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ere is yet another example of w hy It hac a i s known as “the smartest city in America.” At Cinemapolis, on Thursday March 1 at 7:00 p.m., Friends of Stewart Park (FSP) will host an illustrated talk, “The Central Park Conservancy: Revitalizing the World’s Most Famous Urban Park,” presented by Central Park Conser vanc y staf f members Christopher Nolan and Bob Rumsey, both graduates from Cornell University’s landscape architecture program. And on Friday and Saturday March 2 – 3, starting at 8:45 a.m. at Cinemapolis, and 9:30 a.m. at Tompkins County Public Library respectively, the Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium will feature twelve lectures about native plants in the wild and their roles in sustainable landscapes. Now in its 10th year, this two-day educational program—intended for landscape professionals, homeowners and gardeners—will focus on design, science, maintenance and landscape management. According to landscape architect Rick Manning, co-organizer with Dan Segal of Plantsmen Nursery, there will be a local component with Cornell forest ecologist David Weinstein, who will share thirty years of collected data from Cornell Botanic Garden’s Mundy Wildf lower Garden that illustrate the timing of flowering for more than 500 species and how it corresponds to changes in our climate. Professor Paul Curtis, Coordinator of Wildlife Damage Management Program for Cornell Cooperative Extension, will describe challenges of dealing with Canada geese in New York state, including Ithaca’s Stewart Park. For details about the nine speakers, lecture topics, schedule and registration, visit: www.ithacanativelandscape.com As a FSP fundraiser, Thursday evening’s public lecture about the history of New York City’s Central Park will present a behind-

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Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton reads out a presentation on the budget at Ithaca Town Hall on Friday. A recap of the meeting is available online at Ithaca.com. For a full picture, see our story on the whole budget process on page 5. (Photo: Casey Martin)

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City Gears Up For Crossword Showdown

ver since the first crossword puzzle was published 105 years ago, it’s been as much a part of Sunday morning as the fresh smell of brewed coffee, the warm hum of a stove cooking pancakes, and for some, crippling internal retribution from the previous night’s festivities. Since then, the clues, riddles a nd boxes have confounded the human brain in a leisurely daily tradition, ending in either immense frustration or satisfaction. Honoring that brain-bending custom and bringing it to Tompkins County is the Finger

Lakes Crossword Competition, presented by Tompkins Learning Partners, which receives the proceeds from the event, and organized by Gary Weissbrot, a former schoolteacher and current school bus-driver. It will be held at Boynton Middle School in Ithaca on March 17, with doors opening at 1 and the competition being held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Food w ill be prov ided by Ithaca Bakery, and tickets are sold on a “pay what you can” basis. Players can enter individually or in teams of up to four. Now in its sixth year, Weissbrot is looking to keep the experience

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new and fresh for seasoned players, while also attracting a new generation of cruciverbalists. Weissbrot founded the tournament during a boom-time for crossword puzzles, which, following a slow decline, reasserted themselves into the national psyche after the release of Wordplay, a documentary dedicated to chronicling crossword culture and specifically, the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in New York City, which ser ves as the de facto national championships for the activity. The documentary’s popularity and star-power fueled a renewed interest in crosswords, though now 12 years removed f rom Wordplay ’s debut t he continued on page 5

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▶ “And the Winner Is…” fundraiser at Cinemapolis, a celebration of the year in movies with food, drinks and prizes at Ithaca’s independent movie theater. Watch the 2018 Oscar Awards from 7:30 until the night’s biggest prizes are announced. Pick the award winners to benefit Cinemapolis. Tickets are $45 for one or $80 for two for nonmembers, but prices increase at the door.

▶ Pat Metheny will be performingat the Hangar Theatre Wednesday night, the second night of a two-show stop at the theatre. Metheny’s a legend in the jazz scene since debuting in the late 1970s, and Ithaca’s fervent interest in the show already forced him to schedule a second gig. There are probably still some tickets floating on the second-hand market, but work quickly.

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the-scenes look inside the Central Park Conservancy (CPC) and its remarkable ongoing revitalization efforts. Since its inception in 1980, the CPC has served as a national model for many community organizations working with municipalities to revitalize city parks across the country. This is an opportunity to learn how an organization like FSP can work effectively with the City of Ithaca, to revitalize Stewart Park in anticipation of its centennial anniversary on July 4, 2021. FSP’s fundraising efforts are currently focused on the “New and Inclusive Playground and

“Grillin’ outside!” —Madeline Popkin

“Playing soccer outside.” —Phyo That

Splash Pad” (cost: $1.6 million) slated for completion in Fall 2018, and to open in summer 2019. Initiated in 2016 with the newly restored and accessible carousel, the playground will be the first of its kind within the Finger Lakes region, comprised of: a new water efficient interactive spray play area; an accessible pathway berm to a pinnacle overlook of Cayuga Lake; play areas for preschool and school age children; a music garden and sand play area, swings and climbing structures; a party pavilion rental space; new bathrooms and changing rooms; accessible walkways and links to Cayuga Waterfront Trail and other areas of the park. The City of Ithaca and FSP are

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working with Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton to pursue state funding to support the new playground. A Playground Leadership Committee has raised $360,000 of FSP’s goal of $680,000 to cover playground costs for: design, engineering, approvals and construction, and installing an opensided, clear-roof structure over the carousel. Once all design and engineering approvals are in place with the City Planning Board, the Parks Commission and the Board of Public Works, then the actual playground build will need volunteers, donations of materials and labor, as well as tool and

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Charter Eliminates Another News Station A Program To Take Advantage Of B Golden Opportunity arring a massive public outcry, Tompkins County’s television news viewers – already reeling from the loss of Elmira-based TV station, WENY – is set to lose another option for local news. Last week, it was revealed that Charter Communications, the de facto cable service provider for the area, was removing another “duplicate” station from its Syracuse television market, cutting the region’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate in Binghamton, WSKG, in favor of the Syracuse-based affiliate in WCNY. Though Tompkins County is often considered more a part of the political and social fabric of the Southern Tier, in the eyes of communications companies, Tompkins County falls within the broadcasting zone surrounding Syracuse, making WSKG, in their eyes, out-of-step with the region’s viewership. The decision, first announced two weeks ago, came as a shock

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to the station’s president and chief executive, Greg Catlin, who has recently begun aggressively investing in the station’s advertising efforts and news coverage in the region. Two weeks ago, Catlin received a letter from Charter Communications – the parent company of Spectrum – saying that WSKG would be dropped from their lineup sometime in late February. It just didn’t say where. “They said they were dropping us from the Syracuse and Binghamton line,” Catlin said. “It was very bizarre, we were all here asking ourselves ‘what does this mean?’” Catlin called the station’s lawyers because, he said, the letter from Charter included no contact information or any indicators as to whether or not WSKG had any options to challenge the decision made at the corporate level. When WSKG’s legal representation finally got in touch continued on page 12

he Ithaca City School District reports annual Equity Report Cards to gauge how well it meets the needs of economically disadvantaged students. The difference in state test scores between students eligible and ineligible for reduced lunch programs, the metric used by the district to qualify a student as disadvantaged, falls from the mid 60s to the 20s and 30s. But family income should not be a determinant for a student’s academic success, says Marty Kaminsky, a local tutor who founded Golden Opportunity, GO for short. Entirely driven by charitable donations, GO offers enhanced academic tutoring for disadvantaged students struggling in school. “There are kids in the district who enter Kindergarten who are

daycare organizing. A March 21 public meeting with the City Planning Board will update the public about revitalization projects in Stewart Park. Rick Manning, FSP’s executive director, hopes volunteers will sign up during the meeting to help build the preschool play structure and sand play area scheduled for the fall of 2018. To purchase lecture tickets, visit www.friendsofstewartpark. org. There is a $10 - $50 sliding scale for tickets with a $20 suggested donation. –Deirdre Cunningham

already reading, and at the same time, there are kids who don’t know the names or sounds of the letters,” Kaminsky said, speaking from a 30 year career of teaching elementary school students in the local school district. “A child who starts already behind falls further and further behind as they progress through elementary school and then onto middle school,” he said. Kaminsky said one of the greatest barriers to academic success is the child’s acquired sense of inadequacy and frustration while they watch their peers excel in something they are struggling to grasp. “Kids who are doing poorly in school start to feel pretty bad about themselves because they see their peers succeeding and they naturally compare themselves to their peers,” he said. “Often times, there’s just a lack of a support system to pat the child on the back and say, ‘I believe in you. I know you’re going to get this. Hang in there,’” This is where one of GO’s 60 tutors step in to provide the student with moral, in addition to academic, support. Tutors are continued on page 10

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excitement around the national competition has waned. But in the meantime, the Finger Lakes competition has maintained enthusiasm locally, and has grow from its infancy. All the puzzles for the contest were created by Adam Perl, a local crosswording legend who has had his work in puzzle construction appear in the national publications. The traditional three categories of Easier, Trickier and Tougher, which correspond to the ascending difficulty of the Monday, Wednesday and Friday puzzles published in the New York Times. A primary point of Weissbrot’s continued attempts at growth this year is introducing a separate competition category for kids, who had previously been either lumped in with the adults or left on the sidelines. Perl’s expertise has helped with this effort, as Weissbrot asked him to assemble some puzzles tweaked to cater to a more younger demographic, as young as middle school. He’s had some trouble attracting students so far, but thinks at least creating the space for them to compete was important. There is a $1 entry fee for middle- and high-schoolers. “Ithaca’s just so family-oriented, and in the past some adults that would come have brought their kids and they’ve sat on the side,” Weissbrot said. “So I

thought, damn it, let’s get them involved.” Another quirk new to the competition this year is a play w rit ten by Donna Hoke, a n award-winning playwright based out of Buffalo. The brief production will take place during the score tabulation, and will feature a crossword puzzle and a Sodoku puzzle vying for the attention of a puzzle-solver. Additionally, as a fundraising event, Wordplay is being screened at Cinemapolis on Sunday, March 11, accompanied by games and an audio introduction from New York Times Crossword Puzzle editor Will Shortz. While it operates under the guise of friendly competition, Weissbrot notes that there is a point to the fun. Promoting and supporting Tompkins Learning Partners and its mission of addressing literacy, particularly adult literacy, is the paramount purpose of the competition. He said he’s seen the impact their educational programs can have on adults throughout the county who have fallen through the cracks and find themselves having to learn reading and writing on the fly later in life. “So many of them, when they have kids or grandkids, that’s when they wish they could read to them, or as they get older they get more politically involved and they want to read the newspaper,” Weissbrot said. “I keep trying to point out that this is all about Tompkins Learning Partners,

▶ Cargill Deicing Technology often reviled for their salt mine beneath Cayuga Lake, made a $100,000 donation to the Sciencenter that will ensure second graders from Cayuga County will have free field trips to the center, joining students from Tompkins County and Cortland City schools..

which seems appropriate because they’re a literacy agency. But we’re all having fun here.” Winners of the middle- and high-school competition will receive gift packages from Purity Ice Cream, while other competitors will be vying for first prizes like a permanent plaque at Tompkins Learning Partners and a Finger Lakes Crossword Competition bracelet as the top prize, not to mention the momentous bragging rights that come with such a title. The current wielder of those bragging rights is Jacob Lehman, and wield them proudly he does. One subplot that has recently blossomed at the competition is the dominance of Lehman, who has won the last two crossword competitions with relative ease, finishing the contest’s toughest puzzle faster than not only all other individual competitors, but beating every team’s times as well. In addition to his local mastery,

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Mounting Pressure On Officials As Tax Fog Clears In Albany

awmakers return to Albany this week faced with the yearly goliath of passing another state budget, but this year’s challenge made increasingly difficult by uncertainty in revenue streams after the federal government’s tax overhaul late last year. The legislative battle has been looming for several months now, bringing with it greater uncertainty on how Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature will decide on what kind of taxes New Yorker’s will have to shell out in 2019. Three major shifts in federal policy are the source of most of Albany’s tax migraine. The first major change to the federal code caps the state and local tax

deduction on itemized taxes. According to 2014 IRS data, around 34 percent of New Yorkers deducted the SALT taxes averaging about $21,000. The new cap means less money in the pockets of upper middle class and upper-class income brackets in what some think tanks already criticize as one of the most highly taxed states in the country. For the majority of residents who don’t itemize their taxes, the change to SALT won’t change t heir f ilings, but lawma kers worry on their wider effect on the state as a whole. Republica n State Senator Tom O’Mara thinks the new federal plan will mostly help taxpayers in the Southern Tier, but

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he worries about the long-term effects it could play on the tax revenue coming in from areas downstate. “There’s concerns in the state as a whole and the impacts to the wealthy and whether those negative impacts might cause some of them to relocate out of the state,” O’Mara told The Ithaca Times. “Those are individuals that, certainly, while they’re much smaller in number, contribute much more to the overall tax revenues of the state.” Democratic Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton holds the same concerns as O’Mara even across the statehouse and across the aisle. “I certainly support every effort to try to protect that and

A scene from last year’s contest.

Lehman finished sixth among rookies at last year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in New York City. In his two winning years, he’s finished the Toughest level crossword in 8:58 and 13:11. The competition has now leaned into his two-year run, daring potential participants on the website’s registration page to try to unseat the reigning champ. Presented with the opportunity, Lehman issued a bit of trash talk to his opponents as he prepares to defend his crown. “I’ve wanted to three-peat since the first time I won in 2016, and now that it’s in reach I’m not going to let it slip,” Lehman said. “I’ll match the registration donation to TLP of any individual or team that solves the toughest puzzle faster than me. Bring your A-game and let’s go.” –Matt Butler

protect state government,” Lifton said. “We’re going to lose money and that means there will be less money for schools and healthcare and roads and bridges and everything else that people care about and use.” Where the fog thickens on the state’s tax policy is over the federal government’s almost doubling of the standard deduction. New York is one of nine states that requires residents to take the state standard deduction if the opt for the federal one. That means, taxpayers who choose to take the automatic $12,500 from the federa l government now must take the relatively small state standard deduction. The State Department of taxation and finance estimates this could generate another $44 million alone for the state.

▶ Creatures Amok! Leash your animals, people. Or at least train them to not bite people, like happened twice in the last week. The good folks of Tompkins County can not live in fear that the next adorable animal they see will suddenly snap into a rage. .

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Heard&Seen ▶ Walking along the street the other day, Managing Editor Nick Reynolds noticed a middle-aged man with a waxed moustache, toting two loads of cans for recycling. As he passed, he bellowed “You’ve just seen the Can Man!” Ithaca officially has its own silent guardian, a watchful protector. ▶ Top stories on Ithaca. com this week are... 1)Life on top of Ithaca’s uncapped garbage dump 2) Why Is Spectrum dropping another local news station from its lineup? 3) Students seek to address uncomfortable truths in the school system 4 Could grassroots PAC funding impact the race for NY-23? 5) Cornell expands New York City footprint

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n recent months, residents and elected officials in Tompkins County have focused much attention on criminal justice reform. We could become the leader in social justice if we stops criminalizing social problems and rethinks our approach to drug use, mental health, poverty, and homelessness. The Tompkins County Legislature has taken some encouraging steps in this direction—but we need to go further. After careful study, including an outside review from the Center on Government Research (CGR), the legislature voted against the expansion of the local jail. Now, the county must determine how to reduce the existing jail population and avoid the future cost of “boarding out” detainees to other facilities. As part of this effort, the County Legislature recently transferred funds and personnel from the Mental Health Department to the Sheriff ’s Office. Soon, there will be a psychiatric physician and a mental-health counselor in order to provide mental health evaluations, and treatment in the county jail. Unfortunately, these decisions exemplifies the troubling trend that James Kilgore, author of Understanding Mass Incarceration, calls “carceral humanism,” or the recasting of jails as social service providers. In other words, in broadening the responsibilities of the Sheriff ’s Office to include psychological services, the County Legislature criminalized mental illness, making a public health issue a matter for the cops, courts, and county jail. Meanwhile, the City of Ithaca is putting in place Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), a program which would allow Ithaca Police officers

to refer people to a case worker, instead of making a low-level arrest. While LEAD sounds promising, it could easily reproduce the same dynamics that have undermined most criminal justice reforms. For example, existing diversion programs, such as drug court, often fall into the trap that criminologists call “net-deepening” and “net-widening,” where criminal-justice reforms simply extends the reach and legitimacy of penal sanction over a greater area of social life. As Pollack and Reuter show in their 2013 study, drug courts have failed to substantially reduce the human flow into prisons and jails. Instead, the tight eligibility and sentencing requirements these courts impose merely delay the time many drug offenders find themselves behind bars. Rather than reducing harm and mending broken relationships, as in the model of restorative justice, these types of diversion programs supplement the use of incarceration. We fear that LEAD will be unable to overcome these dynamics. Plainly, LEAD empowers the police to decide who gets criminalized and who gets referred to services. It increases the scope of policing by adding a social work function to it. In this way, LEAD could easily become the policing complement to carceral humanism. Perhaps LEAD could avoid this trap if there were meaningful community control over the program to ensure it actually diverts people from the cycle of incarceration and punitive nonalternative “alternatives.” LEAD can only avoid this carceral humanist conundrum, if the basic needs of historically marginalized people need to be met. contin u ed on page 7

recent formal scientific study by professors Christopher Claassen (University of Glasgow) and James Gibson (Washington University in St. Louis) concluded that “the most tolerant metro areas [in the United States] are…college towns such as Boulder, Colorado, Ithaca, New York and Corvallis, Oregon.” The study examined national surveys conducted over several years, which included questions about civil liberties, and the extent to which respondents supported the extension of civil liberties to all, including those whose views they might find highly disagreeable or objectionable. In addition, the researchers looked for reports of political protest as a measure of publicly expressed dissent, and weighed it by population and demographics. They found that areas of higher tolerance tended to see higher rates of protest. Further modeling of data and demographics seemed to suggest that higher tolerance leads to higher rates of protest – people feel freer to engage in public expression without fear of repercussions. (Ithaca Voice, February 23) With this new designation as a Most Tolerant Metro Area (MTMA), there are bound to be questions and concerns as to how we should comport ourselves now that we’re being held up as paragons of open-mindedness and the egalitarian spirit. Our panel has been fielding

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would like to thank the students from Ithaca who succeeded in preventing the whitewashing of the role of Esmerelda by cancelling their school play. Thank you for recognizing that Romani people are also people of color, and for helping to bring attention to the fact that we are a real people, which many Americans don’t realize. Our place in European and American history has very often been whitewashed throughout the centuries to such an extent that people know nothing about our contributions to European culture and European languages, including English. For example, did you know the word lollipop comes from the Romani loli phabaya, meaning red apple, and referred to candied apples sold at carnivals before becoming a common English word? Romani people have almost no representation in modern pop culture. We don’t have a successful TV drama or sitcom in any country, the way African Americans, Hispanics and Asians have succeeded to do in the United States. I think of Whoopi Goldberg recounting how when she was a child f lipping the channels on TV, her surprise of seeing lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, and how she yelled to her mother across the house, “There’s a black woman on TV, and she ain’t no maid!” We are still waiting for this. Your recognition of how important this issue is, that you were willing to give up having a school play for one year to make a point, is exemplary. Pop culture does in fact have certain quite well known figures, who originally came

questions on l i ne , a nd we reprint some of the discussion here: I’m intolerant of intolerance. Does that make me tolerant? Yes. By the power of double negatives you are technically considered ‘fair-minded and empathetic.’ The phenomenon is poorly understood by the scientific community, but it’s a thing. Will identifying as cisgender still be considered a microaggression? Yes. What about occupying a position of authority? Asking employees to be on time? Holding the door for someone? Explaining things? Yes. Everything’s still a microaggression. Will we now have to behave differently? MTMA rules call for a somewhat higher standard of public behavior. No more shaking your head ruefully at college undergraduates in BMWs, or rolling your eyes at Wegmans customers who stop to text in the middle of the entranceway. Also, no more hissing at Ithaca City School Board meetings. I thought it was more about politics. That, too. When someone proposes a harebrained scheme like arming schoolteachers, you have to let them finish their sentence before calmly suggesting that such a scheme contin u ed on page 7

from Romani backgrounds, even if it isn’t commonly known. If you look at the original comic strips of where Robin from Batman and Robin came from, you will notice he has a Romani background. Magneto from Marvel’s X-men and his two children Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, these are also characters with Romani backgrounds, but the new Hollywood film versions of these stories have lost touch with these origins. Voices like yours, in Ithaca, will help bring attention to this. Only when there is an understanding of how violent whitewashing actually is in promoting the destruction of fragile communities can we hope to stop this snowballing effect. In France, we aim to tell our own stories and histories our own way. Part of this resistance ago was to re-appropriate Esmerelda. We performed a flash-mob dance in Paris in front of the Notre Dame cathedral to take back what is ours and tell a new story. As you are probably aware, Victor Hugo’s Esmerelda is an essentialized and racialized version of the Romani woman. These stereotypes started in the 19th century during were a product of the time, a period of colonialism, and a product of creating the “other”. The damage that has been done by the perpetuation of such stereotypes has hardly begun to be examined by mainstream society. In its recognition of antigypsyism as a major factor in contributing to the situation of Roma today, Europe is awakening. Our Esmerelda, the one we reappropriated, is a strong woman, willing to fight for herself and for her community. Thank you for helping us once again to take back Esmerelda.

–William Bila Président , La Voix des Rroms – Paris

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would be the height of lunacy and therefore the person must be a lunatic him- or herself. What if I see someone wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat on the Commons – can I say something? Without raising your voice, invite the person to debate the following proposition: “Donald Trump is a toxic orange windbag.” The facts will be on your side and you will win. Does hounding college administrators from office in the name of political correctness threaten our status as a Most Tolerant Metro Area? Apparently not. What about Facebook? Facebook is exempt and remains an unfettered forum for high-octane rants, tirades, screeds and Russian campaign interference.

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his week, we had the tragedy of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. With it came the seemingly never-ending discussions on guns and school safety. We heard the same old rhetoric from the gun lobby and its prepaid Congress people. Tom Reed included. We heard the Republican’s attempts at misdirection when they blamed incidents like this on mental health and tried to make the health care system a target. Tom Reed included. And, as always, we heard the torrent of “thoughts and prayers” coming from the mouths of politicians who hope to wait out the anger of the public and resume business as usual. I go to church and I know how the act of prayer can help us feel more connected to the community at large and the suffering in particular. I also know that praying for something doesn’t absolve me of the responsibility to take action. It doesn’t absolve me, it doesn’t absolve you, and certainly does NOT absolve our elected officials of their sworn oath to the constituents they represent. Tom. Reed. Among. Them. We are here to participate. We are here to contribute. We are here to build something we never before thought possible. The 2016 election showed us that grass roots organizing can truly make a change in Washington. We are discovering more and more ways in which we can affect change in this country and we are taking these tools and putting them to work. When you donate to the Reed-Free23 fund you are putting the tools of money to work. When you come to events or town halls you are putting the tool of your time to work. When you write op-ed pieces or do research on policy you are putting the tools of your mind to work. Any tool you can offer is a tool this movement can use. Any money, any time, any special skill or passion. All can contribute. All can affect change. And all are so very needed. If we continue the work we began immediately following the inauguration last January, our movement can create a sea change for our district, our communities, and our nation.

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Does this mean I can no longer give the stinkeye to vehicles that display a Confederate flag? We checked with Gandhi biographer Dr. Philida Cornstarch, and she said that even the Mahatma would do that, so the stinkeye is still permissible. What should I say if somebody points out that Ithaca’s many protests are exclusively from one end of the political spectrum? Patiently appear to listen until they are done talking, then point out that professors Claassen and Gibson are real scientists and if they say it doesn’t matter, then it doesn’t matter. Drive your point home by saying, “case closed.”

Charley Githler is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, ‘Surrounded By Reality,’ appears biweekly.

week regarding Tom Reed. Here’s the rest: s democracy is first for the people, it’s dead last for Congressman Tom Reed and many elected officials. We should rank legislators and candidates by the degree to which they embrace guidance from their districts’ people. Do they consult us on proposals they get from lobbyists, party hierarchy, civic groups, campaign funders, and individuals, and then post our preferences on their websites? Do they post petitions they receive? Do they ask pressing questions in public meetings, letters, and emails, and then tally and post our responses? Do they ask villages, towns, and cities in their districts to pose pressing questions for them, and then post combined tallies from throughout the district? Do they post tallies of messages received for and against proposed laws? Do they restrict “lobbying” to the lobby, that is, to public settings in their home districts? In session, do they strive for complete fairness regardless of party, and allow all legislators to propose, develop and amend legislation? When the people of the district have a clear preference, do they vote our will and wisdom, or at least refuse to vote against us? Our legislators blur and shadow our preferences, dismiss them, and feel free to cheat on us. Elected officials routinely develop policies and make decisions without us; punish independence from the parties’ funders and hacks; turn political competitors into enemies; and crank out crazy propaganda. They deny participation to minority legislators through majority rule, thus denying equal representation for the people of those districts. Partisanship excludes, divides, deceives, distracts, and diminishes us; and makes governance a nightmare. One sample of the people’s will and wisdom that Congressman Reed tried to repress is now online, free for all to see. 121 regular attendees at St. Paul’s UMC, in Ithaca, asked for his help in solving the problem of gun-related violence, and suggested measures for the nation that work in NY State and elsewhere. By repeatedly ignoring our petition, Reed demonstrated bad faith with both the Constitution and democracy, because the first amendment insists that Congress respond to petitions for “redress of grievances”, and democratic rule requires Representatives be true to the will and wisdom of the people. To see and download our petition, with affidavit, please go to the Tompkins County Clerk’s website, to their Online Records Search, and search under “Instrument Number” for 2017-13896. –Tim Lillard, Newfield

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As a community, we have already acknowledged this commonsense conclusion. The second recommendation of the CGR report was “to address systemic issues such as racism, affordable housing, transportation, employment, and poverty.” These issues are “beyond the scope of this study and what we were asked by the County to address. But they all impact directly on the jail population and certainly the overall quality of life and opportunities available to residents.” We know the root causes of crime are social, not individual. Yet, the local elected leaders insist on only using criminal justice approaches. With this in mind, the Abolition Working group of the Ithaca Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America calls on local elected officials to take the necessary first steps in this direction by de-criminalizing drug use, untreated mental illness, and the petty crimes associated with chronic poverty. Recognizing that these problems cannot be addressed with criminal justice measures, we demand immediate action to ensure all residents of Tompkins County have a right to healthcare, housing, and living wage employment. Meeting these basic needs would proactively address the problems we currently manage on the backend through policing and incarceration. We call on our elected officials to aggressively and tirelessly advocate for a universal healthcare system at the state and national level. Although providing universal healthcare on a county level is a daunting task, there are other issues within our immediate control. For example, the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency, a public benefit corporation, has abated approximately $15 million in potential future tax revenue for two luxury housing developments, City Centre and Harold Square. These giveaways to private real-estate developments provide no plausible public benefit. These abatements include no affordable housing, local labor, or living wage requirements. The IDA’s priorities are clearly misplaced. We could do more to provide housing to those who find themselves struggling in the margins of our community—we could do more for our neighbors, family, and friends. To their credit, some County Legislators, working with community leaders, are working toward a local minimum wage increase. Such job market policies can be real alternatives to incarceration. Agan and Makowsky’s 2018 study shows a minimum-wage increase can more effectively reduce recidivism than the now dominant employability-based reentry programs, which provide “job training” for formerly incarcerated people, but without guaranteeing employment. We applaud these efforts and call on our elected leaders to go further and put in place proactive measures like “ban the box” legislation, which would prohibit employers from asking prospective employees about their criminal records. These are important steps toward a humane local economy that provides for everyone. We are calling for a paradigm shift in our political thinking. We need bold ideas to undo mass incarceration. We need to decriminalize social problems and provide for the basic needs of every member of our community. We need the freedom of abolition: the elimination of the violent regulation of behavior. We need the dignity of socialism: a comprehensive public infrastructure that decommodifies health, welfare and housing guaranteeing them for all. Op-Ed By The Abolition Working Group of the Ithaca Chapter of the Democratic Socialist of America. N ove m ber

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News Quick Hits Cornell Expands NYC Footprint Within a year of opening its highly touted tech campus in New York City, Cornell University is increasing its presence with two substantial leases in midtown Manhattan. This week, Cornell University signed a pair of leases totaling nearly 70,000 square feet of space in the 50-story Midtown East tower on 50th Street, real estate blog The Real Deal first reported. The new tenants – the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Weill Cornell Medicine – will be using the space to bolster its graduate programs. Myrick endorses Cuomo’s plan to sue the federal government over tax plan Mayor Svante Myrick is among a

list of 65 mayors from across New York to endorse a three-pronged plan set forth by the Cuomo Administration in response the federal tax plan enacted by President Donald Trump. On Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office release a list of endorsements for his Tax Fairness for New York Campaign, a proposal to “combat the devastating impacts the destructive, partisan GOP federal tax law will have on New York.” The plan, announced in his 2018 State of the State Address, calls on joining a multi-state coalition to sue the federal government, launching a “repeal-andreplace strategy” on new tax legislation, and exploring the feasibility of a major shift in the structure of state tax policies. Charles Whalen suspends Congressional campaign On Monday afternoon, former Congressional Budget Office economist Charles Whalen, of Geneva, announced he would be suspending his bid to represent New York’s 23rd Congressional District. In sharp language, Whalen reaffirmed his continuing belief in his own policies and largely attributed the difference between him and the other six candidates in the field to his failure to fundraise at a similar pace. Declining any further comment, Whalen said he would not be endorsing another candidate and that he would exit the race the same way he entered it: quietly.

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Hydropower Ithaca seems like the perfect place for hydropower. So why don’t we have more of it?

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omething like a graveyard of failed dreams, the archives of the City Planning Department turn out some interesting ghosts every now and then. Piled away in boxes hidden among the wooden cubicles of Ithaca City Hall scores of old proposals to never see the light of day, from failed housing projects to rejected highways, gather dust in crisp manila folders waiting patiently to be digitized and one day, rediscovered by some unsuspecting local putting keywords together. It was upon one of these searches earlier this year when, prompted by the topic of a letter to the editor, this reporter stumbled upon a fascinating proposal from Ithaca’s not-so-distant past. The year was 1988 and the City of Ithaca, rich in massive waterfalls and raging creeks, appeared in a dispatch published in the regional section of the New York Times over a referendum on the city’s signature, 130-foot tall landmark: a vote on whether or not the city should move forward with the construction of a hydroelectric plant at the base of Ithaca Falls, harnessing the power of the creek – and an annual output of 8.9 kilowatt hours per year – in a similar manner to Ezra Cornell more than 150 years earlier. City officials at the time, the New York Times wrote, said the federal government was expected to supercede the city’s authority to restrict such a project and, that by building the plant themselves, the city could “best protect the falls by building the plant

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itself” by preserving public access to the falls and keeping water flow at the same rate as it flows on a typical autumn day. ‘’If the city doesn’t do it, there’ll be another developer,’’ future mayor Ben Nichols, then a member of the Common Council, said at the time. ‘’If it’s going to be there, we want to have control over it.’’ Looking for options, the city eventually found one, managing to designate the falls as a recreational waterway, saving the falls and its gorge but missing out on a chance to continue an enduring legacy of locally generated hydropower from the mighty creek which, current Ithaca Town Planning Board member and then-city energy policy advisor Jon Bosak noted in a 2007 article, never seemed to be the plan. “After years of study, the Fall Creek hydropower project was finally rejected by Common Council in 1989 — not because it couldn’t successfully turn Fall Creek to practical as well as recreational use, but because realizing the practical benefits of hydropower was never the City’s purpose in proposing the plan,” he wrote. “The City was simply trying to prevent the consideration of two other competing development plans, one from Cornell and one from a private consortium, that might not have sufficiently protected the Fall Creek environment.” The following year, a proposal to repower a former hydraulic facility by Van Natta’s Dam – built in 1907 – into a 400 kwh facility (1.4 million kwh annually) was put forth

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By Nick Reynolds but went nowhere, in part due to bad faith in the consistency of the creek flow and a lack of good information from the state. “We needed to find out if whether or not it would be economically feasible to try and capture the energy of the falls,” said John Gutenberger, Ithaca’s mayor at the time. “The state – the power authority – if I remember right, wouldn’t tell us how much they would pay per hour. And of course, we needed to know that if we wanted to figure out whether it was feasible to do that. So we went round and round with the state, basically hearing ‘we only give that information out to entities that are members of the power authority network.’ And we didn’t know whether or not if we should join it because we had no idea if it would benefit us. So we didn’t do anything.” Ith aca’s U nta pped Resources

Tompkins County is a land built straight from the power of the creeks that coursed like veins through its unstable soils and steep, rolling hills. Its economy grown from the mills along Fall and Six Mile Creeks, the towns of villages of the region popped up straight from the shores of the snaking waterways, life moving throughout Tompkins County wherever the water went. Millstones ground the farmer’s grain from the water wheels that never ceased to turn and from those waters, came the money needed to support towns

and build fortunes. But one of these millers dreamed bigger. In 1830, Ezra Cornell himself blasted a massive hole in the wall above Ithaca Falls to power his mill at the base of the falls, giving life to what could be considered the true birth of commercial hydroelectric power in Tompkins County. Cheap and very clean, for more than a century the flows of Fall Creek powered industry in Ithaca, driving enough force through the tunnel to run both a paper factory and a gun factory up through the 1970s. (Cornell University, when it owned the gorge, used to charge Ithaca Gun a regular fee for the company’s water use.) “You don’t think of water rights as something huge in the northeast anymore,” said Lanny Joyce, Director of Utilities & Energy Management at Cornell University said. “But it was back then.” Yet, for living in the state considered the largest hydroelectric power producer east of the Rocky Mountains and currently listed as fourth in the nation in the overall generation of electricity from hydropower (17 percent, according to the United States Energy Information Administration) it seems rather strange that Tompkins County, for all its natural capital, counts just one hydroelectric power facility out of the 300 or so statewide, the next closest ones located on Erie Canal locks in Waterloo and Seneca Falls. But the reasons aren’t simply aesthetic.

Much of it has to do with financing and other parts, with proper siting. There’s also the question of scale, or whether or not largerscale, commercial hydroelectric facilities are really worth the costs for the drawn out returns they would ultimately have. But those who work these facilities are quick to remind you that hydropower is power for the longhaul and that one’s early investment is one being made for years – if not decades – to come. The Pl a nt Th at ’s Stil l K ick in’

If you’ve ever taken a look into the gorge from the suspension bridge connecting Fall Creek Drive to Cornell’s main campus, you might have wondered about the rough-hewn stone structure surrounded by rushing water 100 feet below you, seemingly accessible only by a wooden staircase built into the side of the gorge and closed off by chain link fence. Empty most of the time and rarely visited, this building – which has sat at the bed of this gorge for more than a century – is a tangible example of what was once envisioned for energy in the City of Ithaca, and also an example of what could very well be if given the right circumstances. This building is Cornell University’s hydroelectric plant, a facility built in an era where the university – considered a top engineering school even then – was looking to innovate in fields few others were attempting. Its faculty like Robert Thurston and J.E. Sweet already heavily involved in the development of steam engines by the late 1870s, Cornell’s School of Engineering spent the final years of the 19th century developing what, for decades, would become one of the most important and unique structures in the history of hydropower in the United States. Built into the side of Triphammer Falls just beneath the Thurston Avenue footbridge, Cornell’s 80-foot-tall Hydraulics Lab stood for 111 years (it collapsed in 2009) and for a share of that time, was one of the few facilities in the nation where turbines used for the generation of hydroelectric power could be tested and developed. Built alongside Beebe Dam, the facility was unique in that it took the natural capital of the gorge’s steep drop and harnessed it, using a number of valves of different lengths to simulate different testing conditions. Around the same time Cornell, already with a working dam, saw an opportunity: to dig a trench from the dam along the lip of Fall Creek Gorge and, at a steep drop-off, construct a flume that would drop the water from the dam 140 feet and through a pair of turbines that could help generate power for the campus. Installed in 1907, that plant is still in operation today. Just not in the way it once was. Though most of the facility – the combined

1,900 kwh rate twin Ossberger turbines, the corroded but solid half-inch thick cast iron pipes that see 25,000 gallons of flow per minute, the ancient motors and the hand-operated valves – are still in place, a lot has changed for operators like Frank Perry, who has overseen the hydroelectric plant as a sort of caretaker since 2001. Once a highly involved operation, today, most of the mechanics are controlled by a computer the size of a deck of cards that allow the plant to be operated remotely, even by an app on a smartphone. Perry’s job now is largely maintenance; he comes down about once a week to check on it and oil the machinery and gauge inefficiencies in the system. Oftentimes, he’ll give tours of the plant which today, is still a point of pride among facilities staff, both as a teaching tool and an important aspect of Cornell’s overall energy use. Because of the temperature on our recent visit and the quantity of ice in the water, the plant was well-below its approved peak of 1,450 kwh, generating about 450 kwh. Though an impressive amount for almost completely clean energy, this was just a very small piece of the pie on a day where campus demand was somewhere around 25,000 kwh of power. The facility could handle more, Perry said. Many parts of the facility antiquated and not completely streamlined, the hydroplant today produces about 2 million kwh less than it did several decades ago, when the facility put out 7 million kwh of clean energy every year. To get back to that point, Perry said, is no easy undertaking. “It’s not about building a new plant,” he said. “You could get a bigger penstock, and then we could make 1,800 kilowatt hours easy. But you’d have to ask for millions of dollars and the permission to dig a trench 20 feet deep along this gorge, and nobody would let you do that in a million years. So for us, it’s about finding what we can do that will

have the most immediate benefit for the cost, while looking ahead at the little improvements we can make over the next 30 to 40 years.” After a tour of the structure and a rundown of the costs involved, it’s easy to understand why hydropower has proved difficult to take off in a place that seems so well-suited for it. According to rough estimates by Perry, to build this plant the way it is today would cost at least $5 million. Add the cost of the dam at the top of a waterfall and the penstock you would need to build up your energy source, and the whole thing might cost $15 million to $20 million to build. Then you have the cost of the equipment. The turbines you would need probably cost $750,000 a piece. The valves cost $50,000 to $75,000 a piece, the motors cost $150,000 a piece new and the control system costs about $200,000. Then you have the cost of the concrete work, which requires a crane that costs $15,000 per day just to place. These facilities, however, are a long-term investment. “It’s a lot of money,” said Perry. “But if you build it to last, it’ll serve you for 200 years.” W h y H av en’ t W e L ook ed At It Recently?

Hydropower has a lot of advantages. It’s clean energy, and can help offset the transmission of energy imports from other sources. But one of its biggest advantages is also one of the primary reasons it’s hard to encourage the development of new facilities: the energy they produce is way too cheap. In New York State, the average consumer pays about 12 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity. Paying an inflated price for maintenance, the university only puts a cost of approximately 7 to 8 cents per kilowatt hour. But, said Perry, once the debts on the buildFe b r uar y

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ing are paid off, the energy cost at the Cornell plant will drop to around 2 to 3 cents per kilowatt hour, a price so cheap that no new investment could occur at the plant. If trying to encourage a private enterprise to construct a new plant from scratch, these margins are unlikely to attract many but the most generous benefactors. This is why today, most of the private investment in hydroelectric plants involves taking existing facilities and improving them and little new construction is taking place. In city hall, private investors will occasionally come in inquiring about developing a hydroplant on Six Mile Creek but, with flows far too weak to support substantial power generation, the ideas never seem to take off – even with public subsidies offered by the state. (A group of Cornell students actually produced a study on this for a class project that is available online.) There are some solutions. Energy producers can charge “carbon offsets,” where individuals will sometimes ask for people to pay a little bit more to help fund low-cost renewable energy facilities long-term. But there’s another hypothetical: assuming energy costs get high enough to breed consumer frustration in the way nuclear plants – once considered the future of energy in New York – began to fail, hydropower could gain an even greater presence in the overall energy portfolio of New York State. “If power starts to cost enough,” Perry said, “then you can afford it again.” Looking for room to allow hydropower to build prominence in Tompkins County, the political will is certainly there. Tompkins County already powers a large share of its facilities using hydropower generated in Wacontin u ed on page 11

terloo and, in 2015, the county conducted a study that identified more than 200 potential sites for micro hydroelectric facilities outlined as a key part of achieving the county’s renewable energy goals, which in theory this could lead to a total generation of approximately 725.7 million kwh per year. Even the Town of Caroline, looking into the subject last May, identified two potential sites for hydropower on its length of Six Mile Creek that could generate an estimated 91.5 megawatts annually, potentially proving more viable than a solar power facility after 24 years of operation. But larger scale hydropower in Tompkins County? It likely won’t happen in our backyard, and certainly not at the places it would work best, like crucial tourist spots at Taughannock and Ithaca Falls. “You could afford to put in a plant down there,” said Perry. “That fall is somewhere around the 140 to 160 foot range, you have 2 0 1 8

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am well aware that hockey fans like a little drama, but I would surmise that this past week has featured a bit more drama than most people expected. That gold medal game between the United States and Canada was a heart-stopper, and we will get back to it in a few paragraphs… Area hockey fans barely had a chance to let their heart rates return to normal for the first round of the women’s ECAC Hockey playoffs, as the hometown Big Red hosted the Princeton Tigers for a three-game series at Lynah Rink. The hosts took game one by a score of 2-1, and while loyal fans will tell you they’d like to see as many games as possible, they would also admit that they would have preferred a two-game sweep. That was not to be, as the Tigers stayed alive with a hard-fought OT victory on Saturday, forcing a winner-take-all matchup for Sunday. On most nights, the Big Red’s four goals would have been enough to win, but the Tigers were hungry for goals, and they put five in the net. Two games, two onegoal margins… That’s a tight series. By the time the rubber match arrived, Cornell had apparently had enough drama

for the weekend. They lit the lamp four times once again, but this time, the defense shut the door on the Tigers for the shutout. Big Red head coach Doug Derraugh was quoted as saying that he felt that his team “put together our most complete game of the season, and that’s a good thing going into the semifinals.” He knew that the third game in 3 days would pit two weary teams against one another, and he said that he knew the pace would be different. By any measure, it was a good time for Marlene Boissonnault to slam the door on the visitors for her seventh shutout of the year. She stopped all 18 shots she faced, and the shutout moved her into a tie for the fourth most in the nation. The team heads up to the North Country for the ECAC Hockey semis this weekend, hosted by Clarkson. The number-three seeded Big Red is set to face the two-seed – Colgate on Saturday at 4 p.m. *** Back to that dramatic win for Team USA in the Olympic gold medal game… when a game ends in a tie after three periods, and nobody finds the net in overtime, fans brace for one of the most thrilling spectacles in the

sport: The Shootout. As most sports fans know, the game was still tied coming down to the last shot, and U.S. goalie Maddie Rooney – all of 20 years old – stood up to the pressure and made one last, dramatic save to secure the gold. The fact that the save came against one of the most adept scorers in the game – Canada’s Meghan Agosta – put the finest of points on the moment. Readers may recall a column I wrote a few weeks ago, profiling Lucy Schoedel, an Ithaca born and bred hockey goalie and now a Division 1 assistant coach at Harvard. After the story came out, her dad reached out to me and said, “I’ll admit it… I like to brag a little… she was also the goalie coach for Team USA’s U18 team that won two gold medals.” I reached out to Lucy and asked her what

Marlene Boissonnault the win meant to her, given she has worked with so many of the players on Team USA. She said (in an email), “The women’s hockey world is so small, which is just one of many reasons why the USA win is so incredible. It’s nearly impossible to have played or coached at a high level without doing so alongside former, current, and future Olympians. “When Rooney made that final save, it’s hard to explain exactly what went through my head but the word ‘redemption’ comes to mind,” she added. ”Having watched – and therefore having been haunted by – the previous gold medal game in Sochi, that feeling of redemption this time around was absolutely incredible. I couldn’t be happier for those women, the staff, and the entire USA hockey community for bringing home the gold.”

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students for GO’s program, said Kolby Harrell, GO director who took over for Kaminsky in 2016. The district’s Equity Report Card reported and increase in FRPL students over a three year period—from 34 percent in 2014 to 39 percent in 2016. Teachers begin referring the building liaison representing GO to struggling students in second grade. Harrell said this is to provide support for the two pivotal academic years that follow. Harrell said the educational literature indicates that third graders reading on level at the end of the school year have higher rates of future academic success and high school graduation than their peers struggling to keep up. “Focusing on a second grader gives that tutor and that student two years of working together before fourth grade comes and the workload and academic rigor has an academic uptick,” Harrell said. GO’s academic year runs from October

to May and provides students 60 hours of additional academic support throughout the school year. Every week, students receive two, one hour after school tutoring sessions. Harrell said tutors try to integrate their program in a familiar school setting like the library or classrooms. “We try to have pairs of tutors and students working in the same space to sort of have somewhat of a social aspect to an otherwise one-to-one isolated program,” Harrell said. At the beginning, middle, and end of their academic calendar, a tutor will meet with the student’s teacher and parents for a progress report. Tutoring builds off of preexisting curriculum as established by the classroom teacher, rather than introducing a new pedagogy, in order to reduce student confusion. In elementary school, tutors focus on building skills in core academic subjects such as reading, writing, and math, according to

GO’s 2016 institutional report. By middle school, the focus shifts toward professional skills like meeting deadlines, organizing projects, and managing their time effectively. GO tutors are not teachers; they also serve as “cheerleaders,” as Kaminsky put it, providing students with moral, as well as intellectual, support. Their work transcends the classroom, going to museums, plays, concerts, and even swim lessons. Ha r rel l re c a l le d t h a n k f u l pa rent s approaching him to tell him that students are willing to persist through learning difficulties after working with GO tutors. “Before, they would get hung up on not understanding a word and they would get really discouraged,” Harrell said. “Now, they don’t care if they don’t understand a word. They’ll still keep reading.”

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teachers; they also serve as “cheerleaders,” as Kaminsky put it, extending the traditional classroom boundaries to museums, plays, concerts, and even swim lessons. Kaminsky founded GO in 2005 after 27 years of teaching elementary school students in the district to supplement the efforts of classroom teachers. Despite the best efforts of even the most gifted educator, Kaminsky said it’s untenable to give each student the individualized mentorship they need when there are 27 other students to look after. In 2005, GO mentored only four students at two schools. GO has since grown its outreach to 70 students at 11 of the 12 district schools, excluding only Ithaca High School since the program only runs up until the end of middle school. The organization uses the same metric the district uses, eligibility for reduced prices for school lunches, to qualify

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hough the place where we live has produced so many noteworthy names, few among us might realize that one of the most important figures in taming the American West was born – and is buried – right here in Dryden, New York. Of any region in New York State, the Finger Lakes in particular has had quite the outsized influence on politics across the nation. The region has produced a president (Millard Fillmore, Moravia), a governor of Illinois (John H. Gear, Ithaca) and Secretaries of Defense and of State (Paul Wolfowitz, of Ithaca and William Seward, of Auburn). Of its towns, you might be surprised of the places some of its residents have ended up, whether it’s the statehouse in Albany or the numerous locals to walk the halls of the United States Capitol. However, for all our local success, some may be puzzled how the child of Irish immigrants made it from humble beginnings on his Dryden homestead to become the first-ever governor of the great state of North Dakota. Born in Dryden on October 29, 1843, John Miller was the first child of one of Tompkins County’s first 15 immigrant families from Scotland and Ireland. Originating from Argylshire, Scotland, his parents – Archibald and Isabel – were among the initial wave of immigrants from the British Isles that began in 1833, prompting religious and social tensions that led to a rising nationalist sentiment experienced across the nation. The Millers, however, found a welcoming community around what is today known as Irish Settlement Road and – more tempered against the religious extremism that ruled the more rural areas of Tompkins County – the Millers were able to make a life for themselves. Miller was educated at the old Dryden Seminary and, at the age of 19, began his career as a

clerk for J.W. Dwight and Co. near the center of stretching from the shores of Lake Superior to the village, eventually becoming a co-partner in the Pacific despite the fact it would soon be found the firm in 1864. He later purchased the entire the rate of return on wheat in its soils was less interest of the firm, incorporating as Bower & than half that demonstrated in the wheat fields Miller, which operated in Dryden until 1891. beneath the 49th Parallel. However, speculators An established businessman locally, one in the land, turned on by recent advances in the might wonder what would have caused Miller milling of wheat, rushed into the cheap lands to abandon his life in Dryden for the brutal win- of northern Dakota in 1878 in what was known ters and speculative economics of the Dakotas, as the Great Dakota Boom and Miller, the keen then considered land harsh and inhospitable investor and agriculturist, set out west to stake enough to be termed “the Great American Des- his claim the following year. Working on 17,000 ert,” as a surveyor of the land, Major Stephen acres in a town called Dwight, in the southeastH. Long, proclaimed ern corner of the state, in the 1850s. But there Miller was one of the was opportunity there, “bonanza farmers,” and it was all thanks the large scale and to President Abraham influential operations Lincoln. In 1862, Linthat worked to tame coln – who had already the frontier. As develestablished the Land opment increased and Grant Act that helped to the land was tamed, establish Cornell Unithe individuals operversity – extended the ating these massive offer to private corporafarms were granted tions in the hopes they the most influence as would use their allocathe territories inched tions to help settle the toward admittance west and build on the into the union dreams of the HomeThe push for stead Act, the legislation statehood was, ulticredited almost unanimately, the work of mously with the nation’s a fe w hu n d r e d o f growth westward. And North Dakota’s elite, John Miller a mong t hose pla ns, a as widespread interest transcontinental railroad for becoming a state was among them. was limited. Republicanism was given a clear According to a 1977 history of the state advantage here, both for the large Scandinavian penned by North Dakota-based historians population’s associating the Republican party Robert and Wynona Wilkins, the Northern with the freedom they’d been denied by the Pacific Railroad – having received a 40 million Swedes in Norway and for the gratitude of setacre land grant from the federal government – set to work locating purchasers for the land to help refinance the company after its brush with bankruptcy in the wake of Black Friday in 1873. To promote the land, the railway’s financier, Jay Cooke, and his Philadelphia banking firm E.W. Clark and Company commissioned a land office in the Dakotas in 1871, selling this previously untapped land as a sort of “Banana Belt”

tlers over the 1861 Homestead Act, which was considered a Republican political victory. And at the table when the Constitutional Convention was convened in 1888? The state’s most powerful and influential landowners, a group which counted Miller among its membership. During the nomination process, Miller emerged as an early leader, often locking horns with Alexander McKenzie, who some considered a “hatchet man” for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. For his virtue and his unlikeliness to be bribed or bought, Miller was tapped as the first Governor of North Dakota to fill the void of territorial governor Arthur Calvin Mellette, a native of the southern half of the territory who returned to become the first governor of South Dakota. “When you’re dealing with early territorial politics, it’s very corrupt,” said Mark Halvorson, the Curator for Collections Research at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. “Miller could not be bribed or swayed, and that’s the problem. He was against the Louisiana Lottery, which was basically a ‘get rich system’ for politicians at the expense of regular people.” He accomplished a number of policy victories as governor, including a statewide prohibition in line with his Presbyterian upbringing. He was nominated for Senator, which he declined, and once a suitable replacement for governor was found, Miller declined to run for a second term in 1891, leaving for Duluth, Minnesota several years later to live out his life as a quiet dealer in the grain trade. Upon his death in 1908, his body was returned to Dryden and today, if you’d like to pay him a visit, you can visit the vault occupied by him, his wife and their infant daughter at the Green Hills Cemetery.

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While the extra few million sitting around during budget time might seem like a tempting concept for lawmakers who often end up negotiating the deal in policy items rather than dollars, that $44 million would fall onto taxpayers. Currently, bipartisan bills in both the Senate and Assembly would effective choose not to go down that route and effectively “decouple” the tax codes, thus not requiring filers to take both deductions. The coupling situation is made even more complex by another federal change which caps the deductibility of state and local taxes at $10,000. This means that local municipalities and school districts in middle-class areas of the state who rely on higher income individuals to balance their budgets against federal aid could see massive budget shortfalls. (Assuming the tax hikes anticipated from the bill cause individuals to leave the state, which the governor has claimed.) This is a problem in a budget year when a $1.5 billion increase in funding was requested by the state Board of Regents. The major tax questions were downstaged during the last few weeks in the statehouse while budget proceedings trudged on, but just prior to the President’s Day recess, lawmakers received the details of Cuomo’s 30-day budget amendments which included his proposals to address some of these gaps. By the end of last week, Lifton, O’Mara and their counterparts were only finishing to pour through the legislative language and form preliminary opinions on Cuomo’s ideas which consist largely of three main components; decoupling the tax code; instituting a payroll tax; and creating new charitable institutions to route around the deduction cap. Despite prior accusations to the contrary from Republican Senators John Flanagan and John DeFrancisco, Cuomo opted to lift the requirement linking the federal and state standard deductions. The payroll tax is one of the more abstract proposals that the legislature is likely to pick apart heavily over the next month. The proposal would require employers to pay a tax of five percent on payroll expenses per employee earning more than $40,000. The idea is that businesses, which aren’t subject to the same deductibility cap as their employees, would maximize deductibility for the state and, potentially, lower their employees’ federal taxes in the process, leaving Washington – not New York – on the hook for lost tax revenues. The idea faces an uphill battle among Republicans in the Senate. O’Mara said he’s all ears but is still very skeptical about the idea. “The payroll tax would be very complicated for all the different types of businesses that we have here and could be yet another further burden on businesses in New York that they certainly don’t need,” O’Mara said. Lifton, on the other hand, is more confident in the proposal. “I’m very supportive of the attempts that are being made to shift to a payroll tax that employers can opt into to help protect their employees,” Lifton said. Cuomo’s third proposal is raising the most eyebrows on both sides of the statehouse. The idea is to setup two charitable state institutions, one for school aid, the other for health-

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care. Individuals would then be able to make donations to the institutions for an 85 percent tax credit. Since charitable donations aren’t deducted as income under the new federal plan, this would offer middle and upper-class individuals an incentive to stay in New York despite taking hits under the SALT deduction repeal. “Initially I was skeptical about how that might work,” Lifton said. “But understanding that it’s an option and not a mandate then, people could deduct into, for instance, education.” Republicans, like O’Mara, may be more in favor of that option because it’s an optional incentive, but there lies a legal precedent that all of these proposals still have to be approved by the Internal Revenue Service. “I don’t know how either of these things would fly with the IRS and their interpretations of these things,” O’Mara said. If the IRS takes issue with any of Cuomo’s proposals, such a setback could mean a major setback in time for the budget, long a fixation of the Governor’s to complete on-time. “With this new legislation we are taking action to protect hardworking New Yorkers from this attack from Washington,” Cuomo said in a statement earlier this month. “With these reforms to our tax code, we are doing everything we can to protect the rights and wallets of families across New York.” The tax plan is just one part of what lawmakers regularly refer to as “the big ugly,” the budget bill packed to the brim with other legislative priorities completely unrelated to spending guidelines. Many of these are what eventually drives either party to concede and pass the budget. With the tax plan a fixation of budget negotiations this year, the “big ugly” has potential to be bigger and uglier.Lifton notes that Democrats in the assembly are looking to possible tack on taxes for insurance and pharmaceutical companies as well as a controversial billionaire’s tax. “They’re very happy here, they’re not going anywhere. It is a total myth that if we raise their taxes a little bit they’ll be gone,” Lifton said. O’Mara says the Senate may utilize one of his own pieces of legislation as a bargaining chip. The bill removes the corporate tax for pass-through manufacturers. “It’s something that’s taken a couple years to get together,” O’Mara said. “We’re still waiting on a sponsor in the Assembly. I believe we’ve made progress on that this week and hopefully they’re going to take it as seriously in the Assembly as we’re doing to in the Senate.” This week, the legislature holds its last joint budget hearing before lawmakers return to their houses and produce their own versions of the state budget. Usually, the completed plans are revealed in the second week of March, leaving around 20 days for the legislature and the Governor to duke it out. This year, tax reform, though now clearer, will still continue to develop and prove a major player in the legislative ring. “It’s definitely about how much money is going to be in the state coffers after the dust settles. So, it’s very appropriate to put this tax issue into the budget and the discussion,” Lifton said. “Frankly, we’re still trying to figure out the various pieces of this.” – Va u g h n G o l d e n

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lawyers representing Charter Communications last week, it was discovered the decision would mean removal from their markets in Cortland and Tompkins Counties. In an effort to be transparent with its membership, Catlin sent an email to the station’s members in the affected counties outlining the decision by Charter Communications and imploring them to contact the cable provider directly as, a representative told Catlin, only a “massive public outcry” would force the communications giant to reverse its decision. Though Cortland and Ithaca technically fall within the parameters of a different broadcasting market in Syracuse, WSKG’s reach across the region – and its commitment to covering news here – is extensive. According to Catlin, the PBS/NPR affiliate covers 21 counties across New York State, counting more than 10,000 paying members who help keep the non-profit running. But of those nearly two dozen counties, Ithaca and Cortland are two of its most crucial, with nearly one quarter of the station’s membership – about 2,500 paid memberships – residing in those two counties. The area’s influence is so sizable that, in November, the station took the step to hire its first reporter dedicated to covering the area – Celia Clarke – in the station’s television and radio coverage. In a media release circulated Thursday morning, Catlin reaffirmed his commitment to coverage in the Ithaca/Cortland markets. With a vehicle for NPR on its two frequencies in the area, on top of the station’s full time news reporter, full time business sponsorship rep and a planned giving officer, Catlin said its deep involvement in the Ithaca area, despite the decision, “will not change.” Though WSKG will continue to broadcast its radio programs here, the loss of its television station could pose the risk of alienating television viewers. Though deemed by the company to be a “business decision,” Charter Communications had little to no financial interest in the station’s success. While typically, carriers such as Spectrum would give money to commercial television stations in order to carry their content, PBS stations – as federally-funded non-profit organizations – do not receive any compensation from the cable companies to operate. The move to eliminate WSKG from the network where most of its support comes from could potentially have a significant impact on the station’s bottom line, as the station’s federally subsidized parent companies – PBS and NPR – stand to face significant cuts under President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget. (Some money, Catlin notes, has been put back in since the President released his initial budget allocating $0 in funding to the networks.) “It could be devastating to us,” said Catlin. “We’ve let our members know in the two counties that this is happening. The most feasible explanation seems to be an adjustment to shift local viewership from the Binghamton viewership market to the market in Syracuse and its PBS affiliate there, WCNY. –Nick Reynolds

Ellen Kempner sings songs of love and loss, coming out and navigating her first healthy, queer relationship without the support of her close friend.

llen Kempner’s voice is what makes more fine-tuned album with its own narrative. Boston-based indie rock band PaleWhen she was writing her latest album, she hound stand out. experienced the sudden and unexpected death It’s unique, unconventional, of a close friend as well as the death of her f luctuates and cracks and some- grandmother. times dips into a whisper for a line “The only way I could make sense of it was or two. Kempner, who has been putting out to write about it,” Kempner said. “It helped me music as Palehound since 2013, grew up sur- process it, to write in that way.” rounded by music. In “Feeling Fruit,” Kempner sings of the “My little sister can belt and do amazing waves of grief that overwhelm her in unexpected things with her voice,” Kempner said. “But I places, like the grocery store. “After weeks of can’t. I can sing my own songs because I write frozen meals, I am in the produce aisle and I’m them for my own voice.” feeling all the fruits. Every Her fat her, a n It haca wormhole, ever y bruise. College alumnus, encour‘Cause I’m stuck with the aged Kempner to sing and weight you gave up.” enrolled her in guitar lesBut in the midst of this sons as early as 6. loss, Kempner was also find“I was really lucky to ing love for the first time. grow up around music,” “It’s my first time feeling Kempner said from the tour happy about being queer,” van on the band’s way to Kempner said. Santa Cruz, Michael JackKempner recently came son’s “Man in the Mirror” out, but before she did, she playing in the background. sang songs of heterosexual Kempner has come a long romance by simply replacway from singing along to ing the female pronouns Disney movies, and idolwith male pronouns. izing her “first real hero,” “I wasn’t entirely out yet,” A Place I’ll Always Go (2017) Avril Lavigne. After graduKempner said. “I thought ating from Sarah Lawrence College in southern people wouldn’t want to hear songs that were Westchester County, she started putting music gay. I thought ‘If I want people to like these out for her friends to listen to. So far she’s songs, I can’t be honest about that.’” released three EPs and two LPS. Her music has But now that she’s out, Kempner said, she’s always been lo-fi and grungy, but her latest LP, more open, expresses herself more and does not “A Place I’ll Always Go,” has blossomed into a spend as much energy trying to hide that side

By Micah Wi l k i ns of herself. In “Room,” Kempner sings “A turn above her, never had a lover in my room. She keeps me up at night... Call us sinners but we eat all our dinners in my room… Rests her head near, I’m feeling okay here.” The song is about transforming her bedroom, a once-private space, which used to represent loneliness and solitude, into a shared space according to Kempner. “It’s about feeling comfortable with someone else and letting someone into your life and your most intimate spaces and cohabitating,” Kempner said. The combination of love songs and songs of loss make for a “half sad and half happy album,” Kempner said. In “If You Met Her,” Kempner imagines her friend who passed away meeting her new partner. “Now it’s April 6th, first one that you’ll miss… Starting to count up to two, another year of missing you... I’m with someone new and I know that you would love her if you met her.” Kempner is on tour with drummer Jesse Weiss and bassist Larz Brogan. The band will be playing an all-ages show at the Dock on Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m. with Philadelphia’s lo-fi experimental artist Tim Woulfe, San Francisco’s dreamy and harmonious Boy Scouts, and local act clam lust. •

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Playing the middleman in the battle of As Nina, Sherron Brown brings an If you can solve any of these questions, you are a cruciverbalist! McClintock and Watson is McClintock’s attentive, anxious-to-please presence that “a person skillful in creating or solving crossword puzzles.” lifelong friend and colleague Marcus opens up to a slightly more raucous humor You are cordially invited to join the adults and compete in the Rhoades (they met as grad students at while also finally asserting Nina’s smarts. Cornell), while a younger fellow woman AJ Sage proves a bit over-studied in his Sixth Annual Finger Lakes Crossword Competition th scientist, Nina Federoff, is trying to woo earlier scenes, but catches the alpha male in the Boynton Middle School cafeteria on Sat. March 17 , 2018. Barbara to become her mentor. When riding a current of self-anxiety as the play away from this buzz of humanity, Barbara unfolds. For more information go to Tompkins Learning Partners website, TLPartners.org and click on the Crossword graphic. If you need more information, get in touch with your is haunted by shifting memories of the There were moments when the acting school librarian or the Event Chair (and Rt. 52 school bus driver), Gary Weissbrot, at poorly received delivery of her ground- seemed a bit concerned with illustrating gweissbrot@hotmail.com breaking paper (by the character Young the moment, rather than relaxing into it, Barbara) at the 1951 Cold Harbor sympo- and the stage picture was a bit static at sium. times, but these were very minor distracPratt’s examination of gender extends tions in a generous, funny and gripping to the role of the male scientists’ wives production.• and lab assistants, as Barbara continually

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Adventurous Journeys

Cherry play captures woes and culture brilliantly By Barbara Ad am s

f you’re fortunate, you have at least one persuades them to buy expensive cookware friend who’s a creative and adventurous (Sarah K. Chalmers); a hapless young man cook — and who occasionally invites seeking marriage as a visa ticket (Lawrence you over for a predictably intriguing meal. Bierria); a lonely cop who insists on sharing A mix of the familiar and the strange, the an endless meal (Jacob Garrett White); a fare is almost perfectly satisfying yet leaves one-thumbed man whose disturbing story you a bit puzzled, curious for more. leads to violence (Craig MacDonald). Ultimately, it’s unforgettable — very Every time, it’s warm-hearted, yogamuch like the offerings we’re asked to share breathing Ana who gives in and tries to at Ithaca’s Cherry Artspace: new works answer everyone’s needs, to the consternawith unusual perspectives from diverse cul- tion of Monika, who’s far more practical tures. Currently being staged is the world and goal-focused. A final encounter on premiere of Rule of Thumb, by Serbian play- an empty stretch of road turns the tables wright Iva Brdar, translated to English by — Monika becomes fixated on a (talking) her sister, Ana Brdar. dead dog (Jeff Guyton) hit by a careless The first thumbs in question are the driver, unable to ignore its complaints. French-manicured ones of two young By the home stretch, Monika is deliriSwedes, Ana and Monika. Enthusiastic ously cheerful, urging on the exhausted but naïve, the women are competing in Ana, who’s still loaded down with pots and a hitchhiking contest, pans. They arrive, f rom t he i r Swe d i s h apparently winners, coastal city down to Strbut to emptiness. Is ezimirovci, an obscure this barren field in town on the border of f a c t t he d e s t i ne d Serbia and Bulgaria. spot? Are they first This road trip by thumb or last? Will they ever — over 3,000 kilometers be acknowledged? Is — might seem perilous the contest still on? to a U.S. audience, given What is “winning,” the inherent dangers of after all? our own society. But in Monika believes Europe, hitchhiking is fiercely; Ana, now the still a common practice, skeptical, pragmatic with official competione, takes care of her, tions turning the frugal as the two settle in, custom into a celebracamping for weeks, The lead women (Photo: Rachel Philipson) tory sport. su st a i ned on le a f Under the creative vision of director soup, awaiting the other contestants. EvenBeth F. Milles and the design team, the tually, the others trail in and past them, Cherry has been transformed once again, interminably, expressionless, heading for with tennis court seating, the theatre another probably empty destination. divided by a 6-ft. wide black roadway, comRule of Thumb’s ultimately Beckettian plete with dirt-gravel shoulders. Patrons bleakness is aptly brightened by a visually are chatted up pre-show by wandering cast stimulating context — thanks to Sergey members and even invited onto the tarmac Levitskiy’s sound, Brock Viering’s texfor some spontaneous dancing to catchy tured costumes, and especially expressive Serbian pop. lighting washes by Pierre Clavel and Paul But once the main action begins, we’re Vaillancourt. And of course the ultimate riveted to the adventure, as Monika (Helen leavening agent, comedy — what else proT. Clark) and Ana (Darcy Rose), undaunted pels us through challenges and changes, by their enormous backpacks, trek down buoys us in despair? the highway. As expected, this is both a Credit to all the actors, but especially specific, localized trip and a life-voyage to Clark and Rose, for making this travel metaphor, rendered as simultaneously delightfully immediate, high-spirited, realistic and surreal. When the girls’ rides vivid, and funny-despite-the-odds. In arrive, they come fraught with political one swift, entertaining evening, Rule of resonance — revealing social upheaval in Thumb offers a fresh look at our needs the form of homelessness, urban gentrifica- and necessities, our goa ls and delution, job shortages, bureaucratic healthcare, sions, our progress despite paralysis. • corporate ruthlessness and eventually nearhopeless emigration. Rule of Thumb by Iva Brdar. Directed by Each encounter both advances and Beth F. Milles. With Helen T. Clark and retards the girls’ progress, as they’re waylaid Darcy Rose at The Cherry Artspace. Tickets by the personal griefs and agendas of every at thecherry.org/tickets/ for performances driver: a woman living out of her car who through March 4.

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Loud & Quiet, Bold & Brash

Band Deer Tick brings its dual set tour to Ithaca By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o

Above: All the members of Deer Tick, a Rhode Island–based independent band (Photo: Laura Partain). Right: The cover of “Deer TIck Vol. 2,” the band’s “loud” album (Photo provided)

reating music together for more than a decade, Rhode Island–based band Deer Tick has mastered the basics — and this new era of its music smashes t hrough boundaries of Deer Tick’s past. The Twice is Nice Tour is coming to Ithaca 9 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at The Haunt: a show of comedy, acoustic tunes and loud rock.

The Twice is Nice Tour celebrates the band’s newest albums: Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Deer Tick Vol. 2, both released in 2017. Instead of releasing a single record, the group decided to craft two pieces, both radically different in sound from the other. Guitarist and vocalist of Deer Tick Ian Patrick O’Neil describes Vol. 1 as the “quiet” album and Vol. 2 as the “loud”

album. Songs like “Sea of Clouds” on Vol. 1 capture the dreamy, folk vibes Deer Tick is known for. Vocals sail through strums of the guitar, with lyrics “Tell me how you live your life so easily/As a memory,” trailing off in thought as the song comes to a close. The music video for the song captures a similar feel: the members of the band ride tandem on a bicycle, enjoying beer and cradling roses, animated by artist James Kerr or Scorpion Dagger. This dreamlike, f loaty music is then juxtaposed with songs like “Look How Clean I am” on Vol. 2. Percussive sets liven up the music, and jams on the guitar rock out with lyrics like “So feeling unproductive/ With nothing on tv/ I’m looking up a restaurant/ To wallow in publicity.” In an interview with KEXP Radio of Seattle, Washington, O’Neil said he wrote most of the “Look How Clean I am” in the shower — and now look how clean he is. “[Deer Tick] came to the conclusion when we’re making records that we’ve had these mixed intentions where we kind of like our inf luences lie in really loud music and really quiet music,” O’Neil told the Ithaca Times. “It kind of felt like if we wanted to make both of these records seamlessly sequenced and that could sit alone and apart from each other, then we can kind of give ourselves a clear statement with each of them.” Creating two albums led to the creation of the Twice is Nice Tour, which consists of two sets and features performances by different comedians. Instead of opening with a band or another musician, standup comics lead the show — an unusual pick for a concert. For the Ithaca tour, comedian Solomon Georgio will kick off the show. Much of his comedy revolves around social commentary, exploring his struggles living as a gay African immigrant in the U.S. Georgio has been featured on CONAN, Drunk History, The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail, This is Not Happening, Viceland’s Flophouse and

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Last Call with Carson Daily. After the comedian performs at each show, Deer Tick begins with an acoustic set, mixing together songs off Vol. 1 and older favorites from past albums. To avoid a jarring switch between a loud and quiet set, the comedian serves as a segue between sets and helps with the transition to the Vol. 2 portion of the show. Constructing the tour came as a labor of love for fans of Deer Tick, and for the

band to play around with concert structures. Deer Tick’s last album came out in 2013, and both records served as a way to fill the group’s absence from the music scene, O’Neil said. “We wanted it to be a different experience from our regular shows, and we wanted to take advantage of the fact that we put so much time and effort into being on tour,” he said. “We had been away for four years, so it had been so nice to take a minute and give people all of our sounds for one record cycle.” And the band’s dynamic has changed since its inception. Members have left and new talent has joined, and the entire group no longer lives in Rhode Island. Notably lead singer John McCauley has moved out to Nashville and started a family with his wife, Grammy-nominated and independent musician Vanessa Carlton, since they got married in 2013 — the same year the last album was released. But with these changes comes maturity as artists, O’Neil said. Changes as a group he said has led to more focus and better music, despite the distance and the changes. “It’s not that unusual for people our age to understand that the internet was going to be playing a bigger role in the music industry,” O’Neil said. “I think you realize you have the tours often, and then after you do that for a while, you have to find a healthier way of being a creative person. Luckily for us and the people we’ve chosen to work with have made our lives more comfortable and easier by putting a focus on music and also on trying to live sustainably.” •

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A Fantastical Opera

IC’s ‘Cendrillion’ whimsical and stunning By Barbara Ad am s

early 120 years after it first delight- (alternating subsequent performances ed Parisian audiences, Jules Mass- with Catherine Barr and Rebecca Gudenet’s operatic take on Perrault’s erian). Massenet intended the Prince to be version of the Cinderella story (with libret- a breeches role, and the effect is charming to by Henri Caïn) still offers a welcome (and today, nicely non-heteronormative). romantic fantasy. Cendrillon, on Ithaca Nordmark’s Lucette is assertive yet dutiCollege’s Hoerner mainstage through this ful; Price’s Prince is aptly smitten. Both weekend, is a four-act fairytale set in an roles are beautifully sung, with their sightearly-20th-century world of titled hierar- less duet tender and moving. chy and bourgeois aspirants. Bergen Price stood out, in fact, as the The story of an abused girl finally receiv- singer whose voice most resonated in the ing her just reward, going from obscurity Hoerner’s problematic acoustics. Except to recognition, is familiar enough. Dozens for her and Nordmark, most of these of versions exist, and this one comes with a singers, talented but unmiked, projected particular twist: Cinderella’s father, whose far too faintly (especially Pokrentowski). first wife has died, has remarried up, as Christopher Zemliauskas’ large orchestra they say, to a wealthy, social-climbing did its part, however, rendering Massenet’s woman; it seems he has ambitions at court music handsomely without overwhelming himself. He’s ineffectual but very much the singers. present; he loves but neglects his daughter, The set was designed with a ceiling, Lucette. It takes her p o s sibly to c h a nprolonged illness nel the sound, yet and eventual disapthe overall imprespearance to bring sion was of music him to his senses. boxed-i n, hea rd Guest director from afar. Though Erik Pearson brings these performersus handily into a i n-t r a i n i n g ne e d world of both privimainstage experileged and strivers, enc e , one w i s he s while redeeming all t hat loca l opera their excesses with could be presented the magical world i n f a r more i nt iof fairies, healing mate venues, such nature and above as Opera It haca’s all young love. The recent Tosca, where simple, elegant setthe close aural effect ting, designed by was magical. A lex Ward, presBut IC’s CendrilTwo actors in “Cendrillion” (Photo provided) ents subtly mottled lon does have magic palatial walls as well aplenty in its fairy as the burgeoning natural world in a world, a confection to counter the disapframe that’s boxlike and frontal, evoking pointments of daily life and to reaffirm the old opera houses. Atmospheric lighting wondrous quality of young love. As La Fée, by Nicholas Palatella reflects the shifting Magdalyn Chauby seems as much goddess moods and scenes. as godmother, a mystical fairy queen in a A large chorus of comical house ser- shimmering peacock-feathered robe. vants, disgruntled but obedient, wait on Her retinue of sprites (the house serthe whims of Mme. de la Haltière (Vir- vants transformed) is equally stunning ginia Douglas), portrayed as overbearing — mar velous costumes and bizarre, yet charismatic, a devoted maman. You enchanting headdresses by costumer Shiunderstand why she wants the best for her vanna Sooknanan. When La Fée presides daughters. Humorously rendered by Stella over the lovers meeting, they’re separated Rivera and Jessica Voutsinas, these could by a natural barrier and so unseen to each be any gaily gossiping teenage girls, preoc- other. Designer Ward’s “flowered wall” is cupied with their complexions, clothing, itself breathtaking: a vast, upside-down and cell phones. No witchy behavior here. tree that descends, each branch and leaf Father Pandolfe (a tall and comely Mar- distinct — are they sere or silver? shall Pokrentowski) seems to regret everyAll these exquisite fantastical elements thing; he’s besieged, in retreat, and hobbles coexist quite happily with the robust, with a cane (which, once he stands up to individualized character portrayals of this his wife, he tosses confidently away). production — perhaps reminding us, as an On opening night, Prince Charmant Oscar Wilde character said, that “we are and his Princess-to-Be were portrayed all in the gutter, but some of us are looking by Bergen Price and Nicolette Nordmark at the stars.” •

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Aubakirova, director of the Kazakh National Kurmangazy Conservatoire, will perform Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin. Switch Ensemble | 8:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | CCCP: [Switch~Ensemble] performs premieres of works by Cornell composers, integrating technology and live musicians.

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The Family Ties | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Indie Rock) Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted by Dennis Winge Trio. Lucero, Jake La Botz | 8:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Guest Pianist Christina Dahl | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Music by Faure, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Schumann, and a premiere by Sheila Silver. Bound for Glory | 8:30 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Anabel Taylor Hall,

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Ithaca Underground: Soul Glo (Tour Kickoff), Escuela, Monolith, White Crime | 7:00 PM-10:30 PM, Monday, March 5, 18 | Chanticleer, 101 W State St, Ithaca | (Punk, Grindcore, Doom)

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Ithaca College Guest Artist: Jania Aubakirova, piano | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Hockett Family Recital Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Jania

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Keller Williams | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Singer, songwriter and guitarist Keller Williams performs a one-man shows as he performs his unique mix of folk, bluegrass, reggae and rock, creating electronic backing loops in the moment, building and improvising as he goes on his custom-made 10-string guitar. Switch Ensemble | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Switch Ensemble performs premieres of works by Cornell composers, integrating technology and live musicians. CU Music: Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players Present Switch Ensemble | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Performs premieres of works by Cornell composers, integrating technology and live musicians. Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble plays MONK | 8:15 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Ford Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | The Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble plays the music of Thelonious Monk.

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Traditional Iraqi Classical Music Concert | 10:30 AM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Enjoy pastries and coffee while listening to Iraqi classical music performed by renowned musicians Max Buckholtz and Imad Al Taha. Women’s Voices: Past + Present | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, March

3, 18 | Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall St., Seneca Falls | This March the American Wild Ensemble partners with the Women’s Rights National Historical Park to explore an alternative take on the concept of our cultural wild and celebrate the voices of American women of the past and present. Kuro Winds and I Venti Dementi at the Unitarian | 4:00 PM-5:20 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Ithaca-based chamber ensembles I Venti Dementi and Kuro Winds will present a program of chamber music for woodwinds, including works of Carter,Â Mendelssohn, Broughton and others. Symphoria Masterworks Series: Rite of Spring | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Moscow-born pianist Natasha Paremski performs Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on this all-Russian concert. The program concludes with Stravins’s controversial redefinition of 20th Century music, Rite of Spring. Sweet Honey In The Rock | 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | An African American musical collective, founded on the principles of empowerment, education and entertainment for its audience.

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Opus Ithaca Presents: Appalachian Spring | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St. , Ithaca | A concert for the community. Featuring musicians from the faculties of Opus Ithaca, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Cornell Chamber Orchestra | 3:00 PM-4:10 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Chamber Orchestra; Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor, with Buffalo Philharmonic Concertmaster Dennis Kim as guest leader. Features Bartok’s Divertimento for Strings and Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round. Ithaca College Concerto Competition Concert with the

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Symphony Orchestra | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Ford Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | The winners of Ithaca College’s concerto competition will perform with the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra at 4:00pm in Ford Hall. Howard Jones | 8:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Synth, Pop) Pianist Christina Dahl: CU Music | 8:00 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Guest Pianist Christina Dahl: Music by Faure, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Schumann, and a premiere by Sheila Silver. Trevor Hall | 8:00 PM-10:30 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Trevor will be sharing songs, the stories behind them, as well as rare images and footage from his journeys to India, Nepal and beyond.

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Ithaca College Choir ACDA Preview Concert | 8:15 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, March 6, 18 | Ford Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca |

Film Movie Screening and Discussion: Loev | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Ithaca College, Park Auditorium | Showing and discussion of the Indian romantic drama Loev, the story of the complex emotional and sexual relationship between two friends, with writer and director Sudhanshu Saria, a 2006 Ithaca College graduate. Movie Screening and Discussion: Surviving Me | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Ithaca College, Park Hall Auditorium, , | Showing and discussion of Surviving Me, the story of a college student who embarks on a journey of self-discovery amidst a sexual identity crisis, with writer and director Leah Yanaton. And the Winner Is ... Awards Night Party | 7:30 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Cinemapolis is celebrating another year of great cinema and hosting Hollywood’s biggest award ceremony on the big screen. Featuring food, drink, raffles, silent auctions and a Guess the Winners Contest for Cinemapolis’ signature fundraising event. LGBTQ Film Series Screening of

Check It | 6:00 PM-, Tuesday, March 6, 18 | Ithaca College Textor Hall, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | CHECK IT is a documentary about a black gay gang struggling to survive in one of Washington D.C.’s most violent neighborhoods. . Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World | 7:00 PM, Tuesday, March 6, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A documentary of indigenous contributions to rock ’n’ roll, featuring footage of Jimi Hendrix, Charley Patton, The Band’s Robbie Robertso, and others with Native American heritage. Cornell Cinema Continuum | 7:15 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | This program celebrating the 50th anniversary of San Francisco-based experimental film distributor Canyon Cinema is bookended by films made by Canyon Cinema founders Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand. Dolores | 7:15 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | At last we have the story of the great Chicana activist Dolores Huerta: co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers and still battling injustice in her late ‘80s.

Lady Bird | 9:15 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In this authentic and affectionate comedy, headstrong seventeen-year-old Christine Lady Bird McPherson comes of age in a Sacramento Catholic school in the early 2000s. Also showing March 2-3 at 9:25 p.m. The Divine Order | 7:15 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In this fiercely captivating look at the 1971 fight for women’s suffrage in Switzerland (yes, 1971!), Nora, a quiet, dutiful, young housewife in a small village begins to organize and campaign publicly for women’s right to vote. Ferdinand | 2:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A heartwarming animated comedy inspired by the beloved book The Story of Ferdinand, this is a tale of a peaceful, flowersniffing bull on an adventure back home after being mistaken for a dangerous beast. Also showing March 4 at 4:30 p.m. Germany in Autumn | 7:00 PM, Monday, March 5, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A compendium of short works examining the political terrorism of the Red Army Faction as it impacted

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Sweet Honey in the Rock is an African American musical collective, founded on the principles of empowerment, education and entertainment for its audience. The group performs a unique concert entity that fuses the possibilities of the human voice with a theatrical flair that keeps avid audiences returning for more year after year. There will also be a sign language interpreter. (Photo provided)

The movies of 2017 will be lauded during the Academy Awards ceremony — and why sit at home and watch the awards when you can grab dinner and a drink at the local theater and watch with the whole community? Predict the most winners and be entered for a chance to win free movies for a year. (Photo provided)

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for someone who transforms into another person every day. | 95 mins PG-13 Game Night | A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. | 100 mins R Red Sparrow | Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations. | 139 mins R Black Panther | T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. | 134 mins PG-13 Early Man | Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home. | 89 mins PG 50 Shades Freed | Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship. | 105 mins R Peter Rabbit | Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer’s vegetable garden. | 95 mins PG The 15:17 to Paris | Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France. | 94 mins PG-13 The Post | A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. | 116 mins PG-13 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. | 119 mins PG-13 The Greatest Showman| Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original

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Stage Cendrillon | Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Ithaca College Hoerner Theatre, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | The spring opera is Cendrillon, composed by Jules Massenet, based on Charles Perrault’s 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale. The familiar story of obstacles, cruelty, and magic soars with Massenet’s score. A Raisin In The Sun | Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Syracuse Stage/ Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | The story of the Younger family’s three generations trying to build a better life on Chicago’s South Side resonates loudly with those pursuing the American dream today. Encore Players Auditions for Spring Comedy | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | First Presbyterian Church of Ulysses, 69 E Main Street, Trumansburg | Encore Players Community Theatre will hold open auditions for their Spring production. A Chorus Line | 7:30 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | The classic musical about musicals. Rule of Thumb World Premiere | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | This play follows the story of Ana and Monika, two high-spirited young women from Sweden who enter a hitchhiking contest and find themselves on a series of peculiar, delightful and unsettling rides through the borderlands of Serbia and Bulgaria. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Locally Grown Dance | 7:30 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The bi-weekly drag show with The House of Merlot. Comedian Bengt Washburn | 7:30

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ou may have seen comedian Bengt (pronounced Bent) Washburn doing his familyfriendly comedy on “Conan” and “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.” Winner of the prestigious San Francisco comedy competition, Bengt Washburn will bring his act to CRT Downtown on Friday, March 2, at 7:30pm. The Ithaca Times spoke to Washburn about his name, growing up Mormon and how he got started in comedy. Ithaca Times: I’ve been wondering for weeks: what kind of name is Bengt? Bengt Washburn: Bengt is a Swedish name, but I am not Swedish. My mom just wanted children with different names. IT: I’ve never heard that name before. BW: Every once in a while in the Olympics, there’ll be a skier or a skater. And then a guy with the name Bengt just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Up until he did that, I was the number-one

PM-9:30 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | As seen on Conan and The Late Late Show with Colin Ferguson, Bengt Washburn is the winner of the San Francisco comedy competition, the most prestigious comedy contest in the US. MAIZE, a play about Barbara McClintock | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Risley Theatre, Risley Drive, Ithaca | A drama about how we can sabotage ourselves, the challenges of being a woman in science, and about scientists who love their work. Cosmic Joke Collective | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Magic of Adam Trent | 4:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Direct from Broadway, Adam Trent, the break out star of the world’s best selling magic show

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Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Saturday, March 3, 12–4 p.m. This fundraising for local animal shelters event features cat-themed mini lectures given by Cornell clinicians and staff members, a raffle, bake sale, children’s games, crafts, face painting, cat adoptions by local shelters, a professional cat photographer and a fun cat show. (Photo provided)

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Bengt Washburn will perfrom 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 2, at CRT Downtown. (Photo provided) in my act: I do stand up because I got a masters’ degree in art. It wasn’t really working out. I wasn’t making any real money with it. I couldn’t get a teaching job. And I ended up with a divorce and I had been doing stand up as a hobby. They started paying me a little bit of

Friday, March 2, 18 | Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Cornell Univeristy Women’s Basketball vs. Harvard University | 6:00 PM-, Friday, March 2, 18 | Newman Arena at Bartels Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Winter Farmers Market | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Ithaca Farmers Market, 545 3rd Street, Ithaca | The Ithaca Farmers Market, indoors during the winter months. Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting atÂ 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Meet at the

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Bengt Google search, but then he won that, and he knocked me down. IT: I love hearing performers talk about how they got started, BW: I always wanted to do [comedy] when I was a kid. I wrote and did a little stand-up routine in high school for an assembly, the first time I ever did it. IT: How did it go over? BW: It went well. I don’t really know how it went well. I didn’t really know what I was doing. I grew up Mormon, and they didn’t let us watch or listen to a lot of comedy, you know? I had just seen Steve Martin on TV and watched “The Carol Burnett Show” and thought, “Wow, I wanna do that.” All that stuff was huge. I came to a lot of it late, growing up in Utah. “Saturday Night Live” was not on TV for a while. For quite a few years, I couldn’t get any “Saturday Night Live.” The local affiliate got better ratings with “MASH.” The Mormons didn’t want to watch “SNL”: it was too scandalous. IT: Are you still a practicing Mormon? BW: No, I’m not. I was. I went on the full mission from age 19–21. I wanted to do stand up when I was really young, but I didn’t think it was compatible with Mormonism. And for me, it wasn’t. It absolutely wasn’t. In college, I was pursuing a degree in fine art. I actually got a degree in art. I say that

money, which is a lot more than nothing that I had been making with art. I think I thought of myself as damaged goods. As a Mormon, once you get a divorce… “I’m already going to hell. I guess I’ll do stand up.” •

front of the building. http://www. cayugabirdclub.org/calendarÂ Ithaca Women’s Track & Field vs All Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Ithaca Men’s Track & Field vs All Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Cornell Univeristy Women’s Basketball vs. Dartmouth College | 5:00 PM-, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Newman Arena at Bartels Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Trumansburg Community Nursery School Bid & Bowl | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Come enjoy a fun adult afternoon out to support the future of our children at Trumansburg Community Nursery School.

Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Ten Forward Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | LACS Freedom School Flatbread Fundraiser | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Visit to hear this Old Time collaboration of players in The Rongovian String Band. Keep an eye out for Ithacans Rosie Newton, Richie Stearns, Steve Selin and Ben Gould at this benefit. Teen-Only Gaming Sessions | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, March 5, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle and high school-aged students (and homeschooled equivalents) are invited to participate in after school gaming sessions. Use our space to play your favorite board games, tabletop RPGs and collectible card games. SPARK! Leadership Conference | Tuesday, March 6, 18 | Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel, 16 N. Franklin Street, Dundee | This conference offers a fresh

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The Dock, Ithaca Saturday, March 3, 7 p.m. Since forming in 2014, Palehound — Ellen Kempner, drummer Jesse Weiss (Spook The Herd), and new bassist Larz Brogan — have taken their plainspoken, technique-heavy indie rock from the basements of Boston to festivals around the world. A Place I’ll Always Go builds on the promise of Palehound’s critically acclaimed 2015 album Dry Food with songs that breathe Kempner’s evolved maturity. (Photo provided)

take on leadership development to bright, dynamic professionals from all industries across New York State and beyond.

Special Events 12th Annual Celebrity Chef Pasta Night | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Glenora Wine Cellars Inc, 5435 State Route 14, Dundee | 7th Annual Wintersquabee | Friday, March 2, 18 | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | From March 2â€“4. Featuring a myriad of local artists. Cortland Harvest: Winter Feast | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Cortland Harvest promotes seasonal culinary events at rotating venues in the community highlighting local small businesses, farmers, producers, and artists.

Science Pruning Fundamentals | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | Pruning your trees and shrubs can beautify your landscape and improve the growth and health of your plants. Discovery Sundays | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Learn about exoskeletons, butterflies, skin and skulls, whooping cranes and much more. Visit www.cayuganaturecenter. org for details.

Health Inspire the Fire Yoga | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Generate some heat and feel your empowered body flow in this invigorating one-hour yoga session. Reproductive Wellness | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | If you are struggling with infertility, this class is for you. Viv (Kala) Williams is a

wellness educator and coach, and a NYS Licensed Massage Therapist. Registration required. Inspire the Fire Yoga | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Generate some heat and feel your empowered body flow in this invigorating one-hour yoga session. Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Start your weekend off with our intermediate vinyasa flow yoga class. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect. Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, March 5, 18 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Contact Leigh 379-4858. No matter what your problem with food, no dues, fees, weigh-ins.

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Ithaca band White Crime will perform in an Ithaca Underground showcase from 7–10:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, at The Chanticleer. This group fights the fascist and Nazi agenda. (Photo provided)

Science on Tap: Stem cell therapy: a magician’s tale or clinical reality | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Aimed to make science accessible and exciting to everyone, we will bring a diverse set of speakers studying a range of research topics. Genealogy Skill Building Workshop by Susan Nixson | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Susan Nixson holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University, and she started a genealogy services business, Charting Origins, in 2017. She is a currently a volunteer archivist for the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca. Work-Life Fusion: A Guide to Freedom and Autonomy at Work | 4:00 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Mann Library, Cornell Library, Ithaca | As we move away from the

traditional paradigm of work-life balance and enter the era of the fused work environment, there can often be misunderstandings between managers, direct reports and coworkers. Inside the Central Park Conservancy: Revitalizing the World’s Most Famous Urban Park | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Join Friends of Stewart Park for an exciting, behind-thescenes look inside the Central Park Conservancy and its tremendous revitalization efforts in Central Park, the world’s most famous urban park. Kicking My Blue Genes in the Butt | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Ithaca College, Textor Hall, Room 102, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Kicking My Blue Genes in the Butt, a one-man show and educational presentation on suicide, mental health and diversity

by Joshua Rivedal. Blanche Hazard Pioneering Local Suffragist and Women’s Studies Educator by Corey Ryan Earle | 3:30 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | A pioneering historian, educator, author and civic leader, Blanche Evans Hazard taught in the Department of Home Economics at Cornell University from 1914 to 1922.

Kids Sciencenter Science Together | 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, February 28, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you investigate how to use tools, through self-guided, hands-on activities. Bravelands Book Discussion | 3:45 PM-, Wednesday, February 28,

Art Maker’s March | Thursday, March 1, 18 | Inns of Aurora, 391 Main Street, Aurora | Aurora is filled with and surrounded by passionate and talented makers herbalists, potters, painters, book artists, cocktail crafters and more. 29th Annual Juried Photography Show | Thursday, March 1, 18 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | On exhibit are 76 photographs by photographers from NYC, Long Island, Rochester and the Ithaca area. Landscape Paintings by Annemiek Haralson | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 18 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | Now through the end of March, the Trumansburg library is featuring an exhibit of landscape

paintings by Annemiek Haralson. Ms. Haralson draws inspiration from local hikes, and hopes to convey her love of nature and the beauty around us in her paintings. The World Bewitch’d: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | Friday, March 2, 18 | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | The exhibition features rare and unique books and documents from 15th-century witch hunting manuals to 20th-century movie posters. Little Gems, A Collection of Miniature Paintings | Friday, March 2, 18 | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | A new exhibit which features small works by more than 30 regional artists. Waiting for the Singularity | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | Artists respond to the current situation where science, truth and logic are easily ignored by the political machine and corporate structures in their pursuit of unlimited power and exorbitant wealth. First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 2, 18 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different artists: local artists, and sometimes global. Salon de Fleurus | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 | Ithaca College, Handwerker Gallery, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | A touring exhibit comprising a contemporary reconstruction of the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, referencing a story of modern art beginnings through one of the first gathering places for burgeoning young artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Stein herself. Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 18 Landscape Paintings by Annemiek Haralson | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Sunday, March 4, 18 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | Now through the end of March, the Trumansburg library is featuring an exhibit of landscape paintings by Annemiek Haralson.

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Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University March 1–3, 7:30 p.m.

St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Ithaca, Sunday, March 4, 3–5 p.m.

A concert for the community. Featuring musicians from the faculties of Opus Ithaca, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Opus Ithaca is a nonprofit music school, the team creates an environment for students of all ages and abilities to study and appreciate music. With the belief communities are strengthened through music, Opus provides accessible education to music. (Photo provided)

The Locally Grown Dance showcase features local talent, performing different styles of dance throughout the weekend. Some of the pieces will be accompanied by live music — also by local artists. This year’s program is directed by Cornell Performing and Media Arts faculty Byron Suber & Jumay Chu. (Photo provided)

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