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ormer Ithaca City School District Athletic Director David Hanna misused several thousand dollars of athletic department funds throughout his brief tenure with the school, documents from the school district show. The documents – obtained via FOIL request made by The Ithaca Times in April – reveal that Hanna allegedly used thousands of dollars in revenues from various athletic events at the school over the course of his 10 months with the district. The former Cornell football assistant coach, who left the team to take over the athletic director’s position in May 2016, resigned in January after the district opened an investigation into the allegations. Conditions of his resignation – which included a payment to the school district in the amount of $6,100 – were signed May 16. His resignation, the news of which was initially broken by The Times, was accepted in a closed session of the district’s Board of Education in January, before the board’s regular meeting. “Personal reasons” was the official reason given by the district at the time of Hanna’s sudden departure, after which the district declined multiple requests for comment and did not produce a formal explanation. The reasons, nor the public announcement of the conditions of his resignation, were not subject to the conditions of the New York State Open Meetings Law, according to an inquiry made by the Times to the New York State Committee on Open Government. “You inquired why the ICSD did not provide an explanation for Mr. Hanna’s departure in January,” wrote Superintendent

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he honeybee population has been declining over the past several years. In 2016, 33 percent of the United States’ bee population fell, according to Bee Informed. While there isn’t a clear answer for why bees are dying and disappearing, many theories point to parasites, climate change and habitat loss. Local beekeepers in Tompkins County continue the fight to save the bees. Peter Borst — a biomedical researcher at Cornell University, regular contributor at the American Bee Journal and local beekeeper — has partnered with the new organization HoneyBees911. com to help honeybees find new homes. The organization helps bees that are “swarming,” the process large groups of bees go through to find a new nest away

from their old colony. If someone finds a swarm, it can be reported, and a beekeeper can safely remove the bees to a new home. Often when swarms are found, they’re in transit — but at times, the bees may not find a home. Finding new nests has become more challenging due to urban development and climate change, among other theories. When Borst finds a swarm he carefully guides the bees into one of his manmade hives at Cayuga Nature Center. “They’re looking for a place and when the swarm is all of the sudden on a whole hive, they think, ‘Oh, this is where we were going,’” Borst said. “They’re opportunists the same way as us; they may not understand what we’re doing but if it works for them they’ll go along with it. After the swarm is safely removed, the bees can continue their lives as workers and pollinators. Parasites, in addition to habitat loss, are another danger to bees, specifically the varroa

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mites. After the mites found their way to the U.S. in the ’80s, Borst said, they’ve continued to evolve and develop a resistance to pesticides. Their breeding cycle is fast and scientists cannot keep up with their developments quickly enough to create a new solution — similar to bacteria in medicinal research. “I’ve seen very diligent, professional beekeepers control the mites and still lost more bees than they’ve ever lost,” Borst said. “We have never really gotten a handle on how to control varroa mites.” Bees are mostly responsible for pollinating plants such as cherries, apples, melons, avocados, most nuts and other produce, and without bees, these crops would likely die off. Along with pollination, bees are also a key indicator for changes in the environment. If bees are having a difficult time staying alive, pollinating or creating honey, it’s likely a direct sign that the environment is going through

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“We love the Hamilton Soundtrack!” —Leona Ritter, Alda and Felix Jones–Rounds

“Everytime I sing karaoke, I tell myself I will never, ever do it again.” —Shane Cavanaugh

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hos e oppos ed to t he build-up of fossil fuel infrastructure in the Finger Lakes, including hundreds of people arrested for trespass while protesting Crestwood Midstream Partners’ plans to build a methane storage facility, are celebrating the Houston-based energy company’s May 9 announcement that it is not moving forward. Yet, reports of the project’s death may be premature. Officially called the Gallery 2 Expansion Project, the facility would repurpose an existing liquefied petroleum gas storage facility located in salt caverns beneath Seneca Lake in Reading, New York to a methane (natural gas) storage facility and expand its capacity. The gas would travel to the storage facility via pipelines. Opponents contend the proposed project poses unacceptable risks of contamination to Seneca Lake, the source of drinking water for 100,000 people. Less than a month after the Federal Energ y Regulator y Commission (FERC) approved the project on September 30, 2014, the organization, We are ICSD

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Luvelle Brown in an email earlier this week. “As I’m sure you can appreciate, it is our policy as a district to treat personnel matters as confidential. Nonetheless, I understand that our Records Access Officer has endeavored to provide you with all ICSD records regarding this topic to which the public is lawfully entitled pursuant to New York’s Freedom of Information Law.” According to internal emails from the district’s business office obtained by The Times, the missing funds were first 31–June

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Colleen Boland, left, and Sandra Steingraber, right, being arrested for protesting at the site of a potetial expansion of Crestwood-Midstream. (Photo: Charles Haeffner)

n the coming years, area residents’ electricity and natural gas use will no longer be measured by the constant whirring of a dial, spinning away hard earned dollars in the blink of an eye, a macabre slot machine that never, ever hits. The process will now be digital. NYSEG will begin installing the new smart meters in June, a process that should take several months to complete, according to NYSEG spokesperson Juanita Washington. The program will include customers in parts of Dr yden, Etna, Freeville, Groton, Ithaca and Lansing, 12,400 electric meters and 7,300 natural gas meters in total. All addresses that will see changes during this initial wave are listed on the NYSEG website. NYSEG lists the benefits of smart meters as more accurate bills (based on actual usage), increased usage information, automatic notification in a power outage situation and possible access to cost-saving programs run by NYSEG. It is unclear if the “more accurate billing” smart meters bring has historically caused electric bills for consumers to rise or fall; Washington said NYSEG believes its customers are more concerned with increased cer-

Seneca Lake, kicked off a civil disobedience campaign. For almost three years, there have been regular demonstrations outside Crest wood ’s compressor station and property. From time-to-time, protesters, including teachers, religious leaders, families, and business owners, have joined hands to create a human blockade preventing vehicles from entering and existing driveways leading to Crestwood’s facilities. “The driveway upon which we were arrested became a theatre of ordinary people literally standing against trucks that were servicing a fossil fuel project that we felt was dangerous to drinking water, possibly explosive, and putting a lake at risk, and also absent all accidents, brings more climate killing product to market,” said Sandra Steingraber, distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College. She is also a biologist and author active

in We are Seneca Lake’s campaign. O ver t he c ou r s e of t he protests, there have been 657 arrests at the gates of Crestwood for trespass and disorderly conduct, according to We are Seneca Lake’s website. The Town of Reading court dismissed many of the cases in the interests of justice. However, several people, including Steingraber (who pled guilty to trespass in 2014) served jail time. “It’s ver y hard to k now” what role the protests played, said Deborah Goldberg, managing attorney of Earthjustice’s Northeast Regional Office. She represents Gas Free Seneca, an environmental organization playing a leading role in organizing wineries, bed and breakfasts, and other businesses that make up the area’s $4.8 billion tourism and wine economy. continued on page 5

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noticed by the district on January 20 – three days before Hanna’s abrupt resignation – when the school district’s accountant noticed she had not received any money from athletic department functions during the 20162017 season. When she reached out to Hanna, Hanna responded he had the money in his office, stating he knew that he should have done something with the money and hadn’t yet, despite district policy being that all cash receipts should be logged within three to five business days. “I asked him if he thought he would be able to get all the money to the district office by

this Wednesday the 25th,” one of the emails, dated Friday, January 20, read. “He hesitated but said yeah.” In portions of a recorded disciplinary interview obtained by The Times, Hanna admits that he doesn’t know how much of the district’s money he used, and the district would not disclose a specific amount “for personnel reasons,” according to the district’s Chief Operations Officer, Amanda Verba. In the recording, Hanna said the money largely went to offset the cost of undisclosed legal fees, of which a family member paid several thousand dollars

while Hanna covered the rest – approximately $2,500. “I don’t know how much I used, I did use some,” Hanna said in the recording. “That sounds like a lot but I honestly don’t know how much. Reading past articles about other people who’ve taken, it’s always some sob story, so I’m going to pay it back.” The district, already with prompt reporting policies in place for ticket sales at athletic events, said it would continue to review its policies in order to assure misuse of funds can be tracked and noticed quicker. continued on page 5

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ecently a team of young builders used their new skills to erect an additional tiny house on the little plot of land in Newfield that over the years has transformed into Second Wind Cottages, a haven for homeless men. Eventually there will be a total of 18 tiny houses at Second Wind. According to Cameron Guidi, director of Second Wind, another three cottages will go up next year to complete the plan. A community build June 10 will yield yet another cottage, but groups like the one that hailed from Holley High School in Rochester to build on May 11 and 12 are key to Second Wind’s success. Thirteen students and two teachers traveled to Newfield along with a BOCES STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and spent the night at a local hotel. It’s a big undertaking for a group of students. “I was excited and skeptical at the same time,” admitted Sue Cory, school principal. It all worked out — after two full days of work, the building was done and she is already

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“The ICSD is in the process of reviewing our procedures for the accounting of ticket sales from athletic events,” said Brown in an email. “Mr. Manwaring, the current interim athletics director, has been spearheading this review, and it is our expectation that Ms. Samantha Little (the incoming Athletics and Wellness Officer) will continue this work when she assumes the position on July 1, 2017.”

Cameron Guidi of Second Wind Cottages addresses students from Holley High School after a hard day’s work. (Photo: Jaime Cone)

planning to bring her students back again next year to build another house. Even though all the houses will be finished next year, the school may have an opportunity to continue with similar projects, since Second Wind has sparked the interest of people in her area who would like to build another homeless community. The house was put together on the Holley campus (in Orleans County), then partially taken apart and reassembled at Second Wind. The school used grant money and took funds out of the school budget to pay for the materials. Some items were donated. The service aspect of the project is not lost on the principal. “We could have the students just build walls and throw them away,” she said. “This is having them build walls and then using them. I think they take pride in the practical use of it.” The whole process was just about as hands-on as a high school class gets. “I’m really proud of the teachers for letting the kids do it,” said Cory with a smile. “In my 22 years of teaching, this is the first time I’ve seen kids who would probably not be successful in a traditional math class succeed in class, and

they’re passing their Regents exams,” said Russ Albright, geometry teacher. “It really helps to have a visual example,” said Mikaela Auch, 14. “On paper you never know what it really is supposed to look like — when you see it in real life it helps you.” Before build day, the students took a trip to Second Wind to meet a few of the residents. “They were fired up when they got back and wanted to start building immediately,” Albright said. Two week s ago, a not her group of volunteers from the Travis Manion Foundation came to Second Wind to build cottage number 14. The foundation empowers veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations; the volunteers all wrote a note on a beam of the house their loved ones who died in war. “It’s amazing how far reaching it is,” said Guidi of Second Wind’s ability to attract people who want to help. The community build will ta ke place June 10 star ting around 8:30 a.m. with a barbecue at 11:30 a.m. Volunteers are more than welcome to “just show up.”

As the terms of his resignation and settlement signed two weeks ago dictate, Hanna repaid the district on May 16th, the day forms outlining the terms of his resignation were finalized. Hanna, reached at home, declined comment for this story. In March, ICSD appointed Little, a Principal at South Hill Elementary School since 2014, as Athletics and Wellness Officer. Little has worked in the Ithaca City School District for

15 years. Prior to serving as principal, Mrs. Little was an Associate Principal at Ithaca High School and school counselor at Beverly J. Martin as well as, before then, the assistant coach for the women’s basketball programs at St. John’s, Seton Hall, Niagara, (her alma mater) and St. Bonaventure, as well as a former Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Player of the Year.

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“ T he protests a nd t he economics are intertwined, “Goldberg said, noting that the widespread opposition to the project since it was first proposed could affect whether companies want to use the facility. Opponents learned of the company plans to discontinue the project in a bi-weekly environmental compliance report from Arlington Storage, a subsidiary of Crestwood. Company officials did not respond to calls and emails requesting comment on its decision. “Despite its best efforts, Arlington has not been successful in securing long-term contractual commitments that wou ld suppor t completion of the Gallery 2 Expansion Project,” and the investment required to complete the project, the report says. One reason why the project is not moving forward may have to do with the price of natural gas. When Inergy (now Crestwood) first filed its application in February 2013, with FERC, the federal agency responsible for siting natural gas facilities, the price of natural gas for export was $3.84 per thousand cubic feet, down from $12.16 per thousand cubic feet price in 2008, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. By February 2017 (the most recent data available), the price had dropped to $3.23 per thousand cubic feet, making the project a less attractive economic investment. In May 2014, FERC issued a certificate “of public convenience and necessity” for the project. Required by the Natural Gas Act of 1938, the certificate is essentially an economic test and determination by the FERC that there is a need for the project, that it will serve the public interest, and that the applicant is able to support the project financially without relying on subsidies from its existing customers. The project is not in the public interest, said Goldberg. “We would like them to rescind the certificate of public convenience and necessity,” she said. This is unlikely to happen, unless Crestwood decides to do this on its own. Under the Natural Gas Act, “only the certificate holder may seek to

Ups&Downs ▶ The Guy Who Saved That Mallard The Other Day the epic rescue, which played out on Green Street before our very own reporter Matt Butler, was an epic, nailbiting affair to the finish. Way to go man. Honorable mention goes to Joe Scaglione for his rescue of a turtle this weekend as well. Good job fellas. ▶ Everyone Involved In Something On Memorial Day It’s a popular work holiday, a time to day drink, eat grilled meats and play frisbee. That’s just what happens on a three-day weekend. But for all those who took the day for reflecting on those who served and made a public point of the holiday, we salute you.

Heard&Seen ▶ Peace And Quiet No more will Friday nights be marked by people yelling in the street. No more will Wegman’s be crowded even late on Tuesday nights. This is what we live for Ithaca: summer. ▶ Some Of The Old Planters On Cayuga Street have been removed, opening up the sidewalk and allowing it to breath more. What’s best about this is there is way more space for tents and tables during events, making for a much more lively extension of the Commons. We approve..

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rowing up in a working class EndiSince graduating SUNY Cortland, Jeancott family Jeannette Luther was nette has focused her determination, skills, determined to enter the academic and high energy on her classroom for the world and knew she would have to earn her past ten years. Her unique, exuberant teachown way. Working at Corbin’s Cafe, Dress ing style ref lects her own love of life and Barn, and at the Ideal Senior Living Cen- embrace of all she can be with her students. ter, no one recalls Jeannette complaining The Spencer Van Etten school district of overload as she zoomed forward in high includes many families who live below the school. poverty line. With Jeannette continJeannette’s encour“All my students are ued juggling jobs, agement a nd sk i l l encouraged to think big... academics, and development, many activities—squeezSince everyone is included, of her students say ing in cheerleading, that any goal is posit reinforces the idea that if they commit basketball, lacrosse, everyone can shine. Each of sible to stay in school and track, da nce, plus us in our own way.” work towa rd hig h church and volunschool graduation. teer work; (includ“Si x t h g rade is ing at least 50 hours a year with international Hugh O’Brian not too early to begin investing in oneself. Youth Leadership workshops, which she I help kids embrace who they are, and to still continues). In high school Jeannette build on their natural talents. We talk about also tried her hand disc jockeying during ambitious long-term plans — going on after a party. Fifteen years later her vivacious high school to vocational training, higher repartee and love of music keeps her disc ed, good jobs, military, raising families, jockeying calendar filled. contin u ed on page 7

ittle-known fact: When Wharton Studios left Ithaca in 1919, they took their cameras and greasepaint and headed out to Los Angeles one step ahead of a crowd of summons-wielding creditors. Unable to get things up and running out there, they sold their rights to Louis B. Mayer, subject to a secret clause in the contract that has only now come to light: Mayer’s studio had to make at least one film to be set in Ithaca, New York within 100 years. As every raisinet-eatin’, movie-watchin’ American knows, Louis B. became MGM Studios. Now, desperate for a studiosaving blockbuster and burdened by the secret Wharton contract proviso, MGM has sent its most important executive to our fair city to scout locations and fish for ideas… Scene: The Café Dewitt on a recent Tuesday morning. Seated at a table next to a fish tank is none other than MGM Film Division president and producer JONATHAN GLICKMAN. BRADLEY CORNSTARCH, a local and an author of dozens of unsold spec scripts has managed to score five minutes of his majesty’s time and has just been seated at the table as GLICKMAN prepares to order… WAITER: From our menu this morning, might I recommend the Bean Curd Newburg? We take the fin-

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erhaps NY’s voting laws need to be addressed as they are way behind most other states in convenience, polling places, no early voting and registration rules for party affiliation. And in some areas, mail in or hand delivery of changes is necessary. –Judy Bristol

Remembering Hal’s Deli

will never forget the place that I worked at in Ithaca. Hal was a great guy, and the family was as involved in the lives of those who ate there as any circle of friends. Sandy never forgot a face. They are one of a kind, all four! Different, but a very close knit family. –Margaret Cortes

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est cuts of aged, imported tofu, stuff them with herbs from our garden, wrap them in parchment with our award-winning crabgrass tapenade, slow-roast them for nine hours in our wood-fired, clayfilled oven, or’ kiva’, and serve them with a garnish of wilted maple leaves on a burled mahogany plank. GLICKMAN: Or…you could have the chef whip us up an egg white omelet. Oh, and put in some shallots, only with the shallots just brown them slightly with a little olive oil. And no salt. Make it a big one and we’ll share. WAITER: (withdrawing) Very good, sir. GLICKMAN: (to CORNSTARCH) OK, k id, you got ninety seconds. Amaze me with your best idea. CORNSTARCH: All right, J.G., I got one. A gritty rural drama. Picture an idyllic landscape in upstate New York. There are lakes, gorges, rolling hills, some vineyards and dairy farms. Nestled therein: a college town. A place perhaps that had once seen better times. All of a sudden, people notice that for years, hundreds of trucks have been carrying out-of-state garbage through the city streets. Big ones – eighteen-wheelers – and they’re trashing the roads. They’re prolifercontin u ed on page 7

ing. If you have any cultural or linguistic connection to Scandinavia, this phrase is all too familiar. If you live in the environs of Ithaca or anywhere in upstate NY, this may be your unspoken motto, mantra, or code by which you live. In my unconsidered opinion, this much admired and visited jewel of the Finger Lakes is the world capital of bad (read: weather inappropriate) clothing. It is cold in Ithaca; it is damp; it is overcast much of the year; and the wind never stops carrying these climatic conditions into your physical and psychological beings. Many of you seem to think we are located more closely to the equator than to the Arctic Circle. As long as we are quoting other languages, here is another phrase I frequently proffer to Ithacans: “Feng dai lai yi qian zhong jibing.” Translation: Wind is the bringer of a thousand diseases. I am addressing all of those benighted folks who feel that underdressing in the dead of winter imbues said population with some cachet of ‘coolness.’ More than likely, it will imbue you with pneumonia. Other disorders you may

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ating like emerald ash borers. It’s a catastrophe. The once-bucolic setting has acquired the quaint industrial charm of Hoboken, New Jersey. In desperation, the citizens turn to their last hope: a group of space pirates led by a half-human, half-alien hero. By the way, Chris Pratt is interested, but we can discuss it. Anyway, through a convoluted series of unlikely plot twists involving a secret stone, the trucks are re-routed through Cortland. Somewhere in here we work in a chase scene: a fleet of Priuses is pursuing a semi. They scream down Buffalo Street and everybody is airborne when they hit Stewart Avenue. Maybe one of those huge fireballs in slo-mo? Finally, though tranquility on the streets is restored, it’s too late - the tourist industry is gone and the place is a toxic mess. Sort of an apocalyptic Guardians meets A Civil Action. Whaddya think? Genius, right? GLICKMAN: So...complicated and depressing. Maybe you should amaze me with your second best idea. CORNSTARCH: Actually, I’ve got a better one. Should have told you this one first: Same idyllic landscape, same nestled town. Only climate change turns the place into Aintree, Georgia. Snowless winters, sweltering summers. Kudzu, grits, NASCAR hats, the whole schmear. Three buddies decide to leave their troubles at the office and go on one last canoe ride in Cayuga Inlet before it’s permanently choked by hydrilla. I’m thinking Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis. They get freaked out by a toothless, banjo-playing hillbilly kid. Then there’s a chase scene – Boss YourLetters contin u ed from page 6

look forward to contracting include any number of repellant skin diseases, cold-induced asthma, sore throats, otalgia, epistaxis, common colds and other upper respiratory inf luenzae, a nasty stomach virus called norovirus, myocardial infarctions (heart attacks), circulatory complaints such as Raynaud’s syndrome and disease, and osteoarthritis. Most of these untoward conditions can be avoided by simply PUTTING ON A BLOODY JACKET! Hats can also be helpful, since our skulls are responsible for much heat loss. “Hats” does not include those worn, stained, and odiferous baseball caps you’ve had on your conks since 11th grade; it means a hat, a device which insulates your benumbed head from the elements. It might even include ear flaps, whose purpose is obvious. This just in: new inventions (since the last Ice Age) include scarves and gloves, which help protect vulnerable areas such as hands and necks. I have seen joggers in shorts, bouncing down South Meadow Street in Jan-

Hogg and his lackeys are right on the boys’ tail as they scream down Buffalo Street… GLICKMAN: (cutting him off ) Whoa, professor. Every grip in the industry knows hydrilla’s box office poison. This is what you bring me? CORNSTARCH: Wait! One more! Two guys are surveying land in upstate New York for an energy company, looking for a field suitable for a solar farm, when they come across a quaint and beautiful small city that’s not on any of their maps. They figure out why…Ithaca is an enchanted place. It appears once every forty years, then disappears back into the mists of time, to wake up to its next day forty years hence. The people have never heard of fake news. The very idea of a President Trump would seem preposterous to them. Steve Bannon? An obscure wingnut. Liberals roam the streets with impunity and people still wear tie-dye without irony. GLICKMAN: I’m listening… CORNSTARCH: When Tommy falls in love with Fiona, a girl of the enchanted city, he realizes that she can never be part of his life back in America. Can he be part of hers in Ithaca? GLICKMAN: Dude, this is pure gold! I smell an Oscar! Let’s blow this beanery and get to work… GLICKMAN and CORNSTARCH bolt out of the restaurant just as the waiter comes out of the kitchen bearing a giant egg white and shallot omelet and we… FADE TO BLACK Charley Githler is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly. uar y with 20 degree/25 MPH wind weather; office workers crossing open quadrangles in blouses or shirts in snow squalls with winds coming off Cayuga Lake approaching gale force; mothers allowing toddlers and grade schoolers to gambol carefree from the dance studio entrance to the waiting soccer mobiles, dressed only in leotards and tulle (and occasionally barefoot) in early March with the snow drifts taller than the little incipient popsicles; and middle and high school macho men and women, pretending that the presence of pathological cold and dampness is not what makes them jam hands deeply into pockets and shiver uncontrollably. Underdressing is not cool, hip, fresh, phat, rad or anything else trendy or meme-worthy: it is simply and plainly incorrect, and an open invitation to any of the afore-mentioned medical misadventures.

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community involvement.” Jeannette‘s Early College Awareness program – in conjunction with Cornell University – has just wrapped its 7th year with a joyous “graduation” (robes and caps and all). It’s not a program saying everyone needs to go to college. But for kids who are not familiar with college or who maybe never visited a local college campus, the program makes academia a less foreign thing. “All my students are encouraged to think big,” she writes. “Since everyone is included, it reinforces the idea that everyone can shine. Each of us in our own way.” “So much of what I have learned and experienced I share with my students as I take on new challenges, including teaching in far-f lung places in unfamiliar cultures like the Middle East (after Greece), and someday traveling to Antarctica to observe my favorite animal – penguins!” Jeanette said. “I coach my students how I handle busy scheduling, how I set priorities and work toward new goals. I remind them they can do anything they set their sights on, if they will do the work. And I remind myself the same is true for me.” When Jeannette’s students pack up their book bags and hug her goodbye she’ll be closing her suitcase and hefting her book bag as she heads off to volunteer at a refugee camp in Chalkida, Greece. Jeannette knows the experience will be physically and emotionally demanding, but she is up for the challenge. She will work with Cross-Cultural Solutions, a program which works with refugees, many of whom have lost family and friends and everything they know and love in their home countries. They were warned that the refugee camps are struggling with overpopulation, lack of resources, and desperately need help from the outside world, that situations in the camps change frequently, as do needs. An estimated 11 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of the civil war in March 2011. Since the Balkan route from Greece to northern Europe was shut down in March after the arrival of a million migrants and refugees, around 57,000 people have been stranded in Greece. In response to this humanitarian crisis, Jeannette and her two friends Wendy Wright and Meg McVey are hosting a fundraising event on Thursday, June 22 at Coltivare in Ithaca, NY You can come in or take out a gourmet dinner buffet from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. They thank Jason Sidle, General Manager of Coltivare and his marvelous staff for their generosity. Advance tickets are $20 and can be purchased through Coltivare or through Jeannette at MusicMove822@gmail.com. Tickets at the door will be $30. All proceeds will support our local volunteers’ service at the Chalkida Refugee Camp with Cross-Cultural Solutions.

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Week Of 5/21-5/27 By Vaughn Golden Barbara Lifton NY State Assembly Assemblywoman Lifton sponsored a bill in the assembly this week to waive the state’s sovereign immunity under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other similar pieces of legislation. This would effectively grant state employees the same rights under the law as a private citizen. The bill passed the assembly 133 to 7 and now remains in the senate codes committee. State Senator O’Mara is a member of the codes committee. Lifton also voted in favor of a bill in the Environmental Conservation Committee that would require emergency funding to be allocated to a municipality that discovers lead in its water supply in a more timely manner. The old statute required the state to provide that funding within 60 business days, but the new provision cuts that down to just two business days. That bill also passed the assembly and was signed into law by Governor Cuomo last week.

Tom O’Mara NY State Senate The state senate passed a bill to issue $20 million in grants to the coastal areas on the Great Lakes, especially lakes Erie and Ontario after widespread flooding has ravaged the areas. O’Mara was a cosponsor of this legislation which currently is flowing through the assembly. The state senate also did not seek legal action in the “lulus” scandal which broke earlier this month. O’Mara was one senator caught in the middle of the scandal, redirecting his committee chair’s stipend to another senator of the IDC.

Tom Reed U.S. Congress Congressman Reed voted in favor of a widely debated house resolution this week to remove restrictions from the regulations restricting pesticides from being discharged into navigable waters. The bill, called the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017, passed the house largely along party lines. Reed also responded to inquiries regarding the president’s newly released FY 2018 budget plan telling a press call last Tuesday “As we’ve seen with the skinny budget proposal, you know we’re going to stand for the priorities that make sense.” He later said, “We need to have a conversation about priorities in America. The $21 trillion in national debt that is building each and every day is not sustainable. We have to get the spending under control. We need to grow this economy.” Reed will also host several town hall events this coming Saturday, the first of which will take place at the Trumansburg Fire Department at 8:30 a.m.

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orty years ago, Jimmy Carter was the president, Star Wars made its debut on the silver screen, the world’s population was around 4 billion (it’s almost 8 billion, currently) and the very first Ithaca Festival happened. Time flies. “That was our main inspiration this year,” Executive Director Ben Greenberg noted. “We spent a lot of time researching the first year, pouring through early articles and meeting with one of the original founders. We really tried to reinterpret that initial festival with the goal of making this year’s feel like a first time experience.” In his second year of running Ithaca Festival, Greenberg has found the going a lot smoother. “Year two always feels a lot less stressful than year one,” he laughed. “But this year had its quirks, being the 40th anniversary.” If you noticed a wider and more diverse festival last year, you can expect the same this year. Greenberg wanted to create a “bigger” feeling festival, something that could draw people from outside Ithaca and Tompkins County. And though there are many in Ithaca who argue bigger is not necessarily better, in the case of a city-wide festival, it certainly is. “The first year of doing anything is always the trickiest,” Greenberg noted. “Last year we really tried to expand the festival outside of the Commons, and started working with The Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC). So there were a lot of new things going on and a lot of new relationships.”

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rockers Donna the Buffalo. He lived in Ithaca GIAC, for about a year the city’s go-to all before headages center, has a ing out to NYC filled-to-the brim (where he curschedule this Satrently resides). urday, including One year in a charity basketIthaca was all he ball game (youth needed though, vs. experience), a to forge an evermusic stage fealasting bond with turing acts like the city. Wassa Pan Af“I’ve been livrika Dance Eni ng i n N YC for semble, The most of t he last Empire K ings twenty years,” he (composed of explained.“ProducBrooklyn raping big pop festivals pers Ave Mack, (he created the H2O Zay Mack and and Uforia Music Izzy B), rapFestivals at the Cotper Lil FE, DJ ton Bowl in Dallas Necio, Jan Ni2 0 1 7 It h a c a and downtown L.A., F e s t i va l gro’s Vitamin a r t i s t, Tr e respectively), footv o n McBean L and old ball stadium shows school funk act, Jeff Love with Snoop Dogg and Band; food and craft vendors, a writing workTribe Called Quest, and all sorts of huge shop with Tompkins County Poet Laureate events. So I came from that background, but Zee Zahava, and lots more stuff. There’s even I started my career in Ithaca with Grassroots a horse-drawn wagon, in true fairyland style, and have always loved this place. It’s always carrying passengers to and from GIAC and felt like the community that’s my home.” Dewitt Park. Ithaca is a densely packed, creative en“One of the things about adding GIAC is vironment. It’s a small place, but is truly that the festival takes on a much larger footruled by artistic vision. Adding someone like print,” Greenberg said. “So we thought addGreenberg to the already dynamic Ithaca Fesing the horse and carriage would be a cool tival has only expanded the general awesomeway people can experience the festival and see ness of it. The festival, like the city, is both a more of it in an interactive sort of way.” springboard and a swimming pool. Greenberg grew up in nearby Vestal, mov“When I saw that this position was open ing to Ithaca when his brother Jed joined roots31–June

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I felt like it was a good opportunity to really embed myself into the community,” Greenberg mused. “I thought someone with my skill set could really contribute.” Greenberg found a community like he’d never (professionally) found before. A place in many ways, completely opposite to what he’d experienced before. “With most large festivals I’ve done I was basically conditioned to push back,” he noted. “The negativity and all the unnecessary obstacles from every direction were pretty much the norm. With the Ithaca community you get to partner with open hands and everyone’s excited, encouraged, and really interested in new ideas.” “And that’s also a testament to the old directors and the festival itself,” he continued. They did an amazing job. The Ithaca Festival brand is something people are really exciting about. The mentality in Ithaca is unique: people here want to help, they want to be involved, and they want to do things that are great for the community.” Greenberg’s invested most importantly in the idea of sustainability. He sees his position as a continuation for growth. Each year Ithaca Festival becomes a little stronger and a little more precise. And each year the festival gains in vision. Greenberg’s experience in music and large festivals has really opened things wide. “I was really happy with the footprint from last year,” he explained. “So we’re really just trying to tighten things up, bring some consistency and find some simplicity within that. Last year I wanted to try and bring some bigger acts to the festival, bands that could draw from outside of Ithaca. And I wanted to give a lot more money to talent, and try and excite people in that way.”

The Music

The music is what makes Ithaca Festival so amazingly fresh. Musicians are stretched out in every which way, creating cubist waves that roll through your inner and outer being. It’s a special time, a chance to reset and take a few hours to relax and enjoy this unique little city. Friday, June 2, kicks off with a diverse lineup at the Bernie Milton Pavilion. World folk-rocker Mijail Martinez opens things off at noon, followed by two groups from New Roots School giving vocal and spoken word performances. Spiritual rockers Answer the Muse, Hip Hop act D.M.P: Asya & 420 Relly, local blues legends Pete Panek & The Blue Cats, funk act Thru Spectrums, emo punkers Maple Hill, and roots rockers Sim Redmond Band follow. Thru Spectrums frontwoman, Amanda Massa, is an Ithaca Festival vet. “It’s such a great tradition that showcases the city’s unbelievable talent,” she noted. “I’m a born and bred Ithacan so the Ithaca Festival is something I’ve grown up with and somewhere I feel completely at home. It’s such an amazing experience and we’re really looking forward to playing this year. And the food, wow, that’s probably the best part,” she laughed. Commons busking will be a happening in both the West and East end of the Commons, showcasing folk, roots, magic and stage troupes, jazz and world acts like Cayuga Wizards (all mystical and wild), Toivo (one of Ithaca’s most legendary waltz and polka acts), Gabriel Tavares (really awesome folk and psychedelic musician), The Hilltoppers (killer bluegrass), classical guitarist Isaac Sharpe, Vee Da Bee (mixing hip-hop and folk), and the heady organic folk of the Rapid River Boys, who play Friday at the West End and Saturday at the East End.

“The best thing about Ithaca is how supportive musicians, writers, and artists are to one another,” noted Marty Horn, half of the Rapid River Boys duo. “There are few places where a community inspires and drives artists to create the way that Ithaca does. This will be our first year participating in the Ithaca Festival and we’re super psyched. It’s always been a goal for us to play the fest.”

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G r e e n b e r g ( L e f t) a n d S u n k e n C h e e k . Saturday at the Bernie Milton Pavilion is looking pretty epic with performances by Strings Galore!, Opera Ithaca, The Klezmer Kings (Jewish folk and dance), GFC (The Greatest Common Factor hip-hop group), Ithaca Ballet (this is going to rule), New Roots Rock band (from punk to funk to soul to metal), Road Man (former John Brown’s Body bassist), The Gunpoets (Ithaca’s best social movement rap and funk group), and headlined by polyrhythmic funk act, The Big Mean I-Town Revue. Sunday’s just as epic with ITE Chamber

erybody’s favorite moxy-rockers, The Blind Spots. Dewitt Park’s loaded with acts Saturday and Sunday, including Mark Rust (Ithaca centered folk), Carlos Gutierrez (Spanish and Latin American guitar), Janet Batch (roots rock), Moxie Kumba (African-inspired dance and drum), DJ Gourd and DJ ha-Meen (some of the area’s finest club DJs), and an Ithaca Community Sing opened to all. Perhaps most exciting is the extension of the Ithaca Underground stage to two days. If anyone’s hung out at the last few year’s IU ITh e

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Fest stages, they can probably attest: this is some wicked and intense fun. “Bubba and that whole crew do an amazing job,” Greenberg noted. “IU is really exciting for the young community, so we really wanted to expand on that, because it’s so essential to the community.” Saturday and Sunday at the IU stage will feature a who’s who of local underground acts, including Participation Trophy (acoustic folk/ anti-folk), No Aliens (trance/noise/electronic rock), Sunken Cheek (musician and local underground veteran Weston Czerkies’ intense and super inf luential noise project which promises to be one of the highlights of the festival: Make sure you get to this), Lady D and The Shadow Spirits (really cool folk and punk trio), Spazzare (read the interview with them on page 13), Eyukaliptus (new and old school hip-hop and R&B), Mr. McBean (one of Ithaca’s best rappers), Fall Creek Brass Band, Cold Sweats, Viva Mayhem, and Ithaca’s premier rap sensation, Sammus. Sunday’s ridiculously killer as well. Rock and rollers The Horses kick things off at 1:00 p.m., followed by Nancy Babich (killer punk wildness), teencat (spunky feline punk), Remanu Panther (poetic wisdom at its finest), Ithaca Bottom Boys (new grass-bluegrass), No-Comply (really sick hip-hop, rock and experimental group: Must see), Toto’s Magic Show, Anna Coogan and Willie B (this is sure to be a festival highlight), Ghosties (gnarly local rockers), with sludge and doom heavyweights Monolith closing things out at 7:30 p.m. These guys get big and heavy and will certainly put an exclamation point on your Ithaca Festival experience. Things are shaping out pretty wickedly for the 40th Anniversary of Ithaca Festival. Hope you have some fun; it’ll be hard not to.

Complete schedules, line-ups, vendors, activities and more can be found at ithacafestival.org. And the festival is still open to volunteers, a great way to interact with the community. You can find info at the same website listed above.

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developments along the struggling Triphammer corridor and to some degree, the Community Corners development in Cayuga Heights, describes herself as progressive on national issues but fiscally of the things I’m advocating, I really sound conservative on local issues, brings to her platform a three pronged focus to her canRepublican but I’m not.” A native of Buffalo, Dawson attended didacy: a focus on economic development, Wells College and went on to become a an increase in constituent engagement social worker in her hometown for two and reform to the county’s tax abatement years. She afterward elected to get a degree policy. Dawson said the county could take a in law, leading to a lengthy career in tax greater role in revitalizing her section of policy for the Justice the county, selectively Department in Washgranting abatements i n g t on a nd l at e r, a for certain projects to nationally-roving career encourage sustainable with stints at the Resolutax generation in the tion Trust Corporation long-run, something and the Federal Trade Dawson sees as needed C om m ission, doi ng given the uneven, longconsumer protection term sales tax numbers litigation. Though she’d bet ween t he Cit y of always had an interest Ithaca and the county in politics, her role as – which has seen sales a government employtaxes stagnating with ee often placed her in t he decl i ne of ma l lthe role of a spectator, like retail and the rise unable to weigh in on of online buying – as a the discussion out of the whole. need for neutrality. It “ W h at I t h i n k i s wasn’t until retirement the biggest obstacle to that Dawson began to county action on any get more involved as initiative is resources,” a member of the LanDawson said. “Resourcsing Planning Board es will be even more difand later, with the rise Deborah Dawson ficult to come by given of Bernie Sanders in the most recent election, as an early member of the general attitude in Washington and the burgeoning Tompkins County Progres- frankly, in Albany… You have to figure out how to maximize the resources you have, sives. Her district includes the commercial and that comes from bolstering our tax

Dawson’s Run For Legislature A Next Step

n a crowded County Legislature race filled with activists spurred to arms by the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, Deborah Dawson – a candidate for the District 10 seat soon to be vacated by longtime legislator Dooley Keifer – considers her candidacy more a natural progression of her own engagement in local politics over the past few years. A member of Lansing’s Village Planning Board since May 2013 and partner of Deputy Mayor Ronny Hardaway, she’s already been involved in local government longer than most in the field. A seasoned lawyer and recent activist, Dawson’s not afraid of numbers and, attending local meetings since January 2016, has been considering a run for the legislature for months now. What sets her apart from the new crop of progressive Democrats running for office, many of whom said they were inspired by the election of President Donald Trump, is not simply a stance of resistance, but one of practicality: that she, she said, is experienced and well-versed in the history of local issues with a perspective informed by a generally progressive view of society, acknowledging the reality of the county’s fiscal state while aiming for the ultimate goal of accomplishing the hopes of progressive movements both in Tompkins County and nationwide. “I’m very progressive in so many of the national issues, but I understand at the county level I really can’t do much about any of those things. When I look at some

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base, strengthening our commercial development and making the best use of our IDA subsidies and abatements.” The type of subsidy the county’s Industrial Development Agency decides to grant is where Dawson gets most discerning. “I have problems with the abatement policy of the IDA,” Dawson said. “They seem to have focused primarily on getting big projects in here that create – eventually – big boosts to the tax base. That’s all well and good, but meanwhile the local labor utilization policy they have does not require the use of local labor. And once it’s built, the jobs created are mostly retail, housekeeping and maintenance. And those are minimum wage jobs. As I see it, the IDA’s primary function should be supporting projects that create good paying, local jobs. Local is better, not bigger is better.” In focusing primarily on that policy, Dawson said fiscal conservatism and being highly demanding of developers is ultimately a winning approach, largely for its greater benefit. She likens it to family planning, setting the county up for economic independence as it heads into a future where resources from the state – and federal level – can no longer be counted on like they once were. “Making a county as fiscally independent and strong as possible is very progressive,” said Dawson. “The county has all these initiatives it wants to move forward on, and it can’t do any of that without the money to implement it. I regard myself as an enabler, the one to try and plan for the resources to try and get exactly where we want to go.”

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apples, cherries, almonds — these things need bees,” he said. “People shouldn’t be afraid that they’re not going to get enough to eat or children are going to live in a world where there’s not any fruit. There’s a lot of fruit that’s self-pollinating.” But this doesn’t minimize Borst’s concerns or the concerns of other beekeepers. Bees are necessary, but the apocalyptic fear is not. “It wouldn’t be this bleak, armageddon future where we’d be eating nothing but crabcakes or something,” Borst said. “Since we live in a rural environment — beekeeping has always been part of the rural environment — the more awareness people have of how their food is produced, where it comes from and who’s doing it, that can’t be a bad thing. But I don’t think it should be based off fear.”

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negative changes, Borst said. Beekeepers can detect pollution in hives since everything that comes into the hive comes from outside — from the surrounding environment. Something Borst notes is the hysteria surrounding bee decline in the context of pollination. Bees are important — they’re key in understanding problems in the environment and help crops grow — but their decline isn’t a cause for immediate panic, he said. Staple crops in the U.S. such as wheat, rice and corn are wind pollinated and do not require bees. Several other plants such as grapes, potatoes, onions and broccoli either do not need bees at all or do not heavily rely on them. “If we were to not pollinate our crops, we’d still eat, but we would not be eating some of the things we like: stone fruits, B orst (P hot o: C asey M a rt i n)

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have that authority vacated by submitting a formal request to the Commission,” said Tamara Young-Allen with FERC’s Division of Media Relations in an email. Arlington has until May 15, 2018, to complete and place its project into service, Young-Allen said. A recent blurb in Marcellus Drilling News provides an industry perspective on Crestwood’s announcement. It says, “A small-but-dedicated group of nutjob antis are heralding this as some sort of “tremendous victory.” It is nothing of the sort. The main part of the project has always been about storing propane, not natural gas…” Crestwood still wants to move forward with its plans to store 1.5 million barrels propane in salt caverns on the same property. Trucks and rail cars would transport the fuel to the storage facility. Because FERC does not have authority under the Interstate Commerce Act to site petroleum products facilities, the federal agency is not involved in the propane storage proposal, according to Young-Allen. Instead, the developer is awaiting approval from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). “An Administrative Law Judge in DEC’s Office of Hearings and Mediation Services is currently reviewing the submissions from the parties to the issues conference and will issue a ruling on whether any issues require an adjudication (trial like hearing) and party status once that review is complete,” said Kevin O. Frazier, DEC Public Information Officer, in an email. Held in February 2015 in Horseheads, the issues conference gave opponents and supporters opportunities to present their concerns. Project supporters criticize the DEC for the length of time the agency is taking to review the record. However, Goldberg, the attorney representing Gas Free Seneca, thinks it is important that the administrative law judge take his time. “We want Crestwood to recognize they are not wanted” at Seneca Lake, she said.

tainty regarding their billing amount. In essence the new meters are providing a more in-depth analysis of power usage that can provide information with which residents can try to manipulate their electricity or natural gas intake to lower their bills and reduce energy expenditure. According to NYSEG, over the next few years all of their customers will transition to the new smart meters. The county was chosen by NYSEG for the Energy Smart Community pilot program due to the population’s engagement with and focus on energy efficiency. Information sessions have been held during the last several, hosted and organized by the Cornell Cooperative Extension, including a few weekends ago in Ithaca. Smart meters will be replacing analog meters that have been around for decades. The transition is part of New York State’s larger Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative, aimed at helping consumers “make more informed energy choices, develop new energy products and services, and protect the environment while creating new jobs and economic opportunity.” REV lays out a series of energy goals with a 2030 deadline, including 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, 50 percent of electricity consumed in NY to be renewable and 23 percent reduction in energy usage of buildings from 2012. Around 65-70 million smart meters are already in use across the United States, as of 2016. Rosalyn Bandy, a Cooperative Extension official who is working as the Energy Smart Community liaison with NYSEG, said the meters can be a step towards a fully-modern energ y grid, one better equipped to cater to the burgeoning desires of Tompkins County residents to employ alternative energy sources like rooftop solar power. With the new meters, the onus is still on the customer to monitor their energy but the information is now more readily available to make changes and, hopefully, save money, she said.

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seemed more awake, more alive every time I saw him. In January of 2014, I wrote about the crazy “Hawaii 5-0” race IHF put on in the dead of winter “to give people something to do.” Despite the fact that the temperatures had been sub-zero in recent days, John gripped his walker and walked 3.1 miles on a snow and ice covered surface to complete the race. In typically wry fashion, he told me before the race, “I plan to jump into the Cayuga Inlet and swim a victory lap when I finish.” That didn’t happen, but seeing John cross the finish line after such an uphill battle was an emotional experience for a lot of people. I sat with John last week and he gave me an update on his progress. After chipping away at his college degree for a few years, he graduated this month with a degree in Exercise Science. I asked him how he planned to use that degree, and he said, “I am shadowing a few trainers helping individuals with workouts initially until I can start taking people on my own needing assistance607-277-7000 or advice on other ways to Georgia@ithacatimes.com x220 and when he came out of it it was unclear use exercise machines. I also want to help whether he’s ever walk or if he’d evenNewspaper: be set up adaptive sports classes.” He added, the same person. “My main thing is that I have noticed that I didn’t know John prior to the accident, the so called adaptive braces are either but I saw him many times at Island Health not very comfortable-or don’t work. Not and Fitness, grinding it out to regain his wanting to pay extremely high prices, I strength. At first, it was a victory to mus- have been trying to just kind of do the ter enough arm strength to push himself ‘McGyver’ method make something to up out of his wheelchair for a few seconds. work for what I need for me - you knowHe would get physically stronger, and as use a gum wrapper-swiss army knife! No, I got to know him, his jokes would make seriously… for example, I have adapted an me laugh and cringe at the same time. He

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older wrist hook for back rows to secure left hand grip, since I have no left hand… yet.” That “yet” typifies John’s attitude over the past 13 years. Here’s to you, Johnny… may your strength – and your jokes – continue to improve! Congratulations. Congratulations also to the Little Red boys’ lacrosse team for getting it done in a big way, doubling up on Corning in the Sectional final after having their season ended 3 years in a row by the Hawks. For the senior class, losing to the same team 4 years in a row was just not an option, and the 10-5 win was not in doubt after a few minutes. Eaman Bollinger scored to make it 2-1 Little Red halfway through the first quarter, and Ithaca built on that momentum. When junior Ryan Sposito smoked one into the Corning goal with a half second left in the first half, it provided a big lift going into the locker room, Sposito would step up big time with five goals and an assist, and the convincing win avenged one of the two losses dealt the Little Red in their 15-2 run this year. Client: The Little Red will now move on to renew a rivalry against Section 3 teams that has been dormant for several years when they travel back to Corning to take on Baldwinsville, who moved on by virtue of a nail-biting 9-8 win over perennial power West Genesee. Ithaca’s return to the state tournament is a welcome development for local lacrosse fans. Go see them Wednesday at 4 p.m.

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Spazzare, Ithaca Festival: Ithaca Underground Stage, Saturday, June 3, 4:00 p.m.

pazzare goes hard. Hard on riffs, sludge, feedback, fuzzy dreamscapes, beats, and most importantly, song writing. The Ithaca-based psych-rock trio (Dusky Underwood on bass, John North on guitar, Jeff Asbrand on drums) is a sight for sore ears, conjuring acid-infused space worlds within really excellently constructed compositions: a combination that is dutifully epic. The band culls from a vast source of heavy and psychedelic music, with reverberations reminiscent of Kyuss, Blue Cheer, Loop, Boris, Hawkwind, and Monster Magnet. There’s a feel to these guys that’s fresh and raw, like the swirling mist that once haunted the Seattle docks in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. The band ripped it up at OneFest last weekend and will do so again this weekend, with the open air at their disposal (beware clouds and planes). Which should certainly conjure some distant and evil nexuses. The group hasn’t released a full-length yet (when it lands it’s going to make a thud), but you can check five of their righteous songs on bandcamp and escape at your own risk. Ithaca Times: How’d Spazzare come to be, and when you guys are thinking about galaxies and black holes, where does Spazzare fit out there

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in the abyss? Dusky Underwood: As for galaxies and black holes, Spazzare is chilling firmly out there on Planet X waiting for the Nibiru cataclysm. John North: Spazzare came to be in the winter of 2015 when Dusky and I showed up on a chilly January night at Jeff ’s house in T-burg. Jeff had answered our ‘drummer wanted’ ad on Craigslist and invited us over to play. It didn’t take long for us to realize that we had a special chemistry. Jeff Asbrand: I like to think of Spazzare as crushingly heavy music with atmosphere. The first time we played together was super f ’ing awesome and it gave me chills. There was an obviously deep connection from the get-go where we’d play improvisational passages and everyone knew immediately where it was going and we’d make changes in unison. It was uncanny, and we termed coined the term “playing rad”, as in listening to each other while at the same time experimenting and pushing to the outer edges. IT: The band uses varying modes to reach its destination: are you guys implementing specific themes in each song to create a soundscape? DU: We channel the unholiest of demons to help conjure out specific themes. JN: We’re all about serving the song. In terms of our parts, whatever is best for the song is what sticks. Our songs typically have a mood and that is apparent within the melodic idea(s) and/or lyr-

Spazzare from left: bassist Dusky Underwood; guitarist John North; drummer Jeff Asbrand (Photos: Christopher J. Harrington)

ics the song originates from. If it’s unclear what direction it should take, we’re usually able to agree upon a vision after jamming and discussing it. JA: There are definite “techniques” to achieving moods and feels, which work themselves out naturally while we’re writing the songs. John is a genius with guitar effects. Previously I’d never been a big fan of the guitarist who has a huge chain of effects pedals, because it always sounded cheesy somehow. Maybe it’s because those guitarists were making up for crappy playing with interesting noises? With John, he takes it to the next level where with a song we’re writing we’ll have the riffs down and structure fairly sound and then he’ll go “Oh, I want to try something here” and suddenly the whole song is transported to another place. IT: Did Ithaca Underground play any part in the inspiration in forming the band? DU: I have been in love with IU for a decade now! It is a dream come true to be a part of such a wonderful scene. JN: Ithaca Underground provides such an invaluable community service. It’s like everyone’s continued on page 15

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A Terror Out in the Abyss Loathsome beasts and where to find them By Br yan VanC ampe n Alien Covenant, directed by Ridley Scott, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14.

idley Scott’s 1979 film Alien can’t pack the same punch today now that the elements that make up an Alien movie have become their own clichés, but I

can tell you decades later that for me, Alien is still the most terrifying experience I’ve ever had at the movies. I’ve seen tons of gory horror movies since then, but after that distressing summer night in ’79 – when that thing burst out of John Hurt, I bolted for the lobby

and was honestly unsure if I had the courage to go back to my seat – it’s all been groovy gravy since then. (I think part of the reason I love reading about prosthetic make-up and special effects and DVD documentaries and commentaries is because learning how the tricks are done helps me not be so scared.) I think certain fans of the Alien series enjoy spotting all those story elements that have come to define the franchise, running a mental list as the film plays. Ten Little Indians in space? Check. A

A scene from “Alien Covenant” (Photo provided)

certain blue collar “Truckers in Space” vibe? Check. Strong, resourceful female leads? Check. A company android placed among the crew for malevolent purposes? Check. Queasy body horror based on the concepts of infestation, contamination and assimilation? Check. The recipe and the ingredients may be the same, but Ridley Scott, the man who started the whole series from a diabolically clever script by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, knows how to cook. There’s a theory that most filmmakers’ best work happened in their 30s and 40s, but at the age of 79, Scott is still a vibrant visualist and provocateur. (Not for nothing, but a trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner sequel, which looks like a greatest hits version of a film that Scott made more than 40 years ago.) In fact, I would say that Scott’s prequel film Prometheus and Alien Covenant represent the best the series has had to offer since James Cameron’s Aliens back in 1986. (Typing that made me feel very old, people.) If you haven’t seen Prometheus, you probably should see it before seeing Scott’s latest. Along with Jordan Peele’s excellent horror flick Get Out, it’s the most petrifying film to come down the pike this year. So it’s the same old song with feeling: a colony spaceship containing 2000 passengers and captained by Billy Crudup receives a strange audio signal from a nearby planet, and the Captain, played by Billy Crudup, overrides his 15-person crew’s objections and plots a course to investigate. (The members of the crew include Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Danny McBride (Tropic Thunder), Damian Bichir (The Hateful Eight), Jussie Smolett (The Mighty Ducks) and Michael Fassbender in the film’s most intriguing performance as Walter, an android character related to Fassbender’s character in Prometheus. You know whether this kind of thing is for you or if it’s not. If you like cold and clammy scares, as with the first film, Scott shows his talent for slowly coiling a sense of tension and suspense; when the carnage finally begins, it still has the power to make you jump in your seat, which I did several times. Oh, yeah, Ridley Scott knows what makes us scream, even if no one in space can hear you. • 14

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International Bass Convention at Ithaca College By Nichol a s Wal k e r All Things Bass - International Bass Convention at Ithaca College June 5-10

s our Ithaca Festival winds down this weekend, you are likely to see an increase in the number of bass players in town. The International Society of Bassists will celebrate its 50th Anniversary with a convention at Ithaca College, June 5-10. We expect between 1200 and 1500 people from 30 different countries to attend. In 1962, double bassist Gary Karr became an international soloist overnight after being featured on public television with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. As his career took flight, Karr became passionate about connecting with other bass players from all walks of life. In 1967 he hosted the first congress for double bassists in Michigan, an event attended by a diverse community of 50 musicians eager to learn from one another, share experiences, and elevate both the level of artistry and the perception of their noble instrument in the eyes and hearts of the public. From these modest beginnings the International Society of Bassists was born, and several generations of bassists have worked to fulfill its mission: to inspire, educate, connect. Fifty years later the bass world is better supported by the kind of infrastructure that has long existed for violinists: we have mini-instruments, small bows, and light gauge strings that allow small children to play and learn, opening the possibility of adolescents and young adult bassists to emerge with a level of experience and engagement in music commensurate with other string players. We now have corresponding progressive pedagogy for children. We also have luthiers,archetiers, and manufacturers who understand how to build, restore, regulate, design, and advance the unique capacities of our instrument. We have composers, arrangers, producers, and sound recording engineers who are delighted to showcase the special expressive sound of the bass. While we have been catching up with our infrastructure, we have also managed to set a new bar for our fellow instrumentalists with respect to multi-cultural musical integration. Indeed, from the earliest convention, classical, jazz, and Americana bassists found immediate and meaningful connection with one another. Partially this is due to the nature of bass playing: as a general rule, bass players tend to be acculturated to supportive and collaborative roles rather than to positions as soloists in the limelight. Nearly every ensemble in all genres needs a bass player, and primarily the role of a bass player is to support others and make them sound great.

Bassist and teacher Nicholas Walker (Photo: Brian Arnold)

Bassists today are often interested and active in a wide variety of musical disciplines, and the ISB is the uncontested premier platform for sharing and delighting in all things bass. This convention will offer more than 200 presentations and performances throughout the week, including six international competitions, lectures, scholarly papers, group ensemble and technical

training sessions, body awareness clinics, independent programs for youngsters and adult learners/amateurs, and of course concert performances by luminaries from around the world. A few of these presenters may be familiar names to the general public (Christian McBride & Gary Karr), but other names and faces are likely to be superstar celebrities only to bassists (François Rabbath, Larry Grenadier, John Clayton, Joel Quarrington, Rufus Reid, etc.). The convention will also feature a unique event in which a team of luthiers work around the clock to build one, and possibly two double basses from scratch during the convention week. There is a young bassists program running throughout the week, as well as an adult learner/amateur enthusiast track, evening headlining concerts, and after hours jam sessions. First and foremost, the convention events are for dues-paying members of the ISB who have registered for the event; however, the general public is welcome to attend concerts and presentations, space permitting. We ask that you check in at the ISB headquarters & registration office, located just within the main entrance to the Whalen Center for Music at Ithaca College to receive a guest pass as they are available. For a full list of performances & events and presenter biographies, please visit our ISB webpage: https://www.isbworldoffice. com/convention-presenters.asp You can access the convention app by searching in the App Store or Google Play for “ISB 2017”, or by following one of these links:

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loving, older sibling who turns you on to extreme new music but is also looking out for you and making sure you don’t get trampled on in the pit. The inclusive, woke culture that IU provides is inspirational. JA: It’s a balance between controlling the song and giving it freedom enough to surprise you.

Spazzare bassist Dusky Underwood (Photo: Christopher J. Harrington)

IT: You’re hitting the road and can only bring five cassette tapes with you (the van only has a tape deck); what are you bringing? DU: Alanis Morrisette: Jagged Little Pill; Jeff ’s brutal hardcore mix circa 1998; Rancid: Let’s Go; Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 22; Mix tape of 30 second clips of reggae and Christian talk radio spliced together. Just to keep our sanity. JN: Tom Waits: Swordfish Trombones; Nirvana: In Utero; Leonard Cohen: New Skin for the Old Ceremony; The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds; Queens of the Stone Age: SelfTitled. JA: The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs; Neurosis: Times of Grace; Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works; Dinosaur Jr.:You’re Living All Over Me: Brian Jamestown Massacre: Take it From The Man! •

Nicholas Walker is an Associate Professor of Music at Ithaca College, and Convention Chair/Artistic Director/President-Elect of the International Society of Bassists. He can be found behind his double bass every Wednesday evening from 5 to 7 PM at the Argos Inn playing with his jazz trio, i3° •

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Giving a Voice to the Unheard States of Mind ripples across Tompkins County By Am an d a Liv ingston

tates of Mind, a literary online and print magazine sponsored by the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, is gearing up and getting ready to publish its summer issue. The purpose of the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, located

on South Geneva Street, is to address mental health needs in Ithaca and Tompkins County. They allocate various services regarding mental health— whether that be teen support groups, connecting people to therapists or other mental health professionals, educating community members on

aspects of mental health and mental illness or providing healthy ways to help people express themselves and their feelings. States of Mind falls under the category of the latter. According to its website, States of Mind “aims to give voice to those that are often silenced, and thus challenge misconceptions regarding mental health.” By publishing poetry, personal essays, feature stories and artwork sur-

go very well together. Writing has always helped me think through what I’m going through when I’m going through tough times, both while I’m going through it and afterwards. It helps me reflect on how I felt and why I felt that way.” Past themes of issues of States of Mind have included “harmony,” “synergy,” “beginnings” and “efflores-

rounding mental health, the magazine provides an outlet for people who have struggled with mental health to share their own experiences, stories and feelings in various interpretive and creative forms. “It’s one thing for us to read about things from the perspective of a person who has studied mental health— it’s another much more profound thing to see how people have struggled with it. States of Mind provides a platform for that,” said Jacob Parker Carver, the community health educator at the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County. Erika Walsh, a rising senior at Ithaca College, recently had a poem published with States of Mind entitled “advice fr how to make yr depression stop calling u ovr.” The poem itself is a how-to list that personifies depression— giving simplified and lyrically-styled advice on how best to deal with depression and mental illness. “I started out writing poetry from a young age and wrote a lot of poems about my personal experiences related to mental health in high school,” said Walsh regarding writing about mental health. “Using a more objective narrative point of view and paying close attention to craft helps me to be more self-aware and reflective, and really learn and discover things about myself through my writing.” Writing about mental health can be a cathartic experience— taking the time to reflect and understand mental health serves as an extremely effective coping technique. Co-editor-in-chief of States of Mind and recent Ithaca College graduate Marisa Wherry agrees: “Writing and mental health

cence,” among others. The theme of the most recent issue is “ripple,” which Wherry says is different from what they’ve done in terms of themes before. “We wanted it to have an active sensibility— with everything going on right now, it’s important to feel active within yourself and the world around you and take reign over your mental health,” said Wherry. States of Mind has been around since the early 1980s. Previously run by Emily Nowels, the States of Mind baton was passed to Parker Carver. In 2016, Wherry started working for States of Mind as co-editor-in-chief with Hakeem Hopper-Collins, another recent graduate of Ithaca College. With the assistance of Barbara Adams, the director of the internship program in writing and publishing at Ithaca College and Parker Carver, Wherry and Hopper-Collins transformed States of Mind into a student-run magazine. While the magazine is run by Ithaca College students, the focus on mental health in the Tompkins County community is still present— with contributing writers of all ages from all over Ithaca. “We can access a whole new range of skills, talent, and time resources,” says Parker Carver about working with Ithaca College students. “I appreciate that there’s a whole new energy that comes along with it. That being said, we want all voices to be heard. If we’re just looking at a specific population of people facing mental health challenges, we aren’t really facing our goals. We want people from all different backgrounds, age groups and walks of life to contribute.” The next issue of States of Mind is set to be released mid-June. To learn more about the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County and view past issues of States of Mind, please visit mhaedu.org. •

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Meadow Street’s Special Gem Tamarind makes the grade and then some By Peg g y Haine

perfect, it’s a little heavy on the onions for a e who live in Ithaca or its nearby hamlets are multiply blessed with first date -- unless you share. The fried tofu, cubed, deep-fried, and waterfalls, state parks, institutions of higher edification, and Thai restau- served with a sweet sauce flecked with chopped peanuts, was a revelation; biting rants. Whatever we did to deserve these, let’s just keep doing it. We dined recently on through its hot, leathery skin we arrived at the velvety creaminess of its interior. take-out from one of our favorites, TamaWe wolfed down a generous serving rind, tucked away in an unlikely spot on the of pineapple fried rice. Pieces of chicken, northern end of Meadow Street’s commershrimp, cashews, egg, onion, raisins, peas, cial corridor. carrots, and sweet-tart pineapple provide At noon the menu offers pad thai plenty of variety, with curry spices amping and other noodle dishes, soups in bowls up the flavors in this satisfying dish. nearly big enough for a post-sauna dunk, a Yen Ta Fo was rainbow of curries, the real outlier for and all sorts of us – an adventure appetizers. Most in seafood and heat. mains offer choice Shrimp, squid, tofu, of pork, beef, and poached fish chicken, shrimp, balls (the Thai take mixed seafood, or on gefilte fish, we tofu, which comes noted, in keeping with a salad or with the season) light soup and a floated over a raft prettily molded of broad, comfortmound of rice, ing, even fleshy and you can select and yielding rice your own degree of noodles, and fresh spiciness. Service is baby spinach, in a polite and efficient, very spicy red broth. sunshine pours Whoo! Hot! And in through large definitely worth windows, massive ordering again. artworks bedeck The star of the the walls, and, evening was the though we have no idea what havoc Customers being served at Tamarind (Photo: Casey Martin) eggplant long song, slices of eggplant may control the breaded and deep kitchen, the front fried, along with of the house always more fried tofu cubes, on a bed of young feels calm. Most recently the music playing softly in the background was early big-band spinach and crisp steamed greenbeans, baby corn, water chestnuts, and carrot slices jazz, the cheery music of the late twenties carved into flower shapes, all covered in a and early thirties that made the Great Depression nearly tolerable. Make note of that. dense, sweet peanut sauce. No matter what the dinner or lunch, it’s always tempting to On a chill spring day, few dishes are order a side of steamed vegetables ($1.50) more heartwarming than Tamarind’s duck and another of Thai peanut sauce ($2.00). noodles, with its chunks of boneless duck You can’t go wrong. paddling around in an enormous bowl of This was a ton of food for around flavorful broth, anchored with either egg or $50, and we fought over the leftovers for a rice noodles and some greens. Delicious. We’re also fond of their pad see ew and Thai couple of days. On a weekend evening there may be a wait for a table, and parking is at spicy noodles for the hi-carb lunches that a premium, though you can always park on make us want to curl up under our desks the street (the City hasn’t yet seen fit to pepfor an afternoon snooze. per that area with its blasted, clunky meter But the other evening we donned our system). But on a Tuesday night, we found figurative pith helmets and ventured into a spot in their lot, and our food was hot in some of the more daredevil selections on every conceivable way, ready for us at the Tamarind’s menu. We have no regrets. promised time, and deeply satisfying. • We toyed with ordering their green papaya salad, which is so refreshing, but headed for the heat with yum pla muek, Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are a salad of delicate squid rings, bathed in a based on unannounced, anonymous spicy lime dressing, and showered with red visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca. onion slivers, scallions, celery leaves, and com/dining tomato. A caution: while this is otherwise

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Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s influence is felt far and wide, from free-jazz pioneers like Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, to punk rock legends like Mike Watt (who in his Ithaca performance a few weeks ago, shouted “Coltrane, Coltrane” at the end of his blistering set). “Chasing Trane” is the definitive documentary on the legendary musician, universally acclaimed and intimately bold. John Scheinfeld (“The U.S. vs. John Lennon”) directs and shows a wide range to Coltrane’s life and experience. The film is playing all week long starting Friday, 6/02 at Cinemapolis. (Photo provided)

Maplewood Jazz Team | 11:00 AM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Jazz, Oldies) Music & Mimosas | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Spend your Sunday afternoons at Hosmer Winery with live music from Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom. Ithaca Underground: Ithaca Festival (Day 2) | 1:00 PM | Press Bay Alley Parking Lot (Behind Sacred Root), 118 W Green St, Ithaca | Featuring Monolith, Ghosties, Anna Coogan, Toto’s Magic Show, No-Comply, Ithaca Bottom Boys, Remanu Panther, Teencat, Nancy Babich, The Horses (Rock, Punk, Doom, Sludge, Art Rock, Folk Rock, Magic, Bluegrass, Experimental, Poetry, Spoken Word) Pat Comstock | 2:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Acoustic)

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday.

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Richie Stearns & Friends | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Brookton’s Market, 491

Church of Homer, 72 S. Main St., Homer | (Rock, Folk Rock, Roots Rock, Fusion, Latin, Funk)

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The Avett Brothers | 7:00 PM | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown | The Avett Brothers are an American folk rock band that combines several exciting genres of music including bluegrass, country, punk, and rock and roll. George Thorogood and the

Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy - whether he likes it or not | 126 mins PG-13 | Snatched | When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results. | 90 mins R | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe. | 136 mins PG-13 | The Fate of the Furious | When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of terrorism and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before. | 136 mins PG-13 |

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Piano, and Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor. Janet Sung and Lara Sipols, violin, Roberta Crawford, viola, Stefan Reuss, cello, Richard MacDowell, clarinet, Ivy Walz, mezzo-soprano, and Michael Salmirs, piano. Tickets can be purchased at the door. For more information: (607) 272-4839 or FingerLakesChamberEnsemble.org

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Gorguts, Defeated Sanity, Exist | 6:30 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | (Progressive Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Progressive Metal) Lake Effect Winds | 8:00 PM-9:30 PM | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | A program of accessible 20th century music for woodwind quintet and trio. Works by Nielsen, Hindemith, and others.

Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM | The First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Rd, Ithaca |

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Chasing Trane: The John Coltrance Documentary | The film explores the global power and impact of the music of John Coltrane and reveals the passions, experiences and forces that shaped his life and revolutionary sounds. | 99 mins NR | The Lovers | Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive

Music & Mimosas | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Live music from Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom. Serving up fresh mimosas as well as wine and beer by the glass and bottle. Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM | Lodi Historical Society Building, Main Street, Lodi | The concert features the Haydn’s String Quartet in B-flat, ’Sunrise”, Spohr’s Six German Songs for Voice, Clarinet, and

Film Cinemapolis

Friday, 6/02 to Thursday, 6/08. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes

romance. | 94 mins R | Colossal | A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she’s suffering. | 109 mins R | A Quiet Passion | The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. | 125 mins PG-13 | Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer | Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman’s life dramatically changes for better and worse. | 118 mins R | The Wedding Plan | When her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down. | 110 mins PG | 8 Borders 8 Days | A single mother from Syria shows us the consequences of closing America’s doors to families fleeing war. With no answer to her application for resettlement in the US, and every other path to safety closed off, a smuggler’s raft to Europe was the only way out. 8 Borders 8 Days is their

story; the intimate details of why a mother is willing to risk her children’s lives at sea and an immersive experience of their eight-day journey to safety. | NR | Regal Ithaca

Wednesday 5/24 to Tuesday, 5/30. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon. | 129 mins PG-13 | Alien: Covenant | The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape. | 122 mins R | Wonder Woman | Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny. | 141 mins PG-13 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul | A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw’s 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg’s newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention. | 91 mins PG | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Flying | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Runs through June 19. Drawn from oral histories and memoirs of women who served as WASP’s (Women’s Air Service Pilots) in WWII, Flying is based on the women who flew fighter planes and bombers to help train male pilots in the art of aerial dogfighting. The Chicken and Waffles Comedy Show | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Waffle Frolic, 146 East State St., Ithaca | Featuring: Kenneth McLaurin Comedian who has long gone by the moniker “The Funniest Person You’ve Never Heard Of”, but because of the success of his freshman album “Cuttin’ Up, Comedy at The Shop” he now adds the title of most listened to person on Spotify in the Village of Ithaca. Witty, Clever, Insightful, sometimes Shocking, but always Funny is what you get with Kenneth. Common Time: A Musical Potpourri | 7:30 PM-, 6/03 Saturday | Elmira Little Theatre, 1000 Laurel St, Elmira | Songs from many genres. Clean Alternatives | 4:00 PM, 6/04 Sunday (through June 18) | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Karma Comes Clean A businesswoman turned environmentalist takes on a pollutionspewing megacorporation in this satire of environmental politics and corporate America. You can run but you can’t hide

Notices Candor Food Pantry | 3:00 PM-5:30 PM, 5/31 Wednesday | Candor Food Pantry, 1 Water Street, Candor | Candor Food Pantry is there to help you with food supplies you may need. Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website: www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Application for Ithaca Artist Market | Information and Applications are available on www.artspartner.org for artists of all mediums. The event is a juried show and sale of art, with food, wine, beer, and jazz at the beautiful Farmers Market. Deadline: June 20th. Candor’s Farmers Market | 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, 6/01 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more. Candorfarmersmkt@gmail.com Bereaved Parents, Grandparents and Adult Siblings self-help support group | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 6/01 Thursday | The Compassionate Friends of Ithaca - meeting at Hospicare of Ithaca, 172 East King Road, Ithaca | The Compassionate Friends of Ithaca welcomes all bereaved parents and their family members to our meetings on the first Thursday of each month at 172 East King Road ( the Hospicare building) from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. TCF is a national, non-profit grief support organization offering friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved families following the death of a child of any age, from any cause. For more information call 607-387-5711 or email

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The Haunt, Thursday, June 1, 9:00 p.m.

Comics for Collectors, Saturday, June 3, 10:00 a.m.

This 7-piece Talking Heads Tribute band really gets after it in terms of punctuation and visual intensity. The band channels “Stop Making Sense”-era Talking Heads, and in doing so takes on David Byrne’s most creative years, a daunting task, but Start Making Sense works it well, finding the inner groove and paying mad respect. Front man Jon Braun is at times hauntingly David Byrne-like, making for a real intimate experience.

June 3 is Wonder Woman Day and it’s a great chance to celebrate the awesome DC heroine and all the wonder women out there. Wonder Woman is a symbol of hope and functions as an important reminder that inner power is achievable by all. Comics For Collectors, one of Ithaca’s most epic gems, will have a bunch of prizes, deals, and more. Here’s to all the Wonder Women out there in Ithaca, this is day to celebrate.

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from Karma. Relevant, dark, and funny, Dykstra’s play won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh in 2006. Shiny Gemstones: A Stand Up Comedy Affair | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 6/04 Sunday | Cinemapolis, 120 East Green St, Ithaca | Headliner Madelein Smith has joined forces with her favorite comedians in New York to bring a fun, female-fronted comedy show to the Ithaca Arts Fest.

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tcf.ithaca@gmail.com. Yard Sale To Benefit Smith Valley Cemetery | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | 4 Delray Ave., Candor | Proceeds to Benefit Lawn Care & Maintenance. A variety of good usable items. Free Will Offering. Contact: Rebecca Sherman-Quick with any questions. 607-659-3373 Watkins-Montour Rotary Presenting Chicken BBQ | 11:00 AM, 6/03 Saturday | Visions Federal Credit Union Parking Lot, 513 East 4th Street, Watkins Glen | To raise funds for local community projects and charitable donations. Square and Contra Dance | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Chinese Auction | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Community Fire & Rescue Dept. 24, 321 State Route 224, VanEtten | Light refreshments will be available. Vendors for the 38th Annual Craft Festival | Church Of Christ Uniting, 22 Church St, Richfield Springs | The 38th Annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by the Church Of Christ Uniting in Richfield Springs will take place on Saturday, June 10th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20. Crafter applications are being accepted through June 9th. Call Lani King at 315-858- 9451 or e-mail friendshipcraftfestival@yahoo.com for information.

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Birth as Initiation: Dar a Luz | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/05 Monday | Borg Warner Room, Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St., Ithaca | The experience of giving birth has been for millennia an experience of female initiation, moving the birthing woman and members of her family from one state, one status in life, into another. Preserving Memory, Restoring Minds | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/05 Monday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Lisa Feiner, of Sharp Again Naturally and Dr. Cory Lenherr to learn the 10 reversible causes of memory loss, and what you can do to prevent and treat it. This information could change your life. Registration required - sign up at greenstar.coop, at the store or call 273-9392. Birds Through the Lens: Using video technology to reveal the lives of birds | 7:30 PM-, 6/05 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Speaker: Ann Prum Founder, Producer, and Cinematographer, Coneflower

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Self-Shiatsu for Balancing in the Late Spring Season | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 5/31 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Massage Therapist Vivinne (Kala) Williams will guide you through a Self-Shiatsu Massage, and discuss essential oils and foods that help harmonize us with the spring season. Registration required - sign up at greenstar.coop, at the store or call 273-9392. Modern Dance with Lindsay Gilmour | 2:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Develop your kinesthetic intelligence and spatial and energetic awareness along with your technique and then let go and fly.

Cortland doom behemoths Monolith are a band with a mission: to create an epic universe, and then utterly destroy it. The band fuses progressive sludge and doom elements with uplifting passages of melody, hardcore intensity and bold totality. After an epic OneFest performance last weekend, the band is set to close the Ithaca Underground stage at the Ithaca Festival Sunday night, 6/04, at 7:30 p.m. “We’re really looking forward to the festival,” guitarist and vocalist, Jason Eldridge, noted. “The Ithaca Underground stage in particular offers a lot for people who are looking for music that’s a bit off the beaten path. We’re excited to be a part of that.” Monolith contains one lifelong Ithacan and a bunch of transplants who’ve coalesced within a creative atmosphere. “We all feel that Ithaca is a great place to be making and experiencing music,” Eldridge said. “There’s an awesome community here.” (Photo: Heather Skye Photography)

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Productions. For 20 years, Ann Johnson Prum has created nonfiction films that have captured 10 Emmy nominations and an Emmy win for Best Nature Documentary (An Original Duckumentary). Toastmasters Cayuga Club Meeting | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/06 Tuesday | Riley Robb Hall room 205, 111 Wing Drive (Cornell Campus), Ithaca | Come visit a meeting (or several) and learn how to develop your communication skills and leadership potential.

Special Events Ithaca Festival | Friday, 6/02 through Sunday, 6/04 | Downtown Ithaca | The Ithaca Festival is a weekend music and arts celebration, the premier event of its kind in Tompkins County. Over 1,000 talented local musicians, painters, dancers, clowns, community groups, and ensembles perform throughout the weekend. Enjoy multiple stages of entertainment, some special kid’s activities, a craft show, a parade, a local

film festival, an arts for social justice area, and delicious festival food at various locations. Pre-Parade Porch Party | 2:30 PM-6:00 PM, 6/02 Friday | Mama Goose, 430 W State St., Ithaca | Mama Goose, a children’s resale clothing store in downtown Ithaca, will kick off Ithaca Festival with a party leading up to the Ithaca Festival parade on Friday, June 2. There will be free snacks, games, coloring and face-painting. Ladies Fun Day Vendor Event | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Dryden VFW, 2272 Dryden rd, Dryden | Join us and shop local Vendors Saturday, June 3rd from 10-3. Vendors include, Lilla Rose, Norwex, Avon, Lula Roe, Lemongrass Spa, Tupperware, Thirty One, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Stampin Up, local crafters and more. Baskets will be raffled with the proceeds benefiting Relay for Life. Food will be available for purchase. Old Ways Day | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural and Country Living Museum, 6880 East Lake Road, Auburn | Model T Truck Rides, Horse Drawn

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Americana Vineyards, Saturday, June 3, 12:00 p.m. Americana Vineyards will be hosting their fifth annual Woofstock with the help from their new rescue dogs, Maverick and Lilly. Everyone’s invited and asked to bring donations of pet food and supplies to help stock the local shelters and rescues. The event will include lots of activities to keep all the dogs busy, including a Doggie Diva Fashion Show and a Dog Agility Course, where your dogs can compete for prizes. Woof!

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Wagon Rides, Food, Museum Tours, Exhibits, Kids Games, and much more. Wonder Woman Day: 75th Anniversary | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Comics For Collectors, 207 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Celebrating the opening of the movie. Special free issues of comics available for young and advance readers. Anniversary cake and cool Wonder Woman cookies. Free bands of power and free tiara. Cosplayers welcome. Woofstock 2017 | 12:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Live music, dog clinics, courses, vendors, fashion show, food, drunk and lots more. This is an amazing opportunity to help local shelters and rescue continue their amazing and much needed work. Recycled Runway 2017 | 7:00 PM, 6/03 Saturday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | This fashion show features one-ofa-kind creations made from recycled or repurposed materials. Come see what materials will be used this year! The event begins at 7 p.m. with the 2017 Silent Auction, featuring artwork from the region’s most sought-after visual artists, gift baskets from local businesses, exclusive experience packages, and much more. Women & Wine | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 6/04 Sunday | Three Brothers Winery, 623 Lerch Road, Geneva | Live music, food on site, multiple vendors and classes including Essential Oils, Color Me Mine Pottery Painting, Terrarium Class, Acupuncture Sessions and more. www.3brotherswiney.com. International Society of Bassists 50th Anniversary Convention | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/05 Monday | Ithaca College, 140 Phillips Hall, Ithaca | Runs June 5-10. The event features 1,500 of the very best bassists – and bass makers – from 30 Countries who will participate in more than 150 performances, workshops, and exhibits. Each day offers a musical feast of concerts, seminars, workshops, lecturedemonstrations, panel discussions, master classes, and vendor exhibits. Info at isbworldoffice.com/conventionpresenters.asp

Kids The Buzz Saw Sharks of Long Ago | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 6/06 Tuesday | Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | The Buzz

Saw Sharks of Long Ago exhibition blends art, science and humor to tell the story of Helicoprion, the prehistoric shark nicknamed the “Buzz Saw Killer” after its intimidating 360-degree spiral of teeth. This dynamic exhibit has something for the whole family, featuring kids’ activities, an array of fossils and a short video, original artworks by Ray Troll, life-sized sculptures by paleo-sculptor Gary Staab, music and more. Evening Story Time | 6:00 PM, 6/06 Tuesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Children are invited to wear their pajamas and bring a stuffed animal to the library for a special story time. We will read bedtime books, sing songs, and the animals spend the night at the library! Children will receive a photo of the nighttime hijinks of their animal when they come back to pick it up.

Health Bereaved Parents, Grandparents and Adult Siblings self-help support group | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 6/01 Thursday | The Compassionate Friends of Ithaca - meeting at Hospicare of Ithaca, 172 East King Road, Ithaca | The Compassionate Friends of Ithaca welcomes all bereaved parents and their family members to our meetings on the first Thursday of each month at 172 East King Road ( the Hospicare building) from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. TCF is a national, non-profit grief support organization offering friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved families following the death of a child of any age, from any cause. For more information call 607-387-5711 or email tcf.ithaca@gmail.com. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 8:00 AM-10:45 AM, 6/04 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | You are invited to join the entire event, and you are equally welcome to join at the top of the hour at 8, 9, or 10am. Pilates for Strong Bones | 4:15 PM-5:30 PM, 6/06 Tuesday | Cayuga Pilates, Ithaca | Pilates for Strong Bones is a challenging and safe Pilates-based workout for individuals who have experienced bone loss or are concerned about their bone health. For more information: www.cayugapilates. com, call 607-592-2272 or email: cayugapilates@gmail.com.

Recycled Runway 2017, Corning Museum of Glass, Saturday, June 3, 7:00 p.m.

The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes’ most epic fundraising event, Recycled Runway, is here. Taking place at the luminous Corning Museum of Glass, the fashion show features a diverse amount of completely original fashion made of recycled and repurposed materials. This is one of the coolest shows you’ll see all year, as it not only takes a purposeful ideological stance, but it showcases some of the best talent in all the Finger Lakes. (Photo: Maria Strinni)

Ongoing Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 5/31 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active postures and soothing stretches. Then we will move towards more passive postures and meditation to relax and rejuvenate the body and mind. This class is open to all levels and all bodies. Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 5/ 31 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins - denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/31 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Tarot Salon Ithaca | 7:30 PM, 5/ 29 Monday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Tarot Salon Ithaca is a co-manifested space for all who are drawn to, enchanted by, and create with Tarot. Come share your insights, engage in discussion, exchange readings, and explore Tarot in a supportive community setting. Every last Monday of the month, beginning March 28, 2016.

Books Book Reading: Curiosities of Elmira | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/02 Friday | Riverow Bookshop, 187 Front St., Owego | Author to Discuss Curiosities of Elmira at Riverow Bookshop Kelli L. Huggins, Education Coordinator at the Chemung County Historical Society, will be discussing and signing copies of her new book, Curiosities of Elmira. Linda Grace-Kobas | 1:00 PM, 6/04 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Signing and reading from her new novel Niagara. !

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We Used To Cut The Grass with Ike Willis, performing the music of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Tuesday, June 6, 8:00 p.m., The Range

ed by bassist, thereminist, hand sawist and composer Cody McCorry, New Jersey’s experimental constructors, We Used To Cut The Grass, is an extended vision: as intricate and angular, as they are fearless and groovy. The band is fast, jazzy, technical, and wide, with a really spatial sound. The group can get psychedelic, classical and deeply funky, all in the matter of seconds, reminding you instantaneously of some of Frank Zappa’s more intricate ensembles. Recently, the band joined up with former Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention guitarist and vocalist, Ike Willis (he was the voice of the character “Joe” in the rock opera Joe’s Garage), to perform Zappa’s old songs. The collective manages brilliantly to forge the gusto, the brilliance, and the wildness, that Zappa and his old band used to exude. “Zappa was a huge part of the impetus for our band, McCorry noted. “When we decided to start playing his music, we were already employing a lot of his techniques and attitude in writing and performing our own music. So covering him has really been a natural fit.” We Used To Cut The Grass and Ike

Art Circular Abstractions | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/02 Friday | Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn | Curator Nancy Crow challenged the participating artists in Circular Abstractions to create a unique design based upon the Bull’s Eye pattern: four circles comprised of concentric rings (the iconic target symbol), set in a grid of four blocks, or quadrants. The quilts have been conceived in improvisation, in building upon or breaking down an established pattern into something new and individually expressive. The exhibit features artwork by 24 artists from across the U.S. and around the world, from Canada to Australia to South Africa.

Willis will be ripping up The Range this Tuesday. The Ithaca Times talked about some stuff with McCorry last week. Here’s the skinny. Ithaca Times: What’s really funny lately, and what makes you crack up while on stage? Cody McCorry: Over the past year, we’ve been trying to spread a rumor that one of our drummers is addicted to Confidence Equine, a pheromone product to promote horse mating. Aside from that, it’s hard to say -- we usually come up with some kind of inside joke for each show. IT: How’d the collaboration with Ike Willis start, and what was the process like choosing what Zappa songs to cover and perform? CM: We Used to Cut the Grass had been a band for about two years when I got the call to play bass for a Zappa tribute in the Midwest, fronted by Ike, which unfortunately fell through about a month later. At that point, I had gotten Ike’s number, and I very nervously called him up and asked him if he’d be interested in doing a tour with us instead. When he said yes, after taking a short period of time to stare at a wall and sweat profusely, I called a handful of horn players and other musicians to expand the ensemble, and started arranging what is now a small book of arrangements of Frank’s music. Most of the set list is based on what the ensemble wants to play since Ike really knows it all, but each tour he recommends a couple of his favorites for us to arrange. We also arranged one of Ike’s originals, and we always perform some of our music on the tour since we’re an original band at heart. IT: Do you guys feel like your music is particularly visual, in the sense that it evokes a certain environment; and also, do you guys feel like Zappa’s music is particu-

Handwork | 102 W State St, Ithaca | Saturday, 6/02 and 6/03 | Join Handwork for their 41st Anniversary Celebration & Pottery Demonstration! Throwing demonstration and pottery process with Featured Artist Renata Wadsworth – Renata’s pottery reflects her training from the folk, Chinese and Japanese traditions. Her work is made predominantly from porcelain, a clay that encourages the intense carbon-trapping she looks for in her shino surfaces. Renata is our Featured Artist for the month of June. Stop by during Gallery Night or anytime during the month to enter for a chance to a free gift made by Renata, no purchase necessary. As part of our 41st Anniversary, we are having a Thank You Sale June 2nd and 3rd – enjoy 20% off store-wide

larly visual? CM: In terms of our music, I’m not sure if it evokes a specific environment, but it definitely has a certain atmosphere -- I definitely like to think it evokes an eager anticipation in the listener. There’s a lot of tension and question marks with unexpected resolutions. Zappa’s music was obviously a huge inspiration for this, just as Stravinsky’s music was for him. It seems to me that both Frank and Igor’s music seem to be really expressive in having equal parts ugly and beautiful, equally thought out questions and answers. IT: How does your approach to the writing process change when the social and political environment changes? CM: Well, we obviously have a lot of Trump jokes now. If Frank was alive, I imagine he would have torn him apart. It certainly seemed like a good time to add “When the Lie’s So Big” to the set, which contains such unfortunately relevant lines as, “The Republican trick will be played out again / People please tell me when we will be rid of these men.”

\ongoing CAP ArtSpace |171 E State St, Center Ithaca | Bill Benson: Looking Inside And Out | Bill is interested in the beauty of the landscape we live in and to that end, as a painter, he wants to use every available technique in producing his emotional response to that landscape. (Through June 3) Cornell Lab of Ornithology | 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Free Spirits: Bird Photography by Marie Read : Acclaimed local wildlife photographer Marie Read celebrates the beauty of birds with an exhibition, Free Spirits. Through August Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road Ithaca | “Collision of Realms”. A two person exhibit featuring paintings and works on paper by Marianne Van Lent

The band, We Used To Cut The Grass, hanging with Ike Wilis (in front right, laying down) (Photo: facebook) IT: Do you guys have anything special planned for the Ithaca show, or any of the upcoming gigs? CM: Each show is going to be different, with slightly different instrumentation, and the way we approach the music on stage and how we perform it is genuinely different every night. We take lots of improvisational turns and go with the happy accidents, the same way the Mothers of Invention did. IT: Best Zappa record to listen to in the morning; in the evening, when you’re studying; and when you’re partying? CM: This changes all the time for me, but off the top of my head today: In the morning: We’re Only In It For The Money; In the evening: The Grand Wazoo; Studying: Uncle Meat; Partying: Joe’s Garage. • Read the whole interview at ithaca.com

and Masha Ryskin. Collision of Realms will be on view through June 22 Kitchen Theatre | 514 W State St | “Mirage”: Paintings by John Lyon Paul. John’s paintings emerge from a kinesthetic awareness also evident in his sculptures. His use of color and line, with their pulse, vibration, and rhythms, invite the viewer to enter and travel them. Lifelong | 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Life in a Different Art. Susan Stolov began to paint 12 years ago. A professional classical musician for most of her life, this is the first public exhibition of her visual art. Working in watercolor and acrylic, Susan has captured images of family life, her beloved cats, and still life scenes. In the future, she plans to venture into oils and (perhaps) contemporary themes. The exhibit will be up through May and June.

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One of Ithaca’s coolest and most epic electronic duos, Junkyard Theory hold fast to the groove while extending their inspiration and dynamism to the outer reaches. Influences swirl from Bjork, DJ Shadow, Bob Marley, Bassnectar and Pretty Lights, while Emily Hoyt and Shane Hoyt make sure to extend your inner-dance spirituality tenfold, with their unique mix of the organic and the mechanic.

Pete Panek and the Blue Cats are one of Ithaca’s hardest working acts in town, playing a Chicago-styled blues that is both rocking and genuine. You really can’t say enough great things about these guys: they’re a special group, and Ithaca’s lucky to have them. Check them out twice this week: On Friday, June 2 at the Bernie Milton Pavilion Stage during Ithaca Festival, and Tuesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. at Maxie’s. (Photo: Brian Arnold)

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