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Home of the worlds largest human peace sign? No…
Home of the Dalai Lama? No…
Home of the first ice cream sundae? Of course…

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Raise a glass (or 3) to the Ithaca Beer Company for being Named New York’s Best Craft brewery. With the lakeside white wines grabbing all the headlines of late, it’s nice to see good old-fashioned beer getting its well-deserved notice. IBC makes some great beers and winning the F.X. Matt Memorial Cup goes to show […]

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The Ithaca Ballet Company (that’s right, Ithaca has it’s OWN ballet company) performed Swan Lake this weekend at the historic State Theatre this weekend. I am not a fan of ballet and went because my wife and 5-year old son were eager to go. However, since it is now my second ballet in 4 months […]

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Picture it if you will, another talented celebrity who called Ithaca home (as opposed to the majority of celebrities who are verifiable muttonheads). Twilight Zones’ Rod Serling penned episodes here and taught at the Ithaca College Communications School from 1967 to 1975.
See? This place isn’t just great because of lefties and eccentric physicists (see […]

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If you had any doubt that Ithaca is an awesome place to hang your pants at night, check out this article in the Ithaca Times.
Is Ithaca the new South Florida?
But why the hell did they have to say South Florida? Ugh!

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In some great European cities, the only way to really get to know the culture is to visit the cafés. In most American cities you get a feel for the local culture by turning to the op-eds column of the local fish wrapper. In Ithaca, you look at the backside of cars. Ithacans treat the […]

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Two Carl Sagan stories in two weeks? But this one’s topical…

Good old Carl, one of the many great Ithacan resident overachievers (served as the professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences & Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell) might just get his own series of stamps. You can peruse them all plus find […]

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Regardless of your political views (except you conservative-types who should know by now that - like Ithaca - this blog is not a nice place for you), you will get a chuckle out of THE POWER OF ITHACA (queue dramatic music here). On Super Tuesday, Hillary was sitting back with a glass of celebratory Finger […]

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As you wander through the Commons you can be excused from missing it since it's not near a cafe or pizza place, but once you find it you feel an undeniable urge to discover more. Ithaca has an inventive tribute to the late, great Carl Sagan. It's not just some boring statue with a bust […]

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My 5 year old son and I decided to go hunting for buried treasure. We agreed that the best place to look was in the stream near our house since you wouldn't have to dig. and it didn't take long before we uncovered our treasure: fossils.
Now, my 40th birthday is rapidly approaching and I must […]

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