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As most of you know, a week ago today No Radio Records hosted Super Furry Animals and Times New Viking in their modestly-sized space. I wrote a bit about the show for this week’s Encore column in the Ithaca Times, and it goes a little something like this:
It’s been quite a month for Cornell’s Fanclub […]

Kevin Ernste and the rest of the fine crew at the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center will celebrate today’s leap day with a concert of new and classical electronic works. The concert begins tonight at 8pm at Barnes Hall on the Cornell campus. Our love for the CEMC has long been documented, and this is another […]

[Text by Luke Z. Fenchel; from this week’s Ithaca Times]
Four years ago this November, I attended one of the most exhilarating shows of my life. On tour for their breakthrough album Funeral, Arcade Fire played a sold-out show in a rec room at Cornell University; it was all thanks to the small organization, the Fanclub […]

I apologize for the tardiness of the posting of this article, but what with the excitement of Jacques Coursil performing at Cornell last night, I completely forgot about Michael Hansen playing the Pourhouse at the same time. Our intern Olivia recently wrote about this Trumansburg transplant (he’s originally from Maryland), and you can find her […]

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; from the Ithaca Times]

New music aficionados in Ithaca will be pleased by what is on offer this week. On Wednesday, trumpeter Jacques Coursil will perform in the first of two events hosted by Cornell devoted to his music and thought. Free and open to the public, his first performance will […]

One of the best things about the Kitchen Theatre (besides being across the street from the Ithaca Times, of course) is its Counter Culture series, which brings experimental theater by ethnically diverse artists from all over the world, and in a one-man-show format. We’ve seen some great productions this way, and those who aren’t conventional […]

American jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood will return to the State Theatre tonight for a concert. They’re huge Ithaca favorites, and we expect the show to do quite well here. Our writer MacKenzie recently interviewed John Medeski, and you can read the article in this week’s Ithaca Times, or here in our interviews section. […]

So, after much confusion, planning, revising said plans, altering new plans, more confusion, scrambling, and coming up with genius ideas, the Super Furry Animals + Times New Viking show that was supposed to be at Appel Commons — and then tentatively canceled — was rescheduled to No Radio Records! The poor Fanclub Collective looks to […]

Chad Crumm and his old time string band the Chicken Chokers will play all over Ithaca this weekend. For those who missed the Chicken Chokers when they opened for Spider John Koerner at Castaways earlier this month, this weekend is a good opportunity to catch them this time around. Tonight, Chad Crumm and friends will […]

GrassRoots, Rootabaga Boogie and the State Theatre will present roots and blues musician Taj Mahal in concert with his trio tonight at 8pm. Our writer MacKenzie recently spoke with the iconic musician, and the article appears in this week’s Ithaca Times. You can also read the full story in our interviews section here. Ticket info […]

Accomplished trumpet player and former Cornell professor Jacques Coursil will present a free concert this Wednesday, Feb. 27. Coursil is extraordinarily accomplished — aside from having played with titans of free jazz like Albert Alyer and Anthony Braxton, he also has a phD (from France!) in linguistics. This guy has done it all and I […]

Okay, today is officially food-related news day, but this is a sad announcement indeed. Juna’s — second home of the Ithaca Times, and our number one choice for a hot cup of joe during the winter and a scoop of Purity during the summer — is calling it quits. There really aren’t too many other […]

To continue today’s food-themed posts, here’s another French music-inspired night at Pangea, one of our favorite local restaurants. Speaking from personal experience, these nights are fabulous, the food is amazing, and Franck Vidal is the best singer! Get a reservation while you can . . .
CAN YOU CAN-CAN?

Wear your skirt […]

Oh. My. God.
During my nightly perusal of Tastespotting (essentially it’s all food porn, and a great aggregator, ala hype machine or elbows, but for cooks), I found this amazing recipe for harira, a traditional Algerian or Moroccan soup. My heart fluttered a little bit when I saw the delicious looking photo, as I basically subsisted […]