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Violets in the Snow Redux: An interview with Meredith Towsand
0 Comments Published by Chris August 21st, 2009 in Local, Art, Interview.[Text by Chris Lisee; from the Ithaca Times] If you haven’t been to the Korova lately, Friday night is the time to go. The opening reception for Meredith Towsand’s art show, “Violets in the Snow,” will start at 6 on Friday, August 21. Enjoy art, beer and the ever-irreverent sound of Hee Haw Nightmare. […]
Trumansburg, NEW YORK –8:45 a.m. Friday found me waiting for the shuttle bus to the GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance. This was my first year, and after having a great time Thursday, I wanted to make the most of the remaining three days. It seemed too early for pretty much everyone, except for the […]
[Originally posted on the Ithaca Times site 7/15/09]
Though it’s his first year at GrassRoots, Jim Van Cleve, fiddler for bluegrass supergroup Mountain Heart, has won a few awards, and knows a few things about the music industry. “Everyone wants to pigeonhole things, but every artists […]
For those who would like to learn how to dance, there will be a zydeco dance workshop before Preston Frank’s performances in the Dance Tent Friday at 1:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. If swing is more your thing, there will be a swing dance workshop before […]
Recently I wrote a piece published in the Ithaca Times on Epiphany Project, who played Cornell’s Schwartz Center June 30. That brief snippet really didn’t do the interview justice, so the transcript is published below in its entirety.
Ephiphany Project’s most recent album, Hin Dagh, was recorded in Armenia while Bet Williams and John Hodian, who […]
What’s on your summer reading list?
0 Comments Published by Chris June 5th, 2009 in Uncategorized, Reviews, Books.I think the last teen/young adult book I read was Frindle in eighth grade. By this point I was reading mostly Tom Clancy, and just getting into John Grisham. Ho ho, I thought, I’m so mature. This book is about fifth graders, ho ho.
But then I really liked it. It had all the classic elements […]
I’m Chris, a summer intern in the Arts and Entertainment section of the Ithaca Times. I’ll do my best to entertain you artfully with thoughts on books, movies, music, fine and not-so-fine art and other things that pop into my head. It’s my first summer in Ithaca, so everything is still bright and new (unlike […]