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othing enrages me more than blatant opposition to progress. Whether it is social progress or scientific progress, if we have the willingness and power to progress toward better conditions for people around the world, there shouldn’t be large blocs of people in opposition. However, many conservatives are against such progress. The latest case of conservatives mindlessly opposing progress is the current stem cell legislation.

Now I know that this is not necessarily the best place to be spouting political views, but this current situation makes me unreasonably a ng r y. Th is isn’t even a ca se of per sona l feelings. I don’t know anyone with Parkinson’s disease, paralysis or any other problem that could potentially be solved with the help of stem cells, but the passage of this bill is such a no-brainer that it makes me angry when conservative leaders, including President Bush, f ight against it.

Basically, stem cells have the potential to counteract the deterioration of human cells.

There are many types of stem cells: embryonic, adult and stem cells from umbilical cord blood.

Currently, embryonic stem cell research is hugely limited and does not receive funding from the federal government. Embryonic stem cells are unique because they are very young and can grow into more than 200 different cell types while the other stem cells are vastly limited in what they can potentially heal.

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Let’s get back to the bill. It has passed in the House of Representatives and has the support to pass in the Senate. However, President Bush has already stated that he will veto the bill if and when it passes through Congress. This would be his first veto in his almost six-year tenure as president. With the Republican-controlled Senate and House, Bush has had no problems approving whatever his party has voted for. However, this is a bi-partisan issue that members of both parties feel is necessary for the advancement of human life. Even the staunchly republican Bill Frist of Tennessee supports the bill.

The bill states that stem cells would only be extracted from leftover embryos that would otherwise be destroyed. Opponents to the bill say that human life is being destroyed when the stem cells are being extracted. However, this argument is hopelessly flawed. The bill states that stem cells can only be removed from embryos that would be discarded anyway. Basically, opponents to the bill say that stem cell research will destroy human life. However, this argument is painfully voided by the fact that the embryos would be destroyed in the fi rst place. Maybe opponents to the bill just have not read it.

There is no possible downside to this bill.

The only possible result of embryonic stem cell research under this proposed law is better life for thousands of people. I don’t really know why Bush will veto this bill. Maybe he is afraid of change, maybe he is just hopelessly uninformed.

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don’t know about Brad Pitt. I mean, I really shou ld n’t ca re much a b out h i m e it he r w ay, though apparently I do, at least enough for a column.

Yet I still don’t know what to think about the guy. He’s not even a movie star at this juncture, but more of an icon, a bigger-thanlife star who has virtually every move he makes documented. I get the impression that his heart is probably in the right place when it comes to world affairs and I do sort of believe he’s trying to make a difference. I’m just not sure he’s necessarily the guy who should be making a difference. I’ll admit though, he’s growing on me.

As far as his movies go, I suppose he’s okay.

I thought he was fine in Fight Club, but the damned book is so much better than the movie that I just didn’t care that much. I know, I hate it when people say that kind of thing too, but seriously, the book is really fantastic and the movie eventually ends up being sort of forgettable. I also thought he was fine in 12 Monkeys, though I’m not sure whether he was acting or just acting crazy. He seemed sort of cool in Ocean’s Eleven, but so did everyone else in that movie. I didn’t see any of those sequels, but I’m sure he’ll still seem pretty cool by the time Ocean’s Twenty Four opens at a Crapaplex near you. At least he doesn’t sign up for every jackass project that comes along.

That’s sort of weird. He’s supposedly this big movie star and I think I’ve only seen three movies he’s been in. I’m sure I’m missing one or two.

Was he that creepy killer on a cross country journey with the guy from “The X-Files” in that movie called Kalifornia? See, I think he was, but I’m not even 100% sure. Either way, I still think of the guy as a movie star, even though I can’t remember him in that many movies.

He’s really probably known more for his personal life. I mean, everyone knows he dumped Jennifer Aniston and started banging Angelina Jolie. Wow, tough choice there, but you can’t really lose either way. It’s like trying to decide which brand of crazy expensive single malt Scotch you want to drink every day for the next year or so. Personally, I probably would have went the other way because for some reason, Angelina seems like she might jab a shiv in your ribs while you’re sleeping if you piss her off. Still, his choice in this matter has nothing to do with my not knowing what to think about him.

I don’t know what to think about him because he apparently wants to make a difference in the world. Generally when I get that impression about someone, I have to assume that it’s all

a bunch of PR crap to publicize a movie. I pretty much believe that anytime anyone is trying to draw attention to themselves, they probably don’t deserve much of it. I can’t believe that dumbass Tom Cruise has ruined it for all the other dumbass actors. Anyway, the weird thing is, Brad Pitt doesn’t have a movie coming out and the guy is still out there.

First off, he knocks up that aforementioned crazy woman, but instead of parading around at film premieres or jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch proclaiming their undying love for each other for the next year or so, they go off to Namibia. Who could blame them for wanting to get away from all the photographers ... at least for a little bit. I’m sure they shacked up in a fine little resort while they were there, but they also got out amongst the regular people for plenty of photographs that one could see virtually everywhere.

It was about publicity and the lovely couple got most of it, but Pitt’s thinking was that since he’s constantly having his picture taken, he might as well have an interesting and important background. If the public could manage to look past his beautiful visage in the photos, they might see the conditions other people live in and at least become familiar with the problems this country faces. Their child is born in the country, as a matter of fact, so who knows, maybe he’ll at least make it cool for Americans to give birth in a Third World country ... well, probably not. Still, it seems like the guy is making an effort.

Last weekend, he went to New Orleans to support affordable eco-friendly housing. He threw $100,000 towards a contest to design a 12 unit eco-friendly apartment complex. While he was there, he also toured the flood-damaged city. Sure, all the tabloids and regular news crews were there, mostly talking about Brad Pitt and his new child, but you couldn’t help but notice the backgrounds of the photographs, a city still struggling with the flood damage. If nothing else, the guy is trying to keep us from forgetting what happened down there and reminding us the city still needs help.

I don’t know, maybe I’m a big sucker and he really is just promoting himself, but it really doesn’t seem like it. I mean, he’s still an actor and the people of Namibia and New Orleans shouldn’t make too much of it. Just because he can act like a doctor or a city planner or a humanitarian, it doesn’t mean he actually knows anything about such endeavors. Still, I gotta say, it’s nice to see a star out there trying to make the press cover something besides a movie opening. He may actually be a caring guy afterall. He’s almost got me believing it.

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• In the review of Charley’s Aunt, the playwright’s name is Georges Feydeu

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n a few weeks, after 15 months of fundraising and crossing their fingers, Central High School’s drama club members w i l l pack t hei r ba g s a nd head for Edinburgh, Scotland.

Since April 2005, the drama club has worked to raise money to perform at the Fringe Festival annually held in Scotland’s capital. With the cost for each student at $5,000 and the total cost at $146,000, some students struggled to meet this end. But their work finally paid off last month and the 22 members planning to go will make the trip in August.

“We’re only the 5th school in Illinois that’s ever been invited. So that’s pretty exciting for us,” said LaDonna Wilson, the drama club’s director.

The other schools from Illinois were from the Chicago area and were much larger than Central High School, which enrolls 1,385 students.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival originated and branched from the first Edinburgh International Festival when in 1947, eight theater groups performed uninvited around the “fringe,” or edge, of the official event, which led to the name, the “Fringe Festival”. For the 60 years since then, the event has grown into the world’s largest performing arts festival. The ticket sales grossed $1.35 million last year.

The Fringe Festival doesn’t invite performers and the event is open to everyone. For American high school students, there is the American High School Theatre Festival which runs in conjunction with the Fringe event. It selects schools to participate and provides American drama students the opportunity to show their talents in an international forum. The American Emily McCoy (right), a high school junior, rehearses “The Laramie Project” with members of the drama program at Central High School on July 11.

High School Theatre Festival was first organized The Champaign Central High School drama program, led by director LaDonna Wilson, will represent the U.S. at the Fringe Festival in Edinburg, 12 years ago, and this year 39 schools were asked Scotland in August. to take the trip overseas, including Central High School’s theater program. received wide attention in 1998 when the murder brought up The play’s structure worked as a documentary and progressed “They looked at it as an entire program, not like, ‘Oh, here issues dealing with gay rights and hate crimes. through a series of interviews ending with the final court scene. would be a good show,’ but ‘Here’s a program that’s really One late night, Shepard was approached in a bar by two men, The interviews were from the points of view of several differdedicated to educational theater,’” Wilson said. “And that’s Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. They robbed him, beat ent individuals. There were some people who were completely kind of been our focus here.” him and tied him to a fence, leaving him there to die. against homosexuality, while others were gay themselves. And Central High School’s drama club has performed “Children The men were tried and convicted of murder, but they were not then, there were the individuals undecided on their points of of a Lesser God,” where the actors learned sign language the charged for a hate crime because, at the time, a murder motivated view and others, such as the Judge, who had to remain unbiased summer before the play was staged. They’ve also performed by the victim’s sexual orientation wasn’t specified by law as a hate and without a strong input on either side.

“Proof,” a 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that delves into crime. The two men received life sentences in jail.

“It’s not a linear story line. It’s a whole bunch of little interviews mental illness. And, next year, they’ll be performing a play The play was based off 200 interviews conducted by the put together in what they call moments,” Wilson said. “Plus, it relating to the Holocaust.

Tectonic Theater Project from New York City, a group of mostly really talks about homosexuality. It doesn’t condone it. It actually The play they’ll perform in Scotland is called “The Laramie homosexual men and women. The group visited Laramie, Wyo. gives all kinds of opinions about it. For people who really didn’t Project.” It is about Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming and talked with people from the community. The play premiered understand, they thought it was a promotion of homosexuality. So student killed because of his sexual orientation. The true story in Feb. 2000. it’s been kind of untouched by high schools because of that.”

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Central High School is the first high school in Illinois, outside of Chicago, to perform this show because of the controversy surrounding gay and lesbian rights. But Wilson said the show was accepted well here and didn’t receive as much negative feedback as anticipated.

Rachel Krein, 18, plays the Judge and a member of the Tectonic Theater Project. She said Central’s drama club has received more positive than negative reactions from the Champaign-Urbana community.

Wilson also pointed out the similarities between Champaign-Urbana and Laramie, noting how both are university towns with “townies,” or the town’s residents, and with people visiting the community who aren’t necessarily reflected in the community, and how this merger of different worlds affects the town as the whole.

Doing a play that addressed tough issues demanded Wilson’s drama students to step up and understand for themselves the position Matthew

Shepard was in and what the play was about.

“Our students are very professional. They take it as if it’s an art, not just as it’s a fun time.

They enjoy themselves and they take a lot of pride in what they do, but it is hard work,” Wilson said. “All of my students researched every single character in Laramie Project, even if they only had two lines.”

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“We were prepared for people protesting because they’ve had that around the country,” Krein said. “But that didn’t happen. It brings up a topic that people have been scared to discuss for a long time and we’re not trying to force it on anyone or anything. It brings it out so that people are willing to talk about it and be comfortable with it.”

Wilson said the conversations she overheard in the hallways of the high school and the discussions she held in her English classes showed her the intolerance people developed toward homosexuality. These conversations inspired and prompted her to do “The Laramie Project.” She approached the administration about performing the play and they supported her choice. And many of her students supported her as well.

“For a lot of the kids, they were very honored that I would pick a show that was so difficult.

They were challenged by it and they felt that it was an important message that needed to be sent,” Wilson said. “Some of the students were a little wearier, but through the education, the way we approached it last year and talking about it, we really allowed everybody to say their opinions, even if people were totally against it [homosexuality].”

Cor bi n D i xon, 16 , who pl ay s Den n i s Shepa rd , M at t hew Shepa rd ’s f at her, a nd another character, Rulon Stacey, said he has learned that it’s OK to push buttons and that it’s OK to try and do what feels right in order to promote an important message.

“It took me a while to get accustomed to everything. I moved here from Texas, which is where I lived, very close-minded,” Dixon said.

“Around the same time, I started doing this show, so it was all these messages about homosexuality, and I think I’ve grown to be a lot more accepting, and I think this show helped me a lot with that.”

Wilson said the students who were struggling with the concept gradually realized the play presented everybody’s point of view, and that regardless of one’s point of view, the play was focused on how Matthew Shepard’s death affected the town.

John Deal (left) and Alysia Prosser rehearse “The Laramie Project” with members of the drama program at Central High School on July 11. The Champaign Central High School drama program, led by director LaDonna Wilson, was selected as one of the best high school drama programs in the nation.

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DRAMA IN SCOTLAND CONTINUED FROM PG. 5 Wilson’s educational approach in doing “The Laramie Project” allowed not only the actors in the play but also the audience members to connect with Shepard’s death. The performance of the play coincided with his death, which happened in Oct. 1998. The group performed “The Laramie Project” for the fi rst time in Oct. 2005. Since then, the group has performed the play several times in benefit performances and at a state competition.

Before opening night, Wilson sent out information for the Central High School English teachers to read to their classes about Shepard and the crime committed against him. She also organized a play preview and a discussion for the high school’s students, giving them the opportunity to further explore the play’s message.

“More than anything, especially kids who live in the city who have a hard life, they understand tragedy. And, I think that the students really related to the tragic part of Matthew Shepard, that nobody, no matter what, deserved what happened to him,” Wilson said. “We brought them in through the tragedy and then, they cou ld see no matter how they felt about homosexuality, it didn’t matter. It was about hate and violence.”

Dixon said he loves the show’s deeper message that reveals how people’s views in Laramie varied so much and how the different views allowed the audience to identify with the characters.

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He said because he played Matthew Shepard’s father, he’s seen a lot of emotion that comes with the play. But, it’s the emotions–angry or sad–that reveal the message.

“I love the show because it’s not just gay rights and stuff like that, which a lot of people assume it is at f irst. But it’s just show ing different people’s views of this community and how they var y so much,” Dixon said.

“Some of them you can get extremely angry at and you just want to shake them, and some just make you really emotional.”

Wilson said that after puting so much work into a performance, it becomes easy to forget its importance. but she said that the minute she and her students talk about Matthew Shepard and how his death enabled some people who would never have talked about homosexuality to talk about the topic, they reconnect to why they’re doing the show.

“I think this cast has grown a lot together through this whole process. I’m really proud of everybody,” Dixon said.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival lasts three weeks in August and features 28,014 performances of 1,867 shows in 261 venues. The Central drama club performs on Aug. 19, 20, 21 and 22.

“The biggest thing is to get good reviews, because if you get good reviews you’ll be sold out the rest of the time. It’s all by word of mouth,” Wilson said. “But, the biggest honor is to win the opportunity to go perform. buzz

the numbers Number of free shows at the 60th Edinburgh Fringe Festival:

177 The time it would take to see every performance back-to-back:

5 years, 11 months and 16 days An estimated number of performers at the festival:

16,990 Number of students going to the festival from Central High School:

22 Matthew Shepard’s age when he was murdered:

21 Number of films made about Shepard’s story:

3 The year the play “The Laramie Project” premiered:

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Sniffer Blasts Own Family Apologizes; promises to make Turkey at Thanksgiving

FIRST SNIFF It only takes one simple thing from Ward Gollings to know that you’ve said the wrong thing in your column.

A text message.

If you know the man, the legend, you know that he doesn’t open his mouth or send a text for much.

But he nailed my ass this week. I felt like crying kind of. He commands attention, that Ward Gollings does. And when he criticizes, he speaks volumes.

SHOLEM POOL UPDATE Hey. You know me. When I am wrong, I state it for all of you to see. And while I still feel like I was ripped off by “The Beach” where there is no sand, as it turns out, a little research would have done me some good. Perhaps the ongoing construction next to the pool should have tipped me off, but, as it turns out, there will be more to come from Sholem including more waterslides, more bodies of water and more room for people to lounge.

WARD’S LETTER Okay, okay. I was wrong. I am not sure if Ward actually wrote the letter to the editor that he said he was writing, but if he did, here is my response.

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Big deal. So I didn’t seek out a couple of facts.

Nothing new here. And yeah, perhaps $30k for the Boat Drunks was misinformed, but hey, I was just going on what I “sniffed out”. I never claim to be the be-all and end-all for known facts.

Doesn’t really matter though, does it? Jimmy Buffett is one the biggest jokes ever to walk the face of the earth. And the taxpayers unwittingly spent their money on it. I say, the park district leaves it up to the people on how they spend our money. Put a vote up on the website and find out if people really want to see the artists that they seek out? That seems entirely reasonable to me.

Perhaps I could discuss this with my Aunt at the next family get together ... if I am invited.

A LITTLE DISCLAIMER ... FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK I AM UNFAIR See, the thing of my column is this: my criticism isn’t solely reserved for those people that I dislike. In fact, some of my harshest criticism has been directed to those whom I love and care about more than you or you or you. I have laid into the Vineyard, where my father is employed and where I attend church most times that I actually go. I have annihilated the war on Iraq – a war that some of my closest friends support.

I have destroyed the Champaign and Urbana City Councils, where I have allies and friends.

Uh. Well. Kind of.

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So when I laid into Sholem Pool last week (while complimenting it along the way) for not having enough things to do, I knew that it would come at some expense to my family. My aunt is the executive director of the Champaign Park District (CPD) and though she should know that I respect what she does, how she does it and the things that she brings to the table in the community, she should also know that I meant nothing more than a simple critique. After all, I AM an opinions columnist.

To leave out criticism just because my family is somehow tied to the object of my opinions would not only be unfair to myself as a free-thinking, uninformed writer, it would also be a disservice to you, my readership of 38 people.

And let it be known that while I disagree strongly with some of the things that the CPD does and how they spend their money, er wait ... OUR money, they have done so many wonderful things that trying to list them here would not do it justice. But perhaps, I can highlight even just one for you.

VIRGINIA THEATRE If you have yet to experience a film or concert at the Virginia, do yourself a favor and do it now. If there was any one thing that the CPD has done to keep them holy within my heart, it’s that they have gone out of their way to preserve and then, restore the most treasured of theatres in

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BAND OF THE WEEK Ok so this one is more like BANDS of the week.

I have never really been much for metal music.

I loved “And Justice For All” but a lot of metalheads would probably call that album “pussy rock”.

Nonetheless, The Central Illinois Metal Fest is this weekend at The Canopy Club (outside promoters – no conflict), and I must say that I have been wildly impressed with the organization and the lineup.

I know nothing of these bands, but that there are dozens and dozens of them descending on our towns for the weekend – some being from Europe – my guess is that if you love metal, you will be there ... all day Friday AND all day Saturday.

FINAL WHIFF This is an easy one. Bottom line is that I just won’t be going after things that my family are tied to anymore. I am just going to go after myself and my father. Those are easy to reconcile with.

Seth Fein is from Urbana. For some reason, Crystal Lake Swimming Pool sounds like a lot of fun right about now. He can be reached at sethfein1@gmail.com

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Champaign-Urbana. After all, they had a showing of The Shining last year. And for that, I will be eternally grateful. So there. Big ups to the CPD for the Virginia Theatre.

Acts should be acoustic or low-tech.

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o u’v e p r o b a b l y been to your fair share of shows and concer t s a rou nd town. Whether at one of the many venues in and around campus or even just an open mic at a small café, most of our readers are familiar with the l ive music ex per ience i n Champaign-Urbana.

What you might not be familiar with, though, is the lack of sound quality at many of these shows. Rory Durkin, of Maximum Strength Sound System, is dedicated to providing the best sound quality possible at every show he sets up, and surprisingly, that’s not always the case with other local sound systems.

“One thing that I’ve always had an interest in is sound that is not only powerful and physical in the bass, but also clear-sounding and pleasing to listen to for long periods of time,” Durkin said. “I’ve been to numerous places where the sound is blaring, distorted high-end, with little to be said for the lower frequencies. It’s almost as though the people responsible are saying, ‘We just need some music.

Who cares what it sounds like?’ Ugh.” After realizing this great need for solid sound production, Durk in went about assembl ing professional audio gear and building equipment aimed at putting together a topnotch arrangement.

“We’ve finally arrived at something that I think sounds and looks respectable. It’s less a pile of loose

speakers/amplifiers and more of, as the name might imply, a system,” Durkin said. “All of the individual parts are designed to work with each other. I still feel like there is a lot that I can improve, but people who play on and listen to the system have had mostly positive feedback for us, so we must be on the right track.”

Durkin puts his technology to work at his DJ performances, playing bass-heavy jungle, minimal and techno and house music.

It’s a sound he describes as “a bit like old Nintendo music with a dance beat.”

And while Maximum Strength Sound System is a relatively young project, Durkin has been around the Champaign-Urbana music community for a while. His presence at dance, techno, and electronic shows over the years has given him a unique perspective on the local music scene.

“I think in this area, rock music has traditionally had more of a mainstream presence. The number of venues and bands and promoters for those types of events seems to far-outnumber those that cater predominantly to electronic music,” Durkin said. “Lately though, I’ve been to some shows where it’s hard to say where the music falls on the techno-to-bands scale.”

Later this month this type of cross-genre music experience will be on full display in CU. On July 29, Durkin and co. will be putting together the sound for the IMC’s “Beglitched” event, featuring live music from a number of different genres.

It’s a perfect chance to hear the difference a good sound system can make.

“I’m excited about Beglitched, and I’m hoping that this event will bring a lot of people out, old and new,” Durkin said. “The IMC is an awesome space for shows and there will be some quality acts in town that night. Expect a wide variety of sounds being played on a hand-built sound system, and probably a bunch of other stuff that I can’t predict.”

For Durkin, the music scene is best described as “cyclic,” and with a number of artists enjoying recent crossover success, it would seem things are looking up for electronic music.

“It seems like right now the line between live and electronic music is much less defined than it has been in the past, at least when it comes to the shows that I’ve attended or worked on.

Prior to that, it seemed like live bands were more popular among my circles of friends. Even before that, it was mostly electronic dance music. So what does the future hold? Honestly, I have no idea. If enough like-minded people continue to meet up and work together, I think the scene will continue to grow and evolve.”

And while no one can perfectly predict the patterns of music evolution, one thing is certain about the future of electronic music: if Rory Durkin and Maximum Strength are involved, the sound is going to rock. buzz

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Syd Barrett in 1968. The rock icon died on July 7 at the age of 60.

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ew bands have had good things to say about fired members. But in 1975, one of rock’s biggest acts recorded an album tribute to their departed frontman, Syd Barrett. Whether you chalk up Pink Floyd’s success on Wish You Were Here to their cloying bombast or to their earnest devotion to Barrett’s persona, a “crazy diamond” as they described it, the record went #1, while single-handedly invented brooding, anti-establishment rock.

It was more than 30 years after Wish You Were Here that Barrett died, but in 1975, the man was as good as dead. He founded Pink Floyd in 1965, only to retreat into reclusion with the onset of mental illness, later leading him to be unceremoniously drummed out of the band. After an abortive solo career, he left music, moved in with his mother, shaved his eyebrows, and spend his time painting and biking around Cambridge, all the while dodging fans desiring one look at the once-formidable genius.

Barrett was one of the most important figures in the transition British rock made from R&B into pop psychedelia in the ‘60s. Pink Floyd’s debut, the lauded and truly bizarre The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was perhaps the first record to synthesize bohemian outsider culture with the outsider culture of black musics of the time; it is a record which has rarely failed to affect listeners for nearly 40 years. “Bike” is an out-and-out

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tribute to the “proper madness” of Lewis Carroll, while “Interstellar Overdrive” is a composition that hints at knowledge of John Coltrane’s “antijazz”; a single, driving, descending lick leads into extensive, impenetrable improvisation, only to return with yet greater force His erratic ways onstage and off lead the band to stop picking him up for gigs and recording sessions, and by 1968 he was no longer a member of the band. He recorded several albums, notably The Madcap Laughs, a minimalist walk through his own brand of creative mania and mental illness, before leaving music altogether in the mid-‘70s.

Though he spent time in mental institutions during the ‘80s, it’s still unclear what mental illness, if any, he suffered from. His prodigious drug use, schizophrenia, Asperger’s Syndrome, and photosensitive epilepsy have all been said to blame by friends and doctors.

In his own time, he was a major influence on Paul McCartney’s interest in psychedelic music (Piper was in fact recorded at the same time as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), with Robyn Hitchcock’s Soft Boys. Even in the ‘90s, Pavement’s disjointed slacker-rock, Guided By Voices’ lo-fi indie, and the Elephant 6 collective’s pop psychedelia all openly benefited from Barrett’s brief time as a musician.

Barrett died July 7, reportedly of complications of diabetes. He was 60.

In case you’re living under a rock, Lily Allen is hot. No, I don’t have a geek crush on her or think that her appearance has anything to do with her success, but you’ll definitely be hearing more about Ms. Allen, a hip-hop influenced singer from London that’s already burning up the UK charts with her #1 single, “Smile” (radio listeners and bloggers may also be familiar with her earlier “LDN” single being played on WPGU and iPods everywhere). But before you cry for the poor gal (after all, some guy left her in that one song!), wait until you know what she’s doing with the cash that’s rolling in. British tabloid The Sun reports that she’s planning to spend all that dough on ... “gak”. No, you’re not caught in a commercial break between GUTS and Legends of The Hidden Temple, that’s slang for cocaine, just one of many drugs the singer has been doing and slinging on the streets since she was a 13-year-old.

Speaking of being caught up in a moment of 1994, Weezer broke up this week.

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I’m not going to try to convince you that the Wu-Tang Clan are one of the greatest hip-hop forces ever. Though nothing could hope to outdo the conceptual tour de force that is Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), even a Wu project, the Clan launched more solo careers than really can be imagined. They’re the real deal and there’s nothing you can do about it once Ghostface starts emoting over ODB opera, Method Man hooks and RZA’s chopped up piano and soul samples.

What I will try to do is convince you not to buy their disappointing music video cash-in.

The reality, though, is that I have to report that the videos aren’t visually stimulating or original, no matter how impressive and diverse the source material is. If anything, it’s worse--what could be harder to do than making a dull video for a song featuring a half-dozen loquacious poets spitting ellipitically about gatts and kung-fu? Perhaps because it leaves so little to the imagination, the directors have limited themselves to two equallyunamusing categories, one lacking character, another too fanciful and not even tenuously tied to the source material.

Many of the videos, including all those for ...36 Chambers, are essentially just stark collages of footage of charismatically-gesturing MCs performing their rhymes before green screens and cobbledtogether sets resembling city streets hardly worth observing. The first video, for “Method Man’s� showcase single, is the prime example, and while it’s entertaining by itself, a half-hour of such material quickly begins to grate. Only a grainy “remix� of “Method Man� succeeds in capturing any of the intentional old-school vibe, recalling A Tribe Called Quest’s far-superior “Scenario�.

Even Method Man, the most charismatic member of the Clan and perhaps the most successful rapper in the group, sounds and looks very alone backed by the silent clan members.

Far worse, though, are the fanciful videos which show, for example, the clan time-traveling to a time where cave-hos grind in cages and ODB wears a bone barette in his ropy hair.

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Another excursion in time to 1988 ends in a gratuitous, unmotivated shootout. And yes, the Wu also turn into poorly-animated (killah) bees to swarm Queens and Staten Island. The bonus material, mostly consisting of a few dated interviews and live performance clips, adds little to the legacy, other than the demonstrate the obvious: the Wu-tangers are self-conscious, selfaware showmen.

If you need to see the Wu-Tang on video, do yourself a favor and rent Jim Jarmusch’s masterpiece, Coffee & Cigarettes (available at That’s Rentertainment!), which features, for no particular reason, the RZA and GZA shooting the shit with Bill Murray while remaining completely in character. Or, if you need an audio Wu-fix, make sure to cop Ghostface’s Fishscale, for my money the best hip-hop record this year. But stay away from this disappointing retrospective.

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THU. JUL 20 Live Bands Leah Meador and Dave Dreyer Boltini, 6pm, free Hippus Campus Iron Post 7pm, $3 WBCP Sargent Rock Jackson’s Ribs-N-Tips, 8pm, free Larry Gates, Ripley Caine Aroma Cafe, 8pm, free

Low Twelve, Skeptik, Cemetery Rapist, Ominous, Chainsaw Homicide Canopy Club 8pm, $6 Caleb Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, free Will Rogers Tommy G’s 9pm, cover Miami Heat Latin Jazz Zorba’s Restaurant, 9:30pm, $3 Live Karaoke Band Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $5

Elanors, Mike Ingram Iron Post, 10pm, $3 Shovelwrack White Horse Inn, 10:30pm, free DJ Generic DJ Jackson’s Ribs-NTips, 9pm, $5 Zen Thursday’s: DJ Asiatic Soma, 9pm, free

Thirsty Thursdays: DJ Dice DJ Smoooth V Lava, 9pm, $3 in advance/$5 DJ Huggy Joe’s Brewery 10pm, cover Metal Thursday Highdive 10pm, cover Chris O, D.O.M., Impact and Motion Tracks, 10pm, cover DJ Mertz Boltini 10:30pm, free

Karaoke Boneyard Karaoke Memphis on Main, 7:30pm, free Karaoke Fat City Saloon 8pm, free Liquid Courage Karaoke Jillian’s Billiards Club, 9pm free Liquid Courage Karaoke The Office, 10pm, free Lectures / Discussions Loose Womyn Discussion Group [The Loose Womyn Discussion Group (whereby discussion topics are loose, the womyn need not be) will be discussing the book This Day in the Life by Joni Cole.] Borders 7pm, free

The Anti-Social End July 25, 10 p.m.

Joe’s Brewery, FREE!!!

So is it a shameless plug if I pick a WPGU / Buzz sponsored Shrink Wrap Tuesday for the Buzz pick of the week?

Probably ... but I’m really not that concerned. I think the right people will approve (wink). Here’s the thing, long gone are the days of Blink 182, Sum 41, and Simple Plan 3000. Pop Punk has been so far out of the loop that it regained credit in the underground scene and has, like the 17-year-old cicadas, reemerged from the earth as a newer, stronger ... louder entity. Once again the double P is dominating our culture with Fall Out Boy and Fall Out Boy 2: Panic! At the Disco on the top of the charts and the front of our minds. Ok, those bands kind of suck, but you can’t deny that they aren’t catchy as FUCK. The Anti-Social End would be compared to these bands, which is good and bad. It’s good because I’m sure it’ll get a larger audience interested, but bad because of the classic sell out, punk rock, hate the man stuff we all know and love. Let me lay it on the line: they sound like a band who only knows how to write hooks, and good ones at that. I think they have 30 different mini songs in each of their three minute jaunts. The spitting image of minimalism but deceivingly complex in their songwriting, The Anti-Social End is so much more than these dime a dozen, poorly named, pseudo-punk acts which litter our streets like empty bottles and plastic bags.

A free show in the heart of Campustown is hard to pass out on, especially since WPGU will be spinning the best of new underground songs in between sets. Hey kids, Shrink Wrap Tuesdays are every Tuesday, always free, and always FRESH!!! If you can’t make it to the Anti-Social End (which would be shameful) you can check out another new, hot area band any other Tuesday. <insert shameless closing slogan> —Brian McGovern PHOTOS: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THEANTISOCIALEND

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Miscellaneous Krannert Uncorked Krannert Center, 5pm, free Mind /Body / Spirit Institute Speaker: Ann-Marie Shapiro IllumiNation Institute, 7pm, free

FRI. JUL 21 Live Bands Billy Galt Blues Barbecue 11:30am, free Central Illinois Metalfest 2006: Macabre, Waco Jesus, Malignancy, Deaden, Devourment, Putrid Pile, Lust of Decay, Abysmal Torment, Guttural Secrete, Exculerate, Victimas, Lapidate, Decrypt, Unhallowed Canopy Club 1:30pm, $25/$45 two day Boneyard Jazz Quintet Iron Post, 5pm, cover The Prairie Dogs Cowboy Monkey, 5:30pm, free Dave Dreyer Hubers 8pm, free The Brat Pack Fat City Saloon, 8pm, cover Candy Foster and Shades of Blue Memphis on Main 8:30pm, $4 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 DJ Mighty Dog Jackson’s Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm, cover The Greytones Iron Post 9pm, $3 Reds, Fireflies, The Invisible Independent Media Center 9pm, cover The Delta Kings Cowboy Monkey, 9:30pm, $4 Jonesful, Project Sock Monkey Phoenix, 9:30pm, $3 Quadremedy White Horse Inn, 10pm, free The Greytones Iron Post 10pm, cover DJ DJ Bozak Soma, 8pm, free DJ LNO Nargile, 9pm, free before 10pm DJ Who Joe’s Brewery 10pm, cover DJ Tim Williams Highdive 10pm, $5 DJ Limbs Boltini 10:30pm, free Dancing Contra Dancing Phillips Recreation Center 8pm, $5 Karaoke Creative Karaoke American Legion Post 71, 8pm, free Liquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 9pm, free Festivals County Fair Champaign County Fairgrounds 9am, cover Lectures / Discussions American Association of University women writers’ group Pages for All Ages 1pm, free Miscellaneous WPGU 107.1 Beach Party Fridays [Stop by for some free freeze pops and popcorn. There will be a live DJ and a chance to win Pitchfork Festival Tickets.]

Illini Media Company 3pm, free

Concerts WorldFest: The Dorians, Rocky Maffit and Chad Dunn, Kim Sheahan Spurlock Museum 1pm, $5 Concerts in the Parks: Jim Markum Swing Band Hessel Park, 6:30pm, free

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Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 9pm, free Film Movies!! Monster of Phantom Lake, UofI vs. A Mummy Mike N Mollys, 9pm, cover Festivals County Fair Champaign County Fairgrounds 9am, cover

MON. JUL 24 Live Bands Fuedin’ Hillbillies Rose Bowl Tavern, 6pm, free MRS Trio Iron Post, 6pm, $2 Michael Davis Bentley’s Pub 7pm, free Community/Campus Women’s Music Series, Concert I Independent Media Center 8pm, cover Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Roberta Sparrow Weft 90.1 FM, 10pm, free Finga Lickin The Office 10:30pm, free

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Need something FUN to do this summer? Want to play with children and possibly go on daily field trips or to the pool with day campers ages 13-21? CU Special Recreation could use your help! There will be 10-12 day campers each day during our summer day camps. Camp Spirit is held at Hays Center at 1311 W. Church St. in Champaign. They could use your help all day (7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.) or mornings or afternoons.

You can volunteer one day or everyday! It’s up to you and what you are able to offer. You would assist campers with art projects, play board games, basketball, softball, and kickball.

You could attend afternoon pool or field trips and assist with camper supervision. Some field trip possibilities may include bowling, putt putt, or other local attractions. Only special ability required is the ability to have fun playing games and supervising teenagers with disabilities. CU Special Recreation could especially use a few male volunteers for good role models for our teenaged male campers.

SAT. JUL 22 Live Bands Central Illinois Metalfest 2006: Origin, Jungle Rot, Lividity, Gorgasm, Human Artifacts, Embalmer, Prophecy, Mortal Decay, Rotteness, and many more Canopy Club 11am, $25 New Twang City Hubers 8pm, free Traction Station Hustlers Fat City Saloon, 8pm, cover The Reflections Memphis on Main, 8:30pm, $4 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 Jamnation, The Unpossible, Ghost Cowboy Monkey 9pm, $5

Live Art [WRFU-LP, 104.5FM is holding a free event with art, live music and giveaways.] Independent Media Center, 9pm, cover Mit’n, Cataract Camp, Cities, The Dolphin Iron Post, 9pm, $5 Bruiser and the Virtues Alto Vineyards, 9:30pm, $3 Traction Station Hustlers Phoenix, 9:30pm, $3 DJ DJ Bozak Soma, 8pm, free DJ Mighty Dog Jackson’s Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm, cover DJ LNO Nargile, 9pm, free before 10pm DJ White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free DJ Naughty Boy Joe’s Brewery, 10pm, cover DJ Tim Williams Highdive 10pm, $5

DJ Chris O Boltini, 10:30pm free Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s 9pm, free Festivals County Fair Champaign County Fairgrounds, 9am, cover Film Dive-In Movies: “Madagascar” Sholem Aquatic Center 8:30pm, regular pool admission

SUN. JUL 23 Live Bands Urbana Backyard BBQ Band Iron Post, 7pm, cover Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover

DJ Jazz Monday Nargile, 9pm free DJ Delayney Barfly, 10pm free Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 9pm, free Festivals County Fair Champaign County Fairgrounds, 9am, cover Social Issues Illinois Oral Health Plan II [Come be a part of Illinois’ next 5-year Oral Health Care Plan. Share thoughts on how to improve oral health care in your community. To see a copy of the current Oral Health Plan download it at www.ifloss. org.] Illinois Terminal Building, 6pm, free

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

Krannert Art Museum through July 30

Shannon Batman [Shannon Batman is a graduate of The University of Illinois with a BFA in Painting (1991) as well as an MA in Art Education (1997).

Shannon’s oil paintings reveal her particular interest in color and composition, attempting to explore communication and shared emotions.]

Pages for all Ages through July 31

Designing Experiences: How Graphic and Industrial Design Shape Daily Life [Design is less about generating products than it is about creating experiences through products that satisfy functional, as well as spiritual, cultural, social, tribal, and emotional needs. This exhibition profiles everyday products and solutions to visual communication problems created by UIUC Graphic and Industrial Design Alumni, and includes information about the designers, the design process, and history of the products.]

Krannert Art Museum through July 30

Reflections: Traces of Nature [Works by Cheryl Holz, Mary Burke, Anne Hughes, Maureen Bardusk, and Kathy Weaver] Verde Gallery through July 29

CALCUL*RT [Features an array of media exploring the boundaries between mathematics and art, from the 3-D wonders of the CANVAS which displays new math-driven processes, to internetdriven art pieces developed by collaborations between Mathematics, Art +Design, and English departments, to art works featuring holographic images by Ellen Sandor, a pioneer in the use of digital media, and Donna Cox of the NCSA, as well as a variety of sculptures, created using everything from mathematics to computergenerated 3-D imaging to old-fashioned wood.

Historic math-art videos such as Edwin Abbott’s Flatland and Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of 10 are also on display.]

Krannert Art Museum through July 30 Rain Forest Visions [This exhibition focuses on artistic representations by contemporary South American indigenous people of ecological, mythical, and cosmic spirit forces in their lives. The focal people whose myths and narratives provide the basis for the imagery are the Canelos Quichua of Amazonian Ecuador.

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

Spurlock Museum through Aug. 20

Romeo and Juliet [Starring two theatre students, a professional actor, and some local community theatre regulars, this production examines Shakespeare’s original text, and in a converted blackbox theatre in Lincoln Square Mall (at the old location of International Galleries), sets this great Gothic masterpiece in a modern montage of adolescent angst, suburbia, sex, and death.]

Lincoln Square Mall, July 20-23, 26-29 8p.m., Saturday and Sunday performances at 3p.m., $5

Springfield Art Show [Paintings by John Hayes, photographs by Ron Ackerman, and ceramics by Bob Dixon of Springfield, Ill.] Cinema Gallery through Aug. 19 Einstein and the Polar Bear [Novelist Bill Allenson has escaped from heartbreak and writer’s block to a cluttered used bookstore in the New England countryside where he and his father have joined the feisty residents of Spider Lake. When a ‘beautiful bibliophile’ shows up amidst a February blizzard, Bill confronts his deep-seated cynicism, a polar bear, and a mystery involving Einstein as this romantic comedy unfolds.]

Krannert Center’s Studio Theatre, July 23 7p.m., $18

Summer Youth Theatre presents “Aladdin Jr.” [Come soar with Aladdin, Jasmine & Genie for an evening of enchantment, mayhem and magic carpet rides as the Champaign Park District’s Summer Youth Theatre presents “Aladdin Jr.” Disney’s resourceful young hero and wisecracking genie come to life on stage in this special Broadway Junior adaptation of one of the most popular animated movies of all time.]

Virginia Theatre, July 20 2p.m., 5:30p.m., $6

Dead Guilty [When John Haddrell dies at the wheel of his car from a heart attack, the woman beside him is not his wife Margaret, but graphic designer Julia Darrow. Now homebound as she recovers from serious injury and acute depression, Julia copes with her injuriesemotional and physical-by allowing the dead man’s widow to visit her. Events turn sinister as a series of strange coincidences isolate Julia from all others in her life. Love and loyalty are called into question as this psychological thriller unfolds.]

Krannert Center’s Studio Theatre, July 20, 25 7:30p.m., $18

TUE. JUL 25 Live Bands Billy Galt Blues Barbecue 11:30am, free Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, cover Open Mic Night Nargile, 9pm free Eclectic Theory Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, $3 Threesome Tuesdays: Larry Gates and Jason Greenlee White Horse Inn 9:45pm, free Shrinkwrap: The Anti-Social End Joe’s Brewery, 10pm, free DJ Subversion: DJ Evily, DJ Twinscin Highdive, 10pm, cover

DJ Tremblin BG Barfly, 10pm free DJ J-Phlip Boltini, 10:30pm free Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s 9pm, free Festivals County Fair Champaign County Fairgrounds, 9am, cover Lectures / Discussions Adelante! Reading Group [“The Mommy Myth: the idealization of mother-

hood and how it has undermined women” by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels.]

Pages for All Ages 7pm, free Miscellaneous Zoo Theatre Company’s Boltini Bingo and Lounge Variety Show Boltini, 6:30pm, free Meetings Bariatric Support Group Carle Foundation Hospital 6:30pm, free

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Works by Ken Hoffman and Rimas VisGirda [This exhibition features the ceramic work and paintings of two seasoned and talented artists.]

Parkland Art Gallery through Aug. 3

The Matchmaker [Life should be an adventure or so believes matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi. With bravado and spirit, the wily Dolly spreads adventure from Yonkers to New York City as she goes about finding just the right mate for the penny-pinching Horace Vandergelder, his overworked clerks, his timid niece, and a pair of ‘wicked’ hat makers. A comedic farce from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Thornton Wilder’s 1954 classic and the immensely successful musical it inspired, Hello, Dolly!, are beloved in both stage and film versions.]

Krannert Center’s Studio Theatre, July 21-22 7p.m., $40, proceeds benefit the Apprentice and Internship Program

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Meadows West Park 6:30pm, free Irish Traditional Music Session Bentley’s Pub, 7pm, free Kayla Brown and Mike Ingram Silvercreek, 7pm, free Jazz Sandwich Iron Post 7pm, $3 Fuedin’ Hillbillies Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Adam Wolfe Fat City Saloon 9pm, free Tommy G and Jeff Markland Tommy G’s, 9pm, free Soultro Joe’s Brewery 10pm, cover Beat Kitchen Canopy Club 10pm, free DJ DJ Stifler Highdive, 8pm, $5 DJ Bris Soma, 8pm, free

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nbridled terror! Unquenchable romance! Unbelievable science! The unstoppable power of the rock and roll!” describes Christopher Mihm of his f ilm The Monster of Phantom Lake. Mihm’s f ilm, along with f ive other horror f licks, are to be featured at Mike ‘N Molly’s in downtown Champaign next week.

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Chris Lukeman, director of University of Illinois vs. A Mummy “My co-director Mark Peaslee and I have more than explains, “I’m just trying to get this sucker seen as much as a passing interest in special effects and a sometimes obsessive possible and showing it downtown is a nice way to open up ‘how did they do that?’ attitude. So it’s fun for us to f igthe flick to a broader audience than current students on cam- ure out, say, how to tear someone’s head off – liquid latex pus.” The film already premiered on campus in April after – or how to show a hand bursting out of a grave – bury an two years of production. actor. It’s a lot of work but Mihm, director and writer very rewarding; hopefully the of T he Monster of Phantom audience enjoys seeing it on Everyone knows the tropes, Lake, hopes that the audience screen, but if not, I had fun gets “a deeper appreciation anyway,” explains Butler. it’s a good time predicting for independent f ilm and the M i ke ‘ N M o l l y ’s i t s e l f which character’s going to mag ic of classic, black and is much appreciated by the white movies.” d i rector s. The ba r usua l ly die next, and thus it’s easy However, M ih m doesn’t feat u res l ive mu sic or DJs just enjoy the horror genre, and always has good alcohol, to parody. although that’s what his f ilm something that is encouraged -Jason Butler and the festival is all about.

by Butler. He hopes the audi“I am not interested in horence gets “the urge to drink ror specif ically,” he admits, “I am simply a fan of atomic a lot of beer and tip their bartender. Also have a bunch of age 1950s/1960s era B-grade ‘drive-in’ cinema. The fact laughs, perhaps spilling their beer in the process so they can that most of those f ilms happen to be horror or sci-f i is just buy more.” a nice little plus.”

Mihm echoes this sentiment, exclaiming, “The Monster There is an atmosphere of fun surrounding the f ilm festi- of Phantom Lake – the unspeakable horror that menaced the val events, along with some personal mocking. fate of the human race! That, and good beer.”

Lukeman states that “Even if you’ve never set foot on the Mike ‘N Molly’s is located at 105 N. Market Street in University of Illinois, the humor is still great and the casual expe- Champaign. For more information, please call 217-355-1236. rience Mike ‘N Molly’s provides with their outdoor beer garden is Movies will be featured on July 23, 26 and 30. buzz a great fit for the B-horror shock of watching dozens of students fighting a 75-year-old mummy from Ann Arbor.”

Jason Butler, co-writer and co-director of The Adventures of the Screaming Ape and Werewolf Cemetery understands the fun in horror films, and gave a glimpse of what the audience will do during the evening.

“Ever yone k nows the t r o p e s , i t ’s a g o o d t i m e predicting which character’s going to die next, and thus it’s easy to parody,” Butler says.

He explains he has a respect for horror f ilms due to its long tradition in cinema, “[The genre] has had its ups and downs but some of the best and most subversive movies in the last 100 years were horror flicks, more often than not low-budget horror flicks.”

For Butler, making the film is sometimes more enjoyable than the finished product.

From the film U of I vs. a Mummy.

Horror movies will be showing up at local bar later this July.

The beer garden’s movie week begins on July 23 with The Monster of Phantom Lake and University of Illinois vs. A Mummy at 9:30 p.m. These two will be shown again on the July 26.

The Adventures of the Screaming Ape parts one and two will be shown on the 30, along with Werewolf Cemetery, which is a serial. The three directors of these f ilms are very enthused about the upcoming pseudo-festival.

The screening of these movies at Mike ‘N Molly’s not on ly has enter tainment va lue, but can br ing impor tant exposure as well.

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ead Guilty, a nicely paced contemporary psychological thriller by British playwright Richard Harris (no relation to the late Irish actor) is the best, most fully realized production of this summer’s Studio Theatre repertory season.

Dead Guilty features Sari Sanchez as Julia Darrow.

The play tells the stor y of Julia Darrow, a young graphic artist who’s recovering from injuries that occurred in a car accident when the driver, her middle-aged friend John, suffered a fatal heart attack. In much pain and depression, and after a failed suicide attempt, Julia returns home to her lonely London house. She’s visited by a grief counselor, a young man who completes chores and runs errands for her, and eventually, John’s widow visits Julia, seeking closure in her husband’s life.

Director Ron Schaeffer does a tremendous job of slowly building suspense as the play’s random events: a broken vase, missing money from a desk drawer, mysterious phone calls, and an upstairs intruder blend together in an intriguing narrative that keeps the audience speculating on a variety of deeper character dynamics and plot possibilities.

Sari Sanchez and Joi Hoffsommer are both outstanding as leads Julia and the widow, Margaret.

Maintaining their believable British accents these finely controlled performers invite the audience into their troubled worlds. Sanchez is especially good at showing her character’s grief and guilt. Christina Dideriksen and Matthew J. Hutchinson are equally natural and authentic in their supporting roles as the counselor and the handyman, repsectively.

Scene de sig ner Cor y Rodeheaver a nd lighting designer Susan Summers utilize the Studio’s somewhat limited playing space, since

it shares the same conf iguration as the other two repertory plays, in the most effective way by capitalizing on the crippled Julia’s limited mobility while creating a mood of gloomy claustrophobia and mystery.

The tense thriller Dead Guilty continues through July 29. For ticket information about any of the three summer repertory plays, contact the Krannert ticket office at 217-333-6280 or online at KrannertCenter.com.

Dead Guilty features Sari Sanchez (right) as Julia Darrow and Joi Hoffsommer as Margaret Haddrell.

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is hosting the performance. Dead Guilty is written by Richard Harris and directed by Ron Schaeffer.

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YOU, ME AND DUPREE

JEFF GROSS • STAFF WRITER

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would have been different under the Gore political umbrella. Well, guess what? You’re not the president Mr. Gore; get over it. Instead of implying how things would be different, tell us more on how to make things different.

In terms of the film as entertainment, Al Gore is just plain boring. The information he presents is enticing, but his drawl and delivery are quite bland. A speech by Al Gore is capable of inducing sleep, even in the most politically or environmentally-savvy person.

However, despite all this, I still highly recommend you see this movie. The information it contains is essential viewing. Despite Gore’s political agenda, the movie contains numerous short and long-term solutions that the average Joe can use in order to help save the environment.

If you are skeptical, An Inconvenient Truth is not a movie packed with spin, lies and overexaggerated consequences. Not once does Al Gore claim that the environment will roll over and suddenly die of a heart attack tomorrow.

Rather, he shows the lingering, cancerous death it is in for, and it’s truthfully terrifying.

Catch this film still playing at Boardman’s Art Theatre in Champaign. Visit www.boardmansarttheatre.com for more information.

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ou, Me and Cliche is Owen Wilson’s follow-up to the smash-hit that was Wedding Crashers. The problem with the film, which is actually called You, Me and a Really Big Schnoz, is not Wilson, but the formulaic and idiotic script to which he is so limited, just as he was in Crashers.

The prem ise is si mple: Newly-mar r ied couple Carl (Matt Dillon) and Molly (Kate Hudson) agree to let the best man at their wedding, Dupree (Wilson), stay at their home until he lands a job and a steady salary. Hilarity is supposed to ensue, and admittedly, sometimes it does. But most of the time, the humor is dry and unfulfilling. Dupree takes an age-old, and frankly, unfunny storyline and regurgitates it for our 21st century enjoyment. I guess the producers thought we have come such a long way since Sinbad starred in Houseguest that they just had to give it another go.

Not to say that Wilson can’t be funny, he’s as good as any with quality material, but this product feels recycled. As an actor, he seems to just jump from film to film with the same guise and mannerisms, like Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, and the rest of their Frat Pack. That being said, it doesn’t surprise us when Dupree is caught in the family

room gratifying himself to Carl’s Asian porn collection, or sleeping naked on the new couch. There just isn’t any charm to that character anymore.

The problem here doesn’t lie with Wilson though, or any of the cast for that matter.

The performances are all as truthful to the characters as they can be, but the characters are so flawed to begin with that the movie falls apart in the second act.

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l Gore’s latest effort, a documentary that explains and maps the global warming issue, is important, informative, comprehensive and ultimately disappointing. What could have been a spectacular, four star piece of non-fiction is hindered by political resentment.

The former vice president makes it clear in this movie that he was disappointed by the outcome of the 2000 election. Having won the popular vote, he probably should have been elected; however, this segment and these notions have no relation to the global warming issue.

Additionally, the film displays clear disapproval of George W. Bush’s environmental policies and more than hints that the situation

DAVID JUST • STAFF WRITER

Owen Wilson stars in You, Me, and Dupree.

If you absolutely loved Wedding Crashers, this film will probably work for you. Just change the title to You and Dupree and count ‘Me’ out.

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Despite my extensive f ilm viewership and awareness, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found many f ilms in this book that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve regretfully never heard of before.

This book is truly a must have for film nerds.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arguably a f ilm buff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bible. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a comprehensive guide from blockbusters to cult cinema in a century of f ilm (although the last decade or so is arguably missing certain important entries). Each movie title is accompanied by a short, informative, and insightful commentary. With a 1001 movie list, you are bound

to discover a few essential pieces that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve overlooked. Case in point: a 1915 French serial f ilm by the name of Les Vampires.

However, unlike similar books such as Roger Ebertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Great Movies, this guide is far from elitist. While it may seemingly cater largely to the f ilm enthusiast crowd rather than the average movie watcher, it is important to note that 1001 Movies contains such a vast list of movies from numerous genres, decades, directors, etc. that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be hard pressed not to f ind something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see. This guide endorses movies from Sofieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice to Wes Cravenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Hills Have Eyes. Quite a range if you ask me.

Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a person who feels you have seen it all or the kind who is always at a loss for something worth renting, this is the guide for you.

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what else is new? So the Mario Brothers series was never particularly known for its storytelling abilities, big deal. It was always the action that counted and that is where this game delivers.

The control scheme is the basic A and B st yle of gameplay, run and jump is all you need to get through the worlds. In this game though, you get a few additional moves such as the butt-stomp as well as the ability to wall jump or sidle on walls, moves borrowed from the classic Super Mario 64.

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The levels offered are of the traditional variety. Mario has to run, jump, and stomp his way through underground, sea, ice, desert and even volcano levels. Within these levels there are many collectables such as coins as well as Star Coins that will open new paths across worlds.

This gives players plenty to do before they reach the fl agpole at the end of the level.

Overall New Super Mario Brothers is a great game filled with enough variety and action to keep players, whether veteran or novice, hooked from beginning to end. It is definitely a note-worthy game to get you through summer vacation.

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Charming, quiet 1 bedroom in old town Champaign. Wood floors. Includes parking, water, fees. Bus route. Credit check. $415.00. 3558512.

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Aug 2006. 1 bdrms from $485/mo.

Central A/C, Laundry. Parking. Furnished $50/mo. Shown 7 days/k.

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

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1107 S. EUCLID, C Aug 2006. Near Armory, IMPE and Snack Bar. Window A/C, Laundry, Ethernet avail. Rents from $395/mo.

Parking $50/mo. Shown 7 days a week.

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

Best Value 1 bedroom lofts $535 2 bedrooms $575 3 bedrooms $650 4 bedrooms $925 Campus, parking.

Spring ‘06, 367-6626

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1 Br. $395 2 BR. $580 3 BR. $750 4 BR $855 Campus. 367-6626.

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510 S. Elm Available Fall 2006. 2 BR close to campus, hardwood floors, furnished, W/D, central air/heat, off street parking, 24 hr. maintenance. $595/mo.

841-1996.

THE UNIVERSITY GROUP www.ugroup96.com 352-3182

3 bedroom 1 bath laundry, parking inc Aug 1st 207 W. William. $750 (847)337-8362.

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ARBOR APARTMENTS, C. Aug 2006. 1 bdrms at Third & Gregory across from Snack Bar. Window A/C, Laundry, Ethernet avail. Rents from $390/mo. Parking $50/mo.

Shown 7 days a week.

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

306-308-309 White August 2006. 1 & 3 Bedroom furnished apts. Balconies, patios, laundry, dishwashers, off-street parking, ethernet available. 841-1996.

THE UNIVERSITY GROUP www.ugroup96.com 352-3182

THE GEORGIAN 1005 S. SIXTH, C

Aug 2006. Next to UI Library. 1 bedrooms from $540/mo. Laundry, Window A/C, Carpet. Shown 7 days a week.

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209 & 211 E. Clark

Fall 2006 2BR starting at $550/mo. & 4 BR $795/ mo. furnished apt. water, sewer, and garbage included.

Near Beckman Center. security, central air, ethernet available, off street parking.

GREEN STREET REALTY 356-8750

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307 & 310 E. WHITE 307 & 309 CLARK

Fall 2006 Large studio, double closet, well furnished. Office at 309 S. First, C. THE UNIVERSITY GROUP www.ugroup.com 352-3182

www.bankierapts.com

Choice 1,2 & 3 Bedrooms for Fall

High speed internet access/Ethernet

Laundry facilities, many with washer/ dryer in unit Dishwasher/Microhood Balconies Intercom Entry Parking 24 hour emergency maintenance

SEE THE DIFFERENCE Mon-Sat (217) 328-3770

GREAT CAMPUS LOCATIONS!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 Bedroom Apartments

Some with washers and driers in each unit! All are five minutes from the Quad.

A place and price for everyone!

344-0700

PRICES SLASHED! JOHN RANDOLPH ATRIUM APARTMENTS All utilities included!

Semester and 9 1/2 month leases available!

Roommate program available!

4 bedroom, 4 bath apartments Dishwasher, Washer-dryer, Ethernet Central Air Covered parking available Room- $325/mo. year lease (Includes utilities!)

Room- $350/mo. 9 1/2 mo. lease (Includes utilities!)

Room- $375/mo. semester leases (Includes utilities!)

4 bedrooms- $1200/mo. (Includes utilities!)

SHOWN DAILY BARR REAL ESTATE, INC. 217-356-1873 www.BARR-RE.com

509 W. MAIN, U.

Aug 2006. 1 BR apts. From $400/mo. Laundry, window A/C, Parking avail at $35/mo. Ethernet available. Shown 7 days a week.

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

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311 E. WHITE, C

Avail Aug 2006. Large efficiencies close to Beckman Center. From $340/mo. Parking avail at $35/mo.

Window A/C, carpet, Ethernet avail.

Shown 7 days a week.

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

509 Stoughton

Near Grainger, Spacious studios and 2 bedrooms, ethernet, parking.

THE UNIVERSITY GROUP www.ugroup96.com 352-3182

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One and two bedroom apartments available August, $370-$580 (some utilities included), clean quiet well maintained building 684-2226 or email crpayne30@hotmail.com

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Deluxe 2 BR Townhouses 206 E. Green, C. 1 Free Parking Space New Energy Efficient A/C and Heat Ethernet Access $380/mo/person Call 621-3430 INTRO | A ROUND TOWN | L ISTEN, HEAR | CU CALENDAR | STAGE, S CREEN &

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408 E. Stoughton. Huge 1 bedrooms close to the Engineering Quad.

Roland-Realty.com 328-1226

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304 E. Clark, C Castle Apartments 3 blocks to Engineering Quad. 3 BR $725, 4 BR $950. C/A, ceiling fan, dishwasher, washer/dryer in unit.

384-1099, Castle_Apt@insightbb.com

105 E. GREEN, C Aug 2006. Studio Apts. Wall A/C units, Laundry, Ethernet avail. From $315/mo. Parking $50/mo. Shown 7 days a week.

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1732 B Florida Ave. 2 bedroom townhouse. 1.5 BA, Washer/dryer hookups. On busline. $620/mo, $620 deposit. 649-7489

2 BR apartment close to downtown Champaign secure building laundry basic cable water C/A no pets $595/mo 202-2785.

1 BLOCK FROM LINCOLN Eff & 1 BR’s w/pkg, laundry $365 - $610/mo.

Avail Fall The Weiner Companies, Ltd. 384-8018 www.weinercompanies.com

1 BR apartment with balcony close to downtown Champaign C/A No Pets lease $425/mo 202-2785.

2 bedroom condo, Colony West, Champaign. Sharp inside, W/D, C/A, $730/mo. 637-0806.

2017 S. Vawter, U. Small, quiet 2 BR apt. Available early August. Includes parking, on-site laundry, $450/mo.

Campo Rental Agency 344-1927

205 E. HEALEY, C Aug 2006. Huge 1 bdrm apts. Window A/C, Ethernet available. Parking $40/mo. Rents starts at $435/mo.

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Aug 2006. 1 bdrm apts close to Campus. Window A/C. Rents $430/mo. Shown 7 days/wk.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC 356-1873 www.barr-re.com August: Large 1 BR plus study from $440; 2 BR from $480. Convenient to Crystal Lake Park, downtown Urbana, 6 minute bus to campus.

(217)840-5134.

Available Aug unfurnished 2 bedroom apt near Lincoln Square. Rent negotiable. Call Simon 356-8836.

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

Newly remodeled loft apartment $450/mo 328-3224.

2 bedroom house on campus for Fall 2006. 367-6626.

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107 E. Chalmers 1 BR in 3 BR apartment. Fully furnished. All utilities included. $408/mo. (630)310-7140. jaworsky@uiuc.edu Female sublet wanted. 708 S. First St. $470/month. 3 bedroom furnished apartment. Utilities included, excluding electric. Call 708-932-1483 or e-mail at ctrieze2@uiuc.edu.

Sublease 1 Bedroom in 4 Bedroom apartment. $450/mo ALL utilities included. 630-844-0086.

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1 bedroom [$435] and one efficiency [$395, newly remodeled]. Available August 1, near CU Public Library.

Call Tom 721-0796

Convenient to campus & downtown, old town Champaign, 1 & 2 BR’s, available starting June, July & August. From $380/mo.Call 352-8540, or see: www.faronproperties.com

1 bedroom duplex, close to campus. $540/mo. 806 S. Prairie, Champaign. 637-0806

August 15th Studio apartment w/ A/C on Hessel park near campus and stores, $335/mo 384-0612.

Very nice studio, 2 BR, 4 BR available August 1st. Off campus, close to downtown. Call 621-4849.

2 and 4 Bedroom Meticulous condition, attached garage, laundry with washer and dryer. cherry and hickory kitchen cabinets. ceramic and marble baths, oak floors, Levelor blinds, central air, maintenance free yard. 359-4652.

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10 Bedroom on campus. 805 W. Oregon, large bedrooms, 3 kitchens, 5 baths, plenty of parking. $3000. 3900313

511 W. Washington, C 2.5 Bedroom avail August 1. All appliances plus washer and dryer. Offstreet parking. No pets. 217-7788894.

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1 bedroom, 550 sq.ft., with study.

Driveway with nice yard. On busline. $475/month. 841-2167

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2 bedroom house, quiet Champaign location, on busline. W/D, C/A, $650/mo. 918 W. Vine. 637-0806.

2 BR and 3 BR off-campus. Offstreet parking. W/D hookup. ,Champaign. $675-750/mo. 649-9708 2804 E. Ill. St, U Large 3 bedroom. W/D hookups, Bus. Lease deposit, credit check. $680. 217-356-4196, 217-714-4191.

3 BEDROOM DUPLEX C/A, DW, Laundry, basement, garage. 401 S. Webber, U. $800. 3596042.

3 bedroom house, quiet Champaign location, close to busline. 1921 S. Wood Dr. W/D. $850. 637-0806.

3, 4 and 5 BR, campus and off-campus. Reasonable rates. Please call 390-9536 or 398-5946 907 E. California, Urbana. 1 BR, 1 BA. $410/mo

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Beautiful sabbatical 5+ bedroom house 2 blocks east of campus.

888-445-5464 www.4illini.com

Available now and for Fall. Shared deluxe furnished 4 BR., 2 bath apartment at 3rd & Clark. $225/mo. + utilities. Ted 7665108.

GREAT HOUSE 3 BR, 2 BA. Family room, fireplace, garage, busline, no pets. $900, Credit/References required.

(217)390-6777.

3 BR, hardwood floors, private yard, pets, parking, W/D, on busline. Quiet neighbors. 800 S. Vine, Urbana. $825/mo. plus utilities. Available August 1st. marycturek@sbcglobal.net.

630-357-6587.

Female roommate wanted, take over lease. $550/mo. 2 BR/ 2 BA. At Campus Connection. $750 bonus at signing.

More info at vkillian1@aol.com.

Large 4 Bedroom. Free parking, free W/D, $1460/mo. Real Estate Professionals, 417-5539.

Female Roommate wanted. $400/mo. 3 Bedroom house, Utilities included. 618-520-5224

Off-campus 4 bedroom house. 707 E. Illinois. $1200/mo, Steve 3695877.

Female roommate wanted. Quiet furnished house near campus. 4174514. benorris@uiuc.edu

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Male Grad. renting. room in house. $295, Urbana. Chris 732-619-8385. cwhalen@uiuc.edu.

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1 bedroom in 900 sq ft. 3 bedroom apartment. 508 E. Clark $350 negotiable. (847)942-6877 1 BR in 4 BR apartment. $350/mo.

367-6626.

Rooms: $400, 2 blocks east of campus. 888-445-5464, www.4illini.com.

2 Bedroom great location 1 block off Green. $500/mo negotiable.

(217)497-0384.

ROOMMATE WANTED 550 1 roommate for furnished 4 bedroom house. $420/mo, utilities included.

618-520-5669, egwatkin@uiuc.edu.

217-239-6677 CAMPUS GROUP HOUSE 313 W. White, C. 6 BR, 2 BA, limited parking, partially furnished, NO PETS. $1,700. www.ppmrent.com 351-1800

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706 W. Illinois, U. Female needed for Aug 06 - Aug 07 In 3 BR furnished house. $350/mo. plus 1/3 utilities. (217)899-5890.

Grads seek roommate. $335. 4549976. http://tinyurl.com/hph9y

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Quiet, secluded subdivision, Urbana.

Nice 2 bedroom. Large yard. Bus route to campus. Includes W/D, mowing and garbage. $550/mo Credit check. 355-8512.

New 4 BR 4 BA condo to share with serious female Business school student. Furnished unit, all utilities + parking included $500/mo (847)3378362.

Roommates needed for nice house!

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“You’re a Tiger”--Tony would be so proud.

Across 1 Rhymes with rhymes 6 TLA often seen before “He is soooo hot!”

9 Great, to Gaius 14 It takes you back where you came from 15 “Bali ___” 16 Where Skilling made a killing 17 On the level 18 Like a reversible jacket that’s been reversed 20 Topher of “That ‘70s Show” has lit up?

22 Up to the present 23 Norman Lear’s “Good Times” co-producer Bud

24 Big galoot 26 “Straight Outta Compton” group 28 Linguist Chomsky 31 Former “Harper’s” editor Lewis 33 One of the Allman Brothers is way too simple?

37 ___-pah bands 38 Compass dir.

39 ___ Tin Tin 40 Cranky guy who caused a lot of grief?

45 Dropkick Murphys cover of an old song associated with the Red Sox 46 Luscious Jackson’s “Why Do ___?”

47 The night before 48 Do the math, maybe

50 Put down 55 “___ Been Everywhere” 57 When it’s appropriate to flail around like a blue Muppet?

60 Flower sung about in “The Sound of Music” 62 Skip the restaurants 63 Sylvester co-star 64 Soup in Hanoi 65 They may be loose 66 Site for vows 67 Sucker 68 Smell, say Down 1 Kinda swollen in spots 2 “In ___” (classic 1993 album) 3 Kisses and such, in metaphor

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59 Letters on a cognac bottle 60 Letter for Yanni 61 It’s good for absolutely nothing, in a song

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• Knowing how your vulva normally looks can help you catch early signs of an STI. • Visible signs of an infection include areas that look more red or swollen than usual, or any cracks, sores, blisters, or bumps on the skin.

• People usually think that they will feel something if they have an STI, but some infections show up as painless bumps or sores called chancres (like with Syphilis).

• Another STI that is sometimes visible is crabs (aka pubic lice). Crabs can attach themselves and their eggs to the pubic hair and may look like white or grey spots on the base of the hair.

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t’s a good idea to get familiar with your body and what’s normal for you. In particular, it’s important to know about your vulva because that can help you catch the early signs of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) or a yeast infection if you get one. Think about it, a doctor only checks your health once a year or so, but you have the opportunity to check out your health as often as you need to.

When you know what’s normal for your body, you can take better care of your health.

Unfortunately, most girls are taught not to explore their bodies, especially “down there”.

For some people it can be hard to overcome that lesson and feel okay with learning about our own sexual anatomy. But it’s your body and your hea lth so take some time to get familiar with it!

You’ll want to make sure you’ve got some time, privacy, and a space you feel comfortable in. That can be a lot to ask for in some homes, but you can try this while you’re in the bathroom, or if you’ve got some time alone in your room.

Start by getting to know what your vulva looks like. The vulva is the outside part of your vaginal area including where the pubic hair grows. You can get a good view of the area by standing over a mirror or sitting down with a hand mirror.

Start by checking out what the pubic hair looks like, where it’s growing. Next you can check out the color and texture of the inner and outer lips of your vagina.

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From there you can check out what your vaginal fluid is like. It’s totally normal and healthy for women to have wetness, also called vaginal discharge. This discharge helps your vagina protect itself from infection and stay lubricated.

Healthy vaginal discharge is usually clear or whitish and has a slight natural smell to it. Sometimes only a little bit of vaginal fluid is present and other times there could be a lot of it, like when a woman is ovulating or is sexually aroused.

• If your vaginal fluid changes in color or smell it could be the sign of an infection.

• Sometimes Chlamydia makes vaginal fluid look yellowish, while Gonorrhea can make it look greenish.

• A yeast infection can cause a white coating on the vagina, or make vaginal discharge thicker than normal.

• Some infections can cause a strong or foul odor.

You can also pay attention to your period. It’s normal for your period to be somewhat irregular especially for the first few years after you get it.

However, if you’re bleeding between periods, or if you bleed after sex (and it’s not your first couple of times) that could be sign of an infection.

If you find anything that’s not normal for you or that you’re concerned about, ask your health care provider about it. And remember, sometimes infections won’t show symptoms at all.

Knowing your body includes knowing what turns you on, what turns you off and what your boundaries are. You have the right to let your partner know your boundaries and have them be respected!

Thank you to all of our readers who have submitted sex questions! We are currently working on answering questions we’ve received about sex addiction and more details on the HPV vaccineso watch for those in upcoming columns.

We want to hear from YOU! If you have a sex question get answers by writing to riceandruin@ yahoo.com . Kim Rice and Kate Ruin are professional sex educators.

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free will astrology JUL. 20 — JUL. 26 ARIES

March 21 – April 19

I’m pleased to announce the imminent arrival of a new chapter in your own personal soap opera. It could include any of the following plot twists: midnight confessions, madcap sex farces, thumb-sucking saints, an invitation to play leapfrog with a unicorn, work turning into play and vice versa, a showdown between the reptile brain and mammalian brain, a chance to bob for lollipops in a fountain, a thunderstorm coming just in time to douse a raging fire, samurais wearing pajamas, a supernatural ham sandwich, and opportunities to tinker with your “Me Against the World” attitude.

T A U RU S

April 20 – May 20

Has a baby ever been born with two umbilical cords? If so, he or she would be a good symbol for you in the coming weeks. Why? Because you should be extremely aggressive about getting the nurturing you need--even to the point of double-dipping from a primal source. In my astrological opinion, it’s your responsibility to make sure you’re flooded with blessings. Trust your unprecedented hunger.

GEMINI

May 21 – June 20

Kathleen Raine (1908-2003) was a brilliant Cambridge-educated scholar and poet who won numerous awards for her poetry in the U.K. and France. Many of her colleagues were towering intellectuals, but she herself wanted “to get away from the Sherlock Holmes misconception that everything has a rational explanation.” She gravitated instead toward “the sacred springs of life, which are the imagination and the heart.” She’s your role model right now, Gemini. I hope she’ll inspire you to apply all of your high-powered ingenuity to an exploration of soul-awakening mysteries that can’t be encapsulated with neat analyses. It’s a perfect moment for you to celebrate the indescribable bounty of fertile chaos.

CANCER

July 23 – Aug. 22

The Hebrew word “shalom” is both a hello infused with a goodbye and a goodbye leavened with a hello. That’s why it would be wise and fun for you to make it your word of power in the coming days. You’ll be spinning through a transitional zone in which it won’t always be clear which direction is up. You’ll be coming and going simultaneously, embarking on new journeys and ending old ones. Whenever you say “shalom,” whether it’s a greeting to someone else or a mantra uttered in solitude, you’ll remind yourself that the threshold you’re in is pregnant with a thousand possibilities.

VIRGO

Aug. 23 – Sept. 22

Some scientists believe our brains are in a continual state of war. Writing in LiveScience.com, Bjorn Carey reports that our grey matter is a battleground where competing thoughts and impulses struggle for supremacy, brawling and jousting for our undivided attention. I have reason to believe that this ruckus will be far more pronounced than usual for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. All of your pairs of opposites will intensify their conflict, with each side clamoring and maneuvering to be declared winner. What I recommend may surprise you. I think you should just sit back with amused tolerance and let them fight it out. There really is no pressing need for you to be anything other than a radiant bundle of fascinating contradictions.

LIBRA

Oct. 23 – Nov. 21

S AG I T TA R I U S

Nov. 22 – Dec. 21

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22 – Jan. 19

AQUA R I U S

Jan. 20 – Feb. 18

In preparation for my public readings and performances, I often ask my hosts to make sure that there are pussy willows and pomegranates placed near the podium, along with a pint of absinthe, a jump rope woven from hemp for use in my interactive rituals, and a box of slave-free, non-GMO, organic vegan chocolates. What about you, Scorpio? What items would you demand in your rider if you were asked to speak about your philosophy of life to a curious audience? It’s an ideal time to meditate on this matter. According to my astrological analysis, you will soon be in the spotlight, will be encouraged to spread your influence more forcefully, and will have openings to ask for what you want with aggressive clarity.

Austin artist Scott Wade likes to let layers of dust collect on the rear window of his car. That allows him to express his specialty: detailed “paintings” carved out of the dust with his fingers and paintbrushes. The most exquisite of his temporary masterpieces was a black-and-white reproduction of one of the famous “Dogs Playing Poker” paintings. I recommend you make Wade your role model, Sagittarius. Create unexpected wonders and exuberant curiosities out of stuff that’s used in a different way than it’s “supposed” to be.

I recently found out there’s a famous guy out there with a name similar to mine. Rob Brzezinski is an administrator for pro football’s Minnesota Vikings. He’s regarded as a “cap guru,” meaning he’s highly skilled at manipulating the National Football League’s Byzantine “cap” system of rules about how much money a team can spend on its players. That’s pretty funny given the fact that I’ve been working really hard in the last few months to become a “Cappy guru,” by which I mean someone who understands Capricorns really well. I mention this because it’s prime time for you to seek out and learn from people who are to you what Rob Brzezinski is to me: your counterpart, soul twin, shadow, doppelganger, or other half.

June 21 – July 22

Are there influences that render you numb or even dumb? What experiences tend to shut you down? When you’re gliding along in your natural rhythm, are you sometimes interrupted by blips that make you feel lost and unresponsive? According to my reading of the astrological omens, Cancerian, you now have extra power to fight back against these little outbreaks of black magic. It’s a perfect moment to get the upper hand on anything that closes you off from the world or locks you away from your own intuition.

LEO

SCORPIO

Imagine asking fundamentalist nutcase Jerry Falwell to evaluate a book about evolution by a renowned science writer like Richard Dawkins. Imagine handing poet Allen Ginsberg’s masterwork Howl to a janitor in Bangladesh and paying him to write his opinions about it. The effect would be similar to an event that actually occurred recently. The New York Times invited ex-Marine sniper Anthony Swofford, author of the Gulf War memoir Jarhead, to review a subversive metaphysical experiment penned by visionary philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck. As you might expect, Swofford’s screed was 85 percent hallucination. Let the Times’ gaffe serve as a warning beacon, Aquarius. It’s now crucial for you to gather a range of discriminating opinions about yourself and the possibilities you’re considering.

Don’t rely on people who have no familiarity with, understanding of, or respect for the issues you want feedback about.

PISCES

Feb. 19 – March 20

Neurologist Oliver Sacks writes books in which he describes the ingenious adaptations some of his patients have made when faced with limitations that other people might have found debilitating.

One example is an artist whose car accident caused him to lose his ability to see any other colors besides black and white. In response, he became a specialist in creating black and white paintings, and ultimately developed a mastery that won him acclaim.

Later, when offered a chance to undergo treatment to restore the full spectrum of vision, he declined. Take heart from his story, Pisces. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you, too, to capitalize on one of your seeming liabilities or inadequacies.

Homework: Don’t get back to where you once belonged. Go forward to where you know you’ve got to belong in the future.

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Sept. 23 – Oct.22

I’m not a big fan of excessive decorum. That’s why I’m opposed to the efforts by some professional tennis officials to stop the spread of grunting among female tennis players. The great Monica Seles started the trend some years ago, emitting war cries as she struck the ball, and since then many other players have made it a part of their game. This is a favorable time for you to experiment with what they have discovered: that making loud mouth noises loosens your inhibitions, boosts your confidence, and lubricates your power. Liberate your GRUNT, Libra!

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TATYANA SAFRONOVA Community editor LIKES 1. Espresso Macchiatos at Moonstruck: I’ve become a coffee a d d i c t . (Re m e m b e r, step one is admitting it). The art of the macchiato was taught to me in high school, in a macroeconomics class by Mr. Gillette. He knew his coffee. And the macchiato was also his favorite drink.

2. Reading: A friend has subscribed me to Harper’s as part of my birthday present. Frankly, that, along with National Geographic and books–I don’t know why people still ask if I watch television.

Because I obviously don’t have time to. And to think I used to abhor reading when I was younger.

How people change ... sigh.

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LEAH NELSON Music editor LIKES 1. The awesome power of short skirts: I shyed away from short skirts for a long time, preferring long hippie skirts or pants, but I am impressed with my newly-bought miniskirt. Besides helping me feel slightly more comfortable in hot weather, they also have the power to make people open doors for you. Amazing!

2. Tazo chai lattes: A 32 oz. concentrate package costs around $4 at IGA, and can make eight thick, spicy, kick-ass lattes.

3. “Likes”: It helps in the middle of a shitty day to be forced to sit down and write about things you like. It gives the day a slightly different perspective.

MONICA BETEL Designer GRIPES 1. The horrible humidity: This humidity is totally killing me. Not only is it so uncomfortable I can’t wear any of my neat outfits but my hair is ungodly flat and limp. Gah, I hate it.

2. Stupid people in MMORPGs (massive multiplayer online role-playing games): Now, there are stupid people in real life, too. They annoy me as it is, but online stupid people reach a new degree of stupidity. Maybe it’s because of the whole “no one knows who I am online thing,” but seriously, these people are obnoxious (at least they could learn how to spell)!

3. How quickly sushi goes bad: This sucks!

I buy a dragon roll and of course I can’t eat it all, so I take half of it home, and lo and behold only a few hours later it tastes horrible! It’s so sad, money and sushi going to waste!

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