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Interactive art show at Gimme! Coffee this month makes the viewer the artist

This month's art show at the Gimme! Coffee in Ithaca's west end is an "interactive collaboration," inviting visitors to add to the artwork. "Chalk Back" features several pieces by local artist Hallie Lee, each of which is a white-on-black base on which visitors can chalk their own additions.

Paint-Off this weekend kicks off Ithaca Festival run-up

It may not feel like June yet, but the official beginning of the Ithaca Festival season is this Saturday evening, when the Community School of Music and Arts hosts the fifth annual Ithaca Festival Paint-Off. It's a combination reception and live art event that culminates with the announcement of the Ithaca Festival 2011 Artist.

Big weekend for Big Red wrestling and men's & women's ice hockey

One year after what's been called the "biggest weekend in Cornell sports history," three Big Red teams are in playoff action this weekend. Cornell Wrestling is at the NCAA tournament in Philadelphia, Men's Ice Hockey looks to repeat as ECAC champions in Atlantic City, and Women's Ice Hockey takes another shot at a national championship at the NCAA Frozen Four in Erie.

Funk genius Maceo Parker comes to town Wednesday. Don't miss it.

"Maceo -- blow yo' horn!" That was James Brown's call for his groundbreaking saxophonist to solo on 1967's "Cold Sweat." It was Maceo Parker honkin' and blowin' his way through "Lickin' Stick" in 1968, it was Maceo leading the proceedings on Maceo & The Mack's 1973 crossover hit "Parrty" and it was Maceo who helped launch George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic into the stratosphere in the mid '70s.

Moira Smiley and VOCO coming to Ithaca for workshop and concert

Moira Smiley & VOCO, based in Los Angeles, are passionate about spreading powerful music in sweet, fiery, and spine-tingling four-part vocal harmony, with effective and imaginative support from cello, accordion, banjo, uke, and body percussion. This weekend, they spread their music to Ithaca with a vocal harmony workshop on Saturday afternoon, followed by a concert on Saturday evening.

Finger Lakes Wine Center opens in downtown Ithaca

After years of dreaming, discussion, design, delays, and development, the new, cooperative Finger Lakes Wine Center has opened its doors in downtown Ithaca. On the ground floor of the city-owned Cayuga Street parking garage, the wine center features a tasting bar, function space, historical displays, and a gift shop offering regional foods as well as Finger Lakes wines.

It Gets Better: the inside story of Ithaca College's viral video

It wasn’t supposed to be as big as it was. Matt Timmons, a senior at Ithaca College and station manager of VIC radio, had sent a few of us an e-mail on Thursday the 7th with an idea. We all knew about the recent string of suicides and other tragedies in the LGBT community, he said, but had we seen the "It Gets Better" campaign? He suggested we shoot a video of our own, just four or five student leaders from Ithaca College, and maybe the Dean. We e-mailed back and forth for a few hours and agreed to meet the next day, then shoot the following Monday.

Music for the Masses: Ithaca's big-time, small-city music scene

It's sometimes easy for life-long Ithacans to take for granted everything this small city has to offer. Hanging at the gorges on a beautiful day, cruising the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, or checking out locally owned shops downtown are just a few ways to spend one’s time in Ithaca.

Can I ride 100 miles for a good cause? Apparently I can.

A year ago, I signed up for a 100-mile bicycle ride/fundraiser as a challenge to myself. Could I ride 100 miles and survive? Answer: yes. Along the way, I learned that I wasn't too old to improve at a sport, that my fundraising efforts made a big difference, and that it's more fun to bike with other people for longer distances.

Michael Klare's "Rising Powers" provides geopolitical context for Gulf of Mexico oil disaster

The disaster engendered by the explosion and subsequent hemorrhaging of British Petroleum’s “Deepwater Horizon” oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has thrust energy costs—economic and environmental—back into the public discourse in a way not seen since gasoline prices went ballistic in the summer of 2008. That summer, with prices hovering in the $4 per-gallon range, Hampshire College’s Michael Klare published Rising Powers,

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Interactive art show at Gimme! Coffee this month makes the viewer the artist

Paint-Off this weekend kicks off Ithaca Festival run-up

Big weekend for Big Red wrestling and men's & women's ice hockey

Funk genius Maceo Parker comes to town Wednesday. Don't miss it.

Moira Smiley and VOCO coming to Ithaca for workshop and concert

Finger Lakes Wine Center opens in downtown Ithaca

It Gets Better: the inside story of Ithaca College's viral video

Music for the Masses: Ithaca's big-time, small-city music scene

Can I ride 100 miles for a good cause? Apparently I can.

Michael Klare's "Rising Powers" provides geopolitical context for Gulf of Mexico oil disaster

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