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he City of Ithaca’s Common Council voiced strong support for abortion rights on Sept. 7, voting to encourage federal lawmakers to pass a bill that keeps insurers and local governments from restricting access to abortions. Common Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution introduced by Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st) supporting the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act of 2015. The act, introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D–Calif.), is currently before the House of Representatives and would make it illegal for public health insurers such as Medicaid and Medicare to deny coverage for abortion as well as prohibit state and local governments from restricting insurance coverage of abortion by private insurers. “I know that, in general, we as a body tend to avoid making statements on broad national issues,” Brock said. “But we have seen in communities across the nation, states across the nation, more and more individual locations taking stands to limit access to a woman’s right to an abortion.” About 30 people attended the meeting to advocate the resolution, copies of which will be sent to the Tompkins County Legislature and state and federal representatives. “How can we allow zip code to dictate care?” said a junior at Cornell University. “Throughout my 44 years teaching public health policy and doing research in the field, I know the field of public health is extremely concerned that restricted access to abortion is harming the most vulnerable women in the country,” said Stewart Auyash, chair of the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education at Ithaca College. “Even in Ithaca, women are affected,” Auyash said, adding that more than 100 women in Ithaca are covered by an insurer that only pays for abortions when a doctor certifies that the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. “For me, this is a women’s rights issue, it’s an equity issue, and I’m kind of amazed that here we are in 2016, and despite the fight that has been going on for decades, we’re still here and we’re still facing this same fight,” Brock said, adding that she was “very proud to bring this resolution forward today.” Mayor Svante Myrick promised at the outset of meeting that Common Council would take attendees on “a tour of the city
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natural-areas ranger. But this year, the city was able to hire three additional rangers because the Town of Ithaca and Tompkins County each contributed $7,500 in addition to the $15,000 the city allocated. The rangers are traveling in teams of two “as we did not feel it was safe to send one person out to address large crowds and at times aggressive individuals,” said Julie Holcomb, city clerk, in an email. The city also purchased cameras and uniforms for the rangers. Even with four rangers, the entire Six Mile Creek is not patrolled. “You are only covering the problem spots,” McMahon told the two rangers attending the meeting.
erbal abuse comes with the job of being a gorge ranger patrolling the Six Mile Creek Natural Area where some visitors litter, trample over the flora and jump illegally into the waters at First Dam, Second Dam and Potter’s Falls, said Brittany Lagaly, an Ithaca gorge ranger. Speaking at the City of Ithaca’s Natural Areas Commission meeting on Sept. 6, Lagaly is one of four seasonal rangers funded by the City and Town of Ithaca, as well as Tompkins County, to work from May through September at the natural area that extends above and below the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve on Giles Street. “If we weren’t there, there would be people partying all day for as long as they wanted, getting more and more inebriated, and doing crazier and City forester Jeanne Grace and gorge rangers Brittany Lagaly and Angela Simms crazier things,” she said. (Photo: Casey Martin) Meeting monthly, the Natural Areas Commission is The most popular spot is Second Dam responsible for advising city agencies, where cliffs rise 10-50 feet above the water. including the Common Council, on During the summer 2015, a man died after threats to ecosystems and opportunities jumping into the murky water and not to improve protective measures in natural resurfacing. areas. September’s meeting was primarily People hopping off waterfalls, playing devoted to a discussion of what occurred disruptive music, drinking, and littering at Six Mile Creek Natural this summer and plans to convey the rangers’ findings to the are more of a problem at First Dam this year than they were last summer, Lagaly Common Council. said. The natural area is being destroyed Trail traffic at Six Mile Creek Natural because of crowds coming to the area Area was light in August, but now that to do whatever they want, said Joe McMahon, chair. continued on page 4 Since 1984, the city has funded a
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months-long project to provide Tompkins County residents with donated tools is getting off the ground after Cornell students and graduates have worked for nearly a year to create a traveling tool library. Building Community, an organization founded last year by Cornell students, staff, and volunteers from around upstate New York, used a $5,000 grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts to create the 8-foot tall library out of wood, and is now seeking donations to fill the shed-like structure. Building Community is requesting everything from hammers, drills and brooms to extension cords, belt sanders, and shop lights to fill up the library in an effort to make tools more accessible to locals. Isabella Crowley, co-founder and publicity coordinator for Building Community, said the library’s design is essentially finished and the focus is now on establishing a well-rounded collection of tools. While the fine details of how the library would work are not entirely nailed down, one idea is that the library would be stationed in various areas around Tompkins County one day a week, allowing people to check out tools, possibly for a yearly membership fee of about $20. The 12-foot-by-7-foot library can be hooked up to a truck and driven anywhere it is needed. This, Crowley said, is an important part of the design, and lets the group extend the library’s reach anywhere in the county. “This is not something that will just live at Cornell, although it is a
“My family’s homemade red wine.” —Gaius Gloude
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“Little Tree Orchard’s apple cider.” —Sandy Dutkowsky
Ithaca College and Cornell students have returned, so has visitation, especially in the late afternoon and on weekends. Families frequent the area during the day. Keeping visitors from swimming isn’t the only responsibility the rangers have. They also give directions, educate visitors about the area’s vegetation and history, and try to keep dogs on leashes and people on trails to maintain safe conditions and prevent erosion. Lagaly stops to pick up plastic bags and cigarette butts to keep birds and fish from choking on them. But prohibiting swimming and littering area are the rangers most challenging responsibilities. Without the authority to issue
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student-initiated project,” Crowley, who is also a student at Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, said in a recent interview. The library, Crowley hopes, could also double as an exhibition space for members of the community to showcase art or teach people how to make certain home improvements. “The exhibition part is something I’m really interested in developing, and I think is a really great opportunity to work with local artists and craftspeople,” Crowley said. The library could be a “space that features artwork aligned with our values of sharing skills and learning in a community,” she added. Crowley and other volunteers, including several who have graduated from Cornell’s architecture program, have been working at the Rand Hall wood shop and other art studios six days a week some weeks, getting to know different types
of wood and planning the traveling tool library. “It quickly took up all of my time and now it’s like a full-time job,” Crowley said. “I stuck with it because the people are just really great to work with. It’s been a way to get to know Ithaca and the greater region, its architectural history and ... the nonprofit community that makes Ithaca such a welcoming place, such a lively town.” Building Community will be accepting donations for the traveling tool library on Thursday at the Ithaca Night Market at Steamboat Landing from 5 to 8 p.m. Workshop on how to restore tools are held monthly at The Sustainability Center on Saturdays and Building Community is also accepting tools in any condition for the traveling tool library. •
citations, the rangers are forced to call the Ithaca Police Department or Tompkins County Sheriff to address illegal activities. By the time law enforcement arrives, the offenders have often fled the scene. Some are willing to risk a ticket, believing that if challenged the court will dismiss the charge. “Ticketing authority would make a big difference,” said Daniel Hoffman, a commissioner for natural areas. But calls to law enforcement are less frequent than they were earlier in the summer, said Angela Sims, another ranger attending the meeting. The situation is “slowly getting better,” she said. Jeanne Grace, the City of Ithaca’s forester, is hopeful that the Common Council will give more staff time and funding next year to the problems at Six
Mile Creek Natural Area. Chair McMahon discussed the task force that Mayor Svante Myrick is creating to review all of the issues involved with the recreational use of the city’s natural areas. Members had not been announced as of this writing. Grace is also training the public on how to weed out the invasive plant, Japanese stilt grass, which is dense in some parts of the natural area. The public is invited to the next session scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. until noon. No experience is necessary. The group is to meet at the small parking area for the South Hill Recreation Way at the end of Juniper Drive in Ithaca. Refreshments will be provided. •
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efore moving to Ithaca last month, my wife and I made several visits to look for houses. When we pulled into Fall Creek during one of our trips, our real-estate agent exclaimed, “This is the Porchfest neighborhood!” while pointing out the handpainted signs that dotted yards as we drove by. Porchfest was conceived in 2007 by Fall Creek neighbors Lesley Greene and Gretchen Hildreth, after Hildreth walked by Greene and her husband playing ukuleles on their front steps. As Greene recalls, “Gretchen and I quickly got to talking about how much we like music played outside and noted that there were so many musicians who lived in our neighborhood that you could put on a festival.” Within months, Porchfest was born. The event has grown steadily since, adding roughly 20 performers each year, while becoming a distinguishing feature of the neighborhood. The 10th annual Porchfest this Sunday, Sept. 18, will once again be the largest to date, with 185 performers slated to play at over 100 different houses. The increase of performers did slow slightly this year—up nine from 176 in 2015—but this is “honestly a good thing,” co-organizer Andy Adelewitz said, “because at a certain point in this quarter-of-a-squaremile space you can’t fit in many more performances without them being right on top of each other.” To keep sonic competition to a minimum, the organizers typically schedule one performance per block each hour. The participating musicians also sign a pledge to keep the volume low and are encouraged to limit amplification, but Adelewitz noted that these guidelines are “subject to wide interpretation” and there’s only so much the organizers can do outside of thoughtful scheduling and responding to complaints during the day. Despite these acoustic and logistical challenges, the organizers remain “hesitant to put a cap on the number of performers,” Adelewitz said, because “it is such a democratic event,” one where father-daughter duos and teenage rock bands play their only show of the year alongside touring bands. To maintain this open spirit, the organizers opted instead to reduce the sign-up window from a month to three weeks this year. With Porchfest’s continued growth have come necessary accommodations. The city now requires the event to have
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he said, and anyone can sign up, which makes it “feel more like a pure celebration of making music.” The wonderful weather every year has also been a blessing, noted Emoretta Yang, a long time Fall Creek resident, because it has encouraged people to walk the neighborhood. Yang has participated in Porchfest from the start, hosting Auntie Emo’s ukulele workshop at her home on Yates Street, before adding a ukulele showcase six years ago. At the workshop, Yang sets up a “garden of ukes” for passersby to give the instrument a whirl along with the option of a free lesson. And just like that, a new Porchfest performer is born. On Sunday, neighbors will become concert hosts, performers, and audience members, and it is this interconnectedness that the organizers believe makes it a true community event. Whether you are 8 or 88, into brass or bluegrass, Polynesian dance or puppetry, Porchfest’s variety Porchfest 2011 (above) and Porchfest 2012 (below) (File photos) promises something for everyone. Don’t points of entry or forget to wear your tickets sold. (As walking (and dancing) of writing, 776 shoes. Facebook users For up-to-date said they would information on the be attending on event, including the the festival’s event event schedule and page.) map, go to: porchfest. The appeal org. of Porchfest isn’t The 10th annual limited to Ithaca. Porchfest will take Since Greene place in Fall Creek and and Hildreth Northside from noon founded the to 6 p.m on Sunday, festival in 2007, Sept. 18. neighborhoods There will be no across the US and Canada have reached food truck roundup this year, but The out to them and Adelewitz, who Good Truck and the Silo Farm-to-Food joined the duo in 2013, for guidance Truck will be at Thompson Park, and the on starting their own events. The Fall Fall Creek Elementary PTA is hosting a Creek organizers have happily obliged, bake sale at the school. putting together an information packet Port-a-johns will be located at for inquiring organizers and reaching out Thompson Park, Fall Creek Elementary, to new Porchfests whenever they hear and Northstar House. The Tabernacle of them. To date, there are at least 55 Baptist Church will also be opening its Porchfests in North America, 8 of which bathrooms to the public once again as well have been founded in towns throughout as giving out free lemonade and cookies. New York since 2013—Buffalo, Oswego, Street closures will be at: Auburn Binghamton, Cortland, and Rhinebeck (Lincoln – Lewis, Tompkins – Yates); among others. Willow (Yates – Cayuga); Cascadilla So what makes Porchfest so (Cayuga – Tioga); Tioga (Cascadilla successful? – Farm); Utica (Lincoln – Lewis); For Adelewitz it’s the simplicity and Jay (Cayuga – Tioga); Linn (King – democratic nature of the event combined Tompkins). • with Fall Creek “being a really creative and groovy neighborhood.” It is just – Rich Heffron “neighbors playing music for neighbors,” T
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Fixing Public School Challenges Drink the Kool-Aid I N t’s September, and like many families middle school teacher, and I remember we’re getting ready to go back to going with her to buy 22 copies of school: pulling out backpacks, books like Charlotte’s Web and Where figuring out transportation and afterthe Red Fern Grows. My mom spent school care, gathering hours cutting clear, school supplies, and sticky contact paper to picking out the very cover their paperback important first-day-ofcovers. When I was back school outfits. at my parents’ home If you step back last spring, I found and think about it for a some of those old books second, the thousands and flipped through of teachers, bus drivers, their well-worn pages, office staff, and other dog-eared and lovingly school professionals marked up by students. in our community are Like all teachers, my almost too good to be mom’s job didn’t end true. Every morning when she walked out we send our kids off to the school’s doors at the spend their days in a safe end of the day, and we environment, surrounded can all vividly remember by professionals devoted our own teachers who Lesley Danks Burke to making sure they learn. made extra effort, (Photo: Dede Hatch) I’m a product of public coaching outside of the schools, and my children classroom, inviting the go to public school, kids who didn’t fit in to and every September when I spend an hang out in their classroom for lunch, evening sitting in a little elementary spending their own money on supplies. school chair as teachers describe their It’s so common that we forget how plans for the year, I am in awe of their extraordinary it is—in what other job work and dedication to making sure my do workers regularly shell out personal kids - and all our kids - get to learn. money for shopping carts of items for Teachers are the heart of our public getting their work done? schools. They work long hours, for a And it’s not just teachers who lot less money than they could earn help our kids flourish—social workers, elsewhere, because they love their work and our children. My mom was a continued on page
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ews item: The New York Federation of College Republicans announced Sept. 2 that it is revoking the credentials of the Cornell University Republicans over the Cornell group’s endorsement of Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, rather than Donald Trump. We humans are eavesdroppers by nature, so it’s our pleasure to present the transcript of a recent telephone conversation between Greg Marmalard, executive supervisor of the Cornell Republicans and Doug Niedermeyer, director of the New York Federation of College Republicans … MARMALARD: Doug? It’s Greg Marmalard from the Cornell Republicans. Hope I’m not calling at a bad time. I’m calling about our credentials being revoked. I can’t believe you’d do this over the endorsement. NIEDERMEYER: Marmalard, it’s more than that and you know it. We’ve been warning you for months. Your chapter just hasn’t been changing with the times. It’s a new GOP, and we change or perish. MARMALARD: Is this about our members eating at ethnic restaurants again? NIEDERMEYER: Well, partly, of course. I mean, Thai food? Sophisticated tastes are so Old Republican. We’re Chickfil-A diners now. And your website shows members wearing dress shirts and ties. It’s not 1988, Marmalard. We wear tee shirts and baseball hats that make fuzzy promises now. MARMALARD: We don’t have a Chick-fil-A in Ithaca. NIEDERMEYER: I’m told there’s a new Texas Roadhouse. Improvise! And another thing. Our operatives report one of your members ordering a Myer Farm Gin martini at one of your local bars. Did you not get the memo about Budweiser? MARMALARD: Well, it’s a local distillery and … wait a minute. You’ve been
spying on us? NIEDERMEYER: Seriously? It’s called surveillance. Maybe you’ve heard of it. And you shouldn’t be concerned about that … unless you have something to hide. MARMALARD: Well, no, of course not. But this credentials thing, Greg. Isn’t there something we can do? It’s like we’re being exiled. NIEDERMEYER: What did you think was going to happen? This Johnson character believes that humans contribute to climate change, and gay marriage is OK. To him, the death penalty is flawed public policy. He’s used the words “racial profiling.” He doesn’t even think The Wall is a good idea. His views are totally at odds with our new base. MARMALARD: New base? NIDERMEYER: Dude, this is precisely what we’re concerned about. You people in your chapter are clinging to “conservative values.” If you could see me, you’d know I was using air quotes. Those ideas are of no use to us now. They’ve been rejected. By “the people.” Again, using air quotes. MARMALARD: What if we promise to be better? Is there anything we can do? NIEDERMEYER: Better how? MARMALARD: Well, we could make vague marginalizing comments about Muslim students on campus. Or campaign to make Cornell a concealed-carry university. We could be angrier. Like really pissed off. All the time! NIEDERMEYER: Interesting. And the endorsement? MARMALARD: Cancelled. With full apologies. NIEDERMEYER: Marmalard, you’re starting to get it. Make some changes, and soon, and we’ll review your case. MARMALARD: Thank you, Herr Niedermeyer! Er … sir. We’ll jump right on it! •
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and touch on issues all over,” and for the next three and a half hours, local officials and residents spoke about many issues including swimming in the gorges and a fine to be paid to the Department of Environmental Conservation.
coaches and teacher aides, bus drivers and crossing guards, cafeteria workers and maintenance crews are taking care of our children and getting them ready for their future. Every afternoon at 2:19 p.m. for the past seven years, I’ve been able to glance at the clock and know that my daughters are being safely delivered by their school bus driver, who watches them like a hawk, and even retrieves the occasional left mitten, lunchbox, or homework packet. Public school education is the best of all of us, coming together every day, but huge challenges threaten to dismantle our schools. Buildings and other infrastructure are falling apart, with public school water in Ithaca and other Southern Tier communities now undrinkable because of lead contamination. My opponent, Senator Tom O’Mara, is trying to take credit for action there, but his legislation does nothing to help schools that find lead in water, and every year he votes to send desperately needed infrastructure dollars away from our region. Budgets get tighter every year because paying for schools through regressive property taxes keeps poor schools poor, yet the state’s unfunded mandates have grown harsher on my opponent’s watch. Private corporations are seizing moneymaking opportunities through standardized test fees, lunchroom contracts, and data management. Lobbying pressure in Albany has led to more and more funds going to New York City charter schools when the data shows that our schools in the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes are consistently underfunded. And Albany’s botched Common Core rollout and the profitdriven overuse and misuse of standardized testing forces teachers to “teach to the test,” taking time away from classroom instruction, and pressuring teachers to move away from schools with greatest need. The facts are, our taxes are through the roof, but the money isn’t getting to our children’s classrooms. There’s a deep mismatch, and we have a lot of work to do to make sure our teachers, administrators, and school professionals have the tools to do their jobs correctly. I’m deeply honored that New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) has endorsed my candidacy for State Senate, even though they endorsed my opponent last time, and even though it’s rare for a union to take a stand against a sitting incumbent. In the raging battle over whether corporations or teachers are going to make classroom decisions, I stand with the teachers, and I’m proud that the teachers stand with me. Let’s get to work.
Swimming at the Gorges City forester Jeanne Grace spoke to the council, lamenting the environmental and ecological destruction that swimmers at Six Mile Creek have caused. [See an account of her report to the Natural Areas Commission on page 3.] Grace said that alcohol containers, cigarette butts, and large amounts of other trash are left behind by rebellious swimmers. “Especially concerning is small trash like cigarette butts and bottle caps, posing significant risk to aquatic life,” she said. Nestling ducks, Grace said, have abandoned their homes at Second Dam and First Dam, and the hillsides are eroding from the combination of high foot traffic and the drought. Natural areas ranger Angela Simms said there were two very different people who hike to the gorges: families enjoying the area peacefully on the one hand, and people that come and “abuse the area, such as littering, cliff jumping, and vandalism or abusing the rangers verbally or just taunting them” on the other. Simms said the area, unsurprisingly, is especially busy during the summer months from Friday through Sunday. Students often feel entitled, Simms said, and tell her and other rangers, “The ticket will just be thrown out anyway.” She asked Common Council to give the rangers ticketing power, which she said would help the rangers and allow local police agencies to focus on other issues rather than spending an hour at Six Mile Creek. A task force commissioned by Mayor Myrick is currently studying the issues of swimmer safety, trash and vandalism. DEC Fine Common Council entered into executive session—closed to the public and the media—at the end of the meeting to discuss pending litigation against the city. After returning from a closed room, Council voted unanimously to pay $2,500 in fines to the Department of Environmental Conservation The fine stems from a month-long blockage that resulted in 3.2 million gallons of wastewater to overflow in October 2015, Ithaca employees discovered that a blockage under the Cayuga Lake Inlet had caused about 3.2 million gallons of wastewater to overflow. Mayor Myrick said the initial fine had been much larger than the ultimate $2,500 agreed to, but that City attorney Ari Lavine had negotiated with the DEC to greatly reduce the fine. • – Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
Leslie Danks Burke is an attorney and a resident of Tompkins County. She is running for the state Senate seat for the 58th District, currently occupied by Tom O’Mara.
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ourCorrections Our Personal Health article in the Sept. 7 issue (“Preventing Soccer Injuries” by Erica Dischino) included the statement that mouth guards help to prevent concussion. We apologize for the error. Dr. MacQueen was misquoted. To clarify mouth guards do not prevent concussion. This information has also been corrected in the online version of the article.
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policies. But they oppose regulating or taxing carbon emissions, are dismissive of wind and solar, and treat natural gas as “clean” despite it having a carbon footprint as large as coal’s when methane leakage is accounted for. They also support nuclear energy. I would like voters to understand that this candidate is not a good choice if you are concerned with clean energy. – Joan Bokaer, Ithaca
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I am dismayed to hear that Maguire auto is trying to occupy lakefront property near the farmer’s market and community gardens. What better way to ruin Ithaca? Apparently the greed and bad taste of car dealers knows no bounds. Not only does Maguire enjoy a near-monopoly in Ithaca, but they seem bent on turning a pleasant upstate community into one big unsightly highway strip littered with cars. The grease strip near the big box stores may be damaged beyond compare, but one only has to look at the way the Maguire Chevy dealership disturbs the character of a pleasant residential community near Triphammer Marketplace to see what’s in store for the waterfront. Big, car-carrying trucks coming and going at all times. A sprawling lot that contains far more cars than can reasonably be sold in a small town. Cars blocking public walkways in a section of Lansing Village where sidewalks are considered a luxury. Yet when a car-transport truck got stuck in the neighborhood, the road was repaired and reinforced right away. Money talks, nobody walks.
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Eddie Moran | Technology For All Initiative
When Edward Moran’s mother asked him to get rid of the family’s broken computer, he fixed it instead. “Before I threw it out, I asked her if I could take a screwdriver to it. My mom said, ‘Absolutely not, you’re going to kill yourself,’” said Moran, who was 13 at the time. But by the time his mother had returned to their home in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Moran was playing pinball on the 8
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E d d i e M o r a n ( P h o t o : C a s e y M a r t i n) identify them while browsing the internet. In the year after his fellowship began in September 2015, Moran has hosted more than 30 different courses in digital literacy, trained several interns, and donated computers to about 200 people, many of which he said “were set to go to the dump.” Moran found himself living in and out of homelessness in Brooklyn when he was in high school, and said he would look for any reason to stay late at school to keep himself out of trouble, teaching himself how to fix hard drives by reading online forums and watching YouTube videos. Now, he’s motivated by the fact that he can give children options that he never had. “I needed this information, and I didn’t have the resources readily available,” he said. “I didn’t have money available that I could just shell out to have [someone fix things] for me. I would find myself at the school’s computer lab or at the library just sitting there at the computer looking things up.” Moran also teaches adults how to use computers, and realized the importance of doing so when his mother, who was once a programmer for IBM, called him and asked how to upload a picture to Facebook. “You’re the one who got me into
technology,” he recalled thinking. “I don’t understand how you need my help uploading a picture.” He has hosted classes on advanced computer building for people from age 18 to over 70. “Hopefully the classes that I’ve taught are really going to inspire people to take this education into their own hands,” he said, adding that he wants his classes to “pull people away from the consumer aspect of technology and ... change the way they look at their status” when it comes to computers. Moran plans to apply to the Rochester Institute of Technology and ultimately wants to enter into the political side of things to push for equality in technology and encourage more investment in technological literacy. “We need to educate people on more than taking a selfie,” he said.
Clara Butler | The Backpack Project
Clara Butler, who also just completed her fellowship, which is run by the Cornell Public Service Center, moved to Ithaca from New York City in 1998 and has been working to give young Ithacans school supplies long before she was a fellow with the program. Butler has run a backpack giveaway
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program every fall since 2010, handing out backpacks stuffed with school supplies to children and teens at the South Side Community Center. “I know a lot of parents who couldn’t afford backpacks and supplies for the kids,” she said. “My mother struggled with us through the school year, and I just thought it would be something nice to do and give back to the community. Butler gave out about 100 bags in 2010, but is up to more than 200 this fall and hopes to expand every year. The giveaway is coupled with a back to school party complete with hamburgers, hotdogs, and watermelon, she said. The fellowship program has helped financially, Butler said, but also has given her connections that help her increase fundraising efforts and hold more events. Butler has been able to connect with several Cornell students who are going to help organize talent shows, spelling bees, and other fundraisers so that she can give away more backpacks stuffed with more supplies. “My goal is to add something on every year and make this as big as it can get and give out as many bags as I can. It definitely made a difference to me to have the Cornell students and the fellowship on my side,” she said, adding that she was incredibly grateful to Ithaca residents and businesses for supporting her for the last six years. The backpack giveaway featured a bouncy house this year, and next year she wants to surprise the children and teens with something new, like a cotton candy
or popcorn machine. The money she gets from donations and the fellowship allow her to add another necessity, like tissues, to the hundreds of backpacks she gives away each year. In addition to the standard notebooks and pencils, she likes to put fuzzy pens, colorful water bottles, or something else she thinks a student may have always wanted into the bag. “To see a kid walk away with a new backpack and to see a kid walk away with stuff in a backpack they wouldn’t have otherwise, it really does my heart some good,” she said.
Ross Haarstad | The Democracy Project
Ross Haarstad is a well known member of the local theatre community; he has been actor, director, troupe leader, and a critic and writer. “The desire that I had—and have—is to see more local faces of color on stages around town. There are some,” he said, “but I’d like to see more. We do see it happening nationally; look at the diversity at the Tony Awards this year.” Haarstad wonders if casting directors “look hard enough” for people of color to fill roles. He noted that Lupita Nyong’o, the star of the film Twelve Years a Slave, recently demanded a crew made up of people of color to work on Eclipsed, a Broadway play about five women caught in upheaval in Liberia. Locally, he gave credit to Civic Ensemble for bringing more people of color into the theatre community. “My idea was two fold,” said Haarstad. “First, get more people who are interested on stage doing plays, and during rehearsals
offer them workshops for skill building: learned how to project, creating character, and the basic acting framework. “Second,” he continued, “increase cultural literacy by talking about drama and spoken word works from the rich African-American—Latino and AsianAmerican—drama literature. It’s part of American literature and there are some really exciting people working right now, like Suzan-Lori Parks [her Topdog/ Underdog won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002], Lin-Manuel Miranda [In the Heights, Hamilton], and Lynn Nottage [her play Ruined won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009].” Haarstad said that all the theaters in town, except Civic Ensemble, generally do one play per year that highlights people of color. “The Kitchen tries to do more,” he said, “but they are bring in people from New York City.” He wants to focus on local residents and his main goal is begin producing “staged concert readings.” In this kind of presentation the performers are still “on book” (holding the script in their hands). He wants to draw from the black and Latino repertoires. Right now he is casting for the Alice Childress play Trouble in Mind, which won an Obie in 1956. (She was the first African-American women to win the award.) The play is about three black actors who have to decide whether they are going to preserve their integrity in the face of dealing with a white director who doesn’t seem to understand the play—which is about a lynching—that he is directing. Haarstad want to mix contemporary playwrights—like Parks, Miranda, and Nottage—with works by older pioneers like Childress and August Wilson. “I’d like to do four play a year,” he said. “By T
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Monica Arambulo’s InterGenerational Community Building in Ithaca will match seniors who have skills and interests to share with young people who have energy and would benefit from the experience and help from the seniors. Damon Brangman’s Roots Rising Farm is a garden-based educational opportunities for school students, young adults and growing families. The purpose of Avis Frasier’s Get on the Move is to increase positive healthy living for low-income seniors, especially seniors of color. This includes staying fit, improving balance and endurance, reducing stress, improving nutrition, health knowledge and outcomes, having stronger social relationships and a stronger sense of community. • e m b e r 1 4 – 2 0 , 2 0 1 6 9
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began the event by introducing Gural and Southern Tier Veterans Support Group (STVSG) vice president Ben Margolius. Each year Tioga Downs hosts a concert to benefit local veterans, with proceeds from ticket sales matched by Gural and donated to the STVSG. This year's Grand Funk concert on Aug. 13 sold over 3,000 tickets for more than $50,000, matched by Gural for a total donation of $100,530 to benefit the Southern Tier's veterans. Margolius joked that he didn't know how he would fit the presentation check into an ATM. "This will allow us to do a lot more for veterans because of the backing of Jeff Gural," Margolius said, "We will put it to good use, I assure you." The STVSG serves over 60,000 veterans in nine counties, including Chemung, Tioga, and Tompkins counties. Erickson said the Hotel will include 11 suites, and half the rooms will have track-
side views. There will also "The entire county will be facilities for weddings, benefit from Tioga Downs banquets, and conferences, being a tourism destination Erickson said, and the adwhen people are visiting the dition of a 2,000 square foot Finger Lakes," Sauerbrey spa. Ageless Spa will be the said. vendor for that, in addition Gural said that he is to a new P.J. Clarke's restaualready working with tourrant, according to Erickson. ism agencies in the Finger There will also be an indoor Lakes and Watkins Glenn to n Sept. 6, 2016 Tioga Downs celand an outdoor pool, and integrate Tioga Downs into ebrated receiving its long awaited a water slide in the new promotions of the region. commercial gaming license with a Jeff Gural (Photo: Rick Stilson addition. "If it works the way we groundbreaking for what owner Jeff Gural Tioga County Legislathink it will, this should be a hopes will bolster his goal of creating a tive chair Martha Sauerbrey real tourist attraction," Gu"world-class" gaming and entertainment said the Tioga Downs expansion represents ral said, "people need to come here and see complex. Local politicians and supporters an estimated $134 million in new private how beautiful the area is." Gural has been gathered at the 2384 W. River Road, Nichinvestment in Tioga County, and bring a guiding the development of Tioga Downs ols facility on a bright late summer day to $12 million payroll of 700 family-sustaining to complement the rural ambiance of Tioga mark the beginning of the next major phase jobs. Sauerbrey anticipates an additional County from the start, using a county fair of construction: a 161-room six-floor hotel. $300,000 in new sales, hotel and motel taxes feel for the rotunda and adjoining Country Tioga Downs' vice president of marfor the county. Fair Buffet. "It will not be gaudy; it's got a keting Britta Erickson served as MC, and real feel to it," Gural said. Gural recognized Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the recent gaming license approval. "I give him a lot of credit for asking the Gaming Commission to reconsider their decision," Gural said. He also thanked state and county representatives across the entire Southern Tier region for their support during the licensing process, saying they did not just sit back and wait for things to happen. Gural also remembered the late Sen. Thomas Libous for his help as Tioga Downs was brought back from a dilapidated quarter horse track and its transformation into a racino, through the protracted fight for the state gaming license which will bring table gaming and, Gural hopes, a sizable tourist attraction to the central Finger Lakes region. Sen. Fred Akshar replaced Libous after he was forced to resign, winning the support of voters in a special election. Along with other key local representatives, Akshar was on hand to speak during the groundbreaking. Akshar said the expansion will bring millions of dollars into the coffers of local schools and governments in the region, along with other benefits financial benefits. The tremendous beneficial impact of the Tioga Downs project is an example Learn about heart valve disease and the latest advancements in treatment of the growth and prosperity possible for advanced aortic stenosis. when local and state leaders work together, Akshar said. Tuesday, September 27, 6-7:30 p.m. But without Gural, there would not have been the opportunity for community Hotel Ithaca – 222 South Cayuga Street leaders to come together. "His generosity Advance registration is requested. Register by calling never ceases to amaze me," Akshar said 570-887-4663 or online at www.Guthrie.org/Heartwise1 before thanking "Jeff Gural for all he does." Guy A. Rogers Jr., Christopher Friend, Assemblyman for MSPAS, PA-C, CCA the NY 124th District, recalled another From 6-6:30 p.m., have your blood pressure checked, sign up for a door Valve Clinic Coordinator groundbreaking five years ago when the prize, and visit our educational tables to learn about: weather was quite different from the pleas • CPR • Exercise • Quitting smoking ant weather during this one. The region had just suffered a devastating flood in 2011, Presented by the Guthrie Cardiac and Vascular Center and and Friend recalled Gural reaching out to Guthrie Robert Packer, a Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospital nationwide. the Nichols community in its time of need. "It showed me that Jeff was really committed to this community, along with his steadfast commitment to veterans," Friend said, "thank you, Jeff Gural, for persevering for Chemung and Tioga counties."
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made a phone call Sunday night, and I thought I had been caught in a time warp, transported back 30 years. I had planned to talk to Richie Moran, but the voice on the other end of the phone sounded more like Richie in 1986, than Richie who had just spent two hours on the sidelines, screaming at the top of his lungs to exhort the Big Red lacrosse team to another victory, wearing out his vocal cords in the process. Given the coach retired in 1999, I knew that was not the case. The truth of the matter is that Richie had spent the last three days in Baltimore for the grand opening of the U.S. Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Maryland. Richie was one of three former Big Red to have a role in the big weekend, as Ron Pannell (’13) played in an exhibition game and the late Eamon McAneany (’77) was honored in the dedication of the facility’s 9/11 Memorial. This piece was especially poignant, as the ceremony was held 15 years to the day after McEneany lost his life in the attack on the World Trade
Center. Moran’s trip to Maryland for the event was a “full circle” sort of experience, as he played lacrosse for the University of Maryland from 1956 to ‘59. UMD won the national championship in 1959, and when Richie went on to coach Cornell to three Division I titles, he became only one of two people to win the championship as a player and a coach. In addition to those titles, Richie’s teams won 15 Ivy League championships (including seven straight from 1974 to 1980), and finished second in the NCAA three more times. Moran-led teams also set an NCAA record, winning 42 consecutive games from 1976 to ‘78, and won an Ivy League record 39 straight conference wins from 1973 to ‘79. The legendary coach’s impact on the athletes he coached and on the game in general far transcends numbers, and as a person who has been with him at social events, I can say that to call him “beloved” is no stretch. Men who have become fourstar generals and Fortune 500 guys point
The money (most of it) flowed in, and the fact that such a contingent of former Cornell players, showed up left Richie nearly speechless—both figuratively as well as literally. “It was overwhelming,” Richie told me in that raspy voice. “Guys came for California, Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Long Island, Massachusetts … there were over 120.” He added, Brooks Bradley with Richie Moran (Photo provided) “I also saw a player I hadn’t seen in 12 years, and a lot of the players’ to him as a mentor and friend, and he has parents showed up too.” many relationships that reach back to his I have been friends with Richie for days as a youth on Long Island. In fact, 35 years, and I have seen the depth of his he returns to his high school often, where pain when some of his former players he and his former teammates gather with have passed away, and he chuckled and their coach, now in his 90s. told me that two of them—both notorious On Sept. 11, Richie was more than mischief makers—sent him a signal of a spectator, as the Richard M. Moran sorts. He said, “I got up to the podium, Gallery was dedicated as a part of the with all the Hall of Famers standing on my National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum. The effort to name the gallery in right, and a gust of wind kicked up and Richie’s honor was spearheaded by Brooks there went my notes. I knew it was Eamon and Jay Gallagher messing with me.” Bradley, who told me, “I have known It was a great honor for a really good Richie since 1970, when I played for guy. I hope Richie gets rested up, because him, and we have been really close since he turns 80 in January, and there will then.” Brooks felt that having the gallery surely be a lot of celebrations and special named in his friend and mentor’s name events. Stay tuned. • was the right thing to do, so he dug in and initiated the $1 million fundraising effort.
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esse Steve isn’t sharing his chicken recipe. However, since Ovid’s Silo Food Truck won the Judges’ Choice Award at the New York State Fair this year, for their “Telekinetic Chicken” recipe, partners Jesse Steve and Katie Foley are planning to share their good fortune with Ovid. Friday, September 16, from 5-8 p.m., the food truck will be parked in front of the Firehouse Distillery on Main Street. Telekinetic chicken will be at a discount, and the music will be free. “We are proudly being from Ovid. I think it’s important to celebrate Ovid,” said Foley. “It good to have times for friends and family to share in what the food truck’s all about.” Rochester-based musician E. D. Iseley, who just released an album (“Experience”) will play for people from 6-7 p.m. “I want to highlight Ovid and tell it that we love it,” said Steve, who grew up not far from Jesse Steve and Katie Foley of the Silo Truck (Photo: Glynis Hart) where the food truck will be parked. He grew up on Orchard Street and played purple sticky rice, a happy accident for behind the fire house; he graduated from vegans on the road. South Seneca High School. Then, he spent “When all the sides were composed, fifteen years working along the wine trail, we realized we had all the ingredients for including seven years as kitchen manager a great vegan dish,” said Foley. “You might at Stonecat Café in Hector. not think going to the fried chicken truck Foley, in the meantime, was working would be your best vegan option at the in nonprofit development. When the two festival, but it is! The menu is healthy and of them decided a year ago to throw their fresh and local and vibrant.” lot in together for the food truck business, They also work hard to include others they named their corporation “Ball of in their ball of energy, promoting the Energy, LLC.” They laugh when they talk about it, but the energy comes from fusing artists who painted the truck (Kazilla and artist ER, from Austin), Remembrance entrepreneurial spirit with idealism- a Farm (where they get their greens), Miami desire to help the community, make a band Telekinetic Walrus (after whom the positive impact on the world, and alsowinning chicken is named) and working why not? – make some money. with organizations like the United Way “We bought a truck from one of our friends who ran Blue Moon Catering,” said (providing food for the Day of Caring). “I like that we’re lending our name to Foley. “When we took it, we bought the businesses we care about,” said Foley. “If logo and the name from them, because you have a business you can infuse your we liked it. We really liked what they were thoughts and beliefs in what you want doing, with the farm-to-festival motto.” to see happen, whether it’s serving fried The mission of Silo Food Truck is to bring fresh, organic food to festivals. Steve chicken, or donating money to a cause you care about.” lit on the chicken idea, noticing there Building on their successful first year, isn’t a lot of fried chicken being offered the Ball of Energy that is Foley and Steve through food trucks, and came up with a has already purchased another truck. “Our system to do most of the cooking ahead long range plan is to have two vehicles, to of time. It takes three days to make the chicken, and that’s about all he’ll say. Their be in two places at once,” said Steve. • meat comes from Murray’s and Free Bird –Glynis Hart Farms, primarily, and it’s all dark meat. editor@flcn.org Even in the South (the truck travels
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Declining Sales Tax Hurts County Budget On Sept. 6 Tompkins County administrator Joe Mareane has announced a recommended 2017 county budget that proposes a 3-percent increase in the tax levy at the Tompkins County Legislature meeting. The recommended levy is above the projected 2.22 percent state property tax cap. Mareane said that the state has eliminated property tax rebate checks for residents in counties that stay under the cap. “It’s important to maintain our discipline, but there is not a rebate program this year that relates to the tax cap,” he said. Over the last year the median value of a single-family home in Tompkins County has risen from $170,000 to $175,000, and the recommended budget would increase the county property tax bill for the owner of a median-valued Joe Mareane (File photo) home by $16. Due to a substantial 4.5percent increase in the county’s tax base, which spreads the cost of government across a larger base, the budget contains a property tax rate that will go down in 2017—from $6.73 per $1,000 to $6.63 per $1,000—a reduction of 1.5 percent. This is the third consecutive year that the tax rate has decreased, and is the lowest rate since 2011. The 3-percent total levy increase was approved in the spring by the legislature and is made up of three elements: 1.5 percent is attributable to a drop in sales tax revenue, half a percent is for the policybased increase in the levy for capital improvements, and one-percent is for all other increases in the county’s $173 million 2017 budget. At a press briefing last Tuesday morning, Mareane said that the decrease in sales tax revenue is the worst the county has seen in 20 years. Receipts have declined in five of the last six quarters and are projected to fall well short of the 2016 budget target. “This odd phenomenon of declining sales taxes in the midst of a robust economy is the defining characteristic of the 2017 budget,” he said, adding that the loss in sales tax is mainly due to the drop in gas prices. Normally when consumers pay less for gas they’re likely to spend that money elsewhere, Mareane said, but over the last two years that has not been the case. “Have you compared us with our neighboring counties to see whether it’s something special with Tompkins County or are our neighbors experiencing the same thing?” asked Legislator Peter Stein (D-Ithaca) at the meeting.
“Some are way up, and some are way down,” said Mareane. “Generally it’s very flat, but we’re at the lower end of the spectrum in our performance. We scratch our heads, Peter, to figure out why that might be.” He said it’s likely that online shopping has had a negative effect on sales tax revenue, especially considering the high population of college students. When it comes to labor costs, the county has increased its workforce by the equivalent of 10.8 full-time employees, but most of the positions were created in 2016 and were self-funded by grants and earned revenue. Therefore, only 1.5 new full-time employees are included in the proposed budget. Costs for county employee salaries and fringe benefits are up 1.3 percent from the 2016 budget.
For the second consecutive year the budgeted cost of state-mandated human services programs has declined and is expected to fall by $143,000 from the 2016 budgeted level. “Mandated programs are going down, not because the state provided mandate relief but because people’s dependence on those services is diminishing,” Mareane said. “Never before in my career have I seen mandates go down.” The budget identifies three significant risks inherent to the budget. One is the jail variance, which has caused a looming unbudgeted expense associated with a state push to reduce population levels at the county jail. “If the state is not happy with our progress, it has demonstrated a willingness to revoke our variance, resulting in an immediate increase in board-out
costs,” Mareane said in a letter to the legislators that summarizes the budget. The cost of assigned counsel is also a variable that is difficult to predict. Mareane explained that there is not a way to determine how many additional clients will be provided county-funded legal defense when the state-mandated income eligibility threshold doubles to 250-percent of the federal poverty level in April. $100,000 has so far been added to the Assigned Counsel Office budget due to the change. Due to these risks, Mareane increased the contingent fund budget by $230,000 over the 2016 adopted level. • – Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org
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Animated film tells the story of a doctor By Br yan VanC ampe n
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NUTS!, with filmmaker Penny Lane, 7pm Thursday, September 15 at Cornell Cinema; Complete Unknown, co-written and directed by Joshua Marston, opening Friday at Cinemapolis.
Ginsberg poem, comes to mind—but Lane’s film is a partially animated documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat-testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station. (I had actually read about Brinkley’s exploits in Have Mercy, Wolfman Jack’s autobiography. The famous DJ had lots of dealings with Brinkley and other snake-oil salesmen). Lane uses all manner of techniques both traditional and experimental, including animated reenactments, interviews and archival footage. The film traces Brinkley’s rise from poverty and obscurity to the heights of celebrity, wealth and influence. Along the way, he transplants tens of thousands of goat
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testicles; amasses an enormous fortune; is (sort of) elected Governor of Kansas; builds the world’s most powerful radio station; invents junk mail, the infomercial, the sound truck, and border radio. It’s great to see animation used for something besides talking animals. Filmmaker Penny Lane will be at Cornell Cinema to introduce and then discuss the film on Sept. 15. Lane has been making award-winning documentaries, video art, and essay films since 2002. I was particularly taken with Our Nixon, Lane’s first feature-length documentary, winner of the Ken Burns Award for “Best of the Festival” at Ann Arbor. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012, and her films have screened at Rotterdam, AFI FEST, Hot Docs, Full Frame, Rooftop Films, MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, and many other venues. It should be quite an evening. • • • 2016 marks 20 years of me watching Rachel Weisz in films—the first being a turgid action flick called Chain Reaction in 1996. After all that time, I don’t associate Weisz with a particular character, image or genre; moving from the Mummy flicks to The Constant Gardener has allowed her to retain something of a chameleon-like quality. It’s this quality that drives Complete Unknown, her latest film, and also makes it difficult to write about. The film opens with Weisz in a series of guises: a bohemian student looking at a Seattle apartment for rent. An emergency room doctor. An assistant to a Japanese magician. We see her posing at the beach, with her out of focus against the sharp focus of the sand and water. Then we meet Michael Shannon at his job. He and a co-worker go to lunch, and Weisz studies them from another table. She befriends Shannon’s co-worker and winds up going to a party where Shannon’s girlfriend is pondering a move to go to school. Movies like Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown—co-written with Julian Sheppard—are hard to write about at length and in detail, because they work best if you just experience it cold, knowing as little as possible. Let’s just say that there are large, basic questions about who Weisz is, what she has been doing, and why she has come back to see Shannon. Given Weisz’s mysterious qualities and Shannon’s natural affinity for both cartoon characters in Man of Steel and Premium Rush, and the clenched melodrama of Boardwalk Empire and his films with Jeff Nichols, you could say that Complete Unknown sizes up your pre-conceptions about what the film will be, and uses them against you. •
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etween 1969 and 2011, when the band was dissolved, Martin Barre was the lead guitarist for Jethro Tull. His contribution to the sound of the group was at least as important as that of Ian Anderson, the singer and flautist, in the sense that no one else really sound like him. Some of the most dynamic passages of Tull songs involve either alternating blasts of guitar and flute or complex interplay between the two. Barre (unlike Anderson) is actually a trained flute player and his knowledge of the capabilities of the instrument may have helped his responses and his complements. Barre’s solo work prior to the break-up of Jethro Tull consists of three albums in the 1990s and one in 2003. All featured some members of the contemporary Tull roster. His current band, however, includes Dan Crisp on vocals, acoustic guitar and bouzouki, George Lindsay on drums, and bassist Alan Thomson, who was a longtime member of the John Martyn Band. Since 2011 Barre has issued four albums, but two of them were made of reinterpretations of the Tull catalog. But the most recent, Back to Steel, is mixture of original songs, Tull deep cuts, and covers. Barre and his band will be at The Dock on Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. Ithaca Times: How did your musical career begin? Martin Barre: I started playing guitar at age 14. My granddad was a concert violinist, but the economics of the time [i.e. the Depression] meant that my dad had to work in a factory. I loved jazz flute and at 15 I bought one. When I ditched my university career and went on the road, I think he was secretly a bit pleased. He bought me a whole bunch of jazz records. In early 1966 I went professional. Soul
music was fashionable then in Birmingham, where I’m from. At school music was huge and there were just so many venues—pubs and clubs—but there was no jobs for a guitar player. I got a job playing sax. I was pretty lousy, but I got away with it. Then in late ’67 or early ’68 the “Blues Train” came to England. This was both the Kings, B.B. and Albert, Buddy Guy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee; they took the train around England and played at the stations. It brought the guitar back to music in England. So the soul band that I was in became a blues band. I still played the flute, but now it was mainly guitar. I didn’t really become a blues guitar player. People all over England were playing really lousy imitations of B.B. King, and I didn’t want to do that. Ian [Anderson] felt that way too. I had no agenda in 1968, but that was something we agreed on. IT: So how did bands come together in England back in the 1960s? MB: In Birmingham we had magazines. I honestly can’t remember the names, but there were ads in the back. The daily newspapers had a section for ‘musicians wanted’ as well. Communication was so important at a personal level. The only way to communicate— apart from the phone—was face to face. Relationships were cemented in person. IT: Once a band was together, how did they make it? MB: In those days a bunch of people got together and then spent one to three years playing gigs. Maybe, if you were good enough, you could record a record. Back then that was a really special thing, a real badge of achievement: a record company had heard of you. Everybody had learned their jobs really well, and then you went into the studio. T
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IT: You’ve been playing guitar professionally since 1968. How has your style evolved over the years? MB: I didn’t feel that I needed to change. We were evolving a different style with Tull. The songs were not straightforward. There were no 12-bar blues; they were more complex. I was learning to play in 5/4 time, 7/4, 15/8 … it’s not what other bands were doing. Tull’s music was highly complex and we were really serious about it; we would listen to last night’s gig the next day. It’s funny, someone once told me, ‘If there’s a band you really hate, you really have to go see them, because then you’ll discover what you don’t like about them. Then you’ve learned something: I need to do what they’re not doing.’ This is true for funk, jazz, rock, all of it, not just progressive rock. IT: What other music has influenced the way you play? MB: We were playing with Gentle Giant on one tour and one of them said to me, ‘Hey listen to this and cry.’ It was Elgar. From that day forward I started to listen to classical music. It’s dynamic, melodious, and it’s got space and power and room to breathe. It’s my favorite thing. But, you know, a band I really loved was Mountain. It wasn’t the style of music they played really. It was the way they behaved and communicated on stage. They weren’t just poncing around; they were really into the music: that is a band. IT: You were with Jethro Tull for a long continued on page 20
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An Expressive Instrument
A new pipe organ at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church By Bil l C h ai s son
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ast month Juget-Sinclair Organbuilders of Montreal completed the installation of a French-style pipe organ in St. Luke’s Lutheran Church on Oak Avenue in Collegetown. “We are truly fortunate to have an organ that completely realizes our vision of a truly magnificent instrument,” said Erik Kibelsbeck, the director of music at the church and the manager of concerts and facilities at Ithaca College, “ideal for a certain portion of the organ repertoire and also doing a lot of other music extremely well by virtue of being of high quality.” The church will celebrate the installation of a new pipe organ with three days of concerts and other events Friday through Sunday, Sept. 16 to 18. The organ replicates the sound and console design of a late 19th century Cavaillé-Coll organ as closely as possible: all mechanical key and stop action, console measurements based on an 1890 CavailléColl console, and pipe construction matching the master’s originals. “It has a different tonal character [than a German-
style organ],” said Kibelsbeck. “It is more nasal, like the language and it has different console controls.” The previous organ at St. Luke’s had been in place since the 1970s. Kibelsbeck, who has been at the church for 12 years said that the old organ was “functional” and that the church decided it wanted something better. “We wanted to find a style that no one else had in the region, because it would attract more interest,” he said. “Indeed, people from the Eastman School [in Rochester], Syracuse, and Boston have already stopped in.” Kibelsbeck said that the design of the organ replicates a 19th century instrument in every way except that it does have an electrically powered blower. “Otherwise it is as it would have been in 1890.” The organ at Anabel Taylor Hall is a German-style instrument, and copies of the German-style are much more common. The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies is interested in the St. Luke’s organ and will be showing it keyboard scholars.
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A Jekyll and Hyde showing at the Kitchen Theatre By Ros s Ha ars ta d Hand to God by Robert Askins, Kitchen Theatre through Sept. 25 Beware the puppet!
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Cavaillé-Coll was the foremost builder of pipe organs in late 19th century France. Their pursuit of excellence set off a competition among builders and composers to create more expressive instruments, said Kibelsbeck. “They were always reaching for more color, more dynamic range, and more subtle shuttering,” he said. “Shuttering” produces perceived changes in volume, causing the sound to “swell.” The modern organ installed at St. Luke’s has 1,180 pipes. Relatively few of them can actually be seen, but those gleam in the diffuse light of the church interior. To achieve a particular quality of sound, various alloys are used in the pipes, while the wood components are made of oak and white pine. The organ was actually built in Montréal and transported to Ithaca. The builders traveled to France to study older Cavaillé-Coll instruments, but they also included design motifs that they borrowed from decorative elements of the Oak Avenue church, which was built in 1920, a period when medieval revivalism was popular. Pipe organs, Kibelsbeck said, have existed since the medieval period. “In the early Baroque period [1580-1630],” he said, “it was the most complicated machine being made.” The maintenance of the organ will largely consist of repairing the mechanical connections that connect the console to the organ. “It needs a lot of tuning at first,” he said. “It needs to settle in.”
and its alter, to side-busting hilarity and true pathos. Askins writes brilliantly whenever Tyrone is onstage, but his other scenes lurch along like mini-sketches, especially those of Margery avoiding the advances of Pastor Greg while giving into the clumsy seductions of under-aged Timothy, and most of the mounting energy of the play is expended in the whirlwind of the first act. Act two, stranded with “what to do next,” switches gear to a mix of recriminations, moralizing and sentiment, then gets rescued halfway through in with a sublime scene of puppet sex. Jessica confronts Tyrone with the feminine wiles of her own sexpot puppet. The ensuing coupling of the puppets is hilariously counterpointed by the sweet conversing of the humans (complete with embarrassed glances at the ever more vigorous and inventive copulating.). Montana Lampert Hoover as a common-sensical Jessica (the sane one in the madness) matches Gregory’s comic dexterity in this to die-for scene. Aundres Seals is a spot-on Pastor Greg—a touch of Ned Flanders gee-gollyoh-heck, coupled with a lonely yearning for companionship and a prissy oversight of his little kingdom—embellishing the character with tiny physical tells. Michael Patrick Trimm is all jangly hormones and easily punctured bravado as Timothy, an ultimately endearing kid. In the quite difficult role of contradictory
Eric Kibelsbeck (Photo: Bill Chaisson)
The dedication recital will be at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16, with French organ virtuoso Michel Bouvard performing. There will be a pre-concert talk about the organ by St. Luke Director of Music Erik Kibelsbeck, and the builders of the organ. At 8 p.m. on Saturday, there will be a concert of music for organ and voices and instruments. Organists will include David Higgs from the Eastman School of Music, Annette Richards and Jonathan Schakel from Cornell University, Anne Laver from Syracuse University, and Jeffrey Snedeker from Ithaca. They will be joined by the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Carl Johengen, cellist Rosie Elliot, flutist Elizabeth Shuhan, soprano Megan Sharpe, and the St. Luke Brass conducted by Kibelsbeck. To reserve free tickets for this concert, email ithacafrenchorgan@gmail.com. •
Montana Lampert Hoover and Karl Gregory in “Hand to God” by Robert Askins. (Photo: Dave Burbank)
Margery; Erica Steinhagen sails easily through the tight smiles of a woman losing control, but once there, plays the rest as one long wind-up of neurosis, rather than seeking other colors (this is a trap of the play, which director Rachel Lampert doesn’t manage to overcome.) Scott Hitz provides the precise and telling puppet direction; Katherine McGeorge is the puppet builder (early Tyrone resembles beloved dragon Ollie, resurrected Tyrone is deranged wild eyes and vicious teeth). Lisa Boquist as always provides apt costumes and Erik Herskowitz has fun with the lighting. Scenic designer Kent Goetz has built a convincing basement rec room, but forces all the other scenes to the far (cramped) downstage. •
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Travels Beyond Culture
Photographing 5 continents with Sheryl Sinkow By Ambe r D onof r io
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ocal photographer Sheryl Sinkow’s work is one rich with parallels even she herself was unaware of until further inspection. Her show 5 Out of 7, up at the State of the Art Gallery this month, is a retrospective of sorts, presenting a myriad of subjects— from individuals to architecture and animals—captured over the past two decades during travels to five of the seven continents. A starting point for the show, and one demonstrative of its ultimate intent, is surprisingly at the back of the gallery: a large 7-by-4 foot banner of Ithaca is Love, the photograph taken in June when hundreds flooded the Commons with rainbow-colored “Ithaca is Love” shirts to show support for Orlando after the shooting. “I’m particularly pleased to show the image because of the powerful feeling and unity that was created the moment the image was formed,” Sinkow wrote in her show statement of the event. Beside the banner are more images, demonstrating how the photograph was created and recording the people as they gathered, slowly at first, then suddenly, hoards of accumulating color. Unity, then, seems a valid theme for the show as a whole, as one that spans country lines from China to Cuba to Peru, Kenya, and France. “These other images suggest that we are not so very different from one
another,” Sinkow continued, “and in these troubling times, it is important to see and feel that we are all connected.” Indeed, several of the images mirror one another to an extent that could be
uncanny given that the parallels were unintentional at the time each photo was taken. Aging in Paris is a personal favorite from the show, which captures a man walking somewhere along Rue de Barres in France. He’s faced away from the camera, wearing a coat and leaning on his cane as he walks. Compositionally speaking, the lines in the photograph are extraordinary: a seam in the ground’s stonework draws you in, cut horizontally by a line of sunlight. Past him sits a brown house with barred windows, its exterior overtaken by vines and surrounded by rectangular bushes. Past that house, taller white buildings lead your eye upward and out of the
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It’s the unity Sinkow seeks out, the shared sense of life and connection. As another example, one man, also photographed from behind, walks his dog as he sits atop a horse in Cuba in “Walking” His Dog. Meanwhile, another man rests in Siesta in Shanghai, his bare feet resting on the dashboard of his motorcycle as he reclines, resting his head on a blanket on the seat. Both instances occurred in separate continents during separate travels, but they exude a shared attitude of leisure and fatigue. The photographs exist, and are even exhibited, apart, but they carry a shared essence, presenting a shared energy between them that is distinctly human and relatable.
(Left) The photographer Sheryl Sinkow (Right) Sinkow’s “Ithaca is Love” (Photo provided)
similarly faced away, walking through a curved archway in China. The similar compositions mentioned here are partially due to Sinkow’s own vision and sense of order when looking through the camera lens, but displayed together they also function as reminders of shared humanity among individuals that extends far beyond culture and time.
As usual, there is so much more going on with this exhibition than these few pieces suggest: many more parallels, events, individuals, and stories. Stop in to seek them out. • 5 Out of 7 is on display at State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street, until Oct. 2.
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ainer G. Langstedt’s FinnishAmericans in War and Peace: Contradictions in Loyalty during the Turbulent Years 1910-1950 is not a typical local history book. Rather than exploring genealogies, landmarks, economic evolution, and other regional phenomena, Langstedt has written about the connection between the local Finnish ethnic community and world affairs. He is the son of immigrants from Finland himself, but his own politics differ from the communist and social democratic politics that are generally associated with the Finnish-American community. While Finland is a Nordic country, it isn’t Scandinavian. Linguistically the Finns are related to the Hungarians, not their Germanic neighbors to the west. Finland was invaded by Sweden in the 12th century and colonized; over the centuries this contributed to it becoming culturally Scandinavian. In the early 20th century it was annexed to the Russian Empire, but achieved temporary independence in 1917 during the chaos associated with the Bolshevik revolution. It then during 1918 suffered through a civil war between communists and republican forces, with latter emerging as the victors. The Soviet Union reasserted control over Finnish territory during the 1930s and ‘40s, before Finland retained its independence. Langstedt ably sketches out this history in the early chapters. But he also presents fascinating information about the Tioga County FinnishAmerican community’s reactions to and involvement in these events. He reconstructs incidents that occurred in the Spencer-Van Etten area, but also documents the reverse immigration of some Finnish-Americans and the behavior of the local communists in response to the rhetoric and actions of the Soviet Union. The author is a staunch anticommunist and the “contradictions in loyalty” of the subtitle do not sit well with him. Many American communists, not just the Finns, supported the Soviet Union right into the 1950s, in spite of the growing evidence that Stalin was one of history’s more brutal dictators rather than a leader furthering the welfare of the proletariat. While communists of the
period wholly believed in a worldwide revolution, social democrats, although they embraced many of the collectivist habits of communists, were content to be part of a politically pluralist society, much as has been achieved in most modern western European countries. There was friction between the social democratic and communist Finnish-Americans, just as there was between these ideological groups among non-Finns. Langstedt acknowledges this in passing, and largely leaves the social democrats alone, while constructing a narrative that shows communist FinnishAmericans to be disloyal to the country they lived in, blind to evidence of Soviet treachery, and generally absurd. In one locally famous incident two camp counselors, Ailene Holmes and Mabel Husa, were accused in August 1930 of indoctrinating their campers with anti-American rhetoric. The Ku Klux Klan showed up to menace the camp, and two residents of Sayre and Waverly filed a complaint against the camp. Langstedt reconstructs the event in detail, carefully separating fact from fiction. Holmes and Husa were arrested, convicted of a misdemeanor and jailed in Monroe County. Langstedt withholds judgment of the women, but makes it clear that the scale of the Klan’s participation has been much exaggerated and that the local media thought the charge and penalty was too lenient. He is less understanding about Finnish-Americans who returned to Karelia because they were promised a good life by the Soviet government, those who fought in the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, or those who spied for the Soviet Union in the United States. However, the value of his book is that he explores what to most people will be esoteric aspects of 20th century American history and he tells the stories in generally terse, coherent prose. There are two readerships for FinnishAmericans in War and Peace. One audience is the residents of Tioga County—not just those of Finnish extraction—who will be presented with a fascinating regional history, and the other are those interested in 20th century historical events that led up to the Cold War. • Searching “Rainer Langstedt” at YouTube will lead you to a presentation by the author about his book.
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The dining room of Mix (Photo: Casey Martin)
cultures, including Mexico, Hawaii, and … California. We started with a charmingly named appetizer, Devils on Horseback, which consisted of bacon strips wrapped around dates and almond Maytag blue cheese, and cooked in a port wine reduction. The constituents of the dish do not remain distinct from one another; the taste is a delicious blend of the sweet from the date and the savory from the bacon and cheese. The texture is also part of the pleasure; these aren’t greasy at all and the cheese and dried fruit create a two-toned interior. The kale and farro salad was fascinating for a number of reasons. This was our first experience with farro, which is a mixture of spelt, emmer, and einkorn, three hulled wheat species. They are still crunchy, even after they are cooked. The moist, warm farro is added to the kale, dampening the whole dish, but the kale is robust enough so it doesn’t seem mushy. It is made Mediterranean by the presence of the farro, but also by the olives, feta, and
chick peas that cover it. The appetizers are referred as “small plates” at Mix, and the entrées are “large plates.” We tried the Sriracha Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Hanoi Waffle plate, mostly for its cross-cultural culinary daring. Sriracha is a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt that originates in the eponymous province of Thailand. Its spiciness is blunted by the buttermilk. The breading on the boneless chicken is grease-free. Who knew that waffles were a Vietnamese thing? Must be left over from the French colonial period. These are distinctly savory waffles and are presented charmingly in an alternating row with the chicken, one leaning against the other. We forewent dessert, which consists entirely of a variety of cheesecakes. In sum, there is a strong emphasis on sweet ingredients at Mix. Menu items that would not necessarily have sweet components elsewhere, have them here. Above examples include the candied pecans and the sweet hot sauce, but a look through the menu reveals plenty of figs, papaya, mango and other fruits as ingredients. But it is a big menu and the sweet can be avoided if you choose. The service at Mix is a complicated thing. You are greeted and seated by one person, given your water by a second, your order taken by a third, and presented with your food by a fourth. This is an ambitious strategy and in our experience it has not quite gelled as yet. We were rather ignored for about 15 minutes after being seated, but the bartender, to her credit, noticed this and provided a free drink when we went to her for a beverage. Things went more or less smoothly after this, but at the end of the meal, our server repeated a tic that we have noticed increasingly around town. Upon delivering the check, she said, “Take as long as you like with that” and disappeared. This seems odd in a restaurant that had a waiting list for a table when we arrived. However, of late this practice has become irritatingly common in Ithaca; as a post-script to this review and a gentle chastisement to local restaurateurs, once the meal is over, the table is empty, and the check has been paid, we are done. The only service we ask at that point, is that you accept our payment and let us go home. •
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time. Did you have time to do any work outside the band? MB: Not enough. We had so little time off. I remember when we had six months off in 1983 and it was then that I first started writing music. It wasn’t great, but everyone has to start somewhere. Other than that, I think I was presumed not available, and also we were thought to be out on a limb stylistically. But I did work with [Ten Years After keyboardist] Chick Churchill on You and Me [1973] and with John Wetton [on 1978’s Caught in a Crossfire] before he was with Asia. In Jethro Tull we weren’t really having fun. We were just trying to make really
good music. Then I was playing with other bands and I saw that they were having fun. So I started just visiting studios and if people invited me to play, I would. That’s how I ended up playing with Spirit of the West [on Weights and Measures in 1997] and Paul McCartney [on Young Boy in 1987]. IT: Tell me about your own band. MB: There have been a few different lineups over the years. I have had the current for the past 18 months and this one I find to be perfect. I like to explore what people have to offer. I do the arrangements, but everyone is given a chance to make contributions. The goal is for there to be space, dynamics, and power. IT: You said you started writing songs in 1983 and didn’t think they were that
good. What is your process like now? MB: Well, I’m quite a determined person. I’m one those people who believes he’s never accomplished enough and will never be a good enough writer, bandleader, or lyricist. So I just try to keep on improving. I’m still looking ahead. I’m happy with what I do, but not content. IT: So what is post-Jethro Tull life like? MB: When Jethro Tull was finished I was left with a void to fill. I was only given one month’s notice by Ian; the carpet was pulled out from under me. But I was sort of OK to start things going and I soon realized that in recent years I had had very little to do with Jethro Tull’s music. It had gotten sterile and practiced. IT: Why is the new album called Back to Steel?
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MB: I was in Nashville and I had just bought this 1956 semi-acoustic Gibson. I was staying in motel, just playing it and it was beautiful to play. It was this thing, this wooden and steel thing, but it had ghosts, and they were good ghosts. It really cries to be played. And I thought, ‘This is what it’s about: you pick up a guitar and play.’ These are the fundamental ingredients of rock music. IT: The name made me think it was going to be a blues album, but it’s not. MB: No. Some people might think it is a little too diverse. I actually got a call from a station in England who said they couldn’t play it because it’s not progressive rock, and they’re a progressive rock station. But I do what I do; I don’t follow any pre-ordained path. I rarely buy CDs these days, because only two tracks will be good. I want everyone to listen to my CD from beginning to end. That’s why it’s so diverse. I want to keep them in the room. Maybe the next one will be more focused. I’m not stuck in any one style. In Jethro Tull we just followed our noses. IT: I’ve read that Under Wraps is one of your favorite Tull albums, which surprised me. MB: We made that with a drum machine. I really don’t like them now. Anything sequenced or mechanized leaves me cold. The same goes with there being too much focus on a singer’s performance. If we had recorded [Under Wraps] with a drummer, it would have had more feeling. IT: What is touring like for you these days? MB: I spend six months of the year in America, touring every day. In England and Europe I like the festivals; people don’t go to gigs anymore over there. Live music is really struggling. Here it isn’t so bad. You’ve got better radio. But I love doing festivals. The vibe is always good. IT: What can someone expect to hear when you see you live? MB: We do about one-third Jethro Tull songs, one-third covers, and onethird my songs. We have been covering Government Mule, Porcupine Tree, and some blues standards like ‘Smokestack’ and ‘Rock Me Baby.’ They are fun to play. We play two one-hour sets, and we like to leave them breathless. •
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9/14 Wednesday Richie Stearns & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Old-Time, Folk. of Montreal, Rubby the Rabbitfoot | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock, Glam Rock, Pop. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. More at www.DamodarDas.com. Riley Owens, Sam Hunt | 9:30 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Acoustic, Alternative.
9/15 Thursday Jim Hull | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Acoustic, Solo, Blues, Rock, Folk. Most Awesome Quartet | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Gypsy Jazz, Hot Club Music, Tango, Swing, Bossa Nova. Paper Bird | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Indie Folk. Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz. Arthur B & The Planetary Mix | 8:00
Martin Barre of Jethro Tull | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Progressive Rock. Cool Club of Hector | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Jazz, Blues, Swing, Old-Time. Under Construction | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | Funk, Rock, Soul, R&B, Blues. Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Folk, Americana. UpSouth with Mac Benford | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Old-Time, Bluegrass, Americana. The Tarps | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Classic Rock, Covers. The Big Takeover | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Reggae, Ska. Grassanova | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Bluegrass. The Hilltoppers | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Old-Time. Tenzin Chopak | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Progressive Chamber Folk. Thru Spectrums | 10:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | Funk, Rock, Soul.
9/17 Saturday The Delta Mike Shaw Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards,
4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Blues, Rock, Soul. East-West Blues Band | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Chicago Blues, Rock. The Darts | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Alt-Country, Pop, Indie Rock. Wingnut, Headband | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Jazz, Fusion, Progressive, Funk, Rock, Jam. The Flood | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Americana, Rock. Marc Berger and RIDE | 9:00 PM | The Range, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | Folk, Rock, Blues. Jeff Love Band | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Gospel, R&B. Alex Cano, Paulie & the Bluechips, Rob Blackmore | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Acoustic, Singer Songwriter.
9/18 Sunday Cool Club of Hector | 11:00 AM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Jazz, Old-Time, Swing. The East-West Blues Band | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Chicago Blues, Rock. The Cadley’s | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Bluegrass, Old-Time. Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz. tinmouth, Pure Gems, Teencat | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Indie Rock, Punk.
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Gordon, co-founders of the renowned NYC-based organization, Bang on a Can, at a concert of their works that focuses on spirituality and music. Features music for choir, string quartet, amplified rock ensemble, and the premiere of Wolfe’s duo for cello and double bass. John Brown’s Body: CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Future Roots.
9/20 Tuesday Long John and the Tights | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Bluegrass. MSZM | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Jazz, Free Jazz, Funk, Progressive. Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz. Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach.
9/18 Sunday Cornell University Jazz Combos: Paul Smoker’s Aural Prism Blues and Other Colors | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Jazz. Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM- | Lodi Historical Society Building, Main Street, Lodi | Featuring the chamber works of Mozart: Violin Sonata in G, K 301, Kegelstatt Trio in E-flat, K 498, and Piano Quartet in E-flat, K 493, with guest artists, Janet Sung, violin, and Richard MacDowell, clarinet.
9/16 Friday Dedication Weekend for the Juget-Sinclair French Romantic Organ | 8:00 PM | St. Luke Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Ave., Ithaca | Cavaillé-Coll in Ithaca: Dedication Recital by organist Michel Bouvard. Features music of Mendelssohn, Franck, Vierne, Bouvard, Dupré, and Alain.
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9/14 Wednesday Midday Music for Organ: Jonathan Schakel | 12:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Through the Looking Glass: features music by Sweelinck, Schlick, Correa de Arauxo, Bruhns, Maxwell Davies, Tippett, and Naji Hakim. Fred Hersch | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Hersch is a significantly influential creative force who has shaped jazz for more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist.
9/15 Thursday Technologies of Memory: Chamber Music by Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon | 8:00 AM- | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Join 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe and Michael
This British-American documentary film directed by Ron Howard about The Beatles’ career during their touring years from 1962–1966, from their performances at the Cavern Club in Liverpool to their final concert in San Francisco in 1966, opens up in North America Septmeber 15. Cinemapolis will be showing the film starting this Friday, Spetember 16. (Photo provided)
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TompkinsTrust.com State St. | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. | 93 mins R | Banff Mountain Film Festival 2017 | 7:00 PM, 9/17 Saturday, 9/18 Sunday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Runs Friday Feb 17th and Saturday Feb 18th. This is the first year with a two night showing, different films each night 7:00 p.m. at Bailey Hall.
of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all. | 92 mins R |
Hell or High Water | A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas. | 102 mins R | Complete Unkown | As a man contemplates moving to a new state with his wife for her graduate program, an old flame - a woman who often changes identities - reenters his life at a birthday dinner party. | 90 mins R | Out Little Sister | A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister. | 128 mins PG | The People Vs. Fritz Bauer | The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice. | 105 mins R|
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Friday, 9/16 to Thursday, 9/22. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Florence Foster Jenkins | The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. | 110 mins PG-13 | 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 | Southside With You | Chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side. | 84 mins PG-13 | Don’t Think Twice | When a member
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Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat-testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station. | 79 mins R | The Wailing | A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter. | 156 Mins NR | Del Palma | The filmography tells half the story of this stylist: Dressed to Kill, Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible. But the filmmaker himself takes us through it all, recounting his influences and his battles. | 107 Mins NR | Swiss Army Man | A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home. | 97 Mins R | Under The Sun | Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in one of the famous Korean “Spartakiads”. | 106 Mins NR | Time to Choose | Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions. |100 Mins NR |
St. Catherine of Siena Church, Runs Friday, Sept 16 through Sun, Sept 18 With its mission to inspire positive actions and promote peace, the International Peace Festival is an important and vital community gathering. The three-day, family-friendly community-wide event, is designed to welcome people from throughout the community to a celebration of international peace and help raise funds that support peace, justice, and other progressive ideas. There will be entertainers, bands, international foods, art and craft vendors, and much more.
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An Evening of Cosmic Comedy with Swami Beyondananda | 7:30 PM-, 9/16 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | With special musical guests Will Fudeman and David Frumkin. Avenue Q | September 15 - October 1 |Wednedays and Thursdays at 7:00 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM | Redhouse Theater, 201 S West St, Syracuse | This humorously irreverent musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment in search of his life’s purpose. On his quest, he befriends the zany inhabitants of Avenue Q and, together, the group of misfits muddle through the trials and tribulations of adult life. Million Dollar Quartet | Septmeber 15 - October 1, Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Tuesdays amd Wednesdays at 2:00 PM | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | On December 4, 1956. A recording session that will go down in history as the one and only time that four legends came together to make music. This is the story of that fateful session between Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Jerry
Notices Ithaca Underground All-Volunteer September Meeting | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/15 Thursday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Come one, come all to the next IU All-Volunteer meeting. All current volunteers and those interested in joining are encouraged to join. Reconnect, meet your IU Logistics, Outreach, & Development committees, hear about 2016 successes thus far, and opportunities & needs, and where you can participate. ithacaunderground. org/participate/ United Way of Tompkins County’s Annual Stephen E. Garner Day of Caring | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/15 Thursday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | This will be the 14th food and personal care items drive and the 20th Day of Caring. Last year over 8,000 pounds of food and personal care items were donated by the community. Donations can be dropped off in advance of September 15th at United Way of Tompkins County, 313 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca, NY.
Volunteer Work Day at Sweedler Preserve at Lick Brook | 10:00 AM-2:30 PM, 9/16 Friday | Sweedler Preserve, Ithaca | Your help is needed to move logs and limbs to restore and reinforce the hiking trail at the Sweedler Preserve at Lick Brook, one of the Land Trust’s most popular preserves. Humane Society of Schuyler County Adoption Weekend | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/17 Saturday | PetSmart, 742 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Runs Sept 17 & 18 11-3 p.m. Featuring Kitten Adoption Days. Come meet your new best friend! 21st Annual Reunion Picnic | 12:00 PM-, 9/17 Saturday | Willard Psychiatric Center, , Willard | Camp Edgemere on the Willard Drug Treatment Campus. Bring a Dish to pass, and your family. Call 315-651-2754 or 607-869-5646 for more information. Cornell Athletics 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Run | 7:30 AM-, 9/18 Sunday | Robert J. Kane Sports Complex, Cornell University Campus, Ithaca | Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m: 1 Mile Fun Run begins, 9:30 a.m.: 5K Run begins, 10:30 a.m: Post-run celebration. Ozer Story Ballet Open Auditions for the Lion King | 3:30 PM-7:00 PM, 9/18 Sunday | Drake House Studio Theater, 155 Cedar Street, Corning | At least two years of dance experience. Current and continual enrollment and attendance in dance classes throughout the entire production schedule. 8 years old, or older, by September 1, 2016. Practices will be held weekends September 2016 through the end of January 2017. Questions Contact Patty at reozer@yahoo.com or 607-329-3931. Trumansburg Community Chorus Rehearsals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/19 Monday | Jacksonville Community United Methodist Church, 1869 Trumansburg Rd, Jacksonville | Rehearsals for the fall session will begin on September 19th. They meet each Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. Please call 387-5232 with any questions. Enfield Volunteer Fire Company Blood Drive | 1:30 PM-6:30 PM, 9/20 Tuesday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | You can The American Red Cross at 273-1900 for an appointment. Walk-ins are always welcome.
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210 Center Street, Ithaca, Friday, September 16, 5:00 p.m. Join Historic Ithaca in celebrating their 50th anniversary with a preview party of the Old House Fair. Live music by Brian Earle and Alex Specker, food by Just A Taste, with wine from Sheldrake Point and beer from Bandwagon Brewery. Every event ticket includes two raffle tickets and one drink ticket. Some of the amazing raffle items include an overnight stay at the Inns of Aurora, a framed James Cordes photograph, a printed plaque by watercolor artist Camille Doucet, a painting by Carlton Manzano, and much more.
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Lee Lewis. This rock ‘n roll mega hit is electrifying! Hand to God | September 4 September 25 | Wednesdays and Thursdays 7:30 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 p.m, and Sundays 4:00 p.m. | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Directed by Rachel Lamper. Wildly Irreverent In the quiet town of Cypress, Texas, recently widowed Margery takes over the church puppet club. But when one puppet is possessed by the devil, there are wildly funny and deliciously devastating consequences. This hilarious play was nominated for five Tony Awards. Audio Walking Play: Storm Country | Lookout Point of Erie Barge Canal, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Storm Country will run September 9th–11th and 16th–18th. Scheduled walking times are between 4:00 and 6:00 on Fridays and 1:00 and 6:00 on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are available at StormCountry.bpt.me. An immersive headphone play designed to accompany an exploratory journey through Ithaca’s West End. Co-written by Ithaca artists Nick Salvato and Aoise Stratford, Storm Country plunges listeners into a soundscape of voices, music, and environments as they encounter the histories and ghosts of Ithaca’s Cayuga Inlet and its surroundings.
| GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Do you have bloating, heartburn, and stomach upset? Dr. Jaclyn Borza Maherto shares natural healing options to achieve optimal digestive health. Registration required - sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Daniel R. Schwarz: How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning | 4:30 PM-, 9/14 Wednesday | Olin Library, Cornell, Ithaca | Daniel Schwarz, Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell. His new book How to Succeed in College and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwell, February 2016) is an insightful guide to the undergraduate experience. Cornell Plantations Fall Lecture Series: Amber Meadow Adams | 7:30 PM-, 9/14 Wednesday | Statler Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Dr. Adams’ lecture will focus on the Haudenosaunee story about the creation of Earth and the local biome told for thousands of years. Joy Harjo: Poet and Memoirist | 4:30 PM-, 9/15 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell | Joy Harjo’s poetry collections include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings and She Had Some Horses. Her memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award and the American Book Award. Girls Mean Business: Intensive Entrepreneurship Workshops | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/18 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. The New Jim Crow: Community Read Kickoff | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 9/19 Monday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Community Read Kickoff. Refreshments & Childcare Provided. Books Distributed. Community Speak-Out.
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Paper Bird’s self titled album, available September 9th on Thirty Tigers Records, introduces vocalist Carleigh Aikins to the line-up, whose previous credits include long term stints with the critically acclaimed bands Bahamas and Fox Jaws. Her addition to the band adds an extra dimension, highlighting a clear sonic evolution. A shift in the band’ s line-up has opened up new possibilities, as they’ve switched from electric guitars and amped up instrumentation back over to the laid back, folk-flavored sound they favored in the past. The band plays The Dock this Thursday, 9/15 at 7:00 PM (Photo provided) will lead a tree identification walk designed especially for kids! Located just east of Ithaca, the Ellis Hollow Preserve features mature forest and is a great place for kids to explore. Directions at www.fllt.org/events Ithaca Area United Jewish Community: Getting Ready for the Fall Jewish Holidays | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/18 Sunday | Gourdlandia, 77 Rachel Carson Way, Ithaca | Young children and their parents, are invited to a PJ Library event welcoming the Fall Jewish holidays. Learn about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot through stories, crafts and music. Appropriate for ages one to ten. Special gourd projects will be led by Graham Ottoson. For further info call 607-257-9924. To learn more about the PJ Library go to www.pjlibrary.org. Contact: Marjorie Hoffman 257-9924 or Marjorie@twcny.rr.com
Special Events Trumansburg Ulysses Philomathic Library Book Sale | September 15 - 20 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Book Sale: books new and old, movies, music (CDs, LPs), games, etc. for the whole family. www.trumansburglibrary.org
Old House Fair Gala | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/16 Friday | 210-212 Center Street, 210-212 Center Street, Ithaca | Preview party of the Old House Fair and celebration of the 50th anniversary year. Live music by Brian Earle and Alex Becker, tasty fare and local wine & beer. Harvest Music Festival | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/16 Friday | Centerway Square, 1 W. Market St., Corning | The two-day event begins Friday, September 16, with the wildly popular Finger Lakes wine and craft beer tasting and a concert in Centerway Square. The festivities continue throughout Saturday, September 17, with the Corning Farmers Market, local food and craft vendors, children’s activities, tractor display, shopping and dining incentives and a concert in Centerway Square! Guests will enjoy free musical performances by many local and regional talents throughout Corning’s historic downtown during the duration of the two-day event at many different locations. For more information, visit gafferdistrict.com/ harvestmusicfestival International Peace Festival | St. Catherine of Siena Church, 302 St. Catherine’s Circle, Ithaca | Runs Friday, September 16, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm; Saturday, September 17, 2016, 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm; and Sunday, September 18, 2016 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. Three-day,
family-friendly community-wide event designed to welcome people from throughout our community to a celebration of international peace while helping to raise funds that support peace and justice related activities. Through music, crafts, food, activities and hospitality, the event embraces and celebrates the community of Tompkins County and its global community. There will be an assortment of entertainers and bands, international foods, art and craft vendors, a beer and wine tent, special activities for kids and adults, a silent auction and Masses for www.ithacainternationalpeacefest.org 26th Annual Prisoner of War/ Missing in Action Watch Fire | 7:00 PM-, 9/16 Friday | Meyers Point Park, , Lansing | National POW/MIA Day. The event is free and open to the public. Historic Ithaca’s Old House Fair | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 9/17 Saturday | Historic Ithaca, 210 Center St, Ithaca | Join in for the Old House Fair, a free fair featuring vendor booths, demonstrations, and presentations throughout the day on Saturday, September 17th. Richford Potato Festival | 9:00 AM-, 9/17 Saturday | Rt. 38 & 79, Richford | Vendors throughout the town & ballfield. Music, food, quilt display, entertainment and new this year, a
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bathtub race. Potato food including breakfast and desserts. Dano’s Spirits Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 9/17 Saturday | Dano’s Heuriger on Seneca, 9564 Route 414, Lodi | Guests may enjoy four delicious courses of Viennese-style dining paired with complementary cocktails from Finger Lakes Distilling. The menu for this four course meal is available online at www. danosonseneca.com/calendar.html. Leaves & Lobster on the Lawn at Glenora Wine Cellars | Glenora Wine Cellars Inc, 5435 State Route 14, Dundee | Runs Saturday, 9/17 and Sunday 9/18. An unbeatable combination of live music, the panoramic view of Seneca Lake and a lobster bake. Ticket holders receive a whole Maine Lobster, steamed clams, salt potatoes, freshly picked sweet corn, Cole slaw, rolls, homemade brownies, and iced tea. Live entertainment on the Vineyard Stage with Bob’s Brother’s Band on Saturday and the Diana Jacobs Band on Sunday. Ithaca Tractor Supply: Pet Appreciation Week | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/17 Saturday | Ithaca Tractor Supply, 378 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | The even will include pet adoptions with community groups, samples, giveaways, drawings for gift cards, and other family friendly activities. In addition, deals on pet products, from food and treats to toys and crates, will be featured from Sept. 14-18. Contact the Tractor Supply store at 607-277-0168 for pet adoption details and other planned activities. 10th annual Migration Celebration | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/17 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Lab staff will lead behind-the-scenes workshops that highlight the latest tracking technology, offer birding tips, explain how to build a nest box, and more. The complete workshop schedule is available on the Migration Celebration website at birds.cornell.edu/birdday. Latino Multicultural Festival | 12:00 PM-7:00 AM, 9/17 Saturday | Ithaca Skate Park, 401 Wood St, Ithaca | 19th Annual German Festival | 12:30 PM-4:30 PM, 9/18 Sunday | Lucas Vineyards Winery, 3862 County Road 150, Interlaken | Live Music by The Enzian Bavarian Band and Dancers, Grape Stomping, Grape Pies, German Food, Alpacas, Face Painting, Alphorn and Polka Contests, Local Vendors, Costumes and a German Potato Salad Contest with 2 categories: Best German and Best Overall Categories will
Ongoing Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 9/14 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class you will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. This class is open to all levels and all bodies. Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/14 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/14 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | The Market features local produce, local organic and pasture raised meats, baked goods, plants and more! For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com. Beginner Bird Walks | 9/17 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Iron Kettle Farm Spooktacular Fall Fun | 9:00 AM-, 9/17 Saturday | Iron Kettle Farm, 707 Owego Road, Candor | Weekends starting mid September and Every Day in October. Free pumpkin display, farm market and gift shop. Concession stand featuring homemade donuts candy and caramel apples. Hayrides, corn maze, spookbarn and many other fall activities. Batman Day | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 9/17 Saturday | Comics for Collectors, 207 N Aurora St Ithaca | Celebrate the 76th year of the creation of the Dark
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Celebrate the 76th year of the creation of the Dark Knight by visting Ithaca’s amazing comic book store getting a free Batman Comic. Come in cosplay attire and win special gifts. Cartoonists Ten Van Winkle and Jon Haefner will be visting from 11am to 2pm to do bat-type drawings. The annual fan-favorite event, now in its third year, was first introduced to honor the iconic character’s 75th anniversary. Batman is a complex and amazing character, and this is his day! Don’t miss it.
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warm island breeze and dark concrete finality push hard and fluid on reggae and dub heavyweights John Brown’s Body’s newest slab of vision, Fireflies—released Sept. 9 on Easy Star Records. It’s an album with club intuition, historical perspective, and tunneling deep cuts, distinguishing itself as a continual groove through varied and layered modern reggae. The riffs are steep, the horns planetary, the drums and bass as wicked as any Sly and Robbie jaunt, and the vocals real and fusing. The band spins downtown Ithaca into the fourth dimension this Thursday at CFCU’s last summer concert of the year—a behemoth of a show. The multitude of styles on Fireflies forges an aesthetic journey: bright, large, and complete. Each track is a swirling maze, a master class in form blending. A sophisticated soul-dance carries “High Fashion” through a prism of infinite warmth. Lead singer Elliot Martin weaves a futuristic hymn through balmy island rhythms and stark resonance. Dub infuses with a cutting charm and swings to the tides, dreaming of vogue and method. “Who Paid Them Off” imagines the soft beaches with the hard tar of the eternal highway; a wicked sharp melody churns wide, the channel dark and enticing. The hardness is like Damian Marley, the spirit bursting like Burning Spear, and the overall transcendence is pure JBB. “Mystery” is roots doom, a slow burn
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Studio Thursday Workshop | 5:00 PM-, 9/15 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Make Japanese gyotaku fish prints at this hands-on, drop-in workshop open to everyone. museum.cornell.edu Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art | 5:15 PM-, 9/15 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Art historian Patricia J. Graham will speak about Japanese design for the annual lecture on Asian art funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov, Cornell Class of 1963. Early American Art | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/17 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Member art demonstrations by The Historical Society of Early American Decoration.
Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Vanessa Velez: We Are All Light Beams. | www.benjaminpeters.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Herb Shapiro: New Paintings. Representational painting and Abstract painting. CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Over 400 pieces of donated art will be in the ArtSpace. The sale ends on September 30th. Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca Michael Goscinsky: Wood Block Prins. 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
with electro and progressive nuance. Drummer Tommy Benedetti blocks and flies, a giant of a player with deep and architecturally refined modes; “Like A Queen” blossoms with its spectacular use of verse, a tale of beauty and individualism that shapes through unity and modern breaks; “Mash Them Down” flows as a soliloquy of dance and swirling flow; and “High Grade” is a club classic, with its pulsing beat and wicked raps. (Clockwise from top) John Brown’s Body; their newest album Fireflies is a showcase “Fireflies”; Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji in of the history of a form: dub, “Ran” (Photos provided) roots, dancehall, and club all coalesce into a modern by Denis Villeneuve, starring Jake reggae statement. A blazing Gyllenhaal and Melanie Laurent, and penetrating blaster, you won’t find a is an urgent and darkening mindbetter reggae record anywhere in 2016. bender. Shifting in French New Wave JBB are the real deal and beyond. The only hues, Hitchcockian tunnels, and lurid place to be Thursday night is downtown landscapes of a futuristic Toronto, Ithaca. the film inhabits a collective maze, • • • dangling through psychology, sci-fi, I know there’s a lot of work to political absolution, and avant-garde be done the rest of the week, but in method. It’s a work of high art. between architectural drafting, editing Ran, the great Akira Kurosawa’s your manuscript, and forging a new field 1985 Masterpiece loosely based on recordings masterpiece, head over to Shakespeare’s King Lear, is one of the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) most dazzling, invested, and cinematic and immerse yourself into the best film films ever created. An epic the size of the selection west of the Rockies. There’s an moon, Kurosawa delivers a vast scope of epic collection over there and you can interlocking movements churning from even check the titles out on the TCPL intimate introspection to grand scale website before you go. Just go to tcpl. battles; the horror bleak and vivid. It’s a org, look under the menu bar label “We film that makes you feel connected and Suggest” and choose “Movie Collection”. distant simultaneously. There you’ll find some dynamite help with Kanji Nakajima’s 2008 dazzler The special sections devoted to the cinephilia Clone Returns Home is a complex blueprint and the weekend browser alike. of technology, memory, humanism, and My TCPL picks this week? You ask, transhumanism. A subtle and dark sci-fi I share. Enemy, a Canadian-Spanish film tale about an astronaut and his family, the
selected students. On view September through October. Dowd Gallery | Room 106, SUNY Cortland, Cortland | Jaime BrettTreadwell: Fade to Gray. An exhibition of new paintings on view from August 29-October 7. Eye Gallery | 215 E State St, Ithaca | Eye, 126 The Commons, Ithaca | About Face is eye Ithaca’s first group show with over 20 painters, photographers, and sculptors’ depiction of the face, human and otherwise. Creators include Kaleb Hunkele, Janet Woolley, Giselle Potter, and some surprises. PLUS! Diminutives: A Pop-Up of Small Mercies, featuring Leah Strogatz, Erin Deneuville, Ben Marlan, & Amy Browne. Handwerker Gallery | History Center,
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Harboring the sweetness of heartache, classic rock, and indie loss, Philly’s Tinmouth forge forward with melodic overtures, soft hues, punk horizon, and an underground skeletal system. Shoegaze and lush drone ring sweet and dreamy through each vibration the band drifts through. The songs are catchy and unique, reverberating with your heart and mind a special refrain. As a trio the bend form, new wavy, and just ever so stormy. Check theses guys out Sunday, you’ll be glad you did.
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The 10th edition of Porchfest, an annual music festival celebrating the vital creative community of downtown Ithaca, NY, will take place this Sunday. Founded in Ithaca in 2007 by Fall Creek neighbors Lesley Greene and Gretchen Hildreth, Porchfest has grown from 20 performers in its first year to 180 in last year’s amazing event. This year’s fest is packed with a plethora of amazing local bands and artists; pretty much all of your favorite bands will be on someone’s porch. Swing on down and check it out! h e
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 | Sheryl Sinkow: 5 out of 7. Exhibition of images made during Sinkow’s travels to five of our seven continents. Show dates: August 31-October. www.soagithaca.org www.soagithaca.org 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org
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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. 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.
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film paints an expressionistic minimalism that sets a unique trance, sorting out physical and mental space. This is touching film, confounding and visionary. And just for the heck of it, check out Rob Reiner’s seminal classic This is Spinal Tap. A music mockumentary, that is also a deep and special homage to the undying sacredness of heavy metal, this film is one of the funniest of all time. Grab a few cold ones and laugh your face off as Nigel Tufnel destroys you with his powerful shredding and deft knowledge. Then go practice with your new sludge grind band Leash of Destiny. As the weeks roll by … •
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of you. There are two rooms off to the left that would appear to have originally been the farm offices, where business would have been conducted with haulers, salesmen, and neighboring farmers. They are of course still suitable to be used as offices; you walk through one to the other. To the right is the living room, which faces the south and the west. Across the expanse of this room you can admire the 20th century-style hardwood (oak) floors that have been installed in all the downstairs rooms. The woodwork in this house is all painted, as was traditional in the 19th century. The trim is very simple and unadorned (this is a farmhouse), but considering it has been there for 200 years, impressively unmarred. There is a wide entrance that leads you into the dining room. All the windows this room and in the living room are large and low to the floor, letting in abundant light, even on an overcast day. S358918
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At the rear of the front hall there is a full bathroom with a tub/shower. Entering the kitchen is like stepping into the 21st century out of the 19th. The counters are granite, except for a butcher block surface over the over the oven. The gas range is separate and located on an arcuate island that separates the working area from the rest of the large room. There is a bedroom behind and below the kitchen and a back entrance that leads toward the barn.
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