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Ebertfest 2009: 11th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival

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This year’s festival continues at the Virginia Theatre at 1:30 p.m. with My Winnepeg, Chop Shop and Trouble the Water. Tickets are $12 per screening and $10 for students.

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Check out Matt Strong’s review of What You Will Shakespeare Company’s production of Macbeth.

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From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Wendl’s, adults can learn how to rope and ride from professionals and kids can learn goat tail tying. The event is free and open to the public.

Don’t miss trivia, bowling, live music and a movie screening at the Canopy Club beginning at 3 p.m. Tickets range from $2 to $15.

monday 27 Artists Against Aids exhibition/ fundraiser This fundraiser will take place at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and will benefit the Greater Community AIDS Project.

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tuesday 28 School of Art + Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition This annual free exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum features the work

of graduate students in graphic design, industrial design, new media, painting, ceramics, metals, photography, and sculpture.

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e d i t o r ’ s n o t e by Tommy Trafton I haven’t made it out to a movie theater in a long time. It’s not that I don’t want to go out and spend the ticket price to see a newly released movie on the big screen, it’s probably more of a matter of commitment and convenience these days. The last movie I’ve watched was actually just the other day ... on YouTube ... and it was Disney’s Robin Hood. Clearly, not the most ideal viewing experience, but when you’ve never once questioned the term “oo-de-lally” as a kid and then 15 years later finally wonder what that strange minstrel rooster at the beginning of the film actually meant by the word, then you have the perfect excuse to sift through all www.the217.com

10 parts of the YouTube version to hear it in context one more time. It’s interesting how, due to media like YouTube and iTunes and Netflix, the tradition of movie going has changed. Films and TV shows are probably now just as watched on the computer screen as they are in the family room and people seem to be much more detached from the experience as they watch their bootleg version of the Watchmen on their 13-inch laptop, with no popcorn in hand, their bedroom lights on, while simultaneously surfing the Web and doing homework. I’m sure it has to do with how busy and multitasked society likes to be these days, but it’s unfortunate how viewing movies isn’t necessarily a social activity anymore just as listening to music has become so much more

personalized with the advent of headphones and the iPod.That may be why every now and then, I still get a strange urge to go out and waste $10 on a movie ticket just for the experience of being in a theater. I wouldn’t even have a specific movie in mind to go see; the previews and the popcorn would be enough to justify the night out. But if there’s any week to celebrate the real way to view a movie, it’s this one. For the eleventh year, Ebertfest returns to Champaign and the buzz movies staff will be all over the event, keeping you updated on the people, speeches and viewings at the festival. Check on the217.com now for previews of the 12 movies featured and take a look through this special movies issue of buzz to find out more about the annual event.

Music: Look out Saturday for a review of the third installment of Dubstep Massacre.

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Likes & Gripes Keith Hollenkamp Movies Editor Gripes

1) Bad Vampire Movies: F.W. Murnau would be rolling in his grave if he knew about all this tweeny crap that is being passed off as vampire films. All you Twilight fans out there go see Let the Right One In at Ebertfest and rent The Lost Boys to see what a real teenage vampire movie is supposed to be like. 2) Riverboat Gambling: I “liked” about this a few weeks ago. Now it is my enemy. 3) Bryce: Gahh ... you bastard. Kerry Doyle Community Editor Likes

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by Keilin Deahl This weekend, thousands will flock to CU for the 11th annual Ebertfest. And with each day’s opening screening premiering before 2 p.m., a morning meal is a must. With the restaurant selection as diverse as the films, CU has the perfect brunch option to satisfy anyone’s morning hunger. Carmon’s Creperie 415 N. Neil St., C. Though classic in nature, the Creperie’s authentic buckwheat crepes are as far from ordinary with their vibrant and bold flavors. Open Saturday and Sunday for brunch, crepe fillings include creamed fresh spinach and ratatouille Provencal. Customizing your crepes only enhances the already rich flavors with add-ons such as grilled chicken, tomato-basil relish and sautéed mushrooms. With local artwork hanging on the walls creating a cozy atmosphere, this CU favorite is a surefire winner before the show even begins. Merry Ann’s Diner 1 E. Main St., C. To satisfy your craving for the classic homemade breakfast, Merry Ann’s two CU locations offer the true diner experience often seen only in the movies. Open 24 hours a day, the super-friendly staff and the delicious menu choices make it a great option for a quick brunch.

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If you see a woman crafting edible flowers from a table on the sidewalk of Main Street, don’t be surprised. It’s just how Buffy Vance, owner of Madeline’s Confectionary Arts Studio and Gallery, chooses to spend a sunny afternoon. It is also a way to promote her cake decorating classes that began in March. “I can remember when I was a little girl, I used to love to go by the bakery and watch people decorate cakes. It’s just fun to do,” Vance said, who plans to be on the sidewalk regularly. Vance said she always asks members of her classes how they heard about the class. It’s like, ‘Oh, we saw you outside,’” Vance said. For those who choose to come inside, Basic 101 Cake Decorating is a series of three classes for $60 that teaches students how to use a pastry bag, make a rose, make a level cake and frost a cake, among other skills. The first class of the series discusses different types of icing, Vance said,

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and includes recipes for useful icings. By the end, students will be able to work with buttercream, fondant and gum paste. Students who enjoy Basics 101 or already have experience with decorating can move on to Fondant Basics, which Vance said is very educational. “Most people are like, ‘Ugh, I don’t like the way it tastes,’” Vance said. “But it’s like coffee — there are so many different kinds of fondant.” The grade of fondant affects how easily it can be rolled and whether it has a chalky taste or not, Vance said. Fondant Basics costs $80 and will teach students how to work with fondant and make embellishments such as pearls, flowers and bows. The next level of class is a gum paste class, which leads to the creation of realistic-looking flowers, Vance said. The three levels of classes have a minimum sign-up of about six people, Vance said. “You get the class feel, you

get to meet people,” she said. Vance also offers Saturday workshops and private lessons by appointment. These sessions can involve anything from making white chocolate roses with the girls while sipping white chocolate martinis to a lesson on making a specific cake from a magazine. Basic 101 is Vance’s favorite class to teach, she said. “They’ll do the rose or they’ll do a technique and they’ll pop their phones out and take a picture of it,” she said. “They’re just so proud of themselves. It’s very gratifying.” Vance said she feels her love of cake decorating is infectious in class. “There’s the beautiful show cakes and then there’s beautiful homemade cakes, but [beautiful pastry is] something made with love and care.” Vance said her love of baking came before her love of decorating, so she understands the plight of her students. “You make a good cake — I’ll help you make them pretty,” she said.

Original Pancake House 1909 W. Springfield Ave., C. A five-minute drive from Virginia Theatre, this restaurant’s comfort food makes it an instant favorite. Kelsey Isaacson, a frequent patron, suggests the “amazing home fried potatoes with cheese and bacon on them. It’s a very friendly, hometown environment, and their pancakes are delicious!” With more than 10 pancake options alone, there is nothing on the menu that will disappoint. Pekara Bakery and Bistro 116 N. Neil St., C. An alternative to the typical brunch, Pekara carefully prepares all dishes and breads from scratch without any added preservatives or artificial ingredients. Daily pastries include cinnamon rolls and scones while savory and dessert crepes, sandwiches, salads and pizza are made to order in the bistro. Located on N. Neil Street, C. Pekara opens at 7 a.m. daily, leaving plenty of time to relax before the screenings. Radio Maria 119 N. Walnut St., C. Putting a Latin-American twist on the traditional brunch, Radio Maria provides customers with a huge variety of choices. From the famous Torta Maria — goat cheese, sweet potato, corn, mole and roasted poblano peppers sandwiched between tortillas — to unique and flavorful omelets including Green Eggs and Ham, the menu itself offers a culinary experience.

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A Cultured Lifestyle Leads to Love for Music, Movies Lifelong film buff and owner of That’s Rentertainment Geoff Merritt talks movies with buzz by Elyse Schmidt

f you ever need to borrow a DVD, Geoff Merritt is your guy — he has more than a couple thousand. And that’s only the stuff he really, really likes. To an everyday, average person, a couple thousand DVDs may be a little excessive. For the owner of That’s Rentertainment, located on Sixth and John, C., and one of the few independent video stores still surviving, it seems only typical. But movies didn’t come until later for Merritt. “I was way more into music than movies at the time,” said Merritt, who always knew he wanted to own a record store and now owns Parasol in Urbana. The time was 1985, and That’s Rentertainment, his first store, started out in a different location and as a different kind of store — a record rental place near what would now be the back of Notes n’ Quotes. “We did that until it became illegal,” Merritt said with a hint of dry humor. He’s serious. After record renting became illegal about a year and a half after the store opened, Merritt started focusing on video rentals, a trend that was still on the slow — and expensive — side. In a time when a VHS tape cost $100 to buy and a membership to rent videos cost $90, Merritt’s 300-square-foot store had videos to rent for three bucks a pop. “It seemed weird to charge people just to come into the store and then give us more money,” he said. Merritt has always been that guy — the guy who does his own thing, goes against the grain, marches to the beat of his own drum. “I was

the weird kid at the dorm,” he said, recalling his University of Illinois dorm experience. “I was notorious for having a stash of records under my arm at all times.” Back then, Merritt was buying a record a day (not recommended, he said). Music was always the obvious choice of his attention, especially when competing with schoolwork. A psychology major, Merritt knew he never wanted anything to do with psychology. “They don’t let you go through school without a major,” he said jokingly. “So I had to pick something.” At this point, the dream of having his own store was already alive inside of him. This love of music and movies, especially the really out-there stuff, can most likely be credited to his parents. His lack of interest for his studies certainly cannot. Both of his parents worked for the University in the ’60s and ’70s. His father, a Yale graduate, was a professor of political science. His mother graduated from Smith. Born and raised in Urbana, Merritt and his two brothers spent their time there seeing operas and orchestra performances. When not in Urbana, Merritt spent years of his childhood living in Germany and Italy while his dad did research. He used to speak German, Italian and a little French. From a young age, Merritt was always around different cultures, different languages and unique and interesting music and films. It’s not surprising, then, that his favorite movie (if he had to pick) is the 1940s black-and-white French version of

Inside That’s Rentertainment with owner Geoff Merritt. Photo by Brad Thorp

Beauty and the Beast. “Everything about foreign films is better than Hollywood films — the plot, the acting, the filming,” he said. But don’t stick him in one genre. “I’m not only interested in one genre,” he said. “I guess that’s how we ended up with 35,000 DVDs [at Rentertainment].” To put that number in perspective, Blockbuster stores usually are about 10,000 square feet and have about 8,000 DVDs. That’s Rentertainment is about 1,200 square feet and has 35,000 DVDs. The store almost stands on DVDs. Merritt reads a lot of magazines, looks at a lot of Web sites and follows certain independent labels in order to stock his store with everything and anything. “I spend most of my day looking for stuff,” he said, “just looking for really weird and obscure things.” To Merritt, That’s Rentertainment is the movie equivalent of an old record store, the place he loved most growing up. “We stock stuff you just don’t find anywhere,” he said. “We have the stuff that no one has heard of, the stuff before the

famous stuff.” You can certainly find mainstream movies at his place — Donnie Darko and Schindler’s List are always the top rentals — but really it is a store for those looking for something more. “We get e-mails from people all over, asking us how to find a certain movie,” Merritt said. Now, with Ebertfest on the horizon, Merritt has a display of many of the movies that have been showcased at Ebertfest throughout the years, including eight of the 12 films being shown this year. “The other ones, you just can’t get them,” he said. The certain movie he is most excited to see is Sita Sings the Blues. “Some of the movies, yeah, they are really out there,” Merritt said, commenting on how people may think Ebertfest is too “artsy” for them. “But at the end of it all, they are just all so amazing.” Coming from a man who is an expert on all things different and out there, a man who used to watch two to three movies a day, a man who as a boy listened to the radio under his pillow late at night to find new songs and artists, it seems pretty clear that he knows what he’s talking about.

Students in the group also get the chance to participate in community events such as the upcoming Ebertfest. IFV records the introduction for the movie that is featured at the festival as well as the Q&A and panel discussion that follow. The events are filmed with a live three-camera shoot. “It’s a good opportunity to experience live television,” Burgess said. “It’s not an experience that you can get easily around here.” IFV has an upcoming event that students can participate in. Their Spring Film Festival gives students the opportunity to make and view short

films. “It’s impressive to see what students can come up with,” Shivers said. The Festival will be held May 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Canopy Club. The event is free and will feature short films produced by both by IFV and other students. Anyone can submit a film, and the deadline is April 29. More information can be found on IFV’s Web site, www.illinifilmandvideo.com. IFV has meetings every Monday at 6 p.m. in room 104 of the English Building, so if you’ve always aspired to be a Hollywood director or the star of a YouTube video, check them out.

Getting Hands-On with Video Illini Film and Video lets students direct and act by Maggie Puniewska Most students are probably familiar with the show America’s Funniest Home Videos. Who can forget the countless videos showing children falling off playground equipment and participating in other acts of self-inflicted harm that the audience felt were absolutely hilarious? If you want to graduate from the slapstick home videos and move on to something that features an actual plot, professional filming and acting, and is student run, Illini Film and Video can offer you just that. Illini Film and Video (IFV) is a Registered Student Organization here on campus that, well, makes

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films and videos. A self-run RSO that’s been going strong for nine years, IFV gives students the chance to participate in all aspects of the filmmaking process. “It’s a way for filmmakers, producers, writers and actors to network,” said Anne Shivers, a senior in LAS and the vice president of IFV. Film topics are open to student ideas and suggestions. There is no set “model” or prototype that students have to follow. “People can do whatever they want,” said Joey Burgess, a fifth-year senior in Engineering and president of the group.

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Boardman’s Art Theatre to Relocate, Focus on the Rialto by Danielle Perlin Two jet-black Mitsubishis drag race, roaring their engines; the surround sound in the theater increases a few notches. Fast and Furious finishes as people of all ages leave their empty paper cups and greasy popcorn containers in the multiplex theater. “Patrons are missing out on so much if all you do is go see the latest films from Hollywood,” said Greg Boardman, president of Boardman’s Theatres. “I prefer to show films where [they] challenge you to think and put yourself in someone else’s shoes.” After owning a first-run, small-town theater for 20 years in Hoopeston, Ill., Boardman became frustrated when he tried to show independent and foreign films and had “six people [showing] up on a Saturday night.” Boardman’s Art Theatre, located at 126 W. Church St.,C shows independent and foreign language films on its single screen and has an e-mail list of more than 2,000 patrons; Boardman said the movie changes about every two weeks, with some exceptions. Though Boardman opened his theater in June 2003 and wants to continue to provide independent and foreign language films to the CU community, his lease is up in December of this year. Boardman was approached by the owners of the Rialto, a theater that has been closed since 1986, which is located right across the street from Boardman’s Art Theatre in the Russell Building. “I’d love to see the Rialto come back to life in Champaign; [that’s my] main focus right now,” said

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Boardman. “[The Rialto] owners are theater lovers [and] want to see the building turn into a theater; I know how to bring a theater back to life.” The City of Urbana also approached Boardman with the idea of opening a multiplex theater that would show independent and foreign language films. “It would be like having Roger Ebert’s film festival in town week in and week out, [with] four, five, six films showing,” said Boardman. “Not only could I show more independent and foreign language films but also keep each of them longer and let them find an audience.” Boardman commented on the reasons as to why the City of Urbana wants to create a multiplex theater: “Urbana needs business ... downtown [has] a lot of bars for college students,” he said. Boardman said Urbana does not have a lot of culture or nightlife for the workers of downtown Urbana. “A multiplex showing high-quality films attracts a better educated, better financed, different class of folks to come into the community, have dinner, spend the evening in Urbana,” he said. However, Boardman said that his first priority is looking into the financial aspect of starting up the Rialto once again. He hopes to open the Rialto sometime before the end of this year, meaning he would be running Boardman’s Art Theatre simultaneously.

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UIUC junior Brendan Mulhern, an employee at the theater, enjoyed seeing movies at the theater before he began working there. “I came a few times, especially for the festivals — most foreign language festivals are here; those are always nice to come to,” he said. “[It’s] hard to find foreign films, especially in this area ... [but] you can come here [and] see films in different languages from all around the world.” Boardman said first-run films playing in the multiplexes appeal to the widest possible audience and are also the films that make the most money; these films generally do not help viewers’ educations. “Jackass has no redeeming quality; multiplexes had multiple copies showing,” he said. “These places have 18 or 20 screens each, three or four screens going, but thought-provoking films don’t make enough money to interest them.” Boardman noted how his theater brings educational value to the community by screening independent and foreign language films. With thousands of students coming to the University annually, Boardman commented on how students come to “expand their views and absorb culture.” “If you arrive on campus and all you seek out are multiplexes, [you’re] missing out on so much culture [and are] not going to be challenged in any way by going to the multiplexes,” he said.

Boardman’s Art Theatre in downtown Champaign. Photo by Maria Surawska

Mulhern agreed with Boardman that the ﬁlms shown at Boardman’s Art Theatre give diverse views. “These movies give you different perspectives, talking about different cultures, different styles of life ... movies you see nowadays are usually the same, [have] similar scenarios,” said Mulhern. Boardman will continue to provide the CU community with educational and thought-provoking ﬁlms, whether they be at Boardman’s Art Theatre, the Rialto or a new multiplex theater in Urbana.

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Art With a Heart Artists Against Aids mixes art, music for a purpose by Emily Cleary

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The Artists Against AIDS (AAA) art showcase has built a strong reputation during its 17 years of existence. The AAA displays the work of artists ranging from seven to 80 years old in all different mediums and has become a successful and highly anticipated show, said Tim Hutchison, co-chair of the event. The AAA, which began in 1993, is an annual art showcase that features over 200 artists and is organized by the Greater Community AIDS Project (GCAP). The AAA will be, like recent past years, hosted by the Orpheum in downtown Champaign. The proceeds of the show benefit GCAP, which Hutchison said, “Is a service organization that provides housing for people in need with AIDS and HIV. They also offer different types of support groups” in the CU area. The uniqueness of the AAA presents itself in the fact that “anyone who wants to submit stuff can,” said Hutchison. In turn, “anyone who wants to attend will ﬁnd something they like,” he said. The art is for sale to viewers interested in buying, and at least 50 and up to 100 percent of the proceeds go straight to GCAP, at the discrepancy of the artist. With this being the show’s third year at The Orpheum, there will not be many logistical differences that separate the past years from this year’s showcase, Hutchison said. “It’s pretty much the same as it has been. People get familiar with it, and it helps the system go pretty well.” However, each year is unique from the

next due to the new and original art that is on display and for sale, Meadow Jones, assistant director at the Orpheum, said. “It’s wonderful that the Orpheum is available,” Hutchinson said. “We want to help support the organization,” Jones said. Jones believes that the showcase is “an opportunity to utilize the beautiful historic theater.” Built in 1914 as “a one-third scale model of La Salle de Spectacle, the opera hall at Versailles,” according to http://orpheumkids.com, the Orpheum is a beautiful venue to host AAA. This year, the showcase runs from April 23 to April 27. Music and entertainment accompany the showcase, which makes the event one long party, Hutchison said. Thursday, the ﬁrst look opening, is the only day that requires admission for entrance. The public grand opening is Friday from 6 to 10 p.m., which is typically the most entertaining and popular day to attend, Hutchison said. Another popular event within the showcase, from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, is the artist reception — a two-hour block when the public can meet the artists. To learn more about the Artist Against AIDS event, you can visit its group on Facebook called “CU Artists Against AIDS.” Listed are the times and entertainment of the showcase. Both Jones and Hutchison strongly encourage coming out to see “the hodgepodge of art” that is the AAA, as Hutchison said. The chance to see original art, listen to good music, mingle, and most importantly, support GCAP should not be missed.

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in verse

Erik Johnson

America the beautiful The bold the bald the brave

The white through black the overweight The Idiot and the Sage

If hope comes from eternal springs And spring can still be sprung The simple hope we need for things

Is life indeed goes on

We’ve held some truths as evident

And those we need as well

But of Earth we are a resident Not of heaven or of hell.

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Dancing to their Own Rhythm

Rehearsals for Studio Dance II take place at the Studio Theatre in Krannert Center for Performing Arts on Monday, April 20. Photo by Tanmay Chowdhary

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Studiodance II allows select students to showcase their talent Ceara Hickerson “Wake Up!”, “My Genius is Better than Your Genius?”, “Melangerie” — prepare for an hour and a half of a sensory menagerie with these performances from Studiodance II. Chosen by an election committee of faculty members and concert professors from the Dance Department, these pieces join a line-up of 10 student choreographed works. Studiodance II is a completely voluntary performance that seeks to reveal the artistic abilities of select dance students. The students are active and passionate about their work. The audition process this year included 30 pieces and 10 were chosen for the performance. “We have an amazing group of students who get together and find the time to rehearse and put together a show while working on lots of other performances and academic work,”

Jennifer Monson, concert director, said. The energetic student body is very interested in choreography, presenting their work and trying things out. Monson says the theme of the performances is totally dependent on who decides they want to audition pieces. The concert includes a wide ranging selection of dance styles from traditional tap, jazz and ballet to contemporary forms like modern and hip-hop, which are influenced by pop culture. Furthermore, she notes that age ranges from freshmen who are doing really expressive and powerful solos, to graduate students who are working with sophomores collaboratively. Monson works closely with the students in the artistic and logistic process of bringing the pieces to fruition. “My role as concert director is to support the whole process, and once we’ve selected each

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piece to be performed we assign a mentor who we see fit to help them work a little further.” She watches rehearsals, observes the work, and gives constructive criticism as well as positive feedback. “For me the most exciting thing was seeing all of the different works, seeing the enthusiasm and the creativity and the imagination of the artist,” Monson said. “New freshmen and sophomores are finding the energy to find their own voice and try things out.” As a creative process the performance pieces present new, fresh dance experiences. Monson says that students have graduated and taken their work into their professional work. There have been students in the past that took their body of work and performed it in New York and Chicago. Studiodance II inspires and motivates the dance students at the University of

Illinois to present their work at multiple venues. The audience should expect gradients of dance from serious to whimsical and everything between. “Dance is a really powerful art form because it invites the audiences into a particular kind of kinetic experience that is extremely sensory,” Monson said. “Things that are really personal and emotional explain the imagination through the body in a particular way. Often it’s not that the audience is invited into experience dance in a way that is not necessarily intellectual, or literal, or narrative. It is very much about a time-based art form.” Studiodance II will be performed in Studio Theatre at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts on April 23 at 7:30 p.m. and April 24-25 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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More Than Just

Psychedelic Odysseys

Dubstep Massacre 3 to Overthrow the Cowboy Monkey

Cornmeal’s Canopy Club Performance Powerful Start to U.S. Tour

Drum and Bass by Melanie Zanona

by Lawrence Gann

he bass drops and wraps around your chest, hitting hard and slow, but the drums are quick, varied and hit you right in the face. Welcome to dubstep. The new genre, which emerged from British grime and electronic music in the early 2000s, has gained popularity in the U.S. over the last five years and continues to grow in cities like Champaign, which will play host to Dubstep Massacre 3 on Friday, April 24 at Cowboy Monkey. “Each DJ gets 35 minutes to work with,” said DJ Belly, one of several area DJs playing at Friday’s

event. “It creates an exciting level of energy because we’ll be playing all our big stuff.” Dubstep Massacre 3 is the third local dubstep event this year presented by the217mafia.com, and will showcase the different styles of DJ Mertz, DJ Belly, DJ Substr8 and Mobius, starting at 11:30 p.m. “What will strike people that haven’t heard dubstep before is the bass, because it’s far more pronounced than what people are used to,” Belly said. Dubstep is characterized by heavy bass, syncopated drums and sparse rhythms. Although

the music is mostly instrumental, it showcases influences of hip-hop, reggae and indie rock within the layered beats. “For me, it’s all the genres I’ve ever liked stuffed into one,” DJ Mertz said. “It’s got so many diverse elements.” According to Mertz and Belly, the second Dubstep Massacre on March 28 drew a heavy crowd from Eastern Illinois, and they are expected to road trip to Champaign for this event as well. “The thing that shocked me was that so many people actually knew these tracks and were getting excited,” Mertz said. “We couldn’t have done this five years ago and the internet has been a huge influence.” Dubstep fans and intrigued readers alike can check out DJ Belly’s blog at http://www. dubselecta.blogspot.com for more information on upcoming local events, recaps of past events, and mixes, or tune into http://www.dubstep.fm to get their dubstep fix. Better yet still, check out the music, DJs and fans live at Dubstep Massacre 3. “If people want to look for what the next exciting musical sound of town is, it’s this right here,” Mertz said. Dubstep Massacre 3 will kick off at 11:30 p.m. on Friday, April 24 at the Cowboy Monkey. Cover is $2 and the event lasts until 2 a.m.

Let the Battle Begin The Courtyard Café hosts Up-and-Coming Acts, Prizes at Battle of the Bands by Vivianna Sapien On Friday, April 24, seven local bands will take the Courtyard Café stage and flaunt their musical abilities for an enticing free admission price and the chance at prizes for both the performing acts and audience members. While Battle of the Band events often bring a fear that the night will be filled with the same music, covers, and sound from each act, the Illini Union Board has collected a variety that is sure to tickle the fancy of any fan of music. Concert-goers can expect everything from classic blues and favorite covers, to punk and funk. The first band on docket is A Book by its Cover, an act formed in 2008 that covers a variety of songs, featuring numbers from current radio favorite the Killers, to memories of the ‘90s with the Wall-

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flowers. Also set to perform is On Again Off Again, a Chicago indie-folk quartet that sounds like the love child of Weezer’s winning guitar riffs and Elliot Smith’s soulful lyrics. Stone Creek then shakes things up a bit, fusing classic blues with modern rock. Following Stone Creek will be the naturally high energy act Collusion, a band that can be compared to Stevie Ray Vaughn and Foghat. The middle of the line-up brings Shark Bandit, a fun alternative band that keeps the audience jumping with their edgy vocals and strong guitar solos. Also battling is Court of Elm, a band that takes inspiration from Ben Folds and Jet, as their robust piano and sweet vocals strengthen their upbeat performances. Closing out the night with an added spice, Dr. Fünke’s 100 percent All Natural Good Time

Funk Band Solution is nothing short of funk’s best, with impressive grooves and sensual vocals. Winners are determined by a panel of three judges who have a background in music, as well as audience participation. The winning band not only receives $500, but is also entered into the Joust Records National Record Deal Competition. This competition allows the act to compete online against the winners of similar events at other national universities. The bands, however, are not the only ones leaving with a prize, as the music-loving audience also has a chance to win an iPod shuffle at the end of the night. Check out these promising student bands as they compete on Friday, April 24 at the Courtyard Café. Admission is free with an 8 p.m. starting time.

Thursday, April 16 at the Canopy was a brightly lit haze, with as much experimentation and free expression on the stage as there was in the crowd. There failed to be any advertisement for the opening bands, with the front billboard of Canopy Club and MySpace page both listing Cornmeal as the sole act, however Zmick opened the show in the smaller Void room. The Urbana-based four piece provided their surprisingly technical progressive/jam rock and were well received by the audience. Zmick and Cornmeal share similar areas of the musical spectrum — both bands have fifteen plus minute jam excursions, tight experimental music and hippie tendencies, so it made sense to see them sharing music under the same roof. Chicago group Women’s Downhill followed the local favorite Zmick on the side stage. Women’s Downhill is half of the hippie rock group Family Groove Company, and is made up of keyboarder Jordan Wilkow and drummer Mattias Blanck. Like their parent band, Women’s Downhill plays sensible funk with jazz undertones, and has a knack for tight improvisation. As their set peaked and ended, the audience shifted towards the Canopy’s impressive main stage for headliner Cornmeal. Cornmeal took the stage to great applause and the crisp stench of “something else” in the air. An extravagant light show complete with psychedelic patterns on the flanking telescreens served as visual compliment to the writhing music. Cornmeal’s style is Phish meets bluegrass, Allison Krauss on acid. The five piece’s sound is defined by Allie Kral’s ethereal fiddle notes anchored by Chris Gangi’s upright bass grooves. The band opened their set with a spectacular jam session that wavered between solid, quiet grooves and feverishly intense crescendos. The crowd danced and some kissed in time to the music, as J.P. Nowak’s driving grooves pushed the twanging melodies of Dave Burlingame’s banjo antics into stranger musical territory. Cornmeal’s psychedelic odysseys were interspersed with straight up bluegrass tunes, which didn’t stretch the imagination as far but were enjoyable nonetheless. Cornmeal showed that the experimental, chill styles of Phish and the Grateful Dead were not just relegated to the ‘60s, but a genre that still flourishes and entertains today. Their performance at the Canopy Club on April 16 was the kickoff of a U.S. tour for the band, which will lead them across several festivals, including the High Sierra, Wakarusa, and Summercamp. If Thursday was any indication, they will not fail to disappoint.

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What Happens When Production and Sound Effects Fail Peter, Bjorn and John’s Living Thing is Experimental Mess by Andrew Ang Whether you’d like to admit it or not, you’ve probably heard of “Young Folks.” You know, that whistling, bongo-swatting, quirky song that got all the kids clap happy. Peter, Bjorn and John is back with a new album, and that begs the question: what happens when a pop band dabbles with a new sound? Global warming, AIDS, senseless violence, a rare shark being harpooned — it all goes downhill once you pop the album in your player. One redeeming quality of Living Thing was the fact that no xylophones were used. Apart from that, it really is all downhill. While a lot of credit should be given to PB&J for experimenting, only brownie points can be rewarded for the result. Certainly, a lot of production was put into this. In all 12 tracks, sound effects come and go as each song is perfectly layered, yet there’s no sense of build-up. A great deal of the sound effects are splashed in randomly which doesn’t drive the songs forward, but instead adds unnecessary clutter.

There are a few contagious tracks, such as the children-stomping-in-the-playground-vibe of “Nothing to Worry About,” or the “Young Folks” rehash in “It Don’t Move Me.” However, it is difficult to take the band seriously when they sing lyrics like, “Cold feet, your sister is sweet,” or “Calm down, you act like a clown.” When PB&J play cheering squad drums on the track “Living Thing,” it just doesn’t work. While several tracks have that ‘80s new wave sound, the music just isn’t dynamic. PB&J favors hammering melodies into your head by repeating them note-per-note until the songs end. While it’s always difﬁcult to evaluate a foreign band — is that cutesy voice part of the song, or just an accent? Are they striving for minimalist lyrics, or maybe just a lack of a thesaurus? — one thing is for sure; listening to Living Thing begs PB&J to revert to their familiar pop sound, which wasn’t even good to begin with.

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Ebertfest 2009 A rundown of this year’s films

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In 1989, Karen Gehres met a woman who would change her life. Her name was Elise Hill, and Gehres met her while they were both artists. In 1996, Gehres began ﬁlming Hill’s life. At the age of 15, as a runaway in New York City, Hill was picked up by a pimp and soon became a prostitute and a heroin addict. In this time period, Hill was an aspiring artist who one day dreamed of going to art school. After a stint in rehab, Hill ﬁnally went to art school and sold her work on the street. But what happened after this will break your heart.

Let the Right One In Let the Right One In is a vampire movie done correctly, not like all that Twilight stuff that is going around these days. The ﬁlm centers around a young boy named Oskar who becomes friends with a 200-year-old vampire child named Eli. Their relationship grows, and Eli helps Oskar deal with a few bullies at Oskar’s school. Loved by critics around the world, Let the Right One In is deﬁnitely a standout at this year’s Ebertfest.

Baraka Baraka is a film with no plot, so to speak; it is merely a collection of beautifully arranged photos. Filmed over 14 months in 24 countries by a three-person crew, this film attempts to show not only the beauty of our planet but also the poverty and struggles we must endure. The film will be shown at Ebertfest in 70-millimeter, which means this film will probably be the visual feast of the festival.

Chop Shop This indiie ﬁlm stars Alejandro Polanco as Ale, a 12-year-old street orphan who scores money wherever he can as a petty thief, hustler and auto body shop worker. The problems he and his 16-year-old sister face on a daily basis are unthinkable for most of us; each day brings a new struggle to scrape by a living. With gritty cinematography a la City of God (2002), Bahrani demonstrates how pockets of third-world environments exist even in places like Queens, N.Y.

The Last Command In The Last Command, Emil Jannings plays Mr. Dolgorucki, a down-on-his-luck former Russian general who is forced to work as a movie extra when he can’t find work in the U.S. Eventually he winds up in a film about the Russian revolution. Jannings became a star in the early golden era of German cinema in the ’20s and specialized in sad roles of large, rather pathetic characters who have significant flaws and whose lives end tragically. The Alloy Orchestra will be performing a live musical score at the Virginia Theatre screening. Photo used with permission from Paramount Pictures.

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Frozen River

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The film tells the story of Ray Eddy, a newly single mother struggling to make ends meet after her husband runs away with all of their money. She meets Lila, a Mohawk woman with troubles of her own. Together, the unlikely pair help smuggle illegal immigrants across the border between the United States and Canada. Rather than tackle the controversial topic of illegal immigration, the film focuses on the relationship between Ray and Lila and their relationships with their families. While each woman finds herself in a dire situation, it looks to be the kind of film that could hint at female empowerment.

Conﬁned in a hospital, Roy Walker’s (Lee Pace) life is crumbling after suffering a fall and losing his girlfriend. Unable to walk, he befriends a young girl, Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), in the hopes that she’ll steal some morphine so he can end his life. Roy begins to tell Alexandria a story of heroes, evil villains and love — all brilliantly played out before the exotic background locations — that includes other patients and employees from the hospital. As the story unfolds, it starts to resemble Roy’s life in fairy tale form.

My Winnipeg “After a lifetime of many botched attempts, this time I’m leaving for good … again!” proclaimed Guy Maddin in his latest film, My Winnipeg. The documentary is meant to tell the story of Maddin’s life in his hometown of Winnipeg, Canada. However, like much of Maddin’s work, the film is still wrapped in surrealism. Initially released in April 2008, My Winnipeg has gained critical acclaim, winning Best Canadian Feature Film from the Toronto International Film Festival. My Winnipeg is sure to be one of the most unique films played at Ebertfest.

Sita Sings the Blues Sita Sings the Blues is animated in old-school 2-D, 82 minutes long and about a breakup. Based off of a common Indian myth, Sita’s story is that of a strong woman in 1000 B.C. stuck in a marriage with a weak husband and the trials she must go through. The combination of vibrant colors, intriguing animation, musical stylings of Annette Hanshaw (singer from the 1920s) and a hilarious ad-libbed running commentary on the ﬁlm by three modern-day Indians, makes for a whimsical ride that is sure not to disappoint.

Trouble the Water If you needed another reason to hate the Bush administration, Ebertfest is playing Trouble the Water. Rapper Kimberly Rivers Roberts turns the camera on herself and her husband the day before Hurrican Katrina hits and continues on after it arrives. Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal pull everything together to create an award-winning political look at what went unnoticed and neglected in the aftermath of the hurricane. This one is deﬁnitely worth checking out for those looking to be both enraged and inspired.

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Nothing But the Truth A female journalist outs a CIA agent yet refuses to reveal her source and in doing so faces imprisonment through an unjust system of corruption and lies. So goes the narrative of Nothing But the Truth, starring Kate Beckinsale, Vera Farmiga, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Angela Bassett and David Schwimmer. Echoing the true case of Valerie Plume, the ﬁlm is a tense and thought-provoking political thriller that entered and exited theaters without so much as a whimper. Director Rod Lurie (The Contender) and an extremely talented cast present a story that should certainly have seen a much bigger audience.

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A Look at Ebertfest’s Past

Ebertfest

by Jeff Brandt

buzz picks our must-sees

The top picks of an already select group With the 11th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival just around the corner and buzz writers’ previews helping you decide which shows to catch, it’s worth a moment of pause to look back at highlights from previous festivals. Though these films won’t grace the Virginia Theatre’s giant screen, you might just find something to add to your list of future rentals. Ebertfest 2008 In Eran Kolirin’s The Band’s Visit (2007), an Egyptian police orchestra becomes stranded in the wrong Israeli town on the way to a performance at an Arab cultural center. The cross-cultural barriers of race, religion, language and sex pile up to make for a slew of awkward moments that are often both hilarious and poignant.

The interlocking sections of Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) add up to an aesthetically bold biopic of Yukio Mishima, a Japanese writer plagued with the dual obsessions of honor and death. Eiko Ishioka’s production designs are breathtaking. Like this year’s The Fall, Mishima is a feast for the eyes.

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Love Slumdog Millionaire? Check out Millions (2004), another Danny Boyle film sure to give you the warm-and-fuzzies. A duffel bag of stolen British pounds literally falls out of the sky and lands on a boy’s cardboard playhouse. Unlike the greedy little turd in Blank Check (1995), this kid strives to help others with his fortune. Ebertfest 2005 If you haven’t seen Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), an indie classic that launched the Blaxploitation movement, rent it now. Then after that, see Baadasssss! (2004), Mario Van Peebles’ take on the storied production of his father’s notorious masterpiece. The run-ins with creditors and police make it an intriguing historical account, which Van Peebles enhances with psychedelic editing. Ebertfest 2004

Ebertfest 2007 In his late 20s, Ebert worked on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) alongside X-rated auteur Russ Meyer, “laughing maniacally from time to time” while writing this cult classic spoof of Valley of the Dolls (1967). “Whatever its faults or virtues,” Ebert wrote, “BVD is an original — a satire of Hollywood conventions, genres, situations, dialogue, characters and success formulas.”

by Matt Carey and Keith Hollenkamp Want to experience the best Ebertfest has to offer but don’t want to shell out the $10 to see each film? Well, buzz is here to help all you thrifty cinephiles out there with the three must-see films we recommend if you can’t afford them all. Trouble the Water: This powerful documentary about a couple’s experience after Hurricane Katrina hit highlights the unseen despair that was brushed over by news networks. Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal will make an appearance at the screening to discuss their haunting look at one of our country’s biggest disasters. The Last Command: This is a movie we recommend for people who love the theatergoing experience. A silent film that is being accompanied by the Alloy Orchestra playing live in the theater, The Last Command will be a throwback to the intimate way films were screened before the talkie.

Djibril Diop Mambety’s Hyènes (1992) is a surrealist fable on the dangers of commercialism. An embittered Senegalese villager turned billionairein-exile returns home to exact revenge on her former lover, the popular new mayor. Either the city can continue to decay or the villagers can murder him and receive unthinkable wealth. Morbid humor pervades this tale of human greed. Ebertfest 2001 Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek star in Robert Altman’s Three Women (1977). A “wacked” but “harmless” woman with delusional tendencies moves in with her coworker. The latter finds the former’s naïve behavior a bit annoying, but in a bizarre mid-movie twist, the two switch personalities without explanation.

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Let the Right One In: After a debacle of a DVD release in the United States that screwed up the translation of the excellent dialogue, this masterpiece of a vampire film will finally be able to be seen the way it’s intended. But even with the crappy subtitles, it’s still better than Twilight. Abstinent vampires? Come on ...

Ebertfest 2000 Winner of Best Documentary at Sundance 1999, American Movie introduces us to Mark Borchardt, a mulleted misfit from Wisconsin with aspirations of becoming a filmmaker. If only he could write good scripts and cast decent actors. Chris Smith directed and filmed this alternately tragic and hilarious story about a goofball stricken with the curse of the American Dream.

Something odd is afoot in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s The Son (2002). Olivier, a Belgian carpenter, rejects a woman’s request to let a new boy become his apprentice. Yet he begins stalking them for reasons unexplained. The brothers’ subtle direction tells nothing and everything at the same time. “I grew during this film,” Ebert wrote. “It taught me things about the cinema I did not know.” apr 23 – apr 29 09

Ebertfest 2003 Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool (1969) analyzes the social climate surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Robert Forster plays a TV cameraman who covers the government and the protesters’ mutual suspicion and violence toward each other. The deft mix of fiction and documentary footage establishes this as one of the great countercultural films of the late 1960s.

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Ebertfest 1999 Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Maborosi (1995) follows in the Japanese minimalist tradition of Yasujiro Ozu, whose films focused on people’s ordinary interactions. In that vein, Kore-Eda avoids showing a young father’s train tracks suicide in favor of detailing his widow’s methods of coping with grief. He frames every shot beautifully, and the mournful soundtrack forces viewers to share the woman’s pain. come and get it

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The Man Behind Vampire Lincoln Chris Lukeman talks about his film The Transient by Hallie Borden Chris Lukeman has created a movie with quite possibly the greatest premise ever fathomed. To quote the film’s Web site: “The Transient is the story of a homeless vigilante and his case worker, Steve, as they try to thwart Vampire Abraham Lincoln and his gang of 1980s punks from sucking the blood of four-score and seven virgins.” A University of Illinois alumnus and former president of Illini Film and Video, Lukeman has made a terrific short comedy of which he is refreshingly proud. When I asked Lukeman if he had any animosity toward our 16th president, he responded, “Oh no, we thought about Lincoln a lot more than people really appreciate. We just felt like he’s so ubiquitous in pop culture. He’s history’s rock star. He can definitely take any disparaging remarks.” He went on to say, “He’s pretty much the most dignified character in the movie. That’s why we loved repurposing so many of Lincoln’s quotes. I think 80 percent of his lines in the movie came out of actual Lincoln quotes … I really hope some history buffs out there appreciate the lengths we went to.” Lukeman is no scholar of Abe, but his star is. “He’s currently a Lincoln interpreter. He brought

some of the lines.” Lukeman found his vampire, Michael Krebs, on online Lincoln forums. Krebs had recently been in another vampire production, and as Lukeman told me, “He had a set of $200 dental fangs … so he came with his own fangs.” The Transient was recently featured on io9, a popular science-fiction blog. “Oh, that was wonderful,” Lukeman said. “We’ve had some really good national recognition on that blog. We’ve been popping up on vampire blogs. It’s fun to get on some of them and read their gripes about how we don’t follow vampire lore.” The film, which premiered at the Lincoln Bicentennial Festival, also recently showed at a comic convention in Ohio and at the Route 66 Film Festival in Springfield. The Transient is available in its entirety online and for sale on DVD on http://www.killvampirelincoln.com. The special features on the DVD are stocked with shorts made by Lukeman in-between larger projects, so you really get your money’s worth. They are all deliciously offbeat and hilarious just like The Transient. The film will also be broadcasting on UI-7 Thursday at 11 p.m., Friday at 10 p.m. and Saturday at 9 p.m. and midnight.

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It seems rare in the film world, so perpetually concerned with technology and its advancements, with everything from CGI monsters six stories high to digitally added teardrops, that one should come across a film whose style doesn’t look forward but rather backward. Yet this is exactly what Guy Maddin’s 2003 comedy-fantasy and former Ebertfest selection, The Saddest Music in the World, does. The film seems to draw its main inspiration neither from the future nor the golden era of Hollywood but back from silent films. Telling the story of legless beer baroness Lady Port-Huntley’s (Isabella Rossellini) contest that seeks to find exactly what the title suggests, the saddest music in the world, the film is set in the 1920s and is suffused with a grainy and gritty quality that seems to try to mimic the imperfections of the silent films made at just that time. It is not merely the quality or style of the film that is meant to reflect the time period in which it takes place, however. The style goes

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Seth Fein discusses The Inaugural Champaign-Urbana Lebowski Achievers Festival by Matt Carey buzz: How did you decide to bring Lebowski Fest to Champaign? Fein: I’ve been a pretty huge fan of the movie since I saw it in the theater in 1997, so it was something that became a slight obsession for me. In 1999 or 2000 after it came out on DVD, my friends and I were all into it then; of course, time has gone on, people have actually created legitimate Lebowski Fests like the real Lebowski Fest, which is in 14 places this year. You know we do Pizza, Pitcher and a Movie here, and I put Lebowski on there, and there was about 50 people that showed up, which is a really good night for Pizza, Pitcher and a Movie, and you know, it was just evident that that’s everywhere. My wife got me a book for Christmas called I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski, and I was reading it, thinking to myself, they do it, why can’t we do it? It’s easy. You know I produce Pygmalion Music Festival; doing events is not lost on me, it’s what I do for a living, so I thought I’d do it. buzz: What went into organizing this event in particular? Fein: Two phone calls, really. Called up the bowling alley, let them know what I wanted to do, they were like, ‘Great, lanes are reserved.’ Then I put tickets on sale, got a couple of bands to play, which I think are a nice additional bonus. There’s a very limited number available to the bowling part, then, of course, the movie and the show afterwards are free. It’s going to be a small little group of local Lebowski freaks. So the planning was easy. We’re going to have a costume contest judged by me and a couple other people, we’re going to have a ringer toss and we’re going to be filling it up with dirty undies, the whites. The planning was planned for us; we read about what they do at other Lebowski Fests, and apr 23 – apr 29 09

we just kind of mimicked that. By no means are we ever trying to be like, ‘It’s our idea;’ all credit is given where credit is due. We just thought we’ve got our own little community here, and, of course, I could continue to quote The Big Lebowski when I say stuff like that, but yeah, it was a pretty easy planning phase because it was kind of done for us. buzz: Is this something you are looking to do annually? Fein: I think it’s a situation where I’d like to see, you know, I did this on a whim — a couple of months ago, I decided to do it, so I asked our graphic designers to whip something up, and it was done. I don’t see it being something where we’d not do it unless nobody shows up, but we’ve already sold advanced tickets. Even if it’s a small group of people, I think it’s worth celebrating. It’s the best fucking movie ever. I would say it’s the best comedy of the last 25 years. It could be argued that it’s not, but I’d tell those people to go fuck themselves. buzz: Are you going to dress up at all? Fein: I’m not much of a Halloween guy or a dressup guy, but I’ll probably dress up in a robe and shades, and I’m going to look for some jellies, see what I can find. My wife is also not much of a dressing-up person, but I think she may try and dress up as a white Russian. buzz: At what bowling alley are you doing this? Fein: Old Orchard. It seemed like the right fit — it’s closer to the Canopy Club than the other ones, and it’s kind of small and old-school, the way that the bowling alley in the movie is. buzz: What bands are playing? Fein: It’s just two of my favorite locals. Zach May and the Maps, who are real new, who I think have the most potential of any new band I’ve seen all

year to be something really dynamic in the music scene. And World’s First Flying Machine is a band that I’ve been into and championing for the last couple years; I just felt like asking a couple of my favorite locals to play would help just give the night a little more flavor after the movie and the making of — have a little live music. buzz: Will they be playing songs from the movie? Fein: I asked them to check out the soundtrack and see what they could come up with, but I’m not going to force them to do it; it’s just something they’re doing for fun, so it’s something that I’ve obviously thought of — as to whether or not they do it, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. buzz: In the book, they talk about the two guys who originally made Lebowski Fest. Have you emailed them or had any contact with them? Fein: No, not yet, but I know a guy who knows them very well, and I’ve spoken to him about it, and I said, ‘You don’t think they’d be upset?’ and he said, ‘No, not at all, not unless you were trying to market it nationally as a competing Lebowski Fest.’ After I do this one and kind of get a flavor for it, I may ask them, ‘Hey, I did my own last year; would you be interested in making a Lebowski Fest Champaign so that we could be official then?’ I’m not trying to go up against them or anything. I just have so much going on in my life, especially now that Pygmalion season is here, it’s not worth it for me to try to do too much organization. After this year is over, I will contact them. Lebowski Fest is being held Sunday, April 26 with bowling starting at 3 p.m. and the movie starting at 6 p.m. Tickets for the bowling section are on sale for $15, and the movie showing and band performance afterward are free.

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“Will you come off it, Walter? You’re not even fucking Jewish, man.” “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!” “Donny you’re out of your element! Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here!” “Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” “Nothing is fucked? The god damn plane has crashed into the mountain!” “Walter, he peed on my rug!” “Shut the fuck up, Donny.” “Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter? Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”

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Local Lebowski Fest Finally Arrives The Canopy Club is going all-out this Sunday as they present The Inaugural Champaign-Urbana Lebowski Achievers Festival. If there is anyone left in the world that hasn’t seen The Big Lebowski (you are a horrible person, sir) in at least a late-night TNT situation (“this is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”), well, you might want to avoid most of the day’s festivities as you’ll likely be ridiculed by the throngs of college kids in flip-flops and robes talking about rug-pissers. Starting at 3 p.m. will be bowling at Old Orchard Lanes in Savoy. The event then moves to the Canopy Club at 6:30 p.m. where there will be a costume contest (the event will be a complete wash if someone doesn’t show up in a purple jumpsuit and hairnet) and a ringer toss (the ringer presumably being filled with the underwear of Seth Fein, bringing new meaning to “the Local Sniff”). Cash prizes will be awarded, and Manolo’s Pizza will be served. Having only ever eaten empanadas from Manolo’s, I finally got around to eating

some pizza from there on Saturday and it was just as delightful as it looks in the commercial when Mike Armintrout is joyfully chowing down on it. At 8:00 p.m. the movie will hit the Canopy’s big screen — the place used to be a movie theater, dontcha know? A “making of” feature will follow at 10:00 p.m., and then the Void Room will kick off music at 11:00 p.m. with World’s First Flying Machine and Zach May and the Maps. I hope someone plays “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” after aborting an Eagles song. Tickets for the whole day are only $15, which gets you all of the festivities and a $2 special on Caucasians. A limited number of early tickets are up at http://www. etix.com, so hurry over. Lawrence. Kansas, indie outfit the Appleseed Cast will once again make a CU stop, this time on tour supporting their new album Sagarmatha. They’re very consistent live and tend to have some of the best stickers and shirts along with their other merch, so stop by the table tonight (Thursday) at the Canopy Club and score some cool stuff. The show starts at 9 p.m. ($10) and also features Brisbane, Australia, boy-girl-guitardrums duo An Horse, recently seen on Letterman.

They play pretty solid indie-pop songs with female lead vocals, like a not-annoying Ting Tings. Another great example of female lead vocals also lands on this bill, as Chicago’s Company of Thieves occupy the second slot. Locals Tyson and the Friction are set to open. The Shadowboxer Collective will once again bring you a stripped-down show this Friday, this time at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s. If the forecast is correct, the weather should be awesome which means a beer garden show starting at 9 p.m. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m certainly ready to start enjoying some outdoor shows. Friday’s show will feature New York singer/songwriter Audrey Ryan, whose MySpace page lists her as sounding like “baby-making music.” I was going to put her in that fun, quirky category with Clare Burson and maybe even She & Him. Find out for yourself Friday, when she’s sandwiched in between two of Shadowboxer’s founders, Casados (opening) and Ryan Groff (headlining). This one will cost you $5. Enjoy the weather. Saturday presents some great options in downtown Champaign as Mike ‘n Molly’s offers up the Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra with special guests Brother Embassy. Showtime

is 9 p.m. and the cover charge is TBA (probably $3). Over at Cowboy Monkey, Cameron McGill and What Army will return with locals Snowsera in the opening position. That show starts at 10:30 p.m. and carries a $5 cover. Chicago prog band the Hue will play an early show (8 p.m) at the Highdive before the regular DJ festivities begin ($5), while Canopy Club goes a similar route with a 6:30 p.m. CD release for Gifted, followed by night two of Stepdown Weekend. Bentley’s continues to stack its weekend nights with several bands, this time presenting Shandey Wilsey, along with Me, Him and Charlie Miller; and the Third Flight (10 p.m., $3). Sadly it’s on a Monday, but Canopy nabbed a pretty cool show featuring Canadian electro-pop group Junior Boys, who will be touring through along with London’s Max Tundra. Local and likeminded group Mordechai In The Mirror will open up this awesome show starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12. Take note, people, as this is going to be one of those shows that everyone is talking about the next day while you’re left wondering who the bands even were. Mike Ingram can be reached at forgottenwords@gmail.com

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thur, apr 23 live music U of I Jazz Combo Iron Post, U, 7pm The Appleseed Cast Canopy Club, U, 9pm, $10 Caleb Cook and the Big Naturals Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., U, 9pm Geovanti’s Live Band Geovanti’s, C, 10pm

dj Country Night with DJ Halfdead and Free Line Dance Lessons from Scotty Van Zant Radmaker’s Rock & Roll Tavern, Tolono, 8pm DJ Belly Boltini Lounge, C, 10pm Goth Night at Clark Bar The Clark Bar, C, 10pm

karaoke DJ Hollywood Karaoke It’ll Do 2, C, 8pm G-Force Karaoke Memphis on Main, C, 9pm Karaoke with Randy Miller Bentley’s Pub, C, 9:30pm

stage Studiodance II Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, U, 7:30pm, $14, $13 seniors and students, $8 UI and youth Featuring works selected by a panel of faculty and guest artists that highlight the choreography of Dance at Illinois students, performed by their classmates. Take This House Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, U, 8pm

A suburban couple grapples with, and denies the gravity of, the “storm of the century” in a suburb of Sacramento.

festivals Ebertfest 2009: 11th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival Virginia Theatre, C, 11am, $12 per screening, $10 student tickets In addition to the screenings, the festival hosts a number of academic panel discussions featuring Roger Ebert, festival guests, and academic scholars. The festival is a non-profit event of the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Live and Let Live GLBT Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting McKinley Presbyterian Church and Foundation, C, 6:30pm

Country Dancing at Bradley’s II Bradley’s II, C, 9pm, $5 Top 40 Chester Street, C, 9pm, $3 DJ Kosmo Kick-off Party Radio Maria, C, 10pm DJs Ian, D.O.M. & ReFLEX Boltini Lounge, C, 10pm DJ Delayney Highdive, C, 10pm, $5 DJ LegTwo and DJ Belly Radio Maria, C, 10pm Dubstep Massacre 3 — DJs Belly, Substr8, m√∂bius, Mertz Cowboy Monkey, C, 11:30pm, $2

Paintings by Elise Hill from Ebertfest’s Begging Naked Mental Health Center of Champaign County, C, 1:30pm

community Long Range Transportation Plan Public Workshop Savoy Recreational Center, Savoy, 6pm New Construcion/Remodeling Expo Holiday Inn, U, 6:30pm

fundraisers Friends of the Urbana Free Library Spring Book Sale Urbana Free Library, U, 9am

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Drinking Liberally Esquire Lounge Inc., C, 6:30pm A gathering of liberal thinkers over drinks.

Happy Hour and Live Music Silvercreek, U, 6pm Live Dueling Piano Show 88 Broadway, U, 7pm Bill Withering, Larry Frost, and Rick Charmin. IUB Battle of the Bands Courtyard Cafe — Illini Union, U, 8pm Each of seven bands will perform two songs or for seven minutes in front of an audience and three qualified judges. The cash prizes will be $500, $350 and $100 dollars for first, second and third places. Slim Skinny and The Bunkhouse Buckaroos Bentley’s Pub, C, 8:30pm 20 Flight Rockets Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., U, 9pm Delta Kings Memphis on Main, C, 9pm Corn Desert Ramblers Iron Post, U, 9pm, $4

volunteer UC Books to Prisoners work session Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, U, 2pm

kids & families After School Kid Stuff Session Tolono Public Library, Tolono, 3:30pm For grades one through six. Design It! Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, C, 4pm, $42 for non-members, $36 for members For grades K-2.

Matt and Tom Turino with special guest Randy Cordle Iron Post, U, 6pm Rengade Memphis on Main, C, 9pm GTO & The Glasspaks Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., museum opening U, 9pm Exhibition Opening Unfinished Business Reception Blues Band Krannert Art Museum El Toro Bravo, C, 9pm and Kinkead Pavilion, C, Shandy Wilsey / Me, Him 5pm and Charlie Miller / The This annual exhibition Third Flight represents the culminaBentley’s Pub, C, 10pm, $3 tion of intense artistic dj development for graduate students in graphic Radio Salsa with DJ Juan design, industrial design, Radio Maria, C, 10pm, $3 dance music new media, painting, ceNo cover before 11pm. Stepdown Weekend ramics, metals, photogra- DJ Mertz Canopy Club, U, 10pm phy, and sculpture. Boltini Lounge, C, 10pm Kosmo at Soma concert fundraisers Soma Ultralounge, C, Bobby McFerrin and Friends of the Urbana Free 10pm Polygraph Lounge Library Spring Book Sale DJ Tim Williams Krannert Center for Urbana Free Library, U, Highdive, C, 10pm, $5 the Performing Arts, U, 9am No cover before 11pm 7:30pm, $45, $40 seArtists Against Aids with a U of I or Parkland niors, $30 students, $25 exhibition/fundraiser ID. UI and youth Orpheum Children’s Scidance music ence Museum, C, 6pm karaoke Stepdown Weekend MCJS Karaoke DJs Mike mind/body/spirit Canopy Club, U, 10pm and Cheryl Free Acupuncture Clinic Senator’s Bar & Grill, SaFor Veterans and Families karaoke voy, 9pm Urbana-Champaign Dragon Karaoke with Friends Meeting, U, 6pm Paul Faber stage CJ Dane’s, Tolono, 7pm miscellaneous Studiodance II RockStar Karaoke featurKrannert Center for the Fishing with Dynamite ing DJ Switch Performing Arts, U, 7pm, (Sketch Comedy Group) Geo’s, U, 9pm 9pm, $14, $13 seniors and Canopy Club, U, 7pm, $5 stage students, $8 UI and youth sat, apr 25 Studiodance II festivals Krannert Center for the Ebertfest 2009: 11th An- live music Performing Arts, U, 7pm, nual Roger Ebert’s Film Live Dueling Piano Show 9pm, $14, $13 seniors and Festival 88 Broadway, U, 7pm students, $8 UI and youth Virginia Theatre, C, 11am, Panache Anne Bogart’s SITI Com$12 per screening, $10 Jim Gould Restaurant, pany: Who Do You Think student tickets C, 5pm You Are

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Krannert Center for the sun, apr 26 Performing Arts, U, 7:30pm, live music $35, $30 seniors, $25 students, $20 UI and youth Live Dueling Piano Show 88 Broadway, U, 7pm sporting event Panache 1st Annual U of I Rodeo Jim Gould Restaurant, C, Club Expo 5pm Wendl’s, U, 10am Sunday Brunch Trio Learn how to rope and Jim Gould Restaurant, C, ride from professionals 10am plus goat tail tying for the Emerald Rum kids. Live bull riding dem- Blind Pig Co., The, C, 5pm onstrations will be held Live Music at Carmon’s every hour. Carmon’s Restaurant, C, 5:30pm festivals CU Folk and Roots FestiEbertfest 2009: 11th An- val Benefit nual Roger Ebert’s Film Iron Post, U, 6pm, $5 Festival Surreal Deal Virginia Theatre, C, 11am, Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., $12 per screening, $10 U, 8pm student tickets

museum exhibit School of Art + Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, C, 9am

recreation YMCA’s 5th annual Race Against Racism Crystal Lake Park, U, 9am

enviromental issues Bird is the Word Workshop Homer Lake Forest Preserve, Homer, 10am, $10 per person In this participatory workshop you will learn some tips for effective journaling.

kids & families ”EYE”mazing Adventure Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, C, 1pm, $3, $2 children We will venture through the importance of the eyes, how they work, and what we can do to protect them. Migration Fest Homer Lake Forest Preserve Environmental Education Center, Homer, 1pm Celebrate the migration season with a live raptor presentation, acclaimed storyteller Brian “Fox” Ellis as J.J. Audubon, crafts, hikes and more!

community C-U Community Bike Ride Lincoln Square Mall, U, 8am, $8-15 All proceeds will go to A Woman’s Fund.

fundraisers Friends of the Urbana Free Library Spring Book Sale Urbana Free Library, U, 9am Artists Against Aids exhibition/fundraiser Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, C, 6pm

Dance Pop Chester Street, C, 7pm, $3

dance music Country Western Dance Independent Order of Odd Fellows Arthur Lodge 742, C, 5pm, $2

concert Krannert Center Debut Artist Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, U, 3pm, $34, $29 seniors, $25 students, $20 UI and youth

karaoke Dragon Karaoke with Paul Faber CJ Dane’s, Tolono, 7pm

open mic Anything Goes Open Mic Night hosted by Acoustic Duo: Jeremy Harper & Jim Kates Memphis on Main, C, 8pm

festivals Ebertfest 2009: 11th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival Virginia Theatre, C, 11am, $12 per screening, $10 student tickets The Inaugural Champaign-Urbana Lebowski Achievers Festival Canopy Club, U, 3pm, $2-15

social issues Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort Meeting Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, U, 5pm

volunteer UC Books to Prisoners work session Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, U, 12pm

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Monday Night Improv Courtyard Cafe — Illini Union, U, 8pm The Abe Froman Project — Improv Comedy Mike ‘n’ Molly’s, C, 9pm

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karaoke Karaoke Party at It’ll Do 2 Country Fair Shopping Center, C, 8pm “G” Force Karaoke Wendl’s, U, 9pm The Legendary Karaoke Night with The Outlaw White Horse Inn, C, 9pm Karaoke Bomb Night Geovanti’s, C, 10pm

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mind/body/spirit Articulating Your Unitarian Universalist Faith Channing-Murray Foundation, U, 7pm, $10

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d o i n ’ i t w e l l by Jo Sanger & Ross Wantland

The Show Must Go On HIV Prevention & Artists Against AIDS April is a busy month with respect to awareness campaigns in the area of sexuality. Not only is April Sexual Assault Awareness Month (prompting last week’s column on false reports of rape), but April is also STD Awareness Month and LGBT Awareness Days, including the Day of Silence, a national day recognizing violence and bullying against those who are LGBT. This week, “Doin’ It Well” decided to take another look at an issue that intersects across all of these campaigns — HIV. The world, our country, and our own CU community have struggled to combat HIV for close to 30 years. While in the United States we have slowed the spread of HIV, 56,000 new cases are still diagnosed in the US each year. That number is still way too high. In our own backyard, people are being diagnosed and living with HIV/AIDS, both on campus and within Champaign-Urbana. Preventing the spread of STDs, including HIV, isn’t as easy as it might seem, and we continue to struggle with how to keep people safe and healthy. Often, simplistic approaches are suggested; we expect to take a complex issue of sexuality and minimize it into a single message. Then we expect that message to work for every single person, in every single situation.

Fun, hot, healthy sex We know we can’t prevent HIV with one column, but here are some risk reduction tips. By having a variety of options to reduce one’s risk, the hope is that folks can find a combination of things that work best for them in their specific situation. • Use condoms every time, with every partner. • Remember that getting HIV is not inevitable; it can be easily prevented! • Choose not to have sex, or to postpone sex • Get tested and talk to your partner(s) about being tested, too • Engage in behaviors that avoid fluid exchange (semen, blood, vaginal secretions, breast milk); HIV is only transmitted by these fluids. • Avoid higher risk behaviors (receptive anal or vaginal sex, using someone else’s needles) • If possible, keep sex sober to increase condom use & other safety strategies • Limit your number of sexual partners • Choose a monogamous relationship • If you have HIV or another STD, inform your partners and discuss ways to be sexual while keeping your partner safe from infection Unfortunately, HIV continues to be diagnosed, so along with prevention and education to stop the spread to HIV, we also have to continue to support those already infected (which, in turn, also helps to prevent future infections).

For Art’s Sake That’s where Artists Against AIDS comes in. Artists Against AIDS is a fundraiser for the ser-

vices provided by the Greater Community AIDS Project (GCAP). “Doin’ It Well” caught up with the coordinator of Artists Against AIDS, Tami Haubner. Here is what she had to say on behalf of the Artists Against AIDS planning committee: Much has changed in the world since our last event, but the facts surrounding the epidemic of HIV/AIDS remain much the same and the numbers are growing. Education, awareness campaigns and medical research continue, but so does this virus. We, the committee for this event, along with the staff and board of the GCAP organization, continue our efforts with one goal in mind: to savor the day we no longer have to work for this cause. As we network through our community seeking donations of food, time, entertainment and supplies to furnish the best show possible, we are reminded without fail of the local generosity and support shown to this organization and those who suffer from this disease. For this we are eternally grateful to our many volunteers, sponsors and vendors who make the show happen, year after year. Our undying appreciation also reaches far and wide to the many artists who always come through with the most diverse and desirable pieces enticing us all to dig a little deeper for this worthy cause. And last, but never least, we thank you, our customers and friends, for your never ending support for our organization. Without you we wouldn’t exist. But then again, that is the ultimate goal. So come out this weekend and check out Artists Against AIDS! Donations from the Artists Against AIDS event — including ticket sales for the private opening, sponsorships, and a portion of the art sales - are GCAP’s largest private funding source. They account for about 1/3 of all the monies needed for direct assistance to the individuals GCAP serves who are HIV positive in our own community.

Sex 411: Artists Against AIDS Exhibition & Sale Orpheum Children’s Art Museum 346 N. Neil St. Champaign Public Grand Opening Friday April 24 6pm-10pm Saturday, April 25 1pm-10pm Sunday, April 26 1pm-7pm Monday, April 27 1pm-7pm “Doin’ It Well” has a bunch of reader questions lined up to be answered. Keep sending them in, and check us out next week as we discuss taking back the night.

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Free Will Astrology ARIES

(March 21-April 19):

Astrology and Tarot cards are my favorite divinatory tools, but I also get a lot of use out of magnetic poetry kits. These are boxes full of evocative words and symbols in the form of refrigerator magnets. Sometimes after analyzing your astrological omens, I’ll close my eyes, beam a question out into the ethers, and pluck a few magnets at random from one of my poetry kits. I just did that for you. “What are the keys to unlocking the enormous reserves of energy that are potentially available for Aries folks right now?” I asked. Here’s the message that came: “swooping orgasms & laughing tears.” (Or it could also be arranged this way: “laughing orgasms & swooping tears.”)

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20):

Rachael Yanetta, a young English woman, got a bellyache while working her regular job at the local pub. Despite the pain, she toughed it out until her shift was over, then went home. Her distress increased, though, and at 3 a.m. she checked into the hospital. A little over an hour later, to her shock, she gave birth to her first child, having been unaware she was pregnant until the very end of her ninemonth term. I predict a comparable sequence for you in the coming days, Taurus. You’ll power through some perplexing anomaly that leads to the unexpected arrival of a new creation or vital revelation.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20):

As I close my eyes and ask my deep self for a psychic vision that symbolizes your current astrological omens, here’s what I see: You’re trying to look relaxed even though you have one foot on a dock and one foot on a boat as the boat pulls away. How should we interpret this scene? Here’s what I think: It seems likely that at any minute now you will have to commit yourself to either the dock, the boat, or the water.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22):

This would be an excellent time for you to lead a populist revolt to overthrow the abusive authorities or out-oftouch elites who have been working their dumb magic for far too long. It would also be a perfect moment for you to stop cooperating with energy-draining situations that undermine your autonomy. The Age of Passivity is ending, thank Goddess. Launching the Age of Awakening may not be easy or fast, but you will attract extra help and encouragement if you do it now.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22):

“I am not interested in money,” said actress Marilyn Monroe. “I just want to be wonderful.” Consider the possibility of trying out that approach for a while, Leo. I’m not, of course, encouraging you to be apathetic toward financial matters. But I do think it’s an excellent time to for you to specialize in making yourself more wonderful. The cosmic signs say that you now have access to unprecedented reserves of the most profound kind of charm (not the cheap, fake, manipulative stuff). They also suggest that certain qualities in you that have previously been merely fine are primed to evolve into being amazingly marvelous.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

I once had a Virgo girlfriend who was exceedingly wellorganized. The capstone of her heroic efforts to keep life rigorously ordered was her approach to her underwear. Each of her panties was embroidered with the name of a day of the week. In the large drawer where they were kept, all the Mondays were in a neat pile at the upper left-hand corner, followed by the rest of the days in their proper sequence. She was always able to grab the correct pair, even when she was half-asleep and the room was dark. If I were going to contact her now, I’d recommend that she should, for a change, arrange her intimate items out of order, and maybe wear Monday on Friday, or put Tuesday on inside-out on Saturday. According to my reading of the omens, this kind of playful self-trickery would set the right tone for you Virgos; it would encourage the universe to send you the benevolent interruptions and interesting interventions you need.

LIBRA

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tion and acknowledgement comes your way in the next few weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have the potential to be better understood than maybe you’ve been in a long time. I suggest you take maximum advantage of this good fortune. Make it easy for people to see you for who you really are.

SCORPIO

by Matt Jones

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

The famous physicist Robert Oppenheimer sometimes displayed a disarming humility. “There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics,” he said once, “because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” I invite you to consider the possibility that you, too, could learn a lot from people you regard as beneath you or utterly unlike you. It’s one of those rare phases in your astrological cycle when useful revelations are likely to arrive from outside your normal frame of reference. (P.S. Animals might be great teachers as well.)

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

It’s a Love Emergency! Am I right? There’s a growing itch in the romantic sphere, and it needs immediate scratching. I mean it really can’t wait for a few more days to pass; something’s got to be done soon. It may be true that this thickening of the plot has been underway for quite a while, and its growing urgency may have snuck up on you. It also may be true that the shift will ultimately be a promising development. But that doesn’t mean you can afford to be casual about it. Take action!

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

From an astrological point of view, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to start a band and record an album. Your creativity is waxing, your attunement with the right side of your brain is especially sweet, and you will benefit immensely from anything you do to become less of a spectator and more of a participant. To jumpstart the process, go to Wikipedia and click on “random article.” That’s the name of your band. Then go to en.wikiquote. org and click on “random page.” The last few words of the last quote on that page will be your album’s title. Finally, go to flckr.com, click on “the last 7 days,” and choose a photo from the new page to be your CD cover. (My band is Widemouth Blindcat, our album is “More Time for Dreaming,” and our cover art is a spiral staircase from here: tinyurl.com/c89rt7.)

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

You’ve said enough for the time being. You have expressed the hell out of yourself and have been thorough in providing your vision of how the collaborative efforts should unfold. But now I think you should cultivate the power of silence. Keep your evolving thoughts to yourself for a while so that they can ripen in your imagination, and allow the ideas you have already put out there to fully work their way into the imaginations of others. In early May, it will be time to jump back in with a new dose of your insight and inspiration. By then, people should be begging you for more.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20):

As a leading practitioner of magical thinking, I regard it as my responsibility to serve as a kind of Quality Control Board. Excessive trust in invisible forces and odd coincidences, after all, can be as hazardous to your intelligence as blind faith in pure reason. This week, in fact, I’d rather see you operate like a scientist than a mystic. I hope you’ll evaluate every situation by invoking the powers of unbiased perceptivity and lucid objectivity. So please don’t heed anyone’s mumbo-jumbo, especially if it’s fear-based. Reject supernatural explanations if natural ones make equal sense. Be assured that when superstitious fantasies pop up, they’ll have little to do with what’s actually happening.

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Across

1 Sanders’ rank: abbr. 4 Takes in too much 7 Band box 10 QB’s scores 13 ___-male 14 Cut branches (off) 15 Wade’s opponent 16 Miner’s find 17 Dream up 19 Gas station with a blue and red logo 21 Quad City that’s home to the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival 23 “I found a ___, which blended into the beige. No way am I going to eat it.” 25 Be 26 Palm whose berries are now used in fruit juices 27 Punk offshoot 30 Dreyer’s ice cream, in the Eastern U.S. 31 Poultry dish with broccoli and cheese 36 Popeye’s love Olive 37 Bullfighting cheer 38 “So that’s where the ___ to this old pen went!” 39 Ballpark figure 42 Ongoing NYC tribute project where musicians cover the works of other musicians 45 You, in olden days 48 “Entourage” agent 49 “I’m rich! No, just kidding. It’s only a ___.” 50 “Amazing” magician famous for debunking 52 Briny bath additives 56 Rule that ended when Turkey became a republic 59 “Ew...all I found were the stale remnants of a ___.” 60 “The Wapshot Chronicle” author John 63 Part of mph 64 “Much ___ About Nothing” 65 Brain scan, for short 66 Record label with a “Manhattan” offshoot 67 “___ to Billie Joe” 68 TV chef Martin 69 Runnable computer file suffix 70 Ointment

Down

1 Laurence Fishburne TV show 2 Physics unit 3 Item used to fasten planks, in old shipbuilding 4 1966 Gold Glove Award winner Tony 5 “Singin’ in the Rain” codirector Stanley 6 Go on a buying spree 7 With the bow, in music 8 Former “S.N.L.” actor Jay 9 Actress Holly Robinson ___ 10 Doughnut-shaped 11 “The ___ Chaperone” 12 French legislative bodies 18 Suffix for anatomical reproductive organs 20 Temptress 22 Went into a personal online chat, for short 23 Folded food 24 Stiff and sore 28 Karaoke bar eqpt. 29 Roundish 32 “Rock and Roll, Hoochie ___” (1974 hit) 33 Literary lioness 34 ___-do-well 35 G.I.’s address 39 Parent company of Popsicle and Skippy 40 They’re in charge of the bldg. 41 Tends to priority number one? 42 ___ a wild goose chase 43 Greet the judge 44 If ___ (Kenneth Cole shoe) 45 Allegro non ___ (lively, but not too lively, in music) 46 It’s far from love 47 Unabridged 51 Lance Bass headline, on a 2006 cover of People 53 Pageant host 54 ___ Twin (alias of electronic musician Richard D. James) 55 It may force a city to surrender 57 Alan of “M*A*S*H” 58 Brightly colored 61 It’ll never get off the ground 62 Messy morsel at a barbecue

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Michael Coulter

Get Cash Fast Five obivious steps to financial solvency The economy in the United States is still apparently not doing especially well. I would never have been able to figure something like that out on my own, so I’m super thankful to all the various media outlets that point it out at least 60 times an hour. When you look around, things seem to be bad for most everyone. The few people who must be doing OK are the ones writing about how bad the economy actually is. I don’t know if they get paid by the word or not, but if they do, we all better invest in wheelbarrows because they’re going to be buying a lot of them to haul all their money to the bank. The rest of us will have to fend for ourselves when it comes to keeping our heads above water. As luck would have it, those people constantly writing about our economy are more than happy to help us out with our plight. The Web site Wallet Pop had a little set of tips last week entitled “The Top Five Ways to Get Cash Fast.” On the setup page, they gave us a few scenarios where we might need cash fast, just in case we aren’t clear exactly what a personal cash emergency is. They noted that it could be that you’ve just been laid off, a pipe has burst in your kitchen or your kid needs braces. What would you do? Those are pretty good emergencies, I suppose, though I’m not sure if crooked teeth count as an emergency in this day and age. I know they didn’t when I was a kid. Either way, Wallet Pop came up with five easy ways to get cash fast. There may have actually been seven or eight, but they don’t seem to like weird numbers like that over there. I assumed that most of the tips would be stuff I‘ve already thought of such as stealing, donating plasma five times a week or stealing other people’s plasma five times a week and selling it on the Black Market. They focused on more legitimate ventures. Whatever, good for them, I guess. My ideas are still probably better. Their first idea was to sell something. Geez, those folks really do their homework over there at Wallet Pop. I guess my plasma idea sort of falls under that category, but their idea at least seems a little more reasonable. Have a garage sale. I think my idea of selling plasma might be better. I’ve never really seen anyone show up at a garage sale hoping to pay top dollar just to help the person out. Most of them have less

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than 10 bucks in their pockets, and they want to buy something that will get them on Antiques Roadshow so they can talk about how lucky they were. Garage sales are fine if you just want to get rid of things, probably not fine if you want to save your house ... unless you sell your actual garage at the sale ... and even then. Their second idea is to cash out your CDs. I personally have several CDs, but they are all the music kind, not certificates of deposit. It turns out mine aren’t worth nearly as much money. They point out that there is not much of a penalty for cashing these out early if you really need the money. Still, it can hurt you in the long run. My initial idea is still better. I could sell one of my CDs — for example, Eddie Money’s “Two Tickets to Paradise” — and it wouldn’t affect me in any way. In fact, the only penalty involved would be the embarrassment of admitting to buying the damned thing in the first place. The third idea is to appeal to your family for a loan. That’s a pretty tough thing to do. “Thanks for having me and raising me and paying for all my shit. Would you mind terribly to struggle just a bit so my life can be easier?” I think I’d feel more comfortable stealing their plasma. Idea No. 4 is to borrow from your peers. This is an even worse idea. These are lending sites that connect cashstrapped folks with other consumers willing to lend them a hand. I can only assume that “by lending a hand,” they really mean giving them a sound screwing. Their last idea is to tap your cash value. Basically, borrow against assets you already own such as your home or life insurance policy. The thing is, you bought those things for a reason, like to have something to live in or to protect your family if you should die. If they go away, so does the protection. It’s easy to write about doing it but probably much harder to actually pull the trigger. It might be time to make the trip to the plasma center a family outing instead. Still, it’s hard to make fun of these ideas, really, because somewhere down the road, we all may be in the same boat looking for some suggestion that will save our asses for another month or so. The thing is, the hole you’re digging just gets deeper and deeper. It’s like that quote from The Sun Also Rises where they ask how the guy went bankrupt and he answers, “Gradually, then suddenly.” Those days may be here sooner than we think, and there may come a time when no amount of plasma in the world is gonna bail us out.

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Hansel & Gretel U of i alumnus neely Bruce has created an innovative production that faithfully recounts this classic fairy tale with surprising infusions of dance and an intriguing mix of rock, pop balladry, funk, and rap. Th-sa, apr 30-may 2 at 7:30pm su, may 3 at 3pm Tryon festival Theatre

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5pm

Krannert Uncorked // marqUEE

5pm

Krannert Uncorked // marqUEE

5pm

Tele-immersive Environments Project // danCE aT illinois

6pm

7:30pm

Ui Wind symphony and Ui symphonic Band i

Pre-performance lecture: Hansel and Gretel // sChool of mUsiC oPEra Program

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7:30pm

studiodance ii // danCE aT illinois

7:30pm

Ui symphonic Band ii and Ui Concert Band i // sChool of mUsiC

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7:30pm

Hansel and Gretel

7pm

studiodance ii // danCE aT illinois

9pm

studiodance ii // danCE aT illinois sa apr 25

$8-$22

3pm

Krannert Center student association 40th reunion Celebration // KrannErT CEnTEr sTUdEnT assoCiaTion

6:45pm

Pre-performance Talk: siTi Company // marqUEE

7pm

studiodance ii // danCE aT illinois

7:30pm

Ui Varsity men’s glee Club // sChool of mUsiC

7:30pm

anne Bogart’s siTi Company: Under Construction // marqUEE

9pm

studiodance ii // danCE aT illinois su apr 26

3pm

Krannert Center debut artist: melissa davis, mezzo-soprano // marqUEE

// sChool of mUsiC oPEra Program

tHank you to tHe FollowinG sponsors

anne Bogart’s siti Company: Under Construction and Who Do You Think You Are frances P. rohlen Visiting artists fund/College of fine and applied arts This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. krannert Center Debut artist: Melissa Davis, mezzo-soprano dolores and roger Yarbrough louise allen

tu apr 28

3pm

meet the Composer: Hansel and Gretel // sChool of mUsiC oPEra Program

5pm

meet the Composer: Hansel and Gretel // sChool of mUsiC oPEra Program

7:30pm

anne Bogart’s siTi Company: Who Do You Think You Are // marqUEE

7:30pm

Ui Concert Jazz Band and the East st. louis high school Jazz Band // sChool of mUsiC

9:30pm

Talkback: siTi Company // marqUEE

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Marquee performances are supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council—a state agency that recognizes Krannert Center in its Partners in Excellence Program.

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