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We spotted this sign at the Gimme! outpost at Saturday’s Farmers Market. It is a bummer, as now we will all have to make our coffee stops prior to arriving at the Market at the early hour of 9am. Sigh. Life is so hard. Enjoy these photos from the weekend and happy Monday. (Oh, and […]

>>>>SMALL SAILS + MARK HOLLIS + BOARDS OF CANADA + AND MAYBE HELIOS = THIS GUY. WOW. WHAT A SHOW. PHOTOS TO COME

Your venerable arts editor will be on air tonight as a judge for this week’s episode of WVBR’s University of Rock in which local bands cover the song “Luck Be A Lady.” Tune in at 93.5FM to listen from 7:30-9:30pm. Finally, my dreams of being Paula Abdul on American Idol, actualized! [WVBR]

>>>WOW, SOMEHOW I MISSED THE MEMO THAT SUPERPITCHER COVERED ONE OF MY FAVORITE BRIAN ENO SONGS EVER. ENJOY ON THIS GORGEOUS HUMP DAY.

[Photo by Sick Llana] Lieven Martens aka Dolphins Into the Future made it into the notorious “The Year in Band Names” at The Onion’s A.V. Club. The list begins here, but Lieven doesn’t appear on the list until page 6, under the category “WHA?” Haha. Clearly the A.V. Club is barely scratching the surface here. […]

Oh dear. It’s snowing! Monday malaise to be sure. Did anyone see The Walkmen / The Decemberists show last night? Did anyone think that 1.) It would have been nice if The Walkmen played at least one old song besides the old standard “We’ve Been Had” 2.) No “The Rat”? Seriously? 3.) Colin Meloy was […]

Have a great weekend everyone!

To celebrate this momentous occasion, here are my latest YouTube obsessions. I haven’t been going out much, in case you couldn’t tell.

[Text by Jake Forney] [Photo gallery at our flickr] I was beginning to think I had taken a wrong turn. The roads were getting more twisted and more narrow and there wasn’t a sign of a campground anywhere. But then there he was — my beacon in the darkness — a solitary figure walking along […]

[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 […]

We’re back! The blog is up and running! Prepare for onslaught of posts, photos, and cute puppehs.

Subject: From Jerry Stiller to Natasha Pickowicz
May 5, 2008
Dear Natasha,
I was thrilled to read your profile of me in the Ithaca Times. Your questions were so on target.  Little did I realize that an evening of storytelling at Cornell would be one of the highlights of my extended theatrical career. That you took an interest […]

…that there’s free Mario 3 at Pixel? Yep. And to think that I just found this out a few weeks ago, too.

full story to follow in next week’s Ithaca Times!

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 […]