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o r m e r Vi c e President Al Gore put it best in an Associated Press article when he said the KerryEdwards ticket combines “John Kerry’s courage and leadership and John Edwards’s inspiring struggle on behalf of middle-class Americans and those working to reach the middle class.” When news leaked about presidential hopeful Kerry’s choice for a running mate, Democrats sighed with relief, and the GOP sharpened its claws ... and with good reason.

Edwards was a distant second place in the uneventful Democratic primaries, but not because the public didn’t like him.

Edwards is a much more likable choice and not a bad face for television either.

His lack of experience in the Washington, D.C., political ring made his bid for president a little less enticing than veteran Senator Kerry’s. However, this is also what makes Edwards such an ideal candidate for vice president and the perfect complement to Kerry.

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6 Q & A with Paul Luu Paul Luu has been the lead program assistant at Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club in Champaign since October 2003. As a program assistant with a background in child psychology, he helps develop ...

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9 Guilty Conscience at Summerfest Guilty Conscience is arguably the Krannert Summerfest’s most lively and satisfying example of summer theater entertainment. It’s a murder mystery ...

Music 10 The many lives of James LaValle For most aspiring musicians the process of mastering an instrument entails the tedium of years of practice. James LaValle, the once Tristeza guitarist and current ...

Calendar 12 Celebrate Food Not Bombs During 1980, a group of friends who were active in the protests against the Seabrook nuclear plant project were searching for a way to make the connection between...

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20 Spider-Man 2: The sequel soars In Spider-Man, director Sam Raimi put the “corn” in “popcorm movie” and left puzzled fans of the comic caught in a web of crummy effects and bland exposition. Well ...

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England, Ivy League elite, Edwards counters beautifully with a working class background and Southern Democrat style.

Kerry has been labeled left wing and Edwards seems to balance out the ticket, bringing it closer to center. For those who choose their president on personality and television appearance, Edwards ups the ante with young children, a nice smile and Kennedy-esque charm.

Not long after Kerry announced his choice, the Bush campaign launched an advertisement capitalizing on the notion that Kerry had approached Republican Senator John McCain to run on the Democratic ticket with him. The informal request was met with a decline from McCain. The real question is how Edwards will fare against incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney. With the heat surrounding Cheney’s ties to Halliburton Corporation, the vice presidential debates could be more interesting than Bush and Kerry’s pot shots.

The Kerry-Edwards ticket is a strong choice for the Democratic Party and may be what Kerry needs to win key votes in swing states that would secure a Democratic victory.

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Chicago Cubs sweep Chicago Sox James Earl Jones is everyone’s hero deep down

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JULY 8 - 14, 2004 | WHO’S YOUR PICK? CUBS OR SOX? OR, IF YOU’RE SMART ... THE CARDINALS.

aseball felt right again this week and it’s not just because the Cubbies swept the shit out of the Sox on the North Side. It should be noted that last week’s column was a diversion from what my regular job is: to deliver the finest in alternative baseball news, all the while allowing each column to ring true with a quip from the real world, or at least the world as I see it.

Now, the 2ON2OUT is a collective of my brother and me, but by no means do we share the same opinions all the time, nor do we agree on what to always write. This week, just like the last, I have taken the time to go out on a limb myself, writing about matters other than just baseball.

See, I can’t be contained to one topic. And just the same, the world is not one-dimensional.

The Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry picked his running mate this past Tuesday. John Edwards, the one primary candidate who lasted and the one that didn’t freak out in Iowa when he lost that ever so important caucus. I assumed that I’d have something more relevant to say about this, but after a couple letters from people about last week’s column—some good constructive criticism from my old man and some rare introverted thought about my own writings—I decided that baseball is really very important, despite the fact that Dubya is a warmonger and Saddam Hussein is calling him out on it.

See, I forgot about the fact that despite the wars being waged right now, it is the simple parts of life that keep us going, and that applies to everyone—even those living in Iraq. For me, I already told you that my cats, chicken, band and girlfriend are what is doing it for me these days. And I imagine that somewhere in Baghdad, some 20-something dude is happy as a clam based on some simplicities that no bomb can ever destroy.

I concede: Bombs can’t wreck the human spirit, and last week I made it seem like everyone in Iraq is miserable over this bullshit occupation. It’s a valid assertion considering that there doesn’t seem to be any order over there and that Whitey is probably on every street corner with assault rifles, just waiting for an excuse to justify shooting off a round. But for me to say that life is no good across the board was unfounded.

Sorry.

Baseball does it for me. And it’s a very simple feeling. It is a feeling that everyone

is capable of, even if it isn’t baseball that does it.

I watched the end of the game on Sunday, the 4th of July, and as the Sox walked in the winning run for my Cubbies, I felt a tremendous sense of pride. Not because of the fireworks and or the hoopla that is Independence Day. No, I felt it because I realized that for that moment, I was an extremely happy American, living free and feeling good enough to actually be at Brothers on campus, a place known for its morons, chicken wing specials, bad music, neon wristbands and most of all, for defacing the best rock venue Champaign may ever know—Mabel’s.

I am very sorry if my column brought any of you down last week, and while I still stand by what I said about not voting for anybody but Kerry, I think that what America needs right now more than anything is a little perspective. I needed it and my guess is that you do too sometimes.

The NL Central is battling right now, and for me, I love it. It keeps me sane. Some people plant fruit trees, others bake pies. I watch baseball.

Simple and good.

Depression over war, breakups with lovers, deaths of friends and family; these things will come and go. But baseball will live on, at least for me, until some nut drops the big one on us. To paraphrase Field of Dreams and the character of Terrance Mann played by vocal God James Earl Jones: “America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been written on a blackboard, erased and has been rewritten again and again. But baseball, this field, this game, has marked the times.”

Next week, back to baseball. We promise.

This year is a doozy for both baseball and the world and both should be acknowledged.

And perhaps I’ll be able to look back on 2004 as the year that Dubya went down, Saddam was executed, and the Cubs won their first pennant in more than 50 years.

Let’s hope so.

Seth Fein is from Urbana and loves his country. He also loves Dreamsicles and horses.

He will feel emasculated when this goes to print, but he knows it’s good for him. He can be reached at sethfein@readbuzz.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two years ago, scientists discovered a secret underground river running more than 800 feet below a Mauritanian town in the Sahara Desert. With a flow rate of 8,450 gallons per hour -- enough to supply the needs of 50,000 people -- it is the biggest unnamed river in the world. I predict that you'll soon make an analogous find in your own domain, Aries. What is the valuable resource that has always been near you, but hidden?

Any day now, you'll know.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I took a long, meandering walk today. After an hour, I found myself in an unfamiliar neighborhood on a wide paved road. In the middle of a long straight stretch there were two street signs next to each other. The one on the right -- the direction from which I had come -- said "Split Drive." The one on the left -- where I was headed -- said "Union Avenue." There was no intersection here and no bend in the road to mark the change -- no apparent distinction at all between Split and Union. Now study all the details I just reported, Taurus.

They're symbols for your life in the coming week.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Golfer Phil Mickelson has had an odd career. During his first 12 years as a pro, the 34-year-old Gemini won 22 tournaments and earned more than $25 million. But because he had never finished first in any of the four major tournaments, sports writers branded him as a loser. When he finally captured the top spot at the Masters last April, they acted as if he had exorcised some terrible ancient curse. I suspect that many of you Geminis will soon be subject to expectations and pressures as absurd as those once directed at Mickelson. Please resist the urge to buy into them. Don't let anyone manipulate you into trying to live up to their pathological standards of success.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): To pump up their volume above the prevailing human din, some nightingales in big cities have learned to unleash 95-decibel songs, matching the loudness of a chainsaw. I'd love to see you make a similar push, Cancerian, because let's face it: If your output remains at its current level, you'll continue to be half-invisible, never making the impact you should. So raise your intensity, please. Whatever you've been doing to express your uniqueness, do it louder. However you've been contributing your beauty to the world, do it bigger.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Dear Dr Brezsny: I need someone to rescue me! My therapist fell asleep during our last session! Even my mother won't return my calls! And the man I love just told me he's not emotionally attached to me and is planning to marry a woman he's known for six weeks! I'm smoking too much and drinking every night and crying myself to sleep. I'm afraid I'll end up as a middle-aged cat lady wearing a housecoat and sponge rollers in my hair, drinking gin straight out of the bottle! I need some bright, wise soul to restore me to health and wholeness

and hope! -Lamed Lioness." Dear Lioness: According to my reading of the astrological omens, there's a special person who'll soon be in a perfect position to rescue you.That person is you yourself!

The same thing's true about a majority of your fellow Leos: They're on the verge of becoming their own saviors. Any minute now, you'll all know exactly how to convert your breakdowns into breakthroughs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I think what you're about to experience is summed up well by the bumper sticker I saw today: If a pig flies, don't criticize it for not staying up long. In other words, Virgo, the most righteous response to the wonders you've been experiencing is delighted gratitude -- even if the wonders don't quite live up to their initial promise or your early expectations.

Ironically, this approach is the only one that will make it possible for the pig to fly again in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your life has brought you many maddeningly inconclusive adventures. On occasion, you've probably been tempted to invest what was left of your battered faith in the doctrine proclaimed by Gertrude Stein: "There ain't no answer.

There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer.That's the answer." But now the time has come for you to suspend your belief in Stein's theory and others like it. During the next five months, I predict that you will be given more precise, definitive answers than you've ever had before.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Each day many of your cells expire and are replaced by others. As long as you live, this relentless process of death and rebirth never abates. Periodically, then, you have a completely new set of flesh and bones that retains none of the same atoms you were composed of earlier. Think back, for example, to the physical body you inhabited in July of 1999.

There is nothing left of that old thing! In a sense, you have reincarnated without having to endure the inconvenience of dying.

Do you realize how free this makes you? In the coming week, Scorpio, take full advantage of this gift. Show how much you appreciate it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Contrary to the orthodox notion that sperm headed towards an egg are in a deadly competition with each other, researchers have discovered they collaborate, often joining together to create a "love train" so as to reach the target faster. Using this as your inspiration, Capricorn, see if there's an area of your own life that you've misjudged as being ahotbed of cutthroat rivalry.The astrological omens suggest that it's a perfect time to awaken and cultivate the cooperative potentials of such a situation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Tjiliwirri is a special language taught to adolescent boys undergoing initiation rites among the Warlpiri tribe of the Australian Aborigines. A speaker uses it to express the opposite of what he pretends to mean. In order to convey the meaning, "You are tall and wise," for instance, a boy might say the Warlpiri equivalent of "You are short and shortsighted." To express a yearning for greater fulfillment, he may declare, "I have no needs." Regard this vignette as instructive about your immediate future, Aquarius. In the coming weeks, I believe you will undergo a kind of initiation that dares you to rise to a new level of maturity.In the course of this rite of passage, you may have to navigate your way through situations that are the opposite of what they seem.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Two years ago, seven-year-old Steven Olson was awarded patent number 6,368,227 for a new method of swinging on a swing. His application said that kids can get bored just moving back and forth on the swing or twisting the swing's chains to make it spin. That's why he invented the technique of swinging side to side. Will he get rich from selling the rights to use his patent? Probably not. Now let's talk about how all of this applies to you. I think you should pull off your own version of Olson's coup in the coming weeks -- but see if you can take it one step further. Dream up an innovation that makes a fun experience even more fun, and meditate on how you might then exploit it to your practical advantage.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Bible's Book of Revelation is one of the world's most notorious advertisements for doom and gloom. Millions of people actually think the wacky yet terrible visions laid down in that ancient text describe future events.

Few of the believers live in Beijing, China, fortunately. When a swarm of locusts like those prophesied in Revelation arrived in the area in 2002, local residents greeted the creatures warmly.

They scooped them up in large bags, deep-fried them, and turned them into the main dish of an enormous feast. I urge you to make a similar reversal of a fearful scenario that someone's trying to foist on you, Sagittarius.

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Here’s an extreme makeover: News of the weird Lead story Exercise and go to counseling!

BY MICHAEL COULTER | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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y grandma had one of those big porches that are about 4 feet off the ground. When I was around 3 or 4 years old, I decided, for reasons still unknown, to jump headfirst over the railing and land face down in a pile of gravel. I stood up with blood pouring down my face and my parents looked on with the piss scared out of them. I have no remembrance of this event and even less of an idea behind my motivation, but I’m sort of glad I did it.

Once the blood was washed away and a few stitches put in, I had a kick-ass scar between my eyes. It’s in a good place really, and sort of hard to see, but for some reason, I like it. I feel it gives me character. Scars: They’re like getting a tattoo, but not knowing what it’s going to look like until afterward. It’s not even necessarily a flaw, just a mistake, just a story. I sort of like it when you can tell something about a person by the way they look.

Apparently, most folks today don’t feel that way so much, at least if you go by some of the shows on television, like Extreme Makeover, The Swan, or the moronically titled I Want a Famous Face. Actually, that’s not fair. You can tell something by looking at the plastic beings that emerge from surgery on these shows. You can tell that they’re sad, pathetic and ugly in a way that no amount of tinkering by plastic surgeons could fix. Someone has screwed these poor people up long before they visited a doctor. Bigger boobs and stronger chins can only mean one thing: bigger and stronger idiots to wear them around.

I watched a few minutes of Oprah the other day—by accident—and she had some guests who had been on these kind of shows. One guy was a radio disc jockey or something. They showed video of him before his surgery. Was he attractive? No, not really, but even a good looking disc jockey is unattractive after a few seconds of hearing their inane morning show chit chat. He wasn’t a zombie or anything, though.

He got the changes made because his wife divorced him and he felt it was because she thought he wasn’t good looking enough. Wow, it sounds like he really let that peach go. He came out after some cheek implants, a bit of liposuction and some hair plugs. The guy was simply ecstatic about the results. He had more confidence, was proud, was ready to face the world as his new self.

Whatever, my guess is he’s only bought himself a few months until something else causes

his world to crash. How many surgeries until they run out of ways to positively reinforce this guy? Was he truly happy? I doubt it. Was he truly a simpleton? You bet ya!

He was made to seem even more idiotic by the next guest. It was a woman who had cancer.

The chemotherapy had messed up her skin and she had a mastectomy. Geez, Louise, the lady had me crying before she even finished her story. She came out and she looked great and happy. God love her, she deserved it. She had been through the ringer and came out on the other side cancer-free. She didn’t get her plastic surgery because she was vain, just because she wanted to look like she had before her disease.

She was the only person on the whole damned show who I didn’t hate.

See, that’s all plastic surgery should be for: helping people, who because of misfortune, have changed. I should point out here that aging shouldn’t be considered a misfortune.

Getting the skin on your face pulled back every few years is just as bad as any other procedure.

It’s hard to be dignified and old when your face looks like a Halloween mask that’s been sewn to your skull.

Robert Redford and Paul Newman still look OK, don’t they? They got wrinkles and I know tons of girls who would jump on them the first chance they got. Hell, I still have the hots for Lauren Hutton. Sure, they were good looking people to begin with, but part of the reason they stayed that way was because they were comfortable enough with themselves to not worry about how they aged. They kept themselves in good shape and let nature do the rest.

I think some of our problems could be cured better with a little work instead of a lot of surgery.

Is it that hard for people to remember the satisfaction of accomplishing something? Do a few hundred situps a day, lift weights, run a couple of miles and see how hard it is to actually get in shape.

Monitor your progress and fight through the desire to quit. When it’s all said and done, you’ll be proud of yourself and feel better about yourself for what you’ve accomplished. You’ll not only look better, but you’ll also be a better person for having pushed yourself. Let’s not kid ourselves; you get out what you put in.

One last question. What’s more attractive: a strong person who has made themselves what they want to be or a weak person with enough money in their savings account to write a check to a surgeon? I think I know the answer.

Michael Coulter is a videographer, comedian and creator of the weekly e-mail column “The Sporting Life.”

A Palm Beach Post writer, making the point that America’s obesity problem is not limited to humans, reported from the Boca Greens Animal Hospital (Boca Raton, Fla.) in June that “Pumpkin,” a 12-pound Chihuahua, was up and moving well after her recent liposuction surgery. However, the 12 ounces of fat she lost still left her among South Florida’s overweight pets, said to be two-thirds of their population. As Pumpkin’s owner was reminded, surgery is not to be a substitute for sensible exercise and a modest number of treats.

More things to worry about (1) Police Sgt. Randall C. Hoover of Muhlenberg Township, Pa., filed a federal lawsuit in April accusing the police department and the police union of civil rights violations because members allegedly teased him for his pituitary-gland tumor that caused him to grow lactating breasts. (2) Nurse Jackie Tvedt held on to her state license even though

she was fired in January from a nursing home in Newton, Iowa, for allegedly providing a reduced level of care to those patients whom God had told her that He would take care of.

No longer weird Adding to the list of stories that were formerly weird but which now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from circulation: (69) The civic-minded drunk who recognizes the danger in trying to drive home but who instead puts his adolescent child behind the wheel, or, as Michael Johnston did in Peachtree City, Ga., in June, got a blind friend to drive (supposedly “guided” by Johnston’s instructions). (70) And the construction worker who is accidentally shot in the head with a nail gun, but who survives just fine (and winds up with a souvenir X-ray, which also appears in newspapers around the world), as happened to Isidro Mejia in Los Angeles in May.

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letters to the editor There are many, many things that upset me in Michael Moore’s latest propaganda. Instead of dwelling upon the deception, which range from half-truths to plain falsehoods; or focusing on his hatred of conservatives, accusing the president, his administration and his supporters of wallowing in their countrymen’s blood for profit; or even examining the man (though he doesn’t deserve the title), who called Americans the dumbest people on earth, compared al-Qaida to the Founding Fathers, cried out for the spilling of American blood, yet claims to be patriotic. Yes, instead of these clear and present facts about Michael Moore, my rage is not against him.

I expect better than the lauding pulp spouted from the nation’s “elite.” Somehow, despite the film and any mask of objectivity, not only the Buzz’s film critic, but the editor sang a paean to it, fawning over “...this troubling, terribly important film.” Even the editorial page (of the Daily Illini) joined in, printing a letter claiming, “We, the people, owe a debt of gratitude to perceptive Michael Moore…” If these views were limited to Champaign County, I’d be less irate, but the rot runs deep.

Thinkers, from Christopher Hitchens rightward, have panned the film as swill and worse. Ten minutes googling the film would prove my accusations, and yet mainstream coverage practically adds “the Great” to Michael Moore without a hint of sarcasm.

My anger, my rage, my righteous indignation comes from being told, as though a child, that Michael Moore is anything other than the anti-American version of Leni Riefenstahl. Another age would have rightly hung him as a traitor; today’s left view him as a beacon.

If there is any contemporary sign clearer than Farenheit 9/11 that liberal hypocrisy has finally overwhelmed its bare grasp of the basics of morality, I have not seen it.

James Sobotka University of Illinois graduate student Champaign resident

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Next Generation opens doors School offers tailored learning in early education

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aper animals and the smell of macaroni line the colorful halls of Next Generation, a school for early education.

Next Generation opened its doors about nine years ago to children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old. Children gather around a carpet for story time before they have lunch. This may seem like an ordinary preschool setting, but the staff at Next Generation believes it offers more.

Barb Sullivan, director of Next Generation, who has been in the early childhood education field for 22 years, feels that the school provides a creative and stimulating learning environment. Learning is individually tailored to fit each child at his or her own level. Sullivan felt it was time to expand that learning environment beyond preschool to elementary and middle school. “This was the ultimate plan to extend it through middle school. And we’ve established a wonderful academic childhood program,� she said. “The parents would like to continue with what we’ve started here for their children’s education.�

The new school will be located at Galen and Lancaster Drive, near Next Generation’s current campus at 1201 W. Windsor Road in Champaign. The school building will be complete in August and ready for the 2004-2005 school year.

For the first year, there will be 85 students in the kindergarten through 4th grade student body. The classes break down into 25 students in kindergarten, 32 in combined 1st and 2nd grade and a maximum of 30 students in a combined 3rd and 4th grade class. Each classroom will have two certified teachers.

Fifth grade will be combined with 6th through 8th for a maximum of 15 students for the 2004-2005 school year. Five teachers will be working with the students by “designing, implementing and teaching the curriculum,� according to the Next Generation Middle School parent packet.

Aside from core subjects like math, science, history and English, Next Generation will offer more to its students. Elementary school students will have lessons in performing arts, Spanish, art and art history. Middle school students will learn French and art history. “The reason we have the two languages is so that the children have a basis of both so when they go on to high school, they can decide which language they like best,� Sullivan said.

For students to attend Next Generation, they

Children play at the Next Generation School. The expansion of the Next Generation school will open in August.

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THE CLEARING ★★★

BY ANDREW VECELAS | STAFF WRITER

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he advertising for The Clearing does the film a great injustice since it depicts the film as a typical suspense film about the abduction of a well-to-do businessman. Audiences going into the film expecting anything along these lines will surely leave the theater disappointed, as many critics apparently did. The Clearing is the only thriller in recent memory that cares less about the kidnapping, and more about its effects on a marriage. It’s an intriguing drama that wears the mask of a typical thriller.

How many other thrillers would devote more screen time to conversations of marriage and infidelity than to an attempt to escape from the kidnappers? Or, for that matter, develop the plot in such a way that the audience already senses the inevitable outcome, even before the dramatic attempted exchange of the ransom? The movie dances around many conventions of the kidnapping genre, more concerned with developing the plights of its characters than manipulating the audience onto the edge of its collective seat.

Robert Redford plays the abducted businessman, Wayne Hayes, being led through the wilderness at gunpoint by his captor. Arnold

DE-LOVELY ★★★

BY ANDREW CREWELL | STAFF WRITER

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ole Porter was a man that few understood, but that many adored for his compositional and musical abilities. Kevin Kline proves he can act anywhere, anytime and any part as he portrays Porter with a Kevin Kline panache that another actor just couldn’t bring to the set.

Cole Porter, while not being well understood even to this day, is portrayed in good light by this recounting of his life. De-Lovely is a flashback revolving around a staging of Porter’s life story for the theater, with an old and ailing Porter watching from the audience. It shows his wife, runs through a bazillion of his greatest hits, and parades a host of musical talent while being suspiciously understated about what everybody is curious about deep down: Porter’s sexuality.

It is taken for granted that cushy period pieces from earlier in the century will be highly acclaimed should they boast a highrent name or two on the marquee. In DeLovely, that is not necessarily the case. As much as the movie is entertaining, it is also puzzling and a bit off base to an extent.

Mack (Willem Dafoe), the man who abducted Wayne and leads him through the forest, insists that he is only a middle-man, hired by a group of men who are waiting in a cottage somewhere up ahead. The two men live vastly different lives, and Wayne’s numerous business successes are contrasted against the streak of failures in Arnold’s personal and professional lives over the course of their journey.

This story takes up less than half the movie, with the other half devoted to Wayne’s wife Eileen (Helen Mirren), and the impact the kidnapping has on her. Their marriage seems happy enough at first, but a revelation about Wayne’s infidelities that surfaces during the investigation opens an old wound for Eileen.

This leads to a few stirring scenes, as she has to confront the problems in her marriage to Wayne for the sake of her family, while aiding in the investigation of the kidnapping.

Wayne’s story develops over the period of a single day, while Eileen’s takes place across a few weeks—this fact is obscured at first since both stories are intercut with each other. Clues start to appear in Eileen’s story that foreshadow the resolution of Wayne’s, so that a sense of inevitability enters the plot. Even though the ending can be guessed by the audience, the way the film works around to it, and explains it, creates a few surprises.

Of the three leads in the film, Mirren is given the most to work with. Eileen ends up with most of the screen time, as well as the most dramatic character arc. When she first finds out Wayne has disappeared, she immediately thinks he has left her. Though her fears turn out to be false, the insecurity remains throughout the ordeal.

Out of 125 minutes, there are about 20 seconds where the characters attempt to dissect the perplexing relationship between Porter, a known homosexual, and his wife Linda, played by Ashley Judd. This gives the audience the opportunity to see how unimportant this distinction was to the Porters themselves, and is rather symbolic. However, the film leaves off in an awkward stance after the first sexual encounter between the two lifelong lovers. One line has Linda saying she knows he likes men more then she does, and the issue is squashed forever.

On another point, the film lets the audience down a bit. Night and Day was the 1946 screen remake of Porter’s biography, which was known to be wildly inaccurate. De-Lovely has been exalted for its candor, however, is sheepishly vague when it comes to telling the cold hard truth. Porter wrote his songs and fueled his work through scorchingly hot homosexual encounters. The film pussyfoots around this fact with G-rated innuendo and smirks from Porter’s pals in life.

Beyond a select couple scenes, though, Kline and Judd are perfect. Kline, despite overacting the stereotypical, limp-wristed, theater-bound homosexual, is still the standard in Hollywood, or anywhere else. Judd also does an admirable job, attacking her role professionally and with much depth. Everyone knows she is a beautiful woman, but occasionally her roles lack depth.

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This is the first directorial effort by longtime producer Pieter Jan Brugge, who also co-wrote the story. He balances the two stories well, and uses the form of a thriller to drive the drama forward. The process works more often than not, and is most successful when the characters take center stage. Sometimes the old suspense conventions pop up distractingly, as in the chase to exchange the ransom, which comes across as tacked on to provide more conflict.

The Clearing sticks out like a sore thumb in the summer movie season because it doesn’t fit into a single genre that can be easily sold to the popcorn crowd. It’s a midsummer recess for more mature audiences who are tired of the typical blockbuster formalities.

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SPIDER-MAN 2 ★★★★

BY MATT PAIS | LEAD REVIEWER

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n Spider-Man, director Sam Raimi put the “corn” in “popcorn movie” and left puzzled fans of the comic caught in a web of crummy effects and bland exposition.

Well, just consider that practice.

Spider-Man 2 is a dynamite summer movie experience, an extravaganza of thrills seamlessly mixed with upbeat, character-driven entertainment. It flies higher and swings smoother than the first, all the while staying more effectively grounded in the conflicted double life of Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire).

The sequel picks up two years after SpiderMan defeated the Green Goblin, and things haven’t been going so well for the soaring superhero or his alter ego. Peter now lives in a run-down apartment and is constantly strapped for cash despite working as both a pizza delivery boy and photographer for The Daily Bugle. His responsibilities as Spider-Man force him to blow off homework and even for-

get his own birthday. The bank is foreclosing on Aunt May’s (Rosemary Harris) house, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) has found a new boyfriend, and his best friend, Harry Osborn (James Franco), still vows revenge against Spider-Man for killing his father.

And if that wasn’t enough for a college kid to handle, Spider-Man must again face an enemy mad scientist corrupted by his own creation. Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) has a concept of fusion that would make even Miles Davis sweat. By harnessing energy from the element Tritium, he can power the four mechanical arms he has attached to his body and linked to his brain functions. When the power of the machine overtakes him, he begins terrorizing New York City and it’s up to Spider-Man to save the day.

From the start of the sleeker credit sequence, it’s clear that Spider-Man 2 has a far greater command of the interlocking lives led by its protagonist, a now-20-something kid forced into a role that breeds more lonely responsibility than glory. The Daily Bugle labels him a menace and, at the conclusion of the first Spider-Man, Peter didn’t even get the girl. He was too committed to the costume, but the original film failed to convince that Peter couldn’t balance a social life with his crime fighting duties. It pigeonholed him as a squeaky-voiced geek coping with newfound vertical abilities, and though it didn’t glorify the hero, it didn’t garner him much sympathy either.

But if Spider-Man was the bones of creator

Stan Lee’s series, Spider-Man 2 is full of meaty satisfaction, a rich buffet of visual pleasures and stirring exchanges. Raimi’s camera tricks and special-effects enhanced images are swifter and more acrobatic. Gone is the impression that Spider-Man can only fly with the greatest of ease on some designer’s computer screen. This time, he’s genuinely heroic, a fearless do-gooder we believe in and root for.

SPIDER-MAN 2 | TOBEY MAGUIRE Written by Alvin Sargent (Unfaithful), the second installment in the wickedness just enough to exist as both a vilseries is twice as emotionally satisfying, lain and a victim.

The fun doesn’t stop there. Blink and you’ll rounding out the characters and trapping the lives of three young innocents within the cir- miss Stan Lee’s appearance in an early action cumstances of a chaotic, comic book world. sequence, and J.K. Simmons’s return as Peter’s His dialogue is like something out of an old hilariously dictatorial boss, fantastically reminisradio program, and the story builds in a cent of old-time, mud-slinging newspapermen.

This elegantly written, dynamically perpatient, confident fashion that knows how to move and astonish. While David Koepp’s formed summer surprise raises the bar for script for Spider-Man appeared desperate to comic-to-screen adaptations. It looks, sounds satisfy, Sargent is less eager to please, and he and feels like a book off the rack every step of consequently provides a slower, subtler and the way, and it’s paced to reveal its best secrets late in the film. It doesn’t want you to merely wholly more fulfilling film.

Now more assured of his tone, Raimi draws watch its hero traverse the Manhattan skyline.

Rather, Spider-Man 2 gracefully swings you splendid storybook performances from Maguire, Dunst and Molina. Maguire no in and out of a fantasy world, from the top of longer makes Spider-Man a run-of-the-mill tall buildings to the bottom of a broken-heartaction hero; this sequel is Peter’s story, and ed young man. If the next installment is this Maguire deepens along with the character. gratifying, the series might just have to steal Dunst is a dignified damsel in distress, and that other high-flying hero’s name. Spider-Man Molina controls the evil Doc Ock’s maniacal 2 is super, man.

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must first pass an assessment evaluation, Sullivan said. Each student must fill out an application and go through a test and evaluation process.

“The student must perform at grade level or higher, and they need to have a willingness to learn and want to be here,” Sullivan said.

If a student is not quite so motivated to learn, Next Generation will provide the stimulating environment to motivate students and make learning fun, Sullivan said.

The educational environment is created by the teachers working at Next Generation, Sullivan said. It is important to have teachers who are committed and dedicated to their job and their students.

“Teachers should want to provide the ultimate learning experience for every child,” she said. “In other words, learning should be fun.

It should be exciting.”

The student to teacher ratio will at least be 15 to one. The teacher can gain a better understanding of the student and get to know each one on a personal level.

“We’re not competing against anyone else; we’re just providing an alternative in the community,” Sullivan said. “Students have the opportunity to be here at Next Generation. This is going to open up their whole world.” buz z

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“Teachers should want to provide the ultimate learning experience for every child. In other words, learning should be fun. It should be exciting.”

– Barb Sullivan, director of Next Generation

CURRICULUM

ADMISSION

Public schools: •Strong basic education system in Champaign-Urbana for education of children/youth.

Pre-school through high school. Public schools have a movement to standardize all education.

Public schools: • Serve all children by providing special education services for kids with special needs. It’s an opportunity for additional tutoring or reading programs.

Private schools: •Provide a more intense curriculum either through private programs or through religious focus or are modified to a more specific area like science or math. Some may modify through project base input through the child. One example is the Montessori Schools.

Private schools: • May not be equipped to provide special education. Admission is selective toward a preference for students with special talents.

COST Public schools: • Low cost because of tax funding.

Private Schools: • Tuition fee paid by student’s guardian.

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Public schools: • Involved parents are of the minority among public school families.

Private schools: • Tend to have a high parent commitment level and intense parent involvement with fund-raising and governance of the school.

Source: Susan Fowler, dean of UI College of Education

Erin Tarr (left) and Judy Dalton (top) work with children at the Next Generation school. Currently, the school only accomdates preschool children.

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Paul Luu has been the lead program assistant at Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club in Champaign since October 2003. As a program assistant with a background in child psychology, he helps develop programs for the children, oversees Boys and Girls Club staffing, volunteers and personally works with club members. As an advocate for the club, he reaches out to the community to draw support for the kids and their development. The Boys and Girls Club is centered around four focuses for the kids: a sense of belonging, a sense of usefulness, sense of power or influence, and a sense of competency. Previously a staff member of East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center, he knows the importance of being an advocate for children.

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Did you have anything like the Boys and Girls Club when you were growing up?

When I was growing up, I was lucky. I was involved in the local church youth group. And it allowed me to have opportunities to go to activities and functions. It was a personal growth. There was the Boys and Girls Club here when I was growing up. It mainly served underprivileged African-American kids, and that’s very difficult to put an Asian in that environment. And I think it would’ve been very difficult for my family to do that. Now we have all these programs for the kids, but we still need to diversify the club population. My intention is, I’ve been working very hard to slowly incorporate other cultures; more Latinos, Asians, whoever. Really diversify and mix it up.

It’s really going to help our kids. I speak to a lot of parents here where they want it more diversified because they know they’re growing up in a country of the world where everyone is not the same so that helps the kids have a basic understanding that there are other people out there. For them to relate and learn about different cultures and different people, that gives them more of an opportunity and an advantage compared to other kids.

What do you want the children to take away from their time at the Boys and Girls Club?

I’d really want them to know and take with them is that the time they’ve spent here, as little or as much, there are people who honestly and truly care for them and want the best for them. If they run into obstacles, and they’re in college or out of college and if the

staff is still here, they are able to come back and utilize the staff.

What is the importance of programs at Boys and Girls Club?

Sense of belonging—they’re always welcome here. We have an open door policy. We do not discriminate between age, gender, religion; we don’t discriminate against any kid. The kids can come in and out whenever they want. A lot of organizations, you have to be there at a certain time; they take attendance. If you missed so many days, you get kicked out of the organizational program. But we don’t do that. We know that the kids have very hectic lives and if they want to go back and forth our doors are always open. And the staff feels like we’re all family. I want them to know that they are useful. The programs here encourage them to develop their skills, and to make them feel they are useful not just in this club but also in the community, all over. I want them to take away the fact that they have influence. They influence positively in their family’s lives, friends’ lives, and they influence society.

What makes up a good education?

The child has to be engaged and active. And we must find ways to be creative to interact and get the child to participate because every child learns differently at a different pace. You also need a very strong staff that also understands the overall goals of the organizations. You need the community to support the programs or educational process. The community people need to support the kids in what they’re doing.

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If it’s hip-hop dance, if it’s ballet, if it’s learning to build a computer, they should support it. We need it to encourage kids in their creativity and their self esteem. So community support is important and parent support.

What are your goals for the club?

More parental involvement and not just chaperoning, but parents who come in and say, “Hey, I’d like to supervise a group of kids” or say “I’ve got a cooking skill” or “I’d like to teach kids to sew.” It’s about being proactive and interactive. Parents can be great models.

And to do that, parents should be engaged in their kids’ lives. And also working with the community. If the community helps us and advocates for us, we’re helping and supporting these kids.

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807/809 W. Illinois-U F 1bdrm. $525-$560 Water pd. Large units at corner of Lincoln and Illinois. Laundry on site. Parking available.

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Boutique downtown loft 1 BR apartment, exposed brick, twelve-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, free parking for 2 cars. $550. Contact ASAP, will go quickly. (217)841-4549.

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Quiet 1 and 2 BR, close to campus, 704 W. Nevada St., U. Most utilities, parking. Laundry, hardwood floors.

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710 S. Walnut, U 1 bedroom apartments near shopping and buslines. Rent $400/mo includes trash, sewer, recycling, and off-street parking.

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1 of 4 bedroom apartments. Furnished.

University Commons Apts. $405 includes utilities. 8/20/04 08/07/05. 217-714-2736.

800 W. Church, C. Available now and through summer.

Economical 2 BR. $450/mo.

352-8540, 355-4608 pm, weekends. www.faronproperties.com

2 br $455/mo, furnished, faces Green and First. Pets allowed. 7785392.

Huge luxury one bedroom, C. W/D in unit. Central A/C. Available August. 390-2480.

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5 & 6 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory, Large Bi-level with 2 bath $1500- $1800, parking available.

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JULY 8 - 14, 2004 | "LIFE SUCKS. GET A ***KING HELMET, OK?"

Conceptual artist at Parkland

BY KATIE RICHARDSON | ARTS EDITOR

Hunter S. Thompson paired with Richard Nixon, Kirshner paired with Adolf Hitler, and Shasta Kovitch paired with Joseph Stalin. Thompson painted an unflattering everal differently assembled pieces portrayal of Nixon in his book Fear and make up the conceptual art of Scott Loathing on the Campaign Trail. Kirshner ’s Mitchell. Showing at Parkland’s main art French influences irritated Hitler ’s purist gallery, the pieces unite under one common German ethics.

Stalin increasingly tightened restrictions theme: the influences of capitalism and the resulting danger to democracy. The collec- on composing, and Composer Kovitch subtly rebelled. All of these scenarios were tion is aptly named Invectives.

Mitchell, who has a B.A. in painting from explored while Mitchell conducted the year Western Illinois University, an M.A. from of research that went into the work, which Eastern Illinois, and an M. F. A. from San takes up an entire wall of the exhibit.

“Artists get the brunt of political leaders.

Francisco Art Institute, currently teaches at Danville Area Community College. At the I wanted to convey the sense of oppression, opening of his exhibit on Thursday, July 1, the way in which political leaders feel he defined conceptual art as “when the idea threatened by artists. I also wanted the piece behind the artwork precedes or is more to have an overview of artists: playwrights, important than the medium in which the writers, visual artists, composers, et cetera,” Mitchell said. artwork manifests itself.”

In the middle of the gallery is a piece titled The exhibit features several deceptively simplistic works of art with a strong politi- Appropriations from Creative Capitalism. This cal message. The largest of these works is a piece contains several different commercial piece titled Versus. This piece includes the items which market themselves under the paired photos of several different artists names of artists: Rembrandt Toothpaste, Da throughout the 20th century coupled with Vinci Pasta, Monet Jewelry.

“The first brand name I noticed was Da their politically powerful nemesis.

These include, but are not limited to, Vinci Pasta. I started thinking that maybe there was enough stuff out there to make a display out of. This seems to be another one of capitalism’s way[s] to sublimely get us: Equate products with artists to sell stuff.

As the piece progressed, I was amazed with how much stuff was out there.

At first I just shopped around town for it, but there were also numbers of items on the Internet. It was like a scavenger hunt or a mystery I needed to solve,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell also creates what he calls letter-writing pieces. He says these are always interesting, because he never knows how they are going to turn out. One of these pieces, currently showing at Parkland, is a series of correspondence with the Nike Corporation.

“Last year, I heard that Nike was giving LeBron James a $90 million endorsement deal. He was straight out of high school.

I also knew that Nike (allegedly) had sweatshops in Third World countries. There was such John Doe Memorial focuses on conceptualization rather than beauty.

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an absurdity to the situation. I decided to write a letter to Nike suggesting that they endorse a worker in one of these sweatshops for $1 million,” Mitchell said.

Nike’s reaction was to forward his letter to several different corporate departments. Each time they did this they sent him a letter, which was most likely a form letter.

All of these responses can be seen (and read) in Invectives, and serve as a homage of the inscrutable management of public relations in corporations.

“I have this idea that I am trying to help people through art. The best scenario would have been if they had agreed to do the $1 million commercial with the Nike sweatshop worker.

But I knew they probably wouldn’t do that,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell has been influenced by the writings of George Orwell, Appropriations from Creative Capitalism by Scott Mitchell. His exhibit Noam Chomsky and the Invectives will be on display at Parkland until August 5th. political art of Goya, among others. “It’s scary how many things on. Basically, though, I’m trying to get peofrom 1984 are starting to come true. The apathy ple to think. You don’t see a lot of things of people is one of the things that is so scary. these days that make you think. If you can’t People feel like they’re not empowered. (Just get that from art, where are you going to get like) there is that mantra (from !984) ‘Freedom it from? You’re certainly not going to find it is slavery,’ we now have ‘The Patriot Act’ and on TV. It’s possible for art to inform people, though, without being didactic and keeping ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom,’” Mitchell said.

Mitchell’s first overtly political pieces a sense of humor. I think (Michael) Moore’s were abstract paintings of homeless peo- movie (Fahrenheit 9/11) proved this beautiple. He wanted to convey the feeling of fully, “ Mitchell said.

The most important work in the collecbeing homeless through the medium so the pieces were oblique and dark. After three tion, to Mitchell, is the piece titled Four years, the subject matter eventually began Freedoms Revisited. This work revisits the to dishearten him, but he returned to polit- Norman Rockwell series of the same name. ical pieces when he studied at San The four freedoms depicted are speech, F r a n c i s c o A r t I n s t i t u t e , f o c u s i n g o n worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. The piece, which bears gold-platabstract work about the environment.

Although he wants to send a message, he ed oil cans and dinner plates with the does not harbor idealistic thoughts about Constitution and the Bill of Rights written the effect his work may or may not have. “I on them, is both a comment on American don’t have illusions that my work is going decadence as well as a sad reminder of the to change the world. Maybe I just do it for chasm between Rockwell’s perception of 1940s America and the current danger myself,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell wants everyone who does view which Mitchell feels democracy is in. buzz his work to be able to get something from it, though. “With some of my pieces, you need Scott Mitchell’s work will be on display to be up on your art history to get them, but through July at the Parkland Art Gallery. for the most part, I try to make it so that All works are available for sale. Price listeveryone can understand what’s going ing is available at the exhibit.

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"LIFE DOESN'T IMITATE ART, IT IMITATES BAD TELEVISION." | JULY 8 - 14, 2004 buzz

ARTIST’S CORNER

BY KATIE RICHARDSON | ARTS EDITOR

to create is a very strong part of who I am, it is in everything I do, it is viable.

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ancy McClellan-Hickey is a mother, a mosaicist, and the executive director of PACE, Inc., a Center for Independent Living, which serves people with disabilities in their efforts to maintain or achieve independence in the community. She has created a collection of mosaics and jewelry made from stained and fused glass. If you are interested in purchasing her work, she takes part in the Market at the Square in Urbana, Taste of Champaign and Arts in Central Park this September 18 and 19 in Decatur. Her phone number is 367-7617.

Stained glass artist Nancy McClellan-Hickey.

Why do you prefer mosaics as your chosen medium?

I have been strangely drawn to mosaics all my life; they are a symphony of tesserae.

Tesserae is the term for pieces used to make a mosaic. Amazingly captivating works are one tesserae at a time. You can be creative with line, color and composition. You can find other dimensions of choice and creativity in the type of tesserae you use and what you mosaic on. I ratify my Scotch heritage stereotype with my thriftiness. I do not like it when people throw useful things away. In mosaics, so many things are useful. That theme has been ingrained in me and in my life’s work. I work alongside many perfectly capable people who happen to have disabilities and whose worth has, at times, been sorely underestimated until they establish otherwise in all sorts of creative advocacies. Another example: I had my daughter save pennies as a lesson in life that nothing is worthless. We just bought her a car with a down payment that included several hundred dollars of pennies. I was going to throw away a talent, because my parents did not consider it a viable career alternative (I hear that from many artists). So, I followed my other passion on to college—psychology. Later in life, I accepted that the need

What is a mosaic and what do you strive to achieve in creating them?

A mosaic is a grouping with few rules. It can be tesserae grouted or not grouted. They can even be people making up a diversity in an organization or a mosaic of services, etc. In art, I strive for beauty, rhythm of the tesserae, a blend, almost a visual tone.

I often try to explain that at the time I am doing mosaics, I am at perfect peace. One market regular visitor tells me there is a book called Flow that describes that peace and how to achieve it in all aspects of life. I just picked up that book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is subtitled The Psychology of the Optimal Experience.

Beyond trying to achieve that flow for me, I want it to produce a similar feel in the people that look at my work. Nothing pleases me more than when an enthusiastic observer expresses a feeling or mood that my mosaic or stained and fused glass jewelry has created for them. It is really interesting to me to find out who prefers what piece and why.

Some people are touched by the color; others are taken with a symbol or an impression of the piece; still others are inspired to go home and mosaic.

What inspires you?

I see lines that inspire me. It is kind of funny sometimes where I see them. It has been signs for restaurants, the curve in the silhouette of an animal, tree limbs working together to make a cascading line in nature, other artists’ work, my doodles when I am listening to a boring lecture, etc. Very often, an idea for a mosaic will spring quickly from a visual cue like these. My jewelry tends to use flowing lines. Sometimes, I just sit and bend wire until I like what is there. I have more ideas than I have time to make; ideas are the easy part. Sometimes, color schemes will come to me by just seeing two things set down near each other, in a store or a couple of my tesserae jars or pieces of stained glass will set next to each other and I’ll see a blend of color that I want to use. I guess I am saying observation of what is around me is a key to my inspiration.

Sometimes I start my mosaics with a plan; I sometimes draw my “cartoon” or mosaic design with a computer software called Glass Eye. That is a program for making stained glass designs that I use for mosaics. Now and then I draw on things directly and other times I just place tesserae and see where it takes me.

Where do you get your materials?

Materials come from everywhere for the mosaics. It is a luxury when I use the finest

smalti from Italy, it is the butter of tesserae. It cuts beautifully and the colors are so rich.

When I work with it I get this appreciation for mosaic through the ages. It has been with us in many cultures surviving as the walls and floors of Greece and Rome for ages.

Unlike the ancient mosaicists, I order my tile on the Internet. I use a lot of Venetian tile.

I walk out my door and pick up rocks, pick up shells from the beach or take a trip to Pier One to get bamboo, terra cotta, cork or stones.

Broken china is popular. I once made the desert arches in a piece from pottery. I have seen mosaics made from bottle caps, marbles, sticks; the options are limitless.

As for what I mosaic on… I have seen mosaic cars, ovens, walls, garden stoneware and even house exteriors. I often use MDF board for my wall hangings because it is less likely to warp than wood. For mosaics exposed to water, you can use backer board.

Mastic, mortar and glue are popular adhesives; read labels carefully for the purpose you have in mind. For instance, mastic is for indoor use only and it works well to hold tiles in place on a vertical work but it can be messy and sticky. I like silicone sealer for most indoor work on MDF, it is waterproof and doesn’t string. I am experimenting with thin set mortar with a goal to produce durable outdoor mosaics, especially murals.

The final choice of grout color can totally

change the work. I go to home improvement stores to get large quantities for lower prices.

If you can’t find the color you want, you can mix in colorants. You can use paint to tint the grout but that can weaken it if you use too much. The same is true with the water added to the grout powder.

What environment do you like to work in and how does that affect your creative process?

I like (a) comfortable, organized, wellstocked workspace. I am very much affected by my surroundings. I cannot work when even the slightest bit tired. That is a hindrance as I do work full time outside the art world.

Fortunately, I have a wonderfully supportive family, a daughter that offers to cook dinner now and then so I can get a couple hours in before I go null and void. My niece, Tegan, who helps us set up my display. There is my brother, Lou, who actually did research to find materials for me to start me on mosaics years ago after our mother died from an extended illness. Anni, his wife, is one of my biggest fans and says she loves to have their home as a museum of my art. She is a source of encouragement always and really helped me to take the step to start selling my work.

The best thing in the environment for me is encouragement and passing that encouragement on to others who want to mosaic. The world needs more mosaics.

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JULY 8 - 14, 2004 | "IF IT WEREN'T FOR ELECTRICITY, WE'D ALL BE WATCHING TELEVISION BY CANDLELIGHT."

Summer theater guide

BY JEFF NELSON | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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f theater is on your travel itinerary this summer, here is a quick guide for the daily commuter, the long-range commuter and the overnight traveler. Here is the basic information on four summer theater festivals within a day’s drive from Champaign-Urbana.

For the quick commuter, there is the Illinois Shakespeare Festival at Ewing Manor in Bloomington. Since 1978, The Illinois Shakespeare Festival has offered a basic program of selected highlights from the Bard’s best, and in recent years, an extra or two.

This year’s season, which runs from June 23 to August 15, will feature from the Bard: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac. If something here seems like a summer evening that is worth your time, give them a call at (309) 438-8110.

A bit farther up the road in Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright country near Spring Green, a six-hour drive will get you to the American Player’s Theater, which offers this season Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Othello. Plus J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World and Dion Bouciautt’s London Assurance for those looking for a non-Elizabethan option.

London Assurance is a 19th century spoof on the intrigues of the leisure class. If these offerings sound intriguing, you have until October 3 to catch these plays. Further information at www.americanplayers.org may answer the rest of your questions.

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A full day’s drive (10-12 hours) in southern Ontario is Canada’s famous Stratford Festival. This year ’s schedule has plays running to November 7, but its program of 13 plays opens and closes at various times between May and November.

With Shakespeare as its anchor, Stratford provides an amazing variety of his best and least known from Macbeth to King John.

Four other Shakespearean opportunities include Timon of Athens, King Henry VIII, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline.

For other options, check out musicals (Guys and Dolls and Anything Goes), comedy with Noises Off and adventure with The Count of Monte Cristo. Their box office phone number is (800) 567-1600 and their Web site is www.stratfordfestival.ca Farther east in Ontario, about 15 hours from Champaign-Urbana, is the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, a small community about 20 miles north of Niagara Falls. This small town has a huge summer theater festival, which has some productions running to December 4, and is the world’s only theater festival primarily dedicated to the works of George Bernard Shaw.

Like Stratford, there are other offerings and shows open and close during the season at various times. The great Shaw is represent-

ed this season with Pygmalion and Man and Superman.

Many performances in late June to late July offer the complete Man and Superman, with Don Juan in Hell added, check their schedule if a “complete” Man and Superman is your thing.

Also check out other offerings such as O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!, J.M. Synge’s The Tinker’s Wedding, Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (directed by University of Illinois graduate Christopher Newton), and Pal Joey.

The Shaw Festival will also provide six other plays, including lunchtime one acts and a late season opening of Floyd Collins, a musical that opened at Chicago’s Goodman Theater a few years ago. Check with their box office at (800) 511-7429 or www.shawfest.com.

If theme parks just don’t do it for you, some classy theater can change your idea of what summer traveling is all about, and there is some real class at all these locations.

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uilty Conscience is arguably the Krannert Summerfest’s most lively and satisfying example of summer theater entertainment.

It’s a murder mystery that’s written in the tradition of Anthony Schaffer’s Sleuth, Ira Levin’s Deathtrap and Frederick Knott’s Dial M for Murder.

Set in the early 1980s and scripted by playwrights Richard Levinson and William Link, both veterans of television’s Columbo and Murder, She Wrote, Guilty Conscience concerns the plans and counterplans of famous defense attorney Arthur Jamison, who wants desperately to rid himself of his wife. Louise Jamison is about to divorce him for a big chunk of his wealth and ruin his career.

Using many of the conventions of this style of murder mystery, Levinson and Link include a young mistress and a series of convoluted and not-so-profound deceptions into the mix of the plot.

Through the labyrinth of murderous schemes that Arthur concocts, director William Martin’s cast achieves a wonderfully effective ensemble of intrigue and light humor. Steven M. Keen is naturalistically slippery with a dolphin-like grin. And with Joi Hoffsommer’s stern determination, they make a fine pair of sparring partners as Mr. and Mrs. Jamison.

Sari Sanchez’s Jackie Willis, Arthur’s young mistress, enters late in the first act as mostly a conventional and stereotyped role of the “other woman.” But she bursts into the second act with such impressive comedic skill and charm, much like a bubbly character in a Neil Simon farce. Brent T. Barnes also adds to the witty gamesmanship of Arthur’s schemes as the serious prosecutor who helps visualize murderous options and consequences.

The Levinson/Link script keeps audiences guessing to the very last lines with many pleasant and amusing surprises, much like the pair’s famed TV mysteries.

One of this production’s not-so-completely realized production choices concerned set designer Michael Franklin-White’s overemphasis of the importance of Arthur’s late father-in-law, a former judge. Suspended from the Studio Theatre’s ceiling grid at several corners of the thrust stage hang three identical portraits of the bald, old judge.

This Robert Duvall lookalike glares down at the living room of the Jamison townhouse too much like posters of 1984’s Big Brother— casting a psychological oppressiveness that could be more subtly expressed in less obvious ways.

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In a safe place with James LaValle

Community Drum Circle – Ten Thousand Villages, 7-9pm, free

KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke and DJ – T.K. Wendl’s, after softball until 2am, TBA

James LaValle of The Album Leaf works with Sigur Rós and new label Sub Pop

TuesdayJuly13 LIVE MUSIC

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI | STAFF WRITER

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or most aspiring musicians, the process of mastering an instrument entails the tedium of years of practice. Jimmy LaValle, the once Tristeza guitarist and current Black Heart Procession bassist, who has been playing music since he was 4 years old, claims to be essentially self-taught. “I took three years of lessons but I basically taught myself along the way,” he said.

After playing in bands since the age of 15, “experimenting with different genres and instruments,” his immense versatility prompted him to start his solo side project The Album Leaf in 1998.

“I can basically play everything so it’s my own little outlet for things that weren’t going

(Top) James LaValle a.k.a.

The Album Leaf will perform in Chicago July 10 at Schuba’s.

(Right) James LaValle and Sigur Rós’s Jónsi recording The Album Leaf’s In a Safe Place.

so well in my other bands,” LaValle said.

LaValle cites drums, guitar and piano as his favorite instruments, despite a classical training in violin and clarinet. He grew up listening to The Beatles, then “went through the grunge thing,” eventually falling into the indie music scene that he has been part of ever since, all the while “just doing what I do,” the highlight being “playing in London by myself at the Hammersmith Apollo in front of 5,000 people.”

The Album Leaf, whose title is “a commonly used title for classical pieces in the Romantic era” and comes specifically from a Chopin piece, opened for Sigur Rós when the latter were touring Europe.

“We were friends … I toured with them,” LaValle said. “They started playing on stage with me and then they invited me out to make a record.” Thus, LaValle entered a notoriously insular musical community, recording In A Safe Place in Sigur Rós’ Sundlaugin studio, with the

contributions of several of the band’s members.

The new album marked the first time that LaValle had collaborated with other musicians for an Album Leaf release. He still wrote all the songs, but then allowed the others to add their individual contributions, which many times surprised him in the alternative manner in which they interpreted his music. “I left it up to them … they did whatever they wanted to do.” LaValle even convinced former múm cellist Gyda Valtysdóttir to record on the album, quite an achievement considering she quit her twin sister’s band two years ago and hasn’t recorded with them since.

This was also the first time that LaValle sang on an album of his own. “I just wanted to give it a shot basically … reach out to a broader audience.” In fact, the first song he recorded was “Over The Pond,” a daunting prospect as he sings on it with Sigur Rós vocalist Jónsi, whose otherworldly voice is hardly the easiest to accompany.

In A Safe Place has more electronics and is a little more pop than One Day I’ll Be On Time or An Orchestrated Rise To Fall. The sound is mellow, contrasting his work with The Black Heart Processions (“a Halloweeny kind of New Orleans parade Gothic thing”) or Tristeza (“It’s instrumental ... more guitar-oriented than piano or electronic”).

Sub Pop recently acquired a plethora of bands in their attempt to change an image from their grunge days when they made Nirvana famous. After the success of The Postal Service’s Give Up, independent acts such as The Album Leaf became the perfect targets for their new look line-up.

“I felt like I needed to move up to better things,” LaValle said. “Sub Pop was asking and I was accepting.” As well as total creative freedom, the label offered him the budget and exposure he needed for an altogether more ambitious album and tour.

For LaValle’s current tour, five musicians he has been playing with for the last year will accompany him. Even the usually modest LaValle admits that the live shows are “pretty exciting with a lot of visual stuff synched to the music.”

The San Diego native now finds himself “busier than I’ve ever been in my entire life,” and after completing his 41-date U.S. tour and a subsequent three-month tour of Europe, he plans to take a couple of months off during which he would like to “play a lot of pool, smoke cigarettes and drink whiskey.”

Yet at 26, he finds himself incredibly content with where he is in his life, which was the inspiration for the title of his album. Talking to him, it is apparent that he is happy to be

indulging in his passion on a daily basis, his success being a welcome bonus.

“I don’t really think about it and I don’t try to analyze things,” LaValle said. “I just play music and I make it. The album title is kind of an overview of everything about where I am in my life right now.” buzz Catch The Album Leaf at Chicago’s Schuba’s July 10 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10 with The Movies and Helio Sequence opening.

THE ALBUM LEAF In A Safe Place Sub Pop

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This third release boasts an altogether different musical focus, due to the unique circumstances surrounding its recording. Though The Album Leaf is now part of Sub Pop’s attempt to change their image, Jimmy LaValle chose to travel to Iceland to record the album in Sigur Rós’ studio. The appearance of guest musicians from several Icelandic artists (including three members of Sigur Rós) and his surroundings at the time of recording, have positively influenced the sound present on The Album Leaf’s previous offerings.

The album is for the most part exemplary, reveling in its understated simplicity, with no pretensions or delusions of grandeur. Downbeat yet beautiful, it is a mood piece that is instantly accessible. Slight criticisms could be aimed at an occasional lack of meaning beyond superficial tonal manipulations, but its modesty becomes all the more appropriate and welcome within that context. LaValle’s lightness of touch that contrasts so many peers perfectly equips the opener “Window” to subtly control the listener’s demeanor.

Furthermore, his knack for cleverly blending sounds and capturing ethereal harmonies reaching temporary euphoria before subsiding into the mournful reminiscence of “Another Day” or impending tragedy in “The Outer Banks.”

The Album Leaf’s first foray into vocals is a hitand-miss affair. The compositions are almost entirely instrumental but “On Your Way,” in which he sings, is regrettably amongst the album’s weakest tracks, as his vocal lines lack the ingenuity of the music they overshadow. However, the tristesee-laden “Over The Pond,” for which Sigur Rós singer Jónsi lends his voice, is one of the best tracks of the year—breathtaking, heartfelt and heartbreaking. It is a masterpiece of delicacy.

LaValle has been involved with a multitude of bands, but in The Album Leaf he has perhaps found his true calling, where his eclectic musical expertise can be best showcased. In A Safe Place is by no means a magnum opus, but it is undeniably gratifying. It is never groundbreaking, but manages to achieve and maintain excellence almost throughout the entire recording.

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WednesdayJuly14 LIVE MUSIC JQ with Ray Sasaki – The Iron Post, 6-9pm, TBA Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G's, 9pm, free Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free

DJ Chef Ra – reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Salsateca: DJ Bris Mueller – salsa, mambo, bachata – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Boardwalk – Mike n' Molly's, 10pm, free She-Jays: DJ J-Phlip, Lil' Big Bass – Highdive, 10pm, $2 DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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Boltini Lounge 211 N Neil, Champaign, 378-8001 Borders Books & Music 802 W Town Ctr, Champaign, 351-9011 The Brass Rail 15 E University, Champaign, 352-7512 Canopy Club (Garden Grill) 708 S Goodwin, Urbana, 367-3140 Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana C.O. Daniels 608 E Daniel, Champaign, 337-7411 Cosmopolitan Club 307 E John, Champaign, 367-3079 Courtyard Cafe Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana, 333-4666 Cowboy Monkey 6 Taylor St, Champaign, 398-2688 Clybourne 706 S Sixth, Champaign, 383-1008 Curtis Orchard 3902 S Duncan Rd, Champaign, 359-5565 D.R. Diggers 604 S Country Fair Dr, Champaign, 356-0888 Elmer’s Club 45 3525 N Cunningham, Urbana, 344-3101 Embassy Tavern & Grill 114 S Race, Urbana, 384-9526 Esquire Lounge 106 N Walnut, Champaign, 398-5858 Fallon’s Ice House 703 N Prospect, Champaign, 398-5760 Fat City Saloon 505 S Chestnut, Champaign, 356-7100 The Great Impasta 114 W Church, Champaign, 359-7377 G.T.’s Western Bowl Francis Dr, Champaign, 359-1678 Highdive 51 Main, Champaign, 359-4444 Huber’s 1312 W Church, Champaign, 352-0606 Illinois Disciples Foundation 610 E Springfield, Champaign, 352-8721 Independent Media Center 218 W Main St, Urbana, 344-8820 The Iron Post 120 S Race, Urbana, 337-7678 Joe’s Brewery 706 S Fifth, Champaign, 384-1790 Kam’s 618 E Daniel, Champaign, 328-1605 Krannert Art Museum 500 E Peabody, Champaign, 333-1861 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin, Urbana,Tickets: 333-6280, 800-KCPATIX La Casa Cultural Latina 1203 W Nevada, Urbana, 333-4950 Lava 1906 W Bradley, Champaign, 352-8714 Legends Bar & Grill 522 E Green, Champaign, 355-7674 Lincoln Castle 209 S Broadway, Urbana, 344-7720 Lowe’s Big Barrel & Summer Club 14 N Hazel, Danville, 442-8090 Malibu Bay Lounge North Route 45, Urbana, 328-7415 Mike n’ Molly’s 105 N Market, Champaign, 355-1236 Mulligan’s 604 N Cunningham, Urbana, 367-5888 Murphy’s 604 E Green, Champaign, 352-7275 Nargile 207 W Clark St, Champaign Neil Street Pub 1505 N Neil, Champaign, 359-1601 The Office 214 W Main, Urbana, 344-7608 Parkland College 2400 W Bradley, Champaign, 351-2528 Phoenix 215 S Neil, Champaign, 355-7866 Pia’s of Rantoul Route 136 E, Rantoul, 893-8244 Pink House Routes 49 & 150, Ogden, 582-9997 The Rainbow Coffeehouse 1203 W Green, Urbana, 766-9500 Red Herring/Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana, 344-1176 Rose Bowl Tavern 106 N Race, Urbana, 367-7031 Springer Cultural Center 301 N Randolph, Champaign, 355-1406 Spurlock Museum 600 S Gregory, Urbana, 333-2360 The Station Theatre 223 N Broadway, Urbana, 384-4000 Strawberry Fields Cafe 306 W Springfield, Urbana, 328-1655 Sweet Betsy’s 805 S Philo Rd, Urbana Ten Thousand Villages 105 N Walnut, Champaign, 352-8938 TK Wendl’s 1901 S Highcross Rd, Urbana, 255-5328 Tommy G’s 123 S Mattis Ave, Country Fair Shopping Center, 359-2177 Tonic 619 S Wright, Champaign, 356-6768 Two Main 2 Main, Champaign, 359-3148 University YMCA 1001 S Wright, Champaign, 344-0721 Verde/Verdant 17 E Taylor St, Champaign, 366-3204 Virginia Theatre 203 W Park Ave, Champaign, 356-9053 White Horse Inn 112 1/2 E Green, Champaign, 352-5945 Zorba’s 627 E Green, Champaign

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ThursdayJuly08 LIVE MUSIC Leigh Meador Sextet – The Iron Post, 7-9pm, TBA Acoustic Music Series: G. Lee – Aroma, 8pm, free Acoustic Music Series: Brandon T. Washington – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Weasel Dreams Quintet – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3 Solips, Blaked, 2ON2OUT – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Ben Jenkins “Guitars Unplugged” – Gino's Lounge in Danville, 8-11pm, TBA Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free American Minor, Stateside, The Weather – Highdive, 10pm, $5

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FridayJuly09 LIVE MUSIC Roger Clair – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, free Brandon T. Washington – The Iron Post, 5-7pm, TBA Jammin' Jimmy Bean – acoustic rock – Tommy G's, 5-7pm, free Grass Roots Revival – Canoe Landing/Dockside Cafe at Kickapoo State Park, 5:30-7:30pm, free Ian Shepard, Adam Wolfe – Mike ’n Molly’s, 5-7pm, TBA Delta Kings – rock/blues – The Phoenix, 9pm-1am, TBA Friday Sojourn – Fat City Saloon, TBA, cover Jazz Happy Hour: Pocket Big Band – Highdive, 5:30pm, $3 Triple Whip, FeeD, Salaryman – Nargile, 10pm, $4

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DJ DJ Bozak – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free Onda Tropicale: DJ Mambo Italiano – reggae, island, brasilian house – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Resonate – Mike n' Molly's, 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams – dance – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ J-Phlip – Boltini, 10pm, free

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makes crap albums such as NYC Ghosts and Flowers seem nothing so much as a bad dream. Thurston Moore can still rock out, kids. Everything is gonna be OK. As the chunky, feedback-drenched riffage of “Paper Cup Exit” lets up to reveal spacy, single-note interplay and returns almost as suddenly to its grimy roots, Lee Ranaldo sings, “It’s later than it seems.” On their 19th album, Sonic Youth have patched their latter, more atmospheric work with the noisy experimentalism that is second nature to them. It’s fitting that a band whose roots are so deeply entwined with the birthplace of punk rock can prove that rock is not solely the domain of the young and inexperienced. Much like the free jazz cats and avant composers whom they so deeply revere, Sonic Youth are still crafting works of startling brilliance and relevance at 45 and they’re still cooler than you.

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BEASTIE BOYS To The 5 Boroughs

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Sonic Youth were always the most “New York” band outside of the Velvet Underground. The Big Apple’s eternal downtown art scene seems to inform every aspect of the band; the band’s horrific, druggy, no-wave guitar squalls, their canonization of all things avant-garde and underground, their incestuous relationship with the art world. Much like St. Reed himself, you always got the feeling that the guys and gal in Sonic Youth were much, much cooler than you.Well, much to the consternation of their detractors—who really should stop whining—Sonic Youth are striding into middle age just as hip and talented as they always were. With their last album, Murray Street, and their new long player, Sonic Nurse, these cats are sending all rumors of their artistic irrelevance to a quick and painless death.

Perhaps it was Sept. 11 and the effect it’s had on New Yorkers, perhaps it’s chilling with a younger generation of noise mutants like Erase Errata and Black Dice, but Sonic Youth seem to have a renewed vigor about music and a realization as to why people loved them so much in the first place; they’re a noisy-ass punk rock jam band that your parents will never, ever like. To wit, the opener “Pattern Recognition” veers from a great phasered guitar hook to classic SY arpeggiated guitar clanging as Kim Gordon duskily intones,“You’re the one.” No lame-assed street poetry here, this girl is looking back on that Daydream Nation shit.Yes, a song such as “Stones”with its titanic Neil Young-esque hooks and sprawling builds

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The Beastie Boys have been distinguished by long breaks between albums, which has allowed the band both time to innovate and also for them to stretch what might have been a flash-in-the-pan success into a 20-year, six-LP career while still maintaining health, respectability and relevance. To The 5 Boroughs, the group’s first album in six years, is no exception to the rule here. Most interesting is that the group has made the drastic move to self-production, with the result that the album sounds unlike anything the Beasties have done before.

Boroughs finds the Boys stepping away from their sample mania of the 80s or the live instrumentation of their early 90s work to embrace more traditional (though not old school) hip-hop sound. “Ch-Check It Out,” the album’s opener, delivers on its promise of “guaranteed to make your body rock.” It’s one of the year’s catchiest singles. Supersonic ride cymbal rings out over busy, organic grooves centered around the midrange, while the Beastie’s clever non sequitors come fast and furious.

Sadly, like many songs on the album, bass is distant and muddy in the mix. When the bass does appear in the foreground, it’s in the form of a Bootsy Collins-styled freakout, accompanied by uniformly tight and original drums, though danceability is compromised.

Things have changed since 1986, though. Back in the Reagan (R.I.P.) years, the fight was to party. In 2004, how-

ever, the party (a metaphor for both the album and the lifestyle of success) is for the right to fight, as Boys note on “Right Right Now Now,” the first political piece on the album, and also a Beasties first. Unsurprisingly, everyone’s favorite middle-age Jewish rappers come out against what they see as non-responsibility in the administration of our country. The irony that America’s favorite badly behaved geeks dare to call for accountability and a “little shift on over to the left” is both a testament to the effects of wisdom and also how dire the times really are perceived to be. While the verses are by no means mind-blowing, the Beasties’ take on conscious hip-hop is weaved seamlessly into the fabric of the song as the TV-infested pop culture they are more accustomed to.

Politics is something of a gamble for the band, not because of the risk of offending their fan base, but rather because albums of this sort tend to run the risk of dating themselves. Like so many Bob Dylan albums, music of this sort often sounds a whole lot better on “Best Of The Decade” lists than on the hi-fi. The band avoids this sort of artificial sense of relevance by demonstrating respect and speaking less directly, which speaks more to the times, and less to the occurrences.

In a similar vein, the Beasties also attempt a tribute to the Big Apple in “An Open Letter to NYC.”Though it’s one of the catchier songs on the album, as art the piece fails to dodge the traps that the political pieces manage to avoid. The Boys have long been quite open about their affection for their hometown, so such a tribute, coming so long after tragedy, is almost unnecessary.

Furthermore, the lyrics fail to challenge.

Style-wise, the album is all over the map. “Triple Trouble” uses the same disco sample that provided the base for Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” often cited as rap’s breakout song.“That’s It That’s All,” with its robot groove, sounds as progressive as anything the Beasties have done in the last decade. Harpsichord (of the hiphop variety) on other tracks recalls the sound of the mid90s. The three MCs deftly avoid the rhythmic cliches that blight less inventive hip hop, even the Boys’ earlier work, which tended to favor straighter phrases. Several songs see the group attempting more rapid rhymes, while still maintaining their loose delivery and unforgiving flow.

Outside the couplets, the rhymes rarely relate, but the delivery and inventiveness is not lost on the listener.

Years of whiskey and cigarettes seem to have affected MCA’s already rough voice, though the effect is something more akin to creating an “elder statesman”-like aura around his verses. Perhaps related, MCA, long the “quiet Beastie,” comes off as more leader-like than one would expect. Props also go to Ad-Rock, who for the first time tempers his sometimes-whine. The band has also embraced their cultural heritage, sprinkling Yiddish and kosher references (“I don’t eat snail”) throughout the musical gumbo.

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Very loud art-rockers Oneida are kicking off a North American tour beginning July 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and ending August 18 in Montreal. The band is touring in support of their 2004 release Secret Wars.

Releases from the extensive vaults of the late Frank Zappa will see the light of day via a new series of releases, cleverly entitled Joe’s Corsage. The first volume in the series comprises demos and live recordings from the earliest stages of the Mothers of Invention. It is available through Zappa’s official Web site and his estate’s Vaulternative label.

As these artists enter their second decade, their struggle often becomes less for innovation and more to maintain fans and relevancy. The band themselves were witnesses to this when it was announced that the album contained anti-piracy software which would secretly install itself on your computer if you put the disk in the drive. As it happens, this is only the case in non-domestic distributions (so don’t let it keep you from purchasing), but it was symbolic of the toil to remain radical the Boys experience. With To The 5 Boroughs, the Beasties have again demonstrated their mercurial abilities to change, not with the tide, but rather against it, and have won another battle in the fight to remain radical.

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NEW RELEASES JULY 13 Michael Franti - Songs from the Front Porch The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat Dr. John - N'Awlinz: Dis, Dat or D'udda The Roots - The Tipping Point KRS-One - Keep Right The Polyphonic Spree Together We're Heavy Super Furry Animals Phantom Phorce

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The Hurly-Burly Castaways from the sunken ship Lollapalooza, Modest Mouse and The Walkmen will tour together for several dates throughout the summer. Beginning July 13 in Neumos, Wash., The Walkmen will open for Modest Mouse on 12 of their previously scheduled dates as well as playing several headlining shows on their own.

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Moment of the week Mud, freshly scraped from the boots of concertgoers at England’s Glastonbury Festival, is being auctioned on eBay and has received bids of up to 360 pounds. The Glastonbury Festival featured British luminaries such as Oasis, Morrissey, Damien Rice, Paul McCartney and Muse. It was a very muddy affair this year, what with the rain and all.

One seller claims the mud was collected from the front two rows of the main stage and is, “…stored in a plastic bag (with the piece of straw and grass for company).” Yes, attempts at indie cred have sunk to a new low.

“Yeah, that’s right guys. I went to Coachella and I’ve got the mud to prove it! HA!”

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than on the value of material wealth, and it relies on local chapters for help in gathering food and donations. Head to Red Herring Friday for a benefit show sponsored by the group. The Opportunists, DJ

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Missus, Useless Hero, Decals and Action People will perform at the all-ages show.

Music starts at 8 p.m. with a $5 cover, but $1 is knocked off the cover charge if you bring a food item with you to the show.

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ead to Cowboy Monkey Tuesday to check out Steve Burns, a man on a mission to transition out of his (former) day job and into a new and, depending on who you’re asking, much cooler gig. You might remember Burns as the host of the hit children’s television show Blue’s Clues, but now he’s delving into his music skills, of which he has proven he has a great deal. The most famous comparison for Burns’ sound is the Flaming Lips, a group he has worked with in the past. Burns adds his own pop alt-rock twist to his music, though, bringing an energy and 217-328-5749 or 1-800-252-1355

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The Point teaches the Art and Sport of Fencing for all ages and levels – from beginners to international competition levels.

sound all his own to the stage. 2ON2OUT will spin and The Invisible will also perform. Music starts at 10 p.m. with a $6 cover.

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merican Minor quickly became a fixture on the Champaign-Urbana music scene after moving here from rural West Virginia a few years back, bringing their straight rock ‘n’ roll sound with them when they came. Think Rolling Stones. Think The

HITS THE HIGHDIVE Who with a Southern twist. The band brings their own mix and plenty of incredible energy to their music. Band members Bruno, Gragg, Bud, Rob and Knox have known each other since high school and play with the ease and confidence that

come with that history as well as a love for the music. Don’t miss this Thursday’s show, where the band will perform along with rock bands Stateside and The Weather. Music starts at 10 p.m. Thursday at Highdive. Cover is $5.

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ounded in 1980, Food Not Bombs is a national organization that works to get food to those without it in this country. The group prides itself on putting a higher importance on the value of human life

than on the value of material wealth, and it relies on local chapters for help in gathering food and donations. Head to Red Herring Friday for a benefit show sponsored by the group. The Opportunists, DJ

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Missus, Useless Hero, Decals and Action People will perform at the all-ages show.

Music starts at 8 p.m. with a $5 cover, but $1 is knocked off the cover charge if you bring a food item with you to the show.

AMERICAN MINOR

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ead to Cowboy Monkey Tuesday to check out Steve Burns, a man on a mission to transition out of his (former) day job and into a new and, depending on who you’re asking, much cooler gig. You might remember Burns as the host of the hit children’s television show Blue’s Clues, but now he’s delving into his music skills, of which he has proven he has a great deal. The most famous comparison for Burns’ sound is the Flaming Lips, a group he has worked with in the past. Burns adds his own pop alt-rock twist to his music, though, bringing an energy and 217-328-5749 or 1-800-252-1355

www.awning-tent.com

The Point teaches the Art and Sport of Fencing for all ages and levels – from beginners to international competition levels.

sound all his own to the stage. 2ON2OUT will spin and The Invisible will also perform. Music starts at 10 p.m. with a $6 cover.

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merican Minor quickly became a fixture on the Champaign-Urbana music scene after moving here from rural West Virginia a few years back, bringing their straight rock ‘n’ roll sound with them when they came. Think Rolling Stones. Think The

HITS THE HIGHDIVE Who with a Southern twist. The band brings their own mix and plenty of incredible energy to their music. Band members Bruno, Gragg, Bud, Rob and Knox have known each other since high school and play with the ease and confidence that

come with that history as well as a love for the music. Don’t miss this Thursday’s show, where the band will perform along with rock bands Stateside and The Weather. Music starts at 10 p.m. Thursday at Highdive. Cover is $5.

217/351-5838 217/352-0722 Located Downtown 500 N. Walnut, Champaign www.thepointfencingclub.com

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ThursdayJuly08 LIVE MUSIC Leigh Meador Sextet – The Iron Post, 7-9pm, TBA Acoustic Music Series: G. Lee – Aroma, 8pm, free Acoustic Music Series: Brandon T. Washington – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Weasel Dreams Quintet – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3 Solips, Blaked, 2ON2OUT – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Ben Jenkins “Guitars Unplugged” – Gino's Lounge in Danville, 8-11pm, TBA Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free American Minor, Stateside, The Weather – Highdive, 10pm, $5

DJ DJ J-Phlip – house – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Stifler – ’80s hair bands – Tommy G's, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

SPOKEN WORD The Northstar Lounge hosted by CZAR Absolute – hip-hop/spoken word poetry set/open mic – Nargile, 10:30pm, $5

KARAOKE "G" Force Karaoke/DJ – Pia's in Rantoul, 9pm, TBA

FridayJuly09 LIVE MUSIC Roger Clair – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, free Brandon T. Washington – The Iron Post, 5-7pm, TBA Jammin' Jimmy Bean – acoustic rock – Tommy G's, 5-7pm, free Grass Roots Revival – Canoe Landing/Dockside Cafe at Kickapoo State Park, 5:30-7:30pm, free Ian Shepard, Adam Wolfe – Mike ’n Molly’s, 5-7pm, TBA Delta Kings – rock/blues – The Phoenix, 9pm-1am, TBA Friday Sojourn – Fat City Saloon, TBA, cover Jazz Happy Hour: Pocket Big Band – Highdive, 5:30pm, $3 Triple Whip, FeeD, Salaryman – Nargile, 10pm, $4

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Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Food Not Bombs Benefit Show: The Opportunists, DJ Missus, Useless Hero, Decals, Action People – Red Herring, 8pm, $5 The Beat Kitchen – The Iron Post, 9pm, TBA Nate Holley (of King Solomon's Grave) – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Southbound – southern rock – Tommy G's, 10pm, cover

DJ DJ Bozak – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free Onda Tropicale: DJ Mambo Italiano – reggae, island, brasilian house – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Resonate – Mike n' Molly's, 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams – dance – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ J-Phlip – Boltini, 10pm, free

KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke – Urbana American Legion, 8pm-1am, TBA

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DJ Resonate – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams – dance – Highdive, 10pm, $5 “Soulful Saturdays” – Watusi Lounge, free before 11pm

DJ Delayney – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke/DJ – Sappy’s on Devenshire, 9pm, TBA Karaoke with Paul Faber – Tommy G’s, 10pm, cover

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Jazz Jam with ParaDocs – The Iron Post, 9pm, TBA Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Wolfe – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free

LIVE MUSIC WWHP Summer Concert Series: Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers – Highdive, 8pm, $15 The Prairie Dogs – The Iron Post, 9pm, TBA Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm, free Lorenzo Goetz, The Plus, Sick Day – Nargile, 10pm, $3

makes crap albums such as NYC Ghosts and Flowers seem nothing so much as a bad dream. Thurston Moore can still rock out, kids. Everything is gonna be OK. As the chunky, feedback-drenched riffage of “Paper Cup Exit” lets up to reveal spacy, single-note interplay and returns almost as suddenly to its grimy roots, Lee Ranaldo sings, “It’s later than it seems.” On their 19th album, Sonic Youth have patched their latter, more atmospheric work with the noisy experimentalism that is second nature to them. It’s fitting that a band whose roots are so deeply entwined with the birthplace of punk rock can prove that rock is not solely the domain of the young and inexperienced. Much like the free jazz cats and avant composers whom they so deeply revere, Sonic Youth are still crafting works of startling brilliance and relevance at 45 and they’re still cooler than you.

DJ DJ Carlos – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free Betty Rocker – Mike 'n Molly's, 10pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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BEASTIE BOYS To The 5 Boroughs

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Sonic Youth were always the most “New York” band outside of the Velvet Underground. The Big Apple’s eternal downtown art scene seems to inform every aspect of the band; the band’s horrific, druggy, no-wave guitar squalls, their canonization of all things avant-garde and underground, their incestuous relationship with the art world. Much like St. Reed himself, you always got the feeling that the guys and gal in Sonic Youth were much, much cooler than you.Well, much to the consternation of their detractors—who really should stop whining—Sonic Youth are striding into middle age just as hip and talented as they always were. With their last album, Murray Street, and their new long player, Sonic Nurse, these cats are sending all rumors of their artistic irrelevance to a quick and painless death.

Perhaps it was Sept. 11 and the effect it’s had on New Yorkers, perhaps it’s chilling with a younger generation of noise mutants like Erase Errata and Black Dice, but Sonic Youth seem to have a renewed vigor about music and a realization as to why people loved them so much in the first place; they’re a noisy-ass punk rock jam band that your parents will never, ever like. To wit, the opener “Pattern Recognition” veers from a great phasered guitar hook to classic SY arpeggiated guitar clanging as Kim Gordon duskily intones,“You’re the one.” No lame-assed street poetry here, this girl is looking back on that Daydream Nation shit.Yes, a song such as “Stones”with its titanic Neil Young-esque hooks and sprawling builds

The Noisy Gators – Hubers, 8pm, donations Black Market Fetus, Hollowed Out, Useless Hero – Red Herring, 9pm, $4 Grass Roots Revival – Crystal Lake Park, 1-2:30pm, free Grass Roots Revival – Pages for All Ages, 8-10pm, free Delta Kings – rock/blues – The Friendly Tavern in Danville, 6pm-10pm, TBA Saturday Hairbangers Ball II – ’80s hair bands – Fat City Saloon, TBA, cover Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Kathy Harden & the King Bees – Alto Vineyards, 811pm, $3 The Buick All-Stars – Embassy Tavern, 8:30pm, free Temple of Low Men, TBA – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $4

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The Beastie Boys have been distinguished by long breaks between albums, which has allowed the band both time to innovate and also for them to stretch what might have been a flash-in-the-pan success into a 20-year, six-LP career while still maintaining health, respectability and relevance. To The 5 Boroughs, the group’s first album in six years, is no exception to the rule here. Most interesting is that the group has made the drastic move to self-production, with the result that the album sounds unlike anything the Beasties have done before.

Boroughs finds the Boys stepping away from their sample mania of the 80s or the live instrumentation of their early 90s work to embrace more traditional (though not old school) hip-hop sound. “Ch-Check It Out,” the album’s opener, delivers on its promise of “guaranteed to make your body rock.” It’s one of the year’s catchiest singles. Supersonic ride cymbal rings out over busy, organic grooves centered around the midrange, while the Beastie’s clever non sequitors come fast and furious.

Sadly, like many songs on the album, bass is distant and muddy in the mix. When the bass does appear in the foreground, it’s in the form of a Bootsy Collins-styled freakout, accompanied by uniformly tight and original drums, though danceability is compromised.

Things have changed since 1986, though. Back in the Reagan (R.I.P.) years, the fight was to party. In 2004, how-

ever, the party (a metaphor for both the album and the lifestyle of success) is for the right to fight, as Boys note on “Right Right Now Now,” the first political piece on the album, and also a Beasties first. Unsurprisingly, everyone’s favorite middle-age Jewish rappers come out against what they see as non-responsibility in the administration of our country. The irony that America’s favorite badly behaved geeks dare to call for accountability and a “little shift on over to the left” is both a testament to the effects of wisdom and also how dire the times really are perceived to be. While the verses are by no means mind-blowing, the Beasties’ take on conscious hip-hop is weaved seamlessly into the fabric of the song as the TV-infested pop culture they are more accustomed to.

Politics is something of a gamble for the band, not because of the risk of offending their fan base, but rather because albums of this sort tend to run the risk of dating themselves. Like so many Bob Dylan albums, music of this sort often sounds a whole lot better on “Best Of The Decade” lists than on the hi-fi. The band avoids this sort of artificial sense of relevance by demonstrating respect and speaking less directly, which speaks more to the times, and less to the occurrences.

In a similar vein, the Beasties also attempt a tribute to the Big Apple in “An Open Letter to NYC.”Though it’s one of the catchier songs on the album, as art the piece fails to dodge the traps that the political pieces manage to avoid. The Boys have long been quite open about their affection for their hometown, so such a tribute, coming so long after tragedy, is almost unnecessary.

Furthermore, the lyrics fail to challenge.

Style-wise, the album is all over the map. “Triple Trouble” uses the same disco sample that provided the base for Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” often cited as rap’s breakout song.“That’s It That’s All,” with its robot groove, sounds as progressive as anything the Beasties have done in the last decade. Harpsichord (of the hiphop variety) on other tracks recalls the sound of the mid90s. The three MCs deftly avoid the rhythmic cliches that blight less inventive hip hop, even the Boys’ earlier work, which tended to favor straighter phrases. Several songs see the group attempting more rapid rhymes, while still maintaining their loose delivery and unforgiving flow.

Outside the couplets, the rhymes rarely relate, but the delivery and inventiveness is not lost on the listener.

Years of whiskey and cigarettes seem to have affected MCA’s already rough voice, though the effect is something more akin to creating an “elder statesman”-like aura around his verses. Perhaps related, MCA, long the “quiet Beastie,” comes off as more leader-like than one would expect. Props also go to Ad-Rock, who for the first time tempers his sometimes-whine. The band has also embraced their cultural heritage, sprinkling Yiddish and kosher references (“I don’t eat snail”) throughout the musical gumbo.

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Very loud art-rockers Oneida are kicking off a North American tour beginning July 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and ending August 18 in Montreal. The band is touring in support of their 2004 release Secret Wars.

Releases from the extensive vaults of the late Frank Zappa will see the light of day via a new series of releases, cleverly entitled Joe’s Corsage. The first volume in the series comprises demos and live recordings from the earliest stages of the Mothers of Invention. It is available through Zappa’s official Web site and his estate’s Vaulternative label.

As these artists enter their second decade, their struggle often becomes less for innovation and more to maintain fans and relevancy. The band themselves were witnesses to this when it was announced that the album contained anti-piracy software which would secretly install itself on your computer if you put the disk in the drive. As it happens, this is only the case in non-domestic distributions (so don’t let it keep you from purchasing), but it was symbolic of the toil to remain radical the Boys experience. With To The 5 Boroughs, the Beasties have again demonstrated their mercurial abilities to change, not with the tide, but rather against it, and have won another battle in the fight to remain radical.

CHARTS PARASOL RECORDS TOP 10 SELLERS 1. Velvet Crush - Stereo Blues (Action Musik) 2. Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror - Wake Up Captain (Parasol) 3. Unbunny - Snow Tires (Hidden Agenda) 4. Trembling Blue Stars - Southern Skies Appear Brighter (Elefant) 5. Matthew Sweet - Kimi Ga Suki Life (Superdeformed) 6. Galaxie 500 - Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste 1987-1991 (Plexifilm) 7. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Gooom) 8. For Stars - It Falls Apart (Future Farmer) 9. Rachel Goswell - Waves Are Universal (4AD) 10. The Blessed Light - Love Lights The Way (Mill Pond)

NEW RELEASES JULY 13 Michael Franti - Songs from the Front Porch The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat Dr. John - N'Awlinz: Dis, Dat or D'udda The Roots - The Tipping Point KRS-One - Keep Right The Polyphonic Spree Together We're Heavy Super Furry Animals Phantom Phorce

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The Hurly-Burly Castaways from the sunken ship Lollapalooza, Modest Mouse and The Walkmen will tour together for several dates throughout the summer. Beginning July 13 in Neumos, Wash., The Walkmen will open for Modest Mouse on 12 of their previously scheduled dates as well as playing several headlining shows on their own.

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Moment of the week Mud, freshly scraped from the boots of concertgoers at England’s Glastonbury Festival, is being auctioned on eBay and has received bids of up to 360 pounds. The Glastonbury Festival featured British luminaries such as Oasis, Morrissey, Damien Rice, Paul McCartney and Muse. It was a very muddy affair this year, what with the rain and all.

One seller claims the mud was collected from the front two rows of the main stage and is, “…stored in a plastic bag (with the piece of straw and grass for company).” Yes, attempts at indie cred have sunk to a new low.

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In a safe place with James LaValle

Community Drum Circle – Ten Thousand Villages, 7-9pm, free

KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke and DJ – T.K. Wendl’s, after softball until 2am, TBA

James LaValle of The Album Leaf works with Sigur Rós and new label Sub Pop

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BY SHADIE ELNASHAI | STAFF WRITER

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or most aspiring musicians, the process of mastering an instrument entails the tedium of years of practice. Jimmy LaValle, the once Tristeza guitarist and current Black Heart Procession bassist, who has been playing music since he was 4 years old, claims to be essentially self-taught. “I took three years of lessons but I basically taught myself along the way,” he said.

After playing in bands since the age of 15, “experimenting with different genres and instruments,” his immense versatility prompted him to start his solo side project The Album Leaf in 1998.

“I can basically play everything so it’s my own little outlet for things that weren’t going

(Top) James LaValle a.k.a.

The Album Leaf will perform in Chicago July 10 at Schuba’s.

(Right) James LaValle and Sigur Rós’s Jónsi recording The Album Leaf’s In a Safe Place.

so well in my other bands,” LaValle said.

LaValle cites drums, guitar and piano as his favorite instruments, despite a classical training in violin and clarinet. He grew up listening to The Beatles, then “went through the grunge thing,” eventually falling into the indie music scene that he has been part of ever since, all the while “just doing what I do,” the highlight being “playing in London by myself at the Hammersmith Apollo in front of 5,000 people.”

The Album Leaf, whose title is “a commonly used title for classical pieces in the Romantic era” and comes specifically from a Chopin piece, opened for Sigur Rós when the latter were touring Europe.

“We were friends … I toured with them,” LaValle said. “They started playing on stage with me and then they invited me out to make a record.” Thus, LaValle entered a notoriously insular musical community, recording In A Safe Place in Sigur Rós’ Sundlaugin studio, with the

contributions of several of the band’s members.

The new album marked the first time that LaValle had collaborated with other musicians for an Album Leaf release. He still wrote all the songs, but then allowed the others to add their individual contributions, which many times surprised him in the alternative manner in which they interpreted his music. “I left it up to them … they did whatever they wanted to do.” LaValle even convinced former múm cellist Gyda Valtysdóttir to record on the album, quite an achievement considering she quit her twin sister’s band two years ago and hasn’t recorded with them since.

This was also the first time that LaValle sang on an album of his own. “I just wanted to give it a shot basically … reach out to a broader audience.” In fact, the first song he recorded was “Over The Pond,” a daunting prospect as he sings on it with Sigur Rós vocalist Jónsi, whose otherworldly voice is hardly the easiest to accompany.

In A Safe Place has more electronics and is a little more pop than One Day I’ll Be On Time or An Orchestrated Rise To Fall. The sound is mellow, contrasting his work with The Black Heart Processions (“a Halloweeny kind of New Orleans parade Gothic thing”) or Tristeza (“It’s instrumental ... more guitar-oriented than piano or electronic”).

Sub Pop recently acquired a plethora of bands in their attempt to change an image from their grunge days when they made Nirvana famous. After the success of The Postal Service’s Give Up, independent acts such as The Album Leaf became the perfect targets for their new look line-up.

“I felt like I needed to move up to better things,” LaValle said. “Sub Pop was asking and I was accepting.” As well as total creative freedom, the label offered him the budget and exposure he needed for an altogether more ambitious album and tour.

For LaValle’s current tour, five musicians he has been playing with for the last year will accompany him. Even the usually modest LaValle admits that the live shows are “pretty exciting with a lot of visual stuff synched to the music.”

The San Diego native now finds himself “busier than I’ve ever been in my entire life,” and after completing his 41-date U.S. tour and a subsequent three-month tour of Europe, he plans to take a couple of months off during which he would like to “play a lot of pool, smoke cigarettes and drink whiskey.”

Yet at 26, he finds himself incredibly content with where he is in his life, which was the inspiration for the title of his album. Talking to him, it is apparent that he is happy to be

indulging in his passion on a daily basis, his success being a welcome bonus.

“I don’t really think about it and I don’t try to analyze things,” LaValle said. “I just play music and I make it. The album title is kind of an overview of everything about where I am in my life right now.” buzz Catch The Album Leaf at Chicago’s Schuba’s July 10 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10 with The Movies and Helio Sequence opening.

THE ALBUM LEAF In A Safe Place Sub Pop

JQ with Ray Sasaki – The Iron Post, 6-9pm, TBA Open Jam/Open Mic hosted by Openingbands.com and Kate Hathaway – Canopy Club, 9pm, $2 Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Acoustic Music Series: Larry Gates – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Steve Burns, 2ON2OUT, The Invisible – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $6 Adam Wolfe's Acoustic Night with Jess Greenlee – Tommy G's, 10pm, free

DJ DJ Sophisto – house, funk – Barfly, 9pm, free NOX: DJ ZoZo – goth and industrial – The Highdive, 10pm, $2 DJ J-Phlip – Boltini, 10p:30pm, free

KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke/DJ – Neil Street Pub, 8pm-12am, free

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BY SHADIE ELNASHAI

This third release boasts an altogether different musical focus, due to the unique circumstances surrounding its recording. Though The Album Leaf is now part of Sub Pop’s attempt to change their image, Jimmy LaValle chose to travel to Iceland to record the album in Sigur Rós’ studio. The appearance of guest musicians from several Icelandic artists (including three members of Sigur Rós) and his surroundings at the time of recording, have positively influenced the sound present on The Album Leaf’s previous offerings.

The album is for the most part exemplary, reveling in its understated simplicity, with no pretensions or delusions of grandeur. Downbeat yet beautiful, it is a mood piece that is instantly accessible. Slight criticisms could be aimed at an occasional lack of meaning beyond superficial tonal manipulations, but its modesty becomes all the more appropriate and welcome within that context. LaValle’s lightness of touch that contrasts so many peers perfectly equips the opener “Window” to subtly control the listener’s demeanor.

Furthermore, his knack for cleverly blending sounds and capturing ethereal harmonies reaching temporary euphoria before subsiding into the mournful reminiscence of “Another Day” or impending tragedy in “The Outer Banks.”

The Album Leaf’s first foray into vocals is a hitand-miss affair. The compositions are almost entirely instrumental but “On Your Way,” in which he sings, is regrettably amongst the album’s weakest tracks, as his vocal lines lack the ingenuity of the music they overshadow. However, the tristesee-laden “Over The Pond,” for which Sigur Rós singer Jónsi lends his voice, is one of the best tracks of the year—breathtaking, heartfelt and heartbreaking. It is a masterpiece of delicacy.

LaValle has been involved with a multitude of bands, but in The Album Leaf he has perhaps found his true calling, where his eclectic musical expertise can be best showcased. In A Safe Place is by no means a magnum opus, but it is undeniably gratifying. It is never groundbreaking, but manages to achieve and maintain excellence almost throughout the entire recording.

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WednesdayJuly14 LIVE MUSIC JQ with Ray Sasaki – The Iron Post, 6-9pm, TBA Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G's, 9pm, free Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free

DJ Chef Ra – reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Salsateca: DJ Bris Mueller – salsa, mambo, bachata – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Boardwalk – Mike n' Molly's, 10pm, free She-Jays: DJ J-Phlip, Lil' Big Bass – Highdive, 10pm, $2 DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

KARAOKE “Liquid Courage Karaoke” – Fat City Saloon, 8pm12am, TBA “G” Force Karaoke/DJ – TnT Corner Tavern, 8pm12am, TBA

C-UVENUES Alto Vineyards 4210 N Duncan Rd, Champaign, 356-4784 Assembly Hall First & Florida, Champaign, 333-5000 American Legion Post 71 107 N Broadway, Urbana, 367-3121 Barfly 120 N Neil, Champaign,352-9756 Barnes and Noble 51 E Marketview, Champaign, 355-2045 Boardman’s Art Theater 126 W Church, Champaign, 351-0068

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Summer theater guide

BY JEFF NELSON | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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f theater is on your travel itinerary this summer, here is a quick guide for the daily commuter, the long-range commuter and the overnight traveler. Here is the basic information on four summer theater festivals within a day’s drive from Champaign-Urbana.

For the quick commuter, there is the Illinois Shakespeare Festival at Ewing Manor in Bloomington. Since 1978, The Illinois Shakespeare Festival has offered a basic program of selected highlights from the Bard’s best, and in recent years, an extra or two.

This year’s season, which runs from June 23 to August 15, will feature from the Bard: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac. If something here seems like a summer evening that is worth your time, give them a call at (309) 438-8110.

A bit farther up the road in Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright country near Spring Green, a six-hour drive will get you to the American Player’s Theater, which offers this season Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Othello. Plus J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World and Dion Bouciautt’s London Assurance for those looking for a non-Elizabethan option.

London Assurance is a 19th century spoof on the intrigues of the leisure class. If these offerings sound intriguing, you have until October 3 to catch these plays. Further information at www.americanplayers.org may answer the rest of your questions.

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A full day’s drive (10-12 hours) in southern Ontario is Canada’s famous Stratford Festival. This year ’s schedule has plays running to November 7, but its program of 13 plays opens and closes at various times between May and November.

With Shakespeare as its anchor, Stratford provides an amazing variety of his best and least known from Macbeth to King John.

Four other Shakespearean opportunities include Timon of Athens, King Henry VIII, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline.

For other options, check out musicals (Guys and Dolls and Anything Goes), comedy with Noises Off and adventure with The Count of Monte Cristo. Their box office phone number is (800) 567-1600 and their Web site is www.stratfordfestival.ca Farther east in Ontario, about 15 hours from Champaign-Urbana, is the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, a small community about 20 miles north of Niagara Falls. This small town has a huge summer theater festival, which has some productions running to December 4, and is the world’s only theater festival primarily dedicated to the works of George Bernard Shaw.

Like Stratford, there are other offerings and shows open and close during the season at various times. The great Shaw is represent-

ed this season with Pygmalion and Man and Superman.

Many performances in late June to late July offer the complete Man and Superman, with Don Juan in Hell added, check their schedule if a “complete” Man and Superman is your thing.

Also check out other offerings such as O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!, J.M. Synge’s The Tinker’s Wedding, Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (directed by University of Illinois graduate Christopher Newton), and Pal Joey.

The Shaw Festival will also provide six other plays, including lunchtime one acts and a late season opening of Floyd Collins, a musical that opened at Chicago’s Goodman Theater a few years ago. Check with their box office at (800) 511-7429 or www.shawfest.com.

If theme parks just don’t do it for you, some classy theater can change your idea of what summer traveling is all about, and there is some real class at all these locations.

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uilty Conscience is arguably the Krannert Summerfest’s most lively and satisfying example of summer theater entertainment.

It’s a murder mystery that’s written in the tradition of Anthony Schaffer’s Sleuth, Ira Levin’s Deathtrap and Frederick Knott’s Dial M for Murder.

Set in the early 1980s and scripted by playwrights Richard Levinson and William Link, both veterans of television’s Columbo and Murder, She Wrote, Guilty Conscience concerns the plans and counterplans of famous defense attorney Arthur Jamison, who wants desperately to rid himself of his wife. Louise Jamison is about to divorce him for a big chunk of his wealth and ruin his career.

Using many of the conventions of this style of murder mystery, Levinson and Link include a young mistress and a series of convoluted and not-so-profound deceptions into the mix of the plot.

Through the labyrinth of murderous schemes that Arthur concocts, director William Martin’s cast achieves a wonderfully effective ensemble of intrigue and light humor. Steven M. Keen is naturalistically slippery with a dolphin-like grin. And with Joi Hoffsommer’s stern determination, they make a fine pair of sparring partners as Mr. and Mrs. Jamison.

Sari Sanchez’s Jackie Willis, Arthur’s young mistress, enters late in the first act as mostly a conventional and stereotyped role of the “other woman.” But she bursts into the second act with such impressive comedic skill and charm, much like a bubbly character in a Neil Simon farce. Brent T. Barnes also adds to the witty gamesmanship of Arthur’s schemes as the serious prosecutor who helps visualize murderous options and consequences.

The Levinson/Link script keeps audiences guessing to the very last lines with many pleasant and amusing surprises, much like the pair’s famed TV mysteries.

One of this production’s not-so-completely realized production choices concerned set designer Michael Franklin-White’s overemphasis of the importance of Arthur’s late father-in-law, a former judge. Suspended from the Studio Theatre’s ceiling grid at several corners of the thrust stage hang three identical portraits of the bald, old judge.

This Robert Duvall lookalike glares down at the living room of the Jamison townhouse too much like posters of 1984’s Big Brother— casting a psychological oppressiveness that could be more subtly expressed in less obvious ways.

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to create is a very strong part of who I am, it is in everything I do, it is viable.

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ancy McClellan-Hickey is a mother, a mosaicist, and the executive director of PACE, Inc., a Center for Independent Living, which serves people with disabilities in their efforts to maintain or achieve independence in the community. She has created a collection of mosaics and jewelry made from stained and fused glass. If you are interested in purchasing her work, she takes part in the Market at the Square in Urbana, Taste of Champaign and Arts in Central Park this September 18 and 19 in Decatur. Her phone number is 367-7617.

Stained glass artist Nancy McClellan-Hickey.

Why do you prefer mosaics as your chosen medium?

I have been strangely drawn to mosaics all my life; they are a symphony of tesserae.

Tesserae is the term for pieces used to make a mosaic. Amazingly captivating works are one tesserae at a time. You can be creative with line, color and composition. You can find other dimensions of choice and creativity in the type of tesserae you use and what you mosaic on. I ratify my Scotch heritage stereotype with my thriftiness. I do not like it when people throw useful things away. In mosaics, so many things are useful. That theme has been ingrained in me and in my life’s work. I work alongside many perfectly capable people who happen to have disabilities and whose worth has, at times, been sorely underestimated until they establish otherwise in all sorts of creative advocacies. Another example: I had my daughter save pennies as a lesson in life that nothing is worthless. We just bought her a car with a down payment that included several hundred dollars of pennies. I was going to throw away a talent, because my parents did not consider it a viable career alternative (I hear that from many artists). So, I followed my other passion on to college—psychology. Later in life, I accepted that the need

What is a mosaic and what do you strive to achieve in creating them?

A mosaic is a grouping with few rules. It can be tesserae grouted or not grouted. They can even be people making up a diversity in an organization or a mosaic of services, etc. In art, I strive for beauty, rhythm of the tesserae, a blend, almost a visual tone.

I often try to explain that at the time I am doing mosaics, I am at perfect peace. One market regular visitor tells me there is a book called Flow that describes that peace and how to achieve it in all aspects of life. I just picked up that book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is subtitled The Psychology of the Optimal Experience.

Beyond trying to achieve that flow for me, I want it to produce a similar feel in the people that look at my work. Nothing pleases me more than when an enthusiastic observer expresses a feeling or mood that my mosaic or stained and fused glass jewelry has created for them. It is really interesting to me to find out who prefers what piece and why.

Some people are touched by the color; others are taken with a symbol or an impression of the piece; still others are inspired to go home and mosaic.

What inspires you?

I see lines that inspire me. It is kind of funny sometimes where I see them. It has been signs for restaurants, the curve in the silhouette of an animal, tree limbs working together to make a cascading line in nature, other artists’ work, my doodles when I am listening to a boring lecture, etc. Very often, an idea for a mosaic will spring quickly from a visual cue like these. My jewelry tends to use flowing lines. Sometimes, I just sit and bend wire until I like what is there. I have more ideas than I have time to make; ideas are the easy part. Sometimes, color schemes will come to me by just seeing two things set down near each other, in a store or a couple of my tesserae jars or pieces of stained glass will set next to each other and I’ll see a blend of color that I want to use. I guess I am saying observation of what is around me is a key to my inspiration.

Sometimes I start my mosaics with a plan; I sometimes draw my “cartoon” or mosaic design with a computer software called Glass Eye. That is a program for making stained glass designs that I use for mosaics. Now and then I draw on things directly and other times I just place tesserae and see where it takes me.

Where do you get your materials?

Materials come from everywhere for the mosaics. It is a luxury when I use the finest

smalti from Italy, it is the butter of tesserae. It cuts beautifully and the colors are so rich.

When I work with it I get this appreciation for mosaic through the ages. It has been with us in many cultures surviving as the walls and floors of Greece and Rome for ages.

Unlike the ancient mosaicists, I order my tile on the Internet. I use a lot of Venetian tile.

I walk out my door and pick up rocks, pick up shells from the beach or take a trip to Pier One to get bamboo, terra cotta, cork or stones.

Broken china is popular. I once made the desert arches in a piece from pottery. I have seen mosaics made from bottle caps, marbles, sticks; the options are limitless.

As for what I mosaic on… I have seen mosaic cars, ovens, walls, garden stoneware and even house exteriors. I often use MDF board for my wall hangings because it is less likely to warp than wood. For mosaics exposed to water, you can use backer board.

Mastic, mortar and glue are popular adhesives; read labels carefully for the purpose you have in mind. For instance, mastic is for indoor use only and it works well to hold tiles in place on a vertical work but it can be messy and sticky. I like silicone sealer for most indoor work on MDF, it is waterproof and doesn’t string. I am experimenting with thin set mortar with a goal to produce durable outdoor mosaics, especially murals.

The final choice of grout color can totally

change the work. I go to home improvement stores to get large quantities for lower prices.

If you can’t find the color you want, you can mix in colorants. You can use paint to tint the grout but that can weaken it if you use too much. The same is true with the water added to the grout powder.

What environment do you like to work in and how does that affect your creative process?

I like (a) comfortable, organized, wellstocked workspace. I am very much affected by my surroundings. I cannot work when even the slightest bit tired. That is a hindrance as I do work full time outside the art world.

Fortunately, I have a wonderfully supportive family, a daughter that offers to cook dinner now and then so I can get a couple hours in before I go null and void. My niece, Tegan, who helps us set up my display. There is my brother, Lou, who actually did research to find materials for me to start me on mosaics years ago after our mother died from an extended illness. Anni, his wife, is one of my biggest fans and says she loves to have their home as a museum of my art. She is a source of encouragement always and really helped me to take the step to start selling my work.

The best thing in the environment for me is encouragement and passing that encouragement on to others who want to mosaic. The world needs more mosaics.

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JULY 8 - 14, 2004 | "LIFE SUCKS. GET A ***KING HELMET, OK?"

Conceptual artist at Parkland

BY KATIE RICHARDSON | ARTS EDITOR

Hunter S. Thompson paired with Richard Nixon, Kirshner paired with Adolf Hitler, and Shasta Kovitch paired with Joseph Stalin. Thompson painted an unflattering everal differently assembled pieces portrayal of Nixon in his book Fear and make up the conceptual art of Scott Loathing on the Campaign Trail. Kirshner ’s Mitchell. Showing at Parkland’s main art French influences irritated Hitler ’s purist gallery, the pieces unite under one common German ethics.

Stalin increasingly tightened restrictions theme: the influences of capitalism and the resulting danger to democracy. The collec- on composing, and Composer Kovitch subtly rebelled. All of these scenarios were tion is aptly named Invectives.

Mitchell, who has a B.A. in painting from explored while Mitchell conducted the year Western Illinois University, an M.A. from of research that went into the work, which Eastern Illinois, and an M. F. A. from San takes up an entire wall of the exhibit.

“Artists get the brunt of political leaders.

Francisco Art Institute, currently teaches at Danville Area Community College. At the I wanted to convey the sense of oppression, opening of his exhibit on Thursday, July 1, the way in which political leaders feel he defined conceptual art as “when the idea threatened by artists. I also wanted the piece behind the artwork precedes or is more to have an overview of artists: playwrights, important than the medium in which the writers, visual artists, composers, et cetera,” Mitchell said. artwork manifests itself.”

In the middle of the gallery is a piece titled The exhibit features several deceptively simplistic works of art with a strong politi- Appropriations from Creative Capitalism. This cal message. The largest of these works is a piece contains several different commercial piece titled Versus. This piece includes the items which market themselves under the paired photos of several different artists names of artists: Rembrandt Toothpaste, Da throughout the 20th century coupled with Vinci Pasta, Monet Jewelry.

“The first brand name I noticed was Da their politically powerful nemesis.

These include, but are not limited to, Vinci Pasta. I started thinking that maybe there was enough stuff out there to make a display out of. This seems to be another one of capitalism’s way[s] to sublimely get us: Equate products with artists to sell stuff.

As the piece progressed, I was amazed with how much stuff was out there.

At first I just shopped around town for it, but there were also numbers of items on the Internet. It was like a scavenger hunt or a mystery I needed to solve,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell also creates what he calls letter-writing pieces. He says these are always interesting, because he never knows how they are going to turn out. One of these pieces, currently showing at Parkland, is a series of correspondence with the Nike Corporation.

“Last year, I heard that Nike was giving LeBron James a $90 million endorsement deal. He was straight out of high school.

I also knew that Nike (allegedly) had sweatshops in Third World countries. There was such John Doe Memorial focuses on conceptualization rather than beauty.

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an absurdity to the situation. I decided to write a letter to Nike suggesting that they endorse a worker in one of these sweatshops for $1 million,” Mitchell said.

Nike’s reaction was to forward his letter to several different corporate departments. Each time they did this they sent him a letter, which was most likely a form letter.

All of these responses can be seen (and read) in Invectives, and serve as a homage of the inscrutable management of public relations in corporations.

“I have this idea that I am trying to help people through art. The best scenario would have been if they had agreed to do the $1 million commercial with the Nike sweatshop worker.

But I knew they probably wouldn’t do that,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell has been influenced by the writings of George Orwell, Appropriations from Creative Capitalism by Scott Mitchell. His exhibit Noam Chomsky and the Invectives will be on display at Parkland until August 5th. political art of Goya, among others. “It’s scary how many things on. Basically, though, I’m trying to get peofrom 1984 are starting to come true. The apathy ple to think. You don’t see a lot of things of people is one of the things that is so scary. these days that make you think. If you can’t People feel like they’re not empowered. (Just get that from art, where are you going to get like) there is that mantra (from !984) ‘Freedom it from? You’re certainly not going to find it is slavery,’ we now have ‘The Patriot Act’ and on TV. It’s possible for art to inform people, though, without being didactic and keeping ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom,’” Mitchell said.

Mitchell’s first overtly political pieces a sense of humor. I think (Michael) Moore’s were abstract paintings of homeless peo- movie (Fahrenheit 9/11) proved this beautiple. He wanted to convey the feeling of fully, “ Mitchell said.

The most important work in the collecbeing homeless through the medium so the pieces were oblique and dark. After three tion, to Mitchell, is the piece titled Four years, the subject matter eventually began Freedoms Revisited. This work revisits the to dishearten him, but he returned to polit- Norman Rockwell series of the same name. ical pieces when he studied at San The four freedoms depicted are speech, F r a n c i s c o A r t I n s t i t u t e , f o c u s i n g o n worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. The piece, which bears gold-platabstract work about the environment.

Although he wants to send a message, he ed oil cans and dinner plates with the does not harbor idealistic thoughts about Constitution and the Bill of Rights written the effect his work may or may not have. “I on them, is both a comment on American don’t have illusions that my work is going decadence as well as a sad reminder of the to change the world. Maybe I just do it for chasm between Rockwell’s perception of 1940s America and the current danger myself,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell wants everyone who does view which Mitchell feels democracy is in. buzz his work to be able to get something from it, though. “With some of my pieces, you need Scott Mitchell’s work will be on display to be up on your art history to get them, but through July at the Parkland Art Gallery. for the most part, I try to make it so that All works are available for sale. Price listeveryone can understand what’s going ing is available at the exhibit.

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Paul Luu has been the lead program assistant at Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club in Champaign since October 2003. As a program assistant with a background in child psychology, he helps develop programs for the children, oversees Boys and Girls Club staffing, volunteers and personally works with club members. As an advocate for the club, he reaches out to the community to draw support for the kids and their development. The Boys and Girls Club is centered around four focuses for the kids: a sense of belonging, a sense of usefulness, sense of power or influence, and a sense of competency. Previously a staff member of East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center, he knows the importance of being an advocate for children.

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Did you have anything like the Boys and Girls Club when you were growing up?

When I was growing up, I was lucky. I was involved in the local church youth group. And it allowed me to have opportunities to go to activities and functions. It was a personal growth. There was the Boys and Girls Club here when I was growing up. It mainly served underprivileged African-American kids, and that’s very difficult to put an Asian in that environment. And I think it would’ve been very difficult for my family to do that. Now we have all these programs for the kids, but we still need to diversify the club population. My intention is, I’ve been working very hard to slowly incorporate other cultures; more Latinos, Asians, whoever. Really diversify and mix it up.

It’s really going to help our kids. I speak to a lot of parents here where they want it more diversified because they know they’re growing up in a country of the world where everyone is not the same so that helps the kids have a basic understanding that there are other people out there. For them to relate and learn about different cultures and different people, that gives them more of an opportunity and an advantage compared to other kids.

What do you want the children to take away from their time at the Boys and Girls Club?

I’d really want them to know and take with them is that the time they’ve spent here, as little or as much, there are people who honestly and truly care for them and want the best for them. If they run into obstacles, and they’re in college or out of college and if the

staff is still here, they are able to come back and utilize the staff.

What is the importance of programs at Boys and Girls Club?

Sense of belonging—they’re always welcome here. We have an open door policy. We do not discriminate between age, gender, religion; we don’t discriminate against any kid. The kids can come in and out whenever they want. A lot of organizations, you have to be there at a certain time; they take attendance. If you missed so many days, you get kicked out of the organizational program. But we don’t do that. We know that the kids have very hectic lives and if they want to go back and forth our doors are always open. And the staff feels like we’re all family. I want them to know that they are useful. The programs here encourage them to develop their skills, and to make them feel they are useful not just in this club but also in the community, all over. I want them to take away the fact that they have influence. They influence positively in their family’s lives, friends’ lives, and they influence society.

What makes up a good education?

The child has to be engaged and active. And we must find ways to be creative to interact and get the child to participate because every child learns differently at a different pace. You also need a very strong staff that also understands the overall goals of the organizations. You need the community to support the programs or educational process. The community people need to support the kids in what they’re doing.

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If it’s hip-hop dance, if it’s ballet, if it’s learning to build a computer, they should support it. We need it to encourage kids in their creativity and their self esteem. So community support is important and parent support.

What are your goals for the club?

More parental involvement and not just chaperoning, but parents who come in and say, “Hey, I’d like to supervise a group of kids” or say “I’ve got a cooking skill” or “I’d like to teach kids to sew.” It’s about being proactive and interactive. Parents can be great models.

And to do that, parents should be engaged in their kids’ lives. And also working with the community. If the community helps us and advocates for us, we’re helping and supporting these kids.

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MONTH’S FREE RENT Spacious 2,3 BR. Campus apartments. AC, carpets, balconies, fireplaces, laundry and parking available. 217-202-1601 Very Large 2 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory, Big rooms, walk-in closets, Great location. $650-$680 Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com

JOHN STREET APARTMENTS 58 E. John August 2004. Two and three bedrooms, fully furnished. Dishwashers, center courtyard, on-site laundry, central air, ethernet available.

Call Chad at 344-9157 352-3182 University Group www.ugroup96.com

JOHN & LOCUST, C Showing for Aug 2004. Quiet neighborhood. One block west of First Street and close to campus. Huge one bedroom apts, very bright. Window A/C, Carpet, Gas heat. Parking $20/mo. Rents start at $350/mo.

Shown 7 days a week.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC. 356-1873 www.barr-re.com

Lease 7/04-8/05. 1 of 2 BR furnished, utilities paid, W/D, Central A/C, Private Bath, $495/mo, 278-0339, admelrose@hotmail.com

S First 408 E. Stoughton S First 907 S. Second S First S. Second

2 Bedrooms 56 & 58 E Daniel

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Showings 1pm-6pm, M–Th Showings 1pm-5pm Fri Saturdays By Appointment Office at 901 S. First St.

328-1226 *4 to 8 Bedroom Houses a variety of locations +Amenities* Great Campus Locations • Laundry Facilities • On Site Property Management • 24 Hour Emergency Maintenance • Heated Outdoor Pool Most units have fiber optic ethernet, cablevision, and other utilities included

HERITAGE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 711 West Main, U Studios $440 Furnished, Busey and Main. Rent includes: sewer, recycling, hauling, and assigned parking. On Site laundry, security locked building. Each unit has a huge closet, gas fireplaces, dishwashers, built in microwaves and garbage disposals, balconies, or patios. One block from Silver bus line, 3 blocks from Illini 22. Quiet neighborhood.

808 West Nevada, U 1bdrm. in basement $450 plus heat, 3 bedrooms and sunporch or small bedroom $1440 56/58 E. Healey-C F 1brm. $390-$425 Heat paid. Laundry on site, parking available.

All units with patio/balcony.

106 E. John-C UF 1 bdrm. $540-$575 Heat and water pd. Lg units with hardwood floors.

Laundry on site. Parking available.

512 E. Clark-C F eff. $340-$360 Water paid, efficiency units.

Large efficiency units 1 1/2 blocks from Beckman. Parking available.

602 E. Clark-C F eff. $315-$325 Water paid, efficiency units 1 block from Beckman. All units with patio/balcony. Parking available.

807/809 W. Illinois-U F 1bdrm. $525-$560 Water pd. Large units at corner of Lincoln and Illinois. Laundry on site. Parking available.

1009 W. Main-U F 1-2 bdrm. $475-$630 Water paid. 3 blocks from Beckman.

Laundry on site. Many units with balconies. Parking available.

Call Heritage Property Management at 351-1803 or stop by our office at 1206 S. Randolph, 2nd Floor, Champaign We are at the corner of Hessel and Randolph (behind Jillians) www.hpmapts.com

Fall 2004 1 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory $440-$540 202 E. John $400-$585 910 S. Locust $550 2 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory $580-$730 202 E. John $570-$860 610 E. Stoughton $600-$730 810 W. Iowa $660-$730

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OLD TOWN CHAMPAIGN 510 S. Elm 2 BR close to campus, hardwood floors, dishwasher, W/D, central air/heat, off street parking, 24 hr. maintenance. $525/mo. 352-3182 or 841-1996. www.ugroup96.com

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3 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory $1100 610 E. Stoughton $900-$1125 807 W. Oregon $1000-$1170 4 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory $1200 5&6 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory $1500-$1600 Houses 801 W. Iowa 8 Bedrooms $2500 1103 S. Busey 9 Bedrooms $3100

359-0700 • www.GabesPlace.com

Illini Manor Apartments

401 E. Chalmers Corner 4th & Chalmers When YOU rent from US, you get:

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www.roysebrinkmeyer.com 1107 E Washington, U. Duplex, one bedroom plus study. Windows on all four sides, off-street parking, laundry on site. 1 mile from campus. Available 8-15. $450. References required.

778-5843 www.champaign-urbana.biz Click on RC Rentals.

115 W. WASHINGTON, U. Avail Aug 2004. 1 bedroom apts in quiet Urbana neighborhood. Carpet, window A/C, laundry, boiler heat.

Rents from $510/mo. Shown 7 days a week.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC. 356-1873 www.barr-re.com

1BR avail. Aug.

607 W. Springfield, C. $445-460 includes heat, water & trash laundry, parking Weiner Companies, Ltd. 384-8018 www.weinercompanies.com 2 bedroom duplex. 1618 W. Union, C. $600/mo includes heat. Laundry hook-ups. 1,000 sq.ft. August 1.

384-0333.

2 bedroom. Vaulted ceiling. Fireplace. 2 car garage. w/d included. $850/mo. 1105 E. Florida, U. 3840333.

205 E. HEALEY, C. Renting Aug 2004. Very large 1 bedroom apts. Carpet, window A/C, parking avail at $30/mo. Rents start at $385/mo. Shown Daily 7 days a week.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC. 356-1873 www.barr-re.com 504/506 E Green, U 1 bedroom apartments east of Lincoln Square Mall. Laundry on site, D/W, parking included and cats welcome. $415/mo.

Quality Living Properties 328-4283 602 S. Walnut, U 1 bedroom apartment near shopping and bus lines. Rent $475/mo. includes heat, water, recycling, and off-street parking.

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Beautiful park setting convenient to U of I

Large 2 BR apt. avail. mid August.

Has laundry, A/C, $435-$465 Weiner Co. 384-8018 Boutique 1-2 bedroom lofts. Stunning schoolhouse shell two blocks North of 2-Main downtown Champaign. Call Linda 217-841-4549, 312-933-7382 or email info@cu-living.com or go to website for visual.

Boutique downtown loft 1 BR apartment, exposed brick, twelve-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, free parking for 2 cars. $550. Contact ASAP, will go quickly. (217)841-4549.

CLR Boutique one and two bedroom lofts. Some new ones, some old.

Starting at $395 to $595+ for brand new exciting apartments across from Crystal Lake Boathouse. 100 yards from Carle Clinic. 217-841-4549, email info@cu-living.com or go to website for visual.

Crystal Lake Park Large well maintained 2 bedroom apartments bargain priced at $405$465/mo. Call 840-5134. Details at robsapartments.com

FAIRLAWN VILLAGE FAIRLAWN & VINE Aug 2004. Live in a peaceful, relaxed, neighborhood setting. Fairlawn Village is a one story apartment community, spread out on twelve acres, close to U of I, shopping and walking distance to schools. Spacious apartments with washer dryer hook up, a/c and garages available. One bedrooms from $470/mo. Two bedrooms from $485 to $570/mo. Call for an appointment.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC 344-5043 www.barr-re.com Our most desirable location on U of I golf course. 1200 sq. ft, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, study, dishwasher, W/D, A/C, covered parking, balcony/ patio. 359-3687 and 359-0065.

Lease, deposit, no pets.

Quiet 1 and 2 BR, close to campus, 704 W. Nevada St., U. Most utilities, parking. Laundry, hardwood floors.

From $445. Avail. 8/15. No pets.

649-2751. kramerapartments.com SOUTH WEST CHAMPAIGN 1418 Lincolnshire.Newly decorated large 4 bedroom. 2 full baths. Fireplace. Kit. Dining/Living Room. Private patio. Water/Parking included.

AUGUST. No pets. 356-0660/ 352-3642.

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603 S. Walnut, U Large 1 bedroom apartments. Quiet neighborhood, washer/dryer in unit, parking included, $500/mo.

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1 BR apt. Unfurnished, Green and State. Central A/C, dishwasher, W/D, parking, Aug.-Aug, $600/mo neg. 390-4794.

710 S. Walnut, U 1 bedroom apartments near shopping and buslines. Rent $400/mo includes trash, sewer, recycling, and off-street parking.

Quality Living Properties 328-4283

1 of 4 bedroom apartments. Furnished.

University Commons Apts. $405 includes utilities. 8/20/04 08/07/05. 217-714-2736.

800 W. Church, C. Available now and through summer.

Economical 2 BR. $450/mo.

352-8540, 355-4608 pm, weekends. www.faronproperties.com

2 br $455/mo, furnished, faces Green and First. Pets allowed. 7785392.

Huge luxury one bedroom, C. W/D in unit. Central A/C. Available August. 390-2480.

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I WANT SPIDER-MAN TO BATTLE RON BURGUNDY | JULY 8 - 14, 2004

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SPIDER-MAN 2 ★★★★

BY MATT PAIS | LEAD REVIEWER

I

n Spider-Man, director Sam Raimi put the “corn” in “popcorn movie” and left puzzled fans of the comic caught in a web of crummy effects and bland exposition.

Well, just consider that practice.

Spider-Man 2 is a dynamite summer movie experience, an extravaganza of thrills seamlessly mixed with upbeat, character-driven entertainment. It flies higher and swings smoother than the first, all the while staying more effectively grounded in the conflicted double life of Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire).

The sequel picks up two years after SpiderMan defeated the Green Goblin, and things haven’t been going so well for the soaring superhero or his alter ego. Peter now lives in a run-down apartment and is constantly strapped for cash despite working as both a pizza delivery boy and photographer for The Daily Bugle. His responsibilities as Spider-Man force him to blow off homework and even for-

get his own birthday. The bank is foreclosing on Aunt May’s (Rosemary Harris) house, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) has found a new boyfriend, and his best friend, Harry Osborn (James Franco), still vows revenge against Spider-Man for killing his father.

And if that wasn’t enough for a college kid to handle, Spider-Man must again face an enemy mad scientist corrupted by his own creation. Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) has a concept of fusion that would make even Miles Davis sweat. By harnessing energy from the element Tritium, he can power the four mechanical arms he has attached to his body and linked to his brain functions. When the power of the machine overtakes him, he begins terrorizing New York City and it’s up to Spider-Man to save the day.

From the start of the sleeker credit sequence, it’s clear that Spider-Man 2 has a far greater command of the interlocking lives led by its protagonist, a now-20-something kid forced into a role that breeds more lonely responsibility than glory. The Daily Bugle labels him a menace and, at the conclusion of the first Spider-Man, Peter didn’t even get the girl. He was too committed to the costume, but the original film failed to convince that Peter couldn’t balance a social life with his crime fighting duties. It pigeonholed him as a squeaky-voiced geek coping with newfound vertical abilities, and though it didn’t glorify the hero, it didn’t garner him much sympathy either.

But if Spider-Man was the bones of creator

Stan Lee’s series, Spider-Man 2 is full of meaty satisfaction, a rich buffet of visual pleasures and stirring exchanges. Raimi’s camera tricks and special-effects enhanced images are swifter and more acrobatic. Gone is the impression that Spider-Man can only fly with the greatest of ease on some designer’s computer screen. This time, he’s genuinely heroic, a fearless do-gooder we believe in and root for.

SPIDER-MAN 2 | TOBEY MAGUIRE Written by Alvin Sargent (Unfaithful), the second installment in the wickedness just enough to exist as both a vilseries is twice as emotionally satisfying, lain and a victim.

The fun doesn’t stop there. Blink and you’ll rounding out the characters and trapping the lives of three young innocents within the cir- miss Stan Lee’s appearance in an early action cumstances of a chaotic, comic book world. sequence, and J.K. Simmons’s return as Peter’s His dialogue is like something out of an old hilariously dictatorial boss, fantastically reminisradio program, and the story builds in a cent of old-time, mud-slinging newspapermen.

This elegantly written, dynamically perpatient, confident fashion that knows how to move and astonish. While David Koepp’s formed summer surprise raises the bar for script for Spider-Man appeared desperate to comic-to-screen adaptations. It looks, sounds satisfy, Sargent is less eager to please, and he and feels like a book off the rack every step of consequently provides a slower, subtler and the way, and it’s paced to reveal its best secrets late in the film. It doesn’t want you to merely wholly more fulfilling film.

Now more assured of his tone, Raimi draws watch its hero traverse the Manhattan skyline.

Rather, Spider-Man 2 gracefully swings you splendid storybook performances from Maguire, Dunst and Molina. Maguire no in and out of a fantasy world, from the top of longer makes Spider-Man a run-of-the-mill tall buildings to the bottom of a broken-heartaction hero; this sequel is Peter’s story, and ed young man. If the next installment is this Maguire deepens along with the character. gratifying, the series might just have to steal Dunst is a dignified damsel in distress, and that other high-flying hero’s name. Spider-Man Molina controls the evil Doc Ock’s maniacal 2 is super, man.

PHONE: 217/337-8337 Other Rentals 500 HOUSES 1103 S. Busey Spacious 9 Bedroom House, Very large Bedrooms, Washer/Dryer, Parking Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com

2 bedroom and 7 bedroom house on campus for fall 2004. 367-6626.

204 N Lincoln 4 bedroom close to campus. W/D, central air, fireplace. Deck with nice yard. 355-0987.

208 S. Third

HOUSES 300 YARDS TO UNION, U. Newly renovated, hot tub, spa, fireplace, deck, garage, all new houses starting at $1600/mo. Call Linda 217841-4549, 312-933-7382, or email info@cu-living.com

304 E. White St

This remodeled, furnished 8 bedroom house is available for August 2004. Central AC, 3.5 baths. Kegerator, Bar, Stereo System in 2000 sq ft party area. With hardwood floors and a fireplace, this is a must-rent.

Call Roland Realty at 328-1226 to set up a showing today.

308 1/2 E. Clark, C. Furnished 2 bedroom, 1 bath, basement, garage, Engineering. $700/mo. 978-649-2108.

Furnished 7BR, 3 bath. Big house with lots of room includes hardwood floors, newly remodeled kitchen and basement, and a bar and kegerator.

2+ parking spots included. To set up a showing call Roland Realty at 3281226.

4 BEDROOM FACULTY/INTERNATIONAL Townhouse, family room, CA, $900, 398-1998.

3 BEDROOM HOUSES

508 W. Illinois, U 4 BR house w/ 2 full baths, W/D, offstreet parking, pets welcomed. 1st month’s rent free!

JTS Properties 328-4284

for rent. Starting at $600.

3971or 337-4889.

621-

3 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE Aug, w/ family room, near Campus. $850. 398-1998.

3-5 person. Newly Remodeled.

Parking, laundry, AC. Some utilities paid. 912 S Oak. TERMS NEGOTIABLE. 351-8414. Fritz@shout.net

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HOUSES

714 Lynn Street, U. 1 mile to campus, 2 blocks from bus, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, fireplace, all appliances, furnished, a/c, w/d, d/w, off street parking. $350/single, $275/ each shared room plus utilities, includes garbage pick up, ethernet wired. Available immediately. 630985-8477. martinpa10@comcast.net

602 W. MICHIGAN, U

Avail 2004. 3 bedroom house with sunroom, washer and dryer, forced air heat. Rent $1,300/mo. Shown 7 days a week.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC 356-1873 www.barr-re.com

801 W. Iowa Large 8 bedroom 3 Bath House, Furnished, Washer/Dryer, Lots of Parking Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com

802 Iowa Urbana New renovated architect’s home, group house, Jet-spa, hot tub, pond, fully equipped modern kitchen, fireplace, huge common areas, garage.

Available now, $2000. 359-6400

For lease. Nice 2 bedroom home.

Champaign. Charming courtyard. $750/mo. 217-649-0491

Great Urbana House

This 6 bedroom house is newly renovated. Includes sewer fees, sanitary hauling, lawn care and driveway parking for six. call 328-1226 for a showing today.

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ROOMS

903 W NEVADA, U

Four bedroom house in downtown Champaign. 309 W. White. Individual or group leases. Available August. $1300/mo. 217-721-3091.

Furnished 4 bedroom houses on campus near Ohio and Lincoln for Fall ‘04. Call 356-1407.

Quality rooming house. Near Jimmy John’s on Lincoln Ave. Rooms available for Aug 2004. Rents from $260/mo to $330/mo. Laundry facilities, Common kitchen. Showing 7 days a week.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC. 356-1873 www.barr-re.com

Single rooms for women.

Large 4 BR house. W/D free. Offstreet parking. $1440. 403 W. Springfield, U. Real Estate Professionals. 417-5539.

Kitchen and laundry facilities. Nice, clean, good location on bus-line.

Now leasing Summer and Fall 2004.

Call 367-4824.

Spacious Champaign 3 BR, 1.5 bath, mature trees, large fenced yard.

New carpet, tile, w/d. $775/mo. Credit check/references.

355-8512.

ROOMMATES Roommates needed for nice house!

More info: http://tinyurl.com/yv7qq

ROOMMATES

PARKING | STORAGE

1 non-smoking housemate wanted.

M or F. Aug 1 or later. 1802 Peach St. Near Hessel Park. On busline.

A/C, W/D. Call Derek 217-333-6058 or email djm1992a@yahoo.com.

Special prices on 5 x 5, 5 x 10, 10 x 10 units available for Summer. Call Johnson Rentals at 351-1767.

Female roommate needed at 57 Chalmers. 9 month lease. Bi-level apt. 4 BR, 2 bath, fully furnished.

Central Air. $406/mo. plus utilities.

10 min. from campus. Rebecca 630361-2057.

Large, quiet 2 BR, U apt. 2.5 blocks from campus. Storage. $320/mo.

Free parking, water. 603 W Nevada.

Cathie 847-918-8847.

M or F, 1 or 2 for new house in country. $325 includes everything.

217-840-2257. Leave message.

Non-smoking male to share house with owner. Clean, furnished, W/D, privacy, share utilities, near Sunnycrest. $450. 217-369-3634.

Room available with 3 student athletes. $325/mo. plus utilities. Call Sara 217-202-9735.

Roommate $355/mo. 217-454-9976. http://home.insightbb.com/~robdinsmore

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RealEstateforSale 600 CONDOS | DUPLEXES CLEAN, QUIET: Luxurious 2 BR, 1.5 bath, bi-level. Wood floors, W/D, dishwasher, garage.

Excellent neighborhood, 1303 E. Mumford, U. $765/mo. Pets considered. Credit check/references. 355-8512.

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must first pass an assessment evaluation, Sullivan said. Each student must fill out an application and go through a test and evaluation process.

“The student must perform at grade level or higher, and they need to have a willingness to learn and want to be here,” Sullivan said.

If a student is not quite so motivated to learn, Next Generation will provide the stimulating environment to motivate students and make learning fun, Sullivan said.

The educational environment is created by the teachers working at Next Generation, Sullivan said. It is important to have teachers who are committed and dedicated to their job and their students.

“Teachers should want to provide the ultimate learning experience for every child,” she said. “In other words, learning should be fun.

It should be exciting.”

The student to teacher ratio will at least be 15 to one. The teacher can gain a better understanding of the student and get to know each one on a personal level.

“We’re not competing against anyone else; we’re just providing an alternative in the community,” Sullivan said. “Students have the opportunity to be here at Next Generation. This is going to open up their whole world.” buz z

MAYNARD LAKE AREA DUPLEX. 2 BR, 1.5 baths, all appliances, solarium, energy efficient, privacy fence.

No pets, non-smoking unit. 1 car attached garage. Available Aug. 1. $775. 3309A Halifax Dr, C. Hillshire Realty. 352-6400.

URBANA DUPLEX, 840 sq. ft. 2 BR, all appliances, energy efficient, utility room w/ W/D. No pets. Non-smoking unit. $575/mo. 404A E Iowa, U. Available Aug. 1. Hillshire Realty.

352-6400.

Place a Classified Advertisement at 337-8337

“Teachers should want to provide the ultimate learning experience for every child. In other words, learning should be fun. It should be exciting.”

– Barb Sullivan, director of Next Generation

CURRICULUM

ADMISSION

Public schools: •Strong basic education system in Champaign-Urbana for education of children/youth.

Pre-school through high school. Public schools have a movement to standardize all education.

Public schools: • Serve all children by providing special education services for kids with special needs. It’s an opportunity for additional tutoring or reading programs.

Private schools: •Provide a more intense curriculum either through private programs or through religious focus or are modified to a more specific area like science or math. Some may modify through project base input through the child. One example is the Montessori Schools.

Private schools: • May not be equipped to provide special education. Admission is selective toward a preference for students with special talents.

COST Public schools: • Low cost because of tax funding.

Private Schools: • Tuition fee paid by student’s guardian.

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PARENT

COMMITMENT

Public schools: • Involved parents are of the minority among public school families.

Private schools: • Tend to have a high parent commitment level and intense parent involvement with fund-raising and governance of the school.

Source: Susan Fowler, dean of UI College of Education

Erin Tarr (left) and Judy Dalton (top) work with children at the Next Generation school. Currently, the school only accomdates preschool children.

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Next Generation opens doors School offers tailored learning in early education

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aper animals and the smell of macaroni line the colorful halls of Next Generation, a school for early education.

Next Generation opened its doors about nine years ago to children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old. Children gather around a carpet for story time before they have lunch. This may seem like an ordinary preschool setting, but the staff at Next Generation believes it offers more.

Barb Sullivan, director of Next Generation, who has been in the early childhood education field for 22 years, feels that the school provides a creative and stimulating learning environment. Learning is individually tailored to fit each child at his or her own level. Sullivan felt it was time to expand that learning environment beyond preschool to elementary and middle school. “This was the ultimate plan to extend it through middle school. And we’ve established a wonderful academic childhood program,� she said. “The parents would like to continue with what we’ve started here for their children’s education.�

The new school will be located at Galen and Lancaster Drive, near Next Generation’s current campus at 1201 W. Windsor Road in Champaign. The school building will be complete in August and ready for the 2004-2005 school year.

For the first year, there will be 85 students in the kindergarten through 4th grade student body. The classes break down into 25 students in kindergarten, 32 in combined 1st and 2nd grade and a maximum of 30 students in a combined 3rd and 4th grade class. Each classroom will have two certified teachers.

Fifth grade will be combined with 6th through 8th for a maximum of 15 students for the 2004-2005 school year. Five teachers will be working with the students by “designing, implementing and teaching the curriculum,� according to the Next Generation Middle School parent packet.

Aside from core subjects like math, science, history and English, Next Generation will offer more to its students. Elementary school students will have lessons in performing arts, Spanish, art and art history. Middle school students will learn French and art history. “The reason we have the two languages is so that the children have a basis of both so when they go on to high school, they can decide which language they like best,� Sullivan said.

For students to attend Next Generation, they

Children play at the Next Generation School. The expansion of the Next Generation school will open in August.

moviereview

THE CLEARING ★★★

BY ANDREW VECELAS | STAFF WRITER

T

he advertising for The Clearing does the film a great injustice since it depicts the film as a typical suspense film about the abduction of a well-to-do businessman. Audiences going into the film expecting anything along these lines will surely leave the theater disappointed, as many critics apparently did. The Clearing is the only thriller in recent memory that cares less about the kidnapping, and more about its effects on a marriage. It’s an intriguing drama that wears the mask of a typical thriller.

How many other thrillers would devote more screen time to conversations of marriage and infidelity than to an attempt to escape from the kidnappers? Or, for that matter, develop the plot in such a way that the audience already senses the inevitable outcome, even before the dramatic attempted exchange of the ransom? The movie dances around many conventions of the kidnapping genre, more concerned with developing the plights of its characters than manipulating the audience onto the edge of its collective seat.

Robert Redford plays the abducted businessman, Wayne Hayes, being led through the wilderness at gunpoint by his captor. Arnold

DE-LOVELY ★★★

BY ANDREW CREWELL | STAFF WRITER

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JULY 8 - 14, 2004 | I ALSO WANT THE TRIX BUNNY TO FIGHT THE NESQUIK BUNNY. OUTSTANDING!

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PHOTOS | RODERICK GEDEY

BY SUSIE AN | STAFF WRITER

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ole Porter was a man that few understood, but that many adored for his compositional and musical abilities. Kevin Kline proves he can act anywhere, anytime and any part as he portrays Porter with a Kevin Kline panache that another actor just couldn’t bring to the set.

Cole Porter, while not being well understood even to this day, is portrayed in good light by this recounting of his life. De-Lovely is a flashback revolving around a staging of Porter’s life story for the theater, with an old and ailing Porter watching from the audience. It shows his wife, runs through a bazillion of his greatest hits, and parades a host of musical talent while being suspiciously understated about what everybody is curious about deep down: Porter’s sexuality.

It is taken for granted that cushy period pieces from earlier in the century will be highly acclaimed should they boast a highrent name or two on the marquee. In DeLovely, that is not necessarily the case. As much as the movie is entertaining, it is also puzzling and a bit off base to an extent.

Mack (Willem Dafoe), the man who abducted Wayne and leads him through the forest, insists that he is only a middle-man, hired by a group of men who are waiting in a cottage somewhere up ahead. The two men live vastly different lives, and Wayne’s numerous business successes are contrasted against the streak of failures in Arnold’s personal and professional lives over the course of their journey.

This story takes up less than half the movie, with the other half devoted to Wayne’s wife Eileen (Helen Mirren), and the impact the kidnapping has on her. Their marriage seems happy enough at first, but a revelation about Wayne’s infidelities that surfaces during the investigation opens an old wound for Eileen.

This leads to a few stirring scenes, as she has to confront the problems in her marriage to Wayne for the sake of her family, while aiding in the investigation of the kidnapping.

Wayne’s story develops over the period of a single day, while Eileen’s takes place across a few weeks—this fact is obscured at first since both stories are intercut with each other. Clues start to appear in Eileen’s story that foreshadow the resolution of Wayne’s, so that a sense of inevitability enters the plot. Even though the ending can be guessed by the audience, the way the film works around to it, and explains it, creates a few surprises.

Of the three leads in the film, Mirren is given the most to work with. Eileen ends up with most of the screen time, as well as the most dramatic character arc. When she first finds out Wayne has disappeared, she immediately thinks he has left her. Though her fears turn out to be false, the insecurity remains throughout the ordeal.

Out of 125 minutes, there are about 20 seconds where the characters attempt to dissect the perplexing relationship between Porter, a known homosexual, and his wife Linda, played by Ashley Judd. This gives the audience the opportunity to see how unimportant this distinction was to the Porters themselves, and is rather symbolic. However, the film leaves off in an awkward stance after the first sexual encounter between the two lifelong lovers. One line has Linda saying she knows he likes men more then she does, and the issue is squashed forever.

On another point, the film lets the audience down a bit. Night and Day was the 1946 screen remake of Porter’s biography, which was known to be wildly inaccurate. De-Lovely has been exalted for its candor, however, is sheepishly vague when it comes to telling the cold hard truth. Porter wrote his songs and fueled his work through scorchingly hot homosexual encounters. The film pussyfoots around this fact with G-rated innuendo and smirks from Porter’s pals in life.

Beyond a select couple scenes, though, Kline and Judd are perfect. Kline, despite overacting the stereotypical, limp-wristed, theater-bound homosexual, is still the standard in Hollywood, or anywhere else. Judd also does an admirable job, attacking her role professionally and with much depth. Everyone knows she is a beautiful woman, but occasionally her roles lack depth.

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This is the first directorial effort by longtime producer Pieter Jan Brugge, who also co-wrote the story. He balances the two stories well, and uses the form of a thriller to drive the drama forward. The process works more often than not, and is most successful when the characters take center stage. Sometimes the old suspense conventions pop up distractingly, as in the chase to exchange the ransom, which comes across as tacked on to provide more conflict.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two years ago, scientists discovered a secret underground river running more than 800 feet below a Mauritanian town in the Sahara Desert. With a flow rate of 8,450 gallons per hour -- enough to supply the needs of 50,000 people -- it is the biggest unnamed river in the world. I predict that you'll soon make an analogous find in your own domain, Aries. What is the valuable resource that has always been near you, but hidden?

Any day now, you'll know.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I took a long, meandering walk today. After an hour, I found myself in an unfamiliar neighborhood on a wide paved road. In the middle of a long straight stretch there were two street signs next to each other. The one on the right -- the direction from which I had come -- said "Split Drive." The one on the left -- where I was headed -- said "Union Avenue." There was no intersection here and no bend in the road to mark the change -- no apparent distinction at all between Split and Union. Now study all the details I just reported, Taurus.

They're symbols for your life in the coming week.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Golfer Phil Mickelson has had an odd career. During his first 12 years as a pro, the 34-year-old Gemini won 22 tournaments and earned more than $25 million. But because he had never finished first in any of the four major tournaments, sports writers branded him as a loser. When he finally captured the top spot at the Masters last April, they acted as if he had exorcised some terrible ancient curse. I suspect that many of you Geminis will soon be subject to expectations and pressures as absurd as those once directed at Mickelson. Please resist the urge to buy into them. Don't let anyone manipulate you into trying to live up to their pathological standards of success.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): To pump up their volume above the prevailing human din, some nightingales in big cities have learned to unleash 95-decibel songs, matching the loudness of a chainsaw. I'd love to see you make a similar push, Cancerian, because let's face it: If your output remains at its current level, you'll continue to be half-invisible, never making the impact you should. So raise your intensity, please. Whatever you've been doing to express your uniqueness, do it louder. However you've been contributing your beauty to the world, do it bigger.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Dear Dr Brezsny: I need someone to rescue me! My therapist fell asleep during our last session! Even my mother won't return my calls! And the man I love just told me he's not emotionally attached to me and is planning to marry a woman he's known for six weeks! I'm smoking too much and drinking every night and crying myself to sleep. I'm afraid I'll end up as a middle-aged cat lady wearing a housecoat and sponge rollers in my hair, drinking gin straight out of the bottle! I need some bright, wise soul to restore me to health and wholeness

and hope! -Lamed Lioness." Dear Lioness: According to my reading of the astrological omens, there's a special person who'll soon be in a perfect position to rescue you.That person is you yourself!

The same thing's true about a majority of your fellow Leos: They're on the verge of becoming their own saviors. Any minute now, you'll all know exactly how to convert your breakdowns into breakthroughs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I think what you're about to experience is summed up well by the bumper sticker I saw today: If a pig flies, don't criticize it for not staying up long. In other words, Virgo, the most righteous response to the wonders you've been experiencing is delighted gratitude -- even if the wonders don't quite live up to their initial promise or your early expectations.

Ironically, this approach is the only one that will make it possible for the pig to fly again in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your life has brought you many maddeningly inconclusive adventures. On occasion, you've probably been tempted to invest what was left of your battered faith in the doctrine proclaimed by Gertrude Stein: "There ain't no answer.

There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer.That's the answer." But now the time has come for you to suspend your belief in Stein's theory and others like it. During the next five months, I predict that you will be given more precise, definitive answers than you've ever had before.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Each day many of your cells expire and are replaced by others. As long as you live, this relentless process of death and rebirth never abates. Periodically, then, you have a completely new set of flesh and bones that retains none of the same atoms you were composed of earlier. Think back, for example, to the physical body you inhabited in July of 1999.

There is nothing left of that old thing! In a sense, you have reincarnated without having to endure the inconvenience of dying.

Do you realize how free this makes you? In the coming week, Scorpio, take full advantage of this gift. Show how much you appreciate it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Contrary to the orthodox notion that sperm headed towards an egg are in a deadly competition with each other, researchers have discovered they collaborate, often joining together to create a "love train" so as to reach the target faster. Using this as your inspiration, Capricorn, see if there's an area of your own life that you've misjudged as being ahotbed of cutthroat rivalry.The astrological omens suggest that it's a perfect time to awaken and cultivate the cooperative potentials of such a situation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Tjiliwirri is a special language taught to adolescent boys undergoing initiation rites among the Warlpiri tribe of the Australian Aborigines. A speaker uses it to express the opposite of what he pretends to mean. In order to convey the meaning, "You are tall and wise," for instance, a boy might say the Warlpiri equivalent of "You are short and shortsighted." To express a yearning for greater fulfillment, he may declare, "I have no needs." Regard this vignette as instructive about your immediate future, Aquarius. In the coming weeks, I believe you will undergo a kind of initiation that dares you to rise to a new level of maturity.In the course of this rite of passage, you may have to navigate your way through situations that are the opposite of what they seem.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Two years ago, seven-year-old Steven Olson was awarded patent number 6,368,227 for a new method of swinging on a swing. His application said that kids can get bored just moving back and forth on the swing or twisting the swing's chains to make it spin. That's why he invented the technique of swinging side to side. Will he get rich from selling the rights to use his patent? Probably not. Now let's talk about how all of this applies to you. I think you should pull off your own version of Olson's coup in the coming weeks -- but see if you can take it one step further. Dream up an innovation that makes a fun experience even more fun, and meditate on how you might then exploit it to your practical advantage.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Bible's Book of Revelation is one of the world's most notorious advertisements for doom and gloom. Millions of people actually think the wacky yet terrible visions laid down in that ancient text describe future events.

Few of the believers live in Beijing, China, fortunately. When a swarm of locusts like those prophesied in Revelation arrived in the area in 2002, local residents greeted the creatures warmly.

They scooped them up in large bags, deep-fried them, and turned them into the main dish of an enormous feast. I urge you to make a similar reversal of a fearful scenario that someone's trying to foist on you, Sagittarius.

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Here’s an extreme makeover: News of the weird Lead story Exercise and go to counseling!

BY MICHAEL COULTER | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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y grandma had one of those big porches that are about 4 feet off the ground. When I was around 3 or 4 years old, I decided, for reasons still unknown, to jump headfirst over the railing and land face down in a pile of gravel. I stood up with blood pouring down my face and my parents looked on with the piss scared out of them. I have no remembrance of this event and even less of an idea behind my motivation, but I’m sort of glad I did it.

Once the blood was washed away and a few stitches put in, I had a kick-ass scar between my eyes. It’s in a good place really, and sort of hard to see, but for some reason, I like it. I feel it gives me character. Scars: They’re like getting a tattoo, but not knowing what it’s going to look like until afterward. It’s not even necessarily a flaw, just a mistake, just a story. I sort of like it when you can tell something about a person by the way they look.

Apparently, most folks today don’t feel that way so much, at least if you go by some of the shows on television, like Extreme Makeover, The Swan, or the moronically titled I Want a Famous Face. Actually, that’s not fair. You can tell something by looking at the plastic beings that emerge from surgery on these shows. You can tell that they’re sad, pathetic and ugly in a way that no amount of tinkering by plastic surgeons could fix. Someone has screwed these poor people up long before they visited a doctor. Bigger boobs and stronger chins can only mean one thing: bigger and stronger idiots to wear them around.

I watched a few minutes of Oprah the other day—by accident—and she had some guests who had been on these kind of shows. One guy was a radio disc jockey or something. They showed video of him before his surgery. Was he attractive? No, not really, but even a good looking disc jockey is unattractive after a few seconds of hearing their inane morning show chit chat. He wasn’t a zombie or anything, though.

He got the changes made because his wife divorced him and he felt it was because she thought he wasn’t good looking enough. Wow, it sounds like he really let that peach go. He came out after some cheek implants, a bit of liposuction and some hair plugs. The guy was simply ecstatic about the results. He had more confidence, was proud, was ready to face the world as his new self.

Whatever, my guess is he’s only bought himself a few months until something else causes

his world to crash. How many surgeries until they run out of ways to positively reinforce this guy? Was he truly happy? I doubt it. Was he truly a simpleton? You bet ya!

He was made to seem even more idiotic by the next guest. It was a woman who had cancer.

The chemotherapy had messed up her skin and she had a mastectomy. Geez, Louise, the lady had me crying before she even finished her story. She came out and she looked great and happy. God love her, she deserved it. She had been through the ringer and came out on the other side cancer-free. She didn’t get her plastic surgery because she was vain, just because she wanted to look like she had before her disease.

She was the only person on the whole damned show who I didn’t hate.

See, that’s all plastic surgery should be for: helping people, who because of misfortune, have changed. I should point out here that aging shouldn’t be considered a misfortune.

Getting the skin on your face pulled back every few years is just as bad as any other procedure.

It’s hard to be dignified and old when your face looks like a Halloween mask that’s been sewn to your skull.

Robert Redford and Paul Newman still look OK, don’t they? They got wrinkles and I know tons of girls who would jump on them the first chance they got. Hell, I still have the hots for Lauren Hutton. Sure, they were good looking people to begin with, but part of the reason they stayed that way was because they were comfortable enough with themselves to not worry about how they aged. They kept themselves in good shape and let nature do the rest.

I think some of our problems could be cured better with a little work instead of a lot of surgery.

Is it that hard for people to remember the satisfaction of accomplishing something? Do a few hundred situps a day, lift weights, run a couple of miles and see how hard it is to actually get in shape.

Monitor your progress and fight through the desire to quit. When it’s all said and done, you’ll be proud of yourself and feel better about yourself for what you’ve accomplished. You’ll not only look better, but you’ll also be a better person for having pushed yourself. Let’s not kid ourselves; you get out what you put in.

One last question. What’s more attractive: a strong person who has made themselves what they want to be or a weak person with enough money in their savings account to write a check to a surgeon? I think I know the answer.

Michael Coulter is a videographer, comedian and creator of the weekly e-mail column “The Sporting Life.”

A Palm Beach Post writer, making the point that America’s obesity problem is not limited to humans, reported from the Boca Greens Animal Hospital (Boca Raton, Fla.) in June that “Pumpkin,” a 12-pound Chihuahua, was up and moving well after her recent liposuction surgery. However, the 12 ounces of fat she lost still left her among South Florida’s overweight pets, said to be two-thirds of their population. As Pumpkin’s owner was reminded, surgery is not to be a substitute for sensible exercise and a modest number of treats.

More things to worry about (1) Police Sgt. Randall C. Hoover of Muhlenberg Township, Pa., filed a federal lawsuit in April accusing the police department and the police union of civil rights violations because members allegedly teased him for his pituitary-gland tumor that caused him to grow lactating breasts. (2) Nurse Jackie Tvedt held on to her state license even though

she was fired in January from a nursing home in Newton, Iowa, for allegedly providing a reduced level of care to those patients whom God had told her that He would take care of.

No longer weird Adding to the list of stories that were formerly weird but which now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from circulation: (69) The civic-minded drunk who recognizes the danger in trying to drive home but who instead puts his adolescent child behind the wheel, or, as Michael Johnston did in Peachtree City, Ga., in June, got a blind friend to drive (supposedly “guided” by Johnston’s instructions). (70) And the construction worker who is accidentally shot in the head with a nail gun, but who survives just fine (and winds up with a souvenir X-ray, which also appears in newspapers around the world), as happened to Isidro Mejia in Los Angeles in May.

COPYRIGHT 2004 Chuck Shepherd Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate

letters to the editor There are many, many things that upset me in Michael Moore’s latest propaganda. Instead of dwelling upon the deception, which range from half-truths to plain falsehoods; or focusing on his hatred of conservatives, accusing the president, his administration and his supporters of wallowing in their countrymen’s blood for profit; or even examining the man (though he doesn’t deserve the title), who called Americans the dumbest people on earth, compared al-Qaida to the Founding Fathers, cried out for the spilling of American blood, yet claims to be patriotic. Yes, instead of these clear and present facts about Michael Moore, my rage is not against him.

I expect better than the lauding pulp spouted from the nation’s “elite.” Somehow, despite the film and any mask of objectivity, not only the Buzz’s film critic, but the editor sang a paean to it, fawning over “...this troubling, terribly important film.” Even the editorial page (of the Daily Illini) joined in, printing a letter claiming, “We, the people, owe a debt of gratitude to perceptive Michael Moore…” If these views were limited to Champaign County, I’d be less irate, but the rot runs deep.

Thinkers, from Christopher Hitchens rightward, have panned the film as swill and worse. Ten minutes googling the film would prove my accusations, and yet mainstream coverage practically adds “the Great” to Michael Moore without a hint of sarcasm.

My anger, my rage, my righteous indignation comes from being told, as though a child, that Michael Moore is anything other than the anti-American version of Leni Riefenstahl. Another age would have rightly hung him as a traitor; today’s left view him as a beacon.

If there is any contemporary sign clearer than Farenheit 9/11 that liberal hypocrisy has finally overwhelmed its bare grasp of the basics of morality, I have not seen it.

James Sobotka University of Illinois graduate student Champaign resident

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o r m e r Vi c e President Al Gore put it best in an Associated Press article when he said the KerryEdwards ticket combines “John Kerry’s courage and leadership and John Edwards’s inspiring struggle on behalf of middle-class Americans and those working to reach the middle class.” When news leaked about presidential hopeful Kerry’s choice for a running mate, Democrats sighed with relief, and the GOP sharpened its claws ... and with good reason.

Edwards was a distant second place in the uneventful Democratic primaries, but not because the public didn’t like him.

Edwards is a much more likable choice and not a bad face for television either.

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England, Ivy League elite, Edwards counters beautifully with a working class background and Southern Democrat style.

Kerry has been labeled left wing and Edwards seems to balance out the ticket, bringing it closer to center. For those who choose their president on personality and television appearance, Edwards ups the ante with young children, a nice smile and Kennedy-esque charm.

Not long after Kerry announced his choice, the Bush campaign launched an advertisement capitalizing on the notion that Kerry had approached Republican Senator John McCain to run on the Democratic ticket with him. The informal request was met with a decline from McCain. The real question is how Edwards will fare against incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney. With the heat surrounding Cheney’s ties to Halliburton Corporation, the vice presidential debates could be more interesting than Bush and Kerry’s pot shots.

The Kerry-Edwards ticket is a strong choice for the Democratic Party and may be what Kerry needs to win key votes in swing states that would secure a Democratic victory.

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Chicago Cubs sweep Chicago Sox James Earl Jones is everyone’s hero deep down

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aseball felt right again this week and it’s not just because the Cubbies swept the shit out of the Sox on the North Side. It should be noted that last week’s column was a diversion from what my regular job is: to deliver the finest in alternative baseball news, all the while allowing each column to ring true with a quip from the real world, or at least the world as I see it.

Now, the 2ON2OUT is a collective of my brother and me, but by no means do we share the same opinions all the time, nor do we agree on what to always write. This week, just like the last, I have taken the time to go out on a limb myself, writing about matters other than just baseball.

See, I can’t be contained to one topic. And just the same, the world is not one-dimensional.

The Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry picked his running mate this past Tuesday. John Edwards, the one primary candidate who lasted and the one that didn’t freak out in Iowa when he lost that ever so important caucus. I assumed that I’d have something more relevant to say about this, but after a couple letters from people about last week’s column—some good constructive criticism from my old man and some rare introverted thought about my own writings—I decided that baseball is really very important, despite the fact that Dubya is a warmonger and Saddam Hussein is calling him out on it.

See, I forgot about the fact that despite the wars being waged right now, it is the simple parts of life that keep us going, and that applies to everyone—even those living in Iraq. For me, I already told you that my cats, chicken, band and girlfriend are what is doing it for me these days. And I imagine that somewhere in Baghdad, some 20-something dude is happy as a clam based on some simplicities that no bomb can ever destroy.

I concede: Bombs can’t wreck the human spirit, and last week I made it seem like everyone in Iraq is miserable over this bullshit occupation. It’s a valid assertion considering that there doesn’t seem to be any order over there and that Whitey is probably on every street corner with assault rifles, just waiting for an excuse to justify shooting off a round. But for me to say that life is no good across the board was unfounded.

Sorry.

Baseball does it for me. And it’s a very simple feeling. It is a feeling that everyone

is capable of, even if it isn’t baseball that does it.

I watched the end of the game on Sunday, the 4th of July, and as the Sox walked in the winning run for my Cubbies, I felt a tremendous sense of pride. Not because of the fireworks and or the hoopla that is Independence Day. No, I felt it because I realized that for that moment, I was an extremely happy American, living free and feeling good enough to actually be at Brothers on campus, a place known for its morons, chicken wing specials, bad music, neon wristbands and most of all, for defacing the best rock venue Champaign may ever know—Mabel’s.

I am very sorry if my column brought any of you down last week, and while I still stand by what I said about not voting for anybody but Kerry, I think that what America needs right now more than anything is a little perspective. I needed it and my guess is that you do too sometimes.

The NL Central is battling right now, and for me, I love it. It keeps me sane. Some people plant fruit trees, others bake pies. I watch baseball.

Simple and good.

Depression over war, breakups with lovers, deaths of friends and family; these things will come and go. But baseball will live on, at least for me, until some nut drops the big one on us. To paraphrase Field of Dreams and the character of Terrance Mann played by vocal God James Earl Jones: “America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been written on a blackboard, erased and has been rewritten again and again. But baseball, this field, this game, has marked the times.”

Next week, back to baseball. We promise.

This year is a doozy for both baseball and the world and both should be acknowledged.

And perhaps I’ll be able to look back on 2004 as the year that Dubya went down, Saddam was executed, and the Cubs won their first pennant in more than 50 years.

Let’s hope so.

Seth Fein is from Urbana and loves his country. He also loves Dreamsicles and horses.

He will feel emasculated when this goes to print, but he knows it’s good for him. He can be reached at sethfein@readbuzz.com.

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