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ast Wednesday, Cornell University officially opened the gates to its new tech ca mpus on New York Cit y’s Roosevelt Island, capping off a six year process begun by a Michael Bloomberg initiative to transform the onetime home to a lunatic’s asylum into a beacon of the city’s technological prowess. Attended by dignitaries from Bloomberg himself to the likes of Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, the campus’s grand opening ceremony was a spectacle of banner-waving optimism, where the bright future of New York State, Cornell University and, most of all, the City of New York was referenced in glowing terms by all who took the podium. Bloomberg, in his remarks to the assembly, said New York was coming “ back to the future,” Cornell Tech marking a waypoint between the city’s growing 128,000 person strong tech sector and the past, the former mayor harkening back to the days when the city was, among other things, home to the first power plant, the invention of the air conditioner and other harbingers of a golden age of American prosperity. “New York must keep pace with the changing economy,” said Cuomo, a seeming nod to New York City’s status as the third-most influential tech hub in the nation (behind San Jose and San Francisco) and a rapidly growing tech sector in Israel, China and burgeoning nations like Malaysia. “There was a void in our competitiveness. We were losing because we weren’t competing.” The direct benefits to New York City, as well, seemed broad, particularly in its direct involvement in city schools which, to date, has impacted more than 5,000 students grades K-12 and 350 teachers in New York City schools (not to mention about 2,000 or so at CUNY campuses throughout the five boroughs). But Cornell Tech, beyond the continued on page 4
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ne can assume the downhill mountain bike course at Snowshoe, West Virginia is at least slightly different than the one at Shindagin Hollow State Forest. But, like all of the tracks, they offer the same thing to Ella Skalwold: the rush. The Ithaca native, who grew up on Floral Avenue and cut her teeth on the snowy slopes of Greek Peak, finished seventh among women nationally in July at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships in West Virginia, clocking in 48 seconds off the leader’s time at 05:41. It was a confidence-building showing for Skalwold, who fought through two crashes that she estimates cost her about 30
seconds total (which would have placed her third). Since then, she’s come in second twice at two national events, climbing the Pro GRT standings to currently hold fourth place in the country. The points she has accumulated would be enough, she said, to nab her an individual spot at the mountain biking World Cup; her next goal. Though she has moved away, Skalwold retains parts of Ithaca that she said still influence her to this day. Besides the physically exhilarating aspects of mountain biking she enjoys, Skalwold said the supportive, caring community the riders share with each other strongly reminds her of the city she grew up in. “I really appreciate the view that Ithaca has given me,” she said. “It’s such a warm and welcoming place. Growing up around that was definitely a big part of drawing me into this sport and has
T a k e ▶ Want to be a better listener? Consider this... When you are in conversation with another person, are you waiting for them to stop talking so that you can say what you want to say? What if we could update human listening and communication abilities such that we could turn down our selffocused thinking? A workshop on how to do just that will be happening Saturday, September 23 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. At the Common House at Ecovillage of Ithaca on Rachel Carson Way off of 79 West, Ithaca To register, email your name to patevans46@gmail.com.
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driven a lot of my decisions about where I want to live or people I want to be around.” Skalwold’s preferred event is downhill, a shorter quicker race, though she also races “enduro,” which a re much longer a nd stamina-focused. Downhill combines some more adrenaline, along with the ability to take more practice runs and analyze the course to lay out a strategy for when the clock is ticking. It also enables her to utilize one of her favorite parts of cycling: fear management. “You get to identify the risks, decide whether they’re worth taking, practice the alternate route, and decide for yourself if this is a risk worth taking,” she said. “That fear is telling you something. Can I then work continued on page 5
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▶ Wondering what’s up with those “We Are Ithaca” signs? They’re hung up everywhere to promote a rather interesting project attempting to celebrate our uniqueness and diversity through portraits, stories and conversation. Starting this week through Nov. there will be about 20 portrait sessions around Ithaca (locations/dates on website) and everyone is invited to come and have their portrait made- every location is open to the public. It’s fun, quick and all portraits will be on the website available for a free download. Everyone is asked
to bring an object, something to hold that they love or helps describe who they are. Everything you need to know is on the website www.weareithaca. org. ▶ Want a nice garden? Tompkins County Public Library, in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension, will host “Gardening With Native Plants,” Wednesday, October 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room. This event will offer information about leveraging native plants and local pollinators to create a vibrant, healthy garden and offer tips for avoiding invasive species.
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ack in 1972, an open air ice rink was completed in Cass Park, marking the beginning of a new era for parks and recreation in the City of Ithaca and laying the groundwork for traditions that have formed the foundations of scores of its children as they began their lives. Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau, 45 years later, are asking the community to remember back to its original mission with a pair of fundraising events guaranteed to bring you right back to those memories (and raise a little money while they’re at it.) Next weekend on Saturday, September 30, Celebrate Cass!, described as a “ festive 45t h anniversary party for adults” is planned to take place the Coun-
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goals of New York City’s leaders and the university’s board of trustees, also fits palm in palm with the economic development strategy of all of New York State. So where does upstate fit in all this? New York State – not just New York City – is seeing a great demand for the technologically fluent worker: in 2016, New York’s technology industry employment grew by an estimated 3.1 percent as employers added more than 11,000 new jobs across the sector. And the potential for growth is high, high enough that the talent pool, for many firms, is slimming as companies begin to pursue the same candidates, even with preexisting hubs like SUNY Polytechnic and traditional research universities like that at Stony Brook and the University of Buffalo. Cornell’s focus, it seems, will
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tr y Club of Ithaca, a distant precursor to November 4th’s Enclose Cass Extravaganza’s day of activities including a Skatea-thon, silent auction, bake sale and a pretty serious broomball tournament. It’s all part of the second year of efforts behind a local effort by the Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau to enclose the open air, hard to control rink at Cass Park, something advocates for the project say is an important piece of continuing a longstanding tradition of an inclusive, complete suite of recreation opportunities within the city. “For some people, it’s a n emotional draw, based on the tradition,” said Mary Maxon Grainger, one of the organizers behind the campaign. “For others, it’s very practical: if the rink isn’t enclosed, they won’t let their kids play because it’s either too cold or warm. The consistency of the ice is a public health and safety concern as well as part of the success formula.” The first event, intended to raise money for the two-year old, $1 million campaign to enclose
the rink, will kick off with a 6 p.m. reception with dinner and dessert followed by auctions, a raffle dancing facilitated by local favorites, the Blind Spots, from 8:30 p.m. until 11. (information on how to attend is readily available at friendsiyb.org/celebratecass.) W h i le t he f i na ncia l goa l is a lofty one for a campaign relying on the enthusiasm of a broad number of small donors, Grainger said she believes an appeal to nostalgia (as well as promoting the practical nature of an enclosed ice skating rink for the use of the public) could conv ince people to give and get involved in the campaign’s fundraising activities. Cornell lacrosse coaching legend Richie Moran has been assisting in promoting the campaign, harkening back to the origins of the rink when a number of Cornell coaches attended meetings at City Hall to advocate for the creation of the rink. Its creation meant more than the simple addition of another place to skate in the city: the rink actually served as the first home
be to fit in the tech landscape in a way that will make it poised to be a part of, if not at the forefront, of the tech economy in New York State through careful and advantageous partnerships with the private sector. “We’re not in a position where there are enough people to teach the skills – particularly business skills but also the technical skills – you need to create a successful tech startup,” Madeleine Udell, an Assistant professor in Operations Research in the School of Engineering said in an interview. “The more people we educate in technology and business, the better.” The potential for the work in New York City to prove advantageous upstate won’t always be obvious. While, academically, Cornell’s Roosevelt Island campus isn’t wholly new (classes conducted on two campuses simultaneously via livestream or digitally, for example, have
been commonplace for years) the resources available in New York City – combined with the unique advantages available in Upstate New York – could prove a valuable partnership.
While the city has better access to talent and the venture capital needed to put tech startups and the new industries of today in motion, it’s upstate – with a wealth of land, kind incentives and a need for jobs – that offers a prime location for industry to set up shop. This has a ripple effect outside of the world of computer scientists and venture capitalists: this could mean warehouses, manufacturing jobs and more. Carrier air conditioners – which proved huge for Syracuse – and technologies from Eastman Kodak – Rochester’s crown jewel – are historical examples of this: new technologies that were initially developed and
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to the Ithaca Shooting Stars, the city’s first all-girls hockey club created by two IHS sophomores – Linda Dominick and Margaret Stanton – who, inspired by the women’s hockey program at Cornell, pushed then coach Dick Bertrand to forum a girl’s hockey camp up at the university. After recruiting enough girls to commit to the event, the camp was formed and eventually turned into the team that, in 1972, would soon call the rink home. With this in mind, the rink has more significance than just another recreation facility: it’s a testament to progress in opportunities for numerous generations to play the sport they loved and build memories to last a lifetime. “They knew back then there needed to be more ice than just Lynah and Beebe Lake, which is where Cornell used to skate,” Grainger said. “A lot of people can’t even imagine that now.” –Nick Reynolds
invested in around the city, but manufactured and honed upstate. Essentially, Cornell Tech – in the context of Upstate New York’s industry – could be seen by some as a bridge between the untapped resources of the rural north and the once inaccessible capital of New York City. “My guess is that the effect of the tech campus is really going to be synergistic,” Udell said. “There are some things that are much easier to do upstate in regards to tech startups basically because the cost of living is much lower upstate than it is in New York City. That means large-scale manufacturing, a very reasonable thing to do upstate. That’s more of a challenge in the city.” –Nick Reynolds
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elissa Ha l l is tr y ing to make the best out of her second stint in Ithaca, and part of that effort is reversing the course of some of the city’s more troubling trends. Hall knows the struggle herself, and now hopes to influence and inspire others to join the fight through her campaign for Common Council. “I would like to make some changes to this place, that is my home,” she said. “Life is precious, every moment that passes, you don’t really know how much time you have [...] Do what you can with the time you have here. Time is passing by too quickly to not make the progress that we need to now.” Hall is running on the independent line, under the party name Fall Creek Voice. She will be running against Aryeal Jackson and Laura Lewis, who have already declared their candidacies to replace former Alderperson Josephine Martell in the city’s Fifth Ward on Common Council. The obstacles facing the city resonate with Hall, who has experience both personal and professional with the same problems that plague residents citywide. She and her two children had to move out of their apartment last year after the rent rose
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with that fear and my skill set to conquer it, like a big jump for example. High risk, high reward, and with my skill set, just a little intimidating.” It seems as if Skalwold’s life, one way or another, is based on risks. Even her relationship, with fiancee and fellow successful professional mountain biker Alex McAndrew, began only after McAndrew took his own risk, driving cross country from Vermont to California to ask Skalwold for a date just before Valentine’s Day. Skalwold basically grew up outdoors. Family outings were spent sailing or on the ski slopes, and she said most of her childhood vacations consisted of driving somewhere and setting up camp. Her job on the west coast was the first time she had been so far removed from snow year-
and they were priced out. She currently works at the Tompk ins Count y Assigned Counsel Program (which she describes as Ithaca’s version of a public defender program), as the Grants and Training Coordinator, writing grants and assisting attorneys with the finer points of their client’s cases, often drawing upon her background of extensive experience with marginalized populations to do so. Hall has built a career on social justice, spending several years trying to make it as a social worker in Philadelphia, bouncing from job to job in the field before landing a position she deeply enjoyed working with the city’s homeless population. Born and raised in Ithaca, she returned to the city five years ago to be closer to her family, working in homeless services for two years before transitioning to her current job.
Hall said she can relate, at least partially, to the low-income population because of her her childhood. While there’s obviously different levels of poverty, she said she grew up attending one of the lower-income elementary school and since then, has always had an empathy for society’s vulnerable populations. But her time in Philly gave her an even more in-depth experience with impoverished people and homelessness, and when she came home she realized the “10 square miles surrounded by reality” had seen reality begin to seep in, taking the form of poverty and inequality. It s e em s ver y i mp or t a nt to Hall that anyone from the public who feels disempowered
round, having to travel hundreds of miles to scratch her adrenaline itch. Eventually, as she began trying new activities that would be more feasible considering the weather, she found mountain biking and fell in love. Since she picked outdoor sports up so early, she’s used to the occasional pitfalls that accompany the excitement. But, she said, if she’s going to get seriously hurt, it’s going to be her own fault. And that has happened. While distracted during a ride just days before her first scheduled national race, Skalwold crashed and tore her ACL and meniscus in her knee, forcing her to miss a year of riding while she rehabilitated the injury and regained full strength. She was nearly overcome by anxiety when she finally was able to return to downhill, breaking down in tears three times on the climb up the mountain, but as
soon as she reached the top and started riding, the fear f loated away as it always had. Skalwold’s affection for the sport is obvious just in her voice, but the reasons for its depth become clearer as she speaks about them. One that seems quite prominent is that mountain biking and snowboarding, among others, have all built a deep and, for Skalwold, a very important connection between she and her father, who still lives around Ithaca. That foundation facilitated the inevitable shift from parent-child relationship to the more mature adult friendship they now share. “It’s something special he and I always shared,” she said. “There’s a parental role and as you get older, there’s a friendship role, and you define what that looks like. And for us, that’s very much an activity-based friendship.” Now she’s built a life designed
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The City of Ithaca’s Fifth Ward Democratic Committee made a decision on who it would back in the city’s busiest Common Council race Monday night, electing to endorse its chairwoman of six years, Laura Lewis, after approximately 30 minutes of closed deliberations. Lewis was selected over two relative newcomers to local politics: former Ithaca Times and WRFI journalist Aryeal Jackson and Ithaca native Melissa Hall, the Grants and Training Coordinator at the Tompkins County Assigned Counsel Program. Decided by a group of 10 members of the committee (including Common Council member Deb Mohlenhoff, City Chief of Staff Dan Cogan and District 4 County Legislator Anna Kelles) in the small conference room of the county’s Old Jail, the meeting – which lasted a little over an hour in total – ended on a clear sentiment: that in an election year marked by political divisiveness nationwide, it was important to make a statement on the strength of the local party, however small a gesture. That sentiment resulted in the endorsement of a 15-year member of the neighborhood committee in Lewis, a recently retired counselor at Cornell who, while seeking her first position in public office, has been heavily involved in the community in her more than three decades in Ithaca. Lewis recently stepped down as chair of the committee in order to run for Common Council, and was recused from all deliberations. “It’s important the Democratic party be strong,” said Cogan, one of several to speak after the endorsement was given. “It is here, but not so much in other areas of the country… we feel it’s important for us not to sit this one out.” –Nick Reynolds
to allow her to parlay her passion for biking, the outdoors and the adrenaline that comes with it into a career as well. After a few years spent at a high-pressure sales job in the construction industry in California, she picked up and moved to Vermont with McAndrew, starting Vermont Mountain Bike Tours with him, while also racing professional on the side. To borrow some mountain biking parlance, it was another high-risk, high-reward move. She admits that with her new life have come some sacrifices, namely the financial security she enjoyed with her career in California. But it doesn’t sound like Skalwold is reconsidering the trade she made, or as she puts it, “pulling the rip-cord.” “I like to say, this is my first retirement,” she said. “I was a pretty old 28 year old, but I am a really young 31 year old.”
Ups&Downs ▶ Streets Alive! A generally all-around awesome affair of advocacy, art and activity, this year’s event once again failed to disappoint. Solid job to all who made it happen and gave us a glimpse at the utopia of a car-free society. Now, to find a way to bring back the railroad... ▶ Hate Crimes Whether or not it fits into the legal definition of a hate crime, calling a black student the N-word repeatedly while punching them in the head, which is allegedly what a white Cornell student did to a classmate this past weekend, seems like a d-ck move to us. It doesn’t matter if you’re here four years or 40, anyone who would say and do something like that isn’t welcome in this town.
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▶ Liquid State Brewery is opening soon... An we’re psyched. Check out Ithaca.com over the next few days for a story about their final fundraising push as they look toward a mid-October opening. ▶ Top stories on Ithaca. com this week are:
1) Please, don’t take The Nines 2) A revolutionary find for NY 3) Stewart Park needs your help building the park of everyone’s dreams 4) Football: Cardinals roll over Bobcats, Lions offense roars 5) Dems Choose Carver for Highway Superintendent
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A Time To Be Perfect I thaca’s a special place. It’s a place where people want to be – they’re drawn by something. Not just jobs, though that’s important, and not just the gorges, which are also important. (and nice to look at.) Ithaca’s friendly, a place with good vibes, music in the air and college bars that thankfully, still stock their limes freshly cut. It’s a place where people close down entire streets to have rock concerts on their porches (unplugged, of course!) and sip Maté at a volume similar towns would clear kegs at. Ithaca’s a beautiful place, framed by three rustling hills and a shimmering lake. It’s clever too, its corners buzzing with good conversation while the quiet ones lazily gaze over books. Ithaca’s a place where Rutabegas have their own sporting event. Ithaca is a town that comes together when it counts, not afraid to carry a sign when something is clearly wrong. Ithacans speak their minds on stages, in coffee shops, bars and in City Hall. They’ll speak their minds on the Commons, in Rap Sessions (who knew those were still hanging on?) and in between songs. It’s an engaged place – full of energy – ready to jump and raise hell when the time is right. It’s a place of opportunity, a great place to raise a family or, if you’re young, to just be. If you stay on top of that GPA, obviously. But Ithaca’s a hard place to be, and we’re vocal about that too. Ithacans are hungry,
Ithacans are poor. Sometimes Ithacans don’t always know who lives next door. They’ll walk past a person when their hand is out looking for change, they’ll stay silent when others shout and rage, they’ll walk right past a neighbor – if they’re of the transient crowd – without the most meager exchange. For some, Ithaca’s a violent place, a desperate place. It’s a place where hate still thrives, opportunities hard to find and a sympathetic ear or an angry sign scribbled with a line just for you never there when they need it. Ithaca likes to listen, we like to talk. We do it all the time: in auditoriums, in libraries, at rallies. We like to stand up for injustice when we see it but sometimes when we do so, it’s not at the victim’s side. Over the weekend, the universit y was rocked by a racist incident that merited national headlines. It happened here, right in front of us. But will we separate ourselves? Deny the perpetrator – or the victim – is a part of our community – our “real” community? Will a seeming hate crime at Cornell be considered a community issue or a Cornell issue? Will that be another side of the city swept under the rug? Just like the poor side, the sad side, the side we can’t look directly in the eye? Ithaca’s not so perfect. It’s up there. But it’s not. What’s encouraging is it seems to want to be.
Wrecking Ball Blues News item: Developer Visum Development has proposed a new six-story apartment building in Collegetown. Designed with students in mind, the building would house 50 apartments and 825 square feet of retail space, but it would come at the price of the demolition of a decades-old student hangout, The Nines. Famous for its deep-dish pizza and located in a firehouse built in 1894, The Nines has been in business since 1975. (Ithaca Journal, September 11, 2017)
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t was a September af ternoon in Ithaca, New York, a metropolis with a reputation for progressive politics and creative trigger warnings. Down on the Commons, vape vendors vied with waffle frolickers for business while high above the hubbub of commerce, in a cluttered and forgotten corner of the Old Cigar Factory, was the office of Sam Spade, Private Investigator. By sheer luck, Spade was in his office, making a study of the cigarette smoke that swirled in a shaft of sunlight from a window that hadn’t seen the business end of a wash rag since Melania Trump was hustling the beer pong tables at the University of Ljubljana. The door swung open with a bang, jerking him out of his reverie and revealing a woman with a face that could fracture Marcellus shale. Spade’s heart commenced a tap dance on his rib cage, but business had been slack of late, and this dame looked like she had a case. He stubbed out his cigarette. “You need an appointment, Doll, I
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love the Nines! Over the last decade no one has eaten more deep dish than me. I have memories that stretch back to my freshman year. But the owners - the same guys who worked hard to make those pizzas for thirty years - they want to retire. And they want to sell the building as their retirement fund. We can’t force them to work until they die. And we can’t force them to keep the place just because we have cherished memories. We should hold our memories close. We shouldn’t tell these hard working folks that because they’ve made us happy once, they have to do it forever. –Mayor Svante Myrick, via Facebook 6
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don’t take walk-ins,” Spade declared, without taking his feet off the desk. The woman surveyed the office, which looked like it had been shaken, not stirred. Sweeping the debris off a chair, she sat down and pulled a manila folder out of her purse. “The name’s Marian Haste, and I’ve got a mystery for you, Sherlock,” she said. “Well, then you’re in luck, Doll. No better detective in the city,” said Spade, pushing his battered fedora back on his head and sitting up in his chair She withdrew an architectural rendering from the folder and dropped it on the desk in front of Spade. “Looks like Pyongyang without the charm,” he observed. “What is it?” Haste pulled her chair in toward the desk and leaned forward. “OK, Tough Guy, I’ll spell it out for you. For years now, every shred of personality has been sucked out of Collegetown. The Palms, Johnny’s Big Red, the old houses… gone. Am I right?” Hapnin shrugged. “The answer’s ‘yes,’ Genius. Anyway, here’s where it gets interesting: they’re being replaced by glass and concrete boxes. Nothing less than five stories. Place looks like the city in the Lego Movie. And they’re getting bolder. That picture you’re looking at? It’s the building that Visum Development wants to replace The Nines with this winter.” contin u ed on page 7
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ad to see them go, but wishing them a happy retirement if that is their wish. They deserve it, and the memories will live on. Originally, I was lead to believe they were being forced to close due to new housing construction. I wish the article about the new housing had led with the fact that it was the owners’ choice to sell and retire. Would have been easier for all with sentimental attachment, to accept. –Bonnie Griffith, via Facebook
A Letter Of Support For Jason Liefer In Dryden
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am voting for Jason Leifer for Dryden Supervisor on Nov. 7. He has been an amazingly competent and productive supervisor during his current term and before this, 8 years on the Town Board. He knows Dryden and has worked tirelessly to improve government and services. While encouraging residential and
whirl like a fidget spinner. “But… but why?” he asked. “It just doesn’t add up. contin u ed from page 6 Who stands to benefit from making Collegetown look like Dubai? What’s “Visum…” mused Spade. “Sounds the motive?” like something you might accumulate in “Pick a town, detective,” she said, the folds of your skin.” standing up and heading to the door. “Focus, here, Magnum,” she snapped. Her backside looked like two boys fight“If The Nines goes under the wrecking ing under a sheet when she walked. ball, Collegetown’s nothing but two- “Auburn, Geneva, maybe Elmira. Maythousand-dollar apartments and hipster be even Moscow. Who knows? They’ve clothing stores.” all been jealous of Ithaca for years. But “Well, I’m quite sure the city’s Plan- I’d get on this case before it’s too late.” ning and Development Board has a good She opened the door handle on this. There and turned to look at has to be a plan! They him. “Or downtown What if…” she grabbed c er t a i n ly wou ld n’t will be next.” Spade’s tie, pulled him just let development in close, and lowered her As the door clicked run rampant in Colshut, Spade opened voice, “…there’s no plan legetown,” said Spade, a lower drawer in his at all up there?” reaching for his phone. de sk , pu l le d out a “It’s a cornerstone of bottle and considered the community. And its contents. Maybe the Nines? Hell, that’s a beloved local it was half-empty, maybe half-full. You institution. I’ll just give Lisa Nicholas a didn’t turn down a case in his circumcall…” stances, but every instinct he had told “Don’t be a sap, Spade!” hissed Haste, him this one would be Trouble, and clamping the receiver back down on its plenty of it… cradle. “Dollars to donuts they’ll say there’s nothing they can do. What if NEXT WEEK: Money Talks they’re in on it? What if…” she grabbed Spade’s tie, pulled him in close, and lowered her voice, “…there’s no plan at Charley Githler is a columnist for The all up there?” Ithaca Times. His column, Surrounded Spade sat back in his chair and whis- By Reality, runs biweekly. tled a low whistle. The room began to SurroundedByreality
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commercial development, he has pushed for more sustainable, green building. He supports community solar development, bringing solar energy at lower-than-utility-rates to all residents who want it. At the same time, he is helping Dryden lead the County in meeting its C02 emission reduction goals and bringing in major new tax revenues for Dryden and Tompkins County. Additionally, since 2008, he has brought in almost $4 million in investment and grants, working to improve infrastructure and expand recreation. He encouraged the new initiative to develop a trail on the abandoned rail bed in Dryden and appointed a task force, which is active and making great progress on the Dryden Rail Trail. He not only understands the Town deeply, he cares about and serves individuals who need legal representation: He is a member of the Assigned Counsel program, representing children and low-income families. I enthusiastically support Jason and urge Dryden voters to support him on Nov. 7. Make sure to vote! We need to make sure that this forwardlooking and smart man continues to lead in Dryden. –Judy Pierpont, Freeville
A Letter For The Dryden Town Board
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ovember 7th, voters in the Town of Dryden will have an opportunity to express their concerns regarding the performance of the current Town Board. I had the good fortune of workingwith the Tompkins County Office for the Aging for 23 years. During my tenure, I met with seniors regarding issues related to aging and inevitably finances was a concern. I recall a gentleman from Dryden who came to meet with me. He revealed that he and his wife were in a financial position where they could no longer afford to live in their home. They had built their home and raised their children in Dryden, both working full time. Now on a fixed income, they were being essentially forced out of the home they loved due to the untenable tax increases. The Census tells us that 11.3 % of Dryden residents are 65 or older. The Town Board has added to the tax burden of seniors by raising property taxes a total of 50 percent in the last 3 years - and still no balanced budget! Bruno Schickel, Joe Osmeloski and Don Scott are running for the Town Board and are committed to fiscal responsibility. I urge you to vote for this slate. – Katrina Schickel, Dryden
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Another Loss For Newspapers Editor’s Note: In Rochester, Gannett has begun chipping away at another institution of New York’s journalistic establishment, laying off several of its employees in another round of layoffs. We’ve republished the statement relased by their union because we feel it’s worthy of broad circulation. And to our readers and advertisers – thanks for everything.
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he Rochester Democrat and Chronicle laid off three newsroom employees today, part of a series of cuts at Gannett news properties across the country. As the union that that represents them, Newspaper Guild Local 17, we feel obligated to speak out. Our newsroom has been decimated by layoffs and buyouts in the last six years, with the number of Guild-represented employees cut by more than half. In 2011, there were 86 people under our banner in the newsroom. Nearly half of them were reporters. There were a dozen photographers. Copy editors, headline writers and graphic designers – the finishing team you might say – rounded out the rest. After today, there are approximately 32 Guildrepresented journalists working in our newsroom. Some of those positions were lost to advances in technology and changes in the way newspapers deliver their product. But the end result has been fewer people gathering news and ensuring the stories we tell in words and photographs and videos are as polished and complete as they can be and live up to the quality that our longtime readers had come to expect of the D&C. It’s sad to see good friends and talented colleagues shown the door, but the bigger loss is to the community we serve. These dramatic reductions in staffing have had a clear impact on the depth and breadth of our coverage and impacted the quantity and quality of the journalism we’ve been able to produce. Now more than ever, we need those journalists to shine a light on wrongdoing, hold public officials accountable, and chronicle the life of this community. We believe that the local D&C management team is passionate about the work we do and our community, but we don’t believe the leaders of Gannett have a similar commitment to Rochester. Frank Gannett founded his publishing company here in 1923, and Rochester remained the company’s headquarters for more than sixty years. It was here that Mr. Gannett established the high journalistic standards that helped his company become the largest newspaper publisher in the United States. There are plenty of challenges in today’s news business, but the greatest threat to local journalism is corporate leaders who have no strategies to address those challenges other than an endless cycle of layoffs. As a union of fewer than three dozen journalists, we have no clout, no power to wield against a corporate giant like Gannett. The only thing we can do is speak out and make sure our community knows what’s happening. We will continue to cover our region the best we know how to with the staff we have left, and we urge the members of our community to let Gannett’s leadership know they don’t like what’s being done to Rochester, either. Th e
News Quick Hits Cornell expert says leaf peeping to be “fantastic” this fall Hot days and cool nights mean conditions are ripe for prime fall colors to come in this fall, a Cornell University professor says. Karl Niklas, a Cornell University professor of plant biology whose research focuses on the relationship between plants and the physical environment said a mix of adequate rainfall plus a perfect temperature range in the region this season create conditions for spectacular fall colors to appear this season. This expectation, Niklas said, is based on conditions of “adequate rainfall and amicable temperatures.” Because the 2017 growing season was mild and favorable and late August and early September temperatures have fluctuated in a manner that favor bright Autumnal leaf colors, Niklas said facts and observations are “sufficient to predict with reasonable confidence that this fall’s leaf coloration will be splendid.”. Town of Ithaca introduces potential new rental oversight The Town of Ithaca is now introducing some rental property oversight measures aimed to help with complaints around the area that absentee landowners are hurting neighborhoods. Two pieces of legislation are currently on the table: The first ordinance would deal directly with accessory dwelling units (ADUs), the new law would requiring that owners live in either the primary or accessory structure on a property. A second piece of legislation would establish a residential rental operating permit program. VE Hires Consultant for Village Disolusion Study The Van Etten Village Board of Trustees voted unanimously at a special meeting Sept. 6 to hire a consulting firm to conduct a study on the pros and cons of dissolving Van Etten Village and making it a part of Van Etten Town. The board hired Rochester firm CGR as the result of a petition signed by 139 people asking that the dissolution of the village be put to a vote. Legally, the village must hold a vote on Nov. 13, and at the meeting Paul Bishop, an associate principal with CGR, said that his firm will complete the study by mid-October.
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Ithaca’s going to flood one day. What are we doing to protect ourselves? By Nick Reynolds
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s recent flood events on the Gulf Coast and elsewhere have made clear in recent weeks, planning – and a changing climate – have made us reconsider the relationship between our cities and the environment. Even before the concept of climate change entered the public conversation on a mass scale, residents of the City of Ithaca have learned a certain reverence for the destructive power of nature. Situated on a floodplain, the city has had the power and fury of the water stitched into its very DNA, even despite man’s best efforts to tame the channels that run through it. Since 1905 – the year a large swath of the city was inundated in a cloud burst that put some of its neighborhoods under three feet of water – Ithaca has been in a constant battle of resistance against the flood that will one day, inevitably wash over the banks where the marshes once stood and fight back against the concrete and asphalt that had since taken their place. As history has shown, it’s continuing its intended function with no regard for the city that stands in its way. Since that 1905 flood, numerous others have washed over the city, from another major flood in 1935 to the revolt of the city’s concrete-encased creeks leading to the ice jams of 2012 that inundated most of Fall Creek. It could be said a city, by law of nature, should never have been built here: located at the terminus of four creeks – Six Mile, Cascadilla, Buttermilk and Fall Creek – the land was always a final extension of the watershed: the natural consequence of an environment carved out by glaciers long ago melted. And as the catastrophic storm of the near or
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distant future looms, for planners today, the question on how to avert a flood in the city is no longer about taming the land: it’s about learning to adapt to the paradigm we’ve created. In an office on the second floor of Ithaca’s City Hall, Mike Thorne, Superintendent of Ithaca’s Department of Public Works, hangs up the phone. He’d just been on the phone with the United States Geological Survey, checking in on the final steps of a little-covered plan commissioned in March 2016 that, one day, could become the foundation of a city’s future resilience. “In 2014 when we had the floods and all those studies were done, flooding was on everybody’s mind,” said Thorne. “And as we’ve been working away on it – through the drought last year – and everyone kind of rolled their eyes... A flood will hit us sometime. We don’t know when, but it will happen. You know the saying, ‘fix the roof when the sun’s shining?’ Any-
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“My sense is the overall rainfall isn’t changing, but the timing of it is changing,” said William Coon, a USGS geologist. “Even though we might have the same amount of precipitation in a given month or a year, the way the precipitation is falling comes in a shorter, more intense duration when it falls. So the overall volume may not be increased, but the impact on the ground is flash flooding occurs more frequently. That’s definitely the case. I’ve been with USGS 37 years and we’ve had flash flooding this past summer almost every week in a different part of the state.” This is of particular concern in Ithaca where flooding, according to a recent assessment by the USGS, is caused by a variety of distinct and sometimes interconnected reasons. In the spring and wintertime, flooding often is a result of snowmelt and rainfalls, where slow ice-melt and breakup can lead to ice jams and subsequent flooding. In the A map of the impacts of the 1905 flood, showing the extent of the floodwater’s reach through the city. summertime, you have flash floods produced by thing we can do before a big flood event hits, intense summer thunderif it’s 20 years from now and we can put in storms and, in a perfect storm scenario, high some flood mitigation measures in the next lake levels controlled by the New York State ten years… that’s great. If we get one next Canal Corporation. month, well, at least we’re studying it.” But it’s also the city’s geology, along with its history, that play a large role in its suscepA Multi-Pronged tibility to flood. Problem Ithaca, as a geological entity is situated on For communities all over the United what’s actually called an alluvial fan – coneStates, flooding – and adapting to a new shaped deposits of sediment – characternormal – will become a prominent issue. A ized by streams that shape the landscape as 2013 estimate by Cornell’s Departments of it snakes across the flatland. In the context Natural Resources and Developmental Soof the City of Ithaca, the several alluvial fans ciology predicted that over the next century, that form its floodplain come out of a high climate change is predicted to expand the gradient area and dumps large quantities of areas at risk for flooding in the U.S. by 40 to glacial sediment on a low gradient area. 45 percent, in part due to a 50 percent overall “And that’s the root of the problem,” says increase in precipitation events of two inches Dan Karig, a professor emeritus of geology at or more. It’s a phenomena that has compelled Cornell who lives along Six Mile Creek and is some, particularly in the wake of Hurricane part of the team assessing Ithaca’s flood risks. Harvey, to contest the current concept of the Six Mile Creek – which is the site of the 100-Year Flood – a term for a flood with a biggest alluvial fan, Karig said – brings down 1 percent chance of occurring on any given about 25,000 cubic tons of material a year year – given it is based on probabilities outand, while much of it is caught in the Sixty lined in 1973 by the United States governFoot Dam upstream, a lot of material makes ment with data not reflective of the impacts it through into the valley and its streams, of climate change. carried by heavy water flows into the valley
and into the streams, raising the stream level. In nature, this would typically create a system of meandering streams through a floodplain, changing direction with the height of the sediments – Ideal conditions for a wetland; not so much for a city. And so in the late 19th century, the city walled them up, channelizing the streams – a totally artificial situation – that has led to a massive buildup of sediment in the creeks that has left the city with limited options. The easiest fixes, as has often been discussed in the case of dredging material buildup in Cayuga Inlet and its flood control channel, is to clean the streams out on a regular basis (an approach frowned upon by naturalists) or reduce the amount of sediment coming down from the hills, whether by reducing the amount of runoff from upstream or by other, more creative means. The second option is harder said than done: Not only has the erosion of the highlands failed to cease since the end of the Ice Age, Karig said, but the land use of the Cayuga Lake watershed – primarily due to the actions of man – have changed drastically as well, particularly due to consequences experienced by creeks from the deforestation of the uplands for agriculture that hasn’t quite reset itself: after streams that reached sediment-water equilibrium under deforestation were now forced to revert back to nature, the whole system reset itself. “The stream has to come to an equilibrium; that’s going to take decades,” Karig said. “You could put it into sort of an artificial equilibrium by putting little check dams in down the valley. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t… it’s difficult to engineer a creek. Water can do a tremendous amount of work in a very short period of time.” A Way Forward
After another flood hit the city in 2014, the City of Ithaca decided to begin looking at ways to fund work beyond costly and time consuming procedures like dredging to reduce localized flooding. The first step in that process, Thorne said, is building a complete understanding of where the flooding can occur. He points to a massive map of the city on the wall of his office, gesturing out the waterways of the city and their orientation with the city’s streets and neighborhoods. This is the same type of map that holds the future to Ithaca’s flood response: with the help of USGS, Thorne envisions creating a model of all the creeks and also what happens when all these creeks are flooding at the same time under 15 different scenarios based on rainfall and current lake level in order to see where each creek will potentially “jump the banks,” and where those flood-prone areas interlap. In doing this, Thorne anticipates a better understanding of where smart investment could come in managing the city’s flood Th e
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problem and, prospectively, the leverage needed to produce federal money needed to carry out these projects. “We just need to know where to focus our efforts because, no matter what we do, the cost of trying to change Mother Nature or tame it is going to be expensive,” Thorne said. “We want to make sure we study this so that we know how best to use our money for flood mitigation.” Some of the recommendations produced could go toward dredging: while the Flood Control Channel in place since 1970 has long been considered, the dredging of Second Dam for use as a flood control measure could also be considered. But it’s also actions that could take place upstream – not just at the city level – that could play a major factor in not only reducing the runoff of sediment (which Karig says has more or less stopped to some degree) but to slow the turbidity of water coming from a lack of mitigation along the rest of the watershed. In 2013, the Tompkins County Planning Department produced the first ever multi-jurisdictional flood hazard mitigation plan in an effort to approach flood mitigation not just from a localized effort of ditches and catch basins but from a more “big picture” approach: implementing small changes that, in aggregate, have large impacts. “We really talked about adaptation as a part of that, taking through the range of different scenarios for what is likely to happen given our different hazards – flooding among the most serious,” said Scott Doyle, a senior planner for the county. “And that really galvanized support for these discussions, especially for cross-municipal work. That helped us advance the discussion, especially in this climate change realm.” Recently bolstered by $200,000 in annual county funding to create infrastructure to address the impacts of climate change, Doyle says the county is looking to pursue a direction that emphasizes restoration over mere adaptation: seeking a means to be more mindful and respectful of natural areas that left alone, could avert significant amounts of runoff into the city. They’ve even been looking at the potential to engineer ditches that, in a lot of ways, act like de facto rivers to carry away runoff that are oftentimes easily disrupted, Doyle saying the county is examining ways to make these manmade channels act more like natural systems, even playing with the idea of creating new, adjacent wetlands by moving the water offline to an area out of the way. For close to two centuries, Ithaca’s flood issue has been a natural phenomena, exacerbated by its own activity. But today, in a way, humankind has found a new role in how it shapes its environment: using the power of engineering to recreate nature for its own convenience. All assuming the money is there to take it back. S ep tember
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iquid State Brewery, set to open sometime next month, has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a dark cavernous back room of an industrial laundromat. The lights are much brighter now and, on a tall platform, coowners Jamey Tielens and Ben Brotman carry on tweaking massive silver tanks that soon, will be filled with a range of sudsy offerings, from their own New England IPAs, Belgian Whites, Barrel-Aged Sours, Czech-Style Pilsner and a German Kolsch. “We actually just started brewing our first beer this week,” Tielens said proudly on a recent afternoon visit to the State Street brewery. But , he wa r ns , t he cha nc e to enjoy such beverages will be delayed if they cannot reach their $30,000 goal by October 8. So far, the page lists 99 backers with $9,601 received. The reason they need the extra funding, he said, is a result of installing a sprinkler system in the facility’s Beer Hall, which Brotman and Tielens say “means more people, more fun, more skeeball and bigger windows looking out onto the shiny stainless steel tanks.” Without the money, Liquid State says they will have to ask for more money from the banks, which could inhibit their ability to meet their month-to-month needs to survive financially. Donors ca n a lso receive several different rewards for their giving. As little as $10 would get you a sticker or a coaster, whereas the more generous gifts receive shirts, brewery tours, a vintage VW Microbus venture around the Finger Lakes wineries and breweries or even a catered party in the Beer Hall for 50 people, among other possible Top: Ben Brotman and Jamey Tielens posing beneath the sign above their bar. re w a rd s . T he K ic kBelow: Several of the brewery’s production tanks. starter campaign is “All or Nothing” which means (Photos: Casey Martin) if they do not meet their goal all donations will be returned, mitigat- of beer as far as Rochester and Syracuse and ing any risk that backers might lose their have already received a $70,000 loan from the city in October to assist the brewery’s investment if the funding attempt fails. Both seasoned in the brewing game, establishment. The city’s interest in the friends Jamey Tielens and Ben Brotman project is clear, as it also tweaked zoning birthed the idea of a local brewery while regulations downtown to clear the way for working together at the Cornell Lab of Orni- the brewpub. The hope is that the brewery will serve to thology. Late last year they announced they further attract foot-traffic to the West End, would be moving into a location at 620 West Green Street, a building that includes Cor- one of the city’s long-term goals. The area’s nell Laundry and CrossFit of Ithaca to bring lack of walkability, a function of the presLiquid State to the community. Beyond beer, ence of Fulton and Meadow Streets, has been Liquid State also plans to serve a small plate scrutinized and was highlighted as a point of menu of German-inspired food, as well emphasis in the city’s Comprehensive Plan. as featuring local food trucks for different tastes. –By Nick R eynolds & Matt Butler The pair plan to distribute 24,180 gallons
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epresentatives from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation gave a presentation September 14 regarding the 11,237-acre Wildlife Ma nagement A rea (WM A) common ly known as Connecticut Hill. The presentation was given by Adam Perry, DEC wildlife biologist, and Andrew Drake, DEC forester, and as evening went on it became clear that one of the main concerns for many of the 75 members of the public who attended was public use of the land. The number one concern for the DEC when it comes to WMAs is wildlife habitat management. “The thing we think about first is is this good for grouse, warblers, deer, turkeys, whatever it may be?” explained Perry. The second most important concern is providing areas for wildlife dependent pastimes such as trapping, hunting and bird watching. Almost all Wildlife Management Areas, including Connecticut Hill, are open to the public; however, Perry made it very clear that the DEC is not responsible for maintaining existing trails that have been cleared and maintained by locals over the years. Many residents said they use these unofficial trails for activities like horseback riding, mountain biking and cross-country skiing, but these are not considered wildlife dependent uses for the land and therefore are not a priority of the DEC. According to Perry, the DEC will not be requiring timber harvesting crews to clean up fallen logs or any other obstructions of the trails, and it is illegal for residents to take it upon themselves to do so. The Finger Lakes Land Trust hiking trails are an exception, being state-sanctioned recreational areas. Several members of the public expressed dismay over the possibility of losing trails they have used for years and in some cases decades. One landowner who lives near the WMA said he was taken aback when an area that had been historically used for camping was suddenly clear-cut without warning. Perry said he is familiar with the area the man was describing and that it was not a sanctioned campsite but the site of illegal
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off-roading. The harvesting of trees will be a regular part of the process of maintaining the forest, said Perry, as in this particular WMA one of the main goals is to increase the amount of young forest. Young forest is the favored habitat of many species, he said, including songbirds. To achieve that goal, the DEC has developed a 60-page habitat management plan, which is a fluid document charting the plan for the next 10 years. It can be found on the DEC’s website at www.dec.ny.gov. Connecticut Hill’s 11,237 acres spans several towns and two counties. Ninety-six percent of the land is forest, and it has only about 225 acres of grassland currently. When the first initial acres of what is now the WMA was acquired by New York State in 1929, the forest had been logged and cleared for agriculture. At that time, all the farms were dying out because the farmers found the land too rough and rocky to be good farmland, according to Perry, and the State replanted millions of trees. “They would just plant, plant, plant,” said Perry. Then in the 1950s and 1960s some of the forest was harvested, and today the woods continue to get older and older. The goal is to create 10 percent young forest on Connecticut Hill compared to the one percent there today. The DEC would like to increase the amount of shrub lands to from one percent to two percent and grasslands from two percent to about three percent in order to ensure forest diversity and health. Perry said that a couple areas were clearcut last year and the year before. “There was some concerted effort to create more grassland, so we moved some stumps, regarded and reseeded the land to break it up a little bit up there.” When an area is harvested, the money from the timber goes to the conservation general fund, which is a statewide fund that is redistributed throughout the state. “It’s
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trees or shrubs like honeysuckle or Japanese knotweed, Perry said. He added that DEC workers are always on the lookout for trees with health problems so they can respond to it and “roll with the punches to do what we can to react if that’s what we need to do.” When asked by a member of the public about Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive species of beetle that has been known to destroy ash stands throughout the United States in recent years. Their reach has expanded as far west as Indiana and stretches all the way across the eastern half of the county to Massachusetts and as far south as Georgia. According to Perry, they have yet to be found on Connecticut Hill, but he said that unfortunately they’re usually not spotted until it’s too late and the insect has not
only started killing trees but also spread to adjacent areas. Still, Perry said, the plan is a living document, and if the beetle is found then the plan will change to include the DEC’s response. Though some residents were displeased with the possibility of losing trails, many who attending the meeting expressed thanks to DEC employees for the work they do. The entire pla n, including detai led descriptions of the work to be done on specific sites on Connecticut Hill, can be found at www.dec.ny.gov. –Jaime Cone
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from having their voice heard, or perhaps disillusioned with the current state of the city’s government, be welcomed to the conversation. Hall’s goals go beyond that as well, even if her campaign fails: she wants to serve as an inspiration to members of the public that nobody, regardless of status or prestige in society, should feel precluded from involving themselves in the politics of their home. When she did move back she said much had changed, most significantly the cost of living. That seems to be the primary motivation behind her campaign: economic inequality in the area that manifests itself most visibly in the affordable housing issue. She said that would be one of her first pri“Josephine Martell leaving left a great opportunity for someone to come in that breaks the mold a little bit, Someone who is not involved with politics. Someone with some personal struggles and a perspective that is a little different than everybody else. I think it would be a great time to get someone new.”
orities if she was to be elected to Common Council, though she knows there isn’t a silver bullet solution to the problem; the process could take years to accomplish, especially since her goal is affordable housing that meets quality standards, but she said her aptitude with research and her openness to feedback from constituents and fellow Council members would be an asset. “Everything is a work in progress,” she said. “To assume you know everything going in would be a negative, I think. But I’m an open person, I learn as I go along.” After obtaining her current job, Hall became more and more invested in local politics, attending meetings and more closely studying the legislative process. She said she is still learning some of the details of passing legislation (some of which, she said, are hard to learn without actually being elected), but that her government experience and grant writing work would be a boon to her abilities as a lawmaker. Now, after so many years spent working in the social services sector, both “in the trenches” and administratively, Hall feels it is the right time to try her hand at crafting policies that could help the same people she deals with daily. Because she has seen the ways the city’s problems hurt its citizens, both first- and second-hand, Hall said her voice could be a particularly valuable addition to the city’s governing body. “Josephine Martell leaving left a great opportunity for someone to come in that breaks the mold a little bit,” Hall said. “Someone who is not involved with politics. Someone with some personal struggles and a perspective that is a little different than everybody else. I think it would be a great time to get someone new.” –Matt Butler
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21 yards, and while defending a short field does not necessarily wear out a defense physically, it takes a toll emotionally. Jordan Landsman – a sophomore -make the most of his first collegiate start, coming up with a pair of sacks and six total tackles. Senior Daniel Crochet had five tackles (one for a loss), and also grabbed his first career interception. Team captain Kurt Frimel (also a senior), had three tackles for loss and a pass breakup, and his nine tackles led the team. Returning All-American Nick Gesualdi added nine stops and junior Reis Seggebruch and sophomore William Baker each produced a sack. Cornell will be on the road to open the Ivy League schedule, taking on Yale on Saturday. The game can be heard on 870 WHCU. After opening the season with two losses, the Ithaca College football team was looking for some positives to lift their collective spirit. On Saturday, they found some. After a very solid freshman season, Will Gladney proved that if someone was able to get the ball to him, he would do good things with it. For their third game of the season –
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Youth Circus Organization, a position which she has held since April of 2013. And it’s what allowed for her to bring her students from Circus Culture to AYCO Fest, an invaluable experience for the youth troupe. When asked to reflect on their experience AYCO Fest, the members of the troupe emphasize how enriching it was for them, the uniqueness of the event, and the endless possibilities that were available to them. While some admit that it was stressful at times to represent Circus
Culture, that feeling was ultimately replaced with a sense of pride to share their own skills and routines that they’ve put time and effort into with other kids like them from around the country. The opportunity to interact with and see the styles and techniques of a variety of other circus schools from across the U.S. was a rewarding experience for the Circus Culture troupe. “Even though they’re from a different circus school, I feel like they’re my circus family,” says one girl. “You get to bring all the cultures back,” says another. The troupe is hoping to have the same opportunity in two years, when the next AYCO Fest will be hosted in San Diego. In order to attend, they are fundraising for the event (Circus Culture never turns a student way for lack of funds) as well as actively promoting enrollment in Circus Culture at community events and afterschool programs. But circus education is about more than just performing—it’s an outlet for students, and an alternative to the rigid structure of gymnastics. At Circus Culture, youth are taught how to perfect an art and achieve physical feats that at first would seem unachievable. “The culture that we try to cultivate is that circus is a creative thing,” says Cohen. To elaborate, she uses a metaphor: “The technique is the words, and the creativity allows you to speak with your technique.” The program also provides youth with a community of like-minded people. To a certain extent, one could say it’s a family. The staff exude a benign dedication, while the students care deeply about what they are doing, and articulate the benefits of their circus education: how they’re always learning something new, their ability to find their own passions, and how Circus Culture is a “home away from home.” None of this would be possible without Cohen, though. As director of the program, she is a source of enormous support and pride for her students, who describe her as the “heart of Circus Culture.” “I try to say yes whenever I can,” she says. “That’s kind of the motto.”
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state that draws that many people over three days,” Reynolds said. “It’s a pretty good deal.” Blackduck Cidery will be bringing a variety of their already bottled products to this year’s festival. They are usually situated outside of Autumn Leaves Books on the Commons. The Little Grey Bakery
Your taste buds are likely familiar with the products of the Little Grey Bakery. The Amish run bakery in Interlaken has been attending Apple fest since the mid-1990s. The owner of the business said they look forward to attending each year and enjoy seeing the repeat customers that come to buy the pies, crisps, and dozens of other baked good treats their table will offer. They too go to the festival when they have the help.
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This family owned and operated cidery in Ovid has been going to Apple Harvest Festival for about five years now. Their first trip to the fest they only brought fruit, apples and pears, and shared a table with their friends and neighbors the Six Circles farm from Lodi. But since they really started producing cider they have brought their original libations to the fest, and this year is no exception. In fact, there will be less fruit from the farm and more hard cider than in previous years. John Reynolds and his wife Shannon O’Connor, who is also the director of the Edith B. Ford memorial library in Ovid, own and operate the cidery. Reynolds said they continue to go to get their product in front of new customers. “It’s a huge amount of folk,” Reynolds said. “Some locals that already know our cider and our fruit, but there’s a fair amount of tourists and maybe other people that come from the general region but don’t know us.” Staffing the booth is the most complicated part, Reynolds said. Each year they need enough people to man the table and keep the tasting lines short, and enough people to make sure no one has to stand at the tables for too long. The large crowds at the fest make for dozens of thirsty customers. “There’s pretty much no other festival that caters to apples or cider in New York
For the Finger Lakes Cider House in Interlaken, apple fest is just the beginning. The festival officially kicks of Finger Lakes Cider Week, stay tuned for more info next week. Melissa Madden, co-owner of the Cider House and one of the founding members of Cider Week, said this is probably the third or fourth year that the business has been at apple fest. Part of the draw of the event is how much money a business can make during one event. “It’s a great event for cider, it’s a good place to sell cider,” Madden said. “I think that the thing that Cider Week does well, and apple harvest festival is a good example of that, is help us make the cushion that we’re going to need to rest on in January or February when nobody is buying anything.” The harvest season is a busy one, to put it mildly, for cideries in the area. For the Cider House, they only make cider once a year, around the same time they are hosting Cider Week. But this doesn’t dampen Madden’s love for the apple harvest festival. “We’re very grateful that it exists,” Madden said, “and that it’s done so well on its own. Because unlike Cider Week, apple harvest fest already existed, that was something we could just step into.” At this year’s festival Madden said the Cider House will probably be bringing four or five ciders from their own cidery, Kite and String. But beyond cider, Madden said they will probably be bringing some of their certified organic apples as well. Last year they didn’t bother because all the apples they could pick needed to be pressed. This year’s fest will include a new element. Monks on the Commons, located in the Ithaca Marriot Downtown, will be hosting a cider and food pairing event with 10 local cideries, including Kite and String. Eve’s Cidery, which is often featured at the Cider House, will also be part of the pairing.•
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n 1982, Anna Steinkraus and a handful of her fellow apple-growers brainstormed about the best way to showcase the area’s diverse agricultural bounty and at the same time, boost traffic for businesses on the Ithaca Commons and surrounding streets. The result was the Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival and now, 35 years later, Steinkraus, of Littletree Orchards in Newfield, will continue the tradition of making her renown apple cider doughnuts at the event, set for Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1. Steinkraus has not missed a year since its start. She and her family will have two doughnut robot machines on site to meet the demand for thousands of the tasty treats that sell out as quickly as they are made. “My mom wishes she could remember the names of all of the people who were instrumental in getting the festival started,” said Amara Steinkraus, a second-generation family member who works full-time at the orchard. “As president of the board of directors of the Ithaca Farmers’ Market and co-owner of Littletree Orchards my mother was involved with and supported this endeavor from the beginning.” The seed of that original idea has blossomed into one of the Finger Lakes’ premiere fall attractions. It brings more than 35,000 visitors to the Commons annually to savor the culinary cornucopia and other attractions unique to Ithaca that go far beyond the apples that initiated the original celebration. “It’s three fun-filled days of apples, local produce, fresh baked goods, family entertainment, games, prizes and live performances on two stage,” said Tatiana Sy, special events coordinator for the Ithaca Downtown Alliance, which organizes the festival. “It’s a great introduction to the farms and artists in Ithaca and its surrounding farming communities.”
Attendees at the Apple Harvest Festival peruse the wares. (Photo via Downtown Ithaca Alliance)
Sy said first time visitors can witness a variety of local entertainment while strolling Ithaca’s Commons,The pedestrian mall is the epicenter of the festival, with more than 100 vendors selling dozens of apple varieties, kettle corn, local farm fresh baked goods and a multitude of around the world specialties. “Local farmers are on site selling everything from tasty apple beverages to local pumpkins and of course, apples, apples and more apples,” Sy said. “Wineries and cideries have regional beverages available for tasting and purchase. Attendees can shop and eat at not only the outdoor areas, but also check out our local offering all over downtown Ithaca.” Kids can visit with the goats and learn how fiber is made with Laughing Goat Fiber Farm. The Tompkins Trust Company Family Fun Zone will be located in the Center Ithaca Lobby all three days. There will be free crafts and games available while supplies last each day. The festival also includes a fall craft show where 50 different handcrafting artisans set up along Cayuga Street featuring jewelry, ceramics, home decor, body care, specialty gifts, sculpture, clothing and much more. Rennie Sandsted of Baker’s Acres in East Lansing figures her orchard has been represented at the apple festival for at least the past 25 years. She’s usually so busy with her more than 20 bushels of six different apple varieties in her booth that she doesn’t often get out to see the crafts, but she knows they, as well as the variety of food, are a big draw. “The food is amazing; there is a lot of food to eat.There is entertainment and a kids carnival. We like the festival because it’s a lot of fun,” Sandsted said. “People are in a great mood
and they are ready to dive into fall apples and cider. We push a lot of apples at the festival. It’s tradition. It brings downtown Ithaca alive.” Cornell University usually uses the Apple Fest to introduce new apple varieties to the public, she said. The most popular varieties, however, are pretty standard. “Honey Crisp, Cortlands, Galas and Empires,” Sandsted said. But for the Steinkrauses, who like most of the orchard represented at the festival also sellapples and other apple products, it’s all about the doughnuts. “We sell the doughnuts at the Ithaca Farmers’ Market and at the orchard,” said Amara Steinkraus. “But for some reason people are just crazy for them at the apple festival. It’s something in the atmosphere. People wait in line. We go from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is always a line because they must have them now.” It Sta rted w ith the Iroquois
Although it’s the festival’s 35th anniversary, in reality, agricultural celebrations in the Finger Lakes have been going on for hundreds of years likely beginning with the Iroquois, who looked to nature for the best reason to throw a party. The History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schulyer Counties, published in 1879 explains “it was the custom of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, to hold festivals to commemorate the different seasons of the year, which were named variously ‘Thanks to the Maple,’ ‘Planting Festival,’ ‘Berry Festival,’ ‘Green Corn Festival,’ ‘Harvest Festival,’ and ‘New Year’s Jubilee.’ These festivals lasted several days and were conducted with great ceremony.” Included in the history was an except from Wentworth Greenhalgh’s 1677 journal: “From generation to generation, these festivals have been observed on the same seasons … on the shore of the Cayuga, and the several villages of the Seneca. Before the voice of the white man was heard in these peaceful and secluded retreats of the forest, that of the Indians have lifted up to the Great Spirit in thanksgiving and
praise. The origins of these festivals are lost, as well as the date and location of their institution, but the Iroquois believe they have been observed among them at least since the beginning of the Confederacy.” Also mentioned: “where Tagnagic Creek empties out into Tiohero (Cayuga) Lake, the Indians had built a small town and were growing corn, beans and potatoes, and also they hadapple trees.” Read more of this history at http://tinyurl.com/ yagvobtm N ew at the 2017 A ppl e H a rv est Festi va l
Science Cabaret will be presenting a special edition of its monthly event on the Apple Harvest stage on Sunday, Oct. 1. https:// www.facebook.com/ScienceCabaret/ In collaboration with Cider Week FLX, Science Cabaret is hosting an evening all about apples, ciders, agriculture and stories. Meet the makers begins at 6 p.m. with a cider happy hour. Try a glass of cider from a Finger Lakes cider maker. Cash bar. Then at 7 p.m., enjoy an evening of storytelling with cider maker Elizabeth Ryan of Breezy Hill Orchard in New York’s Hudson Valley. Ryan is a renowned fruit grower and cider maker. She has studied cider making in Somerset and Hereford in England and holds a degree in pomology from Cornell University. Her first barrel of cider was made while a student in 1980. As a keynote speaker at the NY State Governor’s Alcohol Summit, she helped promote policy that supports small-scale hard cider production. Cider Tasting Salon The Downtown Alliance is partnering with the New York State Cider Association this year to create a tasting salon inside the event space in the Marriott on the Ithaca Commons. There will be 40 minute sessions running from noon to 7 p.m. on Sunday. Oct. 1 that are free to the public. There is an advance RSVP link on the downtownithaca.com website and a few walk up spots held open for each session pending availability. Monks, the restaurant inside the
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Seeds Of Progress A Discovery in the mountains could mean big things for Plant genetics and the apple. By Nick Reynolds
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producing nation of apples – China – and a particular strain of apple found on the eastern ridge of the Kazakhstani Tian Shan Mountains, where a team led by a professor from the Boyce Thompson Institute recently made a discovery that not only lead us to the origins of the modern apple, but could potentially unlock the keys to its future. In August, a team of researchers led by BTI Plant Pathology and PlantMicrobe Biology professor Zhangjun Fei – concluded a four year study of the genetic progression of apples in the region with a surprising discovery: the very origin of the domesticated apple, which begun as a small, mushy and tasteless breed that, traveling along the famed Silk Road, eventually
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laid the groundwork for the cultivation of boundless types of apple breeds the world over. A collaborative project, conducted with Shandong Agricultural University in China, the project originally began as a computational project where researchers sequenced and compared the genomes of 117 diverse apple species in an effort to test how well – through computing – they could isolate certain genetic aspects of each apple. With the apple – which is slow-growing and slow-evolving, therefore making it easier to track – and its various thousands of successions and genetic makeups, the group figured it would be able to produce a broad evolutionary tree to find exactly what apples were combined to make other breeds over time, pieces of a progression eventually resulting in the apples we have today. In their analysis of these species, the sequence revealed one thing in common: that every type of apple shared a common ancestor in the Malus sieversii, a wild apple native to Central Asia on the eastern side of the mountain range which, when bred with crab apples from western Europe, was
allowed to evolve into the apple we know and love today – not too sweet, just tart enough and with a firm and crisp texture. This discovery – and the apple species that followed the route of the Silk Road both east and west, signifies a major breakthrough in plant biology as well as in the evolution of the apple: namely that now, plant scientists will have a common genome among all apples – those grown west and east of its point of origin – and will therefore be able to isolate certain traits of specific apples along each individual step of the breeding process. Essentially, this discovery makes genetically engineering the apple you want an exact science – no GMO-style mutations necessary. W h y the a ppl e?
Unlike the cross-cultivation of crops like maize and tomatoes, creating a new cultivar of apple is a time-consuming process, one where individual branches of two separate species must be grafted together and allowed to grow before producing a seed
that will become a new type of apple. And even that is an extensive process, one that, by typical estimates, takes 15 years or so. During breeding, approximately 45 different traits in the apple and the tree are tested – from color and flavor to weather resiliency – to determine what qualities will eventually come together to form a new, commercially viable type of apple. In order to isolate a single trait, breeders have traditionally had to produce thousands of seeds from different cross-combinations before finding an ideal one worthy of masscultivation. Because of the rather sedated pace of evolution seen across the 10,000 year history of the apple, growth and change in the species has been slow, so much that the apple of today is only about twice the size of its ancestors of 10 millennia ago. Because of this slow evolution, many of the cultivars old and new are still intact, making the act of connecting one species to the other from cultivar to cultivar possible. The means behind how the groundbreaking discovery was made comes, then on, from common sense: You can only
understand what impact human activities have had. This gives you an idea of where everything started.” W h at this mea ns for the fu tu re
Because of the slow, often experimentative way apples have been bred – largely for taste and texture, rather than size – that has limited the focus of creating cultivars to those that are immediately viable, apples have rarely been given a chance to grow much. Fei said there are two ways to modify the apple genome, affecting the phenotype: one way is through traditional means – the long way – and the other is through the use of genetic modification, artificial evolution, to improve one trait over another. Now armed with these new genetic markers to replace what was once all trial, error and earned knowledge scientists and breeders now have the ability to shorten that breeding cycle substantially without the need for the use of GMO technology which, even with
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develop hybrids from the apples you have available to you: using the unique grove of Malus sieversii as the point of origin, you can see the apples produced on the eastern side of the mountain range – the sweeter, mealier dessert apples signature to China – are vastly different than the tart breeds bred from the crab apples found in Europe. That evolution, the scientists ruled, was largely spurred by human activity and trade along the famed Silk Road. “Comparing the modern apple with its ancestor, the serveseii or the European crab apple, we know what type of traits have been changed during the human domesticating process: the sugar content, the acid content, the fruit size… more importantly, we know which part of the genome was affected,” said Fei. “Every trait in an apple is controlled by genes. When people domesticate a trait they leave a footprint that lets us see what trait they changed, which allows us to
its benefits, can totally weird people out. Now with a common genome known amongst all types of apples, that process has great potential to not only be sped up, but for traits between cultivars to be immediately identifiable on a genetic scale. This could mean not only bigger or sweeter apples, but apples that last longer in storage, are hardier in the cold or resistant to changing conditions brought on by climate change. “We can use traditional approaches in a much better way,” Fei said. So where are we limited? Where’s the ceiling for us today? “You never know for another 10,000 years what the next apple will look like… people want higher production for more benefit and more profit, right?” mused Fei. “We are sure the flavor and quality of the fruit, even the ability to store it, will be increased in the future.” •
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Stewart Park’s highest-profile lineup ever rolls into town B y J a s o n Wa r s h o f
The X Ambassadors make its way back home to Ithaca for the Cayuga Sound Festival. The festival begins at 12 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 at Stewart Park. (Photo: Cortney Armitage)
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s a kid growing up in Ithaca, Sam Harris revered the Roots for the “mesmerizing way” they delivered live hip-hop and rhythm and blues. He saw the group perform at Cornell’s Bailey Hall back in 2002 when he was in eighth grade. Now he’ll be sharing top billing with them — The Roots and the X Ambassadors, Harris’s band, will be headlining the Cayuga Sound Festival this coming Saturday, Sept. 23. The local boys made good will be joined by several other national acts, including crossover pop-rap artist K.Flay, singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy and pop bands Jukebox the Ghost and Savoir Adore, along with a slate of area artists. It won’t be the largest crowd ever to see a performance at Stewart Park, according to Dan Smalls, who is promoting the event — the old Ithaca Festival finale and the July 4 fireworks being the exceptions — but the city has never hosted a lineup with this sort of national recognition. “The band wanted to bring together a group artists they would have wanted to see as 15-yearolds,” Smalls explained. Big acts, then: rock, hiphop, electronica — genres outside Ithaca’s usual
penchant for accordions, mandolins, doumbeks and other agents of folk and world music. More important, though, he explained that “this is a band that wanted to give back to the community that reared them — that made them who they are and taught them what they believe in.” The story of Ithaca’s most famous rock group only felt like a secret for a short while — during those months between the 2015 release of their hit “Renegades,” that topped the Alternative Songs charts for virtually the whole summer and the band’s rapturous return home to play the State Theatre (for the first time) on May 14, 2016, which Mayor Svante Myrick proclaimed “X Ambassadors Day,” an official city holiday. The band’s other members are Sam’s brother, Casey, who plays keyboard, and Adam Levin, on drums. (Guitarist Noah Feldshuh, who also grew up in Ithaca, is not currently performing with the group.) The origins of this weekend’s festival, meanwhile, can be dated to June 23, 2015, when the X Ambassadors played the “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” for which the Roots are the house band. Several months later, in March 2016, the Roots invited their former guests to collaborate at the SXSW Music Festival, held in Austin, Texas. Sam reflected on the experi-
ence: “I remember so vividly at the end of ‘Bring It on Home to Me,’ [the Sam Cooke song the Ambassadors covered] when Black Thought [Tariq Trotter, the Roots’ MC] came out onstage and sang with us. That was the coolest moment ... I loved him.” That October, the Roots invited the Ambassadors to play at the New York iteration of their annual Roots Picnic — which previously had been held only in their native Philly. Now, a year later, the Harris brothers and Levin are, in a sense, returning the favor. The relationship, Sam said, reflects “a couple of years of magic but also a lot of hard work by the management of both bands and Dan Smalls.” In addition to the 10 hours of music planned for Stewart Park, the festival comprises supplementary shows and parties at The Haunt and The Dock. Of note, too, are a pair of lectures at the Marriott downtown on Friday afternoon. The first (“Live Music and Its Impact on the World,” 10:30–11:30 a.m.) will bring together Dan Smalls, X Ambassadors manager Seth Kallen and Ty Stiklorious, the founder and CEO of Friends at Work, a “21st-century entertainment, innovation, and social impact company,” to discuss the ways in which the live-music industry can be a force for good. The second (“From Ithaca to the Billboard Charts,” 12–1 p.m.) will feature Casey and Sam Harris themselves, and offer an intimate view of their journey from high ambitions to actual stardom, with all its perks and responsibilities. Indeed, the X-ers, now based in L.A., have demonstrated a profound sense of social responsibility, especially as their music has gained a wider audience and in light of last November’s presidential election. The day after Donald Trump won the presidency, fighting off languor, Sam penned the single “Hoping,” with its gospel backdrop. The band donated the first six months’ proceeds to the ACLU. Later, the group participated in the Spotify project “I’m with the Banned,” for which U.S. artists worked with peers from nations listed in the president’s proposed travel ban. The X Ambassadors joined with the Yemeni artist Methal (full name: Methal Hamadi) to perContin u ed on page 2 4
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form the song “Cycles.” As Sam reported in an NPR interview earlier this month, Methal told the band, “the first time that she heard us was when bombs were dropping in her city, and she and her friends would have karaoke nights at each other’s apartments to just kind of keep busy and keep distracted. [They] were all together in someone’s apartment one night ... and she heard our music for the first time and became a fan. And she said: that’s what we would do, we would listen to X Ambassadors to keep us sane while this war was raging outside.” By the time the Harris brothers and Levin worked with her, the Yemeni artist had fled her home country, in part because her trailblazing public performances had drawn threatening rebuke from the country’s fundamentalist establishment. Her journey to Canada, where she now lives, began with a boat ride across the Bab alMandab Strait to Djibouti. When the X Ambassadors performed the “Benefit My State” concert last year, they raised about $25,000 for the State Theatre, a significant chunk of the $200,000plus the theater must raise annually (plus earned income) to maintain operations. For this year’s festival as well, proceeds are expected to rise into the tens of thousands, to help fund local nonprofits such as the Community School of Music and Arts, Planned Parenthood, the Southside Community Center, and the kids’ performance group Vitamin L, along with many others. The Harris brothers’ latest homecoming comes with a bit of happy news as well, as reported by their “joyful” mom, longtime Ithacan Margaret Wakeley. Both men are getting married — and neither, uncannily, is straying too far from the family
name: Sam to Tess Harrison, who grew up in Ithaca and serves as a videographer for the band, and Casey to Olivia Harris, from Houston, whom he met at one of the group’s early shows in New York.
The Lineup The best-known act, alongside the X Ambassadors, to play the Cayuga Sound Festival is undoubtedly the Roots, famed for their role as the host band on the “ Tonight Show w it h Jimmy Fa l lon.” Drummer and founding member Amir “Questlove” Johnson is not only a prolific musician and producer, he is also the author of three books, the most recent of which is about “how the creative process
Above: K.Flay (Photo: Lauren Dukoff) Right: Sammus (Photo: Drew Jensen)
applies to the preparation and presentation of food,” as reported during an interview with Terry Gross on “Fresh Air.” Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, the group’s cofounder and MC, has several acting credits to his name, including on
HBO’s “The Deuce,” and has collaborated with other artists such as indie-rocker Jim James of My Morning Jacket. Many of the acts set to perform, such as K.Flay, share the crossover appeal cultivated by the X Ambassadors: driving, danceable, rhythms, nods to hip-hop, and sometimes personal links to Dan Reynolds, the lead man for Imagine Dragons, who helped propel the Ambassadors to prominence. The Knocks, consisting of Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “JPatt” Patterson, are an electronic music duo that, before making its own music, generated beats for Britney Spears, Katy Perry, and other pop A-listers. A newer act on the NYC scene, Crush Club, offers a disco pulse and entreats audiences to be “bold sexy, and reckless,” according to Billboard. Sensual, ethereal dance-pop issues from the voice of Tei Shi (Valerie Teicher), who grew up in Bogota, Colombia, but later moved to Vancouver and attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston. The D.C.-origin Jukebox the Ghost will play its brand of piano-based pop, while Savoir Adore, from Brooklyn, has produced feelgood-be-young singles such as the 2011 track “Dreamers,” which evokes contemporaneous songs from Washed Out, furnisher of the intro track to “Portlandia.” Margaret Glaspy, a much-lauded young singer-songwriter, writes music marked by intelligent lyrics (“Shivering in an ice-cold bath / Of emotions and math”) and backed by gritty rhythm guitar and drums. Perhaps the most Ithaca-like material of the day will come from Mail the Horse, a Brooklyn-based rock band with traces of country and psychedelia. In the X Ambassadors’ recent NPR interview, Casey Harris remarked that Ithaca has always had “such a vibrant music scene ... but I feel like it’s even crazier these days. There are a lot of really talented young people there making amazing music.” A healthy sampling of that talent
will be on display at Cayuga Sound: Sammus (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo), the grand-niece of former Congolese president Patrice Lumumba and the daughter of area professors, produces impassioned rap linked to the “nerdcore” movement. Profiled in the Ithaca Times in August 2016, the Trumansburg-based quartet Izzy True is aptly described as lush, playful postpunk. Tracks such as their “Gwam, Gwam, Gwam” demonstrate intuitive lyrical pacing and gorgeous vocals. Imperials, a punk act, feature unvarnished vocals, raucous drums and, yes, accordion, likely to put the old-timers at ease. Rounding out the local representation is the soul group Stone Cold Miracle, led fearlessly by vocalist LaTrece Stevenson and including Ithaca music-scene stal-
warts such as guitarists Nick LaVerne and Dustin Shuhr, drummer Zaun Marshburn, and bassist Andy Adelewitz. A note on transportation: The park will not be open to cars, and shuttle service will be provided from Ithaca High School, downtown, and elsewhere. See www.cayugasoundfestival.com for all the details. •
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Handwerker’s new exhibition simple and powerful By Ambe r D onof r io
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here’s something to be said about superb simplicity, art shows that are neither intensely analy tical nor vapid. Successful simplicity requires a certain amount of clarity in thought and execution that, while potentially complex in its creation, somehow comes off as straightforward, recognizable and satisfyingly impressionable. These are the shows you often don’t know you’ve been looking for until you come across them, the discovery of which that can be one of the best feelings for an art lover: a flow of relief in witnessing the beauty of creative expression and the inner contentedness that perfectly balanced shows can provide. In this instance, there are two shows (a joint show) to which I am referring, both presently at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College through Oct. 18. The first is Time Breaks Open, a collection of work by local artist and IC professor Susan Weisend; the second is Memorandum by local painter and Cornell professor Leslie Brack. While Weisend’s work presents sculptural paper-based pieces that highlight the topographical dimensions of past landscapes enveloping the present, Brack’s work focuses more on the banal and manmade by presenting numerous near photorealistic watercolor works examining metal f ile cabinets as subject matter. This school year the Handwerker Gallery is curating exhibi-
Other works, such as Time Layers and Heave are equally affecting and all the more impressive in their use of materials. Composed of handmade paper and intaglio ink, the resulting forms are rigid and rock-like as if a making and unmaking of Earth’s surfaces, documenting ridges, cracks and bodies of water in a threedimensional way that makes it difficult to believe they are each made of paper and not a material of more mass. Book of Tributaries too is absolutely beautiful, as cream-colored paper — the edges torn and imperfect — overlap one another, while its title hints toward reference to
a stream or river. The piece is articulate yet simple, the show itself breathtakingly cohesive as the works make use of the white walls of the space, inhabiting them with their intense sculptural presence. In the second half of the gallery, Brack’s Memorandum presents a little world of its own, one more ruled by humans in the structure of office life. Painting after painting pays ode to metal filing cabinets, taking in their aged details from peeled paint to the still-metallic glint of a drawer handle. The works are engrossing with their attention to minutiae, making each cabinet unique. Even more, there’s a bit of wit to the show’s title, a word that means a written message or record, oftentimes for business and meant for future use. In this case, the filing cabinets themselves become the documents, the items within them suddenly irrelevant. These structures, which were designed for utility, physically withstand time and yet have become less useful with the introduction of technology as a means of storing information. They are connected to the past, imbued with an aura of reminiscence and memory of not-so-distant history, yet their current reality reduces them to clutter. The show is refreshing in its straightforward nature and wonderfully done, getting directly to the point but asking visitors to linger. •
tions that highlight the dimensions, limitations, and immensity of time, and both Brack and Weisend’s work seem a perfect introduction to this theme, exploring and dissecting it in fascinating ways while also highlighting the artists’ strengths of execution. Weisend’s works Paths and Fossil Paths, as well as the similar Glacial Gouges, present map-like monotype prints of what look to be rivers, gorges, or indents into the earth seen from afar and printed on delicate Japanese gampi (tissue) paper. The works float against the wall, wonderfully ironic as their delicateness contradicts the immensity to which their images lay claim. They dictate all of the years and complexities found in nature when we step back and examine all that Leslie Brack’s watercolor, “Peeling Latex.” (Art: Leslie Brack) preceded us and the evidence of eons present in the crevices that surround us. And yet the works themselves, manmade, could be easily torn, temporal compared to the details they record. The artworks are a strong illustration of Weisend’s insistence, as the show’s statement proclaims, “that AT CONIFER, WE MAKE YOUR CHOICE EASY we participate with her by dropping our WITH SO MANY GREAT LOCATIONS JUST assumptions about humanity’s place of FILLED WITH COMFORT AND AMENITIES! privilege in the world.”
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Opera Ithaca and Circus Culture reinvent Pagliacci By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o
Soprano Megan Nielson plays Nedda in the operatic tragedy “Pagliacci.” (Photo: Zachary James)
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a Commedia è finita” — The comedy is finished. The tragedy continues. Opera Ithaca will be teaming up with Circus Culture for a collaborative performance of Pagliacci, a tragic opera written by Ruggero Leoncavallo (the only opera by Leoncavallo still widely performed). The skeleton of the story remains constant, but “Dr. Reppert completely changed my body, my health, and my life. I am forever grateful for her care and support!” - Erica Steinhagen, Actor, Voice Teacher
Opera Ithaca and Circus Culture spin the classic by combining it with circus performances, all in the confines of the intimate space at Circus Culture. This opera tells the story of the iconic sad clown, Pagliacci, a beloved stock character in Italian culture. Usually in costume devoid of bright colors, the character Pagliacci is part of a group of traveling
performers. The group celebrates the Feast of Assumption, entertaining attendees of the festival. The tragedy comes clearer into focus when the life of Canio, the actor in the group of performers who plays Pagliacci, begins to mirror that of Pagliacci himself. Canio’s wife, Nedda, becomes smitten in an affair with a villager — just as Pagliacci’s wife becomes enamored with another man. Director Zachary James first intermingled Circus Culture with Opera Ithaca last year. He worked on a Philip Glass piece with the London’s English National Opera and Los Angeles Opera that incorporated juggling, and the combination of classical opera and circus performances inspired him to combine the two disciplines in Pagliacci. “The dedication and focus and extreme training required are very similar to that which is required of opera singers; opera and circus really run a parallel course,” James said. “It sounds like a wild idea, but it is a natural fit. Opera is an art form which is used to being augmented.” Keeping in line with a modern augment, Opera Ithaca alters the perception of the drab, sophisticated stereotype of typical opera. Apprentice Artist Rachel Silverstein attributes the accessibility of the show to the performance venue. Circus Culture’s space is cozy, and audience members will be encouraged to participate in the tragedy. “It’s an intimate experience,” Silverstein said. “People are so used to opera being so far away and inaccessible. But the closeness of the show will encourage audience participation.” Another spin on the classic comes in the form of the final line, “La Commedia è finita.” Throughout the history of the opera, the assignment of the final line has been passed between Canio and other characters. The character who proclaims
the last line indicates the direction of the narrative. The final line has a clear and definitive power. Opera Ithaca takes this malleable ending and crafts a finale that breaks from antiquated tradition. Additionally, Pagliacci will shift some of the focus to from Canio to Nedda. In traditional performances, the soprano falls victim to the play’s tragedy with little to no opportunity to protest. Rather than Nedda absorbing the tragedy, she deflects it and finds strength in herself. “I am personally tired of stories on the operatic stage where the soprano dies tragically and the male characters live,” James said. “Our company is one that champions women in every way.” Familiar with the story or a newcomer to opera, Pagliacci has been sculpted and developed for a modern audience. Acrobats will swirl through the air and carry Nedda and Canio through the tragic narrative — or perhaps, even juggle the characters. Silverstein said the core of Pagliacci comes not from the content of the story but the theatrics that accompany it. Pagliacci, after all, is a basic stock character: the atmosphere and context of his character shapes his existence. “It’s not quite about the story itself you’re going to see the show for,” Silverstein said. “You’re going to see the musical beauty with the story attached. You’re there for the language, you’re there for the performance and you’re there for what is being given as art.” • Pagliacci, written by Ruggero Leoncavallo and directed by Zachary James, performed by Opera Ithaca and Circus Culture. Pagliacci runs at 8 p.m. Sept. 23 and Sept. 28-30 at Circus Culture with an additional performance 3:30 p.m. Sept. 24. Opera Ithaca and Circus Culture will also be taking the opera to New York for one performance 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, at The Slipper Room.
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The more rooted the characters and the setting, the better (and deeper) scares take hold in our collective mind. Bill Skarsgård comes up with a completely unique take on Pennywise the Dancing Clown. (I found the clown’s Victorian era costume the creepiest aspect of the character.) Thanks to well-executed VFX, Skarsgård is able to pull off moves that were well beyond what Tim Curry achieved in the miniseries. And it’s a mark of the film’s peculiar power that one of the best scenes, involving a possessed slide projector, aren’t even from the novel. To be sure, in a 1,600page doorstop like King’s book, you’ll always have favored moments that get cut. But It: Chapter One gets just about everything shiveringly right.
or those of us Stephen King fans with a particular love for his 1986 novel It, it’s not hard to see why we’re so happy right now. There was a fairly tepid four-hour miniseries made in 1990 that really missed the mark, partially due to lazy casting but mostly because an epic story centering around dead children wasn’t going to get the best treatment from network TV. With the arrival of A nd y Mu s c h ie t t i ‘s It: Chapter One, we finally have an ad apt at ion t h at ’s a lot closer to t he book, a nd w it h a well-earned R rating, the filmmakers *** can finally go for the groceries, as it were. Of a ll t he cool It: Chapter One things that happen splits King’s masi n se a son t wo of sive tome into two Ash Vs. Evil Dead, parts. It’s all about t he coolest just a ga ng of m i sf it s might be the Suzi who must bat t le Quatro poster we an evil shapeshiftsee on the wall in ing alien that likes A s h ’s c h i ld ho o d to feed on children b e d ro om . T h at ’s and then reunite as right — following adults to resume the t he u nea sy t r uce fight. (The original bet ween hu ma ns stor y shifted back and Deadites at the and forth between end of season one, the kids in 1958 and all that goes out the their adult counterwindow as Ash must parts in 1985, but return to his homeFrom the movie “It” (Photo provided) the new film updates town to track down the chronology to 1989 the latest wave of evil. and now, presumably; A nd L ee Majors a s part one focuses on the kids, with Part Ash’s dad? That’s what we call perfect castTwo in the pipeline picking up with the ing, and the series has a lot of twisted fun grown-ups.) with him. Ellen Sandweiss, who starred For all the King adaptations that fall as Ash’s sister in the original Evil Dead, flat, it’s hard to qualify what works when it returns to wreak havoc for an episode. does. The screenplay by Chase Palmer, Cary Bruce Campbell and the storyline get Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman really more and more berserk, using time travel captures the humor, pathos and fun in the to revisit events that transpired in Evil kids’ relationships: I was reminded fondly Dead 2. Ted Raimi returns for a pair of of Stand By Me in that regard. Muschietti scene-stealing roles, one a callback to ED2, is particularly skilled at capturing the for you Henrietta fans out there. You can particular flavor of King’s small-town life, tell that the New Zealand crew is having and I appreciated all the background pop- a blast making this show, right down to a culture references and song cues. Casting haunted car ep that’s pure unadulterated is very good, too, with particularly rich Christine. I’ve lost my taste for a lot of what performances from Sophia Lillis and Finn passes for horror, but Ash Vs. Evil Dead is Wolfhard (Stranger Things). splatter that matters. •
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Best-selling author discusses race in the U.S. By G.M . Bur n s
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here is a steady uneasiness that weren’t just passive victims. Similarly, these has grown among diverse groups of conversations should always include a dispeople in America, and especially cussion of allies — who among the group after the deadly tragedy in Charlottesville, in power spoke up against the injustice? Virgina, when a single person drove his car For example, all American children should through a large crowd of people protest- know the stories of white abolitionists, ing racism. Currently, there is little open and those white allies who championed dialogue over the growing race crisis in this civil rights. Understanding the possibility country, but as an expert on race relations, of resistance to becoming a victimizer is Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, remains stead- as important as knowing there was and fast to working on a lasting change when is resistance to being a victim. Stories of it comes to understanding race and what resistance are stories of empowerment and it takes to have racial healing. Tatum was a sources of pride, and all children should professor and President of Spelman College. know them. She is a clinical psychologist, and author of IT: It feels to many people that a special Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Togeth- courage is needed to change and defeat the er in the Cafeteria? as well silence that surrounds racism. as Assimilation Blues: Black Can you talk about what modFamilies in a White Commuels have helped you overcome nity. Last week, Tatum spoke the fear and given you hope? at several separate functions BDT: One of the reasons throughout Ithaca, and took I titled the Epilogue of my some time to chat about her book “Signs of Hope, Sites of work with the Ithaca Times. Progress” is because I wanted Ithaca Times: The subject to highlight people and places of race seems to be often in the that are making a difference. news with images of conflict Each of us can exercise the more than discussing it, but kind of inclusive leadership how would you explain what we need to interrupt the cycle race means in America now? of racism. As you said in your Beverly Daniel Tatum: opening question, we see and When I was born in 1954, hear about racial conflict, but the U.S. population was 90 not enough about the work Tatum’s book cover. percent white, and when peoof racial healing. There is no (Photo provided) ple talked about race relations, question that we are living in a they usually were talking about difficult time, and recent events black-white relations. Today our in Charlottesville and elsewhere society is much more diverse, have been very disturbing. I with Latinos, blacks, Asian Americans and believe that in times of darkness, we all Native Americans collectively representing need to generate more light. I look for more than one-third of the U.S. population. examples of people who are generating light What race means and how racism impacts in their communities as a source of inspiraeveryone is now more multidimensional. tion for me, and to tell their stories when I My book is about how racism shapes our find them. view of ourselves and others, including all IT: What other influences between peoof these groups, and shows how an under- ple needs to occur to make a lasting change standing of identity development enables at this time? bridge building across lines of difference, BDT: As noted earlier, there is a lot of helping us move beyond conflict to con- silence about race and racism. People are structive dialogue. afraid to talk about these issues. But you IT: There is a hidden history of race that can’t solve a problem without talking about is often not covered in America. Can you it. Leadership matters, but we don’t have talk about why this is? to wait for someone else to demonstrate BDT: The history of race and racism leadership. Each of us can demonstrate in the US is a painful one, and in general, the kind of inclusive leadership that helps human beings seek to avoid pain. It is build a shared community where all of us possible, however, to talk about this dif- can thrive. I wrote this new edition of my ficult topic, past and present, in a way that book because I believe it offers tools to betis empowering. Any conversation about ter understand ourselves and our interacracial injustice should include discussions tions across lines of difference, and at this of resistance. How did the people who were moment in our nation’s history, we all need targeted by the injustice push back against to learn how to do that. Each of us can exerit? For example, enslaved people found cise the kind of inclusive leadership we need ways to rebel and sometimes escape. They to interrupt the cycle of racism. •
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Ensemble X celebrates its 20th anniversary By Jane D ie ckm ann
be performing. They are welcoming two musicians, both new to the IC faculty, bassoonist Christin Schillinger and violist Kyle Armbrust. Also performing are popular percussionist Mike Compitello (formerly of Cornell, now at the University of Kansas) and Cornell lecturer and soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon. Berio has a worldwide reputation as composer and teacher, having been at — to name a few — Mills College invited
w r it ten for a ba l let compa ny. Wit h recorded voice, it is based on Sicilian melodies, and the percussion includes marimba, rototoms, and tam-tam. Then comes Sequenza XII for Bassoon (1995), one of a series of 15 virtuosic pieces, each for a different instrument. Bjerken says the work is also entertaining, as Christin has eight music stands and will move along to the right as she plays. To close, Fitz Gibbon will sing Folk Songs, consisting of 11 songs of various origins — two of which are Berio’s own compositions. With new harmonic and rhythmic interpretations, Berio feels he has in a way “recomposed them.” First performed in 1964, they were written for Cathy Berberian, Berio’s wife at the time. Fitz Gibbon will be accompanied by a seven-piece ensemble, conducted by newly arrived Katherine Kilburn. Ensemble X, Bjerken explains, was created by Stucky to present performances of a wide variety of music, from the early 20th century to the past 20 years. With a young generation of performers moving to Ithaca (three in this first concert), it is a particularly exciting time for new music in this town. The whole season is such a tribute to Stucky — Concert #2 on Feb. 25 welcomes back original violinist Ellen Jewett, now teaching in Turkey, and honors contemporary composer Elizabeth Ogonek. On March 18, Concert #3 features chamber music of Polish composer Roman Palester (1907–1989), part of a “Forbidden Songs” festival. The “big splash” finale on April 15 presents three concertos written in the past 20 years —“Gnarly Buttons” by John Adams with soloist Faria; “Bird Concerto” by Jonathan Harvey with projected bird songs and pianist Ryan McCullough and, finally, Bjerken as soloist in the East Coast premiere of Stephen Hartke’s “Ship of State”— all conducted by Tim Weiss from Oberlin. Mark your calendars now. •
Ensemble X features faculty members from both Ithaca College and Cornell University. The group has been together since 1997. (Photo provided)
Ensemble X, celebrating its 20th anniversary with four extraordinary concerts, starts off 3 p.m. this Sunday, Sept. 24, in Barnes Hall on Cornell University’s campus. On the program —“A Portrait of Luciano Berio (1925–2003)” lasting about one hour without intermission — are three works by this eminent Italian composer, a pioneer in electronic music and noted for his experimental work.
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chamber ensemble made up of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty, Ensemble X has been dedicated to presenting contemporary works as well as 20th-century classics. As its leader — Cornell pianist Xak Bjerken — told me, the ensemble started with three friends — violinist Ellen Jewett, clarinettist Richard Faria, cellist Elizabeth Simkin (all on the IC faculty at the time) — joining him (he was fairly new at Cornell just a few years) to the play the Schoenberg 1st chamber symphony in a concert in November 1997. Then Steven Stucky, Cornell composer and conductor and a later Pulitzer-prize winner, suggested they start an ensemble which he directed for almost ten years, Bjerken later joining him as co-director. Over that period, the original group added musicians and gave more than 30 concerts, performing more than 130 works (some premieres) by about 80 different composers from all over the world, ranging from the worldrenowned to composition students from Cornell’s music department. But on Apr i l Fools’ Day i n 20 06, Ensemble X gave its farewell concert. It
seemed then as just too much work for the directors. But as it turned out, Bjerken just couldn’t let the idea go of “holding hands across the gorge,” performing with his musical friends and presenting this repertory he loves. Since 2014 Ensemble X has given concerts every year. Sunday’s concert maintains the Cornell-IC collaboration, as Faria helps Bjerken put programs together and will
by Darius Milhaud; Juilliard, where he taught Steve Reich; as composer in residence at Tanglewood and Harvard; London’s Royal Academy of Music. As one critic says, he embraced history in his music and relished in pushing the limits of virtuosity and musical language. The program opens with Naturale (1985) for viola and percussion, a work
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The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae) The Elovators | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Reggae)
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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Autumn Pool, Goddaughter, Smaxkult, International K.B. | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Ambient, Synth) Kitty and Wile Trio | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Jazz, Bossanova) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Varying Locations| Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule. Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz and Gospel Music) Son Little | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Singer-songwriter)
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Dino Losito, Brian Murphy, Terry Light | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | (Jazz) The Humble Beginnings Band | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | (Rock, Blues, Alt-country, Americana) lespecial, Harry Nichols | 9:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Death-funk, Dance)
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The Tarps | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Lynn Wiles | 6:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Marc W. Ryan | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | King Ferry Winery Treleaven Wines, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | Long John and the Tights | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, 45 E Main St, Trumansburg | (Old time, Folk) Austin MacRae | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville | City Limits | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (Funk, Blues, Rock) The Geronimo Line | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | The Westy, 516 W.
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The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Long Hard Ride | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (Country, Folk) St. Vith | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | (‘70s) Pages of Paul | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Two Goats Brewing,
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Midday Music for Organ | 12:30 PM-1:15 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Midday Music for Organ: David Yearsley, Dresden, September 1717: A Bach versus Marchand Tricentennial. Dapper Dan | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Ithaca Beer Co, 122 Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | Welcoming Dapper Dan, who will be playing funky jams in the Beer Garden. Come soak up some end of summer grooves & brews.
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The Suitcase Junket | 8:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Reminiscent
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9/23 Saturday
Christophe Mantoux | 5:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Avenue, Ithaca | Guest organist Christophe Mantoux presents virtuosic French masterworks, including music of Franck, Dupont, Wierne and Widor. Co-sponsored by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies in collaboration with Friends of Music at St. Luke.
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Claudia Schmidt (Bound for Glory) | Sunday, 9 24 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Claudia Schmidt, from Michigan,writes about
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Mary Ott Band | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Sunday, 9 24 | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Jazz) Grassanova | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, 9 24 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Sean Farley | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, 9 24 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Blues)
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Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, 9 26 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Irish Music Session | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Tuesday, 9 26 | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | (Hosted by members of Traonach) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, 9 26 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, 9 26 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv) Jason Tuori | 9:30 PM, Tuesday, 9 26 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Pop, Alternative)
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of Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. The New England native conjures a new sound from salvaged junkyard instruments. Anne Akiko Meyers: From The New World | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Anne Akiko Meyers performs Mason Bates energetic new violin concerto, which was commissioned for and premiered by her in 2012. Dvorak’s folk-inspired New World Symphony concludes
just about everything, with a wry sense of humor. Ensemble X | 3:00 PM, Sunday, 9 24 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Ensemble X, celebrating its 20th anniversary, present a Berio portrait concert, featuring Lucy Fitz Gibbon (soprano), Mike Compitello (percussion), and Kyle Armbrust (viola) performing Folk Songs, Naturale, Linea and other works by Italian composer Luciano Berio.
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Film Bronx Gothic | 7:15 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Filmmaker Rossi follows Okwui Okpokwasili (the daughter of Nigerian immigrants) on the final tour of her one-woman show Bronx Gothic about two 12 year-old Black girls coming of age in the 1980s, while dealing with sexual violence at home. Okpokwasili utilizes text, song, dance & comedy to create a tour de force. The Little Hours | 9:15 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | With Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza and Kate Micucci play a trio of bawdy nuns dealing with repressed convent life in this exceedingly profane comedy, based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 1353 work of short stories The Decameron. Also running 9:35 p.m. Friday, 9/22 and 7 p.m. Sunday, 9/24. 1 hr 30 min Thursday Movie Night & Intermission Trivia: Jaws | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Movie
starts at 7 p.m. with trivia for prizes during intermission. Strange Weather w/ filmmaker Katherine Dieckmann | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Still reeling from the suicide of her son seven years earlier, Darcy Bailor hits the road to settle scores with her son’s duplicitous business partner. More at brainmedia. net/films/strange-weather. 1 hr 32 min A Hard Day’s Night | 9:40 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Directed by Richard Lester, with John Lennon, Paul McCartney. More at janusfilms.com/ films/1615. 1 hr 27 min Office (3D) | 7:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Prolific director Johnnie To tells the intertwining stories of the employees of Jones & Sunn as the company approaches its IPO. 1 hr 59 min. A Gentleman | 5:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Bollywood’s summer action comedy follows a simple guy looking to settle down with his girl when he gets mixed up with some high-level criminals in a case of mistaken identity — or is it? Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 8:45 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects Laura Palmer, the Homecoming queen found wrapped in
plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the tumultuous last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Also running at 9 p.m. Sunday. 9/24. 2 hrs 15 min. Office (3D) | 4:30 PM-, Sunday, 9 24 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Prolific director Johnnie To tells the intertwining stories of the employees of Jones & Sunn as the company approaches its IPO. 1 hr 59 min. Hermia and Helena w/ filmmaker Matias Piñeiro | 7:00 PM-, Tuesday, 9 26 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Matías Pineiro continues his series of films based on Shakespeare’s heroines with this riff on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Argentinian Camila moves to NYC to work on a Spanish translation of the Dream, and finds herself experiencing a constellation of shifting relationships. 1 hr 27 min. Cinemapolis
Friday, 9/22 to Thursday, 9/28. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Beach Rats | An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online. | 95 mins R |
Brad’s Status | A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life’s choices. | 101 mins R | 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 | Sidemen: Long Road to Glory | Long Road To Glory is an intimate look at the incredible lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf sidemen. | 77 mins NR The Trip to Spain | Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a six-part episodic road trip through Spain, sampling the restaurants, eateries, and sights along the way. | 108 mins Much Ado About Nothing (2012) | A modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words. This screening is in partnership with Ithaca Shakespear company. | 109
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Wednesday, 9/20 , to Tuesday, 9/26. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes American Assassin | A story centered on counterterrorism agent Mitch Rapp.| 112 mins R The LEGO Ninjago Movie | Six young ninjas Lloyd, Jay, Kai, Cole, Zane and Nya are tasked with defending their island home, called Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors, using their skills and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy: high school. | 101 mins PG Kingsman: The Golden Circle | When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. These two elite secret organizations must band together to defeat a common enemy. | 141 mins R E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.| 115 mins | 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 |
Stage The Glass Menagerie | Wednesday, 9 20 | 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. Tony Porter (Red Flag Campaign) | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | The Red Flag Campaign is a community-level strategy designed to build bystander intervention skills and prevent sexual assault and dating violence at Ithaca College, sponsored by The Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs (OSEMA). Always ... Patsy Cline | Thursday, 9 21 | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877
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The History Center in Tompkins County, On exhibition from Saturday, Sept. 23 through Saturday, Nov. 4
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Ithaca native Christine Nobles Heller draws suffragists to honor those who fought for women’s rights throughout the history of New York State. This exhibition is also a response to the still-constant and ever-present attack on women in society. (Photo provided)
Filmmaker Katherine Dieckman returns to Ithaca for a screening of her latest film, Strange Weather. The screening at Cornell Cinema will also hold a discussion with Dieckman on the making of the film. (Photo provided )
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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 | 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 | 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 tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. | 121 mins R |
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E Lake Rd, Auburn | One of America’s biggest musical legends, Patsy Cline catapulted to fame and sold over 10 million records in her short but legendary musical career. Smart People | Thursday, 9 21 | 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. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) A Night of Comedy Covfefe | Friday, 9 22 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Featuring Madelein Smith, with special guest Brandie Posey. Beth Beer Cuddy | 8:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Local comedian Beth Beer Cuddy, alongside Madelein Smith and Kelsey Claire Hagen, performing A Night of Comedy Covfefe. The Caucasian Chalk Circle | 7:30 PM-11:59 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Avenue, Ithaca | The Caucasian Chalk Circle was written by 20th-century German modernist poet, playwright and theatre director Bertolt Brecht, amidst the mass upheaval and disruption of World War II. Pagliacci | Sunday, 9 24 | Circus Culture, 116 W Green St, Ithaca | Opera Ithaca’s September show: an Italian opera about a sad clown.
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Integrative Medicine Center, 301 W State St, Ithaca | Come and delve into your inner wisdom, join Evangeline Sarat in a meeting where we will explore The Work in a safe and beautiful setting. www.sacredive.com Pink Ribbon Party 2017 | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Friday, 9 22 | Island Health & Fitness, 310 Taughannock Blvd Ste 1, Ithaca | The Ithaca area Zumba instructors are holding their annual event. There will be dancing, prizes and food No dance experience is needed. All donations collected at the door will go to the Cancer Resource Center. Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, 9 23 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Psychic Fair/Flea-Market | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Temple Of Truth Church, 2 Cook St, Freeville | Rain or Shine! Outside Event. Must bring own tables and covers. This event is open to everyone who wants to be part of the show.
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Men’s Group Meeting | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | The Cortland LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. Soup-er Supper | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | The Salvation Army, 150 N. Albany St., Ithaca | The Salvation Army women’s Auxiliary Annual Fund Raiser, Soup-er Supper & Silent Auction. Soup, salad, beverage, dessert. Meeting in The Work Byron Katie | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Friday, 9 22 |
Jukebox the Ghost will be performing at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, at The Haunt. The band has been together for about a decade, bringing eclectic pop and and foot-tapping rock rhythms. (Photo provided)
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PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, 9 26 | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, 115 W. Clinton St., Ithaca | Home Buyer U will host a workshop on how to buy a home.
Special Events The Auburn BlueJazz Festival | Saturday, 9 23 | Falcon Park, N Division St, Auburn | The Auburn Doubledays and APT present the first ever Auburn BlueJazz Festival. Main Street Dryden Day & Grand Reopening of Arnold’s Florist | Saturday, 9 23 | Main St, Main St, Dryden | There will be raffles and other goodies. Third Annual Boat Auction | 9:00 AM, Saturday, 9 23 | Finger Lakes Boating Museum, 8214 Pleasant Valley Rd, Hammondsport | Have a boat to donate to the Museum for the auction or a boat you would like to include in the auction on on consignment? Contact the Museum at 607-569-2222 or info@flbm.org. Danby Fun Day | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Danby Volunteer Fire Company, 1780 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Part of an annual celebration. The event will feature a parade, two music venues
Lisa Harris Reading and Book Signing, Buffalo Street Books, Thursday, Sept. 21, 5:30 p.m.
Local author Lisa Harris will hold a reading of her newest book, The Raven’s Tale. This novel is the finale of her trilogy that tells the stories of women finding themselves through time, space, history and culture. Just after the reading, Harris will hold a book signing. (Photo provided)
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(acoustic and amplified) showcasing local musicians. Ithaca Dog Fest 2017 | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Cass Park Pavilion, Rte 89, Ithaca | Benefiting local rescues and shelters, who will be on hand with dogs. Local food, crafts, gifts for people and dogs, services for dog lovers. National Alpaca Farm Days at Shepherd’s Creek Alpacas | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Shepherd’s Creek Alpacas, 5797 Stillwell Rd, Trumansburg | National Alpaca Farm Days provide an opportunity for the public to come meet alpacas and learn more about these inquisitive, unique animals and the luxury fiber they produce. Whingblinger Heritage Festival | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | 73 W Pulteney St, 73 W Pulteney St, Corning | The village comes to life with traditional demonstrators: hearth cooking, blacksmithing, pottery, basket making and more. The Enfield Harvest Festival | 11:00 AM-3:30 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Enfield Elementary, Rt. 327, Enfield | Chicken BBQ, children’s games, music by Under Construction, cake wheel, silent auction, music, fire trucks, vendors, info booths, hay ride. This is a fundraising event for Enfield’s youth programming. Galaxy Brewing Cornhole Tournament | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | Come out to the Boathouse and sign your team up for the Cornhole tournament. There will be runner-up prizes and specials on Galaxy beer and other beers. Porchfest | Sunday, 9 24 | N Aurora Street, N Aurora Street, Ithaca | Local musicians in Fall Creek and Northside will jam out all day on their porches.
Books Lisa Harris | 5:30 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Signing and reading from her new book The Raven’s Tale. Linda Shields and Jerry Acton | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | River Row Bookshop, 187 Front St, Owego | Author Linda Shields will be at the bookshop to talk about her book Memories of Bill Lawrence. Nature photographer Jerry Acton will be at the bookshop to share information about his bird and animal photography. Chen Chen & Eric Berlin | 6:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Buffalo
Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Signing and reading from Chen’s new book of poetry When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. Shawn Goodman | 2:00 PM, Sunday, 9 24 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Author Shawn Goodman will speak on How Reading Fiction Soothes Teen Angst at a Readings on Mental Health event.
Learning Girls Who Code | Wednesday, 9 20 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The 10 week club is designed for girls in grades 6-12. Richard Kiely | 12:15 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Rotarian Richard Kiely and the annual Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) student presentations. Part of the Rotary Club Luncheon series. Energy Snacks - Food Demo | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Sample and learn how to make Maca Nut Butter Balls with Andrea Rennie, certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. Think it Might be a Stroke? Why it’s important to act F*A*S*T! | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Cayuga Wellness Center, 3rd Floor, 310 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | A presentation offering valuable information about stroke signs and symptoms. Older Adult Workshops | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | 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. American Sign Language Class | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | For more info, or to receive registration form by email, contact@fliconline.org, 272-2433. What’s Under the Lake? | 7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Finger Lakes Boating Museum, 8214 Pleasant Valley Rd, Hammondsport | Joe Luppino, a diver from the region, will talk about the interesting discoveries he has made beneath the surface of Keuka Lake. Singing Workshop with Sean Linfors | 10:00 AM-12:30 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | Sean Linfors, Ph.D, a professor at Ithaca College, will teach a singing workshop.
Porchfest,
Northside and Fall Creek Neighborhoods of Ithaca, Sunday, Sept. 24 Local musicians will jam out for Ithacans right in their front yards — literally. Dozens of musicians will gather on their porches and jam in all forms of genres. Porchfest has been a tradition in Ithaca since 2007, and the celebration has even extended to other citites throughout the country. (Photo: Steffen Holl)
Basic Blues Guitar Workshop | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | 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. Roundtable on Governance, Law, and Development: The World Development Report 2017 | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, 9 25 | RhodesRawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave, Ithaca | Keynote: Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva, Co-director, World Development Report 2017, Manager, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, The World Bank Stress-Busting Herbs and ImmuneBoosting Superfoods! | 8:30 PM, Monday, 9 25 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to include superfoods into your daily life with Jessica Weston, author of Healing Tonics, Juices, & Smoothies: 100+ Elixirs to Nurture Body and Soul.
Health The Dragon’s Way | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 9/20 Wednesday | 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, 9/23 Saturday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, 9/24 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm.
Science Nectar and Pollen Resources at Landscape Scales: Can They Help Us Predict Pollinator Abundance? | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | They hope to provide an improved understanding of what limits bees in agricultural landscapes and thus to improve our attempts at bee conservation and increase pollination services on farms. Tree Phenology Walk Series | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, 9 21 | Cayuga
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orn out of a high school dream, Black Mountain Symphony will take the stage at The Range this week after producing eclectic melodies for nearly 12 years. Black Mountain Symphony is made up of band members with diverse musical backgrounds and disciplines. Founders Bear and Annie Campo, a brother-and-sister duo, began the group in high school. With Annie classically trained on the violin and Bear classically trained on the piano, the siblings had the opportunity to pursue a classical route in the music world — but they chose the nomad life of a band instead. Charlie Burgess, who plays guitar and the Native American flute for the band (in addition to providing vocals), said Black Mountain Symphony crafts its pieces with such grace because of its members with classical, heavy metal and folk backgrounds. Without the merge
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. Rain or shine, we will monitor when buds break, leaves emerge, flowers bloom, fruits ripen, and when leaves change color and fall. Honeybees and Beekeeping | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, 9 21 | Appleridge, 168 Miller St., Horseheads | Chemung Valley Audubon begins its fall programming with Honeybees and Beekeeping by John Slechta. The art of beekeeping is practiced worldwide at dates back thousands of years. It is represented in art and artifacts from ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East. Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, 9 21 | The Sciencenter, Ithaca | Join us at 7 pm for special presentations and performances by the Ithaca Asian American Association, Cornell Lion Dance, and the Cornell Wushu Club.
Black Mountain Symphony will rock The Range this Friday with an ecelectic blend of music as well as influences. (Photo prpvided) of different styles, Black Mountain Symphony would not be able to perform at the wide range it does. “We have all these different influences, and we like all different kinds of music,” Burgess said. “The practice is somebody comes to the table with an idea — maybe it’s lyrics, maybe it’s a set of chords — and we sort of come together and flesh the whole thing out and fill it in as a group. Everybody writes individu-
White Hawk Ecovillage Equinox Celebration | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | White Hawk Ecovillage, 2 White Hawk Ln, Ithaca | Join your neighbors here at White Hawk Ecovillage for live music by local musicians Travis Knapp and Mike Early, potluck dinner (please bring your own place settings and a dish to pass), and nature-based children’s activities. For more information, you can find us at www.whitehawkecovillage.org and click on Gatherings. Garden Tours | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Sunday, 9 24 | 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.
Art Paint Nite | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 20 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |
ally, but we also write collectively.” The harmonic merges of style didn’t come quickly to the group. With the pressure to stick to one style and genre, Black Mountain Symphony wavered between being one band or another, but after finding the right groove, the band now rejects a clear-cut style. The group labels its music as “progressive folk,” but each song and performance takes its listeners on a trek through styles.
Reverence | Friday, 9 22 | 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 22 | 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. Ivy Stevens-Gupta: COLOR CHEMISTRY |Saturday, 9 23 | 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. Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings | Saturday, 9 23 | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | More than sixty impressions from across Rembrandt’s
“We like it all, and we want to play it all,” Burgess said. “When we first started, the jam bands thought we were too poppy and the punk scene thought we were too jammy. There was a little bit of an identity crisis for a little while ... I don’t know if tastes have changed or whatever, people seem to respond to taking a journey through these different genres interpreted in a contemporary way.” •
oeuvre will show the artist’s process, including how he made changes to his plates and detail his use of a variety of printing supports. Works from the collections of Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Syracuse and Yale Universities, Oberlin and Vassar Colleges, the University of Kansas, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections will feature subject matter ranging from portraits and self-portraits to genre scenes, religious narratives, landscapes, study plates and academic nude studies. New York State Suffragists: Drawing and Lithographs Celebrating the 2017 Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday, 9 23 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Visit The History Center to explore the new exhibition New York State Suffragists: Drawing and Lithographs Celebrating the 2017 Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State by Ithaca native Christine Nobles Heller. Memento Obliterari | Sunday, 9 24 | Gimme Coffee, 438 W State St, Ithaca | Using hyperrealistic yet
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Founders Day Concert in the Park,
Cass Park, Saturday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m. through 2 p.m.
Dewitt Park, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2-3:30 p.m.
A celebration of man’s best friend in Cass Park. Canine resource groups will gather for the festival, including recue groups with adopters. Dog owners are invited to bring their pets to play, and dog lover’s who don’t have dogs are also invited to spend time with the pups. (Photo provided)
An open-air performance by Ithaca College’s wind ensemble will continue the tradition of the annual Founder’s Day concert in the park. This year’s concert is titled “Basically British,” showcasing titles such as Arthur Sullivan’s Pineapple Poll. (Photo provided)
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Since 1984 802 W. Seneca St. Ithaca 607-272-1711 fax: 607-272-3102 www.fingerlakeselectric.com
(607) 272-6547 950 Danby Rd., Suite 26
South Hill Business Campus, Ithaca, NY
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for Hospicare - Full time 35 hours/week. Monday through Friday - Full benefits. Apply https://www.hospicare.org/ careers or call HR 607-272-0212
The City of Ithaca
is accepting applications for the following: Light Equipment Operator: Currently, there is one vacancy in DPW. Min Quals: Valid Class B License. Salary: $17.57/hour. Deadline: 9/27/17 Pathfinders Program Assistant: Currently, there is one vacancy in Ithaca Youth Bureau. Hours: Mon-Fri, 1pm-6pm. Salary: $14.63/hr. Fall/Winter Employment: Various positions open with Ithaca Youth Bureau. Visit website for more info. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850, (607)274-6539 www. cityofithaca.com The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.
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Holliston, MA needs 1 temporary worker 9/25/2017 to 12/19/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of the 15 days or 50% of the work contract . Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants apply at: Employment & Training 201 Boston Post Rd., Suite 200. Marlborough MA 01752 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #9257363. General farm work on a diversified farm, including but not limited to planting, harvesting, and processing fruits and vegetables. Clearing land, cleaning fruits and vegetables, felling trees, burning brush, picking stones, splitting wod, some poultry work. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, hoe,one month experience in duties listed.
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Oil painting by William Deats, Padma, Center for Natural therapies, 114 West Buffalo St., Ithaca, NY September and October 2017. Opening Reception Friday, Oct., 6, 5-8. williamdeats@gmail. com607-227-0988 WWW.billdeats.com
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Headlines: 9-point headlines (use up to 16 characters) $2.00 per line. If bold type, centered or unusually spaced type, borders in ad, or logos in ads are requested, the ad will be charged at the display classified advertising rate. Call 277-7000 for rate information.
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Internet: www.ithaca.com Mail: Ithaca Times Classified Dept PO Box 27 Ithaca NY 14850 In Person: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm 109 North Cayuga Street
Phone: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm Fax: 277-1012 (24 Hrs Daily)
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adoptions
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Near Commons
Available Now Downtown 1 Bedroom in Historic Building. Intercom/Security/DW. Carpeted, Furnished, Bus near by. Heat Included. Carol, CSP Management, 277-6961. CSP Management.com
607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance,
spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning,
patios, retaining walls, + walkways, land-
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at Hillcrest and Warren Rds. in Lansing. Convenient Storage, no hassles. Call 607-277-6961
Vocalist/Musician
I am looking to join or start a band. I am an experienced singer in mostly Country and Rock & Roll! I live in Ithaca. Please contact me at 607-262-1818 or even text me. Butch Perfetti
We Clean
Houses, Apts. and work in gardens ready when you are low rates. Call (607)214-5052, (607)988-8891
Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!
Handy Man
Stone Walls, Walks, Repointing,
Gardens, Weeds, Carpentry, George: 793-4312 - Save Number!
Saw it Coming
lumber from your very own logs. Visit
Experienced CPA and CGMA
with 26 years of tax, financial planning, accounting, auditing, management and business advisor skills with small business, large corporation and non-profit expertise. For a free consultation, please call Patrick Heise at 607-342-7746 or email Heise725@hotmail.com. Fees are based on a sliding scale.
us today at sawitcoming.net or call 607-220-7242
Tractor Trailer Training Classes
Forming Now. If qualified train daily or weekend. Financial Aid, Pell Grants, Post 9/11 GI Bill, Job Placement As-
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DONATE YOUR CAR
Wheels For Wishes
PAY THE BALANCE OWED ONLY!!! AMERICAN LOG HOMES IS ASSISTING FINAL RELEASE OF ESTATE & ACCOUNT SETTLEMENT ON HOUSES.
2)Model # 303 Little Rock $38,525…BALANCE OWED $15,000 3)Model # 403 Augusta $42,450…BALANCE OWED $16,500
*Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *Fully Tax Deductible
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1)Model # 101 Carolina $40,840…BALANCE OWED $17,000
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Brush Hogging
Clear that field or trail to get outside and explore your world. Visit Sawitcoming. net or call 607-220-7242
services
scape design + installation. Drainage.
Benefiting
Lower Collegetown
1 Bedroom, Fall Occupancy, Furnished, Spacious, Large Rooms, Hardwood Floor, Quiet Building, eat Included, Reasonable Rent, Walk to Central Campus or Downtown, Available August 1st. CSP Management, 2776961. CSPManagement.com
Four Seasons Landscaping Inc.
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Portable sawmill service, making usable
that college application essay - coaching help available. Call 607-273-6656, email: Kaminskytutoring.com
at Skin Studio located in Community Corners. Beautiful large new construction room with sink, closet and hardwood floors. Perfect for a therapist or any occupation that requires a quiet and clean space. Shared waiting room, utilities included. $400 per month. Serious inquires only. 315-404-7370
services
NEW - HOMES HAVE NOT BEEN MANUFACTURED
Call: (315) 400-0797
• Make any plan design changes you desire! • Comes with Complete Building Blueprints & Construction Manual • Windows, Doors, and Roofing not included • NO TIME LIMIT FOR DELIVERY! BBB A+ Rating
* Car Donation Foundation d/b/a Wheels For Wishes. To learn more about our programs or financial information, visit www.wheelsforwishes.org.
Mimi’s
Attic
607-273-9392 Westend 607-273-8210 DeWitt
VINTAGE, MODERN & EVERYDAY ITEMS
Previously-enjoyed Furniture, Housewares & Home Decor • New stock 7 days/week mimisatticithaca.com (607) 882-9038
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Affordable Acupuncture
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Independence Cleaners Corp RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet High Dusting * Windows/Awnings 24/7 CLEANING Services 607-227-3025
It’s Your Funeral Will it be What You Want?
Tokyo
Full range of effective care for a full range of human ailments
722 S. Meadow (near Tops)
Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture
607-277-8888
Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A. www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com
2017 Readathon
607-272-0114
Get unbiased funeral planning information and price comparisons from Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Finger Lakes www.fingerlakesfunerals.org 273-8316 info@fingerlakesfunerals.org
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LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES PUNK REGGAE ETC Angry Mom Records 115 The Commons Basement 319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com
Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!
Read out loud in support of Literacy & Learning Sat. Sept. 23 to Sun. Sept. 24 Register at www.tcplfoundation.org/readathon
4 Seasons Landscaping Inc. 607-272-1504 lawn maintenance spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning landscape design + installation
Close-out Sale on
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Yamaha Receivers, Built-in WiFi Internet Radio, Pandora, Blue-tooth Stellar Stereo 272-2644
snow removal dumpster rentals Find us on Facebook!
Luna offers $5.00 OFF (minimum order $20.) with Greenback Coupon 310 Stewart Ave / 113 N. Aurora 256-5862, 269-6139
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222 Elmira Rd. 254-2432
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
AAM ALL ABOUT MACS Macintosh Consulting http://www.allaboutmacs.com (607) 280-4729
Relieve sore muscles and nourish YOU Learn massage ball rolling techniques.
ROLL, RESET & RESTORE Saturday, Sept. 30 / 2:30-3:45pm
MIGHTY YOGA Voted Best of Ithaca Visit www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682
Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair. Same Day Service Available
John’s Tailor Shop
Papa John’s Ithaca’s Favorite Pizza
308 E. Seneca / 206B Dryden Rd.
accepts Greenback Coupons Please note the coupon for 2 medium Cheese or 1 topping Pizzas should read $6.99 EACH Visit us at 13N & Third St. 273-7272
Lively Run Dairy.
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Ithaca RV Rental 315-406-0644 Save 10% on Total Check with Greenback Coupon at
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John Serferlis - Tailor 102 The Commons 273-3192
Free Trial Session
DiBella’s Subs
Les - 607-272-9175
Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years
Do you feel a call to inner transformation? Explore The Work of Byron Katie with Evangeline
$5.00 off any purchase
Protect Your Home with a Camera Surveillance System Latest Technology. Affordable
Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care! www.cayugadogrescue.org www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue
“CLEAR IT OUT” Basements, Barns, Garages & etc. Reliable and Affordable Richard F. Vogt Call 387-4190 water1945@live.com
patios, retaining walls, + walkways
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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Yoga Farm Sacred Sundays: Free Yoga & Meditation Weekly Private Lessons & Educational Courses FIRST YOGA CLASS FREE www.YogaFarm.us - 280-2010
LOCATED 15.4 miles
from GREENSTAR