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It’s easy to let Valentine’s Day go by with a few wilted carnations and a couple of chocolates, but this year get out of that usual routine with your honey (or your friends) and check out what’s going on this Feb. 14.

MUSIC

Instrumental guitarist Lynn Wiles will be playing at the Watercress Restaurant on 2 Hickory […]

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; photo of Carter in 2000 by Meredith Heuer; appears in the Jan. 31 edition of the Ithaca Times]
Though his birthday is not until December 11, the year 2008 marks the centenary of the birth of one of America’s finest living composers, Elliott Carter, whose seven decade-long meditation on form, pitch […]

Ithaca Times writer Rebekah Dillon recently interviewed prolific folk singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco as a preview for her concert at the State Theatre tomorrow night. The profile appears in this week’s Ithaca Times, which you can view here. An excerpt from her introduction:
Since 1990, DiFranco has produced all 19 of her albums, as well as invited […]

Ithaca-born fantasy jam band (description courtesy of intern Chris, and it’s so perfect it hurts) Igor’s Egg will play a pair of shows in the Upstate area this weekend. Saturday they’ll host a CD release party at Castaways; the night before they’ll play Binghamton. Our intern Olivia recently interviewed members Adam Nash and Dave Rosen […]

[From the Ithaca Times; archive photo above of Stockhausen; all text by Aaron P. Tate]
In music’s digital age, year-end surveys and ‘best of’ lists have become simultaneously more popular (e.g., every blogger and music critic has one) and more deficient in coverage. That’s the nature of the beast, one supposes, given the enormous number of […]

Head over to our interviews section for the complete story on artist Todd McGrain, whose “Lost Birds” sculptures are currently on view at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester. We’re also going to load exclusive photo galleries by Rachel Philipson, who got some fantastic shots of McGrain in his home studio. From Wylie’s story:
The smooth, […]

[Text by Luke Z. Fenchel; from this week’s Ithaca Times] 
If your idea of contemporary country music is restricted to the alternative orbit of Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams and Neko Case, you might be surprised to know that there is an entire genre of country that has more in common with Britney and Justin than Lorretta […]

Local band The Splendors will hold a CD release party for their latest record Melt at the Lost Dog Lounge this Friday, Dec. 14. Our writer Joshua Pederson recently spoke with the Splendors’ frontman Jairo Van Lunteren for a story that appears in this week’s Ithaca Times:
The album is both raw and refined, full of […]

Tonight at 10pm, local band The Settlers, fronted by the singer-songwriter Cosmo Alpern, will perform at the Chapter House. Somatic Umbra will open. The following is an excerpt from Luke Fenchel’s monthly Live Wire column, which appears in the Ithaca Times the last Wednesday of every month. You can read his full column in this […]

[Image above: Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940), Sunday Morning, March 7, 1909, Morris Herowitz, ten years old, 1909. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Martin Z. Margulies. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art] Since we ran in this space Nancy Geyer’s review of the video art exhibit at the Johnson Museum, it […]

[Nancy Geyer; Ithaca Times, Nov. 7, pg. 23]
Over the past five years, Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, under the direction of curator Andrea Inselmann, has been steadily building a collection of contemporary video art. Additionally, it has exhibited Vito Acconci’s seminal video works from the early 1970s, Dutch artist Aernout Mik’s captivating […]

In this week’s Ithaca Times, our art critic Wylie Schwartz attends local artist Karen Brummund’s latest time-based installation. Formerly based in London, where she attended art school, Brummund looks to be a quite interesting addition to our local art scene, and I hope to see more of her in the coming months. Here is the […]

Our GrassRoots Festival ramblings are still coming on strong (stayed tuned for more photo essays and posts tomorrow), and here’s writer James Sigman’s thoughts on his two favorite performances of the weekend — Slo Mo and The Avett Brothers. Be sure to check out his blog, Tinsel and Rot, as well. He took a few […]

Here’s what Laura had to say about Grassroots’ Friday lineup:

“True to their word, Cat Empire delivered an amazing performance at Grassroots on Friday night. The band played a lot of high-energy, danceable songs that the crowd went crazy for, demanding an encore after the show had ended. Harry Angus, one of the lead singers, showed […]