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Local Support for Boathouse Issue Humane Incarceration Tabled: Lack of Info

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ometimes you just have to do the right thing,” said Legislator Jim Dennis (D-5th). At the Tuesday, March 17 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature, elected representatives unanimously voted to pass a resolution in support of a statewide bill limiting the use of solitary confinement in New York’s prisons and jails.

The local resolution urges the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly to pass the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, sponsored by Queens Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry (D-35th) in the lower house (A.4401) and by Harlem state Senator Bill Perkins (D-30th) in the upper house (S2659).

Among other things, the state bill limits placement in solitary confinement for most inmates to 15 days. After that point, the facility would need to provide at least six hours of out-of-cell programming for rehabilitative and therapeutic purposes.

Also during the March 17 meeting, Legislator Dan Klein (D-7th), who represents Caroline and Danby, presented the county’s Distinguished Youth Award to Aidan MacKenzie of Brooktondale.

Klein read a list of MacKenzie’s accomplishments, which include a recent Eagle Scout Award. As Klein explained, “His Eagle Scout project was to construct a deer fence around a planned garden at St. Catherine of Siena Church. He designed the fence, obtained funding and materials, and organized about 30 volunteers on to build it. The garden is to be used for the Church Teen Youth Group to grow food for Loaves and Fishes.”

Lisa Holmes, director of the Tompkins County Office of the Aging, gave a presentation on plans for the needs of the county’s aging population. “In 2012,” she said, “the Office of the Aging completed a community needs assessment in relation to aging.” The report identified a number of issues, including a growing aging population, a lack of affordable housing, high insurance costs, and a lack of care for those with dementia. Some of the recommendations included securing funding for more congregate meal sites, encouraging more geriatricians to practice in Tompkins County, supporting the establishment of an elder village, securing additional revenue sources, and enhancing the capacity of transportation services. continued on page 4

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club should be housed in a public park.

At the next BPW meeting, on Feb. 23, Alderwoman Cynthia Brock (D-1st), who’s pushed for an all-access approach to the boathouse, showed up to speak.

“It’s my position that park facilities under New York state law are protected and dedicated for open-entry access for recreational use for all members of the public,” Brock said. “I don’t believe that’s the case, when I see a sign that says ‘Members Only.’”

Brock has requested that the state’s parks department conduct a review of the Cascadilla Boat Club use of the boathouse, which she characterized in official requests as a “38-year exclusive use of municipal parkland, and an alienation of park facilities.”

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or every piece of city legislation, there are high and low tides of when citizens show up to make their voices heard. Some changes in city policies, like the revisions to “lead agency status,” legal language, which, in essence, means determining which board or committee has to hear the most about a given project—have been kicked around between committees over the past few weeks with absolutely no public comment.

In the case of the Cascadilla Boat Club (CBC) and their use of the Stewart Park Boat House, the nadir of public showing-up was Monday afternoon, March 23, at the twice-monthly Board of Public Works meeting.

A licensing agreement with the city for use Cascadilla Boathouse. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) of the boathouse in Stewart Park was up for The BPW had a lengthy discussion a recommendation vote to Common of this issue at their March 9 meeting, as Council. The question: Whether council a discussion item. A recommendation to should approve a licensing agreement to charge the CBC $12,727.14 per annum for Common Council was on their March 23 agenda, but they decided to table the issue use of the historic boathouse. That would until their April 13 meeting—not enough represent a significant raise from the information had come forward, they felt, $46.17 the CBC pays per year now.

At the City Administration committee for a decision to be made.

No one expected the question to meeting on Feb. 18, the council chamber was full of boat club proponents and a few come before Common Council before detractors, who all had their piece to say continued on page 7 about whether or not a private, non-profit

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“The Afropunk Festival. It’s in Brooklyn in mid-August.”

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“The 1000 Islands in July for my dad’s wedding.”

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“We’ll be camping in a cabin on Black Lake [in the North Country].” ­—Terry Little

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Cemetery Struggles With City Neglect he Ithaca City Cemetery will get a little fixing up from its friends when Common Council approves funding to help repair a wall that runs alongside University Avenue.

A $39,000 bid from Buzz Dolph of Ithaca Stone Setting to repair an automobile accident-damaged portion of wall was approved by the City Administration committee at their Wednesday, March 18 meeting and sent to council for an April vote. About $32,000 of the funding comes from an insurance settlement.

Ellen Leventry, chair of the city Parks Commission and a member of Friends of the Ithaca City Cemetery, came to the meeting to encourage the committee to approve funding the repairs.

The wall, built in 1865, is the “arms that hold the jewel in the crown that is the city cemetery,” Leventry said. “We all know the ‘broken window’ theory, the importance of ‘curb appeal’–if we were to leave that area in its current state, it will only encourage neglect of this important resource.”

The cost of masonry work for minimal wall repairs surprised some of the alderpersons. They asked if stone would be reused and why the cost was so high.

“Of course, we’ll preserve to the degree it’s possible and reasonable the original stone,” city engineer Tom West said. “One of the reasons the pillar sustained such heavy damage, from the impact of the vehicle, is the stone being as old as it is, is somewhat deteriorated–there will be some new stone required.”

“It seems a little funny to talk about old stone and new stone,” Alderwoman Donna Fleming (D-3rd) said.

“The granite ages extremely well,” Leventry replied. “You look at slate and sandstone, some of the others, they’re melting, essentially.”

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After the presentation, the legislature passed a resolution supporting Tompkins County’s engagement in the World Health Organization/AARP Age-Friendly Communities Network.

County Administrator Joe Mareane told the legislature he had gone to Washington, D.C. the previous week to lobby on behalf of TCAT. City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, Cornell’s Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina, TCAT’s Bill Gray, and lobbyist Dianne Miller all accompanied Mareane to the capital. Mareane explained that, until a few years ago, buses were generally 2 5 -3 1 ,

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Crumbling city cemetery walls on University Avenue. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

A special mortar mix is required for historic stone, Leventry told the committee, which raises the price of repairs somewhat. Fleming then said that on a walk along the cemetery walls, she couldn’t pick out a damaged spot because “it all looks bad.”

Given that, Fleming asked, if the Friends of the Ithaca City Cemetery were given free use of the $39,000, how would they use it?

“Part of the money would go to the wall,” Leventry said. “Part of it would be a professional inventory, telling us what needs to be preserved first … basically, a preservation group that would come in and do a triage.”

Other problems Leventry and the Friends cite include the deteriorating vaults—many people call them “mausoleums”—which are crumbling in many places. That includes the burial vault of Alonzo B. Cornell, the oldest son of Ezra Cornell and governor of New York from 1880 to 1882, which has lost all its facing stone and is down to the red brick.

The Friends of the Ithaca City Cemetery began their efforts in the early 2000s and have become more active in

recent years. Since 2011 the group has sponsored an annual Memorial Day cleanup, in September 2013 put on a twoday gravestone restoration workshop, and in November 2014 organized the first “Ithaca City Cemetery Sprint” fun run to raise funds for conservation efforts.

Besides the basic work of keeping stone from melting, the group hopes to create a database of gravestone locations based on an inventory done in the early 1980s.

Eventually, the group hopes to fund a “master plan” for long-term conservation of the cemetery, which was first laid out in 1790 on land owned by Simeon DeWitt.

Their initiative might take as part of its inspiration materials put out by the foundation that supports upkeep at the Cortland Rural Cemetery in their spring 2014 newsletter: “Did you know” asks a brochure from the group, “that the Cortland Rural Cemetery was designed in the “garden” or “rural” cemetery style of the mid-1800s, to be both a place to memorialize the dead and provide a kind of park for the living?”•

purchased with federal funding. Since that funding has dried up, bus replacements have become more difficult.

The group met with staff members for a number of Congress members and senators, but, Mareane joked, “We didn’t return in a bus, we weren’t that effective.” He said that the trip did effectively remind elected officials about the importance of public transit outside of major metropolitan areas. Explaining that the need for new buses is partly due to increasing ridership, Mareane said, “We weren’t there because things were going poorly with TCAT, we were there because things are going well.”

Moving on, Mareane told legislators that the county has negotiated a two-

year PILOT agreement with the Cayuga power plant. He said, “Given the situation of the plant, the agreement is just two years.” The new agreement includes a $1.8 million payment, although it allows for a “pop-up”—an additional payment if the plant exceeds $14 million in net operating revenue.

Although she asked about what would happen in terms of the plant’s payment liability were it to close, Legislator Carol Chock (D-3rd) said, “I think that taxes would be the least of our problems if the plant closed.” She observed that cleaning up the property could potentially be a more costly concern than lost PILOT revenue. •

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ecause my own training is in horticulture and landscape architecture, with over twelve years of professional work at a public garden, I’m interested in how people find their way to a public horticulture career. What were their influences? How do their interests develop to influence the choices of where to seek employment? In the case of Rhoda Maurer, the new Director of Horticulture at Cornell Plantations, these range from northwest United States to the United Kingdom and back to the northeast United States. She eventually landed in central New York, first in Geneva and now in Ithaca. How does her career affect her curatorial vision for Cornell Plantations living collections of over 40,000 plants representing 5,000 different taxa?

Ithaca Times: You grew up in Ohio.

Were there midwestern influences such as special landscapes or gardens, or people who encouraged you?

Rhoda Maurer: I grew up in the northeast part of Ohio in a rural environment. We had a one-acre vegetable garden, and beyond that were neighboring cornfields. I worked in the garden and learned how to can fruits and vegetables.

Friends of the family had a small farm with chickens, dairy cows, and a sugar bush [sugar maple grove]. I spent a good portion of my summers living and helping out with the haying and tending to the farm animals. My parents were self-employed artists. Until I was around thirteen years old, my parents would pack me and my brother into the back of their Bronco and we crisscrossed the United States tent camping along the way and selling their wares at craft shows. I have visited every state, except for Hawaii and Alaska. I would say that these travel experiences taught me how human diversity can bridge cultures. This country has different regions with what you might call “mini-cultures.” I think this is what eventually drew me into a bachelor’s degree in anthropology.

IT: Your undergraduate work was in anthropology and horticulture in the state of Washington. Can you describe some of your research interests?

RM: I went to the University of Washington in Seattle after finishing high school in 1983. I started a biology track while exploring liberal arts courses eventually settling on anthropology. My research interest was in Pacific Northwest native peoples’ art and culture. During this time I volunteered with the curator at Seattle Art Museum and worked as a sales manager in art galleries in the Seattle area setting up artist exhibitions. This helped pay my expenses during college and for a few years after graduation. After a while

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climate and get them into the hands of the I decided that I needed to connect with public. An IMLS [Institute of Museum and something that truly mattered to me. I Library Sciences] grant to computerize the was interested in plants, [so] I looked mapping of the gardens and campus-wide into the two-year horticulture program arboretum paid me for several years until at Edmunds Community College. They the director created the assistant curator had great instructors who were position for me to work on inventorying passionate about horticulture, the collections and GPS mapping/ such as [internationally known labeling new plants and re-labeling plant explorer/owner of existing plants. I supervised students Heronswood Nursery] Dan and volunteers in their studentHinckley. designed plant production green IT: You worked at the house and education center, was Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical involved with the facilities-side Garden in Seattle. What of operating the greenhouse, was your position and served on the collections and how did your committee that made all undergraduate work annual budget-related apply to this? decisions. At Cornell’s RM: After I got Geneva Experiment Station my associate’s degree I collaborated with research in horticulture faculty, making sure the I completed an greenhouse climates were internship at this properly controlled for new public garden their plant experiments with Richard and supervised the outdoor Hartlage as the grounds staff that maintain new director and the new and historic one full-time gardens. gardener. This IT: And you’re finishing had been a private a master’s degree in “Science garden planted in a Changing World” from with native plant UMass Boston. Will you communities describe what this entails and that grow in the how it might be applied to your Seattle region, new position at Plantations? designed with an RM: At Swarthmore I felt that Asian influence. It was I had been exposed to the breadth small enough that I was of public garden management. It able to work in all areas. was time for me to pursue a master’s During this internship, degree and considered, “What is it and while working on that I have questions about?” How my horticulture degree, can public gardens take into account I worked as a selfsocial, cultural, human impacts employed gardener doing and integrate them with science to maintenance and design. empower people to take action? For IT: What would you example, public gardens struggle say your strengths were with how to explain climate change by this time? and answer questions using biological RM: Plant records systems. Photography helped me to data, an image library, gain clarity about these questions. I plant identification, sent a description of plant propagation, my interests to Peter and cultivation.

Rhoda Maurer, Cornell Plantations Taylor at the Critical Then it was time Director of Hoticulture (Photo: Tim Gera) and Creative Thinking for me to focus Program within the on a specific College of Advancing and Professional area in public horticulture. I started to ask Studies at UMass Boston. He became myself the question, “Where do I fit in?”

At Wisley Gardens in England I completed my advisor and has since established “Science in a Changing World” as a new a yearlong “practicum” rotating through five areas: glasshouse, curatorial office, wild master’s degree that focuses on science and technology allied with human ecology. I garden, trials garden, and rock garden/ am writing not a thesis, but a “synthesis” alpine house. I spent my stipend traveling of research, course work, and a plan of all over England, Scotland, and Wales action. I will be the first graduate in May. visiting gardens.

IT: From Wisley Gardens, you went to This can be applied to my work at Cornell Plantations because I am creating a set of Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College values and principles that take a holistic [southwest of Philadelphia] in 1998 ecological approach to addressing socioand then Cornell University’s Geneva economic-biological issues pertaining to Experiment Station in 2011. climate change. • RM: I completed Scott Arboretum’s yearlong curatorial internship program.

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Should There Be an Investigation? Love or Hate Our Winter I T t seems clear that the standoff in Danby that ended with David Cady’s death was unlike any other incident in the 17-year history of the local Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and Critical Incident Negotiations Team (CINT) and unprecedented in local police annals before that. For law enforcement to deal successfully with a barricaded suspect, it is important that all procedures not only be carried out correctly, but the procedures must be the right ones to meet the situation at hand. Information in all channels of communication needs to flow freely and quickly. There are suggestions that this did not occur on Hornbrook Road between Dec. 20 and Jan. 2.

At the March 16 meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the county legislature, Sheriff Ken Lansing stated that then-Undersheriff Derek Osborne failed to call the sheriff on his landline upon hearing that the local SWAT team had been called upon. Instead he merely left a message on the sheriff ’s cell phone, which he found when he got in range on his way to work at 6 a.m. the next morning.

Why is this significant? Because the Tompkins County sheriff is an elected official; therefore he represents the public. When he is present, he is a proxy for the rest of us. Lansing takes this seriously. In conversation he repeatedly states that Tompkins County residents insist on transparency and that they are averse to violent, militaristic tactics.

Local policy does not require that the elected official who knows the most

about law enforcement be on the scene at the beginning of an incident when he is, in fact, reachable.

Some things went right. Police procedure allows law enforcement to fire back as soon as a barricaded suspect takes a shot at them. Local officers held their fire when David Cady fired into the snow hours into the standoff. The sheriff and District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson, another elected official, both refused their permission, when the state police Special Operations Response Team (SORT) wanted to storm the Hornbrook Road home in the afternoon of the second day.

Furthermore, at a February meeting of the New York State Sheriffs Association, Lansing was told by his peers from other counties that there was no reason for him to submit an after-action report for public consumption. He went ahead with it anyway.

Melissa Cady has repeatedly stated that the sheriff ’s deputies threatened to call Child Protective Services and have the children removed from the parents’ custody. This has not been verified or denied by any statement from the deputies. It is in the police record in an interview with Melissa Cady on Jan. 1, many hours after David Cady ended contact with CINT negotiator Mike Gray.

Whether the deputy made the threat or not, it seems very important to know what the Cadys believed law enforcement might do.

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

his past weekend was the first of spring, and you might have had to change your weekend plans a bit when you woke to see snow globe conditions out your window. Forget the spring cleaning visit to the car wash, for instance.

A dove and a jay in my yard’s apple tree looked a little forlorn and disgruntled to me, wings drawn in tight, heads down. I can’t imagine what kind of plans they had to change, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have any. (They can’t imagine the same about me, after all, and I did.) At least I get to be inside.

The ability to be inside, and to dress in as many warm clothes as you like, renders winter not so bad to me. Moving fast helps, too. In summer, on the other hand, heat and humidity make moot how slow you might move or how much clothing you might remove (there are practical limits to each, of course).

Extremes of weather are less severe in Ithaca than other places. The lakes help with that. In winter, the topographical and temperature diversity they supply help mitigate snowstorms that will bury Syracuse.

In summer—well, they are water.

If you complain about weather at all, I think you have to pick heat or cold—one or the other. It can’t be both. I only wish I had a good enough memory to bust my Januaryhating friends when they are grousing next July.

I know it was a tough winter in the region (Buffalo and Boston both suffered immensely), and even the immediate area, but downtown Ithaca was all right. My personal barometer is how many times I have to dig out my car, which was just once.

A few years ago, my friend E. moved to Ithaca from New York City. He was avid for a life-changing move, but had misgivings

about the winters here, in country he construed as lovely and essentially benign, but conspicuously close to Canada, home of the Yukon.

He decided if you can’t beat it, enjoy it. Growing up in the Bronx, he knew more about baseball and basketball than other sports, but decided to delve into winter activities. He bought snowshoes, ice skates, and skis. He read books about ice fishing.

He asked if anyone wanted to chip in on a toboggan.

He bought everything you can think of to prepare for winter. Wind pants, wool pants, thermal suit, parka, earmuffs, a tuque, boots, Hudson Bay blanket, flannel sheets, arctic sleeping bag, Sterno, a Coleman stove, an ergonomic shovel, solar-powered flashlights, clocks and radios, a Volvo with snow tires—everything but a St. Bernard.

As a result, the winter E. moved here was the mildest on record, and it barely snowed the next four years. Ski lodges went bankrupt.

We used to joke that E. was single-handedly responsible for global warming.

Two weeks ago, we sprung the clocks ahead for daylight savings time, which I personally loathe—not just that night, when we lose the hour of sleep, but the whole thing.

Who really needs it to be light until 9:30 p.m.? The earlier it gets dark, the earlier one can go to bed without feeling like a slouch.

Come summer, the birds outside my window, so scant and muted today, will be an avian alarm clock, in full and forceful flock, chirping wildly a mere six hours, sometimes, after sunset. Who needs that? Personally, I will just as soon have long nights as long days.

No need to keep track on me, friends— you will not hear me complain next fall, when we set the clocks right again. Again: pick one or the other. •

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An interesting snippet of a larger issue: It’s understandable how this issue has generated so much concern and debate. I’m a Cayuga County resident, town of Genoa, just a couple miles north of the [Cayuga power] plant. I was an environmental and geotechnical driller for 10 years in this state, and now I construct and service natural gas distribution systems.

I have a hard time digesting the notion that anyone would still want to burn coal.

When the wind blows from the south, the fallout from that plant hits my house and community, and when it blows from the north, guess what Ithaca? It falls out on your neighbors and community. Because of new emission regulations, the fallout is greatly reduced, but believe me there is still a recorded toxic emission coming out of that h e

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Then there’s the contaminated, highly toxic fly ash! Millions of tons of it. That’s right, millions of tons. This byproduct from burning coal has been piling up in our neighborhood for decades. You can drive by or walk to the perimeter of the Cayuga plant and witness the mountains of fly ash to the east and north of the facility.

There has already been at least one known disaster at the unlined dumping grounds to the far east of the plant off of Davis Road. There was a major landslide of the toxic material years ago. This is another location with millions of tons of stockpiled toxic fly ash.

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state governments allow the reckless killing n March 8 I had the privilege of black men, including her son, who was of walking across the Edmunds suffocated to death by New York City Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, police officers after exclaiming “I can’t to commemorate the 50th anniversary breathe” eleven times. Such killing not of “Bloody Sunday.” The experience was only eliminates the possibility of exercising both sacred and humbling. Over 100,000 voting rights for the deceased, but also people gathered on that hot Sunday heightens tension between the community morning, linking arms with each other, and law enforcement, resulting in an and walking in harmony to the tune of the apathetic attitude toward the power of the Negro spirituals we sang along the way. poll. The sentiment becomes: what can The crossing was a historic celebration of voting change when the passage of the the dignity of life is Voting Rights Act disregarded by the of 1965 and the few police officers progress made in elected to protect America’s political and to serve? landscape.

The mock trial Consider what reminded me of this march looked all the hardships like 50 years ago: black Americans more than 520 overcame by civil rights leaders, Johnetta Cole and Thaddeus Talbot at Pettus Bridge. uniting to achieve including Dr. (Photo provided) equality. President Martin Luther King Barack Obama Jr., Congressman acknowledged this truth in his speech: “The John Lewis, the Student Nonviolent Americans who crossed this bridge were Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference not physically imposing. But they gave courage to millions. They held no elected (SCLC) carried satchels filled with extra office. But they led a nation. They marched food and clothing for the 50-mile walk to as Americans who had endured hundreds the Montgomery state capitol. They were of years of brutal violence, and countless confronted by Alabama state troopers daily indignities—but they didn’t seek wielding billy clubs and gas grenades. special treatment, just the equal treatment Within minutes the melee now known as promised to them almost a century before.”

“Bloody Sunday” became the backdrop for While I met and walked with many the biggest voting rights drive in American great leaders that weekend, including Dr. history.

Johnetta Cole, Reverend Jesse Jackson, But in 2015, all that awaited us on Roland Martin, Danny Glover, Bev Bib the other end of the bridge was a huge gospel concert. State troopers were present, Debo, and the living members of the march in Selma from fifty years ago, my source of but they were greeting not beating. If we inspiration came mostly from the ordinary juxtapose the scene in 2015 from that people who shared a firm, unequivocal of 1965, it would seem that our country belief in the right to vote, and marched in has made significant progress in granting Selma not for the pomp and circumstance voting rights to its citizens—and it has. of participating, but because they desired But as I learned from local community to carry on a historic and sacred struggle. I members, the struggle for the full am forever reminded of my responsibility realization of voting rights is far from over. as a leader in the younger generations to Take, for example, the mock trial uphold the legacy of civil rights advocacy competition in Selma for which I served as the foreman. It tackled the issue of whether but also create it anew. So that generations to come will find their own path towards the federal government should be held responsible for the abrogation of the voting full equality.

That said, I would like to thank all of rights act. The prosecution convincingly my supporters for helping me to experience argued that the heightened trends of mass the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday incarceration against minorities and the in Selma. In two weeks, I was able to raise concocted voter identification laws, like those in Wisconsin, serve as an institutional $1,095 from Cornell faculty, staff, alumni, close friends, and many others and created blockage for potential voters, many of a website where all of the photos and videos whom are black. The defense rebutted that from my weekend in Selma are displayed. states, not the federal government, are to The website is www.walkwiththaddeus. blame for these unfair laws. Nonetheless, com. • both sides conceded that disparate Thaddeus Talbot is a fourth-year treatment discrimination is alive and well. undergraduate in the ILR School, majoring One of the most powerful moments in Industrial and Labor Relations. He of that trial was when the mother of Eric Garner, Gwen Carr, took the witness stand. plans to work in the labor movement as a field organizer after graduation in May. The crowd grew silent. I, along with 10 He recently earned the Irving Ives award, other jury members, inched forward in given to one Cornell senior in honor the ILR our seats as if magnetized by her presence.

School founder.

Ms. Carr spoke about the ways in which

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Natural gas is the most practical option.

There will be no shortage in the foreseeable future. Sure the price may fluctuate, but when you weigh the alternative, there is only one choice. Yes, it is a fossil fuel and does have emissions, but for now it’s the way to go. We, as a community and a country, will eventually phase into alternative energy sources, but it can’t happen overnight.

Which brings me to the next point.

Why are there no wind turbines situated on the high ground at that facility? All that open space on the toxic fly ash beds seems to be an ideal location for a solar farm.

There is a massive and powerful 24-hour-aday—when the plant is running—discharge of water flowing into Cayuga Lake from the plant. Is there no electric generating turbine harnessing that energy?

These are the “back up” options for the Cayuga Operating Company. Not coal!

The shut-it-down option: that is no option. Who came up with that? Those good jobs at that plant are important to this community, as is the tax base.

The railroad that leads to the plant has one sole purpose: to transport heavy cargo cars of coal to that plant. This resource has great potential also. What a wonderful outlet for scenic train rides. Or, even bolder, it could be an avenue to create a state-ofthe-art light rapid-transit line (electric, of course) to provide an artery for commuters to Ithaca and beyond. If I were working in Ithaca, that quiet, electric, scenic ride down the lake twice a day would cheer me up on every ride every day. Not to mention the money I’d be saving.

As far as I know, the distribution gas pipeline(s) end(s) at the high school in Lansing. It would be no great task to extend those lines north, all the way to Aurora if possible. The gas company would, I’m sure, welcome the project. I personally have no natural gas service at my home and neither do my neighbors. We all would love to have the option of this resource. A small metering station or two is no big deal. A 6- or 8-inch line running to the Cayuga Operating Co. plant is no huge deal, and the small-diameter plastic extension line for residential customers beyond the plant can be installed in the same ditch as the larger distribution trunk line.

All these options will also create good jobs—technical, high-paying jobs—for the future.

Coal is extinct! And continuing to burn it as an energy source is ludicrous. Its byproducts and residuals are killing our environment and us. Where’s our cleaner vision of the future, people? Where are our leaders’ vision? Shutting down that plant is not an option. It would be a mistake of major proportions.

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Lansing, the incident commander, has stated that during the standoff he knew nothing of this accusation and furthermore that he was not told that David Cady was suicidal. If the incident commander does not have this information, then there is little reason for him to not give the goahead to continue with normal procedure, which was to make the barricaded suspect progressively more uncomfortable and off balance.

In making this accusation Melissa Cady is expressing, at the very least, a deep distrust of law enforcement. In their expressions of outrage and contempt at public meetings and in communications to this newspaper, some of the residents of Danby and the rest of the county are indicating that they share that deep distrust.

You can believe that this distrust has no basis in experience, that it is merely a free-floating dislike of authority. But the pervasive nature of this distrust argues in favor of it having some basis in reality.

In addition, there have been incidents that have actually made their way before the public eye that have shown law enforcement officers behaving in ways that reduced their credibility. This sort of thing makes it very difficult for officers who are carrying out their duties responsibly at all times. • Boathouse

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their May meeting anyway, so making a decision could be postponed without great consequence.

At the March 23 meeting Ray Benjamin, superintendent of Public Works, checked with city attorney Ari Lavine to make sure the delay would not affect the city’s coffers.

“If this license didn’t exist, what would happen the rest of this year?” Benjamin asked. “Are we going year to year with an annual renewal? If they don’t have this, do they just get billed $46 instead of $13,000, and we’re out essentially $13,000?”

“Well, in the short term, yes,” Lavine said. “In the long-term, attention has been brought to this issue and choices must be made.”

CBC members must answer some questions before decisions are reached on this issue, by the BPW’s lights. Questions posed by BPW have not yet been answered adequately yet, BPW board member Bill Goldsmith said on March 23.

“We don’t know the difference between members and people who use it who aren’t members,” Goldsmith said.

“I was a rower, I care about it … but I couldn’t figure why they couldn’t say, there’s 300 people who use [the boathouse] and 15 members.”

At the very least BPW can tell Common Council whether at a “bare minimum” the CBC use of the boathouse is appropriate, Mayor Svante Myrick told the board.

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aw enforcement officers surprised and angered members of the public in attendance at the meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the county legislature on Monday, March 16, when they simply read page after page of a report on the New Years standoff in Danby that ended with the death of David Cady. Much of the text read by Tompkins County Undersheriff Brian Robison and Lieutentant Jake Young of the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) was a recapitulation of the information read by Young at PSC meeting in January.

Legislator Nate Shinegawa (D-4th), the PSC chair, let the presentation continue in spite of out-of-order protests from the audience.

When IPD Investigator Mike Gray, who as chief negotiator spoke at length with Cady during the standoff, delivered his remarks, he spoke without notes and with obvious emotion. When the public was eventually allowed to speak, many voiced deep distrust of the police and their conduct.

Only Gray earned any praise from the crowd.

After the death of IPD Investigator Michael Padula in 1996, the IPD created a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team and a Critical Incident Negotiations Team (CINT). Padula died when a mentally ill woman barricaded in her bathroom rushed out and stabbed him. Both SWAT and CINT represented efforts to increase the sophistication of the police response to people who were barricaded, armed, and emotionally disturbed, either because of their circumstances or because they had a pre-existing condition. Since the inception of the local SWAT team in 1998 it has called upon to deal with 34 incidents of barricaded suspects. According to Sheriff Ken Lansing, these standoffs have almost always ended within hours. David Cady refused to surrender for four days. What was different about this case?

Police have said that they followed their protocols and procedures.

Responding to the distrust of police policy and conduct, Danby Town Supervisor Ric Dietrich has called for an independent investigation. The public comments of members of the county legislature, 8 The I thaca Times / M ar

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It has been a month and a half since an armored Bobcat operated by the Pennsylvania State Police tore away a section of wall of a Hornbrook Road home to reveal the prone body of David Cady.

This ended an unprecedented standoff between police and a man with three counts of driving under the influence.

Sheriff ’s deputies had been trying for four months to serve a bench warrant to Cady, who in 2013 had been arrested for his third offense, a felony, and had not reported to court for sentencing.

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deputies insisted they had been watching the home and knew he was there. Melissa Cady shut the door and conferred with her husband. When she returned to the door she told the deputies that her husband had refused to leave the house and that he was armed. The information that Cady was armed invoked a police procedure: a SWAT team would be needed to get David Cady out of his home.

At the March 16 PSC meeting Melissa Cady accused the sheriff ’s deputies of threatening to call Child Protective Services if David Cady did not surrender.

She had also made this claim when police interviewed her on Jan. 1 about the initial encounter on Dec. 30: “Officer (sic) Vann said that I was going to be arrested and that my children could be taken away. We exchanged words. I became upset with Officer Vann and closed the door.” This interview was included in the binder given to county officials, but it was not included

in the 37-page executive summary, nor was this claim ever acknowledged in the report.

Cady also made the claim at the Jan. 6 Danby town board meeting. In a January 22 interview Lansing said that he was unaware that his deputies had threatened to take the Cady children away. He said it had not been in the report he received.

The Jan. 1 interview that included this accusation also took place a day after the last contact with David Cady, so there is no evidence that it was known to Gray during his negotiations with Cady, whom he described as becoming repeatedly and suddenly irrational for no reason that he could discern.

“Sgt. Vann could have said it,” the sheriff said after the full report was released on March 16. “It is not uncommon for law enforcement officers to tell the facts to people. You tell them, ‘This is what could happen.’” Lansing, who has been in law enforcement for over 40 years, said that it legal for police to tell someone that Child Protective Services might take action, but it is neither right for them to threaten to carry out the action themselves nor are they allowed to say such things if they are not true. “In this case,” Lansing said, “they were endangering the welfare of a child. So it was true.”

The sheriff invoked his 17-year involvement with D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) and his ongoing allegiance to CARS (Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services)—he is on the board of directors—as evidence of his knowledge of and concern about drug abuse and families who live with it. “We know what those kids were going through,” he said of the Cady children.

Lansing said that he believes that Melissa Cady “came to her senses” on Dec. 30 when she perceived a “change in her husband’s attitude” and left the house with her children at the deputies’ insistence. He acknowledged, however, the alleged threat to inform Child Protective Services could push events “into a whole other realm.”

“Both officers are gentlemen,” the sheriff said, “and they are honest enough that they would’ve told me if they’d said that.”

After-Action Report and Lessons Learned

The after-action report presented to the PSC on Monday, March 16 included a section entitled “Lessons Learned and Conclusions,” in which the Sheriff ’s Office identified specific areas for improvement in their approach to future incidents.

The first item mentioned is the need for improved communication with civilians and human service agencies, an issue about which Dietrich has repeatedly expressed concern.

The report notes, “In the Danby incident, more should have been done to notify people directly affected by the incident on Hornbrook Road.” Also, the report acknowledges that the county’s human services departments could have offered more assistance to the Cady family had they been contacted more quickly.

New protocols have been put in place to ensure improved communication going forward. As County Administrator Joe Mareane explained at the March 16 meeting, “If there is ever an event like this again in the future, there will be a reachout to the district attorney and to me.” He added, “There is now a protocol in place that if a situation arises there is widespread notification.”

Secondly, the report admits, “The Sheriff should have been directly involved in the incident command earlier in the process.” Previously, some of the county legislators had expressed concern about the fact that Lansing did not arrive on scene until the second day. In his remarks at the PSC meeting, Sheriff Lansing held former Undersheriff Derek Osborne responsible for failing to contact him immediately. He said Osborne knew that he had a landline at his home and he also knew that the sheriff did not have cell phone service there.

The third item on the list is, “Use of the Rook.” Although the report acknowledges the volume of public response to the destruction of the home, it does not make clear whether the Sheriff ’s Office would use different deployment criteria in the future: “It is also evident that a broad spectrum of citizens are troubled by the destruction of the Cady home and what seems to be a disproportionate response to Mr. Cady’s decision to barricade himself inside the house.

“It is hard to imagine another local event that will duplicate the situation in Danby. However, it is right to ask whether a Rook or other apparatus that damages or destroys a property would be used in such a situation.

“In the view of the Sheriff ’s Office, the use of a Rook as a last-resort means of safely extracting an armed and presumably dangerous individual should not be taken off the table as an option in the future. It remains preferable to the gamut of lethal options—all of which were available to law enforcement and ruled out.”

The final area listed for improvement is addressing logistical issues. The report concludes that establishing a secondary

location for handling some aspects of the scene would have made it easier to address logistics, including providing information to the community.

Police Policy

Stephen Downing, a retired police chief who spent two decades with Los Angeles Police Department and helped to found the SWAT team in that city in the 1970s, has offered an independent expert opinion on the events that transpired on Hornbrook Road. Overall, he lauded the sheriff ’s efforts to avoid any fatalities, although he did have some questions about the way things played out.

“My reaction was that, of course, as police officers, you hope that police officers’ view toward the use of deadly force is always the last resort possible,” he said, “and it certainly appears that this

any intent to use the weapons in the home.

Also, he was surprised by the sheriff ’s reasons for deciding to punch holes in the structure. When the Ithaca Times interviewed Lansing, he cited three primary reasons for punching holes in the house: to insert gas canisters, to provide a line of sight for officers, and to make Cady uncomfortable so that he might be persuaded to surrender himself.

Downing found it odd that officers cut holes to insert gas: “I saw the picture, and usually gas is put in through a window, if you cut a big hole in the wall—it was almost the whole side of the house—I don’t know what gas is going to do. I’ve never heard of that.” Regarding the use of the Rook and BearCat to get a better line of sight and make Cady uncomfortable, Downing said, “I guess that could be a strategy just to get visual and get the guy moving—I’ve never heard it being done that way.” Downing said he typically would only expect that type of destruction to occur in the process of having SWAT officers enter the home.

Terry Garahan, a social worker and one of the founders of CINT, monitored the events at Hornbrook Road through the news as they unfolded and also read the after-action report when it was published.

In his letter to the editor (published in the Feb. 18 Ithaca Times) Garahan stated, “It seems strange that at a time when police agencies throughout the country are being confronted about the killing of citizens, the public in Tompkins County is outraged by police agencies doing everything possible not to kill a resident.”

Garahan described the local SWAT and CINT groups as unique in the collaboration among different law enforcement agencies and in The legislature has not given their incorporation any indication that it intends to of mental health investigate the matter any further, professionals in nor that it plans to request an the planning and investigation from the Attorney as members of the General’s office.

CINT team. “During Legislator Dan Klein every incident I was (D-7th), who represents Danby involved in,” he said, (and Caroline), had some “suicide lethality concerns about the logistics of assessment was an investigation: “When I think ongoing. about an investigation I have In response two questions. One, who would to the after-action I n v e s t i g at o r M i k e G r ay ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n) do it that would be considered report, Garahan independent? And the other dismissed the absence question is, what is the question they of the sheriff during the first night of [sheriff] tried to honor that philosophy of would be investigating? People have a the standoff as unimportant. “What is policing.” hard time answering that—and I think the important,” he said, “is that the Command Regarding the questions about when second one is maybe the most important Officers at the scene are trained and David Cady actually died and whether one. Is the question, did the police use too competent. In this case as in all others I the standoff needed to continue as long as much force? Is the question, did the police am aware of this has been true.” He also it did, Downing said, “As far as knowing do something wrong? Again, I don’t know defended the use of the Rook. “Used whether the guy was dead ahead of who would answer that question. I haven’t properly it saves lives,” the social worker time, I’m completely sympathetic to that heard good suggestions on how to do it.” said. “It was used after all else failed. Let’s because they don’t know. The safest thing Legislature Vice-Chair Jim Dennis have each municipality and the colleges to do is to assume the worst.”

(D-5th) expressed similar concerns at the chip in for a fund to repair and replace Downing said that the level of Tuesday, March 17 legislature meeting, after these events.” destruction was not necessarily excessive adding that no investigation would change According to Garahan, law or unprecedented: “I have seen that level the outcome: “You would still end up with enforcement had no reason to believe that of destruction rendered in the past, and the same result. A house was taken apart, this barricade would not end as 34 others there’s times when it appeared to be had. “This was unusual,” he said, “and it necessary and there are times when it may and a man died.” Dennis also worried about the cost of an investigation, saying, is always a bad idea to make policy after have appeared to be excessive. I think that “I think that would be pouring money … unusual events. It is sad that Mr Cady judgment is made on the basis of the facts good money after other money.” ended his life. Was all the effort to save his that are available at the time.”

Klein noted that a number of life worth it? I think so.”

However, he was surprised that the individuals have sent letters to the officers who initially served the warrant Attorney General’s office, but it isn’t clear did not enter the house to apprehend whether they would be able to investigate David Cady, commenting, “That’s why Sheriff Lansing has shared his views given the state police involvement in the you have a warrant.” Although Lansing on how the incident was handled and incident. Both Klein and Chair Mike Lane cited the presence of a weapon as part of many community members have been indicated that they were not aware of any the reason for deploying SWAT, Downing vocal about their opinions as well—but collective interest from fellow legislators in placed more emphasis on learning about what does an outside expert think? requesting such an investigation. • any possible history of violence and about

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ometimes, excellence—or even milestones for the Big Red, as the team dominance—can feed not our won its 13th consecutive Ivy League title, appreciation, but our expectations. and has not lost to an Ancient Eight When I was a child, the Yankees were on opponent in 68 matches. The team also the downside of their years of dominance, won its unprecedented ninth straight and almost every year, when I heard that EIWA title, and has not lost an EIWA the Yankees were headed to another World match in 42 tries.

Series, I would think, “Okay… That’s what Obviously, with a sophomore they are supposed to do.” national champ and several other topI have been paying close attention shelf wrestlers in the pipeline, Cornell’s to Cornell wrestling for the last 25 years, dominant run does not look to end because I was working there when anytime soon. Koll’s program draws Rob Koll was busloads of high school teams hired, and there to matches, because every high school coach wants his was something about the guy athletes to look at what can that conveyed happen when a wrestler makes that he would a commitment to be at the top build something of his class, and on top of his exceptional. By any opponents. measure, he has.

I spoke to Rob after the After the team returned, and the coach NCAA tournament echoed what I said about closed out last expectations. “When you have weekend, the finished in the top five so many story line was, times … it’s not that we’re not well, predictable. grateful, but we get kind of Cornell finished in greedy. We want more. We want fifth place, higher to be on the top of the podium.” than wrestling Regarding the type of powerhouses such athletes he coaches, Koll as Penn State, said, “These kids are focused, Gabe Dean (Photo: Lindsey Mechalik Oklahoma State and it’s very demanding, and Missouri, academically and athletically. the Big Red had We have wrestlers studying in at least four athletes earn All-American hotel rooms.” recognition for the 10th time in the last That is obviously not the case with many other programs, and the fact is, Koll 11 seasons, and when Gabe Dean bull and his staff can’t even have a realistic rushed his way through the field on his recruiting conversation with 90 percent of way to the national crown at 184 pounds, high school wrestlers. Learning to balance he became Cornell’s seventh national such demanding disciplines does translate champion in eight years. Not bad for a to great life skills, however, and Koll program that brings in elite-level student/ offered, “Even during the recession, our athletes without the promises of athletic athletes never had a problem finding jobs scholarships. Koll must also recruit after graduating.” wrestlers that have long ago learned to I asked Rob if Gabe Dean has a good manage their time and meet elite-level shot at winning three national titles, and academic demands. he answered, “Everyone is back in his Dean, as mentioned, rolled through weight class, but nobody works harder the tournament, beating Lehigh’s than Gabe, so he’ll be fine.”

Nathaniel Brown in the final. It was the • • • fourth time the sophomore had defeated Congratulations to Ithaca College Brown this season, on his way to a solid wrestling coach Marty Nichols on being 43-2 record. Throughout the year, Dean named the ECWC Coach of the Year. was under the microscope as the #1 seed, The Bomber went 11-2 in dual meets this and he handled that pressure as well as he season, and Nichols notched his 200th handled his opponents.

Sophomore Brian Realbuto also made career win.

• • • it to the finals, but came up short and will Congratulations also to Cornell have two more shots at the title. sophomore Victoria Wines for her Junior Nahshon Garrett, by finishing third-place finish at the NCAA Fencing fifth at 125 pounds, became a three-time All-American, and senior Chris Villalonga championships. Cornell has not had a national champion since 1994, and Wines finished sixth at 149 pounds to earn his has two more opportunities to be the next All-American status. one. • This season marked a few more

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rea residents are probably most familiar with Lonnie Park as the singer and keyboard player in the band Ten Man Push (TMP) and the duo Johnny & Lonnie, both of which also include singer/guitarist John West. Between the two bands, which perform mostly covers at local venues such as Sideline Grill & Tap Room in Cortland, Plantation Bar & Grill in Ithaca, and Punk’s Place in Candor (to name but a few), Park logs nearly 200 shows a year. Less overt, but equally central to his performing career, is the fact that Park is also an extremely gifted songwriter, recording engineer, and session musician who runs his own production company, Ultimate Sound, LLC. And, as if that isn’t enough of a workload, he also recently developed an audio engineering program for Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) where he now teaches.

Now, however, with the release of his debut CD, Almost Showtime (independent), Park will officially add solo artist to that list of accomplishments, and it’s easy to gauge, when speaking with him, that Almost Showtime is quite possibly his proudest moment. Incidentally, Park has been involved in so many recording projects over the years it’s hard to believe that Almost Showtime is his first-ever solo CD. But it is. And in celebration of that fact, he will host a record release party at the Stone Lounge in Cortland on Friday, April 3 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Lonnie Park below: Ten Man Push (Photos: Provided)

Stylistically, the music on Almost Showtime could be termed ‘country-rock.’ Songs like “Chasing Big Bucks” (which was released digitally on Feb. 17), “Good Old Fashioned Lovin’,” and “Out Of This World” sound more like they came straight out of a Nashville studio, rather than central New York. And though Almost Showtime is clearly a showcase for Park’s singing

and songwriting skills, what it really embodies and brings together, in a unified way, are the many experiences that have helped shape his career so far. From his Baptist upbringing to session and songwriting work with Grammynominated and Grammy-winning artists like Arun Shenoy and Ricky Kej, to touring the country with TMP, to commandeering an educational program, Park’s Almost Showtime can really be summed up as the culmination of his life’s work.

Park was born in Ithaca and first started singing as a kid in church. “I grew up in a super Baptist home,” he said. “I went to a Baptist school—I was pretty much immersed in church seven days a week.” Though he was involved in music at church from a young age, he confesses that it wasn’t something he took seriously until he was about 17 years old.

“Eventually, one day, a light bulb went on in my head and I thought, ‘Wow, I can actually be a musician.’ And then I realized, ‘I already am a little bit.’ That’s when my passion for music just took off.”

That passion eventually led to his long-running collaboration with West and the formation of the band TMP. Though the band did achieve some success and continues to tour nationally almost every year, Park still had the itch to craft an album uniquely his own. “TMP is definitely a collaborative project with a longtime friend and great musician,” he said, speaking about his partnership with West. “That’s how it started—he continued on page 16

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Even with bands you don’t care for, as an open-minded music fan it’s never a bad idea to learn about guys like Lee, guitarist

Alex Lifeson and percussionist Neil Peart, that they were kids and had their own interesting experiences. Even if I never liked Rush that much, I couldn’t peg them to any other group. According to the film, they were considered a rip-off of Led Zeppelin, but I never really got that. It’s also good that the film spends time on early founding members Jeff Jones and John Rutsey.

So yeah, Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen’s doc didn’t make me add a bunch of Rush albums to my iTunes. Now knowing their history, I certainly respect them more, along with the aspects of the band that I already

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did respect: their independence, unique approach to prog rock, and most especially Lifeson’s guitar work throughout all of the band’s different styles. If they ever put out a Rush box set with the vocals removed, I might just become a Rush convert.

Why stop there? How about a threehour-plus doc on the quintessential California 70’s band? History of the Eagles, produced by the legendary Alex Gibney, serves up everything you’d want to know about the Glen Frey/Don Henley sound, from their beginnings backing up Linda Ronstadt to their reunion in the ‘90s.

Like most band portraits, the story slides from band unity to cutthroat ambition. One example: when Don Felder didn’t get to sing his own songs on the record, we cut to Henley in interview mode, hard and mean: “I don’t believe we made any promises.” Oooof. Felder also offended Frey at a political benefit to the point where the two men were threatening each other between songs. (Nor did Felder care for the financial split arranged by Frey and Henley, and sometime after their reunion, Felder was out of the band for good.)

Just as a fan, I’m happy that the film has so much well-shot concert footage of Joe Walsh, another fine guitar player who has been such an influence on my playing.

His guitar skills and song arrangements transcend petty band politics.

• • • Lately, the DC direct-to-video movies have been hit and miss for me, but I enjoyed Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, directed by Ethan Spaulding. As we wait for the live-action Aquaman in Zack Snyder’s Superman sequel next year, he finally gets a centerpiece role in the new movie. When Atlantean troops assault Metropolis as revenge for the death of their king, the queen seeks help from the Justice League to find her son who has gone missing during the madness.

I’m no parent, but parents might want to watch this one first, considering that Superman (Jerry O’Connell) and Wonder Woman (Rosario Dawson) are depicted in a seriously physical romantic clinch, and the language is PG, if not PG-13.

Voice director Andrea Romano keeps hiring new vocal talent for DC’s most iconic characters, and while I always hear Kevin Conroy’s voice when I think of the Dark Knight, it’s fun to hear other actors get to crack the starring roles: Sean Astin channels ‘60s Burt Ward as Robin for the boyish, enthusiastic Shazam, and Nathan Fillion as the Flash just keeps getting better and funnier. •

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is unstructured and raw in the best of rowsing photography blogs online, ways, designed to appear like the walls I recently came across a post by of an artist’s studio as the prints populate Los Angeles artist Fette Sans, who the tiny walk-in space that constitutes uploaded an image of a series of blackthe gallery. Some of the canvases are and-white photographs of men and women’s bodies. The photos were scattered complete, hung or propped against the wall; others are about a table, simply un-stretched each printed on canvas squares with a piece of white occasional blue or pink paper. splotches on their Underneath the borders, pinned up image the artist with clothespins. typed simply: The pieces range in “When an size, some small and inspiring studio some large, dancing visit reevaluates around and about the threat of one another from one using the word work to the next. ‘beauty.’”

In this way, in Intriguingly, the eclectic mixture this statement of presentations and comes to mind how the images work when reflecting off of one another, on local artist Salfi still managed Kadie Salfi’s to incorporate current show, Dancer by Kadie Salfi (Photo: Provided) visual movement which is up within her curation at New Roots to counter each image’s otherwise stasis.

Charter School’s Elevator Music and Art “Each week I will make changes to the Gallery for one more week, until the end space,” she wrote in her statement, “take of the month. Salfi’s Tippy Toe Dancers some pieces away, add some, hang high features ballerinas as its main subject, or low to add movement to these graceful captured in instants of action and printed dancers.” By shifting the works and as blue cyanotypes, which is a non-toxic introducing new ones, it’s as if the dancers photographic printing process where the carry new life as they move about the image can be exposed through sunlight. space, as if they continue to dance and will Each dancer stands frozen in pose with a leg stretched behind her or arms overhead. continue to dance forever, regardless of whether we viewers see them do it or not.

In some prints, strokes of green, pink, or What’s interesting too about the show orange acrylics splash across the canvases, is that based on its overall execution and accentuating lines of the dancer’s body and the movement therein, the curves and fluidity, Tippy Toe Dancers ultimately appears less like an exhibition of bends of the composition as a whole. individual prints than a thought process Whether intentional or not, there still in formation, prompting its viewers is a haunting quality to the show, which to look beyond the images themselves to surfaces from the blue figures that consider what more they could represent. extend out like shadows in their series of stretches, isolated and confined within the It’s no surprise that Salfi’s interest in squares of their canvases and often slightly ballerinas began as a gender study. During a college course she took at CalArts in blurred, surrounded by a blue emulsion the 1990s, Salfi became intrigued by the haze. The figures are like memories in the concept of semiotics and the possible process of erasing themselves from one’s hidden meanings and implications mind, dissolving into the bare basis of present within images, the expectations form and the uncanny qualities of beauty that remains. The dancers are thus reduced and readings they bring forth. Ballerinas are viewed as graceful, beautiful, and to their movements, repetitive and feminine, but there is a powerfulness and stiffened by ink, but it is with the poise and mechanic grace that defines ballet that athleticism to them as well. They cannot be defined only by their fragility as much leaves the show weighted with magnetic more strength lies within their wake. • wonder.

One arresting quality about Salfi’s Tippy Toe Dancers will be on display work and how she chose to display it at New Roots Charter School, Elevator is her interest in experimentation and Music and Art Gallery, 116 North Cayuga how unafraid she is to show her works’ Street/ The Clinton House, until March 31. seams. Tippy Toe Dancers as a whole

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his is a crazily brilliant book, although dark and troubling.

Gaha: Babes of the Abyss is a novel set in L.A., a half a millennium in the future, in 2540 A.D., but it is also a detective novel. It was written by the Ithaca author Jon Frankel (who works in the Cornell University library system).

Science fiction and crime fiction are two of my favorite genres, and Babes of the Abyss is a mash-up of the two.

A few thoughts: First on the sci-fi aspect, a number of commentators have said that Frankel’s vision is in the tradition of Philip K. Dick. But if I could say something heretical here, I think Frankel is actually a better world builder than Philip K. Dick.

Don’t get me wrong. Dick was one of the most crazy and brilliant writers who ever worked in the English language. But Dick’s novels, as great as they are, strike me as constructions, while Frankel’s future L.A. seems real to me.

Perhaps this is because he is more attentive to the natural world, the ocean, the desert, the animals, the flora, the stars, whatever.

Regarding the noir.

When I said that crime fiction was a genre love of mine, truthfully detective fiction is my genre love. But I think of crime fiction as a corollary of detective fiction.

I tend toward depression, and crime fiction, with its bleak depiction of humanity, can be a bit difficult for me. For instance, after reading a couple of chapters of James Elroy, I always feel like I need to take a shower.

And Frankel’s characters are seriously depraved. But somehow he gets away with it. They are also bizarrely endearing.

And he derives humor from the language. Elma and Irmela’s creative mangling of English reminds me of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, where his Eastern European cartoonist Joe Kavalier does equally amusing things with the language.

(And, indeed, at his best, Frankel has a kind of twisted, inspired Thomas

McGuane-like dance in his dialogue.)

And then there is the matter of black comedy.

Frankel’s narrative goes so crazily over-the-top that it dances to the edge of a kind of black comedy. To me, it doesn’t seem to go right over the edge, but sort of hangs there dancing on the fault line.

An example: When our tarnished heroes kill someone, they wash the blood down the drain and it ends up growing a “mutant pseudo-life form” down there in the sewer lines. And they have to call a plumber, a Shakespearian clown who arrives in a rocket-shaped truck, to burn the monstrosity out with sulfuric acid … a sort of H.P. Lovecraft/Edgar Allan Poe black sitcom sequence.

And now I’d like to deal with what I might call the terrible truthfulness of Frankel’s vision …

Would that it were not so.

In my lifetime I have lived through so many foreign wars, frankly, it’s hard to keep them all straight.

So, truthfully, it is not much of stretch to imagine my erstwhile home of southern California degenerating into a future Balkanized hell-zone.

This does not make me happy. It is deeply troubling.

But it is a fundamental reality of human existence on planet Earth.

Jon Frankel’s work is something else again. It may not be exactly to my taste … indeed it makes me want to shoot myself or jump into one of our beautiful gorges here in Ithaca … but I say, God love him, it is a ferocious and mighty thing he is attempting to pull off.

Babes of the Abyss may not be exactly my cup of tea … but it is a towering accomplishment.

This is a difficult and disturbing book, but brilliant and entertaining, scarily truthful, darkly comic and weirdly poetic. •

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f you’re old enough to remember the song “Hernando’s Hideaway,” you’ll know what I mean by “Knock three times and ask for Joe.” The most recent addition to Ithaca’s galaxy of terrific upscale restaurants, Gola Osteria is hidden away on the first floor of an apartment building on South Quarry Street. There’s precious little signage—in fact, once you’ve passed the fish fountain, the only thing that’ll clue you in is a paper sign pasted on the apartment house door. Once you’ve found it, you’ll remember. Ring the bell. They’ll buzz you in.

We’ve enjoyed two dinners there, happily returning because (1) its staff and customers seem so happy to be there and so were we, (2) the menu is very Tuscan and very adventurous, changing regularly, and (3) because it’s the only place in town we know of where you can find gnocchi lunghi, a kind of spaghetti on steroids—fat and chewy—which the chef presents at its elemental best, with olive oil, salt and pepper, and a dusting of parmigiano. It was the pride of the old Lucatelli’s, and Gola Osteria had the wisdom to purchase

the dies when that place closed. It’s made fresh on the premises.

We’ve also enjoyed the osteria’s (tavern’s) spectacular towering dish of grilled octopus on white beans, as well as a lardo and pizza fritte appetizer—thin slices of the traditional cured fatback salumi draped over little zeppole-like pieces of fried dough. Eggplant parmigiana sidesteps the typical red-sauce-heavybreaded-and-deep-fried preparation in favor of a lighter, but still unctuous dish, its eggplant slices interspersed with house-made mozzarella on a pool of fresh-tasting tomato coulis, the entirety scented with fresh basil. A venison osso buco arrived atop meltingly sweet slices of roast parsnip and a sweet stew of farro; the flavors were pitch-perfect. Sweetbreads, house-made sausages, cured beef tongue, and a revolving menu of salads, pastas, and appetizers (don’t miss the mussels in hard cider with pancetta) fill out the picture. There’s a short list of desserts, including a lovely plate of the kinds of cookies reminiscent of Christmas cookie exchanges, and no matter how full you are,

there’s always room for panna cotta.

The wines are, for the most part, Italian, with a modest bow to the Finger Lakes’ Red Tail Ridge and Hermann J. Wiemer, and there’s a nice list of cocktails and a few local beers. Waitstaff know the menu and are attentive.

According to the restaurant’s website, Chef Sam Epps began his culinary journey as a high school student, cooking at The Coddington on Ithaca’s South Hill, then attended the Big Apple’s French Culinary Institute. He refined his culinary skills in Tuscany, and has also cooked under a number of celebrity chefs in New York, including Mario Batali at the New York Times 3-star Babbo Ristorante. He has the cred, he has the talent, and he and his wife, Kami Drake, who oversees Gola Osteria’s Chef Sam Epps (Photo: Provided) the front of the house, runs a cheerful, efficient place. If you’ve been there in one of its previous Over the years it has also been home to restaurant iterations, you’ll recognize the restaurants headed by two of Ithaca’s most comfortable Stickley furniture. When (if) memorable chefs, Etienne Merle and the weather turns warm, there’s a covered Renee Senne. We are pleased that it has deck for outdoor enjoyment. again fallen into capable hands.

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and I built the band around an album we recorded. We did seven national tours and that had great success. But I’ve wanted to do a solo album for a very, very long time.

So I did this album over the course of the last year.”

Almost Showtime differs from the Motocross-inspired hard rock sound of TMP in that it leans much more heavily on a modern country sound. “I think every musician naturally has an area that no matter what they do, it’s going to sound like them,” he said. “And at heart I’m a country guy. I’ve played pop music, gospel, and heavy metal, but my roots are in country. I drive a pick-up truck and own a hunting camp, a pile of shotguns, and more camouflage than regular clothes.

When it came to doing my album the

music was sounding kind of country, so I just went that way. That’s where the chips were falling. It’s what I really enjoy writing. If you listen to TMP and you listen to my solo album, you’re going to hear a lot of common denominators. A lot of the melody structures come from the same place and the vocal tones sound like me.”

Park says that much of the leg work he’s conducted on behalf of Almost Showtime thus far has been a learning process about how the music industry works nowadays. “For independent artists without a ton of money, it is tough,” he admitted. “All you can hope for is to position yourself to be picked up by a major label.

Or maybe gain enough traction to be able to make some money on your own. But as far as getting on regular rotation on the

radio stations as an independent artist, that’s a tough one.”

He’s currently trying to sort that out with the help of Stephen Aristei, a former Warner Bros. vice president who has taken Park under his wing. “His hope is for me to gain enough traction independently to be taken serious by a real label,” said Park.

And by ‘real’ label, he means a major or a powerful independent. “He wants to present my album to a label. So, I’ve been given this task to get as much visibility as I can, so he can then demonstrate that it’s starting to grow some legs. A big part of it is getting people hyped up about data.”

Park is hoping that the album release party at the Stone Lounge in Cortland will generate some of that data. “We’re going to have a host band and hopefully a lot of the

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area musicians will be there to do guest performances,” he said about the event. “I will be doing a handful of songs from the album for sure.” He also plans to roll out the red carpet, literally. “I see it done quite often in Los Angeles, at celebrity parties, but out here, I’ve never seen or heard of a red carpet party, so we decided to add that element for fun. There will be a red carpet with a backdrop, and we’ll have photographers on hand so that people can take pictures if they want.” His hope, he said, is to simply celebrate the fact that his album is finally coming out. “I hope to mingle with a lot of people, talk about the album and have a lot of fun. We’re hoping to have a lot of local press on hand as well.”

Park refers to Almost Showtime as a “modern collaborative” album and considers that tag the new norm for making albums and recording on an independent level. “You work with other musicians, just like you did in the past, only now you don’t fly anybody in to play drums on your album,” he said. “You allow them to work in the space they already have, wherever that is.” Park achieved this by e-mailing audio files to them and having them email their tracks back to him. With today’s technology, instead of having four or five guys (or women) in the same location to record an album, it’s possible to work with anybody around the world, which is exactly what he did.

“For my album,” Park said, “everything was centralized in my studio, but I would say, ‘Hey, I need a violin part.’ And I would find a violin player I wanted to work with, and it could be anybody on the planet. You send them the file and in their hometown or in their own studio they record their part and then send it back. So the modern collaboration is a repetition of that process. The end result is an album of musicians from all over the world.” And the list of musicians on Almost Showtime include some serious industry heavyweights too, including lyricist Bernie Taupin (Elton John), pedal steel player Marty Rifkin (Tom Petty, Dwight Yoakum), and hit songwriter Stephen Allen Davis, among others.

Despite the great strides made over the past decade for independent artists, there continue to be many obstacles, but Park remains optimistic about his prospects. “The music business has been a mess since it’s been a business,” he said with a laugh. “What we’re talking about is just the new state of the music business and you have to figure out what you’re going to do with it. So, for me, I’m just going to try to promote my album as much as I can and get as many placements as I can, and if it garners enough attention to get put in front of a label and it gets picked up, then great. If not, something else will come up. Maybe somebody will hear it and want me to sing on the next Toyota jingle.” • For more on Lonnie Park visit him at lonniepark.com. If you’re interested in learning more about the audio engineering program now offered at TC3 and taught by Lonnie Park, please visit them at www.tc3. edu.

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3/25 Wednesday I-Town Allstars | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Open Drumming and Dancing | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Bring instruments and get ready to play Middle Eastern rhythms.

Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Home On The Grange! featuring Richie Stearns & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser

3/26 Thursday Genome with NEO Project | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Aqueous with Space Carnival | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Show at 9 p.m., doors open at 8.

Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble | 7:00 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | From the heart of Creole country.

Stark Nights | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | A rotating set of musicians anchored

by Michael Stark. This week: MSZM. An intimate duo set, performing a collection of songs Stark wrote for acoustic piano, vintage bass pedals, drums, and the spirit evoked between Michael and Zaun making music together.

Alex G, Lust, Lucia Roberts | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Angry Mom Records, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground.

3/27 Friday Cosmic Theo | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Bert Scholl - Acoustic | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Outlaw Honky-Tonk Country.

Consider The Source with The Quantum | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Head Band | 9:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Psychedelic Rock.

Newman Bros. Present: Ilium Works and Mr. Boneless | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | 18+.

Healer, Disinterest, Constraint, RADSKVM, King Sized Pegasus | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground.

Lynn Wiles and Angie Beeler | 7:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | The Hound Dogs | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Highly danceable classic rock and swing.

Jim Hull | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Friday Happy Hour with Bad Alibi | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca |

3/28 Saturday Ilium Works & The Ithaca Bottom Boys | 10:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | 21+.

Hank Roberts and Phonetix/Tzar | 10:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Tzar opens at 10 p.m.; Hank Roberts goes on at 11.

The Sunshine Group | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Golden Novak Duo | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Soul.

Grey Gary with Ghost of Electricity | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Social Rueda | 9:00 PM-10:00 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Lora Pendleton and Fwends | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | T’burg’s own Multi-Instrumentalist Chanteuse & her Fwends. Closer: The Notorious Stringbusters- Untamed NuFolk Dance Party Songsters. 18+.

Glacial Erotics | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Michael Stark & Jennie Lowe Stearns | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | A cutting edge lounge act with an alluring twist.

Toivo | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Tex-Mex, Finnish, and originals.

Under Construction | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | An Ithaca-based dance band with a mix of rock, blues, country, funk, 50s & 60s, and more.

3/29 Sunday

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College

Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

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

Suitcase Junket | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | One-man band Matt Lorenz pounds out rhythms with his feet and his twang-and-buzz guitar growls through a couple of old tube amps.

Frank Raponi | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Pianist Ed Clute & Vocalist Dee Specker | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Contact Pam Kaminsky, 607-273-1505, or at Info@IthacaOasis.com.

Paul Kempkes “Dr. K” | 12:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Solo with Attitude.

3/30 Monday Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

BRIAN! Release Show | 8:00 PM | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | With powerdove, Grey Gary, +tba. Presented by Ithaca Underground.

Crying, Eskimeaux, Misses Bitches, Naps | 7:00 PM | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground.

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Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415

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Ed Clute | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | Join us every Tuesday for a lively performance from jazz piano virtuoso Ed Clute.

Toivo | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca |

Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Dozens of musicians from throughout New York State will gather in Homer, NY, for the Old Boy Records 2015 Spring Showcase, featuring acoustic performances by area favorites Driftwood, Merkley & Morgan, Los Blancos, and others. Tickets at www.Center4Art.org.

Canticle of the Cross | 7:00 PM | Immaculate Conception Church, 113 N Geneva St, Ithaca | The Immaculate Conception Church’s 4th Lenten Cantata, by Joseph Martin, with an Irish flare to it. Conducted this year by Sherry Scanza, Music Director at St. Catherine’s of Sienna Church.

Cornell Folk Song Society: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason | 8:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | The Grammywinning folk duo return to Ithaca after much too long an absence. Tickets at Ithaca Guitar Works, Autumn Leaves, Greenstar, Bound for Glory, at www. cornellfolksong.org/ or at door. Info: 607-351-1845.

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Annual Women’s Works Concert | 4:00 PM | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Women’s Works performs a spectrum of musical works created by women for, from, and about our environments. Joni Mitchell, Shulamit Ran, humpback whale songs, and winners of the Women’s Works 2015 Young Composer Competition all contribute to this celebratory concert.

CU Music: Gerald Wolfe, Organ | 12:30 PM | Annabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Features the “Three Bs” of the North German Baroque: Buxtehude, Böhm, and Bach.

CU Music: Guest Ensemble-Sandbox Percussion | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features masterpieces by Steve Reich alongside original compositions, arrangements, and commissions for percussion quartet.

3/26 Thursday

CU Music: “Breath, Contained” | 8:00 PM | Sibley Hall Dome, Cornell University, Ithaca | Sandbox Percussion, with Tonia Ko, composer-artist, Michael Compitello, percussion. Music of Ko, Steve Reich, and Mark Applebaum.

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Old Boy Records Spring 2015 Showcase | 6:00 PM | Center For the

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‘71 | A young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971. | 99 mins R | GETT: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem | Brother and sister team Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz complete their trilogy about Viviane Amsalem with an at times comical but especially oppressive court drama as

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A local bank to help it thrive. she tries to obtain an official separation from her uncooperative husband Elisha after a long and unhappy marriage. | 115 mins NR |

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Red Army | A documentary that tells the story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its captain, Slava Fetisov. | 76 mins PG |

Actress | Who is Brandy Burre? Why did she stop acting? She had a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire when she decided to move to Beacon, NY, and start a family with her long-term boyfriend. They live a comfortable suburban life; but the audience learns fairly quickly that Burre isn’t totally satisfied in this role. 3/25 Wednesday & 3/26 Thursday.

Monk with a Camera | This documentary traces Nicholas Vreeland’s unique journey from playboy (grandson of Vogue editor Diana Vreeland) to monk to artist, combining current film footage with 70s-style animated segments recounting the photographer’s past, while questioning how such contrasting identities can coexist. 3/26- 3/27 Thursday, Friday.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | A hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny, and it’s making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina. | 122 mins PG | Still Alice | Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested. | 101 mins PG-13 | What We Do in the Shadows | Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane - like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts. | 86 mins NR |

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GREENSTSAR Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/28 Saturday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This shocking yet humorous documentary reveals the devastating environmental impact animal farming has on our planet, and offers a path to global sustainability for a growing population.

Visit cinema.cornell.edu for showtimes.

Stage Flight of the Heart | 3/24-3/29 Tuesday-Sunday | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College, Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | Three Ithaca College choreographers with distinct styles delve into the light and darkness of the heart and explore where emotion lives in the body. 8:00 PM shows Tuesday and ThursdaySaturday; 2:00 PM matinees, Saturday & Sunday.

SU Drama: Measure for Measure | 3/27-4/12, Wednesday-Sunday | Loft Theater, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Shakespeare’s problem comedy, presented by the SU Department of Drama. Evening shows at 8, March 27-28 and April 1-4, 8-11; matinees at 2, March 29 and April 4, 11, 12. Tickets

Cornell Cinema will be on break March 28-April 6. other venues HOSPICARE Hospicare Film Series: “Consider the Conversation” | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | Hospicare, 172 E King Rd, Ithaca | Hospicare is hosting a film series to facilitate community dialog on death, dying, and grief. Hospicare

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Woman in Gold | Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

Based on a true story. | 109 mins PG-13|

Locally focused. A world of possibilities.

at http://vpa.syr.edu/drama/tickets, by phone at 315-443-3275, or in person at the box office.

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs.

Kitchen Theatre Solo Play Festival: Mami Confessions by Lorraine Rodriguez-Reyes | 3/25-3/29 Wednesday-Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Evening shows at 7:30, March 25-26; 8, March 27-28; matinee at 4, 3/29.

Opera Ithaca: Il Sogno | 3/28-3/29 | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Opera Ithaca, Ithaca’s new professional opera company, will present Kristin Hevner Wyatt’s opera Il Sogno, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, March 28-29 at the Lehman Alternative Community School Theatre as the second production in the company’s inaugural season.

Tickets at http://www.OperaIthaca.org.

(Evenings + 2:00 matinee Sunday) Russian National Ballet Theatre: Sleeping Beauty | 7:00 PM-, 3/30 Monday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center, , Elmira | Often considered the finest achievement of the Classical ballet, the fairy tale, replete with fairies both good and evil, a beautiful princess and dream prince, magical

FLIGHT OF THE HEART IC, March 26-29

Pieces in three distinctly different styles by Ithaca College choreographers delve into the light and darkness of the heart.

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Meetings City of Ithaca Community Police Board | 3:30 PM-, 3/25 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student. mentor@yahoo.com.

Ithaca Rotary Luncheon Series | 12:15 PM-, 3/25 Wednesday | Country Club of Ithaca, 189 Pleasant Grove Rd, Ithaca | The Ithaca Rotary Club gathers every Wednesday for luncheon meetings. The public is welcome to attend and learn more about Rotary.

This week’s topic and speaker: Solar Success – Melissa Kemp, Solar Tompkins.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 3/25 Wednesday | The Glenwood Pines, 1213 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | RSVP 607-272-6013 or map10@ cornell.edu Tompkins Learning Partners New Tutor Orientation | | Tompkins Learning Partners seeks volunteer literacy tutors to meet on a weekly basis with adults needing help improving basic reading, writing, and math skills, and immigrants needing help learning English and preparing for the U.S. Citizenship Exam. Orientations for new tutors will be held in March and April at TLP. Please contact for dates; pre-registration is required as space is limited. To register, email Shannon Alvord TLPShannonA@gmail. com, or call 607-277-6442.

New Roots Charter School: Transition Meeting | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/26 Thursday | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | For students and caregivers preparing to make the leap from middle school to

high school. Contact Rebecca Cutter, Community Outreach Coordinator, 607-882-9220 ext 9 or rcutter@ newrootsschool.org.

Regional Seasonal Auditions for Chenango River Theatre | all day, 3/30 Monday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Chenango River Theatre announces regional auditions for their 2015 season, which includes The Velocity of Autumn, Escanaba in da Moonlight, and Other Desert Cities. Auditions for Woody Guthrie’s American Song will be announced at a later date. To audition, actors will need a headshot/resume and a maximum two minute monologue. For an appointment, call (607) 656-8778 after reviewing the audition requirements online. Information on all shows and the roles available is posted on CRT’s website: www.chenangorivertheatre. org.

Special Events Trumansburg Library Spring Book Sale Advance Notice | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Trumansburg Ulysses Philomathic Library will hold its Spring Book Sale April 16-21. Further details as the sale approaches.

Autism Speaks Benefit/Fundraiser | 2:00 PM-, 3/25 Wednesday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, Pyramid Mall, Ithaca | Held at Ultimate Athletics in the Shops at Ithaca Mall.

BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) 2015 | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | Duffield Hall, Cornell Univ, Ithaca | An annual student research showcase in digital technology, including an auto beer brewer, a glasses-free 3D display,video games, and more. Free & open to the public.

Eagles Club Fundraiser for Pediatrics Cancer Research | 12:00 PM-, 3/28 Saturday | Eagles Club, 161 Cecil A. Malone Dr, Ithaca | Chicken BBQ 12-6 pm, Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays at 7 pm. Raffles and bake sale thru the day. Contact Eagles Club, 607 272-2670, or Debbie Parsons, 607 342-6010, debaparsons@ gmail.com.

Drink in the Dark for Earth Hour | 8:30 PM-9:30 PM, 3/28 Saturday | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | For the 7th year, Felicia’s is participating in Earth Hour, a thoughtful international event

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Chanticleer, March 28, 10 p.m.

The Ithaca Bottom Boys and Illium Works (not pictured) play a double bill upstairs at the Chanticleer Saturday evening. 21 and over.

that encourages people to turn out their lights to show support for the prevention of global warming. For information, visit www.earthhour.org.

Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall, 5th floor lounge, Cornell University, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca

Health & Wellness

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30-7:30 PM, Tuesdays | Ithaca Community Recovery, W 518 Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Nicotine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine.

Overeaters Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | A worldwide 12-Step program. Visit www.oa.org or call 607-379-3835 for more information.

Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM Wednesday| ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome.

Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers. Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 272-2433.

Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, Tuesday | 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions, 272-1505.

Walk-in Clinic | This group meets several times per week. | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited.

Ongoing: Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Alcoholics Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Rd, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday, 9-11:30 a.m.

Appointments available Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30- 3:30 pm. Call 274-6604 to schedule an appointment or ask for further information.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday | Ithaca College, call for location | The group provides a casual and comfortable place for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder) to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, Wednesday | Multiple Locations | We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Yoga School Classes | This group meets several times per week at various

JAY UNGAR & MOLLY MASON The Cornell Folk Song Society is proud to bring the Grammy-winning duo (for Ken Burns’ Civil War) back to Ithaca after too long an absence. At the Community School of Music and Arts on East State Street, Saturday March 28, 8 p.m.

locations--pre-registration required. | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca

Specific for This Week: Powerful Tools for Caregivers: Pre-Registration Notice | all day, 3/18 Wednesday | Tompkins County Office for the Aging, 214 W. Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | Powerful Tools for Caregivers is a free, six-week educational program designed to help family caregivers manage the stress and challenges of providing care for an elderly relative.

Runs six weeks on Mondays, March 30-May 4, 5-6:30pm at the Tompkins County Office for the Aging. Early registration is required as class size is limited. Call David Stoyell at the Office for the Aging, 607-274-5492, to discuss the program or to register.

Journey Through Grief: For Men Who have Lost a Spouse or Partner | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 3/25 Wednesday | Hospicare, 172 E King Rd, Ithaca | A 5-session group that offers men an opportunity to process the unique issues surrounding spousal or partner loss. The loss does not need to be recent to participate. Participants must commit to attending all five sessions, April 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30. Please register by March 31 with Sarah Harty at bereavement@hospicare.org or 607-272-0212.

Journey Through Grief: For Women Who have Lost a Spouse or Partner | 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | Hospicare, 172 E King Rd, Ithaca | A 5-session group that offers women an opportunity to process the unique

issues surrounding spousal or partner loss. The loss does not need to be recent to participate. Participants must commit to attending all five sessions, April 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30. Please register by March 31 with Sarah Harty at bereavement@hospicare.org or 607-272-0212.

Guts, Grief & Pizza: A Workshop for Teens | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | Hospicare, 172 E King Rd, Ithaca | Teens who have suffered a loss have the chance to share their feelings with other teens going through similar struggles. Group meets on Thursday, April 9, but please register by April 3.

For more info or to register, contact Laura Ward at 607-272-0212 or LWard@hospicare.org.

Memory Maker Project: Meet Me at the Museum | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/26 Thursday | Roberson Museum & Science Center, 30 Front St, Binghamton | The Memory Maker Project is a cultural access and advocacy project for people living with memory loss and their care partners. Tour of the Roberson mansion and Chinese exhibit. RSVP by March 19; 607-240-6204 or Christina@ memorymakerproject.org.

Nature & Science Ongoing:

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 9:00 AM Saturday & Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca |

Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Hike Series | 4:00 PM-, 3/24 Tuesday | Multiple Locations, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 2 to 3 hour hike every Tuesday in varying locations. For location details, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 3/27 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street.

Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Specific for This Week: Astronomy Talks: Galaxies--The History of the Universe | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 3/26 Thursday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | First of two talks, beginning with the discovery that the Milky Way is one of many “island universes” and subsequent discoveries that prove the existence of the “Big Bang.” All are welcome; for more information contact Nahyon Lee at 607-273-1511.

Night Hikes | 6:00 PM-, 3/27 Friday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hike our wooded trails under the big sky of our back fields or around our ponds. Find out who is awake and stirring under the moonlight. No need for a flashlight.

Please call ahead for availability: 607-273-6260.

Maple Fest 2015 | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 3/28-3/29 Saturday-Sunday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join us at the Cayuga Nature Center for a weekend of crafts, vendors, live music, and a variety of fun educational programs. Enjoy live animal programs, maple-tapping demonstrations, a self-guided hike along the Sugarbush Trail, and of course, some delicious maple syrup and Purity ice cream!

Finger Lakes Land Trust: Roy H. Park Preserve Tree Walk | 2:00 PM-, 3/28 Saturday | Roy H. Park Preserve SOUTH parking lot, Irish Settlement Rd, Dryden | Akiva Silver will lead a 2+ hr. walk focusing on identification, natural history, wildlife value, and

Lectures Reppy Institute Seminar: “The Blessings of Free Security” | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 3/26 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell University, Ithaca | Brown bag luncheon. Speaker: Andrew Preston, Cambridge University.

Visit http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/ Brake_seminar for more information.

Johnson Muesum Lecture: ArtScience Intersections | 5:15 PM-, 3/26 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca | Dominique N. Surh, curator and director of research of the Leiden Collection, will discuss the collection’s formation and what technical investigations have revealed about some of its paintings.

Author Talk: “Deserving Desire: Heterosexual Women’s Sexual Evolutions” | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 3/26 Thursday | Textor 101, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Join Dr. Beth Montemurro in a conversation about gender, sexuality, and culture. Hosted by the IC Sociology Dept.

Stories from the New York Canal System: Presentation and Video Showing | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/28 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Dr. Dan Ward, Curator at the Erie Canal Museum, will give a presentation and a viewing of the documentary “Stories from the New York Canal System: Interviews with People Along the Canal.”

Riding the Wave: From Leon Theremin to Bob Moog | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/28 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Albert Glinsky will give a presentation about and demonstration on the therem, including video and audio clips, and a live and interactive demonstration.

Learning Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Information Session-Therm | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 3/25 Wednesday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | The HR representative will give a presentation on openings at Therm, Inc.--mainly looking for entry level machinists. Mechanical aptitude and math skills needed.

Alternative Community School, March 28-29 Ithaca’s new professional opera company, will present Kristin Hevner Wyatt’s opera Il Sogno, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

For the 4th year the Immaculate Conception Church presents a Lenten Cantata - this year, a new work by Joseph Martin, with an Irish flare to it.

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Difficult Conversations Workshop | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | Family & Children’s Service of Ithaca, 127 W State St, Ithaca | During this interactive workshop, you will have the opportunity to practice the skills that will help you stay focused on desired outcomes, make it safe for others to express their thoughts, speak persuasively, and turn conversations into results.

Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Technology at TC3 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | An information session on how TC3‘s new Applied Science and Technology Studies Degree can prepare you for careers in Advanced manufacturing. Pre-register at 272-7570.

Spring Field Ornithology Kick-Off | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | , , | To begin the Spring Field Ornithology class (March 25-May 17) are two lectures, free and open to the public (course is not). Doors open at 6 p.m. At 6:30 , The Birds of Cayuga Lake Basin, and at 7:30, how to identify birds you might see in this region. Light refreshments served.

Course information at http://www. birds.cornell.edu/sfo; contact: Marc Devokaitis, 607-254-2165.

Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Job Search Tips for Older Workers | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/26 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Topics will include myths about the older worker, changes in job search methods, realities of the current job market, and ways to deal with them. Pre-register at 272-7570.

Cooperative Extension Class: Banking on the Rain - Rain Barrels and Rain Gardens | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 3/26 Thursday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | For people with private wells, rain gardens are a simple but attractive way to recharge ground water. Pre-registration recommended.

Call 272-2292 for more information or registration.

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tories about the effect of mental illness on a life are long-standing genre in both fiction and memoir.

In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night the writer is not mentally ill, but has only observed it. Sometimes, however, as with Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar or David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, the writers know from whereof they speak. That is also the case for Josh Greenfield, whose second book Homeward Bound: A novella of idle speculation, has just been published.

He will be at the Ithaca Barnes & Noble on Saturday, March 28 at 3 p.m. to give a reading.

Greenfield is officially a member of the Cornell class of 1984, but he didn’t graduate until 1988 because of an emotional breakdown he experienced in 1983. He reconstructed the events of this period in his first book of “autobiographical fiction” The Obsessive

“Vietnamese Ceramics: Objects at the Crossroads” Symposium | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/27 Friday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Univerity, Ithaca | Registration free but seating is limited; contact eas8@cornell.edu to reserve space by April 3.

Ecstatic Dance Ithaca | 7:30 PM-11:00 PM, 3/27 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Free movement expression for all ages, no experience necessary.

607-339-7085 for more information.

Cooperative Extension Classes: A Day of Gardening Workshops! | 9:00 AM-4:30 PM, 3/28 Saturday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Choose from nine different gardening workshops in one day and get growing this spring! Sign up for just one or two, or stay for the whole day and attend four different workshops at a reduced price. Space is limited! Brochure on classes and registration form are at http://ccetompkins.org/gardening/ garden-events/spring-into-gardening and send it in with payment, or call our reception desk at 272-2292 to register and pay by credit card.

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World War I Reading, Film, & Discussion Series | 7:00 PM-, 3/26 Thursday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Pre-registration required. March 26 program: The Call to Arms (and its Dissenters). Contact Diane Pamel, Library Director, at 607-844-4782 or email southworthlibrary@gmail. com for info.

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“I present all this in a humorous tone,” said Greenfield, “and it is from the point of view of looking back.”

As part of his own recovery, Greenfield actually pursued stand-up comedy of a sort. “I was told that with my verbal abilities and sense of humor,” the writer said, “that I could eventually get to writing this down.” By “this” he means his struggle with his own mind.

“I was clumsy at first, but I progressed to being able to hold a room’s attention. And this did carry over into my writing.”

Greenfield didn’t actually tell jokes, but rather told stories that were humorous, but not entirely. His own description makes them sound like a style that has now become quite popular on radio programs like This American Life and The Moth Radio Hour.

While the events of the first book began on a version of the Cornell campus with the narrator sitting in the library looking at an atlas, the more recent

AM-11:30 AM, 3/28 Saturday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | In this introductory class, children can experience easy yoga poses and relaxation techniques combined with quality time to do fun art projects together with other girls. Open to girls in grades K-3. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Back Country Navigation | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 3/28 Saturday | YMCA, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Spend an afternoon getting un-lost in the woods. Learn to use basic map and compass skills to navigate unfamiliar surroundings. At the YMCA Outdoor Education Center, Rt. 79. For more information, please contact Ryan Allen at rallen@ithacaymca.com, or the Y front desk at 257-0101.

Ayurvedic Cooking Workshop by Sharada | 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, 3/29 Sunday | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Discover the secrets of Indian spices, therapeutic properties of oils and ancient Indian cooking techniques. Register by March 27 with Lennessa at lennessa@gmail.com or 607-592-4241.

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Getting Started with Vegetable Gardening | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 3/23 Monday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | THE class for the beginning vegetable gardener! Learn where to site your garden, how to prepare the soil, how to start seeds, how to plant, when and how to mulch, and which easy veggies to try first. Pre-registration recommended. Call 272-2292 for more information or registration.

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Chats in the Stacks: Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance | 4:30 PM-, 3/25 Wednesday | Olin Library, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Music scholar Alejandro L. Madrid delves into the danzón phenomenon, a Latin American music and dance culture spanning over 150 years. Light refreshments served.

Free and open to the public. For more information, visit booktalks.library. cornell.edu.

Reading: Laura Donnelly and Sarah Yaw | 6:00 PM-, 3/25 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Authors share our small-press, prize-winning books, “Watershed” and “You Are Free to Go.” Both books share a

the first,” Greenfield said. “It is the same character again, but it takes place in Warren, which is a stand-in for Riverdale in the Bronx, where I’m from. It recounts the thoughts of the character over the space of one afternoon. He thinks funny.” He has to: his father is dying of prostate cancer, and he had to develop various strategies to deal with his own mental illness.

Greenfield doesn’t do stand-up anymore, but has instead turned to screenplay writing as a creative outlet. “I’m now on sounder ground emotionally,” he said. “The process of doing stand-up was cathartic; basically it worked.”

He now gets up each morning and writes. “I drink coffee and eat breakfast and then write. I don’t go online and I don’t look at email,” Greenfield said. “I don’t know where I’d be without it. There’s always the element of the unknown: will I have it today?”

While his first two books have been self-published, Greenfield now has an agent. “She is helping me structure a new book,” he said, “which I think will make it more marketable.

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Reading: Josh Greenfield | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/28 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Author reads from Homeward Bound.

Author Talk: Jon Frankel | 4:00 PM-, 3/28 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Jon Frankel discusses his latest novel, Gaha: Babes of the Abyss.

Art Artist Talk: Taxing Times, with exhibiting artist Elise Engler | 6:00 PM-, 3/26 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca | A Scientific Exploration of the Easby Collection | 12:10 PM-, 3/31 Tuesday | Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca | With Professor Michael Haaf (Chemistry).

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Non-Mythical Beasts | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/30-4/3 Monday-Friday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Join us for a week full of amazing creatures; each day will have a new, beastly theme!

Sciencenter Summer Camp Registration | all day, 3/25 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Ignite your child’s imagination and explore the amazing world of science. Online registration opens March 25 at 10 a.m. Choose from 5 exciting themes for kids of all ages.

Spring Break at the Sciencenter | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/30 Monday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Join us during spring break for special hands-on activities all week. www. sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

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Specific for This Week: BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) 2015 LEGO Challenge | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 3/25 Wednesday | Duffield Hall, Cornell Univ, Ithaca | As part of BOOM’s K-12 outreach, local middle schoolers will participate in a challenge to build the

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

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Waterfront Director: Vacancy with the Ithaca Youth Bureau from June 30 – August 20, 2015. Minimum Quals: Minimum two years experience in waterfront aquatics. Salary: starting at $12/hour. Visit website for full requirements. Application deadline: April 1, 2015. Day Camp Nurse: Vacancy with Stewart Park or Cass Park. Salary to be determined by experience. Schedule: June 29 – August 1, 2015. Application deadline: April 15, 2015. City of Ithaca Human Resources Department, 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, (607) 274-6539, www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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Lunenburg, MA needs 6 temporary workers 3/21/2015 to 12/1/2015, 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 or 50% of the work contract Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period $11.26 per hr Applicants apply at North Central Career Center, 100 Erdman Way, Leomnster, MA 01453 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5226180.

May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit and vegetables crops including, but not limited to, driving, operating, adjusts and maintains farm machines, preparing soil, planting, pruning weeding thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing, harvesting, grading, packing.

May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. Also greenhouse activities during the earl part of employment. I months experience in work listed required.

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DEERFIELD, MA needs 3 temporary workers 4/1/2015 to 12/31/2015, 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 or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.26 per hr. Applicants apply at, Franklin Hampshire Career Center, (413) 774-4361 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5261694. Growing vegetables crops including planting, weeding, harvesting and packing. Applicants must be able to lift 50 lb. boxes for extended periods of time and work while crouching or kneeling on the ground for extended periods of time. One month experience required in duties listed.

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Sterling JCT, MA needs 2 temporary workers 4/1/2015 to 10/31/2015, 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 provdied upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period $11.26 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 #5284393. Work may include but not limited to: plant, cultivate, harvest various crops such as apples, pumpkins and blueberries. Use hand tools such as shovels, hoes, rakes, pruning shears, saws and ladders. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizer, transplanting, weeding, hand thinning, pruning, applying pesticides, picking, cleaning, sorting, packing, processing and handling harvested products. May set up, operate, repair and maintain farm equipment, machinery and buildings. May also participate in set-up and operation of irrigation equipment. Work is mostly outdoors and often under hot and colds weather conditions Work requires bending, stooping, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds on a frequent basis. One month experience required in work listed.

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SOUTHWICK, MA needs 8 temporary workers 4/1/2015 to 11/5/2015 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 or 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. $11.26 per hour. Applicants apply at Career Point, 850 High St., Holyoke, MA 01040 413-532-4900 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5284372. Plant cultivate and harvest various outdoor and horticultural crops such as but not limited to broadleaf tobacco, vegetables, and ornamental annuals and perennials. Must operate tractors, sprayers, transplanters, and other farm equipment. Greenhouse work includes Plant, spray, weed, fertilize and water plants, shrub and trees using hand tools and gardening tools. Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them, repairing greenhouses. Greenhouse work requires worker to prepare and load wood fired greenhouse boiler.

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Littleton, MA needs 1 temporary worker 4/01/2015 to 12/01/2015, work tools, supplies, equipment provided with no 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 or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period $11.26 per hr. Applicants apply at Career Center of Lowell, 107 Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA 01852, 978-458-2503 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5274233. Work may include but not limited to planting, fertilizing, irrigating, pruning fruit trees, berries and other various fruit as well as harvesting. Additionally, work will include soil preparation, planting, cultivation and harvesting of all vegetables. 1 month 2008 SuzukiAWD Loaded experience required hatchback. in work listed. with extras including cruise control. Very good condition. $10,100.

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Stillman Greenhouse & Farm Stand NEW BRAINTREE, MA needs 3 temporary workers 4/1/2015 to 11/25/2015, 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 or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.26 per hr. Applicants apply at, North Central Career Center, 25 Main St, Gardner MA 01440, 978-632-5050 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5261737. Diversified fruit and Garage/Yard Sale at 6056 West Senevegetable farm.

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Work is usually (NYSCAN) performed outdoors, sometimes under hot or cold or wet conditions. Work is physically demanding requiring workers to bend, stoop, lift and carry. Duties may require workingU-Pick off the ground at heights up to 20 feet using ladders or climbing.

Organically Grown One month’s experience in duties listed Blueberries for thislb. position. of $1.60 Open 7Certain days apercentage week. Dawn-towork will involve laborhigh tasksbush in buffer Dusk.

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(Etna Rd) Just over a year old still new, use once a week, guarantee until Feb, $900Temporary or closest offer. CalFarm Hilda Help 607-220-7730 BOYS IN BERRIES LLC dba WARD’S BERRY FARM, SHARON, MA needs 2 temporary workers 4/1/2015 to 11/1/2015, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker.

Taylor 518e Housing will be FOR available without cost to NEW 2013 workers who cannot reasonably return natural finished non-cutaway Grand Or-to chestra with premium grade tropical matheir permanent residence at the end of hogany back and sides, Sitka spruce theebony work day Transportation reimburseand bridge, 500 aptop, fretboard ment and subsistence is provided upon pointments include black/white/black multi-binding, sound hole completion ofabalone 15 days or 50% of the rosette, pearl inlaid diamond position work contract.

Work is guaranteed for markers and headstock ornament, gold 3/4 of the work days during Expression the contract Schaller tuning machines. system w/HSC list: $3518 period electronics, $11.256 per hr.

Applicants apply yours: $2649 at Employment &IGW Training Resources 781-769-4120272-2602 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job Taylor 712 order #5274307.

Work may included but 12-Fret NEW and harvest not limited to: Plant, cultivate glossy vintage sunburst stika spruce top various crops suchrosewood as, but notback limited to and natural finish and vegetables, fruits, horticultural bridge sides grand concert size, ebonyspecialties and inlaid and fingerboard field crops Usewith handivroid tools, such as , “heritage” fretboard markers with 12 but clear not limited shovels, hoes, pruning frets of theto, body, slot peghead with shears,list: knives, and ladders.

Duties may w/HSC, $3378, Yours: $2549 IGW include but are not limited to, tilling the 272-2602 soil, applying fertilizer, transplanting, VIOLINS FOR SALE:pruning, European, old and weeding, thinning, applying gennew, reasonable prices, 607-277-1516. eral use pesticides under the supervision of a licensed applicator, picking, cutting, cleaning, sorting, packing, processing, and handling harvested products May set Forrepair Sale up operate and farm machinery, repairBOXER fences and PUPPIES farm buildings, also Registered, Vet checked, 1st shots and may participate in irrigation wormed. Need loving home, activities very beauWork is usually performed outdoors, tiful.

Parents on property. $450/obo.

607-657-8144 sometimes under hot or cold and/or wet conditions. Work requires workers to bend, stoop, lift and carry up to 50lbs on a frequent basis Duties may require working off the ground at heights up to 20 ft. using ladders or climbing. Requires 30 days experience in fruit and vegetable duties listed.

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VOLANTE CayugaFARMS Lake INC., NEEDHAM MA needs 2 temporary Triathlon workers 4/1/2015 to 11/15/2015, work tools, Sunday supplies, and8/4/2013 equipment provided

The Cayuga Lake Triathlon will take without cost to worker.Falls Housing willPark place at Taughannock State onbeSunday, will be on available8/4/13. withoutCyclists cost to workers NY89 from Taughannock Falls State who cannot reasonably return o their Park to Co. Rd. 139 in Sheldrake. There permanent residence at the of the will be a temporary detour onend NY89 between Gorge Road and Savercool Road workday.

Transportation reimburseform 7am to approximately 12pm while ment and subsistence is provided upon the triathlon is in progress. Please concompletion of 15 days or routes.

50% of the alternate Specsider choosing tators alwaysWork welcome to come for enworkare contract. is guaranteed joy3/4the triathlon or register to volunteer! of thedetails workdays the contract For more on during the Cayuga Lake period. $11.26 pervisit: hr. Applicants http:// apply at Triathlon. www.ithacatriathlonclub.org/cltrace/.

Employment & Training Resources 275 Prospect St. Norwood, MA 02062 (phone number 781-769-4120), or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5261658. May perform any combination of the following tasks: planting, cultivating, and harvesting of vegetables and fruits, work as a crew member. Dump seeds into hopper of planter towed by tractor. Rides on planter pushing debris from seed sprouts that discharge seeds into plowed furrow.

May operate farm equipment. Plant roots and bulbs using hoes and trowel.

Cover plants with plastic to prevent frost damage. Weed and thinning blocks of plants. Transplanting seedlings using hand transplanter. Closes and ties leaves over heads of cauliflower. Picks, cuts, pulls, and lifts crops to harvest them. Ties vegetables in bunches. May be identified with work assigned such as blocking, cutting, stringing, irrigating various crops. Transplanting, moving spacing of flats. Carts and trucks plants to and from greenhouse floors and benches.

Washing vegetables, cleaning barns, farmstand, and greenhouse. Setting up and breaking down farmstand. Cutting down trees, pruning trees and bunching brush. 1 month experience required in fruit and vegetable duties listed.

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860-263Creative personalities who have an 9:00pm - 1:00am CAN) 6020 or apply for the job at nearest local interest in cooking, music, & more are office of the SWA. Job order #4559149. desired. HSD or GED required plus 3 Must be able to perform and have prior jeffhowell.org experience i following duties: Plant, culmonths experience in LTC, recreation or Cool Tunes Records tivate and harvest broadleaf tobacco. education preferred. Apply in person or Use hand tools such as but not limited to send resume w/ cover letter to: Human shovels, hoes, knives, hatchets and ladders. Duties may include but are not limResources, GCHCC, Inc. 120 Sykes ited to applying fertilizer, transplanting, St., Groton, NY 13073 EOE weeding, topping tobacco plants, applying sucker control, cutting, hooking, stripping, packing and handling harLOST Prescription Sunglasses LOST vested tobacco. May participate in irriaround 7/22. Fossil Frames, brown lensgation activities, repair farm buildings.

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Ulysses Property Built as a Retreat Center

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ighland Lodge is out in one of the prettier parts of the town of Ulysses, that is if you like a mosaic of woodlots and agricultural fields on rolling, irregular topography. This 18.87acre parcel is located on the height of land between Taughannock and Bolter creeks.

(The latter is a tributary to Trumansburg Creek.)

The lodge was added on to a small cottage-style house. The main room is 45 by 29 feet with an enormous field stone chimney and fireplace dominating one end of it. The walls and ceiling are tongue-ingroove paneling, narrower on the walls.

This is a cathedral ceiling, but the immensity of the space is very much tempered by the warmth of the wood siding, which manages to impart a feeling of intimacy. The knotty pine as a light blond stain, making the room light in spite of the expanse of windowless ceiling.

The main room is outfitted with Adirondack style furniture and wall-to-wall carpeting covers the floor.

This rooms is at the rear of the lodge and faces the woods. In a clearing between the woods and the house there is a fire circle, surrounded by a planted berm to decrease the wind and allow groups to sit outside later in the fall.

There is a large dining room at the front of the lodge. The three tables are set for a total of 24 people and there are extra chairs along the walls. There is a full bath and shower directly off the dining room in a linen storage area.

The commercial kitchen is between the dining room and the main room. It is outfitted with chopping block counters on one side. The counters around the sinks and the range are tiled. There is a central island workspace as well.

Also in this central area there are two bathrooms on the ground floor and stairs

to a gallery space on the second floor. This area includes a sitting area and an office. It overlooks the main room from behind the chimney and looks out over a large lawn through second story windows.

The second story is created by a towerlike structure that emerges from the main gable of the lodge.

The original house is accessed through the dining room. The door leads into the kitchen. This has a gallery working space that includes a five-burner gas range and custom-made cherry cabinets with brush steel pulls. The walls are tongue-in-groove, but they are clad in pressed tin behind the counters.

There is an eating area that looks out to the back yard through sliding glass doors.

The kitchen is separated from the living room by a fieldstone fireplace. A small secondary fireplace has been built into the chimney on the kitchen side.

The living room itself has a hardwood floor and windows on two sides.

Down the hall on the ground floor there is a full bath with a jetted tub and a shower stall. The windows are decorated

Highland Lodge has a generally northern European look to it with the simple lines of Nordic and Scottish buildings.

(Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

in Rennie MacIntosh-style, Art Nouveau glass. The wooden cabinets are a dark mahogany.

This bathroom serves an adjacent bedroom.

On the second floor there is a bedroom at either end and a bathroom in the

center. The stairs, bannister, and second story floor are all hardwood, but all the bedrooms are carpeted.

The original house is a somewhat modified Cape style and the roof has new architectural shingles. •

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