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I thoroughly consider myself a C-U native – having been born here and spent almost two decades collecting mail at a 61801 address – there are still times when, on these streets that I think I know, portals to alternate realities reveal themselves.

When I pass through, I enter entirely different cultures and ways of being that have been there all along, running smoothly, completely indifferent to my ignorance of their existence.

When my friend told me at the beginning of the semester that his band was playing at Greek Park, all I could muster was,“What? There’s a Greek Park?”

Then I told him that I, at 25, wouldn’t miss my first real fraternity event for the world.

He wasn’t exactly sure where the park was himself, but provided rough directions, and as I made my way, I found myself moving west through the intersection of Armory and Fourth, something that, until that moment, I had never had done before in my life.

It may strike some as unlikely that in so many years of Urbana residence I had never once passed through the warren of Greek houses that line the blocks around the southern ends of Second and Third, but in truth, I had never had cause to do so. I earned my undergraduate degree out of state and had never given serious thought to crashing a frat party when home for the holidays. And so, on that perfect summer evening, I pedaled around half drop-jawed, absorbed in observing up-close the natural habitat of this fascinating community of people who seemed drawn to wear identical T-shirts and move in packs.

Upon finding the park, I was warmly welcomed by the brothers at the gate, said my hellos to the band, and finally settled by the back fence, ogling young men who were perhaps a little too young for me to ogle in good taste. I felt poignantly a part of something that I hadn’t known until a few hours before it was even possible to be a part of.

Because of the complexity of the world in which we live, our understanding of ourselves, those around us, and our community as a whole is doomed, on any given day, to be a half-truth. In my experience, the moments that enable us to feel the most acutely alive, as we make our way through our days, arise when life shows us that what we thought we knew about our world was incomplete, or even completely wrong. In some cases, a reaction to one of these lessons may be pleasant bemusement, as it was on that evening, but realistically, I think, shock, horror and shame are far more likely emotional outcomes from having our worldview reconstructed. In these cases, the question arises: Do we have the capacity to acknowledge our miscalculation and move forward in new understanding?

On that particular evening, I thought I knew the map of Champaign-Urbana and I thought I knew university culture.When it became obvious I didn’t, these small gaps were filled in – not such a radical lesson to absorb as the sun set behind one of the massive houses. But life is very rarely so gentle and gradual in the teachings it hands out.These last weeks have been for me a personal struggle with inconceivably weightier lessons that I am attempting to come to terms with, so that I may fill in these holes in my understanding that were unforgivably egregious.

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You see, before Katrina hit, I thought I knew about my country. I thought I knew a little something about the face of poverty, injustice and the effects of racism within it. I also believed amorphously in a general level of continuity that any American could expect upon waking up from one day to the next.

Not only has this disaster killed thousands and left in ruins the possessions, histories and communities of countless more, but it has also destroyed our sense of American security and identity. It has taken away our vision of who we thought we were as a nation, a culture and a superpower. As we watch on the news, valiant men and women continue to sift through what is left of New Orleans and we think about the cascade of events leading up to this moment, it seems impossible not to ask,“How were we so blind?”

We conceived of ourselves as a nation quick on its feet and quick to action. My sense was that people’s sense of outrage while the Superdome descended into days of horrific uncertainty was not only a reaction to such large-scale, preventable human suffering, but was also based in the fact that somehow we were wrestling with how to let go of the reality we had built a national identity upon:Things like this do not happen in America. Now we see that they obviously and terribly do – and on such a scale that thousands of people will be haunted Sarah Michelson is forever by our national ignoa potential new rance of our own inability to columnist for the live up this ideal.

Buzz. If you like her We conceived of ourselves stuff, email – particularly white Buzz@readbuzz.co America, I imagine – as a m so she can connation coming to terms tinue to write with, and moving away from, a history of racism and injustice. Perhaps those more intimate with the realities of Southern culture were unsurprised, but watching the blatant separation of black and white on the news day after day caused me a sense of deep shame.

I thought about friends I had in other parts of the world who regularly watched our Hollywood movies, filled with buffed white faces, smiling within their expansive, immaculate houses. Now, all over the world, people were seeing on their TV’s proof of what they had suspected all along – that for all our championing of our own global superiority, morality and thirst for equality, we still have large number of citizens living in something like developing world conditions. That with all our talk of equality and democracy, our history of discrimination is, in fact, profoundly intertwined with our present.

As the weeks begin to pass, perhaps we in the Midwest, insulated by hundreds of miles, will be able to go an entire day without passing someone collecting donations, without turning over in our minds a haunting image or story from the news.

Though the plain facts of geography remove us from the physical operation of salvage and reconstruction left in Katrina’s wake, I believe we remain responsible for internalizing the difficult and profound lesson this tragedy has taught us about what we thought we knew – but so obviously did not. If the national “truths” of commitment to competency, compassion and justice are things we can salvage from the wreckage of New Orleans, the question to next ask is how we can construct a society that will truly match what we so desperately want to believe. s o u n d s

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"If you want to draw a bird, you must become a bird," counseled the Japanese artist Hokusai. Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi practiced a related strategy: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." I have yet another perspective to add to the mix: Become more like the people you admire most.

Place these three suggestions at the core of your daily rhythm in the coming week, Cancerian.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19)

"Something we were withholding made us weak," wrote poet Robert Frost. I hope you will consider the possibility that this describes your current predicament. It's my astrological opinion that your strength is being compromised by a feeling you're not exploring or an experience you're denying yourself or a gift you're refusing to give. You may think you're protecting yourself, but I believe it's just the reverse. To reclaim the vitality that has been shriveling up, unclench yourself in every way you can imagine.

TAU RU S

(April 20-May 20)

I don't recommend that you aim for perfection--not now or ever.

I'm equally skeptical of you seeking enlightenment, as it's defined by Eastern religions. Perfection and enlightenment are downright impossible in a world where change is the only constant. What constitutes perfection or enlightenment today won't be valid tomorrow, when the truth has evolved and God has showered us with an influx of previously unimaginable new circumstances. No, Taurus, what I suggest is that you cultivate love with all your ingenuity—both the capacity to give it and receive it.

There's no other undertaking that does more to build up your power and intelligence. And this week is an ideal time to be living proof of that fact.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20)

The Epson laser printer I got for my computer two years ago has worked great. It serves my needs beautifully. Our household also has a newer, more expensive Epson printer, which I bought for another computer, but it doesn't work nearly as well.

Unfortunately, the beloved original now has a malfunction, and I can't find a single printer repairperson who'll even try to fix it. They say it's an antique, and Epson doesn't make parts for it anymore.

Nonetheless, I'm determined to save it. I'm scouring eBay for old parts, and will learn printer repair skills myself if necessary. This is one time when the older version is definitely worth preserving.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Gemini, you're facing a similar problem with a comparable solution.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22)

"It ain't cheating if you don't get caught," said baseball star Billy Martin, who was renowned for his belligerent trickster shtick. Trainer Victor Conte, who has been accused of providing steroids to professional baseball players, offers a different angle: "It's not cheating if everyone is doing it." I beg you to disavow their beliefs, Leo. While it's true that everyone is doing the kind of fudging you're contemplating, and though you probably wouldn't be caught, to do so would be bad for your karma, your dharma, your charisma, and your ability to attract what you need. Be stupendously ethical, sublimely impeccable.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

The planetary omens for you are all about revelation and flashes of insight, so I don't think I'm being too outrageously optimistic when I predict that the coming days will bring you more "aha!"-type experiences than you've had in the past four months combined. In fact, I'll be bold and call this Eureka Explosion Week. To get yourself in the mood, read these definitions of the word "epiphany": a stroke of realization about the meaning of something important; a sudden flow of inspiring knowledge without thought; a perception of a previously hidden reality by means of a burst of intuition.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Some years ago, I fell in love with the wrong woman. The misadventures that ensued provided me with enough reasons to stay humble forever. The experience was proof that I'm as subject to bouts of self-deception as everyone else in the world. It was also a reminder that while some people might consider me wise, I'm at best an apprentice mage stumbling my way through a crash course in the mysteries of being a human being. My gratitude for all these educational blessings has been enormous. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a good time to marshal your appreciation for comparable pride-leveling events in your own life. Since you're poised on the verge of a new phase of success, it's the perfect moment to recall how much you still have to learn.

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SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Sometime in the coming weeks you could begin a project that will take at least 12 years to complete. Will it be worth spending that much time? I believe it will, though you might not think so now. In fact, you may not even be inclined to launch the project if you imagine it can't be completed by 2008. From what I can tell, though, the purpose of the long adventure is bigger than you're able to foresee, and the ways it will change you are important in ways you cannot yet understand.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec.21)

Let's work on dissolving one of your fears. The time is right: Cosmic forces are aligned to help you pump up your courage.

In fact, life is conspiring to bring you experiences that could free you of harmful anxieties and wipe away phobic imprints.

So choose a feeling of dread--any feeling of dread--and visualize it embodied in front of you in the form of a specific scene.

Now picture the scene unfolding on a large raft at a beach.

Start laughing at what's transpiring; compel yourself to chuckle if necessary, or focus on anything you find ridiculous. Notice that the force of your laughter is propelling the raft out to sea.

Keep giggling and guffawing, pushing it further and further out until it disappears over the horizon. Do this exercise once a day until October 1.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

It's a ripe moment for you to explore the mysteries of the void. I'm not being glib. You'd really benefit from becoming better friends with emptiness. Your well- being would rise a few levels if you expanded your appreciation for the value of doing nothing and thinking nothing. Do you dare live without your precious opinions and ambitions for a few days? Are you brave enough to gaze into the hear t of the

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AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

A few years ago, the CEO of Ford Motors apologized for making SUVs. William Ford even referred to the Excursion, one of his company's huge pollution generators, as the "Ford Valdez," associating it with the ship that despoiled the Alaskan environment with an oil spill back in 1989. And yet that didn't stop Ford from continuing to manufacture gas-guzzlers. He saw the error of his ways but didn't correct it. Make him your anti-role model in the coming days, Aquarius. After you realize your mistake or excess, be gleefully uninhibited about fixing it and making amends.

PISCES

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A blogger named Allison wrote this about me and my horoscopes at Beautifulsurprise.blogspot.com: "Brezsny's a little loopy. A little out there. A little 'I would have stopped for that red light, officer, but little green men from my personal goddess realm on the fifth parallel told my cat that I should be taking echinacea and bee pollen for my sniffles, and I didn't think it prudent to ignore such a suggestion.'" Here's my reaction: Like all of us, I periodically come across people who have a very different concept of me than I have of myself, but this discrepancy is extreme. In my own eyes, I'm grounded and full of common sense. And while I appreciate the New Age, I don't use its vernacular or share all of its values. I mention this, Pisces, as an example of your assignment in the coming week.

Identify people with cracked notions about you, and either correct them or separate yourself from them.

Homework: Is there an area of your life where you're having effects that are different from your intentions? Testify at www.freewillastrology.

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61 King, in Cannes 62 Like books that may fetch a higher resale value 65 Peaches & Herb, e.g.

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here’s been a lot of negativity in the press lately. To alleviate you of another sad story, this is a short piece of fiction that I wrote. Enjoy. “There she is, the girl of my dreams, if only I knew her name. Look at her, she looks so gorg‌ oh shit. She saw me staring at her.

Look away. LOOK AWAY! Play it cool, look at the intricate architecture in the room.

Ok, she’s not looking, back to staring.

She looks good in her cute little outfit, just waiting for me to talk to her.Well ‌. maybe not me, but she probably wants someone to talk to her. Might as well be me, right? Right. Just go talk to her, I can’t just keep staring ‌ well, I guess I couuuld ... NO! I can’t be the creepy staring guy.

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Stay in the shadows, keep your eye on the target, but don’t let the target see you.Target? Who am I? Rambo? Who says target? Wow. Oh no.

She’s looking at me. Eye contact, not good.

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Ok, now, just walk up to her, strike up witty banter and win her heart with charm and humor. Can’t be too hard. I’ve seen it done in movies, and if they do it in the movies, I can obviously do it in real life.

Just keep walking and smiling. Doing great, just don’t screw u... SHIT! Ok, I know she was looking right at you, but maybe, MAYBE she didn’t see you trip and fall. Play this off as nothing.

I know you fell down some steps, but you made it look smooth, calculated. Pretend you dropped something, or do a push-up, show off your athletic prowess.Wait! No! Don’t leave ... she left. It was probably the push-up thing. Nicely done, Rambo.

Now professor BOLDFACE is telling me to get back in my seat or else I’ll get kicked out of lecture, who does he think he is? Telling me what to do, like he runs this place. Oh well, just shake it off, shake it off, you’ll do better next time.�

And there’s that. I do hope you enjoyed it, maybe even laughed at it. I have a side note, though. I heard on the news that doctors in a Louisiana hospital administered lethal morphine doeses to terminally ill victims before the hospital flooded and they drowned. Now they’re in jail.

Personally, I think they did the right thing. I would have done it, I think. There has to be a point when compassion supersedes the law. I actually think the doctors were doing their jobs by saving the patients from even more pain. But I’m sure I pissed off a lot of people, so send me your thoughts, I’d love to hear them.

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You can’t spell funeral without FUN MICHAEL COULTER

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Death is a pretty scary deal,

and while it’s scary to think of people close to you dying, that’s really nothing when compared to your own demise.

I imagine my moment of death will seem very strange and go something like this: “Okay, I’m still alive, but honestly, I gotta say, I’ve felt better. Hey, at least I’m still alive!� The next moment, I am awake and burning in hell, the devil’s pitchfork firmly embedded in my ass. “Wow, that’s so weird that I’m already in hell.

You’d think there would be some sort of break in the middle or something ... a few minutes in a waiting room at the very least. Last moments on earth, then straight to your first minutes in hell? I have to say, that’s really just too much of a culture shock for a guy like me. Eternity is really gonna be a bastard.�

So, quite obviously, dying will probably suck a big fat one. But, let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. There’s a reason why the first three letters of the word “funeral� are F-UN. Death is no fun to think about, but I have to

say, there is a certain creepy amount of joy in thinking about your own funeral.

Granted, thoughts of my own particular funeral probably aren’t very realistic. In my simple mind, I imagine everyone will be beside themselves, distraught and bawling their eyes out. Realistically though, I’m sure it will be much different than that and the most frequently heard phrase will be something along the lines of, “I cannot believe that smart-assed rat bastard lived this long. He deserved much worse than he ever got.� Maybe a little bit of well placed music could keep something like this from happening.

After all, people get all emotional when they listen to music, so it might be nice to create the mood you desire. I mean, it is sort of your party isn’t it? Fortunately, we’re no longer forced to play the standard fare at funerals. “Amazing Grace� is a fine song, but many folks today would prefer to go with something a little hipper. A recent poll of 45,000 people in Europe turned up some odd choices in current funeral songs.The list is sort of funny.

Number one is Queen’s “The Show Must Go On.�That must just be a Europe thing, because I can’t place that song at all. Number two is “Stairway to Heaven� and goes a long way to illustrate just how trite and predictable many

people are, even in their time of death. Number three is AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.� Fine song and yet another way to remind everyone at your funeral what a freaking dumbass you were.

Number four is Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.�

Um, always nice to check out with a little bit of arrogance. Number four is Mozart’s “Requiem.� Yeah, we get it, you saw “Amadeus� when you were alive. Number six is “Angels� by Robbie Williams. Never heard it, so no idea. Number seven is Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever.� I apparently know less about Queen than I thought I did because I’m also drawing a blank on that song too.

Number eight is “Let It Be� by the Beatles. I suppose it’s better than “Helter Skelter� but something like “I Wanna Hold Your Hand� would be a little funnier. Number nine is Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters.� Um, whatever. Finally, slipping into the top ten is U2’s “With or Without You.� Um, whatever. Again.

I have to say, looking at the entire list, those songs seem so boring and uninspired to me.Why not use your funeral to let your family and friends learn something about your life that they didn’t know before. For example, If you pick “Do You Believe in Love� by Cher, it’s a fine way of saying “Check it out, I really was gay all along!�

If you pick any song by the Grateful Dead, it

simply means you will smell far better in death than you ever did in life. If you chose Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues� it may be a painless way of telling your surviving loved ones that your long held desire to be gang raped by five men in a prison shower was never fulfilled.

I would try to stay away from a really spiritual song like “Nearer My God to Thee.� There’s a chance God will see it as a last ditch effort to do a little ass kissing and get into heaven. Since he’s God, he will see Michael Coulter through this sad attempt and send is a videographyour ass straight to hell. On the er, comedian other hand, “Sympathy for the and sort of a Devil� by the Rolling Stones smart-ass. But might do nothing more than piss we love him anyway, and don’t him off from the get-go. Death is know why. not a time to be acting all cool.

Probably Personally, it’s sort of like because he’s so getting a tattoo. I’ve just never damn funny. really felt that strongly about anything to have it permanently associated with me. If I had to pick one, I guess I would go with “Reason To Believe� by Bruce Springsteen, thoughtful, yet not too ass kissy. Either that or “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go� by Wham. I mean, somebody up there in heaven has to have a sense of humor. Don’t they?

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and character development of a live action film. There are multiple facets to the cadre of characters, and their feelings of fear, love, jealousy and yearning are far removed from any fish in Finding Nemo. It’s a conglomeration of loose ends, mish-moshed together to create something bizarrely beautiful and captivating. (Prikazsky)

Do you like quoting lines from movies?

Think you know them all?

“Well, Columbus wasn’t looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.”

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The meeting of TWO PERSONALITIES is like the contact of TWO CHEMICAL substances: if there is any reaction, BOTH ARE TRANSFORMED.

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THE BROTHERS GRIMM

Matt Damon & Heath Ledger After a lengthy hiatus, visionary director Terry Gilliam makes his triumphant return with The Brothers Grimm, an uneven though inspired fairy tale. If nothing else, it is a visual feast likely to keep the audience fully satiated.

Unfortunately, this film suffers where so many do: story.

The plot is paper-thin and lacks the pure excitement a movie of this caliber should have. It seems too simple and the events unravel too quickly. (Paul Prikazsky) THE CAVE

Cole Hauser & Morris Chestnut The Cave doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. Part of it is trying to be a horror film, but it isn’t scary. Another part wants to be an action/thriller, but it isn’t exciting.

There are places man was never meant to go, and the theater showing The Cave is one of them. The movie’s audience doesn’t just deserve their money back, they deserve an apology. (David Just) THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN

Steve Carell & Catherine Keener The 40-Year-Old Virgin manages to stay away nicely from being a one-joke feature, as so many other comedies often are. Ultimately, it delivers something that everyone can appreciate and enjoy, virgins or not. The movie teaches us that there can be no progress without risk, and that trying and trying again is the only way to succeed.

Cheesy? Maybe. But it’s just so funny. (Just) FOUR BROTHERS

Mark Wahlberg & Andre Benjamin Four Brothers works as a violent crime drama, but doesn’t effectively capture the characters. It would have been nice to see more dealing with the racial context of their relationship. It’s hard to give the film too much credit, because the plot is so outrageous. Avenging your dear old mother sounds well and good, but I have a feeling she’d be the first one to disapprove. (Just) HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

voices of Emily Mortimer & Christian Bale Howl’s Moving Castle is a real trip. The excitement and humor meet in a nice equilibrium and move the story to a whole different level. It’s a cartoon with all the depth

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Rachel McAdams & Cillian Murphy In the end, Red Eye is still a B-movie. It’s an exploitation film that is based solely around thrills to arouse the audience’s interest. For an exciting ride, it’s worth it; an unforgettable movie it’s not. Red Eye marks Craven’s return to the shorter, simpler films of his early career.

Maybe if he had a hand in developing the script, the characters would have been more captivating. (Prikazsky)

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THE SKELETON KEY

Kate Hudson & John Hurt Some of the most frightening horror films are so effective because they are grounded in reality. When you realize this could really happen, you’re more likely to sleep with a nightlight on. Films like Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen and The Exorcist (to a certain extent) are stories real enough to make you believe. Skeleton Key isn’t quite in that tier yet, but it sure comes close. (Prikazsky)

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CRY_WOLF Julian Morris & Lindy Booth Weekly horror film aler t. Cr y_Wolf is the stor y of an elaborate online hoax some high schoolers take upon themselves to create about a serial killer massacring their classmates. Turns out there’s a little bit of truth to ever y lie.

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JUST LIKE HEAVEN Reese Witherspoon & Mark Ruffalo As far as apar tment poltergeists go, you could do worse than being haunted by the spirit of Reese Witherspoon. Mark Ruffalo plays the lonely guy who begins to fall in love with the ghost of his apar tment’s previous occupant.

Relationships with ghosts never work out, take my word for it. (Andrew Vecelas) LORD OF WAR Nicolas Cage & Ethan Hawke Here comes this fall’s quirky Nicolas Cage vehicle; this year he’s playing a successful international arms dealer who suddenly develops cold feet over his profession. With a talented supporting cast, quality director and a premise we don’t see everyday (how many movies have you seen about arms profiteers?), this could just be a breath of fresh air. (Andrew Vecelas)

Customers fill the counter stools at Po’ Boy’s.The regulars line the counter to reminisce and discuss, amongst other topics, Illini sports, on September 2.

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Editor’s Note: Although this story was written last spring, Po’ Boy’s is still ready to serve you a helping of their famous Bar-B-Que.You can make a few new friends, too.

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it down at Po’ Boy’s Bar-B-Que and just watch. Watch hot sauce mix with mild and watch youth mix with their elders.

Watch blacks mix with whites. Listen as 80-year-old Arnie Yarber reaches back into his mind for a memory and lets his eyes glaze over as his voice travels backwards. Hear his strong timbre soften as he remembers an old friend and laughs, his big eyes and bigger smile gleaming. As Arnie looks off into the past, watch how the reminiscence practically appears right on his face.

Arnie no longer actually works at Po’ Boy’s—the rib, beef, pork and polish sausage joint he opened in 1952 on the corner of Market Street and Columbia Avenue in Champaign. His son, Herkie, and godson, John Hendrix, have manned the counter for the last couple decades, although the owner does still season the meat and make potato salad from time to time.Yet Arnie’s memories are as sharp as ever, recalling the people who have come into his little place as more than just customers.

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“I just love people,” he says. “There’s so much you can learn from them.”

There was the time he kept the restaurant open until 3 a.m.—regular hours are 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays—answering questions that white kids had about blacks but never before felt comfortable enough to ask.

And the time a woman, whose boyfriend refused to go north of University Avenue for fear of the mostly black neighborhood, threatened to break up with him if he wouldn’t try the restaurant.The boyfriend gave in, and, now married, the couple’s kids call Arnie “Uncle Arnold.”

And the time two of his favorite customers and former Illini football players, J.C. Caroline and Ray Nitschke, then playing for the rival Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, good-naturedly argued about what they were going to do to each other in an upcoming game. The punchline, which elicits a raucous laugh from Arnie every time he tells the story, is that since Caroline, who is black, and Nitschke, who is white, both played defense, they never would have had any reason to clash in the first place.

With the restaurant open only two days a week—Arnie says sales are best on the weekends and Herkie and John work full-time jobs—Po’ Boy’s is “more like a hobby than a business,” Herkie says.

Go inside anytime during business hours, and you can expect to see Arnie sitting on one of the 13 stools, shooting the bull and

reminiscing with the regulars of all ages, races and backgrounds.

Actually, Po’ Boy’s doesn’t really have regulars. It has friends of Arnie, Herkie and John, the people of Champaign and Urbana and countless other towns who make the restaurant a part of their weekends.

From the outside, Po’ Boy’s doesn’t look like much. A small, brown building that wouldn’t be misidentified as a shack, it only has one window and the parking lot is nothing more than curbs and rocks. On the sign that reads “Arnie’s Po’ Boy’s Bar-B-Que” is the restaurant’s slogan, “Where Friends Meet.”

“People’s the same all over,”Arnie says.“You got the good, the bad and the indifferent. People gotta give one another a chance.”

Po’ Boy’s doesn’t have a no-smoking section. It doesn’t have a kids’ menu. Heck, the place barely has a menu, with only eight items offered.The three tables and counter at which people eat are Illini-orange, contrasted by the small restaurant’s three walls that are lined with stainless steel panels common to 1950s diners.The place is adorned with Fighting Illini items, including a framed photograph of the football team emerging from the players’ tunnel for a game, a picture of the Chief and a neon light that used to be a beer advertisement but Arnie paid to have changed to,“Illini.”

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sleeved polo shirt and John’s long-sleeved green sweater, the Illini hat that sits atop Herkie’s head every night properly in place.

An episode of Charmed flickers on the TV perched in the corner of the restaurant, it being too early for the usual sports to be on.

Brent orders 11 sandwiches, some of which will be given to his brother in Charleston and some of which will be saved for lunch tomorrow. The meat slicer swish-swishes as the beef and pork for the sandwiches is made thin and lean, and Brent asks for the sandwiches with hot BBQ sauce to be clearly marked. His grandmother is the only one in his family who can handle the hot sauce, and Brent, with his more sensitive tongue, wouldn’t want to eat a hot sandwich by mistake. The cash register chchings as his order is rung up, $38.35.

“Is that all?” Brent asks.

“We can overcharge you if you want,” Herkie tells him with a laugh. “After all, we have to support the president’s new budget.”

Herkie, 54, has worked with his dad at Po’ Boy’s since he was in junior high. When he was only a few months old, he would grab onto his father so tightly from his crib that he’d be lifted out of it, so Arnie called him a little Hercules, which was quickly shortened to Herkie and immediately stuck.

Herkie can talk politics and sports with equal passion, which is fortunate because sports, most notably those of the University of Illinois, are often the chosen topic of conversation at Po’ Boy’s.

During the week, Herkie works to improve energy efficiency in local homes for the Urban League and is the vice-president of the local chapter of the National Council of African-American Men. He attended the University of Illinois in the late ’60s when there were few blacks on campus, remembering white couples standing behind bushes near the Six Pack, pointing at the black students, saying, in Herkie’s words, Daryl Yarbar and John Hendrix swiftly prepare barbeque meals for their waiting customers.

“Look, Herman, there goes another one.”

He eventually dropped out of the U of I business program because, he says, the classes weren’t teaching him any practical knowledge he couldn’t ...AND THE FOOD’S GOOD TOO learn at Po’ Boy’s.

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On one wall hang pictures of happy customers and friends, sometimes eating the food, sometimes standing with their arms around each other, food nowhere to be seen. t 5:45 p.m., University of Illinois juniors Danny Zalay and Fifteen minutes before the restaurant opens, the thin, spicy, Mike Karmin sit at the counter waiting for their food. peppery homemade sauce—offered in hot, mild and mixed vari“I feel like you walk in here and you just feel good,” Mike says. ations—can be smelled nearly a block away. Brent Bays of Within seconds, John serves beef sandwiches to Danny, “Are Mattoon sits outside Po’ Boy’s in a 1998 Buick LeSabre with his those both mild?” Danny asks. grandmother, Anna Phelps, eagerly waiting to purchase their John answers without doubt in his voice, “Yeah, those are food.The two-hour round-trip doesn’t deter Bays from coming both mild.” to Po’ Boy’s every weekend during football season and every After chowing down two sandwiches each, Danny and Mike other weekend during basketball season. If Arnie sees him sitting head for the bright orange door. John calls out to them, as he outside before the place opens, he’ll let him in early. does to all of Po’ Boy’s’ customers of high school and “They make you feel comfortable in here,” Brent says. “You college-age, “You guys go straight home. I know you will.” know it’s gonna be here. It’s dependable.”

John has four children, three of them from his former Brent has known Arnie since ’62 and has eaten at Po’ Boy’s for marriage and one of his ex-wife’s from another marriage. During just as long, and like many of his fellow customers, he only the week, he drives a cement truck, and in the construction knows Arnie’s son as Herkie—a nickname his father gave him off-season, he teaches part time at local elementary schools. when he was a baby—not Daryl, his real name, which is hardly Having grown up in Easley, S.C., John knows what it feels ever uttered inside Po’ Boy’s’ walls. like to be called “Nigger” and “Boy.” He is proud that his son Tonight, the doors open at 5:30 p.m. on the dot, a rarity for can now walk down the street and be called Justin. In Po’ Boy’s, a place that often opens from 15 minutes early to 15 minutes John is John, or Big John to some of his friends. late, and Brent enters the restaurant. Herkie and John stand One time, John stood in the checkout line at the grocery store behind the counter, blue aprons worn over Herkie’s short- and saw a couple black kids laughing at a tabloid headline about

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Ray Charles being sick. He asked them if they knew who Charles was.They didn’t. A white boy standing nearby identified him by his well-known rendition of America the Beautiful so John paid for the boy’s purchase.When the black kids wondered why he didn’t pay for their items as well, John said, “Well, obviously he knows black history and you don’t.”

It’s now 6:10 p.m. The TV is still set on TNT, playing an episode of Law and Order. Most of the stools, as well as the three tables that sit four people each, house customers of varying dress and race. One of them is Herb McClellan, 30, who has lived in Champaign all his life but just started coming to Po’ Boy’s a few years ago. He does odd jobs for Andy’s Towing, an African-American owned business across the street from Po’ Boy’s. Another is Larry Schultz, the Toyota Inventory Manager at University Auto Park. He has been coming to Po’ Boy’s for upwards of 30 years. When he walks in, John automatically serves him a beef sandwich with mixed sauce and a diet cola. When he enters the restaurant, he says, “It’s like going home.”

At 6:30 p.m., the place clears out a bit.When a little girl leaves with her family, John calls to her, “Tell Grandma I said ‘Hi.’” Bob Baites of Colorado Springs, Colo., and his 21-year-old son, Matt, sit down on stools at the counter. “I’ve been waiting 35 years for a hot pork sandwich,” the elder Baites declares to Herkie and John. Bob graduated in 1970 from the University of Illinois and ate at Po’ Boy’s every Friday as a student. He has been back to Champaign a half-dozen times since then, but this is the first time the restaurant has been open when he was in town.

Matt laments that his father has been talking about Po’ Boy’s for a month as Bob bites into his sandwich.

“Oh, yeah,” he exclaims mid-bite. “Just like I remembered.”

He continues to mutter to himself, mostly in disbelief that this place, and its food, hasn’t changed a bit.

After Bob and Matt have finished their hot pork sandwiches, Bob slaps his son on the back and asks, “Was I right?”

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose wants very badly to

But how could the story falter? It’s a true story after all, and the truth should make a good movie. Here is an authentic case of documented possession acknowledged by the Catholic Church and it’s degraded into some third-rate B movie. Had the story been properly adapted with a massive rewrite, we might have had a genuinely scary horror movie on our hands.

Amidst this mess, Linney and Wilkinson try to make the most of their poorly written characters.

But there are no intense dialogue exchanges or emotional outbursts. Their acting seems to be strictly facial, if such a thing is possible. Even their performances are nothing to brag about. It seems like they’re trying to outdo one another in some elaborate joke that only they’re enjoying.

Almost everything that could go wrong with this film did, including its wholly unoriginal style, completely devoid of fresh ideas or anything that could remotely pass as exciting. The Exorcism of Emily Rose has a very independent feel to it.

From its minimalist style to sparse production design, the film seems to be desperately seeking some kind of notoriety that it fails to achieve.

Even the cinematography is bland and uninteresting.The camera work from the supposedly “frightening” exorcism sequence is blatantly ripped off from another indie gem, Requiem for a Dream. It involves the identical shaky first-person camerawork that only gives the audience a migraine. But if you’re going to steal from another filmmaker, you might as well steal from one with a little creativity.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose fails on several levels. For starters, it can’t decide which genre it belongs in: courtroom drama or horror. For a true story, the characters are surprisingly empty and one-dimensional.With such intense subject matter, the audience comes in expecting a lot, but is left with the worst rendition of a true story since What’s Love Got to Do With It?

be The Exorcist. The latter was a ’70s horror classic and remains a genre watershed.

However, the former is based on a true story, but lacks any real scares and is ridden with ambiguous character motivations. When a “true” story hits the big screen, the facts are always twisted for the sake of entertainment.

This must be the exception to the rule.

The title character, Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), is a 19-year-old college student that claims she is possessed by supernatural forces with very unfriendly dispositions.After smelling an indistinguishable burning scent and watching her classmates materialize into demons right before her very eyes, Emily decides it’s time to come home.

Upon her return, her devoutly religious family summons Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), in an effort to exorcise the demon(s) from within her. Unfortunately, exorcism is not a simple process and after the good priest fails, the girl perishes and Moore is slapped with a murder charge.

Attorney Erin Bruner (Laura Linney) is dispatched to defend the priest in the negligent death case.With a partnership from her law firm dangling just in front of her, she’s willing to defend anyone, whether she believes them or not. But as the self-proclaimed agnostic lawyer digs deeper into Emily’s history, she discovers that there might be some veracity to the priest’s story after all.

Flipping back and forth between Emily’s tormented possession and the ensuing trial, the audience follows Bruner’s case as the details unfold. The Exorcism of Emily Rose essentially comes down to that cosmic battle of faith vs. science. Meanwhile, we are left to question whether Emily’s actions were the result of epileptic fits or the very angry spawn of hell.

If it was director Scott Derrickson’s prerogative to create a horror film that defied genre expectations, then he has failed spectacularly. There’s a sharp contrast between the bickering lawyers and spooky milieu surrounding Emily’s possession that gives the film a disjointed feel, lacking any sense of cohesion. The man behind Urban Legend: Final Cut doesn’t know where to focus his camera and as a result, the story suffers.

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The original Transporter featured Statham, a BMW and an unbelievable array of spectacular action sequences and mind-blowing stunts.

Despite not having a real plot, the flick managed to clear $25 million at the box office and another third of that in rentals. Based on those rather anemic numbers, Statham signed back on to take a second shot at launching his Frank Martin character into action infamy.

In this film, Martin takes a job filling in as a bodyguard and driver for a very likable little lad named Jack.The boy eventually gets kidnapped via a rather tricky ruse put on by the bad guys and Frank has to go get him back. Basically, it’s the same story as that of the original film, except that Frank

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ragedy reveals the worst and the best in humanity. In a time when global disasters appear at every turn, it is easy to become lost in the wake of havoc, or even ignore it completely.

Director Fernando Meirelles has a passion for working on films that deal with this aspect. His first film, City of God, revealed life in the favelas of Rio De Janeiro. It was a gangster movie set in the midst of a deteriorating environment.

The Constant Gardener is no different.

At its core, The Constant Gardener is a love story. Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a diplomat under the British High Commission, travels to Northern Kenya with his activist wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz). The film begins with Justin discovering that his wife has been killed in Africa while traveling on personal business. He becomes determined to investigate the specifics of her death, only to uncover a more disturbing truth than mere murder.

The best moments occur when Justin looks back upon his marriage after his wife’s death.

Fiennes superbly combines subtlety and melodrama to convey a deeper love for his wife as the film progresses. His actions show a sensible transition from his views as a diplomat to those of an activist. It is not that he changes his position, but rather that he is motivated by his wife’s cause to honor her work. The film avoids preaching while depicting the morality of its characters and their growth in the story.

There is beauty and horror THE CONSTANT GARDENER • RACHEL WEISZ & RALPH FIENNES not only in the plot, but the soaring views of the length, the movie balances between its wonderAfrican landscape. Meirelles wisely shows both ful tale about the strength of love and its comthe poverty and plight of Africa and also the sense mentary on modern politics and current events. of community in the area. The affects of global- However, Meirelles does not provide enough ization are always apparent with the presence of time to adequately pace the mystery that the corporate-sponsored foreign aid. It provides a unfolds for the audience to truly understand the window into these areas of Africa showing famil- dire consequences.

But these minor quibbles are forgivable iarity in the daily life as well as the foreignness of because The Constant Gardener is one of the rare a distant country.

The Constant Gardener is an ambitious releases every year that demands to be seen.This attempt to combine not only a terrific story but is a movie that is not only terrific, but gives us a also a purpose. At a little over two hours in new perspective after we leave the theater.

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There still isn’t much real background development or likable characters to fall back on. Martin and the boy have a nice little relationship, but everything else is pretty textbook. It is abundantly clear, however, that character development isn’t what drives The Transporter series; it’s aweinspiring yet staggeringly impossible action.

The stunts and special effects actually make the film quite enjoyable when taken at their humorous, TRANSPORTER 2 • JASON STATHAM over-the-top face value.There is one point when story. It is unexpected for the most part and it seems that Statham no longer guides his car off keeps the movie flowing. Another big step up jumps, but can actually control it in the air as he this time is the supporting cast. Matthew disposes of a bomb on the undercarriage of his Modine does a great job of being a sniveling car in a most ingenious way. A mortal citizen politician, career thug Keith David gives the probably couldn’t live through most of these film some swagger and Amber Valletta (Hitch) is stunts in a Sherman Tank, but Statham’s Audi a genuinely sympathetic girl-next-door type.

All in all, Transporter 2 is an improvement over proves that it’s amazing what four-wheel drive the original.The spectacle is worth the ticket price cars are capable of.

One pleasant surprise in The Transporter 2 is alone, as this movie may have just set the new an occasional plot twist. Just when the audience standard for car chase movies. Saying Transporter 2 starts to settle in for the typical below average is just an action movie is like saying the Super action movie, the writers throw a kink in the Bowl is just a football game.

Paris Hilton has a low sex drive. The home-video starlet has spent much time recently explaining that she has a shor t of rampant libido, this in spite of all the documented evidence to the contrar y, including a couple of raunchy hide-the-salami sessions and a commercial in which she gets frisky with a Hardee's burger. "I'm sexual in pictures and the way I dress and my whole image," explains Miss Hilton, "but ... all of my ex-boyfriends ... would be like, 'What's the matter with you? You're so not sexual.'"

Likely stor y. In related news, the sensitive hotel heiress was recently brought to tears when a fan bid $200,000 at an auction to spend New Year's Eve with her ... "It's so generous. I'm cr ying right now."

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“Oh, yeah!” Matt says enthusiastically. “Damn that was good. Hell, yeah.”

“It’s exactly how I remember it,” Bob repeats, the realization still not quite sinking in. “I can’t believe it.”

Herkie’s response is simple, “Progress doesn’t hit everywhere, man.”

Stories just attach themselves to Po’ Boy’s. It’s the place

where Jim Curry and his wife ate the night of their wedding before leaving for their honeymoon in Nashville, Ind., Arnie paid for their food. It’s where Dean Miller picked up a gallon of sauce on his motorcycle for a BBQ with friends and arrived home with the sauce all over him. Where Willie Rogers can run into an old friend he went to school with 25 years ago. It’s where U of I football players began coming regularly after Arnie, working in the mid-’50s as the first black trainer for the University, offered them free sandwiches if they played well, knowing they’d bring in paying friends with them. It’s where customers call out “Go Illini” on their way out the door and where people simply order “the usual,” and employees understand. It’s also where Jerry Wrather ate back in the ’60s, although his white friends were afraid to come with him, saying, “That place is full of niggers.” It’s where Jerry eventually convinced his friends to eat, to be told afterwards, “By God, we’re gonna have to come back here.”

At one of the tables sits Mike McDaniel and his wife, Sue, who come at least once a weekend and sometimes twice.

Not the previous weekend, though, because Mike and Sue were at a wedding in Florida. During the rehearsal dinner, Mike turned to his wife and said, “We could be at Po’ Boy’s right now.” Sue says that Arnie, Herkie and John treat everyone like family once they’ve been in twice. The only catch,

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“You’ve got to be an Illini fan to come in here, too. And if you’re not, you better not tell them.”

It’s also one of the few color-blind places Sue has been, and she wishes there could be more, “It’d be a nice way for all the world to be.”

When they leave, Herkie calls out,“Have a good one, Mike.”

At 7:15 p.m., Arnie emerges from the back room of the restaurant, a small area through the swinging door where the meat is cooked and the sauce and potato salad are made.

Tonight, Arnie wears a navy sweater over a white-collared shirt with jeans and black shoes, and he is offering everyone in the place jelly beans and peanuts from a red tin. Arnie bought more than he could eat himself so he’s giving them away. He talks for awhile with his friend, Dave Chestnut, who jokes that Arnie has made Po’ Boy’s a lot different from when it opened,“A lot has changed. He re-upholstered the seats in ’78.” When Dave gets set to leave, Arnie waives the cost of his pork sandwich and pop.

Another friend of Arnie’s, whom he’s known since 1955, walks in and asks,“How come you keep getting younger and I keep getting older?”

Arnie’s response is as quick as it is genial,“I’m just pretty.”

They share a laugh.

Arnie is pretty much everybody’s friend, but he still doesn’t mince words.“I’ll stand up and fight like hell if I catch you lyin’ on me,” he says. He was trained to be both a chiropractor and a Chicago police officer, but he founded the restaurant so he could have something of his own.

When Po’ Boy’s first opened, the clientele was mostly white, Arnie says. Blacks in the community took a long time to start coming around, thinking Arnie was only interested in white customers. Arnie never understood what gave them that idea: “When you count that C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E

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Shades of Grey previously reported that Kevin Smith was in no way selling out by making a pseudo-big budget follow-up to the definitively indie Clerks. However, the Jersey Girl auteur has made the ordeal a little more acceptable by auctioning five prizes in aid of Katrina victims: a walk-on part in Clerks 2, a set visit, a bunch of T-shirts, having Smith leave your voicemail message (apologizing for Mallrats?) and a BBQ at his house (i.e. opportunity to dis his failing career). To participate, head over to his production company, View Askew.

P.S. Two exciting new developments in the movie world ... bizarre casting for the Iggy Pop biopic whose plot is very much under wraps, with character actor Elijah Wood playing the iconoclastic punk rocker. And both last and least, the long overdue Police Academy 8 has finally been greenlit, with Steve Guttenberg promising a cameo. Beware of both within the year.

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money at night, you don’t know who the hell gave it to you.”

Arnie says he has been held back several times in his life because he is black. He says he was unable to get his chiropractor’s license because of his race, and he had to join the Coast Guard because the Marines didn’t accept blacks until 1945. He says that when he worked as a trainer at U of I, people that he trained were promoted above him. But Arnie doesn’t dwell on that part of the past, and he gets “pissed off at some of the Negroes for not even trying.”

Arnie loves people, and he loves talking to them. “They feel they can ask us any damn thing, and we’ll answer it, too.” In his deep but inviting voice, he loves saying “Come here, you rascal” to friends who walk in the door. He uses catch-phrases such as “ R i c h as cream” and “Serious as a heart attack.” Getting a person to laugh and smile, he says, is a great way to get close to them. He likes an old jazz tune called, Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It. He has traveled to India, New Zealand and Scotland to name just a few places, but he never consid-ered living anywhere other than Illinois.

“No, no, no, no-where out there,” he says.“I was a cat from Champaign and Chicago. I was an American

who or what you are,” he says. “There’s no chips to cash in here. Everybody starts out equal and stays that way.”

Even in the ’60s, when racial tension consumed the university campus, it was never reflected in Po’ Boy’s’ diverse customers, Dan says.

“I don’t know why people don’t just try to get along,” Arnie says. “It’s easy.”

By half-past eight, the action has settled down again. The TV has switched over to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Denver Nuggets game on ESPN. John sits down to eat a sandwich, so when more customers walk in a few minutes later, Herkie takes care of them. At 9:30 p.m., a new wave arrives, and Herkie and John work together again. The Cavs-Nuggets game ends and ESPN switches to a Sacramento Kings-

the two parallel rows of chairs—witnessing, but spry Shylock. His sympathetic demeanor but not always interacting with the play’s and smallish stature adds greatly to Gaines’ actions. At times it seems characters just pop overall production concept of this character up and suddenly are “in” the play, while other being a victim. Nussbaum is most effective in times the characters clearly seem to exit and the stirring monologue where he describes all beeline for the of the reasons that chairs without a Jews, too, are human. complete exit Tim-othy Edward from the play’s Kane’s Bassanio and action. In addiKevin Gudahl’s tion, nightmarGratiano are both ish, almost surrestrong in voice and al scenes include memorable in their a group of darkly character izations. dressed masked Kate Fry’s Portia is men who harass vocally as impressive, Shylock using but one gets the feelflashlight beams ing that she’s not to spook him on always believing what an evening walk. Shylock (Mike Nussbaum - center) is taunted by cit- she’s saying.

Another blatant- izens of Venice. ly ugly scene has This impressive but a group of well-dressed men and women spit uneven version of on Shylock as he passes them on a street.

“The Merchant of Venice” continues at the Shylock is played by a considerably older Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier, at actor than the usual actor cast in this role.The 800 E. Grand Ave. on Chicago’s lakefront always excellent, 81-year-old Mike until Nov. 12. For ticket information Nussbaum, a Chicago area veteran performer call (312) 595-5600 or go online at of many original productions of David www.chicagoshakes.com.

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Arnie has been married to his wife, Ada—or “Red” as he calls her because of her red hair— for more than 50 years, and they live in a house right next door to Po’ Boy’s. It’s the house he John Hendrix chops beef ribs Friday evening. grew up in with his grandmother, who sold tamales on the corner of Market and Columbia Dallas Mavericks game, both teams playing in and taught Arnie about BBQ. Herkie lives next shiny, modernized uniforms. door to his parents, and John lives just a few “I don’t know if its Sacramento in that new blocks away. blue or Dallas in that new green, that just don’t Dan Hamelberg, Arnie’s close friend since look right,” John says to no one in particular.

Dan was a U of I student and frequent Po’ Boy’s The last customer arrives at 10:55 p.m. and customer in the ’60s, walks in a little after orders two polish sausages with mixed sauce 8p.m. and stands next to his pal. Arnie offers and a black cherry cola to go.At 11 p.m. Herkie him jelly beans and peanuts and Dan declines, locks the door, changes the “Open, come on joking that he’s trying to cut down. The back in” sign to read “Closed,” and the guys start room of Po’ Boy’s, where Dan and Arnie and scrubbing down the counter and tables and many of their friends have spent nights hanging washing out all the metallic bins that hold the out, talking and laughing, is the best leveler in meat. When Arnie, Herkie and John leave at the world, Dan says. about 11:30 p.m., they don’t have far to go, but “When you’re back there it doesn’t matter they all walk together, side by side, a family. buzz

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fact I can be painfully mellow most of the time. Ok, now for the bad stuff.

Pompous, bossy and dogmatic are the negative traits of Leos. I don’t know, I’m thinking my sign isn’t all that appropriate, but to be honest I really don’t know what dogmatic means.

What music do you enjoy?

I’ve always been a big Radiohead fan; nothing beats it, especially while painting, but as of late I’ve been listening to a lot of Devandra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens; turns out I have a thing for banjos. Fiona Apple, Neutral Milk Hotel, Rilo Kiley, Nick Drake, Azure Ray, Yo La Tengo, Bonnie “Prince” Billy,Air--really, I could go on forever, so I’ll just end with the fact that I have a secret love of Snoop and the Fugees.

What do you hope to accomplish?

Whenever someone asks what my major is and I reply art history I get the same question, “I had a roommate who did that, she loved it, but what are you going to do with it?” Really I am not sure, I’m interested in the beginnings of art, the backgrounds, and how it has come to be what it is now, and where it will go from here. I guess I’m so interested because art is really the only thing I can’t get enough of, and if I can somehow make a career out of that, whether it be teaching or working at a museum or whatever, how badass would that be?

What inspires you?

This is really an excellent question, and it has been very interesting to think about. Really the most random things inspire me; it is very hard to pinpoint actually. Nature inspires me a whole lot.There is nothing more beautiful to me. People and places, everything, even small things like the way honey moves, can be inspirational.

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For years, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice has provided some of the most controversial issues for local theatre groups to tackle and interpret. This rather standard, but serious, romance has been infamous for its depiction of the Jewish money lender, Shylock. Barbara Gaines’ current production of The Merchant of Venice, by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier, is well-acted, but contains an oddly uneven production concept that may confuse many audiences.

De-emphasizing the somewhat excessive crowd-pleasing humor, frenetic street fighting scenes and Americanized verse reading of her typical comedic Shakespearean productions, Gaines’ Merchant attempts a more ambitious interpretation.While she presents the mysterious test that Portia’s suitors must pass to gain her heart and wealth and the issue of the merchant Antonio’s inability to repay a substantial loan from the Jewish Shylock, Gaines’ Shylock is not the anti-Semitic stereotype of some productions-especially of those who set the play in its original Renaissance setting.This present depiction of the ill-mannered Shylock’s motivations is more a portrayal of a victim of social circumstances. The social and religious prejudices displayed are common to the human nature of many times and places.

In her inventive 1997 staging of this play, Gaines set the action in New York City and Long Island in the mid 1920s. Still different, this present production is completely in dark modern dress and set in contemporary Italy. The audience is presented with a nearly bare stage with a courtroom-like appearance: a couple of tables and a row of chairs are placed in the back third of the stage area. Another row of chairs is parallel to the first row, but placed just off the edge of the slightly elevated peninsula stage playing area. The immediate impression one gets is that we’re becoming the judge/jury for the impending trial of not only Shylock’s specific grievance and but also the wider social conflicts of religion and finance.

What makes this production confusing is the erratic way in which players enter and exit the play’s main playing area and yet remain seated in

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ontemporary music is in dire need of a savior.

A true genius, in the vein of Wagner or Keats, can push the boundaries of artistic expression through song past its false commercial limits. Pop music has rarely risen to the level of true art.What we need now is a marriage of a singular voice, a singular sound and a singular purpose: something that might raise the stakes a bit.

In the past 20 years or so there have been a number of attempts at resurrection, but few have had the complete ambition or the artistic power to truly have any lasting effect.

Enter Sufjan Stevens.

“Music is many things; I see it as a form of worship, expressing theological ideas, expressing heartbreak. The one thing I’m certain about is the one thing I’m most insecure about. That’s kind of what loving is about, there’s a certain supernatural thing about love, but also something comforting in its vulnerability.”

This is no ordinary songwriter; his body of work reveals a reaching for literary, spiritual and transformative experience through song.

His latest effort, Illinois, is no exception. It pulsates with a fervor for expression, for testing the limits of song as well as oneself.The song structures are perfectly fractured, the melodies unpredictable yet tightly woven and the songwriting style increasingly narrative.

“The [narrative] songwriting tradition goes back for centuries, I think I’m really part of that. All songwriters have to reckon with that very old tradition of storytelling, when we write we exhume a tradition.”

Through his stories on Illinois, Stevens reckons with issues of faith that prominently came to light on last year’s brilliant Seven Swans. On “Casmir Pulaski Day” the songwriter travels through a memory of a friend lost to cancer, he first questions than affirms his faith in the process. As is often the case, the musical progression mimics the experience of the lyrics.Yet these things are never truly explicit; though his faith is always a forceful undercurrent it is only one of the many issues he explores.

“I think culture generally is suffering a serious decline in values.

But part of that is the commercialization of music and culture, it makes art lose meaning, it devolves. Popular culture used to be opera or the theatre but today it’s advertisement.”

On the album’s most memorable track, “Come on and Feel the Illinoise,” a bombast of drums and strings evolves into a forcefully subtle melody as Stevens recalls a dream encounter with poet Carl Sandburg, “I was asked to improvise/on the attitude, the regret of a thousand centuries of death,” effectively conveying a moment of inspiration.

Stevens’ literary aspirations are not unfounded in his personal history. In fact, they are a large part of who he is.

“I came to New York to be a writer, to publish, to teach…that’s always been my dream…I remember reading Blake and Wordsworth as an undergrad and having a moment of epiphany, I don’t know if it was hormones or something, but they really affected me. This most recent record reinvigorated my interest in fiction wr iting.”

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Jessica Roberts is from Grayslake, Ill., a north sururb of Chicago. She comes from a large family (mom, dad, stepdad, 4 dogs, 3 cats and a fantastic African Grey parrot named Albert). Her first experience with art was in preschool; the class was asked to paint a ghost as a Halloween activity. Everyone else’s came out looking something along the lines of Casper. Jessica went in a different direction, drawing a nearly demonic figure. Hence the artist was born. Since then she has helped with the sets for most of Grayslake high school's plays. She also designed the poster, program and T-shirt for the production of Our Town. She has taken the foundations, painting and drawing classes at the College of Lake County and is looking forward to meeting new people and trying to take advantage of all the things this university has to offer.

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The art and design program here at the U of I has been thought out extremely well. The faculty has been amazing so far. I can only assume it will continue this way. I was pretty scared coming into it because you never know how experienced everyone else will be, and if you’ll be able to match up. I’d say what has been the most difficult thing for me is the in-class critiques. It is hard to make comments on others’ work, but hearing others’ opinions is always a good way to improve. Being at a Big Ten school for art, in my opinion, is great because it not only lets me focus on the more ‘hands on’ aspects of art but also the academic. Basically, it has been pretty awesome so far.

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“natural storyteller,” and admits that at times songwriting can be a constricting, yet enjoyable form.

“I find a great challenge in fitting a strange or difficult word into a song. Like “Bible Study” in “Casmir Pulaski,” I wanted to put that word into a song for so long, it’s such a mundane phrase, and you hear it a lot if you ever go to a church or a meeting or something, every time I sing that part of the song I want to laugh but then I remember it’s not funny.”

He’s not without a sense of humor, a fact that can often be lost in the discussion of the “importance” of his work. Stevens attempts to convey this through his live performances.

“We dress up as cheerleaders in our show, Fighting Illini, I was so hoping that they would win the final four.

We’ve been working on cheers the last few weeks but I really feel like they aren’t very good, like we suck … sometimes people take me too seriously.When I’m on stage I’m an entertainer. ” A song like “Decatur,” which is almost exclusively structured around the rhyming of words with Decatur over a simple banjo, reveals the enjoyment he derives from writing songs. Yet even then, the sincerity with which a somewhat silly line like “Stephen A. Douglas was a great debater/but Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator” is delivered undermines any examination of the song as simply good fun.

His ambitious scope - he’s on album two of his 50 states project - can come across as haughty or impossibly grand at times.

Yet the singer himself is fully aware of the pressure and labels that come with his endeavor.

“Carl Sandburg - he was too explicit and sort of too desperate to be the American voice, to somehow encapsulate the American vision. So his work doesn’t always stand the test of time because it seems pretentious. He’s at his best when he’s himself. That’s one of the problems I had, speaking to an entire culture, but I realized that isn’t what I’m doing, it’s about myself and my story more than anything.”

It’s that drive and focus that affects the listener and makes Illinois personal. On “The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!” he admits, “I can’t explain the state that I’m in/the state of my heart,” underlining the true nature of his expansive project. It is essentially about the power of selfexpression; sharing his singular voice and vision with the world.

As long as Stevens and others continue to explore themselves on this scale, there is still hope for pop music. buzz Sufjan Stevens will be playing at the Canopy Club tonight at 8 p.m.

A review of Illinois is on the following page.

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Some ambitious folk make it a goal of theirs to visit each of the 50 states of the Union in their lifetime. Sufjan Stevens has a mind to record an album dedicated to each of those states. Having lived my entire life in Illinois and cultivated a reasonably fair amount of knowledge regarding the state’s history and distinguishing characteristics, I was pleased to hear Stevens was planning to release an ode to the Land of Lincoln with his second album of the series.

Stevens, a native of Michigan (the first state in his project), had at one point spent part of his life in Wrigleyville. Reflecting on his experience, he presumably decided to make Illinois his next album’s subject matter. What makes this album so remarkable is the ambitious scale of the task.

How does one fill the verses of a full-length album with accurate details concerning the folk tales, tradition and history of an entire state? How can he appease the Illinois population with the right amount of tribute while crafting an album that even non-Illinois residents can appreciate? And how does he do it when the only time he spent in the state was in the north side of Chicago?

It’s impressively evident that Stevens did his homework. His songs incorporate otherwise obscure references to Illinois history taken from the Rock River Valley down to Little Egypt. He name drops the likes of Carl Sandburg, Jane Addams, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ronald Reagan. He tells stories with mention of the Black Hawk War, Superman, the Columbian Exposition, the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the state’s most infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy Jr. If there is one blemish to his story telling it’s that he fails to mention C-U or the Orange and Blue. He brings up Chicago, Peoria, Jacksonville, Metropolis, Kankakee, even Decatur, but he never talks about Champaign or Urbana.

The result is a 74 minute, 22-track epic covering what’s great (Abraham Lincoln) and what’s not so great (John Wayne Gacy Jr.) about Illinois.

And while the lyrical descriptions of Illinois’ heritage should be enough to entice your consideration,

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you should know that the music that carries the words is equally strong. Stevens mans an impressive array of instruments. The album insert lists over 20 instruments he played when composing the songs, including the glockenspiel and oboe.

Listening to the album, you can just sense the painstaking work Stevens put into this album, in research and composition alike. And you realize there is no possible way he could complete 10 more albums of this standard, let alone another 48. It took him two years to release Illinois after completing Greetings from Michigan. Forty-eight more at two years a piece? You do the math. And both of these are states he’s at least at one point staked residence in.

The album is an excellent mixture of storytelling and interludes. Stevens’ soft vocals hover just loud enough over the meticulously calculated melodies to tell the listener a story of past or present Illinois lore.

He easily conveys a range of emotions with his voice and instrumentation—excitement (“The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders”), pride (Part I of “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!”), reverence (“The Seer’s Tower”), fear (“Casmir Pulaski Day”), and anxiety (“They Are Night Zombies!!! They are Neighbors!! The Have Come Back from the Dead!!

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Not only is it a remarkably well made folk album, but it also serves as an introductory history lesson to those of us who are not from the great state of Illinois, and as a reminder for those of us who are.

The New Pornographers are fringe-dwellers in an outsider genre. That genre is power pop, a residence and way station for the Big Star obsessed, the Fountains of Wayne passionate, and the Teenage Fanclub enraptured. Carl Newman, Neko Case and the rest of the ninestrong group eschew most of these genre norms, however, and stick close to a sound that revels in psychedelia and has only the slightest appreciation for lyrical prowess.

This neglect of lyricism dominates the band’s third album, Twin Cinema. Unlike past albums, where the lyrics served as a complement to the revelry of their music, this time the words reflect a witty post-modern dissection of the supergroup dynamic.These words exist merely to show how much fun everyone is having being away from the daily grind of their “main projects.”

This escapism is especially evident in the leadoff and title track. Non-sensical and cryptic lines ranging in subject from streets in San Francisco to “home theaters, still projecting” burst as they project from Carl Newman’s scratchy, almostfalsetto voice.

It is no surprise, then, that some of the time the lyrics are barely audible, hidden under layers of guitars. These guitars frame the sound of the record, and create some of the most appealing noise heard this year.They do betray a sluggishness that stands in stark contrast to the high-energy explsion of melody heard on the first two records.

As such, it seems that the gig is getting tired, for the listener and for the band. On this record there appears to be a lack of dedication displayed at the hands of the group. The shock of the new, and the feel of working with musicians the band members have admired for so long no longer retains the excitement it once had. Whereas on their first two albums one heard an eager mash of styles, here the group seems to be writing

a textbook pop album. There is the leadoff single, an uptempo, incredibly catchy number with a raucous hook and the requisite countryinspired ballads (derived from Neko Case’s roots in that genre). Throughout the album, there is everything in between, a stylistic mash fans have come to expect from the band.

Nevertheless, this album is nothing if not entertaining. It is impossible to not enjoy oneself when listening to the fruits of incredibly talented musicians coming together to record in a genre for which they all have an immense reverence.Yet, it still seems important that the band members move on. The idea was great when it started, and arguably produced the best two pop records of the decade as of yet. But like all supergroups, they need to realize that the best way to preserve a legacy is to keep it short and leave the focus to the musicians themselves. That way existing on the fringe will not be so bad.

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xpect hip hop, rap, blues, soul, funk and everything else as legendary composer Mikel Rouse premieres the final piece of his operatic trilogy at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 17. The new piece, The End of Cinematics, will complete Rouse’s highly stylized multimedia opera, a three-part masterpiece which he began composing in early 1989.

The first installment, Failing Kansas, officially debuted in 1994 with impressive counter poetry that helped reveal the seductive and manipulative power of the American media.

Rouse performed the piece solo. He created the new technique by adding prerecorded voices and vocals to his already live work.

This innovation later helped Rouse stamp his name on the contemporary music scene.

The second installment in the trilogy came to Krannert in 2001. The piece, entitled Dennis Cleveland, originally debuted in 1996 at a tiny New York City avant-garde venue.

The show spoke to the American infatuation with the TV talkshow phenomenon. Rouse played the title character, a Jerry Springer type host who chronicled the promise of salvation

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Vol. 5 sticks to a midtempo groove throughout, slightly more upbeat than previous Mushroom Jazz records. Kicking off with a nice dubby track into a little Ahmad Jamal piano riff from the Sound Providers, Farina lays out the

first interesting vocal of the mix, a track from DJ Numark and Chali 2na, both of Jurassic 5. Chali’s exquisite flow is a perfect match for the very simple and sophiscated mix. The mix then takes a left turn into the more organic with a Farina original, the gentle and weird “Cali Spaces,” which exceeds the standards put out by his fully original album, Air Farina.

Sometimes the way he paces the mix can be masturbatory, like when he brings in a vocal early only to abandon it for later. Also disappointing is how few vocals there are, and halfway into the tape, landmarks become harder to find as the last portion is largely instrumental. While it’s well-done, there’s a little less soul to be found deeper in the album. Despite that, Farina has created a great record which holds up to many, many listens, and is suggested for the curious, as it never settles into a four-on-the-floor house groove which might be a turnoff for casual fans.

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The success of Dennis Cleveland at the Krannert Center provided Rouse with the perfect venue to premiere The End of Cinematics. Rouse gave much praise to Michael Ross and the entire Krannert staff. “The commitment and respect they’ve shown this production, I haven’t seen that support anywhere else.

This is a very unique place. If it had just happened once, it would be great, but we’re returning, and it’s the same idea.”

The Krannert Center couldn’t be happier to host the new show, continuing the tradition of drawing top-notch performers to the University. Rouse also credited the cities of ChampaignUrbana with the show’s success, “I don’t care what you think is happening in New York or San Francisco, this is where it’s happening now.”

The final installment appears ready to further Rouse’s contribution to the contemporary music and opera scene.

His perception of modern entertainment is that, “We want fast, and we want loud, and we want short. This (The End of Cinematics) is a piece where you really have to check your expectations at the door. You have to come with an open mind, and let it rush over you. At the same time, expect this to be bigger, louder and more aggressive then what’s been seen before in either [Failing] Kansas or [Dennis] Cleveland.”

In The End of Cinematics, Rouse certainly isn’t afraid to speak his mind regarding what he sees as an evident transformation in media outlets, mentioning specifically MTV, Hollywood, TV, advertising and the new voids created there. “Sweet story, easy story, I know how to make you cry, I know how to make you laugh, and if I do that really well then you’ll pay me $10 a show to see it. There are a lot of people who do that really well, and it’s valid. But it’s not interesting to me.”

Rouse launches theater into new territory with this fragmented, channel-surfing commentary on our TV culture.

Mixing a hip hop flavored electronic soundtrack with multiple video screens, six live musicians/actors and a very cool set, this is theater that speaks to those who are more comfortable with Seinfeld than Shakespeare.

Rouse plans to create a 3-D film by using a rear projection from a prerecorded film shot in Paris. Those scenes, through CGI, remove characters so they can be used as video back-drops, and then live performers are shot on the video back-drops and projected onto the front scrim, making a video montage. “From what most people have said, they’ve never seen anything quite like it,” said Rouse, “It’s pretty unique looking.”

Additionally, the whole show is in surround-sound, and features prerecorded as well as live music. “It’s a real sensory overload experience. I found that when some of these images converge with sound, certain emotions are evoked. It isn’t manipulative; what’s happening in your brain are emotions that you have to figure out. You love that humanity, but you don’t know why. You can have moving experiences without being led

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Rouse found stylistic motivation for his new show in a selfinspired movement away from the normal entertainment.

He says,“If anybody was to walk away from this show, I’d like them to think they don’t have to make a video the traditional way.They can make a video the way they want to make it. I want people to break the mold, to break the model of what has already been done.

This is a situation which can only happen like this. It couldn’t be done in a movie theatre, couldn’t be done in a traditional theatre and couldn’t be released on a DVD.” He adds, “There’s really only one reason to do this, and it’s because you have to, there’s no other reason.You don’t get paid well, you don’t get appreciated; you live in a crazy existence, so I wouldn’t recommend this lifestyle for my worst enemy. However, there’s a gratification in this particular piece; it was the collaboration with Krannert that’s made it an enjoyable experience. I think it’s these kinds of projects that you’re just tearing your hair out and everybody’s into it and supportive and really brought a great jovial attitude to an intense production.”

September also featured the release of two CD-DVD sets, Music for Minorities and Test Tunes. The new material, considered as technologically sophisticated and theoretically complex as his other work, was dedicated to the works of both Brian Wilson and Steve Reich. The terse and succinct lyrics in Music for Minorities are balanced by the folk traditional/blues style guitar of Test Tunes.

The Krannert Center’s Colwell Playhouse will host the premiere of The End of Cinematics on Sept, 17th at 7:30 pm.

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WEFTfest is an all-ages, all-day event with a free concert that begins at 2 p.m. in the Mike ‘n Molly’s beer garden.

On the bill are Electric Theory, Relenter, Ambitious Pie Party, Ear Doctor, The Bird Dogs, The Impalas, Exorna, and Prince Myshkins. For anyone who cannot attend, the entire concert will be broadcast live. Refreshments will be available, and Chef Ra will grill both hamburgers and veggie burgers at 5 p.m. (Prince Myshkins play another free show tomorrow in the main lounge of Allen Hall. Show time is 8 p.m.)

Also Saturday, Kalyx Center in Monticello hosts Up All Night with Radio Free Urbana.This is a campout and concert with Ambitious Pie Party, Black Tie Elephant, Green Light Go, Green Mountain Grass, Quadremedy, UC Hip Hop, and DJs such as DJ El Train. Gates open at 6 p.m. and music starts at 7 p.m. Entry is $10, which includes breakfast from Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant. All proceeds go to WFRU 104.5 FM. Emo violin duo The Lifeline has doubled its ranks with drummer Adam Zicher and guitarist Eddie Yono. Adam Zicher had filled in on drums for Queens of the Stone Age and Filter. The Lifeline formed in New York, came here for college, and now calls Chicago home. The new lineup premieres Sept. 20 at Elbo Room in Chicago. Where there is life, there is Hope… is now available online at CD Baby.

The reincarnation of The Idle Hours at last has a name: LMNOP, a sequence not new at theidlehours.com.

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Neko Case of poppy indie group The New Pornographers recently wrapped up her fifth solo album, entitled Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.

The album is slated for a February 2006 release under her Canadian label, Mint Records.

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DJ DJ Delayney [hip hop/soul] Barfly, 10pm, free Mixtape Mondays: DJ Elise [house] Boltini, 10pm, free Nekromancy [industrial gothic and music videos] Chester St., 11pm, TBA Kids Babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lap Time Moonlight Edition [songs, stories and rhymes for the youngest patrons, birth-24 mo., with an adult] Urbana Free Library, 6:30-7pm, free

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Kids Storytime Pages for All Ages, 11am, free Family Fun: Halloween Crafts Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 10am, free Mother-Daughter Book Club [author Janice Harrington will discuss her book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going Northâ&#x20AC;?]

Champaign Public Library, 2pm, free Read to the Dogs [share books with service dogs] Urbana Free Library, 11am-noon

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Special Events Railroad Days [interactive exhibits and tours] Monticello Railway Museum, all day Main Street Merchants Association of Farmer City Rummage Sale Scarecrow Building on Main St., 8am-4pm

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SUNDAY September 18 Live Music The Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Kevin Hart CD Release Show Iron Post, 7-10pm, TBA The Pernice Brothers, Tim Fite, Jose Ayerve Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $8

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Chris and Jim [cover band] White Horse Inn, 10pm, free Finga Lickin' The Office, 10:30pm, free Quad Remedy [classic rock] Tommy Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 10pm, free Carrie Newcomer Borders, 7;30pm, free Open Mic Night hosted by Brandon T. Washington Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Shovelwrack Clybourne, 10:45pm, free

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An Evening of Romance with pianist Samir Folescu University Place Christian Church, 7pm DJ DJ Wesjile [hip hop] Barfly, 10pm, free DJ Black Ice [hip hop] Nargile, 8pm, TBA Jon Meske [house] Boltini, 10:30pm, free Mike Rocks [live concert videos and local music] Tommy G's, 9:30pm, free Special Events Railroad Days [interactive exhibits and tours] Monticello Railway Museum, all day Ambulance Chase 5k Walk to benefit A Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fund [Register at www.signmesports.com or on race day at 7:30am] Crystal Lake Park, 9am

MONDAY September 19 Live Music Love & Joy [comedy and live R&B] Canopy Club, 10pm, $3 Motown Mondays: As Is Nargile, 7pm, $5 Jazz Jam with ParaDocs Iron Post, 8-11pm, TBA

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Art&T heater Canvas: An Electronic Gallery [Canvas is the Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio. Based on the University of Illinois' Cave technology, Canvas is a portable, virtual-reality open lab for research and teaching projects by faculty in the fine and applied arts and the University. Informed by the concepts of collaboration, advanced navigation, and virtual art, Canvas is a space for creating and presenting computer-assisted, mutil-dimensional projects.]

Kranner t Ar t Museum, Tue-Sat 9am-5pm, Thurs 9am-9pm, Sun 2pm-5pm Artwork from Katie Jacobson and Nisha Agha [photopgraphic screenprints and other media] Aroma Cafe through Nov. 1 I lloutuve wyou too [paintings and drawings by S. J. Hart] Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue through Oct. 28 Annual Parkland Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Parkland College Art Gallery through Sept. 22 Faculty Art Exhibition [new work by current faculty in the University of Illinoiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Art + Design] Krannert Art Museum Oct. 2 Design Excellence Collection [an exhibit of excellence in industrial design featuring mainstream products such as chairs, water kettles, and pet food that offer consumers more than mere functionality] Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 2 Wall to Wall Photographs: Current Work by Andy Summers Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 2 The New Icon [paintings by Berta Paulino, and by Judy Seyb and sculpture by Chad Stangl] The Springer Cultural Center through Oct. 2 Possibilities [works by U of I Alum and local artist Sandra Ahten] Illini Union Art Gallery through September Backstage Pass [a series of limited edition entertainment photos taken by Paul Idleman in Colorado between 1978 and 2000. Some of the biggest names in the biz are represented: Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Sam Kinison, John Hartford, Jay Leno, etc.]

Cinema Gallery through Sept. 24 Andy Warhol: The Complete 1979 Diamond Dust Shadow Series, Editions I-V and The Shadow and Other Self-Potraits, 1977-1981 University Gallery in Normal, IL through Oct. 2 Art With Intention Open Studio [Individually directed drop-in studio time allowing adults to explore their creative voices. Instructed by Sandra Ahten] Thursdays, 4-9pm. Visit www.spiritofsandra.com for details and location.

Fitness Belly Dance for Fitness The Fitness Center Champaign, 8pm, $7-$9

Life Drawing Sessions [drop in sessions to practice and improve your life drawing skills] Sundays from 1-4pm at the Independent Media Center, $8.

Contact Kindra Crick at 352-4668; kindredspark@gmail.com for details.

Kids Storytime Pages for All Ages, 7pm, free Babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lap Time [songs, stories and rhymes for the youngest patrons, birth-24 mo., with an adult] Urbana Free Library, 10:30-11am, free

Call for Fine Art and Crafts Donations [Donations of any size, medium or style are needed for the Hands of Hope Art Auction to benefit the Illinois Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

New works that represent our theme of hope, healing or transformation are encouraged but not required. Contact Rebecca Plummer Rohloff at 328-3059 or rrohloff@uiuc.edu for more informatin.]

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ASSEMBLY HALL | First & Florida, Champaign 333-5000 AMERICAN LEGION POST 24 | 705 W Bloomington, Champaign 356-5144 AMERICAN LEGION POST 71 | 107 N Broadway, Urbana 367-3121 BARFLY | 120 N Neil, Champaign 352-9756 BOLTINI LOUNGE | 211 N Neil, Champaign 378-8001 BOARDMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ART THEATER | 126 W Church, Champaign 351-0068 THE BRASS RAIL | 15 E University, Champaign 352-7512 THE BRIDGE | 124 W. White St. Champaign THE CANOPY CLUB (GARDEN GRILL) | 708 S Goodwin, Urbana 367-3140 CHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana CIVITAS | 112 Main St., Urbana0 COURTYARD CAFE | Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana 333-4666 COWBOY MONKEY | 6 Taylor, Champaign 398-2688 CURTIS ORCHARD | 3902 S Duncan, Champaign 359-5565 D.R. DIGGERS | 604 S Country Fair, Champaign 356-0888 ELMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 FALLONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 THE HIGHDIVE | 51 Main, Champaign 359-4444 HUBERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 1312 W Church, Champaign 352-0606 ILLINOIS DISCIPLES FOUNDATION | 610 E Springfield, Champaign 352-8721 INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER | 218 W Main, Urbana 344-8820 THE IRON POST | 120 S Race, Urbana 337-7678 JACKSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RIBS-N-TIPS| 116 N First, Champaign 355-2916 JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BREWERY | 706 S Fifth, Champaign 384-1790 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 LESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE | 403 N Coler, Urbana 328-4000 LINCOLN CASTLE | 209 S Broadway, Urbana 344-7720 MALIBU BAY LOUNGE | North Route 45, Urbana 328-7415 MIKE â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N MOLLYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 105 N Market, Champaign 355-1236 NARGILE | 207 W Clark, Champaign NEIL STREET PUB | 1505 N Neil, Champaign 359-1601 THE OFFICE | 214 W Main, Urbana 344-7608 OPENSOURCE | 12 E. Washington,Champaign http://opensource.boxwith.com PARKLAND COLLEGE | 2400 W Bradley, Champaign 351-2528 PHOENIX | 215 S Neil, Champaign 355-7866 PIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OF RANTOUL | Route 136 E, Rantoul 893-8244 RED HERRING/CHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana 344-1176 ROSE BOWL TAVERN | 106 N Race, Urbana 367-7031 SIDE BAR | 55 E. Main, Champaign 398-5760 SPRINGER CULTURAL CENTER | 301 N Randolph, Champaign 398-2376 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 TK WENDLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 1901 S Highcross, Urbana 255-5328 TOMMY Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 123 S Mattis, Country Fair Shopping Center 359-2177 TONIC | 619 S Wright, Champaign 356-6768 TRACKS | 116 N Chestnut, Champaign 762-8116 UNIVERSITY YMCA | 1001 S Wright, Champaign 344-0721 URBANA CIVIC CENTER | 108 Water St., Urbana VERDE/VERDANT | 17 E Taylor, Champaign 366-3204 VIRGINIA THEATRE | 203 W Park Ave, Champaign 356-9053 WAKE THE DEAD CAFE | 1210 E. Eldorado St. Decatur 233-4525 WASHINGTON STREET PUB | 600 S. Washington, Tuscola 253-6850 WHITE HORSE INN | 112 1/2 E Green, Champaign 352-5945 ZORBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 627 E Green, Champaign 344-0710

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Live Music Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 Will Rogers Band [country/southern rock covers/originals] Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3 WEFTfest: Ambitious Pie Party, Relenter, Ear Doctor, The Bird Dogs, The Impalas, Exorna, Prine Myshkins Mike 'n Molly's beer garden, 2-10pm, free Fall Festival: Shadows of Doubt, Candy Foster and Shades of Blue Alto Vineyards, 4-11pm, $3 Up All Night w/ Radio Free Urbana: Ambitious Pie Party, Black Tie Elephant, Green Light Go, Green Mountain Grass, Quad remedy, UC HipHop W/bOngu@diSS, DJ El Train, TBA Kalyx Center, 6pm, $10 Sons and Daughters Pages For All Ages, 7pm, free Split Lip Rayfield The Highdive, doors at 7pm/show at 7:30pm, $6 in advance/$8 at the door Baby Teeth [70's inspired pop and soul] The Courtyard, 9pm, $3 UIUC students/$5 general public Metal Masquerade: Cemetery Rapist, Occularis, 7 Year Existence, Skeptik The Phoenix, 9pm, free The Profits, Matt Wertz Canopy Club, 10pm, $5 in advance, $7 at the door The Life and Times, Fires Over Phoenix, Tractor Kings Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $6 Bad Medicine [Bon Jovi tribute band] Tommy G's, 10pm, cover No Secret Fat City Saloon, 8:30pm, cover The Beauty Shop, Scurvine The Brass Rail, 11pm, $5

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DJ DJ Asiatic, DJ Dice [R&B, hip hop] Nargile, 10pm DJ Mighty Dog Jackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm, TBA DJ Night Paulie's, 9pm, free DJ Resonate [hip hop] Mike & Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 10pm, $1 DJ Tim Williams [top 40/hip hop/house/dance] The Highdive, 10pm, $5 DJ Elise Boltini, 10:30pm, free DJ White Horse Inn, 10pm, free "G" Force DJ The Brickhouse, 10pm-2am DJ Bozak [broken beat, house, soul] Soma, 10pm, cover

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PHOTO CREDITS FROM www.blueghostpublicity.com

Sufjan Stevens' performance at the Canopy Club tonight is one of the most anticipated shows in months, but that doesn't mean you have to miss this affordable little gem. Xiu Xiu (the “x” is pronounced like a /sh/ sound) is the baby of Jamie Stewart, an obsessive genius of a musician who is both Morrissey and Marr on vocal and guitar.

Influenced by sad ’80s pop, stacked-keyboard music, and Japanese gamelan percussion, expect to be a little scared as it washes over you.

Thanks to an arrangement between Urbana Booking Co. (responsible for Sufjan) and The Courtyard, it will be possible to take in Xiu Xiu's set and not miss Sufjan's performance a few blocks away; Sufjan shouldn't take the stage until the other show is done. You'd be a fool to not go see live music tonight.

-Kyle Gorman

Rock out. Camp out. Help out Stay Up All Night with Radio Free Urbana Saturday, Sept. 17, Kalyx Center, Monticello 6 p.m. $10 Stay up all night with Radio Free Urbana this Saturday as local musicians rock out the Kalyx Center in Monticello. The musical campout is a fundraiser for WRFU: Radio Free Urbana, a new low-powered radio station dedicated to provide a new voice for community residents. Starting at 7 p.m., an assortment of acts including Ambitious Pie Party, Black Tie Elephant, Green Light Go, Green Mountain Grass, Quadremedy, UC HipHop and DJ El Train will be playing through the night -- the music doesn't stop until people stop listening. Anyone with an instrument is also welcome to perform around the bonfire. Saturday night, Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant will be selling food to relieve those munchies and Sunday morning, the Herring is serving breakfast to all the campers. $10 gets you camping, music and breakfast–a hell of a deal for an entire night of live music. You can even bring your own beer, but for everyone's sake, plan on camping out if you do. If you need a ride to the farm or simply need directions, visit www.wrfu.net. Gates open at 6 p.m.

--Erin Scottberg IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LIST A POSTING E-MAIL CALENDAR@READBUZZ.COM BY SUNDAY NIGHT.

DJ Generic DJ Jackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 8pm, TBA DJ Bozak [broken beat, house, electro] Barfly, 10pm, free DJ Elise [house] Boltini, 10pm, free Solace: DJ J-Phlip, DJ Mertz [deep house] Soma, 10pm, free Ladies Night featuring Luis Vasquez, DJ Res Tuly, DJ Black Ice [hip hop, dance, reggae, reggaeton, salsa] Nargile, 9pm, Ladies free before 9pm, Men $5 DJ Stiffler [80's hair metal] Tommy G's, 9pm, free Karaoke "G" Force Karaoke Pia's of Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

Mind, Body, Spirit Krannert Uncorked Krannert Art Center Lobby, 5pm, free Belly Dance for Fitness The Fitness Center Champaign, 8pm, $7-$9 Belly Dance for Fitness Gold’s Gym, Champaign, 7:30pm, $7-$9 Group Meditation Ananda Liina, 2308 N. High Cross Rd. Urbana, 5:30pm, free Lectures, Meetings, Discussions Cosmopolitan Club Coffee Hour [Sample coffee, tea and homemade ethnic desserts from Uzbekistan. All are welcome] Cosmopolitan Club, 307 E. John St., 7:309:30pm, free

FRIDAY September 16

Live Music Jazz Walk: Mark Smart [jazz looping] and more [Local jazz soloists and ensembles will play scattered throughout Wandell Sculpture Garden. Rain date, Sept. 17] Meadowbrook Park, 6pm, free

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Support Groups Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Heritage Room, Provena Hospital, 7pm, free

Dancing UIUC Swing Society McKinley Foundation 9:30pm-12am, free

Kids Funfare [stories, songs, puppets, and films for children and their caregivers] Urbana Free Library, 10:3011am, free Ralph's World [children’s music and entertainment] Borders, 11am, free

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DJ DJ Elise [house, broken beat] Boltini, 6-10pm, free DJ Mighty Dog Jackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm-2am, TBA American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Benefit: DJ JB, DJ Impact [hip hop, Chicago deep house] Nargile, 9pm, TBA DJ Delayney [hip hop, soul] Barfly, 10pm, free SorceryKid [Hi-NRG, Eurodance, disco, house] Chester St., 10pm, cover DJ Bozak [broken beat, house, soul] Soma, 10pm, cover DJ Tim Williams [top 40/hip hop/house/dance] The Highdive, 10:30pm, $5 DJ J-Phlip [house] Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Dance Party Canopy Club, 10pm, TBA

Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 10pm-2am, TBA Karaoke American Legion, 8pm-1am, TBA Lectures, Meetings, Workshops Panel Discussion: Mass Culture and Modernist Studies Humanities Lecture HalI, PRH, 3pm, free Creating Peaceful Tomorrows: An Evening of Commemoration and Critique University YMCA, 6:30pm, free Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison [Kathy Kelly leads discussion on experiences as peace activist] University YMCA, 12pm, free Special Events Main Street Merchants Association of Farmer City Rummage Sale Scarecrow Building on Main St., 9am-7pm

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Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 Eclectic Theory The White Horse Inn, 10pm, free Will Rogers Band [country/southern rock covers/originals] Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3 ParaDocs [jazz] Mike ‘n Molly's, 5-7pm, TBA The Prairie Dogs [bluegrass] Cowboy Monkey, 5:30pm, free Mother Popcorn Iron Post, 9pm, TBA The Delta Kings [blues] The Phoenix, 9pm, free Tossers, The Siderunners [rock/celtic] Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $6 Hells Bells [AC/DC tribute band] Tommy G's, 10pm, cover Billy Fault [acoustic] Fat City Saloon, 8:30pm, cover

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September 15 Live Music Shovelwrack White Horse Inn, 10pm, free Caleb Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Will Rogers Band [country/southern rock covers/originals] Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, free Chip McNeill Quartet Iron Post, 7pm, $2 Xiu Xiu, Yellow Swans, Bailey The Courtyard, 7:30pm, $3 UIUC students/$5 general public Acoustic at Aroma: Kristi Kjeldsen, Dave Burdick [folk/rock] Aroma, 8pm, free Urbana Booking Co. and Krannert Center present: Sufjan Stevens, Liz Janes Canopy Club, 8pm, $12 Piper's Hut Concert Series: Chulrua Music Building Auditorium, 8pm, $15 Holly Holmes Quartet [jazz] Zorba's, 9:30pm-12:30am, $3 Eclectic Theory Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA Wonderboy [Tenacious D Tribute] Joe's Brewery, 5-8pm, TBA

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Sufjan Stevens' performance at the Canopy Club tonight is one of the most anticipated shows in months, but that doesn't mean you have to miss this affordable little gem. Xiu Xiu (the “x” is pronounced like a /sh/ sound) is the baby of Jamie Stewart, an obsessive genius of a musician who is both Morrissey and Marr on vocal and guitar.

Influenced by sad ’80s pop, stacked-keyboard music, and Japanese gamelan percussion, expect to be a little scared as it washes over you.

Thanks to an arrangement between Urbana Booking Co. (responsible for Sufjan) and The Courtyard, it will be possible to take in Xiu Xiu's set and not miss Sufjan's performance a few blocks away; Sufjan shouldn't take the stage until the other show is done. You'd be a fool to not go see live music tonight.

-Kyle Gorman

Rock out. Camp out. Help out Stay Up All Night with Radio Free Urbana Saturday, Sept. 17, Kalyx Center, Monticello 6 p.m. $10 Stay up all night with Radio Free Urbana this Saturday as local musicians rock out the Kalyx Center in Monticello. The musical campout is a fundraiser for WRFU: Radio Free Urbana, a new low-powered radio station dedicated to provide a new voice for community residents. Starting at 7 p.m., an assortment of acts including Ambitious Pie Party, Black Tie Elephant, Green Light Go, Green Mountain Grass, Quadremedy, UC HipHop and DJ El Train will be playing through the night -- the music doesn't stop until people stop listening. Anyone with an instrument is also welcome to perform around the bonfire. Saturday night, Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant will be selling food to relieve those munchies and Sunday morning, the Herring is serving breakfast to all the campers. $10 gets you camping, music and breakfast–a hell of a deal for an entire night of live music. You can even bring your own beer, but for everyone's sake, plan on camping out if you do. If you need a ride to the farm or simply need directions, visit www.wrfu.net. Gates open at 6 p.m.

--Erin Scottberg IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LIST A POSTING E-MAIL CALENDAR@READBUZZ.COM BY SUNDAY NIGHT.

DJ Generic DJ Jackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 8pm, TBA DJ Bozak [broken beat, house, electro] Barfly, 10pm, free DJ Elise [house] Boltini, 10pm, free Solace: DJ J-Phlip, DJ Mertz [deep house] Soma, 10pm, free Ladies Night featuring Luis Vasquez, DJ Res Tuly, DJ Black Ice [hip hop, dance, reggae, reggaeton, salsa] Nargile, 9pm, Ladies free before 9pm, Men $5 DJ Stiffler [80's hair metal] Tommy G's, 9pm, free Karaoke "G" Force Karaoke Pia's of Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

Mind, Body, Spirit Krannert Uncorked Krannert Art Center Lobby, 5pm, free Belly Dance for Fitness The Fitness Center Champaign, 8pm, $7-$9 Belly Dance for Fitness Gold’s Gym, Champaign, 7:30pm, $7-$9 Group Meditation Ananda Liina, 2308 N. High Cross Rd. Urbana, 5:30pm, free Lectures, Meetings, Discussions Cosmopolitan Club Coffee Hour [Sample coffee, tea and homemade ethnic desserts from Uzbekistan. All are welcome] Cosmopolitan Club, 307 E. John St., 7:309:30pm, free

FRIDAY September 16

Live Music Jazz Walk: Mark Smart [jazz looping] and more [Local jazz soloists and ensembles will play scattered throughout Wandell Sculpture Garden. Rain date, Sept. 17] Meadowbrook Park, 6pm, free

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Support Groups Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Heritage Room, Provena Hospital, 7pm, free

Dancing UIUC Swing Society McKinley Foundation 9:30pm-12am, free

Kids Funfare [stories, songs, puppets, and films for children and their caregivers] Urbana Free Library, 10:3011am, free Ralph's World [children’s music and entertainment] Borders, 11am, free

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Early show

DJ DJ Elise [house, broken beat] Boltini, 6-10pm, free DJ Mighty Dog Jackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm-2am, TBA American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Benefit: DJ JB, DJ Impact [hip hop, Chicago deep house] Nargile, 9pm, TBA DJ Delayney [hip hop, soul] Barfly, 10pm, free SorceryKid [Hi-NRG, Eurodance, disco, house] Chester St., 10pm, cover DJ Bozak [broken beat, house, soul] Soma, 10pm, cover DJ Tim Williams [top 40/hip hop/house/dance] The Highdive, 10:30pm, $5 DJ J-Phlip [house] Boltini, 10pm, free DJ Dance Party Canopy Club, 10pm, TBA

Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 10pm-2am, TBA Karaoke American Legion, 8pm-1am, TBA Lectures, Meetings, Workshops Panel Discussion: Mass Culture and Modernist Studies Humanities Lecture HalI, PRH, 3pm, free Creating Peaceful Tomorrows: An Evening of Commemoration and Critique University YMCA, 6:30pm, free Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison [Kathy Kelly leads discussion on experiences as peace activist] University YMCA, 12pm, free Special Events Main Street Merchants Association of Farmer City Rummage Sale Scarecrow Building on Main St., 9am-7pm

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Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 Eclectic Theory The White Horse Inn, 10pm, free Will Rogers Band [country/southern rock covers/originals] Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3 ParaDocs [jazz] Mike ‘n Molly's, 5-7pm, TBA The Prairie Dogs [bluegrass] Cowboy Monkey, 5:30pm, free Mother Popcorn Iron Post, 9pm, TBA The Delta Kings [blues] The Phoenix, 9pm, free Tossers, The Siderunners [rock/celtic] Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $6 Hells Bells [AC/DC tribute band] Tommy G's, 10pm, cover Billy Fault [acoustic] Fat City Saloon, 8:30pm, cover

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September 15 Live Music Shovelwrack White Horse Inn, 10pm, free Caleb Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, free Will Rogers Band [country/southern rock covers/originals] Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, free Chip McNeill Quartet Iron Post, 7pm, $2 Xiu Xiu, Yellow Swans, Bailey The Courtyard, 7:30pm, $3 UIUC students/$5 general public Acoustic at Aroma: Kristi Kjeldsen, Dave Burdick [folk/rock] Aroma, 8pm, free Urbana Booking Co. and Krannert Center present: Sufjan Stevens, Liz Janes Canopy Club, 8pm, $12 Piper's Hut Concert Series: Chulrua Music Building Auditorium, 8pm, $15 Holly Holmes Quartet [jazz] Zorba's, 9:30pm-12:30am, $3 Eclectic Theory Joe's Brewery, 10pm, TBA Wonderboy [Tenacious D Tribute] Joe's Brewery, 5-8pm, TBA

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ASSEMBLY HALL | First & Florida, Champaign 333-5000 AMERICAN LEGION POST 24 | 705 W Bloomington, Champaign 356-5144 AMERICAN LEGION POST 71 | 107 N Broadway, Urbana 367-3121 BARFLY | 120 N Neil, Champaign 352-9756 BOLTINI LOUNGE | 211 N Neil, Champaign 378-8001 BOARDMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ART THEATER | 126 W Church, Champaign 351-0068 THE BRASS RAIL | 15 E University, Champaign 352-7512 THE BRIDGE | 124 W. White St. Champaign THE CANOPY CLUB (GARDEN GRILL) | 708 S Goodwin, Urbana 367-3140 CHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana CIVITAS | 112 Main St., Urbana0 COURTYARD CAFE | Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana 333-4666 COWBOY MONKEY | 6 Taylor, Champaign 398-2688 CURTIS ORCHARD | 3902 S Duncan, Champaign 359-5565 D.R. DIGGERS | 604 S Country Fair, Champaign 356-0888 ELMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 FALLONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 THE HIGHDIVE | 51 Main, Champaign 359-4444 HUBERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 1312 W Church, Champaign 352-0606 ILLINOIS DISCIPLES FOUNDATION | 610 E Springfield, Champaign 352-8721 INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER | 218 W Main, Urbana 344-8820 THE IRON POST | 120 S Race, Urbana 337-7678 JACKSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RIBS-N-TIPS| 116 N First, Champaign 355-2916 JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BREWERY | 706 S Fifth, Champaign 384-1790 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 LESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE | 403 N Coler, Urbana 328-4000 LINCOLN CASTLE | 209 S Broadway, Urbana 344-7720 MALIBU BAY LOUNGE | North Route 45, Urbana 328-7415 MIKE â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N MOLLYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 105 N Market, Champaign 355-1236 NARGILE | 207 W Clark, Champaign NEIL STREET PUB | 1505 N Neil, Champaign 359-1601 THE OFFICE | 214 W Main, Urbana 344-7608 OPENSOURCE | 12 E. Washington,Champaign http://opensource.boxwith.com PARKLAND COLLEGE | 2400 W Bradley, Champaign 351-2528 PHOENIX | 215 S Neil, Champaign 355-7866 PIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OF RANTOUL | Route 136 E, Rantoul 893-8244 RED HERRING/CHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana 344-1176 ROSE BOWL TAVERN | 106 N Race, Urbana 367-7031 SIDE BAR | 55 E. Main, Champaign 398-5760 SPRINGER CULTURAL CENTER | 301 N Randolph, Champaign 398-2376 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 TK WENDLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 1901 S Highcross, Urbana 255-5328 TOMMY Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 123 S Mattis, Country Fair Shopping Center 359-2177 TONIC | 619 S Wright, Champaign 356-6768 TRACKS | 116 N Chestnut, Champaign 762-8116 UNIVERSITY YMCA | 1001 S Wright, Champaign 344-0721 URBANA CIVIC CENTER | 108 Water St., Urbana VERDE/VERDANT | 17 E Taylor, Champaign 366-3204 VIRGINIA THEATRE | 203 W Park Ave, Champaign 356-9053 WAKE THE DEAD CAFE | 1210 E. Eldorado St. Decatur 233-4525 WASHINGTON STREET PUB | 600 S. Washington, Tuscola 253-6850 WHITE HORSE INN | 112 1/2 E Green, Champaign 352-5945 ZORBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S | 627 E Green, Champaign 344-0710

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Live Music Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 Will Rogers Band [country/southern rock covers/originals] Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3 WEFTfest: Ambitious Pie Party, Relenter, Ear Doctor, The Bird Dogs, The Impalas, Exorna, Prine Myshkins Mike 'n Molly's beer garden, 2-10pm, free Fall Festival: Shadows of Doubt, Candy Foster and Shades of Blue Alto Vineyards, 4-11pm, $3 Up All Night w/ Radio Free Urbana: Ambitious Pie Party, Black Tie Elephant, Green Light Go, Green Mountain Grass, Quad remedy, UC HipHop W/bOngu@diSS, DJ El Train, TBA Kalyx Center, 6pm, $10 Sons and Daughters Pages For All Ages, 7pm, free Split Lip Rayfield The Highdive, doors at 7pm/show at 7:30pm, $6 in advance/$8 at the door Baby Teeth [70's inspired pop and soul] The Courtyard, 9pm, $3 UIUC students/$5 general public Metal Masquerade: Cemetery Rapist, Occularis, 7 Year Existence, Skeptik The Phoenix, 9pm, free The Profits, Matt Wertz Canopy Club, 10pm, $5 in advance, $7 at the door The Life and Times, Fires Over Phoenix, Tractor Kings Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $6 Bad Medicine [Bon Jovi tribute band] Tommy G's, 10pm, cover No Secret Fat City Saloon, 8:30pm, cover The Beauty Shop, Scurvine The Brass Rail, 11pm, $5

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Canopy Club, Sept. 20, 9 p.m. $10

Neko Case of poppy indie group The New Pornographers recently wrapped up her fifth solo album, entitled Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.

The album is slated for a February 2006 release under her Canadian label, Mint Records.

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Bright and bubbly indie pop group Tilly and the Wall will play at the Canopy Club in Urbana on Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. with guests Neva Dinova, Orenda Fink of Azure Ray, Now It's Overhead, and Dave Dondero. With dancer Jamie Williams' tap shoes, and the sweet and secretive vocals provided by Kianna Alarid and Neely Jenkins. It's sure to be a great turnout, plus theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re cute! Get your tickets now for only $10 in advance at the Canopy Club near Nevada and Goodwin.

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MONDAY September 19 Live Music Love & Joy [comedy and live R&B] Canopy Club, 10pm, $3 Motown Mondays: As Is Nargile, 7pm, $5 Jazz Jam with ParaDocs Iron Post, 8-11pm, TBA

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Art&T heater Canvas: An Electronic Gallery [Canvas is the Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio. Based on the University of Illinois' Cave technology, Canvas is a portable, virtual-reality open lab for research and teaching projects by faculty in the fine and applied arts and the University. Informed by the concepts of collaboration, advanced navigation, and virtual art, Canvas is a space for creating and presenting computer-assisted, mutil-dimensional projects.]

Kranner t Ar t Museum, Tue-Sat 9am-5pm, Thurs 9am-9pm, Sun 2pm-5pm Artwork from Katie Jacobson and Nisha Agha [photopgraphic screenprints and other media] Aroma Cafe through Nov. 1 I lloutuve wyou too [paintings and drawings by S. J. Hart] Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue through Oct. 28 Annual Parkland Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Parkland College Art Gallery through Sept. 22 Faculty Art Exhibition [new work by current faculty in the University of Illinoiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Art + Design] Krannert Art Museum Oct. 2 Design Excellence Collection [an exhibit of excellence in industrial design featuring mainstream products such as chairs, water kettles, and pet food that offer consumers more than mere functionality] Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 2 Wall to Wall Photographs: Current Work by Andy Summers Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 2 The New Icon [paintings by Berta Paulino, and by Judy Seyb and sculpture by Chad Stangl] The Springer Cultural Center through Oct. 2 Possibilities [works by U of I Alum and local artist Sandra Ahten] Illini Union Art Gallery through September Backstage Pass [a series of limited edition entertainment photos taken by Paul Idleman in Colorado between 1978 and 2000. Some of the biggest names in the biz are represented: Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Sam Kinison, John Hartford, Jay Leno, etc.]

Cinema Gallery through Sept. 24 Andy Warhol: The Complete 1979 Diamond Dust Shadow Series, Editions I-V and The Shadow and Other Self-Potraits, 1977-1981 University Gallery in Normal, IL through Oct. 2 Art With Intention Open Studio [Individually directed drop-in studio time allowing adults to explore their creative voices. Instructed by Sandra Ahten] Thursdays, 4-9pm. Visit www.spiritofsandra.com for details and location.

Fitness Belly Dance for Fitness The Fitness Center Champaign, 8pm, $7-$9

Life Drawing Sessions [drop in sessions to practice and improve your life drawing skills] Sundays from 1-4pm at the Independent Media Center, $8.

Contact Kindra Crick at 352-4668; kindredspark@gmail.com for details.

Kids Storytime Pages for All Ages, 7pm, free Babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lap Time [songs, stories and rhymes for the youngest patrons, birth-24 mo., with an adult] Urbana Free Library, 10:30-11am, free

Call for Fine Art and Crafts Donations [Donations of any size, medium or style are needed for the Hands of Hope Art Auction to benefit the Illinois Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

New works that represent our theme of hope, healing or transformation are encouraged but not required. Contact Rebecca Plummer Rohloff at 328-3059 or rrohloff@uiuc.edu for more informatin.]

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as WEFT 90.1 FM celebrates its 24th birthday.

WEFTfest is an all-ages, all-day event with a free concert that begins at 2 p.m. in the Mike ‘n Molly’s beer garden.

On the bill are Electric Theory, Relenter, Ambitious Pie Party, Ear Doctor, The Bird Dogs, The Impalas, Exorna, and Prince Myshkins. For anyone who cannot attend, the entire concert will be broadcast live. Refreshments will be available, and Chef Ra will grill both hamburgers and veggie burgers at 5 p.m. (Prince Myshkins play another free show tomorrow in the main lounge of Allen Hall. Show time is 8 p.m.)

Also Saturday, Kalyx Center in Monticello hosts Up All Night with Radio Free Urbana.This is a campout and concert with Ambitious Pie Party, Black Tie Elephant, Green Light Go, Green Mountain Grass, Quadremedy, UC Hip Hop, and DJs such as DJ El Train. Gates open at 6 p.m. and music starts at 7 p.m. Entry is $10, which includes breakfast from Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant. All proceeds go to WFRU 104.5 FM. Emo violin duo The Lifeline has doubled its ranks with drummer Adam Zicher and guitarist Eddie Yono. Adam Zicher had filled in on drums for Queens of the Stone Age and Filter. The Lifeline formed in New York, came here for college, and now calls Chicago home. The new lineup premieres Sept. 20 at Elbo Room in Chicago. Where there is life, there is Hope… is now available online at CD Baby.

The reincarnation of The Idle Hours at last has a name: LMNOP, a sequence not new at theidlehours.com.

The LMNOP web site will be pinkythedestroyer.com, and LMNOP will be a Chicago electronic duo made up of

Planned Parenthood of East Central Illinois is seeking an Educational Programming and Teen Awareness Group (TAG) Intern. The intern is responsible for assisting the facilitation of a peer education program for area high school students. Candidates should be working toward a bachelor or master degree in health-related and/or social science field and have a willingness to work with adolescents in an open and "teen friendly" setting. Position runs for one semester 10 to 20 hours per week on a volunteer basis. Some evening and weekend availability required. For more information please contact Ariel at 359-4768.

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CD Release Party: Mad Science Fair, Elsinore, Cameron McGill and What Army, Darling Disarm The Highdive, 9:30pm, $4 Long Beach Shortbus, Ambitious Pie Party Canopy Club, 10pm, $12 in advance

Todd J. Hunter hosts WEFT Sessions and Champaign Local 901, two hours of local music every Monday night at 10 p.m. on WEFT 90.1 FM. Send news to soundground@excite.com.

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Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geovanti's, 10pm-2am, free Outlaw Karaoke The White Horse Inn, 10pm, free

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Lectures, Meetings, Workshops Sleazy Bars, Fancy countertops: Reused Marble for Status Therapy at Pompeii [lecture from J.Clayton Fant] 62 Krannert Art Museum, 5:30pm, free

Tickets for advance shows on sale now at: Exile on Main Street, The Canopy Club, Family Pride, Bacca Cigar, or call 1-800-514-ETIX. Or print your tickets at home on JayTV.com!

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Tonight, while Sufjan Stevens and Xiu Xiu vie for the limelight, Piper’s Hut Concert Series in association with The Society of Celtic Cultures presents Chulrua. Chulrua consists of Irishmen Paddy O’Brien (button accordion) and Pat Egan (guitar, vocals) and Frenchman Patrick Ourceau (fiddle). In 1994, O’Brien won a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, which went toward The Paddy O’Brien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Jigs and Reels. The performance takes place in the University of Illinois Music Department Building Auditorium. at 8 p.m. and cover is $15, with reduced rates for seniors, children, and anyone with school ID. Wednesday, rock returns to The Highdive as Mad Science Fair issues its debut, … for a better tomorrow (MudCD-054). Recorded and mastered by Adam Schmitt and mixed by Schmitt and Mike Clayton, … for a better tomorrow features ten power-pop songs that pick up where Mike Clayton’s solo project The Double Standard Practice left off last Thanksgiving. To support Mad Science Fair at the release party, Elsinore joins Cameron McGill and What Army and Darling Disarm. Show time is 9:30 p.m., and cover is $4.

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Some ambitious folk make it a goal of theirs to visit each of the 50 states of the Union in their lifetime. Sufjan Stevens has a mind to record an album dedicated to each of those states. Having lived my entire life in Illinois and cultivated a reasonably fair amount of knowledge regarding the state’s history and distinguishing characteristics, I was pleased to hear Stevens was planning to release an ode to the Land of Lincoln with his second album of the series.

Stevens, a native of Michigan (the first state in his project), had at one point spent part of his life in Wrigleyville. Reflecting on his experience, he presumably decided to make Illinois his next album’s subject matter. What makes this album so remarkable is the ambitious scale of the task.

How does one fill the verses of a full-length album with accurate details concerning the folk tales, tradition and history of an entire state? How can he appease the Illinois population with the right amount of tribute while crafting an album that even non-Illinois residents can appreciate? And how does he do it when the only time he spent in the state was in the north side of Chicago?

It’s impressively evident that Stevens did his homework. His songs incorporate otherwise obscure references to Illinois history taken from the Rock River Valley down to Little Egypt. He name drops the likes of Carl Sandburg, Jane Addams, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ronald Reagan. He tells stories with mention of the Black Hawk War, Superman, the Columbian Exposition, the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the state’s most infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy Jr. If there is one blemish to his story telling it’s that he fails to mention C-U or the Orange and Blue. He brings up Chicago, Peoria, Jacksonville, Metropolis, Kankakee, even Decatur, but he never talks about Champaign or Urbana.

The result is a 74 minute, 22-track epic covering what’s great (Abraham Lincoln) and what’s not so great (John Wayne Gacy Jr.) about Illinois.

And while the lyrical descriptions of Illinois’ heritage should be enough to entice your consideration,

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you should know that the music that carries the words is equally strong. Stevens mans an impressive array of instruments. The album insert lists over 20 instruments he played when composing the songs, including the glockenspiel and oboe.

Listening to the album, you can just sense the painstaking work Stevens put into this album, in research and composition alike. And you realize there is no possible way he could complete 10 more albums of this standard, let alone another 48. It took him two years to release Illinois after completing Greetings from Michigan. Forty-eight more at two years a piece? You do the math. And both of these are states he’s at least at one point staked residence in.

The album is an excellent mixture of storytelling and interludes. Stevens’ soft vocals hover just loud enough over the meticulously calculated melodies to tell the listener a story of past or present Illinois lore.

He easily conveys a range of emotions with his voice and instrumentation—excitement (“The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders”), pride (Part I of “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!”), reverence (“The Seer’s Tower”), fear (“Casmir Pulaski Day”), and anxiety (“They Are Night Zombies!!! They are Neighbors!! The Have Come Back from the Dead!!

Ahhh!”)—through the collection of tracks.

Not only is it a remarkably well made folk album, but it also serves as an introductory history lesson to those of us who are not from the great state of Illinois, and as a reminder for those of us who are.

The New Pornographers are fringe-dwellers in an outsider genre. That genre is power pop, a residence and way station for the Big Star obsessed, the Fountains of Wayne passionate, and the Teenage Fanclub enraptured. Carl Newman, Neko Case and the rest of the ninestrong group eschew most of these genre norms, however, and stick close to a sound that revels in psychedelia and has only the slightest appreciation for lyrical prowess.

This neglect of lyricism dominates the band’s third album, Twin Cinema. Unlike past albums, where the lyrics served as a complement to the revelry of their music, this time the words reflect a witty post-modern dissection of the supergroup dynamic.These words exist merely to show how much fun everyone is having being away from the daily grind of their “main projects.”

This escapism is especially evident in the leadoff and title track. Non-sensical and cryptic lines ranging in subject from streets in San Francisco to “home theaters, still projecting” burst as they project from Carl Newman’s scratchy, almostfalsetto voice.

It is no surprise, then, that some of the time the lyrics are barely audible, hidden under layers of guitars. These guitars frame the sound of the record, and create some of the most appealing noise heard this year.They do betray a sluggishness that stands in stark contrast to the high-energy explsion of melody heard on the first two records.

As such, it seems that the gig is getting tired, for the listener and for the band. On this record there appears to be a lack of dedication displayed at the hands of the group. The shock of the new, and the feel of working with musicians the band members have admired for so long no longer retains the excitement it once had. Whereas on their first two albums one heard an eager mash of styles, here the group seems to be writing

a textbook pop album. There is the leadoff single, an uptempo, incredibly catchy number with a raucous hook and the requisite countryinspired ballads (derived from Neko Case’s roots in that genre). Throughout the album, there is everything in between, a stylistic mash fans have come to expect from the band.

Nevertheless, this album is nothing if not entertaining. It is impossible to not enjoy oneself when listening to the fruits of incredibly talented musicians coming together to record in a genre for which they all have an immense reverence.Yet, it still seems important that the band members move on. The idea was great when it started, and arguably produced the best two pop records of the decade as of yet. But like all supergroups, they need to realize that the best way to preserve a legacy is to keep it short and leave the focus to the musicians themselves. That way existing on the fringe will not be so bad.

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xpect hip hop, rap, blues, soul, funk and everything else as legendary composer Mikel Rouse premieres the final piece of his operatic trilogy at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 17. The new piece, The End of Cinematics, will complete Rouse’s highly stylized multimedia opera, a three-part masterpiece which he began composing in early 1989.

The first installment, Failing Kansas, officially debuted in 1994 with impressive counter poetry that helped reveal the seductive and manipulative power of the American media.

Rouse performed the piece solo. He created the new technique by adding prerecorded voices and vocals to his already live work.

This innovation later helped Rouse stamp his name on the contemporary music scene.

The second installment in the trilogy came to Krannert in 2001. The piece, entitled Dennis Cleveland, originally debuted in 1996 at a tiny New York City avant-garde venue.

The show spoke to the American infatuation with the TV talkshow phenomenon. Rouse played the title character, a Jerry Springer type host who chronicled the promise of salvation

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Mark Farina grew up in the city where house music was born, Chicago, before heading west to San Francisco, where he made a name for himself with his lightly-chilled, slightly-acidic Mushroom Jazz. Now on the fifth disc of the series of the same name, Farina is able to keep his mixtapes dynamic by relying entirely on CD turntables, which give him unlimited pitch control, and his ability to collect new and original sounds has also been enhanced by a time when anyone can record a quality CD.“Thanks to modern technology,” Farina explains, “anyone can give you a good demo,” something he regularly puts to work in mixtapes and club sets.

Vol. 5 sticks to a midtempo groove throughout, slightly more upbeat than previous Mushroom Jazz records. Kicking off with a nice dubby track into a little Ahmad Jamal piano riff from the Sound Providers, Farina lays out the

first interesting vocal of the mix, a track from DJ Numark and Chali 2na, both of Jurassic 5. Chali’s exquisite flow is a perfect match for the very simple and sophiscated mix. The mix then takes a left turn into the more organic with a Farina original, the gentle and weird “Cali Spaces,” which exceeds the standards put out by his fully original album, Air Farina.

Sometimes the way he paces the mix can be masturbatory, like when he brings in a vocal early only to abandon it for later. Also disappointing is how few vocals there are, and halfway into the tape, landmarks become harder to find as the last portion is largely instrumental. While it’s well-done, there’s a little less soul to be found deeper in the album. Despite that, Farina has created a great record which holds up to many, many listens, and is suggested for the curious, as it never settles into a four-on-the-floor house groove which might be a turnoff for casual fans.

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The success of Dennis Cleveland at the Krannert Center provided Rouse with the perfect venue to premiere The End of Cinematics. Rouse gave much praise to Michael Ross and the entire Krannert staff. “The commitment and respect they’ve shown this production, I haven’t seen that support anywhere else.

This is a very unique place. If it had just happened once, it would be great, but we’re returning, and it’s the same idea.”

The Krannert Center couldn’t be happier to host the new show, continuing the tradition of drawing top-notch performers to the University. Rouse also credited the cities of ChampaignUrbana with the show’s success, “I don’t care what you think is happening in New York or San Francisco, this is where it’s happening now.”

The final installment appears ready to further Rouse’s contribution to the contemporary music and opera scene.

His perception of modern entertainment is that, “We want fast, and we want loud, and we want short. This (The End of Cinematics) is a piece where you really have to check your expectations at the door. You have to come with an open mind, and let it rush over you. At the same time, expect this to be bigger, louder and more aggressive then what’s been seen before in either [Failing] Kansas or [Dennis] Cleveland.”

In The End of Cinematics, Rouse certainly isn’t afraid to speak his mind regarding what he sees as an evident transformation in media outlets, mentioning specifically MTV, Hollywood, TV, advertising and the new voids created there. “Sweet story, easy story, I know how to make you cry, I know how to make you laugh, and if I do that really well then you’ll pay me $10 a show to see it. There are a lot of people who do that really well, and it’s valid. But it’s not interesting to me.”

Rouse launches theater into new territory with this fragmented, channel-surfing commentary on our TV culture.

Mixing a hip hop flavored electronic soundtrack with multiple video screens, six live musicians/actors and a very cool set, this is theater that speaks to those who are more comfortable with Seinfeld than Shakespeare.

Rouse plans to create a 3-D film by using a rear projection from a prerecorded film shot in Paris. Those scenes, through CGI, remove characters so they can be used as video back-drops, and then live performers are shot on the video back-drops and projected onto the front scrim, making a video montage. “From what most people have said, they’ve never seen anything quite like it,” said Rouse, “It’s pretty unique looking.”

Additionally, the whole show is in surround-sound, and features prerecorded as well as live music. “It’s a real sensory overload experience. I found that when some of these images converge with sound, certain emotions are evoked. It isn’t manipulative; what’s happening in your brain are emotions that you have to figure out. You love that humanity, but you don’t know why. You can have moving experiences without being led

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Rouse found stylistic motivation for his new show in a selfinspired movement away from the normal entertainment.

He says,“If anybody was to walk away from this show, I’d like them to think they don’t have to make a video the traditional way.They can make a video the way they want to make it. I want people to break the mold, to break the model of what has already been done.

This is a situation which can only happen like this. It couldn’t be done in a movie theatre, couldn’t be done in a traditional theatre and couldn’t be released on a DVD.” He adds, “There’s really only one reason to do this, and it’s because you have to, there’s no other reason.You don’t get paid well, you don’t get appreciated; you live in a crazy existence, so I wouldn’t recommend this lifestyle for my worst enemy. However, there’s a gratification in this particular piece; it was the collaboration with Krannert that’s made it an enjoyable experience. I think it’s these kinds of projects that you’re just tearing your hair out and everybody’s into it and supportive and really brought a great jovial attitude to an intense production.”

September also featured the release of two CD-DVD sets, Music for Minorities and Test Tunes. The new material, considered as technologically sophisticated and theoretically complex as his other work, was dedicated to the works of both Brian Wilson and Steve Reich. The terse and succinct lyrics in Music for Minorities are balanced by the folk traditional/blues style guitar of Test Tunes.

The Krannert Center’s Colwell Playhouse will host the premiere of The End of Cinematics on Sept, 17th at 7:30 pm.

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fact I can be painfully mellow most of the time. Ok, now for the bad stuff.

Pompous, bossy and dogmatic are the negative traits of Leos. I don’t know, I’m thinking my sign isn’t all that appropriate, but to be honest I really don’t know what dogmatic means.

What music do you enjoy?

I’ve always been a big Radiohead fan; nothing beats it, especially while painting, but as of late I’ve been listening to a lot of Devandra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens; turns out I have a thing for banjos. Fiona Apple, Neutral Milk Hotel, Rilo Kiley, Nick Drake, Azure Ray, Yo La Tengo, Bonnie “Prince” Billy,Air--really, I could go on forever, so I’ll just end with the fact that I have a secret love of Snoop and the Fugees.

What do you hope to accomplish?

Whenever someone asks what my major is and I reply art history I get the same question, “I had a roommate who did that, she loved it, but what are you going to do with it?” Really I am not sure, I’m interested in the beginnings of art, the backgrounds, and how it has come to be what it is now, and where it will go from here. I guess I’m so interested because art is really the only thing I can’t get enough of, and if I can somehow make a career out of that, whether it be teaching or working at a museum or whatever, how badass would that be?

What inspires you?

This is really an excellent question, and it has been very interesting to think about. Really the most random things inspire me; it is very hard to pinpoint actually. Nature inspires me a whole lot.There is nothing more beautiful to me. People and places, everything, even small things like the way honey moves, can be inspirational.

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For years, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice has provided some of the most controversial issues for local theatre groups to tackle and interpret. This rather standard, but serious, romance has been infamous for its depiction of the Jewish money lender, Shylock. Barbara Gaines’ current production of The Merchant of Venice, by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier, is well-acted, but contains an oddly uneven production concept that may confuse many audiences.

De-emphasizing the somewhat excessive crowd-pleasing humor, frenetic street fighting scenes and Americanized verse reading of her typical comedic Shakespearean productions, Gaines’ Merchant attempts a more ambitious interpretation.While she presents the mysterious test that Portia’s suitors must pass to gain her heart and wealth and the issue of the merchant Antonio’s inability to repay a substantial loan from the Jewish Shylock, Gaines’ Shylock is not the anti-Semitic stereotype of some productions-especially of those who set the play in its original Renaissance setting.This present depiction of the ill-mannered Shylock’s motivations is more a portrayal of a victim of social circumstances. The social and religious prejudices displayed are common to the human nature of many times and places.

In her inventive 1997 staging of this play, Gaines set the action in New York City and Long Island in the mid 1920s. Still different, this present production is completely in dark modern dress and set in contemporary Italy. The audience is presented with a nearly bare stage with a courtroom-like appearance: a couple of tables and a row of chairs are placed in the back third of the stage area. Another row of chairs is parallel to the first row, but placed just off the edge of the slightly elevated peninsula stage playing area. The immediate impression one gets is that we’re becoming the judge/jury for the impending trial of not only Shylock’s specific grievance and but also the wider social conflicts of religion and finance.

What makes this production confusing is the erratic way in which players enter and exit the play’s main playing area and yet remain seated in

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ontemporary music is in dire need of a savior.

A true genius, in the vein of Wagner or Keats, can push the boundaries of artistic expression through song past its false commercial limits. Pop music has rarely risen to the level of true art.What we need now is a marriage of a singular voice, a singular sound and a singular purpose: something that might raise the stakes a bit.

In the past 20 years or so there have been a number of attempts at resurrection, but few have had the complete ambition or the artistic power to truly have any lasting effect.

Enter Sufjan Stevens.

“Music is many things; I see it as a form of worship, expressing theological ideas, expressing heartbreak. The one thing I’m certain about is the one thing I’m most insecure about. That’s kind of what loving is about, there’s a certain supernatural thing about love, but also something comforting in its vulnerability.”

This is no ordinary songwriter; his body of work reveals a reaching for literary, spiritual and transformative experience through song.

His latest effort, Illinois, is no exception. It pulsates with a fervor for expression, for testing the limits of song as well as oneself.The song structures are perfectly fractured, the melodies unpredictable yet tightly woven and the songwriting style increasingly narrative.

“The [narrative] songwriting tradition goes back for centuries, I think I’m really part of that. All songwriters have to reckon with that very old tradition of storytelling, when we write we exhume a tradition.”

Through his stories on Illinois, Stevens reckons with issues of faith that prominently came to light on last year’s brilliant Seven Swans. On “Casmir Pulaski Day” the songwriter travels through a memory of a friend lost to cancer, he first questions than affirms his faith in the process. As is often the case, the musical progression mimics the experience of the lyrics.Yet these things are never truly explicit; though his faith is always a forceful undercurrent it is only one of the many issues he explores.

“I think culture generally is suffering a serious decline in values.

But part of that is the commercialization of music and culture, it makes art lose meaning, it devolves. Popular culture used to be opera or the theatre but today it’s advertisement.”

On the album’s most memorable track, “Come on and Feel the Illinoise,” a bombast of drums and strings evolves into a forcefully subtle melody as Stevens recalls a dream encounter with poet Carl Sandburg, “I was asked to improvise/on the attitude, the regret of a thousand centuries of death,” effectively conveying a moment of inspiration.

Stevens’ literary aspirations are not unfounded in his personal history. In fact, they are a large part of who he is.

“I came to New York to be a writer, to publish, to teach…that’s always been my dream…I remember reading Blake and Wordsworth as an undergrad and having a moment of epiphany, I don’t know if it was hormones or something, but they really affected me. This most recent record reinvigorated my interest in fiction wr iting.”

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Jessica Roberts is from Grayslake, Ill., a north sururb of Chicago. She comes from a large family (mom, dad, stepdad, 4 dogs, 3 cats and a fantastic African Grey parrot named Albert). Her first experience with art was in preschool; the class was asked to paint a ghost as a Halloween activity. Everyone else’s came out looking something along the lines of Casper. Jessica went in a different direction, drawing a nearly demonic figure. Hence the artist was born. Since then she has helped with the sets for most of Grayslake high school's plays. She also designed the poster, program and T-shirt for the production of Our Town. She has taken the foundations, painting and drawing classes at the College of Lake County and is looking forward to meeting new people and trying to take advantage of all the things this university has to offer.

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The art and design program here at the U of I has been thought out extremely well. The faculty has been amazing so far. I can only assume it will continue this way. I was pretty scared coming into it because you never know how experienced everyone else will be, and if you’ll be able to match up. I’d say what has been the most difficult thing for me is the in-class critiques. It is hard to make comments on others’ work, but hearing others’ opinions is always a good way to improve. Being at a Big Ten school for art, in my opinion, is great because it not only lets me focus on the more ‘hands on’ aspects of art but also the academic. Basically, it has been pretty awesome so far.

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“natural storyteller,” and admits that at times songwriting can be a constricting, yet enjoyable form.

“I find a great challenge in fitting a strange or difficult word into a song. Like “Bible Study” in “Casmir Pulaski,” I wanted to put that word into a song for so long, it’s such a mundane phrase, and you hear it a lot if you ever go to a church or a meeting or something, every time I sing that part of the song I want to laugh but then I remember it’s not funny.”

He’s not without a sense of humor, a fact that can often be lost in the discussion of the “importance” of his work. Stevens attempts to convey this through his live performances.

“We dress up as cheerleaders in our show, Fighting Illini, I was so hoping that they would win the final four.

We’ve been working on cheers the last few weeks but I really feel like they aren’t very good, like we suck … sometimes people take me too seriously.When I’m on stage I’m an entertainer. ” A song like “Decatur,” which is almost exclusively structured around the rhyming of words with Decatur over a simple banjo, reveals the enjoyment he derives from writing songs. Yet even then, the sincerity with which a somewhat silly line like “Stephen A. Douglas was a great debater/but Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator” is delivered undermines any examination of the song as simply good fun.

His ambitious scope - he’s on album two of his 50 states project - can come across as haughty or impossibly grand at times.

Yet the singer himself is fully aware of the pressure and labels that come with his endeavor.

“Carl Sandburg - he was too explicit and sort of too desperate to be the American voice, to somehow encapsulate the American vision. So his work doesn’t always stand the test of time because it seems pretentious. He’s at his best when he’s himself. That’s one of the problems I had, speaking to an entire culture, but I realized that isn’t what I’m doing, it’s about myself and my story more than anything.”

It’s that drive and focus that affects the listener and makes Illinois personal. On “The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!” he admits, “I can’t explain the state that I’m in/the state of my heart,” underlining the true nature of his expansive project. It is essentially about the power of selfexpression; sharing his singular voice and vision with the world.

As long as Stevens and others continue to explore themselves on this scale, there is still hope for pop music. buzz Sufjan Stevens will be playing at the Canopy Club tonight at 8 p.m.

A review of Illinois is on the following page.

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Arnie says he has been held back several times in his life because he is black. He says he was unable to get his chiropractor’s license because of his race, and he had to join the Coast Guard because the Marines didn’t accept blacks until 1945. He says that when he worked as a trainer at U of I, people that he trained were promoted above him. But Arnie doesn’t dwell on that part of the past, and he gets “pissed off at some of the Negroes for not even trying.”

Arnie loves people, and he loves talking to them. “They feel they can ask us any damn thing, and we’ll answer it, too.” In his deep but inviting voice, he loves saying “Come here, you rascal” to friends who walk in the door. He uses catch-phrases such as “ R i c h as cream” and “Serious as a heart attack.” Getting a person to laugh and smile, he says, is a great way to get close to them. He likes an old jazz tune called, Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It. He has traveled to India, New Zealand and Scotland to name just a few places, but he never consid-ered living anywhere other than Illinois.

“No, no, no, no-where out there,” he says.“I was a cat from Champaign and Chicago. I was an American

who or what you are,” he says. “There’s no chips to cash in here. Everybody starts out equal and stays that way.”

Even in the ’60s, when racial tension consumed the university campus, it was never reflected in Po’ Boy’s’ diverse customers, Dan says.

“I don’t know why people don’t just try to get along,” Arnie says. “It’s easy.”

By half-past eight, the action has settled down again. The TV has switched over to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Denver Nuggets game on ESPN. John sits down to eat a sandwich, so when more customers walk in a few minutes later, Herkie takes care of them. At 9:30 p.m., a new wave arrives, and Herkie and John work together again. The Cavs-Nuggets game ends and ESPN switches to a Sacramento Kings-

the two parallel rows of chairs—witnessing, but spry Shylock. His sympathetic demeanor but not always interacting with the play’s and smallish stature adds greatly to Gaines’ actions. At times it seems characters just pop overall production concept of this character up and suddenly are “in” the play, while other being a victim. Nussbaum is most effective in times the characters clearly seem to exit and the stirring monologue where he describes all beeline for the of the reasons that chairs without a Jews, too, are human. complete exit Tim-othy Edward from the play’s Kane’s Bassanio and action. In addiKevin Gudahl’s tion, nightmarGratiano are both ish, almost surrestrong in voice and al scenes include memorable in their a group of darkly character izations. dressed masked Kate Fry’s Portia is men who harass vocally as impressive, Shylock using but one gets the feelflashlight beams ing that she’s not to spook him on always believing what an evening walk. Shylock (Mike Nussbaum - center) is taunted by cit- she’s saying.

Another blatant- izens of Venice. ly ugly scene has This impressive but a group of well-dressed men and women spit uneven version of on Shylock as he passes them on a street.

“The Merchant of Venice” continues at the Shylock is played by a considerably older Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier, at actor than the usual actor cast in this role.The 800 E. Grand Ave. on Chicago’s lakefront always excellent, 81-year-old Mike until Nov. 12. For ticket information Nussbaum, a Chicago area veteran performer call (312) 595-5600 or go online at of many original productions of David www.chicagoshakes.com.

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Arnie has been married to his wife, Ada—or “Red” as he calls her because of her red hair— for more than 50 years, and they live in a house right next door to Po’ Boy’s. It’s the house he John Hendrix chops beef ribs Friday evening. grew up in with his grandmother, who sold tamales on the corner of Market and Columbia Dallas Mavericks game, both teams playing in and taught Arnie about BBQ. Herkie lives next shiny, modernized uniforms. door to his parents, and John lives just a few “I don’t know if its Sacramento in that new blocks away. blue or Dallas in that new green, that just don’t Dan Hamelberg, Arnie’s close friend since look right,” John says to no one in particular.

Dan was a U of I student and frequent Po’ Boy’s The last customer arrives at 10:55 p.m. and customer in the ’60s, walks in a little after orders two polish sausages with mixed sauce 8p.m. and stands next to his pal. Arnie offers and a black cherry cola to go.At 11 p.m. Herkie him jelly beans and peanuts and Dan declines, locks the door, changes the “Open, come on joking that he’s trying to cut down. The back in” sign to read “Closed,” and the guys start room of Po’ Boy’s, where Dan and Arnie and scrubbing down the counter and tables and many of their friends have spent nights hanging washing out all the metallic bins that hold the out, talking and laughing, is the best leveler in meat. When Arnie, Herkie and John leave at the world, Dan says. about 11:30 p.m., they don’t have far to go, but “When you’re back there it doesn’t matter they all walk together, side by side, a family. buzz

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ason Statham has turned himself into quite the Hollywood hunk. Just seven short years ago, he made his professional debut in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Eventually, he graduated from the Guy Ritchie school of acting and moved on to Steven Segal-esque stardom, playing various characters that have one thing in common: they can drive a car better than anyone else in the damn world.

The original Transporter featured Statham, a BMW and an unbelievable array of spectacular action sequences and mind-blowing stunts.

Despite not having a real plot, the flick managed to clear $25 million at the box office and another third of that in rentals. Based on those rather anemic numbers, Statham signed back on to take a second shot at launching his Frank Martin character into action infamy.

In this film, Martin takes a job filling in as a bodyguard and driver for a very likable little lad named Jack.The boy eventually gets kidnapped via a rather tricky ruse put on by the bad guys and Frank has to go get him back. Basically, it’s the same story as that of the original film, except that Frank

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ragedy reveals the worst and the best in humanity. In a time when global disasters appear at every turn, it is easy to become lost in the wake of havoc, or even ignore it completely.

Director Fernando Meirelles has a passion for working on films that deal with this aspect. His first film, City of God, revealed life in the favelas of Rio De Janeiro. It was a gangster movie set in the midst of a deteriorating environment.

The Constant Gardener is no different.

At its core, The Constant Gardener is a love story. Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a diplomat under the British High Commission, travels to Northern Kenya with his activist wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz). The film begins with Justin discovering that his wife has been killed in Africa while traveling on personal business. He becomes determined to investigate the specifics of her death, only to uncover a more disturbing truth than mere murder.

The best moments occur when Justin looks back upon his marriage after his wife’s death.

Fiennes superbly combines subtlety and melodrama to convey a deeper love for his wife as the film progresses. His actions show a sensible transition from his views as a diplomat to those of an activist. It is not that he changes his position, but rather that he is motivated by his wife’s cause to honor her work. The film avoids preaching while depicting the morality of its characters and their growth in the story.

There is beauty and horror THE CONSTANT GARDENER • RACHEL WEISZ & RALPH FIENNES not only in the plot, but the soaring views of the length, the movie balances between its wonderAfrican landscape. Meirelles wisely shows both ful tale about the strength of love and its comthe poverty and plight of Africa and also the sense mentary on modern politics and current events. of community in the area. The affects of global- However, Meirelles does not provide enough ization are always apparent with the presence of time to adequately pace the mystery that the corporate-sponsored foreign aid. It provides a unfolds for the audience to truly understand the window into these areas of Africa showing famil- dire consequences.

But these minor quibbles are forgivable iarity in the daily life as well as the foreignness of because The Constant Gardener is one of the rare a distant country.

The Constant Gardener is an ambitious releases every year that demands to be seen.This attempt to combine not only a terrific story but is a movie that is not only terrific, but gives us a also a purpose. At a little over two hours in new perspective after we leave the theater.

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doesn’t get to hook up with the victim at the end.

There still isn’t much real background development or likable characters to fall back on. Martin and the boy have a nice little relationship, but everything else is pretty textbook. It is abundantly clear, however, that character development isn’t what drives The Transporter series; it’s aweinspiring yet staggeringly impossible action.

The stunts and special effects actually make the film quite enjoyable when taken at their humorous, TRANSPORTER 2 • JASON STATHAM over-the-top face value.There is one point when story. It is unexpected for the most part and it seems that Statham no longer guides his car off keeps the movie flowing. Another big step up jumps, but can actually control it in the air as he this time is the supporting cast. Matthew disposes of a bomb on the undercarriage of his Modine does a great job of being a sniveling car in a most ingenious way. A mortal citizen politician, career thug Keith David gives the probably couldn’t live through most of these film some swagger and Amber Valletta (Hitch) is stunts in a Sherman Tank, but Statham’s Audi a genuinely sympathetic girl-next-door type.

All in all, Transporter 2 is an improvement over proves that it’s amazing what four-wheel drive the original.The spectacle is worth the ticket price cars are capable of.

One pleasant surprise in The Transporter 2 is alone, as this movie may have just set the new an occasional plot twist. Just when the audience standard for car chase movies. Saying Transporter 2 starts to settle in for the typical below average is just an action movie is like saying the Super action movie, the writers throw a kink in the Bowl is just a football game.

Paris Hilton has a low sex drive. The home-video starlet has spent much time recently explaining that she has a shor t of rampant libido, this in spite of all the documented evidence to the contrar y, including a couple of raunchy hide-the-salami sessions and a commercial in which she gets frisky with a Hardee's burger. "I'm sexual in pictures and the way I dress and my whole image," explains Miss Hilton, "but ... all of my ex-boyfriends ... would be like, 'What's the matter with you? You're so not sexual.'"

Likely stor y. In related news, the sensitive hotel heiress was recently brought to tears when a fan bid $200,000 at an auction to spend New Year's Eve with her ... "It's so generous. I'm cr ying right now."

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“Oh, yeah!” Matt says enthusiastically. “Damn that was good. Hell, yeah.”

“It’s exactly how I remember it,” Bob repeats, the realization still not quite sinking in. “I can’t believe it.”

Herkie’s response is simple, “Progress doesn’t hit everywhere, man.”

Stories just attach themselves to Po’ Boy’s. It’s the place

where Jim Curry and his wife ate the night of their wedding before leaving for their honeymoon in Nashville, Ind., Arnie paid for their food. It’s where Dean Miller picked up a gallon of sauce on his motorcycle for a BBQ with friends and arrived home with the sauce all over him. Where Willie Rogers can run into an old friend he went to school with 25 years ago. It’s where U of I football players began coming regularly after Arnie, working in the mid-’50s as the first black trainer for the University, offered them free sandwiches if they played well, knowing they’d bring in paying friends with them. It’s where customers call out “Go Illini” on their way out the door and where people simply order “the usual,” and employees understand. It’s also where Jerry Wrather ate back in the ’60s, although his white friends were afraid to come with him, saying, “That place is full of niggers.” It’s where Jerry eventually convinced his friends to eat, to be told afterwards, “By God, we’re gonna have to come back here.”

At one of the tables sits Mike McDaniel and his wife, Sue, who come at least once a weekend and sometimes twice.

Not the previous weekend, though, because Mike and Sue were at a wedding in Florida. During the rehearsal dinner, Mike turned to his wife and said, “We could be at Po’ Boy’s right now.” Sue says that Arnie, Herkie and John treat everyone like family once they’ve been in twice. The only catch,

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“You’ve got to be an Illini fan to come in here, too. And if you’re not, you better not tell them.”

It’s also one of the few color-blind places Sue has been, and she wishes there could be more, “It’d be a nice way for all the world to be.”

When they leave, Herkie calls out,“Have a good one, Mike.”

At 7:15 p.m., Arnie emerges from the back room of the restaurant, a small area through the swinging door where the meat is cooked and the sauce and potato salad are made.

Tonight, Arnie wears a navy sweater over a white-collared shirt with jeans and black shoes, and he is offering everyone in the place jelly beans and peanuts from a red tin. Arnie bought more than he could eat himself so he’s giving them away. He talks for awhile with his friend, Dave Chestnut, who jokes that Arnie has made Po’ Boy’s a lot different from when it opened,“A lot has changed. He re-upholstered the seats in ’78.” When Dave gets set to leave, Arnie waives the cost of his pork sandwich and pop.

Another friend of Arnie’s, whom he’s known since 1955, walks in and asks,“How come you keep getting younger and I keep getting older?”

Arnie’s response is as quick as it is genial,“I’m just pretty.”

They share a laugh.

Arnie is pretty much everybody’s friend, but he still doesn’t mince words.“I’ll stand up and fight like hell if I catch you lyin’ on me,” he says. He was trained to be both a chiropractor and a Chicago police officer, but he founded the restaurant so he could have something of his own.

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Shades of Grey previously reported that Kevin Smith was in no way selling out by making a pseudo-big budget follow-up to the definitively indie Clerks. However, the Jersey Girl auteur has made the ordeal a little more acceptable by auctioning five prizes in aid of Katrina victims: a walk-on part in Clerks 2, a set visit, a bunch of T-shirts, having Smith leave your voicemail message (apologizing for Mallrats?) and a BBQ at his house (i.e. opportunity to dis his failing career). To participate, head over to his production company, View Askew.

P.S. Two exciting new developments in the movie world ... bizarre casting for the Iggy Pop biopic whose plot is very much under wraps, with character actor Elijah Wood playing the iconoclastic punk rocker. And both last and least, the long overdue Police Academy 8 has finally been greenlit, with Steve Guttenberg promising a cameo. Beware of both within the year.

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sleeved polo shirt and John’s long-sleeved green sweater, the Illini hat that sits atop Herkie’s head every night properly in place.

An episode of Charmed flickers on the TV perched in the corner of the restaurant, it being too early for the usual sports to be on.

Brent orders 11 sandwiches, some of which will be given to his brother in Charleston and some of which will be saved for lunch tomorrow. The meat slicer swish-swishes as the beef and pork for the sandwiches is made thin and lean, and Brent asks for the sandwiches with hot BBQ sauce to be clearly marked. His grandmother is the only one in his family who can handle the hot sauce, and Brent, with his more sensitive tongue, wouldn’t want to eat a hot sandwich by mistake. The cash register chchings as his order is rung up, $38.35.

“Is that all?” Brent asks.

“We can overcharge you if you want,” Herkie tells him with a laugh. “After all, we have to support the president’s new budget.”

Herkie, 54, has worked with his dad at Po’ Boy’s since he was in junior high. When he was only a few months old, he would grab onto his father so tightly from his crib that he’d be lifted out of it, so Arnie called him a little Hercules, which was quickly shortened to Herkie and immediately stuck.

Herkie can talk politics and sports with equal passion, which is fortunate because sports, most notably those of the University of Illinois, are often the chosen topic of conversation at Po’ Boy’s.

During the week, Herkie works to improve energy efficiency in local homes for the Urban League and is the vice-president of the local chapter of the National Council of African-American Men. He attended the University of Illinois in the late ’60s when there were few blacks on campus, remembering white couples standing behind bushes near the Six Pack, pointing at the black students, saying, in Herkie’s words, Daryl Yarbar and John Hendrix swiftly prepare barbeque meals for their waiting customers.

“Look, Herman, there goes another one.”

He eventually dropped out of the U of I business program because, he says, the classes weren’t teaching him any practical knowledge he couldn’t ...AND THE FOOD’S GOOD TOO learn at Po’ Boy’s.

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On one wall hang pictures of happy customers and friends, sometimes eating the food, sometimes standing with their arms around each other, food nowhere to be seen. t 5:45 p.m., University of Illinois juniors Danny Zalay and Fifteen minutes before the restaurant opens, the thin, spicy, Mike Karmin sit at the counter waiting for their food. peppery homemade sauce—offered in hot, mild and mixed vari“I feel like you walk in here and you just feel good,” Mike says. ations—can be smelled nearly a block away. Brent Bays of Within seconds, John serves beef sandwiches to Danny, “Are Mattoon sits outside Po’ Boy’s in a 1998 Buick LeSabre with his those both mild?” Danny asks. grandmother, Anna Phelps, eagerly waiting to purchase their John answers without doubt in his voice, “Yeah, those are food.The two-hour round-trip doesn’t deter Bays from coming both mild.” to Po’ Boy’s every weekend during football season and every After chowing down two sandwiches each, Danny and Mike other weekend during basketball season. If Arnie sees him sitting head for the bright orange door. John calls out to them, as he outside before the place opens, he’ll let him in early. does to all of Po’ Boy’s’ customers of high school and “They make you feel comfortable in here,” Brent says. “You college-age, “You guys go straight home. I know you will.” know it’s gonna be here. It’s dependable.”

John has four children, three of them from his former Brent has known Arnie since ’62 and has eaten at Po’ Boy’s for marriage and one of his ex-wife’s from another marriage. During just as long, and like many of his fellow customers, he only the week, he drives a cement truck, and in the construction knows Arnie’s son as Herkie—a nickname his father gave him off-season, he teaches part time at local elementary schools. when he was a baby—not Daryl, his real name, which is hardly Having grown up in Easley, S.C., John knows what it feels ever uttered inside Po’ Boy’s’ walls. like to be called “Nigger” and “Boy.” He is proud that his son Tonight, the doors open at 5:30 p.m. on the dot, a rarity for can now walk down the street and be called Justin. In Po’ Boy’s, a place that often opens from 15 minutes early to 15 minutes John is John, or Big John to some of his friends. late, and Brent enters the restaurant. Herkie and John stand One time, John stood in the checkout line at the grocery store behind the counter, blue aprons worn over Herkie’s short- and saw a couple black kids laughing at a tabloid headline about

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Ray Charles being sick. He asked them if they knew who Charles was.They didn’t. A white boy standing nearby identified him by his well-known rendition of America the Beautiful so John paid for the boy’s purchase.When the black kids wondered why he didn’t pay for their items as well, John said, “Well, obviously he knows black history and you don’t.”

It’s now 6:10 p.m. The TV is still set on TNT, playing an episode of Law and Order. Most of the stools, as well as the three tables that sit four people each, house customers of varying dress and race. One of them is Herb McClellan, 30, who has lived in Champaign all his life but just started coming to Po’ Boy’s a few years ago. He does odd jobs for Andy’s Towing, an African-American owned business across the street from Po’ Boy’s. Another is Larry Schultz, the Toyota Inventory Manager at University Auto Park. He has been coming to Po’ Boy’s for upwards of 30 years. When he walks in, John automatically serves him a beef sandwich with mixed sauce and a diet cola. When he enters the restaurant, he says, “It’s like going home.”

At 6:30 p.m., the place clears out a bit.When a little girl leaves with her family, John calls to her, “Tell Grandma I said ‘Hi.’” Bob Baites of Colorado Springs, Colo., and his 21-year-old son, Matt, sit down on stools at the counter. “I’ve been waiting 35 years for a hot pork sandwich,” the elder Baites declares to Herkie and John. Bob graduated in 1970 from the University of Illinois and ate at Po’ Boy’s every Friday as a student. He has been back to Champaign a half-dozen times since then, but this is the first time the restaurant has been open when he was in town.

Matt laments that his father has been talking about Po’ Boy’s for a month as Bob bites into his sandwich.

“Oh, yeah,” he exclaims mid-bite. “Just like I remembered.”

He continues to mutter to himself, mostly in disbelief that this place, and its food, hasn’t changed a bit.

After Bob and Matt have finished their hot pork sandwiches, Bob slaps his son on the back and asks, “Was I right?”

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THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE PAUL PRIKAZSKY • LEAD REVIEWER

The Exorcism of Emily Rose wants very badly to

But how could the story falter? It’s a true story after all, and the truth should make a good movie. Here is an authentic case of documented possession acknowledged by the Catholic Church and it’s degraded into some third-rate B movie. Had the story been properly adapted with a massive rewrite, we might have had a genuinely scary horror movie on our hands.

Amidst this mess, Linney and Wilkinson try to make the most of their poorly written characters.

But there are no intense dialogue exchanges or emotional outbursts. Their acting seems to be strictly facial, if such a thing is possible. Even their performances are nothing to brag about. It seems like they’re trying to outdo one another in some elaborate joke that only they’re enjoying.

Almost everything that could go wrong with this film did, including its wholly unoriginal style, completely devoid of fresh ideas or anything that could remotely pass as exciting. The Exorcism of Emily Rose has a very independent feel to it.

From its minimalist style to sparse production design, the film seems to be desperately seeking some kind of notoriety that it fails to achieve.

Even the cinematography is bland and uninteresting.The camera work from the supposedly “frightening” exorcism sequence is blatantly ripped off from another indie gem, Requiem for a Dream. It involves the identical shaky first-person camerawork that only gives the audience a migraine. But if you’re going to steal from another filmmaker, you might as well steal from one with a little creativity.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose fails on several levels. For starters, it can’t decide which genre it belongs in: courtroom drama or horror. For a true story, the characters are surprisingly empty and one-dimensional.With such intense subject matter, the audience comes in expecting a lot, but is left with the worst rendition of a true story since What’s Love Got to Do With It?

be The Exorcist. The latter was a ’70s horror classic and remains a genre watershed.

However, the former is based on a true story, but lacks any real scares and is ridden with ambiguous character motivations. When a “true” story hits the big screen, the facts are always twisted for the sake of entertainment.

This must be the exception to the rule.

The title character, Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), is a 19-year-old college student that claims she is possessed by supernatural forces with very unfriendly dispositions.After smelling an indistinguishable burning scent and watching her classmates materialize into demons right before her very eyes, Emily decides it’s time to come home.

Upon her return, her devoutly religious family summons Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), in an effort to exorcise the demon(s) from within her. Unfortunately, exorcism is not a simple process and after the good priest fails, the girl perishes and Moore is slapped with a murder charge.

Attorney Erin Bruner (Laura Linney) is dispatched to defend the priest in the negligent death case.With a partnership from her law firm dangling just in front of her, she’s willing to defend anyone, whether she believes them or not. But as the self-proclaimed agnostic lawyer digs deeper into Emily’s history, she discovers that there might be some veracity to the priest’s story after all.

Flipping back and forth between Emily’s tormented possession and the ensuing trial, the audience follows Bruner’s case as the details unfold. The Exorcism of Emily Rose essentially comes down to that cosmic battle of faith vs. science. Meanwhile, we are left to question whether Emily’s actions were the result of epileptic fits or the very angry spawn of hell.

If it was director Scott Derrickson’s prerogative to create a horror film that defied genre expectations, then he has failed spectacularly. There’s a sharp contrast between the bickering lawyers and spooky milieu surrounding Emily’s possession that gives the film a disjointed feel, lacking any sense of cohesion. The man behind Urban Legend: Final Cut doesn’t know where to focus his camera and as a result, the story suffers.

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and character development of a live action film. There are multiple facets to the cadre of characters, and their feelings of fear, love, jealousy and yearning are far removed from any fish in Finding Nemo. It’s a conglomeration of loose ends, mish-moshed together to create something bizarrely beautiful and captivating. (Prikazsky)

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Think you know them all?

“Well, Columbus wasn’t looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.”

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Matt Damon & Heath Ledger After a lengthy hiatus, visionary director Terry Gilliam makes his triumphant return with The Brothers Grimm, an uneven though inspired fairy tale. If nothing else, it is a visual feast likely to keep the audience fully satiated.

Unfortunately, this film suffers where so many do: story.

The plot is paper-thin and lacks the pure excitement a movie of this caliber should have. It seems too simple and the events unravel too quickly. (Paul Prikazsky) THE CAVE

Cole Hauser & Morris Chestnut The Cave doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. Part of it is trying to be a horror film, but it isn’t scary. Another part wants to be an action/thriller, but it isn’t exciting.

There are places man was never meant to go, and the theater showing The Cave is one of them. The movie’s audience doesn’t just deserve their money back, they deserve an apology. (David Just) THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN

Steve Carell & Catherine Keener The 40-Year-Old Virgin manages to stay away nicely from being a one-joke feature, as so many other comedies often are. Ultimately, it delivers something that everyone can appreciate and enjoy, virgins or not. The movie teaches us that there can be no progress without risk, and that trying and trying again is the only way to succeed.

Cheesy? Maybe. But it’s just so funny. (Just) FOUR BROTHERS

Mark Wahlberg & Andre Benjamin Four Brothers works as a violent crime drama, but doesn’t effectively capture the characters. It would have been nice to see more dealing with the racial context of their relationship. It’s hard to give the film too much credit, because the plot is so outrageous. Avenging your dear old mother sounds well and good, but I have a feeling she’d be the first one to disapprove. (Just) HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

voices of Emily Mortimer & Christian Bale Howl’s Moving Castle is a real trip. The excitement and humor meet in a nice equilibrium and move the story to a whole different level. It’s a cartoon with all the depth

Carl Jung

Rachel McAdams & Cillian Murphy In the end, Red Eye is still a B-movie. It’s an exploitation film that is based solely around thrills to arouse the audience’s interest. For an exciting ride, it’s worth it; an unforgettable movie it’s not. Red Eye marks Craven’s return to the shorter, simpler films of his early career.

Maybe if he had a hand in developing the script, the characters would have been more captivating. (Prikazsky)

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THE SKELETON KEY

Kate Hudson & John Hurt Some of the most frightening horror films are so effective because they are grounded in reality. When you realize this could really happen, you’re more likely to sleep with a nightlight on. Films like Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen and The Exorcist (to a certain extent) are stories real enough to make you believe. Skeleton Key isn’t quite in that tier yet, but it sure comes close. (Prikazsky)

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CRY_WOLF Julian Morris & Lindy Booth Weekly horror film aler t. Cr y_Wolf is the stor y of an elaborate online hoax some high schoolers take upon themselves to create about a serial killer massacring their classmates. Turns out there’s a little bit of truth to ever y lie.

Internet hoaxes? The scar y well in Hollywood really is being pumped dr y. (Andrew Vecelas)

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THERE IS NO EMOTICON FOR WHAT I AM FEELING!

JUST LIKE HEAVEN Reese Witherspoon & Mark Ruffalo As far as apar tment poltergeists go, you could do worse than being haunted by the spirit of Reese Witherspoon. Mark Ruffalo plays the lonely guy who begins to fall in love with the ghost of his apar tment’s previous occupant.

Relationships with ghosts never work out, take my word for it. (Andrew Vecelas) LORD OF WAR Nicolas Cage & Ethan Hawke Here comes this fall’s quirky Nicolas Cage vehicle; this year he’s playing a successful international arms dealer who suddenly develops cold feet over his profession. With a talented supporting cast, quality director and a premise we don’t see everyday (how many movies have you seen about arms profiteers?), this could just be a breath of fresh air. (Andrew Vecelas)

Customers fill the counter stools at Po’ Boy’s.The regulars line the counter to reminisce and discuss, amongst other topics, Illini sports, on September 2.

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Editor’s Note: Although this story was written last spring, Po’ Boy’s is still ready to serve you a helping of their famous Bar-B-Que.You can make a few new friends, too.

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it down at Po’ Boy’s Bar-B-Que and just watch. Watch hot sauce mix with mild and watch youth mix with their elders.

Watch blacks mix with whites. Listen as 80-year-old Arnie Yarber reaches back into his mind for a memory and lets his eyes glaze over as his voice travels backwards. Hear his strong timbre soften as he remembers an old friend and laughs, his big eyes and bigger smile gleaming. As Arnie looks off into the past, watch how the reminiscence practically appears right on his face.

Arnie no longer actually works at Po’ Boy’s—the rib, beef, pork and polish sausage joint he opened in 1952 on the corner of Market Street and Columbia Avenue in Champaign. His son, Herkie, and godson, John Hendrix, have manned the counter for the last couple decades, although the owner does still season the meat and make potato salad from time to time.Yet Arnie’s memories are as sharp as ever, recalling the people who have come into his little place as more than just customers.

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“I just love people,” he says. “There’s so much you can learn from them.”

There was the time he kept the restaurant open until 3 a.m.—regular hours are 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays—answering questions that white kids had about blacks but never before felt comfortable enough to ask.

And the time a woman, whose boyfriend refused to go north of University Avenue for fear of the mostly black neighborhood, threatened to break up with him if he wouldn’t try the restaurant.The boyfriend gave in, and, now married, the couple’s kids call Arnie “Uncle Arnold.”

And the time two of his favorite customers and former Illini football players, J.C. Caroline and Ray Nitschke, then playing for the rival Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, good-naturedly argued about what they were going to do to each other in an upcoming game. The punchline, which elicits a raucous laugh from Arnie every time he tells the story, is that since Caroline, who is black, and Nitschke, who is white, both played defense, they never would have had any reason to clash in the first place.

With the restaurant open only two days a week—Arnie says sales are best on the weekends and Herkie and John work full-time jobs—Po’ Boy’s is “more like a hobby than a business,” Herkie says.

Go inside anytime during business hours, and you can expect to see Arnie sitting on one of the 13 stools, shooting the bull and

reminiscing with the regulars of all ages, races and backgrounds.

Actually, Po’ Boy’s doesn’t really have regulars. It has friends of Arnie, Herkie and John, the people of Champaign and Urbana and countless other towns who make the restaurant a part of their weekends.

From the outside, Po’ Boy’s doesn’t look like much. A small, brown building that wouldn’t be misidentified as a shack, it only has one window and the parking lot is nothing more than curbs and rocks. On the sign that reads “Arnie’s Po’ Boy’s Bar-B-Que” is the restaurant’s slogan, “Where Friends Meet.”

“People’s the same all over,”Arnie says.“You got the good, the bad and the indifferent. People gotta give one another a chance.”

Po’ Boy’s doesn’t have a no-smoking section. It doesn’t have a kids’ menu. Heck, the place barely has a menu, with only eight items offered.The three tables and counter at which people eat are Illini-orange, contrasted by the small restaurant’s three walls that are lined with stainless steel panels common to 1950s diners.The place is adorned with Fighting Illini items, including a framed photograph of the football team emerging from the players’ tunnel for a game, a picture of the Chief and a neon light that used to be a beer advertisement but Arnie paid to have changed to,“Illini.”

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Death is a pretty scary deal,

and while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scary to think of people close to you dying, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really nothing when compared to your own demise.

I imagine my moment of death will seem very strange and go something like this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okay, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still alive, but honestly, I gotta say, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve felt better. Hey, at least Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still alive!â&#x20AC;? The next moment, I am awake and burning in hell, the devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitchfork firmly embedded in my ass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so weird that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m already in hell.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think there would be some sort of break in the middle or something ... a few minutes in a waiting room at the very least. Last moments on earth, then straight to your first minutes in hell? I have to say, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really just too much of a culture shock for a guy like me. Eternity is really gonna be a bastard.â&#x20AC;?

So, quite obviously, dying will probably suck a big fat one. But, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not throw the baby out with the bath water. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reason why the first three letters of the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;funeralâ&#x20AC;? are F-UN. Death is no fun to think about, but I have to

say, there is a certain creepy amount of joy in thinking about your own funeral.

Granted, thoughts of my own particular funeral probably arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very realistic. In my simple mind, I imagine everyone will be beside themselves, distraught and bawling their eyes out. Realistically though, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure it will be much different than that and the most frequently heard phrase will be something along the lines of, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I cannot believe that smart-assed rat bastard lived this long. He deserved much worse than he ever got.â&#x20AC;? Maybe a little bit of well placed music could keep something like this from happening.

After all, people get all emotional when they listen to music, so it might be nice to create the mood you desire. I mean, it is sort of your party isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? Fortunately, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re no longer forced to play the standard fare at funerals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amazing Graceâ&#x20AC;? is a fine song, but many folks today would prefer to go with something a little hipper. A recent poll of 45,000 people in Europe turned up some odd choices in current funeral songs.The list is sort of funny.

Number one is Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Show Must Go On.â&#x20AC;?That must just be a Europe thing, because I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t place that song at all. Number two is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stairway to Heavenâ&#x20AC;? and goes a long way to illustrate just how trite and predictable many

people are, even in their time of death. Number three is AC/DCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Highway to Hell.â&#x20AC;? Fine song and yet another way to remind everyone at your funeral what a freaking dumbass you were.

Number four is Frank Sinatraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Way.â&#x20AC;?

Um, always nice to check out with a little bit of arrogance. Number four is Mozartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Requiem.â&#x20AC;? Yeah, we get it, you saw â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amadeusâ&#x20AC;? when you were alive. Number six is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angelsâ&#x20AC;? by Robbie Williams. Never heard it, so no idea. Number seven is Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Wants to Live Forever.â&#x20AC;? I apparently know less about Queen than I thought I did because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also drawing a blank on that song too.

Number eight is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let It Beâ&#x20AC;? by the Beatles. I suppose itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than â&#x20AC;&#x153;Helter Skelterâ&#x20AC;? but something like â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Wanna Hold Your Handâ&#x20AC;? would be a little funnier. Number nine is Metallicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing Else Matters.â&#x20AC;? Um, whatever. Finally, slipping into the top ten is U2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;With or Without You.â&#x20AC;? Um, whatever. Again.

I have to say, looking at the entire list, those songs seem so boring and uninspired to me.Why not use your funeral to let your family and friends learn something about your life that they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know before. For example, If you pick â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do You Believe in Loveâ&#x20AC;? by Cher, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fine way of saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;Check it out, I really was gay all along!â&#x20AC;?

If you pick any song by the Grateful Dead, it

simply means you will smell far better in death than you ever did in life. If you chose Johnny Cashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Folsom Prison Bluesâ&#x20AC;? it may be a painless way of telling your surviving loved ones that your long held desire to be gang raped by five men in a prison shower was never fulfilled.

I would try to stay away from a really spiritual song like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nearer My God to Thee.â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance God will see it as a last ditch effort to do a little ass kissing and get into heaven. Since heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s God, he will see Michael Coulter through this sad attempt and send is a videographyour ass straight to hell. On the er, comedian other hand, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sympathy for the and sort of a Devilâ&#x20AC;? by the Rolling Stones smart-ass. But might do nothing more than piss we love him anyway, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t him off from the get-go. Death is know why. not a time to be acting all cool.

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"If you want to draw a bird, you must become a bird," counseled the Japanese artist Hokusai. Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi practiced a related strategy: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." I have yet another perspective to add to the mix: Become more like the people you admire most.

Place these three suggestions at the core of your daily rhythm in the coming week, Cancerian.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19)

"Something we were withholding made us weak," wrote poet Robert Frost. I hope you will consider the possibility that this describes your current predicament. It's my astrological opinion that your strength is being compromised by a feeling you're not exploring or an experience you're denying yourself or a gift you're refusing to give. You may think you're protecting yourself, but I believe it's just the reverse. To reclaim the vitality that has been shriveling up, unclench yourself in every way you can imagine.

TAU RU S

(April 20-May 20)

I don't recommend that you aim for perfection--not now or ever.

I'm equally skeptical of you seeking enlightenment, as it's defined by Eastern religions. Perfection and enlightenment are downright impossible in a world where change is the only constant. What constitutes perfection or enlightenment today won't be valid tomorrow, when the truth has evolved and God has showered us with an influx of previously unimaginable new circumstances. No, Taurus, what I suggest is that you cultivate love with all your ingenuityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both the capacity to give it and receive it.

There's no other undertaking that does more to build up your power and intelligence. And this week is an ideal time to be living proof of that fact.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20)

The Epson laser printer I got for my computer two years ago has worked great. It serves my needs beautifully. Our household also has a newer, more expensive Epson printer, which I bought for another computer, but it doesn't work nearly as well.

Unfortunately, the beloved original now has a malfunction, and I can't find a single printer repairperson who'll even try to fix it. They say it's an antique, and Epson doesn't make parts for it anymore.

Nonetheless, I'm determined to save it. I'm scouring eBay for old parts, and will learn printer repair skills myself if necessary. This is one time when the older version is definitely worth preserving.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Gemini, you're facing a similar problem with a comparable solution.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22)

"It ain't cheating if you don't get caught," said baseball star Billy Martin, who was renowned for his belligerent trickster shtick. Trainer Victor Conte, who has been accused of providing steroids to professional baseball players, offers a different angle: "It's not cheating if everyone is doing it." I beg you to disavow their beliefs, Leo. While it's true that everyone is doing the kind of fudging you're contemplating, and though you probably wouldn't be caught, to do so would be bad for your karma, your dharma, your charisma, and your ability to attract what you need. Be stupendously ethical, sublimely impeccable.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

The planetary omens for you are all about revelation and flashes of insight, so I don't think I'm being too outrageously optimistic when I predict that the coming days will bring you more "aha!"-type experiences than you've had in the past four months combined. In fact, I'll be bold and call this Eureka Explosion Week. To get yourself in the mood, read these definitions of the word "epiphany": a stroke of realization about the meaning of something important; a sudden flow of inspiring knowledge without thought; a perception of a previously hidden reality by means of a burst of intuition.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Some years ago, I fell in love with the wrong woman. The misadventures that ensued provided me with enough reasons to stay humble forever. The experience was proof that I'm as subject to bouts of self-deception as everyone else in the world. It was also a reminder that while some people might consider me wise, I'm at best an apprentice mage stumbling my way through a crash course in the mysteries of being a human being. My gratitude for all these educational blessings has been enormous. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a good time to marshal your appreciation for comparable pride-leveling events in your own life. Since you're poised on the verge of a new phase of success, it's the perfect moment to recall how much you still have to learn.

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SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Sometime in the coming weeks you could begin a project that will take at least 12 years to complete. Will it be worth spending that much time? I believe it will, though you might not think so now. In fact, you may not even be inclined to launch the project if you imagine it can't be completed by 2008. From what I can tell, though, the purpose of the long adventure is bigger than you're able to foresee, and the ways it will change you are important in ways you cannot yet understand.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec.21)

Let's work on dissolving one of your fears. The time is right: Cosmic forces are aligned to help you pump up your courage.

In fact, life is conspiring to bring you experiences that could free you of harmful anxieties and wipe away phobic imprints.

So choose a feeling of dread--any feeling of dread--and visualize it embodied in front of you in the form of a specific scene.

Now picture the scene unfolding on a large raft at a beach.

Start laughing at what's transpiring; compel yourself to chuckle if necessary, or focus on anything you find ridiculous. Notice that the force of your laughter is propelling the raft out to sea.

Keep giggling and guffawing, pushing it further and further out until it disappears over the horizon. Do this exercise once a day until October 1.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

It's a ripe moment for you to explore the mysteries of the void. I'm not being glib. You'd really benefit from becoming better friends with emptiness. Your well- being would rise a few levels if you expanded your appreciation for the value of doing nothing and thinking nothing. Do you dare live without your precious opinions and ambitions for a few days? Are you brave enough to gaze into the hear t of the

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AQUARIUS

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A few years ago, the CEO of Ford Motors apologized for making SUVs. William Ford even referred to the Excursion, one of his company's huge pollution generators, as the "Ford Valdez," associating it with the ship that despoiled the Alaskan environment with an oil spill back in 1989. And yet that didn't stop Ford from continuing to manufacture gas-guzzlers. He saw the error of his ways but didn't correct it. Make him your anti-role model in the coming days, Aquarius. After you realize your mistake or excess, be gleefully uninhibited about fixing it and making amends.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20)

A blogger named Allison wrote this about me and my horoscopes at Beautifulsurprise.blogspot.com: "Brezsny's a little loopy. A little out there. A little 'I would have stopped for that red light, officer, but little green men from my personal goddess realm on the fifth parallel told my cat that I should be taking echinacea and bee pollen for my sniffles, and I didn't think it prudent to ignore such a suggestion.'" Here's my reaction: Like all of us, I periodically come across people who have a very different concept of me than I have of myself, but this discrepancy is extreme. In my own eyes, I'm grounded and full of common sense. And while I appreciate the New Age, I don't use its vernacular or share all of its values. I mention this, Pisces, as an example of your assignment in the coming week.

Identify people with cracked notions about you, and either correct them or separate yourself from them.

Homework: Is there an area of your life where you're having effects that are different from your intentions? Testify at www.freewillastrology.

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61 King, in Cannes 62 Like books that may fetch a higher resale value 65 Peaches & Herb, e.g.

66 Summary statement 67 RR stop 68 Concur Down 1 Lug: var.

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hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a lot of negativity in the press lately. To alleviate you of another sad story, this is a short piece of fiction that I wrote. Enjoy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There she is, the girl of my dreams, if only I knew her name. Look at her, she looks so gorgâ&#x20AC;Ś oh shit. She saw me staring at her.

Look away. LOOK AWAY! Play it cool, look at the intricate architecture in the room.

Ok, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not looking, back to staring.

She looks good in her cute little outfit, just waiting for me to talk to her.Well â&#x20AC;Ś. maybe not me, but she probably wants someone to talk to her. Might as well be me, right? Right. Just go talk to her, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just keep staring â&#x20AC;Ś well, I guess I couuuld ... NO! I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the creepy staring guy.

Ok, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking away, GO GO! Be graceful, confident, suave even, just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t scare her away.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking. HIDE! Dive out of sight. Pretend the people you dove on top of didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice.

Stand up, act confused, look around and whisper â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who was that guy?â&#x20AC;? Shrug, shake your head in bewilderment, and get back in the game.

Stay in the shadows, keep your eye on the target, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the target see you.Target? Who am I? Rambo? Who says target? Wow. Oh no.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking at me. Eye contact, not good.

Game over, you lose. Nice work, Rambo.

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Just keep walking and smiling. Doing great, just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t screw u... SHIT! Ok, I know she was looking right at you, but maybe, MAYBE she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see you trip and fall. Play this off as nothing.

I know you fell down some steps, but you made it look smooth, calculated. Pretend you dropped something, or do a push-up, show off your athletic prowess.Wait! No! Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave ... she left. It was probably the push-up thing. Nicely done, Rambo.

Now professor BOLDFACE is telling me to get back in my seat or else Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get kicked out of lecture, who does he think he is? Telling me what to do, like he runs this place. Oh well, just shake it off, shake it off, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do better next time.â&#x20AC;?

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When my friend told me at the beginning of the semester that his band was playing at Greek Park, all I could muster was,“What? There’s a Greek Park?”

Then I told him that I, at 25, wouldn’t miss my first real fraternity event for the world.

He wasn’t exactly sure where the park was himself, but provided rough directions, and as I made my way, I found myself moving west through the intersection of Armory and Fourth, something that, until that moment, I had never had done before in my life.

It may strike some as unlikely that in so many years of Urbana residence I had never once passed through the warren of Greek houses that line the blocks around the southern ends of Second and Third, but in truth, I had never had cause to do so. I earned my undergraduate degree out of state and had never given serious thought to crashing a frat party when home for the holidays. And so, on that perfect summer evening, I pedaled around half drop-jawed, absorbed in observing up-close the natural habitat of this fascinating community of people who seemed drawn to wear identical T-shirts and move in packs.

Upon finding the park, I was warmly welcomed by the brothers at the gate, said my hellos to the band, and finally settled by the back fence, ogling young men who were perhaps a little too young for me to ogle in good taste. I felt poignantly a part of something that I hadn’t known until a few hours before it was even possible to be a part of.

Because of the complexity of the world in which we live, our understanding of ourselves, those around us, and our community as a whole is doomed, on any given day, to be a half-truth. In my experience, the moments that enable us to feel the most acutely alive, as we make our way through our days, arise when life shows us that what we thought we knew about our world was incomplete, or even completely wrong. In some cases, a reaction to one of these lessons may be pleasant bemusement, as it was on that evening, but realistically, I think, shock, horror and shame are far more likely emotional outcomes from having our worldview reconstructed. In these cases, the question arises: Do we have the capacity to acknowledge our miscalculation and move forward in new understanding?

On that particular evening, I thought I knew the map of Champaign-Urbana and I thought I knew university culture.When it became obvious I didn’t, these small gaps were filled in – not such a radical lesson to absorb as the sun set behind one of the massive houses. But life is very rarely so gentle and gradual in the teachings it hands out.These last weeks have been for me a personal struggle with inconceivably weightier lessons that I am attempting to come to terms with, so that I may fill in these holes in my understanding that were unforgivably egregious.

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You see, before Katrina hit, I thought I knew about my country. I thought I knew a little something about the face of poverty, injustice and the effects of racism within it. I also believed amorphously in a general level of continuity that any American could expect upon waking up from one day to the next.

Not only has this disaster killed thousands and left in ruins the possessions, histories and communities of countless more, but it has also destroyed our sense of American security and identity. It has taken away our vision of who we thought we were as a nation, a culture and a superpower. As we watch on the news, valiant men and women continue to sift through what is left of New Orleans and we think about the cascade of events leading up to this moment, it seems impossible not to ask,“How were we so blind?”

We conceived of ourselves as a nation quick on its feet and quick to action. My sense was that people’s sense of outrage while the Superdome descended into days of horrific uncertainty was not only a reaction to such large-scale, preventable human suffering, but was also based in the fact that somehow we were wrestling with how to let go of the reality we had built a national identity upon:Things like this do not happen in America. Now we see that they obviously and terribly do – and on such a scale that thousands of people will be haunted Sarah Michelson is forever by our national ignoa potential new rance of our own inability to columnist for the live up this ideal.

Buzz. If you like her We conceived of ourselves stuff, email – particularly white Buzz@readbuzz.co America, I imagine – as a m so she can connation coming to terms tinue to write with, and moving away from, a history of racism and injustice. Perhaps those more intimate with the realities of Southern culture were unsurprised, but watching the blatant separation of black and white on the news day after day caused me a sense of deep shame.

I thought about friends I had in other parts of the world who regularly watched our Hollywood movies, filled with buffed white faces, smiling within their expansive, immaculate houses. Now, all over the world, people were seeing on their TV’s proof of what they had suspected all along – that for all our championing of our own global superiority, morality and thirst for equality, we still have large number of citizens living in something like developing world conditions. That with all our talk of equality and democracy, our history of discrimination is, in fact, profoundly intertwined with our present.

As the weeks begin to pass, perhaps we in the Midwest, insulated by hundreds of miles, will be able to go an entire day without passing someone collecting donations, without turning over in our minds a haunting image or story from the news.

Though the plain facts of geography remove us from the physical operation of salvage and reconstruction left in Katrina’s wake, I believe we remain responsible for internalizing the difficult and profound lesson this tragedy has taught us about what we thought we knew – but so obviously did not. If the national “truths” of commitment to competency, compassion and justice are things we can salvage from the wreckage of New Orleans, the question to next ask is how we can construct a society that will truly match what we so desperately want to believe. s o u n d s

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