Archive: Arts & Entertainment

The Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport is hosting its first annual juried art show. Frank Robinson, the Director of Cornell’s Johnson Art Museum, Brett Bossard, Director of the Community Arts Partnership, and Barbara Mink, the Artistic Director of Light in Winter, will be judging the show.

The first place prize will be a $500 travel voucher good for flying out of ITH. The 2nd prize will be a $250 travel voucher and all other participants whose work is picked will receive one-time long term parking vouchers good for $25.

On Sunday, May 9, the Ithaca Community Orchestra (ICO) will present its spring concert entitled “Words of Sound,” a program highlighting the powerful combination of music and literature.  As the culminating event of the 2010 Finger Lakes Literary Festival, this year’s concert includes three pieces created to explore the themes of three different poems. 

Ithaca area poets and composers, as well as both vocal and instrumental soloists, chorus, and orchestra, will be featured.  This event will happen at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church at 4pm in Ithaca, New York, and was funded with grant support from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Sotto Voce

ELECTED BY THE VOTERS:  During political campaigns, staff morale temporarily plummets at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired.  We hear so much impaired speech from candidates and their supporters that we wonder why we fight the good fight.

But then, someone like Dr. Weiss N. Heimer or Dr. Ced Riley reminds us of how dopey and funny they sound, and we start to feel entertained.  We sit in the Fowler Lounge and keep score, howling in derision, and advocate voting for the candidates most fluent in English.  A solid, conservative criterion acceptable here in Texas.

Not only does a political movement label themselves with a pornographic term - and I'll bet most of them don't drink tea - but slightly brighter lights get very officious with such redundancies as present incumbent and hostile antagonist.  They promise to make it their official business to conduct a thorough investigation, but they most want to get elected by the voters.  As if anyone else were being counted.

We once heard a little old lady claim, "I never vote.  It only encourages them."

We vote anyway, as we hope you do, as well.

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The Cornell Department of Theatre, Film & Dance will host with University Lectures the April visit of performance artist and comedian Marga Gomez. Gomez will present "Long Island Iced Latina" on Thursday, April 22 at 4:30 pm in the Schwartz Center's Class of '56 Flexible Theatre. This performance is free and open to the public. This performance is also supported by the Cornell Council for the Arts and the Latina/o Graduate Student Coalition.

On Wednesday, April 21, Wells College will host a performance by Chicago City Limits. The improvisational comedy troupe has been featured on HBO, Comedy Central, The Today Show and The McLaughlin Group, as well as venues ranging from the Smithsonian Institution to the Super Bowl. Their performance, sponsored by the Wells College Arts and Lecture Series, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Phipps Auditorium of Macmillan Hall on the Wells College campus.

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Will S. Sert

DUPLICATE COPY:  Friday evenings after work, much of the staff of the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired likes to relax in the Fowler Lounge.  I'm often a designated driver, as my drink of choice is sarsaparilla.

As the imbibing progresses, we often let off steam with rude jokes about the habits of our patients, such as a common anal-compulsive habit in describing duplication with redundancy.

They may say duplicate copy, exact duplicate, exact replica, exactly identical, or exactly the same.  Just what part of copy, duplicate, replica, identical, and same implies that any subsequent item is different from the original?

Using Xerox copy as a generic term is illegal use of a registered trademark and therefore a different problem.

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Amelia Raitt Payne

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL:  As staff physician at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I've learned that that redundancies can actually be dangerous to your health.

Many drinkers, perhaps especially daily drinkers and binge drinkers, like to refer to drugs and alcohol, which implies that alcohol isn't a drug.  Just whom do they think they're kidding?

Alcohol is one of our most dangerous drugs.  If it weren't so popular among the powerful, the fact that it's the number one crime- and death-causing drug would prove to them that the so-called War on Drugs was pathetically naïve.

I urge my patients to try to remember to say alcohol and other drugs of just drugs.

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Mendon, NY -- This year’s Finger Lakes International Wine Competition included a record-setting 3010 entries from 666 Wineries, including 105 New York State Wineries, representing all 50 states, 15 foreign countries and 9 Canadian Provinces. 

The 10th Annual Finger Lakes International Wine Competition was held Saturday & Sunday, March 27 & 28, 2010 at the Rochester Plaza Hotel.  Fifty-six world-renowned Wine Judges from 10 states and 10 countries evaluated the entries and awarded Bronze, Silver, Gold and the unanimous Double Gold Medals.

The Kitchen Theatre Company’s KITCHEN COUNTER CULTURE series, featuring extraordinary solo performances by guest artists from around the country, concludes in April with internationally acclaimed solo performer Tim Miller. He will be performing his newest piece, LAY OF THE LAND, for three performances only: April 1, 2, & 3 (see calendar below).

LAY OF THE LAND is Miller's saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Union during a time of trial. Careening from his sexy on-the-road misadventures, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, LAY OF THE LAND subversively exposes the truths of gay life as one of being on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu.