14850 Magazine: October 2001
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Cover Story: First Flight
by Mark H. Anbinder
It's been almost a month, but this is my first opportunity to fly since September 11th. As people started talking, that day, about never being comfortable flying again, I knew I would fly -- and like it -- again. Flying has just been, for too long, a part of my life. As long as I can remember, I've flown with my parents, on family vacations frugally and conveniently attached to business trips, and even without them.
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An Evening -- no, a NIGHT -- with Kevin Smith
by Michelle Mogil
To document an evening with the man known to most casual film fans as "Silent Bob" is no easy task, and I wasn't sure I was up to it. I'm not, after all, nearly as rabid a fan as most of the three or four hundred students who were already camped out on the steps of Cornell's Bailey Hall at 6:50 on this chilly October evening. Don't get me wrong: I'm a huge fan. But I haven't memorized every scrap of dialogue from every film the man's made, which is what seemed to be the primary content of the conversations swirling amongst this crowd.
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14850 Music: Tanglefoot named Best of Bound for Glory
by Alan Rose
At the October 14, 2001 edition of WVBR's Bound for Glory, host and founder Phil Shapiro announced that the Ontario-based folk quintet Tanglefoot has won the Third Annual Best of Bound for Glory Award. The award recognizes the fans' favorite from the recently concluded 34th season of Bound for Glory, a Sunday night staple on WVBR-FM, and North America's longest running live folk concert broadcast. The winner was chosen by members of the Friends of Bound for Glory, a non-profit organization set up by fans in 1996 to raise money for and awareness of the program. This year's recipient of the Best of Bound for Glory Award joins past honorees Mustard's Retreat and Small Potatoes.
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14850 Dining: Lost Dog worth the wait
Downtown Ithaca's Lost Dog Cafe, which just opened this fall, was in the works for so long, and was originally to open so long ago, that it's in last fall's phone book. After such delays as a contractor absconding with a deposit and the now-expected shenanigans from the City of Ithaca Building Department, an Ithaca incarnation of the legendary Binghamton hangout is finally open.
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A Letter from Barbara Blanchard
Barbara Blanchard, a member of the Tompkins County Board of Representatives since 1994, writes to endorse a fellow West Hill candidate, and to talk about being an Independent.
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A Letter from Sean Killeen
Sean Killeen, a veteran of many years' service on Ithaca's Common Council himself, writes to endorse Gossa Tsegaye for the Second Ward seat.
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A Letter from James P. Meyer
Tompkins County Democratic Committeeman James P. Meyer expresses his concern about what he calls "stealth candidates" on the Democratic line.
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