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Recently, Ithaca Times art critic Mike Berlin interviewed local artist and art collector Steven Barbash, who curated “The Shared Experience,” now up at the Johnson Museum. Excerpts from the artist that appeared in last week’s Ithaca Times:
“[Barbash] came of age, artistically, at a time when abstract expressionism was the dominant paradigm. And yet, he and […]

Tonight heralds the main event of this summer’s 2nd annual Love Shoe Festival, as curated by choreographer and Cornell dance professor Jim Self. From Kate’s article, as it appears in this week’s Ithaca Times:
>>>The third event of the festival, Salsa, Meet Hip Hop… & Other Dances, will be held on July 22 at the Schwartz […]

This afternoon philosopher and feminist Judith Butler will return to Ithaca to speak at Cornell as part of the School of Criticism and Theory’s Summer 2008 lecture Series. Info from Kate’s article as it appeared in the Ithaca Times:
Visiting lecturers include the well-known philosopher Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley, […]

A message from the Fanclub Collective:
Dear Fanclub members/supporters,
We will be having an IMPORTANT meeting this Tuesday in the Green Dragon at 4:30pm. If you are interested in being an officer or want to rock the vote, you should attend. We will also discuss the upcoming semester, which bands people may be interested in bringing, and […]

This week’s cover of the Ithaca Times is a fascinating profile of two writers in residence currently at Cornell (but not for much longer), Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky. Along with novelist Denis Johnson, the three of them have lived in Ithaca for the semester, taught courses at Cornell, and worked on their own […]

Our interview with Jerry Stiller — however brief! — is finally up, long after its truncated appearance in the Ithaca Times. Read it here. Some photos by Rachel:

Did you know that Ted Leo is playing at next week’s Slope Day? We didn’t know until a few weeks ago, so it’s nice to find out that there’s someone worth traveling to the Slope for this year. You know, besides Hot Hot Heat and Gym Class Heroes.

Hey Ithaca peeps,

Friday night, I will be hosting and performing at the semester’s last “Cat and Mouth,” at Risley Hall, in Tammany Night Club. The show is free, starts at 9pm, and milkshakes will be served.  This week’s guest is Sparlha Swa, an amazing soul/acoustic singer/songwriter from NYC.

Hope to see you!
Adam

This Saturday, prolific garage-punk musician Jay Reatard will perform at Cornell’s Big Red Barn. Reatard plays raucous three-chord garage punk with enough distorted lo-fi ambiance and trashed, vintage effects to balance out the catchy pop hooks.
Jay speaks in a heavy Memphis accent, and his singing style is somewhere between a Britishized Robert Pollard — barking […]

Cornell University Percussion Ensemble
Tim Feeney, director
with guest Stephen Drury
Sunday, April 13, 3:00 PM
Barnes Hall
Features guest Stephen Drury (pictured) conducting John Zorn’s improvisation game “Cobra”

[Text by Nick Knouf] The rolling hills and bucolic landscape of upstate New York belie a long history of engagement with contemporary artistic work. The “birth” of video art took place around here in the late 1960s and early 1970s with artists like Bill Viola and Nam June Paik, at institutions like Syracuse University, University […]

This afternoon, the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) will present Mufti Husein Kavazovic, who will give a talk titled “The Path to Reconciliation and Coexistence in a Post-Genocidal Society.” The talk will begin at 4:30pm at 233 Plant Science on the Cornell Campus. The Mufti has spent some time in Ithaca before, and we […]

Note: You can read the transcript of my conversation with Jane Hammond in our interviews section. The following is the article that appeared in the Ithaca Times.
[From the Ithaca Times, March 12]
Systems. Recurrence. Repetition. On first glance, these words may be the last thing you think of when observing Jane Hammond’s wildly alive and seemingly […]

“Spoglia,” the dance concert developed by director and Cornell lecturer Byron Suber, takes an unusual multidisciplinary look at modern dance. In its creation, Suber combined his passions for dance, digital media, cinema, architecture, classical music, and pop music into a complex meditation on what it means to be an American scholar, tourist and artist abroad […]

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 […]