Archive: Arts & Entertainment

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This Shakespearean classic is re-imagined as six professional actors  performing multiple roles weave music, movement, and text in and out of a Native American Drum Circle. The Tempest marks The Red House's 4th season of bringing family-friendly and highly accessible Shakespeare to Upstate New York. Our traveling performances have captivated audiences young and old.

Last years Romeo & Juliet reached over 3,000 people across CNY and the Adirondacks! This innovative 70 minute production transforms Auburn Public Theater into a magical theatrical event.

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The History Center in Tompkins County will unveil its new exhibition on postcards and ephemera from their permanent collection from July 6th to September 29th, 2012, with an Opening Night on Friday, July 6th, 5 to 8pm.

Various areas of Tompkins County, particularly Cayuga Lake, Taughannock Falls, Buttermilk Falls and Cornell University, will be explored through the display of over 500 postcards and ephemeral items - such as hotel brochures, photographs and textiles - which evoke a sense of place, nostalgia and recognition for the allure of Tompkins County.

SMART TALK

by Dr. Dot Pilcrow


PROPHECY/PROPHESY: Last Sunday, I attended Mass at Holy Mother of Retribution in Los Libidos. I usually go to Our Lady of Loving Disapproval right here in Underbelly, but I took the weekend to visit my new granddaughter.

The liturgist drove me crazy with her reading of the dry bones story in Ezekiel, in which the prophet is ordered to prophesy to the bones. That verb came up several times, and the reader always pronounced it like prophecy.

Prophesy is the verb, and it's pronounced PRAH-feh-sigh. Prophecy is the noun, and it's pronounced PRAH-feh-see.

I was surprised to hear the nice lady mispronounce the word in a college town, but at least she was consistent. A short course of treatment here at the Center for English as a First Language would fix her right up.

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Next month, cellist Matt Haimovitz and his all-cello ensemble – Uccello – embark on a four-city North American tour, playing Toronto (June 6), Buffalo (June 7), Ithaca (June 8-9), and New York City (June 10). Haimovitz and Uccello’s 2010 Oxingale album, Meeting of the Spirits – which contains arrangements of jazz compositions by the likes of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Billy Strayhorn, and John McLaughlin – was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album.

All About Jazz said of the album: “Meeting of the Spirits is a captivating recording from start to finish…a work of great beauty. It succeeds in highlighting the common threads of ingenuity, power, and lyricism that run through these compositions regardless of age or genre.”

Lansing High School art department announced the opening of digital grad gallery.  The gallery can be found on the school Web site (Click Here).  Currently seven artists are showing their work.   The site features short bios, five images and links to the artists' professional websites.

Featured are Lansing local Danielle Cook Gerritsen, a 2000 LHS grad who is a wedding, events and portrait photographer.  James Wolf Strehle, 2002 LHS grad, is an internationally known artist working in the entertainment industry as a concept artist/Illustrator. He currently lives in Seattle WA and works for Volta Creations where he has the opportunity to produce artwork for some of the largest games in the industry.  Chris Mallinson, 2005, Claire Eckstrom, 2007 and James McDonough, 2008 all are graphic designers who work in advertising, magazine, web and print design.  Two former students Lydia Shea, 2011 and Mau Streb, 2011, are in college now pursing careers in the visual arts.

A new gallery space at Lansing High School was initiated with an exhibit of 'Clouds', a collaboration of  LHS art students.  The work was inspired by work of  contemporary artist Mark Fox.

"This work was inspired by two events that I experienced at Cornell," says art teacher Patricia Brown.  "The first was the wonderful workshop with artist Lily Yeh on creating collaborative community based art.  The second was at the Johnson Art Museum where the Mark Fox hanging paper sculpture "Untitled (Stingray)"caught my eye.  After the students heard Lily Yeh speak they began to invision their art work being more visible in the building."

SMART TALK

by Dr. Ced Riley


NOOKS AND CRANNIES: At the Center for English as a First Language, we love to hoot at this phrase on the English muffin packages. It's much like saying "in this day and age," not quite synonyms, but close enough to feel uncomfortably redundant to us. After all, we fight linguistic misdemeanors such as redundancies for a living.

We get exercised over the brand name, too. Thomas' is supposedly pronounced with three syllables; so apparently, an apostrophe has a pronunciation. Right. So how does a comma sound?

Here in Underbelly, Texas, both Smith Elementary and Wesson High Schools repeatedly teach that you indicate possession with an apostrophe and an S. We always have exceptions, but that's the rule. Simple. An apostrophe hanging out there by itself is considered a single quotations mark, and an error.

So it's Thomas's. Always. No exceptions. A final S on a word doesn't change the rule. As with Jesus's stories, you folks's seats, and Thomas's English Muffins, you need that extra S, because that's how you say it. Why make it more complicated?

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Laurie Raba's new show My Mother's Jewels opens in the Gallery @ FOUND on Wednesday, June 20th. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, June 21st from 5-7pm. Refreshments will be served and FOUND will remain open for a little after-hours shopping!

My Mother's Jewels is a departure for the Ithaca area photographer, whose work has primarily been of landscapes and botanical scenes. The idea for this new series began with her desire to photograph treasured pieces of jewelry handed down to her from her mother – a ring that she designed from stones that her father had collected while overseas and a cameo necklace that her mother had passed down to her.

Broadway is setting up shop at the Hangar theatre this summer.  Casting for the 38th season of the Central New York theatre features an exciting array of talent from the Great White Way.  Broadway luminaries Andréa Burns, Robert Cuccioli, Janet Dacal, Chris Hoch, Dee Hoty, Michael McCormick, and Emily Skinner will all trod the boards in Ithaca this summer as part of the five show season.

Michael McCormick (Elf, Curtains, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Janet Dacal (Wonderland, In the Heights) and the Tony nominated Emily Skinner (Side Show, Billy Elliott and the Hangar’s Dirty Blonde) will headline the season opener, Ken Ludwig’s knock-down, drag it out farce, Lend Me A Tenor (June 21-July 7).  The rest of the cast includes Daniel Berlingeri, Lindsay Clemmons, Eddie Vona, and Judy Levitt.  Hangar Artistic Director Peter Flynn will direct.