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What we thought of Les Misérables.

An interview with Craig Koslofsky, a 15-year History professor.

Your guide to this week's events in CU.

on readbuzz.com ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Check out two reviews of one of the holiday season’s most renowned theater productions, A Christmas Carol.

FOOD & DRINK: Check out the weekly how-to articles on the Food and Drink section on readbuzz.com.

MOVIES & TV: For the full Q & A with Shatterglass Studios’ Brett Hays and Luke Boyce, visit readbuzz.com.

COMMUNITY: Crazy stuff has been happening around CU lately. Make sure to check out the internet for more details.

MUSIC: Confused about what mp3s to download off the iTunesnet? Check out our reviews and we’ll do the thinking for you!

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After spending two weeks at home, I got used to being able to eat whatever I wanted, or at least have the ability to eat whatever I wanted (within reasonable hours, except for chilaquiles, only after 12 a.m. at Au Cheval). But then I came back to Champaign-Urbana and forgot that my cravings would soon become insatiable.

Although, one can get pretty creative.

For example, all last week, and part of this week as well, I was on a ramen hunt. All I wanted was a good bowl of ramen. But who makes ramen in this town? I had to find out. After thorough Google-ing, Eat-CU-ing, sniffing around on Yelp and some all-around quality journalistic research, I found out that Spoon House and Yellowfin both served ramen. But, through a few comments on Yelp that I normally don’t read (we can discuss this later), I had heard that Spoon House uses instant ramen. Out. So I hoped that my back-up plan (Cravings) maybe made ramen because Yellowfin wasn’t open at the time. Lo-and-behold, they did! But it was only OK. The noodles were on the right trail, but ramen is totally about the broth and Cravings had some serious work to do.

I still craved (no pun intended) more. So the next day I braved the weather to Yellowfin for a bowl of their spicy ramen. It was a baby step in the right direction, but it still didn’t cut it.

It sort of tasted like Shin Ramyun with soggy noodles and a couple pieces of pork and shrimp thrown in.

At this point, and at the probing of some other individuals in the community, I began to think about other things that one couldn’t find cuisine-wise that were fairly easily accessible in Chicago. A few things came to mind immediately: a quality doughnut place, somewhere that serves Ethiopian food, a true Spanish tapas place. Does anyone else here crave doughnuts like I do? I literally have an unsatiable appetite for fried dough covered in cool/funky/weird toppings. Ever had a maple bacon doughnut?

They’re prime time. I already know about Carmella’s Creme and they’re not bad in a pinch, but still.

If you’re unfamiliar with Ethiopian food, it’s incredible. Definitely not a first or second date place because you eat with your hands, but the food has an amazing warm-spice to it that keeps you full and literally warm for the rest of the night. Tapas are pretty self-explanatory.

Which brings me to the question: What do you all wish Champaign-Urbana had to offer?

Send in your opinions!

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY

BY MAGGIE SU As we too often forget, MLK Day is not just a day off school or a paid holiday. It is a day set aside to honor a civil rights activist who battled racial inequality and intolerance at every turn. In a year filled with senseless violence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of nonviolence is particularly poignant.

Instead of letting this day pass by unrecognized, take the time to commemorate this influential civil rights leader by getting involved in one of the many free community events occurring all over Champaign-Urbana. On Jan. 20, reflect upon Dr. King’s historical impact by attending the MLK Commemoration. The event starts at 5 p.m. and will take place at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. This year’s theme is “The Beloved Community Begins Here: From Emancipation to Unity.” Starting at 10 a.m. on Jan. 21, share in the MLK Community Celebration at Krannert during which the annual MLK writing contest winners will be announced.

Later in the day, you can honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s selfless activism by participating in the annual MLK Day of Service. You can give back to the community in a variety of ways, including youth outreach, neighborhood clean-up, meal packaging and other service projects. Remember to register online ahead of time at the University of Illinois’ MLK commemoration website. As a community, there remains much to be learned from Dr. King.

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» Amazon one-click shopping for your Kindle: Oh, geez.

It’s like the Internet has found my kryptonite and the easiest way to exploit it. My parents bought me a Kindle for Christmas, which was really sweet of them. Everything I would ever need for said Kindle is on Amazon — a website that I already have a major hard-on for.

THEN I FOUND OUT THAT I CAN PURCHASE THINGS WITH A SINGULAR CLICK. JUST ONE CLICK. I could click away my life savings faster than I could feel a speck of remorse. There was one morning that I had a particularly bad bout of purchases. In less than 30 minutes, I had managed to buy seven books. What the shit was I going to do with seven books? Surely not read them all anytime soon. But alas, the damage had been done. Thankfully, because I had binge-purchased all the books that I wanted off Amazon, it would be a while before any new ones were formatted into Kindle format. For now, my bank account, sanity and guilt are safe.

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» Camera Technology: You know what's amazing these says? Cameras. Look how far we've come in such a short amount of time. Ten years ago, digital was just starting to enter the photography world. Before that, the majority of stories were covered using film. Today, I can take the maximum amount of exposures in a roll of film in a mere seven seconds, and then keep on shooting. Incredible. Our smartphones have better technology inside of them today than the early digital cameras did. Heck, some of the new iPhones and Androids have an equal, if not better, sensor and lens than some entry DSLRs today. It's amazing what you can do on a small, little phone. Some of the world's best photographers spend their days posting their smartphone photos to Instagram. Check out Cole Rise, he has done work for National Geographic. Scott Strazzante as well, he's a staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune. Recently Time Magazine had its cover story of Hurricane Sandy photographed on iPhones. That's really cool. At least to me.

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the producers

Four questions for Shatterglass Studios’ Luke Boyce and Brett Hays.

By Joyce Famakinwa

Shatterglass Studios will have quite the 2013; between putting together local workshops where people can learn about some of the more technical aspects of filmmaking and hosting a screening that includes a meet and greet with the filmmaker, the film production company plays an active part in engaging with the local film scene. Buzz recently caught up with coowners Brett Hays and Luke Boyce. » buzz: I think there will be people surprised to find out that there is a film production company in Champaign. How did Shatterglass Studios get started? » Luke Boyce: It started about seven years ago. It was a situation where me and some other people got together with a business man in town and decided to make a media company. We wanted to make films but we needed to pay the bills as well, so we decided to have a company where we could acquire the equipment needed to do all that stuff and use the filmmaking skills to also make promotional videos, commercial videos, things like that, and kind of do both at the same time. » Brett Hays: We realized it was a lot harder to do. It wasn’t as easy as just getting the equipment and going forward. It took us time. I came on eight months BUZZ later, I had just graduated from U of I. Within a year, THURSDAY I met them and it just took time for us to perfect JANUARY 17 what we corp werenote...keep doing and hear about it. thishave samepeople size always » buzz: Tell me about your work with up-and-coming and local1filmmakers.

X 5.417 » BH: The thing about film is its collaboration ­— it’s 1/8th page definitely collaboration in the perfect sense so it’s always about teaming up with filmmakers, and so we did our first big short. was called NO BUZZ ADIt12/27 ORSugar 1/3and we teamed up with filmmakers in Chicago and shot it there with Alex Beh and Pete Biagi and built relationships and started relationships there. We are always trying to build relationships with filmmakers, especially here in the Midwest. It’s not like L.A., where everyone you meet is a filmmaker. Everyone in the Midwest does something, and when they want to make film, they do film on the side. So we just spent many years building relationships with other filmmakers. There are filmmakers in Champaign and Urbana, so we helped start the CU Film Society, which is a community organization to do workshops and screenings for anyone in the community to learn about filmmaking, and that’s one way we have partnered with other filmmakers in town. There is no true filmmaker in Champaign that that’s all they do, so it’s a matter of teaming up with people who are interested in making film, finding good crew people and stuff like that. » LB: To add to what Brett said, the issue is that in a place like this, a lot of times you have to look under a rock to find a filmmaker because everyone does other things. There are no full-time filmmakers in town, but there are a lot of people interested in film, and now that everyone is able to have a camera,

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there are a lot people who like to make film and want to be a filmmaker. That’s one reason we created the CU Film Society — to lift some of these rocks and let people know that there is an organization to help foster that a little more. Even on our end with Shatterglass Studios, we work a lot with departments of the U of I and we have several U of I interns and some non-U of I interns who we like to bring in and help foster their interest in filmmaking as well. The best thing you can do as a filmmaker in a place like this is not be shy. Let people know that you are interested in it and do it because there is always someone.

There is always someone like us who wants to work with you. So that’s one thing we try to do: We try to kind of find those people, find those interests. » buzz: Some of your projects include Sugar, Leading Ladies and The Drunk. What drew Shatterglass Studios to these films? » BH: Sugar was because of Alex Beh’s charisma. I wanted to work with Alex when we meet him. We were working on a project up in Chicago and he had not done any film yet, but he just has this charisma that you're just like, all right, this will be fun, and that project grew and grew from when we first talked about it. Leading Ladies was a project where they sought us out because we had worked with Pete Biagi on Sugar, who was the cinematographer. They wanted to work with Pete, and we had a relationship with him, and we were here in Champaign. Then The Drunk­, same thing ­­— Biagi wanted to use us to work on The Drunk because of Leading Ladies. Each one kind of grew from each other, working with other filmmakers building relationships. What attracted us to it, well with Leading Ladies, it’s a fun movie that was coming to Champaign. It was a little movie but at the same time had big ambitions. The Drunk definitely had big ambitions so I think just the challenge of trying to do more and expand a little bit is what attracts me to projects. It’s okay to go back and try small projects and little projects as well — it’s not like you have to keep going and doing bigger projects, but I think the challenge is always exciting. The big thing is working with the family, the crew, hiring the same people or finding new people building these relationships is what attracts me to film. » LB: Most independent filmmakers and local filmmakers specifically work on the level of keep it small,

keep it intimate, keep it basic and that’s great. What I think sets us apart is that we think big. We want to do big things; we want to do big productions, big budgets. Every now and then we will do a little, and there is nothing wrong with that — sometimes that’s fun to do, but we are dead serious about it. We are here for the work. We are for the film, so we actually want to put it out there and do stuff with it. » BH: So Luke isn’t misunderstood, that other people here don’t want to be big, they do. » LB: I’m not saying here, I’m saying in general. Independent filmmakers — it doesn’t matter if it’s Champaign or Madison, Wis. or such and such — I’m saying everywhere in the world. » BH: We have chosen to take the risk. It’s paid off for us, but we have chosen to take the risk to do it full-time. » LB: Most people think if you do what we do, you have to be in Chicago, New York, or L.A. This is kind of the trifecta of film production so we kind of thumb our nose at that idea and say you can be here and do big you don’t have to be in L.A. to do big. » buzz: Shatterglass Studios won the Champaign Chamber of Commerce 2012 Business of the Year.

If you had any advice for young entrepreneurs/film lovers, what would it be? » BH: Advice for college entrepreneurs: When I was a senior in college, I started my own business. That’s what got me excited about business. I was going to school for Art and Graphic Design. I can stand on a soap box — with our interns I’m usually on a soap box — but I will keep it to one, and that is just build relationships. It is so important; this is a little different than what I would say about film, but as far as the business side, it’s not a matter of what you do but who you know. Personality is key for us and just building relationships with people, and that’s on the business side. On the quality side, it’s producing the best possible work you can do. Doing everything you can do to make the client happy to making sure they get the best possible product. On the film side, who you know can get you far, but working hard is the key on a film set­— working so hard that the boss or manager never has to worry about them. Hiring crew who are self-sufficient and are out there getting it done. Find like-minded individuals who are willing to work as hard as you.

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history gets all sexypants!

Broadway musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson comes to Station Theatre

by Jessica Bourque

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oday's America gives rock star status to its politicians. They are idolized on T-shirts and posters and occupy as much limelight as the most popular music, film and TV stars.

But what if our president really were a rock star? Broadway rock opera Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson answers that question and more.

The musical, opening at Station Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 17, follows the life of Andrew Jackson, America’s seventh president and father of the Democratic Party. Somewhat of a political maverick in his day, Jackson is fittingly reborn as an emo rock star in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Staying true to the tagline “History just got all sexypants,” the musical portrays Jackson as a skinny jean, eyeliner-wearing punk who may just be the most deviant and diabolical president ever.

Those unfamiliar with American presidential history are in for a treat as Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson does a fantastic job of showing why

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Jackson is so polarizing; he's seen as a true pioneer by some and a genocidal maniac by others. The show opens with a musical number titled “Populism, Yea Yea” sung by a cast of old school American cowboys and led by fellow cowboy Andrew Jackson. The wild Westerners sing about reclaiming U.S. land from the French, English and Native Americans (which would later become a reality with Jackson’s Indian Removal Act) and redistributing political power to favor the general public and not the ruling elite.

The bulk of the show focuses on Jackson’s lifelong marriage to Rachel Donelson, his push for a populist government and his controversial involvement in the Trail of Tears. The show's soundtrack consists of 13 rock ballads that are musically influenced by the likes of Dashboard Confessional and other popular emo rock bands.

While the show won and was nominated for several awards (including two Tonys for Best Music

and Best Scenic Design), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson actually lost money when it debuted back in 2009. Critics across the board praised the flop for its witty and totally fresh take on a well-known section of American history and blamed the poor economy for its mediocre success.

Decide for yourself if the show is too avantgarde or if it's is an experimental success when Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson performs live at Urbana’s Station Theatre from Thursday, Jan. 17 through Saturday, Feb. 2. All shows start at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and $15 on Fridays and Saturdays. To make a reservation, please call 384-4000 or reserve online via <www. stationtheatre.com>. The theatre is located at 223 N. Broadway, Urbana, with free parking directly across the street, courtesy of Save-aLot. For more information about the theatre and the Celebration Company, visit the website at <www.stationtheatre.com>.

Andrew Jackson Pretending to be Werewolf, credit to Cliff1066 and Creative Commons

Les Misérables

by Jamila Tyler I am a musical theater person. Les Misérables, if not my all-time favorite musical, certainly has a fond place in my heart. It is a finely crafted piece of theatrical work that wallows in handsome revolutionaries and the tragic figures of France’s poor underclass. Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Bounbil, with English-language lyrics by Herbert Kretzner, compress Victor Hugo’s behemoth 1862 novel into one of the biggest musical sensations in the world. When I first heard there would be a film version, I looked forward to it.

Then I actually saw the movie.

I didn’t like it.

Tom Hooper’s directing takes away the film’s chances of being great. Hooper, who won an Academy Award for the 2010 film The King’s Speech, chooses to film every moment in Les Misérables as a melodrama befitting a musical literally entitled “The Miserable Ones.” He treats every second of the film as a big, emotional moment, and lovingly fixes the camera on each performers' face as they weep and moan through the bombastic musical score; he has a love affair with the tight close-up. Used sparingly, it would have been a powerful tool. However, Hooper chooses to use the close-up continuously.

The most glaring example of this was during Anne Hathaway’s powerhouse rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream.” Hathaway puts all her effort into the performance. Unfortunately, the camera remains fixed upon her face in a tight close-up. What should be one of the most powerful moments of the film

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The Miserables from Les Miserables, used with permission by Universal Pictures and Creative Commons

comes off as static and boring. If Hooper does not use the close-up, he makes the camera bob, weave and jump cut throughout crowded and chaotic scenes. This only has the effect of making each individual set piece noisy and senseless.

There is no breathing room in this film, visually or otherwise. Pacing was another issue within the film. After a musical number is finished on the stage, there is a pause for applause. This allows the audience to have a

moment of contemplation before moving on to the next number. Les Misérables the film speeds rapidly from one song to the next, barely letting the viewers catch their breath.

Despite this, the strong performances from the cast saves Les Misérables. Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen play the Thénardiers, two scheming innkeepers. Unfortunately, they too suffer under the directing and seem tonally out of place with the rest of the film. Anne Hathaway and Hugh

Jackman (the tragically doomed Fantine and the saintly Jean Valjean, respectively) sing, weep and roar with the ability necessary to play both parts.

Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert, while not necessarily the strongest singer, has enough acting talent to overcome his own lack of vocal prowess.

Ultimately, Les Misérables is a movie that on paper should have been great. Its stellar cast was severely bogged down by bizarre directorial choices, uneven pacing and a style that detracted from the story.

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community

Dawn of the Night

University professor Craig Koslofsky explores nighttime in his latest book, Evening’s Empire

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History professor favorite, Craig Koslofsky. Credit to Brian Yu, The Daily Illni

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raig Koslofsky, a 15-year University history professor, recently published a book that is quite pertinent to Illinois’ culture: Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe. Nightlife is generally taken for granted, for it is a guaranteed feature of most societies.

However, few have questioned the origins of human night activity like Koslofsky did in his History Book of the Year winner (2011), which explores when humans experienced, in his words, “nocturnalization.”

Koslofsky’s time at the University has provided him with large-scale research opportunities to publish both Evening’s Empire as well as his first book based on his dissertation, The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany. He specializes in Germanic languages and literatures, early modern German history and European history, which he acquired through his undergraduate experience at Duke University and his graduate Ph.D program at the University of Michigan. His first book was also quite wellreceived and focused primarily on German per-

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spectives of death. This motivated him to broaden his scope to include the history of nighttime.

“The last chapter was about funerals at night, which provided the segue to my next book,” Koslofsky said. “New attitudes toward the night were not a German idea, but came from all over Europe.

I needed to expand westward.”

France, the Netherlands and Britain were the main focus of this expansion because all had a marked transition “from illegitimate to legitimate uses of the night,” he said. The early modern period between 1500 and 1800 did not mark a shift from fear of the night to a general embrace of the night, but instead marked a shift in who used the night, primarily in urban settings. The night was largely a time for youth to socialize and court one another in rural contexts.

In cities, it was primarily dominated by young men.

“It was about having fun, showing off, drinking, smashing lamps and being reckless,” Koslofsky said. “However, as the portion of the population in cities increased, the night became less necessary for people to find spouses. Furthermore, nobility populations in cities wanted to clean the streets

for their own use, for they were ‘lively but a very dangerous place.’”

Many methods were employed by authorities to nocturnalize, from the cutting edge introduction of street lighting to an increased and regulated night watch.

“Rulers wanted to transform the night into a time that was safe for respectable, older people for economical purposes,” Koslofsky said.

Though these nocturnalization methods were ineffective in rural environments, the growing nightlife of cities became cultural necessities through plays, operas, taverns, new coffeehouses and house parties. Even in desolate areas, changing attitudes toward the night existed, and people used night as a resource for power. Gatherings would occur at homes for women to spin thread together, conserving light by allocating it to a single home.

“As soon as the men showed up, it was a license for debauchery,” he said. “They essentially began to verge on orgies.”

However, these practices were regular in peasant villages and an important component of their

match-making. Although authorities attempted to crack down on these “spinning bees,” they made no progress because of peasants’ newfound sentiment of entitlement to nighttime.

Nocturnalization in urban areas was more successful because of the denser population, and it became a way for people to broadcast their social statuses. It began in royal courts and trickled downward, for nightlife spoke of the incredible expenditure on lighting the nobility could afford.

Changing sleeping patterns served as a way for people to remake the rhythm of the day to suit themselves, demonstrating their ability to possess a sort of control over nature. Essentially, people sought to colonize the night as a civilized aspect of humanity.

The biggest appeal of the night for so many people was its encouragement of socialization and fun. Because it was a time of rest from work, people indulged in sex and alcohol, among other things, making it a time people looked forward to the most. Early modern people sought to take over the time. Koslofsky’s particular inclination toward the night sparked his interest in its history.

“I’ve always been a night person,” he said. “I like to stay up at night and work at night.”

His tendency to stray from the norm and breach new historical boundaries was another factor in his decision to write Evening’s Empire, he said, for “a large part of the field of history is studying local space and land territories at a particular time, but I wanted to study time itself and what happens at certain times.”

His endeavor became successful when the book was published in 2011 after 10 years.

As for the writing process, Koslofsky was certainly impacted by the University, as well as the Champaign-Urbana community as a whole.

“U of I offers so much support for research, which allowed me to find out so many new things,” he said. “At this level, we are not looking for repeating what others have done, but discovering new things for ourselves.“ His teaching at the University also reinforced and reflected the topic of his book.

“The things we discovered in my (“The History of Night, Medieval to Modern”) class were incorporated in the book. A lot of what I needed to know to teach the class helped me write the book,” Koslofsky said. “The class and the students within it helped me hash out things on the ideas level, the research level and the enthusiasm level.”

His experience is testament to the necessity of passion and enthusiasm for a 10-year writing project because of the frustration that such an endeavor can provoke.

“There is a long period where you’re in the tunnel where you can’t see where you came in and you can't see the light at the end, but you just have to keep going, chapter by chapter, to get it done,” he said.

food & drink

that Magical Time on Saturdays and Sundays How to brunch in CU

by Mike Duffy

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s this winter break comes to a close, I find my Netflix television series diversion is wrapping up just in time. My series of choice was the first two seasons of IFC’s Portlandia, and this time my attempt to ration the dwindling episodes was much more successful than in years past. This was no easy feat considering my instant adoration for the show. Luckily, several years of uneventful school breaks spent glued to Netflix instant streaming have taught me the value of savoring a good find.

Fans of Portlandia are probably familiar with the season two finale, “Brunch Village,” in which many of the show’s memorable characters deal with Portland’s newest dining craze: brunch. One average Sunday morning, a line of hungry/trendy Portland residents forms outside The Fisherman’s Porch and quickly grows to an absurd length.

This line becomes the episode’s central conflict.

The sketch comedy show’s creators/stars, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, show us how various characters from episodes past struggle to overcome the endless line. One character struggles with indecisiveness over the decision to order the popular marionberry pancakes. Other characters, owners of a feminist bookstore called Women and Women First, struggle with the line’s imposing presence outside of their store. Yet another character is (nearly) force fed Pop-Tarts as a punishment for attempting to cut the line.

Honestly, I laughed a lot. In addition to the laughter, though, the satisfying finale got me thinking about brunch.

Could we call Champaign “Brunch Village”?

Probably not. While our beloved town certainly has a few brunch options to offer, the only endless lines that come close to the one featured in the Portlandia finale tend toward the nonexistent on Sunday mornings. My goal here is to provide some brunch tips to get the Champaign brunch craze moving. The following offers a brief guide to crafting one’s own brunch at home as well as a list of area restaurants known to accommodate those in search of this popular meal hybrid.

Once the food items of the DIY brunch have been determined, one must address a few other components. What time? Are pajamas acceptable attire?

Is this meal just an excuse to drink mimosas? Well, it depends. The brunch must be taken in a decisive direction, so it is a good idea to make these decisions early on. At least before the invitations are extended. If the idea is classy brunch, then an even number of guests is vital to achieving ideal seating.

It is also best to limit the meal to eight guests or fewer for the sake of inclusive conversation; this is just basic dinner party etiquette. Mimosas are advisable in this scenario in moderation and pajama wear should obviously be discouraged.

Classy isn’t the only way to go when it comes to brunch, of course. A casual brunch has its perks, too.

This route requires little to no consideration of the number of guests. One could simply venture into the halls of his apartment complex around 10:30 a.m. to bang on neighbors’ doors shouting “pancakes at my place!” and casual brunch would be on its way.

Pajamas are encouraged, and mimosas should be enjoyed freely. The balance of savory/sweet food items is still just as important, but comfort trumps class at a casual homemade brunch.

Champaign-Urbana Restaurants For Brunch Tired of reading the word “brunch” yet? If not, read on for some suggestions on taking this meal to the streets. Although the most accurate way to identify the best brunch place in town is prob-

ably to locate the restaurant with the longest line of impatient hip patrons on smart phones stretching out the door at brunch time, it might be easier to just pick one from this list of popular options in Champaign-Urbana. Each one has the potential to develop a line of brunch patrons that rivals the one leading up to The Fisherman’s Porch. Some of these restaurants are already local favorites that have yet to be utilized as an ideal brunch spot. They all offer a wide variety of scrumptious food items to choose from in the creation of the perfect savory/sweet, lunch/ breakfast dining experience. »Courier Café 111 N. Race St., Urbana Attached to the veritably awesome Sundaybuffet-brunch-serving Silvercreek restaurant, Courier Café churns out a mean breakfast and brunch menu. They’re known for their giant burgers, but skip that predictable lunch fare, wake up a little earlier and enjoy their face-sized pancakes, their luscious ham and scrams, and their bottomless well of hazelnut coffee. »Le Peep 2209 S. Neil St., Champaign Le Peep is guaranteed to be bursting at the seams, their clientele just as diverse and ranging as their multipaged menu, chattering groups of parents with kids and college-aged peers sitting elbow to elbow waiting for their enormous por-

tioned breakfast platters. I definitely recommend lemon and strawberry stuffed French toast, or their Denver omelet-esque Drifter skillet. »Original Pancake House 1909 W. Springfield Ave., Champaign Original Pancake House won 2012’s Best of CU as Best Breakfast Place, and for good reason. Located a little ways down Springfield, this is the place to go for never disappointing waffles and other breakfast goodies until 2:30 on the weekends. »The Apple Dumplin’ 2014 N. High Cross Rd., Urbana If you’ve got a craving for typical brunch fare – along the likes of country fried steak and the giant cinnamon roll – head on over to The Apple Dumplin’. Beware: this is not the place for egg white omelets. A country diner with a menu for farm laborers, all the food here is guaranteed to be heavy and hearty, rich on the bacon grease and sure to stick to your bones for the rest of the day. »Merry Ann’s Diner 1510 S. Neil St., Champaign 1 E. Main St., Champaign 1103 W. Oregon St., Urbana Merry Ann’s is an institution in this town, awesomely open 24 hours a day. It is the greasy diner of your dreams, whether you crave gravydrenched hash browns and eggs, or perfectly grilled horseshoe burgers.

DIY Brunch Since we can’t all afford to spend money on a frivolous fourth meal of the day at an inflated restaurant price, it helps to become familiar with some ideas on how to do it yourself. Brunch is not simply an excuse to eat breakfast foods as an early lunch.

It is a meal genre of its own. The most important thing to remember while creating your own brunch menu is that a successful brunch will incorporate some sweet and some savory elements of the two meals into one. This could mean a bagel and cream cheese with a side of yogurt and granola, for example. It could also mean a turkey club with a side of cinnamon toast sticks and syrup. There are plenty of potentially delicious combinations between lunch foods and breakfast foods that can be made at home. As long as the savory/sweet balance is maintained, the meal will be a success.

Merry Ann's Brunch, credit to Jasmine Lee

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MUSIC

COVER ME IMPRESSED

The 22nd annual Great Cover Up returns to Highdive

BY EVAN LYMAN

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usic fans (or art fans in general) have a constant desire to compare artists with one another. Whether these comparisons are fair or not often gets lost in the fray, but the act of listening to an artist’s music is one that begs for association. We create these frameworks in our head that say “James Brown is the Godfather of Soul” and "Elvis is the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll” (although we all know many earlier black artists deserve that title just as much) and we go from there, creating something like a family lineage that explains the creation of genres and subgenres from blues and jazz to the birth of rock ‘n’ roll to trap music (Yes, I just mentioned jazz and trap music in the same sentence.) This is evident more than ever in today’s era of Tumblr, Pitchfork, music festivals and the resurgence of vinyl records.

For some reason, musicians will do their best to fight being compared to other artists, attacking journalists and critics for their laziness and willingness to simply put everyone in a box. This is an expected and almost welcomed part of the struggle for music snob supremacy. In fact, it’s arguably the central difference between critics and artists that critics will openly deride those who they believe are going about the art form in

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Even though musicians like to fight comparisons for the sake of keeping their indie credibility, the most honest way for them to let us into their own perceived lineage is through song covers. This is why covers are such an effective, important and fun part of music. From the dawn of time, storytellers have taken the tales of yore and put their own creative spin on them. Over time, these stories morph into different stories, the same way music genres morph into genres and subgenres.

The Great Cover Up may be the most lauded and popular event in the Champaign-Urbana music scene, at least from the outside looking in. Pygmalion probably takes the cake from the opposite perspective. If we want to understand why that is, I believe it comes down to familiarity, nostalgia and our propensity as music fans to glorify the past.

Going to a concert may be scary or uncomfortable if you’ve never attended the venue, seen the band or heard their songs. The Great Cover Up rids us of this discomfort, this barrier to entry. If the band covers a more famous band’s catalogue, it creates fairly easy connections in the head of someone who has never heard them before. Suddenly we can connect

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the current band to an artist who may mean something to us, and then we can go from there deciding whether or not we like that band and would like to see them play original music.

That, along with the element of surprise of guessing who’s covering what, is why The Great Cover Up has been, and will continue to be, such a hit, and that’s why The Great Cover Up is a can’tmiss event for any CU music fan. So, if you’re

looking to make that much-awaited introduction into the scene, clear your schedule for the weekend and head to Highdive on Jan. 19, 20, 22 and 24. Introduce yourself to some area favorites (Dirty Feathers, Mike Ingram, The Duke of Uke, Evil Tents) some popular up-and-comers (Grandkids, That’s No Moon, Sonny Stubble) and some impressive fresh faces (Electric Bitters, Anna Karenina/Anna Karina).

Grandkids. Used with permission from Grandkids

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TUESDAY, Jan. 22 That’s No Moon Evil Tents The Chemicals The Stars They Beckon Electric Bitters Megan Johns Morgan Orion THURSDAY, Jan. 24 The Dirty Feathers Scurvine Isaac Arms Grandkids Sonny Stubble Anna Karenina/Anna Karina Lady Pilots

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MIDDLE MARKET

Every third Saturday of the month, Jan. 19 to May 12, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Inside Lincoln Square Village in Urbana All ages The Holiday Market has ended and the Farmers' Market still has a couple months until it makes its spring reawakening — so what to do if you’re in the mood for homemade crafts, baked goodies, produce and all kinds of knick knacks? No worries, there is the Middle Market for those previously barren months. Locality is emphasized here, all the vendors’ items for sale are made, grown or produced in Illinois. You’ll be sure to find your favorites from the Holiday Market and Market From the Square, as well as some new faces, so plan your (every third) Saturdays around this new development. —Jasmine Lee, Food & Drink Editor

FRIDAY NIGHT STAND-UP COMEDY SHOWCASE Jan. 18th, 10 p.m.

The Iron Post, 120 S. Race St. U. $5

Usually, the Iron Post is a jazz venue. But every month, stand-up comic Andrew Voris puts on a comedy showcase at the Post. Which leads me to think, how different are stand-up and jazz, really? Jazz includes prepared compositions with improvising, just like comedy combines written bits with spontaneous riffs.

Jazz is focused on watched performance, as is stand-up. Stand-up is easier to watch and perform when alcohol or drugs are involved, as is jazz music. The similarities are endless! Truly, the only difference is saxophones. Regardless, check out Mr. Voris’ showcase this Friday at the Post. Joketellers include: local favorite, Rich Castle; Peoria’s finest, Jeff Bailey; and two Chicago up-n-comers, Kyle Scanlin and Ross Kelly.

Not to mention, Andrew Voris himself will do some sets. It will be a night of laughter, love and forgiveness, this Friday at the Iron Post. —Nick Martin, Managing Editor

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Jan. 19th, 6-9 p.m.

Hilton Garden Inn, Banquet Hall, 1501 S. Neil St. $26 per person If you’re a mom looking to relive some of your high school glory, look no further than Mom Prom — a prom for moms! For those moms who never made it to prom, now’s the chance! Unlike real high school, you have a guaranteed date to this prom: your son! That’s right, Mom Prom was designed for mothers and sons to have a special night out. Music, dancing and a three-course meal will be provided as well as a goodie bag for your boy! Tickets are being sold at Bresnan Meeting Center. —Jessica Bourque, Arts & Entertainment Editor

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Isn't there something you can sniff to expand your butthole?

The lovely bones What is stock?

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Dog Soup, used with permission by Merelymel13 and Creative Commons

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tock. The word itself conjures notions of simplicity and cooking in its rawest form. It is the essential life force behind the culinary experience, if you will. A friend of mine, enrolled in a culinary program in Chicago, once explained to me that stock is not only essential, but it's the foundation to cooking. Stocks can be transformed into soups, gravies, in French cuisine the demi-glace, used for cooking risottos and countless other dishes. Done correctly, stock will not only take your cooking to the next level, but will transform once standard dishes into something truly amazing.

To describe stock simply, it is a flavored water preparation, created by simmering bones and vegetables for hours to impart flavor to the water. There are variations of stock, distinguished by the type of bones used. For example, beef, chicken or veal are commonly used, but stocks can also be prepared solely with vegetables. Another way stocks can vary are by color: There is light stock, usually prepared with bones that have been washed before cooking, and dark stock, made with beef or veal bones that have been roasted. Similar in function, each of these stocks are unique and require slightly different preparation. To determine which stock is right for you, you first need to know what the stock will be primarily used for.

Creating a stock can be simple, and this past holiday season has given me the opportunity to practice, if nothing else, creating the perfect stock. After the turkey had been stripped of all of its meat and all that was left was the seemingly unusable carcass, I decided that I would not let any part of that turkey go to waste. I decided that with the leftover turkey meat and all of the bones, I would try to create a few dishes from both the turkey and a stock made from the turkey bones.

Creating the turkey stock was easy enough, as it only required a few ingredients that were already in my fridge. These ingredients were celery, carrots and onions. This is known as a mirepoix in traditional French cuisine. I started with a large stock pot, a stainless steel 12-quart model, the vegetables and turkey bones. With these things, I hoped to create a delicious start to a few traditional post-holiday

meals. The recipe I used for this stock included one large onion, four carrots and four celery stalks, all diced, and the roughly four pounds of turkey bones, thrown into the pot and then covered with cold water. To the pot I added two bay leaves, two garlic cloves, some parsley and salt. Although this was the recipe I used, there are many out there to choose from, depending on how you want your stock to be flavored. Some recipes call for peppercorns or others cloves. I put the pot on high heat and brought the water to a boil; once boiling, the flame is lowered, allowing the liquid to simmer. The liquid should simmer for five to six hours uncovered; this will allow excess water to cook off and the flavor of the bones and vegetables to fortify the liquid, giving us the magic liquid we know as stock. Using a mesh strainer, the liquid can be poured into another pot.

It's a truly painless process, and the time spent making the stock seemed to fly. I started early so that it could be ready for dinner and it worked out great. Of the six hours it took to create the stock, about 30 minutes were actually spent working in the kitchen, aside from the occasional skimming of impurities and stirring of the liquid. Brown stock is essentially the same process, but there is one more step prior to putting the bones in the stock pot: The bones, usually beef or veal bones, are covered in oil and placed on a baking sheet, roasted at 450 degrees until brown, then are simmered in water the same way as described previously.

I was able to make turkey pot pie, turkey soup, turkey gravy for mashed potatoes, and cooked my rice with the turkey stock. Each dish was seemingly better than the last, and the food tasted even better knowing that each had been made from the stock that simmered for six hours. The gravy was the best I had ever had, way better than store-bought, and the turkey soup could put Progresso out of business.

All of these dishes were made from the bones that I would have normally thrown away. So, next time you have extra bones from a chicken, turkey or even pork chops, make a stock and experience all the dishes that can come from such a “simple” concoction.

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