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hanks to all who have kept up with the local music scene this past month by reading about the nominees week ly in buzz, listening to them on WPGU, and/or voting for them online. I hope you learned as much as I did in the process about the incredible musical talent that exists in the community.

If you were lucky enough to make it out to the Highdive last Thursday April 6 for the second annual WPGU-buzz Local Music Awards, you saw for yourself how much energy exists within our circle of local musicians, a circle notably down-to-earth, despite its amazing talent. With alcohol flowing in abundance, coupled with a crowd of musicians mingling with fans mingling with friends, the night stood testimony to the humble words of Mark Rubel, recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, during his acceptance speech that a musician’s job is “to play music, have fun, make money and most importantly — to make people happy.” With live performances by Larry Gates, Jess Greenlee and Kayla Brown; Angie Heaton & The Gentle Tamers with Joni Laurence; Krükid; DJ Elise; Elsinore; and Terminus Victor, the show not only

recognized our local talent, but also legitimized the production of a full-fledged ceremony to honor it. Between performances, the night was broken up with commentary from buzz’s Michael Coulter and WPGU’s Kristin O’Brien, complete with a wardrobe malfunction å la Janet Jackson/ Justin Timberlake, award presentations by local music scene advocates, and a commemorative slide show in honor of Rubel.

So, here we are on April 13, a week after the ceremony and even longer since voting has ended. Perhaps you felt a little rushed this year being asked to vote for your favorite musicians among a group of musicians you had never before heard of. However, with an entire year sandwiched between now and next year’s awards, you have all the time in the world to get out and see the talent exposed this past month and watch new talent build its way to the top. Hopefully, by the time the third annual Local Music Awards rolls around, you’ll no longer have to ask why. Instead, you’ll have done yourself a favor and seen firsthand exactly why the Champaign-Urbana music scene deserves public recognition.

Check out some of this year’s nominees and winners around town this month (more details available at openingbands.com)

UPCOMING SHOWS Monday April 17 (and April 24): Shipwreck – Canopy Club’s Rehearsal Space 9 p.m. Free Tuesday April 18 (and April 25): Larry Gates and Jesse Greenlee of Lorenzo Goetz – White Horse 9:30 p.m. Free Friday April 21: The Living Blue and Tractor Kings (with Dark Country and The Dolphin) – Canopy Club 9 p.m. $5 Friday April 21: Krukid (with Pomeroy) – Cowboy Monkey 10 p.m. $5 Friday April 21: Ear Doctor and Nu-Orbit – Boneyard Art Festival’s Late Night Event Sunday April 23: Artists Against Aids CD Release Show (featuring Ryan Groff of Elsinore, Angie Heaton, Meghan Johns) – Cowboy Monkey 6 p.m. $5 Wednesday April 26: Joni Laurence (Goodbye Show) – Canopy Club 7 p.m. $5 Wednesday April 26: Jason Finkelman (of Nu-Orbit Ensemble) – The Iron Post 9 p.m. $5 Friday April 28: Jeff Helgesen Quintet – The Iron Post 5 p.m. Free Saturday April 29: Elsinore CD Release Show – Cowboy Monkey 10 p.m. $5 Saturday April 29: Lynn O’Brien and Meghan Johns – The Iron Post TBA Sunday April 30: The Elanors (with Low Skies and Judah Johnson) – Cowboy Monkey 10 p.m. $5

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Best DJ: DJ Bozak Best Folk/Americana: The Beauty Shop Best New Artist: Lynn O’Brien Best Hip-Hop/R&B: Agent Mos Best Live Performer: Elsinore Best Male Artist: Larry Gates (Lorenzo Goetz) Lifetime Achievement Award: Mark Rubel Best Female Artist: Erin Fein (Headlights) Band you most want to see reunited: Hum Best Jazz/Blues: Kilborn Alley Best Rock Band: Lorenzo Goetz Best Record: Fire, Blood, Water – The Living Blue

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Musiclovers flock to imbibe the copious spirits and decadent atmosphere of the 2006 WPGU / BUZZ local music awards.

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Krukid, DJ Lil Big Bass, Jess Greenlee, and Larry Gates of Lorenzo Goetz lay it down as onlookers look on.

A night of beautiful faces: Mike Ingram and Kayla Brown of Darling Disarm.

Shortly after winning, Agent Mos devours his award.

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erin scottberg EDITOR’S NOTE

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ost campus protests don’t have much of an effect. Many go completely unnoticed except by us student-journalists desperately looking for a spot news story to cover for a class assignment. It’s almost as if you need to rally off an AK-47 to get any attention around here, but even that got old.

Last Monday was different. An estimated crowd of more than 1,000 donned white and rallied for immigration justice along with people all over the nation.

Their protest was loud, caused a ruckus and brought attention to their cause: rally sucessful.

No matter what your opinion of immigration law may be, if you were anywhere near the Quad on Monday, you heard the voice of those against criminalizing undocumented immigrants.

It was refreshing to see a group pull themselves together and publicize their cause — some actual fire in my generation (to borrow a phrase from Seth Fein), a generation I sometimes feel has too apathetic to make any real noise about anything.

In my four years on this Big Ten campus, I’ve come across so many anti-establishment, protestlovin’ students who show up to stick it to the man in the Jetta their daddy pays for, chant some cool rhymes they thought of while stoned and then return to their comfy lives to smoke bongs and watch Comedy Central. I’ve heard a good name for these folks: Trustafarians.

I used to work for University Dining Services (the best campus job ever) and some of my supervisors were students here during Vietnam.

They’d tell stories of students linking arms to form a human fence around the Quad to protest the war.

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The National Guard had to be brought in.

I can’t imagine our campus being that united, or that organized, over any event, mostly because I feel like my generation is too comfy with their lives to right the wrongs of society. Sure, there was that time Acton Gorton pulled the lookat-me move and printed the Danish Cartoons that sparked protests on campus, but even those weren’t as in-your-face as Monday’s protest.

I’m impressed that while only six percent of undergraduate student population is Hispanic (according to the University’s Division of Management Information statistics for fall 2005), those six percent were able to bring together people of all races and cultures and bring their concerns to the table for discussion.

I’m the daughter of an immigrant — my mom moved here from Egypt when she was in fourth grade (but I’m Armenian, not Egyptian) and became a legal citizen as soon as she could. However, growing up, my mom’s citizenship was NEVER a big deal — if anything, it was something exotic and cool to tell my friends. The children of other immigrants — illegal and naturalized — don’t always have the luxury.

Ask her opinion on the topic and she’ll tell you without hesitation that you have to do things the right way. I see her point. And because of all the events that have been taking place around the country recently, and all the media attention they’ve gotten, I see many of the points on the other side as well. Although I don’t have the solution to reform immigration law, I do know that Monday’s events opened my eyes to many facts and points of view I hadn’t yet seen. And before change can occur, information must be spread. sounds from the scene

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A MAN IS NEVER MORE TRUTHFUL THAN WHEN HE ACKNOWLEDGES HIMSELF A LIAR.

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michael coulter FIRST THINGS FIRST

Study shows 19 percent of employees lie at work To the other 81 percent: What’s your excuse?

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ork is a little bit l i ke sex. Some fol k s t r y rea l ly hard and do everything they can to be a success. Others are simply concerned with what they can get out of it.

A few are just naturally, um, gifted, and don’t try especially hard, yet still end up doing pretty well. In both work and sex, all of us would like to succeed, but let’s be honest, very few actually deserve any sort of a promotion.

Not surprisingly, just like sex, the workplace is filled with a significant amount of dishonesty.

In a recent survey by Careerbuilder.com entitled “Honesty in the Workplace,” 19 percent of those surveyed admitted they had lied at work. My guess is that the other 81 percent of the respondents lied about not lying. Like sex, someone in the workplace is usually getting fucked and someone is usually getting lied to — the key to success is realizing which end of the stick you’re on ... so to speak.

Some of these workplace lies are almost understandable. 26 percent surveyed admitted they lied to appease a customer. Nowadays, I think such a thing is generally referred to as public relations. I’m also fairly certain I have been the customer who accepts this lie on several occasions. 13 percent of workers have lied to cover up a failed project. Ah, denying failure, the easiest lie ever told.

A shocking 8 percent claimed they lied to explain an unexcused absence or a late arrival to work. People, people, you’re lying in a survey about lying. 8 percent lied about an unexcused absence or a late arrival? I don’t want to self incriminate too much here, so let’s just say from personal experience I believe that number to be a little low. Hell, I’ve known people who had a legitimate reason for missing work and used another excuse so they could save the good excuse for a date when it was needed later. Good excuses don’t come around often and they should be hoarded if at all possible.

Also in the 8 percent region were people who lied to protect another employee. Again, that number seems way too low. Maybe it’s just me, but holy crap, I’ve lied just for the sake of lying several times and I couldn’t begin to count the amount of times I’ve lied for an actual reason.

This is why I would make a very poor witness in a criminal proceeding. Do you promise to tell the whole truth? “Um, sure, whatever. I mean, you should really understand that I see the same

truth in many different ways depending on my mood, but yeah, I’ll give it a shot.”

While 8 percent lied to help a coworker, 5 percent admitted lying to get another employee in trouble or to look better in front of a supervisor. Geez Louise, I must be a terrible freaking employee because I’ve done all this shit. Right or wrong though, saying something to get the complete douche bag down the ha ll that no one likes in trouble is always a fine idea. It gives his “non-douche bag” coworkers something to laugh at and something to talk about for weeks while also giving them something to bond over. After all, when a grenade comes into a bunker, someone has to jump on it and it might as well be the douche bag no one likes instead of the guy who makes fun of him.

The list of lies told at the office is really just as fascinating. “I don’t know what happened” was used by 20 percent of those surveyed. Man, that is the wonderful coverall statement. Like a sturdy pair of blue jeans, it’s fine for all occasions, from a natural disaster to a night on the town. It doesn’t seem like it on its face, but claiming absolute ignorance can really shut everyone the hell up.

“I’ve got another call” was used by 16 percent of workers. Wow, I get a lot of that in my personal life, but very rarely at work. “I’ve been out of town” was used by 10 percent of people.

I’ve also gotten quite a lot of that in my personal life, but never at work. In fact, many women have used this excuse with me, some of them many years after they’ve actually moved out of town. In their defense, I don’t blame them for not wanting to go out with me. It’s hard to have a conversation and still stay the court-ordered 500 feet away from one another.

“I like your outfit” was a lie told by 8 percent of people. I hear quite a lot of that, professionally and socially. I assume this is because I usually dress sort of like a rodeo clown. “I didn’t get your e-mail, voicemail, or fax” also came in at 8 percent. That’s brilliant really. You claim ignorance but you blame it on the incompetence of others. I’ll admit I’ve never really had the stones to make the claim, yet I also lack the stones to be honest about it. “Yeah, I got your message but I gotta tell you, in the overall scheme of my life at this juncture, I felt it best to ignore your dumb ass.”

While I’ll be the first to admit that lying at work is often fun, I want to be clear and say I do not condone it. Still, there are many things I don’t condone and still can’t seem to do without.

OOPS WE MADE A MISTAKE • The photo we ran in last week’s Around Town section was incorrect. A picture of people handing out

colored paper during a kindergarten art class was mistakenly replaced by a picture of Anthony Shombuy, a cast member from Champaign’s Prompting Theatre.

• Viktoria Ford was misqouted in the Around Town story Not So Elective: CU Raises Awareness on Enhancing Art Education. Her budget allows her to spend $1.49 per student on art supplies, she did not pay for this out of her own pocket.

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SEEING STARS: CHAMPAIGN’S PROMPTING THEATRE another one called the Interact Theatre, located in Minneapolis, but none are semi-professional.

According to Hagy, there are at least two other troupes in the United States that are run by actors with developmental disabilities.

“However, they are comprised of actors who are more independent,” Hagy said.

As far as being run by actors with developmental disabilities, PT remains the only one of its kind in Illinois. Hagy says the troupe focuses a lot on the 19th century Italian “Commedia Dell’arte” comedy as inspiration when reconstructing their plays. According to Hagy, “Commedia Dell’arte” was the most popular theatre style before the big screen hit the fan base. Old-school legends Charlie Chaplin and The Three Stooges are classic examples of this particular style of theatre.

“Our strength is that we have a large range of actors,” Hagy said, “this type of acting translates very well to the physical script.”

Director Brian Hagy helps actress Marsha Miller with her part in Prompting Theatre’s rehearsal of “Romeo and Juliet” at the Developmental Services This style is ideal because due to some of the Center April 4. troupe members’ speech limitations, many rely LIANNE ZHANG • AROUND TOWN EDITOR on their physical strength to shine as an actor.

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the PT technical crew comes in to set things up. wo households, both alike in dignity, -served,” or “consumer”— all to be used interchangeably.

While acting is not required of the tech crew, most of them insist “We provide support: financial and physical,” Bennett said.“ on learning both sides of the theatre world. Nine-to-noon on in fair Urbana, where we lay our They run things by us, we look at what they are working on, and Tuesdays and Thursdays are reserved for rehearsals. sure that it all makes sense, and is appropriate and within On this particular day of rehearsals at the DSC, the troupe is scene, from ancient grudge break make reach of the actors.” working on blocking — running through each scene and figuring In the winter of 1995, Hagy directed the PT’s first play, Peter out where all the components (actors and props) belong best. This to new mutiny, where sourdough bread and the Wolf, with a cast of only seven. By March of 1996, the year, the PT is performing an updated version of Romeo and Juliet makes wine hands unclean.” theatre troupe had grown so popular that the cast doubled in size, for their Fifth Annual Street Theatre Festival in late April. producing an even more successful play, The Wizard of Oz. The room is a cacophony of props being shifted, shoes Scattered around the massive rehearsal room are shelves filled squeaking, conversation tidbits, and metal chairs scraping the In an enormous warehouse, amidst tables, various props, and colorful clothing, the narrator stands, reciting Shakespeare. with props and clothing. The PT brings in most of their revenue floor. One cast member is holding a bunch of plastic flowers, offering them to people as he wanders about the room. Another It is not Shakespeare’s original, but rather a modern, more through grants and donations from various community venues.

“Most of this stuff was donated or made throughout the years, is bouncing on a bright yellow pogo ball, while someone else is comedic adaptation of the legendary playwright’s famous and we’ve been lucky with getting a lot of discounts or donations snoozing on a metal folding chair.

Romeo and Juliet.

Two long tables are lined up opposite each other. One holds It is a Tuesday morning, and members of The Prompting from stores, so the money we could have spent on props, we can Theatre have gathered at the Developmental Services Center’s now afford to use to pay our actors,” Hagy said. “I mean, it’s not various plastic containers: Tupperware, plastic tumblers and wine a lot, but it’s a start.” glasses. The other houses an over-abundance of metal bowls.

Mckinley Building 4 for their bi-weekly rehearsal.

Hagy’s main hope is to raise the bar for theatre people.

There are clearly too many bowls to fit on the table and several The Prompting Theatre (PT) was founded in the winter of 1995 by “Why do we have the concept of community theatre, and keep clanking to the floor.

Director Brian Hagy. Hagy chartered this acting troupe as a response Anthony Shombuy, a man in a green shirt sitting in a wheelto the overwhelming success of the acting classes provided by the that they don’t get paid?” Hagy said. “When I first came to CU, Developmental Services Center (DSC). Aside from their creative the theatre scene was dead, and (by starting PT) I wanted to do chair, who plays the leading actor, Romeo Montague, sits in a wheelchair, and is explaining the scene at hand. ability to produce new renditions of old plays, what sets this acting something different.”

Now in its 11th season, the troupe averages two or three “It is a comedy, so with the bowls, we have three more than troupe apart is the fact that all cast members have various forms of developmental disabilities. The cast members, however, never let their shows per year with an attendance of at least 100 per show. It there is room for on the table, and the bowls keep getting knocked disabilities hinder their passion for writing, rehearsing, planning, and has grown to a 16 to 17 member troupe with a director, assistant off,” Shombuy said. director, and two support staff members. On average, the troupe Flexing their creativity, the acting troupe has rewritten the performing each of their originally re-scripted plays.

Developmental Services Center’s Director of Developmental will spend about three to four months on a show; this includes play so that the Montagues are bread makers, and the Capulets are wine makers. The play is also divided into seven scenes, two Training, Laura Bennett is not directly involved with the PT but brainstorming, planning, rehearsing and performing.

As of now, the PT remains the only semi-professional acting troupe of which take place at the circus. PT’s approach to R & J has she does serve as one of four people that make up the PT’s board of advisors. Bennett, who has worked at the DSC since 1989, refers in Illinois to be run by people with developmental disabilities. There to the adults that attend this day-program as “clients,” “person are other theatre projects similar to this in Decatur and Chicago, and SEE SEEING STARS PG. 17

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aul Ward is number 32 on the men’s wheelchair basketball team at the University of Illinois.

He came to the University from Allendale, New Jersey, a suburb 30 minutes outside of New York City, where Ward often goes to watch Mets and Knicks games. “Not the Knicks so much right now because they’re pretty bad,” he said. Ward has always been into sports, but will not call himself a “jock” because his parents instilled in him the discipline for schoolwork. That’s why, he said, he has been so successful at the University.

How do you feel in comparison to other basketball players?

I think we work just as hard. We have practices five days a week between two and three hours [each day] and then we weight lift three times a week. So it’s pretty much the same as the ablebodied. And then we also have video sessions to break down our game tape just like the able-bodied team. So it’s pretty much the same. I don’t think the coverage obviously is as equal.

What do you focus on in weight training?

Usually upper body strength because usually that’s what you use in wheelchair basketball, whether it’s to move the chair, push, shoot. [And the] abs — you can hop the chair a little bit when you’re stuck.

What are the different levels of ability on the basketball team?

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When did you start playing wheelchair basketball?

In college, there’s one, two, and three. One has the least trunk ability — you’re usually paralyzed or have less balance. Two is in between; you have some trunk balance and trunk mobility.

And then threes are amputees or people that have had knee surgeries and they can’t play regular basketball.

Do you travel a lot?

When I was younger, I did track and field as well, so between that and basketball I’ve traveled all over the country depending on competitions. And then in college, we take buses to all of our tournaments. The destinations are either Texas; Edinboro, Pennsylvania; Whitewater, Wisconsin; Arizona; Oklahoma State; Missouri; Minnesota ... those are the other teams. Each team tries to do a tournament or two each year so each team travels around to as many away games as possible.

When has the University of Illinois hosted a tournament?

Our national competition was here this year at Huff Hall. We finished third. It was pretty good. Semi-finals were a tough game. We were leading [for] around three-fourths of the game, and then we lost it in the last five minutes ...

The [Whitewater, Wisconsin] team we were playing is very experienced. The guys won the national championship for the past three years in a row.

I’ve been playing since I was nine — nine or 10. I’ve always loved basketball and sports. When I was younger I played [recreational] basketball with my friends. ... Then eventually it got too fast for me to keep up with because obviously running is faster than being in a wheelchair.

So that’s when I found out about wheelchair basketball and started playing. There was one wheelchair basketball team in New Jersey when I was growing up. So I had to drive 45 minutes to go practice.

How were you involved with track and field?

I did track and field all the way through high school. I did 100-, 200-, 400-meter, 800, 1600, and 5000. And then I did javelin, shot put and discuss too.

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How were you able to participate in the races?

There are different wheelchairs. There’s a basketball chair, there’s a track chair. And there are two wheels on the side; it’s low to the ground — two wheels on the side, one out in front. So it’s more aerodynamic. Then you get as fast as you can, pushing.

Why have you been so involved with sports?

Since I’ve been young, I’ve just loved sports ...

I just like to be physically active and I guess I was probably keeping up with all of my friends.

There’s no point of me just sitting around and doing nothing. There’s a perception that people in wheelchairs aren’t active.

Paul Ward.

Me and my friends, at least on the team, and everyone else I know — we don’t like the pity that some people give to us. We’re just athletes just like anyone else and it’s just as competitive as any of the other able-bodied sports. So we really just want to be treated just like any other athlete [because we do] as much work. A lot of times, when people watch us play, usually they love it and they want to keep on coming back.

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This Headline Shouldn’t Offend Anyone or Any Business Prophet predicts many things, including Cubs sweeping the Cards

FIRST SNIFF It’s hard to stay bitter, angry or depressed when the sun shines the way it has been.

Whereas just a few weeks ago the cold air brought a sense of dread when the whines of our dog woke me up, I now enjoy breathing in the fresh air and having a stretch as Catuli does her thing.

This has lead me to ponder why on earth anyone would live somewhere it gets cold. You’d think that human nature would lead us to where the the temperature is always pleasant.

But then I am reminded how masochistic we all are. We stay in bad relationships, hold down shitty jobs, elect bad people to positions of power and we also seem to gravitate toward feeling discomfort in our climate.

Oh, I get it all right. I just can’t seem to understand why I am falling victim to this type of masochism when it’s so clear to me that I am able to lay it out on paper and have it published.

AN OLD PHILOSOPHY When I was going through a more stressed-out period of my life, I was given “The Prophet,” a book by Lebanese author Khalil Gibran. If you haven’t read it, you should.

In one of the poems, the Prophet suggests an idea that has stuck with me ever since. When asked to pontificate on Joy and Sorrow, he writes “Some of you say, ‘Joy is greater than sorrow,’ and others say, ‘Nay, sorrow is the greater. But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.’”

This could explain some people’s feelings for cold seasons.

I think about my friends in California — always happy, never sad — and really, I pity them. I so enjoy springtime, when everything is finally looking new and green, that I can’t really imagine waking up in winter to take out Catuli in nothing but shorts and a t-shirt. How can I appreciate the summer in all it’s awe and wonder if it never goes away?

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For this reason alone I tough it out with the rest of you so that I might get to wake up as I did this morning and know peace of mind based solely on the sun. That’s just a damn good feeling.

I AM NOT ON DRUGS. BUT I AM LIKING THIS WHOLE BROOM THING… Ok, enough hippie shit, you say? I apologize — I really do. I promised myself after last week’s column that I wasn’t going to write about anything negative for at least one week. After all, how can I when the Cubbies SWEPT the Cards after a delicious Grand Slam by Michael Barrett. The eruption of cheers at Esquire could be heard on Waveland Avenue and all in the world was right. Sniff it Cardinal fans.

As of now, Cubbie Blue is King.

SECOND SNIVEL So, I am introducing a section dedicated to reexamining last week’s column. Sometimes I’m shocked when see what I wrote — it feels terrible to literally see my reputation tarnished even further right on the page. I swear to God that I don’t mean to publish half the things I write! This week I’d like to rectify last week’s headline. Perhaps I shouldn’t have said that Cold Stone Creamery makes me want to vomit. Perhaps it should have read: “Shut Your Mouths and Scoop The Ice Cream without a Word if you want my Cold Stone Cash!”

Is that better? Does that make it right? I guess I didn’t figure into the fact that they might be advertising with us, but you can’t really buy advertising like that, can you? I think it evens out. So, if anyone

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BAND OF THE WEEK I never really liked the name Colonel Rhodes to begin with, so I guess I was partially pleased when my muthafucka Seth Hubbard told me that they were regrouping and changing their name. I loved that band so it only makes sense that I would love their new one. The name?

Watery Domestic.

Got a nice ring to it, eh? I think so too. You can hear their jangly indie-pop with The Like Young on Saturday night at the ol’ Cowboy Monkey, which will no doubt sell out, so get there early or be left out in the rain.

FINAL WHIFF It’s Easter this Sunday. It’s also my girlfriend’s birthday. I can’t think of anything nicer than to celebrate the most beautiful day of my beliefs in conjunction with a celebration for the birth of the most beautiful person I’ve ever known. Sometimes the world just works right, and it should be noted and appreciated when it does. After all, winter is only half a year away.

Seth Fein is from Urbana. This flowery happy lovey-dovey bullshit lasts for this week and this week alone. Expect negativity and anger next week in a way that you just can’t believe. Send complaints to sethfein@hotmail.com.

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opious congratulations to the winners at the WPGU-buzz Local Music Awards. Mark Rubel won the Lifetime Achievement Award, and in the two write-in categories, HUM won Band You Most Want to See Reunited, and elsinore won Best Live Performer.

Surprise collaborators at the concert were Kayla Brown, guest vocalist for Larry Gates and Jesse Greenlee; Joni Laurence, guest vocalist for Angie Heaton and the Gentle Tamers on “Heaven’s State Line,” and Ward Gollings, guest vocalist for Terminus Victor on “Boom.”

Elsinore’s commendation comes on the cusp of a record release: third album Nothing for Design is due at the end of the month. It was mastered by Alan Douches of West West Side Music at the same time as The Avalanche by Suf jan Stevens, sequel to Illinois with the Champaign-Urbana song “Dear Mr. Supercomputer.” Nothing by Design and the first elsinore T-shirt go on sale April 29 at Cowboy Monkey, where Gentlemen Auction House and Wandering Sons open for elsinore.

Show time is 10 p.m., and cover is $5. In the meantime, elsinore appears Monday on WEFT Sessions, also at 10 p.m.

The video for “Serrated Friend” by The Living Blue debuts April 23 in the beer garden at Mike ‘n Molly’s. It was shot Jan. 19 upstairs at Mike ‘n Molly’s. The premiere of the video precedes the premiere of Episode 2 of Werewolf Cemetery, the “epic serial” with The Living Blue frontman Stephen Ucherek and a supporting cast of scenesters. The gore in the video is from the Werewolf Cemetery surplus. Episode 1 starts out the night at 10 p.m., and cover is $2. “Serrated Friend” is on Fire, Blood, Water, which won Best Album at the WPGU-buzz Local Music Awards.

Henry Frayne multi-instrumental project Lanterna issued its fifth album, Desert Ocean, March 14 on Jemez Mountain.

Desert Ocean consists of ten songs, of which “Luminous” is available for free through Badman Recording Co. (parent label of Jemez Mountain) as well as emusic, where it was “Download of

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the Day” last Thursday, and Desert Ocean was number one last Friday. A local release show is in store next month.

Concerts are as abundant as Easter eggs this weekend throughout Champaign-Urbana. Tonight at Cowboy Monkey, Green St. Records issues its third annual compilation, Crescendo. The Funds (ex-Phrygian Squire), The Breaks, Missing the Point, and Mike Winegardner perform. Show time is 9:30 p.m., cover is $5, and the album is free!

Aye-Aye Booking has back-to-back big shows at Independent Media Center. Tonight is indie-acoustic night with Shindig, New Ruins, Jaik Willis, Joanna Michal (for the first time this year), and Darrin Drda. Show time is 7 p.m., and cover is $5. Tomorrow, two shows combine into one with JigGsaw, Johnnyork, Rule 22, Operetta, Renae, Andromeda’s Hero, and The Signal: 6 bands for 6 bucks at 6 p.m.

Saturday in the beer garden at Mike ‘n Molly’s, mad mardigan and Brother Embassy come off hiatus after an early set by Cameo Turret. Around the corner at Brass Rail, Mad Science Fair plays with Water Between Continents and The Respondent. Show time is 10 p.m., and cover is only $3.

Up the street at Cowboy Monkey, hometown heroes The Like Young return with The Fake Fictions, The Greedy Loves (now with Thomas Duggan of Wasteoid Workforce), and Watery Domestic. Show time is 10 p.m., and cover is $5.

Todd J. Hunter hosts WEFT Sessions and Champaign Local 901, two hours of local music every Monday at 10 p.m. on WEFT 90.1 FM. Send news to soundground@excite.com.

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Clarification #1: British B-side “Public Hangings” (not “Public Hanging”) by The Beauty Shop is a Fear cover. The Beauty Shop won Best Folk/Americana at the WPGU-buzz Local Music Awards.

Clarification #2: Also at the WPGU-buzz Local Music Awards, Larry Gates won Best Male. As he accepted his award, the sot who shouted out “Free Bird” won Worst Male.

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Like a bad trip, man, dude’s psychedelic folk band Phaser couldn’t take the changes in each other’s energ y. So the dude, Boris Skalsky, dropped his D.C. project and ventured off into the all-controlling side of the industry — writing, recording and even marketing his self-titled debut Dead Heart Bloom. What came to blossom is a lush and diverse collection of both morbid and buoyant melodies, radiant lyrics and overdubs that resonate into the thickest of indie-rock skins.

Skalsky opens the record in a storybook, folk fashion with a delicate, acoustic people-gathering lyric, “Listen as I find you a song.” But as soon as the second track — “Sodom” — clicks, he’s breaking Badly Drawn Boy funk over lines like, “It’s a God damn violent way to go/ it’s a simple way to go/ so c’mon, c’mon, c’mon,” before delivering a sobering, but beautifully orchestrated string ballad — “I Hope I stop Fading” — that sounds from the scene

self-harmonizes right up there with Elliott Smith. The whole album, actually, is a constant sonic valley of highs and lows, track to track.

Skalsky’s trippy roots do shine through, though, in the two sibling instrumentals “Transfiguration” and “Transmigration,” the former being a two and a half minute-long bong-hit (literally) instrumental fancied around some piano tinkling and some equally deep space electric guitar fiddling. And the cover of “Folsom Prison Blues” could seriously only be described as Cash on acid, with slide guitar riffs that’ll make your ears bleed with hypnotic pleasure.

If Skalsky’s emotionally erratic semi-concept album doesn’t pique your interest, the free price tag should do it. He’s actually encouraging you to stream, download and email his debut as you please via www.deadheartbloom.com.

There is a concept in music distinct from every other popular entertainment medium — the one-album wonder. Different from a one-hit wonder, whose anomalistic kitsch or whimsy captures the attention of the nation for a while and then dies a steep death, the one-album wonder shows a band at the peak of their creativity, their only peak, as it happens.

Like one-hit wonders, one-album wonders usually reflect the times from which they arise, coming out of nowhere to entrance the music-listening public (especially critics), but are never able to become a part of a catalog that matches the wonder’s greatness.

While very prevalent in rock (Hootie and the Blowf ish certainly come to mind), hip-hop seems to, not surprisingly, exist as the mainstay of this phenomenon. Its ever changing forms and fan-tastes can make one artist’s relevancy the subject of intense inconstancy. Not to mention the fact that, unlike rock, hip-hop does not operate in a continual spiral of genres, with forms and ideas sprouting on a more locational basis than a reaction to a particular movement.

Reactions can certainly be concurrent in this genre though.

The Pharcyde’s classic album Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde was a distinct response to the gangsta rap movement firmly entrenched in hip-hop in 1992 when it was released. Its laid-back, funkystoner ethic owed more to the Native Tongues movement than to gangsta rap’s caffeinated anger, and audiences tired of that movement hailed the album as a revelation.

But, as gangsta’s influence subsided, so d id the Pharcyde’s. They became products of the era and, as such, none of the subsequent albums have reached the critical and commercial success of their debut.

Now, though, one of the found ing members of Pharcyde, Derrick “Fat Lip” Stewart has stepped out and recorded somewhat of a follow-up album to their amazing debut. It is not a follow-up in the traditional sense, but rather Fat Lip’s analysis of how that album’s success and subsequent failure has defined his career — sort of a post-modern evaluation of the business of rap.

In that regard he succeeds quite well, but Fat Lip is by no means a pre-eminent lyricist. Each rhyme seems to be missing the urgency and effort that it needs to convey his, and many of his genre’s, plight. The group aesthetic suits him well; he is not cocksure enough to complete these prescient statements on his own.

Given guests, though, this album reaches great heights. The best of these are on the track “Today’s Your Day (Whachagonedu?)” on which he is joined by Chali 2Na of Jurassic 5 and manages to capture a social consciousness while maintaining the funky ethic he perfected in the early ’90s.

These heights are still momentary. Much of the album is filler, bits and pieces of Fat Lip’s mind that he could not create into fully formed ideas. Indeed, this album is, at best, a put-together affair that seemingly was used to satisfy a deadline.

He addresses this subject on the album’s high point, “Writer’s Block” on which he wittily remarks “I coulda been a legend like Big and Pac/but I caught a bad case of writer’s block.” Rarely has there been a more self-conscious remark in rap music. However, it still appears he currently suffers from this ailment and is need of a good recovery.

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New Ruins, Shindig, Jaik Willis, Joanna Michal, + Darrin Drda Independent Media Center, $5 April 13, 7 p.m.

With the local music awards fresh in our minds from the constant media blitz which characterized it, I thought I’d highlight a concert representing some artists that should / will be nominated in the future.

It’s true the CU has some great acts like the Beauty Shop and Headlights and all those other guys, but right below the radar are some real mind blowers. My favorite of these smaller acts is the duo New Ruins.

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New Ruins sound like the Midwest. It’s miles of flat and tilled land, the power lines tracing the crops’ outline, the gray afternoons of autumn and the empty blue skies of spring all come out of their music. It seems hard to create a character and spirit for the vast, empty landscapes and unpredictable weather which exemplifies this region, but New Ruins effortlessly accomplishes it. The There is a intricate and flowing melodies of the two almost indistinguishable guitars made that were really awaken the dormant memories of watching rows of corn roll past my car window. They take the best of pop, the best of folk, and lyrical poetry and blend them into their songs. New Ruins won’t rock your face off, but shouldn’t be missed. It’s not always about the rock, guys.

Darrin Drda, another acoustic local, sounds like a mellower Flaming Lips had a steamy love affair with Jens Lekman. The results were smooth pop, lush with a variety of flutes and horns. If Woody Guthrie were a Jetsonsesque Martian, his music would probably sound akin to Darrin’s jams.

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TUE. APRIL 18 Live Bands Billy Galt Blues Barbecue 11:30am, free Cosmic Break 10,000 Lakes Festival Tour Competition Canopy Club, 8pm, $6 Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Adam Wolf, Mike Brey Tommy G’s 9pm, free Jiggsaw, Tally Hall Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $5 Concerts University Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band I Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $6, $2 DJ Zoo Theatre Company’s Boltini Bingo and Lounge Variety Show Boltini, 6:30pm, cover Subversion: DJ Evily, DJ Twinscin Highdive, 10pm, cover DJ Hoff, DJ Gambino Mike N Molly’s, 10pm, cover

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WED. APRIL 19 Live Bands In Your Ear Big Band Iron Post, 6pm, $2 Irish Traditional Music Session Bentley’s Pub, 7pm, free Chambana Jackson’s Ribs-NTips, 8pm, cover The Conor Grant Challenge: Phrygian Square, The Morning Call, Piston Hurricane, The Americas, Cair Paravel Canopy Club, 8pm, $5 Fuedin’ Hillbillys Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free

Soultro Joe’s Brewery 10pm, cover Concerts Tackas Quartet with Richard Stolzman, clarinet Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $34, $20 University Steel Band Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $6 $2 DJ Open Decks Soma, 8pm, free DJ Stifler Highdive, 9pm, $5 Chef Ra Barfly, 10pm, free DJ Bozak Boltini, 10:30pm free Dancing Tango Dancing Cowboy Monkey, 8-10:30pm, free Salsa Dancing Cowboy Monkey, 10:30pm, $3 Karaoke “G� Force Karaoke T&T Tavern, 7pm, free Liquid Courage Karaoke Geovanti’s, 10pm, free Poetry / Readings Bullets & Butterflies benefit for The Publishing Triangle featuring Emanuel Xavier, Marty McConnell, Shane Luitjens, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Travis Montez Bowery Poetry Club, 6pm, $5 minimum suggested donation

The Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois is seeking an undergraduate student intern. This person must be flexible and willing to take on many different tasks. Duties include writing press releases, reading daily news clippings, helping to organize events, interviewing faculty, political leaders, and others for feature stories and news, editing Institute publications, office help, and willingness to help in many other facets. This position is a paid internship with the opportunity to attend IGPA events in Springfield, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Preferably this student will be a junior or senior who is available to start in August 2006 and work through the academic year and following summer.

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Surely not anyone f rom 40 Nor th | 88 West and Champaign County’s Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Council, who have coordinated the Boneyard Arts Festival for six consecutive years. The three-day festival, running from April 21 to 23, hosts an array of both performing and visual arts in a wide arrangement of venues. Building on last year’s success, this ever-growing artistic assembly will hope to enjoy its largest, not to mention most exciting, exhibit to date.

“Artists are the living, beating heart of the community and shouldn’t be tucked away where no one can see [them],” says Jenny Southlynn, a lead pioneer of the festival in 2001 and the current festival council chairwoman, Statements like these were addressed when the council decided to expand the number of venues to over 80 for this year’s festival.

Apart from locations in Champaign, Urbana and Campustown, there will also be venues in Mahomet, Savoy, Rantoul, Dewey and St. Joseph. The stage sites include small-town cafes, restaurants, retail stores, museums, salons, shops, and even the streets corners of Champaign County. This is an impressive feat considering the 2001 festival was staged in only 13 locations.

To encourage the audience to expand beyond the core Champaign-Urbana area, Sunday will be designated as a “driving day.” On that day, the spotlight will focus on the smaller venues in towns like Mahomet and Rantoul. Their exposure is very important to the success of the festival and to the the idea of art and culture within the community.

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Southlynn says a festival like this begins small and only swells into “a truly community festival” from its local participation.

The number of locations isn’t the only aspect of the festival that has blossomed in recent years. Upon its inception, the Boneyard Arts Festival (formerly the Octopus Gallery Walk) centered primarily on the visual arts and neglected the performing arts.

Today, the performing arts are given their due respect and thrive alongside their visual counterparts.

“The Festival exploded into both a visual and performing arts showcase,” Southlynn proudly boasts. Painters, sculptors and photographers will combine forces with dancers, musicians and actors to show off the cream of the local artist crop. Everywhere you turn, art is sure to be found.

One piece of art has already caught the eye of the festival. In mid-February, an esteemed panel of judges selected the official Boneyard Arts Festival Promotional Image. The work, an oil painting by the title “Little Shop of Florals,” articulates the talent of local artist Patrick Harness.

There is plenty to look forward to as the April 21 kick-off approaches. The Late Night spACE, a particularly stirring attraction at the Boneyard Festival, is back again for its second go-around. On Friday and Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., the U-C Independent Media Center (the Old Urbana Post Office) will stage a spectacular expose of artistic splendor. On board for the second year in a row, Artistic Director Jason Finkelman has created a show that combines art galleries, musical renderings, stage performances and live visual interactions together with premier local and Chicago artists. The Late Night spACE was

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“Little Shop of Florals” by Patrick Harness. one of the memorable highlights of the festival last year and provides much potential for encore.

The News-Gazette, which sponsors the Festival, will release the official festival map in their April 16 edition. The festival hours are as follows: Friday, April 21, 4 to 9 p.m., Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23, noon to 5 p.m. The Late Night z space is Friday and Saturday 9 p.m. to 2buz a.m.

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SEEING STARS CONTINUED FROM PG. 8 the lovers intending to run away together and join the circus. There is no violence in the PT version of R & J, merely a lot of tripping, leg-breaking, and bad haircuts.

“This is the beginning scene. Romeo and Juliet haven’t met yet, and the Capulets have just decided that they want to have a masquerade Tupperware party in order for everyone to taste their wine,” Shombuy said, laughing.

Some of the staff support also doubles as cast members. In this play, Hagy is the narrator and Assistant Director Nicole Kyle plays Lucille, Juliet’s maid.

“I make sure I am in the play, because since a lot of our work is prompting to begin with (meaning that actors prompt each other with cues to remember their next lines and actions), in case a cast member decides to wander into a scene that they are not supposed to be in, I make sure everything still runs smoothly,” Hagy said.

John Roberts, a man in a red cap and black t-shirt wanders about, clutching a bunch of flowers.

“Hey, John, will you have a seat?” Hagy asked, as he reaches for the flowers. “Are you done with those?”

“Hey John, do your ‘tiger’,” Kyle said.

Roberts stands up, then proceeds to demonstrate a very lively and fierce “Roar”, complete with clawed hand gestures.

The room erupts with applause from fellow cast mates.

What makes the PT such a unique and successful acting troupe is the obvious enthusiasm and passion that everyone involved harbors. Cast members and staff support alike find genuine rewards in every aspect of the production process.

“I found out about the Prompting Theatre through my girlfriend at the time, I also had other friends in it, this was about five years ago, and I started on the tech crew,” said Chris Harrison, a cast member. “After awhile, I realized I really wanted to learn everything and now I’m acting too.”

DSC Family Home Maintenance staff member Carolyn Mongelluzo said that what she loves and finds most rewarding about working with this particular troupe is the “enthusiasm that the participants have, they are so excited and really love what they are doing.”

“Of cou r se, t here a re goi ng to be challenges, but all I can say is that they are different challenges, no more, no less,” Mongelluzo said. “This has been a wonderful experience and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.”

This is also Kyle’s first play with the PT. “I’ve worked with other troupes before, but nothing quite like this,” Kyle said. “I absolutely love it, this play is hilarious and I’m excited to be a part of it.”

A cast member dressed in bright fuschia, Marsha Miller, has seized a yellow dumbbell lying on a nearby shelf. Carefully, she places it on her head, balancing it to perfection.

“Wow, Marsha, I’m so impressed,” Hag y said. “It’s been two weeks since we’ve rehea r sed t h at scene a nd you remembered it.”

Kyle is also delighted, applauding and telling Miller she did a “very good job.”

Angie Allis, who plays Juliet, is fidgeting nervously in her chair. When Kyle asks her what is wrong, she quietly replies that she is nervous.

“Angie, it’s totally normal,” Kyle said.

Allis nods and replies, “I have stage fright, but once I get on stage, it’s fine.”

The ca st member s con st a nt ly joke with each other. They also encourage and support their fellow cast members.

The support staff also puts their energy whole-heartedly into working with the cast members.

“It’s very enjoyable to work here, the things I get out of it, it feels like I’m doing something for each individual, but it’s also like I am getting something back,” Bennet said. “With anything, there are people you get along with and there are people you don’t, but they’re really good to work with.”

Rehearsals are filled with laughter and entertaining chaos. This is more than an acting troupe, it has become a family.

“Overall, my favorite part of the theatre is when you’re having a bad day in your real life, you know you can always conform yourself into another character to make yourself feel better,” Harrison said.

Bill Kreyssig cuts the hair of assistant director Nicole Kyle with a set of large yellow plastic scissors in this scene of Prompting Theatre’s rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet at the ___ ___Disabled Services Center Tuesday morning Apr 4, 2006.

Kyle was filling in for a performer in this particular scene.

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ovies like Lucky Number Slevin rea l ly deser ve their own genre title. I don’t know what you would call it, but it’s a mix of action, crime, and comedy. And it’s been done so many times before, I’ve already lost count. Pulp Fiction of course revolutionized this genre and an endless string of copycats followed. Some were so hackneyed that they could have been an unofficial sequel to the ’94 Quentin Tarantino classic.

It’s a genre Guy Ritchie (Mr. Madonna) mastered and later exhausted in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Both stories deal with the criminal underworld where crooks with double motives and cool monikers run amok, shooting, stealing and occasionally succeeding. Lucky Number Slevin comes from the same school of thought and to no surprise, the result is the same.

Josh Hartnett is the titular Slevin, an average guy minding his own business. After a case of mistaken identity, Slevin lands in hot water with two of the cities most infamous crime bosses: The Rabbi (Sir Ben Kingsley) and the Boss (Morgan Freeman). With no identity and a broken nose, Slevin is being forced to whack a guy or get whacked himself. Quite the pickle.

To make matters worse, Slevin is being relentlessly hounded by Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) and the cold-blooded assassin, Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis). If Slevin can’t figure out how to prove his identity and escape the labyrinth of

crooks and criminals he’s become embroiled in, well ... let’s just say his good looks won’t save him this time.

Movies like Lucky Number Slevin have no longevity. You may be enthralled after your first viewing and rightfully want to go and rave to everyone about the fantastic movie you just saw. And then you watch it a second time.

And a third. With each successive viewing the story and characters don’t seem so vivacious.

Once it’s predictable, it’s old. When it’s old, throw it away.

If you’re being lulled into a con, you’re more likely to expect the unexpected. Then the “surprise” ending doesn’t feel like much of a surprise and the characters are molded variations of the criminal archetypes from a dozen similar films.

It’s been done before in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead and similar retreads.

Director Paul McGuigan fashioned a slick looking film with music video-style cinematography and editing, but the actors are dead weight.

When you have Kingsley, Willis and Freeman in one of your movies, you better make sure you use them to their full potential. Don’t reduce them to background scenery or mere exposition points in which to build the story. Besides, Hartnett is too much of a pretty boy to carry a movie on his shoulders.

Lucky Number Slevin tries to be entertaining but never really achieves it. The dialogue may be razor-sharp and the seasoned cast makes the most of their one-dimensional characters, but the few surprising twists and turns are nothing you couldn’t see coming.

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or a fictional take on the film Mad Hot Ballroom, Take the Lead doesn’t do too bad in most respects. Antonio Banderas takes on the role of Pierre Dulaine, a real-life man who created a ballroom dancing program in New York schools to teach kids a lesson (and basically get them under control). Dulaine is on his way home from a ballroom dancing competition one night when he witnesses a kid smashing a car in with a golf club. In a predictable chain of events, he then goes to the kid’s school and decides to get involved.

While the “Inspired by True Events” opening to the film gives it some credibility, Take the Lead feels predictable, like a film you’ve seen before but the names and the talents have changed. Besides this, Take the Lead director Liz Friedlander got a bit carried away when it came to the size of the cast involved. Throwing in six story lines makes the story hard to follow. The predictability as well as the multiple story lines makes you feel as though you don’t really know the characters at all.

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was the dancing, although at times you might feel like you’re watching Dirty Dancing. Somehow, the inner city style made it all work very tastefully. It was also funny watching Banderas interact with a bunch of inner city misfits was hilarious.

It’s hard to stay in your seat for almost two hours watching people dance, and even more so when the plot gets confusing. You find yourself begging the director to show more dancing instead of being subjected to the character’s back-stories. All in all, I’d recommend this movie to anyone who likes to dance. If not, I suggest you sit this one out.

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD ACCORDING TO ANDY VECELAS

This is not a belated April Fools joke: Oscarwinning film Crash is being adapted into a television series that should be hitting the airwaves next year. Producer Cathy Schulman says she hopes most of the main cast will make appearances in the series, including fellow producer Don Cheadle.

The best part of this will be the uproar when it beats out Brokeback Mountain: The Series for an Emmy.

Harrison Ford, who talks about making a fourth Indiana Jones film practically every time he opens his mouth these days, has been dropping hints lately that he would like Sean Connery to reprise his scenestealing role as Indy’s father in the next entry in the series. Fun little fact: Ford is closer in age to the man who plays his father in the Indiana Jones films than he is to his real-life girlfriend Calista Flockhart.

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announced plans to film Terminator 4, according to Australian newspapers. It is unknown if Arnold Schwarzenegger will return for this installment, though past rumors have suggested that the California governor would at least make a small cameo. The screenplay will come courtesy of the same writers responsible for the third film in the series, as well as such classics as The Net and Catwoman. For all you budding filmmakers out there, just remember there’s always room in Hollywood for people who enjoy sucking up to producers and wringing the last bit of profit from dried-out franchises.

Sharon Stone has been busy in the last week it seems, announcing plans to record an album and also to direct another sequel to Basic Instinct (and you thought we were done with the pointless sequels for this week). My prediction: years from now, scholars will be debating exactly which of these pet projects was more worthless and the definitive nail in the coffin of Stone’s career.

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Now, after undergrad studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Ron Kovatch has seen his work displayed at exhibits across the country. His works, published in a multitude of different books, have garnered many awards. Kovatch has given guest lectures at over 20 different universities country-wide. He has taught at the University of Indiana as well as The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, Kovatch is a professor and the Department Head of Ceramics at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Describe “Vitamin C,� your current exhibit at the Cinema Gallery.

I have some work there. The charge for me was to curate the show. So I picked six artists in the region whose work I know very well. The work is as different as they are. That was really the main thing for me to do. The key was to bring the show together for this era, work which is unique, exciting and dynamic. The artists I chose understand the history of ceramic art. They are also making work that seems fresh and new to me. The artists work in multimedia labs; they are not slaves to the process and materials of ceramics, but they also use those more pure materials in ways that are more refreshing and dynamic, working in abstract ways.

Do you have your own work displayed at “Vitamin C�?

I have two drawings on the wall. The drawing imagery happens in slabs of clay. The clay is black, I cover it with a thick cake icing, slip white clay, of the consistency of yogurt. I very porously draw through it. Rugged, sloppy, messy: that’s my kind of style.

Ron Kovatch Was the show something you could prepare for on a larger scale? In general, can you prepare for future ceramics projects?

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That’s the goal. As someone who teaches, I don’t have long uninterrupted periods of time to do my own artwork. I’ll probably work on a piece for as long of an uninterrupted period of time as I can.

Let’s say something comes up, I’ll leave the artwork and come back later that night. I’ll see it differently, I’ll come back fresh, and rationalize what I do as fixing, which is a very strange way to put it. But I set something up, I know it doesn’t have that finished quality, and I aim for a sense of resolution. I’ve got about 35 drawings which I’ve been working on since January, and I have two which I thought were

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I’ve enjoyed some success. I had a show in Mexico and received some feedback on the work; that’s looking backwards, into the past though. I don’t tend to dwell on the past. It’s the next show, and even when I teach here I will talk to the students about their work in a critical situation. When I talk about their work it’s not so much about their work as it is now, but where it might take them in terms of the future. It’s a two way street when you work together.Sometimes what they don’t know, what they’re innocent about, is a child like nature which gives you fresher eyes to experience your [own] work.

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Dear Kim & Kate: I need clarification about something in your article “You Gotta Lick, Before We Kick It”. Are you saying that 70 percent of people with “fever blisters, cold sores” have herpes and can transmit oral herpes to the genitals?

If so, are they reoccurring and treatable but not curable? I have a teenager whom I would really like to explain this to in an intelligent way, but I’m a bit embarrassed at how unclear I am about this topic.

I guess I have always thought that mouth sores are herpes simplex while genital herpes, which I believe to be an STD, are a more complex strain.

Please help, A Confused Mom Dear confused but AWESOME Mom, Great questions! We applaud you for braving this topic with your teenager and for seeking correct information before having the chat.

Young people’s access to honest and accurate information is a key ingredient in helping them make healthy choices.

There are two types of herpes: Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 (HSV-1) and Herpes Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2).

HSV-1 is the herpes virus that usually infects the lips and mouth. People also call it fever blisters or cold sores and they appear on the outside of the mouth. About 70 percent of Americans have HSV 1 on their mouth. (Don’t confuse them with canker sores, which appear on the inside of the mouth.) Most of these people probably got it from kissing. Even a closed-mouth kiss can spread it when sores are present. And yes, HSV-1 can be transmitted to the genitals during oral sex, which would result in genital herpes. The sores are extremely contagious, and it is not known how often HSV1 is spread when no symptoms are present.

HSV-2 is the herpes virus that usually infects the genitals. If a person has genital herpes you could not get it from them by kissing their mouth (unless they were also infected there). As with the mouth, the genitals can become infected with either type of herpes. Genital HSV-1 outbreaks tend to recur less regularly than genital HSV-2 outbreaks. A person can spread genital HSV-2, even if they have no signs or symptoms. About 20 percent of Americans over 12 years have had a genital herpes infection. Most of these infections are caused by HSV-2, and are contracted through sexual contact.

SYMPTOMS AND TRANSMISSION Many people with herpes have no symptoms, or very mild symptoms (like mild itching/discomfort), and are not aware they are infected.

Other people know they get “fever blisters” but

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don’t know these blisters are herpes, and can be passed through kissing or oral sex. Still others get painful outbreaks with more intense itching and pain.

It’s important to remember that herpes can be transmitted without any signs or symptoms.

A person with herpes may experience itching, burning or tingling right before they are about to have an outbreak. The skin where the outbreak is about to appear is contagious at this time, even though there are no sores present. When a person does not have symptoms, the virus lays dormant in nerve tissue, so the virus is still in your body even when you aren’t having an outbreak.

Usually a person has less and less outbreaks as time goes by.

HERPES PREVENTION The best way to avoid herpes transmission is to have as much information about herpes as you can and make informed decisions about what you do. You can avoid herpes transmission by avoiding oral, vaginal and anal sex. Being in a monogamous relationship with a person who is not infected with herpes will eliminate the risk of getting it (but that’s only 30 percent of the population). Blood tests can be done to see if a person has the virus, but they are not always clear-cut and it might be difficult to determine which areas (mouth or genitals) to avoid contact with.

Using a barrier during sex (like a condom or dental dam/latex barrier) significantly reduces the risk of infection. But remember, herpes can appear on the body in places not covered by the condom or dental dam, so transmission can still occur.

SEX 411 While there is no cure for herpes, there are treatments to help reduce the symptoms and the frequency of outbreaks.

• HSV-1 and -2 can infect the mouth and/ or genitals.

• People with herpes can pass it on even when they don’t have signs or symptoms.

• Most people with herpes are not aware they have it.

• Using a barrier during sex (like a condom or dental dam) can significantly reduce your risk of getting or spreading herpes ... but it doesn’t eliminate risk.

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Kim Rice & Kate Ruin are professional sex educators. Got a question? Get it answered by writing to riceandruin@yahoo.com

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free will astrology APR. 13 — APR. 19 ARIES

March 21 – April 19

When I was a kid, I read Highlights magazine. My favorite feature was the section that asked Zen-like questions like “Can you laugh and cry at the same time?” or “If you were a talking parrot, what words would you want to learn?” For this week’s horoscope, I’ve borrowed the spirit of that old source of inspiration. May the following passage incite your raw wonder and feral innocence. What’s more beautiful, the smell of an orange or the sight of a green hill in spring? Under what circumstances might you eat dessert before the main course? Have you ever seen a statue wink? Is it possible to fall up instead of down?

Describe how you’d catch a dragonfly without hurting it. Tell a story that’s half-true and half-lies. Can you grow brain cells just by thinking you want to?

T A U RU S

May 21 – June 20

The Chinese poet Yuan Mei (1716-1798) was heavily influenced

by Buddhism but was also skeptical toward it. He was eager to learn from the very tradition he criticized. The book of his selected poems is entitled I Don’t Bow to Buddhas. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this is an excellent time for you to follow Yuan Mei’s lead. Are you smart and subtle enough to practice his split-minded approach? I think you are.

Try this: Intensify your love and respect for the ideas you’re inspired by, even as you explore your doubts about them and subject them to rigorous testing.

CANCER

June 21 – July 22

“What astrological transit did Galileo have when he first turned a telescope toward the heavens?” asks Richard Tarnas, author of Cosmos and Psyche. “What transit was coming to bear on Betty Friedan when she conceived of writing her seminal book The Feminine Mystique?” he continues. “What transit was Sigmund Freud experiencing when he had the breakdown-cumbreakthrough that propelled him into his life’s work?” There’s not enough space to answer those questions here, Cancerian.

I invoke them because I want to suggest that you’re currently basking in cosmic influences that could hatch a quantum leap with resemblances to those of Galileo, Freidan, and Freud.

LEO

Oct. 23 – Nov. 21

S AG I T TA R I U S

Nov. 22 – Dec. 21

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22 – Jan. 19

AQUA R I U S

Jan. 20 – Feb. 18

“Dear Dr. Brezsny: Usually I gobble up your words. They’re soul food that nourishes me for days. But last week’s ‘scope gave me indigestion. Was there a hidden meaning? Can I coax a deeper interpretation out of you? I promise I’ll give you the secret handshake and tell you the secret password. (It’s ‘swordfish.’) Would it help if I told you I once drank Red Bull from Maya Angelou’s slipper and that I’ve gathered gossip about you that thus far I’ve chosen not to reveal? Help me out. -Scorpio Who Hates Secrets Unless I’m Keeping Them.” Dear Scorpio: I think the problem is that you’ve been keeping so many secrets for so long that you’ve come to assume that every situation is crammed with secrets. The truth is, this is a highly unsecretive time for you. You should proceed as if there’s no good reason to hide anything and as if everyone is willing to reveal themselves freely.

April 20 – May 20

Lately I have this recurring vision of you crawling up out of a deep hole. I’ve even had two dreams with that theme. Each time, you seem to defy gravity as you climb by clawing at the sides of the hole and pulling yourself higher and higher until you finally emerge into daylight. Why am I having these fantasies? Are they a metaphor for your life right now? I shudder to think that you’ve been in an abyss as profound as the one I’ve been seeing, though I’m ecstatic about the prospect that you’re about to escape.

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July 23 – Aug. 22

“Dear Rob: I have to say that you unfailingly tune in to my manic and riotous subconscious screams every single week and help me transform them into something beautiful, fresh, and worthy of serious amusement. How do you do it? Can you teach me how to perform the same service for myself? -Leo Longing for Self-Mastery.” Dear Future Self-Master: You may not realize it yet, but in the past few weeks you Leos have acquired scads of data that could provide excellent fodder in your quest for self-mastery. I suggest that you pore over your recent past and gather up the rich clues.

VIRGO

Aug. 23 – Sept. 22

LIBRA

Sept. 23 – Oct.22

On the third anniversary of America’s invasion of Iraq, many protests took place. But they were mild, not wild--more like Sunday picnics than the fierce mass demonstrations that raged in 2003. New York’s rally drew a mere 1,000, Washington’s 300.

The march near where I live was a small affair led by two octogenarian women riding cream-colored scooters. They snacked on cookies and sang “This Little Light of Mine.” I was shocked and awed by the lack of passion, especially since now it’s even more appallingly obvious how stupid the war is than it was in the beginning. Don’t you dare allow a similar apathy to creep in to your own fight for justice, Virgo. For the sake of your future, you’ve got to redouble your righteous, ingenious anger.

“The wisdom of this year is the folly of the next.” So said the fortune cookie message I got last night when I was having dinner at a Chinese restaurant with two Sagittarian friends. As I read my oracle aloud, one of my companions said, “Ain’t that the truth!” and the other barked, “You got that right!” I take this to mean that it’s my duty to share my fortune cookie oracle with you. What wisdom from last year is now being revealed as folly? And what are you going to do about it?

In the Bible’s Book of Exodus 34:14, God says His name is “Jealous.” Literally. Why isn’t this fact more widely discussed by people who care about religion? In his book 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know, Russ Kick says it’s because America’s Pledge of Allegiance would have to be altered to say, “one nation, under Jealous,” and would lead to a redesign of U.S. currency, in which the motto “In God we Trust” became “In Jealous we trust.” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to withdraw your support for any deity that calls himself or herself “Jealous”--even as you also renounce any impulse in you that indulges in jealousy. It’s time to drive home to yourself how insane it is to compare your life to anyone else’s.

You’re perfect the way you are.

Years ago I had a girlfriend who was a performance artist. At Easter time every year, she did a show in which she walked barefoot on top of a spiral row of 22 colored, uncooked eggs without breaking more than a couple of them. Being 5’ 3” and 102 pounds helped her accomplish this semi-miraculous feat, but it still required great skill and concentration.

I believe you have a comparable task ahead of you, Aquarius.

Better start practicing.

PISCES

Feb. 19 – March 20

Here are your words of power for the coming week, Pisces: finagle, serendipitous, tinker, adlib, revise, crafty, balance, rectify. I urge you to carry out actions that embody the spirit of all those terms. Once you do, I believe you’ll be in perfect alignment with the cosmic forces coming to bear on you, and will therefore have prevailed upon those cosmic forces to provide you with the metaphorical equivalent of a skeleton key, universal password, or Swiss army knife.

Homework: Compare the person you are now with the person you were two years ago. Make a list of the three most important differences. Testify at www.freewillastrology.com.

The coming week should include a lot of back and forth, give and take, and to and fro. It will be a favorable time to jump into spirited debates and seek clarification through good-natured arguing. Dynamics that might feel uncomfortably adversarial at any other time could be invigorating now. In fact, I encourage you to bring up touchy subjects that everyone has been avoiding, because it’s likely you’ll finally be able to deal with them in candid and constructive ways. Your power symbol for the week is a child’s seesaw.

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2. Registering for classes: Damn you athletes and James Scholars!

3. Hearing the garbage man in the morning: When you are trying to get in a few hours of sleep, but haven’t yet dozed off.

ANNA STATHAM Music editor LIKES 1. Mom’s Weekend: Nothing makes me feel more like I’m in the OC than adolescent boys making out with their friends’ moms at the bars.

2. U of I basketball players: Even though they aren’t good at winning the NCAA tournament, they are good at clearing the sidewalk in front of me whenever a flock of admiring fans spots them across the street.

3. Griping: Complaining is so much easier than appreciating life.

LIANNE ZHANG Around Town editor GRIPES 1 . L ow f a t m ayo naise: It’s JUST NOT mayo. A sandwich just isn’t the same without the fat stuff.

2. Greg Hall computer lab: Tuesday night and there are 80 advertising students and 40 graphics students on deadline and the ONE color printer for the ENTIRE building breaks down.

3. The Hyper-Hydro Splash: Cars that aren’t considerate of pedestrians on rainy days bother me. If you see a pedestrian walking, don’t steer your car closer to that puddle and then gun it. NOT NICE.

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SARAH GOEBEL Copy editor LIKES 1. Renovation beginning on the Solon House: Built in 1865 at 503 S. State St., C h a mp ai g n’s f in es t example of Italianate architecture is saved — thank you PACA! 2. New Champaign Library opens summer 2007: I hope they choose local for the cafÊ that will be included!

3. South Dakota: Just because the state has been taken over by the far right doesn’t make them the “worst state ever�. In fact, if the ban made it to the Supreme Court, it would be voted down, creating more precedent and making it harder for Roe to be overturned in the future.

TODD SWISS Calendar editor LIKES 1. Sam Adams Summ e r A l e: T h is w a s released to the public once again a few weeks ago even though summer is actually far away.

I am not complaining though because this is a tasty and incredibly refreshing beer from one of America’s foremost breweries 2. Online Research Resources: I don’t know how college students could have possibly found what they were looking for prior to mega-sites like EBSCOHost and MLA International Bibliography.

3. The Fake Fictions: A cool lo-fi poppy punk band in the style of any number of bands on labels like Kill Rock Stars and K Records. They are playing at Cowboy Monkey on April 15.

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The climax of the evening came when elsinore won Best Live Band after losing the narrower category of Best Folk/Americana. This will seem quaint in retrospect, despite how well elsinore connects with audiences.

It was good to see Kilborn Blues Band honored for what was by far the hardest category to predict.

Aw, fuck. Well, at least I warned you that all of my predictions would be wrong. Sadly, for me this is becoming a pattern. When gambling on a cruise last winter, I threw a hundred dollars away because I thought I’d “happen to win” since I’m “lucky like that.” Bullshit. Then, I ingeniously filled in my NCAA bracket with Ohio State winning. Why, may you ask?

Am I an avid Ohio State fan? Do I love the good ol’ scarlet and grey? Hell no — I haven’t watched an entire basketball game since back in the day when the Bulls were so good, people carried around Horace Grant trading cards. I figured that I’d just “happen to win”; something pulled me towards my choice. If you count the failure of my LMA predictions, three’s a charm, and I am officially horrible at guessing correctly. DJ Mertz, who wrote a prediction as a complete joke, predicted more winners correct than me. Wow. Let’s just hope I never have to play a game of Russian Roulette.

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The crowd listens to the jam session consisting of Larry Gates on the bass, Jess Greenlee on percussion and DJ Lil Big Bass singing and mixing at the local music awards which took place at the Highdive April 6.

Joni Laurence sings with Angie Heaton and the Gentle Tamers for a song during the Local Music Awards at the Highdive April 6. sounds from the scene

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Well, I was 0.500 for my predictions, which is an incredible batting average and a near tolerant winning percentage, so I can’t complain.

Beauty Shop won, thankfully, although anyone with a shred of intelligence and musical taste can see they were at the top of the totem pole in this category. Agent Mos won, as I predicted, but I am legitimately shocked.

Krükid has had some uberly good press this year, as well as a style more palatable to a larger audience; I really thought he was going to walk away with the Best Hip-Hop title. Mos was the pleasantly shocking dark horse this year.

This is my angry paragraph; grrr Headlights didn’t win anything. I say NOetz to Lorenzo Goetz. My apologies, but I really don’t think LG is in any way enjoyable. Using an upbeat 4/4 time drum beat and weak-sauce guitar tricks just doesn’t cut it. Plus, I really didn’t think white guys reggae rapping was all the rage anymore. When I listen to them I think of LBC and the ’80s rapper Snow, neither of which are particularly good images to have your music conjure. The Living Blue won Best Record, which is fine by me. I’d choose to listen to the Headlights over them, but Fire, Blood, Water would have been my second pick. Any band that makes me want to get into an alleyway brawl gets Brian-props.

It has been a great year in local music for certain, and I’m already excited to see what will happen next year. I’m literally tingling everywhere.

The Beauty Shop won Best Folk/ Americana for the second year in a row, just like I said they would. I love it when I’m right.

Unfortunately, it did not happen much the night of the awards show, as pretty much everyone I thought was going to win in a given category, did not. Damn you, Todd Hunter, for being right about Best Rock! The hipsters did indeed split the vote between The Living Blue and Headlights, and Lorenzo Goetz won for that award as well as for Best Male Artist (Larry Gates), which makes me sad because The Living Blue is an awesome band, and I am also very fond of Headlights. Neither The Living Blue nor the Headlights went away empty-handed, though; The Living Blue won the award for Best Album for Fire, Blood, Water (sorry, Shipwreck — better luck next year!), and Erin Fein won the award for Best Female Artist. Her brother Seth, accepting the award on her behalf, was an added bonus, as was Best Female award presenter Travis Wayne Hurt’s intriguing facial hair. Megan Johns did not win Best New Artist, but one can only hope that as she develops her already present talent, she will win Best Female Artist within a few years. To sum up the actual awards show last Thursday: free vodka + great live music = a good time had by all.

I’m being asked to remember details from an award show after being pumped full of complimentary Finlandia Vodka (why was the vodka blue?), and I’m not sure I can do it.

This is an arduous task that possibly only Mike Coulter could accomplish. Although if I was in Coulter’s situation, I wouldn’t want to remember how so many of his jokes bombed (turnaround is fair play, eh Coulter? Haha).

Anyhow, most of the winners should come as no surprise to followers of the scene. Bozak, Mos, Erin Fein, and Larry Gates were all well deserving of their awards and were obvious front runners from the moment the Awards were announced. While I did not expect Elsinore to win for Best Live Act, and I had really hoped that Bailey would be recognized for being so damn good, I have to say the voters of Champaign did a bang-up job recognizing the best of the best in this town.

For me the treat of the night had to be the early jam session between Kayla Brown, Larry Gates and Jess Greenlee. While having only practiced a few times, they sounded fantastic and fresh — new sounds for an ever growing music scene. Additional guest freestyles from Agent Mos and Krükid capped off a fantastic performance in the front of the Highdive. So here’s hoping that we see that trio again soon. Heck, they might even win best new artist next year, thereby completing Larry Gates’ dominance over all things musical in Champaign-Urbana.

Before a crowd of CU’s musical elite, CU’s musical elite thanked each other for the second annual WP GU/Buz z music awar ds, interspersed with performances from amazing new talent (elsinore, Krükid) and old standards (Terminus Victor, Larry Gates). Many feared too many repeat winners in our often insular (and sometimes incestuous) scene, but only two artists took home the same awards as the previous year: DJ Bozak and the Best Folk/Americana winner, John Hoeffleur’s The Beauty Shop. Larry Gates accepted two awards, one for Best Rock Group for his quartet, Lorenzo Goetz, and one for Best Male Artist, presented by long-time Gates mentor Brandon T. Washington (Funky Butt Drum Club, Temple Of Low Men). Krükid, supported by Garenne Bigby, a host of samples and live percussion, performed a short set just before Agent Mos (aka Edward Moses) took home the award for Best Hip-Hop. Erin Fein, vocalist for Headlights, won Best Female Artist in a category full of talented artists, but brother Seth accepted it for her (the band is currently on tour). The touching moment, of course, occurred as producer Mark Rubel, who has been involved in the awards previously, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the community and all those great albums he’s worked on. Not long after, over Terminus Victor’s thundering rock (secondary highlight: hooded bassist/vocalist Scott Kimble’s off-mic blood-curdling shout; that guy doesn’t even need fingers in his gloves), last year’s Lifetime Achievement winner, long-time promoter Ward Gollings took the stage for a turn on the mic for “BOOM.”

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Presenters

Jon Meseke, Dawna Nelson, Ismail Mitchell, Rob Martz, Chris Earnhart, Seth Hubbard, Brandon T. Washington, Mike Armintrout, Todd Hunter

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Nominating Committee

Seth Fein, Mark Rubel, Mike Armintrout, Todd Hunter, Travis Wayne Hurt, Angie Heaton.

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John Doyle & Hamburg Distributing Finlandio Vodka Maureen Reagan & Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Rob Martz, C.V. Lloyde Music Center Walt Hoult & Shelby Motors Rebecca Bedinger & Ippatsu Hair Salon Ward Gollings & the Highdive staff Sailfin

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Chuck Allen, Ana Bolotin, Jackie Chalem, Mary Cory, Michael Coulter, Scott Downs, Nancy Elliott, Michelle Gabris, Sara Hruska, Jon Huff, Travis Wayne Hurt, Claire Napier, Kristin O’Brien, Gina Provenzano, Beth Rehn, Erin Scottberg, Nikita Sorokin, Troy Stanger, Anna Statham & the WPGU Promotion staff.

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Elsinore Angie Heaton & the Gentle Tamers The Elanors The Beauty Shop Joni Laurence DJ Lil Big Bass DJ Mertz DJ Bozak DJ Elise DJ J Phlip The Living Blue Headlights Lorenzo Goetz The Tractor Kings

Shipwreck Desafinado Ear Doctor Kilborn Alley J. Helgesen Nu-Orbit Ensemble Krukid Aliteration Sanya N’Kanta Agent Mos C King Cameo Turret fireflies Megan Johns

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