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ndependent Keith Hannon, when first deciding to run for office, actually missed his chance to register as a democrat. So it looks like his upstart campaign for the county legislature in the diverse fifth district (comprising the Town of Ulysses and portions of the Towns of Enfield and Ithaca) will come opposite a seasoned pillar of the county’s political landscape on the ballot. Hannon, a former entertainment business worker-turned IC communications lecturer and public relations man for the Boyce Thompson Institute (he was once social media manager for Cornell), grew up in the Binghamton area. As his story goes, went to IC, fled from IC, went to L.A., met his wife (a St. Louis native caught up in the music business), got married and after having their first child, decided it was time to leave L.A., despite the loss in income. His local roots run close to two decades, however, and when the couple decided to settle down in Tompkins County, he said, was really the only area they considered; the quality of life aspect, he said, was too strong to turn down. He said his politics, as result of his experience in L.A., are strongly representative of his earlier years, coming up in a venerable mixing pot where even on your softball team, “your teammates might be speaking two or three other languages,” he candidly notes. As a resident of Trumansburg, arguably the county’s fastest developing village, he said he sees room to not only serve as a vocal representative for the village as well as the continued on page 4
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f you’ve ever sat down on a sun-kissed autumn afternoon, picked up the newspaper and saw the ubiquitous crossword puzzle on the last page, you’ve probably thought to yourself, “I can do that.” S hor t l y a f t e r, you m ay have found yourself snapping a pencil in bitter frustration and storming off to the further despair of watching your favorite football team lose.
No m o r e t h o u g h , d e a r reader. Shed your anger. It’s time again for the Finger Lakes Crossword Competition. Even if you’ve had the aforementioned experience playing the ones at home, this time there’s a worthy cause. Learning Partnership board member Gar y Weissbrot is in charge of the 5th annual competition, which will take place on Saturday, March 18 at 1 p.m. at Boynton Middle School. Money raised at the event goes to Tompkins Learning Partners, which uses the funds to support its educational programs across the county, which assist illiterate adults or those who are learning English as a second language, to read and write and possibly advance their educational pos-
T a k e ▶ Catholic Charities will be hosting guest speaker Tom Gallagher, a catholic journalist and humanitarian worker, Thursday, March 23 at 7 p.m. at the parish hall. Drawing on his experiences in the Middle East, particularly his visit to Iraq with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Gallagher will be speaking on the timely theme of tolerance and religious freedom. The evening will also include an
sibilities even in adulthood. At least 7,000 adults in Tompkins County can’t read and write well enough to apply for jobs or read to their children. “Some of them are with us for year after year after year, it’s slow going,” Weissbrot said of the serious purpose behind the festivities. “The whole thing is about Tompkins Learning Partners, I don’t want that to get lost in the mix. Let’s all have fun, but I want people to be aware of TLP.” Weissbrot, who handles the bulk of the planning and organizing, said he initially took inspiration from “Wordplay”, a 2006 documentar y about the world of dedicated crossworders, when looking for ideas to revitalize the Partners fundContin u ed on Pg. 4
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update on Catholic Charities’ new refugee resettlement program. ▶ A Talk On Deep Sea Fishing is happening at the Museum of the Earth on Sunday, March 26 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Game fish author Michael Rivkin and Cornell University EAS Professor Dr. Bruce Monger will discuss topics related to fish and the deep sea. These talks will combine art and science by connecting Stanley Meltzoff’s art,
on display at the museum, with conservation efforts in deep sea ecosystems. ▶ Feminist Edit-athon Cornell is again taking part in this year’s Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, designed to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to encourage female editorship. It’s happening at the Johnson Museum on 3/11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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selves and getting excited for next year. “Ever ybody who’s come from the f irst year has returned,” Weissbrot said with a laugh. “Lot of recidivism, in a good way.” Last year’s individual Toughest Level champion, Jacob Lehman, will return to defend his crown carrying with him some high expectations. Weissbrot said last year Lehman blazed through the individual finale in about eight minutes, nearly half the time it took for the winners of the team finale to finish their puzzle. His eyes, along with the rest of the participants will be on the newly-commissioned trophy of this year’s Finger Lakes crossword battle royale, a bauble sure to evoke awe whenever it is seen around town. “The highly-coveted Finger Lakes Crossword Champ bracelet,” Weissbrot said. “It’s just like the World Series of
Poker bracelet, but no gold or diamonds.” Don’t fret, however. Every winner is awarded the wrist adornment. Other prizes include a copy of the movie Wordplay, a 100th anniversary crossword collection book signed by the late San Francisco Chronicle crossword legend Merl Reagle, and even ping-pong balls signed by the New York Times’ puzzle poobah Will Shortz, who also happens to be a ping-pong fanatic. There will be a silent auction for gift certificates to a variety of different restaurants and stores around the county, along with bidding on a personalized puzzle from Perl. Free snacks and drinks will be provided by Ithaca Bakery. To register, you can go to www. tlpartners.org. Pre-registration closes on March 17.
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raising efforts and replace the organization’s annual Scrabble competition. The contest consists of three levels of difficulty, from Easier to Toughest, and have separate divisions for teams and individuals. Adam Perl, the owner of Pastimes Antiques in DeWitt Mall, will once again be supplying his own created puzzles. Weissbrot is introducing a new entrance system as well: in years past, there were set entrance costs, but this year registration is based on a “what you can pay” system. Weissbrot said the event brought in $9,000 of funds for TL Partners with about 100 participants, and he is optimistic they can top that figure this year. He said the event has stood the test of time so far, and once people get in the door they end up enjoying them-
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Development Agency. A former schoolteacher, Dennis has also been instrumental in personnel discussions during his time in office and sits on five committees, chairing the Budget, Capital, and Personnel Committee. Despite his opponent’s experience, Hannon said in his decision to run this year, it’s now or never. “It was hard for me to decide whether or not it was a good time for me to do this, because I have a young family,” Hannon said. “But with the national dialogue lately, getting more people to run for office, you start to realize it’s never going to feel like a good time.” –Nick Reynolds
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his week, the TompkinsCortland Community College (TC3) adjunct professors announced they had been notified by the NYS Public Employment Relations Board that the adjunct professors may form their own union, separate from the fulltime faculty. Previously, both groups had been represented under the same umbrella, the TompkinsCortland Community College Faculty Association. The ruling legitimizes the TC3 Adjunct Association, representing adjuncts and tutors at the school, and the TC3AA expects to be officially certified soon. This brings to a close a 21 month process that started with a hearing before the Public Employment Relations Board in which the union argued for separation while the college lobbied for their continued integration. The release thanked the Tompkins County Workers’ Center for their contributions, and said the union has been contacted by school officials who are eager to work out a contract wit the adjunct staff. The situation is eerily similar to Ithaca College’s current situation, in which the school and adjunct faculty continue to spar over pay parity and contract lengths after months of negotiations and threats of a strike. The further unionizing and subsequent contract haggling will be an interesting story to watch, as it comes at a period of some tumult at TC3. This week, the school is having their three finalists for the college’s presidential position visit the community to answer questions from locals, while a budgetary shortfall has opened the door for possible layoffs on the horizon. “We hope we can continue to count on your support and encouragement as we move toward in the coming months to build a strong union and win a fair contract for TC3 adjuncts and tutors,” the statement said. –Matt Butler
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ith the final week of the National Labor Relations Board hearings in progress, Cayuga Medical Center will finally get a chance to battle against its own staff’s opening salvos. Two nurses, Anne Marshall and Loran Lamb, were terminated in after a patient complained they had broken protocol during a September blood transfusion. Marshall had conducted the transfusion by herself; two nurses are required to check the blood units outside the room and at the patient’s bedside to ensu re accuracy. Some of t he deta i ls of t he actual event are disputed: t he patient claims she raised her concerns to Marshall at the time and was dismissed, which Marshall whol ly denies. Regardless, the end resu lt was two fired nurses, who are now contesting the real reason they were fired was due to residual tensions over Marshall’s campaigning to unionize CMC’s nurses, a stance Lamb had publicly supported at work. For nine days of proceedings, lawyers Jessica Noto and Alicia Pender from the National Labor Relations Board and Mimi Satter from the SEIU have hammered away at the policies of Cayuga Medical Center, lining up nurse after nurse to provide a sample of their daily life in the Intensive Care Unit. That sample has not been f lattering, either. The hospital’s ICU has been portrayed throughout the trial as a place that functions solely because of the nursing staff’s extra efforts to shortcut the policies nominally designed to help them. Understaffing, lax oversight, and a pervasive culture of topdown negligence has been the prevailing theme of the testi-
mony provided by the approximately ten current and former CMC nurses called by the NLRB so far. Marshall and Lamb gave the most pivotal testimony, though both played starkly contrasting roles on the stand. Marshall was combative as the trailblazer type, while Lamb presented the image of someone who may have been caught in the crossfire. At one point, Lamb stated outright that during the early part of the discipline process, she mentally accepted her ter-
t he delinquent nu rse behav ior and did nothing to address it, such as what Mike Doan, a former nurse manager in the ICU testified, they are essentially complicit in the very act for which they fired Marshall and Lamb. On the other, if the violations were as widespread as the nurses have insisted, it would seem to implicate a harmfully opaque wall between nurse and the hospital’s overseers should they have been unaware of their staff’s actions. It is important to remember that only one side of the case has been completely presented to
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mination since, in her words, the hospital wanted them both out for their unionizing. When given a choice between resignation and termination, Lamb said she chose to resign. Lamb did, at one point, state she was worried about her nursing license in the aftermath of the incident but before her firing, which CMC’s lawyer Raymond Pascucci used to contradict her claim of ignorance of the rules. Aside from another straight retelling of the incident, Marshall told of what she thought were subt le union-busting actions taken by the hospital, stripping the staff break rooms and bu lletin boards of her union materials. If management knew about
this point. Pascucci has battled each opposing witness tooth and nail, combing through each word of their testimony and seeking any vulnerability. Pascucci has thusfar sought specifics in the nurse’s testimony they have yet to provide on the record. He is scheduled to finish his case this Friday, after which the administrative judge will begin mulling her decision. CMC begins its defense this week. Their first two witnesses have been Star York, sister of the complainant who testified during the first week due to scheduling problems, and Daniel Sudilovsky, who serves as the Medical Director of Laboratories at CMC and took the stand last Friday. York expounded
upon her experience at CMC and buttressed her sister’s version of the interaction with Marshall during the transfusion. Meanwhile, Sudilovsky, who wrote the transfusion policy, blamed arrogance and carelessness when presented with the testimony of other nurses having disobeyed the rules. A key component of Sudilovsky’s statements were that when he was consulted about punishment for the September protocol violation, he suggested termination without knowing Marshall and Lamb were the personnel involved. The future implications of the trial are intriguing as well for the hospital. Pascucci, so far, has built a case based on t hese seemi ng ly sma l l protocol malfeasances that in reality are potentially fatal in a worst case s c e n a r i o . H o wever, almost every nurse who has testified on behalf of the the nurses and the union has admitted to some sor t of v iolation of varying degree, whether it be frequently performing a solo transfusion, occasionally signing forms after the action instead of before, or admitting to limited knowledge of the protocol in general. In essence, those who have testified have all admitted to similar rulebreaking actions, though without the ability or willingness to name specific witnesses or circumstances, a point Pascucci has emphasized. The union, as of late, has presented a picture of institutional rule-breaking and violations committed – in part, to high staff turnover in recent months. Another subplot has arisen during the last week, as the NLRB filed a 10j injunction on behalf of Marshall. The injunction would allow her to return to work at CMC while the hearings and any appeals play out. It is unclear where that process currently stands.
Ups&Downs ▶ Affordable Housing It looks like there will be a new housing complex going up in the West End to replace the houses purchased by Elmira Savings Bank in its plans for a new branch on that side of town. Word has it there will be fifty units AND some much -needed commercial space in the area. ▶ Hal’s Is Closing After more than a half century in Ithaca, we’re losing Hal’s. Unapologetically old-school, uncompromisingly scrumptious, the venerable eatery will serve its last Husband Hal in May. Quite depressing.
Heard&Seen ▶ The Old Home Of Felicia’s appears to have been going under some renovations lately. According to the rumor mill, there is an established, much-beloved business opening a new location in the old Felicia’s location on West State Street. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but one thing is for sure: it won’t be the same booze and cupcakes establishment it once was. ▶ Speaking Of Booze, The History Center of Tompkins County and Historic Ithaca are teaming up for a historicallythemed bar crawl. Stops for the crawl, which is happening April 22, include Bar Argos, the Chanticleer, Simeon’s, the Watershed and Bandwagon Pub, with tickets running $20 per person. You can get tickets at ithacaheritage.com/ pub-crawl.
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A Town Hall To Remember I t’s no secret that, after a long period of waiting, Congressman Tom Reed is coming to Ithaca to do a formal town hall, his first such appearance in just about two years. These town halls, of which Reed has held more of than 99 percent of his peers according to a recent survey by Capitol Hill-centric outlet, The Hill, signifies a major step toward connecting with the uber-liberal constituency of Ithaca and greater Tompkins County which, as we noted in a recent editorial, has served as little more than a political prop in his campaign efforts. This is encouraging, we say, because it only goes to affirm the mantra he has repeated over and over both on a recent spree of national television and placement in several prominent websites with national audiences. “I firmly believe that you can’t represent people unless you talk with them and listen to them,” Reed wrote for the respected Conservative website, The Daily Caller, last month. “This isn’t just a platitude. I truly care about what people think. As a result, this type of open conversation allows for a stronger democracy and more responsive government.” The residents of Ithaca, ever the activists, have more than proven their
enthusiasm for the congressman’s upcoming visit. Over social media, hundreds have expressed their interest in every aspect of the event, from the seating capacity of the Southside Community Center’s gymnasium to whoever is represented in the one hour span Reed has allotted our portion of the constituency. Upon a close following of these efforts, what we have noticed is an incredible enthusiasm, sure, but also an extreme lack of focus. While we do not present a solution on how best to orchestrate the needs and priorities of what is clearly such a large group, we would like to leave you something to ponder. President Donald
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ell, to his eternal credit, our Representative, Tom Reed, has scheduled a Town Hall meeting in Tompkins County for this Saturday at the Southside Community Center. I’m just going to say it: he’s a braver person than I am. Still…I’m given to understand that ‘paid protesters’ are likely to disrupt the proceedings. I was pretty excited to learn that there was compensation available to those of us seeking to exercise our First Amendment rights. Frankly, I could use the cash. Here’s the voucher form, which must be submitted to receive payment. No exceptions! There will be a 1099-misc to file with your 2017 tax return. See you Saturday.
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s a Planned Parenthood patient in Ithaca, New York, I know from personal experience that these health centers play a vital role in our state. I, like many others, chose Planned Parenthood as my first choice provider because they provide highquality and nonjudgmental care. Here in New York, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes serves nearly 10,000 patients a year at their 5 health centers, providing affordable birth control and family planning counseling. Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes provides STI tests for over 2,000 patients, pap tests for almost 5,000 women and nearly 3,000 breast and cervical cancer screenings annually. If extreme Members of Congress are successful in their crusade to defund Planned Parenthood, in New York State alone, about 200,000 women, men and young people would be blocked from care at Planned Parenthood. Across the coun-
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try, 2.5 million people would no longer have access to care. Every day, for a century, doctors, clinicians, and staff in health centers across the country open their doors and care for patients like me. They answer the questions we can’t or don’t want to ask anyone else, and they give us the accurate, unbiased information we need to make some of the most important decisions we will ever make about our health and our lives. Let’s be clear: If politicians defund Planned Parenthood, they won’t be striking a line from the federal budget. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that defunding Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $130 million over 10 years. Planned Parenthood, like every other doctor’s office or hospital, is reimbursed for the care they provide to patients who rely on public health programs like Medicaid. That means the people who would be most hurt are those already struggling to get by and those who already face barriers to accessing health care -- especially
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____Expose nefarious Russia connection ____Still not comfortable with a shallow narcissistic windbag at the helm ____Donald Trump’s tax returns – seriously, dude, what’s the story? ____Tom Reed: political panderer or congenital suckhole? ____At long last, have you no sense of decency, sir? ____Question: can we secede from the 23rd Congressional District? ____Enduring general sense of unfolding horror at all levels ____Fake news dissemination ____Other (Specify:) ____________________________________ ____Total number of hidden agendas Please submit Form 14850 (Paid Protester Voucher) within 45 days of attendance at any Town Hall event for full compensation. Be sure to indicate whether you wish payment in US currency, bitcoins or rubles. Charley Githler is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column appears biweekly.
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Trump, of whom Reed was an early supporter during a volatile juncture of the presidential race, has provided a multitude of things to be enraged over. As such, his opponents have a multi-pronged rage, reflecting a diversity of interests which in no way, can be expressed in the “constructive” type of manner some GOP congressmen have sought in holding town halls. Ithaca has just one hour and, unlike the Tea Partier’s approach of past years, more than one grievance: the progressive qualm with the current administration and its congress is not simply institutional, it’s philosophical. The punching bag in this scenario isn’t simply epitomized in a single scapegoat, like Obamacare or a supposed loss of morality, the waving flag of ‘80s conservatism: for we supposed uber-liberals, it seems our gripe lies more in opposition against the whole, freakin’ thing. Reed believes what he believes: he’s gone on record as saying that. And while “constructive questions” on where disagreements lay are good, we risk wasting them on what’s already decided. Instead, let’s focus on what makes for a stronger government: a dialogue to connect our lives at the very bottom to the voices of power at the very top. Make it real, talk about how the policies in place today – or to come – affect your life. Tell a story. Have, as Congressman Reed calls it, the type of “open conversation allowing for a stronger democracy and more responsive government.” YourLetters contin u ed from page 6
people of color, people with low incomes, and people who live in rural areas. More than half of Planned Parenthood health centers are in rural or medically underserved communities. In 21 percent of counties where they see patients, Planned Parenthood health centers are the one and only safety-net family planning provider. For many of these patients, there is nowhere else to go for care. That is why I traveled to Washington, D.C. on March 1st alongside hundreds of other Planned Parenthood patients and health care providers, to tell Representative Reed and Senator Gillibrand that we won’t stand for these attacks on our health care and the provider we trust. Here in New York, Planned Parenthood cares for about 200,000 patients each year. We don’t go to Planned Parenthood to make a political statement. We go for compassionate, affordable, high-quality health care. Every person, no matter who they are or how much money they make, deserves that kind of care. We will not allow politicians to take it away. Erica Sava, Ithaca Send Letters to the Editor to editor@ ithacatimes.com. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. We do not publish unsigned letters.
Week Of 2/26-3/5 By Vaughn Golden Barbara Lifton NY State Assembly Assemblywoman (and former teacher) Lifton followed through on promises in her town halls the previous week to demand an increase in education funding for the 2017-2018 state budget. Lifton joined other assembly democrats in announcing their calls for an additional $4.3 billion to be added to the governor’s budget. The Republican-held senate mirrored the democrats’ request and included a similarly scoped tax credit in the its budget proposal which passed last week.
Tom O’Mara NY State Senate Senator O’Mara and his Republican cohorts in the senate passed their take on the governor’s proposed budget. Highlights of the plan include a tax credit to boost education funding, a tax cut for middle class working families and an emphasis on supporting economic development and manufacturing. A kickball that continues to bounce in and out of the senate codes committee is a bill that would effectively repeal the SAFE Act for upstate counties. The legislation would still however impose restrictions on assault rifles and large ammo capacities on counties in the New York metropolitan area. O’Mara cosponsors the bill which may pass the senate, but would likely be shot down in the assembly.
Tom Reed U.S. Congress House Republicans took part in their own version of spring cleaning this week. Three bills passed the house with the aim of slashing unnecessary spending and other bureaucratic waste. The highlight of these pieces of legislation was the SCRUB Act, which establishes in independent commission of individuals to review and recommend for repeal federal agency policies which it deems “unnecessary and burdensome.” The commission requires $6 million a year to facilitate, but the legislation aims to eliminate a lofty 15 percent of regulation costs. House Democrats proposed several amendments to the bill to bar the commission from slashing federal regulations on rules protecting whistleblowers, agreements with respect to sovereign Native American entities, and the Clean Air Act, however these efforts failed. Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings did however successfully pass an amendment barring former lobbyists from sitting on the commission. Congressman Reed plans to follow through on promises to visit Ithaca. Saturday, March 11, Reed will host a town hall at Southside Community Center at 8:00 a.m. before attending three other town halls across the 23rd District.Both houses will cut their work short on Tuesday to gather for President Trump’s address to congress.
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A Reel Treasure Cayuga Lake’s anglers have access to one of the best salmon fisheries in the country. If we can keep it, that is. By Kurt Hoefig P hotos by Casey M a rti n Ithaca Fishing Day is scheduled for Saturday, March 25 at Ithaca High School from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free event has a special focus on fly-fishing directed at young people but also offers resources to learn more about the sport of fishing and the local cold water environment.
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n early spring is on Ithaca’s horizon and with it, our eyes turn to fishing season. Ithacans may not realize but in this unique watershed, Ithaca’s residents have access to some of the best cold-water fishing in the state right in our own backyards. Cayuga Lake, a unique alpine lake with marshlands at both end and deep waters at its center, boasts an abundant population of landlocked salmon that provides spectacular sport fishing for local anglers. Both hard-fighting and majestically colored, these landlocked salmon cruise the shorelines of Cayuga Lake during the colder months, making them easily targeted by shore anglers. An icy battle with one of these acrobatic silver beauties is a good way to start March off right. But the fish are also a complicated breed. Reported to once have been native to 8
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Cayuga and Seneca Lakes, the population of these salmon is now maintained almost exclusively by a stocking program through the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, where roughly 43,000 fingerling salmon are released into Cayuga Lake each year at three different state parks: Treman Marine Park in Cass Park, Taughannock Falls and Long Point State Park, in Aurora. “Historically, we know liability of the eggs from our landlocked salmon here in Cayuga Lake is just about zero,” said David Lemon, the regional fisheries manager for DEC Region 7. “That’s why I can say with confidence the landlocked salmon fishery at Cayuga Lake is supported by stocking and it has been for a long time.” Both carnivorous and aggressive, landlocked salmon follow baitfish in near the banks of the lake beginning in January and remain consistently catchable from shore until the end of April. Typically ranging between 17 and 24 inches, salmon 25 inches or larger are not uncommon and fish in excess of 10 pounds are caught every year. Regarded as one of the most sought-after game fish, salmon are certainly a prize anywhere in the world and, in the area, are a
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significant draw for the region’s sportsmen and women. While some fishing experience is required, the approach to catching landlocked salmon here is relatively simple. Using a live minnow rigged under a slip bobber is a preferred method among many shore anglers, but the salmons’ aggressive feeding tendencies allow them to be caught consistently on artificial lures as well. Like a dog that can’t resist chasing a ball, salmon are drawn to fast-moving artificial baits and hit with tenacious power. If they miss the first time, they’ll often strike repeatedly until they’re hooked. Lures resembling baitfish – such as Luhr Jensen krocodile spoons, Rapala shadow raps, and soft plastic paddle tail swimbaits – can be retrieved through the water with great success, sometimes proving to be more effective than live bait. A medium action rod of seven feet or more is suggested in order to make long casts. Salmon fight incredibly when hooked, often leaping out of the water and putting on a real show. Ten-pound test fishing line normally provides strength enough for the battle. While spinning and casting rods are most efficient, anglers frequently take salm-
on on fly-fishing gear and streamer flies, another fantastic way to target them. State su pported?
Why the area’s anglers have to rely on state aid to maintain the fishery isn’t some sort of anomaly but is, rather, the result of subtle changes to a food chain that have only gone to throw a wrench in an already complicated alpine lake ecosystem. What has happened over a long period of time is there used to be a species of fish which served as a key food source for the salmon that, at one time, was uniquely genetic to this watershed. That’s disappeared now, partly due to the invasive zebra mussel, an infestation dating back to the early’90s. “The crux of this whole thing is the zebra mussel has made the water too clear, affecting the forage base,” Mike Hogue, an enthusiast and owner of EFlyTyer.com (a fishing goods and resources website) said. This happened by way of the mussels feeding on the plankton in the lake, interrupting the primary food source of the Mysid Shrimp, a small crustacean prominent at the base of the food chain. This led to a decline in the smelt population, a small
fish native to many freshwater lakes, while leading to an increase in other populations of fish. This population, unchallenged, replaced the smelt salmon as a food source and carried with it an enzyme called thiaminase, which when ingested split thiamin (Vitamin B1), an important compound in energy metabolism, and render it inactive, affecting reproduction. Low thiamine levels in fish brought on by consumption of this enzyme mean lowered chances of reproduction and, in effect, problems in keeping up a sustainable population. Though some say the zebra mussels may be falling in number, the interruption in the ecosystem taking hold is what prompted salmon to be raised in the fisheries in the first place, said Hogue. “The problem is,” Hogue said, “they’re stocked in one place.” The reason, he said, is primarily from a convenience standpoint, their Taughannock Falls entry point centrally-located with good chance of dispersing throughout the waters of Cayuga Lake. However, there’s a large population of lake trout in the area which feed on the young salmon and, as a species, salmon tend to mark themselves by where they enter the water. If they come from a hatchery, like the salmon coming by way of Tunison Fishlabs in Cortlandville, they enter the ecosystem confused and disoriented. During the cold months, landlocked salmon in Cayuga can be found throughout the entire lake and can be pursued from multiple different public access points along both sides of Cayuga Lake. Taughannock Falls State Park, a favorite spot among many locals, provides extensive shoreline access to very deep water. Representatives from the DEC say that, despite the problems, populations are still significantly high enough for sport fishing and, as far as recent seasons have gone, the time to start looks to be coming early this year. While most people consider fishing season to be in the warmer months of summer, the hot time to fish Cayuga is when the water is cold. Despite the recent warmer weather, the lake water remains around 40 degrees, an ideal temperature to fish for salmon. If you want the population to flourish, lower temperatures – and lots of
rain and snow – tend to help. This is most evident in the lake by looking at the wild rainbow trout population – the only one of all Cayuga Lake’s significant species that make their way up the creeks to breed. Rainbow trout are the only species with significant natural recruitment and typically grow their populations in the inlet, a significant tributary in the Cayuga Lake watershed. Like last year, loss of snowpack, which makes for slow runoff and colder waters, and a warm spring is a
could be the rise of another invasive species, the lamprey, which were the subject of initial efforts by the DEC to thin their rapidly expanding numbers in 2014. Others point blame to the lake source cooling system utilized by Cornell University, which some said affected levels of phosphorus in the south end of the lake, leading to a decrease of the water’s oxygen content. (Though this is considered to be a very minor part of the equation.) In the long-term, however, habitat degradation – like the building up on
combination that allows fish to spawn early and head out into the lake, many of which are gone before April 1, making for a huge influx of Rainbow Trout entering the lake well before when is typical. That’s not to say this is always a good thing. “Not having a snowpack and having a little bit of a drought, I’m sure, led us to losing a lot of fish because the streams got so low.” said David Lemon, the DEC’s regional fishery manager for Region 7. “That probably had an impact on last year’s production in the end, despite having lots of eggs in the gravel and lots of young emerging. There’s just not a lot of habitat to survive in.” Somehow along the way, there may have been a break in the year class of the local salmon population, sitting pretty at the top of the food chain. Many fishermen on Cayuga and Seneca Lakes have been reporting sightings of many fish that are the same size, meaning little variation in their age. In
wetland habitats in the city’ Southwest -can have its own consequences, all more or less caused by human activity. In the area around Lake Cayuga, a unique lake with three different habitats, different actions have different reactions Hogue said. This is particularly true of Ithaca’s water systems, two of which draw from Fall Creek and Six Mile Creek. Last summer, with a lack of rain or snowpack for instance, there was little chance for the streams to flush various contaminants from the waterways. But other environmental impacts over the years, some man made, have affected the population even further and may even contribute to the population’s lack of growth over the years. “There’s no denying in the last decade plus we’ve had a series of large storm events which have created f looding and scourTh e
ing of the Cayuga Inlet,” Lemon said. “If you walk that system, you’ll see many places where the bank has been ravaged back many feet – sometimes 60 or 70 feet of washout – where the exposed bank has created a significant amount of floodplain. I’m not saying they were caused by climate change or not, I’m saying that we have experienced those events and had this series of erosional impacts to the stream.” This means fewer trees providing shade and warmer waters, which makes guy here concerned. Though reproduction is fine a nd wel l, t he DEC did a survey one year ago finding that while the young population of fish fell within the range of what they typically see, as the stream has been degraded the likelihood for production could drop. “I do think as far as the lake goes, the fishing potential of this area has never truly been fully exploited,” said Hogue. “We’ve never really had the chance to develop that resource to really get it going full range, to develop.” This could dampen the best aspects of salmon fishing. Salmon not only offer excellent sport fishing but provide superb table fare as well. Though in the sport, catch and release is encouraged, keeping fish in moderation presently doesn’t harm the population. “The landlocks are the best eating fish in the lake,” said avid angler and Taughannock State Park regular James Hartwick. “People buy salmon for how much a pound? I got that covered.” Each angler may keep three landlocked salmon (minimum of 18 inches) out of Cayuga Lake daily. That’s not to say the solutions in place are sustainable: fixing the inlet isn’t easy – it’s not as if everyone would plant a tree and have everything be okay – but there are areas that already need significant rehabilitation efforts that, thus far, haven’t been completed due to lack of funds. “I know there’s a breaking point,” Lemon said. “I don’t have a crystal ball to tell you when that is [...] in years with lots of rain, you’re going to have a better chance for survival. We got production last year despite the drought but the more water there is, the better off they are.” Nick Reynolds contributed reporting.
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me with a list of former Ithaca High players who took some of those intangibles to the next level, and the list is impressive. (Wenham knows of what he speaks – after playing his high school lacrosse at powerhouse West Genessee, he played for the Naval Academy in Annapolis and, later, Syracuse, before moving on to become an assistant coach at Alfred, Cornell and Ithaca High School. He has also been at
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Grant Osadchey and Joe Bucci (Georgetown, 2016). I reached out to Frank Welch, who has been the Little Red’s head coach for 40-plus years, and Frank was pleased talk about his guys. “It’s true,” he said. “A lot of our former players have been chosen as captains, and in fact, one year I think we had seven guys who went on to be team captains.“ I asked Welch if he and his staff consciously tried to cultivate leaders, and he said, “Not really. We put a lot of trust in our players, we don’t talk down to them and we try to make it ‘their team.’” He added, “They see the effort put in by our assistant coaches, they’re inspired by it, and they try to reach out to the younger kids on the team, and to the kids in the youth leagues.” Lest I get the idea that the Ithaca High lacrosse program is too warm and fuzzy, Welch laughed and said, “Also, we don’t take any sh… crap from them, and they see that while we respect them, they know who’s in charge.” The players who come through Ithaca’s program are also accustomed to a culture of winning, and they know that tradition is something that has been earned and maintained by a lot of players. “These guys have worked very hard,” Welch said, “they respect the game, and while I would not call them ‘win-at-all-costs- players, I will just say that they are not ‘good losers.’” Welch has seen many players go on to play at the various collegiate levels, and after four decades of conversations with recruiters, he knows what they are looking for. “Coaches like that our kids are used to doing things the right way,” Frank offered. “A lot of them are not ‘Rah Rah’ guys; rather they lead by example. If things get tough, they don’t run and cry to mommy and daddy, and while they’re not always saints, they’re smart kids who do the right thing.” Jeff Long is the head coach at Ithaca College, and his past two captains are Ithaca High alums. He added this: “Simply stated, and in my opinion, there are three major reason why the IHS kids become captains in college: One, they come out of a competitive academic environment at Ithaca High, two, they also come out of a competitive athletic environment and especially in the sport of lacrosse, have been coached by one of the best high school coaches in the nation - and three, they all have been products of a positive upbringing – challenged and supported by their parents but not in an over-nurturing manner. They are mature and very coachable, and for these reasons, they make my job way easier.”
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t’s a quiet Saturday afternoon when Anton Burkett, founder of CSA giant Early Morning Farms, walks into the Ithaca Farmer’s Market, his hands empty. Normally the man behind the table, Burkett today is looking to buy. He’d already picked up the essentials – Rutabegas from Blue Heron Farm that morning, an order from Sweetland the day before, carrots from Crooked Carrot and some quality noodles via Macedon’s Flour City Pasta – but still found himself lacking leeks and his first purchase of the day: kale, about seven lbs. of it. The purchase wasn’t for his own table. Instead, Burkett was at work assembling the components for a shippable box of locallygrown produce and goods, the product of his newest venture: Gre en fork , a locally-focused recipe delivery service where all the suppliers are based in the Fingerlakes. Anton Burkett “It’s handy having a farm,” said Burkett. “You already have some of the stuff you need.” Very similar to the business model of well-known recipe services like Blue Apron or Plated, Greenfork – which had its soft launch six months ago – specializes in the assembly and delivery of pre-portioned, pre-packaged recipes that take all the legwork out of assembling a quality meal with fresh ingredients. Where the company is different is in its function and focus in that, rather than working with large suppliers and shipping a universal product, Greenfork provides a resource and outlet for local farms to sell their product to a broader consumer base: focusing on local providers the company – excluding Long Island – can accomplish one-day shipments out of Groton’s Fingerlakes Fresh Food Hub to a significant share of New York State as well as most of Connecticut, northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the western parts Massachusetts and Vermont. The idea is that, working and focusing regionally, Greenfork can grow as a regional player and rather than swinging for the fences and attempting to compete with the growing recipe delivery market, the company can create a model that can be replicated in other cities and provide
a platform for different regions with each box they deliver representing the local tastes and produce that area provides. For instance, if you order a box of recipes in Ithaca, you could expect to find meats from the Piggery and mushrooms from Blue Oyster Cultivator while, if you order in Portland, Maine for example, you may get a box that is more fish-heavy with growers from Maine. With each region, you would have a different recipe penned by Early Morning Farms’ enviable roster of chefs (on top of marketing director Tracy McEvilly’s recipes, the cuisine will be supplemented with the likes of chefs like Emma Frisch and Grubbi Grox’s Sean O’Brien) that corresponds with the area’s cuisine. By doing this and focusing small, Burkett said, he could ensure quality as well as take an approach that offers a stark contrast to the many venture-capital supported operations currently occupying the market. “Our mission was to focus on just a one-day ship – that keeps our packaging down – and then we’ll build a system we can replicate headquartered in Ithaca where we can keep a database of local, seasonal recipes with local producers,” Burkett said. “Once that’s set and we’re making a profit, we might move to a different fulfillment center in a different region and do the same thing again.” Under trial for half a year now, the company is currently shipping 40 boxes a week and have just begun promoting itself, aiming to reach 200 boxes a week by the end of the summer. If Green Fork grows, the theory is the farms it is supplied by can grow with it to respond to the needs of the market, however when your suppliers are small local farmers, there is the aversion to growing too quickly and outpacing their local suppliers. This approach, while lower yield, Burkett said, could make for a more sustainable platform for regional markets than the national companies that have generated so much buzz in the past several years. With a market so wide-open and ripe for the taking, the question is this: why hasn’t anyone tried this yet? “Quite frankly, there’s less money in it,” Burkett said. “We’re taking a lower approach as far as profit goes and we can: they’re pushed by venture capitalists that want to maximize their profits as much as possible. We’re just a bootstrap startup – we borrowed money from friends and family, mortgaged our houses… we’re still starting up but I think we’re pushing $150,000. It’s still pretty doable for a middle class risk.”
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owntown Ithaca wants to give view, there has been some loosening up its visitors the first class treat- in the municipal-owned garages downment and has found a way to do town. After a monthly rate increase was implemented that made the Cayuga Street so on the cheap. On Thursday, the Downtown Ithaca Garage the city’s cheapest option, the averA lliance announced t he rollout of a age capacity of the Cayuga Street Garage month-long pilot program for a valet increased from 48 percent to 58 percent service accessible not just to those staying spaces filled, compared to 72 percent in at the local hotels, but for people looking both the Green Street and Seneca Street to eat or shop the 21 blocks of the city’s garages. This matters because the valet program downtown business district. w i l l be rely i ng The program primarily on the w ill run you $3 s pac e s a l re ady per hour and reserved for the op e r at e on t he hotels, uti lizCommons’ busii n g t he s p a c e s est days: Thursday they already through Sunday, reserve for guests noon to 10 p.m. through the city. and be operated W h i le t he c it y i n c onju nc t ion plans to eventuwith the alreadyally allot 90 spots existing valet serin the garages to vices operated by the hotels, right the Ithaca Marnow only about riott and the Hil4 0 of t hem a re ton Garden Inn. in use, meaning This has been whatever space something in the t hey have lef t works for somecould go toward t i me now sa id (Photo: Casey Martin) public pa rkers. Gar y Ferg uson, Most of the time, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance. A cost- Nagy said, just about 70 percent of those prohibitive venture at first, Ferguson said spots are utilized by hotel guests at any after the lobbying of several downtown given time meaning the valet system may, businesses and the availability of sufficient more or less, give the hotels more bang for resources through the hotels to make its their buck by making a profit on otherimplementation possible, the DIA man- wise, non-revenue generating spaces. As far as additional benefits for the aged to strike a deal with the hotels where they would essentially charge customers city are concerned, this makes for a good enough only to pay overhead, earning just deal across the board in the fact it not only encourages additional foot traffic, enough to cover the cost of the program. A rarity in upstate New York, munici- but it has significant traffic benefit as well. pal valet systems are actually prominent According to a 2011 survey by IBM on in other communities in the country and, global commuter traffic, approximately 30 according to advocates, can equate to percent of all traffic is tied to searching for numerous benefits economically. In 2009, a parking spot and the frustration resultthe City of Los Angeles implemented a ing from that search, as all visitors who’ve similar system on its renowned commer- ever dealt with the “racetrack” feel of the cial strip along West 3rd Street, a program Green Street/Aurora Street/Seneca Street/ put in place after a study of the district Cayuga Street loop in search of a parking identified hundreds of off-street parking space can attest. spaces available at times when the metered But the big benefit, Nagy said, can be for spaces were full. the consumer experience: with a valet sysThis could prove a benefit in downtown tem, not only do they avoid having to deal Ithaca where some garages, like the pri- with the search for a space in the garages, vately-owned Cayuga Street Garage, are but they also get to bypass the complicaconsistently underutilized, partly because tions of paying for a space, whether at the as parking czar Frank Nagy, director of tollbooths or through the new Parkmobile parking for the city once said, it doesn’t system the city implemented in 2015. stand out as much as the parking garages “Anything that gives our parking cuson Ithaca’s more prominent one-way thor- tomers more options is a great thing,” oughfares. Nagy said. However, Nagy said in a recent inter-
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ominations are now being accepted for Tompkins Trust Company’s 2017 James J. Byrnes Awards for Excellence, an annual program that recognizes outstanding individuals and volunteer-based non-profit organizations for their contributions in Tompkins County. A monetary award will be donated to local charitable organizations from the bank’s endowment fund through the Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County. The honorees will each designate their award to not-forprofit organizations of their choice. Nominees may be a group of individuals presenting a key volunteer element of a local non-profit organization or local individuals performing humanitarian community service. Candidates for the award should be those who generously volunteer time and effort on an ongoing basis to activities that help others in Tompkins County. They should make a significant contribution towards improving the quality of life for others either as a major component of a non-profit organization or through individual efforts. For more information about this award or to obtain a nomination form, visit the bank’s website www.tompkinstrust.com or contact Abby Peterson of the bank’s Marketing Department at 607-274-2052, or apeterson@tompkinsfinancial.com. Nominations must be received by April 7, 2017.
Hickey’s Music Center Honored with NAMM Milestone Award for 125 Years of Service in the Music Products Industry
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t the 2017 NAMM Show, Hickey’s Music Center of Ithaca, NY was honored with the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Milestone Award for 125 years of service in the music products industry. Presented annually by NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond, the Milestone Award recognizes music businesses that have flourished through changing business environments to reach a noteworthy anniversary. “We’re pleased to have been able to continue the legacy started by Joseph Hickey back in 1892.” said David Zimet, co-owner of Hickey’s Music of Ithaca, NY. Joseph Hickey who worked as a clerk in a candy shop was taught to play by his sister and went into the music business opening a shop that specialized in guitars, mandolins and banjos. Through the years the focus adapted to reflect changing markets and technologies. Some 100 years after it was founded, Hickey’s became one of the first print music stores on the web. Currently the store serves
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a worldwide audience of musicians via their website and provides the local market with a wide assortment of print music and other products and services including an active school music program. “NAMM is honored to recognize Hickey’s for their 125 years in business and in service to both the music products industry and to their community, ” noted Lamond. “Hickey’s Music Center has demonstrated the perseverance and passion to stand the test of time, inspire countless others and create a more musical world for the benefit of all.” The Milestone Awards are presented annually to industry leaders celebrating notable anniversaries during The NAMM Show, held during the month of January in Anaheim, California. The NAMM Show brings together over 100,000 industry professionals to preview the latest gear, attend educational sessions, and network with peers from more than 120 countries and regions. Hickey’s Music is located in the Historical Ithaca Calendar Clock building in the Fall Creek section of Ithaca. Located at 104 Adams Street, the store can also be visited at www.hickeys.com.
Tompkins Trust Company appoints new small business, regional commercial lending managers
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ompkins Trust Company has restructured its commercial lending department, promoting Brad Totman to small business lending manager, Karen Parkes to Ithaca Region Manager. Steve Hoyt maintains his role as Senior Credit Officer. Brian Bisaccio will serve as Syracuse Region Manager and commercial lending manager for Cayuga, Cortland and Onondaga counties. B r a d To t m a n “Brad, Karen, Brian, and Steve each have extensive experience providing excellent service to our business customers,” said Greg Hartz, president and CEO of Tompkins Trust Company. “This realignment will allow us to better serve our customers in all of our markets.” Totman has been with the Trust Company since 2012 in the role of business development officer for the Cortland-Dryden region. He has over 20 years of experience providing outstanding service to commercial and small business customers. Totman is a Cortland native; he and his wife are parents of three sons. “Tompkins Trust Company is dedicated to helping small business owners get
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the money they need to expand and grow their ideas,” said Totman. “We’re excited to have recently launched Lightning Loans, an online platform where small businesses can apply for a loan on their schedule. We’re pleased to be able to offer this new convenience in addition to our oneon-one personalized service.” Parkes has K a r e n Pa r k e s spent her whole career as a commercial lender, working with various stages of the loan process. Parkes joined Tompkins Trust Company in 1991, and after many years focused on our small business portfolio, Karen has stepped into the role of Ithaca Region Manager for commercial lending. Karen serves as a board member for the YMCA of Ithaca & Tompkins County having most recently chaired their Strategic Planning committee. She is also a 10 year member of the Cayuga Lake Triathlon Race Committee and a member of the Finger Lakes Reuse Finance committee. She and her husband, Peter, are parents of three sons. S t e v e H oy t “We take pride in our ability to offer solutions to businesses of all sizes,” said Parkes. “We see ourselves as a partner, not just a lender.” Hoyt started as a credit analyst in the Commercial Credit Department before being promoted to manager. In 1993, he became a commercial lender. He managed the Commercial Banking Department for many years, including loans, leasing, wholesale and credit administration guiding the steady and significant growth of Tompkins Trust Company’s commercial and small business loan portfolio while maintaining outstanding loan quality. Steve serves on the Boards of the George Junior Republic Union Free School District, Food Bank of the Southern Tier, and St. Catherine of Siena’s Finance Council.
Cornell Receives Numerous Grants For Manufacturing Initiatives
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uzeHub, a not-for-profit organization responsible for assisting small to medium-sized manufacturing companies (SMEs) in New York State by matching them with technical and business resources. The Manufacturing Innovation Fund, consisting of $1 million annually for five years, supports a set of activities designed to spur technology development and
commercialization across New York State. FuzeHub is administering this fund as part of its role as the Empire State Development (ESD)-designated statewide MEP center. Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) and Professor Yong Joo of Cornell University’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering are working with IdealChain, a spinoff of Buckingham Manufacturing, who manufactures safety products (harnesses, rescue systems, etc.), to develop and build a bench-scale multinozzle Air-Controlled (AC) electrospray system for encapsulation of dyes, to use as stress indicators in safety products. The resulting roll-to-roll electrospray system will be used by IdealChain to fabricate stress-indicating fibers and patches for safety equipment, helping the user to determine when to safely retire their equipment. The manufacturing technology originally developed through the CCMR Industrial Partnerships Program between the Joo Group and Buckingham Manufacturing not only has a large impact on the safety industry, but also wide-ranging ramifications for the fragrance, food, drug delivery and self-healing material industries. Additionally, this project will help IdealChain add 10 new jobs in the next two years. The Cornell Nanoscale Science & Technology Facility received $75,000 to partner with Xallent LLC to develop a next generation diagnostic tool to more rapidly and economically test and characterize semiconductor devices and thin film materials during manufacturing. This tool is built on Xallent’s innovative nanoscale imaging and probing technology. The ability to rapidly probe and measure electrical components at the nanoscale for diagnostics and failure analysis non-destructively is expected to tap a broad range of industry applications. The Manufacturing Innovation Grant will be used to adapt Xallent’s nanomachine platforms to analytical instruments at the Cornell NanoScale Facility for validation, user interface focus, and reliability studies to ready the company for product launch and scale up. Additionally, this project will help Xallent add 8 new jobs by the end of 2019. ( Cornell University researchers and VitaScan received $75,000 to develop the VitaScan diagnostics platform: a low cost and portable instrument that can determine micronutrient deficiencies including vitamin D and iron from a finger stick of blood. A key innovation that makes this possible is the design and manufacturing of a proprietary lateral flow assay that combines blood filtration, chemical mixing, and capture of antibodies into one rapid process. Cornell and VitaScan will together develop a medium-scale manufacturing and packaging process to optimize the procedure and create reliable tests for validation studies. VitaScan will pursue the manufacturing strategy in preparation for commercialization, and plans to create 10 new jobs in the next two years.
Dawes rocks out in their own way
An Evening with Dawes 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, State Theatre
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he lineup of a classic rock band and a style that tells stories across different sounds: Dawes mixes up and scrambles the music scene with its style. Based out of Los Angeles, the band embodies the California aesthetic of dreamy with a twinge of melancholy. Each song tells a story, animating characters with harmonies and guitar chords. Their tracks embody the feelings of Joan Didion novels, evoking a sense of escapism coupled with anxiety — and of course, California. And what rounds out the sense of escapism is the simplicity of the band. Brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith on guitars/vocals and drums, respectively; Wylie Gelber on bass; and Lee Pardini on keyboard — a classic rock setup, without the classic sound. Dawes takes ordinary music and morphs it. “For us, we always consider ourselves a rock ‘n’ roll band, in the context of the classic sense,” Gelber said. “Everyone kind of finds their individual inspiration and kind of applies it to their craft and their instrument. Then we kind of mash up all of that at once, which creates our dynamic.” The band evolved out of Simon Dawes, which had members Taylor, Griffin and Wylie. Simon Dawes released one album and a few EPs in 2005 and 2006 before parts of the band split from one another. In 2009, Dawes became its own band, harboring its own sound and artistic charm independent from Simon Dawes. Since the breakup, Dawes has released five albums,
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each with an individual sound that stems from the roots of Simon Dawes. North Hills, the band’s first album, was recorded entirely on two-inch analogue, embodying folk and rock sounds with the complements of raw spirit. It transcends traditional rock, pouring out soul and lyrics that speak to each listener. They’re campfire songs, warm and homely with a pinch of pensiveness. The latest album, We’re All Gonna Die, steps farther away from the campfire sound. It’s more complete, telling stories with less folk and more grit both in lyrics and in instrumentation. This combination and evolution in sound stems from collaborative writing. While Taylor creates the skeletons to most of the songs, the final products are an effort across the entire band. “As far as song writing goes, Taylor is an avid reader; he’s reading something all the time,” Gelber said. “Musically we’re all huge music listeners, and we’re constantly trying to find more music that we haven’t heard. … I might be on a kick where I’m looking for a super spiritual record because the bass playing is really good, or maybe I’m on a jazz kick because the drummer is amazing.” And when each band member can look around and know each song sounds complete — the writing process is done. “We’ve had moments when everyone except for one person would feel differently,” Gelber said. “Then we’ll kind of just pick apart the song and finding out what needs to change or what stays the same, even though you might think you love how it’s sounding. Sometimes you might need to trash the whole thing and start from scratch, which can oftentimes help.” And the wealth of innovation continues as
Dawes released their first live album Feb. 13, titled We’re All Gonna Live. Though a soft release — it’s available for streaming with no physical copies — Dawes sees it as a model for future endeavors. We’re All Gonna Live features recordings from the first four days of Dawes’ current tour. The songs were recorded, the band returned home for a short break, then continued the tour. In the meantime, the album was mixed and mastered in only 15 days. “It was wild,” Gelber said on recording We’re All Gonna Live. “When we started playing [the new songs] live, we understood that they worked together in a set as one; they’re not like crazy black-and-white differences. … You can kind of hear how the old [songs] progressed and the new ones find their way into the catalogue.” The band plans to release more live albums in the future with We’re All Gonna Live serving as a test run for new albums to come. And what makes Dawes’ shows stand out against others is their challenge to play every recorded Dawes song throughout the tour. The band does not have an opener for this tour, which Gelber said makes it easier to experiment with a longer setlist. Dawes has more versatility without an opener, and the band plays about 20 songs with an intermission. With We’re All Gonna Live is a preview for the future of the band, Gelber said there’s more for fans to look forward to after the tour. “We’re always trying to get more songs together as best we can,” Gelber said. “We can put records out pretty quickly, so we’re definitely looking forward to recording the next one. I can’t say when it is, but songs are being written as we speak, and we’re getting close every day.” • Th e
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Cuisine’s Musical Chairs
NorthFolk Pop-Up Restaurant at Carriage House By Nick Re y nol d s NorthFolk Pop-Up Restaurant , Wednesday, March 15 from 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., Carriage House Cafe, $40 per person / Drink pairing available for $20
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hen bands come out with a new album, they tend to promote it by going on tour with it. For chefs, those options are limited. They’re often married to their restaurants and their
reputation, their menus forever defined by their reviews. But when the menu only lasts one night, like local chef Daniel Medina is planning for the Carriage House Café on March 15, none of that gets factored into the occasion. That evening Medina, a seasoned chef with stints in Austin and Park City, Utah under his belt, will be taking over the loft of
the restaurant to host a unique, five course meal entitled “NorthFolk,” emphasizing not only the artistic side of his cooking, but appealing to the intimate experience of a well-orchestrated, minutely-tuned dinner service. That Wednesday, Medina will unleash this philosophy on four tables at a time, all set to rotate courses every 15 minutes from a delectable and unique menu of his design. With little reputation or knowledge of his cuisine, this type of experience requires a large degree of trust from the diner: they have no reviews to go off of, no loyal clientele to rely on years of opinions and reviews. The need faith in the person cooking for them. A self-professed cookbook nerd, he pores over recipes with an eye for techniques that maximize a dish’s potential to engage the palette, emphasizing small
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plates addressing all five “tastes” in an ensemble that are complementary to the other dishes in the menu, rather than distracting. The menu, he said, he considers “cold weather food,” created solely from ingredients local to the coldest reaches of New York State. The goal is to provide a frame of reference to what regional cuisine could mean, to bring the sort of context to his cuisine as shrimp and grits or jambalaya has down south. “We’re trying to think about what our ancestors, what the people who settled here before the industrial revolution would have cooked,” Medina said. “What they would have had to eat, what they would have done for fine dining if they ran out of ingredients in the middle of January. That idea has always interested me.” To see this out, Medina has written two menus: a meat-based one and a vegetarian offering. Each starts off similar to the way an effective setlist might; kicking off the meal with an exciting opener followed by a rustic offering, flowing through the following courses to a sweet conclusion. The food is intelligently-sourced, representative of both the season and the region to accurately reflect his vision of what regional cuisine could be. He works with some unique ingredients, using standbys like smoked beef and mushrooms as a garnish, rather than a central player in the dish, to incorporate the flavor while introducing new, unique textures to accompany the aromatic experience. For meat eaters, the meal begins with a doughnut, topped with a rich foie gras, a sweet, black garlic and a smoked maple butter harkening back to the traditional method of wood-firing maple syrup. Next up is a trout, served with cream cheese and charred apple within a French soup, interestingly fomented with green onions and a honey-brewed riesling that adds a peculiar tartness to the sweet and creamy concoction. This is followed up with a quail, stuffed with waffle and topped with a maple glaze alongside a squash butter leading up to Medina’s take on an apple pie, flash-cooked, topped with cheese and served alongside potato chips. In all, it’s fine dining in small pieces but, Medina said, the dinner is supposed to be an artful experience, rather than just an opportunity to gorge yourself: it’s highminded cuisine at an accessible price. • For tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite. com/e/northfolk-pop-up-at-carriage-housetickets-32168256120
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Love and Music
Strand of Oaks forges their best record yet T HE H ORROR . . . T HE H ORROR . . . .
By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Strand of Oaks, Twin Limb, Wednesday, March 15, 9:00 p.m., The Haunt
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ver the phone from Europe last week, Strand of Oaks front man and founder Timothy Showalter was in an epically good mood. His band had just finished sound check for their Brighton, UK gig, and Showalter was infectiously psyched. “We’ve been over here for about a week-and-a-half and everything is just fantastic,” he notes, happily. “We’ve been really stretching stuff out and experimenting with our sets, getting real psychedelic. I think as a musician playing the same s*** every night becomes insanely boring. I mean you can just buy the record if that’s
what you want to hear. It’s cheaper. People come out to have an experience. And we as musicians, are here to have an experience as well.” Showalter is a special artist. A guy who creates with a rigorous honesty that is contagious, varied and real. His band’s newest record Hard Love is a lush and quickening masterpiece. With edges that smoke, patterns that haze and an experimental depth that is all out wicked, it’s Strand of Oak’s best record yet. The sort of album you drink to, think to, and live to. Showalter is at his apex here, and Hard Love is the soundtrack of his reverence. “It really feels fresh,” he said. “I’m super happy with how it all came out and really exciting to bring these songs to the people. In a lot of way my goal is to create music that is closer to who I am as a person, and I think this record really achieves that. I mean the last album’s [HEAL] cover showed a dude who was looking real sad. And I’m not sad; I mean I feel sad sometimes sure, but I’m a guy who likes to have a good time. And even the cover of this new record is closer to who I really am. I think it was like seven in the morning when it was shot, and I was drinking some avocado
margarita after a long night (laughs).” Hard Love showcases a mind totally in love with music; and this is Showalter’s unique expression. There’s really no one like him. He wears his influences and inspirations on his sleeve, and this is how he can position his music so extended and infinite. It’s his appreciation and love for his connection to music, and the honesty that flows through it, which directs the ascension of every song he writes. “Music f****** saved my life,” Showalter admitted. “I get frustrated with bands that seemingly live in this creative bubble. They sound like Pink Floyd but say they’ve never heard of them, like they’re so unique. I feel indebted to acknowledge my influences. Modern Lovers, Jeff Buckley, Jane’s
Timothy Showalter hanging loose (Photo: facebook)
Addiction, all these bands were so vital to my existence. The whole process is like a love ritual really.” Hard Love showcases all those grand influences in beautiful and mesmerizing ways. It’s a transcendent work: vivid, wild and free. On a song like the psychedelic floater “Taking Acid and Talking to My Brother”, you can directly experience this expansion. An epic with wild extensions, the song drifts like sand through the hands of infinity: stretching and tingling like a dream. “I was so proud of that song,” Showalter beamed. “There was no plan for it. We just started slow and went for it. I think I started to stop playing around the fourminute mark and Jason [Anderson] just looked at me and said ‘this isn’t over yet.’ The song has such a visceral feel to it and the way we pulled it off is just really cool. The whole record was made real loose. It was just the whole band totally together and working as one.” Strand of Oaks is one of the coolest and realest bands out there. You just melt away to pureness listening to their music. •
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Hal’s has been an Ithaca staple for decades By Peg g y Haine Editor’s Note: After 56 years, we have learned the venerable local delicatessen, Hal’s, is closing down in May. Because we would be loathe to allow people to miss out on the end of this landmark institution, we will run our review of the restaurant one more time.
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hen I arrived in Ithaca from Brooklyn, years before that refuge for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free became hip, I WAS the wretched refuse, a lost blue-collar kid at an Ivy League school, where kids had their own fur coats, brought from homes where they didn’t have to share a room with anybody and had live-in maids. Did people really live like this? LOST! I was lost. For consolation I drifted down State Street’s then-yellow-brick road for lunches at Hal’s, the New York-style deli that had also just arrived in Ithaca. There I could console myself with a potato knish, a hunk of kishke (a section of a cow’s large intestine filled with don’t-ask-what), or a big fat “special,” a hearty kosher hotdog that would give six inches of kielbasa a
garlicky run for its money. The menu was printed on paper cut in the shape of a loaf of Jewish rye. The owners were welcoming. It felt like home. The original Hal’s stood next to the previous Greyhound bus terminal, across from what is now the Commons’ east end home of the Trebloc Building. When those structures were urban-renewed (destroyed, along with far too much of Ithaca’s architectural history) the Kuntz family relocated the deli to a central spot on Aurora Street. Its other next-door neighbor, the Asiatic Garden, moved to West State Street, and is now long gone. If you wanted “fancy food” you dined at the Ithaca Hotel’s Dutch Kitchen. The Commons was just a gleam in Mayor Ed Conley’s eye, and traffic still flowed up and down State Street. As you have probably assumed, lunch there brought back memories. Though it was destroyed by fire in 1977, reconstructed, and re-opened, the place hasn’t changed much since 1971 when it moved to Aurora Street. Dark wainscoting and a dark-paneled back wall make for
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a long but cozy den, with lightcolored walls reminiscent of formica countertops above the wainscoting. Gone from the menu are the kishke and the “specials,” but you can still get cheese blintzes and sour cream, a chopped liver sandwich, crunchy little potato pancakes served with apple sauce, and to wash it all down, Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray. Some fancy-pants mixologist really ought to run with that not-toosweet celery-flavored soda. Despite the day’s cruelly chilling wind, the welcome at Hal’s was warm: Hal’s daughter Jacky buzzed about cheerfully greeting customers, taking orders, and checking to see that everyone was happy; his son Mike worked the register and took luncheon delivery orders; at the front window, Hal’s widow Sandy reigned over the books and absorbed a little sunshine, which she reflected into the shop. Behind us, two gentlemen in suits (Attorneys? Financial advisors? Insurance solicitors?) ripped through the latest episodes of Downton Abbey critiquing actors and plots. Across the way a six-top of lively, casually dressed young women compared privileged childhoods. The food: Hal’s is known for its sandwiches, which seem relatively inexpensive, the dearest of them weighing in under eight bucks, and ranging from peanut butter to unusual-combination triple deckers, many named after local characters and sports teams. A salami
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sandwich on fresh rye was packed with meat and yearning to be slathered with mustard. Cole slaw was just damp enough, slightly sweet, and crunchy. The Reuben sandwich (corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing, all of it griddled to gooeyness between slices of rye) is about the best one you can get in these parts. The halfdollar-size potato latkes were well spiced and crisp, and would make great hors d’oeuvres topped with dab of sour cream, a bit of lox, and a caper or two. Good thing they cater. Of course, the Cel-Ray brought back memories. And the warm welcome is perennially comforting. At breakfast, Hal’s early riser regulars gather around the bar, chatting with their server and proffering cups for coffee refills. Where else in town can you get a pastrami omelet? •
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Pseudocide and its Effects
Elizabeth Greenwood writes on faking one’s death By D e v in Sul livan
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aking one’s death, or pseudocide, is treated as a fantastical solution when one finds oneself in a tight bind; the ultimate act in escapism and confrontation avoidance. Depicted in film and literature as frequently the necessary way out and not involving great complications, like in more than one Dave Franco movie, the public is commonly misguided on what it actually demands. In Playing Dead, author Elizabeth Greenwood – a former resident of Ithaca and Ithaca’s Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts – entertainingly explores the complex but legal nature of effectively faking one’s death through interviews with experts and those who have now metaphorically risen from their own faked deaths. Because it’s not just driving one’s car off a bridge and swimming away in Goa, India, as Jason Bourne would like you to believe. Elizabeth Greenwood explores the plethora of facets to faking one’s death, from the steps involved to the type of individuals that actually go through with it. She first speaks to Frank Ahearn, a self-labeled “world’s top expert” on disappearing in the modern digital age, who transitioned from finding people as a skip tracer to helping others shrug their identities and connections as a ‘privacy consultant’. According to Ahearn “Disappearing makes you infinite…If you disappear, people will always talk about you.” Seeing the appeal of the practice, he turned it into a science and – more benefiting – a business. After speaking with Ahearn, Greenwood continues to speak to professionals to understand every possible element of voluntary disappearance, with wit and an attention to detail. Steve Rambam, an elite private investigator regularly contracted by life insurance companies, is one of the more interesting character she speaks to, as his brusque and stubborn nature make him easy to picture even with the lack of visual description by Greenwood. But
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similarly to Ahearn, although unsurprising due to his profession, Rambam discourages civilians from faking their deaths. “You have to be devoted to staying disappeared like it’s your job,” he says. “It takes a lot of effort and aggravation.” Although Ahearn helps individuals to disappear, and Rambam works to find them, they both hold the same opinion on faking one’s death: it’s demanding, almost impossibly complex and simply, wrong. So Greenwood moves on to individuals who have disappeared or faked their own deaths, not just those who watch them do it. Greenwood turns to John Darwin or, as he is more commonly known, “The Canoe Man,” to get a look into the mindset of an individual that would actually go through with what most people only dream of. As a middle-aged man, The Canoe Man represents the statistically most common death faker, as observed by Greenwood. “I noticed that they all seemed to feel emasculated, made impotent, by their mundane lives,” she writes. “So, not earning enough money, they invest in a harebrained scheme…Faking death seems to be not only a way out but also, counterintuitively, a way to be brave.” John Darwin’s decision to escape his life seems completely ridiculous and absurd, or it does until Greenwood introduces readers to ‘The Believers’. ‘The Believers’ aren’t thoroughly reviewed by Greenwood but are instead examined through one of their most
outspoken and zealous members, Pearl Jr. With a defensive name like ‘The Believers,’ their being can already be predicted to be eccentric and bizarre; no legitimate organization admits to the existence of dissenters in its title. Armed with what she perceives to be Easter eggs left by Michael Jackson following his demise but – from an external perspective – seem to be a strain of coincidental details, Pearl Jr. dedicates a large portion of her life to publicizing and examining the alleged pseudocide of the King of Pop. Greenwood examines how the phenomena of death faking becomes an unhealthy source of paradoxically mental and physical health for Michael Jackson fans. In contrast, she successively examines those who became ‘collateral damage’ of the pseudocides of others; the individuals who did not get to
be the ones the to escape, but were the ones left behind. The journey through individuals who industrialize pseudocide, those who do it, those who use it a coping mechanism to those hurt by it is both grounding and disturbing. A decision that at first, appears cold and corrupt by the end of the novel. Greenwood completes the thorough and humorous examination of faked deaths by doing it herself in a limited and minimal fashion, only going so far as getting a falsified death certificate made in her name. While her own attempt at a faked death is disappointing and pointless, fabricated clerical work doesn’t really keep one up at night, her exploration of pseudocide is anything but. With few facets of disappearing and faked deaths unexamined, Greenwood leaves readers with an understanding, but a definite distaste, for the art of vanishing. •
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This was one year where I thought, “Let’s give Best Actress to someone who doesn’t have one.” For my money, Hugh Grant as Jenkins’ ne’er-do-well husband and Simon Helberg as her comically conflicted accompanist really steal Stephen Frear’s film.
I’m a Seth Rogen fan, but Neighbors and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising are the worst flicks he’s ever been attached to. I actually felt badly for Rose Byrne, slumming it with Rogen as a childish, moronic married couple, dressing up all the usual clichés with lots of weed and filth. These are the kind of movies that would be 15 minutes long if everyone in the movie weren’t awful, venal idiots. The sequel is the worst thing Chloe Grace Moretz has done. Melissa McCarthy is killing it as Sean Spicer on SNL, but I wasn’t too thrilled with The Boss. McCarthy is set up as a corrupt Martha Stewart-type whose abrasive armor is the result of being a
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repeat adoptive reject as a child, but when the movie ends with her in a martial arts battle with Peter Dinklage, you wonder how much you’re supposed to be invested in the story. And as for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, see my thoughts on those Neighbors movies. Only one line made me laugh out loud: “You’re a smart guy. You read most of the Goosebumps books!” The photograph of Elvis Presley posing in the Oval Office with Richard Nixon is the most requested item in the US National Archives: more popular than the photos of the moon landing, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. In fact, Elvis and Nixon, a recent film starring Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey as Presley and Nixon, is the second movie on the subject: the first was Elvis Meets Nixon, a 1997 film directed by Allan Arkush (Rock N’ Roll High School), starring Rick Peter as Presley and Bob Gunton as Nixon. The Shannon-Spacey version plays up Nixon’s dismissive contempt for Elvis the Pelvis, and has a good supporting cast that includes Colin Hanks, Alex Pettyfer and Johnny Knoxville. If there were any doubts that Mike Birbiglia is a major actor and filmmaker after Sleepwalk With Me, his sophomore comedy Don’t Think Twice quells them. Birbiglia is a wounded wonder of an established but struggling NYC improv group. He’s been passed over by an SNL-esque late night sketch show, helplessly watching other cast members grab that brass ring. The latest grabee is played by Keegan Michael Key, and the rest of the troupe – are their improvs scripted or true improv – are ably played by some of my favorite clowns: Gillian Jacobs, Kate Micucci, Tami Sagher and scene-stealer Chris Gethard. Best of all, the film opens with a concise and funny prologue explaining the art and guidelines – hence the title - of improvisational comedy, including some welcome vintage clips from early incarnations of Second City. I had the pleasure of interviewing Lily Tomlin some time back, and I much prefer the dark, Altman-esque and episodic dark comedy Grandma over Grace and Frankie, her Netflix show with Jane Fonda. As Tomln’s lesbian grammy Elle helps her granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) look for money for an abortion, Paul Weitz’s film introduces us to many funny, funky characters played by the likes of Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox and Sam Elliott. •
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(3) The dreamer becomes the dream, as the skeleton shows us a portal to the world of intimacy and nu-magna. There’s a constant swirl that Turgeon plays with throughout each conjoined drawing, creating movement and wonder. The skeleton locks hold of the new dimension as if admiring a special egg, and we are off. (4) The egg is birth and highlights the direction or redirection of our journey. Turgeon’s detail is admirable. The darkness is flush and scraps like ice against the white light. (5) We meet a narrator: a magna inspired cherubic form, like a magical sorceress with dense clothing and universal implications. She is our communication. And is everyone’s. (6) Three totems: figures that are cat and humanlike, and also blank, as if suggesting the perpetual insignificance of the self. The figures are also symbolic, each with large dog chains around their wrists and phantom bouquets hovering close by. (7) The figures come closer for a chat. Skeletal hands are present, a part of the infinite and also of the figures. Representation becomes paramount. The figure’s faces are intimate, plain and deeply complex. There’s something tribal and psychological at work here. (8) A figure transcends the universe. Turgeon’s detail is mesmerizing. Little bits of ink craft are superimposed to create a giant whirlwind. The figure in white is both trapped by experience and welcomed into eternity. (9) Unity through experience. This
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illustration is bold and vibrant. The action dances like a phantom bridge walk in some Camus novel. The three figures are back, changed, tied, and spiritual. (10) Lighting is the universe, another portal opens. Hands and feet are religious. The line work here is deft and exhilarating. (11) A new dimension. Magna figures are beautiful, floating towards some ancient Japanese print. (12) Stagnation and differentiation. People aren’t things; this experience is universal and infinite. (13) The cubes grow. People grow. There’s a Piet Mondrian meets Tim Burton dancing in the Cube thing going on here: very cool and extreme. (14) The heart of the universe is the heart of every individual. (15) Love and transcendence, and magna spirituality. (16) The spirit of
Selections from Mary Blaise Turgeon’s new exhibit “Resurrection” (Clockwise from top left) Illustration 2; illustration 3; illustration 5; illustration 9 (Photos: facebook)
the figures dance. This is poetry in all its glory. Turgeon feels everything. (17) The skeleton collects the egg. Snatches the universe. Spins its glory as the circular logic of universality takes heed. Turgeon’s poetic love letter to existence is both lavish and dark. It moves like the wind in some shadowy cove: rigorous and true. The artist’s work is perfectly situated in BSB’s excellent little gallery corner (pretty much the best gallery space in town), and has the power to refigure your mood and deepen your resolve. Don’t miss this. •
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Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach. concerts
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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | www.DamodarDas.com. Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups. Reggae Night with The Crucial Reggae Allstars | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Roots Rock.
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Gerard Burke | 6:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Delta Blues. CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz. The Institute for Circlework is proud to present: Healing Through Beauty: A Community Ritual and Audio-Visual Feast | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Space @ Greenstar, 700 W. Buffalo Street Ithaca, NY, Ithaca | The evening begins with a simple, non-religious circle ritual, facilitated by Jalaja Bonheim. What follows is the meditative magic of Steve Gorn, Indian bansuri bamboo flutist, who has performed in concerts and festivals throughout the world. Chris & Lori Brown | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Maint St.,
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3/10 Friday
The Yardvarks | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Neo-Obscuro Tunes from the ‘50s to the ‘80s. West Hill Billies | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main, Trumansburg | Old-time happy hour music with Jason Zorn, Kal McMannis, Joe Damiani, Matt Noonan, and Valerie Graves. Iron Horse | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Blues, Southern Rock. Nick Andrew Staver | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Hector | Blues. Tumbleweed Highway | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Maint St., Apalachin | Americana, Rock, Southern Rock. Justin Roeland | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Singer Songwriter. Modern Measure, Project Aspect | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Electronic, Groove. The Ithacats | 9:00 PM | Rockabilly, Vintage Rock and Roll. Encore | 9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E. State St., Ithaca | Classic Rock, Progressive Rock. Club Rub A Dub Presents: Global Bass Session | 9:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca |
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Thru Spectrums | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Avant Garde Ska Punk, Funk, Soul, Rock.
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Stratcat Willie and the Strays | 4:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Hector | Blues, Rock. The Common Railers | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Folk, Bluegrass, Pop, Rock. Vocal Jazz Jam with Diana Leigh and Jesse Collins | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E. State St., Ithaca | Jazz. Doolin O’Dey | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Celtic, Contra. Blue Skies | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Vintage Jazz, Blues Standards.
Cayuga Blue Notes | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Swing, Jazz. Blue Eyed Soul | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Hector | Funk, Soul, Rock and Roll. Matt Andersen | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Soul, Southern Rock. Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Rockabilly, ‘50s, ‘60s, Blues, Rock and Roll. Open Mic | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Blue Burrito, 11 Groton Ave, Cortland | Live Music and Open-Mic hosted by Craig and Teddy K. The Uncommons | 7:30 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Rock. Eastbound Jesus, Raibred | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Maint St., Apalachin | Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Americana. Kitestring, Angie Beeler | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Alternative, Americana, Soul, Rock. Tino Navarra | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk. Rumourz plays Rumours | 9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E. State St., Ithaca | Fleetwood Mac Tribute. Viva Mayhem EP Release Party,
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Galactic Escort Service | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Improvised Electronic Music.
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Doolin’ O’Dey | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Celtic, Contra. Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday. Purple Valley | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, 119 E. State St., Ithaca | Swing, Blues, Country, Rock and Roll. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.
Attila, New Years Day, Bad Omens, Cane Hill, Terrorbyte | 6:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Metalcore, Deathcore, Nu-Metal.
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Sarah Jarosz | 8:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Americana, Folk, Country, Bluegrass. Simon’s Shaheen’s Zafir | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca |
Ithaca | The site-specific intervention Hear Me was created for our wing by Cornell architecture student Min Keun Park in collaboration with composer Barry Sharp and Director of Orchestras Chris Kim. Geneva Music Festival 2017 Spring Benefit Gala | 7:00 PM | Froelich Hall, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, 327 Pulteney St., Geneva | Brahms G Minor Piano Quartet and More. 6 - 7 pm Wine & Cheese Reception. Sitara Night 2017 | 7:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Hosted by Cornell Sitara, Cornell’s premier Bollywood fusion dance team, the show will also feature performances from Cornell Bhangra, Urban Blaze, Big Red Raas, African Dance repertoire and more.
“The City of Lost Children” is a wild and surreal sci-fi masterpiece, starring Ron Perlman and Daniel Emilfork, directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with a soundtrack by the always engaging Angelo Badalamenti. Krank, a deranged and nightmarish scientist, is kidnaping children to steal their dreams, for he is incapable of having his own. The film is showing this week at Cornell Cinema on Thursday 3/09, and Saturday 3/11. (Photo provided) Simon Shaheen, a major force in the promotion of Arab music, has enthralled audiences with his mastery of both the ud and violin and his brilliant improvisations. Here he brings to life the Arab music of Al-Andalus and blends it with the art of flamenco and jazz influences in a program of instrumental and vocal music and dance.
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Cayuga Vocal Ensemble’s Annual Gala Cabaret | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Lake Watch Inn, 1636 E Shore Dr, Ithaca | Taking a cue from George and Ira Gershwin’s rousing patriotic song, “Strike Up the Band”, CVE will entertain with solo and ensemble numbers on themes of singing, playing instruments, and making music. The program is sure to include favorites from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood, as well as the creative minds of our singers. Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 7:30
Thurs, 03/09, 9:35 p.m., Sat. 03/11, 9:20 p.m. | A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.. | 112 mins R | Jackie | Fri. 03/10, 7:00 p.m. | Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s historic legacy. | 100 mins R | About Elly | Tues, 03/14, 7:00 p.m. /with intro | The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers. | 119 mins NR |
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PM-9:00 PM | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, IC, Ithaca | Featuring Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 in D Major The Clock, and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op 25. Classical. Rhonda Sider Edgington: Organ | 8:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Reformations II features works old and new by J. S. Bach, Anton Heiller, Sweelinck, Ad Wammes, Scheidemann, Buxtehude, and Barry Jordan.
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Finnish Silent Film With Live Soundtrack | 7:30 PM-10:00 PM | Unitatian Church, 306 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | On Friday, March 10, at 7:30pm, the Finger Lakes Finns will present a rare Finnish silent movie with an original live soundtrack performed by organist Kent Washburn. The program will be presented at the Unitarian Church in Ithaca at the corner of Buffalo and Aurora Streets.
Valley Folk Music Presents: Si Kahn, Joe Jencks and Maria Dunn | 2:00 PM | Red Brick UM Church, 144 Cedar St., Corning | This unique event features songs of hope, courage, love and triumph. These songwriters represent the finest traditions of socially aware music, filled with heart and purpose. The Pulse of an Irishman: Beethoven Songs with String Trio | 4:00 PM | CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | A concert of Scottish and Irish songs arranged by Beethoven, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. WVBR Bound For Glory: Reverend Robert Jones and Matt Watroba | 8:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Folk.
Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Runs March 1 through March 26 | Syracuse Stage/ Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Step back into the sparkling nightlife of a 1930s jazz club in this celebration of the jazz legend Fats Waller. From Uptown to Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood, Waller’s music helped define the swinging sound of the Golden Age of the Cotton Club. Music, dance, sassy repartee, and a whole lot of fun with 29 famous songs including ‘T Ain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do, Honeysuckle Rose, and more. Showtimes at syracusestage.org Six Degrees of Separation | Redhouse Theater, 201 S West St, Syracuse | Runs March 9th - 18th. Six Degrees of Separation follows the antics of Paul, a charming young con artist who convinces a wealthy Manhattan couple he is the son of celebrated actor Sidney Poitier. When the couple charitably invites Paul to spend the night in their swanky digs, Paul’s con spins frantically (and hilariously) out of control as house guests and emotions run haywire. theredhouse.org CRT’s Annual Mystery Dinner Theatre: Death Joins The Club | 6:30 PM, 3/10 Friday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Noses up, everyone! You and the other members of the posh Pfieffer Hills Country Club are gathering to consider applications for membership and you want to look your snobby best. Members of the wealthy elite are dying to get in, or rather, are waiting for you to die so they can get in.
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Friday, 3/10 to Thursday, 3/16. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Lion | A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family | 118 mins
I Am Not Your Negro | Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House. | 95 mins PG-13 | Neruda | An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. | 107 mins R | La La Land | A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. | 128 mins PG-13 | A United Kingdom | Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. | 111 mins PG-13 |
Moonlight | A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. | 111 mins R | The Lure | An eccentric millionaire hides $3 million of gold somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, luring thousands out on a wild treasure hunt in search of riches and redemption. | 77 mins NR |
Julieta | After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most
important events about her stranded daughter. | 99 mins R | The Red Turtle | The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds. | 80 mins PG | Cornell Cinema
Wednesday, 3/08 to Tuesday, 3/14. Contact Cornell Cinemas for Showtimes Gabriel Over the White House | Wed. 3/08, 7:00 p.m. | A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident. | 86 mins NR | The Face of Another | Wed. 3/08, 9:15 p.m. | A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality. | 124 mins NR | Being 17 | Thurs. 3/09, 7:00 p.m., Sun, 03/12, 7:00 p.m. | Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them. | 117 mins NR | The City of Lost Children |
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Corners Gallery, Friday, March 10, 5:30 p.m.
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Featuring 10 artists from across NY state and the nation, Manner of Marvels will transform into a gallery of mystery and intrigue. Featuring work in all areas of materials from Lou Beach, Steve Carver (who curated the whole thing), Robin Cass, Bill Hastings and more, this exhibit is sure to inspire and amaze. Make sure to stop by the Gallery this month.
The original 1929 Finnish silent classic “Mustalaishurmaaja” will be shown in its entirety, set to music by a special live organ performance by Ithaca native and organ master, Kent “Aarne” Washburn. Washburn studied organ with concert organist David Jackson of Spencer, and became the fulltime organist at Danby Federated Methodist Church in 1994. He’s moved around since then and continues today, to push the boundaries of organ driven music.
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Dryden High School Drama Club 2017 Spring Musical: Anything Goes | 7:00 PM, 3/10 Friday, 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 3/11 Saturday | Dryden MS/HS Auditorium, 118 Freeville Rd, Dryden | An evening of good laughs, bad disguises, topsy-turvy love stories,and beautiful dancing and music aboard the S.S.American. Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes”, the Beaumont version, delivers an updated libretto and twice the opportunities for singing and dancing, including the fantastic tap number during the title song. For more information contact Dryden High School at (607) 844-8694 ext 5237. Trestle at Pope Lick Creek | March 10 & 11 at 7:30 p.m., and March 11 at 2:00 p.m. | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Performing and Media Arts graduate student Nick Fesette directs Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, the Depression-era play from MacArthur genius award winner Naomi Wallace. The Skin of Our Teeth | Through March 18 | Ti-Ahwaga Performaning Arts Center, 42 Delphine St, Owego | Combining farce, burlesque, and satire (among other styles), Thornton Wilder departs from his studied use of nostalgia and sentiment in Our Town to have an Eternal Family narrowly escape one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present. CRT’s Annual Mystery Dinner Theatre: Death Joins The Club | 6:30 PM, 3/11 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Noses up, everyone! You and the other members of the posh Pfieffer Hills Country Club are gathering to consider applications for membership and you want to look your snobby best. Members of the wealthy elite are dying to get in, or rather, are waiting for you to die so they can get in. Last Podcast on the Left | 8:00 PM, 3/11 Saturday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | The hysterical weekly podcast from Cave Comedy Radio, NYC - with Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks and “Unpredictable” Henry Zebrowski. True crime, the paranormal and horror comedy brightening up every Wednesday worldwide. Except when the server crashes Sex with Strangers | March 12 through April 2 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Fast lane to fame Twenty-something Ethan writes a blog of sexcapades that has catapulted him into instant celebrity and success. Forty-something Olivia is a mid-career
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meditation versatile, simple and easy to practice. Meditation is a state of being in that place just beyond every day consciousness, which is where spiritual empowerment begins. Toastmasters.org Cayuga Club Meeting | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/14 Tuesday | Riley Robb Hall room 205, 111 Wing Drive (Cornell Campus), Ithaca | Toastmasters clubs help their members gain skill and confidence in public speaking in a mutually supportive, friendly, fun environment with great mentorship. Come visit a meeting (or several) and learn how to develop your communication skills and leadership potential.
Notices Library Seeks Poetry Submissions | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | TCPL librarians will distribute free cards, featuring submitted poems, in the Library, on the Downtown Ithaca Commons and in additional locations throughout Ithaca on April 27. Individuals of all ages, creative writing groups and classes are encouraged to submit up to two poems of no more than 15 lines on or before March 24. Poems can be submitted at tcpl.org/events-exhibits/ poetry-submission.php or delivered to the Information and Learning Services Reference Desk. For more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at (607) 272-4557 extension 272 or poetry@ tcpl.org. Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 3/08 Wednesday | Spring Buffet, 106 Fairgrounds Memorial Pkwy, Ithaca | RSVP kamilles1@yahoo. com Register Now for Spring Writing through the Rough Spots classes | Writing can help create clarity about challenging situations. For further info: www.WritingRoomWorkshops.com Over 30s Basketball | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 3/09 Thursday, 3/13 Monday | Henry St. John’s Gym, 301 S. Geneva St., Ithaca | Every Monday and Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Colombian Dance | 10:00 PM, 3/10 Friday | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Ellis Hollow Nursery School Open House | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/11 Saturday | Ellis Hollow Nursery School , 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Please come visit Ellis Hollow Nursery School for our Annual Open House. March Madness Event: Featuring a Chicken Parmesan Dinner | 4:30 PM, 3/13 Monday | McLean Community Church, 50 Church St., McLean | Chicken Parmesan, ziti, salad, garlic toast, beverage and homemade cake. The Cayuga Bird Club Monthly Meeting | 7:30 PM, 3/13 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | This
Kids Ithaca’s own ska-punk renegades Viva Mayhem have been working crowds in the city and beyond since the fall of 2013 when they were known as the Mayhem Attack Squad. The band’s got a brand new EP coming out and they’re celebrating this Saturday, 3/11 at 9:00 p.m. at Lot 10, with the funk and soul collective Thru Spectrums. Viva Mayhem bring class and artful idioms to ska, punk, and pop forms, and are grounded in an underground music ethos. Come out and celebrate! (Photo: facebook) month’s speaker will be Dr. Jody Enck, President of the Cayuga Bird Club, presenting “ Sister Bird Club Network: Linking Clubs in the US and Honduras”. For information, email cayugabirdclub. org or visit cayugabirdclub.org. Soup/Sandwich/Service | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/14 Tuesday | St Marks Episcopal Church, 17 Main St, Candor | The church makes the soup and chili you bring the sandwich. Ithaca Bipolar Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 3/14 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This group is peer-run without supervision by any medical expert. Contact: Bill Goodhew, 607-539-4056, Bill_Goodhew@yahoo. com
Learning Oh, The Women: A Women’s History Month Writing Workshop | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/08 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Being held in conjunction with International Womens’ Day, this free program will encourage participants to write and share stories about the special women in their lives—friends, family members, literary characters or historical figures. Zahava is a writer, publisher and anthologist. For more information, contact Teresa
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Bailey Hall, Saturday, March 11, 7:00 p.m. Dancers United is Cornell Sitara’s annual showcase, and this year will be focusing on celebrating artistic diversity within the Cornell-sphere. Hosted by Cornell’s Bollywood fusion dance team, the show will also feature dynamic and bold performances by the likes of Cornell Bhangra, Urban Blaze, Big Red Raas, African Dance repertoire and much more. This is going jam - so don’t miss out!
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Douglas Mao: Utopia at Fifty | 4:30 PM-, 3/09 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | How did utopian imagining in the United States stand half a century ago? This lecture will examine the complex opposition between two forms of such imagining, one affiliated with an ideal of authenticity of experience, the other propelled by a form of liberal skepticism about that ideal. The Art of the Sale: The Wowie Zowie Three Session Version | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 3/09 Thursday | Taught by Bettsie Park. Shy about making art sales? This three session interactive workshop will change your life. Get Organized! with Robin Schwartz | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/14 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A workshop for everyone who works with paper and a computer. Visit hsctc.org/workshops for details Raj Yoga Meditation Class with Amita Shukla | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/14 Tuesday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Raj Yoga meditation is a form of meditation that is accessible to people of all backgrounds. It is a meditation without rituals or mantras and can be practiced anywhere at any time. Raja Yoga meditation is practiced with ‘open eyes’, which makes this method of
Teen Writing Workshops | 4:45 PM, 3/09 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Young adults are invited to exercise their creative muscles during weekly teen writing workshops. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274. Little Eagles Field Hockey Clinic | 5:15 PM, 3/09 Thursday | J. M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr., Cortland | 3rd, 4th, 5th Graders: 5:15 pm - 6:00 p.m. / 6th, 7th, 8th Graders: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. / Coached by Mary McCracken.
Special Events Tioga County Job Fair 2017 | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/08 Wednesday | Owego Treadway Conference Center, Rt 17C, Owego | Tioga County Business Services Team presents the 3rd Annual Tioga Co Job Fair. 60+ Employers from several counties are participating, creating 2 floors of job opportunities. All employers at this event will have open jobs that they want to fill. Rev: Ithaca Startup | 6:00 PM, 3/09 Thursday | Rev Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State Street, Ithaca | Companies include Ba-Li Cravings, ExPrimary, Fire Light Camps, GiveGab, Ithacash and Mirage 3D. Healing Through Beauty: A Community Ritual and Audio-Visual Feast | 7:00 PM, 3/09 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | With music by Indian Bansuri flute
master Steve Gorn, Abstract Nature Photography by Helena Cooper and Circle Facilitation by Jalaja Bonheim. The evening will begin with a simple, non-religious circle ritual, facilitated by Jalaja Bonheim, founder and director of the Institute for Circlework (instituteforcirclework.org). Prospect Park Alliance: Restoring Brooklyn’s Olmsted Park Gem | 7:10 PM-, 3/09 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St , Ithaca | The Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium 2017 is pleased to sponsor a benefit for Friends of Stewart Park: a presentation by Prospect Park Alliance Vice-President and Landscape Architect Christian Zimmerman, FASLA, about the 30 year long restoration of Prospect Park. Editing for Equality: Wikipedia Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/11 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities are invited to drop in for communal updating of Wikipedia’s entries on art and feminism, and advance workshops as well as same-day training will be provided. Ithaca Purim Celebration | 2:30 PM-5:30 PM, 3/12 Sunday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Enjoy a festive community-wide celebration of Purim. Fun for all ages. Live music, belly dancing, bouncy house, craft activities, refreshments. Learn about the Jewish holiday. Ithaca Area United Jewish Community Wide Celebration of Purim | 2:30 PM-5:30 PM, 3/12 Sunday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Many of the Jewish organizations in Ithaca are coming together this year to celebrate Purim and to share the holiday with the entire community. Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar. For further information, contact director@tbeithaca.org. New Jim Crow event | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 3/13 Monday | BJM gym, Buffalo St., ithaca | The next New Jim Crow event, “Dismantling the Master’s House”, will be hosted by Black Lives Matter, with a focus on Chapter 6 of “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander. Refreshments and childcare.
Books Poetry Reading | 5:00 PM, 3/09 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | With Martha Collins,
Rhonda SIder Edgington, Anabel Taylor Chapel, Saturday, March 11, 8:00 p.m.
Guest organist Rhonda Sider Edgington has used the idea of Reformations as her inspiration for recent performances, contrasting works by the legendary German and Dutch composers of the 16th and 17th centuries, with more modern composers from Northern Europe. Edgington will begin her performance with Bach’s deft and tantalizing “Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564”; from there, she’ll mesmerize the audience with her innovative ideas and bold style. This is one powerhouse of a musician.
Dan Rosenberg, and Martin Rock. Savin-Williams: Becoming Who I Am: Young Men On Being Gay | 4:00 PM, 3/10 Friday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A professor of developmental psychology for Cornell University’s Department of Human Development, Savin-Williams has written eight books on adolescent development. He is currently writing about the experiences of growing up mostly straight and bisexual, the sexual and romantic continuum, and the resiliency and mental health of sexualminority youth. For more information, contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org. Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers: With Harry Littell, Ronald Ostman and Louise Bement | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, 3/11 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | A Book talk that celebrates the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Ken Lifshitz: Makers of the Telegraph: Samuel Morse, Ezra Cornell and Joseph Henry | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 3/11 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Reading from the book. Reading: Elliott Deline, “No Poster Boy” (transgender essays) | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 3/11 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | An intimate reading, Q&A, and book signing from trans author Elliott Deline. Elliott Deline’s latest book, NO POSTER BOY is a collection of Elliott’s essays on the subject of an underrepresented population: transgender men who are attracted to men. Elliott DeLine: No Poster Boy | 5:00 PM, 3/11 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author reading. Denise Gelberg: Engagement: A Novel | 2:00 PM, 3/12 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author talk and book signing. Annie Campbell: The Whore Next Door | 7:00 PM, 3/14 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The lavishly-illustrated, The Whore Next Door, follows Campbell’s journey from adolescence during the turbulent 1960s through the wild adventures of adulthood during the 1980s. For more information, contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org.
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ome artists exist as dimensions of absolute clarity: pathways of a defined absolution. Canadian blues guitarist and singer songwriter Matt Anderson is one such totality. The guy is a complete and shimmering blues machine, particularly remarkable at carry full and wholly realized songs all by his lonesome. “Style-wise, I’m really fond of the old delta stuff,” he noted. “Guys who could carry the bassline and the lead like Lead Belly and Howlin Wolf.” Listening to Anderson’s solo material is like entering directly into his soul: all substantial and immense. He’s got a deep and resourceful honesty that is refreshing and expansive. His technical chops equally as deft as his soulful circuitry. Anderson started out as solo prodigy and still excels most directly as such. “I’m definitely more comfortable playing solo,” Anderson admitted. “But working with other musicians in a band setting has really stretched my songwriting. My old songs were always about me, almost
Art Faculty Biennial 2017 | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 3/08 Wednesday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland | The exhibition offers students the opportunity to view work by their mentors, and it gives the campus community and region the chance to contemplate artwork being produced in a wide range of media within the Department. International Women’s Week Exhibition and Art Sale | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/08 Wednesday | Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca | The exhibition will function as a fundraiser benefitting the The Advocacy Center in Ithaca, NY as well as Planned Parenthood. Curated by Kate Huffman, the show and sale will consist of work donated by women amongst the AAP faculty members, current MFA, Cornell AAP affiliates, and MFA alumni. How Albrecht Dürer Invented the Printmaker
starting with I. I’m writing more stuff in the third person now, and the whole songwriting process is certainly more dense.” Anderson heads to The Dock this Saturday solo. And even though he rips hard with his band, we’ll be lucky to see him in his most dynamic nature. There are few who can create such force simply with a voice and an acoustic guitar. Anderson performs with the vitality of a guy who’s seen the open road. “I love it,” he said. “I think if a musician didn’t like touring there’d be an issue. Being on the road 200 days a year is pretty great for me. I really live for this experience. It’s my life and my passion.” Don’t miss a chance to see one of contemporary blues truest masters this Saturday. Matt Anderson’s the kind of musician that leaves bar rooms in quadrants of epic vibrancy: the past becomes the present—the future an open road and heartache of infancy. ......... March is the month for high art and poetic films. It’s not officially, but it could be. TCPL is stacked with a plethora of these gems, and it’s as good a time as ever to explore the strange and propulsive. My Own Private Idaho is perhaps Gus Van Sant’s most epic and touching film. Starring a dynamic Keanu Reeves and the late great River Phoenix, the movie is a poetic love letter to the depth and suffering of life. Part Shakespeare, part Jack Kerouac, Van Sant is at the height of this powers here, guiding the viewer through
as Artist | 5:15 PM, 3/09 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Armin Kunz, print scholar and director of the C. G. Boerner Gallery in New York. Sarah Gotowka: Artist Talk | 6:30 PM, 3/09 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | As a part of the Philomathic (love of learning) Speakers Series, Sarah Gotowka will give an artist talk on her textile work and historical practices that contextualize this work. All Manner of Marvels : Wonders Seldom Seen: A group exhibition curated by Steve Carver | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/10 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Featuring work by Lou Beach, Steve Carver, Robin Cass, Bill Hastings, Marshall Hyde, Beth Hylen, Wayne Kruse, Gary Panter, Minna Resnick, and Robin Whiteman. On view : March 8 – April 29 Free Spirits: Bird Photography by Marie Read | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/13
(Above) The blues master Matt Anderson (Right) Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix star in “My Own Private Idaho” (Photos provided) an expressionistic road trip from the dark and powerful North West, to desolate Idaho and lush Italy. The musician Flea even makes an appearance as a wild street punk—the film’s beyond amazing. Jean Cocteau’s mesmerizing Orpheus is a modern take on the timeless story. Set in ‘50s Paris, at the height of bohemian taste, the film follows the famous poet Orpheus, as he runs through a series of surreal and artfully regimented happenings; leading eventually to the underworld, where he comes face to face with his passion, and his mortality. And for true laughs check out Cheech
Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Acclaimed local wildlife photographer Marie Read celebrates the beauty of birds with an exhibition, Free Spirits. Marie’s exquisite, story-telling images have appeared in magazines and calendars worldwide, as well as in her four books. She travels widely but also works extensively in her Freeville backyard. \ongoing Bufalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Mary Blaise Turgeon. “Resurrection”. Illustrations. Cellar d’Or | 36 E State St, Ithaca | Michel Sampson: Paintings on Paper. Done over the course of the last year, these paintings on paper are abstracted from the figure using gesture, shape and line to create images that allude to the figure without becoming representational. Creekside Cafe | 4 West Main
and Chong’s monumental Up In Smoke, perhaps the coolest and funniest film ever made. In these dour times, it’s ok to laugh once in a while; and this movie will get it out of you. When the duo’s proto-metal, proto-punk, proto-funk band Alice Bowie digs it deep and rips the classic “Earache My Eye”, you’ll be rolling and busting across the floor like you haven’t in some time. •
St, Trumansburg | Domenica Brockman: Paintings (Through March). creeksidetburg.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E State St, Ithaca | “Botanocal Portraits in Watercolor” by Milly Achatya | A retrospective exhibition of works by American Society of Botanical Artists awardwinning illustrator, Milly aAharya. Intimately detailed water colors honor the plants whose lives acharya explores, documents, and portrays. State of the Art Gallery | 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | “28th Annual Juried Photography Show” . This show is a highly regarded photography exhibition in the Finger Lakes area with submissions from many places in New York State. www.soagithaca.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | “Empathy Academy: Social Practice and the Problem of Objects” (through May 28) / “Escaping the Ordinary:
Artistic Imagination in Early Modern Prints” (through May 28) / Identity Crisis: Reflecting On Public and Private LIfe in Contemporary Javanese Photography” (through June 11) / “The War to End All Wars” (through June 11) / Leo Villareal “Cosmos” (ongoing) | www.museum.cornell. edu Elevator Music and Art Gallery at New Roots School | 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | “The Traces We Leave: A Photography Exhibit by Barbara Pease”. The transient nature of our world is a theme in this exhibition. We leave behind, at least for a while, traces of ourselves: a tagger’s graffiti, an activist’s poster, commissioned art or a simple statement on a pipe, “Water is Life.”
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Acclaimed local wildlife photographer Marie Read celebrates the beauty of birds with a bold and lush exhibition, “Free Spirits”. Marie’s exquisite, story-telling images have appeared in magazines and calendars worldwide, as well as in her four books. She travels widely, but also works extensively in her Freeville backyard. “Free Spirits” showcases evocative images that illustrate her recent explorations.
A concert of Scottish and Irish songs arranged by Beethoven, “The Pulse of an Irishman”, will be celebrating both St. Patrick’s Day and the rigorous intensity of the master Beethoven, who in the mid-nineteenth century, tackled a commission from music publisher George Thomson, and created over 100 dazzlingly spirited arrangements of well-known traditional songs that Thomson would later publish.
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