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on readbuzz.com Arts & Entertainment: Don’t you just hate thinking about growing up? We can’t be kids forever, so check out Imani Brooks and F. Amanda Tugade’s commentary on reaching adulthood.

Food & Drink: Head on over to the Food & Drink section of readbuzz.com to read more restaurant reviews of the best dining spots in CU.

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Greetings, readers! To all community members: take advantage of the emptiness of campustown this week! Hit up Murphy’s and bask in the empty coziness of those carved-up tables and benches. As you read this, I will be on my couch petting my dog Franny, as spring break is one of the precious few weeks of the year that I get to spend at home in Highland Park, Ill. Though I typically find myself in a major hurry to leave my hometown at the end of a vacation, the first few days bring me a certain nostalgia that warms me to the very core. I reminisce about my childhood, and I like to think mine is particularly odd given where I’m from.

When I tell people I’m from Highland Park, if they’ve heard of it, they assume I’m rich. It’s a fair assumption, given the demographics and reputation of the city. The U.S. Census Bureau says white people make up 91 percent of Highland Park residents, while the median household income sits at $114,600. I wish I could say my family’s household income reached that number, but I’m 99 percent sure it doesn’t.

Another unique aspect of Highland Park is the very large Jewish population that lives there. Growing up, many of my very good friends were shocked to hear that I was Catholic. I was the first gentile some of them had ever known, and I was constantly reminded that I was different. It’s odd that someone who looks like me would face any ridicule for having these traits that are typically associated with the Caucasian ideals of beauty, but sometimes I felt like I was from outer space or something. It’s a bit like the Twilight Zone in that regard. I went to maybe 200 bar/bat mitzvahs in middle school, and I was probably the only kid who could dance.

My neighborhood, Ravinia, started as an artists’ community and still maintains a great deal of that tradition. It’s like a small town within a town. In the summer, I could clearly hear concerts at The Ravinia Festival from my front porch. Prior to its annexation into Highland Park at the turn of the century, it was considered a separate village, and there are still a great deal of small businesses and restaurants lining the busier streets. Billy Corgan recently opened a tea shop about two blocks from my house, but I have yet to go to an open mic night there. It would probably be swarming with nearby New Trier hipsters.

My friends and I would walk everywhere, to the White Hen by the train tracks or the park outside of one of the city’s (very few, perhaps only) housing projects behind it, causing trouble. Perhaps I should cause some while I’m still here. After all, I’m just, as Kanye West put it in his debut single “Through The Wire,” “a grown-ass kid,” right? Hopefully, like ‘Ye, I don't get “locked up for stupid shit that I did.”

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by Andy Estabrook Are you looking to spice up your life or connect with your inner self through nature? Do you enjoy nature walks and bird watching? If you answered yes (or no) to either of these questions, why not try Sunday morning bird walks? You can wake up early on Sunday and search for birds while learning basic bird watching and identification techniques!

Central Illinois plays host to myriad birds, from the orange-breasted American Robin to the Red-tailed Hawk. The bird walks take place every Sunday until May 26 and meet at the Anita Purves Nature Center parking lot, 1505 N. Broadway Ave., Urbana, at 7:30 a.m. Each walk usually lasts about an hour and a half.

The Anita Purves Nature Center is a cost-free way to explore and enjoy nature during any season and is appropriate for all ages. The center is located at the north end of Crystal Lake Park. It is home to a variety of wildlife and has hands-on displays to help inform travelers about the flora and fauna. It is also handicap accessible, so everyone has a chance to connect with nature. The nonprofit Audubon Nature Shop, located at the center, sells a multitude of nature-related items, such as binoculars and birdfeeders. Traveling to the nature center is as easy as hopping on the MTD Gold bus line during the week or the MTD Silver line on Saturdays. If you’re feeling adventurous, visit the nature center and explore the rich environment by going on a bird walk!

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hair on and off the body. I’d like to think that because my body temperature consistently rests at 98.4 degrees that I suffer more from winter temperatures.

And what makes the cold pain worse? Wet hair of course! This is incredibly frustrating mostly because I must always dry my hair immediately after I shower. What if my roommates are sleeping?! What if there is no time?! This keeps me from just about ever showering in the morning.

Wet hair off the body is just gross. It’s irrational yet universally accepted, and every shower drain suffers the consequences.

» Wet Food: Again, there is no logic to this gripe, but I don’t think I’m alone. If you’re anything like my roommates and me, your dishes spend one to three days resting in the sink before you actually wash them. Often times, bits of tomato, eggplant or, best yet, soggy grains of rice cohabitate with the pile of dishes! If you don’t own a garbage disposal, disgust ensues when removing these soggy morsels from the sink drain.

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Like Andrea Baumgartner Andrea Baumgartner Arts & Entertainment Editor Arts & Entertainment Editor » Peanut Butter: I put it in my oatmeal; it’s always my choice of dipping sauce for apple slices; forget cream cheese on bagels; brownies? You know I throw peanut butter on for good measure; and when I have nothing else to eat, I’ll take my peanutbutter by the spoonful. I am addicted. If there were one food item I would want with me on a deserted island, I would pick peanutbutter hands-down. It tastes good on just about anything, and its salty sweetness is so darn satisfying.

My mom and I are as polar opposite as two people can be, but if there were any indication that I am her daughter, or that I was at least raised by her, it is our common love for creamy, sticky Peanut Butter. Boys, if you wanna win my heart, bring me some of dat Jif. Lee Like Jasmine Former Food & Drink Editor

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Outgoing Food & Drink Editor :( » Mulan finally coming ot of the Disney Vault: YES. FINALLY. Mulan is one of my favorite Disney movies. “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” is even currently my phone’s ringtone. I was blissfully unaware that it had even gone into the vault.

Luckily, my friend Brent texted me the other day saying he’d placed an order for the re-release. In my mind, Mulan is one of the best Disney movies (it shares top-tier-status with Tangled, Lion King, Peter Pan, and The Little Mermaid). With the awesome musical numbers, ridiculous side

characters, uplifting moral message and ooey gooey family dynamic, you can’t go wrong. And even better, Mulan’s a kickass woman warrior who has a teeny-tiny dragon and spazzy cricket as her two consciences. Also, Shang is mighty fine.

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Assistant Art Director » Having to Defend Zooey Deschanel: I am a self professed fan of Ms. Deschanel. Ive enjoyed her acting since I was a mere 10-year-old watching Almost Famous. Since then I’ve seen, and for the most part enjoyed, a decent portion of her work from The New Guy, 500 Days of Summer, and her new show New Girl. However, whenever it gets out to some friends that I do in fact enjoy her work, a rift is created. Ill state it right now: I do not wish to take away anyone’s right to feel seething passionate hate. I feel hate for several things, and a few people. Yes, that means you Kevin. You know what you did. Fuck you, Kevin. But I digress.

Some friends of mine passionately hate Zooey, and deem me to be spokesperson in defense of all her misdeeds towards them. Ive grown used to this throughout the years, and while I may not be able to stop the attacks on Zooey, you may be able to duck out of these conversations with awesome segues such as “Hey bacon still tastes salty?” and “Sometimes I think my life would improve 174% if I had a black leather jacket.”

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» Living in bed For the past few months, I have used my bed for all means of living. I sleep there, of course, but I also use it as my desk to do grown-up activities, like spending my entire tax refund within 30 minutes of filing my taxes. I also treat my bed like my couch, because it is perfectly suited for watching movies or TV shows. I can sit upright, lay on my side or even flat on my back. I even eat there from time to time. Yeah, I may have spilled once or twice, but if you put a pillow over that soup stain, it never happened.

They say if you use your bed for anything other than sleep, your body gets confused and can’t fall asleep as easily as it once did. This is absolutely true. You may have pulled an all-nighter, but have you ever pulled one laying down, under the covers and with your head on a pillow? I have, and I hate myself for it every time I lay down for bed at noon, 5 p.m., 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.

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ot all vacations are created equal. There are the dream ones where you lay out on a balmy beach, travel to Europe’s finest museums or commune with nature on a peaceful hike. Then there are those vacations that could be only classified as hellish at best. In honor of the University’s spring break, we’re taking a look at five vacation films that will make you BUZZ glad youTHURSDAY missed your flight.

MARCH 21 Hostel (2005) corp note...keep this same size always Fresh off of their recent college graduation, 1 tourists X 5.417Josh and Paxton decide to American do the traditional post-grad backpacking across 1/8th page Europe. While on a European train, a fellow passenger’s tales of a hostel containing beautiful women draws the pair to Bratislava. To be fair, the two do get to see their beautiful women named Natalya and Svetlana. Unfortunately for Josh and Paxton, these women work for the Elite Hunting Agency, a top-secret institution that allows wealthy patrons to torture and kill humans for sport. Josh and Paxton’s European adventure goes rather south to say the least.

Upon its opening, Hostel was met with a torrent of controversy for its outrageously gruesome content, including one Achilles’ tendon severing that still makes me queasy. Despite this, the film was successful enough to spawn two increasingly terrible sequels, Hostel: Part II and Hostel: Part III. –Jamila Tyler Titanic (1997) While not the first thing that comes to mind as a “vacation movie,” Titanic is exactly that.

Though I consider myself a large fangirl of both Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, the romance between their characters Rose and Jack is nothing but a hot ‘n heavy cruise-fling, speaking honestly. There, I said it. Sure, they have big plans — leave together after the ship reaches land and get hitched and start their life together — but not only does the literal

ship sink, so does our dreamboat Jack Dawson. Hell, nearly all of the passengers on the cruise ship meet their waterlogged fate. So on the one hand, sure, there’s definitely that beautiful 1997 James Cameron love story being told: steamy car sex, nude charcoal drawings and the now-token scene of hand-fondling on the ship’s front with Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” blasting. On the other hand, I reiterate, (nearly) everyone dies. If you need reminders of this, I give a final example of this poorly planned vacation-ship of watery dreams: the musicians of the Titanic playing their final performance of “Nearer, My God, to Thee” before perishing.

Ouch. –Kaitlin Penn Cabin in the Woods (2012) What could possibly be worse than the spooky carnage found in creepy forest getaways like Evil Dead, Friday the 13th or The Strangers? How about the killers and dead things that are not just evil spirits or madmen in disguise. Instead, they’re being carefully controlled by conniving people, hiding in an undisclosed location and monitoring your every move. Check Cabin in the Woods, the horror-satire-gory romp directed

by Drew Goddard and written and produced by some dude named Joss Whedon. I’m still not 100 percent sure on how much Goddard and Whedon are sending up the genre or just snagging an opportunity to feed their own guilty pleasures. But you can be certain you’ll have a ton more fun than these five college kids hoping to catch a break and chillax (each embodies a classic horror/teen movie stereotype). After one particular scene involving a bear trap, you’ll find yourself compelled to join PETA, without entirely being sure as to why. –Ben Mueller Taken (2008) Can’t a 17-year-old girl just follow U2 concerts around Europe in peace? According to Taken, grave karmic punishment awaits those who lie to their fathers, claiming they’ll be spend-

ing their summer vacation in the Louvre. Kim (Maggie Grace) gets her CIA super-spy daddy (Liam Neeson) to sign off on a summer in Paris, swearing it’ll be a wholly educational endeavor. I don’t know why either of Kim’s parents thought that a girl who runs everywhere like an excited toddler and gets ecstatic over a pony as a birthday gift (to be fair, it’s a horse) has the maturity to traipse around the continent.

Apparently the punishment for lying is that she gets kidnapped, drugged, violated (as can be surmised from an auctioneer claiming she’s been tested “pure.” Read: virgin) and sold in a prostitution-ring for wealthy rapists of the world. Overlooking the plot problems (convenience of CIA dad’s fears being confirmed), the most disturbing part is that the ending is supposed to be “happy”; Kim is saved, she still runs everywhere, suggesting her innocent spirit hasn’t been broken, and apparently she recovers enough to make another trip abroad with her parents for Taken 2. –Amanda Toledo Two for the Road (1967) Imagine a tale of a family vacation tale written

by Frederic Raphael, one of the screenwriters of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. In 1967, director Stanley Donen used Raphael’s script, called Two for the Road. Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney star as Joanna and Mark Wallace in a complex and melancholy tale that covers a dozen or so years of a rocky marriage as the couple is on a French holiday, traveling to the same towns and beach where they first met and fell in love. Donen weaves overlapping flashbacks detailing the origin and present troubles of Joanna and Mark exploring the issues of romance, impassioned commitment, parenthood, terribly hurtful infidelities and rather bitter reconciliations. Edited with a hip 1960s artsy flare, the film, with its fine acting and moody Henry Mancini score, created a strange metaphor for surviving marriage. –Syd Slobodnik

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Urbana Museum of Photography pays tribute to art form

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"Photo Secession" Exhibit at Urbana Museum of Photography; by Liz Brinckerhoff

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downtown Urbana, nestled between a small cinema, a vintage bookstore and a cute Thai restaurant, sits an intimate, quaint museum that’s no more than a year old. Finding the Urbana Museum of Photography is a bit tricky, but worth the adventure.

Upon opening the doors, there is a stairway that leads to two rooms; the room to the left is host to the museum. The gallery is small but relatively spacious, and upbeat music echoes through the door accompanied by a few voices laughing from the inside.

The museum consists of two rooms connected by a doorway with framed black and white photos, neatly organized on the walls.

The museum follows the idea of less is more, which does the artwork justice.

Once inside, visitors are immediately greeted with enthusiasm from Lyosha Svinarski, the owner of the museum and a self-taught painter and photographer, alongside Lisa Janes, the curator for the museum’s new “Photo-Secession” exhibit.

Svinarski grew up in Leningrad, Russia, and moved to Champaign-Urbana in 1989.

“Growing up in the most beautiful city in the world, where art is your living environment, art was very close to me,” he said.

What initially brought Svinarski here was his participation, as a 20-year-old, in the 1970s underground art movement in Leningrad, which consisted of all types of art including literature, music and vi-

sual art. The people involved in this movement didn’t look at art as an occupation or a means of making money. For these people, and Svinarski especially, art was a lifestyle and a different way of looking at the world.

In search for a similar environment to share these feelings and perspectives about art, he came to the U.S. and then to Urbana to spread this same enthusiasm and love for art.

As for the museum, the idea was crafted by Svinarski for almost four years, until he had the opportunity to bring it to life.

“I saw a future museum as a living organism,” he said. Svinarski didn’t see it as a “normal museum with sleep-walking security and zero visitors.” He wanted a place where the employees would be professionals or photographers, not bureaucats.

A year ago, Svinarski received a grant from Urbana to open the museum.

“I was pretty sure that all I would have to do is keep working and stay in focus,” he said. “Running a museum did not slow me down from continuing my work as a freelancer.”

Until he received the grant, being a freelance photographer was primarily how Svinarski supported the museum.

Janes started working at the museum in November, just a few months after Svinarski took over the space.

“I had heard about the museum from a friend and walked by multiple times and saw ads for previous shows, but whenever I would show up, we kept missing each other,” she said.

At the most recent opening show in November, Janes finally met Svinarski and had a chance to talk with him for a few minutes.

“We are sort of kindred spirits with a similar idea in what a museum should have and be in terms of photography,” she said.

A common goal, love of photography and desire to share that love with other people, is what really brought them together and are the reasons why, she said, they work so well together.

The Urbana Museum of Photography’s “Photo-Secession” exhibit is based on the pictorialism movement started in the early 1900s by Alfred Stieglitz, a German Jewish immigrant and photographer. This movement began in a response to critics’ claims that photography was nothing more than a simple record of reality and that it wasn’t, and shouldn’t, be considered an art form. Stieglitz was one of the first photographers to bring photography into artistic acclaim. His style focused on more romantic qualities, such as softer images of landscape, which is the most common look for pictorialist images, as well as still life and sometimes portraits.

The idea for the show was “all Lyosha,” Janes said. He was inspired to get people excited and

involved because all of the pieces currently on the display are submissions from local and regional photographers.

“We had gotten a lot of submissions,” Janes said.

“And how we chose which photos to use came down to the quality and care of how the photo was developed, and also if it followed the pictorialist aesthetic. We wanted to include as many photos as we could without cluttering the walls and making the visual aesthetic too distracting.”

The goal of the museum and exhibit is to spread the love of photography, she said.

“Because digital photography is so ubiquitous, it’s easy for people to say that photography isn’t a real art form,” Janes said. “There’s a lot of time spent in taking the shot, deciding what type of print to display the photo in and to develop it, which is a lengthy process that requires a lot of luck and patience.”

What they’re ultimately trying to accomplish is to urge people to become more involved with photography and open their eyes to different forms of art, rather than the traditional paintings found in bigger museums.

The “Photo-Secession” exhibit is located on the second floor of the museum, at 122A W. Main St., Urbana. This particular exhibit runs from March 7 to May 7. Visit the Urbana Museum of Photography's Facebook page for updates on the exhibit and more information.

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Power of three How three Chambana men turned their love of beer into a craft brewery

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Triptych Brewery. Photo by Samantha Bakall

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riptych (from the Greek adjective meaning “three-fold”), means a work of art, the products of human creativity, which is divided into three sections.

Located on Woodfield Drive in Savoy, next to a bright red and white barn, stands Triptych Brewery, a former office building that the founders have completely renovated into a small, but efficiently organized brewery and tasting room.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Joshi Fullop and Anthony Benjamin, two of Triptych’s founders, one snowy afternoon. I also checked out the space and some of the beers that were on tap.

Similar to the brewery’s environment, Fullop and Benjamin were affable, approachable and absolutely teeming with knowledge and pride in the beers they brew on-site.

The Triptych men come from a myriad backgrounds: Joshi Fullop was once a judge, Anthony Benjamin worked for the University's College of Engineering and Jason Bartell was an accountant.

They have spent the past three years working on construction, building from the ground up. They created a Kickstarter fund, and from the beginning, made sure to act according to their ethos, which is to be responsible, productive members of the community. Therefore, they strive to create a completely locally made product, ensuring that they would join and maintain the quality local foods movement captivating CU, as well as constantly remaining in touch with and giving back to the community. Their official Facebook page is actually a sight to behold. They provide constant updates, friendly shout-outs to fans — everything good about the notion that beer is a communal thing.

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Can’t you already notice the pattern of “three” here? Naming things is always the trickiest aspect in any creative endeavor, and attempting to come up with one word that could encompass all of the passion and context of the brewery proved difficult. However, Fullop and Benjamin realized that they kept returning to the idea of three. The three of them decided to tackle this project head on, the three partners were spread across the Champaign-Urbana-Savoy area and hops, barley and water make up the three crucial ingredients for German beer. Nothing summed up the business better than “triptych,” so that’s what they went with.

Walk into Triptych and you’d have no idea that this industrial space was once an office building.

The aforementioned sense of giving back to the community extends to the actual establishment itself. Several pews line the walls, round wooden tables are scattered about the room and an absolutely gorgeous bar frames the end of the tasting room. (Note: Quirky, beer-related advertisements are framed and hung in the incredibly nice bathrooms.) The pews come from a nearby church and the steel elements of the brewery pay homage to the industrial parts of Champaign-Urbana. One tabletop bears a chessboard design, but after a close inspection, you realize the design is made entirely out of the different kinds of grains used for brewing beer. That same attention to detail extends to the bar, which was designed and created

by Triptych’s own master carpenter and foreman, Kyle. He was additionally responsible for finding the eight German-imported taps positioned behind the bar. (Amusingly, he was nursing a full glass of beer at that exact bar throughout the en-

tirety of the interview.) Framed black and white photographs are hung on the walls, visual souvenirs from the men’s sightseeing treks through Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic, where they had spent two weeks touring as many breweries as possible.

The brewery is just one open room, but a tour of the place demonstrates just how well Benjamin, Fullop and Bartell manipulated the space into a microcosm of a national brewery. A tour is a regular part of the brewery experience, an educational aspect that precedes a stint in the tasting room.

They brew all the beer on site, from the boiling of the hops, to the chilled storage of barrels and kegs, to the eventual tapping and tasting of the finished crafted product. Here, Benjamin, as the expert brewer, takes over. He hovers over the two giant tanks — appropriately labeled “Munich” and “San Diego,” the two definitive old school and new school traditions of brewing — that take up most of the gated-off production center. You could say he’s been bred to brew beer, what with his greatgrandfather having distributed for Al Capone during Prohibition. It’s in his blood: that thrumming, insistent need to provide a good time for those who can appreciate a quality glass of beer.

Benjamin calls the tap room “the mothership of brand and brewing.” The first place where regular customers experience nationally distributed beers usually at bars. Triptych wanted to try something new, to offer an ideal space for a diverse crowd of people to enjoy quality beer. He says that his intention is for visitors “to leave with knowledge, if that’s what they’re interested in, and to be able to taste test beers that have an average APV of 3 percent so they can be acquainted with

new flavors and ideas.” He has an extreme wide range of audience he has to cater through, and so his overall motive is to introduce people to craft beer through what he dubs “gateway beers.”

Experimental beers, while they’re always fun to brew, are few and between.

Fullop echoed that thought, “We don’t make beers that (people) aren’t familiar or fond of.

There’s always a time for every beer, and it’s better not to be tangled up in the specifics. Stereotypes are broken here, particularly in experience.

We brew good, clean beer that can be enjoyed without going to extremes.”

He is also quick to emphasize that Triptych is a brewery foremost, not a pub, as the taproom clearly demonstrates. As such, the place is fully stocked with empty growlers ready to be filled with a visitor’s favorite and taken home to be enjoyed. (Benjamin revealed that he is planning on selling bombers and corked barrels of Triptych’s beers in the near future.) A real-time digital menu, appropriately divided into three panels, lists the current beers on draft, an ongoing slideshow helpfully explaining and describing the flavor profiles of each beer. The menu is organized to gently persuade the customer in what order to taste test the four ounce servings of each tap; it goes from number one to eight.

Every two weeks or so, or according to how quickly or slowly a keg is drained, Benjamin changes it up. There is no restaurant component to Triptych, which is as much as a result from none of the men being restaurateurs as it is to emphasize that Triptych is all about the beer. However, they have the policy that anyone can bring food into the taproom, even delivery, which will allow the brewery to collaborate even further with the community and specifically with restaurants.

There is much planned for the future of Triptych.

Benjamin is eager to start on watermelon wheats for the summer and Curtis Orchard based pumpkin ales once the leaves start changing colors. He also mentions the possibility for a hop school, which will enable him to highlight, for example, a series of pale ales, through which he can educate his clientele about how much hops can change the same base of beer. Triptych already has nurtured relationships with several CU restaurants, among which are Radio Maria, Big Grove Tavern and Dublin O’Neil's. Now he is excited to collaborate with other breweries, possibly even abroad.

For any and all beer enthusiasts, and even beer newbies, come down and spend a few hours in what is sure to become Champaign-UrbanaSavoy’s new treasure. Accessibility is first and foremost: There will be at least one founder in the tap room pretty much every day, ready to turn you onto some of the tastiest brew in the community.

1703 Woodfield Dr., Savoy Tap room hours: »Monday-Thursday, 3–10 p.m. »Friday, 3–11 p.m. »Saturday, 12 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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he life of a college student can seem quite predictable at times. Students go to class during the day, socialize at night and sometimes become overwhelmed with the stress of midterms and finals.

As if that isn’t enough, imagine having to manage your own small business while attending school.

Nate Hartmann has done just that by becoming an entrepreneur while still an undergraduate. Hartmann is a senior studying in creative writing at the University. Along with his academic responsibilities, he holds the position as the creative director of a small advertising company he created, Yellow Box Advertising. Hartmann has been managing the company since it first launched in April of 2010, his senior year of high school.

Yellow Box originally developed due to Hartmann’s interest in creating web commercials for small businesses. The company is run by students and specializes in handling media campaigns, which focus on providing services such as email marketing, websites, social media, videos and mobile apps.

The company creates advertising strategies for small businesses in both Chicago and Champaign.

Yellow Box was first introduced to the Champaign area at the Champaign County Business Expo during

Hartmann’s freshman year of college. Though his cago, the company has made a conscious effort first intention for Yellow Box was for it to provide to ensure that Champaign businesses receive commercialized films, he soon realized that one ser- the full effect of its services. vice alone was not enough. A number of Champaign “The business started in Chicago, so I had the businesses that were interested in working with domain name of yellowboxchicago.com and built Yellow Box lacked having any form of online adver- a site around that,” Hartmann said. “As it moved to tisement. In today’s society, Hartmann saw that Champaign, I didn’t want it to seem geographically technology matters, so he seized the opportunity. limiting, so it moved to yellowboxadvertising.com.”

“In order to serve small businesses, just offering For an advertising company that has focused on one thing wasn’t enough,” Hartmann said. “A small the huge metropolitan market of Chicago, what can business doesn’t have the same resources as a large it do for small businesses in Champaign? one, such as full agencies that can walk it through “We aim to provide Madison Avenue results on every step of the process as it’s building an online Main Street budgets,” Hartmann said.

Yellow Box’s small business opportunities help it presence. From there, I branched out. Instead of just doing that one facet, I focused on websites, email to be a draw in the Champaign area.

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Not only has he made a name writing songs, he has also branched out into short stories and screenplays. Pick any song out of the Nebraska musician’s discography and his strength as a songwriter is instantly apparent.

“You have to choose your words really wisely,” he said about writing lyrics. “Whatever you’re trying to express, you don’t have much time to say it.”

While he said he is always the process of trying to get one of his screenplays made into a film, Kasher is also working on new solo material.

Words are wisely chosen on Kasher’s 2010 Saddle Creek album The Game of Monogamy, as they are sure to be on its follow up.

Both new and old songs are played at his

shows, pleasing fans. A Cursive song or two may even be heard at his shows, “just kind of out of appreciation for people who are coming out.”

Kasher’s never had a trick to making his exceptional songs.

“It’s kind of rudimentary,” he said. He starts with chords, then a melody, then he introduces it to the band, and then adds lyrics. A “standard process” to Kasher, but the outcome always goes beyond the “standard” song.

Nate Kinsella, former CU resident, will support Kasher’s east-coast shows as Birthmark on this tour. When he stops at Mike ‘N’ Molly’s, he will be playing with the misleadingly named indie rock band Brighton MA, who are from Chicago, as well as locals Anna Karenina/Anna Karina.

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Where: The Canopy Club Cost: $6 »Minor Characters return to Champaign-Urbana after playing Mike ‘N’ Molly’s on their tour to SXSW earlier in March. The four-piece indie pop band from Chicago put on a near-perfect show at Mike n’ Molly’s and is expected to repeat its efforts on Friday, while lead singer Andrew Pelletier will most likely bring out his best Michael Jackson impersonation again. Ryan Groff of CU’s Elsinore will play a solo set, while Chicago’s Faux Paw and Deadbeat will accompany the artists to provide an all-around awesome indie pop show from start to finish.

What: “5 Bands, 5 Bucks” series Who: The Stars, They Beckon w/ Secondary Modern, The Hallow, Dead Town Revival and Barrowe When: Saturday, March 23, 9 p.m.

Where: Mike n’ Molly’s Cost: $5 »Champaign’s The Stars, They Beckon will bring their Jawbreaker-inspired melodic punk to Mike n’ Molly’s on Saturday night with support from Carbondale psychedelic-pop band Secondary Modern. Also featured in the show are rock bands The Hallow, Dead Town Revival and Barrowe.

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Internationally renowned harpist Naoko Yoshino will perform at Krannert as part of a recital sponsored by the Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund and the University’s College of Fine and Applied Arts. Yoshino’s resume includes performances with the Berlin Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as invitwations to perform at international festivals and the inauguration ceremony for the restoration of the Sistine Chapel.

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oth major movie multiplexes in the CU area are currently undergoing renovations to expand and make improvements to enhance the movie-going experience for patrons. The Goodrich Savoy 16 and Carmike Beverly Cinema 18 in Champaign started their lengthy overhauls this winter.

In November, the Savoy 16 commenced the remodeling process with small tasks such as removing wall decor, waiting until after the holidays to make big changes.

After renovations, all of the auditoriums at the Savoy 16 will have stadium seating, updated chairs and more speakers. Some auditoriums will include brand new leather rocker seats, a change from the current Tempur-Pedic ones. Also coming to the Savoy 16 is an IMAX theater — CU’s first.

Melissa Garske, the manager at the Savoy 16, said the IMAX auditorium features exceptional sound and an enormous screen, approximately 80 feet wide and 42 feet tall. For 3D movies, the IMAX comes with Tru3D equipment, which projects 3D images from two projectors as opposed to the usual one. Regular movie ticket prices should not be affected by the renovations, but there will be a surcharge for movies in IMAX. “We’ve been planning on renovating since about March 2012,” she said. She had no idea the Beverly 18 was planning renovations until after the Savoy 16 started its construction.

The Beverly 18 has completely closed down to undergo its renovations. Carmike Cinemas plans to replace the Beverly 18 with the Carmike 13, which will feature larger auditoriums and accommodate around 3,000 patrons in total. The new Carmike 13 will not contain an IMAX, but will have a “Big D” auditorium, which will seat over 500 people and boast a screen that stands three stories tall.

The Carmike 13 will open for operation gradually as construction progresses. The renovation will go in phases, closing off sections as it goes, just like Savoy 16 now. Construction on the Carmike

could last up to a year depending on weather and other contributing factors.

Even though the movie houses’ simultaneous overhauls were unplanned, Garske said the timing has worked out well for the Savoy 16.

“Business has picked up since the Beverly’s closing,” she said. The lack of theater options “is a good opportunity to win over customers who have had a bad experience in the past.”

She also hopes these customers will try out the new IMAX upon its opening.

Going from 34 screens between two theaters to fewer than 10 screens may be benefiting the Savoy 16, but it could create some issues for frequent moviegoers in the CU area. With fewer screens, seats and show times available during construction, the movies have been more crowded, and showings have been selling out faster than usual.

Frequent moviegoer Alejandro Gomez said, “I think the Savoy 16 has done a good job trying to accommodate patrons as well as improve the experience. Yes, it isn’t ideal that there isn’t a showing of the movie I want to see at every hour, but that isn’t a big complaint considering the circumstances.”

Garske said renovations at the Savoy 16 will be completed by May 3, in time for summer, the busiest season of the year for the movie industry. Iron Man 3, which hits theaters on May 3, will mark the first movie to play in the Savoy 16’s IMAX auditorium.

Other high-profile releases slated to play at the new IMAX this summer are Star Trek: Into Darkness, Man of Steel, World War Z and 300: Rise of an Empire.

Gomez is looking forward to seeing many of these summer releases, including Iron Man 3, in the multiplexes’ updated auditoriums.

“Going to the movies is meant to be an experience, and this remodeling process will only help that,” he said. “Renovating this building will pull away from modern distractions and really let me sink in.”

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Shoulder” singer Paul 22 “Kilroy Was Here” band 23 Co-star of Morgan and Baldwin 25 Chunky milkshake ingredient 27 Words before “fire” or “emergency” 32 BFFs 35 “Are we there yet?” answer, maybe 36 Time off from the group?

40 Former NHL star Robitaille 41 Thorny trees 42 Co. whose mascot is Nipper 43 The right amount to be serendipitous?

45 “Win, Lose or Draw” host Convy 46 Herb that’s also a name

47 Old-school fastener at the roller

18 You can dig ‘em 22 Like some gummy candy 24 “That smells horrible” reaction 26 Recessions 27 Spot in the water 28 Mad Libs category 29 Apres-ski drink 30 Spoken 31 Make it really clear?

33 Jeter at short 34 “___ bleu!”

37 Candle end 38 Senegal’s capital 39 Singer Perry 41 “A Death in the Family”

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44 Like some truth 45 Party item with a tap 48 What this glue has 50 Where oranges are grown 51 Movie with the line “What’s in

disco 49 Hit for ZZ Top 52 Bread for a reuben 53 Madcap 56 Sitcom starring a singer 59 Big name in handbags 63 Vexation 64 Ad line that caused a Muppet to answer “You bet me do!”?

66 Turn down 67 More level 68 “So Big” author Ferber 69 Nyan ___ (internet meme) 70 Nissan model 71 Awestruck response

1 Band events 2 “For two,” on sheet music 3 Woody’s last name on “Cheers” 4 Miami Sound Machine surname 5 Two-year degree type (hidden in REMEMBER) 6 New Rochelle, New York college 7 Actor Tudyk of “Suburgatory” 8 Timex competitor 9 Birthday balloon material 10 Ques. counterpart 11 Drawbridge site 12 Bank (on) 13 Cereal that rarely got eaten by its mascot

playwright James

the box?”

53 Stuff in lozenges 54 Opera highlight 55 “Friday After ___” 57 Like paperclips 58 Rival of Dell 60 Opera set in Egypt 61 Reading rooms 62 Posthaste 64 Primus leader Claypool 65 “... ___ mouse?”

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JOHN DIES AT THE END

★✩✩✩✩

by JAMILA TYLER

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ult classic director Don Cascarelli Jr. helmed B-movie favorites Bubba Ho-Tep, Beast Master and the Phantasm series. Jason Pargin’s web-serialized novel John Dies at the End (originally published at Cracked.com under the pseudonym David Wong) found its own fanatical cult audience. The pair’s mutual weirdness gets amplified to the nth degree in the film adaptation of John Dies at the End. It’s all about the sauce, man. Soy Sauce, that is.

The “sauce” is a special type of drug that allows its users to drift across time and dimensions. A rather unsettling side effect is that some who come down from the drug do not come back entirely human.

Suddenly a secret invasion is under the way and it’s up to two college dropouts, David Wong (Chase Williamson) and the eponymous John Cheese (Rob Mayes), to step up to the plate as Earth’s unlikeliest pair of heroes. The story is framed by David giving a post hoc analysis to a grizzled reporter named Arnie (Paul Giamatti).

In the first half hour alone, John Dies at the End features a demon made entirely out of meat, an attack from a bat-like mustache and a Lost Highway-esque conversation in which David speaks to a John from an alternate dimension while his dimension’s John sits right in front of him. The en-

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tire movie screams midnight-showing cult classic.

Therein lays the film’s problem. John Dies at the End’s piling of sci-fi trope atop sci-fi trope gives off an air of try hard, calculated quirkiness instead of a genuine B-movie feel. The everything-butthe-kitchen-sink nature of the movie makes for a rather incoherent story. Instead of having a sense of off-beat humor, the willfully wacky and irreverent nature of the film left me bored.

In a movie entitled John Dies at the End, you need to actually care about both John and his friendship with David. Unfortunately, neither of those things happens. The two leads are barely distinguishable from one another. David’s designated love interest Amy’s only real personality trait is the fact that she has a prosthetic hand. With the exception of Paul Giamatti, most of the actors come across as flat.

It’s truly a shame that John Dies at the End was a disappointment. Underneath the layers of selfconscious silliness is truly an interesting, funny and captivating B-movie classic. The movie shines when David and Arnie ruminate over the questions of identity, intuition and image. With a tighter script and more captivating leads, the film could’ve been great. Instead John Dies at the End pretty much dies in the first five minutes.

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