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I CAN’T BELIEVE JULY IS ALMOST GONE | JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 2004 buzz

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY (JULY 22 - AUGUST 4) ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Charles Baudelaire counseled readers to be drunk continually 'on wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish,'" wrote Kate Taylor in The New Yorker. "But he also thought drugs were a perversion of our taste for the infinite and that great minds could furnish their own intoxicants." I'm hoping you're one of those "great minds" the French poet was talking about, Aries. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need a large helping of the magic that lies outside of ordinary consciousness. But you're far more likely to thrive if you can find a natural way to satisfy your "taste for the infinite."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): To hint at the potentials of the coming week, I'll appropriate the words of avant-garde music composer and author, John Cage. In describing his work, he once said, "I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry."

Here's an altered version, Taurus, created especially to suit your current astrological needs: You have nothing to do/ and you are doing it/ and that's your genius.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The gods have authorized me to give you three tough but sweet oracles. Ready? 1. If you hope to be in the right place at the right time to hear the words that will set you free, you'll have to act with both more confidence and more humility. 2.To learn the clue that will heal an old rift, you'll have to really want to know what's going on beneath the official version of the truth. 3.To find the hidden beauty and inspiration in an initially awkward mess, you'll have to respond without anger to a message that feels threatening to your pride.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your actions in the immediate future could have a potent impact on your long-range future. For instance, new connections you forge in the coming weeks -especially if you leave your comfort zone to make them -- will be valuable if you decide to leave your current dream home and head to a new dream home next year. Here's another example: If you spend some time this August trying to fix a glitch in the way you communicate, 2005 may bring a dramatic enrichment of your sense of community and a surge of grace in your family dynamics.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In describing his creative process, novelist Jack Kerouac said, "The first thought is the best thought."

When Allen Ginsberg was asked "What's the best advice you can give a poet?", he echoed Kerouac. On the other hand, Nobel Prize-winning writer William Butler Yeats constantly revised works he had already published, even fiddling with poems that were many years old. Pierre Bonnard was so committed to editing himself that "he was once caught trying to retouch one of his own paintings hanging on a museum wall," wrote poet Linh Dinh, who concluded, "Last thought is the best thought." While there are valid arguments for both views, Leo, the astrological

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Before you can move on to your next exciting challenge, you'll have to answer a few hard questions about the life you've lived since your last birthday. The object of this test is not to make you feel guilty, but to help you take inventory of your gaffes and indiscretions so you can make atonement, thereby clearing a path to the future. Have you purposely caused anyone pain? Did you tell any big lies? Did you commit any unethical acts? Have you revealed information told to you in confidence? Do you owe money or energy to anyone you have no intention of paying back? Confess everything, Virgo--to the mirror. Then go set things right, or at least as right as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The saliva of vampire bats appears to be effective in dissolving the blood clots that cause strokes. Ongoing research into the medical applications of snake venom suggests it may ultimately be used to fight cancer, heart attacks, and mad cow disease. And I suspect that in the coming weeks, Capricorn, you will be healed by a small dose of an experience that in large doses has felt noxious to you in the past. Keep your mind open to the possibility. Don't automatically avoid everything that seems unpleasant.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "If the landscape reveals one certainty," wrote Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, "it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with fresh vigor." In my astrological opinion, Libra, it is your duty to resonate with this particular aspect of the cosmos. For the next few weeks, you have license to overflow with floods of self-expression; you have the right to create like a god who has the pleasure and privilege of creating a new world.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A Taoist parable tells of a poor farmer who owned a single horse. One night it ran away. The neighbors came to offer condolences. "What bad luck!" they said.

"Maybe," the farmer replied. "Maybe not." A week later, the fugitive horse returned, accompanied by six wild horses. The farmer and his son corralled them. "Lucky you!" the neighbors cried.

"Maybe," the farmer said. "Maybe not." Soon the son tried taming the new arrivals. A stallion threw him to the ground, breaking his leg. "Terrible luck!" the neighbors wailed. "Maybe," said the farmer. "Maybe not." The next day, soldiers visited the village.

Strife had broken out between two warlords, and one had decided to conscript the local young men.Though every other son was taken, the farmer's boy was spared because of his injury. "What fantastic luck!" the neighbors said. I think this story captures the essence of your coming week pretty well, Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the middle of a moonlit night last February, someone in the English town of Pembury sneaked into the yards of over a hundred homes and secretly planted an ash sapling in each one. It was hard work. The weather was bad and each tree needed a hole dug to accommodate it.

Judging from your current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I believe you'll soon be the recipient of a gift like that. Other good surprises may be on tap as well, especially if you say a prayer in

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are more ready than you've ever been for the kind of intimacy that the poet Adrienne Rich extols: "An honorable human relationship -- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word 'love' -- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other." I'm not implying, Aquarius, that you should find a relationship where you can continually break down your self-delusions and dig for the raw truth. Nor am I insisting that you should prod one of your existing relationships to leap to this higher octave. But I am saying that you have the strength and courage to try it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Visionary educator Maria Montessori believed that self-discipline motivated by a child's own enthusiasm is far better than discipline imposed on the child by a strong-willed authority. What's the best way to develop the superior form? Kids need to understand the difference between good and evil, and even more importantly, they must not associate good with passive immobility and evil with animated activity. I believe her argument will be useful for you to meditate on in the coming weeks, Pisces. It's an ideal time to bring more order, efficiency, and discipline into your rhythm. And the best way to do that is to cultivate an irrepressible desire to perpetrate aggressive acts of generosity and good will.

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IS THIS KARMA? I JUST READ THAT WE ARE GETTING A NEW CHUCK E. CHEESE | JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 2004 buzz

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oday, I will put aside my rants about free speech and politicians.

I’m taking a break from my soapbox to talk about something a little more local, and to give credit where credit is due.

Within the Champaign-Urbana music scene, there are bands that may have potential and then there are bands that make you ask yourself, “Why doesn’t anyone come see this? These guys (or girls) are dynamite. I mean, they could really go somewhere.”

Enter The Blackouts.

This past weekend, C-U’s own The Blackouts won the Little Steven’s Garage Rock Competition. This is the contest organized by Steven Van Zandt--of the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fame – is a competition where bands perform regionally (The Blackouts in Chicago) and then compete for a spot playing with the likes of Iggy Pop and

The Stooges, The Strokes, etc.

Champaign’s The Blackouts won this competition. Around here, most everyone knows that The Blackouts reside in the upper echelon, as far as local bands go.

I’m just glad the exposure will allow others to experience their music.

Music industry aficionados tend to stretch their legs and say, “You gotta be at the right place at the right time.” Or at least, behind the backs of budding new artists. That’s what they say.

But, The Blackouts work hard. Other local bands work hard. Our job, as supporters is just that: to support.

So go out this weekend, see The Beauty Shop, go to the i:Scintilla CD Release show or head up to Chicago on Friday and watch Enemies play at The Metro.

Just don’t forget: For local musicians to truly succeed, it takes more than just hard work. It takes the support of the music communtiy around them.

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God’s popularity at stake among hipsters Jerry Falwell seen wearing white-studded belt

BY SETH FEIN | STAFF WRITER

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he real issue at hand for me these days is with my family in terms of our faith. We use baseball, the way most people do, I imagine, as a way of ignoring the painful and challenging parts of our psyches.

It’s a distraction, and a damn fine one, if I do say so my damn self. Weeks will go by between my father and I where our conversations consist of the Prior injury or Wendell Kim and how the hell his arm hasn’t just twirled right off his torso into the third base boxes full of rich idiots at Wrigley.

But every three weeks or so, God will stick its polemical head into the conversation and the next couple hours, if not days, will veer to a certain debate that has the theological world up in arms right now.

See, my father and myself—we’re both Christians. I don’t really know how else to say it without sounding like I’m in a cult because when I tell people that I’m a Jesusist or a Messiahcon, they tend to look at me the way a liberal looks at a conservative: with disbelief, sadness and a little fear.

And by Christian, I mean that we both believe in the idea that Jesus Christ was in fact the physical manifestation of God, whatever that is, and that he was brought to the Earth to save us from ourselves.

The problem is not with doubt, a “vice” that SO many Christians simply cannot get over.

The problem is a matter of worship—and don’t think that I am merely referring to singing.

Currently, the debate over whether or not gay marriage is okey-dokey in the eyes of the government is raging throughout the country, wasting everyone’s time and money on a very obvious argument, given the fact that America claims to give freedom toward the pursuit of happiness.

And that being said, I would like to make a claim myself: The real issue is not whether it’s OK in the eyes of the government. The issue is whether it’s okay in the eyes of “God.” You see, I put God in quotations because I am referring to God as the government uses God. “God” is used in everything to uphold or correct the mores of this great nation. And even though there is supposed to be a separation of church and state, there isn’t. At least, not in terms of what goes on behind the scenes. And we should all know by now that there is most certainly a “behind the scenes” in everything— even in this paper that you are reading right now.

I have a question for the pastors, ministers, priests and church members in this town who don’t believe in the sanctity of gay marriage and who don’t believe that homosexuals should be allowed to worship the Lord in church

among their brothers and sisters. Can you justify to me, biblically, textually or empirically your reasons for locking them out when you have divorcees, gluttons, alcoholics, blasphemers, gamblers, doubters and haters sitting next to you and sitting on your clergy? If you can do it, then I am a prostitute’s daughter.

See, the bottom line is this: Homosexuality, whether you believe it’s a blessing or an affliction, is merely just another thing. It’s no different than being a heterosexual in terms of the feelings that it inspires. It’s only different because we, as a society, have made it different.

And the popular church has spearheaded that ideology.

It states very clearly in the New Testament, most notably in Romans for me, that sins are not weighted. They are all equally saddening in the eyes of God. And I state that without quotations because the government will never hold the type of authority that God does—God being an “IT” not a “HE.” The debate as to whether being homosexual in theory and in practice is a sin is a larger, much more difficult debate. But for now, I think, at the very least, everyone—atheists and Bible thumpers alike—should be fighting for the church to yell from the mountaintops, “Hey, Mr. Gay Man! Hey, Ms. Lesbian! You want to come to my church and listen to bad music with bad lyrics about God for an hour each Sunday? You do? Well, come on down! That’s great! You don’t? Oh, OK. I love you just the same and won’t judge you for who you are.”

I, for one, can’t justify attending, tithing and being participant in any church that would be so blatantly hypocritical. It has a certain faction of my family, the part that wishes I would attend, questioning the way they view their faith now, although they still attend and participate just the same if not more than your average churchgoer.

I wish it were different. I wish that the church my family goes to would love and accept homosexuals the way they love and accept me, a known sinner, just like everyone else. That way, I could keep talking to my dad about the Cubs and never worry about when we’ll start over with the same debate.

But being an honest Christian makes me have to tell you the truth. The real reason I don’t go to that particular type of church is the bloody music. That shit sucks the big one. Word of advice for contemporary churches with “rock” music for their worship: Forget the distortion pedal. Forget the wah-wah. OK? Not working, dude. Not working.

Seth Fein is from Urbana. No Hail Marys will be said as a result of this column. He doesn’t even know what the hell that is anyway.

He can be reached at sethfein@readbuzz.com

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AMERICA’S HEART AND SOUL No stars GEORGE WOODARD & FRANK PINO Frankly, every cinematic aspect of this film is lacking.

Only the soundtrack’s sincerity prevents it from being a spot-on satire of every genre with which it flirts. 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 THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR ★★★ JEFF BRIDGES & KIM BASINGER But for most of this sad, deeply depressing drama, it’s impossible not to be struck by Williams’s patience in telling his story, sharing secrets beneath the whispering wind and softly crashing waves that surround the Coles’ property. It’s about the everyday fear of disaster lurking in every parent, and the unbearable, irreparable trauma of having those fears realized. By handling familial tragedy with a careful eye and a frozen heart, The Door in the Floor shows that, for parents, the death of a child is a story with no ending. (Matt Pais) 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. 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 I, ROBOT ★★★ WILL SMITH & JAMES CROMWELL I, Robot is, on the whole, a darker film than the usual Smith fare. Director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) puts the majority of his scenes at night and puts a harrowing, sinister feel to most of the action sequences (which make very cool use of slow motion, CGI and rotating cameras). However, the movie gets nowhere near as dark—or intriguing for that matter—as the classic Blade Runner, which has a similar plot. Proyas probably felt pressure from the producers (one of whom was Smith himself) to follow those laws of Will Smithitude that require lighthearted action and frequent one-liners.

(Devon Sharma) KING ARTHUR ★★ KEIRA KNIGHTLEY & CLIVE OWEN King Arthur isn’t sure if it wants to be a traditional historical epic or a modern, crowdpleasing 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

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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 THE TERMINAL ★★★ TOM HANKS & CATHERINE ZETA-JONES Like Forrest Gump, Viktor Navorski (Hanks) is a simple man just trying to get by, and the story finds some poetry in his straightforward determination for life’s most basic pleasures. He just wants to understand the world around him and have a place to call home, and in that way The Terminal is like a quirky, inside-out version of Lost in Translation. Everyone at JFK grows to know Navorski by name, and there’s a reason that America has revered its most dependable actor with the same respect and recognition for the last decade.

There’s no one like Hanks to keep a jetlagged fantasy so grounded. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy

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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. (Andrew Crewell) Now showing at Beverly

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THE VILLAGE JOAQUIN PHOENIX & SIGOURNEY WEAVER The new film by M. Night Shyamalan should be as suspenseful as it is well-written. The plot here is that a town called Covington, Pa., is surrounded by woods filled with mythical creatures. Phoenix plans on breaking the law set by the town leader that no one is to leave town limits‌ever. Go see this movie. (Paul Wagner) THUNDERBIRDS BILL PAXTON & BEN KINGSLEY The Thunderbirds are a group of rescuers, a dad and his five kids to be exact, and are under attack by The Hood, led by Ben Kingsley. Why are they under attack? Because The Hood wants, well, the Thunderbirds’ ‘hood,’ a.k.a their house. (Paul Wagner) HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE JOHN CHO & KAL PENN As the title suggests, this film is about two kids and their quest to get some White Castle burgers. Along the way they encounter life changing events and, you guessed it, funny as hell situations. There’s nothing deep about this film, but let’s hope the laughs are. (Paul Wagner) GARDEN STATE ZACH BRAFF & NATALIE PORTMAN Written and directed by, and starring Zach Braff, the friendly face seen as Dr. John “JDâ€? Dorian on the hit show Scrubs, this film is about an actor who travels home for his mother’s funeral. This may not seem out of the ordinary, except that Braff hasn’t seen his family in more than a decade. (Paul Wagner)

THE VILLAGE (PG–13) (2 SCREENS) Fri. & Sat. 11:10 11:40 1:30 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:30 10:00 12:00 Sun. - Thu. 11:10 11:40 1:30 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:00 7:30 9:30 10:00 THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (R) (2 SCREENS) Fri. & Sat. 11:00 1:00 2:00 4:20 5:00 7:00 7:40 9:50 11:20 Sun. - Thu. 11:00 1:00 2:00 4:20 5:00 7:00 7:40 9:50 HAROLD & KUMAR (R) Fri. & Sat. 11:20 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:20 9:30 11:50 Sun. - Thu. 11:20 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:20 9:30 THUNDERBIRDS (PG) Fri. & Sat. 11:00 1:10 3:20 5:30 7:40 10:00 12:15 Sun. - Thu. 11:00 1:10 3:20 5:30 7:40 10:00 BEFORE SUNSET (R) Fri. & Sat. 11:20 1:15 3:10 5:00 7:10 9:10 11:00 Sun. - Thu. 11:20 1:15 3:10 5:00 7:10 9:10 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

CATWOMAN (PG–13) (2 Fri. & Sat. 11:00 11:30 1:20 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:10 7:30 9:30 10:00 12:00 Sun. - Thu. 11:00 11:30 1:20 2:00 4:00 5:00 7:10 7:30 9:30 10:00 CINDERELLA STORY (PG) Fri. - Thu. 11:20 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:20 ANCHORMAN (PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 11:10 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:10 9:20 11:30 Sun. - Thu. 11:10 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:10 9:20 I, ROBOT (PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 11:00 1:30 4:10 7:00 9:40 12:10 Sun. - Thu. 11:00 1:30 4:10 7:00 9:40 ◆ HARRY POTTER 3 (PG) Fri. - Thu. 1:00 4:00 KING ARTHUR (PG–13) Fri. - Thu. 9:50 SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG–13) Fri. - Thu. 1:00 4:00 7:20 10:00 SHREK 2 (PG) Fri. Thu. 11:20 1:20 THE NOTEBOOK (PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 4:20 7:15 9:50 12:15 Sun. - Thu. 4:20 7:15 9:50 THE TERMINAL (PG–13) Fri. - Thu. 7:10 9:50 SCREENS)

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redicting the future is a tricky thing. When I was a little kid, I remember watching a movie in school. It was some sort of Walt Disney-produced thing that gave us insight into the trends of the future. The skies were going to be populated by hovercrafts.

You could put a cow and a bag of potatoes into one end of a machine and a beautifully prepared meal would come out the other side.

Our landscape was going to be littered with high-speed monorails, taking us wherever we desired in seconds, all quiet and comfortable.

Well, none of that shit worked out.

No, hovercrafts, the most expensive vehicle we can buy now, were designed for the military and can drive through buildings.

Our cows eat each other and get diseases, while the best way to cook them is still on the grill. Monorails, forget that. Most of us are in cars by ourselves, desperately trying to pass the buses that carry about four people.

Yup, predicting the future is a tricky thing and it never really happens like we think. Hell, four months ago, the Cubs were already supposed to have won the World Series. About the only predictions of the future that hold any water today are from George Orwell’s 1984.

Some of that shit seems like it could happen, if it hasn’t already. Maybe it’s just easier to predict the bad, creepy stuff.

It doesn’t get much more Orwellian than a little something called an RFID tag. These tags are basically little chips that can be put into things. They’ve got a little antenna that can transmit where they are so people can keep track of them. Hey, it sounds like a fine idea to me so far. Put one on my freaking car keys and I’ll be the happiest man in the world.

It’s not used for car keys though. It was initially for office security passes and inventory, but many fear it will soon be used on goods we purchase. We leave the store with our new microwave and the department store could figure out where the product is. Say you buy a new shirt with a RFID tag in it; the store would know where you’re at and what you’re wearing.

I don’t know if it’s like Wild Kingdom where Marlon and his assistant Jim come around once a year and capture your microwave, do a series of tests, replace the tag, and then set your oven free, but I sure hope so. “So what?� you might say. “You’re just being paranoid thinking the government or big business might use these tags to screw you.� That’s possible, but still, paranoia is really about the only emotion I’m comfortable

with when it comes to the powers that be these days.

An issue has already came up regarding these tags. In 2003, in a town strangely enough called Broken Arrow, Okla., WalMart teamed up with Procter & Gamble Co. to equip their store shelves with hidden RFID technology so they could track the purchase of lipstick. Cameras watched customers at the display and the images were beamed back to Cincinnati, Ohio. The companies could watch you in action as you made your purchase. They say it was only to collect “aggregate data.�

So, I looked up “aggregate� in the dictionary and it basically means mass data. I have to say I feel better about that. It’s weird when you hear a word so much and never take the time to find out what it means. Learning a new word is about the only joy I could get from this experiment, though.

Wal-Mart says the customers were warned that they may be under surveillance while in the store, so they don’t see anything wrong with it. OK, maybe we were warned, but I assume most of us assumed it was just for something like shoplifting. We might have felt differently about the whole thing if we’d known we were the monkeys and they were Jane Goodall.

Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble Co. think that everything is OK as it is, and even if something is wrong, they urged a House Subcomittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection to allow the industry to impose privacy guidelines themselves without any legislation. Maybe they can borrow Enron’s Guide to Self-Policing; that seemed to work out pretty well.

It just seems like enough is enough already.

Someone’s tracking us on the Internet.

Cameras give us tickets while we’re driving in our car. I would wager there’s a consumer profile on just about every one of us out there somewhere. Geez, we could probably never know who’s watching and where. I’ll tell you this, though: My days of trying on lipstick in the store are over. I mean, that’s really just not anybody’s business.

Endnote: I’d like to thank Chris Ryan for editing my column for quite awhile now. He’s moving on and I only hope the next person who corrects my spelling and grammar lives up to his standards. Also, I hope they also have a sense of humor about the fact that I have no idea where a paragraph should begin or end. Lastly, I’ve promised my favorite doorman I would put this in before he left: Good luck, my man. Pecker Rules!!!

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News of the weird Lead story Autobiography of the Least Interesting Man in America: According to a 1996 Seattle Times feature, Robert Shields, 77, of Dayton, Wash., is the author of perhaps the longest personal diary in history, nearly 38 million words on paper stored in 81 cardboard boxes covering the previous 24 years, in five-minute segments. Example: July 25, 1993, 7 a.m.: “I cleaned out the tub and scraped my feet with my fingernails to remove layers of dead skin.� 7:05 a.m.: “Passed a large, firm stool, and a pint of urine. Used 5 sheets of paper.�

At last! A job that actually requires geometry!

Commissioners in Florida’s Seminole County (near Orlando) and Manatee County (Bradenton) passed ordinances in 1999 prohibiting public nudity by requiring women to cover at least 25 percent of the area of their breasts and at least 33 percent of the buttocks, with highly detailed instructions as to the

points from which each coverage must be measured. (News of the Weird includes this refresher for law enforcement personnel: The formula for the lateral area of a cone is pi times radius times slant height; for the surface area of a sphere, it’s pi times radius-squared; and, alas, for a flat surface, it’s length times width.)

Compelling explanations Portland State University library employee Mary Joan Byrd, 61, admitted in 1997 that she had taken more than $200,000 over the years from the school’s copy machines. According to the student newspaper The Vanguard, she asked for leniency on the criminal charge against her (i.e., stealing from the state of Oregon) based on the theory that she was just temporarily using the money. That is, according to her, she spent almost the entire amount she took to feed her habit of playing Oregon’s government-sponsored video poker machines, and since she never won, the state got all its money back.

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ove Ghent jokingly refers to herself as the underachieving child of overachieving parents.

Her late father, a renowned biostatistics professor, and her mother, the Canadian representative to the European Space Agency in Paris, set the bar rather high. Ghent is an officer with the University police, and that’s just fine with her.

Ghent emerges from her daily briefing pulling a rolling suitcase. Inside, her law book, ticket book and extra food keep her prepared to deal with any situation—including boredom—she might encounter on third shift, 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.

“The other officers make fun of me. They call me ‘Air Tove,’ “ she says, laughing. Tove, pronounced “Toe-vuh,” is a Norse word meaning, simply, “good.”

On this particular Friday night, the campus is quiet. A dense mist creates an expanded orb of light around the street lights. Suitcase in tow, Ghent makes her way to her gray Chevrolet Impala patrol car. Once the car

starts, its interior gadgets and lights spring to life, making the inside of this sedan seem more like an airplane cockpit.

In the center panel, where a cup holder might reside in another car, two police radios buzz with the indecipherable staccato of police jargon. One radio monitors local police frequencies while the other monitors medical and fire.

At waist-level rests a Panasonic Toughbook, a portly laptop computer with its own bulletproof vest: a thick sheath of hardened plastic.

Various papers, maps and notebooks extend like ivy from the driver’s door map holder, the sun visors, even the floor.

This is Ghent’s office.

Once on the road, she receives a text message from dispatch: “NO-BAKE COOKIES IN THE BREAKROOM.” Ghent smiles but decides not to turn back. She has lost 40 pounds in the past 18 months. Instead, she makes her way to the Mac’s Convenient Store on South Neil Street.

“I’m a creature of habit. Where we’re going now is for my cup of tea,” she says. She walks inside and greets the clerk, another third-shifter.

“Hey, Doug. Who’s winning the game?” she asks, hoping to hear good news from the

Officer Tove Ghent has worked for the Unversity Police Department for the past seven years.

Illinois-Duke basketball contest. The news is work week that can sometimes be exhausting.

“I get sick more often. It affects my immune not good.

“My husband is probably screaming at the system,” she says. “The first day off isn’t realtelevision right now,” Ghent says, as she stirs ly a day. You’re tired, sleeping it off.” On patrol the tea. Doug seems to relax during the two at 12:30 a.m., though, Ghent is wide awake.

She slows her car near certain buildings, such minutes of security her presence provides.

From there, the overnight shift is a seemingly as the Physical Plant Service Building at Florida Avenue and Oak Street, for a routine endless series of laps around the campus.

The third shift works well for Ghent’s fami- building check.

“Since 9/11, there are buildings you’re suply, which includes her husband, Doug posed to check more Friedman, who works frequently,” she says. days as a liquor store On this night, howmanager, and their 4ever, such action is year-old son, Nathan. elusive.

“My son is in pre“It’s like baseball,” school full time. They Ghent says. “Long get home and wake – Tove Ghent periods of boredom me up. I spend the punctuated by short whole evening with periods of excitehim,” Ghent says. It wasn’t always a smooth system. At first, work- ment.” But the boredom doesn’t bother Ghent.

“Everything is different at night. The night has ing third shift was difficult.

“It was very hard on me. Finally, I made the its own rhythm that’s very pleasant,” she says, adjustment.” She works four days on and four as she parks along a side street and kills her days off then switches to five days on and headlights to monitor an intersection for movthree days off, which makes for a 50-hour ing violations.

About 20 minutes later, an SUV with a broken headlight approaches the intersection.

Ghent activates the overhead lights and follows the driver. Her relaxed demeanor changes instantly as she radios her position into dispatch and follows the truck to the parking garage at Illini Tower. Ghent runs a license plate check to determine whether the vehicle is stolen. It is not, which relaxes her a bit.

Ghent approaches the truck cautiously from the side, remaining calm but prepared for any situation. She obtains his driver’s license and returns to her car. She now asks dispatch to check the driver’s name for outstanding warrants. Although the driver has no warrants, he has had several recent encounters with police for moving violations.

“No wonder he was so nervous,” she says.

Ghent gives the driver a written warning for his broken headlight and lets him go.

Ghent, 41, stands at 5-feet-6-inches. Her red, near shoulder-length hair is tied back. Her green eyes, small but bright, complement her easy smile. A 10-year veteran of two departments—three years with Urbana and the last seven with the University—Ghent’s law enforcement career began late. Born in the United States to Canadian parents, Ghent lived in Urbana until she was 13. Her parents divorced and she moved to northern Ontario with her mother. She attended the University of Toronto, hoping to become a writer.

“I wanted to write fiction,” Ghent says. “I had some success at getting published in college.” Ghent found a writing job at The Almaguin News, a small weekly newspaper in Burk’s Falls, Ontario. She covered the school board and the courts for two years, but eventually returned to Champaign-Urbana.

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THE BOURNE SUPREMACY ★★

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI | STAFF WRITER

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oug Liman’s 2001 foray into the mainstream was one of the sleeper hits of that summer, with audiences reacting positively to the intellectualized approach that counteracted the standard action flick by favoring character and plot over elaborate set pieces. Hollywood’s current tendency not to mess with a sure thing—the three biggest hits of the season thus far have been sequels—explains why, despite British helmer Paul Greengrass coming onboard, this is largely more of the same.

In the original, amnesiac Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) must dodge numerous operatives assigned to silence him as he discovers his former identity as a CIA assassin, eventually evading his pursuers after threatening them

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ow many die-hard Catwoman fans are even out there? Superheroes like Spider-Man, Batman, and the X-Men have huge fan bases that drive their respective movies to blockbuster status in the blink of an eye. Compared to the prodigious standing of those staples of the genre, Catwoman is like the superhero C-Team.

This is an important point to bring up, because Catwoman will definitely not be winning the feline-fatale any new followers. It’s a dreadful, confused film; a train wreck dragged out over 90 minutes that is easily the worst movie to come out of the superhero genre in the last 20 years—yes, including Dolph Lundgren’s take on The Punisher. The filmmakers seem to have wanted to make a straightforward adventure story, but have only succeeded in crafting the funniest non-comedy this summer.

The plot itself borders on self-parody.

Patience Phillips (Halle Berry, apparently in no rush to win a second Oscar) is a struggling artist working for cosmetics giant Hedare Beauty, which is about to debut the age-reversing product “Beauty.” Beauty has a number of horrible side effects, but Laurel Hedare (Sharon Stone, showing up for a paycheck) orders them hidden

with severe and dire consequences should they choose to continue their hunt. The sequel sees Bourne in India, with once arbitrary love interest Marie (Franka Potente) elevated to the status of soulmate. Bourne is subsequently framed for the murder of two agents who are trying to purchase some classified documents and Kirill (Karl Urban) is dispatched to eliminate Bourne and thus cover up the conspiracy, which forces the latter to come out of hiding to essentially survive and clear his name.

Confused, anyone?

The movie frequently echoes The Fugitive, with Joan Allen’s no-nonsense performance the equivalent of Tommy Lee Jones’ Sam Gerard. The focus on developing an elaborate narrative is ultimately to the detriment of the film, as it rehashes a hoard of similar efforts without much of an original spin. The supporting cast in particular further impedes the audience’s ability to engage: Urban’s token Russian accent is far from convincing, Julia Stiles is little use in her brief reprisal of her role as Nicky and Brian Cox returns to angrily chew scenery as he did in Troy and X2.

Interspersed action sequences provide considerable relief, especially the climactic car chase through Moscow, which, with its gratuitous and prolonged abundance of destruction, guarantees to enthrall. That said, Greengrass’s

roots as an independent filmmaker cause him to favor jerky handheld close-ups during much of the sparring, which never pre-empts the movements of the characters.

While effectively communicating the frantic urgency of such encounters, it also confuses and distracts from otherwise impressive combat.

Greengrass does, however, always ground the action in reality, for though at times Bourne performs quasi-super- THE BOURNE SUPREMACY | MATT DAMON & FRANKA POTENTE human feats, they strictly vival to which audiences can relate. adhere to the rules of physics.

The Bourne Supremacy is entertainment, but Dedicating the majority of screen time to the titular character ameliorates matters, for too slight to be the high-brow spy thriller it Damon’s portrayal of Bourne largely carries might like to consider itself, despite Damon the film. Often choosing characters that strug- having obviously matured as an actor. The gle to cope when ostensibly out of their depth, many lulls in storytelling are offset by exotic here his saturated self-assurance is only locales that, unlike most Hollywood output, exceeded by the seemingly miraculous stunts succeed in capturing the aura of the cities they depict, from Berlin’s sterility to the tumult of a he executes, both mentally and physically.

Jason Bourne is, to put it simply, a believable Goan market. Sufficiently self-contained to movie hero, and a tragic one at that: He is con- stand alone from other installments in the flicted yet brilliant, and afflicted by the curse of intended trilogy (a Bourne Ultimatum adaptadecisions he no longer remembers and it is his tion is in the works), this film excels as summer emotional core rather than his instinct for sur- fare but little else.

in order to save money. Apparently, she has never heard the phrase “classaction lawsuit” before. Laurel has Patience murdered, but Patience is dragged onto a floating landfill by a crew of cats and resurrected in a scene that even lobotomized preschoolers would have trouble watching with a straight face.

She becomes Catwoman, the next in a line of female vigilantes brought into the world by a mystical CATWOMAN | HALLE BERRY & CAT Egyptian breed of cat. As Catwoman, she dresses like a bondage maven at a and flat a character to hold much interest for costume party, and seeks to avenge her death long. Stone spends the entire movie making by bringing down the evil cosmetics corpora- stern faces in close up, and Bratt has never tion. She also has some feline fetishes as a been a terribly captivating performer.

Catwoman is directed by Pitof, a former speresult of her transformation, and the movie has no problem throwing out one unfunny scene cial effects supervisor on such classics as Alien after another where Patience gobbles down Resurrection. One would think his background would signify that particular care went into fish, orders milk at a bar, hisses at dogs, etc.

The perfunctory love interest is police offi- the special effects for Catwoman, but in reality, cer Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a generally the computer-generated Catwoman looks like nice guy who becomes interested in Patience. a video game character. And Pitof’s visual The relationship goes nowhere—it consists style relies so heavily on a moving camera and entirely of awkward silences and embarrass- quick cuts that the action scenes tend to be ing scenes of dialogue. Thankfully, the screen- both incomprehensible and nauseating. writers realized their mistake and discarded Catwoman tries to use eye candy to cover up the whole thing entirely by the end of the film. for its (substantial) script faults. It simply falls If only they had been so judicious with the rest flat on its face.

So much for cats always landing on their of the screenplay, there might have been some feet. Catwoman seems destined to fail in grand workable material here.

The actors never manage to rise far above style. It was doomed from the minute it left the the material and make it watchable. Berry tries typewriter, and failed at every level of producher hardest, and her stalking around in a tion to redeem itself. Everyone involved in its revealing leather number is certainly not diffi- making should try to forget it ever happened cult on the eyes. She actually seems to have and move on. Anyone who pays to see it in the fun with her role. But Patience is too ignorant theater will surely do the same.

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“Action packed, intense.”

★★★ Rachel West Sidney, Ill.

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

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“I wasn’t a terribly physical person,” she says, so Friedman worked as her personal trainer. Ghent scored fifth highest on the University test and third highest on Urbana’s. She accepted a position with Urbana.

“Urbana was very high stress,” she says. “We were constantly responding to high-risk calls. It was domesOfficer Tove Ghent talks to Officer Tony Ortiz. Ghent is curently working in the tic after domestic investigative division of the University police department. after domestic.”

After three years at Urbana, Ghent needed a While looking for another reporting job, she worked at the now-defunct Acres of Books used change. In 1997, she moved over to the bookstore on Green Street. The owner was University police.

“I almost immediately got to do things I debating closing the store for good when Ghent, flipping through the newspaper, read that wanted to do,” Ghent says. First, she worked as Champaign County, Urbana and the University a field training officer for new recruits like Officer Laura Phillips, 24. were recruiting new police officers.

“I remember thinking, ‘This is going to be “I applied to all three,” Ghent says. “I had two months to study so of course, I scored very cool because I’m going to be riding with a girl,’” high.” Friedman, whom she had married two Phillips says. “It was nice to have a girl to talk years earlier, helped prepare Ghent for the to in a work force dominated by men.” Through that training experience, the two became physical tests.

friends and Phillips developed an admiration for Ghent’s work style.

“Some police officers will be very strict.

Everything is black and white. You broke the law or you didn’t break the law,” Phillips says. “Tove’s not like that. She’s cool about just not sticking it to everybody. She’s good at using discretion.”

That discretion also earned Ghent a crisis negotiator position on the METRO Team, a group of officers from area departments specially trained to handle hostage situations and other unique calls. Ghent’s long-time sergeant, Vernon “Skip” Frost, now a lieutenant, says that University officers sometimes fulfill an unusual role with the public.

“The biggest part of our job is service-related.

You name the issue, we’ve done it: squirrels in trash cans, someone wants to complain about fill in the blank. It may or may not be a legal issue but we respond and try to take care of it.”

Ghent fills that role well, Frost says.

“Tove is a very good listener. Very empathetic. She cares about people. In this job, that’s the main thing. If you don’t care about someone’s problems, that’s going to shine through,” he says.

A text message from dispatch says a delivery driver left his keys on top of a mailbox in front of the Henry Administration Building on Wright Street earlier in the day. Ghent heads

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back toward the building and finds the keys.

Although it isn’t the most exciting work, Ghent doesn’t mind.

“You might as well do what you’re asked to do. We get paid no matter what we do,” she says. She types, “GOT EM” to dispatch and resumes her patrol. While Ghent prefers the less stressful work of the University police, she says adjusting after leaving Urbana was difficult.

“When I came over here, I experienced a different kind of stress. I didn’t know what to do.

‘Where are the calls?’ I had to relearn how to be proactive instead of reactive.” Seven years later, Ghent’s adjustment is complete.

Now Ghent is in the midst of a six-month, plain-clothes rotation in the investigative division, where, in three short weeks, she has already worked everything from a death investigation to the more routine background checks for University security guard applicants. As an investigator, Ghent will work 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. with weekends off. It is the first regular schedule she has had since becoming a police officer.

Her husband and their son, Nathan, seem to like it too.

“It feels much more like family life. I don’t feel so tired during dinner,” Ghent says. “I feel tired from working all day but not the kind of tired I feel from sleeping all day and waking up and dinner is breakfast.” buzz

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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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The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

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The Community Mural Project located at the corner of Green Street and Neil Street in Champaign was inspired by the works of local artist Allen Stringfellow. His work celebrates the themes of jazz, dance music and African-American history.

The exhibition, “Jamming with the Man: Allen Stringfellow, A Retrospective” can be viewed at Krannert Art Museum through August 1. Local artists Derrick Holley and Lee Boyer worked with area middle school and high school students on the Community Mural Project.

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Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel is the executive director at the Chabad Jewish Center on the University of Illinois campus. More information about Chabad can be found at ChabadCU.org.

What is Chabad’s goal?

Chabad strives to bring Jewish services, education and outreach, and make it easily accessible to any Jew, regardless of their

background or involvement. Additionally, we strongly believe in humanitarian activism, may it be a drug and counseling center or other crucial social services. This resonates well with the global Jewish community; hence Chabad has grown to some 3,000 centers spread over 45 states and 70 countries. There is a phrase that has some truth to it, wherever you can find Coca-Cola, you’ll find a Chabad Center nearby!

Our goal in Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois is to bring the work of Chabad to this city. We hope to bring education, holiday services and programs, children’s enrichment programs and more to the local community. For students, it is important to have a personal rabbi to contact on campus, a place they can go to and feel comfortable—a place they can call “home away from away.” We strive to create a warm, non-threatening environment for all Jewish students on campus.

What are your responsibilities to the organization?

I was recruited to start the Chabad Jewish Center at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana a year ago. We are a grassroots organization, and try to stay in tune with exactly how we can add Jewish value to the community. My wife Goldie, who is director of programming at Chabad, and I, implement various creative programming, trying to raise the level of Jewish awareness and involvement amongst the thousands of Jewish students on campus and the local

Jewish community. Beyond this, I oversee the administrative work and handle the fundraising. Never a boring day!

What are some of the biggest challenges Chabad faces?

Getting out the word that we are an active organization serving the campus and community. When we started, we never imagined the incredible response from people wanting to join in our many activities.

The organization has grown and surpassed our expectations. Yet, there are so many more Jewish students and local community members that we feel can enjoy and gain from all of our programs. Our greatest challenge is getting the word out that we’re here and we’re open to all. I imagine that with time this will be less of a concern, but for a fledgling organization, this is high on our radar screen.

What is your history? Do you come from here? How long have you been affiliated with Chabad?

I was born and raised in Brooklyn to a Chabad family. I’ve been doing work with Chabad since my high school years. As part of my humanitarian and educational work with Chabad, I traveled to Southern Africa to do programs with college-age students and local families. Additionally, I’ve visited many cities in the United States and abroad with Chabad activities.

My wife introduced me to the Midwest. Her family has been living in the Midwest for close to a hundred years. After our marriage, we

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lived in New York for a year. When the opportunity arose to start a full-time center in Champaign, we visited here, met people and really decided that this is a place we would like to live, start a family and raise our children.

Any plans for the fall?

In the fall, our past programming will continue, and many new programs and events are planned. Our Jewish Student Board enjoys meeting, planning and coming up with great events that they would enjoy and think others will appreciate as well. There are many classes and events taking place—there’s practically something going on every day of the week.

The beginning of the semester is especially full, with the Jewish New Year and many holidays a few weeks after school begins.

Are there any misconceptions about the local group?

The greatest misconception is that Chabad is here to serve orthodox Jews only. People ask, “Why did you move here? There aren’t that many Orthodox students on campus.”

That is the greatest misconception. We reach beyond labels. Chabad strives to respect and accept everyone as they are, not as others think they should be. We are here to provide opportunities for everyone to learn and celebrate their Jewish heritage, regardless of their background or affiliation. This is the same atmosphere and feeling of acceptance you will find at any Chabad center worldwide.

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

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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.

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

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

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3 Br House for rent. Includes parking, W/D, $975/month 369-4459

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.

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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

Very Large 2 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory, Big rooms, walk-in closets, Great location. $650-$680 Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com

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he Craft League of Champaign-Urbana meets once a month. It is an informal meeting which takes place at Strawberry Fields at 8 a.m. on the second Tuesday of the month. According to Jill Bush, who is the president of the League, anyone is welcome to attend. While there, the Craft League discusses everyday things, like how the kids are and what is going on in the community. Sometimes, people have a show and tell wherein they show what they are working on or discuss some new technique they’ve discovered.

The Craft League is pretty lax when it comes to attendance at these meetings and they are mostly social outings, Bush says.

This creates an atmosphere for beginning artisans to become comfortable with more experienced crafts people. That does not mean that being a member of the group is purely an excuse to socialize.

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ince its opening in March of 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma has been the quintessential American musical. Its title song is even the official state song of Oklahoma, the only Broadway showtune that has that distinction. So when a British director, Trevor Nunn, teamed with a famous American choreogra-

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ing to crafts. In the past, the group has had meetings with financial planners about being self-employed, Bush says. For the most part, the group allows artists access to information that will help them market themselves and improve their skills.

“People bring in projects that they are working on in which they had become stuck, and needed some feedback,” Bush says.

Beverly Fagan makes jewelry and has been a member of the Craft League since it first began 22 years ago. At the time the group started, many artisans in the community had met in small groups independ-

ently of one another. They desired unity and decided to start a larger group. “We all had a lot of smaller mailing lists (from the smaller groups) and put those together and started a larger meeting. We met once a month, and there were all types of crafts people involved,” Fagan says.

Charlie Sweitzer is a wood maker who makes Shaker boxes and chairs. He is owner of a company called Boxes and Boards. His time with the Craft League has given him experience that has aided in the running of his independently-owned business. “A lot of the people in the league are artists who are honestly employed. When you start showing or putting yourself out there, you see that it is the public who makes the final decision about your end product, and that is expressed by whether or not they buy that product,” Sweitzer says.

Each November, the Craft League has a juried group show at the Urbana Civic Center.

This creates an opportunity for community

members to purchase interesting and unique gifts from skilled crafts people. Artisans from all over, even non-members of the group are invited to apply. The application process took place at the beginning of the summer. There are 25-30 spots open. Fagan is the head of the jury and says that the committee judges on the overall quality, idea, conception and look of objects among other things. The Craft League also has a booth wherein all members are given the chance to show their work, even if they were not picked for the exhibit.

The competition gives artisans a chance to see what else is out there and what else is selling. Sweitzer’s advice to those who have not yet been able to sell their work is simple.

“Look at what you’re selling. Maybe it’s good but people just aren’t buying it. Maybe add something more marketable, or maybe go to an area where your work will sell. For instance, I make antique chairs and I know that those are only going to sell in certain places,” Sweitzer says. buzz

pher, Susan Stroman, to “redo” this icon of the musical theater, many were skeptical.

Their concept, when matched with the brilliant designs of Anthony Ward, more than overwhelmed the doubters and even grabbed a couple of Tony Awards to boot.

Now, a national touring company has arrived at Chicago’s splendid Auditorium Theatre at 30 E. Congress Parkway in the South Loop, until August 1. Naturally, there are fears of reconstructed direction and second-rate casts, but fear not with this one.

Director Fred Hanson and choreographer Ginger Thatcher have faithfully recreated this rethought Oklahoma with a no-name all-North American cast that really shines. Even those replacement dance scenes for Agnes de Mille’s

ground-breaking choreography are original and breathtaking. Amanda Rose, who plays Laurie and dances her scenes in the dream sequence, is outstanding in both roles. Here, the touring cast has one on Broadway and in London, where Laurie danced superbly, but barely had the voice for such a demanding role. Now, the “no-name” does the job.

In Agnes de Mille’s original concept, the dancers in the dream sequence were different from their regular stage characters and could specialize. Here, Curley and Laurie must dance their alter egos in the dream sequence.

You can see Agnes de Mille’s original dance concepts in the DVD of the 1955 film version, directed by Fred Zinnemann. This excellent cinematic transformation was even produced

by Rodgers and Hammerstein and was the first movie shot in 70mm. The wonderful DVD transfer is from the 70mm print. Gordon MacCrae and Shirley Jones, in their film debuts, are the leads.

If you cannot make it to the Auditorium Theatre by August 1, check out the Trevor Nunn-directed DVD record of his London productions with Susan Stroman’s wonderful new choreography. Hugh Jackman (an Aussie) and Josephina Gabrielle (a Brit) are the leads. Note Shuler Hensley ‘s Jud; he is truly scene dominating in this often underappreciated part.

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glass from shattering the finished bead.

Having done glass painting some years ago, luckily I already owned an Evenheat kiln which was more than suitable for annealing; I also use it for glass fusing. My materials include a lot of Moretti and Bullseye glass rods, bead separator (a ceramic powder in liquid suspension) that prevents hot glass from sticking to the mandrels, and quite a few mandrels. Mandrels are rods made of welding wire and are used to build the beads on.

Usually I use 3/32 size mandrels, and coated with the bead separator and placed in a rod holder until I’m ready to use one.

I have a few tools for shaping the glass.

Until recently, I didn’t use tools very much, preferring to shape the glass through manipulation of heat and gravity. I found tools difficult to work with, in fact. The basic glass working tool is the marver (the word comes from the French word for “marble” because a lot of marvering tables used in glassblowing were made from marble). Nowadays, the marvering tool is made of graphite. It is used to shape and even move the glass on the mandrel while it is hot, enduring that the bead or sculptural item is properly centered on the mandrel and evenly shaped all round. Other tools can be used to give surface texture to a bead, or to completely reshape it if desired.

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than Y. Chilton is a longtime resident of Urbana (1959-1968, and then 1981-present) with strong roots both in the Midwest and the San Francisco area. She has done all sorts of creative art all of her life, beginning with drawing, painting and writing stories as a small child. Her first creative love was music. After six years of piano lessons, she fell in love with guitar, and went on to play rhythm guitar, sing lead vocals, and write music for an experimental rock band on campus (1967-68). She then pursued a popular musical career until her mid-30s. During that time, she was also producing paintings, mostly in watercolor, and making leather wall hangings, pillow covers, and clothing constructed of leather and fur, crochet and knitting, all combined. Around 1989, she began working seriously in stained glass and eventually shifted her focus to hot glass. Music continues to be important in her life, though, and after a hiatus of some years, she has returned to solo playing. She composed and recorded a CD of mostly original work while in Northern California this past summer.

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What is your technical inspiration?

I have looked at many others’ beads, of course, both photographs of ancient beads and the work of current artists. I can’t say I am precisely inspired by any one particular person’s work, or style, and I’ve never wanted to copy anybody else’s work in any case.

But there are some techniques that I really like, for instance Kristen Frantzen Orr’s “flower plunge” technique, which produces a bubble at the heart of a flower shape formed beneath the surface of a bead. I’m very fond of an ancient and still very popular style of bead called “striated dots” or “raised eyes.” My version of this technique creates a bead with stacks of multicolored dots. Limitless effects are possible with this

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It’s really simple, which partially accounts for the popularity of flameworking these days. I began with a Hot Head torch, which is an inexpensive ($40) single fuel surface mix torch. “Surface mix” means that the gas (propane, in the size of tank you would use for a barbecue grill) mixes with air as it emerges from the torch and ignites. I used the Hot Head for two years, and then got a Nortel minor burner ($160 or thereabouts), which is also a surface mix torch but instead of relying on external air, it also is fed with oxygen from a tank. The oxygen mixes with the propane, and the flame size, shape and properties are completely adjustable for different purposes during the work. The other really significant tool required in hot glass working is a kiln or annealing oven. There are all sorts of these, and nowadays there are small annealers made specifically for beadworkers. The purpose of annealing glass beads is to prevent the internal stresses in the

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technique, which dates back to the Warring States beads of ancient China and is also echoed in the “evil eye” beads one finds commonly in places like Turkey.

I have books by current beadworkers Bandhu Scott Dunham and Jim Smircich which offer instructions in various techniques as well, and I study these for inspiration and to expand my knowledge of possibilities.

I’m more strongly affected by culture and history in my finished jewelry designs, many of which incorporate my glass beads. But I also for a number of years have been producing necklaces which draw upon Chinese and Tibetan motifs and materials. I don’t try to reproduce a piece from history, but I allow the design elements of jewelry from these cultures to guide my own choices in some instances. Often, though, when I either make a piece centering on my own beads, or when I’m at a gem show purchasing gemstone beads or metal beads for my finished pieces, I find that the materials themselves often suggest designs to me.

Last year, I came into possession of an Inuit fossil-ivory pendant with an incredibly carved scene of Inuit mythology, and the setting of this piece into a finished necklace took me far from the world of round glass beads. I used all natural-material beads in the weaving and sewing of the frame for this pendant and the result looks organic, as if the pendant grew inside its setting.

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What do people do with your beads?

Good question! I think some people simply wear them on the cord that I give them upon their purchase of a bead. Others seem to be collecting a series of beads from me, based upon a color range or a certain style, and perhaps when they have collected as many of my beads as they want in that “series,” we will put them into a finished necklace with some additional unifying design elements. Maybe people hang them in windows, for all I know!

I have sold beads to other jewelry makers who incorporate them into their own work, which is wonderful to see.

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ly,” John said. “All this stuff was handed to us see John returning to play live in C-U, and wonders what has happened in the past few and it just snowballed from there.”

John’s retelling of the band’s history and his years. The two talk music with John eagerly life with music is told with the same humility. talking about his recent musical infatuations, John’s involvement in music goes back to his including hardcore L.A. punk band Fear and n the space normally reserved for coffee early teens. He said he picked up the bass in 7th the bearded classic rockers ZZ Top. “Can’t get drinkers and Mac-using grad students, the stage grade, in admiration of Skid Row bassist Rachel enough of ‘em,” John says to Fairfield.

Bands like ZZ Top don’t seem like heavy is set for “Indie Rock Meets Urbana.” The festi- Bolan’s nose jewelry. Once he made the journey influences on John’s val-type line-up of numerous bands transforms from his hometown Beauty Shop writing Caffe Paradiso into a concert venue for hipsters Arlington Heights to style, and leaves one and C-U music fans alike. For many , this event the University of wondering if he is marks the return of The Beauty Shop to C-U; Illinois in 1996, he serious. Those unfafound himself a memtheir first performance in nearly two years. miliar with John aside Singer/songwriter John Hoeffleur stands ber of Jove. As a freshfrom his music may outside Paradiso holding his concealed beer man in college, he was think he sits around beverage talking to old friends and fans about playing bass with – John Hoeffleur of The Beauty Shop listening to dark folk the band’s upcoming album and tour of Garenne Bigby and singers like Nick England. For John, this is merely a return to the Josh Augustine on guiDrake and Leonard and Brett fold of C-U music’s scene and a chance to tar, Cohen, but he prefers stretch his “show legs” before their trip across Sanderson on drums.

John found himself befriending members of The to listen to whatever he likes, citing advice the Atlantic in August.

“Here, we’re off schedule,” John said. “But Blackouts as well as playing bass with them on from a friend at Parasol.

“Mike Roux from Parasol once said to me, there (UK), we are right on time releasing our part of their first record.

He soon made the decision to focus on gui- ‘There are no guilty pleasures, just submit,’” new CD in a few weeks. It’s easy for them to think we’re a cut above the rest because we’ve tar, choosing to play what he called protest and John said. “Cool is an illusion and isn’t repremade it across the Atlantic, but we’re really not political songs in the coffeehouse circuit. He sentative of what’s good.”

“I still remember the first birthday party of that different than any other band.” The new met Casey Smith, who played drums for The album, titled Crisis Helpline, comes two years Beauty Shop for two years, and the two record- yours we played at with people fighting on the after the release of Yr Money Yr Life in England ed a demo called Grief EP. After a few talked- fucking roof with swords,” John continues with about local performances, the EP made its way Fairfield. Those lucky enough to see The and four years after its American release.

John talks about the C-U music scene, often to Parasol Records. John was offered the Beauty Shop in their infancy know their willmaking references to clubs, bars and bands chance to record an album via Parasol. ingness to play any venue, including living that no longer exist. It’s this wistful “back in Simultaneously, they auditioned bassist Ariane rooms and birthday parties. Fairfield happened the day” attitude that distinguishes John as a Peralta who responded to a handwritten to be a particularly lucky fan; the band performed at two of his birthday parties. seasoned performer in the community. But for “bassist wanted” ad on campus.

It’s this down-to-earth attitude that sepa“We’re a meritocracy,” John said. “If you’ve those who only recently dove into C-U’s music culture, The Beauty Shop is usually referred to got the skills to play, then you’re in. Ariane rates John and the band from many other artists. Getting on stage at Paradiso an houras “that band that did an awesome cover of auditioned for us and she was it.”

Ariane has been with the band since 1999 and-a-half later than scheduled—”These The Misfits at The Great Cover-Up back in 2002.” John is most humble about The Beauty and complements John perfectly. She has an Woodstock events are never on time,” John Shop’s accomplishments, saying that anyone understated, more reserved personality than jokes—John leans into the microphone singing with the drive and passion for music can do it. John, but when it comes to performing, she is the theme song to Channel 3 WCIA, eliciting “We didn’t have to work for anything real- right alongside him musically. The drummer laughter from the eager fans. He is quick to position has seen the thank everyone in attendance for coming. He most changes, with stops to thank all other parties involved with four different drum- making the show happen. Sure, it’s the typical mers in five years’ crowd pandering seen at sold-out shows in Chicago, but with John, it’s real. time.

“We always said, if there are more people in “The package deal of the song includes attendance than members of the band, it’s a everyone in the band show,” John said. “If there are fewer in attenregardless if you’re dance than band members, then it’s a practice. playing a barebones Either way, we could use it.”

This performance is more than a practice. melody,” Ariane said.

“Being flashy doesn’t John’s easy-going personality and excellent conequal sounding good, versation skills makes him a natural performer. especially with our For having not performed live in C-U for sometime, John is surprisingly at ease. style of music.”

This show reunites John with fellow Jove Outside Paradiso, Ariane eats a sand- member Brett Sanderson on drums (the hardwich and talks to a est working musician in C-U). It’s hard to friend while John believe this is the band’s first concert back in points out who he C-U, with their performance synching up for considers The Beauty most of the show. As one would expect, the Shop’s biggest fan, occasional slip-up occurs—John dropping his Chris Fairfield. pick and accidentally unplugging his guitar, John Hoeffleur, Ariane Peralta and Brett Sanderson are the Beauty Shop.

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icked eye contact between band members are few and far between. John is a natural performer with not one ounce of anxiety showing and a superb ability to make the crowd laugh.

“We don’t have MTV dreams,” John said. “I want to connect with people at our shows.

Having some melody that fucks with their head long after we’re done is a real accomplishment.”

After the show, John and Ariane help Brett pack up his drums. They discuss how the show went and are relatively pleased with the first gig as the newly remodeled Beauty Shop.

“John and I have been playing together for so long that toying with parts of songs comes naturally,” Ariane said. “Brett caught on real quick. His drumming is just what we needed.”

The first record, Yr Money Yr Life, certainly contains a number of haunting melodies that stick in the listener’s head after one listen. The album received numerous positive reviews with many mentioning the lyrics in the company of dark American songwriters and comparing the sound to many alt-country bands of the ‘90s.

“The first record is a picture in time for me,” John said. “Many of the songs are about mental health mostly; depression, heartbreak and drug abuse.”

The new record was recorded throughout the past year with UK label Shoeshine promising to release it August 30 in England (still unsure about a U.S. release date). John said it deals with mental health but on a broader scale. He considers the album better in all regards, including production and songwriting. It’s more upbeat than the first record.

“It’s still crazy to me we have this UK record deal,” Ariane said. “And that is the real deal. I would be a fool to pass up the opportunities the band has been offered.”

“The way to get success is to focus on the moment,” John said. “Getting it right for the fans in Champaign is the start.” John continues with his modesty, saying that what he and the band are doing is nothing special. But recently, he discovered their latest single was the “single of the week” on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 radio show.

“I feel like a goofball Patch Adams saying, ‘Anyone can do it,’” John said. “A lot of kids have something in their head telling them they can’t play like me. But do you think Gene Simmons is any kind of genius?” buzz

The Beauty Shop’s latest album, Crisis Helpline, is set for release via Shoeshine records in the UK August 30. The band will be playing several concerts in London supporting the release. The band hopes to have the album released in the U.S. before the end of the year.

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UNBUNNY Snow Tires Parasol

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BY LOGAN MOORE

Halfway through “Casserole,” the first track of Unbunny’s latest LP Snow Tires, a bit of an epiphany came upon me. I know, epiphanies are normally reserved for alcoholics and messiahs but, I’m telling ya’, I had an epiphany dammit, and it was this: All these, lame-assed music critics who carp about the over-abundance of bands and albums doting the landscape of indie-rock are patently wrong, possibly stupid. I know it’s not Skakespeare but there it is. It seems every time I pick up a rock mag some bespectacled, condescending hack decides to invoke the image of indie-rock as an endless sea of mediocrity. Well, listen now dear reader, and believe later; this is a steaming load of monkey shit propagated by bitter curmudgeons whose chosen lot in life is to compare everything that crosses their cigarette and porn-strewn desk to The Beatles, The Pixies, The Clash etc.

Snow Tires exihibits the weak logic inherent in this argument far more eloquently than my vulgar, semi-conversational prose ever could.The little promotional sticker on the cover compares the music within to Elliot Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Harvest-era Neil Young.

Rarely are promotional stickers so accurate. Jared Del Dio, who has released several albums on obscuro labels as Unbunny, as well as aiding and abetting with numerous other outfits, has finally hit that magic vein of confessional songwriting that validates the whole genre.

Del Dio’s paper thin falsetto marries the world-worn innocence of Neil Young to the lovely plaintive, pop melodies of such latter day masters as Mathew Sweet and Robert Pollard, the kind of musical stew that immediately connects with the listener. His songs largely eschew typical verse-chorus structure instead building subtly and organically, meandering deliciously from one moment of fragile beauty to the next. Snow Tires is an album that wholly evokes the Mid-West.The lyrics suggest the travails of any directionless young man, dragging a six-pack and a broken heart through the flat, grey landscape of rural neighborhoods, white picket fences running past gravel roads which lead to Wal-Mart parking lots. Oh yeah, this album is SAD. The wistful, far-off wail of guitar and florid keyboards of ‘FM’ will remind you of lonely winter nights spent wishing he/she’d forgive you.

The music itself services the songs perfectly, mostly built around strummed acoustic guitar, augmented by subtle accents of electric guitar, keyboard, a children’s choir here and there. Just enough to keep the album interesting, slightly off-kilter, but never drowning the songs in sonic brew-ha-ha, a move that would absolutely kill it’s striking intimacy. And yes, Snow Tires never rises above the amorphous genre of “indie-rock,” simply because it doesn’t have to. It’s music that never places empty innovation above simple emotional honesty, which, if I’m not mistaken, is why so many people, music critics included, fell in love with this music in the first place. Ultimately, with the increasing homogenization of art and culture to which so many Americans pledge their time and dollars, is it really so awful that there exists an abundance of people compelled to make music because they can, because it makes sense to them? In the face of such a gem as Snow Tires the answer is a most definite no.

The blending of heavy guitars, punk, pop and strong lyrics give Final Straw an alternative to a straight-out rock record. Influenced by everyone from Dinosaur Jr. to Soundgarden, this trio out of Britain made an album that manages to blend both English and American pop and punk influences to create their own distinct sound.

Exploring new genres is one of the primary goals of Snow Patrol lead singer Gary Lightbody and guitarist Mark McCelland.

“Whenever we go anywhere new, we’re like kids in a huge empty house. We want to explore all these big spaces, climb into the attic and rake among boxes and get down in to the basement and find the stuff that has bee n stashed away,” said lead singer Gary Lightobody.

With all three singles on the album sounding so distinctly different, it is easy to see why Snow Patrol wanted to call themselves “The Something.” The album starts out with the lyrically strong “How to Be Dead” which also has a great melody. Another standout song “Run”combines a haunting guitar riffs with romantic lyrics. “Spitting Games,” the strongest track on the album, has an unmistakably catchy beat and is great ear candy. With Lightbody writing about everything from lost love to the conflict in Iraq, Final Straw is a reflective album with a conscious. With the popularity of other experimental pop bands like the Postal Service and Coldplay it seems as if Snow Patrol has found a good musical niche. There are very few records out there that can make a person feel such a wide spectrum of emotions, but Final Straw has succeeded in doing just that.

KEANE Hopes and Fears Interscope Records

SNOW PATROL Final Straw A & M Records

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BY VIMAL SONI

It’s hard to put a definitive label on the new album from Snow Patrol. Their ability to mix different genres of music makes their third album, Final Straw, one of the best surprises of the year. This British band started ten years ago at Dundee University and has released two albums under their Scotland record company. However, it is with this third album that they have fused together their sound to perfection.

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy a.k.a. Will Oldham has announced work on a new album due out this fall. The album is apparently a collaboration with Matt Sweeney of Chavez and Zwan. Additionally, Oldham will release a split EP with Brightblack, titled Pebbles and Ripples, which will feature covers of songs by The Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Phil Ochs and George Gershwin.

The lineup has been announced for the sixth annual Voodoo Music Festival. The festival, which will be held at New Orleans City Park on Oct. 16 and 17, is set to include headliners The Beastie Boys, Green Day, Velvet Revolver and Kid Rock, as well as second stage acts including The Pixies, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Polyphonic Spree, De La Soul, Sonic Youth, Phantom Planet, Paul Van Dyk, The Killers and a reunited A Tribe Called Quest.

Keane will not be able to outrun the popular comparisons to Coldplay, which many critics have used to describe the band. While they share a few similarities, there’s not much past the English heritage and piano emphasis. Speaking of which, Keane puts the piano in the piano-driven rock genre. No track escapes the ivory keys while every song is comprised of the piano (Oxley-Rice), drums (Hughes), and Chaplin’s voice. Oxley-Rice is also accredited with the bass, but that is only used sparingly.

I admit that when I first listened to the opening track “Somewhere Only We Know” I immediately wrote off Chaplin’s voice as too weak to carry any of the songs. I quickly changed my mind after hearing more of the song and its following tracks. Chaplin’s vocals are more than adequate while at times piercingly eloquent, as in the songs “This Is the Last Time,” and “She Has No Time.”

Chaplin shows great vocal flexibility throughout the album, providing feeling while interchanging strong and soft sounds. He has no problems carrying the songs.

Hopes and Fears is the emotional ride the title suggests. Emotion is delivered evenly through both the vocals and lyrics. Most songs sound to relate more to fears than to hopes though. Song topics are passionate and easy to relate to. Subject matter includes relational neglect in “We Might As Well Be Strangers,” and feeling lost in a world of growth and adjustment in “Everybody’s Changing.” All three members take part in songwriting, which is generally strong throughout. The album benefits from a great sense of consistency throughout the tracks. Certain imagery and words appear more than once in the album. Such connections include mornings, forgetting names, and variations of the line “I’ll meet you on the other side.” Rather than a sense of redundancy, these instances lend strength and consistency. This gives the band a solid identity. And while you may hear them likened to their English counterparts Coldplay, Keane is very much their own band with their own sound.

BY BRIAN KLEIN

It’s no secret that Great Britain can produced a successful rock band. Well, those Brits are still producing bands and enough youngsters for new bands. One of their most recent contributions to the music industry is the highly-acclaimed (that is, by the British press) pianoled pop/rock group Keane. Members Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, and Tim Oxley-Rice are said to be childhood friends that formed the band in their college days back in 1997. Originally a cover band, they finally produced their own album Hopes and Fears earlier this year.

It’s hard to imagine them covering other songs while they had so much potential, now manifested in their fulllength debut.

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The Hurly-Burly Synth-loving French duo M83 will tour North America for the first time come September. The tour kicks off Sept. 13 and ends on Sept. 20, yet manages to hit Chicago, New York, L.A. and Seattle along the way. The band will tour in support of the domestic release of their acclaimed 2003 release Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts via Mute.

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Moment of the week Alice Cooper , still creepy largely because he’s like 60 and still wears black satin and mascara, is set to star in the latest ad campaign for Staples Inc. The commercials depict Cooper shopping for school supplies with his daughter and cleverly incorporate lyrics from his famous ode to delinquency “School’s Out.” Apparently, it was a far more apt choice for selling looseleaf paper than “Dead Babies.”

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CHICAGOSHOWS JULY 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 DJ Pierre, Adonis, Mike Dearborn @ Smart Bar 7/30 Jesse Harris, Ken Stringfellow @ Schubas 7/30 BR549 @ FitzGerald’s 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 Growing @ Subterranean 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

AUGUST – THRU 8/17 8/1 John Mayer @ Tweeter Center 8/1-2 Jill Scott @ House of Blues -- 8/1 sold out 8/3 Styx @ Vic -- sold out 8/4 Creedence Clearwater Revisited @ Ravinia 8/4 LucyBell @ Metro, 18+ 8/4 Bill Passalaqua @ Schubas 8/4-5 Liz Phair, Cardigans, Katy Rose, Charlotte Martin @ House of Blues, all-ages (8/4), Skyline Stage (8/5) 8/5 American Idols Live @ United Center 8/5 David Cassidy @ House of Blues 8/5 Harry Connick Jr. @ Rosemont Theatre 8/6 Cibelle @ HotHouse 8/6 Marah @ Schubas 8/6 Los Strait Jackets @ Abbey Pub 8/6 Raoul Belmans @ Smart Bar 8/6 A.C. Newman @ Bottom Lounge 8/6 Mr. Cheeks @ House of Blues, 18+ 8/7 Everyones @ Subterranean 8/7 Butch Walker @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 8/7 Sister Child @ Double Door 8/7 Glen Campbell @ House of Blues 8/7 Hold Steady @ Bottom Lounge 8/7 Procussions @ Schubas 8/7 Rabbit in the Moon, DJ Swamp @ Congress Theater, 18+ 8/7 Lonesome Organist, Plush @ Old Town School of Folk Music 8/7 Kenny Dixon Jr. @ Smart Bar 8/7 & 27 Linkin Park, Korn, Snoop Dogg, Used @ Tweeter Center (8/7), Alpine Valley (8/27) 8/7-8 Dave Matthews Band @ Alpine Valley 8/8 Josh Groban @ Tweeter Center 8/8 Lalah Hathaway @ Harold Washington Cultural Center 8/9 Mutual Admiration Society @ Metro, all-ages 8/10 Big Head Todd & the Monsters, George Thorogood & the Destroyers @ Ravinia 8/10 Power Ups @ Double Door 8/11 Elefant @ Double Door 8/11 Jerry Jeff Walker @ House of Blues 8/12 Chronic Future @ Metro, 18+ 8/12 Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Keller Williams, Yonder Mountain String Band @ Aragon, all-ages 8/12 Cure, Interpol, Rapture, Mogwai @ Tweeter Center 8/13 Amp Fiddler @ HotHouse 8/13 Ledisi, Van Hunt @ Harold Washington Cultural Center

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8/13 Cheap Trick @ Skyline Stage -- sold out 8/13 Gary US Bonds @ FitzGerald’s 8/13 Rita Moreno @ Ravinia 8/13 Presidents of the United States of America, Local H, Sponge @ New City YMCA 8/13 Bowling for Soup @ House of Blues, all-ages 8/13 Phil Vassar @ Joe’s 8/13-14 Polyphonic Spree @ Park West, all-ages 8/13-14 Erase Errata @ Fireside Bowl (8/13), Empty Bottle (8/14) 8/14 Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie @ New City YMCA 8/14 Fishbone @ Subterranean 8/14 Archer Prewitt @ Schubas 8/14 & 21 Ozzfest w/Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Slayer @ Alpine Valley (8/14), Tweeter Center (8/21) 8/14 Jesse Malin @ Double Door 8/14 Sick of it All @ House of Blues, all-ages 8/14 Dresden Dolls @ Schubas, all-ages 8/15 Fear Factory @ Metro, all-ages 8/15 Static-X, Trust Company @ Tweeter Center 8/15 Heart @ House of Blues – sold out 8/16 Elvis Spectacular @ House of Blues, 18+ 8/17 Pink Floyd Experience @ House of Blues, 18+ 8/17 Ming & FS @ Empty Bottle

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Dawna Nelson Trio – The Iron Post, 7pm Acoustic Music Series: Noah M.S. Harris, Joyful Sorrow – Aroma, 8pm, free Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Acoustic Music Series: Larry Gates – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free The Bass Bag Quintet with Lily Wilcock – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3 Beat Kitchen, The Rex/Tugwell Jazz Experience – Canopy Club, 10pm, $3 CD Release Show: i:scintilla w/ 2ON2OUT – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

The Humans, Dropped, Matt Livasy, The Suppositories, Six Inch Punch, The Locked Sound – Wake the Dead Cafe, 5-11pm, $5 Electric Wood – Embassy Tavern, 8:30pm, free One Night Stand – The Iron Post, 9pm Rob McColley, Loretta, Steve Lamos – Mike ’n Molly's, 9pm, cover Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Saliva, Earshot, Skillet – Canopy Club, 10pm, $15 Baked – Tommy G's, 10pm, cover The Impalas (unplugged) – Hubers, 8pm, free

DJ DJ J-Phlip – house – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Stifler – ’80s hair bands – Tommy G's, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free DJ Delayney – reggae, soul, hip-hop – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance, R&B – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

DJ Resonate – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10pm, free 2ON2OUT Sniffs the ’80s – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams – dance – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Impact – Nargile, 10pm DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance, R&B – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $4

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FridayJuly30 LIVE MUSIC Chambana – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, free Mother Lode – The Iron Post, 5-7pm Four Shillings Short – celtic, folk, Indian raga - Mike ’n Molly's beergarden, 5-10pm, cover The Prairie Dogs – bluegrass – Tommy G's, 5-7pm, free Music Among the Vines: Shadows of Doubt – Alto Vineyards, 5:30-8:30pm, $3 Food Not Bombs Benefit Show: Green Light Go, Turn Pale, The Maybellines – Red Herring, 8pm, $5 Kilborn Alley – The Iron Post, 9pm A Fond Farewell to Solips: Solips, Quatre Tete, Smoke Off Vinyl, Little Black Spiders – Nargile, 9pm Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Pariah, Funky Circus Fleas, Button Hook – Canopy Club, 10pm, $5 Big Mo and the Phat Groove – funk, jazz, R&B – Tommy G's, 10pm, cover Big Bang Theory – Fat City Saloon, 8pm, $5 The Madcats – ’80s glam rock – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $3 The Martini Brothers – Hubers, 8pm, free

DJ DJ Bozak – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free Onda Tropicale: DJ Mambo Italiano – reggae, island, Brasilian house – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Lil' Big Bass – Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5

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

SundayAugust01

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

TuesdayAugust03 LIVE MUSIC Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free The Phunk Junkeez – Canopy Club, 10pm, $10 Adam Wolfe's Acoustic Night with Jess Greenlee – Tommy G's, 10pm, free The Cover Up, jigGsaw, Ryan's Hope, Herion Jane – punk – Nargile, 10pm, $3 Irish DJ – Mike ’n Molly's, 5-10pm, free DJ Sophisto – house, funk – Barfly, 9pm, free The Blackouts Congrats Party w/2ON2OUT, DJ Noiseboy and DJ Wife of the Lead Singer – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free DJ Hoff – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 NOX: DJ ZoZo, The Brides – The Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Lil' Big Bass – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

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“G” Force Karaoke/DJ – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm1am, free

Leigh Meador Quintet – The Iron Post, 8-10pm Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm, free The Beauty Shop, Mad Science Fair – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $3 Winter in Alaska – Nargile, 10pm, $3

WednesdayAugust04

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

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

MondayAugust02 LIVE MUSIC Sevendust, Non-Point, Skindred, Travisty Theory – Canopy Club, 7pm, $23 Jazz Jam with ParaDocs – The Iron Post, 8-11pm Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Wolfe – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Open Mic with host Brandon T. Washington – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Jazz Night – Nargile, 10pm

‘G” Force Karaoke – Urbana American Legion, 8pm1am

BOB ’N DAVE

BY DAVID KING

JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 2004 | DRINKS FOR THE BLACKOUTS ON IGGY POP.

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Salsa dancing – Lava, 11pm-2am

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The Greedy Loves, American Princes, Brandon T. Washington – The Iron Post, 9pm, $3 Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G's, 9pm, free Open Mic Night hosted by Aaron Logan – Nargile, 10pm

DJ Chef Ra – reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Salsateca! with DJ Bris – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Boardwalk (Joel Spencer) – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

DANCING Dancing – Lava, 9pm-2am, cover

KARAOKE “Liquid Courage Karaoke” – Geovanti’s on campus, 10pm-2am “G” Force Karaoke & DJ – TNT Corner Tavern in Rantoul, 8pm-12am

Blackouts win!

BY JACOB DITTMER | MUSIC EDITOR

C

ongratulations are in order for Champaign-Urbana’s darling garage rock ‘n’ roll band The Blackouts. They were chosen “the best unsigned garage band in the U.S.” this past weekend after winning Little Steven’s Rockin’ Garage competition.

Little Steven’s competition narrowed down about 1,000 submissions to 150 bands competing in nine regional competitions.

The winners from each regional competition went on to compete at New York’s Irving Plaza this past week. Chicago was the nearest (and farthest west) of the regional competitions for The Blackouts.

“Our contract with Lucid Records had just run out,” said Blackouts singer and guitarist Steven Ucherek. “We sent them a couple of the tracks from our latest album, Living in Blue, and we were in.”

The victory in Chicago gave the band new equipment that they decided to sell in order to purchase a new touring van. They were then flown to New York for the final round on July 23. The band reports they were interviewed by MTV2 for a segment to be aired in August.

The final round at Irving Plaza was in front of a sold-out crowd with Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band) and others participating as the event’s judges.

Ucherek said the band was allowed only enough time for a couple songs and chose to play “No Tomorrow” and “I Have Found Mine,” both from their new record.

Winning the national competition means not only having record labels drooling over themselves to sign the band but also gaining a spot on Little Steven’s Underground Garage Festival. Opening for The Stooges with Iggy Pop and The Strokes may not have been on the itinerary for the summer tour, but The Blackouts will get to do just that.

The Blackouts came to Champaign in 1998 from Odell, Ill., and have made their name on the C-U music scene. Living in Blue was released this past April on Lucid Records and the band has been touring in support of this release for much of the summer. buzz A congratulations party in The Blackouts honor will be held at Cowboy Monkey August 3. 2ON2OUT, The Noiseboy and DJ Wife of the Lead Singer will be spinning tunes. Come down and congratulate the boys on their accomplishment.

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Jill Scott: Aug 1 & 2 at House of Blues Soul singer Jill Scott is R&B at its finest – powerful, poignant and full of style.

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rbana-based alt-country band The Beauty Shop is back in action with new drummer Brett Sanderson, and they sound better than ever.

The band creates loose, mostly acoustic guitar riffs that blend perfectly with the band’s laid back demeanor and easygoing style.They have fun on stage and lead singer John Hoeffleur makes sure the audience does, too. He immediately puts everyone in the room at ease with his sarcasm and self-depracating humor. But it is his vocals and his intense, poignant lyrics that really make The Beauty Shop. He has a deep and powerful voice that makes every song matter, whether he is singing about death, drugs or love. Col. Rhodes and Mad Science Fair will also perform. Head to Cowboy Monkey Sunday at 10 p.m. to catch the show. Cover is $3. Also, check out the feature on The Beauty Shop on Page 9 of this week’s Music section.

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ll right, guys, it’s time for another concert update. Summer may be winding down but it sure ain’t over. Before it is, squeeze in a couple more road trips and a couple more shows. So, here are some

shows coming up in August. If you want a complete listing, check out Chicago Reader’s Early Warnings list at chicagoreader.com. This should at least get you in the mood for a good live show ...

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Sage Francis, Eyedea & Abilities, Slug, and Swiss Army: Aug 21 at Metro Rapper/DJ duo Eyedea & Abilities are guaranteed to please hip-hop fans with their heavy, literate lyrics and catchy beats.

Similarly, tongue-in-cheek confessional rapper Sage Francis is sure to entertain, with Slug and Swiss Army rounding out the acts.

Bebel Gilberto: Aug 23 at Park West Brazilian pop artist Bebel Gilberto is another must-see, a melodic singer who seamlessly blends older Brazilian tunes with a more modern approach.

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Polyphonic Spree: Aug 13 & 14 at Park West Uplifting powerhouse symphonic pop layered with gospel sound set against a backdrop of two dozen musicians dressed in flowing white robes. Needless to say, this show is a must-see.

Musiq: Aug 21 at Vic R&B artist Musiq is at once powerful, spiritual and thoughtful, all while still rapping and singing to the incredible beats in his songs.

llinois-based i:scintilla are releasing their first full-length album Thursday at Cowboy Monkey. Be sure to check it out. This female-fronted electro rock band with hints of industrial rock take influence from everyone from Nine Inch Nails to Radiohead while creating their own unique sound from the mix. The band is still getting its feet wet in the music scene— they got together a little less than a year ago—but their sound and their live shows are memorable. Vocalist Brittany Bindrim heads the band’s sound, crafting lyrics and melodies that recall a euphoria of times past as well as a force to be reckoned with. The lyrics are heartfelt, thoughtful and seductive, each song telling its own story. 2ON2OUT will be there spinning all night, so head to Cowboy Monkey at 10 p.m. to check out the band’s sound as well as their CD. CDs will sell for $5, or throw in a T-shirt and get both for $12. It’s free to get in the door.

T Q y l ass Li $ Br w/ 3

Cure, Interpol, Rapture and Mogwai: Aug 12 at Tweeter Center For a good rock show, not to mention a loud and crazed one, check out this show. All four bands are worth the drive.

Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie: Aug 14 at New City YMCA These two indie rock bands make for a great show – plenty of dancing, plenty of guitar, and plenty of rockin’.

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Jill Scott: Aug 1 & 2 at House of Blues Soul singer Jill Scott is R&B at its finest – powerful, poignant and full of style.

U

rbana-based alt-country band The Beauty Shop is back in action with new drummer Brett Sanderson, and they sound better than ever.

The band creates loose, mostly acoustic guitar riffs that blend perfectly with the band’s laid back demeanor and easygoing style.They have fun on stage and lead singer John Hoeffleur makes sure the audience does, too. He immediately puts everyone in the room at ease with his sarcasm and self-depracating humor. But it is his vocals and his intense, poignant lyrics that really make The Beauty Shop. He has a deep and powerful voice that makes every song matter, whether he is singing about death, drugs or love. Col. Rhodes and Mad Science Fair will also perform. Head to Cowboy Monkey Sunday at 10 p.m. to catch the show. Cover is $3. Also, check out the feature on The Beauty Shop on Page 9 of this week’s Music section.

i:scintilla CDs get ’em while they’re

Show time...

A

ll right, guys, it’s time for another concert update. Summer may be winding down but it sure ain’t over. Before it is, squeeze in a couple more road trips and a couple more shows. So, here are some

shows coming up in August. If you want a complete listing, check out Chicago Reader’s Early Warnings list at chicagoreader.com. This should at least get you in the mood for a good live show ...

I

Sage Francis, Eyedea & Abilities, Slug, and Swiss Army: Aug 21 at Metro Rapper/DJ duo Eyedea & Abilities are guaranteed to please hip-hop fans with their heavy, literate lyrics and catchy beats.

Similarly, tongue-in-cheek confessional rapper Sage Francis is sure to entertain, with Slug and Swiss Army rounding out the acts.

Bebel Gilberto: Aug 23 at Park West Brazilian pop artist Bebel Gilberto is another must-see, a melodic singer who seamlessly blends older Brazilian tunes with a more modern approach.

LIVE JAZZ at

THURSDAY AT 9:30 $3.00 COVER

217-328-5749 or 1-800-252-1355

www.awning-tent.com

Discover beautiful gifts and home decor, all handcrafted by artisans in 32 countries around the world.

Ten Thousand Villages 105 North Walnut, Downtown Champaign Mon–Sat 10–5:30, Fri 10–8:30 217-352-8200 FAIRLY TRADED HANDICRAFTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

tenthousandvillages.com

627 E. GREEN 344-0710

Polyphonic Spree: Aug 13 & 14 at Park West Uplifting powerhouse symphonic pop layered with gospel sound set against a backdrop of two dozen musicians dressed in flowing white robes. Needless to say, this show is a must-see.

Musiq: Aug 21 at Vic R&B artist Musiq is at once powerful, spiritual and thoughtful, all while still rapping and singing to the incredible beats in his songs.

llinois-based i:scintilla are releasing their first full-length album Thursday at Cowboy Monkey. Be sure to check it out. This female-fronted electro rock band with hints of industrial rock take influence from everyone from Nine Inch Nails to Radiohead while creating their own unique sound from the mix. The band is still getting its feet wet in the music scene— they got together a little less than a year ago—but their sound and their live shows are memorable. Vocalist Brittany Bindrim heads the band’s sound, crafting lyrics and melodies that recall a euphoria of times past as well as a force to be reckoned with. The lyrics are heartfelt, thoughtful and seductive, each song telling its own story. 2ON2OUT will be there spinning all night, so head to Cowboy Monkey at 10 p.m. to check out the band’s sound as well as their CD. CDs will sell for $5, or throw in a T-shirt and get both for $12. It’s free to get in the door.

T Q y l ass Li $ Br w/ 3

Cure, Interpol, Rapture and Mogwai: Aug 12 at Tweeter Center For a good rock show, not to mention a loud and crazed one, check out this show. All four bands are worth the drive.

Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie: Aug 14 at New City YMCA These two indie rock bands make for a great show – plenty of dancing, plenty of guitar, and plenty of rockin’.

hot!

g rin g u t t i Fea e B inte h u

A.C. Newman: Aug 6 at Bottom Lounge Lead singer of The New Pornographers is out on his own for awhile, creating beautiful, uplifting tunes with catchy hooks and thoughtful lyrics.

BUY SELL TRADE

CDs LPs DVDs

110 S. Race St. Urbana 367-7927

www.recordswap.com

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The good news...chiropractic health care DOES bring relief and results. It’s a proven fact.

ThursdayJuly29

SaturdayJuly31

LIVE MUSIC

LIVE MUSIC

Dawna Nelson Trio – The Iron Post, 7pm Acoustic Music Series: Noah M.S. Harris, Joyful Sorrow – Aroma, 8pm, free Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Acoustic Music Series: Larry Gates – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free The Bass Bag Quintet with Lily Wilcock – Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3 Beat Kitchen, The Rex/Tugwell Jazz Experience – Canopy Club, 10pm, $3 CD Release Show: i:scintilla w/ 2ON2OUT – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

The Humans, Dropped, Matt Livasy, The Suppositories, Six Inch Punch, The Locked Sound – Wake the Dead Cafe, 5-11pm, $5 Electric Wood – Embassy Tavern, 8:30pm, free One Night Stand – The Iron Post, 9pm Rob McColley, Loretta, Steve Lamos – Mike ’n Molly's, 9pm, cover Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Saliva, Earshot, Skillet – Canopy Club, 10pm, $15 Baked – Tommy G's, 10pm, cover The Impalas (unplugged) – Hubers, 8pm, free

DJ DJ J-Phlip – house – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Stifler – ’80s hair bands – Tommy G's, 9pm, free DJ Bozak – Boltini, 10:30pm, free DJ Delayney – reggae, soul, hip-hop – Nargile, 10pm, $5 DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance, R&B – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

DJ Resonate – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10pm, free 2ON2OUT Sniffs the ’80s – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams – dance – Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Impact – Nargile, 10pm DJ Lamont – hip-hop, dance, R&B – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $4

KARAOKE

DANCING

"G" Force Karaoke – Pia's in Rantoul, 9pm-1am

...

Your First Choice In Health Care!

COVERED BY STUDENT INSURANCE.

CALL 352-9899

(24 hr. Answering Service)

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FridayJuly30 LIVE MUSIC Chambana – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, free Mother Lode – The Iron Post, 5-7pm Four Shillings Short – celtic, folk, Indian raga - Mike ’n Molly's beergarden, 5-10pm, cover The Prairie Dogs – bluegrass – Tommy G's, 5-7pm, free Music Among the Vines: Shadows of Doubt – Alto Vineyards, 5:30-8:30pm, $3 Food Not Bombs Benefit Show: Green Light Go, Turn Pale, The Maybellines – Red Herring, 8pm, $5 Kilborn Alley – The Iron Post, 9pm A Fond Farewell to Solips: Solips, Quatre Tete, Smoke Off Vinyl, Little Black Spiders – Nargile, 9pm Country Connection – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Pariah, Funky Circus Fleas, Button Hook – Canopy Club, 10pm, $5 Big Mo and the Phat Groove – funk, jazz, R&B – Tommy G's, 10pm, cover Big Bang Theory – Fat City Saloon, 8pm, $5 The Madcats – ’80s glam rock – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm-1am, $3 The Martini Brothers – Hubers, 8pm, free

DJ DJ Bozak – hip-hop – Barfly, 9pm, free Onda Tropicale: DJ Mambo Italiano – reggae, island, Brasilian house – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Lil' Big Bass – Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams – Highdive, 10pm, $5

KARAOKE

DJ

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

SundayAugust01

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

TuesdayAugust03 LIVE MUSIC Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free The Phunk Junkeez – Canopy Club, 10pm, $10 Adam Wolfe's Acoustic Night with Jess Greenlee – Tommy G's, 10pm, free The Cover Up, jigGsaw, Ryan's Hope, Herion Jane – punk – Nargile, 10pm, $3 Irish DJ – Mike ’n Molly's, 5-10pm, free DJ Sophisto – house, funk – Barfly, 9pm, free The Blackouts Congrats Party w/2ON2OUT, DJ Noiseboy and DJ Wife of the Lead Singer – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free DJ Hoff – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 NOX: DJ ZoZo, The Brides – The Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Lil' Big Bass – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

KARAOKE

LIVE MUSIC

“G” Force Karaoke/DJ – Diamonds in Rantoul, 9pm1am, free

Leigh Meador Quintet – The Iron Post, 8-10pm Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm, free The Beauty Shop, Mad Science Fair – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $3 Winter in Alaska – Nargile, 10pm, $3

WednesdayAugust04

DJ

LIVE MUSIC

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

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

MondayAugust02 LIVE MUSIC Sevendust, Non-Point, Skindred, Travisty Theory – Canopy Club, 7pm, $23 Jazz Jam with ParaDocs – The Iron Post, 8-11pm Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Wolfe – White Horse Inn, 9:30pm, free Open Mic with host Brandon T. Washington – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Jazz Night – Nargile, 10pm

‘G” Force Karaoke – Urbana American Legion, 8pm1am

BOB ’N DAVE

BY DAVID KING

JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 2004 | DRINKS FOR THE BLACKOUTS ON IGGY POP.

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The Greedy Loves, American Princes, Brandon T. Washington – The Iron Post, 9pm, $3 Hard Poor Korn – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Kilborn Alley – blues – Tommy G's, 9pm, free Open Mic Night hosted by Aaron Logan – Nargile, 10pm

DJ Chef Ra – reggae – Barfly, 9pm, free Salsateca! with DJ Bris – Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, free DJ Boardwalk (Joel Spencer) – Mike ’n Molly's, 10pm, $1 DJ Limbs – Boltini, 10:30pm, free

DANCING Dancing – Lava, 9pm-2am, cover

KARAOKE “Liquid Courage Karaoke” – Geovanti’s on campus, 10pm-2am “G” Force Karaoke & DJ – TNT Corner Tavern in Rantoul, 8pm-12am

Blackouts win!

BY JACOB DITTMER | MUSIC EDITOR

C

ongratulations are in order for Champaign-Urbana’s darling garage rock ‘n’ roll band The Blackouts. They were chosen “the best unsigned garage band in the U.S.” this past weekend after winning Little Steven’s Rockin’ Garage competition.

Little Steven’s competition narrowed down about 1,000 submissions to 150 bands competing in nine regional competitions.

The winners from each regional competition went on to compete at New York’s Irving Plaza this past week. Chicago was the nearest (and farthest west) of the regional competitions for The Blackouts.

“Our contract with Lucid Records had just run out,” said Blackouts singer and guitarist Steven Ucherek. “We sent them a couple of the tracks from our latest album, Living in Blue, and we were in.”

The victory in Chicago gave the band new equipment that they decided to sell in order to purchase a new touring van. They were then flown to New York for the final round on July 23. The band reports they were interviewed by MTV2 for a segment to be aired in August.

The final round at Irving Plaza was in front of a sold-out crowd with Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band) and others participating as the event’s judges.

Ucherek said the band was allowed only enough time for a couple songs and chose to play “No Tomorrow” and “I Have Found Mine,” both from their new record.

Winning the national competition means not only having record labels drooling over themselves to sign the band but also gaining a spot on Little Steven’s Underground Garage Festival. Opening for The Stooges with Iggy Pop and The Strokes may not have been on the itinerary for the summer tour, but The Blackouts will get to do just that.

The Blackouts came to Champaign in 1998 from Odell, Ill., and have made their name on the C-U music scene. Living in Blue was released this past April on Lucid Records and the band has been touring in support of this release for much of the summer. buzz A congratulations party in The Blackouts honor will be held at Cowboy Monkey August 3. 2ON2OUT, The Noiseboy and DJ Wife of the Lead Singer will be spinning tunes. Come down and congratulate the boys on their accomplishment.

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“SCHOOL’S OUT” ISN’T THAT GREAT OF A SONG. | JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 2004

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UNBUNNY Snow Tires Parasol

★★★

BY LOGAN MOORE

Halfway through “Casserole,” the first track of Unbunny’s latest LP Snow Tires, a bit of an epiphany came upon me. I know, epiphanies are normally reserved for alcoholics and messiahs but, I’m telling ya’, I had an epiphany dammit, and it was this: All these, lame-assed music critics who carp about the over-abundance of bands and albums doting the landscape of indie-rock are patently wrong, possibly stupid. I know it’s not Skakespeare but there it is. It seems every time I pick up a rock mag some bespectacled, condescending hack decides to invoke the image of indie-rock as an endless sea of mediocrity. Well, listen now dear reader, and believe later; this is a steaming load of monkey shit propagated by bitter curmudgeons whose chosen lot in life is to compare everything that crosses their cigarette and porn-strewn desk to The Beatles, The Pixies, The Clash etc.

Snow Tires exihibits the weak logic inherent in this argument far more eloquently than my vulgar, semi-conversational prose ever could.The little promotional sticker on the cover compares the music within to Elliot Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Harvest-era Neil Young.

Rarely are promotional stickers so accurate. Jared Del Dio, who has released several albums on obscuro labels as Unbunny, as well as aiding and abetting with numerous other outfits, has finally hit that magic vein of confessional songwriting that validates the whole genre.

Del Dio’s paper thin falsetto marries the world-worn innocence of Neil Young to the lovely plaintive, pop melodies of such latter day masters as Mathew Sweet and Robert Pollard, the kind of musical stew that immediately connects with the listener. His songs largely eschew typical verse-chorus structure instead building subtly and organically, meandering deliciously from one moment of fragile beauty to the next. Snow Tires is an album that wholly evokes the Mid-West.The lyrics suggest the travails of any directionless young man, dragging a six-pack and a broken heart through the flat, grey landscape of rural neighborhoods, white picket fences running past gravel roads which lead to Wal-Mart parking lots. Oh yeah, this album is SAD. The wistful, far-off wail of guitar and florid keyboards of ‘FM’ will remind you of lonely winter nights spent wishing he/she’d forgive you.

The music itself services the songs perfectly, mostly built around strummed acoustic guitar, augmented by subtle accents of electric guitar, keyboard, a children’s choir here and there. Just enough to keep the album interesting, slightly off-kilter, but never drowning the songs in sonic brew-ha-ha, a move that would absolutely kill it’s striking intimacy. And yes, Snow Tires never rises above the amorphous genre of “indie-rock,” simply because it doesn’t have to. It’s music that never places empty innovation above simple emotional honesty, which, if I’m not mistaken, is why so many people, music critics included, fell in love with this music in the first place. Ultimately, with the increasing homogenization of art and culture to which so many Americans pledge their time and dollars, is it really so awful that there exists an abundance of people compelled to make music because they can, because it makes sense to them? In the face of such a gem as Snow Tires the answer is a most definite no.

The blending of heavy guitars, punk, pop and strong lyrics give Final Straw an alternative to a straight-out rock record. Influenced by everyone from Dinosaur Jr. to Soundgarden, this trio out of Britain made an album that manages to blend both English and American pop and punk influences to create their own distinct sound.

Exploring new genres is one of the primary goals of Snow Patrol lead singer Gary Lightbody and guitarist Mark McCelland.

“Whenever we go anywhere new, we’re like kids in a huge empty house. We want to explore all these big spaces, climb into the attic and rake among boxes and get down in to the basement and find the stuff that has bee n stashed away,” said lead singer Gary Lightobody.

With all three singles on the album sounding so distinctly different, it is easy to see why Snow Patrol wanted to call themselves “The Something.” The album starts out with the lyrically strong “How to Be Dead” which also has a great melody. Another standout song “Run”combines a haunting guitar riffs with romantic lyrics. “Spitting Games,” the strongest track on the album, has an unmistakably catchy beat and is great ear candy. With Lightbody writing about everything from lost love to the conflict in Iraq, Final Straw is a reflective album with a conscious. With the popularity of other experimental pop bands like the Postal Service and Coldplay it seems as if Snow Patrol has found a good musical niche. There are very few records out there that can make a person feel such a wide spectrum of emotions, but Final Straw has succeeded in doing just that.

KEANE Hopes and Fears Interscope Records

SNOW PATROL Final Straw A & M Records

★★★

BY VIMAL SONI

It’s hard to put a definitive label on the new album from Snow Patrol. Their ability to mix different genres of music makes their third album, Final Straw, one of the best surprises of the year. This British band started ten years ago at Dundee University and has released two albums under their Scotland record company. However, it is with this third album that they have fused together their sound to perfection.

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy a.k.a. Will Oldham has announced work on a new album due out this fall. The album is apparently a collaboration with Matt Sweeney of Chavez and Zwan. Additionally, Oldham will release a split EP with Brightblack, titled Pebbles and Ripples, which will feature covers of songs by The Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Phil Ochs and George Gershwin.

The lineup has been announced for the sixth annual Voodoo Music Festival. The festival, which will be held at New Orleans City Park on Oct. 16 and 17, is set to include headliners The Beastie Boys, Green Day, Velvet Revolver and Kid Rock, as well as second stage acts including The Pixies, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Polyphonic Spree, De La Soul, Sonic Youth, Phantom Planet, Paul Van Dyk, The Killers and a reunited A Tribe Called Quest.

Keane will not be able to outrun the popular comparisons to Coldplay, which many critics have used to describe the band. While they share a few similarities, there’s not much past the English heritage and piano emphasis. Speaking of which, Keane puts the piano in the piano-driven rock genre. No track escapes the ivory keys while every song is comprised of the piano (Oxley-Rice), drums (Hughes), and Chaplin’s voice. Oxley-Rice is also accredited with the bass, but that is only used sparingly.

I admit that when I first listened to the opening track “Somewhere Only We Know” I immediately wrote off Chaplin’s voice as too weak to carry any of the songs. I quickly changed my mind after hearing more of the song and its following tracks. Chaplin’s vocals are more than adequate while at times piercingly eloquent, as in the songs “This Is the Last Time,” and “She Has No Time.”

Chaplin shows great vocal flexibility throughout the album, providing feeling while interchanging strong and soft sounds. He has no problems carrying the songs.

Hopes and Fears is the emotional ride the title suggests. Emotion is delivered evenly through both the vocals and lyrics. Most songs sound to relate more to fears than to hopes though. Song topics are passionate and easy to relate to. Subject matter includes relational neglect in “We Might As Well Be Strangers,” and feeling lost in a world of growth and adjustment in “Everybody’s Changing.” All three members take part in songwriting, which is generally strong throughout. The album benefits from a great sense of consistency throughout the tracks. Certain imagery and words appear more than once in the album. Such connections include mornings, forgetting names, and variations of the line “I’ll meet you on the other side.” Rather than a sense of redundancy, these instances lend strength and consistency. This gives the band a solid identity. And while you may hear them likened to their English counterparts Coldplay, Keane is very much their own band with their own sound.

BY BRIAN KLEIN

It’s no secret that Great Britain can produced a successful rock band. Well, those Brits are still producing bands and enough youngsters for new bands. One of their most recent contributions to the music industry is the highly-acclaimed (that is, by the British press) pianoled pop/rock group Keane. Members Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, and Tim Oxley-Rice are said to be childhood friends that formed the band in their college days back in 1997. Originally a cover band, they finally produced their own album Hopes and Fears earlier this year.

It’s hard to imagine them covering other songs while they had so much potential, now manifested in their fulllength debut.

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The Hurly-Burly Synth-loving French duo M83 will tour North America for the first time come September. The tour kicks off Sept. 13 and ends on Sept. 20, yet manages to hit Chicago, New York, L.A. and Seattle along the way. The band will tour in support of the domestic release of their acclaimed 2003 release Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts via Mute.

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PARASOL RECORDS TOP 10 SELLERS

What the hell?

Moment of the week Alice Cooper , still creepy largely because he’s like 60 and still wears black satin and mascara, is set to star in the latest ad campaign for Staples Inc. The commercials depict Cooper shopping for school supplies with his daughter and cleverly incorporate lyrics from his famous ode to delinquency “School’s Out.” Apparently, it was a far more apt choice for selling looseleaf paper than “Dead Babies.”

1. Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror - Wake Up Captain (Parasol) 2. Low - A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: B-Sides & Rarities (Chair Kickers) 3. Velvet Crush - Stereo Blues (Action Musik) 4. Unbunny - Snow Tires (Hidden Agenda) 5. Tanya Donelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts (4AD) 6. Trembling Blue Stars - Southern Skies Appear Brighter EP (Elefant) 7. The Velvet Teen - Elysium (Slowdance) 8. Heavy Blinkers - The Night And I Are Still Young (Endearing) 9. The Like Young - So Serious (Parasol) 10. Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow (Sub Pop)

NEW RELEASES LL Cool J - The DEFinition Los Lobos - Ride This: The Covers EP Marc Broussard - Carencro Alex Chilton - Live in Anvers

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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, 3441176 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 Diamonds Steak House & Lounge 424 S Century Blvd, Rantoul, 893-8449 D.R. Diggers 604 S Country Fair Dr, Champaign, 356-0888 Elmer’s Club 45 3525 N Cunningham, Urbana, 344-3101 Embassy Tavern & Grill 114 S Race, Urbana, 384-9526 Esquire Lounge 106 N Walnut, Champaign, 398-5858 Fallon’s Ice House 703 N Prospect, Champaign, 398-5760 Fat City Saloon 505 S Chestnut, Champaign, 356-7100 The Great Impasta 114 W Church, Champaign, 359-7377 G.T.’s Western Bowl Francis Dr, Champaign, 359-1678 Highdive 51 Main, Champaign, 359-4444 Huber’s 1312 W Church, Champaign, 352-0606 Illinois Disciples Foundation 610 E Springfield, Champaign, 352-8721 Independent Media Center 218 W Main St, Urbana, 344-8820 The Iron Post 120 S Race, Urbana, 337-7678 Joe’s Brewery 706 S Fifth, Champaign, 384-1790 Kam’s 618 E Daniel, Champaign, 328-1605 Krannert Art Museum 500 E Peabody, Champaign, 333-1861 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin, Urbana,Tickets: 333-6280, 800-KCPATIX La Casa Cultural Latina 1203 W Nevada, Urbana, 333-4950 Lava 1906 W Bradley, Champaign, 352-8714 Legends Bar & Grill 522 E Green, Champaign, 355-7674 Lincoln Castle 209 S Broadway, Urbana, 344-7720 Lowe’s Big Barrel & Summer Club 14 N Hazel, Danville, 442-8090 Malibu Bay Lounge North Route 45, Urbana, 328-7415 Mike n’ Molly’s 105 N Market, Champaign, 355-1236 Mulligan’s 604 N Cunningham, Urbana, 367-5888 Murphy’s 604 E Green, Champaign, 352-7275 Nargile 207 W Clark St, Champaign

Neil Street Pub 1505 N Neil, Champaign, 359-1601 The Office 214 W Main, Urbana, 344-7608 Parkland College 2400 W Bradley, Champaign, 351-2528 Phoenix 215 S Neil, Champaign, 355-7866 Pia’s of Rantoul Route 136 E, Rantoul, 893-8244 Pink House Routes 49 & 150, Ogden, 582-9997 The Rainbow Coffeehouse 1203 W Green, Urbana, 766-9500 Red Herring/Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W Oregon, Urbana, 344-1176 Rose Bowl Tavern 106 N Race, Urbana, 367-7031 Springer Cultural Center 301 N Randolph, Champaign, 355-1406 Spurlock Museum 600 S Gregory, Urbana, 333-2360 The Station Theatre 223 N Broadway, Urbana, 384-4000 Strawberry Fields Cafe 306 W Springfield, Urbana, 328-1655 Sweet Betsy’s 805 S Philo Rd, Urbana, 344-0414 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, 344-0710

CHICAGOSHOWS JULY 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 DJ Pierre, Adonis, Mike Dearborn @ Smart Bar 7/30 Jesse Harris, Ken Stringfellow @ Schubas 7/30 BR549 @ FitzGerald’s 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 Growing @ Subterranean 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

AUGUST – THRU 8/17 8/1 John Mayer @ Tweeter Center 8/1-2 Jill Scott @ House of Blues -- 8/1 sold out 8/3 Styx @ Vic -- sold out 8/4 Creedence Clearwater Revisited @ Ravinia 8/4 LucyBell @ Metro, 18+ 8/4 Bill Passalaqua @ Schubas 8/4-5 Liz Phair, Cardigans, Katy Rose, Charlotte Martin @ House of Blues, all-ages (8/4), Skyline Stage (8/5) 8/5 American Idols Live @ United Center 8/5 David Cassidy @ House of Blues 8/5 Harry Connick Jr. @ Rosemont Theatre 8/6 Cibelle @ HotHouse 8/6 Marah @ Schubas 8/6 Los Strait Jackets @ Abbey Pub 8/6 Raoul Belmans @ Smart Bar 8/6 A.C. Newman @ Bottom Lounge 8/6 Mr. Cheeks @ House of Blues, 18+ 8/7 Everyones @ Subterranean 8/7 Butch Walker @ Abbey Pub, 18+ 8/7 Sister Child @ Double Door 8/7 Glen Campbell @ House of Blues 8/7 Hold Steady @ Bottom Lounge 8/7 Procussions @ Schubas 8/7 Rabbit in the Moon, DJ Swamp @ Congress Theater, 18+ 8/7 Lonesome Organist, Plush @ Old Town School of Folk Music 8/7 Kenny Dixon Jr. @ Smart Bar 8/7 & 27 Linkin Park, Korn, Snoop Dogg, Used @ Tweeter Center (8/7), Alpine Valley (8/27) 8/7-8 Dave Matthews Band @ Alpine Valley 8/8 Josh Groban @ Tweeter Center 8/8 Lalah Hathaway @ Harold Washington Cultural Center 8/9 Mutual Admiration Society @ Metro, all-ages 8/10 Big Head Todd & the Monsters, George Thorogood & the Destroyers @ Ravinia 8/10 Power Ups @ Double Door 8/11 Elefant @ Double Door 8/11 Jerry Jeff Walker @ House of Blues 8/12 Chronic Future @ Metro, 18+ 8/12 Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Keller Williams, Yonder Mountain String Band @ Aragon, all-ages 8/12 Cure, Interpol, Rapture, Mogwai @ Tweeter Center 8/13 Amp Fiddler @ HotHouse 8/13 Ledisi, Van Hunt @ Harold Washington Cultural Center

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ly,” John said. “All this stuff was handed to us see John returning to play live in C-U, and wonders what has happened in the past few and it just snowballed from there.”

John’s retelling of the band’s history and his years. The two talk music with John eagerly life with music is told with the same humility. talking about his recent musical infatuations, John’s involvement in music goes back to his including hardcore L.A. punk band Fear and n the space normally reserved for coffee early teens. He said he picked up the bass in 7th the bearded classic rockers ZZ Top. “Can’t get drinkers and Mac-using grad students, the stage grade, in admiration of Skid Row bassist Rachel enough of ‘em,” John says to Fairfield.

Bands like ZZ Top don’t seem like heavy is set for “Indie Rock Meets Urbana.” The festi- Bolan’s nose jewelry. Once he made the journey influences on John’s val-type line-up of numerous bands transforms from his hometown Beauty Shop writing Caffe Paradiso into a concert venue for hipsters Arlington Heights to style, and leaves one and C-U music fans alike. For many , this event the University of wondering if he is marks the return of The Beauty Shop to C-U; Illinois in 1996, he serious. Those unfafound himself a memtheir first performance in nearly two years. miliar with John aside Singer/songwriter John Hoeffleur stands ber of Jove. As a freshfrom his music may outside Paradiso holding his concealed beer man in college, he was think he sits around beverage talking to old friends and fans about playing bass with – John Hoeffleur of The Beauty Shop listening to dark folk the band’s upcoming album and tour of Garenne Bigby and singers like Nick England. For John, this is merely a return to the Josh Augustine on guiDrake and Leonard and Brett fold of C-U music’s scene and a chance to tar, Cohen, but he prefers stretch his “show legs” before their trip across Sanderson on drums.

John found himself befriending members of The to listen to whatever he likes, citing advice the Atlantic in August.

“Here, we’re off schedule,” John said. “But Blackouts as well as playing bass with them on from a friend at Parasol.

“Mike Roux from Parasol once said to me, there (UK), we are right on time releasing our part of their first record.

He soon made the decision to focus on gui- ‘There are no guilty pleasures, just submit,’” new CD in a few weeks. It’s easy for them to think we’re a cut above the rest because we’ve tar, choosing to play what he called protest and John said. “Cool is an illusion and isn’t repremade it across the Atlantic, but we’re really not political songs in the coffeehouse circuit. He sentative of what’s good.”

“I still remember the first birthday party of that different than any other band.” The new met Casey Smith, who played drums for The album, titled Crisis Helpline, comes two years Beauty Shop for two years, and the two record- yours we played at with people fighting on the after the release of Yr Money Yr Life in England ed a demo called Grief EP. After a few talked- fucking roof with swords,” John continues with about local performances, the EP made its way Fairfield. Those lucky enough to see The and four years after its American release.

John talks about the C-U music scene, often to Parasol Records. John was offered the Beauty Shop in their infancy know their willmaking references to clubs, bars and bands chance to record an album via Parasol. ingness to play any venue, including living that no longer exist. It’s this wistful “back in Simultaneously, they auditioned bassist Ariane rooms and birthday parties. Fairfield happened the day” attitude that distinguishes John as a Peralta who responded to a handwritten to be a particularly lucky fan; the band performed at two of his birthday parties. seasoned performer in the community. But for “bassist wanted” ad on campus.

It’s this down-to-earth attitude that sepa“We’re a meritocracy,” John said. “If you’ve those who only recently dove into C-U’s music culture, The Beauty Shop is usually referred to got the skills to play, then you’re in. Ariane rates John and the band from many other artists. Getting on stage at Paradiso an houras “that band that did an awesome cover of auditioned for us and she was it.”

Ariane has been with the band since 1999 and-a-half later than scheduled—”These The Misfits at The Great Cover-Up back in 2002.” John is most humble about The Beauty and complements John perfectly. She has an Woodstock events are never on time,” John Shop’s accomplishments, saying that anyone understated, more reserved personality than jokes—John leans into the microphone singing with the drive and passion for music can do it. John, but when it comes to performing, she is the theme song to Channel 3 WCIA, eliciting “We didn’t have to work for anything real- right alongside him musically. The drummer laughter from the eager fans. He is quick to position has seen the thank everyone in attendance for coming. He most changes, with stops to thank all other parties involved with four different drum- making the show happen. Sure, it’s the typical mers in five years’ crowd pandering seen at sold-out shows in Chicago, but with John, it’s real. time.

“We always said, if there are more people in “The package deal of the song includes attendance than members of the band, it’s a everyone in the band show,” John said. “If there are fewer in attenregardless if you’re dance than band members, then it’s a practice. playing a barebones Either way, we could use it.”

This performance is more than a practice. melody,” Ariane said.

“Being flashy doesn’t John’s easy-going personality and excellent conequal sounding good, versation skills makes him a natural performer. especially with our For having not performed live in C-U for sometime, John is surprisingly at ease. style of music.”

This show reunites John with fellow Jove Outside Paradiso, Ariane eats a sand- member Brett Sanderson on drums (the hardwich and talks to a est working musician in C-U). It’s hard to friend while John believe this is the band’s first concert back in points out who he C-U, with their performance synching up for considers The Beauty most of the show. As one would expect, the Shop’s biggest fan, occasional slip-up occurs—John dropping his Chris Fairfield. pick and accidentally unplugging his guitar, John Hoeffleur, Ariane Peralta and Brett Sanderson are the Beauty Shop.

Fairfield is pleased to for instance—but overall, the moments of pan-

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icked eye contact between band members are few and far between. John is a natural performer with not one ounce of anxiety showing and a superb ability to make the crowd laugh.

“We don’t have MTV dreams,” John said. “I want to connect with people at our shows.

Having some melody that fucks with their head long after we’re done is a real accomplishment.”

After the show, John and Ariane help Brett pack up his drums. They discuss how the show went and are relatively pleased with the first gig as the newly remodeled Beauty Shop.

“John and I have been playing together for so long that toying with parts of songs comes naturally,” Ariane said. “Brett caught on real quick. His drumming is just what we needed.”

The first record, Yr Money Yr Life, certainly contains a number of haunting melodies that stick in the listener’s head after one listen. The album received numerous positive reviews with many mentioning the lyrics in the company of dark American songwriters and comparing the sound to many alt-country bands of the ‘90s.

“The first record is a picture in time for me,” John said. “Many of the songs are about mental health mostly; depression, heartbreak and drug abuse.”

The new record was recorded throughout the past year with UK label Shoeshine promising to release it August 30 in England (still unsure about a U.S. release date). John said it deals with mental health but on a broader scale. He considers the album better in all regards, including production and songwriting. It’s more upbeat than the first record.

“It’s still crazy to me we have this UK record deal,” Ariane said. “And that is the real deal. I would be a fool to pass up the opportunities the band has been offered.”

“The way to get success is to focus on the moment,” John said. “Getting it right for the fans in Champaign is the start.” John continues with his modesty, saying that what he and the band are doing is nothing special. But recently, he discovered their latest single was the “single of the week” on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 radio show.

“I feel like a goofball Patch Adams saying, ‘Anyone can do it,’” John said. “A lot of kids have something in their head telling them they can’t play like me. But do you think Gene Simmons is any kind of genius?” buzz

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glass from shattering the finished bead.

Having done glass painting some years ago, luckily I already owned an Evenheat kiln which was more than suitable for annealing; I also use it for glass fusing. My materials include a lot of Moretti and Bullseye glass rods, bead separator (a ceramic powder in liquid suspension) that prevents hot glass from sticking to the mandrels, and quite a few mandrels. Mandrels are rods made of welding wire and are used to build the beads on.

Usually I use 3/32 size mandrels, and coated with the bead separator and placed in a rod holder until I’m ready to use one.

I have a few tools for shaping the glass.

Until recently, I didn’t use tools very much, preferring to shape the glass through manipulation of heat and gravity. I found tools difficult to work with, in fact. The basic glass working tool is the marver (the word comes from the French word for “marble” because a lot of marvering tables used in glassblowing were made from marble). Nowadays, the marvering tool is made of graphite. It is used to shape and even move the glass on the mandrel while it is hot, enduring that the bead or sculptural item is properly centered on the mandrel and evenly shaped all round. Other tools can be used to give surface texture to a bead, or to completely reshape it if desired.

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than Y. Chilton is a longtime resident of Urbana (1959-1968, and then 1981-present) with strong roots both in the Midwest and the San Francisco area. She has done all sorts of creative art all of her life, beginning with drawing, painting and writing stories as a small child. Her first creative love was music. After six years of piano lessons, she fell in love with guitar, and went on to play rhythm guitar, sing lead vocals, and write music for an experimental rock band on campus (1967-68). She then pursued a popular musical career until her mid-30s. During that time, she was also producing paintings, mostly in watercolor, and making leather wall hangings, pillow covers, and clothing constructed of leather and fur, crochet and knitting, all combined. Around 1989, she began working seriously in stained glass and eventually shifted her focus to hot glass. Music continues to be important in her life, though, and after a hiatus of some years, she has returned to solo playing. She composed and recorded a CD of mostly original work while in Northern California this past summer.

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I have looked at many others’ beads, of course, both photographs of ancient beads and the work of current artists. I can’t say I am precisely inspired by any one particular person’s work, or style, and I’ve never wanted to copy anybody else’s work in any case.

But there are some techniques that I really like, for instance Kristen Frantzen Orr’s “flower plunge” technique, which produces a bubble at the heart of a flower shape formed beneath the surface of a bead. I’m very fond of an ancient and still very popular style of bead called “striated dots” or “raised eyes.” My version of this technique creates a bead with stacks of multicolored dots. Limitless effects are possible with this

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I have books by current beadworkers Bandhu Scott Dunham and Jim Smircich which offer instructions in various techniques as well, and I study these for inspiration and to expand my knowledge of possibilities.

I’m more strongly affected by culture and history in my finished jewelry designs, many of which incorporate my glass beads. But I also for a number of years have been producing necklaces which draw upon Chinese and Tibetan motifs and materials. I don’t try to reproduce a piece from history, but I allow the design elements of jewelry from these cultures to guide my own choices in some instances. Often, though, when I either make a piece centering on my own beads, or when I’m at a gem show purchasing gemstone beads or metal beads for my finished pieces, I find that the materials themselves often suggest designs to me.

Last year, I came into possession of an Inuit fossil-ivory pendant with an incredibly carved scene of Inuit mythology, and the setting of this piece into a finished necklace took me far from the world of round glass beads. I used all natural-material beads in the weaving and sewing of the frame for this pendant and the result looks organic, as if the pendant grew inside its setting.

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I have sold beads to other jewelry makers who incorporate them into their own work, which is wonderful to see.

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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

Very Large 2 Bedrooms 102 E. Gregory, Big rooms, walk-in closets, Great location. $650-$680 Gabe’s Place 359-0700 www.GabesPlace.com

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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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he Craft League of Champaign-Urbana meets once a month. It is an informal meeting which takes place at Strawberry Fields at 8 a.m. on the second Tuesday of the month. According to Jill Bush, who is the president of the League, anyone is welcome to attend. While there, the Craft League discusses everyday things, like how the kids are and what is going on in the community. Sometimes, people have a show and tell wherein they show what they are working on or discuss some new technique they’ve discovered.

The Craft League is pretty lax when it comes to attendance at these meetings and they are mostly social outings, Bush says.

This creates an atmosphere for beginning artisans to become comfortable with more experienced crafts people. That does not mean that being a member of the group is purely an excuse to socialize.

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ince its opening in March of 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma has been the quintessential American musical. Its title song is even the official state song of Oklahoma, the only Broadway showtune that has that distinction. So when a British director, Trevor Nunn, teamed with a famous American choreogra-

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ing to crafts. In the past, the group has had meetings with financial planners about being self-employed, Bush says. For the most part, the group allows artists access to information that will help them market themselves and improve their skills.

“People bring in projects that they are working on in which they had become stuck, and needed some feedback,” Bush says.

Beverly Fagan makes jewelry and has been a member of the Craft League since it first began 22 years ago. At the time the group started, many artisans in the community had met in small groups independ-

ently of one another. They desired unity and decided to start a larger group. “We all had a lot of smaller mailing lists (from the smaller groups) and put those together and started a larger meeting. We met once a month, and there were all types of crafts people involved,” Fagan says.

Charlie Sweitzer is a wood maker who makes Shaker boxes and chairs. He is owner of a company called Boxes and Boards. His time with the Craft League has given him experience that has aided in the running of his independently-owned business. “A lot of the people in the league are artists who are honestly employed. When you start showing or putting yourself out there, you see that it is the public who makes the final decision about your end product, and that is expressed by whether or not they buy that product,” Sweitzer says.

Each November, the Craft League has a juried group show at the Urbana Civic Center.

This creates an opportunity for community

members to purchase interesting and unique gifts from skilled crafts people. Artisans from all over, even non-members of the group are invited to apply. The application process took place at the beginning of the summer. There are 25-30 spots open. Fagan is the head of the jury and says that the committee judges on the overall quality, idea, conception and look of objects among other things. The Craft League also has a booth wherein all members are given the chance to show their work, even if they were not picked for the exhibit.

The competition gives artisans a chance to see what else is out there and what else is selling. Sweitzer’s advice to those who have not yet been able to sell their work is simple.

“Look at what you’re selling. Maybe it’s good but people just aren’t buying it. Maybe add something more marketable, or maybe go to an area where your work will sell. For instance, I make antique chairs and I know that those are only going to sell in certain places,” Sweitzer says. buzz

pher, Susan Stroman, to “redo” this icon of the musical theater, many were skeptical.

Their concept, when matched with the brilliant designs of Anthony Ward, more than overwhelmed the doubters and even grabbed a couple of Tony Awards to boot.

Now, a national touring company has arrived at Chicago’s splendid Auditorium Theatre at 30 E. Congress Parkway in the South Loop, until August 1. Naturally, there are fears of reconstructed direction and second-rate casts, but fear not with this one.

Director Fred Hanson and choreographer Ginger Thatcher have faithfully recreated this rethought Oklahoma with a no-name all-North American cast that really shines. Even those replacement dance scenes for Agnes de Mille’s

ground-breaking choreography are original and breathtaking. Amanda Rose, who plays Laurie and dances her scenes in the dream sequence, is outstanding in both roles. Here, the touring cast has one on Broadway and in London, where Laurie danced superbly, but barely had the voice for such a demanding role. Now, the “no-name” does the job.

In Agnes de Mille’s original concept, the dancers in the dream sequence were different from their regular stage characters and could specialize. Here, Curley and Laurie must dance their alter egos in the dream sequence.

You can see Agnes de Mille’s original dance concepts in the DVD of the 1955 film version, directed by Fred Zinnemann. This excellent cinematic transformation was even produced

by Rodgers and Hammerstein and was the first movie shot in 70mm. The wonderful DVD transfer is from the 70mm print. Gordon MacCrae and Shirley Jones, in their film debuts, are the leads.

If you cannot make it to the Auditorium Theatre by August 1, check out the Trevor Nunn-directed DVD record of his London productions with Susan Stroman’s wonderful new choreography. Hugh Jackman (an Aussie) and Josephina Gabrielle (a Brit) are the leads. Note Shuler Hensley ‘s Jud; he is truly scene dominating in this often underappreciated part.

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Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel is the executive director at the Chabad Jewish Center on the University of Illinois campus. More information about Chabad can be found at ChabadCU.org.

What is Chabad’s goal?

Chabad strives to bring Jewish services, education and outreach, and make it easily accessible to any Jew, regardless of their

background or involvement. Additionally, we strongly believe in humanitarian activism, may it be a drug and counseling center or other crucial social services. This resonates well with the global Jewish community; hence Chabad has grown to some 3,000 centers spread over 45 states and 70 countries. There is a phrase that has some truth to it, wherever you can find Coca-Cola, you’ll find a Chabad Center nearby!

Our goal in Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois is to bring the work of Chabad to this city. We hope to bring education, holiday services and programs, children’s enrichment programs and more to the local community. For students, it is important to have a personal rabbi to contact on campus, a place they can go to and feel comfortable—a place they can call “home away from away.” We strive to create a warm, non-threatening environment for all Jewish students on campus.

What are your responsibilities to the organization?

I was recruited to start the Chabad Jewish Center at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana a year ago. We are a grassroots organization, and try to stay in tune with exactly how we can add Jewish value to the community. My wife Goldie, who is director of programming at Chabad, and I, implement various creative programming, trying to raise the level of Jewish awareness and involvement amongst the thousands of Jewish students on campus and the local

Jewish community. Beyond this, I oversee the administrative work and handle the fundraising. Never a boring day!

What are some of the biggest challenges Chabad faces?

Getting out the word that we are an active organization serving the campus and community. When we started, we never imagined the incredible response from people wanting to join in our many activities.

The organization has grown and surpassed our expectations. Yet, there are so many more Jewish students and local community members that we feel can enjoy and gain from all of our programs. Our greatest challenge is getting the word out that we’re here and we’re open to all. I imagine that with time this will be less of a concern, but for a fledgling organization, this is high on our radar screen.

What is your history? Do you come from here? How long have you been affiliated with Chabad?

I was born and raised in Brooklyn to a Chabad family. I’ve been doing work with Chabad since my high school years. As part of my humanitarian and educational work with Chabad, I traveled to Southern Africa to do programs with college-age students and local families. Additionally, I’ve visited many cities in the United States and abroad with Chabad activities.

My wife introduced me to the Midwest. Her family has been living in the Midwest for close to a hundred years. After our marriage, we

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lived in New York for a year. When the opportunity arose to start a full-time center in Champaign, we visited here, met people and really decided that this is a place we would like to live, start a family and raise our children.

Any plans for the fall?

In the fall, our past programming will continue, and many new programs and events are planned. Our Jewish Student Board enjoys meeting, planning and coming up with great events that they would enjoy and think others will appreciate as well. There are many classes and events taking place—there’s practically something going on every day of the week.

The beginning of the semester is especially full, with the Jewish New Year and many holidays a few weeks after school begins.

Are there any misconceptions about the local group?

The greatest misconception is that Chabad is here to serve orthodox Jews only. People ask, “Why did you move here? There aren’t that many Orthodox students on campus.”

That is the greatest misconception. We reach beyond labels. Chabad strives to respect and accept everyone as they are, not as others think they should be. We are here to provide opportunities for everyone to learn and celebrate their Jewish heritage, regardless of their background or affiliation. This is the same atmosphere and feeling of acceptance you will find at any Chabad center worldwide.

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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.

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

Quality Living Properties 328-4283 Remodeled duplex, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, w/d, dishwasher, c.a., 608 W. Healey, $825/mo. 812-935-7375.

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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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.

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

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

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

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.

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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 - 4 BR Victorian house. 2.5 baths.

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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.

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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.

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5 bedroom, 2 bath home near Lincoln Square. $1375/mo. 351-0971.

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!

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“I wasn’t a terribly physical person,” she says, so Friedman worked as her personal trainer. Ghent scored fifth highest on the University test and third highest on Urbana’s. She accepted a position with Urbana.

“Urbana was very high stress,” she says. “We were constantly responding to high-risk calls. It was domesOfficer Tove Ghent talks to Officer Tony Ortiz. Ghent is curently working in the tic after domestic investigative division of the University police department. after domestic.”

After three years at Urbana, Ghent needed a While looking for another reporting job, she worked at the now-defunct Acres of Books used change. In 1997, she moved over to the bookstore on Green Street. The owner was University police.

“I almost immediately got to do things I debating closing the store for good when Ghent, flipping through the newspaper, read that wanted to do,” Ghent says. First, she worked as Champaign County, Urbana and the University a field training officer for new recruits like Officer Laura Phillips, 24. were recruiting new police officers.

“I remember thinking, ‘This is going to be “I applied to all three,” Ghent says. “I had two months to study so of course, I scored very cool because I’m going to be riding with a girl,’” high.” Friedman, whom she had married two Phillips says. “It was nice to have a girl to talk years earlier, helped prepare Ghent for the to in a work force dominated by men.” Through that training experience, the two became physical tests.

friends and Phillips developed an admiration for Ghent’s work style.

“Some police officers will be very strict.

Everything is black and white. You broke the law or you didn’t break the law,” Phillips says. “Tove’s not like that. She’s cool about just not sticking it to everybody. She’s good at using discretion.”

That discretion also earned Ghent a crisis negotiator position on the METRO Team, a group of officers from area departments specially trained to handle hostage situations and other unique calls. Ghent’s long-time sergeant, Vernon “Skip” Frost, now a lieutenant, says that University officers sometimes fulfill an unusual role with the public.

“The biggest part of our job is service-related.

You name the issue, we’ve done it: squirrels in trash cans, someone wants to complain about fill in the blank. It may or may not be a legal issue but we respond and try to take care of it.”

Ghent fills that role well, Frost says.

“Tove is a very good listener. Very empathetic. She cares about people. In this job, that’s the main thing. If you don’t care about someone’s problems, that’s going to shine through,” he says.

A text message from dispatch says a delivery driver left his keys on top of a mailbox in front of the Henry Administration Building on Wright Street earlier in the day. Ghent heads

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back toward the building and finds the keys.

Although it isn’t the most exciting work, Ghent doesn’t mind.

“You might as well do what you’re asked to do. We get paid no matter what we do,” she says. She types, “GOT EM” to dispatch and resumes her patrol. While Ghent prefers the less stressful work of the University police, she says adjusting after leaving Urbana was difficult.

“When I came over here, I experienced a different kind of stress. I didn’t know what to do.

‘Where are the calls?’ I had to relearn how to be proactive instead of reactive.” Seven years later, Ghent’s adjustment is complete.

Now Ghent is in the midst of a six-month, plain-clothes rotation in the investigative division, where, in three short weeks, she has already worked everything from a death investigation to the more routine background checks for University security guard applicants. As an investigator, Ghent will work 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. with weekends off. It is the first regular schedule she has had since becoming a police officer.

Her husband and their son, Nathan, seem to like it too.

“It feels much more like family life. I don’t feel so tired during dinner,” Ghent says. “I feel tired from working all day but not the kind of tired I feel from sleeping all day and waking up and dinner is breakfast.” buzz

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ove Ghent jokingly refers to herself as the underachieving child of overachieving parents.

Her late father, a renowned biostatistics professor, and her mother, the Canadian representative to the European Space Agency in Paris, set the bar rather high. Ghent is an officer with the University police, and that’s just fine with her.

Ghent emerges from her daily briefing pulling a rolling suitcase. Inside, her law book, ticket book and extra food keep her prepared to deal with any situation—including boredom—she might encounter on third shift, 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.

“The other officers make fun of me. They call me ‘Air Tove,’ “ she says, laughing. Tove, pronounced “Toe-vuh,” is a Norse word meaning, simply, “good.”

On this particular Friday night, the campus is quiet. A dense mist creates an expanded orb of light around the street lights. Suitcase in tow, Ghent makes her way to her gray Chevrolet Impala patrol car. Once the car

starts, its interior gadgets and lights spring to life, making the inside of this sedan seem more like an airplane cockpit.

In the center panel, where a cup holder might reside in another car, two police radios buzz with the indecipherable staccato of police jargon. One radio monitors local police frequencies while the other monitors medical and fire.

At waist-level rests a Panasonic Toughbook, a portly laptop computer with its own bulletproof vest: a thick sheath of hardened plastic.

Various papers, maps and notebooks extend like ivy from the driver’s door map holder, the sun visors, even the floor.

This is Ghent’s office.

Once on the road, she receives a text message from dispatch: “NO-BAKE COOKIES IN THE BREAKROOM.” Ghent smiles but decides not to turn back. She has lost 40 pounds in the past 18 months. Instead, she makes her way to the Mac’s Convenient Store on South Neil Street.

“I’m a creature of habit. Where we’re going now is for my cup of tea,” she says. She walks inside and greets the clerk, another third-shifter.

“Hey, Doug. Who’s winning the game?” she asks, hoping to hear good news from the

Officer Tove Ghent has worked for the Unversity Police Department for the past seven years.

Illinois-Duke basketball contest. The news is work week that can sometimes be exhausting.

“I get sick more often. It affects my immune not good.

“My husband is probably screaming at the system,” she says. “The first day off isn’t realtelevision right now,” Ghent says, as she stirs ly a day. You’re tired, sleeping it off.” On patrol the tea. Doug seems to relax during the two at 12:30 a.m., though, Ghent is wide awake.

She slows her car near certain buildings, such minutes of security her presence provides.

From there, the overnight shift is a seemingly as the Physical Plant Service Building at Florida Avenue and Oak Street, for a routine endless series of laps around the campus.

The third shift works well for Ghent’s fami- building check.

“Since 9/11, there are buildings you’re suply, which includes her husband, Doug posed to check more Friedman, who works frequently,” she says. days as a liquor store On this night, howmanager, and their 4ever, such action is year-old son, Nathan. elusive.

“My son is in pre“It’s like baseball,” school full time. They Ghent says. “Long get home and wake – Tove Ghent periods of boredom me up. I spend the punctuated by short whole evening with periods of excitehim,” Ghent says. It wasn’t always a smooth system. At first, work- ment.” But the boredom doesn’t bother Ghent.

“Everything is different at night. The night has ing third shift was difficult.

“It was very hard on me. Finally, I made the its own rhythm that’s very pleasant,” she says, adjustment.” She works four days on and four as she parks along a side street and kills her days off then switches to five days on and headlights to monitor an intersection for movthree days off, which makes for a 50-hour ing violations.

About 20 minutes later, an SUV with a broken headlight approaches the intersection.

Ghent activates the overhead lights and follows the driver. Her relaxed demeanor changes instantly as she radios her position into dispatch and follows the truck to the parking garage at Illini Tower. Ghent runs a license plate check to determine whether the vehicle is stolen. It is not, which relaxes her a bit.

Ghent approaches the truck cautiously from the side, remaining calm but prepared for any situation. She obtains his driver’s license and returns to her car. She now asks dispatch to check the driver’s name for outstanding warrants. Although the driver has no warrants, he has had several recent encounters with police for moving violations.

“No wonder he was so nervous,” she says.

Ghent gives the driver a written warning for his broken headlight and lets him go.

Ghent, 41, stands at 5-feet-6-inches. Her red, near shoulder-length hair is tied back. Her green eyes, small but bright, complement her easy smile. A 10-year veteran of two departments—three years with Urbana and the last seven with the University—Ghent’s law enforcement career began late. Born in the United States to Canadian parents, Ghent lived in Urbana until she was 13. Her parents divorced and she moved to northern Ontario with her mother. She attended the University of Toronto, hoping to become a writer.

“I wanted to write fiction,” Ghent says. “I had some success at getting published in college.” Ghent found a writing job at The Almaguin News, a small weekly newspaper in Burk’s Falls, Ontario. She covered the school board and the courts for two years, but eventually returned to Champaign-Urbana.

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THE BOURNE SUPREMACY ★★

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI | STAFF WRITER

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oug Liman’s 2001 foray into the mainstream was one of the sleeper hits of that summer, with audiences reacting positively to the intellectualized approach that counteracted the standard action flick by favoring character and plot over elaborate set pieces. Hollywood’s current tendency not to mess with a sure thing—the three biggest hits of the season thus far have been sequels—explains why, despite British helmer Paul Greengrass coming onboard, this is largely more of the same.

In the original, amnesiac Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) must dodge numerous operatives assigned to silence him as he discovers his former identity as a CIA assassin, eventually evading his pursuers after threatening them

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ow many die-hard Catwoman fans are even out there? Superheroes like Spider-Man, Batman, and the X-Men have huge fan bases that drive their respective movies to blockbuster status in the blink of an eye. Compared to the prodigious standing of those staples of the genre, Catwoman is like the superhero C-Team.

This is an important point to bring up, because Catwoman will definitely not be winning the feline-fatale any new followers. It’s a dreadful, confused film; a train wreck dragged out over 90 minutes that is easily the worst movie to come out of the superhero genre in the last 20 years—yes, including Dolph Lundgren’s take on The Punisher. The filmmakers seem to have wanted to make a straightforward adventure story, but have only succeeded in crafting the funniest non-comedy this summer.

The plot itself borders on self-parody.

Patience Phillips (Halle Berry, apparently in no rush to win a second Oscar) is a struggling artist working for cosmetics giant Hedare Beauty, which is about to debut the age-reversing product “Beauty.” Beauty has a number of horrible side effects, but Laurel Hedare (Sharon Stone, showing up for a paycheck) orders them hidden

with severe and dire consequences should they choose to continue their hunt. The sequel sees Bourne in India, with once arbitrary love interest Marie (Franka Potente) elevated to the status of soulmate. Bourne is subsequently framed for the murder of two agents who are trying to purchase some classified documents and Kirill (Karl Urban) is dispatched to eliminate Bourne and thus cover up the conspiracy, which forces the latter to come out of hiding to essentially survive and clear his name.

Confused, anyone?

The movie frequently echoes The Fugitive, with Joan Allen’s no-nonsense performance the equivalent of Tommy Lee Jones’ Sam Gerard. The focus on developing an elaborate narrative is ultimately to the detriment of the film, as it rehashes a hoard of similar efforts without much of an original spin. The supporting cast in particular further impedes the audience’s ability to engage: Urban’s token Russian accent is far from convincing, Julia Stiles is little use in her brief reprisal of her role as Nicky and Brian Cox returns to angrily chew scenery as he did in Troy and X2.

Interspersed action sequences provide considerable relief, especially the climactic car chase through Moscow, which, with its gratuitous and prolonged abundance of destruction, guarantees to enthrall. That said, Greengrass’s

roots as an independent filmmaker cause him to favor jerky handheld close-ups during much of the sparring, which never pre-empts the movements of the characters.

While effectively communicating the frantic urgency of such encounters, it also confuses and distracts from otherwise impressive combat.

Greengrass does, however, always ground the action in reality, for though at times Bourne performs quasi-super- THE BOURNE SUPREMACY | MATT DAMON & FRANKA POTENTE human feats, they strictly vival to which audiences can relate. adhere to the rules of physics.

The Bourne Supremacy is entertainment, but Dedicating the majority of screen time to the titular character ameliorates matters, for too slight to be the high-brow spy thriller it Damon’s portrayal of Bourne largely carries might like to consider itself, despite Damon the film. Often choosing characters that strug- having obviously matured as an actor. The gle to cope when ostensibly out of their depth, many lulls in storytelling are offset by exotic here his saturated self-assurance is only locales that, unlike most Hollywood output, exceeded by the seemingly miraculous stunts succeed in capturing the aura of the cities they depict, from Berlin’s sterility to the tumult of a he executes, both mentally and physically.

Jason Bourne is, to put it simply, a believable Goan market. Sufficiently self-contained to movie hero, and a tragic one at that: He is con- stand alone from other installments in the flicted yet brilliant, and afflicted by the curse of intended trilogy (a Bourne Ultimatum adaptadecisions he no longer remembers and it is his tion is in the works), this film excels as summer emotional core rather than his instinct for sur- fare but little else.

in order to save money. Apparently, she has never heard the phrase “classaction lawsuit” before. Laurel has Patience murdered, but Patience is dragged onto a floating landfill by a crew of cats and resurrected in a scene that even lobotomized preschoolers would have trouble watching with a straight face.

She becomes Catwoman, the next in a line of female vigilantes brought into the world by a mystical CATWOMAN | HALLE BERRY & CAT Egyptian breed of cat. As Catwoman, she dresses like a bondage maven at a and flat a character to hold much interest for costume party, and seeks to avenge her death long. Stone spends the entire movie making by bringing down the evil cosmetics corpora- stern faces in close up, and Bratt has never tion. She also has some feline fetishes as a been a terribly captivating performer.

Catwoman is directed by Pitof, a former speresult of her transformation, and the movie has no problem throwing out one unfunny scene cial effects supervisor on such classics as Alien after another where Patience gobbles down Resurrection. One would think his background would signify that particular care went into fish, orders milk at a bar, hisses at dogs, etc.

The perfunctory love interest is police offi- the special effects for Catwoman, but in reality, cer Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a generally the computer-generated Catwoman looks like nice guy who becomes interested in Patience. a video game character. And Pitof’s visual The relationship goes nowhere—it consists style relies so heavily on a moving camera and entirely of awkward silences and embarrass- quick cuts that the action scenes tend to be ing scenes of dialogue. Thankfully, the screen- both incomprehensible and nauseating. writers realized their mistake and discarded Catwoman tries to use eye candy to cover up the whole thing entirely by the end of the film. for its (substantial) script faults. It simply falls If only they had been so judicious with the rest flat on its face.

So much for cats always landing on their of the screenplay, there might have been some feet. Catwoman seems destined to fail in grand workable material here.

The actors never manage to rise far above style. It was doomed from the minute it left the the material and make it watchable. Berry tries typewriter, and failed at every level of producher hardest, and her stalking around in a tion to redeem itself. Everyone involved in its revealing leather number is certainly not diffi- making should try to forget it ever happened cult on the eyes. She actually seems to have and move on. Anyone who pays to see it in the fun with her role. But Patience is too ignorant theater will surely do the same.

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AMERICA’S HEART AND SOUL No stars GEORGE WOODARD & FRANK PINO Frankly, every cinematic aspect of this film is lacking.

Only the soundtrack’s sincerity prevents it from being a spot-on satire of every genre with which it flirts. 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 THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR ★★★ JEFF BRIDGES & KIM BASINGER But for most of this sad, deeply depressing drama, it’s impossible not to be struck by Williams’s patience in telling his story, sharing secrets beneath the whispering wind and softly crashing waves that surround the Coles’ property. It’s about the everyday fear of disaster lurking in every parent, and the unbearable, irreparable trauma of having those fears realized. By handling familial tragedy with a careful eye and a frozen heart, The Door in the Floor shows that, for parents, the death of a child is a story with no ending. (Matt Pais) 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. 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 I, ROBOT ★★★ WILL SMITH & JAMES CROMWELL I, Robot is, on the whole, a darker film than the usual Smith fare. Director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) puts the majority of his scenes at night and puts a harrowing, sinister feel to most of the action sequences (which make very cool use of slow motion, CGI and rotating cameras). However, the movie gets nowhere near as dark—or intriguing for that matter—as the classic Blade Runner, which has a similar plot. Proyas probably felt pressure from the producers (one of whom was Smith himself) to follow those laws of Will Smithitude that require lighthearted action and frequent one-liners.

(Devon Sharma) KING ARTHUR ★★ KEIRA KNIGHTLEY & CLIVE OWEN King Arthur isn’t sure if it wants to be a traditional historical epic or a modern, crowdpleasing 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

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This film is a remake of a phenomenal movie of same name, and should be a must-see. (Paul Wagner)

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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 THE TERMINAL ★★★ TOM HANKS & CATHERINE ZETA-JONES Like Forrest Gump, Viktor Navorski (Hanks) is a simple man just trying to get by, and the story finds some poetry in his straightforward determination for life’s most basic pleasures. He just wants to understand the world around him and have a place to call home, and in that way The Terminal is like a quirky, inside-out version of Lost in Translation. Everyone at JFK grows to know Navorski by name, and there’s a reason that America has revered its most dependable actor with the same respect and recognition for the last decade.

There’s no one like Hanks to keep a jetlagged fantasy so grounded. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy

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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.

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redicting the future is a tricky thing. When I was a little kid, I remember watching a movie in school. It was some sort of Walt Disney-produced thing that gave us insight into the trends of the future. The skies were going to be populated by hovercrafts.

You could put a cow and a bag of potatoes into one end of a machine and a beautifully prepared meal would come out the other side.

Our landscape was going to be littered with high-speed monorails, taking us wherever we desired in seconds, all quiet and comfortable.

Well, none of that shit worked out.

No, hovercrafts, the most expensive vehicle we can buy now, were designed for the military and can drive through buildings.

Our cows eat each other and get diseases, while the best way to cook them is still on the grill. Monorails, forget that. Most of us are in cars by ourselves, desperately trying to pass the buses that carry about four people.

Yup, predicting the future is a tricky thing and it never really happens like we think. Hell, four months ago, the Cubs were already supposed to have won the World Series. About the only predictions of the future that hold any water today are from George Orwell’s 1984.

Some of that shit seems like it could happen, if it hasn’t already. Maybe it’s just easier to predict the bad, creepy stuff.

It doesn’t get much more Orwellian than a little something called an RFID tag. These tags are basically little chips that can be put into things. They’ve got a little antenna that can transmit where they are so people can keep track of them. Hey, it sounds like a fine idea to me so far. Put one on my freaking car keys and I’ll be the happiest man in the world.

It’s not used for car keys though. It was initially for office security passes and inventory, but many fear it will soon be used on goods we purchase. We leave the store with our new microwave and the department store could figure out where the product is. Say you buy a new shirt with a RFID tag in it; the store would know where you’re at and what you’re wearing.

I don’t know if it’s like Wild Kingdom where Marlon and his assistant Jim come around once a year and capture your microwave, do a series of tests, replace the tag, and then set your oven free, but I sure hope so. “So what?� you might say. “You’re just being paranoid thinking the government or big business might use these tags to screw you.� That’s possible, but still, paranoia is really about the only emotion I’m comfortable

with when it comes to the powers that be these days.

An issue has already came up regarding these tags. In 2003, in a town strangely enough called Broken Arrow, Okla., WalMart teamed up with Procter & Gamble Co. to equip their store shelves with hidden RFID technology so they could track the purchase of lipstick. Cameras watched customers at the display and the images were beamed back to Cincinnati, Ohio. The companies could watch you in action as you made your purchase. They say it was only to collect “aggregate data.�

So, I looked up “aggregate� in the dictionary and it basically means mass data. I have to say I feel better about that. It’s weird when you hear a word so much and never take the time to find out what it means. Learning a new word is about the only joy I could get from this experiment, though.

Wal-Mart says the customers were warned that they may be under surveillance while in the store, so they don’t see anything wrong with it. OK, maybe we were warned, but I assume most of us assumed it was just for something like shoplifting. We might have felt differently about the whole thing if we’d known we were the monkeys and they were Jane Goodall.

Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble Co. think that everything is OK as it is, and even if something is wrong, they urged a House Subcomittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection to allow the industry to impose privacy guidelines themselves without any legislation. Maybe they can borrow Enron’s Guide to Self-Policing; that seemed to work out pretty well.

It just seems like enough is enough already.

Someone’s tracking us on the Internet.

Cameras give us tickets while we’re driving in our car. I would wager there’s a consumer profile on just about every one of us out there somewhere. Geez, we could probably never know who’s watching and where. I’ll tell you this, though: My days of trying on lipstick in the store are over. I mean, that’s really just not anybody’s business.

Endnote: I’d like to thank Chris Ryan for editing my column for quite awhile now. He’s moving on and I only hope the next person who corrects my spelling and grammar lives up to his standards. Also, I hope they also have a sense of humor about the fact that I have no idea where a paragraph should begin or end. Lastly, I’ve promised my favorite doorman I would put this in before he left: Good luck, my man. Pecker Rules!!!

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News of the weird Lead story Autobiography of the Least Interesting Man in America: According to a 1996 Seattle Times feature, Robert Shields, 77, of Dayton, Wash., is the author of perhaps the longest personal diary in history, nearly 38 million words on paper stored in 81 cardboard boxes covering the previous 24 years, in five-minute segments. Example: July 25, 1993, 7 a.m.: “I cleaned out the tub and scraped my feet with my fingernails to remove layers of dead skin.� 7:05 a.m.: “Passed a large, firm stool, and a pint of urine. Used 5 sheets of paper.�

At last! A job that actually requires geometry!

Commissioners in Florida’s Seminole County (near Orlando) and Manatee County (Bradenton) passed ordinances in 1999 prohibiting public nudity by requiring women to cover at least 25 percent of the area of their breasts and at least 33 percent of the buttocks, with highly detailed instructions as to the

points from which each coverage must be measured. (News of the Weird includes this refresher for law enforcement personnel: The formula for the lateral area of a cone is pi times radius times slant height; for the surface area of a sphere, it’s pi times radius-squared; and, alas, for a flat surface, it’s length times width.)

Compelling explanations Portland State University library employee Mary Joan Byrd, 61, admitted in 1997 that she had taken more than $200,000 over the years from the school’s copy machines. According to the student newspaper The Vanguard, she asked for leniency on the criminal charge against her (i.e., stealing from the state of Oregon) based on the theory that she was just temporarily using the money. That is, according to her, she spent almost the entire amount she took to feed her habit of playing Oregon’s government-sponsored video poker machines, and since she never won, the state got all its money back.

COPYRIGHT 2004 Chuck Shepherd Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate

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oday, I will put aside my rants about free speech and politicians.

I’m taking a break from my soapbox to talk about something a little more local, and to give credit where credit is due.

Within the Champaign-Urbana music scene, there are bands that may have potential and then there are bands that make you ask yourself, “Why doesn’t anyone come see this? These guys (or girls) are dynamite. I mean, they could really go somewhere.”

Enter The Blackouts.

This past weekend, C-U’s own The Blackouts won the Little Steven’s Garage Rock Competition. This is the contest organized by Steven Van Zandt--of the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fame – is a competition where bands perform regionally (The Blackouts in Chicago) and then compete for a spot playing with the likes of Iggy Pop and

The Stooges, The Strokes, etc.

Champaign’s The Blackouts won this competition. Around here, most everyone knows that The Blackouts reside in the upper echelon, as far as local bands go.

I’m just glad the exposure will allow others to experience their music.

Music industry aficionados tend to stretch their legs and say, “You gotta be at the right place at the right time.” Or at least, behind the backs of budding new artists. That’s what they say.

But, The Blackouts work hard. Other local bands work hard. Our job, as supporters is just that: to support.

So go out this weekend, see The Beauty Shop, go to the i:Scintilla CD Release show or head up to Chicago on Friday and watch Enemies play at The Metro.

Just don’t forget: For local musicians to truly succeed, it takes more than just hard work. It takes the support of the music communtiy around them.

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God’s popularity at stake among hipsters Jerry Falwell seen wearing white-studded belt

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he real issue at hand for me these days is with my family in terms of our faith. We use baseball, the way most people do, I imagine, as a way of ignoring the painful and challenging parts of our psyches.

It’s a distraction, and a damn fine one, if I do say so my damn self. Weeks will go by between my father and I where our conversations consist of the Prior injury or Wendell Kim and how the hell his arm hasn’t just twirled right off his torso into the third base boxes full of rich idiots at Wrigley.

But every three weeks or so, God will stick its polemical head into the conversation and the next couple hours, if not days, will veer to a certain debate that has the theological world up in arms right now.

See, my father and myself—we’re both Christians. I don’t really know how else to say it without sounding like I’m in a cult because when I tell people that I’m a Jesusist or a Messiahcon, they tend to look at me the way a liberal looks at a conservative: with disbelief, sadness and a little fear.

And by Christian, I mean that we both believe in the idea that Jesus Christ was in fact the physical manifestation of God, whatever that is, and that he was brought to the Earth to save us from ourselves.

The problem is not with doubt, a “vice” that SO many Christians simply cannot get over.

The problem is a matter of worship—and don’t think that I am merely referring to singing.

Currently, the debate over whether or not gay marriage is okey-dokey in the eyes of the government is raging throughout the country, wasting everyone’s time and money on a very obvious argument, given the fact that America claims to give freedom toward the pursuit of happiness.

And that being said, I would like to make a claim myself: The real issue is not whether it’s OK in the eyes of the government. The issue is whether it’s okay in the eyes of “God.” You see, I put God in quotations because I am referring to God as the government uses God. “God” is used in everything to uphold or correct the mores of this great nation. And even though there is supposed to be a separation of church and state, there isn’t. At least, not in terms of what goes on behind the scenes. And we should all know by now that there is most certainly a “behind the scenes” in everything— even in this paper that you are reading right now.

I have a question for the pastors, ministers, priests and church members in this town who don’t believe in the sanctity of gay marriage and who don’t believe that homosexuals should be allowed to worship the Lord in church

among their brothers and sisters. Can you justify to me, biblically, textually or empirically your reasons for locking them out when you have divorcees, gluttons, alcoholics, blasphemers, gamblers, doubters and haters sitting next to you and sitting on your clergy? If you can do it, then I am a prostitute’s daughter.

See, the bottom line is this: Homosexuality, whether you believe it’s a blessing or an affliction, is merely just another thing. It’s no different than being a heterosexual in terms of the feelings that it inspires. It’s only different because we, as a society, have made it different.

And the popular church has spearheaded that ideology.

It states very clearly in the New Testament, most notably in Romans for me, that sins are not weighted. They are all equally saddening in the eyes of God. And I state that without quotations because the government will never hold the type of authority that God does—God being an “IT” not a “HE.” The debate as to whether being homosexual in theory and in practice is a sin is a larger, much more difficult debate. But for now, I think, at the very least, everyone—atheists and Bible thumpers alike—should be fighting for the church to yell from the mountaintops, “Hey, Mr. Gay Man! Hey, Ms. Lesbian! You want to come to my church and listen to bad music with bad lyrics about God for an hour each Sunday? You do? Well, come on down! That’s great! You don’t? Oh, OK. I love you just the same and won’t judge you for who you are.”

I, for one, can’t justify attending, tithing and being participant in any church that would be so blatantly hypocritical. It has a certain faction of my family, the part that wishes I would attend, questioning the way they view their faith now, although they still attend and participate just the same if not more than your average churchgoer.

I wish it were different. I wish that the church my family goes to would love and accept homosexuals the way they love and accept me, a known sinner, just like everyone else. That way, I could keep talking to my dad about the Cubs and never worry about when we’ll start over with the same debate.

But being an honest Christian makes me have to tell you the truth. The real reason I don’t go to that particular type of church is the bloody music. That shit sucks the big one. Word of advice for contemporary churches with “rock” music for their worship: Forget the distortion pedal. Forget the wah-wah. OK? Not working, dude. Not working.

Seth Fein is from Urbana. No Hail Marys will be said as a result of this column. He doesn’t even know what the hell that is anyway.

He can be reached at sethfein@readbuzz.com

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY (JULY 22 - AUGUST 4) ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Charles Baudelaire counseled readers to be drunk continually 'on wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish,'" wrote Kate Taylor in The New Yorker. "But he also thought drugs were a perversion of our taste for the infinite and that great minds could furnish their own intoxicants." I'm hoping you're one of those "great minds" the French poet was talking about, Aries. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need a large helping of the magic that lies outside of ordinary consciousness. But you're far more likely to thrive if you can find a natural way to satisfy your "taste for the infinite."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): To hint at the potentials of the coming week, I'll appropriate the words of avant-garde music composer and author, John Cage. In describing his work, he once said, "I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry."

Here's an altered version, Taurus, created especially to suit your current astrological needs: You have nothing to do/ and you are doing it/ and that's your genius.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The gods have authorized me to give you three tough but sweet oracles. Ready? 1. If you hope to be in the right place at the right time to hear the words that will set you free, you'll have to act with both more confidence and more humility. 2.To learn the clue that will heal an old rift, you'll have to really want to know what's going on beneath the official version of the truth. 3.To find the hidden beauty and inspiration in an initially awkward mess, you'll have to respond without anger to a message that feels threatening to your pride.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your actions in the immediate future could have a potent impact on your long-range future. For instance, new connections you forge in the coming weeks -especially if you leave your comfort zone to make them -- will be valuable if you decide to leave your current dream home and head to a new dream home next year. Here's another example: If you spend some time this August trying to fix a glitch in the way you communicate, 2005 may bring a dramatic enrichment of your sense of community and a surge of grace in your family dynamics.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In describing his creative process, novelist Jack Kerouac said, "The first thought is the best thought."

When Allen Ginsberg was asked "What's the best advice you can give a poet?", he echoed Kerouac. On the other hand, Nobel Prize-winning writer William Butler Yeats constantly revised works he had already published, even fiddling with poems that were many years old. Pierre Bonnard was so committed to editing himself that "he was once caught trying to retouch one of his own paintings hanging on a museum wall," wrote poet Linh Dinh, who concluded, "Last thought is the best thought." While there are valid arguments for both views, Leo, the astrological

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Before you can move on to your next exciting challenge, you'll have to answer a few hard questions about the life you've lived since your last birthday. The object of this test is not to make you feel guilty, but to help you take inventory of your gaffes and indiscretions so you can make atonement, thereby clearing a path to the future. Have you purposely caused anyone pain? Did you tell any big lies? Did you commit any unethical acts? Have you revealed information told to you in confidence? Do you owe money or energy to anyone you have no intention of paying back? Confess everything, Virgo--to the mirror. Then go set things right, or at least as right as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The saliva of vampire bats appears to be effective in dissolving the blood clots that cause strokes. Ongoing research into the medical applications of snake venom suggests it may ultimately be used to fight cancer, heart attacks, and mad cow disease. And I suspect that in the coming weeks, Capricorn, you will be healed by a small dose of an experience that in large doses has felt noxious to you in the past. Keep your mind open to the possibility. Don't automatically avoid everything that seems unpleasant.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "If the landscape reveals one certainty," wrote Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, "it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with fresh vigor." In my astrological opinion, Libra, it is your duty to resonate with this particular aspect of the cosmos. For the next few weeks, you have license to overflow with floods of self-expression; you have the right to create like a god who has the pleasure and privilege of creating a new world.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A Taoist parable tells of a poor farmer who owned a single horse. One night it ran away. The neighbors came to offer condolences. "What bad luck!" they said.

"Maybe," the farmer replied. "Maybe not." A week later, the fugitive horse returned, accompanied by six wild horses. The farmer and his son corralled them. "Lucky you!" the neighbors cried.

"Maybe," the farmer said. "Maybe not." Soon the son tried taming the new arrivals. A stallion threw him to the ground, breaking his leg. "Terrible luck!" the neighbors wailed. "Maybe," said the farmer. "Maybe not." The next day, soldiers visited the village.

Strife had broken out between two warlords, and one had decided to conscript the local young men.Though every other son was taken, the farmer's boy was spared because of his injury. "What fantastic luck!" the neighbors said. I think this story captures the essence of your coming week pretty well, Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the middle of a moonlit night last February, someone in the English town of Pembury sneaked into the yards of over a hundred homes and secretly planted an ash sapling in each one. It was hard work. The weather was bad and each tree needed a hole dug to accommodate it.

Judging from your current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I believe you'll soon be the recipient of a gift like that. Other good surprises may be on tap as well, especially if you say a prayer in

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are more ready than you've ever been for the kind of intimacy that the poet Adrienne Rich extols: "An honorable human relationship -- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word 'love' -- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other." I'm not implying, Aquarius, that you should find a relationship where you can continually break down your self-delusions and dig for the raw truth. Nor am I insisting that you should prod one of your existing relationships to leap to this higher octave. But I am saying that you have the strength and courage to try it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Visionary educator Maria Montessori believed that self-discipline motivated by a child's own enthusiasm is far better than discipline imposed on the child by a strong-willed authority. What's the best way to develop the superior form? Kids need to understand the difference between good and evil, and even more importantly, they must not associate good with passive immobility and evil with animated activity. I believe her argument will be useful for you to meditate on in the coming weeks, Pisces. It's an ideal time to bring more order, efficiency, and discipline into your rhythm. And the best way to do that is to cultivate an irrepressible desire to perpetrate aggressive acts of generosity and good will.

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