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Eating tacos all day sounds like a glorious thing. Nothing can top stacks and stacks of tortillas filled with grilled meat, onions and cilantro (Mexican style only, please). In reality, after about five, it becomes a lot more uncomfortable than pleasurable. The truth is, I can’t eat as much as I would like to, which makes visiting three taco places back to back slightly laborious. Finding our favorite tacos in Champaign-Urbana was a lot more difficult (in a good way) than we thought. It turns out you can find tacos almost everywhere! Our journey started with the obvious locations: El Charro, Maize, Burrito King and Mas Amigos. Naturally, we would start with the Mexican restaurants. But even at the Mexican places, there were so many differing options that it was hard to try them all without passing out at the table, so we went with the sharing method — we ordered three or four and each ate half of one and passed it to the other. It definitely took some of the pressure off of each of us to actually finish every taco we ordered. From there, we expanded to a few more nontraditional places, such as Spoon House and Seven Saints, which we found out had tacos purely by accident on a random Whiskey Wednesday. One of the coolest things about eating lots of tacos was seeing how every place made them differently. In theory, tacos are basically the same, right? Meat (or veggies) on a tortilla with toppings — what else is there? But the variety that comes to the table is unbelievable. It’s awesome to see that every chef adds their own personal flavor and style to each dish, which also made our job that much harder. Our taco quest ended up leading us all over Champaign-Urbana, to places we had no idea even existed and to places we had heard about and had always wanted to try. It was a really interesting way to delve into one of the many cultures of Champaign-Urbana. It also made the hunt to find more places that made tacos even more exciting. We kept hearing about new places to try and tried to fit as many as we could (both restaurants and tacos) into our schedules. I also learned that I can eat tacos all day long and not get tired of them. So if you’re looking for a taco date, I’m your girl.
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» A&E Storage Wars and the like: My roommate and his boyfriend have totally made me enthralled with the A&E show Storage Wars, and I’m a little bit appalled at myself and my rabid interest in a show that I’d sworn I would never get into. But seriously, the people who come onto these kinds of shows — and the sheer amount of interest and popularity that reality television gets — never cease to aggravate me. The boom in reality TV is such a recent phenomenon, the likes of which couldn’t even have been fathomed in the ‘90s, a decade that churned out pretty spectacular programming, in my opinion. So yeah, sigh, I have succumbed to a kind of entertainment that makes my skin crawl. Oh well, as long as I never watch that “Honey Boo Boo” crap, I figure I’m good. JOYCE FAMAKINWA MOVIES & TV EDITOR
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» “That chick is in there sleeping”: Imagine waking up to that. Now imagine that it’s 3 a.m. on a Monday. This is what happened after a group of people who were more than a little bit intoxicated walked past my apartment after a night of drinking. While we all make stupid mistakes when we are drunk, this upstanding citizen went the extra mile. I say this because he opened my gate and pressed his face against my window screen and says, “There’s someone in there.” After he correctly identified that I was in my room sleeping (strange, I know), he could have walked away. Instead, he decided to stay and drunkenly scream, “THAT CHICK IS IN THERE SLEEPING,” over and over again. Of course, this wakes me up and freaks me out until I realized that it’s just someone being drunk and stupid. First of all, gross. There is something dated and vaguely sexist about the word “chick.” Don’t call me chick, dick. COVER DESIGN Michael Zhang EDITOR IN CHIEF Samantha Bakall MANAGING EDITOR Nick Martin ART DIRECTOR Michael Zhang COPY CHIEF Drew Hatcher PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Zach Dalzell IMAGE EDITOR Zach Dalzell PHOTOGRAPHERS Zach Dalzell, Amber Yu, Constantine Roman,
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Citizens who are fairly new to town may not realize it, but CU has a very historically rich background. 72 years ago, one woman, Vashti McCollum, refused to let her son, James, take a voluntary religion class that had been implemented in elementary schools in Champaign. McCollum believed that these classes were an “indoctrination into the old Christian faith.” As a result of this decision, not only did her son get bullied, but she received numerous physical threats every day, while her friends and society shunned and scorned her family. Tired of the treatment she was receiving and determined to change this issue, McCollum filed a lawsuit in 1945 that revolutionized the connection between public schools and religion, while redefining the First Amendment in the Constitution as well. The McCollum v. Board of Education case left CU with the legacy as arguably the place where the separation of church and public schools began. This nationchanging story about the McCollum case is discussed in the book by Vashti McCollum, One Woman’s Fight, and The Lord Was Not On Trial, a book by her son, Dannel McCollum. Inspired by these accounts of history, independent documentary writer, producer, editor and director Jay Rosenstein transformed this case into a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary called The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today. A strong believer in the separation of government and religion, Rosenstein, a journalism professor at the University, came with the fervent ambition to bring attention to this previously unknown struggle of a young mother. In celebration of the 67th anniversary of the trial, the Art Theater will be showing Rosenstein’s documentary at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13. Come with the desire to delve deeper into the history of CU.
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or culture snobs, reality television has always been something of an easy target — BUZZ low-hanging fruit, if you will. It is almost as if the THURSDAY old saying about TV rotting SEPTEMBER 13 your brain was said with this corp genre in mind.this There note...keep same are size some always truly ugly aspects to reality television: Exploitation, greed 1 X 5.417 and violence, to name a few. Here we highlight some of the mostpage troubling in recent years. 1/8th The Real World: Hollywood: Joey Kovar It may surprise most of you that The Real World premiered in 1992 as an earnest attempt to document the lives of several young people of different backgrounds interacting and coming into their own. At its inception, it was hailed as bringing to the forefront of the cultural zeitgeist issues of racism, sexuality and AIDS, along with many other important issues affecting young adult Americans. Of course, over the past 20 years, the show has devolved into showcasing the most lurid aspects of what it means to be a young adult in today’s world. Namely: drugs, drinking, sex, drinking, fighting and did I mention drinking? One of the more tragic aspects of this was Joey Kovar, featured in the 2006 Hollywood edition. Kovar, a bodybuilder/aspiring actor, struggled with alcohol issues before coming onto the show. Unfortunately, being on the show only seemed to exacerbate his pre-existing issues. Kovar got into several fights and displayed erratic behavior before finally entering a 30-day rehab program in episode four of the series. After attempting to come back in episode eight, he finally left the show for good after realizing that he was two steps away from a total relapse. The next six years of his life were a constant battle to maintain his sobriety, including an appearance on Celebrity Rehab. Tragically, Kovar was found dead in his home on Aug. 17, 2012. — Jamila Tyler
“Survivor Philippines”: Noncho Vodenicharov Beginning with its American debut in 2000, Survivor always attracted audiences because of its sinister undertones. There is a very real, if not awkward, pleasure in watching a stick-skinny man shiver from the comfort of your leather couch. On those vacant shores and during long nights in the jungle, death looms closely. That danger is what brings viewers back, despite dwindling ratings in recent years. But in 2009, the unthinkable (rather, the very, very thinkable) happened. While shooting the Bulgarian version of Survivor, 53-year-old Noncho Vodenicharov died during a challenge due to a heart attack. The series continued and was still broadcasted. It is hard not to view Survivor, maybe second only to Fear Factor, as our modern Roman circus. Mark Burnett, producer and mastermind behind America’s version of the show, considers the final snuffing of a contestant’s torch at tribal council as a metaphor for death. “Fire is life,” the tribe speaks, and then the contestant walks off into a blue light. What is an audience really hoping for when they watch shows like these? It’s something so clear and implicit in the show itself that when it actually happens, we can’t help but be bewildered by what we have created.—Ben Mueller Megan Wants a Millionaire: Ryan Jenkins Megan Hauserman was no stranger to the world of reality television. Prior to appearing on her own show, she had been a contestant on Vh1’s Rock of Love and I Love Money in addition to The CW’s Beauty and Geek. The concept of the show was simple; Megan looked for love within a group of 17 potential suitors who claimed to be millionaires. Filming wrapped and the show premiered on Vh1 in August 2009. In the same month, Vh1 announced
that the show was being canceled due to a series of tragic events. It began when one of the finalists, a man named Ryan Jenkins, was named a “person of interest” in the case of Jasmine Fiore, Jenkins’s exwife who was found dead. Jenkins was eventually charged with murder. Soon after, he was found dead as a result of what seemed to be a suicide. While this crime was mostly unconnected to Megan Wants a Millionaire, it put a spotlight on background checks and casting practices. — Joyce Famakinwa The Jenny Jones Show: Jonathan Schmitz Before there was Maury, there was The Jenny Jones Show, first airing in 1991. The Jenny Jones Show, hosted by actress/comedian Jenny Jones, attempted to ape the format of the traditional talk show format found on the wildly successful Oprah. However, ratings were low the first two seasons, and the show began a rapid descent into trashy, guilty pleasure episodes featuring out of control teens and paternity test drama. In 1995, the show taped an episode entitled “Same Sex Crushes,” on which a gay man named Scott Amedure confessed to having a long-standing crush on his best friend of many years, Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz seemed to accept Amedure’s crush on the show, but would later go on to tragically murder Amedure three days after the show’s taping. After the murder made national headlines, the episode was pulled off the air. Schmitz’s history of mental illness and drug abuse came to light during his subsequent trial, and the producers deliberately did not reveal that his crush would be of the same sex for ratings drama. Schmitz is currently serving a 25-50 year term in jail. The producers of the show faced no reprisal due to the fact that they weren’t responsible for what happens to guests after their appearance on the show. — Jamila Tyler American Idol: Paula Goodspeed When celebrity attraction turns obsessive, Paula Goodspeed comes to mind. Paula Goodspeed auditioned for Season 5 of American Idol and, like most people, was ridiculed for being a horrible singer, and yet she was different — she was obsessed with judge Paula Abdul. She was a Paula Abdul clone from head to toe with the look, changed name and personality. Goodspeed caught headlines on Dec. 11, 2008, when she was found dead in her car parked near Abdul’s home from a drug overdose. The cause of death was declared suicide. Later reports state that earlier in the week, Goodspeed had even sent flowers to her idol before her death; that and hundreds of letters, invites and drawings sent over the expanse of about a decade. Abdul did not wanted Goodspeed on American Idol for season 5 because she was aware of Goodspeed’s obsession, yet the producers thought it would be entertaining. Tragic incidents like the death of Paula Goodspeed really bring to light the fickle nature of celebrity crushes and how reality shows can go to any level for entertainment. — Sheha Shukla
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as your elbow started twinging with nostalgia for fall yet? Although released in the muggy, thigh-sticking weather of September, a new animation film about dead spirits may cause a bit of a chill (not only from the movie theater’s air conditioning) down your spine. LAIKA Inc., the animation company that brought you Coraline in 2009, has finally released their second feature-length stop-motion animated film, ParaNorman. Crafted by a seemingly small private animation company, ParaNorman was created with just as much detail as its predecessor Coraline, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s children’s book of the same name. This time around, the theme of eeriness may remain the same, but the
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game’s been tweaked. In the sleepy town of Blithe Hollow, our protagonist Norman Babcock faces somewhat of an estrangement from the living. Ostracized at school, alienated at home and constantly alone, things could be going better for Norman — with the exception of his one friend, Neil Downe. The school-manufactured stereotypes begin immediately: The weird kid befriends the fat kid, and the two shall live happily ever after once the school day ends, like two misfits in a pod. Right off the bat, though, it’s revealed that Norman is special: He can see ghosts — particularly his town’s deceased. However, the kicker comes in when Norman’s powers begin
meddling in the plans of a witch haunting the town. Suddenly, though, with zombies hot on his trail from unintentionally summoning them, Norman finds himself in a great mess, trying to unravel the town’s history with his gift before his gift unravels the town. What’s particularly badass about this film is not necessarily that it’s created through stopmotion animation, but particularly the specific type. Referred to as “3D printing,” to explain the process in basic no-nonsense English is simple. In essence, LAIKA crafts teeny, tiny, mega-detailed sets, structures and characters to create the bare basics of the film. However, rather than use a 3D format camera, LAIKA uses a fancy
DSLR camera to track the progress. Finally, 3D printers are used instead of regular animation, allowing more results in less time. If anyone remembers Coraline, you’ll know your peepers are in for a delicious buffet of the senses, even if it’s “just a children’s film.” There are kids’ films, but then there are badass kids’ films. In essence, if you’ve ever felt alone, can see paranormal spirits or have fulfilled a stereotype of the schoolyard, you might consider taking a day-trip to your local air-conditioned movie theater. After all, with fall so quick on our heels, it’s good juju to start watching your Halloween movies in September. It’s never too early to embrace your inner weirdo.
Krannert’s new “Fields of Indigo” exhibit is a sensory experience
by Andrea Baumgartner Azure, cerulean, navy, sapphire, celeste, ultramarine, turquoise: The number of shades of blue is endless, and so is the history behind the royal color which originates from the indigo plant. To bring attention to the under-appreciated art of the indigo dye-making process, artist Rowland Ricketts and sound artist Norbert Herber, both Indiana University professors, have collaborated to create a full sensory experience that takes Krannert Art Museum visitors to the fields of an indigo farm. Ricketts, who became interested in indigo while living in Japan, wanted to “re-create for people the directness of the experience” he had while living there. “I had the opportunity to fix up and live in an old farmhouse where all my waste water went directly into the stream next to the house,” said Ricketts. “Looking around, I realized that I wasn’t alone. The directness of the impact of my living on the immediate environment was so obvious for the first time in my life. So I moved away from photography to look for something with less of an environmental impact. In Japanese indigo, I found something that combined both my interest in farming and desire to make things with my own hands.” The concept behind the exhibit came not only from his own personal passion for the tradition,
but also from a desire to share the roots behind a plant that most people only know as what makes their blue jeans blue. “We don’t realize or even understand where the things we use come from, or how they’re made,” he said. “I hope to make people aware that there’s more to this blue than just its color.” The exhibit addresses all of your senses except taste. You not only see the art of indigo, but also hear the sounds of the farm fields, smell the potpourri of indigo plants that litter the floor, and feel the muted crunch of the dry leaves underfoot. “For the Krannert show, I wanted to bring more of the process into the gallery and engage the audience in that process,” Ricketts said. “Usually I winnow all the indigo-bearing leaves as part of the harvesting process, but specifically for this exhibit, I dried the plants and kept them intact.” As visitors walk across the indigo plant, they are actively taking part in the winnowing process, which separates the leaf from the stem and initiates the plant’s decomposition, a vital part of the dye-making process. Collaboration for the exhibit went beyond that of the museum and Ricketts and extended to the University of Illinois’s own student sustainability farm, which helped grow and provide some of the indigo plants used for the art. Museum director Kathleen Harleman saw this exhibit as an oppor-
tunity to renew a history and share it with others who might not know about its cultural significance. “Most people have never seen indigo other than what is used in fabric. How we use it is not isolated from the product,” said Harleman. “In the exhibit, it is reinvigorated, but with a contemporary context.”
Ricketts will be at the Krannert Art Museum on Sept. 27, at 5:30 p.m., to discuss the exhibit with visitors. “Fields of Indigo” will be on display until Dec. 30. For more information on the artist and the exhibit, visit http://www.kam.illinois.edu/exhibitions/current/Ricketts.html.
Fields Of Indigo at the Krannert Art Museum. Photo by Zach Dalzell
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hree years ago, Julie Cross was teaching kids backflips and roundoffs at the Champaign YMCA. Certainly, book tours, movie options and literary fame were not on her radar. But all of that changed when she decided to try her hand at writing. Her first book, Tempest, which Cross describes as “The Bourne Identity meets Time Traveler’s Wife but with teenagers,” has become an international success, now published in 6 languages and sold in 18 territories. It is a teen romance/thriller about a 19-year-old boy named Jackson who can time travel. When Jackson goes back in time to try and prevent his girlfriend’s death, he gets permanently stuck two years in the past. Tempest is part of a three-book trilogy, and Cross’s next book in the series, Vortex, is set to release Jan. 15, 2013. She took a break from her busy promotional schedule to talk to buzz about her last novel and her newfound success. » buzz: Before writing Tempest, you were a gymnastics coach for 11 years and essentially had no writing experience. Can you describe your path to becoming an author and what inspired you to write a book? Julie Cross: I don’t actually have a degree. I did go to college for two years; I was a physical education major and was going to be a P.E. teacher. Up until last August, I was a gymnastics program director at the YMCA. I’ve always loved to read, and in 2009, I wrote a little short story for fun. I thought, “Well, maybe I’ll write something and make the story go just how I want it to go.” After that I kept writing, and by the beginning of that summer, I had written a full book. It was sort of like Tempest in that I used the same main character names, but it was all about aliens and gymnastics. It only had one incident of time travel in it. Honestly, it was not a very good book. It was my first one, and I just scrambled it out and thought, “I’ll send it off to literary agents!” But one of those agents actually requested the whole book. It was around Labor Day weekend when that happened and then about six months later, that agent, who later become my editor, became an editor at St. Martin’s Press. At that point, he still hadn’t read it, though. By the time he actually got around to reading it, I had written about five more novels, all stand-alones and not in a series. None of them were super6
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natural except the one I originally sent him; I called it Enemies of Time then. He asked if I still wanted him to read it, and I wanted to say, “No! You have that really bad book! I don’t want you to read it!” but of course I didn’t tell him that. I was just like “Sure, Ok!” Not surprisingly, he didn’t like my manuscript at all. He thought that there was too much gymnastics and didn’t understand why there were aliens in it. But to get feedback like that was great! You usually just
get form rejections from publishers; you don’t go directly to editors. But he was a new editor and looking to acquire a client list, so it was a special situation. Eventually, between our backand-forth emails, he decided he didn’t want the book I had sent him. Instead, he wanted a teen time-traveling novel. So we just went back and forth on ideas, and I started sending him chapters until eventually we had a full product. I didn’t get the book deal until I sent in my fin-
ished first draft which was about three and a half weeks later. » buzz: You wrote Tempest through the lens of a teenage boy. As a grown woman, what kind of research did you do to better write from this perspective? JC: It was tough, and honestly, I think it was all wrong in my very first draft. In the beginning, it took a lot of effort to write him. But now it’s just Jackson and I don’t have any problem writing him because I know him so well. I don’t actively think about it anymore because his character is built now. I struggled though, and there are still a lot of female readers who think that he’s a jerk. Girls will say, “He shouldn’t be saying that or reacting that way,” but I don’t think Jackson would be concerned about his feelings all of the time. He’s a 19-year-old boy. I mean really, when I write him, I just react the way a girl would and then tone it down a lot. It also helped that I was mailing my chapters to my editor who is a total action guy; he’s actually a co-writer for the Flash Gordon comic book series. Obviously, he’s all about the action. This is probably as far as he’s dipped into a romance book, and I kept that in the back of my head when I would send stuff to him. I found myself thinking, “My sister would love to read this part, but would Brenden love to read this part?” and then I would usually chicken out and delete whole paragraphs. It ended up being so much better, though. That process really helped in the beginning, but then it ended up formulating Jackson’s character. I would be interested in tackling another boy character in the future. I don’t know if I would struggle in the beginning again or if it would come more naturally. » buzz: When you began writing Tempest, you weren’t planning on making it a trilogy. How did the series evolve into three books?
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JC: I wrote the first one so that it could be the end, and I think it still could be. But I knew that I had the freedom to write two more books while I was writing the first book so I could actually go back and plant all of those seeds early on, which was awesome. Once I knew that I was allowed to write more, it just started to evolve. It was like opening a door, and I started thinking, “Oh, this
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is what I’m going to do!” I actually knew how I wanted to end the series, so I kind of started at the ending and worked backward in the plot. Normally I don’t plot — I just take off and write — but once I saw the ending, I had to go back and fill in the blanks. So actually, the second book was by far the hardest to write because I had to figure out all of these plot points. Just like the middle of a book is the hardest part to write — that’s where a lot of people either go too long or too short. It’s sometimes called “the mushy middle” — so is writing the middle of the series. In the middle of a series, it gets hard to figure out where you’re going to end it because three is really just a continuation of two. So yeah, the second book gave me a little bit of trouble, but I think it turned out OK. I’m pretty happy with it!
gave Tempest one star. I would just think, “We could best friends! We like all the same books! Why are you giving my book one star?” But now, I’m just kind of over it and have learned to not take it personally. I have to remember that what those reviewers hate about Tempest could be exactly what someone else loves about it.
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JC: Oh, there is tons of support in this community. Even a year before the release of Tempest, the News-Gazette ran a huge article with my picture and with all of the information, and prior to the release last year I did four news interviews and one radio interview in one day. So the word got out there really quickly. I also did this writing contest with Jefferson Middle School, which ended up being a red carpet, exclusive pre-launch party. About 50 kids and their parents showed up, and everything for the event was donated. The YMCA donated the space, Herriot’s donated their fancy chair covers and a red carpet, and all of the food was donated as well. It was so fancy and so amazing. Really, all I did was tell people, “Hey I’m doing this,” and everyone started donating. I didn’t even have to ask; the donations just poured in. When the book came out, The Champaign Library held my launch event, and they actually had to turn people away because there wasn’t enough space. It was just phenomenal. We sold 220 copies of Tempest that day. I don’t think anybody — my agent, my editor, the publicity department at St. Martin’s — thought I could get over 100 people to come. They kept telling me, “Fifty is a good number. If you sell fifty, then that’s great for a debut author,” so when I called them to tell them I had sold 220 copies, they were in awe. I don’t know if I’ll get those same numbers for Vortex, though. We’ll see. Who knows? Maybe I’m old news.
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JC: Kirkus gave it a starred review. Nobody in the general public really knows what Kirkus is, but Kirkus is the world’s toughest book critic, so to get a starred review from them was a shocker. They don’t usually pick up commercial stuff or the books that everyone is buzzing about; those definitely aren’t the ones they typically star. They usually star the more literary titles, so getting a positive review from them was a really big deal. But there are tons of negative reviews out there, too. I think with a big commercial book, you’re always going to have people on both ends of the spectrum, and that’s exactly what you want. You want to induce strong feelings on one side or the other. Again, if you think about a book like Fifty Shades of Grey, how many one star reviews does it have? A lot. Same with Twilight. Those reviews aren’t hurting their sales one bit, though. At first it took me a while to get over the negative reviews. I would look on Goodreads, and there would be tons of reviewers whose favorite books listed were the same as my favorite books, but they
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the kentaco derby Two buzz writers taste test all the taco shops in Champaign and Urbana by Jasmine Lee and Samantha Bakall
Lengua, Pastor and Carna Asada tacos from Mas Amigos. Photo by Sam Bakall
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exican food isn’t an anomaly in ChampaignUrbana; there are four taco shops just on Green Street. However, the ubiquitousness of them prove a problem — where to go for the best? Two buzz staffers went around both towns, trying out all the eateries that offered tacos to find out just where to go to answer that call for tasty and satisfying tacos. MAIZE Oh, Maize, you and your teeny tiny shack with your amazingly tasty and cheap food offerings. Any and all of their taco meats are fantastic — well, except for their pulled chicken. Honestly, their chicken tastes much better on a tostada or in a burrito — and while I’ve been a fervent fan of their pastor, which tastes similar to chorizo, only less greasy and less ground-beefy, I have been converted into a carne asada fanatic and am itching to try their rib eye. Their fish taco is also extremely tasty, filled with chopped, grilled fish with just the right amount of seasoning, and a dollop of Maize’s spicy salsa (which you must ask for) makes my tastebuds very happy. Every order comes with a complimentary bag of deep fried tortilla chips and salsa. Their horchata, a refreshing, iced rice-milk drink that tastes like 8
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cinnamon and vanilla, is also a great addition to any meal there. Whether you eat in store or as takeout, the quality remains the same. (These aren’t tacos, but their pumpkin blossom and huitlacoche quesadillas are also killer!) MAS AMIGOS My first introduction to Mas Amigos was via their food truck, Taco Motorizado, which is always parked on Bradley and Springfield. The restaurant Mas is located right on Springfield, and the place is painted a cheerful yellow (matching their bright yellow food truck). While not large, the restaurant has two walls of booths and two rows of four-top tables. A propped up chalkboard announces the day’s specials, and next to the cash register is the open kitchen. Their chips, first off, are thin, wonderfully crunchy and never ending, which boded well for the rest of their multi-paged menu (which, by the way, includes a notable 60-ounce pitcher of margaritas). Mas has quite the selection of taco meats, up to and including tongue, which was pleasantly crispy and hard to find at many taco joints here in CU. The carne asada was also yummy: Tender, bite-sized pieces of steak, grilled to perfection. The season-
ing balanced out the onions and cilantro with neither overpowering the other. Their tacos come double wrapped in corn tortillas and are practically overflowing with filling. SEVEN SAINTS On Whiskey Wednesdays, grab the nearest server and ask about their food specials for the night. If they say, “blackened fish tacos,” you better order them, because they will completely blow your mind. The tacos also come battered and fried if you’re looking for a more filling option, even though the two tacos themselves are already plenty filling. Whatever you do, eat them slowly, because while wolfing these delicious tacos may be temporarily satisfying, once your stomach catches up with your brain, you’ll be in for a nap. And pronto. While I usually stick with “Mexican style” tacos, with cilantro and chopped onion, I make an exception for these and their coleslaw topping, which adds a wonderful creaminess to what could be a dry taco, a common problem with some fish tacos. The fish is well-seasoned with a perfect hit of char (which goes quite nicely with a good whiskey, surprisingly). The tacos aren’t on their regular menu, and I’m not sure if Seven Saints offers them on any other day except for Wednesday, but these are
Pork taco from Super Taco in Champaign. Photo by Jasmine Lee
Salsa from Mas Amigos in Champaign. Photo by Sam Bakall
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MEMORABLE MENTIONS SUPER TACO (the previous TACO LOCO) While the location of Super Taco is a little odd — situated next to Slumberland and across from Menards on Town Center Boulevard — the blasting Mexican pop music, the insanely spicy hot salsa that comes in a big red ketchup bottle, and the low prices make up for it. Super Taco is an off-shoot of El Progresso, the Mexican grocery store and bakery across the street. Head out for tacos and pick up a few pan dulce for breakfast from across the street while you’re out! FIESTA CAFE’S PASTOR TACOS I have this thing against pineapples strewn atop pulled pork tacos; Basically, I think it should be illegal, and I always make sure to ask for no pineapple. But after going to Fiesta Café, something I should now be aware of and make sure to ask for “on the side” is the green sauce. I like Fiesta’s green sauce: It’s spicy and creamy and avocado-y, but when that sauce completely overtakes the taco meat, then we have a problem. Fiesta’s pastor tacos are really interesting; these cinnamon-y offerings are like none I’ve had before. It added a really interesting and surprising flavor to what is typically a “regular” taco. The cinnamon provides a nice kick and mixes it up, helping Fiesta make the list.
Photo by Sam Bakall
Interview with The Hood Internet by F. Amanda Tugade
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aking the long trip from the Windy City, DJ duo Aaron Brink (ABX) and Steve Reidell (STV SLV), collectively known as The Hood Internet, is well-recognized for their catchy, dangerously contagious mash-ups of hip-hop and alternative songs. Buzz got a chance to talk with Aaron Brink about the anticipated release of their first album, FEAT, on Sep. 18 and their upcoming show at Canopy Club on Sep. 19. » buzz: Bring me back to 2007. How did The Hood Internet start? Aaron Brink (ABX): Steve and I were playing in a band together in Chicago, and both of us just liked messing around with making beats, and we started doing remixes on the side. So we started making mash-ups. Steve already had the domain for thehoodinternet.com, and we started throwing them up on the site. We weren’t really think-
ing about being a DJ project or anything serious where we’d be touring, but it just kind of picked up from there. People started noticing what we were doing. From there, we started doing mixtapes and touring and more remixes and things like that, and now we’re about to put out our album with original material. We’re really excited to take that step, too. » buzz: Where does the name “The Hood Internet” come from? AB: So, the rapper Cam’ron released a street DVD called “Killa Season.” In that movie, they’re kinda describing all the characters, and they introduce one character, and they say he’s like “The Hood Internet.” He can get you whatever you need. » buzz: What was it like working on your album? AB: We’ve been working on it for a long time now. We first started planting the seed for it about three years ago. But it’s been kind of a collaborative process. Basically how the record works is that Steve and I will start with some kind of track, and then we will either get bits and pieces from other contributors — some instrumentations that they’ll send to us, and we’ll work that out with them. Then we’ll put something together, and we’ll have the vocalist get on top of it, and we’ll record them. Then, we’ll end up mixing it all together from there. So it’s kind of similar to what we do with our mash-ups, but this is all new, all original material that we’ve been piecing together for the last three years. » buzz: What inspires you to lay down each track? AB: Inspiration comes from a lot of different places. With mash-ups, usually the inspiration comes from music that I’m listening to at the time. I’ll be hearing it with an ear for whether I can do
this for a track that we do, and so I’ll make notes of the tracks I’m interested in and from there, it’s just kind of trial and error. There’s another thing we do with the album. Again, it just comes from a lot of different places — just sitting in front of the computer, in front of the keyboard or playing guitar — just kind of building from something small, and then, just adding layers and layers of different instruments on top of it. » buzz: Where does “FEAT” come from? AB: It has a couple meanings. The basic meaning is “Feat.,” like on the back of the album when you have song credits — the songs that feature people. Our album has a good 25 to 30 featured collaborators, so we thought that’d be a really good title for it because it’s all about this big collaboration — bringing lots of different people, lots of different sounds together. The other meaning for it is that a feat is an accomplishment, and for us, we’ve been working on it for quite awhile. We started off kinda throwing up mixes on the internet for fun, so it feels like a pretty big feat to finish this thing up with awesome guests on it and putting it out there. » buzz: Are you in any way nervous about the approaching date of your album? AB: Um … Not really nervous, but I’m excited because it’s a little bit of a different kind of tour this time around. We normally just do a DJ set of all different tracks that we’ve been making for the last five years. We’ll keep that, but we’re also going to do some of our songs from our album live. So we’ll be bringing along some people to do some live instrumentation and add that into the DJ set that we do. That’s a first for us. So I’m excited to see that take place and bring that to
the audience, as well as bringing the new songs to the audience. » buzz: Do you have a favorite collaboration from the album? AB: That’s a good question. It’s hard to pick a favorite. The songs are all so unique — um, I can’t think of one that stands out. I am really excited for the next single we have coming out this coming week. It’s called “One for the Record Books,” and that includes AC Newman from The New Pornographers and the rapper Sims. Both of us were really excited to get them on a track together. That was a really cool one. » buzz: Are you bringing any of your collaborators with you for the Champaign show? AB: For Champaign, we’re bringing Body Language. They’ll be doing most of the tour with us. We also have My Gold Mask, who come from Chicago and have done stuff with us in the past, and they’re actually on our record. Then, we have Oscillator Bug, who’s another Chicago musician that’ll be coming along with their electronic music. » buzz: If you could describe your music in one word, what would it be? AB: One word would be diverse. » buzz: Why? AB: Because I think that the core of what we do is bringing different sounds together and making them sound cohesive. So, I think we try and pull from diverse artists, diverse types of music. » buzz: Is there a particular genre of music that you’re more drawn to? AB: I think that what we do is mostly in the realm of hip-hop. I think that’s kinda the core of what we do. So, we certainly pull from a lot of electronic music genres, and lots of things from rock ‘n’ roll, but at the core it’s hip-hop based. buzz 9
‘From the bottom...’
A look at a University professor’s ups and downs as an entrepreneur by Jagie Daya
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n my first semester as a freshman at the University, I walked into my business administration classroom and found an empty chair next to one of my peers. Upon sitting down, a man in a spiffy black suit and shiny black dress shoes, with the self-confidence of a young man and the poise of a much older man, turned toward the board to write his name: Robert Valli, or Dr. Valli, as my classmates and I would come to address him. He introduced himself and began to tell us about his life. With a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, I was extremely overwhelmed and intimidated by such an accomplished man. Little did I know that the small introduction he gave us on that first day of class was but a fraction of the accomplishments he has achieved during his life. Valli grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he and his brother were raised by their father. His mother — also an entrepreneur and, as Valli described her, “ahead of her time” — passed away when he was 8. Valli spent the early years of his life as an urban city boy before moving to a suburb renowned for its excellent educational system. Interestingly enough, academics were not Valli’s forte growing up. Sports were his true love, and he channeled his energy in everything from tennis to football. “Sports were my expression because I wasn’t very good at school,” Valli admitted. It was not until the fourth grade, when he had what he describes as an “epiphany,” that he decided to make an effort in his academics. “It was a rainy day, and I couldn’t go out to play,” he said. “And I’ll never forget, I opened a book for what seemingly might have been the first time taking school seriously. I read a chapter we were being tested on, and it was American history, and I thought it was so interesting I read it twice. I took the test the next day, and about a week later the teacher called on me in class. I remember I was way behind the other kids, and she asked me, ‘Would you go get some scissors from the principal’s office?’ ... When I got back to class, everyone started to sing ‘For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,’ and that was because I had aced the test. “To me, it was an epic moment in my life both academically, but more importantly in terms of the impact and influence one human being had on another. My reward system changed overnight. I realized that I could do it and that I had a long ways to go. But with her inspiration, I was motivated.” Valli’s experience rising in the business world and working as a professional is extensive, to say the least. He was the associate director of the International Broadcasting Convention in the ‘90s, he launched multiple business start-ups in Silicon Valley, he has worked in the think-tanks of entrepreneurs everywhere, and he was the director for advancing innovation at the Kauffman Foundation. 10
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Valli spent the first 18 years of his professional life as an investment banker, working “hours of dedication in a stressful environment” before branching off to Silicon Valley. “I left investment banking to go with a client and started a company called Bank of Banks,” he said. “Its purpose was to disintermediate banking via the Internet, which was a bold plan that ultimately failed. I lost a lot of money doing it.” Being an entrepreneur is a risk investment, and it requires overcoming a lot of fears and having to make sacrifices. Valli’s time spent on this failed business venture made him realize some of his greatest fears as an entrepreneur. “There really is no safety net,” he said. “I found out what it’s like to stare at the ceiling. It’s a terrible feeling when you’re going to sleep at night and wondering how you are going to make payroll.” Despite the fact that the business may have been too ambitious, Valli took some valuable lessons away from his time in Silicon Valley. “What I learned from that also was to pay attention to why you’re doing something, to be passionate about it and not just do it for the money, but also try to learn from previous similar experiences,” he said. But the biggest sacrifice Valli said he felt he made was making the decision later in his life to leave the Bay Area and chase a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, which he obtained in 2009. “In order to be more effective, I had to have a Ph.D.,” he said. “And so I chose the best university I could get into (and) a different discipline, which is engineering, because I would like to think the leaders of tomorrow would be very interdisciplinary, and I chose a subject matter that was very relevant to today. The most challenging
(part) was leaving my children, who were in high school and college, leaving my friends and family, leaving the place I grew up and signing up to do what seemed to be impossible.” Although Valli faced challenges and made sacrifices, he gained knowledge and applied his experiences to his future ventures. His latest programs, the Innovation Immersion Program and the Global Consulting Program, combine innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship using different approaches. Valli’s advice to those who are looking to start a business has three important ingredients. “First and foremost, you have to have agility. For me, the best metaphor for a young start-up is a gyroscope. You can spin it different ways at different powers and at different torque, and it goes in different directions. So agility is the key to leadership, whether it be a big company or a small company,” he said. “Second thing is having the self-efficacy to be able to prioritize your ‘investability.’ In other words, begin with the end in mind. And the third thing is to be passionate and not just do it for the money.” For those who already have an idea but no money, Valli said to not only create an incentive for investors to be interested in your product or service, but to also build a healthy team, one that you can stick with for years on end. “Certain people have certain skill sets, so in the beginning it’s necessary to recruit a team that’s attractive from the skill set side, and that is if they complement each other,” he said. “The second thing to know is that it’s very difficult to build a company organically by yourself. So you have to know how to forge leverage-able collaborations and create win-win situations
and position yourself and your company in a way where the wind is at its back to minimize negative inertia.” From a family and friends perspective, Valli said he felt extremely blessed because of the people who had surrounded him growing up. These people were extremely supportive and applauded the ability to try, even if you fail. “If you didn’t repeat your failure, they respected you,” he said. “My family and friends are probably the strongest attribute of my life, and they didn’t just help me get through business challenges, but also personal challenges.” Valli said his greatest inspirations came from his personal life. His father; his best friend, Tom Sar; his wife, Veronica; and his three kids — Amanda, 28, Matthew, 25, and Xavier, who just celebrated his first birthday — have been his greatest support system and are what have kept him grounded and loved. For people with their hearts set on starting their own business, Valli had this to say: “Make sure there’s large-scale market scalability in your product or service that will appeal to investors. And most importantly, identify and recruit the right people that you want to work with carefully, and make sure your skill sets complement each other. Essentially you’re going to be married to one another, so make sure you like and enjoy being around each other.” Becoming an entrepreneur is a hell of a journey, and Robert Valli is living proof of it. Facing challenges, overcoming failures and having to make sacrifices is only a fraction of what lies on that road. The question is whether you have the ambition, patience and determination to make it from the bottom to the top.
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Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail?
Campus and community coexistence University and CU community work to promote religious tolerance by Ellie Brzezenski
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arly Sunday morning, August 26, 19-year-old Michigan State University sophomore Zachary Tennen stood outside an off-campus house party. He alleges that two men approached him and asked if he was Jewish, and after telling them “yes,” they “raised their arms into a Nazi salute and said ‘Heil Hitler’ before knocking him unconscious,” reported CBS Detroit. What is perhaps more shocking than that is the group of 20 or so people that assembled to watch Zachary have his mouth stapled shut — a claim that is unconfirmed by East Lansing police and disputed by witnesses, the AP reports — and his jaw broken in two places. No one called the police. No one called an ambulance. Tennen took a cab to the hospital by himself. While many, including the East Lansing police, are still hesitant to call this act a “hate crime” — the Lansing State Journal reports that witnesses never saw the Nazi salute or heard the men say “Heil Hitler” — it is still a very serious offense that should offer up a chance for reflection about our university’s campus environment and the level of tolerance it shows toward members of different religious, social and ethnic groups and sexual orientations. Racism and discrimination are issues that are still very much present in our society, though in much more overt and subtle ways. Yes — as a whole, we are much more tolerant than the days of the Civil Rights movement, but blatant racism of our parents’ adolescence has been filtered through more culturally acceptable outlets, like racist jokes and stereotyping. It is important to look at the environment we live and examine these attitudes on campus. ”The most important thing I say is that people should take the time to learn about others,” said Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University. “We should not be exclusionary. Judaism strongly believes we need to live within the world, be a part of it. When you are grounded in who you are, you can experience everything else.” Though choosing not to comment on the incident at Michigan State due to incomplete information presented by the media, Tiechtel expressed his desire to use this incident as a way to open up the conversation about tolerance to the whole campus community. “I think Michigan State is a wake-up call. Whether we know if it was a hate crime or not, it’s a wake-up call,” he said. “We don’t have to wait for violence to become a more tolerant and inclusive community. We have a responsibility. We as students, we as UIUC, have a responsibility to create an inclusive campus and not wait, God forbid, for there to be issues.” Tiechtel acknowledged there have been relatively few issues since he came to campus 10 years ago. ”In the years that I’ve worked here, I’m happy to say Illinois has generally been a very tolerant
place,” he said. “Yes, there have been incidents; we try not to focus on them. I believe a big part of (that) goes to the University in creating a tolerant environment in academics, within professors and teachers, in the college community with RSOs (registered student organizations) — creating an environment where people are more tolerant of each other.” Ariela Shaoul, student president of Chabad, agreed. “Overall, the Champaign-Urbana campus has been very tolerant of Jews, and being Jewish is something that many students openly celebrate,” she said. “Although there have been a few instanc-
es of intolerance, I’d like to think they were out of ignorance and not hatred.” According to the University’s 2011-2012 Tolerance Report, of the 81 reported incidents last academic year, the highest percentage of biasmotivated incidents, at 42 percent with 26 incidents, involved the LGBT community. The two classifications with the second highest number of incidents, with 6.75 percent each, were acts involving race or ethnicity and religion. There were 7 incidents including swastikas and 10 involving bias against the Jewish community. “I think any time you get a variety of people from
Chabad Center for Jewish Life. Photo by Qi Yu
a number of backgrounds together in one place, there’s certainly clashing, and I think that’s particularly true in the area of religion,” said Justin Brown, assistant director for the University’s Office for Student Conflict Resolution and coordinator of the Tolerance Program. “These are central pieces to our identity, things we have been learning about since we were little, and as an academic institution, where people have free speech, it’s where we expect those arguments and those discussions to be had.” The Tolerance Program is made up of a group of volunteer staff from all over the University that respond to bias-motivated behavior on campus and provide support for the victims of these incidents. The program also works in conjunction with the residence halls as a secondary tool for resolving roommate conflicts and more serious offenses in the dorms. Though not an extremely well-advertised program, it has been present on campus for a long time and is available as a resource 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. “(The program) is really focused on responding, not preventing,” Brown said. “You prevent by working with individual students and educating them so they won’t go out and (commit offenses) again, but we don’t have a full budget to offer programs during orientation or even for the campus as a whole.” He added that the University is better about acceptance than some places, but can still make improvements. “In an academic environment, in one that is as esteemed as this one is, I think it is much less of a problem than in the U.S. generally or in other countries,” Brown said. “But there is still a problem among students, faculty and staff.” So how do we begin this campus-wide discussion? At the very basic level, it begins with education and an open-minded perspective. We all come to college with a certain set of ideals and fairly welldefined belief systems, but we are here to grow as people. Our aim should not be just to expand our horizons academically, but also culturally. Said Tiechtel: “The question in life is how does one define themselves? Someone wants to become taller, there are two ways to do this: by knocking down someone else or building yourself up. We strongly believe in the concept of building yourself up not at the expense of others. (Tolerance) is not just about interfaith programming, but it’s about person to person, meeting new people. We don’t have to do everything together, but that doesn’t mean we can’t respect each other.” To report acts of intolerance, call 911 if there is a concern of immediate danger or call the emergency dean 24/7 at 217-333-0050. You can also submit an anonymous report online at www.odos.uiuc.edu/tolerance/reportintolerance/ or email tolerance@illinois.edu. buzz
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Memphis on Main, 9pm Mike Bray and Friends Classes, lectures, & Boomerang’s Bar and workshops Grill, 9pm Beginner Tango course Live music & karaoke Salsa night with DJ Juan Phillips Recreation 90’s Daughter Center, 7pm Fat City Bar & Grill, 9pm Radio Maria, 10:30pm Decadents: Post-Game Beginner Tango course Parrish Brothers Concert McKinley Presbyterian Rosebowl Tavern, 9pm White Horse Inn, 4:30pm Church and Foundation CANDY FOSTER & 7pm THE SHADES OF Miscellaneous BLUE!!! Live music & karaoke Memphis on Main, 9pm Prairie Stories Vaudevileins Lake of the Woods Forest Chillax with DJ Belly Mike N Molly’s, 8pm Preserve, 10am and Matt Harsh Late Night with DJ CUAS Starwatch at Radio Maria, 10pm Belly Homer Lake Mystic Poetry and Radio Maria, 10pm Homer Lake Interpretive Music Night University YMCA, 7pm Karaoke with DJ Hanna Center, 7pm Phoenix, 9pm Biennial Costume and Love of Everything Friday Night Live Prop Sale Mike N Molly’s, 8pm Downtown Champaign Krannert Center for Krannert Uncorked 6pm Performing Arts, 9am Krannert Center for F.I.N.D. Orphy Performing Arts, 5pm Miscellaneous Orpheum Children’s The Tao of Bach: A Science Museum, 1pm Musical Tai Ji Dance F.I.N.D. Orphy Offering Orpheum Children’s Krannert Center for Per- Science Museum, 1pm SUNDAY 16 forming Arts, 7:30pm Yarn n Yak Art & other exhibits Rantoul Public Library Miscellaneous 7pm Exhibit Opening Celebration: “A World of Preschool Story Time Shoes” Rantoul Public Library SATURDAY 15 Spurlock Museum, 1pm 10am Art & other exhibits F.I.N.D. Orphy Orpheum Children’s Assembling for Truth Food & festivals Science Museum, 1pm — Meditative Kite Industry Night Cosmopolitan Club Traditions Radio Maria, 10pm at the University of Living Yoga Center, 6pm The 44s Illinois Rosebowl Tavern, 7pm University YMCA, 7pm Classes, lectures, & workshops Miscellaneous Comedy Karaoke The Clark Bar, 9pm Saturday Physics “The F.I.N.D. Orphy Quantum Information Orpheum Children’s Revolution” Science Museum, 1pm FRIDAY 14 Loomis Lab, 10:15am
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Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 5:30pm
Sports, games, & Live music & karaoke recreation
TUESDAY 18 Classes, lectures, & workshops Putting the U in U of I: Getting Involved on Campus University YMCA, 7pm
Food & festivals Wine Night Radio Maria, 4pm
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1. COMPASS QUEST! Douglass Branch Library, 504 E. Grove St.
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Compasses are full of secrets--but fun secrets, like present locations, not sad secrets, like past failures. Compasses know how to find the world’s hidden treasure! Don’t worry, you can learn their secrets at the Compass Quest at Champaign Library. You’ll learn how to use a compass correctly and go on a real treasure hunt! It’ll be fun! Pretend you’re a pirate and/ or conquistador. This event is for anyone over the age of ten. No babies allowed! —Jessica Bourque, Arts & Entertainment Editor
Miscellaneous F.I.N.D. Orphy Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, 1pm Dance for People with Parkinson’s! Krannert Center for Performing Arts, 10am Growing Up Wild: Fairy Forts & Gnome Homes Homer Lake Interpretive Center, 10am
WEDNESDAY 19 Food & festivals Caribbean Grill Refinery, 11am
Live music & karaoke Open Decks with DJ Belly Radio Maria, 10pm Johannes Brahms’ Instrumental Music with Piano: Ian Hobson, piano Krannert Center for Performing Arts, 7:30pm Open Mic Night! Samuel Music, 5pm
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F.I.N.D. Orphy Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, 1pm Exploring the Music of West African Dance Talk Like a Pirate Day Ahmad Jamal with Mo’ Class with Djibril Rantoul Public Library Betta Music Camara Foellinger Great Hall Red Herring Coffeehouse 3:30pm C-U Comedy’s: Stand 6:30pm 6pm Classes, lectures, & Ahmad Jamal Up Comedy workshops Memphis on Main, 9pm Krannert Center for Per- MONDAY 17 Russ Feingold @ Friday forming Arts, 7:30pm Live music & karaoke Movies & theater Global Transfer Forum University YMCA, 12pm Afterglow: Snehasish Lounge Night Global Lens Film SeMozumder and Sound Radio Maria, 10pm ries: “Fat, Bald, Short Food & festivals of Mandolin Boots ‘N Booze at Man” (Gordo, Calvo y Krannert Center for Per- Canopy! Bajito--Colombia) Wieners & Wine Miller Beer and WGKC University YMCA, 7pm Sleepy Creek Vineyards forming Arts, 9:30pm Hog Wild for the Main Stage, 9pm 5pm Sports, games, & Corkscrew Gala Wine Armed Forces AnMiscellaneous recreation niversary Party Tasting Event To Benefit The Orpheum Rosebowl Tavern, 8pm F.I.N.D. Orphy Pokemon Fan Club THE MOONSHINE Children’s Science Orpheum Children’s Sci- Rantoul Public Library PIONEERS!!!!!!!!! Museum ence Museum, 1pm 5pm Wealth of Notions: Economists in Conflict The Rare Book and Manuscript Library 8:30am
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2. NO RESERVATIONS: THE FINAL TOUR Starting September 17 (Mondays) For eight seasons viewers have witnessed Chef, writer and world traveler Anthony Bourdain do what would be considered a dream job for most. He gets to travel around the world and dine on some of the most amazing cuisine while Travel Channel foots the bill, playing sugar daddy. The season 9 premiere aired on September 3, and as a viewer it is never too late jump in for the final episodes. Older seasons are currently streaming on Netflix. —Joyce Famakinwa, Movies & TV Editor
3. HUNTING SEASON WEBSERIES Paid downloads every Wednesday starting September 12 on HuntingSeason.tv, free streaming start the week after, until October 17 For Viewers 18+ The webseries format is a great thing, because it allows for more creative content and scenarios that would be either too raunchy or supposedly too cliche to be broadcasted on air. New webseries in its infant stages are just fantastic to stumble upon. “Hunting Season” is being lauded as the gay answer to “Sex and the City,” which I think does a bit of a disservice for the webseries, whose resemblance to SATC is only because of the New York City setting and the fact that twenty-somethings are trying to figure out love and life in the Big Apple. “Hunting Season” will be a weekly webseries based off the sorta real life “The Great Cock Hunt” blog that had its heydey on Gawker a few years back. The trailer makes this writer super excited, promising self-deprecating voiceovers, blatant oogling, and a slightly neurotic twenty-something protagonist who fits well into the mold of urban hipster that is all so desirable nowadays. —Jasmine Lee, Food & Drink Editor
4. KRANNERT CENTER’S BIANNUAL COSTUME AND PROP SALE Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Saturday, Sept. 15, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. or everything is sold $3 for early birds, free for sleepyheads It’s time for Krannert to once again sell its costumes and props to make space for new production items. Krannert is remaining mum on exactly what they’ll have for sale, so you could leave with a rock, but you could also leave with a rare one-of-a-kind rock! Maybe even one that was part of the set of a real-life Krannert production. Tickets cost $3 if you’re looking to have first choice of the items from 9-11:30 a.m. Anyone arriving after then can peruse the props free of charge. Costume Shop items will be in the Studio Theatre and props will be in the hallway on Krannert’s second level. —Tom Thoren, Community Editor
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5. Weekly Monday Night Improv Shows! Illini Union Courtyard Cafe Every Monday at 7PM Free! Totally random! I love random. Randomness is next to cleanliness and godliness and bodily finesse. And there’s nothing more random than improv! We make it up, on the spot! We of course, are eight beautiful UOI students (most of whom have won many modeling competitions and beauty pageants), and one ugly cave troll (Nick Martin), who are dedicated to pleasuring you and your laughter muscles! We play games; we sing songs. Can you just come out and watch us? We’ll give you candies! Little candies! Vapour candy! Hurry up! It’s every Monday (at 7)! Just come and watch us and laugh and call your uncle every weekend because he’s lonely! —
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Global Transfer Afterglow: Snehasish Mozumder and Sound of Mandolin
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Krannert Uncorked with Lauren Turk, singer // Marquee
6. UC HipHop and The Foundation’s Backyard Burner The Foundation House at 309 S Coler Friday, September 14 at 6:00 p.m. Free DJ set The Foundation and their affiliates, the UC Hip-Hop Congress, recently moved into a new house in Urbana and are ready to break it in with a house party in their backyard. The dudes will be DJing, barbecuing and rumors are swirling that there’s gonna be a bonfire! If you miss ‘em Thursday at Cowboy Monkey, here’s your second chance to get down with the crew. —Evan Lyman, Music Editor
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Emanuel Ax, piano In remembrance of Clair Mae & G. William Arends, Endowed Sponsorship In remembrance of Doloris Dwyer, Endowed Sponsorship Judith & Stanley Ikenberry Carole & Jerry Ringer Misaho & Richard Berlin
Something is sure to catch your eye. Tucked away on the edge of campus, The Promenade awaits with an oasis of delightful gifts.
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Drop by 10am-6pm Monday through Saturday, and leave time to shop before or after any performance. Make the most of your expedition with free underground parking on evenings and any time on weekends.
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“Tom Baker, the fourth actor to play Doctor Who” Becca Warner Senior in spanish
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Across “Amanda Seyfried, actress in “Mean Girls”” matt knight ph.d. in music
“Abe Lincoln of “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter”” taylor thiel freshman in statistics
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