popcorn youth

[Text by Ted Hamilton] When I first heard that the international Star Trek fan club was hosting its annual convention in Ithaca, I imagined a dorkfest à la Galaxy Quest: forty-year old bachelors dressed up like Spock, cliques of diehards bickering over starship minutiae, a sign that read “No girls allowed” at the door. But […]

[Text by Ted Hamilton] Although Ithaca prides itself on the diversity of its cultural offerings, a subset of music fans has been left out in the cold since the closing of the Odyssey Night Club on N. Cayuga Street six years ago. Fortunately for these devotees of electronic dance music, there will be a chance […]

Brooklyn-based electro-noise improv ensemble Excepter will play Castaways tonight, a show that is unofficially supported by the Fanclub Collective, and fully endorsed by us at the Ithaca Times. Syracuse-via-Brooklyn Arcade Fire-esque Ra Ra Riot is opening (who were excellent when they opened for The Essex Green last year at Cornell’s Appel Commons), although they seem […]

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 […]

From this week’s Encore:
The Abattoir is a brand new venue located over on the South Hill, and they have their debut show this Friday. Their mission statement is as follows: “The Abattoir is an old slaughter house situated behind our house up on the South Hill of Ithaca, NY. Retrofitted into a small show space, […]