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AROUND TOWN Extending a Warm Western Welcome The Toffee Lady Seth Fein is on hiatus from his column.

LISTEN, HEAR A Night with the Redwalls A Quickie with ...The Living Blue Album review A Quickie with ... New Ruins CU Sound Revue Concert Review:The Decemberists Spin it/Flip it/Reverse it Green Days: A Green Apple Music Festival Recap

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“Excuse me, I have a q ue s t ion ! � N a z a r a l i Pir nazarov wou ld d e m a n d r e p e a t e d l y. He was a 26-year old Su n n i Mu s l i m f r om Tajikistan, married to three wives and a father to four ch i ldren. He looked young enough to be in high school and smoked incessantly. Among the 14 journalists who visited the Universit y of Illinois this weekend from various former Soviet republics, he was the class clown — a fun, talkative guy who knew a random smattering of English and questioned American democracy at every turn, demanding to know why, in a democratic country, he couldn’t smoke in airports or bring liquids on planes. Nazarali was an idealist. The group included editors, political observers, reporters and even a consultant to the president of Lithuania. They came from 14 different Asian and Eastern European countries and were, for the most part, a well-traveled, talkative bunch that had met only two weeks earlier. I joined their entourage out of the sheer fascinat ion of meet ing Russian-speak ing professional journalists, but after three nights of clubbing, playing sports and watching Sovietera animation with them, I had asked very little

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about their careers. Instead, I watched them with nostalgic awe, feeling like I finally arrived at the house party I missed out on when I moved to the States. On the last night of their stay in Champaign, the journalists sat around a conference table in a third-f loor hotel room. There was a portly bottle of wine, beer and remnants of chips, bread and salami sprawled out on the table. It was supposed to be a good-natured ending to the trip, Aleksandrs Sunins — a host of a Latvian Television show — was explaining to me. Instead, the evening turned into a cacophony of ethnic and religious discussion, bickering and, of course, Nazarali’s persistent questioning of the group’s American student guide as the group tried to get to the bottom of some of life’s biggest questions — the differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims, what time nearby stores stopped selling liquor and how to shut up the journalist from Tajikistan. The differences between the sects were minute, the stores were closed long before the question even came up and only his cigarette breaks could get Nazarali out of the room. Before I left for home that night, Nazarali made clear his expectations for the last leg of the trip, when the group would leave Champaign for Washington D.C. He expected to get his questions about the shortcomings of American democracy answered at least by Condoleezza Rice but preferably by George W. Bush. sounds from the scene

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michael coulter FIRST THINGS FIRST

No cases of the Mondays Being happy at work

When I was a kid growing up in the country, we’d do just about anything to make a little bit of money. We’d bale, lift, cut or move just about any damned thing if someone would pay us for it. The guys hiring us were usually somewhat honest about what was ahead, saying something along the lines of, “Well, it’s a pretty hard job, but you’ll make pretty good money.” The more accurate statement would have been “Well, it’s a really shitty job and it seems like a crapload of money to a kid, but it’s really not that much and you’re going to hate it.” I didn’t hate the money, but I gotta be honest, my job satisfaction was remarkably low, even for a child. Since I’ve sort of grown up, I’ve generally liked every job I’ve had. Don’t get me wrong, they’ve all sucked a dog’s ass at one point or another, but I think that’s just the nature of the beast. I know a few people though who have never enjoyed one freaking second of their work. If you don’t believe me, ask them, they’ll be more than happy to tell you about it for a couple of hours. Money’s great and all that, but I couldn’t imagine doing something I absolutely despise my entire life. I recently ran across a survey by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago that took a look at which professions had the most job satisfaction. It appears there are many people who are happy with their jobs and I suppose it’s easy to see why … maybe not. I basically learned I’m probably happier where I’m at. Members of the clergy topped the list with an 87 percent job satisfaction rating. That makes some sense that they’re happy. I mean, they are working for God and all and you can’t really argue with his benefit package. Sure full medical and dental are nice, but everlasting life, that sort of thing is a whole hell of a lot nicer than even a company car. On the downside, I bet they really get tired of working weekends all the time. I don’t think it would make me happy, but good for them. The firemen come next with an 80 percemt job satisfaction. I don’t know. I do like the idea of hanging out with other guys for a few days, being on call and eating dinner and shooting hoop and playing grabass. My real problem would come when there was actually work to do. “Um, yeah, it’s been great so far, but if you think I’m climbing up into that burning building, you’re sadly mistaken. Shit like that is how people die,

dude. Seriously, I quit.” I respect them a ton and I’m glad they’re happy, but once again, I’m not sure it’s for me. Plus, those sirens would drive me crazy. Authors have a 74 percent rate of satisfaction and I could probably be happy doing that. Of course, besides writing this column every week, I never really get around to working on all the other writings I’ve started. Um, just so we’re clear, 74 percent of authors are happy, but 0 percent of lazy, unfocused writers, like myself, are happy. I mean, most of them are big drinkers and I can do that all day long. They are also usually selfcentered and I’m on board with that. It’s just the whole sitting in a room writing all the time thing, it seems so lonely. Teachers are happy at a rate of 69 percent. Apparently they didn’t consult any of my former teachers for this survey. I think they’re great and I respect them, but it’s really just not for me. I tend to get annoyed if someone doesn’t know how to do something, so I could really only teach people smarter than me and that sort of defeats the purpose. Plus, it seems like quite a lot of responsibility. It’s not like writing a bad sentence where you can hit Delete a few times and start over again; if a teacher screws a kid up, they’re pretty much screwed up for the next 70 or so years. Psychologists are pretty satisfied, clocking in at 67 percent. My biggest stumbling block for this would be that people often annoy me and all that whining would drive my ass crazy. On the other hand, there has to be a certain amount of self-satisfaction when it comes to listening to other people’s problems all day. I’d be nodding with my chin resting on my hand pretending I care, but on the inside, it’d be a different story. “Wow, this dude is bat ass freaking crazy. I hope he doesn’t snap and try to stab me with a ball point pen or something. Geez Louise, where do these people come from?” Enjoyable for me, probably not much help for the patient. The lea st g rat i f y ing jobs include such occupations as cashiers, waitstaff and strangely, furniture salesmen. I don’t know, I wouldn’t mind chilling out on a La-Z-Boy whenever there was some downtime, but whatever. Like I said before, I’m lucky I’ve been pretty satisfied when it comes to work. If someone offered me the same amount of money not to do anything, though, I’d jump on it in a second. I wouldn’t be any happier, but sitting around does seem like a pretty cool job … probably until you actually do it.

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The Master’s Table Cowboy Church

Robert Wilbur, minister for the The Master’s Table Cowboy Church of Urbana, watches a musical performance from the back of the church before leading a service on Sunday, April 22. PHOTO BY AMELIA MOORE

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’ll bet you $10 there is only one location in the CU area that has a set of bullhorns hung on a wall above a cross. Actually, I’ll go double or nothing that you can’t guess what this place is. After you think for a moment or two, make a h a st y g ue s s a nd h a nd me 2 0 dol l a r s, I will enlighten you. The answer is The Master’s Table Cowboy Church in Urbana, located at 2200A E. University Ave. “What in the world is a cowboy church?” you might ask. “Is that what is held on Sundays after a rodeo? Is wearing a Stetson a necessity? Do I have to chew Skoal in order to be allowed entry?” Not at all; don’t let the over-the-top “cowboy” stereotypes fool you. The Master’s Table (in reference to DaVinci’s ubiquitous

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“Last Supper” painting) invites anyone to their services, cowboy or non-cowboy, said Pastor Robert Wilbur. “We are an alldenominational church. Everyone is welcome.” The Master’s Table Cowboy Church is a fairly recent addition to the community. After all, they just began their services on Jan. 6 of this year. The unique idea of “cowboy church,” however, has been around for quite some time. According to The Master’s Table band member Floyd Fisher, the original concept of the cowboy church was formed many, many years ago by Johnny Cash’s sister Joanne and her husband, Dr. Harry Yates in Nashville. Because country singers are known to be lovers of both God and whiskey, oftentimes the musicians would go to church on Sunday morning still smelling like Saturday night. After a while, their ministers got fed up with these musically inclined, hungover worshipers and kicked them out of church.

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In response, the Yates’ invited the “cowboys” to their own service, which was held in a hotel barroom with bed sheets covering up all liquor bottles in sight. Dress codes were also not a factor, as wearing a cowboy hat, sporting a leather vest and bringing one’s own guitar to play gospel songs wasn’t looked down upon. Although The Master’s Table Cowboy Church doesn’t have any bottles of Jack Daniel’s to hide for its services, their philosophy is similar: to help the otherwise non-churchgoer hear the word of God. “I wanted to start the church for evangelist work in our community,” explained Wilbur, a pastor for the last eight years. “I thought it would get people that wouldn’t go to church in, it would give them some entertainment — people that didn’t want to come in and hear a long boring sermon. You come dressed as

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Church goers clap and sing along with a live electric band during Sunday service at The Master’s Table Cowboy Church of Urbana that opened in January of 2007. PHOTO BY AMELIA MOORE

you want, dress comfortable, no one will look down on you if you wear your hat or jeans.” Pastor Wilbur first heard of the cowboy church idea 25 years ago, while living in Georgia. However, he hadn’t actually been to one until Fischer invited him to such a service in Paxton, Ill. three years ago. Upon his first experience, he wasn’t sure he was in favor of the church’s very unequal breakdown of music to sermon. However, once he decided to give it one more shot, he felt like there was something to the cowboy church idea. What followed was simply a wait for the opportunity to bring cowboy church to the area. Finding the appropriate place to host such a church came from a surprising source. “When I was a kid this place used to be a restaurant,” Regel Wilbur, Pastor Wilbur’s wife of 32 years, reflected as she looked all around at their newfound church. “This building was a vision to me. My husband said, ‘I just don’t see it.’ I said, ‘I do, as a cowboy church.’” Thus, in January he and Regel started up The Master’s Table in this small building in Urbana. The for mat of The Master’s Table is as follows: each Saturday and Sunday night, the congregation gathers together from 6 to 8 p.m. (if one is as physically hungry as spiritually hungry, there is a potluck dinner both nights starting at 4:50 p.m.). The first hour of the service is generally all music, as the Cowboy Church Band of Fischer (on rhythm guitar and vocals, who sports black jeans, a black western shirt and a black cowboy hat and joking claims that “Johnny Cash imitated me his whole life”) and the husband and wife team of Denver and Phyllis Scrimager (lead sounds from the scene

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and bass guitar, both vocals and dressed for a hoe-down) perform an array of spiritual country/bluegrass music. Songs that make your toes tap or head nod without even realizing it. The sound is something equivalent to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, only if every song were about Jesus. The trio also plays with a different special guest each night, ranging from a mandolin player to a banjo strummer to a steel guitarist. The band is lively but laid-back, alternating who sings lead while cracking jokes in between songs. And although their jokes might not be Chris Rock material, with punchlines ranging from arthritis to a dead fish to Hillary Clinton, “we have a good time up there,” said Fischer. Generally, toward the end of the mini-concert, the offering hat is passed around. That’s right: the offering hat. Come on, this is cowboy church! I must admit that this was the first time I had ever put money into a cowboy hat. A fter the f irst hour, Pastor Wilbur, who holds a Doctorate in ministry and dons jeans, a western shirt and a white cowboy hat at the pulpit, preaches for about 12 to 15 minutes, delivering a sermon he describes as “a positive message with conviction.” As mentioned, his goal is to reach the soul of those who ordinarily wouldn’t be found in church. Upon his message, the band takes the stage once again for another 30-minute country session. At 7:45 p.m. is the altar call, when anyone in the congregation can come forward and pray with the pastor about anything that is troubling them. Following altar call, all those in attendance stand up together, hold hands and sing “Let the Circle Be Unbroken” before the final prayer. The service then ends, as church members feel spiritually renewed for another week. One of the cowboy churchgoers, Leo Wood, a 70-yearold retired postal worker, revels in The Master’s Table.

Floyd Fischer, of Champaign, right, and Denver Scrimager, of Urbana, left, play for the congregation during a service. PHOTO BY AMELIA MOORE

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“I enjoy the whole thing,” Wo o d s t a t e d . “ T he r e a r e a bunch of good people here. I like the country and westerngospel songs and the pastor seem s ver y si ncere. He i s a good man.” As The Master’s Table is a fairly new place of worship in the area, the church’s attendance hasn’t yet been astronomical. However, the positive wordof-mouth they are generating is certainly helping their numbers. Their f irst ever service drew a dozen people. From there, it went to 19 to upwards of 56 a few weeks later. Regardless, Regel doesn’t mind a smaller crowd. “We are unlike the bigger churches where you don’t know who you are sitting next to,” she declared. No matter the size of the crowd, for Pastor Wilbur, the message is always the same. “I would go out of my way to help anyone, those with drugs or alcohol problems or whatever,” said Pastor Wilbur. “If we can make a difference in even one person’s life, then I think it is really worth it.”

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(Far left) Floyd Fisher of Champaign rests in between playing songs. (Left) Floyd Fisher, far right, accompanies sibling Duo Phyllis and Denver Scrimager of Urbana, play gospell songs for the cowboy church every saturday and sunday from 6 to 8pm. The band draws an energized crowd that any newcomer is more than welcome to participate in. PHOTOS BY GREG HINCHMAN

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Audra Martin, “The Toffee Lady”

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udra Martin hovers above four heavy saucepans, rotating the stovetop dials to just the right temperature. Her two matching French pigtail braids cascade down her back. She tugs slightly on her deep green apron — the words “The Toffee Lady” embroidered across the chest — before reaching over to a 40-pound block of pale yellow butter. Audra slides a knife into the block, pries away a large chunk and sets it onto the electric scale next to the stove then places the piece into one of the now warm pots. The sweet, nutty scent of the melting butter mixes with the rich notes of the dark chocolate that Audra melted moments before. Audra starts most days like this — measuring, melting butter and warming thick chocolate over a double boiler. They’re the fi rst steps of the infamous English toffee recipe. It’s the same recipe her mother-in-law, Pat, passed down to her with just a few tweaks. “[The recipe] has been through a lot of reincarnations, but I have made a lot of adjustments and kind of tweaked the ingredients to use really, really good ingredients,” Audra says. Audra will make three batches of toffee today — four pans of three and a half pounds of toffee,

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three times. On full production days, she can make 98 pounds of the candy. Audra started her small, home-run business, Toffee by Audra, soon to be Long Ago and Far Away Creations, in 2004. The business could be bigger, but that would mean hiring people, buying new equipment and experimenting with the recipe so that it would work in the larger batches. “I would have to have my own facility and chocolate-making equipment is really expensive, so the things that I would want to melt the chocolate and pour it over the toffee — we’re probably talking more than my house,” Audra says. Most of the butter has melted into a transparent pool. Audra propels a measuring cup into a bin and deposits two scoops of sugar into each pan. Audra stirs each pot with a wooden spoon. She manages the four pans with ease — a skill she developed since fi rst making the toffee five years ago for her son’s teacher-parent conference dinner. “The next day the teachers were just after me for more and so I thought, ‘Well, it’s almost Christmas time, so maybe I will just make a little extra Christmas money and sell it to the teachers,’” Audra remembers. “It just took off from there.”

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Audra moves from pan to pan — stirring and scraping down the small crystals of butter and sugar on the sides of the pans. She’s the candymaking version of Spinderella. “Frankly, I have been astounded by the demand. It’s just toffee. It’s butter and sugar,” she says. The mixture needs to turn thick. The spoon needs leave a slight wake in its path, then she’ll add the whole almonds. “People always think that I roast the nuts, and I am like, ‘No, they have boiled in butter for a good half an hour, that is why they taste so good,’” she says, dumping a measuring cupful of nuts into the pots. Audra lines four pans on the kitchen island. She has to monitor the toffee now. “You have to watch for it to be ready and make sure it doesn’t burn. I always feel kind of like a witch — stirring my cauldrons. No eye of newt though, I promise,” she jokes. The toffee boils and foams up around the almonds that punctuate the mixture. Once the mixture looks smooth and glassy, she’ll have to move quickly. Audra has staggered the starting times of the four pots. As she stirs the front right pan, the batch slides A sprinkle of nuts is the final ingredient in Audra Marten’s toffee. in a mass around the perimeter of the Audra commented that she sold 3200 pounds of her handmade toffee last year. pot. This one is done. “Good English toffee is hard to fi nd locally,” she notes. “Mostly they are too hard. They are really hard and crunch and stick in your teeth, so you’re afraid a crown is going to pop out.” She lifts the fi rst pot from its burner and juts across the kitchen. She tilts the pot and the toffee cascades down in soft ribbons onto a pan. She has 30 seconds to smooth out the pan of toffee before it gets too cool to spread. Audra moves the back right pot to the front right burner and places a new pan, with its own hunk of butter ready for melting on the empty burner. A s for eat i ng tof fee, “I a m absolutely sick of it,” she says. “There are times where if a batch turns out questionable and I just want to check it, and it takes everything I’ve got just to put that piece of toffee in my mouth, because I don’t want to eat it.” Audra even smells like toffee. “There are some days — especially during the holidays — when you’ll be making toffee all day and then you’ll get in the shower and the steam will pour up and all you smell is candy,” she says. Audra has moved on to the day’s second batch of toffee. She’ll wait for the fi rst batch to cool before coating it with chocolate and pecans. “I like all of it. I like learning about the business — I like learning all the aspects of the bookkeeping and taxes and feeling like I have a handle on it. I like being at home and making the toffee. It is very relaxing. I listen to a lot of books on tape. It is my alone time and then I get to get out and meet all my customers, so I can’t say that there is a part of it that I don’t like,” she says. “Okay, washing the pans. Audra Marten of Urbana, preparing one of her many batches of toffee I don’t like washing the pans.” to sell to local stores.

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reat music takes us to another place. It helps us step outside ourselves. Where we wind up exactly depends entirely on what sort of people we are, what song we’re listening to and how open we are to being carried away by the music. It’s easy to sit here and say that The Redwalls take me back to the glory days of classic rock. They wear their British Invasion influences on their sleeves — sporting sideburns, boots and jackets, they certainly look the part. But it’s more than that. At their show at the Courtyard Café on Friday, April 20, the band demonstrated that while they may look to the past for inspiration, they’ve got their sights set on the future. After The Villains of Verona delivered a good set and Santa, fresh off their recent victory at the Local Music Awards, got the crowd dancing, The Redwalls kicked things off with a new song, “Hangman.” In fact, “new” seemed to be the word of the evening. Of the 19 songs the band played, 10 are currently unreleased tracks. Even the band’s single off of De Nova, “Thank You,” which bassist Justin Baren introduced by saying, “If you know anything about us at all, you’ll know this song,” featured a reworked chorus. That isn’t to say that old favorites didn’t get the crowd moving and singing along. After a bluesy intro, the band tore into “Balinese (Deep in the Heart)” and received a warm response. Later in the set, many audience members could be seen swaying and singing along to “Universal Blues,” the title track off the band’s first album. However, it was the new material that was the star of the show. They closed the show, fittingly, with “In the Time of the Machine,” which somehow manages to sound futuristic and vintage at the same time. In lieu of an encore, the band mingled with fans after the show. One autograph-seeker exclaimed, “The world needs more bands like The Redwalls!” And he was right. On Friday night, The Redwalls proved that they can straddle the line between past and present and take us back to the classic rock heyday while maintaining their own sound. As the Redwalls search for a label to put out their new album, it appears they’re coming into their own as a band, exploring new sounds while remaining true to their essence. Friday’s show didn’t simply take me back to the good old days, it took me and the rest of the crowd into uncharted territory. Check out what The Redwalls told buzz about their up-andcoming ventures: buzz: Do you want to talk a little bit about the The Wall to Wall Sessions EP? I’ve listened to some of the tracks, and they don’t seem like a departure necessarily, but like you’re experimenting a little bit, or trying out a new sound. Logan Baren: The EP, we recorded that all in Chicago, which is cool. I guess we were in there just to have fun. Andrew Langer: It’s just kind of a collection of songs we did over the last couple of months. buzz: You guys have played lots of different sized venues, like The Courtyard Café versus big festivals like Lollapalooza. Do you take a different approach to your performance when you’re playing in different sized venues? LB: No. AL: (laughs) Exactly the same. Ben Greeno: You would think one would, but no. Justin Baren: We just kind of do what we do, and it doesn’t matter what size the venue is, so no, not really. buzz: You recently recorded an album in Sweden. Any word on when that’s coming out? I know the thing with Capitol Records (The Redwalls were dropped from the label back in February after a merger with Virgin Records) had kind of complicated that, but ... LB: No, actually everything’s okay now, and we are pretty sure it’s gonna be out — sounds from the scene

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JB: — By fall. BG: Yeah, if anything, it un-complicated things. With a major label, there’s no real way to get your album out. You’re kind of at their discretion, at their mercy pretty much. So we’re just like, “Oh, we really wanna get this out.” Now, we own it, we have it, it’s our piece of work to do what we want with. LB: Yeah, we’re just picking a label to put it on right now. buzz:: I’ve also heard you’re planning on re-issuing your first album, Universal Blues. Is that true? LB: We are re-issuing it, and we’re re-issuing it with some material that has previously not been heard, so I think that’ll be cool. AL: It’s a bunch of tracks that we kind of did around the time of Universal Blues that didn’t go on any albums that we made, so it’s incentive to get it. buzz: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever encountered at a show or on tour? LB: People have thrown drinks on us. AL: And we’ve thrown drinks on them. JB: The craziest thing I would say was when we were playing with Oasis, and there were just people that would sit there all day long and there was a big fence, and whenever some band would play, they’d just all rush up, and they were just like airlifting these people, like grabbing them out of the front row. BG: Just tons of security guards lining the whole thing as fast as they could and these kids were just — JB: — injured, like, broken legs. BG: You’d come to a show and like an hour into it you’d leave in like an ambulance or a stretcher off to the side, or they just like pull them off and throw them back out to the other side, so they just kind of filter. JB: Yeah, that was kind of strange to see. I’ve never seen so many casualties at a concert — so many people with heat exhaustion, or I don’t know what the hell was wrong with them.

buzz: You guys have been compared to The Beatles a lot. Do you ever get sick of being compared to them? JB: No. LB: We think they’re great. buzz: As do a lot of people. LB: Right, so I don’t know why we’d ever get tired of that. buzz: Can you guys tell me anything about the new album, or is that sort of under wraps? JB: The new record is like nothing we’ve ever done before. I mean, we worked with a really great guy, Tore Johansson out of Sweden, and it was really the first guy that really understood us and we understood him, and it’s a great record. You know, we’re just so glad to have it and so glad to be able to share it with you and everybody. I think it’s great, and everybody that’s heard it thinks it’s great, it’s just ... BG: It’s great. AL: It’s okay. buzz: (laughs) Just okay? AL: No, it’s awesome. LB: Pretty much the best record we’ve ever done. I think so absolutely. I think we’re just beginning to have our own sound. It’s very nice. buzz: Anything else you want to throw out there? LB: We just want to make sure everyone knows that our EP is out, you can begin to get that online, and the new record should be out soon, so just keep an ear to the ground about that. AL: We’re gonna be on tour this summer, like in June, July and August. We’re gonna get back on tour and tour the whole country, so people can look for us coming to a city near them. BG: Yeah, we will be posting shows for the first leg of the tour starting June 21, so that’ll be posted on our MySpace, and we’ll have a new Web site up and stuff. All new good stuff coming your way.

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Tonight, The Living Blue will be opening for the treadmill-loving boys of OK Go at Foellinger Auditorium. Check out what The Living Blue’s Stephen Ucherek had to say: buzz: Explain what you consider your big break in CU. Stephen Ucherek: We played the Brass Rail once, and had a line around the block. buzz: What sort of rituals (if any) do you or your band do right before a show to get into your performance mindset? Stephen: I usually jump around a bit, get the blood moving, shake up Andy D, wake up Andy D, pray to Jah, slap five with my homies. buzz: What sorts of things do you like to do to surprise your fans during each show?

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Stephen: I like to say something like, “This song is about class warfare” and then watch people look at me like, huh? Say schwha? It beats the usual showing of the privates, or telling of a whack joke. buzz: What sorts of things do you learn from when playing or touring with other big artists like OK Go? Stephen: I’ve learned it’s all about a good time; it is rock and roll. Nobody wants to see a rock and roller with poopy diapers. buzz: Do you have any advice for aspiring performers to get out and do their thing? Stephen: DO M A K E SAY THINK. Or maybe, THINK SAY MAKE DO.

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As a long time fan of Chicago-born music legend Patti Smith, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Twelve, her newest release. The artist commonly referred to as the poet-laureate of punk, has been in the industry since the 1960s and has continued to set trends and inf luence the American musical landscape through four decades. Despite her accomplishments, Twelve, her f irst cover album, falls f lat in comparison to her previous work. I know if I said that to Patti Smith herself I’d probably get spit on or punched. I get the

feeling Smith does things on her own terms, to please herself and herself alone. Yes, this is a collection of songs she feels has profundity, yet I can’t help but feel the songs were more profound before she laid her hands on them. If you took the original version of all the tracks she covered on Twelve, you’d have a great mix tape. But Smith’s take on these old and new classics shatters their former vigor with a hammer’s blow of stone-cold monotony. Take for example Smith’s cover of the Nirvana hit “Smells like Teen Spirit.� As a Nirvana fan, I loved the song as an honest, unabashed study in teenage angst. I couldn’t make out most of Cobain’s lyrics for the life of me, but the feeling I got from the mash of words and music in that song gave it a particular, endearing appeal. Patti Smith sings Cobain’s lyrics with a crisp backwoods twang in her voice and a banjo/f iddle accompaniment. But wait, there’s more! As if she hadn’t bastardized “Smells like Teen Spirit� enough, she decides to go into a completely unrelated poetic rant midway through the song to really fuck it up. Despite my love for Patt i Sm ith, I just couldn’t wrap my head around this album. To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect from Patti Smith the cover artist. Seeing her off-kilter song choices on the CD sleeve (she covers a Tears for Fears song, for God’s sake) made me think she was going to put some sort of magical edge into a lot of her chosen tracks. Instead, by the end of the album I was left feeling like I’d been bored to death by some aging hotel lounge singer and her brooding back-ups. But, if you’re into that sort of thing, by all means go out and get a copy.

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Next Wednesday, Swedish musician Jose Gonzales will be stopping by the Courtyard Cafe to play a show with New Ruins and Caleb Engstrom. buzz chatted with J. Caleb Means of New Ruins about their upcoming show: buzz: What are your expectations going into your show at the Courtyard? J. Caleb Means: Well its an honor to get to play with Jose Gonzales, who is internationally honored. With bigger acts more people tend to be there. He is only playing a couple US dates and Champaign is one of them — he’s not even playing in Chicago, so hopefully people from Chicago and places like St. Louis will come. buzz: What do you hope to get out of this show? JCM: We’re known as rock right now, and for this show we’re going to strip down and do an acoustic show to give audiences another view of our music. buzz: What are the variances you have between different venues? Do you think your performance changes depending on the stage you’re performing on? JCM: Yes, to some degree, I guess. Places like the Cowboy Monkey or the Highdive tend to have much better sound systems, more professional, compared to the Iron Post which has a very raw sound. On big stages like at the Highdive, we’re not used to playing so far away from each other. The Iron Post is a little more comfortable because we’re closer together, like when we practice in my house. buzz: What’s your perfect audience?

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JCM: A big one. A perfect audience — it’s nice to see a bunch of heads in the crowd, respectful people, sometimes you get people talking, but we’re a loud enough band now that you cant really talk like when we were more of an acoustic band. All in all you want a mixture of people — people to hear you play, and new people to hear your music. buzz: Your album is called The Sound They Make. What kind of sound do you set out to make? JCM: We take a lot of pride in our music in that with us there are two songwriters in the band, Elzie and I. We’ve been playing music since we were 13 or 14. We both listen and write our own kind of music, so the sound we make is something very diverse and sounds like nothing else in this town. Yet, somehow there is a unity to it that makes it sound like New Ruins.

Treadmills, Journey and, oh great, G Love is here again Well, the Boneyard Arts Festival is over. I know, a lot of you are thinking, “When did it start?” Still, those who found out about it in time to make the rounds stumbled across lots of great art and music over the course of the weekend, during which there were enough events going on to make even Todd Hunter’s head spin. The house was absolutely packed for a Ryan Groff solo performance at Aroma Café on Friday, with Ryan playing over an hour of new originals and old favorites on guitar and piano. Outside on the Chester Street Stage, Angie Heaton found out that changing the key of one of her songs made it sound exactly like the Indigo Girls’ classic “Closer To Fine.” Closer, indeed! Earlier, she held up against the pressure to belly dance. Triple Whip was the band that mesmerized the kids the most, while The Living Blue maxed out the PA the most. Seth Fein was even seen out and about. Seth Fein, indeed! Okay, I’ve been watching too much Sealab. As I mentioned last week, the kings of the choreographed treadmill video, OK Go, will make a stop at Foellinger tonight. The best part about it is that The Living Blue will be opening, meaning you might finally get to see them in a room that can accommodate the sound. Tickets are $25. For $5 less, you can head over to the Canopy Club to catch G Love and Special Sauce, but that only works if you have a popped collar and maybe a backwards visor on — otherwise, everyone there will assume that you don’t belong. Oh well, at least it’s not OAR. Now to get to shows that won’t keep you from being able to buy beer for the rest of the week ... tonight is part two of the Green Street Records release show for the No Rights Reserved compilation. Last week’s show apparently featured the debut performance of our very own music editor, Carlye Wisel, as the singer of the band Plebzy. This week the show will continue at the Courtyard Café, with mad mardigan, The Dakota, Butterfly Assassins and more for only $5. Downtownies who don’t want to venture onto campus can catch Snowsera, (recently featured right here in buzz!) playing once again at Cowboy Monkey, this time with Chicago outfit Air This Side of Caution and locals Zmick and Oceans (that’s right, those bros). The show starts at 9:30 p.m. and is also $5.

Friday night marks the return of St. Louis band Gentleman Auction House to the Iron Post in Urbana. GAH has been making waves in the Midwest with a bit of touring and an excellent EP. They’ve built a good following here in CU, playing shows with Headlights, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, The Wandering Sons and others. This time they’ll be sharing the stage with Death Ships (last seen opening for Jay Bennett for his CD release tour) and elsinore. The gauntlet was thrown between GAH and elsinore, and the show will feature cover songs done by each band, as chosen by the other band. What awful or amazing songs might you see performed? Well, that’s a surprise, but I’d make Ryan Groff sing Journey. The cover is $6, and the show will start at 10 p.m. Zoso, the very fine Led Zeppelin tribute band, will make another stop at the Canopy Club on Friday night, and mad mardigan will play the second night in a row with a show at Cowboy Monkey with The Delta Kings. Friday is also the kick-off of this year’s Artists Against AIDS Fine Art Exhibition and Benefit Sale. This year the event is taking place at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum. For more info on the weekend’s events, check out www.gcapnow.com. There’s a great show at Mike ’n Molly’s on Saturday, hopefully in the beer garden, because it’s officially that time now. Chicago band Unique Chique — previously seen in town playing with bands like the City on Film, The Reputation and Pulsar47 — has a new CD titled Ethica out on Loose Tooth Records. The record is good, which bodes well for the live show, which I usually find to be better. Plus, they have the personal seal of approval from Braid’s Bob Nanna, and any band who has that is ... well, I don’t know how to finish that sentence. Unique Chique will play alongside local band fireflies, The Violent Sea (Cleveland) and Them Roaring Twenties (Chicago). And since the show will hopefully be in the beer garden, that means you smokers can smoke without ever having to move from your chair. Decent! 7 to 9 Sundays are officially back, care of Triple Whip’s Jane Boxall. Jane and I had an excellent conversation during the Boneyard Arts Festival during which it seemed she could not understand a word I was saying. It must be the accent. Meanwhile, this week’s show will feature Eleni Moraites, who recently returned to the area after a stint in Pennsylvania or some place. We’re glad to have her back though. She’ll be the soft cream center to the band sandwich of Dress Code and reds. Don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Check out myspace.com/7to9sundays for more info or call the Iron Post and ask for Paul. He’s got the info. Sunday night also features a rock show of epic proportions at (am I getting this right?) the Highdive. Tritone, the caped wonders of the CU metal scene, will rock with Caminos, a new outfit from the brain of Guido Esteves (the Brat Pack, Temple of Low Men). This show is a birthday bash for Adam Wolfe, and rock time is 9:30 p.m. Next week brings some big names to town, as The Fray, creators of that “How To Save a Life” song that never fucking leaves your head once it gets in there, will play the Assembly Hall on Monday. Wednesday night, the man who covered the song in that commercial with the bouncy balls ( Jose Gonzales doing a song by the Knife) will play the Courtyard with New Ruins and Caleb Engstrom. Winner of this week’s most intriguing band name prize: Kentucky Knife Fight — playing at the Iron Post on Saturday night. Mike Ingram can be reached at forgottenwords@gmail.com.

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The Decemberists perform at Foellinger Auditorium on Sunday night, April 15. PHOTO BY AMELIA MOORE

Sunday, April 15 at Foellinger Auditorium I never expect much from opening bands I’ve never heard of and usually my expectations are met. However, this show opened with New York-based exper imental/indie group My Brightest Diamond, who put on a great show, especially considering guitarist/singer Shara Worden. Her vocals, combined with her onstage demeanor, reminded me a lot of Chan Marshall from Cat Power. Worden’s airy voice entranced the crowd before The Decemberists came on, and everyone was delighted when she came out again during their set to sing the female part on “Yankee Bayonet.” The f loor was packed. By the time The Decemberists started to play, you would have thought they’d taken the seats out of the auditorium and it was standing room only. Their set was great, lasting a little over an hour and a half and including a wide array of songs from all over the band’s

discography. As front man Colin Meloy strummed the first notes of “The Infanta,” the crowd went wild. The atmosphere soon became more low-key, with jolts here and there when audience favorites were played. I have to say, of all the great material The Decemberists have produced over the years, “16 Military Wives” remains my favorite song. When they began to play it, I was ridiculously psyched, as were most of the concertgoers around me. Meloy had some fun with the audience on this one; grouping us up to sing the chorus in intervallic harmony, effectively producing a new collective musical oeuvre. The crowd/band interaction throughout the concert was awesome. At one point Meloy even picked up some kid’s cellphone, called one of the contacts and sang into it for the rest of the song. As far as I can tell, The Decemberists have a

pretty intense following here at U of I, and for good reason. This concert probably could have gone to a larger venue like Assembly Hall, but Foellinger provided the ideal environment to enjoy the band. In class it may seem like a big hall, but during a concert it’s a great space where the band is at least semi-close from every vantage point. After a fair bought of clapping, the band came out for an encore in which they performed “The Mariner’s Revenge.” This was the perfect way to end the concert. Not only did the audience get to participate by making “being eaten by a whale” noises on guitarist Chris Funk’s command, the performance included a freaky looking whale swimming across the stage and devouring the band members. I don’t think you could ask for a better performance — at least not for less than 20 bucks a ticket.

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A column on contemporary political rock cleverly referencing Bob Dylan’s most recent album and therefore paralleling music’s past to today. Whenever a musical artist writes lyrics that aren’t about strictly sexing or drugging and doesn’t have a totally radio-ready voice, they are invariably compared to Bob Dylan. It’s probably the smartest thing for a critic or a blogger or whoever to say. It a) automatically establishes musical knowledge by mentioning Dylan and b) makes the writer seem controversial and edgily hip. In reality though, they effectively hide that they know as much as the average KISS FM listener. I mean, I’m not above it by any means; it really does seem more interesting and intelligent discussing Dylan as opposed to, say, The Beatles. Everyone likes The Beatles a lot, so even though they were brilliant, they get trivialized by every beer pong punk wanting to blast “Helter Skelter” when they need to high-five. Conversely, I’ve oddly enough have never seen “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” on a power hour mix. There’s nothing hip or shocking about declaring the new Dylan because currently there are 400 (i.e. Jeff Tweedy, Suf jan Stevens, Mike Skinner, The Arctic Monkeys (?!)) new Dylans. The only thing that the title brings is unwarranted and hilarious expectations to these Dylanesque artists ... for example, Bright Eyes. Since he was 13 and recording his prepubescent metaphysical issues on a cassette, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) has been compared to Dylan. Inverse to Bobby D’s career though, only very recently has Oberst delved into the realm of political rock. Initially subtle and thought out, it seemed like a good fit for Bright Eyes, but his new completely charged record, Cassadaga, raises questions on writing political music in today’s world. O f cou r se, t he cl i m at e ( l it er a l l y a nd fi guratively) demands people to speak out for

change. I don’t want to use this as a soapbox, but I think what’s wrong is known to all, and when musicians have taken a stab to move the masses, it’s either been ignored or discredited. In ter ms of ignored, there was American Idiot by Green Day and Living with War by Neil Young. American Idiot did suck, naturally, and accordingly won X-amount of Grammy awards, but the political message didn’t transfer into anything more than a murmur. There wasn’t even much response to the incendiary lyrics. It was turned into another unimportant pop punk record by the media. Living with War was hotly discussed, but that’s all these records seem to do in today’s society. The Vietnam/Civil Rights era was defi ned by its music, like “We Shall Overcome” or Buff alo Springfi eld’s “For What It’s Worth.” People haven’t rallied around any song or really any sort of resistance to the war or the government in general; this age will be defi ned by ‘tsking’ and watching The Colbert Report. On the other hand, if a song is too political, it gets discredited. I’m in the camp, admittedly, that rags on writing too blatant of protest songs. I hate Bright Eyes’ “When the President Talks to God” for lines that literally say Bush eats feces, but at the same time I love Dylan’s “Masters of War” a song just as specifi c and enraged. For some reason we don’t want to be shown the miseries we let happen, it’s easier to just allude to them and shake our heads while feeling ‘progressive’ and ‘aware.’ I don’t mean to be nostalgic for an era I didn’t live in — I know the majority of society didn’t march or listen to Crosby Stills etc. But, maybe our whole nation could rally in V for Vendettalike protest if we just heard good enough songs ... so here are four per fect political rabble rousers. 1. “Pillar of Salt” by The Thermals 2. “Armchairs” by Andrew Bird 3. “Landlocked Blues” by Bright Eyes 4. “Makeshift Patriot” by Sage Francis If you illegally download these songs you stick it to the man twice! I think Dylan would approve, and isn’t that what life is all about?

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Grass between your toes, sun in your eyes and music in your ears: summer has officially begun. In efforts to raise environmental awareness, the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival coordinated over 200 performances in 60 venues throughout Chicago, New York and San Francisco last weekend. The event culminated on Earth Day, April 22, with free performances in Lincoln Park Zoo, Central Park and Golden Gate Park, respectively. Between Carlye’s raging crush on drummer Kris Myers and Steve’s love for their overall badassery, there was no way that so many concert options could phase us. There was only one choice — to be inside of Umphrey’s McGee’s sold-out show at the Vic Theatre last Saturday night. With the guys headlining the Zoo’s free show on Sunday, it was a two-day run that was too good to miss. Playing in their hometown for the first time since December of last year, the band was sure to give a show that no fan would want to miss. So, we went. Feeling vicarious? Read below to catch a conversational glimpse of our Umphrey’s McGee-kend: Carlye:: Ridiculous. That show Saturday night was literally ridiculous. Steve:: No shit, that setlist was insane. “Jajunk,” “Divisions” and “Nothing Too Fancy” all in the first set — people were freaking out. Carlye: I don’t know which I enjoyed more — “Pay The Snucka,” or Brendan Bayliss taking a beer bong from the Vic’s top level. Steve: Talk about bad-assery. It was nuts that Kang from String Cheese Incident came out and jammed on “The Triple Wide.” Carlye: Yeah, and the keyboardist from the Disco Biscuits, too! I just still can’t believe how fucking good Kris Myers was last night. Steve: ... that’s what she said. And yeah, Aron Manger was definitely good on “Triple Wide” as well, although the fact that he came out wasn’t as shocking as Kang’s appearance. Carlye: So, was this your favorite Umphrey’s show ever? Steve: Favorite, no — nothing tops the Chicago Theatre show from last year. But, definitely the best I’ve seen. Carlye: Huh? Didn’t you see the CT show? Steve: Yes. Carlye: Best you’ve seen, though ... how is this one the best? Steve: It’s the best, but not my favorite. There is a difference. Carlye: That’s so confusing. sounds from the scene

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Steve: Even a 50-foot plastic tube with beer flowing down it? Anyway, both shows kicked ass. My only problem with Sunday’s was the venue. The Zoo was great, but I don’t think they anticipated so many people showing up. It was super crowded. Carlye: Agreed, it was pretty overwhelming, but the live music, weather and beautiful scenery totally jump-started my excitement for summer music festivals. Steve: Plus, I got a head start on my summer tan. Carlye: You’re such a fucking girl, Steve! Carlye Steve: At least my skin doesn’t alternate Steve exclusively between white and burnt red ... Carlye: Asshole! I’m a sad indoors kid, I get Carlye it. But, come this summer, I’ll be bustin’ out the SPF 50 and rocking a sweet bucket hat, and I can’t wait. Steve: You’ll be the coolest girl at Summer Camp Festival with a parasol. Carlye: Wow ... I am totally unf it for survival. Steve: Who knows, maybe you’ll set the record for consecutive bouts of sun poisoning! Carlye: You suck. I’m going to Green Apple Music Festival by myself next year.

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A TRIBUTE TO OVERLOOKING FILMS

Ebertfest is upon us once more, as all the cinephiles, sparce cinema studies majors, filmmakers and students trek over to the Virginia Theatre this weekend for Roger Ebert’s personal picks of old classics and forgotten films. After taxing months of rehabilitation from thyroid cancer, Ebert may not up to strength for conversation, but don’t think that’s going to stop him from screening films he loves. Expect celebrities, film scholars and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony for a preand post-screening experience that is guaranteed to be more exhilarating, rewarding and memorable than any DLP or IMAX. The thumbs-up trophies are waiting to be presented and the red curtain is itching to unveil.

YOU OWE ME 2 HRS. OF MY LIFE PAUL PRIKAZSKY • STAFF WRITER

Recently, a seismic divide has been rippling through cineplexes across the country. And no, it’s not the premise for Michael Bay’s newest testosterone-fueled orgy of all-things-explosive. Instead it’s the love-hate affairs audiences are courting with a plethora of films. And with any emotionally taxing relationship, both parties find solace in opposing sides, either cherishing their hardearned bucks or kicking themselves for spending those pesky Lincolns in the first place. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s extremely disappointing and equally sub-par! Last summer Brian Singer helmed Superman Returns, the cinematic rebirth of perhaps America’s most iconic superhero. With great gusto and a truly epic budget, Singer delivered Krypton’s last son in classical flourish, effectively accomplishing what Richard Donner could only dream of. Unsurprisingly, fanboys applauded and audiences scratched their noggins. True aficionados relished Singer’s subtle nods to Superman history while the mainstream — craving excitement and feats of derring-do — was

“Oscars come and go ... [their] work will be seen and treasured as long as there are movies ... and that is the truest honor the art form can confer upon its practitioners.” — on important directors who have never won an Academy Award for Best Director “Movie exhibitors have reached a moment of truth. It is time to create and enforce a superior viewing environment in theaters, or accept the consequences.” – on the advent success of home theater viewing

“The problem is with the use of stars as a rating system. Star ratings go back to that simpler time when film critics stood on far hillsides and signaled to the grateful peasantry with torches and brightly colored flags.”

“Cell phones have no place in a movie theater, and anyone who uses one there should be required to wear a badge saying, ‘I am an inconsiderate moron.’” – on improper theater spectatorship

“The point is not to avoid all Stupid Movies, but to avoid being a Stupid Moviegoer. It’s a difficult task, separating the good Stupid Movies from the bad ones.”

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confounded and irritated by the bland two hours. Paralleling other crime fighters in tights flicks like Ang Lee’s The Hulk and Daredevil, Superman Returns relied too much on faux character sentimentality and not enough ass-kicking. Today, there’s a hefty price tag on audience satisfaction. Comic book movies are guaranteed moneymakers because of their network of ravenous fans. But the attraction factor isn’t always FX and things that go boom. Sometimes there’s just no substitute for a good old-fashioned yarn. Take last year’s The Departed and Children of Men. One is a gritty crime drama, reveling in nefarious themes of deception and deceit; the other a post-apocalyptic scifi morality tale punctuated with episodes of extreme violence. Typical audience fare? Normally, I wouldn’t agree, but both f ilms performed at nothing short of spellbinding; each had a unique premise with singular visions from revolutionary directors Martin Scorsese and Alfonso Cuaron, respectively. Despite the dyspeptic subject matter, both films garnered scores of resounding bravos with few nay-sayers.

Then again, “thought-provoking” doesn’t always generate box office. Lady in the Water, advertised as auteur M. Night Shymalan’s suspenseful fairytale, disappointed audiences and infuriated critics with its pompous social commentary and Shymalan’s ever-growing narcissism. Even his loyal following collectively turned on the onceloved progenitor behind the enormously popular The Sixth Sense. So where’s the balance in this bizarre Hollywood shuffle of conflicting genres and budgets? Entertainment values are difficult to gauge. In a climate politically tumultuous and econom ica l ly precar ious, human tastes fluctuate like the weather and movies provide that necessary escape from reality. Audiences crave that potent (and often volatile) mix of excitement and compelling story. From Pirates of the Caribbean to Doogal, there’s always a movie worth seeing twice and another not worth wasting your time. However, one thing always remains certain: dissension amongst the fans (unfortunately) is forever.

QUOTES FROM JIM EMERSON Editor of www.rogerebert.com

“There’s always been the question about what constitutes ‘overlooked’ — since in some cases the films haven’t even been released yet. Roger has always said he gets to define the term ‘overlooked’ however he likes. So, officially renaming it Ebertfest just makes the focus of the festival a bit clearer: These are movies Roger Ebert wants to show you!” “Roger’s always said it’s a critic’s dream to have a film festival to showcase films he loves, and to share them with a big, appreciative audience. It’s also a great treat for the filmmakers, who in many cases have never seen their movies with such a large crowd.”

“I’m really looking forward to seeing Perfume on the big screen with an audience again. Roger and I both thought it was one of the best films of last year (and we both love the book, too), but it definitely got ‘overlooked’ in the glut of yearend movies.” “As for La Dolce Vita, it’s one of Roger’s very favorite films. He’s been going through it with an audience at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colo., at least once every decade since the 1970s, and he’s written about how he feels he’s grown up with Marcello Mastroianni’s character over the years.” “A smile and a wave (and, yes, even a ‘thumbsup’) will certainly be appreciated.”

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“Radames is an Egyptian captain who becomes more compassionate as the story progresses.” Elliot attended Weber State University in Utah and has been with the national tour of Aida since it opened in September. Participating in a musical production may be a rewarding experience, but it also has its price. “I had to be shirtless on stage and would later hear comments from older women who don’t get out much. I’d forget lines and make up whatever came to my mind,” Elliot said. On the other hand, Elliot says that this particular cast gets along really well, which helps him enjoy the experience.

Elton John was quoted to say by Bruce Britt from MusicWorld that “What makes Aida so interesting ... is that the story is so great, so pertinent. It’s a beautiful, complex love story, where bigotry and hatred are swept out the window, and love, compassion, forgiveness and understanding triumph. In this day and age, I’m a great believer in the human spirit triumphing over evil in any way.” Aida will be performed at Assembly Hall, Thursday April 26 at 7:30 p.m. Whether we are believers or not, Aida will be a fun way to relax before those oh-too-imminent final exams.

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f you are a fan of romance or musicals, get yourself ready for Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. Based on a story by a French Egyptologist, Gioseppe Verdi’s Opera is rejuvenated into a modern and fun musical performance. Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions and directed by Robert Falls, Aida features lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Elton John. John and Rice first collaborated on the soundtrack of Disney’s The Lion King. If childhood nostalgia for a classic Disney soundtrack or new music from a famous

and talented musician are not enough to get you calling the ticket office, then perhaps the magical love triangle will pique your interest. Radames, an Egyptian soldier, falls in love with an enslaved, beautiful Nubian girl named Aida. He saves her from death by giving her as a servant to Amneris, an Egyptian princess and his bride-to-be. Aida is really a princess herself and she must battle her duty to her people, her loyalty to Amneris and her love for Radames. “It is a very diverse show but the music of Elton John is what people would most look forward to,” Casey Elliot who plays the role of Radames, said.

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The 15th annual Artists Against AIDS Fine Art Exhibition and Benef it Sale will be held at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum in downtown Champaign this weekend, from April 27-30. Each year, the Greater Community AIDS Project helps host the event to provide the surrounding Champaign-Urbana community with information and education on HIV/AIDS and to raise money and awareness for their cause. For the first time ever, the Radio Maria Tapas Bar will join in the effort by offering a satellite gallery from through April 30. AIDS is a blood disease that has become a pandemic and affects more than 40 million people worldwide, with about 2.5 million of those affected being children. Anyone can get it, whether they are male or female, young or old, heterosexual or homosexual; no one is safe. Treatment is only available for the symptoms of HIV/AIDS as a cure is yet to be found. It is hopeful that with more education and tolerance, one can prevent AIDS and eradicate any prevailing misconceptions or stigmas regarding those who have it.

The Greater Community AIDS Project is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1984 and mainly relies on volunteers and donations to keep their philanthropy running. They offer not only information but support to those with HIV/AIDS and their families, such as rent and utility assistance, nutritional aide and support groups. They also run the Champaign House, a transitional house in Champaign for those with the disease and their families to help them avoid becoming homeless and get them back on their feet. The Artists Against AIDS Exhibition is their biggest event of the year dedicated to raising proceeds and is where they receive most of their funding. 91 percent of the funding goes toward the charity. The exhibition will be comprised of donated artwork from over 200 artists in the ChampaignUrbana area. Many different mediums are represented including ceramics, photography, painting, glass work, photography, sculpture and more. 50 percent of the proceeds go to the Greater Community AIDS Project.

Anyone who attends can look forward to a champagne reception at the grand opening on Friday night, live music Saturday night from 7-9 p.m. and an artist’s reception on Sunday from 46 p.m. They will also be able to browse through works done by local artists and socialize with others. The exhibition will extend through the entire weekend until the closing on Monday night. For more information on the event, or if you would like to make a donation, please visit www.gcapnow. com or call 351-2437. The exhibition and sale runs Friday, April 27, from 6-10 p.m., Saturday from 1-10 p.m., Sunday from 1-7 p.m. and Monday from 1-7 p.m. The Orpheum Children’s Science Theater is located 346 N. Neil Street in downtown Champaign, 352-5895. The Radio Maria Tapas Bar is located at 119 N. Walnut Street also in downtown Champaign, 398-7729. Contributions to this event will be much appreciated.

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Nothing is as it seems in James Foley’s new thriller Perfect Stranger — and that’s not necessarily a compliment. This slick, very stylish fi lm noir packs a lot of tension, but no amount of style can make up for a poorly crafted, convoluted script. The story, written by Todd Komarnicki, has several attractive elements and many will find this fi lm to be very entertaining. Starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, the narrative blends several genre formulas and conventions which bounce from the standard investigative journalist and murder plot to a mysterious world of modern email communication and chat room sex talk. Berry plays Rowena, an investigative reporter for a sensational New York City rag called The Courier. As the f ilm opens she’s interviewing a congressman and is about to spring a charge of sexual misconduct on him. Later, when a friend is mysteriously killed, she plots to uncover the victim’s connection to Harrison Hill, the womanizing head of a powerful ad agency, who is played with sleazy grace by Willis. To complicate the plot, you also find out that Rowena is a woman who is haunted by a dark childhood traumatic event. During her investigation, she is helped in her professional research and undercover trickery by her pal, Miles, a computer hacker who has a thing for her along with a closet full of secret idiosyncrasies. Foley places these actions in some of the most glamorous of New York settings, and with cinematographer Anastas Michos’ impressive camera work, they create a sleek and dark world of power and criminal activities. Berry proves once more she is basically a model and not much an actress. While she “looks” great in a variety of fashions-tight clingy dresses and states of undress, being an object of male gaze does not make up for the obvious limited range of emotional responses her character expresses. In addition to being somewhat disappointed in Berry, many will most defi nitely be put off by the fi lm’s tricky, surprise ending.

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No one plays a villain quite like Anthony Hopkins. Even with a character like Hannibal Lecter, there’s a suave smoothness to the actor that no matter what he’s done on screen, part of you wants him to win. It takes a strong actor to hold their own against such an adversary, and in Fracture, Hopkins fi nds one in the capable Ryan Gosling. In the movie, Ted Crawford (Hopkins) tries to deal with the burden of an unfaithful wife. After following her around one afternoon, Ted confronts her, tells her he loves her and then shoots her in the head. His wife doesn’t die, but Ted is taken into custody and confesses to a cop who happens to be the one his wife had been sleeping with. The case is prosecuted by a hot-shot district attorney Willy Beachum (Gosling). With a 97 percent conviction rate, Willy is anxious to move up the corporate ladder and into a higher paying job as fast as possible. Willy takes on Ted’s case, thinking that with a signed confession and a solid murder weapon the case should be open and shut. Problems arise. The aff air between Ted’s wife and the arresting offi cer is brought to light, and Ted’s confession is tossed out. Then it’s discovered that the “murder weapon” has never been fi red. Willy gets in over his head as he realizes there’s a real chance of Ted going free and ruining Willy’s career. Despite a few gross fl aws in logic — if you’ve been sleeping with a suspect’s wife, why would you insist on taking his statement? — the fi lm’s plot entertains. But the fi lm’s real gem is Gosling, who in addition to holding his own against Hopkins, carries the fi lm so much that anyone rooting for Hopkins at the start of the fi lm will probably switch sides by the end.

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Writer/director Jon Kasdan has some mighty big shoes to fill as the son of one of the most successful writer/directors of the 1980s, Lawrence Kasdan. The latter Kasdan penned the screenplays for The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and best picture nominees for The Big Chill and The Accidental Tourist. If his son’s debut film In the Land of Women is any barometer of this inherited talent, he has a fair amount to learn yet. In the Land of Women is a crowd-pleasing and superficially entertaining pseudo-romantic comedy that’s really a male fantasy disguised as a sensitive chick flick. It begins with an emotional break up and ends with a sense of personal wisdom. It’s the story of Carter Webb, a 26-yearold struggling L.A. screenwriter of soft-core porn films who aspires to do more personal writing, but needs an escape from his environment when his model/actress girlfriend Sofia dumps him. He decides a visit to help his aged grandmother in an unnamed suburban Michigan town will give him a cure from his heartbreak and possibly inspire some truly personal writing. Once in the town, he quickly becomes the observer of other people’s pains and sufferings. Like any “sensitive” young man he offers a helpful hand to his nearly senile grandma, becomes a shoulder to cry on and pair of patient ears for a bewildered middle-aged housewife, Sarah Harwicke. Meanwhile, he still manages to be a knight in shining armor to a cute, but confused teenager named Lucy, who doesn’t know how to express her affections. The way to conquer your broken heart is to lose yourself in other’s troubles, or so it seems. Adam Brody, television’s Seth Cohen from O.C., plays Carter with sort of a sitcom smug cockiness. As Kasdan probably intended, you never quite feel his pain. When he helps the many women in his life, it seems to ultimately reflect upon his good judgment and the noble “right thing to do.” The actresses playing the women in Carter’s world are appropriately attractive or cute: Kristen Stewart’s Lucy, Elena Anaya’s Sofia and Makenzie Vega, as Lucy’s little sister Paige. Meg Ryan is somewhat of a refreshing surprise as Sarah. Now in her mid-40s, gone are the days of her perky heroines, but Ryan shows acting dimensions and emotional range not seen before in her career.

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Hearing the premise of Pathfinder — a Dark Age conflict on the shores of pre-Columbus northern America between Native Americans and Viking marauders — I was interested. Well, at least in the same way I had been interested in Age of Empires II, the computer strategy game in which you could see how the Chinese and Byzantine armies could have looked while fighting each other in Mexico. But one nightmarish, mindbludgeoning minute into it, I knew I’d regret existing through the next 87 minutes. The f ilm’s hero is a Viking youth who is abandoned on the North American coast after a raid. Rescued by peace-loving Indians who seem to enjoy hugging each other in the snow and playing flutes all day, he is raised under their tolerant values of freedom which must have always existed here in America. 15 years later, the boy has grown into the tribe’s taciturn hunter, Ghost (Karl Urban) who, despite tramping through snowy mountains in a loincloth, never gets frostbite. He is in love with the Pathfinder chief ’s philosophizing daughter, Starfire (Moon Bloodgood), who spouts dialogue like: “There are two wolves fighting in every man’s heart; one is love, one is hate.� The hulking Vikings, looking like hell’s football team, inevitably return for more senseless Indian genocide in which babies are beheaded, eyeballs fall out and fake CGI (Computer Graphics Interface) blood f lies amid the fake CGI snowflakes. This prompts Ghost to hunt them down Rambo-style in the woods, save his adoptive people and (dare I say it?) “discover who he truly is.� Along the way there’s a grizzly bear, village burnings, dialogue on par with World of Warcraft and a sled chase down a mountain on a shield. Want to see it yet? Pathfinder was directed by Marcus Nispel (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), who turned what could have been an interesting war epic into an ugly, colorless horror film, punctuated every five minutes by Vikings popping out at the camera at predictable, “scary� moments to bashing drum music. Avoid at all costs.

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For the past three weeks, Doin’ It Well has focused on issues around sexual violence and sexuality. We believe it is important that we make room to talk about sexual violence and positive sexuality at the same time, and not just during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Positive, mutual, healthy sexuality benefits us all! We want to spend our final column of Sexual Assault Awareness Month focusing on flashbacks and dissociation. For survivors of sexual violence, flashbacks and dissociation are two sides of the same coin. As Judith Herman says in Trauma and Recovery, these symptoms indicate “the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it.” Sur v ivor s of sex ua l v iolence may f ind flashbacks triggered especially during sex. And some have to deal with the duality involved with dissociation from the current sexual experience and experiencing flashbacks from past sexual trauma. Flashbacks and dissociation help a person survive the abuse and its aftermath; at the same time, these experiences may feel very out of control in the present. Dissociation is a very adaptive way to “leave” a traumatic situation, even if one cannot get away physically. It is the act of emotionally and psychologically splitting away from a situation because it is psychologically unbearable. However, many people who dissociate may find that they are not always in control of when or where they “leave.” Sexual intimacy becomes a time that can be especially fraught with dissociation. During consensual sex, survivors may find themselves floating away, making a grocery list or just not being present. Flashbacks, on the other hand, are intrusive memories — whether experienced through touch, smell, taste or sight — that in some way replay the abuse. Whereas dissociation is a way to temporarily remove oneself from the abuse, flashbacks are the body’s way of remembering and sorting through the traumatic memories. These intrusive memories may jolt a survivor back to a traumatic event. Although they are obviously frightening, flashbacks serve a crucial role in the healing process: they help the survivor remember and integrate the trauma. At the same time, these flashbacks don’t feel very helpful if they are interrupting our day-to-day lives. For sexual abuse and rape survivors, sex can become especially complicated due to some of these reactions. STAYING GROUNDED Although dissociation and f lashbacks seem different, both are experienced as a temporary departure from the here and now, so it becomes very important to stay grounded. For many survivors and their sexual partners, this may be as simple as reminding them where they are, who they are with and what is going on in the present. WHAT IS IT LIKE? Sometimes reflection can be helpful so survivors can begin to chart their dissociation or flashbacks.

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Afterward, ask yourself, how did it feel when it began to happen? How did your body change? Your breathing? What was the trigger this time? What did you tell yourself when you went away? These are usually not easy questions, but by being gentle with yourself, you may discover there are patterns to this experience. BODY WORK Because dissociation and flashbacks involve many physical responses, being mindful of bodily movement can be very helpful. By yourself, you can begin to pay attention to how your body feels: your arms, your legs, your breath. As you pay attention, you may begin to center yourself. With a partner, you might find that paying attention to each other’s bodies helps to build trust. This body work can be sexual, but because survivors may have been told that they are only good for sex, it can be important that this touch not be solely focused on sexual pleasure. MASTURBATE! For many survivors, the ability to be sexual for their own gratification has often been robbed from them. Masturbation can be a wonderful — and sometimes terrifying — way to reclaim your own sexual pleasure. Remember, masturbation doesn’t just mean paying attention to your genitals, and it doesn’t have to end in orgasm. It is a self-loving way to get to know your own body. ACCESS SUPPORT Talking with a therapist who has knowledge and experience in trauma and who can also address issues of sexuality after trauma can be very helpful for survivors. Support groups for survivors also serve as a powerful venue to talk about common struggles, including sexuality. Healing is more than a possibility, it is a powerful and strengthening process. Accessing support, paying attention to our needs and desires and working with our sexual partners to have positive, present sex lives — that is the real radical work.

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“If you hold your dreams too tightly, you’ll crush their little ribs,” was the message scrawled on the wall of a public restroom I visited today. I immediately recognized that as excellent advice for you. While I’m usually all in favor of cultivating a ferocious devotion towards one’s goals and desires, I’ve noticed lately that your grasp on yours has turned into a manic clench. Please let them breathe better. Give them some slack. Maybe tell yourself a joke about how funny you look applying that death-grip.

only do something like this if you’re not friends with his wife, and if you love the guy so much that the beating of your heart drowns out the drone of your conscience. Any advice? -Scorpio Under a Spell.” Dear Scorpio: It’s rarely a good idea to break up a committed intimate relationship by stealing one of its members, but it’s an especially unfavorable time to pursue that goal now. May I recommend instead that you sublimate the urge by seducing your inner male? It’s an excellent time for you Scorpios to get crazy sexy deep with the part of your psyche that feels like the opposite gender.

T A U RU S

April 20 – May 20

S AG I T TA R I U S

Nov. 22 – Dec. 21

GEMINI

May 21 – June 20

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22 – Jan. 19

AQUA R I U S

Jan. 20 – Feb. 18

March 21 – April 19

One of the most demanding and exhilarating transitions of 2007 is coming. Here are five tips to help you get maximum enjoyment out of it. (1) Be an early adapter, a quick study, and a resilient improviser. (2) Hang out in places where things are just beginning. (3) Intensify your commitment to the lessons that spontaneity can bring. (4) Be a specialist in uprisings and breakthroughs. (5) Give your generous attention to influences that are pure, innocent, and buoyant.

In the quest for enlightenment, no experience is irrelevant. Meditating for days in a mountaintop sanctuary may work well for some seekers, while others are more likely to uncover hidden truths about the nature of reality as they microwave a burrito in a convenience store or play soccer in the living room with their drunk friends, using a rolled up pair of socks as the ball. Even if your spiritual search usually fits the first description, Gemini, I suspect it will more closely match the second in the coming weeks. The secrets of the Divine Wow are primed to reveal themselves to you in the midst of everyday chaos.

CANCER

June 21 – July 22

The U.S. Army has dramatically lowered its recruitment standards. Since 2004, the number of new soldiers who’ve entered the ranks even though they’ve committed a crime has risen by over 50 percent. I urge you to move in the opposite direction, Cancerian. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, your success in the coming months depends on you raising your expectations, demanding more excellence, and absolutely insisting on ethical impeccability. If you have a goal that seems to require you to lower your standards, I suggest you abandon that goal.

LEO

July 23 – Aug. 22

“Problem-solving is highly overrated,” says artist Chuck Close. “Problem-creation is far more interesting.” Whether or not you’re inclined to agree with that assessment, Leo, I invite you to make it your hypothesis in the coming week. In other words, put yourself in an experimental mood, and act as if problemcreation is where all the action is. How might your life be different if you were not chronically worrying about the dilemma of the hour, but instead were always on the lookout for the next tricky challenge that will awaken sleeping portions of your heart and mind?

VIRGO

Aug. 23 – Sept. 22

You’re capable of pulling off some unprecedented mixing and matching in the coming weeks, Virgo. You could figure out a way to blend oil and water, metaphorically speaking. And you might find a logical loophole that allows you to reasonably compare apples and oranges. But those examples represent only the most obvious ways your skills at juxtaposition could work. You might also, for example, be a matchmaker for the son of a Saudi Arabian oil magnate and a Jewish goth performance artist, or convince the Dalai Lama to have a summit with Paris Hilton.

LIBRA

Sept. 23 – Oct.22

SCORPIO

Oct. 23 – Nov. 21

Poet Kay Ryan told the Christian Science Monitor that her poems often begin “the way an oyster does, with an aggravation.” Her ultimate intention, however, is to liberate her readers. “I like to think of all good poetry as providing more oxygen into the atmosphere; it just makes it easier to breathe.” I believe this progression from aggravation to liberation is a strategy you could profitably pursue in the coming days, Sagittarius. If you agree to absorb what’s bugging you, you’ll ultimately create an expansive new swath of breathing room for yourself and everyone around you.

In The Book of Thoth, Aleister Crowley says that for Capricorns, the impulse to create can be so strong that it transcends logic, ignores tradition, and eschews foresight. It might even be “divinely unscrupulous, sublimely careless of result.” Why is this urge so wild? The formula for Capricorn, he writes, is “the complete appreciation of all existing things . . . rejoicing in the rugged and barren no less than in the smooth and fertile.” While his assessment might be a bit extreme, it does contain far more than a few grains of truth-especially as it applies to you in the coming weeks. Given the current astrological omens, I believe your will to create will be relentless, majestic, and primordial.

According to the macrobiotic approach to diet, the healthiest food for you to eat is that which has been grown near you, or at least in the same latitude. Unless you live in the tropics, for instance, bananas shouldn’t be on your menu. Let’s make that meme your Metaphor of the Week, Aquarius. According to my interpretation of the omens, all your best bets will be local and homegrown. You should pluck pleasures that are close by, and avoid temptations beckoning from a distance. You should trust clues that arrive from sources you can personally verify, and be skeptical of those from friends of friends of friends.

PISCES

Feb. 19 – March 20

Summing up his ongoing attempts to understand the truth about reality, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll wrote, “I am grasping one hair at the end of the tail of a very large tiger, whose exact nature and intentions are not known to me, nor will they ever be. I can only hope to describe a few things about the hair. And I could be wrong.” While this is in general an apt description of the quest most of us are on, I think it’s overly modest in light of your current astrological omens. For the foreseeable future, Pisces, I bet you’ll have the tiger’s entire tail in your clutches, and your ability to extrapolate from it to surmise the nature of the whole tiger will be extraordinary. Homework: Some people ask, “What would Jesus do?” Others prefer, “What would Buddha do?” Who’s your ultimate authority? Testify at http://FreeWillAstrology.com.

On December 10 last year, 36,000 couples got married in Delhi, India. The mad rush to the altar was prompted by Vedic astrologers, who decreed that day to be an auspicious time to wed. I don’t know enough about the Vedic system to judge whether its practitioners would also regard the coming weeks as propitious for ritual unions. But my reading of the omens says that from the perspective of Western astrology, it’s very favorable for you Libras. If you’ve been thinking about deepening your commitment to a trustworthy partner, you’ve got cosmic mojo on your side--not just for romantic mergers, but also for business deals, artistic agreements, mutual oaths, and just about any splashy adventures in togetherness.

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Concerts “Tones of the Heart” [Final concert for the Parkland College Wind Ensemble and Parkland Community Concert band.] Parkland College, 7pm, free Starcourse presents: OK GO [Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets on sale at Assembly Hall and Illini Union Ticket offices.] Foellinger Auditorium, 7:30pm, $24 public/$19 UIUC students UI Concert Bands IIA and IIB [Two bands from America’s greatest university band program present a concert of classics and new music played primarily by nonmusic majors.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $8 public/$2 UIUC students Dena Vermette: Lady Sings Sinatra [This intimate evening of Sinatra tunes sung from a woman’s perspective celebrates the music, the myth and the man with classic songs and behind-the-scenes stories that bring the legend to life. Doors open at 6:30pm.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm $20 public/$10 students DJ DJ/Gentlemen’s Club [Nothin’ but Rock.] Silver Bullet Bar, 8pm DJ Hellcat Mike ’N Molly’s, 10pm Dancing Free Swing Dance McKinley Church and Foundation, 9:30pm Karaoke Karaoke with Randy from RM Entertainment Fat City Saloon, 9pm Liquid Courage Karaoke The Office, 10pm Lectures/Discussions Free English Speaking, Listening Class [These classes work well for those whose native language is not English and emphasize beginning and intermediate listening and speaking skills.] Parkland College, 9am “The Role of the Film Critic in Contemporary Distribution Practices” [Panel discussion moderated by Nate Kohn, director of Ebertfest.] Illini Union, 9:30am “Women in Science at MIT: A Generation of Change (1971-2007)” [Nancy Hopkins will discuss how in 1995 tenured women faculty in the School of Science at MIT worked together with the Dean of Science to analyze the status of women faculty relative to that of male colleagues.] Beckman Institute, 12pm Lunch and learn: “Gender Power Inequalities Feminism & Masculinity” [Come explore the ways that feminism and masculinity are constructed through the world of advertising, media and popular culture. Lunch provided.] Illini Union, 12pm Occupation Potluck [Hear about interesting professions, as told by local speakers working in that field. Bring your own table service and a dish to share.] Hays Recreation Center, 12pm, free “Evaluation of Critical Spatial Elements for Animal Disease Surveillance in Illinois” [With Marilyn Ruiz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Building.] 12pm “Navigating Borders of Race and Gender: Mobile Hatian Women in the Dominican Republic.” [With Jennifer Shoaff.] International Studies Building, 12pm “Formation and Regulation of the Ovarian Follicle: Insights From Studies of Inhibin and Activin” [With Kelly Mayo, Northwestern University.] Chemical and Life Science Laboratory (A), 12pm

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Mind/Body/Spirit Krannert Uncorked [With partners Sun Singer Wine & Spirits, The Corkscrew Emporium, Friar Tuck, Jim Gould and bacaro. Beverages may be tasted free of charge and will be available for purchase by the glass at discounted prices. Enjoy the sounds of various music performances.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 5pm, free

Film “Moolaade” (Ebertfest) [With guests Fatoumata Coulibaly, actress, and Samba Gadjigo, professor.] Virginia Theatre 3:30pm Screening of “Jesus Camp” [Come see the controversial film that follows three children through the “Kids on Fire” Summer Camp, where they are taught that they can “take back America for Christ.” Jason Mierek will lead a discussion on the film.] Channing Murray Foundation, 7:15pm “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” Virginia Theatre, 8:30pm “The Weather Man” (Ebertfest) Virginia Theatre, 12:30pm

Poetry/Readings Book Signing: Louis W. Liebovich [Louis W. Liebovich, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at UIUC, discusses his book “Abraham’s Rhyme.”] Illini Union Bookstore, 4pm Illinois Poet Laureate Reception & Poetry Reading [Meet Kevin Stein, Illinois Poet Laureate. Come to the community reception, then stay to listen as Mr. Stein reads selections from his poetry. Afterward, enjoy a question and answer period and book signing. Copies of Stein’s books will be available for purchase.] Urbana Free Library, 5pm Washington Elementary School’s Poetry Cafe [Come and listen to poetry recited by students, parents and teachers. Refreshments will be served.] Washington Elementary School, 703 S. New Street (Champaign), 7pm

Workshops Carle Expectant Parent Classes [“Helping Hands (Big Brothers and Sisters).” Registration is required. Call 383-6962 for more information.] Carle Foundation Hospital, 4pm Carle Expectant Parent Classes [Infant massage. Registration required. Call 383-6269.] Carle Foundation Hospital 6pm Secrets to Slimming Down for Summer [In this special free seminar local fitness expert Bobbi Johnson, CSCS, CPT, reveals useful tips on how to slim down and firm up. Pre-registration is necessary. Visit http://www.fitness4chicks. com for more information.] Unitarian Universalist Movement of UrbanaChampaign, 7pm Recreation Cardio-Kickboxing [Fun, high-energy class, modifying to low or high impact levels. Emphasizes developing muscle coordination, stamina and agility. Wide range of punching and kicking techniques with strengthening cardio-vascular, abs, arms and legs. Call 344-1544 to signup.] Phillips Recreation Center, 5:30pm Pilates [Strengthen core abdominal and back. Provides modified multilevel options for individual needs. Invigorating and improves posture, confidence, flexibility and strength. Accesses entire gym, classes and equipment. Call 3593476 for more information or to sign up.] Gold’s Gym, 6:45pm. $5 Miscellaneous Japan House Group Tours Japan House, 1pm Meetings French Department: Pause Cafe Espresso Royale on Oregon St. (Urbana), 5pm Coffee Hours [At these events, coffee, tea and homemade ethnic desserts are served. Coffee Hours are good opportunities to meet people from around the world and learn about other cultures.] Cosmopolitan Club, 7:30pm Fundraisers “Gamma Phi-esta” [The women of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority will be hosting their annual spring taco dinner fundraiser. All proceeds will go to one of the leading non-profit youth development organizations, Camp Fire USA.] Gamma Phi Beta House, 1100 W. Nevada (Urbana), 5pm, $5 Family Fun Group Funfare [Preschool groups are invited to come! Program will feature stories, songs, puppets and films.] Urbana Free Library, 9:45am

FRI. APR 27 Live Bands Scene on Green [WPGU 107.1 hosts a free concert with free food. Roses and Sake will be performing at this free, all ages show.] 512 E. Green St. 6 pm. Billy Galt Sings the Blues Blues restaurant, 11:30am Bob, Dan & Joni Hubers, 8pm, no cover Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, $1 ZOSO: The Ultimate Tribune to Led Zeppelin Canopy Club, 9pm, $7 Delta Kings [Rock and blues.] Cowboy Monkey, 9:30pm Concerts Dena Vermette: Lady Sings Sinatra Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm $20 public/$10 UIUC students Sinfonia da Camera [A season finale of “Legendary Music” finds Ian Hobson conducting Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11” from the piano keyboard. The evening comes to an end with Mendeldohn’s “Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, ‘Scottish’.”] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $33 public/$10 UIUC students DJ DJ Hellcat for Artists Against Aids [Spinning during the Artists Against Aids opening event at the Orpheum Theatre.] Orpheum Children’s Science Museum 6pm DJ/Gentlemen’s Club Silver Bullet Bar 8pm Deeplicio.us [DJ Mambo Italiano. House music.] Ko.Fusion, 11pm, no cover Dancing Contra Dance [All dances are taught (walked-through) prior to dancing. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a pair of clean, soft-soled shoes to protect the wood floor.] Phillips Recreation Center, 8pm Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke American Legion Post 71, 8pm Lectures/Discussions “Politics in Movies, Movies in Politics” [Panel discussion, moderated by Eric Pierson, professor of Communication Study at the University of San Diego.] Illini Union, 9am

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ECE 590C Computer Vision Seminar: “Statistical Generative Models: Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)” [With Gang Wang and Theodore Ha.] Beckman Institute, 2pm “Increasing Volatility and Vulnerability for Poor People in Poor Countries? Evidence From Grass Roots Investigations in India, Kenya, Uganda and Peru” [With Anirudh Krishna, Duke University.] Lincoln Hall, 3pm “Biocompatible Ploymeric Materials for Protein Separations” [With Milton Lee, Brigham Young University.] Roger Adams Lab, 4pm “Global Inference and Learning: Towards Natural Language Understanding” [With Dan Roth.] Beckman Institute, 12pm “MicroRNAs Are Important Regulators in Embryotic Stem Cells” [With Yangming Wang, University of California, San Francisco.] Chemical and Life Science Laboratory (A), 12pm Film “Come Early Morning” (Ebertfest) [With guests Joey Lauren Adams, director, and actor Scott Wilson.] Virginia Theatre 3pm “La Dolce Vita” (Ebertfest) [With Producer and Distributor Michael Barker.] Virginia Theatre, 7:30pm “Freddy Mercury, The Untold Story” (Ebertfest) [With guest Rudi Dolezal.] Virginia Theatre, 11:30pm Sadie Thompson & CU Symphony (Ebertfest) [With guests David Bordwell, film scholar, conductor Steve Larsen and composer Joseph Turrin.] Virginia Theatre, 12pm Sporting Events Illinois Baseball vs. Minnesota Illinois Field, 6:05pm Workshops Drop-in Squeak Programming Lessons for Kids of All Ages! [Learn to program in Squeak, a media-rich programming environment that is user-friendly and has an easy on-ramp. Create animated storybooks, video games and computer art. Parent-child teams and educators welcome.] Siebel Center for Computer Science, 3pm Recreation Fit For Life [Gentle yet fun class for cardio-rehab patients, weight-challenged, prenatal, new to fitness and older adults. Strengthens entire cardio-vascular, abs, back, legs and arms without strain on joints. Includes stretching. Lighthearted atmosphere. Call 3671544 to sign up.] Phillips Recreation Center, 9am Miscellaneous Illinites [Free admission for live performances, iPod giveaways and more fun prizes, 25 cent Sbarro Pizza, and much more. The Union is filled with tournaments and performances you are sure to enjoy.] Illini Union, 9pm Social Issues OUTZone Youth Center [A social and wellness drop-in group for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered and questioning teens, ages 13 through 19, and their supportive teen friends and allies to meet and socialize with others like themselves in a safe environment.] Independent Media Center, 7pm

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UI Varsity Men’s Glee Club [A program of traditional favorites, including German lieder, French chansons, eclectic compositions of American composers/arrangers and a series of African American spirituals to be featured in a future extended recording project. With special guest The Other Guys.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm $8 public/$2 UIUC students Concert Jazz Band [Classical jazz charts balanced by some of the world’s newest jazz ideas.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $8 public/$2 UIUC students The Sounds of Bronze [Handbell ensemble.] First Christian Church, 7:30pm,

migrants and wildflowers. Bring a lunch. For more information call 367-5787.] Anita Purves Nature Center, 7am Teen Girls Shopping Trip [Join the Champaign Park District for a day at Gurnee Mills Mall. For questions call 398-2573.] Bresnan Meeting Center, 9am, $15 Container gardening [Bring a container and join University of Illinois Extension educators Sandy Mason and Jennifer Schultz while they offer tips and tricks on container gardening.] Allerton Park, 1pm, $8 Meetings Illini Folk Dance Society [Beginners welcome.] Illini Union, 8pm

Dancing Dance Party [Featuring great music including salsa, swing, waltz, nightclub 2-step, cha-cha and more! Where else can you go to dance all evening and get free desserts, plus a free belly dance demonstration and a free mini-lesson?] Independent Media Center, 6:30pm, $5

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Fundraisers Garage Sale [Proceeds to benefit missions. Call 328-1414 for more information.] Grace United Methodist Church 8am, Artists Against AIDS Fine Art Exhibition and Benefit Sale [Artists Against AIDS is the hallmark of the community’s talents, diversity and support in the fight against HIV/AIDS. All artwork that is exhibited is offered for sale with a minimum of 50% of the asking price. Proceeds donated to the Greater Community AIDS Project (GCAP).] Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, 1pm

Lectures/Discussions “RealAge: Are You As Young As You Can Be? An Afternoon with Dr. Michael F. Roizen, MD” [You’ve seen him on Oprah, now catch him in CU. Dr. Michael F. Roizen, MD. Dr. Roizen’s lecture explores how we can slow the aging process and make our RealAges younger. A book signing will follow the presentation. Tickets required. Call 333-6280 to reserve your tickets.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 2pm, free Libretto: “The Scarecrow” Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 2pm, $6

Family Fun Petstravaganza [Join U of I students and local organizations for a fun, familyfriendly day of interactive learning about our animal companions.] Stock Pavilion 9am, free Drawing with Hua [Enjoy a drawing lesson with local artist and teacher Hua Nian during this event. This hands-on workshop, for children age up to age 8 with an adult, is designed to nurture the artistic leanings of young children.] Urbana Free Library, 10am, free Kids@Krannert Krannert Art Museum, 10am

Film “Beyond the Valley of Dolls” (Ebertfest) [With guests Marcia McBroom, actress, Peter Sobczynski, critic and the band Strawberry Alarm Clock.] Virginia Theatre, 12pm

Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, 9pm Festivals Fiesta 2007: Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Imagining the Future [Fiesta began in 1992 as a way for Latina/o students to be visible on campus by sharing a rich identity and culture through music, dance, poetry and art. With special guests Horizontes Mexicano (Ballet Folklorico) and Michael Reyes (spoken word artist from Batey Urbano).] Gregory Hall, 7pm Lectures/Discussions “Bringin’ it All Back Home: The Principles of Independent Filmmaking” [Mini-seminar conducted by Michael Wiese, filmmaker, author and publisher. Mr. Wiese is a Champaign native who attended University High School, and he will share his experiences in independent filmmaking, making use of film clips from his own productions.] Illini Union, 9am High-Tech Edge Program [An open display and demonstration showing how students in the program are impacting the film industry for Champaign County.] Illini Union, 9am Libretto: The Scarecrow [Add depth to your performance experience by attending a pre-performance talk about “The Scarecrow” with Opera Division’s principal coach, Thomas H. Schleis. Desserts and beverages are served during this conversation.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 6:30pm, $6

Markets Allerton Plant Sale [This year’s sale will feature top-quality annuals and perennials for sun or shade, drought-tolerant native plants, daylilies, irises, butterflyattracting shrubs, unusual container plants, fragrant orchids and other plants difficult to find in central Illinois.] Allerton Park, 9am Volunteer ReStore Volunteer Orientation [Volunteers assist in all store duties, including customer service, pricing and displaying, pick-ups and deliveries and cashiering. All proceeds go to building more homes in Champaign County. For more information, contact Courtney at 355-6460 ext. 116 or e-mail volunteer@cuhabitat.org.] Habitat for Humanity, 9am

Film “Holes” (Ebertfest) [With director Andy Davis.] Virginia Theatre, 11am “The Sacred Sites of the Dalai Lamas” [This film by filmmaker Michael Wiese follows the journey of Glenn Mullin (Tibetologist and author of over 20 books on Buddhism), Steve Dancz (composer for National Geographic TV who also narrates and composed the film’s score) and Khenpo Tashi (a Bhutanese monk) on a pilgrimage to many of Tibet’s most sacred sites. Q&A to follow with the filmmaker and composer.] Boardman’s Art Theatre, 1:30pm “Man of Flowers” (Ebertfest) [With guests Paul Cox, director, and Werner Herzog, actor and director.] Virginia Theatre 2:30pm “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus” (Ebertfest) [With guests Andrew Douglas, director, and Jim White, musician.] Virginia Theatre, 10:30pm

Live Bands Prairie Dogs Hubers, 8pm, no cover Live Metal [Goretesque, Ocularis, and 1 TBA.] The Phoenix, 8pm, $5 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, $1 Unique Chic, Fireflies, The Roaring 20s Mike ‘N Molly’s, 9pm Afterglow: Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project [Mainstream jazz percolates with spicy Latin rhythms when this outstanding local ensemble hits its groove.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 10pm, free

Sporting Events World’s Largest Softball Tailgate [Three years ago, the University of Illinois softball program set out to establish a world record for the world’s largest softball tailgate. The response became an instant tradition, and at WLST IV, the Illini are out to top last year’s record. This year’s event precedes a 2pm game between the Illini and in-state rivals DePaul.] Eichelberger Field, 7am Illinois Women’s Softball vs. DePaul Eichelberger Field, 2pm

Concerts Balinese Dance and Music Concert [The Spurlock Museum presents a concert of dance and gamelan music in the Knight Auditorium.] Spurlock Museum 3pm, free Dena Vermette: Lady Sings Sinatra Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm $20 public/$10 UIUC students

Comedy Bite-sized Comedy Festival [Featuring Wally Ghuneim. You could win $100 for a 10minute performance.] Illini Union, 8pm

SUN. APR 29 Live Bands New Sound Sundays with Drunk Dead Gorgeous, Stereo High and Digable Cat Canopy Club, 8pm, $1 Crystal River Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm no cover Concerts Jazz Combos [Come hear the latest charts played by student jazz combos, coached by the skilled faculty of the U of I Jazz Division.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 3pm $8 public/$2 UIUC students Spring Concert [Enjoy a relaxing evening with music by the Parkland Orchestra, Parkland Chorus and Parkland Chamber Singers. Donations will be accepted at the door.] Parkland College, 3pm “Cutting Edge: The Movie” [The University of Illinois’ “Cutting Edge” Show Choir is putting on their 24th semester concert. Songs to be performed include OK GO’s “Here it Goes Again,” Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around,” and the grand finale is a medley of Michael Jackson songs.] Lincoln Hall, 6pm, $8 public/$5 UIUC students in advance Latin Jazz Ensemble: Rumba Urbana [This ensemble reaches deep into the rich and diverse world of Afro-Latino rhythm. The repertoire is an amalgamation of the Americas, fusing vocabulary and daring harmony of American jazz with pulsating grooves such as the son, cha-cha-cha

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Sporting Events Illinois Baseball vs. Minnesota Illinois Field 12:05pm Recreation Sunday Morning Bird Walks in Busey Woods [Join the Champaign County Audubon Society members on a trip. For further information, call 344-6803.] Anita Purves Nature Center, 7:30am Women Only Swim Kenney Gym, 5:30pm Tae Kwon Do [Learn martial arts. No previous experience is required.] Campus Recreation (CRCE), 9pm Miscellaneous Spring Brunches at Allerton [Brunches will be served inside the mansion. Price includes a mansion wristband. Call now to make your reservation at 333-3287.] Allerton Park, 11am, $15.95 adult/$5.95 children 10 and under Container Gardening Allerton Park, 1pm, $8 Fundraisers Doodle for Wildlife [The 5th annual celebrity auction fund-raiser for the non-profit Wildlife Medical Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. Admission fee includes dinner and entertainment.] Illini Union, 6pm Markets Allerton Plant Sale Allerton Park, 11am

MON. APR 30 Concerts The Fray with Aqualung Assembly Hall 7:30pm, $29.50 DJ DJ/Gentlemen’s Club Silver Bullet Bar, 8pm Lectures/Discussions Free English Speaking, Listening Class Parkland College, 9am “Where Are We? New Work in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies” [With Cris Mayo, Richard T. Rodriguez and Mary Unger.] Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 8pm “The Spatial Dynamics of Infectious Disease.” [With Bruce Hannon.] Small Animal Clinic, 12pm “Dirac Femions and Electronic Inhomogeneity and Defects in High-Tc and Graphene” [With Alexander Balatsky, LANL, Los Alamos, N.M.] Materials Research Lab, 12pm “What To Do When Density Fuctional Theory Fails? Beyond DFT to Improved Descriptions of Materials Behavior.” [With Emily A. Carter, Princeton University.] Noyes Lab, 1pm Recreation Fit For Life [Call 367-1544 to sign up.] Phillips Recreation Center, 9am

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Miscellaneous Lavender Graduation & LGBTA Awards Ceremony [This event recognizes graduating LGBT undergraduate and graduate students for their successful completion of a degree program.] Illini Union, 5pm Meetings Italian Table [Italian conversation on Mondays.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 12pm

TUE. MAY 01 Live Bands Billy Galt Sings the Blues, Blues restaurant 11:30am Crystal River Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm no cover Concerts Illinois Brass Quintet [The nation’s original university brass quintet carries on a 50-year-plus tradition as it offers a mix of standards and newer music from the brass ensemble repertoire.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm $8 public/$2 UIUC students Jazz Trombone and Jazz Guitar Ensembles [Hear two of the School of Music’s newest jazz ensembles as Jim Pugh, Dave Dickey and Matt Warnock front the groups for an evening of delightful rhythm and tunes.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 7:30pm, $8 public/$2 UIUC students DJ DJ/Gentlemen’s Club Silver Bullet Bar, 8pm SubVersion: Featuring DJ Vermis and DJ Evily Highdive, 10pm, $2 Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, 9pm Karaoke with Randy Miller Bentley’s Pub 9:30pm, free Lectures/Discussions Free English Speaking, Listening Class Parkland College, 9am Workshops Squeakapalooza: Squeak Night in ChampaignUrbana [Event showcasing Squeak, a free and user-friendly computer programming environment designed for kids. Learn how you can use Squeak in your lesson plans to challenge your children to learn as they never have before.] Seibel Center for Computer Science, 6:30pm Recreation Cardio-Kickboxing [Call 344-1544 to sign up.] Phillips Recreation Center, 5:30pm Miscellaneous Rainbow Coffeehouse [A welcoming, nonreligious, open environment to LGBT and ALLY communities to socialize.] Wesley Foundation (United Methodist), 6:30pm

melodies from earlier works.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm $8 public/$2 UIUC students UI Jazz Band III [An evening of jazz standards and new works performed by one of the outstanding U of I jazz bands.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 7:30pm, $8 public/$2 UIUC students DJ DJ/Gentlemen’s Club Silver Bullet Bar, 8pm Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geovantis, 10pm Lectures/Discussions Free English Speaking, Listening Class Parkland College, 9am Sexual Trauma: 3 Part Series [Wednesday evenings in April will host discussions on sexual trauma. Survivors and/or friends are welcome. Pre-registration preferred. Contact mebane@uiuc.edu for registration or questions.] Gender and Women’s Studies Building, 7pm, free Serious Games: Videogames in Undergraduate General Education [Researchers and teachers are increasingly investigating the use of games, digital media and virtual environments as a platform for active learning in undergraduate classes. This panel will discuss the results of an experiment using a modified version of the computer game “Civilization IV” in the class “Communication Technology and Society.”] Spurlock Museum, 12pm Recreation Fit For Life [Call 367-1544 to sign up.] Phillips Recreation Center, 9am Comedy Fishing with Dynamite Sketch Comedy Show! [One hour of student-written and produced sketch comedy. Final show of the semester, and the final show of several seniors.] Channing Murray Foundation, 8pm, $3 Miscellaneous Last Chance Skate [Come skate your heart out one last time before we close for the summer. Cheap skate rentals, cheap food.] Ice Arena, 7:30pm Meetings Book Collector’s Club: The No. 44 Society [First Wednesday of each month the group meets. For more information, call 333-7777.] Main Library, 4pm Illinites Meetings Illini Union, 6pm Volunteer ReStore Volunteer Orientation [For more information, a current ReStore orientation schedule, or to RSVP for an orientation, please contact Courtney at 355-6460 ext. 116 or e-mail volunteer@cuhabitat. org.] Habitat for Humanity, 5:30pm

Meetings Illini Folk Dance Society Illini Union, 8pm Fundraisers Sambar [Masala Dosas along with the best of South-Indian cuisine will be served. Proceeds go to Asha for Education.] Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant, 6pm Family Fun Babies’ Lap Time [Babies and their parents or caregivers are invited to this program of songs, stories and rhymes for young patrons, ages birth to 24 months.] Urbana Free Library, 9:45am

WED. MAY 02 Live Bands Irish Traditional Music Session Bentley’s Pub, 7pm Acoustic Indie Rock Showcase [Caleb Engstrom, New Ruins and Jose Gonzales.] Courtyard Cafe, 8pm Feudin’ Hillbilly’s Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm no cover Concerts UI Symphony Orchestra [Maestro Donald Schleicher leads the outstanding UI Symphony Orchestra in its final concert of the season, with a program featuring Haydn’s “Symphony No. 90 in C Major” and the monumental Mahler “Symphony No. 1 in D Major” filled with familiar

American Red Cross General Office Volunteer The American Red Cross seeks office volunteers! Volunteers will work at the front desk and answer phones, greet people for classes and meetings and do basic clerical or computer data entry work at the Red Cross office. Volunteers should have some office skills including those related to filing, answering phones and using computers. Help is urgently needed for Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during business hours in the Champaign office. Please contact Kathy Van Wagenen at 351.5861 or e-mail kvanwagenen@redcrossillinois.org for more information.

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G. Love & Special Sauce with special guest The Expendibles April 26, 9 p.m. Canopy Club, $20 in advance

Finding new music has always been a hobby of mine. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a while to catch on to musical perfectionists such as G. Love and Special Sauce. They had me at first note. Accumulating prestige and established musicianship after 13 years on the scene, G. Love and Special Sauce’s latest album, Lemonade, features guests such as Tristan Prettyman, Jack Johnson and Ben Harper. The song accompanied by Prettyman, “Beautiful,” is by far my favorite. Listen for yourself on their MySpace page. G. Love’s signature sound is untouchable in its feel-good, laid back, sunny afternoon music. The band has explained the title of the album as a reference to days playing music on a front porch and sipping on lemonade during hot summer days. Lemonade captures the refreshing taste of funky blues with a sprinkle of folk to add to their relaxed sonic trademark. If you can add folk to a funky, hip-hop rap, G. Love and Special Sauce is the solution. —Caitlin Cremer

ART & THEATER Aida [Winner of four Tony Awards, Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Aida” is a musical bursting with contemporary energy that tells of the love triangle between Aida, a Nubian princess stolen from her country, Amneris, an Egyptian princess and Radames, the soldier they both love.] Assembly Hall Star Theatre, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. The Scarecrow [Based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Feathertop,” “The Scarecrow” tells the story of a New England witch who brings a scarecrow to life to conjure up mischief and mayhem. What the witch doesn’t count on is the absolute power of love and a true heart. The University of Illinois joins a consortium of university opera programs in bringing this work to life.] Krannert Center, Tryon Festival Theatre, April 26 through 28 at 7:30 p.m., April 29 at 3 p.m. School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition [This annual exhibition represents the culmination of intense artistic development for graduate students in photography, industrial design, sculpture, painting and much more. The exhibition forms a visual map that deconstructs, reconstructs and recontextualizes the perceived environment.] Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavillion through April 29 Symagery [An exhibition by Melissa Pokorny, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design. Using a variety of materials, Pokorney’s work investigates the collection of public and private space, architecture and the built environment, mediated nature and the real and imagined contingencies suggested by these forced conversations.] Humanities Hall Lecture, IPRH, through May 11 Portraits from Elsewhere [A show of work by the artist Burcu Okay, featuring new mixed media.] Heartland Gallery through May 12 Secrets Revealed = Secrets Shared [This exhibit takes its inspiration from the Web site www.postsecret.com, where people from all walks of life anonymously send in postcards upon which they have written a secret.] Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavillion through May 13

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Paper Tearing Art [A showing of recent original works by local artist and educator Hua Nian will be on display. The artworks— torn paper assembled in colorful, simple collages that are elegantly framed—are for sale and may be purchased by contacting the artist directly at nianart@ gmail.com.] Pages For All Ages through May 14 Commerce and Consumption: Works from the Permanent Collection [Photographic works from the museum’s permanent collection that are defined by marketing and advertising actions have been selected for this exhibition, an accompaniment to “Branded and On Display.”] Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavillion through May 13 A History of New [Explores what happens when a new technology is co-opted and subverted into a tool, supporting system or display medium for artists. University students and museum visitors are invited to help build a graphically rich time line of technological and scientific innovations and the resulting reactions and responses to these innovations. The time line will be displayed on the wall of the CANVAS Gallery and within the CANVAS itself.] Krannert Art Museum through July 29 An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and A Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions [Robert D. Kleinschmidt is a Chicago-based architect whose professional beliefs seem to have continually influenced his collection of art. Throughout his schooling and career, Kleinschmidt has explored the integration of landscape and architecture, space, light, minimalism and cutting-edge modernism. All of these ideas are represented in his impressive collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection includes works by Joseph Albers, Harry Bertoia, Alberto Giacometti, Diego Giacometti, Jasper Johns, Sam Francis and many more.] Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavillion through July 29 Why Knot? [For 20,000 years humans have manipulated fibers to construct objects that aid in food gathering, commemorating the dead and protecting and beautifying the body and home. The Spurlock Museum celebrates these artifacts and the skilled crafts people who create them.] Spurlock Museum through August 26

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