The Ithacan

Michael Watson ’13 teamed up with Lisa VillaMil ’13, Theresa Chiechi, and Lucas Gattoni to create “Ithaqa,” a Lovecraftian-horror comic book series.

In The Bookery, a small used book store in Dewitt Mall, shelves that were kept full for 45 years are now half-empty.

Ithaca native Sasha Sagan wrote her first full-length novel, “For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Meaning in Our Unlikely World,” focusing on her family history, experience with religion and relationship with the scientific community.

“There’s that feel that you get going into a small local store. People know you, and you go in, and there’s that intimacy that is very welcoming.”

However, we can affect our community now by starting with the seemingly small things, like buying from and supporting our local stores.

Henderson described “The Short Short” as a marathon: The two-hour event kept flowing until all the readers finished sharing their stories.

Ithaca College professors have been asking students to buy their books through Buffalo Street Book’s “First Class” program over the college’s Bookstore.

Your guide to what’s happening in Ithaca.

With more than a dozen cooperatives in Ithaca, the community has become a hub for member-owned and democratically operated enterprises.

October is National Co-op Month, and Ithaca has more than 80 years of cooperative history to motivate the community to continue expanding its co-op landscape.

There are bricks instead of cobblestones, Asian cuisine rather than porridge and sustainable dormitories in the place of decaying tenements. Ithaca may be a few centuries and an ocean away from Charles Dickens’ London, but that won’t stop Ithaca College’s English Department from celebrating his life and work this spring.