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ompk ins Count y saw an a larming increase in sexua lly transmitted infections (STIs) in 2016, according to the Tompkins County Health Department, with the use of mobile “hookup” apps and online dating sites identified as one of the main factors contributing to a rise in anonymous, unprotected sexual encounters.

In 2016 the county saw 374 cases of Chlamydia, a nine percent increase from 2015, 81 cases of Gonorrhea, a 47 increase increase from 2015, and 12 Syphilis cases, a 200 percent increase since 2015.

The numbers of people with Syphilis reporting anonymous sexual encounters arranged through the internet were especially high, making it difficult or impossible to notify, educate and treat exposed partners.

Tompkins County is not a lone . “O t her c ont ig uou s counties are also seeing an increase in STIs,” according to Melissa Gatch, Supervising Community Health Nurse at the Tompkins County Health Department.

She said the high college student population in Ithaca is not considered an especially important factor. Syphilis cases in Tompkins County, for example, have been reported in patients 19 to 55 years of age.

“Folks need to have the conversation with their partners about their behaviors and if they’ve been tested before having sex,” said Gatch. It’s also important for patients to be forthright with their healthcare provider regarding their sexual behaviors.

For a complete list and contact information to connect to STI resorces, visit http://www. tompkinscountyny.gov/health/ std or call (607) 276-6604 for more information.

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n the eve of President D o n a l d J . Tr u m p ’s inauguration, a large group made up of members of Ithaca’s theater community walked in candlelit camaraderie down State Street to stand in protest, marking the start of a weekend of protest in the city and solidarity with other groups nationwide.

Almost 24 hours later, on a dreary winter day, several dozen gathered in Dewitt Park to share in food and muted dissent, later marked by an open reading and the smashing of a paper mâche effigy in the likeness of America’s 45th president. And, most notably of all, on Saturday thousands of people descended on the City of Ithaca, shutting down city streets and joining a nation in uproar in an event

by American women and for American women.

It began on Thursday as the Ithaca theater community – in solidarity with the theatrical community across the country – marched by candlelight from the Kitchen Theatre to the Commons as part of the Ghostlight Project; named for the light theaters leave on when the theater is closed.

The following afternoon in Dewitt Park, as Trump began swearing in his cabinet a group of several dozen ranging from their late-teens to early 30s gathered beneath a tarp tent off the sidewalk, serving up a hot vegan meal and holding a mar-

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ket where the inventory – ranging from books to various thrift store tchotchkes – was free to all. An event that was calm and, at times jovial, the highlight of the afternoon came at 3 p.m. where a piñata of the president elect – complete with tiny doll hands – filled with vegan candies was delivered to the park and gleefully barraged with the smack of a plastic baseball bat.

But it was on Saturday where the weekend of tumult came to a head as downtown Ithaca was inundated with thousands upon thousands of people coming from all over the county as a show of solidarity with the internationally-reaching Women’s March, a demonstration which choked boulevards in cities like Washington (attended by a large coalition of Ithacans on buses) and Denver and even prompted small-scale displays in places as obscure as Antarctica.

Even before t he 10 a.m. start time, thousands of people began the procession under a clear blue sky from City Hall

T a k e ▶ Big Brothers, Big Sisters will be holding an event this Saturday at Center Ithaca from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities will include arts and crafts, games and a performance by Vitamin L and will offer an opportunity to enroll or even become a mentor yourself. For more info, call aadler@cityofithaca.org or call 607-273-8364. ▶ The People’s School will have its first meeting at Klarman Hall on Cornell’s campus Friday,

and up Cayuga Street, stopping and starting with the traffic on Seneca Street. When the crowd swelled off the sidewalk, police shut down traffic on Cayuga Street and an improvised traffic blockade of a pair of TCAT buses was commissioned to keep the crowd moving. At its peak, the flow along the sidewalk in front of the Ithaca Times building ranged from eight to 13 people per second, many carrying signs and, less common but just as prevalent, cameras, each documenting every minute of the event from every angle. Estimates of the crowd ranged from 4,500 according to a stranger on the Commons with “a lot of experience on these things” to 10,000, according to the organizers, though police estimates placed t he crowd at somewhere near 8,000. Yet, despite the crowd size, no arrests were reported and, beyond some mocking of a pair of several pro-life advocates preaching at the crowd on street corners, the day remained incident-free.

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January 27 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The group seeks to build a constructive and educational dialogue of the political system free of the “myth of meritocracy,” over four sessions. Vegan and vegitarian food will be served and childcare and carpools will be available. For more information, visit peoplesschoolithaca.org. ▶ A listening meeting for local Democrats is happening at the Tompkins County Public Library on

Saturday, from 10 a.m. to noon.

At the meeting registered Democrats are invited to talk about what they would like to see happen at the local level in 2017. ▶ Ithaca College’s Student Film Festival is coming up on February 3. The first event of its kind, the evening could prove to be the debut of some Grade A talent. You can catch it in Center Ithaca on Friday, February 3rd at 5:00 p.m.

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f the 20-or-so local residents who spoke, none were in favor of expanding the Tompkins County Jail January 19 at the first meeting of the Legislature’s Jail Committee since the County hired a consultant to study the overcrowded facility and the factors affecting its population.

The County holds a variance

said, are to lower the Tompkins County Jail population and eliminate board-out placements so that expansion of the jail can be avoided if possible. If expansion is needed, the goal is to develop cost-effective recommendations that limit the size and costs of any new or expanded jail facility.

CGR plans to review Tompkins County’s justice system and assess demographic and crime pattern trends. It will analyze the county’s jail population, its alternatives to incarceration programs, and prosecutor and court data. Pryor and Bishop said they plan to complete the project within six months.

Ever since the idea of conducing a jail study first came

from the State that allows the jail to “double bunk” inmates, which essentially means that the jail is allowed to house two inmates together in cells that were designed for only one.

The jail has remained overcrowded despite the addition of seven beds in 2015, the New York State Commission of Correction (SCOC) recently extending the variance for six more months on the condition that the county undertake serious efforts to lower the jail population. If the SCOC revokes the variance, the jail will be forced to board out the extra inmates to other jails to the tune of $558,000 per year.

To kick off the efforts of independent nonprofit consulting company CGR, which is based in Rochester, principal consultants Donald Pryor and Paul Bishop gave a presentation to the Jail Committee and 50 members of the public.

The project’s goals, they

up at Legislature meetings, Tompkins County legislators have stressed the importance of including the pubic in the discussion. Local residents showed up in full force at the meeting, with people eager to listen and share their opinions occupying every available chair.

One thing was clear: those heard at the meeting were not in favor of expanding the jail.

“I changed out here with people helping me,” said Edwin Santiago, of Freeville, a mentor for Ultimate Reentry Opportunity who said he was incarcerated in New York City but has been out of jail for eight years.

“If you don’t have the resources out here, you’re going to keep going back to prison. You open up another prison, they’re going to fill it.”

“There’s a lot of people who have mental issues,” he added.

“That’s the issue that should be helped. If you’re using drugs, that’s an issue.”

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It’s your first week as The President of The United States. What’s on your to-do list?

“Create more jobs, reinstate (and tweak, just a bit) The Affordable Care Act!” ­— Chris Grace

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John-Paul Mead, director of performance improvement at the Cayuga Medical Center, said that just within the last month he had a patient who died after being released from incarceration. “When he was discharged he overdosed because he had been detoxed without any advice about how to not kill yourself after you detox,” he said.

Mead asked what the hospital and outpatient physicians can do to support a new detox and rehabilitation facility and to strengthen mental health coordination between the hospital and the outpatient world.

“I think there are people willing to volunteer and/or work hard to help that,” he said.

“Install equal pay for women.” ­— Giselle VanOrmer

“Install a trampoline room in The White House! ” ­—Sankofa Mclauren

“ Seek to understand the economic environment that I am coming into.

To make changes we need be able to understand all aspects of current events. ” ­—Janet Lecumno

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“We’ll follow up on that,” said Pryor regarding the role of the hospital. “It’s an important issue, and we realize that’s a potential resource.”

Many of those who spoke pointed out that incarceration, with all its financial burdens, affects entire families. Bail, they said, has the effect of putting a disproportionate amount of low-income people in jail when they are unable to pay for their release.

James Kerrigan, lawyer for 50 years and an Ithaca City Court judge from 2007 to 2013, said he recommends eliminating bail for misdemeanors and some low-level felonies.

“I don’t see any gain, in the six years I was a judge in the City Court, in having anybody locked up before trial,” he said.

–Jaime Cone

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ith the state-spanni ng New Ma rket P ip el i ne re c ent ly receiving the approval from the state necessary for it to move f ur t her a head in t he approval process for a proposed expansion of its compression capacity, a local activist said he believes he has proof that contamination along the pipeline’s alignment in several locations – including in Tompkins County – could potentially derail the project.

Building off a campaign that begun last August, environmentalist and Toxics Targeting president Walter Hang – who has been fighting the expansion of the Dominion Transmission-owned New Market Pipeline – has been arguing that a number of oil spills dating to the late-1990s along the pipeline’s route were never cleaned to acceptable standards. A confessed opponent of natural gas expansion, especially involving the transport of natural gas from Pennsylvania, Hang has held a pair of news conferences over the past year outlining his findings.

Last August, Hang disclosed information detailing contamination related to the Dominion Pipeline at several sites proposed for compression station upgrades, a series of retrofits that would have added 33,000 hp of compression power to the existing pipeline to expand the distribution of fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania to New England, prompting an outcry from opponents of fossil fuel expansion and an extension to the public comment period for the project. Recently, the DEC quietly issued three FERC permits for three compressor stations – in Horseheads, Sheds (i n Mad ison C ou nt y) a nd Brookman Corners – allowing plans for the project to move forward.

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ome progress has been made during negotiations between Ithaca College contingent faculty and the school’s administration, though a source close to the negotiations said the two sides are still “worlds apart” in terms of wage equality between contingent faculty, and tenure and tenure-track faculty.

As negotiations continue to meander, a contingent faculty vote on a strike could potentially be announced next week, barring a shift in negotiations after four sessions with a federal mediator and one more scheduled for February 2, the source said.

A specific date for the vote has not yet been set. IC students officially began spring semester classes on Monday.

The source said the only notable movement that has been made so far is the school extending a proposal for more secure contracts for contingent faculty members, though only part-timers. There would be longer-term appointments for part-time pipeline

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to be worse than Hang’s early findings that were initially reported by media, including the Ithaca Times. While early findings found that many spills along the route – including two minor spills of less than a gallon at a transmission station at 219 Ellis Hollow Creek Rd. – were never cleaned up to applicable standards, Hang’s findings on Thursday revealed that the cleanup efforts undertaken were much more significant than initially reported, indicating historic dumping of petroleum on the site had likely taken place for years and created exceedances of toxic chemicals in the surrounding, protected wetlands, which flow into Cascadilla Creek.

Hang alleges “thousands of gallons” of material was dumped into the soil next to an adjoining, protected wetland, resulting in hundreds of tons of contaminated dirt removed from the site. Dominion refutes these allegations, saying that the report cited by Hang was merely a preliminary report and that he was “cherry picking the data,” according to a spokesman for the company,

contingent faculty available after three years of service.

Full-time contingent faculty were not included in the proposal, a major sticking point in negotiations, the source said.

Monday also saw the release of an open letter, on the Ithaca Students for Labor Action Facebook page, from the IC Writing Department stating their intention to support the contingent faculty members should a strike occur. They also highlighted the difficult conditions under which contingent faculty in the Writing Department are forced to work due to what they describe as low wages and job instability.

“We must be clear, however, that in

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According to Dominion, the report cited by Hang was an “interim” report that describes results of additional soil and groundwater sampling performed by the company to further delineate and characterize areas of concern identified by previous investigations.They provided a final report submitted to the NYSDEC dated January 27, 2000, stating: “The conclusion in this report states: ‘Confirmation soil samples were collected to verify that the remaining soils . . . have met the project cleanup standards.’”

In recent emails between Hang and DEC spill engineer Richard Brazell, the previously unreleased results of soil tests on the site conducted in 1999 indicated there were still some exceedances of serious contaminants on-site and, based on current state standards, contained are exceedances for Benzo(a)anthracene and chr ysene (def ined as tox ic hydrocarbons by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) that were never cleaned to state standards.

In compliance with DEC regulations, Dominion agreed no “permanent impacts” would

the event that adjuncts hold a legal strike, our shared sense of moral obligation would require that we respect their decision and not move, in any way, to replace our irreplaceable colleagues,” the letter said.

T h i s l e t t e r, t h e first of its kind to be released, could carry considerable weight as the Writing Department mentions it is one of the largest academic departments on IC’s campus. Sixteen professors in total signed the letter.

Taylor Ford, president of the Ithaca Students for Labor Action, said more of the letters will be rolling out this week on the page, from “a number of departments” at IC. The American Association of University Professors has expressed unfavorable views of the adjunct faculty practice, stating “[contingent faculty] serve in insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic freedom.”

Ithaca College had no updated statement on the status of negotiations.

take place in the protected wetlands related to the new expansion project, the violation of which Hang said would immediately disqualify the project from consideration.

Dominion and the DEC, however, have maintained that they did in fact comply with DEC regulations, noting no toxins were noted to be above NYSDEC action levels in the groundwater sa mples. The NYSDEC formally closed this incident as documented in a letter dated January 3, 2001.

When discussing the impact of the previous spills at the site and whether or not petroleum would actually be harmful to the surrounding wetland, a hydrogeologist with the department, Kevin Hale, told the Ithaca Times in August that fears of serious contamination stemming from spills on the site were overblown.

“Petroleum is biodegradable,” Hale said, stipulating that it be in the presence of oxygen.

(Groundwater, he added, is oxygenated). “We essentially ‘lance’ it and Mother Nature takes care of the rest. A year or two after a spill things are back to normal.”

Hang disagrees.

“That comment from Kevin

–Matt Butler

Hale was absolutely deranged,” said Hang. “Why would New York State fine oil dumpers up to $25,000 a day if the oil is just going to degrade?”

Whether or not Hang’s revelations, if true, could impact the progress of the project is hazy. Last week, Hang said he will utilize Toxic Targeting’s listserv to influence a barrage of correspondence to both the governor and the Army Corps of Engineers demanding all permits for the pipeline expansion be rescinded.

Dominion, Mack sa id, remains confident the project will move forward.

“We believe that the 1998 self-reported, voluntary remediation project at Borger Station will not impact the New Market Project certificate received from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),” said Mack. “The FERC does consider past actions of the applicant when determining the required mitigation factors in agency’s environmental review of New Market, but we are confident and the NYSDEC has confirmed that this issue in question at this station has been resolved and closed.”

Ups&Downs ▶ Peaceful Protest Something incredible happened on Saturday with Ithaca’s iteration of the Women’s March. Bringing together more than 8,000 people, little ‘ole Ithaca held a bigger assembly than Binghamton and Rochester’s marches COMBINED (though Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the women’s suffrage movement, beat us with 10,000) and did so without incident. That day is one Ithacans should cherish and remember for a long time. ▶ The Narrative One Cornell study, two headlines. In the Cornell Chronicle, the p.r. arm of the college: “On economic mobility report card, Cornell gets top marks.” In the Daily Sun: “Cornell enrolls about the same amount of students from the top one percent as it does from the bottom 40.” (It should be noted, the Cornell article does point this out.) Both may be true, but that fact may be more of an indictment of our education system than anything.

Heard&Seen ▶ Local Media in Washington Though it’s well-known Ithaca College students were helping with PBS’s broadcast of the inaugauration, WHCU’s Jamie Swinnerton actually filed a story from the Women’s March. Nice! ▶ John Brown’s Body started on its Firelies tour recently, playing a show at The Haunt on Saturday.

The crowd was decent but the diversity in there was astounding.

That’s how you unite people.

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ast weekend, there was a big women’s march in Ithaca. That was great. Today, I was street-harassed.

I have not lived in Ithaca for too long. People are often rude and you can’t attribute cognitive deficits to insensitive people willy-nilly, like universities do to girls who are “rude” and say “no, stop.” There are women who will be motherly and who will work to convince one harassing or unseeing of them; there are women who will persuade: ‘I’m safe, and I’m not mad at you, though you projected onto me, made me your scapegoat, assumed about me, classed me, were a bigot to me. I will be sweet, regardless.

I’m still in an egoic phase in my life, since my ego has been abused for most of my life in the public realm. Non-egoity is what gurus teach, and it’s profound; but maybe, also, there’s something to be said for having a self in the first place, to then renounce: Interiority that is not validated does not count in the world (for example, an animal with consciousness skinned alive in a fur factory does not count in the world).

You can have a very robust inner world, but it doesn’t mean much if people don’t know that or don’t assume that about you. It’s lucky to be

able to renounce yourself when you have one to renounce, when the culture hasn’t denied you place/equal personhood/a ratified self.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, an acclaimed neuroscientist who had a stroke and lost language and lived solely in her right brain for a while, wrote in her book (after acquiring language again but not forgetting what radical receptivity had taught her): “Be responsible for the energy you bring to me.” In her hospital bed, it would disturb her if a nurse came in behaving in a less than loving way; no words would have to be spoken by the person; Taylor could just feel the roughness, the lack of care for her.

In 2003, scholar Allison M. Heru published an article entitled “Gender and the Gaze: A cultural and psychological review,” in which she outlines, through different lenses (psychoanalytic, sociological, historical) the import of the gaze to women.

She recounts a legal case in which a woman sued her employer because she was being stared at constantly (among other behaviors) by her coworker and developed severe depression. A violating gaze is something many women understand. Many women either court the gaze (when they’re physically “endowed” to), in order to exercise a measure

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like books and I like alcohol, and antics, Mrs. Trump’s deadpan surrealI know I’m not alone in this town. ism recalls the standup work of Steven In fact, studies show that 93% of Wright. Or Morticia Addams. Either Ithaca book clubs are thinly-veiled way, the featured drink will be shots excuses to get together and drink. I say of Brinjevec, a no-nonsense Slovenian why not come out in the open and put distilled beverage made from juniper the two activities together. In a bar. berries, leaded gasoline and ground And so the SBR panel has put togeth- bat wings. Spoiler alert: her bit about er a reading list for the next several being the First Lady who cares about months, and we will convene hence- cyber-bullying is hysterical. forth on the third Thursday of every Come March, the panel thought month at the southwest corner of the we could dip into something a bit bar at Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster more practical – Secretary Elisabeth Bar to discuss and DeVos’ best-sel ling consume. All books how-to book HuntStudies show that ing the Wild Grizzly will be available at Buffalo Street Books, 93% of Ithaca book on a Public School by pr ior a r ra ngeCampus. I previewed clubs are thinlyment. Everyone is a couple of chapters veiled excuses to welcome. Participaof this gem and I’m get together and tion trophies will be not ashamed to admit drink. I say why available for Millenthere were plenty of nials. not come out in the things I did not know We t houg ht we open and put the two about school grizzlies. could start out with Even if you don’t have a few laughs and I’m activities together. t i me for t he whole In a bar. really looking forbook (It ’s 759 pagward to February’s es! Sorry!), I’m sure selec t ion – Don’t we’ll be talking about Make Me Smile: The Comedy Stylings Chapter 7 (‘Bear-Proofing Your Lockof Melania Trump, Volume III. I don’t er’) and Chapter 9 (‘Setting Your Field know that we’ve had a First Lady this of Fire on the Playground’). I thought flat-out hilarious since Bess Truman. we could dress up as our favorite charAnd while East European humorists acter from The Revenant for this meetare known more for whimsy and zany ing, if everybody is up for it. March’s contin u ed on page 7

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The unanimous panel choice for April is I Love You Bigly: An Anthology of the Poetry of Donald Trump.

Normally, I’m a bit put off by something as literary as a poetry anthology for a book club, but his word choice is so bold, and the poems are all really short. Several of his verses invite comparison to the early Andrew Dice Clay. I’m told peevishness is the hot new poetry genre, so I’m game. We’ll be having an exciting new cocktail, too – it’s called ‘bile juice’: ice cold Stolichnaya Vodka and bitters.

We’re staying local with May’s selection, and dipping into adventure stories, one of my favorite categories. Many of you may have already read Jean-Jacques Cornstarch’s selfpublished account of his journeys into the food caves of Ithaca: Spelunking for Groceries. If you haven’t, then I recommend it. His description of his solo trek into the Beer Cave at the Speedway on Elmira Road literally made my hair stand on end. And when his guide Lars abandoned him and his team in the Wegmans Cheese Caves and he had to lead the expedition out by himself…well, I don’t want to ruin it, but it reminded me of nothing so much as the grueling Antarctic adventures of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

To honor such fortitude, we will be consuming cans of domestic beer. I happen to know Utica Club is available on the premises at Maxie’s.

June’s pick, “They,” Not “She,”

of control over this irremovable aspect of their daily living, or they feel constantly violated by it.

There was a man like this on the Commons. I told this man to leave me alone. One measure of a person, I think, is what they do when a vulnerable party says these words to them. Either they think about it and realize, “Oh, that projection was a person all along,” or they lash out. He lashed out. He menaced me, insinuated with his tone, when he saw me with my pet: “You better take care of your animal.” He called me a bitch when I passed him one night. And he would stare at me and laugh loudly, mocking, something, about me: my wish to be left alone, my helpless visibility; to show himself to be unaffected by the bitch who had said stop.

I talked to a couple of other women in the community about this young man. They said he’s really a nice guy, that he’s not too bright.

The actions of people who are not too bright are just to be endured I guess.

When confronted by the “gaze,” you have two options: either courting the gaze or being flayed by it. For someone to show their hate to me, to mongrelize the image of me, gets to me because of my experience as a girl, as an ethnic-looking girl, and as a shy girl growing up. I had place enough in my school in that it was a pretty safe environment, and I did not have a disability, and I was known as studious. But I was not known as beautiful for the majority of my life, and because I felt the human hierarchy that is attached to visibility and physicality, my very self was bound up with the mongrelization of my physical image (and of my quietude, and in the context of the permissiveness with girls that the culture tolerates), with the debasement of me. No matter my life of the mind, I was sensitive, I knew my place – too often – and my selfesteem suffered greatly. When strangers hate me, hate the chimera of me that passes them on the street, my self is, still, helplessly, bound up with that. I remain human, and I retain memory, and my emotional self responds to hate; helplessly, at some basic level, you question: Do I deserve this? Do I deserve this hate?

I know I don’t; yet I know that no one will help me to make it stop. No one will be angry with (alongside) me.

So, I have to take time to rise, as Maya Angelou intoned she could do seamlessly, over and over again.

A women’s march does not fix individual realities if enough women don’t understand how the mundane, or the less obvious, the ‘microaggressive,’ reveals an underlying reality. Despite its indisputable value, a march cannot adequately protect women who are left quite alone to speak about this underlying reality, while a collective chants about more clear-cut piggery may disenfranchise females who speak and if community members say, simply, He/she is alright; whatever you know, I’m good, I’m safe. And if he’s at you: maybe you deserve it.

Now that I have risen again, for today, I’ll go do something else.

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is local writer Arabella Flanksteak’s debut novel. It’s the story of a young Cornell University pottery major on a picaresque journey of self-discovery.

The entire book is set during a single day in November, 2016 as the protagonist Jessica, without the protection of trigger warnings, navigates the innumerable microaggressions of college life on her way to a post-election cryin. During her odyssey, she grapples with the vague but persistent feeling that she might have been a part of bringing on the Trump victory with all her politically correct silliness. The southwest corner of the bar at Maxie’s will be designated a safe space for the occasion, and the bartender has promised to have a number of CaucasianAmerican wines from Six Mile Creek available for us.

For July, we had hoped to score a juicy story of personal or political wrongdoing at the highest levels, but Google searches for books on the ‘scandals of Svante Myrick’ or ‘scandals of Barack Obama’ turned up absolutely nothing. Weird. Oh, well, we’ve got enough to get some momentum into summer and then, if anyone is still speaking to anyone else, we can go from there.

Charley Githler is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. His column, Surrounded

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Several omissions were made in a handful of recent articles that The Ithaca Times would like to note for the record. First, in the year in review issue published Jan. 4, the paper neglected to include in the water crisis portion of the cover story the issue of lead contamination being found in school drinking water, an infrastructure crisis that also occurred at the national level. Second, in Ross Haarstad’s year in review of local theater in the January 18 issue, the author requested to mention he overlooked one of the newer groups in Ithaca: the Ithaca Fringe Festival, 4 days of amazing theater from folks far and near, celebrating its third year this April 20-23.

In an early online version of the article, ‘Could New Info Derail A Pipeline,’ some information included in the text slightly mischaracterized the nature of the project. The story had been edited to further clarify the project is not the construction of a new pipeline: it does, however, entail the construction of several new compressor stations. A previous version of this story also noted the Governor of New York State approved the project: it should be clarified the New York State DEC is the governing body directly responsible for issuing air quality permits though it is the Cuomo administration which oversees this process.

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News Quick Hits A leader in the southside dies Local Black Lives Matter activist, former assistant director of Cornell’s Office of Minority Educational Affairs and, as of last summer, Director of the Southside Community Center Leon Lawrence died last weekend after an illness, 14850.com first reported. He leaves behind his wife, Diana, and children Noel, Eric, Gabriella, and Daniel.

A memorial gathering is scheduled to take place at the Space @ GreenStar this Sunday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 701 West Buffalo Street.

Cornell Geneticist Wins National Academy Of Sciences Award A research geneticist at Cornell, Ed Buckler, is the first scientist to receive the new NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for his work in nutrition and food security.

This new Prize marks the first time that the National Academy of Sciences is honoring food and agriculture research with an annual prize, presented for Buckler’s work developing a strain of maize with 15 times more vitamin A than conventional varieties. This strain is now widely available in Zambia, where vitamin A deficiency is an issue for more than half of children under five years of age.

Town Of Ithaca Contemplates Expanding Duplex Ban With the current ban on duplex housing construction set to expire in early February, the Town of Ithaca Planning Committee will look to extend the moratorium another six months after an upcoming public hearing.

The new moratorium was discussed last week, and a special meeting is tentatively called for February 6 at 6 p.m., when the 270-day moratorium is set to end. The department needs more time to evaluate and modify the existing town codes regarding owneroccupancy rental properties, which have become more prevalent in the wake of rising student housing needs.

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How a shortfall of student housing ripples across the Ithaca market.

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“We are transfers, so we didn’t know that we needed to be on it already. We started the end of September, and everything was basically gone at that point,” Cornell University IRL major Lily Talal said just before her friend Amanda interrupted jokingly saying, “Oh, yeah, we’re basically homeless.”

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Truly understanding the college housing situation requires a little history lesson, going all the way back to the Lincoln Administration. In 1862, congress passed the Morrill Land Grant Act, which gave states funding to set aside land for colleges and universities for $1.25 an acre. The State of New York then sold a large portion of that land to Ezra Cornell to found his private institution.

However, Cornell wasn’t entirely concerned with housing at the time, according to University Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi. “Little did I know that the founders did not want to be in the student housing business,” Lombardi said, “[the founders thought] that part of the value of a college education was living in the community.”

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the community remained mostly steadfast for about the next 80 years, where students often lived with their landlords. “The people in Ithaca wound up being like a foster parents to their kids. Because we lived there our tenants lived there, it was a very hands-on relationship,” Christopher Anagnost, a longtime landlord in the city said.

Anagnost entered the investment property business himself in 1973, just around the time many other landlords and developers started to buy out those families to use as investment properties for college students. He claims low interest rates in the early 1980s and re-zoning by the city promoted what was becoming a very lucrative business, especially for bigger players with more properties.

It also helped that the student population that fuels that industry has steadily grown. Lombardi says even Cornell hasn’t

anticipated its yearly rate of growth for the last 10 years. Meanwhile, about 15,000 people commute into the county every day (most of which, head into Ithaca) and the population of the county grows by approximately 600 people each year.

As those numbers grow higher, more strain is put on the local housing market as more students compete (and normally win) against “townies” for much-needed affordable housing. As a result, that shortage forces middle class workers to live outside the city and lower class individuals without much choice at all.

The solution on paper seems simple: build. However, that’s exactly where the topic becomes an issue; It’s a matter of who pays, and who gets paid.

Earlier this year, Cornell University took steps to start tackling the issue by putting together a housing master plan

with three main points: deferred maintenance, current capacity, and future capacity. Many of the school’s older buildings are showing their age with deteriorating architecture, aged electrical systems and less flexibility for school programs like “First-Year Experience.”

“It’s a challenge for us to meet not only because it’s critically expensive, volume we need dollar wise is quite prohibitive, but we also don’t have the capacity to do this,” Lombardi said. “For those of you in this business you know that in order to renovate a building and fix up a building, you need to close it down and in doing that you displace ‘x’ number of students.”

Currently, freshmen and sophomores are guaranteed housing, but after that they often have to fend for themselves. The university, however, is relying on a good proportion of sophomores and up – approximately 1,435 students – to move off campus and help alleviate some of the capacity issues.

Of the university’s estimated 21,904 total enrolled students, there is enough capacity on campus for just over 7,000 or 34 percent of its total enrollment, leaving the remaining 14,000 or so students to find their own housing.

On South Hill, the housing situation for students is a vastly different experience, but not so much for the college.

“We have a number of students that are at part of their developmental progression looking to live off-campus because they’ve already had an on campus experience in a traditional residential hall,” Bonnie SoltPrunty, Ithaca College Director of Residential Life and Judicial Affairs, said.

Ithaca College guarantees housing for all of its 6,600 students despite only having capacity for less than a third of them. This, however, is never a problem for the college because students, she said, typically want to move off campus.

The issue with students living off campus on South Hill, which lies partially outside city limits in the Town of Ithaca, lies not in a capacity and supply issue, but rather in zoning compliance.

The Town of Ithaca Planning Board is considering enforcing already existing regulations that prohibit members of more than two or three families living in a single dwelling while the city, meanwhile, has already limited stock of single family dwellings available, many already converted.

“There’s an issue of student housing and over-occupancy issues,” said Sue Ritter, Director of Planning for the Town of Ithaca.

“There are complaints that come into the town because of the quality of a student house or student housing.”

The idea behind enforcing the family limit would ultimately force out more college students who live with more than two other roommates. This change could potentially redesign the entire housing landscape on South Hill as high rents would force students back onto campus, toward larger developments, or into areas outside the town.

Despite what students want, the “Animal House” quality dwellings certainly haven’t disappeared either. It’s rare to

throughout the new buildings, they have to be code compliant or they won’t get a certificate of occupancy.”

These students who leave campus become sharks with whom local house or apartment hunters just can’t compete.

Oftentimes, that’s a result of the student’s willingness to pay more.

According to the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average Tompkins County earner brings home $957 each week, versus the national average of $989

drive up Hudson Street or down Catherine Street on a Sunday morning without seeing at least one empty Natural Lite can or a red Solo cup buried in the hedges. The rambunctiousness of these young adults hasn’t changed, and likely never will, but neither has the quality of many of their houses.

Though all rental properties are strictly monitored for compliance, students still have some stories to tell. In a 2008 random survey of students by Cornell’s Survey Research institute, many responded with a slew of maintenance issues including one anonymous respondent who wrote, “There are squirrels in our walls and in the ceiling and he refuses to get rid of them. The squirrels then got through the wall and started running around the house, he still refuses to fix the problem.“ “That’s not the norm,” JoAnn Cornish, City Directory of Planning said, “especially

per week and state average of $1,210 per week. When students board with other students, they can combine their (or moreoften their parents’) incomes in such away that leaves a single working family at a disadvantage. Because of this “alien income,” students often drive a new type of demand in looking to lease higher quality apartments at a higher cost, leaving local, smallscale landlords in the dust.

Karla Terry, secretary of the Landlord’s Association of Tompkins County, would argue college students have indeed become more picky, but are not willing to pay more.

“They want to walk to campus, and they want it to be very convenient,” she said.

“Which is okay, who doesn’t want convenience? But they also want to not pay a lot.

And unfortunately sometimes for convenience you have to pay more, and those two things don’t go hand-in-hand. Because of Collegetown rents.”

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capital to be able to compete with the large developments, and that high taxes require them to hike their rents. According to 2016 tax data, 10.5 percent of the rent on the Collegetown Terrace apartment can be accredited to taxes each month while Terry’s apartment, in the city alone, is taxed at 8.7 percent each month beyond the county and town tax she pays; a total tax rate of nearly 18 percent.

The Collegetown Terrace complex has little to no vacancy. Terry’s apartment is still on the market. So then where are the 9,000 or so working commuters to fill this vacancy? If the average family brings home $3,784 each month, renting Terry’s apartment would account for 44 percent of that, making it near impossible to put bread on the table. When all the apartments in Collegetown are set at student prices, nobody but the students can fill them.

The demand for more housing across the board is clear, but according to local experts it’s the supply of student housing in particular that causes this shortage. Construction, the argument goes, is the only way.

The larger developers want to build and they want to build big. However, many of the municipalities’ zoning restrictions work against development especially for large “purpose built student housing”.

“We’re not really looking at one demographic. So, we’re hoping that you could get a range of demographics in a neighborhood. However, we would not be looking to get this all being college students,” said Ritter.

Smaller landlords, on the other hand, don’t often see this major development as necessary and cite taxes as the root for rising rent and what they see as a higher vacancy. “If you’re flexible, and open minded to the options that are available to you, there are plenty of options,” said Terry.

The city, which does hit those landlords with $12.89 for every $1,000 of assessed value each year (before county and town taxes), would want to lower those taxes, but can’t do so without exceeding the tax cap or cutting spending. “It certainly has made the city’s budgeting process much easier because we have less of a gap then we’ve had in the past because of the tax base,” Cornish said.

Cornell knows the housing issue needs to be addressed, but hasn’t demonstrated the clarity and forethought many people want to see.

“I think what’s happened over the last 10 years is that (the need) just kind of crept up year after year,” Lombardi said.

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t was a solid weekend for local grapplers, as Cornell pulled out a big win over #7 Lehigh and the Bombers of Ithaca College continued its top-dog status in the Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference.

The title was the Bombers’ fourth consecutive, and Ithaca wrestlers won at five of the 10 weight-classes. They picked up wins at 141 (Nick Wahba, who won his third title), 149 (Sammy Schneider), 165 (Nick Velez), 197 (Carlos Toribo), and 285-pounds (Jake O’Brien), and also had 17 place-winners at

the event.

Sophomore wrestler Greg Lee – a local kid from Lansing – also competed in the 149-pound weight class, and came away with a 2-2 record with a fall and major decision.

Cornell was getting hammered 17-3 at the halfway point, but veterans Brian Realbuto and Gabe Dean delivered consecutive pins to shock Lehigh on their home mat. Realbuto’s pin came in an unusual fashion, as he had his opponent in a dangerous position, and the Lehigh wrestler’s shoulders squared off

on the mat ever so brief ly. Nonetheless, it put six points in Cornel l ’s side of the scoreboard.

Dean, on the other hand, dominated his match, pinning his opponent 22 seconds into the second period to stay on track to bull his way to his third national championship.

Local basketball te a m s s aw s ome very positive outcomes recently, as the Ithaca High boys took two tough games, the Cornell women completed a sweep of Columbia to get to 2-0 in Ivy League play, and Big Red

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men’s coach Brian Earle got his first Ivy win in a down-to-the-wire battle on Columbia’s home court in New York City. Playing in enemy territory without veteran leader Robert Hatter (who is out with an ankle injury), Cornell trailed with under 4 minutes to play, but stayed tough on defense throughout the contest, hit the crucial foul shots down the stretch, and picked up the big confidencebuilding road win. Predictably, Matt Morgan came up big, scoring 17 points, but it was a less predictable performance that helped to seal the win. Will Bathurst stepped up big with 12 points and 6 boards, hit the go-ahead shot and then sealed the deal with two foul shots.

The Big Red host Harvard on Friday, and Dartmouth on Saturday. Both games tip off at 6 pm.

As readers may have noticed, my life has been very “Lacrossentric” over the past several months, thanks to my collaboration with Richie Moran on his autobiography.

Over the weekend, we traveled to Baltimore for a massive convention, and it was amazing to see how many people approached Richie to offer congratulations, tell him how much he has meant to them and to the sport, and I felt like one of Elvis Presley’s posse as Richie shook hands, hugged people, kissed babies and signed books until his hand nearly fell off.

One of the guys that showed up is now one of the investors in the New England Black Wolves, a professional box lacrosse team based in Connecticut. The Black Wolves play their home games at the Mohegan Sun, but the reason I am including this segment is that the guy I spent some time with was Mike French, the Cornell alum who was called “the Babe Ruth of lacrosse” at one of the gatherings. French – along with the late Eamon McEneaney – was a part of the famed “French Connection” that was a part of the Big Red’ 39-game win streak, a record that still stands.

Mike reminded me that the Black Wolves play at Buffalo on February 17th and in Rochester on April 22nd, and he’d love to have groups from Ithaca make the trip to either game. He will arrange some special deal for such excursions, and believe me when I tell you that professional box lacrosse is an amazing game to watch. I viewed the promotional video, and I can’t wait to get to a game. Please connect via www.blackwolves. com.

(By the way, please join us for Richie’s book signing on Saturday (Jan. 28) from 1-6 p.m. at the Moakley House – Cornell’s Golf Course – on Warren Road!)

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Sales tax revenue was down 0.56 percent in 2016 compared to 2015. County sales tax receipts totaled $60,449,021 in 2014, then fell to $59,350,643 in 2015, and fell again in 2016 to a total of $59,019739.

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In an effort to gain insight into the State’s methods for allocating sales tax for online purchases, Mareane sent a letter to Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, requesting an audit.

“While there are certainly multiple and complex reasons for the decline, the presence of a very large student population and a generally tech-savvy community has led us to question whether Tompkins County has a higher-than-average proportion of internet sales, and if the

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The State of New York enacted legislation commonly known as the “Amazon Law” in 2008, which required web marketing sites like Amazon.com that have affiliates in New York to collect New York sales tax from residents of New York. The revenue goes to New York State before it’s allocated to the proper local municipal-

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Meyers forged her interest in design through her father, who owned Ithaca Paint and Decorating for over 40 years. His death spurred her relocation to Ithaca, where she looked to start a company, Lynda Meyers Interior Design, based on his philosophies of fostering relationships and caring for customers.

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Interior design has seen a rise in interest over the last several years, Meyers said, fueled off of the unrealistic portrayals of the profession in a string of television shows. The job isn’t for everyone though. Meyers spends her days discussing her customers’ visions, crafting designs and layout strategies, battling furniture vendors and coordinating the order and installation of her design to her customers’ homes.

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that her father passed down. She said her father founded his company as a way to exercise how he felt businesses should be run, and that she has adapted those sentiments into the way she treats vendors, customers and the like today. Another factor is Meyers and her team’s keen awareness of the intimacy of their duties, acknowledging that home redecoration can be a stressful, pressure-packed time for some.

“We recognize that when someone invites us into their home, that’s sacred space,” Meyers said. “That’s their most personal, private place, and I think we do a good job of being respectful of that and recognizing our place in the process for them.”

Meyers carries with her an uncommon optimism, one that guided her through the adversity that riddled her store’s first few years. Two months after the 2007 establishment of her business, Meyers was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Another two months after learning that, the 2008 economic crash struck, taking

with it thousands of family homes and businesses. Undeterred, she carried on.

“I don’t focus on that stuff […]

I don’t worry about things I can’t control, to me it’s not a good use of my time,” she said. “I’m a big proponent of setting intentions and working towards your intentions.”

And so, Meyers and her business persevered, and also moved from downtown to a South Meadow Street location. The store never significantly suffered as a result of the economic downturn, and after a year of treatment Meyers has been cancer-free since. She said some of the aforementioned intentions she set out had to be slightly postponed, but that things never looked too bleak to her.

For now, Meyers is the only full-time employee in the store, however her dog Lucky serves as a charming customer greeter, to make sure “they’re feeling loved.” Though she enjoyed her time as a teacher, she said she has settled into a role that allows her to quench two thirsts: a love for design and education. In a way, Meyers said she feels as if she is still a teacher, though instead of mathematics she deals in design strategies and color schemes.

As for the future of the Lynda Meyers Interior Design, Meyers is 57 now, but doesn’t see herself ever stepping away from her business, no matter the allure of green fairways and sand traps.

“I’m always going to work, I can’t imagine ever retiring,” she said. “My idea of fun is not walking away from life and playing around […] I don’t golf.” •

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they are often advertised as being for two or three people can often feed far more than that. It can be easy to overestimate it seems, as Arena stirs a nearly 25 lb. bowl of salmon cakes: she has a lot of mouths to feed.

“We’re all professional and all good at what we do,” Arena said. “We all care.” •

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n the back kitchen of the Varna Community Center on a Monday afternoon, a radio plays and the smell of roasting vegetables wafts through the air as three women swivel and pivot with large trays and in hand, rushing to complete the more than 200 meal order they’d just received. By tomorrow, the meals will go out to the more than 120 households Rose’s Home Dish calls clients, the same way it has for the past decade.

Running the room is Rose Arena, a trained chef with a constant smile who, through her unique culinary background, has managed to carve out her own niche in the community, serving as somewhat of an in-house chef for a large swath of the area.

Arena’s business is unique in its focus: each week, Rose’s clients visit her website or receive an email with the week’s menu.

They order, Arena gets a list and her crew gets to work, preparing a massive quantity of food which is then chilled and put into a Pyrex casserole dish, to be delivered right to your door the next week. The casserole dish, unique for the type of business she runs, serves a special purpose: it presents the image of a real, home-cooked meal.

“It’s not takeout, it’s love in a dish,” Arena said. “It’s comfort. You have the ability to have that peace of mind a few times a week, to not have to run around like your head’s cut off… you can send a dear friend something as if you made it yourself.”

Her business model comes informed by her background as both a chef in catering and restaurant environments as well as her Italian upbringing: one of five siblings, Arena was raised in a home where food meant comfort, that meals were more than just sustenance: they were a gesture, something social that people form a connection to. With Rose’s Home Dish, she saw a way to provide peace of mind to people who were unable to cook for themselves, filling a need for the sick, the elderly and even

whole families without the time to sprint around a kitchen at the end of the day.

Because of the nature of her operation, Arena refers to her customers as clients, noting she’s had loyalists since the very beginning. It’s a relationship-grounded business, one in which people come to almost count on that delivery every week. In the days when it was a one-woman business, Arena even used to deliver the meals herself, though now she has several employees including a driver who, at times, will even deliver the meal directly to your refrigerator.

Even with the hectic energy of the kitchen, which she’s worked out of for the past eight years (most of the shelves are actually dedicated to Arena’s various appliances and ingredients) the small business is still fully

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“During his tenure with the Chamber and CVB, Ryan has increased the value of Chamber services and increased our visibility in the community, and nurtured collaborations with key partners,” said McCune Chamber President, Jennifer Tavares. “While we’re sorry to see Ryan go, we know that Communiqué -a Chamber member firm-is one of the best places he could be.”

Mr. McCune began working at the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention & Visitors Bureau over four years ago, as a part-time Visitor Services Specialist. He then transitioned to the Chamber team

in an internship role working on special projects, and later as a part time Account Executive, tasked with growing the membership. Finally, Mr. McCune was promoted to the position of Member Services & Program Manager in mid-2014.At Communiqué, Ryan will focus on acquisition of new clients and management of client projects. Communiqué, under Mr. McCune’s direction, will expand its service offerings to ensure that local business and non-profit clients receive completely integrated marketing, social media, and event management services.

WSKG Hires New President And CEO

WSKG is pleased to announce that its Board of Trustees has selected Mr. Greg Catlin as its next President and CEO. Mr. Catlin will join WSKG on December 5, 2016. From a field of 58 applicants, Mr. Catlin was the unanimous choice of the Board. Mr. Catlin will work with staff and the Board of Trustees in developing new programing and education projects, expanding the local news and its online presence, and in creating more visibility for the station.

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Mr. Catlin is a native of Perry, New York and a graduate of the State University of New York at Geneseo. He has spent his entire career in television, radio and digital broadcasting. He has extensive knowledge of all aspects of news, and station management as well as significant experience in business, industry and community relations.

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Before joining Elmira Saving Bank, Ms. Wiles was a Financial Advisor at The Partners Insurance & Financial Services based in Vestal, NY. She also has experience in the Ithaca market where she worked as an associate at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Tracy holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell University.

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Elmira Savings Bank is pleased to announce the addition of Tracy Wiles to its ESB Advisory Services team. As an LPL Financial Advisor, Ms. Wiles can offer a variety of financial products and services to address clients’ unique and individual needs.

Wiles Ms. Wiles’ primary office is located in the South Meadow Branch of Elmira Savings Bank,

The Tompkins County Solid Waste Division will soon sign a three year grant contract for a centralized transfer station to accept commercial food scraps at the Recycling and Solid Waste Center in Ithaca. Funding of $355,000 through the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s Climate Smart Communities (CSC) program will go toward the project.

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hough community meals at Southside Community Center have already been going on for some time, in February the center will be ramping up its efforts as part of a new trial by Quinn Energy, a fledgling local energy analytics and service firm, to assess any further impact the group meals can have on the center’s energy consumption.

Adriane Wolfe, founder and head engineer of Quinn Energy, said the aim of her one-year old company is essentially to interpret the volumes of new energy data and information that can be very complicated, and translate it from hard numbers to actual strategies.

Quinn takes the numbers and atWolfe tempts to answer their client’s questions about what is the most beneficial future courses of action.

More and more, governments and other businesses alike are having to recognize and correct their energy habits, and attempt to reform their practices by setting sustainable energy goals and cutting energy usage. Quinn assists in that process.

Wolfe has Ithaca roots, having grown up here and attending Ithaca High School before moving on to the University of Buffalo and later, the University of Michigan for her Master’s degree. After a brief stint working in a lab on the west coast, she returned home to central New York to found Quinn, which now has two other employees.

In the community center study, funded by Sustainable Tompkins, the company is looking to quantify how community meals, which are aimed at lowerincome people of the area, could impact a neighborhood’s energy costs if held at “peak hours”. If people, as opposed to going home and turning on all the lights per usual, were at a community center with friends and food, is the end result of that a significant energy usage drop? And can that drop be leveraged into more money for the community?

“We were interested in how community meals affect energy usage and what opportunities there would be for entities that have community meals to get incentive money or to participate in rate structures that would incentivize them when the system would be at peak,” Wolfe said.

It makes sense to hold the study in a low to moderate-income area, she said, as the meal’s value would be higher to some-

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one who might not have the easiest access to food, and people would also have more motivation to participate. In order for the study to work, people have to participate by attending the dinners and charting their energy usage at home every day to be able to effectively measure the differences.

A point accentuated by Wolfe was the avoidance of making this experience feel like a “soup kitchen” type of activity. The people who participate in the study are not simply receiving a free meal, they would be engaged in the process of helping the entire community.

“It’s not thinking of them as recipients of charity,” she said. “It should empower the community, it can help people understand how they use energy makes a difference, and how when we come together we can make a difference collectively.”

There’s a host of reasons for wanting the peak energy load to decrease, Wolfe said, and that’s one of the main objectives of the project. This is actually a follow-up study to one Wolfe already completed at EcoVillage, wanting to now extend it out to a more conventional neighborhood community center.

The one twist to the project is its timesensitive nature: after the kick-off dinner event, the remaining two or three meals will be held with only 48 hours’ notice.

The short notice is used to mirror how commercial-industrial businesses are given two days’ notice by the state to reduce their energy consumption at certain peak times with a monetary reward, a practice becoming more common residentially as well.

Though there are several potential models to follow, Wolfe said at this stage they are planning on using any money gained from the state as energy-decrease incentives to fund further free dinners at the community center, which theoretically could make the project self-sustaining in the long term, again dependent on participation.

The project summary encourages all Southside neighborhood residents to come to the dinners, but the meals are free and anyone is welcome to join. The hope, even in the flyer, is to transform the experience from a one-month study to a continued dedication to the changing energy needs of the community, while simultaneously supporting a necessary community service.

“New York State is spending billions of dollars to make our energy systems cleaner for the environment and more reliable,” the flyer states. “Our community meals can be a part of the solution. We will use the results of this study to advocate for community meal funding.”

The kick-off dinner event will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, February 10. •

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Business Briefs Chamber Announces Annual Award Winners The Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of the three business and community recognition awards presented at the Chamber Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony, held Thursday, January 26th at Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites.

The Award categories are: Entrepreneur of the Year, Non-Profit of the Year, and Distinguished Business of the Year.

Distinguished Business of the Year is being awarded to Rosie Applications, for their investment in Downtown Ithaca, cultivating a modern workforce, and being pioneers of the tech service industry in Tompkins County. “Rosie Applications is an incredible start-up firm that spun out of Cornell and has been growing ever since,” said one nomination. “They’ve displayed a strong commitment to Ithaca and Tompkins County, investing in Downtown Ithaca and attracting a fresh workforce to our area. They offer a unique work environment, and are on track to double in size again in 2017.”

Non-Profit of the Year is awarded to Cinemapolis as a recognition of their commitment to the arts and theatre in Tompkins County, investment in downtown Ithaca, and support of the local non-profit economy. “Cinemapolis is currently celebrating its 30 year anniversary in Ithaca. Cinemapolis is not just a theater that shows independent and art films in its five theaters, but a member-supported not-for-profit organization, said one nomination received. “Cinemapolis has become a community hub, providing opportunities for many non-profit organizations to show films relevant to their mission, hold discussions, and raise funds.”

“We try to be a welcoming “home base” for the filmmakers that call Ithaca home, and often host preview screenings for friends, family, and crew during off hours, so the filmmakers can get a chance to see their work on the big screen in its early stages,” said director Brett Bossard.

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State is accurately allocating the proceeds of those sales,” the letter states.

“Your audit of the State’s allocation of collections would answer the second of those questions,” it continues, “and also improve the confidence of local government in the precision of the State’s distribution in the years since the ‘Amazon Law’ was enacted by the state.”

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tied to the future of film. While there are many more options, both at home and otherwise, for people to consume the art of the moving image, our programming will remain focused on preserving the cinematic experience as the primary method for community engagement with film as an art form. So that means finding new and interesting ways to engage our audiences and introduce new community members to our cinema.”

The Entrepreneur of the Year is being awarded to Atlas Bowl for their investment in Trumansburg, development of a community recreational and culinary hub, and continued commitment to growth through collaboration. “Owner Todd Parlato and partners rebooted a long lost institution in Trumansburg, created high quality jobs in a small community, established Trumansburg as a can’t miss hub on the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail and added a great “anchor” the downtown Trumansburg, said a nomination. “Through their first year plus of operation, Todd has been the heart and soul of Atlas. He’s tirelessly engaged local businesses, community members and more to create not just the restaurant he wants to run, but one the community deserves.”

Onetime Local Company, Based In Roc, Sells Tech For $100M

Novomer, Inc., a former Ithaca startup and the first pre-revenue company that Tompkins County Area Development provided a loan to through the loan fund (they paid off their loan in full), recently, sold their breakthrough Converge polyol technology and associated operations to Saudi Aramco at a value of up to $100 Million.

Converge is manufactured from and contains a significant portion of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). The technology provides a high-performance, cost competitive and more sustainable alternative to conventional petroleum-based polyols that are used in Coating, Adhesive, Sealant, and Elastomer (CASE) applications which palities, may be registering with the State as City of Ithaca purchases even when the buyer resides outside the city.

“We wonder if the city is getting money that should be going to the towns and villages,” Mareane said.

While the county as a whole saw roughly half a percent decrease in 2016, areas outside Ithaca City were down by 2.07 percent. The city’s sales tax revenue, on the other hand, saw a 1.09 percent increase in 2016 over the previous year.

Some sectors of sales in Tompkins County are healthy. “A lot of sales tax comes from car sales, and a surprising amount comes from food and beverage,”

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feature in high-value, high-demand endproducts, including within the flexible and rigid foam manufacturing segments.

Applications cover a broad spectrum from automobile seats to building insulation panels.

Amin H. Nasser, Saudi Aramco President & CEO said: “Some of Saudi Aramco’s most significant achievements in recent years have been in developing new international partnerships in the downstream space. There is compelling industrial logic to the Converge polyol technology deal as it enables the conversion of waste CO2 into cleaner, high-value endproducts with significant performance, cost and carbon footprint improvements..

The deal also enables the development of new technological growth areas in line with Saudi Vision 2030 objectives of economic diversification and job creation.”

TCAD, which gave the company its start, also assisted them in securing a $150,000 grant from New York State to set up their first lab space here in Ithaca.

Tompkins Tourism Announces Grant Opportunities Tompkins County’s Spring 2017 Tourism Grant funding opportunities have been announced!

Successful applicants will describe a strong marketing campaign that uses all or the majority of the grant funding for marketing and advertising expenses that target potential visitors who reside outside Tompkins County, and whose visits are likely to result in an overnight hotel or B&B room stay. Applications for the main annual grant round are typically due in mid-February. (Spring 2017 grant applications are due Tuesday, February 21, by 11 a.m.) A fall grant round, with applications due in mid-September, is held in most but not all years depending on available funding.The funds being distributed in the form of grants are a portion of the hotel room occupancy tax collections administered by the Strategic Tourism Planning Board, an advisory board to the Tompkins County Legislature. $55,000 is available in 2017 for Tourism Marketing & Advertising Grants. Guidelines are available at tompkinscountyny.gov/tourism/tmagrant

Mareane said. One area where the county is not generating as much revenue as in the past is from brick and mortar shops.

At the national level, November and December retail sales were about four percent higher in 2016 compared to 2015, said Kacapyr. In Tompkins County, however, Kacapyr estimates 2016 holiday sales to be $282 million, down from $291 million in 2015.

“That amounts to a decline of three percent,” Kacapyr said. “This marks the first decline in holiday sales in Ithaca since the Great Recession in 2009.”

More evidence of lower retail sales in Ithaca is provided by the New York State

Challenge Workforce Solutions Announces 2017 Board of Directors Challenge Workforce Solutions, a non-profit committed to creating pathways to employment for people with disabilities or barriers, has announced the members who will serve as its Board of Directors for 2017.

Challenge is pleased to announce that Beth Mielbrecht, Partner and Senior Engineer at Taitem Engineering in Ithaca, will serve as the Chairperson for the Board.

Steve Savage, Associate Vice President in Ithaca College’s Office of Institutional Advancement, will serve as the Board’s Vice Chair. Kelley Yeomans, Senior Director of Finance & IT in Facilities Services at Cornell University, will serve in the role of Treasurer. Jacob Yale, a teacher in the Ithaca City School District, will serve as the Board’s Secretary.

Challenge has also welcomed the following members to its Board of Directors for 2017: Todd Baker, Principal, Empowerment Mielbrecht Ergonomics; Derek Burrows, General Counsel, GrammaTech, Inc.; David Filiberto, Research Associate, Employment & Disability Institute, Cornell University; Sheila McEnery, Director of Special Education, Ithaca City School District; Kellie Page, Associate Vice President, Student and Campus Life, Cornell University; Matthew Valaik, Vice President and Branch Manager, Tompkins Trust Company.

“We are so pleased to have such an incredible mix of talents, skills, and experience on our Board of Directors at such a crucial time in the history of Challenge,” said Joe Sammons, Executive Director at Challenge. “Challenge served over 1,200 individuals with disabilities and barriers to employment in 2016, and we couldn’t do that work without the leadership and service of our Board.”

Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to the professor. They show 4,600 jobs in the retail sector in December 2016 compared with 4,900 in December 2015.

Tompkins County will see a boost in sales tax revenue if a proposal in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2018 budget is approved.

The changes would require online providers such as Amazon and eBay to collect tax when it facilities the sale to New York residents, whether the seller is located within or outside of New York.

According to the governor’s proposed budget summary, the state stands to gain $40.6 million from modernizing sales tax collection to reflect the internet economy.

Cornell Cinema 2017 Winter Preview

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o many movies, so little time. Cornell Cinema’s Mary Fessenden sat down with the Ithaca Times to talk about their upcoming semester.

Ithaca Times: Happy New Year. Before we dive into the calendar, what can you tell us about Cornell Cinema’s recent 3-D upgrade?

Now I have a chance to see Dr. Strange in 3-D? Mary Fessenden: Yes, very happy to report that the crowdfunding campaign we did in November was a success! We raised $10,000 in matching funds for a capital equipment grant we received from the New York State Council on the Arts to do a digital 3D upgrade. We won’t be able to do the upgrade though until April, during Cornell’s Spring Break, so I’m afraid you won’t be able to watch our February screenings of Doctor Strange in 3D, but as of next academic year (17-18), we will regularly offer 3D screenings of new Hollywood films. If all goes well with the installation in April, we hope to offer one or two 3D screenings in late April or May, though, so stay tuned for an announcement about that!

And then watch for an entire 3D series of both new and classic titles (like Dial M for Murder

and Creature from the Black Lagoon) in our Fall ’17 schedule!

IT: I know we don’t have time or space to talk about all of the classic films you’re screening this semester, but I couldn’t help but notice three great films by Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (February 3 & 4), Dr. Strangelove (March 3 & 4) and A Clockwork Orange (March 17 &18).

I think it’s never a bad time to introduce people to those movies, especially Strangelove.

MF: I agree, and, of course, we always have new students on campus who have heard of these films, but perhaps never seen them. Timing was right to feature some Kubrick because we were asked to show 2001: A Space Odyssey in conjunction with the multi-faceted exhibition Ithaca Explores Human Origins, presented by the Tompkins County Public Library and the Paleontological Research Institution running through the end of February. They put together a great schedule of events. And Dr. Strangelove is doing double duty as part of our “Demagogues” series, which also includes screenings of 35mm prints of The Great Dictator and Gabriel Over the White House, the latter a lesser known (and very strange

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IT: I happened to see the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup a while back, and it was great to see how much it holds up and how much people still respond to it. You’re showing Duck Soup as part of a series of recent digital restorations that are actually premiering? How does that work, and what are you showing?

MF: I think the best way to describe what we mean by “digital restorations” is to quote from a colleague who works at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, Martin Rubin, who has written: “Restoration involves an active intervention designed to return a film to an original state that has been compromised by such factors as deterioration, damage, fading, loss of footage, and loss of information (such as color-tinting)…. Digital continued on page 22

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tools have given archivists greater control over such factors as dirt, scratches, shrinkage, color grading, and even the replacement of damaged or missing areas by culling information from other, more intact areas of the print…. Film restoration necessarily involves a negotiation between the original source and the current technology, and, accordingly, it requires a high degree of informed but inevitably interpretative judgment on the part of the restorationist.” Some restorations turn out better than others. Our line-up includes several well-received restorations: The Battle of Algiers (Feb 9, 12), Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Delicatessen (March 2, 4), Jûzô Itami’s Tampopo (March 16-18), Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, and Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (April 20, 22, 23), which had a major influence on Beyonce’s visual album, Lemonade.

IT: Even with the shift to digital, it’s nice to know that Cornell Cinema still shows actual 35mm film.

MF: I estimate that Cornell Cinema is one of perhaps just 300 movie theatres in the world that can still project 35mm film prints. Kodak has actually made an app that allows you to find where 35mm film prints are showing. Check it out at: https:// reelfilm.kodak.com. We’re showing nine films on 35mm in this schedule, two of them preserved by and coming to us from the Library of Congress: So This is Paris (Feb 25) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (Feb 28). Other titles include two films by French director Claire Denis: her debut film Chocolat (March 15), set in colonial Cameroon, and Beau Travail (March 29 & 31), an inspired adaptation of Melville’s Billy Budd, the Sailor, set in the African desert. The print of Beau Travail is coming to the U.S. from France and will be screened at five venues (in Ithaca, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville and New York) before returning to France.

IT: On to Ithaca premieres. All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (January 31) features a lot of popular NPR journalists and pundits, and Jeff Cohen, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, will speak. Who is I. F. Stone?

MF: Stone (nicknamed “Izzy”) was a maverick independent journalist in the 1950s who put out his own weekly paper.

His work exposed government deception and McCarthyism, among other things.

The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College gives out an annual award for “outstanding achievement in independent media” called the “Izzy,” and the inaugural “Izzys” were given to Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman in 2009. Both of them appear in the film, along with Noam Chomsky, David Corn and Jeremy Scahill, among many others.

Jeff Cohen is featured prominently in the film and he’ll be at the screening to lead a post-screening discussion about the importance of independent media. If you’d like to know more about Stone you can

visitwww.ifstone.org.

IT: Keith Maitland’s Tower (February 6) takes an interesting approach in dealing with the 1966 sniper incident at the University of Texas Tower. And Robert Kenner’s Command and Control (February 7) deals with an American tragedy that most people might not be aware of.

MF: Both of the films were among the fifteen films shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature Oscar, and even though they deal with historical events, they both speak to contemporary concerns.Tower revisits the first school mass-shooting that took place at the University of Texas in Austin in 1966, when a sniper shot 49 people, killing 16. The day is recreated through rotoscoped animation and includes recollections of witnesses and victims who had never before publicly recounted their stories; Command and Control, which is cosponsored with the Cornell Committee to Prevent Nuclear War and will be offered free of charge, reveals the long-hidden story of a deadly accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. A third shortlisted documentary, Raoul Peck’s I am Not Your Negro, will be shown on February 8, and it’s very timely as well. The film’s framework is a never-finished book by James Baldwin centered on the assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the result is one of the best movies ever made about the civil rights era, a film that resonates with today’s Black Lives Matter movement. Our screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Cornell professors who teach Baldwin’s work:Kevin Gaines (ASRC), Russell Rickford (History), Samantha Sheppard (PMA) & Dagmawi Woubshet (English).

IT: Just in time for the Academy Awards, there will be screenings of Oscar Shorts: Animation! (February 10, 11 & 12) and Oscar Shorts: Live Action! (February 10 & 12) MF: Also, the documentary shorts on February 21! These programs are always great and definitely give viewers a leg-up when entering an Oscar pool!

IT: The Ithakid Film Festival will screen Walt Disney’s 1954 production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. (February 11). That doesn’t happen often, does it?

MF: It’s been a long time since we’ve shown the film, but it used to be a regular for the kids’ fest. I decided to include it so it could do double duty in our “The Steampunk Aesthetic” series. Jules Verne and steampunk pretty much go handin-hand! Other titles in the steampunk series include Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Brazil and Howl’s Moving Castle.

IT: The Village Voice wrote about Xiaogang Feng’s I Am Not Madame Bovary (February 16 & 18), “It’s like an odd storybook you’d find in the attic and have trouble putting down.’ What else can you tell us?

MF: Well, it utilizes a circular aspect ratio, meant to look like a Chinese painting, to tell its darkly comic story of a woman seeking revenge against the Chinese bureaucracy. •

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pen and watercolor on tracing paper, there’s a transient feel to the images that really tingles the spine. The works have a Francis Bacon quality to them, haunting and soaring, dripping in a primitive and raw state. It’s nice to see someone showcase work done in a form that’s typically considered practice: blind contour illustration is the gateway to visual eternity.

Christopher Loomis, a 1998 S-VE graduate and curren working artist, offers some airy graphite portraits of local historical figures. Martha Van Rensselaer is dreamy and ghost-like: a vision of the co-founder of the College of Home Economics, a school that would later lead to the establishment of Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. Simeon DeWitt is old and vast in its parameters: a portrait of the famous geographer and surveyor who was one of the founders of the city of Ithaca.

The drawings are all wetted down and rusted up, inferring a passage of time, but they’re not cheesy at all: rather honest, and memorial at their finest.

Wade Asa, a 2005 graduate of LACS and current artist, graphic designer and exhibit assistant at the Museum of Earth, shows a dense and highly visual digital print on wood, titled By Land. The image features an inside look into an animal’s insides, where a hand is tugging and mimicking its life and direction. The piece exhibits a philosophy that is valiant and interactive: evoking a necessary discussion on animal rights.

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eham Alternative Community School art teacher Gary Bercow’s current gallery showing, 30 Years in The Making—hanging in the Benjamin Peters gallery—is an interesting and mindful collection of work. Foremost, it showcases a unique connection between students and their teacher that is honest and satisfying. The show features 13 artists that Bercow has taught and mentored throughout his career at LACS and Spencer Van Etten High School (SVE), who have continued to work—both professionally and recreationally—in the visual arts field.

There’s a wide range of work, some of it amateurish and some of it bold, but it’s the message that really counts in this exhibit. Creativity is eternally important, and the connection of instruction within visual art—something totally unique in the field of academics—is an important measure that oft times gets pushed aside by the bluntness of professional life. It shouldn’t. And with this current regime taking over the White House, the need to practice and maintain creativity, and to teach it, is more vital than ever.

Esme Saccuccimorano, a LACS 2015 graduate, is a young artist with a bright future. Her Blind Contour Portraits No. 1-18 are some of the most commanding illustrations I’ve seen in any Ithaca gallery the last two years. Created with

Camille Chew, a 2004 LACS graduate and current local artist, shows high clarity and deft form with three spectacular digital illustrations: Sun, Stars, and Moon.

The works have a simplicity and clearness to them that honors computer software’s very cold, yet clean, possibilities. The illustrations invoke the master psychedelic artist Alex Grey, with their calls to the higher plains of astral travel and metaphysics. Chew demonstrates the ability to bind repetition and lucidity into transformative images.

She’s a very cool artist to look out for.

Amelia Burns, a 2000 LACS graduate and professional photographer based in Los Angeles (she’s also the daughter of Annie Burns of Burns Sisters fame), shows two digital portraits on canvas that are both suggestive and humorous. Man in the Alley is painterly and expressive, not wholly realized, but airy, with an almost

Clockwise from top left: Wade Asa’s “By Land”; Camille Chew’s “Sun”; a blind contour illustration by Esme Saccuccimorano (Photos provided)

Cindy Sherman hue to it. Captain is all Gilligan’s Island, notable for showcasing what appears to be the same model in Man in the Alley, albeit in a younger more commanding form. The two photographs are certainly bright, screaming for attention, and they work as images.

30 Years in the Making features many more pieces from Bercow’s past students, and is generally a fun and bright assemblage of work. Its true dynamism lies in its message and connection. There are some successful artists out there who’ve learned and flourished under Bercow’s teachings, and it’s great to see these individuals still in touch with one of their formative artistic tutors. •

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here was light and there was darkness on January 20. Donald Trump appeared to usher in a grim new age, and the clouds hung low and depressed; and Brooklyn’s art funk collective Rubblebucket released their newest EP, If U C My Enemies: a beam of sunshine and hope, dripping in deep grooves and creative sensibility.

The album’s vibrancy and hues beckon to the sort of mindset imperative for growth and ascension in individuals and communities; something in stark contrast to the words we heard from the new President on Friday.

Rubblebucket has always been about finding the light in the darkness, an evolving, and very much loving band.

“It’s trippy, the timing of our EP, that’s for sure,” noted trumpeter, vocalist and co-founder Alex Toth. “The country is changing hands and the new administration coming in is very much opposed to the sort of worldview and values we believe in, but the country did elect him and we’re just going to have to work that much harder, you know. Our last album Survival Sounds was really and truly about survival. We were dealing with a lot of health stuff during that time, and really transformed as people through the experience. We became activists for our own life: eatingwise, mental health-wise; and it was a soul-sharpening time. The mantra still applies to the new material. It’s still very much “survival” music, and becomes even more relevant given the political climate.”

The band was birthed in Burlington, VT, a city with a substantial experimental music scene and progressive mentality.

Toth met lead vocalist and saxophonist Kalmia Traver there, improvising early versions of Rubblebucket songs before moving to Boston and evenutally Brooklyn, creating a fuller vision of the band. Initially rooted in the music of West African beats and polyrhythmic grooves, the crew has continuously evolved throughout the years: forging funk, indie rock, punk, experimental music, pop and jazz into a colorful rainbow of positivity.

Evolution is key.

“Burlington will always be an important piece to Rubblebucket, that’s the place where the spark was lit,” Toth explained. “Boston’s a very transient city and I suppose we were looking for more of a sort of home. So many brilliant and creative people have settled in Brooklyn, and we just feel really connected there.

The band’s always evolving, and always

discovering new elements to our sound.

You can’t stop changing if you’re really connected to what you’re creating, and if you’re not documenting that change, there’s just this sort of dead weight that positions itself in there.”

The band’s come full circle in its 13th year, morphing and widening far beyond. Toth feels the band has a better understanding of what works now, using the best aspects of the varying styles they’ve worked with over the years, to forge a more complete sound. The band’s early grooves are finding a new life in their

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current direction.

“With all this new material we’re really letting our hearts direct us,” Toth explained. “We wanted to bring back the polyrhythmic stuff we cut our teeth on, get back to that funky dance vibe, but work it into the things we’ve learned about song structure. I mean Survival Sounds was very, very song oriented compared to earlier material, and the new music sort of touches on all our experiments.”

Breaking through dimensions is a Rubblebucket trademark. Live, the band is a force, wailing and pushing deep, a communal harmony permeating the experience. It’s easy to get swept away at their shows. Happiness is present everywhere, and one moves with affirmative motion. The darkness is conquered, if only for a night.

“Playing live you have a chance to let that anger in you energize the music and the crowd in a positive way,” Toth remarked. “I’m just so grateful to be able to play music in front of vibrant and caring audiences night after night. These people pay money to see us dance, sing and get weird. It’s such a pure form of ritual. We have a strong impulse to break the fourth wall up there and really connect with our audience.” •

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A Zone of Complexity

Musician Adam Tinkle forges a new horizon

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Ithaca Underground presents Adam Tinkle, Chris Corsano and Beau Mahadev Wednesday, February 1, 7:00 p.m., Casita Del Polaris

him completely nuts.”

“I knew I wanted to do a small project with radio as performance,” Tinkle continued. “Some sort of documentary work in the vein of a pod cast like This American Life. While hanging out with he place where multiple artistic my grandfather what really became more forms collapse, calling out for a interesting than how he planned on sort of maximization of the senses, getting rid of all this stuff, was why he is a difficult and complex zone. This is a couldn’t get rid of it. There was a deeper place though, where senses interact with meaning here; it was really about his each other in exploratory and meaningful whole entire life. I got a lot of anxiety from new ways, often finding layers hidden him about his kids and their relationship, and beyond. Musician, educator and and there was a strange connection multi-media artist Adam Tinkle’s hour between the objects he was hoarding and long theatrical performance, A Mess Of the cycle of caring for these objects; this Things—a whirlwind of experimental connection was related to everything he music and radio documentary—inhibits was experiencing.” such a place. Much like watching a Jean Tinkle studied at Luc Goddard film, Wesleyan University Tinkle’s project and the University demands a unique of San Diego, introspection, pushing both epicenters the viewer towards for experimental a cross-pollination music. He learned of mental states. It’s and composed with both demanding and a plethora of jazz rewarding, leaving an visionaries, including undeniable impression.

Anthony Braxton, “It’s definitely Mark Dresser and a multi-sensory Anthony Davis. experience,” Tinkle Though a trained noted. “In many ways musician, Tinkle it opens one up to considers DIY styles, different emotions from punk to hip-hop, through a combination to the improvised of sensations, and progressive rock of there’s a lot of Adam Tinkle (Photo provided) the ‘90s, just as crucial surprising things that to his evolution as an can manifest through artistic and philosophical thinker. this.”

Working with youth in a number of A Mess of Things is based around settings, Tinkle co-founded the Universal audio interviews Tinkle did with his Language Orchestra in 2010: a collective grandfather—an inventor and artist—and of elementary students with little to no forges those passages with videos, images, musical background, who built their and avant-garde sonic textures, creating a swirling and immediate experience. Tinkle own instruments and wrote their own compositions. It’s both musical worlds initially went to visit his grandfather with where Tinkle succeeds as a visionary. A no set vision for the project, though the idea of mixing documentation and art was Mess of Things is equal parts raw feeling, and deeply rigid infrastructure. something he had been toying with.

“For me, the prospect of creating “I was basically recruited by my family music without any background in the to keep my grandfather company and technique is really exciting,” he says. help him out with this big project he was “People without that knowledge and skill working on,” Tinkle explained “He was can still produce amazing stuff. Once you trying to make sense of all these boxes he play that first note, you’re pretty much a had collected over the years, and there musician at that moment. Post ‘60s free was an immense amount of them. There jazz is still one of the main philosophical was some really cool stuff archived in foundations of my approach to music and these boxes—work by the architect Philip sound. And this second Golden Age of Johnson for example—but it was mixed radio is really inspirational as well. I’m with a ridiculous amount of junk. My interested in sound for its own sake and perspective on the whole thing slowly telling stories through these sounds, and A developed to a point of epiphany: this was actually a big problem; here was this old Mess of Things really tackles this stuff head man with all this stuff that was driving on.” •

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By Peg g y Haine “If there is anything the Chinese are serious about, it is nether religion nor learning, but food. . . . Preachers should not be afraid to condemn a bad steak from their pulpits and scholars should write essays on the culinary art as the Chinese scholars do.”

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hile big-city chefs are cooking mild sous-vide hunks of flesh and searching forests for bits of moss to add to small plates, Ithaca’s Spicy Asian’s Szechuan menu is alive with exciting choices and unusual flavors brought from China’s southwestern Chengdu Province, where, according to the blog Serious Eats “hot pots of chile and oil simmer like restless volcanoes” and “people dissect their meals with the reverence that other cities devote to sports teams.”

The menu is divided between Szechuan-style food and “Chinese,” but it’s the Szechuan offerings we love, with their lip-numbing Szechuan peppercorn heat. In truth, there are a few dishes that can be painfully hot – but it feels so good!

Called “ma,” the feeling has been likened

to having an anesthetic rubbed on your lips. A spoonful of white rice or a few sips of beer help calm things down. Our favorite Szechuan incendiaries are sautéed shredded pork with spicy sauce (a fourpepper rating on Spicy Asian’s menu); ma po tofu, rated only three-peppers, but showered with incendiary ground pork in a red chile sauce; and hot and spicy jumbo shrimp, nestled in amidst a veritable storm of red chilies.

By contrast, a mahogany-lacquered Beijing duck is served off the bone, sliced, and plated up with gleaming, risen pancakes, hoisin sauce, and a toss of shredded scallions; it’s sweet, texturally varied, and has absolutely no heat at all. Szechuan peppercorns, the rascals responsible for much of the aforementioned heat, aren’t peppercorns at all, but berries of the prickly ash tree, which finds perfect growing conditions in China’s Chengdu Province, surrounded by mountain ranges on three sides, and the Yangtse River on the fourth, which means you’ll find a number of good whole-fish preparations on the menu.

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Some Good, Some Bad Films to check out this week, or not

By Br yan VanC ampe n 20th Century Women, written and directed by Mike Mills, playing at Cinemapolis; Yoga Hosers, written and directed by Kevin Smith, on Netflix Streaming.

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n the opening scene of Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women, a mother (Annette Bening) and her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) are in a store when they see out the window that their car is on fire. Some people might that as a sign but Dorothea, the character Bening inhabits, simply lights another Salem and invites one of the firemen to dinner. The kid, Jamie, rolls his eyes.

Set in 1979 in Santa Barbara, California during the first wave of punk rock, 20th Century Women is about a mother and son trying to figure each other out while the kid has to deal with loving his best friend (Elle Fanning) who – sigh – doesn’t love him in that way. But there’s

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What it’s really about is this oddball surrogate family that Bening has gathered in the wake of her husband’s death. There’s Elle Fanning as Julie. No wonder Jamie is confused, because Julie comes over every night to sleep with him, but that’s it. It’s as if Dorothea’s house is the only place she feels safe. Then there’s Greta Gerwig as Abbie, a punk artist waif with lavender hair, and a handyman named William (Billy Crudup), so the house is always under construction, a neat metaphor for the way Dorothea lives her life. As she says to William, “You don’t have a lot of funny lines, do you?”

The teenage autobiographical film is tough to get right without seeming whiny or solipsistic, but this film is all about damaged and broken people trying

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sweet and sour fish in a dark sauce with vegetable “gems” was huge, showy, delicious, and fun to take turns prying off the bones. We also enjoyed the steamed fish, with its slightly sweet sauce, scallions and ginger, and are looking forward to trying the spicier Szechuan sea bass in hot black bean sauce.

Some of the menu offerings are unusual, so the more adventurous may enjoy pork intestine in casserole or Szechuan style, sizzling frog or frog in chili sauce, pig trotters In house special sauce, beef tripe with hot green pepper, or lotus root soup. We dare you! Actually, the pork intestines were pretty darned good.

For appetizers, we highly recommend the scallion pancake, which comes with a sweet-salty-hot dipping sauce, the crunchy, mild, green seaweed salad, or spicy pork dumplings. There’s a good list of vegetarian specials including a silky, sweet Japanese eggplant with garlic sauce, General Tso’s tofu, vegetable mei fun with broad, stick-to-your-ribs rice noodles, and delicate pea shoots with slivers of garlic, a sort of grown-up non-gritty cousin of wilted spinach with garlic.

Spicy Asian’s $6.95 luncheon special offers two dozen main-dish choices with rice and soup or eggroll, a great quicklunch deal that won’t leave you eager to crawl under your desk for a nap, It’s easy to miss Spicy Asian in the lights, traffic, and havoc of our “million dollar mile,” Route 13 headed south out of Ithaca, where it’s an island of calm and a source of delicious flavors demarcated by a couple of small signs. You may recall that

Customers enjoy a bite at Spicy Asian (Photo: Casey Martin)

this space started life as the Smart Monkey Café. If you have a group of six or eight, try to snag the round corner table with a lazy susan center, great for sharing, and surrounded by a wall to allow you to get really silly in privacy. For larger groups, there’s a table seating up to twelve. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca. com/dining

to help each other. It’s not just about the kid; we get biographical short subjects on all the main characters, as well as some other sweet and clever ways to take the story out of a moment in time to something that fills in the entire sweep of a human life.

I had major problems with Bening’s previous film The Kids Are Alright, but Mill’s ability with actors, his talent for setting a time and a place and his empathy for all the characters elevates the whole production. *** I don’t quite have the fascination for bad movies that I The cast of “20th Century Women” (Photo provided) used to have, but every once in a while I’ll hunker down and watch something, wondering “Just how discover a secret society of Canadian bad could it be?”

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There are bad movies and there are As a Smith fan, it pains me to report bad movies, but Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers Yoga Hosers is 87 minutes of awful. Even is the worst film he’s ever made. Smith the Stan Lee cameo is excruciating to steals the thunder from us critics by watch. It’s disheartening to see good actors making Mallrats jokes, but that’s a classic like Tony Hale and Natasha Lyonne doing compared to this. The second chapter in awful frostback accents as if the South Smith’s Canadian trilogy following Tusk, Park movie hadn’t already done all that the film stars Johnny Depp reprising his “aboot” stuff and made it funny. I have a unfunny Canuck detective from that film. hunch that Harley Quinn Smith and LilyLily-Rose Depp and Smith’s daughter Rose Depp could actually carry a wellHarley Quinn Smith play social media written film, but Yoga Hosers ain’t it, eh? • obsessed convenience store clerks who

Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn |Influenced by people like Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and John Prine, MIke Powell’s sound is fresh.

1/29 Sunday Music bars/clubs/cafés

1/25 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing.

Wednesday Night Acoustic Open Jam with host Mathias Kamin | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Barry Family Cellars, 3821 Main St., Burdett | Folk, Old Time and Bluegrass. Wine by the glass and beer by the can will be served. Bring your own instrument or just hang out and enjoy the music.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

DamodarDas.com.

Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups.

Reggae Night with The Crucial Reggae Allstars | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Roots Rock.

1/26 Thursday

David Pulizzi | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Americana, Folk, Country.

CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Daphne Braden | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Folk.

The Sunshine Group | 8:00 PM |

Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Experimental Rock. The Sunshine Group strives to cultivate enlightenment, intelligence, and joy through the use of artistic and technological media.

Sophistafunk | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Funk, Hip Hop, Soul, Electronic.

Gang of Thieves | 9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Funk, Rock, Progressive.

1/27 Friday

Radio London | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock and Roll, Oldies, Blues, Soul, Country.

Throw Down Cold | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hard Rock, Rock.

Long John and the Tights | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Bluegrass.

Bendher | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock.

Blue Eyed Soul | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Funk, Soul, Rock and Roll.

Rubblebucket, Sam Evian | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Funk, Afro-Beat, Indie Rock, Electronic, Groove, Psychedelic.

Tru Bleu | 9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Folk, Soul, Rock.

Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Blues, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic, Punk.

1/28 Saturday

Kilrush | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Irish,

Celtic, Americana, Rock.

Jesse Collins Trio | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Horseheads Brewing Company, 250 Old Ithaca Rd, Horseheads | Jazz, Funk.

Acoustic Rust | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Folk, Rock, Indie, Neil Young Covers.

Spectacular Average Boys, Last Call | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Alternative Rock, Bluegrass, Americana, Indie Rock.

Tino Navarra, Dustin Underwood | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Americana, Folk, Blues, Ragtime.

The Darts | 9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Americana, Rock and Roll, Alternative Country.

1/29 Sunday

El Caminos | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Country, Blues, Soul.

Vocal Jazz Jam with Diana Leigh and Jesse Collins | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Devin Kelly Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz, Blues, R&B.

1/30 Monday

Galactic Escort Service | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Improvised Electronic Music.

1/31 Tuesday

Bert Scholl | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Outlaw Country.

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The

Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach.

Concerto Competition | 1:00 PM | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, IC, Ithaca | Classical.

Music’s Recreation presents Musical Conversations | 2:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | The concert includes musical gems that speak to one another. Bach, Bartok, Brahms,

PM-9:00 PM | Jacksonville Community Church, Trumansburg Rd, Jacksonville | Love to Sing? All are welcome. Info at tburgchorus.com.

1/31 Tuesday

Uncle Joe and the Rosebud Ramblers | 7:00 PM | UHS, 39 South Street, Trumansburg | New England Fiddle Tunes, Old Time, Bluegrass.

Rev. Sekou and the Holy Ghost in concert | 7:00 PM | First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St, Ithaca | Rev. Sekou & the Holy Ghost combine blues, gospel, freedom songs, soul and funk into a unique sonic

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1/26 Thursday

ComedyFLOPS | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | An evening of improv fun and support for charities.

1/27 Friday

Bowie Dance Party | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Celebrating David Bowie.

1/28 Saturday

Elective Recital: Erin Dowler, clarinet | 3:00 PM-4:30 PM | Nabenhauer Recital Room, Danby Road, Ithaca | Classical.

Cornell University Glee Club: Return-from-Tour Concert | 3:00 PM | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Cornell University Glee Club departed on January 5 for its Four Corners Tour to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, and now return home.

Get The Led Out: The American Led Zeppelin | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | From the bombastic and epic, to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the big concert stage.

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Carter, Stravinsky and others converse!

Refreshments and conversation follow.

Information online at MusRec.org Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | This Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues in a conventiondefying manner that breaks down barriers.

WVBR Bound for Glory: Tal Naccarato | 8:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Folk.

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Film TCPL and Ithaca College Film Society present: A Serious Man | 6:00 PM, 1/25 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Directed by the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man, follows Midwestern physics teacher, Larry Gopnik, as he searches for meaning in the chaotic events consuming his life. This 2009

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black-comedy-drama is a cult favorite and a must-see for fans of the Coen brand of humor. Ithaca College Film Society members, Brett Rogalsky and Jack Warner, will offer an introduction to the film, which marks the first in a series of screenings to be offered by the Library and the ICFS. cinemapolis

Friday, 1/27 to Thursday, 2/02.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Lion | A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home.

He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family | 118 mins PG-13 | 20th Century Woman | The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s. | 118 mins R |

Elle | A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her. | 130 mins R |

Moonlight | A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. | 111 mins R | We Are The Flesh | After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world. | 79 mins NR | Cornell Cinema

Wednesday, 1/25 to Tuesday, 1/31. Contact Cornell Cinemas for Showtimes Kubo and the Two Strings | A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. | 101 mins PG | Arrival | When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors. | 116 mins PG-13 | American Honey | A teenage girl

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Manchester by the Sea | An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. | 137 mins R | La La Land | A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. | 128 mins PG-13 | Jackie | Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s historic legacy. | 100 mins R |

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with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits. | 163 mins R | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | A look at the life and work of American journalist, I.F. Stone, who leads a one-man crusade against government deception. | 91 mins NR |

Stage Disgraced | Runs January 25 February 12 | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Amir Kapoor is a deeply assimilated Pakistani-American with the perfect job, the perfect apartment, and the perfect wife—until it all unravels over the course of a single dinner party.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (2013), Disgraced is a timely and taut (90 minutes) drama that engages mind and heart with refreshing and stunning candor as it explores the cultural and personal fracturing Amir encounters as he pursues his ideal of the American Dream. Showtimes at syracusestage.org The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | Jan. 27, 28, and Feb. 1 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first

feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Showtimes at auburnpublictheater.org One Man Star Wars: Starring Charles Ross | Januuray 27, 7:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Charlie Ross’ One Man Star Wars Triology is an experience that every Star Wars maniac does not want to miss.

The Lion King | 3:00 PM, 1/28 Saturday, 2:00 PM, 1/29 Sunday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Performances are Saturday, January 28, 3:00pm and 7:00pm, Sunday January 29, 2:00pm and 6:00pm. info@171CedarArts.org Finger Lakes Photo/Plays: 24 Hour Theatre | 7:30 PM, 1/28 Saturday | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | This event draws on the model set up by the Actors Theatre using a local photograph by a local photographer and local professional and community theatre artists. There is one twist, however: all of this will happen in 24 hours.

Whiskey Tango Sideshow: Dead of Winter, Sweet Syanide, Chardonnay Latease | 9:00 PM, 1/28 Saturday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Burlesque, Cabaret, Pop, Dance, Avant-Garde.

Richie Moran Celebration,

Moakley Field House, Cornell University, Saturday, January 28, 1:00 p.m.

The legendary coach Richie Moran’s long awaited autobiography has finally arrived. A 350 page epic that takes readers through Moran’s early years during the Great Depression, to his family’s heroic sacrifice during World War II, to his days as a superstar athlete and eventual successful coach. The book highlights Moran’s ability to continuously connect with the people throughout his life. The celebration will also celebrate Moran’s 80th birthday: a twofold bash!

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Birds of East Africa | Runs January 29 - February 12 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | World Premiere Marion, an accomplished ornithologist, finds herself without a place that feels like home. Not knowing where to land, she arrives on the doorstep of her college friend Stephen and his husband Nick. Three mid-40’s friends discover they are standing at a crossroads, and that what once seemed permanent and secure in their lives is now fragile and vulnerable. In a series of tightly wrought scenes moving back and forth in time, with actor/dancers transforming into the birds so central to Marion’s life, Wendy Dann’s new play explores how we heal, find hope and move on. Showtimes at kitchentheatre. org

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Local Auditions: Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival / Merry-Go-Round Playhouse | Local auditions to be held Jan. 27-29 for the playhouse’s upcoming 2017 season.

For more information and to request an audition appointment, please visit: FingerLakesMTF.com/auditions.

5th Annual Falling Waters Music Camp | La Tourelle Resort and August Moon Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Runs January 26 to 29. A fun and inspiring weekend of instruction, jamming and performance. Classes and performances will be led by some great string instructors and performers including Brian Conway, David Surette, Susie Burke, the Lonely Heartstring Band (Patrick M’Gonigle, George Clements, Matt Witler, Gabe Hirshfeld, and Charles Clements), and many more. Info at wintervillagebluegrass. org/fallingwatersmusiccamp_2017 Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 1/25 Wednesday | Viva Taqueria & Cantina, 101 N Aurora St, Ithaca | RSVP mark.humphrey4@gmail. com Roundtable Discussion/ Remembrance Of The Life of Louis (Moondog) Hardin | 7:00 PM, 1/25 Wednesday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Moondog was known as the Viking of 6th Avenue, a blind musician whose music was considered mostly classical. He rubbed elbows with greats such as the New York Philharmonic conductor Arthur Rodzinski, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and he appeared on the Today Show, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and his music was picked up by labels

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Taoist Tai Chi Open House | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, 1/28 Saturday | Fall Creek Studios, 1201 N. Tioga St., Ithaca | Improve your health using Tai Chi. Regular practice increases strength, improves balance, flexibility and mental focus. Try a few moves and meet with our certified instructors to see what benefits Tai Chi could provide to you. Call 277-5491 or email ithaca. ny@taoist.org for more information.

Family Game Night | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/28 Saturday | Coddington Road Community Center, 920 Coddington Road, Ithaca | Info: Jennifer Dean at jenniferd@coddingtonroad.org.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 1/29 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. Class begins with 20 minutes of silent meditation, after which everyone reads and discuss related texts. Class ends with 15 or 20 minutes of silent or guided meditation.

Beginners are welcome and instruction in basic meditation will be provided.

For more information, email Lynne at ltaetzsch@gmail.com or call her at 607-273-1364.

Learning How to Ask for a LOT of MONEY: with Mary Beth Bunge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/25 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A workshop for board members and for development, program, and management staff. Visit www.hsctc. org/workshops for details.

Suicide Prevention Volunteer Orientation | 5:30 PM, 1/25 Wednesday | Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service is the local crisis center for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, provides free, individual counseling for people dealing with trauma or suicide loss, and a wide variety of educational programs.

It’s Your Estate: Are you in Control? with Susan Suben | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 1/25 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Learn about the two most important phases of estate planning - conservation and transfer – in order to protect all that you have accumulated over your lifetime.

South Indian Vegetarian Cuisine with Asya Ollis | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 1/25 Wednesday | GreenStar

18th Annual Evening of Jewish Stories, Poetry and Music, Temple Beth-El, Saturday, January 28, 7:30 p.m.

Celebrating diversity, life, communities and the arts, the sixteenth annual evening of Jewish storytelling, poetry and music is an event that is looked forward to every single year here in Ithaca.

Participants from all over the area gather to connect with one another in a time honored, and often looked past, sort of primitive and spiritual awakening. Forgot about your televisions, your cell phones, and come out to share the real you.

Artist Ian McMahon (a 2000 Ithaca High School graduate), presents his newest exhibit “Semblance” at The Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland. The exhibit features site-specific sculptural installations of immense space and form, interacting with the surrounding architecture in amazing ways. The opening reception happens Thursday, January 26 from 4:30-6:00 pm, and the show will be on view from January 23 through February 21. (Photo provided) Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Manager at Agava on vegetarian cuisine and more.

Acting and Improvisation Workshops (Creating A Character): Elmira Little Theatre | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, 1/27 Friday | Park Church, 208 W Gray St, Elmira | Join Meghan O’Toole Tuazon for this high energy, informative, fun and challenging Acting/Improvisation Workshop. You can sign up for one, two, or all three sessions when you register. Please email Events.ELT@gmail.com with your name, age. Walk-ins are welcome, but registration is encouraged.

Chihuly Glass and Gardens Coast to Coast | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 1/29 Sunday | Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Join Pat Curran for a slide show featuring glass artist Dale Chihuly’s displays in botanical gardens. From the NY Botanic Garden, to Seattle’s Chihuly Museum, Dale Chihuly blends glass art with gardens and plantings both outdoors and in conservatories.

Healthy Neighborhoods Program at Tompkins County Health Dept: with Samantha Hillson | 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, 1/30 Monday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | The Healthy Neighborhoods Program (HNP) at the Tompkins County Health Department promotes safe and healthy homes. They conduct home visits where they discuss indoor environmental risks (mold, lead paint, radon, etc.) in your home and provide a free bag of home safety products. Come to this workshop to

learn more.

Raj Yoga Meditation Class with Amita Shukla | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 1/31 Tuesday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Raj Yoga meditation is a form of meditation that is accessible to people of all backgrounds.

Appalachian Trail Hiker Returns to Tell: with Diane Beckwith | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 1/31 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Last year, in anticipation of turning 60, Diane Beckworth decided to do something she had thought about for many years; hike the Appalachian Trail.

Warming Winter Soups | 8:15 PM, 1/31 Tuesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to cook a grain soup, a bean soup, a vegetable miso soup, and more - completely plant-based and gluten-free. Generous samples of all soups, recipes, and menu ideas will be provided by Priscilla Timberlake Freedman. Registration is required sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Special Events Benevolence Kolsch Launch Party for Carefirst | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 1/26 Thursday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Live music, food, drinks. A portion of every pint sold between January and June 2017 will

benefit local Hospice.

MLK Week: Guest Artist: Storyboard P | 7:30 PM, 1/26 Thursday | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | 26-year-old Brooklyn native Storyboard P has been innovating the Flexing scene, a competitive New York dance form that combines elements of breakdancing with the narrative and emotional intensity of contemporary dance movements for the past decade.

Richie Moran Dual Celebration | 1:00 PM, 1/28 Saturday | Moakley Field House, Cornell University Golf Course, Warren Rd, Ithaca | A celebration of Richie Moran’s 80th birthday and the release of his autobiography “It’s Great To Be Here”.

Second Annual Community Cabaret | 7:30 PM-, 1/28 Saturday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | The Community Cabaret consists of talented members from Cortland and surrounding communities. This year, the Cabaret will feature singing, dancing, baton twirling, accomplished pianists and more.

18th Annual Evening of Jewish Stories, Poetry and Music | 7:30 PM, 1/28 Saturday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | This is a family event with presentations by Ithaca community members, both young and old. Public welcome. For further information call 257-9924 History Center’s Second Annual Celebrating History Awards Program | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 1/29 Sunday | Marcham Hall, Village of Cayuga Heights, Ithaca | The History

Center’s trustees and employees view the awards as a way to honor those who are making history, engaging with local history, interpreting local history, and/or whose work resonates with our mission statement. The event will be festive with well-deserved recognition, music, light refreshments, wine tasting and conviviality.

Before the Flood Community Event | 6:00 PM, 1/30 Monday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Potluck Dinner at 6:00pm (please bring a dish to pass if you’d like to join in).

Film Screening at 6:30pm. Sponsored

by ICAN (the Interfaith Climate Action Network). Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.

Art Call for Entries: Recycled Runway 2017 | The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes’ signature fundraising event, Recycled Runway will be held Saturday, June 3, 2017 at The Corning Museum of Glass.

They are looking for designers of all ages to participate in this fundraising fashion show featuring one-of-a-kind creations, using recycled or repurposed materials. Sew, weave or assemble your materials. Proposals are due Friday, February 3, 2017. For more infor contact Connie Sullivan-Blum at 607-962-1332 x204 or director@ eARTS.org Ian McMahon: Semblance | 4:30 PM, 1/26 Thursday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland | Two site specific sculptural installations by artist Ian McMahon, an Ithaca High School 2000 graduate.

ArtSpace Survey Launch Event | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 1/26 Thursday | Arnot Art Museum, 235 Lake Street, Elmira | Live music, refreshments, and more information about ArtSpace’s upcoming survey. RSVP to Emily at emarino@3riverscorp.com.

Shannah Warwick: Demonstrating Nuno Felting | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/27 Friday | Evelyn Peeler Peacock Gallery, 79 W Market Street, Cortland | Shannah will be demonstrating a technique called nuno felting, which combines a natural fiber base and merino wool roving. She will discuss the various materials used for the process, her dye

process, and the type of wool she uses in her work. Those in attendance will have the opportunity to participate in the felting process.

Cortland County Community Arts Challenge | 6:15 PM, 1/27 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | The evening will include presentations of dance, music, and writing entries to the Arts Challenge, an exhibit of the visual arts entries, and the awarding of prizes in the fine arts, photography, artisan crafts, choreography, original music, and original writing categories.

Winter Wonderland of Quilts | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 1/28 Saturday | First Presbyterian Church, 112 South Street, Auburn | ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 on The Commons, Ithaca | “30 Year Calling”.

A collaborative show put on by Gary Bercow and his past students, commemorating 30 years of teaching middle and high school art in both Spencer-Van Etten and the Lehman Alternative Community School.

Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Emily Koester: Ignes fatui.

CAP Art Space | 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Uniit Carruyo: A series of mixed media paintings.

Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca | FORM/ FUNCTION : an exploration of aesthetics in ceramics, furniture, and work on paper. This exhibit features the work of Julie Crosby, Miles & May furniture works, and Kathleen Sherin The show is on view through Jan. 28. www.cornersgallery.com CSMA | 330 E State St, Ithaca | Annual Open Show | Curated by acclaimed painter Joyce Stillman-Myers, CSMA’s Open Show presents work in a variety media by more than 50 local artists.

Representing traditional to contemporary styles, this much-anticipated show celebrates the vibrant and diverse visual arts interests of our community.

Elevator Music and Art Gallery | at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Jude Meyers Thomas: Continuation with Single Reclining Spoon: Jude Meyers Thomas explores color and form as separate but related vocabularies and is most creative in the fulsome space between pure representation and pure color.

Vivid hues, daring shapes and a deft exploration of possibility bring solace

as we all wait for the Solstice. www. newrootsschool.org Gimme! Coffee | 506 West State Street, Ithaca | Sarah Clapp: WIld. Clapp is a photographer with a photo journalistic approach to her work.

The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Made in Tompkins County: “A Timeline of Local Enterprise”. Through February 18th, 2017. “Early American Decorative Arts”. Through September 24th, 2017. The Central New York chapter of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration is proud to display original pieces of tin, glass and wood alongside reproductions done by our members. | www. historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter.net.

Lifelong |119 W Court St, Ithaca | Ron Krieg: Captured Moments: Ron Krieg, a native of Queens, has made Ithaca his home since 1989. His photography is influenced by his experiences as a NYC taxi driver, foster care caseworker, postal clerk, and his love of history, political science, cinema and literature.

Ron’s photographs will be exhibited at Lifelong through the end of February.

State of the Art | 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Gallery Artists: Tompkins County Bicentennial Gallery artists open the new year with art that represents Ithaca’s past and present.

State of the Art will celebrate Tompkins County Bicentennial with half of our artists showing their work in January and the other half in February. The January show runs from January 4-29. soagithaca.org and 607-277-1626. www.soagithaca.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | David Geer: Seasons: Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | David M. Geer is an award-winning artist from Endicott, NY. TCPL | 101 E Green St, Ithaca | On Being Human: A complimentary, multi-media exhibit, to TCPL’s Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human, traveling exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the American Library Association. “On Being Human” is curated by Terry Plater.

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State Theatre, Sunday, January 29, 8:00 p.m.

A product of a connection made at a Black Lives Matter gathering, Rev. Sekou & The Holy Ghost is an astonishingly real and truly deep band. Led by the Rev. Sekou, a political activist, third generation Pentecostal preacher, author and producer, the band is fusion of deep gospel, wide blues, powerful funk and freedom poetry, that connects on infinite levels. Formed in 2015, the band has played a large amount of national shows and produced their debut record “The Revolution Has Come” in a mere week. (Photo: facebook)

The swift Texan, notable for his gritty and loose take on country, swing, jazz, folk, blues and gospel, Lyle Lovett has also thrilled audiences as an actor and major composer. He’s an American original, morphing and expanding cherished musical forms. John Hiatt’s another legend, churning out records for over forty years. His latest, “My Surrender”, is a true vision. The two musicians make a unique pairing, this is a tour with decades of musical integrity behind it.

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for over 20 years

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273-3192

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*Yoga Philosophy * Ayurveda *Cooking & Tea Classes *Gentle Vinyasa

LOCATED

27.2 miles

from GREENSTAR

We define local as products or services that are produced or owned within 100 miles of GreenStar.

The

*Semester Pass $300 *YA registered school * 200 hr TT

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Ashtanga * Vinyasa

Same Day Service Available