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represents $462,000,” Mareane said.

However, Mareane was adamant that he has no issue with department heads taking their case directly to legislators during EBC meetings. To the contrary, he said it is expected.

“We have a very transparent process.

It’s OK to ask the legislature if I say no.

This is public money. We ought to be careful,” Mareane said.

In fact, Mareane said there are OTR requests in the budget he said no to that he firmly believes in, but because of financial constraints he made the hard choice to not include them.

“The county had to cut significant contributions for teen centers in the county. Originally I wanted to add another $75,000 into it. I thought I would be able to, but then realized I couldn’t afford it

City of Ithaca

Tompkins County

Chickens Still Outside the Law

County Stays Under 1.8% Tax Cap

nother step toward a resolution was taken during the most recent episode of “Backyard Chickens: Ithaca,” the legal procedural drama that’s been playing at city hall meetings since mid-summer.

In the latest installment, the city Planning and Economic Development committee agreed on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to circulate an ordinance that allows up to four hens to be kept on some city properties.

In order to “Chicken” keep chickens under

by Mary Beth Inkhen the proposed law, residential lots must be at least 3,000 square feet in size; the hens’ own quarters must provide at least four square feet for each animal and can’t be built within 20 feet of a neighbor’s house. A fine structure starting at $250 and escalating to $750 for third and subsequent violations of the chickenkeeping rules is included.

One rule, stating that chickens “may not be butchered, slaughtered, or otherwise killed” on the premises, was investigated by Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st) during the committee’s discussion.

“If I take [a] chicken into my residence and slaughter it, am I in violation of this ordinance?” Brock asked, questioning the city’s ability to enforce the rule.

Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D-2nd), P&ED chair, said that he thought the ordinance assumed hens are kept more for their egg-laying than pot-filling capacities.

“Isn’t that a value judgment we’re imposing?” Brock asked, referring to some cultures’ preference for meat over eggs— and adding at one point, “I hate to admit it, but I eat more chicken than I do eggs.”

Mayor Svante Myrick, sitting in, spoke up to say he has “no opposition to slaughtering chickens in the city,” and he agreed that enforcement of the ban would be a hassle.

The ordinance was circulated as read. Once other city boards, entities, and citizens with an interest in the matter have their clucks over how the new code reads, Planning will vote at next month’s Oct. 14 meeting whether to send the resolution on to Common Council. •

ow that Tompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane has presented his recommended $171 million county budget to the legislature, the Expanded Budget Committee (EBC) has started the process of examining the county department requests that Mareane did not include.

Mareane said that after he was given a 1.3 percent increase cap for his recommended budget earlier in the year, he allowed county department heads to construct their own department budgets within those constraints with limited interference.

However, any requests that would exceed that department’s budget are called “over target requests” (OTRs).

“OTRs allow us to focus on things above the line, on the changes in the budget and not on where things stay the same,” Mareane said.

County Adminstrator Joe Mareane (Photo: Benjamin C. Klein) Some OTRs were included in the recommended budget. under the 1.3 percent increase target,” Others were left out, Mareane said.

Mareane said.

The OTRs requested by department Mareane said he also expects the heads adds up to $3.3 million, and if legislature to strongly look at an OTR all were approved, it would represent request from Meals on Wheels. a 4.14 percent increase to the tax levy “There was a request by Meals on instead of the 1.3 percent in the current Wheels for an extra $22,000 so they can recommended budget. With a state increase their wages to a living wage for recommended tax-cap of 1.8 percent, employees, and the county has a 10-yearMareane said if all OTR requests were old policy stating that, when possible, the adopted it would take the county out of county as a contractor has to pay a living contention for a rebate from the state for staying under the tax cap. continued on page 4 “Each percentage point of our budget

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▶ Volunteering at the Permaculture Park, After a successful crowdfunding campaign through Ioby, the Get2gether Neighborhood Challenge Winner and the Center for the New American Dream, staff at CCE Tompkins are organizing multiple volunteer days at the Permaculture Park (aka Conley Park) in the Northside neighborhood to install raised beds, herb spirals and to help prepare the park to ‘sleep’ for the winter.

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At he Permaculture Park (aka Conley Park) between First Street and Cascadilla Creek) Thursday Oct 15, 4-7pm Thursday Oct 22, 4-6pm Saturday Oct 24, 12-4pm For more information email Chrys Gardener at cab69@cornell.edu

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Football: National Pastime or menace to society?

“Oh, a menace. I like playing Madden and playing for fun in the summer, but watching on TV is boring.

And I got hurt a lot playing it.”

—Chiraq Marcus

“Sports are the worst thing you can do for the kids. Kids should play their own games.

In the city, we’d play jacks and stickball in the streets. ” —Kenny “the Elephant” Cox

“It’s an outlet for a lot of emotional energy.

Far better than killing each other. And if the Bills keep winning I’ll get more excited.”

—Marge Hansel

“It’s the promotion of violence, for what?

Needless injury.”

—Matthew Ashford

“It’s hard to watch as the mother of a football player, but I support my boys.” ­—Sheila Ossit

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Ithacans to find their culture existing here, now. She often has to tell earnest student volunteers to relax and enjoy the day.

“They say, ‘OK, Ana, I’ll do this now,’ and I have to say ‘Calm down. Here’s some food.’ They say ‘What’s that?’ It’s rice and beans. ‘Holy crap, you have that? For real?’

Well, yeah—it’s, like, your country’s food.”

Besides its availability in many delicious varieties from vendors, food

he Southside will be hopping on Sunday, Sept. 20 when Streets Alive!, the Food Justice Fair, and the Latino Multicultural Festival all happen, all at once.

“Most people here, they just stay in their house,” said Ana Ortiz, one of the Latino Multicultural Festival’s organizers. “We’re out here, come outside, bring your flag and your instrument and your chair, and let’s have fun.

Let’s talk in Spanish.”

The Latino festival is in Streets Alive! celebration from 2013 (above) and its sixth year; it will run from Natasha Bowens in her garden (right) noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday (Photos: file and Afroculinaria) at Wood Street Park on the basketball courts, with food will also be a topic and craft vendors, a bouncy house for of discussion at the the kids, and dominoes for adults. Sally Food Justice Fair, Ramirez of Arco Iris was confirmed to which will be held play music as of press time, and Michael in conjunction with the fall Streets Alive!

Ristorucci will be spinning some tunes and handling master of ceremonies duties. on South Plain Street. Portions of Plain, Clinton, and Wood streets will be closed No Mas Lagrismas (No More Tears) to cars from 1 to 5 p.m. At 3 p.m., anyone is the community organization that puts interested in parading from the Southside together the Latino Multicultural Festival, Community Center over to the Latino along with making the Boricua Afro party can join in the “Stop the Violence, Americano festival happen in several Walk for Health” march between the two recent years. Ortiz finds that this festival often provides an opportunity for students locations.

At 2 p.m. on Plain Street, Natasha who might have Latino heritage but Bowens will give the GreenStar-sponsored don’t regularly connect with year-round

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wage,” Mareane said.

County Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses) serves as the EBC chair, and said that there are a few things in the budget that he knows legislators will want to discuss further. With two EBC meetings on the books and more on the way, Dennis said many of the legislators not on the committee still attend the meetings.

Mareane said that during the recession when serious budget constraints arose, some things were put on the backburner. Two of those things were vehicle replacement and the budget for the public library. But while he said it is time the sheriff ’s department was given extra money for about four new vehicles, funding for the library has increased enough since the dark days of the recession that he isn’t sure he wants to expand services beyond what they were pre-recession. “[The sheriff department’s budget] is bigger than it normally is, but if the e p t e m b e r

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department does the job justifying the request, people will go along,” Dennis said.

Dennis said that the EBC has already gone over the county’s largest budget item, the highway budget at roughly $8 million, and that everything went fine. According to county officials, the highway department has requested OTRs to purchase two 10-wheel dump trucks, equipped for snow and ice control at a cost of roughly $280,000. The OTR was included in the recommended budget.

While Mareane included a $150,000 OTR for the public library in order to close what he called, “structural deficits,” he did not include an additional roughly $90,000 for a new librarian.

Dennis said that upcoming EBC meetings would address two other million-dollar pieces of the county’s budget, the requests from the departments of Social Services and Mental Health.

Mike Lane (D-Dryden), chair of the legislature, said that while he is proud of the to social services and mental health services the county provides, there is a debate among legislators as to what services should be provided.

“There are some legislators who

Food Justice Fair keynote speech.

Bowens is the author of The Color of Food and blogs under the moniker “Brown Girl Farming,” which documents her experience as a novice farmer of color.

Bowens was an activist in the Washington D.C. area when she realized how central food was to justice issues in general.

“I was frustrated with what I was seeing in the food movement. There’s an under-representation of people of color,” Bowens said. “I started writing about the intersection of race, food, and agriculture on my blog, and started writing for Grist magazine as well. From that I started hearing from a national audience. I got on the road in 2012 and interviewed over 75 different farmers and food activists.”

Those interviews and the accompanying photographic documentation became The Color of Food. Bowens emphasizes that the food movement needs to “realize they need to be more inclusive and find more diverse groups.”

The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network is one example of an organization that Bowens has encountered which, she said, takes their message across the country to raise awareness of these issues.

After the fair ends, there will be a community dinner and conversation at the Space @ GreenStar with Bowens, which begins at 5:45 p.m. and goes until 8 p.m.

To register for that event email Holly@ greenstar.coop or call 229-3540. • —Josh

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think that money should be no object. I have seen the consequences when some elderly folks in Dryden ended up losing their homes because they could no longer afford the taxes,” Lane said.

Dennis and Lane both agreed that they are happy with how the budget process has gone this year, something Mareane echoed.

“The budget process is different [for Tompkins County] compared to a lot of other places. Here the budget process lasts almost all year, and while it takes forever, it means everything is carefully scrutinized and discussed. There are no surprises,” Mareane said.

After the EBC meets with department heads, the legislator will meet for six presentation meetings and up to three voting meetings, if they are needed, before voting on a tentative budget.

“The tentative budget is a pretty big deal for us. It says this is the budget we want to vote on,” Dennis said.

Lane added that the budget should be finalized and voted upon in November. • — Benjamin

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Local Housing

Making a Fair Housing Action Plan

▶ Going to the dogs,This Sunday Sept.

20 there is a fund-raiser at the Northstar Beer Garden for Cayuga Dog Rescue from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. They are having a bake sale, beverages, and stuff for sale. They are a little short on volunteers, baked goods, and stuff to sell also. If you are looking for some fun while helping out a bunch of death row doggies, write Shannon Hamilton of Northstar. Her email is sveley@gmail.com

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n our desirable little city that has so many transplants and transients coming down the hills to stay here for one year or 30, issues relating to rental housing and who gets to live where come up time and again. And numbers from studies completed in the last year or 10 are thrown around at meetings with alacrity, the alleged half-percent vacancy rate being the most prominent in recent months.

The study “Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice” completed this past May for the city by the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights will likely become a new provider of statistics filling your news sources in future years. An “AI” study is required every five years for locales that receive monies from Housing and Urban Development. Funds from that source have been allocated by the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency to about 25 different recipients over the past decade, from large affordable housing projects to organizations from Catholic Charities to the Kitchen Theatre.

The AI study “doesn’t really deal with affordability issues,” says Karen Baer of the Office of Human Rights (OHR), “but people should have choices if they can afford it.”

The study results for Ithaca identified nine “direct impediments” to fair housing practices here that include people with disabilities facing higher levels of discrimination and student housing leading to discrimination against families.

Landlords often offer well-meaning reasons for not allowing children, Baer said: “It’s on a busy street, or it’s on a gorge, or it’s on the second floor.” But her office would prefer that parents decide what’s good for their families, not landlords.

Familial status was made a federally protected class in housing in 1988, along with disability. Other classes are national origin; race; color; religion; and gender.

In New York State, age, marital status, and sexual orientation are also protected.

In response to the study at its Sept.

9 Planning and Economic Development committee meeting the city began the process of formulating a “Fair Housing Action” plan, which is required by the feds. An official city response to each of the nine impediments was on the agenda, agreeing or disagreeing with findings and recommendations from the study.

According to Nels Bohn of the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA), these findings will be dealt with as funding and political will can be found. (Affordability is the number one “indirect impediment,” meaning it is a problem, but not one that HUD expects the city to resolve via planning.)

One notable disagreement the city

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

Mike Danaher, New York State assistant attorney general (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

had with the study’s recommendation was adding “source of income” as a protected class, at least until “additional research has been conducted.” One large landlord with over 50 units discontinued the option of using Section 8 vouchers in 2014. Generally, getting people who need assistance into housing is a concern.

Under federal law, no landlord can be made to take vouchers.

“One answer could be to raise rents above the standard the voucher will pay for,” Bohn said about “unintended consequences” of a city law made on this front. And anyway, the city agreed in its official response that, “The City of Ithaca does not provide its residents with any effective legal mechanism by which their fair housing rights are meaningfully enforced.”

No one has ever filed suit under the city housing law, so far as the study could find. Additional protected classes that the city has added, including height and weight, aren’t enforced by the state, Bohn said.

For her part, Baer was a bit surprised to see the report called “misconstrued or not quite accurate” by a city official in an Ithaca Voice story; she said the city and OHR worked closely together during the process.

“HUD sees reports like these all the time,” Baer said, adding that though she wouldn’t want to “downplay” the findings, there were a total of 34 discrimination reports countywide over the last nine years. And anyway, if no impediments to fair housing are found, Baer said, that could mean the study isn’t very in-depth, which can lead to lawsuits, and HUD can decide that the city doesn’t need funding anymore.

• • • Disagreements between tenants and landlords and their respective rights were the subject of a talk by assistant attorney general Mike Danaher at the Cornell Cooperative Extension on Sept. 10.

In an hour-long talk, Danaher explained the case for the word “reasonable” in landlord-tenant laws,

which are scattered all over the books.

“I think that term is an excellent term,” Danaher said. “What is a reasonable period of time? Do they have two hours, three days, 10 days … Let’s say it’s July 10.

How much time would it be appropriate for the landlord to fix furnace? Now, let’s say it’s January 3.”

If a landlord doesn’t get around to fixing a problem in a reasonable amount of time, Danaher said that rather than withholding rent, which renters often do, they should get the problem fixed on their own dime and include the receipt with rent.

Danaher pointed out some common sense principles for relations between renters and landlords alike, with the most important being good communication.

While “it’s legal to have an oral lease,” he said, “It’s absolutely crazy to not have a written lease.”

In the matter of security deposits, Danaher emphasized that deposits should be in an interest-bearing account and should not be thought of as “an extra month’s rent.” For those students who think that losing their deposit entitles them to party hardy at the end of a lease, they should think again, since their liability is as high as the dollar amount of damage to a property. He cited a case in Binghamton where co-signing parents were on the hook for about $30,000 in damage.

And for all disputes, pictures for “both parties speak 1,000 words, maybe 10,000 words when it comes to security deposits,” Danaher said. “If you come into a courtroom [without photographs], and the landlord is saying it was a dump and the tenant is saying it’s spic and span, the judge is going eenie-meenie-miney-mo.”

For an archive of Danaher’s talks on all manner of legal issues, visit ccetompkins.org and search “attorney general presentations.” To find the complete “Analysis of Impediments” report, go to tompkinscountyny.gov/ humanrights. • —Josh T

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Heard&Seen ▶ Library System Open House, The Finger Lakes Library System will be hosting an Open House to celebrate the opening of our new building at 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, NY on Friday, September 25th from 3-6 PM. All community members are welcome to attend., During the Open House, community members will be able to tour the new building, meet the new Executive Director, Sarah Glogowski, and the rest of the Finger Lakes Library System staff, and see demonstrations of new library services like 3D printing. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Sept. 9-15 include: 1) Food Trucks and Carts 2) Why Is Ithaca One of the Least Affordable U.S. Cities?

3) Dryden Burglary Suspects Nabbed 4) Ithaca Commons Cameras Watching You 5) Triangle Project Open House For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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ecause Ithaca is a small town, the Ithaca Times does not have the same sort of editorial policy as a big city paper. We tend to be a lot nicer and more easygoing than a big city paper. This is manifested in our general policy to avoid slagging local artists and performers. Although some readers appear (as is indicated by their responses) to disagree, we feel our opinion pages let the public sphere in this town off pretty easily as well. Various emperors often go naked in these parts, and we just look the other way, mostly.

We appeared to violate this dictum with the publication of a July 8 article on an exhibition of works by local artists at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Our art critic Arthur Whitman did not like some of the work and said so, and he explained why he did not like it. We put it in print because the Johnson Museum, by virtue of being at Cornell University, is actually part of the greater art world and anyone whose work is good enough to be shown there should therefore be subject to the normal rules of the greater art world. In that world critics can be decidedly sharp, and Whitman’s words were mild when measured against that standard.

Our other art critic, Amber Donofrio, has a different philosophy of criticism from Whitman. (Some of Whitman’s more barbed lines end up on the cutting room floor, by the way.) Last week (Sept. 9) one of our columnists, Stephen Burke, took an end of the summer break, and we ran

Donofrio’s essay “What Does it Mean to be an [Art] Critic?” She referenced Whitman’s “Locally Sourced” piece in her introductory paragraph and we inserted the phrase “when he did not praise all of the local art in a Johnson art museum exhibit” to remind readers of the two-month old controversy.

Donofrio found this insertion to be unfortunate in terms of tone. The italicized all really irked because to her mind it made her sound peevish. The editorial intention, however, was to accurately render the outraged tone of the complaints, which—to the last—were scandalized that anything other than praise had been directed toward any local work.

The truth of the matter is that there is an enormous amount of very good artwork (and music) made in the greater Ithaca area. So much so that we generally focus on what we like, don’t get to some we like a lot, and simply let slip past what does not move us in a positive way. The last betrays the essentially bourgeois nature of our souls. That is, if we don’t have something nice to say, then we don’t say anything at all.

But that rule does not apply to the opinion pages of our paper. We have an editorial position that we attempt to make it as consistent as possible, but we simply do not like some things (e.g. sprawl, ugly buildings, public officials who don’t do their homework), while we definitely do like other things (e.g. continued on page 7

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ews item: Last week, in an effort to stave off further financial decline, National Geographic Magazine and its book, map, and other media assets were sold to a partnership headed by 21st Century Fox, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled company that owns the 20th Century Fox movie studio, the Fox television network, Fox News Channel, the New York Post, and Britain’s The Sun. Fox will control 73 percent of the operation, now called ‘National Geographic Partners’, with the balance held by the National Geographic Society. The partnership, based in Washington, D.C., will include a portfolio of National Geographicbranded cable TV channels, digital properties, and publishing operations, most notably the magazine.

From its launch in 1888 until last Wednesday, the magazine and other publishing operations had remained fully under the National Geographic Society’s ownership and direction.

Dear Valued Subscriber: We, the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society, wish to reassure you that regardless of our recent fiscal repositioning we remain wholly committed to our founding vision, to wit: “the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge”. Indeed, far from being a matter of concern, we hope that our members would look upon this as an exciting opportunity to enter into partnership with one of the largest media enterprises in the world. Just imagine the resources now available to the magazine. One need only to consider upcoming articles in the National

Geographic Magazine to see that our dedication to the Society’s mission remains unsullied and pure.

The cover story of our very next issue is a thorough de-bunking of the controversial notion that the world’s climate is changing. Dr. P.J. Whoopee convincingly demonstrates with pie charts, a photo of an actual snowball on the floor of the House of Representatives, bible passages, and some other stuff that no amount of human activity can have an impact on global weather patterns. We will debut a new feature examining an anthropological approach to other cultures with a fascinating photo essay, Amazonian Stone Age Tribeswomen Gone Wild. In the same issue, our new partners have helped us finance a thrilling expedition to Barack Obama’s Kenyan birthplace, and our explorers visit an exotic location closer to home in Destination Ithaca: Life Among the Liberals.

Naturally, there will be some subtle changes. The partners have suggested to the editorial board that we adopt a broader interpretation of the term “geographic knowledge” as a way to stay in step with the 21st century. We concur, and, steeped as we are in a tradition of disseminating scientific knowledge, we will quite naturally be able to position ourselves as a credible bastion against the liberal media. Early next year look for Kim Davis: Profile in Courage, a compelling analysis of the U.S. government’s conspiracy to destroy the New Testament, and The Pinocchio Effect, a photographic continued on page 7

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I have attended some wonderful concerts at the Unitarian Church of Ithaca. Last night I attended a weird event there organized “to answer your GMO questions.” It was promoted by a well-endowed group, the Cornell Alliance for Science. Things started well enough with some rousing songs by the local group Vitamin L. But the concert segued into something rather strange with sinister overtones. I never thought the day would come when I would hear musical instruments, such as the sacred gong—normally a call for prayer—used in our churches to repress debate. But that is exactly what happened when the Cornell Alliance for Science felt a speaker from the community was talking too long or asking awkward questions about GMOs. The question or comment was drowned out by the use of a gong. Yes, it was done as a supposedly amusing way to move on—a triangle served as a warning before T

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the big-hitting gong came in. But is this the way to generate rational debate over the pros and cons of GMOs? Certainly there is misinformation out there. But no real debate was allowed at the meeting.

Questions could be asked from the floor, but the only people who could speak more than once were the designated speakers, and even when someone in the audience thought the comment from the platform was outrageously false—yes, scientists can make false statements—no one was allowed to question it.

The French scholar Jacques Attali famously pointed out that social power is often exercised through sound. When noise is heard in a new way, something is up. Gongs silencing debate? Some powerful alliance somewhere is creaking.

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and use politeness to cover up the fact that they aren’t listening to their fellow citizen at all (until, of course, they completely lose their tempers). After sitting through several hundred of these meetings, one has the tendency to gravitate toward an editorial writing style that does not beat around the bush. •

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nother set of revised plans for the State Street Triangle building (which has also been referred to as the Trebloc building) was released on Thursday, Sept. 10, in a public meeting held by developers Campus Advantage at Coltivare.

While hungry idlers spread smoked gouda onto crackers in the fairly full meeting room’s rear, a new design that planners said was developed with input Campus Advantage CEO Mike Peter and vice president Ronnie Macejewski. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) from city staff and planning board members was unveiled on the projector inquirer into demographics, and went on that between 45 and 60 percent of the screen. to mention that in some markets, Campus labor will be local and/or union, though The Triangle project last went before Advantage has made a practice of renting those numbers are roughed out from the planning board on Aug. 25 and heard to seniors during summers. previous LeChase Construction projects. critiques of the building’s “massing” and On the subject of parking, Peter The planning board is holding its “porosity”; the gist was ‘We don’t want said the numbers he was looking at said public hearing for this project at 6 p.m. on no monolith.’ (See “Cutting Up The about a quarter of Cornell undergraduates Tuesday, Sept. 22 in city hall. • Trebloc Building,” Sept. 2 Ithaca Times.) bring cars if they have a spot, and if they In response to these concerns, architect — J o s h B r o k aw don’t the number is reduced to about 17 Noah Demarest of Ithaca’s STREAM Collaborative said he initially dropped Editorial a middle portion contin u ed from page 6 of the building’s façade a story, along sustainable economic projects, form-based State Street. Further zoning, the new Commons). And we say conversations with so without apology to those who disagree stakeholder types with our editorial position. led to moving that If, for example, suburbanites are dropped story and unhappy that the editorial position of rooftop plaza to the Ithaca Times is that acres and acres of the building’s curve tract homes without a retail establishment, facing the Commons business or sidewalk in sight is a bad at State and Aurora thing, and no more of that kind of streets. The building landscape should be created, then too is now broken into six bad. That is our position, and we wish you different architectural would listen to reason and change your Newest design for the “Triangle Building”; east perspective (Provided) styles, Demarest said, mind. While the job of the newspaper’s with a seventh section news pages is only to inform you, the job percent. in the middle serving as a “connector.” of the opinion pages is to change your After citing city numbers that 780 The architectural changes did cause mind. downtown garage spots will be vacant a reduction in the number of planned While we have admitted to having during peak hours after the Triangle and beds in the building, from 620 to 582, a bourgeois soul this does not extend to other currently developing projects are said Ronnie Macejewski, vice president avoiding confrontation altogether. In fact, completed, Peter was told “That’s cute, but for developer Campus Advantage. The the inordinate length of public meetings not true,” by one audience member. company had not yet run the numbers to in this region is sometimes caused by “You can call it cute or whatever you’ d estimate what sort of change in tax receipts everyone present talking around each like,” Peter said, “but we’re not going to that loss of units might cause the city. other instead of saying what they really invest our money in a project unless we Campus Advantage CEO Mike Peter believe. At the other end of the spectrum, know that parking is there, that it’s been fielded a number of questions from the you find meeting rooms full of people who tabulated and calculated.” audience. One questioner asked Peter Asked about the prospect of including have intransigent ideological positions whether it might be a better idea to build

by Ithaca College, since all of the residents affordable units in the Triangle project, say 15 percent, Peter responded: “Is it would be coming from that institution. something we would consider doing? Sure.

“I’ve not heard that before,” Peter said Is it something we have thought about of his company’s alleged marketing plan.

• The name of the Interlaken trustee “Since Ithaca College students are required doing, or have a comfort level doing? No.” Other tidbits from this meeting who was the focus of the Sept. 2 “The Talk to live on-campus their first two years, included a change in cost estimates: The at Ithaca.com” is Bill McGuire, not Mike that’s probably not wise.” project, which has been reported until McQuire. McGuire wishes to do away Later, when asked again about the recently in these pages as costing $40 with the village police department. building’s demographics, Peter said that million, is now projected by Campus • In last week’s issue (Sept. 9) “Legif 600 IC students were lined up outside Advantage to cost $53 million in islature Warily Approaches Drones” was the rental offices on Day One, it “would construction costs and a total of $74 written by Aryeal Jackson, not Benjamin be tempting” to rent out the units to them C. Klein. all. “You could be one of our older student million in development costs.

Macejewski is currently estimating • The final line of the Sept. 9 editorial renters,” Peter told one white-haired

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criticism and the growth of knowledge.

We know it isn’t always that way, but if the Cornell Alliance for Science wants to teach the community of Ithaca about science or wants to learn from this diverse community and its experience of agriculture, they could start off by being a little less arrogant. Perhaps they could feel confident enough to dare to have a critic of GMOs on the panel. Perhaps they could include social scientists or actual farmers.

We are Ithaca. We know about science.

We know how to make sacred music, too.

We know plenty about farming. We know about good food. We know arrogance when we hear it, and it doesn’t resonate well with our community.

– Trevor Pinch, Ithaca Pinch is a local musician and author of The Golem: What You Should Know About Science. surroundedreality contin u ed from page 6

demonstration of the fact that Hilary Clinton’s nose is literally actually growing the more she talks about the emails she sent and received while she was Secretary of State.

Of course, the magazine will have a new look. It’s not 1888 any more! Gone will be the old school yellow border in favor of snappier graphics and maybe a hint of cleavage on a Photoshopped Afghan girl. Plus, kicking off our commitment to geographic knowledge about celebrities, we will pay up to ten grand for any decent photograph of a famous person on a beach. We’ll also purchase well-written stories about trashy love triangles, murder-suicide pacts, teenaged ISIS converts, and mobbed-up politicians. And if anybody can dig up some dirt on Bernie Sanders … Hoo boy!

So rest easy, subscribers. While time marches on, some things remain, if not eternal, close enough.

Sincerely, The Board of Trustees

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The City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, and local labor representatives argue over tax abatements

By Bill Chaisson In conjunction with the goals of the Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan, the objective of the CIIP is to encourage development in the City that would increase jobs, increase the tax base, promote density in the City core, to encourage rehabilitation and redevelopment of underutilized sites and to help create a vibrant downtown center.

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he city of Ithaca, particularly the downtown area, but also Collegetown, is seeing a wave of economic development in the form of the construction of large buildings. Very little was built for several years due in part to the economic recession that ensued after the collapse of the real estate market in 2008, but locally construction was also discouraged by a community investment incentive tax abatement program (CIITAP; pronounced “see-tap”) with an application that included so many conditions that no developer seemed able to meet them. The program criteria were revised in 2012 and pared down to requiring that the project add $500,000 to the property value, increase density by being at least three stories high, and be within the city “density district” (see map).

“We reinvent ourselves all the time,” said County Legislator Jim Dennis, who is also chair of the county Industrial Development Agency. He moved to Ithaca in 1970 and as such is able to chronicle changes under several mayors. “[Edward C.] Conley [1971-1979] was just trying to recover from urban renewal. Ben Nichols [1989-1995] basically didn’t want any [development] to happen. Developers had to sue to get permits. Alan [Cohen; 19962002] went the other way.” Dennis likened Mayor Carolyn Peterson (2003-2011) to Nichols and present Mayor Svante Myrick as being more like Cohen with respect to encouraging development.

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It was these latter criteria—meeting “social and environmental benefit” requirements—that developers found to be unscalable impediments. In thanking the county IDA for a tax abatement recently granted to the Tompkins Financial Group’s planned headquarters on East Seneca Street, Tompkins Trust Company CEO Greg Hartz noted that in choosing to build downtown, his company was paying four times what it would cost to build on “green field.” Further, when all ensuing expenses of being downtown were considered, it would be seven times as expensive. It is these economic facts that make developers reluctant to make promises regarding

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social and environmental benefits.

Earlier this summer, Mayor Svante Myrick established a city committee that has the singular task of once again revising the CIITAP criteria. The formation of the committee followed a decision by the county IDA’s refusal to approve a tax abatement for a project by developer Jason Fane. Fane’s residential building had met the three CIITAP requirements, but by state law it is the county IDA that actually grants the abatement, and the county’s criteria retained many of the expectations of social and environmental benefits that once marked the city application. Fane’s project produced no jobs—let alone ones that produced a living wage—and it was deemed not green enough nor did he make promises regarding use of local labor.

According to Alderwoman Ellen McCollister (D-3rd), who chairs the city committee reviewing the CIITAP criteria, the group has no intention of dissembling the existing package, but rather is looking at the basic components of the program with the aim of reintroducing requirements for use of local labor, payment of living wages to employees, and use of green building practices that will

yield a LEED-eligible structure.

The committee began meeting on Aug. 12 and has one more scheduled meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. at city hall. But McCollister thought that additional meetings might be necessary.

“We haven’t reached a consensus about what percentage of labor would need to be local,” she said. “Stacey [Black of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] wants 95 percent, and we want 75 percent.” McCollister wants to create a more nuanced plan rather than establish a simple flat percentage. “It makes a difference where you are in the job,” she said. By way of example, the alderwoman noted that local workers could not have carried out the scale of excavation done at Collegetown Terrace. (Elsewhere, the structural steel work being done at the Carey Building project is also not a skill available locally.) McCollister would like to take into account these exceptions by establishing a system of rolling averages or by assigning percentages to specific job types.

Any recommendations that come out of her committee will go to the city’s Planning and Economic Development

board and then on to the Common Council. The original schedule was for the planning board to discuss the topic at their October meeting, but McCollister admitted that this might be optimistic.

McCollister’s committee includes local elected officials, Black representing local labor, Herman Sieverding of Integrated Acquisition representing the local developer community, and Jan Rhodes Norman representing the business community interested in sustainable development. The other members are Alderperson Seph Murtagh, Stacey Black, Nick Goldsmith (sustainability), Downtown Ithaca director Gary Ferguson, Heather McDaniel (TCAD), and planning staff members Jennifer Kusznir, Nels Bohn, Phylly DeSarno, and JoAnn Cornish.

Black is the business development coordinator for the IBEW (Local 241). He believes that if tax abatements or even bonding of a local construction project is under consideration by local government, then “There should be more community benefit, to us [labor] and to the community.”

While he is now sitting on the city committee, Black has already been through discussions with the IDA and the Tompkins County Area Development (TCAD) staff about pinning down the definition of “local” as it refers to the work force involved in M a r c u s Wi l l i a m e e a n d S tac e y B l ac k these construction projects. p r o t e s t at M a r r i o t t H o t e l s i t e (t o p) ; According to Black, he and H e at h e r M c Da n i e l o f T C A D ; J i m D e n n i s o f other union representatives t h e I DA ; M a r c u s Wi l l i a m e e agree that it should refer to ( P h o t o s : M i c h a e l N o c e l l a ; p r ov i d e d ; f i l e members, easily enough to provide Tompkins County and all skilled labor on all the downtown p h o t o ; B r i a n A r n o l d) counties directly adjacent to projects requesting tax abatements, it. He said that there is a large campus projects. Black does not buy this while still sending crews to the enough work force with the requisite skills argument. He admitted that his members university work sites. to populate 95 percent of the work crews were working on several jobs at Cornell The union leader is not particularly on the projects receiving tax incentives in at present—Carman Hall, Upson Hall, satisfied with the recommendations that this county.

Gannett Health Center, and “multiple would seem to be coming out of the The IBEW representative said that small projects”—but “that doesn’t stress us CIITAP revision committee. “The changes other upstate counties already have local too much. Those are both small and large are minimal,” Black said. “I think we could labor requirements in place. It is 90 crews. It’s a steady diet.” do better. We’re basically acquiescing to percent in Broome County, 95 percent How many electricians does a project the IDA requirement, but the IDA has in Monroe County, and 100 percent in require? Black estimated that the Carey presented no plan.”

Onondaga County. He admitted that all Building “overbuild” on East State Street, The IDA, he said, wants a wider of those counties are more populated than which is adding five stories to an existing geographical area to be considered local, Tompkins—they include Binghamton, two-story building, would require fewer including both Onondaga and Broome Rochester, and Syracuse, respectively—but than 10 of his members on the job at the counties, because there is not enough that Tompkins and the five counties that peak of the project. “Generally you need local labor in Tompkins and the adjacent border it harbor an equivalent work force. two to three,” he said, “and then you might counties. “[The union position] is about Black agreed in principle that there ramp it up to six. These are repetitious asking general contractors to work should be exceptions for specialty trades designs. You just go from apartment to outside their comfort zone,” Black said. that are not present here. He also was apartment.”

“We’re focused on the worker, not on the willing to have general contractors use He estimated that the Marriott hotel contractor.” their own project managers or foremen on on South Aurora Street would require McDaniel said that no Tompkins local projects, but everyone below them perhaps 15 of his members because there County general contractors exist that can should be subject to the proposed “95 was more area to cover in the planned bid on a project larger than $2 million. percent local” requirement.

10-story structure. That project, he noted, The cost of the downtown Marriott hotel According to Heather McDaniel, the is not using local labor. In fact, last winter project is $32 million. Urgo Hotels, the vice president and Director of Economic he and his opposite number at the local Marriott developer, costed out local Development Services at TCAD, plumbers and steamfitters union, Marcus contractors and the numbers came back developers and contractors have found Williamee, led a demonstration at the site too high, she said. “They picked the it difficult to schedule local labor; many protesting that fact. general contractor they wanted to work of them are frequently busy working on Black said IBEW Local 241 has 229 with—W.H. Lane of Binghamton,” the T

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TCAD vice president said, “and they worked with us to get the cost down. Lane went back to their subcontractors and reduced the cost. Otherwise the project would not have happened.”

Marcus Williamee is the business development representative for the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 267.

He noted that the general contractors that bid on the large downtown jobs largely reside in Onondaga and Broome counties. Contractors, he said, who have agreements with unions are bound by those agreements to hire local union labor.

The territory of the Local 267 includes Syracuse, but the electrical and plumbing workers at the Marriott hotel site are mostly from Pennsylvania and Onondaga County, not local by the definition that he and Black are pushing for.

Williamee said discussions between labor representatives and the IDA have been going on for almost a year, but nothing has been agreed upon. It was the Marriott tax abatement that got the attention of the unions, he said. No private meetings with TCAD and the IDA are scheduled. Williamee lamented that while labor has been part of the discussion, it will not be part of the decision-making.

Dennis, the chair of the IDA, said that the 95 percent local mark was “not reachable.” “We’re going to have to come up with percentage numbers with waivers; if the developer is not able to reach them, then we’ll give them an out.”

He said that he wanted to change the way the IDA and the city did business. “We don’t want to knowingly stall something,” Dennis said. “That makes no sense to me.” Because the city government is the first gateway in the process, Dennis said that the county would adopt the new city tax abatement policy only for projects to be built in the city.

“The city committee needs to understand what each regulation means,” he said, “and what it gets for them.” He attended two of the CIITAP revision meetings. “Some of the things I heard were blue sky,” Dennis said. “I hope they get more realistic as they go along. I heard things that in real time are not reachable by a developer.” For example, it is almost impossible, he said, for a developer to guarantee a living wage to employees in a restaurant that is included in his project.

Dennis hopes that the CIITAP revision will not recreate the bottleneck that existed between 2006 and 2011.

Dennis and other local officials have said that it isn’t a good plan to become known as a place that is difficult when it comes to approving development. McDaniel made this point with dollars and cents.

Tompkins Financial Group, she said, applied for a tax abatement before they had a general contractor for their project and they had already spent $200,000 on architects’ fees alone. “When they figure out their parking situation,” she said, “then they’ll look for a general contractor.” •

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Non-fan Grabbed by Soccer Cornell Women Have Compelling Season

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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wo confessions. One, I am not a huge soccer fan. I never played it. My kids never played it, and I don’t understand a lot of it. Two, I got totally drawn into the Women’s World Cup, and I don’t recall ever being more

excited watching a sporting event than when Carli Lloyd and the rest of Team USA put on an unforgettable clinic, dismantling Japan in the World Cup final, as witnessed by several billion viewers. It was an astounding effort, put forth on the

largest imaginable stage, and like all great entertainment, it left me wanting more.

Come to think of it, I think I will venture up to Cornell to see more …

I do not pretend that readers are naive enough to believe me if I say that the Cornell women’s soccer team is playing at a Team USA World Cup level, but I will tell you the Big Red truly is playing some high-level collegiate soccer. In fact, by blanking St. Bonaventure 1-0 over the weekend, Cornell joined nationally ranked Rutgers as the only two teams in Division 1 to complete the first six games of the season without yielding a single goal. That’s right: six games, six shutouts, leading to an impressive 4-0-2 record to start the season.

The Big Red also shut out Dartmouth

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in last year’s season finale, marking the second time in program history the team has earned seven consecutive shutouts. In 1987-88, Cornell had eight in a row, and speaking of history, the Red is undefeated after a half dozen games for just the third time on record.

Assistant Coach Dwight Hornibrook was kind enough to talk to me, and he said, “It has been a great start, and people talk about shutouts a lot, and I will tell you that a shutout is a team effort.” He added, “It involves a lot of hard work that really doesn’t get any recognition, and not too many highlight films show a player sprinting 40 yards to put pressure on an opponent.”

Hornibrook pointed out that the roster is “pretty balanced,” and that he and Head Coach Patrick Farmer have been coaching the seniors for all four years, and the team has really bought into the system. “We also have three freshmen who have made contributions right away,” Hornibrook said, “and some sophomores and juniors that are making great contributions. You try to get the right players and upgrade every year. That’s the goal.”

Farmer reiterated what Hornibrook said, adding, “Yes, a shutout is definitely a team effort, and in fact, there have been two games where Kelsey [Tierney, the junior goalkeeper] didn’t even have to make a save. When the opponent can’t even get a shot on goal, that’s definitely continued on page11 H SALE URR ENDS Y SOON ! !

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some good team defense.”

Farmer furthered my education, explaining, “Some of the things a goalie does to help the team don’t show up as saves. Crosses, free kicks, and in our case, Kelsey has a great manner of communicating.” I asked if a goal keeper is a “field general” of sorts, and Farmer replied, “Yes, some goalies are too communicative, telling teammates where they should be on every play, chattering non-stop, but Kelsey [who won the job early in her freshman season] does a great job of not just talking, but interacting with her teammates. When she says something, people listen.” The coach, clearly pleased with the great Cornell women’s soccer (Photo: Dave Burbank) collective effort thus far, added, “I think they have it pointed in the right direction.” that’s a big plus.”

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Ordinary Life, Well Observed Sports Columnist Broadens the Scope of His Yarns

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Told Reasonably Well …—is as ironic and

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He actually has a “sub-subtitle,” too: …

With Questionable Motives … which is also in its way honest. You see, Mr. Lawrence is a leading character in most of these stories, and he usually comes off looking pretty good in the end. In “30 More Years,” you find out how a 21-year-old Lawrence saved his father’s life after he had been hit by a car. In “Fun With Fake I.D.s” Lawrence is the most sober and clear-thinking among a group of teenagers who run afoul of the law. In “Speaking the Language” he smooth talks an irate convenience store customer trying to buy beer after the 1 a.m. cut-off.

This is all good fun because these

cover a believable spectrum of experiences in the life of the average American male who made it through the late 20th century without getting a criminal record. Lawrence is eminently relatable.

But the author is not in the least selfabsorbed; there are plenty of stories here about other people in which Lawrence is merely the chronicler standing by and recording the absurdity or pathos of the events.

In “More Close Calls” a series of unfortunates have mishaps of varying consequence while riding motorcycles or operating boats, before we get to his own encounter with a runaway Steve Lawrence (Provided) dump truck.

In “The Viper” Lawrence starts out in the foreground and then recedes into the scenery as the tales focuses on a 10 year-old son of a friend who happens to be a video gaming prodigy.

“The Viper” is actually a good display of many of the tricks in Lawrence’s bag.

He is, for example, a master of the “slow reveal”: the gradual build-up to a good joke. He also manages to pull a perfectly appropriate old bromide out of nowhere at the end of the story that makes you chuckle at its corniness (instead of cringe).

But more than that, Lawrence is able to pack a lot of off-handed cultural references into a few pages that tell you about a specific time and place. For example, Andy, his childhood friend in “The Viper,” is the son of an IBM project engineer for the Apollo 11 mission. Lawrence is the son of a mail carrier and a teacher. They are great friends in high school, but Andy follows the high tech industry to southern California.

Lawrence does not. There is poignancy to this aspect of the story that Lawrence does not labor over. Instead he is headed for an excellent punch line.

Aside from “Wisdom From on High,” Lawrence does not really moralize. The latter chapter—the longest in the book—is essentially the story of his spiritual journey, which mostly has to do with learning how to deal with the death of loved ones. He can be sentimental, but he doesn’t veer into maudlin. He can be funny, but he is never mean. He is usually on his way to making a point, but he is never lecturing you.

There is no chronological progression in the subject matter of chapters in Damn Good Stories. There are no overarching themes that tie groups of stories together.

It is the kind of book that you read straight through or dip into any time and anywhere.

These are so much like tales told in a bar by a really good storyteller that you can almost taste the beer. • Steve Lawrence will do two book signings at Island Health and Fitness as a part of Member Appreciation Week. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Chris Bordoni Memorial Scholarship Fun at Ithaca High School. The times are: Monday, Sept. 21, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m./ Wed., Sept. 23, 1 p.m. - 8 p.m.

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he site of what is believed to be the earliest human habitation, Ethiopia lies in a bowl surrounded by hills, where transportation in and out is difficult—sound familiar? The Ethiopians, mostly Coptic Christians whose religious practices have been influenced by both Jewish and Muslim tenets, have developed a culinary heritage unlike that of any of their neighbors in sub-Saharan Africa. In a country known for its fertile lands and coffee as well as its political upheavals, fasting and feasting are part of everyday life, and the cuisine reflects an adventuresome joy in cooking and dining.

Having discovered Ethiopian restaurants in D.C., Toronto and Rochester, we’ve been longing for an Ethiopian place closer to home, so we were pleased when Hawi opened its doors.

The restaurant is on Cayuga Street, in the same location that spawned the successful Daño’s—now on Seneca—and we hope it will similarly prosper.

An Ethiopian meal at Hawi arrives on a large platter meant for sharing, though you can order single portions if you like. The platter is lined with injera, and colorful mounds of meat and vegetable stews are scattered about on top. The injera, a large crepe-like pancake whose batter has been fermented and is pleasantly sour, is made from teff flour, ground from a tiny, gluten-free grass seed.

Your injera serves as plate liner, napkin and spork; tear off pieces of it to scoop up the various vegetable and meat stews and convey them to your mouth. This might be awkward for a first date or job interview, but for dining with friends or loved ones, it is delightful and fun—think Tom Jones, the 1963 movie whose oyster-eating scene titillated audiences awakening to ’60s sensuality, clips of which are available online.

Try the appetizers, but beware of eating too much injera early on—it can fill you up long before you’ve managed to transmit every other thing on your plate to your mouth. We’ve enjoyed the yater kik fitfit appetizer, a lemony combination of injera bathed in butter and mixed with yellow split peas and jalapeños, served with even more injera.

The avocado salad—fresh tomatoes, onions and avocados mixed with a house dressing served with injera—was tart and refreshing.

At lunch, entrées are served with injera and two vegetable side dishes and priced at $12.50 for beef, chicken or lamb; $10.50 for vegetarian; or $14 for one of the combination platters: either a platter of all the vegetable options or a choice of two meats and three vegetables. We enjoyed the gomen besiga: mildly spiced lamb

and collard greens cooked in butter, with colorful sides of key sir alicha (beets with carrots) and earthy mesir wat (red lentils in red pepper sauce). We topped this off with a glass of creamy iced peanut coffee that was thick, strong and refreshing.

Needless to say, this was a ton of food, every mouthful was delicious and we left with a doggy bag.

On other visits we’ve enjoyed the doro wat (chicken drumsticks cooked in spicy berbere sauce), shiro (chickpea stew with onions), gomen (collard greens seasoned with fresh garlic and ginger), beef dulet (raw minced beef with onion and jalapeños) and one of the other lamb Making Meaningful Change: For ourselves and the world Speaker: Mark McCurties is a practitioner of Christian Science Healing and a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

dishes. There is an impressive selection of vegetarian dishes too.

What a delicious adventure!

Ethiopian masks, woven straw baskets, paintings, and photographs deck the walls; Ethiopian jazz and popular music provide a comfortable background for conversation; and the servers, familiar with the offerings, are able to provide sound advice. Service is attentive and prompt. The restaurant does not have a liquor license, but you can probably squirrel in a bottle for your table’s enjoyment—the traditional potable is a honey wine: a Finger Lakes Mead would do, or a local Riesling or Gewürztraminer.

Hawi, at 113 South Cayuga Street, is open Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 10 p.m. They take reservations after 4 p.m. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/dining

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first became enchanted with the Ithaca College Department of Art Creative Space Gallery when I visited it on the Aug. 7 Gallery Night.

They had set up this incredibly cool art installation concept where they had set up in the gallery the actual studio space of two young artists, Andrea Aguirre and Tatiana Malkin, whose art would be up in the next month’s exhibition. One could see the art in progress … all the way down to witty details like a halffinished piece of pizza in plastic wrap.

I was especially attracted to Andrea Aguirre’s work in progress. It has a postapocalyptic science fiction feel. And I have deeply loved the science fiction and fantasy genre since childhood.

And Tatiana Malkin was there, working in her studio space, and I got a chance to chat with her.

And I thought, Wow, this is one seriously cool idea for an art installation, i.e., having the artist’s actual studio space at the gallery…

The Creative Space Gallery is the brainchild of Bill Hastings, an assistant professor of art at IC. (For the record, he is also one of the founders of the Greater Ithaca Art Trail, a former member of the State of the Art Gallery, co-owner of FOUND (running a small gallery there) and an executive board member of the Saltonstall Foundation.)

Hastings has been teaching a professional development seminar at IC called Theories of Art Practice for the last four years. The idea is to get art majors thinking about life after graduation (work opportunities, studio practice, graduate school and so on). The seminar culminates in an end-of-the-semester pop-up gallery show.

And, after the first year, a recent alumni and their family foundation anonymously donated funds to expand the seminar. These funds (in addition to support from alumni, the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Ithaca College) allowed the seminar to open the Creative Space Gallery.

“We opened in May 2015,” Hastings said, “with the show In Theories that showcased

B y Wa r r e n G r e e n w o o d The current exhibits by Andrea Aguirre and Tatiana Malkin are called “Egoluxe” and “Growing Obsessions.” Let’s consider them in turn.

Here’s Aguirre’s artist statement: “With bioluminescence as her inspiration, Andrea Aguirre explores the traces of life and light surviving in her post-apocalyptic world, Egoluxe.”

O.K. Here are my favorites (all oil on canvas): Isidella: We see these big, red, walking towers in a world of green mist.

The towers are blocky and irregularly-shaped, with an occasional small window … like walking steel apartment buildings … and they have these little organic antenna (looking like some sort of undersea life) lit with bioluminescence.

The mist is deep, green-blue, and sort of vaguely industrial.

There are five of these tower-walkers.

I like them so much because they remind me of the Martian tripod walkers in H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, which I’ve loved since discovering them in one of those Classics Comics when I was a kid.

Phrixothrix: This is another misty world … this time of yellow mist. It is a steampunklooking world of high, tall, steel structures …with what looks like a steampunk elevated train rolling through it.

It has a steel face … like a knight … a Cylon …Darth Vadar. Glowing red eyes … a knight visor glowing with yellow light, like something the late, great French graphic album cartoonist Phillipe Druillet would have designed.

There is a curving, nautical looking tube extruding from the bottom of the train, reminding me of the flying medieval warships of the great English fantasy illustrator Ian Miller. And the long, rectangular train has bioluminescent light glowing from a row of porthole windows in the dreary nocturnal mist ...

Aequorea victoria: This is a dark, smoky, yellow-orange and blue-green world … with a

students from the seminar. This was followed by two group shows that were curated by Andrea Aguirre and Tatiana Malkin, Mutations 1 & 2.

Both women ran the gallery and had studios in the back of the space. They were part of a summer program from the School of H & S. I worked as their mentor as we discovered the business of running a gallery and generating a self-directed body of work. The current show is a result of their hard work this summer. This

Andrea Aguirre in the studio (Photo Brian Arnold)

experience is unlike anything we have ever been able to offer our students.”

“CSG is a space for creation, exhibition and education,” Hastings said of the gallery itself. “The IC art department is located near the athletic fields on campus. Our highly creative students have little opportunity throughout their undergraduate experience to show their work.

CSG allows them greater exposure for their fellow students and the Ithaca community as well. The opportunities of CSG include taking greater risks through installation and concept. In the short time we have been open, this exposure has started to change the commitment level of our students. The public exposure allows them to articulate concepts and personal directions to people outside of the department. Overall, we hope the Creative Space Gallery will lay the foundation for future study on a graduate level, life as a working studio artist and becoming a stronger creative problem solver.”

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The Life of An Assistant Managing Streisand’s Mall

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he Kitchen Theatre opens their 25th season with an impeccable production of Jonathan Tolins’ comedy, Buyer & Cellar.

Directed with breath, economy and keen rhythm by Wendy Dann, acted with élan and near effortless charm by Kitchen veteran Karl Gregory, and with an elegant set and lights from Steve TenEyck, the script could not be in better hands, as evinced by the frequent gales of laughter at the final preview.

The set-up: “Alex, an out-of-work L.A.-based actor, finally gets a job ... as a one-man shopping mall manager in Barbra Streisand’s basement! And when Barbra descends those spiral stairs, watch out!”

The Actor (Gregory), speaking on behalf of the playwright, puts out the disclaimer that the only facts in the play are that Barbra put out a coffee-table book—My Passion for Design— about her Malibu estate, and that there is indeed a fake New England style mill, and barn— with an antique-store style mall in the basement with many of her tchotchkes.

These include a doll store, a costume shop

(with many of Babs’ actual costumes) and a Carvel-style frozen yogurt stand with popcorn maker. “What I’m going to tell you could not possibly have happened with a person as famous, talented, and litigious as Barbra Streisand.”

Gregory manages this with both a forthright good-naturedness and a sly, knowing wink. C’mon, it says, you all would love to schmooze with celebrity.

He then slides into our protagonist, Alex Moore, recently fired as Mayor of Toontown. Alex is chipper and optimistic, also a bit dishy. Other characters: his boyfriend, Barry, one of LA’s gazillion screenwriters (constantly taking meetings), Brooklyn-bred, nasal and acerbic; Vincent, his connection at Disney (an older gay man); Sharon, the domineering, dismissive estate manager; James Brolin (a sudden deep-voiced blast of macho daddyness); and of course, la Streisand herself (a sketch, not an impression: neurotic, playful, poor-little-girl-who-made-it-big.)

The best sequences are an early one— Streisand arrives in her mall as “Sadie,” interested in purchasing a doll (Alex has

Karl Gregory as Alex (Photo Provided)

named this French musical coquette, Mimi), Alex names a price and refuses to budge, which hooks “Sadie’s” competitive streak—and a luscious late one, in which Alex coaches her in the role of Mama Rose.

Gregory lends the role his fluent physicality and quick-change comic instincts, nailing Tolins’ cartoon sketches of peripheral characters, while floating the more vulnerable Alex through his changes.

Dann uses the space beautifully. TenEyck provides an elegant two-level wooden floor against a textured off-white Architectural Digest back wall, which he infuses at the moments of highest fantasy with a nearly fuchsia glamour. Randy Wandall’s sound and Lisa Boquist’s costuming wrap the package with a bow.

I don’t begrudge the Kitchen fluff to kick off a challenging season. And who doesn’t find Gregory’s presence alluring?

But, oh I tire of this stock character. It’s

no accident that Michael Urie (of Ugly Betty) created the part off-Broadway or that Gregory is playing it in Ithaca.

“Alex” (from Wisconsin) could easily be dropped into Full Commitment or even Santaland Diaries (previous Gregory solos) with nary a change. The witty, somewhat sexual, yet still child-like best friend, with guppie aspirations. (Interestingly, Tolins puts the Jewish queer response on the more aggressively shading Barry.) It’s the camp queen declawed. Yes there are many club-boys and actors like Alex. He’s underwritten because we already know the type. We consumed him as Jack on Will & Grace, as Mitchell on Modern Family.

Utterly charming, but neuter, never oversexual, subversive, political (they would shudder to be in a John Waters movie). So white, so Crate and Barrel.

How about a popular queer black solo show, like Bootycandy, next time out. •

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in 1939 and was best known for his he Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, at outstanding film scores. its opening concert on Saturday, Smolij has been in Ithaca briefly Sept. 19, welcomes Maestro before while on tours around the Finger Mariusz Smolij, the first candidate of four Lakes as a graduate student at Eastman. in a season-long search for a new music He remembers the “beautiful lakes.” So director. The new music director will be when asked why a musician with this selected following the final concert in amount of international prestige and May. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in experience would want to come and Ford Hall at Ithaca College. It will feature conduct a chamber orchestra in a small and ultra-familiar works by Rossini, Schubert, somewhat remote upstate New York area, and Beethoven, including Beethoven’s he told me that really “Emperor” Concerto loves chamber music but with Cornell pianist especially the chamber Xak Bjerken as orchestra—the “ideal soloist. instrument” between a CCO Board small chamber group President Peter and a large orchestra. “I Walz took over the like the special sound orchestra’s search and energy you can from Cullie Mowers. create with a smaller With a committee group,” he said. He loves of eight—both the repertory. Moreover, orchestra and board it is not often that the members—he faced opportunity to lead a challenging task. a chamber orchestra There were 175 comes up. applicants in the If he were to come initial pool, who here, he would like submitted résumés, to present repertory YouTube videos of that would both their work, and cover communicate and letters. After the first inspire, and also be cut, the remaining Mariusz Smolij (Photo Provided) right for the musicians.

20 were interviewed When working with an by telephone. Walz orchestra, two things told me that the are significant, he feels—the conductor committee is very enthusiastic about the is the leader who needs to gain trust by final four candidates. showing a high level of competence, and it Smolij, a native of Poland, with his is important to be open and have a sense “main base” in the Houston area for the of humor. He likes thematic programming, past fifteen years, has a stunning résumé. but with variety and showing different After studies in Europe, he earned his styles and periods. doctorate from Eastman. He has served as All the music on Saturday’s program professor at Northwestern and continues comes from the same era. The concert will various teaching activities. He has open with the earliest work, Beethoven’s conducted many different orchestras in Piano Concerto No.5, first performed in North America and western and central 1810. After intermission comes Schubert’s Europe as well as Israel, Asia, and South Symphony No. 8 in B minor (1822), called Africa. He is involved in several major the “Unfinished,” followed by the sparkling recording projects. An accomplished closer, the famous overture to Rossini’s violinist, he founded the Penderecki String best-known comic opera, The Barber Quartet and has performed and recorded of Seville (1816). Smolij points out that with this ensemble. At the moment, he although this order might seem strange, it is music director of two orchestras in the reflects the spirit of the time, when concerts United States: one in New Jersey, the other “would end with short, more virtuosic and in Louisiana. upbeat works.” He feels the program will When we spoke last week, Smolij provide an “interesting musical feast” of was in Budapest and had just finished a three major musical styles—the “German daylong recording session for the eminent muscles” of the Beethoven concerto, the label Naxos. For some years he has been recording the music of little-known Eastern “singing, nostalgic” sound of the Austrian Schubert, and the fun Italian opera mode.

European composers with the Budapest One has the sense that this conductor Symphony Orchestra. His current project, wants to give this familiar music a different tenth in this series, is his fourth CD of the symphonic output of the Hungarian-Jewish perspective and help us to hear it in another way. • Eugene Zádor, who settled in America

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By Barbara Ad am s he Calamari Sisters are back— Auburn Public Theater audiences certainly have a craving for their broad, spicy comedy, welcoming them several times since their initial arrival four seasons ago.

I enjoyed that first show immensely: two generously endowed middle-aged Italian sisters hosting their cooking show, Mangia Italiano!, on local public access cable. Born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and schooled at St. Lady of the Divine Pain High School, Delphine (the caring, conscientious one) and Carmela (the raunchy, slutty one) were instantly funny because they were performed by two men, co-creators Jay Falzone and Dan Lavender.

Stephen Smith, also a co-creator (albeit a non-acting one), is the only non-Italian in the team.

The current production—The Calamari Sisters’ Big Fat Italian Wedding—finds them producing a farewell cable show, Here Comes the Bride. Delphine, having broken off with her beloved Larry the butcher, is about to marry Angelo, of the cement shoe business, because she believes it was her

parents’ last wish. Carmela, of course, consumed with envy at being left single, throws her booty at every male audience member, married or not (a girl can’t be picky).

The theater program is so stuffed with fiction you can’t really tell who did what: Robin McBobbin is credited for the costumes, Marco DiCriscendo for the music, and the “other” Francis Ford Coppola directs (don’t miss his program bio). And Biff “the Hammer” Calamari constructed the set, a vast studio equipped like a kitchen that would dwarf anything on the Food Network. Perhaps the need to accommodate larger audiences dictated the move from the cozy, intimate, almost scruffy Auburn Theater stage to the MerryGo-Round Playhouse, but something’s lost in the transition.

The homely “let’s put on a show” appeal doesn’t work as well in the larger space, whose hollows are filled by a lot of running around, visual excess (slapstick is the essence of this show, followed by puns), and—heaven help us—a tap dance.

(However well done, it may remind you of the “If You Could See Her” gorilla number

from Cabaret.)

And speaking of gorillas, or rather hippos, let’s pause to consider that much of the comedy here (and there is plenty) is based on watching two men dressed in fat suits masquerading as women.

Drag has its charms, but the insistence on the size of the sisters left me feeling squeamish.

Enormous bosoms, thunderous thighs, bulging bellies, and booming butts.

Delphine dresses modestly, like a ’50s grandma, and when she comes out in her wedding gown she’s sweetly beautiful. But blowzy Carmela wears skintight everything and takes great pleasure in wagging her extremities (and those aren’t arms and legs, folks) in our faces. When she finally gets a marriage offer and appears in body-hugging white silk, she looks ten months pregnant. I kept wondering how overweight audience members would see this flaunting of obesity for comic ends; I also kept wondering exactly how the fat suits were constructed.

Which is to say I felt too often distanced by the humor, which, in its emphasis on the grotesqueness of size, came to feel cruel. The fat jokes wore thin, along with the endless salami waving (presumably if fat is funny, sexual

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members are more so).

The simple plot is a pretext for the energetic comedy—based in sight gags, low-level wordplay, and pop songs with somewhat cheesy substituted lyrics.

Sometimes a more complicated wit kicks in, as when Carmela selects prospective husbands from the audience and interviews them onstage. But mostly, this is vaudeville for our era, especially if you believe that “sausage is a girl’s best friend.”

The Calamari Sisters’ Big Fat Italian Wedding. Created by Jay Falzone, Dan Lavender, and Stephen Smith. Produced by Auburn Public Theater at the Merry-GoRound Playhouse in Auburn, N.Y. Through Sept. 30. • Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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Innovative Theatre Debuts No Space, No Problem, We’ll Improvise

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he Cherry Arts will open its metaphorical doors this Thursday with A Cherry Timedive. The performance is a narrative journey through time and space, a haunting declaration, an open-air welcome to the space the Cherry Arts will one day call home.

While a proper building has yet to be erected, Artistic Director Sam Buggeln doesn’t seem to mind. As an exercise in experimentation and collaboration, Buggeln commissioned renowned Ithacabased writers Austin Bunn, Wendy Dann, Saviana Stanescu, and Lyrae Van

Carolyn Goelzer and Sam Buggein (Photo Brian Arnold)

Clief-Stefanon to write short pieces that make reference to the future site of The Cherry Artspace (102 Cherry St.; formerly the Renovus offices). The writers were given information about a few significant events in the history of Ithaca’s West End and Cherry Street, invited to disregard conventions and to take risks.

Buggeln notes that Ithaca’s local artists, either for scheduling or creative reasons, often must leave town to make their own work, leaving Ithaca as a homestead without a studio. Typically, regional theaters hire professional artists out of a large metropolis (New York, Chicago, etc.) and import them for a finite time. By hiring local first, the Cherry Arts plans to uncover the fallacy at the heart of this standard approach.

Being radically local is only the first of The Cherry’s tenets. The second—radically global—will bring programs from nonEnglish speaking countries, which rarely make it to U.S. stages..

In their business model as well, The Cherry Arts pledges that 75 percent of all ticket revenues will go directly to the artists working on the show—an approach that would be unheard-of at traditional regional theaters.

Companies that need a space to produce work typically have to pay a hefty rental fee that hollows out the partnership into an unexciting financial relation of

renter to landlord.

The Cherry Arts is also experimenting with an innovative model of selfdetermined pricing. Patrons are invited to name their ticket price according to how gainfully employed they consider themselves. So far, Buggeln reports, the results are encouraging.

Sam Buggeln: We wanted to not duplicate what anyone else was doing, so we thought carefully about what we didn’t see being done in Ithaca, and really, what’s not being done across America in regional theatre, both to serve the audience, and for my own artistic curiosity.

Ithaca Times: For those unaware of regional theatre conventions, what will your company do differently?

SB: Well, anything written by an Ithaca person, especially written about Ithaca, falls within our mandate. Ithaca is full of professional writers, often here to teach, whose work doesn’t get produced in Ithaca.

IT: And there’s something innovative about being radically local, right? The inventiveness is in the process, rather than in the content. You’re seeking to reorient the form of how theater is made, not only in content alone.

SB: Yes, that’s exactly how I think of it. Having the playwright around, in the community, enables us to have a longer rehearsal process, more collaboration. We want to give writers a space to not feel pressured by the commercial market. We want writers to free themselves and hope to develop an audience who expects a similar freedom from us.

IT: What should we expect from A Cherry Timedive then?

SB: The most potent thing about the show is that it’s outdoors, on this site where these real human stories have happened, actually right around this space. The writers walked the space, looked into the history, then wrote spooky and beautiful stories loosely based on real events that happened to real people in our town. The show’s a kind of haunting, starting at dusk and going into darkness.

IT: Clarity and haunting don’t often go together, but maybe you can shed light.

What’s a timedive?

SB: We’re calling this thing a ‘timedive’ because it’s an experience we’re all doing together, not something you’re sitting and watching or being fed, like a movie or like some kinds of theatre. It’s an experience that we’re all having together, doing together, in a specific place about real things.

The Cherry Timedive runs Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 17-20. Performances begin promptly at 7 p.m. Learn more at www.thecherry.org. •

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forest of floating, towering, red, vertical steel beams, and grid of yellow laser beams shooting through them. And a school of giant, ghostly jellyfish floating through the scene. A mysterious and profound postapocalyptic vision…

The following day, I called Andrea Aguirre on the phone. Happily she was in.

She is a senior at IC, and an upbeat and appealing young woman.

I asked her about her background. She characterized herself as “an Army brat,” She was born at Fort Riley, Kansas, and her family “never stayed in a place longer than three years.”

She told me she loved science fiction from an early age. Loved video games, movies and reading. The 1996 X-Files movie was the first sci-fi movie she ever saw.

She said, “I really like escaping, going to other worlds.”

(I could relate. I’m exactly the same way.)

Let’s move on to Tatiana Malkin’s work.

Here is Malkin’s artist statement: “Through examining inner and outer growth, Tatiana Malkin’s “Growing Obsessions” seeks to reconcile contradictions in organic nature and its underlying structure.”

Malkin’s exhibit is composed of scores of pieces: paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. The thing that struck me most forcibly is every piece is completely different.

Different mediums. Different styles.

They range from tiny drawings to large paintings to sculptures larger than one’s body. There is something protean about what she has accomplished here.

I’ll focus on a few of my favorites (all created in 2015): Venus Plant (aluminum, acetate, nylon, steel): This is a big sculpture. Almost twice as tall as I am. A winding, spiraling piece, sitting in a corner of the gallery.

Aluminum silver with green masses of plastic bubbles.

It looks like a Roger Dean sculpture for a Yes concert, or perhaps an alien life form in an old episode of Star Trek. And it has these nice sub-tone reflections of sparkling red-violet and green and yellow happening …

August 2015 (native flowers, native bark): This work is the polar opposite of Venus Plant. It is a small sculptural installation composed of half-cylinders of bark with dried flowers mounted upon them.

It is lovely work, as small as Venus Plant is large, as “natural” as Venus Plant is industrial.

Malkin has four oil paintings in her exhibit—all different, all excellent.

Acid Puddle is somewhat representational: a sci-fi vision of clusters of gelatinous organic bubbles—like alien undersea creatures—the whole work in blue-black and white like a photo from another world.

The more abstract Windows 98, in colors of red and blue and gray, looks like another dimension—a world of stained

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glass, a dimension of refracting colored crystal.

And Heliograph Space is a very rich abstract piece with floating bubbles like bronze jewelry, big flying pieces of colored geometric crystal, alien spermatozoa crackling with light, and streaking structures of light and information.

Process 2015 Bill Hastings at Creative Space Gallery (Photo Brian Arnold) (mixed media) is the showstopper of Malkin’s work. This is As for the future of the Creative Space an installation covering an entire wall …

Gallery … Professor Hastings tells us: simultaneously abstract, representational, “Throughout the year, we will host and sculptural … vividly demonstrating monthly exhibits and events that showcase her protean approach to art. the creative work of our students, alumni There are a variety of miniature and visiting artists. In addition to exhibits, abstract-expressionist paintings; black-and- we plan on events like figure drawing and white works that straddle the line between performances that will engage the Ithaca painting and drawing, representational community.” and abstract; pencil drawings of flora So … in conclusion, I think the CSG is and creatures from the natural world; a a great addition to the Ithaca Commons … sculptural installation of feathers and flora; a conduit for the art of the Ithaca College a miniature aluminum-and-gem sculpture students directly into our art-rich little mounted in Lucite; an abstract sculptural community. creation of torn cardboard and cut sparkly One more wonderful thing to make patterned paper; a mass of glowing, Ithaca a bit more fun, a bit more magical....• sparkling plastic spores mounted on red-violet and green and white patterned Ithaca College’s Creative Space Gallery plastic; and dried flowers collected in is located at 215 The Commons, Ithaca, N.Y. luminescent plastic shaped into sci-fi It’s open Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 5 crystals. p.m.

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The West Hillbillies | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Folk, String Band.

| Features all new music and improvisation by the artist.

John Stetch | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Solo piano. Features all new music and improvisation by the artist.

Faculty Recital: J. S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations | 7:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | A performance of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, performed by faculty members Jean Clay Radice, Mary Holzhauer, current student Junwen Liang, and alumni Jon Riss and Tasha George-Hinnant.

9/21 Monday

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

Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

Music bars/clubs/cafés

9/16 Wednesday

Salsa Dancing | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Latin, International, Instructional.

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More!

Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Join hosts David Graybeard and Mitch Wiedemann. We are looking for local songwriters, poets and authors to showcase their work.

Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Hymn For Her | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | Country Blues, Desert Rock Psychedelia, Americana.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Cayuga Blue Notes | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Trumansburg Farmers Market,

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Corner of Rtes 96 and 227, Trumansburg | Country, Blues, Americana.

Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Mac Benford & Up South | Bluegrass, Old-Time, Americana, Country.

9/17 Thursday

Hank and Cupcakes | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Electropop, Indietronica, Indie Pop, Electronic Rock.

ILL Doots, Uptown Buddha | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rap, Hip Hop, Underground Hip Hop, Experimental, Funk, R&B, Soul.

Mary Lorson, The Insect Brigade | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St #2, Ithaca | Retro, Alternative, Folk, Indie Rock, Dark Microwave Smear Pop, Electronic, Ambient.

Desaparecidos | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Emo, Post-Hardcore, Punk Rock, Indie Rock.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues. Rock. Ribs.

Jim Hull | 6:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Singer Songwriter, Folk, Americana, Blues.

9/18 Friday

Pollen, The Imperials, Scopes Monkey Trial | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Funk, Rock, Hip Hop, Reggae.

The Pelotones | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Jazz, Blues, R&B.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

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Tru Bleu | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk, Acoustic Rock, Country, Americana.

Iron Horse | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Southern Rock, Texas Blues.

Busdriver, Sammus, Mr. McBean, Jesucifer | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rap, Hip Hop, Underground Hip Hop. Ithaca Underground presents.

Robin Burnett & Lisa Bloom | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Country, Blues.

Andrew & Aaron | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Jazz, Duo. TOIVO | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Rd #1, Interlaken | Finnish, Tex-Mex, Waltzes, Schottisches, Polkas, Mazurkas, Two-Steps. World, International.

9/19 Saturday

Monkey Wrench Revolt | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Alternative Bluegrass, Alternative Country, Americana.

Mosiac Foundation | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Reggae, Roots Rock Reggae, Dub. Baku | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hard Rock.

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Panda Elliot, Composition Be | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, World Rock, Rock and Roll.

Pilfers, Mr. Skannotto | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Ska, Third Wave Ska, Dub, Punk, Reggae, Hardcore, Pop. Radio London | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Classic 60’s Rock and Roll.

Jon Kaplan | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Rock, Pop, Singer Songwriter.

9/20 Sunday

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

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

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

Contra Dance with some squares | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Tioga Trails Café, Lake and Main Streets, Owego | Beginners welcome, all dances are taught and prompted, come with or without a partner. The band and caller will be announced.

Purple Valley | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Country, Americana.

Hot Biscuits | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | Danby Town Hall, 1830 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Singer/songwriter, Folk, Country, Pop, Swing, Jazz, Songs by James Taylor, Ry Cooder, The Beatles, John Prine, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and many more.

9/22 Tuesday

Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Black Uhuru | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | ACxDC, Doubt, Bastard Eyes | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Grindcore, Hardcore, Power Violence, Punk, Metal, Doom Metal, Black Metal. Ithaca Underground presents.

Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

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Piano Extravaganza: Dance Themes | 7:30 PM | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Pianists Jinah Lee, Heeyoun Cho, Margaret Reitz and Susan Ashbaker perform “Dance Themes” conducted by Timothy Perry, works by Saint Saens, Gounod, Mozart, Rossini’s William Tell Overture for sixteen hands and more!

DeeDee Arrison Concert for the Animals | 1:30 PM | The Atrium, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, 606 Tower Road, Ithaca | Features violinist and rising star of the Stradivari Society Tim Fain accompanied by Grammy Award nominated pianist Robert Koenig, This concert honors animals, and well-socialized pets are welcome to attend. Email claudiawheatley@cornell. edu with questions, photo requests.

Jazz Ensemble Family Concert | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Mike Titlebaum directs this workshop and concert. What is Jazz? A short concert appropriate for children of all ages.

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9/16 Wednesday

Sophistafunk, Genome | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Funk, Soul, Rock, Hip Hop, R&B. Rusted Root, Waydown Wailers | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Rock, World, Funk, Latin, Acoustic, Progressive.

9/18 Friday

Guest artist: John Stetch, solo piano. | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca

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9/20 Sunday

Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk.

9/22 Tuesday

Edoardo Bellotti | 7:00 PM | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Frescobaldi 1615, features works from Girolamo Frescobaldi’s publications from that year, especially the toccatas, performed on organ (Vicedomini organ from 1746) and harpsichord. Classical.

Jeffrey Connor | 4:00 PM | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Jeffrey Connor and his brother Adam are natives of Skaneateles, NY. Jeffrey has been performing professionally in Reno and all over the west coast. He recently released a new album. The brothers play a mix of fun covers and fresh originals in the folk/rock vein.

Sevendust, We Are Harlot | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock.

Guest artists: Phillip Paglialonga, clarinet, with soprano Ariana Wyatt and pianist Richard Masters (Virginia Tech University) | 7:30 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features a clarinet master class followed by an informal recital.

Cold River City, Slow Train | 7:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Funk, Blues, Soul, Reggae.

9/21 Monday

Film

After Dinner Mint | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | A School of Music Faculty Showcase featuring music for low voices and instruments performed

by Paige Morgan, Lee Romm, Peter Rothbart, Marc Webster, Richard Faria, Heidi Hoffman, and Elizabeth Simkin.

The Ataris, Trespassers, Luck 33 | 7:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Pop Punk, Indie Rock, Skate Punk, Melodic Hardcore, Alternative Rock.

Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S

Gueros | 7:00 AM, 9/17 Thursday, 9/18 Friday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.

The Wanted 18 | 7:15 PM, 9/18 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Olive Branch Film Series presents an innovative combination of claymation and documentary interviews, this movie tells the story of Palestinian efforts to conceal a herd of 18 cows deemed a “security risk” by the Israeli

authorities. Directed by Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan, 2014.

Macbeth by Orson Welles | 7:15 PM, 9/19 Saturday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king. But he does not enjoy his newfound, dearly-won kingship, Restructured, but all the dialogue is Shakespeare’s. cinemapolis

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Grandma | Lily Tomlin stars as Elle who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle’s granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets. | 79 mins R | Learning to Drive | As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other’s company they find the courage to get back on the road and

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Ornette: Made in America | 7:15 PM, Wednesday, 9/16 | Ornette uses various techniques to chronicle the life of Ornette Coleman from his childhood in segregated Texas through

Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singer’s Fall Semester: Registration | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers, directed by Gerald Wolfe, will begin rehearsing Rachmaninoff’s Vespers on Wednesday Sept 9th at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Ithaca.

No Auditions. Rehearsals run weekly 7-9 p.m. until the concert on January 16th 2016. Registration will take place at 6:15 p.m. prior to the first three rehearsals. For more information or to register on-line visit: http://www. ithacacommunitychoruses.org.

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 9/17 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 9/18 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 9/22 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Learning Green Building and Renewable Energy Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come learn how you can take advantage of historically low prices on solar power systems to power your home or business. In Solar 101, we will talk about how solar panels and

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Fusing the spirit, energy, and vibrancy of their native city, this New York City based Electro-Pop duo create a full bodied and retro-based sound that often veers into international and world psychedelia.

Synth, funk, disco, and electronic patterns complement Sagit (Cupcakes) Shir’s very stirring and vibrant voice, while Ariel (Hank) Scherbacovsky’s pulsing and progressive bass lines drive each song towards new pastures. Modern boldness meets 80’s pop catchiness and the results are often beautiful, and always fun.

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This internationally recognized Palestinian human rights activist is from the small farming village Nabi Selah, located in the West Bank. As a spirited activist he’s helped set up weekly non-violent demonstrations directly opposed to illegal Israeli settlement construction and military occupation in his village, and has been detained by Israeli authorities over a dozen times. On his current national tour he’s visiting cities speaking and sharing his stories about his village’s work for freedom and justice. h e

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The Calamari’s Sisters’ Big Fat Italian Wedding | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Runs September 9 through September 30. When the Calamari sisters bulldozed upon the musical comedy scene, who knew that three years later, one of them would be tying the knot? Or will they? There’s nothing like an arranged Italian wedding to bring out the crazy relatives, wacky missteps and of course, food, food, food! Join Delphine and Carmela as they sing, dance, laugh and cook their way through such favorites as “Chapel of Love,” “Love and Marriage,” “Get Me To The Church On Time” and “River Deep, Mountain High.”

For tickets and showtimes visit fingerlakesmtf.com Buyer & Cellar | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | By Jonathan Tolins.

Runs September 6 through September 27, 2015. Alex, an out-of-work LA-based actor, finally gets a job, as a one-man shopping mall manager in Barbra Streisand’s basement! And when Barbra descends those spiral stairs, watch out! A hilarious one-man show about celebrity and staying true

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the strength to take the wheel.| 90 mins R | Mistress America | A lonely college freshman’s life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister. | 84 mins R | Phoenix | A disfigured concentrationcamp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. | 98 mins PG-13 | Best of Enemies | A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. | 87 mins NR | Meru | Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing. | 87 mins R |

his career as a multi-instrumentalist and composer and one of free jazz’s foremost inventors, innovators, and legends. . | 85 mins NR | The Act of Killing | A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.| 115 mins NR | Cheatin’ | In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. | 76 mins NR | The Wolfpack | Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. | 90 mins R | Magic Mike XXL | Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance. | 115 mins R |

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the various components that go into a system work, net metering, sizing systems, incentives and rebates, and new options available for homeowners who may not be able to install solar on their properties.

Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

The Reiki Share Open House | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 9/17 Thursday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | The Reiki Share is open to the public. All are welcome - Reiki practitioners and those just curious about Reiki. Come and practice Reiki, receive Reiki, or just join us to find out more about this form of energy healing!

Try It Workshop | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 9/18 Friday | The Clay School, 950 Danby Road, Suite 28, Ithaca | A fantastic opportunity for members of the community, ages 18+, to learn the beginning steps to making pottery on the wheel in a fun and relaxing environment.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/18 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 9/18 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College.

DeeDee Arrison Holistic and Integrative Wellness Seminar | 9:00 AM-4:15 PM, 9/19 Saturday | Lecture Hall III, 606 Tower Road, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca | Lectures on the scientific basis of acupuncture; acupuncture points and meridians; and canine acupuncture lab. Email claudiawheatley@cornell.edu with questions, photo requests Making Meaningful Change: For ourselves and the world | 2:30 PM, 9/20 Sunday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Join us for this

important and engaging talk with Mr. Mark McCurties,CS a practitioner of Christian Science Healing and a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. Child Care is available at the Christian Science Reading Room, 117 S. Cayuga Street.

Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 9/21 Monday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, Ithaca | Learn to play acoustic guitar, or improve your guitar playing, with this inexpensive course. There are eight one-hour lessons, on Monday evenings, starting Monday, September 14, 2015, in the International Lounge of Willard Straight Hall. Registration is at the first lesson. Just come, and bring a guitar. 7 pm BEGINNERS, 8 pm INTERMEDIATES. Cayuga Lake Fish Tale: A Twelve Month Angling Adventur | 7:00 PM, 9/22 Tuesday | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Rd (Rt 34B), Lansing | Join Michael Lenetsky and Josh Filter as they talk about year round fishing opportunities in the Salt Point, Lansing area. As active local fly fisherman and environmentalists, Michael and Josh bring a unique perspective to the biodiversity found around Salt Point and throughout the southern portion of Cayuga Lake.

Special Events Annual Stephen E. Garner Day of Caring | 9:00 AM-4:00 AM, 9/16 Wednesday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | United Way of Tompkins County will be celebrating its annual Stephen E. Garner Day of Caring on Wednesday, September 16th at Stewart Park, Ithaca, at the large pavilion from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The community is invited to a program at 12:00 Noon. This will be the 13th food and personal care items drive and the 19th Day of Caring. Last year over 14,000 pounds of food and personal care items were donated by the community. Donations can be dropped off in advance of September 16th at United Way of Tompkins County.

With Respect to Native American Artifacts | 6:00 PM-, 9/17 Thursday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | With Professor Fredric Wright Gleach, who is a Senior Lecturer and the Curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. The presentation will feature a selection of artifacts from the collections of Cornell and The History Center. Prof.

IYB’s Community Mentor Challenge: Free Concert Celebration | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 9/20 Sunday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Music by local group, the Jeff Love Band. Ithaca Youth Bureau (IYB) staff from Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Paul Scheurs Memorial Program and the College Discovery Program will be available to talk about volunteer mentoring opportunities with IYB programs.

Fall Harvest Breakfast: East Hill Flying Club | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 9/20 Sunday | Tompkins County Airport, 1 Culligan Dr, Ithaca | Enjoy a great meal, see displays of airplanes, and take a tour of the area from the air in an East Hill airplane! Learn how to become a pilot! We will be showing aviation films all morning, and honoring Local WWII Pilot Joe Daino at 10 am.

The FOUND FLEA - Antique & Vintage Flea Market | 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, 9/20 Sunday | FOUND in Ithaca, 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Features fifty of the region’s best antique & vintage dealers who set up for the day in the parking lot at FOUND in Ithaca (a year round Antique & Vintage Marketplace).

A Fall Equinox & Mabon Ritual | 6:30 PM, 9/22 Tuesday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Come worship the God/Goddess with us as we turn the wheel of the year and celebrate the second harvest of the season.

Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm | 10:00 AM, 9/22 Tuesday | Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm, 6425 Rt. 17C, Endicott | One of the oldest and largest Pumpkin Farms in NYS. 20+ activities including Hayrides, Haunted House, Displays, Ziplines, Corn Cannons, Apple Flingers, Petting Farm, Craft Area and much more! For more information visit www.

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L.A.’s hardcore force ACxDC play the Chaticleer Loft at 7 p.m. Tuesday 9/22, with local metal bands Doubt and Bastard Eyes. Ithaca Underground presents. (Photo Provided) Gleach will lead the audience through an exploration of topics including, How one recognizes, identifies, and interprets artifacts, and much more.

Bernie Milton Pavilion Dedication | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/17 Thursday | Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons, Ithaca | Come and celebrate the grand newly designed Pavilion.

Harvest Your Relationships: Networking Happy Hour | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/17 Thursday | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St #2, Ithaca | The Society for Human Resource Management of Tompkins County (SHRMTC) is pleased to invite you to “Harvest Your Relationships” at the chapter’s annual Networking Happy Hour. Harvest your relationships with other local business professionals and grow new ones! Last year this event gathered 50+ business professionals in the area - a great networking opportunity. Give-a-ways, Raffles, Drinks, Food, and much more.

Witness To Occupation Series Part 1: Bassem Tamimi | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 9/17 Thursday | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Tamimi is from a West Bank farming village where weekly nonviolent demonstrations are held in opposition to illegal Israeli settlement construction and military occupation.

He will be speaking about the fight for freedom and justice in his village and the struggles endured by his family and others who have been injured and/ or imprisoned by the Israeli military. A

vegan Palestinian dinner will be served at 5pm. Talk begins at 5:30pm.

Candor Farmer’s Market | 3:30 PM-, 9/17 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Locally grown, raised, crafted or otherwise created items. For more information visit www. candorfarmersmarket.org Farm to Fork | 3:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/17 Thursday | The Deck, Front Street, Owego | Thursday evening farmers market with 4 local eateries will create fresh street food for you to enjoy while listening to music. For more information visit www.facebook.com/ OwegoFarmtoForkEveningMarket Coffeehouse Event at Lifelong with Poet Jack Hopper | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 9/17 Thursday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | From 2 pm to 3 pm there’s an Open House. From 3 pm 4 pm Poet Laureate Jack Hopper will read and analyze some of his poetry with a Q&A afterwards. Free to all.

Fall Equinox Celebration 2015 | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | White Hawk Ecovillage, White Hawk Ln., Danby | Potluck (BYO dish, place setting and beverage), Music! Michael Early will be playing at 5 pm and local artist Travis Knapp will take over at 7pm, Silent Auction, Fire at 7pm. More info at whitehawkecovillage.org McLean Community Church Steak Dinner | 4:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | McLean Fire Hall, , McLean | Meal includes ribeye steak, baked potato, salad bar, drinks, and homemade desserts! Reservations recommended.

Call 607-838-3450.

Cornell Football | 3:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | Schoellkopf Stadium, Cornell, Ithaca | Vs. Bucknell University.

Destroyed, Forgotten, Never Noted: Ithaca’s Hidden Indigenous History | 2:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Professor Kurt Jordan presentation on Ithaca’s Hidden Indigenous History.

The professor is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Cornell University. His research centers on the archaeology and history of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples, emphasizing the settlement patterns, housing, and economies of 17th and 18th century Senecas.

Dryden Town Annual Heritage Day | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | Dryden Town Hall, 93 E Main St, Dryden | Jimmy Decker Band will be playing bluegrass music, food from the Dryden Community Center Café, kids games, and demonstrations of all sorts of skills and crafts like sheep shearing, Blacksheep Handspinners, R Townley spinning wheel, Finger Lakes Lace Guild, chair caning, quilters, and knitting, just to name a few. There will also be guided Southworth House tours that day at 11am, 12 noon, 1pm, and 2pm.

The Cherry: A Gala Groundbreaking Party | 4:00 PM, 9/20 Sunday | A gala groundbreaking party for Ithaca’s newest Non-Profit Theater Company. Tickets are available now at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/2214197.

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Meetings Rental Housing Advisory Commission (RHAC) | 5:15 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | RHAC recommends to Common Council new steps to be taken to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of rental housing in the City of Ithaca.

IURA Governance Committee (GC) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, 9/18 Friday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Third Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca. GC advises IURA on issues such as budgeting and

Cornell Vs. Bucknell,

The Haunt, Friday, September 18, 7:00 p.m.

Schoellkopf Field, Saturday, September 19, 3:00 p.m.

Wicked raps, awesome instrumentals, and biting sarcasm are the hallmarks of this Los Angeles based rapper and hip hop producer.

Rapping since he was 9 years old, he’s collaborated with numerous rappers, produced numerous hip hop records, and has created a legendary underground presence. He’s joined on this night by Ithaca’s finest rappers and MCs, including the always awesome Sammus, Mr. McBean, and Smacked Record’s Jesucifer. This is a night not to be missed.

Big Red Football is back! Cornell opens the 2015 season up at home against Bucknell University. The season looks promising as Team Captain Rush Imhotep returns as the safety and cornerstone of a team with big expectations. The Ivy League is the last Collegiate Football program to start in America, and the team is definitely ready. The battle of the ‘Nells kicks off Homecoming and Inauguration weekend.

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Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/21 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Council (BPAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 9/21 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | BPAC members regularly review ongoing and upcoming city projects and advise the Board of Public Works, Common Council, the Planning & Development Board, the Parks Commission, and other appropriate City bodies on bicycle and pedestrian issues, including issues faced by people with disabilities, to ensure all city projects accommodate and encourage safe and legal travel by bicycles, pedestrians and people with disabilities Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 9/22 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The Board reviews Site Plan Review applications, proposed Subdivision applications, proposed City ordinance revisions, zoning appeals, and other matters it is charged with reviewing.

PMI Ithaca Branch Monthly Meeting | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 9/22 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Project Closure presented by Robert Emborski, PMP. Questions, Email ithaca@ pmirochester.org

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by Bryan VanCampen Cheatin’, animated by Bill Plympton, playing at Cornell Cinema 9/17 & 9/20.

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’ve been a Bill Plympton fan almost as many years as Plympton has been making films. I fell in love with his idiosyncratic shorts like “Your Face” (1987) and “25 Ways to Quit Smoking” (1989), which used to play on MTV and in animation compilations. I must admit it’s taken me awhile to appreciate Plympton’s feature films, which tended at first to be repetitive and somewhat exhausting.

Starting with Idiots and Angels four years ago, I began to appreciate Plympton more in long form, and his new film Cheatin’ applies his stylin’—visual surrealism, eclectic music and a sketchy quality, the best pencil tests ever made—to a darker tale of sexual jealousy. James M. Cain meets Winslow Homer and N.C. Wyeth in this fable of a man and woman in love tested by the possibility of infidelity.

And it joins the Shaun the Sheep Movie as an animated feature conveyed without any dialogue.

Leave the children at home. This oddly beautiful, magically realistic ‘toon is as adult as R. Crumb and decidedly not for kids. Plympton’s work has always been ribald, bordering on lewd. Cheatin’ is for thoughtful adults who believe that

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Wizardry. Donning a pattern cape and wand, travel through four interactive rooms – Spiral Spells, Tessellation Station, Branch Branch, and Linear Lab, each focusing on a different type of pattern. Then investigate Symmetry Sorcery to uncover the wonders of symmetry in butterflies, embroidered designs, and yourself when you climb into a giant kaleidoscope and become part of a pattern.

Advanced Composting Class Series | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 9/17 Thursday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | The Compost Education Program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County is pleased to announce our Advanced Composting class series. This will be held on three Thursdays in September (9/10, 17 and 24) and will cover Master Composter-level material without the volunteer requirement. For more information visit ccetompkins. org/events/2015/09/10/advancedcompost-series or call (607) 272-2292.

Pattern Wizardry | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | The wildly whimsical world of patterns at the Sciencenter’s new featured exhibition, Pattern

Books Josh Price | 5:00 PM, 9/17 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Discussion about incarceration with Josh Price, author of Prison and Social Death.

animation is a medium, not a family film genre.

• • • I watch most scary stuff at home these days, so I can’t honestly remember the last time I heard the gasps, screams and noise that a scary funhouse ride of a movie can wring from a room full of strangers. But I sure heard it long and loud at a packed opening Friday night screening of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit. Those of us who have watched Shyamalan’s career slowly fizzle over the last decade or more should know that it’s his most satisfying and weirdly hilarious film since The Sixth Sense.

The Visit is also the best example of the self-shot “found footage” genre: two kids, one a serious filmmaker played by Olivia DeJonge is sent with her wise-ass, freestyle rapping younger brother (Ed Oxenbould, a serious comic find) by their mother (Kathryn Hahn) to visit their estranged grandparents (Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie) for the first time.

DeJonge hopes to film the trip and make a documentary that will reunite the family, but her two cameras capture a whole lot of

Art Botanical Mandalas by Daniel McPheeters | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | Boyce Thompson Institute, 533 Tower Road, Cornell, Ithaca | McPheeters will give a short talk about his work, followed by a brief presentation from Cornell plant biologist Michael Scanlon, entitled Plant phyllotaxis: the science of symmetry and pattern. Classical guitar music will be performed by Pablo Cohen, Associate Professor, Music of Latin America, Ithaca College. ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | Justin Hjortshøj’s photographs. His perspective on seemingly simple

In this 1948 film adaptation of the famous Shakespeare play, Orson Welles directs and stars. He made some key changes to the original story, including giving the witches a more prominent feature in the story, and also introduced a new character, The Holy Man. Welles explained The Holy Man’s importance to the film, stating he represented the struggle between new and old religions. The film was initially poorly received, but has in time become a cult classic.

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Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Group exhibition of works

bringing cinema by, from, and about Palestine to the Ithaca, NY community.

The screening of The Wanted 18 is followed by a Q&A with director/Cornell alum Paul Cowan ’69, who will SKYPE in from Canada.

When some people from the town of Beit Sahour on the West Bank decided to buy 18 cows to produce their own milk as a co-operative, their venture was so successful that the farm became a landmark, and the cows, local celebrities … until the Israeli army took note. Olive Branch will be showing more films in the future. Find out more at www.cinemapolis. org, olivebranchfilmsithaca.net or olivebranchfilmsithaca@gmail.com.•

by CSMA’s visual arts faculty. Featuring paintings and drawings by artists Rob Licht, Kevin Mayer, Terry Plater, Miriam Rice, and Melissa Zarem. Runs throughout August and September. | www.csma-ithaca.org The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | The Ley Lab Collaboration I and II Portfolios were organized by professors Greg Page of the Department of Art, and Ruth Ley of the Department of Microbiology and Director of the Ley Lab. Through September 30 | www.ink-shop.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Imprint / In Print, August 8 - December 20. So it goes: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut August 22-December 20. More than

thirty drawings by the Author, in conjunction with Cornell’s New Student Reading Project | www. museum.cornell.edu West End Gallery | 12 West Market Street, Corning | Monday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Saturday,10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday,12:00-5:00 PM | New paintings by Bossart van Otterloo and Brian S. Keele | Runs September 11 October 9 | www.westendgallery.com Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Christine McMeekin & M Stein. The shows will be spread between the downstairs and upstairs loft. Both shows will run through Oct 31. Curated by ARTe for more info visit www.ARTeFLX.com. | www.wafflefrolicking.com

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Tompkins County Airport, Sunday, September 20, 7:00 a.m.

Maybe you’d like to become a pilot someday, well this is a great opportunity to find out more about it. The East Hill Flying Club is putting on this special event, which includes an amazing local and fresh breakfast, the honoring of WWII Squadron Commander Joe Daino, who learned to fly in Ithaca at the downtown airport, and went on to fly 73 combat missions in India, the chance to take a tour of area from the air in a East Hill Airplane, and much more.

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The less you know about what happens, the better. Since this is a Shyamalan joint, yes, there are all kinds of weird twists, but this time, they are good twists, not the kind that will make you mad. The Visit plays like a classic Sam Raimi rollercoaster ride, where you laugh and then you get scared, again and again.

Comedies and horror movies are hard to do right, but the comedy-horror film is usually neither scary nor funny. The Visit gets the mix just about right.

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The house at 94 Bald Hill Road is in the Federalist style, complete with the fan window over the front door, the Classical proportions, and the 12-pane sashed windows.

A previous homeowner served as the town clerk for many years and established the clerks office in a front corner room with a separate entrance. The main door in the front of the house is not much used; you enter into the kitchen via the back door because it is nearest the driveway.

The kitchen has a striking maple floor (that is not historical) and is big enough to include a table for informal meals. The cabinets are a Neocolonial style with recessed crown-top panels and brass pulls.

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jacent dining room across the back of the house. There you find an old mantel with a bricked up hearth.

From the dining room you may step out into a carpeted sun room with two skylights.

Beyond the dining room there is a full bath with a tub/shower. From there you can step through a short passage that includes shelves on one side and a closet on the other and find yourself in a carpeted front room that is about the right size for a family or media room. It includes a woodburning fireplace with a wood mantel and a brick hearth.

From the front hall (floored in yellow pine) you can enter nearly every room on the first floor. If you continue on to the living room you will find it to be enormous. The floor beneath your feet is made of chestnut, but two thirds of the room is floored with narrower oak.

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At A Glance

94 Bald Hill Road in Danby (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

nets, and a wood-burning stove, making the room feel homey in spite of its large size.

You follow a mahogany railing up the stairs to the second floor, pausing on the landing to look into a large bedroom with dormered windows that you enter with two steps up from the landing.

Continuing to the second floor you find a hallway laid on in a dog-leg pattern giving access to three bedrooms and a full bath.

The largest bedroom is in the front and includes three large and one small closet. The smaller bedrooms are in the back. Both include built-in desks and shelves.

The trim throughout the house is simple and painted and in fine shape.

There is a large backyard dominated by an enormous Norway spruce. The mowed portion gives out into meadow dotted with shrubs (classic old-field succession).

The backyard is given privacy (although little is needed, as the neighboring houses are not nearby) by the outbuilding that includes a two-bay garage and a workshop. A door in the back is an entrance for storage of a riding mower.

Ten additional acres were joined to the more-than-four-acre parcel by the present owners. This land includes a horse stable and a paddock. •

Contact: Margaret Hobbie, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, Audrey Edelman/ RealtyUSA; mhobbie@verizon.net Phone: (607) 220-5334 (direct) Website: www.realtyusa.com/ ithaca

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