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for this pilot program and eligibility was limited to a small pool of candidates that could be successfully managed given staffing constraints, only 143 individuals have been served since inception of the program,” the report states. Of the 143 people served, 92, or 64.3 percent, have not returned to the Tompkins County Jail.

In September 2015 the Reentry Subcommittee of the Tompkins County Criminal Justice Advisory/Alternativesto-Incarceration Board issued a report recommending that one or more positions be created for individuals who would help inmates access local services available to them as they transition back into the community.

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Full-time Contingents Re-entry Program Unionize at IC Cuts Recidivism n May 24, the full-time faculty at Ithaca College who are employed on a year-to-year basis voted to form a union.

The vote was 23 for and 13 against joining Service Employees International Union Local 200, the Faculty Forward initiative that’s been unionizing nontenure track faculty across the Northeast.

It is still a question as to whether the full-time contingent faculty will be able to negotiate as a single bargaining unit with the part-time faculty that won a union in May 2015 with more than 76 percent of the vote.

“That’s a tough thing to answer,” said Shosh Cole, assistant professor in the physics and astronomy department. “The administration doesn’t want to recognize us as an united group, but we feel like a united group. Many of us have the same issues surrounding contingency, such as getting contracts very late. Sometimes the part-timers are getting contracts for fall in August, and for the spring in December or January … We generally get ours earlier than that, but we’re still getting contracts too late to plan our lives.”

Whether or not unionized part-time and full-time contingent faculty members have negotiated together has depended on the school, according to Zeke Perkins, an organizer with SEIU Local 200.

Wells College, where both groups voted to unionize in January 2016, will be negotiating together. At the University of Albany, the administration has been in opposition to the idea, but the two faculty groups have formed one committee that will go to both meetings, Perkins said.

A pathway to “transition to a longerterm contract” is another thing both groups would like to see at IC, Cole said.

“If someone is teaching under a shortterm contract for six years and their department manages to get a longer-term position, it’s a national search … there’s a shared lack of a path to a more permanent position.”

Full-time contingent faculty “have a better pay grade” than the part-timers, “but there’s no system of merit-based pay increases,” Cole said. Full-time contingent salaries depend on department, with a base salary of $45,000 a year and some benefits excluded due to their temporary position, like family leave. Part-time faculty members make $1,400 per credit hour, meaning $4,200 per class.

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n the recommendation of the Public Safety and Budget, Capital, and Personnel Committees, on June 7 the Tompkins County Legislature unanimously passed a resolution to appropriate $100,000 for the implementation of a reentry plan for inmates at the Tompkins County Jail.

The resolution states that while Tompkins County has one of the lowest rates of incarceration in New York State, “a comparatively weak link in the chain of such programs lies in the area of services provided to inmates to ease their reentry into society after incarceration by providing them with the tools and guidance necessary to find employment, housing, economic assistance, health and mental care, and other necessary Patricia Buechel of county probation and Deb Dietrich of OAR (Photo: Jaime Cone) supports.”

The plan notes that Tompkins County first initiated a reentry pilot The subcommittee also suggested project at the Tompkins County Jail nearly that the county look into additional eight years ago. Inmates in the current funding sources to develop an even more project receive public assistance the day comprehensive re-entry program. after they are released, transportation In the 2016 budgeting process the to the Tompkins County Department of legislature set aside $100,000 in the Social Services provided by an officer of county contingent fund to be allocated the jail, and assessment for additional to specific program accounts once CJATI needs such as housing, education, finished a defined reentry plan of action. employment, substance abuse and mental CJATI came back with a plan that calls for health counseling and legal issues are approximately $65,000 to be committed referred to appropriate agencies or assisted to case-management services (the hire of by members of the reentry program.

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Small non-profit organizations are especially encouraged to apply. Maximum grant award is $1,000. One request per organization, please.

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Dogged Dog Crowd Celebrates 45 Yrs.

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enizens of the Salty Dog will reunite again this weekend to celebrate the camaraderie of a rock club that was once the waterfront destination in Ithaca.

Dave Jamarusty was living in a band house in Danby in 1971, playing with Cat’s Meow, when his housemate Jack Keeley started “talking about what a drag it was all the club owners were ex-Mafia or Mafia guys.”

“The clubs in Ithaca were the sort of places where bands would play a set for 20 minutes, then a stripper comes on, and then the band plays again,” Jamarusty, known as Jamo, said. “After the gig we’d always have to argue how many people were in the room, which was really terrible because you’re dealing with likely gangsters.”

Talk turned into action, as four Ithaca College graduates threw some money together to rent the former Ithaca Flooring Company building on Taughannock Boulevard and open what became the Salty Dog. Hoyt Benjamin, a 1970 IC grad, was working in New York City’s Financial District when he got a welcome call.

“I was writing orders to move phone systems around; there’s nothing more boring,” Benjamin said. “I was very thankful when I got the call to come back to Ithaca and get involved in a bar.

Especially at that age, something as fun as a rock ‘n roll bar.”

Jamo and many of his friends were amateur carpenters; they took barn wood and built the tables, the bar, and the woodpaneled walls of the Salty Dog. “It was a real grass roots thing,” Jamo said. “After we did that the club became more than just a club; it was more like a community club. Everybody was there to have a great time. The bands got paid; they took the door, which was new for that time. When you were dealing with people after the gig, these were your friends.”

After about a year, Benjamin was the partner left standing; he ran the Salty Dog until selling it to Roger Beck in 1975.

The space later became Castaways, and is currently operating as The Dock. The first actual dock there was built by Benjamin and friends.

“We looked out the back door and said there’s the river back here—actually, just the inlet—but it seemed a wonderful place to hang out at least half of the year,” Benjamin said. “That would not have been a good place to put in just a standalone bar without music. I don’t think other than the dock and being able to go outside, there are a lot of attractions to that location. If you put music in there, there is.”

“I’m already pretty satisfied with the park, but I would maybe restore the beach.”

—Joseph Holmgren

“It’d be cool to have an educational play area for children like something similar to the Ithaca Children’s Garden that gets kids more into nature.”

—Adele O’Rourke

“I would add more swings, especially the swinging benches because there’s a lot of space that could be utilized. There’s a lot of competition for the benches already.”

—Olivia Pastella

“I’d probably add a place for swimming because when I was a little kid we used to swim there.”

—Jim Reagan

“I’d bring in a petting zoo.” ­—Ralph Stewart

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According to Jamo, the inlet was a said. “The money turned into what we had convenient place to cool off patrons who to do to get a record deal—to get a decent had perhaps had a bit too much of the demo, it was at least five grand … in the “good grog” the Dog purported to serve, ‘80s all those clubs kind of went disco, which included Budweiser or Ripple, a which killed the bands, especially creative “pop wine.” music.”

“The Dog had two great bouncers— A “wouldn’t-it-be-cool” conversation Stroker and Moose—Cornell football at a funeral about six years ago turned players who were about 6’10,” said into the 40th year reunion of the Salty Dog, which drew nearly 1,000 people from all Benjamin. “If anybody came in being over the world back to Ithaca. obnoxious, they’d just pick them up, walk “People had kids now who were older them out back and throw them in the than we were when we were all friends,” inlet. It was definitely hardcore rock ‘n said organizer Glen Miller. “We had to roll.”

The first band to play the Salty Dog was Buffalongo, a predecessor of Orleans, an Ithaca-based band that had hits in the ‘70s with “Still the One” and “Dance With Me.” Other notable groups to play there included Albatross and Ronnie James Dio in his early days with the Elves.

Eventually, larger rooms opened up to take Dave “Jamo” Jamarusty at the Salty Dog 40 Year Reunion (Photo: saltydog40.com) away some of the Dog’s steam. Night Court opened announce if parents drink too much, the up downtown in the old Ithaca College gymnasium on Aurora Street, and a couple kids drive them home. It was such a blast, and a very interesting sociological event.” of big venues opened in Lansing which The success of the 40th reunion led held national acts from Chuck Berry to to the organization of the 45th reunion, Fleetwood Mac—the North Forty and to be held this weekend at The Dock on the Warehouse, the latter of which could Friday night, June 17, and in Cass Park on handle a couple thousand people.

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Cole would also like to see full-time contingent faculty invested with voting rights on campus questions.

“For example, we weren’t included in the no confidence vote,” Cole said of a vote taken by faculty in December 2015 about Tom Rochon’s performance as president of the college. Contingent faculty also weren’t included as part of the group that could be nominated to IC’s search committee for a new president.

“The idea is we don’t have as much of a stake in the community as tenure and tenure-track people,” Cole said, “but the person who’s been on term contract the longest has been here 21 years. And the average term for part-time faculty is seven years.”

Currently, tenured and tenure-track faculty are not allowed to organize under National Labor Relations Board rules.

That ruling was made in the 1980 Supreme Court decision NLRB v. Yeshiva University,

wherein the Burger Court decided that those groups should be considered managerial.

“With the erosion of shared governance over the past 25 years the NLRB has been reconsidering that decision, and making decisions on a case by case basis,” Perkins said. “There isn’t a great argument that tenure-track faculty have managerial powers at many schools.”

In a December 2014 ruling, the NLRB rejected the claim of Pacific Lutheran University that its non-tenuretrack full-time faculty were managerial.

In that ruling, the NLRB “offered a set of standards for evaluating whether faculty members are managerial” under the Yeshiva decision, according to Insidehighered.com.

Initial negotiations between the Ithaca College administration and its nontenure-track faculty are ongoing.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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he first stage of the Black Diamond Trail should be open this fall.

Once an eight-mile stretch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the rail bed’s conversion to trail between Allen Treman Marina State Park and Taughannock Falls is on schedule for completion in midOctober, according to Fred Bonn, regional director of New York State Parks for the Finger Lakes.

Construction started three to four weeks ago, Bonn said, and work by lead contractor M.R. Dirt is “progressing on schedule.”

The trail will be surfaced with stone dust, a material that NYS Parks resource planner Marcus Riehl said “holds very, very well, especially on a nice flat surface.”

“The grade on this is remarkable,” Riehl said, “from three to maybe five percent. The cross-slope is appropriately placed as well. This trail is going to shed water very well.”

The Black Diamond Trail is listed in one form or another on state maps going back to the 1970s, with the plan once calling for a trail to Geneva. Now, the officially designated Black Diamond Trail master plan runs from Trumansburg through Cass Park, with a second stage to Buttermilk Falls State Park and a third stage running to Robert Treman State Park for a total of 15 miles.

“There are no plans for construction,” on the second and third stages, Bonn said, with property acquisition still needing to take place. “We’re continuing to work on that, but there’s absolutely no timeline for the continuation to the south.”

Nearly a decade was spent by Riehl’s predecessor, Sue Poelvoorde, retrieving

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a re-entry coordinator), approximately $25,000 to be committed to continuing basic-education services provided through the county’s day reporting program, and approximately $10,000 to be committed to grant-writing services aimed at augmenting local funding for reentry services.

The plan includes hiring a reentry coordinator. Patricia Buechel, director of the Tompkins County Department of Probation and Community Justice, said the coordinator would be working collaboratively with other agencies including Opportunities, Alternatives, and Resources (OAR) and the Multicultural Resource Center.

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events, Zeserson said, “to say how much importance the trail has.”

Part of that importance, Zeserson said, is the Black Diamond’s importance as a “linchpin” in connecting trails. A working group has been meeting over the past few years to work on “the dream of navigating through Ithaca and as much of Tompkins County as we can off-road.”

Contributions of equipment and labor from the Town and City of Ithaca, and Town of Ulysses, during off weeks helped clean up culverts along the trail between Cass Park and Glenwood Heights Road, Zeserson said.

“Due to its location, with the topography along the lake shore, there are lots and lots of little rivulets and streams running through old culverts that were established when the rail line was put in,” Riehl said. “It’s important that they’re functioning, so the trail does not get impacted if we have a big storm or even a normal storm; we want to make sure the water is directed in an Black Diamond Trail bridge near Kraft Road in 2014 (Photo: Gina Mangiaratti) appropriate manner.”

According to Bonn, all of the gorge trails in the Finger Lakes region except for Taughannock Falls Andrejs Ozolins set up a website and are currently open, with scaling work at listserv that helped the group coordinate Taughannock expected to be completed clean-up days, and help make newcomers later this week or early next week. to the area aware that there was a trail scheduled to be built along the Black For more information on the Black Diamond Trail, visit the Facebook Diamond Railroad’s former route. group “Black Diamond Trail, Ithaca to “We wanted to encourage people to use the trail,” Zeserson said. “We figured if Taughannock.” we use it, they will create it.”

The “BDTEN” rallied people to public – Josh Brokaw hearings on the trail’s master plan, with reporter@ithacatimes.com mostly supporters coming out to those rights-of-way from property owners contiguous to the trail, according to Jan Zeserson.

Zeserson is part of a group, the Black Diamond Trail Enthusiasts Network, which started in 2006.

“Vikki Armstrong and I were just taking a walk, and we had just found out that the trail existed,” Zeserson said. “We said ‘Why don’t we find out why this isn’t done?’ and that’s what we did. We got hooked up with people who had been trying to do it for a long, long time, since the 1970s.”

assessment and discharge planning and to pull all the available services together in a coordinated, efficient manner,” the report states. “Services are disjointed, and navigating the system is difficult. A reentry coordinator would have the necessary experience, authority and oversight to work in and with the jail, probation and service agencies already knowledgeable in reentry.”

Legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca) asked if the various agencies involved, including Ultimate Reentry Opportunity (URO), would end up competing against each other for grants.

Ultimate Reentry Opportunity is an initiative of the Multicultural Resource Center dedicated to facilitating collective community work between private and public sectors to actively transform the culture and process of reentry and reduce the risk of re-arrest and re-incarceration.

▶ Citizens Unite, A majority of officials in both the Senate and the Assembly have signed a letter urging the U.S. Congress to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. New York will join 16 other states that have called for a constitutional amendment, 14 of which expressed their support through their legislatures and Colorado and Montana approved ballot initiatives. Twenty-one municipalities across New York state have passed resolutions calling for the repeal of Citizens United, including Ithaca.

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

Heard&Seen ▶ Sign up and trot, It’s almost time to lace up your shoes and head to the Cornell Arboretum for the 7th annual Peter De Mott PeaceTrot, on Sunday, June 19, 10 am. Organized in memory of local peace activist Peter De Mott, the 5k run and 1 mile fun run are designed to bring together a community dedicated to peace and justice. The money raised by the Peace Trot will benefit the Ithaca Catholic Worker and Ithaca Black Lives Matter. Register at peterdemottpeacetrot.org by 11:59 p.m. on Thursay, June 16. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of June 8-14 include: 1) Luvelle Brown Next Rochester Superintendent, According to Reports 2) Be Who You Are: The transgender issue in local schools and libraries 3) What Went Wrong? Firefighter’s Death Leads to Investigations 4) City to Demolish House Worth $125K 5) So Many Ithaca Festival Pictures

Buechel and Deborah Dietrich, OAR executive director, assured the legislators that they envision working on grants together. “I see the reentry coordinator working collaboratively with URO,” said Buechel.

Dietrich said that URO is very process-oriented. The new position would be informed by that process but would be mainly working to coordinate existing programs so people coming back into the community can access services today while URO “looks forward over a longer horizon.”

Dietrich and Buechel said after the resolution passed that it was gratifying to see seven months of work drafting the plan pay off. “It’s been a long haul,” Buechel said.

For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Where the Heart Is T he most recent issue of the Columbia Journalism Review (Spring 2016) focused on the Pulitzer prizes. The lead article, “The hole in the heart of American journalism,” was written by Steve Coll of The Washington Post and is essentially a lament on the state of local journalism.

“In a stunningly brief period, the number of salaried reporters turning up regularly at statehouses, zoning boards, school board, and courthouses has collapsed,” wrote Coll and then cited the remarks former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon (who created the television series The Wire) before a Senate committee: “The next 10 or 15 years in this country are going to be a halcyon era for state and local political corruption. It is going to be one of the great times to be a corrupt politician.”

Simon made this prediction because government officials who are not being reported on tend to procedurally drift into the weeds. Between 2003 and 2014, according to the Pew Research Center, the number of reporters covering statehouses fell by about one-third.

Coll cites several Pulitzers won by reporters at small-city dailies in Birmingham, Milwaukee, and Torrance, California. One of the reporters at Torrance’s Daily Breeze didn’t collect his prize for covering corruption on the school board because he’d moved on to a career in university public relations when he couldn’t make ends meet with a journalism salary.

I Remain Puzzled

While these small papers do win prizes, their numbers are shrinking.

Between 2009 and 2015 The New York Times won more than 20 percent of all the Pulitzers. Between 2001 and 2008 they won less than 15 percent of them.

In closing, Coll urges the stewards of the prizes to heed Joseph Pulitzer himself, who wished to lift up “the idea of work for the community, not for commerce, not for one’s self, but primarily for the public.”

It seems quite doubtful that the Ithaca Times will win a Pulitzer Prize any time soon (although we did all right at the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper awards this year), but we feel we are holding down the fort for local journalism in these parts. Newski, Inc. (the name combines that of the late Tom Newton and Jim Bilinski, the paper’s founders) publishes, in addition to the Times, nine other newspapers, called the Finger Lakes Community Newspapers (lovingly referred to as “the Flakes”), in three counties.

We have a small staff, but we go to a lot of municipal meetings. The Ithaca Times has one full-time reporter, and we share a reporter with the community newspapers (she is also our web editor). The community newspapers has a single sports editor who is also a part-time reporter. The two managing editors of the Times and the community newspapers are reporters as well. This continued on page 7

By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

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t’s almost exactly two years since I started writing Ithaca Notes for the Ithaca Times, and I’m remembering the first column, which questioned auditory behavior of birds in my yard.

I prefaced the subject by saying that, despite many years living in the bountiful natural environment of Ithaca, I still don’t know much about nature.

Two years later, this remains true.

I think it has to do with childhood.

There are certain things that, if you don’t grow up with, you never really have affinity for—like pets, sports, or multi-linguality.

My question arose early that 2014 summer morning when I did too, with an eruption of birdsong outside my bedroom window that was practically riotous, and woke me from deep sleep.

I’m usually not up at 4 a.m., so I didn’t know if birds usually are. I didn’t mind that they were, but why were they so noisy about it? Axiomatically, the early bird gets the worm, but isn’t it spoiling the advantage not to be quiet?

Two years later, I remain puzzled by this behavior. Instead of answers, I have more questions.

Can birds tell one’s song from another’s, as humans can voices? Is this morning ruckus certain individuals trying to roust families, friends, and colleagues, to get started on the day?

Is it a mating thing? Do some birds sing like Sinatra, compared to others, and want to show it off? Haven’t birds already mated for the season? Is it a chorus of philanderers out there?

I guess if I really wanted to know these things, I could call upon a great local resource, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

People up there know things about birds.

I actually made a move in that direction, asking a friend whose husband works there if she knew anyone there who would entertain questions like these for

publication.

In fact, she suggested her husband, and I considered it, but decided against it, thinking he might do it to be helpful and polite, but might not really enjoy responding to such amateurish notions (to put it euphemistically) in a professional capacity.

Alternatively, I could look these questions up online, but what fun is that?

Sometimes it is more satisfying to wonder than to be told, particularly by technology. I have a friend, for instance, who is adamant in his refusal to use a GPS device. “What, I’m not allowed to get lost anymore?” Tom asks.

To know or not to know, is that the question? I guess I am suggesting that questions have their place, as often more amusing than answers.

Of course there would be no labs, universities, nor Wikipedia if we were determined not to know things, and Knowledge Is Good, as they say at Faber College. Still, we needn’t always prefer facts to foibles.

The fact that you are reading this shows perhaps you feel the same. If so, I appreciate your company and indulgence, today and for the past two years, and long into the future, I hope. If you are a regular reader, you know that occasionally we present a measure of seriousness here. We’ll keep trying to provide a pleasing balance.

I’ll ask one more indulgence. If now you’re curious about birdsong, please don’t bother the Lab of Ornithology. People there get paid to do serious work. Not only that, but because this is all so silly, they might not even know, or know what to say. Don’t put the nice people on the spot.

On the other hand, if it created a thesis from someone (“Do Some Birds Sing Like Sinatra, And Others Like Leonard Nimoy?”), that would be win-win. •

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Extending a Circle of Compassion

Thank you for the lovely profile of Farm Sanctuary as it observes its 30th year (“A Vegan Place: Farm Sanctuary at 30”; June 1). The closing quote by Susie Coston about how at Farm Sanctuary cows are allowed to “be who they’re supposed to be” says a lot. It’s wonderful to witness animals being treated as individuals and not as objects to be used for the humans’ profit. Farm Sanctuary is doing a great service to our region by modeling a respectful attitude towards our fellow creatures.

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plant foods. Vegan diets are nutritionally adequate, satisfying, and health-promoting, so when we eat animals we do so only because we like the flavor or we are uncritically following social customs. But this unnecessary violence has consequences.

Albert Schweitzer said, “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

How can we expect to live in peace when our society is based on needlessly commodifying and killing animals?

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staff of five covers board meetings in schools, towns, villages, and the city in Tompkins, Seneca, and Tioga counties (regularly venturing into Chemung and Schuyler counties as well).

We can’t get to everyone’s meeting every month, but many times when a board goes too long without coverage, we will return to find that they have gotten a little lost. Sometimes they have gotten sloppy about the state Open Meetings law and are failing to declare a proper reason for entering an executive session.

Sometimes its obvious that the board members are communicating about town matters outside of the meeting because they pass complicated resolutions without much discussion. Sometimes, because no one has quoted them in the newspaper for a while, elected officials lose track of what they sound like and are surprised to find that they come off as rude or imperious.

Reporting of local news is not particularly glamorous—it’s a bit more like The Shipping News than Spotlight—but it keeps local governments on track and it keeps residents informed as to what their property tax money is being spent on. Local newspapers write about where you actually live, about decisions that will affect your children’s education, your commute to work, how much you pay for water, and whether or not a 10-story building will be built next to your house.

Many people who live around here did not grow up here or even in this state (or country), so they may not be in the habit of paying attention to local government.

Many suburbanites may be barely aware that their local government exists. Below the Mason-Dixon line many people live in unincorporated areas where the only government is the county government.

Many young people grow never having been to a civic meeting and are perhaps uncertain as to whether they lived in a town, a borough, a village, or in any municipality at all.

Here in the early 21st century, if you are reading this editorial, you probably already care about civic affairs. So maybe the point of here is to get you to (1) talk about local government and civic affairs with your neighbors and even your children, (2) make the time to serve on volunteer boards in local government, and (3) don’t hesitate to write to the newspaper when you are ticked off about a problem in your community or—and this does happen—you are glad to see someone in local government do something right. •

us but we already have all the tools and knowledge we need to be healthy. Let others “be who they’re supposed to be.”

Instead of unthinkingly harming others we can make conscious choices to create a more harmonious and just society.

Sincerely,

ourCorrections In both the Summer Ithaca and the Between the Lakes ads the wrong date was listed for the Americana Vineyards Fourth of July Birthday BBQ Bash. The party is Saturay, July 2 from noon to 10:30 p.m.

Bands and dancing all day, food, vendors, capped off with fireworks at 10 p.m.

Claire Holzner, Watkins Glen Editor’s note: Vegans must take vitamin B12 supplements or eat foods fortified with B12 in order to get complete nutrition.

New Roots Booster

As a parent of four children, having a wide amount of experience with various central New York schools and educational districts in central New York, I want to recognize the opportunities that New Roots Charter School, has provided for my high school child.

After years of incompetence and harassment from our home school district, we homeschooled for two years, then enrolled in a very small, alternative private school. My child thrived in that environment, yet we had no good, local options for high school. After much research we decided that New Roots Charter School was the best option for us across a three county span. As of last Saturday, with multiple performances at the Ithaca Fest, and the close-approaching completion of my student’s first year at New Roots, I have to say that I could not be happier with our choice, or with the teachers there, with special recognition to David Ferriera, music program director, and Maria Gimma, Spanish/videography teacher extraordinaire.

Over the school year, I’ve watched my teen thrive socially, academically, and emotionally. The respect and support for students there to take responsibility and ownership of their educational options and opportunities is amazing. My child receives all the standard curriculum classes, with instruction that interests and involves her. Maria Gimma has been an inspiration this year, the respect and encouragement for her students earning her very special ‘role model’ position in my household, as well as others, I’m sure.

My child also has the amazing opportunity to delve into her true educational passion, the arts. Her interest has been fully supported, within the daily schedule and involvement in the amazing music program designed/directed by David Ferriera, as well as with outside opportunities for lessons and internships within the community.

Mr. Ferriera deserves great recognition and appreciation for his commitment to our students, having gone beyond the call of duty, offering extra hours to make himself available to each student who wanted lessons, and procuring the extra materials and equipment needed to give his students the program they wanted, and an education

not just in the art of music, but also the real life business aspects of the industry.

The opportunity to meet and play with the X Ambassadors was an incredible experience for him to arrange for the New Roots Rock Band, and the public gigs that he’s helped the students set up, including the recent parade and full festival set, have been invaluable real life experiences. He does it all with a ton of patience, sense of humor, and sensitivity for his students that has endeared him as a highly trusted mentor to my child. Huge thanks to Mr. Ferriera for his creativity, and devotion to our children.

Huge thanks to ALL the teachers and staff at New Roots, for helping my child rediscover her passion for learning. I’m looking forward to more years with them.

that promotes empathy, tolerance, and the respect of individualism. Students and staff are encouraged to be self- motivated, confident, life-long learners who will work effectively toward personal and professional goals. As part of our growth and development, every idea will be reviewed and revised for the advancement of all.

I am so very happy that the Trumansburg Middle School chose to be a distribution site for our Community Book Read. Please read the book and then come discuss. I thank you deeply.

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– Stacy Crandell, King Ferry

Transgender Education Now

I am writing this letter as a letter of support and thanks to both Trumansburg Middle School administrators and Ulysses Philomathic Library. Our Community Read program is a boon to the Trumansburg community and having the middle school be a distribution site allows even more community members access to the chosen book.

I do not expect a letter home about a book choice being provided to my child. I know that they can enter the school library and check out any book they would like to, without my written or verbal consent.

And that is a good thing. I send my child to school to learn, to be inquisitive, to be exposed to things they might not learn about at home. I expect all decisions and offerings made by the school to follow the district mission statement, which this choice to be a distribution site most certainly does.

I mean no disrespect to school board member John White, but now is exactly the time for a book like George to be our Community Read, and more importantly, to be distributed at the Trumansburg Middle School. Given the tragedy over the weekend in Orlando, this book choice seems even more apropos. We fear what we do not know and books can offer us a window into topics we might not know about or have the opportunity to learn about in person. They make our world wider.

This book is a great read. As my son Cyrus said after reading it, “Wow, I loved this book. I didn’t know anything about the transgendered before reading and now I feel like I understand it a little bit more than I used to and if I met a transgendered person now I would be able to think about this kid in the book and know to treat them just like anyone else. I feel more informed. I loved the ending. Yay, Melissa!” I hope we all as a community read this book and gather to discuss it.

The TCSD Mission Statement reads as this:

“Mama J” at the 40th reunion (Photo: saltydog40.com)

Saturday, June 18.

The party starts at 4 p.m. on Friday night with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats, and an all-star “Jamo & Friends” set will take the stage at 8 p.m. with members of Destination, the Burns Sisters, Fantail, McKendree Spring, and more playing all night. There will be a picnic and party at Cass Park on Saturday at 3 p.m.

The Salty Dog was a place that brought people together during its big years, Jamo said.

“There had always been a kind of stigma between the bands made up of college students and bands made up of locals, the blue collar, white collar divide,” Jamo said. “Maybe the college kids could afford to play more originals. What the Salty Dog did was bring together everybody: Cornell, IC, and downtown people. For five or six years it was quite a place to play – it was packed five or six nights a week. From that relationship we had the 40th reunion, and we’re doing it again.”

Email saltydogreunion@gmail.com for more information.

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By Deirdre Cunningham

Stewart Park restoration goes ahead, but needs donations

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ince 2011 the City of Ithaca, Friends of Stewart Park, Wharton Studio Museum and several community groups have been dedicating time, energy and funds to complete the ongoing revitalization of Stewart Park in preparation for the park’s centennial in 2021. Financial support from the public and private sectors is still needed to see these myriad projects come to fruition.

Overlooking Cayuga Lake, Stewart Park has been owned and managed by the City of Ithaca since 1921. It was originally part of Military Lot No.88 (600 acres) granted to Andrew Moody after the Revolutionary War in 1790. Moody sold the lakefront land to James Renwick whose family left it undeveloped for over 90 years. At this point in time, the park’s land use history gets confusing among various contemporary written sources.

Fortunately, former county historian Carol Kammen wrote a guest column “Pieces of the Past: Stewart Park evolves to give joy” in the August 29, 2014 issue of Ithaca Journal. Her story is based on research of the 19th-century Ithaca Daily Journal preserved on microfilm at Tompkins County Public Library.

According to Kammen, “In 1884, seven local men created the Ithaca City Street Railway Company and bought 40 acres of lakeshore property from the estate of James Renwick. The company proposed to develop an amusement park in order to profit from the use of the trolley fleet on weekends and after working hours. The park was designed 8

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by the Frederick Olmsted Company, with a small boat landing, zoological garden, a theater for vaudeville performances, and pavilion where bands gave concerts during the summer months. In 1894, the area was sold to the Renwick Park and Traffic Association, a group of local men. Renwick Park opened in June 1894; the trolley fare was five cents....The new company erected a pavilion and grassy plots for picnics....That first summer.... the Cascadilla Boat House was under construction. In addition, electric lights were installed and a dancing pavilion was completed...”

Other written sources say the dance pavilion was renovated as a vaudeville theatre shortly after the park opened as Renwick Park in 1894. There was also a carousel. In 1915 an adjacent parcel of land was set aside as a bird sanctuary maintained by Cayuga Bird Club. At this time, trolley service was discontinued and Renwick Park officially closed. The parkland was then leased to Wharton, Inc. a silent-film studio owned by brothers Ted and Leopold Wharton. Twenty-eight films were made during their tenure in Ithaca (1915-1919) with a few starring famous movie actors such as Irene Castle and Lionel Barrymore. Ithaca Mayor Stewart subsequently donated $150,000 toward the purchase of the property for what became today’s Stewart Park in 1921.

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S t e wa r t Pa r k l o o k i n g n o r t h e a s t w i t h c a r o u s e l at l e f t a n d t h e l a r g e pav i l i o n at c e n t e r l e f t ( P h o t o : J o e S c ag l i o n e) Stewart Park has four historic structures: Cascadilla Boathouse, the tea pavilion (rebuilt), the dance pavilion (Wharton Studio/today’s DPW building), and the picnic pavilion. The play structures are old, worn-out and need to replaced.

Scott Wiggins, founding chair of Friends of Stewart Park (FSP) said, “Rick Manning was the inspiration for a 2008 study [“Cayuga Waterfront Trail Initiative”] of the entire waterfront area that included looking at other communities around the country with strong public/private partnerships such as New York City’s Central Park and the Central Park Conservancy. It was determined that Stewart Park needed to be the primary focus among the waterfront properties.”

The 2009 Stewart Park Rehabilitation Action Plan was subsequently prepared to serve as a project guide for grant writing and fundraising. FSP was formally established in 2011 with a mission “to enhance and revitalize historic Stewart Park, in partnership with the City of Ithaca, for the enjoyment of Ithaca residents and visitors to our community”.

Wiggins is still actively involved with FSP after having stepped down as chair this past February. Diana Riesman succeeded Wiggins as chair of the not-for-profit organization. Landscape architect Rick Manning, who spearheaded the Cayuga Waterfront Initiative, is FSP’s executive director. Manning has been intimately

involved with all aspects of the park’s ongoing revitalization.

From East Shore Drive, one can access Stewart Park by car on the main entrance road or on foot or bicycle using the Cayuga Waterfront Trail (2010) entrance next to Tompkins County Visitors Bureau. Park visitors are greeted by two beautiful gardens created by Ithaca Garden Club who raised funds, designed and installed plantings with FSP, city staff and volunteers. The first one is the purple and green-hued Park Main Entry Planting (2014). Then farther along the inland park road one comes upon the colorful Mayor Stewart Memorial Flagpole Garden (2012) which is a restoration of the original flagpole garden built in Stewart’s honor with funds provided by private citizens in 1927. And of course children love the newly restored carousel that is now protected by a new steel decorative fence.

There are plans to construct a wheelchair accessible ramp onto the carousel and adapt a chariot seat to accommodate a wheelchair rider as part of the proposed playground project.

A FSP memorandum to Ithaca Mayor Myrick, dated May 23, 2016, provides an update on the park’s revitalization.

Detailed descriptions of the following plans and projects with costs are available at www.friendsofstewartpark.org.

In the ‘Plans & Studies’ section of “Completed Plans & Projects” the Campaign Feasibility Study for Stewart

Park Revitalization and Stewart Park Building Study were achieved at a combined cost of $65,000. “Completed Projects—City Initiated” include: Cayuga Waterfront Trail, Tea Pavilion (rebuilt), Picnic Pavilion Bathroom Reconstruction, and Cascadilla Boathouse Roof Replacement carried out at a total cost of $870,000. “Completed Projects—FSP Initiated” are: Stewart Park Carousel Restoration, Mayor Stewart Memorial Flagpole Garden, Stewart Park Entry Planting, Renwick Wildwood Interpretive Panel, and Building Interpretive Signs at a total cost of $82,000.

In the ‘Plans & Studies’ section of “Park Revitalization Plans & Projects Now Underway,” the Stewart Park Revitalization Plan costs $37,000 of secured funding.

The ‘Building Projects’ section requires a combined total of $485,000 yet to be raised for: Roof Replacement for Park Pavilions, Cascadilla Boathouse Restoration-Phase 1, and Picnic (Large) Pavilion Restoration.

“Landscape/Site Projects Underway” include: New & Inclusive Playground & Spray-Play Area and Fuertes Overlook with respective totals of $1.3 million and $5,000 yet to be raised, and the fullyfunded Cayuga Lake Blueway Trail that will develop better landing sites and storage facilities for paddle-crafts (canoes and kayaks).

“Key Landscape & Building Revitalization Projects for 2021 Completion” are short-term projects now being planned for completion in time for the centennial celebration: Cayuga Waterfront Trail Loop Completion, Bird-friendly Park Initiative & Goose Population Management Program, Wharton Pavilion, Pavilion Performance Plaza and Tennis Court Conversion to Multi-use Year-round Play Surface at a combined anticipated cost of $1.7 million.

As part of the goose management program Ithaca’s Common Council recently passed a “no feeding” ordinance in Stewart Park and Newman Golf Course at its May meeting. (See “Three-Pronged Offensive on Geese” article by Josh Brokaw at ithaca. com) When asked about the city’s revitalization of Stewart Park, Mayor Myrick replied, “It is necessary because the park is underutilized and is not meeting its greatest potential. Parks can contribute to the physical, emotional and mental well being of its community. Investing in them is as important as filling potholes and patrolling the streets. They are elemental to having a healthy city. The parks are part of Plan Ithaca [the city’s comprehensive plan adopted in 2015]. The first three goals in the Natural Resources section of the plan emphasize the importance of the city’s green spaces: 1) The city will provide and adequately fund well-maintained and safe parks, trails, and natural areas.

2) Community partnerships will support the maintenance, enhancement, and promotion of parks, trails, and natural areas.

areas for pre-school and school age children, an elder play and fitness area, and a water-efficient accessible spray/ play area. These play zones will be unified with natural play elements, traditional playground apparatus and accessible playground surfacing. A centrally located water tower feature designed after the park’s historic water tower will be accessed by a gently-mounded walkway that will take all users from the playground entrance to the highest point of the playground with 360-degree views of the park and lake.

Ithaca native JoAnn Cornish, Director of Planning & Economic Development fully endorses the public private partnership between the city and citizen groups, “The proposed new inclusive playground is one aspect that I love. It’s also important that the park remain a free and accessible park. Stewart Park is the only exposure some kids get to Cayuga Lake. And it’s important for those who enjoy it during lunchtime. Working with Friends of Stewart Park has given the park new life.”

FSP’s chair Diana Riesman is also Director/Cofounder of Wharton Studio Museum (WSM). She has been in discussions with the city for many years about the potential reuse of the original Wharton Studio building as a silent-film museum. The building has lived many lives: originally as a dance pavilion, then a vaudeville theatre, then a silent-film studio, it currently houses the DPW’s park maintenance equipment. Riesman said, “There’s been a lot of good back and forth discussion, and now with Friends of Stewart Park involved, the original idea for the museum has evolved into a year-round park interpretive center with exhibits on park history, ecology and birding; a silent film museum, community event rental space and a lakefront cafe.” This spring WSM received a grant from the Tompkins County Tourism Capital Grant program to conduct a planning and design study as a first step toward the Wharton Studio Museum. An important piece will be to connect the building to its history while developing related exhibits both outside and inside the 1,000 square foot lakefacing interior space.

Riesman added, “As the city and local community becomes more engaged with the park’s revitalization, we’d like to convey the spirit of this project. We as a group are committed and excited to be making a positive contribution to enhancing the quality of people’s lives.”

Friends of Stewart Park and the City of Ithaca invite the local community to help celebrate the Stewart Park Carousel and its new fence on Saturday, June 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. Join them for free rides & treats.

For detailed project information, to volunteer or to make a donation to any of these fundraising initiatives go to www.friendsofstewartpark.org and whartonstudiomuseum.org. •

M ay o r S va n t e My r i c k , F r i e n d s o f S t e wa r t Pa r k b o a r d c h a i r D i a n a R i e s m a n , c i t y f o r e s t e r J e a n n e G r ac e , a n d F S P d i r e c t o r R i c k M a n n i n g . ( P h o t o : D i a n e D u t h i e)

Th e r e s t o r e d pav i l i o n b e i n g r e pa i n t e d ( P h o t o : D e i r d r e C u n n i n g h a m) 3) The city will maintain and enhance its existing recreational facilities.

The second goal ties in with the mayor’s thoughts about community partnerships, “The public private partnership is important because government is pressed on all sides to be logical. Private organizations provide resources and bring a creative perspective to public projects.”

City forester Jeanne Grace manages the City of Ithaca’s street trees, park trees and the maintenance of all city-owned parks and natural areas. She coordinates staffing for all the revitalization projects: what work can the city do and what needs contracting out. She said, “The Tea Pavilion was completely rebuilt by city staff [after the original was condemned and demolished in 2011]. It only needs to be painted on the inside.” The 30-acre Fuertes Bird Sanctuary on the south side of Stewart Park is bordered along the north by Pleasant Grove Brook and to the west by Fall Creek. Grace added,

“Stewart Park supervisor Rob Lilly with one seasonal employee cleared out nettles and poison ivy to reopen the two trails, widening them enough to allow golf cart access the area to routinely pickup garbage.” FSP board member Miguel Barrios with more 55 volunteers removed privet and planted more 500 native trees and shrubs for bird habitat in about 5 acres of the woodland. According to FSP’s website, “Project partners included the Ithaca City Forester, Cornell Cooperative Extension, New Leaf Environmental, LBS Ecological Design, Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District, Audubon, and The Plantsmen Native Plant Nursery.” An interpretive panel, installed (2014) on the boardwalk overlooking the site, explains the role played by the Cayuga Bird Club in saving the Wildwood as a natural preserve and describes the floodplain forest vegetation and birds that inhabit the sanctuary.

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Over-55 League players still have it on the field

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Eyes closed, I heard some very familiar voices—Roger Schnock, Doug Joseph, Dick Mooney, Ted McCarrick, Frank Tibke, Ken Lansing—and I heard that familiar whack of the bat, the sound of the ball hitting leather, a grunt as the ball was thrown

toward first base, and the predictable, “Yeah, nice play Moon!”

Thom and I were teammates back in 1989, patrolling the left side of the outfield for Slotteo’s Shoe Repair, one of the teams in the Ithaca City Softball League. We were a collection of college professors, students, blue-collar guys, a lawyer, and some police officers. In fact, there was an anti-apartheid protest at Cornell and one

Doug Joseph at bat. (Photo provided)

of our teammates (who was a grad student) was arrested by two other teammates (who were Cornell police officers) and taken in to appear before another teammate (who was the city prosecutor). Afterward, they all went out for a beer.

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Fast-forward to 2016, Thom and I were not among those on the field.

Rather we were there as spectators, cheering on our old buddies in the Over-55 League. We laughed at how some things have changed, most notably the demeanor of the legendary Roger Schnock. Schnock was an imposing figure in the pitcher’s circle back in the day, and a master of sports psychology. The 6’5” goateed menace, who wore a Bionic Man-esque knee brace even then, made it a game within a game, getting inside opponents’ heads, going so far as to wear their uniform as he played against them. He was seen as a loudmouth, a wiseass, even a bully, but he played hard and brought a lot of color to the league.

Grady and I laughed as we thought back to the 1989 playoffs, when Schnock— the pitcher for the heavily-favored Pete’s Cayuga Bar team—got pissed off at a teammate and told his buddies to shove it and walked off the field. He did not return for the remaining three games, Slotteo’s knocked off Pete’s and ultimately won the city championship. Last week Schnock called out to an outfielder he saw as less than enthusiastic, and said, “You guys need Thom Grady out there!” Grady laughed, and said “Roger, that’s the first nice thing you have said to me in 25 years!” I told Schnock that if I described him as “the mild-mannered Roger Schnock,” readers would check the date on the cover to see if it was the April Fool’s issue.

I loved watching these veterans play the game, and I was pleased to learn that the loving, supportive environment still exists. Doug Joseph admonished a teammate, yelling, ‘I could have gotten there faster that you did, and I outweigh you by 60 pounds!” Another teammate yelled, “More like 70!” Another piped in, “I was thinking 90!”

Dick Mooney was always one of the smoothest hot corner men in the league, and the old Moon Man still has some amazing hands. He fielded—or knocked down—several hot shots, and his three-hop throws to first base got the job done, as the runners were not exactly burning up the base paths.

Tibke and Joseph—wielding their $300 composite bats—launched some long bombs, and it is clear that while leg speed and arm strength diminish over time, these guys can still generate some impressive bat speed. There would have been more home runs if not for the gazelle-like Ken Lansing, running the ball down as if it were a member of the criminal element, corralling it like a boss; the “S” on his orange jersey invoking images of “Superman” instead of “Syracuse.”

And then there was Ted McCarrick.

One might wonder why he was playing in the Over-55 league, and I would guess the answer is simple: Because there is no Over75 league. That’s right, Ted is still showing up, still throwing strikes, and still showing those youngsters how it’s done.

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New overtime rule tough on some non-profits The Department of Labor has raised the minimum salary to be overtime exempt from $23,000 to $47,000 per year

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n May 18 President Barack Obama signed a new rule out of the Department of Labor (DOL) that revised the salary level of employees eligible for overtime from $23,660 up to $47,476 (= from $455 to $913 per week).

Between the 1970s—the last time the level was adjusted—and Dec. 1, when the rule takes effect, if you earned a salary of $30,000 per year, you did not qualify for overtime when you worked more than 40 hours per week; you were exempt.

After Dec. 1 that employee will either be (1) paid time-and-a-half for overtime; (2) be made into an hourly wage earner; or (3) given a raise to put their salary over the new minimum. Some employees might experience some combination of the above, depending on the employer and how close their salary is to the new minimum.

“I’ve spoken with several business owners,” said Jennifer Tavares, the president of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce. “But the most concern is being felt in the nonprofit sector; this may impact them more.”

A lot of employees just put in their 40 hours a week and go home, but Tavares acknowledged that this is not always the case in the not-for-profit world.

“People tend to be passionate about their work,” she said. “And more of them tend to be salaried. Many of them are working 40 to 50 hours a week without reaching $47,000.”

Some people regularly put in a lot more than 40 hours per week, she noted.

Directors of non-profit organizations are going to have consider how salaries are calculated and—if they chose to pay someone overtime—how many extra hours

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they can afford to pay them. “People have been doing more with less for several years now,” said Tavares. “There are already constraints on their budgets. How are they going to find more money?”

The chamber president predicted that lifting the minimum exempt salary would cause “wage compression.” When some lower paid employees’ salaries are raised in response to the DOL rule change, suddenly more people at a company or organization will be making nearly the same amount.

“Other employees will want a raise too,” she said.

Paul Mazzarella, the executive director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS), has already decided how his organization is going to handle the

INHS’s responsibilities. In that event, Mazzarella said, INHS figures out what its options are. “Some employees like to get overtime,” he said. “We try to work within the budget.”

INHS managed 362 units of rental housing and has 110 more in the pipeline, at 210 Hancock Street and in Tyre in Seneca County, where they are building 42 units of housing that will be ready to supply housing for casino employees. Large numbers of people can leave at the same time, Mazzarella said, which creates a “bulge” in employee hours.

INHS has 35 full-time employees and eight of them make more than $47,000. “Our management staff has met and talked about this [new overtime rule],” said the executive director. “We first wanted to understand who would suddenly become eligible, and it was only a few.”

He doesn’t see the impending problem with wage compression that Tavares worried about. “We (Drawing: Aya Mulder at Sketchport) have a different philosophy about compensation,” he said. “We pay a decent rule change. “We’ve always tried to limit salary in order to retain people, and as overtime,” he said, “or at least manage it. If result we have longer-tenured people with it was needed, it required someone to get higher salaries.” the permission of their supervisor unless it The Paleontological Research was an emergency.”

Institution (PRI) and the Museum of the Virtually all the employees who Earth will be having a different experience regularly work more than 40 hours per of the new DOL rule as a result of a week already get paid more $47,000 per different approach to its employee salaries. year, said Mazzarella. “Our salary schedule “Our entire model,” said executive director is maybe a little higher than most nonWarren Allmon, “is based on hiring profits,” he said. “As a result we have a lot of talented people for less than they can make long-tenured employees.” elsewhere.” PRI then, conforms more nearly When INHS has foreseen a shortto Tavares’s description of the norm in notterm increase in the workload, Mazzarella for-profits: they are organizations that run has generally hired outsiders on a on passion. temporary basis. Unexpected demands “There’s nothing good about this for on employee time generally appear in the property management portion of continued on page 16

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Special Request Spirits New Stonewall Wine & Spirits on the way out to Dryden

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he staff at Stonewall Wine & Spirits is now available to take your order.

The newest store for legal beverages in Tompkins County rang up its first sale on May 25 in its fully renovated building at 1294 Dryden Rd, right by the intersection of routes 13 and 366, across from The Plantation Bar & Grill.

“We’re definitely taking special requests from people looking for items other stores don’t have,” store owner Erik Newlin said. “We’ll take special orders for a couple bottles of this or a case of that.”

Newlin spent more than 11 years at Judd Falls Wine & Spirits, before deciding to branch out to expand on some of his ideas. A long-time buyer of single-malt scotches and bourbons, Newlin hopes

that by this autumn, Stonewall will be launching a tasting club for fine whiskies with industry representatives on hand to pour quarter-ounce samples.

“We’ve found a few different venues in town where we did a couple tastings,” Newlin said of some recent pop-up ventures. “We’d charge enough admission to pay for the venue and take preorders based on what people like.”

“It’s become surprising with singlemalt scotch, that there’s such a large audience of people willing to pay a pretty premium price for these products,” Newlin said. “It’s exciting; there’s a lot of microdistilleries popping up all over place.

They’re taking over a decent share of the market.”

Owner Erik Newlin in the new Stonewall Wine & Spirits (Photo: Diane Duthie)

On the wine front, Newlin has seen South American and Spanish wineries in recent years “making really good wine without overpricing it.”

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Stonewall has already joined the ranks of area spirits stores that do regular Friday evening tastings. Standing Stone Winery of Hector has already offered their wines for sampling in the 4 to 7 p.m. time slot.

Stonewall is starting a “pretty generous” customer rewards program, Newlin said, giving customers a point per dollar spent, with each point worth a nickel back—in short, if you spent $20, you get $1 in store credit.

Stonewall is named after a decorative stone wall along Dryden Road, created

by Scott Land & Yard Services, who also adorned the building’s facade with stonework.

The Stonewall building was originally the area New York State Police barracks, until it became a travel agency in the late ‘90s; it’s been sitting empty for at least three years.

“It was laid out as office space, so we had to do quite a bit of demolition to make a nice retail space,” Newlin said.

Construction started in late January, after the state liquor authority issued a license and continued through early April, Newlin said. The shelves and tasting bar were built by Freeville carpenter Ken Parker.

Newlin got his start in the liquor business as a part-time employee at Judd Falls.

“I was an animal-science major at Cornell, working at the vet school, and I wanted to branch out and take a more social job,” he said. “It turned out to be a much more interactive, social kind of work that suited my personality a bit better.”

“It’s not easy getting a small business off ground, with so much money into inventory,” Newlin continued. “We’re hoping people come by to check us out.” § Stonewall Wine & Spirits is located at 1294 Dryden Road. Hours are 10 a.m. To 10 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Their phone is 607-3390200, and they’re on Facebook at facebook. com/stonewallspirits.

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Big Red Anchor Store New branch of The Cornell Store opens on the Commons

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new Cornell Store on the Commons opened on Thursday, June 9, with all of the ribboncutting and cookie-plate fanfare usually associated with a store opening downtown.

The store came together over the last seven months, with the lease signed just over 60 days before opening, according to Fred Piccirilli, director of The Cornell Store. Piccirilli now directs six locations offering Big Red merchandise, along with Cornell Print Services.

“I got this delightful and surprising call from [Phyllisa DeSarno, deputy director of economic development for the City of Ithaca], asking ‘Do you want to open a store on the Commons,” Piccirilli

Branch manager Jody Marnell (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

said, “and to her surprise, I think, I didn’t say no.”

Piccirilli said The Cornell Store was not actively looking for new locations at the time, with its most recent opening being in the Weill medical school library in New York City. The Roosevelt Island campus, down the line, might be another location, but there are not plans for that as of yet, Piccirilli said.

DeSarno said that there was talk “about needing another anchor store on this corner of The Commons.”

“There was a little bit of whispering about a national brand, but as much as I like donuts, we have our own national brand here in Cornell University,” DeSarno said. “We didn’t need The Limited or The Gap.” The store’s location at 142 W. State St., on the north side and west end of The Commons along North Cayuga Street, has been vacant for about two years, since Evolution, a boutique clothing store, moved down the block. Abdul and Emma Lou Sheikh, former proprietors of the

House of Shalimar, own the building, and in 2015 were in talks with Dunkin’ Donuts about putting a coffee shop there before negotiations fell through. [See “Will There Be Dunkin’ on the Commons?” Sept. 2, 2015, for more on that story.]

City planning director JoAnn Cornish said she was at the Shops at Ithaca Mall

last winter, and had the thought that there should be a Cornell Store downtown.

“I told Phylly, could you make some calls, and she made it happen,” Cornish said. “For how cities work, this happened very, very quickly.”

According to Jody Marnell, The Cornell Store’s branch manager for two years, construction took about a month, and setting up the retail displays was all done in the last week and a half before opening.

Piccirilli, a retail lifer who managed Stanford University’s operations for eight years, said that The Cornell Store’s locations at the mall and on campus are doing fine, but the locations “seem to have a different clientele.” People going to the mall are driving there, he said; people

on campus are on campus for a specific reason, like visiting family.

“Our store on campus is great, but it’s not the most convenient if you want to drive up there to Collegetown and park,” Piccirilli said. “I’ve been in Ithaca four years and live downtown and love the convenience. Being Californian, I only drive on the weekends.”

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Retail As An Experience New book describes how to get people to buy, not just shop

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t is acknowledged that tourists are now looking for experiences when they travel, but in Shops That Pop! authors Pamela Danziger and Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti make the case that shoppers are looking for experiences too. Danziger makes a clear distinction between what people need and what they want, as well as why people shop versus why people buy things.

The retail establishments that are Danziger’s focus sell merchandise that people want, not what they need. But need is one of the things that turns a shopper into a buyer, along with product features, affordability, and emotion. She evokes psychologist Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs to make it clear that when it comes to shopping we are talking about more than food and shelter. At the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy are physiological and safety needs, the ones that most of us think of when called upon to define the word. But boutique retailers are more concerned with the next three levels: the need to belong, the need for esteem, and (Maslow’s trademark) the need for self-

actualization.

Danziger is explicitly interested in describing the post-Great Recession marketplace, but she is mindful of longerterm economic trends. “The middle class has lost a tremendous amount of discretionary income,” she said. “Retail depended on that [demographic], so now they have to attract more affluent shoppers.”

In the immediate aftermath of the recovery from the recession (officially place in 2009) big box retailers did well, according to Danziger. “People were in shock and they had less money,” she said, “and a lot of specialty stores closed. We are now seven or eight years out and now we are looking at those who survived. They’re the best and brightest. We study them to find what made them survive.”

Danziger founded Unity Marketing in 1992 and is the author of several books on marketing, all research based. She believes that some retailers got hung up by continuing to focus on what people need. “But now people get what they need by going to the internet,” said Danziger.

Marketing consultant Pam Danziger (Photo provided)

“Shopping is different than buying.”

By making shopping a memorable experience, bricks-and-mortar retailers give people something they can’t get on the internet.

The marketing expert cites the work of psychologist Thomas Gilovich (“To Do or to Have”; in part based on Erich Fromm’s To Have or To Be [1976]), which found that things don’t make you happy, experiences do.

“We get used to things,” she said,

“and then we don’t notice them anymore.

Experiences make memories that create happiness.” It is up to retailers, Danziger said, to create happy memories.

In Shops That Pop! Danziger and Lorenzetti move between exposition of the ideas behind successful retailing and examples of stores that are practicing good retail; there is a list of 17 in the back of the book, including all their contact information. They are in big cities (New York and Atlanta), small cities (Sante Fe and Charleston, South Carolina) and completely out of the way (Sharon Springs, New York and Mohnton, Pennsylvania).

The only business you are likely to have heard of is Beekman 1802 in Sharon Springs. Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge started out making their own soap, won The Amazing Race 2012, a reality competition show, and hit the big time.

“Our goal in creating this Mercantile was to create a destination location,” said Ridge, “a real flagship store, that people visiting the area have to see, like when you are in Vermont, you go to Orvis or in Maine, you go to L.L. Bean.”

Many of the other stores that Danziger and Lorenzetti describe are nowhere near this flamboyant. “Recently my husband and I were in Cape May [New Jersey],” said Danziger, “and he bought a hat.” The marketing consultant said the shop was small and sold accessory items, but the owner was there behind the counter and was very excited about her merchandise. Her husband’s straw continued on page 16

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thought he would also have to follow the Sciencenter example and have to start paying some employees hourly. He did not like the idea of introducing a time clock to his workplace, which he predicted would entirely change the mood.

As is the case with many non-profits, much of PRI’s revenue comes from donations and grants. In contrast, INHS earns a significant amount of money through the collection of rents at their retail properties and through being a lender to folks who are purchasing their properties.

“We get some donations from business and industry,” said Mazzarella, “but it isn’t a majority of our budget. We get federal grant money, but it doesn’t go toward salaries; it pays capital expenses.”

He compared INHS to the Racker Centers. “They have so many employees and they’re on a 24-hour work schedule,” he noted. “It’s an entirely different story. We’re in a different business than a lot of nonprofits.”

Tavares urged small business owners and not-for-profit directors to seek out the chamber of commerce for direction and she noted that there are already links available at the DOL website that answer a lot of questions.

She is upset that the overtime rule change is being implemented without any tapering upward. “The federal minimum wage should have tracked the economy,” Tavares said. “We need policies that address these issues; I would have been in favor of something that was more graduated.” §

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us,” said Allmon of the DOL rule, “although I of course applaud the social good that it does and support the overarching goal.”

PRI has 24 full-time staff members and all of them are exempt from overtime under the current rule. The institution recently did an in-house survey and found that the staff was averaging a 48-hour workweek, which was less than a similar survey found 10 years ago. In addition, demands on staff time vary seasonally, with the summer being a long workweek time of the year.

Allmon admitted that he did not see the rule change coming. “It came to my attention about a month ago in, of all places a faculty meeting”—he is also a professor in the Cornell Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences—“because it was announced that the salaries of all post-doc[toral fellow]s would be raised to $47,000.”

Allmon then spoke with Charley Trautmann, the director of the Sciencenter, and found that his board had advised him to change his employee compensation structure three or four years ago. Many Sciencenter employees were reclassified to become hourly-wage earners.

At PRI 25 percent of the employees make more than $47,000. “We’ll raise some salaries,” said Allmon, “and we’ll pay some overtime, although we never have before.

One thing that is unavoidable though is that we’ll lose productivity.” The director

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hat was beat up. The shop owner spotted Danziger’s husband as “a hat guy” and told him the story of a particular hat she had for sale. It was made of a special material that resembled a straw hat, but it could survive being out in the rain. “Now it’s his Cape May hat,” said Danziger.

These are businesses that are appealing to neither bargain hunters nor the one-percent; the customers need only have discretionary income. Danziger used the example of a French press (to make coffee). You can buy one at WalMart for $10 or you can buy one from WilliamsSonoma for $150, but the stores in Shops That Pop! are selling them for $30 or $40 and hoping to make the purchase memorable so that you will return to by a waffle iron too.

Danziger said a college town has a demographic that presents a particular challenge. “Generally students are not rich, or at least they have a diversity of income,” said the Penn State graduate, “so it is your year-round residents that support you.

Faculty make good money, but they’re not rich, and they are far less materialistic than most people. They have actually chosen not to be rich, and this leads to a focus on quality of life.”

Shops That Pop! is published by Paramount Market Publishing here in Ithaca. The company run by James Madden and Doris Walsh that grew out

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“The audience for Pam’s book is primarily shopkeepers,” said Madden, “but the secondary audience is chambers of commerce and business associations, who we hope will start thinking about this kind of thing.”

Madden cited Red Feet, the wine merchant on First Street in Franklin Market. “You don’t just buy wine there,” he said. “You learn about wine; there are maps on the walls showing the wine regions and they think about presentation there. Dewi [Rainey, owner of Red Feet] is really innovative about flow time; she has midday specials for people out at that time of day. It doesn’t have to be a bargain place.”

Walsh said that “shops that pop” will be part of the revitalization of downtowns and cited the example of the Beekman Mercantile in Sharon Springs, outside Utica. § See paramountbooks.com for more information on Paramount Market and unitymarketingonline.com for more information about Pamela Danziger. businessbriefs contin u ed from page 15

Campaign Chair Lynnette Scofield, owner of the William Henry Miller Inn and a longtime supporter of United Way. At the Campaign Celebration, UWTC volunteers and staff reflected on the challenges and successes of a strong and exciting campaign.

The Celebration began with introductions by current board chair Kim Swartz and a report from Community Investment Committee co-chair Scott Keenan. Scott described how the committee seeks to understand community conditions and invest in programs, initiatives, community change and capacity building efforts that focus on education, income and health.

Among the highlights of the program was a showing of ‘The Honest Beauty Ambassadors Project’ video by Lehman Alternative Community School students, Ilana Wallenstein and Marlena Doerr, who developed the project under UWTC’s Youth Venture program.

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tevie Wayne works every day at mastering the art of songwriting.

“Every time I write a song, I’m getting better at writing songs,” Wayne said one day over lunch at Diamond’s Restaurant. “You just keep doing it. That’s why Picasso kept painting, when he was all broke, and van Gogh, not to compare myself to those greats.”

Wayne has played, gigged, and busked all around Ithaca since arriving in town from Hartford, Connecticut in 1982. He’s written hundreds of songs over his life, and recorded over 90 of them since 2014. On Saturday, June 18, starting at 8 p.m., Wayne will be holding a record release party for his eighth CD, Sappy Love Songs, at The Movie Poster Store, 135 The Commons.

Sappy Love Songs is his favorite album to date, Wayne said, written for no one else but himself: “They’re all true stories, true songs.

You’ve got to Hollywood it up a little, make it rhyme … They’re simple songs, old-fashioned love songs, boy/girl stuff. I broke her heart, that kind of thing, without the bitching and whining country thing. You know, ‘My best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.’”

Wayne finishes every song he begins writing. He always works in paper and pencil; sometimes it’s a phrase that comes to him first, sometimes it’s a melody or a chord progression.

“Even if a song sucks, I want to hear it finished. You keep going and then you’re done and say ‘Oh, that’s mediocre at best.’ You throw it out the window and start again. Sometimes you take a melody, and you find a new story.”

Wayne’s ideal song is not that of the Scandinavian hitmakers of modern pop, repeating the same phrase over and over on

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top of an invariable beat. Nor is he a fan of lengthy epics, 12- or 16-verse songs that take 10 minutes to play on stage.

“Can you condense the story into 45 words. Maybe 60 at most? That’s how you know you’re a songwriter. Can you make every word rhyme with the three before it? Can you make it not personal, so it applies to everyone?”

Wayne aims for a song that clocks in somewhere in the three to four minute range, once the radio and record industry’s preferred length.

“The Beatles could get away with ‘Hey Jude,’ at seven minutes and 11 seconds, because they were the Beatles. And “In-A-Gadda-DaVida,” they got away with it because it was so good. Or everyone was taking acid, so everyone thought it was great.”

Wayne might figure out “90 percent of the melody and chords” on the first day of working out a song; he’s “learned to be patient” because “the words might take a year.”

Despite his patience, Wayne has been prolific since spring 2014, writing more than 100 songs and recording eight CDs. Wayne has another album’s worth of “conscious” songs ready to record that he’s written for the “Spirit Speaks” musical gathering that plays Thursday nights at Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar. He intends to call it Spare Change, after a song he wrote about the homeless. The Middle Eastern refugee crisis was on Wayne’s mind during our luncheon, after he watched the president of Kurdistan talking about feeding “a million eight” refugees on cable news that morning.

“How do I want to be remembered?”

Wayne said. “I’m not in it for the party. I’m in it for the duration. Maybe one of my songs will change something; maybe you won’t throw a

Stevie Wayne playing on the commons (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

piece of paper on the ground. Maybe you’ll stop smoking cigarettes. Songs can teach people in certain ways they don’t even realize it.”

At Sacred Root on a recent Thursday, Wayne played through many of his new songs in the former Elks lodge basement. He writes out his compositions with chord changes and sometimes-melodic notation for other players; one of the new songs about an unexpressed longing, “Girl On The Bus,” took on an extra lonesome twang with mandolin and harmonica supporting Wayne’s acoustic guitar: It isn’t always easy or as perfect as it seems in your mind I want to fall in love someday but I guess this ain’t my time.

Recording is not something into which Wayne puts the greatest effort. With the technical support of John “Wiz” Causey, Wayne records guitar and vocals through one microphone straight into a laptop. He’s never bothered to release two of his CDs: “One is really bubblegum, and the other is mediocre, not something I’m really proud of.”

Wayne distributes his work on burned CDs with do-it-yourself album covers. Friends take the photographs and help to obtain the CDs and cases. Wayne’s brother Theo Tillson designed his latest album cover, and brother Tim shot and posted his most recent video on YouTube for “Who You’re Dreaming Of ” [search “StevieWayne57”]. Wayne sells CDs while playing on the Commons, but has a penchant for giving them away. It was his mother Coraline, who recently died, and father continued on page 23

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An open secret is abstraction’s strong local presence. This month, two of Ithaca’s most interesting exhibitions spaces are showing leading local abstractionists.

Corners Gallery has mounted “OneTwoThree,” featuring Ruth Sproul (through June 30), while the Eye Gallery presents “Spring Loaded,” featuring Melissa Zarem (June 26). Both artists incorporate drawing media into their paintings, enlivening their expressionism with intimate doodling.

This is Sproul’s third exhibit at Corners. (Zarem has shown there as well, notably last year with her collaborator Elise Nicol). Her current show is so named for her exploration of diptych and triptych formats alongside self-standing

paintings. All are on wooden panels, typically upright. For her multi-panel pieces, they have been conjoined side-byside in box frames.

Sproul uses both oil and acrylic— sometimes together—along with ink and crayon. Her mark-making is eclectic: expressionist smears, clean blocks of color, and confetti-like black lines. Her color here is brighter, more endearing than in the past.

Two small triptychs, Fields and Sky and Swab, suggest landscape in their colors, layering, and helter-skelter energy.

Sproul’s Bookmarks Project consists of three large, white-painted panels, lined with a grid of upright paper “bookmarks” of various sizes. She shares her bibliophilia with another Corners artist, Barbara Page, whose series of altered library charge cards has a similar pastiche quality.

While even Sproul’s most compelling works have an ungainly quality, Zarem’s meet you more than half way.

Her mixed media works on paper blend painting and drawing in a layered

hybrid of archaeological complexity. Taking advantage of paper’s inherent generosity as a surface, she stirs together acrylic, gouache, ink, and chalk. Her pieces combine the sort of raw gestures and drips that one associates with midcentury abstract expressionism with intricate hatches and doodles closer in general spirit to the old master drawing or print—I think of Leonardo’s late Deluge drawings, intricate phantasmagoria of apocalyptic floods.

In the last few years, Zarem has been conspicuously successful by the standards of local art. A busy schedule of exhibits at various local and regional venues was capped last summer by her inclusion in “Locally Sourced,” an 11-artist survey of Ithaca artists at Cornell’s Johnson Museum. Her work was a highlight of that show and Melissa Zarem’s “Unironed Will” (Photo: Provided) was subsequently acquired for the museum’s permanent collection.

Impure, ingratiating, different scales, with the smallest pieces and deeply exuberant, Zarem readily holding their one. paintings are both sophisticated and easy Unironed Will is an upright painting, to like. Her work at eye, most of it framed a few feet in height, dominated by behind glass, demonstrates her range— vertiginous loops and tangles of black and her capacity to take a familiar lexicon of white ink and paint. Patches and spots marks and keep combing them in new of bold red and Indian yellow—and faint ways. The exhibit juxtaposes works at clouds of pale yellow and dirty gray—add to the sense of epic. As they do elsewhere, nearly microscopic white hatches and Come join us at the dashes suggest foam. Subtle vertical striations, drawn and dripped, suggest gravity and weight.

Zarem is just as compelling when th her pieces are small. Murmuration, a tiny square, seems to have nearly as much going on as anything here. Diving Block is an upright strip with Rothkolike patches of color in the background: stormy dark gray above and milky white below. Smaller patches of magenta and greenish ochre punctuate the top half while compact scribbles of black ink do the same at the bottom—the vaguely grid-like overall patterns suggests writing or musical notation.

In a characteristically playful move, eye Gallery mastermind Julie SimmonsLynch has published a coloring book, Spring Loaded. Four square-shaped black-and-white ink drawings made for the book translate Zarem’s style into something dry and linear. They’re charming but they’re begging to be colored in—not necessarily within the lines.

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Raging Through the Strings The Space Between Bluegrass band pushes form to the edge

Eclectic rockers play new Syracuse venue

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By Ru dy G e rson

he Notorious Stringbusters have been making “unapologetic” bluegrass music for something like 10 or 12 years. In the tangle of different band combinations, banjo player Rylan Broadwell can’t quite extract the date of the Stringbusters’ origin. Depending on their personnel, they sometimes appear as the Flying Broadwell Brothers or the Jilly Talls, and Ash is in at least four other bands.

“We play loud and fast,” said Broadwell, who normally shares the stage with his brother Ash on guitar and Dion Bor on string bass with Jill Ahouse on ukulele at about every fourth gig. “We’ve been asked to unplug, when we weren’t actually plugged in.”

It is this propensity to pound away at their instruments and set up something of a maelstrom that gives the band its name. “Ash breaks the most strings,” said his brother. “I remember one gig where he broke all six strings, I broke four, and the mandolin broke two. Ash was the only one who had replacement strings. That was an interesting night.”

Why play with such exuberance? “It’s a lot of fun,” said Ry. “People enjoy it; it seems to flood out into the audience and we get a lot of foot stomping.”

The band’s repertoire includes bluegrass standards, but also covers of non-bluegrass songs that the band has rearranged as bluegrass songs. “Which Beatles song do we play?” Ry asks his boomer father Chris. “I’ve just seen a face …” Chris begins to sing back to him.

“Right,” said Ry. “We had harmonies, and of course the instrumentation is different, and we change the beat slightly.” Punk (and post-punk) songs are the easiest to “transfer,” he said, citing Weezer and Offspring songs as examples. “They’re already so simple,” said the banjo player.

When called upon to play the Beatles’ “I Will,” at Ahouse’s wedding, she insisted that they do the Alison Krauss arrangement of it, which the Stringbusters found they couldn’t quite bring themselves to do. “It’s hard not to put that steady bluegrass beat on it,” he said. “Some songs just don’t work.

You’ll get to the point where you say, ‘Why don’t we just write a new song?’”

In an old-time town, why did the Broadwells and Bor settle on bluegrass?

“My brother and a friend of his were into rock,” recalled Ry, “and then they were into the Dead, which is a rock band with a bluegrass background, and it was a slippery slope from there.” Ry just wanted to play with them, so he put down his guitar and picked up that essential bluegrass instrument, the banjo, and found, “I could just play it,” he said, shrugging.

“We have a really good time,” said Ry.

ack in January, rumors of a summer for their unpredictable sets that keep their Dave Matthews Band tour were tight studio tracks sounding fresh and spreading like wildfire, so all of alive every time. South African-born Dave us upstate breathed a deep sigh of relief Matthews leads the band into otherworldly when an official announcement arrived arrangements while epically ambidextrous in which Dave and crew confirmed they’d Carter Beauford keeps the beat tight be coming to Syracuse’s newest venue: and the toes tapping on percussion. Fun Lakeview Amphitheater. While Ringo Starr fact: Beauford is a leading open-handed & His All Starr Band drummer who has officially opened the perfected a style made amphitheater earlier in popular by ‘60s-era jazzJune, this Wednesday fusionist Billy Cobham, June 22, DMB’s sevenamong others. man caravan will be That Dave Matthews Band has not released a effectively christening studio album since their one of upstate’s most 2012 Away From the breathtaking lakefront World matters little. They venues that promises to are veteran performers, be a staple for all things selling more than 30 musical and glorious in million albums. Known the coming years.

The band is for hits “Ants Marching,” “Satellite” and “Too notorious for their Much,” DMB can boast as lengthy summer tours the first band in history to and even lengthier live have six consecutive studio shows. Endless summer Dave Matthews (Photo: Provided) albums debut at No. 1 on days lead up to their the Billboard 200. They endless sets, many of which are available for repeated listening promise to bring the fire during their twoand viewing in their cache of archived sets this week. That’s the good news. The shows (for beginners, take a peek at Live at bad: they are taking a hiatus from touring Red Rocks (8.15.95) and Live at Piedmont in 2017. The ugly: the show is officially sold Park (9.08.07)). out, but tickets are still available through Masters of improvisation, the members third-party vendors online. of a band which include a violinist, a continued on page 22 saxophonist, and trumpeter are known

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“We do a couple of ballads every night that slow it down a bit. They have a borderline old-time sound to them.” The Stringbusters solo as bluegrass bands must, but they send it around quickly among the band members, with no one going on at length.

“We keep it as short as we can,” the banjo player said, “maybe about the length of a verse to mix things up. Most of the songs are really short without solos, and we tend to avoid them for long songs.”

The Stringbusters have never bothered to put on a CD, except demos that they give to venue owners to get a gig. Neither do they have a site where you can download their music; you just have to go see them.

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Getting lost in the abyss in a wave of post metal

By Chr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton RLYR, Twin Lords, The Amber Drift, ERRS, Monday, June 20, The Chanticleer Loft

RLYR is an instrumental band, and like jazz and classical music the band has a unique syntax: a language and relationship that is distinct, abstract, and dependent hicago sits at the edge of the great upon communication. Their music feels and vast infinity that is the western real: like you can physically touch the United States. Once you drive through this sprawling industrial behemoth sound, open it up, and spread it into the passing wind. “This thing, RLYR, we didn’t of a city you reach a sort of gateway to really pre-meditate anything, we just the expansive western sky, and a certain started playing, “ de Brauw explained. “All perplexing veil is lifted. Massive, farof the songs began as small improvisations reaching, and never-ending, the celestial that grew from there. We honed them in sphere is opened wide as you make your time with no specific influence. It was all way west, where the American dream lies about each other, our musical relationship, ahead: spacious, unbounded, and light. and what we brought as Perhaps this is why a collective group. The so many bands from music is the medium in Chicago possess which we communicate.” such distinctive Post metal, or post and characteristic rock, are genres that structures. These are usually attached to bands exist in a the sound that RLYR sort of transitional makes. The music is dimension: able similar in certain ways to appreciate the to de Brauw’s other band crowded insanity Pelican—who along that is the East, while with Russian Circles, simultaneously being Red Sparrows and Isis, able to reciprocate, really spearheaded the comprehend, and instrumental post metal escape into the great movement—but there infancy that is the are distinct differences West. and nuances that Some serious differentiate RLYR experimental, avantfrom Pelican; and the garde, and aggressive collapsing designation music has spawned in that labels or genre tags the Windy City. Bands Trevor de Brauw of RLYR (Photo Provided) can oft times dictate is like Jesus Lizard, something that drives Rope, Yakuza, The the band’s tendencies. In Atlas Moth, Big Black, Russian Circles, Lord Mantis, Ministry, and a way RLYR seek to show that a label tag is simply an idea: a starting point, and never Tortoise, all call Chicago home. As do the anything to wholly equate to something. transcendent and influential instrumental “I regard post-punk as the first “post” pioneers Pelican. Trevor de Brauw, guitarist sub-genre,” de Brauw told me. “And I think and co-founder of said band, has recently really in a way calling anything post is formed another instrumental juggernaut called RLYR (pronounced “relayer”), which just a lazy way of describing something, especially music. It’s not wrong; it’s actually satisfies the unique Chicago aesthetic: epic, convenient in a number of ways. It can be spiraling, escapist, momentarily trapped, used as a writing tool, and I think in art and wondrous. The band consists of de it can be handy to have a set of operation Brauw, Steven Hess of experimental black guidelines to help break outside of a form. metalers Locrian, and Colin DeKuiper The whole idea of ‘post’ implies that people of the loose and avant-garde collective are rule-breakers, people who step outside Bloodiest: all Chicago bands, and all of the genre.” equally infusing.

RLYR’s debut album Delayer is out “I think Chicago has a real June 17 on Magic Bullet Records. It’s encouraging music community,” de Brauw an epic whirlwind of massive valleys told me recently. “Everybody’s in two or and peaks: spiraling, circular, sweeping, three bands and the overall community and head banging. In many ways it feels really extends to the audience as well. like a jazz record—not in its formal There’s a lot of experimentation and sound—but in its relationship of parts, its encouragement. You have your niche communication, and its central nervous scenes: your garage rock, punk, and metal system. It’s going to be a monumental show scenes, but there are a lot of places where these forms overlap. Growing up here I sort at the Chanti-Loft Monday night. • of slid into a lot of different music.”

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There are sacrificial deaths and a wizard with a secret agenda played by Ben Foster, and flying birds and medieval village-scapes that seem to go for miles.

But without a roadmap or a scorecard, it’s all just a bunch of action, and aside from ’m not familiar with the Warcraft a few scare moments and bits of humor, I video games and novels—the newest sat there stony behind my 3-D glasses, not video game I have is probably Sonic really caring about any of it. If you know the Hedgehog—so I must confess I had the game, I’m sure you’ll come away with no idea what was going on during most more of an impression than I did. For the of Duncan Jones’ new Warcraft movie. rest of us, Warcraft is more Warcrap. Tusk, Odd, that: you’d think that a lifetime tusk, tusk.

• • • I’m certainly not ready to crown Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping the new This is Spinal Tap, but I laughed harder at it than any music mockumentary since Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). (Sorry, Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo.)

This is the first film produced by Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg, aka The Lonely Island troupe, purveyors of SNL digital shorts like “Lazy Sunday,” and it’s an 88-minute hoot. (I don’t Dominic Cooper stars as King Liane Wrynn in “Warcraft” (Photo: Provided) count Samberg’s hilarious Hot Rod, as it was written by Pam Brady for Will Farrell.)

Where Walk Hard spoofed conventional music bio-pics, of watching Hollywood narrative films Popstar is all about the Bieber era of music would keep that from happening. Jones superstardom in the wake of Twitter, directed two really good sci-films TMZ, and Instagram. Samberg plays the previously, Moon (2009) and the underspoiled rotten star of a boy band that rated Source Code (2011). But he works hogs all the credit and breaks up the on such a grand scale in CG-animation band (Schaffer and Taccone) and goes and performance-capture tech for a film it solo, to disastrous effect. Album sales that may only please those who know the are bad, so he proposes to his girlfriend game.

(Imogen Poots) as a press stunt, with Seal For newbies like me, the result is a performing and six very antsy wolves. movie like Spawn that plunges you deep Needless to say, that goes poorly. into a complicated mythology and you The Lonely Island crew gets don’t understand the rules. In video game additional verisimilitude into the film terms, it’s like being stranded watching by interviewing tons of iconic musicians two other guys play a game, but you don’t about the influence of Samberg and his have a controller. mates. You’ll see Questlove, Ringo Starr, As far as I could tell, it’s all about this and many, many other players playing gassy, green portal between two worlds, it straight by enhancing Samberg’s pop one populated by he-men snouty, tusky mythology with glowing tributes. Then critters called orcs (should the Tolkien estate contact their lawyers?) and humans, they cut to Samberg in a music video championing gay marriage that takes just led by King Liane Wrynn (Dominic as much time to remind us that he’s most Cooper). For whatever reason, the orcs emphatically not gay. want to cross over into the human realm, There’s a whole established “Behind and that leads to a whole lot of CGIthe Music” three-act dramatic structure animated warcraft fighting, or something.

(The whole thing looks like a slightly rethat is ingrained in all of us, and like jiggered re-do of one of Peter Jackson’s Spinal Tap, Popstar takes gleeful aim at Hobbit pictures; very well mounted, but every self-fulfilling cliché • we’ve certainly seen it done better—and

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By Peg g y Haine

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In the last decade or Aurora has been upgraded to uber-fairy-tale status thanks to decorative and restorative ministrations fueled by doyenne Pleasant Rowland of American Girl fame. This Wells College alumna swooped into town with an eye to upscale revision. With the occasional bow to historical correctness, she blew a raspberry in the direction of obvious commercialization. Hard by Cayuga Lake’s shores, her touch is seen in the restoration

A customer enjoys the pot roast at Aurora Inn (Photo: J.F.K. Fisher)

of inns, B&Bs and shops along Aurora’s main drag.

The capstone of her work is the Aurora Inn, the cause of a local political brouhaha, now seemingly settled. In summer months, the inn’s dining room serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner to those staying at one of the four “Inns of Aurora,” as well as to a multitude of day visitors and locals who gather around warming dining room fires in winter, and overflow onto the Inn’s patio in summer for lake and sunset views in the clean air.

Earlier this spring, Chef Patrick Higgins and his Aurora Inn staff were invited by the James Beard Foundation to prepare a dinner at the renowned James Beard House in New York’s Greenwich Village. There they offered a dinner of hors d’oeuvres and small plates grounded in Finger Lakes-produced food and wines for a well-heeled crowd who shelled out as much as $170 per person.

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Fortunately, several of the James Beard House entrees are currently available at the inn. A chunk of cold-smoked salmon is the centerpiece of a deconstructed take on the Reuben, with beet sauerkraut, a smear of mustard, and crunchy Russian black bread crumbles, the salmon standing in elegantly for corned beef. The Inn’s house-made lamb Merguez sausage, juicy and spicy, is served on a surprising and delicious smoked sweet potato purée, with a jumble of roasted spring onions, kale, and English peas.

And at the height of their season, foraged fiddlehead ferns and ramps recently made their way into several of the offerings.

A chunk of pork belly we enjoyed at the inn had a smoky crust that resembled the good crunchy ends of barbecued pork, and was devoid of the greasiness that makes many pork belly preparations indigestible gas bombs. It was served over a tender sweet potato latke, with a slightlyacidic cherry chutney that balanced the dish well.

Filled to the gills, we still managed to put away a small scoop of house-made citrus-and-herb ice cream—there’s always room for ice cream. And we took home a slice of a creamy, rich coconut cake (working on growing coconuts here, too).

The kitchen staff ’s triumphant return brings new glory to the Inn, where diners, including ourselves, have been enjoying the food and the view for many years. In addition to hospitality and dining, the Inns at Aurora also offer cooking classes, winter wellness retreats, murder mystery parties, yoga retreats, winemakers’ dinners, and celebrations for every holiday. Coming up, the Inn will be serving breakfast and lunch during the mad Mackenzie-Childs barn sale from July 21 to 24. But that’s another story.

As the heartbeat of the four-inn property, Inns of Aurora, the dining room hosts Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday happy hours (between 4 and 6 p.m.), theatre promotions (15 percent off your meal when you show your ticket stub from and Finger Lakes Musical Theatre or Morgan Opera House performance), and Wine Down Thursdays (when most bottles on their wine list are half price).

They serve breakfast seven days a week, brunch Saturdays and Sundays, and dinner year-round.

Aurora Inn: 391 Main Street, Aurora, NY 13026. (315) 364-8888. Dinner reservations recommended. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/dining

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With a capacity of about 17,000, the venue is beautiful: 5,000 or so seats are situated under the covered pavilion and another 12,000 can find a spot on the expansive lawn, but if Craigslist and Stubhub are not your jam, I recommend making your way up to the venue sometime this summer.

With Dave’s crew being the first of Lakeview’s hopefully (future) long list of sell-outs, it would be worthwhile to take a peek at the rest of the amphitheatre’s 20-plus-show summer schedule. Hall & Oates on Saturday June 25, Phish on July 10, Zac Brown Band on July 21, and Blink 182 on August 23. With a lineup like that, Lakeview will be gaining buzz quickly.

Don’t make the same mistake as I did and

wait to buy.

The light on the horizon is the three more dates fans have to see the American rockers perform upstate. Saratoga Performing Arts Center is hosting the band on July 15 and 16, and Matthews has scheduled a special acoustic performance with Tim Reynolds at CMAC in Canandaigua on July 6. The latter is a sight to see. The two met in Charlottesville, with Dave wanting to join Tim’s band TR3 and Tim refusing, pressuring Dave to start his own outfit. They’ve been jamming acoustic jazz-fusion ever since. Either of these shows offer fans ample opportunity to fill up on your bluegrass-rock and iconic Matthews croons for summer.

The moon will be full, and DMB will be swooning and swaying in the lakeview moonlight. I hope you will find a way to be too. •

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Ted, who pushed him to record his songs.

“My mother said, ‘When are we getting a CD? Now, Stevie, it’s gotta be low.’ You know, so her and her friends could listen.

‘And it’s gotta be slow, because your father don’t dance too fast.’ And my father said the same thing. ‘None of that rock ‘n roll s***.

Make it more country style, you know? So you can understand the story.’”

“I never liked canned music,” Wayne said, sitting in the Commons sunshine on a Friday afternoon. “You hear these records, and they’re all overdubs. It doesn’t sound like anybody is playing.”

Wayne has always leaned toward the live side of things; he started making up songs at 7 years old, and sang on street corners with friends as a teenager.

“Then they were throwing nickels and dimes. Now they’re throwing ones and fives. You come home with a buck-fifty you’d be happy as a clam … back in this fall I made $160 and an iPod one day. It’s better than shining! That shows you the difference between 1968 and 2016.”

Wayne grew up in Hartford, where in his “vagabond youth” he’d shine the shoes of 30 used-car and 60 new-car salesmen on a “Miracle Mile” of dealerships while making up songs. He wrote a song about polishing with Cavalier shoe cream and finishing off a shine with his mother’s nylons called “Pop That Rag.” He also delivered papers and skipped school to hang out at the practice house some older kids’ rock band.

“I’d knock on the door and go ‘Hey, it’s Stevie. I got the beer!’ I didn’t have any beer, but I’d say that so they let me in. I’d have to wait for the song to finish for them to hear me knocking.”

Wayne continues to keep his eyes open for people who can teach him something about playing.

“I watch other musicians all the time— school is open. A lot of people say they want to learn, and they’re full of s***. Most of the guitars that get bought end up in an attic after a couple of months.”

Wayne and three other Tillson brothers moved to Ithaca one by one in the early ‘80s. Wayne played in a New Wave band called The Criminals; they had a parking lot full of people dancing at Ithaca Festival in 1984. For the most part, though, Wayne has played as a lone troubadour.

Nowadays, Wayne limits his hustling on the Commons to mostly Saturdays.

He watches the crowds coming from his seat near the Movie Poster Store with an eye sharp to people who might want a particular type of music.

“If there’s someone coming down in a cowboy hat, I’ll go ‘Goodbye Joe, me gotta go’” Wayne sings, kicking into Hank Williams’s “Jambalaya.” “Sometimes the people in a big group, one person takes a dollar out and then everyone does. You make 10 percent of your day there … I can go from ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ for the kids into Led Zeppelin.”

During winters, Wayne writes songs and doesn’t bother practicing what he calls his “Commons songs,” the covers.

“It gets to be spring and I’ve got to

practice those songs again,” Wayne says, taking a 12-string Alvarez off the rack at McNeil Music and plucking out the “Maggie May” mandolin intro. He kicks into a rendition of America’s “Sister Golden Hair.”

“People aren’t going to stop for one of my songs. I get them to stop. Then I can play a Stevie Wayne song. I play on the Commons to make money. And that’s it … I used to be playing a lot of covers, and a few of my songs. Now I’m playing a few covers and lots of my songs.”

One of Wayne’s ambitions is to make a “real video, like a Michael Jackson video.”

He’s aware that a professional-quality video for his song “I Like My Cat” is probably his best shot at internet fame.

After he fell 40 feet through the roof of

penned so far: “Wish I could say I’m wrong But I’d be lyin’ It won’t be long and I’ll be gone So let’s hang on, see what comes And when the last song’s been sung Paint me a rainbow Bring me a smile Come and stay with me a while Paint the sun shining Through a silver lining Remember me sometime.

“I’ve been at this 35 or 40 years and I’m still mediocre at best,” Wayne said. “I just love doing it. I couldn’t live without it. It’s got nothing to do with getting famous or rich.” • Contact Stevie Wayne at steviewayne57@gmail.com

a house he was working on in Newfield in 2000 and was buried under rubble for more than an hour, Wayne lost his memory, much of his hearing, and broke a whole lot of bones. It took six years for him to start playing guitar again. He started writing songs again around 2007, and by 2014 says he “got it all back.”

Wayne pauses in his playing at McNeil’s to take a puff off an inhaler; he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), making playing as much as he’d like tough some days.

“It is difficult to sing. My lungs are shriveled up like bacon … They don’t say I have six months to live or anything like that, but I’m not going to be old.”

Wayne starts strumming “Paint Me A Rainbow,” the favorite song of his he’s

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6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Folk, Country, Folk Rock, Blues, Singer Songwriter.

Aaron DeRuyter | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Guitar, Vocals, Ukelele and Mandolin.

Robin Burnett | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Folk, Soul.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Local musicians playing from 6-8 pm.

Triple Down | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Jazz, R&B, Funk, Rock.

Worriers, Mike Erg, Eamonn’s Daemon’s, Nancy Babich | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Punk Rock, Psych Rock, Emo, Rock.

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Answer The Muse | 7:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | World, Rock, Folk, Spiritual, Pop. The Jeff Love Band, The Accidentals, The Fall Creek Brass Band | 9:30 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock, Jazz, Gospel.

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6/15 Wednesday i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Richie Stearns & His Old Timey Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Old-Time, Americana.

Open Mic Night | 6:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Sign Ups Start between 6:00pm and 6:30pm, Music Starts around 7:00pm.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Zydeco Trail Riders | 7:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Zydeco.

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

DamodarDas.com.

Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz, and Gospel Music.

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With The Crucial Reggae Social Club.

6/17 Friday Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Acoustic.

Notorious String Busters | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Hive 45, 45 E Main Street, Trumansburg | Old-Time, Bluegrass.

6/16 Thursday Three Star Show: Alyssa Duerksen, Jaclyn Loberg, Lora Pendleton |

The Tarps | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Classic Rock.

Stone Cold Miracle | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Funk, Soul, Gospel, Blues, Rock.

David Pulizzi | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | American Folk, Country, Blues, Rock.

Driftwood, The Crawdiddies | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Americana, Roots, Jazz, Rock, R&B, Bluegrass, Old-Time, Delta Blues.

Doug Keating & Cielle | 8:00 PM | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Folk.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught. Dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

Under Construction | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Wagner Vineyards, 9322 State Route 414, Lodi | Rock and Roll, Blues, Soul, Country, Funk, 50s, 60s.

6/18 Saturday Phil Dumond | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | www.buttonwoodgrove.com Iron Horse | 4:00 PM-6:00 AM | Hopshire Farm and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd., Freeville | Southern Rock, Texas Blues.

Larry Childs & Night Train | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Blues, Rock.

The Small Kings | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Rock, Blues, Pop.

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Nick Andrew Staver | 2:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Rock, Singer Songwriter.

Nervous Duane | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Straight out of New Orleans.

Immortal Jellyfish | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Blues, Swing, Folk, Country.

RLYR, Twin Lords, The Amber Drift, ERRS | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Post Rock, Post Metal, Instrumental, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde, Doom, Sludge. Ithaca Underground presents.

6/21 Tuesday Chicken Fried Fundraiser to benefit the SPCA of Tompkins County | 6:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Music

by Cayuga Blue Notes. Blues, Rock, Old-Time.

Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock. Every Tuedsay with Dan Paolangeli and friends.

Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Mark Baker | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Aurora Inn, 391 Main St, Aurora | Pop, Jazz, Soul, Americana.

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

I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans

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Driftwood, Merkley and Morgan | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Americana, Blues, Roots, Folk, Country, Jazz, Bluegrass.

Composition Be | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Cats Under the Stars | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Jerry Garcia Tribute Band.

Jennie Lowe Stearns | 8:00 PM | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Indie, Dream, Folk, Pop. Stevie Wayne | 8:00 PM | The Movie Poster Store, 135 The Commons, Ithaca | “Sappy Love Songs” record release party.

Luke G. and the Candyhearts | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | 50’s, Doo-Wop, New Wave, Pop, Rock and Roll.

Amongst the Monks | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Fusion, Rock, Blues, Funk, Jazz.

The X’Plozionz | 9:00 PM | Rex’s Italian Pasta, 1098 State Rt.222/Groton Ave Plaza, Cortland | Old School Funk, Classic Soul, Disco, Oldies.

Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

The Mockingbeards | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Folk Rock, Americana.

Wood & Wire Trio | 7:30 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Acoustic.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Dead Night with Planet Jr. | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Grateful Dead Covers. Rock, Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock, Folk Rock.

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6/17 Friday Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.

Vaporeyes, Space Carnival, Teddy Midnight | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Psychedelic, Fusion, Jazz, Metal, Electronic.

William Thompson Funk Experiment, Ampevene, Binger | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Funk, Rock, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock.

6/18 Saturday Stone Thrower, Rig Time, Clover, Saltlake, With Malice In Heart | 7:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Metal, Souther Rock, Hardcore, Metalcore, Noise Rock.

6/19 Sunday Ithaca Concert Band | 2:00 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Father’s Day Concert.

Father’s Day Jazz Concert: Trombone Conspiracy | 2:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Jazz.

Melissa Etheridge | 8:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Academy Award and GRAMMY winning artist, Melissa Etheridge, will take the stage to perform songs from her new album, This is M.E., as well as some of her greatest hits.

6/21 Tuesday Opus Ithaca School of Music Presents: Here Comes the Sun | 7:30 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Featuring Bel Lago Chorale of Opus Ithaca and Opus Ithaca String Quartet. Renaissance madrigals, a cappella pop, vocal jazz, and more.

Film Offbeat Films with Ron Krieg | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/14 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This is a series of 12 films that evoke a director’s independent vision and

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fearless exploration of eccentric or mysterious subject matter. Included are Frankenheimer’s, Seconds, Altman’s, Three Women, Scorsese’s, King of Comedy, Weir’s Picnic, at Hanging Rock, Strick’s, Tropic of Cancer, and 7 more unique films. More info at www. tclifelong.org cinemapolis

Friday, 6/17 to Thursday, 6/23.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Genius | A chronicle of Max Perkins’s time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. | 104 mins PG-13 | Weiner | An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and the landscape of today’s political landscape. | 96 mins R | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. | 119 mins R | Love & Friendship | Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too,

naturally. |92 mins PG |

Lady Snowblind | A young girl is born and raised to be an instrument of revenge. | 97 mins NR | Maggie’s Plan | Maggie’s plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette.| 98 mins R | Iggy Pop Live in Basel | Iggy Pop, an outstanding artist known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, sings at the Baloise Session in Basel, Switzerland, where he was honored with a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. | 79 mins NR | Regal Cinema

Wednesday 6/15 to Tuesday 6/21 | Contact Regal Cinema Ithaca for Showtimes Me Before You | A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recentlyparalyzed man she’s taking care of. | 110 mins PG-13 | Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping | When it becomes clear that his solo album is a failure, a former boy band member does everything in his power to maintain his celebrity status. | 86 mins R | The Conjuring 2 | Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help

a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. | 133 mins R | Now You See Me 2 | The Four Horsemen resurface and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. | 129 mins PG-13 | Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | When their new next-door neighbors turn out to be a sorority even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there, Mac and Kelly team with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down. |92 mins R | The Angry Birds Movie | Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to.| 97 mins PG | The Nice Guys | A mismatched pair of private eyes investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. | 116 mins R | Captain America: Civil War | Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. | 147 mins PG-13 | X-Men: Apocalypse | With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to

defeat his extinction level plan. | 144 mins PG-13 | Alice Through The Looking Glass | Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. | 113 mins PG-13 | The Jungle Book | After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo. | 106 mins PG | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat. | 112 mins PG-13 | Finding Dory | The friendly-butforgetful blue tang fish reunites with her loved ones, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way.| 103 mins PG |

Stage Oklahoma! | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | It’s been 18 years since we visited the prairie and we’re excited to return!

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit classic captures Curley and Laurey’s budding love story set against the rivalry of the farmers and the cowboys. Showtimes and tickets at http://fingerlakesmtf.

Interested in Ultimate Frisbee? Summer league registration is now open, league starts in early June . All levels of experience welcome – show up and play! Go to www.iaua.com to register or learn more.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 AM-, 6/15 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | RSVP nlem1155@gmail.com Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 6/15 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Seminar on New College Admissions Process | 5:30 PM-, 6/15 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A new college application, which will be used by Cornell University and nearly 100 schools nationwide, will be discussed at a seminar on the changing college admissions landscape. Lucia Tyler, a certified educational planner, will discuss the new Coalition Application and a shift in the deadlines in the financial aid process. Info at Tyler at (607)280-1434 or at lucia@tyleradmissions.com.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/15 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Trumansburg Central School All Class Reunion | If you graduated from Trumansburg Central School, mark your calendars and plan to attend the All Class Reunion on Saturday, July 30, at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds. It’s a wonderful event to reconnect with classmates and past teachers. There will be food and fun activities. Mad Dog ’77 band will be performing at 6 pm with fireworks at night. Info at www. tcsalumni.com Theatre Games for Children | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 6/16 Thursday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Registration is now open for an added section of Imagine That, the extremely popular creative play program that introduces children to theatre games. Children will learn and understand storytelling, art, movement and music concepts through guided

com/2016-season/oklahoma/index. html How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying | Ti-Ahwaga Community Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | An ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder in this Frank Loesser musical that provides lyrics with an edge and tunes with a grin. Noted as the blue chips among modern musicals this production is crafty, conniving, sneaky, cynical, irreverent. Impertinent, sly, malicious, and lovely...just lovely. www.tiahwaga.com The Fox on the Fairway | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Join the teed off gang down at the Quail Valley Country Club as they prepare to take on their archrivals, the Crouching Squirrels, in the Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. Performances will run from June 8rd - 18th with evening performances at 7:30 PM. cortlandrep. org I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | This mouth-watering comedy celebrates the story of Giulia, a single New Yorker looking for love and her Italian home cooking. For showtimes visit www.hangartheatre.org Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 10:00 PM, 6/16 Thursday | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Cabaret, Vaudeville, Burlesque, Dance, Music, Avant-Garde.

Ballet Center of Ithaca Student Recital | 7:30 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The performance will be comprised of four short ballets.

Ballet Center Tiny Tot teacher Amanda Moretti will present her Pre-Ballet I and Pre-Ballet II students in two original choreographies with music by Scott Joplin and Tchaikovsky.

Notices American Red Cross Blood Drives | Wednesday, 6/15 First Unitarian Society of Ithaca 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Wednesday, 6/15 Ramada Inn Ithaca 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Thursday, 6/16 Tabernacle Baptist Church 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday, 6/18 St. Anthony’s Church Groton 8:00am to 12:00pm, Saturday, 6/18 Bethel Grove Bible Church 8:00am to 1:00pm, Tuesday, 6/21 Dryden Veterans Memorial Home 1:00pm to 6:00pm.

Ultimate Frisbee Summer League |

Whiskey Tango Sideshow,

Hangar Theatre, Runs through June 25

Silver Line Tap Roon, Thursday, June 16, 10:00 p.m.

Adapted by Jacques Lamarre from the memoir by Giulia Melucci, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti is the tale of Giulia, a single New Yorker who creates masterpieces in her kitchen. Her love life? Well, it’s a work in progress. Join Giulia as she prepares a three-course Italian meal from scratch and recounts hilarious stories of her relationships and dishes she’s cooked. Feeling hungry? Select audience members will enjoy the meal prepared as part of the show.

A swirling artistic collective that showcases dance, cabaret, burlesque, singing, and really cool fashion and design, Whiskey Tango Sideshow puts on a show like few others. You’ll be swept up in a lush dimension of color and daring form as an amazing group of artists continuously dazzle and amaze you. It’s like the combination of the coolest dark circus and hip club you’ll ever go to. What are you waiting for: check this out!

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acting instruction. Children develop their imaginations while building confidence and group skills. Instructor is Camilla Schade. To register, go to www.iybrec.com, write to iyb@ cityofithaca.org, or call (607) 273-8364.

1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/17 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-, 6/17 Friday | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market.

Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015.

Easy Square and Contra Dance | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, 6/17 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | No experience or partner needed.

Must be Lifelong members. For more information call 273-1511.

Green Horse Poetry School: From Root to Blossom: a One-year Course in Poetic Imagination | The class begins on June 18th, and over the course of a year we will explore poetry as an art deeply related to song, myth and the natural world. We’ll delve into Arthurian myth, Anglo-Saxon riddles, the poetry of Rumi and Hafez, the many tools of poetic form and the power o f metaphor. Info at www.

GreenHorsePoetrySchool.weebly.com Unsung Hero Benefit Luncheon | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | To honor this year’s unsung hero honorees — a community person and two high school student scholarships recipients — the community is invited to the Fifth Annual Prince Hall Unsung Heroes Scholarship Luncheon. Lunch is by reservations only; call (607) 327-3064 or email mclarkemaynard@ hotmail.com.

Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 6/21 Tuesday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM-, 6/21 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

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Non-Financial Retirement Planning: Are You Really Prepared for Your Golden Years? | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/16 Thursday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | With Bonnie Howell, Ph.D., a workshop for everyone not currently enjoying a fulfilling retirement. Visit www.hsctc.org/workshops for details.

Love Living at Home | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/18 Saturday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Love Living at Home (LLH) has opened in Tompkins County to help older adults live at home as long as possible. Our programs enrich life and forge connections for new friendships.

Kids Jerry Garcia, the interstellar musician and artist is honored most excellently by the tribute band Cats Under The Stars, who play Jerry Garcia Band tunes. They set out for Saturn this Saturday, 6/18 at 8 p.m. at The Haunt. (Photo: provided) Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/21 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us!

Learning Preschool Bookmakers: Children’s Bookmaking Program | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/15 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A four-part program facilitated by local artist Mary Beth Ihnken, this program will help children ages 3 through 5 discover the beauty of wordless books while creating their own illustration-only stories. All supplies will be provided and children will leave the final session with their own completed book. To register, or for more information, contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

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Community Dinner and Discussion on Childcare Options for the Southside Neighborhood | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 6/15 Wednesday | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain Street, Ithaca | Discussion of early childhood care, share different types of early childhood childcare options (head start/drop in/parent cooperative), and figure out what childcare model best suits our community.

Full Meal Cooking Class: Dinner with Betsy: Greens! | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 6/15 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Dark leafy greens are the #1 food you can eat regularly to help improve your health. Join Chef Betsy Clasby to discover new ways to include greens in your diet. Samples and recipes provided. Registration is required - sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

The Partial Shade Garden | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 6/15 Wednesday | Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Perennial flowers, wildflowers, ferns, sedges, and small shrubs, including some natives, can all be enjoyed in the dappled shade of trees, or the bright light or morning sun found at the north or east side of a building. Examples of a deer-resistant shade garden will be presented.

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Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Through Wednesday, June 22 It’s been 18 years since we visited the prairie and we’re excited to return! Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit classic captures Curley and Laurey’s budding love story set against the rivalry of the farmers and the cowboys. This musical provides heaps of singin’, dancin’ and ropin’ and captures the thrill and pride of the territory becoming the 46th state! The show is running on its last week at the Playhouse, so if you haven’t done so yet, check it out!

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Open Registration: Little Voices Music & Motion’s Songs of Summer | Little Voices Music & Motion is a research based class for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, with parents or other caregivers along for the fun. We sing, we dance, and we play with instruments and movement props to music that varies widely in tonality, rhythm and style. Scholarships are available for all Little Voices Music & Motion classes. Please go to the website www.LittleVoicesMusic.com for registration instructions.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-, 6/17 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and newborns under 18-months-old are invited to join Library staff Fridays for music, rhymes, movement and books. This storytime is followed by an hour-long Baby & Toddler Playtime.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. For more information, contact the Youth Services

Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Bugs and Butterflies | 12:00 AM-, 6/18 Saturday | Roy H. Park Preserve, Irish Settlement Rd., Freeville | Cornell entomology graduate student Heather Connelly will help us find and identify the smaller creatures at this preserve.

More info and directions at www. fllt.org Summer Reading Kick-off Party | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing | On Your Mark, Get Set, READ! At 11 AM listen to the Beauty and the Beast Storytellers, then explore The Physics Bus, and enjoy the balloon creations of Cayuga Twister. Sign up for the summer reading program, get your face painted, enter raffles, win prizes and more!

Nature Journaling for Kids | 1:00 PM-, 6/18 Saturday | Mullholland Wildflower Preserve, Giles Street, Ithaca | Learn about the insects, worms, centipedes and other creepy crawlies that live in the forest as we search for their hiding places. Meet in the parking area of the Mullholland Wildflower Preserve just off Giles Street at 1:00PM. Bring a journal or notebook. No signup required. Contact Laurie (272-8491) or Anna (379-0924) for more information.

Ballet Folklorico de Ithaca | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/21 Tuesday | Old Mexico Restaurant, 357 Elmira Rd., Ithaca | 8 week long session running June 21st- August 11th for youth ages 3-15 years old. Classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 6-7pm.

Krystall Escobedo will be leading instruction. You may register online or email BFIthaca@gmail.com with any questions.

Special Events Strawberry Festival Friday Night Block Party, 5K Run, and Fireworks | All Day | 6/17 Friday | Downtown Owego, , Owego | Entertainment, Wine Tent, Food Vendors. Sign up for the 5K run at runsignup.com / owegostrawberryfestival.com 3rd Annual Golf outing | All Day |, 6/17 Friday | Country Club of Ithaca, 189 Pleasant Grove Rd, Ithaca | The Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes is hosting its 3rd annual golf outing on Friday, June 17th at the Country Club of Ithaca. You can register as an individual or gather your friends or co-workers to form a team.

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our website or contact Ed Moscato at 607-216-1450.

Friends of the Lansing Community Library Book Sale | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/17 Friday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing | Great books at great prices! Children’s books to cookbooks, and everything in between! Also runs on Saturday, June 18th, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. 27th Annual Old Time Fiddlers’ Gathering | 1:00 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Lakewood Vineyards, 4024 State Route 14, Watkins Glen | Runs Saturday, June 18th and Sunday, June 19th. The festival continues its long tradition of Old Time music. Saturday is Old Time day, featuring traditional fiddle music of New York, jam tents, workshops, and woodcarving demonstrations from the Catatonk Valley Woodcarvers.

Sunday is the Nordic Folk Arts day and will highlight music and folk arts from Finland and Scandinavia, including a Nordic jam tent, workshops, and historical displays from the Finger Lakes Finns.

Summer Solstice Celebration | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Celebrate the start of summer at the Cayuga Nature Center! priweb. org/summersolstice 8th Annual All Euro Meet Car Show | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Ithaca Children’s Garden, Rt. 89 at Cass Park, Ithaca | Cars on display this year will range from stock vintage 1960’s, to heavily modified, to the newest models. To show your vehicle, advance registration deadline is Thursday, June 16th at 5 PM. Register at www.cnyvcoa.org. There will be some unique prizes for car entries as well as great door prizes. Contact Matt LeRoux at mrvolvo75@hotmail.com or 607-272-2292 with questions.

Seventh Annual That Old House Tour: Trumansburg | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | A self-guided walk/drive/bike tour of selected houses in the historic village of Trumansburg. For more information and registration, please visit http:// www.historicithaca.org/that-oldhouse-tour-trumansburg or email kati@historicithaca.org 2016 Southern Tier Craft Beer and BBQ Festival | 2:00 PM-10:00 PM, 6/18 Saturday | Big Flats, 3037 State Route 352, Big FLats | The Festival features a Brewers Exhibition and Tasting, Amateur BBQ Cook-Off, Live

8th Annual Euro Car SHow, Ithaca Children’s Garden, Saturday, June 18, 11:00 a.m.

Calling all European Car Lovers!! The Central NY Chapter of Volvo Club of America will host the 8th Annual All Euro Meet. Last year’s show brought out over 80 cars including great examples of Volvo, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz and even Lotus. Cars on display this year will range from stock vintage 1960’s, to heavily modified, to the newest models. This “show & shine” meet is open to any enthusiast. There will be some unique prizes for car entries as well as great door prizes. This is going to rule!

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Airport Day | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/19 Sunday | Tompkins County Regional Airpost, Ithaca | See Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation’s 1918 Thomas-Morse Biplace (“Tommy”) before the covering goes on. Includes the East Hill Flying Club’s Pancake Breakfast.

Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport RUNWAY 5K | 9:00 AM-, 6/19 Sunday | Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, 1 Culligan Dr., Ithaca | Airport day also raises funds for the Tompkins County SPCA, which provides shelter and services to over 3000 animals per year.

The race will fire off at 9:00AM and runners will have one hour to complete the course. Packet pick up will be from 7:00AM to 8:30AM. You can enter the RUNWAY 5k at flyithaca.com/ information/5k. Preregistration is open until June 17th, 12:00pm EDT. Father’s Day | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 6/19 Sunday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Happy Father’s Day from PRI! Fathers receive complementary admission to both the Museum of the Earth and Cayuga Nature Center! priweb.org Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 6/20 Monday | Veteran’s Volunteer Fire Center, 638 Elmira Road, Ithaca | Doug’s will be offering its Doug’s ToGo menu www.dougsfishfry.com/dff_togo/.

A portion of the proceeds will go to Ithaca Flotilla 2-2, Inc., a non-profit corporation dedicated to the support of the Coast Guard Auxiliary in Ithaca.

Art ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Marie Sanderson: The Golden Cap. Watercolor illustrations of an immigration narrative set in early 20th century Netherlands. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Kumi Korf: Sublime is the Color Kumi’s exhibit features intaglios print on Akatosashi paper. The artist states: “It is a magic moment, each time when the dampened paper is peeled off from the plate, revealing the transferred image from plate to paper.

I love the surface of the copper plate, polished, worked, inked, and wiped. | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street,

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by Bryan VanCampen The Fox on the Fairway, by Ken Ludwig; directed by Bert Bernardi; scenic design by Ola Kraszpulska; costume design by Jimmy Johansmeyer; lighting design by Eric Behnke.

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side from my love of mini-putt and the 1980 slob comedy classic Caddyshack—and some love for Ron Shelton’s 1996 links comedy Tin Cup—like all sports, I know jack about golf.

Back in the day, my dad and I found a fivecourse mini-golf empire in Miami, and he really helped me with my short game, but that’s about it.

You don’t have to love golf to love the shenanigans going on in CRT’s production of Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway. This was my first Ludwig production; he’s a prolific farceur whose hits include Moon Over Buffalo (I heartily recommend Moon Over Broadway, a documentary about that play’s NYC debut starring Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco.)

This is a tight little six-person comedy that takes place over two days at the Quail Valley Country Club. Each scene begins with each of the characters stepping forward with a good golf joke. Example: “Golf spelled backwards is flog. Think

on the Commons, Ithaca | Rachel Philipson photographs, “La Habana” through June 15th. Rachel Philipson photographs of the streets of Havana, Cuba. Her small scale photographs capture the intimacy and pace of the streets of Havana, Cuba.

Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Fifteen: Celebrating 15 Years of the Quilt Divas. In celebration of their 15th anniversary, the Quilt Divas present an exhibition of contemporary fiber art by 23 past and present member artists. Works range from realistic to abstract, each expressing an artist’s personal vision while challenging the dimensions of fiber art through manipulation of techniques and materials. | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center) Ithaca | OneTwoThree, a solo exhibit of new work by Ruth Sproul, is on view through June 30. |

about it.”

A lot is going on as we begin the story: a major tournament is just about to begin, and owner Henry Bingham (Michael Schaefer) makes an illconsidered bet with his main opponent, Dickie Bell (Justin Klose), before finding out that the golfer he was backing has switched sides and is playing for Bell.

Meanwhile, Bingham’s goofy new assistant Justin Hicks (Dan Witt) has just proposed to the club waitress, Louise Heindbedder (Taylor Beth Anderson).

It turns out that Hicks is a fantastic golfer, as long as he’s not distracted by any problems, like Louise accidentally flushing his grandmother’s engagement ring down the toilet. Then there’s Pamela Peasbody (Charlie Jhaye), Bingham’s harddrinking, thrice-divorced vice-president and his wife Muriel Bingham (Nancy Kane, channeling Margaret Dumont).

Trust me when I tell you that all of this is established at the end of the first of four scenes with intermission, if not the end of Act One. Lovers of farce not only count the number of doors onstage; they also know that much of the first half consists of setting up all the dominoes. It’s after intermission that everything goes.

So that’s all you’re going to get from me regarding the play’s story and structure.

Suffice to say, this show is loaded with the kind of ridiculous twists and reveals you never see coming, and once they do, you’re slapping your forehead and wondering how you didn’t see that coming.

The players are all nimble and game for anything. Witt, making his CRT debut,

www.cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Marty Kepecs: Bold in Charge.

Kepecs says “this show of painting, collage, and assemblage, is the result of allowing my mind to go wild with shapes and colors. I think this work speaks to the beauty and freedom of life in the Finger Lakes.”

Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Barbara Mink. Decorum Barbara Mink will be showing works on paper at Decorum Too for the months of June and July.

Best known for large mixed media canvases, these small to medium sized pieces are more contemplative, featuring saturated color achieved by working with various inks. | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too.com Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Spring Loaded, The Art of Melissa Zarem, opens May 6th and runs through Jun 26th at eye gallery on the Commons. The collection will feature many new, never before seen paintings

(From Left) Charlie Jhaye, Justin T. Klose (upside down), and Michael Schaefer , star in “The Fox on the Fairway” (Photo Provided) has a lanky, loose-limbed style that’s a nice match with Anderson’s guileless emotional mood swings. Klose makes a particularly smarmy villain, clad in an ever-more nauseating series of golf sweaters that Ted Knight’s Judge Smails from Caddyshack wouldn’t dare don. Schaefer has a hapless Gleason quality to his clowning, and Jhaye gets all the best hard-bitten, sarcastic bits, and being from Australia, does a very credible WASP. Kudos as always to Kerby Thompson’s

and the black and white imagery from her new coloring book, Spring Loaded, published by eye.

Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Benjamin Slatoff-Burke will be exhibiting his series of abstract paintings through June 30 | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Marina Delaney: 19 Nudes – Works on Paper. A study of the female form through varying prisms: beauty, naturalism, dreams, humor, and modern masters (both literary and artistic). Inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, this show seeks to exalt in the deep connection between body and soul as the essence of all human experience.| www.sacredrootkava.com

costume for his opening house speech, and make sure you stay through to the end of the curtain call, where a delightful surprise awaits you. (I hung around for the Friday night talk-back, and learned that this delightful piece of business is a Ludwig trademark.)

The Fox on the Fairway runs through June 18. Details available at 607-756-2627, 800-427-6160, or online at www.cortlandrep. org. •

Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Mary Beth Ihnken: The Fowl Show. A series of large canvases of different types of fowl. | www.sarahspatisserie.com/ State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Never Before Seen at SOAG. Gallery members have invited artists who have never shown work before at SOAG and on exhibition are paintings, drawings,. soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Victoria Connors: Needle Felt Paintings. Inspired by the landscapes that she sees in her local community of the Finger Lakes region, Victoria Connors creates scenes from Cayuga, Seneca, and Canandaigua Lake. Combining skills learned from oil landscape painting and the techniques she learned creating felt hats, and using materials from local sheep and alpaca farms, the result is a needle felted “painting” that combines texture in 2D and 3D dimensional forms, giving

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Lakewood Vineyard, Saturday, June 18, 1:00 p.m.

Tompkins Regional Airport, Sunday, June 19, 7:00 a.m.

The 27th Annual Old Time Fiddlers Gathering returns to Lakewood Vineyards this weekend. The festival continues its long tradition of Old Time music, and this year, it also celebrates the music and heritage of Nordic cultures in the Finger Lakes. Saturday is Old Time day, featuring traditional fiddle music of New York, jam tents, workshops, and woodcarving demonstrations from the Catatonk Valley Woodcarvers.

Sunday is the Nordic Folk Arts day and will highlight music and folk arts from Finland and Scandinavia, including a Nordic jam tent and more.

Learn to fly at East Hill. Probably the best way to get started in aviation is to first schedule and fly a Discovery Flight. This is your opportunity to see and fly the planes as well as meet the staff and other flight students. Ask all of your questions; 99.9% of people love the experience and can’t wait to get started learning to fly. A Father’s Day Breakfast happens as does the Runway 5K. The whole day’s going to be a blast!

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Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | “Four Artists.” Local art critic Arthur Whitman presents the work of a quartet of diverse and talented picture-makers which includes Madeleine Bialke, Scout Dunbar, Stephen Phillips, and Gizem Vural. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@ tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org | www. tcpl.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Wright/Fisher. Michelle Wright and Jen Fisher will be exhibiting their work through the month of June. | www.wafflefrolicking.com

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BIG Live Animal Collection Renovations Animal Program and Feeding Butterfly Garden Seasonal Opening Educational Activities Hiking, Trails & Bake Sale!

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