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ollowing the establishment of a citizen’s panel to look at the “current structure and operations” of the municipal court system, a report was accepted by the Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG). The panel’s goal was to find “potential ways and means to sustain and improve the efficiency of operations and quality of justice provided by the town and village courts,” according to information from Resolution 6660. The citizen’s panel, also known as the Municipal Courts Task Force, has two town justices, a city court judge, the District Attorney, two members of the local defense bar and two town supervisors. It has been established for a year. Over the course of the last year there were 25 meetings that included testimony of 33 different individuals, such as the New York State (NYS) Magisrates Association, NYS Public Defenders Association, local magistrates and judges, attorneys, the county Sheriff’s Office, the Nassau County District Court, local school districts and the general public. The meetings also included gathering view points from constituencies and stakeholders, reviewing correspondence from the public and reviewing reports from previous efforts to help the NYS court system. After going through the process and analyzing all of the information gathered, the task force came up with 13 recommendations for the municipal court system. Some of the goals are intended to “reduce justice court caseloads, streamline operations and to establish more uniform approaches to bail for lower level offenses,” according to the resolution. continued on page 4
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rom 1977 until late March 2015, if you were to drink the ty pe of suds being made in the rear confines of 527 W. State St., you probably would’ve gotten quite sick. The type of suds that’ll begin production in the former home of an industrial laundromat come next year, however, will be delicious–if still necessary to consume in moderation to avoid serious stomach ailments. W here Cornell Laundr y once would wash the linens of hotels and restaurants, sometime next spring friends Jamey
Tielens and Ben Brotman will be brewing lagers and a les sourced from farms just outside the city for dozens of people at long, beer hall-style tables in the same place workers toiled on entryway carpets and industrial grade linens. In just a matter of months, this open, industrial space will receive a makeover and Liquid State Brewing will
“What I love about beer is the science behind it, the creativity involved.” –Ben Brotman
take over, a farm brewery/brew pub hybrid close to five years in the making. “The nicest thing about having a brewery in your town is
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you can have fresh beer all the time,” Brotman said. “It really makes a big difference, I mean if you go to a bottle shop and you look at dates on the bottle, you might find an IPA from last year that’s not going to taste so good… the aroma is gone, the flavor is gone.” Brotman and Tielens had been playing with the idea of opening a brewery for some time now, ever since the pair became fast friends while working in different departments at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Tielens, a home brewer with his own one acre hop farm in Trumansburg and Brotman, a veteran of five breweries (including Ithaca Beer Co. and Empire Brewing Co.) and a former biol-
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▶ 2nd Ward Democrats Will be hosting a meeting at Uncle Joe’s Bar and Grill on Friday afternoon at 5:30 p.m. to give updates from elected officials, give post-election briefings and update on other local causes, including initiatives like Black Lives Matter. ▶ Ice & Chowder Festival Kicks off downtown on Thursday. There will be snow later on, so dress warmly!
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In Search of Solutions To Housing Crisis Cornell Reveals Housing Plans
C “More affordable housing!” — Caroline Snyder
“More landscaping.” —Nathaniel Abad
“A new, bigger Sweet Melissa’s location on the Commons!” —Mollie Seamon
ornell’s plans to mitigate its seeping student p o pu l a t i on a nd t h e school’s struggles to house its growing enrollment provided several intriguing revelations about its role in Ithaca’s housing crisis. The bottom line? The university can and should do more to at least be able to house a larger share of its 14,000 undergraduates. Though Cornell technically guarantees housing for their first and second year students, at this point they would not actually be able to provide it, said Vice President of Student Life Ryan Lombardi, presenting the school’s Student Housing Master Plan at last week’s Housi ng Su m m it. C or nel l also has stopped guaranteeing transfer students housing due to the general student overflow. Though no definitive plans have been set in motion, Lombardi showed some preliminary renderings for new housing construction on Cornell’s campus that would potentially alleviate some of the housing crunch the school has seen. Lombardi referred to the plan as a concept, adding much more work needs to be done
before anything is finalized. In its current form, at least two new residence halls and a new dining hall would be built on campus. The plan would aim to organize first year students into a certain swath of central campus, while sophomores would mostly reside in
the North Campus town-house area. The goal, Lombardi said, is to maintain a sense of community among younger students that can help them adapt to the university atmosphere. “They’re trying to get their feet on the ground, they’re trying to get confidence in the classroom and with their peer groups and all these types of elements,” Lomba rd i sa id. “From our perspective, the
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operative landlords and a lack of protective oversight by local government for their housing woes. Four people told their stories of attempts to find housing around Tompkins County. Sheila Ramos, a single mother of two, told the crowd through tears her journey from when she was evicted because she was in the Housing Voucher Choice Program. She was saved from homelessness only by Iacovelli Properties’ willingness to give her housing despite her income. “ This act of communit y humbleness is what we have lost in our city,” Ramos said. “We are shutting out families who
last thing we need to be adding to their lives in terms of high stress is housing.” Lombardi said a back log of expensive deferred maintenance on older buildings, capacity growth for current students and f lexibility for future enrollment growth are the main concerns that Cornell has to address before any construction is to take place. He
also stated the school’s desire to cut down the number of “maximized” residence halls, which essentially means redesigning rooms to fit three students instead of two, also often referred to as forced triples. The plan is still in its infancy, so details on cost had not yet been fully clarified. Lombardi did say that the school would probably not be able to place the burden of the construction directly on students, perhaps need housing due to these negative new ideas about people who are less fortunate. This is going on here now.” Sharon Payne and Barr y Briggs told similar stories. Payne lamented that her teenage son is forced to grow up in a druginfested apartment building. Payne said she has a job, but has yet to be able to work her way out of the building yet. “I’m a working mom, struggling day by day to get by,” Payne said. “I see somebody walk by my apartment and shoot up heroin, I wasn’t raised like that […] Help us get better housing.” Briggs was in and out of prison several times during his teenage years and young adulthood before being diagnosed with a severe mental illness. He
through a tuition increase, but did not indicate that meant the tax-payers would have to chip in. “What we know we can’t do is put this all on the backs of our students in terms of shooting our housing rates up through the roofs or anything along those lines,” Lombardi said. “So we really have to be creative in thinking about how we might solve this kind of a growth that we might achieve, through our planning process.” All agreed that one of the keys to t he i mprov ing t he state of housing in the city was increased on-campus housing from Cornell. Christopher Coes, Vice President at neighborhood consultation f irm Smart Growth America, said the housing status quo of little availability and high prices will only continue to worsen if nothing is done about the lack of on-campus housing options. “If we don’t build more student housing, they’re going to keep on taking up other housing and those residents won’t have anywhere to live,” Coes said. This is a particular problem as landlords are far more likely to rent to college students, presumably with financially comfortable parents, as opposed to possibly riskier low-income people. –Matt Butler
has been homeless since coming to Ithaca in 2015, bouncing from shelters to couches and the like, while going through the process of trying to find a job and applying for housing vouchers. “It’s not just me fighting Section 8 and other organizations like that, it’s a lot of people in the community,” Briggs said, speaking of the Ultimate ReEntry Opportunity Program that advocated on his behalf. “If I didn’t have that backup, I wouldn’t be here today.” Of the three, his story had the happiest ending—Briggs finally did find housing, has enrolled in college courses and recently received a loan to begin a hot-dog cart business. –Matt Butler
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hroughout the Tompkins County Housing Summit, the overarching theme seemed to point to at least one certainty in a sea of complexity: to solve the problem with housing, developers will inevitably need to build. The topic of “Not in my Backyard” residents, referred to as NIMBYs, was a common theme throughout the discussion, which refers to people who may support something generally but not if it affects them directly, such as low-income housing in their neighborhoods. General sentiment among the panel
The “NIMBY” attitude toward construction projects that might be unpopular, like 210 Hancock, need to be put aside for needed housing, advocates say. (Image: Provided)
was that the county population needed to be less scared about the process. Visum Development founder Todd Fox said in his experience the fears over offering
worst tenants I’ve had have been market rate tenants.” One suggestion that seemed to gain traction among the at tendees was eliminat ing landlord requirements that prospective tenants show their source of income. This pr ac t ic e c a n lead to discrimination against people whose low income makes them eligible f o r Ho u s i n g Choice Vouchers, also com–Todd Fox monly known a s S e c t ion 8 Tenant Based Assistance, by unwilling landlords who are legally allowed to reject them on that basis.
“It’s a big misconception among landlords that Section 8 tenants are bad tenants, that’s just not true. The worst tenants I’ve had have been market rate tenants.”
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The recommendations include: • Establish a countywide DWI Court • Establish a law enforcement assisted diversion program • Establish a countywide youth court • Further investigate a mental health court • Improve electronic access and use more technology to streamline operations • Coordinate local court schedules
leases to t hose on housing vouchers is largely mistaken. “It’s a big misconception among landlords that Section 8 tenants are bad tenants, that’s just not true,” Fox said. “The • Release defendants on their own recognizance (ROR) or n realistic bail • P rov id e “r ap s he e t s” at arraignment and provide written decisions • Use confessions of judgments and allow for partial payments with respect to fines, surcharges and restitution • Establish an easily accessible website that sets forth clear policies and standards for pleabargaining vehicle and trafficlevel offenses • Establish a countywide afterhours centralized arraignment program
n the lobby of Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium on Wed nesday nig ht, a crowd mixed with developers, elected officials and small-time landlords alike sipped coffee and chatted amongst themselves, clutching thin programs with a cover image, calling for “a place for all of us.” They were there for t he event that has been hyped in meeting halls incessantly over the last several months – the Tompkins County Housing Summit – a forum meant to serve as an open to the discussion on remedying the rising costs of housing in Tompkins County, the lack of availability of that housing and, as a result of all this, a lack of social equity in the community’s fabric. Christopher Coes, an influential urban policy advisor from Washington, D.C., was there to speak on the crisis’ context in the national trend of new urbanization, Commissioner of Planning for Tompkins County Ed Marx to follow up with an update on what the county has done so far to address its housing problem.
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• Establish on a statewide basis clear bail limits for misdemeanor and lower level offenses • Provide for automatic transfer of cases to lawyer-trained justices upon request of defendants. Some of t he recom mendations will need municipal action. Jason Leifer, member of TCCOG, said the municipalities only have control over “changing the date of town board meetings…and taking action to support recommendations. Michael Lane, member of TCCOG expressed his con-
cerns. “It will be difficult with the town justices in particular, as they are very used to the current way of doing things,” he stated. “Many of them were very supportive of the task force, but some were not. It talks about a change in the way things are done, including DWI cases leaving town court, but does not ask for a replacement of those courts by a district court, so their jobs will not go away.”
Ups&Downs ▶ Ithaca Underground While the type of music that Ithaca Underground plays host to is diverse, it’s not exactly everybody’s cup of tea. But at last weekend’s Big Day In, the organization’s annual, year end shindig, we saw a perfect example of an event for all. With all ages shows yearround as well representing dozens of voices that otherwise go unheard, these guys do a great job. ▶ Ithaca College For keeping their finalists for its next president a total secret from everybody until the big reveal. They were originally supposed to meet with everyone but, with some searching for other jobs, the student body and faculty won’t get to meet them.
If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes. com, with a subject head “U&D.”
Heard&Seen ▶ Remembering Karl Jaentsch Life might be defined by three certanties: death, taxes, and your Volkswagen breaking down. Luckily, for one of those, Ithacans had Karl Jaentsch. An icon of life in Ithaca (even included in the Dick Lourie definitive poem on life in Ithaca), Jaentsch was a beloved VW mechanic up to his death in 2009. This Saturday at 2 p.m., the History Center is hosting a lecture on his role in the community Come by. ▶ If you remember from last week, Ithaca High School’s Silas Derfel earned a berth in the cross country national championships over the weekend in Portland, Oregon. Competing on Saturday, he finished 60th out of a field of nearly 200 runners.
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Should Cornell or the should the City of Ithaca be doing more to address the housing crisis? Please respond at the Ithaca Times Web site www.ithacatimes.com. L ast Week ’s Q uestion : Would you start to bike to work in the winter to save a few bucks on parking?
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A Housing Solution? What did we learn from the housing summit? Nothing we hadn’t heard before.
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n the opening night of the Tompk i ns C ou nt y Housi ng Su m m it , keynote speaker Christopher Coes walked the audience gathered in Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium through the best practices of modern urban planning. “You’re not alone,” he said, as he discussed solutions to various housing crises currently taking place across the country. “A lot of places are going through changes just like this.” In a finely-curated slideshow of
facts and figures, Coes walked the audience through some of the solutions that had worked best to combat inequality in other booming small cities: places newly-popular with both the young and old and places where inequality and equitable housing was once a disappearing dream. In those cities, he said, the places that rose above it took action and made real decisions to combat what was happening: revising their zoning codes, incentivizing good development and building for walkability. Conquering NIMBYism was also a solution. “I’m not just some guy from Washington coming in to tell you what to do,” Coes said in the conclusion of his presentation. “You’re going to need to make these decisions.” After two days of discussion, the question we should now be asking ourselves is the type of decision Coes suggested we make. The city has written guidelines for a comprehensive plan penned with the two things most important to us in mind: equit y a nd neighborhood cha racter. In places like Collegetown, we’ve rezoned to increase density, been picky about our projects. And when people object to the structures i n t hei r
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swear I’m not making this up. A friend of mine, we’ll call him “Jeff”, well, that’s actually his real name, so let’s call him “Rip Van Winkle” instead, was accidentally f lashfrozen in May, 2015 in a freak accident at the Mrs. Paul’s Fish Stick factory in Omaha, Nebraska. You may have read about it on breitbart.com He had gone undercover to discover why fish sticks were being processed at a location literally as far from the sea as it’s possible to get. In any event, he’s been kept suspended in a cryogenic state back here in Ithaca until a medical team was able to devise a safe method of thawing him out, and he regained consciousness at Cayuga Medical Center just this morning. I was at his bedside, and here’s how our conversation went…
The last thing I remember is my sleeve getting caught in a conveyor belt… wait a minute! Ithaca? 2016?
VA N W I N K L E: Oooh. Ma n. Where am I? What day is it?
VAN WINKLE: Well, duh! No way she would have lost this time.
ME: Dude, you fell into a fish stick machine and got frozen! You’re OK now, though. It’s December 7, 2016, and you’re back home in Ithaca.
ME: It’s a long story, but she’s been working on her outdoor trail skills since Election Day. Donald Trump’s the president-elect.
VAN WINKLE: Well, that would explain all the breadcrumbs, I guess.
VAN WINKLE: Dude. I can’t believe you’re joking around after
ME: It’s all true. They just thawed you out. VA N W I N K LE: W hy a re you holding a tub of tartar sauce? M E: (d itch i ng t he t ub) Ne ver mind! Um…you must have a lot of questions. You’ve been out of touch for 18 months. VAN WINKLE: I guess so. Sheesh! 2016, huh? Has President-elect Clinton started putting together her cabinet yet? ME: Er…President-elect Clinton?
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a st week nea rly 30 0 people participated in the Tompkins County Housing Summit, “A Place for All of Us: Housing by Choice or by Chance?” with another 100 people on the waiting list. Why were so many people interested enough in housing to come to an evening meeting and a day-long event? Because housing is a serious concern that affects ALL sectors of our community.
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This past summer the summit’s Planning Committee came together with a vision that our county could be “A Place for All of Us,” where young families starting out and retired folks downsizing can all find homes they can afford. Where both the hotel worker and the hotel manager can find safe places to live. Whether you’re a student, a professor, or someone returning home from incarceration, you don’t have to struggle to make a home. We all need safe, stable homes that are affordable at our various income levels. Today t hat’s not t he rea lit y in Tompkins County. Several individuals who are directly hurt as a result told their stories at the summit. But we’re all connected when it comes to housing; this reality hurts all of us. The summit tagline, “Housing by Choice or by Chance?” highlights the fact that Tompkins County is constantly changing. Decisions made continued on page 7
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what I’ve been through. At least pick somebody plausible. You telling me Donald Trump got more votes than Hillary Clinton? ME: Yeah…no. I mean he didn’t, but he’s still going to be president. VAN WINKLE: Sure. OK, I’ ll play along. What, I suppose he’s picking his cabinet? M E : We l l , t h e S e c r e t a r y o f Defense is Colonel Guano from Dr. Strangelove. His nickname’s ‘Mad Dog’. And the Treasury Secretary is a guy who made his fortune foreclosing on subprime mortgages after the financial crisis. The Transportation Secretary is Mitch McConnell’s wife, and Trump’s chief strategist is Steve Bannon, who’s been the executive chairman of the Volk ischer Beobachter these last few years. VAN WINKLE: Bah! Next you’re going to tell me Lord Voldemort’s been named Secretary of State. ME: Welcome to t he Tw ilight Zone.
VAN W INK LE: Tel l me some good news. For real. ME: Would you believe the Cubs won the World Series? VAN WINKLE: OK, now I know you’re messing with me! Hey, what do you say we get out of here and head up the road to the Rongo for a couple of craft IPAs. I think that would just about clear my head. ME: The Rongo closed last month. It’s gone. VAN WINKLE: (after a long minute) Is Wegmans still alive? ME: Some things are eternal. VAN WINKLE: Well, go buy a bag of lemons and grab that tartar sauce. You’re taking me back to Omaha. Suddenly being a frozen seafood treat doesn’t sound so bad. Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, ‘Ithaca Notes,’ appears biweekly.
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today will affect our community for years to come. The question is, will we choose what our future looks like, or will we let it happen to us, by chance? Will our decisions help us create the kind of community we want, and further our values of equity, sustainability, and quality of life? Or will we become an increasingly wealth-segregated community with limited housing choices? Will we be even more stuck in traffic congestion, because those who earn less must drive further away from work and services, to find a home they can afford? The choice is ours. And the decisions are before us right now. How much housing do we need? County Planning Commissioner Ed Marx presented preliminary projections of annual needs over the next ten years, based on t he recent lycompleted Needs Assessment. The County is developing a new Housing Strateg y, and more conversations about specific housing targets will be part of drafting that strategy. Here’s a preliminary projection of ANNUAL need over the next ten years: • Non-student rental housing – up to 200 units • Ownership housing – 300 single family homes plus 80 condominiums, most at a cost of $200,000 or less • Senior population – 50-100 mar-
ket rate independent, assisted living, memor y care and skilled nursing beds • Student housing – 150 to 330 beds (a mix of on-campus and offcampus) In addition, we need supportive or specialized housing, such as units for youth, people with disabilities, Medicaid-eligible seniors, citizens in recovery and re-entering from incarceration, and victims of domestic violence. What can we do about these gaps? The Housing Strategy will help us identif y actions we can take, and we’ll need community input to guide our efforts. Preliminary work indicates we could meet the demand with existing infrastructure, in line with local comprehensive plans. Many ideas were offered during the summit, including: •Building infill housing, accessory units, and employer-assisted housing •Encouraging public support for housing projects now under consideration •Focusing on ta rgeted ma rket opportunities: ◦Purpose-built student housing ◦Market rate senior/downsizing options •Continuing to focus on low/moderate and middle income housing
•Lowering the cost of housing by supporting energy efficiency retrofits •Monitoring rents and vacancy rates annually •Encouraging new ways to raise capital for housing development W hy does housing matter so much? Rememb er t he l a s t t i me you move d? Whether it was across the country or across the street, do you remember the feeling of dislocation until you got settled in your new place? Or your trepidation when your kids had to change schools? Do you remember how hard it was to focus on anything else? When you have a home you can afford without major economic stress, where you feel safe, you can go on to work on the many other life challenges we all face, and more fully participate in our shared community. This summit was just the start of our local housing conversation. We are a diverse community with many points of view. We have much to learn from each other and from other places facing similar challenges. Together, we can create a community that works for ALL of us. Martha Robertson is a member of the Tompkins County Legislature representing Dryden. OurOpinion
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“What To Fear Most?” It is important to remember that many of the deaths by firearms are suicides. In 2014, 42,773 people died by suicide and 21,334 of those suicide deaths were by firearms. If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please seek help. You can start by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-272-TALK (8255). – SP C S
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backyards the city, as we’ve seen with projects at Stone Quarry and 210 Hancock, have gone through with what it thought was best, no matter how much kicking and screaming there was from the public. The city has made an effort. Now we must look at who hasn’t. In a presentation, representatives from Cornell revealed it does not even have the capacity to house all of its freshman and sophomore class. Despite increasing enrollment almost annually, it has seemed to pay little attention to its housing stock. Beyond a planned expansion for Maplewood, the university has left housing its students mostly up to local developers, who have to shoulder most of the battles in city hall in their efforts to house the vast majority of the student body Cornell leaves to fend for itself. There are solutions to this. We could wait and see how playing hardball–like what the Town of Ithaca is doing to Ithaca College in threatening to pull fire coverage unless payment is given–could pay off in forcing change. Or we could look toward a businessman’s proposition, finding a way to strike a deal that makes housing more of its students beneficial and profitable to Cornell. Proposals like the Johnson School–where Cornell is leasing its facility from a private developer–show this can be done if the city is willing to work with a third party. Instead of rehashing what we already know, maybe it’s time to look at what we’ve already done and try what we haven’t.
This article is nice, but did you all notice that home health aides, and Certified Nurses Aides, do not even make LIVING WAGE? Both Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca are Living Wage employers. They both encourage businesses to pay their employees a living wage, but this industry doesn’t even come close. Home Health Aides do not receive health care benefits either. With Obamacare’s requirement that every person have insurance, a large chunk of an aide’s income, which is about $30,000 less than the median income in Tompkins County, has to go to buying insurance. How is this fair? How can a parent do this work and be able to provide for their children? Maybe the discussion should be more about raising the salaries for this type of work, because we know the agencies charge twice as much (or more) an hour than what an aide makes. –k d se rvo s s
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GivingLocal Helping those who need it most this season
Each year around the holidays,it’s all too easy to get caught up in the speed and stress of a season whose hallmark is compassion. We think about our lives and the lives of those closest to us first, the charities and causes we most root for second, giving and volunteering more than we would during less charitable seasons. For many local organizations, the giving season is a 365 day ordeal. For many, their work often comes before self-promotion. This is where we at the Ithaca Times come in. Here you will find stories of several community organizations who exemplify the meaning of compassion and could use your help this holiday season in their mission to help others. free or low-rent arrangements, and/or financial assistance with the costs of renting What if there was a place families could or owning,” said FLTL Board Vice Presivisit where children could borrow a toy dent Amber Smith. free of charge? And not only would the Those who would like to donate toys for toy be new to the child, but it could be rethe toy library’s collection are encouraged turned as soon as the novelty wore off so to attend Toy Donation Day on December that another family could have a chance 17th between the hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m to play with it? That’s the viat Acting Out New York, losion Debra Lewis has for the cated in the upper atrium of Finger Lakes Toys Library, Center Ithaca on the ComInc. The nonprofit is still in mons. the planning and fundraisThe FLTL will be accepting stages, but with her ing donations of excellent three fellow Toy Library condition used toys, as well Board members Lewis is as newly purchased toys, hoping to make it a reality which the Toy Library said in 2017. would ideally be purchased The Finger Lakes Toy Liat one of several local toy brary (FLTL) would be the stores in order to support the first of its kind in the Ithaca local economy. The Finger a re a , s er v i ng Tompk i ns Lakes Toy Library will also County and the surrounding be at the Tompkins County region. The library doesn’t Community MatchUp Dehave a physical space to call cember 11 from 2 to 5 p.m. home yet, but the concept at The Space@Greenstar. The staff of the Finger Lakes Toys Library. The group wants to be able to open a place where you could check out toys like you would books. it just what it sounds like: (Photo: Provided) This would be a great opdonated new and used toys portunity to find out more would be lent out to local families who The Finger Lakes Toy Library Board might be well suited for the Toy Library is information about volunteering and to would later return them within three has been organizing fundraising efforts asked to contact Lewis at debra.lewis@fin- donate to the crowdfunding campaign via weeks in exchange for something “new.” and networking with other local nonprof- gerlakestoylibrary.org. The organization is cash or check. Toy libraries are not just for families, For more information visit www.fingerits since January. What they most need looking for a space that can accommodate Lewis said. Extended families, daycares, right now, said Lewis, is for people who a large amount of shelving for displaying lakestoylibrary.org. To make a donation schools and other nonprofits could potenwish to support the Toy Library to make toys as well as a play-space area. The space online, click on the GiveGab link found on tially borrow toys to be used by the chilmonetary donations on the nonprofit’s must have at least one bathroom, a kitchen the organization’s homepage. dren they serve as well. The selection of GiveGab fundraising site. It was launched for cleaning toys, and room for storage. It items available at the toy library would in–Jaime Cone November 29, and so far 27 donors have must also be handicap accessible. clude costumes, musical instruments and “We are especially interested in rentgiven $1,732 toward the nonprofit’s goal of board games as well as traditional toys. “It gives the kids exposure to a lot of different things,” said Lewis. There are 400 toy libraries registered with the USA Toy Library Association, and the closest is located in Rochester. “It’s big in Australia and Europe,” said Lewis, and she believes the concept is something Ithacans will get behind.
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$10,000 by the end of the year. The money raised will go toward general startup costs and operating support, which includes purchasing toys, insurance, creating brochures, joining the USA Toy Library Association and securing a location. Anyone who knows of a location that
In Sea rch of Refuge
Opportunities, Alternatives, and Resources of Tompkins County is already a pretty well-known pillar of Ithaca’s sometimes unseen community.
“People can’t make long term changes in their lives without a roof over their head.” –Deb Dietrich
Located in the farthest reach of West State Street, OAR’s office can be where
Prepa ring for refugees
A s the new year approaches, local organizations such as Ithaca Welcomes Refugees and Catholic Charities of Ithaca are preparing for the arrival of 52 refugees from embattled countries around the world to Tompkins County. Over 100 people gathered in a room at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca on Sunday at an interest meeting for potential IWR volunteers. Sue Chaffee, who is leading the refugee resettlement program’s efforts for Catholic Charities, said the majority of the refugees are expected to come from Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with Iraq, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Ukraine and
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new lives can begin or, at the very least, present day life can be made a little bit easier, working to advocate for and assist people who are or have been incarcerated in the Tompkins County Jail and get them back on their feet, whether through programming or its resources. Over the past decade, as housing has become more and more of a pressing issue in the City of Ithaca, so too has the strain on affordable housing for those most in need of stability following a period of in-
carceration or addiction. Over the past decade, there’s been great progress for this type of housing where it didn’t exist before: There’s been Magnolia House (completed in 2010), Chartwell House (renovated in the early 2000s) and coming soon, if approvals come through, Amici House, catering mostly toward women and children. But OAR wants to house more. Presently, OAR is in negotiations to purchase a somewhat out of shape house downtown zoned for use as
Cuba. While Catholic Charities requested permission for 50 refugees, it appears the final number will be 52 for 2017. Chaffee said the main purpose of the program is not just to house the refugees, but to help them assimilate and build a future within American society. “Our goal is to get them employed, hopefully within six months, so we have a wage-earner in the family,” she said. “And then move them off of public assistance towards self-sufficiency.” Starting in January, Catholic Charities will start to receive refugee cases, which they can either accept or deny after vetting, Chaffee said. Once permanent housing is found, the refugees are connected with Social Services, children are integrated into
schools, and evaluating any other specific needs, such as English classes. “It’s kind of meeting them where they are,” she said. “We are assessing what their needs are and helping them get their lives reestablished here.” President Barack Obama has already set the number of allowed refugees for 2017, so Chaffee said the new presidential administration’s refugee policy will most likely not impact the expected number of 52. Obama announced in September that the US would be accepting 110,000 refugees in the fiscal year starting October 1, a significant number of which would be from war-torn Syria. Chaffee said there are already a decent amount of refugees and standard immigrants living in the area, some from as early Th e
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a rooming house, to allow service-supported housing in a convenient downtown location. Called Endeavor House, the group is currently working to raise close to $200,000 in funds ($110,000 to purchase the house, $75,000 for basic electrical and plumbing) to purchase the building, which will house between three and seven people. “People can’t make long term changes in their lives without a roof over their head,” said OAR director Deb Dietrich. “We’ll be linking our clients in Endeavor House to higher education to vocational training… we’ll be doing a lot of linkages and providing someone a decent room.” This house will be for men and will work as part of a “housing first” model, the idea where people cannot be able to get their lives together unless they have stable circumstances to come home to. While OAR used to operate a similar home outside of town in the more rural reaches of Tompkins County, this house will differ by combining a stable home life with the convenient access to programming that is available only by living within the city itself. “Rather than being out in Groton or Enfield,” Dietrich said, “you could be here near the center of things.” Because the house cannot be purchased through a mortgage, OAR has been seeking a loan to purchase the house but, of course, they need capital funding and, once they purchase it, extensive work to make the house habitable. Anyone interested in assisting the cause can give to OAR at 910 W. State Street or through the PayPal function on their website, www. OARTompkinsCounty.com. –Nick Reynolds
as the 1980s. She said though she has heard of some resistance against accepting refugees in surrounding counties, she does not foresee any problems in Tompkins. “I’m very confident. I think they’re going to do well in the schools, we have good healthcare here,” she said, noting that it may be a challenge to find housing. “It’s a safe community, I have no doubt it’s going to be a welcoming community.” “People are facing things new that they didn’t face before,” she said. To help, call Catholic Charities at 607-2725062 –Matt butler
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is about to put out for its annual appeal. Monetary donations are an easy way to assist, with unearmarked money a prime way to “fill in the gaps between our funding resources,” executive director Kate Shanks-Booth said. T he WO C r u n s a dressing room, where women can select appropr i at e i nt e r v ie w clothing free of charge, and the Mary Durham Boutique, a non-profit used-clothing store, and both are accepting clothing donations. Volunteers are also always welcome wheth(from L-R) Nicki Vanbenschoten, Dawn Knapp, Ryan Harriott, Kate Shanks-Booth, Bu il ding a New L ife er it be through menPatty Baranski. (Photo: Casey Martin) Through the Women’s torship or skill set. vouchers during her first few paychecks Opportu n it y Center “Any thing they feel so she can save up money for deposits and they want to come in and teach, we can A year and a half ago, a woman moved to rent. put a workshop in for it,” Shanks-Booth Ithaca to get away from a domestic vio“It was really about feeling like some- said. lence relationship. She didn’t have anyone was there to listen and feel more selfThat includes office basics such as Miwhere to go, but needed to get out, and so esteem about herself,” program manager crosoft Excel and PowerPoint and mock she lived in her vehicle and abandoned Ryan Harriott said. interview work. With the income gap conbuildings when she could. The Women’s Opportunity Center, lo- tinuing to widen between the upper class She has a master’s degree, but had been cated at 315 N. Tioga St., makes it its mis- and middle class, the director said it’s besexually harassed at work, a difficult and sion to help low-income women get out coming more important to help. scary situation that sits uneasy with a perof poverty by working one-on-one with “People are facing things new that they son throughout life. clients to help them not only get a job, but didn’t face before,” she said. With the help of the Women’s Opporpossess the skills needed to keep and extunity Center, this woman is started a new cel at a job. To help out, call the Women’s Opportunity full-time, $15 an hour job this month with The group receives various grants and Center at 607-272-1520 76749 Kendal KendalDog Dancing AdIthaca for Ithaca Times T:x 5.5 10 x 5.5 Bleed: 1/8” all sides 4C 76749 Ad for Times T: 10 benefits. The center is helping with gas
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Easing the tr a nsition Back INTo The Worl d
A lot of the time, getting out of prison is nothing like it is in the movies. There’s no walk from the gate to a waiting car sometimes; no immediate plans, no destinations. A lot of the time, coming back into the world as a returning citizen is anything but simple, a time full of uncertainty but few answers. In the organization Ultimate Re-entry Opportunity, an offshoot of Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Multicultural Resource Center, the goal is to reduce those uncertain walks back into the world. “We try to get them before they come out,” says Edwin Santiago, a mentor with the program. “We write to them in prison to build a relationship early on so when they come out, their return to life is smooth, so we can work on getting them jobs and housing.” Through URO, Santiago–backed by the MRC’s director, Fabina Colon–work to provide a pillar for returning citizens to lean on once they leave prison to offset the impacts of a society that would otherwise reject them or create barriers in allowing them to reintegrate successfully into society. Described as a “$500,000 initiative with a $70,000 budget,” Colon said the program needs a lot of help in succeeding in its mission to fill the gaps in the county’s various services creating barriers to successful re-entry. URO has a fair amount of resources already. Through funding from the Park Foundation, the group has filled about half of its need for 10 mentees to talk to people in the prison system, but still needs five more knowledgeable of the resources in the community and who have been in prison and out for at least three years. For those in the community who don’t fit those qualifications, URO is still hurting for plenty: they need funding for care packages to provide the families of the formerly incarcerated and those returning to the world. They need people to offer rides back from prison, the closest of which is in Elmira, where a bus ticket may be unattainable for some. Most of all, Colon said, they need marketing: as a small organization, to get in touch with people who need their services most, MRC and URO need help to not just publicize their programming to the public, but those with a pressing need for the services they offer. To help out, call the Multicultural Resource Center at 607-272-2292 –Nick Reynolds
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f all goes according to plan, there will soon be a convenient means for pedestrians and cyclists alike to easily travel from downtown Ithaca all the way to the fringes of Caroline and Danby without use of a roadway. Last week, the Tompkins County Planning Department held a town-hall style informational meeting on its plans to expand the South Hill Recreation Way by several miles, one of five trails to be built or expanded as part of a Tompkins County Priority Trails Strategy approved by the legislature in 2014. The approximately three mile trail currently follows old Susquehanna rail beds along Six Mile Creek, ending near Burns Road and Ithaca’s reservoir. The current proposal aims to extend the South Hill Recreation Way three miles further down the old railbed, headed southeast from the eastern terminus at Burns Road and extending all the way to the intersection of Middaugh Road in the Town of Caroline. If developed, Principal Planner with the County Tom Knipe wrote in an email, the surface would most likely be stone dust, similar to the surface on the existing South Hill Recreation Way. Construction will take place over a three-phase process, the first two of which Contin u ed on page 12
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“Tompkins county is changing,” County legislator Martha Robertson (D–Dryden) said, to begin the evening. “It’s different than it was ten years ago and it will be different ten years from now.” As a prelude to a community conversation discussing the issues facing Ithaca’s housing market, no better discussion could have set the stage better than an outline of the problems themselves as well as some recommendations on potential remedies that raised even further questions for how Tompkins County should move forward in addressing its housing crises. Nationwide, Coes said in his keynote address, the people most influential on this new trend of urbanization–millenials and baby boomers or as he called them, those in “adulthood, phase two”–were changing the equation of housing primarily through their shared desires: for walkable development convenient to their needs and for vibrancy in their community, opting for lifestyle over utility. He said in cities, the main driver of development was transportation, that the type of development that pops up around transportation infrastructure often reflects the nature of the size of the road, i.e. large highways equate to greater sprawl. The trend for a long while, Coes said, has been opting for the “drivable suburban” models of development have been the dream for the past 60 years. As such, it was an effective affordable housing option
because then, everything was cheap, from gas to infrastructure. However, demographic and economic fundamentals have shifted, Coes said, from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy, “chasing talent,” rather than chasing smokestacks. Headquarters are moving from industrial parks to urban centers, Coes said, primarily to attract talent to match the desires of millenials who are no longer asking for the dreams of the past sixty years. What this has led to is a change in what type of housing is lucrative, leading to premiums on urban land that used to be affordable and, even with high rents, the transportation costs for a suburbanite to get to their jobs which have now relocated to the cities can often surpass the total cost of living in a downtown walkable community. This is a problem, Coes said, that can be solved with optimized transportation networks, more construction or changes in policy but, he added, those seemingly common sense decisions are rarely so simple to make. In Ithaca, several of the policies Coes suggested for absolving the housing crisis– Land trusts, employer-based housing and various transit options–are already a common part of the city’s lifeblood. But what the city also grapples with are what Coes named as impediments for smart growth: Federal financing guidelines, parking requirements, approval processes and a general sense of NIMBYism that pervade into the areas where the most important development needs to take place: a “miss-
ing middle” in the market, increasing density between the disappearing (and increasingly more expensive) single family home and the high rise. This is important to note, especially in the context of development in Tompkins County: Most of the unmet demand in the housing market– approximately 92 percent–are for units under $800 per month, according to a housing needs assessment done earlier this year. And this will continue to be important, said Marx: in a student-driven housing market with a university still considering how best to house its student population, the biggest market drivers over the next decade will be anticipated growth in employment and student enrollment (1 percent growth each, annually) a massive growth in the senior population (44%) and overall, the overwhelming preference for walkable communities. This inevitably means more building and more development, something that often sees pushback from the community. But through zoning reform, Coes suggested, municipalities and their residents could strike some sort of compromise in smart development, attracting the right people for projects that work to accomplish a city’s goals. “Make the things you want easy to build,” Coes said. –Nick Reynolds
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could feasibly be completed by the end of 2017, planning staff said. Phase 3, they expect, will take longer to rebuild washedout culverts and to meet with landowners adjacent to the NYSEG-owned land, which will license the land to the county for a 25 year period. No specific cost or allocations have been named for the cost of the trail but, assumed to cost in the “tens of thousands of dollars,” plans suggest the project could easily be funded by the four communities expected to sign on to maintain the trail once completed: the Town of Ithaca, Dryden, Danby and Caroline. While each municipality would maintain the segment that falls within their borders, the Town of Ithaca would take the lead on maintaining the trail. Completion of the South Hill Recreation Way would add to the growing Tompkins County Trail network envisioned two years ago: the Waterfront trail now finished and the long-anticipated Black Diamond Trail all but wrapped up, just the South Hill Recreation Way and the proposed extension of the Dryden/Varna Trail coming off the East Hill Recreation way stand to be completed. Plans to complete the similar rail-trail project, the Gateway Trail, are still in progress. Plans for that project call for an extension of the Black Diamond Trail to pass through Ithaca’s Southwest by Buttermilk Falls over the city’s infamous “bridge to nowhere,” an unused pedestrian bridge spanning Route 13 built with “use it or lose it” federal funding. County Planner Michael Smith told the Ithaca Journal last May the only thing restricting the project is the length of the permitting process and that it was “a guess” as to what time construction would begin, possibly stretching into next year. –Nick Reynolds
ogist, had both spent serious time in the burgeoning craft brew scene of the late-90s Pacific Northwest and, in their experience, had developed a taste for the craft with its own unique spin. Both scientists, it was the physical process of beer making that attracted them to the art (beyond their personal enjoyment) and, inevitably, kept them brewing. “What I love about beer is the science behind it, the creativity involved, and I also really like the engineering part of it: putting all this together to get it to work, dealing with steam and shiny stainless steel equipment,” said Brotman, who’s been part of several brewery expansions at the various stops on his journey. “That’s one thing I love about it.” Meeting the pair, it seems almost inevitable the two would become friends and later, partners. Both speak with an enthusiasm for the craft of brewing that is tinged with excitement for both the scientific exactness of the art as well as the experimental angles that come with trial and error. The two first began working together when they and their families came together for an annual tradition of making wine around the holidays: last year, their batch resulted from the crushing and fermentation of close to 1,100 lbs. of grapes from Cornell’s orchards. “We realized we had similar interests and our families –we both have kids – so we were in a position to do a lot of hanging out, socializing and having fun,” Tielens said. “We first realized we liked working with each other was when we were making wine, actually. We’re beer makers, but that was the catalyst and every year since 2010, we’ve made this big batch of red wine usually made with grapes from Cornell Orchards where we go through the whole process.” During that process, they realized that something was clicking, that some sort of chemistry was forming between the two
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“We had this similar interest in taking raw ingredients, science, creativity and art and putting it all together to get this unknown, finished product you don’t know anything about until weeks or months after.” –Jamey Tielens
rebounding recesses of Cherry Street, along the inlet. They finally decided, for the foot traffic and visibility it offered, to settle in the open space of Cornell Laundry on the city’s west end and got to work. A broker in Seattle was consulted and in came the second-hand equipment; a fermenter from South Korea, various pieces from the Czech Republic… a large part of their tank operation, from an old sake company, is still covered in Japanese lettering, down to the control panel. “If we could get someone to translate this for us, that would be great,” Brotman joked. Now, for the third or fourth time in his life, Brotman just has to fit the pieces together. –Nick Reynolds
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A representative of t he Tompk ins County Office of Human Rights did note from the audience that TCOHR had written and introduced a bill to the Tompkins legislature to accomplish this, though it had not yet been voted upon. It was noted that though the federal government and the state of New York do not have this type of legislation, many localities across the state do, so it would not be an unprecedented step. Developers noted that even renovating older homes for mixed income housing, instead of constructing entirely new housing, can be cost prohibitive. The complicated availability of subsidies can also hamstring efforts to construct low- or mixed-income housing, making the projects economically infeasible. “Lowering rent and splitting houses is not going to solve the problem,” Weinstein said. “We need more incentives.” During his final remarks, Christopher Coes, Vice President at neighborhood consultation firm Smart Growth America pushed the idea of the community considering Fundrise, a company that allows groups of people to crowd-fund investments in real estate, to give community members a further stake in the future of their neighborhoods and provide further innate incentivization for landlords and tenants alike to work towards safe, affordable housing. To close, however, he simply encouraged attendees to remain dedicated and involved. Otherwise, the effort will stagnate like it had so many other times, he said. “Don’t let this summit end today,” Coes said. “If you let it end, you send a signal not only to the market, but also to the political class that is watching you, that this is not a really big issue.” –Matt Butler
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to the buffalo wing dips of Western New York. But it can also be the politics of the dinner table, where to appease the family or make them feel nice about themselves you feel the need to gorge yourself as a show of appreciation for all their labor at the stovetop. “People may feel compelled to eat,” Wansink said. “But honestly, your Aunt Grace isn’t going to care how much stuffing you eat. But what she would like is if you asked for more, even if it’s just a little teaspoon of it. That’s all she’ll remember the next day, not how much you ate but that you ate it. You can get by eating a lot less than you think at these holiday meals.” The best way to stay trim after the holidays is obvious, Wansink says: don’t gain the weight in the first place. But a good reason as to why we ga i n t hat weight comes not just from a lack of personal accountability, but also in our misperceptions of what the holidays Brian Wansink (BrianWansink.com) are all about: while some sort of portions. “This is even for people who are very Pavlovian conditioning may have rewired vigilant about watching their weight,” us to create a connotation with the holisays Wansink. “There’d be a few things day season and delicious food (and lots of people could do to avoid that – the more it), the real meaning of the holiday isn’t frequently you weigh yourself the more about eating, Wansink said, but about likely you are to watch your weight and making things for each other and sharing you’ll be faster to lose it – but not doing the goodwill of the season through doing anything is kind of like putting your head something nice for each other. This means, if you’re absolutely going in the sand, like ‘hey, if I don’t look at the to eat anything over the top, avoid going scale, I’m not gaining.’” The blame, Wansink says, lies not just nuts on the store-bought food: the holiwith the aura surrounding the season days aren’t about a delicious pumpkin itself but also on our inability to avoid pie from Costco, it’s about being grateful getting wrapped up in the wrong aspects for the effort your grandmother went of the holiday season: eating way too through for that perfect lattice on the much of the most spectacular food we’ll apple pie and savoring it, not just consee all year. Maybe it’s the availability and suming it. And for the days in between? Hold attractiveness of the food, or the fact we tend to gorge ourselves when presented yourself accountable: the best way to with different ty pes of food than we motivate yourself to offset the effects of normally consume. Either or, Wansink something as slow and gradual as weight found across all 10,000 people surveyed gain is to simply pay attention and be is weight gain, where it’s strongest, ramps aware of what’s going on. “Instead of getting a New Year’s resoup ten days before a holiday and doesn’t begin to taper off until two days after the lution to lose weight, it may be better to resolve to not gain that weight in the first holiday. So what is it, exactly, that affects our place, Wansink said. “Or at least weigh waistlines most during this holiday sea- yourself more frequently, because when son? In cold areas in particular, it could you do that you tend to lose weight faster be the types of food we have, with colder or at least, gain less.” areas leaning toward, fat-laden, hot comfort foods, from meat pasties in Montana n all likelihood, today you are probably a little more than halfway to the heaviest weight you will be all year. In fact, according to an analysis of weight gain patterns of 10,000 people worldwide published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this year by Cornell consumer science professor and author of the book Slim By Design Brian Wansink, you’ve been gaining weight since October: the month Wansink, joined by researchers in Finland and Paris, found to be the month where we reach the lightest weight we do all year. It’s partly due to the expectations of the festive holiday season that kicks off post-Halloween, after which their weight goes up t hanks to holidays li ke Ha lloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, the Super Bowl… the list goes on a nd on, as do the hearty
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was sitting in Wegmans the other day, drinking my coffee and a reader approached me and said, “I heard the Ithaca High girls’ basketball team has a new coach. Is that true?” Any sage will frame his (or her) answers in a way that make the seeker reach a little deeper, so I replied, “Well… sort of.” Then, I explained it to them. While Jeff Gorsky has indeed taken the reins of the Little Red girls’ hoops team, this is not your typical “Let’s all get to know one another” scenario. Jeff has been “on the scene,” so to speak, for a long time, and hiring him to succeed Stephanie Valetta was a logical and wise move. Gorsky was a two-sport athlete at Ithaca High, graduating in 1987 and lettering in tennis and basketball. He got a degree in accounting, came home and took a job with Sciarabba & Walker here in Ithaca, and set about the business of being a husband and a dad. “As you know, back when I was growing up we had designated seasons,” he recalled, thinking back to his days as an athlete. “You finished one season and started another. Now with AAU and travel teams, they all blend together. The
kids have lots of opportunities.” Gorsky coached the junior varsity for a few seasons, and he told me he really enjoyed working with Stephanie (his predecessor) and that going into the job, he has a lot of respect for her and the job she did. He explained that a family relocation (though she still works in the school district) made it necessary for her to step aside, adding, “She helped me a lot with the jayvee program, and I was very fortunate to get the varsity job.” As Valetta moves on, Gorsky inherits a team hardly made up of strangers. He has been an AAU coach for many years, and has been coaching senior captains Sydney Trumbull and Taylor Day for several years in AAU ball. Gorsky currently has six 9th graders on the varsity (including his daughter, Graceann), who he’s coached since they were all in 5th grade. “In fact, the freshmen were with me on the jayvee for the last two years,” he pointed out. To me, this sounds like the makings of a very cohesive and potentially successful team for the “long run.” Jeff says it is coming together well. “We have had 4 weeks of really good
practices,” he offered. “They know me, The 2017 IHS Girl’s Basketball Team (Photo: Rachel Phillipson) and it has been a process to blend it all together. We’re gelling – hopefully – and they are starting to understand their been the dominant team in our division, roles as I am trying to understand the best but last year Elmira won it. Horseheads rotation. I feel we’re getting better every has reloaded, and it will be fun to step out there and see where we are.” practice and every game.” The Little Red will play several league We spoke on Sunday night, and the Little Red will have played their third game games in December, and then head north when this column goes to press, but Ithaca to play in a prestigious holiday tournacame out of the gate looking very good ment in Syracuse. Jeff said, “In our group, there is West Genesee, Pittsford, Utica against their first two opponents. “We looked really good, and in our Proctor and us, so we will play the first second game we put up 71 points,” Gorsky game at West Genny and our second game said. “Now the tough part comes… we at Onondaga Community College. Playstart STAC divisional play this week, play- ing a big school like West Genesee in their ing at Horseheads and then hosting Bing- gym will be a great challenge for us. We’re hamton on Friday night. Horseheads has looking forward to it.”
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thaca is a place for creativity, fed by an endless wealth of talent from both Ithaca College and Cornell University, benefitting immensely from the treasure trove of beautiful minds that flock to east and south hill. With both institutions come creativity and with inventive talents come a need to express onesself through a litany of means. Music is a common language for many of these creative types in town and, as such, many would appreciate something noisy for a gift this holiday season. Here are a few ideas:
Makala Ukelele
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a saying in the circuit that if you threw a ball on the Commons on a busy day, chances are you’ll hit a guitar player. Because of such a huge community, it’s easy to jam with an array of people from very diverse musical backgrounds. More often than not, the stuff they may be good at may be hard for you to pick up. Hickey’s Music has one of the best sheet music selections in town. In that collection are a little something called fake books, which provide a general outline of a song and the key it’s in to help you “fake” your way through a song. Don’t think of it as cheating: think of it as working smarter, rather than harder.
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High end gear is a huge investment, of both time and money. And even if you know what you want–be it a guitar or an amplifier or even a piano–sometimes it’s not the right fit. The tone’s a little off, the wood might be a weird cut, the wiring may be a little off. If you want a gift that’s low risk and, above all, fun, a ukulele might be the way to go. A good beginner instrument as well as a fun diversion for any string player, ukuleles are collectable, easy to play and can add variety to a musicians repertoire. At Ithaca Guitarworks, the store stocks a beginner’s pack by Makala (a lessexpensive offshoot of the higher end Kala brand of ukuleles) that comes with everything you need to start learning the instrument.
Fake Books
Hickey’s Music | $20.00-$60.00
Ithaca is a city of musicians. There’s
Tivoli Model 1
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Show me a wellequipped audiophile and I’ll show you a person with a dispensable income that is the stuff of dreams. But if we’re talking about an owner of the Tivoli Model One, available at Stellar Stereo, that tune may change. An elegant centerpiece for a nightstand or end table, this vintageinspired table radio is not just easy to use but has an incredible sound to it. While it might not be of the caliber of a Macintosh or the higher end of Bose’s or Boston Acoustic’s product line, for a small and thoughtful gift the Tivoli Model 1 is a great option. The fact it’s 20 percent off this month (regular list: $150.00) makes this deal all the more sweeter.
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t’s that time of year again where everyone is out looking for the perfect gift for loved ones and friends. Many think of gifts like electronics, clothes and gift cards, but there are so many categories you can choose from. Take food for example. We all need it, but it’s not usually thought of as a gift idea. That’s not to say you should buy groceries for everyone on your list, but it’s a topic to consider when you aren’t sure what else to get. You can just as easily go to a store or restaurant and pick up a gift card, but some of them also have various products you can buy while you’re there. Check out some of these ideas for the foodies on your list.
Moosewood Restaurant Christmas Tote Set | $55
It is a natural foods restaurant located right downtown. Moosewood boasts a wide variety of food that you can choose from for lunch and dinner. Moosewood currently has 13 cookbooks available that have recipes for the restaurant’s most popular dishes. This gift is perfect for the one who can’t pick a favorite item off the menu and wants to try them all. Moosewood also has two featured products this year that
are bound to be a hit! The first is the Christmas sweater. It’s read with snowflakes on it. Moosewood, est. 1973 is positioned in the middle of two moose. The sweater is perfect for keeping you warm. It is made of 50 percent cotton and 50 percent polyester. Another item that’s available is a white tote bag. It says “still cooking since 1973” with Moosewood underneath. There is also a picture of a moose by a tree. The tote bag is machine washable, but shouldn’t be used with bleach. What’s the best part? The tote bag can be used over and over again!
Finger Lakes Beverage
Holiday Bucket | $15-$24
For the beer lovers on your list this is the perfect place to visit! Finger Lakes Beverage offers over 1,000 different types of beer, ciders and soda. There are many local products and there are products that come from east to west coast. The holiday beers and gift packs are beginning to arrive at the business so there will be even more variety for you to choose from. One of the gift packs is A Rather Curious Creation of Holiday
Ales. It features Bad Elf and Very Bad, both IPA’s, Santa’s Butt, a porter and Lump of Coal, a stout. This package is great if you know someone who likes a variety of beers and you aren’t sure what to choose. This holiday package is available for $23.99. If you know a Sierra Nevada or Sam Adams lover, you’ll find the perfect gift with the holiday bucket. Each bucket comes with variety of the beers that come from each corresponding brand. The also include fun gifts like snacks, lottery tickets and anything else that can fit in the bucket. The prices for the buckets depend on how much is included, but they typically average around $15. Finger Lakes Beverage also lets you create your own six packs. Because they let you choose from any six varieties in the store, the price is based on the individual bottle total. You can find individual bottles and six packs of your favorite beers and you will also find canned varieties. Some of the other holiday beers include Happy Lovin Christmas, Ginger and Pine Needles, Yule Melet, Santa’s Little Helper, Red and White Christmas and Belgian varieties.•
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t’s extremely difficult to shop for a green thumb. They’re particular about what they want in their garden, from the profile of the plantings they want to do all the way to the tools they use to plant bulbs. While both the Ithaca Agway and the True Value (both located in the same building on Fulton Street in the City of Ithaca) offer a litany of great gifts for the gardener in your life, ultimately the pickiest of planters will want the freedom to go shopping for yourself. Life is a garden. You have to respect individual preferences. However, there is one gift that nobody can disagree with for the green thumb: it’s easy to care for, simple to plant and lasts for an extremely long time. May we introduce...
Amaryllis bulb kit Ithaca agway | $19.95
It’s simple, it’s cheap and it does wonders for someone’s desk. The Amaryllis Flower Kit, available at the Ithaca Agway, is not a complicated gift. Inside the box it comes in are just three items–a bulb, the soil to nourish it and a small pot to hold it all–and with water, sunlight and a minimal amount of attention, a beautiful flower will sprout in a vibrant red plume that is sure to add some color to a dreary office setting in the coldest months of winter. An associate at the shop said during the wintertime, the Amaryllis is their most popular holiday gift. Quick, low-maintenance and most of all, cheap, it’s the perfect office party gift or a quick grab for the green thumb in your family. /
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or the quirkiest people in your life, it’s hard to find a gift that will not only interest them, but interest other people when they lay eyes on it. Luckily, Ithaca is full of quirky, creative people who create some pretty astounding pieces that will make even the most eccentric friend raise
characters in the game are doing, and then the interactive story proceeds. “You have to cooperate, or else everyone loses,” we were told.
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“Starry Night” Necklace
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Jewelry designer Micky Roof, the creator of the iconic “Heart of the Finger Lakes” charm – a heart-shaped pendant or charm - or money clip, tie clip or keychain made in gold or silver bearing the outlines of the 11 major Finger Lakes, recently introduced a new treasure. “Starry Night over the Finger Lakes” is worked in silver, oxidized silver and gold. Inspired by Taughannock Falls, the rock formations surrounding the falls are silver, the water is glowing gold, as are the stars, and a lone evergreen leaning atop the falls is similar to the one every photographer sees in their view-finder when they go to the falls for inspiration. Available in a variety of shapes and sizes, these begin at $325. The store is filled with one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces, created by Roof in her design studio as well as by other artisans. “The store is a palette of examples,” Roof says, explaining how these may be used to inspire custom work and settings designed for individual customers.
Mansions of Madness Game
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Like an old library or a special playroom, the store has the ambiance of a treasure –filled cave. Five tables let customers play with each other using their own games or try out some of the games in the store; snacks are available so hunger doesn’t need to interrupt the fun. The store sponsors game nights and tournaments. Some games are imaginative role-playing fantasies, like Dungeons and Dragons; others are “games where you have to stomp the other person,” explained a store employee. Lower-cost accessories also abound. Among the newest offerings is “Mansions of Madness,” [$89.99]. Players – there may be one to five people in the game - use an app to input what the
McGraw Tower Clock
“Pretty much anything you lay your eyes on is unique,” says Jill Hoffman, marketing manager at Handwork. “Mostly everything is made by hand, mostly in Ithaca. These are future heirlooms, high quality items ranging from small items to major sculptural works.” Its 45 artists p ro d u c e items in wood, glass, fibers, precious metals, paper and pottery – much of one room contains the output of the group’s potters, each featuring a highly distinctive style. It’s really hard to not find several things to admire in whatever direction one turns. Woodworker Bruce Calnek specializes in clocks. Particularly popular are ones representing the McGraw clock tower at Cornell University at the height of the great pumpkin prank of October 1997, when an unknown climber or climbers – no one has as yet confessed to the deed– placed a very large hollowedout pumpkin over the spire. The clocks with pumpkins are $102; they are also available n o n pumpk ined for $100.
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Shortjacket Fibers | $250
Get T hrough T he Holidays A nd L ook Good D oing It
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to keep my hair up while I’m doing yoga,” said Bev & Co sales associate Selina Sims. One of four regional locations, Bev & Co. at the Triphammer Marketplace carries a wide range of accessories, clothing, jewelry, handbags, and home goods. owner
Retro-X Vest Benjamin Peters | $149
quartz and citrine necklace, set in a 14-karat yellow gold bezel ($650 plus choice of chain), is a new design for the holiday season and is one of hundreds of options available the Commons mainstay, founded in 1980. “Because of its simplicity, this necklace can be worn by anyone,” said owner David Abdulky. He added that his goal is to create designs that can be worn “all the time with everything.” The shop also offers the option for customers to handpick a stone and create their own design.
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Joan Reuning. O v e r the years Reuning has made a name for herself in Ithaca, drawing in regulars with classic pieces like this short jacket with drop sleeves ($250). The woven material subtly incorporates black, brown, red, blue and green, making it easy to pair with many colors, and its relaxed drape flatters a wide range of sizes and body types (an important factor to consider when giving clothing as a gift). Fibers also carries blouses, many of which are also made by Reuning, as well as scarfs, pashminas, jewelry, and Clara Sun pants and shells.
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One of the most enduring bestsellers at men’s clothing store Benjamin Peters, Ithaca’s exclusive retailer of Patagonia Outdoor Clothing, is the Patagonia Mens’ Classic Retro-X Vest (149.00). With its piled fleece and thermal lining, its warm enough to wear over a sweater in the winter months, said Peter Parks, owner of Benjamin Peters. “It’s a classic, iconic kind of piece that Patagonia was built on,” he said, adding that the company is well known for its environmentallyfriendly practices. The vest is made from 100% polyester (50% recycled) sherpa fleece with a bonded windproof membrane. Benjamin Peters sells not only sportswear but also business attire and weekend wear, and men’s and women’s footwear. At Bev & Co, Boho Bandeaus fly off the shelf just as fast as the shop can restock them, probably because their versatile design allows them to be used so many different ways. Made by the Florida company Natural Life, Boho Bandeaus are stretchy polyester bands that can be worn as a headband, scrunchy, bracelet or even around the torso as a summer top. The packaging comes with 11 suggestions for how to wear them, and they come in a wide variety of patterns and colors. “I wear mine as a headband
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If you’re looking for a special gift that’s completely unique this holiday season, Mansour has a huge selection of jewelry to choose to from, much of it handmade onsite by the store’s two jewelers. This sparkling rutilated
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feel them,” Schroeder says, opening a package so the silky-smooth finish can be appreciated.
the brand. Look closer and you’ll see how she puts her love of sewing machines to use in a variety of ways. She does custom embroidery – think monograms on linens - and teaches classes to acquaint sewing machine owners with the versatility of their machines. A long-arm quilting machine recently joined the lineup of smart machines in the store, and she can do custom quilting as well. There’s generally at least one project-inprogress going on in the afternoon, like the holiday table runner she was making
of wrapping presents in fabric and reusable ribbon so the wrapping may be later used by the happy recipient. Presiding angel Wendy Skinner also assembles kits for kids and adults. Using fabric in related themes or colorways, the kits may be used to assemble useful bags for shopping, storage or projects. Ranging from $12.50 to $14.50, these might be further embellished with trims, buttons or lace from the latest selection of good things.
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on a recent afternoon. Others, like her scissors-holders and her embellished one-of-a-kind pillows, are for sale in the shop. The pillows are $45 for a 12 inch square pillow, $60 for a 12 by 16 inch pillow with embroidery, ball fringe and beads. A well-organized riot of color and texture is squared away into a small paradise for knitters, sewers and fiberholics. Natural fibers take center stage in yarns and fabrics; there’s also buttons, locally-made tote bags, new and classic knitting books, even durable potholder looms ($16.95) for the younger set. There are seven or eight brands of super-bulky yarns – popularized by the “arm knitting” craze, these also offer a chance of new knitters to quickly accomplish a finished project. There are also several varieties of yarn from “Looney Tunis,” a sheep farm in Spencer. Because no dedicated knitter ever has quite enough needles, owner Julie Schroeder also stocks sets of Dreamz needles. For $87, there’s a set of colorful, interchangeable wooden needles in sizes 4 through 11 to attach to a variety of different-lengths of cables’ there’s also sets of short double pointed needles, sized 0 to 3 for sock and glove knitters for $37. “You have to
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A combination craft shop, fabric shop, yarn store and sewing machine store – with an additional gallery of Eileen Fisher fashions next door – Sew Green is stocked with donated merchandise of the sort that causes many to happily haunt the store on a regular basis to be among the first to see what’s new. Treasures might include upscale yarn from shops that have closed, quilt fabric the owner gave up while down-sizing, not-yet-quilted quilt tops, tools, buttons, books, threads, needles and patterns to be used creatively in fiber arts. The offerings continually change, but there are a few constants, like the Maker’s Lots – bundles of similar natural fiber fabric, perhaps a stack of calicoes, or velvets, or wools or linens. Store employee Amber Rappleye mentioned her own family’s tradition
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Fabric and an array of accessories to make using it ever more pleasurable are the mainstays of this light-filled store. Co-owner Cyndi Slothower finds gift suggestions wherever she turns, from holiday-themed stitchery kits on bamboo, to later hang on a tree or wear, to “needle nannies” (decorative magnetic needle holders shaped like owls or trees or stars) and extension magnets for picking up dropped pins and other metal objects without leaving one’s chair and stepping on them -think stocking-stuffers. Also, there are useevery-day items like the exceptionally pretty Tula Pink sewing shears ($39) in a rainbow finish. The designer, Tula Pink, also created several adult coloring books, available here along with sets of colorful pens, and recommended for de-stressing. A calico cat pattern to sew [$13] uses five fabric fat-quarters, stuffing and buttons for eyes; a wovenfabric snowflake ornament kit suitable for beginner sewers contains enough material for six ornaments. “People do this with their kids,” Slothower says. “Aren’t they fun?”
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its selection of local potter Julia Dean’s “seconds.” The discounted mugs are still microwave and dishwasher safe but sell for just $12 rather than the usual $34 due to imperfections or overproduction. “[Dean] presses leaves into the clay,” explained employee Marilynn Jordan. “Sometimes there’s a little discoloration of the clay that probably really bugs her but that I think is really beautiful.” As the potter sells her wares to restaurants and hotels all over the country, sometimes there’s overstock and mugs like this one stamped “Odessa Country Club” find their way 10:04 AM into Ithacamade’s bargain
Secondhand store Mimi’s Attic carries an impressive variety of gently used, vintage and antique items. The retro design of this teak salad bowl set of one large bowl, four small bowls and salad tongs ($40), made by the well-known dishware company Dansk, holds up despite the fact that it was likely produced almost 40 years ago. Senior sales associate Whitney Barnett said her best guess is that it hails from the 1970s or early 60s. The design is universal, she said, making it an appealing gift. “If you didn’t know much about vintage items you might think it was from the 2000s,” she said. In addition to dishware, Mimi’s Attic offers an eclectic mix of furniture, lighting, artwork and more.
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Found in Ithaca prides itself in not being your typical antique store. Forty-five different local vendors transform the warehouselike space into a shopping experience with thoughtfully laid out displays (not crammed, dusty shelves). Among the finds at Found are this Mad Men-era glass martini pitcher with stir ($21.00) with a set of silver rim glasses ($24.00) and chrome platter tray ($10). Or go with something sure to bring out anyone’s inner child this holiday: one of the store’s many antique toys that can be enjoyed by young and old alike. This Japanese windup tin Santa on a motorcycle, circa late 1950s ($35), still works, and the steel Buddy L truck (circa 1950s) ($48) was built to withstand years of play.
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Ithaca Ice Festival 2016 Ithaca Ice Festival, Thursday, December 8 through Saturday, December 10, Downtown Ithaca
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happy to be a part of it.” The fusing of a chef ’s dimensional mindscape with the power and action of a dynamll great chefs are masters of the mo- ic sculptural form opens the floodgates for a ment. The illusion of hunger and unique vision. In their prime, a culinary chef art is their wheelhouse. Their prac- essentially creates hundreds of fleeting works tice, carried out in full strength, oc- of art every night, six to seven times a week. curs in the time that isn’t there: the That’s a prolific schedule. Working with ice, angles they carve are like dreams that dissipate these food wizards can build something on into your esophagus. It’s a fleeting form. It is only a higher visually plane, and still create in the natural then, that over time, the need to create same environment: one ruled by speed. Rich something bolder, stronger, a n d Daly, a Guinness Word Record holder and current Ice Wars champion, is heavier eventually awakens in a master of the in-between, their artistic soul. The longshaping his sculptures in a ing for more of a balance, yet 5th Year transitional sort of way. still something that honors “I started at Johnson and the momentary. Enter the Wales as a culinary student, Ice. like most of the competitors in Ithaca’s 10th annual the field”, Daly said. “I took an three day Ice Festival will ice carving glass and never really be highlighted by the bold looked back. As far as the comand stimulating nationally petitions, all the materials, methsanctioned Ice Carving ods, and tools the sculptors use Competition, a sort of NAare pretty much the same across SCAR-by way of-ancient the board. Nordic-lighting-storm There’s some kind of event. Ice carving variance — it behemoths (and all forreally comes mer culinary chefs) like 2nd H O s., Ht Broadview Year down to what Rich Daly (the Ice Wars type of carving 2016 National Chamstyle you empion), Ohio’s Aaron Costic, ploy. I work in Staten Island’s TJ Neary, Marcellus’ Jerry Perun, and many more, will cut, fire, forge, and mold assemblage and piece work, sweating blocks of ice with the skill and precision so a lot of the time you won’t see what I’m carving until the of tenured masters. This is the real deal. Downtown Ithaca Alli- very end.” Daly comes into each ance Executive Director Gary Ferguson agrees. “This isn’t your uncle Harry coming down competition with a specific the mountain with his chainsaw, you know, these design in mind, but is flexible guys are the best in the world,” he laughed. “The in his approach. Each NICA ice carving competition is so intricate and so event varies in specifics; a special. Year after year the turnout is spectacular sculptor doesn’t know beforeen here in Ithaca. It’s quite the tradition. Ithaca is hand the exact size, weight, Stat just one stop along many others that hold Na- and time they’ll be working tional Ice Carving Association (NICA) compe- with. But like all chefs, they imtitions. It’s an amazing organization and we’re provise within the parameters.
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“ T h e amount of ice is different each place,” Daly said. “So you adjust your design when you finally know the amount given. I generally work in forms that Y deal with N , s u ell c r a nature, like M bugs, birds, and other animals. I’m trying to make fun sculpture, stuff that gets a response. I’m not really into stuff related to fine arts, for me it’s more about connecting with nature and representing it.” NICA is run in a way similar to NASCAR, as competitors gather points through yearly events in different locations — their totals working towards the annual championship. Cash money and various prizes are involved in each competition, and also prestige. Ice Carving has a long and storied tradition, and the sculptors aim to be the best, but the art form has a close-knit totality, differing from other competitive sports. Most of the individuals, companies, and teams that make up the collective consider themselves a family. Staten Island’s TJ Neary, a relative newbie on the competition circuit (but long time ice sculptor), explained the NY dynamics. , d n a Isl “Basically we’re all Year
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build it into something else. You could say I’m still working on getting out of the box contin u ed from page 35 [laughs]. A positive for the sculptors will be the friends, he remarked. “We’ll all sit down at venue: It’s looking like this weekend will be the dinner table and crack jokes and hang a fairly ideal one for the competition. With out — you know what I mean. There’s re- the forecast calling for temperatures in the ally not any sort of secrecy going on, we’re 20s and low 30s, the all open to new ideas forging and sculptand there’s definitely an ing of ice should environment focused be more dynamic th 6 on learning from all the and regular than ar Ye sculptors. There’s a comin years past. Last petitive edge once the year, in particular, competition gets going, temps were ridicubut really, we’re all in this lously high, forctogether.” ing the sculptors Unlike some of his to use special ice peers, Neary comes from and have irregular an art background, and his setups to contain vision includes the great their practices. sculptors and illustrators “Ideally of the past. you want temps “I was a chef and I around 15 to 20 went to the Culinary Instidegrees Fahrtute of America (CIA), but enheit, ” MarcelY d, N I’ve always been drawing, lus, NY’s Jerry Islan g n o ever since the early days,” L Perun stated. he said. “My cousin is a “But obviously great cartoonist and animathings vary, so we have all sorts tor, and I used to sit around s k e t c h - of methods and tools to deal with higher ing with him and absorbing everything I temps.” Perun is one of the ice sculptors could. I’ve always loved being creative and competing this weekend and has been a I basically taught myself how to carve. I’ve part of the Ithaca Ice Festival for a numbeen carving for a long time, but the com- ber of years, having competed in the last petition environment is a total different six competitions. “We have ice boxes to ballgame. It’s my third year in the NICA place the sculptures in and dry ice to make world and I’ve really grown as a sculptor. the works last longer. Last year was really I’ve learned you don’t just take a block of warm, and things were a little strange, but ice and carve it. You take a block of ice and
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Aaron Costic from Ohio will make his fifth appearance in Ithaca. He runs Elegant Ice Creations in Broadview Heights, Ohio, and has been sculpting for over 25 years. He’s a power sculptor with a range from the inanimate to 6th the organic. Year Check his work out at e l e g ant i c e . com. R i c h Daly is making his fifth appearance in Ithaca. He runs Ice Melodies Inc. in Long Island and owns the Taiwan Guinness Wo r l d Record for carving 60 ice sculptures in 2 hours and 52 minutes. He’s a man of speed and prefers to sculpt intricate organic beings. Check his work at icemelodies. com. TJ Neary has rocked Ithaca twice. He runs Touch of Ice out of Staten Island and shows a bold artistic form that is progressing constantly. You can check some of his
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while back I sat down with the musician and writer Daniel Lisbe, the founder of the Ithaca-based hip hop and funk band Gunpoets. Lisbe talked about his new poetry book Life in Boxes, something he’s creating for children. The book, he says, has a deep connection to his music, and “is designed to wake up the creative spirit in young people, and remind them that their imaginations are powerful things.” Gunpoets play The Dock with the Sim Redmond Band and rapper Eyukaliptus Friday, December 23. Lisbe talked more about the book, the band’s history, and lots of other great stuff at length. He’s a passionate artist and believes in the future. Here’s what he had to say:
is one that will resonate with everyone, regardless of age or background. It’s the same message that makes Gunpoets so successful, we’re just using a different platform. In either case, I’ve learned that words are very powerful, and they can impact people in profound ways. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and I believe them. So whether I’m making music with the band or writing books on my own, I approach my writing as if my voice and words are weapons. That’s where the name Gunpoets comes from. My friend J-san came up with that name in 2008, just before I started the band. He was producing a solo project that I was working on when he thought of it. The album was still untitled at the time.
(Right) Daniel Lisbe and Gunpoets interact with some kids on the Commons. (Left) Lisbe hanging out. (Photos provided)
“Life in Boxes is really interactive. It’s fun. Parents and teachers will love it, too. Possibly more than kids. Children are so impressionable. They believe what they’re told, for better or worse. From where I’m standing, it’s obvious that we owe them more than we’re giving them. They deserve to be inspired, lifted up, and taught that they can do incredible things. Every day, this should be explained and taught to them. We are extraordinary beings, and our potential often goes unrealized. All too often, instead of our creativity being encouraged and cultivated, it is stifled and stepped on, squished flat by the time we learn how to talk. It’s hard to recover from that. What we learn about the world and ourselves during that pivotal period of development during our childhood shapes our worldview and thought habits for the rest of our lives. I think the message behind the book
One night I walked into to his studio for a session and the first thing he said to me was, “Yo, D! What do you think about making a song called Gunpoet? One word. Gun and Poet mashed together.” It took me less than one second to know he had hit the nail on the head. I named the song Gunpoet. I named the album Gunpoet. I named my would be band Gunpoets. Our words and music would be our weapons, and we would fight for peace and love. My plan was to use the album – produced with all live instrumentation – as a steppingstone for the band. With the album as our diving board, we’d be able to dive right in and do shows right away. The first people I recruited were some of my closest friends. Apia Awa on turntables. He goes by DJ Double A. Eliot Rich on guitar. Colin Smith on keyboard. He also sings. Josh Higgins, also known as Jayhigh, a good friend and fellow poet, joined us a year or so into our run. That core is still intact. We’ve been through a couple drummers and bass players. Today we’re lucky to have
Michael Wu on bass, and Joel Blizzard on drums. When we started the band, most of us had already been making music together for years. And we were good friends before that. A lot of us grew up together, so we’re more like family at this point. It’s that bond that serves as the band’s foundation. This summer we released our third studio album. It’s called Bombs Away! and it’s our best work to date. We’re eight years into this thing and in many ways we’re just now hitting our stride. Music aside, we all lead very busy lives. We’re teachers, carpenters, restaurant managers, servers. Most of us are married with kids. It limits us a bit when it comes to how often we can play and how far we can travel. Mostly we play shows within an hour or two of home. It’s perfect for us. We love where we are. What we have here in Ithaca is so incredibly special. The way the community supports and embraces us is more than any artist or musician could ask for. This band means the world to all of us. I recently went through a dark period in my life. It lasted a couple years and the band kept me afloat during some really hard times. My whole system crashed. My mind, my body, my spirit, everything felt deflated and broken. So I ducked out of the spotlight as much as I could and buried myself in music and writing. I slowed my pace. I changed my diet. I began meditating every day. I read constantly. I dove inward and stayed there for quite a while. Slowly but surely, my healing took place from the inside out. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. I had to climb out of a very deep, dark hole. I did. And I grew as a person and learned a lot about myself in the process. I’m stronger because of it. My message is clearer for it. It was a rite of passage, so to speak. I know what I went through isn’t all that different from what so many other people experience on a daily basis. This world can be a hard place to find peace. We’re surrounded by war and violence. Most of us are overworked and still broke. We’re stressed. We’re tired. We’re depressed. I know what it looks and feels like from up close. The darkness is real. But I’m standing here in the light, so I know this is real, too. I had to dig around for a while, but I found it. It was right here inside me the whole time. And I want to help other people find it. It’s inside each of us, we just have to know where to look. I think our best chance of turning the world around exists in our children. They’ll be running the world before we know it, so it’s up to us to raise them in a way that will empower them to do it responsibly, and with great care. That’s why I’m pouring myself into the creation of Life in Boxes. That’s why I love working with kids in general. If you tell a little girl she’s made of light and she has the power to change the world, she’ll believe you. She’ll go out into the world, shining bright like the star she is, and she’ll change it.” • Th e
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When Mukhtar’s 12-year-old brother, Shakur, fails to arrive home after swimming one hot afternoon, his family soon learns he’s been imprisoned by the authoritarian Mastoi. Their claim that he assaulted one of their women is false (though unmentioned here, their demands were to cover their having sodomized the boy). Tradition requires that a woman beg forgiveness for dishonoring men, and so Mukhtar, knowing her brother’s innocence, bravely volunteers to apologize to his captors and win his release. Instead, she is repeatedly raped by four Mastoi tribesmen and humiliated before the villagers; her father, at gunpoint, is unable to protect her. Shamed and spoiled, she withdraws at home, deciding to take her own life by swallowing acid, as tradition expects. But her mother fiercely reaffirms her worth–“Mukhtar means strength and respect”–and gradually, with her family’s support, Mukhtar comes to realize that the sin is not hers but her violators’. Each stage of the story is sculpted with clarity and feeling, the deliberate pace allowing emotions to be absorbed and understood, both onstage and in the audience. And the splendid music — six instrumentalists led by Richard Montgomery — functions as a character itself. Staccato piano notes, an ominous bass, the sweetness of a violin, the urgent pulse of tabla, and ritual clapping all help shape action and mood, from desperation to bittersweet victory. Smitha Johnson’s Mukhtar is slender and lovely, modest and beautifully voiced, gradually increasing in force as her character grows more confident — a nuanced, inspiring performance. Yamuna Meleth as her sister Annu, who realizes that familial disgrace means she’ll never marry, is a stunning soprano. Evangelia Kingsley as their compassionate mother is particularly arresting in the scene in which she rouses her daughter to live. Later, in turn, the activist Mukhtar will literally sing her collapsing mother and sister upright into a stance of assurance. Such creative directorial choices
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enhance the production, like having either women or male elders standing above the action, providing choral accompaniment or counterpoint. And in the murky red light of the rape scene, with the action both literal and stylized, another woman substitutes for Mukhtar, who stands apart, suggesting the sense of disembodiment that comes with rape. Christian Henry is an aptly frightened Shakur, and the leading men, with rich, dominant voices, are powerful presences. John-Andre Fernandez is fearsome as the arrogant, tradition-blind Faiz; Jake Stamatis is cockily threatening as Abdul — both men disturbing throughout but especially in the mocking laughter song. Suchan Kim is Mukhtar’s sympathetic father, heartbreakingly so in the trial scene. All their voices and performances are uniquely compelling, from darkness to tenderness. With her family and local imam behind her, Mukhtar reports the crime and eventually the men are tried and sentenced. (The real-life outcome, still ongoing, is more complex.) With her money for damages, Mukhtar creates the village’s first school for girls, so that they will come to know the wider world and no longer have to sign, as she did, with their thumbprint. The oppressed know that “truth dies in the mouth of power” — but through Mukhtar’s courage (the mystery of it sought by the international journalists who swarm her), they learn that “when one voice sings, a thousand hear the song.” • Thumbprint, composed by Kamala Sankaram and libretto by Susan Yankowitz. Directed by Susannah Berryman and conducted by Richard Montgomery. With Smitha Johnson and ensemble. Opera Ithaca at the Hangar Theatre. Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.
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guys to start the band? DeFrancesco: The same things happening in every city in terms of structural oppression. Victoria and I met while working at a hotel where they treated us like s*** and we were organizing to form a union and better the working conditions there — so that specific fight had some influence
from a photographer who’s been at Standing Rock for the past few months. IT: The song “Monstro” feels particularly urgent. Do you think religion and certain aspects of western philosophy can be partly blamed for the separation of self and being, and is there a story behind the song: is it personal and universal? Victoria Ruiz: It’s so crazy, because the lyrics for that song were written over two years ago now. But, yes, the song is very urgent. Racism and capitalism coproducing over and over, and then producing so many real systems of oppression, definitely separate self and being. The song is both personal and universal. It’s about how there are systems of oppression that try and use our identities to define themselves instead of realizing that their identity is like this monster that was born for inequality to
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over our early music. IT: What can a live musical performance achieve, and when you guys perform, is there an ideology that’s behind the force, or a more of a communal angle? DeFrancesco: If I have to focus it down, I’d say it can do at least three things: It can build community, spread information, and challenge people. It builds community by breaking down individualistic barriers and bringing people together. It can spread information by doing literally that — getting ideas and facts out there and how to use them. And it can challenge people by just taking up space, saying things that make some members of the audience uncomfortable. These are all worthy goals. IT: Can you talk about Spark magazine, and what kind of resources, ideas, and goals are behind it? DeFrancesco: Spark Mag can be found at thesparkmag.com, and it’s a site specifically made to highlight radical and underrepresented artists, and to discuss politics in culture. We’ve been working with Demand Progress — a national grassroots advocacy organization — to put it together. We put up features, premieres, interviews, and all the types of articles on a typical music website, but with the focus I just explained. Just in the last couple weeks we’ve put up two very moving personal reflections on the aftermath of the election, a song premiere, and a beautiful photo essay
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wanted to get one Christmas column in before the end of 2016 but didn’t want to rehash the classics, all the usual suspects that play for on cable channels for 24 hours straight. We all love The Charlie Brown Christmas and all those stop-motion Rankin-Bass TV specials, but I wanted to dig a little deeper for some goodies I’ve never written about. I don’t know how I missed Jon Favreau’s Elf (2003) when it first came out, but when I finally saw it a year later, the one physical comedy gag the film relies on had me rewinding the DVD and rewatching a dozen times. On his IFC show Dinner For Five, Favreau talked about how in preparation for Elf, he and his crew studied one-joke movies that transcend, like Tootsie and Groundhog Day, and so the movie, which stars Will Farrell in one of his best early roles as Buddy, relies on Farrell as an oversized elf searching for his human father (James Caan) in New York City. Up until this year’s remake of The Jungle Book, Favreau has opted for practical effects over digital, and so Elf was designed to look like one of those vintage TV specials, replete with great stop-motion (especially on display through an animated snowman voiced by Leon Redbone) and some really fine forced perspective work surely influenced by the LOTR trilogy, which was just wrapping up that year. If Farrell weren’t so genuine and sweet in the title role, Elf wouldn’t have staying power. But he’s not the only draw. Caan is fantastic counter-casting, and you’ll also see Zooey Deschanel (pre-New Girl), Faizon Love, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Asner, the eternally droll Bob Newhart as Buddy’s adoptive elf papa and Favreau in a very funny cameo as a doctor. I wouldn’t have thought that this would be the guy to bring Iron Man to life, but Elf, it seems, was just the beginning. The great thing about our favorite TV series is that most of them did memorable holiday episodes, and Dan Harmon’s Community is no exception. For a comedy series that did the best genre parody of the last 20 years, Community produced at least two great Xmas installments. You can’t go wrong with season 2’s “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”, a stop-motion tour de force in which the study group takes a dark “Wonka-style” tour through the holiday fantasies of Abed (Danny Pudi), the group’s pop culture savant. Then there’s season 3’s “Regional Holiday Music”, a brilliant parody of Glee and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Taran Killam, a former SNL cast member, guest stars as Greendale’s creepy-cheery glee club leader, who manages to musically “infect” the gang to get them to stand in for glee
club regionals. Pudi and Donald Glover do a great holiday wrap, Alison Brie does a great sexy-stupid number, and Gillian Jacobs steals the show as tone-deaf Britta, free styling dressed as a dopey Christmas tree. Inspired by Seth Rogen’s animated travesty Sausage Party, I checked out Rogen’s holiday comedy from last year. The Night Before stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a guy whose parents are killed at the holi-
(Top) Will Farrell in “Elf” (Above) Seth Rogen in “The Night Before” (Photos provided)
days, and Rogen and Anthony Mackie costar as his friends who vow to spend every Christmas together as a makeshift family. The film takes place over the course of one drug-fueled and debauched Christmas Eve, as the guys search for The Nutcracker Ball, the ultimate holiday bash. There’s a pretty smart and surprising celebrity cameo that I will not spoil, and a seriously goofy turn from Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire) as an enigmatic drug dealer with the soul of one of Dickens’ Christmas spirits. It may not merit perennial status, but throw it in after the kids have gone to bed – it’s good for some laughs. •
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eing a serious painter in the cultural orbit of Ithaca is quite the mixed blessing. On one hand, there’s a strong gallery culture as well as an aspiring public that thirsts for the handmade and the uniquely expressive. On the other, our painters lack for a broader audience both discerning and unsentimental. How to stand out when the mere idea of artistic accomplishment captivates so many? A similar, if slighter problem confronts anyone who wants to bring recognition to such artists. Not to rain hyperbole but, more modestly, to point people’s eyes in the direction of something genuinely distinc-
long-standing working relationship with local artists. One does wish for a larger selection of pieces by Adams, who rarely exhibits around town. (She was part of a well chosen but indifferently arranged four-person show last year at the Trumansburg Conservatory of Arts.) But each of her works forms a world unto itself—dense with painterly, figurative, and narrative incident. Spending twenty minutes with each piece here is a revelation. These are magisterial pictures but not “nice” ones. In Adams’ most iconic works, she imagined herself as “Mad Sally”: a wild,
recollects. The one new piece here, And the Bee Gives the Honey to the Rose, cleverly incorporates the attached wooden frame into the picture. Combining abstraction and figuration has become a trite postmodern cliché. But Rose represents the approach at its best, recalling the self-referential storytelling of the California painter William T. Wiley as well British abstractionist Howard Hodgkin’s conflation of border and image. Against a background of foggy white, brushed over a dark underlayer, a lusciously rendered salmon pink rose floats just rightof-center, cushioned by the clouds like a Baroque cherub. Chunks of impasto—pink, orange, green, and white—hover around it. A black and yellow bee spies its target from the upper left. A rich, glowing amber color
emphasizes the frame. It seeps out along the edge where the border meets its contents as well as forming a base plane along the bottom edge. Another band, painted in blue-gray, runs atop it. Leafy sprigs (drawn and painted), as well as drips and clots of white paint further anchor the edges in a witty parody of modernist materialism. Adams’ experimental approach in Rose clearly owes something to the works on paper that have become a recent focus. Combining gouache and various drawing media with subtle collage, pieces like Over Lovejoy and Curley Dock and Foxglove Dreams embody a mock-sketchbook aesthetic: dense thickets of plant-life rendered with mannered frenzy, handwritten lists, digressive doodles, smears and drips. It takes a lot of talent to pull this off. •
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tive. Whether through lack of knowledge or sincerity, it becomes too easy for the well meaning to pour all their superlatives on a promising but immature creator. Or say to compare an enjoyable cartoonist with little feel for paint application to some canonical modern painter. But Joy Adams is the real thing. A retired Ithaca College art professor and Trumansburg resident, her oils and mixedmedia works on paper combine an OldMasterly feeling with an inventiveness at odds with the square professionalism that typifies today’s neo-academic crowd. This month, she is showing five pieces at the Frame Shop on Buffalo Street. A tiny but discerning space for art exhibits, this is the Frame Shop’s first officially announced show in some time. The Shop has the enviable distinction of a close and
slovenly alter ego affectionately parodying her lower class British roots. Sadly, these are too large for the current space. With the partial exception of Strange Paradise—an epic narrative landscape that vertiginously intertwines near and far—the artist draws us up close to view eerie botanical microcosms. These split the difference between the exacting detail of the 17th century Dutch still-life greats and the looser, more implicit approaches characteristic of 19th century French and British landscape. Night Garden and Strange Paradise have been exhibited before. Garden is a preternaturally detailed nocturne, a convulsion of mushrooms and plants—including Adams’ signature thistle—as well as worms and insects. The upright format, high horizon, scattered episodes, and winding passage of Paradise suggest Chinese as well as European tradition. Its painterly grandeur makes an ironic counterpoint to the degraded rural English landscape it
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12/07 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing. Marty Flynn Good Time Band | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Flynn’s Roadhouse, East Shore Drive, Lansing | Featuring Marty Flynn,Bob Young,Neal Massa and Dave Salce. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www. DamodarDas.com. Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz, and Gospel Music, featuring Angie Beeler, Travis Knapp, Leon Arguello, and Special Guest Stars. Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups. Reggae Night with The Crucial Reggae Allstars | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Roots Rock.
12/08 Thursday CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz. The Humble Beginnings Band | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Classic Rock,
Blues, Alt-Country, Americana. Flynt Flossy and Turquoise Jeep | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Hip Hop, Comedy Hip Hop. Swing Dance Night with Swing Connection | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Range, 119 E. State St, Ithaca | Swing, Blues, Jazz.
12/09 Friday Under Construction | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Blues, Soul, R&B, Funk. Throw Down Cold | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Hard Rock. Notorious String Busters | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Old-Time, Americana. Happy Hour with Paul Kempkes | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Range, 119 E. State St, Ithaca | Playing contemporary favorites, from Steely Dan to John Mayer and beyond. The Family Ties | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Acoustic, Rock, Folk. Downtown Boys, Sammus, Escuela | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Punk Rock, Hip Hop, Hardcore, Grindcore. Ithaca Underground Presents. Thru Spectrums, Bob Keefe, Surf Renegades | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Funk, Rock, Surf. Clint Bush | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Performing stripped down solo versions of Tractor Beam songs. The Analogue Sons | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte
414, Burdett | Dub, Soul, Instrumental. The Blind Spots | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Rock, Pop, Funk. Glacial Erotics | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock. Road Man, Mutron Warriors | 9:00 PM | The Range, 119 E. State St, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Funk, Rock, Roots. Small Kings | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Rock. Wreckless Marci | 10:30 PM-12:30 AM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Rock, Hard Rock, Party Rock.
12/10 Saturday 20th Annual Seneca Santa Fundraiser with the Seneca Santa Blues Band | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Blues. Devon Franks | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Country. Michael Caschera | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Singer Songwriter. Summer Underground, Red Sled Choir, Iris Garrison-Driscoll | | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Indie Pop, Baroque Pop, Experimental. Cats Elbow | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Jazz, Blues. Bug Tussle, Still Hand String Band | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Progressive Jamgrass, Rock, Jazz, Country, Psychedelia, Reggae, Classical. The Small Kings | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Rock, Funk, Americana. The Jeff Love Band | 9:00 PM | The
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12/10 Saturday Rivers of Life | 1:00 PM | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | VOICES Multicultural Chorus, presents a winter concert: Rivers of Life. Joined by very special guest artist Bob Keefe and the Surf Renegades. Beautiful songs from Argentina, China, the Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and of course the US. Anna Steppler | 3:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features music by J. S. Bach and composers of the Bach circle. Ithaca Community Orchestra Concert | 4:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The orchestra will be performing the premiere of Concerto for Electric Guitar by Ithaca composer Josh
Local grindcore blasters Escuela have been touring hard and raging pits all across the country this past year. They bring a speed that’s dynamic and underground, fusing quick anthems and pummeling movements. Katerina Economou handles the vocals like a maddening pro; VII Caso riffs to the endless eons of eternity on guitar; and drummer Jesse Fuentes is a lighting storm of fusion. These guys rip it for real. They open up for Providence’s punk rock dynamos Downtown Boys Friday 12/09 at 7:00 p.m. at The Haunt. Local rap hero Sammus is also on this wicked killer bill. (Photo facebook) Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College | Winter concert. Trumansburg Community Chorus Winter Concert: Light in the Dark of Winter | 7:30 PM | The First Presbyterian Church, 69 E Main St., Trumansburg | Vocals, Traditional. Burns And Kristy Band: CD Release Celebration | 8:00 PM | Unitarian
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Range, 119 E. State St, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Rock. Under Construction | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM | Landon’s Pub & Pizza, 110 W. 4th St., Watkins Glen | Country, Rock, Funk.
PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Blues, Jazz. Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday. Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.
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Katy Heine | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Warming, peppy, deeply satisfying is the rich sound of New Brew. This trio infuses their special energy in dance music old and new: Breton, English, and Scottish country, Parisian café tunes, Renaissance bourrées, hot swing, and music rooted in Scandinavia, Canada, New England, and southern Appalachia. Katy Heine, a local treasure now in demand across the Northeast, will call creative dances in her customary smooth style. Tim Reynolds | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Lead guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band, Tim Reynolds brings his solo acoustic winter tour to the Central New York Region. Rock, Folk, Jazz, Blues.
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The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers | 3:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Celebrating the art of African American sacred music known as Negro Spirituals. Pat Kane & West o’Clare: Annual Christmas Ceili & Singalong. | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hill Top Inn, Jerusalem Hill Rd, Elmira | Family event, special menu available. Holiday Concert with John Berry | 7:00 PM | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Country.
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Bel Lago Chorale Presents: HOT Notes, CHILI Nights! | 7:30 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Bel Lago Chorale is Opus Ithaca School of Music’s premier adult choral group. Led by Kristin Zaryski, Bel Lago local singers the opportunity to sing choral music spanning all genres and time periods at the highest artistic level.
Film Serving Life (with Eric Acree) | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 12/07 Wednesday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Hosted by Eric Acree, Trustee and Director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and Coordinator of the Fine Arts and Music Libraries at Cornell University. The movie features actor Forest Whitaker who narrates the story of a group of inmate volunteers who staff their own hospice inside a maximum security prison in Louisiana where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It’s a Wonderful Life | 7:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he
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Friday, 12/09 to Thursday, 12/15. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes The Eagle Huntress | The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter.. | 87 mins G | Seasons | Germany Combines the history of the seasons, the human and animal. | 97 mins PG | The Handmaiden | A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her. | 144 mins NR | Stars in Shorts: No Ordinary Love | On the heels of the annual OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS program, ShortsHD presents STARS IN SHORTS: No Ordinary Love, a collection of seven short films about love featuring some of your favorite stars from the big and small screens. | NR | Loving | Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married. | 123 mins PG-13 |
Moonlight | A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to
adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. | 111 mins R |
Stage The Senior Troupe of Lifelong presents Living History Theatre | Performances on Thursday, December 8, 5:15 PM, Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room and Monday, December 12, 5:30 PM, The History Center. The Senior Theatre Troupe of Lifelong has been performing Living History Theatre for more then 16 years. The theme for this 2016 fall performance is prejudice, featuring stories from the troupe’s lives that that reflect on the impact of prejudice from their childhood to the present. Queens for a Cause! Holiday Drag Show and Food Drive | 10:00 PM, 12/08 Thursday | The Range, 119 E. State St, Ithaca | Come to the Range for a gay old time this holiday season. Local drag performers have come together to raise food and money for the less fortunate this holiday season at a big yuletide extravaganza that you won’t want to miss. Ithaca Ballet: The Nutcracker | 7:30 PM, 12/09 Friday, 3:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday, 3:00 PM, 12/11 Sunday | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St,
Ithaca | Ithaca Ballet’s Nutcracker is a treat for the whole family and an Ithaca tradition. Children of all ages will delight in Clara’s victory over the mice and her voyage to the Land of Sweets. A Christmas Story | 8:00 PM, 12/09 Friday, 8:00 PM-, 12/10 Saturday, 2:00 PM-, 12/11 Sunday | Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine St., Owego | A favorite theatrical holiday tradition! Celebrate the season with Ralphie, the Old Man, Scut Farkas, the Bumpus Hounds. Signals: A Memoir | 7:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday, 12/11 Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Runs two nights, December 10 and 11 at 7:00 PM. Signals: a memoir, is Mary Lorson’s musical memoir, with performance featuring spoken word and video accompanied by a live band including Anna Coogan, Beverly Stokes, Zaun Marshburn, Michael Stark, and Walt Lorenzut. Emily Jackson directs and Tyler M. Perry creates original lighting design. The Story of Ebenezer Scrooge | 2:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | The Traveling Lanterns Theatre Company will be in town with one performance only of this classic, fun, and interactive telling of one of the most famous Christmas stories ever created.
Notices Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 12/07 Wednesday | Trumansburg Fair Grounds, , Trumansburg | Orders can be placed morning of by 11 a.m. 607-4235996. Fresh Fir Wreaths, Boxwood Baskets, Baked goods, Beverages and Christmas Cookies. Benefit Mecklenburg United Methodist Church. Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 12/07 Wednesday | The Boat Yard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | RSVP jon.h.humphrey1@icloud.com Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/11 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast or Waffles, and more. Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 AM, 12/12 Monday | V.F.W., Route 13, Dryden | The meal will be our Christmas Luncheon of roast pork, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, applesauce, rolls, and gingerbread with hot sauce topping. Entertainment will be Aaron and Claudia Karpalla who will sing
Christmas songs. Monthly Meeting: Cayuga Bird Club | 7:30 PM, 12/12 Monday | Lab Of Ornithology, 254 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | This month’s speaker will be Dr. David Winkler, Faculty Curator of Birds, speaking on Pushing the Limits for Tag Size and Life-Span: Tiny Solar Tags and Their Future in Following Bird Movements. Meetings are free and open to the public and anyone interested in birds is invited to attend. For information, email jwe4@cornell. edu or refer to the bird club’s website: cayugabirdclub.org Cayuga Chimes Christmas Chorus Rehearsals | 6:45 PM, 12/13 Tuesday | Boynton Middle School Music Room, 1601 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | Cayuga Chimes Christmas Chorus invites women of all ages now through mid-December. Four part, a cappella, harmony.
Learning What’s In Your Watershed? Salt and Water Quality in the Southern Cayuga Lake Watershed | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/07 Wednesday | Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Speakers include Dan Karig, Professor Emeritus of Geology, Cornell University, Salt in our streams: Where it comes from and where it goes; Chris Sinton, Associate Professor of Geology, Ithaca College, and more. Holiday Desserts | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/07 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Chef Betsy Clasby will offer samples of her delicious holiday desserts - some are gluten-free or vegan. Registration required - sign up online at greenstar.coop, at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk, or call 273-9392. T’ai Chi Chih Class | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 12/08 Thursday | Jazzercize Center, 15 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca | For class information, contact Sky at artandsky@ twcny.rr.com. The Magic of Bee Propolis | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 12/08 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to make a beeswax and propolis body balm with Lesli Sagan of Avital’s Apiaries, and take home a sample. Registration required - sign up online at greenstar.coop, at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk, or call 273-9392. Karl Jaentsch Presentation: You
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The Ithaca Concert band will be presenting their final concert of the year with a Holiday bash at Ithaca College. Celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, it’s been a special ride for the collective. The hour long concert Friday night will feature a theme of great composers from the past, including F. Von Suppe’s ‘Light Cavalry Overture”, Leroy Anderson’s “A Trumpeters Lullaby”, Percy Grainger’s “Theme from Green Bushes,” Dmitri Shostakovich’s ‘Folk Dances”, and more. Don’t miss out on ICB’s last show of the year!
The Senior Theatre Troupe of Lifelong will be presenting stories concentrating on the members experiences with prejudice throughout their childhood and adult lives. The venerable members will act as the whole entirety: the characters, the scenery, and the props. The Living History Theatre is featured as a choral theatre, with the audience as the soloist and the troupe acting as chorus. The troupe will also be giving a performance this Monday, Dec. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at The History Center.
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Could Trust Your Karl | 2:00 PM-3:15 PM, 12/10 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Join the History Center for a presentation about Karl Jaentsch, mechanic extraordinaire, and his Volkswagen Repair garage. Karl died in 2009 but many in the community recall him and his shop vividly. Colleagues and friends will provide remembrances of Karl. We form allegiances with businesses for many reasons; audience members will be asked to note their connections to current businesses. Teaching Lodge with Elders from the Big Horn Lenape Tribe; Pipe Ceremony, Song & Story Telling | 10:00 AM, 12/11 Sunday | For more info & directions to the Long House: contact: hittak@yahoo.com The Color of Justice | 5:30 PM, 12/12 Monday | GIAC, 301 N Albany St, Ithaca | Hosted by Dr. Nia Nunn. Science Cabaret: Go With The Flow | 7:00 PM, 12/13 Tuesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | The December Science Cabaret will feature recent work in the Schaffer-Nishimura lab at Cornell University that has led to the discovery of the mechanism for reduced brain blood flow in Alzheimer’s disease, and has further shown that restoring blood flow both improves cognitive function and slows disease progression. This research has been conducted so far only in mice. ScienceCabaret.orghomes and neighborhoods. Aloha: Dance Workshop: Intro to Hula | 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, 12/03 Saturday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Come learn hula dance with our halau (school). Learn about Hawaiian culture and costumes too. All are welcome. Fun for all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Info: www.hulahut.org (607)229-4637 Chet Manchester: The Healing Light of Christmas | 2:30 PM-, 12/03 Saturday | The Christian Science Church, 101 University Ave., Ithaca | Based on his travels to the Holy Land and on his own spiritual journey, Manchester takes audiences back to the first Christmas eve to reflect on its meaning today. Manchester shares how the spiritual light of Christ heals and transforms today as naturally as two millennia ago. For more information on the event, call Susan Sweetnam at 607 273-1932
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- The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Common Council | 6:00 PM, 12/07 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Includes privilege of the floor interval when public may speak. Ithaca Town Council | 5:30 PM, 12/12 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Includes a privilege of the floor interval where the public may speak.
Special Events Ithaca Ice Festival | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Runs Thursday, December 8, through Saturday, December 10. Ice Fest is
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Guitarist and sonic purveyor Tim Reynolds is recognizable for his work with the Dave Matthews Band, but the musician has been exploring forms for almost forty years. Growing up in Alaska and the Bible Belt, and eventually settling in St. Louis, Reynolds has explored a plethora of genres like rock, jazz, blues, classical, reggae, gospel, and funk. He founded his breakthrough power trio TR3 in the ‘80s and met Dave Matthews shortly after. Reynolds plays a solo acoustic show this Saturday, December 10, at 8:00 pm at the Homer Center for the Arts. Joe Driscoll opens up. (Photo provided)
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an annual tradition in Downtown Ithaca. Witness the nation’s finest ice carvers as they compete for $9,000 in prizes during 3 rounds of breathtaking competition in Downtown Ithaca. The festival features impressive display sculptures, fire demonstrations, the ever-popular Ice Bar: an outdoor bar made entirely of ice, serving beer, wine, and hot cocoa, and a tasty Chowder Cook-off. Ithaca Ice Festival ice carving competition is a National Ice Carving Association sanctioned event. 19th Annual EOH Holiday Sale | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 12/09 Friday | Earlville Opera House, 22 E Main St, Earlville | For 19 years, the Earlville Opera House has been gathering the best talent in the region in an amazing display of artistic talent and creativity known as the Annual Holiday Artists Sale. Beginning the week before Thanksgiving, visitors are invited inside
our West Gallery space to peruse the works of over 70 regional artists to kick off their holiday shopping with local flair. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 315-691- 3550 or visit www.earlvilleoperahouse.com. Christmas Open House | 4:00 PM, 12/09 Friday | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | nvhistory@stny.rr.com Tinsel ‘N Lights Festival | 5:30 PM, 12/09 Friday | Muldoon Park, Pennsylvania Avenue and on Broad Street, Waverly | A variety of Holiday entertainment including Santa, horse and wagon rides, ice sculpting, live reindeer, free food, music and more. Femtastic! Yule Ball | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 12/09 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A dance event to raise funds and awareness of gender equality issues in our community. All high school aged students (14-18) are invited to attend. Semi-formal attire. For more information, please contact femtastictburg@gmail.com. The Yule Ball is sponsored by Femtastic: A Gender Equality Group at Trumansburg High School, a student group that provides a safe space to discuss and educate on gender equity issues. Learn more about Femtastic on Facebook at: www. facebook.com/Femtastic-A-GenderEquality-Group-609239875778552/. Dickens Christmas in Skaneateles | 9:00 AM, 12/10 Saturday, | 9:00 AM-, 12/11 Sunday | Village of Skaneateles, Skaneateles | Come and enjoy a feeling of yester-year at Skaneateles’ annual Dickens Christmas. Costumed characters stroll the streets of Skaneateles while you enjoy shopping at their wonderful boutique shops. Handmade Gift & Bake Sale at St. Marks | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Handmade Gifts and Bake Sale and soup luncheon. Raffles include handmade quilt and Samsung printer. Holiday Sale | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday, 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 12/11 Sunday | Earlville Opera House, 22 E Main St, Earlville | For 19 years, the Earlville Opera House has been gathering the best talent in the region in an amazing display of artistic talent and creativity known as the Annual Holiday Artists Sale. Beginning the week before Thanksgiving, visitors are invited inside our West Gallery space to peruse the works of over 70 regional artists to kick off their holiday shopping with local flair. For more information or
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State Theatre, Friday, Dec. 9 through Sunday, Dec. 11 Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra and Ithaca Ballet present the famous and epic Nutcracker. Choreographed by Lavinia Reid, and set to the brilliant Tchaikovsky score, the Nutcracker is a treat for the whole family and a local Ithaca tradition. Children and adults alike will reign in delight in the show’s atmospheric and lush conditions. Start your holiday season off right with one of the most legendary and mesmerizing ballets of our time. There will be three shows this weekend!
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to purchase tickets, call 315-691- 3550 or visit www.earlvilleoperahouse.com. Little Red Wagon Holiday Artisan Market | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Juried Holiday Shopping, featuring 40 artists and artisans in a wide variety of styles: local products, pottery, clothing, jewelry, art, wood and housewares, wine and beer, food, and much more. Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties Holiday Cookie Walk | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Over 100 varieties of homemade holiday cookies for sale by the pound. Treat yourself, or give as gifts to friends, neighbors and colleagues. Pre-orders are welcome. Coddington Winter Wonderland | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | Coddington Road Community Center, 920 Coddington Road, Ithaca | Large selection of indoor and outdoor activities. Family-friendly winter crafts, games, snowman building, winter fire with hot coco, make gingerbread houses, decorate sugar cookies, indoor vendor fair and more. Direct sale and craft vendors interested in participating in the vendor fair can email jenniferd@ coddingtonroad.org or call (607)2771434. Recipe Tasting and Booksigning | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Visit for sample tastings of recipes and to have Moosewood authors sign your purchased cookbooks. All merchandise, including cookbooks is 10 % off. 7th Annual Chowder Cook-Off | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Over 20 restaurants will compete for the coveted Chowder Cup. Part of Ithaca’s annual Ice Festival. This is one of the most looked forward to events of the year. Holiday Magic Festival | 4:00 PM-, 12/10 Saturday | Downtown Newark Valley, Newark Valley | Music, entertainment, and activites at the Village Green, the Rollie Noble Room and the Train Depot. Come celebrate the Holiday season with delicious food, seasonal music, horse and wagon rides, ice sculpting, Santa, kids’ activities and many other delightful pastimes including the annual Gingerbread House Contest. Holiday Party: Vendor and Vino | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12/10 Saturday | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Route
414, Burdett | Holiday shopping, wine by the glass, beer, cider, food, and live music by the Ithacats. Dosage Your Own Sparkling Wine | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/11 Sunday | Glenora Wine Cellars Inc, 5435 State Route 14, Dundee | This is a unique opportunity to create your own individual bottles of sparkling wine to give as holiday gifts or to ring in the New Year. Your experience will start in the cellar, where you’ll don an apron and disgorge (that’s the technical term for removing the yeast) and dosage (that’s how you make it sweet) your own sparkling wine. Reserve your appointment by contacting Kerry at 800.243.5513 or Kerry@glenora.com
Ongoing Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12/07 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar The Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Hikes | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead 4-5 mile hikes every Tuesday evening. Hike locations vary every week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12/13 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea,
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Unitarian Church of Ithaca, Friday, December 9, 8:00 p.m. Burns and Kristy will be hosting a holiday musical celebration and release party for their new CD “Always Home”, music for the spiritual journey this Friday. Their holiday concerts have been described as “a night of heart-felt songs, deep sharing and lots of fun and laughter”. Special guests include Grammy Award winner Pam Rose of Nashville. Burns is a former staff writer for EMI Publishing, and Kristy has composed music for film and T.V. Together they form a powerful and magic duo. Don’t miss out!
cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future.
Art Benjamin Peters | 120 on The Commons, Ithaca | Gary Bercow: New works by local artist and educator, Gary Bercow will include mixed media gouache paintings, oils on canvas and functional carved/textured ceramic pieces. Live acoustic music performed by Hannah Law and Abel McSurely Bradshaw. Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Alice Grant: Very Long Books | An exhibit especially for collectors of one-of-a-kind books. Alice Gant’s painted, stitched narrations about “things we love,” calls for careful scrutiny and leisurely enjoyment. The very long books are expandable. CAP Art Space | 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Barbara Mink: Winter Journey: Barbara Mink’s Winter Journey explores the beauty of Ithaca in winter’s black, white, and shades in between. Works range from by 4×5 foot canvases to smaller framed works on paper, all in ink or acrylic. Cellar d’Or | 136 The Commons, Ithaca | Group Show: Featuring: Gabe Carraher, Chris Charles, Michael Goscinsky, Ivy Stevens-Gupta, Kathy Morris, Andrew Paine, Rachel Philipson, Michael Sampson, and Sheryl Sinkow. CSMA | 330 E State St, Ithaca | Annual Open Show | Curated by acclaimed painter Joyce Stillman-Myers, CSMA’s Open Show presents work in a variety media by more than 50 local artists. Representing traditional to contemporary styles, this much-anticipated show celebrates the vibrant and diverse visual arts interests of our community. Decorum Too | Dewitt Mall 215 Cayuga St., Ithaca | France, for Arts Sake: This exciting exhibit displays the work of five participants in Terry Plater’s annual artists and art-lovers’ retreat and workshop to France. See oils, prints, photos, and mixed media work done by Judy Barringer, Edie Guo, Lina Lee, Alan Nemcek, Terry Plater. Elevator Music and Art Gallery | at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Art Through The Ages: New Roots students 9 to 12 grades with display artwork from their Studio Art, Painting, Urban Arts, Drawing and Sculpture classes. eye | 126 E State St, Fl 2nd, Ithaca | Alice Muhlback: Once Upon an Eye: The
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hen I was young, my older cousin once noted that he saw Santa Claus pass over my house. My cousin laughed, and said something like “I guess no presents this year.” I was confused. It was Christmas, but it was six p.m. What was Santa doing out so early in the night, didn’t he make his moves during the wee morning hours when the mist of fantasy swirled with the lights of eternal pine? Looking back on it now, I was glad my cousin made such a statement, even if it was slight to me. The point is: Santa Claus did in fact make it to our house that year. My cousin is a liar, and I had the crumbs of the cookie I left out for Santa as proof. The moral: only listen to your inner light, it points towards the soul of infinity. You’ll find it. That’s the mission. Look and behold. What do you see? The progressive jam rock behemoths Jauntee and Squid Parade hit up the Dock Thursday night. These guys get deep into the groove and psychedelic horizon, Jauntee in particular. They’re from Boston, but I think actually Saturn. They cut far into the lines of jazz, funk, and progressive rock fusion, spinning around like twisting condensed aurochs. Shades of electro House, the Grateful Dead, Genesis, and weirdo disco make these guys a good bet for some Holiday hustle. Throw Down Cold rage the Dock the next night, brining their ‘70s hard rock and power metal to the eerie little club by the canal. It’s nice to go out, slam some cold
second leg of Alice Muhlback’s magical show, Once Upon an Eye @ eye Gallery will feature new paintings, interactive objects, and never-before-seen clips from her animated short of the same name. The film was co-created by Pamela Tan, with music composed by Joshua Handal. The exhibit runs until December 18th, 2016. In addition, eye continues to sell the work of Melissa Zarem, Jim Garmhausen, Justin Hjortshøj, Domenica Brockman, Giselle Potter, Marina Delaney, and Camille Chew. The Ink Shop | 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | 19th Annual Mini-Print International | This show invites artists from around the world to submit prints no larger than 4”x 4”. A juried selection of the submitted prints for
ones, and pretend it’s 1979. With solos raging in the fashion of Randy Rhoads and Ritchie Blackmore, this is your best bet to get back to where it all started: the space station on Trandex. You know, the strange and comfortable planet you visited when your cousin would stop by and be a menace. “Like A Rainbow in the Dark”. Speaking of Dio, this is a good week to find all those classic heavy metal cassettes you grew up with, make some space in front of the stereo, grab some wine or a tea, and slam some Sabbath, some Priest, a little Twisted Sister, an album or two of Maiden (Powerslave preferably), and then get really weird. Play that Residents tape you have, you know the one with “Constantinople”, and go insane (in a good way, ha). A little Naked City, maybe you got the tape with ‘Speedball”, what a song! And escape to Trandex again with some Oxbow, one of the coolest bands that ever played. Seriously, check them out: an experimental hardcore vision from the windy city. You got the Downtown Boys show Friday night with locals Sammus and Escuela. That’s going to rip, obviously. Get out there a let some rage fly off you. You could be inspired to start a band yourself. What’s better than that? Summer Underground’s playing the Haunt Saturday night with local experimental drifters Red Sled Choir and Iris Garrison Driscoll. SU’s got a sort of visionary underground pop oddness to them. And there’s beauty as well. Chrissy Sandman is a dream. Her haunting and swimming vocals contrast effortlessly with Grant Carey’s bossa nova thump. The duo’s really cool: definitely worth checking out. What else? Hit up Angry Mom Records. Grab some techo, some death metal, some dub, some rap, a few CD’s for the car, and a little free jazz (try Sam Rivers: he’s the man!) Movies. There’s TCPL for that. I’m
the 19th Mini Print International will be exhibited at The Ink Shop in 2016. Recent Mini Print shows have attracted artists from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand as well as many artists from the United States. The Jewel Box | The Jewel Box, 301 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Kari Ganoung Ruiz lives in and paints the beautiful an diverse Finger Lakes Region of New York State. She finds that painting outdoors directly from life allows her to represent the essence of a scene. Lot 10 |106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Chet Holcomb: New Works. Chet is a full-time artist living and working in Ithaca NY. His works deal with the ups
(Clockwise from top left) Boston’s Jauntee; Jules Verne; Ronnie James Dio; Richard Proenneke’s cabin in a recent photo (Photos provided) thinking titles like Alone in the Wilderness. Probably the most excellent documentary ever filmed. It’s the true tale of Richard Proenneke and the cabin he built from scratch in Twin Lakes, Alaska, way, way out there. Proenneke ended up living alone there for thirty years. If you want to get inspired, look no further, you’ve found your jam. Also, check out Woody Allen’s 1972 surreal comedy Everything I Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (But Were Afraid to Ask). Man, what a laugh, and brilliant too. The world of 1970 wasn’t very long ago, and to see the insane and haunting so-called progress that has transformed the world the past 46 years is frightening. Facebook: you call that progress. Ekk. Books. Go for some sci-fi this week. Try Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center
and downs of life. PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Yvonne Fisher: Ecstatic Drawings: Bold and Playful, Primitive and Wild, Abstract and Representational. | 607-351-7145 | www.padmacenter.com The Shops at Ithaca Mall | 40 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca | Helen Closs: New, large oil paintings near the theatre. See a movie and stop by. State of the Art | 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | December Juried Show: Featuring the work of nearly 50 artists from the Fingerlakes region and beyond. Oil, acrylic, pastels, charcoal, watercolor, mixed media sculpture, interactive sculpture, mosaics with ceramic, stone and glass tiles, linocut, dyed silk painting, computer generated
of the Earth, a master novel with some visionary scientific notions. Plus, like Melvile, Emerson, and Poe, the syntax is so dense and exquisite, that you’re forced to tune in and open up, soaking up pure thought, pure creation. Travel along with the minds of a world without television, twitter, and stinkbook; the good ol’ days. •
collage, and digital drawing. www. soagithaca.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Carl Schofield: Landscape Prints: Carl Schofield was a research scientist with the department of Natural Resources at Cornell University from 1960 to 1995. His long term interest in photography dates back to his teens and, following his retirement, he has pursued this former hobby more vigorously as an avocation. TCPL | 101 E Green St, Ithaca | On Being Human: A complimentary, multi-media exhibit, to TCPL’s Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human, traveling exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the American Library Association. “On Being Human”
is curated by Terry Plater and features features the work of ten local artists, including Plater, Ben Altman, William Benson, Jane Dennis, and Gurdon Brewster. West End Gallery | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | West End Gallery and 171 Cedar Arts Center | Director’s Choice: Collection selected by Jesse Gardner | Director’s Choice, a shared exhibit featuring a collection of artwork selected by Jesse Gardner, Director of West End Gallery in collaboration with 171 Cedar Arts Center’s
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King Ferry Winery, Saturday, December 10, 7:00 p.m.
Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company presents a Mary Lorson’s “Signals: A Memoir”, a musical behemoth of a memoir. Emily Jackson directs and Tyler M. Perry handles the original and fresh lighting design. Lorson studied film at Ithaca College and Umass, and has been a prolific and engaging musician ever since. She has created music for FLEFF, the Wharton Studio Museum, HBO, and much, much more. The “Signals” band features veteran musicians Micheal Stark, Watt Lorenzut and Zaun Marshburn. This is your jam this weekend.
What would the holiday season be without a viewing of the mystical and surreal ‘It’s A Wonderful Life”. James Stewart stars as George Bailey, a man who meets his guardian angel one desperate and snowy night. The film has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made and is a staple for Christmas vacation. Check it out on a big screen at Treleaven’s Wine & Movie Night this Saturday. Bring the whole family out, drink some wine, and enjoy this epic fantasy.
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buy sell
delivered. Call Tom: 315-224-1028
4 Winter Goodyear Ultra New 225 60R-17 $395. 3 Dunlop Sport 7000, 12MI 12660 Mi. 225 55R 18 $120. 607273-3064
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Used Snow Tires
The Lansing-Ithaca Rotary
430/General
4-235/75R15 on chevy rims $225/set.
For Sale
$95.00. Sewing Table 66 x 54 in. Holds 3 Sewing Machines $75. Computer Desk
320/Bulletin Board
iPAD PRO 9.7
32G, $420/OBO. APPLECARE Transferable, ZAGG Cover/Keyboard. ALL PERFECT! 607-272-3087
has been sell0ing raffle tickets for the Lansing Food Bank at Lansing Market. On Sunday, December 11, at 6pm, we are having Town Supervisor, Ed LaVigne, select the winning ticket for the threeminute grocery store run at the market. On Wednesday, December 14, at 7pm, the winner of the raffle will run through the market for three minutes, obtaining as many free groceries (one of each item) as possible. We have made over $2,000 so far thanks to the generosity of the Lansing and Ithaca residents.
MAKE THE CALL TO START GETTING CLEAN TODAY
addiction treatment. Get Help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855732-4139 (AAN CAN)
410/Business Opportunity
Quality metal section with glass, mats, wire, ready to hang. Search Craigslist
Tae Kwon Do classes
for details
250/Merchandise
SAWMILLS from only $4397.00 - MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill-
Christmas Trees
U-Cut. All Trees $30, Spruce, Douglas Fir & Cannon Fir. 5 miles west of Ithaca, 348 S. Applegate Road. 2:00-4:30 week days. 9:00-4:30 Sat & Sun. Free Baling. We furnish saws, tarps & rope. Questions: 607-273-3155
cut lumber any dimension. In stock
Tues & Thurs 5:30-6:30 Candor High
School. Try a week for FREE. info: www. Reagan’sTaeKwonDo.com/ 659-5266
ready to ship. FREE Info /DVD: www. NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800-578-1363 Ext. 300N (NYSCAN)
YOUR GEAR IS HERE! Authorized Dealer:
Craftman wood lathe
to sell for $50. (607)273-6470 after 4 pm
FOUND antiques • vintage • unusual objects
Holiday Sale!
New, Used, Vintage Stringed Instruments, Amps & Accessories.
Trade Ins • Layaway • Repairs
20% Off Everything! Sat + Sun Dec.10-11
Open every day 10-6, except Tues.
227 Cherry St. 607-319-5078 foundinithaca.com
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BAC Local 17 Ithaca, NY Fringe Benefit Funds, Part Time. Competitive Pay. Opportunity for Health Benefits. Call (607)272-3853 for Application Instructions.
AIRLINE CAREERS
begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)
SERVICE DIRECTORY
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per week / 13 week minimum
employment CAREGivers Wanted
If you enjoy working with seniors, we want you! Join our team and become a Home Instead CAREGiver, providing non-medical companion and homehelper services to seniors in your community. Training, support and flexible shifts provided. No medical degree necessary. Competitive pay rate. Join us for a job that nurtures the soul! Apply online www.homeinstead.com/706 For more information call Britany Ward: 607-2697165. Each Home Instead Senior Care franchise office is independently owned and operated.
Entry Level Position at Franziska Racker Centers Available Near You!
Free 24/7 Helpline for alcohol & drug
Picture Frames
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Singer Sewing Machine in Cabinet -
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GARAGE SALES
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community
Call 607-257-2457 9-6pm
451/2 x 27 1/2 $75.00, Call 607-533-
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buy sell 2-245/70R17 studded $50/pr.
ered. Full Cord - $150 you pick up, $160
TIRES
Free Ads: Lost and Found and free items run at no charge for up to 3 weeks. Merchandise for Sale, private party only. Price must be under $100 and stated in ad
Fax and Mail orders only
Firewood for SALE!!!!
Donate your car to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call:315-400-0797 Today! (NYSCAN)
Headlines: 9-point headlines (use up to 16 characters) $2.00 per line. If bold type, centered or unusually spaced type, borders in ad, or logos in ads are requested, the ad will be charged at the display classified advertising rate. Call 277-7000 for rate information.
MERCHANDISE $100 - $500
$
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Employment / Real Estate / Adoption: $59.00 first 15 words (minimum), 30 cents each additional word. Ads run 2 weeks.
MERCHANDISE UNDER $100
Face Cord - $55 you pick up, $60 deliv-
140/Cars
25% Discount - Run your non-commercial ad for 4 consecutive weeks, you only pay for 3 (Adoption, Merchandise or Housemates)
| 59,200 Readers
FREE
Automotive
Line Ads: $18.50 for first 12 words (minimum), 30 cents each additional word.
Internet: www.ithaca.com Mail: Ithaca Times Classified Dept PO Box 27 Ithaca NY 14850 In Person: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm 109 North Cayuga Street
Phone: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm Fax: 277-1012 (24 Hrs Daily)
Special Rates:
Ithaca Times Town & Country Classified Ad Rates
AIRLINE CAREERS
Start Here - Get trained as FAA Certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866-296-7093. (NYSCAN)
Provide services for individuals with developmental disabilities in your area. Direct Support Professional openings in Ithaca and Owego. Community Support openings in the Candor, Waverly, Richford and Spencer areas. Full time and part time schedules available. Starting pay is $11-$11.50/hour depending on experience. Benefits eligible at 27.5+ hours. Visit www.rackercenters.org/employment or call (607) 272-5891 ext 272 for more information!
Town&Country
Classifieds In Print | On Line | 10 Newspapers | 59,200 Readers
277-7000 Phone: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm Fax: 277-1012 (24 Hrs Daily)
employment
Internet: www.ithaca.com Mail: Ithaca Times Classified Dept PO Box 27 Ithaca NY 14850 In Person: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm 109 North Cayuga Street
adoptions
The City of Ithaca
services NEED a Handyman?
is accepting applications for the following
Repointing, Carpentry, Stone Work, Yard
opening: Custodial Worker: Min Quals:
Work. 793-3230 George
None. Salary: $14.34/hour. Workweek: Mon-Fri, 7am-3:30pm. Application Deadline: 12/14/16. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)274-6539 www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.
The City of Ithaca
520/Adoptions Wanted
855/Misc. Struggling with DRUGS or ALCOHOL? Addicted to PILLS? Talk to someone who
PREGNANT?
CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Call us first. Living Expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 877-362-2401. (AAN CAN)
cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment. 800-9786674 (AAN CAN)
ing opening: Financial Clerk-25 hrs/
1040/Land for Sale
CIAC/ Min. Quals: Visit the City of Ithaca website. Salary: $15.1145/hour (2016) $15.4380/hour (2017). Residency: Candidates must be residents of Tompkins County. Application Deadline: 12/21/16. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)274-6539
www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is
ABANDONED FARM!
26 acres - $49,900 Gorgeous acreage with views, nice pond, in a Perfect country setting! Quite town road with utilities! EZ terms! 888-905-8847. (NYSCAN)
have the job you’ve been looking for! The Ithaca Times/Ithaca.com seeks a full time sales representative. Our reps identify needs and sell marketing solutions that include newspapers, online and niche products. Base, plus commission, Full benefits. Send resume and cover letter to Jbilinski@ithacatimes.com
3/54( 3/54( 3%.%#! 3%.%#! 6).9,
6).9,
39 acres - assessed value - $95,700. Available now for $89,900! Catskill Mountain views, woods, fields, apple trees, great hunting! 3 hrs NY City! Owner terms! 888-479-3394 (NYSCAN)
Romulus, NY 315-585-6050 or Toll Free at 866-585-6050
www.SouthSenecaWindows.com Romulus, NY Romulus, NY 315-585-6050 or 315-585-6050 Toll Free at 866-585-6050 or Toll Free at
866-585-6050
PIANOS
• Rebuilt • Reconditioned • Bought• Sold • Moved • Tuned • Rented
Complete rebuilding services. No job too big or too small. Call us.
(607) 272-6547 950 Danby Rd., Suite 26
South Hill Business Campus, Ithaca, NY
720/Rooms Wanted
Ithaca’s only
hometown electrical distributor Your one Stop Shop
Since 1984 802 W. Seneca St. Ithaca 607-272-1711 fax: 607-272-3102 www.fingerlakeselectric.com
DONATE YOUR CAR
Wheels For Wishes Benefiting
Make-A-Wish® Central New York
ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates .com! (AAN CAN)
*Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *Fully Tax Deductible
805/Business Services
WheelsForWishes.org
Are you a self starter, smart on your feet, possess a strong work ethic? We may
WINDOWS VINYL Professional Installation A FULL LINE OF Custom made & manufactured AREPLACEMENT FULL LINE OF VINYL WINDOWS by… REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Call for Free Estimate & Call for Free Estimate & Professional Installation 3/54( Professional Installation Custom made & manufactured Custom made & manufactured 3%.%#! by… by… 6).9,
LENDER ORDERED SALE!
460/Sales / Marketing
Competitive, Outgoing, Personable and
WINDOWS
REPLACEMENT A FULL LINE OF VINYL Manufacture To InstallWINDOWS REPLACEMENT WINDOWS We DoREPLACEMENT It forAll Call Free Estimate &
Hunting
committed to diversifying its workforce.
SALES
Real EsTate REPLACEMENT
Real EsTate
Our hunters will pay Top $$$ to hunt your land. Call for a Free Base Camp Leasing info packet & Quote. 1-866-309-1507. www.BaseCampLeasing.com (NYSCAN)
Ithaca Piano Rebuilders
is accepting applications for the followwk: Currently there is one vacancy at
Real EsTate
Call: (315) 400-0797
* Car Donation Foundation d/b/a Wheels For Wishes. To learn more about our programs or financial information, visit www.wheelsforwishes.org.
Child Care
Three openings, Safe, nurturing home for infants & preschoolers. 387-5942
MECHANICS…
Four Seasons Landscaping Inc. 607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage. Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!
$2,500 SIGN ON BONUS Find a fulfilling career with TCAT — Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Inc. in Ithaca, NY. We’re recognized as the best transit agency of its size in North America! We’re looking for mechanics for our 3rd shift team. Join us and get a $2,500 Sign-On Bonus as you complete your 1st year!
Ithaca WebsIte DesIgn
Do you have a business? are you starting a business? Let Us help You!
Qualified Candidates: • Will perform routine servicing and preventive maintenance • Diesel and heavy vehicle experience preferred, and a • CDL with air brake endorsement or willing to obtain one. TCAT employees receive a competitive wage and excellent benefits including: Paid time off, paid training, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k, and free transportation.
We have been in business since 1980 specializing in streaming audio and video. Our team of experts can build you a website with features such as search engine optimization, tracking web site visitors, listing on Facebook. Check us out on www.ithacawebsitedesign.com Call us at 607-272-9175 we are open Monday to Friday 9am. to answer your questions. Th e
To learn more about career opportunities, visit us at www.tcatbus.com/careers or contact our Human Resources at 607-277-9388. Background check and pre-employment drug testing are required for all positions. EOE
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For rates and information contact Cyndi Brong at cbrong @ ithactimes.com
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Independence Cleaners Corp
The Lansing-Ithaca Rotary
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL
has been selling raffle tickets for the
Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet High Dusting * Windows/Awnings 24/7 CLEANING Services 607-697-3294
Love dogs?
for a three minute grocery store run
LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES
Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!
at the market. On Wednesday,
PUNK REGGAE ETC
Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care!
December 14, at 7pm, the winner of
Angry Mom Records
www.cayugadogrescue.org
(Autumn Leaves Basement)
the raffle will run through the market for
www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue
“CLEAR IT OUT”
landscape design + installation
Basements, Barns, Garages & etc.
drainage
Reliable and Affordable
snow removal
Richard F. Vogt
dumpster rentals
Call 387-4190 water1945@live.com
Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair. Same Day Service Available
John’s Tailor Shop 273-3192
Ashtanga * Vinyasa
OSKAR SCHMIDT
Botox * Dysport * Restylane * Radiesse
www.OskarSchmidtMassageTherapy.com
*Over 15 years experience
Juvederm * Microdermabrasion
607-273-4489
www.yogaschoolithaca.com
401 E. State St. G1 Ithaca, NY 348-3892
Piano Tuning
Ithaca Piano Rebuilders Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows
607-272-6574
Free Estimates
Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A.
South Seneca Vinyl
Protect Your Home
315-585-6050, 866-585-6050
with a Camera Surveillance System
How will you be remembered? Buy, Sell & Consign Previously-enjoyed
Award-winning writer works with you to
FURNITURE & DECOR
craft a factual bio with charm and pathos Free five-year update PeggyHaine.1@gmail.com
HAVE THE LAST WORD!
Open Every Day!
*Yoga Philosophy * Ayurveda *Cooking & Tea Classes *Gentle Vinyasa
Full range of effective care for a full
430 W. State St. (607)882-9038
*YA registered school * 200 hr TT
30 Years Experience
Microneedling * Chemical Peel
MIMI’S ATTIC
*Semester Pass $300
FOREVER YOUNG
Affordable Acupuncture
607-272-0114
Lansing and Ithaca residents
MAGIKITCHEN.NET
Massage Therapy
www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com
thanks to the generosity of the
The Yoga School
Macintosh Consulting
Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture
We have made over $2,000 so far
102 The Commons
607-227-4624
range of human ailments
groceries (one of each item) as possible.
John Serferlis - Tailor
Put some Class in Your Kitchen
(607) 280-4729
three minutes, obtaining as many free
Custom Cooking Classes
Find us on Facebook!
http://www.allaboutmacs.com
we are having Town Supervisor
* BUYING RECORDS *
patios, retaining walls, + walkways
AAM ALL ABOUT MACS
On Sunday, December 11, at 6pm
Ed Lavigne select the winning ticket
319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com
spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning
Lansing Food Bank at Lansing Market
When the answer is MASSAGE the question is WHEN. It’s NOW. Book online. www.jollybuddha.us/massage
Latest Technology. Affordable
Yoga + Massage + Deep Relaxation
Les - 607-272-9175
RESTORATIVE YOGA
Real Life Ceremonies Honor a Life like no other
& SOUND HEALING Sat. Dec 10 * 1-3pm * all levels * $30
with ceremonies like no other.
MIGHTY YOGA
Steve@reallifeceremonies.com
www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682
GIFTS FOR EVERYBODY ON YOUR LIST
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