Ithaca Times November 5, 2014

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Medical Merger

Cayuga Medical and Schuyler Hospital unite PAGE 3

Wegmans expansion

local wine and spirits sellers voice opposition PAGE 5

Doing Her Homework

Jenny Lewis talks about working with Ryan Adams PAGE 15

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Cayuga Chamber Orchestra plays Brazilian music

East Hill Rabble Rousers

Cornell activists from 1960s return for teach-in and to tell it like it was

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Witches’ Brew

horror film fest now includes art and music PAGE 20

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Announcing the Cayuga Health System We are very pleased and proud to announce the establishment of the Cayuga Health System, a new regional health-care organization serving the Central Finger Lakes Region.

Cayuga Health System unites two longstanding, independent hospitals, Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca and Schuyler Hospital in Montour Falls. Our two hospitals have served our respective communities well for many years. By joining together in a cohesive health-care network, we will be in an even stronger position to provide seamless, comprehensive, community-centered care for the many residents we serve across the Finger Lakes and central New York.

We are committed to keeping health-care services local.

John Rudd (left) President and CEO, Cayuga Medical Center and Cayuga Health System Andrew Manzer (right) President and CEO, Schuyler Hospital

In serving a larger regional population, we are successfully providing special services to our communities that would not otherwise be possible. Percutaneous coronary intervention for heart attack patients, subspecialty orthopedics, comprehensive cancer care, and the finest in neonatal care are just a few of the special services available locally because the larger region we now serve can support the practices of these specialists. By providing care to a larger population base, as we are doing through the Cayuga Health System, we can offer a higher level of service to all of the communities we serve.

For health problems that require the services of a major medical center, Cayuga Health System serves as the entry point, providing a direct link to some of the finest tertiary-care centers in the country, including Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Sands-Constellation Heart Institute at Rochester General Hospital (a Cleveland Clinic Heart Surgery Center), the University of Rochester Medical Center, Mayo Clinic Medical Laboratories, and Weill Cornell Medical College.

Cayuga Health Systems is committed to you, the people of our region. Our goal is to provide easy access to community-centered, comprehensive health care.

We look forward to serving you, your families, friends, and neighbors now and in the years to come. Thank you for your trust, confidence, and support as we embark on this exciting path to the future.

John Rudd President and CEO Cayuga Medical Center and Cayuga Health System

Andrew Manzer President and CEO Schuyler Hospital

www.cayugahealthsystem.org Serving the Central Finger Lakes Region 2

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years of collaboration and innovation on the part of our leadership teams, board of directors, and medical staffs. Both of our hospitals are stronger for it, and the patients we serve will benefit now and in the years to come.”

Cayuga Medical Center is a 204-bed, acute-care regional medical center with a medical staff of 250, and is located in the town of Ithaca. It currently maintains clinical collaborations with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, SandsConstellation Heart Institute In Rochester, and the University of Rochester Medical Center. Schuyler Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital with a medical staff of 30 and a 120-bed skilled nursing facility located in the village of Montour Falls. Its

Ithaca Schools Work Cayuga Med and With Common Core Schuyler Merge

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n the evidence of public comments at school board meetings, Ithaca parents, and some of its educators, have been hesitant to embrace Common Core initiatives.

During a Common Core presentation last May, Ithaca City School District (ICSD) parent Tim Turecek said the new assessment standards mirrored a “factory-farm model of agriculture.”

Ithaca Teachers Association President Adam Piasecki told the Ithaca Times those concerns from parents are fair and understandable, as many teachers themselves are still determining what exactly the Common Core is.

Superintendent Luvelle Brown, however, has said that the district has handled Common Core in a way that lets its teachers do what they do best: teach.

The district recently received a grant that aims to give the district even more flexibility to shape Common Core assessments to its liking. The “Teaching is the Core” grant passed down from New York State will only help ICSD continue its own methods.

According to the state, the grant, funded through the state-administered federal-sourced “Race to the Top” program, supports applicants in their efforts to eliminate locally adopted tests that do not contribute to teaching and learning. The funds are to be used to identify and improve (what the state deems to be) high-quality assessments already in use so they can continued to be used to evaluate both student and teacher performance.

Awardees, including TompkinsSeneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (TST BOCES) and ICSD, were from 257 districts. ICSD and TST BOCES will get $50,000 through the grant program, and work together to craft new assessments under its initiatives.

According to the New York State Education Department’s website, the grant funds the following initiatives: • Determine which assessments support the instruction goals of the district • Determine an appropriate action plan that will eliminate unnecessary assessments and increase the use of diverse and quality assessment • Support the use of diversified assessment strategies by encouraging a review of local assessments currently continued on page 5

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ayuga Medical Center and Schuyler Hospital are joining forces. The partnership, formally announced in dual press conferences in both Ithaca and Montour Falls on Wednesday, Oct. 29, will be now known as the Cayuga Health System. By combining facilities, staff and resources, Cayuga Health System aims to create a cohesive health-care network on both local and regional levels, all while maintaining both hospitals’ current reputations and identities in their respective communities.

Cayuga Medical Center President and CEO John Rudd, Schuyler Hospital President and CEO Andrew Manzer, Cayuga Medical Center Board of Directors Chair Larry Baum, and Schuyler Hospital Cayuga Medical Center CEO John Rudd announces the merger. (Photo: Michael Nocella) Board of Directors Chair Kyle Tuttle were all on hand in current affiliations include primary care Ithaca to speak about what Cayuga Health centers in Ovid and Dundee.

System will mean for both hospitals and Manzer echoed Rudd’s excitement. communities.

“In working together over the past The announcement had been in the three years,” he said, “we have learned that works for quite some time, administrators we can do more together than we can on said, though both partners remained our own for both hospitals and for the tight-lipped until the unveiling of the new residents in our combined service area. logo and name at the start of the press Our goal is to keep health-care services confernce.. local and to collaborate in a long-term “We are very excited to make this announcement today,” Rudd said. “Cayuga continued on page 4 Health System is the culmination of three

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▶ Remembering Bud Garrity, Harold Ryan “Bud” Garrity — entrepreneur, broadcaster, musician, boater extraordinaire, loving father, grandfather, husband, and friend — died Saturday, October 25, 2014, at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston following a brief illness. He was 68.

Bud Garrity was a businessman in Ithaca, where he founded a successful advertising agency in 1978. He and his wife, Janet, retired to Beaufort, SC, in 2008. He is survived by his wife, Janet Harter Garrity; his son, Matthew, and his wife, Sarah (Lewis) and their daughter,

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Madolyn, of Brooklyn, NY; and his first wife, Julie (Schor) Garrity of New York City, and extended family and hundreds of friends.

A memorial service will be held at the River Club at Coosaw Point in Beaufort on Saturday, Nov. 15, 3 to 5 p.m. A brief service will be followed by a reception.

A memorial service in Ithaca is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the Whalen Center for Music at Ithaca College. A reception will follow the memorial service.

See full obituary at ithaca.com.

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East Hill Rabble Rousers . ...... 8 As part of its sesquicentennial celebration, Cornell invites ‘60s activists back to campus

Coats of many Colors ........... 15 Jenny Lewis does homework for new album

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By Tim G e ra

What is one question you would not answer if someone asked you?

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“I would answer any question if I had an answer for it.”

—Avigdor Weber

“Any question that would bother my family if I answered.”

—Emily Teall

“What is my social security number?”

—Margot Berg

aguire Family of Dealerships, with car dealerships in the city of Ithaca, the village of Lansing, Watkins Glen, and outside Trumansburg, is hoping to expand its business in the town of Ithaca. Maguire President Phil Maguire recently pitched “a loose sketch plan” to the town board, and then continued talks with the town planning committee on Thursday, Oct. 30.

The admittedly rough concept proposal would move sales of automobile brands—Subaru-Hyundai, Fiat-Alfa Romeo, and Nissan—now in the city down Elmira Road out to the town. It would also relocate its Chevrolet Cadillac dealership from Lansing to Ithaca, and renovate its Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram dealership, which is in front of Wegmans.

“We are trying to do a couple things,” Maguire said. “First and foremost, we would like to upgrade our current facilities that we have, both in Ithaca, and also expand with a couple of new franchises.

In doing that, we would need to add real estate to basically put up three new dealerships, because we’re pretty congested in our existing sites. So, we’re trying to move the Chevrolet Cadillac dealership up in Triphammer [Lansing]. We’d like to move that to downtown Ithaca, and build a new dealership.”

Maguire said the site his company is looking to purchase Roadway Inn & Suites [654 Elmira Rd], as the owner would like to take its business to California before it loses any more business to ongoing hotel boom in the city of Ithaca, where more than 300 rooms are expected to be up and running by 2017. Maguire’s proposal, however, would be more complicated than simply knocking down a motel and building a car dealership.

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“What is your deepest, darkest secret?”

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“This one.” ­—Seth Peacock

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vision that will result in the delivery of a high level of care in both communities.”

Both Rudd and Manzer were quick to shoot down any possible layoff ramifications the partnership might have, and added that, if anything, the collaboration between both hospitals will result in more jobs. Cayuga Health System was incorporated as a New York State notfor-profit corporation, and is designed to accommodate the possible addition of other hospital and health-care related entities.

“By serving a larger regional population,” Baum said, “we are in the strongest possible position to meet future challenges. We are able to provide special

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Phil Maguire on the site of proposed car dealership.

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Sapony Park, which was intended to be next to the 654 Elmira Road property, but was never built, Maguire said, because of a bad location and poor planning. Maguire has proposed relocating the park on Seven Mile Drive, and more than doubling its acreage from 8 to 17 acres. The park would then act as a buffer between the new car dealerships and the residential area.

“What we’d like to do,” Maguire said, “which, right now is more just of a [discussion] starter—we would donate another nine or 10 acres to Sapony Park, and move it up to buffer the existing neighborhood. That’d be an ideal placement for the park, and making it bigger is obviously better. By doing this, it adds more open acreage on Route 13, which is kind of the commercial district.”

“Our hope,” he continued, “would be that we could invest in this area and do a ‘naturesque’ design that has a lot of trees, trails and looks nice. At the same time, it would increase property values and help anchor the area for more development, services, such as percutaneous coronary intervention for heart attack patients and subspecialty orthopedics, because we have sufficient number of patients to support the practices of these specialists. In providing care to a larger population base, as we are doing through the Cayuga Health System, we can offer a higher level of service to all of the communities we serve.”

Tuttle added that the partnership between the two hospitals continues to be extremely beneficial to Schuyler Hospital, who recently was given a grant with the support of Cayuga Medical Center being well documented.

“Our positive experience,” Tuttle said, “in working together is already well established. This affiliation enabled Schuyler Hospital to obtain a HEAL [Health Care Efficiency and Affordability

such as shops and restaurants. Other benefits to the town would be higher property taxes, and it would help the economy. It’s a $15 to 20 million project, and we generally use local workers and contractors for construction.”

The town is intrigued by Maguire’s proposal, but has said that moving forward with the discussion could be complicated, as the recently adopted 2014 comprehensive plan outlines a conflicting vision for the land.

According to the plan, the Inlet Valley Gateway calls for “small-scale retail.”

Director of Planning Sue Ritter said it was too early to speculate as to the exact wording changes in the plan that would be necessary, but that if the town were to move forward with the Maguire proposal, it would need to amend its comprehensive plan.

Committee Chair Rich Depaolo said he had some reservations about putting another car dealership along Route 13.

“My initial reaction,” he said, “is that car dealerships … I think of the presence you have [in front of Wegmans], is high-impact, visually.

Car dealerships require high visibility, typically require a lot of lighting, and there’s a lot of impervious surface involved.”

Maguire said that this car dealership would not be traditional, but would be “for lack of a better term, an artisanal car dealership.”

DePaolo said he could not put the words “artisanal” and “car dealership” together in his head.

“Really,” Maguire continued, “what our design concept comes down to is to try to produce a combination of modern architecture and a naturesque, university-style campus. Imagine your typical car dealership spread over a large area with a lot of green space. Our intent is to try to accomplish that to have a car dealership that blends into the landscape and serves as an entry way into Ithaca that is park-like, but also has fresh, beautiful buildings.” continued on page 7

Law] grant of $6.5 million for the New York State Department of Health. These critical funds were used for a major renovation, including new operating rooms at Schuyler Hospital to support our growing outpatient surgery program in orthopedics and general surgery.”

Impacts stemming from the Cayuga Health System partnership will be seen immediately, said Rudd.

“We are already exploring other opportunities,” he said, “to enhance patient care services in our combined service area.

Our long-established affiliations with a number of well-known regional tertiary care centers will support our growth, as we respond to changes in health care delivery and prepare for the future. • – Michael Nocella

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900 square feet on a new second floor that would include roof-top dining.

“Then it turned out that we would essentially have to build a new roof over the old roof,” said Lane, “and that idea died, but I didn’t tell your board. I spent $200,000 on these two failed schemes. It’s not a smoke screen.” He said that as the scale of the project has gotten small, its quality has increased. He can now afford a greener building and plans to use LED lighting, “solar television,” geothermal heat, and to reinsulate the building and replace the windows. He promised that it

ruce Lane, one of the owners of Purity Ice Cream, appeared before the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board at their Tuesday, October 28 meeting to apologize for “the lack of flow of information” as his plans to redevelopment his building have changed over time. At the end of the September planning board meeting, board members and staff spoke of paying the site a visit because so little visible work had been done on the building while Purity had created a new parking lot across Meadow Street.

Some members openly speculated that the building re-development had been a ruse to get the parking lot built.

Lane had heard of their suspicions and made Purity Ice Cream owner Bruce Lane apologizes to the planning board. an extended effort to clear (Photo: Bill Chaisson) them up. He said he had no intention of misleading the board and that he was “not organized would be a better-looking design and use or knowledgeable enough to do so.” He better materials than was initially planned. told them that the scope of the project had Lane is working with architect John changed significantly twice “because I’m Snyder on the new three-phase design, an ice cream guy and not a developer.” but the planning board members had “Originally this was going to be a criticisms for what Lane and Snyder six-story structure,” he said, “but that presented. foundered on the rocks of reality.” His “When the only door faces the parking property is bisected by a sewer easement, lot,” said member C.J. Randall, “it sends a and the soil will not support a large message.” Randall asked to see drawings structure. The cost of sinking pilings is that showed all three phases of the project too much. He retrenched and decided to completed, because that is what the board keep the existing structure and add 800 to difference between measuring a student Commoncore based on numbers—which we do quite of contin u ed from page 3 bit of—and looking at particular qualities that change in a student’s work. That’s big in use for teacher evaluations shift for us and a big focus of what this • Establish a professional development grant will be doing for our district.” program that will aid teachers in In addition, “action planning” will identifying high-quality assessments eliminate biases in existing assessments, and improving assessment practices revising those assessments, and designing During the board’s Tuesday, Oct. 28 new assessments. public meeting, ICSD Master Educator The newly designed assessments Lily Talcott and Evaluation Officer Lynn will then be brought to the district in VanDeWeert walked the ICSD Board spring 2015. Academic Officer Matthew of Education (BOE) through what the Landahl called the grant “just a start” to a grant and its process will bring to the “long journey” and that the district still is district in the coming year. Talcott noted confident in its current assessments and the grant aims to allow teachers to take curriculum. “deeper dives” in their classrooms and “We welcome this audit,” Landahl works toward focusing less on measuring said, “because maybe there’s something students by the numbers and rather that could be better, even though we really changes in the quality of their work. like what we already have. We’re always The timeline for the grant includes trying to get better.” an “assessment audit,” which will be Talcott noted that the program conducted during the remaining months uses six “lenses” to “take a look at of 2014. our assessment.” Those lenses include “Right now,” Talcott said, “we have alignment, authenticity, impact on a lot of quantitative measures. There’s a

is required to make a judgement about.

• • • Hotel developer Neil Patel appeared with architect Mary Faria of Group One Partners in Boston and project manager Scott Whitham to announce that the East State Street project will no longer be a Hampton Inn, but as of two weeks ago would instead be a new type of Hilton called “Canopy.” In a clear attempt to take advantage of the zeitgeist, Hilton is calling the new brand “artisanal” and is emphasizing the hanging of local art in the public areas and making sure the hotel establishes a “connection to place.”

The new design is meant to evoke a repurposed factory building, including red and buff brick cladding and rectangular windows with large square panes. The building will include a restaurant and a bistro. Faria attempted to convey the casual feel of the bistro by calling it “Starbucks-y.”

The board was showed elevations of the proposed seven-story, 80-foot, 123room hotel and immediately suggested design changes, including rotating the floor plans of several rooms to allow for more windows and changes to the exterior to make the façade appear less flat.

• • • Wegman’s is about to develop one of three parcels near the existing Meadow Street store that it already has approval to build on. Danny Aken, manager of site development for Wegman’s, said that the new building would be for “a specialty use complementary to the food store.”

He listed three possible alternatives: a restaurant, a “Williams & Sonoma-like” housewares store, or a wine and spirits seller.

Two local wine sellers, Dewi Rainey of Red Feet Wine Market and Dana Malley of Northside Wine & Spirits, were present to express their concern about and disapproval of a potential Wegmansbacked wine and liquor store. Rainey continued on page 7

instruction, quantity, reliability, and thinking demands and rigor. VanDeWeert added that the grant provides the chance for the district to take a closer look at what they already have in place.

“This is an opportunity for us,” she said, “as a district, to take a moment and pause, and take a critical look at our assessment program to insure that the assessments that we are giving locally are asking the right questions to assess the type of learning [we want our students] to be achieving, and also, aren’t giving unnecessary assessments.”

Brown stressed the grant was just “one more tool in the toolbox” and would only make what the district has in place that much better.

“We embrace,” Brown said, “our own assessments and our own curriculum.

We still have local control. This will help further our focus in engaging our learners.”

Ups&Downs ▶Pizza squatting, I called ahead and ordered a pizza from the Dandy Mart in Slaterville Springs on Halloween. They told me it would take 45 minutes, which was fine.

But when I got there to pick it up, they had just sold it to another couple who lied to the cashier, saying that they had ordered it.

The Dandy Mart workers made me another pizza, gratis. But that means that Dandy lost a half hour of labor time and the cost of another pizza because of one couple’s inconsiderate, selfish, and shameful behavior.

Do people really need to be told that it’s not OK to lie to get your take-out food faster?

- Nancy Kane, Brooktondale If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Ithaca’s annual Porchfest Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) recently released findings from a new “pulse poll” show that while the majority of today’s teen and tween girls are interested in politics (67 percent), and most are engaged in political, civic, or leadership activities (93 percent), only a minority (37 percent) are interested in pursuing a career in politics. The pulse poll was conducted in September with a national sample of more than 1,000 girls in the U.S. between the ages of 11 and 17. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 4 include: 1) Ithaca Police Suspect Same Heroin Used in Two Overdose Deaths 2) Demonstrators Arrested at Salt Cavern Site 3) Reed and Robertson Duke It Out 4) NYS Governor’s Race: Howie Hawkins’ ‘New Green Deal’ 5) Football Mom Blames School District For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Actually Inconvenienced?

T here is and has been a lot of construction going on in Ithaca this year. It seems to have reached a fever pitch in the last two months as Vacri and its subcontractors have been racing to pave Bank Alley and the 200 block of the Commons before the Thanksgiving holiday kicks off the Christmas shopping season. NYSEG has been tearing up Clinton Street and then disappearing for a while. The city is going ahead with making Old Elmira Road into an extension of the city instead of leaving it a car-oriented sprawl landscape. Someone—the city, NYSEG, does it matter?—has been tearing up intersections, digging trenches and repaving all of it.

And people have been complaining.

Bitterly. The Commons merchants have a bona fide grievance; their livelihoods are at stake. But the average citizen? Do we have any real cause for complaint?

Get into any room with more than three people in it and someone will start in about how they had to detour away from their usual route or they weren’t able park in their accustomed spot.

This upset perhaps stems from the fact that there hasn’t been a whole lot of construction in the city until recently.

The years-long recession that began late 2008 hit government revenues hard; there was no money for public projects, especially at a local level.

The Commons project was delayed by its large scale, which necessitated applying for and winning a federal transportation grant. The city went through this process a few times before

a mixture of clever reimagining of the description of the project and a good spin on the government wheel of fortune led to success.

Local infrastructure projects elsewhere in the city have been delayed by lack of funds, lack of personnel, and the need for realigning who was in charge of what. When Svante Myrick was elected mayor the first time, one of his campaign promises was to rework city departments to save money. He has actually done so. While the Department of Public Works did not get any new employees in this year’s proposed budget, they did get a lot of extra asphalt.

Plus they are no longer in charge of fixing sidewalks (that is now done by private contractors), so the sidewalk crew is now supplementing the road crew.

Fixing infrastructure necessitates some inconvenience. Good management of the project involves minimizing inconvenience, not eliminating it. The Commons project management has not minimized the inconvenience. Promised bridges that would allow customers to get into businesses where access is blocked by holes or wet concrete have not materialized with any consistency.

Some Commons storefronts have been told that they must close for three days.

That is a lot of business to lose.

The Commons contractors themselves were inconvenienced by NYSEG. The utility’s crews took longer continued on page 7

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Actung Gluten!

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r A wiretapped telephone transcript from the Ithaca Police Department files in the case of People of the State of New York vs.

Paleo Pizza. From the gluten kingpin to the recreational user, only constant vigilance will keep our streets free of this public health scourge.

PALEO PIZZA: Paleo Pizza.

CUSTOMER: Yeah, um … hi. I guess I need a large pie. Do you guys deliver downtown?

PP: That we do, sir. What can I get for you?

CUSTOMER: Well, I’ll be honest with you. I’ve called every other pizza place in Ithaca. I can’t find a pizza that isn’t glutenfree!

PP: Whoa! Easy there with the ‘G’ word, fella. What do you want with one of those?

CUSTOMER: To eat it, what else? I’ve got a real hankerin’ for a good old-fashioned, cheese-stuffed, deep-dish, meat-lover’s …

PP: Dude! Stop! You’ll get us both in trouble. What, are you Rip Van Winkle? I guess you haven’t heard that we all suffer from undiagnosed non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

You might as well sprinkle arsenic on your food. We make pizzas here the way pizzas were made before the Neolithic Revolution.

You know … food that we evolved to digest.

CUSTOMER: I guess I haven’t had much time to follow the news lately.

PP: Well, welcome to “now.” Why don’t you try our Paleo Deluxe? It’s got an acorn and hydrilla flour parchment crust, heaped with a tapenade of foraged grubs, minnows and aged squirrel meat, slow-roasted in our wood-fired, clay-filled oven. It’s all-local and comes in a gluten-free cardboard box that tastes better than the pizza. You’d be dining

caveman style! $21.95 for a large.

CUSTOMER: Pardon me. I may have just thrown up a little in my mouth.

PP: I understand. Vegan, eh? We do have an artisanal gluten-free seitan and kale pizza.

Same price. Maybe a pond-algae calzone? Or the spicy ferns and crabgrass medley …

CUSTOMER: Did you just say glutenfree seitan?

PP: Technically, yes. I did. I’m pretty sure the FDA wouldn’t let us say it if it wasn’t true.

You can pick any combination of toppings on our menu.

CUSTOMER: What about cheese?

PP: Dude, cheese? Really? Paleolithic people didn’t have cheese. They hunted and gathered. You some kind of wise guy?

CUSTOMER: No, man. I’m just dying for some gluten. Really, I’m in a bad way. I just need one more taste. Toast, crackers, anything … you gotta help me.

PP: OK, OK. Calm down. Shoot, I could lose my job for this. Plus, there’s some bad gluten out on the streets lately. Really strong stuff. People have been bloating, getting headaches, fatigue … you have to be careful.

CUSTOMER: I’ll take the chance! Hook me up!

PP: All right. I can’t believe I’m doing this. Meet me at the Commons in half an hour. Nobody goes there any more. It’s the safest place in town. And bring $50. Cash.

What’s your order?

CUSTOMER: A wheat pizza with bread crumbs and croutons. Then I’m off the stuff forever, I swear.

PP: Whatever, and after this we don’t know each other, right?

CUSTOMER: Deal.

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TC3 Provost on Adjunct Professors

After reading a guest opinion appearing recently in the Ithaca Times (“Most Adjuncts Have it Hard”), I feel compelled to correct several assertions made by the writers, who described themselves as “the TC3 Adjunct Association, Organizing Committee.” My purpose is not to state a position on any union organizing efforts; there will surely be a more appropriate time and place for such a response. Instead, I wish simply to set the record straight.

The opinion piece states the view that our adjunct faculty “have no meaningful avenue” to participate in the formation of “standards, policies, and decisions.”

On the contrary, our adjuncts have voting representation on many campus organizations including the College Teaching Center Board and the College Forum, our primary vehicle of governance.

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They are all routinely invited to our semiannual planning days, Fall Day and Mid-Winter Day, and I have for many years invited all adjuncts to attend and participate in monthly meetings of the faculty.

The letter asserts that there is a “high rate of adjunct turnover.” In reality, a very high percentage of our adjuncts have taught here for a considerable time. Sixty-seven percent of current adjuncts have taught at the college for at least seven semesters and 35 percent have been teaching at TC3 for over 18 semesters. While there is always some turnover, these figures are far from characteristic of a “high rate of adjunct turnover.”

The opinion piece speaks about compensation for adjunct teaching, correctly stating that our starting level is $2,610 for a three-credit course. Left out of the continued on page 7

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piece is the fact that a long-time adjunct is paid $3,405 for a three-credit course and that our mean compensation for such an assignment is $3,015. We have for many years awarded increases in the compensation rate based on semesters of service. While it is true that our adjuncts earn less per course than their counterparts at Ithaca College (a private institution with a tuition rate nearly nine times that of TC3), among mid-sized community colleges in upstate New York, TC3 ranks third (among the 10 for whom data are available) in adjunct compensation level.

Finally, the writers of the piece admonish the college’s leaders “not to misspend public monies on lawyers to delay the process unnecessarily.” As the Provost and Vice President of the College, I must state unequivocally that we have a legal and fiduciary responsibility for the use of such public funds and would be remiss if—in the face of a movement to establish a new bargaining unit on campus—we did not seek and follow sound legal advice. I will note the irony that we are given this admonition by a group that is advised by and seeking to affiliate with an entity (NYSUT) which is no doubt providing legal counsel and whose liaison to our two existing on-campus NYSUT affiliates is herself an attorney.

The leadership of the college welcomes an open and spirited exchange of ideas with all who are part of our academic community. Let us all be sure, however, that we have the facts straight.

– John R. Conners, Ph.D. Provost and Vice President of the College (TC3)

Taking Cascadil a Boat Club to Task

As the city of Ithaca grapples with possible budget cuts for local parks, one place it might look for additional revenues is the lease for the Stewart Park boathouse.

Since 1985, the Cascadilla Boat Club has leased the city’s boathouse in Stewart Park for $46.17 per year. At a time when the city’s park commission is discussing the possibility of charging fees to use Stewart and Cass Parks, it’s hard to justify a subsidy for a private organization that reports $85,000 in assets, and $186,000 in revenues (2012 tax filings).

Moreover, the city should know that parents of scholastic rowers are questioning the club’s practices, including taking middle and high school students on the lake—even under extremely dangerous conditions— without properly registered safety launches, lifejackets, or coaches certified in water safety. Perhaps the school district or the Ithaca Youth Bureau might be better suited to run the scholastic rowing program? If the CBC is to retain its leasing privilege, there’s no excuse not to charge fair market value for the use of the boathouse and ensure that the safety of our children is not compromised for the traditions of the sport.

– Lori Sonken, Ithaca

Kudos to Commissioner Ed Marx

Ed Marx, Tompkins County Commissioner of Planning, recently wrote to the TC Legislature’s Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee questioning the advisability of NYSEG’s proposed natural gas pipeline through Dryden to Lansing, a plan that would increase our use of fossil fuel. I enthusiastically support his “absolute commitment” to the county’s comprehensive plan and the goals of 20 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. I urge all utility customers, county officials and developers to work together earnestly, respectfully and passionately to see that these goals are met. We cannot step back.

We must not delay.

It worries that we will not attract business or that we will not have enough housing are understandable. However, let’s not pit development against environmental responsibility and paint those who hold fast to our county’s ambitious climate action plan as unrealistic or oppositional.

I applaud Marx’s stand that “committing utility resources to support increased use of fossil fuels seems counterproductive at this critical juncture.”

Every expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure matters because it continues our businessas-usual model of growth, the IPCC’s “worst case scenario” which locks in the “run away pace” of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

What’s at stake here is the nature of growth and the way we pursue it. Because we’ve gotten increased fossil fuel supply from NYSEG through new pipelines in the past does not mean that we should turn to them now. Let’s reassess what we really “need” as opposed to what we want or what we are used to. That is the reality we now face given the facts about climate disruption put forth by 97 percent of the world’s climatologists.

I am relieved and happy to know that goals for responsible, renewable and realistic development in Tompkins County are strongly supported by our planners.

– Kathy Russell, Town of Ithaca continued on page 14

decision-making at NYSEG is very slow because they have to consult Iberdrola first.

Odd, isn’t it? Globalization has contributed to the slowing of the reconstruction of the Commons. And who is taking the heat? Who do you hear people complaining about? Not Iberdrola.

Heck, we were getting letters complaining about the construction on Hanshaw Road from people who thought the City of Ithaca should do something about it.

Hanshaw Road is in the village of Cayuga Heights and the town of Ithaca. They have their own governments.

So there are real problems here.

Some members of the Commons business community are suffering and will continue to suffer. A multi-national company is in part responsible for the length of their suffering. But when you see a business closed because of wet concrete and no bridge to the door, that’s not Iberdrola’s fault.

As for anyone else really suffering due to construction, well, no. It’s possible to complain while having a sense of humor about it. Now is the time to remember that you don’t live in Disney World. It’s a real city, and it needs to be repaired. • artisandealership contin u ed from page 4

“Modern architecture might actually scare me,” said DePaolo.

Though Maguire’s proposal seems far away from getting put on the fast track, the town was clear that it was not ready to shut down such an idea.

“The door is still open,” Ritter said. “[Planning] committee members asked for additional information from the Maguires. The Maguires have some timing issues, and the committee explained that their consideration of the project [and subsequent consideration by the entire board] will take some time. If the Maguires are willing to continue pursuing the project in the town, given the timing issues, and provide additional information [economic related and graphics/photo examples of other dealerships with sensitive designs], the planning committee will consider scheduling a meeting in November to further discuss the project.” •

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than promised to put in new gas lines.

Their tardiness not only delayed the construction schedule, but prevented it from moving forward in the most efficient order. Bank Alley was supposed to receive attention last, because it is the most complex part of the new design. Because of NYSEG the contractors started work on Bank Alley rather than do nothing at all.

NYSEG was slow because they are understaffed. Anyone who drives by the Route 13 headquarters in Dryden can see the “For Lease” sign out front. They don’t have as many employees as they used to.

They have been owned by Iberdrola, a Spanish multi-national energy company since 2008. According to Michael Kuo, the project manager for the Common project,

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accused the grocery store chain of “getting around New York State law” and said their store would be “unfair competition.” A liquor store in the same shopping plaza as a Wegmans in Johnson City is licensed to Jason Wehle, Danny Wegman’s son-in-law.

“I’m strongly opposed to the establishment of this building,” said Malley. “A company with unlimited capital like this would just wipe us out.”

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The Talk at

ithaca com Commenting on Stephen P. Burke’s Ithaca Notes column last week titled, “Octobert 31: A Work Day”: I was on my own for lunch today and grabbed a copy of the Ithaca Times to read while eating. One of the things I read was this Ithaca Notes post. It would have been a nothing column…just filler while I ate my yummy lunch…especially because I’m not a fan of Halloween… but it wrapped up with a reminder of what Halloween originated as and this really intriguing paragraph. “Maybe commercialization of holidays is not just to make money, but purposely to lessen the potency of the days’ real meaning. The mysteries of life can be pretty profound, once considered. Life is a lot easier the less you think and feel.” Life certainly is easier when you don’t *think* about it. But the idea that commercializing holidays takes the bite out of them—that is new to me and it really made me think! Certainly we know that our modern religious holidays are mixtures of Christian and pagan rituals, but what about their “bites”? We have Coca-Cola’s Santa rather than a miraculous birth and otherworldly messengers. And the Easter bunny and chocolates smooth the thought of a dead body returning to life. Even the secular holidays: Thanksgiving is about turkeys and feathers and pie and Norman Rockwell families; how many of us think of the fact that those original Pilgrims were starving and ill-prepared for life in a new land, and sure, the Native Americans helped them to survive – only to be stripped of their lands and their languages and their human rights and dignity. Or what about Mothers Day and Fathers Day? Hallmark holidays to be sure! The bite in those belong to the couples struggling with infertility; the stepparents caring for children without recognition and acknowledgement; the adults with strained or even toxic parental relationships. Life is much easier when you just pick up that frilly pink card that says your mom is the most beautiful and the most talented and the person who’s always been there for you.

Or the fishing card that says you’ve always looked up to your dad. Those of us who think and feel agonize over finding the right way to celebrate and acknowledge events in our lives in an authentic way. But you know what? If dad has found it easier to not think or feel, too, then he won’t even blink an eye at that card. Even if he’s never fished a day in his life. Thanks, Stephen, for making my lunch break a time of thinking and feeling.

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oday, college students are worried about climate change and all its causes more than the military conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria.

Young activists are now worried that the future will be a tough place to live. In this, they are very different from the young protesters against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

“The war was heating up,” said Abby Ginzburg, who arrived at Cornell in fall 1967. “It was getting closer and closer to home. Today, everything is so much more abstract. It felt so present back then. It was just hovering over us. It was extremely personal; it was going to be people you knew.”

Ginzburg is talking about the draft.

The Military Selective Service Act of 1967 expanded the draft age and continued existing student deferments but made men eligible for the draft as soon as they finished a four-year degree. In November 1969, President Richard Nixon pushed through an amendment to the act, which created a lottery system, adding uncertainty to who would be selected.

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on Washington and on campus. She graduated from Cornell, went to law school, and then worked as an attorney for many years. She is now a filmmaker.

Along with fellow alumnus Frank Dawson, she is making a film, Agents of Change, about anti-war activism at Cornell and San Francisco State College. Dawson was an activist in the AfricanAmerican Society (AAS) and participated in the takeover of Willard Straight Hall in April 1969.

He is now a dean at Santa Monica College after a long career in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.

Ginzburg, Dawson, and several other members of SDS and AAS will return to Cornell on Monday and Tuesday, November 10 and 11 for a teach-in and visits to classes in several departments that is being called “Vietnam: The War at Cornell.” It is, organizer and government professor Isaac Kramnick said, the first

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Earlier this year, Cornell University Press published Resister, a memoir by Bruce Dancis.

Dancis arrived at Cornell in 1965 and dropped out in his sophomore year to become a full-time activist. In December 1966, in a public event to which the media was invited, Dancis tore his draft card into four pieces and mailed them to the Selective Service, announcing that he would not fight an unjust war in Vietnam. In May 1969, a month after the Willard Straight takeover, Dancis went to federal prison for 19 months, one of the few draft resisters

PROTESTORS heard that other students were coming back armed and local police were massing to take action.

In response, guns and ammo were smuggled into Willard Straight Hall.

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to actually be incarcerated. According to Dancis, 500,000 men violated the draft laws, but only 1,500 were ever sent to prison. (Another 1,500 were Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to serve on religious grounds.) His memoir in large part documents the two and a half years he spent organizing for SDS as a “non student” at Cornell.

The activists of the 1960s, who found common ground in resisting the war, all came from quite different walks of life, which was becoming characteristic of undergraduate populations at this time.

Dancis came from a progressive middleclass family in the Bronx with a history of political activism as socialists. Ginzburg was the daughter of a Columbia University professor father and administrator mother, who grew up on the Upper West Side aware of but, unlike Dancis, not involved in activism. Dawson grew up in the Manhattan projects, but was shipped up to a Westchester private school as part of a progressive enrichment program. David Burak, who was also in SDS, was the son of a retired Air Force pilot, and came to Cornell from Syracuse. David Connor, the Catholic chaplain at Cornell from 1964 to 1971, grew up in Rochester, worked against the war with Dan Berrigan, the associate director of Cornell United Religious Works.

A broad and deep dissatisfaction with

the status quo was what united the protest against the war that led to draft resistance with the grievances of the AfricanAmerican students that led to the Straight takeover. In the SDS activist community, the connection was even more clear. The apartheid system of South Africa, which received so much attention in the 1980s, was already a focus in the mid-1960s. SDS did research to show Cornell’s connections to the “military-industrial complex,” Dancis said, and found an overwhelming number of university trustees worked for corporations and banks doing business in South Africa. This information led to an alliance between SDS and the AAS. Burak became a freelance correspondent for the Ithaca Journal while he was a Cornell student. “I had the opportunity to get the word out by covering debates on campus between faculty on the left and right,” he said.

“Covering these things is what drew me into activism.” His Air Force upbringing had led him “by osmosis” to believe that the U.S. military was a “force for good.” But at one of the campus debates, he heard about the “Strategic Hamlets Program” carried out by the U.S. and South Vietnamese armies in the early 1960s. Vietnamese villagers were forcibly relocated to isolate them from the National Liberation Front (“Viet Cong”).

“When I first read the report on this by the Ad Hoc Committee Against the War,” said Burak, “it really pissed me off. How could our military devise a plan like this?”

In May 1966, Burak went into Day Hall as a reporter to cover the SDS occupation of the Cornell president’s office. The students were protesting Cornell’s cooperation with administration of a Selective Service exam that would determine whether someone kept their student deferment or not. Burak put aside his journalistic objectivity and participated in the student discussions about strategy (urging caution). His editor found out, and he was no longer allowed to cover student demonstrations.

Some memoirs and depictions of the political protest movement of the 1960s and early ‘70s suggest that radical alienation from the status quo was the norm. Conversations with some of the Cornell activists (and Dancis’s book) leave a different impression.

“I didn’t like the other memoirs that had been written,” Dancis said, when asked why he had written his. “A lot of them were written by members of the Weather Underground, and I parted company with those people in the late

2 , 0 0 0 S t u d e n t s at 1 9 6 5 Te ac h - i n at B a i l e y H a l l ( P h o t o : C o r n e l l A r c h i v e s) ‘60s.” The Weatherman were a faction of SDS that broke away in 1969 and carried out a series of bombings in the early 1970s in the name of anti-war protest and black power.

In his memoir, Dancis is at pains to explain the difference between his own social democratic politics and those of communists. “When people aren’t interested in discussions,” he said, “then that’s tough on your movement.

People started getting more doctrinaire in the ‘70s.” After he was released from prison, Dancis attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and rejoined the anti-war movement. In this period of his activist life, he spent a lot of time arguing with Marxist/Leninist ideologues that insisted on using China as a model. “I didn’t think we had a lot to learn from the Third World,” he said, “because conditions here were so different. A revolution was

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not sustainable in the U.S.” Dancis thought the Cornell SDS remained effective as long as it did because of Ithaca’s isolation. All the activists socialized together, he said. There were no Weathermen tendencies or Maoists at Cornell when he was there.

Dawson believes that the events of 1969 could not have unfolded in the same way at another Ivy League school. Cornell, he said, was special because of its origins.

In the 1980s, in the course of doing research for a film that was never made, he explored the archives of Ezra Cornell’s correspondence and was impressed by what he found. “I was aware of the Cornell motto, ‘I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,’” said Dawson, “but I finally had the feeling that ‘any person’ meant me too.

That inclusivity was empowering.”

The filmmaker found a letter from a “colored” student to Cornell that asked if the founder would have a problem with his attending Cornell. “I’m a paraphrasing,” said Dawson, “but basically Cornell wrote back saying, ‘I would be willing to admit you even if all the other students left because of it.’”

The student activism of the 1960s, Dawson said, brought the university back to the original mission that Cornell himself had set for it. The seizing of Willard Straight by AAS was an action taken after public discussion and argument had failed to bring about sufficient change. What did it achieve?

“It heightened the curiosity of the majority of white students to try to understand why it happened,” said the former AAS member. “Their lives were so different that they didn’t understand people with experiences that were different from their own.”

As recounted in the Dancis memoir, at 5:30 a.m. on April 19, 1969, about 100 members of AAS quietly entered Willard Straight and told employees and visitors that they had to leave the premises. The call went out to SDS to support them, and the white activists gathered in Anabel Taylor Hall. But mid-morning about 25 brothers from the Delta Upsilon fraternity broke into the Straight and tried to violently expel the AAS students.

“They said, ‘We’re taking it back because we’re true Cornellians,’” recalled Dawson. “They were carrying broomsticks and baseball bats.” The AAS student repelled the attackers, but frightening continued on page 10

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being in touch with President Perkins that evening about events in Barton. contin u ed from page 9 Dancis finds fault both with radicals like the Weathermen who went too far, rumors began getting into the Straight and with activists like Burak, who did after that. “You have to remember there not distance themselves enough from was no Facebook and no Twitter in those the power-that-be. Burak, who has read days,” said Dawson. “We were in the Resister, finds Dancis’s version of the building just cut off.” They began getting events “distorted to the point of being reports that the students were going surreal.”

“I hadn’t been in contact with Perkins in eight months when I called him from Barton,” said Burak. “And when I did call him, it wasn’t as a supplicant, but as an equal of sorts at the time, the tail wagging the dog. He was a good guy, and he didn’t want bloody students’ heads on his hands.”

Unlike Dancis, who chose to drop out as an undergraduate, Burak had been essentially drummed out of the graduate program in the government department after speaking his mind about politics and history at his oral qualifying exam. Dropped from his assistantship position in the department, he accepted a job with Perkins. There was, he said, a theory of activism that urged you to “bore from within,” to learn to understand how university administrators think and to try to influence their I s a ac K r a m n i c k , G ov e r n m e n t P r o f e s s o r decisions.

Connor, the Catholic who orga nized SDS R eu nion. chaplain, like the other ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) activists, also reached a line over which he would not to come back armed and that the local cross.

His successor had been a booster of police were massing to take action. In the football team and had housed Frenchresponse, the AAS students had guns and Canadian hockey players.

In contrast, ammunition smuggled into the Straight.

“When you grow up in the inner city,” Connor began supporting the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights group, campus Dawson said, “you know what police are feminist groups, and Water Margin, which capable of.” Years later, in a conversation with Dale Corson, a Cornell president who he described as a “coed house for nerds.”

As part of “Corridor Collegia” he visited was provost at the time of the takeover, the dormitories with faculty members Dawson had his fears confirmed. “We were only in there for 36 hours—a day and to discuss “anything students wanted to talk about.” In addition, he debated the a half,” the activist said. “Corson told me history and politics of Southeast Asia at that if we had been in there another night, universities across the country. there was a good chance that someone Connor participated in anti-war was going to get killed. President [James] protests, sometimes leading them, and Perkins was under pressure to let the he was the second clergyman in the police come on campus.” country—and the first Catholic priest—to The Straight takeover was followed turn in his own deferment from the draft. by a massive gathering at Barton Hall.

He was immediately classified 1A, a draft According to Dancis, SDS intended this classification for “available for military event to be a rally that would lead to an service”. occupation of Day Hall. But as Dancis But Connor was also part, with was leading students out of the building, Eldon Kenworthy, a government professor, Berrigan and eight others, of the planning of the break-in at the Selective Service urged the students to stay and wait for the office in Catonsville, Md. where records faculty to meet the next day. Then Burak were to be destroyed. “I was involved in got behind the podium and announced the planning sessions,” said Connor, “but I that Barton Hall, not Day Hall, was being didn’t want to get arrested. The work I was seized. The event became a “teach-in,” doing on campus at the time was too vital.” and the “Barton Hall Community” talked Connor eventually left the priesthood, about race relations for two more days.

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joined the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy (CRESP) at Cornell, started the Learning Web, and was one of the founders of the Fool on the Hill commune.

He watched the student culture at Cornell change through the 1970s.

“After [the Straight takeover] the university started looking for signs of excessive student leadership traits [as part of their admissions process],” Connor claimed. “That and a weariness about the war caused the protests to wane.”

He said there was a growing realization that a college degree was a ticket to a safe life. After the draft was discontinued in 1973, he said, they thought the underclass would fight the wars. “They don’t have to be in Syria or Gaza,” Connor said of the students. “They have to figure out how to make a world.”

“When you are working to build support for opposition,” said Dancis of ‘60s

celebration.

“I give Cornell credit for looking at periods of their history,” said Dancis, “and not burying things like the Straight takeover.”

“It was a huge embarrassment at the time,” Connor said of the Straight takeover.

“And now it is looked upon as this real ‘eyes on the prize’ celebratory event.

“The faculty was split and they were finding out they didn’t have the power they thought they did,” he continued, “and the alumni were in hysterics when the Straight protesters were not punished.”

Dawson was clear about the changes that 1960s activism wrought on Cornell and all American universities. “Shared governance came out of the Straight takeover,” he said. “Before that, the faculty were in charge. You couldn’t challenge them in the classroom.”

He said that the curriculum is more inclusive today; departments like AfricanAmerican studies, Latino studies, and women’s studies were all the result of

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In the early 1970s Dancis helped organize the New American Movement (NAM), a democratic socialist group that he described as “SDS without the sexism.”

He said it asked questions like “What would cities look like if they weren’t run by big banks?” In 1982 NAM merged with Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee to form Democratic Socialists of America. Dancis moved on from activism to a career in journalism, working first for Mother Jones and then for the Sacramento Bee. He has not returned to Cornell often since his student days and is interested to see what transpires at “Vietnam: The War at Cornell” on Nov. 10 and 11, which is one of many events that the university is staging as part of its sesquicentennial

demands that students made at the time.

Ginzburg said that the education she got a Cornell and the people she met there as a student activist, shaped the rest of her life. At school she knew only other activists, and they remained friends. “I don’t know a soul who works in corporate finance,” she said. “Today that would not be true. [Among students] the level of acceptance of corporate America is different.”

She is looking forward to the November 10 teach-in, which will focus on activism. “It’s a time for those with experience in the topic to be reflective,” she said, “but there’s always room for Q and A. “It’s good for Cornell to be reflective about all this,” she said, “for them to ask, ‘Whatever happened to those rabble rousers?’” •

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Kovac said Health Department. the best way for a “The holidays person to get a flu are coming, be shot is to contact well and protect their primary care the people you physician. There are gathering are also several with from the flu,” pharmacies and Lyczko said. That other sources to get might be especially a flu shot, though important if there typically those are new members sources limit those of your family, they will immunize according to to people over 18 Lyczko. Children years of age, even under six months if accompanied old are too young by a parent, as for flu shots, Lyczko Kovac found out said, which should when she went to give an extra a retail outlet and incentive for adult tried to get her family members son and daughter to get their flu immunized. immunization to The Tioga protect them.

County Health And it’s not just Department did your family you’re not schedule any helping, Lyczko flu shot clinics said. Immunization this year, and protects the entire Flu vaccine (Photo: U.S. Navy) does not have any community, the vaccine available. people you socialize In Tompkins with in addition to County, Lyczko the people you live said they have run out of vaccine after two with. A bout of the flu can be especially successful vaccination clinics in September dangerous for people with compromised and October. immune systems like cancer patients, Here’s where to get a flu shot in according to Lyczko. “You can protect Tompkins County: everybody by getting a flu shot,” Lyczko • Walmart Supercenter at 135 said. She added that other common Fairgrounds Memorial Pkwy, Ithaca; sense measures like washing your hands • CVS Pharmacy at 625 West Clinton and covering the nose and mouth when sneezing and coughing are very important St., Ithaca; • Ithaca’s three Rite Aid locations: as well.

615 S. Meadow St., 330 Pine Tree Rd., and United Health Services nurse 2903 N. Triphammer Rd. Margaret Kovac lives in Candor, which • Kinney Drugs locations at 513 N. has a UHS Primary Care center at 54 Main Cayuga St. and 2255 Triphammer Rd. St. She said everyone who visits a UHS healthcare facility is asked if they have had Target at 40 Catherwood Rd., Ithaca.

The Trumansburg location at 2100 a flu shot yet, and if they’d like one. Kovac Trumansburg Rd. also offers flu shots. said it’s especially important for people There is a charge for the flu shots, who are having surgery or recovering from which your health care plan will typically a recent operation to get their flu shots as cover, though there may be a co-pay. getting the flu with inhibit their ability to “You should get it, it’s not too late,” recover.

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The Bomber men are entering this weekend’s Empire 8 tournament as the #2 seed, and they picked up some valuable information over the weekend. Ithaca beat Nazareth 1-0, and while any win is a nice win, this one happened to be the 300th win on South Hill for head coach Andy Byrne.

It was also notable because it came on Senior Day, giving Max Bjork, Brandon Glass, Casey Williamson, A.J. Wolfanger, Liam Joy, and Jordan Gentile a victory in their final home game of the regular season.

After the game, Byrne was asked what the 300th win meant (coming in his 31st season), and he told me, “It means I’m old!”

He added, “Actually, I appreciate it, but the players won all those games. I just watch ‘em.”

Byrne also said, “It’s nice that we’re taking some positive momentum into the Empire 8 tournament. We saw some good things from some guys that had not played that much, and we’re deeper than we thought.”

Early in the season, I asked women’s coach Mindy Quigg how the Bombers looked, and she said, “We’re really young.”

Apparently, the team pulled it together, and the Bomber women will enter the Empire 8 tourney as the #1 seed, and as such will host the tournament for the third year in a row. They are ranked #14 nationally, and #2 in the East region, ranked only behind defending national champ, William Smith.

The 13-2-0 Bombers will play St. John Fisher at home on Friday at 11 a.m. in one E8 semi-final, and Nazareth and Stevens will play in the other semi at 1:30 p.m. A conference title will, of course, result in an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

• • • Last week’s column highlighted the much anticipated Section 4 title matchup between Ithaca High and Corning, and the match—played in Oneonta—did not disappoint. When we spoke last week, head coach Gilbert Antoine downplayed the Little Red’s 7-1 thumping of Corning earlier in the season, and when the teams went into the second overtime locked in a scoreless battle, it was obviously anyone’s game. Antoine sent in some fresh legs,

and junior reserve striker Phyo Htet took a great feed from senior defender Connor Bonniwell and buried it. It is now on to the state tournament for the Little Red. • • • As I stated earlier, November brings some predictability, and given it is firewood season, I am predictably sore.

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our neighbors. They are in fact what they are. What is surprising is that they recoil from the very label they represent.

Perhaps they are now realizing that in the larger context of the western southern tier they are a small, far out, minority, not the center of the political universe, a perception they have as they talk only to each other while running roughshod over Tompkins County Republicans and conservatives.

– Henry Kramer, Dryden Editorial response: If you consult the data from New York State, you will find that there are 23,633 people in Tompkins County registered as Democrats, Greens, or members of the Working Families Party. In contrast, there are only 13,010 people registered as Republican or Conservatives. Even if all the 2,095 voters registered as independent voted for Reed, he hasn’t got a prayer in Tompkins County and his campaign has certainly acted like they know that.

If you look at the photo of the crowd at the debate, you will see a women with a sign that reads “Another extreme liberal for Martha.” The only people I meet in Tompkins County who are insulted by being called “a liberal” are the radical leftists.

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Jenny Lewis on homework assignments from Ryan Adams, Rilo Kiley and Arena Shows with The Postal Service

by Chris Hooker

“I

’m not the same woman / That you are used to,” sings Jenny Lewis on “Head Underwater,” the opening track off her new record The Voyager. The song tackles a range of problems: depression, insomnia, selfworth, and a desire to change. It’s basically a checklist of why it took six years to come out with a new solo album.

Since the release of 2008’s Acid Tongue, Lewis has gone through quite a few changes.

Her band, the beloved indie-pop outfit Rilo Kiley, broke up after four albums. Her father passed away. She released a collaborative record with boyfriend Jonathan Rice under the moniker “Jenny and Johnny,” and reunited with The Postal Service, a collaboration between Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello (a.k.a. Dntel), for the highly anticipated 10-year anniversary reunion stadium tour. With all of that in her rearview mirror, Lewis is hitting the road in support of The Voyager, and will be playing Ithaca’s State Theater this Saturday, Nov. 8.

The Ithaca Times caught up with Lewis in the midst of all this to talk about her new record, working with big-name producers, the return of The Postal Service, and the bringing back the music of Rilo Kiley.

Ithaca Times: Hey Jenny, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me.

Jenny Lewis: Hey, how’s it going? Ithaca is fences. I remember seeing that the last time I was here. I was opening for Phoenix years ago.

IT: Do you mean Ithaca is ‘gorges’?

JL: No, I think it was a play on that. There was something going on with the student population there. I think it was almost like a suicide prevention thing. I remember seeing those signs and thinking, ‘What is going on here?’ Then someone explained it to me. This was a couple of years ago.* IT: How have the shows been going so far?

JL: The shows have been great. I’ve been touring since May, and we’ve got over 100 shows down at this point. We’re starting to relax a little bit. I’ve got such a huge catalog of songs from all of the bands I’ve been in and records that I’ve made. We are kind of feeling out what works in this context. But the new record is the centerpiece.

IT: How has it been taking those new songs on the road? Any favorites or highlights yet?

JL: I am terrified of the title track for some reason. I have a mental block. I think it goes back to when I recorded it with (producer) Ryan Adams. I added in a very strange timing thing in the middle of the song that I inevitably fuck up every time I play it. So, we’ve only played “The Voyager” three times because I’m terrified of it.

But I’m willing to get over my fear for this next tour. I’m going to play that shit.

IT: That’s my favorite song off the record.

What do you have to do to make that one happen?

JL: Oh, cool! It’s just weird because when

two weeks, and it was very easy to make. It just you write something when you are alone in your sort of rolled off the tape. I don’t think process room and you bring it to someone, necessarily determines outcome. it’s definitely malleable, but the IT: The Voyager is your first solo structure is hard to get away from. record to come out after the break-up So we added this arbitrary five of Rilo Kiley. Did that change your count, which is great. There is approach in making it now that you are a count like that in (Oasis’s) solely a solo artist?

“Wonderwall.” [Ryan] gave me JL: I just write songs regardless. an assignment, he said, ‘Go It’s not so much with the songwriting write a song that’s your version process, but with the production of “Wonderwall.”’ So that because I was no longer woven to was his contribution, that my rock band. I could really weird five count in there. explore any kind of sonic We will have to count texture that I wanted to, or through it. my producers wanted to. We IT: It’s been six weren’t limited to making a years since your last side project folk record. solo record before IT: The new album has The Voyager. What production from Adams, took so long?

Beck, and Jonathan Rice.

JL: Some What was it like to work come quickly, with all those voices in some come the studio? slowly. This one JL: They all have just intercepted very different ways of with my own life, working. Jonathan and I have and I needed to take a been writing and producing moment, get off road, and together for years, and that can be take inventory. It’s weird, a good and bad thing. I was on my sometimes you go into best behavior with Ryan and Beck. the studio and the song I love them so much, I was kind of is done in one take. But star struck. It was great. I learned other times, you need to so much from everyone and took revisit the song in order away a lot of philosophical ideas to find the right vibe. with regard to recording music.

IT: Any songs on IT: With a lot of the songs this record that took a I get a ‘70s-era rock vibe. Is that day, or on the other side, something you intended on? months to complete?

JL: I’m never trying to recreate JL: Well “She’s something from the past, although Not Me” was recorded I listen to a lot of records that were in a day; “Just One of recorded in the ‘70s. Sometimes I the Guys” took five just write from a certain timeframe years. That’s sort of the without even realizing it. I don’t range and everything know. I think that Ryan brought a in between. For the lot of that rock and soul into the title track, Ryan gave record. me my homework IT: Songs like “She’s Not assignment on a Me” sound like something out of Friday and I showed the Fleetwood Mac catalog. Do up on a Monday in you welcome a comparison like the studio. that, or is it too easy?

IT: Given JL: I think a lot of people are the time it took to compared to Fleetwood Mac now. complete and the It’s a great comparison. They were work you put into it, true pop song crafters. I am of do you feel this is course a huge fan. I absolutely love your best solo album Stevie Nicks. I love those songs. yet So if being compared to great JL: No, I don’t. songwriters is the case, I welcome I think my first solo it. record, Rabbit Fur Coat, was the exact continued on page 21 opposite. It was Jenny Lewis plays the State Theatre on Saturday. recorded in under (photo provided)

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Originally planned he Cayuga for the composer’s Chamber jazz-tango quintet— Orchestra’s composed of violin popular music director (or viola), piano, Lanfranco Marcelletti electric guitar, will be conducting double bass, and more of his favorites bandoneon (a square in Ford Hall at 7:30 accordion played p.m. on Saturday, in Argentina)— Nov. 8. The second this work has a concert of his farewell “thousand different season presents music arrangements,”

by Nepomueno, according to Piazzolla, and Bartók, Marcelletti. We will plus a “Guess the hear the best-known Composer” piece, version, made for and also pays solo violin and string special tribute to orchestra by Russian concertmaster Linda composer Leonid Case. The customary Desyatnikov in the pre-concert chat starts mid 1990s, just a at 6:45 p.m. few years after The program Piazzolla’s death. opens with a CCO Concertmaster Linda Case.

The concert’s delightful selection (photo provided) final work, the from Marcelletti’s Divertimento for treasure trove of Strings (1939) by Brazilian music, Béla Bartók (1881–1945), was written the Suite Antiga, Op. 11, by Alberto just before the Hungarian composer fled Nepomuceno (1864–1920). From his homeland for the United States. It is northeastern Brazil, he was trained in something Marcelletti has always wanted to Recife, the conductor’s native city. This do with the CCO, as it is one of his “most is, as Marcelletti said, “something that beloved pieces.” He finds the opening is related to me.” Nepomuceno, who “magical” and that throughout Bartók worked to bring European traditions to his creates a special sound with the strings. In homeland, composed this very total suite, three movements—Fast, Slow, Fast—the which aims to convey national music in work borrows a lot from the baroque baroque style. Written first for the piano— Marcelletti played one of the sections when concerto grosso. And again the music will he was young—the work was later arranged celebrate Linda Case, as she will perform in the many passages where the solo violin for orchestra and became very famous. alternates with the orchestral tutti. The last The four movements have baroque titles— movement, the shortest, is very fast, and she Prelude, Minuet, Aria, and Rigaudon. will be right there up to the end.

Marcelletti finds it “very beautiful, very The three composers featured in this traditional, and with a Brazilian scent.” concert all lived into 20th century. Will Concertmaster Linda Case, who is retiring at the end of this season, will be the answer to the “Guess the Composer” the star of the evening’s main attraction, question also date from the same period? another piece of South American music, Or is it another South American? You can the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by compete and find out at this lively concert. the Argentine tango composer, Ástor The NYS Baroque’s second offering Piazzolla (1921–1992). Marcelletti told of the season, called “Pepy’s Pajamas,” is me that he always wants to showcase his scheduled also for Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at concertmaster’s playing, and especially the Unitarian Church, so classical music this season. “I wanted to celebrate Linda lovers will have to choose between two because I was leaving.” They agreed on the fine programs. In his famous diary Samuel Piazzolla piece, which requires a very gifted Pepys ended his entries with “and so to soloist. Only later did Marcelletti learn of bed,” hence the pajamas. He writes often her retirement plans, and feels that now about the contemporary English music there is even more reason to celebrate her. of his time, and this concert presents 17th “She has been an incredible support to me century composers he mentions or could all these years.” have known, including royal favorite Piazzolla’s Four Seasons, inspired Nicholas Lanier and viol specialist Henry by the famous Vivaldi work and set Butler. There is even a song by Pepys in Argentina’s capital, were written at himself. Featured performers are soprano different times and as separate pieces.

Laura Heimes and harpist Christa Patton. •

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The Lost World is one film in which the Alloy Orchestra will provide live accompaniment at Cornell Cinema. (photo provided)

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he night I spent at Willard Straight Hall watching Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is one of the ten great theatrical nights of my life. I had seen the film before, once at a sci-fi convention with its original score, and again in 1984 when it was re-released with tinted sections and songs by Pat Benatar, Freddy Mercury and others.

That was the 90-minute version; I didn’t know there were other versions. Lang’s movie debuted with a running time of 153 minutes, but the producers whittled it down to 90 minutes.

A 127-minute version was released, and in the summer 2008, a long version of the film was discovered in the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This weekend, the Alloy Orchestra returns to Cornell to accompany that version on Friday, Nov. 7. They will also play behind The Lost World, which the Alloys’ Ken Winokur describes as “the original Jurassic Park, and Rudolph Valentino’s final film, The Son of the Sheik, both on Saturday, Nov. 8.

I spoke to Winokur in advance of this weekend’s concert screenings.

The Long Road to Metropolis “We wrote a very extemporaneous score, but we wrote a lot of themes, and we did it a lot. That was the Giorgio Moroder version with this disco rock score. It was actually a pretty nice version of the movie, [and] we did our version to cover up the Adam Ant version. And then 15 years later, a new version came out. It was an original cut that had played in the United States. Paramount did an extraordinarily complex re-edit of it.

They started over again with the footage.

And at some point we couldn’t do it anymore because the rights had become out of bounds.

“Then they came out with another version that added a bunch of stuff. We

did that one just once; we’d had it with Metropolis for a while. Then they finally came out with this new version, which they’re calling The Complete Metropolis.

But it’s by far the most comprehensive version that’s ever been. We were worried about this just being long and tedious, but it really makes the story more comprehensible, it fleshes out the characters out more. There’s a new arch villain that’s never appeared.

“So we looked at that and said, ‘Yeah, we’ve gotta re-score that.’”

Valentino’s Farewell “The Son of the Sheik is our latest project. It’s Rudolph Valentino’s final and finest movie. It co-stars Vilma Banky, and she is scintillating in it. It’s kind of the love story of the ages. I had seen this a long time ago, and I’ve actually been working on this one not quite as long as Metropolis, but nearly 18 years ago, I started talking to the company that was distributing it about us doing a score for it, and getting a new print that we could use. That ultimately morphed into me buying the master material. So I started up a new company called Box Five to publish some of the material that I bought from this collection.”

Lost World Re-discovered “It’s got these extremely well done clay animation sequences; it’s got dinosaurs in it. They find dinosaurs in the Amazon on this elevated plateau, and they decide to just go up there and capture a dinosaur and bring him back.

He gets loose in London and rampages through the towns, destroying buildings and bridges. It’s certainly a precursor to Godzilla, and it was made by Willis O’Brien and some of the other people who later worked on the original King Kong.” •

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The Alloy Orchestra performs w/ Metropolis The Lost World The Son of the Sheik Suitcase of Love & Shame w/filmmaker Snowpiercer cinema.cornell.edu

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Shep Gordon, a legendary Hollywood insider, is the subject of the film Supermensch.

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nless you studied the fine print on the back of Alice Cooper records, you might not know who Shep Gordon is. That’s why it’s so cool that Mike Myers and Beth Aala made a kicky, kitschy documentary about the guy, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (available on VOD). Gordon is one of those legendary Hollywood insiders who knows everybody, knows where the bodies are buried and can still spin a great yarn.

He started out dealing drugs before becoming Alice Cooper’s manager, then Anne Murray’s manager (not from irony, but because he preferred her style of music), and eventually a manager for many other performers. Then he moved into film production for a while, and for his third act, created the concept of the celebrity chef. Myers first met Gordon when he cast Alice Cooper in Wayne’s World; Myers got Cooper, but Gordon made sure to get the Cooper song he wanted in the film. That’s one of at least one hundred crazy show biz stories in the film, and since it’s a Myers documentary, there’s some goofy liberties taken with the film’s re-enactments that are funny and distinctive on its own.

• • • So … Marvel Comics and Warner Brothers announced two big slates of comic-book movies from now until 2018, and we’ve got six months to wait for The Avengers: Age of Ultron in May 2015.

While we’re waiting, check out Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United (Netflix Instant View). Just as the growing Marvel Universe film series encourages characters to play in each others’ yards, this is essentially an animated two-hander between Cap (Adrian Pasdar) and Ol’ Shell Head (Roger Craig Smith) as they battle Red Skull (Liam O’Brien), the Taskmaster (Clancy Brown), who looks like a walking version of the Rocketeer jet pack, and an army of robot Hyrdra soldiers.

Good voice casting here: Pasdar

(Heroes) captures the Americana in Steve Rogers, and Smith, a little high-pitched, manages to make something of a character that Robert Downey Jr. has owned for almost a decade. I like the way the story revolves around the distrust between the heroes’ methods: Cap thinks Iron Man is a loose cannon, while Iron Man thinks that the Captain plans too much.

There’s even another Avenger cameo that I won’t name. If this punchy spin-off doesn’t hold you until next summer, you must be a True Believer. ‘Nuff said.

• • • I’ve seen Space Station 76 (available on VOD), and I don’t know whom this movie is for. I’m perplexed by its very existence.

It’s pretty much a character study, not a space opera; like John Carpenter’s Dark Star, it looks at the effects of being cooped up on a space station; it’s never explained, just a weirdo alternate past, The Ice Storm in space. The only scene missing is a sad key party.

Space Station 76 is being sold as a comedy, which makes sense on paper: the film’s director, Jack Plotnick, dates back to Mr. Show as a featured player; he’s been a solid character actor in comedies like Mystery Men and Down With Love, not to mention both of Quentin Dupieux’s American films. Jennifer Elise Cox, one of the writers, played Jan in the 90’s Brady Bunch parodies. But aside from Marisa Coughlin (Super Troopers), playing a miserable, drugged-out wife and mother in druggy passive-aggressive tones, there’s not much funny going on here.

Liv Tyler plays the station’s new recruit, and she provides a sane center of humanity that all the craziness should revolve around, but there’s precious little craziness. There is lots of cool retro design on a shoestring budget, but it’s really saying something when the scene-stealer is Keir Dullea (2001: The Space Odyssey). •

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Cast members of Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s production of Julius Caesar. (photo provided)

think all Shakespeare plays should be produced with the genders reversed.

One of the best productions I’ve ever seen of The Taming of the Shrew was done that way, and its sheer existence vaporized centuries of criticism about the play being cruel and misogynistic.

The Ithaca Shakespeare Company, having entertained the town with its summer double bill, moves into their winter quarters at Fall Creek Studios takes the reversal a step further with an all-female production of Julius Caesar, running Nov. 6 through 9 and 13 through16. I spoke to the production’s director, Amina Omari, about the challenges of this particular version of Shakespeare’s history play. Omari came to Ithaca for college, studied and taught with the Actors Workshop of Ithaca, and directed productions of Spring Awakening and 35mm for Cornell Melodramatics.

Ithaca Times: How long has this been in the works?

Amina Omari: We’ve been working on this since the end of spring. It was Paige Anderson’s idea, she brought it to me and said, “I’d like you to direct this” and I said, “Yeah, this is awesome.” Julius Caesar is a super-masculine play; it’s a man’s world. There are very few female characters, and they pretty much exist to get smacked down. They exist to say, “Hey, there’s a problem with this, this may not be such a great idea.” And then somebody [says], “Hmmm, I’m going to ignore what you’re saying now.” It’s a really interesting play to rehearse in that way.

IT: What was it like, reading the script and seeing how the gender flip affected the story?

AO: All these little moments popped up. There’s these moments where characters are talking about how degenerate the Romans are, and they

invariably talk about that in terms of the Romans being “woman-ish”, like “Our father spirits have died, and we are no longer real Romans.” So that stuff just pops out when you’re reading it with women in mind. There was a lot of talk at the beginning, we were trying to figure out, are we going to be playing this race of Amazon women who are running their own show, or is it women playing male characters? We decided on women taking on male characters.

IT: Scratching themselves?

AO: [laughing] If necessary.

IT: I’m just wondering how far you’re planning on pushing it.

AO: I asked the actors to take it from a character perspective as opposed to a “drag king” perspective.

So they’re basically being asked to say [to themselves], “If you were suddenly invested with the upbringing and all the power and all the privileges, and all the expectations that this character had because of gender, how would that affect you? How would you carry yourself, as a person? We did fight choreography and a movement workshop with Holly Adams, and really explored movement and fighting. You can’t carry a sword and stand like a girl. [Laughs.] You just can’t do it. You cannot swing a sword.

IT: I must be interesting to think back to when women weren’t even allowed to perform this stuff.

AO: Yeah. Turnabout is fair play.

IT: I’m not as familiar with Julius Caesar. Aside from “Et tu, Brute?” are there famous lines or turns of phrase that we still use, as with Hamlet?

AO: Oh, yeah. “It’s Greek to me” comes from this. “The fault is not in our stars” comes from this. “Thank you, I am not stronger than my sex” is another one.

That’s from one of the few women who’s challenging Brutus to be taken seriously. •

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“Witchcraft in Popular Imagination,” in collaboration with the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art’s exhibition: Surrealism & Magic. As part of this retrospective, a cinema concert of Benjamin Christensen’s Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) with an original score by the New York City-based band Transit, will be held in Cornell University’s Sage Chapel.”

Here’s what the Cornell Cinema Fall 2014 Flicksheet has to say about the festival: “The IIFFF will run for five days this year, offering an expanded experience of fantastic film culture for genre fans.

Between retrospectives, fantastic film competitions, and special concerts and parties, the organizers promise something for everyone … The festival will also include an international short and feature film competition, an action series, Fantastic Documentaries and Midnighters.”

Here’s the Flicksheet on Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages: “Prepare for a crash course in witchcraft! Swedish director Benjamin Christensen explores different notions of hell, witchcraft, and superstition, using vignettes brought to life by stunning visuals, use of color, and animations. The film was banned in the United States for many years for its graphic “What We Do in the Shadows” (Photo provided) content”. (Whoo-hoo.)

I read through all the encapsulated scenarios of all both a biologist, doing research at Cornell, the films on the IIFFF website. This was fun for me because I love storytelling, and, and a film producer. He grew up in hence, love pithy scenarios of stories. And France, in a small city called Strasbourg I was struck with the human capacity for near the German border. He created the lively and surprising storytelling.

Fantastic Film Festival in Strasbourg, and But the overwhelming thing I took it continues there to this day, so the Ithaca from these scenarios is that this is largely a Fantastic Film Festival is a kind of sister selection of horror films. I personally love festival. the science fiction and fantasy genres, but This year’s Fantastic Film Festival will horror isn’t really my genre. feature a selection of 30 feature films and It is clear that it is Hugues Barbier’s documentaries from all over Planet Earth. genre. You could reasonably call this They will screen at both Cornell Cinema the Ithaca International Horror Film at Willard Straight Hall on the Cornell Festival, as the genre comprises more campus, and at Cinemapolis in downtown than 90 percent of the entries. Even the Ithaca.

Retrospective films are fascinating in this There will also be three days of Fantastic Concerts held at the Community regard as many of them were banned or censored in their day as being too extreme.

School of Music and Arts on East State Thus, if horror is your genre, Gentle Street.

Blood-Spattered Reader, this festival is for And there will be a Fantastic Art you! • Show (at the former Alphabet Soup on the Ithaca Commons) organized by the The festival will run from Wednesday to extraordinary Ithaca-based comic book Sunday Nov. 12 to 16 at Cornell Cinema, artist and painter Steve Ellis, which will Willard Straight Hall, and Cinemapolis, include art events like figure drawing and 120 E. Green St., Ithaca. For a full schedule artists painting live on a giant canvas. of events visit www.ithacafilmfestival.com According to the IIFFF press release: or check the Ithaca Times Times Table.

“This year’s retrospective will focus on ere in Ithaca we always seem to be having some kind of festival or another: The Ithaca Festival, the Apple Festival, the Chili-Fest, Muse-Fest, Porch-Fest, Light in Winter, GrassRoots, it’s hard to even keep track of them all.

And Ithaca is a weirdly cosmopolitan city despite its small size, owing to Cornell University, a major world university, being located here.

Put the two together and you have the Third Annual Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival (IIFFF) arriving this November like the mothership from Close Encounters.

The festival is the creation of Hugues Barbier, its artistic director. Barbier is

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IT: What has this last year been like for you with the new record coming out and The Postal Service reunion tour?

JL: It’s been varied. It requires a different set of skills to be a support person in The Postal Service. A side character, which I absolutely loved. It was the hardest and easiest job I ever had. With my own thing, it’s very different. They are my words, so I am out there speaking to something that is very personal. It’s taken me a second to find myself as a front-person again. With all the shows we do, I discover something new about the performance. It’s a learning curve, and I’m in the middle of it.

IT: Those Postal Service shows must have been incredible.

JL: Yeah, they were amazing. It was like one of those dreams that you have, but you are not naked in front of your classroom, you are standing in front of 15,000 people at Barclays Center. It was just, “How the hell did I get here?”

IT: Have you played venues that large before?

JL: Hell no, and I don’t know if I ever will again. So I’m trying to keep a snapshot of it in my mind. But strangely, during those shows, I was more comfortable than playing a very intimate, small show. We played our last show in Chicago at a very famous small venue called The Metro, and that somehow was harder for me than playing to 15,000 people.

IT: Why was that?

JL: There is a certain effect when you can’t see the crowd. It feels like performance, where as the next show, people are right up on your pedalboard and you can see their reaction and you can make eye contact. That can be a little scarier than looking out at a bunch of cell phones glowing in the distance.

IT: People must have just been pumped to be there. I remember those tickets sold out in minutes.

JL: People were ecstatic and so were we. We opened the set with “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” and even talking about it now, I have chills. Every single night was an amazing feeling to hear those opening notes and the reaction from the crowd.

IT: How much of a hand did you have in writing (The Postal Service’s only album) Give Up? JL: Zero. I wrote not a note on the record.

IT: But was there something about that record that influenced you? It seems like the sound of Rilo Kiley changed so much in between The Execution of All Things and Most Adventurous, and that was when Give Up was released.

JL: I don’t think so. I was a singer and a player in The Postal Service at that time. Everyone was influenced by that record when it came out. Those electronic sounds had yet to be explored in indie rock, so I think everyone was unconsciously referencing that record. I just identified as a rock band. From the beginning to the end, regardless of the change of some of the textures on the record.

IT: So was that a decision you made, to be a more polished rock band in between the releases of the second and third Rilo Kiley albums?

JL: I don’t think the word ‘polished’ was a word we would use, but I think it was the ability to work in nicer studios with nicer equipment. We went from making records in our living rooms and garages to working in legit studios with producers. We wanted to grow, and we were very eager to expand on every level.

IT: You are still playing some Rilo Kiley stuff on your solo tours. Why have you picked the songs you picked JL: I picked my favorites. My favorite songs. Some of them didn’t work when we were rehearsing. They felt too sad when we were playing them without the band.

I didn’t want to recreate exactly what we

were doing. These were our songs with the band and my songs as well. Having freedom to interpret them in different ways really worked. When you are in a band, everyone chooses the setlist. It was what everyone wanted to play, so my goal was to go through the back catalogue and choose songs that resonated with me emotionally.

IT: When you look back at the music you put out with Rilo Kiley, what sticks out for you?

JL: I think all of our records have some real heart and soul in them. They are a document of my life and observations lyrically. It’s hard to choose one. They represent such a finite amount of time. The songs I pull the most are the ones from The Execution of All Things and Under the Blacklight. Most Adventurous, I’m having a harder time tackling those live, but I am

still trying to figure out how to do that.

IT: Why’s that?

JL: They are so orchestrated in a way.

The arrangements are so big that it’s hard to reinterpret some of them. But it is still relatively new for me.

IT: What does it mean to you to have been a part of a band like Rilo Kiley that is just so beloved by so many people?

JL: It’s amazing. You don’t see that when you are in the middle of something.

You can feel it, we felt the love from our fans at our shows. But I don’t think you understand the depth of your experience and your songs in the moment. I’m so thrilled, and it’s a real privilege to revisit some of the songs.

IT: Thanks again, Jenny.

JL: See you in Ithaca. •

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Joe’s Open Mic | 7:00 PM- | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Hosted by The Grey Wolf Band.

Sign-ups at 7 p.m. PA, amps, drums all available.

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Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | David Cast’s Groove Merchants Band | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Route 414, Burdett | Open Mic Night & Artist Invitational | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 Rt. 414, Burdett | share your musical & artistic talents.

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The Smoking Loons | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Zac Brown Band, Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffett, Sublime.

Bubba Crumrine & Lucas Brode split cassette release show | 6:30 PM- | Just Be Cause Center (former Ithaca Paint), 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | w/ Hank Roberts, The Changers, Sunken Cheek John Brown’s Body | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Tough Old Bird | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Folk, Blues, Americana Terrapin Station | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Grateful Dead cover band.

Blue Skies | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Vintage Jazz & Blues Standards Doolin O’Dey | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Lora Pendleton and Fwends w/ Oh, Cassius | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W. State St., Ithaca | Bound for Glory: Sheesham, Lotus, and ‘Son | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca | Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park

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Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

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

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11/12 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Joe’s Open Mic | 7:00 PM- | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Hosted by The Grey Wolf Band. Sign-ups at 7 p.m. PA, amps, drums all available.

Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst. org.

Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | concerts

11/05 Wednesday

Schumann’s Late Chamber Music: Formosa Quartet | 10:00 AM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ji Young Kim, fortepiano, and Mike Lee, fortepiano. Features Schumann’s Piano Quintet, op. 44, and movements from several chamber works.

Midday Music for Organ: Jeffrey Snedeker | 12:30 PM- | Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features organ music by Gottfried August Homilius and Franz Tunder Nirinjan Kaur | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Auburn Public Theater, Genesee Street Studio Space, Auburn | This concert will be preceded by a yoga workshop.

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Angelique Kidjo | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Beninese singer whose Fon-language dance music and percussive rhythms earned her acclaim beyond her homeland.

Water Music | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | A concert, as part of Art, Science, and the Thirsty World, an interdisciplinary dialogue on creative responses to the global water crisis. Features songs by Kate Whitely, Rachel Lockwood, and Solfa Carlile performed by mezzo-soprano Dawn Pierce and pianist Graeme Bailey; Boehmler Community Foundation Series: The Formosa Quartet | 8:15 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade; Dana Wilson: Hungarian Folk Songs; Giacomo Puccini: Crisantemi; Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartet

11/08 Saturday

Dan Veaner; Celtic Harp and Guitar | 7:00 PM- | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road (Rt. 34B), Lansing | Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 7:30 PM| Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Lanfranco Marchelletti, conductor; Linda Case, violin. Nepomuceno: Suite Antigua, op. 11 | Piazolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Jenny Lewis | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | w/ Girlpool Cornell Baroque Orchestra | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Paul Miller, director. Features music by Handel and Vivaldi, including Handel’s Organ Concerto No. 13 in F Major.

David Friend and Friends | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | David Friend, piano, and friends, with guest composer Tristan Perich, present chamber music with one-bit electronics.

11/09 Sunday

Patriotic Radio Show | 2:00 PM- | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Fitz and the Tantrums | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 West State Street, Ithaca | with Big Data. Neo-soul group whose music looks to bridge the gap between Maroon 5 and Stax Records.

11/10 Monday

Composition Premieres II | 7:00 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Students perform new works by composition students.

String Cheese Incident | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The Colorado jam-band notable for their blend of bluegrass, rock, jazz, and R&B influences finally returns to Ithaca.

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Faculty/Guest Recital: Nicholas Walker, bass | 7:00 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | w/ Steve Brown, guitar. Professor Emeritus Steve Brown will join Nicholas Walker for an evening of jazz.

Yago Mahago, fortepiano | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Guest artists: Yago Mahago, fortepiano, with baroque violinist Pablo Gutierrez. A Travel through the Spanish and German Post-Baroque features sonatas of Jose de Herrando and C. P. E. Bach.

Film Serving Women Veterans: Community Supports | 4:30 PM-6:30 PM, 11/06 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Women’s Fund Fall Gathering. Showing of the documentary Poster Girl followed by presentations by professionals in the field. w/ Jenny Pacanowski, who was in the US Army from 2003-2008. In 2011, she began to facilitate writing workshops for veterans and their families.

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International Fantastic Film Festival (IIFFF) will present its 3rd edition from November 12 to November 16, offering a newly-expanded lineup to more fully represent fantastic film culture for not just genre fans, but for films lovers in general!

Between our retrospective, fantastic film competition, miniseries, special concerts and parties, there is sure to be something for everyone. See www.ithacafilmfestival. com for more information. cinemapolis Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes. com Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 6:45, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 2:0 0, 4:30, 6:45, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:30, 6:45, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30.

Dear White People | Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. | 108 mins R | Fri: 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Mon & Tue: 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Wed: 4:50, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 Code Black | A notorious trauma bay in an inner-city ER earns its keep as the ‘hurt locker of medicine’ as new, idealistic and adrenaline-seeking doctors train in an environment akin to a war-zone.. | 78 mins NR | Sat: 5:00 PM Laggies (Say When) | A woman stuck in permanent adolescence lies to her fiancé about going on a retreat and spends the time hanging out with friends instead. | 99 mins R | Fri: 5:00, 7:10, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 2:40, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20; Mon - Wed: 5:00, 7:10, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:40, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20.

Pride | It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families. | 120 mins R | Fri: 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; Sat: 1:55, 6:55, 9:25; Sun & Mon: 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; Tue: 6:55, 9:25; Wed: 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:55, 9:25.

Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa | A film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa. w/ Q&A with filmmaker Abby Ginzberg | Sun: 2:00 PM.

In the Company of Men | Two frustrated young executives vent their pent-up rage via a childish prank and end up paying a price in this psychological black comedy. | 97 mins R | Thu: 7:00 PM The Two Faces of January | Screenwriter Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove, Drive) makes a stylish directing debut with this sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962, and adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel. | 96 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:45 PM; Sat & Sun: 2:45, 4:45; Mon Wed: 4:45 PM ; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:45. cornell cinema Enter the Dragon | Enter the Dragon is generally thought to be the best of the immensely popular, cheaply made, and bonecrushingly violent martial arts pictures that industry insiders used to call “chop socky” pictures. | Wed 11/05 7:15 PM. Suitcase of Love and Shame | Tom and Jeanne had an affair in the 1960s and poured their lust, happiness, frustration, and sadness into reel-to-reel tapes that they would send to each other, knowing that each was as excited to receive the message as the other was to record it.

Bought for $100 off eBay, director Jane Gillooly’s latest film is a mash up of over 60 hours’ worth of Tom and Jeanne’s reel-toreel tapes. | Thu 11/06 7:15 PM, with filmmaker Jane Gillooly in person.

Snowpiercer | After the world’s governments launch an experimental substance into the atmosphere to combat global warming, the plan backfires when the earth is plunged into an ice age. The last surviving members of humanity endlessly circle the globe in a 1,001-car train known as Snowpiercer. | Thu 11/06 9:30 PM; Sat 11/08 9:45 PM; Sun 11/09 7:15 PM. Metropolis | Fritz Lang’s dystopian epic about life and revolution in a futuristic city originally premiered in Berlin in January 1927 at a running time of 153 minutes, at the time, the most expensive and ambitious picture ever made in Europe. | Fri 11/07 7:15 PM, with live music by the Alloy Orchestra; Sun 11/09 4:00 PM. The Lost World | Painstakingly restored by the George Eastman House when missing footage was found in Prague, several years ago, The Lost World, praised

by Leonard Maltin as “the granddaddy of all prehistoric monster movies,” was hailed as the greatest sensation ever filmed when it opened in New York in 1925. | Sat 11/08 2:00 PM, with live music by the Alloy Orchestra.

The Son of the Sheik | The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino’s last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast

improvement upon) Valentino’s 1922 blockbuster The Sheik, the 1926 film casts the legendary Latin Lover in the dual role of the now-older Sheik and his son Ahmed. | Sat 11/08 7:15 PM, with live music by the Alloy Orchestra.

Stage The Piano Lesson | 7:30 PM-, 11/05 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 11/06 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 8:00 PM- 11/08 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/09 Sunday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on.

Another Christmas with the Calamari Sisters: Feast of the Seven Fishes | 7:00 PM-, 11/06 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 11/08 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/09 Sunday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | It’s been a year since those crazy Italian sisters, Delphine and Carmela, were whisked away from public access cable and ushered into Food Network stardom, but this Christmas Eve they return to WFAT and you’re invited to their holiday mayhem.

Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Julius Caesar | 7:30 PM-, 11/06 Thursday ; 7:30 PM-, 11/07 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 11/08 Saturday; 4:00 PM-, 11/09 Sunday | Fall Creek Studio, 1201 North Tioga St., Ithaca | Ithaca Shakespeare will close out 2014 with a production of Julius Caesar performed by an all-female cast.

Julius Caesar is often described as one of Shakespeare’s most overtly masculine and politicalplays. www.ithacashakespeare. org.

One Slight Hitch | 7:30 PM-, 11/06 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 11/07 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 11/08 Saturday; 7:30 PM-, 11/09 Sunday | Cider Mill Playhouse, 2 Nanticoke Ave, Endicott | written by comedian and playwright Lewis Black. It’s 1981, Reagan has just been elected and American life is full of promise. Everything is coming together to be the perfect wedding day for Courtney and fiance Harper. And then, the doorbell rings and there stands the ex-boyfriend Ryan. So much for perfect.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | 8:00 PM-, 11/06 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 11/08 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/09 Sunday; 8:00 PM-, 11/11 Tuesday; 8:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Hoerner Theatre, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road (Rt.

96B), Ithaca | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying tells the story of young and ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch’s hilarious climb from window washer to board chairman of the World Wide Wicket Company with the help of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Pippin | 8:00 PM-, 11/06 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 11/08 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Presented by The Melodramatics Theatre Company ,Pippin’s 1970s pop-inspired score tells a timeless story of a young boy’s coming of age.

LACS Shakespeare presents Romeo and Juliet | 7:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday; 7:00 PM-, 11/08 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/09 Sunday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Shakespeare’s classic piece is directed, designed, choreographed and performed solely by LACS students. The star-crossed lovers are portrayed by Caitlin Mallory as Juliet and Pierre St.-Perez as Romeo.

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 1 | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student. mentor@yahoo.com.

Meetings Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM-, 11/05 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 11/05 Wednesday | Joe’s Restaurant, Corner N. Meadow & Buffalo St., Ithaca | nlem1155@gmail.com Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | TBD | No experience necessary; most are beginners. For more info, email Dennis Dore at ddore@zoom-dsl.com for more info.

Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 11/06 Thursday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome.

Tompkins County Old Library Committee | 3:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D.

Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Group continues discussions on the future of Ithaca’s old library building.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 10:00 AM-, 11/08 Saturday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Fall Walk on the East Hill Recreation Path/Brunch @ Agava Meet and carpool from East Hill Plaza parking lot. About 2 mile walk RSVP: 272-6013 or map10@cornell.edu Tompkins County Public Safety Committee | 3:30 PM-, 11/10 Monday | County Of Tompkins, 320 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 11/10 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca | Tompkins County Legislature’s 2015 Budget Hearing | 7:00 PM-, 11/10 Monday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Health and Human Services Committee | 3:30 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Mahogany Grill, 112 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | 607-273-4013 or lpd4@cornell.edu Ithaca City Planning and Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | -

Learning Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Meet the Practitioner: Men’s Health and Chinese Medicine | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Will Fudeman, LAc, LCSW for this class, which includes qigong instruction. This class is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Lincoln on the Civil War | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/06 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, Main Street,, Newfield | Read Lincolns Civil War speeches. Look at the events of the 1860s and how they are revealed by Lincolns words. This reading and discussion series will be led

by Gary Emerson.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel Course | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/06 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | To sign up, please stop by the circulation desk, call 607-387-5623, or email director@trumansburglibrary.org.

Kelly Dorfman Lecture: What’s Eating Your Child? | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/06 Thursday | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St, Ithaca | Nationally known Nutrition Dietitian, Speaker and Author. Whats Eating Your Child? Learn about the hidden connections between food and childhood ailments. Child care providers who want training credit must register prior to Nov. 6 by calling the Child Development Council: 607/273-0259 Cooking Class: Healthy Harvest Pies and Desserts | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/06 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn the essentials of making tasty and healthful vegan pies and dairy-free desserts using apples, pears, pumpkins, cranberries, grapes, sweet potatoes, and more.

IRegistration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Red Cross Training | 09:00 AM-11:30 AM, 11/08 Saturday | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | Registration Required: 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) or http:// www.redcross.org/take-a-class. Saturday, November 8 9am - 11:30pm Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 11/09 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested.

Astrology Learning Group | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 11/11 Tuesday | Crow’s Nest, Above Autumn Leaves, on the Commons, Ithaca | Open discussions appropriate for beginners to experts. Contact Tim at turecekt@gmail.com.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/11 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Meet the Practitioner: Past Life Regression | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 11/12 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Health Coach Deborah Allison will discuss conversational and regression therapy techniques that bring about dramatic emotional shifts by efficiently accessing unconscious trauma and eliminating it.

This class is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Classrooms@ GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration

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Tennesseean and Cornell MFA alum Jesse Graves is a celebrated poet whose first collection Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine earned him two noteworthy awards. He will read this week in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium as part of the Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series. (photo provided)

J. Pierrepont Finch’s luck has changed for the better. After grinding it out as a window washer, he somehow finds himself chairman of the World Wide Wicket Company.

Life is good, or is it? Check out How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – a comedy directed by Greg Bostwick that opens this week at Ithaca College’s Main Stage. (photo by Sheryl Sinkow)

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Lectures Messenger Lecturer: David Roman | 4:30 PM-, 11/06 Thursday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Professor in the Department of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, presenting Reviving AIDS: On the 2011 Revival of The Normal Heart on Broadway.

Colonial Church Murals Near Cuzco, Peru | 6:30 PM-, 11/06 Thursday | Center For Natural Sciences - Room 208, Ithaca College, | The Finger Lakes Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Society will host Ananda Cohen Suarez (History of Art, Cornell University) THATCamp Reception | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | part of C.P. Snow Lecture Series Sweet Home Beijing: Then and Now | 5:00 PM-, 11/11 Tuesday | SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center, Corner of Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace, Cortland | a lecture by Luo Xu, Professor, History Department.

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Special Events Collateral Damage from Fracking | 11/05 Wednesday | See website for location, | An action-oriented conference Saturday Nov. 15 in Ithaca. Register by Nov. 9 at www.stopfrackgasdamageny. org or call 607 539-7133. Sponsored by the Coalition to Protect Communities from Fracking’s Collateral Damage. Sponsored by the Tompkins County Council of Governments.

The 2nd Annual Awesome Indie Art Market | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday; 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 11/08 Saturday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Featuring Local Art, Crafts, Food and Music, Awesome seeks to fill the void left by the loss of holiday shows that Ithacans used to flock to in the Women’s Community Building. In addition to over

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Cayuga Trails Club Hike: Cascadilla Gorge Trail | 11:00 AM-, 11/07 Friday | EMS Parking Lot, 722 S. Meadow St, Ithaca | Meet at 11:00 am, Ithaca EMS parking lot, 722 S. Meadow St. For more information, call 607-898-3202 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Primitive Pursuits Adult Weekend Workshop | 8:00 AM-6:00 PM, 11/08 Saturday; 8:00 AM-4:00 PM, 11/09 Sunday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Flintknapping is one of the most ancient skills used by humankind.

Join instructor Justin Sutera for a weekend focused on the art of shaping stone into precise and efficient hunting and crafting tools. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 11/08 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 11/09 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Bird walks around Sapsucker Woods are sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club and are targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all.

Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Cayuga Trails Club: Finger Lakes Trail in Chenango County | 8:30 AM-, 11/09 Sunday | East Hill Plaza, , Ithaca | Join the Cayuga Trails Club for a fast paced 12-mile hike on the Finger Lakes Trail in Chenango County. Meet at 8:30 am, East Hill Plaza near Ellis Hollow entrance. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 11/09 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Have you or your kids found a funny rock?

Curious about a crystal? Bring them to the Museum of the Earth as The Finger Lakes Mineral Club will be on hand with special equipment and experts to identify rocks and minerals for Museum visitors.

Cayuga Bird Club: The First International BirdFair in the Land Of Birds: Cali, Colombia | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 11/10 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Speaker: Jorge Orejuela, Conservationist, Autonomous University of the West, Cali, Colombia.

Cayuga Trails Club: Cayuga Waterfront and Black Diamond trails | 4:00 PM-, 11/11 Tuesday | Ithaca EMS Parking Lot, 722 S. Meadow St., Ithaca | Meet at 4:00 pm, Ithaca EMS parking lot, 722 S. Meadow St. For more information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Science Cabaret Presents: Cosmic Cocktail, Anyone? The Milky Way wants YOU! | 7:00 PM-, 11/11 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Join us for this theatrical tour through the entire 13.8 billion-year, scientific timeline of the Universe, Milky Way, and Earth.

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Local Fashion and Beauty Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | Bloom, 134 East State / MLK St., Ithaca | Local fashion designers will be on-hand. Stop in for a beauty consultation, talk to dressmakers and get fittings.

Lansing Community Library Book Sale | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 11/08 Saturday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd., Lansing | Lightly used hardcovers and paperbacks. Prices decrease from 2:00-3:00 pm.

Cornell Football: Dartmouth at Cornell | 12:30 PM-, 11/08 Saturday | Schoellkopf Field, Cornell University, Ithaca | Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 11/09 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.

Tompkins County Veterans Day Parade | 2:00 PM-, 11/09 Sunday | Downtown Ithaca, Cayuga and West State Street, | Tompkins County Veteran Day Ceremony | 11:00 AM-, 11/11 Tuesday | Dewitt Park, N. Cayuga & E. Buffalo Sts, Ithaca | Honoring men and women who served in the armed forces. ongoing Ithaca Farmer’s Market 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 11/01 Saturday and 11/02 Sunday | Steamboat Landing, Ithaca |

Health Alcoholics Anonymous | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny. org/meetings/PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 11/06 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St., Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 607-272-2433.

DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 11/05 Wednesday; 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 11/12 Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome.

For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance. CALL (607) 274-5345 with any questions.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 11/05 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers.

We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@ lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Overeaters Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 11/06 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 11/08 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/10 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/10 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | For more info, contact 229-4592.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

DamodarDas.com.

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Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 11/07 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 11/11 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 11/11 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/11 Tuesday | 316 E. Court Street

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Cortland Book Club | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St., Cortland | Jesse Graves | 4:30 PM-, 11/06 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Another of Cornell’s MFA alumnus, poet and editor Graves’ first poetry collection, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, won the 2012 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association, and the Book of the Year Award in Poetry from the Appalachian Writers’ Association.

Joe Ricker | 6:00 PM-, 11/06 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Department of Writing Readings.

Reading: Searching for the Heart of Sacred Space | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/06 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Reading by Dennis Winters, author of Searching for the Heart of Sacred Space, a book about relationships among Landscape, Buddhism and Awakening, focusing on Kyoto and Western Tibet.

Perspectives: Readings from the Fields of War | 4:30 PM-6:30 PM, 11/10 Monday | Olin Library - Cafe, Cornell University, Ithaca | Jim Remsen | 6:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Author Jim Remsen discusses his new book, Visions of Teaoga, about the life of American Indians in the 1790’s.

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(CSMA) seeks artists to participate in its Arts for All Marathon annual fundraiser for scholarships, November 7-24. Visit www.artsforallmarathon.org or contact info@csma-ithaca.org or 272-1474 for information. opening Cornell MFA Group Show: Prospective | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/05 Wednesday | Tjaden Hall - Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca | Reception for group show featuring work from Cornell’s Masters of Fine Arts students. Up through 11/06. Featured artists: Neeraja D., Carolyn Fraser, Frances Gallardo Varela, Artemisha Goldfeder, Jenn Houle, Jesse Kreuzer, Ann Lee, Ahmed Ozsever, Annie Raccuglia, Luca Spano, Lia Sutton and Connie Wong.

Giving Thanks for 25 Years | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | State Of The Art Gallery, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Reception for all-member show of paintings, drawings, photographs, watercolors, prints, collage, sculpture and mixed media that concludes the gallery’s 25th anniversary. Up through November.

Raffle of members’ artwork to benefit Fine Arts Booster Group.

Margaret Reed | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Opening night for new exhibit featuring art work from Margaret Reed. Margaret’s work will be shown throughout the month of November in our reading room.

Opening: Identity and Global Lens | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | CAP ArtSpace, Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Opening for Cornell University Student Show, Identity and Global Lens.

Cornell students taking Professor Jean Locey’s class Photography: Identity and the Global Lens will exhibit recent work.

Arts for All Marathon | 5:00 PM-, 11/07 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | CSMA kicks off its 7th annual Arts for All Marathon. Multiple artists present benefit mini-shows in the Four Running Feet exhibition; and artworks up for bid in the Marathon online auction are on view.

Jill Hoffman Paints at Handwork Co-op | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | Handwork, 102 W. State/MLK Jr. St., Ithaca | Join Handwork for Gallery Night as local artist and illustrator Hoffman paints live in store.

Openings at Ink Shop: The 18th Mini Print International | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | The Ink Shop Gallery (2nd floor), 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca | A juried exhibition of prints no larger than 4x4.

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The Cornell-based, student-led group Melodramatics Theatre Company presents Pippin in Kiplinger Theater at Cornell’s Schwartz Center. A coming-of-age tale, Pippin follows the son of King Charlemagne as he pursues an extraordinary life, but it is not an easy trek for young Pippin.

Another month, another fresh round of art gallery openings during this week’s First Friday event in Ithaca. Ithaca Generator and Handwork Co-op will both host demonstrations (see Arts listings for details), the Ink Shop opens November with its 18th Mini Print International, and Cornell photography students present Identity and Global Lens (pictured) at the Ink Shop.

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Laser Cut Design Studio | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | Ithaca Generator, 116 W Green St., Ithaca | Come on down to Ithaca Generator makerspace to design and manufacture something beautiful on our Epilog Zing 40 watt Laser Cutter.

Design consultants from Ithaca College Park School of Communications will be on hand to help with your designs and IG members with manufacturing. First come, first served. $5 suggested donation. Visit ithacagenerator.org or call 269-7436 STREAM Collaborative Open House | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/07 Friday | Stream Collaborative, 123 S Cayuga St 2nd floor, Ithaca | STREAM Collaborative invites you to our 2nd annual open house, where you will have the opportunity to view a curated selection of some of Ithaca’s most exciting architecture and design work.

Opening: From Burma to Buffalo – Picturing the Refugee Experience | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/07 Friday | Elevator Music and Art Gallery at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Opening for new exhibit featuring the photographs by Tim Gera. Gera was in a group of documentarians who began a film named Nickel City Smiler. ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Monday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Thursday, 10:00-8:00 PM | 273-1371 | Carl Schofield: SchoPhoto, through November | www.benjaminpeters.com Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | 533 Tower Road, Ithaca | Monday-Friday, 09:00 AM-5:00 PM | 607-227-6638 | From My Backyard, botanical portraits by David O. Watkins, Jr., up through October Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | The Fledgling, work from Margaret Reed, up through November | www.buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Identity and Global Lens, Cornell University Student Show, opening 11/07 | CAP-a-Palooza Sale continues | www.artspartner.org Chemung Canal Trust | The Commons | photo series by Nancy Ridenour, up through 10/08; Finger Lake Landscapes,

by John Whiting, opening 10/08 through 12/31 Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | A Collaboration of Art, dual show with Dru Wheelin and Lois Barden, opening 11/07 | collegetownbagels.com

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y musical journey has been to try to fit influences [from Benin and] around the globe together,” said Angelique Kidjo, who returns to Ithaca and the State Theatre Friday, November 7. “It generally works easily because a lot of the music in the Americas has been influenced by African roots!” The GrammyAward Winner arrives in town by way of Carnegie Hall, where just this week she performed a tribute to South African singer and civil-rights activist Miriam Makeba in a concert entitled “Mama Africa.”

Kidjo has a strong social conscience and an even stronger voice. Those vocals are mixed front and center on Eve, Kidjo’s most recent record, released last winter.

The result is a baker’s dozen of songs that sound simultaneously akin to the new female vocalists with extraordinary proficiency—Adele, Laura Mvula—and international superstars like Madonna and Kylie. Named after her mother, and as her

Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Arts for All Marathon, multiple artists present “Four Running Fee”, opening 11/07 through 11/24 | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | TuesdayThursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Scratching the Surface, mixed media on paper, by Jane Sangerman, up through 11/08 | www.cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Inner Space, works by Andrea Staffeld and Gerry Monaghan, opening 11/07 | (646) 306-0972 Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | From Burma to Buffalo: Picturing the Refugee Experience, photos by Tim Gera, opening 11/07 | newrootsschool.org Finger Lakes School of Massage | 1251 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca |Etosha Blank: Masks for Healing, through 11/07.

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press notes read, “the mythical mother of all living,” Eve harnesses the catholic theme of empowerment and then presents it with compositional specificity that is equal parts shiny produced pop and soulful and rooted music.

Take “Shango Wa,” the second track, which emphasizes the ‘pop’ in Afro-pop. With its breakneck pace and lyrics so rapid-fire they are as masterful as the best hip-hop emcee, Kidjo pivots from staccato to elongated strains with technical proficiency that is as dynamic as any artist currently recording. She does so principally in languages other than English, so when Eve pivots again to the ballad “Eva,” the record’s first single, the sultry vocals feels straight from the best Sade B-track (and with a delivery drawn directly from that R&B, and that of ‘90s artists such as Erykah Badu or Jill Scott). The production of Eve continues in this vein, blending pop and the folk idiom.

When she is not collaborating with Peter Gabriel, Dr. John, or the Kronos Quartet, she is powerfully speaking on universal humanism

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or the African Diaspora’s effect on our common musical roots. An editorial in last week’s New York Times, for example, takes as its jumping off point the city’s response to the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus, but concludes with Kidjo’s encouraging the media take “responsibility [and] show a more balanced image of the continent and its rich history”.

And “M’Baamba” is a traditional welcome song from Kenya with a glorious chorus featured front and center. It demonstrates that Kidjo—who is 54 but sings like with the energy of a 25-year-old—is as adept at dramatically re-interpreting other’s songs as she is at writing her own material. In all that she does, she makes it hers—and by extension— all of ours.

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or gallery@soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Glass Beads by Laurie Ament, live torch demonstration, 11/07 only | 319-5260 Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 AM-6:30 PM; Friday- Saturday, 10:30 AM-8:30 PM; Sunday, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM | Luminious Lakes, Glorious Glens: Recent Paintings by Brian Keeler, through 12/31. | www. titusgallery.com Uncorked Creations |102 N. Tioga Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca| New Fall and Winter Art Work and Open Paint Night, through November | www.uncorkedithaca.com or 222-6005

Kids Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 11/05 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/06 Thursday; 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/08 Saturday; 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/10 Monday; 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/11 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5

years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364.

Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 11/06 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, 11/06 Thursday | Dryden Baptist Church | Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/07 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Family Reading Partnership Kids’ Book Fest 2014 | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 11/08 Saturday | Boynton Middle School, 1601 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM-, 11/08 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Primitive Pursuits: Hunter-Gatherer School Break Day | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, 11/11 Tuesday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org

Second Dam at the Nines

Friday and Saturday, November 7 and 8

Saturday, November 8 – 10 p.m.

If you’re thinking about gifting art work this holiday season, take note. The Space at Greenstar hosts the 2nd Annual Awesome Indie Art Market starting Friday evening at 5 p.m. Peruse available work from dozens of local artists and enjoy live music, jugglers and other fun for the kids.

The Nines in Collegetown welcomes Josh Rollin, Smooth Antics and headliners Second Dam, the dynamic indie-rock outfit comprised of Ithaca College students. This show doubles as an IndieGoGo launch party, a crowd-funding campaign that we assume to mean that another quality Second Dam LP is on the horizon.

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Benin, Kidjo moved to Paris in 1983 to pursue a musical career. After performing as a backup singer, she quickly joined the massively successful fusion band Pili Pili.

By the late ‘80s, Kidjo was one of Paris’ most popular performers.

Kidjo is fluent in English, French, Yoruba and Fon (Benin’s most common languages). Her polyglot speaking voice is echoed in her eclectic musical voice: Kidjo’s music incorporates Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa, gospel, jazz, Zairean rumba, zouk, and makossa. But that doesn’t make Kidjo a complicated listen; her roots are grounded in pop along with a variety of musical traditions.

“I always try to make my music original. Even when I do a cover I try to make it mine,” Kidjo said. Her Carnegie Hall appearance reflects an omnivorous approach to musicmaking. She was accompanied by Ezra Koenig, the lead singer of Vampire Weekend, as well as serious “session” musicians on her record including Christian McBride and the Luxembourg Orchestra!

Her memoir, Spirit Rising, traces her beginnings as a young girl looking up to her brothers’ vinyl collection, but she is not mired in the collector’s preservationist tendencies. “It will be difficult for you not to move!” Kidjo said. “This band has been touring for a little while now and is so tight. [It] will appeal to people from all communities and ages!” •

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A childless young married couple (she 30/he -37) seeks to adopt. Will be handson mom/devoted dad. Financial security.

Expenses paid. Call/text. Mary & Adam.

1-800-790-5260 (NYSCAN)

ANTIQUESCOLLECTABLES/205 CASH for Coins! Buying ALL Gold & Silver. Also Stamps & Paper Money, Entire Collections, Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NYC 1-800-959-3419 (NYSCAN)

610/Apartments LOVELY APTS

2 or 3 Bedrooms in Cayuga Heights or Northeast areas available November, December, or January. For additional Information please call SERVICE CONNECTION @ (607) 277.1929. Short or U-Pick long term lease negotiable.

Organically Grown Blueberries $1.60 lb. Open 7 days a week. Dawn-toDusk. Easy to pick high bush berries.

Tons of quality fruit! 3455 Chubb Hollow road Pen n Yan. OFFICE 607-368-7151 1, 2 or 3 room(s) at 309 N. Aurora St. Ithaca. Furnished or unfurnished.

Reasonable rent includes utilities and parking. Call (607) 272-2585

FARM & GARDEN/230

greg01integrityhome@gmail.com

DONATE YOUR CAR

630/Commercial / Offices

Wheels For Wishes benefiting

Central New York *Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *100% Tax Deductible

WheelsForWishes.org

PIANOS

GARAGE SALES/245 Garage/Yard Sale at 6056 West Seneca Rd. Trumansburg; follow detour.

Household goods, furniture, misc. No clothes. Sat. August 4th from 9:00-2:00.

rentals

LARGE DOWNSIZING SALE. Something for Everyone. August 2 and August 3 8am-5pm, 2 Eagleshead Road, Ellis Hollow, Ithaca, NY 14850

Rent Your Home

MERCHANDISE/250

Homelite HLT-15 Classic weed whacker, new never used. $60.

216-2314 RED MAX WEED WHACKER used very little. $50.00 387-9327

700/Roommates

SAWMILLS from only $4897.00 MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own ALL AREAS - lumber ROOMMATES.COM. bandmill-cut any dimension. In stock ready to ship.

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Find the perfect 1-800-578-1363 ext. 300N roomate to complement your personality www.NorwoodSawmills.com and lifestyle at Roommates (NYSCAN) .com! (AAN CAN) Sofa Bed Double, green plaid. $150.

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STUFF

Only small kitchen appliances; 1 LazyBoy recliner and anything else you can think of. I might have what you want.

Mostly new, no junk.

Call for list: 607-273-4444

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FREE BANKRUPTCY CONSULTATION Real Estate, Uncontested Divorces. Child Custody. Law Office of Jeff Coleman and Anna J. Smith (607)277-1916

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840/Lessons PETS/270

Sebastian, Florida Beautiful 55+ manufactured home community, 4.4 miles to the beach. Close to riverfront district.

New models from $99,000. 772-5810080, www.beach-cove.com (NYSCAN)

HOLISTIC Art Lessons For Sale Private and small group options (ages BOXER PUPPIES 8Registered, - Adult).

Have ever, always, Vetyou checked, 1st shots and wanted to Need take art lessons?

Dovery you beauwormed. loving home, tiful. to Parents on creative? property. $450/obo. want be more Students are 607-657-8144 signing up now. For Information: e-mail: lessonsandthings@gmail.com or Call: 564-7387

EMPLOYMENT 1040/Land for Sale

ABANDONED FARMLAND! 5 acres$12,900. Adj to Sate Land! Southwest valley views, meadows, town rd! E. Finger Lakes! Rare Deal! EZ terms!

888-479-3394 NewYorkLandandLakes. $$$HELP WANTED$$$ com (NYSCAN) Extra Income@ Assembling CD cases BANK REPO’D LAND! 5 acres from Home! $10,900!

Great view, woods, Call fields, No Experience Necessary! our LIve utils, year round rd! Just off the NY Operators Now! State Thruway! Clear title, 100% G’teed!

1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 Terms avail!

Call: 888-905-8847 NOW! http://www.easywork-greatpay.com (NYSCAN) (AANCAN) CATSKILLS FARM- SHORT SALE! 58 acres - $95,000. Mtn views, woods, AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get Spring, town rd, utils, survey, G’teed FAA approved Aviation buildable!

Priced 60% belowMaintenance Market!

Technician Financial aid for Terms!

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888-476-4569 NewYorkLandandLakes.com qualified students (NYSCAN) - Housing available.

Job placement assistance. Call AIM Recreational Lands 866-296-7093 Beautiful for sale or lease, inexpensive, (NYSCAN) Central & Northern, NY. By Owner.

(607)533-3553

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Rest. Relax. Transform Yourself. HYPNOSIS Peter Fortunato, 273-6637 www. peterfortunato.wordpress.com

ACTIVITIES/310

Cayuga Lake 855/Misc.

Triathlon Sunday 8/4/2013 HAS YOUR BUILDING SHIFTED OR

The Cayuga Lake Triathlon will take SETTLED? Contact Woodford place at Taughannock Falls BrothState Park on Inc., Sunday, 8/4/13. Cyclists will be on ers for straightening, leveling, NY89 from Falls atState foundation andTaughannock wood frame repairs Park to Co. Rd. 139 in Sheldrake. There 1-800-OLD-BARN. will be a temporarywww.woodfordbros. detour on NY89 between Gorge Road and Savercool Road com (NYSCAN) form 7am to approximately 12pm while the triathlon is in progress. Please conSave on your electric bill. routes.

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830/Home Four Seasons Landscaping Inc. 607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage.

Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

LOST Prescription Sunglasses LOST around 7/22. Fossil Frames, brown lenses. Probably lost between Trumansburg and Ithaca. Mark (607)227.9132

VIOLINS FOR SALE: European, old and new, reasonable prices, 607-277-1516.

640/Houses

Cornell Commencement 2015. Let us make the arrangements. info@ BARREL TABLE Four Swivel Chairs in commencementweekendrentals.com Green leather. Vet nice condition.

607-272-7344 $275.00 564-3662

LOST AND FOUND/360

glossy vintage sunburst stika spruce top and natural finish rosewood back and sides grand concert size, ebony bridge and fingerboard with ivroid inlaid “heritage” fretboard markers with 12 frets clear of the body, slot peghead with w/HSC, list: $3378, Yours: $2549 IGW 272-2602

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888-701-7509 NewYorkLandandLakes. com (NYSCAN)

1020/Houses

1080/Vacation

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Brochures available, 1-866-629-0770 or www.coolbranch.com (NYSCAN)

LAKE LUZERNE - Lakeside chalet, private, all-season, furnished, sleeps nine. Enjoy Lake George, 11 miles away with no crowds! Short distance to Gore/ Saratoga $340,000. 518-505-4937 (NYSCAN)

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Ithaca’s only

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Protect, Express, Understand & Be Yourself Adult Martial Art Classes 315-696-1428 collin@centerlinema.com

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LIGHTLINK HOTSPOTS http://www.lightlink.com/hotspots hotspots@lighlink.com

4 Seasons Landscaping Inc.

DELIVERY PART-TIME

607-272-1504 lawn maintenance spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning patios, retaining walls, + walkways landscape design + installation drainage snow removal dumpster rentals Find us on Facebook!

Route Driver Needed for delivery of newspapers every Wednesday.

Must be available 9am-1pm have reliable transportation and a good driving record

Call 277-7000 Deluxe Studio and One Bedroom Apartments Shop, Dine, Workout & Live close to Cornell

AAM ALL ABOUT MACS

Carriage House Apartments

http://www.allaboutmacs.com 280-4729

Window World Replacement Window Specialist Guaranteed Lowest Pricing Visit our Showroom

Macintosh Consulting

BRIGHT SKY

VETERINARY ACUPUNCTURE SARA W. ROBINSON, D.V.M., C.V.A. 313 N. TIOGA ST. 882-1929 Buy/Sell Second Hand Furniture & Home Decor

Mimi’s Attic

* BUYING RECORDS *

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES PUNK REGGAE ETC Angry Mom Records (Autumn Leaves Basement) 319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com Custom Made Vinyl Replacement Windows

We Manufacture & install Free Estimate

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315-585-6050, Toll Free at 866-585-6050

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care! www.cayugadogrescue.org www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue

Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Same Day Service Available

607-257-0313

John’s Tailor Shop

Free in Home Estimates

John Serferlis - Tailor 102 The Commons 273-3192

607-797-3234 HIP HOP DANCE CLASSES

Mon: Kids Hip Hop 4-5pm, Teens 5-6pm Thurs: Breakdance 4-5 pm Adult Hip Hop 5-6pm Just Be Cause Center 1013 W. State St. e-mail: greatestcommonfactorcrew@gmail.com

Independence Cleaners Corp

430 W. State Street

Love dogs?

Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Housekeeping*Windows*Awnings*Floors High Dusting*Carpets*Building Maintenance 24/7 EMERGENCY CLEANING Services 607-227-3025 or 607-220-8739

IS ITHACA COLD?

WELL, WE’RE WEARING OUR SHORTS & SWEATING LIKE THE HORSE WHO WON THE RACE! 10 DAYS IN A ROW FOR $20 INTRO MONTH $45 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? CALL THE COW YOGA HOTLINE 2699642 www.bikramithaca.com

Middle Eastern (Belly Dance) & Romani Dances (Gypsy) Performance & Instruction

JUNE Professional Oriental Dancer Instructor & Choreographer 607-351-0640, june@twcny.rr.com www.moonlightdancer.com

OLD & PROUD Your resource for historic preservation www.Historicithaca.org

Peaceful Spirit TAI CHI classes at Sunrise Yoga Classical Yang style long form Thursday’s 7:30-8:30 pm Anthony Fazio, LAc.,C.A, www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

607-272-0114

Real Catering. Real Food.

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Friendly low-cost Computer Services lcrombie@robotics1.com (607)220-3517 Quality Residential Builder Integrity Home Builders

Greg Stelick 480-258-2327 Rock your yogic push-up!

THE PERFECT CHATURANGA w/Visiting Teacher, JennileeToner Friday, November 14 6-8pm Preregistration suggested * $30

MIGHTY YOGA www.mightyyoga.com 272-0682

SOUTH HILL VOTERS

FREE RIDES to TCP Library Polling Place!

9am-9pm TUESDAY, Election Day

Call 607-769-0418 RESERVATIONS Begin Monday, Nov. 3rd Vintage, Antiques & Home Decor Rusty Rooster Mercantile 317 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca We Buy, Sell, & Trade Black Cat Antiques

607-898-2048 You Never Know What You’ll Find

Found Antiques * Unusual Objects 227 Cherry St. 607-319-5078 foundinithaca.com You’re Sure to Find the place that’s right for you with Conifer Linderman Creek - 269-1000 Cayuga View - 269-1000 The Meadows - 257-1861 Poets Landing - 288-4165

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