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Tompkins County police will be first response agency to large public gatherings

he Tompkins County Sheriff 's Office will be the primary law enforcement agency responsible for monitoring large public gatherings during the pandemic, according to Tompkins County officials. The role will play an increasingly important role over the next several months as local colleges, particularly Cornell University, try to pull off having students on campus despite the coronavirus outbreak. Cornell has insisted it will be especially vigilant of parties and other gatherings that would likely be violating statewide mandates concerning masks, social distancing and number of people at the gatherings. Authorities said their first course of action when reporting to a gathering that is violating those rules would be to use education. If violations continue, unspecified fines could be implemented. If those running the gathering are college students, their schools will be notified. The county said such gatherings can be reported at (607) 273-8000. “Our primary goals are to encourage positive behavior, and to provide education when we can," Sheriff Derek Osborne said. "We know that wearing a mask, reducing gathering sizes, and keeping six feet of distance can help stop the spread, and hope that everyone continues to take their responsibility to do so seriously.” M att Butler

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Mobile Testing

Ithaca COVID-19 sampling center shifts to “appointment only"

tarting last week, Cayuga Health officials announced that an appointment and advanced registration will be required to receive a COVID-19 test from the Mobile Sampling Center in the Ithaca Mall parking lot, where the vast majority of Tompkins County testing has taken place since the beginning of the pandemic. In order to schedule an appointment, people must now pre-register and meet certain criteria, like close contact with a positive case or showing symptoms, in order to receive a free test. There is a $99 option available for those who want to receive a test but don't meet the criteria. Those with symptoms of COVID, those who have reason to believe they have been exposed in the last 14 days, pre-surgical patients and essential workers are all still eligible for free testing. Dr. Martin Stallone, the CEO of Cayuga Health, which runs the facility, said the move was to improve the experience for

locals. “To enhance the testing experience for area residents, the Cayuga Health Mass Sampling Site will require scheduled appointments for everyone seeking and meeting the requirements for a COVID-19 test," Stallone said in a press release. "Scheduling an appointment ahead of time will minimize traffic congestion and the wait times for people being tested." Previously, anyone who wanted a test had been encouraged to get one by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but that applies to state-run testing sites only such as exist in Broome and Onondaga Counties. The Tompkins County site is run by Cayuga Health privately, which had been dealing with having to turn people away because they did not meet the aforementioned criteria. This directive, paired with a separate message from the Tompkins County Health Department, will hopefully make testing theoretically available for everyone, although the $99 will be charged in order to

T a k e Take Note - Take in some poetic prose this Friday, Aug. 14, at DeWitt Park from 6-7 p.m., with a community reading hosted by Ithaca Area Poets Presents. The event, the second of its kind this

The popular mobile sampling center at the Shops at Ithaca Mall, run by Cayuga Medical Center. (Photo by Casey Martin)

defray Cayuga Health costs. "Cayuga Health System operates an independent testing site, and we’re grateful that they could do so, starting at a time when the state and nation had a severe lack of testing capacity," Tompkins County Health Director Frank Kruppa said. "Over time, as the Governor has announced different populations that would have access to testing, insurance companies stopped some reimbursements for non-medically necessary tests which has resulted in some individuals being unable to get tested at our local site. CHS has been generous in standing up the site and collecting tens of thousands of samples and expanding their capacity to perform tests. It’s a testament to how important it is to have an independent community hospital here." Cayugahealth.org still lists the criteria to review before scheduling an appointment, and patients can schedule an appointment there too. A call

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INQUIRING

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Mask Model

PHOTOGRAPHER Local study explores mask impact on coronavirus spread By C a se y Mar tin

CONSIDERING THESE NEW TIMES….WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR

STUDENTS RETURNING TO TOWN?

“WEAR A MASK!!” - Lou

“Stay Home.” -Neil O.

“Don’t go to parties and wear a mask.” -Lily M & Alex C.

s the coronavirus pandemic continues and the public seeks information regarding the effectiveness of mask wearing, a recent study by an Ithaca architecture firm offers a local perspective. Holt Architects published a study in conjunction with M/E Engineering on Aug. 5 that indicated wearing a mask does limit the spread when compared to not doing so. So far, Holt has released two videos of the study, both illustrating the efficacy of masks. The first video includes footage of the now-empty office and the simulation of a person infected with COVID-19 coughing three times over 10 minutes without a mask. In the second video, the same simulation occurs but with four coughs, and this time the person is wearing a mask. The difference is stark. In the first video (https://www. holt.com/covid-19-simulationindoors), the person’s infectious cloud—colored blue, green, or red depending on the Human Infectious Dose percentage—disperses across the entirety of the office space.

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But the second video shows the same droplets remaining closer to the person’s work space, highlighting the mask’s effectiveness. Steve Hugo, Principal at Holt, said the study was prompted by some employees’ interest in returning to the office space, located at 619 W State Street, and if they could sit at their desks unmasked. Holt executed the study of its office utilizing Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) technology to create simulations with M/E to predict the flow of fluid in the air within and around the office space. Scott Reynolds, Manager of the Computer Aided Engineering Solutions (CAES) group at M/E, said the study provides a point of view to clear up the misinformation surrounding interactions during a pandemic, specifically how to social distance at work. “We wanted to put some parameters on [the study] in terms of an office environment where you're there eight hours a day, either fully staffed and partially staffed and how the virus could spread within the

office during that typical work day,” he said. As divisive arguments over wearing masks continue, seen as either a personal choice or obligation to public health and safety, Hugo said he hopes the results of the study will push people to consider wearing a mask more often. “A lot of people have read some of the guidelines to mean that if you're six feet apart from each other indoors, you don't have to wear a mask, and I think people are […] going to be rethinking that, and I think we're ahead of the curve with regard to that,” he said. The masks in question were double or triple layer cloth masks covering both the mouth and nose. Rob Shutts, a Project Manager at Holt in Syracuse who coordinated contact between Holt and M/E, said choosing between cloth and N95 masks came down to the likelihood that employees would have better access to or prefer a cloth mask. Shutts also said as architects and engineers, their methodology offers a different perspective on how studies like this can be performed. He said CFD technology is often used by architects on projects to evaluate how smoke spreads in a space in the event of a fire. With this study, the same approach and concept applies. However, he said that

s long as their specific plans are approved by the New York State Department of Health, Tompkins County schools will be allowed to reopen for in-person classes in the coming weeks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday morning, even as the coronavirus pandemic slows but continues in New York. "All school districts can open, everywhere in the state," Cuomo said. "Which is just great news." The determination for eligibility was based on infection rates and economic reopening status, both criteria which the Southern Tier has met for weeks. If the infection rate of a region climbs above nine percent over a seven day period, schools in that region will immediately be closed for in-person learning. Ithaca City School District and other

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local districts had turned in their reopening plans on July 31, the state mandated deadline, and began releasing them to the public over the last week. Some are opting for a hybrid approach, bringing certain students to in-person classes only a few days a week, while others, like ICSD, have asked parents to choose whether to send their students to in-person classes or enroll them in virtual learning full-time, both of which would take place five days per week. More information will be available, likely next week, regarding whether or not the plans have been approved by the Department of Health. "Every school district has submitted plans to the Department of Health and Education Department," Cuomo said. "The Department of Health has the plans, and the Department of Health can disapprove

because he is not a healthcare professional, he hopes this study will give insight into Holt’s operations specifically, not as a general rule for all businesses to replicate. “It's gonna be different in different spaces, a school space versus an office with a different type of air distribution system,” Shutts said. “The point that we wanted to make is that it's part of our process to make informed decisions on what we do with our space and […] give people some thought that maybe it's worth looking at their own individual space.” The third video, not yet published, will discuss Holt’s practices moving forward with potentially repopulating its office, though Shutts said he thinks Holt’s office in Syracuse will likely remain working virtually. Hugo said that currently some employees have started working in Holt’s office in Ithaca again, but because so few people decided to return, each employee has their own private room to work in. “We wanted to share what knowledge or what information we had to [...] help our clients and other people,” Hugo said. “We're very open to engaging in conversations with anybody who's trying to continue brainstorming what the best solutions are to make spaces safer for people.” Arleigh Rodgers

plans if they're not responsible from a health point of view." Cuomo said that if the Department of Health doesn't approve a district's plan, the school will not be permitted to open, but could obviously tweak its plans to meet the health department's concerns. Of the 749 school districts in the state, 127 have not submitted plans (that likely includes New York City school districts, which have been granted an extension). Fifty of those 127 are "incomplete" or "deficient," according to Cuomo. Those districts will be informed of that by Monday. Cuomo acknowledged that local school districts may still struggle to deal with parents and teachers and the concerns that they will bring to the table. "If the parents don't send their students, then you're not really opening schools," Cuomo said. Cuomo said he wants two things from districts to address that: fixing inequity in remote learning (such as problems with internet access) and explaining how districts plan to solve those issues, and that he wants schools to post their continued on page 7

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COVID at Cornell

Can a Cornell professor and his team save the world?

Prof. Hector Aguillar-Carreno is working on a better way to find and treat viruses, now focusing on COVID-19. (Photo by Casey Martin)

very morning Hector Aguillar-Carreno wakes up, greets his family and then descends the stairs to his basement to work. He’ll be there for several hours, give or take a meal break. He'll stay in that room with his childrens artwork and his monitor before him, trying to lead his team to one of the most desired answers of our time: what will stop coronavirus? Aguillar-Carreno is a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University where he researches virology, glycoproteins, vaccines, antivirals and now the novel coronavirus. He and his team of 12 students have been studying the coronavirus since they received approval to research potential vaccines and antivirals in March. When the pandemic hit and forced New York into lockdown, Aguillar-Carreno said that he immediately sought out a permit for his team to keep working in their lab. Unfortunately, due to strict social-dis-

tancing guidelines, only four of them were granted access to the lab. They decided on having two graduate students, one post-doctoral student and a lab technician take over access to the lab with Aguillar-Carreno’s oversight via Zoom, while the rest conducted research outside. Carreno said he hasn’t stepped foot in the lab since mid-March, but that hasn’t halted progress. Aguillar-Carreno’s days are full. Between individual and group meetings, overseeing lab work, discussing the progress of research, writing proposals for grants and filling out applications and teaching his two children, he said he averages at least 50 hours of labor a week, but he’s impassioned about the work. Even before the pandemic had touched within the borders of the U.S., before the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 had exploded in any country for that matter, Aguillar-Carreno and his team were already working on a method to com-

bat it, albeit in a different form. Before the pandemic, he and his team had been researching influenza in hopes of perfecting the efficiency of the regular flu vaccine. It wasn’t groundbreaking work. He described it as redesigning the wheel to include grooves; a minor adjustment that makes a noticeable difference when you want it to. Similarly, their improved approach is a method of killing the virus that would also preserve the protein structure of the virus. It was a method already used in vaccination development: deactivate the virus, implant it into a host and wait for the host to develop a natural immune response, but it wasn’t absolutely effective. By this point the concept of a virus is commonplace: a golf ball with about 25–30 flathead nails sticking out of it so that it resembles a cartoon porcupine, only with spikes not so randomly arranged. The arrangement of the spikes matters, said Aguillar-Carreno, and when one of the nails/ spikes is damaged or broken it’s not the same, according to our bodies. “The way the influenza virus is killed to be used in vaccines destroys the virus enough that it is no longer in an optimum condition to keep developing with, it’s broken down a little,” Aguillar-Carreno said. ”That’s why the vaccines we have against influenza right now are effective, but not fully effective. It doesn’t leave the virus in its native structure well-enough.” He said he has high hopes that the group’s method would be effective in developing a vaccine or drug against the COVID-19 virus, but he pointed out that it’s limited to only one viral strain at a time, which can slow progress. “Viruses multiply rapidly, some more rapidly than others, like the coronavirus,” he

said. He suggested that like the flu, the best option is another method he’s currently developing—a multivalent response that is capable of providing immunity against more than one virus at a time and focuses on “building” the virus, as opposed to “killing” it, which is the case in the first approach. In a recent study, the team experimented on hamsters to see if they could generate an immunity. They combined glycoproteins from nipah, hendra and ebola virus, each a zootropic virus transmitted by bats that have a high mortality when transmitted to humans, into one viral particle. This meant taking spikes from each of the individual viruses and arranging them together to create something relatively new. If it worked the hamsters would be immune against all three deadly viruses. The results that followed were successful: The hamsters demonstrated an immunity to the three viruses. Further plans for this research method are still way off into the future, said Aguillar-Carreno, but the team is feeling optimistic. “We’re really excited about this method,” Aguillar-Carreno said. We’re hoping to do something similar with SARS and coronavirus, if we get the chance.” He said although support is relatively slow, especially during years without a major health concern, he’s confident that the world should see an answer in the coming year. “I think it is possible that we will have something that works before 2021, but whatever it is will have to be mass produced and we must keep that in mind,” Aguillar-Carreno said. “If it is a drug it will be easier to mass produce, but if it is a vaccine it will be harder to mass produce because it has to be made for everyone.” As for Aguillar-Carreno, in the morning when the sun rays creep across his floor, he will head back down to his basement to work; in the afternoon while his children are learning the elementaries of science, he will be on Zoom directing his assistants through lab activities; and then he will write down what they find and he’ll read through the latest data. And maybe they’ll save the world.

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Articles you may have missed - Here’s some of the stories we covered this week that couldn’t make the print edition. Check online for the full versions at ithaca.com. Cornell releases Student Behavioral Compact for 2020– 2021 - Cornell University issued its Student Behavioral Compact for all undergraduate, graduate and professional students for the 2020–2021 academic year in hopes of mitigating the spread of COVID-19. The compact requires students to complete a COVID-19 educational training course, which includes a brief quiz one must pass, prior to enrolling in courses. Students will also need to give a “formal attestation” of the compact. OurBus offering rides, hotels to Cornell students quarantining OurBus has established a service to a pair of hotels in Elmira-Horseheads, creating a discounted room rate of $65 per night and establishing “customized charter trips” to bring the students back and forth to Ithaca. Students are allowed to either arrive at the Elmira hotel on their own or arrive via OurBus trip from New York City, Binghamton or Ithaca.

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Overwhelmed by Public Health Crisis, Cornell Abandons Students Required to Quarantine

Summer Circumstances

By C or n e l l Un i v e r si t y se n ior R ach e l G e ltm a n & E l i z a bet h G l a s s G e ltm a n, a C or n e l l gr a duat e a n d a n a s s o c i at e profe s s or at CU N Y Gr a duat e S cho ol of P u bl ic H e a lt h a n d H e a lt h Pol icy ornell University’s plan to reopen is needing quarantine grew to about 5000 a great risk to public health. – exceeding the University’s quarantine Cornell announced the school’s capacity five times over. most recent Fall 2020 COVID-19 reopenFacing similar travel advisories, many ing plan for the Ithaca campus statpeer institutions moved from hybrid to ing that Cornell will no longer provide online models last week. Although the students or assist incoming students with Washington, DC travel advisory restricts housing during the 14-day quarantine fewer states than does New York and period prior to moving into the dorms. there are far more hotels available in the New York currently requires travelWashington, DC area than in Ithaca, ers from 34 states, Washington, DC and Georgetown University, George WashingPuerto Rico to quarantine for 14 days ton University and American University after entering the state in order to prevent all acknowledged the impossibility of the spread of COVID-19. Over the past facilitating quarantine on such a massive several weeks, Cornell had secured 1100 scale. Instead, each retracted their earlier hotel rooms in the Ithaca area to accompromise of a hybrid teaching model and modate this quarantine order. However, announced they would move online for when New York added more states to the Fall 2020. list last week in response to the nationLike the DC universities, Cornell wide rise in confirmed COVID cases, the number of incoming Cornell students continued on page 7

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thacans exalted this month in our weather-wise favored-region status, going largely untouched by Hurricane Isaias. Hurricanes are primarily coastal phenomena, but they can range. Here, in fact, we got rain from the storm’s edge, though no trouble from its center. Meanwhile, elsewhere in our state, New York City was wracked by torrential rains and high winds. Over a million lost power in an historic total second only to Hurricane Sandy’s. Nearer to us, a few hours southeast, winds and toppled trees downed power lines and destroyed property throughout Rockland County. Even closer, destruction and outages struck the Catskills widely. Post-hurricane, I communicated with friends in all those places. Each region seems to have weathered the storm (so to speak) with minimal trauma, with their various strengths. The Catskills area prides itself on embracing natural wildness. Rockland County knows suburban leafiness comes at a cost. New York City has seen worse, and is always prepared for worse yet, with existential toughness and defiance. Still, everyone needs a break sometime. My communication with these friends elsewhere in New York prompted some questions about Ithaca (“Rain only? No wind?”) and, with the pandemic as a further topic, broader interest. “Is it true restaurants are open there?” asked my Manhattan friend. Manhattan in general offers a lot more restaurants than apartment kitchen space, so opting not to cook is a common custom there. “There’s a lot of things I miss,” she said, “but one is someone handing me a menu and a drink.” I said that was an option here, but required some strategizing. Indoor service is available, but lessened, with pandemic protocols limiting indoor occupancies. Subsequent research revealed indoor availability almost everywhere; but my study was conducted over a few nice days. In rain, or extreme heat, the situation is probably different. In our conversations, I extended invitations to Ithaca to all these less fortunate New Yorkers. I felt secure as a host because of knowledge gained from two prior weekends squiring other guests. Both were from Pennsylvania, as it happened. The first proposed her visit by saying she was aching for vacation, but didn’t want to drive too far and deal with

miles of closed or cruddy eateries and rest stops. She wouldn’t have to quarantine here, so she would be safe with Pennsylvania plates. She had in mind our surplus of outdoor vacation options, including wineries and state parks, plus aspects of uncrowded urbanity in Ithaca. The second announced his visit by stating he would normally be in Maine at the start of August, on a regular annual trip (to the state that has “Vacationland” on its plates and depends mightily on summer tourist revenue, but has major restrictions on visitors now, including the closure of his usual destination). Now we’re getting that revenue, and maybe much more very broadly, or at least from begetters unseen before. In light of all this, the Ithaca Times, your source for local knowledge, arcane or vast, always useful even when not quite crucial, offers you some tips on summer strategizing for entertaining guests, or even just yourself. If wishing to dine out inside, call first: situations, thus policies, change rapidly these days. I was surprised recently to be turned away from a very familiar and favored place because they (unexpectedly) couldn’t handle a party of six that particular day, with space limitations (suddenly) reached. If this happens to you, you can always order food to go, and eat at benches under cover at a pavilion in Cass Park (as we did) or Stewart Park, or at the Farmers Market, when vacant. When not vacant, i.e. in operation, a visit to the Farmers Market requires new levels of patience in pandemic. The market, of necessity, is restricting the number of entries at any given time, and the wait for entry can approach an hour. (The old saw that “no one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” does not, and might never, pertain to this perennial hotspot.) Assess and fine-tune your instincts about distances between local points of interest, and determine any guest’s proclivity for long walks in summer heat. You might think, for instance, that a walk from downtown on the Waterfront Trail to Stewart Park, then through city streets to Ithaca Falls, then back to downtown, will take about two hours; but it won’t. With time for rest and pictures, it will take twice that. Trust me (with apologies to Maureen and Tony). Whatever you do, wherever you go, don’t neglect your sunblock. We wish you a healthy, happy summer, with peace, fun, love, and laughs, and good times ahead.

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recognized its inability to meet the dictates of the New York law admitting in a campus-wide email that “we are no longer able to provide quarantine housing arrangements for all students.” And since Cornell has already contracted with all available hotel rooms, most returning Cornell students will not be able to find places to quarantine in the Ithaca area on their own. Cornell’s new plan is not in compliance with the spirit or particulars of New York’s Executive Order #205. The revised plan encourages either overcrowding in off-campus student housing in Ithaca until the dorms open up or noncompliance with the New York quarantine requirement. The plan also discriminates against low income, first to college and minority students, who cannot foot the bill for a 14-night hotel stay. Even for the privileged few who may try, without university support to provide food deliveries and health check-ins while quarantined alone in a hotel room, it is difficult to envision how students could begin to comply with the public health guidelines. Students may take an easier path: simply ask an off-campus friend to provide an address where they can either overcrowd or simply claim to quarantine. Cornell University is in part a state

school. As such, it needs to work with Governor Cuomo’s office to either provide food, housing and appropriate medical surveillance for students from the listed states and territories during quarantine or, if that proves impossible for fiscal or practical reasons, declare the Ithaca campus online this semester. Instead of meeting the challenge of increased COVID-19 infection across the country with the pragmatism of peer institutions like Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Duke University and the University of California, Berkeley who courageously moved classes online for the fall, Cornell instead plans to leave students without guidance, assistance, or oversight in how they choose to comply with or defy New York State’s public health guidelines. Many Cornell students are rightly concerned that the university is shifting its responsibility to the student body without adequate support. The results could be deadly and disastrous. As an Ivy League university with a medical school and a department of public health, Cornell should model better public health conduct. To do so, Cornell must either provide adequate quarantine facilities for students (both prior to movein and in the event students on or off campus become sick) as required by New York law or move classes online. The current plan is a tremendous risk to public health in upstate New York.

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testing plans for teachers, staff and students. He also wants contact tracing plans revealed and posted by all school districts, and districts to hold three discussion sessions with parents and one discussion session exclusively for teachers, all before Aug. 21. The testing plan requirement would seem to be counter to what had been signaled to school districts previously, as ICSD Superintendent Luvelle Brown had said a testing component was not included in ICSD's reopening plan because they felt that the published guidelines had discouraged local districts from establishing testing programs. "We have been following the NYSED and NYSDOH guidance very closely on the issues of testing and all other logistics related to reopening," Brown said earlier this week, explaining why the school district didn't include a testing regimen in its reopening plan. "Currently, the guidance has strongly urged that school districts not conduct testing. Furthermore, to conduct testing, school districts are required to apply and be granted status as a laboratory site." Cuomo seemed to contradict that on Friday, saying instead that the Department of Health had always included testing as part of its reopening guidelines, which is

true, but the department only told schools that they would need to include a plan for "the provision or referral of diagnostic testing." ICSD and other schools have identified the Tompkins County Health Department as the purveyor of those tests, so perhaps in the end their plans won't need a significant late change. Additionally, Cuomo was asked about the willingness of teachers to return to classrooms, and he said that was part of why he wanted to require districts to have discussion sessions only for teachers. Earlier this week, the Ithaca Times reported that 50 percent of the 413 ICSD teachers who responded to an internal survey had told their union that they would not be returning to the classroom and would instead opt to teach online; 32 percent said they had not yet decided, and the remaining 18 percent said they were willing to teach in the classroom. Cuomo discouraged forcing teachers to physically teach in school buildings under the current conditions, even with infection rates falling statewide. "They're not going to be able to teach in that environment," Cuomo said. "There is going to need to be significant discussion because teachers are raising many issues." M att Butler

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YOUR LETTERS On Cornell’s announcement that they will not guarantee housing to quarantining students

share your concern about Cornell’s recently announced change of plans. The County’s official position on CU’s current strategy for reopening is not oppositional, but it is not nearly as happily collaborative as it was before CU’s announcement on July 30. Trust was betrayed. CU did not make its decision in collaboration or consultation with the county. In fact, CU kept telling us that it would house and supervise quarantined students right up until 2 hours before it publicly announced that it wouldn’t. Moreover, the County’s official position is not necessarily the “position of individual legislators, including myself. I believe it would be far more responsible” to the community for the university to proceed as IC has done, and tell students coming from “blacklisted” states to live on campus that they must stay home and take classes remotely until 14 days after explicitly in this direction. My thought is that the public should and must continue making its concerns and dissatisfaction known to the university at every opportunity. Public pressure will move CU to a more responsible position on this issue. Deborah Dawson, Tompkins County Legislator, as posted to her Facebook page

s the father of a kindergarten teacher (not ICSD) I’ve been watching the school opening plans carefully. I think schools should remain closed until 2021. All instruction should be virtual for the rest of the year. It’s just too soon. One need only look at the schools in Georgia to see my point. My suggestion is to beef up virtual instruction now and make sure every household in a district has good internet connection or access to high speed. Extensively train teachers now to better their “virtual skills.” Open after the holidays because you know people are going to interact with each other. January 2021 test, test, test. Then NY schools should shift to year round schooling. We are not an agrarian society any more. This would keep buildings operational. Other states do this (see cde. ca.gov). Certainly have longer breaks around the holidays and yes teachers and staff would have to be paid more. But if you figure in the breaks it may not be that much more. This would also help working families. David Nowicki Interlaken, NY “I sure hope the cops wear masks when they break up gatherings. And all the time. Seems like something that shouldn’t need to be stated.” Ariel Milty, via Facebook

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center has been set up for patients who may not have access to the internet, need assistance registering, or have questions. The call center number is 607-319-5708. The testing site is available for prescheduled drive through testing from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday – Friday. Rides are available in a sanitized vehicle to the Cayuga Health Sampling Site. After registration, call 2-1-1 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. to schedule a ride. There is no charge for this ride. "Regarding the number of tests, there has been a significant amount of surveilAu gu s t

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lance testing, for example, when essential workers could get tested and many showed up before going back to work during the phases," Kruppa said. "We continue to encourage all individuals who are symptomatic or a close contact of a known case to seek a test right away, and encourage them to do so at the CHS sampling site." Kruppa said the department is continuing to work with Cayuga Health to make sure testing is widely available to the community. M att Butler 2 0 2 0

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rotests aren’t an uncommon sight around Ithaca anymore. The last three months have seen plenty of them, from weekly Sunday protests demanding the defunding of the Ithaca Police Department to a spate of protests directed at supporting the local Black community to several actions dedicated to calling for rent cancellation in light of the coronavirus pandemic’s injurious impact on the economy and employment. The most recent example of that was last Thursday, which was coincidentally also the most creative of the protests. A group of about 40 protesters, demanding an extension of the eviction moratorium, dragged couches, chairs and clothes into the driveway next to the Ithaca Police Department and Ithaca City Court. Their message: you have to evict us if you want to evict them, motivated by Thursday marking the reopening of Ithaca’s housing court operations. According to a courthouse source, there weren’t actually any evictions scheduled to take place Thursday, and it’s impossible to know whether or not the action, officially deemed an eviction blockade, scared any landlords off from initiating an eviction process that day. But it did highlight again the impact of recent local protests, particularly those held on behalf of the area renter community and largely organized by the still nascent Ithaca Tenants Union, formed in March. Many of those protests have surrounded a push to cancel rent for tenants who have been unable to pay their monthly housing costs to whatever extent over the last several months, as well as more general sentiments against evictions, landlords and in favor of a more level playing field between tenants and the people they rent from. A pamphlet handed out at the protest outlined the group’s platform: demanding rent control, banning single family zoning, publicly owning housing for Department of Social Services clients, building a landbank of foreclosed homes, a property own-

ership cap for each landlord, accountability for unfair treatment from landlords, require landlords to provide home addresses so tenants can send them mail and forcing inspections and upgrades to complexes in need, which the group names as West Village and Chestnut Hill, among others. Listed above all of them, though, is rent cancellation, which ITU equates to part of “true housing justice.” Rent cancellation has been the reform initiative the ITU has been able to push the farthest so far. A piece of legislation that would allow the City of Ithaca to ask New York State’s permission to cancel rent for tenants who have amassed three months of rent debt because of the pandemic and are at “severe risk” of homelessness as a result was passed by Common Council and

health crisis. Sensing that a wave of homelessness was on the horizon as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic shutdown, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has instituted a series of eviction moratorium extensions (albeit each accompanied with ample confusion), starting in March, then another in June, then another last week, coincidentally towards the end of the rally outside of Ithaca City Court, as New York State Police officers were blocking off parts of East Clinton Street while protesters began to disperse. The current eviction moratorium buys tenants who have fallen behind on rent another few weeks of legal safety before it would have to be extended. Before it was enacted, local activists had publicly mused about the idea of blocking eviction proceedings by interfering with

That increased sense of belonging in the space that I live, that’s normally discouraged by the rental market.” She acknowledges that her argument is not one backed by the law, though she argues that the law has been structured to ensure that landlords, who are often better off financially than their renting tenants and better versed in rental law, have the upper hand when dealing with a tenant disagreement. “I’m not bothering you, I’m just trying to survive the pandemic,” Rand said of her own situation. “It’s not a legal argument, hell no. [...] The law definitely protects landlords over tenants.” When she became involved in the effort to found the ITU, along with Liel Sterling and Elijah Fox, Rand wasn’t at risk of being evicted. With the advent of COVID-19, though, Rand found the issues that the ITU was trying to fight became much more personal, although the structure that the ITU offered her and others proved helpful through the stress. That includes more than just communal sentiment and comfort, too: the ITU collaborated with Cornell to create a hotline for renters in danger of eviction. Additionally, the union and Cornell will soon be rolling out a free legal representation program to help tenants in an even more comprehensive way, according to Sterling.

Genevieve R and, local ac t i v i s t a n d h a d b e e n fac i n g e v i c t i o n b e f o r e t h e r e i n s tat e m e n t o f t h e m o r at o r i u m . ( P h o t o b y C a s e y M a r t i n) is now awaiting Department of Health approval or response. It’s been the subject of a few rallies, with attendees gathering outside of Mayor Svante Myrick’s house, and then City Hall, to call for Common Council to approve the request and then for Myrick to sign it and send it. He did, and a task force has been assembled of landlords and tenants to hammer out a policy that would be implemented if the health department does approve the measure; the force was also responsible for the composition of the executive order that is pending approval. Further generating the urgency behind the protests is the ever-looming threat of eviction, an event that can upturn one’s life in normal times, and whose negative effects are amplified during an ongoing public

police or move-outs. Having to stay inside all the time, as the pandemic has forced, has impacted Genevieve Rand’s understanding of her apartment and the significance of it to her life. Rand, one of the founders and current leaders of the Ithaca Tenants Union, was under threat of eviction late last month before the moratorium was officially extended, though her housing future beyond Sept. 4 remains murky—and her electricity has been off for a week. “During the pandemic, my relationship to my home has changed dramatically,” Rand said. “It went from a place that I slept and prepared food sometimes to a place where I spend most of my day, every day, where I live and work and do everything. Au gu s t

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“It’s empowered me. I have access to all sorts of information and all sorts of legal help that I didn’t before,” Rand said. “I’ve met so many other people who have validated my dignity and sense of respect for my space. I didn’t realize that I have so much more power over the space that I live than I thought I did. [...] Also being introduced to people who will support me in a situation like this. I didn’t expect the level of community support that there has been, and I’ve heard that from other people in the tenants union as well.” John Guttridge, a local landlord (mostly commercial) and property owner, has been involved with the ongoing task force discussions, and said it’s important to remem-

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An 8 year-old girl was sitting at the front of a sailboat as it cruised up the Cayuga Inlet, joined by her family and her schoolteacher, who owns the boat. The girl was smiling and waving like royalty, and the shore was lined with friends, well-wishers, athletes and coaches from the Cornell Equestrian Team. Oh… and another special spectator was there: A horse named “Moose.” The girl’s name is Maeve Rae-Bognar— she is listed as the youngest member of the Cornell Equestrian Team, and the event was put together to celebrate the completion of her final chemo appointment, two plus years after being initially diagnosed Client: with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. When looking at various physical therapy treatments during treatments, Maeve conveyed that Equine Therapy was something that really spoke to her. She took some riding lessons, and was soon thereafter connected to Friends of Jaclyn, an organization that matches pediatric cancer patients with sports teams. According to Cornell’s website, “The Big Red quickly

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adopted Maeve, who would visit the barn every weekend to see them, and especially Moose. She attended holiday events, an ice cream social and even visited one of her older teammates, Lena Reeb, in Connecticut to ride one of her horses.” Maeve immediately bonded with her new two- and four-legged friends, but her connection with Moose seemed to really resonate with the youngster. According to Marisa Rae—Maeve’s mom—"The team gave us a stuffed brown horse that looks like him and he’s been to every inpatient visit since then and sleeps with Maeve every night," Marisa said. "They have a very special love for each other." I couldn’t get a quote from Moose, but Joanna Nokaovic (Cornell’s Head Equestrian Coach for the past seven years) told me, “We really wanted to do something to celebrate, but obviously we couldn’t have a gathering, so we planned this. We loved the idea of having Moose there, but when we asked about bringing him to Stewart Park, we were told that horses were not allowed there. We asked the Boatyard Grill, and they said, ‘Sure!’ I was amazed, and very grateful.” It is common knowledge that many horses are not adaptable when faced with unfamiliar circumstances or conditions, but Moose stepped up. “He was great,” Joanna said. “He walked off the trailer, checked out the ducks and the boats, tolerated the air horns and confetti cannon and was there for his friend. It was very touching for everyone.”

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ter’s pirate ghost yarn “The Fog.” Today, that lot is a mobile home sales business, and you can still see part of the movie screen hiding behind tall pine trees. I try to get out to either the Elmira DriveIn or the Finger Lakes Drive-In in Auburn at least a few times every summer, but it’s been a while. Heartily sick of watching screeners and Netflix on my phone, I set out on a recent Friday night to the Finger Lakes Drive-In for a $10 double feature of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice” (1988) and Joe Dante’s “Gremlins” (1984). (That weekend, the Elmira Drive-In was playing titles like “Wonder Woman,” “The Wizard of Oz” and “Batman.” Check their websites, as the programs change weekly.) Best laid plans: I was making great time zipping down NY-34 when I blew a tire. By the time AAA showed up to put a donut on my car, I had missed about the first half-hour of “Beetlejuice,” but no matter: this movie holds up just great. I last saw it a few years ago at the State Theatre for Halloween, and it played great there, too. The Finger Lakes was packed, bumper to bumper. I found a spot in the back row, as it were, near the exit lane, tuned my radio to the soundtrack frequency and settled in for 2/3 of “Beetlejuice.” Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin play a sweet, naïve couple who drown in the first 10 minutes. Their cozy home gets bought by a family of nouveau riche cretins (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Winona Ryder) and turned into a gothic art show and supernatural museum. Time for Davis and Baldwin to hire “freelance bio-exorcist” Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to scare O’Hara’s clan away. Keaton is such a live-wire living cartoon in the title role that you barely notice he’s really only in the last half of the picture. It’s a fantastic performance, matched in the real world by O’Hara; her possessed rendition of “The Banana Boat Song” is a classic comic

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sequence. I love the notion of the afterlife as a kind of haunted bureaucratic nightmare: corpses killed in various ways, cheesy waiting rooms, syrupy Muzak and red tape in crimson blood tones. I also really dig the analog special effects that give Burton’s film such a funky, handmade vibe. When Burton got into CGI with “Mars Attacks!” I think he lost a lot of his signature style that makes everything from “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” to “Ed Wood” so visually distinctive. During intermission, I donned my mask and headed down to the snack bar and bought a Snapple black cherry lemonade. “Gremlins,” along with “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” were filled with so much mayhem that the two films led to the creation of the PG-13 film rating. At the time of its release, it was described as “E.T. with teeth.” Like “Beetlejuice,” “Gremlins” is set in a sleepy small town where a strange creature named Gizmo ends up birthing lots and lots of creepy-funny gremlin critters because the townsfolk didn’t obey three simple rules: don’t expose them to bright sunlight, don’t get them wet and don’t feed them after midnight. Joe Dante shot “Gremlins” in soundstages and studio backlots to give the story a timeless fairy-tale quality, which, apart from a pretty dated “Flashdance” gag, still holds true. How you feel about “Gremlins” may depend on how you feel about the scene where Phoebe Cates explains why she doesn’t celebrate Christmas. If you like that, you’ll dig the rest of the picture. “They can burn us up,” Joe Bob Briggs wrote. “They can knock us down. But they can’t close the drive-in in our heart.”

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he Hangar Theatre ended its streaming summer season on a high note last weekend, with its online production of Kate Hamill’s deliciously gossipy “Sense and Sensibility,” adapted from the 1811 Jane Austen novel. Hamill, an Ithaca College theatre grad and former Lansing resident, has had great success with her contemporary, feminist, comical re-envisionings of classic fiction, especially Austen’s social novels. In previous seasons, the Hangar produced her “Pride and Prejudice” as well as Alcott’s “Little Women.” Hamill and her husband, actor Jason O’Connell, were featured in the pre-show chat, when she spoke about the Hangar being her first professional theatrical home: “It’s where theatre begins for me –– the Hangar experience taught me to love theatre.” Hamill also reinforced why she’s drawn to the classics: She wanted to “open up the universality, kick down the doors to the church and let all the people in.” The themes of Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” still resound familiarly today: marriage and money (or lack of it), social class and snobbery, seduction and abandonment, hypocrisy and honest feeling, and unwanted interference from others,

whether mean-spirited or simply thoughtless. Hangar associate artistic director Shirley Serotsky ably directs a superb cast of 10 with insight and grace (though timing was a bit slow at points). An early scene with multiple characters nattering all at once was incoherent, but happily this was an anomaly; most dialogue, lightly tinged with British accents, was clearly delivered. (Though a program could be downloaded, it still would be truly helpful to see the cast listed onscreen, perhaps during intermission.) Sound effects, like the drenching rain or bumping cart wheels, added to the ambience, as did the occasional framing of rural greenery and country roads. Costumes were apt, with minor switches as eight of the actors assumed up to four different roles (though the Johns Willoughby and Dashwood needed greater distinction). But it was mostly up to the versatile actors to indicate who they were at any moment, which they did most vivaciously. The tale: Mrs. Dashwood and her brood have lost their home and inheritance to the son from her husband’s first marriage, and from there it’s all an intriguing tangle of who’s in and who’s not, who gets to romance whom, with the perfidy and op-

portunism of some on display versus the moral faithfulness of others. The heart of the production is the eldest Dashwood sisters—the prudent, mature Elinor and the impetuous, outspoken Marianne, played marvelously by Kayla Carter and Kimberly Chatterjee. Their supportive mother is graciously rendered by Nandita Shenoy; their peevish little sister, Margaret, by Erin Lockett. And it’s especially refreshing to see this Austen family unfold with four women of color. Whenever Carter appeared as Elinor, modest and thoughtful, full of gravitas, but radiant with youth and the conviction of doing the right thing—well, it was hard to take your eyes from her. She anchored the show, and in her beloved Edward, a mod-

est and flustered Alex Purcell, she found her perfect match. (A sign of Purcell’s versatility was doubling as his boorish, obnoxious brother Robert, in one hysterical scene where he waxes nostalgic about the virtues of “cottages.”) Another actor handily pulling off multiple roles is Rachel Ravel, first as the smug, selfish wife of the usurping brother John Dashwood; then as neighbor Middleton’s wife, immersed in her dinner plate; and finally as the giddy Lucy Steele, who’s convinced Edward is hers alone. John Middleton shines as the effusive Middleton, and Carmen LaCivita is a somber, steadying force as the “older” Col. Brandon, duty-bound and above reproach, who loves Marianne selflessly.

Jared Brendon Hopper is dashingly handsome and equally persuasive as the compromising, insensitive usurper, John Dashwood (who lets his wife talk him out of financing Mrs. D and her girls), and the fickle, irresponsible John Willoughby (who falls for Marianne but cuts her mercilessly once his fortunes are threatened). In a tattling social drama rife with comedy, two actors simply sparkle: Carla Briscoe as Mrs. Jennings, Middleton’s chatterbox mother-in-law and self-appointed matchmaker; and Nandita Shenoy as Lucy Steele’s sister, Anne, an airhead teen who’d be at home in “Clueless.” Even most of the erring characters have depth, as Chatterjee’s Marianne shows. She displays the most growth, from her

passionate belief in Willoughby’s feelings and her complex, appreciative relation to Elinor to her final acceptance of Col. Brandon’s silent support. Of course the story ends with happy marriages all around (three at last count). If you ever needed romantic mayhem to take you out of your covid slump, this was it. And surely that late love scene—finally!— between Elinor and Edward, will linger in your memory, where he says, “Oh, Elinor, if I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” Sweetness is all. Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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ber that not all landlords are large scale operations; some might be renting out a room or a floor of their house, and thus face slimmer, tighter financial margins than others. “It’s hard to look at this without seeing all these different sides, there’s a lot of suffering to go around,” he said. “I feel like the most important thing is [...] You got to make sure people have homes. That’s pretty basic. Once somebody becomes homeless, how do you get a job if you’ve lost your job and your home and you can’t take a shower? That’s the important baseline for all of us to remember when considering this. It’s important that landlords really should be

working with their tenants to do whatever is possible to make sure that people don’t end up on the streets.” Do landlords have an inherent responsibility to not be evicting tenants during a pandemic? Yes, Guttridge said (though not all landlords interviewed for this story agreed), if the tenant has been impacted. “If you have a tenant who has lost their job and is in bad financial straits but has otherwise been a good tenant, you absolutely should be working with that person and doing everything in your power to make sure that they don’t become homeless,” Guttridge said. “Landlords should

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Even as ITU’s rent cancellation efforts advanced, grabbing national headlines along the way, there has been plenty of reason to doubt whether the measure would actually be able to tangibly help anyone in the end. City of Ithaca Alderperson Ducson Nguyen, who introduced the rent cancellation legislation before Common Council after tweaking it with Myrick and the ITU, said the delay from the Department of Health, which has been sitting with the legislation for around a month, was discouraging. Yet independent of if the state rejects the request, the conversation that’s been propelled both by the legislation and the tenants union itself is an important and positive outcome. Guttridge, speaking before the eviction moratorium was extended, expressed doubt that the rent cancellation, even if approved, would save anyone from eviction “in the short term,” though obviously that window is wider now. “As time goes on, without any response from the Department of Health, I’m getting less hopeful that we’ll see anything,” Nguyen said. “But another reason to pursue it, as aspirational as it was, was to raise the profile of the people who are suffering from the economic impact of COVID, and that did happen. We got some attention from around the country, and we hoped that would cause some action at the state or federal level. Doesn’t mean there was a ton of impact, but that was definitely part of the calculus, to raise the voices of the people who need assistance.” Also worrisome, Nguyen said, is the possibility that the state simply stalls for so long that the eviction moratorium ends and the city is still waiting on an answer, sending the tenants that the effort is supposed to benefit into the same limbo they were trying to avoid—and the ITU’s tenacity, and the resilience of tenants citywide, may simply not matter. At some point, the moratorium will end, the rent will be due, and it’s still unknown whether the city will have any answers for the tenants who are counting on it to come through on a ground-breaking, progressive act. “At some point, the moratorium will likely end, and these tenants will owe a balloon payment of rent that, if they haven’t been working, are unlikely to be able to pay,” Nguyen said. “I think most people who are able to pay have been paying. Anyone who is severely financially distressed is not going to have any more ability to pay back rent then they do right now. I’m highly concerned about homelessness and exacerbating inequality for people who are already living on the margins.”

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illing the elegant main rooms of Corners Gallery, an ample but not exhausting selection of blackand-white charcoal drawings announces the showspace's return from a long hiatus. Attached to the walls with magnets, unframed and otherwise unsupported, these playful abstractions bespeak austere warmth. Mostly larger sheets feature translucent white flame or ribbon-forms— carved out of the white of the paper— dancing across backgrounds of thickly rubbed, solid black conte crayon. Connecting 20th century modernist concerns to contemporary sensibility, they continue Corners' tradition of presenting work that engages body and mind alike. Featuring recent work by New York City and Upstate-based artist Taney Roniger, "Never the Same River" takes inspiration from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who famously proclaimed that one could never step in the same river twice. Such was the metaphysical flux behind our conventional understanding of stable, selfconsistent entities. Flux notwithstanding, the show (up through the end of August) is a home-

coming for the gallery, which closed in March due to the pandemic. Keeping busy, owner-director Ariel Bullion Ecklund has hosted rotating window exhibits and has recently reopened for framing appointments. The shop-gallery remains appointment only and is planning upcoming shows. A single tiny graphite piece, untitled, hangs mysteriously and awkwardly alone on a section of wall. An adjacent wall features "Other Rivers #5," which mimics its composition--though at a much larger scale and in ghostly reverse. Roniger spent the first half of this year reworking older gesture drawings into a new larger format. Translating the rapid, confident affect of the originals into a stiffer, more sculptural idiom, the artist has arrived at a kind of casual grandeur, evocative of human bodies and movement. "#5" features a nest of arcing planes— they resemble segments of a Frank Gehry building—self-enclosing amidst the black void. Together with a handful of more-orless similar pieces, they suggest a contemporary twist on what the Swiss art historian Heinrich Wolfflin (in his classic book

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reem Magazine founder Barry Kramer and Lester Bangs, its star writer, had been dead for a couple of years when I discovered it at a 7-Eleven newsstand in San Jose in 1984. I’d missed Creem’s ‘70s heyday, but I loved Creem anyway. Rolling Stone was pretentious, but Creem was funny and lowbrow. It’s where I learned about Robyn Hitchcock and R.E.M. and why Rush was humor impaired. Scott Crawford’s “Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine” (Muse Production House-Boy Howdy! Productions-New Rose Films, 2019, 75 mins.) feels long overdue. It tracks Kramer founding the magazine in Detroit, where it attracted writing talent like Bangs, Dave Marsh and Patti Smith. Musicians (Alice Cooper, Michael Stipe), rock writers (Cameron Crowe) and fans (Jeff Daniels) wax rhapsodic about why Creem was so damn cool. This would make a great double bill with Douglas Tirola’s National Lampoon documentary “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead.” What the Lampoon did for comedy, Creem did for its beloved rock ‘n’ roll. I’ll admit that I was paying a lot more attention to Dan Aykroyd’s Jimmy Carter impression on SNL than I was to Carter. I was too young to know how

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Carter the 1980 election, and it’s finally documented here. I saw Gordon Lightfoot perform in Elmira in the early ‘80s, and the man and his band put on a really good show. It was also interesting how many of his songs I had heard, despite not seeking him out. “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind” (Insight Productions, 2019, 91 mins.) is a handy biography that covers Lightfoot’s career from bank teller to TV dancer to Canadian singer-songwriter royalty. In a genre where most people don’t read music, Lightfoot taught himself how to write and arrange, so the hand-written

lead sheets we see in the film are his work. Fans will enjoy all the TV clips going back to the ‘60s, and like me, you’ll probably be surprised how many of Gord’s tunes you’ve been humming for years. Literally and figuratively, Matteo Borgardt’s “You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski” (Slamdance-Itaca Films, 2016, 52 min.) is the runt of this litter. You’d be better off reading any of writer and poet Charles Bukowski’s 60+ books than watch him smoke, drink and deflect about his work. Culled from a long 1981 interview shot on Betamax tape, the piece drags at less than an hour, and reveals little about the art of writing, and not much more about the art of smoking and drinking.

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Eve r y Mon d ay e ve ning thi s month the communit y i s inv ite d to cl ose out the star t of the we e k w ith a s tor ybook re a ding a s T he Mayor Re a d s for All .

he read aloud will take place August, 17, 24 and 31 and will be available live on Facebook from 7— 7:30 p.m. All of the books featured during the series can be found at Tompkins County Library and Buffalo Street Books. The first book Myrick read is titled All the Colors of The Earth by Sheila Hamanaka. The children's book explores the age-old proverb "you can't judge a book by its cover" by showing readers that in spite of external differences everyone essentially has the same needs and wants, and everyone is worthy of love. "Books build community, especially books that remind us of how important we are to each other, and especially at times of challenge and uncertainty," stated Children's Reading Connection The mayor read Summer Supper by Rubin Pfeffer and Wild About Books by Judi Sierra during the half-hour August 10 launch. The Mayor Reads for All is a new event organized through Children's Reading Connection and made possible by the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County Public Library and Buffalo Street Books/Ithaca is Books. Each featured title will reiterate the importance of community. For more information about future sessions contact Brigid Hubberman at Brigid. Hubberman@ChildrensReadingConnection.org, or call (607) 227-3360.

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Principles of Art History of a century ago) called "closed form." "Other Rivers (Glyph #16)," a particularly striking example, features two conjoined "figures," floating or standing. Other pieces, in contrast, employ a more dynamic open form. "Other Rivers #1" and "#10" feature stream-like, turbulent horizontal flows, while "#3" and "#8" present tauter ribbons with vertical droops. Two gridded, multi-sheet "Microscapes" venture into the terrain of abstract sequential art. They have a flatter sense of space: reminiscent of maps or puzzles. It's worth viewing these drawings in the light of Roniger's work as an art critic and essayist. Both unabashedly brainy and fiercely sensual, her writing on art engages philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, and spirituality while remaining grounded in an awareness of art-making as a material process. Writing for specialist publications such as Interalia and The Brooklyn Rail, she is part of a group of artists and thinkers renegotiating the modern art traditions of abstraction and (so-called) formalism for our own time. In an artworld intent on foregrounding messages and "concepts," she persuasively advocates for the intelligence of perception and feeling.

For an independently run small business in Ithaca, NY—hardly one of contemporary art's major centers—Corners Gallery continues to do remarkable work in bringing in a range of exhibiting artists. Bullion Ecklund curates a thoughtful, evolving balance of local and non-local artists, demonstrating the ambition of the former as well as her own sophisticated, eclectic taste. It's a rich cultural accomplishment and it's good to have it back. And while historical exhibitions of Cornell and Ithaca artists are usually the province of the Johnson Museum and other academic venues, Corners' late spring show was to feature work by the late John Hartell (1902-1995). Hartell, a Cornell architecture professor and practicing architect, was known in his latter years for his luminescent, atmospheric paintings evocative of natural and built environments. Lost in the COVID-19 shuffle, the project remains in limbo. But in the window currently, a small selection of Hartell's work on paper and canvas offers some sense of his accomplishment and provides a compelling, if happenstance, complement to Roniger's drawings. "Climax" (1964), "Chapel III" (1980), and "Pears and Plum IV" (1982), all oils, are ethereal yet insistent, in the knowing tradition of Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, and Philip Guston's "Abtract Impressionism."

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Stage In Good Spirits With Adam Zonder | 6:00 PM, 8/12 Wednesday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join the Hangar Theatre’s production manager of 25 years as he sits down and shares a (virtual) glass of whiskey with the designers and technicians who have been responsible for your favorite shows over the years. This event will be available on the Hangar’s YouTube page. Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible | 7:00 PM, 8/17 Monday | Seneca Falls Library, Online virtual program, Seneca Falls | Schoolaged kids and adults can enjoy a performance by actor Sheryl Faye about women’s rights activist, Susan B. Anthony! The performance will be by invitation only on Vimeo followed by a questions and answer session on Zoom. Contact tmontoney@senecafallslibrary.org to register. In Good Spirits With Adam Zonder | 6:00 PM, 8/19 Wednesday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join the Hangar Theatre’s production manager of 25 years as he sits down and shares a (virtual) glass of whiskey with the designers and technicians who have been responsible for your favorite shows over the years. This event will be available on the Hangar’s YouTube page.

Art Tom Haskell Photography Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 8/12 Wednesday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | Wednesdays ñ Sundays thru 8/16.† | $5 s.d. Jane Dennis / Harry Littell Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 8/13 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | State of the Art is open in August for an exhibition of new work by multi-media artist Jane Dennis and photographer Harry Littell. Thursday & Friday, 12-6pm and Saturday & Sunday, 12-5pm. The Spirit of Place: A Johnson Art Museum Sampler | 6:00 PM, 8/16 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | These lectures will be presented live on

Zoom. To participate in this free online lecture, visit the TCFA website: www.tburgconservatory.org† Jane Dennis / Harry Littell Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 8/20 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | State of the Art is open in August for an exhibition of new work by multi-media artist Jane Dennis and photographer Harry Littell. Thursday & Friday, 12-6pm and Saturday & Sunday, 12-5pm. The Drive-In Ithaca: Hunger Games - Catching Fire | 9:00 PM, 8/13 Thursday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20/car Virtual Cinemapolis: Jazz on a Summer’s Day | All Day 8/14 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer, Bert Stern. Features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita OíDay, Chuck Berry & Dinah Washington. | 5 day rental available for $10 Virtual Cinemapolis: Martin Margiela: In His Own Words | All Day 8/14 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | For the first time, the ‘Banksy of fashion’ reveals his drawings, notes, and personal items

in this exclusive, intimate profile of his vision. The film features interviews with, among others, Margiela himself, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carine Roitfeld, trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, fashion critic Cathy Horyn, and fashion historian Olivier Saillard.† | 72 hour rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Represent | All Day 8/14 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Equal parts personal and political, REPRESENT follows three women on both sides of the aisle who share the singular goal of improving their community through public service. (93 mins NR) | 72 hour rental available for $12 The Drive-In Ithaca: Piranha (1978) | 9:00 PM, 8/14 Friday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | We’re excited to partner with Ithaca Fantastik to bring this cult classic from director Joe Dante. When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort’s rivers, the guests become their next meal. (94 mins R) | $20 The Drive-In Ithaca: Grease | 9:00 PM, 8/15 Saturday | The DriveIn Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20

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Books Elizabeth Acevedo in Conversation with Glory Edim | 7:00 PM, 8/12 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | A special BSB@Home event with National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo, author of†Clap When You Land, in conversation with Glory Edim, founder of WellRead Black Girl (WRBG). Ithaca’s own Dr. Nia Nunn, leader of Ithaca’s Well-Read Black Girl chapter, will also join the conversation. Visit†https://www.buffalostreetbooks.com/†to register. Sugar and Salt: Using Fiction Techniques for Writing Nonfiction and Vice Versa | 12:00 PM, 8/15 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This two-part workshop will be led by Monika Dziamka, a freelance writer and editor who specializes in developmental editing and ghostwriting. Please visit https://www. tcpl.org to register. Childrenís Reading Connection presents The Mayor Reads For All | 7:00 PM, 8/17 Monday | Facebook Event, | Mayor Svante Myrick loves to read and share books, and

Special Events AIDS Ride for Life 2020: Keeping the Distance | All Day 8/12 Wednesday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | This year, you can choose your virtual distance and the manner in which you will accomplish it between August 12 ñ September 12. If you don’t want to cycle, challenge yourself in other ways with indoor cycling, dog walking, running or anything else! What-

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Kids Ellen Potter - Virtual Storytime | 3:00 PM, 8/18 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Join BSB for a very special kids’ event with Ellen Potter, author of the Big Foot and Little Foot series. A Zoom event. Legendary Legos | 11:00 AM, 8/20 Thursday | Seneca Falls Library, Online virtual program, Seneca Falls | Get ready to make some legendary Lego creations this summer on Zoom! Kids entering grades 1 and up

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