Archive: Arts & Entertainment

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
By  Dr. Viva Palaver

 

INTEND ON:  The Alfred Kahn Clinic is full of William F. Buckley Syndrome sufferers.  I know, I know; saying Buckley Syndrome survivors sounds politically correct, but as staff psychologist, I must maintain honesty in my work.  So sufferers it is.

Anyway, the Alfred Kahn Clinic is happy that we send those who intend on doing things over to the William Safire Center to be treated for Insidious Englishisms.  We call it IE.  Patients in the IE ward try and do things, too. 

I'm especially interested in the common feature of these two IEs:  In their correct form, they're both followed by infinitives.  For example, "I intend to finish this on time."  "I will try to help my patients."

This fall, I'll read a paper to the Modern Language Association about how we at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired may have isolated a new disorder.  I call it infinitivephobia. 

Sufferers, so to speak - the rest of us suffer thanks to them, really - can't intend to or try to do anything.


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ITHACA, NY - The Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts opens its 2007-08 theatre season with the provocative play Good by C.P. Taylor. This chilling musical play examines how the veneer of "goodness" in individuals can be easily transformed, turning anyone into an agent of evil. Good runs September 13-15, 20-22 at the Schwartz Center.

August 24, 2007 (ITHACA, NY) - On Thursday, August 30th at 10 am and again on Saturday, September 1st at 10 am and Noon, the Hangar Theatre's Kiddstuff season closes with Aurand Harris' magical and poignant tale of loss, The Arkansaw Bear. The play follows a little girl named Tish, who is saddened and bewildered at her grandfather's approaching death. When she runs to her "special tree," she meets the World's Greatest Dancing Bear.

ITHACA--As a result of a partnership between the Tompkins County Public Library and the Map and Geospatial Information Collection of Cornell University’s Olin Library, an exhibit of maps related to the 2007 Community Read, The Pickup, by Nadine Gordimer, is currently on exhibit at TCPL.

This exhibit has been shaped by an emphatic reading of the novel, which has led Susann Argetsinger, Map Assistant and Preservation Technician at Olin Library, and her colleagues to select maps which enhance our understanding of The Pickup.  Because the exhibit does not use original maps the exhibit runs concurrently at Olin Library.

This exhibit enables readers of The Pickup to visualize the places suggested in the novel and to understand some of the political history that has led to the situation in which main characters Abdu and Julie find themselves.

Aurora, New York - The Wells College Art Department is pleased to announce the opening of its first exhibition of the 2007-08 academic year. A selection of paintings, sculpture, and portraits by two artists will be on display in the String Room Gallery from August 29 through September 28. The exhibit is free and the public is cordially invited. An opening reception to be held on Wednesday, August 29 from 7:00-9:00 pm offers an opportunity to meet the artists; light refreshments will be served.

On display will be paintings and sculpture by Deale Hutton. Hutton is the art librarian at SUNY-Oswego and the curator for Oswego's gallery space in Penfield Library. Her sculpture project, Swimming With the Fishes, is an installation of sculptures and paintings of dead fish in various media - beeswax, oils, copper, fabric, encaustic, and gels. Hutton was born in Minneapolis and lives in Fair Haven, NY. She is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. program at RIT.

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
By Dr. Ced Riley

INSTINCTUAL:  At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we treat people who say instinctual at our general care facility, the William Safire Center. 

Making sure they're attentive, not attentual, we retrain patients to say instinctive. 

Since instinctive is simpler and easier to say, using instinctual can be a symptom of William F. Buckley Syndrome, and if we diagnose the syndrome - hearing "re-ZORSE" instead of "RE-source" is another marker - we refer them to the Alfred Kahn Clinic for more intensive treatment.

Often, however, the patients have the word sexual on their minds.


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August 21, 2007 (ITHACA, NY) - The old adage that "the show must go on" was doubly true at the Hangar Theatre last Friday night. A sudden windstorm knocked down power lines, leaving the building in a brown out shortly before the opening night performance of All the Great Books (abridged) was scheduled to begin. The audience was treated to the first act of the show-sans the 130 planned light and sound cues-before NYSEG completely cut power to the building to begin repairs on the downed lines.

More importantly, those in attendance were the first to hear the news about how the show will go on at the Hangar Theatre after the departure of current artistic director, Kevin Moriarty. Before the performance, Lisa Bushlow, the Hangar's Executive Director, thanked Moriarty for seven years of service to the organization and then announced that former artistic director Robert Moss will take over in an interim capacity for the next year.