damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play. | 123 mins PG-13 | Dady’s Home | A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife’s two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids. | 96 mins PG-13 | Joy | Joy is the story of a family across four generations and the woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. | 124 mins PG-13 | Point Break (2015) | A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. “Point Break” is inspired by the classic 1991 hit. | 113 mins | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas and set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). | 135 mins PG-13 | The Hateful Eight | In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters. | 187 mins R | The Revenant | A frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s is on a quest for survival after being brutally mauled by a bear. | 156 mins R | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | As the war of Panem escalates to the destruction of other districts, Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant leader of the rebellion, must bring together an army against President Snow, while all she holds dear hangs in the balance.| 137 mins PG-13 |
House, 315 Eddy St, Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner. RSVP lpd4@ cornell.edu 607-273-4013 Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com. Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 1/07 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions. Pancake Breakfast: Varna Community Center | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast or Waffles, Sausage & Bacon or Ham, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Sausage Gravy & Biscuits, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. And this season we’re serving homemade butter and whip cream. Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage. Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga. Collaborative Solutions Network (CSN) | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 1/12 Tuesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Please join the Collaborative Solutions Network (CSN) as we work together to build a family driven, culturally sensitive, youth guided and trauma informed system of care! serenaw@rackercenters.org The Groton Alumni Association meeting | 7:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday |
Stage Running To Places Presents: Crazy for You | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | One of the most joyful musical comedies around, featuring tap numbers aplenty, outrageous comedy, romance, mistaken identity, singing cowboys. Runs January 8, 9, and 10. For more info visit www.stateofithaca. com/events
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Community Room of Center Village Court, 200 West South Street, Groton | If you have questions, contact Jane Rutledge at 898-3983 or Rose Tucker at 898-5867. The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 The Commons, Ithaca | Please join us for tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Every Tuesday Night at 7 O’Clock.
Learning Jeanne Calabretta, N.D, A.A.S., CNHP, Nature’s Sunshine Manager | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 1/07 Thursday | The Jenkins Center, Suite 110, 301 South Geneva St., Ithaca | Topics include, The Gut::Brain Connection, Flower Essences and the emotional areas of the brain, Herbs that do not counteract medications, Lifestyle changes (at your own pace), and much more! Open to the Public. Reserve a place by calling (607) 277-7337 www.mhaedu.org Spice up Your Life | 8:30 PM- 1/07 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Can turmeric prevent Alzheimer’s and ginger treat arthritis? Discover the health benefits of spices with Amanda Lewis, L.Ac., and sample some delightful spice tea. This class is free
and open to the public, and is held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/08 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza. Electrochemistry: Family Science Program | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 1/09 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Participants will explore chemical reactions that use or produce electricity. Families will create a battery, experiment with metal on a coin, and split water into gases. To register, email ccmr_outreach@cornell. edu. https://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/ lending-library. Winter Fly Tying Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/09 Saturday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | The Introduction to Fly Tying features nine two-hour sessions with several different instructors who will teach you the basics of tying the dry fly, wet fly, nymph and streamer patterns that are the most effective in our area. Dates for the training-1/9-3/5/2015. Space is limited so sign up now. http:// ccetompkins.org/events/2016/01/09/ fly-tying-workshop-series. Info at
73/IU: Youth Art Showcase Tompkins County Workers Center, Friday, January 8, 5:00 p.m.
Ithaca Underground and 73 Records, a local youth record and art distribution, are teaming up to start the new year off with a bang! This evening will be host to local art, poetry, films, music, and more - all done by Ithaca’s energetic and creative youth. Veteran film makers Ken Jacobs and Vincent Grenier will be showing films they made in their twenties, followed by a poetry reading and music by some wicked local bands. Think Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the crew during their Columbia years, and you’ll be in the ballpark!
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607-272-2292 (extension 139) ahs38@ cornell.edu Some Dusty Gardens and Agriculture of South India | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Dan Klein visited southern India last year and spent time with flowers and agricultural crops of this tropical region. Join us for a casual photo tour and stories of some dusty farms, crops, and garden shows. Please call 272-2292 for more information, but there is no need to preregister. Ithaca Red Tent: A Place For Women | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Red Tent seeks to help you find the answer to that question, and strives to BE that place for you: a place for ALL women, a place of safety and empowerment which is co-created by the women who enter the sacred space beyond the folds of the Red Tent. Come join us as we manifest this transformative place where women can speak and be heard, weep and be held. Bad Habit Breakthru: Using Brain Science to Blast Thru Bad Habits with Rhonda Morton | 12:00 PM-1:15 PM, 1/11 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Come to this workshop with something you know you shouldn’t do, but you just keep doing. Or something you should do, but you don’t. By the
time you leave, you will have the means to blast through that bad habit. ASLCI: American Sign Language Learning Group | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | ASLCI is a casual group for Ithacans of all signing abilities. We welcome everyone, Deaf or hearing, to learn more about Deaf culture and practice ASL. Our group meets every Tuesday at Barnes & Noble (614 S. Meadow St.) from 5-7pm, in the study area behind Starbucks. You may arrive and leave whenever you wish. For more information and resources for beginning signers, please visit our website: aslchatithaca. wordpress.com
Special Events Labyrinth Meditation Walk: Path of Prayer | 10:00 AM, 1/06 Wednesday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | This is an indoor 40ft across labyrinth that is 1/3 of a mile walk inward and then another 1/3 back out. It is walked in candlelight with a background of meditative music. Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 1/08 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Energy clearings will be gifted at the fire! Join us at this new moon fire outdoors. Drums and rattles
Running to Places: Crazy For You,
State Theatre, Runs Friday, January 8 through Sunday, Jan. 10 Local youth theater troupe Running to Places (R2P) initiates 2016 with a sharp and steamy production of the Tony Award-winning musical Crazy For You. A tap-dancing, Broadway influenced, modern presentation of the journey of two powerful young people, the play promises to be a delightful invocation. Shows are playing Friday and Saturday night at 7:00 p.m., with a matinee on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.