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City’s $5 million grant application centers on safe consumption space

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he City of Ithaca has officially submitted its application for a Blomberg grant that could provide the city with millions of dollars that would provide a significant boost to Ithaca’s efforts to establish a “one-stop shop” center of human services.

Ithaca was already named one of the final 35 cities in the competition, called the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge, which means the city already received months of advisement from Bloomberg-affiliated people and $100,000 to go towards researching their proposal.

In final, the city’s submission, which was due at the end of August, states that their goal with the money would be to establish a combination Harm Reduction Hub, which would provide services like housing advisement, employment guidance and computer access, alng with the long-debated safer consumption space. In theory, Southern Tier AIDS Program’s West State Street location would house the hub.

Previous winners have included Philadelphia, Providence, Rhode Island and Santa Monica, California, and entries this year cover a wide breadth of issues, from public health like Ithaca’s to others like New Rochelle, NY, which wants to implement virtual reality technology that would help citizens better understand and engage with the municipality’s future development goals.

Ithaca’s official description of the idea states they want to position themselves at the forefront f the fight against drug overdoses, and that the money continued on page 16

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DEC finds “significant threat to public health” at Ithaca Gun site

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he Department of Environmental Conversation has released a report identifying the Ithaca Gun Factory site, spanning from 121-125 on Lake Street, as a “significant threat to public health or the environment.”

The findings were published in a Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) Fact Sheet published by the DEC and based on the investigation by the DEC and the New York State Department of Health.

The leading pollutant on the site is listed as lead in surface and sub-surface soil, as well as other harmful chemicals, such as trichloroethene, in isolated areas around the site and in groundwater off-site as well.

“This decision is based on high concentrations of lead present in surface soil over nearly the entire site and presence of chlorinated volatile organic compounds in groundwater on-site and the migration of contaminated groundwater off-site,” the report states.

“The highest concentration of contaminants occur on-site

within the fractured bedrock.

Although the movement of groundwater is reduced vertically by a decrease in fractures with increased depth, contaminated groundwater does migrate off-site.”

As for what happens next, the Fact Sheet outlines the near-future process as such: the DEC will complete its review of the site and, “if appropriate,” approve the investigation report. That report will be publicly accessible, and an applicant may then develop a cleanup plan that would address and remediate the contamination on the site.

That plan is subject to public comment and oversight by the DEC and the DOH. The remedial investigation that resulted in these findings was undertaken from September 2016 to March 2018.

According to the DEC, they found a range of lead from non-detected to 21,000 lead parts per million (ppm). The maximum allowable threshold for a site that will host multifamily housing is 400 ppm. The

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investigation was submitted by IFR Development, a Delawarebased company, and since they are the applicant the company will be tasked with proposing a clean-up plan to be approved by the DEC if they, or someone they are doing business with, intend to redevelop the site.

When asked, the DEC said the site is not currently under consideration for Superfund nomination, which would trigger a remediation effort led by the EPA instead of the state.

“No. At this time as the site is being investigated and is anticipated to be cleaned up under the BCP with DEC oversight,” according to a DEC official. “To receive a release of liability, the applicant, a developer in this instance, must complete the remedial action required under the BCP.” Another component to the Ithaca Gun Factory site saga is that it was recently the subject of a housing proposal; Frost Travis of Travis-Hyde Properties had introduced sketch continued on page 16

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come out to The Rink for a day of festivities on Sunday, September 9. The event starts at 11 a.m. and lasts until 4 p.m., and comes complete with dunk tanks, street hockey, public skating free of

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BESIDES MIRANDA FROM “SEX AND THE CITY”, WHAT FICTIONAL CHARACTER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE RUN FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK?

“Bartholomew JoJo “Bart” Simpson! He would be a step up at this point!”

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“Severus Snape” -Matt Essignman

“Oh, definitely Xena Warrior Princess!”

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“I would vote for Mr. Rogers because he seems to treat everyone with love and respect I know he isn’t fictional but we don’t need any more characters in office right now -Bryan Davis

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Newest senior housing project Cayuga View gets grand opening

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crowd of over 50 local officials, state representatives, area business owners, and Tompkins County residents gathered in the Vil-

two-bedroom and two-bath units, and 12 one-bedroom and one-bath units) ranging from $1,550 a month to $2,775.

Among Cayuga View’s amenities are: an allelectric kitchen with stainless steel appliances in each apartment, adaptive accessibility features, concierge service, underground parking, a business center, a fitness center, a library and computer room, and a rooftop patio with Owner Manley Thaler cuts the ribbon at Cayuga View a view of Cayuga Senior Living’s opening. (Photo by Casey Martin) Lake. Nearby are five banks and many food, transportation, and lage of Lansing last Wednesday health care options. to witness a ribbon-cutting “This is a matter of conveceremony for Cayuga View nience,” said Manley Thaler, a Senior Living. local developer who is both the Located at 16 Cinema Drive private owner and a resident of by the Triphammer Mall, Cayuga View, to those gathCayuga View, which opened ered. “That’s why we built this on July 1 and already houses place, and we welcome you all a small number of tenants, and hope you will all become joins Kendal at Ithaca, Horitenants.” zon Villages Townhomes, and Remarks at the ribbonLongview Patio Homes and cutting were given by JenApartments as market-rate nifer Tavares, president of the options for independent senior Tompkins County Chamber living in the county. The fourof Commerce; Karl Schuler, story and 87,000 square-foot president of TAYLOR, the senior community for “55 and Builders (the project’s contracbetter” adults offers 59 unfurtor); Thaler; Sharon Murphy, nished rental apartments (47 a representative for Congress-

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Aug. 31 is now Overdose Awareness Day

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n front of a crowd of about 25 outside the Southern Tier AIDS Program’s Ithaca office on Thursday, Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick declared the following day, Aug. 31, to be Overdose Awareness Day in the City of Ithaca.

With the backdrop of STAP, Myrick addressed the crowd about future prioirities, including a safe-injection site. Should

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a safe-injection site, one of Myrick’s paramount goals, be established in Ithaca—a move that would require significant legal changes—however, the Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP) is one likely destination.

“STAP has always done more than anybody could expect to save people’s lives and to comfort those of us

man Tom Reed; Roger Brandt, founder and president of Rochester’s Cornerstone Group (the property’s manager); and Geoffrey Cook, director of marketing and business deployment for TAYLOR. Although Cayuga View was originally intended to be student housing, Thaler, in partnership with TAYLOR and Rochester’s Cornerstone Group, changed direction after realizing a growing need for senior housing highlighted in the 2016 Tompkins County Housing Needs Assessment, particularly for those that are above qualifying for affordable housing.

“There are people that own houses that are penalized because they have assets,” said Schuler in an interview following the ribbon-cutting. “They can’t qualify for low-income [housing] because they have a house that they’ve worked hard and paid for all their life.

And they want to move into a senior complex, but there are no options. So, this one fills that option.”

“We’re really excited to have another senior living option—something to add to our unique housing offerings in Tompkins County,” said Tavares.

The growing need for senior housing as a whole is the result an aging baby boom population, says Lisa Holmes, director of the Tompkins County Office for the Aging. “The 60-plus population has been growing all along since probably 1990, and each census is showing huge increases,” Holmes said in an interview after the event.

“There is a 34 percent increase in older adults between 2000 and 2010, and the majority of

that increase was due to the increase in the baby boom population, and that was just the beginning of it. So, as the years are going by more baby boomers are turning 60, and so we’re seeing increase in the end for things such as housing.”

In addition to senior housing, Cayuga View and other developments benefit the local housing market as a whole.

“What projects like this do is they get seniors who might be scared to get out of their house out of their house, and it opens up a house for a family or some young person who wants to own a house,” said Schuler in an interview after the event.

“And now your school district fills up with people who wouldn’t otherwise live here because there would be no house. So, 60 people are going to move out of a house, and then 60 houses open up for people who want to send their kids to the school district.”

However, the additional 59 units provided by Cayuga View, although helpful, only contribute a small amount toward a much larger demand. “[W]e can certainly use a lot more than that,” Holmes said.

“There’s definitely a need for more housing for the 60-plus population across all income levels. We need affordable and accessible housing for that population. So, Cayuga View certainly starts to fill a need— and that’s a need for marketrate senior housing—but we certainly need some more housing [that’s] affordable as well.”

who have lost someone—myself included,” he said. “STAP deserves recognition and appreciation for that.”

Myrick then concluded with the following proclamation: “We’re doing our best—to transition to a harm reduction approach and creating a municipal drug strategy that shifts us away from the war on drugs, and because we recognize that all individuals should have the opportunity to find their own path to recovery, and because overdose deaths are preventable all overdose deaths are preventable, now, therefore

I, the mayor of the City of Ithaca, do hereby proclaim that tomorrow, August 31, will be Overdose Awareness Day in the City of Ithaca.”

Myrick’s proclamation was followed by a statement from STAP executive director John Barry. “Overdoses have been a problem in our world since forever (the world of HIV and AIDS),” Barry said. “This is not a new problem. What is new is [that] now we have some tension on the issue. People are making progress and trying to take a different approach.”•

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Cynthia Nixon Makes Final Push In Ithaca Before Primary

ew York’s most popular gubernatorial insurgent made her last pitch to Ithacans on Saturday, as Democratic primary candidate Cynthia Nixon packed a crowd into the Space @ GreenStar to hear her and others speak about the progressive future of New York and the upcoming election.

Nixon was flanked on the stage by fellow statewide progressive candidate Zephyr Teachout, who is running for the Democratic nomination for New York Attorney General, and Akeem Browder, a criminal justice reform activist whose brother, Kalief, committed suicide two years after he had been imprisoned at Rikers Island for 33 months awaiting a trial that never actually happened after charges were dropped. Kalief ’s story has been immortalized in the popular Netflix documentary Time: The Kalief Browder Story.

All three were introduced

by Emily Adams of Tompkins County Progressives, as well as Tompkins County Legislator Shawna Black. Teachout, who is about eight months pregnant, received a warm standing ovation and chants of her name after Black introduced her. She quickly positioned herself as the left-most option in the race, listing pledges to keep fracked gas out of the state (she was influential in the fracking ban after a governor run in 2014), and to crack down on big-business real estate developers if elected. As is customary at this point in the election cycle, her speech was half agenda-listing, half rallying cry to inspire the crowd to up their efforts prior to the September 13 primary election and vote.

“We have to dig deep, they have fear and big money, we have love and community and hard work,” Teachout said.

“We have to do everything we can, and not accept the status quo in New York State. We can have a true, blue progressive state.”

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Akeem Browder, Cynthia Nixon and Zephyr Teachout standing before the crowd in Ithaca on Saturday. (Photo by Casey Martin)

beating back mass incarceration and legalizing marijuana, as well as bringing a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies for health and environmental damages.

“When law enforcement is leading the fight against lawlessness in our criminal justice system, that’s when we can turn it around,” she said.

“When the chief law enforcement officer is telling DAs to stop the madness, that’s incredibly powerful. We really are on the edge of a wave right now.”

Teachout is battling three other candidates in a campaign that saw a contentious debate earlier this week, similar to Cuomo and Nixon’s showdown on Wednesday. The latest poll from Quinnipiac, with the caveat that this was published more than a month ago, shows Teachout sitting in third place in the four-way race, with New York City Public Advocate Letitia James holding a fairly comfortable lead. Since that poll, Teachout has picked up arguably the most surprising endorsement of the race, drawing the support of the New York Times editorial board.

The winner of that race will face Republican Keith Wofford in the general election.

Browder, who is not running for any office, followed Teachout in the line of speakers. He told the story of his brother, who spent much of his time in prison in solitary confinement, as an example of the indelible impact the criminal

justice system has had on his family . In the aftermath of his brother’s suicide, Akeem said his mother died of multiple heart attacks brought upon by her son’s death.

“We have to understand the harsh reality in our criminal justice system, which targets poor, black and brown kids,” he said, to loud applause. “This breaks our families apart. This kills our families, and destroys what could be of the future. We don’t even know what Kalief could have been.”

Browder’s main themes involved bail reform, specifically ending wealth-based detention (which was what caused Kalief to have to stay in jail), and said incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo had failed to institute real change in the criminal justice system during his stint in office. Invoking the age-old adage of “fool me once, shame on you / fool me twice, shame on me,” Browder concluded that Cuomo could not receive a third term.

Browder then gave way to Nixon, who took the microphone to similar fanfare as Teachout from the friendly crowd. Nixon’s become a progressive favorite even as she trails Cuomo by nearly 30 points in the polls. For Democrats disappointed and disillusioned by Cuomo’s reign, often seen as too centrist, her salvos from the left have been stirring, as was seen during the pair’s Wednesday debate, and even seemed to have a tangible

effect on the sitting governor’s positions and priorities.

Nixon bounced between some classic Cuomo attacks, like his involvement in the Independent Democratic Caucus situation in Albany, while also focusing on more specific, nuanced topics, like the underfunding of the education system and the stark differences between per-pupil spending between the rich and poor areas. She also seemed intimate that Cuomo had neglected upstate New York, a common charge, emphasizing that Syracuse has the highest concentration of poverty among black or brown minorities in the country (a statistic that appears to stem from 2015).

“The thing about this kind of crushing inequality is it doesn’t just happen on its own,” Nixon said. “It happens from a choice. It happens from a choice to slash taxes on the super rich, and super connected, and to slash services and opportunity of everybody else. it’s the kind of choice we’re used to see being made by Republicans [...] But for the last eight years it’s a choice we’ve seen made over and over and over again by our governor.”

During a session with reporters after the event, Nixon was able to get a bit more specific about Southern Tier issues that she would look to address if she was elected. Likely of most significance to Tompkins County residents, she said one of the issues she hears about most prominently is transportation, and that investment in better and more accessible transportation infrastructure would be a focus of her if she is elected.

“With gentrification, we have people getting pushed farther and farther out from the cities the buses are running in,” she said. “We have to make sure that people aren’t living in transportation deserts, we have to get bus service to them so they can reach where jobs are and they can get to school.”

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▶▶ Thumbs Up:To Heather McDaniel, who’s been selected as the new President of the Tompkins County Area Development agency, succeeding Michael Stamm who led it for over 30 years.

Congratulations to her as she moves up the TCAD ladder, and let’s sit down soon to talk about that minor league baseball stadium. ▶▶ Thumbs Down: A small rash of assaults over the weekend left one man stabbed in the chest and another recuperating in an area hospital after suffering injuries to his face during a beating. It had been a while since we’d heard openly of much violence in the city, so let’s hope it stops. A particular shout-out goes to Karl, a well-known local musician otherwise known as “Starlight,” who was reportedly the victim in one of the attacks. ▶▶ Heard and Seen: Although short-term rentals have drawn some opposition in the area, Ithaca was named in the top five of most Airbnb visits during the past summer, according to a press release circulated by the company over the weekend. First place was claimed by New York City unsurprisingly, followed by Buffalo, Ithaca, Saratoga Springs and Niagara Falls.

With another announcement coming over the weekend that Ithaca had been selected the state’s best college town by reviews. org, it’s been a good week in the “Things the Chamber of Commerce can Brag About” category.

Our top five web stories: ▶▶ Ithaca Gun Factory: site declared “a significant threat to public health” ▶▶ Unconscious man: rescued from Cayuga Lake inlet ▶▶ Neapolitan-style pizza: on the Commons ▶▶ Cynthia Nixon: makes final Ithaca push before primary ▶▶ Ithaca had third most Airbnb visits: in New York State during summer

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

If you had to pick one for the Democratic candidate for New York Governor: Cynthia Nixon or Andrew Cuomo?

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he Ithaca Police was injured when he Department has was walking in Home issued two press Dairy Alley on the releases regarding two Commons on Friday different assaults that THE COMMONS night. At about 1 a.m., occurred on Thursday he was approached and Friday night. by at least four men The first concerns who attacked him. an assault that reThe victim ran away portedly took place to a friend’s house on Thursday night, when a Cleveland Avenue and man was beaten at the fell asleep there. He intersection of South did not realize he had Cayuga Street and West been stabbed in the chest during the attack Green Street. According to police, they reuntil the following morning, at which time sponded just after 3 a.m. and spoke to a man he called police to report the incident. who said he was approached by a group of In both incidents, the suspects are only men who began punching and kicking him, described as “four black males,” and police then stole his wallet and other belongings did not state whether or not the two incifrom his pockets. They then fled the scene. dents are thought to be related.

The victim was left with significant injuIf anyone has information on these inciries to the face, and was transported to an dents, police are asking them to contact the area hospital for treatment. department.

In the second incident, police said a man

ews item: As activity begins to stir at Cornell University for the Fall 2018 semester, some 289 students remain displaced and living in hotel rooms by the unfinished status of Maplewood Apartments in Collegetown. Criticism of the project, a collaboration between Tennessee-based EdR Developers and Cornell University, has centered on the bypassing of local building trade unions in favor of outof-state contractors and workers from states as far afield as Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky and the Carolinas. Originally scheduled for August, 2018 completion, construction has been plagued with delays and problems, including Town of

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We repair now, using the secret flux capacitor-fueled time machine of a local Ivy League institution, to a momentous meeting in the large anteroom of a suite in the Clinton House hotel in Ithaca, New York. It’s August 29, 1865, and EZRA CORNELL and ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, having just secured from the New York State Legislature a charter to establish Cornell University, are meeting with their Chief of Campus Planning and Development, EPHRAIM CORNSTARCH. The plans for what will become McGraw and White Halls, the first two major on-campus buildings, are spread on a table before them…

(Puffing on a cigar.)

CORNELL

I tell you, Cornstarch, we need to get these projects underway just as soon as we can!

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YOUR LETTERS On Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearings

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s the senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh get underway it is important for all Americans to understand what is at stake. Kavanaugh has demonstrated his adherence to ultraconservative views on social issues such as reproductive rights, workers rights and LGBTQ rights. His appointment to the Supreme Court would pose a real and immediate threat to the progress we have made in extending the promise of the American dream to all, as our founding fathers intended.

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the nearest and dearest to my heart, a conviction based on firsthand experiences as a young woman in the sixties and seventies. I know how hard people, especially women, fought for these rights and what it would mean to lose them. Make no mistake—the conservative agenda is to strip women of their right to choose—a right guaranteed by the Supreme Court over four decades ago. Polls consistently demonstrate that the majority of Americans support the decision in Roe v. Wade. With Kavanaugh tilting the balance of the Supreme Court it is very possible that this decision could be overturned. If that ultimate blow continued on page 7

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We’ll have students arriving for the Fall 1868 semester and we must be in readiness. There can be no delays!

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to women’s rights is averted by some chance, there are many other ways an ultra-con-

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reproductive healthcare services.

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servative Supreme Court can chip away at reproductive rights by ruling in favor of laws

Already on it, Your Excellency. I’ve lined up all the reputable local carpenters, masons, tinsmiths, mechanics…

I would urge everyone who supports reproductive rights for women to contact

WHITE I say, I do hate to interrupt, but did you say “local”?

your senators today to state your opposition to Kavanaugh’s appointment.

Andrea Beesing

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Well…yes.

(CORNELL and WHITE look at each other.)

On the race for Tompkins County Sheriff

CORNELL (Turning now to CORNSTARCH.) See here, my good man. I thought we made it very clear that we preferred our labor to come from elsewhere. In fact, anywhere else. Our vision is that this is going to be a world-class University someday! Using local people is so… so…

WHITE Why, it simply marks us as an inferior institution, that’s all. I’m sure you understand. Besides, we don’t have to pay them as much. Local people, well, they’re just not the responsibility of a first-class institution like ours.

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his year we have the opportunity to elect Derek Osborne, an outstanding candidate, who will be an

outstanding Sheriff! He is totally qualified including FBI academy training! He has been promoted through the ranks of the Sheriff ’s Office, including a promotion to Undersheriff by the current Sheriff, and he knows this community well!

Now more than ever we need a welltrained person with integrity and leadership to effectively manage and administrate the Office of Sheriff without overspending the budget like the current Sheriff!

We desperately need a Sheriff who is up

CORNSTARCH

to date, who is accountable, and who under-

But Mr. Cornell, sir, weren’t YOU a local carpenter when you started out?

stands the importance of properly and safely demanding a new jail!

CORNELL Confound it, man! Do you want this job or not? I tell you we want imported workers!

CORNSTARCH Well…there is a firm in Tennessee that can get us discharged Confederate soldiers for practically nothing. I’ll…I’ll telegraph him straightaway.

WHITE

We do not need a person like the current Sheriff who claims to have files on residents (IthacaVoice.com) and elected officials or whom systematically destroyed a home (Ithaca Journal January 2015) over a DWI arrest Warrant! Most importantly we need a Sheriff that shows up and participates in our community, government and the daily operations of the Sheriff’s Office!

(Slapping him on the back.)

That’s more like it, Cornstarch! see reason!

running the Tompkins County Jail without

I knew you’d

CORNELL pops a cigar in CORNSTARCH’s mouth while WHITE lights it.

I urge all of my fellow Democrats to come out and vote on primary day Thursday September 13 to take the first step in electing Derek Osborne Sheriff of Tompkins County!

Peter J. Meskill Sheriff of Tompkins County 1999-2010

United State Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland have been in nearly continuous negotiations since the White House announced a preliminary bilateral trade deal with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement last Monday. Both Republican southern tier Rep. Tom Reed and his Democratic challenger, Tracy Mitrano, chimed in on the ongoing negotiations with Canada and what they could mean for the region’s agricultural sector.

Both Mitrano and Reed hailed the “handshake deal” with Mexico as good news for the U.S. economy.

“From what I’m hearing, especially when it comes to our ag community, in particular dairy, making sure that we stabilize the Mexico market was critical to helping us stabilize the demand side of the equation when it comes to getting dairy prices in the place where they need to be in order to keep these farms in a profitable if not stable environment,” Reed said on a conference call with reporters last week.

“A potential trade deal between the United States and Mexico is certainly good news,” Mitrano said in a statement. “The U.S. needs to establish fair deals with its fellow nations, ensuring that our transactions are good for the American people.

The dairy sector is one area where negotiations have stalled. For decades, Canada has accepted a small quota of imported dairy from the U.S., before instituting massive tariffs of at least 240 percent on American milk. U.S. dairy producers have long sought to export, but the Canadian government hasn’t budged in protecting the industry.

Reed believes in the White House’s strategy of mounting pressure on Canada in an attempt to forge a better deal for U.S. producers is the right approach.

“What they need to do is what we’ve been saying all along. Stay at the table, negotiate this out. Work out the differences. Update their relationship with America when it comes to trade to the 21st century standard. And I think at the end of the day a deal could be struck.”

Mitrano also agrees with the administration’s goals in renegotiating the deal with Canada, but takes a more cautious stance, claiming that exacerbating trade wars could devastate local farmers even further.

“The President claims that he has his people’s interests at heart in renegotiating these trade deals. I hope, for the sake of our working families, that he does,” Mitrano added in her statement.

“He may believe that trade wars are ‘easy to win,’ but such a conflict with Canada would have a devastating impact on farmers in New York’s 23rd District.”

The White House said it would send the deal to Congress last Friday, but postponed the move pending further negotiations with Canada on Wednesday. Should President Trump send a bilateral agreement to Capitol Hill for approval, Reed and other Republicans would face a tough choice to approve the deal without Canada. Reed didn’t indicate whether he would or would not support a deal including Canada.

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Collegetown Chronicles the East Hill Classic Jazz Band Johnny Russo’s newest book takes us through the prime of Ithaca’s jazz scene

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By Ru s s Ta r by hen your repertoire boasts more than 1,000 tunes, you never know what you’re going to play

next.

“That’s kind of true,” says Ithaca guitarist Doug Robinson, co-leader of Johnny Russo’s East Hill Classic Jazz Band. And that’s part of the attraction for Russo, a multi-instrumentalist who also vocalizes and waxes eloquent about the origins of his tunes, many of which he wrote himself.

A versatile brassman, Russo started out in classical music, but found himself drawn to the freedom of jazz improvisation. Now he has chronicled his long, strange trip from symphonic strictures to unrestrained jazz sessions in a new book published by the History Center in Tompkins County.

Ithaca Our Home recalls the musicians and music halls of Russo’s adopted home of Ithaca. He was raised in nearby Geneva, where he starred as a quarterback for his high school football team.

The book reflects on the long existence of Russo’s East Hill Classic Jazz Band, with detailed remembrances by Johnny and his musicians, along with an 18-song CD of original songs with printed lyrics inspired by the community that supported the combo’s career. The songs include “Aurora Street Blues,” “College Avenue Strut” and the “Mystery of Taughannock.” Various photos show the band in action in diverse settings, including the Ithaca Farmers’ Market, Cornell’s Fraternity Row, wedding receptions and even Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, where the group performed in 2003.

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bonist with the Eastman Wind Ensemble and the Eastman Philharmonia Orchestra, where he performed the “Firebird Suite” under the baton of the composer Igor Stravinsky. “That was a real privilege,” he recalled. After a brief career in symphonic music, Russo became fascinated by instrumental improvisation, especially as utilized in traditional jazz.

Ever since founding his East Hill Classic Jazz group in Ithaca in the mid1980s, Russo has remained a fixture in the Central New York music scene. A gifted trumpet and trombone player, he’s well respected among musicians as a personable entertainer and a remarkable improviser.

He has performed for decades at Cornell University social events, including 30 years at the prestigious Alpha Delta Phi Victory Club charity ball. He also plays piano and did so for 35 years of Sunday brunches at Rulloff ’s restaurant.

Johnny Russo’s East Hill Classic Jazz Band will celebrate the publication of Ithaca Our Home on Saturday, Aug. 18, 1 to 3 p.m., at the Milton Pavilion on the downtown Ithaca Commons off State Street. The book’s title was previously used by Russo for his 2002 CD Ithaca Our Home. That disc, one of five recorded with Doug Robinson, features tracks such as “Mood Indigo,” “Up a Lazy River” and “Stardust.”

In 2008, the Japanese record label Vivid Sound Corporation released two CDs

by Johnny Russo and the East Hill Classic Jazz Band. The 13-track discs, Swingin’ Happy and Swingin’ Sweet, showcase songs such as “Chinatown” and “La Vie en Rose,” respectively.

In 2007, Russo and Robinson paid specific tribute to Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt in the original composition “In Satch and Django’s Day,” from the CD I Have Dreamed. “Robinson’s won-

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derful Gypsy guitar runs dance magically with Russo’s golden trumpet tribute to Armstrong,” raved Syracuse’s The PostStandard.

“Johnny is a prolific songwriter,” Robinson said, “so he often comes in with a new tune he’ll want the band to practice and we’ll do that the next time we play out.”

When Russo blows his horns along with the other world-class musicians in the East Hill Classic Jazz Band, his originals such as “L’Amour. . .” stand solidly alongside standards such as Louis Armstrong’s theme song, “Sleepy-Time Down South.”

“Johnny gets these wacky ideas, but they pan out,” Robinson says. “His song ‘Stuck on a High Note’ (from the 2005 CD Bluebird from the Sky) is basically a novelty song: the story of a poor trumpet player who’s stuck on a high note. But it got (radio) airplay. People even heard it played in France!”

While many jazzmen recoil at the idea of performing show tunes onstage, Russo and Robinson see such music as branches of the same tree to which they’re rooted.

“Johnny’s biggest inspirations are Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Jack Teagarden,” Robinson reminds us, “and all of those guys played show tunes as well as their hot jazz.” The Ithaca combo often trots out two numbers from The King and I: “Getting to Know You” and “I Have Dreamed.”

Unlike some trad-jazz players, Russo also acknowledges pop music from the 1950s, occasionally delivering a medley of songs such as “It’s All in the Game,” “Deep Purple” and “Only You.” Ithaca Our Home’s subtitle is A Forty Year Musical Odyssey in Tompkins County. Russo enjoyed reminiscing about the dozens of musicians he worked with

over the years, including Ithaca’s legendary “red-hot mama” Peggy Haine and her Lowdown Alligator Jass Band. “Peggy was tremendous,” he said.

“I created plenty of work for many musicians,” Russo recalled. “No jobs were taken from other bands, only new jobs in an environment devastated by the rock industry, which today has gone over the edge in vulgarity.” Along the way, as a result of his urgings, all of the decrepit pianos in the many Cornell fraternities were restored to play-ability.

“Of the more than 50 musicians that worked with me over these 40 years, only about 15 remain,” he said, sadly. He pointed out an early jazz influence, Salt City Six trumpeter Don Hunt, who now lives in a western New York nursing home. Russo’s jazz heroes also included trombonist Dave Remington, vocalist Bernie Milton and Geneva-born drummer Ray Helmer.

“Everything about this production is fantastic,” Russo said about the book’s accompanying disc. “And nothing ever came out of this tremendous community before to match it. I am so very proud of this, more than when we went to Carnegie Hall, something no other private Ithaca band ever did.”

With that Carnegie Hall credit spotlighted on his resume, Russo continues to front his septet and his East Hill Classic Jazz Trio, featuring Ithaca College guitarist Steve Brown, and often entertains on summer Tuesdays at the Geneva on the Lake casual luxury resort.

Some of his listeners might say that Russo is a bit, well, eccentric. “Yes, that’s an accurate way to put it,” Robinson says.

“Johnny comes solidly from that New Orleans tradition.” The implication is that on East Hill, as on Frenchmen Street, the music pours forth hot and sweet.•

Pictured here is the East Hill Classic J a z z Q ua r t e t, w i t h D o u g R o b i n s o n (s ta n d i n g) a n d t r o m b o n i s t - t ru m p e t p l ay e r J o h n n y R u s s o (s e at e d) . Th i s wa s a promotional photo from the 1990s.

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here’s no doubt that a trip to the doctor is enough to scare anybody, young or old, and as one grows older those appointments can become even more intimidating. The issues become more serious, the doctor’s advice becomes more important and making sure everything is understood is of much higher concern.

To help with those experiences, Love Living at Home has announced a program called MedScribe in which volunteers can accompany older people to doctor’s appointments, providing another set of eyes and ears to help record and keep track of all the information typically communicated in one of those sessions. Love Living at Home is a local non-profit whose mission is to provide senior citizens who wish to live on their own with the necessary services to make that possible.

“Regardless of whether someone is part of a village or not, there is a larger conversation about health literacy, and how hard it is to remember what you are told, to walk out with the understanding of what the medications are and their side effects, and when your follow-up appointment should be,” Love Living at Home Executive Director Elena Flash said. “Everybody struggles with that, no matter what stage of life you are or your medical condition.”

The goal of the program is basically to free up the patient to focus on asking certain questions and ascertaining the most valuable information out of their doctor,

Participants in Love Living at Home, which is now offering volunteer medical office accompaniment, try their hand at tile-making last year. (Photo provided)

without having to awkwardly pause to take notes or slow down the process. With someone there to transcribe, the theory is that they’ll be able to more easily engage with their doctor and communicate more effectively about their health.

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gram for a few months now, Flash said engaging seniors to the point they actually want to participate has been problematic; currently, though they have three volunteers who are all former nurses, nobody has taken advantage of the offer to date (also, there is not necessarily a requirement to be a nurse, Flash said that just seemed like a logical group to start with).

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program’s intentions are altruistic, people still feel deeply private about their medical information and broadly would prefer not to have others, particularly someone who isn’t exactly a friend or family member, in the room when crucial information is being discussed, even when confidentiality

is guaranteed.

Though actual participation is lacking, Flash said there has at least been positive reaction from those who have heard about the program. Beyond privacy, it can be difficult to get someone who’s lived their lives independently to rely on someone else for the seemingly simple task of going to the doctor (it’s not simple, of course). Breaking through that layer of stubbornness is something Flash is still working on, but at least with volunteers already signed on they will be ready if someone does decide to utilize it.

“In American culture, we have a fierce independence and a belief that it’s not okay to ask for help,” Flash said. “So to get people over that hurdle is a really hard thing to achieve.”

Being an organization that inherently requires people to, in some form, ask for help, Flash said they have found success with more menial matters, such as when someone calls to ask for help with maintenance around the house, or maybe a ride to the grocery store. For the time being, Despite the program’s slow start, Flash remains optimistic about its long-term validity and usefulness. With a batch of enthusiastic volunteers already in tow, she said the Love Living at Home organization would be reaching out to other serviceproviding groups in the area to see if any other connections are available -- either to gather more volunteers, or to connect their volunteers with people who need them but might not be involved in Love Living at Home, such as low-income patients for whom an extra person in the room might be beneficial as well.

“We don’t have a goal, we just want to see how it works,” Flash said. “Our volunteers really want to do this, so we’re open to talking to community organizations to either help them bring in volunteers or perhaps get referrals for our volunteers [...]

We want to help others in the community do it as well.”•

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he Ithaca theatre scene is livelier than ever. Once again, the new season sees a new company forming, House of Ithaqua, joining at least sixteen other producing entities.

SEPTEMBER Cherry Arts is in the midst of their season opener, “Missing Chapter,” a headphone walking play. Later September sees the Englishlanguage premiere of “George Kaplan” (see article in this issue.)

The Kitchen Theatre offers two pay-whatyou can performances this Sunday Sept. 9 and Tuesday Sept. 11 of its opening production, the intimate musical, “Girlfriend,” based on the album by Matthew Sweet. “Collegebound, football playing Mike has everything figured out. At least until he meets Will, a quiet boy from his graduating class.” Artistic Director M. Bevin O’Gara helms. (Sept 9–30) (kitchentheatre.org) Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) also kicks off their season next week, with a guest performance: A Meditation on Tongues, (a live-dance and multimedia adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs’ iconic 1989 film Tongues Untied) conceived and directed by Ni’Ja Whitson, and performed

by The NWA Project. “This rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities. It struts. It snaps.” (Sept.

14-15) Later in month is the annual 10-minute play festival. (Sept 27–29) (pma.cornell.edu) House of Ithaqua calls itself “a cutting edge multi-media production house founded by theatrical and film professionals committed to bringing new, boundary pushing works to Central New York.” Their inaugural production is “Bug” by Tracy Letts, an edgy, paranoid psychological thriller. Performances are Sept

13–15 at Risley Theatre on the Cornell campus. (houseofithaqua.com)

OCTOBER Ithaca College presents Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” one of the Bard’s delightful gender-switching comedies of mistaken identities. This tricky, somewhat melancholic play should shine under the direction of accomplished Shakespearean Catherine Weidner. (Oct 2–13) The end of October brings the epic musical “Ragtime,” based on the E.L. Doctorow novel. Guest director Eric Jordan Young, an alum of IC’s BFA Program, performed in both the original Broadway production and its revival. “Ragtime explores the relationships that form between a wealthy white family, a black ragtime musician, and a Jewish family that has immigrated to America looking for a better life.” (Oct 30–Nov 10) (ithaca.edu/theatre) An evening of one-acts is the fall offering of Trumansburg’s community theatre group, Encore Players. (Oct 19–21) (encoreplayers.org) Prolific Asian-American playwright Julia Cho finally gets an Ithaca outing when the Kitchen mounts her chilling “The Piano Lesson.” Retired piano teacher Mrs. K invites a former student over for a visit and a cookie; deep buried secrets erupt. (Oct 21-Nov 4)

NOVEMBER Nick Payne’s romantic two-hander “Constellations” makes its second Ithaca appearance in a student-directed production in the Black Box of Cornell’s Schwartz Center. Quantum physics make for myriad possible permutations of a relationship.

(Nov 1–3) Following that you can encounter the original play behind Duncan Sheik’s

Scenes from A Meditation on Tongues, directed by Ni’Ja Whitson, being hosted at Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts Photo by Scott Shaw “Spring Awakening,” Frank Wedekind’s “The Awakening of Spring,” in an adaptation by PMA’s David Feldshuh. Feldshuh co-directs with Carolyn Goelzer. “A tragicomedy of teenage sex written in 1891,” Wedekind’s oftcensored play is a cornerstone of modern drama.

(Nov 9–10, 16–17).

Walking on Water Productions follows up last year’s Godspell with their second musical, the evergreen “The Fantasticks!” A tuneful re-imagining of a commedia-influenced Rostand romance, this Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt features direction by WoW’s Artistic Director Priscilla Hummel with musical direction by Ben Bartell. (CSMA, Nov 9–18) (walkingonwaterproductions.org) Playwright Lisa Kron’s fame has grown through NYC productions of “Well” and the musical “Fun Home,” for which she won Tonys for both book and lyrics. Her Obie-winning 2.5 Minute Ride is a fascinating, deep and endearing one-woman play. “Flip through the Kron family archives–from the annual Ohio amusement park vacation to the father-daughter journey to Auschwitz to see where his parents were killed–as one woman takes on the big things, the little things, and the unexpected ironies that tie them all together.” (Nov 25–Dec 9)

DECEMBER Dance concerts and the holidays are December’s fare with all stages humming.

Cornell’s PMA holds their fall mini-Locally Grown Dance Festival (Nov 29–Dec 1). IC will feature faculty choreography on the Hoerner mainstage (Dec 5–9).

The Hangar brings back local playwright Aoise Stratford’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for a second year. Lavishly costumed and featuring local professionals plus a cast of local children, this production has many treasures both in the writing and in the staging by Hangar Artistic Director Michael Barakiva.

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The Snow Queen back for a third year. Highly imaginative and ensemble-driven. (Dec 13–22) After a couple of years on hiatus, Theatre Incognita returns with an epic family holiday show, Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration. Featuring a large cast, half African-American, the play imagines a snowy Christmas eve in 1864 Washington, DC. Lincoln is feeling beleaguered by bodyguards as he works on his second inauguration address; Mrs. Lincoln is out shopping with her dressmaker, the free Black Elizabeth Keckley. Black Union soldier Decatur Bronson is missing his abducted wife and plotting revenge, as is John Wilkes Booth.

Vogel holds out the hope of redemption in the midst of division, in her “American Christmas Carol.” (dates TBA) (theatreincognita.org) Opera Ithaca rings out the year with a gala staging at the Hangar of that glorious waltz-driven Sondheim miracle, A Little Night Music. (Dec 31) (operaithaca.org) Waiting in the Wings: Spring and Summer 2019 The Kitchen season continues with four more Ithaca premieres, including appearances by favorite actors Susannah Berryman and Karl Gregory; Cornell offers Beth Milles directing her favorite playwright, Moliere, in an exploration of Tartuffe as well as an evening celebrating the 1960s off-off-Broadway queer theatre of Caffe Cino, and the mainstage dance concert; IC has opera, the musical Violet, and Marisol, a magical-realist drama by Jose Rivera; while the Cherry finishes its season with another international play, and Opera Ithaca presents an evening of women composers.

Sure to pop up: work by Ithaca’s social justice driven Civic Ensemble (civicensemble. org), Gilbert & Sullivan or another light musical by Ithaca Savoyards (savoyardsithaca. org), locally written work from Wolf ’s Mouth Theatre Company, and with the summer: a brand-new Hangar season (its 45th); outdoor Shakespeare from the Ithaca Shakespeare Company (ithacashakespeare.org) and in July, the return of the Homecoming Players after a short hiatus (homecomingplayers.org).•

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thaca Underground is one of the most prominent music outlets in the area, providing a platform for artists nationwide and local to perform in Ithaca. Since 2007, they’ve aimed to “nurture a sustainable, all ages (and especially youth) supportive environment where music and art outside of the mainstream is encouraged and able flourish.” This year seems no different, with acts covering nearly a wide swath of genres and even a new festival being announced (not many details yet, but hopefully they come soon).

SEPTEMBER Likely the biggest event is the Cayuga Sound Afterparty, which is scheduled for September 21st and will bring rapper ELUCID, dance/electronic act Space Cubs, recording artist Myles Cameron and an indie rock band out of Ithaca called Lazy Bones. Though there is an age limit of 16 years and older, the event will serve to end the first day of the Cayuga Sound Festival, which is in its second year after being founded by Ithaca’s X Ambassadors group. The event starts at 10 p.m., and is being hosted by The Haunt.

That’s not all IU is offering this month, though. On September 6, Sissy Spacek (not THAT Sissy Spacek) is holding a record release event at The Loft at Chanticleer, flanked by Escuela, Kjostad, Scab Addicts and Flores. The California grindcore group will be celebrating their new LP’s release. Additionally, on September 14th, The Loft at Chanticleer will host another IU production, Radiation Risks, Sour Spirit, Sound VVitch and Ithaca-based Bahlok x Casas will all come to town for their own show. Both shows are selling tickets for $7 and start at 7 p.m.

Queer Sound Ithaca, IU’s monthly event

featuring artists from anywhere, is being held September 29th at 7 p.m. at the Sacred Root Kava Lounge. Featured artists will be Jason Zeh and Sarah Hennies, along with others.

Tickets are $7 and all ages are welcome.

OCTOBER October’s IU slate will be highlighted by the debut of a new music festival, touted by IU as a “new music festival focusing on noise and experimental sounds from the area.” There’s not a ton of information available about the festival now, but it looks as if it will be held October 6th at the CSMA facility on State Street in Ithaca.

Beyond that, another month of Queer Sound Ithaca will feature Matmos, held on October 20th again at the Sacred Root Kava Lounge.

Following that will be IU’s collaboration with the Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival on October 27th, as you can ring in Halloween with “an audio-visual fright-night with costumes, magicians and projections.” That will also be at the Sacred Root Kava Lounge, starting at 9 p.m. with $7 tickets for all ages.

DECEMBER We did have to skip a month, as Ithaca Underground’s November schedule has yet to be solidiified, although they do have two November Music Series events scheduled for the 3rd and the 10th of November, both Saturdays, so keep those in mind. Moving forward to December, IU’s annual end-of-year celebration Big Day In will take place December 1st, and will feature hip-hop act Milo, Philadelphia’s Free Cake for Every Creature, DUMP HIM and others.

More information will be released, but for now it’s known the event will be at The Haunt.•

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he shift from late summer to fall heralds a quickening of pace for ambitious local art exhibitions.

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Historical scroll works offer a hint of the rich history of calligraphy and ink painting playfully “referenced” by Bing. As well, earlier works on paper by the artist show the continuity of his interest in writing and landscape.

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“Oceanic Moon,” by Rochester native Sarah Brayer uses Japanese influences and is part of the Johnson’s “Moon” exhibit, running until January. (Photo provided) collection of works on paper, “The Touch of the Butterfly: Whistler and his Influence” (August 4 – December 16) follows in a tradition of print exhibits combining in-depth historical research with a plethora of rich visual detail. Curated by Nancy E. Green – curator of modern European and American art – with the assistance of students in her recent summer course “Whistler and the Victorian Art World,” the show highlights the artist’s innovative work in etching and lithography. It explores portraiture as well as the American-born expatriate painter’s influential forays into the cityscapes of London, Venice, and Amsterdam.

Also included are prints by some of Whistler’s illustrious predecessors and contemporaries: ranging from early masters such as Rembrandt and Canaletto to 19th century peers like Manet and Degas. Less familiar and perhaps more interesting are portraits and caricatures of the artist as well as cityscapes from his circle of followers exploring variations of his oblique, atmospheric approach. Ukiyo-e woodblock prints point to the vital influence of Japanese art on the Whistler and his peers.

Eastern art is another long-standing area of strength and focus at the Johnson. Two current exhibits attest to the historical and thematic range handled – with some help – by chief curator of Asian art Ellen Avril.

“Xu Bing: The Character of Characters” (August 11-December 23) centers on a 2012 hand-rendered digital video piece by wellknown Beijing-based contemporary artist. A current (2015-2021) A.D. White Professor-atLarge at the university, Bing’s work combines the postmodern genres of conceptual and installation art with Chinese traditions of calligraphy, ink painting, and woodblock printmaking. The complexity of his native language is at the root of his wide-format animation – but here he expands his signature

which highlights a range of historical and modern Far Eastern art refracted through a singular iconographic focus.

Hung inside a specially constructed black box in the back of the gallery (an approach usually reserved for video works) “Oceanic Moon,” (2011) a mural-scale paperwork by contemporary artist Sarah Brayer, provides the exhibit’s poetic heart. Based in Kyoto and New York City, the Rochester native follows a tradition of Japanese modernism exemplified by her teacher, the sosaku hanga printmaker Toshi Yoshida. Combining aquatint printmaking with a painterly use of traditional washi paper, the semi-abstract nocturne invites a slow looking at odds with much contemporary art.

Presented by contemporary curator Andrea Inselmann, “Howardena Pindell: Free, White and 21” (August 25-December 23) is a 1980 foray into politically charged video art by an artist better known for her abstract painting.

The short piece combines plaintive – and affecting – narration by the African-American artist relating personal experiences of sexism and racism with an absurdist caricature of an uncomprehending white feminist – performed in whiteface by the artist herself.

Photography as a documentary and aesthetic medium is yet another of the Johnson’s strong suits. Last fall – in partnership with the university library system – the museum hired Kate Addleman-Frankel as Cornell’s first Gary and Ellen Davis Curator of Photography. It’s an exciting development that promises to deepen engagement with the medium for the Cornell community and local visitors alike.

“Object Lessons: Photography at Cornell: 1869-2018” (September 3-December 23) is her first curatorial venture. The exhibit, not open at the time of this writing, promises to be eclectic – ambitiously combining both museum and library collections.•

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he Cherry Arts has expanded its upcoming season to five plays, four of them U.S. premieres. This marks the second full season in the company’s versatile home space on the inlet, though it’s technically the third (“season zero” played at the Kitchen and CSMA). The Cherry remains committed to innovation through a mix of local and international theater artists, a “new signature” that artistic director Sam Buggeln believes has worked.

“The first season felt like a proof of concept,” he says. He’d been unsure how audiences would respond to the local/international approach, the use of video and unconventional staging, or the experimental refiguring of the space for each production. “What we learned,” Buggfeln says, “was that this is exciting work –– that we should stick to it and keep growing.”

So while the good weather holds and an outdoor stroll appeals, the new season has just opened with the Cherry’s second headphone walking play. Like the first (“Storm Country”), this drama is rooted in local history. In “The Missing Chapter,” Ithaca writers Aoise Stratford and Katie Marks were commissioned to draw on

the city’s silent film days. Their layered fictional narrative derives from the heroine of the Whartons’ serial, “Beatrice Fairfax,” an advice columnist for the lovelorn (based on Marie Manning’s actual Hearst newspaper column).

Produced in collaboration with the Wharton Studio Museum and Friends of Stewart Park, “The Missing Chapter” is narrated mainly by Camilla Schade and features other Ithaca actors whose voices you may recognize. Here, Beatrice turns amateur sleuth to solve a crime, with the play’s 1915 subject being the suffrage movement.

“Early film was a vehicle for women’s empowerment and self-expression,” says Buggeln, “depicting bold women with agency.

Many actresses even did their own stunts.”

The mystery-and-movies theme continues with the second play this season, Frédéric Sonntag’s “George Kaplan,” a comic spy thriller, opening Sept. 20. (Kaplan is the fictional spy Cary Grant is mistaken for in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest.”) This 2011 play, already produced worldwide in diverse translations, interweaves the pursuits of underground activists, television screenwriters, and a powerful government. Sonntag, a Parisian

Cherry’s production of George Kaplan, a spy thriller mixed with comedy, will include a discussion with director Frederic Sonntag during its first weekend.

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Since 2015, the Cherry’s ensemble –– a loose group of local actors, writers, and designers –– has been meeting to read and discuss international plays. “We fell in love with Kricheldorf ’s work,” Buggeln says, which they read in Google-translated English and Spanish. “She’s so funny and political in this satirical, irreverent way.” “Testosterone,” from 2011, seemed like the best fit, so the Cherry commissioned her translator to create the first English version.

Starting from the German folktale “The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear,” collected by the Grimm brothers, Kricheldorf invents a bad son/good son version, juxtaposing toxic masculinity against socially responsible liberalism. “It’s about masculinity and class,”

Buggeln says, “but also about the failure to examine oneself –– about the ways in which well-meaning liberals can be unconscious of their advantages.”

A third international work, possibly from North Africa, is being negotiated for late spring.

And of course this December brings a reprise of the family favorite holiday tradition, “The Snow Queen,” –– with two new songs and a revamped battle scene, puppetry directed by Scott Hitz, and Cornell’s Carolyn Goelzer as the fearsome ice queen herself.

Other new ventures for the Cherry Arts include its first full-time salaried position, general manager, filled by Laura Miller, an Ithaca native with a master’s in arts administration from Columbia University. And soon in print: the Cherry’s version of Santiago Loza’s “Winter Animals,” one of seven in

Arcola’s “Global Queer Plays,” and its own collection and co-translation of five Loza plays, published by Seagull Books. And the Cherry’s suffrage play by three local writers, seen at the Kitchen in May 2017, will be performed in November at no less than London’s National Theatre.

The Cherry’s fruitful collaboration with other programs continues: Opera Ithaca’s “Hamlet” opens this weekend; Lilypad Puppets offers a youth puppetry series each month’s first Saturday, and in October, Saltonstall Foundation artists will feature sculpture in the Cherry’s second plastic arts installation.

“We’re building strongly on last year’s model,” Buggeln says of the new season, “getting the word out about work that’s exciting and different, but still funny and accessible.”•

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Originally scheduled for last season, “George Kaplan” was postponed so the Cherry could develop the first North American translation.

Buggeln worked with the French original and a never-produced British translation to create an uncut version in American idiom that retains the complexity of the French dialogue.

“It’s a crazy avalanche of ideas,” he says. “The play uses its fast-paced form to question how we use media and fictional film to understand our construction of political reality. It’s thoughtprovoking and very funny –– this is the first rehearsal in a long time where we’ve had to stop and take a break because we’re laughing so hard.”

The Cherry’s next international offering, also from a popular new voice, arrives late February: “Testosterone,” by the prolific German playwright Rebekka Kricheldorf.

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plans for a senior housing project on the site before the Ithaca Planning Board last month. At this point, it’s unclear what the relationship is between Travis-Hyde and IFR Development, though it’s certainly possible IFR submitted the remedial investigation on behalf of Travis-Hyde. Travis could not be reached for comment at this time, but this story will be updated with comments when he is.

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clean-up. For the record, Hang said analysis by an outside engineering firm had found lead levels much higher than were reported by the DEC, up to 190,000 lead ppm. Previous efforts to get the site into the Superfund program have gained footing in the environmental community, without much momentum at a government level.

“They haven’t cleaned this site up in 18 years,” Hang said, additionally employing the word “incompetent” several times. “This underscores why this entire Ithaca Gun, Ithaca Falls, Ithaca Overlook site, has to be added to the national priority list for federal Superfund cleanup.”

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would help them implement a strategy to do so led by the safer consumption space, also known as a safe injection facility.

“By implementing a Coordinated Municipal Overdose Prevention Strategy, including a Safer Consumption Space, Ithaca will set the national standard for addressing fatal overdose and prove this internationally ­tested strategy works in the U.S. and small cities.”

There have obviously been vocal critics of the idea, from everyday citizens who morally object to what they

perceive as the government endorsing drug use and abuse, while business owners have also expressed fear that if a safe consumption space is located in the vicinity of their business it will discourage customers from coming to them.

Alderperson Steve Smith, who has been one of the primary city officials involved in the grant process, said the grant team has been meeting with concerned individuals to gain a better understanding of their fears and figure out ways, if the money is indeed won, to satiate them.

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b y B R Y A N VA N C A M P E N he “Whose Live” gang returns to the State Theater on September 12 at 8pm. A touring version of the popular improv TV game show, the cast consists of Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff Davis and Joel Murray. The author saw their last show here eight years ago, and still remembers gags and lines that the comics have probably never repeated.

Greg Proops and Jeff Davis spoke with the Ithaca Times.

MAKING IT UP WITH GREG PROOPS

Greg Proops is a veteran road comic and improvisor and he has been performing on “Whose Line Is It Anyway” since the original UK show, where he took part in a “hilariously ill-advised” Christmas special that tanked, but you’ll have to ask him for the gory details. He also hosts the excellent “Smartest Man in the World” podcast. You can read his full interview with the Ithaca Times at ithaca.com.

IT: That’s what I love about the show: every show is completely different.

GP: Yeah, it is. That’s the good part. I think the thing that makes seeing it live so much better than the TV show – first of all, what town are you in, Bryan?

IT: I’m in Ithaca, New York.

GP: There’s a very good old friend of mine in Ithaca as well, a guy who, when I started in comedy when I was a teenager, he was in a band called Boarding House Reach and he was John Kincheloe and he lived in Ithaca. He came and saw the show. I hadn’t seen him since I was probably twentysomething. So I think the reason why “Whose Live” is so effective live is, there’s no separation. You know, when you watch it on TV, it’s like watching charades through painted glass. But when we’re there, live, we bring people up, there’s lots of interaction. You remember the gags we did on the night, which I have long forgotten. We really are enthusiastic about doing the show, too, so we come out there swinging. If we don’t get a standing ovation, we wanna know why.

IT: I’ve never heard the story of how you got on the UK TV version of “Whose Line.”

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with Tom Kenny (“Powerpuff Girls”), who’s the voice of Spongebob Squarepants, but in the old days was a stand-up comedian. And we were doing this gig together, and I got a call from Mike McShane, who’s a good buddy of mine, and we were in a group together in San Francisco called Fault Line. And he says, “Hey, there’s a weird English improv show that’s auditioning.

Where are you?” And I’m like, “I’m in Spokane.”

And I remember being really bummed out. And then the next year, thank God, they came back.

That was 1988 and in ’89, they came back, and we auditioned in some crappy little theater in the Mission District, I think, in San Francisco.

And there was a bunch of people. It was a long process. Anyone you talk to about the process of auditioning for “Whose Line”, it was like going to boot camp. You were there all bloody day, no drinks, you know. And they just threw a thousand games at you. And I remember they said, we were doing some scene and there was a TV on and there was a documentary on the TV, and I said “Look at those buffaloes, they yearn to breathe free.” This is where I got the job. And after the audition, the producer, Dan Paterson, who’s still the producer, asked me to do the show.

JEFF DAVIS: WE’RE TOO LAZY TO MEMORIZE STUFF

Jeff Davis has been performing improv since high school, but he’s been a professional actor since the age of four, playing Linus in a production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”; he threw up on his director and forgot his blanket, and if you’re Linus without a blanket, you’re basically Schroeder. Davis has been with “Whose Line” since 2000 and also co-hosts the podcasts “Harmontown” and “Harmonquest.” Read his full interview at ithaca.com.

JD: Look, I’m famously the not-famous guy on the show, you know. That’s my firm belief, you should always work with people that are much more famous than you.

IT: How did you get into the “Whose Line” cast?

JD: Yeah, I joined somewhere in 2000-ish with the Drew Carey ABC version, and I got in – the show’s been going on since the dawn of time. It’s the show that never dies, and I got the tail end of the ABC Drew Carey and did a couple seasons of that. And then the show got cancelled, but then – we used to travel around with Drew and the whole gang. Well, one day, Ryan just took me and Chip [Esten] and Greg

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aside and said, “Hey, would you wanna do a smaller show, just the four of us?” And I was incredibly honored, because that’s kind of a dream team. It’s just been this dream job, that I get to travel around with my friends and…just goof off, you know? We don’t have any rehearsals, we don’t give each other notes, we don’t carry any gear, we just have a drink and go make each other laugh. It’s really like it couldn’t be a better job.

IT: Every show is completely unique.

JD: Yeah. We would get bored if we had to do the same thing over. We’re too lazy to memorize stuff, so we just make it all up.

IT: Had you seen the UK version before signing on to the American show?

JD: Oh yeah, totally. I started doing improv when I was in high school, and that was right around the time that the [UK] shows were being syndicated in the States, and I just was totally addicted to it. And so I got hooked on improv. Very luckily, I got involved with a group called Comedy Sports, which is like short-form improv, which is similar to what we do on “Whose Line”. So I was accidentally trained for being on that show. So I got brought into that, and then a friend of mine, her husband was a writer-producer on “Whose Line”, and she said that they were having auditions, do you want to go down? So me and Wayne Brady and a bunch of other people went to an audition. Wayne booked it right off the bat. I got cut first round, ‘cause it’s a full-day audition. It’s a nightmare, it goes on for like six hours, and everybody’s just being chopped, chopped, chopped, chopped.

And I was instantly chopped. I auditioned for the show for three and a half years. On my fifth time, I wasn’t gonna go to a fifth one, but I was talked into it. And that was the one that I got the job on. And I think it’s only because I wore a suit. I didn’t do anything different. I just looked different.

IT: You were sharply dressed when you were here last time.

JD: [laughs] Me and Greg have a competition of who can be fancier.

IT: If you get in trouble on the road, which cast member would you call for help?

JD: The thing is, any of them. Because we’re all like a really tight band of brothers. I know so many people that are in bands, some famous, some not famous. And they fight and they bitch and they get on each other’s nerves. Like, we really get along well. Maybe I’d call Joel Murray because he’s a father of five kids. He’d be the one that’d just come bounding to the rescue.•

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he complexity and intrigue of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has inspired endless interpretations and adaptations, from the brilliant to the misguided (not to mention variants, bowdlerizations, and parodies). Just this past weekend Janet McTeer opened on Broadway in the role of The Divine Sarah revising the Bard in Theresa Rebeck’s “Bernhardt/Hamlet.” And back in 1827, when the French theater audience got a taste of “Hamlet,” they were besotted with Ophelia, leading to new altered versions.

Composer Hector Berlioz and novelist Alexandre Dumas were both moved to create fresh work, and ultimately, in 1868, Ambroise Thomas composed the music for an opera of “Hamlet,” with Michel Carré and Jules Barbier writing the Dumas-based libretto. Over the years this opera was alternately rejected and resurrected, subject to the tastes of audiences, critics, and Shakespearean and operatic purists alike.

But Thomas’ opera has survived on its own merits, a recent success being Simon Keenlyside as the Danish prince in the Met’s 2010 production. So our own Opera Ithaca most interestingly chose to open its fifth season last weekend with a 150th anniversary tribute to Thomas’s “Hamlet.’

As in ancient Greek theater, audiences already know the story, but Thomas further emphasized the four principles via extended duets: the usurping King, Claudius, and his Queen, Gertrude (a co-conspirator), her son Hamlet, and his betrothed, Ophélie. Thomas’s opera had halved Shakespeare’s roles and reduced subplots, but its five acts remained a lengthy affair.

Director Zachary James, Opera Ithaca co-founder and former artistic director, trimmed the work radically further, to seven singers, a streamlined plot, and the most gorgeous arias.

Even for audiences familiar with the Cherry space’s versatility, this staging came as a surprise – more than any previous Opera Ithaca production, the space was transformed, magical, moody and highly intimate. Credit James himself for the inspired vision, both set and costumes, ably assisted by Ron Ziomek’s lighting and Dolly Petersen’s hair and makeup.

The playing space was set into one large corner, with two tiers of audience facing the action. Gauzy, shredded greenish-gray drapery covered two walls, evoking not just a palace but an entire world in ruins.

Faded, once-elegant furniture, a piano, a chandelier, strewn objects were all washed in an otherworldly bluish-green.

Into this Havisham-like space arrives Keith Chambers, the accomplished pianist-conductor. Bald and naked except

for a pair of dark swim trunks, he enters and exits slowly, almost zombielike. Like all else, his skin has a mottled green hue, which later suits his enacting Hamlet’s father’s ghost. The unearthly ambience clearly signals that this is a dead world, one already failed through sin and corruption.

Thomas’s Denmark is damned, which James presents in a fascinating combination of restraint and excess. This Gertrude has been complicit in her husband’s death, and at one point Hamlet is literally astride and strangling her. It feels like a morality play laced with Grand Guignol – but it works, because of the dramatic beauty inherent in the music.

Garrett Obrycki is riveting as Hamlet, and not only in his powerful, commanding baritone. Lean and sinuous, almost stealthy, he dominates the action even when spying from the sidelines. His selfconscious Hamlet is both attractive and repellent, tender and cruel, his mind not just ruminating but endlessly parrying.

Obrycki’s complex, expressive acting is unmatched here, but everyone’s singing is strong. Holly Flack’s Ophélie presents as too easily naïve followed by a somewhat strained, extended madness, but her coloratura soprano defines the character.

There’s an exquisitely affectionate scene she and Hamlet share, and in moments like this, we realize through the musical articulation of feeling why it makes sense to put “Hamlet” to music.

Abridged as the Shakespearean script may be, there’s an emotional equivalency, an exceptionally powerful expression, that comes through the heightened acting and Thomas’ music. We distinctly feel Hamlet’s torture, Gertrude’s shame, Claudius’ despair in a very different way than through words alone.

The minor roles of gravediggers are played by Seamus Buxton and Haley Evanowski; Boris Van Druff is solid as the dutiful and mourning Laërte. As the King, Alexander Hahn is more cerebral than the usual Claudius; his rich bass conveys hesitation and regret, not blustering power.

Mezzo-soprano Leah Heater, in a lush flame-red gown, embodies all Gertrude’s carnality; her splendid voice, presence, and passion completely communicate the transgressions of sovereigns. In this damaged world Hamlet finally takes personal agency, stabs the offending Claudius, and lives, drained, to reign amidst shambles.

Thanks to James’ vision and the quality of professional talent Opera Ithaca brings here – diverse, international performers and competition finalists – this novel production offered a deeply moving experience.•

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Rat Pack Returns

Legendary singers save their souls in CRT’s summer finale

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Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. are back, at least for the night, in CRT’s production of Rat Pack Lounge. (Photo provided)

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RT’s season closer, The Rat Pack Lounge, is a musical in the jukebox genre and employs a plot device I’ve seen at least three times in other jukebox shows: A team of performers returns from the dead on a mission to use their performance skills and their song catalog to help right some cosmic wrong. And so it is that The Rat Pack Lounge opens with the voice of God (Kim Hubbard) getting off a very good Peter Lawford joke, and then sending the spirits of Frank Sinatra (Jason Plourde), Dean Martin (Matthew Krob) and Sammy Davis Jr. (Scotland Newton) back to Earth in the bodies of three guys sitting in the title bar.

Talk about chutzpah: God is the opening act for the recently revived Rat Pack.

Their mission? Stop the club’s owner Vic Candelino (Marcus Goldhaber) from selling the place and killing himself. Otherwise, these legendary performers can literally go to hell. Another bar patron, a prim matron who seems to have stepped right out of a Frank Tashlin comedy, transforms into a helpful angel named Angie (Blaire Baker) to help Vic find his voice – Goldhaber’s awful initial “stab” at “My Way” is on point and hilarious; do you know how hard it is for a talented singer to sing poorly? – and his mojo.

The three actors playing the venerated title trio haven’t been hired as celebrity impersonators. They have been tasked with finding the essence of their performer. Matthew Krob pretty well steals the show as Dean Martin. He actually does look the most like Dean, he finds the man’s particular comic swagger and charm, and it doesn’t hurt that, of the three characters, his is the most sharply defined and has all the best jokes. Mug of booze in hand, musing that at least in hell he could get his cigarette lit, Krob makes the most out of

every world-weary aside.

Scotland Newton has some of the charm of a performer like Wayne Brady, and his dancing and scat-singing in particular are very good. And in a show filled with well-known standards, I was particularly moved by Blaire Baker’s take on a tune I didn’t know coming in, “I Love Being Here With You.” The Rat Pack gets two of out of three right. Jason Plourde can sing, but sadly, there’s not even a whiff of Frank in what he’s doing onstage. I think “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” is one of the ten greatest pop songs ever written, but Plourde brings no emotion to his reading.

I almost opened with this: scenic designer Adam Crinson has built a magnificent retro set at CRT Downtown on Port Watson St. Patton Oswalt recommends the smaller little joints off the main drag in Vegas, and that’s what this lounge feels like: a wood-paneled bar covered wall to wall with pictures of Frankie, Dino and Sammy, with a small band pit stage left just big enough for a tight trio: conductor Joel Gelpe on keyboards, the very talented Zane Carnes, bowing and plucking swinging lines on an upright bass, and percussionist Simon Bjarning. The band was tight and in the pocket all night long, making the Rat Pack Lounge feel the kind of spot you’d want to spend some time in.•

CRT The Rat Pack Lounge, written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick; musical arrangements by John Glaudini; directed by Mark Reynolds; music direction by Joel Gelpe; choreography by Cynthia Halpin; scenes design

by Adam Crinson; costume design by Orli Nativ; at CRT through Sept. 8.

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Murder for Two

MGR has fun with newest show, despite blackout

By Barbara Ad am s

Marcus (Anthony Norman), while he tries to solve the case. (Photo by Ron Heerkens Jr. / GFMedia)

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here’s something about gathering people in a stately home that inspires murder mysteries, from “And Then There Were None” to “Gosford Park.” With a fresh corpse and a passel of suspects, the intricacies are endless. That’s the first draw of Merry-Go-Round Playhouse’s current show, “Murder for Two.” The second is that this search for a culprit is all set to music.

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And the third is that two men play all the parts –– while also providing musical accompaniment. It’s the ideal setup for zany, high-energy musical comedy, which director Scott Weinstein and his two talented actors deliver flawlessly. Well, almost –– but that secret will be disclosed later.

Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair co-wrote the book, with lyrics by Blair and music

by Kinosian. The conflict begins with a murder: famed novelist Arthur Whitney has been killed on arriving home, unaware his wife Dahlia has assembled, for a surprise birthday party, all his best enemies.

A young police officer, Marcus Moscowicz, arrives, with his (unseen) partner Lou; and though he’s only holding the fort till the real detective arrives, he can’t resist trying to solve the crime, eager to earn detective status himself.

Anthony Norman plays Marcus, and Noel Carey plays, well, everybody else.

They make a charming Mutt and Jeff pair, the shorter, tousled-haired Norman intense and by the book; the taller, lean Carey hilariously versatile as he morphs Classes begin early October

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from one suspect to the next. Among others, he’s snarky as the frustrated drama queen Dahlia in cat’s-eye glasses; sexy as the aloof prima ballerina Barrette, one of Arthur’s lovers; and crotchety and creepily cloying as Dr. Griff, the elderly psychiatrist in a wheelchair.

But even before the action begins, we get some silly stage business –– playing with the overhead light fixtures and stealing audience members’ purses –– that sets the tone. This is going to be an evening of fast-paced vaudevillian nonsense, outrageously hammy acting, and irrepressible sight gags and puns. When it comes to madcap comedy, the more ridiculous, the better –– the audience laughs nonstop.

The setting, by Czerton Lim, is dominated by a huge backdrop of a Psycho mansion on a hill, complete with full moon. The playing area, featuring a grand piano, eventually becomes the drawing room where all assemble. And Dan Ozminkowski’s lighting is timed perfectly for both comic and spooky effects.

Blackouts are expected in murder mysteries; that’s when all the nefarious stuff goes on. One of them on opening night, however, lasted a bit long. When some lights soon came up, the stage remained empty. For a long time. Turns out that the rain (which at first was so light it sounded like part of Eric Backus’ sound design) had developed into a major storm, which caused the blackout.

Rebooting the complicated light-board took a while, though, so eventually Noel Carey came onstage and announced a

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recap of the storyline to date. He then brilliantly improvised a speedy, crazy summary of every character and plot point we’d just seen. It was a tour de force, mid-show, that delighted the confused audience.

The comedy continued, with both men singing and playing the piano, almost atop one another. Marcus is confounded in his sleuthing by a sparring couple (the irritated husband declares his wife’s the guilty party) and a zealous female grad student, not to mention Dahlia’s showy atop-thepiano confession. Overall, she’s been far more concerned about the disappearance of the ice cream than her husband’s body on the floor.

And what about that group of choir boys come to sing for the birthday festivities? Carey again, on his knees as three different street urchins. (Their caps and other deft costume accessories by Tiffany Howard.)

Everybody has a motive, of course, and the malefactor is never who you’d think.

But assigning guilt is not our concern –– we’re here for the guilty pleasure of enjoying as much silliness as these clever actors can serve up.

“Murder for Two,” book and music by Joe Kinosian, book and lyrics by Kellen Blair. With Noel Carey and Anthony Norman. Directed by Scott Weinstein. At the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Auburn, through Sept. 15. Tickets at 315-255-1785 or online at FingerLakesMTF.com.

Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.•

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Sweet Taste of Victory

Local teams breaking droughts early on

By Ste ve L aw re nc e Starting off a season with a win always feels good, but when that win ends a long dry spell, it is even sweeter.

For example, when the TC3 volleyball team won a match in September of 2016, the program had no idea it would be nearly 2 years and 30 matches before they would see another W. The team dropped its last nine matches of 2016, they dropped all 21 matches in 2017, and when they lost the first game against Cayuga Community College in this year’s opener, they did not give up. The Panthers rallied back to take the match, and local players Ashley Smith and Amanda Green of Lansing and Megan Bell and Erin Harkenrider of Dryden are ready to put up more wins this season.

••• Speaking of big season-opening wins, the Ithaca High Little Red footballers snapped their own 13-game winless streak with a dominant win over Oswego. Both teams were hungry for the win, as the Buccaneers also went winless last season, but Ithaca found its successful formula early, scoring on its first three possessions.

The Little Red spread out the Buc’s defense with sweeps by Simon Barley and Spencer Whitmore, and when the play callers saw the Oswego defense preparing for those sweeps, they sent power back Angel Rivera-Barrett up the middle to further decimate the defense.

That impressive running attack was

well-balanced, as Whitmore had seven carries for a whopping 135 yards and two touchdowns, Barley went for 123 yards and two TD’s on 14 carries and Rivera-Barrett made it three back over the century mark with 102 yards on 15 carries.

He also added a touchdown.

I asked Clarence Welch – the Little Red’s first-year coach – when the last time was that Ithaca had three players run for over 100 yards, and he said, “Well… they had Riley Lasda and another tough back who often went for over 100 yards a few years ago, and Khiry Brown (now at Ithaca College) did it a number of times, but I’d have to say that you would have to go back to the Moresco years to see three guys do it in one game.” I asked Welch if the game plan unfolded as expected, and he offered, “Ours is a Delaware Wing-T, a run-first offense. It works best when you have a good fullback, like we do with Angel, and we have some young guys – like Simon and Spencer – who have some speed. When they hit the corners they can turn it on, and we had several runs of 15-plus yards.”

My next question was, “Did you see what you wanted to see from the passing game?”, and Clarence laughed and said “Well, we only threw it twice. We didn’t really need to pass.”

The Little Red will host rival Vestal at 7 pm on Friday, and Welch calls the Golden Bears traditionally one of the toughest Section IV opponents. The rookie coach hopes to see the wave of support for this

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Spencer Whitmore (L) and Angel Rivera-Barrett both went over 100 yards in Ithaca’s season opening win. (Photo by Steve Lawrence)

year’s team keep on rolling. “A lot of people are buzzing,” he said. “Friday’s game will be a nice challenge.”

••• The Ithaca College football team opened its season with a dominant win over Saint Vincent at Butterfield Stadium, thanks in large part to a stifling defense.

The Bombers’ defense forced five turnovers and scored two touchdowns on fumble recoveries, marking the first time since 2000 that a Bomber defensive unit had scored twice and the first time the two scores came on fumble recoveries.

Things did not start off as planned, as sophomore Wahid Nabi’s second pass of the day was picked off and returned 57 yards to set up the visitor’s first touchdown. Ultimately, Nabi would return to form, as he was 20-for-36 through the air for 281 yards and two touchdowns. Andrew Vito hauled in five receptions for 98 yards, while pre-season All-American Will Gladney added 60 yards on four catches including a highlight reel snag that saw him overpower the defender in the end zone and come away with a pass that was up for grabs, turning it into six points.

The Bombers are back at home on Saturday at 1 p.m., hosting No. 6 Brockport.•

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9/10 Monday Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

9/11 Tuesday Music Bars/Bands/Clubs

The Purple Valley | 7:00 PM, | Stella’s Barn, Newfield

TOiVO | 6:00 PM, | Ithaca Beer Co., Ithaca Miller’s Wheel | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Ray McNamara’s Wednesday Monks Residency | 7:00 PM, | Monks on the Commons, Ithaca

SOCK HOP & FAMILY FUN NIGHT Saturday, 9/8 from 6:00 – 10:00 PM | Arthur E. Bouton Post 770, 4431 Seneca Rd, Trumansburg| Hey cats and kittens, you can’t lose go on and grab your blue suede shoes. Get ready to cut a rug and bop ‘til you drop as the T-burg Lion’s Club and American Legion are joining together to put on a good old-fashioned shin-dig with fun for the whole family! Get ready for some diner-style food and twist the night away w/ DJ Chris from Close Sound. (photo: provided)

9/6 Thursday

Pete Panek & The Blue Cats | 5:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Firelight Live! | 6:00 PM, | Firelight Camps, Ithaca

Garden Concert Series: Tailor Made | 6:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry

Greg McQuade | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca CFCU Summer Concert Series: Gunpoets | 6:00 PM | Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons, Ithaca |

9/7 Friday MAQ: Eric Aceto, Doug Robinson, Chad Lieberman, Harry Aceto | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector

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Rubber Souls | 6:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

Firelight Live! | 6:00 PM, | Firelight Camps, Ithaca

Off The Rails | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

9/5 Wednesday

Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca

Dirty Blanket | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Happy Hour with The Desert Stones! | 6:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca Ithaca Bakery Presents Music on Meadow Street | 6:00 PM, | Ithaca Bakery, Ithaca The Hilltoppers | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville Traonach | 6:00 PM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg

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Diana Leigh & Jesse Collins w Steve Brown | 8:00 PM, | Finger Lakes on Tap, Skaneateles

Vassals, The Brooklyn Players Reading Society, The Human Circuit, and Futurist | 8:00 PM, | Sunnyvale, Brooklyn | $10

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $12-$15

I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Salsa Son Baile Latino! | 8:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Concerts/Recitals

Stereopticon | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett “Dr. K” Paul Kempkes | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

9/9 Sunday Sunday Music Series: Sean Fried and Payton Bird | 1:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry Gary Reynolds | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca El Caminos | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca Matthew Runciman | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Richie and Rosie | 6:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector | $15 Bound for Glory: Hugh O’Doherty | 8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca

Deep Purple & Judas Priest | 7:00 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | The Organ in the Global Baroque | All Day 9/6 Thursday | Anabel Taylor Chapel and Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | The Organ in the Global Baroque | All Day 9/7 Friday | Anabel Taylor Chapel and Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Niall Horan w/ Maren Morris | 7:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | Chamber Music at New Park | 7:30 PM, 9/7 Friday & 9/8 Saturday | New Park Retreat Center, 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Internationally renowned musicians will perform two concerts featuring chamber music for strings and piano. Additional show

Sunday, September 9th at 2p -Trumansburg Conservatory for the Arts.

Visit www.chambermusicatnewpark. com for tickets, artist and event info.

The Organ in the Global Baroque | All Day 9/8 Saturday | Anabel Taylor Chapel and Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | The Ying Quartet | 5:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Grammy Award-winning string ensemble Live at the Fillmore | 7:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Known for its painstakingly authentic recreations of concert performances by the original Allman Brothers Band. All proceeds to benefit the Food Pantries of Cayuga County. | $25-$30 Cornell Jazz Faculty Concert | 7:00 PM, 9/9 Sunday | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | DJ/Dance/Trivia Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Includes free dance lesson from 10-10:30 | $5 Beginning Argentine Tango Class | 7:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Cornell University Physical Sciences Building, 245 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | | $10 DJ Anthony | 10:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | DJ CDZNUTZ | 10:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Salsa at The Range | 7:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | The Range, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | Salsa night is every second Saturday of the month. | $ $5 before 10pm, $7 after DJ Unreel | 10:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | LGBT Rainbow Sunset Boat Cruise on Cayuga | 6:00 PM, 9/9 Sunday | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, 805

4:00PM; Thursday matinee performances at 2:00 PM. | $20-$45

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Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | | $16 online, $20 at the dock Trivia Night | 9:00 PM, 9/9 Sunday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Line Dance Lessons | 7:00 PM, 9/10 Monday | Punk’s Place, 21 Mill Street, Candor | | $5 Trivia Night w/ Herman Nugent | 7:00 PM, 9/10 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tango Night | 8:00 PM, 9/10 Monday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Tango Milonga, featuring local dancers and DJs! Come out and join the dance floor, new dancers welcome!

Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 9:00 PM, 9/10 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tango Tuesdays with Xavier Vanier | 7:00 PM, 9/11 Tuesday | Just Be Cause, 1013 W State Stree, Ithaca | | $15 for 1, $25 for both Trivia Night | 7:30 PM, 9/11 Tuesday | Monk’s Patio BBQ, 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca |

Stage Murder for Two | Thru 9/15, Contact theater for showtimes. | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Everyone is a suspect in this smart, fast-paced 90 minute musical comedy whodunit. Performed by two actors, each of whom play 13 characters and virtuoso piano, these guys put the laughter in manslaughter. Help solve the case as you journey through suspense, hilarity, pratfalls, dueling piano playing and the perfect blend of music, mayhem and murder! | $58-$60 The Rat Pack Lounge | Thru 9/8, Contact theater for showtimes. | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. are up in heaven, but God tells them they left some unfinished business back on earth. Now Frank and the boys have one night to make things right, by taking over the bodies of the bartender and two barflies.

With over 30 hit songs!

ComedyFLOPs Presents All You Can Eat Improv | 7:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave,

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Ithaca | To benefit Addiction Recovery Services | $5 Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show.

Little Shop of Horrors | 7:30 PM, 9/7 Friday & 9/8 Saturday | Elmira Little Theatre, 1000 Laurel St, Elmira | Additional Sunday matinees on 9/9 & 9/16 at 2pm. | $22/$20 Mike Birbigliaís Stand-Up & Vote Tour | 7:30 PM, 9/7 Friday | Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | An evening of comedy and voter registration. Special guest performers include Emmy Blotnick, Nick Griffin, Jo Firestone and Seaton Smith. | $25 Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”. | 8:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | The Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd. E., B201 , Syracuse | The show runs for 10 performances, September 7-22. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays shows are at 8pm; Sundays at 2 pm. | $17/$20 Singing Notes & Slinging Jokes: Monks On The Commons Edition | 6:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Monk’s Patio

BBQ, 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca | A unique blend of music, song, storytelling comedy and laughter from international touring and recording artist Singtrece, as she shares the stage with her partner in life and creativity comedian, and spoken word artist Kenneth McLaurin Comedian Cosmic Joke Collective | 7:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A Capella Sunday: A Harmonious Afternoon of Song | 2:00 PM, 9/9 Sunday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | The Finger Lakes is “pitch perfect” and we have the pipes to prove it! Come see the best a capella talent in the region sing live. | $10 Girlfriend | 4:00 PM, 9/9 Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | This indie-pop musical based on the album “Girlfriend” by Matthew Sweet captures the thrill of first love and how we discover each other and ourselves through the mixtapes we make. Wednesday & Thursday evening performances at 7:30 PM; Friday & Saturday performances at 8:00PM; Sunday matinee performances at

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Aurora | At the String Room Gallery.

Baldwinís new work, which considers the legacy left behind by the Shaker community, will be on display Sept.

7 through Oct. 5, 2018 at the String Room Gallery on campus.†Baldwin will also host an artistís talk on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 5:00 p.m. in the same location.

Juxtaposition of Light and Texture | Ongoing| Boyce Thompson Institute, Tower Road, Ithaca | A photography show of flowers and cement abstracts by Nancy Ridenour.

Community School of Music and Arts - Faculty Show | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | thru 9/28

Johnson Museum Fall 2018 Opening Reception | 5:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Kick off the fall season with art activities, refreshments, a cash bar, and five new exhibitions!

As part of the reception, artist Sarah Brayer, whose Oceanic Moon is on view at the Johnson for the first time as part of the exhibition Moon, will give the Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art in the wing lecture room at 5:15PM.

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different local artists and sometimes global ones, as well.

Open Mic | 9:00 PM, 9/11 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

Opening Reception - O to be marked reciprocally: Mark Joshua Epstein | 5:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, IC, Ithaca | Show runs 9/5-thru 10/17.†Tuesday, October 9, 6 p.m.: Artist Talk. Epsteinís work asks questions about the visual culture associated with gayness. Discordant combinations of hues, marks, and patterns are layered, interrupted, and obfuscated until finally forced into crooked and irregular polygonal frames.

Gallery Night: Victoria Romanoff (Sculpture) & Gillian PedersonKrag (Painting) | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Presenting a two person show of representational paintings and assemblage sculptures. While both these artists have different media and subject matter, they share the same artistic ideals that they started with at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Gallery | Movie Night! | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Road, Ithaca | Dysrealities: new work

by Blake Fall-Conroy that satirically ponders our techno-capitalist culture gone awry. Movie starts at 8pm.

Opening Reception -This is a Valuable Collection: Imin Yeh | 5:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, IC, Ithaca | Show runs 9/5 thru 10/17.Thursday, October 4, 6 p.m.: Artist Talk. Imin Yehís projects utilize repetitive paper handcraft and mimicry as strategies for examining issues around the unseen labor, production, and adoration that lies behind our many unconsidered everyday objects.

James Spitznagel and David Watkins | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | David starts with a photograph. James starts with a drawing. Both move their images through numerous iterations, layering texture and color, light and shadow, sharpness and contrast, until new, original work emerges. Show dates: Sept. 5, 2018 - 30, 2018; opening reception, 9/7.

Works by Frank Chang (Binghamton) | 4:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Neighbors Art Gallery, 115 Franklin St., Ithaca | September 7-23, opening reception 9/8, 6-8pm

Member Exhibit at The Ink Shop | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Each year, The Ink Shop launches a Members’ show, giving our membership the opportunity to exhibit their newest work. This is always a popular show that gives the

Bow, Bend and Tarry - A Solo Exhibition by Mara Baldwin | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Wells College, 170 Main St,

FRIDAY, 9/7 7:00PM

THURSDAY, 9/6 AT 6PM

Ithaca College | An evening of stand-up comedy and voter registration. Special guest performers include Emmy Blotnick, Nick Griffin, Jo Firestone and Seaton Smith. All net proceeds from the shows go to HeadCount, Rock The Vote, and Vote.org, three non-profit, nonpartisan organizations that register voters and encourage voter turnout. (photo: Facebook)

Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Commons | Come listen and dance to “hip-hop centric world music of the highest caliber” at the final concert of this series for 2018. Gunpoets will send us off in style. (photo: Facebook)

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Spotlight Exhibit Opening Reception | 5:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Four artists represented by West End Gallery in Corning including Trish Coonrod of Ithaca. Featuring four artists working in a variety of mediums - glass, oil, mixed media, and acrylic gouache.

Runs September 7 thru October 4.

John Whiting Landscapes | Ongoing | Just A Taste, 116 N Aurora, Ithaca | A selection of John Whiting’s expressive local plein air paintings is on exhibit at Just A Taste, 116 N Aurora St, Ithaca from Aug 27 to Oct 1.

The Solitude of Selfie: An Exhibit

By Carol Flueckiger, | All Day 9/8 Saturday | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | A portfolio of mixed media drawings that visually revises ‘Solitude of Self,’ one of the most well known speeches delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

New England and Acadia National Park | 11:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | September 1 - 26th North Star Art Gallery’s new exhibition features the works of Brian Keeler celebrating the powerful beauty of New England and Acadia National Park.

Film Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

Monterey Pop | 7:15 PM, 9/5 | A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.

The Gospel According to Andre | 7:00 PM, 9/6 | The life and career of operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley, from the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world.

Ocean’s Eight | 9:20 PM, 9/7; 9:45, 9/8 | Debbie Ocean gathers an allfemale crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City’s yearly Met Gala.

Barry Lyndon | 6:15 PM, 9/8 | An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Week of Friday, September 7, 2018 through Thursday, September 13, 2018. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films are listed first.

Juliet, Naked | The story of Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan’s musical obsession. | 105 mins R The Bookshop | England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. | 113 mins PG

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Kin | Chased by a vengeful criminal, the feds and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con, and his adopted teenage brother are forced to go on the run. | 102 mins PG-13

The Nun | A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania. | 96 mins R Peppermint | A revenge story centering on a young mother who finds herself with nothing to lose, and is now going to take from her enemies the very life they stole from her. | 102 mins R A-X-L | A.X.L. is a top-secret, robotic dog who develops a special friendship with Miles and will go to any length to protect his new companion. | 100 mins PG

Skate Kitchen (R) | A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City. | 106 mins R Puzzle (R) | Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined. | 103 mins R The Miseducation of Cameron Post | In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians. | 91 mins NR Eighth Grade | An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school. | 93 mins R

BlacKkKlansman| Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter. | 135 mins R

Searching | After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. | 102 mins PG-13

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First Reformed | 9:00 PM, 9/6; 7:00 PM 9/9, | A priest of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.

The Atomic Cafe | 7:00 PM, 9/7; 9:30 PM, 9/9 | Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.

Papillon | Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island. | 133 mins R

smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country. | 95 mins R Alpha | An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age that shines a light on the origins of man’s best friend. | 96 mins PG-13 Mission: Impossible-Fallout | Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. | 147 mins R The Happytime Murders | When the puppet cast of an ‘80s children’s TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detectiveturned-private eye puppet takes on the case. | 91 mins R The Spy Who Dumped Me | Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy. | 116 mins R Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | While on a vacation with his family, Count Dracula makes a romantic connection. | 97 mins PG Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | In this sequel to Mamma Mia!, Sophie learns about her mother’s past while pregnant herself. | 114 mins PG-13 Christopher Robin | A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winniethe-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life. | 104 mins PG The Equalizer 2 | Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? | R

The Incredibles 2 | Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for the kids while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world. | 118 mins PG

The Meg | After escaping an attack by what he claims was a 70-foot shark, Jonas Taylor must confront his fears to save those trapped in a sunken submersible. | 113 mins PG-13

Crazy Rich Asians | This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family. | 120 mins PG-13

Ant Man and the Wasp | Hope VanDyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission to Ant Man that leads him to fighting alongside The Wasp as they uncover secrets from their past. | 118 mins PG-13

Mile 22 | An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to

Slender Man | The story of a tall, thin, horrifying figure with unnaturally long arms and a featureless

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHT

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Various galleries across Ithaca | A walkable tour of art openings that occurs monthly, every first Friday. This month’s new exhibits include a two-person show at the CAP ArtSpace on the Commons from Victoria Romanoff (sculpture) & Gillian Pederson-Krag (painting, pictured) (photo: provided)

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Special Events Hilliard United States Vintage Grand Prix | All Day 9/7 Friday thru 9/9, Sunday| Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | The United States Vintage Grand Prix is one of the largest vintage racing events in the country. With the Mini Cooper acting as SVRA’s feature marque for 2018, join us as the TransAm Championship returns as a companion series to this great weekend of historic competition. | 20-65 NorthEastern Electro-Music Festival | All Day 9/7 Friday thru 9/9, Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Now in its 15th year, the performance-centric gathering features three full days of innovative electronic music concerts, workshops, seminars, demonstrations, video artists, industry-name interviews, and a mini-swap meet.

I Spy Something Wrong at the 1890 House! | 5:30 PM, 9/7 Friday | The 1890 House, 37 Tompkins St, Cortland | Someone got loose in the Museum and our rooms are filled with items that don’t belong. Put on your sleuthing hat and see if you can figure out what’s wrong at the 1890 House!

This is a kid-friendly event for the whole family - a great opportunity to introduce all ages to Museums and the 1890 House!

Friday nite Cuddle Party | 7:00 PM, 9/7 Friday | Alison Rawlins, Ithaca | A Cuddle Partyô is a Platonic Event where pajamas stay on! Experience Conscious Connection, Communication and Consensual Touch.Please pay online using Eventbrite for a guaranteed reservation. | $10 The 20th Annual AIDS Ride for Life | 6:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Community Soaring Day | 10:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | National Soaring Museum, 51 Soaring Hill Drive, Elmira | This family-oriented event. The

Harris Hill Soaring Club will be offering sailplane rides (weather permitting).

Our local model train club, Dr. Chiang and his paper airplanes, a magician, Quilts of Valor, food, music, and more will round out the is family event.

Garden Tours- Cornell Botanic Gardens | 11:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | Cornell Botanic Gardens- Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Take a relaxing stroll with a Garden Guide through the gardens around the Nevin Welcome Center and discover the beauty and diversity of our cultivated plant collections.Tours are offered every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. | $5 suggested donation Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 9/8 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca | Call†607-272-4830. | $57 Williard Psychiatric Center 23rd Annual Reunion Picnic | 12:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Ovid VFW, 7068 State Route 96, Ovid | All former employees and retirees are invited to attend.

Dish to pass. Table service and drinks provided. Family and friends welcome.

Contact Shirley Sheldon at 315-6512754.

Some Like it HOT | 1:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Hosmer Winery, 7020 Route 89, Ovid | Join us for Hosmer Wineryís annual harvest party. Dance, eat, drink, and play lawn games in the summer sun to help us kick off the beginning of harvest.

Thank God 4 Paws - Dog Festival | 1:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | On the grounds at Faith Baptist Church, 1731 Rt. 31, Cortland | Bring your dog in the funniest costume to win free dog behavior training or come and adopt one of the many rescues that will be there.

Make free paw prints of your dogs or hand prints of your kids. Music, food, games and free dog bandanas.

Books Write Now Writer’s Group | 10:00 AM, 9/5 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | For more information on membership or visiting the group, contact author Carol Henry at carolhenry@frontiernet. netor 607-659-7661.

CHAMBER MUSIC AT NEW PARK

FRIDAY, 9/7 AND SATURDAY, 9/8 AT 7:30

New Park Ithaca, 1500 Taughannock Boulevard | World-class musicians from the International Tchaikovsky Competition, Sphinx Competition, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet of Canada, Canadian Opera Company, Richmond Symphony, and more unite to present dynamic programs of chamber music in a relaxed and natural venue. (photo: provided)

Book Talk with J. Scot Witty | 6:00 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | J. Scot Witty will read from Of Whom Fortune Favors - Hibernia Chronicles: Book Two. The reading will be followed by a question and answer period where the author will offer advice to aspiring writers and sign copies of his books.

Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A night of competitive storytelling where the public is invited to share their tall tales. Contestants will be given three minutes to share their stories.

Cornell Alumna Signe Pike Presents THE LOST QUEEN | 11:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | Cornell Bookstore, 135 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | Compared to Outlander and The Mists of Avalon, this thrilling first novel of a debut trilogy reveals the untold story of Languorethóa forgotten queen of sixth-century Scotlandótwin sister of the man who inspired the legend of Merlin.

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike - Ithaca Book Party | 5:00 PM, 9/9 Sunday | Argos Inn Warehouse, 416 East State Street, Ithaca | w/ Traditional Celtic music by the Grady Girls Quartet

Kids Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 9/5 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Lego Club | 10:00 AM, 9/5 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | All welcome. A new theme each week for building a Lego world.

Science Together | 10:30 AM, 9/5 Wednesday & 9/7, Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your little ones as you investigate sciences processes through hands-on activities.

Family Expedition Cruise | 12:30 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | With a lively narration and optional hands-on activities, including water quality monitoring and looking at plankton under our microscopes, an expedition

NORTHEASTERN ELECTRO-MUSIC FEST Friday, 9/7 through Sunday, 9/9 | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S. Main St., Homer| Now in its 15th year, the performance-centric gathering features three full days of innovative electronic music concerts, workshops, seminars, demonstrations, video artists, industry-name interviews, and a mini-swap meet. (art: provided).

with us will please everyone in the family. Cruises every day until 9/12/18. | $80 for a family Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project! Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Build a fun project out of one of our 1,000-piece kits while you have a snack.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 9/7 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Learn Baby Sign and Early Communication Strategies at TCPL | 10:30 AM, 9/7 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Designed for babies aged four to 18 months and their caregivers.

Movie Night: The Incredibles | 6:30 PM, 9/7 Friday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Art-Full Family Day - Colorful Cloth | 10:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Local artist Sarah Gotowka will show how to create one-of-a-kind cloth prints using natural materials.

All ages are welcome, recommended for ages 3-7. Free for Johnson Museum Members. | $5 Ceridwen’s Cauldron: Myths and Tales from Around the World | 11:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St,

a bird feeder by upcycling discarded glass. Materials to create the feeder will be provided. Bird seed will not be provided.Open to people ages 16 and older. Registration is required.

Candor Farmer’s Market | 3:30 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more

Daily Sunset Cruise | 6:00 PM, | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Daily two-hour cruises aboard the MV Teal, that feature a light narration and a chance to chat informally with our crew. Feel free to bring your own refreshments.† Times vary as the sunset changes so please check our booking calendar for exact dates and times. | $40 regular fare

No-Fear Cover Letters | 9:00 AM, 9/7 Friday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | This workshop will cover the basics of writing a cover letter as well as suggestions for making it stand out and fun to write. Feel free to bring one you have written for a quick critique from peers and staff.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Dinner: Fat Jacks, Ithaca. Host: Nadine L., RSVP: nlem1155@gmail.com

Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM, 9/7 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | At this New Moon Community Fire Ceremony, we will be gifting the Munay-Ki ‘Harmony Rites’ for those who wish to receive.

We place the seeds of 7 archetypes into the chakras, to guide and protect us on this life’s journey, and to connect us to the angelic realm of higher energies. It is up to us to help them grow and flourish. No pets please.

Info: Susan (607) 229- 5161

Ithaca | This five-week program† is designed for children under the age of 12 and their families. It weaves storytelling, music, and audience participation together to inspire children to connect with stories in a deep way.

This interactive program is based fairy tales or myths from Ancient Greek, Celtic, or Native American cultures.

Notices Smith Opera House Tour | 10:00 AM, 9/5 Wednesday | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | These weekly tours in September are the beginning of a year-long celebration of the Smith Opera House’s 125th anniversary.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information.

Families Learning Science Together: Polymers at TCPL | 1:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families will learn what polymers are and discover how they can be used through experimenting with different kinds of polymers.

Doug’s Fish Fry To Go | 11:00 AM, 9/5 Wednesday | Ithaca Veteran Firemens Association, 638 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | To benefit Ithaca Flotilla 22-2. To place an order (by 4PM), call 607-423-5996.

Lecture: The Evolution of the Indigenous Food Systems of North America | 7:30 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall, 7 East Ave., Ithaca |

Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Warren Allmon, Director of Paleontological Research Institution: Fishes and Aquaria of Cayuga Lake | $15

Moms All Striving Together | 9:30 AM, 9/6 Thursday | Candor Congregational Church Parsonage, 134 Main St, Candor | A group for all moms for fellowship and encouragement.

Child Care is provided. Contact Mary Wheeler at wheeler8386@yahoo.com or 659-5067.

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 9/10 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 9/11 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 9/11 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Candor Food Pantry | 3:00 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Candor Food Pantry, 1 Water Street, Candor | Here to help you with food supplies you may need.

All you have to do is bring proof of your residence in Candor. For more information (607)206-1060.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Upcycled Glass Bird Feeder Workshop | 5:30 PM, 9/5 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Learn how to make

Lifelong Presents Community - How Can We Help Series | 2:00 PM, 9/6 Thursday | Tammy Dunn / Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Tompkins County is a very caring and committed community. We are so lucky to have a plethora of agencies and services to call upon when needed, but sometimes itís hard to know where to turn when you need assistance. This series is designed to help you understand who does what.

Beer Garden Chicken BBQ at Ithaca Beer | 12:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | Ithaca Beer Co’s final Chicken BBQ of the season featuring the brewery’s own farm-raised chickens. | $16 Ithaca Ballet Open Auditions for the ‘18-’19 Season | 12:30 PM, 9/8 Saturday | The Ballet Center Studio, 504-506 N. Plain St., Ithaca | Bring pointe shoes.

McLean Community Church Annual Steak Dinner | 4:00 PM, 9/8 Saturday | McLean Community Church, 50 Church St, McLean | Ribeye steak, baked potato, salad, vegetable medley, roll, beverage, and homemade pie! Take outs available. Reservations HIGHLY recommended by calling 607-838-3450.

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SATURDAY, 9/8, 6:45 AM

Ithaca Commons | An event to help kick off the 2018 United Way Campaign. The Carnival is free to attend and will include free games, activities, and special guests including students from the Cornell Raptor Program, Crossroads the Clown, Dapper Dan and more! A dunk booth will be a main feature and will include local celebrities taking the big splash. (photo: provided)

Stewart Pak, 1 James L. Gibbs Drive | Be mindful of all the bikers riding around Cayuga Lake this Saturday for an excellent cause. The funds raised annually through the AIDS Ride for Life are the lifeblood of the Southern Tier AIDS Program. Help, Hope Heal. Support a rider, donate. (photo: provided)

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Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes: Auditions | 9:00 AM, 9/8 Saturday | Auditions for Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings. Apply early and no later than 10:00 AM on Friday, September 7. All Auditions will be held at the First Presbyterian Church: 2943 Westinghouse Rd, Horseheads.

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