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f you had $1.36 million per year in extra funds to spend, how would you spend it? That’s exactly what will be up to the Tompkins County Legislature to decide during this fall’s budget process, when Tompkins County officials will have more than a million dollars in new taxes coming in from the area’s two casinos at Tioga Downs, near Binghamton and Del Lago, in Tyre: funds the county, as well as others in the region even without casinos, have never had the luxury of cashing in on before. It’s a big amount of money, a 10 percent share of the casino’s total taxed income (which can be up to 37 percent on things like slot machines and 10 percent on table games), and its potential to be a contributor to meeting the cost of more than $780,000 in recommended funding to a number of measures to reduce the jail population (an issue considered by Tompkins County more than a decade but intensively throughout the past year) is not to be underestimated. But is there a gamble in staking an important part of the budget on the viability of tax revenues from a sector that, at least in Upstate New York, has yet to be tested long-term? T houg h t he a mou nt of money the county will actually spend from the new casino taxes could be more or less than that $1.36 million projected for 2018 (County Administrator Joe Mareane actually budgeted next year’s anticipated revenues from the casino taxes at an arbitrary 25 percent less than expected, just to be on the safe side) the legislature will be faced with a number of options on how to spend that income on a yearly basis – assuming the funding stays stable in the coming years. This year’s casino funding is more or less spoken for, with a large share from the two casinos’ licensing fees as well as the first $900,000 raised from taxes both going to fund a new Heritage Center on the Ithaca Commons. Anything more than that, Mareane said, will be held in the county’s fund balance, likely to be used to kick-start the funding continued on page 10

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few months ago, Reverend Margaret Weis stood in front of a room of 300 people staring back at her, preparing to give a sermon that would likely determine the next step in not only her path but her life overall. The audience was all gathered in the magisterial First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, waiting to hear from their prospective new minister. From the public’s standpoint, the room is warm and inviting, the way most religious centers that don’t harken back centuries are designed, with clean white walls, aromatic wood pews and stained glass windows. But it could easily be intimidating if, as it was for Weis, the task at hand is essentially a massive job interview.

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Even more so when she found out her sound system wasn’t working. Wit h some help from t he church’s volunteers, the sermon went off without a hitch, according to Weis. Regardless, Weis has learned to deal with these kinds of moments, throughout her life and her careers. “It’s helped me not panic about things that I would panic about before,” she said. “All of the experiences that have led me to this point have helped me to be a presence in those moments of anxiety, and remember the balance of life.” And it worked. Weis is the newest minister of t he First Unitarian Society of Ithaca and also its first permanent female leader (other women have served

T a k e ▶ Want To Combat Harmful Algae? On Saturday, September 30th the Community Science Institute will be hosting a harmful algal bloom public forum co-sponsored by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and the Floating Classroom to address public concerns and provide community members with information about the ecology of HABs, how public health officials respond to HABs, and future HABs monitoring initiatives. The free event features numerous experts and refreshments, we’re told, will be provided.. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Space @ Greenstar.

as minister, but on ly in t he interim), as well as its first LGBT person to serve as minister. After a long selection process, she was overwhelmingly elected democratically by the congregation to succeed interim Rev. Jane Thickstun by the congregation and took over in early August. Andrew Quagliata, an active member of the church who was involved in the search process for a permanent minister, said he was first hooked by Weis’ sermons, the ease with which she was able to communicate impactful ideas to a crowd. After meeting her, he said her immediately noticeable energy intrigued him and he thought she would assimilate easily into the church community. continued on page 4

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▶ Banned Books Week Is Coming And the Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) is marking the date by celebrating literacy and freedom of expression with “Ithaca Out Loud,” an evening of literature and theater, on Wednesday, September 27 at 7:00 p.m. at the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL), located at 101 E. Green Street in Ithaca, NY. We recommend checking it out. ▶ Latinx Heritage Month begins Sept. 15 in the city with Cultura Ithaca’s annual “Ithaca has Latin Roots” Kickoff Party from 6 to 9 p.m. at Lot 10. This is the first of a number of events taking place to mark the

occasion, including the annual Latino Multicultural Festival (Saturday September 16 from 12-6 p.m. on the Ithaca Commons and Sunday September 17 1-5p.m. at Southside Community Center) and The Multicultural Resource Center will hold its annual First Peoples Festival on Sunday October 1 from 11 a.m. to 5:30p.m. at Dewitt Park. ▶ Go To Lot 10 on Saturday GIAC will be having a fundraising brunch and auction from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to celebrate its 45th birthday. Tickets are $12 in advance (available at their Court Street home) or $15 at the door.

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PHOTOGRAPHER Cornell Exhibit A Powerful Display On Labor, Unions And History By C a se y Mar tin

Football season is back! If Ithaca had a professional football team, what would you name it?

“The Ithaca Waterfalls.” —Josh Aracena

“The Ithaca Academics!” —Julian Taber

“ The Ithaca Warriors. We show our strength and that we can overcome anything! ” —Allegra Shortle and Kristen Cutting

new exhibition, “UnionMade: Fashioning America in the 20th Century,” showcasing the people responsible for sewing ready-to-wear clot hing, opened at Cornel l recently, illustrating “another time when labor was not erased and made invisible, but celebrated as an important part of American fashion,” said Denise Greene, director of the Cornell Costume and Textile Center, and curator. The exhibition, located on Level T in the Human Ecolog y Building feature, with a small exhibit located in Catherwood Library in Ives Hall, runs through November 4. Speaking at the August 31st opening, Green and co-curator Patrizia Sione, research archivist at the Kheel Center in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, gave a tour of the display cases featuring designer garments and apparel, along with labor union memorabilia, event timelines, tools used in the garment industry, film footage and photographs. Women played a leading role in the unions, Greene said. As an example, she cited Kate Mullany who organized the first

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“We believe her sermons will grow our ability to care for ourselves, each other and our community,” Quagliata said. “They’re thoughtful sermons that can make you think, and make you feel. A combination of both intellectual but also the emotional as well.” Broadly speaking, he said her presence thus far has energized the staff and the church’s population while relating to churchgoers with ease. Not that it was ever in much question, but Quagliata said there has been virtually universal support for Weis as the first female minister. “I’m more surprised it took this long,” he said. “The women

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a ll fema le union, the Collar Laundry Union, in 1864 in Troy, New York. Mullany worked to improve work ing conditions by limiting hours to an eighthour workday and a 40-hour workweek, and securing safety standards, along with fair wages and benefits. “This is a wonderful history of women and women organizing and an important part of the exhibition,” said Greene. Part of the exhibition focuses on labels. Often attached to the garment alongside the tag indicating designer, fiber, content and care instructions or sewn separately, the labels often

identified union-made pr o du c t s i n t he g a rment. The labels, indicating the union’s name or its acronym – such as ILGWU for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union – and sometimes a union bug, let customers know that the workers who made the garment received fair pay, under safe working conditions. For men’s suits, the union labels were stitched inside the pocket.

in our church, I think, feel a sense of pride that we finally have a female minister.” Weis was raised in Massachusetts as a Unitarian Universalist, an openly liberal Christian religion that is based more on seven guiding principles than common beliefs. The First Unitarian Society of Ithaca has existed since 1868, and moved to its current spot on the corner of Aurora and Buffalo Streets in the 1950s. She, a nd her w i fe Susa n, comes to the Ithacan congregation from Providence, Rhode Island, where she was working as a developmental minister. Having moved into Ithaca in early July and assumed the job shortly after, she has gotten a jump on pushing the boundaries of the church outwards already, such as looking to obtain a pres-

ence on Cornell’s campus. Weis said she doesn’t have a “moment” from which her ministerial path was born, but that it came together over time. Weis enjoys the minutiae of the job, like planning out the music and crafting the ceremony, as well as the aspects outside of the church pews that give her a chance to connect more closely with people. Becoming a minister allowed Weis an unfamiliar opportunity: actually being involved in people’s positive life experiences. For years, her career dealt with people at some of their lowest, most vulnerable moments. With a Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, Weis has worked as a hospital chaplain at Yale-New Haven Hospital, a level-one trauma center, and at

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a Veteran Affairs hospital helping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder patients. Certainly, the time she spent handling the types of emotions or situations that arise in those environments have helped her navigate similar waters with her congregations. Except now, she is able to be a part of the full spectrum. “I get to spend time with people who are babies, all the way to when they are 100 years old,” she said. “It’s really hard, but I feel so blessed to be able to be that person in a family’s life, when they’re dealing with someone dying. [...] I get invited into the most amazing parts of people’s lives, and also the worst and scariest.” –Matt Butler

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Lakeview Mental Health Could Fill Major Need On West End

Friends of Stewart Park and Wharton Studio Museum are co-hosting the 2nd annual Party for the Park on September 15 in Stewart Park from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., with “tasty morsels and cocktails by AGAVA and Ithaca Bakery, music and entertainment, door prizes and carousel rides.” As a fundraiser for Fr iend s of Ste war t Park (FSP) there is a goal of raising $15,000 with several levels of tax deductible giving. Tickets can be purchased at www.friendsofstewartpark.org.

ince its inception in 2011, Friends of Stewar t Park (FSP) has been diligently working with the City of Ithaca and community organizations to revitalize Stewart Park in anticipation of its centennial anniversary on July 4, 2021. FSP spent the first six years

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planning and fundraising to complete several projects: an interpretive signage program for the historic buildings and Renwick Wildwood; new park entry plantings; Mayor Stewart Memorial Flagpole Garden; Carousel restoration with accessible wheelchair ramp; Fuertes Overlook renovation and ongoing restoration of the Picnic Pavilion. The City has completed several projects such as: construction of Cayuga Waterfront Trail between the park and Ithaca Farmers Market (2010); rebui lding t he Tea Pav i lion (2013); bathroom renovations in the Picnic Pavilion (2015); and

new roofs for Cascadilla Boathouse (2016) and Wharton Studio/DPW Maintenance Pavilion (2017). Already Rick Manning, FSP Executive Director, and Diana Riesman, FSP Board Chair and Executive Director of Wharton Studio Museum have seen the fruits of their labors, with more groups using the park for music festivals and paddling workshops. Cornell and Ithaca College rent the Picnic Pavilion to host student events. The Cayuga Waterfront Trail has also been instrumental in getting many more people into the park. continued on page 11

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Could Tompkins County Get By With One Police Department?

ast week, Rochester-based consulting firm CGR has released a series of findings imagining what the future of law enforcement in Tompkins County could potentially become if its dozen law enforcement agencies were to reconfigure themselves. The findings, reached about nine months af ter a $70,000 study commissioned by Tompkins County and underwritten by the City of Ithaca, presents not only an overview of crime and the agencies addressing it but also an analysis of what a more efficient, countywide law enforcement agency could potentially look like under a number of different scenarios. Moving forward, the county and the city will likely hold meetings in order to discuss the findings of the study and construct a potential path forward. Within Tompkins County,

there are 12 various police agencies, including three campus police forces and a New York State Troopers barracks. CGR’s study focused on six of these: Cayuga Heights, Dryden, Groton, Ithaca, Tompkins County Sheriff’s and the New York State Police, evaluating the type of crime they responded to, their overall cost to maintain and where their efforts interlap. Of the more than 100 dispatched police incidents daily in Tompkins County nearly half are in Ithaca, a quarter were handled by the sheriff ’s department and State Police handled about 16 percent:. Each village handled 3 percent to 4 percent of the call volume and, on an almost daily basis, would respond to calls outside their boundaries to assist TCSO and NYSP with either back up or initial response to a serious call. This level of cooperation

makes it somewhat hard to gauge whether or not certain communities are getting the best value out what they’re paying for: Cayuga Heights Police, which costs just over $308 per capita to maintain ($30 less than IPD), responded to about 17,000 fewer calls than the larger department, making their cost per call the county’s highest at more than $900. (IPD’s was closer to $600 and Groton, the county’s lowest budgeted and second quietest, came in at around $235 per call and $126 per capita.) As a result, there is no one clear-cut, fiscally conservative means of saving funds while improving and/or maintaining the present level of service. The group came up with six, ranging from maintaining the status quo to merging all departments into one. No meeting schedule or timeline on a decision has been released.

he corner of Court and Meadow St reet, now a sedate scene of individual residences, will potentially see a large new housing project, drastically changing the look of one of Ithaca’s blocks yet untouched by the new development deluge. The proposal, brought before the Planning and Development Board in late August, is for a five-story, 60-unit mixed use building, with a combination of supportive and affordable housing, along with support staff offices and the like on the ground floor. The new building would be owned and operated by Genevabased Lakeview Health Services, which already has three locations around Ithaca, a 38-bed single-room occupa nc y a nd a community residence, plus an outpatient facility. But this would be far and away their biggest project in the city to date, and one of the largest supportive housing facilities in the city as well. The question of why Lakeview had been prowling around for land for another location, as always, leads back to the lack of affordable housing options. Lakeview’s CEO Harry Merriman said it had been a goal for years to build more housing in Ithaca, particularly as rising rent prices have squeezed out the lower-income population, some of which Lakeview serves. Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) also served as a liaison for the project, acting in a consultant role for Lakeview. “It’s been a long-term priority for us to develop housing in Ithaca,” he said, further adding that Lakeview had proposed a housing development several years ago where the Elmira Savings Bank now stands on Meadow Street. “For the folks that we serve, we’ve had increasing difficulty over the years in finding suitable housing for them.” Merriman also spoke about the high acquisition and construction costs in Ithaca; the

Ups&Downs ▶ Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of the Cornell Daily Sun whose nuanced and exceptional reporting on rape allegations against a candidate for County Legislature showed a) the immediate impact of powerful local journalism and b) how to present shocking subject matter with nuance and dignity. We’re proud to call you an alum!

An also-ran thumbs-up to the Netflix show Bojack Horseman, which shouted out Ithaca in a recent episode. Yay, we’re famous! (though The Office and its depiction of Ed Helms as a crazed Cornell alum/Jim Carrey as a loony Finger Lakes resident were pretty brilliant moments for us as well.) ▶ The Nines (Apparently Closing) which we sort of discuss in our editorial pages this week.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Ithaca Native Tyler Crosby is making an appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Cool beans! ▶ Top Stories On Ithaca.com This Week Are... 1) Ricky Milton carries the family legacy over the airwaves 2) Brooktondale man arrested on multiple weapons charges 3) A story of sustainable settlement 4) Hall announces run for Common Council 5) Cornell’s secret societies: A primer

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Would you ever be open to the idea of the City of Ithaca and the county forming one consolidated government? Please respond at the Ithaca Times Web site www.ithacatimes.com. L ast Week ’s Q uestion : A re you okay with paying $12 extra on your tax bill to spend more on services? 54.2 percent of respondents answered “No” and 45.8 percent answered “Yes.”

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ike a lot of people I know who work with computers, I’m guilty of spending a fair amount of my time browsing social media. I’m a particular fan of the for-sale pages. (seriously, show me any single place you can get a fresh case of diapers AND a Harley Davidson on the cheap and I’ll get off the internet for good.) Sites like Facebook are great for a lot of things. They help us organize our lives, stay in touch with family and connect with people we’ve lost touch with. They’re also great for remembering together. A perfect example of this is the brand two of my “friends” – Jon Reis and Joe Scaglione – have carved out for themselves on the site. One of the simpler pleasures I have in my day is receiving a notification from either of them (I have my feed set up to do so) whenever either shares a photo of some sort of relic of yesteryear – some strange character from an Ithaca I never knew, a memory of a really great eggplant parmigiana I’ll never get to taste, a crazy story behind a family business since closed down – that gives me a better sense of where I live, a reverence for this place I’ve called home barely three years now. It was with this in the back of mind that I was filled with dread and dismay when I saw, on the front page of The Ithaca Journal Tuesday morning, renderings of a monolithic structure meant to fill in a gap of the artificial gorge we’ve constructed on College Ave. occupied for the last 40 years by The Nines, replacing what, in my eyes,

is the last cool place in Collegetown. Forget the comprehensive plan for a second, the housing shortage, basic economics and business smarts. This just plain sucks. Yes, the building is being sold voluntarily and yes, if you’re a developer building to capitalize on the cheapest and most viable demographic in town – a growing and deep-pocketed student body on two hills – you would be out of your mind not to build something as huge as you could that, for the sake of passing the city’s planning board, doesn’t look terrible. Sure, the assessment that Collegetown’s days as a student ghetto of rickety old houses and gravel driveways are – and should – be limited and yes, taking the burden of overpopulation thrown on us by Cornell University and turning it into a consistent source of tax revenues is a great onpaper win. Most faustian bargains tend to work that way: often characterized by a quick win followed by immortal damnation. For me, hell looks a lot like a brightly-lit cooler in the refrigerated aisle of yet another convenience store, gazing forlornly at all 16 varieties of Gatorade they have to offer. But that’s reading a little too much into what has not yet come to pass. Cities are a living thing, of course. Families age and children grow. Businesses open, then they close. (Some, faster than others.) Buildings age out, new ones go up. Sidewalks crack and crumble – slate becomes concrete – and life goes

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new school year has arrived, which is a large deal in Ithaca, where education is employer number one, and practically our town’s reason to be. Thousands of new residents arrive, keeping city life fresh. More than a dozen of them live in places I used to. Mirrors in these places reflect residents with pigment in their hair, eternally. Biology has strange rhythms for people in this land. Autumn encroaches, and much of natural life begins to hibernate, go dormant, or die; but not people. Instead, humanity intensifies its enterprise, activity, and work. On Su nday of Labor Day weekend, the New York Times weighed 1.81 pounds. The next Sunday, it weighed 3.71. Summer season ended, and suddenly people were doing twice as much reportable stuff. Summer is too languid for zealous work, and winter too oppressive. This

is why school semesters come in fall and spring. In Ithaca, fall requires new care, with so much new population. Be alert for drivers going the wrong way down oneway streets. Drivers new to town are surprised to find two lanes on a downtown street going the same way. Pulling out of the bus station onto Seneca Street, why would you not assume you can make a right onto the lane closest to you, of the two? New Ithaca drivers are challenged, too, by configurations such as Cayuga Street, which is one lane north and one lane south, except in the middle of town, where it becomes two lanes south and no lanes north. Honk, honk. As summer fades, professional sports here, such as they are, end early. Our nearest pro team, baseba ll ’s minor

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responsibility for the 17-year-old’s death. –Bill Brauninger via Ithaca.com

In Response To A Sign At City Hall In an online article on a recent Common Council meeting written by reporter Matt Butler, it was noted that Ithaca resident Bill Brauninger, during the public comment period, silently held a sign up that said “L’Accuse Winston Perez Ventura,” referencing the death of a Cornell University student in August while swimming in one of the city’s gorges. Alderperson Cynthia Brock responded to this, and acknowledged the danger of the gorges, the warning signs that are present notwithstanding, but said she would hate to see the city fence them off and ban access to them. Brauninger expands on this point below:

hat was “J’accuse.” As in Emile Zola’s 1898 open letter defending Alfred Dreyfus. The phrase is commonly used to express outrage beyond all words. Due to the format of the common council meeting I was unable to offer a rejoinder to Ms. Brocks somewhat disingenuous statement... The fact is that there is no signage anywhere near the access point, Ezra’s Tunnel, at the end of Willard way that was used Mr. Perez-Ventura to enter Fall Creek Gorge. In spite of the city government’s attempt to hide behind the legal shield of “Sovereign Immunity,” I accuse them of a moral 6

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n the Hurricane of 1938, my father’s neck was broken when the garage where my parents sought refuge collapsed on them. My parents survived; an estimated 700 people in New England did not in that hurricane. It had no name and scientific weather predictions were not yet well developed. Nor were mass media technologies that science has also created. Today things are different. Science helps us to know more, prepare better, soften outcomes of weather and understand and treat diseases. It was also scientists who predicted the recent solar eclipse that Members of Congress and people across the US observed. We all watched because no one doubted the scientists who predicted the eclipse. We trusted science. We have all been watching the ravages brought about by wildfires and unprecedented hurricanes that scientists have predicted. We mourn the terrible plights and celebrate the kindnesses in their wakes. But when we address the topic of disease, we talk about more than individual patients and heroic doctors. Science helps us to see patterns and to make predictions. We connect the dots from lung cancer to smoking for

league Binghamton Rumble Ponies (a new name: known before as the Mets, for their major league affiliate) ended their regular season on Labor Day. Major league baseball goes much longer, as there is much more money to be made, extending the post-season of the summer game to the brink of November. The minors have a post-season, too, though merely through September. Binghamton made the post-season this year, but were eliminated in the first round by the Trenton Thunder, who are affiliated with the Yankees, rivals to the Mets, making it something of a brotherly New York affair, if perhaps like brothers Abel and Cain. O u r st ate pa rk s a re sem i- open through September and into October. Buttermilk Falls, within the city, has trails open, but swimming is closed. The park still charges for parking on weekends, which seems a little slick when they’re not paying any lifeguards, but this is New York. Treman Park, just outside the city, has announced an extension of swimming in its splendid, spring-fed pool through the weekend of September 16th and 17th. So, sometimes New York giveth.

Take comfort, altogether, in the pleasure of one season nestling into another. Don’t get too chagrined when, soon, you start seeing stuff in stores for Halloween, and even Christmas. Last week, in Wegman’s, I saw some skellington displays by candies, but didn’t get rattled, so to speak. I don’t get in to T.J. Maxx’s too often (as in, I don’t even know where it is), but my friend C. does, and she told me the other day they already have winter coats in there, and asked me didn’t I think that was pushing it a bit? (C. and I work together in retail.) I said, I get your point, C., but I don’t know. Figure you only buy a winter coat once every few years. If this is your year, doesn’t T.J. Maxx want to catch you before Kohl’s or someone else does? She said maybe. Seasons nestle, and humanity hustles, fearful of dying, or of even the loss of a sold winter coat. Meanwhile, here’s to coming together in peace.

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example and see the bigger picture. So when we talk about weather we need to talk about more, too. The ravages from hurricanes are real. So is climate change. Step One for Congress: Acknowledge the huge changes in climate on earth, then take bold strides to address them. –Ellen Schmidt

Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Recently, Ithaca.com featured an article that generated a fair amount of conversation. The article focused on a relatively minor part of a recent Common Council meeting where the City of Ithaca formally chose to begin referring to Colombus Day – named for the Genoan explorer who landed in the Caribbean in 1492 and mythically ‘discovered America’ – as Indigenous Peoples’ day in its stead, in recognition of the native peoples who, by all accounts, were pushed from their land by white settlers, disease and the restless ambition of a new world. Some highlights of the discussion, as it played out on Facebook, are below:

robably one of the more ridiculous things the city has ever done....Will you have all history books changed or will you insert a sentence explaining that only in Ithaca is this holiday celebrated, that as far as the rest of the country is concerned, they’re celebrating Columbus

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears bi-weekly.

t is everyones *job*, even elected officials, to face our history and right our wrongs. It is important work, that of uncovering injustices, recognizing and celebrating those who have suffered so dearly at our ancestors hands. It helps us understand and hopefully move toward a world where all people are treated equally. You are upset or worried about traffic? Others worry about being shot just because of the color of their skin. That is a *real* problem in America that demands being fixed now!” –Crista Shopis

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’bout time, Ithaca!! Berkeley had you beat by a long shot!! Let’s pick up the slack, eh?! –Jessica Talbot Haim

hey would rather virtue signal for their own personal edification of being part of the right “side” than do the job for which they were elected. –Lawrence Rupert

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on; people keep on walking no matter how the pavement changes. Few of the old-timers you talk to will say they recognize Ithaca beyond the street signs, nor would any old native say the same of their old hometowns. But they have fond memories of what was: the communities we come up in eventually come to define us: country roads and sunday drives, dirty streets and stickball, coming home when the streetlights come up. There’s always talk of Ithaca becoming a city for the students, like it wasn’t before. Perhaps the glass is a little on the rosy side, that maybe what’s going on – in context – is the same as any change that took place before it: like we townies once

“...when I notice the pile of construction debris that the workers have left next to the porch, I think, ‘this is a good time to get rid of that chair once and for all.’ I take it outside and toss it onto the pile. But something isn’t right. It ‘s still too whole, too serviceable, to be sent to the dump. I go over and break off one of the front legs. ‘There, it can’t be used any more. Now it can be taken away.’” –’Grief,’ by Neil Golder

made the trek to East Hill to drink side-by-side with Cornellians, perhaps one day we will stroll the same convenience store aisle, pawing the same shelf for the last bag of Chex Mix. A reluctance to lose another bridge to the past could play into our dramatic interpretations of such a small tragedy – regardless of the decision made, it made sense for both parties: You’ve gotta wish ‘em well on a successful business transaction. Maybe losing another bar is a sign of the times: we simply don’t have the time we used to have to chill and, for one night out of an otherwise crazy six, simply be. (with a hefty slice of deep dish, of course.) Maybe the Ithaca we’re building today is the one the Joe Scaglione’s and Jon Reis’ of tomorrow will fondly reminisce on 40 years from now with stories, characters and photos of their own.

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News Quick Hits Proposed 2018 county budget includes slight increase to tax bill Tompkins County taxpayers will only expect to see an average increase of $12 to their tax bill next year Despite a 1.6 percent increase in spending, this year’s budget – due largely to a 3.1 percent increase in the county’s tax base this past year – will remain more than a full percentage point below the 3.53 percent tax cap and a tax rate reduction of 0.7 percent; the fourth-consecutive tax rate decrease but still equivalent to an increase of $12 on a median-valued $178,000 home.. The 2018 Recommended Budget is posted in its entirety on the county website at www.TompkinsCountyNY. gov/ctyadmin/2018budget and is expanded on in an article on Ithaca. com. Reed announces grant for Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport Congressman Tom Reed announced that the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport has been awarded a United States Department of Transportation grant for $870,763.00 for projects to improve and upgrade the facility. The grant funds will be used for improvements to the airport terminal building. Ithaca Fire Department receives $22,000 in federal funds U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer announced today that the Ithaca Fire Department will received $22,637 in federal funds, allocated through the Department of Homeland Security Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program. A press release said the Fire Department will put the funds towards new specialty equipment which cleans hazardous contaminants from protective clothing worn by firefighters. This program’s grants are awarded on a competitive bases to the applicants that most closely address the program’s priorities and demonstrate financial need. .

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o find The Cherry, Ithaca’s latest performance venue, you have two choices. The more picturesque path to its West End waterfront location is the little road opposite Pete’s Grocery, past the grain and pet store, across the tiny one lane bridge and around the bushy corner till you emerge at Ports of New York: The Cherry’s right across the street. The more travelled approach is via South Meadow Street. Turn in to what’s fondly called “Wegmans road” (Cecil Malone Drive) as if heading to the Super 8, but continue until you reach a dead end. Resist the urge to turn left on Cherry Street to the Found vintage store; instead go right, where you’ll immediately arrive at The Cherry and its enormous free parking lot. It’s a funky little corrugated galvanized steel box nestled on the inlet, looking perfectly at home amidst the long functional buildings of the West End’s industrial park. Yet its jaunty air and stylish exterior light fixtures suggest something not so or8

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Curtains rise on a unique addition to Ithaca’s theater scene. By Barbara Adams dinary might be happening inside. This week, the Cherry Artspace has its formal ribbon-cutting opening and premieres its inaugural play, Saviana Stanescu’s What Happens Next. The theater is the dream child of two men (also life partners): Sam Buggeln, artistic director, and Nick Salvato, chairman of the board. Salvato joined Cornell’s department of performing and media arts, which he currently chairs, 11 years ago. Eventually Buggeln, a Canadian director working at New York City’s New Ohio Theatre and the Lark, grew weary of commuting between two places. In 2014, the couple took a six-month sabbatical in Buenos Aires, where the inspiration for a new kind of theater began. “I didn’t know what I needed to learn,”

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Buggeln says, “but I knew I needed to blow my mind. Buenos Aires is a theater town the size of New York –– over 400 theaters, with generations of theater-making.” Returning from Argentina was the moment of recognition: Buggeln wanted to experiment with that perspective, that diversity, in Ithaca: “There are infinitudes of ways to make theater that we don’t really explore much in the U.S. outside of some big cities. We wanted to bring that freedom, that vastness, to audiences here.” “I knew I wouldn’t get hired to do the work that would make me happy,” Buggeln added. “But starting a theater, we could make something happen in Ithaca.” The Cherry Arts’ mission evolved: to present innovative yet accessible work

that’s “experimental, international and radically local –– avant-garde work that doesn’t get seen as much in the U.S. ecosystem as we think it should,” Buggeln believes. Selling their New York apartment provided capital to purchase a small plot near the flood control channel and, last November, construction began. Ithaca was already a theater-rich town. But for their nonprofit venture Buggeln had a smaller-than-usual space in mind, a black box full of possibility. “The Kitchen went to 99 seats,” he says. “The Hangar is at 340, and the State about 1,600. It seemed there was really a sweet spot for 50-75 seats, 100 tops –– a smaller, flexible space.” Jennifer Herzog, The Cherry Arts’ as-

sociate artistic director, sees it as providing a niche that Ithaca didn’t know needed to be filled: “If we think of the Hangar as Broadway, the Kitchen as off-Broadway,” she said, “then we’re the off-off downtown experience.” The team made sure The Cherry wasn’t duplicating anyone else’s turf. “Almost no theaters in the U.S. are doing formally experimental work and work in translation,” says Buggeln. And though Ithaca abounds with artistic talent, he didn’t see a collective of professional artists here yet. The Cherry’s “radically local” model hoped to offer that as well. Moving to Ithaca in August 2015, Buggeln began assembling a company of artists. “That wound up being the main thing. Ithaca is rich not only with theater-makers –– actors, playwrights, designers –– but poets, musicians, sound engineers, visual artists, puppeteers, videographers. We wanted a multidisciplinary company.” The group of 35 or so practitioners now comes together for salons and play readings and also chooses the season. “We kick around what we respond to or not before coming to a decision,” Buggeln says. But many artists are veterans of former collectives, and nobody, he adds, laughing, wanted to decide by full consensus. So he has the role of final decision maker. Without a permanent building, The Cherry’s initial season (Season Zero, they call it) appeared all over town. Diverse and wondrously strange, each show gave a taste of what The Cherry crew had in mind. The first production (September 2015) was A Cherry Timedive, original short pieces by four Ithaca writers based on local lore. It took place right on the waterfront

property, with audience members and their cardboard box seats moving from spot to spot on the grass, following the performers. (Among other actors, Herzog was memorable as the daughter in a family of ducklings.) This whimsical experience was followed in December by White Rabbit Red Rabbit at the Circus Culture space on Green Street (also repeated at the 2016 Ithaca Festival). Nassim Soleimanpour, an Iranian conscientious objector denied a passport, had created the work to reach audiences in places he could never visit. This absurdist adventure, which has played worldwide, has no director or set and depends on only one actor, who sees the script for the first time on entering the stage. Nine local professional actors were featured over its Ithaca run, and audiences were fascinated. “I’ve been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of people responding to the work we’ve presented,” Buggeln says. “It’s been exciting to see there was an appetite for something new that wasn’t being done –– I’d feared that maybe nobody wanted it.” The company’s next venture was again outdoors, last September, with an individual stroll through Ithaca’s West End. Storm Country –– by Salvato and local playwright Aoise Stratford, based on Grace Miller White’s 1909 novel –– offered an audioplay experience. Participants first picked up an mp3 player and packet of maps and memorabilia at the Boatyard Grill. From there they progressed down the inlet, listening to actors narrate the story of Tess, a young waterside squatter. Storm Country was charming and audience-friendly, says Herzog. “It opened audiences’ minds to what theater can be.”

Buggeln likes saying to people, “I bet you didn’t know you liked avant-garde theater.” He knows many assume it’s inaccessible, but he believes it’s “just using unconventional forms to freshen the message –– and have more fun.” When Ithaca winter forced the company indoors, they were hosted by the Kitchen Theatre for their seasonal offering, The Snow Queen. Adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen tale, this classic featured talking flowers and reindeer, battling snowflakes and flying sleighs. With original music, live actors, and marvelous puppetry, Buggeln made theatrical magic. The itinerant season continued in April at Community School of Music and Arts with two one-acts by Argentine Santiago Loza, co-translated in English for the first time by Buggeln. Once again, unusual subject matter and creative production values shaped a powerful experience. In Winter Animals, directed by Buggeln, a rancher father visits his son in the city, their encounter mediated by a strange nude woman living in the lad’s refrigerator. And in Nothing to Do with Love, directed by Norm Johnson, a skilled seamstress chooses her own fiery apotheosis. Soleimanour’s piece Blank played briefly at the 2017 Ithaca Festival, a commitment to bringing theater to the festival that The Cherry hopes to sustain. And you may have noticed more headphone-wearing amblers along Cayuga inlet, as the Storm Country melodrama was reprised this summer. Now, after 10 months of construction, the company finally moves into its new space: an open cavern, warmed on three sides by the near-psychedelic pattern of

plywood sheeting, with a scattered-stone polished concrete floor. Colorful chairs from an Ohio high school, complete with graffiti, are stacked in a corner. Seventeen feet overhead, the lighting grid crosses and from there, red steel beams rise even further, inviting future aerialist performances. On the west side, glass doors feature a beautiful view of the inlet, a natural vista that effectively grounds this venue. “The space is wide open,” Buggeln says. “There are no rules; chairs could be anywhere, the stage too. It’s a metaphor for what we want to do here. By mixing music, art, theater, opera, film, dance, we want a place of real artistic fertility and cross-pollination –– for both artists and audiences.” Other arts groups have already begun to mingle at The Cherry. This summer the space hosted the Hangar’s Wedge theater artists and this week Ithaca novelist Eleanor Henderson’s book launch; more events are scheduled. The Cherry’s own first season brings back The Snow Queen in December, with new puppets, music and songs –– “like last year only more magnificent,” Buggeln promises. With its “radically global” value in mind, The Cherry brings Serbian playwright and filmmaker Iva Brdar’s Rule of Thumb in February and French writer/performer Frédéric Sonntag’s George Kaplan in April. “It’s great to be in a community that allows this kind of work,” co-founder Salvato says. “We don’t have to worry about huge audience numbers and so can take risks in programing. Adding a different aesthetic to the Ithaca theater mix is a real privilege and challenge.

hat Happens Next seems the perfect W title for the open-ended play that The Cherry Arts commissioned to inaugurate

time.” And later, she adds, “I met Erica, and fell in love with her professionalism and specificity. They’re both amazing.”

new creative avenues.”

reality, and discovering how your perception can change in the shadow of an instant due to a profound event.”

its first season. And internationally known Romanian “ARTivist ” Saviana Stanescu, once called “the female Ionesco,” seems the perfect playwright. For Stanescu, an Ithaca College theater professor, this is her first professional local production.

The three began workshopping the play in collaboration with director Buggeln in July 2016. “After the first read-through,” Steinhagen says, “Saviana totally reworked the play in 24 hours. She’s brilliant.”

“Saviana’s wonderful plays are seen all over the world but not in Ithaca,” artistic director Sam Buggeln says. “And having her develop new work for local professional actors aligns with our mission.”

“It’s an unusual nonlinear script,” Steinhagen adds, “unlike anything I’ve ever done. I found it so strange and beautiful and dreamy; funny but sad. It’s so mysterious, in a great way, that we want people to just experience it –– not have any idea about what’s about to happen.”

“Sam encouraged me to go wild, push my creative limits, experiment,” Stanescu says, “and I’m always happy to do that.”

Stanescu describes the play as “a playful, cheerful dystopia –– a sort of ‘not waiting for Godot’ with two women.”

She prefers writing for specific actors and to play the two characters chose women who are in life colleagues and good friends, Jennifer Herzog and Erica Steinhagen.

“This was a departure from my previous topics –– social issues and immigration,” she says. “All my American plays, in English, have been about living between two cultures and two countries. My Romanian plays were much more experimental, both in form and topics. So this allows me to revisit my old Eastern European sensibility while exploring

“When I first saw Jennifer perform,” she says, “I found her so versatile and curious –– she made things playful and tragic at the same

The play has an absurdist edge, which is part of Stanescu’s heritage as a poet/journalist/ activist coming of age in a newly postdictatorship Romania. All involved agree on one thing: the play passes “the Bechdel test” with flying colors. Named after the lesbian feminist cartoonist, this means any fictional work in which two women have a conversation that’s not about a man. “Saviana couldn’t write a non-feminist play,” Steinhagen says. “She’s a strong woman writing for women. It’s how she sees the world –– and as actors it’s an incredible and rare experience to be in that world.” And the theme? “It’s a futuristic play –– and modular, and multimedia,” Stanescu says. “I’m working with the idea of a postapocalyptic sensitivity, with the impact of technology on people’s lives. It’s also about memory and creating memory, what’s real and what’s fictionalized.” Herzog believes it’s about “confronting the unknown, accepting different perceptions of Th e

Everyone involved is reluctant to get more specific than this. “It’s a very slippery play,” Buggeln feels. “But the plot is not so much a big secret as it’s that the play wants us to keep guessing what the play wants to be. It’s able to be read as a lot of different things, confounding the idea that we can ever really understand a thing to its core.” Herzog says the piece is “about challenging the old addiction to binaries: true/not true.” And in seeking to tell the complex truth about human relationships, it’s often “goofy, loopy, joyful, and really funny.” We all wonder what happens next with the world, Stanescu affirms. “How can people connect in a post-human age, when we coexist with artificial intelligence? Are these women –– Ella and Bella –– robots? clones? holograms? or human? The play allows each audience member to come up with their own story. And I hope that’s the beauty of this experience.”

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of programs related to reducing the population of the jail. “What makes 2018 unique is ‘okay, for the first time, this money is really going to come, we feel confident this is going to be reliable, recurring revenue,’” Mareane said. “For the first time, we’ve made it a part of our budget and, like property taxes and sales taxes, it will be supporting expenditures in the 2018 budget.” So far, a nice windfall seems to be in the cards for next year’s county budget: According to the New York State Comptroller’s Office, Tompkins County has so far received close to $823,000 in casino taxes this year: $508,000 in taxes from Del Lago (the second quarter payment, at $295,000, coming in about $80,000 higher than Q1) and Tioga Downs, contributing about $316,000. Even with that 25 percent leeway written into next year’s budget, Mareane warned, in the coming years those funds should be assigned with caution, as Tompkins County has no means of anticipating if there will be a drop-off in receipts down the road. “I want to say roll the dice,” he joked to county legislators at a budget hearing last week, adding that people are quite likely to continue gambling over the coming years. “but you have to remember these are just as unpredictable as sales taxes.” “I have confidence in the future that these funds will still be there in the future,” he added. “[...] (people) will keep gambling, and when the next casino opens, I’m sure people will be going to the next one.” While seemingly outpacing Mareane’s projections for next year by a long shot, this year’s income still falls short of last year’s projected $2.6 million income anticipated for the county this year, something casino owners have hinted may be indicative of too much competition in Upstate New York’s gaming scene. In recent months, non-tribal casinos like those paying taxes to Tompkins County have started to see a drop-off in revenues, falling well-short – sometimes as much as 35 percent – of initial projections in part to, as Tioga Downs owner Jeff Gural told the New York Daily News last month, an oversaturation of the casino market in Upstate New York, even

after officials said they anticipated an increase in revenues over the summer. When Gural first campaigned for a casino license, he projected first year taxes to the state at around $32 million but, through the end of June, had sent just $13.3 million to the state. According to a report by Reuters last month, he said he hopes a new hotel opening on November 3 and a golf course will boost that figure and turn the casino into a regional destination, telling the Ithaca Times in an interview that, according to their projections, is anticipated to contribute to a five to ten percent increase in slot and table game revenue due largely to comps given to customers as well as customers coming from outside the region for events like conferences or weddings. Officials from the New York State Gaming Commission have echoed this sentiment, noting that for many of the casinos, a number of amenities had yet to come online and, at places like Del Lago, increased partnerships and tie-ins with local tourist attractions like the Finger Lakes wine trails (or in the case of Tioga Downs, places like the Corning Museum of Glass and other large tourist draws in the area) have yet to be developed. “Our base market is pretty good,” Gural said. “None of us are doing as well as we’ve hoped, but time will tell as to how that’s going to play out.” Without a historic record to rely on, Mareane has been cautious in his initial planning of the budget, hence a generous 25 percent low-balling of expected revenues in 2018. “We don’t have much of a track record,” Mareane said. “We usually base these types of things in the budget on historical track records and right now, we don’t have those. When that happens, typically, you’re conservative for the first year or two and hopefully, in the coming years, you can be more accurate in putting your budget together.” “If the revenues come in higher than we thought in 2018,” he added, “that will be unencumbered money the county can decide how to use at that time.” How well casino revenues remain within that arbitrary 25 percent cushion has yet to be seen: As further figures from the commission note, revenues at two of the state’s three non-tribal casinos have been slipping slowly,

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but steadily since February. In the long term, whether or not the casinos meet their obligations or not still has yet to be seen and their earning potential, uncertain. Though Tompkins County is acting fairly conservatively in how it has budgeted the funding for next year, critics think betting highly on casino funding’s permanence should be considered cautiously. “If the money is there, mirabile dictu, of course it should be used,” Stephen Shafer, an emeritus professor of neurology at Columbia University and Chairperson for the Coalition Against Gambling in NY wrote in an email to The Ithaca Times. “If gross gaming income to the casinos is below what their owners were counting on, you can be pretty sure the owners will cry to the state that they need help getting up to speed and therefore request to make lower payments to the state and counties, yet more tax relief.” While many rural counties are seeing significant benefits from the casino taxes (some municipalities, like Tyre, will see their tax base doubled from this deal) there is a sense that long-term reliance on casino funding should not be a permanent answer to meeting shortfalls in a budget. In a report released by the Rockefeller Institute in 2016, it was noted that while inflation adjusted tax and fee revenues from commercial casinos grew by more than $1.3 billion in states with newly authorized casinos between 2008 and 2015, it declined by $1.4 billion in states with established casinos, for a net decline of 1.5 percent nationally. Though places like Tompkins County are hurting less for the funding, how it should be spent – and how budget discussions will shape the fate of this supposed $1.3 million – is up to its faith in the future of casinos in upstate New York. “Two years from now, when the novelty wears off, the numbers could get lower,” legislator Jim Dennis, who chairs the county’s budget committee, wrote in an email. “We should not assign the money to specific things for a few years, and I would hope the legislature would put the money in the bank for that proverbial rainy day.” –Nick Reynolds

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project will require pile-driving because of the lackluster soil in the city. Even buying the less than one acre of property for the building cost Lakeview $1.2 million and the company still had to increase its units by 10, from 50 to 60, just to secure a viable financial yield. The Tompkins County Housing Needs Assessment that was completed a year ago addressed the hazardous supportive housing situation, saying the difficulty developing supportive housing mirrored the issues the county has in developing any housing at all, particularly which is affordable. It also outlined the need for such housing in the county: the few options there are, most already provided by Lakeview and Unity House, maintain lengthy waiting lists in the double digits. Since 2011, homeless shelters in the area have seen a dramatic rise in bed-nights, according to the report, as federal supportive housing funding has decreased. Merriman said Lakeview’s involvement in the community has shown them the need exists enough in Ithaca for more affordable and supportive housing to fill the building, and very likely more than that. Lakeview is also working with Southern Tier Aids Program (STAP) to connect with homeless people suffering from HIV/AIDS around the community who may be in even more dire need of housing due to the severity of their illness. As it stands now, 10 percent of the building’s units will be set aside for STAP recommendations, or six rooms total. John Barry, the Executive Director of STAP, said people suffering from AIDS are far more vulnerable to the trials of homelessness, particularly in summer or winter when weather can become more extreme. Barry said they would not have a problem filling the six rooms: just in Tompkins County, his organization deals with 81 people who are HIV positive and homeless. The obvious challenges with homelessness are compounded by their sickness, but the lack of housing options often leaves them struggling mightily to receive proper medication to survive. See more online at Ithaca.com –Matt Butler

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Greene discussed the role that immigrant Clara Lemlich played in organizing workers to join the ILGWU’s Local 25. Speaking in Yiddish in Cooper Union Hall to a crowd in 1909, Lemlich galvanized 20,000 of 32,000 workers in the shirtwaist trade to strike for 13 weeks for better conditions and pay, in what came to be known as the Uprising of the 20,000. The massive strike succeeded in winning some basic labor reforms, but several Lower East Side garment companies, including the Triangle Waist Company, refused to improve working conditions or safety. Two years later, in 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company and 146 workers, mostly women, trapped inside locked doors lost their lives. “The fire sparked public outrage at the working conditions in these factories and garnered support for these unions,” said Greene. On exhibit at Cornell is the funeral badge worn at the memorial for the victims. More than 100,000 people marched in the funeral procession. Yet, the era of sweatshops has not disappeared. We still have them in the U.S., Greene said. There also are still garment industry tragedies, such as the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, crushing more than 1,000 workers. Today, only about 2 percent of an American’s wardrobe is manufactured in the U.S. compared to 95 percent in 1960, and 75 percent in 1960. But it’s still possible to buy clothes made in North America. Greene recommends interested consumers check out the Workers United website at workersunited. org. The Cornell exhibition highlights the designers, including Geoffrey Beene, Anne Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Halston, Stephen

Burrows, Nicole Miller, Pauline Trigère, and Donna Karan, who worked with the ILGWU. Some of their clothes are on display. For example, there is a hostess gown by French designer Trigère in plaid with the stripes matching perfectly matching on the seams. Beyond the efforts of the unions and the reforms they’d brought to the trade, Greene explained how the garment workforce has changed over the years. In the 19th century and earlier, people worked with dressmakers to make their clothes. But today “every seam on every garment that you wear is likely sewn by a different person and we don’t know much about their lives, their working conditions, and their wages,” she said. Today, as many as 30 people or more sew the clothes most people wear each day. –Lori Sonken

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With a focus on the “Historic Core of Stewart Park,” a restoration of the Picnic Pavilion and the creation of a Wharton Pavilion Visitor Center in the north bay of the current DPW maintenance pavilion have become priorities, with the parking lot between the pavilions renovated into a Performance Plaza for public events, concerts, café seating, parking and building access. Construction of a Lake Overlook is also in the works. (total cost: $2.5 million) Numerous infrastructure, site and landscape improvements are also in the work, which includes construction of the Cayuga Waterfront Trail loop within the park and the installation of two Cayuga Lake Blueway Trail paddle boat launch facilities. (cost: $750,000) By summer 2020, Phase I of Cascadilla Boathouse Restoration ($220,000 cost)

will preserve the historic 1894 building by repairing and painting the siding and trim for a positive visual impact within the park. And there’s the highly ambitious “New and Inclusive Playground and Splash Pad” (cost: $1.6 million) slated for completion in Summer 2018. Initiated in 2016 with the newly restored and accessible carousel, the playground will be the first of its kind within the Finger Lakes region comprised of: a new water efficient interactive spray play area; an accessible pathway berm to a recreation of the park’s historic Water Tower and Lake Overlook; play areas for preschool and school age children; a music garden and sand play area, swings and climbing structures; a wellness play and fitness area for adults and elders; new bathrooms and changing rooms; accessible walkways and links to Cayuga Waterfront Trail and other areas of the park and waterfront. (More online at Ithaca.com) –Deirdre Cunningham

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hile two out our three local football teams already have two games apiece under their belts, Cornell has yet to kick off their 2017 season. That will change on Saturday when the Big Red travels to Delaware. Fans wanting a preview of the upcoming season should be at the Ramada Inn for lunch on Thursday. The 41st annual Tompkins County Sports Council Football Luncheons will begin on Thursday, Sept. 14 and the weekly gatherings will be moved from Mondays to Thursdays this year. The event is held 11:45 a.m. each Thursday through Nov. 16 at the Ramada Inn, 2310 N. Triphammer Road, and the cost is $120 for the ten Thursdays. I have been to several of these luncheons over the years, and they are a great opportunity for football fans to gain some real “insider” insight into the programs. The coaches – Dave Archer from Cornell, Dan Swanstrom from Ithaca College and Kelly Gordon from Ithaca High – all take the podium at the informal luncheons, and there is some entertaining back-and-forth, not only between the coaches, but between the coaches and the fans in attendance. High school coaches from surrounding schools are invited to attend as guest speakers, and The TC Sports Council will extend a special welcome to Ithaca College’s new HC, who will keep the attendees informed about the Bombers. The Tompkins County Sports Council is a not-for-profit organization. All money available at the end of the fall season, after expenses, goes to the high school football programs in Tompkins County. You have the option of obtaining your tickets by credit card by calling Becky at the Ramada by phone at 607-257-3100 or by check or cash from members of the Sports Council Committee: Mike Welch, chair; Jeremy Hartigan; Sally Hoyt; Georgian Leonard; Justin Lutes; Mark Kreydt, Deanna Lockwood, David Moore, John Perko, Bob Slocum or Dave Wohlhueter. *** Speaking of the Big Red’s trip to Delaware this weekend, it will be a matchup of two programs with very long histories. Both football programs rank among the top

Dan Swanstrom in action at Ithaca College’s Butterfield Stadium last Saturday. (Photo: IC Athletics)

15 all-time in wins among FBS programs (Delaware, 8th with 682; Cornell, 13th with 636). This year’s opener will be the 130th for Cornell, and their opening-day record under Dave Archer stands at 2-2. While Saturday’s game will open the season for Cornell, the Fightin’ Blue Hens have already been on the gridiron twice in 2017. They won their opener against in-state rival Delaware State, then dropped their second game to Virginia Tech. Cornell is looking forward to strong leadership this season, as 26 seniors return to East Hill to put forth their best collective effort to keep the Big Red on the upswing. They had a winning road record and a winning non-conference record last year for the first time in many years, and Cornell’s three-game improvement last year tied for its biggest turnaround since 1986. More good news - three of its six losses came by a touchdown or less, and the team’s 39-38 win at Colgate was its first victory over a top 25 team since 2007. That was a big game in Cornell football lore, as the Big Red rallied from a 23-point deficit against the 2015 Patriot League champion and NCAA quarterfinalist, which was the biggest comeback in 16 years. I am excited about the season for a number of reasons, one of which being that 2017 Ithaca High grad Turner DePalma will be suiting up for the Big Red. I have been friends with Turner’s dad, Bernie (the Head Athletic Trainer at Cornell) and I remember the day Bernie told me he had a son. Turner fought back from an ACL injury that sidelined him for his senior season at Ithaca High, and I am looking forward to 4 years of watching a local kid play Division 1 football. I am also very excited about the fact that Buck Briggs will be back in the broadcast booth after spending several months in California, having had a heart transplant. Buck is a great guy and a fine announcer, and the 1976 Cornell graduate has another job as well. He is a lawyer for the NFL, so he knows the proverbial thing or two about football.

Katherine Dieckmann returns to Ithaca with her film Strange Weather

atherine Dieckmann and I were classmates at Ithaca High School, but we didn’t really know each other. Some years later, she was the film critic for the Ithaca Times and then lit out of town, where she directed the music videos for R.E.M.’s “Shiny Happy People” and “Stand,” created the classic kids’ show “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” and began carving out a career as a director of feature films. I first spoke to her in 2007 when she brought her film Diggers to Cornell Cinema. She’ll return to Willard Straight Hall on Thursday, Sept. 21, for a screening of her latest film, Strange Weather. The film stars Holly Hunter as Darcy Taylor, a woman whose son committed suicide some years before. She discovers that a young man who had been living with her son when he killed himself has stolen her son’s idea for a hot dog franchise, to the point of stealing his actual words and posting them on a website. Hunter, along with her friend played by Carrie Coon (“The Leftovers”), hits the road for reasons she doesn’t even seem to have thought through. Dieckmann, who wrote a lovely NPR obituary for Jonathan Demme about his enthusiastic fusing of movies and music, hired singersongwriter Sharon Van Etten — a novice to film scoring — to write and perform the music for the film. Dieckmann spoke to me about how Ithaca has changed, where the idea for Strange Weather came from and how reading William Faulkner at IHS influenced the film. Katherine Dieckmann: Ithaca has changed a lot in 10 years. Ithaca Times: You still feel connected? KD: Always, I always will. I love Ithaca. IT: I’ve seen Strange Weather, and I really liked it. I liked that the purpose of Darcy’s trip wasn’t clearly defined. KD: That’s intentional. IT: Like she didn’t even know what it was going to be. KD: She gets this motivating thing that happens, and it becomes something that she can attach these unresolved feelings to; she’s out for vengeance and some sort of clarity, but she doesn’t even know what the mixture of those two things are. IT: It’s not on the surface. KD: Yeah, it’s — like all grief, it’s buried down deep. And that was certainly something Holly and I talked about, in terms of the performance and the script and how that character … unfolds. Like, what are the ways, how is she dealing with that loss in every detail of her life? And that was something that we really spent a lot of time on: the house, the garden, her mannerisms … everything. She’s still carrying that around. I think that’s the way it is with a profound crisis: You carry it in the body, and you don’t always

know exactly where it is or how you’re going to react to it. Some things you just never get over. You don’t get over them, you find a different way of managing them, which I think ultimately is what the film is about. It’s about kind of cracking open our grief, and that character finds another way to move forward in her life. That doesn’t mean she’s over it, necessarily. IT: How did this story come to you? KD: I had been wanting for a long time to write a script about a woman who had lost her son. And I had an image in my mind of a woman sitting alone at a bar, and she looked

Top: A scene from Katherine Dieckmann’s film. Bottom: The movie poster for “Strange Weather” (Photos provided)

kind of like Lucinda Williams. That’s the hat that Holly wears in the movie. And I had a really good friend who had gotten pregnant when she was a teenager, and her parents forced her to carry the baby to term and give it up for adoption. And she spent many years trying to find that son. At first, I thought that was the story. And then I was like, I have other friends who have lost sons to suicide. And I thought, there’s something about suicide that you really never ever get over. You just never know. You can never know why someone chooses to do that. Some people are just really determined to

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do it, and it doesn’t matter how much you try to intervene. You’re not going to be able to stop it. It was funny when we shot the movie and we shot that scene in the bar, Holly was sitting there and I was just like, “Oh my God, that is the picture I had in my head at the very beginning.” It was kinda cool to see it come to life. IT: Most of my relatives are from the Midwest and the South, and I’m so tired of reductive, stupid Southern stereotypes, and it was refreshing that this was so much smarter stuff. KD: I have a lot of very close Southern friends. [...] A lot of the conversations that I’ve had with [my friends from the South] played a big part in how I wrote the dialogue in the movie because I’m used to that: voices, and how they express themselves. I mean, obviously the South has its problems, and not to underplay that, but I get really tired of the reductive way that Southern people are portrayed in movies in particular. I kind of can’t stand it. I love the influence of Southerners. And I realized, actually, when I was down in Jackson — I lived in Jackson, Mississippi, for three months while I made the movie, two years ago this fall, 2015, and I was living like two blocks from Eudora Welty’s house in Jackson. I realized that Strange Weather really came out of a very early place. Actually, when I was a senior at Ithaca High School, I was a huge Southern fiction fanatic. And I read a lot of Southern fiction that year; I was reading Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers and Welty and William Faulkner. I remember specifically reading Faulkner at Ithaca High School. And then I really started loving Southern photography, like Walker Evans. All that stuff, that kind of combination of literature and photography really played a huge role for me in this particular movie. IT: I wanted to talk about Sharon Van Etten’s music for Strange Weather. I guess the easy way for you would have been to hire an established composer for the film, or even a rock person who had some movie experience, but it’s such a great leap of faith to offer the job to someone who’s never done it before. KD: I just knew Sharon Van Etten could do it. First of all, I was just obsessed with her music before I hired her. I played it so much. I can’t even describe how often I was playing her stuff, for like, three years before I connected with her. And it was just kind of meant to be, I think, because she had just come off the road, and she was really looking to change what she was doing, and she was really eager to learn that skill, and I really wanted her to do the music for my movie. It was like a kind of kismet, you know, that we connected at that moment because it was a great moment for her and a great moment for me. • Read more about Katherine Dieckmann and her film at ithaca.com/entertainment.

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Cornell to live score Hamlet with a female lead By Chr i s tie Cit rang l o Hamlet (1921), presented by Cornell Cinema and Cornell University’s Department of Music. The screening will take place from 8-10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at Sage Chapel. The screening will also be accompanied with a live musical score of the film. A pre-film lecture will take place at 7:15 p.m., discussing the making of the score.

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ince its inception during Elizabethan England, dozens of iterations of Hamlet have been performed on stage or on the silver screen. From the infamous film adaptation by Mel Gibson to the recent modern take starring Doctor Who’s David Tennant, iterations of Hamlet have transcended timelines, locations and, in the case of the 1921 German film, gender. Cornell Cinema and Cornell University’s Department of Music are participating in “The Hamlet Project,” a performance objective that restores silent films and pairs them with historically matched scores in live performances. Directed by Sven Gade and Heinz Schall and starring Asta Nielsen, the version of Hamlet that Cornell Cinema will screen envisions the protagonist as a woman. In this narrative, Hamlet is born as a female, but her mother, Gertrude, disguises her as a male throughout her life in order to protect the family’s claim to power in Denmark. Dennis James, the creator of the project, first became intrigued with this adaptation because of its history. “[The directors] created this version of the Hamlet story by going back to Shakespeare’s source material, in particular Saxo Grammaticus, as a way to rid the play of its Renaissance trappings,” he said. “A key aspect of their revisionist plot is that here Hamlet is in love with Horatio and Shakespeareans may also be intrigued to find that Claudius dies in a fire, while it is Gertrude who administers the poison, which she then drinks by accident — so all of those lying dead at the end of the film are women.” A key inspiration for the film comes from a literary criticism written by Edward P. Vining in 1881 titled The Mystery of Hamlet. In his piece, Vining argues Hamlet must be a woman due to his gentle manners, dependent behaviors, general lack of strength and obvious infatuation with Horatio. “His feigned madness, his trial of the mimic play, are stratagems that a woman might attempt, and that are far more in keeping with a feminine than with a masculine nature,” Vining argued in his criticism. Riffing off of these late-19th-century ideas of gender, Gade and Schall recreated Vining’s critique in the form of a silent film — or, for the time period, just a regu-

lar film since all movies were silent. And Cornell Music is breaking the silence in the silent film with a live score. James helped construct the score with his Filmharmonia Duo focusing on the historical musical repertoire, instrumentation and performance styles. “It began with my initial contemplation of silent film music performance possibilities using 18th-century historical keyboard sound textures that are realized within properly addressed original repertoire,” James said. “The idea emerged in 2013 during my initial clavichord studies at an Amherst Early Music Festival. ...

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My concepts then expanded into an 18thcentury expressive focus.” The live score will consist of a compilation of excerpted compositions by the sons of J. S. Bach (C.Ph.E., Joh.C., and Wm.F.) performed by a duo using an organ and piano plus harpsichord. A guest MezzoSoprano vocalist will also join, adding an air of grace and elegance to the score. While this recreation is as close to what music would have been played at the time, James said that every film made back in the ’20s was technically silent — the audio was never recorded with the visuals. Seeing a live score performed with the film would be nothing different for the ’20s. “I find people today often don’t realize that these historical films were never really silent and they came to be called that, often as a pejorative industry dismissal as ineffective, when the sound movies (or, as they were known at first, ‘Talkies’) fully arrived in 1926,” James said. “If one loves movies as do most moviegoers today, seeing and hearing, them as they were originally intended to be experienced simply should not be missed.” •

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Tales of Rebellious Women Lisa Harris crafts a trilogy of fierce women By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o Lisa Harris will be reading from her newest book, The Raven’s Tale, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, at Buffalo Street Books.

magic-realistic narrative. The universe Harris creates follows its own rules, bending the known laws of quantum physics and the constructs series of tales concludes with slip- of time. Manette travels through portals, pery time, a fearless woman, magic sometimes passing between heaven, purrealism — and a raven. gatory and hell. Local author Lisa Harris’ newest book, World building was another integral The Raven’s Tale, closes a trilogy of women part of creating The Raven’s Tale. Harris locating truth in their lives. Beginning clings to concepts that rupture everyday with ’Geechee Girls and followed up with life, creating a universe that feels almost Allegheny Dream, each book takes place as real as it is fake. Through extensive within the same time period but across research, Harris laces together poetry different cultures and regions. While the through time, laws of physics and elements characters aren’t of mythology. With connected, t he each chapter puncc om mon t he me tuated w it h an of women finding epigraph — in themselves resoline with Richard nates w it h each Ada ms’ classic story. novel, Watership In The Raven’s D o w n — Ha r r i s Tale, the reader is keeps her audience met with bewitchaware of her inspiing elements rations. The epiinterwoven with graphs also behave familiar feelings. like a chorus for the Told through the book: the echoes limited perspecof the characters’ tive of a raven voic e s a nd fe elna med Hugin ings as the reader Munin, the protravels deeper into tagonist, Manette, M a n e t t e ’s u n i finds herself travverse. eling through time Along with and space to betworld building and ter understand the prominent female world she lives in characters, one of a n d t h e p e r s on t he f ina l t hemes she’s become. Harris focuses on The cover of Lisa Harris’ new book. (Photo provided) In a literar y is t i me. Ma net te world traditiontries to comprehend ally saturated with how time fits into male protagonists and male authors, Har- her life, how it can fall between her finris sought to break rank with her trilogy. gers and how it can trail slowly behind She studied and taught literature for years her. Channelling her own confusion and and became increasingly frustrated with interest in time, Harris complicates the the lack of representation of 50 percent of narrative and a reader’s base understandthe human population. ing of time. “The books I used to read and used to “Time is very slippery: sometimes it’s teach have something of the hero in them; very fast, very slow and other times it even as a female, you can always pick up evaporates right in front of you,” Harris something about the hero and transfer it to said. “Time is also a construct: if you live your own life,” Harris said. “But I missed in an indigenous culture, you may not female writing. Then I began looking for have a clock and you don’t think about women writers, and I realized how differ- time. So I got fascinated with time.” ent my life would have been if I had more With themes ranging from time to female authors to study. I started looking female empowerment, Harris’ new book for them, teaching them and also writing challenges literature’s norms and invents them.” a universe that’s both contemplative and Manette doesn’t shy away from the perplexing. hero’s journey. While she may feel hesitant “I hope these books are read by young at times, she still follows through — some- women who understand something and by thing unusual for a woman of traditional men who learn something about women literature to do, especially a woman in a by reading them,” she said. •

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play titled Smart People should play well in a college town — especially as it features well-educated, progressive, hyper-articulate young professionals. Lydia R. Diamond’s 2016 comic drama, an exciting opening for the Kitchen Theatre season under new artistic director M. Bevin O’Gara, both appreciates and skewers this intellectual elite. The opening sequence on Tyler M. Perry’s excellent set (a glowing blue circuit board floor and backdrop of overlapping rectangles) provides electronic overload that lasts somewhat too long. Brian, a white neuroscientist, is a rising star about to get tenure; his best friend and basketball buddy, Jackson, is a black resident surgeon who runs a community clinic after his day at the hospital. Valerie, a black actress, cur-

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rently performs Shakespeare, cleans homes on the side and adds to her income as one of Brian’s research subjects. After a theater accident, she winds up in Jackson’s hospital and eventually, in his bed. Ginny, a high-powered psychologist academic who’s half-Japanese, half-Chinese, begins dating Brian, who’s pursued her relentlessly. She counsels Asian-American women, one of whom lands in Jackson’s clinic. The web of coincidences culminates in Brian and Ginny setting up Valerie and Jackson to meet, unaware they’ve already had and ended a disastrous relationship. All four are vibrant, driven, smart and stubborn — not to mention opinionated — and share post-racial values. Yet race is always at the forefront of their conversations, demanding to be addressed, negotiated, re-understood. Brian, the “white guy” painfully aware of his patriarchal and race privilege (well, most of the time), is actually researching race: He’s convinced he can show scientifically that whites’ brain patterns are inherently racist. The trajectory of the play is not only the constant coupling and uncoupling, but Brian’s progressive downfall. He’s passionate and outspoken, calling out racists everywhere, even his dean — face to face and on NPR. The most complexly sketched character here, Brian’s also the messiest and most

problematic, as if Diamond needed him to carry the weight of too many ideas about white Americans. We feel for him yet he disturbs us. The others, representing easier concepts, are more successfully drawn: the angry black male (or is he just a gifted hothead?); the tough black woman with few black friends (“I really want to have them,” she pleads); the powerhouse Asian woman who’s simultaneously mega-successful and invisible, constantly being interrupted. The four friends’ dynamics are fascinating and the ideas being wrestled with here are important — it’s refreshing to hear racial issues discussed without guilt and delicacy. Some dialogue is too expository, but the characters’ authenticity is engaging. And caring, and laughing too — many exchanges will have you cackling aloud. An obvious moment: when Valerie, auditioning for one role, is asked to read for a stereotyped lower-class black part instead; she lets out all the racial stops. A more inward, wincing humor is conveyed during Ginny’s frequent frustrating phone calls to obtuse store employees (everyone can relate). Director Summer L. Williams evokes superb performances from her talented cast, who easily make their characters seem like our friends and colleagues. Lisa Boquist’s costumes, as always, contribute. Jake Lee Smith perfectly realizes all of Brian’s conflicting intellectual-white-guy strands, managing to be simultaneously appealing and repugnant. As Ginny, Shannon Tyo nicely layers her contradictions — she’s used to being brilliant yet disregarded; she values her Asian identity, while her Chinese client sees her as “white.” Bryce Michael Wood and Folami Williams create attractive individualists whose temperaments and choices put them in constant conflict. They may share an ethnicity, but they’re the most deeply divided. Both are ardent about their chosen profession: he’s overtly activist for “his people,” while she’s mostly in a color-blind zone, until she’s out campaigning for Obama. And speaking of our former president, the historic inauguration playing out onscreen near play’s end is a bittersweet nostalgic moment for the audience. Jackson’s in his clinic; Brian is staggering solo, experimenting on himself; and the two women — in the most genuine, warmest connection we see — are together on the phone, one watching live in D.C., one via TV, sharing the excitement of a new vision. Interestingly enough, Diamond’s compelling and provocative work, as much as it furthers the dialogue on race, has even more to affirm about feminism. • Smart People, by Lydia R. Diamond; directed by Summer L. Williams. At the Kitchen Theatre through Sept. 24.

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English band Circa Waves makes its way to Ithaca By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o Circa Waves, playing with Two Door Cinema Club, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, The State Theatre of Ithaca.

ate snuck up on Circa Waves one evening in England. Frontman Kieran Shudall was working at a festival when someone approached him, asking, “Isn’t that your song playing now on Radio 1 right now?” “Within a day I had like 50 phone calls from publicists, managers and record labels and all that sort of stuff,” Shudall said. “It was a bit crazy — it all happened so quickly.” Shudall sent out demo tapes to friends, other bands and publicists for review with the intention of his work getting picked up by someone — anyone. After one last try, Shudall gave up completely in a “sort of dramatic fashion,” he said. In another dramatic turn, BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe premiered his demo.

Radio 1 in the U.K. is an integral part of popular culture. Radio, as a medium, has not faded out of the U.K.’s culture like it has in the U.S. BBC has six core radio stations, BBC Radios 1-6 (some with supplement channels in between, such as BBC Radio 1Xtra). Among the most popular, the station that broadcasts popular and modern music is Radio 1, hosted by Zane Lowe and others. For Shudall to hear his demo on one of the most popular radio stations in his region, his supposed-ending quickly transformed into a beginning. By 2013, Circa Waves became one of England’s fastest rising indie-rock bands — one that’s now touring with Two Door Cinema Club. Circa Waves began with Shudall and other musicians — not long-time friends. Shudall met individuals at festivals and through other musical endeavours, formed a band that understands how music is written, recorded and performed on a pro-

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Belle Game to enchant Ithaca with its music By Jaime C one Belle Game and Broken Social Scene, 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, The State Theatre of Ithaca.

t’s really powerful to claim yourself and essentially your right to be alive.” With those words, spoken in a phone interview while she was in the middle of her workday at her second job, the lead singer of Belle Game, Andrew Lo, makes it clear that singing — particularly onstage — means much more to her than just making a pretty sound. Backed by bandmates Adam Nanji (guitar), Katrina Jones (keyboard) and Alex Andrew (drums), Lo will take the stage Saturday, Sept. 16, at the State Theatre as the opener for Broken Social Scene. For Belle Game, opening for Broken Social Scene holds a special thrill because Belle Game’s latest album, Fear/Nothing, was produced by Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew, along with David Hamelin of the The Stills. The band describes its unique sound as “crush pop,” which has multiple overlapping interpretations among band members, according to Lo.

“We all know that we have pop writing aspects in our music, but I think that Adam thought of it as a little bit dirtier, a little more abrasive,” Lo said. “I would think of crush pop as that image of an ’80s music video with a girl twirling the phone cord, talking to her crush on the bed.” “In my mind crush pop has a little bit of distortion,” she added. “It’s not clean pop.” The genre is a bit hard to pin down, Lo said, because the band spent more than three years making Fear/Nothing, their sophomore album; over that time, the band went through a creative metamorphosis that involved scrapping previous sessions and starting over again completely. Lo said that even the way the band performs those songs is different — grittier — than when they were originally recorded. “Not to take anything away from our previous work, but that happens when you grow up, you know?” she said. “You get a little bit more honest.” The lyrics to “Spirit,” Fear/Nothing’s first single, reflect that restlessness and desire for change. “Don’t think I want what I used to want,” Lo sings in the chorus.

fessional level. Forming friendships then came about organically with the music. “We all respect each other musically,” Shudall said. “I do a lot of the writing, and since we come from musical backgrounds and we’ve all done music separately, we all sort of respect the process.” Within that musical process comes a variety of inspiration for the band. Circa Waves has crafted slow, sensual songs in conjunction with pieces that start out screaming — like “Fire that Burns.” The band’s first album, Different Creatures, has a different sound in each track. While a band may commit to a stand-out sound for each album, every song may feel similar after the first handful of tracks. Different Creatures avoids this trap, drawing on inspiration from all forms of art — not just music. “My inspiration comes from any band that has a lot of energy — Arcade Fire, Queens of the Stone Age — anyone that writes genuine songs,” Shudall said. “Or I can sort of watch a Sofia Coppola film, I can sort of write a song after watching that. The way it sort of envelops you it just puts you in a mindset and puts you in that place to write.” With inf luences ranging from indie bands to film, Circa Waves has combined its inspirations and branded them with a sort of charm and signature from each member of the band. Since its inception in

2013, Circa Waves has broken out of boxes and stereotypes that may have defined the band. After releasing one EP in 2014 and a full album just last year, the group has now gotten the chance to shake off the firstband nerves and develop its style.

“Don’t think I need what I used to need/ Don’t think I want what I used to want/ Don’t think I see what I used to see.” The song has a driving rhythmic beat and thrumming baseline that is characteristic of most of the tracks on Fear/Nothing, and Lo’s voice is strong and sometimes fluttery before finally soaring into an ethereal high whistle note. It sounds as though she has her voice masterfully under control, despite Lo’s claims that experimenting with the high notes was, at first, uncomfortable. “It was so embarrassing and vulnerable and stupid and silly, and I thought people would think I was clambering for attention,” she said, but she has since become more confident in her singing.

that carry me through.” Music that inspired Belle Game’s members during the time Fear/Nothing was recorded includes everything from Grizzly Bear and Leonard Cohen to the electronic instrumental music Lo said she was listening to a lot back then. Those inf luences shine through in a unique way in “Yuh,” the album’s fourth track, which has an ’80’s synth pop vibe and a danceable beat that promises an energetic kickoff to the night’s music. Thematically, Belle Game’s new album doesn’t shy away from heavy subject matter. One only needs to watch the music video for “Spirit” to understand that while Lo may secretly harbor visions of cord-twirling teens, the band is aiming for something much deeper. The video is beautifully shot in India and directed by Kheaven Lewandowski, who captured dizzying footage of motorcycle riders performing “death well” stunts. It stars Esther Singh, one of the last remaining woman death well riders in Northern India. In the video motorcycles zip around the near vertical sides of a bowl-like track while onlookers cheer. Later, the lone woman rider gets into an argument with the carnival manager, who grabs her throat, pinning her against the wall. She takes off on her motorcycle and arrives home in time to tuck her young son into bed. “A lot of what we wrote about on the album are the gray areas of life,” Lo said. “When she goes home one would think the storyline ends there, that she would say, ‘fuck this, I’m leaving,’ but in reality she shows up for work the next day.” •

Belle Game in a field of flowers. (Photo provided))

“When I first started on this path I was always afraid to sing into the mic,” Lo said. “I would sing with the mic to my cheek and my back to the audience. Now I still have nerves before shows, but I understand myself better. I haven’t always wanted to be a singer, but I always wanted to feel, so I let Th e

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With the band’s first trip to Ithaca and touring with Two Door Cinema Club, Circa Waves has even more room to grow and build on the energy that’s already been crafted. “We were really into trying to be a garage band — scruffy, New York converse, skinny jeans — it’s developed as we played live,” Shudall said. “Our ambitions grow, and we want to make music that really suits that ambition and feels a lot more cinematic and grandiose.” •

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starred in this silent version of Hamlet based on an 1881 book that argued Hamlet was a woman. The daring film will be shown with a new score using music of Bach’s sons, performed live by Dennis James (organ), Michael Tsalka (harpsichord), and mezzo soprano. Pre-film lecture at 7:15pm discusses the making of the score, commissioned by the National Gallery of Art. Two Door Cinema Club, Circa Waves | 8:00 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | State Theater

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On exhibition at New Roots Charter School is Tommy Beers’ collection of watercolors. Beers has been an Ithaca resident for 29 years, and this series documents a solo trip he took from Seattle back to Ithaca. (Art: Tommy Beers)

Vee Da Bee, DJ ha-MEEN, Rose FritzkyRandolph, Joe Gibson, Janet Batch, Jennifer Cork, Kurt Riley, Hal Guitarist, Mijaíl Martínez, Dapper Dan, Angela Marion and Viva Mayhem. There will be a donation taken at the door and a place where you can give what you’d like all night.

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Hamlet, presented by Cornell Music and Cornell Cinema | 8:00 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Hamlet: The great Danish actress Asta Nielsen produced and

Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | (Indie, Rock)

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Jesse Alexander Band | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, Friday, 9 15 | Christ Episcopal Church, 1393 Main Street, Willard | To kick off your weekend and celebrate the new school year, Christ Episcopal Church in Willard invites the community to an evening of world class Bluegrass featuring Lodi’s own Jesse Alexander Band. Backpacks and school supplies will be given out while they last.

and Rob Brydon embark on a six-part episodic road trip through Spain, sampling the restaurants, eateries, and sights along the way. | 108 mins Singin’ in the Rain (1952) | A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.| 103 mins Land and Shade (La Tierra y la Sombra | After having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into. | 97 mins 500 Years | From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 YEARS tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent history through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society. | 105 mins

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Symphoria Pops Series: Music of Elton John | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Friday, 9 15 | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Music of Elton John. The music of Elton John comes to life in this dynamic presentation with a full orchestra, featuring hits such as “Rocket Man,” “Crocodile Rock,” “Daniel” and “Candle In The Wind”.

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Symphoria Pops Series: Music of Journey | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Hear iconic hits Don’t Stop Believin’, Faithfully and Any Way You Want with live orchestra accompaniment. Broken Social Scene, The Belle Game | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | (Experimental, Rock) Big Bad VooDoo Daddy | 8:00 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Homer Center for the Arts |

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Pint and Dale (Bound for Glory) | Sunday, 9 17 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | It’s been decades since William Pint and Felicia Dale have been on Bound for Glory. Many of their songs are traditional songs of the sea, done with skill and fantastic energy.

Citizen Way, Allan Scott Band, DiAnza Macool | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Higher Hope Church, 356 Maple St., Big Flats | Higher Hope Church will bring Citizen Way to the Southern Tier. Citizen Way, an adult contemporary rock Christian band known internationally for multiple top 10 hits will be coming to Big Flats to perform in concert. To open the night, Citizen Way will be joined by the nationally-known Allan Scott Band and local artist DiAnza Macool.

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Dawes | 8:00 PM, Tuesday, 9 19 | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | (Indie)

Film PINA | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 13 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Filmmaker Wim Wenders films dancers in motion as a tribute to legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009. Also screening 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. Blues Brothers | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | The story is a tale of redemption for paroled convict Jake and his brother Elwood, who set out on a mission from God to save from foreclosure the Catholic orphanage in which they

were raised. At this screening, there will be an intermission with trivia. Hamlet, presented by Cornell Music and Cornell Cinema | 8:00 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Hamlet: The great Danish actress Asta Nielsen produced and starred in this silent version of Hamlet based on an 1881 book that argued Hamlet was a woman. The daring film will be shown with a new score using music of Bach’s sons, performed live by Dennis James (organ), Michael Tsalka (harpsichord), and mezzo soprano. Pre-film lecture at 7:15pm discusses the making of the score, commissioned by the National Gallery of Art. Sidemen: Long Road to Glory Screening and Discussion with Crew | 7:20 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | An intimate look at the lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie Big Eyes Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf sidemen. The film captures some of the last interviews and their final live performances together, before their deaths in 2011. The special Saturday evening event will feature a post-show discussion with the film’s director, Scott D. Rosenbaum, and producer Tony Grazia. Cinemapolis

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Good Time | A bank robber finds himself unable to evade those who are looking for him. | 100 mins R | In This Corner of the World (Kono sekai no katasumi ni) | Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. | 130 mins PG-13 | Ingrid Goes West | An unhinged social media stalker moves to LA and insinuates herself into the life of an Instagram star. | 97 mins R | Menashe |Within Brooklyn’s ultraorthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.| 82 mins PG | Tulip Fever | An artist falls for a young married woman while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. | 107 mins R The Midwife (Sage Femme) | A midwife gets unexpected news from her father’s old mistress. | 117 mins NR The Trip to Spain | Steve Coogan

Wednesday, 9/13 , to Tuesday, 9/19. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Logan Lucky | Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.| 119 mins PG-13 | Leap! | An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house. | 89 mins PG || Spider-Man: Homecoming | Several months after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens while fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges. | 133 mins PG-13 | The Hitman’s Bodyguard | The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time. | 118 mins R | The Big Sick | A couple deals with their cultural differences as their relationship grows. | 120 mins R |

Concert to Benefit Houston The Range, Ithaca Wednesday, Sept. 13, 8 p.m.

Plain Street, Green Street and W Clinton Street, Ithaca Sunday, Sept. 16. 1-5 p.m.

Local artist Vee Da Bee looks to stand in solidarity with those affected by Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Vee Da Bee is from Houston, so the storm destroyed much of her hometown. Among those performing are Vee Da Bee, DJ ha-MEEN, Rose Fritzky-Randolph, Joe Gibson, Janet Batch, Jennifer Cork, Kurt Riley, Hal Guitarist, Mijaíl Martínez, Dapper Dan, Angela Marion and Viva Mayhem. (Photo: David Koegel)

Celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of fall with the Southside Community Center. The festivities will spread all along South Plain Street from Southside Community Center to Elmira Road. Get ready to dance, jump around and enjoy the grooves. (Photo: Edna Brown)

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Dunkirk | Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.| 116 mins PG-13 | Girls Trip | When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. | 122 mins R | Atomic Blonde | An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. | 115 mins R | Annabelle: Creation | Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle. | 109 mins R | Wonder Woman | Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny. | 103 mins PG-13 | Wind River | An FBI agent teams with a town’s veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation. | 107 mins R | Baby Driver | After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. | 112 mins R | Despicable Me 3 | Gru meets his long-lost charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist. | 90 mins PG | It | A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children. | 135 mins R | Home Again | Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her. | 97 mins PG-13 | Mother! | A couple’s relationship is

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Big Thief is making its way to Ithaca, stopping by at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14 at The Haunt. Hailing from Brooklyn, the band captures authenticity and raw emotions in its songs, strumming away on guitars and bass. The band’s latest record, “Capacity,” was just released June 9. (Photo: Michael Buishas)

acrobatics, visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment. Generations | 7:00 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Presented by the Cosmic Joke Collective.

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Notices United Way Day of Caring | 8:00 AM-4:00 AM, Wednesday, 9 13 | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | The Stephen E. Garner Day of Caring is a community-wide non-perishable food, personal care items and school supplies drive to benefit local residents. Celebrate Hector! Fundraiser for Protect Hector | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 13 | Red Newt Wine Cellars,

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The Glass Menagerie | Wednesday, 9 13 | Ti-Ahwaga Community Players, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | Labeled as a memory play, a narrator (Tom, a stand in for Tennessee Williams himself) recalls a poignant, compassionate and dramatic view of a dysfunctional family’s desperate attempts to survive while existing between their own illusions and realities. Smart People | Thursday, 9 14 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | The regional premiere of Smart People by Lydia R. Diamond. This play explores the unavoidable nature of cultural bias and other sticky subjects. Intellectuals — a doctor, an actress, a psychologist, and a neurobiologist studying the human brain’s response to race — search for love, acceptance and identity in a complex world where political correctness comes face-to-face with cold hard data. Ghost The Musical | Thursday, 9 14 | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Sam and Molly are moving into their new NYC loft when Sam is killed by a street thug. He finds himself trapped between worlds, but with a newly discovered power to communicate through select people. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) SuperDrag: Heroes vs. Villains | 9:00 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The SuperDrag show is here! Pow! Blam! Wow! In solidarity with Vee Da Bee, one tip bucket will be dedicated to hurricane relief. The Mystery of Edwin Drood |Friday, 9 15 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Based on Charles Dickens’ final novel, left unfinished at his death, The Mystery of Edwin Drood follows members of the Theatre Royale Music Company as they bring to life and attempt to complete Dickens’ clever whodunit. Audiences participate along the way and vote to determine the ending of the show. Performed at the Hangar from Sept. 15-17. Galumpha | 2:00 PM Saturday, 9 16 | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Combining stunning

Church St, Burdett | Homemade soups, made-to-order sandwiches, dessert and beverage. Ithaca is Foodies Culinary Tour | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Every Saturday through October 29th beginning at 11:30AM. Join us for a narrated, guided walking tour showcasing a variety of Ithaca’s restaurants as well as historical, architectural and cultural points of interest. Old Time Square Dance at the Grange | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Enfield Valley Grange, 178 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca | A Benefit for the Enfield Valley Grange Building Fund. Nancy Spero calling squares, waltzes and more. Live Music by The West Hillbillies, refreshments provided by Enfield Valley Grange and LACS Students. Beginners welcome, all dances taught, no partner needed.

never done opening reception Corners Gallery, Ithaca Friday, Sept. 15, 5-7 p.m.

A reception will welcome local artist Mara Baldwin’s latest collection, “NEVER DONE.” The pieces discuss the possibilities of women’s work, anxieties around competitions, utopian collaboration, along with politics and poetics. Baldwin’s work will be on exhibition at Corners until Oct. 28. (Art: Mara Baldwin)

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Plant Swap in Thompson Park | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Thompson Park, North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Plant Exchange/Free Plants. Share your extra plants with other gardeners and take some new ones home. Bring any garden plants, perennials, bulbs, seeds or house plants and leave with something new. Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Ten Forward Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | September’s theme is Dancing. Songs about dancing. Songs set to dance tunes. Songs that make you want to dance. Songs that mention dancing somewhere in the third verse. But of course all other songs on whatever topic are always entirely welcome. Intergenerational Celebration of Jewish New Year | 3:30 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Beginning at 3:30, seniors will be reading holiday story books to children. There will be craft materials for children to make cards and drawings. Apples and honey, a traditional holiday treat, will be served. At 4:15, the shofar (a ram’s horn) will be blown and everyone will enjoy birthday cake. Then at 4:45, the Klezmer Kings will entertain with music and dance for folks of all ages. Pick Up Adult Coed Soccer | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, 9 19 | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland | Homebuyer U - Ithaca | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, 9 19 | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, 115 W. Clinton St., Ithaca | Home Buyer U will host a workshop on how to buy a home.

Special Events 2nd Annual Party for the Park | 5:30 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, 9 15 | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | There will be food and cocktails by Agava and Ithaca Bakery and live music by Ithaca College faculty and staff, led by John White on piano and Frank Campos on trumpet, all in support of the revitalization of Stewart Park. 2nd Annual Jake Harding Memorial Plein Air Paint Out | 10:00 AM-1:30 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Hoopes Park, Auburn, NY, Genesee & Herman Streets, Auburn | Plein Air (outdoor) painting event at Hoopes Park in Auburn during Art in the Park. Artists are invited to

register and paint scenes within Hoopes Park from 10 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. 2nd Annual Food Truck Rodeo! | 12:00 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | Food trucks and live music come to the Boathouse Garden. National Women’s Hall of Fame | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | Women’s Rights National Historical Park to Host National Women’s Hall of Fame Event: When Living is Leading: Women, Advocacy, and Giving. This esteemed group grows with each Induction Ceremony and as women continue to influence and shape the arts, athletics, business, education, government, humanities, philanthropy and science. 20th Annual German Festival | 12:30 PM-4:30 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Lucas Vineyards Winery, 3862 County Road 150, Interlaken | Live Music by The Enzian Bavarian Band and Dancers, Grape Stomping, Grape Pies, German Food, Best German Potato Salad Contest, Alphorn and Polka Contests, Balloon Art and Costumes with highlight the Festival. Streets Alive! | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St, Ithaca | Streets Alive! is coming to the Southside of Ithaca. The streets will be closed to cars and open to people! S. Plain Street from Green Street to Elmira Road will be closed, as well as part of W. Clinton Street.

Health The Dragon’s Way | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, 9 13 | T-Fit Studio, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | A six-week fitness program designed for weight loss. For more information call or text Shawn Tubridy at (607) 279-6543. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Saturday, 9 16 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating. No dues, fees, or weigh-ins. Long-term help for overeaters, undereaters and bulimics. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, 9 17 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Hangar Theatre, Ithaca Friday, Sept. 15 to Sunday, Sept. 17

Savoyards Ithaca will be performing Rupert Holmes’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Based on Charles Dickens’ final novel, left unfinished at his death, The Mystery of Edwin Drood follows members of the Theatre Royale Music Company as they bring to life and attempt to complete Dickens’ clever whodunit. Audiences participate along the way and vote to determine the ending of the show. (Photo: Andrew Pavlik)

Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect. Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation 6Weeks | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, 9 18 | Home Studio, East State St., Ithaca | Reduce feelings of stress, increase concentration. For more information call Kala at 607-339-9849.

Lectures Leslie Danks Burke | 12:15 PM, Wednesday, 9 13 | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Leslie Danks Burke, founder and president of Trailblazers PAC – Front Porch Politics will give a lecture as part of a series by the Ithaca Rotary Club. Evaluating Antique Jewelry with Pastimes Antiques | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 13 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Join Adam Perl of Pastimes Antiques for a show and tell style lecture about antique jewelry. Learn how to identify precious stones and metals, and what to watch for when purchasing and evaluating antique jewelry. Perl will also share with the group interesting antique experiences he has had. The Songs of Trees: Tree Acoustics, Ecology and Ethics | 7:30 PM, Wednesday, 9 13 | Statler Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Elizabeth E. Rowley Lecture. David G. Haskell, Ph.D., Author and Professor of Biology, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN. Older Adult Workshops | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library, in partnership with Lifelong Learning, will present a three-part series on accessing the Library’s digital resources.These programs are designed to help older adults use smartphones, tablets, Apple products and personal computers to download books, magazines, music and videos from the Library’s collection. Isaak’s Storm by Erik Larson | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | Book talk on Isaak’s Storm, by Erik Larson. This is part of the Southworth Library’s series on climate change. Fighting Inflammation with Natural Remedies | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Thursday, 9 14 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Amanda Lewis will discuss which herbs, spices and foods to use to reduce pain and inflammation. Registration is

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roken Social Scene took a break from collaborative music — a gap of seven years between the newest album and the previous — and the group is back with vigor. Broken Social Scene is a music collective rather than a band, thriving on collaboration and jam sessions between a variety of artists. The collective’s latest album, Hug of Thunder, was just released this past July, after the core members decided to reconvene again. While the prospect of a new record looked bleak for fans, core member Brendan Canning said he never saw the band officially breaking up after the 2010 album, Forgiveness Rock Record. “I wouldn’t want [Forgiveness Rock Record] to be our final word,” Canning said. “That wasn’t the easiest album to make. It was good to come back with the way we have come back, with a much

required. Sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. The Archive and the City of Bombay | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, Friday, 9 15 | Guerlac Room, A. D. White House, Cornell University, Ithaca | Celebrating the inauguration of the Bombay Poets Archive at the Cornell University Library, this symposium explores the various archives of and in Bombay through its films, activists, legal histories, writers, many spaces, and lives. Silver Needles Machine Knitters Monthly Meeting | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Cortland Masonic Lodge, 1883 Rt 13 North, Cortland | Bring any kind of machine to work on a group or individual project, get help, and learn from club members. Precious Posessions: Creative Writing Workshop with Zee Zahava | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Join The History Center for a creative writing workshop called Precious Possessions, designed to offer a safe, supportive and

more united crew. …. We’ve had some regular life shit sort of swept into your trajectory and aura, and it just changes focus for you.” Taking a break allowed the collective to clear the creative air. Members worked on other projects and rolled through the life grinds of births, deaths and marriages. Working too much with Broken Social Scene began to feel like staying in high school for too long, Canning said. The group moved on, only to be pulled back in. “I think eventually you have to go out and experience certain things that don’t Broken Social Scene is made up of a few core members, with the rest as guest collaborators. (Photo: Norman Wong) include your bandmates — the people you spend an unhealthy and jammed. A total of 18 musicians are the current group, and whatever comes amount of time with,” credited on the album, including Leslie out of the collective’s instruments. Canning said. “You’re spending your own Feist, who hadn’t made a lead-vocal “We just get around, start making time together a lot of time. It’s nice to appearance on a Broken Social Scene some noise. Just some people in a room, refocus the lens and get a much-needed album since 2006. playing music,” Canning said. “We just perspective as to why you still want to Influences of the band range across kind of let the music take over and do do it.” different disciplines and mediums. One what it does. Every story is different with With the release of Hug of Thunder, day it may be a film, the next a W.C. this band. One song can have a very difthe collective went back to the studio Handy piece — whatever resonates with ferent beginning with another song.” •

stimulating environment for writing and sharing. The workshop is provided by Zee Zahava, the 2017 Tompkins County Poet Laureate. Bring a Precious Possession from home — a photo or object. Basic Blues Guitar Workshop | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | An introductory course for people with basic guitar skills who want to start playing acoustic blues, taught by Bill Gregg.

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Tree Phenology Walk Series | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, 9 14 | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join the Cayuga Nature Center for our series of weekly citizen science walks to observe and collect data on seasonal changes in trees. Garden Tours | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Saturday, 9 16 | Cornell Botanic Gardens Nevin Welcome Center, 125 Comstock Knoll, Ithaca | Enjoy a guided tour and discover the beauty and diversity of our

numerous gardens, including the Herb Garden, Flower Garden, Groundcover Collection, Tropical Container Display, and more. Paint and Sip: Botanical Watercolors | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 9 17 | Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | An afternoon of painting and wine in this introduction to botanical watercolors, with acclaimed local artist Camille Doucet. Weed Dating! | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday, 9 19 | Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center (Parking Lot), 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | It’s a drop-in volunteer night for singles and couples! Get down and dirty and meet someone new, or bring your significant other for a unique date night.

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Reverence | Friday, 9 15 | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland | An exhibition by two artists, Ben Altman and Robert Knight, on view from Aug. 28 to Oct. 13. The duo exhibition features

photographs, participatory installations and audio, video and projection pieces. Emily Gibbons & Glen Sanders | Friday, 9 15 | Zaza’s Cucina, 622 Cascadilla St, Ithaca | The exhibit will feature photographs from Nancy’s floral and wildlife series. Friday, August 25th between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. will be her opening event. NEVER DONE Reception | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Friday, 9 15 | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Mara Baldwin’s upcoming solo exhibit, NEVER DONE, explores the liminal space between real and imagined narratives from utopian literature, folk tales, ghost stories, and pulp paperback science fiction. Ivy Stevens-Gupta: COLOR CHEMISTRY | Saturday, 9 16 | Hotel Ithaca, 222 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Ivy Stevens-Gupta’s newest work focuses on the chemistry behind color. She mixes acrylics and oils with inks and polymers on stretched canvas and birch board to create color combinations. On exhibition until Oct. 4.

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A night of punk comes to The Chanticleer. Each band captures a different style and technique, but each of them has a rough sort of edge. Dreamdecay falls under the music spectrum as “too punk for psych, too psych for punk.” Thou and Escuela don’t stray far from the other performers with Thou embracing “experimental doom” and Escuela “powerviolence infused grindcore.” (Photo provided)

A competitive storytelling event brought together with the help of Buffalo Street Books. Tell a five-minute story based on the theme “Cruel Summer” and receive feedback from peers. The Winner will be invited back in October to compete for Grand Champion Storyteller of the World 2017. (Photo provided)

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Get Qualified for the Careers of the Future Health Care Training: Phlebotomy Technician Oct. 2-Jan 4 Pharmacy Technician Oct.17-Dec.14 Medical Admin. Assistant Oct.17-Dec.14 Call 607-844-6586 or email: biz@tompkinscortland.edu

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Professional Hospitality Education Sponsored by Coltivare Culinary Center and Tompkins Cortland Community College Biz Wines of the Finger Lakes Basic Knife Skills, Cake Decorating ServSafe Certifications, Customer Service Event Planning and more! Register for Fall NOW! at tompkinscortland. edu/biz and select “Professional Development Workshops.”

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