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ome more noise arose late last week from the ongoing sta lemate bet ween the Ithaca College administration and the contingent faculty union, as negotiations were extended once again. The two parties will meet on March 8, 10, and 15 to continue their talks. A contingent faculty member, Kurt Lichtmann, seemed to break ranks with his colleagues when he published an editorial in the new student outlet, The Chronicle, and the student newspaper, the Ithacan that questioned the contingent faculty’s decision to not release the raw numbers of their strike authorization vote held early last week. Lichtmann has been vocal, via several op-eds, throughout the process in his opposition to a contingent faculty strike, but also his acknowledgement that some faculty contracts need to be fixed by the school on an individual basis. L i c h t m a n n’s c o n c e r n s hinged on one primary detail: what bar needed to be cleared by the union in order to legally authorize a strike? Lichtmann’s argument was based on an article from early February in the Ithacan, which stated that a simple majority of all contingent faculty members had to vote in support of a strike authorization in order to legally strike. This is where things get a bit complicated. Lichtmann said he was also told by an SEIU representative that a super majority (two-thirds) of all contingent faculty was needed to legally call a strike. It appears, however, that bot h of t hose t h i ngs were wrong. continued on page 5
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s a Cornel l technolog y specia l ist, A la n Heiman saw dozens of computers — whole labs full — discarded all at once, and with frightening regularity, because they had outlived their warranties. He thought that it didn’t make sense they should end up in a landfill when they were needed by so many people and often worked perfectly well, even though they were a little dated. He began asking labs and libraries on campus to donate the machines instead, and with the help of Muna Ndulo, Cornell Law Professor, he shipped more than 100 computers to different locations in Africa. The project was slow to start — each time he made a shipment he thought it would be his last — but eventually he realized the group had enough
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Neiman officially formed the Cornell Computer Reuse Association in 2006, organizing a group of volunteers around the mission to obtain used computers and donate them to worthy recipients. From the very beginning there was a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, in part because Heiman was a teacher in Zambia for several years before he and his wife settled in Ithaca. Cornell has donated about 3,220 used computers to the club over the years. About 50 percent of the machines are distributed by CCRA among
T a k e ▶ ICSD Chief Luvelle Brown will discuss the district’s approach to engaging, educating, and empowering students through its human rights curriculum at the Ithaca Coalition for Unity and Cooperation’s (ICUCME) Dinner Conversation Series on March 7 The free event will begin at 6:30 pm with a vegetarian pot-luck at TheSpace@ Greenstar and all are welcome.
loca l commu nit ies, g iv ing them to libraries, school districts, and other local institutions, and the other half are shipped overseas. Usually computers come with a three or four-year warranty, Leonard explained, and after that they’re considered a liability. “They don’t want to deal with the cost of trouble shooting,” Heiman said. The day we spoke with Heiman he had just received 30 computers from the Cornell’s Mann Library. “I got 30 the week before from Olin Library,” he said, “and the week before that I got a big batch from the Statler Hotel.” “Frankly, I don’t need many more people to donate,” he added. “I need more people to help me get them out.” He’s currently seeking more diligent volunteers like Cornell senior Fiona Chin, who Contin u ed On Page 11
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▶ Cornell Immigration Law Professor Steve YaleLoehr and immigration attorney Sandra Bruno will speak at a lunch on Tuesday March 7 at Cornell Law School. The talk will be 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the Saperston Student Lounge (room G65) at Cornell Law School. Lunch will be provided. To attend, RSVP by Monday, March 6 to Jamie Weber at jaw6@cornell.edu.
▶ The Crossword Competition is coming up soon! Organized by the Tompkins Learning Partners, registration is still open for the event, taking place on Saturday, March 18 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Boynton Middle School. All proceeds from the event go to support the TLP throughout the year. For more info, reach out to organizer Gary Weissbrot at gweissbrot@hotmail. com.
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enues, bringing the college $21 million in income. However, the contributions from Cortland and Tompkins Counties will remain flat while, for the fourth time in five years, the school will dip into its fund balance, this year to the tune of $95,000. In a memo to staff acquired by The Ithaca Times, Haynes out lined severa l decisions made by administration dating back to a February 6 correspondence with the campus community, including delaying the search for a Dean of Instruction, declining salary increases for executive staff, eliminating all overtime and cutting several adjunct auxiliary positions. In addition, close to $100,000 in planned facilities spending has been put off. Haynes ended his memo noting two opportunities to meet over idea s to reduce expenses in other ways and to meet with him directly in order to address their concerns. However, layoffs seem imminent. Early retirement options have been floated to members of the three unions on campus and, after surveying the results, an accurate number of prospective layoffs should be determined sometime in midMarch.
hough campaign season for the 2017 races is still a ways off, Ithaca has its first challenger in the race for a seat on Common Council. Josh Dolan, the School and Com mu nit y Ga rdens Specialist for the Finger Lakes Region with Finger Lakes Eat Smart NY at CCE-Tompkins and a sugarmaker who goes by the moniker “Sapsquatch,” announced his run for Common Counci l representing Ithaca’s second ward – Ithaca’s largest, in terms of total voters – on Saturday. An independent, he will be challenging incumbent Democrat Joseph Murtagh, the second ward’s alderman since 2012 and communications coordinator for State Assembly woman Barbara Lifton. Dolan’s candidacy would be a bit of a rarity as few races in recent years have been contested. (Elections in the city take place every two years, with one of each ward’s two Common Council seats up for grabs each round). In 2013, no race was contested and in 2011 just one race, a first ward matchup between current alderperson Cynthia Brock and independent Steven Williams, was a contest. Meanwhile, one of the city’s seats on the county legislature is now up for grabs: after nearly a decade of public service, Carol Chock is hanging it up. Chock, a Democrat, was first elected to the legislature in a special election in 2007 and has since been elected to two additional terms representing the neighborhoods of Belle Sherman, Bryant Park, South Hill, and portions of upper Collegetown and East Hill in county government. Chock said her reasons for leaving are “medical and personal.” Chock said her aim when she entered the county legislature was to move the needle in Tompkins County, bringing another voice calling for social justice. Read more coverage online at Ithaca.com.
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“What do you REALLY want? I can never tell.” —Victoria Adler
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“I’d ask my Dog, Peaches, if she’d want to go swimming. She’d say Heck. Yeah.” —Dillon Mier
“Why do you like to eat deer poop so much? Is it really that good? ” —Austin Wolcott
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h e n To m p k i n s C o u nt y C o m mu nity College president Carl Haynes released an update on the college’s budgetary challenges last week, it came with the news that there would potentially be layoffs in order to thin out the faculty – the priciest slice of the budget – in order to make ends meet. It turns out, TC3 is not alone. Across the nation, many colleges are facing challenges in their budgets due to a mix of falling enrollment and a relative downturn in the economy. According to an article in the Community College Review – the premier peer-reviewed quarterly addressing academic affairs in community colleges, – from last month, as a result of both a prospective rollback in Obama-era stimulus funding and a general trend of budget cuts at colleges nationwide, more and more colleges find t hemselves need ing to cut back. For TC3, the story is a little bit different. Where many colleges – due to increased layoffs in other sectors, have seen enrollment rise for recessionproof majors, TC3 is facing a $2 million shortfall in its budget due, in part, to optimistic enrollment projections. To fix this, the college is looking to eliminate a number of positions to reduce the approxi-
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mately $28 million in staffing and benefits costs making up 70 percent of the school’s budget. ($8.75 million of that, according to the 2015-16 budget, accounted for benef its spending.) This resembles a move at Corning Community College last year in which the college, facing a drop in revenue-driving enrollment numbers, eliminated 21 positions and added five new ones in an effort to reorganize following a period of economic downturn. In 2011 Cayuga Community College, facing a similar shortfall, went the route of increasing student tuition costs by $260, as well as requesting a 2 percent increase in funding from Cayuga County, in an effort to avoid layoffs. However, by 2013, several rounds of layoffs were announced in order to bring the budget to balance, even despite improving enrollment. In last year’s budget projections, $21 million of the school’s revenues were tied to tuition while $19.8 million came from government funding. $750,000 came from other sources of revenue. However, this year carried with it a $140 increase in tuition (the smallest percentage increase in a decade) and a six percent overall increase in spending. All of this comes paired with a seven percent increase in rev-
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Official SEIU bylaws state that in order to legally strike, a super majority is indeed needed, but only of those who choose to vote, not the entire organization. The official language of Article 10.2 states a strike cannot be conducted unless the effected membership votes in favor of such action at a meeting called for that purpose. Such a vote will be conducted by secret ballot and a two-thirds majority of those voting shall be required in order to approve a strike. So with that language in mind, the contingent faculty would have free reign for a strike, as they easily surpassed a super majority – 88 percent – of those who voted. Technical rules aside, Lichtmann’s con-
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to finish college. She received her undergraduate degree in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University in 1994, followed by a Master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duke. She said this is a crucial time for higher education, and that places like Ithaca have a chance to play an important role in the future outlook of academia. “As higher ed, and our nation, face a sea change of complicated challenges, it’s dynamic undergraduate colleges like Ithaca College that have, in my opinion, tremendous opportunity to push discourse across difference that’s rooted in humanity, cerns about transparency still carry some weight. If the contingent faculty received overwhelming support among those who voted, as their press release said, why hide the raw voting totals unless they presented a less than enthusiastic portrait of the cause? W hi le t he skepticism is understandable at face value, the reason may be more strategic than deceptive. Two sources from the faculty unionization effort said independently that they are withholding the numbers to keep the school’s replacement efforts at bay. Throughout the latter stages of the negotiations, the threat of a strike looming ever larger, the school’s tone has begun to shift towards ensuring students that regardless of the outcome of the negotiations, classes would
in respect, in courage, and in intellectual curiosity,” Collado said in her opening remarks. She was greeted and exited to standing ovations. Collado enters at a difficult time for IC. She will replace Rochon, who announced his retirement under duress, amid a furor over racial tension that had enveloped the campus during the fall and winter a year ago. A faculty strike may also be looming, as negotiations continue between the contingent faculty representation and Ithaca College’s administration. During a short question and answer period, Collado declined to comment on the ongoing negotiations between the school and the contingent faculty, but provided this opinion on faculty unionization in general. “I think that unionization and what’s happening around faculty engagement whether it’s part time faculty or other sectors of the academy are important conversations that are happening nationally. It’s my hope, and I’m very hopeful and faithful about this, that there will be a positive and healthy and inclusive resolution to the current negotiations that are happening at Ithaca right now.” Collado also said while she does want to have a “100 Days Plan”, most of it will be based around learning the area and the community, and attempting to find feedback about the important issues on campus. “I do not have a distinct plan or initiatives that I want to tackle right away, but there are certainly areas of great interest
to me.” Collado’s introductory comments mainly focused on her path to that point, particularly about how her career had been shaped by her working-class upbringing. She said she basically raised her little brothers, as both her parents were working long hours with meager incomes. She was part of a pilot program through the Posse Foundation that allowed her to afford Vanderbilt University, and spoke about how important that scholarship, and the support system that came with it, was to her formatively. “Every single person in this room benefits from a cohort, a mentor, and somebody seeing something in them that you can’t see in yourself just yet,” she said. “It’s how I’m standing here before you today.” Collado further spoke about the values she wants to bring to IC, and how she views her leadership fitting into the campus community. She said she will strive for authenticity and took time to specifically highlight an emphasis on shared governance, and how she feels it is a school administration’s duty to stay mindful of the students first as decisions are made. “Put your seatbelt on, I’m a high-energy person,” Collado said. “We will be busy, this will not be a static opportunity with me. But all of my vision, all of the work that I’ve led has been because of collaboration, and because of a willingness for people to be part of the work.”
continue. In a posting on Intercom, the campus communications system, responding to the contingent vote last week, the school stated the following: In the event a strike occurs, the college will remain open and will be as flexible as possible to help faculty and students navigate the logistics of the strike while fulfilling our educational requirements and delivering the educational experience our students expect. It would appear this is the language that has unnerved the faculty union organizers, interpreting it to mean that an effort would quickly begin to replace those who participate in a strike. Whether these replacements would be temporary or permanent is unknown, but the apprehension can be appreci-
ated. In order to avoid giving the school any type of rubric to prepare replacements, the union organizers don’t want to show their hand in the form of raw voting numbers. It’s a form of opacity, certainly, but whether you think the union’s opacity is justified or paranoid is fairly subjective. For their part, the school’s official public stance has stuck to resolving the situation and keeping everybody in the classroom, contingent faculty and students. A press release from the school said that negotiations ended Friday with a 14.3 percent pay increase proposal over four years from the school, countered by a 43-50 percent increase over five years from the faculty representatives.
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Ups&Downs ▶ Ithaca College For its choice in selecting its new president. Not only is Dr. Shirley Collado extremely qualified for the job but the message sent in selecting her – a woman of color – to the college’s highest post one year after serious racial tensions came to light at the school mark a progressive step in the administration’s relationship with the student body.
Heard&Seen ▶ For the first time in 20 years, the local Kiwanis Club presented the local New York State Park Police with its monthly Frank G. Hammer Award. This unit award recognized the hard work and dedication of the Finger Lakes State Park Police and was accepted by Commanding Officer, Lt. Thomas Fischer on behalf of his staff. ▶ More businesses are coming to Downtown The former Maté Factor is becoming the Yellow Café and, upstairs, the purveyor behind Vegan food truck Star Truck will be opening a fully-Vegan sit-down restaurant, the city’s first vegan café. Down the way a little, Vape Dragons will be taking up shop in one of Ithaca Renting’s storefronts and, next door, there appears to be some more activity taking place. And, in a former Art Supply store on Seneca Street, it looks like the Hawaiian Poké restaurant planned for the place is making fast progress. Exciting times!
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t isn’t that Ellen Grady and other Ithaca Catholic Worker activists didn’t need good rest at home, with a big benefit concert by Karan Casey in March to plan. Nevertheless, six of them camped out on the office floor of Ithaca’s member of Congress, Tom Reed, in midFebruary while requesting a meeting with him to discuss his support for Donald Trump, and Ithaca’s lack of it. Ithaca is overwhelmingly Democratic, but has been gerrymandered by Republican legislators into Reed’s right-leaning, rural district to wipe out its political influence. Representative Reed had not been in Ithaca in months. The Ithaca Catholic Workers decided that this extreme situation of nonrepresentation called for an extreme response, and planned an occupation of the Ithaca office, devoid of its representative, until such time as he appeared. They went to Reed’s office on Tuesday, February 14. “We started discussing a sit-in a few weeks before,” Ellen Grady said. “We chose Valentine’s Day, a day we celebrate love, to protest policies of Donald Trump’s that Reed totally supports, and have nothing to do with love, that are based on fear and hate.” The group went to the office, on E. State St., and met a staffer there Tuesday. They asked for a conversation with their member of Congress. They
were told that would be impossible. They said they would stay until it was possible. Stay, as in not leave. The staffer said okay. He remained through the day, and left that night. The citizens stayed. It was the same on Wednesday, day and night, and the same on Thursday, till 10:30 p.m., when Reed unexpectedly phoned, and soon arrived. Apparently, by then, he was convinced that the group meant what they said, that they would not leave until he showed up at his office. They met for about ninety minutes. The group spoke of their support for the Affordable Care Act, immigrant rights, and non-military approaches to political problems. It was pointed, though cordial. It ended with a circle of prayer, a Catholic Worker tradition. “Reed is also Catholic,” Grady said, “and we wanted to share some of that perspective.” Reed joined hands with the group. They prayed and everyone left. Now the group turns its time and attention to a joyful event, a concert fundraiser, although this too is a serious matter. Members of the group are about to stand trial for protests against drone warfare at Hancock Field in Syracuse, a major center for its conduct. Defense for dissent against war is expensive.
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“There are trial expenses, and a lot of outreach to do,” Grady says. “At the moment we have no money at all.” Some money is important to the group, but so are the community and the artistry of the concert event. Irish singer Karan Casey has performed about a half-dozen of these shows for the group over fifteen years or so. Ellen and Karan first met when Karan was singing with the world-renowned Irish group, Solas, and came to Ithaca. Ellen said, “They did a lot of songs about immigration, which is a major theme in Irish music and history, and found out about the work we were doing around immigration issues, and Karan said they would do a benefit for us if we wanted. Of course we said yes.” Karan has since gone on to a solo career. Whenever she tours the U.S., she tries to come to Ithaca for a benefit show. Her tour this year includes a show at Carnegie Hall on Friday, March 3. On Saturday, March 11, she will be here, at Statler Hall. Karan wrote in an email, “As an Irish woman, I think of past generations who fled famine and war for America. There are too many similarities today not to speak up. “That is what I will be at, singing OurOpinion
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think that any improvements Maguire would make to that giant surface parking lot – an eatery, a brewery, a giant waterslide – would do anything to increase the attractiveness of that site beyond the intent it was built to serve: as a lot meant to sell cars. Now, common sense here clearly works against the viability of the dealership’s proposal. And an inferred understanding of the city’s comprehensive plan – and its vision for the waterfront – totally works against the idea of a car dealership. To the city, we say that’s too bad. Maguire purchased their otherwise unusable property for its fair market value, a property which was zoned for industria l use and had been vacant for years. They’ve been paying taxes on it, and are offering to create something on that property that will go to pay even more. (More than $150,000 worth, according to estimates by Tompkins County Area Development.) And, in their planning process, the dealership’s design team has bent over backwards – almost to the point of ridiculousness – in catering their proposal to fit the vague requirements of the comprehensive plan. The plan will preserve existing viewsheds and provide easier access
the anti-colonial songs, the love songs, and talking up a storm. We need to get out there and make the world a better place. Tap into that time-honored Irish tradition of singing out against oppression. Sing out!” At the start of the Iraq invasion, Karan did a benefit at the State Theater, and Maurice Hinchey, Ithaca’s member of Congress at the time (pregerrymandering), spoke from stage of his opposition to the war, which he voiced almost alone in Congress. New York ’s senators , Cha rles Schumer and Hillary Clinton, presumably liberal Democrats, voted for the war. Hinchey stood alone, but in Ithaca, at the State Theater, he got a standing ovation. The Ithaca Catholic Workers are to be commended for bringing that Congressman to the stage, our current one simply to his office, and Karan Casey, once again, to town for a night of music and speaking and singing out. “It’s the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day,” Ellen Grady notes, a time when everyone can celebrate Irishness, which means immigration, and creative addition to American life. Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly. to the waterfront than exists. It is mixed-use, assuming the affordable housing component of their rather strange proposal comes through. The only area of the planned characteristics for the waterfront the site doesn’t comply with is minimizing parking but, so far from the urban core and situated next to a rather busy highway, it’s not necesarily accessible, probably as much so as Stewart Park or the Farmer’s Market. By any measure, this is as reasonable a proposal as you can get. Maguire, despite not being best for the waterfront, is doing exactly what it’s supposed to be doing. And changing the rules on a private property owner midway through the game simply because you don’t like their proposal sets a dangerous precedent. This city has had a long history of dreaming big for the waterfront and not having much come out of it. A proposal for a large complex on the Johnson Boat Yard site in 2012 was suggested and failed. An ambitious concept for Inlet Island has been downsized. The soils around the lake simply don’t have the strength to support these big dreams. We can envision whatever we want for the Carpenter Business Park. But realistically, Maguire has been the only group to step up with anything resembling a solution. We suggest the city take what it can while it’s ahead.
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proposed State Library Aid is less than what is mandated in Education Law. This decade of underfunding has withheld more than $110M in State Library Aid, decimating library services and ignoring the needs of New Yorkers who rely on the critical services libraries provide. Governor Cuomo’s $4 million cut to State Library Aid must be reversed and library funding must be increased relative to any increase in education funding. Join me in using the online advocacy system offered by the New York Library Association to write to the Governor and the Legislature: nyla. org/advocacy. Cynthia Mannino, Trumansburg
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t must be terribly frustrating for Ithaca liberals to realize that Ithaca is not the center of the political universe, the center of the 23rd Congressional District, or even fully representative of Tompkins County (the outlying towns are nowhere near as liberal). Tom Reed represents 11 counties and Ithaca is just a minor part of that vast area and he is in tune with a majority of his constituents and some Republicans even wish his voting record was more Republican than it has been. Reed has not ignored Ithaca, though it might be better if he located his local office and his town hall in some other part of the County, say in Groton or Lansing where his support is more solid. Since Ithaca is so out of touch with the vast majority of his district, it is surprising that he gives it any attention at all since he garners few votes here. An interesting parallel is Assemblywoman Lifton (D) who is rarely seen in, and has no office in, Cortland. No one here seems to complain about that. Contrary to the local political ethos, Ithaca has no right to dominate or control an 11 county congressional district, it is not the “seat from Ithaca” that is represented. User ‘Cicero,’ Ithaca.com Send Letters to the Editor to editor@ ithacatimes.com. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. We do not publish unsigned letters.
Corrections In last week’s editorial, it was incorrectly implied that the 23rd Congressional District was gerrymandered. While this is the case for many states throughout the union, states like New York have the boundaries of their districts decided by the state legislature and given final approval by the Department of Justice. However, it should be noted there was strong lobbying efforts on both sides in the wake of the 2012 redistricting process. Th e
Week Of 2/19-2/27 By Vaughn Golden Barbara Lifton NY State Assembly Springtime weather greeted Assemblywoman Lifton and all of her cohorts in Albany as well as Washington as they returned while on legislative recess this week. As temperatures return to their dismal lows, Lifton returns to Albany this week where the assembly begins ramping up legislative sessions as they work to amend and pass Governor Cuomo’s proposed state budget.
Tom O’Mara NY State Senate Senator O’Mara didn’t spend his recess playing kickball on the playground and instead participated in a forum discussing how businesses can support those with developmental disabilities and better incorporate them in the workplace. Senator O’Mara sits on the committee on Energy and Telecommunications which will hold a hearing Tuesday regarding the proposed shutdown of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.
Tom Reed U.S. Congress Congressman Reed was a regular on the media circuit last week, making appearances on MSNBC, Fox News and Fox Business usually relating to his highly-contested town hall series on February 18th. “What I gain is hopefully credibility. I also gain insight when we cut through the rhetoric,” Reed told Fox’s Neil Cavuto. The congressman also appeared at a protest outside his Corning office where he engaged in discussion with several of the demonstrators. Reed’s office has yet to announce any future town hall events, but the congressman has been consistent in reassuring that he will be making more stops across the 23rd district including Tompkins County. Reed voyages south again to Capitol Hill this week, where the house considers several pieces of legislation including the SCRUB Act which seeks to fund a bipartisan congressional commission to slash, or scrub, legislation the group deems “unnecessary and burdensome.” In a media call with reporters on Monday, Reed spent a fair amount of time discussing the logistics of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, where he acknowledged he wasn’t in support of “ripping the rug out from under people,” but that the plan needed replacement. The full audio is available on Ithaca.com. Both houses will cut their work short on Tuesday to gather for President Trump’s address to congress.
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ive in Ithaca long enough, and you’ll have heard the name Jason Fane. Ever since he bought his first property in the city in the early ‘70s, the hearsay around Ithaca’s largest landlord has grown into its own mythology. If you believed what was written about him in the Cornell Daily Sun in his early days, you’d know Fane as something of a demonic slumlord on the hills, a man whose housing conditions were so deplorable they prompted protests on East Hill demanding better housing conditions. In Providence, Rhode Island, where he’s working on the approval of a 55-story-building – the city’s tallest – which rivals have been quoted as describing as “the Towers of Evil,” a three-tower complex fit for the Dubai’s skyline which, fittingly, would dwarf the tallest building in the state, known as the Superman Building. Fitting the Bond villain mythos even further, the man has fought Goldfinger-esque legal battles over $850,000 in gold and silver bullion, telling Investor News in 2011; “these bars are mine.” Yet, despite his fame, his money and real estate holdings in Toronto and New York City, the man is something of a phantom about town. Ask anyone with anything to say if they’ve met Fane, if they can describe his face, and you’ll find the number who can is few and far in between. Most know him only by his calling card – the black and neon signs which have adorned his buildings for four decades – emblazoned with his company’s logo and that phone number which has been one of the few constants in a town that has seen many changes in his time. But, there are the stories. Commercial renters have alleged his leases are unfair, if not “horrible,” as a 2014 Daily Sun article so claimed. There are the empty storefronts – no more common than any other landlord’s – needing to be filled, each sticking out only more prominently with those dayglo-colored signs. There’s that protest from the early days, the “strike” of ‘74, where more than 30 Cornell students withheld rent payments until their demands were met. Since, any mention of the name “Jason Fane” has been correlated with that of a bad deal: “No one should rent from Ithaca Renting,” one Cornell student commented on that 2014 article. Yet those who actually know him are somewhat puzzled by this attitude. Phyllissa DeSarno, the city’s Director of Economic Development, had heard the stories even before taking the job a dozen years ago, the myth of Jason Fane making its way 8
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to her while she was a business advisor in Corning in the ‘80s and ‘90s. For decades coming into the job, the storyline had always been one of a manufactured animosity between the city and one of its largest private taxpayers. Fane, in 2016, accounted for close to $2.7 million in county, city and school taxes across his 26 properties, not a small amount by any measure. As such, DeSarno knew she needed to have a rapport with him, to be able to call him up at any time as more of a medium between him and what, for sometime, had been this oppressive, civic entity. Fane, before that time, had never had an invitation to City Hall, he told her, and had before then had maintained very little contact with those in the offices at 108 E. Green St. “I’m not somebody that wears a face. I wear makeup, but I don’t wear a face,” DeSarno said. “I don’t know how to operate that way: what you see is what you get… I didn’t know if I was getting the straight translation from people. I felt like I really needed to chat with him myself.” Today, after a dozen years, the myth seems to have slipped away. “I never in a million years thought I would say this when I came here,” DeSarno said on a recent Thursday afternoon, “but Ithaca is actually lucky to have him.” Who Is Jason Fane?
Few people in Ithaca know Fane better than his longtime architect, Jagat Sharma. Someone who could be considered the architect of modern Collegetown, Sharma, who came to Ithaca in 1970 to pursue a master’s degree, decided to delve into private practice a decade later. Fane was one of his first clients. In town for a while at that point, Sharma said he had never met Fane: when he first answered that newspaper ad, he just knew he was a landlord with a few old wood frame houses on the hills and a bad reputation. Doing his due diligence, he called a couple people to find out what he was like. It was Gus Lambrou, an established landowner in the city, who sold him, telling Sharma Fane was a very astute businessman: very sharp,but also a man who was good on his word, the type to never break a contract. But, Fane had a reputation, someone whose houses had been cited for illegal apartments and had even been targeted by the building department for unsafe conditions. But today, Sharma says that reputation was unearned. “When I saw the ad, all I heard was ‘oh, he’s a slum landlord, he owns this and that and doesn’t do anything… all landlords were like that at that time,” Sharma said.
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Above downtown in his offices in Cityview Apartments, the pride of the Fane Organization, what he refers to still as a “small real estate business,” is painted all over the walls. In his conference room, portraits of his properties, painted by artist Bill Deats, line the walls, waiting to be given away to their next owners. Front and center is a framed copy of a front page story in the Providence Journal, showing his dream for a structure to define the skyline of Rhode Island’s capital forever. “We’ve changed the mental culture and self image of Providence with this building,” Fane said. “People didn’t see themselves, in Providence, of having that kind of building, even though they could afford it. The image wasn’t there, just as in Ithaca; it’s not their image. But as a result of my presenting it, they’ve come to like it.” If there were any one property to define Fane by, it may be one that he didn’t build: Th e
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first big building: Collegetown Court. From there, they rode the first real boom days of Ithaca, ending a nearly 60-year drought of new construction on East Hill by building Collegetown Center and Collegetown Plaza as well as, in the city, buying and renovating the Colonial Building, the Cigar Factory and the Cityview Apartments, where Fane currently has his offices. It was all about consolidating his portfolio, expanding where he knew others would do the same: Fane was simply quicker to the draw than anyone else. “I bought top locations and had confidence in Collegetown and the area near the Commons when others were negative,” Fane wrote to The Times on his approach to business. “When Ithaca was hostile to development, I built elsewhere and when Ithaca wanted development, I built on sites I had acquired earlier. Mayor Svante Myrick has been about the best mayor on these issues and Ithaca is enjoying more modern buildings, higher tax revenues and greater employment as a result.” Early on, simply going where he was allowed to go – upward – was enough to raise eyebrows. “I asked him, ‘what are you doing?’” Sharma said. “‘Everyone says you are crazy.’ And he says to me, ‘Jagat, a building comes on the market once every thirty years. And if you don’t grab it right away, somebody else will get it and keep it for thirty years.’ He just put them all together.” It was during that time where, working with Fane most days of the week, Sharma got a sense of what it was like to work alongside him, discovering a man of endless energy and ent husia sm, a lways looking for more, a lways looking for better. Though his architect often acted as a check to some of his grander ambiGreen St tions, he’d look ove r S h a r m a’s floorplans, pointi n g out t he b e s t and the worst, always finding extra bedrooms where they may otherwise not be found. “He’s 74 years old going on 32,”
“He bought them as they were, he wanted to fix them. But as soon as he bought them, it was his name that was attached to them.” But Fane’s real estate empire, which now spans between here, Toronto and New York City, began rooted in humble beginnings in the late ‘60s. As a graduate student at Harvard but with Ithaca connections, Fane leased – and bought – an old house on the hill with no down payment, the way many properties were acquired in those days. He eventually bought the house next door, and then the one next to that and before long, Fane realized he was in the real estate business. Many of the houses he bought in those days were baggage free, usually on their third or fourth mortgage and unloaded because the owner didn’t want it or had tired of dealing with it. Many of the properties, he said, were approaching 100 years old and very behind on maintenance. He didn’t have a lot of money, but because of the ease of entry into the market he bought as much as he could for what he could get for no down payment. From there, it was just about staying on top of the payments. “Basically,” Fane said in an interview, “anybody who was willing to do the work could get into the business.” In ‘81, Sharma began his career focusing, primarily, on residential improvements to those wood frame houses, Fane’s empire having grown large enough by way of a purchasing boom in 1973 to the point of profitability. By 1985, Fane and Sharma were constructing their
the former home of the Green Café, at 330 College Ave. It was at this site, several years ago, where Fane pitched a building that may otherwise be unthinkable to anyone in the tiny city of Ithaca: on a corner lot zoned for six stories, Fane proposed a structure of 11 stories, a spectacular proposal which renowned development blogger Brian Crandall wrote in 2014; “This will not happen. What Jason Fane was thinking in proposing a 12-story building for the Green Cafe site has everything to do with seeing what he can get away with. The calculating businessman as always, shocking the board and meeting attendees with a massive proposal…my only guess is that he is willing to negotiate down.” But Fane is a dreamer, and he has always had big plans for Ithaca. Ask him today, and he’s just as serious about the proposal as he was when he brought it forward: it’s similar to what he’s attempted to do in Providence, to introduce a city to a self-identity it has yet to discover itself. “That site is iconic, it needs an iconic building,” Fane told Sharma, the architect behind the proposal. “That’s the only big building I want to do in Collegetown.” As the person who probably has the most to do with the state of Collegetown today, Fane might be the only one to do something of the sort. In a 1976 issue of Cornell alumni magazine, well before Collegetown became a canyon of retail and residential space, there was Fane with the vision; outlining a corridor like that of metropolitan Toronto, a commercial and artistic center
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where you could “hear it all happening,” coming about in what even then was considered a time of transition in the neighborhood. What it became, as one Cornellian described it in another issue of the magazine two decades later, was “Ithaca’s third gorge,” a neighborhood almost defined by those who had latched onto the building environment spurred by rezoning. Fane, as its wealthiest backer, simply became the face of it all, something of a scapegoat for the unseemly impacts of progress. It may have been his buildings which served as the trigger. There was Collegetown Court, a landmark in that it was
the first elevator-serviced building in the neighborhood when it was built in the early-80s. Then you had Collegetown Plaza and, probably most iconic of his big three, Collegetown Center, an angular structure of golden limestone and red granite where even the laundry room had a view. “No expense was spared,” a local writer and Cornell lecturer, C.A. Carlson, wrote in the 1997 alumni magazine article. Fane, who grew up blocks away from what used to be Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn, spares no emotion in his affinity for larger cities. The process for approval is less political, he says, more cut and dry than
the seemingly arbitrary policies thrown around City Hall which developers have to grapple with. He said he loves New York City – where he branched out after watching the Woody Allen film “Manhattan,” he says – and Toronto, an emerging market he entered into in 1971. But he owes a lot to Ithaca, a place where he built a business and where now, he is more or less established in: for better or worse. He has dreams for the city, plenty of ideas, and with the policies of Mayor Myrick now encouraging of his brand of development, he is ready to begin building again. But his ambitions, DeSarno says, may be too grand for a city’s identity;
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at least for today. “We are who we are, and he’s not going to change Ithaca overnight,” DeSarno said. “He’d like to go taller than our zoning allows, yeah, and he likes working with big cities because he can go tall and expensive. We’ve told him who we are: ‘we’re Ithaca, we’re 30,000 people, we’re not Toronto, we’re not Manhattan, you can’t put us in the same category.” There may be hints to his thinking in the opening scene of that Woody Allen film, a montage of city life set to the airiness of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. You see a city defined by millions of lives weaving through a canyon of buildings at a scale beyond the comprehension of man; structures that dwarf the lives passing beneath them. “He romanticized the city all out of proportion,” the narrator says, one of several takes on the protagonist’s view of the city in which he lived and worked. In his vision, Fane seems to see Ithaca a similar way, at times in contempt of the difficulty in doing business here but at the same time, still willing to put his money into it. “We all want to be liked,” DeSarno said. “Some of us more than others. Some would even take steps to get there. But when you’ve got a business with a lot of money involved, and you’re paying more taxes than even Cornell… you’re doing something. He’s not an absentee landlord, he’s here most weeks. He goes from New York City, to here, to Toronto, every week. It’s not like some of the people I deal with.” But maybe, New York City is the spirit that drives him. As the narration to start that Woody Allen classic goes: “New York is his town. And it always would be.”
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trekked down the stairs leading to the dark basement of Rice Hall, unlocked a door, and chuckled at the chaos of the jam packed storage room where dozens of computers sit in wait. When the club members are ready to work on them, they take the computers up to a much more organized third floor office, where they wipe the machines’ memories and make sure the proper programs are installed. The computers are marked as ready to go, and when a shipment needs to go out the club will hold a packing party. The computers can often be used until they are up to a decade old, Heiman said. Often problems with aging computers are due to corrosion, and sometimes all that has to be done to correct the issue is to remove the affected part and put it back in, which scrapes off the buildup. The shipping is the hard part because the logistics are tricky; trustworthy, knowledgeable volunteers on the ground at the destination are crucial. The Computer Club has expended a lot of time and effort building a network of such people in Africa. Sometimes the donation of computers can lead to unexpected positive developments. For example, a community center in Nigeria received a well because volunteers realized how crucial it was to the center’s success.
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In 2011, on offshoot of the Computer Club broke off into the separate but overlapping Zambia Community Education Initiative, a student organization that was founded to build a high school in Chisekesi, Zambia, in partnership with the Chisekesi community. Many volunteers are members of both groups. The objective of ZCEI is to put in place modern secondary schools in Zambia that will support rural communities and connect them to individuals concerned with education, health, social and economic development. The group just received 501c nonprofit status in 2014; ZCEI raised $4,000 during its first year as a nonprofit, $8,000 the year after that, and almost $40,000 last year. Last semester, students organized a raffle that netted $3,500 for the cause. Last summer, five ZCEI members were able to travel to Zambia to help build a school. The group sends laptops to Zambian schools rather than desktops because the communities they serve are not on an electrical grid. Computers are crucial to the students, who are required to take online tests before they are allowed to move from the lower grades to secondary school, but according to ZCEI members they have to charge them using either portable solar chargers or chargers fashioned from car batteries. Of course, none of this matters if there aren’t enough schools to house the machines, nearby wells for drinking water
and adequate housing for teachers who live miles away in the sprawling farming communities. “All the government will do is employ the teachers,” Heiman said, “and there’s no guarantee that they will stick around.” To address that issue, ZCEI has paid to make 50,000 concrete blocks, and the first building to be funded by the group is currently being built. ZCEI is also reaching out beyond the Cornell Campus, seeking volunteers from local communities; recently members joined up with the Trumansburg School District, and now the school is a “sister school” to a primary school in Chisekesi, one of the Zambian communities most in need. “It is severely lacking in about everything,” said Julia Leonard, chief financial officer of ZCEI. She travelled to Zambia for the first time recently along with several other ZCEI members. “It was depressing and inspiring at the same time,” she said. “They have nothing, but the kids show up.” “Many of the teachers as well — they’ve walked there, and they’re still enthusiastic about learning,” Leonard added. “There was one that had been working at a primary school that had no teacher housing, and it was 15 kilometers to walk each way just to work at the school.” In addition to donating computers and building schools, ZCEI also purchases text books and sports equipment for the students. “Engagement efforts are a big part of
it,” said Alexis Boyce, Zambia Initiative member. “We’ve been working in partnership with [the locals] so that they have stakeholder status.” “The community has really stepped up to help with the work,” agreed Leonard. “It’s not that we’re having to dig out trenches for the foundation and walls by ourselves because the community members are volunteering their time and helping with the manual labor involved while we were there.” Those who had experience in construction oversaw the finer points of the build while the less skilled workers filled in the walls. “It was great to see whatever skill set they had, it was utilized and went a long way,” said Leonard. The Trumansburg group helped organize a day when Barnes & Noble will donate 10 percent of the proceeds from it’s Ithaca store to the cause. The event is to take place on March 18, in honor of World Water Day. Trumansburg Schools are also hosting a spaghetti dinner fundraiser May 11 at 6 p.m. with all the proceeds going to the Zambia efforts. For now the group will continue its efforts to reach out to the local community and raise awareness for their cause. “100 schools is a drop in the bucket when there are thousands in need, but they are so enthusiastic and appreciative,” said Leonard. “Every drop matters.” –Jaime Cone
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ould eating a plant-based diet be the key to lower blood pressure, lower weight and a longer life? It couldn’t hurt, local experts say. That was the prescription handed down at a recent lecture at Island Health And Fitness Club by Dr. Donna Sandidge, the Medical Director for the Cayuga Center for Healthy Living, and Natalie Pape, a registered dietician at the center. The topic, following a plant-based diet to better health, discussed not only the science behind the benefits of weaning off of a standard American diet, but the feasibility of it as well, slowly working toward a vegan diet or, at the least, one de-emphasizing consumption of meat and dairy products. The main benefit, said Sandidge, was simply stated: a plant-based diet can help you live longer and in better health. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the leading cause of death in the United States is still heart disease and cancer, of which colon cancer, which accounts for close to 50,000 deaths per year, pancreatic, prostate and breast cancer are all partly related to diet and/or obesity. Risk factors related to heart disease and some cancers can be addressed with a whole food, plant-based diet. This knowledge could have a big impact. According to the CDC, 68 percent of dia-
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betics over 65 years of age die from heart disease. Among those with Type 2 Diabetes, where obesity is a contributing factor, risk of death could be lowered 50-75 percent if they switched to a plant-based diet. In regard to heart disease, the famed cardiologist and vegan Kim A. Williams said in a 2014 article in The New York Times that a vegan diet can not only lower bad cholesterol — the type that causes heart disease — but it also avoids the type of foods that can be considered the culprit for other unsavory conditions. “I recom mend a pla nt-based d iet because I know it’s going to lower their blood pressure, improve their insulin sensitivity and decrease their cholesterol,” Williams told The New York Times. “And so I recommend it in all those conditions. Some patients are able to do it and some are not.” Coronary artery disease develops when low-density lipoproteins, or LDL — often referred to as “bad cholesterol” — build up in the wall of the artery causing a narrowing or “plaque” that can block blood flow to the heart muscle. A heart attack occurs when a blood clot develops over one of these plaques. The dietary connection
comes from the consumption of saturated fats, which is correlated directly with an increase in LDL cholesterol and risk for cardiovascular disease. A plant-based diet is naturally low in saturated fat, which is found primarily in meat, poultry and dairy. According to a 1990 study by Dr. Dean Ornish (who has famously served as medical consultant to the Clintons since 1993) published by the prestigious medical journal Lancet, consumption of a plant-based diet as part of an overall lifestyle improvement approach was actually shown to reduce these risk factors tangibly greater than traditional medical methods. According to the study, patients with known coronary artery disease eating low-fat, plant-based diets who limited vices like smoking, took stress management courses and participated in moderate exercise had a nearly 3 percent improvement in narrowing present in their coronary arteries after five years. This improvement was in comparison to a control group following usual treatment, which saw a decline of narrowing by 11.77 percent over the same time. But the evidence didn’t stop there. In another example, Sandidge cited something called the Adventist Health Studies, which examined the lifestyle, diet, disease and mortality of Seventh Day Adventists over time. In the study, conducted over the course of several decades in California, the researchers examined the church’s population versus a matched control group of non-Adventists and found that, because of a plant-based, meatless diet, the group lived 10 years longer on average with a significantly lower risk of colon cancer than the rest of California. Specifically, death
rates from all cancers were 40 percent lower for Adventist men and 24 percent lower for Adventist women, among other ailments including colorectal cancer, coronary heart disease and breast cancer. In other Adventist studies, those following a plant-based, meatless diet had much lower rates of diabetes, hypertension and obesity. The primary difference between the two
groups? Their diets. Going Vegan
Where Sandidge covered the science of a plant-based diet, Pape – herself a vegan for several years – discussed the logistics of actually making the jump to a diet light on meats, dairy and processed sugars and fats, if they are consumed at all. While the diet she suggested was technically a vegan diet, she said she didn’t want
people to get caught up in the “V” word: Pape told the audience to “eat the rainbow,” and eat a diet that could be delicious and filled with a number of naturally sweet and savory foods that are not only effective for fighting disease but improving one’s likelihood to be — and stay — healthy. Pape said that the more colorful foods were filled with immune system-boosting phytonutrients, a blanket term for the
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thousands of naturally occurring chemicals in plants that can interact with your body chemistry in positive ways. She also talked about a concept called “nutrient density” versus “calorie density,” where lower-calorie foods can be consumed in greater quantities than a similar caloric amount of something like oils, cheese or meat. Foods that contain 300 calories per
pound or less, theoretically, could be eaten freely without guilt or worry of weight loss while a pound of food totaling more than 800 calories should be consumed with portions controlled. So how do you adapt to something like this? Pape had a four-part series of steps to makeover your recipes, substituting the meat in a meat sauce for beans or tofu instead of eggs. You could replace your soups with vegetable stocks and broths, skip the cheese on sandwiches and pizza and swap to almond or (this writer’s preference) cashew milk. It’s also an easy fix to reduce your use of salts or oils, letting vinegar, lemon juice, or herbs and spices to boost the flavor. And for those worried about losing protein in their diet from lack of meat, never fear, Pape said: in fact, legumes like beans have a) more protein per calorie than meat and b) the average American already consumes, on average, twice as much protein as they actually need. You could either go “cold Tofurkey,” she said, or to implement small changes in your meals or diet each week until, af ter a month, you’ve grown accustomed to eating a mostly plant-based diet. It takes three weeks to make or break a habit, she said, and this was a way to make that happen most feasibly. There are even websites out there to help kick start your new vegan lifestyle. “Your options are truly endless,” Pape said. “This is a diet of variety and plenty, not one of deprivation As long as you follow the rules, there are so many delicious options you can try.” To close, she emphasized this doesn’t have to be an all or nothing approach: you could always just try to eat more plants.
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down 6-0,” Nichols said. “He fought back to put the match into overtime and he won it 10-8. I was very happy for him, as this was his last shot to win Regionals.” I asked Nichols if his guys are healthy going into the NCAA’s, and he said “A few guys were pretty beat up 2 weeks ago, and some were sick, but we qua lif ied si x guys for the tournament and they’re all pretty healthy. It’s my job to make sure they stay happy and healthy and ready to go.” Client: I asked Marty – who is in his 21st season as the head man on South Hill – if he liked what he saw looking ahead to the tournament, and he said, “The goal, of course, is always to win the national championship, and realistically, you need six guys to do that. Well, we have six.” The NCAA Division III National Cham-
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pionships will be held at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse on Friday, March 10, and Saturday, March 11.
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High gym, as the Little Red boy’s basketThe Bomber women’s basketball team ball team will host Binghamton, who put earned their way into the NCAA D-III the only “L” in Ithaca’s 19-1 W-L record. tournament by securing the Empire 8’s That contest was a long ago, and the Little automatic bid with a 77-74 victory over Red have beaten the Patriots twice since Stevens. The win ran the Bombers’ streak (in the regular season and in the STAC to 13 games, and their 24-3 record gives playoffs). them a lot of confidence entering the The Patriots got to the semifinals by NCAA’s. squeaking out a 68-67 win over Elmira, Congrats to senior Ali Ricciuti on and the other semi will see Horseheads and b ei ng na me d t he Corning ta ke t he tournament’s MVP court on Wednesa f ter scoring 23 day. The winners of points, grabbing six those two contests rebounds and dishwill play for the Secing out two assists. tional title on SatThe Empire 8 urday, at the Floyd “The goal, of course, is title is the program’s L. Maines Arena in seventh since 2003- always to win the national Binghamton. This 04, and its first since is the best season championship, and the 2013-14 season. realistically, you need six the Little Red has With that distinctogether since guys to do that. Well, we put t ion, t he Bomber 1972, and their big have six.” women have earned fan base is hoping the right to host the to see several more first two rounds of games. the NCAA Division III Championship Congratulations and will play Rocht o C o r n e l l ’s N i a ester I nst it ute of Marshall on becomTechnology at Ben ing the leading scorLight Gymnasium on Friday, March 3. er in the history of the women’s basketball Bowdoin College and SUNY New Paltz program. Karen Walker (’91) was gracious will also travel to Ithaca for the four-team enough to make the trip to Princeton to regional. The winners of the two contests see her record of 1,650 career points fall. will play on Saturday, March 4. More More importantly, Marshall’s perfordetails at www.ithaca.edu. mance helped the Big Red beat Princeton for the first time in 18 games, and keep This Wednesday (March 1) will see an alive Cornell’s chances to play in the firstunusual level of excitement in the Ithaca ever Ivy League tournament.
Center for the Arts in 2017
By Nick Reynolds
The Center For The Arts (72 S. Main St. in Homer) kicks off its spring season on Saturday, March 4. For tickets, visit Center4Art.org or call (607)7494900 for more details.
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his spring, Ty Marshal — director of Homer’s Center For The Arts since August 2015 — wants to reintroduce the fresh church-turned concert hall to the region. Over the past several years, the center itself has come unto its own as a truly regional destination. It’s a place, which through careful curation of its acts and the reputation-brewing intimacy of its concert hall, has developed a reputation as the “listening room,” of the community: a venue made for audiophiles and lovers of live sound. They added their first bonafide summer season this year — a departure from their standard winter and spring slate — and wrote in a greater flexibility in their scheduling. Where they once announced the season all at once and waited until the agencies gave the thumbs-up to promote their shows, the venue now seeks to bring in additional acts in between their prescheduled performers. They are also selling tickets as soon as they’re confirmed, even if the announcement comes the week before the show. This helps build engagement with the venue, Marshal said, encouraging people to constantly check back with the center’s slate of events to see what’s new and what’s being added. Rather than to live and die by the main stage calendar. “We don’t wait anymore,” Marshal said. “We are a concert venue, and we should act like one
when it comes to our main stage program: our concerts.” The Center for the Arts is trying to expand the base it engages with. The venue has been looking to widen the genres represented on its schedule (decided in part by its volunteer committee, which helps pick who’s sought out to play) as well as widen the demographic its concerts appeal to, even looking toward bringing in significantly bigger names to raise the profile of the converted church’s 400-seat capacity. “All of this is kind of culminating into us looking to do this year-round,” said Marshal. “Previously, we would kind of quiet down in the summer. That’s no longer the case … summer is concert season, after all; it doesn’t make sense to stop doing what we’re most known for during the high season of live music.” They’ve done this recently, bringing in the likes of Ed Kowalczyk, vocalist for ’90s alternative hitmaker Live, and Dave Matthews Band guitarist Tim Reynolds, each who played solo acoustic sets. Both are somewhat in line with the likes of artists like folk artist Slaid Cleaves, a big draw for the 50-and-up crowd. But what they’re also trying to attract this season are those who have never been to the center before, building
(Top) The Center For The Arts (Below) The musician Melanie (Photos provided)
off of their reach. Their scope has attracted audiences from as far off as — a pushpin map in the reception room will show you — Philadelphia and Ontario. Fifty-four percent of the center’s audiences, Marshal said, come from outside the pocket of Cortland and Tompkins Counties, so an emphasis on the center’s local reach has become a priority point as the center expands. “We want to get new faces and to widen that age range; we’re booking around that,” Marshal said. “But we want to do that without letting go of our roots, which is grassroots and Americana folk. You’re going to see that in the spring season — we’re kind of going heavier on that this spring — to speak to our core audience, to say we’re the
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center you’ve always known.” This slate of performers includes artists such as Melanie Safka — famous for her broad repertoire and soaring vocal performance at Woodstock one night close to 50 years ago — and Cheryl Wheeler, acts meant to reassure core patrons they will “not go forgotten” as the center expands its focus. It’s a womencentric schedule this season, Marshal notes, a thoughtful decision reflecting the state of change in society and artistic expression. But overall, the offerings are diverse, jumping from nights of Celtic rock and blues all the way to grassroots, folk and even opera. “It’s a wide vision,” Marshal said. “But it seems to be working.”
Top Picks For This Season Scythian – Saturday, March 4th 8 p.m. | $23.00-$28.00 (Free for children under 18 or with military ID) In an area with heavy Irish roots and just a mile from the site of a popular Celtic Festival, the Washington D.C.–based Celtic rock group Scythian seemed to be a perfect fit to take their romping, frolicking style to the Center for the Arts stage.
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Founded by local musician Chris Merkely in 2005, this showcase presents one of the more festive, “event style” performances
The first lecture in the Center For The Arts’ 13-year history, the celebrated humor writer and New Yorker contributor will present readings of some of his most
recent works, and he is expected to be a rousing success for the center this season, Marshal said. According to his press kit, the way Sedaris “slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness” prove he is a master of satire and “one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.” Old Boy Records Showcase – Sunday, April 9th, Time TBA | $20.00 for tickets, $29.00 w/ dinner (Free for children under 18 or with military ID, additional $9.00 for dinner)
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New York City and right here in Central New York. In true Nashville fashion, the whole affair will be preluded by a barbecue featuring three BBQ joints from Central New York competing in a “pulled pork slider competition,” each serving up a slider comes with one side and accompanied by a flight of locally paired beer. Melanie – Saturday, May 13th 8 p.m. | $28.00-$32.00 (Free for children under 18 or with military ID)
(Left) Celtic rockers Scythian (top)Author David Sedaris (Photo provided)
coming to the center this spring. The evening features seven acts on two stages and will represent all those on the label, which encapsulates the scenes of Nashville,
Once unknown beyond the Greenwich Village cafe circuit of the ’60s, the now-legendary folk artist (and a performer at Woodstock) will be adding to the growing list of legends who’ve played the Center for the Arts, which includes the likes of Butch Trucks, Richie Havens and Arlo Guthrie. Her appearance also bolsters a strong roster of roots music this spring, adding to a schedule including bluesers Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown (April 1, 8 p.m.) and a folk-centric double bill of Cheryl Wheeler & Lucy Kaplansky on May 6 at 8 p.m. “I’m always excited to see that type of artist,” Marshal said. “We’re really focusing on American roots music this season and we thought this kind of choice was very topical in relation to the recent elections — a lot of contention was taking place — so we thought ‘Hey, let’s shift back to our roots: Americana, folk, grassroots, blues.” •
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Ithaca College works a Mozart masterpiece
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By Br yan VanC ampe n La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Tito), composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; conducted by Christopher Zemliauskus; stage direction by Jennifer Williams; scenic design by Megan Parker; costume design by Jennifer Hiyama. At Ithaca College through March 4.
double-cast — Price and Michael Galvin as Publius play all of the shows — so you may see Silverstein as Sesto, or Nicholas Keliher, depending on the performance. Constant Companion told me that a castrato usually played Sesto, so IC seems to be having it both ways. CC felt that Silverstein was in fine ust because Mozart’s La Clemenza voice, but that her costume could have di Tito takes place in Rome in the been improved to allow her to strike year 79, don’t think that there aren’t more heroic poses. I felt like she was playparallels to our current political scene ing Sesto as more of a peasant or a serf, so in the production at Ithaca College. As whatever physical prowess that may have stage director Jennifer Williams writes in been lacking didn’t bother me. McDerher director’s notes in the program, this mitt-Wise got off to a bit of a rough start vocally at the beginning of Sunday’s matinee, but by the time she got to the first trio section, she had rallied and by Act II, she was right on the money. Bergen Price, clad in an immaculate cream-colored suit, was fine both vocally and dramatically. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST The opera is presented in its original Italian. English subtitles were projected on a strip atop the proscenium; inner thoughts and asides were rendered in parentheses. The singing and diction was N A T I ONNAATLI OBNOAOLK BAOWOAKR DA WFAI NR DA L FI SI NT A L I S T BOOK SALES BY BUFFALO STREET BOOKS excellent overall. Thanks to a row of discreet microphones lining the HOLLIS E. CORNELL AUDITORIUM footlights, the blend of vocals and TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:45 PM the exceptional orchestra conducted by Christopher Zemliauskus was some of the best I’ve heard on South Hill. BOOK SALES BUFFALO STREET BOOKS BOOKBYSALES BY BUFFALO STREET BOOKS The opera begins with the americanstudies.cornell.edu CORNELL AUDITORIUM HOLLIS E. CORNELL AUDITORIUM ensemble players entering in street HOLLIS E. clothes and carrying baggage, as TUESDAY,TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:45 PM MARCH 7, 4:45 PM if they were tourists. Everyone Nick Kelliher ’17, Andrea Bickford ’17 and Jacob Kerzner ’19 star in scatters to don costumes and the “La Clemenza di Tito.” (Photo: ithaca.edu) ensemble reappears to spray graffiti on and pull down a center stage statue of Tito’s predecessor. A americanstudies.cornell.edu americanstudies.cornell.edu opera poses the question whether true marble statue occupies stage left with a compassion and empathy are possible in a staircase leading to a second level, and as political leader, and “just as ancient Rome if to illustrate that things are a bit topsyspoke to Leopold II’s empire in 1791, so, turvy, the walls are built at strange angles, too, may Mozart and Metastasio’s parable perhaps a nod to German expressionism. speak to our present time.” Three chandeliers and rows of broken Tito (Patrick Starke) is the emperor windows dominate stage right, with com of Rome. Vitellia (Emma McDermittconstruction scaffolding that doubles as Wise) plots revenge on him and reclaim bleacher seats for the ensemble. isered the throne. She enlists Tito’s best friend All scenery is affixed with wheels Sesto (Rachel E. Silverstein) to murto allow the ensemble to roll them on powby: der him. Tito wants to marry Servillia and offstage. As usual, the lighting and (Julia Gershkoff), but her heart belongs production values are seamless and to Sesto’s friend Annio (Bergen Price). top-notch. No surprise, then, that all the After much soul searching, Sesto agrees onstage emotional heave-ho and histrionto carry out Vitellia’s scheme, just as she ics — as an actor, you can’t really leave and learns that Tito actually wants to marry anything in the bag — led the audience her. And as you might imagine, there are to give the cast a well-deserved standing Finger Lakes even more complications before the final ovation. • curtain. Community Newspapers Four of the six leads have been
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etflix’s mail service is sluggish these days, but the great thing about having access to their massive library of DVDs is the ability to take a crash course on unfamiliar filmmakers. In advance of Chilean director’s Neruda, opening Friday at Cinemapolis, I ordered up two of Larrain’s other films to get a sense of what he’s about. Larrain is prolific; in addition to Neruda, he made two other films last year: the Jackie O biopic Jackie — out on DVD March 7 — and The Club (more on that later). My first impression of Larrain is that while he deals with real aspects of Chilean history and culture, he’s not making documentaries. Neruda is a good example. He takes a more poetic approach, mixing Chilean icons with fictional characters. In broad outline, Neruda is a chase film, but it’s not The Fugitive by any stretch. Set three years after the end of WWII, Neruda focuses on the political persecution that poet and Communist Senator Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) suffered after criticizing President Gabriel González Videla’s brutal anti-communist repression in a speech in the National Congress in 1948, and the manhunt for his arrest, led by our figure of fiction, the fascist Chief of Policía de Investigaciones Oscar Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal). Peluchonneau is given his orders: “Catch him and humiliate him. Then we’ll celebrate.” Where Neruda is almost a satyr, addicted to his fame and women and food and booze, Peluchonneau, with his natty mustache, sharp fedora and hard-boiled detective narration, has no inner life except for the hunt. Where Neruda feels like a fleshed-out, flawed human being, Peluchonneau is an archetype; he seems to have stepped out of a film-noir classic from the 1940s. As the pursuit wears on, the hunter becomes less and less effective within the story. At one point, he tracks down Neruda’s wife, who calmly tells him that the entire affair is a fiction written by the titular poet, even her. She calls him a supporting character, to which he replies, “I’m not a supporting character.” Thus the film is just as much about Peluchonneau realizing he is wrong as it is about capturing Neruda. This fictional veneer gives Larrain’s factual film an edge. I first heard of Larrain back in 2013 when I was interviewing the director Brian Trenchard-Smith. Smith had just seen Larrain’s No, which he described as looking like it was shot with cell phones, but it was actually shot on three-quarter-inch
videotape. No also stars Bernal and Gnecco, and is, again, a fictionalized account of the historical moment of advertising tactics in political campaigns in the 1988 plebiscite, when the Chilean citizenry decided whether or not dictator Augusto Pinochet should stay in power for another eight years. Bernal plays a successful advertising
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man who is drafted to work on the No campaign. As soon as he begins working, he is followed and his family is threatened. The video look of No allows Larrain to seamlessly blend Bernal’s story with the ad campaigns and actual news footage from the period. It’s a more gripping nail-biter than the melding of reality and fiction in Neruda, though both films pack a punch. Finally, I saw The Club, about four priests living in exile in a Chilean coastal village, “disappeared” for crimes like molestation. A new priest arrives, followed by a taunting villager who was one of his victims. The priest shoots himself out of guilt, and when a new spiritual director arrives to question the men and shut down the club, we see what lengths they will go to in order to keep the truth from coming out. No spoilers, but The Club builds to an act of such savage brutality that it lands like a slap in the face. Like Jordan Peele’s fine Get Out, a horror film with racial satirical overtones, The Club is driven by a finely tuned sense of rage, a scream in the wilderness. •
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f you thought you missed the 7th annual Winter Village Music Festival at La Tourelle Resort & Spa here in Ithaca, you haven’t! Over four days — Thursday, March 2nd through Sunday, March 5th — this year’s four concert and multifarious music workshop extravaganza presents an extremely talented assortment of progressive acoustic music: bluegrass, old-time, swing, Celtic and Americana. Featured national touring performers are Jeremy Kittel Trio, The Barefoot Movement and 10-String Symphony. From our New York home front participating musicians are Paris Texas (Bobbie Henrie, Doug Henrie
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and Rick Manning) and Suitcase (Judy Hymn and Jeff Claus) with the downstate friends Too Blue. Ithaca Times met with Winter Village Music Festival Founder and Director Rick Manning (RM) to ask a few questions about the festival’s inception: IT: “How did Winter Village Music Festival come about? Is it modeled on other festivals?” RM: “As a performer I’ve played at indoor bluegrass festivals in Seattle and at Joe Val’s Bluegrass Festival in Framingham (MA) that were held at huge hotels full of musicians. And when I started working on Cayuga Waterfront Trail (CWT), I became involved with tourism and learned about the county’s tourism grants program, and the need to develop winter tourism. This got me thinking about putting together a festival because progressive bluegrass doesn’t come to Ithaca. And working on CWT was how I got to know Scott Wiggins who owns and manages La Tourelle.” IT: “That brings us to my next question. Why La Tourelle as the host location for Winter Village Music Festival?” RM: “La Tourelle is comfy, easy. And it’s more comfortable to be in one place with musicians jamming with friends throughout the hotel. It has a great space
that allows for watching concert performers play up-close and there isn’t a bad seat in the room.” IT: “How would you characterize progressive bluegrass?” RM: “Progressive bluegrass usually has a really good singer rooted in original songs with great harmonies and great instrumentalists. There have always been arguments among players within the bluegrass family: Is it bluegrass or is it not bluegrass? This is between the traditionalists who play in the original style [Bill Monroe] and those like the Claire Lynch Band—they played our festival in 2011—that writes a lot of their own music with good vocals.” IT: “Did you start with only bluegrass and then add other styles to the festival program?” RM: “No. There’s always been a selection of styles, but this year with Jeremy Kittel Trio, we’re offering Celtic because the festival is in March and close to St. Patrick’s Day. And over the years we’ve developed a level of trust [among our attendees] and have proven that people will attend to hear and learn from unknown musicians. ****** Jeremy Kittel, an award-winning fiddler and violinist, is a master in Celtic, classical, jazz and bluegrass. He was a member of Turtle Island Quartet and has worked with Mark O’Connor, Bela Fleck, Chris Thile, among many other illustrious musicians. Jeremy Kittel Trio’s mandolin player, Josh Pinkham, has been cited as “one of the most important young improvisers on the acoustic scene today” by mandolin grandmaster David Grisman and continues to blaze new trails in bluegrass, newgrass, jazz and classical forms. The third member, guitarist Quinn Bachand, plays a range of styles including jazz and bluegrass and is most recognized for his Celtic musicianship with its unique harmonies. The Barefoot Movement powers a heady blend of Appalachian bluegrass, folk and country blend with tight three-part harmonies that crackle with a contemporary feeling. 10 String Symphony is comprised of two 5-string fiddle players, Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer who write and sing original songs are veteran sidemen of the Nashville music scene that according to American Songwriter Magazine are “... a dynamic musical stew that covers a wide spectrum of acoustic-based roots music, hitting on old-time, folk and bluegrass, all delivered with a dash of rock and roll spunk.” •
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Total Freedom
Quail Turret returns to the homeland By Chr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Quail Turret, Basic Printer, Robot Detective, Desmon Bratton, 10 p.m. Friday, March 3, The Chanticleer Loft
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ashville by way of Ithaca experimental jazz duo Quail Turret’s newest recording, “5 Star Zyn (Live),” is a quick lesson in shiny and propulsive ingenuity. It’s percussive, heavy, animated and groovy, broadcasting angles of Nintendo trance, Zombi heft and Chick Corea meets Battles-like fervor. The duo is a heady force and plays with a clear and fluid palette. In many ways their
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“It’s like a one on one experience,” Millman added. “We’re both trained percussionists, and the rhythmic sensibilities we share really helps define our direction. With ‘5 Star Zyn’ you can see us expanding our dimension, but the sound is still based on groove and feeling.” The group’s first EP QT was an analog recorded acoustic masterpiece of contemporary jazz and free-from expression. Haunting, painterly and shadowy — with exuberant strokes of articulation — the three-song record melts like a dream into the limbic system,
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origin story factors into their continued totality. They first played together in a fit of spontaneity. “Gabe was playing in another group, practicing in a room up at Ithaca College, and I had to get some chairs from there,” explained piano and keyboardist Aaron Walters. “He was messing around with some beats that I was really digging, and so I ran over to the piano and we went off for like five minutes. It was really something, and we both agreed to do it again.” Walters and drummer Gabe Millman have progressed tenfold from that fateful moment. From their early acoustic, freejazz inspired compositions to the newer, denser and more angular material, the two musicians have always shared a special language. They offer a sound intensely full for just a duo: weaving and pushing toward a horizon of lush vision. “I use two keyboards when I play, two midis that I can continually change the sounds with, which makes a huge difference when playing live,” Walters said. “We’re lucky our sound is so rhythmical. Sometimes when we’re writing there are long periods of improvisation, and there’s this amazing freedom to do whatever you want.”
Quail Turret: (left) Aaron Walters (right) Gabe Millman . (Photo provided)
rearranging, dancing and waving. Think Bad Plus, MMW, Keith Jarrett, Joey Baron and Triosk. In many ways the band has moved on from that sound, but the intricacies and communication of the old style is still prominent. “When we play out live we never use any prerecorded stuff, it’s very much in the jazz tradition, and this is really how we approach recordings as well,” Walters said. “It’s really just the two of us figuring things out. We’re both engineers.” The two musicians treat Quail Turret as both an outlet and a heavy artistic statement. Both have felt the anxiety and insanity of the current social and political climate, and both admit finding it hard to drown out the noise. “It’s really just made me want to get away from it and make music,” Walters said. “And I’m blessed to be able to do that.” “For me, it’s exhausting trying to keep track of everything,” Millman said. “Between the political landscape, being in grad school working on my thesis and playing in the band — it’s a daily grind. Quail Turret is a way to get out all the jitters. It’s what I love to do.” •
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The Visionary Planet
Death metal band reaches towards the infinite By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Carnifex, Rings Of Saturn, Lorna Shore, She Must Burn, Ecliptic Vision, Saturday, March 4, 5:00 p.m., The Lost Horizon, Syracuse
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he dark world rotates on an exceptional axis for Syracuse based death metal stalwarts Ecliptic Vision. The quartet ascends with quick realizations and abundant speed, pulling the nether regions into a unique balance. Sustaining a rigorous intensity through a myriad of tasteful and arty idioms is the band’s ultimate nature: a practice in extreme musical fluidity. “With heavy music it’s very easy to hone in on one aspect or niche and repeat that over and over until you suck the life out of it and it no longer draws a listener in,” noted drummer Vincent Lawyer. “With that said, we’ve always crafted our music as if it were a living, breathing organism. Each song has its own natural evolution or progression. By keeping this idea at the forefront, we create this balance that allows each aspect of the song to be emphasized in its own right while also complimenting the parts that surround it.” The band’s a unique study in shadowy equilibrium and prolific combination. Spinning across dimensions strange and complex they assemble an organic nature. Sections coalesce like water and sand. Technical virtuosity floats within and without a deft syntax. There is hardy mechanization throughout, but it’s
ultimately the biotic energy that drives the band towards the infinite. The group’s debut record Dissimilar Dimensions is a monster of force and gravity: an album that both mesmerizes and destroys.
“Our guitarist Ryan [Caughey] was the mastermind behind the concept of the new record,” Lawyer said. “It’s a collection of stories based around the themes of extraterrestrial life, the paranormal, and how that relates back to us as humans. It takes the listener from the internal depths of the mind to the vast perspective of the universe as a whole and our place in it.” An old school death metal aura lays the band’s foundation. Stacking progressive and underground forms within the totality, Ecliptic Vision is
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able to expand its vision, allowing variation without compromise. The group is a wickedly sharp listen: quick, thrashy, with deeply melodic and transcendent overtones. Lawyer said the conjoining of everyone’s unique tastes is what makes the band work. The angles are all varied—but together—a whole and complete perception. “Our writing style pulls from several different sources of inspiration, musically and otherwise,” Lawyer explained. “There is definitely an overall classic death metal feeling to it. While our roots of where we all came from individually as musicians tend to serve as the foundation of our music, it’s the combination (Top) Ecliptic Vision (Clockwise from top left) Joshua Rivet (Vocals); Vincent of bringing all of those pieces Lawyer (drums); Derek Ponton (bass); Ryan Caughey (guitar) together and letting them (Left) The band’s debut “Dissimilar Dimesnions” (Photos provided) evolve naturally that actually produces an Ecliptic Vision song at the end. Because The band is magically cohesive, we’ve all come from different backgrounds permeating a fierce execution of every musically, it’s sort of a melting pot of our intersection it lays. Every note and motion own styles coming together to form our is ideal, riffs are substantial and the sound.” assemblage of propulsion is definite. The cover of Dissimilar Dimensions “Everything in Ecliptic Vision from shows a stoic alien mystically hovering the music, to the concepts, to the imagery over the earth. It’s a fluid image, both grows from the same philosophy that calming and acute. A perfect vision of the whatever it is that we’re undertaking, it band’s sound: interplanetary and flexible; has to be cohesive and flow naturally in visually showcasing what Lawyer said is the scope of the entire band,” Lawyer part of the introspective aspect to Ecliptic said. “We put a heavy emphasis on trying Vision. to see things from as many perspectives “As a contrast to a good bit of modern as possible before we make a decision, death metal imagery, which seems to because ultimately, every move that we showcase gore, blood and guts; the scene in Dissimilar Dimensions is more shrouded make—no matter how big or small—is a step in a positive or negative direction. in mystery,” he explained. “It invites the Our philosophy as a band is to always be listener to look more closely and decide cognizant of where we’ve been, and always for themselves what meaning the music be aware of where we’re going.” • and art holds for themselves.”
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3/01 Wednesday
Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | 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. Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups. Reggae Night with The Crucial Reggae Allstars | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Roots Rock.
3/02 Thursday
Rock-A-Bye | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Rock. Tab Benoit | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Rock. Tom Mank & Sera Smolen CD Release Celebration: Unlock the Sky | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St., Ithaca | Live show with guest appearances by Terry Burns and Ron Kristy, Julie Last, Kirsti Gholson, and guitarist Rich Depaolo.
3/03 Friday
The Hilltoppers Bluegrass Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hopshire Farm and Brewery, Rt. 13, Freeville | Bluegrass.
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3/04 Saturday
The WELL Bottomers | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Rock, Reggae, Bluegrass, Folk, Blues, Irish, Funk. Open Mic | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Blue Burrito, 11 Groton Ave, Cortland | Live Music and Open-Mic hosted by Craig and Teddy K. Jaimie Lee & Adam Just | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing,
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Alternative Rock, Funk, Dance Funk.
3/05 Sunday
Midday Music at Lincoln: Becky Lu, piano | 12:30 PM | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Features Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major, op. 17, and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, op. 83. Tab Benoit | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Swamp Blues, Soul Blues, Chicago Blues.
Lucky Old Sun | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Rock, Folk, Blues, Jazz. Badhand vs. Whistlin’ Dyl & the Stumbling Cowboys | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Rock, Country, Bluegrass. Del Paxton, Shore Acres Drive, Imperials | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Emo, Pop Punk, Indie Rock, Punk Rock. Geoff Berner | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Klezmer. After Funk | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Funk, Rock, Progressive, Jam. Bibliographers, Crunk Witch, Ken Shea, Teen Cat | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Indie Rock,
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Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday. The Hilltoppers | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Bluegrass. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz. Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach.
resAUnance in Concert at TCFA | 7:30 PM-10:00 PM | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 5 McLallen St. , Ithaca | The Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA) is very pleased to announce the return of Michael McNiell. Collegiate Treble Choir Conference: Two Concerts | 8:00 PM Friday, March 3, 8:00 PM, Sage Chapel and Saturday, March 4, 8:00 PM, Bailey Hall. Features music for all-female choirs.
rock with thunderous energy, technical prowess, and storytelling songwriting, beckoning crowds into a barn-dance rock concert experience. Jazz Ensemble | 8:15 PM-9:45 PM | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, IC, Ithaca | Jazz. Ithaca College Jazz Repertory Ensemble, Cornell University Jazz Band | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Features a “town-gown” jazz concert.
3/04 Saturday
3/05 Sunday
Carnifex, Rings Of Saturn, Lorna Shore, She Must Burn | 5:30 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Death Metal, Deathcore, Metalcore, Progressive Death Metal.
Simply Piano: Crowd Pleasers | 3:00 PM | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | One of the series’ stalwart players, Mark Gearan, is leaving Geneva and his
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Composers’ Forum: Guest LectureRecital: Augustus Arnone, piano | 1:25 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features music by Roberto Sierra, Stephen Gorbos DMA ‘08, Yotam Haber DMA ‘04, Milton Babbitt, and Michael Finnissy. Annual Winter Squabee | 4:00 PM-11:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | 3-day music fest featuring 30 local bands. Runs March 3 through March 5. Proceeds go to We Are Seneca Lake & No Frack Almanac.
One of film’s greatest and most enduring political satires, Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”, is a masterpiece comedy that lives in dark and dwelling shadows. Cornell Cinema is showing the film this Friday, Feb. 3 at 9:00 p.m. and again on Saturday, March 4 at 9:15 p.m. (Photo provided)
Dacha Guitar Duo in Concert | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM | First Unitarian Church, 306 N Aurora St., Ithaca | Classical guitarists Matthew Ocone and Isaac Sharp, present works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Buxtehude and Ponce. The Head & The Heart | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Indie Folk, Americana. Scythian | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Named after Ukrainian nomads, Scythian (sith-ee-yin) plays immigrant
post as President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges at the end of this academic year — making this edition of Simply Piano almost assuredly his last. Cornell Symphony Orchestra | 3:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features cellist Irene Jeong, winner of the 13th annual Cornell Concerto Competition. Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, IC, Ithaca | Winners of the Concerto Competition perform,
Scharf | 7:00 PM-, 3/07 Tuesday | The story of Amos Oz’s youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man’s relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live. | 95 mins PG-13 |
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Stage Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Runs March 1 through March 26 | Syracuse Stage/ Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Step back into the sparkling nightlife of a 1930s jazz club in this celebration of the jazz legend Fats Waller. From Uptown to Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood, Waller’s music helped define the swinging sound of the Golden Age of the Cotton Club. Music, dance, sassy repartee, and a whole lot of fun with 29 famous songs including ‘T Ain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do, Honeysuckle Rose, and more. Showtimes at syracusestage.org La Clemenza di Tito: By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 8:00 PM, 3/01 Wednesday | Hoerner Theatre, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Commissioned to write an opera to celebrate the 1791 coronation of the Holy Roman emperor Leopold II, Mozart looked to ancient Rome for inspiration. This opera seria’s magnificent score portrays a generous ruler caught in a web of jealousy and revenge. As Emperor Tito emerges from an assassination attempt and its subsequent legal proceedings, his subjects praise his wisdom and mercy. The Bizarre & Curious Quest of Killian Cog | 7:00 PM, 3/02 Thursday, 3/03 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Through a steampunk lens, The Bizarre and Curious Quest of Killian Cog takes the audience on a cirque-style journey through time and space. Killian Cog, a workaholic watchmaker, is so consumed by his research that he lets love slip away. Realizing his foolishness, he builds a time traveling contraption to return to his past hoping to change one pivotal moment, but his plans go awry when he realizes time is far from linear. Root Map | 8:00 PM, 3/02 Thursday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | An international theater collaboration about borders and migration, will have a one-time-only performance. The play is an ensemble piece,
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with Finlandia by Sibelius to open, and Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead, to close. Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Featuring Beethoven’s String Trio in D and more. Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes | 4:00 PM | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy |
3/05 Sunday
Aizuri Quartet | 7:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Features string quartets by Mozart, Beethoven, and Caroline Shaw, as well as the premiere of a Stephen Dankner work.
3/06 Monday
Knocked Loose, Harm’s Way, Eternal Sleep, Meth Mouth, West Berlin | 6:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Hardcore, Metalcore. Chorus and Madrigal Singers | 8:15 PM-9:45 PM | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, IC, Ithaca |
Film The Central Park Five | 6:00 PM, 3/01 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E
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Green St, Ithaca | A 2012 documentary about the infamous Central Park jogger case, this film--directed by Ken Burns-chronicles the violent 1989 assault and rape of Trisha Meili and provides background information, interviews and expert analysis which led to the wrongful conviction of five suspects. For more information, contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org. 4th Annual Streets Alive! Film Festival | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/02 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | An evening of eclectic inspiring short bike-themed films. Films are sourced from the annual Filmed By Bike festival in Portland Oregon; from Streetfilms.org out of New York City; and from various film makers from around the world. cinemapolis
Friday, 3/03 to Thursday, 3/09. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Lion | A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family | 118 mins PG-13 | I Am Not Your Negro | Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel,
Remember This House. | 95 mins PG-13 | Neruda | An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. | 107 mins R | La La Land | A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. | 128 mins PG-13 | A United Kingdom | Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. | 111 mins PG-13 |
Moonlight | A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. | 111 mins R | The Salesman | Forushande (The Salesman) is the story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. | 125 mins PG-13 | Cornell Cinema
Wednesday, 3/01 to Tuesday, 3/07. Contact Cornell Cinemas for Showtimes IThe Skin I Live In | 7:00 PM, 3/01
Wednesday | A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. | 120 mins R | Don’t Call Me Son | 7:00 PM, 3/02 Thursday | After discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother’s actions and must try to cope with his biological family. | 82 mins NR | Delicatessen | 9:00 PM, 3/02 Thursday , 4:30 PM, 3/05 Sunday | Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants. | 99 mins R | Dr. Strangelove | 9:00 PM, 3/03 Friday, 9:15 PM, 3/04 Saturday | An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. | 95 mins PG | Black Swan | 7:00 PM, 3/05 Sunday | A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity. | 118 mins R | A Tale of Love and Darkness with/ intro by CU professor Nava
Notices Library Seeks Poetry Submissions | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | TCPL librarians will distribute free cards, featuring submitted poems, in the Library, on the Downtown Ithaca Commons and in additional locations throughout Ithaca on April 27. Individuals of all ages, creative writing groups and classes are encouraged to submit up to two poems of no more than 15 lines on or before March 24. Poems can be submitted at tcpl.org/events-exhibits/ poetry-submission.php or delivered to the Information and Learning Services Reference Desk. For more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at (607) 272-4557 extension 272 or poetry@ tcpl.org. Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 3/01 Wednesday | Applebee’s
Women’s History Month Celebration,
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This young novelist and literary translator grew up in the Finger Lakes region before heading out for college in Ireland and the American University in Paris. Her newest novel “Dead Letters” takes place in the vineyards of the Finger Lakes, and has received immense praise and critical acclaim. Caite is at Barnes & Noble this Thursday and Buffalo Street Books on Saturday.
Ithaca’s coolest and warmest spot, TCPL, will be showcasing a dynamic video installation. “Putting Her Back Into History”, will celebrate Women’s History Month with an installation showcasing videotaped and written advice and wisdom from more than 70 Tompkins County women. Curated by Sue Perlgut, the exhibit will be installed throughout the library. Check this out!
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Neighborhood Grill & Bar, 2300 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | RSVP lpd4@ cornell.edu Register Now for Spring Writing through the Rough Spots classes | Writing can help create clarity about challenging situations. For further info: www.WritingRoomWorkshops.com Over 30s Basketball | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 3/02 Thursday | Henry St. John’s Gym, 301 S. Geneva St., Ithaca | Every Monday and Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Square and Contra Dance | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 3/05 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | For more information, email Lynne at ltaetzsch@ gmail.com or call her at 607-273-1364. The Enfield Volunteer Fire Company Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM, 3/05 Sunday | Enfield Fire Company, 172 Enfield Main Rd., Ithaca | The Ladies Auxiliary holds a Bake Sale at each BBQ. Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 3/05 Sunday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Open to the public. Over 30s Basketball | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 3/06 Monday | Henry St. John’s Gym, 301 S. Geneva St., Ithaca | Every Monday and Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday Night Seminar: Perspectives on Nocturnal Bird Migration: What We’ve Learned from BirdCas | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, 3/06 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Bird migration is a spectacular phenomenon that has long captured the attention of human observers. The Cornell Lab’s BirdCast project uses state-of-theart machine learning and computer science, along with data from radar and acoustic monitoring, to uncover migration secrets. Contact: (800) 843-2473, cornellbirds@cornell.edu Creative Movement Dance Class for Toddlers | 9:30 AM-10:15 AM, 3/07 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | For more information or to register, contact the Ford Memorial Library in Ovid: 607-869-3031 or ovidlib@rochester. rr.com.
The Aizuri Quartet is a graceful and dynamic all-female string quartet that dazzles and heightens classical masterpieces. This Sunday they’ll play compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, Caroline Shaw and the premiere of a Stephen Danker work. In February 2016, Cornell assistant professor Ariana Kim was invited to join the group as one of the two violinists. A dazzling and powerful collection of musicians, the Aizuri Quartet performs this Sunday, Match 5 at 7:00 p.m., at the Carriage House. (Photo provided) Tompkins County Amateur Radio Association | 7:00 PM, 3/07 Tuesday | Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, 92 Brown Road, Ithaca | The Association meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
Learning Compost Classes at Lifelong: Be Part of the Cycle | 12:30 PM-1:30 PM, 3/01 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Two Wednesdays in March: 3/1 & 3/8, 12:30 – 1:30pm. Join local compost educator Adam Michaelides and Master Composters to look at the practices and principles of composting. Class #1 will cover compost 101/basic techniques and class #2 will cover the science of composting and some applications.. To register, contact Tammy Dunn at Lifelong: tdunn@tclifelong.org or 607-273-1511 x 231 Make Your Voice Heard: Connect with your Members of Congress | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/01 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come to this community action meeting inspired by the Women’s March on DC, where we will be educating ourselves on important issues, deciding on
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Strategies, tools, and timelines will be covered that are likely to yield the best college choices for students. The importance of college visits, financial plans and a balanced list will be addressed. Raj Yoga Meditation Class with Amita Shukla | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/07 Tuesday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Raj Yoga meditation is a form of meditation that is accessible to people of all backgrounds. Toastmasters.org Cayuga Club Meeting | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/07 Tuesday | Riley Robb Hall room 205, 111 Wing Drive (Cornell Campus), Ithaca | Toastmasters clubs help their members gain skill and confidence in public speaking in a mutually supportive, friendly, fun environment with great mentorship. Come visit a meeting (or several) and learn how to develop your communication skills and leadership potential.
Kids Teen Writing Workshops | 4:45 PM, 3/02 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557
extension 274. Little Eagles Field Hockey Clinic | 5:15 PM, 3/02 Thursday | J. M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr., Cortland | 3rd, 4th, 5th Graders: 5:15 pm - 6:00 p.m. / 6th, 7th, 8th Graders: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. / Coached by Mary McCracken. Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 3/04 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. Girls Ultimate Frisbee Clinic | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Bartels Hall, Cornell University, , Ithaca | Interested in learning to play ultimate frisbee? Need a way to play when it’s cold out? Cornell’s Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team invites girls 6th-12th grade to develop frisbee skills, build team relationships, gain confidence in their athletic and leadership ability, and interact with current college mentors. Creative Movement Dance Class for Toddlers | 9:30 AM-10:15 AM, 3/07 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | For more information or to register, contact the Ford Memorial Library in Ovid: 607-869-3031 or ovidlib@rochester. rr.com.
Special Events Cornell Women’s Basketball vs. Yale University | 6:00 PM-, 3/03 Friday | Newman Arena, Bartels Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Small Farm & Homestead Fair | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Morrisville State College, 120 South Street, Morrsiville | The 2017 Small Farm & Homestead Fair will include over 30 classes; 100 Vendors, Experts, Artisans; and community support. Info at www.smallfarmandhomestead.com Feline Follies: Cornell Veterinary Feline Club | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Cornell Vet School, Schurmann Hall, 602 Tower Rd, Ithaca | Join the Cornell Veterinary Feline Club for a day of adoption, a raffle, cat show, cat photography, educational lectures, and kids games and crafts. Admission is free, all proceeds benefit local shelters. For the Love of Chocolate | 2:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | During this free program, confectioners from
Life’s So Sweet will provide a look at the history of chocolate and what it’s like to operate Ithaca’s premiere candy store. To register, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 272. Cornell Women’s Basketball vs. Brown University | 5:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Newman Arena, Bartels Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Chili Cook off | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Community Fire & Rescue, 321 State Route 224, VanEtten | Entries open to everyone. Bake Sale, 50/50 Drawing, Spring for Cash Tickets on Sale. For more information & registration Contact George or Estella Heeman (607)589-7852 or (607)2206781. H. Peter Kahn Scholarship Breakfast | 7:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/05 Sunday | Trumansburg Fire Station, 74 West Main Street, Trumansburg | The Trumansburg Volunteer Fire Company will host the H. Peter Kahn Scholarship Breakfast. Peter served with the fire department for over 20 years. He died in the line of duty on Sunday, February 16, 1997 while directing traffic at the scene of a car accident.
Books Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay | 4:00 PM, 3/02 Thursday | Mann Library, Cornell Library, , Ithaca | Chats in the Stacks book talk by Ritch Savin-Williams, Ph.D. Buffalo Street Books will offer books for purchase and signing. Refreshments served. A Reading with Bruce Bennett | 3:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A Reading with Bruce Bennett. Caite Dolan-Leac: Dead Letters | 5:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Non-Fiction Book Club | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/07 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Discussion of “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy,” by Heather Ann Thompson. Info: Tom Burns at tburns@ tcpl.org or Stephen Salino at ssalino@ tcpl.org.
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Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Get an inside look on this special tour with the curators. 28th Annual Juried Photography Show | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | This show is a highly regarded photography exhibition in the Finger Lakes area with submissions from many places in New York State. www. soagithaca.org Seeing Double | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | The pictures in this exhibition are from the stereoview collection at The History Center in Ithaca, New York. Mary Blaise Turgeon | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Visit with the Artist of the Month. Chronicling Brief Lives: Botanical Portraits in Watercolor by Milly Acharya | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | A retrospective exhibition of works by American Society of Botanical Artists awardwinning illustrator, Milly aAharya. Intimately detailed water colors honor the plants whose lives acharya explores, documents, and portrays. Calming Effect: Regina McGriff | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Regina McGriff has been painting about a dozen years. She started in watercolor and now incorporates many of those techniques in her acrylic paintings. The exhibit will be up through March and April. Anne Eller: Stillness and Flight | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | The Rook, 404 W State St, Ithaca | Local artist, Annie Eller, will be exhibiting her work at The Rook for the months of February and March. Eller pursued her education in the Fine Arts, receiving her B.F.A. in Painting from Boston University, 2008. Works by Yen Ospina, Shanna Fiorucci, Megan Kadlecik and Melissa Zarem. | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Mimi’s Attic, 430 W State St, Ithaca | An eclectic show of visual art made by four female staff members of Mimi’s Attic and Mama Goose. These hard-working and multi-talented women create art using a variety of medium including watercolor, oil painting, ink, crayon, graphite, fabric and reused materials. There will be cider tastings provided by Good Life Farm as well as bread to sample from Wide Awake Bakery.
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olk, and then indy, and then alternative, and then jazz — or perhaps, it was none of those styles at all. Wild Child is constantly evolving, drawing on inspiration from classic artists, new bands and messy steps through life. Austin, Texas, singer-songwriters Alexander Beggins and Kelsey Wilson formed Wild Child about seven years ago after they met playing backup for a Danish band. Their lives continued to intertwine, continued to swirl together and continued to breathe into Wild Child. And when Beggins fell out of a fouryear-long relationship and when Wilson split from her fiancé of five years — both relationships ending less than a week apart from each other — they took to writing new music. “Kelsey and I consistently go through — strangely go through — the same thing at the same time,” Beggins said. “Writing is kind of therapy in a way;
Michael Sampson: Paintings on Paper | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Cellar d’Or, 136 E State St, Ithaca | Done over the course of the last year, these paintings on paper are abstracted from the figure using gesture, shape and line to create images that allude to the figure without becoming representational. Youth Art Month | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Handwork, 120 W State St, Ithaca | On display in Handwork’s 3rd room windows: Paintings and drawings by students from Allison DeDominick’s CSMA class. In Allison’s class, students explore the fundamental skills of drawing and painting as well as the styles and techniques of famous artists. Lisa Baechtle: Animal Stories | 5:00 PM-, 3/03 Friday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Lisa Baechtle is known for vibrantly colored watercolors on paper. She is a visual storyteller. Her world is one where an osprey flies alongside a giraffe, where elephants and tigers, turtles, bumble bees and bears are all free to interplay as teachers and companions in our human experience. Fred Zappi: Recent Works | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday |
it’s the best way we know how to express ourselves. I’m constantly writing riffs all the time, and I’ll sporadically send them to Kelsey; she’s kind of a melody queen.” The band’s latest album, Fools, sounds “bigger,” said Beggins. Compared to its first album Pillow Talk, Fools is more full-bodied with instrumentation that complements the vocals with a precise balance. Fools relies less on the acoustic, almost-folk sound Pillow Talk has. Wild Child has blossomed from collaboration, with Fools’ first track written not just by Beggins and Wilson but by the entire band — a first for Wild Child. Begggins and Wilson guide the music as they share secrets in their songs. Each track speaks with a level of trust, ripping out pages from a diary and animating them through song. Wild Child translates this intimacy into their live shows. Each performance reverberates off of the audience, as they become part of the stories being told. Each audience is different, and each show is different. Beggins said he can look back on every concert and pick out something different from his memories. No shows are the same, and no crowd shares the same experiences as the last. “We’ve found in our shows people want to let it out as well,” Beggins said. “When we have a really good show and we’re really connected to our audience,
Benjamin Peters, 120 on The Commons, Ithaca | Oil paintings. Lindy Joy Cummings: Ice is Nice | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Hilton Garden Inn, 130 Seneca Street, Ithaca | Lindy finds magic in ice. She has been photographing ice for several years and has learned how to share the beauty she sees with you. Her photos are alive with color, vibrancy, and the mysteries of ice formation. Your imagination will immediately engage in finding a world of familiar forms in each image. I See You, IC/CU | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | The Ink Shop is pleased to host the 2nd joint show of prints by students of two strong printmaking programs at Ithaca College and Cornell University. These works are richly diverse with unique approaches using traditional methods, ranging from beginner to advanced practitioners. Mary Blaise Turgeon: Resurrection | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | This show explores the relationship between life and death through cycles of growth and development. The main feature is an illustrated scroll composed
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I feel like we’re in some kind of group therapy.” And the collaborative experiences aren’t stopping: the band just finished writing a fourth album. Wild Child is working with artists such as Dr. Dog and Chris Walla, developing and refining the band’s sound. Wild Child keeps its style open-ended leaves room for fresh, polished work. What remains constant, however, is the honesty in each song’s composition. While some are written with a sense of meticulousness, others write themselves
of seventeen pieces, “The Riddle of Eyes”. The end of the scroll links back to the beginning, and the high level of detail and density of symbols encourage the audience to revisit it for multiple viewings over time. The Traces We Leave: A Photography Exhibit by Barbara Pease. | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Elevator Music and Art Gallery - at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | The transient nature of our world is a theme in this exhibition. We leave behind, at least for a while, traces of ourselves: a tagger’s graffiti, an activist’s poster, commissioned art or a simple statement on a pipe, “Water is Life.” Angelo Peter: Space Fruite Fruit | 5:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Putting Her Back Into History: A Women’s History Month Installation | 6:00 PM, 3/03 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Curated by Sue Perlgut, this exhibit will be installed on monitors within the Library. Viewers will have an opportunity to watch one or all of the interviews, read from a journal of compiled responses
after a jam session. Wild Child’s trademark, then, is its sense of reality coupled with sincerity. “We’re constantly evolving,” Beggins said. “I think [the new album] is definitely going to be a little bit of a departure, I don’t think it’s going to isolate any of our fans from the early days at all. … We’ve never written a song that’s untrue, and it’s scary to be that brutally honest.” •
and share their own wisdom in a provided notebook. This installation celebrates the documentation of women’s lives in the early part of the 20th and 21st centuries and recognizes that earlier histories took little account of the experiences of women. Marionette Manipulation Workshop | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Ithaca Waldorf School, 20 Nelson Road, Ithaca | Magic Garden Puppets presents a hands-on workshop for adults (18 years or older) who want to learn marionette manipulation skills with 18” string puppets and hardwood controllers. Space is limited, so register now by sending an email to mgpuppets@gmail.com or calling Anne Plaine at 607-793-8319. The Greater Art Trail First Saturday | 10:00 PM-3:00 PM, 3/04 Saturday | Various Locations, , Ithaca | Artists Barbara Mink, Kathy Armstrong, Stan Bowman and Mary Ann Bowman open their studios to the general public. View paintings, ceramic characters, and exploding color App-stractions and engage the artists in conversation about their work which ranges from whimsical to classical. Learn more at ArtTrail.com.
ongoing Creekside Cafe | 4 West Main St, Trumansburg | Domenica Brockman: Paintings (Through March). creeksidetburg.com Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | “Empathy Academy: Social Practice and the Problem of Objects” (through May 28) / “Escaping the Ordinary: Artistic Imagination in Early Modern Prints” (through May 28) / Identity Crisis: Reflecting On Public and Private LIfe in Contemporary Javanese Photography” (through June 11) / “The War to End All Wars” (through June 11) / Leo Villareal “Cosmos” (ongoing) | www.museum. cornell.edu
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Emo rockers Del Paxton have a technical edge that compliments the band’s more gushy side in a remarkable way. Both forms sort of blend into a fluid mixture: running, grooving, and original. The band hits the Chanticleer Loft Sunday night with pop punk and post-hardcore blasters Shore Acres Drive and Ithaca indie rockers Imperials. Expect a lot of punchy riffs, heartfelt poems and tons of fun.
On the highway to variance, Black Mountain Symphony takes the lead. With a haunting and deft palette of baroque atmosphere, the band forges several idioms to create a unique and singular vision. Folk, funk, jazz, blues, psychedelic, avant-garde and symphonic textures swirl and heighten the band’s overall tendency, delivering a constant groove and exciting swing. The band’s toured nationally and is a wicked force live.
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Groton, MA needs 3 temporary workers 3/1/2017 to 11/1/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without to cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants apply at Workforce Career Center Worcester, or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order # 8298827. Work may include but not limited to: worker will seed, transplant, maintain & harvest herbs & vegetables in all weather conditions. Must be able to lift 50 lbs of soil. Herbs and vegetables are cleaned & packed for customer pickup. Ability to operate farm equipment as needed, as well as hoe, plow, weed and water. 1 month experience require d in work listed
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Pathways, Inc., Home & CommunityBased Waiver Program is seeking a Full-Time Individualized Care Coordinator (ICC) for Tompkins County. This program assists families and youth with SED. The position assists with strength based service planning, provides linkage, coordination, and monitoring of services. Qualifications: MS Degree in Social Work., Psychology or related discipline, and a minimum of two years coordination experience working w/children with one or more of the following diagnosis: mental illness, mental retardation, alcoholism, chemical dependency or substance abuse, BS degree in Social Work, Psychology or related discipline & four years coordination experience as described above. To Apply: complete our online application www.pathwaysforyou.org forward your resume/letter of interest to: hr@pathwaysforyou.org ph: 607-937-4552
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Bethelhem, CT needs 6 temporary workers 3/10/2017 to 11/1/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days r 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants to apply contact C Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #77787. Workers will perform a variety of duties involved in planting, cultivation, processing, and harvesting of fruits and vegetables, including but not limited to: work in greenhouses planting, staking, and suckering tomato plants. Harvest tomatoes and grade tomatoes with minimal bruising and spoilage. Prepare fields for planting, removing brush and stones. Plant vegetables , trees and bushes, mow around trees and bushes using a hand mower, and weed around growing plants. Thin fruit by hand, harvest fruit, place ladder in tree, climb ladder and place fruit into picking bucket. Transfer fruit to bin, careful not to bruise fruit. May grade and pack fruit and vegetables, load trucks and press and bottle cider. May make repairs to fences, farm buildings and equipment. May maintain farm grounds by mowing and split and stack firewood. One month experience required in duties listed
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Hardwick MA needs 1 temporary worker
3/1/2017 to 12/15/20`17, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transporta-
tion reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays
during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants apply at North Central
Career Center 978-534-1481 or apply
for the job at the nearest local office of
the SWA. Job order #8298856. General duties include: Seeding, transplanting, re-labeling plants after transplanting,
tiling the soil,applying fertilizer, weeding,
thinning, deadheading, dividing and splitting mature plant stock, applying general pesticides under supervision of licensed applicator. Picking up,loading, stacking,
lifting ha crop. Plant and harvest flowers (various varieties) and hay. Harvesting
duties include but are not limited to picking, cutting, cleaning, packing, bundling, sorting, foliage stripping, etc. Other du-
ties include weeding, cutting, sorting and arranging cut flowers. Use hand tools
but not limited to shovels, hoes, pruners, machete, knives, and ladders. May set
up, operate and repair farm machinery, repair fences and rear farm buildings.
Ability to withstand prolonged exposure
to variable weather conditions. Workers are required to bend, stoop, reach or
stand for extended periods and lift up to
50 pounds on a frequent basis. 1 month experience required in work listed.
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