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Resource Center Director Fabina Colon, Chief John Barber, other IPD officers, among others. GIAC Director Marcia Fort and Mayor Svante Myrick led off the meeting by bringing everyone up to speed, and giving their vision for what the night would hopefully accomplish.

“This meeting,” Fort said, “grew out of [the Dec. 17 racial sensitivity training] that happened a couple of weeks ago. I think it’s fair to say there were people at that meeting who had a lot of questions, who expressed some concerns. Out of that, a decision was made that it might be helpful to have a meeting where a larger portion of our community could attend, and

Court Consolidation: Community Weighs Consistent Justice? In on City Police

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ccording to County Administrator Joe Mareane, combining municipal courts may be a means for achieving more consistent justice across the county.

Recently, the Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG) embarked on a quest to find money-saving shared-service options that would help the county’s various municipalities meet the shared-services savings requirement of Governor Cuomo’s tax freeze. For 2016, municipalities that wish their property tax payers to qualify for the state’s meager rebates must both stay beneath the state-mandated tax cap and show a savings equal to 1 percent of the tax levy just from shared services.

In researching various shared-services options for TCCOG, Mareane began looking into the municipal court system.

Collectively, the county’s towns and villages spend about $1 million per year on their court systems. However, after talking with a number of people in the county who were deeply familiar with the justice system, Mareane realized that the biggest benefit of shared services in the court system might be the opportunity to create a justice system that is more consistent across the county.

As he told TCCOG in November, “Clearly we’re not going to save a bunch of money by restructuring the court system. However, we might able to achieve improvement in the consistency of justice.”

Some of the suggestions that Mareane heard in the course of his research included creating a court only for arraignments, creating a countywide criminal court (but leaving non-criminal matters in existing town and village courts), creating a district court, and combining existing municipal courts.

Mareane said that he was not aware of any existing precedent for the first two suggestions. Both would probably require changes in state law to implement. In both cases, the hope would be that more consistent justice could be achieved by putting judges who have legal training in charge of situations that may lead to incarceration. Currently, village and town justices are not required to have been attorneys or have any legal background.

The other two suggestions, though, do have some precedent. Orleans County District Attorney Joe Cardone said that consolidating town courts has worked well in his jurisdiction, a small county of about 42,000 people on the shore of Lake Ontario. When Cardone became district continued on page 12

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early six months after the infamous early morning Aug. 10 incident involving outof-uniform Ithaca Police Sgt. John Norman drawing his firearm on two unarmed African American teenagers, the Ithaca community is still evaluating its relationship with the Ithaca Police Department (IPD).

Controversial national verdicts on the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner led to local protests in recent months. These, along with a racial sensitivity training session held by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for IPD on Dec.17, have brought the issue back to the forefront.

A “call to action” meeting on Monday, Dec. 29 in the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) gym lasted three hours, as nearly 100 residents gathered to GIAC Director Marcia Fort (Photo: Michael Nocella) brainstorm the following questions in think groups: together, we would begin to work on some • Please describe what you feel are the of the planning that’s necessary. If we’re main issues related to community and saying that we’re not at the place we would police interactions like our community and police relations • What is your vision for community to be, it’s up to all of us to work together to and police relations? get there.”

• How should police be incorporated in Myrick’s eight-point plan for the resolution of issues? “excellence in policing” was once Several local leaders were in more laid out. For those who need a attendance, including Alderpersons J.R. reminder, the plan includes the following: Clairborne, Seph Murtagh, and Cynthia Brock, Board of Education member Eldred continued on page 4 Harris, Kirby Edmonds, Multicultural

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▶ Aging Out of Driving, The next Aging Services Network Meeting will be Friday, Jan. 9 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Tompkins County Office for the Aging, 214 West Martin Luther King Jr./State St., Ithaca.

The number of drivers 65 years and older is projected to nearly double by 2030 to over 60 million! The risk of fatal crashes for drivers 80 and older increases dramatically and many families are familiar with the worry when their aging parent shows some of the warning signs for older drivers. What can be done? How do we support these aging drivers? In this

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presentation, Eleanor Liebson and Jonathan Maddison will review key facts on issue of aging and driving and one of the latest techniques for understanding older driver safety. They will conclude with a discussion of best practices for supporting older adults that are “retiring from driving” and review some resources that caregivers can use during this process.

Eleanor Liebson has worked for Cayuga Medical Center as an outpatient OT since 2010 at their Brentwood Clinic near Convenient Care off Warren Road.

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ew York State Assemblyperson Barbara Lifton, for District 125 (Cortland and Tompkins counties), looked back on her achievements for 2014, and into the coming year for the battles ahead.

Although the legislature has won a few concessions from the governor, Lifton said that certain court rulings have given New York’s governor “more power than the President in relation to Congress,” and, for members of the legislature, the lack of equity is frustrating.

“The governors have the status of a monarch; they can make law by themselves,” said Lifton. “It’s not clear the public even understands it. It’s frustrating for me to even have to say it—on some level people don’t believe it. It sounds like you’re giving them an excuse.”

The governor submits an executive budget in mid-January, which the legislature responds to with their own revenue and spending forecast by the first of March. In the past, the executive and the legislature then battled it out, with the final budget due by the first of April.

However, from 1985 to 2004, the two branches of government could not agree by the deadline, and the budget passed late, causing the state to borrow money to keep its operations going.

The shift began with two court cases, Pataki v. NY State Assembly, and Silver v.

Pataki. The courts ruled in the governor’s favor, saying that the legislature did not have the power, under Article 7 of the NY Constitution, to amend the governor’s appropriations. Pataki extended the governor’s power to include changing the language in the budget, not just the Communitypolice contin u ed from page 3

requirement of all police officers to reside in the city, a newly formed twoofficer Community Action Team (CAT), a downtown social worker, ten percent increase in police staffing, full review of all policies and procedures leading to formal accreditation, opening a district office on the West End, body cameras on police officers, and an improved community outreach programming. Myrick spoke to his plan, noting that the CAT and increase in officers, downtown social worker and body cameras are all in the process of being implemented in the coming months. He added that the residency requirement is also in the midst of being completed (the latter is likely to result in officers being required to live in Tompkins County, not the city).

Although Myrick was happy to

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agreed on it.” The law requires boat owners to clean their boats thoroughly when leaving or entering any body of water, and includes other safeguards to prevent the spread of invasive species to state water bodies. In 2015, she anticipates the DEC would need more money to handle this responsibility and others.

“We’re the only state to ban fracking,” she said, putting it in the “win” category.

The ban on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, she said, is a “de facto” ban.

It’s not, formally, a law, but an addition to the SGEIS (Supplemental Generic New York Assemblyperson Barbara Lifton Environmental Impact (Photo: Glynis Hart) Statement), and comes under the administration monetary amounts. In 2011 Governor of the departments of Environmental David Paterson further extended the Conservation and of Health. “They have governor’s power by rolling over the to finish up putting the health findings in entire budget into an emergency extended the SGEIS; I will be watching that closely,” budget, meaning if the legislature didn’t said Lifton. “Some people were pushing pass his whole budget as he wrote it, the for bills (to end fracking), but that is the state government would shut down. That end of it.” included everything from park workers Losses and state troopers to Medicaid payments For eight years a high school English for people in the hospital; after nearly teacher herself, Lifton said, “Education’s three decades of late budgets, the public everything, right? ... Well, obviously looked dimly on the legislature, and the rollout of Common Core has been supported the governor’s tactics. “And problematic. I voted against the initial now, in the budget the governor can bill; there was too much pressure, and basically change the law by himself. We’re over a barrel- unless we want to shut down not enough time to look at it. I think the standards themselves are all right. Many state government.” teachers around here are already doing (what the Common Core requires). The Wins However, Lifton looked back on a few problem was linking it to high-stakes testing.” Responding to public pressure, victories for 2014. Her Aquatic Invasive the state education department and the Species Act was signed into law last June. governor relented on the use of the new “It was a very important law, but it wasn’t difficult to pass,” she said. “Everybody continued on page 12 answer questions about his plans, he did not want his opinions on community policing to shape the night’s discussions, he said.

“I don’t want to step on what other people’s visions might be,” Myrick said. “I have a lot of thoughts on the topic, as you might imagine. With all this brain power in the room, I’d like to hear what the community thinks.

“This is a terrific first step,” he continued. “To get our officers engaged with our community. It’s nice with a city our size, we don’t have thousands of police officers—we have dozens. We can meet them all. They can know each of us. And we can forge relationships with them, which I’m convinced, would be for the best.”

Discussions among several “think groups” of approximately a dozen people took up the majority of the night. One member from each group then gave a quick two-minute rundown of what

was said. Common recommendations included giving the current community police board more power, or creating a more powerful civilian police board, and police officers becoming more interactive with residents.

Fort said the night was a success, but that progress up until this point could be moving a faster, more focused pace.

“I think I’m looking for [more progress that’s been made],” Fort said, “but I’m optimistic going forward. We have a ways to go, but I’m seeing things happening that [indicate progress].

There’s a lot of information that’s been put out there; people have said a lot of things. What I’m looking for is us working together for a shared vision of what policing should look like in our community. I want us to move forward. I don’t want us to get stuck in what’s wrong, I want to move forward to what’s right.” • —Michael

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n mid-December Manos Diner, Ithaca’s only 24-hour diner, located at 357 Elmira Rd, abruptly announced they were closing—to the surprise of the community and the employees. The venerable establishment has become a go-to spot for many residents, and its closing will leave a void in the area. The Ithaca Times recently caught up with the owner of the diner, Bill Manos, who took some time to look back on the experience of owning the diner, and why he had to say goodbye so quickly during the holiday season.

Ithaca Times: When did you open Manos Diner?

Bill Manos: May 3, 1962.

IT: And when did you officially close?

BM: December 14, 2014.

IT: What will you remember most about those 52 years?

BM: The customers. Those are the people who got me to be where I am today, and with their help, I was able to retire. I had an extremely loyal customer base. We were very close.

I’ve always been customer oriented.

I’d say about 70 percent of people who came in here—I’d consider them to be regulars. Those are the ones I’ll miss, and remember, the most.

IT: What will become of this building, this property?

BM: It’s going to be a Mexican restaurant. I’ve met the people; it’s a family. They’re going to blend in excellently with the community.

Their kids are going to be attending Fall Creek School. And I heard they’re going to be members of the Immaculate Conception Church [in downtown Ithaca]. So they’ll be on one side of the street, and me being Greek Orthodox, I’ll be on the other side of the street [at St. Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church], so we’ll be side by side. We’ll be waving to each other on Sundays.

IT: Besides your customers, what will you miss most about owning your own diner?

BM: Just the everyday interactions with my staff and the customers. Other than that, I’m going to miss just about everything. I saw the area develop from being small to the way it is today. Back in ‘62, there were only a few businesses around here. Today, it’s a big operation.

IT: We’ve talked about what you’ll miss. What won’t you miss so much?

BM: The government. The rules, the regulations—they stink. There’s too many today. They bleed the employee to death, and they bleed the employer to death.

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That stuff has to stop. The country can’t keep going with all of these regulations.

You know, raising taxes, insurances, and workmen’s compensations. All of these things enter into the price of the menu.

People, politicians don’t realize that. They don’t realize what a businessman goes through—they think it’s all profit. They think the whole dollar is yours, they don’t know you’ve got expenses. There’s no

sympathy there. Something’s missing there.

IT: I’m from New Jersey, where diners are quite popular. Here in Ithaca, you’re one of the only ones. What makes a good diner in Ithaca, in this region?

BM: One thing is, you can get a breakfast, anytime. We were open 24 hours a day. The prices were not that bad. The apple pie, and a good cup of coffee. Those are the things that kept customers happy and coming back all of these years.

IT: This closing has caught the community, and your staff, by surprise.

How long have you been thinking about this decision?

BM: I was just as surprised as everyone else. This wasn’t something I planned on. It was not up for sale, not up for lease. Maybe in a couple more years, I would have thought of something like that. But, a couple friends of mine in the business approached me, and came to me with something that was too good to pass up. It was an opportunity from Heaven.

We sat down, and there was just a mutual understanding from both sides right away. It was just a nice, easy transaction.

I think the next owners are going to do a tremendous job. They have businesses in other states, they wanted to come to New York State, and Ithaca was their number one destination.

IT: Some people have questioned why you would close right before the holidays.

Did you think about the timing at all, in terms of your employees?

BM: My biggest thought was the employees. When I decided to do this, I knew it’d be right before Christmas or right after. It was a hard decision for me. I felt for the customers, the employees. But what its was, the new owners wanted to renovate during the winter months, and there was only so much flexibility available to give them the window they needed to open their business when they wanted to open it.

For my employees, I put the word out all over, I made some phone calls. Five of my people—two of them are going to retire, one is on maternity leave, and the other two already have good prospects. Five of my other employees were getting ready to leave anyway, and the rest, we pretty much have all taken care of and placed already.

IT: Personally, for you, what are your plans going forward?

BM: I haven’t done any yard work all of my life. Now I might be able to do a little here, a little there. I still have a property next door and in Elmira [to oversee]. I just leased the Elmira building to a lady right around the same time I made this decision.

Everything kind of happened at once. So now I get to sleep in a little bit once in a while. Maybe take a little trip. Two of my daughters live here, but my other daughter lives in Maryland. I see my granddaughters in Ithaca, but my grandson in Maryland, he’s about four years old now, and I’ll get to see him more often. That’s it. I’ll get to slow down a little bit. •

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Ups&Downs ▶ Helping the Cady Family, Melissa Cady and her two sons have lost their home, and their belongings, as well as having lost David.

At this time, there are a couple of options for helping them: The Danby Federated church has a Relief Fund set up for the Cadys. You can deliver or send checks made payable to Danby Federated Church, 1859 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850.

Go Fund Me has a page where you can make donations. Keep in mind that there are administrative costs and funds may also be taxed, so the family would not receive the total amount that has been contributed.

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 ▶ Business After Hours, Join your peers on Wednesday Jan. 14 at the Ithaca YMCA for a Chamber After Hours to be hosted by the YMCA and Tompkins Trust Company. Doors open at 5:00pm, enjoy this chance to explore all the Y has to offer, meet some of the staff, volunteers and patrons that make it the most inclusive and diverse health and wellness community center in the county. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Dec. 31-Jan. 6 include: 1) Updated: Man Who Barricaded Himself in Danby Home Found Dead 2) Local Santa and Son Appear on Dr. Phil 3) Casino License Hopefuls Band Together 4) Local Man Arrested for Stabbing 5) Lansing Man Arrested on Gun Charge For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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The Year In Review

We look back at the 10 most popular stories of 2014

By Keri Blakinger, Bill Chaisson, Louis DiPietro, and Michael Nocella Tractor-Trailer Plows into Simeon’s June 25 issue

By Louis DiPietro Our coverage of the Simeon’s truck accident on an otherwise quiet summer afternoon was the most read story on our website at ithaca.com in 2014.

Shortly after 4 p.m. on Friday, June 20 a tractor-trailer hauling seven commercial vehicles came barreling down East State Street, lost its brakes and slammed into the popular Commons bistro, killing 27-yearold Amanda Bush, a Lansing mother who had been tending bar there.

The driver told police that, after he realized his brakes were out, he had considered driving straight into the construction area of the Commons, but saw workers there and attempted a hard, right-hand turn onto Aurora Street. He didn’t make it, and the sound of the truck striking the Simeon’s building echoed through downtown Ithaca.

The truck was wedged deep inside the bistro, crumbled bricks partially burying the truck’s cab, and the trailer angled out into the intersection of Aurora and State.

Folks at the scene began to clear the block. Others yelled from the street up to upstairs tenants of the building, telling them to exit. Meanwhile, good Samaritans jumped into Simeon’s and helped out as much as they could, even using a fire extinguisher to tame a fire until city crews

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hit the scene, firefighters reported.

Five were ultimately transported by ambulance to Cayuga Medical Center and another two drove themselves there for treatment, police reported.

In the ensuing hours after the crash, engineers and emergency crews would work well into the evening stabilizing the 130-year-old building in hopes of extracting the truck. By roughly 10 p.m. that Friday night, they had done so.

The next morning, remembrances in honor of Bush started to pile up near the accident site. Nearby, during a press conference, Ithaca City Mayor Svante Myrick called the tragedy “a horrific day in Ithaca’s history” and said Ithaca would examine ways to prevent trucks of such size from traveling steep hills in city limits. That report, too, cracked our top-5 stories of the year.

In the days that followed, the legitimacy of the trucking company—Auto Star Transport, out of Spokane, Wash.— was called into question after federal records showed that it had been stripped of its contract as a motor carrier in January.

Its insurance had been canceled that same month, according to records. Ithaca Police would respond in the following days, stating that the truck company was actually called Quality Re-Locating Services and was fully insured.

The Ithaca community would show its support for the Bush family by donating

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-Louis DiPietro

Classroom Design/Common Core February 25 & March 5

By Erin Barrett and Michael Nocella Common Core State Standards have been adopted in 45 states as their blueprint for K-12 education.

In principle, they seek to create a researchbased, more rigorous, and internationally benchmarked set of standards. The English language arts (ELA) and math standards were released in June 2010 and established what material students should know at the end of each grade level and what graduating seniors need to know to be college and career ready.

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Confusion regarding the Common Core in New York State, including Ithaca, is partially due to the new standards being introduced simultaneously with rewritten standardized tests and Annual Professional Performance Reviews (APPR)—both polarizing in their own rights. APPR is a state mandate that went into effect in the 2012-13 school year. The timing— implementing APPR at the same time as the Common Core standards—explains why the two separate initiatives have been confused in public opinion. In order to receive “Race to the Top” funding from the federal government, the states had to implement an APPR plan that incorporated measures of student learning.

This coincidence has led many people to lump APPR and the Common Core under one umbrella, when technically, the term Common Core only refers to the new

set of standards.

Superintendent Luvelle Brown, with the aid of ICSD Master Educators Liddy Coyle and Lily Talcott, pointed to ICSD’s vision statement created three-and-a-half years ago, which promised “6,000-plus thinkers” getting an experience that is engaging, educational and empowering. He said that vision statement talked about raising expectations and standards by creating situations in the classroom that “did certain verbs.”

“We pulled out the words that were most repeated in the standards,” Brown said, “and the words that are most prevalent in the Common Core are the same words that we put in front of our community three-and-ahalf years ago. These are the verbs that the Common Core speaks to—period. What we said we would do, we’re doing. How we get young people to think is different now. It takes a different type of pedagogy to get young people today to do something.”

any one reason. It’s a combination.”

While no concrete evidence has been discovered to connect panhandling to sales of illegal drugs, there is some indication the two are intertwined. A Fulton Street business owner, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, detailed her experience with panhandlers in a letter to Common Council and IPD in May. According to the owner, a man and a woman panhandle outside of her building on a regular basis. She noted that she “received two calls in the same day from customers who felt it was unsafe to stop due to the panhandlers.” She added that IPD told her that when the individuals were searched for illegal drugs, no drugs were found but they did have “needles on

legislation, and whether or not it can make the practice more restrictive. City Attorney Ari Lavine has deemed such action is feasible, and is in the process of drafting new regulations. Lavine explained that because of rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, the city can’t simply ban panhandling but can make amendments as to what panhandling is allowed in public spaces from a public safety standpoint.

Such an angle could allow the city to restrict panhandling in instances including: being within 20 feet of people in a line for a payment (an ATM or parking garage pay station), public transportation, school, narrow spaces (an alley in the Commons), and traffic islands.

The city, Lavine added, also has the

The list, derived from an analysis conducted by the real estate website Zillow, found 90 cities where the median rent—not including utilities—was more than 30 percent of the median gross income.

Conventional wisdom suggests an individual’s rent should be somewhere around 30 percent of his or her income.

Zillow found Ithacans, on average, spend 38.6 percent.

According to the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), the average two-bedroom apartment in Ithaca—including utilities—costs $1,130 per month. To afford such an apartment without spending more than the traditional 30 percent of one’s income on rent, the household would need to earn $49,000 a year. The median household income in the City of Ithaca is $29,230 and two-thirds of the city’s households earn less than $50,000 a year, according to the 2008-2012 estimate from the American Community Survey (of the U.S. Census Bureau).

“The cost of housing is increasing at a faster rate than the increase in median household income,” said Nels Bohn, Director of Community Development, Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA). “Between 2013 and 2014 the cost of rental housing in Ithaca increased 13 percent,” he said, “yet household incomes are largely stagnant.

We have a growing housing affordability problem in Ithaca.”

However, there are still those that remain unconvinced. During Common Core seminar in May, ICSD parent Tim Turecek called the Common Core approach the equivalent of a “factory farm model of agriculture.”

“Local educators,” he said “are doing their best to make a silk purse of this sow’s ear by mitigating the negative impacts of a bad situation with providing caring, critical, creative, collaborative educational experiences based on the kind of human relationships that are necessary to build strong individuals and strong communities.”

When looking for the source of this problem, the simplest explanation as to why Ithaca’s rental housing market is skewed is supply and demand. Not only is the presence of Ithaca College and Cornell University dictating the city’s housing trends, the institutions also create jobs.

This brings new faces to Ithaca looking for a place to live, and more times than not, to rent. While a thriving job market is a good thing, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick said it factors into why affordable apartments are so hard to find.

– Michael Nocella

It Pays to Be a Panhandler July 2 issue

By Michael Nocella Over the past year, and especially this past summer, the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) documented a “sharp increase in complaints of aggressive panhandling.” While the action of panhandling is widely accepted as being protected by the First Amendment, aggressive panhandling is illegal in New York State.

Although panhandling in Ithaca is nothing new, it has never been this prevalent, said IPD Public Information Officer Jamie Williamson. He added that the number of complaints in 2014 surpassed 2011, 2012 and 2013 numbers

by July.

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“We’ve always had panhandlers here in Ithaca,” Williamson said. “In some years, complaints have been more frequent, but these last few years have seen a dramatic increase—this year in particular. If we were able to pinpoint why it continues to increase, well, that’s the one-million-dollar question. We have some different ideas and theories as to why panhandling has become the issue that it has, but I don’t think there’s

“I think it’s because there’s a lot of jobs here, and there’s not a lot of apartments here,” Myrick said. “It’s that dynamic. We have not grown the housing market as fast as the job market. So that while we’re adding more jobs, the people coming in to take the jobs are now competing with the people that were already here.”

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Outside of bad luck and the possibility of organized panhandling being tied to narcotic motives, there’s another reason panhandling has become a popular job in Ithaca: it pays.

“It’s just like working at a restaurant,” Williamson said. “You have busy days and slow days. On average, most of them are making $80 to $130 a day in a six- or eighthour shift. And I say ‘shift’ because that’s how they’re treating it. You’ll see a subject at one spot in the morning, and then later on in the afternoon, you’ll see the same subject at a different spot. And the person who was at that different area will then go to their spot. So ‘A’ is working at location one, ‘B’ is working in location two, and at noon, they’ll switch. So it appears to be an organized network, but again, it’s something we’re still sorting out.”

In recent months, city officials have taken a closer look at panhandling

ability to explore what time panhandling is allowed—prohibited at night, for instance—and the manner in which it is undertaken, with panhandlers targeting drivers of vehicles or using aggressive mannerisms being potentially illegal.

– Michael Nocella

That said, even some of the local real estate professionals in Ithaca had to look twice at where Ithaca ranked on the New York Times list.

“The New York Times article that just came out that looked at all of these market areas had, to me, really surprising results,” said Paul Mazzarella, Executive Director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS). “I knew Ithaca was expensive.

I’ve also known New York City was very expensive. One of things that makes rentals expensive in Ithaca is that the supply of rental units is really limited.”

One of the Least Affordable Cities?

April 23 issue

By Michael Nocella When the New York Times published an article listing the Top 20 cities where rent is highest relative to median gross income, New York City was just one spot above Ithaca (10th and 11th, respectively). Ithacans took notice.

Our article looking at why Ithaca was one of the least affordable cities in America went viral, with more than 1,200 Facebook shares and dozens of tweets on Twitter.

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Long-Term Effect of High School Sports July 23 issue of Finger Lakes Community Newspapers

By Chris Hooker You hear all the time that playing sports in school is a characterbuilding experience. This past year a Cornell study presented evidence to show it was actually so. In a story called “Study Finds Long-term Effect of High School Sports,” Chris Hooker, our Finger Lakes Community Newspapers sports editor, wrote about Kevin Kniffin’s paper, which

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appeared in the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. This article was shared to Facebook 820 times and enjoyed 6,431 views at our website.

A recent study conducted by Kevin Kniffin, a behavioral science professor at Cornell University, shows that athletes who played youth and high school sports make better employees and have better career opportunities than those who didn’t.

Kniffin’s report, titled “Sports at Work: Anticipated and Persistent Correlations of Participation in High School Athletics,” was co-written with Brian Wansink and Mitsuru Shimizu. The report details that in the short term, “people expect former student-athletes to display significantly more leadership, self-confidence, and self respect than those who were active outside

of sports—such as being in the band or on the yearbook staff.” … Kniffin believes … these improved life skills are due to the lessons learned while being an athlete. His paper breaks it down through a series of hypotheses, which state that people with sports experience are expected to “demonstrate organizationally beneficial traits when compared to others,” which include “self-confidence and selfrespect across decades” and “a correlation of prosocial and community-oriented behaviors.” … Kniffin writes: “We entitled earlier versions of the article “Revenge of the Jocks” since the findings generally describe favorable outcomes for former studentathletes in contrast with the stereotype that jocks see their glory days fade at high school graduation while others age much better.

The new research … does state plainly that people who earn a Varsity letter in high school do tend to enjoy advantages that extend beyond high school graduation day.”

The “prosocial and communityoriented behaviors” that Kniffin writes about include donating to charity and serving on community boards. His study (which is available to read online in manuscript form; just Google the full name) makes it clear that an essential part of his definition of leadership includes conforming to the norms spelled out by the status quo. Kniffin makes it clear that former student-athletes are the people who hold society together; they do not push it forward through innovation or by otherwise disrupting the use of the existing template.

“A fun impact of that was several people have contacted me with anecdotes of their own where they interviewed for a job that had nothing to do with sports, but got the job because they had a high school record for swimming,” said Kniffin.

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In other words, the success of student-athletes is perpetuated by the tendency of employers to impressed by a record of sports achievement regardless of the student-athletes more specific qualifications for a given job. Your time on the field, Kniffin and his colleagues found, teaches you to learn quickly and lead well.

- Bill Chaisson

Our Sons Stalked by Ithaca Police September 3 issue

By Michael Nocella In the early morning darkness of Saturday, Aug. 9, out-of-uniform Ithaca Police Sgt. John Norman pulled his firearm on two unarmed African American teenagers. That incident sent ripples through the Ithaca community that are still being felt today, and will continue to be the spark for several initiatives being rolled out by the city and Ithaca Police Department (IPD) in 2015.

While several Ithaca Times stories covered the incident, the most-read article was one in which the mothers of the young men involved gave an emotional speech in a forum held in the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) on Tuesday, Aug. 26. The mothers, Cassie Landes and Unique Bailey, told their side of the story in a tearful depiction of the events of Aug. 9. The forum followed an internal investigation by the city and the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) that determined Norman as within his rights to pull his weapon, and that race was not a factor in how the situation played out.

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“We are the parents,” Landes said, “of three 15-year olds who were chased and detained by officers of the Ithaca Police Department.

Two of our teens were also held at gunpoint, handcuffed and made to face down on the ground in front of their grandmother’s house. While this was going on, one of our

is chair of the city’s Planning and Development Committee. He included Cornell professor Michael Manville on a committee that was looking at the Collegetown parking situation:

teens was detained separately, bullied and searched without consent, and taken to the police station.

“We are outraged,” she continued, “and hurt that our three fine young men were treated in such dangerous and disrespectful manner by the very people that are suppose to protect them. Our sons are good students at Ithaca High School (IHS) and members of the IHS football team. They are participants in the Youth Employment Service of the Ithaca Youth Bureau, Workforce New York, and GIAC.” Landes added that the teenagers were “stalked from the north side of town to the south side by a white adult male, dressed in non-police clothing and driving a gray Volvo with two safety seats in the back.

Our sons feared for their safety, thinking they were being pursued by a dangerous individual, at one point even hiding in bushes to get away from the man.”

“There is no technical basis for the government to mandate to the amount of parking associated with each building,” said Manville. Of course they can include in their zoning ordinance a ratio between the number of people in a building and the number of parking spaces, he said, but on what is that number based?

What most people describe as a parking problem, noted Manville, is really a problem of finding free parking. “Ithaca has a lot of parking spaces,” he said, “but you have to pay for them. If you go up to the top floor of downtown parking garage, I’m sure it is completely empty.”

Bailey also had a strong reaction to how her son was treated, and demanded a response from the city and its police force.

“We were promised,” Bailey recalled, “a full and transparent investigation which would easily have revealed our sons’ whereabouts and lack of involvement in criminal activity.

Instead of the answers to our questions, we have read a series of misleading statements that cast doubt on the credibility of our children, ourselves, and our families. We demand and expect justice.”

In 2015, Mayor Svante Myrick’s eight reforms to IPD—which include body cameras on police officers, more officers, a Community Action Team, and a public outreach worker—and continued meetings between the community and IPD are anticipated.

- Michael Nocella

A Bigger Payment from Cornell Febuary 5 & 12 issues

By Bill Chaisson and Louis DiPietro We devoted two cover stories to examining the voluntary contribution that Cornell University makes to the coffers of the City of Ithaca. Mayor Svante Myrick feels that the university should give the city more money without strings attached, and the unwavering university policy is to attach strings to an enormous percentage of their contribution. In fact, they prefer to discuss the redesign of each intersection.

The university does not have a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement with the city. Rather, it has a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by which they promise to give the city $1.25 million each year. Myrick asked them to raise it to $6 million per year.

The Town of Ithaca does not have an MOU with the university.

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The town indirectly benefits from the Cornell contribution because the city charges the town $243,000 less based on the town’s one-third payment of the fire department budget (based on assessed valuation). “The total cost of fire protection to the town is over $3,000,000,” said

Murtagh agrees with Myrick about parking, but prefers to take a more politically palatable goslow approach to changing the regulations.

M a i l b o x e s at s t u d e n t H o u s i n g R e s i d e n c e (A r c h i v e P h o t o) Engman, “so $243K is nowhere near a third to be credited to the Cornell contribution.” … “Cornell argues that it makes other contributions,” said Engman, “but they are not in hard cash. They initially promised us $10 million for housing and $10 million for transportation, but that was not guaranteed money. It’s hard to do local planning without assurance. We want an annual predictable amount of money that we can rely on.” Stewart acknowledged that the financial meltdown after 2007 made it difficult for the university to free up money to fulfill the $20 million pledge.

Myrick had a study done that compared voluntary contributions from universities to municipalities. He selected seven universities to which Cornell often compares itself. In every category of comparison that Myrick selected, Cornell came in last or near the bottom. The study was not statistically rigorous, but even after the numbers were tightened up, Cornell did not fare well.

We found that the size of the voluntary contributions among the eight universities correlated strongly with crime rates and not very strongly with poverty rates, which we used as a proxy for economic need in a municipality.

This relationship suggests that public safety figures strongly into the size of a university’s payment to a municipality. The fact that Princeton, a wealthy municipality that is smaller than Ithaca, has more than double the number of burglaries (rescaled to per 100,000) and receives a much larger payment per resident from the university suggests this correlation bears further investigation. Unlike poverty, crime is more likely to directly affect the university community. The crime that affects the off-campus student population is the responsibility of the municipal police, so it makes sense to take crime into consideration when considering the size of your voluntary payment.

- Bill Chaisson

“Last year it was more like an ideological mantra: get rid of parking requirements” said Alderperson Ellen McCollister (D-3rd), a member of the Planning and Development Committee. “I give Seph Murtagh a lot of credit for taking a more moderate approach.” McCollister was also a member of the Collegetown working group that included Manville.

“Ithaca is a weird, urban, suburban, rural hybrid,” she said. “Rather than a blanket sweep, we recommended eliminating [MPRs] in the densest zones of Collegetown. However, students do bring cars in greater numbers than is actually claimed, especially at Cornell. That is because of the large number of fraternities and sororities; they use cars to get to and from the houses.” ... “We also have to have good parking management,” she continued. “[Parking Director] Frank Nagy has made a lot of progress with the parking garages, but our on-street parking management is still deficient.”

The End of Free Parking in Ithaca?

April 30 issue

By Bill Chaisson We published several articles in 2014 about public parking because its regulation is changing rapidly in the city under the aegis of Frank Nagy, the new Director of Parking, and at the urging of Mayor Svante Myrick.

Overall, the response to new regulations has been negative. Most upstate New Yorkers are not used to being asked to pay to park their cars. Myrick, however, has been paying attention to trends in urban planning that are related to making downtowns more livable and more vibrant.

In this progressive strain of public policy, automobiles are being sidelined as an alienating influence on cities. They take up room; they isolate people from each other; they pollute the air and water; and they are expensive. Many of noted the inadequacy of our regional mass transit, but this is a classis Catch-22: you can’t make public transportation work if you insist on maintaining an urban and regional plan that is designed first and foremost for the automobile.

Minimum parking requirements (MPRs) have been repealed in some areas of the city. Formerly, properties were required to have a specified number of parking spaces under the assumption that city dwellers all owned cars and that they deserved off-street parking. In areas of the city that have been designated for “densification,” such as the center of Collegetown and downtown Ithaca, MPRs have been removed from the zoning ordinance.

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Inside Ithaca’s Heroin Epidemic June 18 issue

By Bill Chaisson and Keri Blakinger Another of this year’s top stories was our June cover story about the increase in heroin use in the area. Although a number of opiate-related deaths over the past year drew attention to the issue locally, heroin has grown in popularity across the country.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) indicated that the number of first-time users increased from 373,000 in 2007 to 669,000 in 2012. Local data has seen a similar uptick. Bill Rusen, the CEO of Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services, shared the statistics that his

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organization assembled statistics for their client population between 2007 and 2012.

In 2007 only 13.4 percent of them checked in with heroin or opiates as their primary addiction. By 2012 heroin users accounted for 48.1 percent of their intake population, an increase of 35 percent. Likewise, Clinical Director Michelle Ellis has seen the portion of her clientele at the Alcohol and Drug Council with heroin as primary substance of abuse at admission to outpatient treatment rise from 5 percent in 2008 to 19.3 percent in mid-2014.

In a more qualitative measure of the rise in use, former heroin addicts also spoke about the problem. One woman, who asked to be identified only as Vicki, said, “Oh my god, it’s an epidemic. No question it has gotten worse.” Other recovering addicts spoke about the large number of friends they had lost to overdoses in recent years.

Although there may be many factors at work, one possible cause of the increased popularity of heroin is the passage of New York’s I-STOP law. I-STOP, which the New York State Senate passed in 2012, requires prescribers to consult a Prescription Monitoring Program Registry when writing certain types of prescriptions. The registry tracks all controlled substance prescriptions dispensed in the last six months and thus better allows health care providers to ensure that patients are not abusing prescription medication. The result has been that is has become harder to find prescription opiates and some users have begun making the switch from more expensive prescription pill to less expensive

heroin.

So what’s been done about it? In March, Albany began to take action on the issue as the Senate Majority Coalition announced the creation of a Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction. Throughout the spring, senators held forums across the state, inviting local residents, former heroin addicts, law enforcement officials, and treatment providers to come speak publicly about the problems in their area. Then, on June 9, the Senate passed a series of 23 bills addressing problems related to opiate use. The bills included a variety of measures, from extending the length of inpatient treatment insurance companies must cover to raising the penalty for selling an opioid resulting in overdose death to requiring that all first responders carry the anti-overdose drug naloxone.

- Keri Blakinger

TC3 Farm-to-Bistro Initiative January 22 issue

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In our Jan. 22 issue we took a look at a new addition to the downtown business and regional educational scene. TompkinsCortland Community College (TC3) did at least two things when they announced they were going forward with their “farmto-bistro” teaching facility and restaurant in downtown Ithaca. First, they were enlarging their downtown presence and footprint, which had been limited to some classrooms and administration above Bank Alley. Second, and more importantly, they looked at the sustainable farms movement

in this area and said, “Let’s educate people to take part in this.”

“This will be a very hands-on education,” said [Program Chair Sue]Stafford. “The Farm to Bistro initiative will create uniquely integrated curricula that utilize new, stateof-the-art facilities to provide hands-on experience that spans all the way across the agricultural and food systems—from planning, growing, marketing, and distributing to preparing and presenting.

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tests in students’ records, but not for teacher evaluations. “If it’s not working for the kids, then how can you use it to evaluate the teachers?”

Lifton said she’s particularly concerned with the Ed TPA, or the Teacher Performance Assessment, touted to be the new “bar exam” for graduating teachers. For one thing, new teachers are evaluated via a videotape of their teaching, which is sent to textbook and test publisher Pearson. “We don’t know who’s watching the video, or what their credentials are.” Further, the Ed TPA occurs in the final semester of student

teaching, when students are already teaching and in class for as much as 80 hours a week—and the test costs $300.

“SUNY Cortland is telling me a lot of students are dropping out. I think we’re making a mistake. Does this come from a British boarding school model: just make people miserable enough and they’ll be effective? I think we’re going to hear from the school districts, because of the shocking numbers of teachers not being produced through this system.”

“School funding is extremely important and a major focus of my work.

On Feb. 1 or so, we’ll get a budget from the Governor. We already have a lot of signals that the governor’s going to be extremely reluctant to put more money into education… We’re way behind on school

funding. Many schools cannot meet state standards because they can’t cover the cost of the mandates. Many schools have hit bottom, with next to no reserves left. I’d tax the wealthy; I’d put this windfall (state surplus) to use.”

Some of Both The Medicaid redesign’s effect on rural bus systems was devastating, but the battle isn’t over yet. “The feds said, Medicaid can’t be used for non-Medicaid expenses,” said Lifton. In many upstate rural counties, including Cortland, the Medicaid reimbursements for qualified riders supported the bus system.

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign implemented a new system for administering the funds: riders would

Have you noticed the stores that don’t have a clue whether they’re in Miami or Anchorage?

call a central answering service, which assigned them to a taxi in their area.

Overnight, funding for Cortland First Transit—and many other rural transit systems—vanished.

Legally, the justification for replacing buses with taxis is a Supreme Court decision, Olmstead v. L.C. The court ruled that public entities must provide services to people with disabilities in a manner that least restricts their freedom of movement.

Therefore, it’s up to the Medicaid recipient whether to wait for a bus, or call a taxi. “I think it’s a misinterpretation of Olmstead,” said Lifton. In spring 2014 Lifton met with officials from the Department of Health, as well as senator invited to the meeting, to lay out the problem. “If you let the bus systems go down, how does that help people on Medicaid? It seems to me that’s going to isolate them further.”

Lifton reports they’ve had three meetings with DOH officials and interested legislators, and a temporary restoration of funds, $2 million, was disbursed to help transit systems deal with the crisis. “The third meeting was about a month ago, and DOH was saying, we realize we have to get out of our silos and look at this more holistically. We ought to be increasing funding for rural transit. I’m all in favor of people having the choice to take taxis, but we shouldn’t be funneling them into taxis. We’ll be looking at this very closely in the budget.” • — Gly n is

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attorney in 1992, there were 23 town and village justices. He said, “It was just more courts than really were needed for that size population. So we started looking at ways to make our system more efficient.”

State law allows contiguous towns to merge courts, so about a decade ago the adjoining towns of Shelby and Ridgeway merged. Then the villages of Medina and Albion dissolved their courts, and more recently the Town of Yates joined the court merger. Cardone said, “We have effectively gotten eight judges down to three.”

An arrangement like this wouldn’t actually make the administration of justice more consistent, though, as the Ridgeway offenders still see the Ridgeway justice, the Shelby offenders still see the Shelby justice, and the Yates offenders still see the Yates justice. Although there are fewer justices, they now have to work a greater number of hours. However, Cardone said that there are some meager financial savings in terms of inmate transportation costs. Also, the public defenders and district attorneys can address multiple cases in one place. Overall, he said, “It has created a more efficient system.”

Another alternative that would go further in creating more consistent adjudication would be the creation of a district court, which would likely serve all of the county’s towns and villages. A district court would have one or two judges who would be qualified attorneys elected by voters in all the included municipalities. • —Keri

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e’ve been hearing for years that television is better than film. 2014 was the year where Hollywood said, “If we’re going down, we’re going down swinging.” Believe it or not, The LEGO Movie set the tone for the whole year: I really felt the effort of filmmakers putting care and creative energy into movies that might be perceived as corporate cash-grabs. There was a lot of original action to be found in indies, documentaries – every category across the boards. I enjoy pairing up titles as fun thematic double bills. If a movie appears by itself, it is sui generis and stands alone.

Gone Girl David Fincher doesn’t do happy-go-lucky.

He’ll probably never make anything that would ever be described as a romp. Based on Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel, Fincher’s acid triumph stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as a certain species of perfect couple.

Pike disappears on the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, and it turns out that Affleck hates her and is happy to see her go.

Believe me when I say the plot thickens; Fincher and Flynn poke holes and reveal lies that were right in front of us from the beginning. This is good, adult, disturbing stuff that makes The War of the Roses look like a spitball skirmish.

Boyhood / Birdman Richard Linklater filmed Boyhood for a few days at a time, for twelve years. After putting all twelve short films together, Boyhood is the result: we watch a kid (Ellar Coltrane) become an adult in a trimmed-down version of “real time”. Other than the Harry Potter films and Michael Apted’s Up series, I’ve never seen anything like it. Stanley Kubrick said that the one thing cinema couldn’t do is the sweep of a person’s life. Boyhood gets damn close, so close that the term “epic” seems downright puny.

Coltrane is no Hollywood trained seal, and it’s just as amazing watching the evolution of Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke, playing Coltrane’s parents.

Time passes in a nightmarish, headlong way in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s stunning Birdman. Michael Keaton owns the film in a quasi-autobiographical role as a washed-up

b y B r y a n Va n C a m p e n actor in comic book movies trying one last desperate time for a comeback by writing, directing and starring in a Broadway play.

The film unravels as one unbroken shot that can take us anywhere inside or outside the theater; Birdman starts as a boundless series of rehearsal disasters and cumulative flop sweat, but soon moves into cosmic matters. Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis stand out in a terrific ensemble.

Big Hero 6 Disney’s animated Big Hero 6, very loosely adapted from a Marvel comic title, has tons of style, a thrilling sense of scope, action sequences of pure flight and fancy, mass and movement.

It also has a key central performance by Scott Adsit (30 Rock) of considerable charm, humor and warmth. Your kids will zip out of the theater humming the superhero skirmishes, while you will be surprised at how emotional you got watching a walking balloon animal.

The Grand Budapest Hotel / Interstellar Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel is great, along with The LEGO Movie easily the first really fine movie of the year.

Anderson’s group outings are as meticulously choreographed as the settings for his films: elaborate ornate pop-up book pages, a world as intricate and clockwork as the insides of a Swiss watch. At one point the film shifts into stop-motion animation and it totally works. After you see the sequence, you’ll wonder how Anderson could have done it any other way. There are flashes of nudity and surprising violence and Ralph Fiennes explodes throughout with comic bursts of exquisite profanity. Who knew how funny he could be?

I caught up with Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar just before deadline, and I continue to be impressed by Nolan’s ability to make popular entertainment from fairly heady subjects. It’s also a somewhat more humanist riff on 2001: A Space Odyssey, as Everyman astronaut Matthew McConaughey searches for a planet that can take over for Earth. Nolan’s signature editing style compresses entire lifetimes and spans eons; I’m not sure if the film’s third act solution works in hard science terms, but I’ll take my reservations as testaments to the film’s cumulative power.

Frank /Big Eyes Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank is one of the best rock movies to describe being outside the fish bowl one day and well inside the next.

It’s all about this songwriter wannabe Jon (Domhnall Gleeson).One day, he sees a mad man attempt to drown himself, and it turns out the mad man was the keyboard player for this guy Frank’s band, and suddenly Jon has a gig. Frank (Michael Fassbender) is kind of a cult legend because the guy’s always wearing this goofy Bob’s Big Boy-style papier-mâché head. Frank’s head never comes off. Never.

Fassbender has a great character to play here, based on Christopher Mark Sievey. It’s safe to say that Fassbender gets every bit he can out of Frank’s manic yet fragile nature.

Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, based on the twisted story of Walter and Margaret Keane (Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams) is his best, most interesting film since 1994’s Ed Wood. No wonder since this little-known story of art theft – Keane claimed credit for his wife’s notorious “Big Eyes” paintings – was written by the writers of Ed Wood, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. (They also penned the Larry Flynt and Andy Kaufman bio-pics.)

A Million Ways to Die in the West/They Came Together I loved Seth MacFarlane’s wicked and wise Western parody A Million Ways to Die in the West, the funniest such spoof to come down the pike since Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles.

MacFarlane and Charlize Theron are terrific as two people who realize how much smarter and savvier they are in MacFarlane’s nightmare vision of how cheap life was in the Old West.

MacFarlane’s cartoon staging aside, all the movie’s appalling visions of death happen to be based in fact. Neil Patrick Harris, Giovanni Ribisi and Sarah Silverman are great scene stealers.

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11 Buckets of Yuck the worst films of 2014

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lint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys suffers from the worst clichés of the mob movie and the rock n’ roll bio-pic.

It can’t decide if it wants to be Goodfellas or That Thing You Do! Eastwood never met a shot he didn’t like, so no one sings a Four Seasons song for the first hour of a movie about the Four Seasons. It’s always a drag when an artist you admire ends the career on a low note, and for Robin Williams, that low note is A Merry Friggin’ Christmas. Even in an unfunny dysfunctional family comedy, Williams is incapable of phoning it in.

John Wick is the kind of empty, superficial pinball machine that I might have recommended if it weren’t so ugly, empty and dumb at its core.

Keanu Reeves kills so many people that you lose count of the stuntman corpses, and all for a cute, murdered puppy. Yuck. I’m such a Spider-Man fan that I cut the movies too much slack. Despite a capable leading man and woman in Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 squanders their chemistry by rushing through a muddled story and taking too much time introducing villains for movies we probably won’t get to see, if the Sony hacks are to be believed.

They say Michael Bay makes stupid movies, but it took me until Transformers: Age of Extinction to figure it all out. I love Transformers, but then they cut away to the human beings doing idiotic, sexist, racist things, and I check out—in this case, about an hour into the movie.

Godzilla gives giant lizards a bad name.

Gareth Edwards’ new version is maybe a letter grade above Roland Emmerich’s awful 1998 attempt. Too bad Godzilla gets reduced to a cameo in his own movie, and too bad there’s not a single character to care about when cities start getting leveled by the title character and his gigantic pals.

When Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City came out, it was the epitome of cool. 10 years later, with Miller’s best stories already told, and

enough lead actors recast to confuse fans, Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For just amounts to more, not better, misogynistic comic-book noir. If it didn’t exist, only hardcore Miller fans would miss it.

Meanwhile, in France, Luc Besson’s action factory keeps grinding out parkour sausages based on variations of Besson’s hit man/father figure. Three Days to Kill drops Kevin Costner into the formula, and tries to convince us that his estranged daughter gets to go to prom in Paris. Brick Mansions isn’t just a sad farewell to Paul Walker, but a completely unnecessary remake of Pierre

Jersey Boys, The Amazing Spiderman 2 and Godzilla were some of the worst Hollywood had to offer in 2014.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit plays out like a Tom Clancy yarn as told by a slow third-grader. This typically somnambulant spy thriller came out last January—rarely a good sign—and failed at living up to its own limited potential. Chris Pine is the new Jack Ryan, but not in a way that makes you forget about Harrison Ford, or even Ben Affleck. The whole mission has a dull, A-leads-to-B quality, and director Kenneth Branagh doesn’t help anything by

co-starring as the bad guy, replete with a hack Russian accent.

Need For Speed could have been fun in a dumb way, but this video game-based vehicle for Aaron Paul about a street racer with a bounty on his head sounds a lot better than it is. And Kevin Smith could have saved time, money and actors’ dignity by not making Tusk, a tepid horror film about a podcaster (Justin Long) turned into a walrus by a mad scientist (Michael Parks). •

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nd that’s intermission!”

And with that, over forty teens dropped their final pose and dispersed from the large dance studio as Running to Places director Joey Steinhagen called a fiveminute break.

Steinhagen immediately sidled over to co-choreographer Fatima Sowe and asked her to fix the act one finale before the cast starts act two. “My acting note is no smiles; Running to Places opens 2015 with Fame next week at the State Theatre. they’re scared.” She (photo via Facebook) nodded.

It’s just 12 days to (Elisheva Glaser) and Nick (Michael Sloan), the opening of Fame, The Musical and cast wisecracking comedian Joe (Matthew and creative team are undergoing the first Skrovan), earnest composer Schlomo (Max full run-through. Stuffed into the corners Avramis), and talented dancers Tyrone of their home studio at the Just Be Cause (Christian Henry), Iris (Kamryn Phlegar) Center are returning Running to Places and Mabel (Laura Fegely). Teachers, creative team members music director including Ms. Bell (Lisa Podulka) and Jeremy Pletter, and Deb and Jim Drew Ms. Sherman (Jewell Payne) try—and (set design & build). Next to Sowe sat cosometimes fail—to educate and guide.” choreographer G-Quan Booker, new to the Power ballads, some hip-hop and team, who directs the hip-hop sequences. dance sequences abound. As Carmen, Sophia Tantillo, a Trumansburg High Wallenstein gets the title song from the School sophomore, occasionally gave lines movie (still the highlight), a simple duet to the cast, as stage manager, while Emmet after she surprises her self by falling Scott is non-stop on the keyboard. for Schlomo (an easeful and appealing Cast re-gathered, Sowe gives some Avramis), and a blistering torch belt (“In quick assignments on gestures, then lays L.A.”) when she returns disillusioned by her out the quality of the number: “You’re not abortive attempt at stardom. Podulka and going ‘to live forever.’ She [teacher Mrs. Payne have it out as teachers with different Sherman] just made you mortal. Shut it philosophies in a pounding duet (“artists down. Okay, ‘hard work, pause, pause, are special” vs. “artists are people”) while pause …’” The number is quickly reshaped Payne also has a moving ballad, “These Are to reflect the wake-up call the students just My Children.” It’s an astonishing lineup of received that talent ain’t gonna cut it alone. vocal power.

Based loosely on the cult film and Sloan brings his earnest intensity to subsequent television series, Fame follows “I Want To Make Magic” while Skrovran a class of students through four years at proves reliably goofy and comical in “Can’t NYC’s High School of Performing Arts Keep It Down” (an ode to horniness).

(1980 to ’84). Ambition, a passion for Glaser as Serena is the Juliet of the piece, dance, acting, and music; class and ethnic and has the more yearning songs, played differences are packed into these years. with simple sincerity. Fegely does nicely And a lot of hormones. (Drugs and some with the country stylings of “Mabel’s raunchy language are included.) “But it’s Prayer” in the obligatory funny fat girl role. age appropriate for the characters,” said Stepping strongly into the spotlight Steinhagen. “The show is about high school for this production is Henry as Tyrone, students pursuing their lives and passions dancing up a storm (both ballet and and these are the things that come up.” hip-hop), angry and witty at turns, well He chose to launch R2P’s eighth partnered by Phlegar. • season by going back to their very first show, in part a celebration of R2P (also a The show runs one weekend only at the site for ambitious, talented youth) and an State Theatre: January 16-18, Friday and acknowledgement of a return to its roots: Saturday at 7 pm, Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets no longer are youth charged to participate. are $15 the day of the show, $13 if purchased This ensemble show focuses on the in advance, available at the State Theatre stories of “fame-obsessed Carmen (Ilana box office.

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Transition Trio

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It includes the work of three new State of the Art members:

one is totally unlike any of the others… each one a surprise, a revelation, and a different psychic experience for the viewer …

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as subtle as oil paintings. But, here, all her works are black-and-white charcoal drawings – a series of relatively small ones and some new, quite large ones.

I think another attraction of Reed’s work for me is that, as a cartoonist, I am attracted to what, in conversation with Reed at the opening of the show, she called “the narrative element”.

I also love all the fantastical fantasy elements in the work. For instance, my favorite of her offerings is St. Catherine (the Wheel) where, in addition to St. Catherine in bondage, we see a cluster of little winged fantasy creatures – imps with bird wings and the faces of, respectively, a lion, a cow, a fox, an ibis and a human …

(from top left) Work from Connie Zehr, Patricia Brown and Margaret Reed. Pictured to the left, another piece by Reed. (photos provided)

Patricia Brown: My favorite of Brown’s work is a big painting called Transition. To quote from her artist’s statement: “It shows spirits passing through the pelvis, the place of their birth, into the next realm.”

This painting is from a series called Straight From the Hip. Brown includes a book of the same name that collects these works. They came about because Patricia Brown’s mother, Ruth Brown, broke her hip and passed away.

These paintings are poignant, fantastical, dreamlike, inspired, exhilarating.

The title painting Transition shows a horde of tiny spirits, (carrying lit candles), seen from a long downshot, ascending through a giant, dream-like, otherworldly, city-sized pelvis to the Afterlife. It has a feel like the most spectacular of visual dreams.

The rest of Brown’s offering consists of a series of expressionist figurative paintings all painted in an intensive two week period working with two models, and a selection of abstract expressionist paintings all painted during a two-week retreat at the Saltonstall Foundation in October of 2014.

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Margaret Reed: I have written of Margaret Reed before. I adore her work. I think it is genius, or close to it.

She has evolved a style I shall christen 21st century Postmodern Medievalism.

What I mean is she riffs on the art of the Middle Ages.

Medieval art strikes the 21st century viewer as seriously weird in that perspective hadn’t been invented yet, so the art is oddly flattened. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci had yet to dissect cadavers and study human and animal anatomy, so medieval art has a weird jerry-rigged cartoony quality to it.

And, moreover, there is a sort of neo-

hieroglyphic character to medieval art (feet pointed in the same direction and so on) and a somewhat childlike quality to it.

Reed riffs on all of this, eschewing the inventions of the Renaissance. The result is something new.

Her subject matter is from the lives of the Saints, Greek and Roman mythology, and the Tarot, all of which she mixes and matches and recreates with gleeful, unorthodox, promiscuous abandon.

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Connie Zehr: Zehr’s offerings are elegant glass sculptures … rising from cone-shaped piles of red or black sand. (The red sand is from something called the Valley of Fire, the black sand is volcanic sand from the big island of Hawaii.)

The glass forms shoot up in tubular columns from the sand, some topped with round bulbs of glass, some twisting like living stems, some in craggy root- like spires, some in elegant organic needle spires, some emerging from the sand like lively sperm cells.

The result is something that looks like alien flora, like plant life on another planet where the life forms are based on silicon rather than carbon.

Incredibly beautiful things …• The exhibition New Work from New Members will be on display at State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State/MLK St. through the month of January. Gallery Night reception: Friday Jan. 9 from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Website: www.soag.org.

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Circling NY Wine Country

The Quest for the Ivy Crown

through the finger lakes and beyond

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Evan Dawson’s Summer in a Glass profiled contemporary winemakers and grape growers to bring the existing community alive. Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery by John Hartsock focused on the operations of Long Point Winery on Cayuga Lake. Both Thomas Pellechia’s Timeless Bounty and Laura Winter Falk’s Culinary History of the Finger Lakes are more historical perspectives, but both are also concerned with food. Richard Figiel’s Circle of Vines concentrates wholly on the history of wine and casts his gaze beyond the Finger Lakes to look at the whole of the state.

Figiel is a little shaky in the initial chapter on the prehistory. He tries to address the tectonic, sedimentary, glacial, and climate stories of the state, and in 10 pages manages to give so cursory a survey.

In the end you are pretty sure that shale and proximity to the moderating effect of large bodies of water are good.

But once he dives into the human stories behind New York viticulture, Figiel is very much at home. His tone is often bemused and he seems to have a real affection for some of the more valiant early grape growers, like Richard Underhill, who inherited the first successful commercial vineyard from his father and expanded it greatly. He expanded the Croton farm to 50 acres of vines and developed a market for medicinal wine.

The Hudson Valley is home to America’s oldest extant winery, the Brotherhood Wine Company in Washingtonville. A Scottish cobbler turned vintner, John (later styled as Jean) Jacque produced the country’s first commercial vintage in 1839.

We follow the Catawba and Isabella grapes, early American/French hybrids, as Richard Sheffield brings them from downstate where they were developed to the shores of Keuka Lake by the 1820s.

In 1829 the Rev. William Bostwick arrived in Hammondsport and actually began encouraging the members of his

congregation to plant cuttings of grape vines.

By the 1870s Delaware grapes (another early hybrid) began to be used for wine by the Pleasant Valley Wine Company near Hammondsport. The modern era of Finger Lakes winemaking might have started when Walter Taylor arrived in Hammondsport in 1879. By 1880 he had purchased 60 acres of grapes and was selling grape juice, preserved by the then-new process of pasteurization. Two year later he was making his own wine as the Taylor Wine Company.

Figiel devotes a chapter to the long slide into Prohibition, which had a disastrous effect on the wine industry. As a winemaker himself—he founded the Silver Thread Vineyard on Seneca Lake in 1982—Figiel is at pains to point out that Temperance was largely directed at the heavy consumption of spirits and beer.

Wine was just so much collateral damage.

The Volstead Act, which inaugurated national Prohibition, was passed by Congress in 1918 and sent to the states for ratification. It went into effect in January 1920 and was not repealed until December 1933.

Grape growers survived by serving the home winemaking market. Vineyard acreage expanded. Unfortunately California growers over-planted and crashed the market. By the later years of Prohibition many New York vineyards were abandoned.

Figiel gives a thumbnail sketch of the story of Konstantin Frank, the Ukraineborn German who emigrated to the U.S. in 1951 and introduced the cultivation of European vinifera grapes to the Finger Lakes. He grafted 12 vinifera varieties onto 58 different North American rootstocks and by 1959 he succeeded in releasing his first commercial vintages.

The rest of the book includes a survey of the development of modern New York wine industry. Figiel describes the growth of the vinifera faction at the expense of the old hybrid grapes and the various ways the old establishment found a market (wine coolers, Kosher vintages). He moves from region to region smoothly and finally comes in for a landing in New York City and leaves with an image of hipsters making wine in Brooklyn. •

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“So far,” Smith told me, “we have played a variety of teams and have seen a variety of schemes.” She added, “Seeing a lot of different looks will help us prepare for the Ivy League schedule.”

While any team likes to get what Dayna called “the big W‘s,” it is also of utmost importance to enter the Cornell’s Nia Marshall posts up in a game against Hartford. conference slate as a healthy unit. So (photo provided) far, so good, and Smith said, “Everyone is healthy, and it’s a plus that we have a and came back again and again. Mike was 10-day break after the Howard game.” a Physician’s Assistant with the Ithaca That break, she offered, “Is great because Orthopedic Group, and when his heart we have some players – like Nia Marshall was destroyed by a virus, he lived and and Megan LeDuc – who are averaging worked with a mechanical heart while well over 30 minutes per game.”

It is a no-brainer that the Ivy schedule awaiting a transplant. He received a new heart, and all went well for a while, but is the Holy Grail, but I asked Smith if that he then faced the challenges brought on reality rendered the rest of the season by rejection issues. Mike then suffered meaningless. She replied, “Winning the kidney damage and lived with the Ivy League games is, of course, what we exhausting ritual of ongoing dialysis. He are striving for, and you want a winning was hospitalized many times, and his wife, season and a chance to compete.” That Maria (a teacher at New Roots) balanced said, she dished out a dose of perspective, her full-time job with the overwhelming saying, “We lost 10 players to graduation responsibilities of caring for Mike. over the past two seasons, and we’re going I told Mike’s story in my column, in with fourteen players that have not seen and I enjoyed our ritual of spending a lot of time on the court. We want them Thanksgiving together and watching the to establish an identity as a team, and to Super Bowl together. Two years ago, we get a lot of learning experiences.” watched the Ravens and the 49ers battle it Dayna is pleased to report that she out, and while Mike’s hospital room had a “has seen more improvement over the crappy little television, we enjoyed it. course of the non-conference season I shared my deep admiration and than we have seen over the past couple respect for Mike and Maria again last of seasons.” She said there is just no week, as I was one of those who shared substitute for on-court experience, and memories at Mike’s memorial service. said, “You can scrimmage all you want, He passed on Dec. 23, and I stood by but the younger players really need the his hospital bed at Strong Memorial in experience.”

Rochester the day before to say goodbye.

Smith says the Big Red “are currently I have interviewed Super Bowl using a rotation of about seven players, champs, baseball Hall of Famers, World and we hope to get more in there.” She Series Champs, Stanley Cup champs, said, “We have four sophomores and a MMA champs and Olympic Gold senior getting a lot of time,” and says coMedalists, but I have yet to meet anyone as captains (junior) Maddie Campbell and tough as Mike Gimma. I really miss him, (senior) Sarah Poland are proving quality and he taught me a lot about doing what leadership despite being non-starters at you can to spend just one more day with this point. the people you love. I know this sounds ••• trite, but I am a better person for having Friends and readers have heard me known him. • tell the story of my friend Mike Gimma,

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through just about every other New York City-based romance also gets the shaft.

Wain and Showalter have done their homework, and when they construct their parody versions of all the clichés, they actually have a point of view to impart as opposed to “Hey, did you see this movie scene? Aren’t we clever?” Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler play slightly brain-damaged versions of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

They Came Together barrels through every rom-com chestnut and demolishes them, one by one.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier/ Guardians of the Galaxy If they can teach Miley Cyrus for college credit, I hope pop culture historians will use the first two Captain America movies as a way to discuss the climate of political change from WWII to what passes for democracy these days.

We’re in that post-9/11, NSA kind of time, and the Good Captain Steve Rogers slept through all of it. And as our hunky Rip Van Winkle finds out in Captain America: the Winter Soldier, there was a lot more happening during his long winter’s nap in the Arctic. Can you say “NSA”? This is one of the best Marvel movies to date, and the most entertaining movie Robert Redford has been in since 1992’s Sneakers.

James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy introduces actual sexuality into the Marvel Universe. This flick travels to places far, far away from George Lucas’s vision of what a space opera can be, and shows that these superhero movies can be goofy, silly, angry and more fun to watch than all three Star Wars prequels. Chris Pratt is an instant star as a self-proclaimed “Star Lord”. We also get a sexy green lady (Zoe Saldana), the out-for-revenge Drax (a very good turn by Dave Bautista) and bounty hunters Rocket (a talking raccoon with the voice of Bradley Cooper) and Groot (a walking mass of branches voiced by Vin Diesel).

The LEGO Movie/Mr. Peabody & Sherman The LEGO Movie is 1000 times better than you’d expect. I wasn’t expecting incisive social satire in the adventures of an Identikit Lego builder as he travels through a seemingly endless world of plasticized wonders with a band of

familiar pop culture characters. It’s not just a seemingly endless Lego world that’s been rendered, but a smart and hilarious tale with all the twists possible from an imaginative child. I’ll miss the tactile quality of the 3-D animation, but there’s a lot more here than just eye candy.

Based on the “Peabody’s Improbable History” segments from Jay Ward’s “Rocky and Bullwinkle” TV series, Mr. Peabody & Sherman does two things that most family films fumble: it adds a lot of story to a slim series of historical gags, and adds real heart that’s not schmaltzy. The gang journeys back to the past for adventures with King Tut, DaVinci and a textbook full of other notable figures. The writers and animators careen between Jay Ward shenanigans and sequences that illustrate the real bond of love between dog and boy; there’s a terrific montage of the two cavorting throughout key moments of the centuries from Moses to Jackie Robinson, set to John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy”, that brought me to tears; I’d be a liar if I said the movie didn’t make me cry in at least three other scenes.

Life Itself/ Jodorowsky’s Dune / Harmontown / Milius When Ebert withdrew from TV and had his health issues, I said some unkind words about him, that he was giving out four star reviews because he was happy to be alive another day. Having seen Steve James’ Life Itself, which is up close and personal during the struggles of his last five months of life, I retract every snide remark I made to my friends, and apologize to Ebert’s family, though it’s clear they are strong enough not to need my expressions of regret. It’s tough watching Ebert in physical decline, but I applaud his bravery in showing himself with all the bits and pieces of him that have been hacked away.

Frank Pavich’s Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the story of a movie that was never made.

What if Alejandro Jodorowsky had made his version of Frank Herbert’s 1966 novel Dune before George Lucas had made Star Wars? Jodorowsky was only planning the most sweeping, surreal gonzo epic since Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. One thing’s for sure when you see and hear Jodorowsky describe his unmade vision of Dune: this guy is doing it for the art, and not the action figures.

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John Milius created HBO’s “Rome”.

He made The Wind and the Lion and the underrated, tough Dillinger and wrote Robert Shaw’s U.S.S. Indianapolis speech for Jaws. As a personality, the right-wing gun-toting bomb throwing Milius was 180 degrees away from me, a gasbag blowhard.

Then Joey Figueroa & Zak Knutson’s Milius (2013) told the man’s life story, with a shocking twist late in life that rocked me to the core.

Chef Jon Favreau’s Chef isn’t just one of the best family comedies of the year. It also joins the list of classic foodie films, right up there with Big Night and Chocolat.

Make sure you have the most sumptuous meal you can rustle up before seeing it. It’s the kind of movie that can induce hunger pangs. Favreau plays a famous chef who gets fired from his restaurant after he flips out on a food critic (Oliver Platt) and the moment goes viral. He buys a food truck in Florida with his partner (John Leguizamo) and his son (Emjay Anthony), decides on a Cuban menu and then drives back to LA, stopping in cool cities to sell food. This is a tasty, sweet return to form for Favreau.

Alan Partridge/ The Trip to Italy Call this the Steve Coogan category.

His Alan Partridge was created in 1991 for the radio show On the Hour by Coogan, Armando Iannucci, and Patrick Marber. After two radio series, three television series and numerous TV and radio specials, Partridge finally has his own movie, Alan Partridge. Partridge has landed at a Norfolk radio outfit that’s just changed its format and fired a fellow DJ

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played by Colm Meaney. When Meaney shows up at the station with a shotgun, Partridge doesn’t miss a beat as he elects himself hostage negotiator and the “media good guy” in the midst of an escalating stand-off.

I’m not really sure how to classify The Trip and its sequel The Trip to Italy. Are these just post-modern versions of the Hope & Crosby Road movies? Or are they more akin to Michael Apted’s Up series, or maybe Richard Linklater’s Midnight trilogy or his new masterpiece Boyhood? Well, regardless of how they’re categorized, I hope that director Michael Winterbottom and co-stars Coogan and Rob Brydon keep up their international restaurant touring. It’s been a pleasure watching their one-upsmanship and passive-aggressive comic riffing.

Into The Woods/ Malificent I played Cinderella’s Father in a production of Into The Woods, and despite the absence of my character in Rob Marshall’s sumptuous adaptation – thanks for nothing – I can attest that this is a straight-up adaptation with nothing taken out. If you don’t like the way its twists from happy-go-lucky to emotional devastation, well, that’s the show. It’s always nice to see who can sing these days, and Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick topline a terrific cast. Chris Pine (Star Trek) steals the film as a hammy, vainglorious prince.

Maleficent re-imagines all the traditional versions of Sleeping Beauty and emerges as such a dark, operatic feminist parable, I’m not sure it’s for kids. Even with the implications made necessary by a PG rating, battles scenes and intimate moments of betrayal don’t deflect the rage and bitterness underneath but amplify it to the heights of a Douglas Sirk melodrama.

Disney story vet Linda Woolverton has taken a good look at an iconic villain and worked out a tale that gives the glowering, almost camp title character (Angelina Jolie) depths of character she never possessed in any other version of the story.

Disney has been melding live-action and animation for decades, but the immersion of the actors in what looks like an animated film does take the breath away.

Honorable mention: Cold in July, Joe, Life of Crime, Snowpiercer, Edge of Tomorrow, Under the Skin, The One I Love, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes •

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

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Souk: Middle Eastern Grooves | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W. State St., Ithaca | SOUK performs a delicious blend of traditional music from around the Middle East.

Paul Kempkes ‘Dr. K’ | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Solo pop with attitude Jim Hull | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Greg McQuade | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Amanda York Jazz Quartet | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Live Jazz.

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Twilight Cafe: Zydeco Trail Riders | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Steve Brown, Dino Losito and Terry Light | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Lora Pendleton and Steve Gollnick | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Common Railers | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Route 414, Burdett | -

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Sean Farley | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Lunar Carnival | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Lunar Carnival is four free-spirited and versatile musicians.

The dual female combo of Johanna Dun-Jones and Katerina Korolov play together like yin and yang, while bassist Daniel Grip provides a solid foundation. The vocals are decorated with soaring three-part harmonies as Alex Korolov provides a whirlwind of guitar, banjo, and mandolin.

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park

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

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

Jorge Cuevas and the Caribe Jazz All-Stars | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst. org.

Matt Garrity & Grape Jam | 8:00 PM- | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | -

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Concerts in the Courtroom: Marty Lee & Shannon Rae | 7:00 PM- | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road (Rt. 34B), Lansing | East Shore Arts Council Winter Concert Series. www.eastshorearts.org/

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Falling Waters Music Camp Saturday Night Concert | 7:30 PM- | La Tourelle Resort and August Moon Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | One of the highlights of the music camp weekend is the Saturday night Camp Cabaret featuring camp faculty and special guests. The show is at La Tourelle and begins at 7:30 pm with doors and a cash bar opening at 6:30 pm. Seating is limited and only 70 tickets are available to non-camp attendees.

All About Elvis with Rex March Fowler | 8:00 PM- | Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | Two-part movie and live show. Rex will lead a Q&A session following the movie, and the evening will conclude with a live concert by Rex and his Rockabilly Trio performing renditions of The King’s early classics as well as some original songs composed specifically for the movie soundtrack

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The start date for the following schedule is Friday, January 9. Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes. com Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 9:30.

The Imitation Game | During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan

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Stage Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM-, 01/08 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 126 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 01/09 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Cinderella in the Wild West | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM- 01/10 Saturday | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Just 4 Fun! Series with the Robert Rogers Puppet Company.

Count Me In | 7:30 PM-, 01/14 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | What happens when forever friends begin forever again? A musical romp headed toward infinity

by Kitchen Theatre Artistic Director Rachel Lampert, author of Tony and the Soprano, Bed No Breakfast, In the Company of Dancers, and many other music- and dance-filled pieces.

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 01/14 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 1 | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@yahoo.com.

Meetings Ithaca Sociable Singles | 11:00 AM-, 01/11 Sunday | Statler Hotel At Cornell University, 130 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Sunday Brunch at Banfi’s. 607-273-4013 or lpd4@cornell.edu Tompkins County Public Safety Committee | 3:30 PM-, 01/12 Monday | County Of Tompkins, 320 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 01/12 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca | Ithaca Town Board | 5:30 PM-, 01/12 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga

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Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. | 114 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon Wed: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.

Inherent Vice | “Inherent Vice,” is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. | 148 mins R | Fri: 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 The Interview | As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un. | 112 mins R | Fri - Thu: 9:30 PM National Theatre Live: JOHN | Thu 01/15: 6:30 PM The Theory of Everything | The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. | 123 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:20, 6:50; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50; Mon - Wed: 4:20, 6:50; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50 Wild | With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope.

After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision.

With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. | 115 mins R | Fri: 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Mon Wed: 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15

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Art Classes for Adults | | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | Arts classes for adults at the Community School of Music and Arts.

Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www. csma-ithaca.org.

Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | See website for location and meeting dates | Writing Through The Rough Spots. Fall and Winter Classes in Ithaca. www.WritingRoomWorkshops. com Awaken Your Heart and Mind with Buddhist Meditation | 6:30 PM-, 01/07 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Lama Laia and Lama Pema Dragpa to learn simple meditation techniques to calm your mind and open your heart to its full potential. This class will include a talk on essential Buddhist concepts and brief meditations. Free and open to the public, and held at the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Pegasys TV Studios Orientation and Course Sign-Ups | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 01/08 Thursday | Pegasys Studios, 612 W. Green St., Ithaca | You can produce your own television program for public access channel 13. Training, studio and field

equipment access, and a cable channel open to the public for free expression.

All that’s missing is you. Courses include Basic Studio Video Production, basic portable production, and Adobe Premiere editing.

Learn to Play Bridge or Practice Play | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 01/09 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, Clinton Street Plaza, Ithaca | Coaches are available to teach bridge to beginners or to give advice to more advanced players. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. This is the same group that used to meet at Lifelong. Location: 609 W Clinton St. (park on east side (furthest from Route 13) of the shopping plaza, close to Ohm Electronics. Enter through door to the right of Ohm’s storefront.

The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall.

Grant Writing 101 | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 01/10 Saturday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Participants will learn grant writing basics: how to formulate a proposal; write convincingly; and what language to use (or not use). Ithaca College Lecturer Mary Beth Bunge specializes in non-profit management and fund-raising. Registration required. Bring a bag lunch.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 01/11 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested. Not meeting 12/28 Watercolor painting | 10:00 AM-, 01/12 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Beginning Spanish | 1:00 PM-, 01/12 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 01/12 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Swap stories and skills with this informal group. Youth are encouraged to attend.

Intermediate Spanish | 2:00 PM-, 01/12 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Red Cross Training | 6:00 PM-9:30 PM, 01/13 Tuesday | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | Registration Required: 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) or http:// www.redcross.org/take-a-class. Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Part 1 of 2 Part Class (Part 2 Thursday, January 15) Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/13 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/

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Creative Embroidery | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Join Librarian Cady (BFA, Fiber Art 2012) to learn how to draw with thread through creative embroidery and applique. Get inspired and learn to stitch pictures with hand and sewing techniques. $5 class fee. Registration required. Sponsored by the Delavan Foundation.

Real Food for Outrageous Energy | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to eat a real food diet that will double your energy, stabilize your mood, and allow you to do more of what you love. Erin Harner, MS, RDN, CHC is an Integrative Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. This class is free and open to the public, and will be held at the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Nature & Science Primitive Pursuits Adult Weekend Workshop | Upcoming events: Tracking, January 10 - 11; Winter Shelter / Survival, February 7 - 8; Friction Fire Intensive , March 7 - 8. For more information, call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit online at primitivepursuits.com.

Primitive Pursuits Free Monthly Primitive Skills Meet Up | Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com to join the club.

Beginning Beekeeping Workshop | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 01/07 Wednesday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Workshop held on 2/07.Learn about honey bees and the joys of beekeeping, and network with beekeepers of all experience levels. Our speakers each have decades of personal experience with bees and beekeeping, and all enjoy sharing their love of the hobby. Preregistration ends on January 31, 2015. www.cayuganaturecenter.com Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 01/10 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 01/11 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Bird walks around Sapsucker Woods are sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club and are targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin,

wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 01/10 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified.

Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 01/11 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Have you or your kids found a funny rock?

Curious about a crystal? Bring them to the Museum of the Earth as The Finger Lakes Mineral Club will be on hand with special equipment and experts to identify rocks and minerals for Museum visitors.

Cayuga Bird Club: Share Your Photos Night | 7:30 PM-, 01/12 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | This month will be our popular annual “Share Your Photos Night,” hosted by Kevin McGowan, in which club members bring in their own photos and share their birding experiences. Meetings are free and open to the public and anyone interested in birds is invited to attend.

For information, call 257-9459, email fishoak@gmail.com or refer to the bird club’s website: http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/

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TAG: Teen Advisory Group | 3:00 PM-, 01/07 Wednesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | The Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg will be starting a new Teen Program where teens will design and plan programs around their own interests.

SpinKnitters | 1:30 PM-, 01/08 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Open knitting group Game Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 01/08 Thursday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | All ages and skill levels welcome to play chess, Munchkin Quest, and Ticket to Ride.

Legion Fish Fry | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/09 Friday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | The American Legion Auxiliary Friday night Fish Fry. phone: 659-7395 on the night of the dinners Pancake Breakfast | 7:30 AM-10:30 AM, 01/10 Saturday | Enfield Valley Grange Hall, Enfield Main Road, | All you can eat pancakes, waffles, French toast, country sausage, fresh eggs, hashbrowns, applesauce, coffee, tea, juice

GarmHausen Exhibit Opens Friday Friday, January 9 – 5 to 8 p.m.

Highlighting this month’s First Friday Gallery Night in Ithaca, spectacular local artist Jim Garmhausen has a new show up, Keep It Dark, at the CAP Art Space in Center Ithaca. The cartoonist’s latest exhibit plays to his penchant for a black and white palette. Check it out. (Photo via gallerynightithaca.wordpress.com)

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Annual 12th Night Celebration | 7:30 PM-, 01/10 Saturday | Ithaca Unitarian Church, corner of Buffalo and Aurora streets, Ithaca | An evening of storysharing, merrymaking, and imagination, to mark the end of the holiday season.

Black Sheep Hand Spinners Guild’s annual Roc Day | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 01/10 Saturday | All Saints Church, 347 Ridge Rd. (Rte 34B), Lansing | Free and open to the public. Vendors, contests and demonstrations all day. For more formation: 607-280-8726 Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 01/11 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage. Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages.

Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM-, 01/11 Sunday | Enfield Fire Station, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | Adult meals are $9 Chicken Halves $6. The Ladies Auxiliary holds a Bake Sale at each BBQ Glenora Wine Cellars Feast and Fest 2015 Series | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 01/11 Sunday | Glenora Wine Cellars, 5435 State Route 14, Dundee | Glenora Wine Cellars Retail Team and the talented chefs at Veraisons Restaurant once again present the very popular wine and food pairing series Feast and Fest. Held one Sunday a month from January until April, these events provide a fun afternoon of delicious food, award winning wines and great entertainment.Reservations are required and can be made by calling 1-800-243-5513 Ext 415. Live music on 01/11: Jon Seiger and the All-Stars.

Doug’s Fish Fry at Newfield Fire Hall | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 01/12 Monday | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main Street, Newfield | To call and place orders until 4:00, please call 607-423-5996.

To Benefit: the Newfield Republican Committee ongoing Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 01/07 Wednesday, 01/14 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun.

Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you.

Ithaca Farmer’s Market | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 01/10 Saturday | The Space at Greenstar , Ithaca | Soup and or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 01/13 Tuesday | Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With dessert and drink. Free Will Donation

Health Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 01/06 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 01/06 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/06 Tuesday | 316 E. Court Street -enter Linn Street side, 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, Ithaca | Talk with others who are dealing with the death of a beloved pet. Professionally facilitated

by Jane Baker Segelken, LMSW, and Cathie Simpson, PhD. For information and other details, call: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-273-3063, or email petloss@gmail.com Coping With the Loss of Your Pet Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/06 Tuesday | Pet Loss Group, 316 E. Court Street, Ithaca | Facilitated by Jane Baker Segelken, MA, LMSW, and Cathie Simpson, PhD, the group is open to all humans who have experienced the loss of a beloved companion. The group, open to all who have experienced the loss of a beloved companion, allows individuals to pay tribute to their pets and provide support to each other. For more info, please call Jane Baker Segelken at 607-351-2740 or Cathie Simpson at 607-273-3063 or email petlossgroup@ gmail.com Alcoholics Anonymous | 01/07 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/ meetings/PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 01/07 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St., Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 607-272-2433.

DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 01/07 Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome.

For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance. CALL (607) 274-5345 with any questions.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 01/07 Wednesday | Multiple Locations |

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Saturday, January 10 – 6 p.m.

Offering up a full plate of zydeco, creole and cajun, locals in the Zydeco Trail Riders get the Oasis Dance Club moving this weekend as part of the Danby Road establishment’s Twilight Cafe. (photo via zydecotrailriders.com)

A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Overeaters Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 01/07 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, , Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 01/08 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 01/10 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/12 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/06 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/12 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/06 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 01/06 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/08 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Winter Wisdom | 9:30 AM-3:00 PM, 01/08 Thursday | Foundation of Light, 399 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Resting in the Warmth of Your Own Light¦a winter’s day chanting meditation workshop with international chanting meditation teacher, Marsha Eger, MA Ritual Chant. To register and for more information, email Marsha Eger at chantingmeditation@yahoo.com or call (607) 592-2465 or call the FOL at (607) 273-9550 email: info@folithaca.org.

Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 01/09 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program

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hil Shapiro can not remember exactly how long he has been organizing the annual 12th Night celebration at the Unitarian Universalist church on the corner of North Aurora and East Buffalo streets. “I’m guessing 1976 or thereabouts,” he said. “We’re not absolutely positive.” The “we” in Shapiro’s recollection is the Ithaca folk community, many of them likely regular attendees of Shapiro’s live performance radio program Bound for Glory.

Why celebrate 12th Night? “Well, it’s the end of the holiday season,” said Shapiro. “There are 12 days of Christmas and no one can remember why. There are several traditions that go along with 12th Night, like the animals are supposed to be able to speak at midnight and, for hundreds of years, there has been the tradition of telling stories.”

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 01/11 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

A Quiet Practice: Yin-Restorative Yoga for Women | 4:00 PM-5:15 PM, 01/11 Sunday | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajennney@gmail.com or call 607.319.4138 for more information.

Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 01/12 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Arts opening Opening: Keep It Dark by Jim Garmhausen | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/09 Friday | CAP ArtSpace, Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Opening for Keep It Dark”, a series of large works created in 2014 by Jim Garmhausen. The title refers both to the artist’s preferred palette of black and white, and an indication of secrets kept.

One of the organizing principles of the evening is to disorganize the evening by following a medieval tradition often called “the world turned upside down.”

In the stratified world of the Middle Ages on holidays the poor could “be” rich, the low could be high … and the male could be female.

At the local 12th Night event a “Monarch of Misrule” is chosen from the assemblage to preside of the evening’s proceedings. It is assumed that all gathered are from “below the salt,” which is to say the hoi polloi; only the lord and his retinue had salt on the table in the Middle Ages.

“We choose a monarch and they give a speech,” said Shapiro. “It is completely silly, as is much of the evening.” Early on the “Champeons of Folly” invade the church and put on a brief “Mummers” play that involves Morris dancing and a lot of leaping around.

Themes of duality and resurrection are frequently explored, albeit not very seriously. Then the monarch is crowned.

His speech includes proclamations and predictions for the coming year, which are all absurd. There is a pause to eat and then the story telling begins.

It is primarily an evening of storytelling, in which the storytellers are

ongoing CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Keep It Dark, Jim Garmhausen, opening 01/09 through January | www.artspartner.org Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Annual Open Show, Curated

by Michael Sampson, CSMA’s Open Show presents works in a variety of media and styles by more than 30 local artists, through January | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | TuesdayThursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Projects in Black and White, select work from Ben Altman and Laurie Snyder, 01/09 through 02/28 | www.cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Brad Waterman: Cerulean Dream, through January | (646) 306-0972 Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Ann Day, watercolors | 319-0944 or visit www. decorum-too.com Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North

Karen Thurnheer past 12th Night celebration. (file photo). members of the audience who feel like telling a story. Anyone is welcome to tell a story, and anyone is welcome to come listen. All ages are welcome. Stories can be true, or “true” (aren’t all stories “true”?).

Most of the storytellers tell exactly one story a year in public, and that, of course, is at 12th Night. It is perfectly all right to

Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | White Noise, Space Installation by Rebecca Cutter and Sound Installation

by Matt Mikkelson, through January | newrootsschool.org Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | New work by Lauren Valchuis, through January | www.gimmecoffee. com/ Handwerker Gallery | Gannett Center, Ithaca College | Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday, 10 AM to 9 pm; weekends, noon to 5 PM. Closed to the public on Tuesdays | Divergent Series, 15 faculty artists, ongoing | www.ithaca.edu/handwerker Handwork Coop | Commons, Ithaca | Monday throughSaturday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday and Friday 10 AM to 8 PM; Sunday noon to 5 PM | Ink and text-based art by Rhiannon Bell, through January | www.handwork.coop The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | The 18th Mini Print International, juried exhibition of prints, through 01/2015 | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Soul Journey Art Show, community show, up through January. | www.sacredrootkava. com

just come and listen. Bring a tasty treat to share, a couple of bucks to share expenses, and there’s all the makings of a great party.

All of this takes place on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the First Unitarian Church. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and continues until they run out of stories and food. •

Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | japanese prints, ongoing | www.solagallery.com Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Cheryl Chalmers, Contemporary American Realism, through January | 319-5260 Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | Monday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | ear of Art at your Public Library 2015” with the exhibit “Island Mountain Glacier: Photography by Anika Steppe” curated by Danielle Mericle, ongoing | www.tcpl.org

Kids Primitive Pursuits Youth Program Events | For more info, call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Little Voices: Snowflakes and Songs || City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Please register by January 12th. Snowflakes and Songs, the winter session of Little Voices Music & Motion, begins the week of January 19th. Please go to the website www.

LittleVoicesMusic.com for complete class schedule and registration instructions.

Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 01/07 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden |

Science Together | 10:30 AM-, 01/07 Wednesday | Sciencenter, , Ithaca | Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 01/08 Thursday, 01/10 Saturday, 01/12 Monday, 01/13 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/ caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364.

Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 01/08 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Each week will feature a fun theme such as pirates, the circus, fairy tales, music, and more. Ksana Dragovich will read stories and Barbara Nowogrodzki will lead art projects.

Babies and Books | 10:00 AM-, 01/10 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM- 01/10 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Classes and private instruction for children and teens in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www. csma-ithaca.org

Strength Through Real Foods

Next week, the Kitchen Theatre jumps right on into 2015 with Rachel Lampert’s original play, Count Me In. In the artistic director’s latest, an invitation to a 50th high school reunion sets in motion a search for forgotten friends and memories.

Registered Dietician and Nutritionist Erin Harner leads this free class – “Real Food for Outrageous Energy “–at Greenstar’s Space. Harner experienced a number of health issues growing up, and no shots or antibiotics would help... until she began to look at her diet. Learn about foods that will double your energy. (photo via erinharner.com)

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