and not stick to the banquet-style ‘dinner is served!’ type of timeframe.”

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Though festivals, Silo’s (corn) bread and butter, are often facilitated as simply showing up, preparations for a wedding are usually a little more intensive on planning.

Foley will usually meet with the bride and groom ahead of time to discuss menu options, typically tailoring the evening’s selections down to a couple choices since, from a food truck perspective, you have to think about speed and volume. To speed things up, they’ll perhaps set cornbread on the table or find a way to “liven up” the line for food, either by having it pass by the bar or even incorporating it into the procession into the reception.

“You don’t want to have somebody’s grandma waiting in line forever,” Foley said.

After catering several weddings for friends, Silo started advertising last year that they would be doing weddings whenever they were available.

Foley, with a background in fundraising and organizing events, saw an appeal in them and, already with experience handling large crowds at festivals and other large events, Silo was already well-equipped to handling the crowds.

Though most of their livelihood comes on the festival circuit and therefore, their scheduling is tight, Silo can typically handle up to five weddings per year,

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as far as quantity of good, local food that they can bring to you right where you are, no matter how quirky the environment.

Kate Foley and Jesse Steve of Silo Food Truck (Photo: Casey Martin)

usually in the spring or fall to avoid their busiest time of year.

This is a bit in contrast to the operation run by Myers Farm in Lansing, which supplies the award-winning Gabriella’s Food Truck that took first prize at the New York State Fair this past summer.

Though Gabriella’s does the occasional public event like Rotary Fireworks at Meyers Park, one of its owners, John Myers, said the business model has recently started to push more toward forhire, private events.

Weddings, he said, make for a fairly ideal gig, oftentimes the equalizer in a win-win situation: the ability to get gourmet food, made fresh and immediately, in the setting of your choosing.

Everything is farm-direct for them, so supply chain is never an issue there and, in a wedding environment, they typically know exactly what to expect

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O YOU’RE GETTING married! This is a joyous time in your life when you put aside trivial day-to-day matters, such as how to bring peace to the Middle East, and begin obsessing about more profound issues, such as whether the pen for your wedding quest book should culminate in a pink or yellow feather.

The list of life-or-death decisions is endless!

Fortunately, there’s help. If you consult any bridal magazine, you’ll find a neat list of the tasks for an efficient, flawless, well-organized, worry-free wedding. Study these checklists closely. Keep in mind

“The way we do things, we try to prepare ourselves ahead of time,” Myers said. “If we’re booking for 2018, I have the ability as a farmer to plant accordingly to what I’ll need.

Spacewise, where some place my have a walk-in freezer, we wouldn’t, but we can run pretty close to our supplier and won’t have to worry about carrying as much product.

All of our suppliers are close, so if we’re catering in Ithaca, we can bring something fresh quite easily based on how many people we expect to serve.”

Hiring a food truck for your wedding has a few caveats. Without a banquet hall’s staff, logistics such as trash removal and service staff may have to be arranged externally and, because weddings oftentimes take away from a truck’s regular high-volume business, you may be required to pay a booking fee and food minimum in order to justify their walking away from some significant income. But what a food truck ultimately offers is flexibility in your catering options, the ability to get delicious food in high volumes in settings that other traditional, equipment heavy catering services may either be costprohibitive to hire or unable to access.

that they’re less for actual use of brides and grooms than for the laughs of married people. As any married person will tell you, no matter how many checklists you use, the chances of an efficient, flawless, well-organized, worry free wedding is on a par with the likelihood that you will make passionate, earth-shaking love on your wedding night. The following, realistic checklist is based on what I learned from undertaking my own actual wedding.

Twenty to Sixty Years Before the Wedding: Get born and reserve a wedding site. Hurry, it may already be too late! If you wish to be married in your church 30 years hence, an ideal time to make the arrangements with clergy is at your First Communion.

If you’re Jewish, finalize arrangements by your bat mitzvah, at the latest.

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Three Years Before the Wedding: Pass up promotions at work. This is the only way you’ll have time to make wedding plans. Don’t worry about your career! In the long run, this move will enhance your job skills and win respect from bosses. Simply explain that you will be spending your time making executive decisions, like the one about the feather.

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guidelines to help determine whether Sterling the potential Wedding Suit groom is qualified: Good y and Black Job, Good teeth,

Good pulse, Select invitations. Select stamps.

Try on hundreds of wedding dresses.

Choose bridesmaids and flower girl.

Help them try on hundreds of dresses.

Weave basket for flower girl, stuff pillow for ring bearer. Meet with countless photographers, caterers, musicians and florists, examine and sample their work, seek out hundreds of references for each, and, over a period of several years, elect the best. Attend pastry school, bake and decorate wedding cake, freeze. Select meaningful music. Buy house. Master calligraphy. Overcome nail-biting. Address invitations.

Finalize pen feather.

Reserve limousine. Master diamondology. Select meaningful gifts for wedding attendants. Research guests’ zip codes. Write meaningful vows. Select stamps. Master meaningful phrases in all grandparents’ native languages, such as Greek and/or Laotian. Select honeymoon site and reserve seats on train, bus, plane, hotel, seaplane, burro.

Memorize vows. Address invitations.

Overcome eating. Test wedding bells.

Overcome acne. Select meaningful beers. Overcome sweating. Stamp invitations. Select meaningful tablecloths. Envision every detail of how you and your fiancé want your wedding; make all arrangements, confirm and then check and alphabetize weekly.

A lot of work? Yes, but come your wedding day, all of this careful preparation will do you a fat lot of good.

One Week to One Second Before Wedding: Clear your schedule for the week before the wedding! You’ll want to relax, have a massage and a facial, spend time with close friends and relatives, and generally pamper yourself.

Not a chance you’re actually do those things, or course. No, you must clear your schedule because so many of things you’ve planned so carefully will fall through six days to one nanosecond before the wedding. No ques-

tion about it! Immediately before my wedding, the best-laid plans that fell through included: the carefully chosen photographer (he had the wrong date); the selectively-chosen tailor (his wife gave birth 14 hours before the wedding, and he chose to tend to his wife rather than my way-too long dress, which he’d held for weeks); the no-choice-in-the -matter-mother (seven houses before the event, mom threatened to withdraw if we didn’t do seating cards. So we did), and, of course, the wedding cake (the caterer forgot to decorate it). This is all true. So here’s your checklist for the final days: Find a photographer, caterer, florist, and/or band, to replace the ones who can’t make it. Time-saving tip: use the Yellow Pages and don’t ask for reference! In a pinch, pals can rescue you.

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On the evening before the wedding find a private time to be alone with your groom. Sit facing each other, look deeply into each other’s eyes and tell each other the names of each guest and their gift, so at the wedding you will be able to say, “Oh, Mr. and Mrs. X, thank you so much for that lovely and useful Y” Helpful hint: employ clever mnemonics, relating your guest’ names to their gifts, such as “Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Silver, thank you so much for the lovely and useful silver tray.” Another common example: if a fine pair of taxidermy samples were presented to you by your Eastern European relative, say “Uncle Boris and Aunt Natasha, thank you so much for the lovely and useful stuffed Moose and Squirrel.”

Hand-deliver invitations to all the people you forgot to invite, plus those you dislike but feel guilty about not inviting. If friends and relatives are petulant about not being in the wedding party, upgrade them to bridesmaids, ushers, florists, photographers, waiters, etc.

Select and reserve a wedding site.

(The original site has burned, sunk or flooded.)

During the Wedding: Hold meaningful conversations with all 273 of your quests in their native languages.

Leave. Despite the frenzy, a wedding is really a lot of fun, as any bride will tell you. The only problem is that it’s over too soon. Helpful hint: if you are still awake on your wedding night and wish to attempt lovemaking, check groom’s pulse. Yours, too.

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ocial media is a nearly unavoidable dimension of society today and, for better or worse, it has bore a path through almost every facet of life.

As a result, there’s nary a social event that isn’t meticulously documented by its participants on either the social image sharing app Snapchat, the photo-heavy app Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or some combination of the four. That includes, even, the happiest days of some people’s lives: their weddings.

In terms of how the happy couple utilizes social media, the phenomena can take on a variety of forms. During the ceremony itself, some will design a filter for Snapchat, a graphic (sort of like a picture frame) that appears on each picture when it is applied within a certain geographic area. Creating that sort of thing custom for your event might seem intimidating, but it’s far easier than one might think. All it takes is either uploading your own filter and waiting for approval from Snapchat’s corporate office, or choosing a preset one and adjusting or customizing the text and design to satisfaction. Set the date and location, and after payment – normally $5 a day per 20,000 square feet of covered location – the filter is then created and will go into effect for the event.

Other than Snapchat filters, couples can simply use a trackable hashtag to organize pictures taken from their wedding on Instagram or Twitter.

Despite the popularity, wedding

planners and venues in the area don’t appear to have seen much change on their side of the transaction, at least not yet. Adopting a filter or hashtag has been made so easy that, generally, someone from the wedding party can organize it themselves.

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day to start your doit-yourself crafting career,” Anderson said with a laugh.

“But we’ve done things before that are based off of Pinterest ideas that we can help with, or there are certain ways we know we can achieve something that might not exactly duplicate something off Pinterest, but can get pretty close.”

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BY M AT T BU T L E R ding planners, the these instances, social media efAnderson said fect on them has they often monitor been more on the trends they see on front-end: first, Pinterest, or more much like any niche wedding-foother business, cused sites like The it can be a valuable advertising outlet Knot or Wedding Wire, so they can be through which prospective couples best prepared when presented with can get a quick glance at their previous those ideas. It also helps them expand work. But more impactful on the actu- their offerings organically, while keepal planning process is that brides and ing a finger on the pulse of what wedgrooms come in with a set list of expec- ding themes are going in and out of tations that they’ve cultivated on sites vogue. like Pinterest that serve as a jumpingRia Lett, of Radiant Events, said off point for the early planning stages. while she utilizes social media it also That, of course, can be a double-edged doesn’t play a large role in her planning sword for a wedding planner, Richard methodology. But she did reiterate that Anderson of the LakeWatch Inn in having a presence on social media is Lansing said. becoming more and more significant “If you’re not a crafty person, your in an industry that is seeing more influwedding day is probably not the best ence from the internet, even if that’s

where the importance ends for a wedding planner.

“It’s not something that I would say I have a super involved strategy for, and I’m not sure if I might change that necessarily,” she said. “I think the effect of [social media] has been the visibility of trends and vendors [...] instead of searching on Google for a wedding planner or venue, they might be putting that search into Instagram and seeing what they find there.”

It seems the aforementioned “double-edged sword” effect can be used to describe much of the interaction between sites like Yelp and wedding venues. Ron Riddle, of Gratitude and Grace in Ithaca, spoke of the lessening margin of error for vendors in providing services during a wedding, since a misstep will get a business promptly blasted on review-based sites that, conversely, can also serve as a mechanism to generate interest in a previously unknown business.

While Gratitude and Grace currently holds a sterling 4.8/5 on the site, a bad review could take a long time to recover from, especially for a venue like Riddle’s that hosts weekend weddings (and only one per weekend at that) which lessens the sheer number of customers who might offer a good review.

“Reviews are a big deal, obviously,” Riddle said. “It’s either a pitfall or a coup [...] You can’t get a rid of a bad review. The only way you can get rid of one is to snow it in with good reviews, and unfortunately you have to wait for those usually.”

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Cornell Men Look Toward Winter With Fire A

By C a s san dra Neg l e y

nine-game winning streak to close the regular season led Cornell to an ECAC championship berth and a return to the frozen national stage last year.

But a hot streak down the stretch doesn’t mean the heat stays – if anything, it means the heat begins to float to the other side.

With a 21-9-5 record from 2016-17 in the books, the Cornell men’s hockey team knows it has to work even harder to keep taking steps farther.

“When you wake up and you relax on your laurels from the day before, or you think you did pretty well on that test and you rest on it, all of a sudden the guy that didn’t do so well, he’s going to study a lot harder,” Cornell head coach Mike Schafer said during men’s hockey media day Oct. 12 at Lynah Rink. “So you better wake up the next day and you better get after it.”

“It’s a mindset in the classroom (and) it’s a mindset on the ice with our players.”

The 2017-18 men’s hockey team, as with the collection of players six years prior, know a lot about the proper mindset and what Shafer wants to see come of it. Every year the team reads a book in the offseason, one that guides them moving forward, and this past summer it was “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” written by psychologist Carl S. Dweck, Ph.D. and printed in 2006. Schafer had his own children read it in high school as

they prepared for college.

The 23rd year head coach has topics taken from the book written on a white board for his players, including self-accountability and seeking the right kind of praise (for your effort, not the result). It all bleeds into the mindset of taking it a day at a time, using each practice to get better, and not getting blinded by the ultimate goals.

For this team, which returns its top three goal scorers and three of its top four blueliners, those goals are fairly simple: win it all from the Ivy League to ECACs to NCAA and anything it can inside of that. Even the Harkness-Kelley Cup awarded to the winner of the MSG Game is on the list.

“That’s the first one that we can win so that’s on the board,” said senior co-captain Alex Rauter, who had 17 points last year in a breakout season. The forward filled in on the blue line last season due to injury.

Cornell broke its five-year drought in NCAA tournament appearances with an atlarge bid last season behind the nation’s 10th ranked defense. Six players on the current roster have been selected in the NHL draft, five of whom are forwards, and Big Red will look to better its third-place ECAC regular season finish.

“After making it last year and coming so close I think this team knows how far we have to push it and how hard we have to work just

to get back and especially overcome and win,” Rauter said.

Leading scorer Mitch Vanderlaan, a junior co-captain and returning All-Ivy League selection, had 15 goals and 28 points last season. He has 47 career points, the most over an initial two-year span since current Boston Bruins forward Riley Nash in 2009.

In only two seasons he’s seen the way Cornell has set a higher standard each year; his freshman team went 16-11-5 and lost in the ECAC quarterfinals.

“I know from my freshman year if you juxtapose the teams there’s a big step forward,” Vanderlaan said. “Obviously we improved and we’re looking to do the same things year.”

Senior alternate captain Trevor Yates is the second-leading point-scorer returning, having finished fourth on the team with 12 goals and 22 points. Anthony Angello completes last year’s top five with 12 and 20.

“We’re making tweaks to our game, to our systems, to everything just to get that extra step, extra little inch that will take us over

the top of what we accomplished last year,” Yates said.

The approach of focusing on the little things to make up a push to the big one is exactly what “Mindset” drives home. As much as it will be about production on the ice, to Shafer it’s also about what goes into it.

“If we get to that long run then that’s great,” he said. “But if we don’t it doesn’t mean we were unsuccessful.”

The ultimate goal is always win everything, but Shafer said he wants his team to be more focused on the process and enjoy it.

And one other thing about the “Mindset:” it’s not all easy instructions. There’s risk involved and taking chances. This team won’t get to the glory without going outside of its comfort zone and trying to fail. “(It’s about) not being afraid to fall down, not being afraid to not be safe,” he said.

“Because safe teams don’t win championships and improve.”

Which is mainly what everyone is looking for.

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ome guy once wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and I can relate to both.

As a youth sports coach, you can put your heart, soul, blood, sweat and tears into helping a young athlete develop, and it’s a great feeling to see them advance into the capable hands of a coach you just know will be a great match. That’s a great feeling. The

pendulum can swing the other way too, and I have sent players on to coaches that would stall that development, or worse, douse the player’s passion for the game.

Maureen Whitehead has no such issues this year. The longtime youth soccer coach has been working with boys and girls from 4 to 18 years old for many years as a club soccer coach, and after a stint as Ithaca High’s

assistant varsity coach, she took over the program this year when E.J. Reutemann joined the program at Cortland. Grateful for the opportunity, she told me, “I have been coaching many of the girls on the varsity team for several years. I have watched them grow.”

As this story went to press, the Little Red is bunched into a tight group of playoff teams, where they will open sectional play at Corning.

“We are 1-1 against them this year,” said Whitehead. “The other teams playing in the opening round are Elmira and Horseheads, and we also split with each of them.” (The winners will play for the title on Friday.)

Coach Whitehead would never send a team onto the pitch and ask for anything less

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than their best collective effort, but she keeps an eye on the future of the program. “We are trying to do the best we can right now,” she offered, “but we have a young team, with an eighth grader, a freshman and some sophomores and juniors.” (The roster features just two seniors.)

The coach said “I had a good relationship with E.J., but our style is a little different this year. We play a possession-oriented game – we’re always working to keep a defense unbalanced – and we’re building on what we started last year.” She added, “We struggled to score at the beginning of the season, but we have had some young players emerge to become a part of the equation of scoring goals. No one person is dominating, but we have a lot of girls that are playing big.”

She mentioned senior Caelia Thomas and sophomore Mae Conuel, saying “Those two have been very solid in giving us a strong back line.”

Maureen coached the Lansing varsity several years ago, and said “When I was there, it took a couple of years to change the mentality, and I hope to do the same thing here. These girls are talented, and as they take those skills and become more willing to go into battle, they can put it all together and play some beautiful soccer.”

I asked Coach Whitehead if she planned to lead the Little Red for the long term, and she said “I have been in the area since 1999, and I’m really committed to soccer in this community. We are looking at this as a continuum – it’s not over when the season is over.” *** Thanks once again to the folks that put on the Tompkins County Sports Council Football Luncheon. I went as a guest last Thursday, and I love to hear the passion the area coaches share with the attendees. First-year coach Dan Swanstrom of Ithaca College gave a heartfelt speech about how hard he and his staff are working to take that program to the next level, and the Bombers went out and took care of business against St. John Fisher.

David Archer of the Big Red was as animated and positive as I have ever seen him, and Cornell rolled over Brown at Homecoming to move to 2-1 in the Ivy League. Kelly Gordon of Ithaca High talked about how proud his staff and players are to be the ones to turn the program around and, while the Little Red continue to struggle from a win/loss standpoint, they’re taking that “never give up” attitude into everything they do.

Comedian Paula Poundstone comes to the State Theatre

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omedian, author and podcaster Paula Poundstone is a joy to talk to, and you never know what’s going to come up in conversation. In anticipation of her show Oct. 27 at the State Theatre, Poundstone talked about her many cats, books vs. Kindle and the best source for pet names.

Ithaca Times: This is the third or fourth time we’ve spoken. It doesn’t feel so much like

an interview, but more like checking in with an old friend.

Paula Poundstone: Oh well, that’s always nice to hear.

IT How are your cats?

PP: Uh, plentiful. Pain in the ass. There’s too many.

IT: I wouldn’t want to take care of that many cats, but I’d like to name them all. I just think that naming the pet is one of the best things about having a pet.

PP: Well, I think you might be right about that, honestly. So, what happens to me is, I have a good name and then I have to get a cat.

My dog Sirius right now is wearing the cone of shame because he had a puncture wound, like,

Paula Poundstone (Photo- provided)

two weeks ago. So yesterday when he got his stitches out, he was like, “Thank God I get rid of this stupid funnel.” And they’re like, “Oh, no, there’s still some scabs here.” So he’s still wearing the funnel. He’s named after a character from Harry Potter, which is a great provider of pet names. My kids were raised during the Harry Potter years, when those books came out. Therefore, we have lots of pets with Harry Potter names.

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dle, but I have a lot of books.

PP: Well, you know what? That’s better for your brain. It turns out that reading from pages, because we are page readers, because we have been for a very, very, very long time, reading from pages, the information disseminates differently and more reliably into your brain than from a screen. I went to dinner last night by myself, and I took a New York Times.

And of course, they seated me at a table where it was dark; I have no idea why. So I go in all enthusiastic to read the paper while I ate my dinner and I had to take out my stupid iPhone … every time I use the flashlight on that dumb iPhone, and every time you turn on the phone, it’s so blinding. That was like a bad camping

experience, except I was in a restaurant.

IT: That drives me crazy, the people that can’t shut their phones off for a movie.

PP: Well, sadly, movie theaters have some stupid animated thing, they spend 30 minutes telling you the rules of watching the movie. It shows the ways in which we have deteriorated as a society. It used to be the occasional f ilm where they would tell others not to tell the end of the movie. But now, [it’s] 30 minutes of “Don’t spit on each other.”

IT: When Presumed Innocent came out, Warner Bros. sent a letter asking the press not to reveal the ending and whether or not Harrison Ford was innocent or guilty. I was like, “I don’t spoil

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PP: [laughs] IT: I never got a letter saying, “Please don’t reveal the ending of License to Drive.”

PP: [laughs] “Please don’t tell everyone that Crazy, Stupid, Love is just stupid.”

IT: What you were saying about books, was that something you learned on your podcast?

PP: I did not learn that on my podcast, although it’s the kind of thing one might learn on my podcast. I do another show, “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” which is a radio show made by NPR. And my boss on that show, Peter Sagal, is always presenting me information from some study that always seems like, “Well, wait a minute, where did you hear that? And who funded that? And why did they do such a study?” It’s always kind of odd studies. And so somebody came up with the bright idea of me having the chance to interview those scientists and talk about those studies.

IT: A lot of these folks like Kevin Nealon, I imagine you’ve known for a long time.

PP: I have known them for a long time. A lot of these guys are my buddies; some of us started out together a long time ago. And some of them were in desperate need of knowing things like the average pee time of a mammal. This scientist had discovered that people and animals pee for about 21 seconds, no matter how large the animal. So a mouse pees for the same amount of time as an elephant. That’s on average. I’m sure there are exceptions to the rule, where the mouse was really out drinking the night before.

IT: You told me that you were never out for a film career, but Inside Out is a pretty great movie.

PP: Oh, Inside Out is a fantastic movie.

Pete Docter is fantastic. The overall message of the movie is all about emotional

well-being and balance, and how each of the emotions has to have a turn. That’s just the way we work. It’s a terrific movie.

It’s really funny but it’s also really insightful. I think we are in the midst of a mental health crisis, and I’ve been saying that for at least a couple of years. And every day I think bears out that I’m right more than the day before. And so a movie like Inside Out is sort of oddly timely because I really think people need to attend to their emotional well-being better. And not just kids, adults. You know, electronics has been a disaster for mental health. The guy who does my hair was here this morning doing my hair, and he was talking into his phone at one point in that funny way that people do where they kind of turn it sideways, and he says to me, “I like to text verbally.” And I didn’t say anything to him because there’s no point, but why the hell? “He said, I like to text verbally, except for I have to check it over because the machine puts the wrong words.”

[Laughs] Okay, why wouldn’t you just call someone and talk to them? Because then you can hear inflection in your voice, you can recognize when someone else has the opportunity to recognize sarcasm, for example? The whole texting thing has never made any sense to me at all.

[Laughs] You have a phone in your hand, You’re using the phone number of the person. Talk to them.

PP: You know where would be good to be a parent? In Maine. The state of Maine, because they don’t have billboards. But here in California where I live, in Santa Monica, just to walk to school we encounter billboards. And there’s heinous things on them, things that often do require explanation. There’s a club here, a strip club I’m assuming, called Spearmint Rhino. You know what? I’m not even sure I can explain that. It’s just a horrible idea, that’s what it is.

IT: Just stick to the Rhino.

PP: Yes. “It’s a place that studies rhinos and candy!” I don’t even know what it’s supposed to mean, I really don’t. But it has this babe with her mouth half open on the billboard.

IT: I heard Brian Posehn talk about Spearmint Rhino and I thought it was a made-up name.

PP: No. Spearmint Rhino. It’s real. It could be coming to you. Wait till they franchise it.

IT: That information about Maine and billboards, did you read that somewhere or discover it on the road?

PP: No, it was pointed out to me by someone who lives in Maine when I was working there. I work a bunch of places in Maine. It’s a great state. It’s beautiful, because they do smart things like not allow billboards. Guess what? If you wanna keep your area beautiful, don’t let people hang trash all over! [Laughs] And when he said it, I went, “Oh, that’s what it is!” Like you kinda don’t notice until someone points it out. You notice there’s something especially nice but you can’t put your finger on what it is.• Read the full interview at ithaca.com/ entertainment/stage

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Nasty Women Writers

Feminist anthology celebrates women’s suffrage

By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o Launch Party for NY Votes for Women: A Suffrage Anthology 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, The History Center in Tompkins County

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the 1800s, it still took decades before the national legalization of a woman’s right to vote. And even within the movement, there were anti movements: women who Y Votes for Women: A Suffrage didn’t see themselves outside of the home.

Anthology celebrates the centennial Women faced backlash from the men in of women gaining the right to vote their lives, men of color and even from one in New York State. The anthology features another — which only inspired Murphy 21 women writers discussing feminism, the even more to publish the anthology. right to vote and their roles in movements “In looking at things and strong figures for women. Among these pieces are poems, in [these authors’] lives — grandmothmemoirs, essays and photographs through- ers maybe — there were other things they out history of activists and protests. could remember and feel that tied into the Stacey Murphy and Nora Snyder, the theme of suffrage,” Murphy said. “Others editors of the anthology, sent out a call for could very clearly see parallels between the submissions last year and began putting women’s march in January and the sentithe collection together near the start of ments people were feeling then and all the 2017. After hearing state agenrights people were concerned cies such as Humanities New about now, things that are York encouraging New Yorkers very contemporary: history in to celebrate the 100th anniverthe making.” sary of women’s suffrage, Snyder Published through Cayuga and Murphy — who have worked Lake Books, NY Votes for together through the writing Women: A Suffrage Antholgroup Writer’s Block Party — put og y features several local together works capturing the voices, including Lisa Harstruggles women have faced and ris, Katharyn Howd Machan, continue to face.

Carol Kammen, Christine And then came the 2016 elecEdwards and others. In addition. And then came trending tion to these writers, there are topics on social media, such as also international voices such “#RepealTheNineteenth,” which as Liz Thompson, who writes began as a response to an election for the Huffington Post and map that detailed a landslide win The anthology splits her time between Barbafor Donald Trump should women (Photo provided) dos and New York City. not vote in the election. And then came the Despite the range of women who subpresidential inauguration, followed by the mitted, Murphy wished she received more Women’s March, a movement that reached submissions from people of color and even across every continent. All of these move- some men. Though the anthology does have ments served as inspiration for Snyder and a story looking into LGBTQ issues and one Murphy. through a male perspective, Murphy would “I was talking to other writers about have published more diverse voices. doing something [for the centennial], and “It just worked out that everybody who that it seemed like a neat and important submitted a piece was a woman,” she said. idea,” Murphy said. “People wanted to do “We have one African-American voice, something, and then people thought it and we have several not-born-in-the-USA should be the anthology, and it sort started voices. … But you have to trust that the unfolding politically with the 2016 election. voices that are in the book are the ones that It began feeling more and more important, are meant to be there.” so we decided to go ahead and do it.”

Since the anthology serves as a celebraWhile working on the project, Mur- tion, Murphy and Snyder will be celebratphy said the process served as a learn- ing with readings, beginning with a launch ing experience for many of the writers. party 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at The Women’s suffrage is often glossed over in History Center in Tompkins County. Readschools, Murphy said, erasing the compli- ing at the party will be Carol Kammen, cations women and women of color have Gaia Woolf-Nightingall, Lisa Harris, Nora faced throughout American history, begin- Snyder, Sarah Jefferis and Yvonne Fisher. ning as soon as Abigail Adams’ plea to her After Ithaca, the readings will travel Nov. 7 husband, John Adams, for women to be (Election Day) to the Matilda Joslyn Gage granted equal rights in a draft of the U.S. Home and Museum, then to the area where Constitution. it all happened: Nov. 19, a reading will be With the suffragist movement gaining held at the Women’s Rights National Hismomentum because of activists such as torical Park in Seneca Falls. •

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A Film that Felt Shallow

Film about Deep Throat Misses the mark

By Br yan VanC ampe n

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From “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” (Photo provided)

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, written and directed

by Peter Landesman; Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, written and directed by Angela Robinson, both playing at Cinemapolis. Geostorm, co-written and directed by Dean Devlin, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14.

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f you love movies with lots of shots of white people smoking and staring into the middle distance, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is the movie for you. (Dumb title, by the way. FBI agent Felt, AKA “Deep Throat,” brought Richard Nixon down, but last time I looked, the White House is still standing.)

Writer-director Peter Landesman’s film is based on Felt’s 2006 autobiography cowritten by John O’Connor, and it’s so busy being a very important film that it’s never really given the chance to come to life or quicken the pulse. And that’s something you certainly can’t say about Alan J. Pakula’s All the President’s Men (1976).

Liam Neeson’s gruff, taciturn monotone voice as Felt sets the wrong tone for the film, despite a fine ensemble cast that includes Tony Goldwyn, Josh Lucas, Michael C. Hall, Martin Csokas and Tom Sizemore. The only aspect of the story that I didn’t know was his estranged relationship with his daughter, Joan (Maika Monroe), worrying that she might be associated with the Weather Underground.

The “dutiful wife” role in these movies tend toward the thankless, and Diane Lane as Felt’s wife Audrey is not well served by half-hearted attempts to get into her particular neurosis, and I’ve since learned that most of her best work did not make the final cut. For a real palette cleanser, check out Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams in the 1999 teen comedy Dick.

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Fans of this summer’s awesome and long-overdue Wonder Woman may not be aware of the bondage and S&M kink that was undeniably a part of the character’s roots as established by her creator, American psychologist and self-help author William Moulton Marston. Marston invented an early prototype of the lie detector, and Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth was a powerful metaphor. In the wake of DC’s film comes Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, about the relationship between Marston (Luke Evans), his wife Elizabeth (a particularly spiky and electric Rebecca Hall) and their college T.A. Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote).

Told in flashback as Marston is being grilled by a comic book board of inquisitors as comic book burnings were held around the country, Angela Robinson’s film is practically European in its frankness about Marston’s unconventional family structure. And Oliver Platt steals the film as Marston’s foul-mouthed comicbook publisher Max Gaines, father of EC Comics and MAD Magazine’s William Gaines.

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I begrudgingly went to the new ecothriller Geostorm fully intending to bag on its filmmaker Roland Emmerich — aside from White House Down, I’m not a fan — but it turns out that Geostorm is the first feature directed by Emmerich’s former partner, Dean Devlin.

I’ll be the first to admit this is the usual patented disaster movie garbage, but it’s actually fun. We get Gerard Butler and Jim Sturgess as feuding brothers tasked by the President (Andy Garcia) to team up and repair a massive satellite station that Butler designed that has solved global warming.

Then the satellite starts malfunctioning, mixing the usual epic destructo set-pieces with a surprisingly involving subplot about just who might be behind all the weather shenanigans.

The best performance here comes from Abbie Cornish, an Australian actress and rapper I had only seen in Zack Snyder’s awful Sucker Punch. Here she plays Sarah, a Secret Service agent dating Sturgess’s character. Cornish gives this B-movie a real hero to root for when the global chips are down. • Recommended: Blade Runner 2049 at Ithaca Stadium 14; Patton Oswalt: Annihilation on Netflix; Army of Shadows, Gravity, The LEGO Batman Movie and Shaun of the Dead at Cornell Cinema.

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A Classic Glass Comes to Life Philip Glass Ensemble to come to Cornell

By Ros s Ha ars ta d

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inema freaks and us more ordinary humans will have the chance next Friday, Nov. 3, to experience an epic event. In celebration of composer Philip Glass’ 80th birthday, The Atkinson Forum in American Studies and Cornell Cinema brings the Philip Glass Ensemble to Bailey Hall to present Koyaanisqatsi Live! Advance tickets are available through BaileyTickets. com.

Acclaimed by the NY Times as “one of the most startling and original soundtracks ever written,” Glass’ score will be performed live by 10 musicians to a screening of the film.

like Allen Ginsberg.

Glass’ music has also from the beginning had a big impact on popular music, including David Bowie and Brian Eno (Glass returned the favor by using Low and Heroes as the inspiration for his first symphonies), and technomusic like Tangerine Dream.

But as much as Glass was fascinated by the interrelations of music, text, movement and image, he had no interest in film scoring until Godfrey Reggio came knocking with 40 minutes of footage of wilderness, planes, cities, canyons and more in 1978.

The Composer Glass is one of the nation’s leading and influential composers with five decades of work to stand behind, including 11 symphonies, eight string quartets, concertos, more than a dozen operas and music composed for theater, dance and film (three Oscar nominations).

While his training includes a solid classical background as a graduate student of Juilliard and two years study with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger, Glass also credits the influence of Chicago jazz artists he encountered when he left Baltimore halfway through high school in 1952 to enroll in the University of Chicago at the age of 15. Be-bop was in ascendance then, and he encountered Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and others in the clubs.

“What I learned from that music became part of my own language,” he writes in his memoir, Words Without Music, “I’ve become very comfortable combining melodic material with harmonic material that does not at first seem to be supported. The melodies may not be part of the harmony, but the ear accepts them as alternate notes.”

While studying in Paris, Glass picked up a job writing out notation for the great sitarist Ravi Shankar as Shankar improvised a score to a film; this introduced Glass to a totally different way to understand rhythm.

Glass is often grouped with a set of composers as “minimalists” (these include his Juilliard classmate Steven Reich, as well as Terry Riley and Ithaca’s own David Borden) while Glass prefers to describe his work as “music with repetitive structures.” (Another trait these composers share is amplification.)

Fundamental to Glass’ work has been intensive collaboration. In his life, he had the luck to fall in with artists such as Chuck Close, Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Serra; radical theatre artists such as Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach), JoAnne Akalaitis (his first wife) and Lee Breuer, choreographers like Lucinda Childs and poets

The Film and Filmmaker A child of New Orleans, Reggio spent his years from age 14-28 in silence and prayers studying to be a Catholic monk with the Congregation of Christian Brothers. In the ‘60s he moved into community organizing in New Mexico. An interest in multimedia education led to his first film, Koyaanisqatsi.

“The title,” its website describes, “is a Hopi Indian word meaning ‘life out of balance.’

Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds — urban life and technology versus the environment.”

Reggio convinced Glass to produce the score by playing a reel for him twice, once with a Japanese electronic score, then with music by Glass. “Yours goes better with the film” was Reggio’s comment.

So began a three-year collaboration on the film, by two artists with a deep interest in religion and meditation. For an opening sequence of a NASA launch, Glass used an organ passacaglia, reasoning that film came from theatre and theater buildings from the great cathedrals. For a sequence of planes flying, he wanted a sense of lightness, and he used voices.

“When I work with Godfrey,” Glass writes, “I don’t spend a lot of time looking at the image … I depend on the inaccuracy of my memory to create the appropriate distance between the music and the image.

I knew right away that the image and the music could not be on top of each other, because there would be no room for the spectators to invent a space for themselves.”

Reggio’s non-verbal films reach back to such silent experiments as Berlin: Symphony of a Great City and Vertov’s Man with A Movie Camera, as well as photography’s fascination with documenting other cultures especial through Geographic Societies. His use of time-lapse photography of changing land and cityscapes is now used everywhere. • Read more about Philip Glass and the film at Cornell by visiting ithaca.com/entertainment/film.

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Store,” the third track on the new album, sweet harmonies and cheerful guitar plucking are interrupted by heavy drums and guitar chords othing encapsulates raw honesty and that build dramatically into noisy distortion. intimate friendship better than the The music stops abruptly and the peppy guitar dynamic between Cleo Tucker and plucking picks back up.

Harmony Tividad, the pair that make up the The band’s sweetness and vulnerability are indie punk band Girlpool. Tucker and Tividad’s often contrasted with cool, sometimes harsh chemistry is undeniable. Onstage they look attitude. Many of the tracks on Powerplant eerily alike in their stances, and both sing their evoke intense romances soured by deceit and song verses in perfect harmony, often with their dependence. “You’ll build him a tower, he’ll eyes closed. While the pair have different per- burn you a bridge,” Tividad and Tucker harmosonalities, each bring out different traits in each nize in the morose, grungy track “It Gets More other, “and kind of Blue.” stretch each other The music video out,” Tividad said for the song features in a documentary Ti v id a d d re s s e d interview in 2014. in vintage, elegant “The cool thing dresses and nightabout creating with gowns, while Tucker, another person is in an old sailor’s you kind of create uniform, woes her an entity separate at parties and dates from both of you to t he pa rk . T he that embodies both v id e o c onc lud e s of you,” Tiv idad with Tucker getting said. “And it’s really in a small boat on cool, a nd it ’s k i nd Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad of Girlpool. the ocean, leaving Tivof like a being of its (Photo: Alice Baxley) idad behind. own.”

“The song is about The indie punk duo the trope of the damwill stop at the Haunt Nov. 1 during a four-week sel in distress and how it’s kind of outdated,” tour promoting the duo’s latest album, Power- Tividad said. “It’s about how different tropes are plant, released earlier this year. Girlpool’s soph- oppressive and that’s something we need to be omore album is a step above first studio album, aware of and critical of, and we can learn someBefore the World Was Big, mostly because the thing from playing with them.” guitar and bass duo added drums into the mix.

Whereas music videos from the band’s last Powerplant is louder, less innocent and more album focus on the joys of female friendship, the mature. new album’s videos are more serious and somTucker and Tividad, born and raised in Los ber. In the video for “123,” Tucker is involved in Angeles, have been making music together since a queer romance that “simultaneously exists as high school, which for them wasn’t that long toxic and loving,” the band told the Fader when ago. Tucker, 21 and Tividad, 22, released their the video debuted. Tucker also announced that first EP in 2013, and in each of their subsequent they identify as non-binary and use they/them releases, they continue to grow as musicians and gender pronouns. songwriters.

Tucker’s coming out is just one aspect of But the band still exists in an awkward ado- how the band has evolved over the years. When lescent phase, perhaps because the duo is still Girlpool recorded its first EP in 2013, Tucker basically kids. “I am nervous for tomorrow and and Tividad were still in high school, and didn’t today,” they harmonize in “Chinatown.” think the tracks would go beyond the LA DIY Tucker and Tividad write most of their songs scene. But the following year, the band opened together. Each track usually have a handful of for Jenny Lewis for some of her shows on the verses, and while the song meanings aren’t obvi- East coast tour, and the band’s popularity snowous, there’s a lot of thought and emotion put into balled from there. Girlpool performed on NPR’s the lyrics.

Tiny Desk Concerts and toured with other “We spend time together to strengthen the big acts like Waxahatchee. Recently, the band thoughts and words and formulate words that signed onto ANTI-, a major record company, feel good and resonate with both of us,” Tucker which put out the latest album. But during these said. “We’re finding this piece of excitement changes and the fast-paced growth of the duo’s together.” careers as musicians, Tividad and Tucker turn Girlpool pairs many antithetical elements in toward each other for support, and their close their music: whispering harmonies with guitar friendship continues to carry the band. distortion; songs about loving yet unhealthy “We’re both learning together how to navirelationships; and hopelessly romantic lyrics gate doing this seriously,” Tucker said. • with jaded, pessimistic messages. In “Corner

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“When you paint on a white canvas, you spend a lot of time covering the white canvas, especially if you want to use a lot of deep, rich colors,” Porter said. “But when you’ve got a black canvas, you’ve

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For the past 20 years, Porter and New ton have been developing t heir styles together, drafting and executing strategies such as black bases for pieces.

Porter met Newton when she first started painting. After decades of weaving and working as an arts educator, Porter set to create work that was “for her”: art that allowed her to express herself fluidly. “[Newton and I] would go away for a week and we would just paint. We’ve gone to Lake Champlain, a couple of times to Maine, and we just painted — we ate and we painted,” Porter said. “And it was a learning experience because we learned from each other, and then we also would paint the same things because we had our own voice.”

The exhibition at State of the Art, as Por ter sa id, showcases d if ferent perspectives on similar landscapes.

While Porter indulges in the slow-drying, viscous nature of oils, Newton prefers the opposite: solid, sometimes ashy charcoals and pastels.

The pastels used for Newton’s drawings allow her landscapes to appear more stark and blunt compared to the swooping trees in Porter’s paintings.

And while both artists portray dreamy, lush scenes, they each bring a different quality: Porter’s work is painted with whimsy, and Newton’s with a shred of somber.

“I’ve been working with dry media most of my art life: either charcoal or pastels,” Newton said. ”The pastels being dry just sits on top of the black surface and seems to intensify the color. It’s not quite naturalistic — but it has a little edge, and I like that.”

With different goals and media, Porter and Newton create an exhibition devoid of a central theme outside of the landscape, but they encapsulate their friendship and creative bond. •

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Porter’s paintings were exclusively made using oils, and Newton worked w it h d r y med ia such as pastels a nd charcoal. The skies dominate the scenes in New ton’s pieces, the trees stretch and bend in Porter’s: their landscapes evoke different feelings and memories within the viewers, yet the vibrancy in their colors remains constant across all the works.

Environmental conservation is at the forefront of Porter’s work, transforming her paintings into quiet protests. Some of the pieces in the collection feature shots of the same scene but from a few years apart. Porter said one of her goals is to “preserve landscape before the developers get to it.”

Newton and Porter primed their landscapes with black, which allowed the colors to pop. Porter said she used black gesso to prime her canvases, and Newton worked on black materials as well —

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10/25 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Jesse Douglas Collins Quartet with Zack Knewstub | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Monks on the Commons, 120 S.Aurora St, Ithaca | (Jazz) Andrew Alling | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Singer-songwriter) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

Esme Patterson Susto | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Rock) Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | (Local bands, Soloists) Reggae Night with The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae)

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10/27 Friday

Dark Hollow | 7:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (Dead covers) Blacklight Halloween Party | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Pebble the Band | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Funk, Dance) The Purple Valley | 8:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | James McMurtry | 8:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Activist) Julia Felice and the Whiskey Crisis | 9:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Dead Night at The Dock | 9:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead covers)

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10/29 Sunday

Maplewood Jazz Team | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Smooth, Cool Jazz) Better Weather String Band | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | Bandwagon Farm Brewery, 3582 West Ave, Interlaken | (Folk) Davey O. | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Folk) Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted by Dennis Winge Trio.

Root Shock | 8:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29

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| The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Reggae)

10/31 Tuesday

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv)

food, poetry and music. Proceeds will directly benefit several communities on the island associated with Ithaca based families, mostly on the western and central portions of Puerto Rico, whose residents are in crisis on all levels resulting from the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

Binghamton Philharmonic | 7:30 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | The Binghamton Philharmonic celebrates Halloween with a Harry Potter–themed concert.

CU Music presents Schola Antiqua of Chicago | 8:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Music in Secret, Schola Antiqua of Chicago: Professional early music ensemble presents a concert of medieval and early modern music by and for women in the convent, including works by Hildegard von Bingen and Sulpitia Cesis.

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trombonist John Allred, guitarist Mark Doyle, bassist Ronnie France, pianist Jeff Phillips, drummer Dave Hanlon and singer Ronnie Leigh. Spontaneous and aggressive, these pros love to jam together on stage.

CU Music: Chorus presents Twilight Concert | 5:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Chorus Twilight Concert: Cornell’s renowned women’s choir presents their traditional mix of early music, folksongs, and contemporary compositions, featuring the world premiere of a new piece by Christine Donkin. Admission: available at http://baileytickets.com and at the door. On sale date TBD. Binghamton Philharmonic | 7:30 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The Binghamton Philharmonic celebrates Halloween with a Harry Potter–themed concert.

Roberto Hidalgo | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Hangar Theatre, 801

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10/25 Wednesday

Colin Hay | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

10/26 Thursday

CU Music: Midday Music at Lincoln 10/26 | 12:30 PM-1:15 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Lincoln Hall, B20, Dept of Music, 101 Lincoln Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ryan McCullough, piano, performs Nicholas Vines’ “Terraformation,” a sci-fi themed piece about colonizing Mars, and Dante De Silva’s “Four Years of Fog” featuring a specially tuned piano.

10/27 Friday

El Coqui Siempre Canta! A Benefit for Puerto Rico | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Unitarian Church, corner Aurora Street and Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Local organizers and musicians with personal connections to Puerto Rico present a benefit festival event with

On exhibition at the Kroch Library at Cornell University, “The World Bewitch’d”explores the history of witchcraft, how to practice it and those who perished because of it. (Photo: Lindsay France)

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10/28 Saturday

Charlie Bertini and the Applejazz Band | 3:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | This band reads as a who’s-who of jazz musicians led by trumpeter Charlie Bertini, with saxman Terry Myers,

Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Evening of Classical French and Russian Piano with Roberto Hidalgo.

10/29 Sunday

Symphoria Casual Series: Reformation Celebration | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | St. Pauls Episcopal Church, 220 E. Fayette Street, Syracuse | Symphora celebrates the

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500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation with works from two Lutheran composers, Bach and Mendelssohn.

Amos Lee, Mutlu | 8:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca |

Film Community Read Film Screening: Reel Injun: On The Trail Of The Hollywood Indian | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to today, with clips from hundreds of classic and recent Hollywood movies, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native film celebrities, activists, film critics and historians.

Food Evolution Screening and Panel Discussion | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Join scientists from Cornell University and the Boyce Thompson Institutefor a viewing and discussion of the recently released documentary Food Evolution.

We will watch the entire film together and then our scientists, including two who were featured in the film, will engage in a moderated discussion and field questions from the audience.

Young Frankenstein | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein.

Movie starts at 7 with trivia for prizes during intermission.

Nosferatu (1972) | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains.

Ambient band, The Magnetic Pull will be performing a live, all original score to the film.

Cornell Cinema Army of Shadows | 6:45 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A portrait of a group of resistance fighters in Occupied France during World War II. Subtitled. More at rialtopictures.com.

A Ghost Story | 9:45 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | After he dies, C (Casey Affleck) returns as a bedsheet-sporting ghost to the house he shared with M (Rooney Mara). M moves away, but C stays with the house, ultimately to its end, in this quiet meditation on loss and disappearance.

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Deconstructing the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5:15 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | This filmed lecture by Beatles expert Scott Freiman (illustrated with rare audio and video clips) will give you a behind-the-scenes, making-of look at how the innovative, critically acclaimed, and popular album was assembled.

The LEGO Batman Movie | 2:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Batman, the self-appointed star of The Lego Movie, gets his own hyper-aware, deeply silly feature based on the interconnecting children’s toys. Recommended for ages 7+. More at legobatman.com.

Shaun of the Dead w/ costume contest & party! | 7:15 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | When the dead come back to life on the streets of London, one man takes on the zombies to save his girl, his mum, and his local pub in this brilliant mix of comedy and horror. More at shaunofthedeadmovie.com.

Gravity (3D) | 9:20 PM Sunday, 10 29 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Alfonso Cuaron’s uniquely crafted space odyssey sets an astronaut and a medical engineer alone, adrift in space, and in a struggle to survive after the destruction of their shuttle. Experience it anew in 3D! More at gravitymovie.warnerbros.

com Night of the Living Dead | 7:15 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | More at janusfilms.com.

Cinemapolis

Friday, 10/27 to Thursday, 11/02. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes| Lucky |The spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist. | 88 mins | 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 | Human Flow | Human Flow is director and artist, Ai Weiwei’s detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis. | 140 mins PG-13 Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | The story of Mark Felt, who under the name “Deep Throat” helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974. | 103 mins PG-13

Stage Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show | Thursday, 10 26 | 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. Meet, B or Brahman/i, a boy/girl from Athens, Georgia, who explores everything from his/her/their Indian heritage to history, mythology, gender roles and horrifying middle school experiences, with the assistance of J, the electric bass playing side-kick.

The Crucible | Thursday, 10 26 | Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd E, B201, Syracuse | The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife’s arrest for witchcraft.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Drag Night with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Every Thursday is Drag Night with The House of Merlot.

Nate Staniforth: Real Magic | 9:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Nate abandons the ubiquitous style-withoutsubstance bravado so often associated with magic and appeals instead to

The Mystery of the Magic Flute,

Downtown Ithaca and Press Bay Alley Friday, Oct. 27 to Sunday, Oct. 29

Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, Saturday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Press Bay Alley transforms into Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter Universe — and the rest of Downtown Ithaca will join in the wizarding festivities! Find out which house you belong to, enjoy special events occurring at different local businesses in town and don’t forget to come in costume.

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The Myster of the Magic Flute is a two-act opera written by the famous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The narrative flows by combining both spoken and sung dialogue. The production follows Prince Tamino as he attempts to save the daughter of the Queen of the Night.

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Jigsaw | Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for ten years. | 91 mins R | The Snowman | Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. | 119 mins R | Only the Brave | Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.| 133 mins PG-13 | American Made | A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s. | 115 mins R 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 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 |

Happy Death Day | A college student relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity. | 96 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 The Foreigner | A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers’ identities. | 114 mins R || Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween | Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed.| PG-13 |

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Paula Poundstone | 8:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Part of Paula Poundstone’s comedy book tour.

Disney’s The Lion King | Saturday, 10 28 | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | In its 20th year, The Lion King continues ascendant as one of the most popular stage musicals in the world.

Wonderful Town | 8:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | Hoerner Theatre, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Wonderful Town is a familyfriendly, golden-age musical featuring music by Leonard Bernstein. Two sisters from Ohio move to New York City to pursue their artistic dreams. As they attempt to take their bite out of the Big Apple, they are both overwhelmed by, and enamored of, the zany characters they meet there.|

sounds conjured up by our musical Wizards.

15th Annual Hallo-Wine Spooktacular | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, Saturday, 10 28 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | It’s our 15th Annual Hallo-Wine Spooktacular, and this year’s costume theme is Wizards & Witches, with 3 categories: Best Wizard, Best Witch, Best Group of Sorcerers. Contest is at 10:30 each winner goes home with a basket filled with Americana goodies. Music by Elephant Sound.

Treasure Hunt on the Reuse Trail | Tuesday, 10 31 | 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.

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Colin Hay will perform 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, at the Hangar Theatre . Hay is best known for his vocal talents of Men at Work, performing on tracks such as “Who can it be Now?” “Down Under” and “Overkill.” (Photo provided) birdclub.org/calendar Ithaca is Foodies Culinary Tour | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Downtown Ithaca, 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.

Special Events Cortland Halloween Trick or Treat Parade | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Historic Downtown Cortland, , Cortland | Trick or Treating and Parade Registration on Main Street in Historic Downtown Cortland. For more information and for registration visit: https://goo.gl/forms/l4jAnzRiEgVEyUyy2 Ridgeline Duo at Red Jug Pub | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | The 35th Annual Chiller Haunted House presents House of the Dead! Corridor after corridor of flesh hungry zombies inhabit this year’s haunt.

Wizarding Weekend | Friday, 10 27 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Press Bay Alley gets

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Southside Traffic Calming Open House | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Southside Community Center, Ithaca | Drop in anytime at the Southside Community Center to give feedback about biking, walking and traffic in the south side neighborhood, and learn about traffic calming opportunities for the future. Join in a focused discussion at Plain & Clinton intersection at 5:30 p.m. about this problematic spot. Hosted

by Bike Walk Tompkins. Contact hector@ bikewalktompkins.org 607-301-3181.

Free light refreshments, childcare & ‘quick fix’ bike mechanic services available.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | The Antlers, 1159 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | RSVP at lpd4@ cornell.edu.

Community Game Night | 6:30 PM-6:30 AM, Thursday, 10 26 | 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. All are welcome. Use the Court Street entrance.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, 10 28 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. http://www.cayuga-

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The Commons becomes taken over by wizards — also featuring the Sorting Hat — to celebrate Halloween. This will be the third Wizarding Weekend to come to Downtown Ithaca.

Downtown Halloween | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Stores participating in the festivities will have a Trick-or-Treat sign prominently displayed in their storefront window indicating that the store is greeting trickor-treaters.

Wizarding Weekend Potions Crawl | Saturday, 10 28 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Get your brooms in order and fly downtown to quench your wizarding thirst with Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar’s BETTERBEER potion. A buttery carbonated spell of an elixir crafted with real maple syrup, pure vanilla extract, and a dollop of whipped cream.

Dryden Community Center Cafe’s 11th Annual Chili Cook Off and Apple Pie Contest | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Dryden Community Center Café, 1 W Main St, Dryden | The Café is looking for amateur bakers in both adult and under 16 yrs. categories.

Entry forms along with explanation of the rules are available at the Café. Chili

entries must be sponsored by a group or organization and entry forms with complete requirements are also available at the Café. Please consider supporting this important fundraiser for DC3, as a baker, cook or taster…and enjoy a little delicious fun, too.

Nightmare on Seneca 2017 | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Finger Lakes Distilling, 4676 NY Route 414, Burdett | Enjoy spooky games and spirited activities all night long with creepy crawly cocktail specials, Finger Lakes wine and beer and tasty treats from local restaurants. Come dressed to impress for our costume contest, and be sure to enter to win petrifying prizes in our raffle. Tickets area available at fingerlakesdistilling.com, and all proceeds benefit the Seneca Film Festival.

The Great Funkin’ | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A night full of music and dance, booze and boppin’, ghosts and goblins, severed heads and open hearts.

Costume up! Featuring Mutron Warriors, Viva Mayhem, Fall Creek Brass Band, DJ Gourd, DJ Ha-Meen.

Masquerade Ball | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Chose wisely your best disguise ... dress to confuse or aMUSE while dancing to the macabre

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The Dock celebrates Halloween with The Great Funkin’, a night of dancing and costuming. Featured at the event will be DJ Gourd, DJ Ha-MEEN, The Fall Creek Brass Band, ¡Viva Mayhem! and Mutron Warriors.

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Books Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art | 4:30 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | Olin Library, Cornell, Ithaca | In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states — the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly.

Community Read: Blasphemy Book Discussion | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | 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. Join library staff, Joyce Wheatley and Tom Burns for an opportunity to explore the themes, characters and lessons of Blasphemy: New and Collected Stories during our Book Discussion Group.

NY Votes for Women: A Suffrage Centennial Anthology Launch Party | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | In NY Votes for Women: A Suffrage Centennial Anthology, 21 women explore these questions in a variety of engaging memoirs, stories and poems.

Join Cayuga Lake Books, the Anthology editors, and readers and hear readings from the

following contributors: Carol Kammen, Gaia Woolf-Nightingall, Lisa Harris, Nora Snyder, Sarah Jefferis and Yvonne Fisher.

Learning Girls Who Code | Wednesday, 10 25 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The 10 week club is designed for girls in grades 6-12. No prior computer skills or experience are necessary. The club is part of a nationwide effort that is designed to address the gender gap in computer science and technology related careers.

Several students in the Women in Cornell Computing group will provide leadership and instruction for the club.

War and the Environment Wednesday, 10 25 | St. Catherine of Siena Church, 309 Siena Drive, Ithaca | Make the connection between peace and care for the Earth. Presentation by Prof.

Charles Geisler, emeritus professor from Cornell’s Department of Development Sociology, on the ways military action destroys the environment.

American Sign Language Class | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | For more info, or to receive registration form by email, contact@ fliconline.org, 272-2433.

200 Years of UFOs | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Cheryl Costa is a native and resident of upstate New York who saw her first UFO at age 12. A military veteran, she’s a retired information security professional from the aerospace Industry.

Place Making Body/Body Making Place: Movement Arts in Indonesia | 7:15 PM-8:30 AM, Friday, 10 27 | The Hidden Door, 27 West Main Street, Trumansburg | Julie Nathanielsz shares artistic research and the Amerta work of Javanese artist Suprapto Suryodarmo. A Fulbright project engaging movement arts within human-nature-spirit of life relations.

Weekend Workshop with Primitive Pursuits - Bow Making | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | We will take bulky pieces of wood and work following the grain to transform them into sleek, efficient hunting tools. Though the staves we use will be pre-harvested, we will learn about tree identification, harvesting, and processing in the context of the bowyer.

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Halloween in Downtown Ithaca, Downtown Ithaca, Friday, Oct. 27

Celebrate Halloween with your favorite local businesses. In conjunction with Wizarding Weekend, there will be a parade beginning at 3 p.m., music, facepainting, chilli and more.

Between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m., guests downtown can take part in trick-or-treating at all participating local shops. Come dressed up and enjoy what October has to offer.

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| 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Exploring topics related to healthcare proxies, hospice care, Alzheimer’s resources and more.

Art of Divination at Wizarding Weekend | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Discover how to penetrate the veiled mysteries of the future with this introduction to authentic divination. Learn ways to develop the Second Sight, explore tools for daily guidance, and receive detailed instruction in the arts of pendulum divination and tasseomancy — the reading of tea leaves.

Weekend Workshop with Primitive Pursuits - Bow Making | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | We will take bulky pieces of wood and work following the grain to transform them into sleek, efficient hunting tools. Though the staves we use will be pre-harvested, we will learn about tree identification, harvesting, and processing in the context of the bowyer.

The Elements of Magical Herbalism | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, 10 29 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Gayatri Spivak, “The Rohingya Issue In A Global Context” | 4:30 PM, Monday, 10 30 | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, 232 East Ave, Ithaca | Spivak will shed light on the current issues in Myanmar (Burma) related to the Rohingya and situate those issues at the global level.

Beginner Belly Dance | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, 10 30 | Finger Lakes Fitness Center Incorporated, 171 E State St Ste 115, Ithaca | Experience the fun and expressive art of belly dance. All are welcome and no experience is necessary.

Einaudi Center Roundtable: “Indian Ocean Politics in the 21st Century” | 4:30 PM Tuesday, 10 31 | Goldwin Smith Hall, Lewis Auditorium, 232 East Ave, Ithaca | Panelists: Robert Blake, former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Indonesia Tissa Jayatilaka, Director of the Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission.

Toastmasters Cayuga Club Meeting | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | 205 Riley Robb Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Through the self-paced Toastmasters program, we help each other gain skill and confidence in both public and private speaking. We offer a supportive, friendly, and fun learning environment with great mentorship.

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t’s always tough deciding how one spends a holiday – Halloween particularly.

Friends throw great house parties, the chance to see your friends in costume is consistently priceless and, since Halloween weekend oftentimes isn’t actually on Halloween, your partying options are usually limitless if you go looking for them. Despite all the great local options this Friday, you’ll definitely be finding me 20 miles up the road at Cortland Beer Company.

It’s the end of October, which inevitably leads to some form of conversation about “last-minute” parties or costume

PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | Ahimsa Ashram, 125 West Green St, Ithaca | Engage in exercises that support health, vibrancy and vocal stamina. Explore toning and movement practices that open us to life force energy. Experience the uniting and uplifting nature of simple multicultural songs. Embrace the joy of vocal improvisation over live drumming

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Museum in the Dark | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 10 26 | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Children of all ages are invited to come dressed in costume and learn more about our universe. Cornell astronomy students will have stations throughout the Museum dedicated to space and space exploration.

Wizarding Yoga | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In Celebration of Ithaca’s Wizarding Weekend, the Tompkins County Public Library will host “Wizarding Yoga,” a fun-filled, drop-in yoga program for children ages 5 through 12.

ideas. Halloween is the same day every year. Why there’s always the lastminute scramble is still bewildering, but it happens to most people. If there’s a last-minute crisis for you this year, at least you won’t have to worry about missing the Halloween celebration at Cortland Beer Company this Friday, Oct. 27.

The brewery will begin the festivities at 9 p.m., opening up its spacious garage for three local rock bands — spooky sounds at spooky high decibels. Each of the bands have a punk-alternative sound, with early 2000s influences. Make sure to include heavy black eyeliner somewhere in your costume.

Genitor, formed in 2011, will bring fast and poppy melodies. A three-piece band, each track is riddled with metal and folk vibes with a sharp rhythm section.

The band’s latest album, Fossil Dome — named after a geological feature at the Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortland — features seven head-banging tracks,

Health Qigong for Breast Wellness | 5:30 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | T-Fit Fitness, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Learn 7 simple moves that increase the flow of energy through the breast area.

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The Dragon’s Way 6 week Qigong program | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | 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.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Saturday, 10 28 | 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.

Even Polo Players Get the Blues: A Suicide Prevention Benefit Game | 2:00 PM, Saturday, 10 28 | Oxley Equestrian Center, 220 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Join the Cornell Varsity Polo

many of which will likely be performed Friday.

Sanjuro Fields will also be making an appearance, merging together hints of rockabilly, blues, metal, traditional punk — a mut of harmonious, raucous sounds.

Look out for fan favorites like “Broken Chair, which takes listeners on a journey all throughout the U.S.: from Texas beer halls to the Portland Underground.

Last on the lineup is Hurtin’ Units, enchanting the music scene since 1999.

They’ve been playing several regional shows as of late, making its way down to Ithaca (and, in the past, a few New York

Team, the brothers of Chi Psi, and TriDelt sorority for a polo game in memory of Sue Knight: captain of the ‘80 and ‘81 championship teams who died after a long battle with depression. All proceeds from the match will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, 10 29 | 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.

T’ai Chi Classes | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing | John Burger - Instructor. T’ai Chi promotes balance, flexibility, coordination and can reduce pain. T’ai Chi is also been shown to lower the risk of falls, increase energy levels, enhance sleep, and reduce stress and anxiety.

Art Paint Nite | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, 10 25 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd,

gigs, too). This group takes you on a time journey from now to Y2K, strumming up sounds similar to Blink 182’s classic tracks.

While the music looks promising, let’s not forget the craft beer. CBC will offer a wide selection of in-house specials for Miller Lite prices, so you can try fancy beer without shelling out too much cash.

And don’t forget your costume — there’s a number of prizes you can win for best costume, including a $50 gift card. •

Ithaca | Paint at The Dock.

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 26 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Visit The History Center 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.

Big Ink Ithaca | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, Friday, 10 27 | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings | Saturday, 10 28 | 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 29 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Marjorie Hoffman will be exhibiting her new mosaic works at Madeline’s on the Commons. An opening reception at the restaurant

will take place on Sept. 10 from 5-6 p.m.

The show extends until Nov. 26.

The World Bewitch’d: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, 10 31 | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | The exhibition features rare and unique books and documents —from 15th-century witch hunting manuals to 20th-century movie posters — and it examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands..

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Museum in the Dark,

The Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, Thursday, Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m.

The Haunt, Ithaca, Saturday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.

Cornell’s Astronomy Graduate Network is partnering with the Museum of the Earth to bring children Museum in the Dark. This event will explore space and all of its spooky elements. Children can come in costume, ready to celebrate Halloween and ready to learn the mysteries of the universe — at night.

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Suzanne Santo of the duo HoneyHoney has gone solo — and she’s bringing her music to Ithaca. Santo just released her debut solo album titled Ruby Red, produced by multi-platinum Grammy nominee Butch Walker. She’s on tour with Willie Watson, and she’ll perform her Americana tunes at The Haunt.

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