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t seems that with every passing Fourth of July my interest in the whole idea of Independence Day has decreased. This year was no exception. Rather than going to barbeques, watching parades and staring mindlessly to the skies at fireworks, I went to work and watched the World Cup. Now I am not exactly sure why this decline has occurred, but I have some guesses.

POLITICS Anyone who knows me can attest to my passion for most things political, including Independence Day. As hard as everyone may try to make the Fourth a non-partisan, happy time for all, it just does not work for me. This current administration has made it hard for me to love my country and the things that it does. We used to pride ourselves as a nation of immigrants, a melting pot of every nationality. But recently we have alienated those who are currently trying to come to the United States because they believe that they have opportunities here. Our government has told them that they are not welcome through newly proposed immigration laws. Our nation was also founded on rebellion from an oppressive government. However, we have turned around and oppressed other nations and even populations inside our own borders. There is not liberty and justice for all as our pledge states, but people keep reciting it. Personally, I can’t read it out loud.

I don’t want to endorse our nation’s hypocrisy.

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WORK I can’t blame all of my cynicism of Independence Day on my lack of interest. Ever since 2001, I have worked at one job or another on the Fourth. Work can put a damper on anyone’s fun on just about any day of the year. However, when friends invite you over for a barbeque and beer, and you have to turn down their offer because of work, it truly sucks. So I don’t know, maybe my nonchalant attitude toward the holiday is just a defense mechanism as to downplay the fun of the holiday. Or maybe I am just getting old and am not impressed with floats, flags and fireworks.

FIREWORKS Now this one is a little political, but I think it is a valid point. I have to start out by saying one thing: fireworks are pretty. There is no questioning that fact. However, for the extravagant shows that every city in the nation seems to put on, there is a price. Any professional fireworks show costs a minimum of $3,000 and most cost much more than that … up to and exceeding $100,000. Along with parades and all of the costs associated with them, the Fourth of July ends up being a costly holiday. It may be the socialist in me talking, but couldn’t we help a lot of people with that money rather than waste it on the fleeting beauty of fireworks and parade floats?

Champaign-Urbana has a very visible homeless population, and yet we spend frivolously on such things to promote pride in our nation. I would be much prouder of our nation if we didn’t have people living in the streets. sounds from the scene

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tried yet another piece of broccoli the other evening. It was deep fried, and I attempted to stif le its repulsive f lavor in ranch dressing for a couple of minutes before I made a pathetic attempt to actually swallow it. I still couldn’t get the damned thing down. It’s strange because I know I hate the crap in any form, and yet I keep giving it another chance. Really, there aren’t many things I’ve tried just once and given up on.

Yet strangely, two things I’ve tried only once collided in a news story this week.

One thing I’ve only done once was get my dog neutered. I mean, he had two testicles, but they took both of them at the same time, so I’m only counting it as one actual procedure. My dog doesn’t much care about semantics such as this.

He only wishes he still had something to lick on besides a sad little empty pouch. Anyway, the neutering thing really had to be done, and I’m glad I did it and all, but it was still a little sad to see my little buddy staring at me in disbelief.

“I cannot believe you took me in and had my junk removed. Geez Louise, I was just beginning to discover all the wonderful things it did, and then, boom, no more testicles. What the piss?

It’s not like I was humping you or anything, just the couch, and now I got nothing. Couldn’t you have at least fired a warning shot before dropping the big one? Jesus.”

Another thing I’ve only done once upset me far more than the disgruntled look on my puppy’s face. I went to Hooters. It’s still sort of embarrassing for me to say. It was after a golf game, and my friend convinced me it would be great. It really wasn’t. I mean, yeah, the girls were pretty hot and the outfits were pretty skimpy, even though orange is not an especially good color on anyone. I didn’t even mind all the guys leering at the waitresses as they pranced around. Well, I mean, that would have been pretty hypocritical on my part.

What I didn’t like was the perceived familiarity the servers had with us the moment we walked into the door. We were seated at a table, and our waitress came over, pulled up a chair, and asked us our names. That probably shouldn’t have bothered me, but I know she doesn’t really care. It’s all just part of the act, and this is a tipping situation. It’s just that if you’re gonna pretend to like someone that much, why not just go all the

way and work at a strip club. I mean, it’s really only two more small pieces of clothing and you wouldn’t have to carry around those heavy trays of chicken wings.

At least I understand and enjoy the strip bar concept. Teasing me with tube tops, hot pants and deep fried treats is nothing but an effective attempt to confuse me.

I sucked it up and played along, attempting to be every bit as friendly as she was attempting to be. Each of the five times she pulled up a chair during our meal, I complimented her on the richness of our chicken wings and the coldness of our beers. We finished and headed toward the exit. “Come back real soon Eddie and Mike!” she yelled as she waved at us from across the room.

“Not a chance,” I yelled as I waved back.

So, I suppose it’s finally time to get around to the actual point of the news story I mentioned about 600 words ago. I’ve only done neutering and Hooters once in my life, but Los Angeles attempted to combine the two and help out some animals along the way. Hooters approached the L.A. animal services agency with the novel and rhyming idea called Hooters for Neuters. The restaurant would host a bikini contest and the proceeds from the event would go toward the cost of neutering more animals in the Los Angeles area.

Now, as I said before, I personally prefer the all nude to the almost nude, but even my cold-assed heart can make an exception when it comes to helping animals. Last year L.A. had to euthanize 19,500 animals because of a lack of funds and something like that can really change a fella’s perspective. Who the hell cares where the money comes from?

Animal activists and elected officials threw a hissy fit until they eventually cancelled the event. City controller Laura Chick called the head of the agency urging him to not participate.

“Are we going backward here?” she asked. Um, your name is chick, so maybe the enlightening should start at home.

Regardless, if someone, really anyone, wants to give you money and you need money, then for crapsake take the damned money. But what if it’s demeaning? Well, if someone wants to ogle me and slap my ass and call me an idiot in front of an audience all day, I’m perfectly cool with that, so long as they keep forking over cash each time they do it. I can use the money to pay for my therapy, and I might even have a little left over to put toward a good cause like helping animals.

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The story of one brimming farm in Champaign

On a rainy day in June, 7-year-old Lydia Gioja herds a group of at her home on County Road in Champaign.

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enny Gioja’s days are far from monotonous. Besides overseeing the family enterprise, the Joy-of-Illinois Farm, while her husband is at work, Gioja (pronounced “joy-a”) prepares meals from scratch, leads a 4-H club and homeschools her children (she has nine). Around 200 chickens, 30 rabbits, 20 goats, two donkeys, sheep, cows, turkeys, ducks, cats and dogs all call the six-acre farm at 1689 County Road 400 E. in Champaign home.

Gioja, a University of Illinois College of Agriculture graduate, rises at the crack of dawn to manage the children and the farm. She receives customers as they arrive at the farm to place or pick up orders for meat, eggs, milk and poultry. Throughout it all, she remains patient and knowledgeable. Gioja isn’t a typical housewife.

For example, because of the products produced on the farm, grocery shopping is rare for the Giojas, who live about five miles outside of Champaign.

“I only buy white flour, oil, sugar, some baking supplies and citrus fruits,” Gioja said. “We really don’t need the white flour, but the kids enjoy making cookies, and my husband enjoys eating cookies.”

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also has a vegetable garden, an herb garden and fruit trees including peach, pear, plum and apple trees.

Gioja said her farm is not self-sufficient but self-sustainable.

The difference in these two types of agriculture is that self-sufficiency would require no input. In order for the family to be totally self-sufficient, they would have to raise their own wheat with which to feed the animals.

They would also need a much larger farm — at least 40 acres — and full-time help, which would be a severe cut in profit.

Instead, the Gioja far m is self-sustainable.

“Self-sustainable agriculture has three aspects,” Gioja said. “It must be economically viable, ecologically sound and socially just.”Gioja explained that the family tries to stay within those aspects.

“We make a profit at the end of the year,” she said, referring to the aspect of economical viability. Her husband, Les, also works full time as a civil engineer in Mahomet to support the family.

“We also live light on the land,” Gioja said. “We make sure not to leave any scars.” This cannot be said for many large commercial farms.

Gioja said she also spends a good part of her day solving problems and doing routine repairs around the farm.

“You’ve got to think at this job,” Gioja said. goats out to the field Recently, many of the family’s prize chickens had been found dead in their cage. Gioja and her husband were puzzled because the dead chickens were not physically harmed or diseased. After studying the situation, the Giojas realized the chickens were stepping in their water bowls, spilling the water and suffocating themselves with the toxic mixture of fumes from their own urine and the spilled water inside the cages. Securing the water dishes so they couldn’t be tipped over was an easy solution, Gioja said. The chickens suddenly stopped dying. Gioja says she is constantly solving problems like these with each species of animal on the farm.

Gioja also spends time guiding her children in the care of their animals. Each child is assigned one or more particular species and must take full responsibility for the animals. This includes the initial purchase, feed and care of each animal.

The children usually enter the animals through 4-H clubs at the county fair where the animals are sold. Many of their animals are sold before the fair even begins due to the family’s reputation of raising quality animals. Each Gioja child keeps the full profits from the sale of their animals and is able to save or spend the money as needed.

“I don’t think they want to come back and do this, but it has given them character building,” Gioja said of her older children.

Four of the Gioja children have put themselves through college and are pursing different careers. Five more are at home.

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Parkland College graduate and works with animals. Faith, 20, is studying piano performance in Venice, Italy.

Many of the children finish with high school early. Gioja says the older children have been very prepared for college classes and find them easy even though they were not part of the public school system.

Although the Gioja children are in different career fields, Mrs. Gioja feels growing up on a farm gave them a strong foundation for success in life.

“Living on a farm and having to take care of animals taught them how to work, the consequences of a shoddy job and so much responsibility,” Gioja said. “It taught them to get up and going in the morning. Otherwise, they’ll be animals at your window.”

The younger Gioja children say they enjoy living on a farm. Esther, 12, is in charge of breeding and raising around 20 goats. She says she milks them twice a day and sells the milk. Others have been sold for meat, even though they are not yet ready to be butchered. She is paying for her braces with profits from the goats.

On top of her already numerous duties, Penny Gioja writes a weekly newsletter that is distributed to her customers. She says it is good business to let clients know what is new with the farm.

“It’s important that our customers trust us and know they are getting a quality product,” Gioja said. “A lot of my customers come out here just for the newsletter. They are interested in our farm and our life.”

Gioja admits the farm doesn’t make a huge profit, but she believes that her family is benefiting from the life that they live.

“We’re never going to get rich,” Gioja said, “but we’re definitely not going to starve.” buzz

The Gioja family owns numerous animals at their farm. At the rabbit house, Lydia Gioja gently holds a baby rabbit in her hands.

Lydia turned 7 years old on June 10, sharing the same birthday with the newly born bunny. sounds from the scene

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MICHAEL POWERS

Michael Powers, 55, has been playing the drums since 1961. Powers performs at Urbana’s Farmer’s Market, in the southeast parking lot of Lincoln Square Mall, using various percussion instruments every Saturday from approximately 9 a.m. until noon when weather permits.

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he 55-year-old man sat on an overturned red bucket. His gray-white beard rested halfway down his torso. A tambourine was tied to his right leg and on his left was a tie-dyed drum. In one hand he held a second tambourine and a wooden drumstick.

Michael Powers, a Chicago native, tapped the drum, hit the tambourine and sang, “I want to be a jazz man/but I was raised on Kinks and Stones/I love the Byrds, the Yardbirds/I’ve got blues in my bones.”

Powers plays the blues, Cajun music, country, and jazz, but when he plays at the Farmers’ Market on the corner of Illinois and Vine streets in downtown Urbana, where vendors come to sell their homemade goods, his music involves the people passing by. Powers said he discovered that responding to people and talking with them was an important part of what he does. He said the performance isn’t only about him.

A little girl with a white hat and a blue flower dress smiled as Powers sang about the popcorn she was eating. As a woman took a picture of Powers, he sang about the “snapshot” she was taking. When people passed by and put money in the black hat in front of him, Powers would sing, “Merci, beaucoup,” a French phrase meaning “thank you, very much.”

He said he has noticed that when a crowd is drawn, the attraction expands beyond him.

“Say I’m doing my groove thing and people dance, people may be drawn to not just me, but to me and the people dancing,” he said. “It’s more than me.”

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FIRST SNIFF Happy 230th Birthday, America! I hope that next year brings you more of everything you’ve made for yourself: a racist, ageist and prejudiced government; a silent and compliant nation of under-educated and mostly impoverished citizens; sky-rocketing gas prices; more hurricanes than ever before; more deaths from gunfire than any other country and a big fucking Mac with two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame fucking seed bun.

And yet still, we are greater than any other nation on the face of the earth? Perhaps, but I’d like to think we could do a little better.

Stick that flag up your ass and help someone out this year. It’s time we all started chipping in more, eh?

A SATURDAY STEEPED IN HATE INCIDENT #1 I am getting my comeuppance. At least, I would like to believe that is what it is.

Last Saturday, the Jussers and I went to do a little domestic shopping; you know, Pier One, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, Pet Smart, Meijer – the usual suspects. On our way back from dropping off the dog for a bath, we were greeted by members of AWARE on the corner of Neil and Main in downtown Champaign. And while I still feel like there is something more that can be done aside from holding a sign and stating the obvious, we laid on the horn and gave a thumbs up to them. We came to a stop at the light, and we were handed a little green flyer telling us how we could get more involved. A few old folks were standing on the corner waiting until the light changed to cross like good American citizens.

When the light turned green, we smiled at the protesters and gave one more honk for solidarity, and as we turned the corner, one of the old men yelled out, right in front of his wife no less, “Can it, you bitch!”

Uh … I had no response except that, well, uh, see … uh, a-Go Fuck Yourself.

A SATURDAY STEEPED IN HATE INCIDENT #2 After we calmed down, went home and had a drink, we went out to dinner with the folks and then left to pick up the dog from Pet Smart.

There was no one in the grooming room and so we both went to seek personnel in order to retrieve our puppy.

The employees at Pet Smart wear blue polo shirts. I looked over and saw a lady in a blue polo shirt scooping fish out of a big tank of water and so politely said, “Excuse me? Who should I speak with so I can get my dog?”

And, no lie here, she turns to me, put one fist on the hip pointed toward the floor and swaggered her head and said, loudly, “How in the fuck should I know?”

Uh … well … there can only be one response to that: “Sorry. My guess is that you don’t work here, do you?”

What’s the deal with people? See, I write all this out – get it all out of my system, so that when I go to stores like that, I don’t freak out on people for making mistakes. When I want to make a statement to someone about my political opinions, I try my best not to call someone that I do not know a “bitch.” Except for Ann Coulter.

I would love to call that bitch a bitch any ol’ day of the week.

But seriously. I think that I am getting what comes to me after all this hate. People are sniffing me out. Perhaps I should stop with all the hate and just … nah … tried that one already.

In regards to protesting, I am still committed to developing a good way to protest this bullshit in Iraq. I have not forgotten about my need to do something, anything, in order to feel like I am contributing in some way.

I know two things for sure: One. Standing in front of cars is a good thing, but really, all it does is let people know that there are people with a free Saturday to express their views. I am not saying it’s no good; I am just saying that it isn’t all that effective.

Two. Protesting in front of churches is Boopid.

Yeah. Boopid. That means Beyond Stupid. It’s a stupid word – which is why you can use it. It’s onomatopoeic.

What I think is that you need to hit people where they can hurt. Here’s a clue. It’s green and most of the time – you can use it with a little piece of plastic.

Yeah. Benjamins. God. I am SO hardcore.

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FINAL WHIFF I felt really bad for that old man who called my girlfriend a bitch in front of his wife. It seemed like he was such a nice person when he was standing on the corner. I remember because I was thinking about how sad I get every time I go into a grocery store or restaurant and see someone who looks like my Grammy working their asses off to make my day easier.

That’s American policy for you. After you’re a certain age, not only do we not provide for you, but we also make you work for $6.50 an hour.

Fuck off, America. Now blow out your candles with a WMD.

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DON’T YOU WISH YOU’D BEEN THERE?

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played their regurgitated new wave in between imploring the crowd to “put your motherfucking hands up.”

As such, the crowd did not respond, preferring to wallow in their own disaffected cool.

On the second d ay A n n ie, a Swedish popstress, put in one of the best performances as she turned her ephemeral dance pop into elongated disco anthems. She fumbled around the stage, though, and had a pretension of cl ing ing to the m icrophone, suggesting more a planned DJ set than a pop performance. It was awkward to watch, but her sparse instrumentation (cowbell, crash cymbal and drum machine) and reedy voice more than compensated.

It was a vanilla event at best. Each band played their set then left. There was no time for recollection: a two stage set-up allowed quick transfers between the acts, each being introduced by the comedy troupe Windy City Heat (these were utterly insufferable, and by the second day, the crowd had turned hostile toward their sophomoric antics.)

Only rap artists seemed mildy captivating. Native Chicagoans Rhymefest and Lupe Fiasco seemed generally excited to be home, a respite from their grinding promotional tour. Unsurprisingly, both are semi-protegés of Kanye West and, like most of the artists he has helped launch and re-launch, are trying to step out of his shadow. Rhymefest jokingly approached that elephant on the stage when, a few seconds into “Brand New” he stated, “Kanye is not about to pop up on stage.” However, nobody cared. He

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ven if hipsters attempt to destroy society as we know it through their suburban nihilism, they still know good music. Or in the Intonation Festival’s case, how to put on a good concert. Curated by the Vice mini-media empire, this year’s incarnation was freed from Pitchfork Media’s rockist tendencies to put on a festival that was as musically diverse as its crowd was homogenous.

(They seemed to single-handedly keep American Apparel and the Aviator sunglasses industry afloat.)

Even if the fans were not interested, they missed a line-up that never failed to entertain. The Sword and High on Fire thundered through metal that recalled a time before the emasculated rhythm section. In one of the festival’s silliest moments, Chromeo

ebulliently worked his way through Kanye’s verse and managed to show why, in a better world, this song would be the hit of the summer.

Lupe Fiasco, though, made the canny decision to retool two of Kanye’s songs, “Touch the Sky” and “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” into much darker numbers than Kanye’s lyrical skills would permit. Where Rhymefest danced on the stage, and during one song jumped off it, Fiasco let the music speak for itself.

Nobody doubted he was having fun, and the only reason he left was an understocked cache of beats.

Still, the music didn’t matter, at least not as much as it should have. Alongside the stages stood an expansive fair, hawking everything from posters to vintage clothing to cell phone service. Commercialism became inextricably intertwined with the music. ($40 tickets don’t pay for everything.)

Most performers got in on the act, hyping their albums to no end. Even headliners like The Streets and Bloc Party were there as representatives of Vice’s music label, performing their febrile exercises to gain some semblance of American acclaim. Myspace and word-of-mouth are great tools, but they are no replacement for true publicity.

The apogee of this phenomenon occurred early in the first day, during Jose Gonzalez’s voice. Unknown until recently, his song “Heartbeats” was featured in a commercial for Sony Televisions.

Primarily shown in Europe, it has been seen by many stateside by the power of the Internet. The song itself is beautiful but unassuming, something that could easily be heard in a Starbucks.

Onstage, though, he transformed it into what, as accompaniment, it couldn’t be: the frank charge of a broken heart.

Clearly the audience took notice. Sure, their notions of “selling out” had been destroyed, but good music is good music, even if money is exchanged in the process.

DON’T YOU WISH YOU’D BEEN THERE? #2 My Morning Jacket are kings of Bonnaroo

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energy, ending every conversation with “I do it for you, for you guys.” With his long wavy black hair, and wearing a torn dirty white shirt with tight brown pants, he fit in perfectly with the crowd. And by the time he took the stage, he had lost most of that clothing, and so had much of the crowd in the sizzling midday heat.

Banhart and friends ran through a gorgeous set of tracks from his latest full length, Cripple Crow, as well as a few old tunes, and a few new ones (including a track written at Bonnaroo called “White Russian Troll”). But the high point came My Morning Jacket at Bonnaroo Friday, June 16 toward the end of the show, when Banhart asked the audience “Do any of you write songs?” One hundred hands stars, and perhaps that was the point. But regardless, the kid got shot up. Banhart actually proceeded to invite one of these kids the loudest applause of anyone that day, and it’s one of the more on stage to perform an original song as he and the band moved poignant memories from the weekend. to the back of the stage. As that random kid poured his heart out The second show also comes from Friday, but this one was a on Devendra Banhart’s stage, playing Banhart’s guitar and singing whole ’nother animal. Starting at midnight, directly following into Banhart’s mic, the entire audience felt something special. It Tom Petty and competing with Common, My Morning Jacket was the type of inclusive moment that made us all feel like rock didn’t exactly have the greatest time slot for what most people JASON KEMPIN • PHOTO

t would be impossible to write a review of Bonnaroo that would adequately capture any of the magic of three days of camping in the sweltering summer sun of Manchester, Tenn. So I’ve chosen to focus on just two shows from the massive event, and neither of them is Radiohead.

While the kings of modern music had a spectacular Saturday night, they did not prove to be the kings of Bonnaroo.

What this festival is truly about is a free spirit that is rare in modern times — an audacity to be different through the expression of not just music but of music culture as well. Bonnaroo is a place where the experience of music is just as essential as the free expression of it. It isn’t enough to just play your songs well; you must create an environment for your music that stands alone.

On Friday afternoon, I witnessed one such moment, led by folk star Devendra Banhart. Banhart and his friends (a band affectionately called everything from “Stoner Boner” to “The Tennessee Cops” by Banhart himself) took the stage around 2:30 p.m., but the show had started long before that. Hours before his performance, Banhart was strolling around Bonnaroo, greeting fans and non-fans with equal IN

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But even those who appreciate My Morning Jacket as bona-fide rock stars could not be prepared for the magnitude of this show. What was scheduled as a two-and-a-half-hour rollick through the night grew into a mammoth three-hour-and-20-minute explosion of ecstatic performance.

That has to be the longest running time of any show at Bonnaroo for one band, but this night was about so much more than just the sheer amount of music played. The band came onto the pitch-black stage to the theme of “When You Wish Upon a Star” with lead singer Jim James carrying a lantern as if stepping into a magic forest. By the time they got to the chorus of opener “Wordless Chorus,” the crowd was in a hysterical state of emotion, and those of us lucky few in the front could feel the pulsating power of the audience affecting the band. It grew to a fever-pitch until the climax of the show, at almost the two-hour mark, when James and crew roared through a cover of The Who’s “A Quick One, While He’s Away,” emphasizing the final refrain, “You are forgiven” with such passion and energy that you could not help but be moved to tears.

But this crowd-band interaction was no accident for My Morning Jacket. James has reported to the press that the song that made him fall in love with music was “Wish Upon a Star” as it intro-ed all his favorite Disney films as a child.

Friday night’s 31-song set was about the beauty and appreciation of music, unfiltered.

My Morning Jacket did this for the fans. They reached out to the audience and brought them closer than any other band at Bonnaroo. And in that action, they channeled the most beautiful thing about these large-scale music festivals: the feeling of inclusion in something special. buzz

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by American Minor more than delivered the goods last Thursday at Cowboy Monkey. With the venue a l ready at capacit y for Wa nd er i n g S on s a nd WPGU-buzz Local Music Awards Best Live Performer elsinore, American Minor took the stage close to 1 a.m., sans set list, and tore through 16 songs. These ranged from new covers “Mississippi Queen” and “Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)” to new originals “You Ain’t Got to Worry” and “Help Yourself,” throughout which the house lights were on. Noah Harris pulled double duty: he performed with Wandering Sons, then ran to The Iron Post for his concurrent concert there with John Owen and Harman Jordan of Shipwreck.

June 21: Elanors announced signing with Parasol, who will issue second Elanors album Movements late this month. The day before, Elanors announced a tour with Minty Fresh/Catskills act

Husky Rescue from Finland. On July 31, they appear together at The Highdive, alongside The Living Blue, Lorenzo Goetz, The Beauty Shop, Tractor Kings and Bellcaster. In the meantime, Elanors opens for Shipwreck Thursday at Cowboy Monkey. This is the House of Cards EP release; also aboard are Starflyer59 and Cheyenne. Show time is 9 p.m., and cover is $7. Elanors is husbandand-wife duo Noah and Adriel Harris, with Dan Johnson and Rodrigo Palma.

July 4: New Ruins issued its second fulllength, The Sound They Make. It is a limited edition with handmade artwork and 11 tracks; cellist Aaron Emerson Wittrig of Pulsar47 plays on four of the tracks. New Ruins appears July 13 and 14 at The Iron Post. The formal record release is in August. New Ruins is J. Caleb Means and Elzie Sexton.

Saturday: Brother Embassy frontman Nathon “Tron” Jones celebrates his birthday with a concert at Cowboy Monkey. Besides Brother Embassy on the bill are Animate Objects and Beat Kitchen. Show time is 10 p.m., and cover

is $5. Also on Saturday at 10 p.m., The Amazing Kill-O-Watts are at Mike ’n’ Molly’s.

Fresh from MustacheFest 2006, Chicago-Joliet trio Deconstructing Jim is on tour this week to debut songs from its forthcoming EP. Deconstructing Jim will record it in September with Jeff Halland at Vaudeville Studios in Minneapolis and release it early next year. Last release The Further, The Better featured four songs with harmonies by Leila Hagshenas, formerly active in Champaign-Urbana as a D.I.Y. booking agent and sound engineer. Since the release, Brennan Chouinard has joined on drums, and Matt Yeager has switched from guitar to bass; Jeff Julian remains on guitar. On Sunday, Deconstructing Jim wraps up the tour at Cowboy Monkey with Mad Science Fair and The Dolphin. Show time is 10 p.m., and cover is $4.

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

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Well-maned G’N’R frontman Axl Rose got so drunk after a performance in Stockholm (home of David Byrne’s installation art museum!) that he bit a security guard and had to be placed in a holding cell for the night. It’s easy to lose context when you realize this man has been working for democracy in China for years. Ehh, excuse me, he’s been working on Chinese Democracy for years. With a man who wears a KFC bucket on his head.

In other news: now that the Bravery are nearly as relevant to pop culture as a president’s sex life is to his/her policymaking, the Killer’s Brandon Flowers has chosen a new target for his boylove vitriol – Fall Out Boy. According to British musical weekly New Musical Express, Flowers declared Fall Out Boy and emo “dangerous.” (So is acetone nail polish remover, Brandon.) He said that he wanted to “beat those bands to death.” (It’s hard with a limp wrist.) I guess NME shit-talking is the new “slapping a dude in the face with a glove.” Look how far we’ve come.

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01. “The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack” Liars, Drum’s Not Dead 4:45 02. “Your Blood” Destroyer, Destroyer’s Rubies 4:15 03. “Magic Trick” M. Ward, Post-War 1:45 04. “Trains to Brazil” Guillemots, From the Cliffs EP 4:03 05. “Our Way to Fall” Yo La Tengo, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out 4:18 06. “Do You Believe in Rapture?” Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped 3:11 07. “Atoms for Peace” Thom Yorke, The Eraser 5:12 08. “In The Morning” Junior Boys, So This is Goodbye 4:42 09. “Pull Shapes” The Pipettes, We Are the Pipettes 2:58 10. “LDN” Lily Allen, Alright Still 3:05 11. “Did I Step On Your Trumpet?” Danielson, Ships 3:06 12. “Damn Damn Leash” Be Your Own Pet, Be Your Own Pet 1:57 13. “Adlai Stevenson” Sufjan Stevens, The Avalanche 2:36 14. “Topknot” Cornershop 3:40 15. “Feva” Rhymefest, Blue Collar 3:53

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he Fast and the Furious just had its third installment released. Basic Instinct, Saw and Garfield recently had horribly rated sequels released. Why is our country so obsessed with milking a story for everything it’s worth? We have become so profit driven that we lose sight of the true art of cinema. Double Indemnity will never have a sequel. Neither will Chinatown. At least, that’s if Roman Polanski has anything to say about it.

The thing is, older movies understood what the film industry should be about. They didn’t make sequels unless another important story needed to be told. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II both won Best Picture Oscars. It was all about the method of storytelling, not the method of advertising. We’re supposed to learn from our past. So why the hell have our recent movies been so bad?

According to Motion Picture Association of America statistics, 2005 U.S. box office sales were down 8.7 percent from previous years. That accounts for $1.4 billion. In addition, 549 movies were released in 2005 compared to 520 in 2004. So let’s clarify: more movies are being made, more money is being charged per movie, yet total sales are depleting by the billions. Hmmm … surprise, surprise. People are starting to catch onto the fact that Hollywood just isn’t the same.

THE COMEDY GENRE: NOW THAT’S A LAUGHING MATTER The most obvious difference between new and old movies lies in the comedy genre. The most recent comedy that made the AFI Top 100 Comedy list is number 27. This is 1998’s There’s Something About Mary. Other than that, not one movie from the past decade made the list. Granted, comedy is handled very internally. This, nonetheless, doesn’t excuse an overall bad comedy. I know we’ve all laughed at Blazing Saddles or Airplane! Even Animal House or Caddyshack made us quote a few lines. Well, these all made the list.

Movies are trying so hard to create a laugh that they succumb to cheap wipe-outs or awkward moments.

We laugh, but that’s only because we would never want to be in that scenario. This is what our comedies have evolved into. Hollywood thinks that a heavy amount of visual effects is the only way to tickle our funny bone (Click, for instance). However, we all still laugh at Woody Allen’s dialogue in Annie Hall or the facial expressions on Dustin Hoffman’s face in Tootsie.

But for some reason the character-driven comedy no longer occupies our screen.

Recent movies are like gas prices. You pay a fortune for just enough to take you around the block. Well, let me tell you something, Hollywood. I need something more. I need a movie to take me on a road trip … not just around the block. Movies of the past did such a thing. I traveled to Arabia with Lawrence, or I lived in a mental asylum with Jack Nicholson.

However, we’re af raid to make more mov ies like these. We’re afraid of letting the audience go too deep inside a character. We’re afraid of taking people to a place that they never wanted to go.

But people need to start taking this risk. America is waiting for the perfect stor y to get the green light. This applies to comedies, horror, action and ever y other genre. We are waiting for those ver y movies to bust out and break us from the trance Holly wood currently has us in. So f ilmmakers, you’ve been dared.

GARBAGE FILMS BEING MADE IN HOLLYWOOD Some might say that crap is being released due to the unoriginality of ideas. Everything has already been used, so it’s hard to create an appealing new stor y. Yes, even though I agree with this to some extent, it doesn’t justify a movie’s failure.

Take Casablanca, for instance. Made during World War II, it took of the elements of the war and created a story about it. This is exactly what a movie is supposed to do. It needs to tell a story that people can relate to. Plenty of new issues are happening in our society. We need to adapt and create a story that can appeal to moviegoers. Even though the occasional Brokeback Mountain is made, not enough movies capture some of the main elements that bring in an audience. When is the last time a movie like Gigli occupied your thoughts weeks later? And I understand that a movie is a place for escape, but in order for audiences to feel impacted by a story, it needs to touch them in one form or another.

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ovin’ Out is famed choreographer/director Twyla Tharp’s high energy dance tribute to the ’70s-’80s pop music icon Billy Joel. Although it’s labeled a musical, it functions more as an expressive collection of dance interpretations of Joel’s music and lyrics. Using 24 of Joel’s tunes and a cast of more than 30 dancers, Tharp creates a passionate tale of working class life in 1960s Long Island, N.Y., focusing on the typical personal romances, various dramatic social changes and the realities of Vietnam.

With its loosely def ined nar rative, wh ich is in itia l ly diff icult to follow since there is no character dialogue, we are introduced into the l ives of Brenda and Edd ie, the

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popular king and queen of the high school prom; James and Judy, the serious couple ready to tie the knot; and their best friend Tony.

Tharp’s dancers tell the story with mostly Tharp’s trademark sensual dance style and of course Joel’s lyrics. Broad arm movements, twisting and twirling pirouettes, running and stopping in slow motion, and soft-stroking hands wiping across heads and faces express a myriad of emotions as these young people feel heartbreak, death and a revival of life spirit in a decade of troubled times.

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Brenda and Tony are played by Tony-nominated and original cast members Elizabeth Parkinson and Keith Roberts in one evening’s cast. The Tony Award-winning Tharp’s Movin’ Out continues on its limited return engagement at Chicago’s Auditorium Theater at 50 E. Congress Parkway until July 9.

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t is hard to imagine Anne Hathaway in any role besides Princess Mia in The Princess Diaries. However, after a smal l part in Brokeback Mountain, that view may have shifted a little. Hathaway returns to the big screen this summer in The Devil Wears Prada as Andy Sachs. Andy is the assistant to Runway Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly, played

by Meryl Streep.

The film is based on the novel of the same name

by Lauren Weisberger, a journalist who once worked as the assistant to the notorious editor-in-chief of Vogue Magazine, Anna Wintour. Where the book itself was overly filled with references to different designers and labels, sometimes overwhelming the actual story, the film focuses more on the plot.

The main character Andy is a budding journalist who receives a job at THE fashion magazine, which turns out to be a world very much unlike her own.

She unwittingly agrees to work for Miranda, who is feared by everyone, inside the office and out. Over time, Andy becomes someone she is not without even realizing it.

Anne Hathaway surprises us with a convincing performance, and even though it is not much of a stretch from some of her former characters, it is a big step. The supporting cast is also strong with the always wonderful Meryl Streep, Adrien Grenier of Entourage fame and brief appearances

by Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum and even the designer Valentino himself.

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these prove to be trivial and actually strengthen the storyline. The fi lm may not be life changing, but it is certainly enjoyable. If you are looking for an entertaining way to spend your Friday or Saturday night, this would be it.

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Directed by Bryan Singer, this movie brings an emotionally crafted f ilm that places the Man of Steel in the present day. The franchise has been rediscovered yet still has a touch of nostalgia to it.

Superman returns to Earth after a five-year disappearance and finds that things have changed. Lois Lane loses her faith in the Man of Steel and moves on with her life. Meanwhile, villain Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) is plotting to create his own continent.

Br yan Singer and screenwriters Michael Doughert y and Dan Harris adapted much of the material from the original Superman comic books and have made sure to use the first two Superman fi lms as serious back story to the plot.

Brandon Routh may look like Christopher Reeves, but he def initely cannot act like him. Reeves made Superman his own by adding comical remarks and becom ing the mild-mannered alter ego Clark Kent. Routh does a great job as Brandon Routh as

Superman but cannot fi nd his character for Clark Kent. Kate Bosworth also fails to make Lois Lane her own character, but fortunately Kevin Spacey turns Lex Luthor into a manic genius.

Aside from the acting, the praise in this f ilm goes to the emotional plot and directing that packs a punch just as hard as the man in the red cape. The f ilm’s romantic love triangle, the son of Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor are all equally signif icant to each other in the plot and produce ample material for the sequel.

The movie’s story, visual effects and action are worth seeing and ultimately leaves audience members anticipating the next f ilm.

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he Summer Studio Theatre Company’s production of The Matchmaker is an ideal play for a lazy summer evening. Thornton Wilder’s effort is a delightful farce that’s probably best known for its musical adaptation Hello, Dolly. Those fascinated with the original sources of their favorite stage stories should note that when The Matchmaker was originally staged in 1938, it was called The Merchant of Yonkers. After a failed fi rst production, Wilder waited 16 years to rewrite and re-title the play into the success that inspired Jerry Herman to make one of the 1960s’ greatest musicals.

In the present Krannert production, director Peter R. Reynolds skillfully leads a cast of more than a dozen actors in capturing the right comedic spirit of this tale. The play’s protagonist, Horace Vandergelder, a gruff and stingy Yonkers shop owner, wishes to control the lives of his young niece and two shop workers when suddenly he decides it’s time to hire the services of local matchmaker Dolly Levi for his possible return to the world of matrimony. This is also an innocent tale of romance as the two young shop hands, Cornelius and Barnaby, seek love and adventure in a single night in the big city of the 1880s – and fi nd it with a simple hug and kiss.

The production’s f iner points are in the way Reynolds cast his leads. Steven M. Keen and Anne Shapland Kearns, Celebration Company regulars, are near comic perfection as Horace and Dolly. Keen’s blustered anger and curmudgeonly manner are realized early in the play as he exclaims, “99 percent of people are fools.� Kearns’ patient, elegant demeanor embodies her character with strength and conf idence. She hits the perfect cadence as she states, “I’ve always been a person who arranges things,� as she begins to set her sights on Horace as her own.

Reynolds guides the rest of his cast with more physical, broader slapstick performances.

Ja me s Ku h l , M at t hew Hut ch i n son , S a r i Sanchez and Abbey Smith are especially high energ y as the young love interests. Jef frey Baumgartner is wonder fully funny in two roles, f irst as Horace’s barber, Joe, and then as the mannered head waiter, Rudolph.

T he Matchmaker r uns in reper tor y unti l July 30 at the Krannert Studio Theater. For ticket information and reservations, contact the Krannert ticket off ice at 333-6280 or go online at KrannertCenter.com.

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Local H, North Atlantic Canopy Club, 8pm, $10 in advance/$12 Unfinished Buisness Memphis on Main, 8:30pm, $4 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 Mad Mardigan, Mad Science Fair, Triple Whip Iron Post 9pm, cover The Delta Kings Phoenix 9pm, free Quadremedy White Horse Inn, 10pm, free

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The Fourth of July is long over with its cheap Old Navy T-shirts and wild, fanatical cheers for freedom. Today, we are ready to accept and embrace the ways that we are not truly independent and free. FOR INSTANCE: At Subway I always get the Pizza Sub, mainly because the marinara sauce acts as a replacement for mayo’s lubricating duties. I went the other day to a place that, for one thing, didn’t have the Pizza Sub on its two-bit menu, and for another thing, refused to put marinara on my Italian sub. We as a people are not free. Though, that truly is a glaring travesty, some entrapments hurt sooo good. We are chained and enslaved by the power of rock, each and every one of us, and there is no better master. Hail ROCK AND ROLL! Priests, rabbis and reverends are known by such words because they speak out their interpretation of their god. The name for the men who have been beseeched by higher powers to dole out the power of rock are simply called Kings ... or The Delta Kings, more specifically. Formed in Champaign in 1993, The Kings traveled around playing the old rock classics with a new flare. After beginning to write their own songs, a small fan base developed and so did their first album in 1997, “Damn Thing Bites.� Taking the best from the bests of every incantation of rock and blues, The Delta Kings regularly tour across Illinois, and their fans and press say that the jump from bar band to beyond may come very soon. Save your soul at the hands of The Delta Kings and by the power of rock. —Brian McGovern

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SAT. JUL 8 Live Bands WEFT Fundraisers: Weapons of DisFUNKtion, Chris Reyman Trio Iron Post, 1pm, cover Shades of Blue: the Prairie Dogs, the Bankester Family band, the Kati Penn Band, Hard Ryde Crystal Lake Park 3pm, free Shadows of Doubt Alto Vineyards, 7:30pm, $3 Billy Galt Pages for All Ages 8pm, free No Secret Fat City Saloon 8pm, cover Drop Q, Family Groove Company Canopy Club, 8pm, $6 Playerz Memphis on Main 8:30pm, $4 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 BANG Tommy G’s, 9:30pm, cover Piglet, Baby, Hyde, Bear Country Iron Post, 10pm, cover Party For Nate Jones: Animate Objects, Brother Embassy, Beat Kitchen Cowboy Monkey 10pm, $5 The Amazing Killowatts Mike & Molly’s, 10pm, cover DJ DJ Bozak Soma, 8pm, free DJ LNO Nargile, 9pm, free before 10pm DJ White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free DJ Naughty Boy Joe’s Brewery, 10pm, cover DJ Tim Williams Highdive 10pm, $5 Stitches: DJ Rickbats, DJ Kannibal Independent Media Center, 10pm, $2 DJ Mertz Boltini, 10:30pm, free Dancing Tango Crash Course and Dance Phillips Recreation Center 7:15pm, $10 Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s 9pm, free Film Film: “Duck Soup� (1933) Virginia Theatre, 1pm and 7pm, $5 Movie Night at the Farm: Madagascar Prairie Farm 8pm, free

SUN. JUL 9 Live Bands Leigh Meador Organ Trio Iron Post, 7pm, free Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Mad Science Fair, Deconstructing Jim, The Dolphins Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, cover Concerts Starlight Musical: Jericho Missionary Baptist Church Douglass Park, 6pm, free Concerts in the Parks: Decatur Park Singers Hessel Park 6:30pm, free

Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 9pm, free

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MON. JUL 10 Live Bands Fuedin’ Hillbillies Rose Bowl Tavern, 6pm, free MRS Trio Iron Post, 6pm, $2 Michael Davis Bentley’s Pub 7pm, free Open Mic Nargile, 9pm, free Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Finga Lickin The Office 10:30pm, free DJ Jazz Mondays Nargile, 8pm free DJ Delayney Barfly 10pm, free Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 9pm, free Lectures / Discussions Mystery Discussion Group [The Mystery Discussion Group will discuss the book “Naked in Death� by J. D. Robb.] Borders, 6pm, free

TUE. JUL 11 Live Bands Billy Galt Blues Barbecue 11:30am, free Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Eclectic Theory Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, $3 Larry Gates and Jason Greenlee White Horse Inn 9:45pm, free DJ Subversion: DJ Evily, DJ Twinscin Highdive, 10pm, cover DJ Hoff, DJ Bambino Mike & Molly’s, 10pm, free DJ Tremblin BG Barfly, 10pm free Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s 9pm, free Film Lucky Number Slevin Virginia Theatre, 7pm, $2 Miscellaneous Zoo Theatre Company’s Boltini Bingo and Lounge Variety Show Boltini, 7pm, free Meetings Alzheimer’s Support Group Carle Arbours, 7pm, free Awake & Aware Support Group Carle Hospital, 7pm, free

WED. JUL 12 Live Bands Grass Roots Revival Kickapoo Canoe Landing, 5:30pm free Irish Traditional Music Session Bentley’s Pub, 7pm, free Kayla Brown and Mike Ingram Silvercreek, 7pm, free Darrin Drda, Amber Rubarth Aroma Cafe, 8:30pm, free Andrew Edwards Iron Post 9pm, cover Fuedin’ Hillbillies Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Adam Wolfe Fat City Saloon 9pm, free Soultro Joe’s Brewery 10pm, cover

Pour la Victoire: French Posters and Photographs of the Great War [Graphically charged, lushly colored lithographic posters from World War I vividly depict the place of women in the war effort, the need for personal sacrifice on the home front and the position of French colonial subjects.]

Krannert Art Museum through July 30 Designing Experiences: How Graphic and Industrial Design Shape Daily Life [Design is less about generating products than it is about creating experiences through products that satisfy functional, as well as spiritual, cultural, social, tribal and emotional needs.

This exhibition profiles everyday products and solutions to visual communication problems created

by UIUC Graphic and Industrial Design Alumni, and includes information about the designers, the design process and history of the products.]

Krannert Art Museum through July 30

computer-generated 3-D imaging to old-fashioned wood. Historic math-art videos, such as Edwin Abbott’s Flatland and Charles and Ray Eames’ “Powers of 10� are also on display.]

Krannert Art Museum through July 30 Rain Forest Visions [This exhibition focuses on artistic representations by contemporary South American indigenous people of ecological, mythical and cosmic spirit forces in their lives.

The focal people whose myths and narratives provide the basis for the imagery are the Canelos Quichua of Amazonian Ecuador.

Complementary artifacts come from the Achuar, Tigua and Chachi of Ecuador, the Shipibo-Conibo of Peru, the Waounam and EmberĂĄ of Colombia and Panama, the Tukuna of Colombia and Brazil, and the Yekuana of Venezuela.]

Spurlock Museum through Aug. 20

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whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject the realities of life, which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, and intensified by the earthy and extremely “normal� young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic selfdelusion and, in the end, to madness.]

Grissom Hall, July 7-9, 14-16 8p.m., Sunday performances at 2p.m., $10

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Charley’s Aunt [Jack Chesney and Charley Wykeham, two undergraduates at Oxford University, are in love — Jack with Kitty Verdun, ward of Stephen Spettigue the Oxford solicitor, and Charley with Amy The Matchmaker Spettigue, the solicitor’s niece.

[Life should be an adventure or However, neither knows quite so believes matchmaker Dolly how to express his love and his Gallagher Levi. With bravado (hopeful) plans for the future to Shannon Batman and spirit, the wily Dolly spreads his girl — until Jack comes up [Shannon Batman is a graduate of adventure from Yonkers to New with a plan: It just so happens The University of Illinois with a BFA York City as she goes about that Charley’s aunt, a wealthy in Painting (1991) as well as an MA finding just the right mate for widow from Brazil (“where the CALCUL*RT in Art Education (1997). Batman’s the penny-pinching Horace nuts come from�) is visiting [Features an array of media oil paintings reveal her particular Vandergelder, his overworked that very day. So, why not have exploring the boundaries between interest in color and composition, clerks, his timid niece and a a luncheon for the girls and mathematics and art, from the attempting to explore communication pair of “wicked� hat makers. A Charley’s aunt? Surely during the Dead Guilty 3-D wonders of the CANVAS, and shared emotions.] comedic farce from a Pulitzer afternoon each boy could sneak [When John Haddrell dies at the which displays new mathPages for all Ages through July 31 Prize-winning playwright, a few moments alone with his wheel of his car from a heart driven processes, to InternetThornton Wilder’s 1954 classic girl to express his sentiments. attack, the woman beside him driven art pieces developed Reflections: Traces of Nature and the immensely successful Charley has reservations but is not his wife, Margaret, but by collaborations between [Works by Cheryl Holz, Mary musical it inspired, “Hello, Dolly,� finally consents (partly because he graphic designer Julia Darrow.

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Krannert Center’s Studio Theatre, July 8 8p.m., $18

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Builder’s Association and dbox: Super Vision A multi-layered production exploring privacy and surveillance in our post-9/11 world, advanced digital animation, new video techniques, and the technologies of surveillance itself are used to tell the intertwining tales of three different people caught in a world where human lives are often reduced to data.

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Einstein and the Polar Bear 7pm, $10-$15

Summer Jazz Festival 2006 7:30pm, $7-$12

Friday-Saturday, October 6-7 at 7:30pm Tryon Festival Theatre

We Jul 5 Einstein and the Polar Bear 7:30pm, $10-$18

Einstein and the Polar Bear 7:30pm, $10-$18

Flex: $26 / SC & Stu 21 / UI & Yth 13 Single: $28 / SC & Stu 23 / UI & Yth 15 Talkback after the October 6 show, free

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DBR & THE MISSION Shattering and reshaping musical boundaries into something fresh, new, and exciting, DBR—Daniel Bernard Roumain—& THE MISSION blend modern classical music, jazz, and hip-hop into a rich musical mosaic in the clubstyle setting of the Studio Theatre.

Summer Jazz Festival 2006 7:30pm, $7-$12

Thursday-Saturday, October 12-14 at 7:30pm Studio Theatre

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Flex: $26 / SC & Stu 21 / UI & Yth 13 Single: $28 / SC & Stu 23 / UI & Yth 15

Illinois Summer Youth Music 11am, free

Th Jul 6 Krannert Uncorked with Reverend Robert 5pm, free Dead Guilty 7:30pm, $10-$18

Dead Guilty 7:30pm, $10-$18

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On behalf of our community, we thank you.

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

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Intermezzo serves fresh-baked breakfast goods, light and healthy lunches and dinners, vegetarian and nonvegetarian fare, decadent dessert treats, and Krannert Blends coffee. Intermezzo is open 7:30am to 3:30pm on nonperformance weekdays, 7:30am continuously through weekday performances, and on weekends from 90 minutes before until after performances.

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New apartment building near John and First. Just opened, 1 BR, unfurnished, but includes W/D, dishwasher, stove, refrigerator, $700/month, available fall. Call 356-1407.

Beautifull 910 sq ft 2 BR 1 BA. Spacious 1 car garage nice neighborhood 2303 S Anderson, $670/mo.

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The clitoris!

It’s hard not to get excited about the clitoris.

But as the only human body part whose sole purpose is pleasure, the clitoris somehow gets overlooked in anatomy classes. Even in this day and age of easily accessible sex information, a surprising number of people don’t know where the clitoris is or how intricate it is.

Many of the pelvic models we as sex educators purchase for demonstration purposes don’t have the clitoris included!

How did you get a clitoris? During fetal development, before a fetus differentiates into male, female or otherwise, it has a bundle of nerve endings between its legs. If the fetus has an XY chromosomal makeup, it is exposed to testosterone, which helps the bundle of nerves develop into a penis. If the fetus has XX chromosomes, it is exposed to estrogen, which helps this bundle of nerves to develop into a clitoris.

Like the penis, the clitoris is made of erectile tissue that contains blood vessels and spongy tissue. How do you find it? Parts of it are internal and can’t be seen, but the glans (or head) is located just below where the folds of the inner vaginal lips meet. For those not familiar with vulva geography, that’s above both the vaginal and urethral (where urine comes out) openings.

During sexual arousal, the clitoris becomes erect as blood fills the erectile tissue and blood vessels. The glans of the clit is one of the most sensitive parts of the body, and for this reason, it has its own protection. The clitoral hood is a small piece of skin that partially covers the glans. If the clitoris gets over stimulated (like during sex), the erect clitoris may retract under the clitoral hood to shield it from further stimulation. How cool is that?

The glans and clitoral hood are visible to the eye, but it doesn’t end there. The glans is connected to the shaft of the clitoris, which runs up to the pelvic bone. The shaft feels firm like a ligament, and many women masturbate by stimulating the shaft, not the glans. You can think of the glans as the head of the clit and the shaft as the body.

The clitoris also has “legs� called crura, which extend from the pelvic bone down on each side of the inner walls of the vaginal canal. This part of the clitoris is sometimes stimulated during vaginal penetration. Please note: the vast majority of women only experience orgasm when there is direct clitoral stimulation. So, how do you get direct clitoral stimulation?

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For starters, manual (hands) or oral stimulation can provide direct and consistent attention to the clitoris, which is usually needed for a woman to orgasm. This requires a bit of communication between a woman and her partner. You’ll need to inform your partner where to touch you, what feels good and what doesn’t, the amount of pressure needed, etc. Lots of couples incorporate sex toys into vaginal penetration so there is more direct stimulation for the clitoris. There are handy little vibrators that can be attached to a finger or tongue and larger hand-held vibrators. There are also vibrators a woman can strap on over her clit and wear dur ing sex play. Vibrating cock r ings can be attached to a penis or dildo and contain a small bullet vibrator on top of the ring, which stimulates the clitoris during thrusting. We recommend www.blowfish.com for more detailed descriptions of these types of toys.

Some people report that receiving oral sex from someone with a tongue ring enhances clitoral stimulation. Stay tuned for an upcoming column on piercings and sex.

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Don’t be afraid to explore! Get down with your clit. See what type of stimulation turns you on, and then talk with your partner about how he or she can do it.

Porn images of female genitalia do not portray the actual human diversity of the clitoris or vulva, so don’t compare what you have to industry standards.

The glans of some women’s clitorises are barely visible while others may be quite long.

The clitoris consists of the glans (which you can see) as well as internal parts such as the shaft and legs (also called the crura).

Incorporating sex toys can increase stimulation to the clitoris For great medical diagrams and indepth explanation of the clitoris, check out “A New View Of A Woman’s Body� authored by the Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers.

Kim Rice and Kate Ruin are professional sex educators. Send your clitoris questions to riceandruin@yahoo.com and we’ll answer them in buzz.

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free will astrology JUL. 06 — JUL. 13 ARIES

March 21 – April 19

Three years before Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code came out, my book The Televisionary Oracle was published. In it, I riffed extensively on Mary Magdalene’s role as Jesus’s consort, collaborator, and co-creator of Christianity--similar in ways to Brown’s themes. Sales of my tome are approaching 10,000, while Brown’s have topped 61 million. Why the contrast? His work is a linear detective story, while mine is an experimental blend of magical realism, prophetic philosophy, and oracular poetry. His characterizations and plot hew to established conventions of mainstream fiction, while mine spring from my muse and real life. The difference between our approaches is comparable to the choice you have ahead of you, Aries. You can opt for greater popularity and loyalty to convention, or you can choose to be more of a secret as you rigorously follow the promptings of your inner voice.

SCORPIO

Oct. 23 – Nov. 21

S AG I T TA R I U S

Nov. 22 – Dec. 21

Like a bird, you seem to have the ability to defy gravity lately. You’re acting with the expansiveness that comes from having a wideranging, high-in-the-sky view of life. Sometimes you remind me of a thunderbird, which among Native Americans was a mythical raptor that carried messages between spiritual beings. Its eyes unleashed lightning and its enormous wings beat so hard that they spawned storms. But sometimes, Scorpio, you’re more like a nightingale--a small, graceful songbird that sings beautiful, complicated songs at night when no other bird is singing. Congratulations on your versatility. Only you could pull off being half-thunderbird and half-nightingale.

T A U RU S

April 20 – May 20

Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can the buggers is to use a larger can. So says Zymurgy’s First Law of Evolving Systems Dynamics. I urge you to keep that in mind during the coming week, Taurus. You or someone close to you may suffer from a blissful mania or temporary insanity that leads them to think that liberating the canned worms is a wise idea. Maybe it will ultimately prove to be the right thing to do, but it could cause a ruckus in the short run. In any case, make it your job to have a barrel-size can on hand for the re-containment.

A garbage strike turned out to be a lucky break for two people in Illinois. Brother and sister Ezekiel and Karen Garnett had bought a lottery ticket but then carelessly thrown it out. Many days later they heard that the winning $10.5 million ticket remained unclaimed. Was it theirs? They sifted through two weeks’ worth of trash, which remained uncollected outside their house because sanitation engineers had walked off the job. Voila! They found the precious ticket. Now I predict you’ll be visited by a comparable sequence, Sagittarius--a glitch that leads to a happy ending. It may be that an asset you’ve neglected or squandered will return to you because of an inconvenience. Or perhaps you’ll realize how valuable a certain experience is only after you’ve lost it, whereupon you’ll recover it against all odds.

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May 21 – June 20

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22 – Jan. 19

AQUA R I U S

Jan. 20 – Feb. 18

Recently a team of a thousand workers spent a week scraping off 600,000 wads of chewing gum that had become bonded to the surface of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. If you choose to accept it, Gemini, your assignment in the coming week is to carry out a procedure comparable to China’s massive, intricate effort to wipe the slate clean. It may be time-consuming and a bit excruciating--the equivalent of shuffling around for hours on your hands and knees--but in retrospect I think you’ll be very glad you did it. Its surprisingly cathartic effect will make you smarter and wilder and kinder and trickier.

CANCER

June 21 – July 22

LEO

July 23 – Aug. 22

This will be an excellent time--maybe one of the best weeks ever--to try herding cats, coaxing hermits to do karaoke, and getting anorexics to eat veggie burgers with all the fixings. In other words, Cancerian, the once-inconceivable may become likely. The adventures you swore you would never have the courage to attempt are suddenly within your capacity. You can at least partially dissolve the one fear you’ve always believed would hobble you forever.

According to the Bible, the apostle Thomas did not immediately accept the other disciples’ reports that Christ had survived his crucifixion and come back to life in a resurrected body. “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side,” Thomas said, “I will not believe it.” Later Christ appeared in person to Thomas and invited him to put his hand in the actual wound. Moral of the story: The person who doubted was given a special privilege. Let that be your guiding thought in the coming week, Leo. Demand proof. Seek actual evidence to bolster your faith.

VIRGO

Aug. 23 – Sept. 22

July 4, 1776 is generally regarded as the day the 13 American colonies issued the Declaration of Independence, thereby asserting their right to be free of Britain’s rule. But the fact is that only two members of the Continental Congress signed the document on that day. Most of the other 54 men waited until August 2. In a similar way, Virgo, a process you thought was fully climaxed this week will not reach its full ripening until early August. I suggest you reserve making your final conclusions until then.

LIBRA

If you usually wear your baseball cap backwards, this will be a favorable time to turn the peak toward the front. If it’s normally facing forward, I suggest you turn it around. In fact, everything you try in the coming week will have extra luck and grace if you approach it a bit askew or do it the reverse of your customary habit. The cosmic tables have turned, and the best way to capitalize is to flip-flop yourself.

Iran made a strong overture of peace to the United States in the spring of 2003. According to The Washington Post, the Iranians offered to recognize Israel, promised to stop supporting terrorist groups, and asked for diplomatic talks concerning their nuclear technology. Tragically, the Bush administration ignored the proposal, missing a chance to cool down tensions that have led to today’s crisis. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you now have a comparable window of opportunity in your personal life, Aquarius. Peace feelers are appearing. You’ll soon have a fresh opportunity to dissipate simmering stress before it erupts into conflict. Even better, you’ll be in a good position to negotiate pretty favorable terms for yourself. Don’t imitate Bush and company.

PISCES

Feb. 19 – March 20

If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, this would be an excellent time for you to apply for a job as a crocodile trainer, audition for a supporting role in a TV soap opera, or give motivational speeches to five-year-olds. For that matter, it wouldn’t be outlandish for you to use a chainsaw to create sculptures from dead trees, make a home video of yourself entitled “The Dancing Chef” or “The Wise-Ass Guru,” or write a research paper on orca whales and quantum physics. In other words, Pisces, consider trying things you’ve never considered before. Ask yourself if maybe you possess hidden talents that you haven’t even begun to cultivate. Be receptive to the possibility that your destiny is more open-ended than you’ve ever imagined.

Homework: Say “I love you” at least 20 times a day for the next seven days. Report your results to www.freewillastrology.com.

Sept. 23 – Oct.22

Your patron saint for the month of July is Dublin professor James Mays. A few years ago he made a major splash in the literary world. While researching the work of Libran poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Mays discovered 300 previously unknown poems written by the co-founder of England’s Romantic Movement, doubling what had long been thought to be his total output. I predict that in the coming weeks, Libra, you too will make a breakthrough that will give you access to a fresh trove of creative resources that have been hidden from your view.

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SNAPSHOT: MICHAEL POWERS CONTINUED FROM PG. 5 Powers uses other instruments in the perfor mance, such as a bugle hor n, a sliding whistle and a maraca. He also uses a Fisher P r ice phone set a nd mon key puppet to enhance the performance.

For instance, to f ind his pitch, he’ll say to the passers-by at the market, “Just a minute, I have to make a call.” He will pick up the play-phone. “Hey ‘Do,’ this is ‘Re.’ Have you seen ‘Sol?’ I’m down here at the market, and I’m trying to sing. I really need ‘Sol.’ Yeah, well listen, have her call me when she gets in.” He then will hang up the phone, spin the phone dial, which makes a high-pitched noise, to f ind his pitch and then will pick up the play-phone and say, “It’s ‘Sol!’ I found my pitch. Now I can sing.”

“Not everyone likes what I do, but I look forward to it [the Farmers’ Market],” Powers said. “It’s not just a creative venue; it’s also a social venue.”

After being a drummer in a band for several years opening for well-known blues musicians such as John Lee Hooker and Ahmad Jamal, Powers worked as a percussionist in tap and modern dance classes.

As an accompanist, Powers learned to play different instruments and played them alongside percussion instruments. For example, someone gave him a harmonica that he played with a rack — a type of drum. He then began to incorporate more instruments to make it more fun, such as a “shoe shaker,” which is a circular shaker tied to the top of his shoe that shakes as he taps his foot.

A col lect ion of inst r ument s is ca l led a “rig,” and in 1988, Powers decided to use th is r ig on the st reets in Houston. Powers played at the Westheimer Colony Arts Festival, now the Bayou City Art Festival, held biannually. He played twice a year for three years.

Even when there was no organized event, Powers “hit the streets.”

“A ver y important aspect is that it’s like encountering people. A working theory that I had was, ‘Look ridiculous, sound good,’” Powers said. “Don’t take yourself so seriously.”

Once, when Powers played at a natural foods store in Houston, a man came up to him.

The man was older and had a bandage around his head, which Powers said looked as if the man was undergoing chemotherapy. The man approached, looked at Powers and said, “Keep a joyful spirit.”

“I took it as he was really deeply appreciating what I was doing,” Powers said. “It was the heaviest thing.”

In 1988, when he f irst began playing a col lection of instr uments simultaneously, his f irst marriage ended. He referred to his street blues music as “divorce therapy.”

After his second marriage, the “therapy” continued. He sang, “I’ve been married once, I’ve been married twice. One thing I know is might as well love Bridget Bardot.”

Powers doesn’t sing this at the market, but sings it to himself, “therapeutically.” He said the music is lighthearted, but it’s easy to become sad without the music being there to lift him. “I want to be positive,” Powers said. “Being sincere and positive about my

experiences helps me stay positive.”

Powers played in Champaign’s “Hit the Street” festival and has played at Market at the Square in Urbana since May 2001. He recently dropped the harmonica out of the rig and sings instead. He said he tries to do something different with the changing years.

“It occurs to me that I may in fact be peculiar, and I’m not sure why I’m hesitant to say it, but I trust now that God has a plan in ways that make sense,” Powers said. “I see how things have developed in a way that’s quite satisfying. Every single day, I work and play music and that’s great.”

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