The Big Boom:
By Mr. Roger Meredith Christain, September 9, 2006
Whats happening ? The echoes of new life, and renewed energy now abounds in and around the historic
Ithaca Commons. A nightlife of play and enjoyment as younger faces of academia are mixing in with an influx of traditional
Ithaca families. Children gleefully play on the small wooden recreation slide and cabin fixture adjacent to the Rothschild
Building.
" Whew " as one downtown merchant puts it. Then another merchant would express the feeling of
most of the merchants, " Finally or at last after so many year of sticking it out."
Foot traffic has been steadily
increasing over the past year, and new nightlife venues are opening at an unprecedented rate ever in the history of downtown
Ithaca. A real nightlife boom has occurred, and the cash registers are singing out their song of the emerging prosperity.
More and
more bands are playing a whole hosts of clever inspired music. Poetry readings, and every so often someone would venture a comedic
act, and or a dance performance.
And it is all starting now......thus......
Snap and
Snap... Several photographers are setting up and snapping the new images being produced by the swarming
youthful social interaction downtown, and more and more
artists are setting up their easels painting glimpses of this lovely historical section of the city. Moreover, and if the reports
are correct tourist dollars are now starting to make their way in the growing economic picture as well.
We
are covering it all. Ithaca Night Life ( NightLife ), NY is the social and cultural events web site reporting
the nightlife scene within Ithaca and Tompkins county. Here you will find links to a social calendars [
Community related and
University - College related ] on ongoing weekly events, as well as
dances, shows, and social get-togethers.
As you will note on the various sites there are online forms in which
you can send those weekly events which are not listed. They will be posted once they are checked out. More importantly,
Ithaca Night Life ( NightLife ), NY is linked to a growing network of Night Life (
NightLife ), RMC through the world. As an Alexa report once indicated, " This network is the largest combination of web sites
who have obtained page one and two rankings through-out the world."
What this means is that others throughout
the world are now linking up and now additional web sites are being created to focus of recent trends in
nightlife styles, who are are the top
nightclubs, the National and International
theatre scene, and for those who are
academically committed cutting
edge ideas and
intellectual thought.
These web sites are developed to inspire Ithaca as whole to become upscale and thus living up to the promotional
aim of this network.
" The city of Ithaca, New York the Cultural Magnet Destination
City."
It is the Inter - City Cultural Communication web site program of this network which has attracted
popular attention in
Paris France, and now more recent
Baghdad. This also means that responsibility has been accepted in several important ways for public service such as a web site
for
Persian Gulf Veterans - to assist social and cultural reintegration of these courageous group of Americans who contributed a portion of their lives
in national service.
This is only a start folks......Get the word out read Ithaca Night Life ( NightLife ), NY
weekly. You should see whets coming next....
