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IN THIS ISSUE
HEADS CU’S SECRET SPOTS
UP!
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Not just a legend
80/35 MUSIC FESTIVAL
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Iowa festival provides amazing value
AVENUE Q
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One weekend only!
CALENDAR
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Your guide to this week’s events in CU
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Look out! Tons of theater reviews online now! Don’t you want to play with us? Get it! Reviews have 90% more puns!
MOVIES & TV In words of Jay-Z, “Girls, girls, girls, girls.” Go to readbuzz.com for Jamila’s take on the new HBO show of the same name. COMMUNITY: Check out Jordan’s take on health, coming all the way from Barcelona, this week online.
MUSIC: Check out a new Playlist, a new Selected Song, and some new album reviews.
FOOD & DRINK:
Follow a buzz writer around Champaign Urbana as s/he eats her way through restaurants, festivals and eateries around town.
National comedy tour comes to Iron Post
EDITOR’S NOTE SAMANTHA BAKALL
Every year I struggle to find something to get my mom for Mother’s Day. I feel obligated to buy her something instead of just calling because I am always down here at school and can’t go back home. Sometimes this process is quick — I’ve thought of something in advance and just order it online and ship it to my mom. Other times, I’m stuck thinking for hours on what I should get her. This year was sort of a mix between the two. A note on my mother: She is of no help, whatsoever, when it comes to presents. Christmas and her birthday are hassles every year. What do you buy someone who doesn’t want anything and pretty much has everything they need? Food, obviously. Fun, unique dinners and other foodie related things get my mom equally as jazzed as I get about them. So it was obvious that I was going to find one for us to go to. There’s a really cool goat creamery right here in Champaign-Urbana called Prairie Fruits Farm. In addition to raising goats and making awesome dairy products (their goat cheese is delicious!), they do dinners and breakfasts on the farm. Usually they are prepared by their Culinary Institute of America-trained chef, Alisa DeMarco, but occasionally, they will bring in prominent chefs to make dinner. This season, chefs such as Stephanie Izard, of Top Chef fame, and local Thad Morrow will be gracing the kitchen. I bought my mom tickets to the dinner with Paul Virant, who is a Chicago chef and owner of two restaurants, Vie and Perennial Virant. His cooking has earned him high praise from food critics, a Michelin star, a James Beard award nomination and an appearance on Food Network’s Iron Chef America. Long story short: This was exactly what my mom didn’t know she wanted for Mother’s Day. She probably went online afterwards to read up even more on Virant in preparation for dinner, which will be in roughly four months. I did good this year. Maybe she’ll forget about this in time for Mother’s Day next year, because I don’t know if I can outdo myself.
by Max Huppert Unless you’re putting in extra hours at a new job or juggling a few summer courses, chances are this is the point in the summer where you realize you have a little more time on your hands than you know what to do with. Champaign-Urbana is a relaxing place to spend the summer, but it’s important to try to think of ways to keep yourself amused on a long, hot day. International Museum Day, celebrated this year on Friday, May 18, is a great excuse to get out there and explore a couple of places on campus. Museum Day was created in 1977 as a way to get people to check out the museums that are often neglected but contain interesting exhibits to see and experience. It’s also meant to raise awareness about the role of museums in society. This year their theme is “Museums in a Changing World,” with over 30,000 museums worldwide getting involved. On campus, the places you’ll want to check out are the Spurlock Museum and the Natural History Building. In addition to the collections they always display, Spurlock is currently running an exhibit featuring photos and artifacts from Carnival, as well as “A World of Shoes,” an exhibit that presents different shoes from the ancient world to the modern day, taking into consideration the impact of culture and social status on one’s footwear. Of course, you can visit the museum any day it’s open — the holiday is simply a reminder that a place that doesn’t always sound exciting might just make your summer day a whole lot more interesting.
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» Graduating: I graduated last weekend and have transcended simple-minded undergraduate studies to the ohso-sophisticated world of grad school. When I went to change out of my dress clothes and into something more casual after the graduation ceremony, all I could find in my closet were sweaters and corduroy. I was befuddled, so I reached for my backpack to get my horn-rimmed glasses. Wait, I thought, I don’t wear glasses! But I do now, and I carry them around in my leather briefcase as I stroll toward campus muttering to myself about how nobody, like, understands my thesis or how poor I am. » My roommate: He is the best. He’s been my roommate since January, and now that we have ditched our third roommate for the summer, we will have all the space and time in the world to be best friends. He, like many other University students, was born in Chicago. But he has lived most of his life in Japan, until recently blessing the U.S. with his return in January so he could study English. His favorite meal is pasta, and he always has Japanese candies to give away. If you’re lucky, he’ll send you a text message with an emoticon so detailed that he couldn’t convey his thoughts any better through a face-to-face conversation.
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Cowboy Monkey
Whenever The Dirty Feathers are performing, you know things are gonna get loud, fuzzy and, well... dirty. If you like ‘60s garage and psychedelic awesome shit, then you should probably join me at Cowboy Monkey for this show. Along with bearded, banjo-wielding Chicagoans Dastardly, expect some raucous stuff to go down Saturday night. Also, the opener is still TBA! How mysterious! The only way to find out is to show up... --Music Editor, Evan Lyman
BEST OF EBERTFEST 2012/YELLOW SUBMARINE Opens May 18
$7 students, $9 adults, $5 Yellow Submarine
The Art Theater will help you catch up with what you missed. From May 18 to May 25, there will be screenings of Ebertfest favorites, A Separation and Higher Ground. A Separation tells the story of a couple’s struggles during a particularly difficult break up of a 14-year marriage. This film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012. Actress Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed) not only stars in Higher Ground, but she also makes her directorial debut. The film focuses on a woman’s journey in and out of the world of Christianity. In a deleted scene from Pulp Fiction, Mia Wallace once asked, “Are you a Beatles man or an Elvis man?” If your answer was The Beatles, check out Yellow Submarine. --Movies & TV Editor, Joyce Famakinwa
TRIP TO TURKEY May 14-31
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Hey, guys! Arts & Entertainment editor Jess Bourque here! Just wanna let you know I’ll be in Turkey until the end of May being a journalist and writing about gentrification. If you need me, just send me an email or a Facebook message or visit me in Turkey. I am going to see so many sites! Like, the Turkey Gobble Bobble Throddle; the Bizarre Bazaar of Bethington; the Flying Carpet of Ra; trees; four zoos; a baby! I can’t wait to tell everyone what I find. Will there be ancient alien artifacts from an otherworldly race? Who knows! I can’t wait! I’m not even bringing an iPod because I’m just going to sing this little song I made up until I land in Turkey: “My name is Jessica/I love Turkey/Ohmigosh I can’t wait/ to spend three weeks in Turkey.” Bye bye! See you soon! --Arts & Entertainment Editor, Jessica Bourque
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» Summer temperatures in Champaign-Urbana: Some people really love the summer because it’s warm. I can get behind it being warm, but if you’ve never spent a summer down here, don’t even talk to me. Heat is fine, but heat + humidity is like instant death. I remember days last summer where I would try to not leave the house because I felt like I couldn’t breathe outside. My ideal temperature is around 78. It’s not too hot, and it’s not too cold. It’s just right. If I’m going to the pool, I’ll even take a touch over 80. If you like being perpetually sweaty and disgusting, we probably won’t get along very well this summer. But if you like blasting that young A/C all day, every day — now we’re talking. » Japanese opinion of haikus: Apparently in Japan, haikus aren’t considered to be that elevated of a poetic form. I personally happen to fancy haikus. They’re short and sweet, and they’re pretty manageable for anyone. Maybe this is why they’re “just for regular people,” as my Japanese friend, Ty, would say. Haikus are also really fast to come up with. Here, I’ll make one right now: Summertime is here; I want to go tan outside; But I have to work. Voila! It’s so easy; anyone can be a poet these days! Apparently that makes them too mainstream overseas. buzz
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Tattoos for fellowship Bringing friends and families together, one design at a time By Marisa Gwidt Photo by Nathaniel Lash
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This is the second in a four-part series of articles about tattoo culture in Champaign-Urbana. Marisa Gwidt is a guest writer for buzz.
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lood trickled from Kelly Metcalf’s left foot. The 30-year-old Champaign resident gritted her teeth and gripped her friend’s hand between heart-stopping shrieks of pain. Metcalf’s face was even paler than usual. She wasn’t sure she was going to make it through the ordeal. She didn’t know if she was strong enough. “Shhh… shhh… it’s all right,” her friend, Sarah Barrett, consoled. “You’re gonna be OK.” Twenty minutes later, a bit of color returned to Metcalf’s cheeks. She pulled out 80 bucks in cash, handed it to her torturer and thanked him for her new tattoo. Then, as a sign of solidarity and friendship, Barrett traded spots with Metcalf and requested a matching infinity symbol. Whereas tattoos were once rare, they’re now so mainstream that folks like Metcalf and Barrett are getting them in place of friendship necklaces. The American Academy of Dermatology recently reported that 24 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 are tattooed. Comparatively, Life magazine documented that in 1936, only six percent of the American population was tattooed. The National Tattoos Association in Allentown, Pa., said there are no national, state or local statistics related to why tattoos have become more prevalent. However, several area tattoo artists and customers revealed one reason for increased popularity is that tattoos are a symbol of fellowship. In other words, tattoos bring people together.
Branded as Flatlanders Cody Pruitt is in a motorcycle gang. He’s also a professional tattooist at Five Star Tattoo in Champaign and was responsible for giving most of the other 10 guys in the “Flatlanders” their club tattoos a few weeks ago. He had a Five Star Tattoo colleague do his. The Flatlanders, established early last year thanks to a motorcycle and tattoo online messaging board, wanted matching tattoos before riding in the Moonshine Lunch Run this past weekend. The run, an annual 1,000-mile ride that bikers from all over the country participate in, finishes at the Moonshine Store — a greasy spoon in Martinsville, which is a town just 45 minutes from where the Flatlanders join the run in Charleston. In cursive black ink, their club tattoos say “Flatlanders” or “FLRC” (Flatlanders Riding Club) if the member was already so heavily tattooed that he lacked space for the club’s full name. “What the tattoos mean is that we’re basically a brotherhood,” explained Flatlander Chris Robertson between sips of beer. “I trust these guys with my family, my tools and my bike.” The Flatlanders might not look like it, but they know a thing or two about family. Most of the leather-donning members have wives and kids who they adore even more than their bikes. Robertson and his wife, Darla Robertson, have a pre-teen daughter. The family’s freshly remodeled, ranch-style, all-American looking
home is often the meeting place for the gang. The members and “their women” drink beer, grill hotdogs and talk about bikes and tattoos there on nights before rides. Jason Ladegast is an honorary Flatlander because he’s from the “not-flat-enough” Michigan. His girlfriend, Jennifer Riggs, is somewhat of a star among the group. Although she works as a bartender, she also models for tattoo magazines on the side. She has had full-page magazine photo stories published about her. One photo published recently in “The Horse” captured her nearly nude, with her fully tattooed back toward the camera. Her hair, dyed a flaming red, was perhaps the only thing more striking than her ink. “I keep that issue in my bathroom,” Robertson crudely joked to Ladegast. Ladegast didn’t respond. He just sat smoking a cigarette, a barely noticeable smile forming across his face. Because some of the Flatlanders live out of state, the gang has only fully assembled a few times. Thus, the gathering last weekend had a hint of family reunion to it. By Friday afternoon, a couple of the members had arrived. Robertson recruited them (Pruitt and Ladegast) to ride with him to a nearby liquor store. They’d usually “roll down” on their bikes, but it was raining. They instead hopped into Robertson’s white, four-door Chevy Tahoe. “Mariah Carey?” Ladegast mocked when he heard the music that blared when Robertson started the engine. “What’s the problem?” Robertson replied. “She’s got an awesome voice.” The trio ventured down the road, toward the liquor store. A cherry-scented air freshener dangled from the rearview mirror. In the backseat, Pruitt sat with his foot resting on a children’s coloring book and Hannah Montana CD. “Hey, Cody, this guy up here still needs his tattoo,” Robertson said, referring to the fact that Ladegast was absent when the Flatlanders got inked. Ladegast swiveled around from his shotgun spot and eyed Pruitt hopefully. “Nope, sorry,” Pruitt said. “I’m off today.” The Chevy Tahoe made stops at the liquor store, a laundromat (so Robertson could pick up his bike grease rags) and a burger joint. Then it headed back to Robertson’s. “I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow,” Robertson said, checking the weather on his iPhone as he pulled onto his blacktopped driveway. But all three guys knew they cared more about each other than they did about the ride.
Family bonding over tattoos Four-year-old Maddix Buchanan is perhaps the youngest tattoo artist ever. The preschooler’s career started a couple months ago, as he sat practicing writing his name on a sheet of paper with a crayon. His tattoo-minded mother, Lindsey Buchanan, of Urbana, saw his work and had an epiphany. She would get a tattoo of her son’s name in his own handwriting. “I just thought having his signature would be so fun and unique,” she said, smiling. “It’s some-
Two tattoo artists at Five Star Tattoo. Photo by Nathaniel Lash
thing I know I’ll always want with me.” On the evening she walked into Five Star Tattoo, Ms. Buchanan pulled down the left shoulder of her pink t-shirt, revealing a black bra strap. Jason Dunavan, her tattooist, went to the shop’s drawing table and traced the youngest Buchanan’s name onto a sheet of heat-reactant paper. He then placed that paper between two plastic sheets. He fed it all through a desktop 3M Thermo-Fax machine. Once heated, the name produced a blackened copy of the original. Dunavan transferred this temporary, blackened copy to Ms. Buchanan’s left, upper shoulder blade to use as a template. A few minutes later, when Ms. Buchanan’s shoulder was throbbing in pain and dripping with blood, the name “Maddix” could be seen on her skin from across the room. She was happy. At that moment, her husband — Jake Buchanan — walked into the shop with their son. Maddix beamed when he saw the tattoo. And Mr. Buchanan decided to take part in the family affair. Mr. Buchanan asked Dunavan for the same tattoo on his right forearm. He had little space on his back. “Yeah, no problem,” Dunavan replied. “But your son’s gotta help me out with this one.” Maddix agreed and hopped onto Dunavan’s lap. Dunavan placed Maddix’s hand over his and started the tattoo gun. As the gun buzzed and ink needled into Mr. Buchanan’s arm, Maddix smiled and kept a steady hand. He, of course, had no real control over the tattoo gun, but he wouldn’t know that for several years.
The tattoo parlor: a home away from home Some people just hang around tattoo shops to visit their friends. Al Bardfield, of Decatur, is one of those people. “I’m here all the time,” the 49-year-old said while standing at the counter of New Life Tat-
toos in Champaign. “Why wouldn’t I be? These guys are like my brothers.” Bardfield met Jeromey “Tilt” McCulloch, the owner of New Life, more than a decade ago. At that time, Bardfield’s son was a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who randomly decided to get a tattoo one day. The experience went so well for him that he started persuading his dad to get one. “I have more than 50 tattoos now, but I didn’t have a tattoo for a long time,” Bardfield said. “I was in the Military, and it was just a hassle. You weren’t supposed to have tattoos.” Bardfield finally gave into his son’s urging. He got a small hot dog tattoo as a test while on vacation in Florida. A few months later, he walked into New Life and asked to have a large family crest tattooed onto his right, upper chest. So pleased with their work and the shop’s friendly environment, Bardfield started dropping by New Life all the time for tattoos. After a short while, he befriended the tattooists and would hang out in the shop even if he wasn’t there to get inked. He said he likes meeting the interesting people who walk through the doors. “I’ve met so many different types of people in here,” Bardfield said. “Brain surgeons, teachers, athletes, you name it. There isn’t any profession out there without tattoos in it.” Although Bardfield hangs out in a tattoo shop several evenings a week, the tattooists refuse to let him tattoo — even on himself. Bardfield isn’t jealous, though. He understands that the art of tattooing is a two-way street. Tattooists need their customers as much as customers need their tattooists. “I’ll admit, I’ve gotten curious about tattooing before and tattooed on my jeans when no one was looking,” Bardfield said, smiling and speaking in a hushed voice so that the New Life tattooists wouldn’t overhear. “But tattooing is a partnership. You’re trusting these guys with your own skin. Not just anyone would do that.” buzz
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SECRET SPOTS OF CU! buzz shows you some of CUs secretest spots to hide or be sad inside by Nick Martin
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op quiz! You’re being stalked by a murderer; where do you hide? Guess again! Now, you find a pirate’s chest full of doubloons; where do you stash it? Wrong answer! Last chance: you feel sad and contemplative; where can you clear your head? Exactly right: a secret spot. Everybody needs secret spots, even dogs and pets. But if you’re a complex, dramatic anti-hero, you need lots of secret spots. I have a secret spot surplus, so I should share some — but only if you only promise to never tell anyone the secret locations! The Pit: A stairwell off behind the side of Illinois Street Residence Hall is the inspiration for this beautiful hooded sad-boy stencil (Exhibit A). This secret spot occupies a very specific purpose — the five-point leaves in the picture are a telling clue. College-teens use this tiny cave to discuss sustainable agriculture and street art. That’s why there’s other neat wall drawings (Exhibit B). If you want to visit this spot, remember to be quiet — the RA monitors are directly above you. Champaign Staircases: In the words of Led Zeppelin lyric-singer, Robert Plant, “I want to build a Stairway to Heaven/I want to punch God in the face!” Thankfully, not all staircases reveal their destination. Two mysterious stairways in downtown Champaign contain many secrets. Exhibit C is by Cowboy Monkey; a nearby old man assured, “Those stairs aren’t for playing!” If not for playing, what are these stairs for? Exhibit D leads to a basement apartment. Buzz was dared to knock on the door but got scared and ran away. Tranquil Quad Hideaway: This secret spot is hiding in the trickiest place of all: right in plain sight. Close to Goodwin and Krannert Center, this rock and tree combo (Exhibit E) is great for studying or a lonely lunch. The rocks look like Stonehenge, but
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according to a custodian, are definitely not Stonehenge. Sometimes scientists sit on the rocks. Ignore them. They want to eat their Spicy Nacho Doritos in peace, not answer questions about space! The Stacks: Where do you hide money? Inside books. Where do you hide people? Inside organized tunnel matrix systems for books! The multi-leveled, labyrinthian shelf-maze that is the Stacks can hide anything; but mostly it hides the crop records of Central Illinois municipalities. Underneath the Stacks lie rooms for storing unnecessary books and superfluous information. One day, when memories are converted into computer coding, your memories will be stored in a basement like this one (No picture was taken because the writer couldn’t get the flash to work). Lincoln Square Mall: The emptiest spot of all, Lincoln Square Mall is a secret location few people visit. Sure, there’s co-ops and a sewing machine store; however, the mall is usually still deserted. Notice, Exhibit F: a janitor sweeps the dust of regrets and memories. Exhibit G shows a store deserted; this town doesn’t need customizable lawn geese any longer. If you want a spot that will make you contemplate the insular journey of man’s lonely existence, visit Lincoln Square Mall! LOST SPOT! Krannert Art Museum Hole -- I went to this spot once (Exhibit H); I loved it, and I’ll never forget it. Notice the grate; in days of yesteryear, one could pry the gate open with fingers and climb down a metal ladder inside. Once there, symbols of past visitors and leaves would be on walls. Unfortunately, some corrupt power structure discovered this spot’s secret. When compiling this article, it was learned a lock jams the grate. Beware the ghosts of sins past, for their haunting is tender and swift.
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Week of Friday, May 18 through Thursday, May 24 A Separation (PG-13) From a 35mm print. Subtitled. Fri: 7:30 PM | Sat: (2:30), 7:30 PM | Sun: 8:00 PM Tue: 7:30 PM | Wed: (1:30) PM | Thu: 7:30 PM
Higher Ground (R) Digital Presentation
Nine summer shows that will bring out your inner couch potato
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Yellow Submarine (G) $5 admission. Digital Presentation. Fri: 10:00 PM | Sat: (10:00 AM), (12 Noon), 10:00 PM Sun: (3:30 PM) | Thu: 10:00 PM
Ballet: La Fille mal gardée (NR) From the Royal Opera House. Digital Presentation. Sun: 1:00 PM | Wed: 4:00 PM
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ummer is generally known as a wasteland for television. All of your favorite fall shows have wrapped for the season, and it seems like all that is left are game shows and bad reality TV. This reputation is not entirely fair since critically acclaimed dramas like The Wire and Mad Men originally made their debuts as summertime series. So what’s on TV? Don’t worry — the buzz Movies & TV staff have your back. Pretty Little Liars ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars is part Gossip Girl, part Desperate Housewives. After the death of their Queen Bee, a group of teenage girls receive anonymous threats via text messages from a stalker simply known as “A.” For two seasons, fans placed their guesses for A’s identity. In the Season 2 finale, A’s identity was finally revealed. Now that the girls have finally solved a mystery that Veronica Mars would have solved two seasons ago, what’s next? Well, the March finale set up just enough questions to keep the June 5, Season 3 premier interesting. True Blood HBO’s True Blood is an alternative option for adults who don’t want to have to explain a Vampire Diaries addiction. The town of Bon Temps has seen it all — werewolves, witches, maenads and even fairies. The supernatural soap centers around a telepathic, southern belle waitress named Sookie Stackhouse (Academy Award winner Anna Paquin). Vampires have come out of the coffin and revealed their existence to the world. Season 5 premiers on June 10. Louie Louis C.K. returns to FX this summer with Season 3 of Louie (June 28 at 10:30 pm). He may be taking a pass on editing duties this time around – he divulged to Reddit last December that he edited all of Season 2 himself on his MacBook – but rest assured, he will be putting together just about everything else. Much has changed in the life of the modest stand-up over the past year. In December, after receiving two Primetime Emmy nominations in the fall, his self-released Live at the Beacon Theater brought in a $1 million profit (he only kept 250k and donated nearly a third of the proceeds to charity). Still, if the cute button at the end of Season 2’s finale between Louie and
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Pamela is any indication, one thing about Louis will always be certain: his heartfelt, cerebral mix of comedy and drama will never be tainted by his stardom. Dallas Remember Dallas? Me neither. I may have missed the Dallas boat completely, but I have been around long enough to know that the “Who shot J.R.?” cliffhanger blew everyone’s minds. Why TNT decided to reboot Dallas after 21-odd years: no clue. Either way, TNT is bringing us back whether we like it or not with a 2-hour season premiere on June 13 at 9/8c. The very same family will return with a focus on John Ross Ewing III and Christopher Ewing, the two sons of brothers J.R. and Bobby from the original show (with Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and more of the original cast reprising their roles). Tune in with your Mom. Korra Nickelodeon’s new animated series proves a hot potato to both old viewers and new. Depicting the old series’ (Avatar: The Last Airbender) plot, the show details the reincarnation of the new Avatar, a teenage girl named Korra. With the last series, civilization was divided into four different nations — the Water Tribe, the Fire Nation, the Air Nomads and the Earth Kingdom. From them spawn different “Benders,” or people who are capable of manipulating a given element from their background. However, with Korra, nearly a hundred years has passed since the original series left off, making the time period set in the 1920s. The series takes place in the bustling metropolis Republic City, where Korra must finish her air-bending training as the Avatar (who can utilize all four elements, rather than just one). This summer, watch out for Korra amidst a growing political conflict between benders and “Equalists,” anti-benders, oftentimes people without such powers. Between deciphering what is moral and not, there remains humor for all ages, fuzzy animals and brewing love interests, ripe for the plucking. Breaking Bad In four groundbreaking seasons, AMC’s Breaking Bad has explored the question, “Do the means justify the ends?” Walter White (Emmy winner Bryan Cranston) is a middle-aged, overqualified, underpaid and overworked high school chemistry teacher. He has a pregnant wife and a son that will
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be heading off to college soon. He finds out that he has a very aggressive form of lung cancer. When he discovers that an underachieving former student of his is a meth dealer, they form a partnership and go into business together. Who would have thought that the goofy dad from Malcolm in the Middle had the dramatic chops to lead an hour-long drama? Breaking Bad returns for its fifth season in July. Awkward MTV’s surprise hit show, Awkward, returns June 28 for its sophomore season. Awkward is the story of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton, whose life is put into a lurch after an accident is misconstrued as a suicide attempt. Her once invisible self is now the talk of the school. At the end of season one, Jenna gave up on her on-again/off-again boyfriend, Matty, for the more sure thing with her best friend, Jake. Next season will surely feature a confrontation between Jenna’s two love interests and more awkward shenanigans. Girls You’ve probably heard of Girls. The hipster blogosphere hailed this show, created by Tiny Furniture writer/director/actor/producer Lena Dunham, as the best thing since sliced bread. Then the show premiered and was met with backlash over the almost exclusively white version of New York. It follows the story of Hannah, who was recently cut off by her parents. She traverses the concrete jungle, all while juggling relationships with boys and her friends. Despite the more problematic elements, the show is pretty smart and features some moments of clarity. Hopefully the season will feature more diversity as it goes on. Teen Wolf The MTV series centers on a high school student named Scott McCall who is consistently socially ostracized at his school. When wandering through the woods one day, a werewolf bites him, which sends him into a flurry of problems as he attempts to cope with being an outcast and a werewolf. Last we left McCall, he was caught in a predicament. Havoc broke out in town and there are several close friends injured. Allison, McCall’s girlfriend, confronts McCall about keeping his secret hidden away from her. By the end of the season finale, the couple is reunited. Teen Wolf, Season 2, begins June 3.
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It’s a hard knock life ... FOR A BEE Local beekeeper Karen Pruiett discusses the issues affecting bee populations by Samantha Bakall
TOP: A frame of comb covered in bees. The queen is the largest bee in the center. BOTTOM LEFT: Pruiett examines dead bees in front of the hive. BOTTOM RIGHT: Pruiett pulls a frame of comb out of the super to look at her bees. PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA BAKALL 8
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aren Pruiett zipped up the front of her white beekeeper’s jacket, snapped on a pair of latex gloves to save her hands from getting sticky, and shoved another handful of dried pine needles into the already smoldering smoker, a contraption that looks like the tin man’s head from The Wizard of Oz, sitting on the back of her red pick-up truck. Moments later, the top of the hive has been removed and she has puffed several clouds of smoke over the box of frames that will eventually be filled with honey, called a super, to calm the bees and get them to head deeper into the box. She pries each frame out individually with a hive tool because they are stuck together and examines them. The first one is covered with hundreds of bees, but no honey. It is still too cold out. Beekeeping runs in Pruiett’s family. Her brother, Larry, has been keeping bees commercially for almost 40 years. He keeps around 600 migratory beehives, which means the bees are moved from Wisconsin in the summer to Florida orange groves in the winter. Pruiett’s own career in beekeeping began 38 years ago when she and her husband started growing a market garden at their Penfield, IL home. “To have fruits and vegetables, you really need to have bees,” she said. “So I went and helped my brother with his bees in Florida for a couple weeks one spring and he paid me in packages of bees, and I started my own four colonies. Pretty soon, the bees got to be more important to me than anything else, and I went and helped him again the following spring when he was harvesting his orange blossom honey.” Now, Pruiett tends between 20 and 30 colonies and collects her own honey. “I have about five or six different bee yards around the area, and the beauty of honey is, if you have a hive of bees sitting in your yard or outback, those bees will fly up to a three mile radius. Your honey will be distinctive compared to your neighbor who is sitting in a different location 10 miles from you. Your honey will be unique to that spot. It’s a really cool thing.” In every year since 2006, onethird of the bee colonies in the U.S. have died, Pruiett said. The increase of corn and soybean agriculture, widespread use of pesticides, and bee diseases and viruses have decimated bee populations around the country, making it more difficult than ever to maintain healthy bees.
Without them, much of the food we consume would not be pollinated and bear fruit. Although bee populations are consistently getting smaller, researchers have not been able to pinpoint the exact causes of colony collapse, where the worker bees in a hive disappear, causing the hive to essentially shut down. Parasites and viruses, such as tracheal mites, which manifest themselves in the airways of honeybees, have also affected dwindling bee populations. “About 20 years ago, in the mid 1980s, a new parasite came into the country,” Pruiett said of the tracheal mite. “My brother’s migratory operation in Florida was one of the first colonies where it was found. It’s small, almost microscopic, and infests the tracheal tubes and causes earlier mortality and difficulty in keeping healthy bees. It spreads like wildfire; goes from one bee to the next.” Shortly after the initial outbreak of tracheal mites, which ended up wiping out nearly all of the feral bee colonies in the wild, another pest called the Varroa mite made beekeeping even more difficult. The mites live on the surface of the bee bodies and suck their blood, similar to ticks. Proportionally, however, on a bee, a Varroa mite would be about the size of a baseball cap on a human, Pruiett said.
... the beauty of honey is, if you have a hive of bees sitting in your yard or outback, those bees will fly up to a three mile radius... Your honey will be unique to that spot. It’s a really cool thing. “As you can imagine, these Varroa mites really took their toll, and it took a while for beekeepers to react with different methods and pesticides to stop them. Of course, there’s no stopping them, and those survivors have become wholly resistant to those methods.” A beekeeper who chooses not to do anything about Varroa mites will lose their entire colony, Pruiett said. “It’s been an uphill battle ever since,” she said. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) experimented with several possible treatments before they created something that would reduce the amount of mites without killing the bees: miticide.
Karen Pruiett starts the smoker on the back of her red pick-up truck before tending to her bees. PHOTO BY SAMANTHA BAKALL
“You’re using a miticide, which is an insecticide, on an insect and it’s a very tricky situation,” Pruiett said. “It was effective for about 90 to 95 percent of mites, but over time and with repeated use, the mites developed a resistance to these pesticides and you have to go a step higher with something a little more potent, and it just escalates. It was a really difficult situation, especially for large-scale beekeepers, and it’s become known in the last 7 to 10 years that the mites carry viruses that are almost more lethal than the mites themselves.” Diseases and viruses spread very quickly throughout bee populations because of their widespread use of pollination. Many beekeepers — up to 60 percent, Pruiett said — transport their colonies to California in January to pollinate almond trees. Once they are finished, the bees are moved up and down the California coast to help pollinate other fruits, such as apples, pumpkins and peaches. The bees are under stress because they are put on a truck and transported 50 miles to a new spot every three weeks, Pruiett said. “It makes it much more difficult for the bees to deal with all these viruses when you have the majority of the colonies in the country ... all in the almond growth,” she said. “Then masses of them moved — we’re talking thousands of colonies — so all of these diseases ... It’s a perfect storm for diseases and beekeeping problems because after, the beekeeper will bring their colonies back to their home state.”
The use of pesticides in farming has also led to the possible decrease in honey bee populations. “In the last three or four years, chemical companies have been advertising to farmers ... a special kind of fungicide that will produce higher yields,” Pruiett said. “We have some of the highest prices of corn and soybeans ever seen in the history of the American farmer. They figure it out financially that it pays to use this fungicide. It’s not the fungicide itself — it’s that in combination with some of the seed treatments and the miticide strips having a synergistic reaction, it’s very harmful to the honey bee.” When Pruiett first started keeping bees, pesticides were the last thing she thought about affecting her hives. “We never even had to think about that 30 years ago, and now every time I hear an airplane flying over, I think, ‘Oh, what are they spraying now?’” she said. Because of the increasing price of corn and soybeans, farmers are removing fencerows, old railroad beds, pastures and hedgerows to maximize land use — all pesticidefree places where bees used to be able to forage for pollen and nectar. These places are being removed at an incredible rate, especially around this part of the country, Pruiett said. Bees require a large variety of forage — such as crops, weeds, flowers and trees — to produce honey, much like humans require a varied diet, Pruiett said. A colony has to visit about two million blossoms to col-
lect enough nutrients to make one pound of honey. The pollen serves as their protein source and the nectar as their carbohydrates. “There was so much forage, so many different crops, weeds, trees, shrubs, roadside dandelions and clover for them to work with,” she said. “They need a wide variety of pollen in their diet to get their necessary proteins and minerals and vitamins to stay healthy. It was never a problem in the past, but it’s becoming that way.” When Pruiett first started keeping bees, it was common for her to average 125 to 150 pounds of surplus honey per year on top of what the bees needed to survive. For the past 10 years, she has considered herself lucky to get 50 to 75 pounds because of the decreasing forage. “Farmers used to have fencerows around fields and hedges and just a wide variety of things for the bees to work, and it’s getting very difficult to find a good location for a beehive,” Pruiett said. “They are tearing out spots where a lot of wild things used to grow and turning it into monoculture, and the bees just can’t do anything with corn. All of those flowers are so important for the bees to have available to them, but you don’t see, even in the city, as many dandelions — they keep it green like a carpet. That’s useless for honey bees; it might as well be a desert.” There are still many unknown factors affecting bee populations around the country. “Everything is just combining to make a wonderful bee culture more difficult,” Pruiett said. buzz
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Lollapalooza by Kaitlyn Henaghan
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he Lollapalooza lineup has finally been released, and it has me more excited than ever for the sweet beats that are going to be floating through the Chicago air this August 3-5. Every year we are teased with countless rumors about who is going to be playing, but I personally feel that the lineup rarely delivers. This year, however, I was completely blown away by how incredibly stacked Lollapalooza is going to be this year, both with its headliners AND otherwise. Lollapalooza started the same year I was born: 1991. Perry Farrell, lead singer of Jane’s Addiction started Lollapalooza when he was planning a farewell show. Throughout these years, Lollapalooza has grown and evolved to cater to new genres and different audiences, but that’s to be expected. What hasn’t changed is the amount of energy people can expect from acts playing Lollapalooza; it’s always a guaranteed party. The festival has expanded to over 115 acres and features over 130 artists from a variety of different music genres. Lollapalooza has something for everyone on any of the three days of the festival. On Friday, the two headliners are The Black Keys and Black Sabbath. Personally, this choice is an easy one, because I’m a sucker for the blues
rock sound that The Black Keys has to offer. Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be headlining Saturday alongside Avicii. Both of these headliners will draw incredible crowds, because everyone seems to love the Chili Peppers and because the DJ scene seems to be an ever-growing trend for Lollapalooza in recent years. Sunday is an absolute no-brainer as far as which act I would choose between the headliners Jack White and Justice. The choice is Jack White, HELLO! His set will most likely include songs from The White Stripes and the Raconteurs along with tracks from his new solo album Blunderbuss, none of which have ever disappointed. Some of the other bands I am very happy to see on the lineup are Passion Pit, tUnE-yArDs and M83. Each band offers its own rock-electronica flair to the Lolla lineup. I’m also really excited to have indie rock bands such as The Shins, Dr. Dog, Alabama Shakes and Mona on the lineup to quench everyone’s summer rock thirst. It just wouldn’t be Lollapalooza without a great electronica/DJ lineup, which has always been a passion of Farrell’s. This year, expect to see Miike Snow, Calvin Harris, Dev, White Panda and many more to keep you dancing at all times throughout the weekend.
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I was surprised to see Trampled By Turtles on the lineup for Sunday. I only heard of them just recently, but their bluegrass style didn’t seem like something that screamed Lollapalooza to me. But hey, like I said, there’s something for everyone that weekend!
If you aren’t familiar with a lot of the bands on the lineup, you will definitely find something you like once you’re at the festival. You can also check out the farmers market and the homemade arts and crafts that are sprinkled around the festival if you manage to
find a couple of minutes of downtime in between all the rock. Unfortunately, all the three-day passes are sold out, but you still have time to pick your favorite day and buy a single-day pass! Come decked out in your summer best and get ready to party!
appearing Saturday. The group’s 2012 effort Attack on Memory bears a strong resemblance to the aggressive rhythms and raw vocals of Urbana-Champaign’s own Braid. With only a couple of years under their belt, Cloud Nothings have already put out an impressive amount of work that holds power which is certainly more impressive when experienced live. Saturday night will conclude with two elder acts of the indie scene, the eclectic Hot Chip and the recently reunited Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Both bands have over a decade behind them, and between Hot Chip’s psychedelic electro-pop and Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s lengthy post-rock compositions, Saturday will tie together in a simultaneously raging and elated dance mosh. The festival’s third and final day, Sunday, will highlight the best of indie guitar-pop. From New Jersey’s hazy
Real Estate, to perpetually-lovesick surf-rock duo Beach House, to soniccyborgs A Lull, fans of guitar-based melodic pop utilizing soft vocals to lament their broken hearts and unrequited longings won’t want to miss Sunday’s lineup. Easily the mostanticipated act of Pitchfork’s 2012 lineup, however, is headliner Vampire Weekend. The preppy, Afro-pop-obsessed indie darlings have remained quiet since 2010’s Contra, so their set Sunday night should prove to be an exhilarating mix of old favorites and new songs from the follow-up they’ve supposedly been working on for the last two years. Their energetic indiepop is catchy and simple enough for the unfamiliar to dance and enjoy, but there’s no real excuse if you aren’t already a fan of Ezra Koenig and company’s joyful, angular guitar riffing and dreamy pop melodies.
Pitchfork Music Festival by Tyler Durgan
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itchfork Music Festival returns to Chicago’s Union Park July 1315 for its eighth annual run this summer. The festival, renowned for its tradition of bringing obscure bands and performers you’ve probably never heard of, will offer the same opportunity with this year’s lineup. Kicking off on Friday, you won’t want to miss the Mississippi rapper with morals, Big K.R.I.T. (King Remembered In Time). The up-and-comer has been creating buzz with notable major acts including Wiz Khalifa and Ludacris with his relaxed, feel-good flow and easy-going rhythm, and he’s sure to help kick off this year’s festival with the perfect summer camaraderie festivalgoers are looking for. Also performing Friday is futuristic dream-pop duo Purity Ring. You won’t want to miss their mix of classic R&B and atmospheric, experimental synth, 10
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with a gently mischievous groove sure to keep the audience entertained and interested. Experimental indie rock group Dirty Projectors are also sure to put on a great performance: frontman David Longstreth and his revolving door of collaborators have been together since 2002 and have slowly built up a reputation as one of the most innovative groups in modern indie rock. Look out in particular for a performance of their recent hit, “Gun Has No Trigger.” Its smooth rim and snare groove, coupled with the proclaiming chorus, will likely be an epic highlight of their set. Friday night will be headlined by two artists a little more popular among mainstream audiences: former Broken Social Scene singer Feist, whose cute love song “1234” blew up via iPhone commercials a couple years ago, and rapper A$AP Rocky. Rocky is worth paying attention to: Drake recently
took him out on his 2012 Club Paradise tour, and his breakout hits “Purple Swag” and “Peso” earned him Rolling Stone’s Rookie of the Year award and MTV’s Hottest Breakthrough MC last year. Don’t miss Youth Lagoon on Saturday — Trevor Powers’ intimate bedroom pop will capture the audience’s heart with its immediate catchiness and quiet genteel. Later that day, Sleigh Bells will take the stage in an explosion of smooth pop melodies, pounding, abrasive percussion, and a flurry of synthesizers and guitars, evoking a unique sound that’s just as much feel-good dance-pop as it is aggressive, sinister death-trance. Yes, death-trance: that’s the best way to describe the duo’s furious electronic roars, which are likely to incite moshing comparable to the blackest metal show. The similarly angsty, lo-fi postrock project Cloud Nothings are also
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80/35 Music Festival by Dan Durley
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hile first thoughts of Iowa may conjure up images of quiet farm towns and little-to-no music scene, 80/35 is here to change that perception. After the non-profit Greater Des Moines Music Coalition was founded in 2004, work began on “re-energizing” the city of Des Moines, one of Iowa’s largest cities. The first order of business was to curate a “major urban music festival.” A few years later, 80/35 was born. The 80/35 music festival brings together a diverse blend of hip-hop, alternative and indie rock for two days in Des Moines, Iowa. If seeing Atmosphere on the same day as Death Cab for Cutie sounds like a great time, then this might be the festival for you. 80/35 will take place at Western Gateway Park in downtown Des Moines on Friday, July 6 and Saturday, July 7. 80/35 has something for everyone this year; the folk-bluegrass-pop stylings of The Avett Brothers will grace the headlining stage on Friday, while Death Cab
for Cutie will take the reigns from The Avetts to headline Saturday’s show. This year’s 80/35 festival will certainly be one to remember. The festival turns five years old this year, and promoters are going the extra mile to ensure that the two days feel like a party for everyone. The great music does not end with the Avett Bros. and Death Cab for Cutie, though. Noise rock legends Dinosaur Jr. are joined by Useful Jenkins, Fucked Up, Freddie Gibbs and many more to flesh out the diverse Friday night lineup, while bluegrass bands Leftover Salmon, Greensky Bluegrass, Dan Deacon and Dead Larry take over Des Moines on Saturday. While you may not be able to see as many bands in one day as you could at a larger festival like Bonnaroo or Lollapalooza, two-day passes for 80/35 are only $65. No, I didn’t forget a zero. The actual price of a two-day pass for 80/35 is $65. At that price point, 80/35 may provide the best bang for
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the buck this festival season. If only one of the lineups sounds enticing to you, one-day passes are also available for just $39. That’s less than the ticket price to see Death Cab for
Cutie or The Avett Brothers by themselves. You’d be crazy not to add 80/35 to your summer plans. If you don’t end up making it out to 80/35 this summer, be sure to keep it
in mind for next summer. With previous years’ headliners ranging from The Flaming Lips to The Roots to Modest Mouse, 80/35 may have something worth your while in the future.
A Sesame Street for Big Kids Broadway hit Avenue Q comes to Champaign by Jessica Bourque
Lucy the slut. Photo by Jessica Bourque.
Fifteen years ago, when most of us ‘90s kids were but little tykes, SpaghettiOs were still delicious, chicken pox were still scary and Lisa Frank stickers were still cool. Back then, the world was full of promise and the only important decisions we made hinged on which Disney movie to watch and which Power Ranger to root for. I guess what I’m saying is, growing up can suck; more specifically, graduating college can suck. Jobs, relationships, apartments — all the ‘adult’ things we longed for as children become less romantic as we enter the real world. At least that’s what Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q would have you think. The storyline follows a young college graduate named Princeton as he searches for a place to live in the big city. He starts at Avenue A but can’t afford anything until he reaches Avenue Q on the outskirts of the city. There, he moves into an apartment complex where Gary Coleman (a parody of the real man) is the landlord and his neighbors are all people struggling to get by. The rest of the show’s plot can easily be figured out by looking at the soundtrack.
Titles like “What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?,” “It Sucks to Be Me,” “If You Were Gay” and “The Internet is For Porn” reveal a great deal about the story. In a way, the musical can aptly be described as Sesame Street for grown-ups. It parodies the iconic kids show in quite obvious ways and makes a hilarious yet painfully accurate commentary on graduating college and growing up. Avenue Q uses puppets and people in the same way Sesame Street does, making the puppets interact with other characters and the audience as if they were real people. But the lessons learned aren’t about sharing with others or tying your shoes; Avenue Q deals with problems like being broke, homeless, single and racist (to name a few!). Even the characters are obvious parodies. Rick and Nicky mirror Bert and Ernie; Trekkie Monster is clearly a spin-off of Cookie Monster; even the show’s name, “Avenue Q,” is a play on Sesame Street. The show will truly resonate with all of this week’s recent college grads; maybe that’s why Champaign Urbana Theatre Company (CUTC)
chose to preform it this weekend, for one weekend only. CUTC started preparing for the show nearly six months ago. Those casted, most of which had no previous experience working with puppets, have had to work doubly hard, memorizing their lines and learning how to operate their puppets. The actors who play puppets are clearly visible on stage so they have to ensure that the audience pays attention to their puppet, not them. According to Jeff Dare, the show’s director, the puppets add an interesting dynamic to the show. “Sometimes people get turned off by musicals, because someone spontaneously breaking into song isn’t very believable. But when a puppet breaks into song, people are more open to it. We are used to seeing puppets sing, they’re silly and not real. We almost expect it after watching shows like Sesame Street,” Dare said. For those interested in seeing “Avenue Q,” it opens Thursday, May 17, with its last showing on Sunday, May 20. Tickets can be purchased through CUTC’s website, http://www.cutc.org/. buzz
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Candlelight Hot Flow Yoga with Luna Pierson Art & other exhibits Amara Yoga & Arts 7pm Parkland College Graphic Design Student Juried Exhibition Miscellaneous 2012 F.I.N.D. Orphy Parkland Art Gallery Orpheum Children’s Sci10am ence Museum EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL! 1pm Spurlock Museum University YMCA’s 9am Dump & Run Collec“Crystallography tion Starts May 7! Defining the Shape of University YMCA Our Modern Mind” 9am Exhibit Yarn n Yak U of I Main Library Rantoul Public Library 8:30am 7pm Classes, lectures, & Chess Club workshops Rantoul Public Library Beginner Tango Course 3:30pm Phillips Recreation Coffee Hour Center University YMCA 8:30pm 7:30pm Live Adult Education Preschool Story Time Help Rantoul Public Library Rantoul Public Library 10am 2pm Raising Readers Toastmasters ChamRantoul Public Library paign IL, Toast of 10:30am Champaign Movies & theater Champaign Public Library “Bully” at the Art 12pm Theater Live Homework Help Art Theater, 7:30pm Rantoul Public Library Jeff Who Lives at 2pm Home Live Career Help Art Theater, 10pm Rantoul Public Library 2pm FRIDAY 18
Live music & karaoke Art & other exhibits Chillax with DJ Belly and Matt Harsh Radio Maria 10pm Spencer McGillicutty live in Champaign 133 West Main 8pm
EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL! Spurlock Museum 9am “Crystallography - Defining the Shape of Our Modern Mind” Exhibit U of I Main Library 8:30am
Mind, body, & spirit Classes, lectures, & workshops Open Yoga Practice with Corrie Proksa Amara Yoga & Arts 5:30pm Core Yoga with Maggie Taylor Amara Yoga & Arts 12pm Ashtanga Yoga with Lauren Quinn Amara Yoga & Arts 5:30pm Yin Yoga with Lauren Quinn Amara Yoga & Arts 7pm 12
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Live Adult Education Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm Dance for People with Parkinson’s Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 10am Live Career Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm Live Homework Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm
Live music & karaoke SCATHE, MIND DROP & FER DE LANCE!!!!!!!!!!! Memphis on Main 9pm Late Night with DJ Belly Radio Maria 10pm The Brat Pack at Boomerangs Bar and Grill Boomerang’s Bar and Grill, 9pm DJ Delayney Highdive, 10pm Karaoke with DJ Hanna Phoenix 9pm
Live Career Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm Live Homework Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm
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THE SUGAR PROPHETS & THE HOT SLUGS!!! Memphis on Main 9pm Lou DiBello Band with TBA at Boomerangs Bar and Grill Boomerang’s Bar and Grill 9pm Los Guapos Mind, body, & spirit Cowboy Monkey Power Flow Yoga with 6:30pm Intro Tango lesson & Corrie Proksa Dance Amara Yoga & Arts Phillips Recreation 12pm Center Vinyasa Krama Yoga 7:30pm with Don Briskin Salsa night with DJ Amara Yoga & Arts Juan 4:15pm Happy Hour Hot Flow Radio Maria Yoga with Luna Pierson 10:30pm Amara Yoga & Arts Mind, body, & spirit 5:30pm Yoga Fundamentals Miscellaneous with Linda Lehovec Amara Yoga & Arts University YMCA’s 9am Dump & Run CollecPower Flow Yoga with tion Starts May 7! Corrie Proksa University YMCA Amara Yoga & Arts 9am 4pm F.I.N.D. Orphy Kettlebell RKC Russian Orpheum Children’s Style Science Museum Truly Fit 1pm Daphne Willis Concert 10am at Sleepy Creek VineMiscellaneous yards Sleepy Creek Vineyards 20th Annual Building 10am Fair Orpheum Children’s Science Museum SATURDAY 19 11am Art & other exhibits Salsa Night with DJ EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL! Juan Radio Maria Spurlock Museum 10:30pm 9am F.I.N.D. Orphy Classes, lectures, & Orpheum Children’s Sciworkshops ence Museum 1pm Live Adult Education Help Rantoul Public Library SUNDAY 20 2pm Science Writing Work- Art & other exhibits shop EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL! Champaign Public Library Spurlock Museum 1pm 9am
Classes, lectures, & workshops Live Adult Education Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm Live Career Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm West African Dance Classes with Djibril Camara Channing-Murray Foundation 6pm Champaign Contact Improvisation Sunday Class/Jam @Living Yoga 133 West Main 11:30am Live Homework Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm
MONDAY 21 Parkland College Graphic Design Student Juried Exhibition 2012 Parkland Art Gallery 10am EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL! Spurlock Museum 9am “Crystallography - Defining the Shape of Our Modern Mind” Exhibit U of I Main Library 08:30am
Parkland College Graphic Design Student Juried Exhibition 2012 Parkland Art Gallery 10am EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL! Spurlock Museum, 9am “Crystallography - Defining the Shape of Our Modern Mind” Exhibit U of I Main Library 8:30am
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F.I.N.D. Orphy Orpheum Children’s Science Museum 1pm
Friends of the Library Rantoul Public Library 6pm Lounge Night Radio Maria 10pm F.I.N.D. Orphy Orpheum Children’s Science Museum 1pm
Big Dave’s Trivia Cowboy Monkey 7pm
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Art & other exhibits Art & other exhibits Live Homework Help
Live Adult Education Help 133 West Main 2pm Live Homework Help Food & festivals Rantoul Public Library 2pm Industry Night Writers’ Group Radio Maria Rantoul Public Library 10pm 09:30am Live music & karaoke Live Career Help Rantoul Public Library J.E.T. from Memphis, TN at Boomerangs Bar 2pm and Grill Live music & Boomerang’s Bar and karaoke Grill 6pm 80’s Night Cowboy Monkey Mind, body, & spirit 10pm Lounge Night Yoga for Men, Dudes and Regular Guys with Radio Maria 10pm Jim Rector Amara Yoga & Arts Mind, body, & spirit 6:30pm Slow Flow Yoga with Restorative Yoga with Kate Insolia Maggie Taylor Amara Yoga & Arts Amara Yoga & Arts 2:30pm 7pm Happy Challenge Yoga Hatha Yoga with Grace with Maggie Taylor Giorgio Amara Yoga & Arts Amara Yoga & Arts 4pm 5:30pm Gentle Yoga with Power Flow Yoga with Rebekah Deter Corrie Proksa Amara Yoga & Arts Amara Yoga & Arts 9am 12pm
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Live music & karaoke Dueling Guitars AllRequest Show & Trivia Night Jupiter’s II, 7pm Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey, 10pm KEVIN ELLIOTT & JOHN COPPESS The Clark Bar, 7pm
Rantoul Public Library 2pm Intro to Tango for Couples Phillips Recreation Center, 10:30pm Live Adult Education Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm Live Career Help Rantoul Public Library 2pm
Live music & karaoke Open Mic Night! Samuel Music, 5pm Open Decks with DJ Belly Radio Maria, 10pm Salsa Dancing Cowboy Monkey, 10pm Tango Dancing Cowboy Monkey, 8pm
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Open Yoga Practice with Corrie Proksa Amara Yoga & Arts 5:30pm Kettlebell RKC Russian Style Truly Fit, 6:30pm Hatha Flow with Linda Lehovec Mind, body, & spirit Amara Yoga & Arts 5:30pm Vinyasa Flow Yoga Ashtanga Full Primary with Maggie Taylor Amara Yoga & Arts, 12pm Series with Lauren Quinn Slow Flow yoga with Amara Yoga & Arts Amanda Reagan 7pm Amara Yoga & Arts Yoga Fundamentals 5:30pm with Grace Giorgio Miscellaneous Amara Yoga & Arts 4:15pm F.I.N.D. Orphy Orpheum Children’s Sci- Candlelight Hot Flow Yoga with Luna Pierson ence Museum, 1pm Amara Yoga & Arts 7pm WEDNESDAY 23
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“Stretch Those Quads!” – a hardcore freestyle workout.
the amazing beards of comedy!
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National comedy tour comes to the Iron Post on Sunday, May 20! by Nick Martin
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ouch it. Isn’t it weird? Don’t be scared. It’s just a beard.” That’s what my dad used to say when nieces and nephews touched his beard. Beards are inherently funny; they’re just face pubes. It’s no surprise that four bearded comedians banded together to make jokes with beards in mind. Andy Sandford, Joe Zimmerman, Dave Stone and TJ Young are four guys from around Georgia who enjoy the warming presence of laugher and the warming protection of facial hair. The show is not beard-centric content, yet beards will be present, and bringing a beard of your own for the bearded comedians to sign is highly encouraged. Buzz had a chance to call TJ Young to talk about the show, beards, Georgia, skeletons and ghosts. »buzz: Describe your show and why people should come to it. »TJ Young (TY): It’s like your favorite movie scored by your favorite band and still tastes like your favorite food. But there’s probably beard hairs in your food. You may just have to pick a whisker out of your teeth. People used to traditional club shows should know: we are not that. Beards is four guys who do the same amount of stand-up, and in between we collaborate for music, improv, sketch. It’s perfect for people with ADD because rarely the same thing happens for longer than 15 minutes. »buzz: Must all attendees wear a beard or mockfacial-hair? »TY: No, definitely not. For anyone worried, even though the show is called The Beards of Comedy, the show has nothing to do with beards. We don’t tell jokes about beards, the show isn’t about beards. It’s just a catchy name for the group. We figured it out quickly, that beard humor is not our thing. We were booked as entertainment for a beard competition, where men would get judged on the style, length and composition of their beards. Needless to say, it wasn’t the best venue for comedy ... There are people very into beard culture, and more power to those people. However, everyone in the group is only passionate about comedy, not facial hair. »buzz: You have a beard; tell us about it. When did you grow it? How do you maintain it? What tools do y ou use for beard maintenance? »TY: The Beards feel that it is much easier to not shave, than to shave. However, I do trim my beard
to retain some semblance of order. I use some small shears on a daily basis to clip stray ends, and once a week, I use an electric beard trimmer. I always keep the same settings. I know how I like it. I like to keep it somewhat close. It looks better on me close. »buzz: Does your dad have a beard? »TY: My dad does not have a beard... »buzz: Enough about beards! Tell me about Georgia. Is everybody in the group from Athens? How’s the comedy scene in the South? »TY: I’m the only one from Athens. Dave and Andy lived in Atlanta for a while. Joe is from Asheville, North Carolina. Atlanta has really developed as a great comedy city in the last five years. Some people a bit before us started really hustling and touring on their own, and they bring back that energy to Atlanta. There’s a few clubs that get national headliners, but lots of guys make things happen on their own by putting together bar shows, or restaurant shows, any small place that wants to have regular comedy. Now, Atlanta is a city where you can find an open mic every night of the week ... Speaking specifically about the four of us in Beards, we like doing shows in rock venues, theaters and less traditional setups because it allows you total creative control. Without expectations, we can do what we want to do. We try to maintain a do-it-yourself mentality ... I think the South’s comedy scene is at the beginning of a boom. »buzz: Last question: What’s scarier? Skeletons or ghosts? »TY: Well, is the skeleton moving or is it just bones? »buzz: It can move. »TY: Ok, let’s imagine they’re both coming toward me ... that’s really tough. A skeleton has substance. If it were strong, it could hit me, strangle me or want to fight me. But honestly, I still don’t understand how ghosts work, because in theory, I could just walk through a ghost. In one way, that’s scary; you can never get away from a ghost. But if it’s just a cloud-like mist, what can it really do? It can’t grab me, it can’t push me down. I’m not scared of mists. But I am scared of bones. Bones hurt. Remember! Check out TJ and the rest of the Beards Sunday, May 20 at the Iron Post!
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Across 1 Second half of a ball game? 5 Used (to) 15 She uses a bird to sweep the house 17 Computer overhaul 18 Arian Foster stats 19 Little sip 20 Gold, to Guatemalans 21 “Who Wants to Marry a MultiMillionaire?” network 22 Bodybuilder’s units 24 Word before Earth or City, in computer games 27 Drab shade 29 She was Dorothy on “The Golden Girls” 30 Org. that listens for alien signals 31 It’s obsolete 35 Jovial question from someone eager to help 36 It covers Miami, Montpelier and Montreal 37 SOPA subject 38 Opera follower? 39 New Year’s, in Hanoi 40 Mandolin relative 41 Nancy Grace’s network 42 Southwest sch. whose mascot is King Triton 44 Daily grind 45 Homey
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