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Cargill Gets its Tax Abatement

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ast week, the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency voted to grant a $640,000 sales tax abatement to the Cargill salt mine in Lansing. The main purpose for building the additional shaft, according to Cargill, is to increase air circulation in the mine and to provide a second exit, which it says is a matter of safety. Without the improvements, says mine manager Shawn Wilczynski, the mine would be forced to cease operation within eight to 10 years. Only IDA Member and Tompkins County Legislator Will Burbank voted against giving the tax break for materials needed to build a new mine shaft. Burbank echoed concerns expressed by some local residents at a public hearing in Lansing last week: while it’s

“From everything I’ve heard you’re a very well-run operation, and I’m thankful those jobs are there,” —Will Burbank

true Cargill is only a local subsidiary of a very large company, and the abatement application states that the new shaft project is “underfunded at the corporate level,” Burbank is not fully convinced that Cargill needs the tax break in order to complete the project. “From everything I’ve heard you’re a very well-run operation, and I’m thankful those jobs are there,” Burbank said, “but I’m yet to be convinced that this cannot happen on their own merits.” The other IDA members were eventually persuaded by Heather McDaniel, Vice President and Director of Economic Development Services for Tompkins County Area Development and Wilczynski, who both spoke in favor of the abatement. Several IDA members said they were particularly swayed when Wilczynski shared that last year Cargill got only a 1.5 percent return on investment on the salt plants it owns throughout the world. That the company patience to accept such a low yield speaks to its integrity and values, he said. Wilczynski responded to questions posed by John Dennis, local environmental planner and environmental continued on page 5

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A worker cuts an insulated board for energy-efficient home improvements. (Photo: Gay Nicholson)

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A Slush Fund for Sustainability?

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rom Oct. 1 through Nov. 30, the Finger Lakes Climate Fund is running its second annual Seal the Cracks event, a fundraising campaign of a unique and different sort: the fundraising takes the form of individuals, businesses, and organizations purchasing carbon offsets to cancel out their greenhouse gas emissions from their travel or home energy use. For $25, donors can offset one ton of their CO2 emissions through the Climate Fund, which uses the donations to reduce an equal amount of CO2 emissions by helping to fund local energy efficiency projects. Founded in 2010 by the non-profit Sustainable Tompkins, the fund has raised more than $33,000 from over 500 carbon offsets to date, a substantial portion of which came from last year’s campaign

that raised more than $15,000 from 112 donations, offsetting 768 tons of carbon. To put the offset effects in everyday terms, offsetting one ton of carbon emissions is equal to saving 102 gallons of gas or taking an average car off the road for two months. This has allowed the Climate Fund to make 18 grants ranging from $1,000 to $3,500, to modest-income households and businesses in the region needing financial assistance for energy efficiency projects, such as insulation, air sealing, and heating and cooling technology. These projects, which would not have been possible without the Climate Fund’s grant, have removed 1,736 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. What makes the Climate Fund unique from other offset funds is that it is “local and totally transparent,” said Gay Nicholson, president of Sustainable Tompkins. Nicholson started the project six years ago in response to reports that numerous carbon offset funds in the United States and abroad were either ineffective or outright scams. As a solution, she decided to start a regional carbon offset fund that would address the climate crisis while also supporting energy democracy and local continued on page 7

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▶ Israeli Activist to give talk Author Miko Peled will be giving a talk on his book, The General's Son, at GIAC on Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Peled’s grandfather fought for Israel’s statehood and signed that country’s Declaration of Independence. His father was a noted General and Miko joined the Israeli Special Forces upon graduating high school but he quickly resigned. ▶ Signage ribbon cutting at the City Cemetery On Saturday, Oct. 22 at 11 a.m. the Friends of the Ithaca City Cemetery will be holding a ribbon-cutting for new interpretive

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signs at the University Avenue entrance, the Stewart Avenue entrance and the Cornell Avenue entrance of the cemetery. Handcrafted by Durand VanDoren, the signage was completely donor supported. A brief tour of recent gravestone conservation efforts will follow. o Insectapalooza Cornell’s annual celebration of insects, bugs and other creepy-crawlies will kick off at Comstock Hall at 9 a.m. on Saturday, October 22. Insectapalooza favorites include the Butterfly Room; the “Battle of the Bugs” and the Arthropod Zoo.

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INQUIRING

Maplewood PHOTOGRAPHER undergoes another makeover By C a se y Mar tin

What movie or tv show could you watch every day for the rest of your life?

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ow past the point of no return, Cornell’s Maplewood Apartments proposal revealed some significant changes had been made as it returned to the Town of Ithaca Planning Board this week. The nearly 900-bed proposal for East Hill has seen a reduction in volume–by 15 beds– in order to create structures better fitting the existing aesthetic of the Belle Sherman neighborhood’s outermost reaches. Major changes mainly include one structure in the proposal–the change of a four-story apartment block on Mitchell Street to four separate structures–shifting some of the density instead to a structure near the middle of the 17-acre complex. Total numbers now stand at 872 beds across 442 units, down from 887 beds across 473 units. Written comments on the project will be accepted on the project by the end of October. Cornell has already held a surplus sale for the complex earlier in October, pending the complex’s demolition later this fall. Thusfar, public concerns have mainly been around the traffic impacts of the project and the increase in volume a rise in population

“Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” —Jared Thoman

“Stardust.” —Ella Bard

would create: at last count, just more than 450 residents called Maplewood home. The aesthetics of the structures in the complex have been toned down considerably, from a modern aesthetic of sharp, smooth lines to the more traditional profiles more in-line with the single family homes and apartment houses synonymous with the neighborhoods of East Hill. According to a release by Whitham Planning and Design, which is serving as project liaison between the university and the town, the complex once completed will be on the tax rolls to the tune of $2.4 million per year and be built to modern energy-efficient standards. No natural gas will be used on the site, instead

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Tour a tiny house BZA upholds 201 College Ave. approval next weekend

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he final bureacratic hurdle has been cleared for another student high rise on East Hill. The city’s Board of Zoning Appeals upheld a determination of appropriateness for the 60-foot tall midrise, meaning the conditional site plan approval given to the project in June will stand. No other obstacles exist for the 76bedroom project, said senior planner Lisa Nicholas, other than signing up for a building permit and fulfilling other conditions of site plan approval. Tuesday night’s decision brings to an end a chain of events initiated nearly four months ago, when planning board member John Schroeder put forth the suggestion the building–and the length of one of its facades–defeated the original intention of the Collegetown area form district zoning he had helped author. A lawsuit has been refiled against the city by neighbor Neil Golder on the city’s environmental determination but, Nicholas said, no delays are anticipated.

“Lie To Me.” —Natalia Shishebarov

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The latest renderings of the proposed Maplewood Apartment complex (Photo: Whitham Planning and Design)

A local builder is ready to begin exhibiting his modular tiny house concept to the public with a day-long open house next weekend. Former stone mason Buzz Dolph will open up his 44 Quarry Rd. facility on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to display several orientations of his handbuilt, timberframe tiny houses. Each of the

utilizing electric-powered air-pumps specially-built for the project. “They’ve been getting a lot of accolades for their energy use plans,” Town of Ithaca Planning Director Susan Ritter said at the Oct. 17 Town Board meeting. –Nick Reynolds houses is built on a modular concept, with every option based around a 50-foot by 50-foot timber cube and expandable by allincluded, insulated walls. The primary goal of the houses, Dolph said, is to provide an affordable avenue to home ownership while using sustainable building practices. In addition to his dreams of one day owning a large-scale production facility to distribute the house’s materials nationwide, he is also looking to develop his own solar farm and is currently in the process of building complete neighborhoods of these modular houses in both Varna and on the west side of the city. For more information on the houses visit www.tinytimber.house.

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management council committee member. Dennis brought up several concerns that were outlined in a 30-page report written by Dr. John K. Warren, a geological evaporate consultant who specializes on salt mines. Dennis asked why Cargill hadn’t pursued land further to the south, an area where the company also already has the right to mine, rather than extending the mine northward under Cayuga Lake. According to Warren, accidentally hitting a water-bearing fracture there could mean a massive release of freshwater, dissolving the salt beneath the ground, speculated by some to be up to 3 million gallons. Wilczynski said there is a geological feature that prevents safe mining to the south; Cargill has spent 10 years trying to figure out how to circumvent the problem areas, he said, but it has not been able to come up with an effective way to reach the southern reserves. Dennis also questioned Cargill’s drilling methods. “Why don’t they drill from the top down, check it out, and then begin drilling from the bottom once they know it doesn’t have any serious fractures or loss of water?” he asked, to which Wilczynski responded that it’s mainly a matter of safety. The worldwide average number of fatalities is one for every 5,000 feet of shaft that is dug from the top down, Wilczynski said. Legislator Martha Robinson asked what the statistics are for drilling from the bottom up. How many fatalities result? she asked. “Zero,” said Wilcyzynski, “because there’s no one in the shaft.” Only a machine is actually underground during the process, he said, adding that there’s no blasting, which lessons the impact on the neighbors. –Jaime Cone

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n Tuesday afternoon, The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and Renovus celebrated a ribbon cutting for the first Community Shared Solar project, which enables residents to purchase solar panels and receive credit for the power production on their monthly electric bills. The “pay as you go” initiative was announced back in May. In June, Renovus was at the Ithaca Festival, offering 1,000 locals the opportunity to sign up to participate in the program, which is the first of its kind in New York State. The program is ideal for those whose homes have roofs that cannot accomodate solar panels, and allows large groups to draw from a single source. The concept was first pioneered in California in 2001 by Davis’ PVUSA array.

Ups&Downs ▶ Holt Architects which once again, has been named a top place to work by the Central New York Business Journal, the fourth-straight year it has earned the distinction. They say their focus on employees’ quality of life, professional development, volunteerism, innovation, and design excellence have helped the company earn this top ranking year after year. We think their cool new West End office may have played a factor. (they say a pleasing shade of green does wonders for your brain chemistry.)

A south-to-north view of a proposed Maguire Auto car dealership on Route 13, by the waterfront. (File Photo)

City of Ithaca

Planning No Fan of Maguire Proposal In a vote that almost certainly ends Maguire’s current battle for a car dealership near Ithaca’s Cayuga Inlet, the Planning and Economic Development Committee unanimously recommended against the dealership’s proposal on Oct. 12, ruling that it is incongruent with Ithaca’s vision for that area. Committee members cited different reasons for opposing the proposed dealership on Carpenter Circle, but all agreed that Maguire’s current proposal did not mesh with the Ithaca Plan, the city’s comprehensive plan that paints a vision for the future of Ithaca. Common Council will vote on the proposal on Nov. 2 and is expected to side with the recommendation of the Planning Committee, which is composed of five of ten Common Council members. Phil Maguire, owner and president of the Maguire Family of Dealerships, repeated his position to the committee that he was willing to modify the plan until it became something that could garner approval. “We have literally attempted to say yes to all of the input that we have been given,” he said. An attorney for Maguire argued that the committee should postpone their vote because no public notice had been given, but members disagreed, saying official public input had only been requested for September’s meeting. Seph Murtagh, chair of the committee and Second Ward alderperson, noted the city had received 240 letters in opposition to the dealership, but also said the decision was not cut and dry, adding that Maguire is one of the county’s top employers and not some “evil” corporation. “This hasn’t been one of the more enjoyable things that I’ve done on Common Council,” Murtagh said. Phil Maguire requested that the committee postpone its recommendation until November, giving Maguire the

opportunity to revise the proposal and make it “more approvable.” Cynthia Brock, First Ward alderperson, was willing to wait an extra month, and moved to do so, but her motion was not seconded by any of the other three committee members in attendance. (Josephine Martell, Fifth Ward alderperson, was absent from the meeting, but wrote a letter stating her opposition to Maguire’s proposal.) Graham Kerslick, Fourth Ward alderperson, said he was not against development of the waterfront area, but did not believe Maguire’s proposal melds with the Ithaca Plan. He added, for emphasis, that he is open to approving various proposals, not just a hypothetical “Birkenstock store that’s making artisanal things out of recycled tires.” There was some confusion among committee members when, after they voted 4-0 to recommend against the proposal, Brock said she had thought the committee was just voting on the language of the resolution, not the resolution itself. Because of the confusion, the committee agreed to amend the resolution by striking a paragraph after they had voted to pass it. The paragraph in question was an argument that the proposed dealership would hinder access to the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, which Brock said was false. If Maguire’s proposal is officially squashed at the Nov. 2 Common Council meeting, the dealership could file a modified proposal, which would need to be reviewed by the Planning and Development Board before making its way back in front of the Planning and Economic Development Committee. Phil Maguire told The Ithaca Times previously that if the waterfront site does not work, he is willing to work with the city on alternative options, including liquidating the Carpenter Circle properties and finding another location. As the meeting concluded, at least one “Make the waterfront great again!” poster brought to the meeting by a Caroline woman opposed to the dealership was lying on a chair in City Hall’s Common Council Chambers.

▶ The timing of the Ithaca College Board of Trustees which met Tuesday night over a delicious, catered meal in the midst of a dispute with the colleges contingent faculty, which has been hoping to negotiate their contracts with the college. This is common practice for any college–even small state schools are apt to the occasional soiree–but timing is, as they say, everything. If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad which rolled through town last weekend on the album release tour for the group’s new album, “Make it Better.” It was likely a nice stop home for the group, which got their start in the Ithaca scene and continues to play regularly in the area, and helped us to forget–however briefly–the clanging of pile driving from the Tompkins Financial Headquarters construction that was audible throughout all of last week. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Oct. 12-18 include: 1) O’Mara and Danks-Burke kick off debate tour in Ithaca 2) Planning committee votes against Maguire proposal 3) Brewery coming to Ithaca’s west end 4) Pondering the mania around Cornell’s Corpse Flower 5) Football Friday: Groton Wins Division Championship For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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ear Ithaca Times, opening vs. the French opening, I’ll admit: when I saw the cover of the sometimes poetically-beautiful last week’s Ithaca Times, my heart annotation of famous games between the skipped a beat. There, amid a collage legends who we revere, the discussion of (solely) of chess pieces were the words single moves which have often come to “want to play?” influence future generations of players. Yup, I sure do. I miss the old I consider the invention of chess, chess club my friends founded here in millennia ago, as rivaling–as an Ithaca decades ago. Before most all the intellectual achievement–some of players moved away (including me, for the great engineering feats of ancient a time) to different states/countries/ civilizations. continents, some of the Ithaca chess Chess moves can themselves be a club’s achievements included beating the language, which can be used to impart self-described “world renowned” Cornell the subtlest of psychological messages chess club in both tournaments we played to one’s opponent, intentionally or not. against them. As The game has it’s own youthful players, unique yet perfectly Just a guess, but it struck the Cornell students functional physics. It is probably had sharper me that these millennials its own world. feel that they have evolved calculating ability In other words, than us early-middle chess ain’t Pac-Man. beyond chess, perhaps to age players, but I Chess does not leave videogames or board games like to think we its outcome to cards which offer more color and were able to draw or dice, nor is it upon our respective pizzazz than those now allconstrained by the mental libraries of limits of the fanciful too-familiar chess pieces the tens of thousands imagination of the one and board. After all, the of games each of us inventor of “Dragons second millennium is now had played over our and Warlords” or of lifetimes to guide “World of Warcraft.” ancient history and this us along a winning The Chinese board new breed wants their own path. game Go does But my optimism intellectual pursuits, their unquestionably rival was dealt a serious or even exceed chess own music and art, their blow this afternoon in complexity and own politics, their own when I showed up the possibilities of world... at the Enchanted implementing different Badger, this new philosophies, but Go Ithaca mecca for is so complex, I would board games about which the Ithaca argue it is simply too “amorphous” (if Times had written its glowing article. I that’s the right word) to ever truly master, learned that virtually no chess players causing much of the outcome in any ever show up there, and my suggestions given game of go inevitably to fall to luck. for taking the minimal effort required to I love the balance and flow of chess: a start a club/meeting/tournament at the player almost always makes his/her initial ole Badger, as they do for other games, statement with their pawns, then the were met with frowns of disdain. knights and bishops, and then, only after Just a guess, but it struck me that the overall character of a given game has these millennials feel that they have come clear into focus does one usually evolved beyond chess, perhaps to introduce one’s queen and rooks into the videogames or board games which offer fray. more color and pizzazz than those now A chess player must be aware of the all-too-familiar chess pieces and board. balance between who controls more white After all, the second millennium is now squares vs. black squares, and of which ancient history and this new breed wants player, whether directly or indirectly, their own intellectual pursuits, their own controls the center of the board as music and art, their own politics, their opposed to the sides. Is it better to grab own world... the center first then expand outward, or Without further ado, let me throw better to allow your opponent to occupy some cold water on all that. Over the the center first, and them begin to
“break centuries of evolving chess theory, him/her apart” from the sides? For thousands of books have been written on chess: the finer points of the English continued on page 7

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ruce Springsteen has a new bestselling memoir, which unfortunately does not have an index, so I couldn’t quickly see if it includes an apology for that business at his Cornell concert in 1978. Springsteen was a rising star then, the biggest in rock music in years. The Cornell Concert Commission was an ambitious enterprise and wanted him for a show at Barton Hall. I was a volunteer worker and helped run security and ticket-taking. The Grateful Dead had played Barton Hall in the spring of 1977 and sold it out with a brilliant show. The problem with Springsteen, or his organization, was that they would not perform a general admission show, but reserved seating only. That was a problem because Barton Hall does not have seats. Some of us were against it, but the decision was made to accommodate Springsteen by using folding chairs. They’d have to be secured to one another and to the floor, for fire code. They’d have to be numbered. So would each three-foot interval of the hall’s bleachers. It meant a lot of work, but it happened. Scores of student volunteers spent the night in the hall, lifting chairs and affixing stickers. Not me, as I generally tried not to lose sleep over anything, especially such folderol as this. I did my fair share of work, as a crew chief of sorts, but I figured I didn’t come to college to stay up all night, setting up chairs for nothing. All was ready by mid-afternoon, and this is the time of payback for workers at such shows, when the band performs a soundcheck, and staff gets to attend a brief but fun and exclusive performance. The year before, the Grateful Dead did soundcheck in bright afternoon sun in Barton, with warm cordiality. Workers leaned on the stage and the band chatted with us as they tuned up, asking about school, our lives, and the show. “You guys do this for free?,” asked Phil Lesh. Jerry Garcia asked if we had any requests. Springsteen was different. It was he who had the request, that the workers move away from the stage. The commission president came out from backstage to ask us to move back 25 feet or so. It seemed a little presumptuous, but we did it. It didn’t matter to me, except on principle, but a lot of the staff were fans of this guy. A few minutes passed, and still no band, just our president coming out again. He said The Boss wanted us to move back

a little more. Maybe about halfway back down the hall. He is grimacing a little because he knows the protocol of these things as well as we do, and this isn’t right. But we move. The grimacing is practically grotesque when he returns again from backstage to tell us that actually The Boss would like us to move to the back wall of the hall. That would be good, and then he’ll be happy to come out here and do soundcheck. And thanks, thanks for all your hard work. Finally someone says something, a supervisory guy who thought this whole apparatus was b.s. to begin with, and now thinks B.S. is, too, in capitals. “We’re not moving back to any wall,” he said, as I recall. “People have been here all night. Now they’re supposed to disappear? We did our work, now tell him to do his.” “Oh, right,” said the president. “Like I’m going to talk to The Boss like that.” “What makes him The Boss? We’re the ones with the money. Where’s the check?” “It’s in the safe. Why?” “Get the check, go to him and say, ‘Please go out and do the soundcheck, or we rip up the check and the show is over.’ “ “I’m not going to do anything of the sort.” “What’s he going to do? Pack up and leave? Come on, I’ll go with you. It will be fun.” He scowled mightily. “I’ll be right back,” he said. And he was, not with any check, but with security. Not our security; Springsteen’s security. It seemed the new request was for our guy to leave the premises. It was a little ironic, our own security guy being asked to leave our show. It was not a righteous solution, but it was an effective one. Our guy left. At least he had tried to make the right thing happen. And it would have been fun. It’s also a little ironic considering Springsteen’s reputation as champion of working people. But I actually believe that reputation is valid. I’ve always (or ultimately) chosen to think that Springsteen actually did not know what was happening that day at soundcheck, and that it was rogue crew of his throwing their weight around without his knowledge or consent. That’s what I’d like to believe, anyway. Maybe, if he is googling comments on his book, he’ll see this and let me know. I can help him with details if he wants to include the tale in memoirs, part two. I’m a working class guy and I don’t hold a grudge against another.

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Cornell’s corpse flower top of the heap the horticultural world sits. The Cornell Conservatory is home to a pair of the most consistent of all Amorphophallus titanum kind and, because of its novelty, home to one of the world’s most popular flowers. Wee Stinky, which bloomed on Friday night, drew 10,000 visitors when it flowered for the first time in 2012 and, online, drew 500,000 unique viewers to its live stream. Corpse flowers tend to draw a crowd. In the past year, live streams have been hosted by the Indiana University, the national botanical gardens and even the New York Botanical Gardens, which bloomed in July. Cornell’s crown jewel stands out among them, however. Cornell’s Corpse Flower, Wee Stinky. (Photo: Casey Martin) “Ours is much bigger,” said Cornell plant evolutionist Karl Niklas, speaking t’s curious how something so strange of the 82-inch tall flower like a farmer and so pungent can capture the speaks of a prize-winning squash at the imagination. county fair. Yet internationally, the corpse flower Cornell does have a lot to brag about. phenomena has inspired something Paul Cooper, tasked with caring for of a mania among biologists and rabid the plants, has accomplished the feat of horticulturists the world over. The Titan having a flower bloom in each of the last Arum is attractive for a laundry list of six years, mastering the art of caring for legitimate reasons: it’s ultra-rare, only found a plant which often, doesn’t bloom for up in nature in the wild reaches of Sumatra. to a decade after being planted. It’s 364 Its blooms are a rarity, coming perhaps days a year of knowing how to get the once every seven to 10 years, making it a plant to dormancy and taking care of it spectacle of an event wherever it unfurls its out of dormancy, all the way to the proper fetid flower–usually only for a day or two. lighting, care and attention needed to Nationwide, they’ve taken on a coddle the rare plant. status almost as a mascot of their home “We’re becoming a little jaded, almost,” conservatory. You can find “Morticia” at the Niklas said. Boston Zoo. “Morty” lives at the Buffalo and Erie Community Botanical Gardens. –Nick Reynolds But it’s in Ithaca, the veritable Rat Pack of

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decades, I took the first approach. Now, for the last three years, the other. For that matter, in your opinion, is a bishop really a better piece than a knight? Most people would say yes, but I could take the opposite side and probably write a whole article on it; so could you. By chess’ nature as both simple and complex, the insights of beginners, little kids, have often proven as solid and insightful as anyone’s. Besides, even with the decades I’ve invested in chess, playing over 50,000 games, I’m only an average player, nothing special. Still, I’ve published articles in the top mags on chess based on psychological studies I conducted which can be equally interesting to both the expert player and the novice. (Editor’s note: in confirming this fact, we found the author’s name as the byline on an article in the November 2012 issue of Chess Life magazine entitled “The Politics of Chess Players.”) When we look for metaphors for sports, politics, or whatever, do we make use of the inane jargon of “Mobile Strike

Version 3.0”... Or of chess? But is chess ability a predictor of “I.Q.?” I seriously doubt it. Does knowing something about chess help me master other skills? There’s no evidence I can point to for that either. But, I can tell you, there is something sometimes deeply transcendent when you are sitting across the chessboard from you opponent for a solid hour, trying to determine the relative benefits of moving your rook one square forward or, instead, one square back. How far ahead can you calculate the impact of this move? What does your “intuition” tell you? Does one choice rely on creativity and the other on common sense/logic? In fact, chess begs the question: do these two terms, in the end, even have a substantive difference? Like I said: chess ain’t no Pac-man or “World of Warcraft.” you all are giving us a bad name. So, while us Gen X dinosaurs plug along with chess, building on the past, just remember: 20 years from now, when all your childish flashy board games and videogames are in the landfill, there will still be chess for you to come home to. Sincerely, Alexander Robinson

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green jobs. She says most climate solutions are “designed by middle-class professionals for middle-class professionals” and, as a result, people with lower incomes and seniors are left out. To address this issue, the Climate Fund works with local energy efficiency contractors—most commonly Tompkins Community Action and Snug Planet. The contractors notify the Climate Fund when an income-eligible client needs gap funding to complete a project, typically to complement a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority subsidy. The Climate Fund then provides the client with a grant whose value is based on the lifetime emission savings of the project ($25 per ton of carbon equivalent reduced). “It’s a smart way to use the offset money,” said Jon Harrod, co-owner of Snug Planet. “It helps projects happen that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.” In 2013, Linda Copman received a $2,361 grant from the Climate Fund for a new boiler. Copman had recently purchased an historic house in Ithaca after moving from Hawaii with her three daughters. Coming from a warm weather climate, she was not prepared for how expensive it would be to heat the old, drafty house in winter. Her heating bill was through the roof and she struggled to afford daily expenses. At that point, she reached out to Snug Planet for a free energy audit. With financial assistance from NYSERDA and the Climate Fund, she was able to afford energy efficiency improvements that knocked almost $1,000 off her bill while also eliminating 118 tons of carbon dioxide that would’ve been emitted if the old boiler wasn’t replaced. Looking back, Copman distinctly remembers the “very nice feeling to have people helping me,” since she had “no

clue” what she was doing the first winter. The contractors also get enjoyment from the process, said Frank Howe, TCA’s Energy Services Director, especially when they get to inform clients that funding is available for their projects. Howe said he just hopes that more people will contribute to the Climate Fund so that more energy efficiency projects can be carried out. To make that happen, Nicholson believes that people need to become habituated to carbon offsetting. “It’s a fun, yet moral thing to do—to feel like you are helping others and helping our economy by stabilizing people’s household incomes and creating local green jobs,” Nicholson said. Her ultimate goal for the Climate Fund is to see carbon offsetting become as much a part of the Ithaca lifestyle as recycling. While this goal may be far off, the number of donations has been growing, as evidenced by the success of the 2015 Seal the Cracks campaign. “And if we can get Cornell and Ithaca College to do the offsets they’ve talked about the past five years,” Nicholson said, “we really would have the volume of carbon offset funds to truly make a difference in the overall emissions of this county.” On the Climate Fund’s website (fingerlakesclimatefund.org) you can use the carbon calculator to offset the CO2 from your recent travel or building energy use. This year’s campaign will feature “carbon races” where individuals and businesses can form teams to compete to see who can offset the most carbon. The winning teams will receive prizes like tickets to Cinemapolis or gift cards from Ithaca Bakery, Waffle Frolic, or Autumn Leaves. The Climate Fund hopes to raise $12,500, equal to 500 tons of carbon offset, over the next two months. –Rich Heffron

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laboriously hand-printed on each page could fit on a flash drive, but here is this big heavy book, like a prop from a production of A Christmas Carol. Now Brossard is in charge of this thing that Cohen and Szanyi started in September of ’86 that since, has seen an evolution from one screen to two screens, the acquisition of Fall Creek Pictures, becoming a nonprofit organization and a move into its current location at 120 E. Green St. Bossard looks at the ledger, this tangible proof of weeks and months of movies and screenings.

and nobody had heard of David O. Russell (Three Kings, Joy). And so I would go out into the hallway and say ‘Pulp Fiction is now sold out, but there are tickets available for Spanking the Monkey,’” she continued. “And these guys would all go, ‘Spanking the Monkey! [laughs]’ and they would all leave. They had no desire to find out what that was.” Wes Anderson usually does well here; The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012) stuck around for many weeks. Cohen and Szanyi had another success with It all started with a Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 110-seat movie theater 9/11 in 2004. Cohen and Szanyi opened “There are certain with another couple in directors that I think will the warehouse district of always sell a lot of tickets,” Santa Fe in 1976. Lynne says Bossard. had studied film, and (At the time, I lived Richard was into English. across the street from Their theater was called Cinemapolis, and every The Collective Fantasy, time I thought about operating on one screen going to see the Moore and alternating between old film, I would look out my films and new films, though window and see the line of the Cary Grant and Greta people snaking up around Garbo movies were doing Center Ithaca and down the as well as the current fare of Commons. The only other the day. time I remember lines like By the early ‘80s, a that was for the opening combination of bad blood weekend of The Blair Witch with their partners and the Project in 1999.) influx of VCRs cutting into Another Cinemapolis the appeal of the repertory business led Cohen and hallmark is their uncanny Szanyi to sell the theater ability to find the most and move to Ithaca, because nominated films at the end it was close to New York of the year. Last Christmas, City. They did antiquing they had Spotlight, for a year, but missed the Brooklyn, Carol, and many picture business and started others. Bossard said since looking for a space. Cinemapolis opened its new They chose to build their theater, they have played own. Construction started every Academy Awardin 1985 and Cinemapolis winning picture to come opened in September 1986. Founders Lynne Cohen and Rich Szanyi at the movies in 1988 and 2000 out. As part of Cinemapolis’ The Collective Fantasy in anniversary, in November they (Photo: Skip Thorne) Santa Fe became the Jean will have special screenings of Cocteau Theater and it’s still the theater’s biggest winners, up and running, now owned by “Games is still Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction including Pulp Fiction and The King’s of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin. (1994), which played here for months. Speech (2010). The last time Cohen and Szanyi visited Such was the impact of Tarantino’s timeCinemapolis went non-profit in 2000 there, Martin treated them to lunch, shifting trio of crime stories that few at a time when art-house theaters around pumping them for their opinions about people remember what else was playing at the country were really struggling, so the Cinemapolis, but Cohen does. the distribution business. shift to being a non-profit was as much out “We had huge lines [for Pulp Fiction of necessity as a mission. The Seventh Art The first film shown in Ithaca was Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, which ran for a ],” she recalls. “And it seemed like it Corporation of Ithaca was founded, Jodi few weeks. The second film, Cohen serving as founding Merchant-Ivory’s A Room president of the board. Once With A View, was a smash Cinemapolis went non-profit in 2000 at a time construction of the new fivewhen art-house theaters around the country that played for weeks. In June screen Cinemapolis on East of 1988, the pair added a Green Street was completed were really struggling, so the shift to being a second screen. Then in 1990, in 2009, Cohen and Szanyi non-profit was as much out of necessity as a they acquired Fall Creek stepped down, handing the mission. Pictures and had three rooms keys to Scott Bliss and now playing movies including Fall Bossard. Creek Pictures Three, which Ithaca Journal film critic Beth Saulnier was predominately college-age males. Brett Bossard grew up in Hornell, and I affectionately dubbed “the screening Everybody was wearing a baseball cap, New York, and was interested in theater, room.” One of the great days of my life was either forwards or backwards. It was such film and TV from a young age. He went seeing Spalding Gray’s Monster in a Box a uniform. We were also finding lots of to Ithaca College and studied “TV/R” beer bottles in there.” in FC3, reclining on floor pillows. (Television and Radio) at the Park School “We were also playing David O. This much can be said about the old continued on page 10 Cinemapolis and Fall Creek Pictures: The Russell’s Spanking the Monkey at the time, “It was so different,” Bossard said. “If you look at 1986 when they opened with a single screen, in 1986 dollars, A Room With a View did as much in its opening weekend, actually more business than a big opener would for us today. Every seat was filled. The movie culture was different in ’86.” If this were a movie, this would be the moment when we dissolve to the past; not Ithaca in 1986 but Santa Fe, New Mexico one decade earlier.

seats were not that comfortable, leading to a numbing of one’s posterior and two terms that I coined: “Cinemapol-Ass” and “Fall Creek Cheek”. (For the record, the seats in the new Cinemapolis are very comfortable indeed.) 30 years later, Cinemapolis’ biggest hit

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ou might not know David Huntington by name. He was kind of a classic loner, and I rarely exchanged more than the occasional sardonic comment. But Huntington’s death at the age of 63 marks the end of an era for local indie movie house Cinemapolis, just as its owners Lynne Cohen and Richard Szanyi step down after running it and Fall Creek Pictures since late 1986. Along with Lester Wells, Huntington was one of Ithaca’s mainstay projectionists. Huntington ran the store–tickets, concessions and projection–at both Fall Creek Pictures and Cinemapolis. He ran the projector at Fall Creek Pictures when Tsvi Bokaer was showing repertorythemed double bills. When he sold the theater to Cohen and Szanyi, Dave was a condition of the sale; if they didn’t take him, they couldn’t have the theater.

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He was there for almost the entirety of my reviewing career at The Ithaca Times. I can picture many Sunday nights coming out of a late night Sunday movie and saying good night to Dave as he played around on the office computer. Dave always had heart problems, and had two heart attacks. One night, he and Scott Brown went to a diner after work. Brown saw that he was having symptoms, and took him to the hospital. The doctors found lung cancer. They were able to remove the cancer, but soon Dave was suffering from massive seizures, and found that the cancer had spread to his brain. He retired from Cinemapolis and finally succumbed to the disease this month. continued on page 10

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in the early ‘90s. From the time he arrived in Ithaca, Bossard went to Cinemapolis a lot: the first film he recalls seeing there was Richard Linklater’s Slacker in 1991. After school, he worked as a program director at a couple of radio stations, doing production for cable commercials. Bossard attended grad school at Bowling Green University and worked at a museum there. When he moved to Ithaca in 2003, he was the curator at the Cayuga Museum of Art in Auburn, including the Case research lab. (Theodore Case was the inventor of sound-on-film, which became Movietone.) Brossard then ran the ticket center at the Clinton House, then became the marketing director at the Hangar for a few seasons–Kevin Moriarty’s production of Hair was a big hit at the time–and then went on to a six-year stint at the Community Arts Partnership. He’s been Cinemapolis’s executive director ever since. With Regal and, to a lesser extent, Cornell Cinema, there is competition and an element of the luck of the draw. Pulp Fiction was a big hit for Cinemapolis, but Tarantino’s last six pictures played at the mall. (Cinemapolis did eventually get them second-run.) And for every film that does well and hangs in there, just as many come in, play a week and go away for lack of interest. “The distribution game is run by big companies, and it’s all a matter of deciding where their product will work best,” said Bossard. “We’re somewhat unique in that we’re serving such a small part of the population. Our films aren’t gonna play at the Regal up at the mall simultaneously, or vice versa.” A great example of how that system can work in Cinemapolis’ favor is Spike Jonze’s Her (2013). As Bossard remembers, it played at the mall for two weeks and didn’t do any business. Cinemapolis picked it up and held it for a couple of months, up through Oscar season. “People loved it,” he said. Bossard was also pleasantly surprised by the recent response to The Lobster. “That was our hit of the summer, which was encouraging to me, because it wasn’t an easy movie. It was a challenging film – dark, satirical. People kept coming; we had

that for 12 weeks.” The Meryl Streep film, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Ron Howard’s Beatles documentary Eight Days a Week also did very well. “It’s a tricky business, and I think that’s what’s exciting about being a first-run

“Sometimes our schedule can change on a dime. Something can pop up on a Monday, and we’ll open it on Friday.”

Brett Bossard (Photo: Casey Martin)

business instead of a repertory business,” Bossard said. “Sometimes our schedule can change on a dime. Something can pop up on a Monday, and we’ll open it on Friday. Hell or High Water is a perfect example, because I assumed [the studio] would go to commercial theaters with it, because that’s what they typically place their movies, And suddenly it was available to us, and I think it’s a movie that belongs more in an arthouse environment.” Nina Miller still remembers seeing Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal with her late husband George and staying up all night talking about it. Raising a family in Ithaca, there weren’t that many appealing films at the mall, and George Howell, who ran the State and the Ithaca theaters, would only occasionally play something arty like Paul Bartel’s Eating Raoul or Michael Radford’s 1984. Sometimes the Strand would show something good. Though she can’t recall the first film she saw at Cinemapolis, she recalls

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Scott Brown, another of Ithaca’s projectionist alums, got a job working for Dave at the Triphammer Twin when he was 13. When he was 16, Brown became manager of the State Theater, a job he held through high school. “He took his vacations with us, he took his holiday dinners with us,” remembers Brown. “He was family.” Brown also recalls that when patrons would ask him to recommend a movie, he’d say, “Oh, I haven’t watched a movie since John Wayne died.” “He was also a fan of the Star Trek films with the original cast, but for a guy that ran theaters for his livelihood, Dave Huntington was not what you would call a film buff,” Brown said. “He watched one movie in the last 25 years, and that was True Grit. He’d say, ‘I only work here’, And I’d say, ‘Dave, you more than work here, you’re like an icon of the American cinema.’ He worked at the Lakes Car Drive-In, the Airport Drive-In, the Strand Theater, the Temple Theater, the Ithaca Theater, the Triphammer Plaza, the State Theater, the Plaza Theater in Cortland, and the Elmira Drive-In… He’s been all over. He was the only union projectionist left at one time; they had a union.” “The first day I showed up for work, [Dave] says, ‘Go upstairs and thread the projector.’ “I go, ‘What are you, nuts?’” “He says, “You know what? Ten years ago, you would’ve had to. Before you could start working in a theater, you had to be able to fix the projector, thread the projector and run the projector. So go up there and thread the movie.’ “I had to figure it out,” laughs Brown. “It took me about a week, so he gave me the nickname ‘Slo-Mo’”. Dave was notoriously afraid of heights, and yet he would climb the drive-in screens and change the bulbs at the top. One night Dave and Scott were working in Cortland at the Airport Drive-In. Dave had changed the last bulb, and Scott yelled up, “Are you coming down?” Dave was just sitting there. He yelled down, “I can’t move, I froze. I glanced down at the wrong angle and now I’m scared.” They had to call the fire department.

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12 Years at the Pinnacle

IC tennis leaves its conference a 12-time champion By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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s someone who has interviewed several hundred college athletes and coaches, and who is the parent of student/ athlete, I am well aware that a conference title is a big deal. Sure, colleges want to hang Regional or National championship banners in their gym, but first things first, and taking care of business within the conference is, as the old Ford commercial said, “Job One.” Some of the athletes that compete for the Ithaca College women’s tennis team will be able to go through life saying “We were four-time Empire 8 champs,” and in fact, if an athlete had 12 years of NCAA eligibility, she could say “We were twelve-time Empire 8 champs.” That’s right, the Bomber women have won an astounding twelve consecutive conference titles, and they rolled through the Fall ’16 portion of their season with a convincing 10-0 record. As usual, the Bombers had to face Stevens for the title, as they have had to do in seven of the last eight seasons. The matchups with the Duck bookended the Bombers’ fall campaign, as they opened the season with a 7-2 win over Stevens. I called Bill Austin–who has been the Bombers’ head coach throughout the dominant run–and I gave him an opportunity to take all the credit for the success. Bill was reluctant to do so, and he said “First and foremost, in Division III you mostly recruit to the school. In doing so you have a wider base, and with our Physical Therapy, Business and Communications programs, we have a real advantage. “ Bill was also quick to point out that the program’s stellar reputation factors in as well. Using what might qualify as The Understatement of the Month, he said “We do have a bit of tradition here.” He added, “The players know that, and they respect and protect it.” The fall tournament represents the endo of the road for the Bombers in Empire 8 play, as the entire school is moving to the Liberty League. I asked Bill how this decision came to be made, and he said “In my opinion, it’s a great fit, both athletically and academically.” I wanted to know if the Liberty League would pit the Bombers against any familiar foes, and Austin replied, “Yes, we will be in the same conference with St. Lawrence and Hobart-William Smith, and we have played them a lot during the spring season.” Other Liberty League schools are Union, RPI, RIT and Vassar, and according to

Austin, “It’s a tough conference. It will be a big challenge, and I’m looking forward to it. Challenges are fun.” As the Bombers said adios to their longtime conference, there is no doubt that Stevens relished one last chance to dethrone the perennial champs. According to Austin, “I really felt it on Saturday. Stevens really brought their best, and it was a very competitive matchup. We really respect them, and they bring out the best in us.” As Bill and I were discussing the Bombers dominance, we shared a good laugh as we recalled one of the great

sports quotes ever. Tennis great Vitas Gerulaitis had played against Jimmy Connors sixteen times, and each time it was an exercise in futility. Connors won all sixteen matches, but at long last, Gerulaitis’s perseverance paid off and he pulled off a victory after that humiliating losing streak. At the post-match press conference, as the cameras flashed and the video cameras whirred, the victorious Gerulaitis took the podium and was asked what it felt like to emerge victorious after such a long dry spell, and he said, IC’s women’s tennis team, the program’s 12th-consecutive conference champion. “Let the record show that nobody–nobody–beats away at age 40. He was staying in a guest Vita Gerulaitis seventeen times in a row!” house at a friend’s estate on Long Island, That–predictably - brought raucous and a malfunctioning pool heater allowed laughter from the press corps. Sadly, escaping carbon monoxide to seep into Gerulaitis–who was one of the sport’s the tennis star’s sleeping quarters. It was most entertaining personalities – passed a sad end to a colorful career and life.

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Cornell Takes the Ice

Big Red men’s hockey looks to build on foundation of experience By C a s san dra Neg l e y

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hile the roster is similar – can go back and dissect; there’s a lot of actually, almost identical – the things that occurred in that time when goal is that the result is not. we fell off,” head coach Mike Schafer There is no shortage of talent on the said during media day last week. 2016-17 Cornell University men’s hockey The streak included three overtime roster and those at Lynah games, two of which Rink know it. were back-to-back 1-2 The Big Red return losses to St. Lawrence all five of its top scorers and Quinnipiac. Then and all but one of its nine No. 1-ranked Quinnipiac defensemen. They still ended Cornell’s season in have top-notch goaltender, the ECAC quarterfinals, Mitch Gillam, who again is winning two games to one named to the Mike Richter in the series before going Award watch list for the on to finish as national best goaltender in Division I runner-up. hockey. “I thought we righted As senior Patrick the ship a little bit too late McCarron put it in regards going down the stretch to specifically his defensive drive,” Shafer said. “But I unit, “It’s really an eight guys think there was a statistic Senior captain Jake Weidner helping one kind of thing.” that came out in the summer With all of that returning that over the last six years, talent, there’s a lot of expectations on the seven years, we are one of the top eight group. The most pressing: that the team programs in the country as far as our won’t drop off late in the season as it did NCAA ranking.” last year. At 16-11-7, Cornell was on the The Big Red had a strong start, but bubble and narrowly missed an at-large in a three-week span in late January the berth in NCAA tournament. It will look team failed to get a victory, going 0-5-2 to make it back to the dance on ice for in a return to Eastern College Athletic the 20th time this year, a place it hasn’t Conference (ECAC) play after the holiday been since 2012. break. “We don’t want to be that team (that “I think that we fell off the pace. You just misses) this year, so that means one

Senior captain Jake Weidner in action vs. Harvard last year

extra win, one extra tie,” Shafer said. “But, you know, these guys got to understand that importance because they are an experienced group, they understand that

it takes one tie and it knocks you out.” The five top returning scorers are led by senior Jeff Kubiak, who more than doubled his point total from his first two

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ourselves for a bit there, but coach did a great job of getting back on track.” In net as a strong last line of defense, Gillam posted the third-longest shutout streak in program history by keeping opponents scoreless for 213:17 minutes in November. The senior had seven shutouts, tied for third-most in the country and in a single season in Cornell history. “We’ve talked about taking that one extra step, you know, to carry us from being a good team to a great team,” Shafer said. “He kind of shoulders that responsibility, but at the same time (junior) Hayden (Stewart) had a great summer too and so it’s not just turning the reigns over to him automatically, it’s just like everybody else: the two of them have to battle.” Gillam started all 34 games, averaging 2.16 goals against with a .926 save percentage. “Mitch has obviously got a hold on that position right now and he’s got to show that he’s going to keep it and move forward because Hayden’s breathing right down his neck,” Shafer said. Five freshmen will also look to make an impact, led by British Columbia Hockey Alternate captains Patrick McCarron and Jeff Kubiak League first-team all-star

years by scoring 27. Kubiak is part of the “JAM” line, flanked by sophomore wingers Anthony Angello and Mitch Vanderlaan. “I think everyone has had a lot of fun,” said Kubiak, an alternate captain who will likely miss the first two to four weeks with an injury. “We’re getting to mix up a lot of guys through the captain skates here through the preseason. Obviously we hope we play together some more and (that) the chemistry is there to start the year off.” Angello is one of the best freshman goal-scorers in Shafer’s 21 years as CU head coach, putting 11 in the back of the net last year. He had 24 points, second on the team, and Vanderlaan had 19, good

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Senior captain Jake Weidner, vs. Princeton last season. Weidner scored 15 points last season.

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for third. Sophomore Alec McCrea and senior Jake Weidner, who will wear the captain’s C this season, round out the top five with 15 points each. The 6-foot-2 Weidner led the team in faceoffs the previous two seasons and will look to lead the Big Red in work ethic. “We may have gotten ahead of ourselves a little bit too much last year after going on that hot start,” he said. “I think we’re going to need to be ready for every single opponent each night to be more consistent.” “We laid the foundation last year and you can start to build off of things a little more than you could last year,” said alternate captain, McCarron, who played in all 34 games last year. “We kind of lost

Yanni Kaldis. The defenseman had nine goals and 54 assist for 63 points over 58 games and led the league in power-play assists with 35. Cornell begins its season Friday, Oct. 21 with a home exhibition against the University of Ontario Institute of Technology at Lynah Rink, 7 p.m. It will play another exhibition Saturday night against Brock University before beginning the regular season with five road games against Ivy League competition. The Big Red return home Nov. 18 for a rematch against Quinnipiac, ranked third in the nation in the USA Today and the USCHO.com preseason polls.

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Jamila Walida-Simon speaks to the Tompkins County Legislature last Thursday.

recent budget-season suggestion to nix funding for the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights drew an unseasonably large crowd to routine budget proceedings olast week, leading to numerous people connected to the office to lobby for its programs and speak on the state of race and inequality in the county. The crowd assembled mostly due to a submission in budget proceedings earlier in the week by Mike Sigler R-Lansing, which suggested cutting the budget of the Office of Human Rights from the 2017 budget. Their funding was later put back on the budget. Though there was no public comment portion for the expanded budget meeting, but Jim Dennis– chairman of the budget committee– decided after some consultation, the legislature would hold a public comment portion of the meeting, something normally not done. One by one, those in attendance gave anecdotes on the office’s role in their lives, speaking for those who had housing and employment problems, spotty incomes and pasts of incarceration. They touched on how, without the office’s staff, nobody would be there to stand up for the population most frequently in jeopardy. They spoke of the organization as a pillar of equality, one that exists to fight against a racism some at the county level might not be attuned to. “You go to them for help, and they give you their heart,” Anna Ortiz, who lost her home after Elmira Savings Bank purchased it last year, said. Some, from the Cornell Law School, spoke highly of the office’s role in the community and said it should even have more influence in what it does and given enforcement power, and that a memorandum of understanding with the New York State Office of Human Rights should

be sought. “These are times we should be supporting these programs,” former Human Rights Commission Chair Joyce Muchan said. “Not cutting them.” What ensued for the next 40 minutes were more stories and more discussions of race and underrepresentation in the community and that a suggestion to cut the office was a suggestion the county didn’t care about supporting a dialogue on inequality. “It lets us know how far we really have to go,” Amos Malone, the treasurer of the commission said. “I’m glad you stepped out of the office so we know who you are… this has to stop. This isn’t even about color. You talk about making people feel comfortable. This doesn’t make us feel comfortable. We talk about inclusiveness, of being for diversity. This should be a model on how things should be in other counties.” But it was Sigler, who suggested to cut their funding, said the beginning of that discussion was the reason he suggested the cut in the first place. Calling the office an “office without a mission,” Sigler said the office, operating in period of turmoil, was in turmoil itself. He said the legislature had been working to get the department more power for years but, after years of giving the department about $300,000 a year in funding, he wanted more dialogue on how to address issues in the community, rather than spinning wheels. He said the function of the whole government should be to listen, to have a dialogue, and find ways for people to work with the government to solve a problem. “It’s a discussion that needs to be had,” Sigler said. “If we don’t have that discussion, everything’s going to stay the same.” –Nick Reynolds

Among the Humans

Photographer Mauro Marinelli’s New book

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black-and-white photos that Marinelli shot during several trips to the rural hill towns of southern Italy. The book was created in collaboration with the writer Rob Lloyd, who accompanied Marinelli to Italy and wrote both prose and poetry about the towns and their people to accompany Marinelli’s photographs. Rob Lloyd has led an equally productive and varied life: he graduated B y Wa r r e n from the Creative G r e e n w o o d Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire, worked in television in L.A. as a writer, producer and show runner, and is currently an English professor, teaching writing, literature and film in Knoxville, Tennessee. Under Old Stars is a wonderful book. Looking at the photographs, the word “genius” keeps popping into my head. I suppose one has to be careful of the G-word. But, because of the frequency it keeps happening, it’s worth mentioning. (above) Archway (below) Louie Fuoco by Mauro Marinelli The first thing we should talk about is how the book came to be. It is a charming story. Marinelli’s inspiration for Under Old Stars, he said, came from a unique vision of his roots. “I was sitting at the dining room table with my family having our Sunday dinner when I asked my Uncle Peter what he dreamt of,” Marinelli said. “‘I dream of Italy when I was a little boy,’ he said. And I thought, Wow, what a great subject. I went to Italy with that in mind. I found auro Marinelli is a Renaissance my uncle’s dreamscape, guy: an artist, a photographer in these little hill towns with three or four hundred with credits in Newsday and people, where things were still kind of untouched the New York Times, a cook, a by time. These towns were so small, they didn’t one-time novitiate, a farmer even have a Pensionne. I would have to find the of organic culinary herbs, and the owner of a priest in these towns and explain what I wanted to successful contracting business. do. He would then take me to someone he knew St. Martin’s Press published Marinelli’s first and vouch for me so I could rent a room in their book of photography, Old Timers: The Italians, in house. You know, that takes trust. There’s a lot 1979. of trust in those towns, and I think much of that Last year, in 2015, I reviewed his excellent trust lives in these photos I’ve taken.” book, Burden of Wings, a collection of graveyard The quality of timelessness in these photos is photographs and essays on mortality. His latest, a bit startling. These villages of stone, set among Under Old Stars: Wanderings in Italian Hill Towns ancient hills, and the people living in them, look (Kehrer Verlag) is a collection of extraordinary as if the year could be 1916 rather than 2016. Or

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roads far below in the valley. The distant hills look like mountains painted by Frank Frazetta. I find this one so compelling because it looks like we are on another planet. The guy could be character in a science fiction comic strip by the late French comic artist Moebius. The otherworldly quality makes the human seem new again and strange. Turn a page to a wide shot of a Federico Fellini-issue Italian town, a middle-aged guy close in the foreground, hunched over and lighting a cigarette against the wind. It doesn’t sound like much, yet… Why do I like it so? Because, for some reason, I love this guy because he is human; the lines carved

in his face, the earth in his fingernails…the odd sweetness of his expression. Turn again to an extreme long shot on the hills and quilted patterns of the farmland, a single dark tree in the wind on a hill in the foreground, the textures of nature and the textures of man. Looking down a stone walkway heading toward the sea, the waves make thousands of sparkling patterns. See the distant hills in the background going to mist, a sort of perfect fusion of nature photography and Abstract Expressionism. Flipping through, I see a wide shot of a young boy and his father in a boat at sea. Time has carved a human beauty in the face of the middle-aged father. The boy is a cherub from a Renaissance painting. On another page, a low angle on a stone village that could be from the middle

ages (if you discount those power lines and that antenna in the distance) with a very old woman in a hooded black robe holding a staff…a skeletal face torn from a painting by Breughel. An interior shot of a winding stone stairway in a stone house overexposed into flaring light, looking like a Dr. Seuss design… a Magritte-like shot of a clothesline, a vista of the mountains (Above) Mauro Marinelli with Gina (Photo: Casey Martin)

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appearing between two white sheets pinned upon it. A close two-shot of an old woman and a young girl…a kind of essay on time and humanity. I could go on all day, here, but we’re running out of room. Marinelli currently has a gallery show of photos from Under Old Stars at the Eye Gallery in Ithaca on display through the month of October. The Eye Gallery is one of Ithaca’s newest galleries (launched in September of 2015) and is the brainchild of Julie Simmons-Lynch, the former editor of Heavy Metal magazine. Since its inception, the Eye Gallery exhibitions have been consistently excellent and innovative. And the gallery has a hip cachet. (I particularly love their touch of having some sort of cool live music at openings.) I visited the opening on October 7. Marinelli’s exhibit is worth seeing, if only for the fact that the photos from the book have been blown up to a larger format and, hence, are even more compelling. One can get lost in them. The show is an excellent introduction to the work…and an opportunity to purchase the book and take a deeper look at it. Indeed, I think the book is something that, at best, one should keep close at hand… on the nightstand perhaps…and look at from time to time in a sort of meditative way. I think it is too much information to absorb all at once. I think the reader will find it rewarding over time. It has a way of increasing one’s love of human beings. Indeed, Under Old Stars reminds me of an emotional experience I frequently have when watching the plays of William Shakespeare. At intermissions, and after the performance, I find myself watching the audience with a kind of awe and affection. (Call me a sap.) There’s something about Shakespeare that makes me fall in love with the human. I have a similar reaction to Mauro Marinelli’s excellent book. • Mauro Marinelli’s exhibit Under Old Stars: Wanderings in Italian Hill Towns will be at the Eye Gallery, 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd floor, Ithaca, N.Y. through the month of Oct. Thurs. - Fri.: 4 – 6 p.m., Sat. – Sun.: 12 – 5 p.m. Call (607) 342-4414 for more information.

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outs to King’s Cujo, Poltergeist, an early Tom Cruise movie called All The Right Moves, Atari and The Clash. I do love s you’ve no doubt heard by now, playing “Spot the Reference” with stuff there’s an awesome new series like this, and like a really good vintage on Netflix called Stranger Things, Joe Dante movie that’s stuffed with and it’s basically a love letter to ‘80s pop marginalia, Stranger Things is loaded culture, specifically Steven Spielberg’s with fun stuff around the edges. Amblin’ filmography, but also Stephen But if the show were just a bunch of King, John Carpenter, John Hughes, new “Hey, look at the movies we used to wave and punk music, and especially the watch” riffs, Stranger Things would be synth sounds of groups like Tangerine a very empty show. Eventually, all that Dream, Vangelis and Goblin. “Me Decade” stuff is just frosting for It’s interesting to me that I rarely see one of the better constructed cakes horror films in the theater anymore and you’re likely to see, which also happens that all my horror needs have shifted to be very tempting to binge watch. over to long-form novels for TV like Ash Longtime readers know that I’m not a Vs. Evil Dead and Stranger Things. They fan of E.T. or The Goonies, to name one of Spielberg’s iconic hits and a movie directed poorly by Richard Donner in the house Spielberg style. Yet, I found the Stranger Things gang of kids so involving and endearing that after watching a few episodes, I told a friend, “It’s like watching The Goonies, only I don’t find the kids so horribly annoying.” I’d also venture that this show is doing Netflix’s “Stranger Things” (Photo provided) that vintage Spielberg stuff you come to expect–kids on bikes being chased by secret are two of my favorite new things of the agents, hiding a strange creature (The moment. less you know about a certain character, There are rules in the genre, and the better) from the authorities; a if two of them are Don’t Go in The certain gooey sentimental approach to [Wherever]” and “Don’t Poke the Alien genre that defined an entire decade-in Organism with a Stick,” another should a more satisfying way than back in the be “Beware the Top-Secret Government day, Unlike Spielberg, the show and the Lab Outside of Town”. And so Stranger characters earn their sentiment. Things kicks right in with a scary It would be churlish to deny the sequence set in a top-secret government sentimental aspects of all this stuff, too. lab that feels like the opening of The I started reviewing films for NewsCenter Stand, and soon we’ve got a gang of 7 back in February of 1987, back when smart, plucky young boys, missing kids, Matthew Modine and Winona Ryder creepy creatures, mysterious government were also at the beginnings of their agents led by Matthew Modine, a grizzled careers. There was Modine in Full Metal town sheriff wallowing in booze and Jacket and Birdy, and discovering Ryder emotional misery, and Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice, which I saw again last as the mother of one of the missing, year at the State Theater and which determined to get her son back. really holds up. My first review for the The whole story takes place in a now defunct Grapevine was Heathers, vaguely defined window sometime starring Winona Ryder. in the 1980’s. Within minutes, I had And I can boot up my laptop, go to spotted a poster for Carpenter’s version Netflix, and we’re all still here. of The Thing, which also turns up later–I I don’t know about you, but I take presume as a little something we used call comfort in that. • a video rental, kids. There are also shout-

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scratched–they possess an uncanny luminosity and a dizzying sense of twist and spin. Paul’s last solo show in Ithaca was in 2013, when he showed a selection of his paper and canvas “Pilgrimage” paintings in the lobby of the Kitchen Theatre. This month (from Oct. 5 through Oct. 31), he is Local artist dazzles in new forms showing eleven square-shaped glass paintings at the Community Arts By Ar thur W hit m an Partnership’s ArtSpace gallery. “The Light Fantastic” highlights work painter and sculptor of rare and innovative, often mixed media, from a series begun in 2010, which accomplishment, John Lyon Paul sculptures. But his reverse painted glass also includes pieces on Mylar. These has been a fixture of local art pieces may be his greatest feat. Richly are heady, heavy works—intensely for several decades. He is perhaps best colored and densely layered in acrylic physical in their working but also, known for his kinetic “prayer wheels” inks and paints–often splotchy or paradoxically, conveying levity and sublime, infinite space. Though free of traditional religious symbolism, it is difficult to miss the sense of David M. Monacelli, MD transcendent longing they express. Anchoring the exhibit are three Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery larger paintings (forty inches square, rather than the standard thirty-two), • Cosmetic surgery: Facial, Breast, Body which are hung interspersed with smaller works. Their titles invoke the • Breast reconstruction after breast cancer figure of the poet. One, Poet’s Garden, • Breast reduction surgery to treat chronic is accompanied by a card printed neck, back and shoulder symptoms with a poem by e.e. cummings, • Skin cancer removal and repair replete with references to color and • Hand Surgery: carpal tunnel, trigger music–as well as mortality. It begins: finger, arthritis, tendinitis, ganglion cyst David M. Monacelli, MD this is the garden: colors come and go,
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etired teacher Ira Rabois clearly loved being in the classroom, learning from his students as he taught. For 27 years, he taught English and history, as well as psychology, karate and drama at the Lehman Alternative Community School. A long-time student of meditation, he began teaching mindfulness practices to his students as well. Teaching meditation began gradually, in what Rabois termed the “very different times” of the mid-1980s. When he began teaching at ACS in 1985, he shared meditation techniques with students

others more completely,” he said. “Thinking augmented by compassion offers a more refined and developed ability to look at the world and look at each other.” When he taught his students about ancient Rome, he’d have them visualize what it would be like to walk down a street in ancient Rome. What did it smell like? Feel like underfoot? What would you see and hear? What were the buildings like? Only then, he said, would it make sense to have students consider the serious questions about that time, like why Rome fell and why they had democracy. “How can you think of it without placing yourself in that situation?” he asked. “That’s superficial thinking.”

can come in handy,” Rabois said. “When I first started teaching, I made a lot of mistakes. And when something didn’t work, it’s easy to get down on yourself and then you don’t learn from the experience. But the more mindful I became, the more I could actually hear and see what didn’t work and change it, instead of getting lost in the put down. Teaching became more effective. You hear students better, you see who they are better.” As he wrote in the book’s introduction, “Is there any more vital task for an educator than teaching how to think clearly, critically, and compassionately? Imagine doing this in an effective way that reduces anxiety and increases emotional awareness and pro-social behavior—you could transform education. The method described in this book was developed over 27 years of

teaching in an alternative public secondary school. It combines mindfulness, creativity, empathy, and Socratic questioning in a natural process of compassionate thinking. The student becomes present enough to openly face a problem, and to look outwards to an object of study and inwards to one’s self. … When a teacher enters the classroom with awareness and genuine caring, students are more likely to do the same.” Most important, he said, is the effectiveness of these techniques is not limited to classroom experience. While his book seems to be directed towards increasing a teacher’s effectiveness, the techniques might be used by anyone, in any setting. “Why not?” he asked. “Mindfulness ratchets up the power of compassion.” •

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primarily by request, though “karate used something like mindfulness every day,” he said. So meditation instruction gradually moved from “whenever it was appropriate” to “every day.” This informed his teaching techniques and led to the writing of Compassionate Critical Thinking, just published by Rowman and Littlefield. The book is a distillation of his teaching experience and also presents a variety of methods a teacher can use to engage students in the learning process while honoring their experiences and feelings. Rabois will read from his book and sign copies at Buffalo Street Books on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. “There are many different concepts of critical thinking,” he said. “My vision is that most people, when they think of critical thinking, don’t realize the role of imagination, emotions, empathy in the thinking process.” Rabois said if you have empathy for the subject, and empathy for a person, you can get inside how a person is thinking and feeling much more readily. “Neuroscience research says compassion readies the person to look at the world and

(Above) Author and Educator Ira Rabois (Photo: Kathy Morris)

Being able to think more deeply and empathetically affects how students interact with each other and with the teacher, he said. “If you teach in a compassionate manner and think of your students as people and not focusing on grades or how they’ll make money, if you look at the student as a whole person, they look at you and each other that way, then students look at each other as resources for each other, not people they compete with,” said Rabois. This requires the teacher to study mindfulness first. As Rabois said, “You can’t teach what you can’t do, what you’re not practicing yourself. You can’t be inauthentic with teenagers, they’ll see right through you. And if you don’t know, you have to be able to say you don’t know.” He defines mindfulness as moment-tomoment awareness, a quality of mental experience allowing the individual can take note of without judgment, recognize it and then let it go. “To learn well as a teacher, mindfulness

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all together so it doesn’t come across as a compilation of sorts. IT: Do you think there’s a visual element to hip hop, and if so, how does this contrast to the poetic element: do the two positively enforce each other? OO: Yes, I believe after understanding what a song is about, and your interpretation of it is natural, then a visual is developed in one’s head. I feel it’s important for the artist to try and put whatever they see visually in a song out there for folks to better explain what they had in mind, and to give the creation another form of expression and dimension. IT: Who were some of your first rap heroes, and was there any particular album that changed your life and sent you towards the path you travel now? OO: Rakim, Kool Keith, Organized Konfusion, Method Man, and Black Sheep were dudes that really inspired me early on. As time went on Outkast, Heiro, Aesop Rock, and many others continued to do so also. Album wise, Illmatic, Atliens, Aquemeni, The Marshall Mathers LP, and

(Above) The rapper Onry Ozzborn

The Impossible Kid, are standouts to me as very exceptional work. IT: When you first started writing music, was it hard, was there a certain learning process: and how did you find your particular form? OO: Nah, I wouldn’t say it was hard, but being so inspired and not writing/ sounding like all those folks I looked up to was. From the get go, I always had my own way of going about things due to listening to all types music growing up. ‘80s stuff, metal, country, I was born and raised in New Mexico so my outlook on things were different, and that made me write different and thus develop my own lane. IT: You’re heading out on road trip and can only bring five cassette tapes with you (no mixtapes). What are you bringing with you? OO: Portishead, Dummy; Nas, Illmatic; Black Sheep, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing; Gangstarr, Hard To Earn; and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors. •

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compulsive disorder, forced to directly face forces ready to pull him under. But it’s in these seas where he finds ew maps have ever been charted in enlightenment. What he also finds is one voyage. It’s a central challenge support among those occupying these to the exploration of the furthest expanses of a broad landscape, that a vessel tumultuous moments, taking solace in a woman he’d left to impress and the can only sail so far, a man can only walk so promise of one day, returning home. long and that, upon first inspection, some It’s also what you find on the way out and of the finer details may be missed when on the return, Greenfield says, that best exploring the whole. teaches us about the lives we’re born to It may be part of the pursuit of the whole concept, a yearning for the unknown navigate. “If you’re just walking to the corners of the map that led author Josh Greenfield, a Cornell graduate, to return to watercooler, you’re missing something. There’s information to be found in places Alaska as a trope in his latest novel, Full of other than libraries.” Wonderment, whose title derives from the It’s this second moment in The Odyssey journey into rough when Odysseus returns seas that Greenfield from his journey took to finish the map with his eyes full of of his own mind, to wonderment, alive with better explore and the revelations of an understand where epic voyage. he’d been. Full of Alaska, “the last Wonderment is a frontier,” is a regular story that picks up setting for Greenfield’s where the Obsessive work. His most recent Chronicles left off, novel, The Obsessive diving deeper into Chronicles, followed themes he’d explored the fictional stand-in only briefly in his Jordan Fineman to the previous work. state where he fell into “It’s from a point a mental breakdown, from a few years ago casting him into where there’s this episodes of inexplicable sense of humor about rage, inspired by the it,” Greenfield said. author’s own emotional “It’s from a distance breakdown in 1983. In and there’s a desire this new novel, there’s Author Josh Greenfield (Photo: facebook) to look for the light a sense of something side of dark periods. there in the furthest To that extent, it’s a reach of the North product of taking these dark things and American continent, in the distance use where you are today to shape your between the here and there, that allows one to dwell on one’s mind and navigate its perspective.” To that extent, the book is coming inner workings. from a positive place. But there’s no This story, like the Odyssey, starts in question the story is tumultuous, it’s a Ithaca. The scene is Olin Library and a coming of age story about an onset of Cornell sophomore, lonely and looking to emotions the character really has no escape, sitting at a table on the first floor perspective on–he doesn’t understand with an atlas, looking out over the Arts what’s going on around him or why he’s Quad thinking where he would go if he having these reactions–and he’s pushing could pack up and leave. He feels isolated, on. disoriented and not too firm on his feet, in By the end of the journey, Greenfield’s need of change. character returns to grace. It’s Cornell in “He wants to go as far away as he can the early fall, his own harbor in the Ionian while still speaking the English language,” Sea amidst the parties and the calm. The Greenfield said. So he goes to Alaska, no guarantee of a journey did not heal him; his demons had managed to hold on. But it’s the job or what he’ll find, not sure if he’ll even wonderment in his eye that pushes him come back. He finds work in a cannery, on–the realization that a resolve surviving along the way grappling with the perilous day-to-day will help him cope. • rough sea of his own mind, the trials and tribulations presented by his own personal demons. What he finds in Alaska is not Josh Greenfield will be reading at the Ithaca refuge, but the onset of a severe obsessiveBarnes and Noble on Sat. Oct. 22 at 1 p.m.

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Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Folk, Americana Bobby Henrie | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Americana. Long John and the Tights | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hopshire Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville | Bluegrass, Old-Time. Cabinet (First Night) | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Americana, Roots. BeTheChange | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Acoustic, Rock. Ampersand Project | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414,, Burdett | Acoustic, Rock, Pop, Country. Kitestring | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Alternative Rock, Americana, Soul Sophistafunk, Subsoil | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Rock. Unknown Woodsmen | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Rock, Funk, Progressive, Reggae, Fusion. The Tarps | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Classic Rock. Covers.

Mac Benford & Up South | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Old-Time. Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing. Brett Beardslee | 7:00 PM- | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Acoustic. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | www.DamodarDas.com. Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups.

10/20 Thursday Cookie Coogan | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jazz Vocalist. CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz. Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | sixmilecreek.com Gaelynn Lea and Jess Klein | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Celtic, Americana, Classical Doug Keating | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter.

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“Ran” is director Akira Kurosawa’s devastating, unparalleled take on King Lear. The tale of a ruler betrayed by his two elder children and redeemed by the youngest is shifted to 16th century Japan, where a warlord (Nakadai) divides his kingdom among his three sons. The resulting chaos (“ran” in Japanese) culminates in one of the most spectacular and horrifying battle sequences ever filmed, but the destruction is also spiritual. Cornell Cinema is showing the masterpiece Wed, Oct 19 at 7:00 and Fri, Oct 21 at 9:00 (Photo provided) throughout the student body. The ensemble presents at least four major concerts each season in a wide range of genres from contemporary works back to the Renaissance. Twilight Concert: Cornell University Chorus | 5:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell’s renowned women’s choir presents its traditional mix of early music, folk songs, contemporary compositions, and the world premiere of a new piece by Mia Makaroff of Finland. Mike Titlebaum Presents: Music

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Cornell, Ithaca | Features Bach’s Suite in E-flat Major for cello solo and Sonata in D Major for viola da gamba and harpsichord, as well as Brahms’ Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor. The Big Toot: Recorder Orchestra Concert | 3:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | This annual benefit concert, under the direction of founding music faculty member, 90-year-old Gertrude Vrabel, draws recorder performers and enthusiasts from around the region. The performers will be playing instruments in the recorder family of all shapes and sizes. The Ithaca Concert Band | 4:00 PM | Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The theme of this year’s concert is celebrating great music of master composers of the past 40 years. This theme coincides with the band’s 40th anniversary that is currently being celebrated in 2016. Pedal Punk | 7:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Combining traditional circus disciplines with bicycles on a cycling inspired set, Pedal Punk describes their show as a rowdy circus where the mischief is on wheels. Fun for all ages, Spectacle Magazine hailed Pedal Punk as The greatest contribution to the American circus since Cirque du Soleil! World Music Festival | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby

Rd, Ithaca | Performers will include Gordon Stout (Ithaca College), Choro music from Argentina on marimba, Baruch Whitehead (Ithaca College), African Dance and Drumming; Valerie Naranjo and Barry Olsen (NYC), African and American Indian music; Dane Richeson (Lawrence University), African and Brazilian music; Yamatai (Cornell University), Japanese Taiko music; The Howlin’ Brothers (Nashville, TN), Bluegrass music, and more.

10/24 Monday Beethoven Violin Sonata Cycle II: Calvin Wiersma, Violin | 7:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | With pianists Diane Birr, Dmitri Novgorodsky and Vadim Serebryany. On this program: Op. 30/2 in c minor | Op. 30/1 in A Major | Op. 30/3 in G Major.

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Friday, 10/21 to Thursday, 10/27. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes American Honey | A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she

criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits. | 163 mins R | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week The Touring Years | A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966. | 137 mins NR | Denial | Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel. | 110 mins PG-13 | The Dress Maker | A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. | 119 mins R |

Miss Hokusai | The life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei. | 93 mins PG-13 | The Flying Ace | A veteran World War I fighter pilot returns home a war hero and immediately regains his former job as a railroad company detective. His first case: recover a stolen satchel filled with $25,000 of company payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture a gang of railroad thieves. | 65 mins NR |

romantic entanglements and genderbending role playing. Fun for the whole family. The Ithaca Fringe Festival: Two Nights of Dark Comedies by George Sapio | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/21 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Runs two nights: Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m. Talented local actors will present a reading of a play by festival director George Sapio — the second a sequel to the first. Featuring Headstrong, which Sapio wrote in 1993, and his sequel And They Lived Happily Ever After. Purchase tickets for the two-night fundraiser at the door or in advance at brownpapertickets.com. Learn more at www.ithacafringe.com or call 607-3513765. Peter & the Wolf with Carnival Of the Animals | 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 10/22 Saturday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Shows at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Under the direction of Cindy Reid, the Ithaca Ballet opens its Family oriented and animal friendly Fall show with Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the Animals. With narration by Sir John Gielgud, Peter and the Wolf is set to the highly popular score by Sergei Prokofiev, and tells the tale of a boy who goes hunting for a wolf and encounters various animal friends. This production, featuring original choreography by Lavinia Reid features Lily Cheek as Peter. Dance Company Urban Bush Women: Walking with Trane | 7:30 PM-, 10/25 Tuesday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Urban Bush Women (UBW) is committed to dancing powerful under-told stories of the African diaspora through the vision of its award-winning founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. The company is highly sought after and is renowned for its heart-stopping performances in the US, Canada, as well as internationally.

man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple. | 99 Mins R | The Secret Life of Pets | The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes. | 87 Mins PG |

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that, 20 years before, was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. | 90 mins G | Oasis: Supersonic | An in-depth look at the life and music of Manchester-based rock band, Oasis. | 122 mins R | cornell cinema

Wednesday 10/19, to Tuesday, 10/25. Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes A.K. | A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself. | 71 mins NR | Ran | In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other... and him. | 162 Mins R | Cafe Society | In the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood, where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York, he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. | 96 Mins PG-13 |

Stage The Crucible | Ti-Ahwaga Community Players, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | The Crucible is a searing and chilling drama by American playwright, Arthur Miller. Based on the infamous witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1692 to 1693, a deeply tragic yet captivating thriller emerges as a social and psychological play. The Receptionist and The Birds | Performances run October 19 – 22 at 7:30 with matinees on October 16 and 23 at 2:00 PM. | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | The Receptionist is an intriguing dark comedy by Adam Bock, and The Birds is a psychological thriller by Conor McPherson, based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier. Both one-acts will be presented in the same evening with a 15 minute intermission. cortlandrep.org Precious Nonsense | Ocober 16 November 6, Tues 7:00 (Oct 18 only), Wed & Thurs 7:30 PM, Fri & Sat 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Thurs matinee 2:00 PM (Oct 27 only).| Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | A Modern Major Musical With songs by Gilbert and Sullivan, Precious Nonsense is a backstage/ onstage tour de force for seven players packed with mistaken identities,

Notices Open Enrollment Clinic at Lifelong | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 10/19 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Medicare Open Enrollment Period is underway. Meet with a certified, volunteer counselor to ask questions about Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage Plans, and more. First-come/first served. Bring list of prescriptions, dosage and frequency, Medicare card, and any other insurance

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The Haunt, Friday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:00 p.m.

Cortland Repertory Theatre, October 19 through 22, 7:30 p.m.

A band with roots firmly planted in the Appalachian and the old-time tradition, Cabinet’s rustic sound honors the canon of roots, bluegrass, country, and folk, while weaving these sounds into a unique patchwork. Cabinet is wholly of the future. The band’s crunchy stomp and soaring vocals give a strong voice to the stories their songs tell. Their live shows are inclusive and celebratory. Members Pappy Biondo, J.P. Biondo, Mickey Coviello, Dylan Skursky, Todd Kopec, Jami Novak, and Josh Karis, all live for music, pushing an energy that is wildly infectious.

An intriguing dark comedy by Adam Bock, “The Receptionist” has a backdrop of a Corporate America office. Beverly works at the nondescript Northeast Office, dealing effortlessly with ringing phones, her daughter’s dramas and her colleague’s romantic troubles. But the appearance of a charming representative from the Central Office disrupts her daily routine. As the true nature of the company’s shocking business becomes apparent, the office world slowly becomes dangerous.

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Challenges and Opportunities on the Path to Abolition | 4:00 PM-, 10/25 Tuesday | Room 182 Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | The launch will begin at 4:00 pm with an expert panel followed by a reception at 6:00 pm in the Student Commons with keynote speech by Faculty Director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Professor Sandra Babcock. Fourth Annual Community Conversations on Mental Health: A Culture of Wellness on Tuesday | 7:00 PM-, 10/25 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Locally and nationally, there is heightened attention paid to mental health issues, especially in light of increased suicide rates announced by the CDC in 2016. But what about wellness? This subject will be explored in an upcoming panel discussion. This free event is open to all community members. For more information call 607-272-1505 or write to info@ithacacrisis.org.

information. Questions--call Lifelong at 273-1511. Ithaca Uunderground Outreach Committee Meeting | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/20 Thursday | Brightworks Computer Consulting, 123 West State Street, Ithaca | Monthly Outreach Committee Meeting. Stop by to get involved with IU promotion, the website, social media, hanging flyers, and more. Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 10/21 Friday | Ithaca Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association, Parking Lot 638, Elmira Road, Ithaca | A portion of the proceeds will be given to Flotilla 2-2, Inc., a non-profit corporation dedicated to boating education and safety in the Ithaca / Cayuga Lake area. Trumansburg Senior Citizens Annual Bazaar | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/22 Saturday | Trumansburg American Legion, Rte. 96 & Seneca Rd., Trumansburg | Lunch, baked goods, crafts, recycled jewelry & Grannies attic treasures will be for sale during the event. Plus, a quilt raffle drawing at 2:00 p.m. Fall Open House | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 10/22 Saturday | Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori, 120 East King Road, Ithaca | For additional information about the Open House, please contact Wendy Houseworth at (607) 277-7335 or whouseworth@eacmsi.org. The Landlords Association of Tompkins County Monthly Meeting | 4:30 PM-, 10/24 Monday | Ramada Inn, N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | This month, Assistant City Fire Chief Gillian Haines-Sharp, and Town of Ulysses Fire Chief Jason Fulton will talk about Fire Prevention Month. Sponsor Mid-State Basement Solutions will describe their services. Annual Election of Officers will also take place. Rental property owners interested in joining are invited to attend. For more information go to LandlordsAssociation.com or call 607257-2382. Cayuga Trails Club Hike | 4:00 PM, 10/25 Tuesday | Waterfront Trail East, , Ithaca | For further information about this hike visit cayugatrailsclub.org.

Kids Enter the world of Pedal Punk, a Steampunk inspired place where cycling is the way to escape the technology obsessed society. In Cirque Mechanic: Pedal Punk the players experience the excitement, artistry and thrill that occurs when a wacky bike shop mechanic interacts with cyclists and bikes, creating wondrous machines and inspiring the cyclist in all of us to become a Pedal Punk. Check this behemoth of a show out at the State Theatre on Sunday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m. You’ll be glad you did. (Photo provided) to the dinner table. Registration required - sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Introduction to Home Cidermaking | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 10/19 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | To register by phone call CCE Tompkins at 272-2292, or email cab69@cornell.edu Daniel Schwarz: How to Succeed in College and Beyond | 6:00 PM-, 10/20 Thursday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, will share insight and practical advice for navigating the college experience from application to graduation. For more information contact Carrie WheelerCarmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org. T’ai Chi Chih Class | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 10/20 Thursday | Jazzercize Center, 15 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca | For class information, contact Sky at

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Mindful Meals for Families | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 10/19 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Bring your family to this class for a light vegan meal, as Diane Hamilton teaches you how to bring the magic of the present moment

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artandsky@twcny.rr.com. Resources: www.taichichih.org and www.tcccommunity.net Girls Mean Business: Intensive Entrepreneurship Workshops | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/23 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Eight business workshops starting Sunday, Septmeber 18 will allow teenage girls to explore various areas of business with their peers and local businesspeople. Register at www.girlsmeanbiz. com/#!eight­week­evening­program/ vevjl. Writing Workshop | 6:00 PM-, 10/24 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | TCPL will host London author and arts educator Lynda Waterhouse for an evening of art and writing. For more information or to register, contact Carrie WheelerCarmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org or (607) 275-1548. The Death Penalty Worldwide:

Young Adult Book Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 AM, 10/19 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Led by an Ithaca High School senior and include book-inspired activities. Free copies of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are available for Club participants to pick up at the Library’s Youth Services Reference Desk. For more information, contact Teen Services Library Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 275-4557 extension 274. Sensory Science: Exploring Color | 3:30 PM-, 10/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 3 through 7 are invited to use their senses to explore stories, songs and hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) activities. To register, visit tcpl. org/kids/programs-sensory-storytimes. php. Teen Writing Group | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 10/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens will join Ithaca College writing majors, Amanda Livingston and Alexa Salvato for fun-filled workshops featuring prompts, guided exercises and opportunities to workshop original pieces. Pumpkin Decorating Party | 2:00 PM-, 10/22 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families and individuals of all ages are invited to celebrate fall with TCPL. Registration

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Finger Lakes Beer Trail and Watkins Glen International bring you over 30 New York State craft breweries and distilleries. Enjoy eclectic live music, local food, hearty beer and catch up with friends at this unique and seasoned event. Each guest of the festival receives a commemorative sampling glass with tasting coupons. Feature five hours of sampling of the area’s finest craft beer, they’ll be onsite camping and pace car rides. Come celebrate the Fall with the exciting breweries of New York. h e

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is required. To register, visit http://bit. ly/2dnfHj0. Pumpkin carving will begin at 2 p.m. For more information, contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277. Anne Mazer: Art and Writing Workshop | 2:00 PM-, 10/23 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | TCPL will host acclaimed children’s author Anne Mazer and a special surprise guest for a writing and art workshop for students in Kindergarten through second grade. For more information or to register, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Special Events 5th annual LACS Family Group Square Dance Fundraiser | 7:30 AM-, 10/21 Friday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Kkick up your heels to the tunes of the West Hillbillies, with Michelle Delco calling the squares. No experience necessary. Women Redefining Entrepreneurship 2016 | 8:00 AM-3:00 PM, 10/22 Saturday | Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St., Ithaca | As a part of Women Entrepreneurship Week, Rev’s Passenger to Pilot program will be hosting the second annual Women Redefining Entrepreneurship conference. Working towards answers to the question: How are women entrepreneurs helping to solve major global challenges? Insectapalooza | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 10/22 Saturday | Comstock Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Annual, one-day insect fair is hosted by the Department of Entomology at Cornell University. Insectapalooza is an interactive, hands-on experience that features hundreds of live insects, spiders, and other fascinating arthropods. Popular favorites include the live Butterfly Room and Arthropod Zoo. Info @ entomology.cals.cornell.edu/ news-events/insectapalooza. The Cancer Resource Center 22nd Annual Walkathon & 5K Run | 10:00 AM-, 10/22 Saturday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | This annual event is a community-wide fundraiser designed to help the Cancer Resource Center provide support and assistance to families and individuals who have been affected by cancer. Info @ jyl@crcfl.net and crcfl.net

The Friends of the Library 2016 Fall Sale | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, 10/22 Saturday , 10/23 Sunday, 10/24 Monday, 12:00 to 8:00 Tuesday, “bag day” October 25th | Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty St, Ithaca | Don’t forget to shop the last weekend of the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library’s Fall Book Sale at 50n Esty St, Ithaca. There’s still a huge selection of recycled books, music, movies, puzzles, games and more sorted into over 70 categories. Prices are marked way down so you can find great buys. For more information visit Friends of Tompkins County Public Library Book Sale | Chestnut Festival | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/22 Saturday | Goose Watch Winery, 5480 State Rte 89, Romulus | Enjoy live music while you sample a variety of foods made from Goose Watch Winery’s own chestnuts. Enjoy a tasting of wines and warm mulled wine and be sure to leave room for BBQ food from Thurston’s & ice cream from Cayuga Creamery. Charades | 6:30 PM-, 10/22 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | This knock-down drag-out battle is back again this year as our annual benefit returns for Round Five of our community charades challenge. This light-hearted FUNdraiser pits local personalities against Hangar stars on four teams, which will compete by acting out entertainment clues. This exhilarating event will raise funds for our education program. hangartheatre. org Intergenerational 2016 Harvest Moon Dance | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 10/22 Saturday | Emerson Suites, Ithaca College, Ithaca | A night of music, dancing, refreshments and great conversation! The Harvest Moon Dance is an annual intergenerational event where local seniors meet and interact with members of the Ithaca College Community. Music by Mike Vitucci and the Immortal Jellyfish. The Newark Valley Alumni Community Concert for Scholarships | 7:00 PM-, 10/22 Saturday | Newark Valley High School, 68 Wilson Creek Rd, Newark Valley | This sensational concert features a variety of talented NVHS Alumni musicians such as Jewel Griffith, Jenny Gac, Shanika Bridges, Tracey Steinkamp Cucci & the

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State Theatre, Saturday, October 22, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The Ithaca Ballet opens its Family oriented and animal friendly show with Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the Animals. With narration by John Gielgud and music by Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf tells the tale of a boy who goes hunting for a wolf and encounters various animal friends. Carnival of the Animal features the music of Camille Saint Saens and also features wonderful animals. Both ballets are choreographed by Lavinia Reid. Don’t miss out on this exciting evening.

rocking group Mike Harris, Sullivan Harris, Dylan Williams & Kyle Williams, along with a host of other superb artists singing and performing with guitar, piano, saxophone and mandolin.

Books Ghostly Landscapes: Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture | 4:30 AM-, 10/19 Wednesday | Olin Library, Cornell, Ithaca | Chats in the Stacks book talk by Patricia Keller. For more information about the book talk series, visit www.library.cornell. edu/booktalks/. Mary Gilliland: Arts and Letters Reading Series | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 10/20 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Gilliland will read an essay published in the recent prose anthology From the Finger Lakes. She will also read a few excerpts from her new manuscript Intelligence of the Water, a multivocal weaving of atomic energy, a brother’s social activism, and an ancient Japanese legend. The Fall 2016 First-Year MFA Reading Series: | 5:00 PM-, 10/21 Friday | Featuring Weena Pun (fiction), Christopher Berardino (fiction), and Lyndsey Warren (poetry). Poetry Reading by Kathleen Kramer | 2:00 PM-, 10/23 Sunday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Poet and writer Kathleen Kramer will be reading from, “Planting Wild Grapes”, her recentlyreleased poetry collection. For more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@tcpl.org.

Art Masami Teraoka: Artist’s Talk | 5:15 AM-, 10/20 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Masami Teraoka will discuss his work in conjunction with the exhibition Japonisme: The First Wave and Beyond 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu Future of the Past | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 10/20 Thursday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland | Dowd Gallery is partnering with the Cornell University’s Johnson Museum to show ancient Maya work alongside contemporary Maya pieces from Belize. A member of the Belizean pottery cooperative and the wife of the former U.S. Ambassador to Belize will give brief remarks.

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he City of Ithaca is celebrating Silent Movie Month’s 5th anniversary with a series of silent film screening events spearheaded by Wharton Studio Museum (WSM). Of special note will be a rare screening of the landmark 1926 silent film The Flying Ace on Saturday, October 22 at 2 pm at Cinemapolis, a free event—cohosted with The History Center and sponsored by Travis Hyde Properties— that is open to the public with a reception to follow. Film historian and New York State Public Scholar Barbara Tepa Lupack will introduce the film and host a “Q&A” session afterward. Lupack is the author of several film studies including Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Morrison (2010), Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking (2014) and Early Race Filmmaking in America (2016). Made by Richard E. Norman of Norman Studios in Florida, the film’s “flying ace” is the World War I fighter pilot Captain Billy Stokes (Laurence Criner) who returns to the United States after the war with his flying pilot Ruth Sawtelle (Kathryn Boyd). Stokes returns to his old

Masami Teraoka | 5:15 PM-, 10/20 Thursday | Masami Teraoka will discuss his work in conjunction with the exhibition Japonisme: The First Wave and Beyond. In the Spotlight | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 10/21 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Featuring the artists Becky Congdon: Corning, NY; Trish Coonrod: Ithaca, NY; Rebecca Finch: Horseheads, NY; James Ramsdell: Greene, NY; Valorie Rohver: Horseheads, NY; and Wynn Yarrow: Elmira, NY. Oil, acrylic gouache, and flame worked glass. www.westendgallery.net Water, Gorge, Light: ​Digital Photograph’s by Frank Muller | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/23 Sunday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Runs October 16th through November 27th​. ​ ongoing 171 Cedar Arts Center | 171 Cedar Street, Corning | 9:00-7:00 PM, Monday-Thursday; 9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

job as a railroad company detective who must solve several difficult and dangerous tasks including the biggest mystery of his career. Featuring an all black cast, the film was based on real people who fought in World War I. As a “race film” its purpose was to inspire black audiences about the possibility of breaking through racial barriers in a segregated country. Norman Studios was one of several studios outside of the Hollywood system that developed the “race film” industry for blacks and various ethnic groups to give them hope for an improved life in the United States. During the “race film” industry’s era (1915 – 1952) more than 500 films were produced. Fewer than 100 of them exist today. Often expressing middleclass urban values—with an emphasis on education and productivity—these films rarely addressed social injustice and the unseemly race relations experienced by blacks due to legal segregation in the South and discrimination in the South and North. After African American participation in World War II, the “race film” industry died out because black actors were given leading roles in Hollywood films that often focused on the challenges of integration and racism. Whereas these films were made outside of Hollywood, they were largely consigned to oblivion until they reappeared during the 1980s when Black Entertainment Television (BET) started screening them. Brought to the public’s attention, film historians

Friday | Lucretia West: The Art of Color. On display through November 26 | www.171cedararts.org Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons | Robin Botie, Reframing Death and Grieving. Photoshop offers intriguing “Tools” to work with for those whose lives are in turmoil or struck by loss: a Patch Tool, a Dodge Tool, a Path Selection Tool, an Add-Anchor Tool, a Magic Wand, Magic Eraser, Clone Stamp, …and a Healing Brush.. CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | “The Light Fantastic,” paintings on glass by John Lyon Paul. Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | New Photographs by Kathy Morris, The Commons Work(s). Complex, colorful photographic composites form a grid pattern of life on and around the Ithaca Commons for the last three years. Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | A group show of recent works by CSMA’s visual arts faculty and selected students. On view September

An original poster for “The Flying Ace” (Photo provided) began to study and write about this lost era of American film history. The purpose of Silent Movie Month is to acknowledge Ithaca’s movie history (1912 – 1920). Related events are coordinated by WSM working in collaboration with a variety of local partners. The group aims to create a museum in the historic Wharton Studio building in Stewart Park, one of a handful of silent film studio buildings still in existence in the United States, seeking to display interpretive exhibits about the Ithaca area’s silent movie history as

through October. Decorum-Too | DeWitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca Room 106, SUNY Cortland, Cortland | Rob Mackenzie: Postcards: Recent oils inspired by travels in the Adirondacks, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and western U.S. | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too. com Eye Gallery | 215 E State St, Ithaca | Eye, 126 The Commons, Ithaca | Two dozen exquisite photos from a seemingly bygone era launch Mauro Marinelli’s newest book, Under Old Stars, Wanderings in Italian Hill Towns. Premiere book signing and exhibit, coupled with live harpsichord music by David Yearsley and gourmet treats. Johnson Museum of Art | Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970, Through Sunday, December 18. We Went to the Fair: Through Sunday, December 18. American Sojourns and the Collection of Japanese Art: Through Sunday,

well as Stewart Park’s history, the lake’s ecology and birding. There are also plans to facilitate educational programming about film history and visual storytelling for school groups and other community groups. Also to be screened during Silent Movie Month is Fritz Lang’s Destiny on Thursday October 27 at 7pm at Cornell Cinema with musical accompaniment on piano by Dr. Philip Carli. For ticket information visit cinema.cornell.edu •

through to the 31st October. Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Photographs by Jhenah Telyndru and Emily Brunner: Sacred Sight, Sacred Rites. Sarah’s Patisserie | 103 E Seneca St., Ithaca | Sally Ryan: Healing in Color. A lively journey of color and light with Sally’s latest abstracts in Acrylic and Collage. State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | A new members’ show in the main gallery featuring the work of Erin Deneuville, Susan C. Larkin, and Michael Sampson. All three artists venture into different territories in their practice, but hold a similar bond in their observation of form.

December 18. Japonisme: The First Wave and Beyond: Through Sunday, December 18. Follow the enthusiasm for all things Japanese from the 19th century to today. Leo Villareal: Cosmos, Ongoing. | www.museum. cornell.edu Lifelong | 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Carl Schofield, Photographs. After retiring, Carl Schofield turned his eye to from examining the impact of acid rain as part of Cornell’s department of Natural Resources to capturing images of landscapes, nature, and travel. Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Ben Ortiz, aka DJ Hameen, will be exhibiting his work downstairs during the months of September and October. Check out his work while enjoying some killer cocktails, live music and street food by Luna. Moosewood | Dewitt Mall, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Gaia Woolf-Nightingall: The circles of my mind. Exhibition of bold abstract canvases exploring the beauty of the female form. Show dates: 1st October

Got Submissions? Send your events items – band gigs, benefits, meet-ups, whatever – to arts@ithacatimes.com.

Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School, Sunday, October 23, 4:00 p.m.

Unitarian Church of Ithaca, Saturday, October 22, 8:00 p.m.

The Ithaca Concert Band, honored as the city’s only concert band, will present its fall concert Sunday afternoon. The theme of this year’s concert is “celebrating great music of master composers of the past 40 years”. This theme coincides with the band’s 40th anniversary. One of the pieces to be performed will be “Of Sailors and Whales”, composed by the late Francis McBeth. The 80-person band will also perform “The Symphonic Gershwin” and “An American in Paris”, among many others.

Two time Grammy nominated, singer/songwriter, Pam Rose is coming to Ithaca to do a concert with Terry Burns (of Burns and Kristy). Pam just finished touring with Emmy Lou Harris and has opened for Sting and Tommy Emmanuel. Pam and Terry have written a plethora of songs together and have wanted to play out together, in Ithaca, forever. The fabulous, Ron Kristy, will also be accompanying the tow on some songs he wrote with them. Don’t miss out on catching these talented musicians.

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with on-line and social media duties. The Ithaca Times is a community weekly with a strong editorial voice. In addition to stories from meeting coverage, we expect enterprise journalism and humaninterest features. Digital tasks include posting stories, minor site design work, and time on Facebook and Twitter. Must have strong understanding of local government and civic organizations. Send a resume’ and samples of your work to jbilinski@ithacatimes.com or by mail to J. Bilinski, Ithaca Times, 109 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca. NY 14850

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F/T 12-Month osition available 11/21/16 with T-S-T-BOCES Central Business Office. Must meet county requirements including residency. Apply online www. tompkinscountyny.gov/personnel Detailed job posting on the BOCES Web Site: www.tstboces.org & Careerbuilder. com Apply by 10/21/16 to TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, Phone (607)257-1551, Fax: (607)6978273, Email: hr@tstboces.org

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Up to 5 F/T 10-Month positions available in the Exceptional Education Department working with students in the Smith School on the T-S-T-BOCES Campus. Apply online: www.tompkinscountyny. gov/personnel Detailed job posting on the BOCES Web Site: www.tstboces. org & Careerbuilder.com Apply to: TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, Phone (607)257-1551, Fax: (607)697-8273, Email: hr@tstboces.org

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Are you looking for a fulfilling career? If so, you could find a rewarding future with Ithaca, NY. based Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Inc., (TCAT, Inc.), which is recognized by its peers as being the best transit agency of its size in North America. TCAT, Inc. is looking for mechanics to join our 3rd shift team. Qualified Mechanics that join our winning team will receive a sign on bonus of $2,500 to be paid out over a one year period. Candidates must have the ability to perform routine servicing and preventive maintenance with diesel and heavy vehicle experience preferred, and a Commercial Drivers’ License (CDL) with air brake endorsement or a willingness to obtain one.

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