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IS THERE ANYMORE TO SAY? | APRIL 1 - 7, 2004

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Greatest. Band. Ever. Takes. Stage. April 1*

BY ROCK HARDER | STAFF WRITER

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ock supergroups come and go with the passing of each year. A desire to jumpstart careers and sell millions of records is an easy excuse for the recurrence of rock star collaborations. The Traveling Wilburys brought some of early rock’s most influential characters into one studio. Who could forget Jeff Lynne’s contributions to the group? In a startling turn of events, staunch Republican Ralph Nader will sponsor an all-star supergroup concert extravaganza this April 1 to raise money for George W. Bush’s re-election campaign. The band, dubbed simply Clear Channel, will include a virtual who’s who of rock royalty.“This band is totally going to rock your balls off,”says Nader.

“It will rock your balls’ balls off, too,” he added.

According to the nominating committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, this group includes the three best songwriters in the history of recorded music: Randy Newman, Phil Collins and Sting, the three-headed beast of adult contemporary, Borders-ready crooning. Collins will be in charge of the more contrived lyrics while Newman will write purely observational songs.

“We can’t give away too much,” Collins, whose level of talent is said to be directly proportional to his hairline, said.“But let’s just say the main theme of the album will be friends and loved ones and other generically lovable song topics. Shit, I just gave away the whole thing, didn’t I? God, I suck.”

“Well, Phil and I were hanging out in his stustu-studio and the chemistry just clicked,” Sting commented while making love to his wife, Trudy Styler. “Phil was like,‘You write the same song for every movie and so do I, so why not collaborate?’ ” He also mentioned the casual dress code at the studio. “No jacket required here,” Collins said. Luckily, Newman came into the picture soon after when he was

“Diamond” Lee Roth will “wow” the audience

invited to write yet another inoffensive and unoriginal song for an inoffensive and unoriginal Disney film.

Against all odds, the band has worked out the complicated contracts much to the delight of Angela Lansbury, the cast of Golden Girls and your mother. Ooh, SNAP! In return for a promise from Orrin Hatch to have all illegal downloaders shipped to Guantanamo Bay where a mass execution will be held. Lars Ulrich has agreed to bring his ego-driven and highly outdated drum sound to the mix. Upon hearing this news, Ringo Starr quietly wept to himself and had a cup of tea then said,“Screw it, I’m rich.”

“God, I hate Metallica,” he added. Ulrich beat out other top drummers for his position behind the kit including Seth Fein, Don Henley.

“Diamond” David Lee Roth, who reportedly really, really wishes it was still 1985, has agreed to guest vocal. He based his decision on a soul-consuming hatred for Sammy Hagar.

When asked for comment, Roth remarked,“It’s like we’re sitting here eating Chee-tos and you’re playing backgammon. Wooo. Leave the jam bands to Smuckers, man.You’re driving 55 and I’m hitting 90 man! Yeahh!!”

C.C. Deville, the lovable Jewish grandmother of rock ’n’ roll, declined to participate despite an open invitation. “Y’know, Hollywood Squares is taking up a crap-load of time right now, man,” Deville said.

“Latkes, anyone? “ ’70s singer/songwriter Ryan Adams is scheduled to hook up as well, although experts predict that his current plans to release eight albums worth of love songs to Parker Posey and get in a fist-fight with Jack White may inhibit his participation.

In a real coup for the supergroup, former Motown musician RoboCop will retire his 1989 hit, “Drop It!” for this performance. Like Prince, he has vowed to never sing the song again after the upcoming tour. He will, however, continue to drive his 1988 Ford Taurus.

He wouldn’t say why it was so important to retire the song, except to allude to an oftenoverlooked “Fifth Directive” in his motherboard.

The band has also decided to do a bluesy cover of the 1985 Chicago Bears hit “The Super Bowl Shuffle.” Asked why, RoboCop, whose 320-pound metal frame (minus the human head) equals the Fridge’s weight, said, “I’m Speedy Willie and I’m world class.”

“Weird”Al Yankovic, a modern master of recreating other people’s music and attaching new food-oriented lyrics to them, has signed on to do the album’s accordion work. He could not be reached for comment.

Self-made bus accident victim and fitness expert Tony Little will be on lead Gazelle. Though the fitness machine makes no noise of any kind, it comes with

free electronics and a video.

Donald Rumsfield is said to be considering taking time from the 9/11 Commission to fill out the band’s all-star line-up. When reached for comment, Rumsfield said, “I’m just not going to comment on ongoing band rehearsals and other operations in the musical theater. As for the impromptu jam session scheduled for the end of the show, my participation is yet to be decided.”

The band’s final line-up was decided, American Idol-style, by a panel of judges including Judge Judy, Judge Ito, Judge Reinhold, Judge Wapner and Lionel Richie.

The entire state of Florida was also scheduled to judge the contest, but they couldn’t come. They’re hangin’ with Chad this weekend. buzz

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY (APRIL 1-7) ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries statesman Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in a mere 18 days. You should make him your role model as you devote the next three weeks to producing a masterpiece that will be regarded by posterity as one of history's great accomplishments. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating a little, Aries. It's true that you now have enormous creative power, and you could very well lay the groundwork for what will ultimately be a tour de force. But you may not be able to whip it out in three weeks, and it may not have quite the star quality of Jefferson's classic.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming week, your dreams will be more interesting and important than anything that happens during the day. Your sleeping mind can solve all your problems if given enough time -- and maybe even the problems of those you love, too. Can you afford to stay in bed for 12 hours at a stretch? APRIL FOOL! Twelve hours might be a bit much. But everything else I said was true. You have the potential to be a dreaming genius.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Visualize a scenario in which Israelis and Palestinians are still embroiled in a hateful state of siege for another 100 years. Imagine that the personal problems bugging you now will continue to torment you indefinitely. Live your life as if you believe the world is falling apart and that we human beings are parasites bent on wrecking the paradise we've been blessed with. APRIL FOOL! Don't you dare indulge in any of the hackneyed cynicism I just spouted. While educated idiots might try to convince you that badmouthing the future is honest and intelligent, it's actually a bad habit based on delusion. Here's your real assignment, Gemini: Retrain your mind to expect the best.

Visualize in graphic detail the transformations you'd love to see.

Cultivate delight using all your ingenuity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Add more locks to your doors and more armor to your defense mechanisms. Transform your home into an impregnable fortress of solitude and don't go out unless you absolutely have to. You must make yourself perfectly safe!

APRIL FOOL! It probably makes sense to be more discriminating about whom you share your feelings with, but in general it's an excellent time to open your heart and turn your home into a festive center of abundance. I suggest you invite every interesting person you trust to come and experience you in your natural habitat.

*Disclaimer: Fake! This story is intended as satire. All public figures and celebrities’ depiction is absolutely fake and should be taken in a satirical manner. Happy Fools’ Day!

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This just in: It is possible to buy happiness.

In fact, researchers at Yahoo! Personal Finance have determined the precise amount necessary: $4.9 million.With that sum in your bank account, you could acquire the lifestyle that would fulfill your dreams and make you feel really good. Now here's the crazy

part, Leo:The chances are far better than usual that you'll win the lottery this week, thereby guaranteeing your eternal happiness.

APRIL FOOL! While you Leos do have extraordinary financial luck these days, there just aren't enough lotteries in the world to ensure that every one of you will win one.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your role model these days should be the vulgar, debauched writer Charles Bukowski. He was poor most of his life as he worked endless odd jobs, but he managed to publish 50 books with titles like Love Is a Dog from Hell and Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Here's one of his typically inspired passages: "It's not easy to juggle a full-time job, a pregnant wife, and a troubled child, but somehow I still managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day." Be like Bukowksi this week, Virgo. APRIL FOOL! I was just messin' with' you, Dog! I don't really want you to be like Bukowski. But I had you going there for a minute, didn't I? And that's good, because every now and then -- like right now -- it's damn healthy for you to fantasize that you're a vulgar, debauched writer.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Does your roommate have some ripe plums in the refrigerator that you're dying to devour? Go right ahead. In the spot where the plums were, leave this poem by William Carlos Williams: "I have eaten/ the plums/ that were in/ the icebox// and which/ you were probably/ saving/ for breakfast// Forgive me/ they were delicious/ so sweet/ and so cold".

APRIL FOOL! While you do have astrological permission to be grabbier and greedier and more impulsive than usual, you can easily do that without generating any bad karma. Don't steal the plums.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It's not enough to do good deeds this week. You should also be intent on getting handsomely repaid for your good deeds. In other words, Scorpio, generosity will be a brilliant strategy if it manipulates others into being generous to you. Give selfishly, or don't give at all. APRIL FOOL! The truth is that you should bestow blessings everywhere you go, but with absolutely no strings attached. Here are your words to live by, courtesy of the Dalai Lama: "Try with all your might -- work very, very hard -- to make the world a better place. But if all your efforts are to no avail -- no hard feelings!"

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Everyone in the world is either a narcissist or a closet narcissist. Ironically, it's those in the latter group who're more dangerous. Their self-obsession expresses in covert ways that are hard to track. That's one reason why you should be unapologetically blatant about expressing your superiority this week, Sagittarius. The second reason is that the astrological omens suggest you have a mandate to be a raging mega-

lomaniac. APRIL FOOL! I went overboard there, although not by a whole lot. Let's just say that between now and April 18 you have cosmic permission to love yourself even more than usual and break your all-time bragging records.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My reader-satisfaction level is high. The weekly audience for this horoscope column is about nine million people, but I get an average of only 40 complaints a year. Maybe it's because you Capricorns are so forceful in sticking up for your needs, but a disproportionate number of the beefs I receive are from your tribe.That's why I've decided to never again utter a discouraging word in your presence. Forevermore, your horoscope will contain nothing but praise and good news. APRIL FOOL! I love you, Capricorn! And it wouldn't be very loving to refrain from kicking your butt on those rare occasions when you need it. Like now, for instance: I demand that you demand higher standards from you and your inner circle.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A swimming coach in Darwin, Australia decided that his young swimmers lacked ambition.They were consistently mediocre in competition, with no apparent drive for peak performances. Hoping to rouse their primal instinct to swim faster, he proposed to have them practice with a ten-foot crocodile in the pool. I wish you Aquarians would consider being equally daring as you ratchet up your motivation levels in the coming weeks. APRIL FOOL! Scaring yourself is a terrible strategy. But I do think you should take a more aggressive approach to stimulating your drive for excellence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Quit your job immediately. Move out of your house. Break off your closest relationships. Give away all your clothes to charity and sell your car at less than market value. If you do these things, I guarantee that within six weeks you will get an easy job where everyone loves you and you get paid way too much money to have way too much fun. APRIL FOOL! I was just testing you to see how susceptible you are to being manipulated by experts you trust. The fact is, Pisces, if you turn down the volume of the authority figures who drone on in your head -- both those who bent your thoughts in the past and those who shape your destiny in the present -- your financial situation and your job satisfaction will markedly improve.

No pain, no Brezsny's Free Will ☎ Rob ✍ HOMEWORK: gain. Shi* happens. Life is a Astrology bitch and then you die. APRIL FOOL! The truth is that the whole world is conspiring to give you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

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His films are quirky, fun and speak to the younger generations of Americans. From the lowly beginnings to his high-budget films of the 21st century, 33-year-old Smith has molded a colossal directorial career from utter nothingness.

Here’s a look at Smith’s films in chronological order, and what each has done both theatrically and for Smith’s career.

Clerks Clerks was Smith’s first major motion picture.

In 1994, Smith and friend Scott Mosier founded View Askew Productions, their production vehicle to release and produce their own movies. With a new and unproven name and production company, Clerks was most definitely a dangerous step for Smith. After dropping out of film school and funding the $30,000 production all on personal credit cards, Clerks had come to life.

With a ragtag cast and shoddy editing, Smith began shopping the film around to major motion picture studios to gain endorsement for release.

After some time, media giant Miramax picked up the film. With the legal issues taken care of, Clerks hit the silver screen.

The film introduced us to an uptight convenience store worker and his buddy who worked in the adjacent video store. More importantly, the public’s favorite drug-peddling duo, Jay and Silent Bob, graced the screen. The film and its intriguing characters made Smith a blip on the radar screen of Hollywood’s growing director pool, and paved the way for View Askew to start in on newer and bigger projects.

Mallrats Smith’s second major release met with more critical malaise, but also found more public interest. Mallrats (1995) followed two bumbling youths around a mall in New Jersey attempting to woo their ex-girlfriends. With help from repeat characters Jay and Silent Bob, main characters Brodie and T.S. make a spectacle of themselves at a dating show premiere while thwarting the police, meddling parents and a meathead store clerk played by Ben Affleck.

Mallrats also began what is known as the View Askewniverse. This “universe,� a figment of Smith’s imagination, is based in a tri-town area in metropolitan New Jersey. The characters and actors run together from film to film, as do the settings and stories. Smith now found himself

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Chasing Amy Chasing Amy went on to enjoy more success than any of its counterparts. Released in 1997, the critics devoured Chasing Amy. The film starred Joey Lauren Adams as a lesbian who had managed to gain the attraction of an aspiring comic book writer played by Ben Affleck. The reason for the praise once again resided in Smith’s characters and how “real� they were. Jason Lee played a homophobic man trying to deal with his roommate’s (Affleck) infatuation with a homosexual.

Adams comes through huge and it is her performance that drew attention from the growing hoards of Smith fans.

Chasing Amy also succeeded in capturing an even bigger audience, legitimizing View Askew as a major moneymaker. One-liners such as Lee asking Adams, “Since you like chicks, do you just look at yourself naked in the mirror all the time?� added to the appeal of the film. Smith and his company were on the verge of Hollywood greatness.

Dogma The release of Dogma (1999) was a signal that View Askew was no longer legitimizing itself, but was one of the premier cash cows in California.

Gone were the no-name actors and characterbased films. Dogma was released in order to cause uproar, and it accomplished everything Smith could have dreamed.

Stars like industry playboys Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Chris Rock and Salma Hayek helped move Dogma to the tops of the charts. The film centered on two renegade angels cast out of heaven after a drunken tussle with God. It was their goal to alienate the Catholic Church through a loophole orchestrated by a desperate-

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for-ratings bishop, played by George Carlin. Once again, likeable Jay and Silent Bob provide humor and Alanis Morissette cameos as God, garnering quite a chuckle at the end.

While Smith released Dogma to spoof the religion and make a hit movie where one had yet to be made, he still took his fair share of abuse. To this day on his Web site, there is a section entitled “Hate Letter of the Week,� about Dogma. Despite some critical and religious blows, Smith still retained a top blockbuster film of the year.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is what happens when producers have too much time on their hands. With a growing View Askewniverse, this film serves to focus on fan-favorite characters and tie the previous stories together in a downright wacky story.

Admittedly, this one was for the fans, according to Smith. He was so proud of the support he had received over the years, Smith settled on making a film that impressed no one except those fortunate enough to have closely followed his work over the years.

The future is looking up for Smith and View Askew Productions. Aside from his own feature films where he acted, directed, produced, edited, catered, parked cars and everything else imaginable, Smith has also diversified into other legitimate cinema. Smith served as an executive producer for the Oscar award-winning Good Will Hunting and continues to create new and different films on his own.

Jersey Girl opens this week, and once again Smith resounds that he wants to work on something a little more “deep.� Smith is a man who writes and directs because it’s what he loves to do and what people like to see him do. buzz

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ARE YOU MEGA CHILLIN’ OR POLAR POPPIN’? | APRIL 1 - 7, 2004

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dolescence is tough. The effort made to fit in at public school is a losing battle. Too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too poor, hair too frizzy, hair too stringy, clothes too weird.

But Nashala, a sixth grader at a Muskogee, Okla., public school wears something that in her culture is nothing but beautiful. People at the school, though— especially the faculty and staff—say it’s too religious. More specifically, it’s a violation of the school’s dress code on head gear.

Nashala Hearn has worn her traditional Muslim head scarf, or hijab, to school on a constant basis until she was ordered to take it off. When she refused, she was suspended twice for a violation of the school’s “no hood, hat or bandanna” dress policy.

Unlike France, which has enforced a policy banning Muslim head scarves from public schools, the U.S. government is backing Nashala’s right to wear her hijab at the Oklahoma school. The school, however, has different plans. They have let Nashala back into public school with her hijab, but under the pretense that she was still in violation of the dress code and subject to further suspension at any time.

Besides the negative cultural implications that an act like Muskogee School District’s

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BY JOHN PIATEK | STAFF WRITER

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hough the careers of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez hit rock bottom in last summer’s memorable box office bust Gigli, Kevin Smith’s new movie Jersey Girl shows that their careers are now moving in opposite directions.

If this movie would have been released before Gigli, Jersey Girl would have been promoted as the big movie starring Hollywood heartthrobs Affleck and Lopez. Because it was not, Lopez’s role is downplayed in all the promotional materials in order to not create a repeat of the Gigli fiasco.

All baggage aside, Jersey Girl is an excellent film that features solid acting from some big names. Affleck plays Oliver Trinke, a fast-talking, suave and successful New York publicist.

On top of his world, he falls in love with Gertrude (Lopez) and gets ready to start a family when their daughter Gertie is born.

Oliver’s life falls apart when Gertrude shockingly dies from complications giving birth, leaving Oliver to figure out how to balance work and family. After a breakdown at work, Oliver moves back to New Jersey to

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film’s subject matter does not dictate its overall value. After all, good movies have been made about murderous criminals, and bad movies have been made out of the Bible.

Never Die Alone, the latest vehicle for rapper DMX, is indeed a terrible movie—not because it is about a group of truly hateful characters, but because it lacks the maturity and direction to put those characters into any sort of involving experience.

DMX plays King David, a drug czar who comes back to his old stomping grounds to face up to the debts he left behind. In the process, he gets knifed by Michael (Michael Ealy), a thug for the local kingpin, who seemingly holds a grudge toward King David for reasons that are kept secret for most of the movie. As he lies dying in the street, King David asks a struggling writer named Paul (David Arquette) to help him to the hospital, and later bequeaths all his possessions to him before bleeding to death on the operating

raise Gertie with his estranged father, Bart, played by the legendary George Carlin. With some help from new girlfriend Maya (Liv Tyler), Oliver learns that family is always more important than career.

Affleck really shines in his role as Oliver. He is excellent at playing a man who, despite actually being a father, has no concept of what it is to be one. Affleck’s talent really emphasizes the day-to-day struggles of making the transition from being a dedicated workaholic to a full-time dad.

Carlin is there every step of the way, delivering barbs, jokes, cusses, curses and whatever else it takes to get through to Affleck in a way that only a seasoned comedian like Carlin can.

His presence provides some hearty comic relief in a sometimes intense movie.

Child actor Raquel Castro does such a fine job that many might think she is a veteran actress. Her performance at times steals the show, much like that charming little boy in Jerry Maguire. Her convincing interactions with Affleck and Carlin really cement the family issues in the movie.

Jersey Girl represents a departure from the usual work of director Kevin Smith. Some of the more insolent comments and jokes of the characters reveal touches of Smith’s usual craft, but overall the film is entirely different than anything else he has directed. This is the kind of film many people thought he couldn’t make: a soulful, emotional and most importantly, serious look at life.

The real disappointment is Lopez’s abysmal

table. From here, the story moves through time in both directions, exploring the causes and eventual consequences of all these events.

Among King David’s belongings, Paul finds a series of tapes the drug pusher recorded as a sort of audio diary. As he listens to King David’s account of his life of crime and quest for redemption, Paul somehow becomes enthralled in the story and uses it to jump-start his moribund career. Asked by his girlfriend why he is so drawn to the man’s story, Paul thoughtfully responds that he felt “a sort of nobility” about the drug dealer bleeding to death in his car, which is about the third most asinine line of dialogue in the movie (behind parts of King David’s self-absorbed, ignorant narration to his own story).

Most of the actors do an adequate enough job for what they have to work with. DMX works up some fire as the violent and dangerous King David, who enjoys hooking women on cocaine to keep them dependent on him, then switches them to heroin just for kicks.

And when they tick him off, he lets them snort some battery acid to set them straight. But in between the violence and animalistic sex, DMX looks bored with his role. And as usual, the less said about David Arquette, the better, though he thankfully plays Paul as low-key as possible so he merely sounds like a nitwit as opposed to an annoying nitwit.

The movie’s biggest problem lies in trying to decide which road to take toward the despicable King David. At some points, it acts like a morality tale depicting the inevitable results of

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Jersey Girl still has the right mix of comedy and drama, accentuated with some fine acting from some big names, to make everyone forget about Gigli.

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NEVER DIE ALONE | DMX a life of crime. At other times, it asks for the audience’s pity for King David, as if he can’t help that he is a violent felon and misogynist who deserves everything that comes to him. If the movie had taken one of these routes and stuck with it, it might have been worthwhile.

Instead, it plays like a confusing mess capable of delivering a message at one moment, and hedging its bets the next.

The direction of Spike Lee’s former cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson is interesting, giving the movie a frantic and unorthodox look. It soon wears down the eyes, unfortunately, no thanks to James Gibson’s poor script (based on a novel by Donald Goines) that thinks itself a deep character study, but is really a constant barrage of confusing characters exchanging tired dialogue anchored with as much vulgarity as possible.

Never Die Alone proves that talented people can emulate good movies and still fall on their faces if a few key ingredients are missing.

Hopefully its lifespan will be decidedly short.

ovies like Scooby Doo 2, the sunnily inconsequential kind of fluff designed to occupy antsy children for an afternoon, can either be sore thumbs in the state of modern American cinema or they can be passably entertaining and completely harmless. This film is the latter, mostly because of its plucky charm and clean heart.

The film starts at a museum gala in which all the costumes of the past criminals that the Mystery Inc. gang uncovered are on display.

Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby are the glamorous guests of honor. Of course, a monster crashes the party and, through bad press created by a shady news reporter, the gang falls out of grace with the town of Coolsville. And then, like every good Scooby Doo episode, there’s exploration for clues through a creepy house, animated run-ins with goofy spooks and several shady characters introduced to cast doubt as to who the true villain really is.

The actors, for the most part, play their wellknown roles well, which is the key element in keeping this film from being the mindless disaster it so easily could have been. Lillard matches Casey Kasem’s legendary Shaggy voice so perfectly, it could be one of those “born to play” roles you hear about.

However, for all the earnestness this film projects, it can’t seem to depart far enough from the tight formula of the original TV show to create anything truly memorable. To those who know nothing of Fred’s ascots, Velma’s near-sightedness or Scooby’s excitable nature, the film may seem downright stupid. And it is. But it’s a fun kind of stupid. Like cow-tipping or listening to ABBA. Ultimately, it’s hard for a film like this to be good. As a stand-alone film, Scooby Doo 2 is silly and cheap. But this is exactly what made the cartoon such a beloved cultural phenomenon. So, instead of lampooning the cartoon, the film celebrates this inherent lameness the only way it can: by being joyfully stupid. And jinkies, that’s pretty darn smart.

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BY MATT PAIS | LEAD REVIEWER

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rom Joseph Lieberman lectures to Marilyn Mansonbashing boycotts, the 1998 massacre at Columbine High School left America searching for answers that weren’t there.

With Elephant, a fearlessly serene dramatization of the events leading up to a fictional school shooting, director Gus Van Sant doesn’t really offer questions or answers.

Rather, the film is more of a declarative statement, capturing what is and leaving us to ask why.

For most of the film, which gently lingers among the daily, traumatic spectacle of teenage melancholy, Van Sant’s camera merely looks over the shoulders of his characters, casting the viewer as an omniscient observer into normal, everyday lives. Long tracking shots follow students down hallways and through courtyards to craft an unnervingly calm sense of ominous isolation. As the characters slowly move throughout the school, the eerie lack of hallway traffic creates a tense, foreboding atmosphere that’s equal parts documentary and The Twilight Zone.

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BY SYD SLOBODNIK | STAFF WRITER

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emakes are an interesting breed of movies because they reflect a pure business venture of repeating a previous film’s successful story and formula. While retelling basically the same story, remakes uniquely represent differences in the times in which each movie was made. But whatever possessed the usually inventive filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen to remake the classic 1955 British comedy The Ladykillers into such a vulgar and unfunny updated caper-comedy is beyond any kind of logic.

The original The Ladykillers, which received an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay, was a wickedly dark comedy that concerned a team of five criminals who pose as musicians and plan to rob an armored car, while hiding out in an eccentric old English woman’s house. That film featured a wonderfully subtle comedic performance by a 77-year-old stage actress, Katie Johnson, and the comic talents of Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.

Van Sant uses that curious normality, which hangs like a poisonous fog over the nameless school, to generate a grander portrait of the universal, overlooked danger embodied in even the most non-threatening suburban schools. It’s the media-diluted epitome of affluent academic regularity in America, where majority (read: whiteness) rules and the closest thing to disaster is a pimple on the nose of the Homecoming queen.

But there’s something brewing under the surface of this school where everything feels so completely familiar—the effortless jock charisma and its ensuing effect on gushing female onlookers; the introversion of the wallflower, made invisible by her own insecurity; the unprovoked bullying of anyone who falls outside the norm.

In Elephant, that something comes in the form of Alex (Alex Frost) and Eric (Eric Deulen), two soft-spoken outcasts, often picked on, who take disturbing, violent revenge on teachers and students in the film’s stark, chilling finale. Van Sant doesn’t suggest the students’ harassment as a cause or explanation for their rampage but merely a symptom of their alienation—the severe emotional detachment that divides teenagers across social, economic and aesthetic lines to the point of dehumanization.

He also aligns our glaring miscalculation of violent threat with a surface-level view of homosexuality, questioning if we can tell just by looking who is and who isn’t. It’s a perceptive observation that goes right to the core of the issue, attracting attention to otherwise imper-

The Coen brothers reset this modern tale in present day Mississippi, casting Tom Hanks in the Alec Guinness role, which seems like the film’s only good choice. Looking like a cross between Colonel Sanders and a Southerner out of a William Faulkner story, Hanks plays Professor G.H. Dorr with a degree of charming humor. The plan now is to use the home of an elderly African-American churchgoing widow, played by Irma P. Hall, to begin tunneling through several blocks into a nearby casino and steal millions. Where the Coens quickly go wrong is in the manner in which they retell this tale—they take all the charm and dark humor out of the original tale, replacing it with a neverending bunch of pratfalls and poorly timed, cheap laughs based on in-your-face vulgarities and a scatological sense of humor.

First, the film takes an eternity to get started, as the audience is slowly introduced to each of the five thieves. The gang this time includes Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma and Ryan Hurst, who join Hanks’s Prof. Dorr with some of the most embarrassingly bad, onedimensional and sophomoric caricatures.

Wayans is a one-note, hip-hop stereotype janitor, who favors women with big bottoms. Ma is a mostly silent, chain-smoking southeast Asian cliche. Simmons’s Garth Pancake (note the really inventive name) is a middle-aged tough guy with a bowel disorder that kicks in at all the wrong times, and Hurst is the classic dumb jock, named “Lump,” who has played too many games without his helmet.

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ELEPHANT | ALEX FROST ceptible elements beneath a facade of safety.

Throughout the film, characters approach critical issues with an alarming lack of distress, and a discrepancy emerges between what parents find disconcerting and that which truly harms children. It’s an attack on what we take seriously and a fascinating presentation of everything else that slips under the radar.

Most of the actors share names with their characters, the filmmaker’s way of removing the separation between fact and fiction and saying that because this really happened, any dramatization is inherently linked to reality.

Above the school, he creates a toxic green sky, a haunting image of impending doom. There’s a hovering danger that hangs in the air like a cloud of black smoke, ready to shift across America and show that, as a country, we could all be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Elephant, Van Sant doesn’t ask if another tragedy will occur, but wonders who could be next.

Charlize Theron criticized fans and reporters alike for focusing on her beauty, which seems like a good argument from the starlet who got ugly to play a serial killer and win an Oscar. However, Theron chastised the people while wearing a see-through dress at a charity event. I’m no Hollywood expert, but it seems that wearing a dress that shows the world your breasts and G-string isn’t the best clothing choice when insulting Hollywood’s obsession with glamour.

Fitness favorite Richard Simmons allegedly “bitch slapped” a man last week. The flamboyant fitness guru allegedly heard a man at an airport mimic Simmons’ grating introduction to workout tapes. Simmons then went up to the man and “bitch slapped” him, according to police.

Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz recently ended their three-year relationship which began during the filming of Vanilla Sky. Cruz said the relationship ended because they spent so much time apart, and that religion wasn’t a factor in the split. Most likely, the split came after Cruz realized the relationship wasn’t going to rocket her to fame like it did for Nicole Kidman.

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THE LADYKILLERS | TOM HANKS & IRMA P. HALL So this bad caper plot, which includes an exploding tunnel and a variety of confusing predicaments, quickly turns ugly when the somewhat absent-minded landlady discovers her tenants are not musicians but thieves. The thugs then need to get rid of her before she reveals them to the police, and thus the film’s title.

What’s really perplexing is that the Coens have proven themselves masters of both witty situational comedy and very funny contemporary vulgar humor, from any number of scenes from their nearly surreal Barton Fink, to the wacky kidnapping comedy Raising Arizona to their 1996 comic crime masterpiece Fargo. In fact, any scene in any Coen film with cult actor Steve Buscemi better reflects a successful comic touch.

Even if audiences are unaware of the original The Ladykillers, this lame attempt by the Coens to update this comic caper relies too much on the cheap and obvious humor of the most recent Austin Powers film. The Coen brothers have sadly committed yet another “intolerable cruelty” on their audience.

The Ladykillers ★★ Susan Kies Urbana, IL

“The comedy fell somewhat flat.”

★★★ Bob Stokes Urbana, IL

“Tom Hanks had excellent chemistry.”

★★ Pulin Shah Effingham, IL

“The original was funnier.”

You probably won’t see me at church next Sunday

BY MICHAEL COULTER | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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t’s always sort of nice when something makes a comeback. Before Pulp Fiction came along, John Travolta was about to become nothing more than a Trivial Pursuit answer.

Aerosmith has been on the ropes countless times, but they still put out mega-selling albums. Hell, I even see people wearing leg warmers again. It usually ends up badly.

Thanks for coming back, Mr. Travolta. Make a few more suck-ass action movies for us. Hey, Steven Tyler, you crossed that pathetic line about three records ago. The leg warmer thing, well, that’s just kind of sad. It makes me wonder where religion will end up.

Yep, it’s cool to be pious again. It’s easier to believe in something when a famous celebrity like Mel Gibson tells you to and The Passion of the Christ is still doing big box office in large part because of that. How can you go wrong, really? It’s just like church except you get to choke down some popcorn and suck on a soda during the service. Soda and popcorn, not exactly the blood and body of Christ like in communion, but it’s hard to reach the masses with some grape juice and a stale cracker. We need more, damn it.

Sure, the movie has flaws. I mean, I totally saw the ending coming. I kept poking the guy next to me saying, “Hey, I bet you he ends up dying on the cross.” Plus, my friend Amy kept yelling at the screen, “Look out behind you, Jesus!” It was hard to concentrate. In addition, I thought a better closing line would have been Jesus high on the cross looking over the valley and saying, “Hey, I can see my house from here.” That’s probably why I don’t make movies.

People are eating it up, though, and those religious fellas, they ain’t no dummies. They know you have to strike while the iron’s hot.

Enter the pope. In a speech to Australian bishops, he announced that Roman Catholics should reserve Sundays for God and not secular diversions. This means you’re not supposed to watch sports or movies on the Sabbath. Geez, like Sundays aren’t boring enough as it is.

So the pope thinks we should stay away from entertainment on Sundays. The fact that he does most of his work on Sunday should let you know it’s not a well thought out plan. OK, I’m sure his sermons were never seen as entertainment to begin with.

So he’s basically mandating to himself that he continue to spout the same old boring crap week in and week out. It’s religion, after all, and he’ll be damned if anyone is

going to enjoy it. Sunday is apparently only for punishment.

That shit may have played 100 years ago, but c’mon, you gotta work with the people here.

Good folks work their asses off all week and now they’re supposed to devote a whole Sunday to the Lord? So you get out of bed early on your day off, scramble to get out the door and then sit through a two-hour mass. It’s a brave new world, Mr. pope guy, and that should be enough for anybody, right?

Apparently it’s not enough for the pope. He wants the whole damned day. “When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of “weekend” dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens,” the pope said. If I were him, I wouldn’t be talking so much about a “horizon so narrow they can no longer see the heavens.” It’s like the pontiff calling the bishop black.

My question is, Why the hell do people even listen to this guy any more? If you take away the title, the special car and the hat, what do you really have? Just an old man telling you what he thinks. God doesn’t speak through him any more than he speaks through any of us. Put him in a nursing home so he can expound his ideas to anyone who will listen and he isn’t called the pope anymore. He’s simply called “that crazy old guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

The whole idea of Catholicism just strikes me as an antiquated notion based in the past with no plans for the future except business as usual.

Most of the time, the pope doesn’t even try to reach other people, just the Roman Catholics.

He’s not out helping people every day and I guarantee you he doesn’t have the slightest inkling of the way regular people—his followers—live their lives in the year 2004. Like a crabby, opinionated uncle at Thanksgiving dinner, he just wants things his way and bitches about them when they aren’t. After a while, everyone stops listening to that crabby uncle.

The pope, he just doesn’t impress me so much. Give me Mother Theresa. I’ve seen her working and her uniform usually isn’t all shiny and white. Give me Billy Graham. Sure he’s old and set in his ways, but I get the impression he genuinely wants to help everyone. Hell, give me an atheist that tries to make the world around him a better place. I’m just tired of the hypocritical guy in the big white hat. I’ve been to Texas. The bigger the hat, the bigger the asshole under it.

Michael Coulter is a videographer at Parkland College. He writes a weekly e-mail column, “This Sporting Life” and has hosted several local comedy shows.

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News of the weird Lead story Louis Paul Kadlecek, 21, who had never even been in an airplane before, broke into a hangar at an airport near Lake Jackson, Texas, on Feb. 29, and, using trial-and-error, got a Cessna 172 airborne for about a mile, intending to fly to Mexico, before slamming into power lines. Although the crash left the plane a total loss, Kadlecek climbed out and walked home, but sheriff’s deputies, based on witnesses’ descriptions, arrested him the next day. One Brazoria County aviation official estimated that stunt pilots might survive an incident like that one time in 1,000.

Said another, “This guy used up all the luck he’s ever going to have.”

Well put In February, the chief justice of Singapore, Yong Pung How, 77, rejected attempts at leniency by a 25-year-old expoliceman who had argued that his arrest for receiving oral sex (as a “crime against nature”) was an anachronism. In upholding the law as a salutary part of Asian culture, Justice Yong sentenced the man to 12 months in jail, pointing out, “There are countries where you can go and suck away for all you are worth,” “but this is Asia.”

People different from us – From a March Boston Globe interview with Morgan Lee, newly crowned Miss Gothic Massachusetts: (asked how she would describe Goth) “It’s really a style and a way of thinking. Basically, you’re miserable all the time. (W)e just see the darker side that other people tend to ignore. The most interesting people are always the saddest.” (Asked what her boyfriend thinks of her): “He’s very proud of me. (H)e’s not a very descript person, kind of like an amoeba, but very cultured.”

– In a 2003 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, two Seattle radiologists described a 35-year-old man with severe abdominal pain but normal vital signs, who was found to have “multiple” heads from Barbie dolls lodged in his small bowel, which he attributed to his pursuit of the pleasurable anal sensation he gets from excreting them. After a straight-laced description of how doll heads show up differently from other objects on X-rays, the authors advised radiologists to “keep in mind that human imagination may not follow clinical algorithms.”

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t first, he was paid 15 cents a gallon to recycle his used car oil.

Then, they continued to take the used oil, but they stopped paying him for it.

Then, he had to pay five cents a gallon to have his used oil picked up.

Now, they pick up his used car oil for free.

It’s all about the market, explains Vic McIntosh, a Champaign City Council member who has spent his life working with cars and today manages the Illinois State Garage, where state vehicles are maintained.

“Using the oil (example), with me, is the way the marketplace changes over time,” he said.

The market value of a recyclable item determines whether an item can be reused and how much it’s worth. And that, McIntosh said, is what he thinks people concerned with recycling should be worried about.

But it’s not, at least not for students involved in environmental groups such as Earth Doctors, the Rainforest Action Coalition, Students for Environmental Concerns and the Illinois Student Environmental Network. These students—and some community members—are concerned that the city of Champaign does not require landlords or garbage haulers to provide recycling to homes with more than four units, including most apartment buildings.

THE DIFFERENCE IN PROGRAMS Neither Champaign nor Urbana officials dispute that recycling is a market-driven industry; you can only recycle what companies are willing to buy to reuse. How the cities of Champaign and Urbana handle and view recycling is very different, however.

In Urbana, residents pay a $2.50 monthly recycling fee, which is paid all at once for a full year, said Rod Fletcher, environmental manager for Urbana’s Public Works Department. The fee for residence hall tenants in Urbana will increase to $2 a month from $1.75 a month, and apartment residents’ fees will increase to $2.50 a month from $2.25 a month. Both increases take effect Aug. 1. Although not all residents participate in the program, all must pay the fee. Residents can recycle as much or as little as they want. They pay the same flat fee regardless.

The entire recycling program is managed by the city except for recycling pick-up and disposal, which the city contracts with private haulers who pick up recycling once a week.

One hauler picks up curbside recycling for single- to four-family housing units.

Another hauler picks up recycling for housing with five or more units.

A multi-family housing unit has more than one separate home in the same building. For example, an apartment building with four separate apartments is a four-plex multi-family housing unit.

Steve Smith, owner and operator of ABC Sanitary Hauling, the company that holds Urbana’s recycling contract for single- to four-unit homes, said he is paid directly by Urbana and not by individual residents. Only part of the fee, he said, is paid to him to cover the cost of recycling.

The fee also covers all other costs associated with the recycling program, such as recycling education and program staff.

Central Waste Services holds Champaign’s recycling contract for homes with five or more housing units, Fletcher said.

Fletcher said there are many reasons why recycling is mandated by local government in Urbana, including environmental “feel-good,” the creation and maintenance of jobs and the fact that landfills are filling up. He said recycling in Illinois employs 56,000 people with a combined payroll of $1.8 billion.

“There’s the idea that we don’t want to trash everything,” he said. “There (also) are all kinds of secondary and tertiary benefits that aren’t realized with landfills.”

In Champaign, recycling is left to the private sector. The majority of the Champaign City Council opposes charging all residents a fee and making haulers deal with problems that could come up with mandating recycling in apartments, such as fire hazards and retrofitting buildings for recycling.

Instead, residents in Champaign must arrange for private haulers to pick up their garbage, and residents must request recycling service from their garbage collector if they want it.

Champaign does not contract with any haulers.

Garbage collectors are not allowed to charge residents any additional fees for recycling or give discounts to residents who don’t recycle.

Haulers are only required to provide recycling to residents who request the service, said Tom Schuch, Champaign operations manager.

However, haulers and landlords in Champaign are not required to provide recycling to buildings with five or more housing units. This leaves out most students who live in apartments in Champaign as well as some families. Landlords can provide recycling to a building through a private hauler, but the landlord must arrange that with the hauler and could be charged an additional fee.

For the people who do not have a recycling service provided to their home, there is a 24hour drop-off site that is open seven days a week. The site, at 1701 Hagan Drive, Champaign, is near Super Kmart.

THE DIFFERENCE IN OPINIONS Champaign and Urbana employees have different philosophies on the government’s role in recycling and they have different reasons for

supporting the policies. And while neither city is overly critical of the other’s, it’s clear each program believes its is better.

Champaign City Council member Tom Bruno said the Champaign system is more efficient because the same truck that picks up a resident’s garbage can pick up recycling, too. This also causes less wear on the roads, he said.

Bruno also said that in general, Champaign and Urbana often have different opinions about how much government should regulate, with Urbana usually wanting more government involvement than Champaign. For example, Urbana has an ordinance that requires tenants and landlords to include in their lease that the landlord cannot enter a home without giving the tenant 24 hours’ notice. He said this is an issue that is important to some tenants, but not to all, so regulating this is “goofy.”

Fletcher calls Urbana’s program “more of a hands-on government approach” and said the Urbana and Champaign philosophies on the role of government “butt heads” when it comes to recycling.

University of Illinois recycling and material reduction coordinator Tim Hoss calls the Urbana system “more progressive” because the service is available to more people.

However, he also said the only real difference between recycling in Champaign and in Urbana is that Urbana requires recycling in apartment buildings.

The University of Illinois collects and processes its own recycling and does not share a recycling program with either Champaign or Urbana.

Some believe the battle over recycling programs is partisan.

Champaign City Council member Michael LaDue, who said he thinks Champaign should have a government-regulated recycling program, said Champaign City Council members won’t expand recycling because of pressure from haulers, and he said when the city council voted against expanding the system, some council members “thought they were doing the good Republican thing.” He said he voted for an expanded program and would do the same if the council voted on the issue again.

Fletcher also said one of the reasons the Champaign and Urbana programs are different is that Urbana has more Democrats, whereas Champaign is more Republican-based.

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Biennial Conference for Women 2004 – The Community Foundation of Champaign County, The United Way of Champaign County and the Biennial Conference for Women invite you to meet with author David Baldacci for an informal discussion about the importance of community involvement and volunteerism. Assembly Hall, rm 133-34.

April 9, 7:30-8:30am. Admission is free and by invitation only. Seating is limited. Confirmation of attendance by April 6 is required. Call 352-5151.

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Mystery Discussion Group – The group will discuss the book Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign.

April 12, 6pm. 351-9011.

Loose Womyn Discussion Group – (Where the discussion topics are loose, the women need not be) The group will discuss the book Crones Don't Whine by Jean Bolen. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. April 15, 7pm. 351-9011.

Border Crossers Discussion Group – (Exploring the works of international authors) The group will discuss the book Reading Lolita in Tehran by Iranian Author Azar Nafisi. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. April 22, 7pm. 3519011.

Exploring Politics, Ethics, and Legal Issues in Biotechnology – This roundtable discussion will introduce participants to the commercial and ethical aspects of the biotechnology industry and challenge participants with some of the moral and ethical issues that face biotechnologists, legislators, and the general public. A panel of commentators will address social and legal issues raised by biotechnological developments. Parkland College campus, rm B134. Tue, 6:30-8pm. The class is free.

For more information, call 351-2213.

Geology Field Trip: Canyon Development Along the Upper Illinois River Valley – Participate in a geology experience of glaciers, running water, and 450 million-year-old rocks. Transportation will be provided, or you may take own vehicle. Bring a lunch or eat at the Starved Rock Lodge. Instructor Dean Timme is a professor of earth science at Parkland College; Bob Vaiden is a geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey. The field trip will be on Saturday, April 17 from 8 am-5 pm.

Participants will meet at Parkland College in rm L216. The trip fee is $29. The registration deadline is April 9. Please sign up through the Live and Learn brochure. For more information, call 3512285.

Water Gardening Basics – This multimedia presentation and discussion will show participants how and where to begin with their water garden. We will cover design, installation and maintenance, and what to do with a water garden in winter.

Instructor Kaizad Irani is an instructor of landscape design, construction, and maintenance at Parkland College. He has master's degrees in architecture and landscape architecture. Class will be held on Saturday, April 10 from 9am-12pm in rm W115 at the Parkland College campus. The course fee is $15. The registration deadline is April 8. For more information, call 351-2546.

Adult Re-entry Center: Informational Meeting – The Adult Re-entry Center is a one-stop shop for advising, support, and convenience to adults returning to college. Please join us on Wednesday, April 14 from 5:30-6:30pm in rm X150 at the Parkland College campus for an informational meeting. For more information, call 353-2663.

Job Search Workshop: Tips for Grads – Parkland's Career Center is offering free assistance for new graduates to all district residents on Thursday, April 15, at 12 noon in room C123 on the Parkland campus. For additional information, call 351-2536.

Parkland Student Fine Art Juried Exhibition – This annual exhibition showcases the work Parkland fine art students produce over the course of the school year. The exhibit will run April 15 through May 8. Call 217/351-2485 for more information.

MEETINGS Debtors Anonymous – Confidential support and helpful tools for dealing with recurring debt and compulsive spending. Baha’i Center. Tuesdays & Fridays, 7pm. Information: 344-5860 or 239-0363.

Champaign County Audubon Society monthly meeting – Arlo Raim of the Medical Entomology Laboratory of the Illinois Natural History Survey will present a program on West Nile Virus, Crows and Other Susceptible Birds. Bevier Hall, corner of Goodwin and Gregory, Urbana, rm 242. Thur, 7:30pm. For more information: Further information, contact Arlo at 443-2499.

Champaign Human Relations Commission Meeting – Regular monthly meeting. Champaign Council Chambers, 102 N. Neil St. Mon, 5:30-7pm.

Champaign City Council Regular Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, Tue, 7-10pm Champaign Plan Commission Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, Wed, 4-6pm Champaign Historic Preservation Commission Meeting – This meeting was rescheduled from Thur, April 1. Champaign Council Chambers. April 8, 4-5:30pm.

Champaign Neighborhood Services Advisory Board Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 8, 5:30-7pm Public Works Advisory Board Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 12, 4-6pm Champaign City Council Regular Study Session Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 13, 7-10pm C-U Joint Cable & Telecommunications Commission Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 14, 4-6:30pm Champaign Liquor Advisory Commission Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 15, 8:30-10am Champaign Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 15, 4-6pm

MIND, BODY & SPIRIT Sunday Zen Meditation Meeting - Introduction to Zen Sitting, 10am. Full Schedule: service at 9am followed by sitting, Dharma Talk at 11am followed be tea until 12pm. Can arrive at any of above times, open to all, no experience needed, no cost.

Prairie Zen Center. For information, call 355-8835 or go to www.prairiezen.org.

Simplicity Discussion Group – Ideas to simplify & bring meaning to life. The group will discuss the book Conquering Chronic Disorganization by Judith Kolberg. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. Thur, 7pm. Information: 351-9011.

Mothers & More Discussion Group – The group will discuss the book Atonement by Ian McEwan.

Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. Mon, 7pm. Information: 351-9011.

Overeaters Anonymous regular meetings – Tue & Fri 5:30pm, Fellowship Circle, 718 S Randolph, C, contact: Lin, 359-4449. Mon 7:30pm, Thur 5:30pm, First Presbyterian Church of Urbana, 602 E Green, contact: Marcey, 356-7846, or Torie, 369-6218. Sat 9:30am, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon, U, contact Marcey, 356-7846.

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES School Tutor or Classroom Aid – Join hundreds of other bright and enthusiastic students who are involved in this award winning student-run program. What you choose to do with 2hrs/wk of your time will make a huge difference – not only in the life of a child but also in your own life. Choose to INDEX tutor one-on-one or be a classroom aid in local schools. For more information, stop by Employment the Vis-A-Vis program office at the University Services YMCA or call 239-3614 ext 29.

Volunteer Cook – Share your love of cooking and prepare a meal for a Healthy Young Families support group. A wonderful opportunity for a large group who would like to volunteer together. For more information, call Anna Langford at 398-8080.

Relabeling and Recovering Book – Improve the appearance of the Champaign Library collections by relabeling and recovering books. Evaluate the condition of books in a specified collection to determine whether relabeling or recovering are needed. Apply labels and label protectors to books. Apply mylar dust jackets to books. For more information, call Judie Christensen at 403-2076.

Special Olympics Aquatics Competition – Help Special Olympians during an aquatic competition being held Sat at the Urbana Indoor Aquatics Center. Twenty-five volunteers are needed for the event and duties will include escorting athletes to the staging area, helping to keep time, passing out lunches, and presenting awards. For more information, call Marie Reitmeier at 6944572.

Arthritis Seminar – Help the Arthritis Foundation serve its clients by volunteering to assist with an Arthritis Seminar being held Tue during the day at Lincoln Square.

Volunteer duties include assisting with setup, check-in and registration, running errands during the event and clean up at the end. If interested, contact Mary Dennis at 398-7815.

Student Database Volunteer – This Illinois Student Environmental Network volunteer will update the contact information that is in the student database by visiting the Web sites of student groups and updating the computer file. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Action Center Coordinator – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for a Legislative Coordinator to replace outdated materials with current materials. For more information, contact Angela at 3840830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Fundraising Assistant – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for someone to research grant-making foundations and helping with other things such as writing thank-you notes. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Publications Assistant – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for someone to contribute articles to the ISEN newsletter and/or to Currents, the Energy Efficiency Program newsletter. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Media Coordinator – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for volunteers who will work as public relation people with the media. Information: Angela at 3840830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Miscellaneous office projects – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for volunteers to help with labeling and mailings and various other projects. Walk-ins are welcome. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

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Internationalizing Higher Education – Earl Kellog, assoc. provost for International Affairs at the University, will speak. The talk will address the contemporary rationale for the strong emphasis on expanding and enriching the international dimension in an excellent university. Part of the Friday Forum. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. April 16, 2pm.

Alcohol Myth and Reality – Bill Riley, assoc. vice chancellor and dean of students at the University, will speak. Data on college student drinking and alcohol abuse will be presented and discussed along with its relationship to policies and practices. Part of the Know Your University lecture series. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Tue, 12pm.

“Collodial Self-Assembly, Multi-Beam Interference Lithography, and Photonic Crystals” – Part of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Seminar Series. Pierre Wiltzius, Director of the Beckman Institute and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University will lead the lecture. Coordinated Science Laboratory Auditorium. Wed, 4pm.

Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Seminar Series – Wednesday, April 21, 4pm.

Coordinated Science Laboratory Auditorium. Paul L. McEuen, Professor of Physics at Cornell University will give a lecture entitled “Electronics and Mechanics of Single Molecules.”

Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Seminar Series – Wednesday, April 28, 4pm.

Coordinated Science Laboratory Auditorium.

Susan L. Lindquist, Director of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give a lecture entitled “Taking Advantage of Evolution's Bounty: Nanoscale Electric Circuits from SelfAssembling Amyloids.”

The DaVinci Code: A discussion – This talk will be led by Rev. Miley Plamer with input from Sister Agnes Cunningham, local Catholic theologian, and Professor Marcel Franciscono, art historian on the University faculty. The group will discuss what is known of the true role of Mary Magdelene, the history of the origins of the early Christian church, and gospels which did not make it into the Bible and why, among others. Wesley United Methodist in Watseka Lounge. Sun, 1-3pm.

UIUC's Women in Engineering 1st Annual Symposium on Gender in the Pre-College Science, Mathematics, and Technology Classroom – This free event will provide current and future educators with important tools encourage the potential of female students within science, mathematics, and technology. UIUC pre-certification students and educational outreach volunteers especially encouraged to attend. Features AAUW researcher Dr. David Sadker and research from UIUC faculty members. April 23. Registration required and space limited. For information and to register, go to www.wie.uiuc.edu/april2004genderconference.htm or contact UIUC Women in Engineering at arickman@uiuc.edu or 244-3517.

SPOKEN WORD The Teller's Art: First Wednesday Storytelling Concert Series for Adults – Five Years of Story Songs – Featured storyteller Kate McDowell will perform original story songs, musical adaptations of folk and fairy tales for voice and guitar. Verde Gallery and Verdant Coffee & News, 17 E Taylor, C. Tue, 8pm. 366-3202.

CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT Free Poetry Contest Open to Champaign residents – The International LIbrary of Poetry has announced that over 250 prizes and $58 thousand will be awarded in this year’s International Open Poetry Contest. To enter, send one original poem, any subject and any style to: The International LIbrary of Poetry, Suite 19919, 1 Poetry Plaza, Owings Mills, MD 21117. The poem should be 20 lines or less, and the poet’s name and address should appear on the top of the page. Entries must be sent by May 31. For more information, go to www.poetry.com.

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WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Life Map Workshop – A life map is a collection of visual images, a method of connecting with your intuition, a tool for visualizing your dreams or goals. Come explore life mapping – approaches, uses, and the opportunity to create your own life map. McKinley Foundation, C. April 10, 9:15-1pm.

To register or for information, contact Jo Pauly, MSW, Whole Life Coach at 337-7823 or jopauly@prairienet.org.

How to Get Hired – Learn how to find a job, prepare for an interview, negotiate contracts, and convey the kind of professionalism that will help you take that first step on the career ladder. You’ll get tips from people who do the hiring. Illini Union, rm 407. Wed, 4-5pm.

Family Support Group of NAMI – National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has their next support group and business meeting April 12, 7-9pm at Centerpoint, 1801 Fox Dr, C. For information, call Dee Hawn, President, at 359-3625 or Thelma Clark, secretary, at 367-2245.

UI Ice Arena Open Skate Sessions – Sessions will be held through Mar 18. M-F 11:20am-12:40pm, Sat & Sun 1:30-4pm. Open Skate sessions will resume Mar 29 and will be offered M-F 11:20am12:40pm thru May 5. No Sat Open Skates will be offered after Mar 13. Open Skates are free to UI students, Campus Rec members, and children (5 years and younger), $5 for adult nonmembers/general public, and $4 for youth (613 years) nonmembers/general public. Skate rental is $1 for UI students/Campus Rec members and $2 for nonmembers/general public. UI Ice Arena, 406 E Armory Dr, Questions: 333-2081.

Learn-to-Skate Spring Session II – Registration for Campus Recreation’s Learn-To-Skate Spring Session II is still available. The Learn-To-Skate program follows the guidelines of the Ice Skating Institute (ISI) for recreational skaters. Skaters enrolled in Learn-To-Skate group lessons will have five 45-minutes lessons from a qualified figure skating instructor followed by 15-minute open practice sessions. Classes are available for all ages and levels of skaters. Prices vary depending on the class. Spring Session II classes Mar 6-April 17.

Learn-To-Skate is open to UI students, Campus Rec members, nonmembers, and the general public. To register, pick up an application at the UI Ice Arena, 406 E. Armory, Champaign, or download an application at www.campusrec.uiuc.edu. Information: 333-2212, visit www.campusrec.uiuc.edu, or email: uofi_icearena@yahoo.com.

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In the 2002-2003 fiscal year (July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003), Urbana residents recycled 1,419 tons of garbage.

The amount recycled in Champaign for that same period is not available, but for the previous fiscal year, the most recent available, 1,494 tons of residential recycling was collected through curbside collection services.

When considered with the population size of each city—38,241 for Urbana and 69,443 for Champaign according to July 2002 census data— the amount Champaign residents recycled is much less than what Urbana residents recycled.

With the curbside recycling program, on average, Urbana residents recycled about 80 pounds of garbage each during the 2002-2003 fiscal year. In Champaign, the average person recycled about 43 pounds of garbage the previous year.

As far as costs are concerned, on the surface, it appears Champaign residents are paying less for their garbage and recycling pick-up.

Bruno said that garbage haulers charge residents of Champaign and Urbana the same rate for trash pick-up, but in Champaign, the price includes recycling. In Urbana, residents are

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Career Planning: Preparing for a Job Fair – A free workshop to help job seekers prepare for a job fair. Parkland College, rm C123. Thur, 12pm.

Information: 351-2536.

Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback – Learn why everyone needs to give and receive feedback in a spirit of learning and mutual respect. Key actions and techniques are presented along with ways to use them. 1315 N Mattis Ave. Thur, 8:30am-12:30pm. $99. Information: 351-2235.

Home Buyer's Seminar – Learn about budgeting, pre-qualification, inspection, closing, and other important steps in the home buying process.

Offered each month all year. Thursday & April 8, 79:30pm. 1315 N. Mattis Ave., C. $20 single or couple; includes workbook. Information: 351-2235.

needs one can collected. An Urbana resident in the same situation would pay more because the Urbana resident must pay $11 a month to the hauler and $2.50 a month to the city. The Urbana resident would pay $30, or about 18 percent, more than the Champaign resident in a year.

What is your position there?

I am the facility coordinator. I run the day-today operations, which includes the fit wellness classes and the preschool. I also watch over the front desk staff and the building service workers as well.

People can bring their own lunches or eat the provided one, free of charge. The band Motherload will be playing, which performs old time and folk music. Core and more, a pilates based fitness and stretching class begins March 29 until May 19. The class will help to stretch and strengthen the core muscles and is at the beginner and intermediate level. Finally, we will have a karate self-defense class open to both children and adults, beginning March 30 and taking place Tuesday evenings.

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How did you become involved in the center?

I have always had an interest in the cultural arts. When I first started here, I was given the position of facility management. I found that I preferred this area to the programming side of the center. I still do enjoy the programming, but I like working in the management side better.

Working with all of the different kinds of people is lots of fun and the best part of my job.

I have a very multi-task oriented job, which involves a little bit of everything.

Check In Groups – Sandra Ahten leads these sixweek classes aimed to help men and women reach their goals regarding weight, diet and exercise. $60 for 6 weeks. April 12–May 24, 5-6:30pm, (4 spots available); April 13–May 25, 5-6:30pm, (new group, 10 spots available); April 17–May 22, 910:30am, (5 spots available). For information or to register, email Ahten at spiritofsandra@hotmail.com or call 367-6345.

Email preferred.

Free! Home Inspection Information Session – Residents may attend a free session to get information about Parkland's new Home Inspection Certification course. The course covers 10 inspection components including roofing and fireplaces/chimneys. The BDC, 1315 N. Mattis Ave., C. Sat, 10am-12pm. Course tuition discounts will be available. To register, call 351-2235.

required to pay an additional $2.50 every month in taxes for recycling.

However, Smith, of ABC Sanitary Hauling, and Fletcher said Champaign residents pay more without realizing it.

Smith charges residents by the amount of garbage he picks up. For one 33-pound can, he charges $11 a month. For two cans, he charges $15.50 a month. He cannot and does not charge residents for recycling in Champaign or Urbana regardless of how much they recycle.

He picks up trash for 1,000 homes in Urbana and 3,000 homes in Champaign and said he is probably the largest recycling hauler in town.

In Urbana, he said most of his customers pay $11 monthly because they recycle, so they only need one can of garbage. In Champaign, most of his customers do not recycle or do not recycle as much as his Urbana customers, so they pay at least $15.50 for two cans or more—a difference of at least $4.50 a month—$2 more than Urbana residents pay for their recycling fee.

However, if a Champaign resident only needs one can of garbage collected, at $11 a month without any additional fees, they are getting a better deal than an Urbana resident who only

In Urbana, residents can recycle as much or as little as they want. They pay the same flat fee regardless.

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The Springer Cultural Center is a community resource that wants to further the knowledge of visual and performing arts. This includes dance, drama, music, fitness and wellness classes, the preschool program, various meetings, workshops and conferences all held at the center. It is also associated with the Champaign Park District and some of those events.

Are there any upcoming events?

The art exhibition series takes place April 14 to May 9. It includes artists Robin Riggs, Vicki Molitor and Lori Caterini. It is open whenever the building is open, which is Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and then Sunday 12 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

There will be an art reception April 16, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with music, refreshments and admission to this and the entire art exhibit is free. These exhibits take place for three weeks at a time, usually 10 times a year, so it has become a yeararound event. Also, there will be a boxed lunch this Friday, April 2, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

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OTHER FACTORS Schuch said there are more factors than just the different recycling programs that can explain why residents in Champaign and Urbana recycle different amounts.

He said people who are trying to conserve resources can do three things: recycle, reduce the amount of garbage their household produces or reuse resources rather than throw them away.

He also said that increasing the market value of recycled goods will increase recycling rates anywhere.

“The real key is finding ways to reuse the products as production inputs,” he said. “If you can do that, they’ll get collected despite government action or inaction.”

To illustrate his point, Schuch said that when the price of cardboard increased to more than $100 a ton, people began stealing used cardboard. However, when the price fell to $25 a ton, getting rid of used cardboard became a burden and businesses had a hard time getting rid of it.

“How you get it collected … is the least important part of the whole system,” he said.

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Where can someone find more information?

They can call our office at 217 398-2376 to sign up for any of the classes. Since we are associated with the park district, people can sign up at any of the park district facilities or at the Bresnan meeting center as well.

How can the community be involved in the center?

People can sign up for the classes or exhibits at any of the locations. Camp registration is currently taking place and you can pick up a brochure at any of the facilities. Also, people can rent rooms from the facility to hold meetings, workshops and receptions.

What do you like most about the Champaign-Urbana community?

The diversity is the best thing, and by working at the cultural center you are able to see all of the different types. It’s neat when everyone all comes together and has fun together.

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“Entering the Illinois campus was like entering a completely different world,” he said.

He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a master’s degree in art education. In 1998, he began his teaching career at Jackson State University and helped establish their graphic design program.

He came back to Illinois in 2002 to teach graphic design and share the experiences that have shaped him into the artist he is today.

Jennings has felt the loneliness and frustration of oppression. He has been categorized and labeled based on the color of his skin, but he said he is more than willing to consider himself a humanist.

A humanist attempts to break down barriers between people by acknowledging the fact that all human beings are equal regardless of circumstances such as physical appearance and different backgrounds, Jennings said.

“I think the poster will be effective because we are using advertising methods to ‘sell’ our views on racism,” said Illini Media Company employee Carol Mudra, another student in Jennings’ class.

Businesses and corporations hire graphic designers to create logos and images. There is not Junior in graphic design Valerie Lohmann’s poster against racial much room for personal expresdiscrimination. The poster portrays four people in CMYK colors. sion or comment on social issues in their artwork, Jennings said. The the poster differently but with the same goal in designer ’s images are for mind. Some of the students went for shock financial gain and not for value by depicting images that appeared to be blatantly racist. personal fulfillment.

“Images are a very powerful and universal “We all need to make money to survive, but we tool of communication. The challenge was to have a responsibility to our- use pictures to enhance the meaning and not selves,” said Jennings. “Your take away from it. The more shocking or dismost important client or boss turbing a picture or design is the more likely you’ll remember it,” said Mudra. should always be yourself.”

People today are desensitized to racist comThe objective was to make the students conscious of ments or actions, she said. For some of the stucurrent racial and social dents, such as Mudra, this project has helped issues and to extend aware- put the emotion and passion back into art and ness to the community. This into issues such as racism that are important goal was anything but an but often overlooked.

Mudra’s poster featured pictures of Oreo easy task, Jennings said.

“We all have a universal cookies and Twinkies. The images could easily human responsibility to be be mistaken for a Nabisco or Hostess adversocially aware. Every student tisement, but these snacks are packed had different things they with more then just sugar.

“Those treats are common to us, but what wanted to express, but our basic goal for these posters we might not realize is how common racism was to raise awareness and really is, even in terms of cookies,” Mudra spark change,” Jennings said. said.

She explained that an Oreo is a derogaEach student approached PHOTOS | CAROL MUDRA

hen was the last time you knew you were the only person with a particular background? Have you ever known you were alone because you looked different?” questioned John Jennings, a graphic design professor at the University of Illinois.

This question of isolation and misunderstanding was the basis for a project that Jennings’ Graphic Design 210 class tried to answer last semester.

The students’ objective was to illustrate a message about discrimination in society through three posters. Creativity and passion were necessary tools for the assignment, said Jennings.

Before students began work on the posters, they read articles about segregation and racism. They also viewed a 90-minute video clip, which showed images of discrimination from famous Hollywood movies. Excerpts from films such as Bowling for Columbine, A Bronx Tale, The Last Supper and Higher Learning were used.

“The video was emotionally draining, but it was effective. It spurred emotion and incited passion to create a powerful piece of art,” said Illni Media Company employee Sue Janna Truscott, a junior in Jennings’ class.

The posters will be displayed around campus early next semester. Every poster will feature a paragraph that includes the goal of the project and the class’ e-mail address.

“The object of the e-mail address was to allow an outlet for comments on the projects,” said Truscott.

She said a large college campus such as the University of Illinois is a great environment to do this poster.

“With so many people and so much diversity,” she said, “the poster is bound to strike a chord in someone.”

College students tend to be more liberal and open-minded, said Jennings. Open-minded people are often more willing to try to understand what they do not know.

“Racism basically stems from misunderstanding and fear,” said Jennings.

The students in last year’s graphic design class did the same project with little feedback from the community. Jennings hopes for a better response this year.

“I think that a lot of people don’t see racism as a problem anymore. It’s not as blatant but it occurs every day. As a professor, I feel obligated to prepare students for the world outside the University,” said Jennings.

Jennings said he could never have been so zealous an art teacher if he had not experienced tribulations in his life.

He spent his childhood in Mississippi.

At a young age, he experienced oppression and discrimination because he is black. He joined the U.S. Army for one year in 1988.

“Everybody in the army was from different backgrounds,” he said, “but it was the first time I truly felt part of the same group.”

He attended Jackson State University in Mississippi in 1993 and graduated with a bachelor ’s degree in commercial art and a minor in drawing. Jackson State is a predominately African-American c ollege, especially when compared to the University of Illinois, Jennings said.

Junior in graphic design Nick Farrey’s discrimination posters.

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Babies’ Lap Time – Babies are invited to Phillips Recreation Center for Babies' Lap Time Tuesday from 10-10:30am, presented by The Urbana Free Library Children’s Department. This program is for our youngest patrons, ages 6-24 months with an adult. No registration. For more info, call 367-4069.

O Baby! – Lap-bouncing, nursery rhymes and music activities for infants with a caregiver. Champaign Public Library, main library. Mon, 9:30-9:50am or 10:30-10:50am. No registration required. For more information, call 403-2030.

Storyshop – Stories, songs and rhymes for preschoolers through third-graders, 9:30-10am or 10:30-11am at Champaign Public Library, and 10:30-11am at Douglass Branch Library, both in Champaign. Wed. No registration.

“Magic Tree House” party – school-aged fans of the “Magic Tree House” book series are invited to blast back into the past at this free party. Play Magic Tree House Bingo and win prizes.

Champaign Public Library. Sat, 2-3pm. No registration required. Information: 403-2030.

EVENTS & LECTURES Women of Color Conference – Courtyard Cafe, 7pm, free Book Sale – Load up on used book bargains at the Friends of the Champaign Public Library’s spring book sale, April 16-18. The public sale is April 17, 9am-5pm. Sunday is “Bag Sale Day” from 1-5pm, at which time books cost a dollar a bagful. But, for the best selection, attend the Friends membersonly pre-sale April 16, 4-8pm. Memberships may be purchased at the door for $10. The library is located at 505 S Randolph, C. Deep Throat Uncovered – Champaign Public Library, 505 S. Randolph Professor Bill Gaines and his student team talk about their four-year investigation into the identity of the most famous anonymous news source in history. No registration. Champaign Public Library. Sun, 2-3pm.

Information: 403-2070.

Harmful to Children – Janice Del Negro, director of The Center for Children's Books, talks about banned and challenged children's books. No registration. Champaign Public Library. Tue, 7-8pm.

Champaign County Audubon Society early morning bird walks – Busey Woods every Sunday morning at 7:30am. Meet at Anita Purves Nature Center parking lot. 344-6803.

Words on Fire: C-U Reading Discussion – Discussing Fahrenheit 451 as part of the C-U Reading community-wide reading program. No registration. Champaign Public Library. Mon, 2pm.

Information: 403-2070 or www.champaign.org.

Social Justice and Social Science: A Symposium in Honor of Joe R. Feagin and His Vision of Multiracial Democracy – This two-day symposium of nationally recognized scholars will honor the contributions of the distinguished scholar Professor Joe R. Feagin. Levis Faculty Center. April 13, 8:30am-5pm & April 14, 8:30am-12pm. Free. For information, contact event organizer, Professor Bernice McNair Barnett at bmbarnet@uiuc.edu&nbsp or 217-333-7658.

Silent Auction and Ice Cream Social – The Urbana High School Orchestra offers this event, with ice cream, orchestra music and bidding on donated items. Urbana High School Commons. April 17, 7pm. Information: 337-5038.

Concert Prep: Sun Rings – During this talk, William Sullivan, director of Campus Environmental Council, will reflect on the connection between humans and our universe, our long-standing interest in the cosmos, and the thrill we often experience by connecting with it. James Kaler, UI Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, will then take the audience on a trip through the cosmos, sailing the solar wind from the Sun, past the planets, to the boundaries of the Solar System. Colwell Playhouse. Sat, 6:30pm. Free.

Champaign County Audubon Society field trip – This trip will be to Moraine View State Park north of LeRoy. Beth Chato will lead the search for early blooming spring wildflowers. Meet at the Anita Purves Nature Center parking lot, 1505 N. Broadway, U. Sat, 8am. Bring lunch if you wish to continue in the afternoon. Information: Beth at 344-6803.

C.S.I. at Parkland: Forensic Science in the Dome – What is forensic science and how much of what you see on the television is real? Tod Treat, dean of Academic Services at Parkland College, will look at the some of the basic techniques of forensic science and how the scientific method is used to solve crimes in his presentation,“Forensic Science: From Fingerprinting to DNA.” Parkland College Staerkel Planetarium. Fri, 7pm. $1. Following the talk, the planetarium will be showing “Night Lights,” followed by the light show based on Pink Floyd's “Wish You Were Here.”

Students for Environmental Concerns' Earth Day Benefit Festival – Three local bands playing there: Green Mountain Grass, Apollo Project and Nadafinga, will perform in honor of the 34th celebration of Earth Day. Illini Union's Courtyard Cafe.

April 15, 6pm.

Singles Celebrating Life dance – Urbana Civic Center. Second Saturday of each month, this month’s date will be April 10. 8pm-12am. $7 at the door.

“Share a Meal with Community Shares” – This fundraiser helps local non-profits. Thirty percent of your meal at Silvercreek restaurant goes to one of these charities. For information, call 328-3402.

“European Union: International Organization or Emerging State?” – Bob Pahre, University political science professor, will speak. The European Union is a novel political entity, neither a traditional international organization nor yet a conventional state. Pahre will present an overview of this new political system. Part of the Friday Forum Series.

Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Fri, 12pm.

Geography Trilogy, Part 3: House, A Work in Progress – Ralph Lemon and his company spend six weeks at Krannert Center working on the final development of Lemon’s Geography Trilogy, Part 3 – House, an exploration of critical events in American racial history and the rich folk culture of the southern United States. Mar 15-April 25.

Colwell Playhouse.

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“Live! @ Your Library” feat. Colonel William Thompson – Hear a first-hand account of what it was this African American veteran who was there.

Thompson is one of the original Tuskegee Airmen.

He has recently written a memoir about his wartime experiences. Champaign Public Library.

Tue, 7pm. Registration not required. For more information, call 403-2070.

International Dinner – The University YMCA, Office of International Student Affairs and the Cosmopolitan Club hosts its 21st International Dinner, with a food buffet and international performers. Univ YMCA Latzer Hall. Sun, 6-8pm. Tickets on sale now, $10. Info: Becca Nieto at 337-1514.

Staerkel Planetarium Monthly Science Presentation – On the first Friday of each month that classes are in session, the planetarium will host a noted scientist from the community for a presentation on his or her expertise. Talks begin at 7pm and tickets are $1 at the door. No reservations necessary. Questions: 351-2446.

Job Fair 2004 at Parkland – 100+ employers and hiring representatives will talk about job opportunities. Bring resumes, fill out job applications and be prepared for on-the-spot interviews. There will be representation from a variety of career fields including business, technology, communications, healthcare, crinminal justice, manufacturing, hospitality, and human services. April 8, 2-6pm in the Parkland Gymnasium. Information: 351-2536.

“Letters from Heaven: Bolsheviks Against ‘Superstition’ and ‘Superstition Against Bolsheviks’” – a lecture by Steve Smith, history, University of Essex, England. Part of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center’s Distinguished Lecturers Colloqium Series. 101 International Studies Building. April 19, 4-5:30pm.

International Justice Issues – Joan Campbell, director, Department of Religion, Chautauqua Institution, will speak. The talk will focus on Dr. Campbell’s recent work with the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders and her recent experiences in Tel Aviv.

Part of the Friday Forum. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. April 9, 12pm.

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Osama – Rated PG-13. Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film, this film is about an Afghanistinian girl who wants to attend school during the Taliban regime when girls were not allowed to attend school. Boardman’s Art Theatre.

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Elephant – Rated R. Winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival 2003. A film addressing school violence such as the Columbine High School shootings. Directed by Gus Van Sant.

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“Fahrenheit 451” – Francois Truffaut’s 1966 film will be screened at the Foellinger Auditorium April 18 at 2pm. Afterward, Jahiel will lead a discussion of the film and other cinema-related topics. This event is part of the “C-U Reading” program and is co-sponsored by the Champaign Public Library and the UIUC Unit for Cinema Studies. For more information, call 403-2070.

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tory term for an African-American who behaves like society’s idea of a ‘white’ person. Twinkie is racial slang for an Asian-American who possesses stereotypical Caucasian qualities.

“Stereotyping and categorizing are still common and hopefully my poster will raise awareness that racism still occurs,” Mudra said.

The poster demonstrates how common racism is to the average person. The images will hopefully generate emotion in people who may not ever think about how it is for those who have been oppressed, she said.

Mudra has never personally felt the stare of judgmental eyes or the embarrassment of exclusion based on her ethnicity, but she has felt the passion to change these experiences for people who have been discriminated against in society.

“People should see that racism is still widespread and not something that is just read about in a high school history class,” she said.

Mudra believes those who have never felt fully accepted need hope for change.

These are people like her friend and classmate, Sue Janna Truscott, who have been hurt by discrimination and racial labeling.

Truscott knew the poster was already a difficult assignment for her because it hit closer to home than past assignments.

“The project brought out emotions that have been so deeply ingrained within me,” she said.

Her mom is Korean and her dad is Caucasian. She and her family have lived in South Carolina, California and Illinois.

In each state, her friends and classmates labeled her differently.

“In high school, most of my friends were Asian and most of them considered me white. It kind of hurt that they saw very little Asian in me—that they could not see me as a complete person,” Truscott said.

Her struggle for identity still continues in a world where she is used to being identified and categorized.

“The posters are about personal experiences that people might not relate to but will hopefully think about,” she said.

An outline of a woman with half of the background depicting the Korean flag and the other half featuring the American flag was one of her posters. Another poster shows a Korean woman with a label stamped on her forehead.

“I wanted to show the struggle of being categorized. We are all human. Why do we need to divide ourselves?” Truscott said.

Truscott hopes her personal experience has effectively been conveyed through powerful images that will get people to think twice about discrimination and segregation.

The poster is a step closer to answering Jennings’ question of isolation and misunderstanding. He refuses to let his dream of acceptance and understanding die.

“We should be proud of our ethnicity, but we should never forget that we are all part of one large race—the human race,” Jennings said. buzz

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My Preschool Genius – A book-centered program focusing on language. Preschoolers can listen to dynamic picture book presentations and explore the art of picture book illustration. Champaign Public Library. Tue, 9:30-10am. Registration required. Call 403-2030.

Girls, Girls, Girls! – Games, crafts, and reading time for girls in grades 1-4. Douglass Branch Library. Fri, 4-5pm. No registration.

T.A.C.K. – The library’s Thursday Arts and Crafts for Kids program welcomes children to come make a craft. Douglass Branch Library, Conference Room.

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Jennifer Government ★★★

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obody wants to read a book review that spends six paragraphs finding creative ways to rephrase the plot synopsis on the back cover. Max Berry’s Jennifer Government is a fastpaced story of a futuristic dystopia in which most of the western and eastern hemispheres have been absorbed into an American Federation, and the countries within this union operate on an ultra laissez faire form of free trade with startling, humorous and horrific results. The cover of the paperback edition features a woman’s left eye, accentuated by a delicate layer of eyeliner. The most intriguing detail of this cover, aside from the cold stare of the woman’s one eye, is the barcode tattooed under her lower eyelash.

We find that this woman is Jennifer Government, a top agent with a healthy dose of sass and a sinister trigger finger.

What would best describe Jennifer is Hester Prynne meets Lois Lane. She always seems to know just how far to bend the rules, and always makes her own rules when she can’t flex them far enough. But this go-for-broke G-woman also has a softer side. She lives with her young daughter in Melbourne, Australia. The child, Kate, is enrolled in a grade school sponsored by Mattel. Virtually every institution we consider public: hospitals, schools, even police stations have been transformed into corporate entities.

After reading the synopsis, one can filter out all flamboyant adjectives book covers always use to con a reader, and decide that this book is easy to decipher. The cover, with its less-thancryptic title and semi-close-up view of Jennifer’s eye complete with barcode further leads us to believe that this novel is a fairly straightforward account of one female cop’s struggle to raise a daughter and catch criminals in this power-hungry universe where money talks and workers even assume the surname of their chosen companies.

The book was not this easy to unpack once it is actually opened. Jennifer Government is not the only well-rounded character in this novel. In fact, Barry spends the better part of the first 15 chapters throwing character after character at the reader. In the early stages of reading this book, it feels like this novel has more characters than a Robert Altman movie.

However, Barry, like Altman, introduces his menagerie of characters in an unobtrusive way. The names are a bit hard to catch on to at first, but persevering through the first 30 pages pays off in the end. Eventually, Barry constructs a narrative which toggles from character to character with just enough spacing to keep us in suspense about what is hap-

pening with each particular subplot, but he doesn’t keep us waiting to the point that we forget each scenario.

It is this fluidity that will make a reader appreciate the book for what it does. Barry deals with a total global vision: His settings range from Australia all the way around the world to the United States. However, because of Barry’s unique Americanized global market, each Australian city is almost identical to its American cousin. This creates a uniform world where Barry can manipulate his characters through many different geographical regions without jarring the reader from the thread of narration. This homogenous matrix makes for an interesting read on its own somewhat superficial level, but the landscape also aids the plot by allowing Barry to focus on his large cast of characters without having to re-establish his setting during each subplot.

This is the second novel by Barry, whose freshman effort was entitled Syrup. It seems appropriate to give that novel a read as well.

Barry has a distinctive voice that frantically preaches to all who will listen: “Imagine if we went just a bit further …” Fans of Brave New World and 1984 should not dismiss this novel as a 21st century rip-off of a few classic stories.

Barry isn’t trying to ride the coat tails of one or two celebrated satirists. He’s used their ideas as a springboard, leaping toward the cosmos and commandeering their coats for parachutes as he arches from the page into our minds.

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Art Retreat – First Sundays Art of Creation, Passion, and Restoration Retreats at Creation Art Studios with independent artist Jeannine Bestoso.

Recreate your original self, ignite your passions, and resurrect buried or lost visions through guided art activities, journal writing, reflection, and quiet group involvement. A transformative experience of personal expansion and clarity that can lead you onto a path of new directions and creative living. Sunday, 9am-3pm. Pre-registration required. Lunch provided. For more information and to register, contact Jeannine Bestoso at 3446955.

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atrick Harness was born in Mobile, Ala., in 1952. He has since resided in Western Australia, Oregon and Brooklyn, N.Y., where he attended Pratt Institute. His images are a result of 40 years of experimenting in a variety of media, with a focus on pastel and oil painting. He has happily resided in Central Illinois since 1977, where he enjoys the company of his family, friends and the unique beauty of its rural landscape.

ART GALLERIES Boneyard Pottery – Ceramic Art by Michael Schwegmann and others. 403 Water St in Champaign. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm. 355-5610.

What inspires you?

I am mostly inspired by the Central Illinois landscape. I am especially attuned to the change of seasons and appreciate the simple beauty of this area.

Broken Oak Gallery – Local and national artists, original art including photography, watercolors, pottery, oil paintings, colored pencil, and woodturning. Refreshments served by the garden all day Saturday. 1865 N 1225 E Rd in White Heath.

Thu-Sat 10am-4pm. 762-4907.

When did you start creating your art form?

My parents encouraged me (to) explore my artistic abilities when they realized it was a way to channel my relentless energy. I was 10 years old at the time.

Creation Art Studios – Featuring original art by students and members of the studio. 1102 E Washington St in Urbana. Mon-Fri 3-5:30pm, Sat 14pm and other scheduled studio times. For more information, call Jeannine Bestoso at 344-6955.

Country in the City – Antiques, Architectural, Gardening and Home Accessories. Custom designing available. 1104 E Washington St in Urbana.

Thu-Sat 10am-5pm. 367-2367.

How do you feel you’ve improved since starting?

Although my artistic abilities have improved over time, I feel the biggest improvement has been in my ability to “see” and appreciate my surroundings. That’s probably the most enriching quality of art to me.

Framer's Market – Frame designers since 1981.

Ongoing work from local artists on display. 807 W Springfield Ave in Champaign. Tue-Fri 9:30am5:30pm, Sat 10am-4pm. 351-7020.

What environment do you like to work in?

I set up a studio area in my house with all my supplies at hand. My favorite music is available and the kitchen is in the next room—everything I need for an enjoyable experience.

Furniture Lounge – Featuring local artist Patrick Harness through April 30, as well as vintage prints, lithographs and one-of-a-kind mid-century paintings. 9 E Univ Ave, Downtown Champaign. Sun 11-3pm, Mon-Tue 12-4:30pm, Wed-Sat 11-5:30pm.

352-5150.

Glass FX – New and Antique Stained Glass Windows, Lamps and unique glass gifts. Gallery is free and open to the public. Interested in learning the art of Stained Glass? Beginning, intermediate and advanced stained glass classes offered. 202 S First St in Champaign. Mon-Thu 10am-5:30pm, Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 9am-4pm. www.glassfx.com.

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What other types of art do you appreciate or dabble in?

I appreciate a wide variety of art and look forward to this year’s Boneyard Art Festival (April 16 and 17). It’s very stimulating for me to view all the talented work available in our community.

Griggs Street Potters – Handmade functional and decorative pottery. 305 W Grigg St in Urbana.

Mon-Fri 11am-4pm, or call for appointment. 3448546.

Hill Street Gallery Inc. – Oil and watercolor paintings, hand painted T-shirts, handmade jewelry. 703 W Hill in Champaign. Sat 12-5pm or by appointment during the week. 359-0675.

Larry Kanfer Gallery – European Collection featured in the gallery. Both limited and open edition prints by Larry Kanfer, nationally acclaimed photographer. 2503 S Neil in Champaign. Free and Open to the Public. Mon-Sat 10am-5:30pm. 3982000. www.kanfer.com.

Laser’s Edge – Oil paintings on canvas and framed etchings by Sandra Ahten along with work from Lee Boyer now showing. 218 W. Main Street, Urbana. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. 328-3343.

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LaPayne Photography – Specializes in panoramic photography up to 6 feet long of different subjects including sporting events, city skylines, national parks and University of Illinois scenes.

816 Dennison Dr in Champaign. Mon-Fri 9am-4pm and by appointment. 356-8994.

Displayed here are three of Partrick Harness’ paintings. Partrick is directly influenced by the Central Illinois landscape because of its simplistic beauty.

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Old Vic Art Gallery – Fine and original art, hand signed, limited edition prints, works by local artists, art restoration, custom framing, and periodic shows by local artists. 11 E University in Champaign. Mon-Thu 11am-5:30pm, Sat 11am4:30pm. 355-8338.

Prairie Boatworks Gallery – Beautifully hand-crafted gift items and over 35 regional artist to choose from. 407 E Main St in Mahomet. Tue, Fri, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-4pm. 586-6776. Information: contact Mary at 356-8228 or tangoradesigns@aol.com.

The Fairy Queen – Henry Purcell’s semi-opera will be under the direction of Charlotte Mattax and performed by U of I opera singers, dancers, the Concert Choir, and Concerto Urbana. Sung in English. Tryon Festival Theatre. April 23, 24 at 7:30pm.

Steeple Gallery – Vintage botanical and bird prints, antiques and framed limited edition prints. 102 E Lafayette St in Monticello. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-4pm. www.steeplegallery.com. 762-2924.

1776 – Parkland Theatre's spring musical opens April 14 with a preview performance and runs through May 1. For more information, call 3512528.

Ziemer Gallery – Paintings and limited edition prints by Larry Ziemer. Pottery, weavings, wood turning and glass works by other artists. 210 W Washington in Monticello. Tue 10am-8pm, Wed-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-4pm. www.ziemergallery.com. 762-9786.

ART EXHIBITS 9th Biennial Ceramics Invitational – The Parkland invitational features the work of nine contemporary ceramic artists. This year's exhibit focuses on functional ceramics, with a specific look at the rich decorative surface that clay provides. The exhibit will be on display in the Parkland Art Gallery through April 9. 115 E. University, C. M-F, 10am3pm, M-Th, 6-8pm, Sat, 12-2pm. 351-2485.

FILM The Barbarian Invasions – Rated R. Academy award winner for best foreign language film and original screenplay. Spoken in French, this film has refined humor, intellectual dialogue and emotional, offbeat relationships. Boardman’s Art Theatre.

Playing through Thursday. For showtimes, go to www.boardmansarttheatre.com.

“Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists” – The Krannert Museum has put together a traveling exhibition bringing together the work of seven major contemporary artists who share a connection to both worlds. 500 E Peabody in Urbana. Tue, Thu-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm. Suggested donation $3. 333-1860.

$25 Gift Certificate given away every Friday.

Stop by each week to register.

Charity fashion show April 8 at the Canopy C;ub!

Call store for details!

“Social Studies: Eight Artists Address Brown v.

Board of Education” – In this exhibit, eight contemporary artists commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case. All participating artists have a history of making art that deals with pressing social issues in American society - gender, class, race, and politics. Krannert Art Museum. April 2. Exhibit on view through May 23. The museum is open to the public Tue-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 25pm. Free admission. Sugg donation: $3.

“Persephone and Flora” – A celebration of spring classical paintings by Jenny Chi & Floral Art by Rick Orr on display at Verde Gallery through May 1. 17 E Taylor St, C. Cafe hours: Mon-Sat 7am-10 pm; Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-10pm. 366-3204.

“Cognitio Inluminaire” – Aroma Café is proud to present this collection of photographs from Jim Hultquist. Artist Statement:“My house is filled with books and inspiration is just a shelf away. The books have commandeered my home. I’d ask for help but your house is probably full of inspiration too. This set of photographs is an attempt to visually translate the inspiration and action in the book (or of the writer) to the book itself. To animate, to make kinetic, to make the book something more than a dusty tomb waiting passively for you to seek it out. Each image is a visual expression of the emotional potential that lies quietly coded within the pages.” On display at Aroma Café through Apr 30. 118 N. Neil, Champaign. Open 7 days a week, 7am-Midnight.

For information, contact Amanda Bickle at 3563200 or art4aroma@yahoo.com.

contemporary clothing jewelry, accessories, & shoes

Sandra Ahten exhibit at Milos Restaurant – The restaurant, located east outside entrance at Lincoln Square, is displaying Ahten’s paintings and prints. Ahten is offering 40 percent off the work.

Stop by and have a peak.

ON STAGE Elysium on the Prairie, Live Action Roleplaying – Vampires stalk the city streets and struggle for dominance in a world of gothic horror. Create your own character and mingle with dozens of players who portray their own undead alter egos.

Each session is another chapter in an ongoing story of triumph, tragedy and betrayal. Fridays, “Vampire: The Masquerade.” 7pm. For location: www2.uiuc.edu/ro/elysium/intro.html.

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CHICAGOSHOWS APRIL 4/1-2 Decemberists @ Schubas 4/2 Joan Baez @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall 4/2 Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Missy Elliott @ Allstate Arena 4/2 Jonatha Brooke @ Park West 4/2 Graham Colton @ Double Door 4/2 Sound Tribe Sector Nine @ Vic 4/2 Star Spangles @ Lyons Den 4/2-3 Blonde Redhead @ Abbey Pub 4/3 Rod Piazza @ Buddy Guy's Legends 4/3 Preston School of Industry @ Schubas 4/3 Grandaddy, Saves the Day @ Riviera 4/3 Weirdos @ Subterranean 4/3 Particle @ Park West, 18+ 4/3 Josh Wink @ Smart Bar 4/4 Unicorns @ Logan Square Auditorium, all-ages 4/4 Floetry @ House of Blues 4/6 Chayanne @ Rosemont Theatre 4/6 Van Hunt @ Double Door 4/6 Method Man @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/7 Stereolab @ Vic 4/7 Twilight Singers @ Metro 4/7 Van Morrison @ Chicago Theatre 4/7 16 Horsepower @ Abbey Pub 4/8 Geoff Farina @ Schubas 4/8 Trapt, Smile Empty Soul @ House of Blues, all-ages 4/8 Sugarcult @ Metro, all-ages 4/8 N.E.R.D., Black Eyed Peas @ Riviera, 18+ 4/9 Weird War @ Empty Bottle 4/9 Switchfoot @ Vic 4/9 Ruben Studdard @ Auditorium Theatre 4/9 Squarepusher @ Metro 4/9 Midnight Creeps @ Lyons Den 4/9 Roomful of Blues @ Buddy Guy's Legends 4/9 I:Cube @ Smart Bar 4/9 Henry Butler, Jon Cleary, Dr. Michael White @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/9 Local H @ Metro, all-ages 4/9 & 16 Herbie Hancock @ Symphony Center 4/9-10 B.B. King @ Star Plaza 4/10 DJ Shadow @ Park West, 18+ 4/10 Wanda Jackson @ FitzGerald's 4/10 Bret Michaels @ Joe's 4/10 Tom Russell, Jim Lauderdale @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/11 Fantomas, Melt-Banana @ Metro 4/12 Story of the Year @ House of Blues, all-ages 4/13 Sleepy Jackson @ Schubas 4/13 Stellastarr @ Double Door 4/13 Rufio @ Metro, all-ages 4/14 Sarah Harmer @ Martyrs' 4/15-16 Bonnie Prince Billy, Joanna Newsom @ Open End Gallery (4/15), Logan Square Auditorium (4/16) 4/15-16 Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Kweller @ Vic 4/15-16 Willy Porter @ FitzGerald's (15), Martyrs' (16) 4/16 A Perfect Circle, Mars Volta @ UIC Pavilion 4/16 Thrills @ Metro 4/16 Orchestra Baobab @ HotHouse, two shows 4/16 Eddie From Ohio, Luther Wright & the Wrong @ FitzGerald's 4/16 Baaba Maal @ Old Town School of Folk Music, two shows 4/16 Mason Jennings @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 4/16 Peter Mulvey @ Schubas 4/17 Asylum Street Spankers @ Schubas 4/17 Mustard Plug @ Metro, all-ages 4/17 Ellis Paul @ Schubas, two shows 4/17 Pinback, Enon @ Logan Square Auditorium, all-ages 4/17-18 Rebirth Brass Band @ Martyrs' 4/18 Rasputina @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/18 Renee Fleming @ Symphony Center 4/20 Air @ Riviera 4/20 Iced Earth @ Metro, all-ages 4/20 Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/20 Sebadoh @ Abbey Pub 4/21 Delirious, David Crowder Band @ Vic, all-ages 4/21 Joss Stone @ House of Blues 4/22 Leon Russell @ Bottom Lounge 4/23 Crystal Method @ House of Blues, all-ages 4/23 Morbid Angel @ Oasis 160, all-ages 4/23 Savath & Savalas w/ Prefuse 73 @ Abbey Pub 4/23 Yellowcard, Something Corporate @ Riviera 4/23 Strokes @ Aragon, sold out 4/24 Robert Walter’s 20th Congress @ Abbey Pub 4/24 Bad Plus @ Martyrs’ 4/24 Fruit @ Schubas 4/24 Indigo Girls @ Auditorium Theatre

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4/24 Tony Rice & Lonesome River Band @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/24 Pat McGee Band @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/24 Of Montreal @ Subterranean 4/25 Janis Ian @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/27 LCD Soundsystem @ Empty Bottle 4/27 Damien Rice @ Riviera, all-ages 4/28 Deerhoof @ Empty Bottle 4/28 James Murphy @ Smart Bar 4/30 Einsturzende Neubauten @ Metro, 18+ 4/30 Graham Parker @ Martyrs'

Opening Weekend April 2-4 Screen 1 : Hellboy PG1 3 Screen 2: Welcome to Mooseport PG1 3

CHICAGOVENUES Abbey Pub 3420 W Grace, Chicago, (773) 478-4408 Allstate Arena 6920 N Mannheim Rd, Rosemont, (847) 635-6601 Aragon 1106 W Lawrence, Chicago, (773) 561-9500 Arie Crown Theater 2301 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, (312) 791-6190 Bottom Lounge 3206 N Wilton, Chicago, (773) 975-0505 Chicago Theatre 175 N State St, Chicago, (312) 443-1130 Congress Theatre 2135 N Milwaukee, Chicago, (312) 923-2000 Double Door 1572 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, (773) 489-3160 Elbo Room 2871 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, (773) 549-5549 Empty Bottle 1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, (773) 276-3600 Fireside Bowl 2648 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, (773) 486-2700 House of Blues 329 N Dearborn, Chicago, (312) 923-2000 Martyrs' 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, (773) 404-9494 Metro/Smart Bar 3730 N Clark St, Chicago, (773) 549-0203 Old Town School of Folk Music 4544 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, (773) 728-6000 Park West 322 W Armitage, Chicago, (773) 929-5959 Riviera Theatre 4746 N Racine, Chicago, (773) 275-6800 Rosemont Theatre 5400 N River Rd, Rosemont, (847) 671-5100 Schubas 3159 N Southport, Chicago, (773) 525-2508 UIC Pavilion 525 S Racine, Chicago, (312) 413-5700 Vic Theatre 3145 N Sheffield, Chicago, (773) 472-0449

ART NOTICES Art Demonstration – Floral Art & Design with Rick Orr. Thur, 7pm. Verde Gallery. 17 E Taylor St., Champaign. Cafe hours: Mon-Sat 7am-10 pm; Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-10pm. 366-3204.

Artists @ Krannert – Talk by Brown v. Board of Education artist Pamela Vander Zwan. Vander Zwan, primarily a photographer, seeks to uncover the basic myths and aspirations of American society. She will discuss her efforts to achieve social and political change through art. Wed, 5:30pm.

Krannert Art Museum. 500 E Peabody, Urbana.

333-1860.

Art Classes by Sandra Ahten – To register, email spiritofsandra@hotmail.com (preferred) or call 367-6345.

“Collage for the Soul” – Students will learn a variety of collage techniques, including photo and photocopy transfer, papermaking and manipulation, wax application, and more, while exploring a particular subject. No art-making experience necessary. This class is great for creative exploration and for those who want to take scrapbooking to a new level. Work with your own family photos. April 6, 13, 20, 27. Tue, 7-9pm. Now $70.

“Art with Intention” – This class is not grouptaught, but is flexible and individually directed to each of the students. It is an opportunity for adults to explore their creative voices. Individualized projects will be based on the student's desire to learn new media such as watercolor or encaustic, gain skill in drawing or painting, or complete a project such as a pencil or oil portrait. Materials provided. Thur 2-hr drop-in time, 3-9pm. $95 for 5 (2-hour) sessions in 6 weeks.

“Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” – For adults who have always wanted to learn to draw, but felt like they lacked talent or confidence. This class teaches “realistic” or “naturalistic” drawing.

Students learn that drawing well is really a matter of learning a new way of seeing. Youth accepted with permission. Thur & April 29, 6-8pm.

Creation Art Studios – Ongoing after-school art classes for children. Morning, evening, and weekend studio sessions for adults. Join anytime. Unveil your inherent creative style, exploring materials, techniques, and process, and developing studio skills. Learn to create openings to access dreams, ideas, and issues of heart, mind, and body. Produce your own work through collage, assemblage art, drawing, watercolor, acrylic and oil painting, ceramics, and sculpture. CPDU’s offered. For more information, call Jeannine Bestoso at 344-6955.

Visit the studio, 1102 E Washington St. Urbana or www.creationartstudios.com.

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All shows start at dusk.

• Admission $5 per person • Children under 5 are free

this week Th Apr 1 Interval: Manoochehr Sadeghi, santur noon, free Sponsors: Anonymous

Wine Tasting 5pm, free Joshua Bell, violin 7:30pm, $25-$42 Sponsor: Avis and Dean Hilfinger

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Sinfonia Student Performance Project 6:50pm, free

UI Varsity Men's Glee Club 7:30pm, $4-$7 Kronos Quartet: Sun Rings 7:30pm, $20-$30 Talkback: after the show, free Sponsors: Alice and John Pfeffer

Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Fr Apr 2 Spring Storm Dessert and Conversation 6:30pm, $5.50 UI Percussion Ensemble 7:30pm, $2-$5 Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Sinfonia da Camera 7:30pm, $7-$30 Sponsors: Rick Orr Florist

Mark Morris Dance Group 7:30pm, $22-$34 Talkback: after the show, free Sponsors: Nancy and Edward Tepper Jerald Wray and Dirk Mol

Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13 Afterglow: Jason Finkelman's Nu Orbit Ensemble 9:30pm, free Sponsor:

Su Apr 4 Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra 3pm, $10-$28 Spring Storm 3pm, $6-$13

Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Th Apr 8 Interval: The Musicians of the Mark Morris Dance Group noon, free Wine Tasting 5pm, free Laurien Laufman, cello and Timothy Ehlen, piano 7:30pm, $2-$5 Mark Morris Dance Group 7:30pm, $22-$34 Talkback: after the show, free Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Some Krannert Center programs are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and patron and corporate contributions.

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Champaign-Urbana Symphony concerts are supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Patricia Campbell’s participation in the School of Music Conference on Improvisation is supported in part by the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts.

KrannertCenter.com 217/333-6280 or 800/KCPATIX 217/333-9714 (TTY) 217/244-SHOW (Fax) 217/244-0549 (Groups) kran-tix@uiuc.edu Ticket Office Open 10am to 6pm daily; on days of performances open 10am through intermission.

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E&A keeps the hip-hop tradition alive

BY ADAM BOSKEY | STAFF WRITER

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ince the inception of hip-hop music, there has always been a relationship between the MC and the DJ. In the beginning, both were considered equally vital to the music.

Over time, the dynamic changed as the MC became more marketable and technology allowed for the show to go on without a DJ. It went from Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Rodney-o & Joe Cooley and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince to Puff Daddy, Jay-Z and Snoop Doggy Dogg. As the DJ’s names were no longer included on the marquee, it became clear that the DJ was being phased out.

At the same point the DJ was deemed unnecessary, other changes in hip-hop coincided. The shows became flat as the MC had no one to work with onstage. The sound of the music went away from heavy use of samples from the DJ’s crate—a mainstay of hip-hop— toward the shiny sounds of keyboards. To purists, this was getting far from the hip-hop experience they grew up with and loved; it had become hip-pop. The idea of a hip-hop duo has all but faded from mainstream hiphop, but some still find themselves entrenched in the hip-hop tradition that includes a duo from Minnesota known as Eyedea & Abilities.

The duo, promoting its new album E&A, will bring its Plague on Wheels Tour to Canopy Club on Sunday night. This is one of those groups that considers the DJ (Abilities) as important as the MC (Eyedea). This group, however, is light years ahead of the pack. Both artists are of a supreme and rare talent. Eyedea is a lyricist of the highest caliber; a songwriter who can rap. DJ Abilities handles production and is a bona fide turntablist. He treats the turntable as an instrument, using it as Hendrix would a guitar. This tandem is a seldom seen pairing of opposing talents in the modern era of hip-hop.

E&A is the follow-up album to the duo’s 2001 debut, First Born, which landed them a spot on URB Magazine’s “Next 100 List” of acts to look out for. E&A is all about bringing the DJ and MC closer together. They told of how they wanted to treat Eyedea’s voice and Abilities’ scratches as you would the lead vocal and lead guitar in a rock group. This innovation has never happened before on a hip-hop album of this length. When you listen to E&A, both instruments (voice and turntable) share equal importance at equal volume. Both get time to solo, and in a approach unique to this album, they both challenge their conventional roles.

On the first track, “Reintroducing,” the speakers swell with the sound of Abilities

expertly scratching a recorded verse from his partner throughout the entire song. This song is quite inventive as Abilities scratches the verse in a way that allows the lyrics, which, if left alone, would be off beat, to fall into rhythm. All the while, the scratches deftly walk the fine line of overkill, as this song perfectly sets the tone that this album has as much to do with the MC as the DJ. The duo honed its uber-skills the oldfashioned way— battling. From 1997 to 2001, the two took the national and regional battle scene by storm, winning several esteemed competitions.

This experience is vital to becoming a solid MC or DJ, and essential to hip-hop. It separates the men from the boys and ensures that the cream of the crop get a little bit of shine from the industry, as well as respect from his peers. Throwing down a great performance is all the easier for the battle-tested. Just compare recent KRS-ONE and Ludacris shows that have come through Champaign. No offense to Luda— after all, he is a hometown boy—but I think even he would admit he would like to have the stage show of the battlescarred KRS-ONE. Abilities talked of the stage show, explaining that the duo is very conscious of its performance. They give much more than a live version of the album. Don’t be surprised to witness a cover or two, live remixing, freestyle session and DJ showcase. If you have ever witnessed their label-

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mates Atmosphere or Brother Ali on stage (who were both in town recently), you will know that part of the reason the Rhymesayers label is blowing up is its well-rounded talent that can perform just as well—if not better onstage—than in the studio. Eyedea and Abilities are no exception to this rule. During their battling days, much time was spent relentlessly touring the States alongside the rest of Rhymesayers, building the immense word-of-mouth fan base that has embraced the label and its artists. The buzz had gotten so big that the independent label started to attract the interest of the majors, but instead of signing on the dotted line, the duo opted to work out singular distribution deals for its releases with the punk rock label Epitaph.

Although the tracks come to fruition in different ways, they are all born from a desire to create something epic, both in content and production.

Eyedea points to the second track “Now” and the final track “Glass” as their best attempts to attain this quality.

Amazing lyrics, unusual sample usage and a production quality similar to the big rock sound of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s help the songs resonate in the listener’s head. “Now” flips the role of voice and turntable within the normal constructs of a hip-hop song. Eyedea delivers his lines in a similar cadence to current double-timed scratch patterns as if the two were in the studio and Abilities said, “Hey, can you flow like that?” after seriously throwing down on the turntable and mixer. Eyedea’s lyrics push things forward, ushering in change

and bringing forth new forms on the album.

Toward the end of the song, the lyrics float away in a bath of reverb as Abilities uses a heavy guitar tone to create a brilliant melody for the remainder of the track as it all fades out.

Epic indeed, but not too surprising after I asked what these guys have been listening to on the road. Nirvana, Hendrix, Sly, The Beatles, Coltrane, Miles, Built to Spill, Alice in Chains, early ‘90s hip-hop, Prince, Beck and Pantera were among those named.

Recently, small efforts to resurrect the DJ-MC connection have been made by albums such as the Beastie Boys’ Hello Nasty. Eyedea & Abilities’ E&A picks up where others left off and dives head first into the waters that everyone else was just treading. By placing the DJMC relationship center stage and being innovative and original, Eyedea & Abilities have brought forth a trailblazing album that stays true to the foundation of hip-hop music. buzz

The Plague on Wheels Tour featuring Eyedea & Abilities will hit Canopy Club Sunday night. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $13 at the door.

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KRS-ONE. The Artist. The Teacher.

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BY DAN FINNERTY | STAFF WRITER

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was as disappointed as anyone with KRSONE’s antics during his last Champaign appearance, but that incident isn’t what this column is about. Seth Fein already said all that needs to be said in his article on the subject that appeared in this newspaper shortly after the KRS show last August, so I’ll leave it at that. I’m writing now with somewhat of a refreshed attitude.

Since then, a lot has happened around town and to me personally in my own pursuit of a hip-hop utopia. You can find good hip-hop in this town literally every day and that is a beautiful thing. Find DJ Otter pushing limits of the word “genre� at Cowboy Monkey every Sunday. Chill in the grill with UC Hip-hop on Mondays at Canopy. Listen to DJ Resonate spin each Tuesday at Barfly. D-Lo and I mix classics and underground jams each Wednesday at the Monkey. Thursdays Arkon or I are at Boltini.

Friday there are always at least three or four places with a good hip-hop DJ as well as a hiphop radio show on 107.1 FM. Bozak and I do a live mixtape on WEFT 90.1 FM every Saturday and there are always club events popping off.

All of a sudden, it is Sunday again and you’re back to the beginning. That is beautiful. People that I’ve talked to in other towns have been impressed by both the quantity and quality of hip-hop in C-U. I’m proud to be a part of it.

The University of Illinois, surprisingly enough to this writer, approved a class entitled “KRS-ONE: Hip-Hop Artistry and Social Activism,� a course proposed by Dr. William Patterson, who happens to be its instructor.

Being a student in this class has forced me to question myself on a couple of levels and has also opened my eyes to the insight of some other people with different life experiences.

One part of the course is to bring together these different backgrounds of hip-hop heads, provide an organized forum and ruminate on topics concerning all participants. Another part of the course deals with the life and times of KRS-ONE: the social, political, economic and educational climate that influenced the different messages in his music and the causes he supports. Through discussion and readings we

The Flaming Lips, Morissey, Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, Polyphonic Spree and The String Cheese Incident are set to headline this year’s Lollapalooza Festival. The two-day festival is scheduled to touch down in numerous cities all through the summer.

Loretta Lynn has collaborated with Jack White on her new album due April 27 via Interscope. The White Stripes frontman produced, arranged and performed on the album, which will be Lynn’s first album of self-penned, original material since her very first in 1963.

Legendary rockers MC5 are re-forming

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Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra – Foellinger Great Hall, 3pm, $28, sc $25, stu $10

DJ Chef Ra – roots/rock/reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Fabulous!!!: A Fashion-Forward Night of Dancing – Nargile, 9pm, $3 Dream Sequence – house – Caffe Paradiso, 10pm, free

Dan Finnerty (DJ Spinnerty) co-hosts Needledrops every Saturday on WEFT 90.1 with DJ Bozak. He and D-Lo have a weekly residence at Cowboy Monkey on Wednesdays.

Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 3pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Grease! – Virginia Theatre, 2:30pm, $16, sc & stu $14, yth $8

MondayApril5 LIVE MUSIC Open Mic – Za's Italian Cafe, 7pm, free Jazz Jam hosted by ParaDoc – The Iron Post, 7:30pm, TBA Star Course Presents: Ben Folds – Foellinger Auditorium, TBA, $26

DJ Campos – downtempo, deep house – Barfly, 9pm, free Chill in the Grill – hip hop – Canopy Club, 10pm, free Case of the Mondays – house – Nargile, 10pm, free

MUSIC PERFORMANCE Community Drum Circle – Ten Thousand Villages, 7-9pm, free

COMEDY DeBono – improv comedy – Courtyard Cafe, 910pm, free

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Kam's, 10pm-2am

Sifting through the commotion and crap of music culture for a North American tour despite the fact that two of their founding members are dead. Guitarist Wayne Kramer, drummer Dennis “Machine Gun� Thompson and bass player Michael Davis will be joined by guest vocalists such as Evan Dando, Marshall Crenshaw, Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, The Hellacopters’ Nick Royale and Radio Birdman’s Deniz Tek. Original singer Rob Tyner died in 1991 and original guitarist Fred “Sonic� Smith died in 1994.

research. To quote from his proposal: “Questions such as ‘Has Hip Hop provided urban youth an opportunity to overcome urban strife?’ or ‘Has Hip Hop provided black and brown youth an avenue to participate in the American dream?’ This form of study and discourse must occur in a space or center where intellectual study and debate is encouraged, nurtured and supported. Hence, the idea to create a space or center at a research institution to house the interest to investigate and answer questions associated with Hip-hop culture.�

This Friday (April 2), KRS-ONE will perform at Canopy Club from 7-10 p.m. KRS and Canopy Club have agreed to donate part of the event’s proceeds toward getting the Center for the Study of Hip Hop Culture off the ground.

Those who have seen KRS perform live know to expect to hear songs from various eras and styles from KRS’s expansive discography.

Perhaps you’ll get a chance to understand firsthand the development of his sometimes controversial, always conscious messages. buzz

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What the hell?

Moment of the week Radio stations all across the country are participating in a contest wherein one lucky couple will have the chance to be married by none other than Courtney Love. According to the rules, the lead singer of Hole will perform the ceremonies at lovely Lake Tahoe, Nev., as well as round trip airfare to Nevada and bachelor and bachelorette parties for the prospective bride and groom.There are so many tasteless jokes to insert here, the options are staggering. Still, nothing says romance like Mrs. Cobain telling you your vows “suck ass� prior to giving you the finger and passing out.

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have been exploring the transition from KRS releasing the album Criminal Minded in 1987 to his 2002 release of Spiritual Minded.

Patterson has defined the hip-hop generation as the post-civil rights movement generation. Discussions of public policy, community involvement and activism are central to the course. Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy and its effects on local schools has been the focus of a project planned for completion by the class before the end of the semester.

For those of you keeping score at home, the No Child Left Behind Act basically says you need to take a standardized test before you can pass a grade. While that sounds ideal (if kids could actually be mobilized to excel on their exams), we are examining some frightening statistics regarding Champaign-Urbana schools and students. Patterson encourages engaging and motivating students in innovative ways using hip-hop ideals and elements.

Patterson, in conjunction with the KRS course, has proposed the creation of a Center for the Study of Hip Hop Culture to the University. Being a research institution, the University can decide to go beyond Harvard, currently the only university with a Hip Hop Archive. In Patterson’s proposal, he stresses

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TuesdayApril6 LIVE MUSIC Open Bluegrass Jam Session – Verde Gallery, 7pm, free Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Open Jam / Open Mic hosted by Openingbands.com and Brandon T. Washington – Canopy Club, 10pm, $2 Angie Heaton, Burd Early, Sodastream – Nargile, 10pm, $5 Acoustic Night: Adam Wolfe & Jess Greenlee – Tommy G's, 10pm, free

DJ DJ Sophisto – house, funk – Barfly, 9pm, free

DANCING Latin Dance Night – salsa, cha-cha, merengue, bachata – McKinley Foundation, 9:30-11:30pm, $1

COMEDY Spicy Clamato – improv comedy – Courtyard Cafe, 9-10pm, free

WednesdayApril7 LIVE MUSIC Parkland Jazz Combo – Iron Post, 5:30pm, TBA Star Course Presents: Mest, Fallout Boy, Matchbook Romance, Dynamite Boy – Courtyard Cafe, 6:30pm, $13 Irish Traditional Music Session hosted by Lisa Boucher – Bentley's Pub, 8pm, free Green Mountain Grass – bluegrass – Iron Post, 9pm, TBA Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Graham Colton, Need to Breathe – Canopy Club, 9pm, $7 Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G’s, 9pm, free

MUSIC PERFORMANCE Sinfonia da Camera – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, Flex: $29, sc $28, stu $11, yth $7, Single: $30, sc $29, stu $12, yth $8

ON STAGE Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story tells of Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7. Interpreter available.

Mark Morris Dance Group – Live music brought to life through choreographed dances by professional dancers – Tryon Festival Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $32, sc & stu $31, UI & yth $22, Single: $34, sc & stu $33, UI & yth $24

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Elmers Club 45, 7-11pm

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ThursdayApril1 LIVE MUSIC U of I #3 Big Band – The Iron Post, 7-9pm, TBA Acoustic Music Series: Paul Kotheimer – Aroma, 8pm, free Melodic Scribes CD Release Show w/ TBA – Nargile, 9pm, $5 Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Kwyjibo, Danny Deckard – jazz – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $5 FeeD, Shipwreck, Relenter – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, TBA

DJ DJ J-Phlip – house – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Delayney – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Odyssey – Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA DJ Kraz K, DJ Runi, DJ Fury, DJ Mathematx – Highdive, 10pm, $5

MUSIC PERFORMANCE Interval: Manoochehr Sadeghi, santur – Persian classical music – Krannert Center lobby, 12pm, free Joshua Bell – violin – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, Flex: $40, sc & stu $39, UI & yth $25, Single: $42, sc & stu $41, UI & yth $27

ON STAGE Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Bellydance Superstars! – Illini Union Ballroom, 7pm, $10, stu $5 Student Comedy Competition – Courtyard Cafe, 8pm, $3, stu $2

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Pia's in Rantoul, 9pm-1am

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Wine Tasting – Sample wine, learn about the different kinds and buy full glasses for $3.50 per glass.

Krannert Center lobby, 5pm, free.

Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Hey, Man... God/Rape Play – resident artists: Sara Brooks, Nicole Solecki – Armory Free Theatre, 8pm & midnight, TBA

Kronos Quartet: Sun Rings – Tryon Festival Theatre, 7:30pm, flex: $28, sc & stu $27, UI & yth $20; single: $30, sc & stu $29, UI & yth $22 UI Varsity Men's Glee Club – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, $7, sc $6, stu $4

FridayApril2 LIVE MUSIC Desafinado – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, $2 The Prairie Dogs – bluegrass – Iron Post, 5pm, TBA KRS-ONE – Canopy Club, 7pm, $13 The Boat Drunks – Highdive, 7pm, $5 Jeff and Vida Band – The Iron Post, 9pm, TBA The Delta Kings – rock, blues – The Phoenix, 9pm, TBA Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Green St. Records Showcase: Synesthesia, The Ending (formerly THC Squared), Eclectic Theory – Nargile, 10pm, $5 Roscoe Plush, Second Son – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, TBA Happy Hour: Al Ierardi – blues – Tommy G’s, 5-7pm, free Boweband.com – Tommy G's, 10pm, cover Reasonable Doubt – Game On in Sadorus, 9pm1am X-Krush – Ice House in Mattoon, 9pm Dreyer & Dreyer – Hubers, 8pm, TBA

DJ Happy Hour: Panache – Boltini, 5pm, free DJ Bozak – house, hip hop, downbeat – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Orby – Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA DJ Impact – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Tim Williams – dance – The Highdive, 10pm, $5

MUSIC PERFORMANCE UI Percussion Ensemble – Stravinsky's Les noces, Antheil's Ballet mecanique, and The Black Page and Peaches en Regalia by Frank Zappa – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, $5, sc $4, stu $2

SaturdayApril3 LIVE MUSIC The Pitch CD Release Show: The Pitch, Trances Arc, Jud Duncan – Nargile, 6-9pm, free Monte Montgomery, Kathy Richardson, Troy Johnson – Canopy Club, 7pm, $13 Dan Darrah Band – folk rock – The Iron Post, 9pm, TBA Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Electric Wood – Embassy Tavern, 9:30pm, free Joan of Arc, The Love of Everything, Make Believe, Skeletons – Nargile, 10pm, $5 Afterglow: Jason Finkelman's Nu Orbit Ensemble – jazz – Krannert Center lobby, 9:30pm, free Reasonable Doubt – Diamond's in Rantoul, 9pm1am X-Krush – Diamond's Bar & Grill in Rantoul, TBA Albert Flasher – classic rock – Tommy G’s, 10pm2am, cover The Brat Pack – ‘80s – The Factory in Danville, 10pm, cover Martini Brothers – Hubers, 8pm, TBA

DJ DJ Resonate – hip hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Naughtyboy – Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Mertz – house – Nargile, 10pm, $5 “Soulful Saturdays” w/DJ Phokiss, Chill Will, DJ World – Watusi Lounge, free before 11pm

Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Hey, Man... God/Rape Play – resident artists: Sara Brooks, Nicole Solecki – Armory Free Theatre, 7pm, TBA

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Historic Lincoln Castle Hotel Alumni Tap Bar, 9pm-1am Karaoke – Courtyard Cafe, 9pm, free

SundayApril4 LIVE MUSIC Eyedea & Abilities, Blueprint of Soul Position, Grayscul and Carnage – Canopy Club, 10pm, $13, $10 in advance Ged Foley, John Carty – traditional Irish music – The Iron Post, 8pm, TBA Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm, free

DJ Freshface DJ – Barfly, 9pm, free Lil' Big Bass – drum n' bass – Barfly, 9pm, free Cowboy Monkey's 1st Birthday Party: Blends By Otter – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free Spundays w/ DJ Delayney – hip hop & soul – Boltini, 10pm, free Downtempo Lounge Night w/ DJ Fritz – Nargile, 10pm, free

Social Studies Eight Artists Address Brown v. Board of Education

Artists@ Krannert Wednesday, April 7 5:30 p.m. · Pamela Vander Zwan discussing her efforts to achieve social and political change through art

Lecture sponsored by CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series, the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, and Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

Pamela Vander Zwan Art Dealer, Citizen Sheep, 2003 (detail) Courtesy of the artist

Exhibition Sponsors: Peter Norton Family Foundation, UIUC Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration, Illinois Arts Council, Furniture Lounge, and Hampton Inn Museum Sponsor: Flex-N-Gate

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion · [217] 333-1861 College of Fine and Applied Arts · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · www.kam.uiuc.edu

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BOB DYLAN Bootleg Series Vol. 6 Columbia

★★★★

BY JACOB DITTMER

The Bootleg Series continues to give Dylanphiles snippets of this iconic figure at points in his lengthy career with this, the sixth installment of the series. We’ve had the collection of rarities and alternate versions with the first three in the series. A monumental performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall was documented with the fourth. The fifth took us on a gypsy journey with the Rolling Thunder Revue. Number six is taken from a performance on Halloween night 1964 at New York’s Philharmonic Hall capturing Dylan in his youthful prime as the solo acoustic folk hero of Greenwich Village.

This is how Bob Dylan was introduced to the world,and after three years of recording, the year was 1964, a point at which he was poised to break new territory, awing his fans and music journalists alike. Anyone who has had the pleasure to see the monumental documentary on Dylan called Don’t Look Back will recognize this recording as having come at nearly the same time in his career. The vision of this lone figure on a stage—spotlight pointed directly at this curly-haired man with nothing but his guitar and harmonica—permeates this live recording.

Dylan blazes through his earliest works as the crowd sits dumbstruck by the stunning words of one of music’s greatest lyricists. Songs like “The Times They Are AChangin’,” “Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” and “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” are just a few of the classics of the Dylan canon that he rattles off as if it were second nature. And in Dylan’s case, it is second nature.

This is definitely the Dylan era that established his songwriting as both driven by contemporary passions and issues, as well as the classics of literature as he rattles off near-Shakespearean phrases.Wit and intelligence are likely the main instigators of Dylan’s rise to popularity and artistic reverence.

With songs of such seriousness, many would find this troubadour to be a calloused and cold figure.There is no detachment from the audience. He rolls through his songs like a seasoned stage veteran. But on this recording, Dylan takes time between songs while tuning his guitar to partake in some witty banter. “I’m wearing my Bob Dylan mask,” he quips at one point, only to receive a roar of applause. After one or two listens, one can’t help but smile at Dylan’s boyish giggle that appears during every joke or exchange with the crowd.

Dylan’s long-time relationship with Joan Baez was well known (as seen in Don’t Look Back), which leads to a surprise appearance by Baez for four songs on this recording. The two find perfect harmony on “Mama You Been on My Mind”and “With God on Our Side.”The latter strikes a startlingly relevant chord in our post-Sept. 11 and Passion of the Christ days as Dylan sings about contemporary America and its obsession with the bomb.

This concert comes at that pivotal point just months before Dylan plugged in that electric guitar and shocked so many of his then “die-hard”fans. Maybe the excellence and ease that Dylan performs with convinced him to try new ground and experiment. Either way, this is a masterful performance full of the surreal, poetic, humorous and thoughtful songs of Dylan’s earliest work.

A pivotal point in his career, this concert stands as a moment in time capturing Dylan’s pure brilliance: completely solo (minus Baez’s inclusion) and completely acoustic as many wanted Dylan to stay. For those interested in “folk Dylan,”this is a must-have and for all others who await each Bootleg Series release with eager anticipation, worry not, this is on par with the brilliance of each release in the series.

VARIOUS ARTISTS Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Hollywood Records

★★★

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI

The director of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, is a veritable auteur among music video directors, veteran of over 50 video clips including six of Bjork’s and those of other artists including Radiohead and The White Stripes. It is natural and fitting, therefore, that his second feature has such a fascinating assortment of music associated with it. The soundtrack to his cinematic debut, Human Nature, was both unimaginative and predictable, but thankfully, his latest is anything but. Consisting of nine tracks by various artists as well as 17 snippets of Jon Brion’s score, this serves as both a fairly accurate representation of the film itself and a pretty good compilation even when judged separately from the picture.

Drawing more from his work on Punch Drunk Love than his two other Paul Thomas Anderson collaborations, Jon Brion’s work is superbly conceived, perfectly capturing the insanity of the piece for which it was designed. His main theme, aptly called “Theme,” is a beautiful and inspired exercise in optimistic melancholy and is considerably better than the subsequent “Main Title.”Thankfully, Brion does more than simply offer alternative interpretations of the same melody, even treating us to some of his vocals—which sound remarkably like those of Beck—on “Strings That Tie To You.”The main failing is that every snippet of music that appears in the film is inexplicably included in this album. Thus “Sidewalk Flight” and “Howard Makes It All Go Away” are almost identical and total less than a minute combined. There are several more instants of music that are simply redundant outside of the movie’s context.

Brion’s instrumental contributions are interspersed with the nine tracks offered by a wide array of accomplished artists. Beck, whose “Deadweight” video was directed by Gondry, throws in a dreamy cover of Korgis’s “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes.” The Polyphonic Spree’s “Light and Day” and “It’s The Sun” are both present. Their upbeat, trippy, celebratory sound is without doubt the perfect complement to the film’s insanity, which makes it such a shame that only the former actually surfaces within the movie and that its inclusion is so brief. The Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mr. Blue Sky” is again another track that is never played in the actual film, but it was effectively used in the marketing campaign that preceded its release. The track was Jeff Lynne’s tribute to his greatest influence, The Beatles, and is definitely a song that everyone should hear. The Willowz provide two heart-felt rock songs and Don Nelson has a couple of swing numbers. But the true marvel is “Wada Na Tod,”

by Lata Mangeshkar. At one point, an entry in the Guinness Book Of World Records claimed she was the most recorded artist in the world, with over 30,000 songs in 20 Indian languages. She has also worked on over 2,000 films, and “Wada Na Tod” serves as an enticing introduction to her work, which on the strength of this is well worth further exploration.

To capture the essence of a film as difficult to pigeonhole as The Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind is a daunting prospect. But to combine the eclectic assortment of music on exhibit here is to do exactly that. There are plenty of soundtracks out there that are better but few that are as successful at accomplishing their actual purpose because overlooking a few lapses of judgment as to the inclusion of certain tracks, this is a worthy partner to an inspired film.

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Seven Interscope

★★

BY KATIE RICHARDSON

Enrique Iglesias has certainly gone through several different stages in his “lucrative” career. First, there was the “I’m the son of a former Latin heartthrob stage.”

During this phase, Iglesias exploited his Latin roots, which meant essentially bastardizing real Latin music in favor of pop tunes with a bom-bom underbeat. It was 1999 and a lot of other Latino performers were doing the

same thing, so one could argue that you can’t hold it against him. Plus, he pulled it off with an amazing amount of energy and skill.

Then there was the “I’ve come into my own and I’m oozing with sexual energy and bravado. And, oh yeah, I’m Latin, too” stage. This primarily consisted of him and Jennifer Love Hewitt rolling around naked on a bed somewhere in the Southwest and then dying at the hands of Mickey Rourke. He called this video and the accompanying song “Hero.” Maybe he doesn’t own a dictionary, because a “hero” saves the day or at least portrays himself as someone to be respected and admired. In the video, he and Hewitt marry in a hit-and-run chapel, and then MICKEY ROURKE kicks his ass. Perhaps Iglesias was too busy fawning over himself to notice this minor discrepancy.

Now he seems to be in some kind of “Me, Latin?” stage.

First, there was the weird and obviously purely sexual relationship with Anna Kournikova. Then there was the missing mole. Now there is Seven, his latest release from Interscope records. The music on this album is good pop music.There are some great beats on “Not in Love,” which has become a radio favorite. “Addicted” has some very convincingly lovelorn lyrics. And “You Rock Me”could be a great halftime song during next year’s Super Bowl.

However, there isn’t a lot of Iglesias on this album.

Disappointingly, the entire Latino flavor that was present on his first album is gone. You don’t want to do the merengue or salsa dance when listening to Seven.

You don’t even want to do the twist. It seems as though Iglesias has completely given into the white-bread pop star paradigm, courtesy of Justin Timberlake. And, yes, Timberlake does make some pretty good pop music, but its his shtick, not Iglesias’. “Be Yourself” is just a rehashed version of “Rock Your Body.” And “California Callin’” offers little insight into the mind of a dreamer, though it attempts to paint a deeper, philosophical portrait of Iglesias’ inner hopes and dreams.

In short, there are some good things on this album, but it’s nothing you haven’t heard before or won’t hear again.

CHARTS PARASOL RECORDS TOP 10 SELLERS 1. Modest Mouse - Float On [Single] (Epic) 2. Various Artists - Polyvinyl 2004 Sampler (Polyvinyl) 3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Greatest Palace Music (Drag City) 4. Comsat Angels - It's History (Nano) 5. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre) 6. Matthew Sweet - Kimi Ga Suki (Superdeformed) 7. Destroyer - Your Blues (Merge) 8. Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound/Bubblegum (Columbia) 9. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan (Sounds Familyre) 10. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

NEW RELEASES (4-6-04) Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News Local H - Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?

Calexico - Convict Pool EP Trey Anastasio - Seis de Mayo Dilated Peoples Neighborhood Watch Ben Kweller - On My Way Blondie - The Curse of Blondie

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Nargile. Led by Neil Pinan, who helped start UC Hip-Hop in 2001, and Ryan Wukovits, this hip-hop duo craft original, poignant lyrics and beats that not only get the crowd going but also promote original thought and new ideas, which are threaded through each song. Wuk

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The show starts at 6 p.m. and is free, but bring money to grab their CD. Stick around after The Pitch show because Nargile has much more in store for music lovers as four other bands take the stage start-

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music since meeting in 2000,

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door. Five-member band Joan of Arc brings together Mike

their first studio release.

and Tim Kinsella, who were both members of Cap’n Jazz, as

The show starts at 9 p.m.

well as Pinebender member Matt Clark. The band offers a

and has a $5 cover.

unique sound that is strong on songwriting and confident in experimenting with different musical sounds. Besides the usual drum and guitar sounds, the band also uses a synthesizer, played and nearly mastered by band member Jeremy Boyle, who recently released a solo album and is sure to entertain at Saturday’s show.

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happy hour shows at Cowboy Monkey. The band’s sound is rooted in jazz but they are not afraid to experiment and dip into various other genres when the mood and the sound feel right. And besides, what better way to start off your Friday night than at a happy hour featuring quality local music? The show has a $2 cover and starts at 5 p.m., plenty of time to catch the act before heading to Canopy Club for KRS-ONE.

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Nargile. Led by Neil Pinan, who helped start UC Hip-Hop in 2001, and Ryan Wukovits, this hip-hop duo craft original, poignant lyrics and beats that not only get the crowd going but also promote original thought and new ideas, which are threaded through each song. Wuk

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aturday is a big night for music at Nargile. Start rockin’ early at The

Pitch’s CD release show, featuring music by Trances Arc and Jud Duncan in addition to The Pitch. Champaign-based The Pitch provide straight, edgy rock music, blending melodic sounds with hard guitar riffs and the gentler sound of band member Sarah Kobylewski’s violin.

The show starts at 6 p.m. and is free, but bring money to grab their CD. Stick around after The Pitch show because Nargile has much more in store for music lovers as four other bands take the stage start-

and Pinan have been making

ing at 10 p.m. See Joan of Arc, The Love of Everything,

music since meeting in 2000,

Make Believe and Skeletons play for only a $5 cover at the

although this album will be

door. Five-member band Joan of Arc brings together Mike

their first studio release.

and Tim Kinsella, who were both members of Cap’n Jazz, as

The show starts at 9 p.m.

well as Pinebender member Matt Clark. The band offers a

and has a $5 cover.

unique sound that is strong on songwriting and confident in experimenting with different musical sounds. Besides the usual drum and guitar sounds, the band also uses a synthesizer, played and nearly mastered by band member Jeremy Boyle, who recently released a solo album and is sure to entertain at Saturday’s show.

Nargile hosts a night of rock music

Melodic Scribes celebrate CD release

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o start things off on Friday, head to Cowboy Monkey to catch Desafinado. This band has become a regular on the Champaign-Urbana music scene, performing monthly

happy hour shows at Cowboy Monkey. The band’s sound is rooted in jazz but they are not afraid to experiment and dip into various other genres when the mood and the sound feel right. And besides, what better way to start off your Friday night than at a happy hour featuring quality local music? The show has a $2 cover and starts at 5 p.m., plenty of time to catch the act before heading to Canopy Club for KRS-ONE.

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fter Desafinado, head to Canopy Club to catch KRS-ONE’s performance,

which starts at 7 p.m. Since Kris Parker became KRS-ONE in the 1980s, he has helped pave the way and open doors for today’s politically and socially charged hip-hop artists. Throughout his more than two decades of rapping, he has shifted between rapping politics and rapping harder edged music such as his 1992 album, Sex and Violence. The University course, “KRS-ONE: Hip-Hop Artistry and Social Activism,� organized this Friday’s show and the result is KRSONE’s performance at Canopy. The show has a $13 cover.

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ThursdayApril1 LIVE MUSIC U of I #3 Big Band – The Iron Post, 7-9pm, TBA Acoustic Music Series: Paul Kotheimer – Aroma, 8pm, free Melodic Scribes CD Release Show w/ TBA – Nargile, 9pm, $5 Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Kwyjibo, Danny Deckard – jazz – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $5 FeeD, Shipwreck, Relenter – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, TBA

DJ DJ J-Phlip – house – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Delayney – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Odyssey – Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA DJ Kraz K, DJ Runi, DJ Fury, DJ Mathematx – Highdive, 10pm, $5

MUSIC PERFORMANCE Interval: Manoochehr Sadeghi, santur – Persian classical music – Krannert Center lobby, 12pm, free Joshua Bell – violin – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, Flex: $40, sc & stu $39, UI & yth $25, Single: $42, sc & stu $41, UI & yth $27

ON STAGE Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Bellydance Superstars! – Illini Union Ballroom, 7pm, $10, stu $5 Student Comedy Competition – Courtyard Cafe, 8pm, $3, stu $2

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Pia's in Rantoul, 9pm-1am

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Wine Tasting – Sample wine, learn about the different kinds and buy full glasses for $3.50 per glass.

Krannert Center lobby, 5pm, free.

Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Hey, Man... God/Rape Play – resident artists: Sara Brooks, Nicole Solecki – Armory Free Theatre, 8pm & midnight, TBA

Kronos Quartet: Sun Rings – Tryon Festival Theatre, 7:30pm, flex: $28, sc & stu $27, UI & yth $20; single: $30, sc & stu $29, UI & yth $22 UI Varsity Men's Glee Club – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, $7, sc $6, stu $4

FridayApril2 LIVE MUSIC Desafinado – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, $2 The Prairie Dogs – bluegrass – Iron Post, 5pm, TBA KRS-ONE – Canopy Club, 7pm, $13 The Boat Drunks – Highdive, 7pm, $5 Jeff and Vida Band – The Iron Post, 9pm, TBA The Delta Kings – rock, blues – The Phoenix, 9pm, TBA Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Green St. Records Showcase: Synesthesia, The Ending (formerly THC Squared), Eclectic Theory – Nargile, 10pm, $5 Roscoe Plush, Second Son – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, TBA Happy Hour: Al Ierardi – blues – Tommy G’s, 5-7pm, free Boweband.com – Tommy G's, 10pm, cover Reasonable Doubt – Game On in Sadorus, 9pm1am X-Krush – Ice House in Mattoon, 9pm Dreyer & Dreyer – Hubers, 8pm, TBA

DJ Happy Hour: Panache – Boltini, 5pm, free DJ Bozak – house, hip hop, downbeat – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Orby – Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA DJ Impact – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Tim Williams – dance – The Highdive, 10pm, $5

MUSIC PERFORMANCE UI Percussion Ensemble – Stravinsky's Les noces, Antheil's Ballet mecanique, and The Black Page and Peaches en Regalia by Frank Zappa – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, $5, sc $4, stu $2

SaturdayApril3 LIVE MUSIC The Pitch CD Release Show: The Pitch, Trances Arc, Jud Duncan – Nargile, 6-9pm, free Monte Montgomery, Kathy Richardson, Troy Johnson – Canopy Club, 7pm, $13 Dan Darrah Band – folk rock – The Iron Post, 9pm, TBA Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Electric Wood – Embassy Tavern, 9:30pm, free Joan of Arc, The Love of Everything, Make Believe, Skeletons – Nargile, 10pm, $5 Afterglow: Jason Finkelman's Nu Orbit Ensemble – jazz – Krannert Center lobby, 9:30pm, free Reasonable Doubt – Diamond's in Rantoul, 9pm1am X-Krush – Diamond's Bar & Grill in Rantoul, TBA Albert Flasher – classic rock – Tommy G’s, 10pm2am, cover The Brat Pack – ‘80s – The Factory in Danville, 10pm, cover Martini Brothers – Hubers, 8pm, TBA

DJ DJ Resonate – hip hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Naughtyboy – Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Mertz – house – Nargile, 10pm, $5 “Soulful Saturdays” w/DJ Phokiss, Chill Will, DJ World – Watusi Lounge, free before 11pm

Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Hey, Man... God/Rape Play – resident artists: Sara Brooks, Nicole Solecki – Armory Free Theatre, 7pm, TBA

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Historic Lincoln Castle Hotel Alumni Tap Bar, 9pm-1am Karaoke – Courtyard Cafe, 9pm, free

SundayApril4 LIVE MUSIC Eyedea & Abilities, Blueprint of Soul Position, Grayscul and Carnage – Canopy Club, 10pm, $13, $10 in advance Ged Foley, John Carty – traditional Irish music – The Iron Post, 8pm, TBA Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm, free

DJ Freshface DJ – Barfly, 9pm, free Lil' Big Bass – drum n' bass – Barfly, 9pm, free Cowboy Monkey's 1st Birthday Party: Blends By Otter – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free Spundays w/ DJ Delayney – hip hop & soul – Boltini, 10pm, free Downtempo Lounge Night w/ DJ Fritz – Nargile, 10pm, free

Social Studies Eight Artists Address Brown v. Board of Education

Artists@ Krannert Wednesday, April 7 5:30 p.m. · Pamela Vander Zwan discussing her efforts to achieve social and political change through art

Lecture sponsored by CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series, the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, and Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

Pamela Vander Zwan Art Dealer, Citizen Sheep, 2003 (detail) Courtesy of the artist

Exhibition Sponsors: Peter Norton Family Foundation, UIUC Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration, Illinois Arts Council, Furniture Lounge, and Hampton Inn Museum Sponsor: Flex-N-Gate

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion · [217] 333-1861 College of Fine and Applied Arts · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · www.kam.uiuc.edu

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Wednesday, May 5 4:00 p.m. · Carrie Mae Weems speaking about her recent work dealing with the colonial and racial legacy of New Orleans

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BOB DYLAN Bootleg Series Vol. 6 Columbia

★★★★

BY JACOB DITTMER

The Bootleg Series continues to give Dylanphiles snippets of this iconic figure at points in his lengthy career with this, the sixth installment of the series. We’ve had the collection of rarities and alternate versions with the first three in the series. A monumental performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall was documented with the fourth. The fifth took us on a gypsy journey with the Rolling Thunder Revue. Number six is taken from a performance on Halloween night 1964 at New York’s Philharmonic Hall capturing Dylan in his youthful prime as the solo acoustic folk hero of Greenwich Village.

This is how Bob Dylan was introduced to the world,and after three years of recording, the year was 1964, a point at which he was poised to break new territory, awing his fans and music journalists alike. Anyone who has had the pleasure to see the monumental documentary on Dylan called Don’t Look Back will recognize this recording as having come at nearly the same time in his career. The vision of this lone figure on a stage—spotlight pointed directly at this curly-haired man with nothing but his guitar and harmonica—permeates this live recording.

Dylan blazes through his earliest works as the crowd sits dumbstruck by the stunning words of one of music’s greatest lyricists. Songs like “The Times They Are AChangin’,” “Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” and “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” are just a few of the classics of the Dylan canon that he rattles off as if it were second nature. And in Dylan’s case, it is second nature.

This is definitely the Dylan era that established his songwriting as both driven by contemporary passions and issues, as well as the classics of literature as he rattles off near-Shakespearean phrases.Wit and intelligence are likely the main instigators of Dylan’s rise to popularity and artistic reverence.

With songs of such seriousness, many would find this troubadour to be a calloused and cold figure.There is no detachment from the audience. He rolls through his songs like a seasoned stage veteran. But on this recording, Dylan takes time between songs while tuning his guitar to partake in some witty banter. “I’m wearing my Bob Dylan mask,” he quips at one point, only to receive a roar of applause. After one or two listens, one can’t help but smile at Dylan’s boyish giggle that appears during every joke or exchange with the crowd.

Dylan’s long-time relationship with Joan Baez was well known (as seen in Don’t Look Back), which leads to a surprise appearance by Baez for four songs on this recording. The two find perfect harmony on “Mama You Been on My Mind”and “With God on Our Side.”The latter strikes a startlingly relevant chord in our post-Sept. 11 and Passion of the Christ days as Dylan sings about contemporary America and its obsession with the bomb.

This concert comes at that pivotal point just months before Dylan plugged in that electric guitar and shocked so many of his then “die-hard”fans. Maybe the excellence and ease that Dylan performs with convinced him to try new ground and experiment. Either way, this is a masterful performance full of the surreal, poetic, humorous and thoughtful songs of Dylan’s earliest work.

A pivotal point in his career, this concert stands as a moment in time capturing Dylan’s pure brilliance: completely solo (minus Baez’s inclusion) and completely acoustic as many wanted Dylan to stay. For those interested in “folk Dylan,”this is a must-have and for all others who await each Bootleg Series release with eager anticipation, worry not, this is on par with the brilliance of each release in the series.

VARIOUS ARTISTS Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Hollywood Records

★★★

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI

The director of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, is a veritable auteur among music video directors, veteran of over 50 video clips including six of Bjork’s and those of other artists including Radiohead and The White Stripes. It is natural and fitting, therefore, that his second feature has such a fascinating assortment of music associated with it. The soundtrack to his cinematic debut, Human Nature, was both unimaginative and predictable, but thankfully, his latest is anything but. Consisting of nine tracks by various artists as well as 17 snippets of Jon Brion’s score, this serves as both a fairly accurate representation of the film itself and a pretty good compilation even when judged separately from the picture.

Drawing more from his work on Punch Drunk Love than his two other Paul Thomas Anderson collaborations, Jon Brion’s work is superbly conceived, perfectly capturing the insanity of the piece for which it was designed. His main theme, aptly called “Theme,” is a beautiful and inspired exercise in optimistic melancholy and is considerably better than the subsequent “Main Title.”Thankfully, Brion does more than simply offer alternative interpretations of the same melody, even treating us to some of his vocals—which sound remarkably like those of Beck—on “Strings That Tie To You.”The main failing is that every snippet of music that appears in the film is inexplicably included in this album. Thus “Sidewalk Flight” and “Howard Makes It All Go Away” are almost identical and total less than a minute combined. There are several more instants of music that are simply redundant outside of the movie’s context.

Brion’s instrumental contributions are interspersed with the nine tracks offered by a wide array of accomplished artists. Beck, whose “Deadweight” video was directed by Gondry, throws in a dreamy cover of Korgis’s “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes.” The Polyphonic Spree’s “Light and Day” and “It’s The Sun” are both present. Their upbeat, trippy, celebratory sound is without doubt the perfect complement to the film’s insanity, which makes it such a shame that only the former actually surfaces within the movie and that its inclusion is so brief. The Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mr. Blue Sky” is again another track that is never played in the actual film, but it was effectively used in the marketing campaign that preceded its release. The track was Jeff Lynne’s tribute to his greatest influence, The Beatles, and is definitely a song that everyone should hear. The Willowz provide two heart-felt rock songs and Don Nelson has a couple of swing numbers. But the true marvel is “Wada Na Tod,”

by Lata Mangeshkar. At one point, an entry in the Guinness Book Of World Records claimed she was the most recorded artist in the world, with over 30,000 songs in 20 Indian languages. She has also worked on over 2,000 films, and “Wada Na Tod” serves as an enticing introduction to her work, which on the strength of this is well worth further exploration.

To capture the essence of a film as difficult to pigeonhole as The Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind is a daunting prospect. But to combine the eclectic assortment of music on exhibit here is to do exactly that. There are plenty of soundtracks out there that are better but few that are as successful at accomplishing their actual purpose because overlooking a few lapses of judgment as to the inclusion of certain tracks, this is a worthy partner to an inspired film.

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Seven Interscope

★★

BY KATIE RICHARDSON

Enrique Iglesias has certainly gone through several different stages in his “lucrative” career. First, there was the “I’m the son of a former Latin heartthrob stage.”

During this phase, Iglesias exploited his Latin roots, which meant essentially bastardizing real Latin music in favor of pop tunes with a bom-bom underbeat. It was 1999 and a lot of other Latino performers were doing the

same thing, so one could argue that you can’t hold it against him. Plus, he pulled it off with an amazing amount of energy and skill.

Then there was the “I’ve come into my own and I’m oozing with sexual energy and bravado. And, oh yeah, I’m Latin, too” stage. This primarily consisted of him and Jennifer Love Hewitt rolling around naked on a bed somewhere in the Southwest and then dying at the hands of Mickey Rourke. He called this video and the accompanying song “Hero.” Maybe he doesn’t own a dictionary, because a “hero” saves the day or at least portrays himself as someone to be respected and admired. In the video, he and Hewitt marry in a hit-and-run chapel, and then MICKEY ROURKE kicks his ass. Perhaps Iglesias was too busy fawning over himself to notice this minor discrepancy.

Now he seems to be in some kind of “Me, Latin?” stage.

First, there was the weird and obviously purely sexual relationship with Anna Kournikova. Then there was the missing mole. Now there is Seven, his latest release from Interscope records. The music on this album is good pop music.There are some great beats on “Not in Love,” which has become a radio favorite. “Addicted” has some very convincingly lovelorn lyrics. And “You Rock Me”could be a great halftime song during next year’s Super Bowl.

However, there isn’t a lot of Iglesias on this album.

Disappointingly, the entire Latino flavor that was present on his first album is gone. You don’t want to do the merengue or salsa dance when listening to Seven.

You don’t even want to do the twist. It seems as though Iglesias has completely given into the white-bread pop star paradigm, courtesy of Justin Timberlake. And, yes, Timberlake does make some pretty good pop music, but its his shtick, not Iglesias’. “Be Yourself” is just a rehashed version of “Rock Your Body.” And “California Callin’” offers little insight into the mind of a dreamer, though it attempts to paint a deeper, philosophical portrait of Iglesias’ inner hopes and dreams.

In short, there are some good things on this album, but it’s nothing you haven’t heard before or won’t hear again.

CHARTS PARASOL RECORDS TOP 10 SELLERS 1. Modest Mouse - Float On [Single] (Epic) 2. Various Artists - Polyvinyl 2004 Sampler (Polyvinyl) 3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Greatest Palace Music (Drag City) 4. Comsat Angels - It's History (Nano) 5. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre) 6. Matthew Sweet - Kimi Ga Suki (Superdeformed) 7. Destroyer - Your Blues (Merge) 8. Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound/Bubblegum (Columbia) 9. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan (Sounds Familyre) 10. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

NEW RELEASES (4-6-04) Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News Local H - Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?

Calexico - Convict Pool EP Trey Anastasio - Seis de Mayo Dilated Peoples Neighborhood Watch Ben Kweller - On My Way Blondie - The Curse of Blondie

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KRS-ONE. The Artist. The Teacher.

MENDOZA MUSIC LINE

BY DAN FINNERTY | STAFF WRITER

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was as disappointed as anyone with KRSONE’s antics during his last Champaign appearance, but that incident isn’t what this column is about. Seth Fein already said all that needs to be said in his article on the subject that appeared in this newspaper shortly after the KRS show last August, so I’ll leave it at that. I’m writing now with somewhat of a refreshed attitude.

Since then, a lot has happened around town and to me personally in my own pursuit of a hip-hop utopia. You can find good hip-hop in this town literally every day and that is a beautiful thing. Find DJ Otter pushing limits of the word “genre� at Cowboy Monkey every Sunday. Chill in the grill with UC Hip-hop on Mondays at Canopy. Listen to DJ Resonate spin each Tuesday at Barfly. D-Lo and I mix classics and underground jams each Wednesday at the Monkey. Thursdays Arkon or I are at Boltini.

Friday there are always at least three or four places with a good hip-hop DJ as well as a hiphop radio show on 107.1 FM. Bozak and I do a live mixtape on WEFT 90.1 FM every Saturday and there are always club events popping off.

All of a sudden, it is Sunday again and you’re back to the beginning. That is beautiful. People that I’ve talked to in other towns have been impressed by both the quantity and quality of hip-hop in C-U. I’m proud to be a part of it.

The University of Illinois, surprisingly enough to this writer, approved a class entitled “KRS-ONE: Hip-Hop Artistry and Social Activism,� a course proposed by Dr. William Patterson, who happens to be its instructor.

Being a student in this class has forced me to question myself on a couple of levels and has also opened my eyes to the insight of some other people with different life experiences.

One part of the course is to bring together these different backgrounds of hip-hop heads, provide an organized forum and ruminate on topics concerning all participants. Another part of the course deals with the life and times of KRS-ONE: the social, political, economic and educational climate that influenced the different messages in his music and the causes he supports. Through discussion and readings we

The Flaming Lips, Morissey, Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, Polyphonic Spree and The String Cheese Incident are set to headline this year’s Lollapalooza Festival. The two-day festival is scheduled to touch down in numerous cities all through the summer.

Loretta Lynn has collaborated with Jack White on her new album due April 27 via Interscope. The White Stripes frontman produced, arranged and performed on the album, which will be Lynn’s first album of self-penned, original material since her very first in 1963.

Legendary rockers MC5 are re-forming

MUSIC PERFORMANCE

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Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra – Foellinger Great Hall, 3pm, $28, sc $25, stu $10

DJ Chef Ra – roots/rock/reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Fabulous!!!: A Fashion-Forward Night of Dancing – Nargile, 9pm, $3 Dream Sequence – house – Caffe Paradiso, 10pm, free

Dan Finnerty (DJ Spinnerty) co-hosts Needledrops every Saturday on WEFT 90.1 with DJ Bozak. He and D-Lo have a weekly residence at Cowboy Monkey on Wednesdays.

Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story centers around Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 3pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7.

Grease! – Virginia Theatre, 2:30pm, $16, sc & stu $14, yth $8

MondayApril5 LIVE MUSIC Open Mic – Za's Italian Cafe, 7pm, free Jazz Jam hosted by ParaDoc – The Iron Post, 7:30pm, TBA Star Course Presents: Ben Folds – Foellinger Auditorium, TBA, $26

DJ Campos – downtempo, deep house – Barfly, 9pm, free Chill in the Grill – hip hop – Canopy Club, 10pm, free Case of the Mondays – house – Nargile, 10pm, free

MUSIC PERFORMANCE Community Drum Circle – Ten Thousand Villages, 7-9pm, free

COMEDY DeBono – improv comedy – Courtyard Cafe, 910pm, free

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Kam's, 10pm-2am

Sifting through the commotion and crap of music culture for a North American tour despite the fact that two of their founding members are dead. Guitarist Wayne Kramer, drummer Dennis “Machine Gun� Thompson and bass player Michael Davis will be joined by guest vocalists such as Evan Dando, Marshall Crenshaw, Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, The Hellacopters’ Nick Royale and Radio Birdman’s Deniz Tek. Original singer Rob Tyner died in 1991 and original guitarist Fred “Sonic� Smith died in 1994.

research. To quote from his proposal: “Questions such as ‘Has Hip Hop provided urban youth an opportunity to overcome urban strife?’ or ‘Has Hip Hop provided black and brown youth an avenue to participate in the American dream?’ This form of study and discourse must occur in a space or center where intellectual study and debate is encouraged, nurtured and supported. Hence, the idea to create a space or center at a research institution to house the interest to investigate and answer questions associated with Hip-hop culture.�

This Friday (April 2), KRS-ONE will perform at Canopy Club from 7-10 p.m. KRS and Canopy Club have agreed to donate part of the event’s proceeds toward getting the Center for the Study of Hip Hop Culture off the ground.

Those who have seen KRS perform live know to expect to hear songs from various eras and styles from KRS’s expansive discography.

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Next week, the Top Five will return with songs to kill the mood. Email yours to music@readbuzz.com

What the hell?

Moment of the week Radio stations all across the country are participating in a contest wherein one lucky couple will have the chance to be married by none other than Courtney Love. According to the rules, the lead singer of Hole will perform the ceremonies at lovely Lake Tahoe, Nev., as well as round trip airfare to Nevada and bachelor and bachelorette parties for the prospective bride and groom.There are so many tasteless jokes to insert here, the options are staggering. Still, nothing says romance like Mrs. Cobain telling you your vows “suck ass� prior to giving you the finger and passing out.

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have been exploring the transition from KRS releasing the album Criminal Minded in 1987 to his 2002 release of Spiritual Minded.

Patterson has defined the hip-hop generation as the post-civil rights movement generation. Discussions of public policy, community involvement and activism are central to the course. Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy and its effects on local schools has been the focus of a project planned for completion by the class before the end of the semester.

For those of you keeping score at home, the No Child Left Behind Act basically says you need to take a standardized test before you can pass a grade. While that sounds ideal (if kids could actually be mobilized to excel on their exams), we are examining some frightening statistics regarding Champaign-Urbana schools and students. Patterson encourages engaging and motivating students in innovative ways using hip-hop ideals and elements.

Patterson, in conjunction with the KRS course, has proposed the creation of a Center for the Study of Hip Hop Culture to the University. Being a research institution, the University can decide to go beyond Harvard, currently the only university with a Hip Hop Archive. In Patterson’s proposal, he stresses

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TuesdayApril6 LIVE MUSIC Open Bluegrass Jam Session – Verde Gallery, 7pm, free Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Open Jam / Open Mic hosted by Openingbands.com and Brandon T. Washington – Canopy Club, 10pm, $2 Angie Heaton, Burd Early, Sodastream – Nargile, 10pm, $5 Acoustic Night: Adam Wolfe & Jess Greenlee – Tommy G's, 10pm, free

DJ DJ Sophisto – house, funk – Barfly, 9pm, free

DANCING Latin Dance Night – salsa, cha-cha, merengue, bachata – McKinley Foundation, 9:30-11:30pm, $1

COMEDY Spicy Clamato – improv comedy – Courtyard Cafe, 9-10pm, free

WednesdayApril7 LIVE MUSIC Parkland Jazz Combo – Iron Post, 5:30pm, TBA Star Course Presents: Mest, Fallout Boy, Matchbook Romance, Dynamite Boy – Courtyard Cafe, 6:30pm, $13 Irish Traditional Music Session hosted by Lisa Boucher – Bentley's Pub, 8pm, free Green Mountain Grass – bluegrass – Iron Post, 9pm, TBA Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Graham Colton, Need to Breathe – Canopy Club, 9pm, $7 Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G’s, 9pm, free

MUSIC PERFORMANCE Sinfonia da Camera – Foellinger Great Hall, 7:30pm, Flex: $29, sc $28, stu $11, yth $7, Single: $30, sc $29, stu $12, yth $8

ON STAGE Spring Storm – Tennessee Williams wrote this coming-of-age story while a student at the University of Iowa. The story tells of Heavenly Critchfield, a tempestuous southern beauty, and the two boys she loves. Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $12, sc & stu $11, UI & yth $6, Single: $13, sc & stu $12, UI & yth $7. Interpreter available.

Mark Morris Dance Group – Live music brought to life through choreographed dances by professional dancers – Tryon Festival Theatre, 7:30pm, Flex: $32, sc & stu $31, UI & yth $22, Single: $34, sc & stu $33, UI & yth $24

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke – Elmers Club 45, 7-11pm

C-UVENUES Assembly Hall First & Florida, Champaign, 333-5000 American Legion Post 24 705 W Bloomington Rd, Champaign, 356-5144 American Legion Post 71 107 N Broadway, Urbana, 367-3121 Barfly 120 N Neil, Champaign,352-9756 Barnes and Noble 51 E Marketview, Champaign, 355-2045 Boltini Lounge 211 N Neil, Champaign, 378-8001 Borders Books & Music 802 W Town Ctr, Champaign, 351-9011 The Brass Rail 15 E University, Champaign, 352-7512 Canopy Club (Garden Grill) 708 S Goodwin, Urbana, 367-3140 Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana C.O. Daniels 608 E Daniel, Champaign, 337-7411 Cosmopolitan Club 307 E John, Champaign, 367-3079 Courtyard Cafe Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana, 333-4666 Cowboy Monkey 6 Taylor St, Champaign, 398-2688 Clybourne 706 S Sixth, Champaign, 383-1008 Curtis Orchard 3902 S Duncan Rd, Champaign, 359-5565 D.R. Diggers 604 S Country Fair Dr, Champaign, 356-0888 Elmer’s Club 45 3525 N Cunningham, Urbana, 344-3101 Embassy Tavern & Grill 114 S Race, Urbana, 384-9526 Esquire Lounge 106 N Walnut, Champaign, 398-5858 Fallon’s Ice House 703 N Prospect, Champaign, 398-5760 Fat City Saloon 505 S Chestnut, Champaign, 356-7100 The Great Impasta 114 W Church, Champaign, 359-7377 G.T.’s Western Bowl Francis Dr, Champaign, 359-1678 Highdive 51 Main, Champaign, 359-4444 Huber’s 1312 W Church, Champaign, 352-0606 Illinois Disciples Foundation 610 E Springfield, Champaign, 352-8721 Independent Media Center 218 W Main St, Urbana, 344-8820 The Iron Post 120 S Race, Urbana, 337-7678 Joe’s Brewery 706 S Fifth, Champaign, 384-1790 Kam’s 618 E Daniel, Champaign, 328-1605 Krannert Art Museum 500 E Peabody, Champaign, 333-1861 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin, Urbana,Tickets: 333-6280, 800-KCPATIX La Casa Cultural Latina 1203 W Nevada, Urbana, 333-4950 Lava 1906 W Bradley, Champaign, 352-8714 Legends Bar & Grill 522 E Green, Champaign, 355-7674 Les’s Lounge 403 N Coler, Urbana, 328-4000 Lincoln Castle 209 S Broadway, Urbana, 344-7720 Lowe’s Big Barrel & Summer Club 14 N Hazel, Danville, 442-8090 Malibu Bay Lounge North Route 45, Urbana, 328-7415 Mike n’ Molly’s 105 N Market, Champaign, 355-1236 Mulligan’s 604 N Cunningham, Urbana, 367-5888 Murphy’s 604 E Green, Champaign, 352-7275 Nargile 207 W Clark St, Champaign Neil Street Pub 1505 N Neil, Champaign, 359-1601 Boardman’s Art Theater 126 W Church, Champaign, 351-0068 The Office 214 W Main, Urbana, 344-7608 Parkland College 2400 W Bradley, Champaign, 351-2528 Phoenix 215 S Neil, Champaign, 355-7866 Pia’s of Rantoul Route 136 E, Rantoul, 893-8244 Pink House Routes 49 & 150, Ogden, 582-9997 The Rainbow Coffeehouse 1203 W Green, Urbana, 766-9500 Red Herring/Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana, 344-1176 Rose Bowl Tavern 106 N Race, Urbana, 367-7031 Springer Cultural Center 301 N Randolph, Champaign, 355-1406 Spurlock Museum 600 S Gregory, Urbana, 333-2360 The Station Theatre 223 N Broadway, Urbana, 384-4000 Strawberry Fields Cafe 306 W Springfield, Urbana, 328-1655 Sweet Betsy's 805 S Philo Rd, Urbana Ten Thousand Villages 105 N Walnut, Champaign, 352-8938 TK Wendl’s 1901 S Highcross Rd, Urbana, 255-5328 Tommy G’s 123 S Mattis Ave, Country Fair Shopping Center, 359-2177 Tonic 619 S Wright, Champaign, 356-6768

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CHICAGOSHOWS APRIL 4/1-2 Decemberists @ Schubas 4/2 Joan Baez @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall 4/2 Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Missy Elliott @ Allstate Arena 4/2 Jonatha Brooke @ Park West 4/2 Graham Colton @ Double Door 4/2 Sound Tribe Sector Nine @ Vic 4/2 Star Spangles @ Lyons Den 4/2-3 Blonde Redhead @ Abbey Pub 4/3 Rod Piazza @ Buddy Guy's Legends 4/3 Preston School of Industry @ Schubas 4/3 Grandaddy, Saves the Day @ Riviera 4/3 Weirdos @ Subterranean 4/3 Particle @ Park West, 18+ 4/3 Josh Wink @ Smart Bar 4/4 Unicorns @ Logan Square Auditorium, all-ages 4/4 Floetry @ House of Blues 4/6 Chayanne @ Rosemont Theatre 4/6 Van Hunt @ Double Door 4/6 Method Man @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/7 Stereolab @ Vic 4/7 Twilight Singers @ Metro 4/7 Van Morrison @ Chicago Theatre 4/7 16 Horsepower @ Abbey Pub 4/8 Geoff Farina @ Schubas 4/8 Trapt, Smile Empty Soul @ House of Blues, all-ages 4/8 Sugarcult @ Metro, all-ages 4/8 N.E.R.D., Black Eyed Peas @ Riviera, 18+ 4/9 Weird War @ Empty Bottle 4/9 Switchfoot @ Vic 4/9 Ruben Studdard @ Auditorium Theatre 4/9 Squarepusher @ Metro 4/9 Midnight Creeps @ Lyons Den 4/9 Roomful of Blues @ Buddy Guy's Legends 4/9 I:Cube @ Smart Bar 4/9 Henry Butler, Jon Cleary, Dr. Michael White @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/9 Local H @ Metro, all-ages 4/9 & 16 Herbie Hancock @ Symphony Center 4/9-10 B.B. King @ Star Plaza 4/10 DJ Shadow @ Park West, 18+ 4/10 Wanda Jackson @ FitzGerald's 4/10 Bret Michaels @ Joe's 4/10 Tom Russell, Jim Lauderdale @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/11 Fantomas, Melt-Banana @ Metro 4/12 Story of the Year @ House of Blues, all-ages 4/13 Sleepy Jackson @ Schubas 4/13 Stellastarr @ Double Door 4/13 Rufio @ Metro, all-ages 4/14 Sarah Harmer @ Martyrs' 4/15-16 Bonnie Prince Billy, Joanna Newsom @ Open End Gallery (4/15), Logan Square Auditorium (4/16) 4/15-16 Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Kweller @ Vic 4/15-16 Willy Porter @ FitzGerald's (15), Martyrs' (16) 4/16 A Perfect Circle, Mars Volta @ UIC Pavilion 4/16 Thrills @ Metro 4/16 Orchestra Baobab @ HotHouse, two shows 4/16 Eddie From Ohio, Luther Wright & the Wrong @ FitzGerald's 4/16 Baaba Maal @ Old Town School of Folk Music, two shows 4/16 Mason Jennings @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 4/16 Peter Mulvey @ Schubas 4/17 Asylum Street Spankers @ Schubas 4/17 Mustard Plug @ Metro, all-ages 4/17 Ellis Paul @ Schubas, two shows 4/17 Pinback, Enon @ Logan Square Auditorium, all-ages 4/17-18 Rebirth Brass Band @ Martyrs' 4/18 Rasputina @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/18 Renee Fleming @ Symphony Center 4/20 Air @ Riviera 4/20 Iced Earth @ Metro, all-ages 4/20 Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/20 Sebadoh @ Abbey Pub 4/21 Delirious, David Crowder Band @ Vic, all-ages 4/21 Joss Stone @ House of Blues 4/22 Leon Russell @ Bottom Lounge 4/23 Crystal Method @ House of Blues, all-ages 4/23 Morbid Angel @ Oasis 160, all-ages 4/23 Savath & Savalas w/ Prefuse 73 @ Abbey Pub 4/23 Yellowcard, Something Corporate @ Riviera 4/23 Strokes @ Aragon, sold out 4/24 Robert Walter’s 20th Congress @ Abbey Pub 4/24 Bad Plus @ Martyrs’ 4/24 Fruit @ Schubas 4/24 Indigo Girls @ Auditorium Theatre

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4/24 Tony Rice & Lonesome River Band @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/24 Pat McGee Band @ House of Blues, 18+ 4/24 Of Montreal @ Subterranean 4/25 Janis Ian @ Old Town School of Folk Music 4/27 LCD Soundsystem @ Empty Bottle 4/27 Damien Rice @ Riviera, all-ages 4/28 Deerhoof @ Empty Bottle 4/28 James Murphy @ Smart Bar 4/30 Einsturzende Neubauten @ Metro, 18+ 4/30 Graham Parker @ Martyrs'

Opening Weekend April 2-4 Screen 1 : Hellboy PG1 3 Screen 2: Welcome to Mooseport PG1 3

CHICAGOVENUES Abbey Pub 3420 W Grace, Chicago, (773) 478-4408 Allstate Arena 6920 N Mannheim Rd, Rosemont, (847) 635-6601 Aragon 1106 W Lawrence, Chicago, (773) 561-9500 Arie Crown Theater 2301 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, (312) 791-6190 Bottom Lounge 3206 N Wilton, Chicago, (773) 975-0505 Chicago Theatre 175 N State St, Chicago, (312) 443-1130 Congress Theatre 2135 N Milwaukee, Chicago, (312) 923-2000 Double Door 1572 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, (773) 489-3160 Elbo Room 2871 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, (773) 549-5549 Empty Bottle 1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, (773) 276-3600 Fireside Bowl 2648 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, (773) 486-2700 House of Blues 329 N Dearborn, Chicago, (312) 923-2000 Martyrs' 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, (773) 404-9494 Metro/Smart Bar 3730 N Clark St, Chicago, (773) 549-0203 Old Town School of Folk Music 4544 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, (773) 728-6000 Park West 322 W Armitage, Chicago, (773) 929-5959 Riviera Theatre 4746 N Racine, Chicago, (773) 275-6800 Rosemont Theatre 5400 N River Rd, Rosemont, (847) 671-5100 Schubas 3159 N Southport, Chicago, (773) 525-2508 UIC Pavilion 525 S Racine, Chicago, (312) 413-5700 Vic Theatre 3145 N Sheffield, Chicago, (773) 472-0449

ART NOTICES Art Demonstration – Floral Art & Design with Rick Orr. Thur, 7pm. Verde Gallery. 17 E Taylor St., Champaign. Cafe hours: Mon-Sat 7am-10 pm; Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-10pm. 366-3204.

Artists @ Krannert – Talk by Brown v. Board of Education artist Pamela Vander Zwan. Vander Zwan, primarily a photographer, seeks to uncover the basic myths and aspirations of American society. She will discuss her efforts to achieve social and political change through art. Wed, 5:30pm.

Krannert Art Museum. 500 E Peabody, Urbana.

333-1860.

Art Classes by Sandra Ahten – To register, email spiritofsandra@hotmail.com (preferred) or call 367-6345.

“Collage for the Soul” – Students will learn a variety of collage techniques, including photo and photocopy transfer, papermaking and manipulation, wax application, and more, while exploring a particular subject. No art-making experience necessary. This class is great for creative exploration and for those who want to take scrapbooking to a new level. Work with your own family photos. April 6, 13, 20, 27. Tue, 7-9pm. Now $70.

“Art with Intention” – This class is not grouptaught, but is flexible and individually directed to each of the students. It is an opportunity for adults to explore their creative voices. Individualized projects will be based on the student's desire to learn new media such as watercolor or encaustic, gain skill in drawing or painting, or complete a project such as a pencil or oil portrait. Materials provided. Thur 2-hr drop-in time, 3-9pm. $95 for 5 (2-hour) sessions in 6 weeks.

“Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” – For adults who have always wanted to learn to draw, but felt like they lacked talent or confidence. This class teaches “realistic” or “naturalistic” drawing.

Students learn that drawing well is really a matter of learning a new way of seeing. Youth accepted with permission. Thur & April 29, 6-8pm.

Creation Art Studios – Ongoing after-school art classes for children. Morning, evening, and weekend studio sessions for adults. Join anytime. Unveil your inherent creative style, exploring materials, techniques, and process, and developing studio skills. Learn to create openings to access dreams, ideas, and issues of heart, mind, and body. Produce your own work through collage, assemblage art, drawing, watercolor, acrylic and oil painting, ceramics, and sculpture. CPDU’s offered. For more information, call Jeannine Bestoso at 344-6955.

Visit the studio, 1102 E Washington St. Urbana or www.creationartstudios.com.

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All shows start at dusk.

• Admission $5 per person • Children under 5 are free

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Wine Tasting 5pm, free Joshua Bell, violin 7:30pm, $25-$42 Sponsor: Avis and Dean Hilfinger

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Sinfonia Student Performance Project 6:50pm, free

UI Varsity Men's Glee Club 7:30pm, $4-$7 Kronos Quartet: Sun Rings 7:30pm, $20-$30 Talkback: after the show, free Sponsors: Alice and John Pfeffer

Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Fr Apr 2 Spring Storm Dessert and Conversation 6:30pm, $5.50 UI Percussion Ensemble 7:30pm, $2-$5 Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Sinfonia da Camera 7:30pm, $7-$30 Sponsors: Rick Orr Florist

Mark Morris Dance Group 7:30pm, $22-$34 Talkback: after the show, free Sponsors: Nancy and Edward Tepper Jerald Wray and Dirk Mol

Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13 Afterglow: Jason Finkelman's Nu Orbit Ensemble 9:30pm, free Sponsor:

Su Apr 4 Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra 3pm, $10-$28 Spring Storm 3pm, $6-$13

Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Th Apr 8 Interval: The Musicians of the Mark Morris Dance Group noon, free Wine Tasting 5pm, free Laurien Laufman, cello and Timothy Ehlen, piano 7:30pm, $2-$5 Mark Morris Dance Group 7:30pm, $22-$34 Talkback: after the show, free Spring Storm 7:30pm, $6-$13

Some Krannert Center programs are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and patron and corporate contributions.

Season Sponsors Coporate Season Underwriters

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Champaign-Urbana Symphony concerts are supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Patricia Campbell’s participation in the School of Music Conference on Improvisation is supported in part by the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts.

KrannertCenter.com 217/333-6280 or 800/KCPATIX 217/333-9714 (TTY) 217/244-SHOW (Fax) 217/244-0549 (Groups) kran-tix@uiuc.edu Ticket Office Open 10am to 6pm daily; on days of performances open 10am through intermission.

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E&A keeps the hip-hop tradition alive

BY ADAM BOSKEY | STAFF WRITER

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ince the inception of hip-hop music, there has always been a relationship between the MC and the DJ. In the beginning, both were considered equally vital to the music.

Over time, the dynamic changed as the MC became more marketable and technology allowed for the show to go on without a DJ. It went from Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Rodney-o & Joe Cooley and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince to Puff Daddy, Jay-Z and Snoop Doggy Dogg. As the DJ’s names were no longer included on the marquee, it became clear that the DJ was being phased out.

At the same point the DJ was deemed unnecessary, other changes in hip-hop coincided. The shows became flat as the MC had no one to work with onstage. The sound of the music went away from heavy use of samples from the DJ’s crate—a mainstay of hip-hop— toward the shiny sounds of keyboards. To purists, this was getting far from the hip-hop experience they grew up with and loved; it had become hip-pop. The idea of a hip-hop duo has all but faded from mainstream hiphop, but some still find themselves entrenched in the hip-hop tradition that includes a duo from Minnesota known as Eyedea & Abilities.

The duo, promoting its new album E&A, will bring its Plague on Wheels Tour to Canopy Club on Sunday night. This is one of those groups that considers the DJ (Abilities) as important as the MC (Eyedea). This group, however, is light years ahead of the pack. Both artists are of a supreme and rare talent. Eyedea is a lyricist of the highest caliber; a songwriter who can rap. DJ Abilities handles production and is a bona fide turntablist. He treats the turntable as an instrument, using it as Hendrix would a guitar. This tandem is a seldom seen pairing of opposing talents in the modern era of hip-hop.

E&A is the follow-up album to the duo’s 2001 debut, First Born, which landed them a spot on URB Magazine’s “Next 100 List” of acts to look out for. E&A is all about bringing the DJ and MC closer together. They told of how they wanted to treat Eyedea’s voice and Abilities’ scratches as you would the lead vocal and lead guitar in a rock group. This innovation has never happened before on a hip-hop album of this length. When you listen to E&A, both instruments (voice and turntable) share equal importance at equal volume. Both get time to solo, and in a approach unique to this album, they both challenge their conventional roles.

On the first track, “Reintroducing,” the speakers swell with the sound of Abilities

expertly scratching a recorded verse from his partner throughout the entire song. This song is quite inventive as Abilities scratches the verse in a way that allows the lyrics, which, if left alone, would be off beat, to fall into rhythm. All the while, the scratches deftly walk the fine line of overkill, as this song perfectly sets the tone that this album has as much to do with the MC as the DJ. The duo honed its uber-skills the oldfashioned way— battling. From 1997 to 2001, the two took the national and regional battle scene by storm, winning several esteemed competitions.

This experience is vital to becoming a solid MC or DJ, and essential to hip-hop. It separates the men from the boys and ensures that the cream of the crop get a little bit of shine from the industry, as well as respect from his peers. Throwing down a great performance is all the easier for the battle-tested. Just compare recent KRS-ONE and Ludacris shows that have come through Champaign. No offense to Luda— after all, he is a hometown boy—but I think even he would admit he would like to have the stage show of the battlescarred KRS-ONE. Abilities talked of the stage show, explaining that the duo is very conscious of its performance. They give much more than a live version of the album. Don’t be surprised to witness a cover or two, live remixing, freestyle session and DJ showcase. If you have ever witnessed their label-

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mates Atmosphere or Brother Ali on stage (who were both in town recently), you will know that part of the reason the Rhymesayers label is blowing up is its well-rounded talent that can perform just as well—if not better onstage—than in the studio. Eyedea and Abilities are no exception to this rule. During their battling days, much time was spent relentlessly touring the States alongside the rest of Rhymesayers, building the immense word-of-mouth fan base that has embraced the label and its artists. The buzz had gotten so big that the independent label started to attract the interest of the majors, but instead of signing on the dotted line, the duo opted to work out singular distribution deals for its releases with the punk rock label Epitaph.

Although the tracks come to fruition in different ways, they are all born from a desire to create something epic, both in content and production.

Eyedea points to the second track “Now” and the final track “Glass” as their best attempts to attain this quality.

Amazing lyrics, unusual sample usage and a production quality similar to the big rock sound of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s help the songs resonate in the listener’s head. “Now” flips the role of voice and turntable within the normal constructs of a hip-hop song. Eyedea delivers his lines in a similar cadence to current double-timed scratch patterns as if the two were in the studio and Abilities said, “Hey, can you flow like that?” after seriously throwing down on the turntable and mixer. Eyedea’s lyrics push things forward, ushering in change

and bringing forth new forms on the album.

Toward the end of the song, the lyrics float away in a bath of reverb as Abilities uses a heavy guitar tone to create a brilliant melody for the remainder of the track as it all fades out.

Epic indeed, but not too surprising after I asked what these guys have been listening to on the road. Nirvana, Hendrix, Sly, The Beatles, Coltrane, Miles, Built to Spill, Alice in Chains, early ‘90s hip-hop, Prince, Beck and Pantera were among those named.

Recently, small efforts to resurrect the DJ-MC connection have been made by albums such as the Beastie Boys’ Hello Nasty. Eyedea & Abilities’ E&A picks up where others left off and dives head first into the waters that everyone else was just treading. By placing the DJMC relationship center stage and being innovative and original, Eyedea & Abilities have brought forth a trailblazing album that stays true to the foundation of hip-hop music. buzz

The Plague on Wheels Tour featuring Eyedea & Abilities will hit Canopy Club Sunday night. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $13 at the door.

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“JUST RELAX AND IT’LL COME, SON.” | APRIL 1 - 7, 2004

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Art Retreat – First Sundays Art of Creation, Passion, and Restoration Retreats at Creation Art Studios with independent artist Jeannine Bestoso.

Recreate your original self, ignite your passions, and resurrect buried or lost visions through guided art activities, journal writing, reflection, and quiet group involvement. A transformative experience of personal expansion and clarity that can lead you onto a path of new directions and creative living. Sunday, 9am-3pm. Pre-registration required. Lunch provided. For more information and to register, contact Jeannine Bestoso at 3446955.

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atrick Harness was born in Mobile, Ala., in 1952. He has since resided in Western Australia, Oregon and Brooklyn, N.Y., where he attended Pratt Institute. His images are a result of 40 years of experimenting in a variety of media, with a focus on pastel and oil painting. He has happily resided in Central Illinois since 1977, where he enjoys the company of his family, friends and the unique beauty of its rural landscape.

ART GALLERIES Boneyard Pottery – Ceramic Art by Michael Schwegmann and others. 403 Water St in Champaign. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm. 355-5610.

What inspires you?

I am mostly inspired by the Central Illinois landscape. I am especially attuned to the change of seasons and appreciate the simple beauty of this area.

Broken Oak Gallery – Local and national artists, original art including photography, watercolors, pottery, oil paintings, colored pencil, and woodturning. Refreshments served by the garden all day Saturday. 1865 N 1225 E Rd in White Heath.

Thu-Sat 10am-4pm. 762-4907.

When did you start creating your art form?

My parents encouraged me (to) explore my artistic abilities when they realized it was a way to channel my relentless energy. I was 10 years old at the time.

Creation Art Studios – Featuring original art by students and members of the studio. 1102 E Washington St in Urbana. Mon-Fri 3-5:30pm, Sat 14pm and other scheduled studio times. For more information, call Jeannine Bestoso at 344-6955.

Country in the City – Antiques, Architectural, Gardening and Home Accessories. Custom designing available. 1104 E Washington St in Urbana.

Thu-Sat 10am-5pm. 367-2367.

How do you feel you’ve improved since starting?

Although my artistic abilities have improved over time, I feel the biggest improvement has been in my ability to “see” and appreciate my surroundings. That’s probably the most enriching quality of art to me.

Framer's Market – Frame designers since 1981.

Ongoing work from local artists on display. 807 W Springfield Ave in Champaign. Tue-Fri 9:30am5:30pm, Sat 10am-4pm. 351-7020.

What environment do you like to work in?

I set up a studio area in my house with all my supplies at hand. My favorite music is available and the kitchen is in the next room—everything I need for an enjoyable experience.

Furniture Lounge – Featuring local artist Patrick Harness through April 30, as well as vintage prints, lithographs and one-of-a-kind mid-century paintings. 9 E Univ Ave, Downtown Champaign. Sun 11-3pm, Mon-Tue 12-4:30pm, Wed-Sat 11-5:30pm.

352-5150.

Glass FX – New and Antique Stained Glass Windows, Lamps and unique glass gifts. Gallery is free and open to the public. Interested in learning the art of Stained Glass? Beginning, intermediate and advanced stained glass classes offered. 202 S First St in Champaign. Mon-Thu 10am-5:30pm, Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 9am-4pm. www.glassfx.com.

359-0048.

What other types of art do you appreciate or dabble in?

I appreciate a wide variety of art and look forward to this year’s Boneyard Art Festival (April 16 and 17). It’s very stimulating for me to view all the talented work available in our community.

Griggs Street Potters – Handmade functional and decorative pottery. 305 W Grigg St in Urbana.

Mon-Fri 11am-4pm, or call for appointment. 3448546.

Hill Street Gallery Inc. – Oil and watercolor paintings, hand painted T-shirts, handmade jewelry. 703 W Hill in Champaign. Sat 12-5pm or by appointment during the week. 359-0675.

Larry Kanfer Gallery – European Collection featured in the gallery. Both limited and open edition prints by Larry Kanfer, nationally acclaimed photographer. 2503 S Neil in Champaign. Free and Open to the Public. Mon-Sat 10am-5:30pm. 3982000. www.kanfer.com.

Laser’s Edge – Oil paintings on canvas and framed etchings by Sandra Ahten along with work from Lee Boyer now showing. 218 W. Main Street, Urbana. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. 328-3343.

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LaPayne Photography – Specializes in panoramic photography up to 6 feet long of different subjects including sporting events, city skylines, national parks and University of Illinois scenes.

816 Dennison Dr in Champaign. Mon-Fri 9am-4pm and by appointment. 356-8994.

Displayed here are three of Partrick Harness’ paintings. Partrick is directly influenced by the Central Illinois landscape because of its simplistic beauty.

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Old Vic Art Gallery – Fine and original art, hand signed, limited edition prints, works by local artists, art restoration, custom framing, and periodic shows by local artists. 11 E University in Champaign. Mon-Thu 11am-5:30pm, Sat 11am4:30pm. 355-8338.

Prairie Boatworks Gallery – Beautifully hand-crafted gift items and over 35 regional artist to choose from. 407 E Main St in Mahomet. Tue, Fri, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-4pm. 586-6776. Information: contact Mary at 356-8228 or tangoradesigns@aol.com.

The Fairy Queen – Henry Purcell’s semi-opera will be under the direction of Charlotte Mattax and performed by U of I opera singers, dancers, the Concert Choir, and Concerto Urbana. Sung in English. Tryon Festival Theatre. April 23, 24 at 7:30pm.

Steeple Gallery – Vintage botanical and bird prints, antiques and framed limited edition prints. 102 E Lafayette St in Monticello. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-4pm. www.steeplegallery.com. 762-2924.

1776 – Parkland Theatre's spring musical opens April 14 with a preview performance and runs through May 1. For more information, call 3512528.

Ziemer Gallery – Paintings and limited edition prints by Larry Ziemer. Pottery, weavings, wood turning and glass works by other artists. 210 W Washington in Monticello. Tue 10am-8pm, Wed-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-4pm. www.ziemergallery.com. 762-9786.

ART EXHIBITS 9th Biennial Ceramics Invitational – The Parkland invitational features the work of nine contemporary ceramic artists. This year's exhibit focuses on functional ceramics, with a specific look at the rich decorative surface that clay provides. The exhibit will be on display in the Parkland Art Gallery through April 9. 115 E. University, C. M-F, 10am3pm, M-Th, 6-8pm, Sat, 12-2pm. 351-2485.

FILM The Barbarian Invasions – Rated R. Academy award winner for best foreign language film and original screenplay. Spoken in French, this film has refined humor, intellectual dialogue and emotional, offbeat relationships. Boardman’s Art Theatre.

Playing through Thursday. For showtimes, go to www.boardmansarttheatre.com.

“Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists” – The Krannert Museum has put together a traveling exhibition bringing together the work of seven major contemporary artists who share a connection to both worlds. 500 E Peabody in Urbana. Tue, Thu-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm. Suggested donation $3. 333-1860.

$25 Gift Certificate given away every Friday.

Stop by each week to register.

Charity fashion show April 8 at the Canopy C;ub!

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“Social Studies: Eight Artists Address Brown v.

Board of Education” – In this exhibit, eight contemporary artists commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case. All participating artists have a history of making art that deals with pressing social issues in American society - gender, class, race, and politics. Krannert Art Museum. April 2. Exhibit on view through May 23. The museum is open to the public Tue-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 25pm. Free admission. Sugg donation: $3.

“Persephone and Flora” – A celebration of spring classical paintings by Jenny Chi & Floral Art by Rick Orr on display at Verde Gallery through May 1. 17 E Taylor St, C. Cafe hours: Mon-Sat 7am-10 pm; Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-10pm. 366-3204.

“Cognitio Inluminaire” – Aroma Café is proud to present this collection of photographs from Jim Hultquist. Artist Statement:“My house is filled with books and inspiration is just a shelf away. The books have commandeered my home. I’d ask for help but your house is probably full of inspiration too. This set of photographs is an attempt to visually translate the inspiration and action in the book (or of the writer) to the book itself. To animate, to make kinetic, to make the book something more than a dusty tomb waiting passively for you to seek it out. Each image is a visual expression of the emotional potential that lies quietly coded within the pages.” On display at Aroma Café through Apr 30. 118 N. Neil, Champaign. Open 7 days a week, 7am-Midnight.

For information, contact Amanda Bickle at 3563200 or art4aroma@yahoo.com.

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Sandra Ahten exhibit at Milos Restaurant – The restaurant, located east outside entrance at Lincoln Square, is displaying Ahten’s paintings and prints. Ahten is offering 40 percent off the work.

Stop by and have a peak.

ON STAGE Elysium on the Prairie, Live Action Roleplaying – Vampires stalk the city streets and struggle for dominance in a world of gothic horror. Create your own character and mingle with dozens of players who portray their own undead alter egos.

Each session is another chapter in an ongoing story of triumph, tragedy and betrayal. Fridays, “Vampire: The Masquerade.” 7pm. For location: www2.uiuc.edu/ro/elysium/intro.html.

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Osama – Rated PG-13. Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film, this film is about an Afghanistinian girl who wants to attend school during the Taliban regime when girls were not allowed to attend school. Boardman’s Art Theatre.

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Elephant – Rated R. Winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival 2003. A film addressing school violence such as the Columbine High School shootings. Directed by Gus Van Sant.

Boardman’s Art Theatre. Starts playing next Friday, April 9, due to print difficulties. For more information, go to www.boardmansarttheatre.com.

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“Fahrenheit 451” – Francois Truffaut’s 1966 film will be screened at the Foellinger Auditorium April 18 at 2pm. Afterward, Jahiel will lead a discussion of the film and other cinema-related topics. This event is part of the “C-U Reading” program and is co-sponsored by the Champaign Public Library and the UIUC Unit for Cinema Studies. For more information, call 403-2070.

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Mini Concerts for Kids – Move to the music of local high school musicians during this event that is part of The Urbana Free Library’s musical immersion series. Urbana High School, rm 1248 (enter from Iowa St). Wed, 3:30-4pm. No registration required for this program, open to children of all ages. Information: 367-4069.

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tory term for an African-American who behaves like society’s idea of a ‘white’ person. Twinkie is racial slang for an Asian-American who possesses stereotypical Caucasian qualities.

“Stereotyping and categorizing are still common and hopefully my poster will raise awareness that racism still occurs,” Mudra said.

The poster demonstrates how common racism is to the average person. The images will hopefully generate emotion in people who may not ever think about how it is for those who have been oppressed, she said.

Mudra has never personally felt the stare of judgmental eyes or the embarrassment of exclusion based on her ethnicity, but she has felt the passion to change these experiences for people who have been discriminated against in society.

“People should see that racism is still widespread and not something that is just read about in a high school history class,” she said.

Mudra believes those who have never felt fully accepted need hope for change.

These are people like her friend and classmate, Sue Janna Truscott, who have been hurt by discrimination and racial labeling.

Truscott knew the poster was already a difficult assignment for her because it hit closer to home than past assignments.

“The project brought out emotions that have been so deeply ingrained within me,” she said.

Her mom is Korean and her dad is Caucasian. She and her family have lived in South Carolina, California and Illinois.

In each state, her friends and classmates labeled her differently.

“In high school, most of my friends were Asian and most of them considered me white. It kind of hurt that they saw very little Asian in me—that they could not see me as a complete person,” Truscott said.

Her struggle for identity still continues in a world where she is used to being identified and categorized.

“The posters are about personal experiences that people might not relate to but will hopefully think about,” she said.

An outline of a woman with half of the background depicting the Korean flag and the other half featuring the American flag was one of her posters. Another poster shows a Korean woman with a label stamped on her forehead.

“I wanted to show the struggle of being categorized. We are all human. Why do we need to divide ourselves?” Truscott said.

Truscott hopes her personal experience has effectively been conveyed through powerful images that will get people to think twice about discrimination and segregation.

The poster is a step closer to answering Jennings’ question of isolation and misunderstanding. He refuses to let his dream of acceptance and understanding die.

“We should be proud of our ethnicity, but we should never forget that we are all part of one large race—the human race,” Jennings said. buzz

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Funfare – Come to The Phillips Recreation Center Thursday for Funfare, presented by The Urbana Free Library Children’s Department. Preschool groups are invited to come from 9:45-10:15am (Groups please register with the Children’s Department in advance at 367-4069). Families are invited to come from 10:30-11am. Both programs will feature stories, songs, puppets, and films for childrn their parent(s)or caregiver(s). No registration required. Information: 367-4069.

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My Preschool Genius – A book-centered program focusing on language. Preschoolers can listen to dynamic picture book presentations and explore the art of picture book illustration. Champaign Public Library. Tue, 9:30-10am. Registration required. Call 403-2030.

Girls, Girls, Girls! – Games, crafts, and reading time for girls in grades 1-4. Douglass Branch Library. Fri, 4-5pm. No registration.

T.A.C.K. – The library’s Thursday Arts and Crafts for Kids program welcomes children to come make a craft. Douglass Branch Library, Conference Room.

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A view of one of the walls of discrimination posters from the junior graphic design show up now in the Link Gallery at Krannert Art Museum. The show will run until Thursday, April 1.

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Jennifer Government ★★★

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obody wants to read a book review that spends six paragraphs finding creative ways to rephrase the plot synopsis on the back cover. Max Berry’s Jennifer Government is a fastpaced story of a futuristic dystopia in which most of the western and eastern hemispheres have been absorbed into an American Federation, and the countries within this union operate on an ultra laissez faire form of free trade with startling, humorous and horrific results. The cover of the paperback edition features a woman’s left eye, accentuated by a delicate layer of eyeliner. The most intriguing detail of this cover, aside from the cold stare of the woman’s one eye, is the barcode tattooed under her lower eyelash.

We find that this woman is Jennifer Government, a top agent with a healthy dose of sass and a sinister trigger finger.

What would best describe Jennifer is Hester Prynne meets Lois Lane. She always seems to know just how far to bend the rules, and always makes her own rules when she can’t flex them far enough. But this go-for-broke G-woman also has a softer side. She lives with her young daughter in Melbourne, Australia. The child, Kate, is enrolled in a grade school sponsored by Mattel. Virtually every institution we consider public: hospitals, schools, even police stations have been transformed into corporate entities.

After reading the synopsis, one can filter out all flamboyant adjectives book covers always use to con a reader, and decide that this book is easy to decipher. The cover, with its less-thancryptic title and semi-close-up view of Jennifer’s eye complete with barcode further leads us to believe that this novel is a fairly straightforward account of one female cop’s struggle to raise a daughter and catch criminals in this power-hungry universe where money talks and workers even assume the surname of their chosen companies.

The book was not this easy to unpack once it is actually opened. Jennifer Government is not the only well-rounded character in this novel. In fact, Barry spends the better part of the first 15 chapters throwing character after character at the reader. In the early stages of reading this book, it feels like this novel has more characters than a Robert Altman movie.

However, Barry, like Altman, introduces his menagerie of characters in an unobtrusive way. The names are a bit hard to catch on to at first, but persevering through the first 30 pages pays off in the end. Eventually, Barry constructs a narrative which toggles from character to character with just enough spacing to keep us in suspense about what is hap-

pening with each particular subplot, but he doesn’t keep us waiting to the point that we forget each scenario.

It is this fluidity that will make a reader appreciate the book for what it does. Barry deals with a total global vision: His settings range from Australia all the way around the world to the United States. However, because of Barry’s unique Americanized global market, each Australian city is almost identical to its American cousin. This creates a uniform world where Barry can manipulate his characters through many different geographical regions without jarring the reader from the thread of narration. This homogenous matrix makes for an interesting read on its own somewhat superficial level, but the landscape also aids the plot by allowing Barry to focus on his large cast of characters without having to re-establish his setting during each subplot.

This is the second novel by Barry, whose freshman effort was entitled Syrup. It seems appropriate to give that novel a read as well.

Barry has a distinctive voice that frantically preaches to all who will listen: “Imagine if we went just a bit further …” Fans of Brave New World and 1984 should not dismiss this novel as a 21st century rip-off of a few classic stories.

Barry isn’t trying to ride the coat tails of one or two celebrated satirists. He’s used their ideas as a springboard, leaping toward the cosmos and commandeering their coats for parachutes as he arches from the page into our minds.

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“Entering the Illinois campus was like entering a completely different world,” he said.

He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a master’s degree in art education. In 1998, he began his teaching career at Jackson State University and helped establish their graphic design program.

He came back to Illinois in 2002 to teach graphic design and share the experiences that have shaped him into the artist he is today.

Jennings has felt the loneliness and frustration of oppression. He has been categorized and labeled based on the color of his skin, but he said he is more than willing to consider himself a humanist.

A humanist attempts to break down barriers between people by acknowledging the fact that all human beings are equal regardless of circumstances such as physical appearance and different backgrounds, Jennings said.

“I think the poster will be effective because we are using advertising methods to ‘sell’ our views on racism,” said Illini Media Company employee Carol Mudra, another student in Jennings’ class.

Businesses and corporations hire graphic designers to create logos and images. There is not Junior in graphic design Valerie Lohmann’s poster against racial much room for personal expresdiscrimination. The poster portrays four people in CMYK colors. sion or comment on social issues in their artwork, Jennings said. The the poster differently but with the same goal in designer ’s images are for mind. Some of the students went for shock financial gain and not for value by depicting images that appeared to be blatantly racist. personal fulfillment.

“Images are a very powerful and universal “We all need to make money to survive, but we tool of communication. The challenge was to have a responsibility to our- use pictures to enhance the meaning and not selves,” said Jennings. “Your take away from it. The more shocking or dismost important client or boss turbing a picture or design is the more likely you’ll remember it,” said Mudra. should always be yourself.”

People today are desensitized to racist comThe objective was to make the students conscious of ments or actions, she said. For some of the stucurrent racial and social dents, such as Mudra, this project has helped issues and to extend aware- put the emotion and passion back into art and ness to the community. This into issues such as racism that are important goal was anything but an but often overlooked.

Mudra’s poster featured pictures of Oreo easy task, Jennings said.

“We all have a universal cookies and Twinkies. The images could easily human responsibility to be be mistaken for a Nabisco or Hostess adversocially aware. Every student tisement, but these snacks are packed had different things they with more then just sugar.

“Those treats are common to us, but what wanted to express, but our basic goal for these posters we might not realize is how common racism was to raise awareness and really is, even in terms of cookies,” Mudra spark change,” Jennings said. said.

She explained that an Oreo is a derogaEach student approached PHOTOS | CAROL MUDRA

hen was the last time you knew you were the only person with a particular background? Have you ever known you were alone because you looked different?” questioned John Jennings, a graphic design professor at the University of Illinois.

This question of isolation and misunderstanding was the basis for a project that Jennings’ Graphic Design 210 class tried to answer last semester.

The students’ objective was to illustrate a message about discrimination in society through three posters. Creativity and passion were necessary tools for the assignment, said Jennings.

Before students began work on the posters, they read articles about segregation and racism. They also viewed a 90-minute video clip, which showed images of discrimination from famous Hollywood movies. Excerpts from films such as Bowling for Columbine, A Bronx Tale, The Last Supper and Higher Learning were used.

“The video was emotionally draining, but it was effective. It spurred emotion and incited passion to create a powerful piece of art,” said Illni Media Company employee Sue Janna Truscott, a junior in Jennings’ class.

The posters will be displayed around campus early next semester. Every poster will feature a paragraph that includes the goal of the project and the class’ e-mail address.

“The object of the e-mail address was to allow an outlet for comments on the projects,” said Truscott.

She said a large college campus such as the University of Illinois is a great environment to do this poster.

“With so many people and so much diversity,” she said, “the poster is bound to strike a chord in someone.”

College students tend to be more liberal and open-minded, said Jennings. Open-minded people are often more willing to try to understand what they do not know.

“Racism basically stems from misunderstanding and fear,” said Jennings.

The students in last year’s graphic design class did the same project with little feedback from the community. Jennings hopes for a better response this year.

“I think that a lot of people don’t see racism as a problem anymore. It’s not as blatant but it occurs every day. As a professor, I feel obligated to prepare students for the world outside the University,” said Jennings.

Jennings said he could never have been so zealous an art teacher if he had not experienced tribulations in his life.

He spent his childhood in Mississippi.

At a young age, he experienced oppression and discrimination because he is black. He joined the U.S. Army for one year in 1988.

“Everybody in the army was from different backgrounds,” he said, “but it was the first time I truly felt part of the same group.”

He attended Jackson State University in Mississippi in 1993 and graduated with a bachelor ’s degree in commercial art and a minor in drawing. Jackson State is a predominately African-American c ollege, especially when compared to the University of Illinois, Jennings said.

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Babies’ Lap Time – Babies are invited to Phillips Recreation Center for Babies' Lap Time Tuesday from 10-10:30am, presented by The Urbana Free Library Children’s Department. This program is for our youngest patrons, ages 6-24 months with an adult. No registration. For more info, call 367-4069.

O Baby! – Lap-bouncing, nursery rhymes and music activities for infants with a caregiver. Champaign Public Library, main library. Mon, 9:30-9:50am or 10:30-10:50am. No registration required. For more information, call 403-2030.

Storyshop – Stories, songs and rhymes for preschoolers through third-graders, 9:30-10am or 10:30-11am at Champaign Public Library, and 10:30-11am at Douglass Branch Library, both in Champaign. Wed. No registration.

“Magic Tree House” party – school-aged fans of the “Magic Tree House” book series are invited to blast back into the past at this free party. Play Magic Tree House Bingo and win prizes.

Champaign Public Library. Sat, 2-3pm. No registration required. Information: 403-2030.

EVENTS & LECTURES Women of Color Conference – Courtyard Cafe, 7pm, free Book Sale – Load up on used book bargains at the Friends of the Champaign Public Library’s spring book sale, April 16-18. The public sale is April 17, 9am-5pm. Sunday is “Bag Sale Day” from 1-5pm, at which time books cost a dollar a bagful. But, for the best selection, attend the Friends membersonly pre-sale April 16, 4-8pm. Memberships may be purchased at the door for $10. The library is located at 505 S Randolph, C. Deep Throat Uncovered – Champaign Public Library, 505 S. Randolph Professor Bill Gaines and his student team talk about their four-year investigation into the identity of the most famous anonymous news source in history. No registration. Champaign Public Library. Sun, 2-3pm.

Information: 403-2070.

Harmful to Children – Janice Del Negro, director of The Center for Children's Books, talks about banned and challenged children's books. No registration. Champaign Public Library. Tue, 7-8pm.

Champaign County Audubon Society early morning bird walks – Busey Woods every Sunday morning at 7:30am. Meet at Anita Purves Nature Center parking lot. 344-6803.

Words on Fire: C-U Reading Discussion – Discussing Fahrenheit 451 as part of the C-U Reading community-wide reading program. No registration. Champaign Public Library. Mon, 2pm.

Information: 403-2070 or www.champaign.org.

Social Justice and Social Science: A Symposium in Honor of Joe R. Feagin and His Vision of Multiracial Democracy – This two-day symposium of nationally recognized scholars will honor the contributions of the distinguished scholar Professor Joe R. Feagin. Levis Faculty Center. April 13, 8:30am-5pm & April 14, 8:30am-12pm. Free. For information, contact event organizer, Professor Bernice McNair Barnett at bmbarnet@uiuc.edu&nbsp or 217-333-7658.

Silent Auction and Ice Cream Social – The Urbana High School Orchestra offers this event, with ice cream, orchestra music and bidding on donated items. Urbana High School Commons. April 17, 7pm. Information: 337-5038.

Concert Prep: Sun Rings – During this talk, William Sullivan, director of Campus Environmental Council, will reflect on the connection between humans and our universe, our long-standing interest in the cosmos, and the thrill we often experience by connecting with it. James Kaler, UI Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, will then take the audience on a trip through the cosmos, sailing the solar wind from the Sun, past the planets, to the boundaries of the Solar System. Colwell Playhouse. Sat, 6:30pm. Free.

Champaign County Audubon Society field trip – This trip will be to Moraine View State Park north of LeRoy. Beth Chato will lead the search for early blooming spring wildflowers. Meet at the Anita Purves Nature Center parking lot, 1505 N. Broadway, U. Sat, 8am. Bring lunch if you wish to continue in the afternoon. Information: Beth at 344-6803.

C.S.I. at Parkland: Forensic Science in the Dome – What is forensic science and how much of what you see on the television is real? Tod Treat, dean of Academic Services at Parkland College, will look at the some of the basic techniques of forensic science and how the scientific method is used to solve crimes in his presentation,“Forensic Science: From Fingerprinting to DNA.” Parkland College Staerkel Planetarium. Fri, 7pm. $1. Following the talk, the planetarium will be showing “Night Lights,” followed by the light show based on Pink Floyd's “Wish You Were Here.”

Students for Environmental Concerns' Earth Day Benefit Festival – Three local bands playing there: Green Mountain Grass, Apollo Project and Nadafinga, will perform in honor of the 34th celebration of Earth Day. Illini Union's Courtyard Cafe.

April 15, 6pm.

Singles Celebrating Life dance – Urbana Civic Center. Second Saturday of each month, this month’s date will be April 10. 8pm-12am. $7 at the door.

“Share a Meal with Community Shares” – This fundraiser helps local non-profits. Thirty percent of your meal at Silvercreek restaurant goes to one of these charities. For information, call 328-3402.

“European Union: International Organization or Emerging State?” – Bob Pahre, University political science professor, will speak. The European Union is a novel political entity, neither a traditional international organization nor yet a conventional state. Pahre will present an overview of this new political system. Part of the Friday Forum Series.

Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Fri, 12pm.

Geography Trilogy, Part 3: House, A Work in Progress – Ralph Lemon and his company spend six weeks at Krannert Center working on the final development of Lemon’s Geography Trilogy, Part 3 – House, an exploration of critical events in American racial history and the rich folk culture of the southern United States. Mar 15-April 25.

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“Live! @ Your Library” feat. Colonel William Thompson – Hear a first-hand account of what it was this African American veteran who was there.

Thompson is one of the original Tuskegee Airmen.

He has recently written a memoir about his wartime experiences. Champaign Public Library.

Tue, 7pm. Registration not required. For more information, call 403-2070.

International Dinner – The University YMCA, Office of International Student Affairs and the Cosmopolitan Club hosts its 21st International Dinner, with a food buffet and international performers. Univ YMCA Latzer Hall. Sun, 6-8pm. Tickets on sale now, $10. Info: Becca Nieto at 337-1514.

Staerkel Planetarium Monthly Science Presentation – On the first Friday of each month that classes are in session, the planetarium will host a noted scientist from the community for a presentation on his or her expertise. Talks begin at 7pm and tickets are $1 at the door. No reservations necessary. Questions: 351-2446.

Job Fair 2004 at Parkland – 100+ employers and hiring representatives will talk about job opportunities. Bring resumes, fill out job applications and be prepared for on-the-spot interviews. There will be representation from a variety of career fields including business, technology, communications, healthcare, crinminal justice, manufacturing, hospitality, and human services. April 8, 2-6pm in the Parkland Gymnasium. Information: 351-2536.

“Letters from Heaven: Bolsheviks Against ‘Superstition’ and ‘Superstition Against Bolsheviks’” – a lecture by Steve Smith, history, University of Essex, England. Part of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center’s Distinguished Lecturers Colloqium Series. 101 International Studies Building. April 19, 4-5:30pm.

International Justice Issues – Joan Campbell, director, Department of Religion, Chautauqua Institution, will speak. The talk will focus on Dr. Campbell’s recent work with the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders and her recent experiences in Tel Aviv.

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Internationalizing Higher Education – Earl Kellog, assoc. provost for International Affairs at the University, will speak. The talk will address the contemporary rationale for the strong emphasis on expanding and enriching the international dimension in an excellent university. Part of the Friday Forum. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. April 16, 2pm.

Alcohol Myth and Reality – Bill Riley, assoc. vice chancellor and dean of students at the University, will speak. Data on college student drinking and alcohol abuse will be presented and discussed along with its relationship to policies and practices. Part of the Know Your University lecture series. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Tue, 12pm.

“Collodial Self-Assembly, Multi-Beam Interference Lithography, and Photonic Crystals” – Part of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Seminar Series. Pierre Wiltzius, Director of the Beckman Institute and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University will lead the lecture. Coordinated Science Laboratory Auditorium. Wed, 4pm.

Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Seminar Series – Wednesday, April 21, 4pm.

Coordinated Science Laboratory Auditorium. Paul L. McEuen, Professor of Physics at Cornell University will give a lecture entitled “Electronics and Mechanics of Single Molecules.”

Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Seminar Series – Wednesday, April 28, 4pm.

Coordinated Science Laboratory Auditorium.

Susan L. Lindquist, Director of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give a lecture entitled “Taking Advantage of Evolution's Bounty: Nanoscale Electric Circuits from SelfAssembling Amyloids.”

The DaVinci Code: A discussion – This talk will be led by Rev. Miley Plamer with input from Sister Agnes Cunningham, local Catholic theologian, and Professor Marcel Franciscono, art historian on the University faculty. The group will discuss what is known of the true role of Mary Magdelene, the history of the origins of the early Christian church, and gospels which did not make it into the Bible and why, among others. Wesley United Methodist in Watseka Lounge. Sun, 1-3pm.

UIUC's Women in Engineering 1st Annual Symposium on Gender in the Pre-College Science, Mathematics, and Technology Classroom – This free event will provide current and future educators with important tools encourage the potential of female students within science, mathematics, and technology. UIUC pre-certification students and educational outreach volunteers especially encouraged to attend. Features AAUW researcher Dr. David Sadker and research from UIUC faculty members. April 23. Registration required and space limited. For information and to register, go to www.wie.uiuc.edu/april2004genderconference.htm or contact UIUC Women in Engineering at arickman@uiuc.edu or 244-3517.

SPOKEN WORD The Teller's Art: First Wednesday Storytelling Concert Series for Adults – Five Years of Story Songs – Featured storyteller Kate McDowell will perform original story songs, musical adaptations of folk and fairy tales for voice and guitar. Verde Gallery and Verdant Coffee & News, 17 E Taylor, C. Tue, 8pm. 366-3202.

CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT Free Poetry Contest Open to Champaign residents – The International LIbrary of Poetry has announced that over 250 prizes and $58 thousand will be awarded in this year’s International Open Poetry Contest. To enter, send one original poem, any subject and any style to: The International LIbrary of Poetry, Suite 19919, 1 Poetry Plaza, Owings Mills, MD 21117. The poem should be 20 lines or less, and the poet’s name and address should appear on the top of the page. Entries must be sent by May 31. For more information, go to www.poetry.com.

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WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Life Map Workshop – A life map is a collection of visual images, a method of connecting with your intuition, a tool for visualizing your dreams or goals. Come explore life mapping – approaches, uses, and the opportunity to create your own life map. McKinley Foundation, C. April 10, 9:15-1pm.

To register or for information, contact Jo Pauly, MSW, Whole Life Coach at 337-7823 or jopauly@prairienet.org.

How to Get Hired – Learn how to find a job, prepare for an interview, negotiate contracts, and convey the kind of professionalism that will help you take that first step on the career ladder. You’ll get tips from people who do the hiring. Illini Union, rm 407. Wed, 4-5pm.

Family Support Group of NAMI – National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has their next support group and business meeting April 12, 7-9pm at Centerpoint, 1801 Fox Dr, C. For information, call Dee Hawn, President, at 359-3625 or Thelma Clark, secretary, at 367-2245.

UI Ice Arena Open Skate Sessions – Sessions will be held through Mar 18. M-F 11:20am-12:40pm, Sat & Sun 1:30-4pm. Open Skate sessions will resume Mar 29 and will be offered M-F 11:20am12:40pm thru May 5. No Sat Open Skates will be offered after Mar 13. Open Skates are free to UI students, Campus Rec members, and children (5 years and younger), $5 for adult nonmembers/general public, and $4 for youth (613 years) nonmembers/general public. Skate rental is $1 for UI students/Campus Rec members and $2 for nonmembers/general public. UI Ice Arena, 406 E Armory Dr, Questions: 333-2081.

Learn-to-Skate Spring Session II – Registration for Campus Recreation’s Learn-To-Skate Spring Session II is still available. The Learn-To-Skate program follows the guidelines of the Ice Skating Institute (ISI) for recreational skaters. Skaters enrolled in Learn-To-Skate group lessons will have five 45-minutes lessons from a qualified figure skating instructor followed by 15-minute open practice sessions. Classes are available for all ages and levels of skaters. Prices vary depending on the class. Spring Session II classes Mar 6-April 17.

Learn-To-Skate is open to UI students, Campus Rec members, nonmembers, and the general public. To register, pick up an application at the UI Ice Arena, 406 E. Armory, Champaign, or download an application at www.campusrec.uiuc.edu. Information: 333-2212, visit www.campusrec.uiuc.edu, or email: uofi_icearena@yahoo.com.

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In the 2002-2003 fiscal year (July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003), Urbana residents recycled 1,419 tons of garbage.

The amount recycled in Champaign for that same period is not available, but for the previous fiscal year, the most recent available, 1,494 tons of residential recycling was collected through curbside collection services.

When considered with the population size of each city—38,241 for Urbana and 69,443 for Champaign according to July 2002 census data— the amount Champaign residents recycled is much less than what Urbana residents recycled.

With the curbside recycling program, on average, Urbana residents recycled about 80 pounds of garbage each during the 2002-2003 fiscal year. In Champaign, the average person recycled about 43 pounds of garbage the previous year.

As far as costs are concerned, on the surface, it appears Champaign residents are paying less for their garbage and recycling pick-up.

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Career Planning: Preparing for a Job Fair – A free workshop to help job seekers prepare for a job fair. Parkland College, rm C123. Thur, 12pm.

Information: 351-2536.

Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback – Learn why everyone needs to give and receive feedback in a spirit of learning and mutual respect. Key actions and techniques are presented along with ways to use them. 1315 N Mattis Ave. Thur, 8:30am-12:30pm. $99. Information: 351-2235.

Home Buyer's Seminar – Learn about budgeting, pre-qualification, inspection, closing, and other important steps in the home buying process.

Offered each month all year. Thursday & April 8, 79:30pm. 1315 N. Mattis Ave., C. $20 single or couple; includes workbook. Information: 351-2235.

needs one can collected. An Urbana resident in the same situation would pay more because the Urbana resident must pay $11 a month to the hauler and $2.50 a month to the city. The Urbana resident would pay $30, or about 18 percent, more than the Champaign resident in a year.

What is your position there?

I am the facility coordinator. I run the day-today operations, which includes the fit wellness classes and the preschool. I also watch over the front desk staff and the building service workers as well.

People can bring their own lunches or eat the provided one, free of charge. The band Motherload will be playing, which performs old time and folk music. Core and more, a pilates based fitness and stretching class begins March 29 until May 19. The class will help to stretch and strengthen the core muscles and is at the beginner and intermediate level. Finally, we will have a karate self-defense class open to both children and adults, beginning March 30 and taking place Tuesday evenings.

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How did you become involved in the center?

I have always had an interest in the cultural arts. When I first started here, I was given the position of facility management. I found that I preferred this area to the programming side of the center. I still do enjoy the programming, but I like working in the management side better.

Working with all of the different kinds of people is lots of fun and the best part of my job.

I have a very multi-task oriented job, which involves a little bit of everything.

Check In Groups – Sandra Ahten leads these sixweek classes aimed to help men and women reach their goals regarding weight, diet and exercise. $60 for 6 weeks. April 12–May 24, 5-6:30pm, (4 spots available); April 13–May 25, 5-6:30pm, (new group, 10 spots available); April 17–May 22, 910:30am, (5 spots available). For information or to register, email Ahten at spiritofsandra@hotmail.com or call 367-6345.

Email preferred.

Free! Home Inspection Information Session – Residents may attend a free session to get information about Parkland's new Home Inspection Certification course. The course covers 10 inspection components including roofing and fireplaces/chimneys. The BDC, 1315 N. Mattis Ave., C. Sat, 10am-12pm. Course tuition discounts will be available. To register, call 351-2235.

required to pay an additional $2.50 every month in taxes for recycling.

However, Smith, of ABC Sanitary Hauling, and Fletcher said Champaign residents pay more without realizing it.

Smith charges residents by the amount of garbage he picks up. For one 33-pound can, he charges $11 a month. For two cans, he charges $15.50 a month. He cannot and does not charge residents for recycling in Champaign or Urbana regardless of how much they recycle.

He picks up trash for 1,000 homes in Urbana and 3,000 homes in Champaign and said he is probably the largest recycling hauler in town.

In Urbana, he said most of his customers pay $11 monthly because they recycle, so they only need one can of garbage. In Champaign, most of his customers do not recycle or do not recycle as much as his Urbana customers, so they pay at least $15.50 for two cans or more—a difference of at least $4.50 a month—$2 more than Urbana residents pay for their recycling fee.

However, if a Champaign resident only needs one can of garbage collected, at $11 a month without any additional fees, they are getting a better deal than an Urbana resident who only

In Urbana, residents can recycle as much or as little as they want. They pay the same flat fee regardless.

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The Springer Cultural Center is a community resource that wants to further the knowledge of visual and performing arts. This includes dance, drama, music, fitness and wellness classes, the preschool program, various meetings, workshops and conferences all held at the center. It is also associated with the Champaign Park District and some of those events.

Are there any upcoming events?

The art exhibition series takes place April 14 to May 9. It includes artists Robin Riggs, Vicki Molitor and Lori Caterini. It is open whenever the building is open, which is Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and then Sunday 12 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

There will be an art reception April 16, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with music, refreshments and admission to this and the entire art exhibit is free. These exhibits take place for three weeks at a time, usually 10 times a year, so it has become a yeararound event. Also, there will be a boxed lunch this Friday, April 2, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

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OTHER FACTORS Schuch said there are more factors than just the different recycling programs that can explain why residents in Champaign and Urbana recycle different amounts.

He said people who are trying to conserve resources can do three things: recycle, reduce the amount of garbage their household produces or reuse resources rather than throw them away.

He also said that increasing the market value of recycled goods will increase recycling rates anywhere.

“The real key is finding ways to reuse the products as production inputs,” he said. “If you can do that, they’ll get collected despite government action or inaction.”

To illustrate his point, Schuch said that when the price of cardboard increased to more than $100 a ton, people began stealing used cardboard. However, when the price fell to $25 a ton, getting rid of used cardboard became a burden and businesses had a hard time getting rid of it.

“How you get it collected … is the least important part of the whole system,” he said.

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Where can someone find more information?

They can call our office at 217 398-2376 to sign up for any of the classes. Since we are associated with the park district, people can sign up at any of the park district facilities or at the Bresnan meeting center as well.

How can the community be involved in the center?

People can sign up for the classes or exhibits at any of the locations. Camp registration is currently taking place and you can pick up a brochure at any of the facilities. Also, people can rent rooms from the facility to hold meetings, workshops and receptions.

What do you like most about the Champaign-Urbana community?

The diversity is the best thing, and by working at the cultural center you are able to see all of the different types. It’s neat when everyone all comes together and has fun together.

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Philo Road Church of Christ Bible classes – Sun, 9am sessions will look at Biblical principles that can be used to help Christians gain direction for their lives. Wed, 7pm sessions will study the need to evangelize, reasons that people do not, reasons that people can. This class will focus on the need for the individual Christian to become involved and committed to soul saving. Information: www.philo-cofc.org, www.cofc-urbana.org or call 344-1659.

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t first, he was paid 15 cents a gallon to recycle his used car oil.

Then, they continued to take the used oil, but they stopped paying him for it.

Then, he had to pay five cents a gallon to have his used oil picked up.

Now, they pick up his used car oil for free.

It’s all about the market, explains Vic McIntosh, a Champaign City Council member who has spent his life working with cars and today manages the Illinois State Garage, where state vehicles are maintained.

“Using the oil (example), with me, is the way the marketplace changes over time,” he said.

The market value of a recyclable item determines whether an item can be reused and how much it’s worth. And that, McIntosh said, is what he thinks people concerned with recycling should be worried about.

But it’s not, at least not for students involved in environmental groups such as Earth Doctors, the Rainforest Action Coalition, Students for Environmental Concerns and the Illinois Student Environmental Network. These students—and some community members—are concerned that the city of Champaign does not require landlords or garbage haulers to provide recycling to homes with more than four units, including most apartment buildings.

THE DIFFERENCE IN PROGRAMS Neither Champaign nor Urbana officials dispute that recycling is a market-driven industry; you can only recycle what companies are willing to buy to reuse. How the cities of Champaign and Urbana handle and view recycling is very different, however.

In Urbana, residents pay a $2.50 monthly recycling fee, which is paid all at once for a full year, said Rod Fletcher, environmental manager for Urbana’s Public Works Department. The fee for residence hall tenants in Urbana will increase to $2 a month from $1.75 a month, and apartment residents’ fees will increase to $2.50 a month from $2.25 a month. Both increases take effect Aug. 1. Although not all residents participate in the program, all must pay the fee. Residents can recycle as much or as little as they want. They pay the same flat fee regardless.

The entire recycling program is managed by the city except for recycling pick-up and disposal, which the city contracts with private haulers who pick up recycling once a week.

One hauler picks up curbside recycling for single- to four-family housing units.

Another hauler picks up recycling for housing with five or more units.

A multi-family housing unit has more than one separate home in the same building. For example, an apartment building with four separate apartments is a four-plex multi-family housing unit.

Steve Smith, owner and operator of ABC Sanitary Hauling, the company that holds Urbana’s recycling contract for single- to four-unit homes, said he is paid directly by Urbana and not by individual residents. Only part of the fee, he said, is paid to him to cover the cost of recycling.

The fee also covers all other costs associated with the recycling program, such as recycling education and program staff.

Central Waste Services holds Champaign’s recycling contract for homes with five or more housing units, Fletcher said.

Fletcher said there are many reasons why recycling is mandated by local government in Urbana, including environmental “feel-good,” the creation and maintenance of jobs and the fact that landfills are filling up. He said recycling in Illinois employs 56,000 people with a combined payroll of $1.8 billion.

“There’s the idea that we don’t want to trash everything,” he said. “There (also) are all kinds of secondary and tertiary benefits that aren’t realized with landfills.”

In Champaign, recycling is left to the private sector. The majority of the Champaign City Council opposes charging all residents a fee and making haulers deal with problems that could come up with mandating recycling in apartments, such as fire hazards and retrofitting buildings for recycling.

Instead, residents in Champaign must arrange for private haulers to pick up their garbage, and residents must request recycling service from their garbage collector if they want it.

Champaign does not contract with any haulers.

Garbage collectors are not allowed to charge residents any additional fees for recycling or give discounts to residents who don’t recycle.

Haulers are only required to provide recycling to residents who request the service, said Tom Schuch, Champaign operations manager.

However, haulers and landlords in Champaign are not required to provide recycling to buildings with five or more housing units. This leaves out most students who live in apartments in Champaign as well as some families. Landlords can provide recycling to a building through a private hauler, but the landlord must arrange that with the hauler and could be charged an additional fee.

For the people who do not have a recycling service provided to their home, there is a 24hour drop-off site that is open seven days a week. The site, at 1701 Hagan Drive, Champaign, is near Super Kmart.

THE DIFFERENCE IN OPINIONS Champaign and Urbana employees have different philosophies on the government’s role in recycling and they have different reasons for

supporting the policies. And while neither city is overly critical of the other’s, it’s clear each program believes its is better.

Champaign City Council member Tom Bruno said the Champaign system is more efficient because the same truck that picks up a resident’s garbage can pick up recycling, too. This also causes less wear on the roads, he said.

Bruno also said that in general, Champaign and Urbana often have different opinions about how much government should regulate, with Urbana usually wanting more government involvement than Champaign. For example, Urbana has an ordinance that requires tenants and landlords to include in their lease that the landlord cannot enter a home without giving the tenant 24 hours’ notice. He said this is an issue that is important to some tenants, but not to all, so regulating this is “goofy.”

Fletcher calls Urbana’s program “more of a hands-on government approach” and said the Urbana and Champaign philosophies on the role of government “butt heads” when it comes to recycling.

University of Illinois recycling and material reduction coordinator Tim Hoss calls the Urbana system “more progressive” because the service is available to more people.

However, he also said the only real difference between recycling in Champaign and in Urbana is that Urbana requires recycling in apartment buildings.

The University of Illinois collects and processes its own recycling and does not share a recycling program with either Champaign or Urbana.

Some believe the battle over recycling programs is partisan.

Champaign City Council member Michael LaDue, who said he thinks Champaign should have a government-regulated recycling program, said Champaign City Council members won’t expand recycling because of pressure from haulers, and he said when the city council voted against expanding the system, some council members “thought they were doing the good Republican thing.” He said he voted for an expanded program and would do the same if the council voted on the issue again.

Fletcher also said one of the reasons the Champaign and Urbana programs are different is that Urbana has more Democrats, whereas Champaign is more Republican-based.

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Biennial Conference for Women 2004 – The Community Foundation of Champaign County, The United Way of Champaign County and the Biennial Conference for Women invite you to meet with author David Baldacci for an informal discussion about the importance of community involvement and volunteerism. Assembly Hall, rm 133-34.

April 9, 7:30-8:30am. Admission is free and by invitation only. Seating is limited. Confirmation of attendance by April 6 is required. Call 352-5151.

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Mystery Discussion Group – The group will discuss the book Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign.

April 12, 6pm. 351-9011.

Loose Womyn Discussion Group – (Where the discussion topics are loose, the women need not be) The group will discuss the book Crones Don't Whine by Jean Bolen. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. April 15, 7pm. 351-9011.

Border Crossers Discussion Group – (Exploring the works of international authors) The group will discuss the book Reading Lolita in Tehran by Iranian Author Azar Nafisi. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. April 22, 7pm. 3519011.

Exploring Politics, Ethics, and Legal Issues in Biotechnology – This roundtable discussion will introduce participants to the commercial and ethical aspects of the biotechnology industry and challenge participants with some of the moral and ethical issues that face biotechnologists, legislators, and the general public. A panel of commentators will address social and legal issues raised by biotechnological developments. Parkland College campus, rm B134. Tue, 6:30-8pm. The class is free.

For more information, call 351-2213.

Geology Field Trip: Canyon Development Along the Upper Illinois River Valley – Participate in a geology experience of glaciers, running water, and 450 million-year-old rocks. Transportation will be provided, or you may take own vehicle. Bring a lunch or eat at the Starved Rock Lodge. Instructor Dean Timme is a professor of earth science at Parkland College; Bob Vaiden is a geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey. The field trip will be on Saturday, April 17 from 8 am-5 pm.

Participants will meet at Parkland College in rm L216. The trip fee is $29. The registration deadline is April 9. Please sign up through the Live and Learn brochure. For more information, call 3512285.

Water Gardening Basics – This multimedia presentation and discussion will show participants how and where to begin with their water garden. We will cover design, installation and maintenance, and what to do with a water garden in winter.

Instructor Kaizad Irani is an instructor of landscape design, construction, and maintenance at Parkland College. He has master's degrees in architecture and landscape architecture. Class will be held on Saturday, April 10 from 9am-12pm in rm W115 at the Parkland College campus. The course fee is $15. The registration deadline is April 8. For more information, call 351-2546.

Adult Re-entry Center: Informational Meeting – The Adult Re-entry Center is a one-stop shop for advising, support, and convenience to adults returning to college. Please join us on Wednesday, April 14 from 5:30-6:30pm in rm X150 at the Parkland College campus for an informational meeting. For more information, call 353-2663.

Job Search Workshop: Tips for Grads – Parkland's Career Center is offering free assistance for new graduates to all district residents on Thursday, April 15, at 12 noon in room C123 on the Parkland campus. For additional information, call 351-2536.

Parkland Student Fine Art Juried Exhibition – This annual exhibition showcases the work Parkland fine art students produce over the course of the school year. The exhibit will run April 15 through May 8. Call 217/351-2485 for more information.

MEETINGS Debtors Anonymous – Confidential support and helpful tools for dealing with recurring debt and compulsive spending. Baha’i Center. Tuesdays & Fridays, 7pm. Information: 344-5860 or 239-0363.

Champaign County Audubon Society monthly meeting – Arlo Raim of the Medical Entomology Laboratory of the Illinois Natural History Survey will present a program on West Nile Virus, Crows and Other Susceptible Birds. Bevier Hall, corner of Goodwin and Gregory, Urbana, rm 242. Thur, 7:30pm. For more information: Further information, contact Arlo at 443-2499.

Champaign Human Relations Commission Meeting – Regular monthly meeting. Champaign Council Chambers, 102 N. Neil St. Mon, 5:30-7pm.

Champaign City Council Regular Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, Tue, 7-10pm Champaign Plan Commission Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, Wed, 4-6pm Champaign Historic Preservation Commission Meeting – This meeting was rescheduled from Thur, April 1. Champaign Council Chambers. April 8, 4-5:30pm.

Champaign Neighborhood Services Advisory Board Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 8, 5:30-7pm Public Works Advisory Board Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 12, 4-6pm Champaign City Council Regular Study Session Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 13, 7-10pm C-U Joint Cable & Telecommunications Commission Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 14, 4-6:30pm Champaign Liquor Advisory Commission Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 15, 8:30-10am Champaign Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting – Champaign Council Chambers, April 15, 4-6pm

MIND, BODY & SPIRIT Sunday Zen Meditation Meeting - Introduction to Zen Sitting, 10am. Full Schedule: service at 9am followed by sitting, Dharma Talk at 11am followed be tea until 12pm. Can arrive at any of above times, open to all, no experience needed, no cost.

Prairie Zen Center. For information, call 355-8835 or go to www.prairiezen.org.

Simplicity Discussion Group – Ideas to simplify & bring meaning to life. The group will discuss the book Conquering Chronic Disorganization by Judith Kolberg. Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. Thur, 7pm. Information: 351-9011.

Mothers & More Discussion Group – The group will discuss the book Atonement by Ian McEwan.

Borders Bookstore, 802 Town Center Blvd., Champaign. Mon, 7pm. Information: 351-9011.

Overeaters Anonymous regular meetings – Tue & Fri 5:30pm, Fellowship Circle, 718 S Randolph, C, contact: Lin, 359-4449. Mon 7:30pm, Thur 5:30pm, First Presbyterian Church of Urbana, 602 E Green, contact: Marcey, 356-7846, or Torie, 369-6218. Sat 9:30am, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon, U, contact Marcey, 356-7846.

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES School Tutor or Classroom Aid – Join hundreds of other bright and enthusiastic students who are involved in this award winning student-run program. What you choose to do with 2hrs/wk of your time will make a huge difference – not only in the life of a child but also in your own life. Choose to INDEX tutor one-on-one or be a classroom aid in local schools. For more information, stop by Employment the Vis-A-Vis program office at the University Services YMCA or call 239-3614 ext 29.

Volunteer Cook – Share your love of cooking and prepare a meal for a Healthy Young Families support group. A wonderful opportunity for a large group who would like to volunteer together. For more information, call Anna Langford at 398-8080.

Relabeling and Recovering Book – Improve the appearance of the Champaign Library collections by relabeling and recovering books. Evaluate the condition of books in a specified collection to determine whether relabeling or recovering are needed. Apply labels and label protectors to books. Apply mylar dust jackets to books. For more information, call Judie Christensen at 403-2076.

Special Olympics Aquatics Competition – Help Special Olympians during an aquatic competition being held Sat at the Urbana Indoor Aquatics Center. Twenty-five volunteers are needed for the event and duties will include escorting athletes to the staging area, helping to keep time, passing out lunches, and presenting awards. For more information, call Marie Reitmeier at 6944572.

Arthritis Seminar – Help the Arthritis Foundation serve its clients by volunteering to assist with an Arthritis Seminar being held Tue during the day at Lincoln Square.

Volunteer duties include assisting with setup, check-in and registration, running errands during the event and clean up at the end. If interested, contact Mary Dennis at 398-7815.

Student Database Volunteer – This Illinois Student Environmental Network volunteer will update the contact information that is in the student database by visiting the Web sites of student groups and updating the computer file. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Action Center Coordinator – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for a Legislative Coordinator to replace outdated materials with current materials. For more information, contact Angela at 3840830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Fundraising Assistant – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for someone to research grant-making foundations and helping with other things such as writing thank-you notes. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Publications Assistant – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for someone to contribute articles to the ISEN newsletter and/or to Currents, the Energy Efficiency Program newsletter. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Media Coordinator – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for volunteers who will work as public relation people with the media. Information: Angela at 3840830 or angela@isenonline.org.

Miscellaneous office projects – The Illinois Student Environmental Network is looking for volunteers to help with labeling and mailings and various other projects. Walk-ins are welcome. For more information, contact Angela at 384-0830 or angela@isenonline.org.

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rom Joseph Lieberman lectures to Marilyn Mansonbashing boycotts, the 1998 massacre at Columbine High School left America searching for answers that weren’t there.

With Elephant, a fearlessly serene dramatization of the events leading up to a fictional school shooting, director Gus Van Sant doesn’t really offer questions or answers.

Rather, the film is more of a declarative statement, capturing what is and leaving us to ask why.

For most of the film, which gently lingers among the daily, traumatic spectacle of teenage melancholy, Van Sant’s camera merely looks over the shoulders of his characters, casting the viewer as an omniscient observer into normal, everyday lives. Long tracking shots follow students down hallways and through courtyards to craft an unnervingly calm sense of ominous isolation. As the characters slowly move throughout the school, the eerie lack of hallway traffic creates a tense, foreboding atmosphere that’s equal parts documentary and The Twilight Zone.

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emakes are an interesting breed of movies because they reflect a pure business venture of repeating a previous film’s successful story and formula. While retelling basically the same story, remakes uniquely represent differences in the times in which each movie was made. But whatever possessed the usually inventive filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen to remake the classic 1955 British comedy The Ladykillers into such a vulgar and unfunny updated caper-comedy is beyond any kind of logic.

The original The Ladykillers, which received an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay, was a wickedly dark comedy that concerned a team of five criminals who pose as musicians and plan to rob an armored car, while hiding out in an eccentric old English woman’s house. That film featured a wonderfully subtle comedic performance by a 77-year-old stage actress, Katie Johnson, and the comic talents of Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.

Van Sant uses that curious normality, which hangs like a poisonous fog over the nameless school, to generate a grander portrait of the universal, overlooked danger embodied in even the most non-threatening suburban schools. It’s the media-diluted epitome of affluent academic regularity in America, where majority (read: whiteness) rules and the closest thing to disaster is a pimple on the nose of the Homecoming queen.

But there’s something brewing under the surface of this school where everything feels so completely familiar—the effortless jock charisma and its ensuing effect on gushing female onlookers; the introversion of the wallflower, made invisible by her own insecurity; the unprovoked bullying of anyone who falls outside the norm.

In Elephant, that something comes in the form of Alex (Alex Frost) and Eric (Eric Deulen), two soft-spoken outcasts, often picked on, who take disturbing, violent revenge on teachers and students in the film’s stark, chilling finale. Van Sant doesn’t suggest the students’ harassment as a cause or explanation for their rampage but merely a symptom of their alienation—the severe emotional detachment that divides teenagers across social, economic and aesthetic lines to the point of dehumanization.

He also aligns our glaring miscalculation of violent threat with a surface-level view of homosexuality, questioning if we can tell just by looking who is and who isn’t. It’s a perceptive observation that goes right to the core of the issue, attracting attention to otherwise imper-

The Coen brothers reset this modern tale in present day Mississippi, casting Tom Hanks in the Alec Guinness role, which seems like the film’s only good choice. Looking like a cross between Colonel Sanders and a Southerner out of a William Faulkner story, Hanks plays Professor G.H. Dorr with a degree of charming humor. The plan now is to use the home of an elderly African-American churchgoing widow, played by Irma P. Hall, to begin tunneling through several blocks into a nearby casino and steal millions. Where the Coens quickly go wrong is in the manner in which they retell this tale—they take all the charm and dark humor out of the original tale, replacing it with a neverending bunch of pratfalls and poorly timed, cheap laughs based on in-your-face vulgarities and a scatological sense of humor.

First, the film takes an eternity to get started, as the audience is slowly introduced to each of the five thieves. The gang this time includes Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma and Ryan Hurst, who join Hanks’s Prof. Dorr with some of the most embarrassingly bad, onedimensional and sophomoric caricatures.

Wayans is a one-note, hip-hop stereotype janitor, who favors women with big bottoms. Ma is a mostly silent, chain-smoking southeast Asian cliche. Simmons’s Garth Pancake (note the really inventive name) is a middle-aged tough guy with a bowel disorder that kicks in at all the wrong times, and Hurst is the classic dumb jock, named “Lump,” who has played too many games without his helmet.

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ELEPHANT | ALEX FROST ceptible elements beneath a facade of safety.

Throughout the film, characters approach critical issues with an alarming lack of distress, and a discrepancy emerges between what parents find disconcerting and that which truly harms children. It’s an attack on what we take seriously and a fascinating presentation of everything else that slips under the radar.

Most of the actors share names with their characters, the filmmaker’s way of removing the separation between fact and fiction and saying that because this really happened, any dramatization is inherently linked to reality.

Above the school, he creates a toxic green sky, a haunting image of impending doom. There’s a hovering danger that hangs in the air like a cloud of black smoke, ready to shift across America and show that, as a country, we could all be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Elephant, Van Sant doesn’t ask if another tragedy will occur, but wonders who could be next.

Charlize Theron criticized fans and reporters alike for focusing on her beauty, which seems like a good argument from the starlet who got ugly to play a serial killer and win an Oscar. However, Theron chastised the people while wearing a see-through dress at a charity event. I’m no Hollywood expert, but it seems that wearing a dress that shows the world your breasts and G-string isn’t the best clothing choice when insulting Hollywood’s obsession with glamour.

Fitness favorite Richard Simmons allegedly “bitch slapped” a man last week. The flamboyant fitness guru allegedly heard a man at an airport mimic Simmons’ grating introduction to workout tapes. Simmons then went up to the man and “bitch slapped” him, according to police.

Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz recently ended their three-year relationship which began during the filming of Vanilla Sky. Cruz said the relationship ended because they spent so much time apart, and that religion wasn’t a factor in the split. Most likely, the split came after Cruz realized the relationship wasn’t going to rocket her to fame like it did for Nicole Kidman.

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THE LADYKILLERS | TOM HANKS & IRMA P. HALL So this bad caper plot, which includes an exploding tunnel and a variety of confusing predicaments, quickly turns ugly when the somewhat absent-minded landlady discovers her tenants are not musicians but thieves. The thugs then need to get rid of her before she reveals them to the police, and thus the film’s title.

What’s really perplexing is that the Coens have proven themselves masters of both witty situational comedy and very funny contemporary vulgar humor, from any number of scenes from their nearly surreal Barton Fink, to the wacky kidnapping comedy Raising Arizona to their 1996 comic crime masterpiece Fargo. In fact, any scene in any Coen film with cult actor Steve Buscemi better reflects a successful comic touch.

Even if audiences are unaware of the original The Ladykillers, this lame attempt by the Coens to update this comic caper relies too much on the cheap and obvious humor of the most recent Austin Powers film. The Coen brothers have sadly committed yet another “intolerable cruelty” on their audience.

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BY MICHAEL COULTER | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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t’s always sort of nice when something makes a comeback. Before Pulp Fiction came along, John Travolta was about to become nothing more than a Trivial Pursuit answer.

Aerosmith has been on the ropes countless times, but they still put out mega-selling albums. Hell, I even see people wearing leg warmers again. It usually ends up badly.

Thanks for coming back, Mr. Travolta. Make a few more suck-ass action movies for us. Hey, Steven Tyler, you crossed that pathetic line about three records ago. The leg warmer thing, well, that’s just kind of sad. It makes me wonder where religion will end up.

Yep, it’s cool to be pious again. It’s easier to believe in something when a famous celebrity like Mel Gibson tells you to and The Passion of the Christ is still doing big box office in large part because of that. How can you go wrong, really? It’s just like church except you get to choke down some popcorn and suck on a soda during the service. Soda and popcorn, not exactly the blood and body of Christ like in communion, but it’s hard to reach the masses with some grape juice and a stale cracker. We need more, damn it.

Sure, the movie has flaws. I mean, I totally saw the ending coming. I kept poking the guy next to me saying, “Hey, I bet you he ends up dying on the cross.” Plus, my friend Amy kept yelling at the screen, “Look out behind you, Jesus!” It was hard to concentrate. In addition, I thought a better closing line would have been Jesus high on the cross looking over the valley and saying, “Hey, I can see my house from here.” That’s probably why I don’t make movies.

People are eating it up, though, and those religious fellas, they ain’t no dummies. They know you have to strike while the iron’s hot.

Enter the pope. In a speech to Australian bishops, he announced that Roman Catholics should reserve Sundays for God and not secular diversions. This means you’re not supposed to watch sports or movies on the Sabbath. Geez, like Sundays aren’t boring enough as it is.

So the pope thinks we should stay away from entertainment on Sundays. The fact that he does most of his work on Sunday should let you know it’s not a well thought out plan. OK, I’m sure his sermons were never seen as entertainment to begin with.

So he’s basically mandating to himself that he continue to spout the same old boring crap week in and week out. It’s religion, after all, and he’ll be damned if anyone is

going to enjoy it. Sunday is apparently only for punishment.

That shit may have played 100 years ago, but c’mon, you gotta work with the people here.

Good folks work their asses off all week and now they’re supposed to devote a whole Sunday to the Lord? So you get out of bed early on your day off, scramble to get out the door and then sit through a two-hour mass. It’s a brave new world, Mr. pope guy, and that should be enough for anybody, right?

Apparently it’s not enough for the pope. He wants the whole damned day. “When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of “weekend” dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens,” the pope said. If I were him, I wouldn’t be talking so much about a “horizon so narrow they can no longer see the heavens.” It’s like the pontiff calling the bishop black.

My question is, Why the hell do people even listen to this guy any more? If you take away the title, the special car and the hat, what do you really have? Just an old man telling you what he thinks. God doesn’t speak through him any more than he speaks through any of us. Put him in a nursing home so he can expound his ideas to anyone who will listen and he isn’t called the pope anymore. He’s simply called “that crazy old guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

The whole idea of Catholicism just strikes me as an antiquated notion based in the past with no plans for the future except business as usual.

Most of the time, the pope doesn’t even try to reach other people, just the Roman Catholics.

He’s not out helping people every day and I guarantee you he doesn’t have the slightest inkling of the way regular people—his followers—live their lives in the year 2004. Like a crabby, opinionated uncle at Thanksgiving dinner, he just wants things his way and bitches about them when they aren’t. After a while, everyone stops listening to that crabby uncle.

The pope, he just doesn’t impress me so much. Give me Mother Theresa. I’ve seen her working and her uniform usually isn’t all shiny and white. Give me Billy Graham. Sure he’s old and set in his ways, but I get the impression he genuinely wants to help everyone. Hell, give me an atheist that tries to make the world around him a better place. I’m just tired of the hypocritical guy in the big white hat. I’ve been to Texas. The bigger the hat, the bigger the asshole under it.

Michael Coulter is a videographer at Parkland College. He writes a weekly e-mail column, “This Sporting Life” and has hosted several local comedy shows.

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News of the weird Lead story Louis Paul Kadlecek, 21, who had never even been in an airplane before, broke into a hangar at an airport near Lake Jackson, Texas, on Feb. 29, and, using trial-and-error, got a Cessna 172 airborne for about a mile, intending to fly to Mexico, before slamming into power lines. Although the crash left the plane a total loss, Kadlecek climbed out and walked home, but sheriff’s deputies, based on witnesses’ descriptions, arrested him the next day. One Brazoria County aviation official estimated that stunt pilots might survive an incident like that one time in 1,000.

Said another, “This guy used up all the luck he’s ever going to have.”

Well put In February, the chief justice of Singapore, Yong Pung How, 77, rejected attempts at leniency by a 25-year-old expoliceman who had argued that his arrest for receiving oral sex (as a “crime against nature”) was an anachronism. In upholding the law as a salutary part of Asian culture, Justice Yong sentenced the man to 12 months in jail, pointing out, “There are countries where you can go and suck away for all you are worth,” “but this is Asia.”

People different from us – From a March Boston Globe interview with Morgan Lee, newly crowned Miss Gothic Massachusetts: (asked how she would describe Goth) “It’s really a style and a way of thinking. Basically, you’re miserable all the time. (W)e just see the darker side that other people tend to ignore. The most interesting people are always the saddest.” (Asked what her boyfriend thinks of her): “He’s very proud of me. (H)e’s not a very descript person, kind of like an amoeba, but very cultured.”

– In a 2003 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, two Seattle radiologists described a 35-year-old man with severe abdominal pain but normal vital signs, who was found to have “multiple” heads from Barbie dolls lodged in his small bowel, which he attributed to his pursuit of the pleasurable anal sensation he gets from excreting them. After a straight-laced description of how doll heads show up differently from other objects on X-rays, the authors advised radiologists to “keep in mind that human imagination may not follow clinical algorithms.”

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dolescence is tough. The effort made to fit in at public school is a losing battle. Too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too poor, hair too frizzy, hair too stringy, clothes too weird.

But Nashala, a sixth grader at a Muskogee, Okla., public school wears something that in her culture is nothing but beautiful. People at the school, though— especially the faculty and staff—say it’s too religious. More specifically, it’s a violation of the school’s dress code on head gear.

Nashala Hearn has worn her traditional Muslim head scarf, or hijab, to school on a constant basis until she was ordered to take it off. When she refused, she was suspended twice for a violation of the school’s “no hood, hat or bandanna” dress policy.

Unlike France, which has enforced a policy banning Muslim head scarves from public schools, the U.S. government is backing Nashala’s right to wear her hijab at the Oklahoma school. The school, however, has different plans. They have let Nashala back into public school with her hijab, but under the pretense that she was still in violation of the dress code and subject to further suspension at any time.

Besides the negative cultural implications that an act like Muskogee School District’s

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Much appreciation to the U.S. government for standing behind the 14th amendment, which bans states from applying dress codes that discriminate. Shame on the Muskogee School District for picking on a little girl exercising her right to practice her religion freely.

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hough the careers of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez hit rock bottom in last summer’s memorable box office bust Gigli, Kevin Smith’s new movie Jersey Girl shows that their careers are now moving in opposite directions.

If this movie would have been released before Gigli, Jersey Girl would have been promoted as the big movie starring Hollywood heartthrobs Affleck and Lopez. Because it was not, Lopez’s role is downplayed in all the promotional materials in order to not create a repeat of the Gigli fiasco.

All baggage aside, Jersey Girl is an excellent film that features solid acting from some big names. Affleck plays Oliver Trinke, a fast-talking, suave and successful New York publicist.

On top of his world, he falls in love with Gertrude (Lopez) and gets ready to start a family when their daughter Gertie is born.

Oliver’s life falls apart when Gertrude shockingly dies from complications giving birth, leaving Oliver to figure out how to balance work and family. After a breakdown at work, Oliver moves back to New Jersey to

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film’s subject matter does not dictate its overall value. After all, good movies have been made about murderous criminals, and bad movies have been made out of the Bible.

Never Die Alone, the latest vehicle for rapper DMX, is indeed a terrible movie—not because it is about a group of truly hateful characters, but because it lacks the maturity and direction to put those characters into any sort of involving experience.

DMX plays King David, a drug czar who comes back to his old stomping grounds to face up to the debts he left behind. In the process, he gets knifed by Michael (Michael Ealy), a thug for the local kingpin, who seemingly holds a grudge toward King David for reasons that are kept secret for most of the movie. As he lies dying in the street, King David asks a struggling writer named Paul (David Arquette) to help him to the hospital, and later bequeaths all his possessions to him before bleeding to death on the operating

raise Gertie with his estranged father, Bart, played by the legendary George Carlin. With some help from new girlfriend Maya (Liv Tyler), Oliver learns that family is always more important than career.

Affleck really shines in his role as Oliver. He is excellent at playing a man who, despite actually being a father, has no concept of what it is to be one. Affleck’s talent really emphasizes the day-to-day struggles of making the transition from being a dedicated workaholic to a full-time dad.

Carlin is there every step of the way, delivering barbs, jokes, cusses, curses and whatever else it takes to get through to Affleck in a way that only a seasoned comedian like Carlin can.

His presence provides some hearty comic relief in a sometimes intense movie.

Child actor Raquel Castro does such a fine job that many might think she is a veteran actress. Her performance at times steals the show, much like that charming little boy in Jerry Maguire. Her convincing interactions with Affleck and Carlin really cement the family issues in the movie.

Jersey Girl represents a departure from the usual work of director Kevin Smith. Some of the more insolent comments and jokes of the characters reveal touches of Smith’s usual craft, but overall the film is entirely different than anything else he has directed. This is the kind of film many people thought he couldn’t make: a soulful, emotional and most importantly, serious look at life.

The real disappointment is Lopez’s abysmal

table. From here, the story moves through time in both directions, exploring the causes and eventual consequences of all these events.

Among King David’s belongings, Paul finds a series of tapes the drug pusher recorded as a sort of audio diary. As he listens to King David’s account of his life of crime and quest for redemption, Paul somehow becomes enthralled in the story and uses it to jump-start his moribund career. Asked by his girlfriend why he is so drawn to the man’s story, Paul thoughtfully responds that he felt “a sort of nobility” about the drug dealer bleeding to death in his car, which is about the third most asinine line of dialogue in the movie (behind parts of King David’s self-absorbed, ignorant narration to his own story).

Most of the actors do an adequate enough job for what they have to work with. DMX works up some fire as the violent and dangerous King David, who enjoys hooking women on cocaine to keep them dependent on him, then switches them to heroin just for kicks.

And when they tick him off, he lets them snort some battery acid to set them straight. But in between the violence and animalistic sex, DMX looks bored with his role. And as usual, the less said about David Arquette, the better, though he thankfully plays Paul as low-key as possible so he merely sounds like a nitwit as opposed to an annoying nitwit.

The movie’s biggest problem lies in trying to decide which road to take toward the despicable King David. At some points, it acts like a morality tale depicting the inevitable results of

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Instead, it plays like a confusing mess capable of delivering a message at one moment, and hedging its bets the next.

The direction of Spike Lee’s former cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson is interesting, giving the movie a frantic and unorthodox look. It soon wears down the eyes, unfortunately, no thanks to James Gibson’s poor script (based on a novel by Donald Goines) that thinks itself a deep character study, but is really a constant barrage of confusing characters exchanging tired dialogue anchored with as much vulgarity as possible.

Never Die Alone proves that talented people can emulate good movies and still fall on their faces if a few key ingredients are missing.

Hopefully its lifespan will be decidedly short.

ovies like Scooby Doo 2, the sunnily inconsequential kind of fluff designed to occupy antsy children for an afternoon, can either be sore thumbs in the state of modern American cinema or they can be passably entertaining and completely harmless. This film is the latter, mostly because of its plucky charm and clean heart.

The film starts at a museum gala in which all the costumes of the past criminals that the Mystery Inc. gang uncovered are on display.

Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby are the glamorous guests of honor. Of course, a monster crashes the party and, through bad press created by a shady news reporter, the gang falls out of grace with the town of Coolsville. And then, like every good Scooby Doo episode, there’s exploration for clues through a creepy house, animated run-ins with goofy spooks and several shady characters introduced to cast doubt as to who the true villain really is.

The actors, for the most part, play their wellknown roles well, which is the key element in keeping this film from being the mindless disaster it so easily could have been. Lillard matches Casey Kasem’s legendary Shaggy voice so perfectly, it could be one of those “born to play” roles you hear about.

However, for all the earnestness this film projects, it can’t seem to depart far enough from the tight formula of the original TV show to create anything truly memorable. To those who know nothing of Fred’s ascots, Velma’s near-sightedness or Scooby’s excitable nature, the film may seem downright stupid. And it is. But it’s a fun kind of stupid. Like cow-tipping or listening to ABBA. Ultimately, it’s hard for a film like this to be good. As a stand-alone film, Scooby Doo 2 is silly and cheap. But this is exactly what made the cartoon such a beloved cultural phenomenon. So, instead of lampooning the cartoon, the film celebrates this inherent lameness the only way it can: by being joyfully stupid. And jinkies, that’s pretty darn smart.

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evin Smith has spent more than a decade bullying his way onto American televisions and DVD racks. While he doesn’t demand the directorial respect of Steven Spielberg or Cameron Crowe, his name is one of growing recognition in Hollywood circles.

His films are quirky, fun and speak to the younger generations of Americans. From the lowly beginnings to his high-budget films of the 21st century, 33-year-old Smith has molded a colossal directorial career from utter nothingness.

Here’s a look at Smith’s films in chronological order, and what each has done both theatrically and for Smith’s career.

Clerks Clerks was Smith’s first major motion picture.

In 1994, Smith and friend Scott Mosier founded View Askew Productions, their production vehicle to release and produce their own movies. With a new and unproven name and production company, Clerks was most definitely a dangerous step for Smith. After dropping out of film school and funding the $30,000 production all on personal credit cards, Clerks had come to life.

With a ragtag cast and shoddy editing, Smith began shopping the film around to major motion picture studios to gain endorsement for release.

After some time, media giant Miramax picked up the film. With the legal issues taken care of, Clerks hit the silver screen.

The film introduced us to an uptight convenience store worker and his buddy who worked in the adjacent video store. More importantly, the public’s favorite drug-peddling duo, Jay and Silent Bob, graced the screen. The film and its intriguing characters made Smith a blip on the radar screen of Hollywood’s growing director pool, and paved the way for View Askew to start in on newer and bigger projects.

Mallrats Smith’s second major release met with more critical malaise, but also found more public interest. Mallrats (1995) followed two bumbling youths around a mall in New Jersey attempting to woo their ex-girlfriends. With help from repeat characters Jay and Silent Bob, main characters Brodie and T.S. make a spectacle of themselves at a dating show premiere while thwarting the police, meddling parents and a meathead store clerk played by Ben Affleck.

Mallrats also began what is known as the View Askewniverse. This “universe,� a figment of Smith’s imagination, is based in a tri-town area in metropolitan New Jersey. The characters and actors run together from film to film, as do the settings and stories. Smith now found himself

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Chasing Amy Chasing Amy went on to enjoy more success than any of its counterparts. Released in 1997, the critics devoured Chasing Amy. The film starred Joey Lauren Adams as a lesbian who had managed to gain the attraction of an aspiring comic book writer played by Ben Affleck. The reason for the praise once again resided in Smith’s characters and how “real� they were. Jason Lee played a homophobic man trying to deal with his roommate’s (Affleck) infatuation with a homosexual.

Adams comes through huge and it is her performance that drew attention from the growing hoards of Smith fans.

Chasing Amy also succeeded in capturing an even bigger audience, legitimizing View Askew as a major moneymaker. One-liners such as Lee asking Adams, “Since you like chicks, do you just look at yourself naked in the mirror all the time?� added to the appeal of the film. Smith and his company were on the verge of Hollywood greatness.

Dogma The release of Dogma (1999) was a signal that View Askew was no longer legitimizing itself, but was one of the premier cash cows in California.

Gone were the no-name actors and characterbased films. Dogma was released in order to cause uproar, and it accomplished everything Smith could have dreamed.

Stars like industry playboys Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Chris Rock and Salma Hayek helped move Dogma to the tops of the charts. The film centered on two renegade angels cast out of heaven after a drunken tussle with God. It was their goal to alienate the Catholic Church through a loophole orchestrated by a desperate-

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While Smith released Dogma to spoof the religion and make a hit movie where one had yet to be made, he still took his fair share of abuse. To this day on his Web site, there is a section entitled “Hate Letter of the Week,� about Dogma. Despite some critical and religious blows, Smith still retained a top blockbuster film of the year.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is what happens when producers have too much time on their hands. With a growing View Askewniverse, this film serves to focus on fan-favorite characters and tie the previous stories together in a downright wacky story.

Admittedly, this one was for the fans, according to Smith. He was so proud of the support he had received over the years, Smith settled on making a film that impressed no one except those fortunate enough to have closely followed his work over the years.

The future is looking up for Smith and View Askew Productions. Aside from his own feature films where he acted, directed, produced, edited, catered, parked cars and everything else imaginable, Smith has also diversified into other legitimate cinema. Smith served as an executive producer for the Oscar award-winning Good Will Hunting and continues to create new and different films on his own.

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ock supergroups come and go with the passing of each year. A desire to jumpstart careers and sell millions of records is an easy excuse for the recurrence of rock star collaborations. The Traveling Wilburys brought some of early rock’s most influential characters into one studio. Who could forget Jeff Lynne’s contributions to the group? In a startling turn of events, staunch Republican Ralph Nader will sponsor an all-star supergroup concert extravaganza this April 1 to raise money for George W. Bush’s re-election campaign. The band, dubbed simply Clear Channel, will include a virtual who’s who of rock royalty.“This band is totally going to rock your balls off,”says Nader.

“It will rock your balls’ balls off, too,” he added.

According to the nominating committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, this group includes the three best songwriters in the history of recorded music: Randy Newman, Phil Collins and Sting, the three-headed beast of adult contemporary, Borders-ready crooning. Collins will be in charge of the more contrived lyrics while Newman will write purely observational songs.

“We can’t give away too much,” Collins, whose level of talent is said to be directly proportional to his hairline, said.“But let’s just say the main theme of the album will be friends and loved ones and other generically lovable song topics. Shit, I just gave away the whole thing, didn’t I? God, I suck.”

“Well, Phil and I were hanging out in his stustu-studio and the chemistry just clicked,” Sting commented while making love to his wife, Trudy Styler. “Phil was like,‘You write the same song for every movie and so do I, so why not collaborate?’ ” He also mentioned the casual dress code at the studio. “No jacket required here,” Collins said. Luckily, Newman came into the picture soon after when he was

“Diamond” Lee Roth will “wow” the audience

invited to write yet another inoffensive and unoriginal song for an inoffensive and unoriginal Disney film.

Against all odds, the band has worked out the complicated contracts much to the delight of Angela Lansbury, the cast of Golden Girls and your mother. Ooh, SNAP! In return for a promise from Orrin Hatch to have all illegal downloaders shipped to Guantanamo Bay where a mass execution will be held. Lars Ulrich has agreed to bring his ego-driven and highly outdated drum sound to the mix. Upon hearing this news, Ringo Starr quietly wept to himself and had a cup of tea then said,“Screw it, I’m rich.”

“God, I hate Metallica,” he added. Ulrich beat out other top drummers for his position behind the kit including Seth Fein, Don Henley.

“Diamond” David Lee Roth, who reportedly really, really wishes it was still 1985, has agreed to guest vocal. He based his decision on a soul-consuming hatred for Sammy Hagar.

When asked for comment, Roth remarked,“It’s like we’re sitting here eating Chee-tos and you’re playing backgammon. Wooo. Leave the jam bands to Smuckers, man.You’re driving 55 and I’m hitting 90 man! Yeahh!!”

C.C. Deville, the lovable Jewish grandmother of rock ’n’ roll, declined to participate despite an open invitation. “Y’know, Hollywood Squares is taking up a crap-load of time right now, man,” Deville said.

“Latkes, anyone? “ ’70s singer/songwriter Ryan Adams is scheduled to hook up as well, although experts predict that his current plans to release eight albums worth of love songs to Parker Posey and get in a fist-fight with Jack White may inhibit his participation.

In a real coup for the supergroup, former Motown musician RoboCop will retire his 1989 hit, “Drop It!” for this performance. Like Prince, he has vowed to never sing the song again after the upcoming tour. He will, however, continue to drive his 1988 Ford Taurus.

He wouldn’t say why it was so important to retire the song, except to allude to an oftenoverlooked “Fifth Directive” in his motherboard.

The band has also decided to do a bluesy cover of the 1985 Chicago Bears hit “The Super Bowl Shuffle.” Asked why, RoboCop, whose 320-pound metal frame (minus the human head) equals the Fridge’s weight, said, “I’m Speedy Willie and I’m world class.”

“Weird”Al Yankovic, a modern master of recreating other people’s music and attaching new food-oriented lyrics to them, has signed on to do the album’s accordion work. He could not be reached for comment.

Self-made bus accident victim and fitness expert Tony Little will be on lead Gazelle. Though the fitness machine makes no noise of any kind, it comes with

free electronics and a video.

Donald Rumsfield is said to be considering taking time from the 9/11 Commission to fill out the band’s all-star line-up. When reached for comment, Rumsfield said, “I’m just not going to comment on ongoing band rehearsals and other operations in the musical theater. As for the impromptu jam session scheduled for the end of the show, my participation is yet to be decided.”

The band’s final line-up was decided, American Idol-style, by a panel of judges including Judge Judy, Judge Ito, Judge Reinhold, Judge Wapner and Lionel Richie.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY (APRIL 1-7) ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries statesman Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in a mere 18 days. You should make him your role model as you devote the next three weeks to producing a masterpiece that will be regarded by posterity as one of history's great accomplishments. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating a little, Aries. It's true that you now have enormous creative power, and you could very well lay the groundwork for what will ultimately be a tour de force. But you may not be able to whip it out in three weeks, and it may not have quite the star quality of Jefferson's classic.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming week, your dreams will be more interesting and important than anything that happens during the day. Your sleeping mind can solve all your problems if given enough time -- and maybe even the problems of those you love, too. Can you afford to stay in bed for 12 hours at a stretch? APRIL FOOL! Twelve hours might be a bit much. But everything else I said was true. You have the potential to be a dreaming genius.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Visualize a scenario in which Israelis and Palestinians are still embroiled in a hateful state of siege for another 100 years. Imagine that the personal problems bugging you now will continue to torment you indefinitely. Live your life as if you believe the world is falling apart and that we human beings are parasites bent on wrecking the paradise we've been blessed with. APRIL FOOL! Don't you dare indulge in any of the hackneyed cynicism I just spouted. While educated idiots might try to convince you that badmouthing the future is honest and intelligent, it's actually a bad habit based on delusion. Here's your real assignment, Gemini: Retrain your mind to expect the best.

Visualize in graphic detail the transformations you'd love to see.

Cultivate delight using all your ingenuity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Add more locks to your doors and more armor to your defense mechanisms. Transform your home into an impregnable fortress of solitude and don't go out unless you absolutely have to. You must make yourself perfectly safe!

APRIL FOOL! It probably makes sense to be more discriminating about whom you share your feelings with, but in general it's an excellent time to open your heart and turn your home into a festive center of abundance. I suggest you invite every interesting person you trust to come and experience you in your natural habitat.

*Disclaimer: Fake! This story is intended as satire. All public figures and celebrities’ depiction is absolutely fake and should be taken in a satirical manner. Happy Fools’ Day!

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This just in: It is possible to buy happiness.

In fact, researchers at Yahoo! Personal Finance have determined the precise amount necessary: $4.9 million.With that sum in your bank account, you could acquire the lifestyle that would fulfill your dreams and make you feel really good. Now here's the crazy

part, Leo:The chances are far better than usual that you'll win the lottery this week, thereby guaranteeing your eternal happiness.

APRIL FOOL! While you Leos do have extraordinary financial luck these days, there just aren't enough lotteries in the world to ensure that every one of you will win one.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your role model these days should be the vulgar, debauched writer Charles Bukowski. He was poor most of his life as he worked endless odd jobs, but he managed to publish 50 books with titles like Love Is a Dog from Hell and Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Here's one of his typically inspired passages: "It's not easy to juggle a full-time job, a pregnant wife, and a troubled child, but somehow I still managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day." Be like Bukowksi this week, Virgo. APRIL FOOL! I was just messin' with' you, Dog! I don't really want you to be like Bukowski. But I had you going there for a minute, didn't I? And that's good, because every now and then -- like right now -- it's damn healthy for you to fantasize that you're a vulgar, debauched writer.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Does your roommate have some ripe plums in the refrigerator that you're dying to devour? Go right ahead. In the spot where the plums were, leave this poem by William Carlos Williams: "I have eaten/ the plums/ that were in/ the icebox// and which/ you were probably/ saving/ for breakfast// Forgive me/ they were delicious/ so sweet/ and so cold".

APRIL FOOL! While you do have astrological permission to be grabbier and greedier and more impulsive than usual, you can easily do that without generating any bad karma. Don't steal the plums.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It's not enough to do good deeds this week. You should also be intent on getting handsomely repaid for your good deeds. In other words, Scorpio, generosity will be a brilliant strategy if it manipulates others into being generous to you. Give selfishly, or don't give at all. APRIL FOOL! The truth is that you should bestow blessings everywhere you go, but with absolutely no strings attached. Here are your words to live by, courtesy of the Dalai Lama: "Try with all your might -- work very, very hard -- to make the world a better place. But if all your efforts are to no avail -- no hard feelings!"

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Everyone in the world is either a narcissist or a closet narcissist. Ironically, it's those in the latter group who're more dangerous. Their self-obsession expresses in covert ways that are hard to track. That's one reason why you should be unapologetically blatant about expressing your superiority this week, Sagittarius. The second reason is that the astrological omens suggest you have a mandate to be a raging mega-

lomaniac. APRIL FOOL! I went overboard there, although not by a whole lot. Let's just say that between now and April 18 you have cosmic permission to love yourself even more than usual and break your all-time bragging records.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My reader-satisfaction level is high. The weekly audience for this horoscope column is about nine million people, but I get an average of only 40 complaints a year. Maybe it's because you Capricorns are so forceful in sticking up for your needs, but a disproportionate number of the beefs I receive are from your tribe.That's why I've decided to never again utter a discouraging word in your presence. Forevermore, your horoscope will contain nothing but praise and good news. APRIL FOOL! I love you, Capricorn! And it wouldn't be very loving to refrain from kicking your butt on those rare occasions when you need it. Like now, for instance: I demand that you demand higher standards from you and your inner circle.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A swimming coach in Darwin, Australia decided that his young swimmers lacked ambition.They were consistently mediocre in competition, with no apparent drive for peak performances. Hoping to rouse their primal instinct to swim faster, he proposed to have them practice with a ten-foot crocodile in the pool. I wish you Aquarians would consider being equally daring as you ratchet up your motivation levels in the coming weeks. APRIL FOOL! Scaring yourself is a terrible strategy. But I do think you should take a more aggressive approach to stimulating your drive for excellence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Quit your job immediately. Move out of your house. Break off your closest relationships. Give away all your clothes to charity and sell your car at less than market value. If you do these things, I guarantee that within six weeks you will get an easy job where everyone loves you and you get paid way too much money to have way too much fun. APRIL FOOL! I was just testing you to see how susceptible you are to being manipulated by experts you trust. The fact is, Pisces, if you turn down the volume of the authority figures who drone on in your head -- both those who bent your thoughts in the past and those who shape your destiny in the present -- your financial situation and your job satisfaction will markedly improve.

No pain, no Brezsny's Free Will ☎ Rob ✍ HOMEWORK: gain. Shi* happens. Life is a Astrology bitch and then you die. APRIL FOOL! The truth is that the whole world is conspiring to give you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

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