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We've published 14850 Magazine since 1992 and 14850 Dining since 1999, and 14850 Today is an ongoing joint effort from 14850 and WVBR to provide timely news and information to the Ithaca and Tompkins County community.
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We've talked any number of times about Little Thai House, the quick and inexpensive Thai eatery on Dryden Road in Collegetown. They've appeared on our Year-in-Review lists and Top Ten lists, they're featured in our Welcome to Ithaca feature, and they come up every time we talk about affordable lunch options. But, somehow, we've never given Little Thai House their very own review, until now.
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This week, 14850 Dining is enjoying a meal on restaurant row at Mahogany Grill. This downtown eatery returns a beautiful restaurant space to the traditions started by Plums a few decades ago. A couple of incarnations later, Mahogany Grill brings a prime location back to a mellow dining feel, complete with attractive dark wood and brass highlights.
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This week, 14850 Dining is enjoying a meal on restaurant row at Mahogany Grill. This downtown eatery returns a beautiful restaurant space to the traditions started by Plums a few decades ago. A couple of incarnations later, Mahogany Grill brings a prime location back to a mellow dining feel, complete with attractive dark wood and brass highlights.
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It seems we've been hearing about the plans for a showpiece downtown movie theatre for a decade, and finally the day is upon us. Ithaca's old community movie theatres have closed, and the brand new Cinemapolis will open in downtown Ithaca this Friday night.
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The Village of Lansing says the Shops at Ithaca Mall remain open despite what the village calls "a large sewer main break" in the area behind the mall, formerly Pyramid Mall Ithaca. While the mall and the residential area behind it remain open, village officials urge residents to keep children from wading or playing in streams or creeks in the area.
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This week the 14850 Dining Report is in Collegetown visiting an old stand-by, The Nines. This College Avenue pizzeria and bar is in an old firehouse building -- the new station number 9 was built next door -- and offers the area's finest deep-dish pizza, plus sandwiches and a few surprises.
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In a heartbreaking finale for Big Red fans, the Syracuse Orangemen fought back to tie this afternoon's NCAA championship game at 9 goals each with just four seconds left in regulation, then scored early in the first sudden-victory overtime period to win the game.
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Cornell men's lacrosse is in the NCAA semifinals for the second time in just three years, facing top-seed Virginia Saturday afternoon at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. The 2pm game will be broadcast on ESPN2, and on the radio on WHCU.
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This week the 14850 Dining Report is in downtown Ithaca visiting Asia Cuisine. We've heard good things about this combination Korean and Japanese restaurant on the corner of Seneca and Aurora Streets not far from the Commons, and we finally got to check it out for ourselves.
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Ithaca never seems to need more Thai restaurants in particular, or Asian restaurants in general, but sometimes a new one opens and is a quick success. This week, we're visiting Tamarind on Route 13. Just one of many Thai restaurants in Ithaca, this cozy restaurant that opened a little over a year ago offers good food at a reasonable price.
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The danger in the release of the new "Star Trek" movie this week, with TV veteran J.J. Abrams behind the camera, is that focusing on pleasing existing fans would make it harder to attract a new generation of moviegoing fans to the franchise, and could make this its last hurrah. But a new film that ignored four decades of tradition, and four decades of fans, could never have the staying power to be a summer blockbuster success.
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This week the 14850 Dining Report is visiting Pita Pit in Collegetown. This quick eatery on Dryden Road makes hot and cold sandwiches to order in white or whole wheat pitas, with your choice of a whole host of veggies. It's easy for vegetarians and carnivores alike to find something to enjoy here.
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A broken gas pipe in a back room forced management at the Wegmans supermarket in Ithaca's west end to evacuate the store earlier this afternoon, but they're once again open for business. Store manager Gary Woloszyn says the store was evacuated as a precaution.
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So you find yourself in a college town, with multiple large educational institutions and lots of businesses, making for an extremely mobile population. There's nothing to suggest that swine flu has reached Ithaca (no reported cases here, though one's been confirmed in nearby Cortland), or whether it's likely to, but we can take some smart precautions to help prevent the spread of this or other virulent diseases.
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A serious fire reported to 14850 Today last night at Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinivera Wine Cellars in Hammondsport destroyed a building that housed a new tasting room, but area firefighters were able to contain the blaze and prevent damage to other nearby winery buildings.
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