Around this time three years ago there was a lot of talk about a virus going around that might shut the world down with quarantine. It was alarming, yet in early March of 2020 still a subject of speculation and conjecture rather than certainty.
There’s a sense of mutual joy and appreciation when Ellen Grady of the Ithaca Catholic Worker and Irish musician Karan Casey recount their long association concerning political activism and music.
A few times a year, this column addresses a particular topic that is generally popular enough, or at least seemingly innocuous, yet somehow so unfavored even by otherwise devoted readers (some: we hear from them) that they will turn the page as soon as they sniff out the subject; so this tim…
It’s a fantasy that fuels thousands of karaoke nights: in the spotlight, the impassioned but commanding singer, center of rapt attention, enthralling a crowd, maybe even winning a heart, with a performance of power and grace.
Befitting a college town, maybe, McGraw House in Ithaca is a residence for seniors that could be mistaken for a college dorm.
Among their faculty members, most colleges will have standouts or even superstars, as Cornell has certainly had over the years.
The Ithaca Times comes out each Wednesday, when I’ll normally pick one up, but last week I was away. When I returned Thursday, my usual place for getting it had none.
On August 12, author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on a conference stage by a would-be assassin described by authorities as showing “support for the Iranian regime” which decades ago ordered Rushdie’s death for his writing.
A dearth of downtown parking was disconcerting one recent night before realizing that a concert was the reason: a big show at the State Theater.
You moved from a big city to a small town to simplify your life, and it worked.
After an all-time high of around $5 a gallon in June, gasoline has dropped to its lowest price since March, now that few people are planning any more long vacation trips.
“How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?” is the musical question from Dan Hicks’ old would-be standard.
Summer is a formless time in Ithaca. Schools are out, thus the college students gone and the regional population more than decimated. A lot of school workers are furloughed or vacationing, thus also absent, or at least freed from the dictates of the academic calendar, its demands and routines.
Each year at this time, Ithaca residents Krista and Theo (not their real names) have a gathering at their Northside home to celebrate the successful conclusion, back in the summer of 2013, of what Theo jokingly calls “my trip through Cancerland.”
On June 18, a Saturday afternoon, the streets of Ithaca’s Southside neighborhood were packed with parked cars.
Everyone needs help sometimes with mundane health issues such as rest and exercise, and I once read something that helped me with both, involving the olfactory.
Cash money in commercial use has been declining for years, and in some places can be used hardly or not at all, in some cases by ignorance and in some by design.
His daughter, an hour north of him in Middletown, was hearing from a son, four hours north in Ithaca, about a great home for seniors there.
Last time, this column examined the skateboarding scene in Ithaca. The city built the first municipal skate park in central New York more than 20 years ago.
ITHACA, NY -- A break in the action of winter, 50 degrees on a March afternoon, brings a jolt of activity to the Ithaca Skate Park.
“American Masters” is a documentary series on public television that examines the life and work of noted artists. Among other programming for Black History Month, last month the Syracuse public television station reaching Ithaca, WCNY, re-broadcast a segment of the series on the musician and…
Even we northerners who personally don’t mind winter mind its hardships for our cars.
At break time at my workplace, like many these days I guess, someone mentioned Wordle, in this case with a buoyant air.
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