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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY (JULY 22-28) ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two years ago a diminishing marriage rate and an increase in divorces began to worry Malaysian officials. The family development minister issued a plea for spouses to be more aggressive about calling each other "darling," "sweetie," and other affectionate names. As you slip into the Amorous Season, Aries, I'm going to ask you to do that, plus more. Supercharge your entire approach to speaking the language of love. Be aware of how powerful your words can be in stirring the emotions of people you care about. Use your voice to experiment with romantic potentials and bring more truth and beauty into your intimate moments.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Since 1977, 40 percent of U.S. elementary schools have done away with recess. Meanwhile, among adults at work, the time allotted to lunch is steadily shrinking. Executives spend an average of just 42 minutes with their midday meals. This dangerous trend hits you Tauruses the hardest: You need spaciousness. You shouldn't and can't be rushed to do anything. That's why I'm calling on all Bulls to launch a Mass Slowdown in the coming week. Take all the time you need to do whatever has to be done, whether it's enjoying your sandwich or preparing an important report. From an astrological perspective, it's a pivotal moment for you to be faithful to your own internal rhythms. If anyone complains, tell them your astrologer made you do it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I suggest that you encourage your right hand to get into a wrestling match with your left hand. Let them go at it for as long as it takes for one to emerge victorious.

They desperately need to engage in a vigorous dialogue, and the best way for that to happen is in the heat of battle. It's true that while their struggle rages, you may be too preoccupied to worry about the thousand and one questions that are begging for your attention. But I'm betting that many of those questions will be resolved or rendered irrelevant as your right hand and left hand get to know each other better.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Warning! Too-much-of-a-goodthing alert! Take a few deep breaths and consider the possibility that sweet satisfaction may be on the verge of mutating into overripe excess. Examine your life to see whether well-crafted luxury is in danger of becoming grandiose exorbitance or whether your fair share is close to becoming too hot to handle.

I'm not saying any of these developments have occurred yet; just that they might unless you take action immediately. As a Cancerian myself, I know how we Crabs sometimes indulge in the fantasy that hoarding stuff protects us from the world's unpredictability. Though it can on occasion, this is not one of those times.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): From an astrological perspective, it's a

perfect time to order a custom-made action figure that looks and talks like you. You'd really benefit from having a miniature version of yourself to play with. You could dress it in superhero costumes, fantasize scenarios in which it pulls off epic feats, and use it to help you escape the imaginary constraints that have been inhibiting you lately. But getting a doll of yourself is expensive, and there are other ways that would probably work just as well to free up your bold, adventurous spirit. Maybe you could write a short story starring you as a daredevil or pioneer. Or how about embarking on a series of strenuous physical activities that will awaken your dormant reserves of willpower? If nothing else, create a sock puppet of yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I met a man who told he trademarked the term "couch potato" more than two decades ago. He said that in the early years, he made decent money from people who compensated him for the right to use his intellectual property.

Eventually, though, he had to hire lawyers to take legal action against those who wanted to avoid payment. In time, his attorney fees outstripped the amount he was able to collect from violators of his trademark, and he gave up the effort. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Virgos are facing or will soon face a comparable situation: A certain advantage you've had may no longer be an advantage; an asset or strength could begin to require so much upkeep that it may no longer be an asset or strength.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You've been blessed and cursed with arduous lessons these past months, Libra. They have compelled you to navigate your way through the most challenging archetypes of all: death and rebirth. Before these trials, you may have considered yourself smart and capable but wondered how strong you were. Now there is no doubt: You're more courageous than you ever imagined. But don't stop pushing yourself to the limit yet. Your hero's journey still has a few weeks to go.

Keep doing what you've been doing, only more so.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Disabuse yourself of the notion that greatness is somehow inextricably linked with fame, power, wealth, or social stature," writes one of my readers, Pyrrol Red. "Some of the greatest human beings have been mostly unknown." This is an important point to keep in mind, Scorpio, as you seek to ascend higher. The essence of your beauty may never be fully appreciated by more than a few people; the gifts you have to offer are so subtle and complex that you might find it hard to encapsulate them in simple forms that gain wide popularity. I'm not saying you'll never be famous, powerful, wealthy, or high-status. But even if you do win those perks, it will be because of decisions you make and actions you take that are free of all lust for them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens," wrote Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet. That's a good description of what will be happening inside you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But keep in mind that this lovely invasion may not be accompanied by fireworks and thrilling music. It might unfold in a series of what Rilke called "seemingly uneventful and motionless moments."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game of hide and seek. I've observed that most adults still engage in sublimated or disguised versions of the game. They may withdraw emotionally and expect their friends and loved ones to telepathically figure out what's going on with them. Or they may play hard to get, forcing their lovers or spouses to come find them in their secret hiding places. Judging from the current astrological omens, Capricorn, I suspect you will soon be embroiled in a hide-andseek ritual. You might as well try to have fun.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My hypnotherapist friend has noticed a common theme running through the lives of many of her clients: They take their blessings for granted and underestimate the power their blessings afford them. One client, for instance, seems to assume that everyone in the world is as perceptive and sensitive as she is. As a result, she doesn't completely appreciate how valuable these skills are, and she doesn't fully take advantage of the tremendous influence they could help her wield. You suffer from a similar blindness about your own gifts, Aquarius. Luckily, this is the perfect time to change that.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Bureau of Justice says that crime in America is at its lowest level since it was first tracked in 1973. Canada's crime rate has also been declining for years. So why is everyone walking around scared all the time? In its "Personal Security Index" report, the Canadian Council on Social Development said, "The fear of crime is disproportionate to the true risk of being victimized, and that fear can be a negative factor in people's lives, often unnecessarily restricting their social activities." I bring this up, Pisces, because it's a perfect moment for you to dramatically reduce your levels of dread and anxiety.

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have always been aware of politics.

I was raised by a Republican and a Democrat, and although they cancel each other’s votes out nearly every Election Day, I was encouraged to think and act independently. In the midst of the first Gulf War, I presented an anti-war poster to my 3rd grade class for a project. My antiwar stance didn’t alarm the FBI or even my teacher. Today, this may not be the case.

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At a Saturday night show at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas, singer Linda Ronstadt dedicated a cover of “Desperado� to filmmaker Michael Moore and his newest documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. According to Reuters’ report of the incident, there was no political commentary, just a simple dedication.

But the crowd at the Aladdin did not take her heartfelt dedication well. They spilled their drinks, tore down posters

and demanded their money back, casino spokesperson Sara Gorgon told Reuters.

Shortly after the uproar, Ronstadt was escorted from the casino, and the Aladdin casino said through a statement that the performer would not be welcomed back.

One of the really special things about our country is the fact that we are constitutionally encouraged to speak freely— whether we are criticizing the government or standing up for the equal protection of animals. It is our right, and responsibility, to do so. The Aladdin had every right to speak their mind concerning Ronstadt’s dedication. It is their casino.

However, let us not forget that with the strong feelings of patriotism that causes anger in the “drink spillers� at the Aladdin are the same feelings that should make citizens of this country weary about silencing opinions that are not necessarily in line with everyone else’s.

In know it seems clichĂŠ to say that everyone is entitled to free speech.

But maybe we need to be reminded.

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t needs to be noted, now that the Cubs are 10 games out of first place, that I have never claimed to be King Shit of baseball prognosticators. I am merely a downstate Cubs fan. And much to the dismay of my brother and friends who share the same affliction, I do not hate the White Sox, and more importantly, I do not hate the Cards.

Hats off to those idiots in St. Louis— they really know what’s up. They are the best team in baseball and I’d put the money that I don’t have on them any day, even over the Yankees.

I respect the game of baseball, not just one certain team. So now that I have stated that, I can go on with what I really need to talk about today.

What the hell?

Have I completely missed the boat? Am I on crack? What happened to our staff?

What happened to our bats? My best guess is that Dusty Baker and Co., like myself, are actually too interested in the world’s political climate and have lost their love for the game given the unfortunate conditions surrounding the Pentagon these days.

Everyone knows that to be signed by the Cards, you must have an IQ under 80 and an overall GPA of 2.0 or less. Thank God for intelligent baseball teams. They care more about the world than the game and I am proud of them for that.

It has come to the point in the season when many Cubs fans are giving up for the moment. Sure, they’ll check the score; nod in affirmation when there is a W and shake their heads in disdain when there is an L. I am not one of those people. But I am also getting bored of writing exclusively about baseball.

When I suggested writing a baseball column to my editor, it was predicated upon the fact that I felt like writing about music was starting to become a conflict of interest in that my band has started performing live shows again, and that my job as a promoter would interfere with my influence as a music colum-

nist. She agreed and gave me the nod.

I do enjoy baseball, and I think there should be some news to report from time to time, but I am going to have to hang up this towel, let it dry out a bit, and start up again when things start to pick up again.

Yes, for the time being, I am going to write about topics other than baseball alone, and that doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t poke its Louisville Slugger into the column here and there. I just have too many strong polit cal and religious feelings right now and to ignore and neglect them would go against the core of my personality.

I have always been brutally honest any time I am given the opportunity to speak or write. And so it will start next week as I discuss the ways in which the United States is headed toward an inevitable civil war and how we never landed on the moon and how George W. is shitting his pants right now, trying to come up with a way to beat the “Sunshine Boys.�

Baseball and music. Baseball and sex.

Baseball and politics. They all match up in some respect and I plan on delving into the latter parts of these topics a little deeper. My brother is truly King Shit of baseball, as far as I can tell, and perhaps he’ll actually write something and give it to me in time to publish. But I cannot go any further without feeling like a jackass because I do not care as much about baseball as I do about the world. That’s why I am a Cubs fan.

I do hope none of my readers are too upset with my changing horses in midstream. A fair-weather fan? Absolutely not. A concerned citizen who loves his country? You betcha.

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YOU STAY CLASSY, SAN DIEGO | JULY 22 - 28, 2004

AMERICA’S HEART AND SOUL Zero stars GEORGE WOODARD & FRANK PINO Every cinematic aspect of this film is frankly lacking.

Only the soundtrack’s sincerity prevents it from being a spot-on satire of every genre with which it flirts and the cinematography is a compendium of cliche. The whole endeavor seems inexplicably pointless and certainly does not accomplish the goal of portraying this country in any sort of positive light. Thankfully the majority of the patriotic flag-waving is left to the closing montage, which concludes with the obligatory fireworks display that is a suitably underwhelming climax to a debacle of a film. (Shadie Elnashai) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy ANCHORMAN ★★★ WILL FERRELL & CHRISTINA APPLEGATE Anchorman Ron Burgundy is so mindlessly selfinvolved that he’ll read anything put on a TelePrompTer in front of him without any comprehension of doing it.

Funnyman Ferrell, who plays Ron, is so bravely uninhibited that he’ll try anything for a laugh without any concern for his pride. (John Loos) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy A CINDERELLA STORY ★ HILARY DUFF & CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY Prince Charming needs to be just that, charming, not some quiet pensive type, and he’s not too bright, either.

Sam shows up to the Halloween dance in an all-too-perfect white ball gown, yet he doesn’t recognize someone who gazes at him every day in the hallway. Honestly, nobody will buy the fact that Austin can’t see this blonde bubbly girl through her small white masquerade eye mask—it’s not rocket science. Unless a parent feels willing to dish out $8 per ticket to see something that the Disney Channel should put into their rotation, A Cinderella Story might be better left to a video rental in several months. (Janelle Greenwood) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy THE CLEARING ★★★ ROBERT REDFORD & WILLEM DAFOE The Clearing sticks out like a sore thumb in the summer movie season because it doesn’t fit into a single genre that can be easily sold to the popcorn crowd. It’s a midsummer recess for more mature audiences who are tired of the typical blockbuster formalities. The movie dances around many conventions of the kidnapping genre, more concerned with developing the plights of its characters than manipulating the audience onto the edge of their seats. (Andrew Vecelas) DE-LOVELY ★★★ KEVIN KLINE & ASHLEY JUDD To the cut and dry, De-Lovely is entertaining. To spice up the musical numbers, just in case they didn’t translate well to modern day theater, the film makes a few additions. Pop stars Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Robbie Williams, Elvis Costello and more grace the screen with performances. The movie jumps around to Porter’s successes, but still hits on all cylinders with accounts of his famous “Kiss Me Kate� and “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love), his first commercial hit. The actors are good and the screenplay is disappointingly tasteful, but still quite good and well thought out. Kline could act the pants off any role, De-Lovely’s only problem is that they wouldn’t let him. (Andrew Crewell) DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY ★★★ BEN STILLER & VINCE VAUGHN In spite of itself, Dodgeball almost becomes a competent sports film parody, especially during its moments of “inspiration.� A surprise guest appearance near the end from a sports icon provides what might be the film’s funniest and most clever moment while perfectly summating its irreverent, “just because� attitude. Everyone has seen (and loves) the motley crew of sad sacks who defy

expectations and write their own Cinderella story, and the Average Joe’s dodgeball team exploits this cliche in weird and reasonless ways. (John Loos) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN ★★★ DANIEL RADCLIFFE & EMMA WATSON So much of the material in the films has felt like a visual projection of Rowling’s books without the brain and heart to match. It seems that, in attempting to whittle down hundreds of pages into a workable screenplay, Kloves merely makes a check mark every time he incorporates an important point while ignoring the specifics that give each element its meaning. So far, the Harry Potter films represent a frustrating body of work, fantasy that has yet to realize its potential to be fantastic.

Cuaron’s deeper artistic vision is a step in the right direction, but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban still fails to cast a spell. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy KING ARTHUR ★★ KEIRA KNIGHTLEY & CLIVE OWEN King Arthur isn’t sure if it wants to be a traditional historical epic or a modern, crowd-pleasing blockbuster, and it doesn’t work as either. It has the necessary climactic battle, the endless barrage of blazing arrows and burning homes, and a score littered with triumphant horns and thundering drums. But it’s not brave or bloody, and it just becomes bloody dull. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy THE NOTEBOOK ★★★ RACHEL MCADAMS AND JAMES GARNER For two-plus hours, the movie moves along, only stalling out for a couple moments. Once the meat of the story drops, there aren’t any moments when it is OK to step out to the washroom. However, the story can’t seem but come off as a bit hokey. Written as a romance novel by Nicholas Sparks, the truth is The Notebook can’t help but be completely hokey. This is a good date movie and guaranteed to get a fair amount of young hopefuls mushy for a solid night of making out and spooning.

However, if you are into action stuff, then this probably isn’t the movie for you. (Andrew Crewell) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy

CATWOMAN (PG–13) (2 SCREENS) Fri. & Sat. 11:00 11:30 1:20 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:30 10:00 12:00 12:15 Sun. - Thu. 11:00 11:30 1:20 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:30 10:00 Sneak Preview: HAROLD & KUMAR (R) Fri. 9:50 BOURNE SUPREMACY (PG–13) (2 SCREENS) Fri. & Sat. 11:00 11:30 1:20 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:30 10:00 12:00 Sun. - Thu. 11:00 11:30 1:20 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:30 10:00 ANCHORMAN (PG–13) (2 SCREENS) Fri. & Sat. 11:10 11:40 1:10 1:40 3:10 3:40 5:10 5:40 7:10 7:40 9:20 9:40 11:30 12:00 Sun. - Tue. & Thu. 11:10 11:40 1:10 1:40 3:10 3:40 5:10 5:40 7:10 7:40 9:20 9:40 Wed. 11:10 11:40 1:10 1:40 3:40 5:40 7:40 9:40 I, ROBOT (PG–13) (2 SCREENS) Fri. & Sat. 11:00 11:30 1:30 2:20 4:10 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:40 10:00 12:10 Sun. - Thu. 11:00 11:30 1:30 2:20 4:10 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:40 10:00 ◆ SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG–13) (2 SCREENS) Fri. & Sat. 12:30 1:00 3:30 4:00 7:00 7:20 9:40 10:00 12:10 Sun. - Thu. 12:30 1:00 3:30 4:00 7:00 7:20 9:40 10:00

SPIDER-MAN 2 ★★★★ TOBEY MAGUIRE & KIRSTEN DUNST This elegantly written, dynamically performed summer surprise raises the bar for comic-to-screen adaptations. It looks, sounds and feels like a book off the rack every step of the way, and it’s paced to reveal its best secrets late in the film. It doesn’t want you to merely watch its hero traverse the Manhattan skyline. Rather, Spider-Man 2 gracefully swings you in and out of a fantasy world, from the top of tall buildings to the bottom of a broken-hearted young man. If the next installment is this gratifying, the series might just have to steal that other high-flying hero’s name.

Spider-Man 2 is super, man. (Matt Pais)

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CATWOMAN | HALLE BARRY THE STEPFORD WIVES ★★★ MATTHEW BRODERICK & NICOLE KIDMAN CATWOMAN Because of the resounding tepidity of Oz’s remake, the film HALLE BERRY & SHARON STONE never takes any major risks. It stays safely inbounds, glidHalle Berry is the most beautiful woman ever. An opining softly through the screenplay like a Stepford wife ion, for sure, but still a good enough reason to see this through her kitchen. In the end, it’s harmless. If Oz had film. The plot, though, may be a bit far-fetched. Berry’s picked one tone with which to attack the film and stuck character is murdered for knowing too much, but is with it, the end product might have been more seamless reborn as Catwoman, defender of justice and the innoand alluring, like a true Stepford wife, and less erratic and cent. (Paul Wagner) inconsequential, like Hill’s frequently malfunctioning Sarah Sunderson. (John Loos) CONTROL ROOM “Control Room is a seminal documentary that explores THE TERMINAL how truth is gathered, presented and ultimately created ★★★ by those who deliver it.� This film looks at the clashes TOM HANKS & CATHERINE ZETA-JONES between the Arab and Western worlds through the eyes Like Forrest Gump, Viktor Navorski (Hanks) is a simof satellite television broadcasts and looks at the way in ple man just trying to get by, and the story finds some which audiences view the information given to them. poetry in his straightforward determination for life’s Should be thought provoking and shocking ... just like a most basic pleasures. He just wants to understand the normal summer blockbuster. (Paul Wagner) world around him and have a place to call home, and Opening at Boardman’s Art Theater in that way The Terminal is like a quirky, inside-out version of Lost in Translation. Everyone at JFK grows to THE BOURNE SUPREMACY know Navorski by name, and there’s a reason that MATT DAMON & JULIA STILES America has revered its most dependable actor with This is just baffling. The Bourne Identity was “based� on a the same respect and recognition for the last decade. book, but didn’t follow the book’s plot at all, though it There’s no one like Hanks to keep a jetlagged fantasy did work well as a movie. The title of this film leads so grounded. (Matt Pais) viewers to believe that it’s based on the second book, but Now showing at Beverly and Savoy that would make no sense because it should be sold as a sequel to the first movie. Confused? Me, too. There should be some excellent action scenes in this film, though, so it might just be worth seeing. (Paul Wagner)

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SLEEPOVER ★ ALEXA VEGA & MIKA BOOREM She’s All That, Bring It On, and many others have paved the way for the latest in a long line of high school popularity clashes on the silver screen. However, those were all around better and more enjoyable films. Sleepover just doesn’t have the funny moments that make the movie move along. Scenes with the young ladies stealing boxer shorts, driving underage, and getting in over their head ordering drinks at a bar don’t cut the mustard when it comes to getting laughs from the audience. Once again, average comes into play, as a movie full of average jokes doesn’t translate well to a good film. (Andrew Crewell) Now showing at Beverly

SHREK 2 ★★★ MIKE MYERS & EDDIE MURPHY Shrek 2 does an admirably effective job of balancing its sarcastic but sensitive tone, and it’s never too bitter to be sweet. The film manages to repeatedly wink at all things Disney without coming off competitive, an honorable move for a Dreamworks studio that should have plenty to gloat about at the box office this summer. In giving reverence with each reference, the four-headed team of writers keeps things light and sprinkles goodhearted, intelligent fun throughout every scene. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly

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WHITE CHICKS ★ MARLON AND SHAWN WAYANS Against the fact that White Chicks is a horrendous story, no one should see this film for many other reasons. First, scenes the likes of these should convince filmmakers to stop editing major motion pictures on PCP. Second, in a comedy, the audience should laugh. But most importantly, boycotting the Wayans might at least might make them think twice before stepping into another venture as ill-fated as White Chicks. (Andrew Crewell) Now showing at Beverly

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on’t even get me started on the JFK assassination.

Actually, I take that back. Go ahead, get me started. I’ll go freaking apeshit. I have a ridiculous amount of books and videos on the subject and find it more fascinating than a roomful of monkeys. It’s not really because of the man or anything. It’s mostly about all the seemingly crooked shit behind his murder.

Yep, Mr. Coulter loves a good conspiracy.

I’m cultivating a conspiracy of my own these days. Much of it is likely crap, some coincidence, most impossible to really prove, but hey, that’s the beauty of a conspiracy. The basic idea of it is that our government and corporations are in league to distract the citizens of the United States so much that we’ll never notice the things they’re doing to us. With arrogance and malice, the powerful and wealthy want to reduce regular people to nothing more than consumers. If you aren’t consuming when and where they’d like you to, they give you another distraction to simply get you out of everyone else’s way.

I think the CIA had something to do with the introduction of crack into the black community in the early 1980s. No, I don’t think agents were on the streets selling drugs themselves, but I believe the CIA-backed Contras from Nicaragua were allowed quite a bit of freedom to move their drugs into South Central Los Angeles and some of that money was used to finance their war. The crack epidemic exploded and many in the community didn’t worry so much about equal rights or bettering themselves anymore. They just worried about getting more crack.

It’s something I’m not sure the CIA would necessarily be against. If you want to make some quick money to funnel into a war and also find an easy way to keep somebody down, crack is probably a pretty good place to start.

Was our entire government behind some sort of evil plot? Probably not, but they looked the other way pretty effectively and the problem has since gotten so far out of hand that it’s become generational to the point that children are born addicted.

They’ve got the cities, now they’re going for the rest of the country, literally. Illinois proudly announced that crime in the state has fallen to a 32-year low. Hey, it’s hard to be against something like that. There are a few parts of the state where violent crimes are up, though, and that’s in rural communities. The population keeps shrinking, yet the crime rate keeps

growing. Geez, there might be a problem brewing. I’ll take a wild guess and bet it’s because of all the methamphetamine.

Is meth really a problem? Don’t ask me, I just read about it. I bet just about any farm service company that has anhydrous ammonia would tell you it’s becoming a problem. They get robbed on a pretty regular basis by young folks who need their product to make meth.

Hell, just about every time I read the local paper, someone has been arrested trying to buy a large supply of cold medicine. “I know it’s the middle of summer, but my cold is so damned bad I need 300 bottles of Sudafed.�

In 1999, down where I’m from in Southern Illinois, two deputies were shot trying to serve an arrest warrant on a meth dealer. I bet they think it’s a problem. That’s what you want, isn’t it? A bunch of heavily armed, methed-up rednecks who haven’t slept for two weeks making drugs in their trailer. It was a weird place before meth. I can’t imagine it now.

OK, so what do crack and meth have in common? Both are cheap, highly addictive drugs that were introduced into poor communities and have caused incredible damage.

The government response to both problems is to arrest people and overcrowd the prisons rather than erase the desire for the drugs.

If you’re a kid in the inner city and you see crack dealers making bank every day, it sort of takes away some of your desire to stay in school. If the buildings all around you are crumbling and your best shot at steady legitimate employment is working at a McDonald’s and then selling or smoking crack may appear to be the most viable option.

If you’re a kid in the country and you see meth dealers make bank every day, that also takes away some of your desire to better yourself.

If most of your farm land has been sold to corporations and your best shot at legitimate employment is to work at the new Wal-Mart that has put the local stores out of business, selling or taking meth may also seem like a viable option.

You take away someone’s hope and they begin to look for something else. Did the CIA sell crack on a street corner? Nope. Does Wal-Mart sell methamphetamine? Nope. Still, they’ve both been allowed to go their merry ways without much interference from anyone. Both have managed to suck hope out of people and ruined a segment of our population.

They’ve been allowed to put money before the good of a community without any repercussions from our leaders. Maybe the biggest conspiracy of all is that everyone looks the other way.

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

Lead story Walt and Kathy Viggiano of Wichita, Kan., convinced Judge James Burgess to return their four children from foster care in 1999, following their removal because of excessive unsanitariness of the family’s mobile home. Unlike in many such cases, Judge Burgess realized, the Viggianos loved their kids, had not abused them and had no alcohol or drug problems. Also, according to police who made the initial investigation, Walt and the kids seemed to have warm conversations, even though entirely in Klingon (from Star Trek).

Penguin sluts In 1996, Cambridge (England) University researcher Fiona Hunter, who studied penguins’ mating habits for five years, reported that some females apparently allow male strangers to mate with them in exchange for a few nest-building stones, thus providing

what Hunter believes is the first observed animal prostitution. According to Dr. Hunter, all activity was done behind the backs of the females’ regular mates, and in a few instances, after the sex act, johns gave the females additional stones as sort of a tip.

Latest religious messages In 1998, Josh Hempel, then 16, in Calgary, Alberta, became the then-latest person to be hit by lightning shortly after ending an argument by inviting God to strike him with lightning if he was wrong. (The subject of this argument was whether God exists.) He was hospitalized but recovered. And at the Bathgate Golf Club in West Lothian, Scotland, two months before that, Father Alex Davie was playing in the Clergy Golfing Society tournament when lightning struck the tip of his umbrella and then, when he sought refuge under a tree, struck that, too. He suffered a sore arm but continued his round.

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letters to the editor Editor, One of your readers wrote in with some vivid criticisms of Fahrenheit 9/11. I wrote to him and found out he hasn’t seen the film and has relied on opinion pieces he found online to pan it.

I have no idea if any of the people he read have actually seen it.

Naturally, all opinions deserve to be heard. Here’s mine. I’ve seen it, and I think it is worth seeing.

Does Michael Moore have an agenda? You bet he does! A filmmaker without a point of view probably wouldn’t be very interesting. What I found most compelling about the film was the space allowed for regular people to make their experiences known. Moore strings these stories together with less-than-flattering (but real) clips of high-level politicians to tell his story.

Isn’t that his job?

We all make decisions about the viewpoints we listen to, but let’s not be misleading. Your reader sounds wistful as he dreams of the day when it would’ve been easy to hang Moore. Didn’t we just dethrone a two-bit dictator for that kind of thing? Didn’t a group of people try to do the same thing to us?

The publicly stated desire to kill someone for a movie one hasn’t even seen must surely signal that almost 230 years of this democratic experiment are going down the drain. Added to that is the reality that our nation has done the same thing: abandoned the rule of law in favor of vigilantism. Why aren’t more people upset about that? – Meg Miner UI alum Piatt County resident

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Friendly assistance Clara Shull’s creased and weathered 99-year-old face brightens when she talks about her volunteer helper, Stephanie Adams, 19, who left Monticello for college last fall. “She took care of me,” Shull said with a dimpled smile.

Adams dropped by Shull’s house each day after school for several years. She helped Shull go grocery shopping, pay bills, clean the house, read letters and anything else Shull felt needed doing. And even better than just being her helper—Adams was her friend.

While some senior citizens may receive such tender treatment from family or paid services, Shull receives it from the Faith in Action program. Recruited from religious congregations in Monticello, volunteers from the program help seniors remain as independent as possible for as long as possible. They also often bring friendship and companionship into their lives.

“They both went through a grieving process when Stephanie left for college,” said Julie Glawe, 47, the director of Faith in Action in Monticello.

Seniors living in Champaign-Urbana can now benefit from such care and companionship. Last fall, Provena Covenant Medical Center received a $35,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to start a Faith in Action program in the ChampaignUrbana community. Seniors now have access to volunteers who can help with transportation, friendly visiting, shopping, errands, light housekeeping, minor home repairs, yard work, chores, meal preparation and respite, or breaks, for caregivers.

Many seniors are in need of the help and companionship Faith in Action can provide.

A recent study from the AARP shows that 83 percent of individuals aged 85 years and older have a chronic condition or disability for which they need help.

Furthermore, the fastest growing age group in America is over 85 years old, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

As the population rapidly ages, more seniors will be seeking to remain independent and have services brought to them.

The Lewin Group, a national research organization, projects that the number of individuals in need of nursing facilities, assisted living or home care services is expected to increase from 13 million in 2000 to 27 million in 2050.

Religious congregations are a place to turn for help. A 2001 survey showed that 41 percent of congregations in the United States have

faiths and does not discourage anyone from receiving help. Volunteers are not allowed to proselytize, or try to convert anyone to their respective religions. They are not able to distribute church literature.

Camille Harmon works at Champaign County Senior Services in Urbana and serves on the advisory board for Faith in Action. She said while this is a college town, it is also a senior town. A lot of seniors do not have family in the area and are isolated. They need a hook into the community.

“When people fall through the cracks,” she said, “Faith in Action will be able to help them.”

One important gap that Faith in Action can fill is the transportation gap. While ChampaignUrbana does have several transportation services available for seniors—Senior Resource Center of Champaign and Senior Services both have programs—the community could still use more help.

But there’s never enough, Rosanna McLain, 50, caregiver advisor at Senior Resource Center, said.

“We provide transportation to doctors, to the bank, to Social Security and to the grocery store,” she said. “But we don’t provide transportation to go see your friends, to go visit your

husband in the nursing home, to go to church.

We don’t provide transportation on weekends.”

Patrice Tarr, director of Faith in Action in Danville, agrees that transportation is a major issue, and added that it is significant for most seniors in this part of the country, especially in rural areas.

“There are frail elderly who have walkers and canes,” she said. “They have a hard time with the bus because they can’t wait an hour for it once their appointments are over. They are tired.”

Julie Glawe, the director of Faith in Action in Monticello, agrees about the importance of transportation in local communities. Many seniors need a way to get to dialysis, she said in a phone interview. Others simply need someone to take them to run errands.

Faith in Action volunteers have driven Avis Varner, 85, of Monticello, to dialysis three times a week for the past six years. Varner waits diligently on a stool in her front hall for her ride every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. When she arrives at dialysis, she is hooked to a machine and waits for four hours. “Patience is the key,” she said, laughing. “A lot of waiting goes into your life.”

Varner loves to drive. She found it difficult to

recently started new care giving programs for seniors. Faith in Action draws on their support to help bring aid to the burgeoning elderly population.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives grants for startup Faith in Action programs.

Champaign-Urbana’s Faith in Action program began on March 22, and Illinois now has 37 programs. Over 1,000 programs exist nationwide. The grant will cover funding from Jan. 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006. As the program grows in the coming years, funding will also come from Provena Covenant Medical Center, grants and donations.

Volunteers for Faith in Action come from churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship, as well as from the community. In Champaign-Urbana, five churches are involved, including Good Shepherd Lutheran and St. John’s Catholic Chapel in Champaign, and Urbana Assembly of God, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church and Twin City Bible in Urbana.

Fifty-seven volunteers have completed the two hours of required training and are ready to meet and have been helping seniors since March 22. The services are free for all people 55 and older, but donations are accepted.

Some of the Faith in Action volunteers consider their work ministry for their own religious faiths. “If someone were to say to me, ‘Why do you do something like this?’

I’d say for me, I believe in Christ and in extending myself the way he would,” Carol Manley said in an interview. Manley is a parish worker at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and a volunteer for Faith in Action.

Margaret and Dale Bateman load groceries bought for a senior into their car. Through Faith in Action, they assist other seniors in Monticello by getting groceries or driving them to dialysis treatment.

The program welcomes all

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f The Cat in the Hat turned you off to rhythmicallytitled films for good, it might be time to reconsider. While not as dazzling as the violent cinematic collage of Kill Bill, The Door in the Floor is a tormented, literary stare into the lives of a family torn apart by tragedy.

Jeff Bridges stars as alcoholic, unshaven Ted Cole, but don’t mistake him for some ordinary Dude. Ted, a writer of children’s books, and his wife, Marion (Kim Basinger), lost their two teenage sons several years before to a frighteningly realistic accident that the film explains at just the right moment. They’ve since relocated to a beachfront house, begun raising another child—cute, curious Ruth, played by Elle Fanning, younger sister of Dakota—and lined

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BY KELLY RETAN | STAFF WRITER

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he summer blockbuster starring Will Smith has become something of an institution.

Every July, audiences expect light-hearted action coupled with nearly as many explosions as witty one-liners from the perpetually smartassed Smith. These guidelines are so strictly followed that they can almost be considered law.

The androids in I, Robot also have a set of laws they must abide by (taken from Isaac Asimov’s series of short stories, which were also the inspiration for the film): first, that a robot may never harm a human being; second, that robots must always obey human orders, unless they conflict with the first law; and third, that a robot must preserve itself, unless doing so should conflict with either the first or second law. Just as the plot of I, Robot becomes interesting when robots break these laws, the movie itself is most interesting when the laws for a Will Smith summer blockbuster are ignored.

Smith plays Spooner, a Chicago homicide detective with an irrational hatred toward the robots that permeate this futuristic society. (On a

their walls with smiling black-and-white photos of their dead children.

But life, of course, was never the same, and The Door in the Floor begins as Ted tells Marion he wants to separate for the summer. He also consents to play mentor to Eddie, an aspiring college-aged writer (Jon Foster) who idolizes Ted, but not so much that it prevents him from fantasizing about his wife.

As Eddie bonds (read: sleeps) with Marion and learns Ted’s routines—his habits include drinking, painting nude women and drinking while painting nude women—it appears this might be just another dark story of a broken home and its impact on an outsider. After all, the subject of parents outliving their children is hardly new. Most recently, In America and In the Bedroom both tackled similar territory of grief and numbness.

Unlike the latter, which used parents’ unending sorrow to set the tone for a bleak look into a splintered, bitter family, The Door in the Floor sprinkles light humor and graceful, if not always subtle, visual metaphors to offset the inherently grim premise.

Consequently, when writer/director Tod Williams’ (The Adventures of Sebastian Cole) delicate film turns toward the solemnly significant, it hits hard.

Based on the first third of John Irving’s novel A Widow For One Year, The Door in the Floor is filled with memorable images that seem ripped from the page. The movie hinges on powerful symbolism linking memory and anguish, fulfillment and nakedness, life and

death; you won’t be able to shake the vision of Ruth begging to hear the stories behind the photographs, her only connection to the brothers she never knew.

The pain lingers in a stinging, relentless way that really makes you feel, not just understand, why Ted and Marion can never go back to their former lives or their former selves. Even something as minute as the clicking of DOOR IN THE FLOOR | KIM BASINGER & JON FOSTER a turn signal can trigger the most The strongest weight comes from its literary aching memory, and the icy performances by Bridges and Basinger nail the emptiness of par- ties, from the artful dialogue to Bridges’s movents turned to stone from the absence of their ing, melancholy reading of Ted’s most popular children’s story, “The Door in the Floor.” As children.

The tragedy doesn’t shatter their marriage with many book adaptations, there are plot eleso much as fracture the glass, with the cracks ments and characters that appear frustratingly spreading years later as they try in vain to con- condensed, and the film hints at an even tinue life without their sons. They don’t erupt greater depth contained in Irving’s novel.

But for most of this sad, deeply depressing in shouting matches assigning blame or really engage in any confrontation at all. This is a drama, it’s impossible not to be struck by couple that simply cannot survive together if Williams’s patience in telling his story, sharing secrets beneath the whispering wind and softthey can’t feel like a complete family.

Only some of The Door in the Floor’s indelible ly crashing waves that surround the Coles’ imagery seems as revelatory as Williams property. It’s about the everyday fear of disasintends. The motifs, which include glass, scars, ter lurking in every parent, and the unbearpaper and doors are intermittently insightful able, irreparable trauma of having those fears and obvious, and it’s a little hard to grasp just realized. By handling familial tragedy with a how much of this offers new understanding careful eye and a frozen heart, The Door in the about the way that death unravels those who Floor shows that, for parents, the death of a child is a story with no ending. survive the heartbreak.

side note, the movie is supposed to take place in 2035, which is patently absurd.

If Americans expect to see cars that drive themselves and robots cooking us sweet potato pie 30 years from now, scientists had better get on their horse and spur it … hard). Spooner’s robot-hating provides interesting irony; a black man exhibiting prejudice based not on race, but on technology.

Spooner’s distrust of all things shiny and metal is magnified when Dr. Alfred I, ROBOT | WILL SMITH & A ROBOT Lanning (James Cromwell) turns up dead and one of Lanning’s own robotic creations (The Crow, Dark City) sets the majority of his becomes the prime suspect. Spooner’s subse- scenes at night and puts a harrowing, sinister quent investigation reveals that all may not be feel to most of the action sequences, which make quite as it seems at the top robot-producing cor- very cool use of slow motion, CGI, and rotating poration at which Lanning worked and died. cameras. However, the movie gets nowhere Even worse, everything may not be quite as it near as dark—or intriguing, for that matter—as seems with the new wave of robots, the NS-5, the classic Blade Runner, which has a similar that is about to be released to the public. To plot. Proyas probably felt pressure from the proSpooner’s dismay, everyone puts such faith in the ducers (one of whom was Smith himself) to folrobots’ three laws that they pay no heed to the low those laws of Will Smithitude that require light-hearted action and frequent one-liners. detective’s warnings.

In the end, it’s what I, Robot does differently Will Smith really does do a good job portraying the “cop on the edge” ... that is, when he’s from the traditional summer blockbuster that not trying to force jokes that not only fall flat but works best. The somewhat sinister subject matalso don’t fit the character. Spooner is a broodi- ter demands a more serious-minded and darker er, more angst-filled character than the usual telling than films such as Independence Day and Smith fare, so it doesn’t quite mesh when he the Men in Black series. Unfortunately, the laws says to a stray cat, “Look, this relationship will of “how to make a lot of money off of your sumnever work. I mean, I’m black and you’re a cat.” mer blockbuster starring Will Smith” are apparI, Robot is also, on the whole, a darker film ently harder to break than those other ones than the usual Smith film. Director Alex Proyas about not killing people.

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“It’s a pretty good movie.”

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OUR MOST DESIRABLE LOCATION on U of I golf course. 1200 sq. ft, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, study, dishwasher, W/D, A/C, covered parking, balcony/ patio. 359-3687 and 359-0065. Lease, deposit, no pets.

Urbana. Two bdr. duplex apt. Appliances. W/D hook up. One car attached garage. On bus line. Available now. No pets. $550/month. Call 643-2373.

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3 BR apartment with ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED for only $895! Close to campus, short walk to downtown and the best management company in town. Skylight in the kitchen, wood floors, and nice big balcony.

Ask the Tenant Union about our stellar reputation! Call John “Eagerly Awaiting A Spice Girl Reunion” Smith at 384-6930 NOW to come take a look!

JOHN SMITH PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.johnsmithproperties.com “believe the hype” Champaign County Apartment Association's Member of the Year 2001

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

2 bedrooms. Quiet, quaint Urbana. $640/mo. 344-6576.

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

208 S. Third

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

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

3 BEDROOM HOUSES

for rent. Starting at $600.

3971or 337-4889.

REMEMBER: “I” BEFORE “E” EXCEPT IN BUDWEISER

Our last units at 903 N. Lincoln include FREE W/D, FREE parking, and FREE cable! Two bedroom, two bath, 1100 sq ft of living space, dishwasher, access to high speed Internet, fireplace, and security entrance for only $795. Call John “Body by Mirabelle Bakery” Smith at 384-6930 for you special showing.

JOHN SMITH PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.johnsmithproperties.com “believe the hype” Champaign County Apartment Association’s Member of the Year 2001

Small 1 room efficiency with kitchen and bath. On site laundry, just off campus, on busline. $350/mo includes water, garbage, off-street parking. www.theelectrumgroup.com.

649-0761

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

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

Zerck Apts.

2-Bedroom 1011 N. Coler, $500 1101 N. Coler, $460 840-6528, chriskaler@mchsi.com

SUBLETS 1 BR in 2 BR bi-level. Near campus, A/C, dishwasher, free parking. $397/mo. (217)202-0264.

Great Deal - My plans have changed!

Near Beckman and Engineering.

2BR, furnished, well-maintained, quiet neighborhood, Dishwasher, AC, Ethernet, parking included.

Highly rated landlord. $583/mo. 1-yr lease. 493-8487

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

ROOMMATES

709 W. High, U. Aug ‘04-’05. 4 BR. 2-5 Bath. Attic, parking, yard, Unfurnished. W/D. D/W. Ryan 516-5828828.

Roommates needed for nice house!

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

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

907 Rainbow View, U. Very clean 3 BR. 2 bath on busline.

With garage, fireplace, W/D, Central air. $825/mo. Avail. Aug 1. 356-6799

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I think the human element is what’s so important. In the planning phases, you get very involved in talking

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

about assessing resources, assessing needs … but

Roommate $355/mo. 217-454-9976. http://home.insightbb.com/~robdinsmore Roommate for quiet atty9441@yahoo.com

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–Donna Hacker Smith, pastor at Good Shepherd

Share 4 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with 3 girls. Fully furnished, A/C. For details, 630-740-7690.

Great Urbana House

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3 BR, A/C, fenced yard. Garage. $725, 1904 Meadow, C. Excellent credit/references required. 367-1406 3 BR. Remodeled, central air, W/D, DW, fenced yard, garage. 903 Pennsylvania Ave, U. $730. 359-6042.

3-5 person. Newly Remodeled.

Parking, laundry, AC. Some utilities paid. 912 S Oak. TERMS NEGOTIABLE. 351-8414. Fritz@shout.net 300 YARDS TO UNION, U. Newly renovated, hot tub, spa, fireplace, deck, garage, all new houses starting at $1600/mo. Call Linda 217841-4549, 312-933-7382, or email info@cu-living.com

304 E. White St

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

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

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

33 East John, Champaign

August 2004. Older 4 bedroom furnished house, 1 bathroom, basement.

Free: parking, w/d. $999/month + utilities. Call Maryalice 244-0937, 344-6253.

5 Br, 3 bath. Gracious older home near campus and bus lines. 3,000 sg. ft., deck, fireplace, laundry room, all appliances, available August, relator owned $1495. 359-7203, 4172967 508 W. Illinois, U 4 BR house w/ 2 full baths, W/D, offstreet parking, pets welcomed. 1st month’s rent free!

JTS Properties 328-4284

602 W. MICHIGAN, U

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

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC 356-1873 www.barr-re.com 604 South Third, Champaign: 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace, hardwood floors, porch, parking. $1725 3446576

610 E SPRINGFIELD, C

SAVE! 6 BR, 3 BATHS, W/D, FREE OFF-STREET PARKING. AUGUST ‘04. 898-3449.

1706 Coronado, C. 3 Bedroom, 1 bath, $775/mo. Near Hessel Park.

Good condition. No pets. Tony, 373-4984.

HOUSES

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

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

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

Lovely 4-5 bedroom house. Fireplace, oak French doors and floors.

A/C, parking, full basement, busline.

Randolph and White St., Champaign. Available 8/16/04. $1300/mo.

356-3232

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903 W NEVADA, U

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

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

Single rooms for women.

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

Now leasing Summer and Fall 2004.

Call 367-4824.

PARKING | STORAGE Great Campus Parking Located on the corner of Third and Green. This uncovered parking is available August 04. Call Roland Realty at 328-1226.

You name it

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

RealEstateforSale 600 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Great location! Approximately 700 sq.ft. Corner of Springfield & Cottage Court, Champaign. $800/mo.

Lease required. 369-7205.

CONDOS | DUPLEXES

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

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

Large 3 BR, 2.5 bath. S.W. Champaign. $750 C/A. Garage. Excellent credit/ references required. 3671406.

ROOMMATES 3 roommates for house near. Downtown Champaign. $300/mo. 217721-9494 or scottmiller3@hotmail.com.

Female prefer grad. Very nice modern, close. $385/mo. 217-7210242. sarrafi@uiuc.edu. http://media.homestore.com/HEY6ZGWG.ht m

Grad Students needed to share deluxe furnished 4 BR home at 608 S Elm, C. $325/mo plus utilities. Ted 766-5108.

Guy looking for roommate to share 2 bedroom in Ashton Woods. 850 sq.ft., $495/mo. 9 or 12 month lease. 217-390-0551.

Guys seek roommate in new luxury apt on Third and Green. 4 BR, 2.5 baths, W/D, A/C. 2 Balconies. $475/mo. 708-912-8415.

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

217-840-2257. Leave message.

Presidential Tower. 20th floor suite.

Fully furnished. All utilities included.

Aug 04 to Aug. 05. $665/mo Derek 217-417-0415.

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

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

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

352-6400.

HOUSES We have several houses within 1.5 miles of campus priced $89,900$129,900. Call Bantz Appraisals and R.E. 328-1419.

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

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call 217.337.8337

can, people need to know about it.

As important as rounding up all the volunteers for programs like Faith in Action, McLain said, is getting the word out about the services it provides.

Even after eight years of Faith in Action’s existence in Danville, Tarr said she still gets people who aren’t aware of the organization.

“People don’t know and seniors aren’t going to ask,” McLain said.

The generation that’s in their 80s is independent and self-reliant, she noted. They are not going to seek Faith in Action volunteer Dale Bateman (left) reads over the grocery list and check given to him by Scott Johnson. Johnson is one of many seniors in Champaign County who out help. “‘Well, you know, we’ve benefit from the services of Faith in Action's volunteer services. always gotten by,’ they say. Yes, and you’ll continue to get by. But you don’t allow others to take her places, to give up some Like Shull and her friendship with Adams in service that often get missed.

Fern Kelly, 84, of Danville, was delighted have to get by all by yourselves!” McLain said. of her independence. But she learned to adjust. Monticello, sometimes Faith in Action can also Faith in Action is now available to help fill in when Faith in Action sent someone over to fix Varner maintains that her friendships with make a human connection.

Harmon mentioned that a man who lives in her porch light that had been flickering for the gaps of care in Champaign-Urbana, as long Faith in Action volunteers have kept her going through all those years of painful dialysis. She Rantoul recently called Senior Services and months. The volunteer scraped out the corrod- as people are willing to reach out for them. maintains that the V in Varner is for Victory. The admitted, “I’m just lonely.” Faith in Action can ed light fixture, sprayed cleaner into it and the Whether it is transportation, respite or changing cheerfulness on her narrow, creased counte- easily step in. A volunteer can be sent in on a bulb shined again. “He told me if a light bulb a light bulb, volunteers will be on hand to help. goes out day or night, any time, I can call him at Companionship and friendship may also be an nance prevails, even when she discusses the weekly basis to check in on him. important result of the many hours of care senTarr noted that it is hard to sell people on home, “ Kelly said in a phone interview. many years of needles that have pierced her Norma Mackey, 80, of Monticello, declines iors will receive. companionship right away. ravaged left arm.

For Clara Shull, having the extra tender help “They will say they don’t need anyone,” she most help from Faith in Action. Fiercely inde“She’s an inspiration to me,” Glawe said.

Respite, or breaks for caregivers, is a service said. “But once they get started, they really pendent, she named her walker “Bertha” to has been crucial to her survival. She is 97 years quell her reservations about having to use it. old and lives alone. Her sight is failing. Many of Faith in Action can provide that is an issue in enjoy someone calling or coming to visit.”

Varner gets to be friends with all the drivers She lives alone and drives almost everywhere her friends and relatives have died or moved Champaign-Urbana and throughout the country. In America, more than 22 million people who take her to dialysis. With some, she talks herself. Still, Mackey calls for help from Faith in away. Shull’s new volunteers are gradually assist a family member with eating, bathing, about activities, such as how to improve their Action when the weather gets dangerous and learning her habits and the best ways to help dressing and other activities, according to a golf game. With others, she discusses daily hap- she needs groceries. She gives Faith in Action keep her independent in her home. As she gets national survey conducted by the AARP. Only penings—”what they have been up to,” she volunteers a list and they bring her needs to her. to know them better, bonds will form just as 17 percent of those family caregivers live with said. With one volunteer, she discusses family “I love those girls, “ Mackey said. “I feel like they did with Adams, Glawe said. They are becoming her friends. the person for whom they provide care, and concerns, specifically the volunteer’s son and I’ve found new friends. “ “I think the human element is what’s so Glawe noted that as the program expands, they must divide their time and energy between his inability to keep a job. She has had dozens of drivers, and she eventually becomes friends the little things sometimes extend to bigger important,” Hacker Smith said. “In the plantwo homes. projects for seniors. Once in Monticello, a group ning phases, you get very involved in talking “People who provide care want to do so, and with all of them, she said.

Donna Hacker Smith, 49, the pastor at Good of 13 men painted a senior’s house in two hours about assessing resources, assessing needs … do it because it’s the right thing to do,” McLain on a Saturday. In another instance, a senior des- but behind all that there are just people. And the said. “That doesn’t mean it’s not very frustrat- Shepherd, echoed that idea.

“The subtext of all that is companionship perately needed to live on the ground floor people need a boost. “ ing and stressful.” Faith in Action volunteers Tarr is seeking an intern from the University can give caregivers a few hours off, and provide and human contact. I think that is something because she continually fell on her steep stairs seniors with a new person to talk to for a while. that’s lacking for people, especially elderly peo- after knee replacement surgery. Faith in Action of Illinois at the Faith in Action in Monticello for helped her move to the ground level so she Fall 2004 and Spring 2005. Interested students While maintaining independence for seniors ple,” she said. should call her at (217) 431-8489 to find out how In addition to filling in big gaps in servic- would be safe. is a primary goal, one of the most important If the Champaign-Urbana Faith in Action is to apply. buzz services Faith in Action can provide is a service es like transportation and respite, Faith in that cannot be quantified—companionship. Action will also fill in the little cracks in going to grow and help as many seniors as it PHOTOS | RODERICK GEDEY

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Thad Morrow, owner and head chef of Bacaro restaurant, 113 N. Walnut St., recently opened his own neighborhood grocery store, Persimmon, right next door. The chef, who previously managed The Corkscrew in Urbana prior to opening Bacaro, works hard and finds little time for leisure. The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) graduate lived and cooked in numerous cities around the country like Los Angeles and New York City before finally settling down in Champaign. “All I want to do is cook, but I’ve surrounded my life around not being able to cook,” he says. Morrow takes the time out to examine his businesses and passion for cooking.

Why did you decide to open Persimmon?

I buy a lot of specialty goods, specialty produce. I have a lot of people asking me where they can buy this wine or that vegetable so I figured, why don’t I just open up a store so I can say “next door”?

What kinds of things do you sell?

We have pasta, pasta sauce, Italian dry goods, local produce, tomatoes, sweet corn and cheeses, meats, salami, and a wine department also. The idea is if you want to come in and you want to pick up some pasta and some pasta sauce and a bottle of wine and maybe some vegetables and then you’re out the door and you’re home and you already have dinner.

It’s interesting stuff, high-quality, organic produce. I want it to be like a neighborhood grocery store. Neighborhood being ChampaignUrbana, and the neighboring communities, a big neighborhood.

What do you do on your time off?

Eat. I work hard to get the store next door open. I took the weekend off to visit some friends in Seattle. We had dinner. It’s nice to see new things, new food. You never know what other chefs are doing unless you go. If you’re a working chef and you’re not eating out, then you’re probably not doing the most you can do for your customers and bringing in new things. It’s probably not a new dish that we’ve created but it’s just our version that you may have seen elsewhere or read about it.

Where do you get ideas for dishes?

We pull them out of our brains. We take flavor combinations that we think go well together, and we’ll try them in the kitchen and we try them for a special or maybe a family dinner. Or we look at magazines. Or like I said, I went to Seattle, and I talked to a couple of chefs there

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and asked them, “How are you using hamachi?” or “Oh, I try it like this, you should try it like this.” You have to create a dialogue with other chefs, otherwise I don’t think you’re food is going to be that interesting.

What is you favorite thing to cook?

Turkey burgers … Don’t think you can beat a good grilled steak. That’s me personally.

What I like to cook professionally? I like to cook fish.

What hopes and plans do you have for this?

(Joking banter about being stripped of hope) My hope is that by brining the best possible seafood to this town or the best possible produce, that people will be exposed to the best. If you taste a really good piece of blue fin tuna and you taste a criovac prefrozen piece of yellow fin tuna and say they both taste the same, then I’ve failed in my job. What you should say is “Wow, this is what tuna really should taste like. This is why it cost $30.” There has to be a reason why you would pay more, and I’m driven to bring the best product I can to people because I think they deserve something that’s the highest of quality and cooked correctly if you’re going to pay a lot of money for it.

People have to wonder if they’re paying a quarter for a piece of sushi. Well, maybe it’s not the best sushi. My goal is to expose a town who may not be ready for it, outwardly ready for it. In people’s being in this town, they want it. They just haven’t been exposed to it yet. We got to sneak up on them.

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1 & 2 bedroom off-campus apartments in older homes. All utilities, parking, laundry included. Available now. 314, 316 S. State, 316 Cottage Court. 369-7205.

2 bedroom duplex. 1618 W. Union, C. $600/mo includes heat. Laundry hook-ups. 1,000 sq.ft. August 1.

384-0333.

2902 Watterson Ct. C. Kirby/Duncan. 1 BR with carport. One unit wheelchair accessible. Available now. $435/mo. Lease/Deposit. No pets. On site laundry. 217-351-7802 or 217-493-1991.

609 W Springfield. 1 BR apt. Available now. $400/mo. Lease and deposit. No pets. 217-351-7802. Leave message. 217-493-1991.

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2 BR. duplex, recently remodeled, W/D, A/C, large patio, fenced yard, free parking. 301 Kelly Court, C. $515. 359-6042.

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209 and 211 E Clark Street in Champaign include FREE parking.

These are very nice, very inexpensive 2 BR apartments on the engineering campus. Starting at only $625, these are fully furnished, fully carpeted with central air and access to DSL. Additionally, some have our special furniture upgrade, some are pet friendly, and some are newly remodeled. Call John “I May Be Old, But I’m Very Immature” Smith NOW at 384-6930 to schedule your showing.

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525 sq.ft., free parking, some utilities. On Hessel Park. 337-1565.

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1 BR, A/C, water paid. 1211 w Church, C. $365. Excellent credit references required. 367-1406.

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607 W. Springfield, C. $445-460 includes heat, water & trash laundry, parking Weiner Companies, Ltd. 384-8018 www.weinercompanies.com

2 BR. Spacious. Great location. 501 W Green St. $625/mo. 217-3550520

504/506 E Green, U 1 bedroom apartments east of Lincoln Square Mall. Laundry on site, D/W, parking included and cats welcome. $415/mo.

Quality Living Properties 328-4283

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

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205 E. HEALEY, C.

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

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

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

Economical 2 BR. $450/mo.

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

800 W. CHURCH, C.

Economical 2 bedrooms available August. $450/mo. Near shop/trains.

217-352-8540 217-355-4608 pm/wknd www.faronproperties.com

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56 & 58 E Daniel 408 E Stoughton 33 E. Chalmers 1011 S. Locust

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

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

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

All units with patio/balcony.

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

Laundry on site. Parking available.

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

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

Sign now and you could win $1500

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

1321 Lincoln Ave., Urbana Hours: M-F 9-6, Sat 10-4

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

Quality Living Properties 328-4283

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

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

(217)337-1800

701 W. Indiana. 2 BR. 1000+ sq. ft Living room, hardwood floors, full basement. Duplex. Avail. Aug. 1.

Great location. 384-0333.

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

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DELUXE 2 BR

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Furnished one bedrooms and efficiencies for Fall semester from $325 near John and Second or Healey and Third. 356-1407.

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309 N. Busey, U. Only 1 left! August of 2004. Fully furnished, W/D, ethernet and parking available. Close to Beckman. $595/mo. Call Chris anytime, 841-1996 or 403-1523

Efficiencies at 503 E. Clark, C. $330-360 parking and laundry available.

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Efficiency apt. for rent available now til August. $325/mo. furnished near 1st & Healey. Call 356-1407.

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ENGINEERING CAMPUS Large Studio APTS Fall 2004 307-309 Clark 307-310 E. White Secured Bldg., ethernet available UGroup96.com 352-3182

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HUGE 1 Bdrm near campus, quiet neighborhood, off-street parking, A/C. $495. 359-3687, 359-0065.

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hen most people describe Illinois, they use words such as “flat” and “cornfields.”

However, the exhibit Illinois: An Epic Landscape at the Spurlock Museum shows people that Illinois is actually one of the most biologically diverse areas in the nation.

The exhibit, which opened on July 10, showcases Illinois’ biodiversity and natural history.

The exhibit, put together by the Illinois Natural History Survey, uses illustrations, interactive computer program, taxidermy and photographs. Mike Jeffords, coordinator of the exhibit and Illinois Natural History Survey employee, helped put the exhibit together and also put many of his own photographs up for display.

“The purpose of the exhibit is twofold. One is to showcase the biological diversity in Illinois and second is to show what we can do with the old specimens from the natural history museums on campus,” Jeffords said.

An exhibit that would usually take the Illinois Natural History Survey a year to fully complete, was completed in just one month for the opening at the Spurlock Museum. The

exhibit will continue through August 28.

Museum visitors can enjoy nature stories and films on select dates, as well as educational games and crafts.

The exhibit begins with a diagram showing Illinois’ Natural Divisions. Exhibit information tells visitors that Illinois only has dots of nature and wildlife throughout the state because of dominance of human activity. However, through preservation, everyone can still view and enjoy these dots of nature.

One wall of the exhibit room is covered with colorful photographs of plants and wildlife. A photograph of Pale Purple Coneflowers shows viewers that these long-stemmed flowers can be found in Harlem Hills Nature Preserve in Winnebago County.

There are also photos of natural areas like Piney Creek Ravine in Randolph and Jackson counties. This nature preserve is full of large rocks and trees with a clear stream running through it.

Another natural area is Heron Pond at Little Black Slough Nature Preserve in Johnson County. Three photographs compare the pond through summer, fall and winter. The green, bog-like pond is a bright green in the summer, red-orange in the fall

Photographs from the exhibit Illinois: An Epic Landscape.

and sprinkled white in the winter.

Pictures of different insect species are also on display. The Argiope Spider from Tomlinson Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve in Champaign County has an interesting yellow, black-orange design on its bulbous back.

A photograph of a majestic bald eagle from Cedar Glen Nature Preserve in Hancock County shares the wall with photographs of other birds and animals.

Jennifer Eastham walked around with her daughter looking at the photographs. She did not know about the exhibit prior to her visit, but was glad to have stumbled upon it.

“I think the photography is beautiful. It makes me want to go to these places,” she said.

An interactive computer program sits in the corner of the room to explain some of the organisms people see on display. Jeffords and his staff have done smaller projects for the Cash River State National Area and Visitors Center in Southern Illinois. The program is redeveloped from the Cash River Center,Jeffords said.

It gives the visitor pictures of what Illinois was, is and could be.

Outside the museum is a mobile museum where visitors can go and learn and see more about Illinois’s natural environment.

Loren Kirkwood, illustrator for the exhibit, said he did not have a background in natural history. However, after working with the natural history survey, he has developed a greater interest. He believes he has learned a lot from his job at the Natural History Survey and hopes others will like the exhibit.

Different species of birds sit perched around the room. There are big birds like the great blue heron and the large barred owl. To contrast the large birds, ruby-throated hummingbirds sit next to a small nest.

Also on display are different types of poisonous snakes like the timber rattlesnake.

“Illinois is one of the most biologically diverse states in the nation, and I’d want (visitors) to realize that. It showcases the natural history of Illinois,” Jeffords said. “I’d want them to know that Illinois is a leader in the conservation movement.”

There are also a number of facts posted around the exhibit room. One states that 4.3 million acres of trees can be found in Illinois but many of those are timber or pine plantations. Only 13,500 acres of relatively undisturbed forest remains.

Another fact tells visitors that since Illinois gained statehood in 1818, 95 percent of its wetlands have been drained.

Jeffords believes that educational outreach and exhibitions like the one at the Spurlock Museum are important to preserving natural history.

“We save old buildings, we save old books, we save artifacts. But we don’t see much concern of the biological history of the state, and this is basically a biological history of the state … what it was, what developed through time, what was normally occurring here,” he said.

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ou McClellan was born and raised in Urbana. His first “real” job was as a staff photographer for the Champaign-Urbana Courier while attending the University of Illinois. He alternated attending psychology courses with covering war protests and mass arrests during the late ‘60s. Later, he earned an M.S. in journalism. He can be contacted at lou_mcclellan@hotmail.com.

What has been the evolution of your knife making?

I am always surprised at where my interests lead me. Years ago, my son asked if he could learn to shoot a bow. I bought a couple of bows and we just sort of jumped in with both feet. Those first bows were of a modern compound type. We did not feel really comfortable with them, so I began to research what had happened to archery since my childhood. We switched to more traditional bows.

Don, my daughter Tegan, and I began to attend archery shoots and shows. At one of these, I met a fellow from Alaska who sold beautiful English longbows which he made from yew. I ordered one.

I started to read everything I could about the history of archery and bow-making. Ultimately, I was

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es, there are vacant theaters in New York, but as tourism slowly recovers to pre-Sept. 11 levels, theatergoers have demonstrated an intense devotion to selected plays. Add to that some increased ticket prices, and the 2003-2004 theater season was the best ever at the box office.

The following sampler of shows might help you understand why.

Don’t go to New York thinking you can get tickets to Wicked—you can’t without booking ahead for August or September. Try booking ahead for Avenue Q. Jeff Whitty’s book and the songs of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx are a cutting-edge sendup of Sesame Street. This writing, as well as the production, won Tony Awards.

If that is not enough, the leads of Stephanie D’Abruzzo and John Tartaglia are as delightful as their material. Here is a show worth booking

overcome by the need to actually build a bow.

To make a long story a little shorter, I have probably built 70 or 80 bows now and am an official Bowyer to The Order of Saint Sebastian, a group of re-enactors who portray life of an encampment of English archers in 1359.

I have always been fascinated by knives. I collected a few over the years beginning at the age of 5 or 6. I still have that first one. It is a tiny sheath knife from a tourist spot in Michigan.

Lately, I have begun forging some blades— heating steel to orange hot and hammering it to shape on an anvil. I don’t know if this really makes a knife any better, but it is a kick and kind of addicting. My newest efforts have been at making a type of layered or Damascus blade by forging wire rope or cable into a bar. There are some wild patterns there.

What are some misconceptions about knives and knife makers?

In the shadow of 9/11 and with the evolution of our society in general, the biggest misconception is that knives are weapons and that knife makers are weapon makers. I’m not sure just how we got here.

Way more knives are used as tools than are used as weapons: kitchen knives, utility knives, hunting knives, etc. Most knife makers I know are trying to make useful tools or artistic pieces or a combination.

There are knife makers who sell pieces for thousands of dollars each all over this country. These are truly sold as art. In Japan, collectors compete with each other to spend tens of thousands of dollars each on modern versions of Katana (Samurai sword) blades.

What research is involved in knife making?

When I get into a subject I find interesting, I like to read everything I can about it. In knife making, some of the areas I have explored have been steels, heat treating, blacksmithing, metalworking in general and especially historical references. The Internet is loaded with material. I belong to sever-

ahead for. With no national tour planned and only a Las Vegas production set for September 2005, New York is the place for Avenue Q. The best revival in the musical department is Fiddler on the Roof. This warhorse has never looked or sounded better than this wonderful production directed by David Leveaux. Alfred Molina’s Tevye is a superlative, energy-filled, bigger-than-life, survivor. This show has a strong University of Illinois connection with actor Philip Hoffman and music director Kevin Stites.

Playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) did most of the work for a new musical called Caroline or Change.” His book and lyrics take us through a story about the interplay between a Jewish and an African-American family in Lake Charles, La., in 1963.

Performed as an opera, this good idea gets lost in uninteresting songs and characters.

After two and a half hours, it is difficult to enjoy songs and people you just don’t come to care about. Even the presence of the formidable Tonya Pinkins in the lead cannot pull you through this show.

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al discussion groups for knife makers. There are some periodicals such as Knives Illustrated and Blade magazine. Some books I have found particularly helpful are The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Weygers, Knives and Scabbards by Cowgill et al., Hrisoulas’ The Complete Bladesmith, Goddards $50 Knife Shop and The Craft of the Japanese Sword by Leon and Hiroko Kapp and Yoshindo Yoshihara.

Lately, I have been making some Asian/Japanese inspired blades. These are simple blades with handles of wrapped cotton or parachute cord.

Ultimately, my goal is to forge the blade for, and build, a Japanese Katana.

I think my knives are becoming more and more my own rather than copies or emulations of other pieces. The trend I see is toward more curves and round forms—few if any straight lines.

the Thames River in London, inspired me to make a reproduction knife for 1350s re-enactors. The book gives dates, measurements and often even handle making materials. Other inspiration is less specific. Light and atmosphere can even affect how you design and work on a blade.

I am truly inspired by my family’s encouragement. My sister, Nancy, makes jewelry and mosaics.

Her sense of design is an inspiration. My son, Don, drew a small sketch which has become my logo.

Kylian, besides naming the knives, provides constant (and sometimes painfully honest) criticism.

Anni and Tegan have assembled equipment for my shop and, recently, manned my table at a Renaissance Fair. After the knives were all laid out together, Tegan turned to me and said, “I knew you made good knives, Dad, but seeing them like this— all together—is surreal. They are beautiful.”

What inspires you?

The book Knives and Scabbards, which is really the record of an archaeological excavation along

Correction: Last week’s Artist’s Corner was written by Blane McClellan.

Tired of taking these modern musicals seriously? Try The Musical of Musicals, The Musical.

This wonderful spoof by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart, who also perform much of their own material, is Off-Broadway’s superlative satire on the masters of the Broadway musical.

This great show is two solid hours of side-splitting send-ups.

Looking for something not musical? There are some dramatic productions available in New York and none finer than I Am My Own Wife.”

This year’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner is the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite and homosexual who survived both nazism and communism to become one of Germany’s great historic preservationists.

Jefferson Mays’s Tony award winning performance is as amazing as Doug Wright’s brilliant script. Even more good news from this play: It is scheduled for Chicago’s Goodman Theater next February with Jefferson Mays.

Don’t miss Bryony Lavery’s Frozen if you are near New York in the near future. This Irish playwright has crafted a three-way examination of a serial killer. Using the points of view of the killer,

one of the victims’ mothers and a psychologist, she sweeps you into this complex story and gives it a real human dimension. Swoosie Kurtz stands out in a superlative ensemble directed by David Hughes.

Anytime a Tom Stoppard play is revived, it is worth a close look. When the director is redoubtable David Leveaux, it is worth a very close look. The current revival of Jumpers on Broadway reminds us that Tom Stoppard can manipulate more than one theme is a single story, and his virtuosity with the English language makes any evening with one his plays a wonderful experience.

As the new production of Jumpers does much to redefine a 30-year-old Tom Stoppard play, Tracy Letts’s Bug redefines where modern theatrical writing is going. This Off-Broadway thriller by one of the Steppenwolf’s ensemble members brings the darkest elements into the stage thriller.

This psychological thriller almost borders on science fiction at times with a scattering of lowlife characters and nudity. Here, the stage ambience of Sam Sheppard gets a few new wrinkles.

The great thing about New York’s theater offerings is there is truly something for everyone.

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JULY 22 - 28, 2004 | I LOVE SCOTCH. SCOTCHY, SCOTCH, SCOTCH.

Banjo, mandolin, guitar and a gas tank Split Lip Rayfield: a quartet of unique contemporary bluegrass

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI | STAFF WRITER

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anjo player Eric Mardis claims that it was bassist Jeff Eaton’s decision to build his iconoclastic instrument that encouraged Split Lip Rayfield to form in place of their existing grunge/punk act Scroat Belly.

“It’s a bass made out of a late ‘60s Ford Mercury gas tank,” Mardis said. “He was trying to figure out how to make a washtub bass, where you pull on a stick to change the note.

He didn’t like that so he bolted a regular neck onto that, and he uses Weed Wacker line, one 0.095 string. We call it the ‘Stitch Giver.’ It’s quite a piece of art and there’s nothing he can’t figure out how to do. The kitsch factor is pretty high but he’s been whomping on it for a long time.”

Since 1997, Split Lip Rayfield has been touring pretty heavily, but only recently have they considered themselves full-time musicians.

“In the last year, things have been completely lifting off,” Mardis said. “We took a year sabbatical to deal with lots of personal issues and since then we’re pretty much full-time. It’s hard to keep a job if you’re going to be gone two weeks out of every month, and a full-time job is a bitch to hold on to. It’d be nice to make regular 40-hour-a-week money and have that stability. Everyone has a family and traveling can be a bitch.”

Apparently, the band was always confident things would work out. “We’ve had some pretty good role models,” Mardis said. “You look at the Reverend Horton Heat’s career; he’s been hammering it out over the last 10 to 15 years at a modest level, and now they’re doing pretty good. I never thought, ‘I need to be on MTV in a year or it’s not working,’ but if you deal with the bullshit long enough, it works out.

“Obviously we’re not getting rich but we’re paying our bills,” Mardis said. “We’re going to do it for however many years we want to and if we want to go back to whatever we were doing before it’ll be like going back to college after you drop out.”

Although many people would classify the band as bluegrass—but with

alternative musical backgrounds—the term is applied loosely.

“We’re hard to pigeonhole,” Mardis said. “It could be bluegrass because it has the instruments, but all of us are from varying punk or heavy metal backgrounds. Wayne and myself are pretty accomplished electric guitar players, and we never really took lessons or grew up with mandolins and banjos.”

“We’re shredding these bluegrass instruments, something like ‘thrash grass,’” Mardis said. “It’s high and upbeat, and crosses over to heavier and harder stuff with much more energy and speed. It’s like demon-possessed bluegrass.”

Mardis goes on to joke about being part of a music scene he never identified with: “If I’d thought a few years ago that I would be playing banjo in something like a bluegrass band, I’d have shot myself.”

The contemporary bluegrass scene is finding a home in the typical “hippie community,” playing alongside jam band stalwarts at festivals and live shows. Split Lip Rayfield don’t always relate to this scene; their drug of choice is alcohol and lots of it.

“It’s not that I’ve never burned,” Mardis said. “The hippie thing never caught on with me. I’m almost 33 years old. When the Grateful Dead were having their renaissance, I was into Slayer. Metalheads smoke pot, too, but it’s not the same benevolent sort of thing. We got sucked into this new bluegrass post-Dead, post-Phish wave of Yonder Mountain and Leftover Salmon. They’re great players but it’s not our scene.”

Hence, the band has attracted a fan-base with whom they often don’t always identify.

“It’s weird ‘cause the people dig us,” Mardis said. “We’ve gone and done these big hippie festivals. We’ve certainly never had any problems with hippies being over-peace-y or whatever kind of offense hippies come up with.

Playing for 65-yearolds at a bluegrass

festival is cool too, but I’d rather be opening for Motorhead or the Reverent Horton Heat.”

Crowd favorites within the band’s repertoire include “Kiss of Death” (about all of Eric’s dead cars) and “Outlaw,” one of their oldest songs.

“That one’s about a guy who robs a bank and talks about tequila and womanizing,” Mardis said. “It’s not super-deep, but it’s got a real riff in it and people always scream for that one.”

Generally, their songs are semi-autobiographical, about some aspects of evil, though they channel fiction.

“There are a couple of murder songs, though obviously I haven’t killed anyone,” Mardis said. “Well, not obviously, but haven’t. They’re tongue-in-cheek, from sarcastic comedy shit to good old redneck drinking songs. Pretty mundane topics.”

After a recent live CD from this past New Year’s Eve, the band will release their fourth studio album in September, once more through Bloodshot Records. They are touting the new release as a happy medium between the hack-and-slash of their live show and their less organic previous studio work.

“We’re a live band,” Mardis said. “We play a lot and we let a lot of stuff go ‘cause it’s all fast and about energy. With the studio, we’ll go in there and be real picky and super-clean.

We could have walked in and hacked it out but we do that every night.”

With reference to the band’s onstage demeanor, Mardis is clear that there is no pretense, in contrast to many of their peers.

“We don’t have a stage persona at all,” Mardis said.

“We wear the same old T-shirts and crappy jeans that we wear in the bus all day. We don’t strike poses or drink fake bottles of whiskey filled with iced tea.”

In an attempt to satisfy anyone’s curiosity as to the origins on the band’s unusual name, Mardis clarifies: “Jeff, the bass player, grew up in Gumbo, population about 80 people.

There was some guy his parents went to high school with. In the wintertime, his lips go all dry and since his last name was Rayfield, they called him ‘Split Lip’ Rayfield. It just stuck in Jeff’s head. There was also a guy called Hulsey that his football coach called ‘Iron Balls,’ so Iron Balls Hulsey was on the table at one point.” buzz

Split Lip Rayfield will perform at Cowboy Monkey Sunday, July 25. Rusty Pipe will open. Tickets are $8 for the 10 p.m show.

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PREDATOR AND RUNNING MAN: THE ONLY FILMS FEATURING TWO GOVERNORS | JULY 22 - 28, 2004

Five ways to fix Beastie’s To the 5 Boroughs

BY ADAM BOSKEY AND BRIAN MERTZ | STAFF WRITERS

2. LYRICS

2 Boss DJs is a column that Dan Finnerty (DJ Spinnerty) and myself (Adam Boskey/DJ Bozak) created to provide a twist on your normal album review. The format was two DJs having a conversation about an album rather then the straightforward critical analysis that is found on the review page in Buzz. Spinnerty has left for San Francisco. Good luck, homie. I will continue the column with handpicked DJs from the C-U. This time around it is ... drum roll ... DJ Mertz! Both Mertz and I had problems with Kyle Gorman’s review in a recent issue of Buzz and decided to give our suggestions for improving this album.

M: They’re still funny. And that is something I’ve always liked about the Beastie Boys. They don’t rhyme about goldfronts all the time.

B: Some collabos with their close friends in hip-hop would have been nice.

M: Who are you thinking?

B: Well, I always liked how they complemented with the likes of Q-Tip, Large Professor, Biz Markie…

M: And Little Jon. B: …

M: You’re right, though. I think with an album called To The 5 Boroughs, they could have had a track with MCs from each of the Burroughs. Invite Nas… B: De La Soul, LL Cool J, KRS-One, etc. And, each borough gets a different beat with a different producer from that borough. And then a different DJ scratching from each borough.

M: Whoa, whoa… back to the lyrics, Mr. Superstar DJ. Some of their rhymes are just the same old tricks and gimmicks.

B: I know what you’re saying. But to be fair, I like their lyrics. Personally, I just wish the chemistry would have been shaken up a bit.

M: That’s hard to do. I think this album also doesn’t have any particular lines that stick in your head.

B: Like Sigur Ros…

1. THE BEATS

album to boot.

M: You wouldn’t have that remix if it wasn’t for me picking it up in Chicago.

B: You make a great delivery boy.

4. THE DJs B: Jesus Christ. With a scratch titan such as Mixmaster Mike as part of the group, you’d hope he’d wield his unearthly powers throughout the course of the disc.

M: Whoever said DJs have god complexes?

B: But unfortunately, it sounds like he IM-ed the scratches off a portable turntable from an airport bathroom.

M: [Laughter]: Yeah. Like we said earlier, Anti-Theft Device shows that Mike has some serious skills.

B: Even more so, if you’ve seen him the two or three times he’s come to Champaign, or seen him elsewhere, he comes up with the shit that no other scratch DJ/turntablist can think of.

M: You mean the samples he finds?

B: No, he’s just nuts! In a good way. Like Hendrix or Aphex Twin.

M: It would have been cool if he could have built on the “Three MCs and One DJ”to push turntablism even more into the mainstream.

B: Yeah, beyond the realm of Burger King commercials and shitty rock bands.

Bozak: The beats sound so thin!

Mertz: I know, it’s a shame since their beats have always been one of their trademarks.

B: For real. With every other album, you could count on the beats having lit3. SINGLE SELECTION 5. COPYRIGHTED SOFTWARE tle tangents and secret crevices.

M: Crevices?

B: As a DJ, observing and controlling a dance floor, as M:This is a small thing. But whenever I see an FBI logo B: Nooks and crannies. well as my experience with radio, how an audience on the back of an album, I get worried and pissed off.

M: Ah. I know what you mean, like “Remote Control” This is even worse coming from a band that stole so B: Or “Time to Get Ill,”“B-Boy Bouillabaisse” or “Finger receives a release… much music to make Paul’s Boutique. Even if it was Licking Good.” Shit. Almost half of every album prior M: Get to the point.

B: It’s obvious that “Triple Trouble” should have been just a label decision, they could have and should have to this one is an example of that. publicly fought this software being put on their M: Well, that might be because they decided to pro- the first single.

M: I couldn’t agree more. All this hype about “Ch- album. duce this themselves on their laptop.

B: Yeah, it sounds like they made the beats in one Check It Out” being a great song is like saying J-Kwon B: Word. So can I get on Kazaa now or what? has something meaningful to say.

M: Huh? afternoon using the Playstation music creator game.

M: [Laughter] You think with this much money they B: I think “Triple Trouble” would have brought even B: What? more attention to the album. It is more acceptable could have hired any producer they wanted. and it is more dance-friendly.

B: Or used actual studio gear instead of a computer.

CONCLUSION M: Maybe they spent all the money on the packaging M: Hearing “Triple Trouble” is what made me buy the album. and the useless extra sleeve for the CD. M: These are just five suggestions that we came up B: The packaging is hot. But the money should have B: Right. And “Ch-Check It Out” would act as a perfect with. We still love and respect the Beastie Boys and been on getting producers in the door. Maybe some- segue way to the rest of the album, because it sounds everything that they have done to move hip-hop forlike the rest of the album. how convincing Mario Caldato to stick with it. ward as a genre and a culture.

M: Single selection is huge. This album would proba- B: Hell, not to mention music in general and what M: Yeah, Mario C likes to keep it clean.

B: But the obvious choice would have been Rick bly still be near the top of the charts if “Triple Trouble” they do politically should also be noted. Even though Rubin, the co-producer of License to Ill and producer was the first single back after a six-year wait.

I don’t necessarily like the album, I still purchased it B: Plus the Just Blaze remix of “Ch-Check It Out” because I want to support artists I respect. My overall of the recent Jay Z insta-classic “99 Problems.”

M: That beat just smells of Beastie Boys. But with all should have been on the album because it is clearly beef with the album is that is sounds half-assed, as if their money, and their reputation, they could have better than the original and any other track on the it were a demo, devoid of all the gotten anyone. Even Gorgio Moroder. attention to detail that made a B: Or the easiest thing would have Beastie Boys record their own. been to use Mixmaster Mike’s beats.

M: True, and all things considered, I M: For sure. Anti-Theft Device was one will probably buy the next one, too. of the weirdest turntablism albums B: Oh of course, you gotta complete I’ve heard, but it was also one of the the collection. Sealed doubles in most original sounding. fact.

B: To The 5 Boroughs should have just been that album with rhymes over the DJ Bozak can be seen DJing various top. styles of music in Champaign (check M: Or, they could have just rhymed the calendar listings). His radio show, over Sketches In Sound—available in stores now.

Needledrops, airs on WEFT 90.1 FM B: I like where you’re going with that.

Saturdays from 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

At the very least, they could have used samples. I listened to the album a Mertz is a house DJ that is presently number of times and only heard three homeless (anyone got a residency for obvious samples. a deep house DJ?). When not M:I still say it comes back to it not being neurotically shopping for records, he mastered well.

B: You have hairy arms. is studying for the hell that is the The Beasite’s latest failed to please these two “boss DJs” as much as other critics.

M: Stay on topic here.

Illinois State Bar Exam.

They explain why with their five improvements for To the Five Boroughs.

B: Strangely, I am.

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The Hurly-Burly Sifting through the commotion and crap of music culture

Guided By Voices have revealed the dates for their final tour, which begins August 18 in New York and culminates in a New Year’s Eve extravaganza at The Metro in Chicago. As previously reported, their final album, Half Smiles of the Decomposed, is set for an August 25 release.

Mos Def has announced the release of his sophomore album, titled The New Danger, due September 28 via Geffen. The album is the follow-up to 1999’s Black on Both Sides and may be supported by a tour this fall.

The solo debut of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrison is set for a September 29 release via Barsuk. The album, titled Travistan, features co-production by Chris Walla from Deathcab for Cutie and veteran producer Don Zientara, as well as contributions from John Vanderslice and members of Deathcab for Cutie.

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“Invectives” – Artist Scott Mitchell exhibits critiques of the predicaments of humanity in a political and socially mindful way. Parkland Art Gallery thru Aug 5. Hours: M-Thur, 10am-2pm; Tu-Thur, 68pm. Info: 351-2485.

7/25-27 Chris Isaak @ House of Blues, 7/25-26 sold out 7/26 Hives @ Metro, all-ages 7/26 Rainer Maria @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 7/27 Blues Traveler @ Ravinia 7/27 Ours @ Schubas 7/28 Kekele @ HotHouse 7/28 Al Kooper @ FitzGerald’s 7/29 Finch @ Metro, all-ages 7/29 Sonic Youth @ Vic, 18+ 7/29 Sheila E. @ House of Blues, 18+ 7/30 Brother Danielson @ Empty Bottle 7/30 Jesse Harria, Ken Stringfellow @ Schubas 7/30 BR549 @ FitzGerald’s 7/30 Hilary Duff @ Allstate Arena 7/31 Boyz II Men, En Vogue, Silk @ Star Plaza 7/31 Toby Keith @ Tweeter Center 7/31 Radiators @ FitzGerald’s 7/31 Braid @ Metro, all-ages 7/31 Ralph Lawson @ Smart Bar 7/31 Hanson @ Skyline Stage, sold out 7/31 Minders @ Schubas 7/31 Jolie Holland @ Open End Gallery, all-ages 7/31 Allison Moorer @ Abbey Pub 7/31 Oneida @ Empty Bottle 7/31 Reel Big Fish, Lucky Boys Confusion @ Congress Theater, all-ages

ART EXHIBITS Faux Finishing workshops – Boyer Drawing & Painting Studio in Lincoln Square Mall. Aug 25.

9am-5pm. Fee: $195. Info: 369-8838 or www.boyerdrawing.com.

Modern ManScapes – Work by painter Brett Hunter and mixed media artist Kelly Goode will be at Cafe Kopi thru July 30. The work encourages you to see yourself outside of your job and to look at what’s happening to the world around you. 109 N Walnut, C. M-Thu 7am-11pm, F-Sat 7am-12pm, Sun 11am-8pm. 359-4266.

Glass FX – Interested in learning the art of stained glass? Beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes offered. M-Thu, 10am-5:30pm; Fri, 10am5pm; Sat, 9am-4pm. 202 S 1st, C. www.glassfx.com.

359-0048.

“Changing Rooms: The Creation of Cinematic Space in the Works of Harry Horner” – Krannert Art Museum, thru Sept 19. 500 Peabody, U. Tu, ThuSat 9am-5pm, W 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm. Don: $3.

Creation Art Studios Gallery – Artwork by Jeannine Bestoso, Andy Gillis, Shoshanna Bauer, Amy Richardson and studio students. M-Sat, 15:30pm and other scheduled times. 1102 E Washington, U. creationartstudios.com. 344-6955.

“Healing Works” – A display of art work honoring trauma survivors. IMC Middle Room Gallery. 218 W Main St, Suite 110, U. carahale@uiuc.edu.

What the hell?

Moment of the week According to Blabbermouth.com, rocker/ gun enthusiast/ reality television star/ “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent is being considered as a possible candidate for the Illinois Senate representing the Republican Party. According to the Internet Broadcasting System, Cook County Republican Chairman Gary Skoien said, “…He’s been a very articulate spokesperson on constitutional issues. He would be a very interesting candidate.”

Hey, at least he doesn’t force his wife to go to strip clubs. He just reminds you of Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now, only with a guitar and a mullet from hell—or just Detroit. Thanks, Republicans!

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"Eyes Hands Kids" – Art by Champaign Unit 4 students. Thru Sun. Springer Cultural Center. M-F 8am-9pm, Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm. 398-2376, www.champaignparkdistrict.com.

Interpreted Images by Larry Kanfer – Photography exhibit featuring Kanfer’s new giclees. Larry Kanfer Gallery. 2503 S Neil, C. Free. MSat 10am-5:30pm. 398-2000. www.kanfer.com.

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“Allen Stringfellow Retrospective” – Focusing on religion, gospel, and jazz, his work focuses on African-American life. 500 E Peabody, U. Tue, ThuSat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm. 3331860. Sugg Don: $3.

U of I Assembly Hall announces the 2004-05 Broadway Series – The series features the following productions: Miss Saigon, Oct 8; The Full Monty, Oct 29; Contact, Jan 24; Fiddler on the Roof, Feb 21; Les Miserables, April 26. Series tickets can be ordered thru the first performance. Individual tickets on sale Aug 28. Info/tickets: 333-5000 or www.uofiassemblyhall.com. Hrs: M-F, 10am-2pm.

“Vision to Verse, Verse to Vision: A Visual and Poetic Dialouge” – Paintings by Jessica Damen and poetry by Maj Ragain on display at Verde Gallery thru Sept 4. 17 E Taylor St, C. Cafe: M-Sat 7am-10pm; Gallery: Tu-Sat 10am-10pm. 366-3204.

“The Music Man” – Rural Theatre Company will present this musical outdoors in downtown Tuscola at the gazebo at the corner of Main and Sale. Reservations suggested. Bleacher seating.

Thur-Sun, 7:30pm. Tickets: $5-$11. Info: 253-6699.

“Origonal Watercolors and Pastels” – Artwork from Andy Gillis and Jeannine Bestoso on display thru July 31 at Aroma Cafe. 118 N Neil, C. Open 7 days a week, 7am-12am. Info: Amanda Bickle at 356-3200, art4aroma@yahoo.com.

Elysium on the Prairie, Live Action Roleplaying – Vampires stalk the city streets and struggle for dominance in a world of gothic horror. Create your own character and mingle with dozens of players who portray their own undead alter egos. Each session is another chapter in an ongoing story of triumph, tragedy and betrayal. Fridays,“Vampire: The Masquerade.” 7pm. For location: www2.uiuc.edu/ro/elysium/intro.html.

Prairie Boatworks Gallery exhibit – Photographs

by Tyler Michael Pelan, Watercolors by Ann Harrington Rybolt and Helen High, Woodscapes

by Sandra Kent, and Acrylic by Al White. Displayed thru Aug 22. Artists reception July 30, 6-9pm.

Hours: Fri & Sat, 12-5pm; Sun, 12-4pm. 407 E Main St, Mahomet. 586-6776.

“Guise” – An exhibit featuring portraits by Dennis Lewis, mixed media works by Brain J. Sullivan and video/mixed media by Nathan Westerman.

Springer Cultural Center. Aug 4-29. Opening reception Aug 6, 6-8pm. Hours: M-F 8am-9pm, Sat 9am5pm, Sun 12-5pm. 301 N Randolph, C. 398-2376, www.champaignparkdistrict.com.

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Parfumerie – Krannert Studio Theatre. Sat, 8pm; Sun, 7pm; July 29, 7:30pm; August 1, 7pm. Tickets: $16, sc & stu $12, UI $7; Sun: $13, sc & stu $9, UI $7.

The Glass Menagerie – Krannert Center Studio Theatre. Tue & July 30, 7:30pm. Tickets: $16, sc & stu $12, UI $7; Sun: $13, sc & stu $9, UI $7.

Guilty Conscience – Krannert Center Studio Theatre. Thur & Wed, 7:30pm; July 31, 8pm. Tickets: $16, sc & stu $12, UI $7; Sun: $13, sc & stu $9, UI $7.

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Sweetcorn Arts Boulevard Call for Artists – Help with the Arts Boulevard at the festival this year, Aug 28. Go to www.urbanabusiness.com to apply

by Thursday. Info: 328-8270.

Second Wind Running Club Fun Run/Walk – Join us for a 1-4mi. run/walk. Meadowbrook Park (playground). Every tue, 6:30pm. www.secondwindrunningclub.org.

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Book Market @ The Square Book Fair Call for Authors & Book Vendors – The ChampaignUrbana libraries invite local authors, book dealers, and libraries to sell books and display information at this fair. Lincoln Square Shopping Center. Aug 28, 9am-5pm. Info: www.lincolntrail.info/bookmarket or bookmarketatthesquare@yahoo.com.

Border Crossers Discussion Group – (exploring the works of international authors) The group will discuss the book The Hemmingway Book Club Of Kosovo by Paula Huntley. Borders Bookstore. Thur, 7pm. 351-9011.

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Champaign • Well worth the walk 352-2273

Red Mask Players Seeking Directors – Mail applications to be a director to: Red Mask Players, P.O. Box 814, Danville. 61834. Applications must be received by Aug 1. Scripts are available to review at the Danville Public Library.

Volunteer Opportunity – Help at HOMEWORKS store with donation pick-ups in box truck.

Volunteers needed Tu, Wed & Sat. Info: 355-6460 or Angela Miller at hfhangela@soltec.net.

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Society for Intuitive Research – This group studies wisdom from The Akashic records in the Subconscious Mind, received in Intuitive Reports conducted at the School of Metaphysics. The group also practices intuitive exercises every week. Channing Murray Foundation, Mondays 5:30-6:30pm. Info: 344-2270 or somchampaign@yahoo.com.

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ThursdayJuly22 LIVE MUSIC Indie Rock meets Urbana Pt. 1: Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!, Col. Rhodes, The Beauty Shop, Cheyenne, Cinemechanica, Deconstructing Jim, Action People, Indeed – Caffe Paradiso, 5pm, $5 Central Jazz Combo – The Iron Post, 5-10pm Acoustic Music Series: elsinore – Aroma, 8pm, free Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Acoustic Music Series: Mike Ingram – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3 Sacrelicious Groove Congregation – Canopy Club, 10pm, $2 Midnight Special: The Greedy Loves, DJ PBR – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

DJ DJ J-Phlip – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Stifler –’80s hair bands – Tommy G's, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free Passport Party – international vibes – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance – Diamonds Bar & Grill in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

KARAOKE Live Band Karaoke: The Cheezy Trio – The Highdive, 10pm, $3 "G" Force Karaoke – Pia's in Rantoul, 9pm-1am

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“Soulful Saturdays” – Watusi Lounge, free before 11pm Salsa – Lava, 11pm-2am, cover

KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke/DJ – Sappy’s on Devenshire, 9pm

SundayJuly25 LIVE MUSIC

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DJ Delayney – hip-hop, funk, downbeat – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

COMEDY Mike Coulter, Chris Ryan – The Iron Post, 9pm

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

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SaturdayJuly24 LIVE MUSIC Concert in the Park-ing Lot II: 12 Ways From Sunday, Kilborn Alley, DJ Stifler, Amended Return, Hairbangers Ball II – Tommy G's, 1pm Music Among the Vines: Jeff Helgesen, Rachael Lee – Alto Vineyards, 8-11pm, $3 Spin Cycle – Embassy Tavern, 8:30pm, free The Noisy Gators – cajun & zydeco – Iron Post, 9pm, $3 Trouble IS – extreme rock – Lowe’s Big Barrel & Summer Club in Danville, 9pm-1:30am Kayla Brown, Nolan, Temple of Low Men – Mike ’n Molly's beer garden, 9pm, cover Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets – Cowboy Monkey, 9:30pm, $5

DJ DJ Resonate – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance – Diamonds Bar & Grill in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $4 DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Impact – house – Nargile, 10pm, free

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DJ Bozak – Barfly, 9pm, free Onda Tropicale: DJ Mambo Italiano – reggae, Brasilian house – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free Cyber Fetish Video Night: DJ Randall Ellison – Red Herring, 9pm, $2 DJ J-Phlip – Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Vamp, DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5 Goth Night – Red Herring, 9pm, $2

Boneyard Jazz Quintet – The Iron Post, 7-9pm Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G's, 9pm, free Jake Hertzog Jazz Combo – The Iron Post, 10pm12am Open Mic Night hosted by Any Other Name – Nargile, 10pm, free Chef Ra – reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Salsateca! with DJ Bris Mueller – salso, mambo, bachata – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Boardwalk (Joel Spencer) – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 (Pecker) Lisle's Going Away Party: DJ Stifler – Highdive, 10:30pm, free DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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Adam Wolfe and Jess Greenlee, Candy Foster and Shades of Blue, The Cheezy Trio, Wonderboy – Tommy G's, 3pm Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm, free Split Lip Rayfield, Rusty Pipes – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $8 The Zany One – Nargile, 10pm, $3

FridayJuly23 Bryan Holloway Trio – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, free Weasel Dreams – The Iron Post, 5-7pm, free Concert in the Park-ing Lot II: Brandon T. Washington, Billy Galt and Ed O'Hara, The Mindset, The Boat Drunks – Tommy G's, 5pm Adam Wolfe and Friends, Three Speed Holiday – Iron Post, 9pm Antics – classic rock – Diamonds Bar & Grill in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $3 Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Brandon T. Washington, Ian Shepard, Andy Lund – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free A Life Without, Clio, Heavy Handed – Canopy Club, 10pm, $4 The Brat Pack – Fat City Saloon, cover Apollo Project – Nargile, 10pm, $5

WednesdayJuly28

Jazz Jam with ParaDocs – The Iron Post, 9pm Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Wolfe – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Open Mic Night hosted by Mike Ingram – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Jazz Night – Nargile, 10pm, $3

DJ DJ Carlos – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Betty Rocker – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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

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

TuesdayJuly27 LIVE MUSIC Parkland Big Band – Mike n' Molly's beer garden, 57pm, cover Open Mic/Open Jam hosted by Openingbands.com and Kate Hathaway – Canopy Club, 9pm, $2 Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Acoustic Music Series: elsinore – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Adam Wolfe's Acoustic Night with Jess Greenlee – Tommy G's, 10pm, free The Dead Science – Nargile, TBA, $3

DJ DJ Sophisto – house, funk – Barfly, 9pm, free 2ON2OUT – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free DJ Jim "Boo" Creason with movies by Preston "the Gorgon" Wright – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 DJ J-Phlip – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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

Dancing – Lava, 9pm-2am, cover

KARAOKE “Liquid Courage Karaoke” – Geovanti’s on campus, 10pm-2am

C-UVENUES Alto Vineyards 4210 N Duncan Rd, Champaign, 356-4784 Assembly Hall First & Florida, Champaign, 333-5000 American Legion Post 71 107 N Broadway, Urbana, 367-3121 Barfly 120 N Neil, Champaign,352-9756 Barnes and Noble 51 E Marketview, Champaign, 355-2045 Boardman’s Art Theater 126 W Church, Champaign, 351-0068 Boltini Lounge 211 N Neil, Champaign, 378-8001 Borders Books & Music 802 W Town Ctr, Champaign, 351-9011 The Brass Rail 15 E University, Champaign, 352-7512 Canopy Club (Garden Grill) 708 S Goodwin, Urbana, 367-3140 Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana C.O. Daniels 608 E Daniel, Champaign, 337-7411 Cosmopolitan Club 307 E John, Champaign, 367-3079 Courtyard Cafe Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana, 333-4666 Cowboy Monkey 6 Taylor St, Champaign, 398-2688 Clybourne 706 S Sixth, Champaign, 383-1008 Curtis Orchard 3902 S Duncan Rd, Champaign, 359-5565 D.R. Diggers 604 S Country Fair Dr, Champaign, 356-0888 Elmer’s Club 45 3525 N Cunningham, Urbana, 344-3101 Embassy Tavern & Grill 114 S Race, Urbana, 384-9526 Esquire Lounge 106 N Walnut, Champaign, 398-5858 Fallon’s Ice House 703 N Prospect, Champaign, 398-5760 Fat City Saloon 505 S Chestnut, Champaign, 356-7100 The Great Impasta 114 W Church, Champaign, 359-7377 G.T.’s Western Bowl Francis Dr, Champaign, 359-1678 Highdive 51 Main, Champaign, 359-4444 Huber’s 1312 W Church, Champaign, 352-0606 Illinois Disciples Foundation 610 E Springfield, Champaign, 352-8721 Independent Media Center 218 W Main St, Urbana, 344-8820 The Iron Post 120 S Race, Urbana, 337-7678 Joe’s Brewery 706 S Fifth, Champaign, 384-1790

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Kam’s 618 E Daniel, Champaign, 328-1605 Krannert Art Museum 500 E Peabody, Champaign, 333-1861 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin, Urbana,Tickets: 333-6280, 800-KCPATIX La Casa Cultural Latina 1203 W Nevada, Urbana, 333-4950 Lava 1906 W Bradley, Champaign, 352-8714 Legends Bar & Grill 522 E Green, Champaign, 355-7674 Lincoln Castle 209 S Broadway, Urbana, 344-7720 Lowe’s Big Barrel & Summer Club 14 N Hazel, Danville, 442-8090 Malibu Bay Lounge North Route 45, Urbana, 328-7415 Mike n’ Molly’s 105 N Market, Champaign, 355-1236 Mulligan’s 604 N Cunningham, Urbana, 367-5888 Murphy’s 604 E Green, Champaign, 352-7275 Nargile 207 W Clark St, Champaign Neil Street Pub 1505 N Neil, Champaign, 359-1601 The Office 214 W Main, Urbana, 344-7608 Parkland College 2400 W Bradley, Champaign, 351-2528 Phoenix 215 S Neil, Champaign, 355-7866 Pia’s of Rantoul Route 136 E, Rantoul, 893-8244 Pink House Routes 49 & 150, Ogden, 582-9997 The Rainbow Coffeehouse 1203 W Green, Urbana, 766-9500 Red Herring/Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana, 344-1176 Rose Bowl Tavern 106 N Race, Urbana, 367-7031 Springer Cultural Center 301 N Randolph, Champaign, 355-1406 Spurlock Museum 600 S Gregory, Urbana, 333-2360 The Station Theatre 223 N Broadway, Urbana, 384-4000 Strawberry Fields Cafe 306 W Springfield, Urbana, 328-1655 Sweet Betsy’s 805 S Philo Rd, Urbana Ten Thousand Villages 105 N Walnut, Champaign, 352-8938 TK Wendl’s 1901 S Highcross Rd, Urbana, 255-5328 Tommy G’s 123 S Mattis Ave, Country Fair Shopping Center, 359-2177 Tonic 619 S Wright, Champaign, 356-6768 Two Main 2 Main, Champaign, 359-3148 University YMCA 1001 S Wright, Champaign, 344-0721 Verde/Verdant 17 E Taylor St, Champaign, 366-3204 Virginia Theatre 203 W Park Ave, Champaign, 356-9053 White Horse Inn 112 1/2 E Green, Champaign, 352-5945 Zorba’s 627 E Green, Champaign

CHICAGOSHOWS JULY 7/22 Kansas @ Skyline Stage 7/22 Miss Kittin @ Sound-Bar 7/22 Pigmy Love Circus @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 7/22 Steel Pulse @ House of Blues, 18+ 7/22-23 Finn Brothers @ Vic, all-ages 7/23 Matthew Dear @ Empty Bottle 7/23 Amel Larrieux @ Harold Washington Cultural Center 7/23 Denny Diamond & The Longfellows @ Joe’s 7/23 Kottonmouth Kings @ House of Blues, all-ages 7/23 HIM @ HotHouse 7/23 Ojos de Brujo @ Metro, 18+ 7/23 Greyhounds @ Martyrs’ 7/23 Wishbone Ash @ Porter's Oyster Bar & Nightclub 7/23-24 Split Lip Rayfield @ Abbey Pub, Empty Bottle 7/24 Warped Tour – New Found Glory, Rufio, Bad Religion, Alkaline Trio, Simple Plan @ Tweeter Center 7/24 The Dead @ Alpine Valley 7/24 Cex @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 7/24 DJ Hype @ Metro, 18+ 7/24 Roy Bookbinder, Blazers @ FitzGerald’s 7/24 Bill Quateman @ Schubas 7/24 Disturbed @ House of Blues, sold out

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PURPLE CONFUSION The Sound of the Atom Splitting Gooom Records

★★★

BY JACOB DITTMER

With each passing day, the world takes more steps toward the “digital age.”

Computers run people’s lifestyles and many feel naked without their trusty cell phone at their hip. Soon, we’ll witness a regressive movement that champions the work of Thoreau as suburbanites flee to the wilderness only to run back to their cul-de-sacs and subdivisions once they discover that IKEA doesn’t ship to the Yukon. Music is no exception and has in fact embraced the digital age for some time. Starting with what John Cage created here at the University of Illinois known as “computer music” in the ‘50s, electronic music is finding friends in the world of modern music and fans of rock ‘n’ roll.

The ambient creations of Brian Eno and techno innovation of Kraftwerk are often the first things mentioned when electronic music comes up, but now—as it is true of all computer technologies over 5 years old—this music is noticeably dated.The laptop musicians are finding a market for their songs they constructed on their computers with some simple music software in their homes. Last year’s release by M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts was a triumph of an album proving that two Frenchmen can make some remarkably stunning music with their computers, outshining the best in electronic music.

This album’s popularity has given French label Gooom many credentials that this quaint electronic label has finally found U.S. distribution through Urbana’s own Parasol Records (pause for applause). The first album to come through the turnstile is Purple Confusion’s album The Sound of the Atom Splitting, which was actually released in 2002 in Europe. This record boasts M83’s two members along with other Gooom members and serves as the label’s sampler discs with different artists collaborating on each of the 12 songs’ construction.

Although this record doesn’t have the awe-inspiring moments of Dead Cities, it does showcase the talents of many of these artists in their embryonic stages.

Influences of everything from Boards of Canada to avant-garde jazz are noticeable throughout the disc.

Songs like “Running Behind Butterflies” have an electro beat done in syncopated jazz rhythms that makes many wonder if the disc is skipping. While other songs such as “Falling in the Sea at the Speed of Snow pts.1 & 2” showcase the influence of shoegaze and synth artists as the song floats and breathes like something from Loveless.

We must say kudos to Parasol for opening the door to these talented electro musicians and embracing the future of music. For many, this is merely a European thing, but many of America’s finest are recognizing the endless possibilities of the medium and will soon be citing these Gooom recording artists as influences.

THE BLOODY LOVELIES Some Truth & A Little Money Cheap Lullaby Records

★★

BY BRIAN KLEIN

For The Bloody Lovelies, this is the first album they have put together. Like many debuts, it offers a crude

sample of what the band is all about.The edges are pretty rough on this one, but if you give it a few listens, you might be able to appreciate some of it. However, as of this album, they don’t have much to offer.

The CD comes off as a mess of songs that are too far stretched from any kind of central starting point. It’s one thing for a band to establish themselves as one sound and then explore outwardly with different styles, but it’s folly to try that from the start. A band should have an identity from which it may choose to refine or grow.

Many bands do this; some with success and some without, but at least they were considered legitimate at one point in their tenure. The Lovelies need to present one style as best they can before trying to diversify. Style ranges from an obnoxiously grating proclamation of greatness in “Star”to a melancholy tune of “Lonely Town” to something akin to a children’s jingle in “The Money Song.” I think they’re trying too much on their first attempt. Inconsistency is not to their advantage.

What is self-proclaimed as a piano-driven rock band is hardly that.The Lovelies play harder and with more edge than most piano rock groups. The piano rarely drives these songs. Most tracks are dominated by guitars and lead singer Randy Wooten’s vocals. Wooten’s voice adds another variable to the inconsistency equation, offering two different settings. He starts most songs with a typical controlled rock voice that soon evolves into a whiny, aggravated sound. It’s the difference between Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida in “Somewhere Out There” and “Superman’s Dead.” It’s a dynamic that can work, but it has to be put to good use. The latter of Wooten’s voices is used too liberally. It will take time to harness, but it can be an asset if used properly, offering more emotion to a song’s message.

In terms of songwriting, the Lovelies have their moments and provide some catchy sequences. In fact, they are at times too catchy.“The Money Song” will stick with you for a long time, but you won’t like it. The song claims that “Money makes the world go ‘round/ She says that/ Money makes the world go ‘round” and you can’t get it out of your head. An intentional transition from the previous track “Dreams” makes the song flow into “The Money Song” as if the two are supposed to be related, or even a unified song. These two songs, along with “Star,” might be the lowest points on the album. Some of the strongest tracks are “You Could Die,” “Lonely Town” and “Square.” These however, are not enough to salvage an album that finds itself stumbling, in a sense, from its own ambition and resulting inconsistency.

MAX RICHTER The Blue Notebooks Fat Cat

★★★★

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI

German-born composer Max Richter has delivered one of the year’s best albums, the contemporary classical piece The Blue Notebooks. On first listen, it comes across as a soundtrack to a non-existent film that references several of today’s most influential and revered cinematic composers, though never too closely to be original. For instance, the offbeat quirkiness of “Arboretum” could have come from Carter Burwell’s score to Being John Malkovich and the mournful strings of “On The Nature of Daylight” remind the listener of a Michael Nyman composition. Philip Glass’ presence is noticeable on “The Trees” with its repetitive arpeggios and minimal variations, or “Vladimir’s Blues” whose constant promise of an uplifting resolution never arrives.

However, to merely list the individuals to whom he pays tribute would be to trivialize a significant musical accomplishment. Superficially, these are beautiful arrangements whose minimalism grants them accessibility despite a simplicity that is merely illusory.

Furthermore, Richter enlists the aid of British actress Tilda Swinton (Adaptation, The Beach, Vanilla Sky): Over the sounds of a typewriter, she reads extracts from Kafka’s The Blue Octavo Notebooks as well as Polish author Czselaw Milosz’s Hymn of The Pearl and Unattainable Earth, creating the illusion of diary entries that when combined with the music offer an alternative interpretation to the music.

Several tracks are decidedly more experimental, such as the eerie “Shadow Journal.” The ambient bird noise and the synthesized bass-line obviously draw on Richter’s work with The Future Sound of London.

“Iconography” employs an organ and a children’s choir to achieve a similarly haunting effect. The Blue Notebooks comes less than a year after Richter’s debut

Memoryhouse, which was more ostensibly a fusion of classical music and electronica. This CD, however, is far more classically influenced, especially structurally. In fact, by using this classical framework, Richter is able to repeatedly establish self-contained themes that evoke emotion and imagery in the little more than a minute that they last, only allowing himself longer when he genuinely has a riff that merits him devoting more time.

Thus, Richter is able to complement his miminalism with his restraint and match the low-fi nature of his recordings and craft a mesmerizing final product.

PHISH Undermind Elektra/Asylum

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BY KYLE B. GORMAN

In winter 2000, East Coast jam force Phish seemed to be at the top of their game. Like so many indie bands, they had managed to gain notoriety and success while bypassing the traditional paths to success.Their feat, however, lay in the fact they were also able to bypass both indie press and radio.

Being cool without being hip, they were even able to buck the general public’s intense hatred of hippies. In a more musical sense, they were coming off a string of three delicious pop albums. While conventional wisdom had always held that toking, sloppy-haired jam groups were largely unable to make cohesive, enjoyable studio albums, with a little help from producer Steve Lillywhite (AKA “The Master”) and others, they produced a string of well-spoken pop albums.

It came as a surprise, then, when Phish announced a sudden hiatus. Flying forward four years, things have changed considerably.Though the band had returned to the stage, things didn’t seem to be going very well.

Despite strong ticket sales, the group seemed less inspired and willing to work together. Both sales and reviews of the post-hiatus album, Round Room, were lackluster, and the energy seemed to be gone. During the production of Undermind, the group’s most recent album, Phish announced that they would be saying goodbye forever. While it is, to a degree, an excellent example of what they stand for, the weariness the artists experience with their own music is obvious.

Undermind finds Phish standing firmly in the more easily stomached pop than ever before. “The Connection,” a likely single, features some of the band’s more midtempo, midrange, jangly work. Though the song stands out against ethic or modal affairs, it fails to make an impression on the pop listener as it fails to distinguish itself or invoke an experience. Everything, down to the whistled instrumental refrain is as derivative as this crew of individualists has allowed themselves to be.

Elsewhere, the listener sees the group slogging through various styles it perfected long ago. The Latinthemed intro that begins the album is the most painful of ethnic-influenced sounds, while a home-fried, bouncy groove garnishes the pointless lyric of the title track.

Throughout the gauntlet of tunes, guitarist Trey Anastasio displays his uncanny ability to sound mysterious, urgent and relevant on the most ridiculous (or derivative) material. Backed by bassist Mike Gordon’s soulless, ubiquitous (could he please take a break sometimes?) harmony vocals, Anastasio cuts through, sounding like a shaman of a world that us mortals can only see a shadow of, particularly on “The Song I Heard The Ocean Sing,” which features mystical voice and a particularly interesting modal jam that pays more attention to style and feel than agility. Drummer Jon Fishman is in his finest form yet, sounding like a more precise and agile John Bonham throughout. Keyboards give texture but do not assert themselves, and Anastasio makes a holy noise without ever playing a solo.

Eschewing the wet, soaring sound he usually traffics in, he plays some of his most memorable lines on “Army Of One,” on which the band’s obvious weariness becomes a virtue.The group flexes its considerable compositional muscle less than ever; there is no twisting, progressive epic to be found. The musicians work harder with the structures given than they do trying to bend the compositions. Sadly, this sort of maturity has never been given the chance to develop, and the listening experience is incomplete. Phish is at their most moving when there is a sense of hurry and of direction, both of which are noticeably absent from the album.

Like any jam group, behind the veneer of improvisational might and mayhem is a world of predictability.

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Twenty years of music takes its toll, and a band can only hold the honor of “World’s Smelliest Fans” for so long. While Undermind is an awkward affair at best, and one of the more disappointing albums in the band’s already sketchy discography, it is the last leg on a long journey the band has traveled, and the men from Vermont deserve a pat on the back. The album’s closer, a terse barbershop quartet affair that’s the most awkward goodbye put to wax since McCartney gave us “Your Majesty,” only thickens the deep mythology of Phish.

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T

his Thursday, Caffe Paradiso hosts a group of

mood of the show. The Austin and Brooklyn-based

indie rock bands with a variety of sounds and

trio uses keyboard, guitar and a double bass drum

moods. Check out Volcano, I’m Still Excited!! (pic-

to create energetic pop tunes you’ll be humming as

tured above), Col. Rhodes, The Beauty Shop,

you leave the show. The Beauty Shop is another

Cheyenne, Cinemechanica, Deconstructing Jim,

band sure to be a standout at the show, an indie

Action People, and Indeed. Among the acts,

band with a clear acoustic sound. The music starts

Volcano’s unconventional pop sound is a standout

early, around 5 p.m., so be sure to head to Paradiso

and is sure to heighten the energy and lighten the

and check out all the bands. Cover is $5.

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I

f you’re in the mood for a night at the the-

comedy, which, according to Krannert’s Web

atre, try Parfumerie at Krannert Center for

site, inspired films such as The Shop Around

the Performing Arts. This local performance is

the Corner and the Broadway musical She

part of Summerfest at Krannert Center, a pro-

Loves Me. This week, you can catch the per-

gram that puts on three productions each

formance Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7

summer. Parfumerie is one of the three pro-

p.m. You can also see it July 29 at 7:30 p.m. or

ductions, along with Guilty Conscience and The

August 1 at 7 p.m. It will be performed in

Glass Menagerie. Summerfest’s version of

Krannert’s Studio Theatre. Tickets range from

Parfumerie uses the original 1937 script of the

$7 to $16. Don’t miss it!

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atch Split Lip Rayfield and Rusty Pipes

all while being equally serious, hardworking and

Sunday at Cowboy Monkey for some fresh

touching. A capella group Rusty Pipes adds a touch

bluegrass music with a punk twist. Kansas-based

of mainstream bluegrass and contemporary songs

quartet Split Lip Rayfield take influences from

to the mix. The collegiate group has been around

Country Western, rock, folk and bluegrass and cre-

since 1997. Check out the show Sunday at Cowboy

ate something wholly unique from the mixture of

Monkey. Music starts at 10 p.m. with an $8 cover.

sounds. They can be loud, silly and a little trashy,

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nor ... well, he may actually still wear the

Five winners will receive two tickets to the concert and One lucky winner will get two BACKSTAGE PASSES and be able to meet the band.

stonewashed jean jacket. Call it shameless

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promotion, but both of these Buzz employees are funny as hell (regardless of their misleading mug shots). Expect crass yet hilarious anecdotes and one-liners from Coulter and frighteningly dead-on impressions from Ryan. Head to The Iron Post Sunday at 9 p.m. to check out both acts.

T

his Thursday, Caffe Paradiso hosts a group of

mood of the show. The Austin and Brooklyn-based

indie rock bands with a variety of sounds and

trio uses keyboard, guitar and a double bass drum

moods. Check out Volcano, I’m Still Excited!! (pic-

to create energetic pop tunes you’ll be humming as

tured above), Col. Rhodes, The Beauty Shop,

you leave the show. The Beauty Shop is another

Cheyenne, Cinemechanica, Deconstructing Jim,

band sure to be a standout at the show, an indie

Action People, and Indeed. Among the acts,

band with a clear acoustic sound. The music starts

Volcano’s unconventional pop sound is a standout

early, around 5 p.m., so be sure to head to Paradiso

and is sure to heighten the energy and lighten the

and check out all the bands. Cover is $5.

A DATE WITH THE THEATER

I

f you’re in the mood for a night at the the-

comedy, which, according to Krannert’s Web

atre, try Parfumerie at Krannert Center for

site, inspired films such as The Shop Around

the Performing Arts. This local performance is

the Corner and the Broadway musical She

part of Summerfest at Krannert Center, a pro-

Loves Me. This week, you can catch the per-

gram that puts on three productions each

formance Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7

summer. Parfumerie is one of the three pro-

p.m. You can also see it July 29 at 7:30 p.m. or

ductions, along with Guilty Conscience and The

August 1 at 7 p.m. It will be performed in

Glass Menagerie. Summerfest’s version of

Krannert’s Studio Theatre. Tickets range from

Parfumerie uses the original 1937 script of the

$7 to $16. Don’t miss it!

ROCKIN’ BLUEGRASS WITH RAYFIELD AND RUSTY PIPES

C

atch Split Lip Rayfield and Rusty Pipes

all while being equally serious, hardworking and

Sunday at Cowboy Monkey for some fresh

touching. A capella group Rusty Pipes adds a touch

bluegrass music with a punk twist. Kansas-based

of mainstream bluegrass and contemporary songs

quartet Split Lip Rayfield take influences from

to the mix. The collegiate group has been around

Country Western, rock, folk and bluegrass and cre-

since 1997. Check out the show Sunday at Cowboy

ate something wholly unique from the mixture of

Monkey. Music starts at 10 p.m. with an $8 cover.

sounds. They can be loud, silly and a little trashy,

What major city are all the members of Saliva from?

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ThursdayJuly22 LIVE MUSIC Indie Rock meets Urbana Pt. 1: Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!, Col. Rhodes, The Beauty Shop, Cheyenne, Cinemechanica, Deconstructing Jim, Action People, Indeed – Caffe Paradiso, 5pm, $5 Central Jazz Combo – The Iron Post, 5-10pm Acoustic Music Series: elsinore – Aroma, 8pm, free Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Acoustic Music Series: Mike Ingram – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3 Sacrelicious Groove Congregation – Canopy Club, 10pm, $2 Midnight Special: The Greedy Loves, DJ PBR – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

DJ DJ J-Phlip – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Stifler –’80s hair bands – Tommy G's, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free Passport Party – international vibes – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance – Diamonds Bar & Grill in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

KARAOKE Live Band Karaoke: The Cheezy Trio – The Highdive, 10pm, $3 "G" Force Karaoke – Pia's in Rantoul, 9pm-1am

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“Soulful Saturdays” – Watusi Lounge, free before 11pm Salsa – Lava, 11pm-2am, cover

KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke/DJ – Sappy’s on Devenshire, 9pm

SundayJuly25 LIVE MUSIC

DANCING

DJ Delayney – hip-hop, funk, downbeat – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

COMEDY Mike Coulter, Chris Ryan – The Iron Post, 9pm

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

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SaturdayJuly24 LIVE MUSIC Concert in the Park-ing Lot II: 12 Ways From Sunday, Kilborn Alley, DJ Stifler, Amended Return, Hairbangers Ball II – Tommy G's, 1pm Music Among the Vines: Jeff Helgesen, Rachael Lee – Alto Vineyards, 8-11pm, $3 Spin Cycle – Embassy Tavern, 8:30pm, free The Noisy Gators – cajun & zydeco – Iron Post, 9pm, $3 Trouble IS – extreme rock – Lowe’s Big Barrel & Summer Club in Danville, 9pm-1:30am Kayla Brown, Nolan, Temple of Low Men – Mike ’n Molly's beer garden, 9pm, cover Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets – Cowboy Monkey, 9:30pm, $5

DJ DJ Resonate – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance – Diamonds Bar & Grill in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $4 DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Impact – house – Nargile, 10pm, free

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DJ Bozak – Barfly, 9pm, free Onda Tropicale: DJ Mambo Italiano – reggae, Brasilian house – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free Cyber Fetish Video Night: DJ Randall Ellison – Red Herring, 9pm, $2 DJ J-Phlip – Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Vamp, DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5 Goth Night – Red Herring, 9pm, $2

Boneyard Jazz Quintet – The Iron Post, 7-9pm Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G's, 9pm, free Jake Hertzog Jazz Combo – The Iron Post, 10pm12am Open Mic Night hosted by Any Other Name – Nargile, 10pm, free Chef Ra – reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Salsateca! with DJ Bris Mueller – salso, mambo, bachata – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Boardwalk (Joel Spencer) – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 (Pecker) Lisle's Going Away Party: DJ Stifler – Highdive, 10:30pm, free DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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Adam Wolfe and Jess Greenlee, Candy Foster and Shades of Blue, The Cheezy Trio, Wonderboy – Tommy G's, 3pm Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm, free Split Lip Rayfield, Rusty Pipes – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $8 The Zany One – Nargile, 10pm, $3

FridayJuly23 Bryan Holloway Trio – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, free Weasel Dreams – The Iron Post, 5-7pm, free Concert in the Park-ing Lot II: Brandon T. Washington, Billy Galt and Ed O'Hara, The Mindset, The Boat Drunks – Tommy G's, 5pm Adam Wolfe and Friends, Three Speed Holiday – Iron Post, 9pm Antics – classic rock – Diamonds Bar & Grill in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $3 Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Brandon T. Washington, Ian Shepard, Andy Lund – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free A Life Without, Clio, Heavy Handed – Canopy Club, 10pm, $4 The Brat Pack – Fat City Saloon, cover Apollo Project – Nargile, 10pm, $5

WednesdayJuly28

Jazz Jam with ParaDocs – The Iron Post, 9pm Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Wolfe – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Open Mic Night hosted by Mike Ingram – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Jazz Night – Nargile, 10pm, $3

DJ DJ Carlos – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Betty Rocker – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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

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

TuesdayJuly27 LIVE MUSIC Parkland Big Band – Mike n' Molly's beer garden, 57pm, cover Open Mic/Open Jam hosted by Openingbands.com and Kate Hathaway – Canopy Club, 9pm, $2 Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Acoustic Music Series: elsinore – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Adam Wolfe's Acoustic Night with Jess Greenlee – Tommy G's, 10pm, free The Dead Science – Nargile, TBA, $3

DJ DJ Sophisto – house, funk – Barfly, 9pm, free 2ON2OUT – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free DJ Jim "Boo" Creason with movies by Preston "the Gorgon" Wright – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 DJ J-Phlip – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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

Dancing – Lava, 9pm-2am, cover

KARAOKE “Liquid Courage Karaoke” – Geovanti’s on campus, 10pm-2am

C-UVENUES Alto Vineyards 4210 N Duncan Rd, Champaign, 356-4784 Assembly Hall First & Florida, Champaign, 333-5000 American Legion Post 71 107 N Broadway, Urbana, 367-3121 Barfly 120 N Neil, Champaign,352-9756 Barnes and Noble 51 E Marketview, Champaign, 355-2045 Boardman’s Art Theater 126 W Church, Champaign, 351-0068 Boltini Lounge 211 N Neil, Champaign, 378-8001 Borders Books & Music 802 W Town Ctr, Champaign, 351-9011 The Brass Rail 15 E University, Champaign, 352-7512 Canopy Club (Garden Grill) 708 S Goodwin, Urbana, 367-3140 Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana C.O. Daniels 608 E Daniel, Champaign, 337-7411 Cosmopolitan Club 307 E John, Champaign, 367-3079 Courtyard Cafe Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana, 333-4666 Cowboy Monkey 6 Taylor St, Champaign, 398-2688 Clybourne 706 S Sixth, Champaign, 383-1008 Curtis Orchard 3902 S Duncan Rd, Champaign, 359-5565 D.R. Diggers 604 S Country Fair Dr, Champaign, 356-0888 Elmer’s Club 45 3525 N Cunningham, Urbana, 344-3101 Embassy Tavern & Grill 114 S Race, Urbana, 384-9526 Esquire Lounge 106 N Walnut, Champaign, 398-5858 Fallon’s Ice House 703 N Prospect, Champaign, 398-5760 Fat City Saloon 505 S Chestnut, Champaign, 356-7100 The Great Impasta 114 W Church, Champaign, 359-7377 G.T.’s Western Bowl Francis Dr, Champaign, 359-1678 Highdive 51 Main, Champaign, 359-4444 Huber’s 1312 W Church, Champaign, 352-0606 Illinois Disciples Foundation 610 E Springfield, Champaign, 352-8721 Independent Media Center 218 W Main St, Urbana, 344-8820 The Iron Post 120 S Race, Urbana, 337-7678 Joe’s Brewery 706 S Fifth, Champaign, 384-1790

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CHICAGOSHOWS JULY 7/22 Kansas @ Skyline Stage 7/22 Miss Kittin @ Sound-Bar 7/22 Pigmy Love Circus @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 7/22 Steel Pulse @ House of Blues, 18+ 7/22-23 Finn Brothers @ Vic, all-ages 7/23 Matthew Dear @ Empty Bottle 7/23 Amel Larrieux @ Harold Washington Cultural Center 7/23 Denny Diamond & The Longfellows @ Joe’s 7/23 Kottonmouth Kings @ House of Blues, all-ages 7/23 HIM @ HotHouse 7/23 Ojos de Brujo @ Metro, 18+ 7/23 Greyhounds @ Martyrs’ 7/23 Wishbone Ash @ Porter's Oyster Bar & Nightclub 7/23-24 Split Lip Rayfield @ Abbey Pub, Empty Bottle 7/24 Warped Tour – New Found Glory, Rufio, Bad Religion, Alkaline Trio, Simple Plan @ Tweeter Center 7/24 The Dead @ Alpine Valley 7/24 Cex @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 7/24 DJ Hype @ Metro, 18+ 7/24 Roy Bookbinder, Blazers @ FitzGerald’s 7/24 Bill Quateman @ Schubas 7/24 Disturbed @ House of Blues, sold out

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PURPLE CONFUSION The Sound of the Atom Splitting Gooom Records

★★★

BY JACOB DITTMER

With each passing day, the world takes more steps toward the “digital age.”

Computers run people’s lifestyles and many feel naked without their trusty cell phone at their hip. Soon, we’ll witness a regressive movement that champions the work of Thoreau as suburbanites flee to the wilderness only to run back to their cul-de-sacs and subdivisions once they discover that IKEA doesn’t ship to the Yukon. Music is no exception and has in fact embraced the digital age for some time. Starting with what John Cage created here at the University of Illinois known as “computer music” in the ‘50s, electronic music is finding friends in the world of modern music and fans of rock ‘n’ roll.

The ambient creations of Brian Eno and techno innovation of Kraftwerk are often the first things mentioned when electronic music comes up, but now—as it is true of all computer technologies over 5 years old—this music is noticeably dated.The laptop musicians are finding a market for their songs they constructed on their computers with some simple music software in their homes. Last year’s release by M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts was a triumph of an album proving that two Frenchmen can make some remarkably stunning music with their computers, outshining the best in electronic music.

This album’s popularity has given French label Gooom many credentials that this quaint electronic label has finally found U.S. distribution through Urbana’s own Parasol Records (pause for applause). The first album to come through the turnstile is Purple Confusion’s album The Sound of the Atom Splitting, which was actually released in 2002 in Europe. This record boasts M83’s two members along with other Gooom members and serves as the label’s sampler discs with different artists collaborating on each of the 12 songs’ construction.

Although this record doesn’t have the awe-inspiring moments of Dead Cities, it does showcase the talents of many of these artists in their embryonic stages.

Influences of everything from Boards of Canada to avant-garde jazz are noticeable throughout the disc.

Songs like “Running Behind Butterflies” have an electro beat done in syncopated jazz rhythms that makes many wonder if the disc is skipping. While other songs such as “Falling in the Sea at the Speed of Snow pts.1 & 2” showcase the influence of shoegaze and synth artists as the song floats and breathes like something from Loveless.

We must say kudos to Parasol for opening the door to these talented electro musicians and embracing the future of music. For many, this is merely a European thing, but many of America’s finest are recognizing the endless possibilities of the medium and will soon be citing these Gooom recording artists as influences.

THE BLOODY LOVELIES Some Truth & A Little Money Cheap Lullaby Records

★★

BY BRIAN KLEIN

For The Bloody Lovelies, this is the first album they have put together. Like many debuts, it offers a crude

sample of what the band is all about.The edges are pretty rough on this one, but if you give it a few listens, you might be able to appreciate some of it. However, as of this album, they don’t have much to offer.

The CD comes off as a mess of songs that are too far stretched from any kind of central starting point. It’s one thing for a band to establish themselves as one sound and then explore outwardly with different styles, but it’s folly to try that from the start. A band should have an identity from which it may choose to refine or grow.

Many bands do this; some with success and some without, but at least they were considered legitimate at one point in their tenure. The Lovelies need to present one style as best they can before trying to diversify. Style ranges from an obnoxiously grating proclamation of greatness in “Star”to a melancholy tune of “Lonely Town” to something akin to a children’s jingle in “The Money Song.” I think they’re trying too much on their first attempt. Inconsistency is not to their advantage.

What is self-proclaimed as a piano-driven rock band is hardly that.The Lovelies play harder and with more edge than most piano rock groups. The piano rarely drives these songs. Most tracks are dominated by guitars and lead singer Randy Wooten’s vocals. Wooten’s voice adds another variable to the inconsistency equation, offering two different settings. He starts most songs with a typical controlled rock voice that soon evolves into a whiny, aggravated sound. It’s the difference between Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida in “Somewhere Out There” and “Superman’s Dead.” It’s a dynamic that can work, but it has to be put to good use. The latter of Wooten’s voices is used too liberally. It will take time to harness, but it can be an asset if used properly, offering more emotion to a song’s message.

In terms of songwriting, the Lovelies have their moments and provide some catchy sequences. In fact, they are at times too catchy.“The Money Song” will stick with you for a long time, but you won’t like it. The song claims that “Money makes the world go ‘round/ She says that/ Money makes the world go ‘round” and you can’t get it out of your head. An intentional transition from the previous track “Dreams” makes the song flow into “The Money Song” as if the two are supposed to be related, or even a unified song. These two songs, along with “Star,” might be the lowest points on the album. Some of the strongest tracks are “You Could Die,” “Lonely Town” and “Square.” These however, are not enough to salvage an album that finds itself stumbling, in a sense, from its own ambition and resulting inconsistency.

MAX RICHTER The Blue Notebooks Fat Cat

★★★★

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI

German-born composer Max Richter has delivered one of the year’s best albums, the contemporary classical piece The Blue Notebooks. On first listen, it comes across as a soundtrack to a non-existent film that references several of today’s most influential and revered cinematic composers, though never too closely to be original. For instance, the offbeat quirkiness of “Arboretum” could have come from Carter Burwell’s score to Being John Malkovich and the mournful strings of “On The Nature of Daylight” remind the listener of a Michael Nyman composition. Philip Glass’ presence is noticeable on “The Trees” with its repetitive arpeggios and minimal variations, or “Vladimir’s Blues” whose constant promise of an uplifting resolution never arrives.

However, to merely list the individuals to whom he pays tribute would be to trivialize a significant musical accomplishment. Superficially, these are beautiful arrangements whose minimalism grants them accessibility despite a simplicity that is merely illusory.

Furthermore, Richter enlists the aid of British actress Tilda Swinton (Adaptation, The Beach, Vanilla Sky): Over the sounds of a typewriter, she reads extracts from Kafka’s The Blue Octavo Notebooks as well as Polish author Czselaw Milosz’s Hymn of The Pearl and Unattainable Earth, creating the illusion of diary entries that when combined with the music offer an alternative interpretation to the music.

Several tracks are decidedly more experimental, such as the eerie “Shadow Journal.” The ambient bird noise and the synthesized bass-line obviously draw on Richter’s work with The Future Sound of London.

“Iconography” employs an organ and a children’s choir to achieve a similarly haunting effect. The Blue Notebooks comes less than a year after Richter’s debut

Memoryhouse, which was more ostensibly a fusion of classical music and electronica. This CD, however, is far more classically influenced, especially structurally. In fact, by using this classical framework, Richter is able to repeatedly establish self-contained themes that evoke emotion and imagery in the little more than a minute that they last, only allowing himself longer when he genuinely has a riff that merits him devoting more time.

Thus, Richter is able to complement his miminalism with his restraint and match the low-fi nature of his recordings and craft a mesmerizing final product.

PHISH Undermind Elektra/Asylum

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BY KYLE B. GORMAN

In winter 2000, East Coast jam force Phish seemed to be at the top of their game. Like so many indie bands, they had managed to gain notoriety and success while bypassing the traditional paths to success.Their feat, however, lay in the fact they were also able to bypass both indie press and radio.

Being cool without being hip, they were even able to buck the general public’s intense hatred of hippies. In a more musical sense, they were coming off a string of three delicious pop albums. While conventional wisdom had always held that toking, sloppy-haired jam groups were largely unable to make cohesive, enjoyable studio albums, with a little help from producer Steve Lillywhite (AKA “The Master”) and others, they produced a string of well-spoken pop albums.

It came as a surprise, then, when Phish announced a sudden hiatus. Flying forward four years, things have changed considerably.Though the band had returned to the stage, things didn’t seem to be going very well.

Despite strong ticket sales, the group seemed less inspired and willing to work together. Both sales and reviews of the post-hiatus album, Round Room, were lackluster, and the energy seemed to be gone. During the production of Undermind, the group’s most recent album, Phish announced that they would be saying goodbye forever. While it is, to a degree, an excellent example of what they stand for, the weariness the artists experience with their own music is obvious.

Undermind finds Phish standing firmly in the more easily stomached pop than ever before. “The Connection,” a likely single, features some of the band’s more midtempo, midrange, jangly work. Though the song stands out against ethic or modal affairs, it fails to make an impression on the pop listener as it fails to distinguish itself or invoke an experience. Everything, down to the whistled instrumental refrain is as derivative as this crew of individualists has allowed themselves to be.

Elsewhere, the listener sees the group slogging through various styles it perfected long ago. The Latinthemed intro that begins the album is the most painful of ethnic-influenced sounds, while a home-fried, bouncy groove garnishes the pointless lyric of the title track.

Throughout the gauntlet of tunes, guitarist Trey Anastasio displays his uncanny ability to sound mysterious, urgent and relevant on the most ridiculous (or derivative) material. Backed by bassist Mike Gordon’s soulless, ubiquitous (could he please take a break sometimes?) harmony vocals, Anastasio cuts through, sounding like a shaman of a world that us mortals can only see a shadow of, particularly on “The Song I Heard The Ocean Sing,” which features mystical voice and a particularly interesting modal jam that pays more attention to style and feel than agility. Drummer Jon Fishman is in his finest form yet, sounding like a more precise and agile John Bonham throughout. Keyboards give texture but do not assert themselves, and Anastasio makes a holy noise without ever playing a solo.

Eschewing the wet, soaring sound he usually traffics in, he plays some of his most memorable lines on “Army Of One,” on which the band’s obvious weariness becomes a virtue.The group flexes its considerable compositional muscle less than ever; there is no twisting, progressive epic to be found. The musicians work harder with the structures given than they do trying to bend the compositions. Sadly, this sort of maturity has never been given the chance to develop, and the listening experience is incomplete. Phish is at their most moving when there is a sense of hurry and of direction, both of which are noticeably absent from the album.

Like any jam group, behind the veneer of improvisational might and mayhem is a world of predictability.

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Five ways to fix Beastie’s To the 5 Boroughs

BY ADAM BOSKEY AND BRIAN MERTZ | STAFF WRITERS

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2 Boss DJs is a column that Dan Finnerty (DJ Spinnerty) and myself (Adam Boskey/DJ Bozak) created to provide a twist on your normal album review. The format was two DJs having a conversation about an album rather then the straightforward critical analysis that is found on the review page in Buzz. Spinnerty has left for San Francisco. Good luck, homie. I will continue the column with handpicked DJs from the C-U. This time around it is ... drum roll ... DJ Mertz! Both Mertz and I had problems with Kyle Gorman’s review in a recent issue of Buzz and decided to give our suggestions for improving this album.

M: They’re still funny. And that is something I’ve always liked about the Beastie Boys. They don’t rhyme about goldfronts all the time.

B: Some collabos with their close friends in hip-hop would have been nice.

M: Who are you thinking?

B: Well, I always liked how they complemented with the likes of Q-Tip, Large Professor, Biz Markie…

M: And Little Jon. B: …

M: You’re right, though. I think with an album called To The 5 Boroughs, they could have had a track with MCs from each of the Burroughs. Invite Nas… B: De La Soul, LL Cool J, KRS-One, etc. And, each borough gets a different beat with a different producer from that borough. And then a different DJ scratching from each borough.

M: Whoa, whoa… back to the lyrics, Mr. Superstar DJ. Some of their rhymes are just the same old tricks and gimmicks.

B: I know what you’re saying. But to be fair, I like their lyrics. Personally, I just wish the chemistry would have been shaken up a bit.

M: That’s hard to do. I think this album also doesn’t have any particular lines that stick in your head.

B: Like Sigur Ros…

1. THE BEATS

album to boot.

M: You wouldn’t have that remix if it wasn’t for me picking it up in Chicago.

B: You make a great delivery boy.

4. THE DJs B: Jesus Christ. With a scratch titan such as Mixmaster Mike as part of the group, you’d hope he’d wield his unearthly powers throughout the course of the disc.

M: Whoever said DJs have god complexes?

B: But unfortunately, it sounds like he IM-ed the scratches off a portable turntable from an airport bathroom.

M: [Laughter]: Yeah. Like we said earlier, Anti-Theft Device shows that Mike has some serious skills.

B: Even more so, if you’ve seen him the two or three times he’s come to Champaign, or seen him elsewhere, he comes up with the shit that no other scratch DJ/turntablist can think of.

M: You mean the samples he finds?

B: No, he’s just nuts! In a good way. Like Hendrix or Aphex Twin.

M: It would have been cool if he could have built on the “Three MCs and One DJ”to push turntablism even more into the mainstream.

B: Yeah, beyond the realm of Burger King commercials and shitty rock bands.

Bozak: The beats sound so thin!

Mertz: I know, it’s a shame since their beats have always been one of their trademarks.

B: For real. With every other album, you could count on the beats having lit3. SINGLE SELECTION 5. COPYRIGHTED SOFTWARE tle tangents and secret crevices.

M: Crevices?

B: As a DJ, observing and controlling a dance floor, as M:This is a small thing. But whenever I see an FBI logo B: Nooks and crannies. well as my experience with radio, how an audience on the back of an album, I get worried and pissed off.

M: Ah. I know what you mean, like “Remote Control” This is even worse coming from a band that stole so B: Or “Time to Get Ill,”“B-Boy Bouillabaisse” or “Finger receives a release… much music to make Paul’s Boutique. Even if it was Licking Good.” Shit. Almost half of every album prior M: Get to the point.

B: It’s obvious that “Triple Trouble” should have been just a label decision, they could have and should have to this one is an example of that. publicly fought this software being put on their M: Well, that might be because they decided to pro- the first single.

M: I couldn’t agree more. All this hype about “Ch- album. duce this themselves on their laptop.

B: Yeah, it sounds like they made the beats in one Check It Out” being a great song is like saying J-Kwon B: Word. So can I get on Kazaa now or what? has something meaningful to say.

M: Huh? afternoon using the Playstation music creator game.

M: [Laughter] You think with this much money they B: I think “Triple Trouble” would have brought even B: What? more attention to the album. It is more acceptable could have hired any producer they wanted. and it is more dance-friendly.

B: Or used actual studio gear instead of a computer.

CONCLUSION M: Maybe they spent all the money on the packaging M: Hearing “Triple Trouble” is what made me buy the album. and the useless extra sleeve for the CD. M: These are just five suggestions that we came up B: The packaging is hot. But the money should have B: Right. And “Ch-Check It Out” would act as a perfect with. We still love and respect the Beastie Boys and been on getting producers in the door. Maybe some- segue way to the rest of the album, because it sounds everything that they have done to move hip-hop forlike the rest of the album. how convincing Mario Caldato to stick with it. ward as a genre and a culture.

M: Single selection is huge. This album would proba- B: Hell, not to mention music in general and what M: Yeah, Mario C likes to keep it clean.

B: But the obvious choice would have been Rick bly still be near the top of the charts if “Triple Trouble” they do politically should also be noted. Even though Rubin, the co-producer of License to Ill and producer was the first single back after a six-year wait.

I don’t necessarily like the album, I still purchased it B: Plus the Just Blaze remix of “Ch-Check It Out” because I want to support artists I respect. My overall of the recent Jay Z insta-classic “99 Problems.”

M: That beat just smells of Beastie Boys. But with all should have been on the album because it is clearly beef with the album is that is sounds half-assed, as if their money, and their reputation, they could have better than the original and any other track on the it were a demo, devoid of all the gotten anyone. Even Gorgio Moroder. attention to detail that made a B: Or the easiest thing would have Beastie Boys record their own. been to use Mixmaster Mike’s beats.

M: True, and all things considered, I M: For sure. Anti-Theft Device was one will probably buy the next one, too. of the weirdest turntablism albums B: Oh of course, you gotta complete I’ve heard, but it was also one of the the collection. Sealed doubles in most original sounding. fact.

B: To The 5 Boroughs should have just been that album with rhymes over the DJ Bozak can be seen DJing various top. styles of music in Champaign (check M: Or, they could have just rhymed the calendar listings). His radio show, over Sketches In Sound—available in stores now.

Needledrops, airs on WEFT 90.1 FM B: I like where you’re going with that.

Saturdays from 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

At the very least, they could have used samples. I listened to the album a Mertz is a house DJ that is presently number of times and only heard three homeless (anyone got a residency for obvious samples. a deep house DJ?). When not M:I still say it comes back to it not being neurotically shopping for records, he mastered well.

B: You have hairy arms. is studying for the hell that is the The Beasite’s latest failed to please these two “boss DJs” as much as other critics.

M: Stay on topic here.

Illinois State Bar Exam.

They explain why with their five improvements for To the Five Boroughs.

B: Strangely, I am.

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Guided By Voices have revealed the dates for their final tour, which begins August 18 in New York and culminates in a New Year’s Eve extravaganza at The Metro in Chicago. As previously reported, their final album, Half Smiles of the Decomposed, is set for an August 25 release.

Mos Def has announced the release of his sophomore album, titled The New Danger, due September 28 via Geffen. The album is the follow-up to 1999’s Black on Both Sides and may be supported by a tour this fall.

The solo debut of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrison is set for a September 29 release via Barsuk. The album, titled Travistan, features co-production by Chris Walla from Deathcab for Cutie and veteran producer Don Zientara, as well as contributions from John Vanderslice and members of Deathcab for Cutie.

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“Invectives” – Artist Scott Mitchell exhibits critiques of the predicaments of humanity in a political and socially mindful way. Parkland Art Gallery thru Aug 5. Hours: M-Thur, 10am-2pm; Tu-Thur, 68pm. Info: 351-2485.

7/25-27 Chris Isaak @ House of Blues, 7/25-26 sold out 7/26 Hives @ Metro, all-ages 7/26 Rainer Maria @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 7/27 Blues Traveler @ Ravinia 7/27 Ours @ Schubas 7/28 Kekele @ HotHouse 7/28 Al Kooper @ FitzGerald’s 7/29 Finch @ Metro, all-ages 7/29 Sonic Youth @ Vic, 18+ 7/29 Sheila E. @ House of Blues, 18+ 7/30 Brother Danielson @ Empty Bottle 7/30 Jesse Harria, Ken Stringfellow @ Schubas 7/30 BR549 @ FitzGerald’s 7/30 Hilary Duff @ Allstate Arena 7/31 Boyz II Men, En Vogue, Silk @ Star Plaza 7/31 Toby Keith @ Tweeter Center 7/31 Radiators @ FitzGerald’s 7/31 Braid @ Metro, all-ages 7/31 Ralph Lawson @ Smart Bar 7/31 Hanson @ Skyline Stage, sold out 7/31 Minders @ Schubas 7/31 Jolie Holland @ Open End Gallery, all-ages 7/31 Allison Moorer @ Abbey Pub 7/31 Oneida @ Empty Bottle 7/31 Reel Big Fish, Lucky Boys Confusion @ Congress Theater, all-ages

ART EXHIBITS Faux Finishing workshops – Boyer Drawing & Painting Studio in Lincoln Square Mall. Aug 25.

9am-5pm. Fee: $195. Info: 369-8838 or www.boyerdrawing.com.

Modern ManScapes – Work by painter Brett Hunter and mixed media artist Kelly Goode will be at Cafe Kopi thru July 30. The work encourages you to see yourself outside of your job and to look at what’s happening to the world around you. 109 N Walnut, C. M-Thu 7am-11pm, F-Sat 7am-12pm, Sun 11am-8pm. 359-4266.

Glass FX – Interested in learning the art of stained glass? Beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes offered. M-Thu, 10am-5:30pm; Fri, 10am5pm; Sat, 9am-4pm. 202 S 1st, C. www.glassfx.com.

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“Changing Rooms: The Creation of Cinematic Space in the Works of Harry Horner” – Krannert Art Museum, thru Sept 19. 500 Peabody, U. Tu, ThuSat 9am-5pm, W 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm. Don: $3.

Creation Art Studios Gallery – Artwork by Jeannine Bestoso, Andy Gillis, Shoshanna Bauer, Amy Richardson and studio students. M-Sat, 15:30pm and other scheduled times. 1102 E Washington, U. creationartstudios.com. 344-6955.

“Healing Works” – A display of art work honoring trauma survivors. IMC Middle Room Gallery. 218 W Main St, Suite 110, U. carahale@uiuc.edu.

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Moment of the week According to Blabbermouth.com, rocker/ gun enthusiast/ reality television star/ “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent is being considered as a possible candidate for the Illinois Senate representing the Republican Party. According to the Internet Broadcasting System, Cook County Republican Chairman Gary Skoien said, “…He’s been a very articulate spokesperson on constitutional issues. He would be a very interesting candidate.”

Hey, at least he doesn’t force his wife to go to strip clubs. He just reminds you of Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now, only with a guitar and a mullet from hell—or just Detroit. Thanks, Republicans!

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Interpreted Images by Larry Kanfer – Photography exhibit featuring Kanfer’s new giclees. Larry Kanfer Gallery. 2503 S Neil, C. Free. MSat 10am-5:30pm. 398-2000. www.kanfer.com.

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U of I Assembly Hall announces the 2004-05 Broadway Series – The series features the following productions: Miss Saigon, Oct 8; The Full Monty, Oct 29; Contact, Jan 24; Fiddler on the Roof, Feb 21; Les Miserables, April 26. Series tickets can be ordered thru the first performance. Individual tickets on sale Aug 28. Info/tickets: 333-5000 or www.uofiassemblyhall.com. Hrs: M-F, 10am-2pm.

“Vision to Verse, Verse to Vision: A Visual and Poetic Dialouge” – Paintings by Jessica Damen and poetry by Maj Ragain on display at Verde Gallery thru Sept 4. 17 E Taylor St, C. Cafe: M-Sat 7am-10pm; Gallery: Tu-Sat 10am-10pm. 366-3204.

“The Music Man” – Rural Theatre Company will present this musical outdoors in downtown Tuscola at the gazebo at the corner of Main and Sale. Reservations suggested. Bleacher seating.

Thur-Sun, 7:30pm. Tickets: $5-$11. Info: 253-6699.

“Origonal Watercolors and Pastels” – Artwork from Andy Gillis and Jeannine Bestoso on display thru July 31 at Aroma Cafe. 118 N Neil, C. Open 7 days a week, 7am-12am. Info: Amanda Bickle at 356-3200, art4aroma@yahoo.com.

Elysium on the Prairie, Live Action Roleplaying – Vampires stalk the city streets and struggle for dominance in a world of gothic horror. Create your own character and mingle with dozens of players who portray their own undead alter egos. Each session is another chapter in an ongoing story of triumph, tragedy and betrayal. Fridays,“Vampire: The Masquerade.” 7pm. For location: www2.uiuc.edu/ro/elysium/intro.html.

Prairie Boatworks Gallery exhibit – Photographs

by Tyler Michael Pelan, Watercolors by Ann Harrington Rybolt and Helen High, Woodscapes

by Sandra Kent, and Acrylic by Al White. Displayed thru Aug 22. Artists reception July 30, 6-9pm.

Hours: Fri & Sat, 12-5pm; Sun, 12-4pm. 407 E Main St, Mahomet. 586-6776.

“Guise” – An exhibit featuring portraits by Dennis Lewis, mixed media works by Brain J. Sullivan and video/mixed media by Nathan Westerman.

Springer Cultural Center. Aug 4-29. Opening reception Aug 6, 6-8pm. Hours: M-F 8am-9pm, Sat 9am5pm, Sun 12-5pm. 301 N Randolph, C. 398-2376, www.champaignparkdistrict.com.

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Second Wind Running Club Fun Run/Walk – Join us for a 1-4mi. run/walk. Meadowbrook Park (playground). Every tue, 6:30pm. www.secondwindrunningclub.org.

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Border Crossers Discussion Group – (exploring the works of international authors) The group will discuss the book The Hemmingway Book Club Of Kosovo by Paula Huntley. Borders Bookstore. Thur, 7pm. 351-9011.

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Red Mask Players Seeking Directors – Mail applications to be a director to: Red Mask Players, P.O. Box 814, Danville. 61834. Applications must be received by Aug 1. Scripts are available to review at the Danville Public Library.

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JULY 22 - 28, 2004 | I LOVE SCOTCH. SCOTCHY, SCOTCH, SCOTCH.

Banjo, mandolin, guitar and a gas tank Split Lip Rayfield: a quartet of unique contemporary bluegrass

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI | STAFF WRITER

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anjo player Eric Mardis claims that it was bassist Jeff Eaton’s decision to build his iconoclastic instrument that encouraged Split Lip Rayfield to form in place of their existing grunge/punk act Scroat Belly.

“It’s a bass made out of a late ‘60s Ford Mercury gas tank,” Mardis said. “He was trying to figure out how to make a washtub bass, where you pull on a stick to change the note.

He didn’t like that so he bolted a regular neck onto that, and he uses Weed Wacker line, one 0.095 string. We call it the ‘Stitch Giver.’ It’s quite a piece of art and there’s nothing he can’t figure out how to do. The kitsch factor is pretty high but he’s been whomping on it for a long time.”

Since 1997, Split Lip Rayfield has been touring pretty heavily, but only recently have they considered themselves full-time musicians.

“In the last year, things have been completely lifting off,” Mardis said. “We took a year sabbatical to deal with lots of personal issues and since then we’re pretty much full-time. It’s hard to keep a job if you’re going to be gone two weeks out of every month, and a full-time job is a bitch to hold on to. It’d be nice to make regular 40-hour-a-week money and have that stability. Everyone has a family and traveling can be a bitch.”

Apparently, the band was always confident things would work out. “We’ve had some pretty good role models,” Mardis said. “You look at the Reverend Horton Heat’s career; he’s been hammering it out over the last 10 to 15 years at a modest level, and now they’re doing pretty good. I never thought, ‘I need to be on MTV in a year or it’s not working,’ but if you deal with the bullshit long enough, it works out.

“Obviously we’re not getting rich but we’re paying our bills,” Mardis said. “We’re going to do it for however many years we want to and if we want to go back to whatever we were doing before it’ll be like going back to college after you drop out.”

Although many people would classify the band as bluegrass—but with

alternative musical backgrounds—the term is applied loosely.

“We’re hard to pigeonhole,” Mardis said. “It could be bluegrass because it has the instruments, but all of us are from varying punk or heavy metal backgrounds. Wayne and myself are pretty accomplished electric guitar players, and we never really took lessons or grew up with mandolins and banjos.”

“We’re shredding these bluegrass instruments, something like ‘thrash grass,’” Mardis said. “It’s high and upbeat, and crosses over to heavier and harder stuff with much more energy and speed. It’s like demon-possessed bluegrass.”

Mardis goes on to joke about being part of a music scene he never identified with: “If I’d thought a few years ago that I would be playing banjo in something like a bluegrass band, I’d have shot myself.”

The contemporary bluegrass scene is finding a home in the typical “hippie community,” playing alongside jam band stalwarts at festivals and live shows. Split Lip Rayfield don’t always relate to this scene; their drug of choice is alcohol and lots of it.

“It’s not that I’ve never burned,” Mardis said. “The hippie thing never caught on with me. I’m almost 33 years old. When the Grateful Dead were having their renaissance, I was into Slayer. Metalheads smoke pot, too, but it’s not the same benevolent sort of thing. We got sucked into this new bluegrass post-Dead, post-Phish wave of Yonder Mountain and Leftover Salmon. They’re great players but it’s not our scene.”

Hence, the band has attracted a fan-base with whom they often don’t always identify.

“It’s weird ‘cause the people dig us,” Mardis said. “We’ve gone and done these big hippie festivals. We’ve certainly never had any problems with hippies being over-peace-y or whatever kind of offense hippies come up with.

Playing for 65-yearolds at a bluegrass

festival is cool too, but I’d rather be opening for Motorhead or the Reverent Horton Heat.”

Crowd favorites within the band’s repertoire include “Kiss of Death” (about all of Eric’s dead cars) and “Outlaw,” one of their oldest songs.

“That one’s about a guy who robs a bank and talks about tequila and womanizing,” Mardis said. “It’s not super-deep, but it’s got a real riff in it and people always scream for that one.”

Generally, their songs are semi-autobiographical, about some aspects of evil, though they channel fiction.

“There are a couple of murder songs, though obviously I haven’t killed anyone,” Mardis said. “Well, not obviously, but haven’t. They’re tongue-in-cheek, from sarcastic comedy shit to good old redneck drinking songs. Pretty mundane topics.”

After a recent live CD from this past New Year’s Eve, the band will release their fourth studio album in September, once more through Bloodshot Records. They are touting the new release as a happy medium between the hack-and-slash of their live show and their less organic previous studio work.

“We’re a live band,” Mardis said. “We play a lot and we let a lot of stuff go ‘cause it’s all fast and about energy. With the studio, we’ll go in there and be real picky and super-clean.

We could have walked in and hacked it out but we do that every night.”

With reference to the band’s onstage demeanor, Mardis is clear that there is no pretense, in contrast to many of their peers.

“We don’t have a stage persona at all,” Mardis said.

“We wear the same old T-shirts and crappy jeans that we wear in the bus all day. We don’t strike poses or drink fake bottles of whiskey filled with iced tea.”

In an attempt to satisfy anyone’s curiosity as to the origins on the band’s unusual name, Mardis clarifies: “Jeff, the bass player, grew up in Gumbo, population about 80 people.

There was some guy his parents went to high school with. In the wintertime, his lips go all dry and since his last name was Rayfield, they called him ‘Split Lip’ Rayfield. It just stuck in Jeff’s head. There was also a guy called Hulsey that his football coach called ‘Iron Balls,’ so Iron Balls Hulsey was on the table at one point.” buzz

Split Lip Rayfield will perform at Cowboy Monkey Sunday, July 25. Rusty Pipe will open. Tickets are $8 for the 10 p.m show.

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arts

IF YOU WANT SOMETHING CRAZY LIKE PINEAPPLE, I’LL KILL YOU. | JULY 22 - 28, 2004 buzz

ARTIST’S CORNER

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ou McClellan was born and raised in Urbana. His first “real” job was as a staff photographer for the Champaign-Urbana Courier while attending the University of Illinois. He alternated attending psychology courses with covering war protests and mass arrests during the late ‘60s. Later, he earned an M.S. in journalism. He can be contacted at lou_mcclellan@hotmail.com.

What has been the evolution of your knife making?

I am always surprised at where my interests lead me. Years ago, my son asked if he could learn to shoot a bow. I bought a couple of bows and we just sort of jumped in with both feet. Those first bows were of a modern compound type. We did not feel really comfortable with them, so I began to research what had happened to archery since my childhood. We switched to more traditional bows.

Don, my daughter Tegan, and I began to attend archery shoots and shows. At one of these, I met a fellow from Alaska who sold beautiful English longbows which he made from yew. I ordered one.

I started to read everything I could about the history of archery and bow-making. Ultimately, I was

N.Y. Theater

BY JEFF NELSON | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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es, there are vacant theaters in New York, but as tourism slowly recovers to pre-Sept. 11 levels, theatergoers have demonstrated an intense devotion to selected plays. Add to that some increased ticket prices, and the 2003-2004 theater season was the best ever at the box office.

The following sampler of shows might help you understand why.

Don’t go to New York thinking you can get tickets to Wicked—you can’t without booking ahead for August or September. Try booking ahead for Avenue Q. Jeff Whitty’s book and the songs of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx are a cutting-edge sendup of Sesame Street. This writing, as well as the production, won Tony Awards.

If that is not enough, the leads of Stephanie D’Abruzzo and John Tartaglia are as delightful as their material. Here is a show worth booking

overcome by the need to actually build a bow.

To make a long story a little shorter, I have probably built 70 or 80 bows now and am an official Bowyer to The Order of Saint Sebastian, a group of re-enactors who portray life of an encampment of English archers in 1359.

I have always been fascinated by knives. I collected a few over the years beginning at the age of 5 or 6. I still have that first one. It is a tiny sheath knife from a tourist spot in Michigan.

Lately, I have begun forging some blades— heating steel to orange hot and hammering it to shape on an anvil. I don’t know if this really makes a knife any better, but it is a kick and kind of addicting. My newest efforts have been at making a type of layered or Damascus blade by forging wire rope or cable into a bar. There are some wild patterns there.

What are some misconceptions about knives and knife makers?

In the shadow of 9/11 and with the evolution of our society in general, the biggest misconception is that knives are weapons and that knife makers are weapon makers. I’m not sure just how we got here.

Way more knives are used as tools than are used as weapons: kitchen knives, utility knives, hunting knives, etc. Most knife makers I know are trying to make useful tools or artistic pieces or a combination.

There are knife makers who sell pieces for thousands of dollars each all over this country. These are truly sold as art. In Japan, collectors compete with each other to spend tens of thousands of dollars each on modern versions of Katana (Samurai sword) blades.

What research is involved in knife making?

When I get into a subject I find interesting, I like to read everything I can about it. In knife making, some of the areas I have explored have been steels, heat treating, blacksmithing, metalworking in general and especially historical references. The Internet is loaded with material. I belong to sever-

ahead for. With no national tour planned and only a Las Vegas production set for September 2005, New York is the place for Avenue Q. The best revival in the musical department is Fiddler on the Roof. This warhorse has never looked or sounded better than this wonderful production directed by David Leveaux. Alfred Molina’s Tevye is a superlative, energy-filled, bigger-than-life, survivor. This show has a strong University of Illinois connection with actor Philip Hoffman and music director Kevin Stites.

Playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) did most of the work for a new musical called Caroline or Change.” His book and lyrics take us through a story about the interplay between a Jewish and an African-American family in Lake Charles, La., in 1963.

Performed as an opera, this good idea gets lost in uninteresting songs and characters.

After two and a half hours, it is difficult to enjoy songs and people you just don’t come to care about. Even the presence of the formidable Tonya Pinkins in the lead cannot pull you through this show.

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al discussion groups for knife makers. There are some periodicals such as Knives Illustrated and Blade magazine. Some books I have found particularly helpful are The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Weygers, Knives and Scabbards by Cowgill et al., Hrisoulas’ The Complete Bladesmith, Goddards $50 Knife Shop and The Craft of the Japanese Sword by Leon and Hiroko Kapp and Yoshindo Yoshihara.

Lately, I have been making some Asian/Japanese inspired blades. These are simple blades with handles of wrapped cotton or parachute cord.

Ultimately, my goal is to forge the blade for, and build, a Japanese Katana.

I think my knives are becoming more and more my own rather than copies or emulations of other pieces. The trend I see is toward more curves and round forms—few if any straight lines.

the Thames River in London, inspired me to make a reproduction knife for 1350s re-enactors. The book gives dates, measurements and often even handle making materials. Other inspiration is less specific. Light and atmosphere can even affect how you design and work on a blade.

I am truly inspired by my family’s encouragement. My sister, Nancy, makes jewelry and mosaics.

Her sense of design is an inspiration. My son, Don, drew a small sketch which has become my logo.

Kylian, besides naming the knives, provides constant (and sometimes painfully honest) criticism.

Anni and Tegan have assembled equipment for my shop and, recently, manned my table at a Renaissance Fair. After the knives were all laid out together, Tegan turned to me and said, “I knew you made good knives, Dad, but seeing them like this— all together—is surreal. They are beautiful.”

What inspires you?

The book Knives and Scabbards, which is really the record of an archaeological excavation along

Correction: Last week’s Artist’s Corner was written by Blane McClellan.

Tired of taking these modern musicals seriously? Try The Musical of Musicals, The Musical.

This wonderful spoof by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart, who also perform much of their own material, is Off-Broadway’s superlative satire on the masters of the Broadway musical.

This great show is two solid hours of side-splitting send-ups.

Looking for something not musical? There are some dramatic productions available in New York and none finer than I Am My Own Wife.”

This year’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner is the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite and homosexual who survived both nazism and communism to become one of Germany’s great historic preservationists.

Jefferson Mays’s Tony award winning performance is as amazing as Doug Wright’s brilliant script. Even more good news from this play: It is scheduled for Chicago’s Goodman Theater next February with Jefferson Mays.

Don’t miss Bryony Lavery’s Frozen if you are near New York in the near future. This Irish playwright has crafted a three-way examination of a serial killer. Using the points of view of the killer,

one of the victims’ mothers and a psychologist, she sweeps you into this complex story and gives it a real human dimension. Swoosie Kurtz stands out in a superlative ensemble directed by David Hughes.

Anytime a Tom Stoppard play is revived, it is worth a close look. When the director is redoubtable David Leveaux, it is worth a very close look. The current revival of Jumpers on Broadway reminds us that Tom Stoppard can manipulate more than one theme is a single story, and his virtuosity with the English language makes any evening with one his plays a wonderful experience.

As the new production of Jumpers does much to redefine a 30-year-old Tom Stoppard play, Tracy Letts’s Bug redefines where modern theatrical writing is going. This Off-Broadway thriller by one of the Steppenwolf’s ensemble members brings the darkest elements into the stage thriller.

This psychological thriller almost borders on science fiction at times with a scattering of lowlife characters and nudity. Here, the stage ambience of Sam Sheppard gets a few new wrinkles.

The great thing about New York’s theater offerings is there is truly something for everyone.

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Well maintained 2 and 3 BR apartments from $560/mo. Details at www.robsapartments.com. Call 8405134.

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Aug. 2004 rental. One block from Lincoln Ave. Great architecture and design-not a box apt. Large units with Central A/C, Carpet, Patios/ Balconies, laundry. Off-street parking at $45/mo. 2 bedrooms from $595/mo. Showing 7 days a week.

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Aug 2004. Great location. Attractive apts. Carpet, Ceiling fans, A/C. Efficiencies from $500/mo. 7 days a week showing.

BARR REAL ESTATE, INC. 356-1873 www.barr-re.com 807 W. Oregon Large 3 Bedrooms, Dishwasher, Balcony, $1000.

Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com 810 W. Iowa 2 Bedroom Washer/dryer, dishwasher, some utilities included $700 Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com 901 W. MAIN Efficiency $440, 2 Bedroom basement, $450. All utilities included.

Large 2 1/2 bedroom, $650.

Doyle Properties 398-3695 910 S. Locust Large 1 Bedroom, hardwood floors, Some utilities included, $530-$550 Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com

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Efficiencies at 503 E. Clark, C. $330-360 parking and laundry available.

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Efficiency apt. for rent available now til August. $325/mo. furnished near 1st & Healey. Call 356-1407.

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HUGE 1 Bdrm near campus, quiet neighborhood, off-street parking, A/C. $495. 359-3687, 359-0065.

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Huge newly done furnished efficiency available in private home. W/D, all utilities included. Can walk to campus. $550/mo. (217)344-7154.

SUNNY CREST 1717 E Florida, U. Large 1 and 2 BR apt. Includes water, trash removal and parking. From $510/mo.

Campo Rental Agency 344-1927.

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

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LANDO PLACE 707 South 6th, C. Large 1 BR. Includes water and trash removal. On-site Laundry. Secured Building. Local phone service and ethernet. Parking Available.

From $575/mo.

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

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

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Heat, water, garbage, parking and air-conditioning included. Deposit and Lease. No pets. $420/mo. 217273-4189. Available August 15.

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BY SUSIE AN | STAFF WRITER

W

hen most people describe Illinois, they use words such as “flat” and “cornfields.”

However, the exhibit Illinois: An Epic Landscape at the Spurlock Museum shows people that Illinois is actually one of the most biologically diverse areas in the nation.

The exhibit, which opened on July 10, showcases Illinois’ biodiversity and natural history.

The exhibit, put together by the Illinois Natural History Survey, uses illustrations, interactive computer program, taxidermy and photographs. Mike Jeffords, coordinator of the exhibit and Illinois Natural History Survey employee, helped put the exhibit together and also put many of his own photographs up for display.

“The purpose of the exhibit is twofold. One is to showcase the biological diversity in Illinois and second is to show what we can do with the old specimens from the natural history museums on campus,” Jeffords said.

An exhibit that would usually take the Illinois Natural History Survey a year to fully complete, was completed in just one month for the opening at the Spurlock Museum. The

exhibit will continue through August 28.

Museum visitors can enjoy nature stories and films on select dates, as well as educational games and crafts.

The exhibit begins with a diagram showing Illinois’ Natural Divisions. Exhibit information tells visitors that Illinois only has dots of nature and wildlife throughout the state because of dominance of human activity. However, through preservation, everyone can still view and enjoy these dots of nature.

One wall of the exhibit room is covered with colorful photographs of plants and wildlife. A photograph of Pale Purple Coneflowers shows viewers that these long-stemmed flowers can be found in Harlem Hills Nature Preserve in Winnebago County.

There are also photos of natural areas like Piney Creek Ravine in Randolph and Jackson counties. This nature preserve is full of large rocks and trees with a clear stream running through it.

Another natural area is Heron Pond at Little Black Slough Nature Preserve in Johnson County. Three photographs compare the pond through summer, fall and winter. The green, bog-like pond is a bright green in the summer, red-orange in the fall

Photographs from the exhibit Illinois: An Epic Landscape.

and sprinkled white in the winter.

Pictures of different insect species are also on display. The Argiope Spider from Tomlinson Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve in Champaign County has an interesting yellow, black-orange design on its bulbous back.

A photograph of a majestic bald eagle from Cedar Glen Nature Preserve in Hancock County shares the wall with photographs of other birds and animals.

Jennifer Eastham walked around with her daughter looking at the photographs. She did not know about the exhibit prior to her visit, but was glad to have stumbled upon it.

“I think the photography is beautiful. It makes me want to go to these places,” she said.

An interactive computer program sits in the corner of the room to explain some of the organisms people see on display. Jeffords and his staff have done smaller projects for the Cash River State National Area and Visitors Center in Southern Illinois. The program is redeveloped from the Cash River Center,Jeffords said.

It gives the visitor pictures of what Illinois was, is and could be.

Outside the museum is a mobile museum where visitors can go and learn and see more about Illinois’s natural environment.

Loren Kirkwood, illustrator for the exhibit, said he did not have a background in natural history. However, after working with the natural history survey, he has developed a greater interest. He believes he has learned a lot from his job at the Natural History Survey and hopes others will like the exhibit.

Different species of birds sit perched around the room. There are big birds like the great blue heron and the large barred owl. To contrast the large birds, ruby-throated hummingbirds sit next to a small nest.

Also on display are different types of poisonous snakes like the timber rattlesnake.

“Illinois is one of the most biologically diverse states in the nation, and I’d want (visitors) to realize that. It showcases the natural history of Illinois,” Jeffords said. “I’d want them to know that Illinois is a leader in the conservation movement.”

There are also a number of facts posted around the exhibit room. One states that 4.3 million acres of trees can be found in Illinois but many of those are timber or pine plantations. Only 13,500 acres of relatively undisturbed forest remains.

Another fact tells visitors that since Illinois gained statehood in 1818, 95 percent of its wetlands have been drained.

Jeffords believes that educational outreach and exhibitions like the one at the Spurlock Museum are important to preserving natural history.

“We save old buildings, we save old books, we save artifacts. But we don’t see much concern of the biological history of the state, and this is basically a biological history of the state … what it was, what developed through time, what was normally occurring here,” he said.

“And it tells us a lot about what we should be doing with the landscape verses what we are doing. These are windows into the past.” buzz

Illinois: An Epic Landscape focuses on the abundant diversity of wildlife in Illinois.

Illinois: An Epic Landscape is on display until

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Q & A

ThadMorrow

Thad Morrow, owner and head chef of Bacaro restaurant, 113 N. Walnut St., recently opened his own neighborhood grocery store, Persimmon, right next door. The chef, who previously managed The Corkscrew in Urbana prior to opening Bacaro, works hard and finds little time for leisure. The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) graduate lived and cooked in numerous cities around the country like Los Angeles and New York City before finally settling down in Champaign. “All I want to do is cook, but I’ve surrounded my life around not being able to cook,” he says. Morrow takes the time out to examine his businesses and passion for cooking.

Why did you decide to open Persimmon?

I buy a lot of specialty goods, specialty produce. I have a lot of people asking me where they can buy this wine or that vegetable so I figured, why don’t I just open up a store so I can say “next door”?

What kinds of things do you sell?

We have pasta, pasta sauce, Italian dry goods, local produce, tomatoes, sweet corn and cheeses, meats, salami, and a wine department also. The idea is if you want to come in and you want to pick up some pasta and some pasta sauce and a bottle of wine and maybe some vegetables and then you’re out the door and you’re home and you already have dinner.

It’s interesting stuff, high-quality, organic produce. I want it to be like a neighborhood grocery store. Neighborhood being ChampaignUrbana, and the neighboring communities, a big neighborhood.

What do you do on your time off?

Eat. I work hard to get the store next door open. I took the weekend off to visit some friends in Seattle. We had dinner. It’s nice to see new things, new food. You never know what other chefs are doing unless you go. If you’re a working chef and you’re not eating out, then you’re probably not doing the most you can do for your customers and bringing in new things. It’s probably not a new dish that we’ve created but it’s just our version that you may have seen elsewhere or read about it.

Where do you get ideas for dishes?

We pull them out of our brains. We take flavor combinations that we think go well together, and we’ll try them in the kitchen and we try them for a special or maybe a family dinner. Or we look at magazines. Or like I said, I went to Seattle, and I talked to a couple of chefs there

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and asked them, “How are you using hamachi?” or “Oh, I try it like this, you should try it like this.” You have to create a dialogue with other chefs, otherwise I don’t think you’re food is going to be that interesting.

What is you favorite thing to cook?

Turkey burgers … Don’t think you can beat a good grilled steak. That’s me personally.

What I like to cook professionally? I like to cook fish.

What hopes and plans do you have for this?

(Joking banter about being stripped of hope) My hope is that by brining the best possible seafood to this town or the best possible produce, that people will be exposed to the best. If you taste a really good piece of blue fin tuna and you taste a criovac prefrozen piece of yellow fin tuna and say they both taste the same, then I’ve failed in my job. What you should say is “Wow, this is what tuna really should taste like. This is why it cost $30.” There has to be a reason why you would pay more, and I’m driven to bring the best product I can to people because I think they deserve something that’s the highest of quality and cooked correctly if you’re going to pay a lot of money for it.

People have to wonder if they’re paying a quarter for a piece of sushi. Well, maybe it’s not the best sushi. My goal is to expose a town who may not be ready for it, outwardly ready for it. In people’s being in this town, they want it. They just haven’t been exposed to it yet. We got to sneak up on them.

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2 BR. Spacious. Great location. 501 W Green St. $625/mo. 217-3550520

504/506 E Green, U 1 bedroom apartments east of Lincoln Square Mall. Laundry on site, D/W, parking included and cats welcome. $415/mo.

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

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

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

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CAMPUS APARTMENTS Unurnished An unfurnished bedroom in a new 4 BR house. Free utility includes internet, cable, water, heat, local phone, and parking. $500. llee2@uiuc.edu.

Beautiful park setting convenient to U of I

Large 2 BR apt. avail. mid August.

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

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can, people need to know about it.

As important as rounding up all the volunteers for programs like Faith in Action, McLain said, is getting the word out about the services it provides.

Even after eight years of Faith in Action’s existence in Danville, Tarr said she still gets people who aren’t aware of the organization.

“People don’t know and seniors aren’t going to ask,” McLain said.

The generation that’s in their 80s is independent and self-reliant, she noted. They are not going to seek Faith in Action volunteer Dale Bateman (left) reads over the grocery list and check given to him by Scott Johnson. Johnson is one of many seniors in Champaign County who out help. “‘Well, you know, we’ve benefit from the services of Faith in Action's volunteer services. always gotten by,’ they say. Yes, and you’ll continue to get by. But you don’t allow others to take her places, to give up some Like Shull and her friendship with Adams in service that often get missed.

Fern Kelly, 84, of Danville, was delighted have to get by all by yourselves!” McLain said. of her independence. But she learned to adjust. Monticello, sometimes Faith in Action can also Faith in Action is now available to help fill in when Faith in Action sent someone over to fix Varner maintains that her friendships with make a human connection.

Harmon mentioned that a man who lives in her porch light that had been flickering for the gaps of care in Champaign-Urbana, as long Faith in Action volunteers have kept her going through all those years of painful dialysis. She Rantoul recently called Senior Services and months. The volunteer scraped out the corrod- as people are willing to reach out for them. maintains that the V in Varner is for Victory. The admitted, “I’m just lonely.” Faith in Action can ed light fixture, sprayed cleaner into it and the Whether it is transportation, respite or changing cheerfulness on her narrow, creased counte- easily step in. A volunteer can be sent in on a bulb shined again. “He told me if a light bulb a light bulb, volunteers will be on hand to help. goes out day or night, any time, I can call him at Companionship and friendship may also be an nance prevails, even when she discusses the weekly basis to check in on him. important result of the many hours of care senTarr noted that it is hard to sell people on home, “ Kelly said in a phone interview. many years of needles that have pierced her Norma Mackey, 80, of Monticello, declines iors will receive. companionship right away. ravaged left arm.

For Clara Shull, having the extra tender help “They will say they don’t need anyone,” she most help from Faith in Action. Fiercely inde“She’s an inspiration to me,” Glawe said.

Respite, or breaks for caregivers, is a service said. “But once they get started, they really pendent, she named her walker “Bertha” to has been crucial to her survival. She is 97 years quell her reservations about having to use it. old and lives alone. Her sight is failing. Many of Faith in Action can provide that is an issue in enjoy someone calling or coming to visit.”

Varner gets to be friends with all the drivers She lives alone and drives almost everywhere her friends and relatives have died or moved Champaign-Urbana and throughout the country. In America, more than 22 million people who take her to dialysis. With some, she talks herself. Still, Mackey calls for help from Faith in away. Shull’s new volunteers are gradually assist a family member with eating, bathing, about activities, such as how to improve their Action when the weather gets dangerous and learning her habits and the best ways to help dressing and other activities, according to a golf game. With others, she discusses daily hap- she needs groceries. She gives Faith in Action keep her independent in her home. As she gets national survey conducted by the AARP. Only penings—”what they have been up to,” she volunteers a list and they bring her needs to her. to know them better, bonds will form just as 17 percent of those family caregivers live with said. With one volunteer, she discusses family “I love those girls, “ Mackey said. “I feel like they did with Adams, Glawe said. They are becoming her friends. the person for whom they provide care, and concerns, specifically the volunteer’s son and I’ve found new friends. “ “I think the human element is what’s so Glawe noted that as the program expands, they must divide their time and energy between his inability to keep a job. She has had dozens of drivers, and she eventually becomes friends the little things sometimes extend to bigger important,” Hacker Smith said. “In the plantwo homes. projects for seniors. Once in Monticello, a group ning phases, you get very involved in talking “People who provide care want to do so, and with all of them, she said.

Donna Hacker Smith, 49, the pastor at Good of 13 men painted a senior’s house in two hours about assessing resources, assessing needs … do it because it’s the right thing to do,” McLain on a Saturday. In another instance, a senior des- but behind all that there are just people. And the said. “That doesn’t mean it’s not very frustrat- Shepherd, echoed that idea.

“The subtext of all that is companionship perately needed to live on the ground floor people need a boost. “ ing and stressful.” Faith in Action volunteers Tarr is seeking an intern from the University can give caregivers a few hours off, and provide and human contact. I think that is something because she continually fell on her steep stairs seniors with a new person to talk to for a while. that’s lacking for people, especially elderly peo- after knee replacement surgery. Faith in Action of Illinois at the Faith in Action in Monticello for helped her move to the ground level so she Fall 2004 and Spring 2005. Interested students While maintaining independence for seniors ple,” she said. should call her at (217) 431-8489 to find out how In addition to filling in big gaps in servic- would be safe. is a primary goal, one of the most important If the Champaign-Urbana Faith in Action is to apply. buzz services Faith in Action can provide is a service es like transportation and respite, Faith in that cannot be quantified—companionship. Action will also fill in the little cracks in going to grow and help as many seniors as it PHOTOS | RODERICK GEDEY

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Friendly assistance Clara Shull’s creased and weathered 99-year-old face brightens when she talks about her volunteer helper, Stephanie Adams, 19, who left Monticello for college last fall. “She took care of me,” Shull said with a dimpled smile.

Adams dropped by Shull’s house each day after school for several years. She helped Shull go grocery shopping, pay bills, clean the house, read letters and anything else Shull felt needed doing. And even better than just being her helper—Adams was her friend.

While some senior citizens may receive such tender treatment from family or paid services, Shull receives it from the Faith in Action program. Recruited from religious congregations in Monticello, volunteers from the program help seniors remain as independent as possible for as long as possible. They also often bring friendship and companionship into their lives.

“They both went through a grieving process when Stephanie left for college,” said Julie Glawe, 47, the director of Faith in Action in Monticello.

Seniors living in Champaign-Urbana can now benefit from such care and companionship. Last fall, Provena Covenant Medical Center received a $35,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to start a Faith in Action program in the ChampaignUrbana community. Seniors now have access to volunteers who can help with transportation, friendly visiting, shopping, errands, light housekeeping, minor home repairs, yard work, chores, meal preparation and respite, or breaks, for caregivers.

Many seniors are in need of the help and companionship Faith in Action can provide.

A recent study from the AARP shows that 83 percent of individuals aged 85 years and older have a chronic condition or disability for which they need help.

Furthermore, the fastest growing age group in America is over 85 years old, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

As the population rapidly ages, more seniors will be seeking to remain independent and have services brought to them.

The Lewin Group, a national research organization, projects that the number of individuals in need of nursing facilities, assisted living or home care services is expected to increase from 13 million in 2000 to 27 million in 2050.

Religious congregations are a place to turn for help. A 2001 survey showed that 41 percent of congregations in the United States have

faiths and does not discourage anyone from receiving help. Volunteers are not allowed to proselytize, or try to convert anyone to their respective religions. They are not able to distribute church literature.

Camille Harmon works at Champaign County Senior Services in Urbana and serves on the advisory board for Faith in Action. She said while this is a college town, it is also a senior town. A lot of seniors do not have family in the area and are isolated. They need a hook into the community.

“When people fall through the cracks,” she said, “Faith in Action will be able to help them.”

One important gap that Faith in Action can fill is the transportation gap. While ChampaignUrbana does have several transportation services available for seniors—Senior Resource Center of Champaign and Senior Services both have programs—the community could still use more help.

But there’s never enough, Rosanna McLain, 50, caregiver advisor at Senior Resource Center, said.

“We provide transportation to doctors, to the bank, to Social Security and to the grocery store,” she said. “But we don’t provide transportation to go see your friends, to go visit your

husband in the nursing home, to go to church.

We don’t provide transportation on weekends.”

Patrice Tarr, director of Faith in Action in Danville, agrees that transportation is a major issue, and added that it is significant for most seniors in this part of the country, especially in rural areas.

“There are frail elderly who have walkers and canes,” she said. “They have a hard time with the bus because they can’t wait an hour for it once their appointments are over. They are tired.”

Julie Glawe, the director of Faith in Action in Monticello, agrees about the importance of transportation in local communities. Many seniors need a way to get to dialysis, she said in a phone interview. Others simply need someone to take them to run errands.

Faith in Action volunteers have driven Avis Varner, 85, of Monticello, to dialysis three times a week for the past six years. Varner waits diligently on a stool in her front hall for her ride every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. When she arrives at dialysis, she is hooked to a machine and waits for four hours. “Patience is the key,” she said, laughing. “A lot of waiting goes into your life.”

Varner loves to drive. She found it difficult to

recently started new care giving programs for seniors. Faith in Action draws on their support to help bring aid to the burgeoning elderly population.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives grants for startup Faith in Action programs.

Champaign-Urbana’s Faith in Action program began on March 22, and Illinois now has 37 programs. Over 1,000 programs exist nationwide. The grant will cover funding from Jan. 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006. As the program grows in the coming years, funding will also come from Provena Covenant Medical Center, grants and donations.

Volunteers for Faith in Action come from churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship, as well as from the community. In Champaign-Urbana, five churches are involved, including Good Shepherd Lutheran and St. John’s Catholic Chapel in Champaign, and Urbana Assembly of God, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church and Twin City Bible in Urbana.

Fifty-seven volunteers have completed the two hours of required training and are ready to meet and have been helping seniors since March 22. The services are free for all people 55 and older, but donations are accepted.

Some of the Faith in Action volunteers consider their work ministry for their own religious faiths. “If someone were to say to me, ‘Why do you do something like this?’

I’d say for me, I believe in Christ and in extending myself the way he would,” Carol Manley said in an interview. Manley is a parish worker at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and a volunteer for Faith in Action.

Margaret and Dale Bateman load groceries bought for a senior into their car. Through Faith in Action, they assist other seniors in Monticello by getting groceries or driving them to dialysis treatment.

The program welcomes all

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f The Cat in the Hat turned you off to rhythmicallytitled films for good, it might be time to reconsider. While not as dazzling as the violent cinematic collage of Kill Bill, The Door in the Floor is a tormented, literary stare into the lives of a family torn apart by tragedy.

Jeff Bridges stars as alcoholic, unshaven Ted Cole, but don’t mistake him for some ordinary Dude. Ted, a writer of children’s books, and his wife, Marion (Kim Basinger), lost their two teenage sons several years before to a frighteningly realistic accident that the film explains at just the right moment. They’ve since relocated to a beachfront house, begun raising another child—cute, curious Ruth, played by Elle Fanning, younger sister of Dakota—and lined

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he summer blockbuster starring Will Smith has become something of an institution.

Every July, audiences expect light-hearted action coupled with nearly as many explosions as witty one-liners from the perpetually smartassed Smith. These guidelines are so strictly followed that they can almost be considered law.

The androids in I, Robot also have a set of laws they must abide by (taken from Isaac Asimov’s series of short stories, which were also the inspiration for the film): first, that a robot may never harm a human being; second, that robots must always obey human orders, unless they conflict with the first law; and third, that a robot must preserve itself, unless doing so should conflict with either the first or second law. Just as the plot of I, Robot becomes interesting when robots break these laws, the movie itself is most interesting when the laws for a Will Smith summer blockbuster are ignored.

Smith plays Spooner, a Chicago homicide detective with an irrational hatred toward the robots that permeate this futuristic society. (On a

their walls with smiling black-and-white photos of their dead children.

But life, of course, was never the same, and The Door in the Floor begins as Ted tells Marion he wants to separate for the summer. He also consents to play mentor to Eddie, an aspiring college-aged writer (Jon Foster) who idolizes Ted, but not so much that it prevents him from fantasizing about his wife.

As Eddie bonds (read: sleeps) with Marion and learns Ted’s routines—his habits include drinking, painting nude women and drinking while painting nude women—it appears this might be just another dark story of a broken home and its impact on an outsider. After all, the subject of parents outliving their children is hardly new. Most recently, In America and In the Bedroom both tackled similar territory of grief and numbness.

Unlike the latter, which used parents’ unending sorrow to set the tone for a bleak look into a splintered, bitter family, The Door in the Floor sprinkles light humor and graceful, if not always subtle, visual metaphors to offset the inherently grim premise.

Consequently, when writer/director Tod Williams’ (The Adventures of Sebastian Cole) delicate film turns toward the solemnly significant, it hits hard.

Based on the first third of John Irving’s novel A Widow For One Year, The Door in the Floor is filled with memorable images that seem ripped from the page. The movie hinges on powerful symbolism linking memory and anguish, fulfillment and nakedness, life and

death; you won’t be able to shake the vision of Ruth begging to hear the stories behind the photographs, her only connection to the brothers she never knew.

The pain lingers in a stinging, relentless way that really makes you feel, not just understand, why Ted and Marion can never go back to their former lives or their former selves. Even something as minute as the clicking of DOOR IN THE FLOOR | KIM BASINGER & JON FOSTER a turn signal can trigger the most The strongest weight comes from its literary aching memory, and the icy performances by Bridges and Basinger nail the emptiness of par- ties, from the artful dialogue to Bridges’s movents turned to stone from the absence of their ing, melancholy reading of Ted’s most popular children’s story, “The Door in the Floor.” As children.

The tragedy doesn’t shatter their marriage with many book adaptations, there are plot eleso much as fracture the glass, with the cracks ments and characters that appear frustratingly spreading years later as they try in vain to con- condensed, and the film hints at an even tinue life without their sons. They don’t erupt greater depth contained in Irving’s novel.

But for most of this sad, deeply depressing in shouting matches assigning blame or really engage in any confrontation at all. This is a drama, it’s impossible not to be struck by couple that simply cannot survive together if Williams’s patience in telling his story, sharing secrets beneath the whispering wind and softthey can’t feel like a complete family.

Only some of The Door in the Floor’s indelible ly crashing waves that surround the Coles’ imagery seems as revelatory as Williams property. It’s about the everyday fear of disasintends. The motifs, which include glass, scars, ter lurking in every parent, and the unbearpaper and doors are intermittently insightful able, irreparable trauma of having those fears and obvious, and it’s a little hard to grasp just realized. By handling familial tragedy with a how much of this offers new understanding careful eye and a frozen heart, The Door in the about the way that death unravels those who Floor shows that, for parents, the death of a child is a story with no ending. survive the heartbreak.

side note, the movie is supposed to take place in 2035, which is patently absurd.

If Americans expect to see cars that drive themselves and robots cooking us sweet potato pie 30 years from now, scientists had better get on their horse and spur it … hard). Spooner’s robot-hating provides interesting irony; a black man exhibiting prejudice based not on race, but on technology.

Spooner’s distrust of all things shiny and metal is magnified when Dr. Alfred I, ROBOT | WILL SMITH & A ROBOT Lanning (James Cromwell) turns up dead and one of Lanning’s own robotic creations (The Crow, Dark City) sets the majority of his becomes the prime suspect. Spooner’s subse- scenes at night and puts a harrowing, sinister quent investigation reveals that all may not be feel to most of the action sequences, which make quite as it seems at the top robot-producing cor- very cool use of slow motion, CGI, and rotating poration at which Lanning worked and died. cameras. However, the movie gets nowhere Even worse, everything may not be quite as it near as dark—or intriguing, for that matter—as seems with the new wave of robots, the NS-5, the classic Blade Runner, which has a similar that is about to be released to the public. To plot. Proyas probably felt pressure from the proSpooner’s dismay, everyone puts such faith in the ducers (one of whom was Smith himself) to folrobots’ three laws that they pay no heed to the low those laws of Will Smithitude that require light-hearted action and frequent one-liners. detective’s warnings.

In the end, it’s what I, Robot does differently Will Smith really does do a good job portraying the “cop on the edge” ... that is, when he’s from the traditional summer blockbuster that not trying to force jokes that not only fall flat but works best. The somewhat sinister subject matalso don’t fit the character. Spooner is a broodi- ter demands a more serious-minded and darker er, more angst-filled character than the usual telling than films such as Independence Day and Smith fare, so it doesn’t quite mesh when he the Men in Black series. Unfortunately, the laws says to a stray cat, “Look, this relationship will of “how to make a lot of money off of your sumnever work. I mean, I’m black and you’re a cat.” mer blockbuster starring Will Smith” are apparI, Robot is also, on the whole, a darker film ently harder to break than those other ones than the usual Smith film. Director Alex Proyas about not killing people.

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★★★★ Josh Dunn Tuscola, Ill.

“It’s a pretty good movie.”

★★★ Becka Endres Tuscola, Ill.

“Wasn’t really a ‘girl’ movie.”

★★★ Karla Fisher Champaign, Ill.

“I would recommend this film for the great special effects.”

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AMERICA’S HEART AND SOUL Zero stars GEORGE WOODARD & FRANK PINO Every cinematic aspect of this film is frankly lacking.

Only the soundtrack’s sincerity prevents it from being a spot-on satire of every genre with which it flirts and the cinematography is a compendium of cliche. The whole endeavor seems inexplicably pointless and certainly does not accomplish the goal of portraying this country in any sort of positive light. Thankfully the majority of the patriotic flag-waving is left to the closing montage, which concludes with the obligatory fireworks display that is a suitably underwhelming climax to a debacle of a film. (Shadie Elnashai) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy ANCHORMAN ★★★ WILL FERRELL & CHRISTINA APPLEGATE Anchorman Ron Burgundy is so mindlessly selfinvolved that he’ll read anything put on a TelePrompTer in front of him without any comprehension of doing it.

Funnyman Ferrell, who plays Ron, is so bravely uninhibited that he’ll try anything for a laugh without any concern for his pride. (John Loos) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy A CINDERELLA STORY ★ HILARY DUFF & CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY Prince Charming needs to be just that, charming, not some quiet pensive type, and he’s not too bright, either.

Sam shows up to the Halloween dance in an all-too-perfect white ball gown, yet he doesn’t recognize someone who gazes at him every day in the hallway. Honestly, nobody will buy the fact that Austin can’t see this blonde bubbly girl through her small white masquerade eye mask—it’s not rocket science. Unless a parent feels willing to dish out $8 per ticket to see something that the Disney Channel should put into their rotation, A Cinderella Story might be better left to a video rental in several months. (Janelle Greenwood) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy THE CLEARING ★★★ ROBERT REDFORD & WILLEM DAFOE The Clearing sticks out like a sore thumb in the summer movie season because it doesn’t fit into a single genre that can be easily sold to the popcorn crowd. It’s a midsummer recess for more mature audiences who are tired of the typical blockbuster formalities. The movie dances around many conventions of the kidnapping genre, more concerned with developing the plights of its characters than manipulating the audience onto the edge of their seats. (Andrew Vecelas) DE-LOVELY ★★★ KEVIN KLINE & ASHLEY JUDD To the cut and dry, De-Lovely is entertaining. To spice up the musical numbers, just in case they didn’t translate well to modern day theater, the film makes a few additions. Pop stars Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Robbie Williams, Elvis Costello and more grace the screen with performances. The movie jumps around to Porter’s successes, but still hits on all cylinders with accounts of his famous “Kiss Me Kate� and “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love), his first commercial hit. The actors are good and the screenplay is disappointingly tasteful, but still quite good and well thought out. Kline could act the pants off any role, De-Lovely’s only problem is that they wouldn’t let him. (Andrew Crewell) DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY ★★★ BEN STILLER & VINCE VAUGHN In spite of itself, Dodgeball almost becomes a competent sports film parody, especially during its moments of “inspiration.� A surprise guest appearance near the end from a sports icon provides what might be the film’s funniest and most clever moment while perfectly summating its irreverent, “just because� attitude. Everyone has seen (and loves) the motley crew of sad sacks who defy

expectations and write their own Cinderella story, and the Average Joe’s dodgeball team exploits this cliche in weird and reasonless ways. (John Loos) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN ★★★ DANIEL RADCLIFFE & EMMA WATSON So much of the material in the films has felt like a visual projection of Rowling’s books without the brain and heart to match. It seems that, in attempting to whittle down hundreds of pages into a workable screenplay, Kloves merely makes a check mark every time he incorporates an important point while ignoring the specifics that give each element its meaning. So far, the Harry Potter films represent a frustrating body of work, fantasy that has yet to realize its potential to be fantastic.

Cuaron’s deeper artistic vision is a step in the right direction, but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban still fails to cast a spell. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy KING ARTHUR ★★ KEIRA KNIGHTLEY & CLIVE OWEN King Arthur isn’t sure if it wants to be a traditional historical epic or a modern, crowd-pleasing blockbuster, and it doesn’t work as either. It has the necessary climactic battle, the endless barrage of blazing arrows and burning homes, and a score littered with triumphant horns and thundering drums. But it’s not brave or bloody, and it just becomes bloody dull. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy THE NOTEBOOK ★★★ RACHEL MCADAMS AND JAMES GARNER For two-plus hours, the movie moves along, only stalling out for a couple moments. Once the meat of the story drops, there aren’t any moments when it is OK to step out to the washroom. However, the story can’t seem but come off as a bit hokey. Written as a romance novel by Nicholas Sparks, the truth is The Notebook can’t help but be completely hokey. This is a good date movie and guaranteed to get a fair amount of young hopefuls mushy for a solid night of making out and spooning.

However, if you are into action stuff, then this probably isn’t the movie for you. (Andrew Crewell) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy

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SPIDER-MAN 2 ★★★★ TOBEY MAGUIRE & KIRSTEN DUNST This elegantly written, dynamically performed summer surprise raises the bar for comic-to-screen adaptations. It looks, sounds and feels like a book off the rack every step of the way, and it’s paced to reveal its best secrets late in the film. It doesn’t want you to merely watch its hero traverse the Manhattan skyline. Rather, Spider-Man 2 gracefully swings you in and out of a fantasy world, from the top of tall buildings to the bottom of a broken-hearted young man. If the next installment is this gratifying, the series might just have to steal that other high-flying hero’s name.

Spider-Man 2 is super, man. (Matt Pais)

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CATWOMAN | HALLE BARRY THE STEPFORD WIVES ★★★ MATTHEW BRODERICK & NICOLE KIDMAN CATWOMAN Because of the resounding tepidity of Oz’s remake, the film HALLE BERRY & SHARON STONE never takes any major risks. It stays safely inbounds, glidHalle Berry is the most beautiful woman ever. An opining softly through the screenplay like a Stepford wife ion, for sure, but still a good enough reason to see this through her kitchen. In the end, it’s harmless. If Oz had film. The plot, though, may be a bit far-fetched. Berry’s picked one tone with which to attack the film and stuck character is murdered for knowing too much, but is with it, the end product might have been more seamless reborn as Catwoman, defender of justice and the innoand alluring, like a true Stepford wife, and less erratic and cent. (Paul Wagner) inconsequential, like Hill’s frequently malfunctioning Sarah Sunderson. (John Loos) CONTROL ROOM “Control Room is a seminal documentary that explores THE TERMINAL how truth is gathered, presented and ultimately created ★★★ by those who deliver it.� This film looks at the clashes TOM HANKS & CATHERINE ZETA-JONES between the Arab and Western worlds through the eyes Like Forrest Gump, Viktor Navorski (Hanks) is a simof satellite television broadcasts and looks at the way in ple man just trying to get by, and the story finds some which audiences view the information given to them. poetry in his straightforward determination for life’s Should be thought provoking and shocking ... just like a most basic pleasures. He just wants to understand the normal summer blockbuster. (Paul Wagner) world around him and have a place to call home, and Opening at Boardman’s Art Theater in that way The Terminal is like a quirky, inside-out version of Lost in Translation. Everyone at JFK grows to THE BOURNE SUPREMACY know Navorski by name, and there’s a reason that MATT DAMON & JULIA STILES America has revered its most dependable actor with This is just baffling. The Bourne Identity was “based� on a the same respect and recognition for the last decade. book, but didn’t follow the book’s plot at all, though it There’s no one like Hanks to keep a jetlagged fantasy did work well as a movie. The title of this film leads so grounded. (Matt Pais) viewers to believe that it’s based on the second book, but Now showing at Beverly and Savoy that would make no sense because it should be sold as a sequel to the first movie. Confused? Me, too. There should be some excellent action scenes in this film, though, so it might just be worth seeing. (Paul Wagner)

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SLEEPOVER ★ ALEXA VEGA & MIKA BOOREM She’s All That, Bring It On, and many others have paved the way for the latest in a long line of high school popularity clashes on the silver screen. However, those were all around better and more enjoyable films. Sleepover just doesn’t have the funny moments that make the movie move along. Scenes with the young ladies stealing boxer shorts, driving underage, and getting in over their head ordering drinks at a bar don’t cut the mustard when it comes to getting laughs from the audience. Once again, average comes into play, as a movie full of average jokes doesn’t translate well to a good film. (Andrew Crewell) Now showing at Beverly

SHREK 2 ★★★ MIKE MYERS & EDDIE MURPHY Shrek 2 does an admirably effective job of balancing its sarcastic but sensitive tone, and it’s never too bitter to be sweet. The film manages to repeatedly wink at all things Disney without coming off competitive, an honorable move for a Dreamworks studio that should have plenty to gloat about at the box office this summer. In giving reverence with each reference, the four-headed team of writers keeps things light and sprinkles goodhearted, intelligent fun throughout every scene. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly

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WHITE CHICKS ★ MARLON AND SHAWN WAYANS Against the fact that White Chicks is a horrendous story, no one should see this film for many other reasons. First, scenes the likes of these should convince filmmakers to stop editing major motion pictures on PCP. Second, in a comedy, the audience should laugh. But most importantly, boycotting the Wayans might at least might make them think twice before stepping into another venture as ill-fated as White Chicks. (Andrew Crewell) Now showing at Beverly

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on’t even get me started on the JFK assassination.

Actually, I take that back. Go ahead, get me started. I’ll go freaking apeshit. I have a ridiculous amount of books and videos on the subject and find it more fascinating than a roomful of monkeys. It’s not really because of the man or anything. It’s mostly about all the seemingly crooked shit behind his murder.

Yep, Mr. Coulter loves a good conspiracy.

I’m cultivating a conspiracy of my own these days. Much of it is likely crap, some coincidence, most impossible to really prove, but hey, that’s the beauty of a conspiracy. The basic idea of it is that our government and corporations are in league to distract the citizens of the United States so much that we’ll never notice the things they’re doing to us. With arrogance and malice, the powerful and wealthy want to reduce regular people to nothing more than consumers. If you aren’t consuming when and where they’d like you to, they give you another distraction to simply get you out of everyone else’s way.

I think the CIA had something to do with the introduction of crack into the black community in the early 1980s. No, I don’t think agents were on the streets selling drugs themselves, but I believe the CIA-backed Contras from Nicaragua were allowed quite a bit of freedom to move their drugs into South Central Los Angeles and some of that money was used to finance their war. The crack epidemic exploded and many in the community didn’t worry so much about equal rights or bettering themselves anymore. They just worried about getting more crack.

It’s something I’m not sure the CIA would necessarily be against. If you want to make some quick money to funnel into a war and also find an easy way to keep somebody down, crack is probably a pretty good place to start.

Was our entire government behind some sort of evil plot? Probably not, but they looked the other way pretty effectively and the problem has since gotten so far out of hand that it’s become generational to the point that children are born addicted.

They’ve got the cities, now they’re going for the rest of the country, literally. Illinois proudly announced that crime in the state has fallen to a 32-year low. Hey, it’s hard to be against something like that. There are a few parts of the state where violent crimes are up, though, and that’s in rural communities. The population keeps shrinking, yet the crime rate keeps

growing. Geez, there might be a problem brewing. I’ll take a wild guess and bet it’s because of all the methamphetamine.

Is meth really a problem? Don’t ask me, I just read about it. I bet just about any farm service company that has anhydrous ammonia would tell you it’s becoming a problem. They get robbed on a pretty regular basis by young folks who need their product to make meth.

Hell, just about every time I read the local paper, someone has been arrested trying to buy a large supply of cold medicine. “I know it’s the middle of summer, but my cold is so damned bad I need 300 bottles of Sudafed.�

In 1999, down where I’m from in Southern Illinois, two deputies were shot trying to serve an arrest warrant on a meth dealer. I bet they think it’s a problem. That’s what you want, isn’t it? A bunch of heavily armed, methed-up rednecks who haven’t slept for two weeks making drugs in their trailer. It was a weird place before meth. I can’t imagine it now.

OK, so what do crack and meth have in common? Both are cheap, highly addictive drugs that were introduced into poor communities and have caused incredible damage.

The government response to both problems is to arrest people and overcrowd the prisons rather than erase the desire for the drugs.

If you’re a kid in the inner city and you see crack dealers making bank every day, it sort of takes away some of your desire to stay in school. If the buildings all around you are crumbling and your best shot at steady legitimate employment is working at a McDonald’s and then selling or smoking crack may appear to be the most viable option.

If you’re a kid in the country and you see meth dealers make bank every day, that also takes away some of your desire to better yourself.

If most of your farm land has been sold to corporations and your best shot at legitimate employment is to work at the new Wal-Mart that has put the local stores out of business, selling or taking meth may also seem like a viable option.

You take away someone’s hope and they begin to look for something else. Did the CIA sell crack on a street corner? Nope. Does Wal-Mart sell methamphetamine? Nope. Still, they’ve both been allowed to go their merry ways without much interference from anyone. Both have managed to suck hope out of people and ruined a segment of our population.

They’ve been allowed to put money before the good of a community without any repercussions from our leaders. Maybe the biggest conspiracy of all is that everyone looks the other way.

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

Lead story Walt and Kathy Viggiano of Wichita, Kan., convinced Judge James Burgess to return their four children from foster care in 1999, following their removal because of excessive unsanitariness of the family’s mobile home. Unlike in many such cases, Judge Burgess realized, the Viggianos loved their kids, had not abused them and had no alcohol or drug problems. Also, according to police who made the initial investigation, Walt and the kids seemed to have warm conversations, even though entirely in Klingon (from Star Trek).

Penguin sluts In 1996, Cambridge (England) University researcher Fiona Hunter, who studied penguins’ mating habits for five years, reported that some females apparently allow male strangers to mate with them in exchange for a few nest-building stones, thus providing

what Hunter believes is the first observed animal prostitution. According to Dr. Hunter, all activity was done behind the backs of the females’ regular mates, and in a few instances, after the sex act, johns gave the females additional stones as sort of a tip.

Latest religious messages In 1998, Josh Hempel, then 16, in Calgary, Alberta, became the then-latest person to be hit by lightning shortly after ending an argument by inviting God to strike him with lightning if he was wrong. (The subject of this argument was whether God exists.) He was hospitalized but recovered. And at the Bathgate Golf Club in West Lothian, Scotland, two months before that, Father Alex Davie was playing in the Clergy Golfing Society tournament when lightning struck the tip of his umbrella and then, when he sought refuge under a tree, struck that, too. He suffered a sore arm but continued his round.

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letters to the editor Editor, One of your readers wrote in with some vivid criticisms of Fahrenheit 9/11. I wrote to him and found out he hasn’t seen the film and has relied on opinion pieces he found online to pan it.

I have no idea if any of the people he read have actually seen it.

Naturally, all opinions deserve to be heard. Here’s mine. I’ve seen it, and I think it is worth seeing.

Does Michael Moore have an agenda? You bet he does! A filmmaker without a point of view probably wouldn’t be very interesting. What I found most compelling about the film was the space allowed for regular people to make their experiences known. Moore strings these stories together with less-than-flattering (but real) clips of high-level politicians to tell his story.

Isn’t that his job?

We all make decisions about the viewpoints we listen to, but let’s not be misleading. Your reader sounds wistful as he dreams of the day when it would’ve been easy to hang Moore. Didn’t we just dethrone a two-bit dictator for that kind of thing? Didn’t a group of people try to do the same thing to us?

The publicly stated desire to kill someone for a movie one hasn’t even seen must surely signal that almost 230 years of this democratic experiment are going down the drain. Added to that is the reality that our nation has done the same thing: abandoned the rule of law in favor of vigilantism. Why aren’t more people upset about that? – Meg Miner UI alum Piatt County resident

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have always been aware of politics.

I was raised by a Republican and a Democrat, and although they cancel each other’s votes out nearly every Election Day, I was encouraged to think and act independently. In the midst of the first Gulf War, I presented an anti-war poster to my 3rd grade class for a project. My antiwar stance didn’t alarm the FBI or even my teacher. Today, this may not be the case.

Times have changed, I am told again and again. It is alarming how much they have changed, along with our acceptance of the slow erosion of our civil liberties, most importantly our right to free speech.

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At a Saturday night show at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas, singer Linda Ronstadt dedicated a cover of “Desperado� to filmmaker Michael Moore and his newest documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. According to Reuters’ report of the incident, there was no political commentary, just a simple dedication.

But the crowd at the Aladdin did not take her heartfelt dedication well. They spilled their drinks, tore down posters

and demanded their money back, casino spokesperson Sara Gorgon told Reuters.

Shortly after the uproar, Ronstadt was escorted from the casino, and the Aladdin casino said through a statement that the performer would not be welcomed back.

One of the really special things about our country is the fact that we are constitutionally encouraged to speak freely— whether we are criticizing the government or standing up for the equal protection of animals. It is our right, and responsibility, to do so. The Aladdin had every right to speak their mind concerning Ronstadt’s dedication. It is their casino.

However, let us not forget that with the strong feelings of patriotism that causes anger in the “drink spillers� at the Aladdin are the same feelings that should make citizens of this country weary about silencing opinions that are not necessarily in line with everyone else’s.

In know it seems clichĂŠ to say that everyone is entitled to free speech.

But maybe we need to be reminded.

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t needs to be noted, now that the Cubs are 10 games out of first place, that I have never claimed to be King Shit of baseball prognosticators. I am merely a downstate Cubs fan. And much to the dismay of my brother and friends who share the same affliction, I do not hate the White Sox, and more importantly, I do not hate the Cards.

Hats off to those idiots in St. Louis— they really know what’s up. They are the best team in baseball and I’d put the money that I don’t have on them any day, even over the Yankees.

I respect the game of baseball, not just one certain team. So now that I have stated that, I can go on with what I really need to talk about today.

What the hell?

Have I completely missed the boat? Am I on crack? What happened to our staff?

What happened to our bats? My best guess is that Dusty Baker and Co., like myself, are actually too interested in the world’s political climate and have lost their love for the game given the unfortunate conditions surrounding the Pentagon these days.

Everyone knows that to be signed by the Cards, you must have an IQ under 80 and an overall GPA of 2.0 or less. Thank God for intelligent baseball teams. They care more about the world than the game and I am proud of them for that.

It has come to the point in the season when many Cubs fans are giving up for the moment. Sure, they’ll check the score; nod in affirmation when there is a W and shake their heads in disdain when there is an L. I am not one of those people. But I am also getting bored of writing exclusively about baseball.

When I suggested writing a baseball column to my editor, it was predicated upon the fact that I felt like writing about music was starting to become a conflict of interest in that my band has started performing live shows again, and that my job as a promoter would interfere with my influence as a music colum-

nist. She agreed and gave me the nod.

I do enjoy baseball, and I think there should be some news to report from time to time, but I am going to have to hang up this towel, let it dry out a bit, and start up again when things start to pick up again.

Yes, for the time being, I am going to write about topics other than baseball alone, and that doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t poke its Louisville Slugger into the column here and there. I just have too many strong polit cal and religious feelings right now and to ignore and neglect them would go against the core of my personality.

I have always been brutally honest any time I am given the opportunity to speak or write. And so it will start next week as I discuss the ways in which the United States is headed toward an inevitable civil war and how we never landed on the moon and how George W. is shitting his pants right now, trying to come up with a way to beat the “Sunshine Boys.�

Baseball and music. Baseball and sex.

Baseball and politics. They all match up in some respect and I plan on delving into the latter parts of these topics a little deeper. My brother is truly King Shit of baseball, as far as I can tell, and perhaps he’ll actually write something and give it to me in time to publish. But I cannot go any further without feeling like a jackass because I do not care as much about baseball as I do about the world. That’s why I am a Cubs fan.

I do hope none of my readers are too upset with my changing horses in midstream. A fair-weather fan? Absolutely not. A concerned citizen who loves his country? You betcha.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY (JULY 22-28) ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two years ago a diminishing marriage rate and an increase in divorces began to worry Malaysian officials. The family development minister issued a plea for spouses to be more aggressive about calling each other "darling," "sweetie," and other affectionate names. As you slip into the Amorous Season, Aries, I'm going to ask you to do that, plus more. Supercharge your entire approach to speaking the language of love. Be aware of how powerful your words can be in stirring the emotions of people you care about. Use your voice to experiment with romantic potentials and bring more truth and beauty into your intimate moments.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Since 1977, 40 percent of U.S. elementary schools have done away with recess. Meanwhile, among adults at work, the time allotted to lunch is steadily shrinking. Executives spend an average of just 42 minutes with their midday meals. This dangerous trend hits you Tauruses the hardest: You need spaciousness. You shouldn't and can't be rushed to do anything. That's why I'm calling on all Bulls to launch a Mass Slowdown in the coming week. Take all the time you need to do whatever has to be done, whether it's enjoying your sandwich or preparing an important report. From an astrological perspective, it's a pivotal moment for you to be faithful to your own internal rhythms. If anyone complains, tell them your astrologer made you do it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I suggest that you encourage your right hand to get into a wrestling match with your left hand. Let them go at it for as long as it takes for one to emerge victorious.

They desperately need to engage in a vigorous dialogue, and the best way for that to happen is in the heat of battle. It's true that while their struggle rages, you may be too preoccupied to worry about the thousand and one questions that are begging for your attention. But I'm betting that many of those questions will be resolved or rendered irrelevant as your right hand and left hand get to know each other better.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Warning! Too-much-of-a-goodthing alert! Take a few deep breaths and consider the possibility that sweet satisfaction may be on the verge of mutating into overripe excess. Examine your life to see whether well-crafted luxury is in danger of becoming grandiose exorbitance or whether your fair share is close to becoming too hot to handle.

I'm not saying any of these developments have occurred yet; just that they might unless you take action immediately. As a Cancerian myself, I know how we Crabs sometimes indulge in the fantasy that hoarding stuff protects us from the world's unpredictability. Though it can on occasion, this is not one of those times.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): From an astrological perspective, it's a

perfect time to order a custom-made action figure that looks and talks like you. You'd really benefit from having a miniature version of yourself to play with. You could dress it in superhero costumes, fantasize scenarios in which it pulls off epic feats, and use it to help you escape the imaginary constraints that have been inhibiting you lately. But getting a doll of yourself is expensive, and there are other ways that would probably work just as well to free up your bold, adventurous spirit. Maybe you could write a short story starring you as a daredevil or pioneer. Or how about embarking on a series of strenuous physical activities that will awaken your dormant reserves of willpower? If nothing else, create a sock puppet of yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I met a man who told he trademarked the term "couch potato" more than two decades ago. He said that in the early years, he made decent money from people who compensated him for the right to use his intellectual property.

Eventually, though, he had to hire lawyers to take legal action against those who wanted to avoid payment. In time, his attorney fees outstripped the amount he was able to collect from violators of his trademark, and he gave up the effort. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Virgos are facing or will soon face a comparable situation: A certain advantage you've had may no longer be an advantage; an asset or strength could begin to require so much upkeep that it may no longer be an asset or strength.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You've been blessed and cursed with arduous lessons these past months, Libra. They have compelled you to navigate your way through the most challenging archetypes of all: death and rebirth. Before these trials, you may have considered yourself smart and capable but wondered how strong you were. Now there is no doubt: You're more courageous than you ever imagined. But don't stop pushing yourself to the limit yet. Your hero's journey still has a few weeks to go.

Keep doing what you've been doing, only more so.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Disabuse yourself of the notion that greatness is somehow inextricably linked with fame, power, wealth, or social stature," writes one of my readers, Pyrrol Red. "Some of the greatest human beings have been mostly unknown." This is an important point to keep in mind, Scorpio, as you seek to ascend higher. The essence of your beauty may never be fully appreciated by more than a few people; the gifts you have to offer are so subtle and complex that you might find it hard to encapsulate them in simple forms that gain wide popularity. I'm not saying you'll never be famous, powerful, wealthy, or high-status. But even if you do win those perks, it will be because of decisions you make and actions you take that are free of all lust for them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens," wrote Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet. That's a good description of what will be happening inside you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But keep in mind that this lovely invasion may not be accompanied by fireworks and thrilling music. It might unfold in a series of what Rilke called "seemingly uneventful and motionless moments."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game of hide and seek. I've observed that most adults still engage in sublimated or disguised versions of the game. They may withdraw emotionally and expect their friends and loved ones to telepathically figure out what's going on with them. Or they may play hard to get, forcing their lovers or spouses to come find them in their secret hiding places. Judging from the current astrological omens, Capricorn, I suspect you will soon be embroiled in a hide-andseek ritual. You might as well try to have fun.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My hypnotherapist friend has noticed a common theme running through the lives of many of her clients: They take their blessings for granted and underestimate the power their blessings afford them. One client, for instance, seems to assume that everyone in the world is as perceptive and sensitive as she is. As a result, she doesn't completely appreciate how valuable these skills are, and she doesn't fully take advantage of the tremendous influence they could help her wield. You suffer from a similar blindness about your own gifts, Aquarius. Luckily, this is the perfect time to change that.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Bureau of Justice says that crime in America is at its lowest level since it was first tracked in 1973. Canada's crime rate has also been declining for years. So why is everyone walking around scared all the time? In its "Personal Security Index" report, the Canadian Council on Social Development said, "The fear of crime is disproportionate to the true risk of being victimized, and that fear can be a negative factor in people's lives, often unnecessarily restricting their social activities." I bring this up, Pisces, because it's a perfect moment for you to dramatically reduce your levels of dread and anxiety.

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