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hile Mayor Svante Myrick has no opposition listed on the ballot this Nov. 3 in his bid for a second term, he does have an unofficial but announced write-in challenge from Phoebe Brown. On Oct. 14, after talking with Brown on the phone about her candidacy, I wrote that she is running “to spark more robust conversations on a number of topics, including ever-rising rents, people being pushed out of the city to the outskirts of the county where transportation becomes Phoebe Brown more difficult, and keeping jobs in Ithaca.”

(Search “Phoebe Brown Running a WriteIn Campaign” on ithaca.com for the full story.)

Asked for his second-term solutions to these oft-discussed issues, Myrick points to inclusionary zoning as “the next frontier in making housing more affordable for everybody.”

The best-known inclusionary zoning program is probably New York City’s 80/20 program, which grants tax-exempt funding to developers when 20 percent of units are set aside for controlled rents. Myrick didn’t elaborate on any Svante Myrick proposal he might have for Ithaca, other than to say a group is working on what inclusionary zoning might look like here. The idea should be of interest to anyone who’s followed neighborhood fights over the Stone Quarry Apartments (on Spencer Road) or the 210 Hancock Street project; Myrick said that by “placing affordable housing within the larger housing context, [inclusionary zoning] lessens controversy. It gives people an opportunity to have neighbors with means, along with ample transportation and access to economic opportunity.”

Another point Brown raised is whether Ithaca is turning into a “tourist city,” with the only jobs downtown those in servicing guests at hotels and restaurants.

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seat opened up in the county legislature’s District 2—the Fall Creek area—after the resignation of Kathy Luz-Herrera in September.

Now, Nate Shinagawa—who formerly represented District 4—is vying with newcomer Anna Kelles for a chance to represent Fall Creek residents for the next two years. Here’s a little get-to-know-you with both candidates: Nate Shinagawa Ithaca Times: So, first and foremost— why did you decide to run for legislature (in a new district) and what do you think makes you the best candidate?

Nate Shinagawa: I’m running for the county legislature because I want to continue my 10-year legislative record of making our county government more thoughtful, accountable, and compassionate. I’m running in this district because I love our neighborhood and believe that I have the Nate Shinagawa skills and experience to best represent Fall Creek and make sure it maintains its character and quality of life.

I’m a homeowner in Fall Creek, where I live with my wife and our rescue animals.

While I’m new to the district, my family has been living in Fall Creek since 2011.

This neighborhood is our home.

IT: Is there anything in particular you hope to focus on in the coming term?

NS: There are two areas I’d like to focus on: law enforcement accountability and an overhaul of our tax abatement policy.

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NS: I sincerely believe we can combine city and county law enforcement and achieve both cost savings and better service. This isn’t based on hope or faith. I know this from experience from another major consolidation the county achieved: formation of the Greater Tompkins County Intermunicipal Health Benefits Consortium.

IT: One of the issues that the legislature’s Public Safety Committee has been discussing recently is Ban the Box. Where do you think the county should land on this issue?

NS: I’m a serious and persistent advocate for justice system reforms. If we want to Anna Kelles reduce the number of people going to jail, it’ll take more than just reforming drug and sentencing policies. We need to look at the full picture and see what factors affect people going to jail and going back to jail.

In May of 2015, I was reading a story in the Ithaca Times called, “When Do You Admit That You’re a Felon?” The story, written by Keri Blakinger, explained how getting a job can be tough if you have a criminal record, especially because of the “box” that asks applicants if they’ve ever committed a felony—even if that felony is irrelevant to the job they’re applying for. Of course if a person has committed a crime against minors they should not be working with children. But what if someone has a felony drug offense? Should that deter them from ever having a job with the county? I don’t think so. That’s why I asked the Public Safety Committee to investigate this.

IT: What’s the best thing about living in Tompkins County?

NS: The best part of living in Tompkins County is the people. We aren’t a negative and cynical community.

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After fighting back, the women were charged with gang assault and attempted murder.

Three pleaded guilty to avoid a trial, but the remaining four claimed self-defense and maintained their innocence.

The documentary “Out in the Night” tells the story of these women, who the tabloids first dubbed the “Killer Lesbians” and who later became known as the “New Jersey Four.” The

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What was your most difficult return after being away?

“I requested ‘Cross Over The Bridge,’ a song important to my mother about true romance and men going astray, and it brought me tears of joy.”

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“Coming back to nature from the twilight zone. .”

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ven though it’s an off-cycle election, two resignations have generated county legislature races for districts 2 and 4. The race for the District 4—an area that includes Collegetown and parts of downtown—pits Elie Kirshner, the 19-yearold Cornell student who received the Democratic Party’s nomination, against Rich John, a 56year-old lawyer who is running as a write-in candidate.

Elie Kirshner Ithaca Times: So, Rich John first and foremost—why did you decide to run for legislature and what do you think makes you the best candidate?

EK: Over the past year, I worked as an intern and then project coordinator in city hall, and it was a dream come true to make a positive impact on my community.

Local politics appeals to me because you watch the work that you do every day. Your constituency isn’t theoretical and distant as in higher levels of government. For the past Mayoralrace contin u ed from page 3

“After many years, returning home and my father waiting up for me every night. ” —Kristal Ozmun

“We lived abroad and moved back with three children to a town where we had no jobs.”

—Lynn Trudell

“I was coming back to this country after a month in Colombia right after Mike Brown was killed, and feeling the weight of responsibility to stand up for things I believe in.” ­—Reed Steberger

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support the innovation ecosystem around the universities” to keep jobs downtown, and that the new Commons is a strong selling point for firms showing off Ithaca to prospective hires.

When it comes to taxes, Myrick says he’s proud of lowering them in his third year and holding the line since, something that, he says, has been possible with a combination of bringing in outside funding and making economies where possible.

“Driving to Albany and Washington in the city’s Prius car chasing after funds has been very stressful,” Myrick said.

“But we’ve got millions of dollars from the federal government and the state,” funds which he said went to TCAT, the Commons, and environmental cleanups on Gun Hill and Emerson/Chain Works, along with other, smaller projects.

And when it comes to getting more out of Cornell than the $1.25 million it currently pays toward city expenses, Myrick said, unsurprisingly, that the current agreement “doesn’t work for us.”

He offers the sidewalk improvement districts and stormwater maintenance fees as new revenues that have squeezed a bit more cash out of the university’s coffers.

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year I have been working directly with my lifelong neighbors and fellow community members. My candidacy also comes with the opportunity to encourage positive community participation from our student population.

IT: Is there anything in particular you hope to focus on during your time on the legislature?

EK: I would like to focus on promoting a variety of progressive causes including affordable housing, living wages, environmental sustainability, and social justice. I am also passionate about being an advocate for mental Elie Kirshner health care, an issue that I feel is one of the greatest public health crises throughout the nation, and Ithaca is no exception.

IT: The Old Library was one of the contentious issues the legislature addressed this year. How would you have voted on this and why?

EK: I thought that all three proposals had their merits, and I am very supportive of new projects to address the affordable housing crisis. Specifically for the Old Library site, I preferred the Franklin project, as it aligned with my personal priorities of smart density and sustainable growth and had the broad support of the downtown community.

IT: One of the issues that the

legislature’s Public Safety Committee has been discussing recently is Ban the Box. Where do you think the county should land on this issue?

EK: I feel strongly that once an individual has served their time they should be allowed to fully re-enter society as a productive citizen. A short-term prison stay should not be a lifelong economic death sentence.

IT: Prior to running for office, did you stay abreast of local politics? Have you attended any legislature meetings?

EK: I have been attending Common Council and various other City and Town of Ithaca governmental meetings for the past year. Over the past month, I have begun attending legislature meetings.

IT: What’s the best thing about living in Tompkins County?

EK: The best thing about Tompkins County is that I am surrounded by passionate, engaged, and thoughtful people. Everyone may not always agree, but I feel lucky to be part of a community that is always striving to be better.

ideas to shake down East Hill for more nickels and dimes, but he promises they are in the works.

government, where these are explicitly referred to as over-target requests or OTRs.) Pitches last week were for new positions like an additional code inspector; a part-time forestry assistant; another $53,000 over a $50,000 allocation for TCAT; and three new positions for Commons maintenance—which parking director Frank Nagy wants to see rather than taking those positions away from his parking garages.

No one thought to bring council snacks though, which might have helped their pitches during the lengthy meetings: listening in on Thursday via the online live stream, this reporter heard Donna Fleming requesting the peanut butter cups during one break, and Nick Reynolds of the Journal noted on Twitter that George McGonigal was wondering why the cookies had been on the other side of the table all night well into the 10 o’clock hour.

The mayor’s budget this year requests $67,343,388 in appropriations and estimates $66,865,689 in revenues, with $477,699 used from the cash surplus. The tax levy is estimated to total $21,765,380, with the same $12.89 in taxes per $1,000 of assessed property value to hold steady from 2015. Opinions on the 2016 budget will be heard on Nov. 4 at Common Council’s meeting; and check ithaca.com this week for more updates. •

Cornell Very Global, Not So Much Local Speaking of Cornell, President Elizabeth Garrett gave her first State of the University address on Friday, Oct. 23. There was much talk of increasing Cornell’s global influence throughout the 40-plus minute speech, including an announcement of a new office in Shanghai. Ithaca was referenced as “the campus” many a-time. Of interest to city residents, though, was only one bit.

Garrett said there’s an analysis under way of student housing that might lead to construction of additional residence halls on-campus for undergraduate and grad students; and said that vice president for student life Ryan Lombardi is “working to solve challenges in Collegetown.”

Bites From City Budget Talks Discussions of the 2016 city budget are well underway in city hall, with hearings last week on the police, fire, and public works budgets, the last of which includes everything from forestry to parking. For the most part, what council and the mayor hear from city staffers and other entities that receive funding is a sort of pitch, for requests that go over the mayor’s proposed budget. (This is analogous to the process at the county

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Rich John IT: So, first and foremost, why did you decide to run for legislature and what do you think makes you the best candidate?

RJ: Service on the legislature is a way to make a difference. The county legislature manages a very large budget that impacts quality of life for residents in many ways.

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here are two races for city alderperson this Nov. 3 that will offer voters a choice on the ballot, besides writing in their own candidate.

In the First Ward, George McGonigal is running for re-election to the two-year seat he first won in 2013. McGonigal was first on Common Council in 2011, when he was appointed to finish out Maria Coles’ term. The Hector native, a Democrat, has lived in the city for 33 years and operates a landscaping business.

Opposing McGonigal is James Lukasavage, running on the Ithaca New Cynics line, who says he’s retired from the Jim Lukasavage workforce but stays busy as a “writer, a political activist, and a father.”

In the Second Ward, there are two candidates for the open two-year seat now occupied by J.R. Clairborne, who is stepping down from council after a decade of service.

Sean Gannon is an independent running on the “Ithaca Downtown” line.

A Philadelphia native, Gannon has lived in Ithaca’s Southside since 2003, where he is working on renovating a property into a community garden and outdoor exhibition space.

Ducson Nguyen is running as a

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Anna Kelles IT: So, first and foremost—why did you decide to run for legislature and what do you think makes you the best candidate?

Anna Kelles: As a dedicated neighbor, I can bring a fresh perspective. I can bring to the table many years of community organizing, non-profit, and management experience research training, and I have held directorships. I grew up here, I have been a homeowner in Fall Creek for years, and I know what it is like to live on a modest income. I think I am more connected than my opponent to the concerns of the people who call Fall Creek and Cornell Heights home, concerns such as ever-increasing taxes, booming density without measures to bolster the local economy, and fair living wages.

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Democrat in the Second Ward; he’s a software engineer at GrammaTech, a cybersecurity research firm, and serves on the board of Tompkins Connect.

The Ithaca Times emailed all four candidates with the same five questions—or prompts, really. Here are their answers, excerpted in some cases, to three of those questions. Check ithaca.com for full interview transcripts, Ducson Nguyen including their thoughts on the city’s relationship with the universities and on housing.

Ithaca Times: What are your opinions on downtown development? How do you believe downtown development affects the neighborhoods of your ward?

Lukasavage: The only thing it will have accomplished is precisely what our pro-growth Mayor Myrick and his Administration would have us believe it is intended to prevent: urban sprawl. Now, as far as the effects of over-development downtown upon First Ward residents, higher population density means more cars, more pollution, more crime and higher taxes.

McGonigal: I support downtown development that addresses local needs, is in scale with the rest of downtown, and is built to high architectural standards with quality materials, and as much as possible, by local trades people. … More quality housing downtown may help reduce the number of owner-occupied family homes being turned into student rentals on South Hill.

Gannon: I wholeheartedly support density development in downtown Ithaca to meet our growing residential and commercial needs. However, the Second

Ward is downtown Ithaca, including the Commons, and most Second Ward constituents express that their voices are being drowned out by the sound of too much construction! We need as a community to take stock of what has already happened before relentlessly pushing forward.

Nguyen: I don’t think any part of Ithaca struggles with this tension more than the Second Ward, which covers downtown and is home to 4 historic districts.

We want to increase density because it brings badly needed housing, expands the tax base, reduces sprawl, and makes for a more vibrant community. But I feel it’s important to Sean Gannon focus development on the urban core of the city to preserve the character of our unique neighborhoods.

IT: What do you feel is the current state of police/community relations? How do you think they may be improved?

Lukasavage: Look, I would not presume to speak pithily on George McGonigal behalf of poor blacks, Latinos and others, but as a poor white guy with a criminal and mental health record who walks around wearing a gas mask, I think our police are remarkably accommodating. As far as what IPD could do to improve police/community relations,

hope to focus on during your time on the legislature?

AK: I would like to streamline costs of the county government by ensuring that we explore programs and initiatives that exist in the community before we spend taxpayer funds for new programs and personnel.

IT: What do you think of the recently proposed idea to combine city and county law enforcement agencies?

AK: Currently, there is New York State money available for consolidation studies, so local taxpayers would not have to pay the bill to explore this idea, which warrants serious study and consideration.

IT: One of the issues that the legislature’s Public Safety Committee has been discussing recently is Ban the Box. Where do you think the county should land on this issue?

AK: I strongly support this effort to make it easier for people coming out of jail and/or prison to find employment and be productive members of our community.

There are details and questions about this

proposal that need to be considered before moving forward, and I’m glad that the Public Safety Committee is doing this.

There are three levels on which the county could approach this issue: for employees of Tompkins County, for county employees and contractors, or for all employees in the county. Many questions would need to be addressed for this third option, and New York Stateenabling legislation may be necessary, but I think it should be our targeted goal.

IT: What’s the best thing about living in Tompkins County?

AK: Although the nature here is unparalleled to anywhere I have lived, I have chosen this city and county as my permanent home because of the people and the community. We have our idiosyncrasies, like any place in the world, but there is a reason we have the highest number of not-for-profits per capita of any county in the country. People here are engaged. •

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Ups&Downs ▶ Politics getting dirty, Yard signs for Casey Powers (incumbent) and Mike Allinger, both running for Newfield town board, have been stolen from ten (10) properties along Shafer Road and five (5) properties on Main Street in Newfield--total of 30 signs that we know of--some time between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Oct. 22. The Bryant and Aidun signs are still very much in place, which makes it somewhat obvious that this is not a prank by some kids, but a deliberate theft of signs for the Better Newfield and Democrat Candidates for this year’s election to the Newfield Town Board. That is quite disrespectful not only for the sitting Town Board member, who is a candidate, but also for the new candidate and for the voters of our Town of Newfield.

– Gundy Lee, Newfield

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 ▶ The winners are ... We had one person who really pays close attention to signs identify several of the letters on our Best of Ithaca cover: Holly Adams.

Prize winner of the random drawing include Tracy Fuller, Mark Lucas, Maddy Walsh, Tim Kessler, Jenny McLafferty, Beth Stevens, Jay Worley, Ginger Cohen, Sean Carter, and Cassandra Aikman. Stop by and claim your prize. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Oct. 21-27 include:

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n March of this year we published an editorial called “One Party is Not Enough,” which bemoaned the fact that we have only one functional party in most of Tompkins County: the Democratic Party. Seven months later we are seeing a good demonstration of why the dominance of the Democratic Party is a hindrance to democracy. In his guest opinion last week (Oct. 14) Donald W. Beachler, a politics professor at Ithaca College, outlined the rather silly ballet that was conducted among Democrats in districts 2 and 4 of the county legislature.

A short series of timely resignations and closed party meetings ensured that something as close to the status quo as possible would be maintained. It makes Ithaca look like a banana republic.

This circumvention of the electoral process was conducted entirely within the rules as outlined by the state, but as can be seen by Ashley Miller’s outraged letter in this week’s letter section, hardly anyone who is paying any attention to our local political process buys the story that the Democratic Party is selling. The tale as sold is so disingenuous as to be a little insulting. We are actually expected to believe that Nate Shinagawa and Kathy Luz Herrera did not coordinate their resignations, even though the stated reasons for these resignations have existed for a long time. Both of their mid-September announcements happen to fall exactly within the period that precipitates a special election without a primary. Oh, happy day.

It must be frustrating for the Democratic powers-that-be that Anna Kelles managed to get enough signatures together before Sept. 30 and be listed on

the ballot as an independent candidate.

This was an impressively swift bit of organization on the part of the long-time community activist. Is this the wave of the future? Will Democratic candidates be challenged by independents instead of members of another organized party? Is there no other political school of thought in the city of Ithaca other than the center-left wing of the Democratic Party?

Ithaca makes claims for diversity all the time. It can’t really do it convincingly in the political realm if things keep trundling along like this. To restate a trope from our March editorial: when everyone in office is coming from basically the same part of the political spectrum, they end up bickering endlessly about little things that separate them. For example, whether or not raising chickens should be allowed has taken an inordinate amount of the city alderpersons’ time, and it is still not resolved. What topics are going unaddressed while they argue about something that has already been settled by many other city governments?

In both the city and county elections on Nov. 3 it will be a contest in each race between the incumbents and those anointed by the local Democratic Party and a collection of outsiders that includes a satirist, a populist, a couple of activists, and a frustrated party member who decided to take things into his own hands. This doesn’t add up to a particularly coherent opposition.

But judging by the tone and volume of letters to us on this topic, it seems like a lot of people are a bit fed up with our one-party system. It’s about time. •

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To determine your suitability for our endorsement and support, the Tompkins County Democratic Party would ask that you submit the answers to the following questions, together with any requested documentation, to the Secret Candidate Selection Committee at the address below at your earliest convenience. Candidate choices will be announced the day before the deadline for filing petitions to get on the ballot. Good luck!

What is a ‘primary election’?  A means by which members of a political party can participate in the selection of candidates for a general election.  An unnecessary distraction that could result in the wrong candidate being selected.

Have you ever shared a living space, interned, camped out, road-tripped, ridden a tandem bicycle, snapchatted, played a video game, shared an umbrella or otherwise hobnobbed with Mayor Myrick? (If ‘yes’, please submit a ‘Friend of Svante’ affidavit with this form.)  Yes  No Pick one: a monocultural city of tourists and students, high-rise hotels and 11story buildings or a culture of diversity, neighborhoods, families, students and tourists.  Monoculture  Diversity Pick one: a monocultural county legislature and city council with handpicked members from a single political party or a culture of diversity in the legislature and city council that also has independent voices and non-members of the majority party.

 Monoculture  Diversity Is it disquieting that Tompkins County Democratic Committee Chairperson Irene Stein has a portrait of William Magear Tweed in her home?  Yes  Not at all Would you be willing, if asked by a local Democratic Secret Candidate Selection Committee, to consume twelve ounces of purple Kool-Aid without asking questions?  Yes  No From the following list, identify the viable political parties in Tompkins County:  The Democratic Party For purposes of demographic consistency, please indicate the age group in which you fall:  Old enough to be president of the United States  Old enough to be a member of the House of Representatives  Old enough to buy alcohol in New York State  Old enough to stay up to the end of a World Series game on a school night Do you have a slick website?  Yes  No (Note: if your answer is “no”, better get one quick.)

What is the role of independent candidates in local elections?  Cute and harmless  Annoying pests Will the length of time that it took to rehabilitate the Commons become an issue in this election cycle?  Apparently not  Not if we can help it Completed forms may be uploaded to our Facebook page or our website.

Submitting a hard copy may expose you as a hopeless old-school dinosaur and impact your chances of selection. •

YourOPINIONS

In Favor of John

If the registered voters of District 4 really want to vote for their choice for county representative, and not someone selected by committee, they can do so by voting for Rich John, write-in candidate on November 3. Rich John is a Cornell graduate, the father of a recent Cornell graduate in May 2015, an Ithaca resident for 50 years, and still raising a family on East Hill for the last 18 years. Rich has been an attorney for over 29 years in both private and corporate businesses. His background and experience make Rich an exceptional 6

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Vote for write-in candidate Rich John on November 3.

– Lawrence Siany, Ithaca As a former Ithacan and an individual that was continually dedicated to public service, I feel very strongly about the continued on page 7

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I favor Mayor Myrick’s suggestion that more police should actually live in Ithaca.

McGonigal: I think community/ police relations are improving, albeit slowly. I believe that the Chief, his deputy chiefs, and the entire force are working very hard to achieve this goal. … I think more emphasis on neighborhood foot patrols and community policing would further enhance these improved relations, and are a critical component in making our more troubled neighborhoods in the First Ward safer and more enjoyable places to live and do business.

Gannon: 12 years ago I was part of a community outcry about horrible police/ community relations. The difference in their efforts now is commendable. This weekend I attended an IPD/neighborhood BBQ at the Southside Community Center where I got to chat with Chief Barber and Public Info Officer Jaime Williamson in a relaxed, fun environment. They want to continue doing more outreach. Let’s get them the few new officers they need for a community task force. And let’s tone down the threatening look of their ominously dark SUVs. Nguyen: By holding coffee sessions with the mayor and chief of police, open houses, the barbecue in Southside, and many other efforts, the police department has done a lot to improve relations. Still, many segments of the population feel disconnected from them. … I support the chief ’s plan to form a community action team that interacts more closely with the public. … Body and dashboard cameras can provide the accountability residents demand.

IT: Taxes. How do we get less of them?

What can be done?

Lukasavage: Degrow the economy.

Yes, as bonkers as this sounds, decreased development means lower maintenance costs, and thus, lower taxes. It’s just that simple.

McGonigal: The best and fairest way to reduce local taxes, including Ithaca city taxes, would be for New York State to pay its share of the costs to localities that it mandates. A prime example is the Second Dam safety study and repair project that the State is requiring the City to undertake, and to pay for in its entirety. This will cost the City taxpayers between two and four million dollars over time. One way the City could save a lot of money in the near future would be by simply paying its workforce every two weeks, instead of every week, as it does now.

Gannon: We cannot be giving away our hard-paid tax dollars through developer tax abatements without a more equitable and transparent process. We must stop penalizing homeowners with immediate increased assessments for beautification and renovation that should warrant tax breaks, not increases! And, we must continue pressing Cornell with compelling reasons to carry more of their tax burden in their voluntary contribution.

Nguyen: Increasing the amount of

real estate on the tax rolls reduces the burden on everyone. Attractions like the redesigned Commons increase our take of sales tax revenue and reduce our reliance on property taxes to fund the budget.

There are also several programs from around the country that provide tax relief to longtime homeowners, and I’d love to investigate them as models for Ithaca. We also need to lobby state representatives for increasing aid to municipalities and reducing the unfunded mandates that drive local taxes up. • —Josh

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have the work and life experience to do the job. I am a lawyer and have practiced for the past 29 years, including a decade as a municipal lawyer.

IT: Is there anything in particular you hope to focus on during your time on the legislature?

RJ: I would like to work on energy efficiency issues for the county in terms of buildings and vehicles. I would like to contribute to the ongoing processes surrounding responses to unfunded mandates coming from the state and federal systems.

IT: The Old Library was one of the contentious issues the legislature addressed this year. How would you have voted on this and why?

RJ: Hindsight is easy, so I hesitate to second-guess the sitting representatives, but I think I would have favored the Franklin proposal. I liked the diversity of the use in that proposal.

IT: One of the issues that the legislature’s Public Safety Committee has been discussing recently is Ban the Box. Where do you think the county should land on this issue?

RJ: Yes, I am in favor. I would add that I have hired people that have had prior criminal records. A prior conviction should be a factor in a hiring decision, but if otherwise qualified people will not even be considered, then they never get back into productive jobs. I think Ban the Box presents a reasonable balance in the process.

IT: Prior to running for office, did you stay abreast of local politics? Have you attended any legislature meetings?

RJ: Yes, I read and listen to the coverage of local issues. I recently spoke at one of the city planning board meetings on the traffic study for the hotel project behind Mayer’s. In fact, the Ithaca Times mentioned me in the coverage of the story.

I will say that walking the neighborhood and talking with the people who live here is a great education on the issues of the day.

IT: What’s the best thing about living in Tompkins County?

RJ: There is a lot to brag about.

Tompkins has wonderful natural beauty, a unique and rich culture, great educational institutions, a good economic base for upstate, and interested vocal people. You put this all together with hockey to make the winter bearable, and it is a great place to live. • —Keri

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commitment necessary to positively impact our community through local government.

It takes dedication, experience, serious—and sometimes painful— consideration to make the right decision, not only for the present but for future situations as well. With that being said, I would like to strongly recommend Rich John as the representative of the 4th District in the city of Ithaca to the county board.

He is a lifelong resident of Ithaca and resides in the Fourth District. He is well informed about the issues that pertain to his district through his involvement in the community, and he would factor in all sides of a decision before coming to a conclusion. I have no doubt that the property owners and students would be very well represented.

His thoughtfulness and insight make him the perfect candidate for this position.

– Raymond Bordoni, Ponte Vedra, Florida

In Favor of Kirshner

I want to voice my support for Elie Kirshner for Tompkins County Legislature, Fourth District.

Elie constantly impresses me. As cofounder of the Collegetown Small Business Alliance, I’ve been very fortunate to work with Elie as he’s united local businesses and officials to foster productive, positive talks. Elie’s magic touch has truly made our neighborhood a better place.

It’s quite clear that his co-workers at city hall have the highest respect and appreciation for Elie, and rightly so. Elie sincerely cares about our community; he has the devotion, passion, and professional finesse to make amazing things happen.

Sincerely, Marty Johnson Owner, Uncle Marty’s Shipping Office Co-Founder, Collegetown Small Business Alliance Board of Directors, Association of Mail & Business Centers We need bright, concerned, young Ithacans to take their place in local government. Svante Myrick did in Ithaca and Elie Kirshner would like to on the County Legislature. Good for him and good for us.

– Isaac Kramnick, Ithaca

In Favor of Kelles

When the county legislature was grappling with the fate of our old library site I got to see Anna Kelles represent that neighborhood’s concerns/interests and hear her intelligent and articulate analysis of what would be best for that neighborhood and the county. She touched on so many issues important to all of us on so many levels.

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Anna’s intelligence and energy can serve the county well, too. My support for a new representative of the Fall Creek neighborhood goes to Anna Kelles as the best representative of District 4 at the county level.

– Dooley Kiefer, Ithaca, county legislator for District 10 Anna Kelles is the best candidate to represent the county’s second district.

Anna is a long standing member of the community who is invested in the wellbeing of our neighborhood. I believe that Anna shares my strong commitment to appealing and well-designed housing that utilizes the best of what is known in creating high-quality, livable communities.

Anna understands what is beautiful and unique about the city-especially its’ relationship with the water and land that surround us. I feel that Anna has a dedication to the city and people of Ithaca and that the city’s well-being is closely linked to her own. I am certain that she will be a diligent advocate as the 2nd district representative. Please join me in voting for Anna Kelles on November 3.

–Karen Feltham, Ithaca

Finding Fault with Shinagawa

As election season rushes towards voting day and we consider positions on political matters, it is also critical to assess whether candidates have enough time to effectively do the job they are seeking.

Nate Shinagawa may have the best of intentions, but he has what is certainly a demanding, full-time job as Vice President of Operations at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania. His recent attendance record as county legislator for District 4, a seat he resigned in order to run in District 2, suggests that he is overextending himself.

In an interview with the Ithaca Voice, Nate said that he attended 91 percent of the legislature’s meetings since he joined in 2006. However, this statistic is an average and does not reflect his recent participation trends. It is also misleading, as legislators are counted as present even if they miss a significant portion of a meeting by showing up late or leaving early, as Nate has often done (www. tompkinscountyny.iqm2.com).

In 2014 Nate had the third worst attendance record on the legislature, missing 1 out of 5 meetings. So far this year, Nate has been absent, arrived late, or left early for nine out of the 18 legislative meetings. This year, he also became Vice Chair of the Government Operations Committee and was absent from or arrived late to six out of the eight meetings of this committee. Nate is also one of seven members on the Industrial Development Agency (IDA). This is the organization that decides whether to give tax breaks to big building projects. The IDA has been continued on page 12

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Out for Good Programs for those reentering society from jail

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Those individuals are “reentering citizens,” and, as criminal justice reform moves into the national spotlight, reentry is just one aspect of reform that is gaining steam locally. Reentering citizens can face an array of challenges, including finding a job when they have a criminal record, securing housing without any savings, and transportation to meeting parole and probation requirements.

Ten years ago, there was relatively little to speak of in the way of reentry efforts in Tompkins County. Now there’s a smattering of local groups dedicating resources to everything from college preparation to acting, all in the name of reentry.

Reentry Subcommittee One big player in local reentry efforts could be the county government. In its current iteration the 2016 budget includes $100,000 in target contingency funds to support a reentry program, the specifics of which will be worked out as the year progresses. The decision to fund reentry support was based on recommendations from the Criminal Justice and Alternatives to Incarceration Board’s Reentry Subcommittee.

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Department of have gone through the subcommittee Although the subcommittee Social Services co-chair and [reentry] program since (DSS) applications, expressed optimism about the program’s county probation it was created low recidivism rate, it’s hard to make offers transport to director, told the significant conclusions from such limited DSS for an intake seven years ago. ” county legislature data. appointment, during an Oct. To improve and expand the program’s and provides 6 presentation outcome, the subcommittee offered a assessments on the group’s number of recommendations (including for other needs. However, the current recommendations. better data collection). Some highlights of program is only available to a small To understand who exactly is part of the 16-page report include: fraction of the jail population. the reentering population, Buechel—along 1. Hire two full-time reentry coordinators To be eligible, inmates must be with co-chair Deborah Dietrich and CJATI sentenced and have at least 45 days to create discharge plans, identify needs Chair Suzi Cook—offered up some data pre-release, and provide follow-up in the left to serve. They can’t be on parole or from the county jail. community. probation after their release, they can’t In 2014 the jail had a total of 794 2. Create transitional housing in the city, have participated in the reentry program inmates, 68 percent of whom were previously, and they must be planning to staffed by a resident advisor. About unsentenced. The jail population is stay in Tompkins County.

50 percent of inmates said they were relatively young—64 percent were under As a result of those restrictions, only unsure of their housing upon release.

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notes in its report, “would provide a supportive atmosphere for those high risk inmates leaving the jail who have no or inappropriate housing.”

3. Implement more jail programming, possibly at off-site locations. Educational opportunities, college orientation programs, money management, and addiction treatment programs were all identified as options that could help provide inmates with better tools for the real world after their release.

4. Consider “Ban the Box” legislation at both the county and city level, in order to reduce barriers to employment by removing questions about criminal background from job applications.

5. Create a van service to help reentering citizens in rural areas get to appointments and jobs.

6. Create a mentoring program. The report notes, “Lack of emotional support upon release from incarceration is an identified issue for those leaving both the prison system and the Tompkins County Jail.”

7. Improve the process for getting identification post-release. Some reentering citizens struggle with finding the necessary documentation to get state ID. The report notes that the Department of Motor Vehicles has agreed to accept enhanced sheriff ’s ID cards—which could be given to reentry program inmates—for points toward proving identity for a license.

The legislature, at the urging of Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden), began by tackling the first of those suggestions in this year’s budget, but there are other groups already in place and working to address some of the remaining recommendations.

request to meet for one-onone appointments,” she said.

“Then when they come home we can take the next step, which would be college prep courses or remedial work. Or, if a person is ready to apply, it could be assistance with applications, financial aid, dealing with outstanding loans, and dealing with the special application process for people with felonies.”

The program is named after a long-time New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision employee who passed away in 2011.

MCBI’s seed funding came from one of Bogan’s close friends, Park Foundation Board of Trustees President Adelaide Gomer. Rubenstein hopes to find other sources to grow that seed funding into a tree.

“At the moment the MBCI project is running on a shoestring budget, although I’m giving it my all in the hopes that more funding will follow,” she said.

Rubenstein said that once there are additional funds in

penned by reentering citizens—offered up to the community for free.

After a successful set of performances and positive community feedback, Civic Ensemble has decided to do it again. In early 2016 they’ll be offering a second theatre reentry playwriting class.

As they did last spring, Civic Ensemble will offer a stipend to anyone who completes the class and transportation will be available to anyone who needs it. The class meets twice a week, and Chalmers said—in addition to providing positive growth experience and resume material—the class can create a sense of place that reentering citizens often need.

“Someone who’s been told you can’t or you’re not good enough or you’re not a full member of our community, they now have a place where they are valued without question,” she said. “With this program, people have someplace to go, where they’re expected to be. They’re getting paid, they have community and people who are excited to see them and care about them.

They work together, and by the end of the eight weeks they’re helping each other finish their plays.”

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Prison Education Program, which seeks to provide a college education for state prisoners, but now the university is expanding its efforts, as the Cornell Cooperative Extension is housing a part-time reentry specialist position.

Lisa Ellin—who has also been involved in Civic Ensemble’s project (see below)—is currently Mary Bogan College Initiative filling that position. While many “The thing about reentry is of the other reentry efforts it’s a cloth, and every single person underway focus on life after jail, who offers support is a thread in Ellin is focusing on life in prison. that cloth,” said Benay Rubenstein.

Right now, she’s running Rubenstein, an energetic parenting classes at state prisons woman with decades of experience in order to help men learn how working in prison college to maintain and rebuild family programs, wants to add another relationships upon their release. thread to Tompkins County’s “The research shows that cloth.

Sar ah Chalmers of Civic Ensemble family connections and family That’s why she created the ( P h o t o P r ov i d e d) involvement in reentry is Mary Bogan College Initiative critical,” Ellin said. “What I’m (MCBI). Funded by private doing is helping to develop tools and skills line, there is a possibility that the program donations, MCBI is intended to “provide with these men so they can play a powerful could expand to other counties. Eventually, a bridge-to-college program for the entire role in their child[ren]’s lives.” it could lead to more jobs for reentering reentry community here in Tompkins Ellin said she also works on citizens.

County.” Basically, that means helping alternatives to violence programs and “My plan is to hire formerly current and former inmates figure out how hopes to expand offerings to other incarcerated people to staff this program to navigate the college application and facilities, possibly including the county jail. as soon as possible,” she added. “Also, preparation process. volunteers are welcome. There is much Starting in October, Rubenstein and Civic Ensemble to do, including outreach, academic volunteer academic counselor Laura “What the arts can do is give a instruction and tutoring, building a Komor began meeting with groups inside glimpse of another way,” said Sarah website, and on and on.” and outside the jail to provide academic Chalmers, Civic Ensemble’s director of counseling services. civic engagement. “In theatre there’s no Cornell Cooperative Extension Rubenstein said that Ray Bunce, the wrong answer.”

It’s not just community groups and jail captain, has offered eager support.

There are right answers, though, and “Number one, he’s going to be posting the county government that have become last spring Civic Ensemble embarked involved in reentry efforts—the Big Red our information in the dormitories in on a project to help former inmates find behemoth up the hill has stepped on board the jail, and we’re asking that anyone them.

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“The reason why this all came about,” Nunn said, “is because there were some serious issues around reentry. A lot of what we know is anecdotal information; it’s been a little difficult getting statistical data.

“We know of people who are opting to go back to jail because it’s just so difficult to be out here,” she said.

In addition to Nunn, Audrey Cooper and Fabina Colon are at the helm of the grant-funded project, which is affiliated with the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC). One of the key aspects of URO’s problem-solving approach is the “collective impact model.”

“It’s really an approach that is used to solve large-scale social issues,” Nunn said.

“It goes a step further than collaboration; it brings key organizations and individuals together so they can work outside of the silos that exist when we operate in our own vacuums. It’s a model that has been used internationally with great success.”

So far, the group has begun their work by holding meetings with stakeholders involved in all aspects of a reentering citizen’s life. That has included representatives from fields including mental health, education, probation, and more.

Also, URO plans to start a mentoring program for newly released members of the community.

Colon said that within the next year, they expect to hire one position to coordinate the volunteer mentoring program and another two positions to facilitate working groups for reentry stakeholders.

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On Oct. 21, the City Administration Committee approved putting two matters before Common Council for a vote on Nov. 4: submitting an application for grant funding and issuing a request for consolidation proposals. The county legislature will vote on both propositions at their meeting on Thursday, Nov. 5.

“It’s impossible to know whether the juice would be worth the squeeze,” Mayor Svante Myrick told the committee. “But it’s worth finding out.”

A letter co-signed by Myrick and Mike Lane, chair of the county legislature, says that this year the city and county are spending $16,780,212 in total on law enforcement, or 25 percent of their combined budgets. Efficiencies were made through combining the dispatch centers in 2004, the letter reads, and the S.W.A.T. team also serves as an example of shared enforcement services. Myrick said that, while in Albany on Oct. 20 to help pitch the Southern Tier’s $500 million Upstate

Revitalization funding proposal, he had a “very positive conversation” with New York Secretary of State Cesar Perales about getting grant funds for a study.

“They have $150 million they want to give out just to study things like [consolidation],” Myrick said. He continued to say that simply making the study doesn’t mean that consolidation will happen all-of-a-sudden next year.

sticking point for some council members was a new requirement that for every paid position added over 65, five volunteers must be added.

Alderman George McGonigal (D-1st), a former fire commissioner, noted that volunteers are not free and their membership has been declining. In some cases, they cost more because they leave after their training has been paid for.

“I don’t want to be restricting the size of the fire department force based on Mayor Svante Myrick and Chief John Barber (left) and Tompkins the number of volunteers we can recruit,” McGonigal said.

County Sheriff Ken Lansing. (File photos) City attorney Ari Lavine This proposal was partially told the committee the motivated by the requirement provision would “not restrict the ability for the county and city to send to obtain staffing. It restricts the ability the state a “shared services plan” to obtain funding for the increase of that to continue receiving tax rebates staffing.” Of the town’s many cost-cutting under the STAR program. measures this year, “this was one of the They tried sending the health most mild-mannered of them,” Lavine care consortium as their plan, said. “They’re not reducing service levels Myrick said, but the state replied with, or staffing levels.”

“You’re already doing that.”

According to the agreement, the Some of the fun involved with Town of Ithaca will be paying $3,177,504 sharing services on a more ad hoc basis to the city for fire protection in 2015. was illustrated when the committee took That number will grow year-by-year to a look at the new agreement with the an estimated $3,439,433 in 2019, paid Town of Ithaca for fire protection. There monthly, or about a third of the costs for are currently 63 paid positions in the the city fire department. • fire department, and 64 are funded. The

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he multipurpose auditorium and library at Beverly J. Martin Elementary was full on the floor and in the balcony on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 24. Once the speakers at the Black Lives Matter teach-in had concluded, the “conversation on surviving and thriving” continued with questions and comments from the floor.

The first question, from a white man who said he’d seen civil rights protests in the ‘60s, asked, in short, why there was not more anger from the black people he had just heard speak.

Kristina Camille, an Ithaca College student, was the first to take on the question.

The assumption is if you’re black, “your blood is already boiling,” Camille said. “We have got more than enough to be angry about, but we still have got to perform.”

Anger can be effective as a form of “self-care,” Camille concluded.

Ken Glover noted, “Just because someone is speaking in a soft voice, it doesn’t mean they’re not angry.” He mentioned “righteous indignation” as one fuel that can keep people struggling for justice.

The speakers on this afternoon touched on a litany of reasons why the Black Lives Matter movement has cause to respond to injustice with anger.

Sean Bradwell, an Ithaca College professor and Ithaca City school board member, opened the talks with an indictment of institutional diversity initiatives.

“Organizations may want a face for a poster, but have little desire for change,” Bradwell said. Token diversity as it’s practiced by institutions “is a new form of racism.” Bradwell said that the “all lives matter” response to the Black Lives Matter message is racist because it’s “not organic,” just another attempt to paper over the “500 years of history working against us.”

Rita Bunatal, a resident assistant at IC, told the crowd that she wakes up praying in the morning she can correct a classmate “without being perceived as an angry black woman.” She referenced recent racial strife at IC, including her experience with a campus police officer saying he would “shoot someone with a BB gun,” and asked how she could ignore that sort of talk.

Mayowa Willoughby, a Cornell grad student, told of the “Say Her Name” movement, which asks for recognition of people of color killed in interactions with police. Willoughby directed the crowd to YouTube for videos proliferating online with the chorus of “Hell You Talm Bout”—coined by Janelle Monáe—which name people of color or a nontraditional sexual orientation that have been killed in recent times.

Nia Nunn Makepeace (above); Russell Rickford and Ken Glover (above right) and Rose Fleurant (right), speaking at the Black Lives Matter event on Saturday. (Photos J. Brokaw)

Rose Fleurant told the audience about 125th Street in New York City, which she’s seen “remodeled and redesigned for higher rents.”

“The Apollo is no longer the Apollo, a house for the best talents,” Fleurant said.

People living in affordable units in these “new beautiful apartments” have to go through the “poor door,” Fleurant said, around back where there’s no doorman.

Glover, paraphrasing Ella Baker, said that, “Those who believe in freedom cannot rest,” until the deaths of children of color is as important as the deaths of children from “white mothers, straight mothers, heterosexual mothers.” Glover also asked why there aren’t more black faces working in positions like teachers’ aides and school bus drivers, “if the minimum requirement is a high school diploma.”

“We’re being kept in the lower level of employment, then we’re accused of being lazy,” Glover said.

Nia Nunn Makepeace teaches at IC, where she gets plenty of students who

come in with little understanding of culture, white or black.

“They say ‘I come from a community that was non-diverse.

There was no culture,’” Makepeace said. “No one will say it ... but you come from a white community.”

Makepeace compared these innocents becoming aware to racial realities with her oldest son learning his letters and then finding them everywhere while out and about.

“He’d say ‘Mom, there’s another one!’” Makepeace said.

“I had a student email me and he said ‘There’s invisible flashing white-only signs everywhere!’”

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the vacancies, but we must abide by the legal process. Committee members who contin u ed from page 7 represent the legislative district have the responsibility for nominating a candidate a very important committee recently to be included on the ballot. given Ithaca’s current development boom.

The names of committee members This year Nate missed five out of its 11 are not secret. Their names are a matter of meetings (www.tompkinsIDA.org). public record. A call to any member or the Nate has cited his family obligations officers listed on our website would have as the cause of some of his attendance directed anyone to the secretary to obtain issues. There is no shame in taking time to a list of members. Moreover, our County care for family. We can assume that his job Chair issued a press release as soon as the will continue to take up much of his time announcements of vacancies/candidates and energy as well. If personal and work were made, asking people to call her for obligations prevent Nate from devoting further information. the time necessary to be an effective The meetings were not secret. Any candidate could have brought people with them, as our county chair would have told anyone who responded to her release.

I, Laura Lewis, am chair of the Fifth Ward Committee, which includes the Second Legislative District. Our members at the time of our endorsement vote were Dan Cogan, Carol Ornstein, Patty Sipman, John Shortle, Deb Mohlenhoff, Josephine Martell and Chibo Shinagawa. Ornstein was out of town on Sept. 24 so she could not participate. Chibo Shinagawa recused herself to avoid any perception of a conflict, as she is Nate’s sister.

She was not required to do so as a matter of law. Two candidates came forward and were interviewed by our committee, and each had equal opportunity to respond to questions.

Nate’s progressive record and demonstrated leadership carried the day with a majority vote, and he was nominated as our candidate.

I, Brian King, am chair of the Fourth Ward Committee, which includes the Fourth Legislative District and includes a slice of the Second Ward. My committee members are myself, Rainbow over the Commons (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) Jane Marcham and Ellen King.

Seph Murtagh represents the part of the Second Ward that is in the Fourth Legislative District, so legislator, then it begs the question, “Why he participated as well. Two candidates does he feel he is the best person for this were interviewed and given time to job?” “ respond to questions at our committee – Robert Gaylor, Ithaca meeting. Elie Kirshner received the majority vote and was nominated as our candidate. Elie has worked on federal and state grant proposals, he has worked in coordination with Collegetown businesses, We are the chairs who presided over and he has helped to organize events like the meetings at which Elie Kirshner and Nate Shinagawa, in the Fourth and Second the Commons re-opening celebration and City Hall in Your Neighborhood.

Legislative Districts respectively, were He is focused on strengthening the nominated as the Democratic candidates communication between residents of the for vacant seats.

Fourth Ward and Cornell University on We would like to describe the process issues of common concern. It is for these and correct some misstatements that are reasons that our committee’s majority vote being made publicly and in the media. was to nominate Elie for county legislator.

New York State Election Law and the Please call either of us with any county charter lay out the rules by which further questions. we fill vacancies for the county legislature.

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Jessica Ryan, my favorite over-40 women’s basketball player ever: “Calling all girls and women age 16 and up who want to play basketball, enjoy community, and get great exercise. The Ithaca Women’s Basketball League plays every Wednesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the Lehman Alternative Community school gym.”

I recall attending one of these games a few years ago, and I love it when adult

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have written several times that when I look at a team roster from a community college, I am pleased to see names from the community. I fully understand that a coach’s main responsibility is to recruit and play the best athletes he or she can for the program, but I like to see local athletes playing at TC3, and this year, the women’s soccer team is getting contributions from several players that grew up in the area.

The Panthers got off to a rough start this fall, but by beating Clinton Community College 5-2 in the opening round of the NJCAA Region III playoffs, TC3’s unbeaten streak extends to eight games while their overall record improves to 11-4-2.

The Panthers came to play on Saturday. They struck early and never looked back. Devin Blanchard— who played high school soccer at Cincinnatus—got TC3 on the board first, catching up with a loose ball after a corner kick and beating the Clinton keeper for a 1-0 lead after nine minutes of play. Three minutes later Blanchard beat the keeper

again to make it 2-0.

The Lansing High soccer team has served as a great feeder system for the Bombers of Ithaca College for many years, and the Panthers are also benefitting from the Bobcats’ solid program. In Saturday’s playoff game, Lansing’s Kristin Dake picked up an assist on a pass to Shannon Test, and she followed that up with a goal of her own 90 seconds later, giving the Panthers a 5-1 lead.

As stated, area high schools are well represented this year, with Tara Birkmeyer and Molly Graves representing Newark Valley, Callie Stillman and Hailie Searles coming over from Odessa-Montour, Christie Sexton representing Newfield, and Ruth Forehand (who also plays softball for the Panthers) suiting up via Groton.

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Kristin Dake on the field (Photo provided)

leagues are able to keep the door open for people to play beyond their high school and college careers. They play hard— keeping in mind that most must report to work the next morning—but they keep it in perspective. Jessica described the league

as “informal but very fun,” and she added, “We pick teams at the beginning of each Wednesday night and play for two hours with water breaks and substitutions as needed. We have a range of abilities and ages but are welcoming and inclusive to all. The league has been self-governed and active for more than 15 years.”

She pointed out that there is an annual fee of $20 (for a group insurance policy), and she said, “We are very eager to add players to the league roster, so any help you can give us to spread the word is greatly appreciated. This is a great group for women who want to enjoy friendship, fun, and excellent exercise.

The league’s website address is: ithacawomensbasketball.wordpress.com.

• • • I have to say that I am feeling it for local football fans, as all three teams— Cornell, IC, and Ithaca High—have been getting roughed up as of late. I also have to say that I have great admiration for players and coaches that hold their heads high, and I enjoyed my conversation last week with Jeff Tilton, one of Ithaca High’s assistant coaches. Jeff told me, “These kids are working their tails off, and Kelly [Gordon], the head coach, knows it’s his program now. We are getting good numbers, and there is a lot of optimism.”

This conversation took place just before the Little Red faced four-time state champs Maine-Endwell and their 57-game win streak, and while the Spartans’ win streak remains intact, so does the selfrespect of the Little Red. •

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– “Science Fiction/ Double Feature,” the opening song of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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couldn’t quite remember the room number when I got to the second floor of Williams Hall at Ithaca College. But as I circled around, I couldn’t help but hear the cacophony behind the door to 225. I walked in, and pretty much everyone was in their underwear. Some were standing on desks in this unassuming lecture hall, and some were down on the lecture floor working laptops hooked up to overhead screens. These students were in rehearsal for their upcoming Halloween performances of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

They’ve been doing this for 26 years, a fact that stunned me. I was on the RH trip a couple years after the 1975 film premiered, but I’m old now, and I haven’t seen it in years, even decades.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still a thing?” I thought.

This is the same thought I have when I happen to think about Hanson and Carson Daly.

I remember doing the Time Warp Drinking those moments when The blackness would hit me And the void would be calling Let’s do the Time Warp again Let’s do the Time Warp again

– “The Time Warp” I remember doing the Time Warp, too— once a weekend at midnight at the Triphammer Plaza Theatre, where Homewood Inn and Suites stand today (twice a weekend if Saturday

The colorful cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show (Photo Rye Bennett)

Night Live was a re-run).

It’s the strangest thing: from 1979 until 1981, I went to see the movie of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight at least once a week. Unless I was sick or out of town, I never missed it. Forget the fact that RHPS was spawned from a U.K. stage musical; back then, you couldn’t just Google this stuff and make yourself an expert on the subject. It was a weird time, and information trickled your way in much more spastic blurts. To this day, RHPS is the only movie that spawned a whole culture of audience—flung insults and props and costumes—a whole new ‘70s social T

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The phenomenon was even documented in another movie, Alan Parker’s Fame (1980), when mousy acting student Doris (Maureen Teefy) smokes a joint, loosens up, and starts to dance and sing during a typical NYC screening of Rocky Horror.

• • • Back on campus, Eric Surette, director of the main cast, met me as I talked to some of the students on the floor. The show is Friday and Saturday Oct. 30 and 31 in Williams 225 at 9 p.m. and midnight.

Get there early, or stop by IC’s Campus Center between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to purchase tickets— Surette said the shows always sell out, whether it’s during the week or as the crowd is filing into the room.

Surette explained the set-up of the performance to me: “We’ll be screening the film, and there will be a shadow cast of actors playing the parts as the movie plays behind them.”

• • • Okay, here’s the strange thing. I did the whole Rocky Horror thing in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, and then it seemed to fade, at least from my life. Some idiot threw a beer can wrapped in a T-shirt through the screen at the State Theatre around Halloween ’80 or ’81, and that was it for RHPS in Ithaca for years. Decades. A year later, I saw it in college, and I was the only one dressed for it and the only one who knew all the lines. People shushed me. I was flabbergasted, as you can well

• • • I was still stunned that Rocky Horror is still going strong, having been through the first wave of it. I asked Surette how old he is.

He’s 21. Someone put a YouTube video on the screen, and everyone laughed, so I went investigating. The video was some Nickelback gag, an ongoing joke with the cast. Mackenzie Gannon put the video on; she’s playing the role of Magenta in the show. I pointed out continued on page 21

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nd here’s something different. “Four foreground around her clotted with thistle and other weeds. She rests on a bound in Hand,” on-view this month at package, a sleeping dog on her lap. About the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, features talented T-burg painters to cry, she absent-mindedly holds up an open book. A crooked broom to her side Madeleine Bialke, Joy Adams, Laura evokes the artist’s brush.

Butterfield, and Kathy Armstrong. “Hand” We see echoes, visual metaphors. is expansive by Ithaca-area standards and Sally’s frizzy red-purple hair rhymes with includes canvases of nearly mural-scale. the thistle flowers, the furrows on her face Some of the work is very good. with the surrounding rock formations.

Bialke and Adams, in particular, are A strap falls from her shoulder while a showing paintings that would have stuck distant fence and a farmhouse on a hillock out had I spotted them in a Manhattan collapse behind her. Far away, an industrial gallery. Hung inside a rustic 19th century town spreads across a crooked horizon.

Greek Revival church building, the setting Adams is showing oils on various couldn’t be more different.

Bialke is a young artist, a 2013 BFA graduate of SUNY Plattsburgh and a current MFA student at Boston University. She describes her oils—on canvas and wood panel—as “oscillating” between abstraction and landscape. Here she melds the two strands into something singular.

Surprisingly, the artist often works on-site. In a statement, she describes how Crane Beach came from a painting excursion in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Desperate to get the paint to adhere to the canvas during a snowstorm, she added beach sand—a material she reuses in several paintings here. The piece, a smaller one, is distinctive. Recalling similar scenes by the American modernist John Marin, Bialke has built up Mad Sally With Things On Strings by Joy Adams (Photo Provided) her seascape in a zig-zagging amalgam of muted strokes: pale supports as well as works on paper. and bluish grays over a beige layer visible October Thistle and Night Forest show us below. the strangeness of nature, shorn of overt Her work here shows impressive narrative. Three mixed-media collagerange. Particularly notable are two drawings show her love of botany and enormous, wide-format canvases, Light mythology.

Cascade and Fog Tide. These are rich Butterfield’s small, subtle watercolors patchworks of myriad but coalescing get lost in the large room. Still, they are colors, just barely suggesting landscape. A beautifully done, if familiar in approach. careful horizon line cuts across the former She uses the toothy texture of her paper piece while a swinging, broken contour as an active element and combines broad in luminous blue cuts through the pallid areas of liquid tone with fine detailing. tones of the latter.

Armstrong’s acrylic on canvas Adams is a retired Ithaca College paintings combine precisely contoured professor and a local master. Taking forms with a convincing—and occasionally sustenance from the grand traditions of poignant—play with paint textures. She European oil painting, as well as the rude is reprising work that she has shown in characters of her working class British Ithaca, most notably in her one-person youth, Adams has concocted a rich personal mythology. The focus is the artist’s show at the Community Arts Partnership’s ArtSpace Gallery this past June. alter ego “Mad Sally,” a brazen, slovenlyThis is a rewarding show—worth a dressed character whose thought-world trip in from out of town, or multiple visits seems to pervade the epic landscapes in if you are so fortunate as to be a local. • which we find her.

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Finite Movements

Veteran band retraces their steps on new record

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton “If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

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rawling through the dark and rainy alleys of Seattle and Tacoma during the early 2000’s, I implemented a great many [unique] moments, that—if you follow Nietzsche’s theory of Eternal Recurrence or certain ancient Indian philosophies concerning the Eternal Return—will reoccur infinitely. And often, I catch strange glimpses of déjà vu when listening to certain records, specifically certain passages of certain records, that serve as connectors at this intersection.

Ithaca’s why+the+wires, a veteran of the local music scene, trace and retrace their steps along the gray sidewalks of their hometown on their new record Flame Failures, conveying their own [unique] eternity. Their new record pays homage to the grand idea that music can be about place, and in that unique place it will remain, endlessly.

When I first heard these guys I immediately sensed a [place], say Ireland or Scotland, and I dreamed about a band playing in a drunken smoky bar, with rain falling outside, and perhaps snow, and someone smoking a cigarette. Then it’s finished, and it’s late. The leap of my sense of comparison is justified through

the band’s strength, which is, their timing of location.

These guys are Ithacans, and their music is entrenched with a time that was, and now, is once again. That is, they deliver a sound that is true to themselves and sparks a recurrence, and what’s better than that?

I hear many things within this record. I think of Isaac Brock and the real good era of dark and sad Modest Mouse (think Lonesome Crowded West), and this is part of what makes the record so permeable for me. Those finite moments of so long ago hang low on my horizon, strange and heavy, and I fall into nostalgia for that dark and rainy Northwest landscape at different points on this record. It achieves a cross pollination of different eternities. A vital aspect to this record is that sense of [place]. There’s a strong language of landscape that arrives honestly throughout, and this is

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noteworthy, because something with that kind of gravity, should always out-weigh trivial aspects that might otherwise get in the way of actually hearing a record.

These guys have their approach down pat, and it’s obvious from the start.

Opener “Crashed Home” blasts off and the record never really lets up. Things that work, proceed one after the other.

There’s aggression and subtleness inserted between flashes of experimentalism and showy math chops. And then there’s Isaac Brock’s lingering presence. Around the four-minute mark of “Seizure Party” it’s as if Brock has time warped his way through dimensions.

A funeral procession introduces “The Arm Will Lead The Way.” They’re working backwards from there, retracing their steps. This band has walked the streets of Ithaca for many years, and you can really feel it in the low doom of this song. The record, like every individual’s existence, never really ends. It keeps playing. There is no first song, second song, eighth song, no, there’s one song. One celebration of life. And within the syntax of the songs, the saxophone partakes as a synth. This is an overlapping, which reminds the listener of this very celebration, and the band rallies around its two main celebrants: the vocalist and the saxophonist.

At first I didn’t think I liked this record. As an artist, often times I’m illogically indifferent. But I kept listening, and it kept getting better with every listen.

Really. It made me think, and it rocks hard, and has an honest voice. It’s an eternal piece of the universe by artists who lived out that scene. They were there; they finished that thing. They got on it, owned it, loved it. They were aware of their mortality, but fired up about their eternity.

I think it was Don Caballero meeting Morphine in that dark Irish bar in my dream, and they decided to have Shane McGowan, or rather, Dicky Barrett, sing vocals, and maybe they put Joe Lally on bass. Yes. why+the+wires Flames Failures LP Release Show happens November 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the Chanticleer Loft. Be there or be square! •

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ICU Sound Works launches its inaugural concert

By Jane D ie ckm ann

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new and exciting project called ICU Sound Works will be introduced at a concert this Friday, Oct. 30, in Ithaca College’s Ford Hall at 8:15 p.m.

Presented by Ensemble X, a group that since its inception in 1997 has brought us exceedingly interesting and varied modern music performances, the event involves a special collaboration of faculty and student musicians from both IC and CU (hence the name). Playing music by Igor Stravinsky, Can Bilir, Anders Hillborg, and

Xak Bjerken (Photo Provided)

Osvaldo Golijov, they will be conducted by Chris Younghoon Kim and Jeffery Meyer, directors of orchestral music at Cornell and IC respectively. Featured soloists are the piano duo of CU professor (and director of Ensemble X) Xak Bjerken and dean of the IC School of Music Karl Paulnack.

According to Bjerken, this concert is “big and ambitious, a kind of kickoff event.” And big it is, with more than 40 musicians performing. Bjerken and Paulnack, who wanted to include colleagues who like to work together, started planning the event some time ago.

They have performed together several times; in fact, they knew each other in California when Bjerken was 14 years old.

For the programming the two brought in Kim and Meyer, who are good friends and have collaborated before.

So these colleagues put their heads together and chose repertory they really love. They enlisted the musicians, who, with the exception of the opening work, are mixed half and half between faculty and students. First on the program is Stravinsky’s neo-classical piece for wind

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instruments called Octet, which had its premiere in Paris in October 1923. The composer was on the podium, in his first professional conducting job. The work steps back from the radical—and controversial—music of The Rite of Spring, which had caused riots ten years before.

Here Stravinsky takes a modern approach to baroque and classic music traditions and genres, often with humor. The work also demonstrates his interest at the time in the particular sounds of brass and wind instruments. Octet will be conducted

by Kim, and features six IC faculty players—some longtime members of Ensemble X—and two students.

An important goal for this project is to feature a student composer. So next on the program comes the world premiere of Decet (2015) by Turkish native Can Bilir. He is working for a DMA in Composition at Cornell, studying with Kevin Ernste and Roberto Sierra. According to Bjerken, the piece is minimalist with pulsation that fades in and out. It features two amplified singers, both students, who are accompanied by eight instrumentalists conducted by Kim. Closing the first half is Vaporised Tivoli (2010) by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg. His background is as a rock musician, and the piece shows lots of muscular energy, Bjerken says. It starts with a chaos of sound and works down to a simple and calm texture. Kim is conducting 20 musicians, including pianos, strings, percussion, and lots of brass, and the piece will feature IC’s star trumpet Frank Campos.

After Intermission comes the big piece of the program, a U. S. premiere, with an orchestra of 33 including 5 percussion players and the eminent piano duo, conducted by Meyer. Called Nazareno (2010), it is a suite based on a dramatic section of La Pasión según San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov, arranged for two pianos, percussion, and orchestra by Ganzalo Grau. Filled with emotional tension, “it’s a rousing piece, full of Latin dance rhythms,” Bjerken explains. The pianos are treated to give rhythmic emphasis, and there is plenty to showcase IC’s excellent percussionists.

The planners hope that students will get excited and want to join in and faculty will happily participate in future projects.

The idea is to create a flexible ensemble, conducted or not, to perform “the classics of the 20th century.” As for the inaugural concert, Bjerken adds, “this is the most muscular, grooviest, be-bopping, toetappingest concert Ensemble X has ever put on—fun, approachable music from the last 100 years.” • T

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Zombie Round-Up

taking another look at the walking dead

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et’s give him his due: George A. Romero created what we think of as the modern zombie flick. Romero turned down a gig directing The Walking Dead; like me, he thinks that show is soap opera. As Halloween approaches, here are four comedy-horror zombie movies that

may not be all that scary, but each certainly has its own … flavor.

I always wanted to write a zombie movie that spans one day in high school, but I daresay that Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion’s Cooties may have beaten me to the munch. The ickiest part of Cooties

is the opening credits depicting the manufacture of tainted chicken nuggets that turn an entire grade school of kids into the toddling dead.

Elijah Wood is a deadpan delight as a would-be horror novelist on his first day as a substitute teacher when the brood goes bad.

The film’s comedy is as black as its scares. If it didn’t veer into Romero territory, it would still be a hilarious group character study of a teacher’s lounge populated by miserable, frustrated educators; the fine ensemble includes Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer, co-writer Leigh Whannell, and a particularly tart and smart turn by SNL’s Nasim Pedrad.

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witness the director of Gremlins and The Howling making a film that’s not up to his usual standards. In Burying the Ex, Anton Yelchin stars as a passive-aggressive horror fan who thinks he’s dodged a bullet when his annoying girlfriend (Ashley Greene) gets hit by a bus and dies, only to rise from the dead to raise hell with Yelchin’s new gal pal (Alexandra Daddario).

All the signature movie-man Dante touches and doodling in the margins are here, from Hammer horror clips on TV to the Hollywood memorabilia shop where Yelchin works, allowing Dante to fill up his sets with retro posters and props. (One funny gag: Yelchin is forced to end each phone call at work telling his clients to “Go to hell.”)

Trouble is, Burying the Ex isn’t good enough or funny enough or subversive enough for what I expect from Dante.

Compounding the problem is Oliver Cooper’s dreadful performance as Yelchin’s sleazy sex-addict buddy. Even with the obligatory Dick Miller cameo, Burying the Ex should go back underground.

True love goes rancid in Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth, featuring a disturbing and vanity-free performance by Aubrey Plaza at its decomposing core. Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) stars in a slyly stylized and comic performance as an overly sensitive kid in love who slowly discovers that his girlfriend (Plaza) is going zombie. Baena has a lot of fun discombobulating the usual rom-com rhythms as Plaza’s undead urgings ruin every romantic gesture that DeHaan tries.

John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon also have a lot of fun as Plaza’s sweet but overprotective parents who treat their daughter’s zombie disease as some kind of common cold that can be cured, given enough time and family TLC. Romero’s best zombie films are about ignoring the problem, and Reilly and Shannon are as uncomprehending and clueless as any military figurehead or idiot elected official.

Since his child-star turn in About a Boy, Nicholas Hoult has evolved into one of his generation’s best actors, giving great performances in Mad Max: Fury Road and the X-Men series. His earnest romantic essence bolsters the surprisingly sweet Warm Bodies, co-written and directed by Jonathan Levine. Just as The Iron Giant is about a robot who decides not to be a gun, Hoult will win your heart as a zombie who falls in love with a girl (Teresa Palmer) and decides not to eat her.

I love horror films that cross genres, and Warm Bodies works as horror, humor, romance, and satire. Where I come from, they call that your money’s worth. •

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that Nickelback wasn’t even a thing when Rocky Horror came out, and then I asked her how she found out about it.

“I heard about it in middle school, actually,” Gannon said. “My parents told me about it. But I wasn’t allowed to watch the movie until high school. They thought it was too sexual for me to watch in middle school.”

Another student overheard us and said, “It’s never too sexual!”

“This is my first time being in Rocky Horror. It’s super exciting,” Gannon said.

• • • Just because RHPS may fade from your youth after you settle down and join the working week, never count it out. It is one more take on the story of Frankenstein, and it is the campy musical that will not die. The show’s creator, Richard O’Brien, is playing Riff Raff again in a limited engagement in London’s West End. Several of the cast members from the film—which included Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick—have been giving 40th anniversary interviews.

The Hangar Theatre finally staged the original show in 2011. Glee did a RHPScentric episode.

Hot patootie, bless my soul I really love that Rock and Roll

– “Hot Patootie—Bless My Soul” Surette and Matt Porter, the actor playing Frank-N-Furter, ducked out of Williams to find a quiet place to chat.

All told, there are 10 students playing “I definitely believe in the LGBT the main roles, and a gang of men and community,” Surette said. “I think that women as ensemble, dubbed “pets” in the Rocky Horror is a wonderful way to show. It’s all the work of an IC theatre club explore sexuality, to see a movie that called Macabre Theatre Ensemble, though resonates heavily with those themes, the most of its members just enjoy theatre as story and the characters.” a hobby, and most This aren’t even theatre production was majors. not the first Surette for Porter, who described the helped with the typical audience lighting in the mix that comes to production as the shows. “Here a sophomore. at IC, we do get “I just fell in characters that love with the dress up as people show, and as it from the show. But is a very LGBTwe also get people friendly show. It that just come in was one of the their Halloween major things that costumes, people helped me start come in regular to accept myself clothes, drag for my own queens … it’s a sexual identity,” really eclectic he said. I asked Matt Porter as Frank-N-Furter (Photo Rye Bennett) thing. People him when he first now have come to encountered the learn the protocol of Rocky. We sell bags show. at the door with the props and popcorn, “Well, actually, my father used to newspapers, noisemakers, and all that. It’s have showings back when he was around become very popular.” college age. And he showed me the We talked about it being 2015 and movie when I was 14, and I’ve just been the bulk of the Republican presidential obsessed with the movie. I mean, it’s bad candidates still being anti-gay marriage on purpose. It’s a satire of all the sci-fi and and anti-Planned Parenthood. I asked B-grade movies from that era. It’s from them how much they’re into the Rocky that time, and some people just don’t Horror thing as a political statement. seem to get that,2015 ” Porter said. 1/8 pg 2.4x5.5 IT HALLOWINE 2.4x5.5_IT

I talked to Porter about a Mark Hamill interview describing his reluctance to see the L.A. production at the Roxy with Tim Curry as Frank. When he was told he should see it, he said, “I’m not into that David Bowie stuff,” only to find himself loving the comedy in Curry’s performance. Later, when he saw the film, he was disappointed that Curry wasn’t shot like Astaire and Rogers, from head to toe.

“I first saw the movie around Halloween when I was a freshman in high school,” Surette said. “Me and a bunch of my friends got together and just watched the movie. The movie’s a lot of fun. It’s a hilarious movie. It’s a good time. People enjoy watching it.”

As I packed up to leave and started making my way out into the crisp October night, I couldn’t help but smile—and get a little teary—as I heard the kids’ voices swell behind the door of Williams 225, belting out “There’s a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)”: There’s a light Over at the Frankenstein place There’s a light Burning in the fireplace There’s a light, a light In the darkness of everybody’s life

• • • For years now, I’ve had a DVD and Blu-Ray copy of the movie in my library, and I never watch it. I think it’s because I can’t fit 100+ rabid Rocky fans in my living room to watch it. But I’d be willing to try, if anyone wants to come over some time. •

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Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Local musicians, craft brews, and creative bar food every Thursday.

Jon Petronzio: Roadman | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, # 2, Ithaca | Reggae, Funk, Blues.

Maris Kraus, David Allen and Anthony Cubbage | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Singer Songwriters, Folk.

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

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

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

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

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

Whistling Dyl and the Wild Band of Cowboys | 7:00 PM | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | Local musician Dylan Lipencot croons his way through a Stonecat Pub Night, bringing friends, colleagues, and many local musicians along with him.

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

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Maritime Masquerade with Mutron Warriors and the Fall Creek Brass Band | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Afro-Funk, Rock, Brass, Funk, Jazz, Riot Jazz, Reggae, Hip-Hop. The Tarps | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Live Jukebox band, fueled by requests.

Rock, Country, Blues, Soul, Classic Rock.

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

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

Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110.

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B33T JU1C3 Halloween Party with Noelle Tannen & The Filthy No-No’s | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Psychedelic-Afro-Pop, Avant-Garde, Rock, Funk, Soul.

Mill Bastards, Doubt, Rabid | 9:00 PM | The Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St., Ithaca | Heavy Metal Halloween.

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Zabriskie Folk Series: Paul Brady | 8:00 PM | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Folk, Pop, Traditional Irish.

The Illium Works, Misses Bitches | 8:00 PM-11:00 AM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Rock, Americana, Country, Rockabilly, Folk, Roots, Punk, Soul.

Milo, Safari Al, Sammus, Magnetic The Shaman | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Hip Hop, Rap, Art Rap, Glitch, Future Funk. Ithaca Underground presents.

Zydeco Trail Riders | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Zydeco, Creole, and Cajun Music.

Bad Alibi | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Classic Rock with NO excuses! Bad Alibi plays the best of the 70s and 80s to kick off your Halloween weekend!

Bendher | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Classic and Modern Rock.

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Halloween with Whiskey Tango Sideshow and DJ Tryrone | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Burlesque Dancers, Singers, Acrobats, Musicians, Costume Designers, Art Pop, and more.

Americana Vineyards Hallo-Wine Spooktacular featuring Elephant Sound | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Halloween Bash! Drink, Food, Music, and More.

Big Mean Halloween V: Big Mean Sound Machine, Telekinetic Walrus, Afrobeta | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Afrobeat, Jazz, Funk, Psychedelia, Hip Hop, Electronic, Experimental.

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Halloween Masquerade party with Caravan of Thieves and Ithaca Folk Duo | 7:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Costumes/Masks are strongly encouraged. Those in costume will receive one free drink or concession item. Door prizes and costume contests throughout the evening. Acoustic Swinging Folk, Roots and Gypsy Music.

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

Nate Marshall and Joey Dugan | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk, Swing, Americana, Blues, Jazz.

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers & Wendy Ramsay: WVBR’s Bound For Glory | 8:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Folk Rock.

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

Sean Farley | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Acoustic, Singer Songwriter, Rock, Blues, Folk.

Sound Over Seneca | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Country, Soul.

West Hill Billies | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Fiddle Music, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Americana.

Funky Blu Roots | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM | Izzo’s White Barn Winery, 6634 Cayuga Rd., Cayuga | Rock, Southern Rock, Soul, Funk, Blues, Covers by Sonny Boy Williamson, Bob Marley, The Allman Brothers Band, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayall, Albert King, Bill Withers, Santana and the Neville Brothers, among others.

Pelotones | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Jazz, R&B, Rock, Blues, Swing.

Jerome Attardo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano.

Cool Club of Hector | 11:00 AM | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | Rick Hoyt and his Cool Club lay down some smooth grooves and keep the Stonecat humming right along.

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

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

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Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloffs, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | concerts

10/28 Wednesday

The New Deal | 9:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Electronica, Breakout House, Acid Jazz, Livetronica.

Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series | 7:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Masterclass: Mark Steinberg, violin

10/29 Thursday

Louis K. Thaler COncert Violinist Series: Mark Steinberg, violin | 8:15 PM-9:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | With Marija Stroke on piano. Recital to include the Prokofiev f minor sonata and the Busoni second sonata. Classical.

Miri Yampolsky | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Miri Yampolsky, piano, with brothers Abel and Arnau Tomàs, violinist and cellist with the Casals Quartet, and Ithaca College violist David Quiggle. Features an

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10/30 Friday

Fall Flute & Piccolo Recital | 7:30 PM | Grace and Holy Spirit Church, 13 Court St., Cortland | A fabulous and fun evening of Flute music, performed

by Maria Mucaria and cohorts from the Cortland Area Flute Ensemble.

Featured guest musicians. Works by Bach, Mozart, Prokofieff, Gluck, Vivaldi, and PDQ Bach. A splendid time will be had by all !

Ensemble X | 7:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Classical

10/31 Saturday

Chamber Orchestra | 8:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Join graduate student Mario Torres in the first concert of the culmination of his conducting study at Ithaca College with Beethoven’s iconic Egmont Overture and Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat, the story of the devil and a soldier, aptly chosen for this Halloween evening. Classical.

Caravan of Thieves | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Gypsy, Jazz, Swing, Folk.

The Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus: Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun | 8:00 PM- | First Baptist Church, 309

N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The chorus will present a repertoire of songs representing a variety of musical genres including classical choral, contemporary a capella, and selections from 1960’s pop. In addition, the men will perform a number of crowd favorites from past performances. More info at www.ithacacommunitychoruses.org/ groups/igmc Chamber Orchestra | 7:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Join graduate student Mario Torres in the first concert of the culmination of his conducting study at Ithaca College with Beethoven’s iconic Egmont Overture and Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat, the story of the devil and a soldier, aptly chosen for this Halloween evening.

The Music of Paul Smadbeck; Mr. Smadbeck, guest composer | 7:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Rise Again Singalong Benefit Concert | 7:00 PM | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | With Annie Patterson & Peter Blood, the creators of Rise USinging, celebrating the release of their long-awaited 2nd songbook Rise Again! Also joined by Kim & Reggie Harris, Charlie King, Sparky & Rhonda Rucker and Jan Nigro singing Walk a Mile.

First-Year Parents’ Weekend | 5:00

PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Twilight Concert sung by the Cornell University Chorus; Robert Isaacs, conductor. Admission will be charged; information to come.

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Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Can Bilir and Charles Peck, directors.

Guest ensemble OSSIA, based at the Eastman School of Music, presents new music by Cornell graduate composers.

Funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Silent Halloween Horror Matinee | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca-Made Movies Founder Terry Harbin will host this free screening, which will feature the 1929 silent, science-fiction film, The Seven Footprints to Satan, starring Ithaca actor Creighton Hale and Thelma Todd, episodes of the recently-located 1918 serial The House of Hate, starring acclaimed Serial Queen Pearl White, and the Wharton Studios production The Mysteries of Myra.The films are most suitable for an adult audience and are free and open to the public. cinemapolis

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All Souls Day Concert | 8:00 PM | Organized by Elizabeth Lyon, features graduate students performing older and newer music focusing on life, death, and humanity. Directed by Matthew Hall. Classical.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | Cinemapolis, Ithaca | This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years. | 115 mins NR |

Film Beetlejuice | 7:30 PM, 10/30 Friday | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a “bio-exorcist” in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house. | 92 mins PG |

Coming Home (Gui Lai) | Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers

him. | 109 mins PG-13 | Grandma | Lily Tomlin stars as Elle who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle’s granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets. | 79 mins R | Meet The Patels | An IndianAmerican man who is about to turn 30 gets help from his parents and extended family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way. | 88 mins PG | Truth | Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush’s military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers. | 121 mins R| He Named Me Malala | A look at the events leading up to the Talibans’ attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls’ education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.| 87 min PG-13 | This Changes Everything | A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. | 89 mins NR | The 46ers | In New York’s Adirondack State Park, 46 mountains rise over 4,000 feet in elevation-these are known as the “High Peaks.” The men and women who successfully reach the summits of all 46 peaks are known as the “46ers.” | 65 mins NR | cornell cinema

Wednesday 10/28 to Tuesday 11/03 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Just Another Girl on the IRT | Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become “just another girl on the IRT” | 92 mins R | A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, embark on a tour

of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes. | 101 mins PG-13 | The World of Apu | This final installment in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, follows Apu’s life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer as he lives through poverty, and the unforeseen turn of events. | 105 mins NR | What We Do in the Shadows: Halloween at Cornell Cinema | Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane - like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts. | 86 mins R | Fantastic Journeys: Animated Shorts | 2:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Short films from Children’s Film Festival. | 65 mins NR |

Stage Steve Martin’s The Underpants | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Runs October 21 through November 8. A guffaw inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman’s underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. For tickets and showtimes visit syracusestage.org.

Harold | 9:00 PM, 10/29 Thursday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Bad Dog! Productions will present Harold, by Nick Ryan, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Oct. 29, 30, and 31 at the Community School of Music and Arts in Ithaca. Because of some adult subject matter, curtain time is 9:00 p.m. Inspired by campfire ghost stories, Harold is a horrific comedy that delves into the deepest fears of our own imaginations and the animal instincts of the human psyche. Facebook: tinyurl. com/HaroldIthaca Sneak Peek: I And You | 5:15 PM-, 10/29 Thursday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Short section of the play, followed by a conversation with the actors and director. This is a complimentary event, seating is limited. More info at kitchentheatre.org Trail of Tragedy Mystery Theatre | 6:00 PM-9:30 PM, 10/30 Friday | The Cabin, 6405 Boyd Hill Road,

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Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Friday, October 30, 4:00 p.m.

This Michael McDowell screenplay directed by Tim Burton and starring the enigmatic Michael Keaton and a young Winona Ryder, has been hailed by critics as “a comedy classic,” and “a farce for our time.” The film portrays a family recently moved from NYC to Vermont, their death, and the subsequent under-universe of the after-life and it’s run of characters, including the cryptic-jokesterhero-madman Beetlejuice.

This internationally juried quilt exhibition has a familiar home at the Schweinfurth Art Center, a longstanding champion of presenting quilts as gallery fine art since 1981. On Friday a special awards presentation will ensue, as well as the opening of a staggering exhibit that features over 68 artists from all over the world, including the Ithaca artist Ruth White and the Cortland artist Cheri Rezendes. Don’t miss this spectacular and uncommon exhibit.

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Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

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

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 11/03 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Learning Courtney Roby: Plant-Based Medicines | 7:30 PM, 10/28 Wednesday | Statler Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Assistant Professor of Classics at Cornell University will give the next lecture in the Cornell Plantations Fall Lecture Series. Her lecture is entitled Plant-Based Medicines: Ancient Greece and Rome and Beyond.

Professor Kenneth McClane: Friendship: A Narrative About Race, Family, War, and Fishing | 4:30 PM, 10/28 Wednesday | Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Distinguished Faculty Invitational Lecture. Talk centers around McClane’s friend Bill Preston, who has taught him about humility and the deep and abiding nature of true friendship.

Crossing the Bridge: Building: 9 Pillars for Health and Well-Being | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/29 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Hosted by Penny H. Baron, PhD, LCAT, a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in NY State. Dr. Baron’s experience spans over 25 years of professional work with individuals and groups in the areas of Visit www.pennyhbaron. com. Pre-registration required for Classes. Call 607-273-9392 Ruth Behar: My Jewish Journeys in Spain, Cuba, and Academia. | 3:30 PM, 10/30 Friday | 165 McGraw Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | MacArthur genius-award winner Ruth Behar will discuss belonging, meaning, and Jewish identity. She will examine the relationship between Sephardic Jews and Spain, the role of American Jews in the revitalization of the Jewish community in Cuba, and her experiences as a Jewish Latina poet and

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Heatsmart | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/28 Wednesday | Northeast Elementary School, 425 Winthrop Drive, Ithaca | HeatSmart Tompkins launches with public educational meetings, open enrollments, and vetted installer partners.

Bassem Eid | 7:00 PM, 10/28 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Leading Palestinian human rights activist to speak in Ithaca. Having spent 33 years in the Shuafat refugee camp, Palestinian Bassem Eid has dedicated his life to exposing human rights violations and supporting a democratic and pluralistic Palestine.

Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/28 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com.

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Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/30 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

Shattering Mythical Representations of Arab Women in Media | 7:00 PM, 11/03 Tuesday | Ithaca College, Willams 323, Ithaca | Lecture by Noura Hajjaj, Palestinian scholar of communications at Marist College.

Getting Your Affairs in Order: Free Seminar with Breakfast | 9:30 AM, 11/03 Tuesday | Spencer Presbyterian Church, , Spencer | With Greg Catarella, Levene Gouldin, Thompson and Anne Catalano. Keeping retirement options open, preparing for medicaid, and planning for retirement. Please RSVP Kerm Bossard at 589-6059 or KB45@ cornell.edu

Special Events Afrika Bambaataa | 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, 10/28 Wednesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Public forum to discuss local youth issues with Afrika Bambaataa and students. Cornell Hip Hop Collection’s Visiting Scholar, and the man who named Hip Hop “Hip Hop”, Afrika Bambaataa is a legend.

A Haunted Shadow Puppet Show: Miss Angie’s Music | 6:30 PM, 10/29 Thursday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Join Miss Angie and Emily Hoyt for an EERIE Halloween show for all ages! Using light and shadow silhouettes, they weave stories to tell a haunting tale of dragons, angels, ghosts and ogres.

Emily and Angie use their talents as vocalists and instrumentalists to tell the spooky tale, bringing together live music with the ancient art of shadow puppetry. Thursday Oct 29, 3:30pm and 6:30pm and Saturday Oct 31, 12:30pm and 2:30pm. Pre-sale tickets can be purchases securely through the website: mumotion.com/events.html Halloween Beer Bash & Costume Challenge Contest | 7:00 PM, 10/30 Friday | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Rte. 89, Romulus | Prizes, Live Music by Tribal Revival, Costumes, Beer, Halloween Madness! Don’t miss out!

Trick or Treat at the Library | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/30 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Costumed children and families are invited to visit the Library’s service desks for sweet treats and other Halloween delights. For more information, contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl. org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

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This Wisconsin rapper first started out in the hip-hop trio Nom de Rap and released his first solo mixtape I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here in 2011. With a debt and style similar to rappers like Sage Francis and Blackalicious, his lyrics run a personal and unique tongue. Milo’s beats drift into avant-garde, trip hop, electronic, and modern cuts, that flow heavy with his rhyme scales. Also on the bill are Safari Al, Sammus, and Magnetic The Shaman. h e

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Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015. For more information visit www.decodog. com./inven/tiogadown.html.

Haunted House at Earlville Opera House | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | Earlville Opera House, 22 E Main St, Earlville | It’s that time of year when ghostly spirits and creatures of the night find their way into the historic 1892 Earlville Opera House and transform it into the Haunted Opera House! It will be a frightful night, so come if you DARE. More info at 315-691-3550, or visit earlvilleoperahouse.com Halloween Open House | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 10/31 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Story-telling on the porch. Halloween Open House.

Trunk or Treat | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Trick or Treaters are welcome to enjoy safe treats from decorated car trunks and

pickup truck beds lining the parking lot. The area will be well lighted by Trumansburg Fire Company who will be on sight with one of their trucks. There will be fun games and lots of costumes to be seen and admired. Last year, over 100 children came through the line of trunks.

Ithaca City Cemetery Tours | 2:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | Ithaca City Cemetary, , Ithaca | Meet at the University Avenue main entrance to the Ithaca City Cemetery. Rain or shine! Cider and donuts for all at the end of the tour. To register in advance and for more information, please visit our website: www.historicithaca. org/2015/09/09/halloween-graveyardtours-2/ Runs Sat. Oct. 31 at 2 p.m.. and Sun. Nov. 1 at 11 a.m.

Ithaca College Football | 1:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | Butterfield Stadium, , Ithaca | Vs. St. John Fisher Harry Potter: Diagon Alley in Press Bay Alley | 1:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | On Halloween Weekend, Press Bay Alley in Downtown Ithaca will transform into Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter books and movies! Shopkeepers will dress in their finest wizarding attire, Free hot cider, Quidditch relays, crafts, Trick-orTreating, and much more!

Ithaca City Cemetery Sprint | 11:00 AM, 10/31 Saturday | Historic Ithaca, 210 Center St, Ithaca | 9 a.m. registration, 11 a.m. race time. Timed run and family fun run/walk! One-mile, all-terrain dash up, down – and back up – through the cemetery roads. Costumes encouraged. More race info here historicithaca.org/ficc/ cemeterysprint/ Election Night Dinner Enfield | 4:30 PM-6:30 PM, 11/03 Tuesday | Enfield Valley Grange Hall, Enfield Main Rd, Enfield | LP Vinyl Record and CD Fair | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 10/31 Saturday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Giant Ithaca Record and CD Fair with Dealers from all over the Northeast bringing tens of thousands of vinyl LPs, 45s, 12″s, CDs, DVDs and ephemera. Almost all genres of music from the 1920s to today. Many dealers now accept credit cards. Details at 607-648-4997 and nyrecordfairs.com Election Night Dinner Jacksonville | 4:30 PM, 11/03 Tuesday | Jacksonville Community United Methodist Church, 1869 Trumansburg Rd, Jacksonville |

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Downtown Ithaca, Friday, October 30, 3:00 p.m.

Dress up in the year’s costume, put the finishing touches on your transformation, and join the fun and festivities downtown for this year’s celebration of the best and scariest of all holidays! They’ll be the annual parade, trick or treating will ensue, music will rage, carnival games will roar, and the best of the city’s local foods will be available.

Costume ideas: Naruto, Lobo, Oscar the Grouch, Kirk Hammett, and Allen Ginsberg.

Meetings City of Ithaca Community Police Board | 3:30 PM-, 10/28 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Community Advisory Group (CAG) | 6:00 PM-, 11/02 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | CAG is concerned with Ithaca’s contaminated sites. It convenes to promote greater public participation in clean-up projects, and to help citizens and involved government agencies make better-informed decisions.

City of Ithaca Board of Zoning Appeals | 7:00 PM-, 11/03 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 11/03 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Natural Areas Commission (NAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/03 Tuesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The NAC supports the conservation of the designated Natural Areas within the City of Ithaca and advises the Board of Public Works, the Department of Public Works, Common Council, and the Conservation Advisory Council, regarding public concerns about Natural Areas, threats to the ecosystems, and opportunities to improve protective measures.

Nature & Science Getting Started with Nut Trees | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 10/29 Thursday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | This class, taught by experienced nut growers Brian Caldwell and Akiva Silver, will provide information on growing nut trees in a changing climate, the best types of nuts for growing in NY, harvesting and processing nuts, and samples of several types of local nuts. Fee: $5-$10/ person self-determined sliding scale.

Pre-registration is required, please call (607) 272-2292 Paleobiologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh: Other Worlds | 5:00 PM, 10/29 Thursday | Wells College, 170 Main St, Aurora | 2015 Visiting Scholar lecture, given by vertebrate paleobiologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh of the University of California, Los Angeles. As a vertebrate paleobiologist, Blaire Van Valkenburgh centers her research on the evolution of form, function, and

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hen most people think of the banjo, they also think of bluegrass. Locally an unusual number of people will probably also think of old-time music. A few who have seen Mark Bickford get out the instrument at the Irish session (recently convening at Lot 10, now moving to Ruloff’s in November) know that the tenor banjo has a place in Irish traditional music. Few, however, would associate the banjo with Baroque or contemporary classical music.

That, in effect, is what you get when you sit down with John Bunge’s new CD All the Colors. Well, that and more.

Bunge plays the banjo with a plectrum, known in the vernacular as a pick. The aforementioned tenor banjo is a four-stringed instrument with a short neck, played with a pick, and usually tuned in perfect fifths. The plectrum banjo has a slightly longer neck (22 frets versus 17 or 19) and is essentially an old time five-string banjo without the fifth (drone) string. It has what is called “close voiced” tuning; the notes are very close to one another. While the tenor banjo sound can cut through a band, the plectrum banjo sound is tuned for solo playing, which is how Bunge uses it.

The traditional tuning is C3 G3 B3 D4, but they are often instead tuned like the lower four strings of a guitar. Bunge is a statistics professor at Cornell and seems

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Books Scare Tactics: Mystery Writing Panel Discussion | 6:00 PM, 10/28 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Four authors, facilitated by local mystery writer P.M. Carlson, will discuss how they create villains, generate suspense, describe spooky settings and add elements of surprise in their novels. For more information, contact Carrie WheelerCarmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org or (607)272-4557 extension 248 Bases of Adult Attachment | 4:00 PM, 10/29 Thursday | Mann Library, Cornell Library, , Ithaca | Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior. Book Talk by Vivian

like the kind of player who would adhere to the original tuning, but he’s also an old indy rocker from the Minneapolis scene of the 1980s. Your ear is probably better than mine; you be the judge.

Many of the tunes on All the Colors have no back beat, which immediately sets them apart from most vernacular music.

Even “Swing Song,” which does in fact swing during certain parts, mostly consists of alternate strummed and picked intervals that recall jazz changes at some points and baroque progressions at others.

“Passacaglia” has a statlier pace and is entirely picked. Many of the notes are allowed to hang in the air and you can hear the peculiar nasal sustain of the banjo distinctly. It is the very opposite of bluegrass playing, which consists of a blurred cascade of notes during which the primary sound is the impact of the players fingers on the strings. When you listen to Bunge play, you are hearing him strike the notes, but you are also hearing the voice of the instrument as a separate sound.

In “On Lonely Heath” Bunge suddenly begins to strike the instrument rhythmically as he plays. Coming as it does amid either arrhythmic melodic explorations or down beat progressions, it is startling to experience what kind of

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Open Mic Spoken Word and Poetry night | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/02 Monday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N

John Bunge with his trusty banjo (Photo: Sheryl Sinkow) impetus a simple back beat can give to music. You are suddenly plodding across the heath, not just standing there musing at the empty beauty.

“Cm7/GmM7” begins with a lightly amplified passage that again makes you listen to the natural sound of the banjo more closely when it returns. This tune sounds like a particularly melodic piece of modern jazz, but one interval lifts a distinctly propulsive progression out of the canon of indy rock, again making for a striking mood change.

Recordings like this make you start wondering about the origins of the various melodic progressions that we

Cayuga St, Ithaca | Led by Meredith Clarke, and featuring YOU! And your original literary works.

Wham Bam Poetry Slam | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/03 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | An evening of spoken word. Local poets, original recordings, 20-minute free-write where participants are encouraged to respond to a prompt.

Art Kiki Smith: Visiting Artist Talk | 5:15 PM, 10/29 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Kiki Smith will speak about her work in printmaking, in conjunction with the exhibition Imprint/In Print. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Natural States | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/29 Thursday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland | The Dowd Gallery is pleased to present Natural States, a group show co-curated by Nati Hyojin Kim and Santiago Garcia of Mixed Greens gallery in New York City that features paintings, photographs, sculpture, mixed media work and digital animation by fifteen contemporary artists. The exhibition will be on view from October 26-December 11, 2015.

Quilts=Art=Quilts | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/30 Friday | Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn | The exhibition will feature 76 quilts by 68 artists from around the world including the United States, Australia, Canada, Netherlands and Taiwan. Participating artists include

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Runs through December. More info at schweinfurthartcenter.org ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | Justin Hjortshøj’s photographs. His perspective on seemingly simple scenarios in places as diverse as Haiti, Brooklyn, and Czechoslovakia is mind-boggling. Home and Land. New paintings from the collection of the artist. | www.eyegallery.com

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Dealers from all over the Northeast will bring tens of thousands of vinyl LP’s, CD’s, Cassette Tapes, 45”s, 12’s, and tons of merch for all sorts of music collectors and enthusiasts. You can expect almost every form and genre since the 1920’s to be well represented at this fair. And for serious collectors the plethora of rare and unique records will be thrilling! You could leave with Slayer’s Show No Mercy and Robyn’s Body Talk on vinyl, you could!

If you want to dance all night, and you’re really looking to get your funk on this Halloween, well, make sure you stop by The Dock. Along with funk masters Telekinetic Walrus and Afrobeta, hometown heros Big Mean Sound Machine will be headlining and making sure to put the p in party! Costumes are obviously encouraged, as is dancing, twirling, bobbing, lobbing, and just plain raging! Fun times to be had!

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Bunge takes the approach almost of an archivist, juxtaposing various traditions alongside each other. Someone familiar with music theory will probably actually laugh at some of the combinations; they may actually be musical jests. Others will only intuitively grasp what he is driving at. Still others will be delighted at the sonic novelty of a solo plectrum banjo record. You can put this on and walk around your house half-listening to it over and over again. Then you will find it slowly drawing you in and finally you will sitting there staring into space, lost in a sea of associations and beauty. •

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