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City boots bus broker

Rusty Bourne’s life work published

More talks for T’burg project

Locals shine at annual games

Small but tasty in downtown

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The Nines property has been sold

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fter years of resting in limbo, The Nines restaurant property at 311 College Avenue has officially been sold as of last week. Confirmed by former owner Mark Kielman, the property sold for $3 million to local developers John Novarr and Phil Proujansky. There is no word yet on if there will be a planned redevelopment at the site, although it seems likely there will be in some form. Novarr could not be reached for comment. After The Nines’ owners announced they’d be retiring and selling the property, it looked as if Visum Development, led by Todd Fox, would purchase the property and start their own redevelopment. But soon, a push to historically designate the property began, and negotiations between Fox and the owners seemed to have cooled. In June 2018, the historic designation effort was struck down by Mayor Svante Myrick after a deadlocked vote, which meant that redevelopment plans would not have to seek the approval of the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission. That was much to the delight of the restaurant’s owners, who feared the designation would significantly impact their ability to sell the land in lucrative Collegetown. Chatter about a sale of The Nines had remained mostly quiet since then. Kielman, reached by phone last week, said the negotiations for the sale started in August 2018. “It has been a long process,” Kielman said with a weary laugh. “I’m glad that it’s over with.” Novarr and Proujansky have their fingerprints throughout continued on page 14

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Intercity bus company OurBus has taken their dispute with the city to court.

Intercity Bus

OurBus Inc. sues Ithaca

ince the closing of the bus station on State Street, intercity buses have been lining Green Street for several months. OurBus, which has been against this measure since it started, filed a lawsuit against the City of Ithaca for not renewing their permit to have buses park on Green Street. The decision was made on Feb. 20, and as of April 1, any buses chartered by OurBus are not legally allowed to park on Green Street. Not only would this result in lost business, the suit claims, but this would also result in a loss of goodwill between OurBus and the city. Axel Hellman, one of the co-founders of OurBus, spoke about the reasons the city decided not to renew OurBus’s permit for operating on Green Street. “The city cited several reasons, all of which we disagree with,” Hellman said. “These included too many buses being present at some times on Green Street, which does not justify removing us and Our-

Bus being the last company to receive a permit for the space (in fact, we were there first) and our practice of not having consistent schedules each day, which we do to respond to business conditions, operational issues and to meet the needs of travelers on busy days.” Regarding the issue of not having their permit renewed, City Attorney Aaron Lavine issued a statement about some of the claims OurBus made. “The City has by no means favored one bus company over another, as OurBus claims,” Lavine said. “Rather, OurBus was too unpredictable in their scheduling and too late—of their own choosing—to sign the necessary permit and pay the required fee for the Green Street Permit Area (other bus companies did so before them; OurBus dragged its feet). That said, the City has long encouraged OurBus to identify alternative loading locations for continued operation in Ithaca, and city staff are actively exploring those options

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▶▶ Record Store DayAnother year, another Record Store Day at Angry Mother Records on the Commons. The store opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 13, and live bands start at 12 p.m. performing free shows until 6 p.m.WRFI will also be broadcasting. Performers include The 86ers, Jake and the

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Nowhere Men, Nancy Babich, Water Bears and Strange Heavy. ▶▶ Spring Clothing SwapIthaca Generator is holding its second annual spring clothing swap on Saturday, April 13. The public is welcome to head to Press Bay Court at the Generator’s new space to check out new-to-you clothing for a

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as well. For safety reasons, the City established a permit and fee system for the Green Street Permit Area that was necessary to manage the volume of buses loading at any time to a safe level. We saw buses, including those from OurBus, doubleparking in the travel lane, and even loading bags from the travel lane. OurBus’ unpredictable schedules exacerbate this serious safety issue because they have proved unable to consistently mesh their schedule with those of other bus companies in the tight space available on Green Street.” Due to congestion at busy times, OurBus said there were some obstacles to overcome. However, with some creative thinking and careful management, they were able to make it work. Hellman is hoping to ensure there is more clarity

few dollars, or earn a few credits by trading in your own clothing during the week leading up to the event. Any money raised will go to Ithaca Generator’s new textile craft area, and extra clothes will be given to local charities.

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INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER By C a se y Mar tin

HYPOTHETICALLY…IF YOU WERE IN A HIGH SPEED CHASE WITH THE COPS, WHAT SONG WOULD YOU BLAST ON YOUR CAR STEREO?

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Tioga Staredown

County continues to mull Tioga Street move, vote coming April 16

“Erasure – “Stop”” -Ben Janes

“Carly Simon – “Haven’t got time for the Pain””

One of the properties in question, currently owned by Orthodontic Group of the Finger Lakes. (Photo online)

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ompkins County continued its discussions regarding the potential purchase of several Tioga Street properties last week, as

Common Council

“Judas Priest - “Breaking The Law””

Common Council keeps buses on Green Street until August

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A “Steve Miller Band - “Take The Money and Run”” -Amy Campbell

“Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now” - Steven Douglas

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the topic dominated much of the county legislature’s first April meeting. The properties in question are located at 408, 412-414 N.

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brief agenda laced with heavy issues swept through Common Council on Wednesday, with many resolutions passing unanimously. One of the more important measures was the renewal of the bus operator agreements to continue operating on East Green Street until Aug. 31. With plenty of discussion on the topic, the Common Council had to ensure they were looking out for the bus companies and downtown residents in the short term, with an eye to a more permanent reassessment at the end of August. During the discussion, many Common Council 10–16 ,

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members acknowledged that this was not going to be a permanent solution for not having an established intercity bus terminal in the city. One of the most commonly reported inconveniences has been the congestion created on East Green Street. Since bus operators don’t have much space to park, they have been taking liberty in double parking to ensure that bus passengers are not stuck circling the area waiting to disembark. With the buses being parked on East Green Street, the Tompkins County Public Library and the Tompkins County Mental Health building have seen some inconvenience. The

Tioga St. and 111-119 Sears St. all of which are currently owned by the Orthodontic Group of the Finger Lakes. The county hasn’t decided what they would do with the properties if they do buy them, but the county will likely vote on whether or not to purchase the properties at the next Tompkins County Legislature meeting on April 16. County Administrator Jason Molino delivered a lengthy presentation on the property and the potential impacts that the purchase would have on the county. Most of the impacts would allow the county to reshuffle where some of its offices are, hopefully centralizing them, while also opening up space in existing county buildings to hire a third county judge, if and when one is approved by New York State. Current and future space needs are between 37,000 and 46,000 square feet, according to Molino. He said the county’s primary needs are to move the county clerk’s office out of the courthouse’s basement and to make room for the aforementioned third judge. He also said the location and configuration of services are inefficient and not customer friendly. He also noted that, provided the county can show proof of public services, it doesn’t necessarily have to comply with all the

zoning in place at the site. Molino presented 10 different possible scenarios, all of which were somewhat similar but had varying aspects, like the presence or absence of housing, how big the building would be, the amount of parking, etc. But, it’s important to note, all of these options are moot if the county decides not to purchase the property. If they do make the decision to buy the property, all of the possible plans would be further vetted, debated and voted on by the legislature in the future. His conclusions were essentially that the Tioga-Sears properties could indeed handle the construction and development. If the county does buy the property, depending on which redevelopment plan is chosen, Molino estimates that it would take between $18.5519.55 million. There were some questions posed, such as one from legislator Shawna Black about the possibility of basement parking on the site, but Molino doused expectations about that; he said it might not even be possible considering the soil at the site, and such a plan would definitely increase the price significantly. Fellow legislator Deborah Dawson also said she was concerned first and foremost about gaining parking

library has had to move their book drop from East Green Street to Cayuga Street and the Tompkins County Mental Health building’s driveway has been blocked several times by buses. Even though these issues are likely to continue, downtown businesses, including TCAT, have seen positive results from moving the bus station to the downtown core. Many downtown residents have found this to be a safer alternative than the former State Street bus station because it is easier to access. Several residents of Ithaca, though, spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting to encourage the Council to spend more energy in finding a permanent bus station. In response to these concerns, Alderpersons Cynthia Brock and Laura Lewis spoke about the possibility of adding an intercity bus station into the Seneca Street Garage as part

of its refurbishment project. Although that project is not set to occur for some time, it has been considered by the head of the planning department, JoAnn Cornish. Ducson Nguyen, alderperson for the city’s Second Ward, spoke about how he had some ambivalence about passing the measure. On the one hand, there have been boosts in commerce because visitors are closer to downtown businesses. However, he noticed that buses are getting in the way, with plenty of cars not having a place to park on Green Street. Nguyen also spoke about how buses are parking in the TCAT bus lane, which has become an issue for city buses to keep traffic flowing at their busiest stop. Despite the questions most council members had about the measure, it passed unanimously. Common Council is

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ple Hugo showed them. Jessica Giles, Trumansburg Village Planning Board chair, said she thought the board directed the architects at the last meeting to try to get away from vinyl and stick to wood. The sample was not wood but a material called Trex composite; it was brown and had some extra detailing that Hugo said would not be present on nally asked for; the increase is the decks at the development. due to the ZBA’s request that “Trex is often used as deckthe developers factor visitor ing as a replacement for wood parking spots into their calcuand doesn’t quite have the plaslations. ticky feel to it,” said Walters. This means there will be a “One reason you don’t like total of 144 parking spots on this profile is it looks like it’s the site, including 22 for the trying to be wood but doesn’t nursery school. come off as wood,” Hugo Continuing a discussion that took place at the last meet- explained. “Once it’s white and in a more rectilinear shape it’s ing regarding water drainage, the board asked about the trees going to look like wood.” “You’re right,” he added, that will be planted on the “it won’t feel like wood. But property. we’re also partially wanting the “There was a lady from building in 30 years to look the neighborhood at the last great.” The posts will be white meeting who said the soil aluminum. there is sandy and not particuHugo larly good said HOLT at absorbing believes water and that it will The next scheduled 46 South white is the best color to be reliant Street discussion will be use because on what the it doesn’t trees will do,” h eld April 25 at 7 p.m. at The fact said Victoria Trumansburg Village Planning fade. that it is Trex Romanoff, Board. composite Trumansburg Village decking Planning instead of Board wood means member, it also won’t to which Kovac replied that chip and doesn’t need to be the main takeaway is that the painted. “It’s very low-maintedevelopers will be distributing nance,” he said. a significant number of shade Giles did not find this trees, which will help with the explanation satisfactory. “From groundwater situation. our experience in our village, Walters added that stormthis feels like institutionalizawater rules do not take trees tion,” she said, “whereas a lot of into account. “So then we have porches and homes that we’ve what I think is a very manageseen don’t have this kind of able system,” Walters said, material.” “certainly way better than the Hugo seemed surprised at existing conditions.” Giles’ assertion that vinyl is not Steven Hugo, principal used on very many homes in architect at HOLT Architects, the village and said a sampling the Ithaca architectural design of homes could conducted to firm designing the buildget a better idea of how many ings, showed the board some homes use wood versus vinyl. examples of what the exterior There was one idea, brought trim will look like, though up by Romanoff and supported the decking he brought to the by Giles, for an alternative someeting wasn’t exactly the lution: stainless steel with steel same as what the architects are cables. The developers said envisioning—he said he wasn’t the cables tend to slacken over able to get samples of the exact time, requiring maintenance, material in time, so he brought and Hannah Carver, Planning the next best thing. Board member, said she did The board members did not not think the industrial look respond favorably to the samof steel cables would fit the

Trumansburg Planning Board gets look at 46 South Street fixtures, school plans

xterior fixtures for residences at proposed housing development 46 South Street were a topic of debate March 28 at the Trumansburg Village Planning Board meeting. The meeting was attended by about nine members of the public—far less than the 24 concerned residents who showed up to the board’s February meeting. The controversial development is in position to secure preliminary site plan approval by the Planning Board in May if all goes according to schedule, Adam Walters of Phillips Lytle, LLP, an attorney for the developers, told the board members. The project is a partnership between Claudia Brenner, a local architect and landowner, and Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, a 40-yearold affordable housing nonprofit based in Ithaca. The proposed development is a mix of 17 market rate for-sale homes, 10 affordable for-sale townhomes, six affordable rental townhomes and 40 affordable rental apartments, plus a nursery school. Additional details regarding the fencing and parking spaces for the residential units were provided by Ryan Kovac, a landscape architect with Ithaca landscaping firm Trowbridge Wolf Michaels. New plans include additional fencing for the 10 for-sale affordable townhome units. The pair of adjacent but separate triplexes and the two attached duplexes are now slated to have more extensive fencing around the side and/or back of the properties, providing additional privacy, Kovac said. Last month, the Trumansburg Village Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) granted a variance on the parking lot for the residential units, allowing 1.4 parking spaces for every one affordable rental unit and two for every for-sale unit. This is slightly higher than the 1.2 spaces the developers origi-

aesthetic of the village. “Even though it’s pretty basic,” suggested John Ullberg, Planning Board member, “there is a material called hog panel that is very heavy-duty screening used in farming. It’s a mesh, and it can be fit into a frame in such a way that this looks really good, and it only costs 20 bucks for 16 feet.” Switching subjects to the nursery school, Brenner gave the board its first look at the proposed exterior facade. The building in the rendering shown was red with a dark roof; Brenner said it was designed to have a barn-like feel. “We were looking for a sort of rustic look, but obviously a building that meets these days’ standards,” Brenner said. She said there will not be a second floor but that the roof may be slightly raised in the middle to allow for a skylight in the center of the building. Romanoff said that aside from the development and its visual impact, she had lingering concerns about the connecting roadways. Neighboring property owner William Connor said in several letters to the board that by law streets that intersect with “collector streets” next to large subdivisions are required to be at least 500 feet apart. He also claims that South Street (where he resides) is too narrow to be a collector street. “I don’t know if we ever responded to this properly,” Romanoff said, encouraging the board to seek further legal advice. Giles said Trumansburg Village Attorney Guy Krough gave his official opinion on the matter at the February meeting. He gave a detailed response to the concerns, Giles said; she added that his statements should be considered on the record because they were given verbally at a public meeting that was audio recorded. The next meeting of the Trumansburg Village Planning Board is scheduled to take place April 25 at 7 p.m. at the Trumansburg offices, 56 E. Main St..

▶▶ Thumbs Up -Word came down this week that New Roots Charter School had been recognized with a Best of Green Schools Award 2019. According to a press release from the school, nine entities across the country won the award, which was given out by the Green Building Council and is aimed at celebrating K-12 schools that work to improve their school sustainability. ▶▶ Thumbs Up -Just as the History Center in Tompkins County moves into its new space, it will be losing its executive director. Rod Howe announced this week that he will be helping with special projects through the end of the year, but the plan is for him to step away from the position and a replacement to be in place by August. ▶▶ Seen-After several months of investigation, it was announced last week that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found violations against contractors working on the Hilton Canopy project for unsafe working conditions, stemming from the infamous viral picture that made the online rounds last year of a worker seemingly unsecured on top of scaffolding at the project site.

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A Call for a Moratorium on the TC Airport Expansion Project By Ba r ba r a R e ge n spa n

he multiple objections to the TC airport expansion project voiced on March 25 by immigrant rights experts, historians, labor activists, laborers, teachers, staffers of NGO’s, retirees, students and unemployed residents of the county who packed the public forum in the Borg Warner Room of Ithaca’s downtown library, constitute a tragic litany whose unifying theme is “wholesale giveaway of public goods.” The question which reverberated throughout the evening, and which was never satisfactorily answered by the five TC legislators present was, “For whose benefit was this project initiated?” and related, “For whom were the well-articulated sacrifices of public good and goods deemed worth it?” Some background is in order: The project was apparently designed mainly to invite international private corporate jets into the Tompkins County airport “for the benefit of ‘Global Cornell’” in the words of both the airport director and our county supervisor (at legislative and related meet-

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ings), the common belief notwithstanding that many TC residents believed (and continue to wrongly believe) that the project was designed to increase the availability of general commercial bookings, which it will not do. The $20 million expansion project (lauded by our governor, who promised funding through state and federal aviation grants) was approved by the TC legislature without consultation with any community groups. It must be added that the airport project is troubling for local immigrants and their allies. It invites into Lansing the firstphysical and permanent Federal Customs and Border Control facility in Tompkins County. (The same agency that cages children on our nation’s southern borders, after separating them from their families.) Yet requests by the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Working Group for a public forum on the project were repeatedly rebuffed by legislators. The project’s shoddy environmental continued on page 7

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Count Your Lucky Stores By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

he nationwide annual Record Store Day, held on April 13 this year, brings gratitude for Ithaca, which has both a small, independent record store and a large chain store for records (and books), while many towns have neither. Small, independent stores were forerunners of corporate chains, then were largely displaced by them; but, ironically, independent stores have survived, and thrive in some lucky locales like ours, while corporate megastores selling only LPs and CDs are entirely gone, everywhere. Large hybrids selling both music and books (and sundries such as greeting cards, calendars, stationary, etc.) still exist (as in Ithaca), but the one-time leader among them, Borders, has followed Tower Records, Virgin, and other music retail giants into oblivion. It’s an unusual situation. Generally in business an old model is remembered or understood in terms of the new. In this case, the new is no longer around for comparison or introduction. To illustrate the point: A new NYU student (for example) might not by its appearance construe Cafe Reggio (forget the name for a minute), in Greenwich Village for almost a century, with its dark interior, Renaissance paintings, and lack of chalkboard menus or customers on laptops, as a place for a latte. And it isn’t; it’s a place for an espresso or cappuccino. But the student will understand this function, having learned of these items and related protocols in visits to places like Starbucks. Similarly, show a desktop computer or an Imac (or pictures of them) to high school kids, and they can comprehend these items as older incarnations of smartphones. But school kids walking into a record store might not know at first, nor at all, what it is, not just because it’s an old-fashioned version of something, but because it’s an old-fashioned version of nothing; at least nothing they have ever seen. Record stores have an aura of age (as Cafe Reggio, et al., proudly do, too), tending to feature used and vintage recordings; but many modern musicians issue vinyl versions of their work, for the medium’s panache and perceived superiority of play. Regular issuers include Adele, Cardi B., Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye West. (Not just celebrities embrace the form; Ithaca’s own Big Mean Sound Machine also has released music on vinyl.) For Record Store Day there are special

releases by a breadth of artists. This year the Rolling Stones have a new 2-LP anthology. There is archival material by the Grateful Dead in a newly-mixed collection limited to 4,000 copies, and a 2-LP (and 2-CD) recording of a 1980 concert in San Francisco. RZA (of the Wu-Tang Clan) is re-releasing his third studio album on vinyl for the first time. There’s a “Breaking Bad” soundtrack on 2 LPs. Sugar Hill, the pioneering hip-hop label, has a 40th anniversary vinyl box set. Records undoubtedly have a time capsule quality; but, like time, past abuts present. This August the legendary Woodstock concert will reprise, with artists new and old, here in the Finger Lakes. There is a new 3-LP remix of the original concert, not in stereo but mono, a preferred technology among audiophiles. Anyone wanting to prepare for the Watkins Glen show can go to the back of the rack, in the parlance of the realm of the record store, and for not much money become acquainted (or re-acquainted) with the catalogues of many of the musicians who will play there. Used LPs by scheduled performers such as Melanie and Santana typically sell for $5 or less. Jay-Z, the major modern star of the new Woodstock concert, was a child at the time of the old one. But the technology of vinyl has always been important to his genre, and he has regularly issued recordings on vinyl throughout a prodigious career. Ithaca is a town of musicians and music lovers, to whom a record shop can be as alluring and prized as a farmers market is to creators and consumers of cuisine. (We have a lot of that and those, too.) Both these businesses also attract outof-towners, to the economic benefit and vitality of town. It goes without saying that these businesses are also, fundamentally, fun to visit. But it’s not said as well without going. When you live in a place where, this weekend, you can buy fiddlehead ferns from an independent local farmer, and enjoy them while listening to a pristine copy of “The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders” from your independent local music shop, shouldn’t you? Of course you should. And then you should count your lucky stores. Stephen P. Burke’s column Ithaca Notes appears every-other week in this spot.

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impact statement failed to mention its contribution to global warming through an increase of jet fuel combustion emissions. This lack of environmental concern is surely demoralizing to climate activists such as the hundreds of local young people who recently marched for climate justice, one of whom spoke eloquently at the forum about the mismatch between our knowledge and our investments. The private meeting I attended on Jan. 7 granted by the airport director, along with other representatives of the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition and two TC legislators, turned out to be a patronizing public relations display in which our immigrant rights concerns were met with cheery assurance that Customs and Border Patrol and ICE never collaborate because they are competing federal agencies! Revealingly, the only specific connection with “Global Cornell” offered, when I repeatedly questioned the nature of the highly touted global business prospects, was the intention to make available private jet flights connecting Ithaca and Beijing for the convenience of Chinese students, businessmen, and Cornell researchers. Critics of the airport expansion project, including me, recognize it as a particularly offensive expression of the local gentrifying “development” craze, which impoverishes all of our lives through continual escalation of housing costs and a construction frenzy that has made the Commons ugly, despite the beautiful portraits, and made parts of downtown unwalkable. Avoiding construction equipment also means avoiding the small businesses on which our economic vitality is dependent. Yet our legislators defend these sacrifices with the same trickle-down economics discourse that has not only been discredited nationally, but also very specifically in our own local context. During the same period in which the legislature approved the airport development project, the apolitical NY State Authorities Budget Office issued (in polite language) a scathing review of the Tompkins County Industrial Agency’s incentivized projects of the previous year, noting their failure to yield sustainable jobs, and other benefits to the community, like affordable housing, undercut by generous tax abatements to developers. One would have anticipated an urgent collaboration between Common Council and the TC legislature to reevaluate our current investments in all local development, whomever their sponsors. Yet my own four minutes of allotted time to critique the airport expansion project at the April 3 Common Council meeting was met with a tone of innocent surprise and a sincere request from one alderman for a future meeting to be prefaced by my provision of e-mailed background information on the project, which I have supplied. All of the above speaks to the carelessness with which the airport expansion

project has been pursued, which culminated in the co-sponsorship of many of our local social-justice-oriented groups for the March 25 public forum called for by the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition Working Group. There, the legislators who attended repeated the same vague claims about the necessity of beating out the competition in order to bring more business to the county—the same claims that have motivated the previous development projects that did not deliver. Yet new compelling evidence for the need for a moratorium followed by a public referendum on the airport expansion project appears daily, some of it pointing to information probably unavailable to our legislators at the time they approved the project. It is the case that Cornell China experts, who were never consulted by the airport director nor the legislature, had already sounded multiple alarms about research and business dealings with Chinese institutions and corporations who operated in collaboration with their repressive government. We learned from these Cornell professors that with the employment of cutting edge cybersurveillance systems, the Chinese government has rounded up and imprisoned one million of the Uighur people in concentration camps and has intimidated Chinese student activists and even U.S. professors. Yet a bombshell was delivered on the front page of the March 28 Cornell Daily Sun. Here we learned that, connected with two research projects in 2017, Cornell had accepted $5.3 million from the infamous developer of China’s cutting edge cybersurveillance systems, the Huawei corporation. The student author goes on to note: “That’s troubling. Huawei is a secretive firm, shielded from foreign investment and, thus, outside scrutiny. It is also likely penetrated by the Chinese government, according to China experts.” The article culminates in a demand of Cornell to immediately clarify its relationship with Huawei, and although it does not include this information, my own research confirms that many universities have cut ties with the Huawei Corporation, including Stanford, Princeton, University of California’s Berkeley campus, University of Minnesota, MIT, and the UK’s Oxford. The Tompkins County public certainly has a right to know precisely what this entity called “Global Cornell” represents, and to demand an immediate moratorium on an already concerning airport expansion project intended to benefit an entity with such troubling associations. Such a moratorium could provide the space our legislators and alderpeople need to draw on local expertise in the necessary rethinking of our allegiance to models of economic development that not only fail to deliver, but bring us into horrific collusion with elements prepared to destroy our humanity and our natural world. Dr. Barbara Regenspan is a local social scientist, parent and poet

YOUR LETTERS “Community Immunity” is a Real Thing

ack of community immunity is a real thing as shown by the measles outbreak in Rockland County, which now accounts for about two hundred cases. This number continues to increase. More than 387 measles cases have been confirmed in the US so far this year. When nearly everyone is immunized against a disease we say “community immunity” exists. When the majority of people are immunized, those who cannot be immunized because of a medical condition are far more protected. Children and adults who are on medications that weaken their immune systems or have a medical condition preventing vaccination are dependent for protection on whether others have been immunized. The disease can circulate far more easily in a community where many are not vaccinated. For a child or adult even to go to school, go shopping or go to work becomes risky because of the chance of encountering someone who is ill. Being vaccinated is a normal thing to do. The body responds to vaccines by making antibodies to protect you against diseases. Becoming vaccinated prevents you, yourself, from falling ill and also protects those around you. Make no mistake, unvaccinated people in Rockland County have become seriously ill and ended up in the hospital. Pregnant moms have fallen ill and exposed their unborn babies. Adults as well as children have become sick with measles. Community immunity prevents the

spread of disease. Keep yourselves and your loved ones up to date with immunizations for your own sake and everyone else’s. For more information, contact your health practitioner or Tompkins County Health Department. Dr. William Klepack Medical Director, Tompkins County Health Department

Governor Cuomo must protect the Finger Lakes The New York wine industry is booming, and our vineyards continue to produce some of the finest wine, not just in New York, but across the entire nation. We are now stepping onto the world stage as an internationally acclaimed wine region. But if Governor Cuomo doesn’t sign the “Finger Lakes Community Act of 2019,” that will all be at risk. Circular enerG’s proposal to build the state’s largest trash incinerator in the Finger Lakes would be detrimental to all the progress and years of work the local community has made in developing a world-class wine producing and tourism destination. We cannot let big corporations interfere in our region’s growth, our wellbeing or our livelihoods. We urge Governor Cuomo to join the other lawmakers and take a firm stand against this trash burning facility by making bill 5029A or “The Finger Lakes Community Act of 2019” law. Lou Damiani Founder, Damiani Wine Cellars

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for the county, particularly with the Green Street Garage closure and rehabilitation on the horizon. Molino had previously presented the information at a rather contentious City of Ithaca Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) meeting. Planning Director JoAnn Cornish seemed particularly resistant to the idea, and was joined by committee chair Seph Murtagh and fellow committee member Steve Smith. Their main objections to the plan centered on losing the land from the city’s property tax rolls, since it would be removed as county property, as well as potentially introducing more surface level parking, something the city probably would not want downtown especially if it could only be used by county employees, as would be likely. At Wednesday’s Common Council meeting, Murtagh proposed a resolution of his own, which stated “the City of Ithaca Common Council strongly recommends that the County honor the City’s Comprehensive Plan and respect the character of the neighborhood by dedicating the entire Sears Street frontage A p r i l

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of the County’s proposed office consolidation project site for affordable residential use,” which had also been suggested at the county’s presentation to the city earlier this month. Several residents of the surrounding neighborhood led off the meeting by expressing that whatever does happen with the site, they’d like to see it dedicated to family-owned residential housing. Predictably, in light of the previous presentation before the PEDC, there was some tension regarding the Tioga Street situation to begin the meeting, highlighted by an exchange between Tompkins County legislator Mike Lane and Common Council member George McGonigal, who was there as the city’s liaison. “So, does the city want the county to spend its money to do what the city has failed to do for 30 years?” Lane asked, referring to the affordable housing request. “Well, I’ll ask the city that question,” McGonigal responded.

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By M att Bu tler inda Luciano didn’t know it was going to be like this. When Therm manufacturers moved out of its large industrial space in the ground floor of the South Hill Business Campus, Luciano, the property manager of the building, had a thought. For years, artists had been asking her if there could be a studio space available somewhere for them to rent in the building. But because of the building’s construction, and generally larger spaces, almost all of the spaces were too expensive or too impractical to properly serve an artist. “They didn’t need it to be pretty, they didn’t need it to be big, they just wanted a space that they could create in,” Luciano said. “I never quite had what they wanted, and I thought that enough had come to me over the years that if I ever got the chance I was going to put in a few studios.” “A few studios” turned out to be a severe underestimation of how many Ithaca artists desperately wanted their own studio space. With a calculated proposal for six studios in hand, she went to the building’s owners to lay out her vision, and they were receptive. Luciano then set about contacting artists who had previously reached out to her about renting space, meanwhile losing sleep over fears that she wouldn’t be able to find tenants for the studios and 8 T

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would have to start over with a new plan. “I started calling people on my list, and we planned an open house,” Luciano said. “Before we could have the open house, they were all rented. That’s when I said ‘Oh my god.’” It hasn’t slowed down since that initial wave, either. Seeing the success of the first push in October, Luciano and building owner Andy Sciarabba came up with a plan to add four more studios to the original six, deeming it Phase Two. Those four sold immediately in December, before they were even built. The same went for more units that were proposed in January. After the final phase, which is currently underway, Luciano plans for 27 more studios constructed in the former Therm space, with a much-requested gallery space included. Those are scheduled to be finished and opened in August; half of them are already leased. It’s an admittedly odd spot to start an artists enclave. The South Hill Business Campus is a huge, staid looking building that hosts more conventional businesses like call centers, Challenge Workforce Industries and, formerly, machine part manufacturer Therm, and Artist Alley is in the steely core of the building. There have been artists there previously (Luciano and other artists credit the Metal Smithery and the Clay School of Ithaca as being original staples in the building), but soon 10–16 ,

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the ground floor will be filled with studios from wall to wall, the first space of its kind in Ithaca. As for now, the space remains a major work in progress: the lower level of South Hill Business Campus still looks like a deserted warehouse until you see the high white walls of Artist Alley. But that hasn’t dampened the spirits, at all, of the people who have already secured their spaces among the community. “When your business is to make art, and it’s a solo project, it can feel pretty isolating,” said Darcy Rose, who runs Acting Out New York from her studio. “So, creating a community like this, where artists have their own base to focus on their work and yet feel like they’re part of a greater collection of artists, is very important. I find that my work life is happier when I’m able to connect with other people who are spending their life creating. Just finding that you’re part of a bigger community is invaluable.” The mere fact of having one’s own space can be significant as well, particularly for art creation, Rose said. While she’s only been in Artist Alley since the beginning of the year, she said it has already allowed her a freedom that she couldn’t have truly achieved at the Cherry Artspace, where she was previously running her business. “I’ve been operating programming out of the theater for the last two years, and it’s

Surrounded by business and retail offices, an artist community is growing rapidly on South Hill been amazing, I loved it,” Rose said. “But it’s a shared space [...] my work needed its own home, for sure. Before that, we were on the Commons, which also had a beautiful community feel, even if it wasn’t strictly artists. I wanted to get back to that sense of having a home base that was just ours, and being a part of a bustle of people doing what they love.” More impactful than being able to claim sole usage of a space, several artists said, is the power of community that Rose mentioned. Having a central location for people to congregate has emerged as an important, and inspiring, element of the new community. Luciano said she didn’t anticipate the level of demand, certainly, but also never thought there would be as much enthusiasm among the tenants either. “I’ve been here 30 years, I’ve rented a lot of space, and when people come into rent office space, it’s a nice building and they like it,” Luciano said. “These people are ecstatic. I’ve never seen anything like it. They go wild. Every single one is like that [...] It has touched a real need in Ithaca.” Not only are they happy, Luciano notes, but they want their friends to be part of the community, too, thus naturally creating more interest. As more people have joined, and more spaces have been built, Alice Muhlbach said it has taken on the environment of a neighborhood. Need something? Just check next door, or a few doors down, to see if someone is there. Ideas bounce around freely as well, resulting in events like open studio nights on the first and third Thursdays of the month.

M a ry E . R e y n o l d s “I just love it, it’s something I wish I had a long time ago,” Muhlbach said, wistfully. She owns Spirit and Kitsch, and has taken on the role of coordinator of the community. “I know we’ve all wanted it, and people have talked about trying to create it, but when Therm left, it just worked out.” Perhaps because it sat for so long unaddressed, the artist community has received a rush of attention recently. Along with the burgeoning Artist Alley, affordable housing development firm Vecino Group has proposed an affordable, artist-focused housing project called Arthaus, which would be built on Cherry Street. If it is approved, the building would market itself as a haven for artists to live and create, featuring amenities specifically designed to attract artist tenants, such as gallery space and boasting of its proximity to the Cherry Artspace, just a short distance away. (Vecino is

the same company behind the proposed redevelopment of the Green Street Garage.) As Arthaus moves toward approval, South Hill’s arts community is steaming ahead. Each active space has one tenant, or two if they want to split rent and demarcate a smaller portion of a larger space for themselves. Every studio is equipped with a door fashioned out of chain-link fence and set on tracks so that it can slide across the doorway and lock. They would be reminiscent of prison doors if not for the stark contrast of cheery, colorful art and work inside each studio, ranging from paintings to sculptures to glassmaking to knitting to puppets and more. The spaces differ in size, and thus in monthly rent price, although all units are between $275-450 per month, and the alley includes a small gathering room and kitchen. While not set definitively, Luciano has a fairly clear vision for how she wants the rest of

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Artist Alley to develop. Construction is set to start next month on the remaining units, which will include a primary gallery space located at the main entrance on that side of the building, intended for rent by tenants in which they can hold exhibits and shows. She’d also like to redesign the outside of that portion of the South Hill Business Campus building, adding aspects that would clearly indicate and market Artist Alley; currently, the only indication of the cluster of studios are laminated paper signs hung throughout the building’s lower level. There have also been discussions to use the community as a marketing tool for the area, such as including it on bus tours of Tompkins County. There are certain parameters on prospective tenants that Luciano has installed in order to maintain continuity and harmony in Artist Alley. Leases are set at one year to discourage high turnover and target only serious tenants, and art involving music has not been allowed in yet because of the potential to disturb other residents (in order to keep rent costs low, the studios do not have their own ceilings, thus making them easier to light, heat and cool, but also more susceptible to sounds). Depending on the market for the remaining unrented units, Luciano may relax some of her criteria; but for now, she has accidentally become the architect of the most prominent artist community in Ithaca in recent memory. Prevailing sentiment is that without Luciano taking a risk, dozens more Ithaca artists would still be looking for a space to create. Thankfully for her, and the artists, the gamble has been wildly successful so far. “We all chipped in for Valentine’s Day to buy her flowers,” Muhlbach said, emphasizing that without Luciano, something like Artist Alley may have never been created. A p r i l

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Ithaca Times wins nine awards at annual conference

he Ithaca Times returned from the 2018 Better Newspaper Contest with nine awards in tow, including one first-place selection, awarded by the New York Press Association. Specifically, the Ithaca Times won an honorable mention and third place award for feature story, honorable mention and second place for best news story, first place for best special section cover second place for best editorial cartoon, second place for best front page, honorable mention for community leadership and second place

for investigative/in-depth reporting. This year, 163 newspapers entered a total of 2,743 entries. Award recipients from the Times included Managing Editor Matt Butler, Graphic Design Editor Marshall Hopkins, former Managing Editor Nick Reynolds, former Arts Editor Christie Citranglo and freelancers Austin Lamb and Jane Dieckmann. From Managing Editor Matt Butler: “I’m extremely proud of the work that current and former staffers did to earn these

awards. That an alt-weekly can register awards ranging from editorial cartoon to investigative reporting shows the breadth of content we are able to produce, and that we do it well. Despite its importance to the community, our work is largely thankless and it can be discouraging; recognition like this is always special.” The full list of awards, plus comments from the Better Newspaper Contest judges: Best Special Section Cover, First Place - Marshall Hopkins, Ithaca Times “Great shot for the Apple Harvest Festival. There was no question what it was for.” Coverage of the Arts, Honorable Mention - Nick Reynolds, Christie Citranglo and Jane Dieckmann

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“Massive content, and good. Decent photography. Interesting design.” Best Feature Story, Third Place - Nick Reynolds “This story is well-written, dives into the nuance of the situation and includes a range of voices. Using lines from the musical instead of sub-heads was clever, and each fit its spot well. Great work.” Best Feature Story, Honorable Mention - Austin Lamb “This is a great story. The reporter did an excellent job of showing the reader how Oxford’s life has changed, and it’s not all roses. Oxford gets frustrated with his situation and his abilities. That he acknowledges those struggles makes him human, and that shines through in this piece.” Best News Story, Second Place - Matt Butler “Complete reporting using multiple sources. Topic challenging but efforts paid off.” Best News Story, Honorable Mention - Nick Reynolds Community Leadership, Honorable Mention - Marshall Hopkins “Making it easier for young people and everyone else in the community to register to vote is fulfilling a civic duty every newspaper should endorse and try in their communities.” Best Front Page, Second Place - Marshall Hopkins An intriguing array of layout presentations that show a passion for creativity. Each page is notably different than the others, yet they each offer something dynamic in terms of grabbing the attention of readers. When I saw the layouts, I could tell they were among the best.” Best Editorial Cartoon, Second Place Marshall Hopkins “The Bingo game board is a fun way to comment on national bike sharing company LimeBike dropping 200 brand new yellow and green bikes all over Ithaca. If everyone in town wasn’t already buzzing about the event, this editorial cartoon surely got them talking. Great originality!” Best Investigative/In-depth Reporting, Second Place - Matt Butler “Good reporting and strong corroboration throughout the piece.” And, of course, Ithaca College’s The Ithacan was named Best College Newspaper for the unprecedented 17th time. -M att Butler

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It’s Not Just the Sports By Ste ve L aw re nc e

hen an event takes place 7,000 miles away, one might wonder how it finds its way into an Ithaca Times sports column. The 2019 Special Olympics World Games were held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and having drawn 7,000 athletes and 20,000 volunteers from 200 nations, the games were billed as “the largest humanitarian event ever recorded.” Right in the middle of the action, representing the United States, were two athletes from Tompkins County :Cassie Taber and Kinsey Henry climbed the podium, and came home with memories to last a lifetime. (Jared Lamb from Tioga County also competed.) I have been writing about local Special Olympians for many years, and Cassie’s enthusiasm and dedication goes back a long way. Her coach, Paula Cusano, told me how impressed she is with Cassie’s willingness to try new things, saying “We found out right after the Summer Games of 2018 that Cassie had an opportunity to go to the World Games, and that she would compete for the first time in the mini-javelin event.” Having never thrown the mini-javelin, Cassie set out to master it, Paula said “She just started learning the event last fall, and given there aren’t too many opportunities to throw the javelin indoors, her training time was limited.” (I’d like to point out that Paula has served as a Special Olympics volunteer coach for 17 years, starting out in Washington State and continuing here.) Cassie also competed in the 100-meter dash and the 4x100-meter relay, and she told me upon returning, “It took over 12 hours to get there, and I was very excited to compete.” Having competed in the running events for so long, Cassie knew what to expect

and she was very pleased to take a bronze medal in the 100-meter dash. Her satisfaction moved up a notch, and she took a step higher on the podium, when she won a silver medal in the 4x100-meter relay, but the best was still yet to come. “When I won the gold medal in the mini-javelin, I was jumping for joy,” Taber said. “Getting on top of that podium was even more special since I just started with the javelin!” When asked if she would take it easy now that she has a gold medal from the World Games, she said “No, I won’t! I just got word that I’ll be going to the 2023 World Games in Berlin!”

Cassie Taber and Kinsey Henry at the Special Olympics Games in Abu Dhabi

Kevin Henry is Kinsey’s dad, and he was fortunate enough to be in Abu Dhabi to watch his daughter compete. He said “We were able to make the trip as a family, and it was just incredible—the weather, the people, everything about it.” Kinsey agreed. She offered, “It was amazing! I want to go back!” I asked her what she would remember most, and she said, “The hospitality, the beaches, the flower gardens, the world’s tallest building—it was amazing.” She added, “The opening and closing ceremonies were breathtaking!” She sighed and added, “If it wasn’t such a long plane ride, I would go back.” Kinsey, who is now 19, gave me some background on her affiliation with Special Olympics. She said, “I started when I was eight years old, and I have done bowling, bocci, volleyball, biking, swimming, track and field.” She added, “I have also done

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snowshoeing, and there are events for all seasons.” In addition to taking in the experience as a visitor, Kinsey also went into the World Games well-prepared and earned her way onto the podium. She won a bronze medal in the 400-meter dash, and took a step higher in the long jump. I told her that as an American, I appreciate the hard work that went into representing our country on the world stage, and Kinsey replied, “Thank you. It is a lot of training and a lot of hard work. I’m very proud.” Kinsey’s sense of gratitude for such an opportunity is palpable, and she said, “Special Olympics is so important to me. It’s not just the sports, it’s the opportunity for people with disabilities to interact with other people, and to be a part of something. It’s nice to feel included.”

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LB: Yeah, literally. Everybody gets on a ship with somebody except you. IT: How did you get into stand-up? LB: I started stand-up comedy in college in South Carolina. I’ve always loved comedy, and one day, a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go to the local comedy club. I went, and met the owner after the show. I had been writing, but I didn’t think it was good. I told the owner that, and he said, “Well, we’ll put you up before the second show and see if you’re any good.” I wrote three jokes on a napkin, and he put me up and I got one laugh. From that one laugh, I was like, “This is awesome.” I took a class and the rest is

Lucas Bohn: You’re just kind of by yourself. You gotta have the right personality for it. You have to be okay with being alone, or being in a social situation where there’s 2500 people and you don’t know any of them. IT: Like high school? [laughs]

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LB: I tell people it’s a high that cannot be duplicated by any drug or alcohol or anything. It’s terrifying and exhilarating at the same time. Comedy was my drug. I went to the comedy club every weekend and just hung out and watched comedy and did comedy.

LB: Some of the best advice I ever got came from this comic Louis Ramey (“Last Comic Standing”). We have the same college agent, and we were at a showcase, and he said, “Write an hour of clean material. It will buy you a house.” He’s absolutely right. I’ve gotten more high-paying gigs working theaters and cruise ships. “We want you to perform in a church. Can you do a PG show and still make it funny?” If you work a cruise ship, you have to have a family show. If you don’t, that’s three grand a week that you don’t have.•

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Collegetown, and most notably made a gigantic purchase of properties in the 200-300 block of College Avenue and the immediate area, dropping $15.6 million in December for the land. That is thought to be connected to a rumored large-scale mixed-use project on the way in Collegetown, though its progress is unknown and details are still very scarce without much to report confidently. Novarr and Proujansky are previously responsible for student-focused housing projects like Collegetown Terrace Apartments, located on South Quarry Street.

anticipating a fervent push on getting the buses on Green Street moved, with a suggestion of moving some carriers to other locations that are currently to be determined. Another item brought before the council dealt with keeping the residential housing along Sears Street. For some time, the Tompkins County Board has found that there are some departments which need to be combined in a single building, which was going to be brought to adjacent Tioga Street properties. However, many residents of that area want to see the residential, possibly affordable, housing returned to the land at 111-119 Sears Street, which is also under consideration for purchase by Tompkins County. Residents of the area praised Alderman Seph Murtagh for bringing the resolution forward and looking to see the county abides by the city of Ithaca’s Comprehensive Plan. The resolution passed unanimously, with the County holding a vote now whether or not to buy the property scheduled for April 16. Other measures brought before the council were a resolution to allocate funding to a pilot program to provide child care at City meetings. The Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) has something like this already for large scale community events. With the new program, this would put the second-floor conference room of City Hall into use during city meetings. According to Alderwoman Deb Mohlenhoff, who brought the resolution forward, people will be able to sign their kids into the room and leave their contact information while they attend either the whole meeting or just public comment. A discussion about having a lockable cabinet with snacks and coloring books for the kids is also set to be a part of the pilot program. For now, the pilot program will allocate funding for the Common Council program. Since there was $5,000 allocated, there will be further discussion in the future. Residents and city staff who have had to avoid city meetings due to the lack of child care will now be able to attend with their children supervised on-site. The children will be supervised by teens who volunteer for the program, and they will be Supervised by seasonal GIAC Employees. Finally, Nguyen brought forth a resolution for a condemnation of hate. He came up with the measure after one of his constituents told him about attending a vigil for the victims of the shooting in Christchurch at the Al-Huda Islamic Center in Lansing. Similar measures have been passed in other cities across the country and Nguyen felt it was time to bring something like those to Ithaca. He worked with Alderperson Laura Lewis and Donna Fleming to draft the resolution.

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OurBus claims schedule requirement unconstitutional and city unfairly favoring TCAT

Hellman said they currently sell thousands of tickets a year. The final straw that made OurBus want to sue the City of Ithaca, Hellman said, was when we told them they could no longer use the Green Street pick-up and drop-off location. “The city told us that we and the bus operators we work with had to vacate the stop by the end of March, Hellman said. “Effectively, it would have shut down our business in Ithaca. We felt we had no other choice.” OurBus planned to meet with city officials late last week, where they were looking to negotiate some sort of understanding. They are also trying to work with the city to solve some congestion issues plaguing Green Street.

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ussell Bourne had been writing poetry since he was eight years old. Sometimes, they would emerge from his pen quickly; other times, he’d tinker with the same words for a decade. His writing deals primarily with two topics: the people and places he loves, the latter often being the Northeastern United States (specifically, Maine). But despite an illustrious career in publishing, as well as serving as a fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Bourne had never actually compiled his poems into any type of coherent work. After writing for so long, and amassing over 300 poems, it didn’t seem possible. But when he and his doctors decided in January to stop treatment for his Stage IV prostate cancer, he decided to act on the piles of poems that had accumulated over the years. At that time, the prognosis was that Bourne had two months to live. Three months later, on a sunny Monday in April, Bourne delivered a reading of his newly published poetry collection, titled “Between Sky and Water,” at Lifelong in downtown Ithaca to a crowded room of his neighbors at Kendal at Ithaca. Its front cover features a landscape painting by his daughter. With, as Bourne said it, “a hell of a lot of work” from himself, his four children, Cayuga Lake Books publisher Jack Hopper and others, the book was assembled, designed and printed in just one month.

Hopper, Bourne and friend Gloria Wharton all delivered readings of Bourne’s poems at Lifelong at the event. The book is now available at Buffalo Street Books. Bourne realizes the somewhat somber undertone of the book, but won’t dwell on it for very long. He’s far more interested in celebrating the work put in by those around him to get “Between the Sky and the Water” done as quickly as possible, considering his circumstances. The speed with which it was done hasn’t visibly impacted the book’s presentation either; if one didn’t know, they would think the book passed through the normal, gradual publication process. “The clock was ticking. I really thought I was going to die pretty soon,” Bourne said. “But with Jack putting the pedal to the metal, and my kids and everybody helping, we got the book done in the course of the month of March. It’s just phenomenal [...] I don’t want to make it a cry-baby story because, obviously, some sort of grace has been given. Some sort of miracle, you might say, has occurred.” He credits a poetry group made up of Kendal residents, and named after famous poet and former Cornell University professor A.R. “Archie” Ammons, with keeping his writing skills sharp, though he said that he inherently has a love of words. When asked what his favorite poems in the book are, Bourne defers, but it’s clear there are a few that are particularly close to his heart. For instance, “They Fly,” which he read to the audience at Lifelong and is deliberately the second to last poem included in the book.

Russell “Rusty” Bourne at his reading event at Lifelong to celebrate his new book “Between Sky and Water.” (Photo: Casey Martin)

Please do not believe a picture’s worth a thousand birds, and that that’s the score, The words which I, the poet, leave are worth a million more, They fly beyond the frame, the page, And land upon a lover’s lips They expire not, nor yellow with age They extend, soaring beyond the known world’s end, Launching a million homeric ships

Perhaps the most important element of publishing the book, Bourne said, is a sense of completion. Some of the included poems had been published before, but many of them had never seen the light of day prior to now. The style and tone of the poems differ vastly, although they do adhere fairly strictly to his favorite subjects, highlighted by an enduring adoration of the natural landscapes of the Northeast. Bourne said he wouldn’t take offense to the label of “regional poet,” but that he hopes to allow readers to look at both his life and their own a bit differently when presented through the subjects he has chosen as his muses. “This isn’t a regional report on any of these subjects,” Bourne said. “It’s using those beautiful things the flowers, the birds, my late wives, as lenses through which you can look at the larger life. When you’re in your 90s, I think you’re allowed to do that.” He has been published before, several times, but it was always related to historic research or opinion; never before did he set out to produce something self-revelatory. It’s a more intimate level of expression than his previous work, something Bourne is embracing. “I think that’s good, I think it’s about time to be vulnerable,” Bourne said. “When you have the opportunity to really say what you’re feeling, where you are, then by God, take it.” A p r i l

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row” on Aurora Street at the corner of Seneca Street, it’s very accessible to the increasing numbers of visitors to Ithaca as construction of new apartments and hotel rooms continues unabated. As with so many restaurants in our area, this is only the latest of several incarnations. I can remember when this site served as a seafood restaurant and fish market, and, later, a popular Italian restaurant. If memory serves, they were called The Fisherman and Giovanni’s. The current management opened their doors in July of 2004. Even though the continent of Asia is in the name, it really only serves Korean, Japanese, and “Korean- style Chinese” selections. Fortunately, there is no dearth of restaurants in the area offering quality Vietnamese, Thai and Indian cuisines. I begin each meal with homemade corn tea, which is so welcome during a cold Ithaca winter. This tea is considered “seasonal” by regulars because it’s often not available in the summer. Most of these reg-

Asia Cuisine, located at the corner of Aurora and Seneca Streets, if often bustling at lunch and dinner. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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days before that I selected Jjamppong and they were all flavorful and well prepared. The point is that there are so many interesting items to choose from and it’s great fun to experiment and select something different at each visit. Three things I can assure you: everything is made to order; the ingredients, particularly the vegetables, are fresh; and the wheat noodles are homemade. I challenge you to eat all the noodles without at least one slipping between your chopsticks. It may also be of interest that trans fats and sodium are never used in cooking. Prices are more than fair: most of the lunch entrées are in the $8.95-11.95 range, with dinner at $11.95-16.95.

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thaca College’s current production “Violet” reminds us again that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The delicately-named heroine is in fact severely disfigured, and the musical follows her journey from rural Spruce Pine, North Carolina to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she seeks to be healed by a TV evangelist. When Violet was 13, her face was cleft by accident when her father’s axe blade flew off and struck her––but this only becomes clear much later in her story. In the first scene, we just understand that her face is so marred no one seems able to look at her directly. Yet onstage, Violet’s deformity is never visually represented, which makes her otherness all the more striking and universal. Now in her mid-20s, Violet has finally saved enough money to make the trip via Greyhound bus. It’s September 1964, two months after the Civil Rights Act legally ended segregation, and Violet’s voyage from her isolated mountain life acquaints her not just with strangers but black Southerners. This musical, premiering off-Broadway in 1997 and winning both Lucille Lortell and New York Drama Critics Circle best musical awards, was adapted from Doris Bett’s short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim.”

Brian Crawley penned book and lyrics; Jeanine Tesori (of “Fun Home”) composed the music. Their retelling of Violet’s travels—via Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis––offers us a richly varied score, a virtual musical scroll–– from folk to blues, rock to gospel. (Kelley Hamilton’s orchestra, unseen backstage, performs robustly.) Under Greg Bostwick’s able direction (spirited barroom dances by Michael Blake), scenes of Violet’s past and present effectively interweave, sometimes appearing simultaneously. A worn barnboard set by Jesse Harron evokes the period, its peeling backdrop showing the lush Carolina hills. Lighting by Steve TenEyck and Indigo Garcia transforms the stage moodily as Violet’s journey progresses; Brock Viering offers period costumes. Violet is played alternately by Keara Byron and Robin Mazer. On opening night, Mazer perfectly captured Violet’s complex personality. Violet may not have ventured far from home, but she’s pretty savvy. Thanks to her dad, she has a mean poker hand. And she’s tougher than she knows: years of taunting have sharpened her tongue and her wit; she’s country-coarse, spirited, intensely observant. But Violet envies the glamor of her movie-magazine idols: Ava Gardner, Grace

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They know, as do we, that Violet hopes for the impossible. On finally arriving in Tulsa, she’s too late for that day’s “show” but pursues the preacher relentlessly. She confronts him, matching her enormous belief to his cynical exhaustion; when he resists, she convinces herself she has healed, has transformed, herself. As the white preacher, the speedtalking huckster-healer, Ben DeMarco is all explosive, wiry energy. The audience roared at his antics, and also, it seemed, at his hired gospel-robed chorus. Exaggeratedly waving their faith and singing out to Jesus, they seemed a parody of religion. I felt uncomfortable, having attended services where this expression of faith is genuine. Certainly for Violet, her faith is all she had, carrying her through life and across miles of desperate hope. Treating the chorus’s belief as comedy struck a sour note for me. But otherwise, this is an engaging show. Its final positive resolution may seem idealistic, but after such struggle, we needed to see Violet somehow restored and redeemed. And the music is unquestionably satisfying, from the opening “Water in the Well” to the thrilling “Raise Me Up,” from solo plaints to romantic duets.

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4/17 Wednesday Taksim: Live Mid-East Music & Belly Dance | 7:00 PM, | Belly Set Go!, Cortland

Los Finsteros | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector

Naked Noise #10 | 9:00 PM, | Community School Of Music And Arts, Ithaca | $5

Rob Ervin | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

4/14 Sunday

Squirrel Nut Zippers | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $25 - $30

Desmond Jones w/s/g Mosswalk | 8:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

Concerts/Recitals

The Commonheart | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10 - $12

The Tarps | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Anna Steppler, organ: psalm settings | 8:00 PM, 4/10 Wednesday |

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Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | A concert of seventeenthcentury Variations, Intabulations and Fantasias on psalm texts, with music by Anthoni van Noordt, Jakob Praetorius, and others. Robin Trower | 8:00 PM, 4/10 Wednesday | Asbury Hall at Babeville, 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo | Former Procol Harum guitarist on tour with Richard Watts on bass and vocals, and Chris Taggart on drums. | $40.00 - $45.00 Allman Betts Band | 8:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Neyla Pekarek | 8:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Cellist for the popular indie folk band, The Lumineers. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: Michael Francis and Yekwon Sunwoo | 7:30 PM, 4/12 Friday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30.

Cornell Chamber Singers | 4:00 PM, 4/13 Saturday | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Stephen Spinelli, conductor, in collaboration with an ensemble of professional period instrumentalists, will offer a rare performance of Philadelphiabased composer Kile Smith’s The Waking Sun, a multi-movement cantata based on the plays and texts of Seneca the Younger, a patron of Stoicism. Yuta Sugano - Classical Piano concert | 2:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A visitor to Cornell, Sugano will share his internationally lauded talent with the greater Ithaca community at this one-time performance. Ensemble X | 3:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Three pieces for sinfonietta. Roberto Sierra’s “I am Carmen Miranda” featuring Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Julian Anderson’s Alhambra Fantasy; and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Concordanza, conducted by Tim Weiss. Also features the premiere of Loren Loiacono’s Primum Non Nocere for piano, 4-hands for HereNowHear.

Darlingside with special guest Molly Parden | 8:00 PM, 4/12 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Indie-folk from Boston | $20

Cornell Chamber Winds | 7:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday | Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave, Ithaca | Program includes Mozart’s Serenade in E-flat, K. 375, and a semi-staged performance of the comic opera Bastien und Bastienne (composed when Mozart was only twelve!) in a new arrangement for chamber winds. Featuring vocalists Austin Cody, Brigid Lucey, and noted baritone Levi Hernandez.

David Bromberg Quintet | 8:00 PM, 4/12 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer |

Martin Barre Celebrates 50 Years of Jethro Tull | 8:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, Homer

Symphoria Kids: Ferdinand | 10:30 AM, 4/13 Saturday | Inspiration Hall, 709 James St, Syracuse | Music from Bizet’s descriptive music from Carmen comes alive when paired with Munro Leafís narrated story of Ferdinand the

The Spring Quartet: Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding and Leo Genovese | 8:00 PM, 4/15 Monday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Presented by The Cornell Concert Series. | $19-$39

Considering Matthew Shepard | Tuesday, 4/16 8:15 | Whalen Center for Music, Ford Hall, Ithaca College | Presented by the IC Choir. Pre-concert talk at 7:15. Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, piano | 8:00 PM, 4/16 Tuesday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Performs Liszt and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 8. Midday Music for Organ | 12:30 PM, 4/17 Wednesday | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Anna Steppler, organ; music by J.S. Bach for Lent and Passiontide Richard Valitutto, piano | 8:00 PM, 4/17 Wednesday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Illusory mirrors, a concept program of (post)modernist piano solos from the last 80 years. Midday Music in Lincoln | 12:30 PM, 4/18 Thursday | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Ariana Kim and Angela Yantorno, music for two violins by Bartok, Berio, and LeClair, plus American folk music Strings for Stewart Park | 7:00 PM, 4/18 Thursday | La Tourelle Resort & Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Musicians from Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the Ithaca community present an evening of traditional and original music. The unique towngown collaboration benefits Stewart Park revitalization. | $12.50-$60. The Cornell Hangovers | 7:30 PM, 4/18 Thursday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | The official a cappella subset of the Glee Club. | Admission by Donation/Pay What You Can Voice studio recital | 8:00 PM, 4/18 Thursday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Students of Patrice Pastore, Tamara Acosta, Anna Coogan, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, and Gary Moulsdale. Kris Kristofferson & The Strangers | 8:00 PM, 4/19 Friday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | | $45-$65 Barry Sharp, composition recital | 7:00 PM, 4/20 Saturday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Featuring guest art-

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ists Valeria Barnier (vocalist) and Eric Umble (clarinetist), etc, (Barry Sharp and Sergio Cote) will create a situation where things might be happening. Materials include paper, the environment, instruments, and sine waves. Preston Reed | 8:00 PM, 4/20 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | One of the most influential guitarists in the world, Preston Reed has been captivating audiences globally for almost three decades with the two-handed integrated percussive style he began developing in the 1980’s. | $17/$20

Trampoline presents: SAVE ME | 7:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Participate or just enjoy the entertainment. Show up. Sign up. Tell a 5-minute personal story, without notes, based on the theme SAVE ME. | $5 s.d. Outside Mullingar | 7:30 PM, 4/11 Thursday | The Cider Mill Stage, 2 Nanticoke Ave, Endicott | Thru April 14. Thurs-Sat at 7:30 and Sundays at 5:30. Tony Award nominee for Best Play. From the author of Doubt and Moonstruck comes a romantic comedy set in rural Ireland.

Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 4/10 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

Opera Ithaca Presents: Liberation/The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace | 8:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday thru 4/13 Saturday; 2:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday| The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Sung in Italian and English, thru 4/14.

Bywayz With Randy Roads By LPFunK | 5:30 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Meet the artistic team of Bywayz With Randy Roads, an oddtime musical excursion to a remote destination.This is an intimate discussion and reading. 607.273.ARTS

Five Flights, by Adam Bock | 7:30 PM, 4/12 Friday & 4/13 Saturday; 2:00 PM 4/13 Saturday | Risley Theatre, Risley Hall, Ithaca | The story of siblings Ed and Adele, who inherit an enormous aviary that their late father built for his deceased wife, whose soul, he believed, had transformed

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into the body of a wren. The grown children are faced with the dilemma of what to do with the crumbling structure. Hacksaw Jim Duggan | 7:30 PM, 4/12 Friday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | An evening of comedy and storytelling with one of America’s most popular wrestlers! | $25 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | 8:00 PM, 4/12 Friday | The Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd. E., B201 , Syracuse | Fri & Sat shows at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM. | $20/22 Stand Up Comedy with Ashley Gavin & Sam Morrison | 8:00 PM, 4/12 Friday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | College Comedy Night. | $10-$17 Threepenny Opera | 8:00 PM, 4/12 Friday & 2:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday | Crouse-Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery St, Syracuse | Sung in English with English subtitles. All attendees are invited to attend a free conductor’s pre-talk one hour prior to each performance. An Evening with The Golden Dragon Acrobats | 7:00 PM, 4/13

Saturday | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | The Golden Dragons are recognized throughout the United States and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today. | $25.00 - $35.00 Comedian Lucas Bohn: Lesson Plans to Late Night | 7:30 PM, 4/13 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | CUPB Presents: Ronny Chieng | 7:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday | Statler Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Comedian featured on The Daily Show. Andrea Gibson | 7:00 PM, 4/18 Thursday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Spoken word poetry and music. Baldwin vs Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers | 7:00 PM, 4/18 Thursday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | A theatrical re-imagining of the famed 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William Buckley Jr. about the American Dream and its cost to African Americans. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | 8:00 PM, 4/19 Friday | The Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd. E., B201 , Syracuse | Fri &

Ling Wang’s Dance Studio presents Celebrate Spring! | 7:00 PM, 4/20 Saturday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | A variety of Chinese traditional, ethnic, and classic dances as well as ballet dances with authentic Chinese food, drink, and desserts. | Entry by donation/Pay What You Can Grounded | 7:30 PM, 4/21 Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Kate MacCluggage of last season’s Ironbound returns to the Kitchen in this gripping one-woman show.

Art World Picture: Travel Imagery Before and After Photography | Ongoing | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, 161 Ho Plaza, Cornell University, Ithaca | This exhibition examines how published travel imagery created and transmitted geographical knowledge during the nineteenth century, a period of rapid and extraordinary change in how people traveled, represented, and understood the world. Get Real: Seeking Authenticity in African Art | Ongoing | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, IC, Ithaca | The Protest Banner Lending Library | Ongoing | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Director’s Choice Exhibit | Ongoing | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | An exhibit featuring personal favorites selected by Gallery Director, Jesse Gardner. Cleo Wilkinson | Made in the Shade | 5:00 PM, 4/12 Friday | Ink Shop Studio Gallery, 2nd floor CSMA bldg, 330 E. State Street, Ithaca | An Australian printmaker and one of

Artworks Gallery Spring Show: Let’s Take Part | 5:30 PM, 4/12 Friday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Opening Reception A Woven Paper Still Life workshop | 10:00 AM, 4/13 Saturday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Atlantic Arias: Paintings of Coastal Ireland and Maine | Ongoing | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Fri-Sun, thru 4/28. Keeler brings his rich textured treatment of light, sky, and water to the beauty of these two coastal regions. Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets | 1:00 PM, 4/13 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Celebrate India: Explore the exhibition with artmaking activities, refreshments, and tours, plus special performances by Cornell Bhangra, Kuchipudi dancer Sahana Natesan, and Cornell’s chapter of SPICMACAY. Transparent Moves - Connie Zehr Installation | 12:00 PM, 4/15 Monday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W. Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | A temporary sand installation in the gallery salon uses clear glass forms as lenses and tools to shift and magnify, reflect and project, colors and patterns in the sand. Thru 4.28. | Free

Film Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus. Dragnet Girl | 4/10, 7:30 PM | w/ live accompaniment by Coupler. A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him. Material Incidents: The Cinema of Vincent Grenier | 4/11, 7:00 PM| *w/ filmmaker Vincent Grenier in person.

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Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St., Ithaca | The Advocacy Center is hosting the screening of this film, subtitled, “The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope.” The documentary chronicles the birth of a new movement among pediatricians, therapists, educators and communities, who are using cut-ting-edge brain science to disrupt cycles of violence, abuse, addiction and disease.

The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | A double bill that underscores their commitment to producing works created by women. Francesca Caccini’s Liberation (La Liberazione di Ruggiero), recognized as the first opera written by a woman, and The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace by Kamala Sankaram and Rob Handel, commissioned by Opera Ithaca in 2018. (photo: provided)

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An Evening at the Caffe Cino | 2:00 PM, & 7:30 PM 4/20 Saturday; Contact theater for additional showtimes. | Cornell Performing and Media Arts, 403 College Ave, Ithaca | Explore the legacy of the Caffe Cino as both a pioneering space of Off-Off-Broadway theatre and as a site of queer performance and queer social life.

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Considering Matthew Shepard’s memory at IC

Ithaca College Choir will perform the work on April 16, 2019. “The piece actually became a whole lot more than just the story of the suffering,” Johnson said. “It needed to become this larger invitation to return to love. And to return to remember who we are as human beings, in the deepest sense of our essence.” “Our goal is to prevent crimes like this from ever happening to another family and to another victim, if at all possible,” said executive director of the Denver-based Matthew Shepard foundation Jason Marsden. “One way we can do that is to change hearts and minds about the importance of respect for diversity, of inclusion, of understanding for LGBTQ people everywhere so that they are less sub-

he Ithaca College Choir will be presenting a concert on Tuesday, April 16 at 8:15 pm. The performance is presented by the Ithaca College Choir. All soloists come from members of the choir. Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was gay, was beaten and left for dead 20 years ago. His death has been the subject of plays, documentaries and books. The composer of “Considering Matthew Shepard,” Craig Hella Johnson was compelled to write the composition about Matthew Shepard. His professional Choir, Conspirare, premiered the work in 2016 on CD. The composition was released in mid-September for other groups to perform, and the

ject to violence and more welcome in the circle of society.” Marsden said “Considering Matthew Shepard” is powerful partly because it reminds listeners of who Shepard was as a person. “This project is extremely significant to our students and community,” according to a release by the choir. “It fulfills the mission statement and values of Ithaca College and the School of Music. It is timely because this academic year is the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death.”•

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | | 104 mins PG

Special Events Ithaca Fashion Week | Thru Saturday, 4/13 | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | A week-long set of activities celebrating the diversity of style and fashion in Ithaca. Pop-up shops, fashion shows, receptions and evening events will happen throughout the week and feature a variety of niche styles from ready-to-wear, handmade, vintage, or sustainable to youth and adult, menís and womenís styles, too.

Tuesday, April 16 at 8:15 p.m. Ford Hall Ithaca College

Grenier will present a selection of work made between 1978 and 2018. Vice | 4/11, 9:20 PM; 4/12, 9:00 PM; 4/13, 9:15 PM; 4/14, 7:00 PM| | The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. Rafiki | 4/12, 7:00PM; | *Ithaca Premiere. “Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Ruben Brandt, Collector | 4/13, 7:00 PM; 4/14, 4:30 PM | Four expert thieves attempt to steal every famous artwork that is haunting their mutual psychotherapist. A detective attempts to find out who the “Collector” is. Bisbee ‘17 | 4/15, 7:00PM | *Free. An old mining town on the ArizonaMexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200

immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals use theatrical art to attempt to process this long-buried and largely forgotten event that came to be known as the Bisbee Deportation. Elephant Path/Njaia Njoku | 4/16, 7:00PM | *Free, w/ filmmaker Todd McGrain in person. Against a backdrop of luminous natural beauty, pierced by callous human violence, an American biologist, a Bayaka tracker, a Bantu eco-guard, and an Israeli security contractor form an unlikely alliance as their lives converge on the paths of the last wild herd of forest elephants in the Central African Republic. Cinemapolis Week of Friday, April 12, 2019 through Thursday, April 18. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first*. The Hummingbird Project*| A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal. | 111 mins R

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Woman at War (Kona fer i stria) * | Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers. | 101 mins The Aftermath | A British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post- WWII reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house. | 108 mins R The Beach Bum | A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules. |95 mins R The Mustang | The story a violent convict who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs. |96 mins R Apollo 11 | A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots

Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins. | 93 mins G Regal Ithaca Wednesday 4/10 through Tuesday, 4/16. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first. * Hellboy* | Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge. |120 mins R Missing Link* | Mr. Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travel the world to help their new friend. |95 mins PG Little* | A woman is transformed into her younger self at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear. | PG-13 Pet Sematary | A couple soon discover a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home in rural Maine. |101 mins R

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The Public* | An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold. | 119 mins PG-13

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Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY | Explore the exhibition Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets through artmaking activities, food, and tours, with special per-formances by Cornell Bhangra, Kuchipudi dancer Sahana Natesan, and Cornell’s Chapter of Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth. (photo: pro-vided)

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Hotel Mumbai | The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families. |123 mins R The Best of Enemies | Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration. |PG-13 Shazam | By shouting out one word - SHAZAM! - a streetwise fourteenyear-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam. |132 mins PG-13 Dumbo | A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer. |112 mins PG Us | A family’s serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them. |116 mins R Wonder Park | 85 mins PG

Free Screening & Discussion “Resilience” | 7:15 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope chronicles the birth of a new movement among pediatricians, therapists, educators and communities, who are using cutting-edge brain science to disrupt cycles of violence, abuse, addiction and disease. Treleaven’s Annual Spring Fling ft. Dana Twig and Little Joe & the Big Shots | 11:00 AM, 4/13 Saturday | Treleaven Wines, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | Bring out the family and take part in our adult wine-fueled Easter egg hunt where 100 eggs will be filled with prizes and discounts. Check out our Facebook page for more information. Agents of Change | 7:00 PM, 4/16 Tuesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | In marking the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University, Cornell, Cinemapolis and The History Center in Tompkins County will host this screening. Silents Roar! Film Festival for Youth - Screening & Awards Ceremony | 6:00 PM, 4/20 Saturday | Auditorium, Park School, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Produced in partnership with Wharton Studio Museum, Okumu

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The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W. State St. | The troupe is recognized throughout the U.S. and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today. Combining award-winning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty. (photo: provided)

Productions, Seneca Film Festival, and Roy H. Park School of Communications. Prizes will be awarded! Nineteen crews of filmmakers ages 13-18 have registered for the festival.

Books Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology | 4:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday | 160 Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | In a Chats in the Stacks book talk, Marianne E. Krasny, Professor in the Department of Natural Resources, will discuss her edited collection of case studies from diverse disciplines.

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Ithaca | The Friday workshop will run through April 26.

Sciencenter Science Together | Sciencenter, 601 1st St. , Ithaca | Tue/ Th @ 10:30AM and Wed/Fri @ 3:00PM. | General admission fees apply

Family Movie Night: Ralph Breaks the Internet | 6:30 PM, 4/12 Friday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Rated PG.

Teen Writing Workshops | 4:30 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Thursdays through May 2. Appropriate for people in grades 6-12. Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 4/12

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 4/13 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. | General admission fees apply LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 4/13 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches and other stories - a family concert | 3:00 PM, 4/14 Sunday | CRS Barn

Makerbot 3D Printer, Epilogue Helix Laser Cutter, and Cricut. Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 4/16 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor |

ers using the Library’s Cricut machine to create shapes that can then be turned into silhouette paintings. Space is limited for the free event, and registration is required.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 4/16 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield |

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Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 4/16 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler

Candor Library Board of Trustees Meeting | 6:00 PM, 4/10 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | For more info call library: 659-7258.

The Ithaca Poetry Gang | 5:30 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Poets of Ithaca inckuding Joanie Mackowski, Roger Gilbert, Dean Smith, David Burak, Nancy Couto, and David Lehman will read their new poems.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, Wednesdays | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Check out the league’s website for more information.

Books & Brew | 7:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Road, Freeville | Pick a poetry collection from display at the library.

Engaging History: Monthly Study Groups with County Historian | 12:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A monthly program with Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen. In the sessions, Kammen presents documents from the county’s past for reading aloud and discussion.

Poetry Reading: A. Van Johnson | 3:00 PM, 4/13 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | From Democracy to Freedom (CrimethInc) | 7:00 PM, 4/15 Monday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hosted by Antidote Ithaca Comic Book Club of Ithaca -Spring Video Night, Part 1 | 7:00 PM, 4/16 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Join us for a metaphorical toast to the late, great Stan Lee with a look at short videos such as The Stan Lee School of Cameo Acting, and other wonders. Bring your own list of favorites to share! Poetry Reading - Omawale Ketu Oladuwa | 7:00 PM, 4/16 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | From his latest collection of poems focusing on the identity and development of people of African descent.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, Wednesdays | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com

Harvesting History - Burma Shave: A Little Dab Will Do Ya | 6:00 PM, 4/11 Thursday | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural and Country Living Museum, 6880 East Lake Road, Auburn | Weedsport Historian Denny Randall will tell a tale of the history of the famous Burma shave signs on highways throughout the country.

THE MOLICE Sunday, April 14, at 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | You have a couple of chances to catch this alternative/ post-hardcore/dance-core trio this weekend. Friday night they will be down in Ithaca with T-burg’s own Glacial Erotics at Lot 10 Lounge. Their second show is closer to home when they return to T-burg as part of their “Hello Hello” U.S. Tour. (photo: provided)

Families Learning Science Together | 1:00 PM, 4/13 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Cornell’s Center for Materials Research presents a program exploring kinetics. Families will learn about the science of the small. They will find out what a nanometer is and perform different activities to observe how things behave differently when they are at this scale.

Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Presented by Triphammer Arts. | $10/$5

Library Time | 10:00 AM, 4/17 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

Storytelling with Jay Leeming | 11:00 AM, 4/15 Monday & 4/17 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Lego Night | 5:00 PM, 4/17 Wednesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | This event is designed for young children & their families.

Maker Mondays for Teens | 4:00 PM, 4/15 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tutorials will be provided for the

Maker Party | 5:00 PM, 4/17 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For children 5+ and caregivers. Make custom stick-

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Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | An evening of comedy and storytelling with one of America’s most popular wrestlers. Hacksaw’s show is jam-packed with a behind-the-scenes look at the crazy life of a WWF superstar and the underbelly of professional wrestling. (photo: Facebook)

CRS Barn Studio, 2622 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Enjoy an afternoon of stories and music for the whole family. Featuring Lorenzo Palomo’s delightful two piano setting of Dr. Seuss’s “The Sneetches”

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Silver Needles Machine Knitting Club | 10:00 AM, 4/12 Friday | Cortland Masonic Lodge, 1883 Route 13N, Cortland | Special project: Scarf or shawl combining tuck stitch and plating techniques. Try it on your machine or work on a project of your own. All machines, all levels of skill are welcome. Knit, learn, bring a lunch! For more info, call Joanne at 607-745-4377.

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Professor Hazlett will discuss his new book The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Book toTalk Wireless Technology from Herbert Hoover the Smartphone Professor Thomas W. Hazlett, Wednesday, April 17th, 5:30 PM Book Talk H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair of Economics at Warren Hall Room 175 Thomas W. Hazlett, Professor Clemson University H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair of Economics at Professor Hazlett will discuss his new book Thomas Hazlett holds theClemson H.H. MacaulayUniversity Endowed Chair in Economics at Clemson, conducting research in

the field of Law and Economics specializing inLiberation the Information The Political Spectrum: Theand Tumultuous ofEconomy, including the analysis of markets Professor Hazlett will discuss his Prof. newHazlett book and regulation in telecommunications, media, and the Internet. Wireless Federal Technology from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone served as Chief Economist of the Communications Commission, and has held faculty positions at the University of California, Davis, CoThe Political Spectrum: Tumultuous Liberation of He also writes for popuWednesday, April School, 17th,The 5:30 PM lumbia University, the Wharton and George Mason University School of Law. lar periodicals including Hall the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reason, The New Republic, The Economist, Warren Room 175 Wireless Technology from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone Slate, and the Financial Times, where he was a columnist on technology policy issues, 2002-2011. Prof. Hazlett

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the field of Law and Economics and specializing in the Information Economy, including the analysis of markets and regulation in telecommunications, media, and the Internet. Prof. Hazlett served as Chief Economist of the Cosponsored by Cornell’s Freedom & Free Societies and Cornell in Infrastructure (CPIP) Federal Communications Commission, and Program has held faculty positions at the University of California, Davis, Cohomas Hazlett holds theGeorge H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chairofin Economics at Clemson, conductin lumbia University, the Wharton School, and Mason University School Law. He also writes for popular periodicals including theLaw Walland Street Journal, New York Times, Reason, The New Republic, The including Economist,the analy the field of Economics and specializing in the Information Economy, Slate, and the Financial Times, where he was a columnist on technology issues, 2002-2011. Hazlett and regulation in telecommunications, media, and thepolicy Internet. Prof. Hazlett Prof. served as Chief Econ also serves as Director the Information Economy Project at Clemson He has at provided expert of Califor Federalof Communications Commission, and has held University. faculty positions the University testimony to federal andUniversity, state courts, committees Congress, foreignSchool governments, lumbia theregulatory Whartonagencies, School, and George of Mason University of Law.and He also wri international organizations. lar periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reason, The New Republic, Th

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