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s schools around the country reexamine their security policies in the wake of another tragic school shooting, Ithaca City School District is moving forward with at least one security upgrade as it awaits state approval for more sizable projects. Caroline Elementary School will be receiving some new updates to its entryway that will potentially make it easier to monitor visitors, while the district plans its implementation of millions of dollars in grant money through the Smart Schools Bond Act, which was enacted in 2014. The Smart Schools program is aimed at funding schools that wish to “install high tech security features in school buildings and on school campuses, including but not limited to video surveillance, emergency notification systems, and physical access controls,” and ICSD received its allocation of nearly $2.6 million in May 2016. With the money, the district is looking to improve entrance monitoring and as well as security surveillance within the school, introducing security cameras or updating buildings with antiquated systems. Apart from that money is the Caroline Elementary project, which is being paid for separately. The specific construction at Caroline Elementary is to enhance the building’s initial sight-line. Without upgrades, it could allow someone enter the school while bypassing the office entirely, possibly without being noticed. That project falls under the Capital Outlay project, which means it’s not part of any grant, but is also under $100,000. That allocation, according to Chief Operations Officer Amanda Verba, will probably continue to be a part of the budget going forward, aiming to address other “entryways and bathrooms” in other schools around the district. ICSD is not acting specifically in response to any singular event; these projects have been in the pipeline for some time. But they do come during a time of heightened fear nationally over school shootings, after 17 students were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. continued on page 4

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Progressives Seek Answers On Mitrano’s Policy Stances

racy Mitrano launched her run for Congress last August and since then, has crisscrossed the district, garnering support in forums, meet and greets and other events hoping to separate herself in what’s becoming fierce competition to even get on the ballot in November. This week, candidates across the district are swept up in petition distribution to officially get their names on the Democratic Primary ballot for a vote in late June. Mitrano has ground teams in all eleven counties in the district and is confident in a network at least one Democratic committee chair recognized as one of the most organized in the race. The Mitrano campaign is rid-

ing into petition season, on a number of successes including victories in straw poll events in Ithaca and Chemung County. She also most recently earned the endorsement of the Working Families Party. The Working Families Party only accounted for four percent of ballots cast in the 2016 congressional election, but the early endorsement comes from a group showing ties to a progressive movement in the district which has grown louder since 2016. However, t here a re some among the movement who are split in their opinions on the candidate’s progressive credentials. The New York Progressive Action Network, a group founded by former Bernie Sanders delegates following the Democratic National Conference in 2016, has several chapters throughout the district which have formally endorsed Ian Golden. Director of the Tioga County chapter, Stephen Carpineta, who’s also affiliated with the Golden Campaign, says his membership has had a “less-than-pleasant” relationship with Mitrano after she withdrew from endorsement consideration late last year.

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“They envision her as a walking resume, they don’t envision her as a leader,” Carpineta said. He also questioned how Mitrano’s Working Families Party endorsement lives up to her policy stances. “I don’t think that translates well to a farmer or a factory worker who’s literally watching their lifestyle deteriorate before their eyes and not imagining how broadband is going to put food on the table or make their crops yield higher,” Carpineta said. “I’m not understanding how Tracy’s expertise in certain things are going to translate to action in certain communities. So, I think that the Working Families endorsement is sort of a poor choice for working families.” Mitrano said in an interview with The Ithaca Times on Monday that she doesn’t feel a particular allegiance to any one group within the district and hopes to unite different groups to take on Republican incumbent and presumptive nominee, Rep. Tom continued on page 12

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Sagan and Anne Serling, a poet and writer, will be presenting on their personal lives with their famous fathers and their legacies in a panel discussion at Cinemapolis on Saturday, March 24th at 2 p.m. Rod Serling and Carl Sagan seamlessly bridged imagination and science and helped us to cultivate a sense of wonder. They had strong connections to Ithaca and this region.

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Court Docs Show Months Of Infighting PHOTOGRAPHER In County’s Human Rights Office By C a se y Mar tin

If you had to start Ithaca’s newest, hippest afterschool club, what kind of club would you start?

“Hiking club!” Liz Boeheim —

“Bass Fishing Club” —Justin Tracy

“Babysitters Club.” —Katie Arnold

he first internal report regarding former county Office of Human Rights Director Karen Baer’s allegations of a hostile work environment created by racism and sexism among the Tompkins County administration reveals a complex but ultimately, innocuous tale of one soured relationship that seemed to mar the county’s human rights efforts thereafter. The report, featuring dozens of internal emails compiled by Edward C. Hooks, reveals a department that was rife with infighting and miscommunication which distracted from human rights work in ways that, in Baer’s own words, blew her mind. The emails contained give a more comprehensive background of the struggles behind the scenes bet ween Baer, t hen-Hu ma n Rights Commission Chair Pat Pryor, members of the HRC and county officials. Hooks’ report, much like the second one that has already been publicized, found very little in the way of discriminatory actions against Baer, a woman of color, either based on race or gender. It was submitted on March 15, 2016, several weeks after Hooks started investigating the situation at the behest of Tompkins County Attorney Jonathan Wood, spurred on by a November 20, 2015 memo from Baer. The report was recently submitted as evidence in Baer’s Article 75 trial against the county administration. That trial, along with a separate Article 78 trial

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“Dog Club!” —Maddie Guerrier

Immediate reactions to the shoot i ng have ra nged f rom expanding gun access reform to increasing gun presence in public places that could be targets for attack, like shopping malls and schools. In some circles, the thought of arming teachers to protect students has gained momentum, though ICSD Superintendent Luvelle Brown promptly put an end to any speculation similar changes could come to ICSD schools. No schools in the district currently have metal detectors or security guards,

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that is running simultaneously in Tompkins County Court, both stem from Baer’s ousting from her post as the Director of the Office of Human Rights in October. All problems seemed to have stemmed from the editing of a Tompkins County press release expressing support for the statewide Gender Expression NonDiscrimination Act (GENDA). That came in March 2015, and the tone of the pair’s emails back and forth on the subject vacillate between apologetic and confused, before descending into argument. Prior to that, emails show Pryor and Baer had been congenial and complimenting of each other’s work. There was a second investigation conducted by Albany attorney Timothy Taylor, which was more primarily focused on whether or not the county had taken adverse action against Baer as a result of her 2015-2016 allegations. Regardless, Hooks’ analysis arrived at much the same end-point as Taylor’s: he said he found no evidence that Baer was a subject of any retribution, citing examples to refute some of Baer’s allegations. For instance, while Baer alleged that her office was put under a hiring freeze, Hooks’ report said that was merely part of a county-wide move forced by unexpectedly low sales tax revenue. The bulk of wrong-doing on the county’s part that Hooks found boils down to the inability of County Administrator Joe Mareane, and others

in the administration, to settle the problems between Pryor and Baer that soon consumed the department, despite their efforts. “I have concluded, therefore, that this is not a case of discrimination, retaliation, nor has a hostile work environment been created for Ms. Baer, her office of the HRC,” Hooks’ report, the first completed, reads. “However, there is plainly a need going forward to engage in constructive communications among Ms. Baer, the HRC, [then-County Administrator] Joe Mareane, the HHS Committee Chair and Committee and [Paula Younger, then-Deputy County Administrator] to define the roles of both OHR and HRC going forward.” Baer’s 2015 memo indicates much of the underlying tension that plagued her office and the relationship with the legislature at that time, at least from her point of view. She said recently retired Legislator Peter Stein told her OHR’s agenda was being slowed or blocked by other legislators upset over the resignation of Pryor from her position as head of the Human Rights Commission. The resignation, which

according to Brown, and there are no future plans to implement either in ICSD. As laid out in their grant proposal, ICSD plans to employ a two-pronged plan which will hopefully be able to upgrade safety equipment in district buildings. In terms of “access control systems,” as mentioned above, building access will be restricted and tailored to student and staff issued cards or fobs, with automatic deactivation and allowing the school the authority to revoke access privileges in the case of a problem. Doors will also automatically lock, and first responders will be provided with a copy of the access card. Secondarily,

new video camera systems will have a central memory database, live access for police or firefighters, and a district-wide camera network that can allow those with access to view each school from their office. “We will be using our allocation from NYS of [over $2.6 million] to have access control systems throughout the district at all entryways and electronic security systems in the form of video security around the exteriors of all district buildings as well as enhancing the current video security throughout the high school,” Verba said. That plan is still subject to state approval by the New York Department

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came after other HRC members had planned a no-confidence vote in Pryor and was surrounded by ugly turmoil, was heavily covered at the time and seems to have marked the seminal inflection point which set the county on the path to removing Baer in October. The emails further show no shortage of mediation attempts, both from former and current county figures, most prominently Joe Mareane but also former HRC Commissioner Leon Lawrence. But they were unable to quell the mounting resentment. The first mentions of ousting Pryor as chair were had on April 28, when board member Jamila Walida Simon requested a meeting with both Baer and fellow commissioner Amos Malone (using what appears to be a private email address) to discuss strategies around Pryor’s future as chair. “I know this has repercussions,” she wrote. “But there is no way around it.” continued on page 5

of Education, which the school district, after more than a year, is still waiting on. There are also further security upgrades that will be up for a vote in May 2019, which will constitute a larger Capital project, that would go beyond the Smart Schools allocation being used for the current improvements, though Verba did not specify what those upgrades would specifically entail. Some steps had already been taken at schools in the past, like the installation of a security system in the entryway of South Hill Elementary School. –Matt Butler

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City Of Ithaca

Here’s The $123M Project Proposed To Replace Green Street Garage

fter looking like it was going to become the next big Ithaca development sweepstakes late last year, the Green Street Garage redevelopment proposals were released Friday. But the word “sweepstakes” doesn’t quite accurately apply if there’s just one contender. But make no mistake: it’s big. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get into this, but beforehand: this project will be presented by the developers to the IURA Economic Development Committee on March 13, at 3 p.m. in the Common Council chambers in City Hall, which the public is invited to attend. The Proposa l

Here’s what’s actually being proposed in terms of construction, according to the project’s budget: • 404 apartment units, 38 of which will be “workforce studio apartments,” accounting for just over nine percent • Approximately 10,000 square feet of retail space, occupied by Cinemapolis (to clear the air, Cinemapolis is completely safe and will not be impacted by the project) • 18,000-20,000 square foot conference center leased to the City of Ithaca • 450 parking spaces, and a partial rehabilitation of the Green Street Garage structure (this represents an increase of 40 spaces

f rom what t he ga rage currently holds). The 404 apartments tota l would hold 620 beds. The two residential towers would have 10 floors of residential units on top of two parking f loors and groundf loor retail, while the center portion of the building would have three floors of residential units on top of a ground floor of retail space and at least one parking level, and capped by an amenity space. Total heights were not immediately clear. If approved, the project would take an estimated 23 months to construct in full. As for the ty pes of apartments offered: 13 percent would be 1-Bed/1-Bat h, 32 percent would be 2-Bed/2-Bath, 11 percent would be 3-Bed/3-Bath and 44 percent would be 1-bedroom studio apartments. In terms of projected rental costs, they are as follows (important to note, these are in 2020 dollars, coinciding with t he 23-month construction time): • • • • •

Studio: Market Rate $1,500 per month S t u d i o : Wo r k f o r c e Reduced Rate - $1,300 per month One bed / one bat h $1,700 per month Tw o b e d / t w o b a t h - $2 ,4 0 0 per mont h ($1,200 per bed) Three bedroom / three bathroom - $3,375 per month ($1,125 per bed)

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ment Chair Chris Proulx, interviewed after the release of the proposal, said the IUR A was looking forward to the chance to discuss the rental costs with the development team when asked about the seemingly high permonth rent payment for the 38 workforce units. He was sure to note that the proposal had not yet been publicly presented to the IURA, meaning there had not yet been an opportunity for a full, open dialogue between the city and the developer. Proulx said with the 2016 Danter Ithaca Housing study in mind, the IURA may be looking to more directly address the needs outlined in that document, which would constitute some changes to Ithaca-Peak’s proposed housing strategy. “The biggest need is at a lower rent,” he said, also touching upon a higher need of studios and two-bedroom units. “I think that’s where we’ll have a discussion with them, and see, within the project’s economics, what’s feasible and what their thinking is in terms of supply and demand.” The total cost of the project is nearly $123 million, the bulk of which will be hard construction costs of $101 million. To fund the project, the developers will apply for $7 million in grants from the Empire State Development funding program. The base case underwriting assumes that the project receives a 10-year tax abatement PILOT [Payment In Lieu Of Taxes] and $7,000,000 in grant funding. The proposal lists the target market as “graduate students attending nearby Cornell University and Ithaca College, faculty and staff of both institutions and young professionals.”

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Several weeks later, Lawrence, the commission’s former chairman, met with members of the HRC minus Baer, which resulted in his offering of a number of potential actions/next steps that could result from Baer’s dismissal. Noting Walida Simon had expressed she would step down if Pryor were to continue as chair, Lawrence – offering numerous administrative and personnel options to help “rebuild communications and trust” – urged discretion both in how everyone involved were communicating with commissioners in the Human Rights office and that, if communications were made, that everyone be involved in the correspondence in order to resolve internal issues as soon as possible. Stating that “serious allegations” had been made by Pryor in a number of emails in previous weeks without serious evidence, Lawrence also urged a request should be made to the County Attorney to conduct a thorough investigation of this matter, looking into what violations of HRC bylaws, open meetíngs law (including violations of the commission’s communications protocols) and, most importantly, “the existence of slanderous statements that smear the reputation of a faithful, longtime public servant of Tompkins County” may or may not have taken place. Mareane appears eager to keep the matters quiet and in-house, and emails reflect his mounting anger at what seems to be constant bickering between HRC members, Baer and Pryor. When three HRC members submitted their no-confidence vote which in turn led to Pryor’s departure, Mareane reacted with some measure of dismay, yet by then it was too late. “It is terribly ill-conceived and will create problems that exceed whatever benef its a re env isioned,” wrote Mareane. “lf the Commíssion wanted a change, it could have been handled through the ordinary election process in January rather than this list of charges. The Commission’s intent to draw legislative leaders into its internal conflicts is wildly inappropriate. Unfortunately, it is too late to pull back. It’s hard to express how disappointed I am that things have reached this very low point.”

Ups&Downs ▶ Senator Tom O’Mara for his work on a bill introduced in the NYS Senate last week to support the rights of student journalists. It has some flaws as it sits but on the whole, this is a much-needed step forward for New York State and its commitment to supporting the First Amendment. ▶ Tired Tropes The campaign to re-elect Congressman Tom Reed recently revived its tired old ‘Ithaca Liberal’ tag, because nothing screams smart politics than insulting a good third of the voting public. (Turns out – it does.)

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ There was a marriage proposal at The Dock last Saturday! And oh my lord, it was beautiful. We didn’t catch the happy couple’s name, but it happened right before the encore of the Palehound show Saturday night. The two had apparently met at the band’s Ithaca show almost two years ago and, you guys, it was so precious. ▶ Top stories on Ithaca. com this week are... 1) Reed campaign revives ‘Ithaca liberal’ tag in new ad campaign 2) Why doesn’t Tompkins County have more hydropower? 3) Candor to Hold Hearing on new Dollar General 4) Newfield Supports Its Basketball Teams 5) City gears up for crossword showdown

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n the church of popular opinion, tax abatement policy might as well be akin to the Satanic Verses. The reasoning among its critics makes sense. Often employed by the city in its efforts to generate much-needed tax revenues and slake the demand from wealthy Cornellians and Ithaca College students (because come on, landlords aren’t going to screen for young professionals or prospective M.A.s) these abatements often lead to developments that rarely produce the type of apartments that the “workforce” typically demands – those with rents under $1,300 per apartment. The market, the city and the agencies it works with have made up their mind on the direction it wants to take. The market sees proven demand and guaranteed return on its investment to build massive structures and absorb those taking up the single family homes and duplexes in town that demand has helped to inflate the prices of. The city, seeing this, sees an opportunity to create new tax revenues while solving the affordability crisis and, as ideally as it believes it can operate, offers tax incentives with several strings attached – like living wages for construction workers or stipulations that local labor be used – as a condition to grant the tax abatement. The limits make business sense (why

here are many exceptional people in Ithaca, as its fine institutions of learning attract the gifted far and wide, but at present no celebrities per se. In fact, maybe the only two we’ve produced so far this millenium are a little on the scabrous side. Ann Coulter, a Cornell graduate, is a right-wing writer and TV personality who stirs inanity for a living, with suggestions such as taking the vote away from women because they vote irresponsibly (that is, too liberally), and theories like her perceived “genocide” of white people in the United States. She describes herself as “a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative,” and makes a lot of money at it. Paul Wolfowitz is a native Ithacan and Cornell alumnus who, serving Donald Rumsfeld in the Defense Department, was a primary planner of the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq, in secret meetings that excluded officials who opposed military action, such as Colin Powell, the four-star general and Secretary of State. Wolfowitz later commented that the administration’s war proponents “settled on … weapons of mass destruction” as “the one reason everyone could agree on” for a war, although a justification that must be formulated and agreed upon, especially in the face of contrasting facts, is generally defined not as a “reason” but as a “pretext” or “lie.” (Wolfowitz also became an odious video star at the time for a clip of him sticking his pocket comb sideways into his mouth for sufficient gob to neaten his

Holding The Theorists Accountable Sterling & Sage I T offer a tax abatement to encourage construction if you only cancel out the incentives by demanding too much?) but oftentimes, don’t result in some of the more popular benefits people hope for. While vacancy rates seemed to have softened in some areas of the market, there is still a crisis of housing choice that many families still face, a problem new construction – and its absorption of the city’s upper-class renters – might not be guaranteed to solve. One solution that has been attempted in much larger cities with affordability crises, if implemented correctly, could be scalable to a housing market the size of Ithaca. In the past several years, cities like San Francisco, New York City and Vancouver have begun exploring the concept of something called a “vacancy tax,” essentially a premium on landlords whose properties sit vacant for a set period of time. These proposals – considered in these cases as offsets against Russian oligarchs buying up properties they rarely stay in or speculative investors in hot housing markets – are often unique to their own city’s problems. In Ithaca, where most of the housing demand seems to be catering to students and the community’s wealthiest, the most apparent problem renters in the city will face will likely be the introduction (or rein-

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hair for an interview.) It seems obvious that to find a time of more admirable celebrity some history is required. The History Center of Tompkins County is providing it, with a program honoring two of the most famous Ithacans of the past half-century, Rod Serling and Carl Sagan. The event, called “Rod Serling and Carl Sagan: Bridging Imagination and Science,” is at Cinemapolis on Saturday, March 24 at 2 p.m. The event is really about science, not celebrity. But Serling and Sagan are among the best-known names in Ithaca history, and are certainly the best-known faces, rising to fame in the visual medium of television in an era when everyone watched television, and watched more or less the same things at the same time, with a scarcity of choices. There was also a scarcity of quality. But in 1959 Serling debuted “The Twilight Zone,” a multi-layered drama series that injected elements of fantasy, science fiction, and psychological suspense into contemporary, realistic settings, often with sociological subtexts. Amidst westerns and situation comedies devoid of imagination, the show was a critical and popular hit. It launched acting careers (Carol Burnett, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, William Shatner, and others) with its crisp writing and taut production. Serling wrote the majority of shows contin u ed on page 7

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hen Rachel Ferrara was a first grader in R hode Island her mother received a call from a classmate’s parent: “I’m calling about the toy drive Rachel has arranged to collect toys for kids in the homeless shelter. I want to know where to drop off the toys.” Until that call, Rachel’s mother had no idea that Rachel had organized a toy drive; but she was not surprised. Rachel was a caring child; even as a six year-old she knew how to make things happen. Rachel’s mother, a special ed teacher, believed Rachel would share her life with others – She was a people person. Interested and interactive, she had a special empathy for people who needed a little something extra, even as a young child.

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Although Rachel faced her own health challenges as she was completing Elmira College, she was able to regain her health, and plunge into a demanding Masters of Social Work program. While fulfilling a full-time internship in Owego, Rachel completed her Masters in 18 months. By then, she had fallen in love with Upstate New York. For the past 2-and-a-half years, Rachel has been driving 70 miles a day round trip to a job she loves at the Finger Lakes Independence Center in Ithaca. In person, Rachel is articulate, organized, energetic, and a terrific ambassador for all that FLIC offers. Independent Living Centers like FLIC are located throughout NYS and

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himself, appeared on camera as narrator each week, and produced the episodes with his own Cayuga Productions company, a personally significant name: Serling grew up in Binghamton and his family owned a house on Cayuga Lake which he kept even after his work took him to California. He returned to teach at Ithaca College in the late 1960’s until his death in 1975 at age 50. Carl Sagan taught astronomy at Cornell from 1968 until his death in 1996 at age 62. He was famous enough from his frequent appearances discussing science on “The Tonight Show” to have a satiric catchphrase attached to him (“billions and billions,” or “budiyons and budiyons” in his distinctive patois, describing some global or galactic immensity). Sagan’s more meaningful fame came from the 13-part PBS series “Cosmos,” in 1980, which he co-wrote and narrated.

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The series distilled topics in astronomy and biology for a mass audience and (like “Twilight Zone”) had sociological undertones promoting an equitable, benevolent humanity as a crucial force not just for good, but for survival. With 500 million viewers across 60 countries, “Cosmos” is the most widely watched PBS series in history. The History Center event will feature video clips and a panel discussion of the lives and work of Serling and Sagan. For two participants, the two subjects are not just creators and teachers, and not celebrities at all, just Dad. The panel includes Serling’s daughter Anne and Sagan’s son Nick, who each devote part of their professional lives to their father’s work and legacy.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears Bi-Weekly.

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troduction) of suitable units into the rental market. We already know of the existence of apartments in poor condition fetching exorbitant prices in Ithaca. And, if vacated, the overpriced rentals once upcharged to students – unpopular with single families – will remain empty, as students flock to preferential options and nicer units. Let’s put it this way: if six students once content with sharing a house instead, move onto two higherend three-bedroom apartments, landlords might be hard-pressed to replace those renters with anyone other than students, leaving six vacant rooms unsuitable for individual renters or a typically-sized family. Implementing a policy such as a vacancy tax (or a similar incentive encouraging landlords to fill their space) could be temporarily painful but, in the long-term, beneficial move to help improve housing choice as the demands of the market shift. By having some spur to encourage landlords to divide massive houses into six one-bedroom apartments or improve housing quality, landlords might be forced to take on some additional investment under a system guided by the city. This policy could potentially keep larger apartment buildings assisted by abatement programs accountable to their intentions as well. If their abatements were granted on the theory they would clear up housing stock for the rest of the population, a vacancy tax would insure that their concept of market rate is constantly adjusting based on the laws of supply and demand, rather than existing as empty, tax-assisted buildings nobody can afford. This, of course, cannot be seriously contemplated until the buildings under construction come online and shifts in the market become apparent, but could be worthwhile considering in the future. For this to be most effective and most importantly, fair for the landlords, a number of reforms need to be undertaken to ease this transition. Compromises like common sense changes to the city’s building code to allow smaller units, easing of regulations that would lessen the cost of construction, and the careful slimming of rules restricting certain renovations, need to take place. The market also needs to shift substantially so the “income-generating potential” of housing – which weighs heavy on a home’s assessed value – goes down, removing the vicious cycle of reassessment that only worsens affordability as property values increase, therefore increasing rents. This idea, obviously, is a rough one. When vacancy taxes were implemented in Vancouver, for instance, something of a panic set in among landlords as many rushed their properties on the market or looked to sell to afford the fees. Like said earlier, every market’s affordability crisis is different. In Ithaca, the market is dictated by students and historically, always has been. As student and high-end market demand shifts away from single family homes (aided by tax abatements) it could pay to have some mechanism in place to hold the theorists accountable. M a rch

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Tompkins County, with a hand from the federal government, is looking to take another step forward in providing more accessible transit for all. At the meeting of the county legislature Transportation Committee Friday morning, Dwight Mengel, Chief Transportation Planner for Tompkins County, presented committee members with a funding opportunity from the Federal Transit Authority that offers assistance to municipalities in developing plans to better integrate their transportation services. Separate from the roughly $1.8 million in funding the county receives annually from the FTA, the county would be responsible for advising FTA officials in identifying relevant nonprofits in the community to take on the task of filling these gaps in the hopes that, by the end of the year, they will produce a plan to help address various shortcomings of the county’s multifaceted transit system. Reed campaign revives ‘Ithaca liberal’ tag in new ad campaign Despite just three out seven Democratic candidates for Congress claiming ties to the City of Ithaca, the campaign to re-elect the incumbent, Tom Reed, has lumped them all into a single category: “Ithaca Liberal.” This week, the congressman’s reelection campaign, Tom Reed for Congress revived an old campaignrelated website, ExtremeIthacaLiberal. com, accompanied by a new campaign video railing against the congressman’s prospective opponents’ stances on the Republican-led federal tax plan, of which Reed was a key player in crafting. The website takes its name from a trope first used by the campaign in 2014 when Reed tied the term to Tompkins County legislator Martha Robertson, who was running against him at the time. The phrase was also employed in Reed’s 2016 campaign against Democrat John Plumb, who received a large proportion of his funds raised from donors in Ithaca and Tompkins County.

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few weeks ago, this column shared the good news that Ithaca High grad Dominic Amici would be inducted into the Section IV Hall of Fame in early March. Dom was very excited to make the trip, but damn… the bomb cyclone that hit the east like a blitzing Lawrence Taylor made the trip impossible. Dom is in the Hall of Fame, but former Athletic Director Bill Bryant went in his place for the induction ceremony. “Dome said he’d be honored if I would go in his place,” Bryant said, “and I said I’d be honored to do that.” As the cliché says, “It is what it is,” but while Amici’s absence was indeed unfortunate, there was plenty of Little Red glory to go around. Sarah Cartmill (Ithaca High class of ’98) was also inducted, as was Gary Hunter, (class of’70). Sarah was an amazing two-sport star, and her 1,900 career points and 998 rebounds made her, in Bryant’s words, “the premier women’s basketball player in all of Section IV.” A 4-time All-STAC and 3-time AllState player, she went on to play at Binghamton University, where she was the America East Player of the Year. She played in Europe for a few years, was an assistant coach at St. Bonaventure and Binghamton, did a stint as head coach at Bard, and she is now an assistant coach at Hamilton College. She was also a fine softball player, starting for all 4 years and batting .455 as a senior. Bryant added, “If they had women’s golf at that time, I’m sure Sarah would have excelled at that as well.” (Her brother, Kevin, was a stellar golfer (state champ) and all-around athlete, and he and their father, Lee, were there to celebrate with Sarah. Bryant went on to describe Sarah as “the girl you’d want your son to bring home,” and he added, “Mrs. Cartmill passed a few years ago, it’s unfortunate that she wasn’t there to see Sarah inducted.” He called the Cartmill family “the nicest family you’d ever want to meet,” and he said “They are all so humble. You’d never know they were the fine athletes they were.”

While Bryant was the A.D. during Sarah’s career in a Little Red uniform, Gary Hunter graduated from Ithaca High nearly 50 years ago. Gary was a three-sport monster, leading the Little Red football team to their historic unbeaten, untied record, earning First Team All-State honors in the process. He also won the STAC and Section IV wrestling championships, and to top off that memorable senior season, he won the STAC discus title and finished second at the state meet. He went to Morgan State on a full athletic scholarship, and led the team to three conference titles. Monstrous indeed… Hunter was an assistant coach at Ithaca High during Bryant’s tenure, and Bill said, “Gary is certainly deserving of this award. He is great around the kids, and he has worked very hard for the district. We have a really good relationship.” *** It was a big weekend for the Ithaca High boys’ basketball team as well, as the team stepped up in Corning-Painted Post’s home gym to beat the Hawks 65-56 to avenge last year’s loss in the Sectionals and give Ithaca its first Sectional title in 25 years. Senior forward Jordanny Cuevas Marte scored 21 points to once again lead the top-seeded Little Red, and now the team has that coveted Sectional trophy to go in the case with the two STAC West trophies it has won in the past 2 years. It was a sweet moment for head coach Brian Stone, as his dad, John, was there to see the return to glory. John was the Little Red’s coach when they won their last title, and in fact, Stone the Elder led the team to three straight Sectional championships from 1991-1993. The Little Red’s season will continue, as the team will take the court against Section 9 champion Pine Bush in a regional semifinal at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Orange County Community College in Middletown. Pine Bush (22-1) was a 46-39 winner over Burke Catholic in Sunday’s sectional final.

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Seeking An Elusive Cure By Mat t Butl e r

Two professors from Cornell University and Ithaca College are combining on a study taking on one of the world’s strangest ongoing medical phenomena, a disease that affects more than a million people in the United States yet largely remains a confounding mystery. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, commonly referred to as ME/CFS, is a debilitating disease that can often leaves its victims bedridden for months and years on end, without much hope in sight. Patients suffer a range of symptoms, marked most prominently by severe fatigue, chronic pain and flu-like symptoms, which must last at least six months before ME/CFS can be properly diagnosed. The nature of the disease, and the behavior it manifests, lends itself to doubt from observers. Victims are dismissed as dawdling layabouts, suffering from a lack of motivation or laziness instead of an actual medical condition, leading to a lack of attention and funding to address and investigate the illness. Cornell’s Maureen Hanson and Ithaca College’s Betsy Keller, who received a $9.4 million grant from the National Institute of Health to establish a center of research on ME/CFS, may be part of a changing tide. They are one of three center grants that were funded by NIH, which is also sending money to The Jackson Laboratory in Connecticut and Columbia University in New York for research into different aspects of the disease. Hanson, who will serve as Principal Investigator, and Keller, who will head the center’s clinical core, have assembled a team of doctors and patient advocates to recruit and examine patients with ME/CFS, and will focus on one particular portion of the disease, known

as post-exertion malaise (“Post-exertional malaise” is the widely-accepted term within the science community, though patients have begun to push back against the phrase in favor of terms like “post-exertional relapse”). Both have extensive experience with ME/CFS and have spent years trying to reveal answers for those suffering. Patients will be tested before and after exercise, in particular their blood (in Ithaca) and their brains (at the Cornell Medical School in New York City), to detect exactly what changes in the bodies as a result of the exertion and the possibility of metabolic influences, Keller said. Additionally, they will be looking at genetic material, examining the exertion’s impact on DNA and RNA transcription patterns. Hanson said this is one of the more frustrating parts of the illness, in which exerting energy, even minimal amounts and not necessarily physical, can exhaust a patient for days afterward. It’s one of the reasons why exercising is essentially impossible while suffering from ME/CFS, and it severely impacts a patient’s ability to do seemingly small things that are necessary both to sustain themselves and try to deal with their condition. “It’s one of the most intriguing aspects of this disease, and it’s also one of the most disabling,” Hanson said. “If even going to the grocery store or visiting the doctor makes you sick in bed for the next couple days, it’s terribly disabling.” Hanson said traditional stigma against mental illness has hurt the public perception of ME/CFS, despite the fact that the disease isn’t even mentally based. The tide of public opinion has started to shift recently on the disease, most notably in the form of increased

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funding from NIH as well as cultural events like the 2017 release of Unrest, a successful documentary self-shot by a ME/CFS patient that chronicles her daily life from the beginning of her symptoms to present day. There currently aren’t any approved cures or even treatments for ME/CFS, with patients having to resort to a list of fairly random suggestions from the CDC to treat symptoms or risk following the recommendations of others with the disease. The Solve ME/CFS Initiative, a Los Angeles-based patient advocacy organization that was included in the NIH center grant to Hanson and Keller, will serve in an advisory role for the research team particularly dealing with patient issues. After so many years of neglect, Solve Me/CFS President Carol Head said, patients know the optimism that comes with new research funding and larger budget allocations is accompanied by wariness of past failures. While she trusts Hanson and Keller, she also knows that any research now has a lot of catching up to do to other diseases of its size and severity nationwide. “This disease has been ignored, denigrated for decades with virtually no CDC attention and virtually no NIH research funding,” Head said. “On the other hand, in the last two years we have seen some movement, so we are hopeful. But it’s just starting from such an

egregiously low starting-point.” The aura of mystery surrounding the disease is perhaps no better signified than by an epidemic of ME/CFS that actually sprung up near Tompkins County. About 90 miles north, in Lyndonville, New York, a bizarre three-year outbreak of the illness saw 214 people diagnosed from 1984 to 1987, including 46 pediatric patients. Several of those who were diagnosed at the time, by ME/CFS pioneer pediatrician David Bell, still experience symptoms to varying degrees today, and the cluster of cases, which has also occurred elsewhere, has fueled speculation that the disease is caused by an underlying virus. Other evidence points to possible genetic factors, such as certain mother-daughter connections or a group of siblings all being diagnosed. It all feeds into the urgency of Keller and Hanson’s research, knowing full well that while they work, the plight of those with the disease goes on mainly unabated, without much in the way of relief. “Hopefully we’ll catch something in our net here that will give us a better idea of the root cause of this, or at least help us in terms of targeting better treatments, because they’re really just aren’t good treatments out there,” Keller said.

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Reed. Mitrano is also taking heat from some camps within the district, accused of changing her stance on several issues including fracking, the second amendment and healthcare. “It’s one thing if she’s evolving on some of the more nuanced issues, but we’re talking healthcare- probably the top issue in this cycle at least,” noted Golden campaign manager, Brian Batrowny. “You don’t know where she stands. She’s sort of taken positions across the board.” On fracking, particular attention is being focused on an interview Mitrano gave with The Ithaca Times in August, where she said she’d be supportive of the Governor’s moratorium preventing the practice until she saw three things change. “The three things would be scientific research that would suggest that the chemicals used would no longer be harmful to people,” she stated. “I understand it has a terrific harm to the nervous system and other medical issues involved in the health area. I think we’d want to have better engineering and then certainly the whole process of the containment and how we neutralize the chemicals and so forth. That seems very imperfect. And, the third area would be that it is not under the area of the Environmental Protection Agency.” Earlier this year, activists with environmental group, “We Are Seneca Lake,” took notice and challenged Mitrano on her stance. “If that’s how you feel, then stand by it

when people come for you,” We Are Seneca Lake board member, Laura Salamendra said. “I don’t want fracking, and I don’t want candidates that lie.” Mitrano has since explained that her comments were “sardonic,” and were meant to explain her anti-fracking stance without ostracizing voters who would immediately reject that kind of terminology. “I’m trying to explain why I’m anti-fracking so that people who maybe don’t know enough about an anti-fracking position or don’t know enough about fracking or are even for fracking but may not understand all of the issues surrounding it, I’m offering them a conversation,” Mitrano explained. She also said, “if in the past, people weren’t getting it, then I know now, I just need to be very clear and on the point. I have never been for fracking. I’m not for fracking and nor can I ever imagine being for fracking because it is not safe.” Though policy discrepancies occur in a district as ideologically diverse as the 23rd, veteran organizers have been coaching the candidates, some personally, others to the field as a whole, on the mechanics behind campaigning. “The job of every primary opponent is to try and show how different you are from your opposition, but let’s be honest that 99 percent of the positions of the candidates are pretty much in line with each other,” former Congressional candidate and Tompkins County legislator Nate Shinagawa said. Shinagawa won the Democratic nomination and faced Reed in 2012, losing the general election by 0.2 percent. Though he’s relocated outside the district, to the state of

Arizona, he’s been providing support and help to candidates with questions. He says the primaries may, in reality, have a benefit in that they form tougher candidates and get people more energetic- something that his 2012 primary challenger and local organizer, Leslie Danks Burke agrees with. “This is an important conversation to be having right now and to be able to understand the difference between the candidates and to see them really go toe to toe with each other and make each other the strongest they can be,” Danks Burke said. There are discrepancies between the two classes of primary contenders, largely over funding, which has been relatively scarce to the Dems in comparison to Reed’s flush coffers. “Where Leslie Danks Burke and I differed from this current class of candidates is that we raised a lot of money early on,” Shinagawa noted. “We built that infrastructure very quickly and so we were both seen as really serious competitors, whereas this time around, with this primary race people have been very slow to fundraise and very slow to build up their organizations.” At the end of last year, Mitrano ranked fifth out of eight candidates (two have since dropped out) in total individual campaign contributions. The entire Democratic field combined just nearly broke $200,000 which dwarves in comparison to Reed’s $1.7 million influx over last year. Many candidates, leery of outside influencers reluctance to back primaries, tout, or at the very least expect, organizations like the DCCC to sweep in and deliver spoils to whichever candidate grabs the primary.

“The myth here is – number one – that the DCCC will chip in and – number two – that DCCC even cares. And, I will tell you that the DCCC probably does not care about this race,” Shinagawa said without hesitation. While money woes will continue, the different camps of democrats from Jamestown to Geneva to Ithaca are still fairly confident in what one Democratic Committee Chairman called the “reset button,” where all the Democrats look to unite after the primary. So far, there hasn’t been any reason to suspect organizers, campaign officials and the district’s activists have lost sight of that. “I’m supporting the Dem candidate, no matter who it is. The people have been rising up against Tom Reed. I will even work for her,” Salamendra said, though still upset about Mitrano’s fracking rhetoric. Batrowny and a number of other party leaders approached in the formation of this story noted Mitrano is a great speaker and presenter and has much to offer for the district. Mitrano herself, reflecting on her nine months of candidacy keeps a positive, unitycentered, attitude too. “The people are still good and I say that having met people east and west, having met farmers, having met people in cities, having met working people, having middle class people, having met upper middle-class people,” Mitrano said. “They want a responsible lawmaker in there who’s going to show them a path to get things right, bring integrity back to politics and bring opportunity back to the district.” –Vaughn Golden

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Opera Ithaca performs Georges Bizet’s classic production

eorges Bizet’s masterpiece, Carmen, comes to the Hangar Theatre this weekend, courtesy of Opera Ithaca. Now in its fourth season, the company felt grounded enough to undertake this demanding work: featuring over 40 singers in the cast alone, including a children’s chorus and the largest orchestra, under Richard Montgomery’s direction, since its production of Don Giovanni. “I call Carmen the gateway drug of opera,” says co-founder and general director Zachary James. “The music is truly intoxicating. Even if you don’t know opera, you already know half the tunes.” Dawn Pierce, singing Carmen for about the sixth time, agrees: “Everyone will recognize the music from commercials and TV shows –– it’s popular music for a reason: it’s both beautiful and fun.” Co-founder and artistic director Ly nn Craver, who’s also performing, says, “The time was right for our company to tackle a production so big; we’ve pared it down to fit our resources.” But those resources are considerable: “We bring in singers,” says Craver, “but also feature fabulous local talent, like Dawn

Pierce.” Carmen’s 1875 debut was hardly stunning: in a partly empty theatre (despite free tickets), its first Parisian audiences were indifferent. And the critics were outraged — even at a time when the French had a taste for the exotic, Bizet’s lower-class characters and brazenly sexual gypsy (based on a travel novella by Prosper Mérimée) went just too far. Bizet never learned of the opera’s ultimate success; only 36, he died of a heart condition after the 33rd performance. In the months that followed, both Wagner and Tchaikovsky raved about Carmen; Brahms reportedly saw it 20 times; Chancellor Bismarck 27. Carmen — a tale of Spanish romance, of gypsies and cigarette girls, soldiers and toreadors — has since been endlessly adapted with myriad settings; film versions include an allblack Carmen Jones and even Beyoncé’s take on a hip-hop version. Opera Ithaca is keeping the original music (sung in French, with conventional cuts) and Seville setting but updating the look to 1950-60s Italy. Chicago-based husband and wife team Adrianna Desier Durantt (stage direction) and Andrew Boyce (scenic design) are evok-

By Barbara Adams ing Fellini’s Italy, circa La Dolce Vita. “It was post-war, there was more money, and people were rethinking their place and standing in the world,” says Durantt. “There was a new aesthetic freedom; actors were celebrated, and glamour was at its highest.” The “sweeping composition” of Bizet’s music fits that era, she says, “when everything felt so much more emotional, passionate, glamorous. I want to visually quote what I think I’m hearing, so the audience can be swept away by it.” At the bullf ights of Seville in the ’60s, Durantt notes, the stands were full of beautiful celebrities — Ava Gardner, Salvador Dali, Muhammad Ali — there for the spectacle. She’s fascinated by the total contrast: beauty assembled for the brutality of slaughter. Durantt hopes to play up that contradiction

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in this production. The audience gets carried away “by the breathtaking music and the beauty and the story itself.” But then at the end, when Carmen’s rejected lover, Don José, kills her, Durantt believes we need to ask “Is this crime of passion earned? And who defines that? And what is our responsibility, as audience, in accepting that that’s ok?” Carmen’s death is tragic and assaultive, Durantt says, “and in my view unnecessary.” In her staging, she seeks to disrupt the usual acceptance of Carmen’s fate, present it through a different lens. “Given the violence in our culture, the way women are daily mistreated in macro and micro ways, we see their life isn’t valued as much. That realization feels more true to me now in my life than ever.” In playing Carmen, Dawn Pierce brings an understanding of the character very different from those of the opera’s first audiences, who saw her as a wicked, wily seductress. “I’m drawn to Carmen because she’s a strong woman, a freedom seeker,” Pierce says. “As a young singer I saw her from the outside, as sexy and powerful. But every time I perform the role I go deeper into myself –– Carmen is me on the inside, without an editor.” People are intrigued by Carmen, Pierce believes, because she sticks to who she is: “So much of society is about editing ourselves to be appropriate to whatever situation we’re in. Carmen doesn’t even consider doing that –– she’s transparent and accountable; she always does what she says. And though she knows Don José’s going to kill her, she doesn’t run away from that.” Pierce appreciates that at this fraught historical moment, Durantt is trying to bring Carmen into the

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present, examining how women experience the world now. “We usually step back and don’t get involved,” Pierce says, “but in this production we’re forced to reflect on what happens to her; it’s larger than these two people. “That’s one of the things I love about Opera Ithaca,” she adds. “They’re not afraid of relevant conversations.” Lynn Craver also finds this show “a timely opportunity to talk about what’s happening with female identity and sensuality.” Bizet was aware of it, she believes, and “still today women are unfortunately punished for being celebratory with who they are, for being open and sensual and forthright, having a mind of their own — yet finding violence at the end of that.”

“The music is truly intoxicating. Even if you don’t know opera, you already know half the tunes.” That free spirit, Craver says, “men feel they need to control; Don José isn’t motivated by love, but obsession — it’s being unable to possess Carmen that drives him to murder at the end.” Pierce concurs: “He desires her, lusts for her, wants to control this ‘wild beast.’ But Carmen means her love only in the moment, not long-term; from the beginning, she tells him ‘If you love me, watch out’ — he refuses to hear it.” Zach James likewise isn’t comfortable with the traditional narrative or with Carmen as usually portrayed, essentially as a prostitute. Having often collaborated with Durantt in his Metropolis Opera Project in New York, he knew she’d bring a progressive vision to the project. James also values their ethnically diverse cast, including “the very powerful tenor, José Heredia,” as Don José.

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This production shows the influence of Ithaca College’s music and theatre programs, which Durantt and James attended, respectively. “From IC,” Durantt says, “we shared a common language and an ethic from the college to produce the best possible work with the best resources on a shoestring.” Mezzosoprano Dawn Pierce, also an IC alum, is professor of voice there now. This production is particularly important to her, she says, because she grew up in upstate but has seldom performed opera close to home –– “and Ithaca is a very special place for me.” It also marks her full return to singing after two high-risk pregnancies. Pierce finds Carmen not just fated but fun-loving, a quality that inspires Carmencita, the youth version of Carmen that Opera Ithaca is presenting twice this Saturday at 10 a.m. and noon. Attuned to developing the next generation of singers and audiences, the company last May presented its own Rossini for kids, Cinderella JR, which drew its largest crowds ever. That piece was written and developed by Ellen Jackson, associate producer and director of educational outreach, who’s also adapted the current show. A challenge, she says, “because Carmen’s not exactly G-rated: a man goes mad with jealousy and kills a woman –– really horrific.” Also, she asks, “how do we teach young girls they don’t deserve to die for not returning the affection of someone interested in them, and teach boys that the answer is compassion and respect rather than violence?” She decided it’s all about conversation: “use your words.” So the story, sung in English and more a musical than an opera, is now about jealousy among friends. The all-female cast consists of recent IC music school graduates, all Opera Ithaca apprentice artists. Both for children and adults, we’re given an appealing Carmen for these times. • Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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rolicking through tall, summer grass like ghosts on the pages. The titles of the with the scent of strawberries filling poems are the names of the characters, the air, the people of Redwing, New which also helps build a more vivid picYork, share their lives with families and ture. lovers in the year 1888. But beyond each The poems are organized alphabetiperson’s friendships and marriage, scan- cally by last name, which at first seems dals of adultery and tales of grief taint the like an irrelevant means of organizing, lives of Redwing residents. Each person in but grouping by last name keeps the the small town copes differently — from voices of one family together. On one sputtering out small stanzas to long, angry page, a mother speaks, on another her lines — and the words of these people daughter speaks and on the following her come alive in Katharyn Howd Machan’s brother speaks. newest collection of poetry, Secret Music: This especially shines through in the Voices from Redwing, 1888. Fenton family, one of the strongest group Machan crafts a of poems in the colcol lect ion of poet r y lection. This group t h rou g h t he mono follows the four chillog ues of more t han dren and the mother 150 characters living of the Fenton family, in a fictional town in from the worm-eatC e nt r a l Ne w Yo r k . ing Bessie to the fragR e d w i n g , t h e t ow n ile, feminine Jacob. in Tuscarora County Each family member she invented, has the discusses great fears, same small-town vibes accomplishments of other places in the and secrets, all while area, w it h each pernot telling these son’s story subtly intersame stories to one twined into another. another. The Fenton Machan began writing family is the largest the monologues Jan. in the anthology, and 17, 1985, thinking up watching the stories characters and famiunfold through diflies in Redwing. In the ferent perspect ives Author’s Note, Machan gives readers a vivid said she has been writpicture of each charing these monologues acter — even when for half of her life. said character isn’t T h e d a t e Ja n . 17 speaking. marks two-and-a-half Each poem reads weeks after Machan’s The cover of Machan’s new book. (Photo l i ke a d ia r y ent r y provided) mother passed away. In from 1888: the conthe note, she said the sistency in language monologues and the creation of Red- while also crafting individual voices wing may serve as a way to cope with shines through. Though unlike most the grief of losing a loved one. Creating stories of the 19th century, many of these families and relationships may have monologues resist patriarchal thinking, allowed Machan to explore the unspoken especially from the women: a refreshscripts through her life and relationships, ing look at an otherwise oppressive time according to the note. period. Machan has been vocal about her What began as a small project grew commitments to feminism in her other into a large collection of work. The mono- collections, and seeing these themes logues of Redwing characters have been present in Secret Music: Voices from Redpublished before, but Secret Music: Voices wing, 1888 doesn’t come as a surprise but from Redwing, 1888 is a comprehensive rather as a comfort. anthology of the characters Machan creIt’s satisfying to know that each monoated the past three decades. logue now has a home, all in the same While the poems have been in the pages. When the book is closed, it’s as if ma k ing for 30 years, t he a mount of the townspeople are mingling together, characters Machan has managed to cre- spreading rumors and exploring one ate is still astounding. Each has its own another’s company. And should Machan rhythm, vocabulary, rhyme scheme and write new monologues in this universe, structure, separating each character. readers will wish for them to find a home Reading through, you can nearly hear in another published book, too. • the old voices of the characters, echoing

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Ink Shop showcases works from IC and CU students By Ambe r D onof r io

s an art writer in our community, I’ve probably said this before but will certainly state it again: the Ink Shop is one of the many gems in Ithaca. A printmaking studio and gallery space hidden on the second floor of the Community School of Music and Art, it’s a space that could easily be missed by those who are unfamiliar with it. However, the Ink Shop is significant within the art community, as it is the one space in town dedicated specifically to printmaking and book arts, both for local artists and for the many students as well. It’s a space for both makers to produce work and for printmaking in general to be promoted, and this month is all about the students. I See You (IC/CU) is the shop’s third annual joint show of prints by students of both Ithaca College and Cornell University, displaying an impressive array of talent and skill levels, as the students each explored their own unique subject matter and dealt with varying printmaking methods and techniques. The show is certainly a mix, which makes it difficult to review, as most pieces stand alone, often unrelated to those beside them. Even so, the works are definitely intriguing in and of themselves, however fragmented to describe as a whole. The show is colorful and diverse, and both attributes are always welcome. Downstairs in the CSMA is part one of the show, which provides a taste of the creativity and eclecticism at hand.

Nnebundo Obi’s two multicolored silkscreens stand out with their bold use of color and sharp lines. In The Process of Internal Self-Illumination, an Egyptian pharaoh offers what looks to be Medusa a candle as both figures gleam gradients of orange and yellow. Golden Chameleon meanwhile is a portrait in more bold yellows and oranges of an individual staring forward, a f lower tucked over his ear, accentuated through mark making. Daisy Wiley and Emma Regnier both present studies of birds in a more scientific sense, pelicans and vultures printed in detail with parts labeled by name, while Lucy Plowe displays The Tulpa, an extremely detailed stone lithography print of drawn owls. Gwyneth Haidar’s Flowers from Dragor 2 studies nearly sketch-like f lowers against a window pane, their presence activated by scrawled marks of red printed over an otherwise black scene and thus adding intrigue and a strange satisfaction. One piece without a label so without the artist’s name on display to credit is a complex etching of organs in what looks to be a large flounder fish. The ribs are marked out, as are the numerous parts within, in a chaotic amalgamation of details and flurry of lines. Upstairs in the Ink Shop is more art provided by a handful of additional artists, more unfortunately than I’ll be able to name. Mia Avramis’ Wedding, 1992 and Sallie Sims’ Purpleisms are easy favorites, as they present printmaking in

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surface and adding depth (both literally physically, as well as more conceptually) to each scene. Lauren Kelly presents a beautifully simplistic etching entitled Moth, in which a moth rests upon leaves, while Ruth Kopyto’s Beetle studies a large beetle, colored in painterly fashion in blue with yellow detailing. Jordan Kelly’s two pieces entitled Self-Portrait Accentuating My Negroid Features are interesting in their abstraction, various sketched sections covered by blue shapes that are unidentif iable in each. Meanwhile, Hannah Lang’s lithographic Slide pieces are both as fascinating as they are unrecognizable, focused more on the rainbow of colors and various edges and surfaces of whatever each slide is studying than on what the items themselves are. Serena Columbro’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fool provides an illustrative and slightly comical edge to tarot cards. With many more pieces to see, the show is up through March 29. •

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The Ithaca Times sits down with Weird Al Yankovic By Br yan VanC ampe n

eird A l ” Yankov ic has been writing parody and original comedy songs since 1976, so it’s a good bet he helped get you through middle school. His latest tour hits the State Theatre on March 14, with opening act Emo Phillips. Yankovic spoke to the Ithaca Times about the tour and what constitutes a “Weird Al” deep cut. IT: What do you do with your day when you’re not onstage? WAY: Well, it depends on the day. We just got done with an hour and a half-long sound check. We have extra-long sound checks on this tour because we’re doing material that we’re really not that familiar with. [Laughs.] We’re doing a lot of deep cuts, and we had to learn four hours of material, so there’s a lot of homework involved. We’re still needing to fine-tune a few things. IT: I saw you in 2000, and you had the big screen TV in between lots of costume changes. What are you doing this time? WAY: It’s nothing at all like the previous tours. This is a dramatic departure

from every tour that I’ve done in the past. My tours usually are very theatrical and full of production and costumes and props and the big video screen which you saw. And every year we make it bigger and better and, you know, more high falutin’. And this time we decided to just go the whole other direction and do a show specifically for the hard-core fans, and not even do the hits and the parodies that people expect us to play. The whole set list is basically all these deep cuts without the big production. We’re basically just going to go out onstage as musicians and sit down on stools [laughs] and share a quiet, intimate evening with some fans and play some songs that they probably never thought they’d hear live. IT: So you got my letters. It must have been fun going through your catalog and cherry-picking these songs. WAY: The energy’s so much different. It’s very laid-back. I’m actually kinda hanging around and talking to the band and talking to the audience, which I never do on normal shows, ‘cause every second counts, and we gotta get to the next cos-

tume and it’s like split-second precision. But this is just very laid-back. It’s kind of like “Hey, you guys are all kinda hanging out in our living room, and we’re just kinda jammin’.” IT: Can you talk about a few of those deep cuts? WAY: I can tell you some stuff we’ve

Weird Al in his element. (Photo provided)

already played: “Jackson Park Express,” “Don’t Download This Song,” “Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung,” “Mr. Popeil,” “Buy Me A Condo,” “Stop Forwarding That Crap

To Me,” IT: I was looking at the tour dates online with dates through June. When did you start this tour? WAY: February 27. IT: I have to say, I love the idea of being a touring musician and maybe it’s just my age, but this was the first time I doubted my ability to get through something like that. WAY: This isn’t even one of our longer tours. I mean, this is a 77-day tour. It’s a healthy tour, but the last tour was 200 dates. So, when we’re out on the road, we’re out on the road. IT: Talking about stamina and energy, how do you do that? WAY: Well, we try to get our sleep, eat healthy and [I] try to rest my voice when I’m not onstage, and [laughs] just try not to get sick. IT: Do you read books? Do you see movies? WAY: Yeah, online. I’ve got satellite TV in the back of the bus, I read books on my laptop, and I’ve got my little man cave in the back of the bus [laughs] so I’ve got things to amuse myself. IT: I was just trying to work out how many of the artists you parodied you’ve outlived: there’s Michael Jackson, Tom Petty… WAY: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln… IT: [Laughs.]

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Journey West | 7:00 PM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Journey West is pairing up with the Cornell University Middle Eastern Ensemble for anÂ evening of Arabic Music. The performance will feature Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian selections. The concert includes compositions by Ryad al-Sunbati and Mohammed Abdel Wahab. Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 7:30 PM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Ithaca College, Ford Hall, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Featuring music by Stravinsky, Mahler, Bottesini and Meyer. Singing for Suffrage: Songs and narrative tell how US women won voting rights | 7:30 PM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Red Brick Methodist Church, 144 Cedar Street, Corning | Valley Folk Music and the Southeast Steuben County Library jointly present Singing for Suffrage: Songs and narrative tell how US women won voting rights. St. Pats Celebration with John Whelan, Low Lily and Katie McNally | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main Street, Homer | Legendary Irish accordion champion John Whelan teams up with the American Roots band Low Lily and Scottish-style fiddler Katie McNally for a spectacular St. Pat’s Celebration. Cornell Symphony Orchestra, CU Music at Bailey Hall | 3:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Symphony Orchestra | 3:00 PM-, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. Concerto Competition winner Andy Sheng in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto; the Finale of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Youth

Orchestra; Passages by Cornell student Thomas Rachman; and selections from Wynton Marsalis’ Blues Symphony. Instrument petting zoo begins at 2:00 pm. Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus Does Broadway | 3:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | IGMC will perform a variety of Broadway tunes from recent Broadway hits, from beloved Broadway shows and a few surprises too. Melodies from Hamilton, Wicked, Oliver and Fun Home to name a few. Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes | 4:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | The Weight Band | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main Street, Homer | Hear the most authentic presentation of The Band’s music performed on stage, and see why the Chicago Sun Times proclaimed THE WEIGHT carries on where THE BAND left off. Tri-Cities Opera | 10:00 AM, Tuesday, March 13, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Celebrate Music in Our Schools Month with this interactive and educational program that explores the style, conventions and cool-ness of opera and how it connects with our lives. 3x0 | 8:00 PM, Tuesday, March 13, 18 | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Andrew Zhou, piano, presents a recital entitled 3x0. The program consists of 20th century works written by Ligeti, Berio, and Adams when they were striving to reinvigorate their compositional voices through new musical terrain.

Film Community Movie Night, Hidden Figures | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Southern Cayuga High School, 2384 State Route 34B, Aurora | Hidden Figures tells the untold story of Katherine Jonson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae)’s brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, a stunning achievement that

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turned around the Space Race. Cornell Cinema Associations | 7:15 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | This program celebrating the 50th anniversary of San Francisco-based experimental film distributor Canyon Cinema focuses on films that explore the syntax and expressive potential of their medium. Faces Places | 7:15 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Kindred spirits Agnes Varda and photographer JR share a radical passion for images and their creation and dissemination. Also showing March 11 at 4:30. BPM (Beats Per Minute) | 9:15 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | With Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adele Haenel. Leave it to France to produce a ferocious feature film centered around ACT-UP, the direct action group that sprang up to fight AIDS in the 80s and 90s. Also showing March 11 at 7 p.m. Strike! | 7:15 PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Russian master Sergei Eisenstein’s feature debut is an account of a 1912 factory workers’ strike and its violent suppression. The Alloy Orchestra helps

create a feel of palpable menace as factory workers’ ire against the fatcat factory owners builds to the breaking point. Downsizing | 9:25 PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A high-concept social satire in the style of Payne’s first feature Citizen Ruth, where science has come up with a clever solution to a world with rapidly dwindling resources: miniaturizing people. Also showing March 10 at 7 and 9:45 p.m. The General, w/ live accompaniment by The Alloy Orchestra | 1:00 PM-, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Against a meticulously evoked Civil War background, Buster Keaton risks life, limb, and love as he pursues his beloved railway engine, hijacked by Northern spies up to no good for the Southern cause. Song of Granite | 7:15 PM, Tuesday, March 13, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Enigmatic and complex, Joe Heaney was one of the greats of traditional Irish singer. Shaped by the myths, fables, and songs of his upbringing in the west of Ireland, his emergence as a gifted artist came at a personal cost. Cinemapolis

Friday, 3/09 to Thursday, 3/15. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times Thoroughbreds | Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost. | 92 mins R Call me by your Name | In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year-old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father’s research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage and the beguiling Italian landscape. | 132 mins R The Shape of Water | In a 1960s research facility, Elisa, a mute janitor, forms a relationship with a mysterious aquatic creature. | 123 mins R Lady Bird | In the early 2000s, an artistically-inclined seventeen year-old comes of age in Sacramento, California. | 94 mins R Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | 115

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Wednesday, 3/07 , to Tuesday, 3/13. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes A Wrinkle in Time | After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. | 109 mins R Death Wish | Dr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives. After an attack on his family, Paul embarks on his own mission for justice. | 107 mins R Annihilation | A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don’t apply. | 115 mins R Every Day | A shy teenager falls for someone who transforms into another person every day. | 95 mins PG-13 Game Night | A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. | 100 mins R Red Sparrow | Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service

Stage A Raisin In The Sun | Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Syracuse Stage/Drama

Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | The story of the Younger family’s three generations trying to build a better life on Chicago’s South Side resonates loudly with those pursuing the American dream today. Bright Half Life | Thursday, March 8, 18 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Follow Erika and Vicky as they hurtle through 25 years of love and heartbreak and a collection of the moments that make up our lives. Rhythm in the Night, The Irish Dance Spectacular | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A night of competitive storytelling where the public is invited to share their tall tales. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) CHEFS: The Sizzling Kitchen Showdown | 8:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | These hilarious hunks give you a peek behind the apron as they slice, dice, and spice things up in the kitchen through a series of escalating culinary challenges where the stakes are high. Drag Show with House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | We Tried to Stop and We Can’t | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Performance Encounters with Erin Markey and Becca Blackwell. Coordinated by Karen Jaime. Co-sponsored by the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. NYC-based performance artists Erin Markey and Becca Blackwell combine cabaret, comedy, and theatre in excerpts of their individual shows and a joint performance. Magic Beyond Imagination | 7:30 PM-, Friday, March 9, 18 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | An intimate magical experience, featuring Garrett Thomas and Kozmo. Hosted by magician Joe Maxwell. Magician Garrett Thomas is a consultant for David Blaine, and a magical creator, technician and artist.

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First Unitarian Church of Ithaca Saturday, March 10, 7:30 p.m.

Lewis Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University Thursday, March 8, 4:30 p.m.

Journey West performs Middle Eastern music, this time pairing up with the Cornell University Middle Eastern Ensemble for an evening of Arabic Music. The performance will feature Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian selections. The concert includes compositions by Ryad al-Sunbati and Mohammed Abdel Wahab. Imad AlTaha is an accomplished violinist who received his musical training in Baghdad. (Photo provided)

Amy Bass is a professor of History and the Director of the Honors Program at the College of New Rochelle. Her book dives into the cultural politics surrounding sports, and her talk will further expand her findings and her published work. (Photo provided)

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where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations. | 139 mins R Black Panther | T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. | 134 mins PG-13 Early Man | Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home. | 89 mins PG 50 Shades Freed | Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship. | 105 mins R Peter Rabbit | Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer’s vegetable garden. | 95 mins PG The 15:17 to Paris | Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France. | 94 mins PG-13 The Post | A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. | 116 mins PG-13 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. | 119 mins PG-13 The Greatest Showman| Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. | 105 mins PG

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Carmen | 8:00 PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A one-hour theater for all ages, English-language adaptation of Bizet’s opera featuring members of the Opera Ithaca Apprentice Artist program. Also showing March 11 at 2 p.m. Taylor Tomlinson, Erica Spera | 8:00 PM-, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | At only 23 years old, Taylor Tomlinson commands the stage with the confidence and capability of an expert comedian. Her self-deprecating charm has made her a favorite at comedy clubs, colleges and corporate events across the country. One Funny Ithaca Story | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Comedians visiting Ithaca. A fundraiser for the Cancer Resource Center.

Notices Ithaca Men’s Lacrosse vs Oswego State | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Ithaca College Higgins Stadium, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Host: Nadine L, RSVP: nlem1155@ gmail.com. Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ The Electrozone: The March Continues Again | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Bring your electromusical gear (i.e. OP-1s, iPads, Computers, Hardware Synths, Theremins, Teleharmoniums, Orchestrions, Gameboys, Clavivoxes, & circuit bent Speak and Spells) perform on stage or join in our audience participatory group play. Cornell Lab of Ornithology Volunteer Information Session | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | If you love birds and learning and want to

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hen I was a kid, I did a puppetmagic act with my best friend Robb Yonkin, so for me, it was seeing Doug Henning on TV and on Broadway in “The Magic Show”. On March 9 & 10 at 7:30 p.m., CRT Downtown in Cortland hosts “Magic Beyond Imagination” with three of today’s finest practitioners of the art of illusion: Garrett Thomas, TV consultant for David Blaine, magical creator, technician and artist; Humorist/magician Kozmo and his energetic and edgy sleight-of-hand magic; Joe Maxwell specializes in closeup magic with a humorous touch. The Ithaca Times spoke to Thomas and Kozmo about getting started, crashing festivals and what makes a magician a magician. Ithaca Times: I love hearing how people get started. Garrett Thomas: For me, I started very young. Looking back on it if I was honest, I did it to get my father’s attention. He loved magic, and it

be around others who share these interests, come to our information session. Please RSVP to Anne RosenbergÂ atÂ baj3@cornell.eduÂ or call 607-254-2109. Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs University of Scranton | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Ithaca College Higgins Stadium, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Networking@Rev: Clean Energy | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 East State Street, Ithaca | Networking@ Rev: Clean Energy will feature Professor Lynden A. Archer, Director of the Cornell Energy Systems Institute which is creating innovative multidisciplinary research and education solutions. Winter Farmers Market | Saturday, March 10, 18 | Ithaca Farmers Market, 545 3rd Street, Ithaca | The Ithaca Farmers Market, indoors during the winter months. Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods

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First Baptist Church in Dewitt Park, Ithaca Sunday, March 11, 3 p.m. IGMC will perform a variety of Broadway tunes from recent Broadway hits, from beloved Broadway shows and a few surprises too. Melodies from Hamilton, Wicked, Oliver and Fun Home to name a few. Choral Director, Sam Kwan, is an alumna of Ithaca College’s Voice Performance and Music Education bachelor’s program. (Photo provided)

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tion time and went to New Orleans and worked on the streets and I was really successful down there. I came home a couple of weeks later, quit my job and it was the best decision I ever made in my life. IT: I assume you’re paired up because you’re different flavors. GT: Oh, yeah. This show is really something for everyone. We have Joe Maxwell, who’s going to do some mental magic and some classic parlor magic. I focus on just intense magic and all the different things we can show you, and Kozmo is one of the funniest street magicians, and he’s gonna focus on comedy. IT: Kozmo, when did you get interested in magic? K: Oh, when I was a boy, you know. I was the youngest of seven, and my

clarityconnect.com. Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes all you care to eat pancakes, french toast or waffles, sausage and bacon or ham from Clark’s in Dryden, cooked-to-order eggs (locally sourced), hash brown potatoes, sausage gravy and Biscuits, fresh fruit, OJ and hot beverages, homemade unsalted Butter and Whipped Cream. Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | The Enfield Volunteer Fire Company is hosting our Chicken Barbecue Sunday until all is gone. Empty Bowls Benefit at Atlas Bowl | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Trumansburg’s Empty Bowls Fundraiser at Atlas Bowl will kick off this year’s campaign to benefit the Trumansburg, Ulysses Food Pantry. A donation of $25 will buy a handmade bowl made by Salmon Pottery and

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empowered me, I could do something that he couldn’t, but… He didn’t have the opportunity to come to the football games or the baseball games, but 3:00 in the morning, “Wake up, wake up. Show my friends some magic.” That was my dad. And he loved magic, so I got obsessed very quickly. I also was extremely dyslexic, so I really couldn’t read the magic books that were at the library. That was the only access I had. So I really had to begin to just observe and watch and learn by copying what I saw on TV, what I saw other magicians do. Kosmo: I was a broadcast engineer at Cornell 25 years ago. I was doing magic in restaurants like Old Port Harbor on the weekend, and I hated my life. I knew I was never going to make enough money working in restaurants to leave my job in Media Services at Cornell. So I crashed the Ithaca Festival. I walked around and did magic, and I didn’t have a show, but I was just doing card tricks and stuff. And I passed the hat and I made $130 in three hours walking around. I thought “There’s something to this.” So I bought myself an old Army footlocker and a table top and crashed a festival in Scranton. And that weekend I made $1,900, doing little shows, passing my hat. I did a couple of other festivals and had the same kind of success. I took some vaca-

Magic Beyond Imagination will be coming to CRT Downtown this week. brothers used to beat the hell out of me. The way I survived was to make them laugh. We grew up rough. I was always the class clown, so that’s where the comedy came from. GT: Most magicians don’t have the courage or the opportunity to just own it, and when I was a kid, I didn’t say, “I wanna grow up and pretend to be a magician,” I said, “I wanna grow up and be a magician.” And I had to figure out how to own that. There’s a lot of art forms like that where the practitioner is really a guide. Can I really do magic? Well, no, but that’s not what makes a magician a magician.

Trumansburg High School ceramics students. Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another. Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Monday, March 12, 18 | Spencer Library, 41 N Main St, Spencer | Proceeds will benefit the SVE Junior Class. Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 AM, Monday, March 12, 18 | VFW, Rt 13, Dryden | The meal will be corned beef, cabbage, boiled potatoes, carrots, onions, rolls, tossed salad and rice pudding. Entertainment will be Greg Jenkins who will sing popular, Broadway tunes and country songs. Teen-Only Gaming Sessions | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, March 12, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle and high school-aged students (and homeschooled equivalents) are invited to participate in after school gaming

sessions. Use our space to play your favorite board games, tabletop RPGs and collectible card games. The Empty Bowls Project | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Tuesday, March 13, 18 | Spencer-Van Etten High School, 16 Dartts Cross Rd, Spenser | The Empty Bowls Project is a yearly charity event put on by the Spencer Van Etten High School Key Club. Each year, club members seek out donations of soup, breads, desserts, beverages and other supplies to open up a restaurant in the Gym Lobby of the High School.

Special Events Spartan Race | Friday, March 9, 18 | Greek Peak Mountain Resort, 2000 NYS Rt 392, Cortland | Tackle the classic obstacles you have come to love (and fear), all while enduring the added challenges of a cold-hearted winter on central New York’s largest ski resort.

‘We are Ithaca’ artist opening reception,

Community Arts Partnership ArtSpace, Ithaca Friday, March 9, 5–8 p.m. “We Are Ithaca” is a multi-faceted portrait project in Ithaca. There are 20 portrait sessions around town Sept.-Nov, and the final portraits are now on exhibition at the CAP ArtsSpace in Ithaca. Postponed from last week, the opening reception will begin at 5 p.m. Friday, March 9, as part of First Friday Gallery Night. (Photo provided)

Books Oh, the Women! | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A Women’s History Month writing workshop facilitated by Tompkins County Poet Laureate Zee Zahava. This free program in celebration of International Women’s Day will encourage women and men to write and share stories about the special women in their lives: friends, family members, historical/cultural figures, even literary characters. Listen to the Athletes for a Change: Race, Politics, and Sports, by Amy Bass| 4:30 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Lewis Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University | Amy Bass is a professor of History and the Director of the Honors Program at the College of New Rochelle. Urban Environmental Education Review, Urban Environmental Education Review Book talk by Alex Kudryavtsev and Marianne E. Krasny | 4:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Mann Library, Cornell Library, Ithaca | Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Alex Kudryavtsev, extension associate, and Marianne E. Krasny, professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell; coeditors of the new book Urban Environmental Education Review, part of the Cornell Series in Environmental Education. Hidden Treasure Book Reading | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | River Row Bookshop, 187 Front St, Owego | Discussing her new book and the five personality patterns that can hinder us. According to author Alice McDowell, these patterns can be so ingrained that they influence body shape and even who a person thinks they are.

Health Inspire the Fire Yoga | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Generate some heat and feel your empowered body flow in this invigorating one-hour yoga session. Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Vinyasa flow yoga and energizing breathing to generate and sustain

energy, clarity, and radiance. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect. Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. Divining Light and Gems w/Lainey Papageorge | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Treman Center, 95 Hines Rd, Newfield | Lainey will show participants how to explore the subtle impact of gems and crystals when intentionally placed on the body. Contact lp@elainadesigns.com to register. Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, March 12, 18 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Matt and Kim will perform 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, at The Leigh 379-4858. Haunt. (Photo provided) Ithaca Bipolar Support Group Meeting | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, workshop with Dr. Ivy Walz, Associate March 13, 18 | Lifelong, 119 West Professor of Vocal Performance, Ithaca Court St., Ithaca | The group is peer-run College. without supervision by any medical SPARK! Leadership Conference expert. Anthropology Colloquium: Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Watkins Glen Matthew Liebmann | 3:00 PM-4:30 Harbor Hotel, 16 N. Franklin Street, PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | 165 McGraw Dundee | This conference offers a fresh Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Debates regarding take on leadership development to the magnitude, tempo and ecological bright, dynamic professionals from all effects of Native American population. Audubon in the Parks Walk at Mark industries across New York State and Artist Lecture with Simon Twain State Park | 8:00 AM-10:00 beyond. Dinnerstein | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, AM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Mark American Sign Language Class | Saturday, March 10, 18 | Arnot Art Twain State Park, State Route 14, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, March Museum, 235 Lake Street, Elmira Horseheads | Meet in the west parking 8, 18 | Finger Lakes Independence | Simon Dinnerstein discusses The lot at Murray Athletic Center (the Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Meet Fulbright Triptych and other drawings Elmira College Domes), State Route 14, the instructors, find out about course and paintings in the exhibition. one-third mile south of Pine Valley.Â content, get tips from staff who have Information at cvaudubon.org. Town of Ithaca: Early Days, Talk by taken the class. ASL I class starts Thurs David George | 2:00 PM, Saturday, Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Mar 1, 6-8 pm, at FLIC. March 10, 18 | History Center, 401 E Saturday, March 10, 18 | The Museum Cornell Business Impact State St, Ithaca | In conjunction with of the Earth will identify a fossil you Symposium | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, the Municipality Display Case exhibit bring in. Saturday, March 10, 18 | Breazzano Town of Ithaca: Early Days, David Discovery Sundays | 1:00 PM-2:00 Family Center, 209-215 Dryden Rd, George, Town of Ithaca Historian, will PM, Sunday, March 11, 18 | Cayuga Ithaca | A day where student leaders give a talk about the years following Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, and professionals come together to Town of Ithaca’s incorporation in 1821. Ithaca | Learn about exoskeletons, explore the power of sustainability in Multispecies Justice: Against butterflies, skin and skulls, whooping business. Extinction & Extraction by cranes and much more. Visit www. Beating Vocal Fatigue: Techniques Subhankar Banerjee | 4:30 cayuganaturecenter.org for details. for Vocal Fitness and Longevity | PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, March 13, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM, Saturday, March 18 | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, 10, 18 | First Congregational Church, Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave, Ithaca | 309 Highland Road, Ithaca | An open He is Lannan Foundation Endowed

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Kids Sciencenter Science Together | 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you investigate how to use tools, through self-guided, hands-on activities. Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project! Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Cayuga Chamber Orchestra FamilyFriendly Concert | 4:00 PM, Thursday, March 8, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This fun-filled, musical storytime will bring to life the lively and zany story, Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo, written by John Lithgow and colorfully illustrated by Leeza Hernandez. Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months old are invited to Baby Storytime. Join us for books, music, movement and rhyming, along with early literacy tips for babies and their caregivers. Simple Circuits | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families will find out how to make a simple circuit and will also test to find out what materials are electrical conductors or insulators. They will then create their own paper circuit. Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM-2:30 PM, Saturday, March 10, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Discover the world of science at Sciencenter Showtime! Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Monday, March 12, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education

thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

Art Maker’s March | Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Inns of Aurora, 391 Main Street, Aurora | Aurora is filled with and surrounded by passionate and talented makers, herbalists, potters, painters, book artists, cocktail crafters and more. Landscape Paintings by Annemiek Haralson | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 18 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | Now through the end of March, the Trumansburg library is featuring an exhibit of landscape paintings by Annemiek Haralson. Ms. Haralson draws inspiration from local hikes, and hopes to convey her love of nature and the beauty around us in her paintings. 29th Annual Juried Photography Show | Thursday, March 8, 18 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | On exhibit are 76 photographs by photographers from NYC, Long Island, Rochester and the Ithaca area. The World Bewitch’d: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | Friday, March 9, 18 | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | The exhibition features rare and unique books and documents from 15th-century witch hunting manuals to 20th-century movie posters. Little Gems, A Collection of Miniature Paintings | Friday, March 9, 18 | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | A new exhibit which features small works by more than 30 regional artists. First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Postponed from last week due to inclement weather. Opening Reception for Simon Dinnerstein Exhibition | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Friday, March 9, 18 | Arnot Art Museum, 235 Lake Street, Elmira | Explores the noted New York artists creative arc from early, hyper-realist works through more introspective and fantastical later works.

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Ford Hall, Ithaca College Saturday, March 10, 7:30 p.m.

Feast your eyes on CHEFS! These hilarious men give you a peek behind the apron as they slice, dice, and spice things up in the kitchen through a series of escalating culinary challenges where the stakes are high. CHEFS is a fully interactive experience where you will vote for the winner and may even join the chefs on-stage. (Photo provided)

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Edgar Meyer, the world’s preeminent bassist, perform a concerto he composed, blending together elements of jazz, classical and bluegrass into one inspired work. The program will also include music by Bottesini, Bartok and Stravinsky. (Photo provided)

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