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ignoring that mandates charging homeless shelter residents a small fee based on their gross income. This measure, which was reaffirmed by the state in September 2015 after a lack of compliance from a number of counties statewide, uses a formula based on the value of the assets users of the shelter are required to report to DSS: one of the requirements people need to fulfill to be eligible to stay there. “It’s usually based on whether someone has something like, say, SSI (Supplemental Security Income)” said Rich Bennett, the executive director of the Rescue Mission. “We would get copies of the rates and we would then sort of assist in that process, which would offset what DSS would pay under normal OTDA regulation.” “ T here’s rea l ly not much more to say about it,” he added. “That’s more of the county’s continued on page 4

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ast week on a crisp October evening, a small group – less than ten people – stood on the corner of Clinton and Plain, cars whipping by as they talked about the intersection behind them. Brought together for an event hosted by Bike Walk Tompkins, the group clustered around a sandwich board set up on the corner, talking about ways they as an organization could begin to put their minds to work in order to transform the intersection in a way that made it more walkable

and more navigable for those on foot, on bikes or even behind the wheel of a car. Intently discussing the subject, the group’s conversation was interrupted as their attention went to a woman on the corner, who waited several minutes for an opportunity to cross as an endless stream of cars hissed by her and her two young children. Victoria Armstrong, director of Bike Walk Tompkins, had seen enough and, in a small gap in traffic flow, stepped out in the street, waving her arms.

T a k e ▶ A two-part series on climate change kicks off at Ithaca’s First Unitarian Society on Wednesday Nov. 1, with a second presentation the following week (Both take place at 7 p.m.) Presented by Mark Wysocki, an applied meteorological specialist at Cornell’s Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department, the talks will focus on climate change in New York.

“Do you think this intersection needs traffic control?” she shouted with a smile. The rest of the group laughed with her. It was the exact thing the group had come here to discuss. Several weeks ago during the organization’s annual celebration of the pedestrian experience, Streets Alive Ithaca, Bike Walk Tompkins demonstrated a technique called Tactical Urbanism that had been utilized throughout the nation to spur change in the way we navigate and engineer our city’s thoroughfares. A sort of mechanism of temporary engineering, the group had gone continued on page 5

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riving into the Village of Dryden from the west, it’d be forgivable for one to think they were entering a town divided. Coming down Route 13, the lawn signs that signal election season in small town America are strewn across the lawns without cohesion, rhyme or reason, one neighbor touting several signs for the town’s Democrats while, across the way and next door, you may just as well expect one of the ubiquitous green signs of Dryden’s Independence Party. Though already one of Tompkins County’s most politically polarized towns, the Town of Dryden, this year, has seen its political tensions come to a head, the two parties trading barbs in press releases and with poorly-drawn webcomics shared through social media. For the Democrats, at least, there may be fear that it could be working. As election day rolls closer, some have speculated the conservative Dryden Independence Party and its candidates have a real shot in placing some of its membership on a town board that, over the past decade, has become dominated by Democrats: a marked shift from the way things once were not just in Dryden, but the county as a whole. These tensions, statistically and philosophically, seemed to have played themselves out between the generally conservative eastern end of Dryden and the more liberal west, which over the past decade has seemed to envelop an outgrowth of political sensibility from the left-leaning City of Ithaca. “The town has really shifted over t he past few years,” said Simon St. Laurent, chair of Dryden’s Democratic Committee from 2004 to 2011, who oversaw a major gain both in Democratic registration and in representation in town government. “The Republicans have

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definitely had a harder and harder time over the years.” B et we en 2 0 0 8 – rou g h ly when the Democrats began to win seats in Dryden – and 2014, Democratic voter registration saw a significant increase in the southwestern end of the town in particular, causing a major demographic shift in a 93-square mile town that, despite its geopolitical divide between the “Ithaca side” and the “Cortland side,” elects its candidates at-large. According to figures on St. Laurent’s blog, Living In Dryden, the Democratic Party increased from 2,947 in August 2007 to 3,208 in 2014, while the Republicans in that same period actually lost membership from 2,690 to 2,414 members, approximately 200 of them seemingly defecting to the Dryden Independence Party. Then t here’s t he stor y of what’s happened in the past two years. “There’s been changes in living patterns in the area,” said Henr y Kramer, a prominent Conservative in the Town of Dryden. “It appears, at least to me, as Cornell grew and became a more liberal institution with less diversity of opinion in the faculty, they continued to move out into the area – the Ellis Hollow area in particular – which has changed the demographics of the town.” Since 2014, Democratic registration in the town has boomed, rising by more than 500 members in just two years according to numbers provided by St. Laurent, holding a slim majority in the Village of Dryden and massive majorities in Ellis Hollow, Etna and Varna . While at the same time Republican member-

ship dipped even further, losing 100 members, it still holds solid majorities in a number of areas of town, counting majorities in Malloryville/McLean, Eastern and Northern Dryden and South/Central Dryden – where the newsstands stop selling the Ithaca Journal and start carrying the Cortland Standard. (Freeville, with its strong Independence Party taking away 53 members from the Republicans, is about a toss-up.) “The division is nothing new, but as far as I know it’s never seemed as politically hopeless as it is right now,” said Mary Ann Sumner, a Democrat and the former Town Supervisor. “I like to read minutes of old board meetings – they go all the way back to about 1810 – and it was a problem even then. Not politically, they weren’t political at all back then, but it’s always seemed like two different towns: that side is Cortland, that side is Ithaca. It’s a big town.” T hei r nu mbers st rong i n some areas, the Republicans – at the mercy of a townwide Democratic majority – have expressed the sense that their opinions in town affairs have since become marginalized, whether it’s a distaste for the Democrats to listen to the other side (which Sumner said, was often discouraged as a member of the Democratic Party) to the Democrats simply seeing a mandate in the complacency of the other party, one which really began to slip in the wake of a major loss in the 2011 fracking debate that led to the Town of Dryden becoming the first in New York to pass a comprehensive frack ing ban continued on page 13

thing.” Tompkins County’s DSS has tried to push back against the directive, 15-ADM-06, but, earlier this year, lost a fair hearing versus the state in order to continue waiving costs for its clientele. The charges vary from case to case, but that’s not to say compliance has been strict: one employee of the shelter told the Ithaca Times that only two people on staff are authorized to collect t he money but, as most people who use the shelter often come at night, it’s up to the workers to enforce the regulation. Oftentimes, their conscience wins out. “A person may owe something like nine bucks, but he may only have five,” the employee said. “They’ll promise to pick up more cans the next morning or something so they can pay, but I’m not going to keep someone out over a couple dollars… it’s a real problem.” At press t i me, Tompk i ns County did not provide a dollar amount collected or the number of people who have had to pay. It ’s u n c l e a r w h e t h e r o r not t he regu lation wou ld be enforced in winter, when state law mandates all homeless individuals be provided shelter on days where t he temperature falls below freezing. This, in effect, would mean cold days would force people to pay to sleep inside whether they were willing or not which, paired with the logistics problem of housing people in the winter (The Rescue Mission, last winter, relied on St. Paul’s Church to provide space in its basement to house everybody) presents an interesting conundrum for the county. “As far as we know, we have no leeway on this at all,” said Cindy Mott, the Division Coordinator of Emergency Services for Tompkins County. “If you have income at all, we have to do this budgeting and you have to contribute to your stay.” There is potential – however slim – that Tompkins County may be able to avoid the law. According to Mott, a client of DSS is anticipating an additional fair hearing over the regulation sometime this week, which will then determine whether or not the collections continue. –Nick Reynolds

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It’s a method the group wants to put to work in improving the whole city, using its principles to give residents a voice in shaping traffic f low in their own backyards. Several months ago, the organization received a grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to begin developing a new project that they expect could, one day, be used to help re-engineer the city’s car-favoring streets in a more democratic way, where bicycles and pedestrians can navigate the pavement on equal footing as those in cars. This Blueprint for Better Bicycling, Armstrong said, will be the culmination of several months of information gathering from residents who bike and walk in the city and town each and every day, gathering as much input as possible to get an intuitive understanding of how they interact with the engineering of their neighborhoods each and every day. Last week on a map in the Southside Community Center, participants in the group’s “open house” were encouraged to put colored stickers on certain intersections in town – red, yellow and green – to visualize what areas in town were difficult to navigate for cyclists, pedestrians and even drivers. (Route 13, notably, was marked ‘red’ at every

intersection.) Beside the maps, a wall of sticky notes, where people could leave open-ended suggestions for measures that could be taken to encourage more walking and biking in town. Through this interactive data collection method, researchers with Bike Walk Tompkins will be able to bring definitive data in their findings to planning staff in order to recommend a number of fixes to the area informed directly by the neighborhood itself. Several similar neighborhood meetings are in the works, Armstrong said, and though a final plan isn’t expected to be finished until December, she says she is confident that the organization’s work could very well change the way Ithaca’s streets are designed and discussed. “We have an administration, a planning board and a Board of Public Works that are both very open to making our city more livable,” said Armstrong. “Our mayor’s behind us in all this stuff, so we need to think about how these fit all our needs – drivers have places to go too – and it’s not about us versus them, it’s about coming together to talk about solutions that nobody alone could dream of.”

people using Housing Choice Vouchers, which can put them at an even greater disadvantage to find housing than the city’s shortage already presents. Now the IURA, and the city in general, have to figure out a way to fix it. The city’s inaugural Assessment for Fair Housing (AFH) showed that while black people make up just over five percent of the city of Ithaca’s population, nearly 27 percent of the total number of people enrolled in HCV programs are black, as

well as making up more than 18 percent of the public housing population. The reason that’s particularly troubling here comes from a stat also included in the AFH report: during a March 2017 survey, 62 percent of area landlords “stated their properties do not accept HCV or other subsidies.” Since people who use HCV or public housing in some way are not a federally protected class, local governments must enact

doption can be a process fraught w it h complex emotions and cultural challenges, the normal difficulties of welcoming someone new to a family multiplied by potential language or societal barriers. The challenges are numerous and at times, presumably insurmountable. But there are people out there willing and able to help. “Family Is The Most Important Thing” shouts a poster just inside the office of the new branch of the Adoption and Foster Family Coalition of New York (AFFCNY). Talking to the staff, even briefly, shows they wholeheartedly believe that mantra. They have good reason to: they’ve lived it themselves. AFFCNY, which serves 15 counties statewide, provides services to families as they continue through life with an adoptee, a foster child or a kinship, providing everything from mental health assistance to help with behavioral problems to even conavigating difficult necessities like finding the right education or healthcare option. This specific office, located in the South Hill Business Campus by Ithaca College, handles four counties: Broome, Tompkins, Chemung and Schuyler. Their long-term goal? Like the slogan intimates: Keeping families together, facilitating a happy and healthy future for both the family and the person being brought into said family. Barring welfare or medical concerns, the AGAPE staff said one adoptive process is traumatic enough for a person to undergo. The coalition specif ically seeks to hire those who have been involved in the adoption experience in some way, whether caring for someone else or being adopted, or having gone through the public system themselves; by doing that, they can best ensure the hiree will be able to extend the necessary empathy to relate to clients. For instance, each of the five people in their office has

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to work on this intersection with paint and traffic cones to bump out the curb to improve the line of sight for pedestrians and slow down traffic to a level to a speed where it would actually be forced to yield the crosswalk to pedestrians. In short, using a hunch based on their own observations, the group was able to test out a method of improving the intersection without any significant expense. Resembling programs implemented in Denmark, New York City (most prominently, in the early days of testing Times Square as a pedestrian zone) and in Burlington, where it is employed of ten in order to test traff ic improvements before they’re invested in, Tactical Urbanism comes from a relatively young school of thought among the more progressive arm of the planning community: Either working within the realms of the law or outside it, citizens for years have been making temporary changes to the streetscape, a sort of guerilla approach to neighborhood building that utilizes short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions and policies to catalyze long term change.

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live on West Hill because of its diversity, extraordinary viewsheds and affordability. I would not live anywhere else in Ithaca, despite the problems that we have here. I want to make it clear that many people on West Hill do not share Sophie Zapala’s (The Ghettoization of West Hill) socio-economic opinions, or distress concerning diminishing car privileges on West Hill. In the hierarchy of a community’s health and well-being, pedestrian and cyclist safety must be a higher priority than a 30-second delay for a barreling invincible sheet of metal. Many of us have been asking for safe passage for years and know that with safer roads more students will be walking/ biking, reducing some of the cross-town traffic. I also want to make it clear that the city did hold meetings about the bridge design – on West Hill at LACS – over 4 years ago! Over the past 10 years, we have had multiple groups of volunteers going door-to-door in an effort to get West Hillers to join the list so they could be notified of any city/ town activity. Anyone on West Hill who didn’t know about these meetings was not paying attention. There is congestion on West Hill, but there is congestion on the other hills too, and on Route 366 and in other parts of Ithaca. The congestion on West Hill lasts about an hour in the morning, and an hour at night, and it’s exacerbated when the train suddenly appears and crosses State Street, but we all know now (those of us who were listening at the BPW meeting) that there’s nothing we can do about the train. We need to live with it. And we need to live with the reality that traffic will not change in the direction favored by West Hill’s

self-appointed traffic engineer(s). And it’s true that there are fewer cyclists and pedestrians then car drivers, but that does not mean that that minority contingent does not deserve equal rights. Traffic congestion happens to every single city whose citizens are car-dependent and whose citizens refuse to use alternative forms of transportation and/or change their habits. Anyone who drives a car is part of the problem. To minimize the problem, either fewer people must drive cars, or more people must drive their cars less, or more people must adopt other forms of transportation, eg, walk/ car share/ van share/ ride the bus/ bike. The city needs to do everything within its power to discourage use of the personal vehicle. As I stated at the recent PBW meeting: ‘Research shows that the surest way to destroy the vitality and livability of any city is to clog it with cars. I don’t believe people think about this as they get in their car to go to work, I don’t think they consider their ride through downtown as part of the problem. Everyone who drives a car is part of the problem, myself included. If we want to preserve the serenity and beauty of our city, we need to change our habits and start asking ourselves: Do I really need to drive to Wegmans? Can I walk to The Commons? To Cinemapolis? Can I bike to my meeting?” What we fix today for the car culture will be obsolete tomorrow. They only way to alleviate the car traffic is to acknowledge and nurture that the idea that cities exist for people. They don’t exist for cars.

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In study released last month, MIT researchers said Ithaca was ranked 10th among cities (out of the 380 metropolitan areas defined by the U.S. Census Bureau) least likely to experience major job losses due to automation. Using occupational data from the Department of Labor, each area’s job total was broken down by occupation into 481 subcategories, then those subcategories were analyzed for 230 workplace skills. Ithaca’s relatively high ranking is likely due to the number of professors, researchers and tech business spin-offs at Cornell and Ithaca College, as well as a population of highly-skilled professionals and creative workers. (Not to pile on Elmira, but they ranked 336th…)

hould we really take the word of Howard Wolowitz that there’s nothing to worry about? It was MIT engineers that built a robotic cheetah in 2015. This year, they created a robot that can move around in crowds of real people completely on its own using “socially aware navigation.” MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab also created a method by which robots can understand and respond to voice commands, advanced enough to understand contextual commands and references made to previously mentioned commands and objects. We’re not talking about Max Headroom or even Alexa any more, but robots than can pass for humans. Or millennials, at least. Hal-

loween’s over, but check out the following scene from a local horror story… The throng of new applicants that showed up at the Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center on a November morning filled the lobby of Center Ithaca and spilled out into the Commons itself. Though the holidays approached, this was not a festive crowd. Professor Milo Cornstarch, recently of Cornell’s Department of Comparative Literature and clutching an application for unemployment benefits, was sick and tired of being jostled. “This is quite absurd,” he muttered. “I should be teaching Mimesis and Modern Culture right now.” Dr. Sanjeev Vohra was standing right behind him. “I’ve been replaced, too! Me! I was a titan in the urologist community. Then we started getting brochures at the office. The Probemaster 9000. Bah! ‘Prostate exams as soft as a mother’s touch’. As if! There’s such a thing as bedside manner, you know.” “Tell me about it,” said Cornstarch. “A PROF put me out of my job. I was tenure track!” “PROF?” asked Vohra. “Programmable Robotic Objectivity Facilitator. Obsolescence facilitator is more like it. Oh, sure, a simple robot can teach undergraduates, even a graduate seminar. But the cursed thing published contin u ed on page 7

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Tumult In The Human Rights Office Wh at ev e n ts l e d t o a sh a k eu p i n t h e c ou n t y’s off ic e of h u m a n r igh ts | By Pat P ryor

t is with both reluctance and sadness that I feel I must write to share another viewpoint regarding the situation involving Karen Baer, Director of the Tompkins County Human Rights office, myself, and the Tompkins County Legislature. Many of you who read this will recall that, during my 22 years of living in the City of Ithaca and my many years of teaching in the Ithaca City School District, much of the focus of my work, in collaboration with a group of like-minded individuals from the community, was on improving educational outcomes for children of color and children from low income families in our community. During that time I was also fortunate to serve several years on the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission (HRC), working with Directors going back to Teddy Zimrot and wonderful colleagues, too many

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to name here, on the Commission itself. It was with many fond memories of those days that, when my term on the Legislature ended, I decided to volunteer to be on the Human Rights Commission again. When then Chair of the Commission, Leon Lawrence, left the Commission, I was elected to succeed him as Chair. Karen Baer was, at that time, Director of the Human Rights Office. To understand the conflict that eventually led to my recent resignation as Chair and as a member of the Commission, it is important to be familiar with the language of the County Charter and the Bylaws of the HRC, as adopted by the County Legislature. Both documents, taken in context, describe a relationship between the Human Rights contin u ed on page 7

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two groundbreaking scholarly articles in under an hour.” “That’s rough,” sympathized Vohra. “2001’s Hal and the Subtext of Unrequited Love and Textual Perspectives in Terminator 3,” sighed Cornstarch. “I was doomed.” Nearby, ex-Gimme! Star Nikki Wallace, only recently the darling of Ithaca’s barista crowd, climbed on a chair and said, “What about me?” Heads turned. “Latte art is, well… it’s an art. Steamed milk is my medium! It’s not just hearts and ferns. Last month I did a barfing Donald Trump on a large half caf nonfat with two percent foam.” “I saw the Facebook post,” a voice shouted. “Yeah, I thought my job was safe, too.” It was Jenna Stearns, until the previous evening the Hostess with the Mostest at Maxie’s. “My whole stinkin’ job description was ‘be cheerful’. I’d like to see some freaking machine out-cheerful me! They laid off all the bartenders last night, too. Now they have robots with vermouth atomizers. ‘Perfect martinis every time,’” she sneered. “I say we burn down a few

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Office and the Human Rights Commission as being one of what I describe as “collaboration.” For example, the County Charter (as found online at www.tompkinscountyny. gov,) describes, as part of Karen’s job, “…serves as an advisee/advisor of the volunteer Board of Human Rights Commissioners.” The Commission, among other responsibilities listed in its By-laws, directs its Chair to submit an annual report to the Legislature, not to the Director of the Human Rights Office. The Bylaws further require quarterly reports from the Director to the Commission, including a “summary of number and types of inquiries to the office during the month, new cases received by type, progress report on open cases including date of filing, a summary of any trends or important issues identified and any other information deemed important by the Commission or the Director.” During my previous service on the Commission those reports from the Director to the Commission were important in assisting Commissioners in identifying community trends and planning educational work as a Commission in addressing identified issues. Other than once when, as Chair, I pressed Karen for a report, she never, during my tenure, made a report to the Commission on the work of her office. Even that one report did not contain the information on inquiries and cases described above. As time passed it became apparent to me, notwithstanding the language above, that Karen regarded herself as the supervisor of the Commissioners in the same way that she was the supervisor of the employees of her office. In other words,

robotics labs!” Agitated murmuring began to ripple through the crowd. “Easy now, folks, we’re all in the same fix.” Svante Myrick held his benefits application over his head. A sleek new URONER 6 automated mayoral operating system was being installed on the fourth floor of City Hall that very morning. “Let’s stay calm. I’m told there are new shopping associate jobs at Wegmans.” Angry shouting drowned out the exmayor. The ax had fallen on too many heads, from McDonalds cashiers to the Dean of Microaggressions at Ithaca College. Clearly, no job was safe any more. Precisely one minute later, though, the noise abruptly stopped. Nikki stepped down from the chair. A dozen robot IPD officers had appeared as if from nowhere, their mirrored aviator glasses gleaming in the faint morning sun, and the crowd resumed its sullen, orderly shuff ling, unmistakably aware, albeit too late, that the singularity had already happened…

Charley Githler is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Surrounded By Reality, appears biweekly.

Karen was the boss and Commissioners were to do as she tells told them to do. As Chair, I came to feel that I would be angering Karen and doing something I shouldn’t do if I made any kind of independent decision. At first her disapproval was somewhat subtle, but as time went by it became more obvious. At one point Karen asked me to work on a project with one of her staff. I agreed to do so and then when I contacted the staff person by email to begin our work I was told very clearly by Karen that any contact I had with Karen’s staff must go through Karen. I reminded Karen that she had asked me to work with the person, but it made no difference. I was still to go through Karen to communicate with the staff person. I tried on numerous occasions to set a mutually agreeable time to sit down and talk about the tension that I could feel between us, but Karen was not willing to talk about it. Looking back, I realize that I should have taken literally a statement that she made to me when we first met and talked over lunch. At that time she was very new to her position and she was clearly excited as she said, “I’ve never had a Commission before!” Eventually I had to admit to myself that she was very unlikely to allow us to work out a mutually agreeable solution. T he t ippi ng poi nt c a me when I received a request from the Chair of the Legislature Committee to which the Commission reported, the Chair of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee. I was asked by the Chair of HHS for a meeting to talk about how things were going with the Commission. It is important to note that it was the practice of this particular Legislator to have similar meetings with the Chairs of the other county groups which reported to the HHS

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committee as well. There was nothing unusual about the request and I was fine with scheduling such a meeting. At the next Commission meeting, as part of the Chair’s report, I said that I had met with the Legislator who was Chair of HHS, at that person’s request, and I summarized our discussion. Looking back, I think my meeting with the HHS Chair was exactly the excuse that Karen was looking for to be publicly angry with me in front of the other members of the Commission. It obviously didn’t matter what I said to the HHS Chair. The fact that I had the meeting without going through Karen was enough. Despite my attempts to assure both Karen and the Commission that my meeting with the HHS Chair was typical and not at all out of the ordinary for this particular Legislator, there was no way I could placate Karen. As a result, the Commissioners of Color all joined in my censure. They all made it clear that the only possible ending for the incident was my resignation. At the next Commission meeting there was an attempt to hold a vote of “no confidence” in me as Chair, but when it was clear that the vote would not pass the idea was withdrawn. I continued as Chair for several months after the events described above in the optimistic hope that I could somehow work out a resolution with Karen that would allow us to put this period of conflict behind us and get back to the work of the Commission. Commissioners expressed support for having a retreat to set priorities and plan ahead. I sent out a poll to find the best date/time for the retreat and was subsequently chastised by a supporter of Karen for sending out a poll to Commissioners without polling them to find out if they were OK with me sending out a poll! When I was told that I had to take a poll of Commissioners to find out if they were agreeable to sending out a poll, that was the final straw. I am still very sad when I think about the events described above. I believed then, and continue to believe, that the County has a strong commitment to the cause of Human Rights and that its actions from here on will demonstrate that commitment. The events that are occurring right now around the current Director, Karen Baer, do not, in my opinion, represent any kind of retreat from support for Human Rights on the part of the County. Rather, if truth be told, they represent the County’s reasonable and longsuffering response to an employee whose actions over a period of time have led to the unhappy result that we’ve read about in the news. We will never be able to independently evaluate the need for the County’s actions because of Karen’s right to privacy around a personnel issue. While she can say anything she pleases to defend herself, the County is bound to keep silent on the reasons for its action. I would however, ask everyone to consider the following: The County budget for next year contains full funding for the Human Rights Office, including roll-over funding for an overtarget request by its Director, Karen Baer. This means, in effect, that the Human Rights Office will receive a greater percentage increase next year that those departments that either did not make over-target requests or did not have them approved. Does this fact sound like the action of a Legislature that is trying to diminish the importance of human rights in our community? Th e

News Quick Hits Mayor appears in ad endorsing NYS Constitutional Convention Mayor Svante Myrick is featured in an advertising spot promoting the ‘yes’ vote for a New York State Constitutional Convention. In a 30-second advertisement released Thursday, Myrick – who has long been in support of a Constitutional Convention – said that such a measure would be the most efficient means of reforming state government outside of the standard amendment process many have argued presents just as reasonable in making changes to state government. Myrick’s endorsement of the Convention aligns with the official position of the New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials, which earlier this month voted to support a “yes” vote. The advertisement was produced by an organization called the NY People’s Convention, an organization funded by New York City businessman Bill Samuels that has been advocating for a “yes” vote on the Constitutional Convention referendum voters will decide on November 7th. Reed budget vote out of step with other NY reps The Southern Tier’s Congressman, Tom Reed, was one of just two New York Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote for a federal budget that would drastically cut taxes for America’s richest citizens, critics have claimed. Reed, a member of the House Ways And Means Committee and one of New York’s nine Republican representatives in Congress, was joined only by Western New York representative Chris Collins in contributing to a 216-212 vote to approve the budget. New York’s other seven Republican representatives each voted against the measure, part of a block of 20 Republican members of the house from states with high local tax burdens who have resisted plans to eliminate or scale back income-tax deductions for state and local taxes.

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First Ward In the city’s First Ward, incumbent Cynthia Brock (D, WF) looks to protect her seat from bids by Anthony Hayton and James Lukasavage. Hayton is a newcomer, hailing from the West Village Apartment Complex and running on the Operation West Hill party line, while Lukasavage has mounted Common Council campaigns in the past and is once again running on his New Cynics party line. Brock is running for her third term on Common Council, having originally been elected in 2012. She serves on or is liaison to four committees in city government, including Planning and Economic Development Committee. She has been one of the voices on Common Council serving as an effective bridge between supporters of the rampant development Ithaca has seen and the part of the community that wishes to preserve the city’s historical roots. Lukasavage, on the other hand, has never held office but is indeed known around the city particularly for his sometimes-present gasmask he sports to protect himself from pollution in the air. He’s not shy about his unconventional beliefs either: though he shifts his exact titular preference at times, he can best be described as a pacifist anarchist who holds the family as the single most valuable entity in society and is against most governmental regulation Hayton’s focus is on his home of the West Village Apartments, one of the most troubled spots in the city and where he has seen an overflow of drug activity in the seven years since he moved in – a problem he has proposed strict regulations for. The former Marine said he’s been working for years to help the West Village community somehow, but what he feels is underrepresentation in Common Council has hamstrung his efforts. His run has been inspired by a desire to shake off that neglect: even if he doesn’t win, bringing more eyes to West Village’s plight might be a victory unto itself. Second Ward Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D, WF) is running uncontested for his third term on Common Council.

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Third Ward Alderperson Donna Fleming (D) is running uncontested for her third term on Common Council. Fourth Ward Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D) is running uncontested for his third term on Common Council. Fifth Ward Deb Mohlenoff (D) is running uncontested for her third term in one of the two Fifth Ward seats. Josephine Martell’s residency change in August threw the other Fifth Ward Common Council seat up for grabs, ensuring there would be a new face among the 10 representatives come 2018 for at least the remaining two years of Martell’s term. Three candidates are vying to be that face: Aryeal Jackson (running on the Representation Party independent line), Laura Lewis (running on the 5th Ward Neighborhood Partners independent line) and Melissa Hall (running on the Fall Creek Voice independent line). Affordable housing, though important throughout the city and county, has absolutely been the most mentioned city issue in this race – particularly considering the recent construction of the controversial 210 Hancock Street affordable housing project in the Northside neighborhood. Jackson is new to this side of the political sphere, but has been covering local politics for several different media outlets in the area for a number of years. She’s a Fall Creek resident whose campaign has been fueled by a desire to provide a more informative, transparent Common Council which would help the public stay more informed on issues that affect them directly and indirectly. Trafficbased construction, housing projects, new development can all be good, Jackson has said, but the public deserves to have an open and active line of information to remain engaged of their community’s happenings. Lewis is the one candidate with probably the most political experience of the city’s challengers this year, having served as the Chair of the Tompkins County Democratic Committee in the city’s Fifth Ward (and picking up their endorsement in September after resigning her position there). Her main

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campaign focus has been the seemingly ubiquitous problem of affordable housing, an issue she has spent years dealing with as a member of the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) Board of Directors. Lewis has emphasized her experience with that issue and the area’s politics in general, and her openness to the concerns of her constituents throughout the campaign. Hall currently works for the Tompkins County Assigned Counsel program, where she believes her work with grant writing and research will help her acclimate to the technical aspects of the job more easily. Her campaign’s tone has been more personal than the other two, routinely drawing upon her experiences as someone who has struggled to find affordable housing and feels underserved by the housing she did find. Thus, similar to Lewis, affordable housing has been her primary topic of concern. •

Legislature District 1 Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D) is running uncontested for this seat, which she has held since 2001. District 1 covers the city’s Northside, Southside and West Hill neighborhoods as well as a portion of downtown. District 2 Anna Kelles (D) is running uncontested for this seat, which she has held since 2015. District 3 Incumbent Carol Chock (D) is not seeking re-election for this district, which covers the East Hill neighborhoods of Belle Sherman and Maplewood, South Hill and Cornell University. After winning the Democratic primary, Henry Granison – a political newcomer – will be on the ballot against Carolina Osorio-Gil who, despite coming in third place on a three-way ballot, will be on the ticket running on the Working Families Party line. Granison, a Tompkins Cortland Community adjunct faculty member, onetime law school admissions counselor at Cornell

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and, in his younger days, a former staffer for House Judiciary chairman Peter Rodino has run as a Progressive Democrat and has expressed an urge to maintain county services in a creative way while taking a conservative approach to the budget. An active member of various grassroots organizations in Ithaca such as the Immigrant Rights Coalition and the Latino Civic Association, Osorio-Gil has said she wants to bridge the gap between “people and policy,” establish a living wage in Tompkins County and create more policies focused on environmental protection and creating a closer bond between Cornell University, Ithaca College and the community. District 4 Despite his opponent, Reed Steberger, dropping out of the race after allegations of rape from the candidate’s time at Cornell came to light, incumbent Rich John will still technically be challenged on the ballot: Despite predictably losing the Democratic primary, Steberger – with enough signatures already obtained to get on the ballot – will still be on the ballot next Tuesday on the Working Families Party Line. District 10 Incumbent Dooley Kiefer will not be seeking re-election. Deborah Dawson is running unopposed for this seat, which covers a majority of Cayuga Heights and South Lansing. District 11 Incumbent Peter Stein, who has represented the east side of the Town of Ithaca since 2009, will not be seeking re-election. Political newcomer Shawna Black is running unopposed for the seat. District 12 With incumbent Will Burbank declining to seek re-election, the race to represent the western and Southern ends of the Town of Ithaca will be a two-way race between activist Amanda Champion (D, WF) and independent Jennifer Karius, who is running on her own Freedom and Equity line. An Ithaca resident since 2011, Karius has worked in politics before as a health and human services advocate, as well as working on both gubernatorial and congressional campaigns. Saying she would use her perspective evolved from her work in grassroots constituency building to make the case for “operable democratic government at a time when our nation is showing unprecedented levels of stress,” Karius’ policy interests include affordable housing, supporting better wages, hiring locally, an end to discrimination in seeking job and home and making sure economic development is advanced with community needs in mind. An organizer of the Ithaca Women’s

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March as well as a freelance writer, Champion’s primary focuses are on women’s rights and equality, addressing decreasing resources for affordable childcare and supporting policies to help combat climate change. She has lived in the district for 14 years, and has lived in both EcoVillage and now, in an energy efficient green home on West Hill. Contested Races Of Note Legislature District 5 Vying for the town of Ulysses and Enfield, this race will pit Keith Hannon, a member of the conservative Independence Party in name only (he identifies as a progressive independent) and Anne Koreman against each other in the race for longtime legislator Jim Dennis’ seat after he dropped out of the race in late Spring. An outreach coordinator for the Boyce Thompson Institute, Hannon has pledged to bring a progressive voice to the table of the county legislature and has expressed interest in greater oversight of the county’s Industrial Development Agency, increased government transparency and a living wage, encouraging increased use of local labor along the way. Koreman, a Democrat and environmental activist, has declared a push for living wage jobs and affordable housing while fighting for social justice and promoting the use of renewable energy. If elected, she has said she will be advocating for a moratorium on new gas infrastructure with exceptions for some business and industries, an approach that has earned the endorsement of figures like Fossil Free Tompkins’ Sara Hess, Ithaca Town Supervisor Bill Goodman and a number of local unions. (Hannon, meanwhile, has received several significant endorsements of his own, including that of the man he intends to replace.) Legislature District 6 The race for most of the Town of Lansing will pit incumbent Mike Sigler (R) against the progressive Michael Koplinka-Loehr, the former chair of the Tompkins County Legislature representing the Town of Ithaca. Sigler, one of the few Republicans on the Legislature, has served two disconnected

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four-year terms so far; winning in 2006, losing in 2010 and then, winning back his seat in 2014. Sigler has touted his transparency while in office, and also carries a fairly downthe-middle voting record, having voted to retain the Affordable Care Act and shown at least tepid interest in proposed safe injection sites in Ithaca and Tompkins County. He’s also bucked hardline environmentalists and fought hard to preserve and convert the Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing to natural gas, organizing petitions aimed at Governor Andrew Cuomo. His opponent, Koplinka-Loehr, has been pulled back into politics after a few years out. He served 12 years on the Legislature previously, then followed that with a stint on the Lansing Town Board. Koplinka-Loehr has banked his campaign on two primary goals: creative fundraising and long-term strategies with attainable short-term goals for the County to focus on achieving. He’s stated support for agencies like Tompkins County Area Development in their efforts to cultivate and incubate local businesses to foster more stable homegrown economic growth. Legislature District 14 The race for District 14, which covers parts of the Town of Dryden, pits Nathan Busby, a Conservative whose campaigning has so far been minimal, against incumbent Mike Lane (D), who also currently serves as the Chair of the Tompkins County Legislature. Lane was elected to the Legislature in 1993 and is seeking his sixth reelection victory. He has been Chair since 2014. Lane said in a year in which a certain amount of upheaval is guaranteed on the Legislature, particularly with so many current Legislators declining to seek re-election, his experience will come in handy during the transitional times. His platform includes continuing sustainable economic development as a method of easing hefty taxes on Tompkins citizens, improving transportation options county-wide and monitoring solar energy proposals that affect Dryden. Busby, on the other hand, is a bit of a wild card. He hasn’t been heard from much since he kicked off his campaign, but has stated

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Ballot Proposals S tat e P ropo s i t i on 1 – Constitutional Convention The ballot question that has received most of the attention this election year, Proposition 1 – which comes up for a vote every 20 years – will be the first question asked of voters on the back of the ballot this year. (So make sure you flip it over!) This question in particular asks of voters whether or not to open up all provisions of the state constitution for improvement, modification or even deletion, setting in motion a long, drawn-out process to elect regional delegates and send them to Albany in 2018 to edit the document. The 13th such vote in the state’s history, New York’s constitution has not been modified since 1894 and the voters have not chosen to modify it since 1967, the third convention held in the 20th Century. That year, the objective of the 186 delegates was to eliminate obsolete, confusing provisions and unnecessary details from the document, which is about seven times longer than the United States Constitution. Despite putting together a new constitution to present to the voters, New Yorkers ultimately rejected the document which bundled a number of controversial measures – including proposals allowing the legislature to incur debt without referendum – with reforms such as a state takeover of the court system and an expansions of rights for individual citizens.

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If You Vote Yes: A “yes” vote on the Constitutional Convention would immediately set off a race to elect delegates to represent your region at the session. Each state senate district (Ithaca’s district – the 58th – includes Elmira, Corning, Watkins Glen, Penn Yan and Hornell) will elect three delegates while 15 delegates to the convention will be elected statewide, totalling 204 representatives in all. Anyone – including state legislators – can run for the position, which pays $79,500 and historically, has included everyone from elected officials to farmers and judges. After election day on Nov. 6, 2018, these delegates will convene the following April to begin the process of revising the constitution that will go before the voters for final approval on election day, 2019. Critics against the “yes” vote have argued that the process is susceptible to influence from special interest groups, will be expensive and fail to serve its intended purpose as the “citizen’s union” proponents of the vote have argued it will be. They say that it will primarily be the wealthy and well-known – not the everyman – winning a majority of the state’s delegate races and likely, coming to the table with an agenda that may make the constitution worse, rather than better. Advocates, meanwhile, say they believe enough New Yorkers will engage in the process that any measure proposed would be vetted thoroughly by the voters: a proposal for delegate selection written by the New York City Bar Association – to improve access – recommended the signature gathering process to get on the ballot should be eased in order to encourage greater participation. If You Vote No: Nothing happens, and we will be left alone until 2037 when the Constitutional Convention comes up for a vote. Until that time, the New York State Constitution can only be modified significantly through the standard amendment process, which takes legislation recommended and ratified by both the New York State Senate and the Assembly and poses it for approval by the voters. This process takes up to two years and between New York State’s conventions in 1894 and 1967, was used 169 times to propose amendments to voters. In its history, the 20 various articles in the state constitution have been amended more than 200 times. S tat e P ropo s i t ion 2 – Forfeiture Of Legislator Pensions Borne of the corruption scandals that forced legislators like Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver out of office, the New York Assembly, under pressure to implement immediate ethics reform, rolled out a proposition in June 2016 to strip any legislator accused of a felony of the pension they’d receive for their service.

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This amendment calls for pension benefits to be withheld from public officers hired before 2011 convicted of felonies directly related to their public duties, though a judge may rule that a portion of forfeited benefits should be paid to the official’s dependents if deemed appropriate. The previous February, the State Senate passed its own version of the amendment that applies to all public officers, including elected officials, direct gubernatorial appointees, municipal managers, department heads, chief fiscal officers and policy-makers. Some have argued that the proposal doesn’t go far enough: Under the legislation as written, individuals like the guards who helped aid a prison escape at Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015 would still be able to cash in

on their pensions and, as an editorial in the Schenectady Daily Gazette observes, the language of the law as written will likely make it difficult to strip someone of their pension (it’s more difficult to prove someone’s illicit activities were actually tied to their public duties than you might think) and, under the law, a convicted public official would be eligible for a refund of personal contributions he or she made to their pension. And that’s even if they lose it at all: proven financial hardships created by the loss of their pension could mean one’s pension may not be forfeited at all. If You Vote Yes: The provision would be enacted immediately and, if a legislator is convicted, their case would then be subject to review by state officials to determine whether

or not their pension should be revoked. If You Vote No: You lose out on immediate ethics reform until the next amendment can be introduced, likely in 2019. Whether or not legislators revisit similar legislation in its next session is up in the air but conceivable. S tat e P r op o s i t ion 3 – Adirondack Forest Preserve Under the Forever Wild clause of the New York State Constitution, land in the Adirondacks “shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.” However, the law also explicitly states that these provisions should not obstruct the construction of

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highways… assuming of course, the entire state votes for it as an amendment to the state constitution. Proposition 3 proposes the creation of a 250 acre “savings account” of land to be used by various municipalities in the park to draw from in order to complete highway projects, repair bridges, install important infrastructure or widen roads it otherwise would not be able to under the state constitution. If You Vote Yes: Proposals such as this one are fairly commonplace – reading the Forever Wild clause, you will see highly specific mentions of road projects in places like Glens Falls to ski trails on Whiteface Mountain – but under Proposition 3, a number of small towns in the Adirondacks will have more flexibility with their projects and will not have to wait two years after approval of a project to make it happen. If You Vote No: Expect to see another obscure proposal like this – or several such proposals – on the back of the ballot in 2019. City Proposition 1 – City Committee Reform The only city-centric proposition on the back of the ballot, voters in the City of Ithaca will have the opportunity to approve a restructuring of the city’s numerous advisory committees into four easier to manage groups to help advise legislation in the city’s voting boards, such as the Board of Public Works, the Planning and Economic Development Committee, the Citizen Administration Committee and Common Council. If approved, these umbrella commissions would eliminate 11 of the city’s 29 current committees, redistributing the focuses and responsibilities of the remaining groups to the umbrella commissions. While considered to be the optimal choice to improve communication within the already-stressed state of City Hall, some members of smaller committees like the Shade Tree Advisory Committee have feared its voice and expertise would be overshadowed in the larger, more generalized commissions, and have said there could be room to improve the measure as written. They argue inactive committees or those with difficulty filling their appointment slots should be absorbed into these other blanket commissions while the more active ones, like STAC, be allowed to maintain their independence. If You Vote Yes: The above action will take effect on January 1 and the committees will take on a revised meeting timetable. The commissions will include Public Safety and Information, Community and Quality of Life, Mobility and Transportation and Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources, each of which will likely follow a meeting template already written by the city’s study group. Each commission will have seven voting commissioners and two Common Council liaisons. If You Vote No: A committee restructuring has been a topic of discussion in City Hall for years, and a new effort to redraft the plan would likely begin immediately with an undetermined timetable for a vote•

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experience with the adoptive process, either as a guardian or otherwise. The Coalition just opened its new Ithaca branch in mid-September, before which the staff members were having to travel north from their office in Binghamton, often to Tompkins County where many of their client families live. The program itself is called Adoption and Guardianship Assistance Program for Everyone (AGAPE) Southern TierFinger Lakes, funded by a five year grant from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Susan Rausch, a Family Support Specialist at the Ithaca office, said when she was raising her adopted child, now aged 19, options that actually helped her effectively during her “I felt pretty judged and there was nothing out there,” she said. “There was no one there to help.” struggles were few and far between. “I felt pretty judged and there was nothing out there,” she said. “There was no one there to help, then when you do ask for help, it’s stuff that doesn’t work [...] What we’re teaching now is, to me, amazing. I know it works, I see it working and I look back and think ‘I wish I had it back then.’” Along with providing services on their own, AFFCNY aims to create a network of families who are going through the adoption, foster care or kinship care experience (kinship care is when a family member or friend takes care of a child because a parent is unable). To do that they organize events called Family Fun Days, one of which will be held at Atlas Bowl in Trumansburg on Nov. 4 from 12-4 p.m. Events like these are meant to fight some of the common obstacles adoptive families face, one of the more pervasive of which is isolation. The coalition can be there much of the time – but the more sustainable solution is to find the web of support that works best, and is most comfortable, for the family. “Just having that support from another parent who lives it every day,” said Renee Hettich, the AGAPE Southern Tier-Finger Lakes Director who is also the mother of four internationally adopted children. “Not only is this team able to do that professionally, but having that other network beyond a professional team.” Hettich mentions that the isolation is not limited to parents; it can affect children just as much. Only 10 percent of the population is adopted; when her children walked into school, Hettich said, they might find only one other student who can share their experience. “They think ‘Oh, there aren’t any other families that look like my family,” Blair said. “And the children feel that too, when they go to school or go out and about, so we want to provide communities for those families.” –M att Butler

own laws to protect them from discrimination, something Ithaca and Tompkins County have not yet done. Comparatively, white people make up 70 percent of the city’s population, but are actually underrepresented in public housing and among HCV users, with 65 percent and 62 percent, respectively. Data collected for Tompkins County as a whole shows the same patterns hold true. People with disabilities are also much more likely to be part of a publicly supported housing program, with that population making up over 28 percent of the HCV, the report states. Maps provided by HUD, to help with analysis, confirm some of the claims that poor people are being squeezed out of the city limits due to the rising cost of living. IURA Director Nels Bohn and IURA Community Development Planner Anisa Mendizabal call it “The Donut,” where Ithaca proper shows very low HCV usage while the surrounding Tompkins County contains much more. The AFH provides those stats and others, serving as a general analysis of the housing market here as a whole and an examination of any unfair practices that may have festered over time. Bohn and Mendizabal, who was most deeply involved in the assessment, will both present the study to Common Council on Wednesday night for final approval before sending it off to the federal government for review. The study is required by the federal Housing and Urban Development agency in order to remain eligible for certain grants. In order to address some of the yielded six proposed future goals, which are also required by HUD, that would at least attempt to address the primary housing difficulties faced in the area. Some are obvious – are you aware Ithaca needs more affordable housing? – but others address problems not as widely known. The goals are: prohibit discrimination based on source of income discrimination through legislation, increase supply and access to affordable housing options, establish local authority and mechanisms for enforcement of fair housing law, prevent displacement in neighborhoods where there is such a trend (commonly referred to as gentrification), address the need for a Language Assistance Plan for limited English speakers (which contributes to a lack of opportunity), address policies and practices that result in a lack of housing support, including loss of housing, for victims of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse and include an Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing-directed goal with the 2018-2023 Consolidated Plan. The analysis included the IURA’s jurisdiction, considered the City of Ithaca, as well as their “region,” defined as Tompkins County (though, Bohn acknowledged, the IURA’s actual ability to affect change. Some of those are long-term plans, with metrics or timelines that aren’t listed until four or five years down the road, but it appears source of income protections may be closer to fruition: after gathering input and best practices from “at least three communities with similar characteristics,” the AFH report calls for the introduction of legislation within 12 months and approval of a law within the next

two years. The Tompkins County Legislature has already begun to look into how a source of income protection (SOIP) law could be implemented; Legislator Anna Kelles, who leads the Health and Human Services Committee where the law sits now, said the bill will be researched for a few more months before they move forward with officially introducing

it and discussion. Whether the SOIP laws in both the county and city are approved and implemented is one process; actually enforcing them would be very different, though the IURA included a three year benchmark to institute a “meaningful” enforcement authority and process.

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Dealing With An Eating Disorder By Nick Re y nol d s

eople tend to have a preconception of the type of person prone to an eating disorder. It’s an image conditioned by popular discussion of the mental illness, the type of person we always picture suffering from an eating disorder – white, upper middle class, young and female – created by the depiction of disorders like anorexia and bulimia in popular culture. In reality, it’s an issue that affects more people from a litany of backgrounds, oftentimes in more unique ways than many might think. According to a 2007 study published in the journal, Biological Psychiatry, it was found that 0.9 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men had dealt with anorexia during their life, 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men had bulimia during their life, and 3.5 percent of women and 2.0 percent of men had binge eating disorder during their life. And that’s just one study: A 2007 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that up to one-third of all eating disorder sufferers are male, a statistic that may surprise those raised on the perception of men as burgerpounding machines – the idea of masculinity tied directly to food itself. Even those suffering from an eating disorder, it turns out, may not realize their pursuit of what they see as a societal expectation of self image is, in fact, a mentally unhealthy practice. Enter orga ni z at ions l i ke Ci rcle for Healthy Eating and Wellness, better known locally as CHEW.

Founded in May 2015, CHEW – a sort of anonymous group for those dealing with eating disorders diagnosed or not – has filled a void in the mental health community for those who either may not have been diagnosed with a mental illness tied to their eating or simply, have noticed patterns in t hei r ow n behaviors that may be compulsive that they wish to cope with. Working through a f le x i ble , open-conversation format, the biweekly group looks to build common ground with people dealing with a litany of eating disorders, working to help people build self-confidence and understanding of themselves and their disorders, whether it’s discussion of their anxieties and concerns, navigating the healthcare system or even their own perceptions of sexuality and self

image perpetuated through messaging in the media. This format, Amy – one of the group’s facilitators (she chose not to give her last name, in the anonymous spirit of the group) – allows more freedom to give the group a sort of adjunct role in the treatment process: recognizing that eating disorders, oftentimes, are more biologically programmed than they are conditioned behavior. “I would fight against the perception that it’s just a behavioral approach, because it’s based on some physiology,” she said. “For example, eating disorders have a really close association with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, so there it gets really complicated.” According to t he National Eating Disorder Association, several decades of genet ic research show a nu mber of biological factors play a significant role in who develops an eating disorder, based on their susceptibilit y to conditions like a n x iet y or obsessive compulsive disorder. These disorders, proponents say, are often exacerbated by the media’s own advertised ideals for the perfect body, what’s masculine, what’s feminine… what’s expected.

Because this is a trend that has occurred in the age of mass media to an even greater degree than any generation, experts are beginning to notice an increase in middle aged people suffering from eating disorders, partly attributable to their growing up raised by the television set or otherwise. The inputs for eating disorders – mass media – have essentially been in effect for 30 to 40 years now, the societal expectations they perpetuated unchanged as generations of men and women grew into middle age. While there are resources to deal with eating disorders, including an outpatient facility in Elmira, a number of resources are lacking. In Tompkins County, there are occasional therapist-led sessions to help those suffering with eating disorders to cope and improve and, through the Tompkins County Department of Mental Health, people can receive diagnoses and treatment plans, either through medication or other types of therapy. But as far as support groups and other free supports, CHEW is unique, enough so that the group counts a member from as far away as Horseheads as a user of the program. Part of the reason, Lisa – another facilitator of the program – said, is not just because of the fact it’s free or it’s one of the few places one can discuss this highly specific topic, but the fact its approach is distinctive: it allows its members to find common ground in their discussions, allowing them to find ways to navigate and take ownership of their own treatment. “I think resources have been sort of limited here,” Lisa said. “I’ve kind of done it all, from early diagnosis to private workshops led by therapists to being affiliated with the nutrition clinic in Elmira... but I feel like CHEW is the most cutting edge – I feel I can bring all of me to the meeting and discuss everything I’ve tried in the past as far as treatment modalities.”

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– accomplished under a Democratic majority. This, many feel, was the turning point. However, the sentiment of an emboldened Democratic Party actually began to rise several years earlier: When Sumner was first running for town board in 2005, it wasn’t exactly smart to say the word “Democrat” out loud, she said, tip-toeing around it with lawn signs featuring catchphrases like “Representing All Of Dryden.” Two years later, the party was marching in the 2007 Dairy Day Parade, proudly proclaiming the fact they were, in fact, Democrats. “We were emboldened,” Sumner said. “I

dates have expressed a sense of disenfranchisement taking hold in the town that has since, resulted in a whiplash of popular opinion. The Independence Party, emboldened by an ideological split on a recent over-market price purchase of a parcel of land on Pinckney Road (3-1 against in the east, 2-1 for in the west), the Dryden solar debate (which has netted the conservatives the liberal Joe Osmeloski as a candidate on their line) and a general polarization in opinion nationwide (for Town Supervisor candidate Bruno Schickel, a dyedin-the-wool conservative, his support of Donald Trump and Tom Reed – two highly unpopular figures in liberal Tompkins County – has become a campaign issue), sees an opening this election year to take on Ithaca’s political monoculture and gain back some of the influence it had lost over the past decade. “We don’t have a broad base of represen-

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was elected to the board that year, elected supervisor two years later and so it goes. I think it was a surprise to Republicans that we were so successful rather suddenly, and though we were pretty moderate, I think, I think it both frightened them that they were out of power but also emboldened and encouraged by the fact we took them so seriously.” “We never wanted to encourage them to be such pains of asses, though,” she jokes. There is a sensibility in the local Democratic Party and the outgrowth of Ithaca liberalism, Sumner hints, that could be holding back any potential for real political unity in the town. She recalled one dinner she once had with Tompkins County Democratic Chair Irene Stein, who once said to her “You’re a lousy politician, but a great supervisor,” in reference to Sumner’s management style on the board. “It really bothered them that I even paid attention to the Republicans, even tried to engage them in conversation,” Sumner said. “That really annoyed the Dems. I really didn’t understand what people meant about politicians being ‘too political,’ because I’m really not that way.” Because of this sense, some of the candi-

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recall a conversation I had with my then 12-year-old daughter back in 2004, when she was a competitive gymnast. She said to me, “I didn’t like those judges. I thought they scored us too low on the beam.” I replied, “Join the track team. Judges are irrelevant… if you hit the finish line first, you win.” I realize now that while runners do not have to deal with judges, there are some variables at play. Just because an athlete might run a sub-5 minute mile on a flat and grassy course one week, he or she might show up the next week, find the course is comprised of gravelly hills, and run far slower. The Ithaca Bombers women’s cross country team went into last weekend’s Liberty League championship looking to win the conference title in their first year in the league, and they had good reason to be confident. The Bombers have won the Empire 8 championship 14 years running, and they liked their chances to extend that streak. “We compete against the Liberty League teams all year,” said head coach Erin Dinan, “and we saw some of them while we were in the Empire 8 as well, so we knew what the competition would be like.”

Erin has been with the Bombers for 12 years (after running for “the other team” at SUNY Cortland) and has headed up the program for the past 6 years. I asked her if the times put up by runners were clear predictors of who would win, and she replied, “Actually, some athletes have had some little you just cannot teach that. She has another tweaks here and there, and the conference year of eligibility, but she will be moving meet was the first time we all competed on the her ‘real life.’ Taryn is also a Park together.” She added, “They were geared up Scholar with a 4.0 GPA, and that’s a big deal and ready to race and it paid off.” here at Ithaca College. She has really come The Bombers were led once again by into her own.” senior Taryn Cordani, the defending Empire *** 8 individual champion. Taryn won her I went to watch a Section IV football playsecond straight title with a time of 21:26.1, off game on Friday night at Union-Endicott, hitting the tape a full minute ahead ofGeorgia@ithacatimes.com the and a longtime coach from 607-277-7000 x220 another playoff runner-up. That runner-up was teammate team asked me if U-E’s alum David Archer’s Newspaper: Sierra Grazia – also a senior –who ran a team had any chance against Princeton on 22:27.0. Classmate Denise Ibarra was fourth Saturday. He said, “I recall that last year overall with a time of 23:03.9, landing all Princeton came into Schoellkopf Stadium three runners on the Liberty League first- and gave Cornell a humiliating 56-7 beatteam. down.” I told him that this year’s version of Of Cordani, coach Dinan said, “Taryn the Big Red was a lot better, and we left it at was not a cross country runner in high that. school. She came here running just under It is now November, and local football 5 minutes in the 1,500, and after a year she fans are able to say three things they have dropped that to 4:33. That girl has a lot of not often said this late in the season in heart – she can take it to the next level – and recent years: Cornell has taken out two big

Ta ry n C o r d a n i Ivy League opponents, they sit atop the Ivy League standings and there is talk of a conference title. Princeton had been keeping up its lofty scoring pace, and had scored 50-plus points in three straight contests. The Big Red trailed 21-10 at halftime, erased a 12 point deficit in the fourth quarter and won 29-28 on sophomore Nikolas Null’s 43 yard field Client: goal with 48 seconds left to play. I traveled with the team many years ago, and you can believe me when I tell you the bus ride home from Princeton feels a lot shorter after a win. This year’s team has already eclipsed last season’s conference win total, and will close its season with three Iv y contests (Dartmouth, Columbia and Penn) with the Columbia game being played at home on November 11th.

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fantastic festival comes to Ithaca, a festival so fantastic it warrants its own genre. Now in its sixth-consecutive year, the Ithaca Fantastik festival of film, art and music will take over Cinemapolis and parts of Downtown Ithaca from Friday, Nov. 3 to Sunday, Nov. 12. Beginning with Tragedy Girls and ending with A Day — an American film about serial-killer cheerleaders and a South Korean picture about a father skipping his daughter’s birthday, respectively — the festival will honor films from all over the world, both retro and brand new. Taking place over 10 days — the longest IF festival in its history — the festival has grown from its original span of only three days. With the ever-evolving industry and support from the Ithaca community, IF has blossomed into the international festival it is today, reaching diverse filmmakers from South Korea, Australia and parts of Europe. This year IF will also feature an art exhibition at Angry Mom Records, performances hosted by Ithaca Underground and more. “This year we’re focusing working more with Ithaca College and with the community,” said Art Show Coordinator Andrew Summers. “Ultimately, the point of this festival is to provide something that wasn’t available in Ithaca before that will hopefully have interest to a wide variety of people.”

A Look at ‘Fantastic’ “Fantastic” films exist as a cross between magic realism and horror: films with a seemingly normal plot, and then the viewer is hit with a fantasy-like twist. The supernatural find a way to get involved with fantastic media. The term is derived from the French word fantastique, which combines horror, sci-fi and fantasy. The fantastic genre was explored in literature far before ci nema wa s e ven i nvented . Roots of fa nta st ic c a n be found as early as the Middle Ages — if not sooner — with old myths from r e l i g i on i n Celtic

and French cultures translated into folklore. In cinema, fantastic f ilms garnered popularity in 20th century Europe and most notably, in Fra nce, where the genre maintained some of its roots. But the genre wasn’t and still isn’t trapped in Europe: fantastic films have been made in Australia, Asia and North America. Born out of literature and storytelling, fantastic cinema has also become a vehicle for social commentary. When working with the supernatural, writers and filmmakers have a greater opportunity to play with metaphors, and elements of fantasy give them more flexibility in shaping narratives. Founder of IF Hugues Barbier said fantastic films often play outside of the realm of “white male” horror tropes and stereotypes. When directors aren’t given boundaries, they can experiment with storytelling that brings light to overlooked subjects and voices. Fantastic, as a whole, breaks away from the mainstream path of horror movies. “The metaphorical way of explaining social construct is higher, and a lot factors into it,” Barbier said. “And it gives more possibilities to that director.” Barbier also sa id none of t he films screened at the festival will be demea ning toward a ny r a c e , sex, gender ethnicity or otherwise: films that displayed these qualities were not accepted for screening. He pointed out t h a t m a ny f i l m s throughout cinema histor y have appropriated sexual assault as something empowering, not traumatic. “We try to — well, we don’t try to, we just don’t — program these films,” he said. “ … For that specific trope, you depict rape revenge as a specific way for a woman to be empowered, meaning a woman can’t be empowered without being

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raped. … We fight against this in Ithaca, and ha lf our programmers are women and so are our juries. We try to shift the genre away from this trend.”

Both photos depict fantastic films and some of the characters involved in the movies. (Art: Steve Ellis).

As a part of the festival, IF will be paying homage to Italiano Psichedeliko films. These are Italian films created in the late ’60s that combine both fantasy with psychedelic and trippy vibes. Italiano Psichedeliko is sandwiched between NeoRealism (Agatha Christie–type mysteries) and Giallos (slashertype stories), which means many of the films have been forgotten over time — but IF hasn’t forgotten. To further honor Italiano Psichedeliko, IF will host a remastered screening of the classic Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento, in honor of its 40th anniversary.

History of Ithaca Fantastik A slice of Europe came to Ithaca in 2012. Barbier grew up in France, constantly watching fantastic films. His passion always circled back to films, but his love for plant biology led Th e

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him down a different career pat h . W h i le he s t ud ie d the sciences, Barbier still couldn’t escape films, so he programmed for the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival: something he got involved with after being a fan. The move to Ithaca came naturally, but not for the films. Since Barbier is a plant biologist by trade, he event u a l ly m a d e h i s w ay to Ithaca to be a researcher at Cornell University. But once he got to the States, he noticed a lack of fantastic cinema. The films were there, but they weren’t showing at mainstream theaters, nor were many being shown at local cinemas. Additionally, the funding for the arts in the U.S. is much harder to procure than in Europe. This is largely the reason why America is so far behind on theater and films that stray from the traditiona l Hol ly wood mold. After programming for Strasbourg, Barbier was ready for the challenge of American cinema. “You have in It haca possibi l it ies for f u nding t hat are ver y close to t he ones we have in Europe,” he said. “So it was a combination of me understanding the movies and me understanding the budget behind how to produce it.”

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This Year’s Festival Forty movies will be screened during Ithaca Fantastik, and all films that aren’t part of the retrospective series are premiers in New York State. Many of the filmmakers from different parts of the world will travel to Ithaca in order to participate in Q&As with the directors and experience fantastic cinema. Here’s a look at what’s going on: Friday, Nov. 3: Screenings of Tragedy Girls and Mon Mon Mon Monsters. An afterparty at 10:30 p.m. at Silky Jones will also be held. Cornell Cinema will host the Philip Glass Ensemble for Koyaanisqatsi Live! The Cherry Artspace will host Ithaca Crankie Cabaret. Saturday, Nov. 4: Screenings of Inflame, Love and Saucers, Jailbreak, Friendly Beast, I Remember You, Vampyr Vidar, Bravestorm and a collection of shorts. The Cherry Artspace will host Ithaca Crankie Cabaret. Sunday, Nov 5: Screenings of Hagazussa, Top Knot Detective, November, My Friend Dahmer and Let The Corpses Tan. Monday, Nov. 6: Screenings of Blow Up and Deadly Sweet. Tuesday, Nov. 7: Screenings of Danger: Diabolik and Baba Yaga. Wednesday, Nov. 8: Screenings of Autopsy and Le Orme. Thursday, Nov. 9: Art show opening for The Strange Colors of Gilles Vranckx at Angry Mom Records, screening of Suspiria and an afterparty at Silky Jones. Ithaca Underground will host Shilpa Ray, A Deer A Horse, Pleistocene and Anamon at Sacred Root Kava Bar and Tea Lounge. Friday, Nov. 10: Screenings of Snowflake, Kaleidoscope and Zombiology. There will also be a live-scored production of The Blood of a Poet. Ithaca Underground will host Zenizen, Pruven, WRISTS, Misses Sick07 and Keanu Stryker at Sacred Root Kava Bar and Tea Lounge. Saturday, Nov. 11: Screenings of Sequence Break, Pin Cushion, Les Affamés, Death Line, Samurai Rauni and Deathdream. All entries for the 48-hour film competition will be screened at The Studio. Ithaca Underground will host Teen Suicide, Guerilla Toss, Zula, Radiation Risks and Erik Johnson at Sacred Root Kava Bar and Tea Lounge. Sunday, Nov. 12: Screenings of The Endless, Freddy/Eddy, Lowlife and A Day. The festival ends with an afterparty at The Range. For a full list of events, times and locations, visit ithacafilmfestival.com.

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And so IF became an annual festival in 2012. Since then, the event has expanded into one-night-only screenings throughout the year, art exhibitions, concerts, live-scored screenings, Q&As with directors and more. This year will also see a larger involvement with the Ithaca community. Summers said most of the jury will be made up of locals, and Ithaca College students will also be taking on many roles as both volunteers and filmmakers. The college’s professional cinema society, DKA, have been primary volunteers throughout this year’s festivities. “What we’re trying to do is bring back the old-school, theatrical sort of experi said. “When you go to ence,” Summers somewhere like Regal, people are on their phones, they’re talking. The picture might be blurry. There’s no way to distinguish the screenings, no different trailers — anything like that. So that’s what we’re trying to bring to people: a reverence for cinema.” •

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Rockin’ Solo Jams

David Crosby to perform at the State Theatre By L oui se Broa ch

avid Crosby has his groove back. With a new album and a new tour that brings him and his band (no, not THAT band) to the State Theatre Nov. 8, it’s clear that the iconic musician and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who has defied the odds most of his life keeps showing he is one of the most resilient artists in the industry. The Sept. 29 release of SkyTrails prompted a USA Today writer to proclaim that Crosby, at 76, “may be just warming up as a solo artist.” It is Crosby’s third album of original material in four years, all largely influenced by his son, James Raymond: the keyboard player in his band, “Sky Trails’” producer and the co-writer on four of its songs. The effort also includes cuts co-written with singer/songwriters Becca Stevens and Michael McDonald and a cover – the only one on the album – of Joni Mitchell’s “Amelia.” Crosby has called her, his longtime friend, one of the greatest writers he’s ever known. The already critically-acclaimed “Sky Trails” is not as acoustic as his other two

recent albums, “Lighthouse” and “Croz.” In a telephone interview from his home near Santa Barbara in early October, Crosby said he was going for more of a full band sound that keeps him happily diverse: When he decided to end his musical relationship with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and, sometimes, Neil Young a few years ago, Crosby said it was because he felt stifled and stymied. “Two things,” he said about what enabled him to discover that step in his groove again.” The first was getting out of CSN. I still like those guys, but it was a big release getting out.” The second thing was finding himself new collaborators who inspired him, including Snarky Puppy bassist Michael League. Crosby found the band while “wandering around YouTube, looking for new music I had not heard yet.” He described the band as “fine players having a blast playing intelligent, beautifully written compositions that swung hard.” Raymond has also been a huge influence. Crosby spoke eagerly and lovingly about

Raymond, a son he didn’t even knew he in the music, Crosby has another reason for had until the late 1990s, when Raymond, a embarking on a fairly rigorous tour for a musician in his own right in his 30s, found man in his mid-70s. his father. Raymond had been given up for “I have a mortgage to pay and a family to adoption by his mother when he was an support,” he said. infant. One of Crosby’s greatest sources of “He is brilliant,” Crosby said. “He is a anger is that he sees no income from live terrific writer and he’s been an unbelievable streaming music, which has cut seriously joy in my life. into record sales. They pay him “nothing, The relationship with Raymond and his zero.” he said. He has accused Pandora, family, as well as with his other children Spotify and YouTube of ripping off his art. and grandchildren and with Jan Dance, He says he keeps recording, even though who he married in 1987, have been crucial there is no money in recording anymore, to his recovery from his demons, Crosby because he loves it. It’s his life, his art and said. he’s compelled to write songs. He credits longtime friend Crosby also loves to perform, and former CSN keyboard player to be on stage singing and playMike Finnigan for helping to get ing guitar and interacting with him clean and staying that way. his audiences. Crosby said Finnigan, now with He sees music as a “mitzthree decades of sobriety himself, vah, a kindness, a way to lift was his “first and only” Alcoholpeople up. Just as war brings ics Anonymous sponsor. Finni- Crosby’s new album down the human race, drags gan’s wife, Candy, is an addictions (Photo provided) the human race downward and counselor on TLC’s emmy-award brings out the very worst in the winning show, Intervention. human race, just so does music Finnigan acknowledged that Crosby has lift the human race and make it better.” It’s been through it all and come out OK on the also why he’s become so keen on his Faceother side. When asked to suggest ques- book and Twitter accounts. He “tweets” tions for this Crosby interview, Finnigan frequently – favorite topics are new musical was candid. “Hell, I don’t know; anything artists and politics. He will answer queshe says is going to be interesting. He’s com- tions from friends and fans. pletely out of f**ks to give.” Twitter also gives him a place to vent Crosby roared with laughter when that his frustrations with the current condition was repeated to him. of this country’s government, which he Besides loving the limelight and con- worries about. “We have a Congress that is tinuing to cherish the moments he’s on bought and paid for and a president who is stage and by his own admission, getting lost an idiot,” Crosby said. •

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Looking back on two classic Batman movies By Br yan VanC ampe n Batman vs. Two-Face, directed by Rick Morales; Batman and Harley Quinn, directed by Sam Liu; both available on home video.

ob Kane and Bill Finger created Batman in 1939 and in the decades since, a lot of actors have stepped up to play the Caped Crusader. But if you really add up the hours, no one’s played Batman more than Adam West in

the iconic ’60s TV series and Kevin Conroy, who’s played the character in many animated versions since 1992. There’s something bittersweet in the fact that in two animated features released this year, both West and Conroy lend their unique vocal interpretations voices to the character, even more so given Adam West’s death from leukemia earlier this year. Batman vs. Two-Face will have to serve as West’s Bat-epitaph, and it’s somehow right that it be his last role. What we have here is a sequel to last year’s Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, and both films are written and animated in the style of the ’66 series. West, Burt Ward as Robin and Julie Newmar as Catwoman reprise their roles.

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Virtually the entire TV rogues’ gallery make cameos in Batman Vs. Two-Face, but the title villain, oddly, was never done on the show. But by casting William Shatner in the role, it feels like an episode that never happened, a “What if William Shatner had been a ‘Batman’ guest star while working on ‘Star Trek’?” The film has an odd plot similar to The Simpsons, leading with other villains while setting up the “creation” of Two-Face during a laboratory explosion. There’s a terrific sequence at a casino featuring a gigantic pool table and Ward’s best unintentional double entendre in the whole show. And all through the mayhem, Batman woos Catwoman during her prison sentence, bringing her books of poetry. It’s interesting hearing contemporary actors “homage” the TV characters, and Lynne Marie Stewart (Miss Yvonne from The Pee Wee Herman Show) as Aunt Harriet is particularly spot-on. As with the previous film, the animators have a lot of fun expanding and joking with some of the iconic scenes from the series, including sliding down the Batpoles, the Batmobile revving up and all the comic-book fight text like “POW!” and “ZAP!” The two films are light PG in tone and language and appropriate for family viewing.

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Kevin Conroy’s voice is the voice I hear in my head when I read Batman comics, but over the years, WB Animation has experimented with other actors, including Peter Weller, Rino Romano, Jeremy Sisto, William Baldwin, Bruce Greenwood and not one but two Lego Batmen, Troy Baker and Will Arnett. It’s nice to have Conroy and Loren Lester (Nightwing) back for Batman and Harley Quinn, even if this adventure feels a little off. I’ll admit I was surprised to hear Harley Quinn (Melissa Rauch from The Big Bang Theory) swearing in scenes. Maybe the weird tonal shifts are intentional. The film sets up a classic detective case where Batman and Nightwing must foil a deadly plot by Poison Ivy (Paget Brewster), but when Harley teams up, the case gets derailed for karaoke and fart jokes. Then again, when are you going to see Harley Quinn rock out with a great version of Blondie’s “Hangin’ On the Telephone”? Recommended: Bob le Flambeur, Koyaanisqatsi Live!, Night of the Living Dead at Cornell Cinema; Suburbicon at Ithaca Stadium 14. •

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Delicate Photography

Silsila at Johnson Museum powerful, fragile By Ambe r D onof r io

woman stands in what might be water, cr yst a l clea r a nd consumed in a background of clouded blue sky that stretches above her and also is mirrored beneath as if she is floating in unity with her reflection. She is dressed modestly in all black, complete with her hijab, and stretches out a red piece of sheer fabric that catches the breeze in its folds in a shock of bright color against the whiteness of clouds. Her head is tossed back, her back arches in a curve, as she holds the fabric up in a motion that is performative. The photograph is almost cinematic and wholly immersive, emotive in a way that is graceful and difficult to describe in full. Its environment seems as if it is a portion of another world, one so beautiful in its purity, or as if the figure (the woman) is requesting this level of peace. In another photograph, a circular piece mounted against acrylic, another woman, one whose face is obscured by her stark green headscarf, kneels on the sandy ground. She is in the middle of a small

circle of rocks that separates her from the otherwise vastness of her surroundings. The image presents an act of isolation in the figure’s solitude but is also evocative of prayer and spirituality and a deep connection with the earth. Its title, Tasma’ (Listen), is ambiguous, but the figure seems knowing of some vital information as if she has something to share. Silsila, a show of photographs and film by artist Sama Alshaibi, is a rare collection of art that is delicate in its choreography but powerful in the boldness of its execution. On display at the Johnson Museum at Cornell through the end of December, the work documents Alshaibi’s seven-year search for self and connectivity as she ventured through various countries in the Middle East and North Africa. “Silsila” is the Arabic word for “link” and also a fundamental concept in the Islamic tradition of Sufism in which knowledge is passed from teacher to student. Exploring human connection as much as spirituality, Alshaibi’s work appears to dwell on concepts of unity with each other and with the

land rather than on alienation, difference, or violence. Not without its own politics— inevitable when navigating themes of gender, race, and religion in any location let alone the Muslim nations in which these works take place—the artist used her own body in the frame, a coded figure (a self-proclaimed female, Arab, IraqiPalestinian refugee) who also manages to express universality through emotion and the fact of shared humanity. Half photographs and half film, the pieces t hat ma ke up Silsila f unction together to create a complete experience via repetition of images. The films present the same images as the photographs, as if the latter are stills, but conversely the films too seem extensions of the photographs, allotting them movement that expands each scene beyond the frame. In a small room in which a Persian rug lines the f loor along with cushions for sitting, five films play at once on various walls, all unified by string music and the sheer beauty of their use of color and space. In one, a woman stands with her back to the camera, overlooking water as her hands point up toward the heavens. In another, a woman releases feathers as offering: white ones at first, though later a black feather floats down. The films show candles in sand being lit one by one, surrounded by white feathers as they burn. They present two figures in white, their faces covered, each holding onto a separate end of a large white sheet, tugging on it, the force between them equal.

Each film and photograph is a performance of acknowledgement and ref lection on the acts of being, the transience of it and the links between life and death and between each other and the land

From “Silsila” (Photo provided)

beneath our feet. It is in this way that they are spiritual, connected to the earth and to energy that goes beyond the physical world. Alshaibi’s artworks go far beyond religion, exploring internal spirit and meditating on being alive in the world in which we live. •

ITHACA COLLEGE • CELEBRATING 125 YEARS The Shirley and Chas Hockett Chamber Music Concert Series Presents

THE KNIGHTS Monday, November 6, 2017

Concert 8:15 p.m. Ford Hall James J. Whalen Center for Music

Open Rehearsal 5:00–6:00 p.m. Ford Hall James J. Whalen Center for Music

BOTH EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The Knights appear by arrangement with Opus 3 Artists. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should call 607-274-3717 or email ekibelsbeck@ithaca.edu as much in advance of the event as possible.

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Gathering a Music Master

Josh Ritter to perform at the Hangar Theatre By Mic a h Wil kin s

fter 20 years of songwriting, 8 album releases, eight EPs, dozens of tours and hundreds of shows, how does a musician maintain originality? That is what Josh Ritter is trying to figure out with his ninth studio album Gathering. “One of my biggest fears is that I’ll stop being artistically relevant, and I won’t realize it,” Ritter said from his apartment in Brooklyn, where he was getting ready to leave for tour. He will be stopping at the Hangar Theatre Nov. 7 during his four-month tour of the U.S., Europe and Canada. Ritter has been writing music since he was a teenager, and released his first selftitled album when he was just 21. Growing up in a small town in Idaho, Ritter was heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, which is apparent in his first album. Since his debut, however, Ritter has blossomed into a distinct singer/songwriter. His vivid songwriting, supported by the eclectic Royal City Band which he has been performing with for over 15 years, have made him a powerful force in the modern folk and Americana

musical movements. “I want to continue to evolve and continue to change and discover new things,” Ritter said. “It is my job to be an explorer and to discover new parts of myself, and new things in the world to describe. Part of that involved being dissatisfied with what you’ve done and with what you’re working on.” Gathering, released in September, is Ritter’s attempt to step out of the shadow of his previous work, cast off people’s expectations of him and start anew. “There’s that constant saying in the back of my mind that ‘you can do better than this,’” Ritter said. “It’s spurred me on. Gathering is the voice I’ve stopped fighting and I’ve come to live with.” The album kicks off with the one-minute track “Shaker Love Song”. Its simple harmonies — and the song’s title — are reminiscent of a church hymn. “My family was very religious and went to church every Sunday,” Ritter said. “Hymns sunk into my psyche. Hymns are one of the major inspirations I would never be able to

get away from even if I wanted to.” This religious inf luence was able to shine a little brighter thanks to Ritter’s new approach on his latest album. “I was going to write without my editor, without my internal thing,” Ritter said. “I was going to record everything. And that’s what I did. I made sure whatever was going to be on the table for the record was going to be wide and varied, a selection of things.” Without his own filter, when it came time to record Ritter found himself with more songs than he had ever had at one time. Ritter recorded all 30 songs, and sifted through them to come up with the 13 dynamic tracks that ma ke up Gathering. The album ranges from melancholic songs of heartbreak like “Train Go By” to the ominous six-minute “Dreams” that sounds more like spoken-word poetry than a folk song. And then there’s the familiar poppy yet bluesy songs that Ritter is best known for, like “Showboat”: “I’m just a show boat / Pretending I can stay afloat / Pretending I ain’t sinking over her.” “When Will I Be Changed” features vocals from the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, who last year asked Ritter to help him write his album Blue Mountain, Weir’s first solo album in 40 years. According to Ritter, Weir was wanting to make a record of songs that reminded him of his time living in Wyoming as a kid. A small town boy himself, Ritter helped Weir write up sentimental “cowboy songs” about ghost towns, a father attending his daughter’s funeral and the Shenandoah River.

Prolific, versatile, creative and uniquely American, Ritter’s songwriting abilities got him on Paste Magazine’s list of the top100 living songwriters, with Bob Dylan at #1. Ritter’s passion for writing has also led him to write a New York Times bestselling

Josh Ritter (Photo provided) novel, Bright’s Passage, published in 2011. He brings elements of fiction writing into his songwriting as well, creating bold characters and storylines in his songs, but then projecting his own thoughts, opinions and experiences onto these stories. “I’m thinking a lot about the times we live in right now,” Ritter said. “I didn’t think I was putting out a record about our moment but I really was.” Ritter is on tour with Good Old War, a Philadelphia-based indie-folk band who recently released Part of Me, the first of three EPs. The Nov. 7 concert at the Hangar Theatre starts at 8 p.m. and doors open at 7 p.m. •

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Cornell Music hosts historical dance showcase By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o The Art of the Dance: Music and Movement from the Renaissance and Baroque, 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, at Barnes Hall Auditorium. There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m., and a dance lesson 12:15-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at Lincoln Hall.

volving over hundreds of years, dancing has seen thousands of different forms across cultures and eras. Cornell University will be capturing a slice of dance history during The Art of the Dance: Music and Movement from the Renaissance and Baroque at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, at Barnes Hall Auditorium. The showcase will feature dances from Italy and France during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Each of the dances in the program will be performed as solo pieces by Hubert Hazebroucq, a world-renowned historical dancer. He will dance through the periods, showcasing the evolving style of ballet and social dancing across 200 years. Between numbers, Cornell’s Early Music Lab and Viol Consort will play songs from the periods, featuring guest artists Luke Conklin, baroque oboe and Boel Gidholm, baroque violin. They will also provide the soundtrack for Hazebroucq’s routines. Professor Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Hazebroucq have worked together on early dance productions and research, and they designed this program. The pieces in the show act as adaptations to pre-choreographed pieces. Harris-Warrick said it’s impossible to tell what the dancing was exactly like at the time, but she and Hazebroucq can infer based on recorded notes. Notation for each time period and country varied. Many notations involved writing out the names of the steps next to the written music, taking the dancer through each measure and sometimes as specific as each note. Older French notation sometimes used drawings. It’s likely many dances of these time periods were never recorded, and then were subsequently lost. But when Louis XIV was king of France, a new specific and precise form of notation emerged out of a demand from Louis. “Most of the 17th century there’s little written down about how to do the dances,” Harris-Warrick said. “Then all of a sudden, in 1700, in the court of Louis XIV who also loved to dance, he asks his dancing masters to come up with a notation system to preserve dancing. So he did.” At first glance, the notation looks like swirling music notes, stretched out across different shapes. But with the proper context — meaning extensive reading of a dance glossary in order to understand the intense specificity of the drawings — each stroke represents a different move and posi-

tion. This style of notation even showcases the staging of the dancer or dancers with each step, carrying both the movement of the dancers’ feet and the direction in which they move. Arm movements, however, are ambiguous. The dances of this period, Harris-Warrick said, are devoid of repetitive choreography. With the artful notation and original dancing throughout each piece, Baroque style is often challenging to recreate. While tricks and spectacular leaps and jumps are more present in Italian dance than French,

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Hubert Hazebroucq dancing. (Photo provided)

it doesn’t make this precise form of ballet less challenging — especially considering French Baroque dance carved a path for the five positions of ballet, a form still used religiously in ballet today. “The nature of these dances is that you don’t repeat steps over and over again,” Harris-Warrick said. “Each one is different: a lot of memory and a lot of physicality, especially for one person to dance all of it.” The physical demands surrounding this type of dance may also come from the masculine culture surrounding ballet. At the time, dance was used as a form of military training. “We think of ballet being dominated by women. Men participate a little bit: they’re there to hold up the women in ballet, maybe get a solo,” Harris-Warrick said. “But in this period, the men definitely dominated and the women were secondary. It was considered a very important masculine skill in the social realm.” Guests will have the opportunity to learn some of the physical demands of a few Baroque and Renaissance styles of dance with Hazebroucq 12:30-1:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at Lincoln Hall. HarrisWarrick will also give a pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m. so viewers can learn more and immerse themselves into the world of Renaissance and Baroque dance. • Th e

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Faculty. Professor Louie & The Crowmatix | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Joined by The Woodstock Horns of Syracuse. John Sebastian | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Jay Ungar & Molly Mason | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Jay and Molly are musicians who draw their repertoire and inspiration from a wide range of American musical styles.

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Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore | 8:00 PM-, Wednesday, 11 01 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca (Roots)

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Irma Thomas,The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Preservation Legacy Quintet | 7:30 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Take a group of long-time performers from the venerable concert hall, combine them with the Crescent City’s Soul Queen Irma Thomas, throw in the spiritual authority of The Blind Boys of Alabama

As a part of Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival, Angry Mom Records will hold an exhibition titled “The Strange Colors of Gilles Vranckx,” which showcases redesigned movie posters by Steve Ellis. (Art: Steve Ellis)

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Opus Ithaca Faculty Concert and Scholarship Fundraiser | 7:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Opus Ithaca School of Music, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora Street, Ithaca | Works by Ravel, Mozart, and jazz standards, performed by Opus Ithaca

Rodrigo y Gabriela: Tenth Anniversary Tour | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca |

11/05 Sunday

Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, Sunday, 11 05 | Hangar Theater, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | A multimedia extravaganza for the eyes and ears.

hustler Bobby Riggs. | 121 mins PG-13 | Victoria and Abdul | Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. | 112 mins PG-13 | Florida Project | Set over one summer, the film follows precocious 6-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World. | 111 mins R Loving Vincent | In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. | 94 mins PG-13

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11/06 Monday

Bruce Cockburn | 8:00 PM, Monday, 11 06 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | CU Music presents guest keyboardist David Catalunya | 8:00 PM-, Monday, 11 06 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Guest scholar and historical keyboard specialist David Catalunya demonstrates his reconstructed medieval clavisimbalum.

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Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band | 8:00 PM- Tuesday, 11 07 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A songwriter, a musician, a New York Times best-selling author, a painter, a consummate performer. Josh Ritter encompasses all of these descriptors and more. CU Music: Cornell Wind Quintet | 8:00 PM, Tuesday, 11 07 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca |

Film Iron Jawed Angels | 6:30 PM, Wednesday, 11 01 | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Join The History

Center on Wednesday, November 1 at 6:30 PM for a movie screening and discussion of “Iron Jawed Angels” at Cinemapolis. The discussion will be facilitated by Cyndy Scheibe from the Ithaca College’s Project Look Sharp. Rear Window | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. Movie starts at 7 with trivia for prizes during intermission. Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival | Friday, 11 03 | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca’s annual film festival that celebrates the Fantastik genre. The festival will feature films from all over the world, along with local filmmakers and film competitions. Koyaanisqatsi (Life out of Balance) | 7:30 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | An art film released in 1982, this screening will feature a live soundtrack performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble. The film is a non-verbal piece of cinema integrating images, music and ideas contrasting scenes from America’s natural and urban landscapes. Cornell Cinema Bob le Flambeur | 7:00 PM,

Wednesday, 11 01 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A wry and romantic film from the father of the French New Wave, writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville. 1 hr 37 min. Also showing Friday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Glory | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A parable about a railroad worker, the good deed his does, and the devastating consequences that result in a society riddled with fraud and corruption. 1 hr 41 min. Also showing Saturday, Nov. 4, 6:45 p.m. In This Corner of the World | 9:15 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In an animated tale of the everyday realities of the Second World War, an 18-year-old housewife in Hiroshima struggles to support her family despite food rationing, air raids, and wartime accusations. 2 hrs 8 min. Also showing Sunday, Nov. 5, 7:45 p.m. Shine On! The Best Animated Films from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2017 | 2:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | What makes you shine? The characters in these sweet and funny films from around the world have special things that make them glow and grow. Join them as they play with their friends and families, discover new things about themselves, and take journeys to near and far. The Island Funeral w/ screen-

writer Kong Rithdee in person | 4:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | With Heen Sasithorn, Aukrit Pornsumpunsuk, Yossawat Sittiwong Laila, with her brother and his friend, head from Bangkok on a thousandkilometer road trip to Pattani. 1 hr 45 min. Stalker | 9:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A Russian sci-fi/film noir, set in a post-apocalyptic age. 2 hrs 40 min. Also showing Sunday, Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. Leviathan | 7:00 PM, Tuesday, 11 07 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A corrupt mayor of a small town near the Barents Sea in North Russia wants a choice piece of land for his own use, but Kolia is determined to hang onto his property despite the mayor’s threats. 2 hrs 21 min. Cinemapolis

Friday, 11/03 to Thursday, 11/09. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times Lucky |The spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist. | 88 mins | Battle of the Sexes | The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial

Wednesday, 11/01 , to Tuesday, 11/07. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Thor Ragnarok | Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization.| 130 mins PG-13 Geostorm | When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.| 139 mins R Suburbicon | A home invasion rattles a quiet family town.| 104 mins R Thank you for your Service | A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they’ve left the battlefield.| 118 mins R A Bad Mom’s Christmas | A Bad Moms Christmas follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and

Wounded Hearts Warming Hearts Open Hearts Pure Hearts Reading

Athletics and Events Center, Ithaca College, Saturday, Nov. 4, 10 a.m.

The Chanticleer, Ithaca, Friday, Nov. 3, 6-9 p.m.

Reid Palmer will read from his new collection of poems. His new collection is titled “Wounded Hearts Warming Hearts Open Hearts Pure Hearts,” and the release party will feature rocking music from local DJs. (Photo provided)

President Shirley M. Collado will be officially inaugurated into her role as president of Ithaca College. She is the ninth president of the college, following the resignation of Tom Rochon. (Photo provided)

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expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. | 104 mins R Jigsaw | Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for ten years. | 91 mins R | The Snowman | Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominouslooking snowman. | 119 mins R | Only the Brave | Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.| 133 mins PG-13 | American Made | A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s. | 115 mins R Blade Runner 2049 | A young blade runner’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for 30 years. | 203 mins R Kingsman: The Golden Circle | When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. These two elite secret organizations must band together to defeat a common enemy. | 141 mins R It | A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children. | 135 mins R | The Mountain Between Us | Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. | 103 mins PG-13 The Foreigner | A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers’ identities. | 114 mins R || Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween | Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must

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Elepahnt Revival will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at The Haunt. The group is an indie-acoustic band passionate about sustainability and eco-concscious living. (Photo provided) the Time.|

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Spencer Library Book Sale | 3:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Spencer Library, 41 North Main Street, SPENCER | This sale features approximately 4,000 good used books to choose from, all of which have been sorted by category to help you find what you’re looking for. Bereaved Parents, Grandparents and Adult Siblings self-help support group | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | 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 Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Lansing

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Disney’s The Lion King | Wednesday, 11 01 | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | In its 20th year, The Lion King continues ascendant as one of the most popular stage musicals in the world. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Bad Jews | 7:30 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Avenue, Ithaca | The night after their grandfather’s funeral, three cousins are forced to share their family’s Upper West Side apartment. In the face of a family heirloom with no designated heir, who will prove to be the most deserving and most Jewish owner of Poppy’s chai necklace? Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show. Late Night Catechism 3: Till Death do us Part | 2:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Sister is back for another round of lesson. After teaching her students about the saints, sins and more, Sister is now offering up her hilarious lessons on the Sacraments of Marriage and Last Rites, including her own wacky version of The Newlywed Game. The Art of the Dance: Music and Movement from the Renaissance and Baroque | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | World-renowned dancer Hubert Hazebroucq joins the Cornell Early Music Lab for an evening of fancy footwork and the elegant music of Michael Praetorius, Tielman Susato, Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin, and Marin Marais. Hazebroucq brings to life the rhythms of the Renaissance and Baroque with dances he has reconstructed from Italian and French sources dating from between 1580 and 1780. Wild Kingdoms’ Peter Gros: Wildlife Expert | 3:00 PM, Sunday, 11 05 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | All Animals, All

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Community Library Book Sale | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing | Wide selection of used and like-new books and other media. Childrens, young adults and adults’ fiction and non-fiction at great prices. Come and support the Lansing Community Library. Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Come sing, rattle and drum around a sacred fire for this Full Moon gathering. We will be gifting the ‘Starkeeper Rites’ of the Munay-Ki at this fire. ICUnity Off- Campus Reception with CSCRE | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | IC’s Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity is growing! Come join a First Friday of Ithaca event and chat with CSCRE faculty and students, along with professionals from the Ithaca area. Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, 11 04 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning,

starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Ithaca College vs. Union College | 1:00 PM-, Saturday, 11 04 | Butterfield Stadium, 953 Danby Road Ithaca College, Ithaca | A home football game between Ithaca College and Union College. Ithaca College is part of the Liberty League. Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 11 05 | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Swap and play folk songs with people in the community.

Special Events 8th Annual Wine & Live Music Happy Hour | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Coltivare, 235 South Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau and the College Discovery Program Boosters are hosting a Happy Hour-WineTasting to benefit the College Discovery Program. Live music, complimentary glass of Sheldrake Point wine, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction. Advance

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Cinemapolis and throughout Downtown Ithaca From Nov. 3-12 Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival continues on into its sixth year, bringing films in the “fantastik” genre to Ithaca. The festival will feature new and retro films from all over the world, and from right here in Ithaca. (Photo provided)

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tickets can be purchased online at http://www.friendsiyb.org/ wine-tasting-happy-hour/. 3rd Annual Holiday Shopping Bazaar | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Dryden Fire Hall, 26 North St., Dryden | Many vendors and crafters will be on hand for shopping. Inauguration of Shirley M. Collado | 10:00 A.M., Saturday, 11 04 | Athletics and Events Center, Ithaca College | The new president of Ithaca College will be inaugurated. Liquid State Brewing Company Grand Opening Celebration | 12:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Liquid State Brewing Company, 620 West Green Street, ITHACA | Come celebrate with us at downtown Ithaca’s new Brewery and Beer Hall at our Grand Opening party! We will have cold fresh beer brewed on location, local wines and kombucha. Also, tamales and other delicious eats. See you Saturday! Art Revives and Thrives | 4:00 PM-6:30 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Join local artists to raise money for the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes with an afternoon of dance, music and visual art on Triphammer Arts, under the direction of Steven Stull and Jeanne Goddard. Fifth Chant-iversary | 7:00 PM-, Saturday, 11 04 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Come celebrate 5 years of weekly “kirtan” (devotional sacred chanting) in Ithaca. Featuring One Love Chant at 7 p.m. and Damodar Das’ electric kirtan band Mantra Magic. Tompkins County Veterans Day Parade | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, 11 05 | Parade Grandstand and VFW Post 961, 423 West State Street, Ithaca | This year will mark the 98th year of the parade. This year’s line-up includes several musical groups including Penn York Highlanders Bagpipe Band, The Kirby Band and Syracuse Elks Lodge #315 Drum line as well as Veterans’, Scouts, and Cornell ROTC groups.

Books Jacob’s Land Reading | 3:00 PM, Wednesday, 11 01 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Charles Yaple will be reading and signing from his book Jacob’s Land. Community Read: An

Evening With Yvonne Wakim Dennis | 6:00 PM-8:15 PM, Wednesday, 11 01 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Local Voices contributor Yvonne Wakim Dennis is the co-author of Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples. Dennis interweaves environmental justice into all she writes and credits her diverse family (Cherokee/Sand Hill/ Syrian) for piquing her interest in an inclusive and multicultural world. And The Sparrow Fell Reading | 5:30 PM-, Thursday, 11 02 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Robert Mrazek will be reading and signing from his book And The Sparrow Fell. Wounded Hearts Warming Hearts Open Hearts Pure Hearts Reading | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | The Chanticleer | Reid Palmer will read from his new collection of poems. Horror and Fantasy Reading | 11:00 AM, Saturday, 11 04 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | C.W. Briar, Kevin Lucia, John Koloski, John Brhel are local authors who will be reading a selection of horror and dark fantasy. IBM & Espionage: True Story | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | River Row Bookshop, 187 Front St, Owego | Former IBM senior engineer Don Franck, author of Deep Blue: Industrial Espionage, IBM and the CIA, will give a reading and answer questions at Riverow Bookshop in Owego. Boy on a Unicycle Reading | 3:00 PM-, Saturday, 11 04 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Steve McCall will be reading and signing from the book he edited and his father, Dan, wrote, Boy on a Unicyle. Gay Men and the New Way Forward Reading | 2:00 PM-, Sunday, 11 05 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Ray Rigoglioso will be reading and signing from his book Gay Men and the New Way Forward. Truth Be Told Nonfiction Bookclub | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday, 11 07 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Join Truth Be Told Non-Fiction Book Club for our Fall selection of PLUNDERED SKULLS AND STOLEN SPIRITS: Inside The Fight To Reclaim Native America’s Culture by Chip Colwell.

First Friday Gallery Night Downtown Ithaca, Friday, Nov. 3

The Downtown Ithaca Alliance will host the monthly First Friday Gallery Night walk. All throughout Ithaca, different small businesses and restaurants will host an artist for the month of November. Guests can get a first look at this month’s exhibitions and enjoy the brisk fall weather as they stroll through town. (Art: Tommy Beers)

Learning Girls Who Code | Wednesday, 11 01 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The 10 week club is designed for girls in grades 6-12. No prior computer skills or experience are necessary. American Sign Language Class | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Meets every Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m., for eight weeks. For more info, or to receive registration form by email, contact@fliconline.org, 272-2433. Lowering Your Electric Bill With Community Solar Info Session | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | Chatterbox Cafe Tapas & Oyster Restaurant, 21 Main St, Binghamton | What’s covered: Why so many people are locked out of rooftop solar: price + circumstance; how community solar solves these issues and makes solar easy; is community solar right for your household? Women Suffrage and Political Office: A Seat at the Table | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Join The History Center for a Panel Discussion with local elected women officials. Moderated by Leslie Danks Burke, the panel will include Martha Robertson, Pamela Bleiwas, Deb Mohlenhoff, Liz Thomas, and Deborah Cipolla-Dennis. Beth Clark Joseph on OSIRIS REX | 11:30 AM-3:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Lecture on OSIRIS REX: Lecture, Lunch, Silent Auction, Wells College, Aurora | Lecture, Lunch, Silent Auction, and a Tour of the Planetarium and Observatory after the lecture. Foam Rolling SMR Workshop | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Saturday, 11 04 | Ultimate Athletics, 40 Catherwood Rd Ste 99x4, Ithaca | When done correctly, foam rolling self myofascial release (SMR) can improve flexibility, range of motion, performance and muscle recovery. Beginner Belly Dance | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, 11 06 | Finger Lakes Fitness Center Incorporated, 171 E State St Ste 115, Ithaca | Experience the fun and expressive art of belly dance. All are welcome and no experience is necessary. Arthur Singer: The Wildlife Art of An American Master | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, Monday, 11 06 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods

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he “Late Nite Catechism” comedies by Vicki Quade and Maripat Donovan have become a big hit for Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown, and actor Colleen Moore returns for a third turn as the nun “Sister” in Late Nite Catechism 3: Til Death Do Us Part for two shows on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. at CRT Downtown, 24 Port Watson Street in Cortland. Colleen Moore spoke to the Ithaca Times about the definition of catechism, watching theater patrons become kids again and the details of Catholic school interior design. Ithaca Times: First of all, the word catechism is a word that we non-Catholics like to think we understand. Colleen Moore: It’s like doctrine, it’s teaching. IT: I haven’t seen you in these pieces,

Road, Ithaca | The sons of renowned bird artist Arthur Singer will speak about their father’s adventurous life and magnificent artistry, especially when it came to birds. The Roots of the Rohingya Crisis: The Eradication of a Myanmar Ethnic Group | 4:30 PM-, Tuesday, 11 07 | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, 232 East Avenue, Ithaca | The Rohingya are a largely Muslim minority group living in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State. Denied citizenship by law, the Rohingya are often described as the most persecuted minority in the world. Toastmasters Cayuga Club Meeting | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday, 11 07 | , 205 Riley Robb Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | At Toastmasters, we help each other gain skill and confidence in public speaking in a supportive, friendly, fun environment with great mentorship. Freeing Your Voice | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, 11 07 | Ahimsa Ashram, 125 West Green St, Ithaca | Engage in exercises that support health, vibrancy and vocal stamina. Explore toning and movement

but you’ve been to Cortland before. CM: I do six different shows playing Sister in the “Late Nite Catechism” series. Maripat [Donovan] wrote all these shows and started them in Chicago many years ago. And she just killed. She killed with the show, and it’s now a national production. There are several actresses who play Sister all over the country. She keeps cranking out these stories, and it’s the same basic premise for each one: it’s Sister teaching on a set that looks like a classic Catholic class room. It’s very minimal. We do like to have the decorations, you know, the alphabet and the crucifix. [laughs] This third one is about two of the Catholic sacraments. It’s about the sacrament of marriage and the blessing of the sick. This will be my third visit to CRT. It’s one of my favorite gigs. [CRT Downtown] is just the kind of theater that’s just perfect for “Late Nite Catechism”: it’s not a huge theater and it’s not too small. It’s a nice medium-sized house, which is good. The show is a one-person interactive comedy [with] me playing a Catholic nun in a full habit, and I interact with the audience throughout the show, which is fun. Every show is different. It may be the same script, but every show has a new challenge, ‘cause I never know what the audience is going to bring. I do have a formal script that I follow, however part of the deal with this show is that whoever is playing Sister does interact a lot. There’s a lot of improvisation during the show. If somebody starts misbehav-

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Robin Hood | 2:00 PM, Sunday, 11 05 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Performed by the Traveling Lantern Theatre Company with heroic deeds and jolly adventures, The Traveling Lantern Theatre Company tell the exuberant tale of intrepid Robin Hood and his Merry Men, who jauntily escape from the clutches of the ill-disposed Sheriff of Nottingham.

Health The Dragon’s Way 6 week Qigong program | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday, 11 01 | T-Fit Fitness, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Lose weight by getting healthier! For more information call or text Shawn Tubridy at (607) 279-6543.

ing, and it’s usually the guys, then Sister is called upon to deal with the issue, and it’s going to cost everyone in the class waiting until I handle this misbehaving. And you know what’s funny? Every time I come out to do Sister, I’ll walk out onstage, and it’s funny to watch a whole audience full of baby boomers and older revert into eightor nine-year-olds. It’s so true. There’s something about the classic Catholic classroom set, and also the idea of seeing a full-habited nun, and it just takes everybody back to the olden days. And it’s not just Catholics. Everybody seems to know what a Catholic nun is, so it’s not just for Catholics. I’ve had all kind of people come, all different religions come to class, and I like to pick on them. IT: So, you probably remember “The

Bereaved Parents, Grandparents and Adult Siblings self-help support group | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | 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. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Saturday, 11 04 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating. No dues, fees, or weigh-ins. Long-term help for overeaters, undereaters and bulimics. Sacred Sunday Community

Flying Nun”. CM: Oh God, I do remember “The Flying Nun”, and they still show it on some of the remote channels on TV, and I flip by it as fast as I can. [laughs] It’s just awful, but that’s okay. IT: You can’t play a character like Sister without knowing a few nuns. CM: I was raised Catholic. I went to private Catholic schools and was taught by nuns for 12 years. So I know what I’m talkin’ about here. [laughs] There’s usually a question-and-answer period in all of these shows, so I stay abreast of what’s going on in the Catholic Church. I like to be as prepared as possible for whatever questions come up. •

at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, 11 05 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect.

Art New York State Suffragists: Drawing and Lithographs Celebrating the 2017 Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Thursday, 11 02 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Visit The History Center to explore the new exhibition New York State Suffragists: Drawing and Lithographs Celebrating the 2017 Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State by Ithaca native Christine Nobles Heller. New Handwerker Gallery Art Exhibits | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | QUASQUI: Student Exhibition Celebrating 125 years of Ithaca College | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM,

Friday, 11 03 | Creative Space Gallery, 950 Danby Rd. South Hill Business Campus Loading Dock No.5, Ithaca | Featuring current students enrolled in studio classes in the Art Department. Paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints will be on display. Ithaca College 125th Anniversary Celebration at The History Center | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Ithaca College| Ithaca College’s Graduate Assistant’s Chamber Music Ensemble to celebrate IC’s 125th anniversary. First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, 11 03 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different artists — local artists, and sometimes global.

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Koyaanisqatsi (Life out of Balance) Performed with Live Score

The History Center in Tompkins County, Ithaca, Thursday, Nov. 2, 7-8:30 p.m.

Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, Friday, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m.

Philip Glass’ classic film comes to life with the help of the Philip Glass Ensemble and Cornell University. The film, titled Koyaanisqatsi, will be screened complete with a live score. (Photo provided)

In celebration of the centennial of women’s suffrage in New York State, the History Center will host a panel discussion, featuring women such as Martha Robertson, Pamela Bleiwas, Deb Mohlenhoff and more. (Photo provided)

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