Archive: Arts & Entertainment

15 artists at 13 studios from the Greater Ithaca Art Trail will open their studios to visitors on the weekend of November 29 & November 30, 11am to 5pm each day for a free event.

Usually, the Art Trail has only two Open Studio weekends in October when all 49 studios open simultaneously.  This is the first special weekend where a portion of the studios will be open simultaneously.

Ithaca, NY - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad perform at Castaways November 25th.  The sextet will have just returned home from a two-month fall US tour, including 12 west coast dates, and three weeks in the southeast.  G.P.G.D.S. has a new album coming out this winter. 

Giant Panda played 180 shows in 2007, including a three-week stint in Jamaica.  In November they performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), to a crowd of 2,000 people.  Thanks to their aggressive touring schedule and dynamic sound, G.P.G.D.S. has developed an extensive following.

ITHACA, NY -- Kick off December with a playful and entertaining evening of dance and music as Zig Zag debuts at the Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts December 4-6. This all-original dance theatre concert will feature eight works choreographed by Cornell students that include two live improvisational pieces and two solos in mixed styles.

"This fall's dance theatre concert promises to be an entertaining mix of movement and musical styles ranging from a Piazolla tango to a piece by Andre 3000 from the group 'Outcast.' The concert is called Zig Zag because it includes a 'lil of this and a 'lil of that-- solos, duets and larger group works, and, of course, the dancing will be playfully delightful with just the right bit of provocation," said Concert Director Jim Self, Senior Dance Lecturer.

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
by Dr. Verbos Metikulos

RESTAURANTEUR:  Here at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we have one or two extreme linguistic liberals on staff who tolerate this spelling.  However, being strong supporters of EFL (English as a First Language), they never advocate it.

Restaurateur may someday be replaced by restauranteur, but only when nuclear is replaced by nucular.  Both usages betray a lack of observation, hearing, thinking skill, class, or all of the above.

Yes, we say "restaurant," but restaurateur, a French word, is easier to remember when you look it up and learn that a restaurant is a place of restoration.  That's the idea the word came from.  The operator of such an establishment was called a restaurateur, or restorator.  Why not simply "restorer?"  Well, not only do the French like to fluff up their words with extra letters, but they also like extra syllables.  We Greeks would never be so wasteful.

So the word for restorer was restaurateur, and so it remains.

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The Ithaca Community Orchestra (ICO) will bring 2008 to a close with the grace, joy, and passion that can only come from a group of musicians performing for the pure beauty of the piece. On Sunday, December 7th, don't miss the ICO's performance of Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture "Die Hebriden," Op.26, Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto in F Major, Op. 102, and Schubert's Sixth Symphony in C Major, D 589.

The featured soloist for this year's concert is Cornell professor and pianist Graeme Bailey, a performer with an overwhelming array of classical music experience. Cayenna Ponchione will lead the ICO as music director, with help from assistant conductor Bryan Lilley. The performance, funded in part by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, will take place at the First Baptist Church in Dewitt Park in downtown Ithaca on Dec. 7th at 4pm.

Aurora, New York - Wells College will bring Isaac Kwasi Anim and the Wassa Afrika Dance Ensemble to campus on Friday, November 21. The performance will take place in Macmillan Hall's Phipps Auditorium at 7:30 pm. Prices are $10 for the general public, $5 for students, senior citizens and the Wells College community; free for Wells students with ID. Tickets may be purchased at the door the night of the performance.

Begun in Ghana and now based in Rochester, NY, the Wassa Afrika Dance Ensemble tours internationally and has grown to include, at times, up to 35 dancers who present traditional indigenous Ghanian music and dances. They have participated in Ghana's National Festival of Arts, and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Confederation of African Football's Cup of Nations soccer tournament co-hosted by Nigeria and Ghana.

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SMART TALK
by Clara Dix

AMOUNT OF:  Mary Bleeker came all the way from Wisconsin for a weekend at Warriner House, the the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired in Underbelly, Texas.  She got a ten percent discount for offering this sentence to treat patients for:  "The amount of people attending the meeting was less than last time."

Maybe the amount of coffee was less, but the number of people was smaller. 

Ms Bleeker's contribution is a compound example of the less/fewer strain of cerebroporosis.  The confusion of "amount" and "number" is less common but just as serious as using "less" instead of "fewer," but her sentence handily demonstrates that the impairment is about numbers, or their absence.

If your subject can be counted, it involves numbers, not amounts, which are always fewer, not less.  Is that clear?

I suppose, however, now that a sitting President and a Vice Presidential candidate of the same party have almost made linguistic impairment patriotic, I should ask, "Is that cular?"

After all, they think the "clear" in "nuclear" is pronounced "cular," so cularly, we should be consistent.  That way, we'd make less mistakes.

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The Lansing Middle School will perform the musical "Annie Jr." this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 6th, 7th and 8th. The cast of 5th through 8th graders number 125. The story about Annie (Megan Hall-Ruquet), a little orphan girl, who having been sent to the orphanage by her parents, wins the heart of billionaire philanthropist Oliver Warbucks (Richard McDonough).

Annie and the 85 orphans have to endure the repressive control of Miss Hannigan (Mikayla Berry) in the orphanage. They finally get to celebrate with Annie when Miss Hannigan and her trickster sidekicks, Lilly (Halle Knowles) and Rooster (Yusong Liu) are carted off to jail for impersonating Annie's parents. With the able help of Oliver Warbucks personal secretary Grace (Keara Lowenhar) the fraud is revealed.