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Muslim community grows and plans its own center

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“Because of the difficulty of developing Local Housing Market new product under $150,000, our analysis will only consider households with incomes that will qualify them for homes above that price point. Even at $150,000 there is a significant difficulty in providing product without public assistance in financing, infrastructure, etc.” They also assume that 25 percent of the purchase price will be in cash. he second paragraph of the The study uses the term “capture part of the new housing study factor” to describe elements in a housing commissioned by Tompkins County market that may change and cause the is sure to nettle free-market mavens: market to grow. When the study examined In projecting future demand, the Tompkins County market it found consideration must be given to the fact that it could support the addition of 313 that past performance of a market may new houses per year, or 225 homes if only not be a true indication of future demand. those costing more than $200,000 were In many instances demand can be limited considered. On by supply, as is average only 165 certainly the case in new homes were Tompkins County. constructed in the In establishing the county and these following capture tended to be only factors, a blend of scattered rural markets yields a true lots, rather than representation of in conventional demand (as opposed subdivisions or to using a single, neighborhoods. small market that may In a chapter not have all product that survey types and price points large (>24 unit) available). apartment The study, Ken Danter of Danter Company complexes, the called the Tompkins (Photo: Columbus Apartment Association) Danter Company County Housing surveyed 5,727 Needs Assessment, total market-rate and tax credit units, plus was done by the Danter Company. It was 348 market-rate units under construction, commissioned on Dec. 1, 2015 to follow up on a study done by Danter in 2006, and and an additional 827 governmentis intended to project the housing needs of subsidized units. 90 developments with greater than 24 units were surveyed the county for the next 10 years. On Sept. The vacancy rates in the market-rate 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Borg Warner Room sector varied between 2.5 percent for of the Tompkins County Public Library, there will be a public forum on the project, three-bedroom places to 0.8 percent for studios, with places with four bedrooms hosted by Ken Danter, the company’s or more having only a 0.5 percent vacancy founder. rate. The rate for all sizes of subsidized A draft of the study—in eight parts— apartment was 0 percent. is available at the website of the county Between the end of the recession in planning office (tompkinscountyny.gov/ 2011 and 2015 an average of only 158 planning). new market-rate units were added to the The chapter on “Single-Family market place each year, although the trend Demand Analysis” examines the market for homes that cost more than $150,000: continued on page 4

Comments on South Study: Student Hill Urban Village Housing Should Grow

he City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board convened a special meeting Aug. 30 to discuss responses to comments received earlier this year on the draft generic environmental impact statement (DGEIS) for the proposed Chain Works District Redevelopment Project on South Hill in Ithaca. The Chain Works District “is fulfilling a dream I have had,” said planning board member John Schroeder. The proposed project calls for apartments, office space, incubator and manufacturing areas, as well as gardens and parks to be built on the site of the former Morse Chain/Emerson Power Transmission industrial facility, located on South Aurora Street/Route 96B in Ithaca (on the boundary between the city and the town). There would be new construction as well as environmental remediation and modification of existing structures on site. Schroeder said he “loves the idea of developing the urban village,” but he expressed concerns about whether the new buildings will blend into the neighborhood. This is somewhat perplexing to David Lubin, managing partner of the development firm, Unchained Properties, LLC. He noted that right now there is not a significant transition from the neighborhood to downtown. “To me it looks like you have wood frame houses and then we have the city,” he said. Schroeder wants the new buildings to be painted with “subdued earth tones”—not white. He also noted Route 96 B may need to be narrowed, special lights installed or the road painted a different color to signal the development to passersby. The historic buildings at the Emerson plant site ought to be the heart of the project, Schroeder believes. “We don’t want the new buildings towering over the historic building,” he said. Schroeder also seeks to preserve in perpetuity the green space on a hillside comprised of mature Appalachian oakhickory forest. Lubin says he has no intention of developing the hillside but does not want to lock up the land now. He would like the flexibility to see which options, such as conservation easements, are most continued on page 11

▶ UWTC Grants, United Way of Tompkins County will invest $63,870.00 through two fall grant opportunities thanks to the continual support of its Corporate Cornerstone Partners and the community. $38,870.00 is available through the Hunger & Food Security Fall grant cycle. UWTC Lives United locally to address the existing, complex food and hunger issues. All Tompkins County nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for funding. $25,000 is available through the Youth and Philanthropy Program. The Youth and

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“Inequalities in the justice system.” —Edward Fedorka

“The Holographic Universe! Everyone should know about it.” —Lynn Heins

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has been toward more new units each year, it has not been steady. When only the non-student portion of the market is considered, only 64 new market-rate units were added in the same period. The distribution of units as a function of rent rate for one-bedroom apartments peaks at the $1,000-$1,099 bracket. In the non-student portion of the market, the peak is in the $700-$799 bracket, confirming anecdotal evidence that students generally pay more for housing. County residents may be surprised to learn that there are actually 47 onebedroom apartments out there going for less than $600. The chapter on “Purpose-Built Student Housing” is sobering. These units are defined as “market-rate, privately developed apartment properties rented by the bedroom with individual leases.” They

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ast week the New York State Commission of Correction (SCOC) granted Tompkins County an extension on a variance that permits double bunking in the Tompkins County Jail. The Tompkins County sheriff, jail administrator, and county administrator met with the commission Aug. 30 because originally it had revoked the variance as of Sept. 1. “I think we’re all very pleased,” said Tompkins County administrator Joe Maraene, of the outcome. The variance is extended until the end of the year. “I think it was a fair approach that the commission took,” Mareane added. “It gives us time to start on things that the commission said they wanted to see us do.” Under the variance, Tompkins County is allowed to house 18 more inmates than the 82 the building was designed for. If the variance had been revoked, the county would have been faced with boarding out even more inmates than it already does at an estimated cost of $558,000 per year. The extension was granted under several conditions; Mareane informed the members of the commission that the county legislature had unanimously passed a resolution to allocate $85,000 to two jail studies, and the commission said it expects the county to make progress toward hiring a consultant to perform those studies. The commission also expects to be notified about who the consultant is, the studies’ ongoing status, and their expected completion date. County officials argue that the jail

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Orange prisoner clothing in cubbyholes at the county jail (File photo)

population can be lowered using various alternatives to incarceration (ATI) programs, and the commission requested to see participation data for those programs. Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing noted that the commission did commend Tompkins County for its ATI programs— both those it has already instituted over the years and those that it will put in place in the future. “It is clear that the commission wants to see real progress in either reducing our population or finding ways to accommodate the current population,” said Lansing, who attended the meeting along with Mareane and jail administrator Captain Ray Bunce. Tompkins County recently received final recommendations from its Municipal Task Force, and their suggestions included making changes to the way the courts handle misdemeanors. dominate the student housing markets of the southeastern and southwestern U.S. As Ithaca experienced earlier this year with the Triangle/Trebloc proposal from Dallas’s Campus Advantage, the southern developers have saturated their market and are now expanding into the northeastern and Midwestern markets. In Boone, North Carolina 57 percent of the “net enrollment” (those students now housed on campus) at Appalachian State University is in purpose-built housing. In Lansing, Michigan the numbers rival typical southern rates with 32 percent of students in this housing. The numbers in Ithaca are 8 percent for Cornell students and 6 percent for Ithaca College students. Pushing the market data through a formula that is not provided, the Danter Company states the following:

Based on the size and characteristics of Cornell University, a target of purposebuilt student housing totaling 25 percent of the net enrollment is a reasonable

“We’re going to look together at the local court system,” said Mareane, “and their recommendations will really make a difference if taken to heart within the criminal justice program, especially the recommendation that with misdemeanor charges the courts look first to release the individual on his or her own recognizance, and when that doesn’t seem appropriate, set the bail at level within the OAR [Opportunities, Alternatives, and Resources] bail assistance threshold.” The OAR program provides funds to help defendants make bail if it is under $2,000. Mareane said that by the end of the year the county would return to the SCOC to “give them a progress report that demonstrates that we’ve done what we said we would do.” – Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org expectation. This would total 3,618 beds. There currently exist 1,173 beds with an additional 136 beds under construction. This brings the total to 1,309, or 9.0 percent of the net enrollment, a shortfall of 2,309 beds.

Similar calculations are done for both Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community Colleges, which can reasonably expect to add 411 and 474 additional beds, respectively. This is a total of 3,194 new beds for the county. Similar objective analyses based on assumptions formulated in “similar markets” populate the remaining chapters, which include presentations on condominiums, senior housing, small apartment complexes, special needs providers, and the results of an online survey about housing needs. – Bill Chaisson editor@ithacatimes.com

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his month Peggy Coleman returned to Ithaca to take charge of the county’s Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB). Between 1991 and 1995 she had worked for the CVB, which is an arm of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, as a conference sales representative, filling our local function spaces with professional and business meetings. She left to take a position at a hotel in Corning, moved on to the Steuben County CVB and then returned to the lodging sector of the hospitality business for several years. Ithaca Times: Why did you get into the hospitality business in the first place? Peggy Coleman: I was one of six children and I was brought up to know the value of travel, that it should be educational and fun. Because we had a big family, we traveled by camping and saw a lot of this country that way. It made me interested in travel, in people and places; it’s fascinating who you encounter. It’s also recession-proof; no matter what the economy, people travel for some reason. When it’s bad they still travel. I started before the internet. There were travel agencies and people decided where to go by buying “triptychs.” IT: How did you get started in the business? PC: I went to Niagara University for travel and tourism and hotel administration, and did an internship at Disney World. That Disney training never leaves you; whenever I see litter anywhere, I always stop and pick it up. After college I went back the Utica/Rome area, where I’m from. I didn’t know anything about CVBs and I just started going to hotels and dropping off my resumé. Then Paul Ziegler called me and said, ‘I’ve had your resumé forwarded to me by three of my hotels.’ Anyway, that led to me working at the Oneida County CVB. I stayed there for five years. IT: You were in hotels. Why did you come back to working in a CVB? PC: I was working for a hotel group in the Horseheads area, where I learned that I loved the hotel, but I belonged on the “destination side” of things. In hotels, your primary goal is just heads in beds. On the destination side you want to get as many people as you can to become ambassadors for you. You want them to go home and brag about your region and its attractions. It’s a more holistic view of economic development too: you want to encourage more visitor spending, so the residents have to pay less in taxes. IT: You haven’t been on the job long, but do you have some new ideas for our

will be a 12-month process to update it. I CVB? Love NY is focusing on China and we have PC: I could see immediately that this is different from the Steuben County CVB; a natural link because of the university. We you have three visitors centers in Tompkins will be hosting some travel planners from China next week. County: the one here at East Shore Drive, We will also be tapping more into New the new one on Taughannock Falls York City; again, we have a natural affinity. overlook, and then downtown Traditional media is expensive in New on the Commons. We York, so we will be tapping into niche need to focus on how audiences and looking at the seasonal to get more people into markets—holidays are the “fifth season.” the visitor centers and Our greatest opportunities are in the off get them to pick up season and Sunday through Thursday. mementos and gifts. Weekends take care of themselves. An We also have to extra room night in January means more remember that there than one in the middle of summer. are not just people who I also want to put together an drive there. We have organized road map international to follow. People say visitation; the it’s a little morbid, academic but I like to have a community “bus plan.” If I get attracts it. hit by a bus, then We have to anyone should be remember able to do what I that we are do. We all need to the most know where we’re time-poor going. And we need nation in to be able to measure the world; our successes; are our we have efforts producing results? hardly any We’re going to be vacation. making a big push in the Germans, for digital media, which is social example have media, all platforms, the four weeks of website, paid Google ads paid vacation; … Take a look at “Ithaca Is what do we People” [at visitithaca.com]. have to offer Local residents are posting international there on our behalf and we visitors? What link everything. Within the first are their three weeks, we doubled our expectations? views. We are going IT: Are you going to to liaison with continue market primarily using the airport; I’ve the Ithaca name, as opposed to been talking Tompkins County? to [airport PC: You have to look at it manager] Mike from the visitors’ point of view. Hall. When Does anybody want to visit Orange I look at the County, Florida? That’s where services there, I Orlando is, but nobody knows see opportunities that. What is the known entity? As that have been phenomenal as Trumansburg might overlooked. be, it has no name recognition. But Regional airports when you’re building itineraries for are valuable assets. people, you include everyone in the People talk about county, and all boats rise. the cost [of flying IT: What do you like about the out of Ithaca] but Finger Lakes as a destination? when you drive PC: Even in the dead of somewhere else winter it’s beautiful here, the sun the parking, the sparkling off the ice out on the lake mileage, the value when it freezes over. There are of your time, it always things to do: the State adds up. Theatre, the Johnson Museum, We are going the Paleontological Research to be looking at Institution. I can’t understand it both the domestic when people say to me, “There’s and international nothing to do.” markets. Our visitor profile CVB director Peggy Coleman (Photo: Casey Martin) – Bill Chaisson was done a editor@ithacatimes.com while ago. It T

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Ups&Downs ▶ Big Year at the Fair, The Silo Food Truck of Ovid won the Judges’ Choice Award at the Great New York State Fair this past weekend. The truck was part of the second annual Taste NY Food Truck Competition on Sunday. Seventeen food trucks from throughout the state completed in the day-long event. Each competitor was allowed to make just one food item. The Silo Truck prepared their Telekinetic Chicken, breaded chicken on purple coconut sticky rice. If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Community Read,The New Jim Crow Community Book Read has been organized to discuss the effects of mass incarceration. Events and discussion groups will be held over the next eight months. The series will kick-off at Greenstar’s Space on Sept. 19 at 5:30. Free copies of Michelle Alexander’s book are available at the Multicultural Resource Center. Email bookread@ multiculturalresourcecenter.org with question. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Aug. 31-Sept. 6 include: 1) Such Promise: An ambitious life ends in a 2 a.m. stabbing. 2) Ithaca College Student Stabbed to Death After Fight on Cornell Campus 3) Bobcats Win One for Adam Heck 4) Ithaca Man Arrested for Driving While Impaired by Heroin 5) Pine Tree Road Bridge Still Unpopular For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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More Debate About the Sheriff Fall, For This I S

n its Aug. 24 issue, the Ithaca Times reported that there would be “No Referendum This Fall on Sheriff ’s Post.” That report would appear to signal the death of the appointed sheriff initiative put forward by the Charter Review and Government Operations Committees of the Tompkins County Legislature, at least for the current election cycle. Nevertheless, public debate on the initiative should continue, because it raises important issues relating to governance and accountability. I offer this contribution to the debate for a couple of reasons: first, because I seem to have been the only member of the public who spoke in favor of the initiative; and second, because the quoted portions of my remarks do not fully and fairly represent my reasoning. In recent weeks, I heard and read many comments to the effect that the appointed sheriff initiative would abridge Tompkins County voters’ “cherished constitutional right” to elect their sheriff. I cannot speak to the degree to which county residents value their voting rights, although historically low levels of voter registration and voter turnout suggest that those rights are cherished more in principle than in action. Be that as it may, there is no “constitutional right” to elect a sheriff in New York State. Neither our federal nor our state constitution creates such a right. The “right” to vote for Tompkins County’s sheriff arises under the

county’s charter, a road map for county governance that was put in place by a referendum of county voters. Contrary to the widely publicized assertions of Peter Kehoe, executive director of the New York State Sheriffs’ Association, the appointed sheriff initiative is not a farcical “power grab” by “establishment politicians” on the county legislature. The initiative would not change our sheriff ’s position from an elected to an appointed one. What it would do is give Tompkins County voters the opportunity to vote on whether they want their sheriff to be elected or appointed. Why might it be better to have an appointed, rather than an elected, sheriff? A sheriff appointed by, and reporting directly to, the county legislature would be more accountable to the people of Tompkins County than our elected sheriff is now. Our elected sheriff is accountable directly to county voters, and only to county voters. If we voters are not happy with the way the sheriff is doing his job, we can vote him out—in four years. Four years can be a very, very long time, especially if our sheriff is performing badly. During those four years, the sheriff, unlike the legislature, is under no legal obligation to respond to citizens or to hold public meetings. Nor is he accountable to the county legislature, a fact apparently not

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By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

eptember is here, and school resumes: a big deal in Ithaca, where education is our largest industry. Many thousands of temporary residents move in, and upon their arrival, many permanent ones go back to sustaining work. Summer vacation is over, but in Ithaca, celebration time is not. Ithacans seem always to be contriving some kind of forum for enjoying life together. The effort gets mellower, appropriately, in September, but still stays sharp and vital. In the heat of summer (so to speak), the events are big and bold. Ithaca Festival, in June, and GrassRoots Festival, in July, each span four days and bring thousands of people to centralized sites (downtown Ithaca; the Trumansburg Fairgrounds) for professional performances and other artistic activities and civic promotions. As summer winds down, the celebrations scale down in duration, size, and scope, centering not on grand stages, but—quite literally—on neighborhood porches and streets. September’s first is called Porchfest; its second, Streets Alive! Porchfest was started in 2007 by two Fall Creek neighbors who noted the many musicians around, and decided it would be fun to display the abundance. They organized an afternoon of performances throughout the neighborhood. There were maybe a dozen, simply set on players’ porches. It was fun, and the response was great, from both watchers and players. The event has steadily grown. This year’s, on Sunday, Sept. 18, plans over 100 performances. It has spread from Fall Creek into the adjoining Northside neighborhood. The City of Ithaca aids the event by closing neighborhood streets to car traffic—a feature which forms the focus of Streets Alive!, a week later. “Closed to cars, open to people” is the slogan of Streets Alive!, which began in 2012. It happens twice yearly: each May in Fall Creek, and each September in Southside. From 1 to 5 p.m. on the Sept. 25, South

Plain Street will be closed to cars from West Green Street to Elmira Road. Residents move their cars from the street, traffic is redirected, and half the street’s width is marked for strolling, biking, and skating. The other half is reserved for games, visiting, and the occasional artistic performance. There is free ice cream from our local purveyor, Purity. The event recalls a time when children were encouraged and indeed allowed to play outside. Streets Alive! estimates that through the years it has dispensed over 10,000 pieces of chalk for hopscotch and drawing. The common ground of these events is the chance to enjoy the city in a special, safe way, and to learn about its neighborhoods and people. At Porchfest, you will see a surplus of gifted musicians, and some even not so gifted, who are not afraid to blow their own horns, knowing that otherwise there is no music, literally and figuratively. Ithaca is an exceptional place for people providing their own entertainment, for its own sake, and to build community. Most of the U.S. will be ensconced in televised football this same Sunday, while in Ithaca we’ll listen to each other sing and strum, see friends serendipitously on the street, mention the great singer we heard down the block, and perhaps speak of our own personal progress on ukulele. At Streets Alive! In Southside, you can experience first-hand (or first-foot) a beautiful, vital neighborhood with a lot of cohesion and pride in its African-American history and centrality. You can discover (and access) a ramp leading down from S. Plain for some splashing or nature-watching in Six Mile Creek. You can find out where Baker Park is. This last nugget of knowledge alone will give you considerable street cred as a natural Ithaca townie, or at least a developing one. Later for the N.F.L. See you, fellow Ithacan, on the streets, these late September Sundays. •

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Replacing Mike Nozzolio

I encourage all registered Republicans in the 54th Senate District to vote in the primary on Sept. 13. Registered Republicans should consider voting for Lyons Town Supervisor Brian Manktelow for state Senator. Lyons is the county seat for Wayne County. Brian has been the supervisor in Lyons since 2010. He is also serves as the vice-chair of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors and chairs the Human Services Committee. Brian is a veteran and successful 6

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farmer. Supervisor Manktelow knows well how decision-making at the state level affects businesses, as well as its impact on town and county government operations. His experience serving our country in the U.S. Army adds a uniquely valuable dimension to his background as a farmer and as an elected public servant at two levels of government. I recommend voters in the 54th Senate District vote for Brian Manktelow for Senate. – Jim Hoffman, Williamson

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The Culture of Love By M a rjor i e O l d s

learners and thinkers. We are working ack to school at Ithaca schools has hard, and with love our staff and students changed. A few days before school have grown more outstanding. And we starts the superintendent’s building continue to improve. Working within a is filled with parents and their kids; many culture of love we are challenged to be seem anxious and impatient. A mother who has just come from her night-shift job trustworthy and do what we say we will do.” approaches the first open window inside the entrance. She greets the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) staffer inside and asks him how his week before school is going. He and the mother laugh. After some chat the young girl’s registration issue is fixed, and the mother goes on to discuss registration of her nephew who has just arrived and will be living with her. Next up is a mother with a younger student. The man inside the first office makes a call after he listens to the mother. He directs her to another building at the other end of the campus. He gives the family simple directions; and ends by saying that the person who is waiting to help them will be outside the door to let them inside, in case the door to the building is locked. A staff member Superintendent of Ithaca schools Luvelle Brown (Photo provided) makes an announcement throughout the campus building: “Good “In six years we have gone from 78 morning school community members. percent of our students graduating to 94 We are all meeting in five minutes in the percent in 2016. Our disciplinary referrals cafeteria.” The voice is upbeat, relaxed and are down 65 percent. We are working to welcoming. Six years ago Luvelle Brown informed create a personalized experience for each student so that they can achieve.” the community that his goal was to build “Our work has been recognized across a high performing school community New York State and the nation in the past where every single student would be the few years. The White House acknowledges best he or she could be. He said his goal our success. Throughout the year we host was to eliminate performance gaps and visitors from around the country—from to increase graduation rates. Brown said 37 different states and from three different ICSD could be one of the best districts in continents. We are recognized as a model the nation. for other school districts.” When asked how he would achieve “Our board of education is on fire to these goals, he said he would help staff, do even more,” said Brown. “They push students, and families create a “culture me each day to do more for families and of love.” He said this would guide staff increase achievement for all students. I development, student performance and embrace this challenge, although I am also lead to a more inclusive staff and culture for all members. He quoted Martin Luther faced with making the difficult decisions to reach our goals. We’ve needed to King, Jr.: “The only thing that drives out reallocate resources, add and eliminate hate is love.” programs, make difficult personnel “A culture of love is created with decisions. dedication to an open, transparent and Brown’s children are very young. accountable environment. It takes a lot They have grown up in Ithaca since birth. of hard work, day after day. We are all Well-known participants at sports events learners. We are a community of 6,000

and concerts, their father drops them off at school each morning before cruising into the superintendent’s office, greeting everyone he passes (kids, parents, staff) along the way. “Yes, I do work hard. I tell staff, ‘It’s hard because it’s hard.’ But I go home with two amazing kids who kiss me goodbye in the morning and hug and kiss me when I pick them up.” “If I am a great superintendent, it is because I am a great dad first.,” Brown said. “My life as a parent informs my life as superintendent. The board of education and this community support my life as a parent. I love this community, and I came here and stay here because of this community. I lead with love and see my work during the day through my lens as a father. I love all parts of my day, and it is this love that keeps me engaged.” “I was raised by educators and community builders. My parents are my models,” the superintendent said. “Despite all the juggling I do throughout the day I don’t get angry; I don’t get temperamental. When I deal with agitated people, I hope that my calm reaction will influence them.” So having introduced the ICSD to his plan for transformation, and having seen the results he and his staff, students, and family have to show for this bold change in culture, what remains on his agenda? “My goal now is to deeply embed thinking and structures that will make our shifts and successes sustainable. The culture of love, the satisfaction we feel when our students graduate prepared for college and careers, must go on. The positive momentum must continue regardless of who is on the board of education, no matter who is the superintendent.” “I arrived here six years ago in January,” Brown said. “I wanted to have an impact on people’s lives and the board of education was searching for a transformer. It was a good match. With the board, the staff, the students and community’s support, we’ve achieved unprecedented levels of success. But I’m not satisfied. I’m not stopping. My goal for the next six years is to make sure that the culture of love is firmly embedded throughout the organization and community. That reality is larger than me, larger than any one part of the system.” • Guestopinion contin u ed from page 6

known to the many county residents who complained to the legislature about the outcome of the sheriff ’s office’s attempt to serve a warrant on David Cady in January 2015. County residents who wish to vote the sheriff out of office because of that event will have to wait until November T

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2017—almost two full years—in order to do so. (Please note that I am not criticizing or attacking Sheriff Lansing here; I am merely using this unfortunately well-publicized incident as an example. Moreover, it is my understanding that Sheriff Lansing will not be running for reelection in 2017.) A sheriff appointed by and reporting directly to the full legislature would be immediately accountable for an incident like the Cady standoff. As a “direct report,” the sheriff would attend legislative meetings, which would give the public a bi-monthly opportunity to communicate its concerns to him, as well as to the legislators. The sheriff and the legislators would develop an ongoing dialogue in which reasonable public concerns could be resolved promptly and transparently. Moreover, the sheriff would have input into the legislators’ consideration of issues that might have an impact on his law enforcement duties. (I attend quite a few meetings of the Tompkins County Legislature, and it has been my experience that the “direct reports” (the county administrator, the county attorney, the county finance director) inform the legislature at least as much as they take direction from it.) Because the sheriff ’s law enforcement duties have a unique and potentially powerful impact on our community, I believe that the sheriff should be appointed by the legislature, and not by the county administrator. Collectively, the legislature is elected by a majority of the county’s voters. Collectively, the legislature’s selection and appointment of a sheriff would represent the will of the voters that elected them. Collectively, the legislature would implement the will of those voters in holding an appointed sheriff accountable for his actions, if that were necessary. Many of you who read this may disagree with me, and that is your right. But let’s have an ongoing public debate about this issue that focuses on accountability, as well as on our “right to vote.” – Deborah Dawson, Village of Lansing Dawson spoke in favor of an appointed sheriff at the county legislature privilege of the floor session last month.

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Klein Excused

The article “Pine Tree Road Bridge Still Unpopular,” in the Sept. 1 issue, contained an error. The article should have stated “The resolution passed 11 to two with Legislator Daniel Klein (D-Danby) excused from the vote because he was absent from the meeting.”

Inexcusable Reuben Error

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By G ly n is H a rt a n d R ich H e ffron

he community is like a wave. It rises and drops, but in general it is growing slowly,” said Ahmed Ahmed, sitting at the Cornell Dairy Bar. Ahmed, a senior researcher in veterinary sciences, first came to Ithaca from Alexandria, Egypt in 1986 as a visiting professor. He returned for good in 1992, raising his two sons here. With other members of the small Muslim community of that time, he established the al-Huda Islamic Center, a charitable trust, to address the most basic needs of the faith community here. Ahmed’s story, however, is unusual. Most of the Muslims in Ithaca, who typically are connected to Cornell, move on once their time at the university ends—some in search of jobs, others in search of a more permanent faith community to raise their children in. Jarra Jagne, a senior extension associate at the veterinary school and a faculty advisor to the Muslim students’ group on campus, the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association (MECA), said that 10 years ago almost all of the Muslims in Ithaca were students, but that is changing. There are families coming from conflict areas settling here, AfricanAmerican Muslims, converts to Islam who live in the Ithaca area, and medical professionals added to the mix. Jagne works with the Diwan Foundation, a 8

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nonprofit founded by Muslim alumni of Cornell, which is raising funds to hire a chaplain to coordinate Muslim life on campus. This responsibility is currently “on the shoulders of the students in MECA,” which she would like to see change in the near future. “The pattern is that a Cornell parent starts a Sunday school, then leaves after a few years,” said Mohamed Ismail, of the Islamic Community Outreach Services (ICOS) on East Seneca Street. “We want some sort of continuity not dependent on a person.” Muslims, he said, end up traveling to neighboring cities for religious instruction and to connect with other Muslims. “We’re trying to fix this issue where Muslims aren’t moving to the area because they want a community,” said Ismail, a graduate student in the Cornell electrical and computer engineering school. “It’s a chicken/egg thing; part of this is providing a place for the community to gather in order for there to be a community.” In a sense, there already is a Muslim community in Ithaca. It’s common to see 300 or more people at Friday prayers on campus, and the major feasts of Eid alFitr (marking the end of Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha can draw 600. But Muslims here feel the lack of an institutional home, a place to center themselves around and establish continuity so that the community e p t e m b e r

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A small but dedicated local Muslim community is growing

M o s s a a d A b d e l - G h a n y, a f o u n d e r o f A l - H u d a I s l a m i c C e n t e r ( P h o t o : C a s e y M a r t i n) can grow families rather than just adding to the number of visitors. The center they are seeking is a mosque. For now, as for many years, prayers are held in Annabel Taylor Hall, but since the 1990s members of the Muslim community have been working toward building a mosque. After Sept. 11 2001, their dreams were set aside for more than a decade, but in recent years the push for a mosque has seen renewed energy. In 2017, that dream may become reality: al-Huda purchased a plot of land on Graham Road last year and has been working with the Village of Lansing to create a building that serves their needs and follows code. Although the expense of the proposed building sent them back to the drawing board, if the newer, simpler design gets the approval from the planning board, they hope to have the mosque finished within the year. “At this point, the timing is more important than the style,” said Ismail. “So, we’re trying another approach.” Mossaad Abdel-Ghany, another longterm member of the Ithaca community— now a retired veterinary school senior research associate, he first arrived here from Egypt in 1981 as a post-doc in molecular biology—and co-founder of

al-Huda, said he’d like the next generation of Muslims to feel less alone. “My children had no Muslim friends,” he said. “They were the only ones wearing hijab.” Nowadays, between 25 and 30 children attend Sunday school at the Islamic Outreach Center on Seneca Street. “We’re estimating we have forty or fifty families on a regular basis,” said musician Mahmud Burton of the ICOS. “That seems very small, but with the Cornell community (added) it’s a good place to start.” And, if Ithaca Welcomes Refugees (IWF) gets the okay to bring refugee families here, it will be more needed than ever. “If that goes through, we could have as many as 50 refugees, as early as October,” said Burton. (see sidebar)

Challenging Stereotypes

Several people spoken to for this article referred to negative stereotyping of Muslims in the national media. “People listen to how the media is portraying Islam,” said Abdel Ghany. To combat the stereotypes, ICOS has been holding outreach events in the form of Saturday open houses where anyone can come in to ask questions and talk to the

folks at the center about Islam. These events have been positive, said Burton. “People have come to our outreach events and said, ‘I recognize that I may have a bias and I want to get over it.’” In April the center held a Taste of Muslim Culture night at GIAC, with 11 different tables of food representing different cultures from all over the Muslim world. “We had a very, very good turnout at that event,” said Burton. “There have been fairly few minor [negative] incidents members of our community have had to J a r r a J ag n e o f M E C A face,” said Ismail. “We ( P h o t o : C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y) got our first death threat ... but, also, one time we one person doing the wedding, and two came to open up the center and there was witnesses, so it’s not that complicated in a bag of apples hung on the doorknob, the logistical sense,” said Ismail. However, with a note saying ‘We’re glad you’re here.’” if you want a religious wedding with a civil “There are some Muslims who have certificate, there’s nobody local who can do just arrived, who think all of America is that. “Some of the imams in cities close by like this, but most realize what a unique are able to provide the legal certificate.” community is here,” said Burton, in Another challenge for Muslims reference to how welcoming Ithaca has in Ithaca is finding halal meat. Halal been of the Muslim community. essentially means “permissible” The outreach center has been working and requires that the meat has been with other faith communities in the area, slaughtered in a humane and sanitary most notably the IWF group, but with manner according to injunctions set other charitable works as well. “The fact down in the Quran and the traditions of that everyone is free to practice their the Prophet Muhammad (sunna). The religion here is wonderful,” said Burton, outreach center on Seneca Street buys “but that doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s support for spiritual values and practices. I think in all religious communities right now there’s a concern with people drifting away from traditional values. Parents are looking for a counter-balance to the dominant culture.”

Everyday Matters

Fortunately, Islamic funerals and weddings are simple affairs. When a Muslim woman from the local community died, they honored her with an Islamic funeral. This entailed prayer at Bangs Funeral Home, Burton said, before returning her body to the earth at Greenspring Natural Cemetery in Newfield. He added that “… in Islam, a casket isn’t necessary. It’s similar to [orthodox] Judaism.” Not all cemeteries, though, are as accommodating of the Islamic burial ritual, which consists of a coffin-less burial promptly after death with the body shrouded and the right side facing toward Mecca. In order to facilitate the process in the future, both AbdelGhany and Ahmed noted that Muslim community’s second priority after building the mosque is to buy burial land in the area. “Weddings are very simple. You need

With a major holiday coming up, Eid al-Adha, procuring animals for the feast on Sept. 13 was a major topic among the men gathered at ICOS on a recent Sunday. Known as the Feast of the Sacrifice, the holiday honors the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his only son to God. In the past, they’ve bought animals from a farm in Watkins Glen. This year, however, the men were concerned that the farm’s animals are less than one year old, which is permissible, but not preferred, according to Islamic ritual law. The issue of a lack of religious leadership came up again and again. The Diwan Foundation, for instance, is raising funds to provide a chaplain for Muslim students. Chaplains at Cornell, all of whom are funded by their respective faith communities, meet once a week, but according to Jagne, the Muslim community has never had a full-time representative. Her hopes are that they’ll have someone by the next semester. “We’ve been getting quite a lot of good advice from other chaplains at Yale, Syracuse, and Princeton,” said Jagne. Typically, because the community cannot afford an imam (a trained religious leader), a handful of the Muslim men lead the Friday prayers and give the khutba (sermon), but problems arise when members of the community raise religious questions the men don’t have the authority or knowledge to answer. AbdelGhany said that, rather than putting funds toward a Muslim chaplain at Cornell, he would like to see the money go toward hiring an imam, at the mosque, for the whole community—preferably one with a classical religious education who is an expert in Islamic law and fluent in Arabic. Such a leader would bring the children in the community closer to the faith, he noted, as many members of the community do not know Arabic, the language the Quran is written in, and have limited religious knowledge. By the next P r o p o s e d M o s q u e i n L a n s i n g ( P r ov i d e d) generation, AbdelGhany estimated the community could be as large at 1,000 and stores halal meat with the help of members, and having a full-time imam community members who drive to local, to guide that community is essential. or not-so-local, farms and shops to get An Arabic-speaking imam, he said, can it, but Ismail emphasizes that they do introduce the children to “the sweet of the not make a profit on the meat. There are Quran.” Further, once the mosque is built, just a few places to find halal meat; for people who want to better understand instance, Sam’s Club carries lamb from Islam will have a place to go. While the New Zealand that is halal, and Wegmans outreach center on East Seneca Street is has a kosher meat vendor that also works currently trying to serve that purpose, (kosher and halal follow similar rules, their lease is short term- and once the although each tradition requires someone mosque is built, all these disparate parts of with the necessary religious training to the Muslim community will have a place certify that slaughter has been conducted to call their own. • properly). T

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Catholic Charities Expects 50 Refugees

atholic Charities of Ithaca, working in concert with the Catholic Family Center of Rochester, has arranged to welcome 50 refugees—approximately 10 to 12 families—to Ithaca after Oct. 1, the start of the federal fiscal year. The new residents may be from Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bhutan, Cuba, Burma, the Ukraine, Iraq, and Afghanistan. “The [Rochester center] has a refugee resettlement program,” said Sue Chaffee, program director of immigrant services at Catholic Charities. “We are a suboffice. Working with the U.S. Conference of Bishops we submitted our proposal to the Department of State.” Although they have been providing immigrant services since 2009, Catholic Charities has never been part of bringing them to Ithaca before. The “reception emplacement program” includes setting up housing and furnishings, explaining transportation and social services, helping with employment, and getting children enrolled in education with English as a second language. “We orient them to their new home,” said Chaffee, “giving them cultural orientation—for that we are partnering with Ithaca Welcomes Refugees—and setting them up with medical providers.” Questions to Ithaca Welcomes Refugees were answered formally by the entire committee: Ithaca Times: Ithaca has hosted refugees in the past. For example, the Burmese. How are preparations for Syrian refugees different and how are similar to work done for previous refugee groups? Ithaca Welcomes Refugees: The federal regulations that accompany resettling refugees are the same regardless of country of origin. That being said, country of origin is taken into account when preparing the culturally appropriate “Welcome Dinner,” which is a hot, prepared meal that awaits a family the day they arrive in their new city. Federal requirements are the same regardless of origin. Local preparations vary based on ethnicity/country of origin for things like interpretation support, culturally appropriate meal, culturally appropriate clothing, some

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from Syria.  IWR has been building background, context, and compassion for Syrian refugees in particular through our website and social media channels. We also direct people to Ithaca’s Islamic Community Outreach Services (ICOS), which operates downtown, serving both Muslim and non-Muslim people who wish to learn more about Islam. As we learn about refugees coming from other countries of origin, we will do our best to take similar steps and go that “extra mile” to be as culturally aware and welcoming. IT: I have read that most of the refugees coming to the U.S. over the last eight months are coming from camps in Jordan and that they are mostly women and children. Is that the group that we can expect here in Ithaca? IWR: The Department of State approves a community for resettlement

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extra household goods, et cetera.  IWR and the greater Ithaca community has taken the needs of Syrian refugees into consideration by making connections and developing resources within our Arabic speaking community to help with translation needs and bridging initial cultural divides.   In addition, IWR members and Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga (CCTT) have signed up for trainings from the Catholic Charities of Rochester, which has been actively resettling refugees for some time. These trainings can be applied to resettling refugees from all countries of origin, but will also include some cultural points specific to refugees coming

based on availability of local speakers of a particular language, available housing and employment, local infrastructures, and what populations have been resettled in the past. We could speculate as to who might be assigned to our area in the event that the application is approved, but we can’t say with certainty. Local resettlement offices receive women and men; single refugees and refugees who arrive as a family; and people of all ages from children to the elderly. Statistically, most refugees are women and children. With regards to Syrian refugees in particular, the State Department reports: Single men unattached to families comprise less than 2 percent of all Syrian refugee admissions to date. Last fiscal year, 1,682 Syrian refugees were admitted. Roughly 77 percent of them were women and children. Only 23 percent were adult

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men. (www.state.gov; data current as of Nov. 18, 2015) Ithaca will probably receive a refugee population that reflects the national averages. IT: What sort of housing is being prepared? IWR: IWR’s housing subcommittee has been working with CCTT to build up a list of housing options for newly arrived refugees. Federal regulations set the parameters for dwellings. Some examples include the size of the apartment for the number of occupants, safety conditions, and affordability. Proximity to public transportation will also be taken into consideration. IWR volunteers have been reaching out to landlords to see who has affordable Sue Chaffee living spaces (Photo: Diane that fit the D u t h i e) anticipated needs of incoming refugees.   IT: Where does the funding (local and non-local) come from to support programs for refugees? IWR: Funding for the first 90 days of refugee resettlement comes from the Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). Upon arrival, Tompkins County Department of Social Services will provide additional support. Some local funding will be available from Ithaca’s Community Foundation, the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County, and the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency. IWR has raised approximately $14,000 this year through fundraisers and donations. We have also collected a large supply of physical goods that will help allow for funding to focus more on services and intangible needs. IWR & CCTT will both be coordinating grant applications for upcoming specific programs. The grants we apply for will be at the local and national level. Once they arrive, refugees will have access to programs in the Ithaca community available to all immigrants, such as ESL programs in the Ithaca School District or through Tompkins Learning Partners, and BOCES. There has also been a lot of collaboration between local businesses in the area to help out as well. For example, Ithaca’s Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming, Interlaken’s Lively Run Dairy Farm and Creamery, Burdett’s Plowbreak Farm, Ithaca’s Crooked Carrot Farm & Kitchen, and Trumansburg’s Wide Awake Bakery have all come together to provide employment and career opportunities for a local refugee family. •

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advantageous in the future. Chair Garrick Blalock shared Lubin’s sentiments. Blalock is comfortable with letting the next board decide the fate of the hillside. “We’re not preserving the Grand Canyon or Muir Wood,” he said. Board member Mackenzie JonesRounds expressed interest in Chain Works being “a benchmark project for a minimum amount of affordable housing.” Lubin is willing to explore this idea but he noted “affordable housing means different things to different people.” Right now, the plans call for renting the buildings—not selling them. Board member Jack Elliott’s comments largely centered on energy usage; he stressed the importance of reducing the energy footprint of the project. He pointed out that all of Burlington, Vermont’s energy comes from renewable sources. He said it “would be awesome to set those kind of goals or at least have a plan to do this.” Right now, the developer is awaiting approval from the state to approve the remediation plans for the contamination on the property from the former Morse/ Emerson transmission site. The developer wants to focus on the existing properties on the site before beginning new construction, but if the state’s approval is delayed, construction will likely begin on

the new buildings first. The City of Ithaca is the lead agency responsible for preparing the final generic environmental impact statement. The Town of Ithaca also has a role in preparing the document, as some of the lands within the project area fall within its jurisdiction. Unchained Properties, LLC, is tasked with preparing initial responses to comments received on the DGEIS. Last week’s meeting focused on the tone and content of responses to 62 specific concerns and was the first of several special meetings likely to be held over the next couple months to address the hundreds of comments received. Lubin explained that the entire project needs final approval from the Former Morse Chain/Emerson Power Transmission buildings on South Hill are the proposed site for the Chain Works District. city and town before (Photo: chainworksdistrict.com) construction begins. This remediation concerns, said Adam Walters, Ithaca planning and development board is separate from decisions consulting attorney for the City of Ithaca. meeting is planned for Monday, Sept. 19 at related to the DGEIS. Before the document is finalized, 6 p.m. in Common Council Chambers. About one third of the comments received respond to generic issues, another Schroeder requested there be a joint meeting with the planning boards for both – Lori Sonken third focus on transportation issues, the City and the Town of Ithaca. The next and the remaining comments highlight

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and Mike Welch, who played for him, coached with him, and, in 1994, succeeded him at the helm of the football program. Butterfield said, at least a hundred times, “Nice day for a ballgame, eh Mike?” Welch replied each and every time, “It sure is, coach. It sure is.” As I listened, I realized that Welch and a thousand other guys would dive on a live grenade for Butterfield, and that indulging him in a little conversation was not a burden, but an honor.

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On His Own Terms

This is Mike Welch’s final season at Ithaca College By Ste ve L aw re nc e

or the 19th consecutive season, the Ithaca College football opened their season with a win, and that is a streak that head coach Mike Welch will be happy to take with him into retirement. Welch’s farewell season is underway, and the Bombers’ want nothing more than to make it one they will all remember. The life of a college football coach can be anything but predictable, and for Welch to be able to leave the profession on his own terms is a real gift. It is an outcome for which he has worked very hard for many years, but many hard-working coaches do not ride off into the proverbial sunset with a hug and a gold watch, nor do they get to go on a “farewell tour” around their conference. Some are shown the door abruptly, and seven or eight families are looking for new jobs in new cities. Longtime readers know I am a big fan of Mike Welch, and not just because he has won nearly 70 percent of his games since taking over as head coach in 1994. My respect for Mike has a lot to do with how much he helped his predecessor—the

legendary Jim Butterfield—through some very challenging times. Welch’s connection with Ithaca College goes back many years, as his high school football coach (at Dansville) was Tom Vogt, an IC Athletic Hall of Fame member from the class of ’64. Welch went on to enroll at Ithaca, and suited up for Butterfield. He was a tough running back that fought through a series of injuries and by the time he was a senior, he was the starting fullback and team captain. After graduating, Mike started his coaching career at Rush-Henrietta High School south of Rochester, and moved over to become an assistant at Albany, where he earned his master’s degree. He would go on to become the offensive coordinator at Washington University in St. Louis before returning to South Hill as a linebackers’ coach in 1984. Welch was clearly a big fan of his former coach, and he was there for Butterfield when the older man needed him. This is an excerpt from a story I wrote for the Ithaca Times soon after

Watching that interaction is not my only reason for holding Mike Welch in high regard, but it was a glimpse into a cherished relationship between two fine men. I will be catching up with Mike Welch a few times during Mike Welch (left) with Jim Butterfield (Provided) the season, and we will look back over his career. • • • Butterfield’s passing. It was entitled, “So I was pleased to see that Bomber Long Coach”: quarterback Wolfgang Shafer had a solid As the coach’s Alzheimer’s game in the opener. He knows well of what progressed, I could see its impact on his I speak regarding college coaches and their wife. I saw her a few times each year and often less-than-certain tenured. His dad, asked, instinctively, “How’s Jim?” Lois, Scott, was the head coach at Syracuse for dignified in her honesty, never tried to the past three seasons, but he and his staff sugarcoat anything. The man she loved, were told in November that the Orange with whom she had three children and would be moving in a different direction. several grandchildren, and with whom It is my hope that Wolfgang’s senior season she had planned a long and joyous goes well, and that the Shafer family lands retirement, was slipping away, and it hurt in a good place. Scott is still a young guy like hell. Two years ago, at a Bombers baseball with a whole lot to offer, and I wish him well. game, I sat in front of Jim Butterfield

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Preventing Soccer Injuries

Female Athletes sustain 30,000 ACL injuries per year By Er ic a D i schino

oncussions and tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which is located in the middle of the knee, are some of the most common soccer injuries. With soccer season in full swing, on Aug. 10 Cayuga Wellness Center hosted the “Common Soccer Injuries: Preventing ACL Tears and Managing Concussion” workshop as a part of their free community Amy MacQueen lecture series. Amy MacQueen, a primary-care sports medicine doctor, and Rob Kaplan, a physical therapist from Cayuga Medical Center, spoke about prevention techniques and exercises that will benefit athletes in the long term. An ACL tear will cause an athlete to lose a year’s worth of playing time, skill progression, and team interaction. After this type of tear, the injured player is 10 times more likely to have knee arthritis as well. In 2004, the surgical cost for an ACL tear repair averaged around $17,000, not including post-surgical follow-ups with a physician and post-rehabilitation sessions. There are around 30,000 ACL injuries in female athletes per year. Female athletes are also four to six times more likely to injure their ACL compared to male athletes in the same sport at a similar level post-adolescence. “There are many theories as to why certain people are more likely to get ACL tears, such as bony alignment or hormone

changes,” Kaplan said. “But, there are things coaches and athletes can do to actively prevent these injuries.” He suggested to soccer coaches that they identify different types of athletic dominances in their players. Through strengthening exercises, these “dominances” will even out which will decrease the possibility of a tear. There are three types of dominances: ligament, quadriceps, and leg. Ligamentdominant athletes rely on their ligaments to play. This type of athlete can determined through jumping tests, or a box-drop test, to see how their pelvis aligns with the ground. When they land post-jump, their pelvis does not align parallel. A quadricepsdominant athlete has stronger quadriceps than hamstrings, causing the tibia to move forward. If a player has chronic hamstring pulls, they have a high chance of being quadricepsdominant. Rob Kaplan Leg-dominant athletes favor one leg, causing the other leg to be weaker. The weaker the muscle is, the greater the chance of a tear. “It is especially important for coaches to notice their athletes’ movements and correct any actions that can cause potential ligament injury immediately,” the physical therapist said. Strengthening exercises include specific kinds of jumps like the the tuck jump, which starts with the athlete

crouching and then pulling the knees as high as possible in the air and finishing with a soft landing. This is to be repeated until they lose their form. The wall jump, in which athletes stand erect with their arms extended over their head, can act as a warm-up and helps identify players with poor side-to-side knee control. Kaplan also recommended squat jumps, the single leg “hold and hold,” and leg balance. “As a coach, you should always be monitoring your athlete and making sure that they’re doing these exercises right. If done wrong, they can wind up eventually hurting the player,” he said. In addition, to these strengthening exercises MacQueen highlighted the impacts of concussions. She said that mouth guards can be an Trumansburg junior Marley Bunn looks for an open player to pass to during a scrimmage essential way to at the Bond Festival in Trumansburg in late August. (Photo: Cassandra Negley) prevent this head injury because they absorbs shock and stabilizes the head to stay away from them.” and neck. The sports medicine doctor She also discourages the use mentioned that one of the best forms of concussion prevention bands, or of prevention if through overall headbands that athletes can wear to avoid improvement of technique to ensure injury from impact to the head through athletes are executing their moves another layer of protection. correctly. If the players’ technique is “We know that when people executed with proper technique, there is wear things to prevent injury [i.e. the less room for injury. concussion bands], they are actually “Athletes often try to hide the more likely to be injured. They have Ithaca Times symptoms. Be sure to always check up on this perception that they are able to do your athletes after any form of injury and 4.9 x 2.7 whatever they want with that protection,” in general,” she said. “Making sure they are MacQueen said. “There are no studies that playing at their best health will ultimately show how effective these bands are, so try be the best prevention in the long run. •

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tax collections are down $156 million. In 2006, counties had the option to switch to a flat “cents per gallon” tax, as the state changed from a four percent tax rate to a flat eight cents per gallon tax. However, all counties except Seneca County continue to use the prior method of “local percentage of sales” resulting in this significant loss of local revenues, according to the state comptroller’s office Mareane said the gasoline prices weren’t the whole story. “What this doesn’t explain is, often when the price of one thing goes down, people spend those savings on something else. People pay less for gas, so they use the money to buy more consumer goods. That doesn’t seem to be happening.”

According to the comptroller’s office, Tompkins and Seneca counties were both in negative growth for the first six months of 2016: Tompkins collected a little over $12 million in sales tax for the first quarter, between $22 and $23 million for the second quarter; an overall decline of 1.71 percent. Seneca County’s numbers were similar: a decline of 1.84 percent over sales tax collections of around $5 million in the first quarter, and $10 million in the second quarter. Tioga County sales tax (around $5 million and $9 million, respectively) was down 2.02 percent. -Glynis Hart editor@flcn.org

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ales tax revenues in Tompkins County are down for the second year in a row, paralleling a statewide decline in sales tax garnered from gasoline taxes, but the trend is “troubling,” according to Tompkins county administrator Joe Mareane. As local municipalities move into budget season, they will be looking for new ways to reduce expenditures. “This is the first time I can recall sales taxes are down for two consecutive years, and I’ve been doing this for a long time,” said Mareane, who came to Tompkins in 2008 from Onondaga County, where he was the chief fiscal officer for 12 years. “We all expected a modest rebound, but it didn’t happen.” “In a typical year, sales tax grows by 2 to 3 percent,” he continued. “So, when you’re setting up a budget, the first $600,000- $900,000 is covered by sales tax growth. This is the only income available to the county that grows naturally, alongside the economy. That’s what we can count on for covering rising expenses—the rest is property taxes, or expenditure cuts.” The decline in sales tax revenue means local municipalities “are having to incorporate losses into our annual budgets,” said Mareane. According to the state comptroller, local sales tax collections across New York State only grew 1.7 percent in the first six months of 2016. Overall, growth slowed from 2.6 percent in the first quarter to 0.8 percent in the second quarter. While total local sales tax collections grew by $130 million, regional growth was uneven across the state. The Mid-Hudson region had the strongest growth at 2.7 percent, followed by the Finger Lakes at 2.5 percent and New

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York City at 2.4 percent. Mareane noted that, with a decline in sales tax in Tompkins County overall—1.2 percent, “from a pretty dismal 2015” the greatest pain was felt in the towns around Ithaca. The City of Ithaca’s sales tax revenue was actually up by 1.14 percent in the first half of 2016, while the towns and villages as a group saw a 3.33 percent drop at the first half of the year, compared to 2015. Looking at the state, in the first half of 2016, collections declined in the Central New York region by 1.3 percent, in the Western New York region by 0.7 percent and in the North Country by 0.1 percent over the same period last year. Local sales tax collections were generally lower, due in part to lower gasoline and diesel fuel prices. Since mid-year 2014, local gas and diesel fuels

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Fall Arts preview In the Public Eye The annual “art in the heart” selections By Leah Kaller

n Sept. 6 Opus Ithaca will have opened the doors for its fifth season of music education and enjoyment. Located in the lower level of St Paul’s United Methodist Church, Opus is the brainchild of Andrea Merrill. Merrill is originally from Pennsylvania, and received her bachelor’s degree in music with a focus on piano performance from Ithaca College. After earning a master’s degree in music with a focus on piano accompanying from Arizona State and a doctoral degree in piano accompanying and chamber music from the Eastman School of Music, she moved back to Ithaca with her husband, jazz trumpeter Paul Merrill, as part of the Faculty in Residence program at Cornell

University. Merrill’s minor field of study while she was a doctoral candidate at Eastman was administration with a focus on opening a community school. Upon her return to Ithaca, she realized that she would not be able to teach private lessons in her home. She was then serving as the assistant organist/pianist at the Methodist church. The pastor, at the time, offered her the use of the downstairs rooms. Merrill immediately recognized the potential the large space held, and Opus Ithaca was born. In 2011, the inaugural year of the school, Opus Ithaca had six teachers and around 40 students, most of which were in Merrill’s studio. Today, Opus Ithaca has 28 teachers and over 200 students. Students of

Opus Ithaca founder Andrea Merrill with two students (Photo: Lindsay France)

all ages and ability levels are welcome, the youngest student this year is a 4 (almost 5) year-old pianist, and the most senior pianist is 85 years young. Opus Ithaca’s logo is blue and red with two hands that are clasped together. The negative space between the hands forms a music note. Merrill says that it represents the feeling of interconnectivity she strives to create within the school. The blue and red colors signify Cornell University and Ithaca College, Merrill wanted to create a space that students and faculty from could come and collaborate. I recently had the opportunity to sit down and talk with her about Opus Ithaca. Ithaca Times: What made you think that we needed another music school in Ithaca? What niche were you trying to fill? Andrea Merrill: This town is vibrant with teachers and schools and everything, and I am by no means trying to compete with that. That wasn’t my vibe at all. I really feel that one of the areas that we don’t have is a place where it is 100 percent music. So if a child or adult comes to Opus Ithaca, they come to a physical place T

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where there is a community of musicians. We don’t say that if you come take private lessons at Opus Ithaca you have to participate in all of our offerings. However, for those who want it, we do offer theory classes, ear training classes, improvisation classes, drumming classes. I have a few students who are taking lessons with four other teachers at the school, and we can work together and create a really well rounded musician. IT: How many recitals or concerts do the students give a year? AM: Performance is a big thing. We never insist that our students perform, but we really do encourage it. Last June we held 10 recitals for all of our students. We also perform regularly at Kendal, Bridges, and Longview so that there is a connection with the community. Our flute ensemble played at the mall. We have gone into the public schools as a faculty to try to talk about chamber music, interaction and listening and what the experience is like

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Season & Temper Handwerker focuses on the four humors

By Amber Donofrio

s summer draws to a close and autumn nears with the anticipation of changing leaves, a new semester means one thing to local art writers and enthusiasts alike: new shows at Ithaca College and Cornell. The Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College in particular has experienced a rapid evolution over the past several years after current director Mara Baldwin took over the reins. Baldwin has curated shows that delve into complex narratives, address current and contemporary politics, and challenge the boundaries and norms of institutional spaces. And in trend with its histories, this coming year should not disappoint. The four main shows of the 20162017 school year (two exhibitions in the fall, two in the spring) will focus on a theme of the Four Humors, a quadrant system first devised by Hippocrates 2,500 years ago that has since permeated medical and philosophical thought, among other disciplines. Motivated by the human desire to bring order to chaos and to cope with anxieties related to aging and illness, this concept divided the human body into four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—with each sector carrying both literal and symbolic significance. “Each of these humors,” Baldwin said, “were associated with an organ, were associated with planetary alignment, a number of personalities, a season, and a phase of life. So rather than beginning with birth, we have chosen to begin with youth.” The first show of the semester is Sun Flare, a coupling of two artists’ solo projects, those of Dara Engler and Nydia Blas, that are presented in relation to the humor yellow bile. Yellow bile is the humor of summer, fire, and youth. Situated in the gallbladder, it is an aspect of one’s body highly associated with being choleric, or ill-tempered and irritable. Engler’s A Pirate’s Guide to Heat and Meat presents an alter ego character of the artist, fumbling and somewhat failing in an exaggerated attempt at survival. The character, Baldwin noted, “is systematically and very much alone in trying to figure out an order to the shape of her universe.” Engler’s character is isolated in solitude, learning to spear fish or create shelter, but doing so with a naïve and clumsy inefficiency that bares evidence to her inexperience. Blas’s work on the other hand, collectively entitled The Girls Who Spun Gold, is a series of staged photographs of Ithaca teenagers of color, specifically young women. “An important point about Nydia’s photographs is that they are specifically

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about girls,” Baldwin said. “All of the young women sit at the boundary of childhood and adulthood, in-between these two realms. So it’s really about a different reading and coding of social structure between women and really giving those young women agency in the representation of themselves and also of what their relationships are like.” “They both have feminine characters in their work,” Lisa Peck, a senior IC art history student who conducted the research

“Denasia” by Nydia Blas (Provided)

for Sun Flare, said of Engler and Blas’ work. “Even though this is traditionally a masculine humor, I wanted to give it a feminine spin. We really want to get into feminine anger and passion, but also keep it a bit younger because youth is also a big association with yellow bile, so the angst and frustration of growing up and maybe growing up as a woman who is not allowed to be angry, but you are because you are a teenager.” Sun Flare is a show of anger and frustration, of unapologetic ambition and naïveté that’s suddenly grown jaded. It’s a show of women—both actual women and characters—who refuse to give up. Part two of the four part series, entitled Dark Passage, is opening later in the semester in late October. It will include coupled solo shows by artists Sarah Sutton and Ben Altman. Dark Passage focuses

on the black bile humor, which represents autumn, earth, and adulthood. Positioned in the spleen, its overarching association is melancholy. “It’s similar to depression and anxiety,” said senior IC art history student Cavan Mulligan, who did the research for the exhibition, “so the two shows are looking at two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, spirituality, but also earthliness.” Dealing with mappings of the world and the human body, Mulligan’s research focused on alchemy and the work of 11th century visionary and nun Hildegard de Bingen. Too much black bile in the system was thought to potentially trigger delirium and discomfort. But it also inspires and produces creativity, just as entering into adulthood can be anxious and confusing, yet also be a meaningful transition. Sutton’s work, Dissolve, tackles the intersecting spaces of images and experiences, exploring the amorphous melding of contemporary technology with experiences of the body, the virtual versus the actual, flatness versus physicality. Altman’s The More That Is Taken Away, meanwhile, studies mass graves in an act of mourning and memorialization. Fashioning a makeshift monument in his backyard, his work will consist of documentation of his earthwork to shed light on topics of collective trauma, violence, and remembrance. Work by both artists is linked by their shared attempt to bring order to an otherwise chaotic world, to somehow find understanding and resolve. The Handwerker Gallery’s spring shows will continue with the humors: Cold Wake in early February as exploration of phlegm, a humor of winter and old age, and Bright Speck later on as exploration of blood, a symbol of springtime and birth. Cold Wake, the research for which was conducted by IC art history junior Eluz Fufante, will feature work by photographers Rhonda Vanover and Linn Underhill, ruminating on processes of aging. Details for Bright Speck, however, were only hinted at: it will feature African masks from Ithaca College’s permanent collection with curation by IC professor Risham Majeed. “When we came into trying to pick a theme for this year I knew I wanted to do something related to the body,” Mara Baldwin elaborated further on the gallery’s choice to venture into its yearlong exploration of the Four Humors. “I think that the body has fallen out of vogue, but then it’s also coming back in certain overarching themes in what’s going on in the art world right now. I think that’s interesting, but certainly when you look at who is painting bodies, and why they’re painting bodies, and how they’re painting bodies, the ways that people are utilizing or strategizing those uses are really different than they were 20 or 30 years ago when we were last seeing a lot of figuration in paintings…but for me rather than really focusing on the story or the biography continued on page 18

Theatre w/o Walls Cherry Arts makes the world your very own stage By Bill Chaisson

am Buggeln got the impulse to start Cherry Arts theater company while he was in Argentina. His partner, now husband Nick, was on sabbatical, and Buggeln took the opportunity to explore the theater community of Buenos Aires, which he found to be as large as that of New York City, but to run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. “Non-English-speaking theater communities speak to each other across language groups,” said Buggeln. “English speakers are in another silo.” In Argentina, he said, economic structures steer the making of art. He saw more variety on stage, partly as a result of their being more state support for the arts. The downside was that there were fewer actors actually making a living from the stage and there were no itinerant actors working in regional theaters, as we have in this country. “Shows run in repertory with many othe shows,” he said of Buenos Aires, “which allows for different types of creativity.” Buggeln has been visiting Ithaca

regularly for almost 10 years. “I’ve been a freelance director,” he said, “but I decided to make a shift in how I do my work, and I realized that I was falling for Ithaca.” Originally from Newfoundland, he moved to Toronto to attend high school and migrated south to New York City in 1997. “As of five years ago,” he said, “I had my eye on the exit. It’s hard to be free and creative in New York and in the network of regional theaters that surround it.” In Ithaca he saw some similarities to the Argentinian theater. Many of the actors where artists who taught, and people with jobs and health insurance. “We can keep it small,” the director said. “You can rehearse for a long time, a bit like the European model.” Cherry Arts first production was Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, which made its New York debut in Ithaca in early December 2015 and was staged again during the Ithaca Festival in June. Soleimanpour stipulates that the actor open the script on stage and read it there

for the first time as “You’ll meet at he or she performs a place and be given it. Cherry Arts an mp3 player,” said asked several Ithaca Buggeln, “and a packet thespians to rise to of objects. You press this challenge. ‘play’ and go. There is “It was a dense soundtrack of challenging to give up writing, music, and control,” Buggeln said, language. The set is the “and take the dare world you are walking that the playwright through. The actors gave you. But we filled are the people in that the seats; it was really world; they don’t know heartening because they’re actors.” this is something This approach Sam Buggeln of Cherry Arts (Photo: Casey Martin) will characterize that the audience had never seen before.” Cherry Arts; for now In December they are a company the play was staged in the Circus Culture without a theater, but are viewing that as an space on Press Alley and in June at Acting opportunity, not an obstacle. Out New York, an acting studio in Center “We’ve got a super-educated, superIthaca. One part of the mission of Cherry sophisticated population,” Buggeln said, Arts is to utilize unconventional spaces to “which makes it a great town for friendly mount productions. This fall they will be avante garde. We can get outside the norms eschewing an enclosed space entirely and without offending middle-class people.” making the entire West End into the stage, The mission of Cherry Arts is summed for an audience of one person at a time. up as “Formally innovative, radically local, The “headphone play” is a emerging and radically international.” genre in the theatre world. Storm Country “We’re making theatre that we don’t is an immersion in the world of 17-yearknow how to make,” said the director of the old Tess Skinner, a fictional resident of headphone play. “It’s a fascinating process, Ithaca invented by Grace Miller White in like an invisible sculpture. The artwork is her 1922 novel Tess of the Storm Country. right there, and it’s not as evanescent as White examined class structure in early theatre because we have the recording.” 20th century Ithaca from the perspective Long-term, the company will build of a proud Rhiner. The headphone version a theatre on Cherry Street by the Cayuga was cowritten by Aoise Stratford and Nick Inlet. It will be a flexible space. How big will Salvato. it be? “We own 80 chairs,” said Buggeln. §

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from the parent, and some don’t want the parents there at all. We also do offer sessions for parents of small kids; it also functions as a kind of support group. I think that parents go into it not realizing how much work it is to get a kid to practice. I want to guide them through it, and make them realize that practicing is important and if you are going to spend the money to do lessons you should invest. And I didn’t realize this importance until I had my own children and I realized how hard it was to find the time, and the frustrations. So we offer some tips and some readings and we remind them that it gets better, once a routine is established. IT: Opus is a 501(c) 3, non profit

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when there is no conductor. We are doing a “Carnival of the Animals” production in November. The faculty is going to play, and we are going to have kids come out and talk about how music can sound like different animals IT: How involved in the learning process are parents at Opus? AM: Every teacher is very different. One of the important things to realize is that I don’t dictate how to teach to any of my teachers. I hire them because they are good teachers, and I trust them. Some teachers want 100 percent involvement

organization. What lead to that decision? AM: Scholarships. I wanted the community to feel part of it; I didn’t want it to be my school, I wanted it to be our school, and the teachers’. But I really wanted the ability to access more funding for scholarships and that has been a major thing and something that I want to keep growing. Every year we give away more. Recently an elementary school band director saw this incredible kid coming through the schools, a good practicer, had all this talent, and he really needed some private lessons, but the family can’t afford it. So she sent him to me, and I am so excited because now this child gets to work with some amazing teachers. And

I get to pay my teachers. We have been part of the GreenStar bag program; we are part of Amazon Smile; we are part of a lot of little places. We have had a lot of contributions from donors who believe in us. Now that we are in our fifth year, it will be a lot easier for us to look at our record and say, “This is what we are doing.” § handwerkerhumors contin u ed from page 16

of figuration, I was more interested in thinking about something more internal. So rather than focusing outside of the body, really going inside.” Bodies will be present in each show, whether in a figurative or implied sense, but the shows’ purposes seem to be more an internal, psychological investigation of bodies, physical space, identity, and perhaps even time: succumbing to one’s youth or old age and the complications and fears that inhabit both stages and the stages in-between. Changes are plentiful in the Handwerker’s gallery space as well, thanks to a summer renovation project that recently came to a close. Gone is the carpeting in favor of new cork flooring, and moveable walls have been added to the space for improved versatility. “I think the rolling walls, and being open to the flexibility of the space, first just allows students to learn skills in how to paint, but then also makes the space more flexible,” Baldwin said, “not just so students are seeing different things all of the time but also so that artists that we’re working with have flexibility in how the space shows their work. In our newly revised mission statement for the gallery, one of our values is supporting emerging and mid-career artists, and for me one of those ways of support is being really open to how that happens … we can’t say yes to everything obviously, but we’re trying to be open, which allows for more exciting things to happen.” And the changes to the gallery haven’t been all physical changes either, as just as Baldwin mentioned there is a new mission statement in the works as well. While continuing its aim to create an active dialogue in its exhibitions that is both educational and thought-provoking, the Handwerker Gallery is also one of two college galleries in the country to now sign on to Working Artists in the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), a non-profit based in Brooklyn. “Basically the premise is that artists don’t get paid for the work they do,” Baldwin explained, “and usually it’s the non-profit spaces that purport to support artists that take most advantage of them.” Exciting changes all around for an engaging new year of shows. § “Sun Flare” is now on display through October 12 at the Handwerker Gallery, located at the first floor of the Gannett Center, Ithaca College. Dara Engler’s artist talk is Thursday, Sept. 8, at 6 p.m., open to the public. Nydia Blas’s artist talk is Thursday, Sept. 22.

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Autumn Modes

The familiar, the Recurrent, and the Brand new

By Jane Dieckmann

his fall’s classical music season starts off with a great swell of sound. Mark your calendars for a major occasion, the dedication of a new French organ at St. Luke Lutheran Church on Oak Avenue in mid-Sept. (see Special Events below). The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s 40th anniversary season commences a week later, with new music director Cornelia Laemmli Orth on the podium. And the amazing Malcolm Bilson continues to perform, with two concerts in Nov.. Although 2016 marks just the 260th birth anniversary of Mozart, we still have the opportunity to hear three of his piano concertos, along other works. Several concerts pay tribute to the memory of long-time Ithaca resident, Cornell professor, and Pulitzer prize-winning composer Steven Stucky. Here are the season’s other highlights. Be sure to check dates and venues closer to concert times, as schedules do change. Orchestral and Ensemble Presentations The Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra opens the season on Sept. 11 in Ford Hall, under the leadership of interim

director of orchestras Michael Hall. The gifted Jeffery Meyer has left that post to go to Arizona State. He will be greatly missed. On the program are a work by Milhaud and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with soloist Michael Galván. The orchestra presents music of Bartok and Beethoven on Dec. 6, also in Ford Hall. The CCO’s opening concert on Sept. 24, conducted by Laemmli Orth, features music of Ibert and Schubert, plus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K.488, with soloist Simone Dinnerstein. The orchestra’s second concert on Nov. 19, “Spotlight on Strings,” has concertmaster Christina Bouey as soloist the Beethoven Violin Concerto, op. 61, plus works by

Elgar and Stucky. Both Shin Hwang, and the concerts are in Ford symphony orchestra Hall. The orchestra plays music by Kristin also presents a family Kuster and Mahler. The concert at the Tompkins chamber orchestra on County Public Library Nov. 12 in Klarman on Nov. 17, with free Hall presents music admission. by Jeeyoung Kim The Cornell and Elgar, along with Concert Series presents Mozart’s Piano Concert Sphinx Virtuosi with No. 14 in E-flat major, the Catalyst Quartet on K.449, with soloist Sept. 30 in Bailey Hall. Bilson, while on Nov. The two groups perform 19 in Bailey Hall the a program of Spanish symphony orchestra and Latin works, presents a modern ranging from solo cello work by Gabriela Lena to string quartet to Frank and more chamber orchestra. On Mahler. Sesi Seskir (Photo: Ceren Aksan) Oct. 1 both the Cornell The IC Symphony Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, conducted and Chamber by Hall, plays a Orchestra, conducted by Chris Younghoon Family Weekend Concert on Nov. 5 in Kim, play in the same concert in Bailey Ford Hall, featuring Dmitri Novgorodsky Hall. The chamber orchestra performs Vivaldi and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. continued on page 18 18 in B-flat major, K.456, with soloist

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in the Grieg Piano Concerto, op. 16. The East Coast Chamber Orchestra performs in Ford Hall on Nov. 10 in a program of music by Turina, Adams, Lutoslawski, and Dvorak. On Nov. 13 in Ford Hall Ensemble X offers the second annual ICU Soundworks, featuring faculty and student musicians from Cornell and Ithaca College who will perform Steve Reich and Jonathan Harvey’s concerto with piano soloist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough. Chamber Music and Recitals Four concerts of piano music of Granados and Busoni will be presented in IC’s Hockett Recital Hall on Sept. 9, 10, 23, and 24. The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble opens its season at the Lodi Historical Society on Sept. 18 in an all-Mozart program with guest artists, violinist Janet Sung and clarinetist Richard MacDowell. On Oct. 9 the group presents a special event at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora, with guests Sung and flutist Barry

And for something entirely different, on Sept. 25 the JACK Quartet, specialists in contemporary music, plays a program in Barnes Hall, which includes Palimpsest, a Fromm Foundation Commission by composer and teacher of electronic music at Cornell Kevin Ernste. The group also performs works by Cornell DMA composers in Barnes on Sept. 28. On Oct. 14 in Bailey Hall the Cornell Concert Series presents Zakir Hussain, tabla, and Niladri Kumar, sitar/zitar, in a program from their native India. The CCO Chamber Music Series opens on Oct. 16 with “Fall into Music,” a program of Glière, Leo Sowerby, and Beethoven’s Piano Trio, op. 101. Their second concert, “Music through the Ages,” features works by Irving Fine, Haydn, and Nielsen—his Wind Quintet. Both are at the Unitarian Church. On Oct. 29, as part of the Department of Classic’s festival, a concert in Klarman Hall festures Annie Lewandowski’s song cycle for voice, harpsichord, and electronics, Bitter Banquet, a collection of songs and projections based on a character from Euripides’ tragedies. Performers include the composer (voice) and David

Yearsley (harpsichord). Pianist Tamara Stefanovich, returning to the Cornell Concert Series, will present music by Ligeti, Messiaen, Nicolaou, and others in Barnes Hall on Nov. 4. On Nov. 5 the Ulysses Quartet, winner of the Fischoff Competition—its first violinist is CCO concertmaster Bouey—will perform in Barnes Hall. The Louis K. Thaler Concert Violin Series offers violinist Jorja Fleezanis, accompanied by IC dean and pianist Karl Paulnack, in Hockett Recital Hall on Nov. 6. Guest artist Ignacio Prego presents J. S. Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations on Cornell’s 2012 harpsichord replica built by Thomas and Barbara Wolf (after Jacques Germain, 1785) in Barnes Hall on Nov. 10, a concert co-sponsored by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies. Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, and guest tenor Markus Schäfer perform Schubert’s cycle Die schöne Müllerin in Klarman Hall on Nov. 13. Guest artist Ilya Poletaev plays Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on harpsichord, chamber organ, fortepiano, and modern piano in Barnes Hall on Nov. 19. Also in Barnes, on Nov. 21, fortepianist

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Mike Cheng-Yu Lee’s recital provides the second program in a five-part series of the complete Mozart piano sonatas performed on replicas of late 18th-century Viennese pianos. Music’s Recreation, devoted to family-friendly concerts with tour guide, offers “Songs without Words,” music of Mendelssohn, Villa-Lobos, de Falla, Rachmaninoff, Bach, and Copland on Nov. 20 at the Community School of Music and Arts. Choral and Opera Presentations The Cornell Glee Club, directed by Robert Isaacs, will give the annual Homecoming Concert on Sept. 24 in Bailey Hall, with program of folk songs, Renaissance motets, world music, spirituals, and the traditional Cornell songs. The IC Choral Collage Choir and Women’s Chorale led by Janet Galván and the IC Chorus and Madrigal Singers under Sean Linfors present a Choral Collage concert on Oct 1 in Ford Hall, featuring Nicola Porpora’s Magnificat. The choruses will give their Winter Choral Concert on Nov. 30, also in Ford Hall. On Oct. 9 comes a concert version of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at Ford Hall. The Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, under the direction of Carl Johengen, after participating in the organ festival (see below) will sing on Oct. 16 in the Arts at Grace series at Grace Episcopal Church in Cortland, in a concert dedicated to the work of the late Cornell composer Robert Palmer.

The Cornell Chorus, conducted by Isaacs, gives a Twilight Concert for First-Year Parent’s Weekend on Oct. 22 in Bailey Hall. The Cornell Chamber Singers, conducted by Stephen Spinelli, with members of the Cornell Early Music Lab, will be offering mostly holiday music at their concert on Dec. 1, so look for details in the later holiday calendar. The Cornell Chorale, also directed by Spinelli, on Dec. 2 Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe (Photo: Peter Sterling) in Sage Chapel, will perform music based on Psalms, including works by Vivaldi and Britten, Memory” series, composers Julia Wolfe plus Hebrew psalm settings. On Jan. 14, (2015 Pulitzer Prize winner) and Michael 2017, the Ithaca Community Chorus and Gordon, co-founders of the New York Chamber Singers, conducted by Gerald City-based group Bang on a Can, team Wolfe, present the Vivaldi Gloria, and the up for a concert of their works focusing Reicha Te Deum, at St. Paul’s Methodist on spirituality and music on Sept. 15 in Church. Sage Chapel. There will be music for choir, string quartet, amplified rock ensemble, Special Events and the premiere of Wolfe’s duo for cello A brand new endeavor, Chamber and double bass played by CU cellist John Music at NewPark, will have its opening Haines-Eitzen and guest bassist Tomoya on Sept. 9, 10, and 11 at NewPark, 1500 Aomori. Taughannock Boulevard, just north of From Sept. 16 to18 is the Dedication the Cayuga Nature Center, featuring Weekend of the new French Romantic world-class musicians mostly from the Organ at St. Luke Lutheran Church, Toronto area. Programs include music of 109 Oak Avenue. Co-sponsored by Vaughan Williams, Pärt, and Schumann the Westfield Center and Cornell’s on Sept. 9; Scriabin, Foss, Shostakovich, Department of Music, the festival presents and Mendelssohn on the 10th; Bach, three days of programs to celebrate and Mendelssohn, and Grieg on the 11th. show off the recently installed organ. To open the “Technologies of Constructed by Juget-Sinclair in Montreal,

it replicates the sound and console design of late 19th-century organs built by Aristide Cavaillé-Cole and found in the great cathedrals of Europe— especially France— and in Latin America. On Friday, Sept. 16, the Dedication Recital will be given by Michel Bouvard, professor of organ at the Paris Conservatoire and organist at the Royal Chapel in the Palais de Versailles. He will play music by Mendelssohn, plus the leading organ composers of France— Franck, Vierne, Bouvard, Dupré, Alain, and Duruflé. On Saturday morning, Bouvard gives a master class with student performers from Cornell, Eastman, IC, and Syracuse, and in the afternoon an improvisation class with William Porter, also with student performers. The evening’s concert, “Organ in Collaboration with Instruments and Voices,” features music of Bonnet, Saint-Saëns, Duruflé, Vierne, Alain, and Poulenc. Performers include organists David Higgs, Anne Laver, Annette Richards, Jonathan Schakel, and Jeffrey Snedeker; the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Johengen; cellist Rosemary Elliott; soprano Megan Sharp; flutist Elizabeth Shuhan; and the St. Luke Brass, conducted by Erik Kibelsbeck. To close on Sunday morning, a Festival Service of Holy Communion includes Vierne’s Messe solonnelle, Op. 16, sung by the St. Luke Choir conducted by Kibelsbeck, with organist Snedeker. Guest organist Barbara Adler plays music of Franck for the prelude and offertory. §

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Cornell physics professor has multiple projects By Ke r i Bl a kinge r

t’s another piece of fiction surrounded by reality. In early August, novelist, Cornell physics professor, and filmmaker Robert Lieberman released his latest book, Neighbors, which is set in a thinly disguised version of the lovely little 10-square-miles-surrounded-by-reality. “It’s the story of a Hungarian ballet dancer who comes to America and ends up teaching ballet in this small college—use your imagination,” Lieberman said. The main character, Laszlo Tamas, lands right in the middle of small-town drama as soon as he sets foot on the college campus. “The book opens with him buying a house, basically sight unseen. He buys it and starts fixing it up and the neighbors come over to help him, and they’re going to screw him to the wall, basically. And then the snow melts and all the crap comes out.” The fictional town is called Lynchville

“but it’s really Ithaca, thinly disguised.” It doesn’t feature much in the way of recognizable Tompkins County geography, Lieberman said, but it does feature familiar I-Town conflict. “I essentially captured living in Ithaca for the last 60 years—this is Ithaca. It deals with the kind of town-andgown dynamic. There’s a real culture clash here, and that underlies it all,” he said. Though Lieberman declined to divulge the details (on the record), he promised a darker twist to the homegrown novel. “It’s the blackest of humor—sort of in the vein of Stephen King,” he said. Even as he’s promoting his latest release, the longtime Cornell physics professor is busy finishing up his next work, a massive documentary film project detailing decades of conflict and chaos in Cambodia. Currently titled Angkor Awakens—a reference to the capital city

of the ancient Khmer Empire that once dominated the region that is modern-day Cambodia—the 90-minute film distills 200 hours of footage collected over four years into a tight 90-minute movie. “It’s broad. It really is a portrait of Cambodia, taking you from ancient times through Khmer Rouge and the Vietnam War and Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia that in part caused the Khmer Rouge,” Lieberman said. The Cambodian film is a successor to Lieberman’s wellreviewed 2012 Myanmar documentary, which the New York Times called “eye-opening and insightful.” They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain featured an interview with Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, but the upcoming release also boasts some Southeast Asian star power—although the name may not be known to the average American viewer. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen rarely does interviews, but Lieberman landed a two-hour spot with him during the notorious autocrat’s trip to New York to attend the United Nations. Over the

summer, Lieberman released a chilling two-minute clip of the conversation, featuring the longtime leader’s justification of his nation’s ongoing bloodshed at the hands of authorities. “In America, when a person is shot by the police, how do you see that? Is it Obama who’s doing the shooting? You say people are doing it under my orders,” he told Lieberman. “So how many people has Obama killed like that? Because Obama is the president of America, if you compare, you have to compare like that.” Though the fulllength world premiere hasn’t been scheduled yet, a sneak-peak teaser from the film—which features excerpts of the Hun Sen sit-down—is slated to debut at Cornell Cinema on Monday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. In addition to his novel and documentary, Lieberman is also hard at work on the script for an animated film, a cinematic cartoon retelling of one of his previously penned book manuscripts, The Nazis, My Father & Me. Lieberman fans can follow his latest online at roberthlieberman.com. •

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hen I suggested the theme for Rachel Lampert’s farewell season at Kitchen Theatre, her 20th as artistic director, “was family and old favorites,” she responded with her standard quip, “Well, I always say themes are for proms not theater seasons—so if you see a theme, go with it.” Perhaps I should have said flavor, or organizing principle. Rachel and her sister Sarah Lampert Hoover will be sharing most directing duties, and three shows are returns: the frothy musicale, Precious Nonsense; Alexander Thomas’s solo exploration of father and brothers, Throw Pitchfork; and Brian Dykstra’s eco-comedy Clean Alternatives, directed by Margarett Perry (in a revised version). As all were last seen in the old Clinton House space, we can look forward to seeing them breathe and stretch to accommodate the new space. To this Lampert has added regional premieres of two plays hot off the New York City market, a hip-hop musical, and a world premiere. Also currently announced as returning actors are Karl Gregory (his 27th time!), Erica Steinhagen, Aundre Seals, Eric Brooks, Alexander Thomas, and Darian Dauchan. Wendy Dann, who previously graced the

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Puppets and Premieres

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(Above) A scene from “Hand to God” (Photo provided) (Right) Kitchen Theatre artistic director Rachel Lampert (Photo: Casey Martin)

Kitchen boards as actor and director, returns in the role of playwright. And to put the cherry on the sundae, Rachel’s niece, Montana Lampert Hoover makes her mainstage debut in the season opener, Hand to God, now playing. Hand of God is the rare non-musical to shoot from Off-Off to Off- to Broadway, taking its lead, a baby-faced Steven Boyer for the ride. Upon receiving an Obie for his performance (later Tony-nominated) as Jason, Boyer called it “a dramedy about a devil puppet.” It’s that, and a horror spoof, and a scabrously funny attack on fundamentalism, a story of adolescent repression and desire, and even a study in grieving. What it is most deliriously is a Jekyll and Hyde turn for a comic actor, as timid teen Jason struggles with his blasphemous sock puppet, Tyrone. A role seemingly tailored for the outrageous comic instincts of Karl Gregory. Professional puppeteer and Ithaca transplant Scott Hitz is coaching the puppet work (Jason/Tyrone is a member of the

Chrisketeers, a Christian puppet troupe now under the direction of Jason’s recently widowed mother.) The Guardian wrote, “…the puerile bits are particularly funny. (Though be continued on page 28

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Artist showcases bold and mystical prints By Ar thur W hit m an

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eaturing exhibits organized by local abstract painter Michael Sampson, the Cellar d’Or—an upscale wine and cider shop located on the Commons—has also developed a reputation for its offbeat exhibitions of art. September brings a particularly striking artist to the shop’s exposed brick walls: Michael Goscinsky of Garnerville in Rockland County, New York. Goscinsky is an inventive, varied, and technically sophisticated wood block printmaker with over half a century of experience. He attended the Pratt Institute in New York City, studying with noted relief print artist Jacob Landau and earned a BFA in graphics and illustration. He worked for many years as a graphic designer for Philip Morris in Manhattan. Since 1993 he has been dedicated full-time to his own drawings and prints, which display a rich imagination and a seeming indifference to art world trends. Working with a strong emphasis on black-and-white, Goscinsky’s eclectic oeuvre spans both a humanist realism and a “metaphysical,” allegorical figuration that recalls the Symbolism of late 19th century Europe. The Cellar d’Or exhibit highlights his more abstract work: East Asian-influenced excursions into lettering, pattern, and bestiary. It seems like a good choice. The obvious highlight here is Aquatic Echoes II. The print cleverly merges the familiar black-and-white yin/yang symbol—symbolizing interconnected dualities in traditional Chinese thought– with an intricately whirlpooling tiling of fish that recalls M.C. Escher. Two large fish make up the overall design, twisting around each other, mouths grasping angled, ribbon-like tails. (The design also suggests the Ouroboros of Western myth, the serpent swallowing its own tail, a metaphor

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design represents a side of Goscinsky’s work not otherwise seen here. It features a mythical man-beast, arms and legs outstretched, encircled by a swirl of mystic energy. (More work in this vein can be seen at etsy.com/shop/MikesOriginalPrints. My feelings about this sort of thing are decidedly ambivalent but he clearly does it well.) East Asian aspiring in both style and technique, Goscinsky’s Cellar d’Or exhibit fortuitously coincides with a major presentation of Japanese and Japaneseinfluenced art at Cornell’s Johnson Museum. The product of intensive work

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for the cyclical and the self-reflexive.) Composing the “scales” of these big fish are numerous little fish, themselves filled out in impossibly delicate linear patterning— varying in scale, spinning, inverting from row to row. Technically astounding, the print is also witty and enjoyable. Dominating the show is a series of prints in which Goscinsky juxtaposes a single Chinese character against one or more images of matching animals: elephants, turtles, and birds among them. Black and boldly colored inks are played off of the white paper. The lettering and overall compositions recall the abstraction of classic modernist typography and graphic design—all stark and flattened. The more intricate, even naturalistic, treatment of the animals provides an interesting and wellplayed contrast. A few pieces combine block printing with hand drawing. These combine areas of characteristically bold printing with “unfinished” drawn ones—as if pulling back the curtain to show how things really work. Aquatic Echoes Transformation Alfa Omega is a variation of his yin yang/fish design. The piece is divided in half by a diagonal black bar running from the left of the upper edge (not quite the corner) to the right of the lower. The upper right section is dominated by a half-circle of fish printed in red. (There’s also a stripe of bright orange running alongside the black one.) The lower right mirrors the design, but hand-drawn in ink with mere outline juxtaposed against an even grid. We see the rigor behind the artist’s playfulness. Also included here are various odds and ends offering welcome context. Wall texts include a brief biography as well as a rather detailed illustrated account of the artist’s Japanese-derived technique. Also included is a black-inked, relief-carved wood block. Interestingly enough, the

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by staff curator Nancy Green and others, “JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 18761970” is a huge and highly important show, including prints and paintings alongside a wide range of sculptural, decorative, and functional pieces. Goscinsky’s prints would fit in handsomely with the section of the Johnson exhibit dedicated to work, both Japanese and American, of the early post-war era. As well as being the high tide of American abstract expressionism, the forties and fifties were a fecund period for figurative expressionist woodcut in both countries. •

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The Marvelous Wonderettes lights up CRT By Br yan VanC ampe n The Marvelous Wonderettes, written and created by Roger Bean. Directed and choreographed by Julie Tamaino; scenic design by Carl Tallent; costume design by Jimmy Johansmeyer; lighting design by Eric Behnke; properties design by Joe Dotts; sound design by Seth Asa Sengal. At CRT through September 10.

their boyfriends? Or maybe gumsnappin’ Suzy (Lizzy Miler), Missy (Bridget Elise Yingling), who rocks a librarian look, or zaftig Cindy Lou (Hannah Zilber)? The structure of the show reflects the changes in American culture over the course of a decade, somewhat like Mad Men. It allows us to see how far we’ve come and how much hasn’t really hose who love the “Enchantment changed. Take Missy, for example, who Under the Sea” sequence in Back carries a serious torch for the girls’ to the Future and who tear up vocal coach, Mr. Lee, and we then when they hear OMD’s “If You Leave” and think about the end of Pretty In Pink track her character as she becomes a teacher, starts dating Mr. Lee and now wants a serious commitment, Or the fact that when we pick up the ladies’ story at their 10-year reunion, Suzy is pregnant and having a tough time with her fellow. The first act spotlights that certain kind of early bubblegum pop, timeless playground hits like “Lollipop,” “Mr. Lee,” “Born Too Late,” and “Teacher’s Pet.” I have to give Bean credit for not only including the obvious hits in the show’s 30+ hits. I like to Lizzie Miller as Suzy, Bridget Elise Yingling as Missy, Joyana Loraine Feller think I know pop music, as Betty Jean and Hannah Zilber as Cindy Lou in Cortland Repertory but I hadn’t heard ‘50s tunes Theatre’s production of “The Marvelous Wonderettes” like “Allegheny Moon” and (Photo: Eric Behnke) “Lucky Lips.” Ten years down the line, the gals haven’t gotten far from will love the prom-centric fun of The their signature sound, but the flavor is Marvelous Wonderettes. Scenic designer Carl Tallent has put up a tiered stage with more Motown/Tamla. They’re still doing “Mr. Sandman,” but now they have beea neat cloud semi-circle and streaming hive hairdos and go-go boots, and their curtains, with a basketball net behind—a repertoire includes the newer generation neat touch. 1950s gems like the Delof girl-group stuff: “It’s In His Kiss,” Vikings’ “Come Go With Me” and Buddy “Wedding Bell Blues,” “It’s My Party,” Holly’s “That’ll Be The Day” play on the and “Son of a Preacher Man.” (Tallent’s sound system as the audience is seated. second act set is much more Laugh-In/ Roger Bean’s The Marvelous flower power-inspired.). Wonderettes tracks the trials and Be advised that the show has triumphs of a four-woman singing act, other characters—like the hen-pecked first at their 1958 prom and then 10 years Mr. Lee—that end up being played later, chasing after the Summer of Love. by audience members. So if you’re in It’s one of those jukebox musicals packed the front row center, you may well with classic songs, and as a musical find yourself the center of attention, framework for some cute comedy, nice particularly when Yingling’s Missy dance moves and great vocals, The opens up and belts “You Don’t Own Marvelous Wonderettes works on its own Me.”• terms. The Marvelous Wonderettes I forgot to bring a pen to jot down runs through Sept. 10. Tickets may be the songs, but I needn’t have bothered. purchased by calling 800-427-6160 or at All the titles are listed in the program, the CRT Box Office at 24 Port Watson and the audience was provided with Street in Cortland. Tickets are also pencils and a ballot to vote for the prom available for sale 24 hours a day through queen. Will it be bottle-blonde Betty the CRT website at www.cortlandrep.org. Jean (Joyana Loraine Feller), the selfproclaimed leader with a bad habit of stealing the other girls’ numbers—and

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thaca native Grace Miller White (1868– 1957) was a highly popular author. Her most popular novel, Tess of the Storm Country (1909) became a vehicle for silent film superstar Mary Pickford (she filmed it twice; it was later remade in sound with

Janet Gaynor.) Now it is the vehicle for Ithaca’s first “headphone play.” Cherry Arts is inviting you to immerse yourself in Tess’s world, to re-experience it on your own walk through the West End. A melodramatic collision of class,

ethnicity, religion, and sex all centered on a lively, but virtuous lass, White’s novel was perfect for silent Hollywood. Tess Skinner was just the sort of plucky, vivacious, innocently sexual roles that America’s sweetheart Mary Pickford specialized in. Class and immigration and urbanization were all heavily on the minds of the nation then, as they are again. As they wait for their new black box theater to begin construction on Cherry Street (past Wegmans), artistic director Samuel Buggeln has again turned to the history of Ithaca and the West End for inspiration. Storm Country, “an immersive headphone play” by Nick Salvato and Aoise Stratford, launches The Cherry’s second season with “performances” Sept 9through

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11 and 16 and18 (thecherry.org). Storm Country lies somewhere between an old-fashioned radio drama and a guided tour, it maps recreated moments from the novel onto the present landscape, while spinning meditations about class, change, history. After my arrival at Lookout Point of the New York Barge Canal (just past The Boatyard Grill), director Buggeln and co-author Salvato handed me a loose packet of four items and clipped an MP3-player to my shirt. Pushing play, they wished me bon voyage, as I journeyed into the Cherry’s collaborative imaginations. The dulcet tones of The Guide, voiced by Carolyn Goelzer, immediately greeted me (along with a lick of music from songster Anna Coogan): “It’s an autumn afternoon, and one way or another, you find yourself in storm country. Welcome. Come with me. Step up to the Lookout Point of Erie [sic] Barge Canal. You are now facing the inlet to Cayuga Lake, which is about a mile north of us. Look and listen. It’s peaceful here, isn’t it?” “It’s other things, besides,” she continues slyly. The tour works its way along the inlet, dramatizing parts of the novel, while also musing on the changes wrought over time, on notions of home, belonging. On differences in money and access. On the markers of a once-thriving railroad, of the destruction of the “Rhine” to build the flood control channels in the 1950s. Four times the Guide asks us to take out items from our little travel pouch. Two of these are historic maps. It’s a gentle, inventive meditationwalk with two story-tellers. The Guide makes sure we are taken care of, watch out for traffic, she asks us to notice, to think, to project our imagination (“See that spot up ahead, where the shoreline starts to curve? …. On the bog that was here, before, some people made their fragile homes.”) The main characters are voiced by local professional actors: David Studwell is the rigid, villainous Minister Graves; Kathleen Mulligan portrays two hapless women (Myra and Teola), Dean Robinson plays the rough and lecherous fisherman, Letts, while Jacob Garrett White plays the lovestruck, idealistic minister’s son, Frederick. Providing the spunk and daring of a Pickford heroine is Brianna Ford, recent graduate of Ithaca College’s BFA program, as Tess. •

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Prowler at The Haunt The intense poetry of extreme metal By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Pig Destroyer, Secret Cutter, Bleak, Human Overdose, Escuela, Sept. 10, 7 p.m, The Haunt

ielding an artful and shiny axe that slashes menacingly to the heart of extreme metal, Virginia’s Pig Destroyer are both blunt and deep. With a quickening and honest mix of grindcore, death metal, and progressive aggression, the band surges with violence, swings with painterly strokes, and happily punishes the void. Vocalist J.R. Hayes is the band’s intense poet of damnation, spinning the collective’s eternally blazing wheel with a lush and fertile imagination. Hayes molds the complex architecture of the band with a spiraling width; layering the dynamic insanity with a grueling literary grit. The music is escapist in nature, lighting the candle of individuality and reverberating through blunt force. I caught up with Hayes recently in anticipation of Pig Destroyer’s very much looked forward to appearance at The Haunt. Get blasted! Ithaca Times: If you think of some of your favorite poets and writers in general, particularly from the past—maybe the far past—who’d you think would be a dynamite grindcore and powerviolence vocalist? J.R. Hayes: I think [Arthur] Rimbaud, being the ultimate disillusioned teenager, would have been down with screaming over some blast beats, and I always figured that if you gave Charles Bukowski enough alcohol, he would probably agree to do just about anything. IT: You talked about how lyrics are really important to music, especially for the one performing the music and singing the lyrics; do you think that the fact that a lot metal, hardcore, and punk lyrics— particularly in extreme metal—are hard to follow (initially) for a reason? J.R.H.: I have a particular fascination with the album format and the way that it brings together words, sounds, and visuals into one complete piece. Obviously the songs are the most important thing—there’s plenty of great records out there that have terrible lyrics or tacky album covers—but if you can make all three elements converge and complement one another, then you’re on to something special. As far as why metal and hardcore lyrics are hard to follow, I can’t really say. I mean, there are some Dio lyrics that have been confusing me for decades. IT: When you guys were starting at, what kind of vision did you see for the band: were there any particular bands that inspired you guys in a really powerful way? J.R.H.: We just wanted to be the loudest, fastest, and heaviest band on the

planet. I’m sure a large percentage of bands start for those exact same reasons. As far as our influences, you need look no further than the songs that we’ve covered: Stooges, Dwarves, Carcass, Melvins, Dark Angel, Integrity, and Unsane. That’s a pretty good cross section. IT: Are you fan of Nietzsche, and if so, is there anything you’ve ingested from his writings that have really made an impact on your life? J.R.H.: I haven’t read him extensively— only The Antichrist and Beyond Good and Evil—but I think my favorite thing about him is just the strength of his prose. It’s so powerful and supremely confident. It reminds me of Hemingway.

IT: Is there a new Pig Destroyer album coming out at some point; and of all places, how’d Ithaca work out as a place to play on such a limited tour? J.R.H.: Unless we all die in a terrible hotel fire, there will be a new album. I’m very pleased with the songs we’ve written for it so far. Why Ithaca? I don’t know, we’ve never played there, but we’ve heard good things. I’m very much looking forward to it. IT: You’re driving across Grindcore legends Pig Destroyer (Photo provided) the country and have room for only four cassettes (no mixtapes, but books on tape constructed opus of dark and sinister are ok). What tapes are they and why? beauty. Alex Chilton, Like Flies on Sherbert: J.R.H.: This is one of those questions A dirty, sloppy, willfully mangled lo-fi where it depends which day you ask me, masterpiece. I love Big Star, but this record but here goes: Van Morrison, Astral Weeks: is where it’s at. Steel Pole Bath Tub, Butterfly I could make the argument that this is the Love: Without a doubt, the most criminally greatest album ever recorded by anyone. overlooked band of the ‘90s. These cats I can’t praise something more than that. would be headlining Coachella if there NON, Children of the Black Sun: I’m sure were any justice in the world. This is their most people would consider this album first album, but all their stuff is super cool. to just be noise, but if you listen closely, Check it out. • you will discover that it is a meticulously

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forewarned: puppet fellatio is something you can’t unsee.) Askins is smart and engaged enough that even the play’s most outrageous actions seem grounded in character.” “It speaks so brilliantly about all the things we are afraid of: sexuality, depression, death, loss, not being good and turns them upside down in such a bold way,” said Lampert. So that’s one family. For election season, Rachel wanted something light: “The country will be going through hell in October—and I wanted to bring back Precious Nonsense, and I thought, well it is like a screwball comedy and it is set in the 1930s, a time when Americans

wanted their entertainment to take them away from the national situation.” A backstage farce, somewhere between Noises Off and well, most Gilbert & Sullivan, Precious Nonsense features the Carter Family Savoyards, whose reduced troupe is pressed to perform a full-on Pirates of Penzance. Offstage romance, onstage antics, and retro-fitted lyrics by Lampert to Gilbert’s tunes; Eric Brooks returns as the paterfamilias. While Darian Dauchan has been a frequent presence at the Kitchen, both in solo performances (Media Madness, Entertainer’s Eulogy) and in plays (The Brothers Size), he has another artistic life as a poet/beat-boxer with the band The Mighty Third Rail, consisting of Dauchan with Curtis Stewart on violin and Ian Baggette on upright bass. Death Boogie won the group the

2012 Musical Theatre Matters award for BEST New Music at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This multimedia Hip Hop Poetry Musical that combines “physical theater, music, video, and poetry to tell the story of an ordinary office worker who dreams of revolution” brings the band to Ithaca the weekends before and after Thanksgiving weekend. “It is outside what we usually do … but hey, I have never been reluctant to push the envelope,” said Lampert. The new year will be greeted by a totally new work: “How great is it that Wendy Dann—who was here my first season assisting me on all fronts—has written this beautiful new play Birds of East Africa—replete with dancers! Perfection for my soul and for our patrons,” said Lampert. According to KTC’s website: “When ornithologist

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Marion is suddenly widowed, she seeks the comfort of her college friend Stephen and his husband Nick. Marion’s life studying the birds in East Africa has not prepared her for the loss and loneliness she now faces.” Laura Eason’s credits including writing for House of Cards. In her Sex with Strangers, a 20-something Ethan appears at 40ish Olivia’s snowbound Michigan cabin. He’s a hot young author with books based on his one night stands covered in his blog, she’s had one novel published to small effect and has retreated from the fray. He has two offers for her, his body, and republishing her first novel as an e-book. But is he on the up and up? Starting at Chicago’s Steppenwolf, Eason’s play had a wellreviewed run off-Broadway: “sexually and intellectually provocative … [with] a knack for incisive characterization and snappy dialogue … it’s a hell of a lot of fun” (Hollywood Reporter). The Kitchen’s production will travel on to Rochester’s Geva Theatre. Alexander Thomas has made several memorable appearances at the Kitchen (Broke-ology, Opus, The Whipping Man, Sunset Baby). His first appearance was with his one-man play Throw Pitchfork, which Lampert wanted to bring back for her final season—“His performance will be amazing. Frankly, back when he did Throw Pitchfork the first time around we had a much smaller following, so lots of new people will get to see this play.” A memoir of his alcoholic father and him and his brothers, the New York Times called it “a portrait of a father’s poignant legacy and what struck me as a dead-on depiction of how a family diverges from a center” while NYTheatre.com wrote “Thomas conveys to us what it meant to be a black man in Alabama in 1933, more potently than I’ve ever witnessed.” Rounding out the season is the return of the satire Clean Alternatives. “Finishing with the play that added Brian Dykstra and Margarett Perry to the KTC and Ithaca scene felt like completing the circle …,” said Lampert. “I have been encouraging Brian to work on the play for years now—and he has—and my hope is that after we do Clean Alternatives here—it will get done at many other theaters.” Winner of an Edinburgh First Award, the play concerns a rapperactivist who’s drawn into a Faustian bargain. In its off-Broadway premiere Variety exclaimed “Brian Dykstra … wields a monologue like a sword! …[His] work provides the startling immediacy that makes live performance feel so alive! Blood pumps through every moment of this liberal piece of agitprop …[in which] ideological commitment often blurs with primal instinct.” “I think it is a great season,” Lampert concluded. “No play is really easy—maybe Precious Nonsense, but that has some interesting gender issues in it around the Gilbert and Sullvan music. And, lots of old friends and new plays and returning ones. I think I can bow out happily.” •

Phantasy Quintet and Fratres for String Quartet | 6:00 PM | NewPark Hotel & Event Center, 1500 Taughannock Boulevard, Ithaca | Phantasy Quintet (R. Vaughan Williams), Fratres for String Quartet (Arv Pärt), and Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (R. Schumann). Performance followed by a bluegrass/ folk jam session by the bonfire. Open to the public, bring your own instrument.

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Chamber Music at New Park | 6:00 PM | NewPark Hotel & Event Center, 1500 Taughannock Boulevard, Ithaca | Prelude Op. 11, No. 15 in D-flat Major (A. Scriabin), Capriccio for Cello and Piano (Lukas Foss), Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 (D. Shostakovich), and Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 (F. Mendelssohn).

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anythinggoes, in-your-face rampage. “Tokyo Drifter” is a delirious highlight of the brilliantly excessive Japanese cinema of the sixties. Cornell Cinema is showing the film Thursday, September 8 at 9:15 pm. (Photo provided)

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No. 2, Op. 13 (F. Mendelssohn), and Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (E. Grieg). Bands At The Country Diner: Triple Play | 4:00 PM | The Country Diner, 45 East Tioga Street, Spencer | Don’t forget lawn chairs and umbrellas! There will be Ice Cream, Popcorn, Sausage & Soda. 50/50 drawings during all entertainment. Chamber Orchestra | 4:00 PM- | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, IC, Ithaca | Michael Galvan, clarinet. Milhaud’s Creation du Monde. Spinazzola, Merrill, Weiser, Chwazik, Evans | 8:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | James Spinazzola, saxophones, with trumpeter Paul Merrill, pianist Nick Weiser, bassist Peter Chwazik, and drummer Greg Evans. Features original compositions and new interpretations of music by influential rock & pop artists and bands.

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Friday, 9/09 to Thursday, 9/15. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Florence Foster Jenkins | The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. | 110 mins PG-13 | Equity | Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption. | 100 mins R |

learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way. | 97 Mins PG | Branded to Kill | A hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, putting him into conflict with his treacherous wife, with a mysterious woman eager for death and with the phantom-like hit-man known only as Number One. | 91 Mins NR | Johnny Guitar | A strong willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob, when she helps a wounded gang member. |110 Mins NR |

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Southside With You | Chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side. | 84 mins PG-13 | Don’t Think Twice | When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all. | 92 mins R |

Wrestling Jerusalem | Wednesdy September 7 through Saturday, September 10 at 7:30 p.m. | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd | An original piece, written and performed by Aaron Davidman. The play examines the political divisions that have affected, and continue to affect, IsraeliPalestinian society and the world at large. Treasure Island | Through September 10 | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm.; Fridays and Saturdays at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, Tuesdays at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm | Merry Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn, NY 13021 | A boy. A dream. An adventure that will

Sunset Song | The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s. | 140 mins R | Homo Sapiens | Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left. |94 Mins NR | Tokyo Drifter | After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him. | 82 Mins NR | Finding Dory | The friendly but forgetful blue tang fish begins a search for her long-lost parents, and everyone

Hell or High Water | A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas. | 102 mins R | Morris from America | The romantic

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Kitchen Theatre Company opens its 26th Main Stage Season with the regional premiere of Robert Askins’ delightfully shocking Hand to God, directed by Rachel Lampert. Nominated for 5 Tony Awards, Hand To God is irreverent, hilarious and profoundly truthful about the human condition and its relationship to death, religion, sexuality, and family dynamics. Kitchen Theatre Company’s cast includes Karl Gregory (Jason/Tyrone), Erica Steinhagen (Margery), Montana Lampert Hoover (Jessica), and some very rude puppets.

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The Hangar Theatre will kick off its fall season with Wrestling Jerusalem, an original piece, written and performed by Aaron Davidman. The play examines the political divisions that have affected, and continue to affect, Israeli-Palestinian society and the world at large. Throughout the performance, Davidman will assume over a dozen different roles, transforming into a multitude of characters including Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, leftist rabbis, and conservative settlers. h e

Berkshire Free Library’s Annual Fall Book Sale | Runs Tuesday through Saturday, Sept 6 – 10, 9 am to 4 pm| Berkshire Free Library, 12519 NY-38, Berkshire | A large variety of newer fiction and non-fiction has been donated this year including children’s books and paperbacks. Proceeds from the used book sale will be put toward the library’s operating budget. Several books by local authors will also be available. Tickets will also be available toward a beautiful quilt which will be raffled at the Richford Potato Festival, September 17, to benefit the Richford Historical Society. American Red Cross Blood Drives | 9/7 Ithaca Moose Lodge 1:30pm to 6:30pm, 9/10 Ithaca YMCA 9/11

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Remembrance Drive 10m to 5pm, 9/13 Homewood Suites 11am to 3pm. Trumansburg Ulysses Philomathic Library Book Sale | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Runs September 15 through September 20. Book Sale: All categories range from $1-3 per item; books new and old, movies, music (CDs, LPs), and games. Something for the whole family. www.trumansburglibrary.org Women’s Activity Options: Fall Coffee | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM, 9/08 Thursday | Ramada Inn, N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | All Ithaca Women are invited into social and educational connection through any of this fall’s 24 Campus Club Activity Groups. Come to the Fall Coffee to enjoy any of the upcoming year’s wide variety of interest groups. Refreshments will be served. If unable to attend the informal Fall Coffee in person, get more information and join at www.campusclub.cornell. edu Ithaca Ballet: Open Auditions for 2016-17 Season | 12:30 PM, 9/10 Saturday | Ballet Center of Ithaca, 506 N Plain St, Ithaca | Auditions on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 12:30 p.m. Performances this season include Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty. Ladies, please bring pointe shoes. Info at 607-2773546. The Cayuga Trails Club: Bristol Hill Branch Trail Hike | 8:15 AM, 9/10 Saturday | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a hike on the Bristol Hill Branch Trail of the Finger Lakes Trail. Visit cayugatrailsclub.org for further information about this hike. Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/11 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast or Waffles, Sausage & Bacon or Ham, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Sausage Gravy & Biscuits, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. Candlelight Vigil for Peace | 7:00 PM, 9/11 Sunday | Unitarian Church, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Bring your family and join us for a remembrance for healing in the church sanctuary. We will reflect on the mass shootings in the United States and the terrorist attacks in Europe in recent months. We gather to mourn the victims and to call for peace through words, meditation, and song. We unite to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in all human relations.

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change him forever. This new musical blends high stakes adventure, wild plot twists, hysterical antics and a compelling, evocative score to create an iconic new production. The Smell of the Kill | Through Septmeber 11 | Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 7:30 pm, Sundays 2:00 pm. | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | The Smell of the Kill is the story of 3 upscale suburban wives (and their unseen husbands). Tickets can be purchased online at www.chenangorivertheatre. org, or by emailing tickets@chenangorivertheatre.org. You can also make reservations 24 hours a day by voice mail at 607-656-8499. Have Gun - Will Murder She Wrote | Frridays and Saturdays 7:00 pm, Sundays 2:00 pm. | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | For those of you that remember Jessica Fletcher and all the cowboy heroes of the old TV shows, you will have a chance to recreate the thrills of the Ponderosa, Gunsmoke and others. www. oldhavanatheatre.com The Marvelous Wonderettes | August 31 through September 10 | Evening performances at 7:30. Matinees are available on September 2, 4, 7 and 8 at 2:00 PM. | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Take a trip back in time to the 1958 Springfield High

School prom and meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! As we learn about their lives and loves, the girls serenade us with classic ‘50s hits including Lollipop, Dream Lover, Stupid Cupid, and Lipstick on Your Collar. Then in Act Two, jump forward in time as the girls reunite to perform at their ten-year reunion. Hand to God | September 4 September 25 | Wednesdays and Thursdays 7:30 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 p.m, and Sundays 4:00 p.m. | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Directed by Rachel Lamper. Wildly Irreverent In the quiet town of Cypress, Texas, recently widowed Margery takes over the church puppet club. But when one puppet is possessed by the devil, there are wildly funny and deliciously devastating consequences. This hilarious play was nominated for five Tony Awards. Audio Walking Play: Storm Country | Lookout Point of Erie Barge Canal, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Storm Country will run September 9th–11th and 16th–18th. Scheduled walking times are between 4:00 and 6:00 on Fridays and 1:00 and 6:00 on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are available at StormCountry.bpt.me. An immersive headphone play designed to accompany an exploratory journey through Ithaca’s West End. Co-written by Ithaca artists Nick Salvato and Aoise Stratford, Storm Country plunges listeners into a soundscape of voices, music, and environments as they encounter the histories and ghosts of Ithaca’s Cayuga Inlet and its surroundings.

Turkey Dinner | 12:00 PM, 9/11 Sunday | Ledyard United Methodist Church, 1069 Route 34B between King Ferry and Poplar Ridge, | Menu includes roast turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing and gravy, vegetable, coleslaw, cran-applesauce, relishes, homemade brown bread and pies. Yiddish Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/12 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A new group for those who love Yiddish. All are welcome who are interested in reading, speaking, and learning Yiddish, and in discussing Yiddish, Yiddishism, and Yiddishkayt.

and scholarships are available. Please call CSAM at 272-1474 to schedule an audition to get more information. Please note the group is in special need of teenage male singers. Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/10 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Have a rock with what looks like a shell on it? Or maybe befuddled by your child’s latest rock discovery? Bring it to the Museum of the Earth and an expert will help you identify it and reveal its story. Family Science Program | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 9/10 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families will explore how powders react when you add a chemical indicator (vinegar, baking soda solution, iodine, and pH indicator solution) to them. Using their observations, they will try to figure out what two powders are in an unknown mixture. Space is limited. To register, email ccmr_outreach@cornell.edu. Please include the name and age of all children in the email.

Learning Healthful Vegetarian Lunches | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 9/07 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Chef Betsy Clasby for some quick and easy low-cost lunch ideas, including veggie heroes, sandwich wraps, and roll-ups. Samples and recipes provided. Registration required - sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. India as a Security State: Postcolonial Iterations of a War on Terror | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 9/08 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | Speaker: Durba Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University. Brown bag seminar luncheon. Wheelchair accessible. Logan Hill Nature Preserve Dedication | 2:00 PM-, 9/10 Saturday | Logan Hill Nature Preserve, , Ithaca | A gift to the Finger Lakes Land Trust from the Darlington Family, the 285-acre Logan Hill Nature Preserve offers stunning views of the surrounding hills and borders Catatonk Creek. Join the Land Trust to celebrate the opening of this new preserve! Land Trust staff will lead guided walks on the new trails. Light refreshments will be served. Finding Anna: The Archival Treasure Hunt into the Life of Anna Botsford Comstock | 2:30 PM-, 9/10 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Presentation by Karen Penders St. Clair. Anna Botsford Comstock was a pioneer in the Nature

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Saul Williams has been breaking ground since his debut album, “Amethyst Rock Star”, was released in 2001 and executive produced by Rick Rubin. After gaining global fame for his poetry and writings at the turn of the century, Williams has performed in over 30 countries and read in over 300 universities, with invitations that have spanned from the White House, the Sydney Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall, to countless, villages, townships, community centers, and prisons across the world. The Newburgh, New York native has gone on to record with Nine Inch Nails and Allen Ginsburg, as well as countless film and television appearances. Williams performs this Thursday, September 8 as part of the CFCU Summer Concert Series. Hometown favorites Big Mean Sound Machine open up. This is the big time! Don’t miss out. (Photo provided) Study Movement of the early twentieth century and notable pillar in the Cornell University community. She encouraged children to take ownership and responsibility for not only their immediate bit of nature within their own circumference, but to realize that they were also part of the larger ebb and flow of the natural world. Cayuga Bird Club Meeting and Talk | 7:30 PM-, 9/12 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Join wildlife photographer Marie Read to hear about her summer travels to northern Utah and northeast Montana in search of breeding Western, Clark’s, and Eared grebes. 2016-17 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture: Voices from the People: The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Soviet Dream | 4:30 PM-6:30 PM, 9/12 Monday | Statler

Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Speaker: Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. T’ai Chi Classes at Lansing Library | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, 9/13 Tuesday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing | John Burger: Instructor. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing.

Kids Ithaca Children and Youth Chorus Placement Auditions | 3:00 PM-6:00 AM, 9/07 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | CSMA is holding ten minute placement auditions on Tuesday, Sept 6 and Wednesday, Sept 7. No experience or preparation needed. Children ages 7-19 are welcome to join,

Special Events U.S. Vintage Grand Prix | Thursday, 9/08 through Sunday, 9/11 | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Don’t miss the U.S. Vintage Grand Prix presented by Jaguar, one of the largest vintage racing events in the nation, featuring historic SVRA (Sportscar Vintage Racing Association) race cars from nearly every era, as Watkins Glen International celebrates its legendary history. The Glorious Grape | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 9/10 Saturday | Varick Winery, 5102 State Rte 89, Romulus | Enjoy wine tasting and complimentary grape pie, grape brownies, and sweet and sour smokey bites. As always, you can enjoy complimentary jellies, preserves, dipping oils, BBQ sauces, mustards, salsas, salad dressings, fruit butters, herb dips & hot sauces. AIDS Ride for Life | 9/19, Saturday, All Day | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Ride for the mission, the thrill, the athletic challenge, and the fab food. Whatever your reason, you will enjoy one of the most memorable times of your life. Choose your miles to Ride around the Lake 100, 85, 42, 27 or 15 miles. (For 27 & 15 miles - register as a 42 miler) Start Line at Stewart Park, Ithaca and Finish Line at Cass Park Ithaca. Tomato Festival | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM,

9/10 Saturday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Calling all tomato lovers! Come sample dozens of different varieties of heirloom tomatoes, then take home seeds from your favorites so you can grow these delicious yet sometimes hard-to-find varieties in your own garden. For more information go to www.ccetompkins. org/events or email Chrys Gardener at cab69@cornell.edu Some Like It Hot: Annual Harvest Party | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, 9/10 Saturday | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Featuring live music from Blue Eyed Soul, local artisans a plethora of chef creations from Paulie’s Global Kitchen. The event is outside overlooking the vineyards. Bring along your lawn chair, enjoy wine and beer by the glass or bottle and plan to spend the afternoon. Groundswell’s Pig-N-Pints | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/10 Saturday | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville | Family Friendly. Pig Roast by Van Noble Farms, Food by Bici Cocina. Beer and Cider Tastings, Live Music, Silent Auction, Face Painting, Petting Zoo, Cider Pressing Demonstration and much more! Proceeds from Pig Roast and Silent Auction benefit Groundswell’s Beginning Farmer Training Program. 10th Annual Wine Water and All That Jazz | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/11 Sunday | Goose Watch Winery, 5480 State Rte 89, Romulus | Music by Rebecca Colleen & Chore Lads, Andie Stobbe & Greater Finger Lakes Orchestra, Rick Hoyt & Cool Club Quartet, Johnny Russo & East Hill Quintet and Brad Ellis & Anna Luisi. Food and wine for sale, and a silent auction featuring local items and several special items from Malawi.

Friday October 7. An optional half-day Code Sprint or half-day Drupal Basics, will be held October 6. Registration is open to the first 225 participants. visit: camp2016.drupal.cornell.edu/ registration-2016 East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/07 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/07 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Over 40 Pick-Up Basketball Games | 4:30 PM-6:30 PM, 9/08 Thursday, 9/12 Monday | Henry St. John Building, 301 S. Geneva Street, Ithaca | Phone 607 339-9959 for details. Reagan’s Tae Kwon Do | Candor High School, Candor | Train to make yourself faster, stronger, more confident, and disciplined. Learn forms, one steps, sparring, and breaking. Try a week or free. Contact: reaganstaekwondo. com / (607)659-5266 / reagansTKD@ gmail.com 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 9/09 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, Ithaca | Featuring vegan lime coconut cupcakes and gluten free sandwich rolls. Info: (607)-794-8313 Taking Care Of Business: Exhibit Opening | 10:00 AM, 9/10 Saturday | Tioga County Historical Museum, 110 Front Street, Owego | A history of business, industry, and commerce in Tioga County, featuring all of the methods of advertising used over the last 150 years. Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-, 9/12 Monday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Learn to play acoustic guitar, or improve your guitar playing, with this inexpensive course. For further information, call Phil Shapiro at 844-4535, or e-mail at pds10@cornell. edu. The Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Hikes | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead 4-5 mile hikes every Tuesday evening. Hike locations vary every week. For

Ongoing Rehearsals for Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers Fall Semester | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/07 Wednesday | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers, Directed by Gerald Wolfe, will begin rehearsing the Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi and the Te Deum by Antonin Rejcha. Registration takes place from 6:15-7:00 pm prior to the first three rehearsals. For more information and to register online: www.ithacacommunitychoruses.org Registration Open for Cornell DrupalCamp 2016 | To be held

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NewPark Hotel & Event Center, September 9 through September 11

John Stetch was exposed to the sounds of jazz at an early age. His father always tuned in to the local jazz radio station in the car, had a large jazz record collection, and taught Stetch the basics of clarinet. In his early teens, Stetch remembers reading his Dad’s Benny Goodman transcriptions and Jimmy Dorsey’s “Hot Licks”. By his 2nd year of college, he dropped everything and delved into full-time piano studies. He comes to Ithaca Friday with his engaging and powerful Quartet.

Three days of superb artistry in the unique setting of NewPark in the heart of the Finger Lakes will have you feeling relaxed and dazzled. World-class musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet of Canada, Canadian Opera Company, the International Tchaikovsky Competition and more unite to present dynamic programs of chamber music in an engaging and natural venue. Enjoy local food, drinks, music, and more. An amazing weekend awaits you.

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Johnson Museum of Art | Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Opening reception for Fall 2016 exhibitions. Celebrate our major new exhibition JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876–1970 exploring the roles of art, design, and display in Japanese-American relations as seen at nearly a century of World’s Fairs. Learn more at a gallery talk at 4:30PM with curator Nancy Green. Four other new exhibitions highlight works from the Museum’s collection and video art from the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Bridget Bossart van Otterloo and Brian S. Keeler | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 9/09 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Nature’s Light: featuring new work by Bridget Bossart van Otterloo and The Light of the Lakes: featuring new work by Brian S. Keeler. Music performed by Meredith Kohn Bocek, Harpist. For Shutterbugs Only: (SCAC) Juried Show | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 9/09 Friday | Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | The juror for this year’s show is Jeff Adams. Rosalyn Richards | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 9/09 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Rosalyn’s solo exhibition, titled A Delicate Balance, features recent paintings and etchings. Folk Art Series: Willow WeavingTrellis | 10:00 AM-, 9/10 Saturday | Bement-Billings Welcome Center, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | Bonnie Gale will teach you how to make a 6 inch Garden trellis. Work on the ground or at table height. Call for a supply list. Early American Art | History Center, 130 Seneca Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-4:00PM Saturday 9/10/ History Center, 401 E. State St, Ithaca/ Member art demonstrations by The Historical Society of Early American Decoration.

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always get nervous when Steven Spielberg tries his hand at the history genre. I find Lincoln, Amistad, and Munich to be some of Spielberg’s most boring films. Unless he’s working with Tom Hanks, that is. (I grew up on Jaws and Raiders and all that, but there are days when I think that Catch Me If You Can is my favorite Spielberg film.) Hanks and Spielberg team up again for the nifty and involving Bridge of Spies, a very adroit take on the Cold War and the whole U2-Francis Gary Powers scandal of the late 1950s: subjects that have been well picked over, but Spielberg and company find new angles. Based on a screenplay by Matt Charman and Joel and Ethan Coen, the film stars Hanks as James B. Donovan, the lawyer charged with representing accused spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) and later negotiated the exchange between Abel and Powers (Austin Stowell). The pacing and characterizations are sharply drawn, and Spielberg’s longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski shoots the film with sepia tones and blown-out light sources. No fiction film should substitute for learning about the real thing, but the subject matter is well treated here. Too bad that, like Oliver Stone’s JFK, Amy Ryan, like Sissy Spacek, has little to do as Mary McKenna Donovan, the Obligatory Dutiful Wife.

Dowd Gallery | Room 106, SUNY Cortland, Cortland | Jaime BrettTreadwell: Fade to Gray. An exhibition of new paintings on view from August 29-October 7. Eye Gallery | 215 E State St, Ithaca | Eye, 126 The Commons, Ithaca | About Face is eye Ithaca’s first group show with over 20 painters, photographers, and sculptors’ depiction of the face, human and otherwise. Creators include Kaleb Hunkele, Janet Woolley, Camille Chew, Terry Plater, Giselle Potter, and some surprises. PLUS! Diminutives: A Pop-Up of Small Mercies, featuring Leah Strogatz, Erin Deneuville, Ben Marlan, & Amy Browne. Handwerker Gallery | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Early American Art. An exhibition of Early American Art by the Central New York Chapter of The Historical Society of Early American

Cayuga St, Ithaca | Herb Shapiro: New Paintings. Representational painting and Abstract painting. CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Over 400 pieces of donated art will be in the ArtSpace. The sale ends on September 30th. Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca Michael Goscinsky: Wood Block Prins. Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | A group show of recent works by CSMA’s visual arts faculty and selected students. On view September through October. Collegetown Bagels | Collegetown Bagels, 203 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Explore essences of Ithaca through this collection of fresh, intimate portraits of the area by local photographer Hobit Lafaye.

(Except for a fun tag at the end that I won’t spoil.) • • • The college ball players depicted as the fictional Texas Cherokees in Everybody Wants Some!! might be sexist meatballs, but this is a Richard Linklater joint, so even the jock types that I hated back in 1980, the year the film takes place, have hidden depths, vulnerabilities and out-there belief systems and philosophical notions. Set four years down the road from Linklater’s 1976 last-day-of-high-school comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), the movie that introduced Matthew “Alright, alright” McConaughey to the world, Everybody Wants Some!! takes place over the last weekend before classes start at a Texas college, seen through the eyes of Jake (Blake Jenner), a freshman hot-shot high school ball player about to start the new semester. From the moment his car rolls into frame, I knew Jake wasn’t a meatball, as evidenced by the Devo album in a crate of vinyl in his back seat. The rest of the guys are a motley but funny bunch of unknowns, à la Dazed. I don’t remember seeing any of these guys before, but this being a Linklater, I liked ‘em: Jenner, Will Brittain, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Glenn Powell, and Wyatt Russell. Zoey Deutch is also sweet as Beverly, a theatre major that Jake has his eye on. It’s a movie that’s more about the hang, more about the guys getting to booze, doing bong hits, chasing college girls and bonding than it is about getting them on the field, which they do once in the second hour of the flick, and it’s just the first practice of the year. Don’t go expecting a movie about the big game. As with Dazed and Confused, the period details are subtle but well observed. The guys go to a disco, a

CCE Education Center, Saturday, September 10, 11:00 a.m. Calling all tomato lovers! Come sample dozens of different varieties of heirloom tomatoes, and then take home seeds from your favorites so you can grow these delicious yet sometimes hard-to-find varieties in your own garden. The tomato sampling and seed saving instruction will be ongoing so drop in when you can! Varieties available for sampling and seed saving will include: Amish Paste, Orange Banana, Striped Roman, Pink Brandywine, Fox Cherry, Green Zebra, New Yorker, Black Prince, and many more.

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country bar, a punk dive, and an arty theater party over the course of the weekend, a great way to emphasize that Devo and country line dancing were happening at the same time. And as usual, the soundtrack is extensive and varied, everything from The Knack to

Decoration. Johnson Museum of Art | Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970, Through Sunday, December 18. We Went to the Fair: Through Sunday, December 18. American Sojourns and the Collection of Japanese Art: Through Sunday, December 18. Japonisme: The First Wave and Beyond: Through Sunday, December 18. Follow the enthusiasm for all things Japanese from the 19th century to today. Leo Villareal: Cosmos, Ongoing. | www.museum. cornell.edu Lifelong | 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Carl Schofield, Photographs. After retiring, Carl Schofield turned his eye to from examining the impact of acid rain as part of Cornell’s department of Natural

Steve Forbert to the SOS Band and Stiff Little Fingers. Kudos for using Pink Floyd’s “Fearless” from Meddle instead of a more obvious hit … and having the characters smoke weed and talk about Pink Floyd. I was there, and that felt like 1980 to me. •

Resources to capturing images of landscapes, nature, and travel. Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Ben Ortiz, aka DJ Hameen, will be exhibiting his work downstairs during the months of September and October. Check out his work while enjoying some killer cocktails, live music and street food by Luna. Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Photographs by Jhenah Telyndru and Emily Brunner: Sacred Sight, Sacred Rites. Sarah’s Patisserie | 103 E Seneca St., Ithaca | Sally Ryan: Healing in Color. A lively journey of color and light with Sally’s latest abstracts in Acrylic and Collage. State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Sheryl Sinkow: 5 out of 7. Exhibition of images made

during Sinkow’s travels to five of our seven continents. Favorite images from the past as well as new photographs that show textures, landscapes, people and animals populate the walls of the gallery during September. Show dates: August 31-October. www. soagithaca.org www.soagithaca.org 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Mark O. Johnson and Old WIndow. Paintings.

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Are you a self starter, smart on your feet, Competitive, Outgoing, Personable and possess a strong work ethic? We may have the job you’ve been looking for! The Ithaca Times/Ithaca.com seeks a full time sales representative. Our reps identify needs and sell marketing solutions that include newspapers, online and niche products. Base, plus commission, Full benefits. Send resume and cover letter to Jbilinski@ithacatimes.com

NEW, F/T, New Visions Engineering Teaching position available 01/03/17 with T-S-T- BOCES, CTE. Class to be located at Cornell University. NYS Teacher Certification in STEM (Science-TechnologyEngineering-Mathematics) related areas required. Detailed job posting listed on the BOCES Web Site: www.tstboces. org and CareeBuilder.com Apply by 10/14/16 to TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, Phone (607)2571551, Fax: (607)607-8273, Email: hr@ tstboces.org

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The Alt, a newly formed alternative news company featuring an up-to-the-minute digital presence, weekly newspaper and comprehensive calendar covering Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady and Troy, is seeking to fill the position of Editor/Associate Publisher. The job will require a multifaceted leader with a deep understanding of both digital and print coverage of the arts, entertainment and alternative news. This leader should be a digital native with experience in print journalism. The Editor will need to be able to shift easily from the news aspects of the job to the business side when necessary. Minimum Job Requirements: * Journalism degree * Five years of editorial experience * Strong track record of social media success and posting news/photos/ video to the web * All aspects of digital news creation and editing experience is a must. The Alt: is a newly established independent alternative digital news company with a weekly newspaper in the Capital Region of New York State covering Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady and Troy. It’s a collaboration between three major players in the Market: The Daily Gazette, an independently owned daily newspaper now in its 122nd year; Proctor, a powerhouse nonprofit theater and entertainment coverage, strong reporting on nontraditional news and the market’s most comprehensive digital arts and entertainment calendar. The Alt also will provide a vibrant platform for compelling and provocative opinion pieces. Times Union’s story on the Alt: http://www.timesunion.com/ business/article/The-Alt-seeks-to-fillMetroland-s-void-8363626.php The Daily Gazette’s story on the Alt: http:// www.dailygazette.com/news/2016/ jul/110711.Alt/ All over Albany’s story on the Alt: http;//alloveralbany.com/ archive/2016/07/12/on-trying-to-fill-thespace-left-by-metroland Nippertown’s story on the Alt: http;//www.nippertown. com/2016/07/12/news-alt-weeklypoised-to-hit-newstands/ For further consideration please submit resume and portfolio to thealtjobs@gmail.com

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Onondaga County has the need for the following staff starting on September 26, 2016: • Teacher of the Deaf • Teacher of the Deaf (50%) • 96% Teaching Assistants (2 positions) • Teacher of the Blind/Visually Handicapped (1 Year Substitute) • Speech Language Pathologist

Sites are at various locations through Onondaga County. Interested applicants apply online by 09/16/16 at: www.olasjobs. org/central. For more information regarding these vacancies, please visit our website at: www. ocmboces.org EOE /

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instruction to students with intellectual difficulties in a 12:1:1 setting; write IEP goals; administer assessments as needed; write progress reports and notes. Work as a member of a multidisciplinary team. NYS Students with Disabilities 7-12 certification required. Applications only accepted online. Register and apply by 09/16/16 at: www.olasjobs.org/central. For more information, visit our website at www.ocmboces.org. EOE

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Green, Urban Living

Cleverly designed, sustainably built, Ithaca house By C a s san dra Palmy ra

The bathroom is equipped with a his is an unconventional house shower stall. The floor is covered with in that it is a single-family home earthtoned large ceramic tiles and the built on a small parcel in a densely sink is set into a free-standing commode. developed urban area and it was conThe bedroom is light-filled and structed with many green materials. It private, in spite of being right on West does, however, have a quite conventional Spencer Street. There is a large closet. floor plan surrounded by an exterior that When you descend to what is has a single-gable Colonial roof line atop vertically attenuated Victorian proportions. ostensibly the basement you instead find another complete living space, with That is, from the outside the house fits another bedroom, a laundry room, and neatly into its surroundings, while retaina full bath. ing an unadorned appearance that hints at The laundry room also holds the its Modernist intentions. hot-water heater; there is no furnace as There is no private parking associated the heating units are decentralized. with the house, so you will park on the This bathroom has a tub/shower that street and enter through the front door. is lined with the same white subway tile The entire ground level is visible as you walk in. Straight ahead of you are the stairs you saw in the kitchen. The bedroom is separated from the to the second level. To your left is a large room that is open to any use—living room, hall by a sliding door with a glazed glass pane. The opposite side of the room has dining room, family room—and is sepasliding glass doors that let out onto a parated from the kitchen by an island. tio that is equipped with a privacy fence. The floors throughout the house are A large closet is tucked under the stairs. strand-woven bamboo, which sustainable, There are raised beds along the durable, and refinishable. The windows in the front of the house are sashed, while the north side of the house that are accessible via a gravel path that also serves as a triple window on the side of the house is drip line for the roof. higher on the wall and a casement style. There is a spareness and economy to A door leads out onto a large arborcovered porch that extends along the entire the design of this house that is coupled with details that evoke a relaxed aesthetic. south side of the house. The view off the This combination of thoughtful urbanporch is of a small triangular yard that ity and dialed-down bucolic charm is not drops steeply away from a retaining wall. common. Privacy is provided by ornamental grasses. This is the perfect house for a profesThe porch and the walkway that leads sional couple or a small family who want to the front door are both constructed to be right downtown and also don’t want a of larch (also known as tamarack). The lot of house to take care of. • surfaces are left rough, giving the house a cottage aesthetic. This is enhanced by the tongue-andAt A Glance groove siding that covers the north wall of Before you set foot the living room. Price: $399,000 in that first open The kitchen, however, is elegant house, get prequalified for a mortgage Location: 228 W. Spencer St., and urban with butcher-block counters and know exactly you can afford. Citywhat of Ithaca throughout and simple painted customSchool District: Ithaca City Schools built cabinets with rectangular recessed We offer plenty of loan Fall Creek Elementary panels and black matte-finish metal pulls. options and special programs for MLS#: 307105 The wall behind the counter is finished with white “subway” tiles. The double sink Contact: Hildahomebuyers. Moleski, Licensed first-time is some sort of high tech molded plastic Real Estate Associate Broker, Carol and there is a sleek countertop electric Bushberg hilda@ And decisionsReal takeEstate; minutes, not days. range and a microwave. carolbushberg.com Happy shopping.* The second story consists of a large Phone: (607) 220-3369 (cell) bedroom and a full bathroom, both accesWebsite: Apply onlinewww.carolbushberg.com or talk to one of our sible from a large, light-filled landing.

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Wine Tastings every Friday with friendly knowledgeable staff

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