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bold moves at unexpected times and unexpectedly reveal pieces of themselves. And even when an element can be predicted, the exact timing of it cannot. Right down to its almost poetic ending, Collateral remains intense, aggressive and unassumingly, unconventionally breathtaking. (John Loos) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy THE EXORCIST: A BEGINNING 1 star

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR 1 star Sanaa Lathan & Ewen Bremner Fans who have waited anxiously for Alien vs. Predator for the last decade will definitely not be pleased with the end result.

It’s a shell of a movie—a laughable setup for a payoff that never really comes. It’s a better idea to sit at home and relive the fun of the old series than be swindled by an amateurish marketing ploy of a movie. (Andrew Vecelas) ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID 2

Matthew Mardsen & Johnny Messner Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid falls shor t both as a straight horror film, and as a campy throwback to the B-movies of yester year. It’s completely mediocre in just about ever y imaginable way, looking and feeling more like a straight-to-video sequel than a feature film. It’s a sequel that never needed to be made, and so dull that most people will probably forget that it ever was. (Andrew Vecelas) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy COLLATERAL 3.5

Jaime Foxx & Tom Cruise The true standouts of Collateral are the individual sequences Mann creates. The film is ripe with spontaneity. Characters shoot at unexpected moments, make

It should come to no one’s surprise that this movie fails to be an effective prequel to one of the most effective horror films of all time. After two unimpressive sequels, John Boorman’s Exorcist II—the Heretic and author William Peter Blatty’s own directed Exorcist III, Renny Harlin was given the dubious distinction of directing this tale of the early days of Father Lancaster Merrin’s pursuit of the demon Pazuzu. (Syd Slobodnik) Now showing at Beverly GARDEN STATE 3.5 stars

Zach Braff & Natalie Portman It’s a hear tfelt fantasy of cosmic collision, a love stor y so silly and strange you might not notice Garden State’s soft spot until it takes you by surprise and touches your hear t. It’s this year’s Lost in Translation, redefining “lost” as a place that doesn’t feel like home even when it is and “translation” as the transition from youth to adulthood, from dreamy optimism to a sad, disappointed reality. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy HERO 4 stars

Jet Li Hero is being deceptively advertised by many print media like it’s some conventional martial arts action film featuring Jet Li. Those who watch this spectacular film with only that set of expectations will likely be misled and disappointed. Hero is a visually impressive reevaluation of the martial arts film by a director most noted for his sensitive and visually expressive art films. (Syd Slobodnik) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy

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Ben Kingsley & Carrie-Anne Moss Something terrifying has happened to Hollywood serial killers: they’re just not scar y anymore. This is somber subject matter delivered without any sense of urgency, with tension and tone replaced by meandering murkiness. It’s not scar y or surprising, and it won’t be long before you suspect that you’ve wasted your money.

(Matt Pais) WICKER PARK 2.5 2.5 STARS Josh Hartnett & Rose Byrne Plausibility is the largest flaw in Wicker Park. The plot relies too much on fate and serendipity for it to remain credible. At times the connections between the characters are so far-fetched and ridiculous that the audience will be left staring blankly at the screen screaming, “That’s just bull****!” This is a film that requires its audience to disregard all notions of reality and simply accept the story Wicker Park has to offer. (Randy Ma) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy VANITY FAIR 2

Reese Witherspoon & Bob Hoskins) Witherspoon turns a ruthless, society-climbing woman into a seemingly lighthearted, spunky girl—not at all what the author intended the character to be. The costumes look great and worthy of the time, but all the dress and pizzazz can’t cover up what isn’t there.

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MR. 3000 Bernie Mac & Angela Bassett After getting his 3,000th hit and, with it, a spot in the Hall of Fame, Stan Ross (Mac) hangs up his cleats and retires. Unfortunately for him, he’s actually three hits away from the elusive 3,000. What is he to do? Go back as an older guy to try to get three hits. Maybe this humbling experience will change his arrogant ways ... at least that’s what we expect from movies: morals. (Paul Wagner) SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW Jude Law & Gwyneth Paltrow After many delays, this film is finally hitting the big screen. The world’s top scientists have gone missing, a mad scientist has created flying robots and some guy who calls himself “Sky Captain” (Law) flies around shooting stuff. Paltrow plays a reporter who, with Law, has to save the planet. Oh, and the film is set in 1939 in New York City. Flying robots in 1939? What ever happened to the good ol’ days? (Paul Wagner) WIMBLEDON Kirsten Dunst & Paul Bettany Boy tennis player loses focus and stops playing well. Gorgeous, successful, dominating girl tennis player meets struggling boy tennis player, and his focus is suddenly found. His game gets better, hers is somehow affected, and they start winning like crazy. But in the game of love, does anyone ever really win?

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rbana Public Television may be adding a new program to their schedule if some local residents have their way.The New York based news program Democracy Now! is already syndicated on community radio station WEFT 90.1, but there is a push to air the television program on public access television.

The only problem is that the Urbana Public Television Commission is committed to airing locally-generated material.

But, what is public television? Is this idea limited to what is generated by members of the community to promote Urbana and its residents? On Monday, more than 600 signatures were presented in support of the nationally syndicated program being aired in Urbana.

I understand the concern that this action could open a floodgate of nationally syndicated television, replacing local commentary and ideas that are all too important for any thriving community.

However, shouldn’t a public access station adhere to what the public wants? If an overwhelming push by Urbana residents actually exists for this station to broadcast Democracy Now, the Urbana Public Access Commission should air what the people want. In the instance of WEFT, they air Democracy Now on weekdays, and their programming has remained grounded with the important local roots that keeps this radio station a community endeavor.

I may believe that Democracy Now would be a wonderful addition to Urbana’s public television station, but that is no reason to air it. However, if a good portion of Urbana’s residents believe it, that is the best reason.

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Court rules music ‘sampling’ may violate anti-piracy law JOHN GEROME • ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that rap artists should pay for every musical sample included in their work— even minor, unrecognizable snippets of music.

Lower courts had already ruled that artists must pay when they sample another artist’s work.

But it has been legal to use musical snippets—a note here, a chord there—as long as it wasn’t identifiable.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati gets rid of that distinction. The court said federal laws aimed at stopping piracy of recordings apply to digital sampling. “If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you ‘lift’ or ‘sample’ something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the negative,� the court said. “Get a license or do not sample.We do not see this as stifling creativity in any significant way.�

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court’s opinion is too restrictive, especially for rap and hip-hop artists who often rhyme over samples of music taken from older recordings. “It seems a little extreme to me,� said James Van Hook, dean of Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.“When something is identifiable, that is the key.�

The case at issue is one of at least 800 lawsuits filed in Nashville over lifting snippets of music from older recordings for new music.

The case centers on the NWA song “100 Miles and Runnin’,� which samples a three-note guitar riff from “Get Off Your Ass and Jam� by ‘70s funk-master George Clinton and Funkadelic.

In the two-second sample, the guitar pitch has been lowered, and the copied piece was “looped� and extended to 16 beats. The sample appears five times in the new song.

NWA’s song was included in the 1998 movie I Got the Hook Up, starring Master P and produced by his movie company, No Limit Films.

No Limit Films has argued that the sample was not protected by copyright law. Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records, which claim to own the copyrights for the Funkadelic song, appealed the lower court’s summary judgment in favor of No Limit Films.

The lower court in 2002 said that the riff in Clinton’s song was entitled to copyright protection, but the sampling “did not rise to the level of legally cognizable appropriation.�

The appeals court disagreed, saying a recording artist who acknowledges sampling may be liable, even when the source of a sample is unrecognizable.

Noting that No Limit Films “had not disputed that it digitally sampled a copyrighted sound recording,� the appeals court sent the case back to the lower court.

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Category 5 hurricane Ivan is predicted to strike the Florida panhandle, making it the third hurricane to strike the state in two months, after hurricane Charley and hurricane Frances.

What the hell did Florida do to piss off God? “And for my next trick, I will turn the city of Miami into salt.�

Under a proposal being studied by Gov. Blagojevich’s administration, Illinois could have its very own official state beverage. Under the proposal, a company would pay the state for the privilege of calling its product the “official� state beverage and it would be sold at vending machines and establishments all over the state. Yes, finally we Illinoisans will have access to “Cob Cola� the official nonalcoholic beverage of Illinois. “Tastes just like corn liquor, without all the blindness!�

This summer has brought, if nothing else, a

new revelation in filmmaking technology: the shaky camera. Simply watch The Bourne Supremacy or Open Water to see that. Alexander Witt’s new film Resident Evil: Apocalypse is no exception, and, with much annoyance, is the only piece of Paul W.S. Anderson’s writing that can be given any real credibility.

The plot takes off immediately from the end of the first film, blatantly ripping off a better-paced, better-shot, just plain better George Romero film from the first frame. Alice (Mila Jovovich) awakens from her coma to find the remnants of Raccoon City to be in complete disarray. Newspapers line the streets, brandishing the headline, “The Dead Walk!�

Meanwhile, the evil Umbrella Corporation has begun its containment before the world becomes completely infested. In the numerous other side stories, Jill Valentine (Sienna Gullory), a disgraced S.T.A.R.S. officer, is trying to find a way out of the sealed city while trying to save the daughter of Umbrella’s head programmer (Sophie Vavasseur) so that the man behind the camera, Dr. Ashford (Jared

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Oh, one more minor subplot: Umbrella has unleashed its new secret weapon in order to test out its effectiveness. It’s called Nemesis. It’s about 7 feet tall, has large teeth and carries enough automatic weapons and explosives to take out a third-world nation.

Sense the sarcasm? This film is so bad it goes beyond enjoyment. The first half of the film provides some fun and almost suspenseful scenes. Jill’s first entrance into the police station is classic. She walks in, unannounced, and starts randomly shooting people in the head.

No one questions her, no one even turns.

They’re all too busy hoarding off the zombies they’ve managed to arrest.A second scene that provides equal laughs and a few jumps is a church refuge scene that has Jill, a reporter, a fellow S.T.A.R.S. member and a few other patrons being stalked by a trio of monsters that only fans of the video game series would recognize. The camera follows the monsters’ view, which is captured through a very infrared viewpoint. Does Predator ring a bell, anyone?

The monsters stalk and kill a few of the patrons, and, of course, the scene ends with a huge gunfight that has Alice coming in to save the day using gravity-defying stunts.

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themes. The film jumps from a story about humanity’s ability to deal with massive social upheaval to the evils of the corporate world to a massive gunfight. It is cinematic chaos on a scale not seen since Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, which, coincidentally, was directed by Mr. Paul W.S. Anderson.

This zombie flick is like a story one hears from an uncle that really has no point. It wastes time and at the end of this 99-minute teeth-pulling session, all you have is 99 minutes of your life gone that you can never get back. Instead of going and spending money on this crapfest, go rent George Romero’s Dead Trilogy, 28 Days Later or even the Evil Dead trilogy. At least at the end of any of those movies, one can sit, take a breath and say “Yes, I enjoyed that film,� because with Resident Evil: Apocalypse, there is no way those words will be able to escape the lips of anyone in the theater.

This zombie flick is like a story one hears from an uncle that really has no point.

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Bush accuses Democrats of ‘tired, pathetic’ attacks on his domestic plans RON FOURNIER • AP POLITICAL WRITER

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP)— President Bush chided Sen. John Kerry and fellow Democrats on Monday for asserting that Republicans will undermine Social Security, calling the strategy “the most tired, pathetic way to campaign for the presidency.�

Traveling by bus through the southwest corner of this battleground state, Bush tried to improve voters’ perceptions of his domestic policies by condemning Democrats for going negative—even as he held Kerry’s plans up to the harshest possible light. “I’m running against a fellow who has got a massive, complicated blueprint to have our government take over the decision making in health care,� the president said. “Not only is his plan going to increase the power of bureaucrats in your life, but he can’t pay for it unless he raises your taxes.� “What would you expect from a senator from Massachusetts?� Bush said, as a partisan crowd cheered the reference to Kerry’s home state and its liberal leanings. buzz

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The University of Illinois approved a measure Thursday that would preser ve and celebrate American Indian culture as part of the state’s history. Apparently, the measure calls for a young white male to preserve American Indian culture by dressing up in buckskins and dancing while thousands of drunken students celebrate him. It’s sort of post-modern performance art.

Congress allowed a decade-long federal ban on the sale of assault weapons to expire. The measure, initiated in 1994, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons and contained a clause that entailed the law would expire unless Congress specifically reauthorized it. Deer, quail and randomly chosen schoolchildren don’t stand a chance.

In a speech on Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confused the names of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein twice, once saying, “Saddam Hussein, if he’s alive, is spending a whale of a lot of time trying not to get caught. And we’ve not seen him on a video since 2001.� See, this whole Iraq war thing was just a wacky case of mistaken identity, like on a popular late-night sitcom.

Oh those silly neo-conservatives! What have you done now?

On Friday, the House voted 223 to 193 to restore overtime policies after a measure by the Bush administration would have revoked or limited them. Middle-class workers at shitty jobs the nation over breathed a sigh of relief and had another beer. s o u n d s

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W estern audiences may not be overly familiar with one of Japanese cinema’s most celebrated protagonists, Ichi the Masseur. His first onscreen appearance was in 1962’s The Tale of Zatoichi, with Shintaro Katsu portraying the title role of a blind masseur who relies on his hearing and fast draw to vanquish opponents.Twenty-five films in a little over a decade cemented Zatoichi as a staple of the chambara genre (Samurai/ sword-fighting films), before he went on a lengthy hiatus. Now Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano provides his unique take on the franchise.

This film is set in the Tokugawa Era (16001868), a time in which the samurai way of life is ending. No longer do members of the bakufu (military government), ronin (masterless samurai), wander the countryside in search of temporary employment. The series has always utilized this ploy to augment the episodic nature of the films. In The Blind Swordsman, Zatoichi comes to a remote mountain town under the tyrannical rule of the gang leader Ginzo, who has hired a ruthless bodyguard, Gennosuke Hattori (Tadanobu Asano). In Zatoichi’s attempts to keep a low profile while ridding the village of the gang that controls it, he encounters a pair of geishas with a separate agenda, providing an interesting subplot. s o u n d s

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Director/writer/actor “Beat� Takeshi’s films are known for their juxtaposition of ultra-violence, touching humanity and warped humor.

The CGI blood is deliberately exaggerated, but proves to be more distracting than anything else. Nonetheless, the swordplay exchanges are ferocious, and Kitano’s exemplary use of sound makes it all the more hard-hitting: the crunches and squelches so visceral as to augment the realism without making it unpleasant. But Kitano delves into a plane of which most directors are unaware when he effortlessly incorporates rhythmic sounds into the score. His comedic eccentricities are prevalent, especially with regard to a couple of inexplicably bizarre characters.Yet it is the engaging character at the center of this piece, and the unenviable conflict he endures, that makes this so interesting.

Kitano received the blessing and encouragement of one of original Zatoichi Katsu’s close friends, and his performance is definitively faithful to Katsu’s portrayal of the character, down to subtle mannerisms and features of his voice. Meanwhile, Asano provides Zatoichi’s most formidable opponent since he took on Yojimbo. Asano has perfected his bad guy routine with a string of memorable roles, such as in Miike’s Ichi The Killer, and though here he is certainly a more cerebral antagonist, he is no less intimidating.

The resolution of the film has a few missteps, most obviously an indulgent and unnecessary, albeit colorful, dance sequence. But those aside, this has everything an action film should: intriguing characters, exciting set-pieces and an abundance of style. Kitano has made it clear he does not intend to offer up a sequel, disappointing since this version of the Zatoichi saga is fresh and imaginative, and well worth checking out.

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Usually when one goes to see a movie in a theater, there is some short production put on Cellular is one of the few action films one can see today without feeling like they were Jerry Bruckheimerized.

by the movie theater telling patrons where the exits are, to gorge themselves on a $5 bucket of popcorn and to shut their cell phones off.

Silence is, after all, golden.

After seeing Cellular, most people might rethink the latter.Well, some people might not actually go that far in changing cell phone etiquette, especially when being in constant contact has become such an integral part of American culture, but it is safe to say that while seeing this movie, viewers will be made

conscious of their own phone customs.

Chris Evans (Not Another Teen Movie) plays Ryan, a young man who has “responsibility issues” and is “easily preoccupied,” according to his ex-girlfriend Chloe, played by Jessica Biel— but what do girls know anyway? Ryan gets random phone call on his cell phone from a kidnapped woman named Jessica, played by Kim Basinger. Jessica is a mother and a science teacher who was kidnapped from her home soon after her son left for school.

The ringleader of the abduction operation, Greer (Jason Statham), keeps Jessica hostage in a house at an undisclosed location. Greer tries to do a good job as bad guy by smashing the phone with a sledgehammer in the room where Jessica is held. Unfortunately he does a bad job and the phone works well enough to make blind outgoing calls for help. Ryan receives the phone call first with skepticism, but after a few convincing sounds over the airwaves, he is prepared to go all out in a mad dash

to save the life of a woman he has never met.

The film works with a good deal of suspense without trying to paint it on by making the audience gasp every 10 seconds. The plot is strong to show realistic cynicism in the background characters of the story. In terms of action, if one were to read out loud what the characters were doing onscreen, one might yawn. However, with the story, by veteran writer Larry Cohen, most recently famous for Phone Booth, and cinematography by Gary Capo, who last shot The Last Samurai, the fastpaced feeling of being rushed about in uncertainty, all the while dodging deadly obstacles, gives Cellular a good action rush.

Cellular is one of the few action films one can see today without feeling like they were “Bruckheimer-ized” by 50 explosions and 25 car chase scenes. It is a fun film that relies heavily on its storyline to get viewers engrossed and then clamps them to their seats with heart-pumping, yet realistic action.

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The Order Sons of Italy in America, an organization of Americans of Italian heritage, has petitioned against the Italian government's decision to award screen legend Robert de Niro honorary citizenship. Obviously not having seen Analyze This or Analyze That, the group claimed that he plays "realistic characters" and makes stereotypes out of them. Ironically, choosing a time when de Niro was in Venice promoting Shark Tale—in which he plays a computer-animated shark mob boss—they argued that he has smeared the image of Italian-Americans in movies such as The Godfather Part II and Goodfellas.

This weekend sees sci-fi adventure Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow finally get its release .... after several delays.

Initial critical response seems to be far from positive. As if any more proof were needed that Hollywood completely lacks any artistic integrity, Sky Captain was shot entirely against a blue-screen prior to its principal casting. This did enable an appearance by Laurence Olivier, his first role since his death 15 years ago.

Spokespeople explained that they merely used old footage and were sure to clarify that "Olivier's voice will be dubbed by another actor."

MOST COMPETENT ANIMALS Koko, the famous gorilla that was taught about a thousand words in American Sign Language, had recently been telling her handlers at her apartment at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, Calif., that her mouth hurt. It was only a toothache, but treatment would require her to be anesthetized, and the foundation decided to take advantage and give her a complete physical, with specialists volunteering to work on a “star.” (Said Dr. David Liang of Stanford’s medical school, “Koko is less demanding” than other celebrities.) Afterward, according to an Associated Press reporter, Koko met with her doctors and motioned one woman to come closer. The woman, awed by this brilliant animal, playfully handed Koko her business card, which Koko promptly ate.

PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US The legendarily devoted anthropologist John Peabody Harrington passed away in 1961 and left six tons of disorganized belongings in various warehouses, attics, basements and even chicken coops. Most of the items were quixotic, inexplicable junk.

However, according to a July 2004 Los Angeles Times report, there are also 1 million pages of valuable notes in nearly indecipherable code, which will require 20 years to organize and are strewn amongst, apparently, everything Harrington ever possessed, including dirty laundry, half-eaten food, and “a box of birds stored for 30 years without the benefit of taxidermy.” According to anthropologists, Harrington’s records are absolutely crucial because in some cases his work forms the only written evidence of certain Native American languages.

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don’t really travel that often for no other reason than I usually don’t think I like it all that much. People are always taken aback when I say this, but it’s pretty much true. In my past experience, I generally travel to a different town and do what I do here, find a place and go drinking. Sure, it’s a different bar with different people, different walk there, different cab ride home, but it doesn’t seem enough to warrant a plane ride. If a change of venue is all I wanted, I could just head down to Tolono—same activities and results as a big trip, and I still get to sleep in my own bed.

Sometimes though, I suck it up and head out of town. I was in San Antonio, Texas, over the summer with some friends, and the vacation started true to form. Check into the hotel, watch TV for 10 minutes, then find a place to drink for five days. Okay, there was maybe more than that, but not much. I bought a new hat, walked around town, and looked at the Alamo. The hat is great, the town was sort of hot, and why in God’s name anyone felt that crap-ass mud fort was worth fighting for is beyond me. I was sure the town had much more to offer than that and felt the best way to learn about it was to talk to some of the locals ... in a bar.

Thanks to a helpful hint by some guys in a band called Buttercup, we went the opposite direction that every other tourist in town was heading and ended up in a place called “Bar America.” Strangely, this bar named after our country didn’t seem very American to an out-of-towner like myself.

It was full of Mexicans.

Honestly, and sadly, I really hadn’t had many social encounters with Mexicans before. I worked in a bar that had a cook who spoke Spanish, but I think he was actually from Nicaragua. Oh sure, I see people I believe to be Mexican around Champaign way more than I used to, but just noticing them is very different than actually talking to them. It’s strange, traveling several hours and experiencing something that’s in your own backyard.

“Bar America” wasn’t very crowded when we first arrived, and yes, the few folks who were there gave us the once over. I’ve done that to people a thousand times here in Illinois, but it’s much different being on the receiving end of those glances. I ordered

a bottle of Lone Star and paid for it with a $10 bill. My change came back and it was $9. The search was over. Holy crap, dollar Lone Stars. I had found the place I would be for the next five days.

After the first beer was down, I was a little more comfortable and ended up at the jukebox. Once you’re there, you pretty much have to play something, but that was more complicated than it seemed, as most of the titles were in Spanish. See, knowing that language would be so helpful to me. Why the fuck did I take French in high school anyway? I played three or four Freddy Fender songs because that was the only name I recognized. I shrugged; it seemed okay with all five people in the place.

I sat back down at the bar and got another beer and a bag of spicy pork rinds; this place was already starting to seem comfortable. One of the regulars came over and started talking. Who Michael Coulter would have thought the first is a videographMexican guy I met would be er, comedian named Rick. He quickly and will be on showed me how much better WPGU 107.1 pork rinds are when they’re Thursdays at 5 slathered with a half bottle of workin’ it. Listen. hot sauce. Who was I to argue?

My stomach had been in a state of turmoil since I arrived in Texas anyway, so one more mouth-numbing treat couldn’t make much of a difference. Geez Louise, they put a scoop of hot salsa on top of a vanilla milkshake down there.

Rick bought us beers and we bought him beers. We talked about our town and he talked about his. Soon, I was on my eighth beer and my second bag of pork rinds.

Angie, the bartender, went ahead and doused my second bag without even asking.

By this time, I had a pretty sweet jag on and “Bar America” was packed with young folks, old folks, hipsters and barflys. I met several people whose names I would mispronounce for the next five days. I got a good recipe.We helped celebrate a waitress’s birthday.

I suddenly realized I was sort of happy.

Yeah, maybe it wasn’t a standard vacation like most people take, but it was exactly what I needed. I felt relaxed. The beers seemed colder, the music clearer, the laughter contagious. I really liked my new friends. People would smile and wave when we walked in the bar. We had become regulars in five short days.

The last night in town, it didn’t even seem much like a vacation anymore. “Bar America” just seemed like home.

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Lauren Bacall apparently didn't like an interviewer calling her co-star Nicole Kidman a “legend." "She's not a legend," Bacall interrupted. "She's a beginner.

What is this ‘legend?’ She can't be a legend; you have to be older." Bacall plays Kidman's mother in the controversial new movie, Birth. In Jonathan Glazer's film, Kidman is convinced that a young boy is the reincarnation of her late husband.

The film features provocative scenes in which a nude Kidman shares a bath with 11-year-old Cameron Bright before kissing him. "It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy.' To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love," she said.

(1) A 27-year-old man, arrested in July after allegedly trying to rob a Bank of America in Enid, Okla., told police he merely intended to help repay the national debt. (2) Thomas Pinckney, 18, charged with trespass in Tomah,Wis., in June after a woman awoke at night to find him holding her arm, told police that he had found the woman’s keys in her apartment door and was just trying to return them. (3) Mr. Thubten Dargyel, 53, who was arrested for sexual assault on a mentally disabled woman in Madison, Wis., in June, explained the presence of his semen by claiming that he ejaculates when he sneezes and that, in fact, he was surprised only that his semen doesn’t show up on many other patients, too.

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It’s hardly her first choice—Maria quits her job on a flower plantation assembly line because her boss disrespects her—and the movie wants to make a sorrowful statement about the countless girls who transport dozens of small, drug-filled pellets out of the country as a way to earn a quick buck. Actually, it’s the film’s poster that declares this is “based on 1,000 true stories,” and Maria doesn’t offer a broad enough look at the circumstances that make up those thousand stories.

Maria is poor, pregnant and unhappy at home, and her best friend Blanca (Yenny Paola Vega), who tags along with her, doesn’t have it much better. But while we’re compelled by the unfortunate conditions that land these two girls on a plane to New York with bellies stuffed with heroin, there’s a contextual yearning that begs for less Maria and more Colombia.

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That has nothing to do with Moreno, who lows 62 capsules of illegal narcotics before delivers a bombshell of a debut performance, boarding a plane.Yet Marston’s linear, progresmixing subdued terror with fiery responsibility. sive sense of development also provides Maria She gives Maria just the right amount of fear Full of Grace with a restrained, methodical backand hope as she embarks on a job she clearly bone. As it pushes its protagonist further along knows is bad news. But after her mother tells her downwardly spiraling journey, the film her there’s nowhere for girls to get work other becomes less and less about the big picture and than the plantation, Maria doesn’t have any- more about one girl’s brute strength to survive. where else to turn, and writer/director Joshua It’s continually fascinating and occasionally Marston effectively shows the crippling effect of moving, but it also advocates Maria’s courage the Colombian economy on even the country’s without providing the harsher reality of the situmore ambitious teenagers. ation. For all of the hard-hitting moments of There’s no escaping the gravity of the situa- grim despair, there are also scenes that soften the tion; Marston fills every moment with palpable edges and skip over chances to explore conditions dread as Maria learns how to swallow the that contribute to these characters’ difficult lives. thumb-sized pellets and eventually tries to make There are a lot of teen-oriented elements it through U.S. customs. She’s in way over her here, from unprotected sex to casual drinking to head, especially when the veteran smuggler the insecurity that binds weaker souls to (Guilied Lopez)—who’s done it only twice stronger ones, and the film fails to deliver on the before—can barely make it through the plane prospect of addressing these issues. Rather, it ride after one of the balloons appears to pop in limits itself to one 17-year-old’s unbelievable her stomach. But Moreno’s brave, defiant per- passage from girl to woman. formance never lets up, providing Maria with It’s a dynamite story driven by great perthe unrelenting drive to persevere in America. formances, but while Maria Full of Grace is cerMaria Full of Grace is a spellbinding tale of eco- tainly graceful, it’s not quite full. nomic necessity and social catastrophe,an important insight into a culture and economy that depend almost entirely on drugs. It’s an unsentimental look at people forced to thrive in extreme situations, thrust into other countries and asked to break the law to earn a wage.

The movie has a step-bystep authenticity, as we see the path that leads Maria from Colombia to New York, from a girl who strips thorns off roses to a young woman who swal- MARIA FULL OF GRACE • CATALINA SANDINO MORENO

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Industrial-sized barbecue grills, Britney Spears-style mic headsets and worn-down Reebok shoes might bring some doubt into the 16th-century re-creation, but luckily, everyone was just out to have a good time at the Illinois Renaissance Faire, the two-day, Labor Day weekend event at the Champaign County Fairgrounds.

Organized by the Prairie Players Theatre Academy, the Faire is the performing arts group’s largest annual fund-raiser. The Academy is a not-for-profit performing arts association.They are founded on the principal of “education through the arts,” according to the academy’s members.

Formed in June of 1997, the group’s goal is to stimulate and forward the performing arts throughout the local Champaign community. The students perform in a variety of musicals, dance performances, and drama. The Academy also tries to instill a sense of value for the tradition and history of the stage.

The setting is a “Fine Fall Day in 1581.”

The location is the village of Deptford, England: your run-of-the-mill utopia of sanitary food, societal equality and peaceful coexistence under the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

The lax dress code allows for the occasional ancient Greek tunic or Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp buccaneer costume, but the mentality is all the same.

“We’re not too strict about what people wear here.We just want to have a good time,” said one Fairegoer.

Beyond the trimmed-down Shakespeare performances, the heart of the Faire rested in the other performances, hybrid American Gladiators/Middle Ages games, a number of shops and excellent food.The Faire provided a fenced-off battle pit with foam mallets and clubs. The pain is only momentary, but the rush of swinging a large, blunt object as hard as possible at an acquaintance is priceless.

While the Baby Dragon Wings added an odd twist of sauce, chicken and quirky fantasy, the homemade root beer and pickle-on-a-stick made it easy to ignore the inevitable swamped-out clothes and hazy heat.

Live music, a living chess game, Dan the Wizard and Scurvy Dawgs Pirate comedy show were just some of the fully packed days’ entertainment.

It just would not be a Renaissance Faire, though, without the obligatory jousting competition. The jousting was done in the “King’s Champion Joust” area: a rectangle of about 20 yards by 50 yards defined by a haystack perimeter. Complete with horses and actual champion jousters, the action served the weekend well.

The jousting had its exciting peak when

one rider was actually knocked off his horse. It was apparently a rare occurrence for the particular jouster and the crowd appreciated it in a concerned but jaw-dropped way. Volunteer squires very graciously allowed melons to be placed on their heads.The knights then proceeded on horseback to hack the melons in half at a full gallop.

The crowds at the Faire were interspersed enough so that every tent and entertainment area was reachable in only a minute’s walk. All of the food, games and merchandise fit easily in people’s budget.This past Labor Day weekend had its hidden gem at the county fairgrounds. buzz

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This event was one of four events consisting of "The King's Champions" at the Illinois Renaissance Faire.

is for delicatessen, a good place to pick up a quick meal or to try new meats, salads and cheeses. Delis are also a good place to shop if you’re having a cocktail or dinner party—premade foods mean less time in the kitchen and more time with your guests.

The word delicatessen comes from the Latin, delicates, which means delicate, but one tends to see rather hearty fare in delis nowadays. Step into EuroAmanda Kolling enjoys Mart (48 E. Springfield Ave., almost anything Champaign), and you’ll be food-related. E-mail her at greeted with case after case of AmandaKolling@readbuzz.co cheeses and olives and premade foods.The premade foods have a decidedly Mediterranean bent, with hummus (a spread of mashed chickpeas and sesame paste),

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baba ghanoush (mashed roasted eggplant), dolma (stuffed grape leaves), tabouli and falafel (a sort of deep-fried meatless meatball made of fava beans or chickpeas) available. If you can’t choose, samples of the cheeses and olives are usually available, or try buying a little bit of whatever appeals to you. This is a good way to have a great meal and try some new dishes. Pick up some pita bread or some naan (an Indian flat bread) to round out your meal.

World Harvest (519 E. University Ave., Champaign) also has a good selection of cheeses and foods in its deli. These foods tend to have a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern flavor, with offerings such as Armenian cheese and halva (a dessert made of ground sesame seeds and honey).

The cheese prices are very reasonable, and the staff is happy to help you with your selection.

Art Mart (Lincoln Square Mall) has an extensive meat and cheese selection. Many of the items would fall into the “gourmet” category, with pâtés and beautiful terrines available. This is the place to pick up some prosciutto, country olives, and double- and triple-cream cheeses. If you’re having a party, serving several wedges of cheese with fruits, nuts and crackers is an easy way to feed a crowd. Try to have an assortment of cheeses, ranging in flavor from mild to strong.

Morbier, a pungent and creamy raw milk cheese, is a good choice, as is Mimolette (a firm, mild French cheese), Manchego or Idiazabal (both are mild Spanish cheeses) with quince paste.Try several cheeses before you buy to ensure that they are fresh and to your liking.

Strawberry Fields (306 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana)

does not have a traditional deli. Rather, in the cafe area, it offers a selection of mainly vegetarian salads, quiches, calzones and lasagne. The selection changes daily, so you may encounter maki rolls one day and vegetable pizza the next. A salad made of bowtie pasta tossed with Gorgonzola, grapes and green onions is cleverly named “When grapes get the blues” and is a personal favorite.

Traditional delis offering cold cuts and sliced cheese can be found in most local grocery stores, but I like to visit Elliott’s Meats (1715 W. Kirby Ave., in the Old Farm Shops plaza). They offer a small selection of quality cold cuts, as well as a butcher case of vacuumpackaged meat cuts (which can be specially ordered). Box lunches and trays are available, as are premade salads and entrees, such as meatloaf, pulled barbecue pork and the usual suspects, macaroni and potato salad. Similarly, Old Time Meat and Deli Shop (2018 S. Neil St., Champaign) offers Dietz and Watson meats and cheeses, as well as a selection of hard-tofind meats, such as bison and venison, in the freezer case.

The newest deli in town is Persimmon Grocery (Walnut Street, next to Cafe Kopi), which offers a small selection of mainly Spanish and Italian cheeses and meats (not surprising, as the owner of Persimmon is also the owner and chef of Bacaro). If you’d rather not make a sandwich yourself, the staff at Persimmon will make one for you on bread from Mirabelle and with meats from Nieman Ranch (purveyors of freerange, hormone-free meats) for about $6.

Wherever you go, ask questions and taste before you buy. Make shopping for your food a pleasurable experience instead of a chore and enjoy what you eat.

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For lovers of great soloists, two great ones from two different generations will showcase their instruments. Spanish clarinetist Jose FranchBallester will perform on Sunday, Sept. 19, with Andrius Zlabys at the piano. And speaking of classical, legendary Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar will re-create his magic on Sept. 30.

Trying to remember when you first encountered Ravi Shankar? His U.S. debut was at Carnegie Hall in 1938.

In theater and dance, Krannert has some spectacular visiting artists, which will include the world premiere of Come Home Charley Patton, Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy.This live multimedia show explores critical events in American racial history in the context of Southern culture.

This unique event will be presented on Sept. 21 and 22. Another new multimedia show from Georgian artist (that’s the country, not the the state) Rezo Gabriadze, Forbidden Christmas or the Doctor and the Patient, will be performed on Sept.

17-19.Among the the fine performers coming to town for this one is Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Guest director Caroline Kava will kick off the University of Illinois’ fall stage offerings in the Studio with As it is in Heaven, running from Sept.

30 to Oct. 10 on weekends. This new play by Arlene Hutton is a portrait of Kentucky’s Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1838 from the point of view of the women.

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EXPANDING SERVICES FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION There are also two rooms available for women without children.

The CWT currently houses 11 families and five single women. It is working to find omen and their children find contractors in order to begin the building refuge from financial instabilities, single par- of an additional house. They have been enthood and homelessness at the Center for attempting to build the new house since fall Women in Transition (CWT), 508 E. Church of 2003. Yet the date for groundbreaking St., in Champaign. After 19 years of opera- continues to be pushed back, Sims said. tion, the center is now ready to expand its “We’ve learned to anticipate anything, shelter to offer more to women in need. good or bad, because we’ve had so many “(Community members) saw that there ‘official’ groundbreaking dates. Now we’re was an issue to be dealt with and decided that at our final ends. And we’re at the point they should build a safe place for women to where we have to build,” Sims said. go,” said Kathy Sims, director of the CWT. If everything in Sims’ plan goes correctSince 1985, the CWT has provided shel- ly, groundbreaking for the new building ter for a maximum of 32 women and chil- will take place in October of 2004, and the dren at any given time.The facility has two house will be open by June of 2005. houses, the Clara Forbes house, named after The new building will have five rooms to the wife of former University of Illinois house five families and an elevator to meet professor, Steven Forbes.The other home is accessibility codes.There will also be a comcalled the Deloris Evans house, named after puter lab, library, music room, and arts and one of the former presidents of the CWT. crafts center. Most importantly to Sims is an education center that will allow the women to continue their studies and provide more tutoring programs for the children.

“Hopefully the program will allow them to fulfill their dreams while they don’t have financial burdens,” Sims said.

John Phillips, coordinator of the children’s program at the CWT, anticipates the extension of the center.

“I really just want to see more people being served in the future,” Phillips said.

Executive Director of the Center for Women in Transition Kathy The CWT has been writSims (right), speaks with Tonja Nohmer, family advocate.The mis- ing grant proposals and sellsion of the shelter is to provide homes for women and children, sup- ing bricks for $150. For port services and safe transitional housing. every brick sold, the buyer

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gets to engrave a message on the stone that will be placed among the others in the walkway in front of the new house.

The CWT has already received a $100,000 grant from the Unlimited Possibilities Service center.

“They made it possible for us to dream about building a new house,” Sims said.

While Sims is optimistic about the new project, she said she knows that they may have to do additional fund raising in order to have sufficient funds.

The need for a new center was the result of the scarcity of jobs in the Champaign County area, as well as the attacks of Sept.

11.The need for shelter and other assistance is a direct reflection on the status of the economy, explained Sims.

At the CWT, if a woman has no income, she does not have to pay rent. However, if a woman does have an income, the CWT asks for $60 monthly to help with facility costs.

“We want the women to be able to save some money while they stay here,” said Sims.

A woman and her children are able to live there for up to two years. Sims said that no

boys over the age of 13 are allowed because the center tries to hinder any potential conflicts that may occur with adolescents and smaller children.

“It’s difficult to see kids who have experienced a lot for their age, and you see those experiences reflected in their behavior,” Phillips said.“A lot of them haven’t had the chance to be a child. So I try to offer them a loving relationship where they can be a kid.”

A case worker is provided to each family to help assist in finding permanent housing and employment; however, the women are also expected to do their share of work in taking steps toward bettering their future.

“Challenges do exist. It’s not always easy to live with other people. We have chores here and we expect for everyone to respect the house. You have to adapt, you have to learn to adjust, “ Sims said.

The CWT and its new addition, the Unlimited Possibilities Center, plan to continue reaching out to these in need and offering a safe haven for women and children seeking shelter.

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q+a On Main Street in downtown Urbana, bakery owner Courtney Ballard has been serving up some amazing baked goods for the past seven years at Mirabelle Fine Pastries. With nonartificial products imported from Chicago and France, Mirabelle’s is a popular bakery in town. Ballard talks about her European-influenced bakery.

Our bread makers begin work between four and six o’clock in the morning. The day before they prepare starters so the morning consists of mixing, shaping and letting the bread rise. The whole process takes about six hours.

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and seven in the morning to begin baking. They, too, have done some preparation the day before. In addition, we bake cookies 120 at a time along with coffeecake and brownies, which are made daily. Then, we move on to making sandwiches and salads along with any cake orders we may have. Most of the baking is normally done (by) around 1:00 p.m.

Do you have a favorite pastry or one in particular you would recommend?

The most popular product is the cheese danish, which we make on Saturdays. We used to only make about 30, but with their growing popularity, we make about 75 now.

Honestly, the space that came available was the biggest factor. The rent was incredibly cheap. I also had experience working in restaurants in Chicago for four years, and when I moved back here, it was just good timing. The person who owned the chocolate shop that was located here just didn’t come back one day, so we had all the machines and supplies that were left in the store for our use. I didn’t know what were we going to do with the space, but we had to do something, because the rent was just ridiculously cheap. My parents also own the Art Mart in Lincoln Square, so I grew up with that. The downtown location had the appeal because it was close to them.

Actually, we’re quite fortunate that the bakeries around here each feature something different. The thing that is different about us is that we have a bread oven from France. It’s the only one from Chicago to St. Louis.

It replicates European brick ovens, and we bake on stone. It helps form a better crust, and it’s incredibly hard to duplicate without this oven.

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Rosalind Faiman Weinberg is a local artist.

The piece featured is titled “Inside-Outside: Hommage to New York City� and was featured in a show in Battle Creek, Mich., titled: “A Response to 9/11: Artists paint their reaction to the fall of the World Trade Center.� The clues to the relevance of this apparently normal urban landscape lie in the details in the drawing.You have to look closely. Hence the title.

However,after some thought,I would want to dine with David Hockney.

Our conversation would hinge on two topics; one, his research into the effect of the camera obscura on the developmental leap forward of the visual arts around 1380 A.D. on, in Renaissance Europe, and, second, to ask him why he painted his “Yorkshire Moors� series of paintings in deep reds.

Hockney was born a Yorkshireman and I spent three and a half years in that part of England as a graduate student. I did a lot of hiking in the moors and dales of the area in my free time. The countryside is suffused with pale shades of green and purple. So, why deep reds, David? I am intrigued.

What inspires you?

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I consider myself a landscape painter even when I am painting and drawing portraits.

People are just human landscapes, after all.

What artist would you have dinner with?

This was a tough one to decide.

Historically speaking, I would have loved to have dined with Wassily Kandinsky or Max Ernst, two artists who have heavily influenced my artistic development.

I consider Gerhardt Richter one of the greatest painters of our time.

What environment do you like best?

A very quiet, contemplative one, preferably pastoral, with nothing but birdsong and other neighborhood extraneous noise. I love music, but unlike other artists I know, music can be distracting.This amuses my husband, who often listens to music while working. I would want to concentrate on the music rather than the task in hand.

For the last year I have been painting and drawing in our sunroom, which looks out onto a large yard with lots of trees and hidden from the city streets on all four sides.

require them to learn of the artist. For example, all beginning art students learn something about Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo because they are, in many ways, the founding fathers of the two- and three-dimensional art we practice today.

However, few students learn enough about them to understand how and why they arrived at the level of their craft. That story, in both their cases, is fascinating both technically and scientifically. Knowing their story is a way of getting to know their artistic voice and by studying them you can begin to understand how and why art is made. So, I would require my students to pick any artist who intrigues them, from any period in history, but one who has at least already lived his or her life, and to get to know him or her, and the artistic period in which they lived and worked, as well as possible to try to understand their artistic development. That does not occur in a vacuum. You cannot make art without having a story to tell, whether that story is in words or in pictures.

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he School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, as stuffy and sterile as it may sound, is anything but. Upon entering, one can see the different kinds of humor each artist has.

Joel Ross’ “Leaving Stories” pieces illustrate quirky phrases in odd places. After uprooting a hotel mattress, Ross taped cut-out alphabet letters to the floor, spelling out the message “Pretending to be strangers.”

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“Every motel room seems to hum from all the hundreds of people who have been there,” reflects Ross. “There’s always a murmur of past conversations in the air.”

His messages bring a whimsical mood to ordinary places; he leaves some to be unearthed one day, leaving the recipient of the discovery puzzling over the suggestion of a narrative of what might have been.

Nathan Westerman, recent graduate of the master of fine arts program, and art proprietor for the Springer Center, appreciates Ross’ message-in-a-bottle pieces with their blue-collar aesthetic. “A lot of the artwork here is somewhat absurdist,” he comments, and focuses on another piece, a series of photographs called “Ivy League Tree Trunks (Princeton),” a work

by Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler.

“I really like the texture of the tree trunks.

They’re phallic, especially that knobby one,” he declares, and makes sure to point out the differing sizes.

Billie Jean Theide’s “With This Ring...” provides a biting critique of marriage, offering the viewer numerous vintage ring boxes—some of which contain words like “Deceitful” and “Abusive” on the fabric backing, instead of the usual jeweler’s address. The emptiness of the jewelry boxes seems to suggest the emptiness of the institution, evident in “Lecherous” and “Destructive” cases of marriage.

The variety of artwork at this show makes it unique. It is not bound by one particular theme.The messages the works convey are just as varied as the kinds of media employed.

Sculpture, painting, ceramic work and film are only a few of the types of media used.

One example of the ceramic work is Ron Kovatch’s “White Noise,” a sculpture of an ivory ear entombed by amber-like resin, all within a hefty black box made up of what seems to be ear canal tubes.

Kovatch comments,“Ears are vessels that collect and contain things ethereal. And in today’s culture, it seems at times, too much information enters which is difficult to filter, consider, organize, etc.”

In this piece and another of his, called “Fat Free,” Kovatch plays with this idea by having debris float in the resin between the ear and the surface, giving the viewer the opportunity to decide which facets of the piece are important and which are visual clutter. He enjoys

random chaos and the way the resin is like amber, freezing objects and images in time and space with no regard to context, sequence or organization: “How much that chaotic phenomenon out of our control affects our daily lives,” he muses.

The must-see of the exhibit is “360” by Nan Goggin and Joseph Squier.Their work, years in the making, combines virtual reality with a symphony of images, sounds and unspoken thoughts. Furthermore, it makes use of a favorite American staple: 3-D goggles.

Three couples are illustrated in this piece, all at different stages in their lives, as well as in their relationships. The viewer hears the conversations and sees the thoughts of the speakers play out on the canvas in front of them.

The piece makes a statement about how one’s focus changes as time goes by—the young couple doesn’t think about what the older couple thinks about, even if their conversations are somewhat similar. If the viewer plays with the joystick, brief reflections by the speakers come to light even while their conversation is going on; the voices come together like music. The precision with which the artists capture the humanity in this piece is unbelievable.

The unique and personal experience one comes away with more than justifies the long pilgrimage to the Krannert Art Museum to see it.

The span of time in which the exhibition runs is punctuated with opportunities to hear the artists speak about their work in the field. All through September, the community is invited to hear talks given by the faculty about their particular area of study.

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The general exhibit runs until Oct. 3, and the talks are given on Wednesdays in September at noon.The remaining ones are: Sept. 22 Joel Ross Foundations+Painting Sept. 29 Ron Kovatch Ceramics

“Balance” by Alan T. Mette is currently showing at the Krannert Art Museum in the School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibit.

The Decemberists are performing at The Highdive on Sept. 22.

Tickets are $12 (in advance) and $15 (at door).

Judi Ross's creation of lily pads in blue vases titled “How Does your Garden Grow?” will be on display until Oct. 3.

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ou’ll never be so deeply moved by a song revolving around maritime Victorian imagery. Never. It’s a phrase that describes The Decemberists better than, probably, anything else. The only thing more striking than their literary pretensions, so grandiose that they border on the bizarre, is their ability to marry them to gorgeous, elegant, folk pop so dramatically catchy and singable, you’ll find shanties about pirates permanently imbedded in your frontal lobe and hollering lines about “a crooked French Canadian who was gutshot running gin” in the car when no one is looking won’t seem an uncommon event.

This little band from Portland, Ore., led by the inimitable, bespectacled Colin Meloy, has managed a daring feat, indeed.

By making the world of pop music safe once again for shy English majors waiting to release their inner thespian, the band has garnered nationwide acclaim from Magnet to The New York Times to Rolling Stone, and has a fanatically devoted fan base.

It wasn’t always quite so glamorous, though. Lead singer and songwriter Colin Meloy started off in the trenches of the Portland scene, playing solo shows at open mic nights. Learning that when you have no audience there’s no risks you can’t take, Meloy began to develop his singular style, letting his love of literature seep into his songwriting.

“There was no flashpoint,” says Meloy.

“I played a lot of solo shows and it started by my meeting people who played in the scene.” Before long he was joined by Jenny Conlee on accordion and keyboards, Chris Funk on electric guitar, Rachel Blumberg on drums and Jesse Emerson on upright bass; and The Decemberists were born, to the delight of discerning music lovers everywhere.

In their early stages the band was cited as being of something of a country band, although, Meloy offers this to clarify: “I’ve always played folk music in one form or another. We were still like a pop band but with a banjo ... we only teased with country music. The writing is defi-

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And hinge it does. Great musical chemistry is usually born of the most bizarre and unwieldy combinations.

There are certain basic preconceptions about excellent pop music that The Decemberists have decided not to break wide open as much as politely step over.

For instance; songs about orphaned 18th century chimney sweeps or the laments of a legionnaire should, by all rights, be pretentious to the point that having an aneurysm under the weight of it all would not seem extraordinary. One element that holds it all together is a sense of humor, a clever playfulness sorely lacking in the modern pop landscape. In a line from “Los Angeles, I’m Yours” Meloy sings of the women of the city thusly, “Oh, ladies pleasant and demure/sallowcheeked and sure/I can see your undies.”

Meloy says, “(Humor) plays a huge, huge

part. It’s equally half and half between the serious and the tongue-in-cheek, highminded and a really low form of sophomoric humor.”

The high-minded portion of The Decemberists may be what arrests the listener’s attention first, though, with each song seemingly rooted in a time and place far more exotic and romanticized than our own. “I’m not a history buff,” states Meloy. “It’s the sort of history you’d get from any basic 101 course. It’s mostly literary archetypes as they’ve been passed down through historical literature.

Everything from Robert Louis Stevenson to Nabokov, it’s all there.”

The complexity of The Decemberists’ subject material extends into Meloy’s absurdly verbose delivery as well. It is a rare breed of songwriter who can lovingly throw the term “pantaloons” into a song and make it work. Amazingly, though, this terminology never seems as awkward or clumsy as it should be. “More often than

not, the words are there for the sake of the song,” comments Meloy, “they work with the rhythm and the meter. I only use a word if it’s one that makes sense.And most of the words that get tagged as Decemberists’ words are there because they’re pretty and provide context.”

Up to this point those readers unfamiliar with The Decemberists oeuvre may feel this is all too devastatingly clever, like a fey Lit student’s wet dream, but wholly alienating to those without a working knowledge of the ins and outs of Dickens and Melville. And yet, Meloy always manages to craft his tales in such a way that his characters, the vagabond French lieutenants and orphaned ghosts, engender a peculiar sort of sympathy, rather than being merely unusually witty tropes lacking the ability to connect with the listener. On speaking of songwriting, Meloy claims he finds a song more to his liking if, “the narrator is believable and likable, whether the narration is more surreal, as

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in a Robyn Hitchcock song or they’re using more contemporary characters in a little more self-deprecating sort of a way.”

With the songs’ effusive language, eccentric characters and beguiling narratives, Meloy has been accused of being something of a frustrated short-story writer. Meloy answers, “It’s the third dimension, in that you’re using melody, which evokes an emotion or setting all on its own. It’s a pretty complete way of telling a story.”

Indeed, the immediacy of The Decemberists’ music, whether they be delicate ballads or big bouncy pop, is half of their appeal.“Folk music was the music that I grew up with,” relates Meloy. “I have my trysts with Depeche Mode, but I listen to mostly pop and rock that guitar, bass and drums set up.”

The instrumentation on the average Decemberists’ album bubbles over with pedal steel, strummed acoustic, analog keyboards and, of course, the ever-present and ever-passionate accordion playing of

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be. It’s a more complete picture of the music we want to create.We have the time and money and resources to flesh it out ... it’s the closest we’ve come to seeing our vision through to the end.”

It’s clear that The Decemberists are on a roll, one of those rare occasions where a band seems to effortlessly pump out works of both great creativity and refined quality control. “I think the really strong songwriters are the ones who take risks and are willing to write some weird stuff ... but they’ll always be on the margins,” Meloy observes.

Perhaps, but with the band’s overwhelming talent and increasing notability, Decemberists’ fans can still hope for a day when they’ll stumble across their mother in the kitchen, hair in pink plastic curlers, feet clad in fuzzy yellow slippers, using the spatula as an impromptu microphone, vamping it up and belting out lovely tongue twisters like, “Pretty hands do pretty things when pretty times buzz swim where arise/Seraphim and seaweed

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local music, and I hereby declare Kissinger an honorary local band. Last year, Kissinger came here from Austin, Texas, three times to open for the likes of Absinthe Blind, American Minor, Equinox and The Red Hot Valentines. Regardless of audience size, guitarist Chopper delivers his vocals with the ardor of a young Patti Smith and eyes as big as dinner plates. Rarely is rock ‘n’ roll raunch so catchily charismatic.

Kissinger joins with JigGsaw tonight at 11:00 for the Thursday Special at Cowboy Monkey. No cover!

Earlier tonight, at 8:00, Sick Day release their second EP. Mixed at Private Studios, Happy Ending features the single “Don’t Help.” The show is at Mike ‘n Molly’s in the beer garden, so bring a coat or sweater.

Smoke Off Vinyl and i:scintilla open. Sick Day guitarist Adam Wolfe meanwhile remains a singer-songwriter in his own right. His solo EP, Rockstar, produced by Andy Lund (G. Lee & Jet Blonde, Temple of Low Men) and first forecast for release June 11, now is due out Oct. 14.

Tomorrow marks day two of 18 on a nonstop international tour by Terminus Victor and was supposed to be the release date for their sophomore effort, Under

Surveillance. Three-string bassist Scott Kimble explains: “Realistically, we’re almost at mixdown stage. We figured we’d just take our time and make this record something that (guitarist Don King) and I have always wanted to put out since we started playing together.” He elaborates: “We’re thinking the record will be in our hands around November or so. I would like to say thanks for everyone’s support and thumbs up to an excellent local scene.” The show tomorrow is at Mike ‘n Molly’s and still will spotlight most material on the new album; Haymarket Riot, ZZZZ and Quatre Tete open. Another show Oct. 3 at Cowboy Monkey concludes the tour and tentatively will include all the new material; Crimson Sweet opens. In addition, Terminus Victor side project Little Black Spiders ends their hiatus Oct. 23 with an appearance at Mike ‘n Molly’s.

Oakland band Replicator cancelled their tour, so Chicago band Nonagon, which features John Hastie of Jumpknuckle, will open for Triple Whip and The Idle Hours at Boneyard Pottery; this all-ages show is Sept. 18. An open practice or two notwithstanding, this show is drummer Josh Birky’s official first with Triple Whip. Guitarist Santanu Rahman will debut and distribute issue three of his free magazine Asian Americans Rock!

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Emergence showcases 12 bands, each with University student involvement, and was recorded this February with Mark Rubel at Pogo Studio. To celebrate the rerelease, four of the bands will play together that night at The Canopy Club: Bullet Called Life (classic rock),The Ending (hard rock), Eclectic Theory (college rock) and Animate Objects (hip hop).

Apropos of last week’s look at singersongwriters, an event at Cowboy Monkey the third Sunday of every month affords a unique opportunity to enjoy bards as they discuss and perform their music.At Writers in the Round, four musicians form a queue on stage and alternate with acoustic versions of original material, often collaboratively. Guests this month are Andy Lund, Mike Ingram, G. Lee and Liz Bowater. Show time is at 7:30 on Sept. 19.

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Your current relationship with romance might best be summed up with these words from the Washington Post's Joel Achenbach: "Love begins as a sonnet, but eventually turns into a grocery list. Therefore you need someone with whom you can go to the supermarket." In other words, Aries, realism should rule your decisions in amorous matters for the next few weeks.

That will eventually change, though. So don't permanently forget about the sonnet-like aspects of your passion.

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Even if you're not a jazz fan, you'll thrive in the coming week by using a modus operandi that resembles jazz. I suggest, therefore, that you improvise frequently. Experiment with intricate, strong, and playful rhythms. Infuse your yearning for freedom with humor. For further insight about how to proceed, meditate on the following clues from three jazz greats. Ornette Coleman: "Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time." John Coltrane: "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." Miles Davis: "Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

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One of my best teachers always referred to himself as an *unteacher.* "My goal is to strip away your certainties," he said, "so you can be alert to how mysterious life actually is."

He didn't want to fill me up with a load of fixed ideas, in other words, but rather encourage me to cultivate the habit of questioning everything. I wish I could perform the same service for you, Gemini, especially now that you're becoming more receptive to the naked truth. I'd like to help you understand that in order to fall deeply in love with the world's messy beauty, you need to be able to gaze upon it as if it were just created a moment ago. (P.S. As psychotherapist Rober t Augustus Masters says, the truth cannot be rehearsed.)

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Jennee Conlee. Drum loops on a Decemberists album would seem as gauche as Oscar Wilde making a fart joke.

“I’ve always been fascinated with more traditional instruments,” states Meloy.“I’ve pretty much only played acoustic guitar.

I’ve tried playing electric guitar but it’s always very clumsy ... my love for folk music clashes with my love for more contemporary pop.”

The leap from the more sanguine ballads of their first album, Castaways and Cutouts, to the more flamboyant, orchestral elements of their follow-up, Her Majesty The Decemberists, finds the band growing far more comfortable with the grand, theatrical aspirations of their songwriting. This trend is in glaring evidence on this year’s EP, The Tain, an 18-minute epic based on Celtic mythology, veering from electric rock riffage to music box interludes with bowed cello. “We’ve just finished tracking what I think will be the new record,” reveals Meloy.”It’s definitely raised the bar on how dramatic you can

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Young rock bands often do cover tunes, copies of songs originally performed by well-known musicians they admire. Art teachers sometimes give their students the assignment of reproducing the great paintings of the old masters. To take maximum advantage of the current astrological influences, I suggest you use this strategy in your own unique way, Cancerian. Pick a hero, either dead or alive, either famous or unsung, whose approach to life you admire. Find out as much as you can about that person, and then engage in a flurry of imitation. Dress, talk, think, and dream like your hero. In every situation you're in, ask yourself what he or she would do. Have imaginary conversations, fantasize abundantly, and move through your days and nights as if you are that person.

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In the coming week you will be prone to eruptions of intuition about exciting future events that you have not previously imagined. Lucid visions of challenging adventures may pop into your mind's eye out of nowhere. When you come into the presence of people who may one day figure prominently in your creative departures from routine, you might feel chills run up and down your spine. Be alert for these signals from the Great Beyond.

It's time for you to become your own fortune-teller.

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To achieve your dreams, writes Chuck Klosterman in Esquire, you shouldn't obsess on cultivating allies. The two most important characters in the life of any successful human, he says, are a nemesis and an archenemy. While I don't wholeheartedly endorse this exaggerated position, Pisces, I do recommend it now for your temporary use. Nothing will sharpen your wits so much in the coming weeks as competitors and people who don't agree with you. They will be catalysts who'll provide you with all the motivation you need to leap to the next level of excellence.

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"I lost the plot for a while," says a character in Nick Hornby's novel, High Fidelity. "And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, the popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign." I'm betting you could have said something like that recently, Libra. The story of your life seemed to have been whisked out from under you and banished to the wilderness on the outskirts of limbo, where the wasteland meets no man's land. That's the bad news. The good news is that while you may never recover the plot you started with, you'll soon find a brand new one that's better than the original.

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"The conversation didn't get interesting until the end, after we ran out of things to say." Blogger Michael Barrish (www.oblivio.com) wrote that about a date he went on. I'd like to recommend it as your guiding principle in the coming week. Your assignment is to choose a person with whom you will talk and talk and talk until you are all talked out. At that point, though, you won't run along to your next appointments, but will dwell in the awkwardness as long as it takes for you to stumble upon a new way of being together. Furthermore, Scorpio, I urge you to apply this approach in as many other ways as you can imagine.

Hang out in the pregnant silences on the other side of the climaxes.

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Physicists have been on a roll for the last hundred years.

Beginning with Einstein's theory of relativity in 1905, they've uncovered secrets of the cosmos that would have seemed like magic to nineteenth-century scientists. Yet they still haven't found their Holy Grail—the "Theory of Everything" that would tie together all their discoveries and, in the words of Stephen Hawkings, allow them to "read the mind of God." According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you Sagittarians have been on a similar ride in the past 12 months. You've gathered tantalizing clues to the greatest mysteries of your life, but have not tracked down your personal Theory of Everything. That could change in the coming weeks, though. You're closer to the Grail than you've ever been.

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Your immediate future reminds me of the Buddhist monks I saw beaming child-like smiles and waving their arms exuberantly as they rode the roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

Why? Because I believe that whatever discipline and devotion you have brought to your spiritual work in the past year will soon be rewarded, probably with a thrilling ride that dissolves obstacles or a soaring adventure that breaks down inhibitions.

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Verde Gallery, 17 E Taylor St, Champaign Mon-Sat 7am-10pm Marque Strickland [Mixed media drawings and paintings] Cafe Kopi Mon-Thu 7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am-12pm, Sun 11am-8pm “Original Watercolors and Pastels” [Artwork by Andy Gillis and Jeannine Bestoso on display through July 31. Both artists use a variety of experimental media] Aroma Cafe, 7am-midnight every day “Featured Works XVIII: Art and Spirituality in the Medieval World” [Explores the sacred word, devotional objects and cultural interchange. Includes artwork from the major religious context within the Mediterranean region, like Medieval Europe, Byzantium and the Jadaic and Islamic traditions] Krannert Art Museum through Oct 24 Tue, Thu-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 25pm, $3 “eGo: A Selection of Abstract Work by Randall A. D. Plankenhorn” [Work from Randall Plankenhorn, an Urbana native. Each black-and-white photograph reflects the larger theme of distorted views of self both through the lens of introspection and relationships.] Aroma Cafe, 7am-midnight every day through Sept 30 “Restoring Byzantium: The Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration” [Devoted to the restoration of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul, originally the church of Christ in the Chora Monastery] Krannert Center, through Oct 10. Tue, Thu-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm, Suggested donation: $3 “Faculty Art Exhibition” [Recent works of painting, sculpture, installation art, photography, glass, graphic design and other media will be exhibited through Oct 3.]

School of Art and Design, Tue, Thu-Sat 9am5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm, Suggested donation: $3 Annual Parkland Art and Design Faculty Exhibition [Features 24 local artists who teach graphic design and fine art classes at Parkland College through Sept 24] Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Mon-Thu 6-8pm and Sat 12-2pm, free Steeple Gallery [by Gary Ingersol, including the Allerton Series, U of I Series and Unique Monticello Series] 102 E Lafayette St, Monticello. Mon-Fri 10am-

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During a six-year period of his life, music composer Johann Sebastian Bach created an average of one cantata every single week. In the coming days, you could be that prolific in your own chosen field, Aquarius. The creative juices should be flowing through you like a tidal wave; your ability to dream up fresh solutions to nagging puzzles should be at a peak. If for some reason none of what I'm saying seems to be true, it means you need to stop what you're doing, go sit under a tree, and listen more attentively to your fantasies.

Music Performances Elliot Chasanov [trombone] Krannert Center 7:30pm, $2-$6

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16 Joke span, sometimes 17 Antietam poker 18 Ready for trouble 19 Radio deejay's supply, once 20 Roadside need 21 "Keystone" figure 22 Part of a rock band 23 Grub 25 Rival of 36across 27 Joltless joe 29 Shoe maker McAn 30 Prepare the night before 31 That synthesizer song from "Beverly Hills Cop" 32 Feeling a long day of work 33 Leathernecks' org.

34 What real lutefisk is soaked in

ART NOTICES Creation Art Studios [Open sessions to experiment with materials, techniques of drawing, painting, collage, assemblage art, ceramics and wheel throwing.]

1-5:30 Mon–Thu, Sat 1-4 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain with Sandra Ahten [This class teaches you that drawing is just a new way of seeing.]

Aug 26 – Sept 23; Thu 7-9pm. $95 for 5 sessions.

High Cross Studio,

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36 Rival of 25across 38 Chinese restaurant no-no 41 Word before and after "Lady," in song 43 Java program, e.g.

44 Earning a D 46 OBL part 49 "(What's the Story) Morning Glory" band 50 Tackle box gadget 51 Opposite of no 52 Wished 53 Actor in several Woody Allen movies 54 Pen point 55 "Shame, shame" noise 57 Whiner's sound 59 Headache pill center 60 Spiral shell dwellers 62 Foodstuffs 64 Stuffed seat 65 Be necessary for

66 Bread for later 67 Spa service Down 1 Cookout bits 2 Some Wyomingites 3 Film set in Andy's bedroom 4 "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" musician 5 "___ Let's Start" (They Might Be Giants tune) 6 Weigh on one's mind 7 Go downhill 8 "Hawaii Five-O" catchphrase 9 Half of A.D. 10 The 29th, every so often 11 Right angleshaped pipe 12 Like some competition 13 First-person shooter released in 1998 14 Vented 24 Perfume tester 26 Uganda's largest

city 28 Models 34 Handy person to track conversations behind windows 37 5' 7" dunkmaster 39 Hair product featured in "Coming to America" 40 Two-time Olympic pairs skating champ Ekaterina 42 When wrestlers boast they'll beat you in the ring 45 HBO series with on-the-street question segments 46 Thomas of "Reno 911!"

47 Get up and go?

48 Opens 49 He calls his guitar "Lucille" 56 Lewd woman, in British slang 58 "___! Cherry-O" (kids' board game) 61 Wee 'un 63 Acknowledge applause

1001 N High Cross Rd, Urbana Payment required in advance.

Verde Gallery, 17 E Taylor St Champaign Mon-Sat 7am-10pm

Alchemy and the Stones of Brittany: Sculptures and Encaustic Paintings by Toni Putnam.

Verde Gallery, 17 E Taylor St Champaign Mon-Sat 7am-10pm

“eGo: A Selection of Abstract Work

by Randall A. D. Plankenhorn” [Work from Randall Plankenhorn, an Urbana native. Each black-and-white photograph reflects the larger theme of distorted views of self both through the lens of introspection and relationships.]

Aroma Cafe Open every day 7am-midnight through Sept 30.

Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration” [Devoted to the restoration of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul, originally the church of Christ in the Chora Monastery] Krannert Center through Oct 10.

Tue, Thu-Sat 9am5pm, Wed 9am8pm, Sun 2-5pm, Suggested donation: $3

Stella Dobbins [Dobbins, a Rockford, Ill., artist will showcase her works, which include brush paintings as well as small assemblage pieces. Influenced by her travels in Southeast Asia.]

“Restoring Byzantium: The

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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 BOARDMAN’S ART THEATER | 126 W Church, Champaign 351-0068 THE BRASS RAIL | 15 E University, Champaign 352-7512 THE CANOPY CLUB (GARDEN GRILL) | 708 S Goodwin, Urbana 367-3140 CHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana COSMOPOLITAN CLUB | 307 E John, Champaign 367-3079 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 ELMER’S CLUB 45 | 3525 N Cunningham, Urbana 344-3101 EMBASSY TAVERN & GRILL | 114 S Race, Urbana 384-9526 ESQUIRE LOUNGE | 106 N Walnut, Champaign 398-5858 FALLON’S ICE HOUSE | 703 N Prospect, Champaign 398-5760 FAT CITY SALOON | 505 S Chestnut, Champaign 356-7100 THE GREAT IMPASTA | 114 W Church, Champaign 359-7377 G.T.’S WESTERN BOWL | Francis, Champaign 359-1678 THE HIGHDIVE | 51 Main, Champaign 359-4444 HUBER’S | 1312 W Church, Champaign 352-0606 ILLINOIS DISCIPLES FOUNDATION | 610 E Springfield, Champaign 352-8721 INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER | 218 W Main, Urbana 344-8820 THE IRON POST | 120 S Race, Urbana 337-7678 JOE’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

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lead review The Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat Rough Trade

BY LOGAN MOORE

Yeah, they kick the cat out the window right up front on this one. No pussyfooting around, as it were.Those fans accustomed to and expecting the engaging, jumpy “indieblues” of last year’s Gallowsbird Bark are likely to find their heads spinning like tops on their shoulders or be reduced to spasming, boneless piles of flesh. Or some other extreme metaphor for shock.Where are the acoustic guitars? Where are the jumpy drums? All we’re left with is analogue UFO noises, drum loops and a glacial piano line, while Eleanor Friedberger fronts like some extraterrestrial ice queen all ready to make out with Captain Kirk.

What happened to my beloved Fiery Furnaces? It appears as though cyborgs have maliciously murdered our ill-fated brother/sister duo, only to take on their appearance and put out an album of their own devious creation. And they’re singing about pirates ... fucking pirates, man.

Then about five minutes into the initial track, “Quay Cur,” the band throws themselves into a jumpy acoustic and electric guitar-driven jumble of words and strange solos. And then they do it again; the song mysteriously shifts into acoustic guitar and tambourine-driven delicate dirge. It’s very pretty. And, suddenly, it dawns on the listener; The Fiery Furnaces have decided to release their inner circus freak show on the world, the grotesque, art-rock obsessed, hobgoblin that lurked at the center of this apparently lovable indie band. Blueberry Boat is bizarre, extremely difficult, awkward, fascinating and, ultimately, impossible not to love.

Few albums in recent memory have been as divisive as Blueberry Boat. The album’s detractors obviously feel cheated, having been turned on to the band’s straightforward, cutesy, tongue-in-cheek debut. Hell, I was. Hardly anyone was expecting an album of labyrinthine art-rock tunes with multiple movements, dense orchestration and little internal logic, the songs completely diverging with little to no transition. It’s brainy stuff and a little alienating.

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from its listeners. The Friedbergers lay down the gauntlet right from the beginning, “Quay Cur” being the most difficult and out-there track on the entire album.

Check out the second one though; “Straight Street,” is far more indicative of the remainder of the album. Keeping a similar verse chorus structure for the song’s nearly six-minute length, the instruments vary wildly between choruses and verses, veering from raunchy blues workouts to church organs and cracked string arrangements. “Mason City” carries itself through three excellent pop songs, one based around hand claps and a stately piano line, another weaving in a synth line that sounds like a newborn robot cheerily whistling.

Eleanor Friedberger throws her amazingly compelling voice into the witty, adolescent adventures of boat captains fending off pirates or geriatric kidnappers. The infectious middle section of “Inspector Blancheflower” finds her innocently extolling the story of a murderous farmer over a bouncy dance beat. Not to be outdone, brother Mathew takes up the intimate tale of a love triangle gone wrong over a glittering keyboard section and a soaring chorus in the song’s final movement.

So I guess a subtitle to this review could be, “How I learned to stop worrying and love the cyborgs.” One thing these siblings have failed to alter in The Fiery Furnaces topography is the wittiness and enthusiasm that makes their Niagara Falls barrel roll through genres such a damned pleasure.

Perhaps they do demand a lot from their fans, but it’s not as if it isn’t worth it.

M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts Gooom/Mute

BY JACOB DITTMER

If you love electronic music, buy this album.

If you love pretentious European bands and being on the inside of what’s up and coming, buy this album. If you love music that has a pulse and body of its own, buy this album. If you love music, buy this album.

High accolades surround this sophomore album by the French electro-synth duo known as M83, and the accolades are just. In 12 songs, with the use of mostly electronic sounds and few instruments, these two gents create some of the most beautiful music of the past decade with waves of sound crashing in, then receding. The amount of texture and layering in sound has garnered comparisons to shoegaze’s heroes My Bloody Valentine, but those looking for Loveless II will be surprised when confronted with a wall of sound not created by a guitar, but a synthesizer and drum machine.

An album originally released last year by the small boutique electronic French label Gooom, Dead Cities has since spawned numerous EPs and a push for its release stateside. Those who purchased a $20 import were pleased to be the first on the block with Dead Cities (I know I was), but now the disc is being released via Mute records with a second disc of five songs found on the subsequent EPs and a couple of music videos to boot.Alas, those who were as floored by the brilliance of this album shan’t be disappointed to fork out another $15 to support music that is

truly deserving of their hard-earned cash.

Volumes could be written on this wonderful album, but instead the listeners are best left to decide for themselves. AIR is the best-known French electro-synth group around, thanks, in part, to contributions to numerous American indie films, but M83 treads the same path and then takes things a step farther.The duo manages to create a pastoral assortment of seemingly organic sounds via an inorganic means. Music on the cutting edge of new sounds and genres, M83’s star-oriented namesake is a foretelling of their out-of-this-world arrangements and music.

Ulrich Schnauss

A Strangely Isolated Place Domino

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI

Ulrich Schnauss’ second record is an exemplary album that benefits from its creator’s knowledge of and adherence to his genre. During the hour that A Strangely Isolated Place lasts, Schnauss assembles eight tracks of hypnotic picturesque electronica. More shoegaze than the techno of his last album, Schnauss’ musical sensibilities have remained intact, affording him the luxury of a warmth that such music frequently ignores.

The only problem is that the album comes perhaps a decade too late, a little too derivative of the early ‘90s movements that it cites. Schnauss has mastered his programming, his technical proficiency fully evident. Nevertheless, the evolution of his music has not kept up with the progressive movements that have been spawned from the genres he seemingly grew up on. A few tracks, such as “On My Own,” are fresh enough not to seem dated, but echo My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless far too closely Regardless, this is of solid quality throughout.

The German producer offers the typical thematic permutations that one would expect, but strays from the normal instrumentation and structure enough times so as to sustain tracks through what are occasionally lengthy running times. Whereas his previous CD reveled in its techno roots, here he is able to merely draw upon this aspect. In fact, occasionally he threatens to become overly lackadaisical, where some more involved energy would not necessarily be amiss. It is not sufficiently eventful to be as uplifting or inspiring as it would like. However, the beauty of his compositions are more than enough to make up for this.

Furthermore, the gradual development of the sound during the album parallels the narrative of a concept album without the insularity implicit in the term. Almost without exception A Strangely Isolated Place is superbly crafted, engaging and enjoyable.

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guitar, and he uses it to cover parts traditionally held by three separate players (keyboard, bass and guitar) simultaneously by himself, becoming a sort of one-man rhythm section. On Friends Seen and Unseen, Hunter’s first trio album in almost 10 years, he is joined by tenor sax player John Ellis (who also plays bass clarinet and flute on some tracks) and drummer Derrek Phillips.

Ten instrumental tracks comprise this album, all with imaginative titles and catchy melodies, such as the ironically-titled “Darkly,” which combines the light timbre of Ellis’ flute and the ethereal guitar effects used by Hunter on the head.

The addition of even, perpetual-motion style drumming by Phillips adds an underlying drive to the song, and the mildly unsettling dissonant intervals (both melodic and harmonic) should keep listeners on their toes. The closing track, “Moore’s Alphabet,” has a clean, progressive sound, especially evident in the bright, crisp, straight tone in Ellis’ sax playing. It has a funky blues feel, with repetitive motivic figures that are easy for the ear to latch onto, and a lot of rhythmic interest.

As far as stylistic elements go, this album is hard to place into a single category. It is a contemporary jazz set, which has many fusiony tinges of funk and rock styles, as well as some bop elements, and has a similar feel to releases by John Schofield and Medeski, Martin and Wood. Overall, the group has a lot of energy, and this set provides a solid mix of different grooves. Each track has a different character, and the CD has a congenial atmosphere throughout.This album is very hospitable to newcomers raised on rock, but retains a good deal of credibility as a jazz set, as well.

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Charlie Hunter Trio Friends Seen and Unseen Ropeadope

BY SUSAN SCHOMBURG

There exists an old maxim that every musician is influenced by his or her sonic environment while growing up, and these styles tend to seep into the player’s musical style as an adult.

California-raised guitarist Charlie Hunter is no exception to this. His music is informed by a variety of popular music, including funk, rock, blues and especially jazz. A former student of Joe Satriani, Hunter considers his music to be a continuation of the legacy of past jazz artists.

The somewhat unusual eight-string electric that Hunter plays is a hybrid of a bass and regular

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Saturday, Sept. 18 is a night of a couple of firsts. It marks the first time live music will be presented at Boneyard Pottery, an artist’s gallery and studio space in downtown Urbana. It will also be the first show that Triple Whip will be playing with their brand-spanking new drummer, Josh Birkey (ex-Solips). Headlining this night of art and rock will be fellow local rockers The Idle Hours. The night will kick off with Chicago’s Nonagon (ex-Jumpknuckle). Make note of this show’s early 8 p.m. start time, the low cover and the fact that it is all ages. Boneyard Pottery, Saturday, Sept.

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Buzz and 2ON2OUT (a.k.a. Seth Fein of Headlights fame and Buzz columnist) proudly present every indie music lover’s favorite band named after of group of failed Russian revolutionaries, The Decemberists.

This quintet native to Portland, Ore., and currently on Kill Rock Stars is swinging through C-U in lieu of playing a Chicago show, so be sure to get your tickets early—the band’s Metro show this summer sold out fast.

Come out and celebrate the evolution of radio in Champaign-Urbana with the WPGU staff. Listen all week to win tix to the show!

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Tuesday, September 21 @ The Highdive 8pm I N T R O | A R O U N D T O W N | L I S T E N , H E A R | M A I N E V E N T | A R T S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T | W I N E & D I N E | T H E S I LV E R S C R E E N | C L A S S I F I E D S

Magnet magazine has this to say about their music, “ ... the Decemberists create unique narrative (circa, say, 1824) folk-pop tunes about legionnaires, short-lived infants and reluctant mothers-turned-prostitutes. Moody organs, creaky accordions and acoustic guitar are employed as (lead singer) Meloy tells his rogue tales with a voice that’s part weathered Englishman and part the singers mentioned in the simmering stew above.”

The Decemberists are joined on this date only by Nashville rocker Bobby Bare Jr. Fellow Portlanders and tourmates Norfolk and Western will start off the night with their very own brand of folk rock. They will all be gracing the stage at The Highdive on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 9 p.m., $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

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Live Music U of I Jazz Combo under the direction of Chip McNeill The Iron Post 7-9pm, TBA Acoustic Music Series: Michael Jones & Jamie Lou Carras Aroma 8pm, free Women’s Booking Collective presents: Boy Skout, The Opportunists Cafe Paradiso 9pm, $6 Fotomana The Canopy Club 9pm, $3 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, free Sick Day CD Release Party: Sick Day, i:scintilla, Smoke Off Vinyl Mike ‘n Molly’s 9:30pm, $5 Doxy White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free Jeff Helgesens Jazz Mayhem Zorba’s 9:30-12:30pm, $3 Thursday Special: Jiggsaw, Kissinger Cowboy Monkey 11pm, free Cheating Kay [alternative rock] Verde Gallery 8pm, free

DJ DJ J-Phlip Barfly 10pm, free Passport [salsa, reggae, hip hop] Nargile 10pm, TBA DJ Bozak Boltini 10:30pm, free Dancing UIUC Swing Society McKinley Foundation 9:30-midnight, free Music Performances Jonathan Keeble [flute] Krannert Center 7:30pm, $2-$6

DJ Onda Tropical [reggae, island, Brasilian house] Cowboy Monkey 9pm, free DJ Bozak Barfly 10pm, free DJ J-Phlip Boltini 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams [dance] The Highdive 10pm, $5 Music Performances Forbidden Christmas Krannert Center 7:30pm,$26-$42

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Live Music The Prairie Dogs Cowboy Monkey 5pm, free

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Live Music Music Among the Vines Alto Vineyards 8-11pm, $3

The Idle Hours, Triple Whip, Nonagon Boneyard Pottery 8pm, $3 Green St. Records Benefit Show: Animate Objects, The Ending, Bullet Called Life, Eclectic Theory The Canopy Club 9pm, $5 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, free Candy Foster and Shades of Blue Cowboy Monkey 9:30pm, $4 Ben Bedford Embassy Tavern 9:30pm-1am, free Trouble Is [rock] Tommy G’s 10pm, cover Reasonable Doubt [rock] Pia’s in Rantoul 9pm-1am Triskelion Pages for All Ages 7pm, free

DJ DJ Carlos Barfly 10pm, free DJ Bozak Boltini 10:30pm, free Meetings Zen Meditation Meeting Prairie Zen Center, 515 S Prospect, Champaign 9am-12pm, free Music Performances Forbidden Christmas Krannert Center 7:30pm, $26-$42 Jose Franch-Ballester [clarinet] Krannert Center 3pm, $5-$32

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DJ DJ Resonate Barfly 10pm, free DJ Limbs Boltini 10pm, $3 DJ Tim Williams The Highdive 10pm, $5 Music Performances Forbidden Christmas Krannert Center 7:30pm, $26-$42

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Kevin Hart The Iron Post 5-7pm, TBA Lorenzo Goetz, The Swell Courtyard Cafe 7pm, TBA Robbie Fulks, Nora O’Connor The Highdive 7-10pm, $10 Mark Clark Borders 8-10pm, free Lucky Boys Confusion, Split Habit, Isle of View, Blame Twilight The Canopy Club 8pm, $10 in advance, $12 at the door Spiral Seisiun The Iron Post 9pm, TBA Treologic, Kalizion, Kj McKinnie Nargile 9pm, $5 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, free Renegade [southern rock] Tommy G’s 10pm, cover Elsinore White Horse Inn 10pm, free Haymarket Riot, ZZZZ (ex-Sweep the Leg Johnny, Tekulvi), Terminus Victor, Quatre Tete Mike ‘n Molly’s TBA, $5 Reasonable Doubt [rock] Game On in Sadorus 9pm-1am Triskelion Bentley’s Pub 8pm, free

September 19

Live Music Jazz Jam with ParaDocs The Iron Post 7-10pm, TBA Writers in the Round: Andy Lund, Mike Ingram, G. Lee, Liz Bowater Cowboy Monkey 7:30pm, $3 Crystal River Rose Bowl Tavern 8:30pm, free Murder By Death, Saturday Looks Good to Me, The Sunshine Fix, Chin Up Chin Up, Col. Rhodes The Highdive 9pm, $7 Open Mic with host Larry Gates White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free The Boxer Program Nargile 10pm, TBA

September 16

Live Music Maxlider, Nonthought The Canopy Club 9pm, $2 Dave & Steve [acoustic] White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free Open Mic Night hosted

by Mike Ingram Cowboy Monkey 10pm, free Finga Lickin’ The Office 10:30pm, free DJ DJ Delayney Barfly 10pm, free DJ Betty Rocker [indie rock] Mike ‘n Molly’s 10pm, $1 MC Battle Round 3 Nargile 10pm, $3 DJ Bozak Boltini 10:30pm, free Music Performance Community Drum Circle Ten Thousand Villages 7-9pm, free

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Live Music Phantom Planet, American Minor, Nadafinga The Highdive 8pm, $15 Open Mic/Open Jam w/ Mike Armintrout The Canopy Club 9pm, $2

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in pre-war Paris smuggling bombs for the underground. >> the decemberists

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Boneyard Pottery

Saturday, Sept. 18 is a night of a couple of firsts. It marks the first time live music will be presented at Boneyard Pottery, an artist’s gallery and studio space in downtown Urbana. It will also be the first show that Triple Whip will be playing with their brand-spanking new drummer, Josh Birkey (ex-Solips). Headlining this night of art and rock will be fellow local rockers The Idle Hours. The night will kick off with Chicago’s Nonagon (ex-Jumpknuckle). Make note of this show’s early 8 p.m. start time, the low cover and the fact that it is all ages. Boneyard Pottery, Saturday, Sept.

18, 8 p.m., $3.

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Buzz and 2ON2OUT (a.k.a. Seth Fein of Headlights fame and Buzz columnist) proudly present every indie music lover’s favorite band named after of group of failed Russian revolutionaries, The Decemberists.

This quintet native to Portland, Ore., and currently on Kill Rock Stars is swinging through C-U in lieu of playing a Chicago show, so be sure to get your tickets early—the band’s Metro show this summer sold out fast.

Come out and celebrate the evolution of radio in Champaign-Urbana with the WPGU staff. Listen all week to win tix to the show!

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Tuesday, September 21 @ The Highdive 8pm I N T R O | A R O U N D T O W N | L I S T E N , H E A R | M A I N E V E N T | A R T S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T | W I N E & D I N E | T H E S I LV E R S C R E E N | C L A S S I F I E D S

Magnet magazine has this to say about their music, “ ... the Decemberists create unique narrative (circa, say, 1824) folk-pop tunes about legionnaires, short-lived infants and reluctant mothers-turned-prostitutes. Moody organs, creaky accordions and acoustic guitar are employed as (lead singer) Meloy tells his rogue tales with a voice that’s part weathered Englishman and part the singers mentioned in the simmering stew above.”

The Decemberists are joined on this date only by Nashville rocker Bobby Bare Jr. Fellow Portlanders and tourmates Norfolk and Western will start off the night with their very own brand of folk rock. They will all be gracing the stage at The Highdive on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 9 p.m., $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

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Live Music U of I Jazz Combo under the direction of Chip McNeill The Iron Post 7-9pm, TBA Acoustic Music Series: Michael Jones & Jamie Lou Carras Aroma 8pm, free Women’s Booking Collective presents: Boy Skout, The Opportunists Cafe Paradiso 9pm, $6 Fotomana The Canopy Club 9pm, $3 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, free Sick Day CD Release Party: Sick Day, i:scintilla, Smoke Off Vinyl Mike ‘n Molly’s 9:30pm, $5 Doxy White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free Jeff Helgesens Jazz Mayhem Zorba’s 9:30-12:30pm, $3 Thursday Special: Jiggsaw, Kissinger Cowboy Monkey 11pm, free Cheating Kay [alternative rock] Verde Gallery 8pm, free

DJ DJ J-Phlip Barfly 10pm, free Passport [salsa, reggae, hip hop] Nargile 10pm, TBA DJ Bozak Boltini 10:30pm, free Dancing UIUC Swing Society McKinley Foundation 9:30-midnight, free Music Performances Jonathan Keeble [flute] Krannert Center 7:30pm, $2-$6

DJ Onda Tropical [reggae, island, Brasilian house] Cowboy Monkey 9pm, free DJ Bozak Barfly 10pm, free DJ J-Phlip Boltini 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams [dance] The Highdive 10pm, $5 Music Performances Forbidden Christmas Krannert Center 7:30pm,$26-$42

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BY LOGAN MOORE

Yeah, they kick the cat out the window right up front on this one. No pussyfooting around, as it were.Those fans accustomed to and expecting the engaging, jumpy “indieblues” of last year’s Gallowsbird Bark are likely to find their heads spinning like tops on their shoulders or be reduced to spasming, boneless piles of flesh. Or some other extreme metaphor for shock.Where are the acoustic guitars? Where are the jumpy drums? All we’re left with is analogue UFO noises, drum loops and a glacial piano line, while Eleanor Friedberger fronts like some extraterrestrial ice queen all ready to make out with Captain Kirk.

What happened to my beloved Fiery Furnaces? It appears as though cyborgs have maliciously murdered our ill-fated brother/sister duo, only to take on their appearance and put out an album of their own devious creation. And they’re singing about pirates ... fucking pirates, man.

Then about five minutes into the initial track, “Quay Cur,” the band throws themselves into a jumpy acoustic and electric guitar-driven jumble of words and strange solos. And then they do it again; the song mysteriously shifts into acoustic guitar and tambourine-driven delicate dirge. It’s very pretty. And, suddenly, it dawns on the listener; The Fiery Furnaces have decided to release their inner circus freak show on the world, the grotesque, art-rock obsessed, hobgoblin that lurked at the center of this apparently lovable indie band. Blueberry Boat is bizarre, extremely difficult, awkward, fascinating and, ultimately, impossible not to love.

Few albums in recent memory have been as divisive as Blueberry Boat. The album’s detractors obviously feel cheated, having been turned on to the band’s straightforward, cutesy, tongue-in-cheek debut. Hell, I was. Hardly anyone was expecting an album of labyrinthine art-rock tunes with multiple movements, dense orchestration and little internal logic, the songs completely diverging with little to no transition. It’s brainy stuff and a little alienating.

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from its listeners. The Friedbergers lay down the gauntlet right from the beginning, “Quay Cur” being the most difficult and out-there track on the entire album.

Check out the second one though; “Straight Street,” is far more indicative of the remainder of the album. Keeping a similar verse chorus structure for the song’s nearly six-minute length, the instruments vary wildly between choruses and verses, veering from raunchy blues workouts to church organs and cracked string arrangements. “Mason City” carries itself through three excellent pop songs, one based around hand claps and a stately piano line, another weaving in a synth line that sounds like a newborn robot cheerily whistling.

Eleanor Friedberger throws her amazingly compelling voice into the witty, adolescent adventures of boat captains fending off pirates or geriatric kidnappers. The infectious middle section of “Inspector Blancheflower” finds her innocently extolling the story of a murderous farmer over a bouncy dance beat. Not to be outdone, brother Mathew takes up the intimate tale of a love triangle gone wrong over a glittering keyboard section and a soaring chorus in the song’s final movement.

So I guess a subtitle to this review could be, “How I learned to stop worrying and love the cyborgs.” One thing these siblings have failed to alter in The Fiery Furnaces topography is the wittiness and enthusiasm that makes their Niagara Falls barrel roll through genres such a damned pleasure.

Perhaps they do demand a lot from their fans, but it’s not as if it isn’t worth it.

M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts Gooom/Mute

BY JACOB DITTMER

If you love electronic music, buy this album.

If you love pretentious European bands and being on the inside of what’s up and coming, buy this album. If you love music that has a pulse and body of its own, buy this album. If you love music, buy this album.

High accolades surround this sophomore album by the French electro-synth duo known as M83, and the accolades are just. In 12 songs, with the use of mostly electronic sounds and few instruments, these two gents create some of the most beautiful music of the past decade with waves of sound crashing in, then receding. The amount of texture and layering in sound has garnered comparisons to shoegaze’s heroes My Bloody Valentine, but those looking for Loveless II will be surprised when confronted with a wall of sound not created by a guitar, but a synthesizer and drum machine.

An album originally released last year by the small boutique electronic French label Gooom, Dead Cities has since spawned numerous EPs and a push for its release stateside. Those who purchased a $20 import were pleased to be the first on the block with Dead Cities (I know I was), but now the disc is being released via Mute records with a second disc of five songs found on the subsequent EPs and a couple of music videos to boot.Alas, those who were as floored by the brilliance of this album shan’t be disappointed to fork out another $15 to support music that is

truly deserving of their hard-earned cash.

Volumes could be written on this wonderful album, but instead the listeners are best left to decide for themselves. AIR is the best-known French electro-synth group around, thanks, in part, to contributions to numerous American indie films, but M83 treads the same path and then takes things a step farther.The duo manages to create a pastoral assortment of seemingly organic sounds via an inorganic means. Music on the cutting edge of new sounds and genres, M83’s star-oriented namesake is a foretelling of their out-of-this-world arrangements and music.

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A Strangely Isolated Place Domino

BY SHADIE ELNASHAI

Ulrich Schnauss’ second record is an exemplary album that benefits from its creator’s knowledge of and adherence to his genre. During the hour that A Strangely Isolated Place lasts, Schnauss assembles eight tracks of hypnotic picturesque electronica. More shoegaze than the techno of his last album, Schnauss’ musical sensibilities have remained intact, affording him the luxury of a warmth that such music frequently ignores.

The only problem is that the album comes perhaps a decade too late, a little too derivative of the early ‘90s movements that it cites. Schnauss has mastered his programming, his technical proficiency fully evident. Nevertheless, the evolution of his music has not kept up with the progressive movements that have been spawned from the genres he seemingly grew up on. A few tracks, such as “On My Own,” are fresh enough not to seem dated, but echo My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless far too closely Regardless, this is of solid quality throughout.

The German producer offers the typical thematic permutations that one would expect, but strays from the normal instrumentation and structure enough times so as to sustain tracks through what are occasionally lengthy running times. Whereas his previous CD reveled in its techno roots, here he is able to merely draw upon this aspect. In fact, occasionally he threatens to become overly lackadaisical, where some more involved energy would not necessarily be amiss. It is not sufficiently eventful to be as uplifting or inspiring as it would like. However, the beauty of his compositions are more than enough to make up for this.

Furthermore, the gradual development of the sound during the album parallels the narrative of a concept album without the insularity implicit in the term. Almost without exception A Strangely Isolated Place is superbly crafted, engaging and enjoyable.

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guitar, and he uses it to cover parts traditionally held by three separate players (keyboard, bass and guitar) simultaneously by himself, becoming a sort of one-man rhythm section. On Friends Seen and Unseen, Hunter’s first trio album in almost 10 years, he is joined by tenor sax player John Ellis (who also plays bass clarinet and flute on some tracks) and drummer Derrek Phillips.

Ten instrumental tracks comprise this album, all with imaginative titles and catchy melodies, such as the ironically-titled “Darkly,” which combines the light timbre of Ellis’ flute and the ethereal guitar effects used by Hunter on the head.

The addition of even, perpetual-motion style drumming by Phillips adds an underlying drive to the song, and the mildly unsettling dissonant intervals (both melodic and harmonic) should keep listeners on their toes. The closing track, “Moore’s Alphabet,” has a clean, progressive sound, especially evident in the bright, crisp, straight tone in Ellis’ sax playing. It has a funky blues feel, with repetitive motivic figures that are easy for the ear to latch onto, and a lot of rhythmic interest.

As far as stylistic elements go, this album is hard to place into a single category. It is a contemporary jazz set, which has many fusiony tinges of funk and rock styles, as well as some bop elements, and has a similar feel to releases by John Schofield and Medeski, Martin and Wood. Overall, the group has a lot of energy, and this set provides a solid mix of different grooves. Each track has a different character, and the CD has a congenial atmosphere throughout.This album is very hospitable to newcomers raised on rock, but retains a good deal of credibility as a jazz set, as well.

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There exists an old maxim that every musician is influenced by his or her sonic environment while growing up, and these styles tend to seep into the player’s musical style as an adult.

California-raised guitarist Charlie Hunter is no exception to this. His music is informed by a variety of popular music, including funk, rock, blues and especially jazz. A former student of Joe Satriani, Hunter considers his music to be a continuation of the legacy of past jazz artists.

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in a Robyn Hitchcock song or they’re using more contemporary characters in a little more self-deprecating sort of a way.”

With the songs’ effusive language, eccentric characters and beguiling narratives, Meloy has been accused of being something of a frustrated short-story writer. Meloy answers, “It’s the third dimension, in that you’re using melody, which evokes an emotion or setting all on its own. It’s a pretty complete way of telling a story.”

Indeed, the immediacy of The Decemberists’ music, whether they be delicate ballads or big bouncy pop, is half of their appeal.“Folk music was the music that I grew up with,” relates Meloy. “I have my trysts with Depeche Mode, but I listen to mostly pop and rock that guitar, bass and drums set up.”

The instrumentation on the average Decemberists’ album bubbles over with pedal steel, strummed acoustic, analog keyboards and, of course, the ever-present and ever-passionate accordion playing of

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be. It’s a more complete picture of the music we want to create.We have the time and money and resources to flesh it out ... it’s the closest we’ve come to seeing our vision through to the end.”

It’s clear that The Decemberists are on a roll, one of those rare occasions where a band seems to effortlessly pump out works of both great creativity and refined quality control. “I think the really strong songwriters are the ones who take risks and are willing to write some weird stuff ... but they’ll always be on the margins,” Meloy observes.

Perhaps, but with the band’s overwhelming talent and increasing notability, Decemberists’ fans can still hope for a day when they’ll stumble across their mother in the kitchen, hair in pink plastic curlers, feet clad in fuzzy yellow slippers, using the spatula as an impromptu microphone, vamping it up and belting out lovely tongue twisters like, “Pretty hands do pretty things when pretty times buzz swim where arise/Seraphim and seaweed

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local music, and I hereby declare Kissinger an honorary local band. Last year, Kissinger came here from Austin, Texas, three times to open for the likes of Absinthe Blind, American Minor, Equinox and The Red Hot Valentines. Regardless of audience size, guitarist Chopper delivers his vocals with the ardor of a young Patti Smith and eyes as big as dinner plates. Rarely is rock ‘n’ roll raunch so catchily charismatic.

Kissinger joins with JigGsaw tonight at 11:00 for the Thursday Special at Cowboy Monkey. No cover!

Earlier tonight, at 8:00, Sick Day release their second EP. Mixed at Private Studios, Happy Ending features the single “Don’t Help.” The show is at Mike ‘n Molly’s in the beer garden, so bring a coat or sweater.

Smoke Off Vinyl and i:scintilla open. Sick Day guitarist Adam Wolfe meanwhile remains a singer-songwriter in his own right. His solo EP, Rockstar, produced by Andy Lund (G. Lee & Jet Blonde, Temple of Low Men) and first forecast for release June 11, now is due out Oct. 14.

Tomorrow marks day two of 18 on a nonstop international tour by Terminus Victor and was supposed to be the release date for their sophomore effort, Under

Surveillance. Three-string bassist Scott Kimble explains: “Realistically, we’re almost at mixdown stage. We figured we’d just take our time and make this record something that (guitarist Don King) and I have always wanted to put out since we started playing together.” He elaborates: “We’re thinking the record will be in our hands around November or so. I would like to say thanks for everyone’s support and thumbs up to an excellent local scene.” The show tomorrow is at Mike ‘n Molly’s and still will spotlight most material on the new album; Haymarket Riot, ZZZZ and Quatre Tete open. Another show Oct. 3 at Cowboy Monkey concludes the tour and tentatively will include all the new material; Crimson Sweet opens. In addition, Terminus Victor side project Little Black Spiders ends their hiatus Oct. 23 with an appearance at Mike ‘n Molly’s.

Oakland band Replicator cancelled their tour, so Chicago band Nonagon, which features John Hastie of Jumpknuckle, will open for Triple Whip and The Idle Hours at Boneyard Pottery; this all-ages show is Sept. 18. An open practice or two notwithstanding, this show is drummer Josh Birky’s official first with Triple Whip. Guitarist Santanu Rahman will debut and distribute issue three of his free magazine Asian Americans Rock!

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Emergence showcases 12 bands, each with University student involvement, and was recorded this February with Mark Rubel at Pogo Studio. To celebrate the rerelease, four of the bands will play together that night at The Canopy Club: Bullet Called Life (classic rock),The Ending (hard rock), Eclectic Theory (college rock) and Animate Objects (hip hop).

Apropos of last week’s look at singersongwriters, an event at Cowboy Monkey the third Sunday of every month affords a unique opportunity to enjoy bards as they discuss and perform their music.At Writers in the Round, four musicians form a queue on stage and alternate with acoustic versions of original material, often collaboratively. Guests this month are Andy Lund, Mike Ingram, G. Lee and Liz Bowater. Show time is at 7:30 on Sept. 19.

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Even if you're not a jazz fan, you'll thrive in the coming week by using a modus operandi that resembles jazz. I suggest, therefore, that you improvise frequently. Experiment with intricate, strong, and playful rhythms. Infuse your yearning for freedom with humor. For further insight about how to proceed, meditate on the following clues from three jazz greats. Ornette Coleman: "Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time." John Coltrane: "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." Miles Davis: "Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

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(May 21-June 20):

One of my best teachers always referred to himself as an *unteacher.* "My goal is to strip away your certainties," he said, "so you can be alert to how mysterious life actually is."

He didn't want to fill me up with a load of fixed ideas, in other words, but rather encourage me to cultivate the habit of questioning everything. I wish I could perform the same service for you, Gemini, especially now that you're becoming more receptive to the naked truth. I'd like to help you understand that in order to fall deeply in love with the world's messy beauty, you need to be able to gaze upon it as if it were just created a moment ago. (P.S. As psychotherapist Rober t Augustus Masters says, the truth cannot be rehearsed.)

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Jennee Conlee. Drum loops on a Decemberists album would seem as gauche as Oscar Wilde making a fart joke.

“I’ve always been fascinated with more traditional instruments,” states Meloy.“I’ve pretty much only played acoustic guitar.

I’ve tried playing electric guitar but it’s always very clumsy ... my love for folk music clashes with my love for more contemporary pop.”

The leap from the more sanguine ballads of their first album, Castaways and Cutouts, to the more flamboyant, orchestral elements of their follow-up, Her Majesty The Decemberists, finds the band growing far more comfortable with the grand, theatrical aspirations of their songwriting. This trend is in glaring evidence on this year’s EP, The Tain, an 18-minute epic based on Celtic mythology, veering from electric rock riffage to music box interludes with bowed cello. “We’ve just finished tracking what I think will be the new record,” reveals Meloy.”It’s definitely raised the bar on how dramatic you can

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Young rock bands often do cover tunes, copies of songs originally performed by well-known musicians they admire. Art teachers sometimes give their students the assignment of reproducing the great paintings of the old masters. To take maximum advantage of the current astrological influences, I suggest you use this strategy in your own unique way, Cancerian. Pick a hero, either dead or alive, either famous or unsung, whose approach to life you admire. Find out as much as you can about that person, and then engage in a flurry of imitation. Dress, talk, think, and dream like your hero. In every situation you're in, ask yourself what he or she would do. Have imaginary conversations, fantasize abundantly, and move through your days and nights as if you are that person.

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In the coming week you will be prone to eruptions of intuition about exciting future events that you have not previously imagined. Lucid visions of challenging adventures may pop into your mind's eye out of nowhere. When you come into the presence of people who may one day figure prominently in your creative departures from routine, you might feel chills run up and down your spine. Be alert for these signals from the Great Beyond.

It's time for you to become your own fortune-teller.

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To achieve your dreams, writes Chuck Klosterman in Esquire, you shouldn't obsess on cultivating allies. The two most important characters in the life of any successful human, he says, are a nemesis and an archenemy. While I don't wholeheartedly endorse this exaggerated position, Pisces, I do recommend it now for your temporary use. Nothing will sharpen your wits so much in the coming weeks as competitors and people who don't agree with you. They will be catalysts who'll provide you with all the motivation you need to leap to the next level of excellence.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

"I lost the plot for a while," says a character in Nick Hornby's novel, High Fidelity. "And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, the popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign." I'm betting you could have said something like that recently, Libra. The story of your life seemed to have been whisked out from under you and banished to the wilderness on the outskirts of limbo, where the wasteland meets no man's land. That's the bad news. The good news is that while you may never recover the plot you started with, you'll soon find a brand new one that's better than the original.

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"The conversation didn't get interesting until the end, after we ran out of things to say." Blogger Michael Barrish (www.oblivio.com) wrote that about a date he went on. I'd like to recommend it as your guiding principle in the coming week. Your assignment is to choose a person with whom you will talk and talk and talk until you are all talked out. At that point, though, you won't run along to your next appointments, but will dwell in the awkwardness as long as it takes for you to stumble upon a new way of being together. Furthermore, Scorpio, I urge you to apply this approach in as many other ways as you can imagine.

Hang out in the pregnant silences on the other side of the climaxes.

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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Physicists have been on a roll for the last hundred years.

Beginning with Einstein's theory of relativity in 1905, they've uncovered secrets of the cosmos that would have seemed like magic to nineteenth-century scientists. Yet they still haven't found their Holy Grail—the "Theory of Everything" that would tie together all their discoveries and, in the words of Stephen Hawkings, allow them to "read the mind of God." According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you Sagittarians have been on a similar ride in the past 12 months. You've gathered tantalizing clues to the greatest mysteries of your life, but have not tracked down your personal Theory of Everything. That could change in the coming weeks, though. You're closer to the Grail than you've ever been.

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(Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Your immediate future reminds me of the Buddhist monks I saw beaming child-like smiles and waving their arms exuberantly as they rode the roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

Why? Because I believe that whatever discipline and devotion you have brought to your spiritual work in the past year will soon be rewarded, probably with a thrilling ride that dissolves obstacles or a soaring adventure that breaks down inhibitions.

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Crystal River Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, free Acoustic Tuesday: Kate Hathaway White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free The Firebird Band, Life at Sea, TBA Nargile 10pm, TBA Adam Wolfe’s Acoustic Night with Jess Greenlee Tommy G’s 10pm, free DJ Irish DJ Mike ‘n Molly’s 5-10pm, free DJ Sophisto Barfly 10pm, free 2ON2OUT [rock] Cowboy Monkey 10pm, free DJ Jim Creason Mike ‘n Molly’s 10pm, $1 DJ J-Phlip Boltini 10:30pm, free

Puddle of Mudd, Lovehammers The Canopy Club 9pm, TBA 2ON2OUT and Buzz present: The Decemberists, Bobby Bare Jr. Norfolk and Western The Highdive 9pm, $15 Hard Poor Korn Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, free Kilborn Alley [blues] Tommy G’s 9pm, free Apollo Project Nargile 10pm, $3 DJ Salsateca! with DJ Bris Cowboy Monkey 9:30pm, free Chef Ra! Barfly 10pm, free DJ Boardwalk Mike ‘n Molly’s 10pm, $1 DJ Limbs Boltini 10:30pm, free Karaoke Outlaw Karaoke White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free

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ART — ON VIEW NOW Alchemy and the Stones of Brittany: Sculptures and Encaustic Paintings by Toni Putnam.

Verde Gallery, 17 E Taylor St, Champaign Mon-Sat 7am-10pm Marque Strickland [Mixed media drawings and paintings] Cafe Kopi Mon-Thu 7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am-12pm, Sun 11am-8pm “Original Watercolors and Pastels” [Artwork by Andy Gillis and Jeannine Bestoso on display through July 31. Both artists use a variety of experimental media] Aroma Cafe, 7am-midnight every day “Featured Works XVIII: Art and Spirituality in the Medieval World” [Explores the sacred word, devotional objects and cultural interchange. Includes artwork from the major religious context within the Mediterranean region, like Medieval Europe, Byzantium and the Jadaic and Islamic traditions] Krannert Art Museum through Oct 24 Tue, Thu-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 25pm, $3 “eGo: A Selection of Abstract Work by Randall A. D. Plankenhorn” [Work from Randall Plankenhorn, an Urbana native. Each black-and-white photograph reflects the larger theme of distorted views of self both through the lens of introspection and relationships.] Aroma Cafe, 7am-midnight every day through Sept 30 “Restoring Byzantium: The Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration” [Devoted to the restoration of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul, originally the church of Christ in the Chora Monastery] Krannert Center, through Oct 10. Tue, Thu-Sat 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm, Suggested donation: $3 “Faculty Art Exhibition” [Recent works of painting, sculpture, installation art, photography, glass, graphic design and other media will be exhibited through Oct 3.]

School of Art and Design, Tue, Thu-Sat 9am5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sun 2-5pm, Suggested donation: $3 Annual Parkland Art and Design Faculty Exhibition [Features 24 local artists who teach graphic design and fine art classes at Parkland College through Sept 24] Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Mon-Thu 6-8pm and Sat 12-2pm, free Steeple Gallery [by Gary Ingersol, including the Allerton Series, U of I Series and Unique Monticello Series] 102 E Lafayette St, Monticello. Mon-Fri 10am-

Musical Performances Come Home Charley Patton Krannert Center 7:30pm, $21-$33

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Lectures Meet Your County Board Candidates Hawthorn Suites, 101 Trade Center Dr, Champaign 7-8am, $5 377-3318 for info

Larry Kanfer [Four galleries feature Larry Kanfer’s new pieces of the Midwest Prairie. Photographs from the University of Illinois, Upper Midwest, Coast to Coast and European Collections also included]2503 S Neil, Champaign.

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During a six-year period of his life, music composer Johann Sebastian Bach created an average of one cantata every single week. In the coming days, you could be that prolific in your own chosen field, Aquarius. The creative juices should be flowing through you like a tidal wave; your ability to dream up fresh solutions to nagging puzzles should be at a peak. If for some reason none of what I'm saying seems to be true, it means you need to stop what you're doing, go sit under a tree, and listen more attentively to your fantasies.

Music Performances Elliot Chasanov [trombone] Krannert Center 7:30pm, $2-$6

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

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It's sowing time, Virgo. Seeds you plant in the coming days will grow into the crop you will ultimately harvest in July, 2005. If you think big, those seeds will also figure prominently in blooms that won't fully ripen until the latter part of 2015 and the first nine months of 2016. I suppose it's possible you'll get freaked out by the pressure, and pretend you don't have the awesome power I'm telling you that you have. In that case, you'll distract yourself with a thousand and one trivial concerns and let blind fate do the seed-planting for you. But I don't recommend that approach. IO'd love for you to get excited as you contemplate what you want to be doing 12 years from now.

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CANNOT TEACH A PERSON ANYTHING; YOU CAN

Seraphim and seaweed swim where stick-limbed Myla lies.”

ONLY HELP HIM FIND IT WITHIN HIMSELF.

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he School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, as stuffy and sterile as it may sound, is anything but. Upon entering, one can see the different kinds of humor each artist has.

Joel Ross’ “Leaving Stories” pieces illustrate quirky phrases in odd places. After uprooting a hotel mattress, Ross taped cut-out alphabet letters to the floor, spelling out the message “Pretending to be strangers.”

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“Every motel room seems to hum from all the hundreds of people who have been there,” reflects Ross. “There’s always a murmur of past conversations in the air.”

His messages bring a whimsical mood to ordinary places; he leaves some to be unearthed one day, leaving the recipient of the discovery puzzling over the suggestion of a narrative of what might have been.

Nathan Westerman, recent graduate of the master of fine arts program, and art proprietor for the Springer Center, appreciates Ross’ message-in-a-bottle pieces with their blue-collar aesthetic. “A lot of the artwork here is somewhat absurdist,” he comments, and focuses on another piece, a series of photographs called “Ivy League Tree Trunks (Princeton),” a work

by Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler.

“I really like the texture of the tree trunks.

They’re phallic, especially that knobby one,” he declares, and makes sure to point out the differing sizes.

Billie Jean Theide’s “With This Ring...” provides a biting critique of marriage, offering the viewer numerous vintage ring boxes—some of which contain words like “Deceitful” and “Abusive” on the fabric backing, instead of the usual jeweler’s address. The emptiness of the jewelry boxes seems to suggest the emptiness of the institution, evident in “Lecherous” and “Destructive” cases of marriage.

The variety of artwork at this show makes it unique. It is not bound by one particular theme.The messages the works convey are just as varied as the kinds of media employed.

Sculpture, painting, ceramic work and film are only a few of the types of media used.

One example of the ceramic work is Ron Kovatch’s “White Noise,” a sculpture of an ivory ear entombed by amber-like resin, all within a hefty black box made up of what seems to be ear canal tubes.

Kovatch comments,“Ears are vessels that collect and contain things ethereal. And in today’s culture, it seems at times, too much information enters which is difficult to filter, consider, organize, etc.”

In this piece and another of his, called “Fat Free,” Kovatch plays with this idea by having debris float in the resin between the ear and the surface, giving the viewer the opportunity to decide which facets of the piece are important and which are visual clutter. He enjoys

random chaos and the way the resin is like amber, freezing objects and images in time and space with no regard to context, sequence or organization: “How much that chaotic phenomenon out of our control affects our daily lives,” he muses.

The must-see of the exhibit is “360” by Nan Goggin and Joseph Squier.Their work, years in the making, combines virtual reality with a symphony of images, sounds and unspoken thoughts. Furthermore, it makes use of a favorite American staple: 3-D goggles.

Three couples are illustrated in this piece, all at different stages in their lives, as well as in their relationships. The viewer hears the conversations and sees the thoughts of the speakers play out on the canvas in front of them.

The piece makes a statement about how one’s focus changes as time goes by—the young couple doesn’t think about what the older couple thinks about, even if their conversations are somewhat similar. If the viewer plays with the joystick, brief reflections by the speakers come to light even while their conversation is going on; the voices come together like music. The precision with which the artists capture the humanity in this piece is unbelievable.

The unique and personal experience one comes away with more than justifies the long pilgrimage to the Krannert Art Museum to see it.

The span of time in which the exhibition runs is punctuated with opportunities to hear the artists speak about their work in the field. All through September, the community is invited to hear talks given by the faculty about their particular area of study.

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The general exhibit runs until Oct. 3, and the talks are given on Wednesdays in September at noon.The remaining ones are: Sept. 22 Joel Ross Foundations+Painting Sept. 29 Ron Kovatch Ceramics

“Balance” by Alan T. Mette is currently showing at the Krannert Art Museum in the School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibit.

The Decemberists are performing at The Highdive on Sept. 22.

Tickets are $12 (in advance) and $15 (at door).

Judi Ross's creation of lily pads in blue vases titled “How Does your Garden Grow?” will be on display until Oct. 3.

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ou’ll never be so deeply moved by a song revolving around maritime Victorian imagery. Never. It’s a phrase that describes The Decemberists better than, probably, anything else. The only thing more striking than their literary pretensions, so grandiose that they border on the bizarre, is their ability to marry them to gorgeous, elegant, folk pop so dramatically catchy and singable, you’ll find shanties about pirates permanently imbedded in your frontal lobe and hollering lines about “a crooked French Canadian who was gutshot running gin” in the car when no one is looking won’t seem an uncommon event.

This little band from Portland, Ore., led by the inimitable, bespectacled Colin Meloy, has managed a daring feat, indeed.

By making the world of pop music safe once again for shy English majors waiting to release their inner thespian, the band has garnered nationwide acclaim from Magnet to The New York Times to Rolling Stone, and has a fanatically devoted fan base.

It wasn’t always quite so glamorous, though. Lead singer and songwriter Colin Meloy started off in the trenches of the Portland scene, playing solo shows at open mic nights. Learning that when you have no audience there’s no risks you can’t take, Meloy began to develop his singular style, letting his love of literature seep into his songwriting.

“There was no flashpoint,” says Meloy.

“I played a lot of solo shows and it started by my meeting people who played in the scene.” Before long he was joined by Jenny Conlee on accordion and keyboards, Chris Funk on electric guitar, Rachel Blumberg on drums and Jesse Emerson on upright bass; and The Decemberists were born, to the delight of discerning music lovers everywhere.

In their early stages the band was cited as being of something of a country band, although, Meloy offers this to clarify: “I’ve always played folk music in one form or another. We were still like a pop band but with a banjo ... we only teased with country music. The writing is defi-

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nitely divergent though. It’s more fantastic and hinges on exotic archetypes and toying with mythology.”

And hinge it does. Great musical chemistry is usually born of the most bizarre and unwieldy combinations.

There are certain basic preconceptions about excellent pop music that The Decemberists have decided not to break wide open as much as politely step over.

For instance; songs about orphaned 18th century chimney sweeps or the laments of a legionnaire should, by all rights, be pretentious to the point that having an aneurysm under the weight of it all would not seem extraordinary. One element that holds it all together is a sense of humor, a clever playfulness sorely lacking in the modern pop landscape. In a line from “Los Angeles, I’m Yours” Meloy sings of the women of the city thusly, “Oh, ladies pleasant and demure/sallowcheeked and sure/I can see your undies.”

Meloy says, “(Humor) plays a huge, huge

part. It’s equally half and half between the serious and the tongue-in-cheek, highminded and a really low form of sophomoric humor.”

The high-minded portion of The Decemberists may be what arrests the listener’s attention first, though, with each song seemingly rooted in a time and place far more exotic and romanticized than our own. “I’m not a history buff,” states Meloy. “It’s the sort of history you’d get from any basic 101 course. It’s mostly literary archetypes as they’ve been passed down through historical literature.

Everything from Robert Louis Stevenson to Nabokov, it’s all there.”

The complexity of The Decemberists’ subject material extends into Meloy’s absurdly verbose delivery as well. It is a rare breed of songwriter who can lovingly throw the term “pantaloons” into a song and make it work. Amazingly, though, this terminology never seems as awkward or clumsy as it should be. “More often than

not, the words are there for the sake of the song,” comments Meloy, “they work with the rhythm and the meter. I only use a word if it’s one that makes sense.And most of the words that get tagged as Decemberists’ words are there because they’re pretty and provide context.”

Up to this point those readers unfamiliar with The Decemberists oeuvre may feel this is all too devastatingly clever, like a fey Lit student’s wet dream, but wholly alienating to those without a working knowledge of the ins and outs of Dickens and Melville. And yet, Meloy always manages to craft his tales in such a way that his characters, the vagabond French lieutenants and orphaned ghosts, engender a peculiar sort of sympathy, rather than being merely unusually witty tropes lacking the ability to connect with the listener. On speaking of songwriting, Meloy claims he finds a song more to his liking if, “the narrator is believable and likable, whether the narration is more surreal, as

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Rosalind Faiman Weinberg is a local artist.

The piece featured is titled “Inside-Outside: Hommage to New York City� and was featured in a show in Battle Creek, Mich., titled: “A Response to 9/11: Artists paint their reaction to the fall of the World Trade Center.� The clues to the relevance of this apparently normal urban landscape lie in the details in the drawing.You have to look closely. Hence the title.

However,after some thought,I would want to dine with David Hockney.

Our conversation would hinge on two topics; one, his research into the effect of the camera obscura on the developmental leap forward of the visual arts around 1380 A.D. on, in Renaissance Europe, and, second, to ask him why he painted his “Yorkshire Moors� series of paintings in deep reds.

Hockney was born a Yorkshireman and I spent three and a half years in that part of England as a graduate student. I did a lot of hiking in the moors and dales of the area in my free time. The countryside is suffused with pale shades of green and purple. So, why deep reds, David? I am intrigued.

What inspires you?

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I consider myself a landscape painter even when I am painting and drawing portraits.

People are just human landscapes, after all.

What artist would you have dinner with?

This was a tough one to decide.

Historically speaking, I would have loved to have dined with Wassily Kandinsky or Max Ernst, two artists who have heavily influenced my artistic development.

I consider Gerhardt Richter one of the greatest painters of our time.

What environment do you like best?

A very quiet, contemplative one, preferably pastoral, with nothing but birdsong and other neighborhood extraneous noise. I love music, but unlike other artists I know, music can be distracting.This amuses my husband, who often listens to music while working. I would want to concentrate on the music rather than the task in hand.

For the last year I have been painting and drawing in our sunroom, which looks out onto a large yard with lots of trees and hidden from the city streets on all four sides.

require them to learn of the artist. For example, all beginning art students learn something about Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo because they are, in many ways, the founding fathers of the two- and three-dimensional art we practice today.

However, few students learn enough about them to understand how and why they arrived at the level of their craft. That story, in both their cases, is fascinating both technically and scientifically. Knowing their story is a way of getting to know their artistic voice and by studying them you can begin to understand how and why art is made. So, I would require my students to pick any artist who intrigues them, from any period in history, but one who has at least already lived his or her life, and to get to know him or her, and the artistic period in which they lived and worked, as well as possible to try to understand their artistic development. That does not occur in a vacuum. You cannot make art without having a story to tell, whether that story is in words or in pictures.

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Who would you require all art students to learn about ?

The hardest question of all to answer. For it is not so much who I would require my students to learn about, but what I would

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Krannert Center is once again offering a wonderful variety of evening entertainment to broaden your views of the performing arts. In classical music, The U of I Symphonic Bands will give concerts on Sunday, Sept. 26 and Wednesday, Sept. 29.

For lovers of great soloists, two great ones from two different generations will showcase their instruments. Spanish clarinetist Jose FranchBallester will perform on Sunday, Sept. 19, with Andrius Zlabys at the piano. And speaking of classical, legendary Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar will re-create his magic on Sept. 30.

Trying to remember when you first encountered Ravi Shankar? His U.S. debut was at Carnegie Hall in 1938.

In theater and dance, Krannert has some spectacular visiting artists, which will include the world premiere of Come Home Charley Patton, Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy.This live multimedia show explores critical events in American racial history in the context of Southern culture.

This unique event will be presented on Sept. 21 and 22. Another new multimedia show from Georgian artist (that’s the country, not the the state) Rezo Gabriadze, Forbidden Christmas or the Doctor and the Patient, will be performed on Sept.

17-19.Among the the fine performers coming to town for this one is Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Guest director Caroline Kava will kick off the University of Illinois’ fall stage offerings in the Studio with As it is in Heaven, running from Sept.

30 to Oct. 10 on weekends. This new play by Arlene Hutton is a portrait of Kentucky’s Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1838 from the point of view of the women.

Some solid simple pleasures from the world of popular music can also be had at Krannert in September; Nancy Wilson and Ramsey Lewis will present their new show, which is Simple Pleasures, on Sept. 26.

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EXPANDING SERVICES FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION There are also two rooms available for women without children.

The CWT currently houses 11 families and five single women. It is working to find omen and their children find contractors in order to begin the building refuge from financial instabilities, single par- of an additional house. They have been enthood and homelessness at the Center for attempting to build the new house since fall Women in Transition (CWT), 508 E. Church of 2003. Yet the date for groundbreaking St., in Champaign. After 19 years of opera- continues to be pushed back, Sims said. tion, the center is now ready to expand its “We’ve learned to anticipate anything, shelter to offer more to women in need. good or bad, because we’ve had so many “(Community members) saw that there ‘official’ groundbreaking dates. Now we’re was an issue to be dealt with and decided that at our final ends. And we’re at the point they should build a safe place for women to where we have to build,” Sims said. go,” said Kathy Sims, director of the CWT. If everything in Sims’ plan goes correctSince 1985, the CWT has provided shel- ly, groundbreaking for the new building ter for a maximum of 32 women and chil- will take place in October of 2004, and the dren at any given time.The facility has two house will be open by June of 2005. houses, the Clara Forbes house, named after The new building will have five rooms to the wife of former University of Illinois house five families and an elevator to meet professor, Steven Forbes.The other home is accessibility codes.There will also be a comcalled the Deloris Evans house, named after puter lab, library, music room, and arts and one of the former presidents of the CWT. crafts center. Most importantly to Sims is an education center that will allow the women to continue their studies and provide more tutoring programs for the children.

“Hopefully the program will allow them to fulfill their dreams while they don’t have financial burdens,” Sims said.

John Phillips, coordinator of the children’s program at the CWT, anticipates the extension of the center.

“I really just want to see more people being served in the future,” Phillips said.

Executive Director of the Center for Women in Transition Kathy The CWT has been writSims (right), speaks with Tonja Nohmer, family advocate.The mis- ing grant proposals and sellsion of the shelter is to provide homes for women and children, sup- ing bricks for $150. For port services and safe transitional housing. every brick sold, the buyer

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gets to engrave a message on the stone that will be placed among the others in the walkway in front of the new house.

The CWT has already received a $100,000 grant from the Unlimited Possibilities Service center.

“They made it possible for us to dream about building a new house,” Sims said.

While Sims is optimistic about the new project, she said she knows that they may have to do additional fund raising in order to have sufficient funds.

The need for a new center was the result of the scarcity of jobs in the Champaign County area, as well as the attacks of Sept.

11.The need for shelter and other assistance is a direct reflection on the status of the economy, explained Sims.

At the CWT, if a woman has no income, she does not have to pay rent. However, if a woman does have an income, the CWT asks for $60 monthly to help with facility costs.

“We want the women to be able to save some money while they stay here,” said Sims.

A woman and her children are able to live there for up to two years. Sims said that no

boys over the age of 13 are allowed because the center tries to hinder any potential conflicts that may occur with adolescents and smaller children.

“It’s difficult to see kids who have experienced a lot for their age, and you see those experiences reflected in their behavior,” Phillips said.“A lot of them haven’t had the chance to be a child. So I try to offer them a loving relationship where they can be a kid.”

A case worker is provided to each family to help assist in finding permanent housing and employment; however, the women are also expected to do their share of work in taking steps toward bettering their future.

“Challenges do exist. It’s not always easy to live with other people. We have chores here and we expect for everyone to respect the house. You have to adapt, you have to learn to adjust, “ Sims said.

The CWT and its new addition, the Unlimited Possibilities Center, plan to continue reaching out to these in need and offering a safe haven for women and children seeking shelter.

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q+a On Main Street in downtown Urbana, bakery owner Courtney Ballard has been serving up some amazing baked goods for the past seven years at Mirabelle Fine Pastries. With nonartificial products imported from Chicago and France, Mirabelle’s is a popular bakery in town. Ballard talks about her European-influenced bakery.

Our bread makers begin work between four and six o’clock in the morning. The day before they prepare starters so the morning consists of mixing, shaping and letting the bread rise. The whole process takes about six hours.

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and seven in the morning to begin baking. They, too, have done some preparation the day before. In addition, we bake cookies 120 at a time along with coffeecake and brownies, which are made daily. Then, we move on to making sandwiches and salads along with any cake orders we may have. Most of the baking is normally done (by) around 1:00 p.m.

Do you have a favorite pastry or one in particular you would recommend?

The most popular product is the cheese danish, which we make on Saturdays. We used to only make about 30, but with their growing popularity, we make about 75 now.

Honestly, the space that came available was the biggest factor. The rent was incredibly cheap. I also had experience working in restaurants in Chicago for four years, and when I moved back here, it was just good timing. The person who owned the chocolate shop that was located here just didn’t come back one day, so we had all the machines and supplies that were left in the store for our use. I didn’t know what were we going to do with the space, but we had to do something, because the rent was just ridiculously cheap. My parents also own the Art Mart in Lincoln Square, so I grew up with that. The downtown location had the appeal because it was close to them.

Actually, we’re quite fortunate that the bakeries around here each feature something different. The thing that is different about us is that we have a bread oven from France. It’s the only one from Chicago to St. Louis.

It replicates European brick ovens, and we bake on stone. It helps form a better crust, and it’s incredibly hard to duplicate without this oven.

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faintest disdain for the dreadful humidity.The young children scampering across the cool, amber meadow with that Deptford accent sweetly lingering.

Industrial-sized barbecue grills, Britney Spears-style mic headsets and worn-down Reebok shoes might bring some doubt into the 16th-century re-creation, but luckily, everyone was just out to have a good time at the Illinois Renaissance Faire, the two-day, Labor Day weekend event at the Champaign County Fairgrounds.

Organized by the Prairie Players Theatre Academy, the Faire is the performing arts group’s largest annual fund-raiser. The Academy is a not-for-profit performing arts association.They are founded on the principal of “education through the arts,” according to the academy’s members.

Formed in June of 1997, the group’s goal is to stimulate and forward the performing arts throughout the local Champaign community. The students perform in a variety of musicals, dance performances, and drama. The Academy also tries to instill a sense of value for the tradition and history of the stage.

The setting is a “Fine Fall Day in 1581.”

The location is the village of Deptford, England: your run-of-the-mill utopia of sanitary food, societal equality and peaceful coexistence under the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

The lax dress code allows for the occasional ancient Greek tunic or Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp buccaneer costume, but the mentality is all the same.

“We’re not too strict about what people wear here.We just want to have a good time,” said one Fairegoer.

Beyond the trimmed-down Shakespeare performances, the heart of the Faire rested in the other performances, hybrid American Gladiators/Middle Ages games, a number of shops and excellent food.The Faire provided a fenced-off battle pit with foam mallets and clubs. The pain is only momentary, but the rush of swinging a large, blunt object as hard as possible at an acquaintance is priceless.

While the Baby Dragon Wings added an odd twist of sauce, chicken and quirky fantasy, the homemade root beer and pickle-on-a-stick made it easy to ignore the inevitable swamped-out clothes and hazy heat.

Live music, a living chess game, Dan the Wizard and Scurvy Dawgs Pirate comedy show were just some of the fully packed days’ entertainment.

It just would not be a Renaissance Faire, though, without the obligatory jousting competition. The jousting was done in the “King’s Champion Joust” area: a rectangle of about 20 yards by 50 yards defined by a haystack perimeter. Complete with horses and actual champion jousters, the action served the weekend well.

The jousting had its exciting peak when

one rider was actually knocked off his horse. It was apparently a rare occurrence for the particular jouster and the crowd appreciated it in a concerned but jaw-dropped way. Volunteer squires very graciously allowed melons to be placed on their heads.The knights then proceeded on horseback to hack the melons in half at a full gallop.

The crowds at the Faire were interspersed enough so that every tent and entertainment area was reachable in only a minute’s walk. All of the food, games and merchandise fit easily in people’s budget.This past Labor Day weekend had its hidden gem at the county fairgrounds. buzz

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is for delicatessen, a good place to pick up a quick meal or to try new meats, salads and cheeses. Delis are also a good place to shop if you’re having a cocktail or dinner party—premade foods mean less time in the kitchen and more time with your guests.

The word delicatessen comes from the Latin, delicates, which means delicate, but one tends to see rather hearty fare in delis nowadays. Step into EuroAmanda Kolling enjoys Mart (48 E. Springfield Ave., almost anything Champaign), and you’ll be food-related. E-mail her at greeted with case after case of AmandaKolling@readbuzz.co cheeses and olives and premade foods.The premade foods have a decidedly Mediterranean bent, with hummus (a spread of mashed chickpeas and sesame paste),

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baba ghanoush (mashed roasted eggplant), dolma (stuffed grape leaves), tabouli and falafel (a sort of deep-fried meatless meatball made of fava beans or chickpeas) available. If you can’t choose, samples of the cheeses and olives are usually available, or try buying a little bit of whatever appeals to you. This is a good way to have a great meal and try some new dishes. Pick up some pita bread or some naan (an Indian flat bread) to round out your meal.

World Harvest (519 E. University Ave., Champaign) also has a good selection of cheeses and foods in its deli. These foods tend to have a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern flavor, with offerings such as Armenian cheese and halva (a dessert made of ground sesame seeds and honey).

The cheese prices are very reasonable, and the staff is happy to help you with your selection.

Art Mart (Lincoln Square Mall) has an extensive meat and cheese selection. Many of the items would fall into the “gourmet” category, with pâtés and beautiful terrines available. This is the place to pick up some prosciutto, country olives, and double- and triple-cream cheeses. If you’re having a party, serving several wedges of cheese with fruits, nuts and crackers is an easy way to feed a crowd. Try to have an assortment of cheeses, ranging in flavor from mild to strong.

Morbier, a pungent and creamy raw milk cheese, is a good choice, as is Mimolette (a firm, mild French cheese), Manchego or Idiazabal (both are mild Spanish cheeses) with quince paste.Try several cheeses before you buy to ensure that they are fresh and to your liking.

Strawberry Fields (306 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana)

does not have a traditional deli. Rather, in the cafe area, it offers a selection of mainly vegetarian salads, quiches, calzones and lasagne. The selection changes daily, so you may encounter maki rolls one day and vegetable pizza the next. A salad made of bowtie pasta tossed with Gorgonzola, grapes and green onions is cleverly named “When grapes get the blues” and is a personal favorite.

Traditional delis offering cold cuts and sliced cheese can be found in most local grocery stores, but I like to visit Elliott’s Meats (1715 W. Kirby Ave., in the Old Farm Shops plaza). They offer a small selection of quality cold cuts, as well as a butcher case of vacuumpackaged meat cuts (which can be specially ordered). Box lunches and trays are available, as are premade salads and entrees, such as meatloaf, pulled barbecue pork and the usual suspects, macaroni and potato salad. Similarly, Old Time Meat and Deli Shop (2018 S. Neil St., Champaign) offers Dietz and Watson meats and cheeses, as well as a selection of hard-tofind meats, such as bison and venison, in the freezer case.

The newest deli in town is Persimmon Grocery (Walnut Street, next to Cafe Kopi), which offers a small selection of mainly Spanish and Italian cheeses and meats (not surprising, as the owner of Persimmon is also the owner and chef of Bacaro). If you’d rather not make a sandwich yourself, the staff at Persimmon will make one for you on bread from Mirabelle and with meats from Nieman Ranch (purveyors of freerange, hormone-free meats) for about $6.

Wherever you go, ask questions and taste before you buy. Make shopping for your food a pleasurable experience instead of a chore and enjoy what you eat.

Performers play a song at the Illinois Renaissance Faire. Other performances at the Faire included stage shows, jugglers, puppeteers and medieval battles.

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Maria Full of Grace is a spellbinding tale of economic necessity and social catastrophe.

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Usually when one goes to see a movie in a theater, there is some short production put on Cellular is one of the few action films one can see today without feeling like they were Jerry Bruckheimerized.

by the movie theater telling patrons where the exits are, to gorge themselves on a $5 bucket of popcorn and to shut their cell phones off.

Silence is, after all, golden.

After seeing Cellular, most people might rethink the latter.Well, some people might not actually go that far in changing cell phone etiquette, especially when being in constant contact has become such an integral part of American culture, but it is safe to say that while seeing this movie, viewers will be made

conscious of their own phone customs.

Chris Evans (Not Another Teen Movie) plays Ryan, a young man who has “responsibility issues” and is “easily preoccupied,” according to his ex-girlfriend Chloe, played by Jessica Biel— but what do girls know anyway? Ryan gets random phone call on his cell phone from a kidnapped woman named Jessica, played by Kim Basinger. Jessica is a mother and a science teacher who was kidnapped from her home soon after her son left for school.

The ringleader of the abduction operation, Greer (Jason Statham), keeps Jessica hostage in a house at an undisclosed location. Greer tries to do a good job as bad guy by smashing the phone with a sledgehammer in the room where Jessica is held. Unfortunately he does a bad job and the phone works well enough to make blind outgoing calls for help. Ryan receives the phone call first with skepticism, but after a few convincing sounds over the airwaves, he is prepared to go all out in a mad dash

to save the life of a woman he has never met.

The film works with a good deal of suspense without trying to paint it on by making the audience gasp every 10 seconds. The plot is strong to show realistic cynicism in the background characters of the story. In terms of action, if one were to read out loud what the characters were doing onscreen, one might yawn. However, with the story, by veteran writer Larry Cohen, most recently famous for Phone Booth, and cinematography by Gary Capo, who last shot The Last Samurai, the fastpaced feeling of being rushed about in uncertainty, all the while dodging deadly obstacles, gives Cellular a good action rush.

Cellular is one of the few action films one can see today without feeling like they were “Bruckheimer-ized” by 50 explosions and 25 car chase scenes. It is a fun film that relies heavily on its storyline to get viewers engrossed and then clamps them to their seats with heart-pumping, yet realistic action.

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The Order Sons of Italy in America, an organization of Americans of Italian heritage, has petitioned against the Italian government's decision to award screen legend Robert de Niro honorary citizenship. Obviously not having seen Analyze This or Analyze That, the group claimed that he plays "realistic characters" and makes stereotypes out of them. Ironically, choosing a time when de Niro was in Venice promoting Shark Tale—in which he plays a computer-animated shark mob boss—they argued that he has smeared the image of Italian-Americans in movies such as The Godfather Part II and Goodfellas.

This weekend sees sci-fi adventure Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow finally get its release .... after several delays.

Initial critical response seems to be far from positive. As if any more proof were needed that Hollywood completely lacks any artistic integrity, Sky Captain was shot entirely against a blue-screen prior to its principal casting. This did enable an appearance by Laurence Olivier, his first role since his death 15 years ago.

Spokespeople explained that they merely used old footage and were sure to clarify that "Olivier's voice will be dubbed by another actor."

MOST COMPETENT ANIMALS Koko, the famous gorilla that was taught about a thousand words in American Sign Language, had recently been telling her handlers at her apartment at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, Calif., that her mouth hurt. It was only a toothache, but treatment would require her to be anesthetized, and the foundation decided to take advantage and give her a complete physical, with specialists volunteering to work on a “star.” (Said Dr. David Liang of Stanford’s medical school, “Koko is less demanding” than other celebrities.) Afterward, according to an Associated Press reporter, Koko met with her doctors and motioned one woman to come closer. The woman, awed by this brilliant animal, playfully handed Koko her business card, which Koko promptly ate.

PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US The legendarily devoted anthropologist John Peabody Harrington passed away in 1961 and left six tons of disorganized belongings in various warehouses, attics, basements and even chicken coops. Most of the items were quixotic, inexplicable junk.

However, according to a July 2004 Los Angeles Times report, there are also 1 million pages of valuable notes in nearly indecipherable code, which will require 20 years to organize and are strewn amongst, apparently, everything Harrington ever possessed, including dirty laundry, half-eaten food, and “a box of birds stored for 30 years without the benefit of taxidermy.” According to anthropologists, Harrington’s records are absolutely crucial because in some cases his work forms the only written evidence of certain Native American languages.

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don’t really travel that often for no other reason than I usually don’t think I like it all that much. People are always taken aback when I say this, but it’s pretty much true. In my past experience, I generally travel to a different town and do what I do here, find a place and go drinking. Sure, it’s a different bar with different people, different walk there, different cab ride home, but it doesn’t seem enough to warrant a plane ride. If a change of venue is all I wanted, I could just head down to Tolono—same activities and results as a big trip, and I still get to sleep in my own bed.

Sometimes though, I suck it up and head out of town. I was in San Antonio, Texas, over the summer with some friends, and the vacation started true to form. Check into the hotel, watch TV for 10 minutes, then find a place to drink for five days. Okay, there was maybe more than that, but not much. I bought a new hat, walked around town, and looked at the Alamo. The hat is great, the town was sort of hot, and why in God’s name anyone felt that crap-ass mud fort was worth fighting for is beyond me. I was sure the town had much more to offer than that and felt the best way to learn about it was to talk to some of the locals ... in a bar.

Thanks to a helpful hint by some guys in a band called Buttercup, we went the opposite direction that every other tourist in town was heading and ended up in a place called “Bar America.” Strangely, this bar named after our country didn’t seem very American to an out-of-towner like myself.

It was full of Mexicans.

Honestly, and sadly, I really hadn’t had many social encounters with Mexicans before. I worked in a bar that had a cook who spoke Spanish, but I think he was actually from Nicaragua. Oh sure, I see people I believe to be Mexican around Champaign way more than I used to, but just noticing them is very different than actually talking to them. It’s strange, traveling several hours and experiencing something that’s in your own backyard.

“Bar America” wasn’t very crowded when we first arrived, and yes, the few folks who were there gave us the once over. I’ve done that to people a thousand times here in Illinois, but it’s much different being on the receiving end of those glances. I ordered

a bottle of Lone Star and paid for it with a $10 bill. My change came back and it was $9. The search was over. Holy crap, dollar Lone Stars. I had found the place I would be for the next five days.

After the first beer was down, I was a little more comfortable and ended up at the jukebox. Once you’re there, you pretty much have to play something, but that was more complicated than it seemed, as most of the titles were in Spanish. See, knowing that language would be so helpful to me. Why the fuck did I take French in high school anyway? I played three or four Freddy Fender songs because that was the only name I recognized. I shrugged; it seemed okay with all five people in the place.

I sat back down at the bar and got another beer and a bag of spicy pork rinds; this place was already starting to seem comfortable. One of the regulars came over and started talking. Who Michael Coulter would have thought the first is a videographMexican guy I met would be er, comedian named Rick. He quickly and will be on showed me how much better WPGU 107.1 pork rinds are when they’re Thursdays at 5 slathered with a half bottle of workin’ it. Listen. hot sauce. Who was I to argue?

My stomach had been in a state of turmoil since I arrived in Texas anyway, so one more mouth-numbing treat couldn’t make much of a difference. Geez Louise, they put a scoop of hot salsa on top of a vanilla milkshake down there.

Rick bought us beers and we bought him beers. We talked about our town and he talked about his. Soon, I was on my eighth beer and my second bag of pork rinds.

Angie, the bartender, went ahead and doused my second bag without even asking.

By this time, I had a pretty sweet jag on and “Bar America” was packed with young folks, old folks, hipsters and barflys. I met several people whose names I would mispronounce for the next five days. I got a good recipe.We helped celebrate a waitress’s birthday.

I suddenly realized I was sort of happy.

Yeah, maybe it wasn’t a standard vacation like most people take, but it was exactly what I needed. I felt relaxed. The beers seemed colder, the music clearer, the laughter contagious. I really liked my new friends. People would smile and wave when we walked in the bar. We had become regulars in five short days.

The last night in town, it didn’t even seem much like a vacation anymore. “Bar America” just seemed like home.

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Lauren Bacall apparently didn't like an interviewer calling her co-star Nicole Kidman a “legend." "She's not a legend," Bacall interrupted. "She's a beginner.

What is this ‘legend?’ She can't be a legend; you have to be older." Bacall plays Kidman's mother in the controversial new movie, Birth. In Jonathan Glazer's film, Kidman is convinced that a young boy is the reincarnation of her late husband.

The film features provocative scenes in which a nude Kidman shares a bath with 11-year-old Cameron Bright before kissing him. "It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy.' To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love," she said.

(1) A 27-year-old man, arrested in July after allegedly trying to rob a Bank of America in Enid, Okla., told police he merely intended to help repay the national debt. (2) Thomas Pinckney, 18, charged with trespass in Tomah,Wis., in June after a woman awoke at night to find him holding her arm, told police that he had found the woman’s keys in her apartment door and was just trying to return them. (3) Mr. Thubten Dargyel, 53, who was arrested for sexual assault on a mentally disabled woman in Madison, Wis., in June, explained the presence of his semen by claiming that he ejaculates when he sneezes and that, in fact, he was surprised only that his semen doesn’t show up on many other patients, too.

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It’s hardly her first choice—Maria quits her job on a flower plantation assembly line because her boss disrespects her—and the movie wants to make a sorrowful statement about the countless girls who transport dozens of small, drug-filled pellets out of the country as a way to earn a quick buck. Actually, it’s the film’s poster that declares this is “based on 1,000 true stories,” and Maria doesn’t offer a broad enough look at the circumstances that make up those thousand stories.

Maria is poor, pregnant and unhappy at home, and her best friend Blanca (Yenny Paola Vega), who tags along with her, doesn’t have it much better. But while we’re compelled by the unfortunate conditions that land these two girls on a plane to New York with bellies stuffed with heroin, there’s a contextual yearning that begs for less Maria and more Colombia.

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That has nothing to do with Moreno, who lows 62 capsules of illegal narcotics before delivers a bombshell of a debut performance, boarding a plane.Yet Marston’s linear, progresmixing subdued terror with fiery responsibility. sive sense of development also provides Maria She gives Maria just the right amount of fear Full of Grace with a restrained, methodical backand hope as she embarks on a job she clearly bone. As it pushes its protagonist further along knows is bad news. But after her mother tells her downwardly spiraling journey, the film her there’s nowhere for girls to get work other becomes less and less about the big picture and than the plantation, Maria doesn’t have any- more about one girl’s brute strength to survive. where else to turn, and writer/director Joshua It’s continually fascinating and occasionally Marston effectively shows the crippling effect of moving, but it also advocates Maria’s courage the Colombian economy on even the country’s without providing the harsher reality of the situmore ambitious teenagers. ation. For all of the hard-hitting moments of There’s no escaping the gravity of the situa- grim despair, there are also scenes that soften the tion; Marston fills every moment with palpable edges and skip over chances to explore conditions dread as Maria learns how to swallow the that contribute to these characters’ difficult lives. thumb-sized pellets and eventually tries to make There are a lot of teen-oriented elements it through U.S. customs. She’s in way over her here, from unprotected sex to casual drinking to head, especially when the veteran smuggler the insecurity that binds weaker souls to (Guilied Lopez)—who’s done it only twice stronger ones, and the film fails to deliver on the before—can barely make it through the plane prospect of addressing these issues. Rather, it ride after one of the balloons appears to pop in limits itself to one 17-year-old’s unbelievable her stomach. But Moreno’s brave, defiant per- passage from girl to woman. formance never lets up, providing Maria with It’s a dynamite story driven by great perthe unrelenting drive to persevere in America. formances, but while Maria Full of Grace is cerMaria Full of Grace is a spellbinding tale of eco- tainly graceful, it’s not quite full. nomic necessity and social catastrophe,an important insight into a culture and economy that depend almost entirely on drugs. It’s an unsentimental look at people forced to thrive in extreme situations, thrust into other countries and asked to break the law to earn a wage.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that rap artists should pay for every musical sample included in their work— even minor, unrecognizable snippets of music.

Lower courts had already ruled that artists must pay when they sample another artist’s work.

But it has been legal to use musical snippets—a note here, a chord there—as long as it wasn’t identifiable.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati gets rid of that distinction. The court said federal laws aimed at stopping piracy of recordings apply to digital sampling. “If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you ‘lift’ or ‘sample’ something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the negative,� the court said. “Get a license or do not sample.We do not see this as stifling creativity in any significant way.�

Some observers questioned whether the

court’s opinion is too restrictive, especially for rap and hip-hop artists who often rhyme over samples of music taken from older recordings. “It seems a little extreme to me,� said James Van Hook, dean of Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.“When something is identifiable, that is the key.�

The case at issue is one of at least 800 lawsuits filed in Nashville over lifting snippets of music from older recordings for new music.

The case centers on the NWA song “100 Miles and Runnin’,� which samples a three-note guitar riff from “Get Off Your Ass and Jam� by ‘70s funk-master George Clinton and Funkadelic.

In the two-second sample, the guitar pitch has been lowered, and the copied piece was “looped� and extended to 16 beats. The sample appears five times in the new song.

NWA’s song was included in the 1998 movie I Got the Hook Up, starring Master P and produced by his movie company, No Limit Films.

No Limit Films has argued that the sample was not protected by copyright law. Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records, which claim to own the copyrights for the Funkadelic song, appealed the lower court’s summary judgment in favor of No Limit Films.

The lower court in 2002 said that the riff in Clinton’s song was entitled to copyright protection, but the sampling “did not rise to the level of legally cognizable appropriation.�

The appeals court disagreed, saying a recording artist who acknowledges sampling may be liable, even when the source of a sample is unrecognizable.

Noting that No Limit Films “had not disputed that it digitally sampled a copyrighted sound recording,� the appeals court sent the case back to the lower court.

Richard Busch, attorney for Westbound Records and Bridgeport Music, said he was pleased with the ruling.

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Category 5 hurricane Ivan is predicted to strike the Florida panhandle, making it the third hurricane to strike the state in two months, after hurricane Charley and hurricane Frances.

What the hell did Florida do to piss off God? “And for my next trick, I will turn the city of Miami into salt.�

Under a proposal being studied by Gov. Blagojevich’s administration, Illinois could have its very own official state beverage. Under the proposal, a company would pay the state for the privilege of calling its product the “official� state beverage and it would be sold at vending machines and establishments all over the state. Yes, finally we Illinoisans will have access to “Cob Cola� the official nonalcoholic beverage of Illinois. “Tastes just like corn liquor, without all the blindness!�

This summer has brought, if nothing else, a

new revelation in filmmaking technology: the shaky camera. Simply watch The Bourne Supremacy or Open Water to see that. Alexander Witt’s new film Resident Evil: Apocalypse is no exception, and, with much annoyance, is the only piece of Paul W.S. Anderson’s writing that can be given any real credibility.

The plot takes off immediately from the end of the first film, blatantly ripping off a better-paced, better-shot, just plain better George Romero film from the first frame. Alice (Mila Jovovich) awakens from her coma to find the remnants of Raccoon City to be in complete disarray. Newspapers line the streets, brandishing the headline, “The Dead Walk!�

Meanwhile, the evil Umbrella Corporation has begun its containment before the world becomes completely infested. In the numerous other side stories, Jill Valentine (Sienna Gullory), a disgraced S.T.A.R.S. officer, is trying to find a way out of the sealed city while trying to save the daughter of Umbrella’s head programmer (Sophie Vavasseur) so that the man behind the camera, Dr. Ashford (Jared

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Oh, one more minor subplot: Umbrella has unleashed its new secret weapon in order to test out its effectiveness. It’s called Nemesis. It’s about 7 feet tall, has large teeth and carries enough automatic weapons and explosives to take out a third-world nation.

Sense the sarcasm? This film is so bad it goes beyond enjoyment. The first half of the film provides some fun and almost suspenseful scenes. Jill’s first entrance into the police station is classic. She walks in, unannounced, and starts randomly shooting people in the head.

No one questions her, no one even turns.

They’re all too busy hoarding off the zombies they’ve managed to arrest.A second scene that provides equal laughs and a few jumps is a church refuge scene that has Jill, a reporter, a fellow S.T.A.R.S. member and a few other patrons being stalked by a trio of monsters that only fans of the video game series would recognize. The camera follows the monsters’ view, which is captured through a very infrared viewpoint. Does Predator ring a bell, anyone?

The monsters stalk and kill a few of the patrons, and, of course, the scene ends with a huge gunfight that has Alice coming in to save the day using gravity-defying stunts.

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themes. The film jumps from a story about humanity’s ability to deal with massive social upheaval to the evils of the corporate world to a massive gunfight. It is cinematic chaos on a scale not seen since Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, which, coincidentally, was directed by Mr. Paul W.S. Anderson.

This zombie flick is like a story one hears from an uncle that really has no point. It wastes time and at the end of this 99-minute teeth-pulling session, all you have is 99 minutes of your life gone that you can never get back. Instead of going and spending money on this crapfest, go rent George Romero’s Dead Trilogy, 28 Days Later or even the Evil Dead trilogy. At least at the end of any of those movies, one can sit, take a breath and say “Yes, I enjoyed that film,� because with Resident Evil: Apocalypse, there is no way those words will be able to escape the lips of anyone in the theater.

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Traveling by bus through the southwest corner of this battleground state, Bush tried to improve voters’ perceptions of his domestic policies by condemning Democrats for going negative—even as he held Kerry’s plans up to the harshest possible light. “I’m running against a fellow who has got a massive, complicated blueprint to have our government take over the decision making in health care,� the president said. “Not only is his plan going to increase the power of bureaucrats in your life, but he can’t pay for it unless he raises your taxes.� “What would you expect from a senator from Massachusetts?� Bush said, as a partisan crowd cheered the reference to Kerry’s home state and its liberal leanings. buzz

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The University of Illinois approved a measure Thursday that would preser ve and celebrate American Indian culture as part of the state’s history. Apparently, the measure calls for a young white male to preserve American Indian culture by dressing up in buckskins and dancing while thousands of drunken students celebrate him. It’s sort of post-modern performance art.

Congress allowed a decade-long federal ban on the sale of assault weapons to expire. The measure, initiated in 1994, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons and contained a clause that entailed the law would expire unless Congress specifically reauthorized it. Deer, quail and randomly chosen schoolchildren don’t stand a chance.

In a speech on Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confused the names of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein twice, once saying, “Saddam Hussein, if he’s alive, is spending a whale of a lot of time trying not to get caught. And we’ve not seen him on a video since 2001.� See, this whole Iraq war thing was just a wacky case of mistaken identity, like on a popular late-night sitcom.

Oh those silly neo-conservatives! What have you done now?

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W estern audiences may not be overly familiar with one of Japanese cinema’s most celebrated protagonists, Ichi the Masseur. His first onscreen appearance was in 1962’s The Tale of Zatoichi, with Shintaro Katsu portraying the title role of a blind masseur who relies on his hearing and fast draw to vanquish opponents.Twenty-five films in a little over a decade cemented Zatoichi as a staple of the chambara genre (Samurai/ sword-fighting films), before he went on a lengthy hiatus. Now Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano provides his unique take on the franchise.

This film is set in the Tokugawa Era (16001868), a time in which the samurai way of life is ending. No longer do members of the bakufu (military government), ronin (masterless samurai), wander the countryside in search of temporary employment. The series has always utilized this ploy to augment the episodic nature of the films. In The Blind Swordsman, Zatoichi comes to a remote mountain town under the tyrannical rule of the gang leader Ginzo, who has hired a ruthless bodyguard, Gennosuke Hattori (Tadanobu Asano). In Zatoichi’s attempts to keep a low profile while ridding the village of the gang that controls it, he encounters a pair of geishas with a separate agenda, providing an interesting subplot. s o u n d s

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Director/writer/actor “Beat� Takeshi’s films are known for their juxtaposition of ultra-violence, touching humanity and warped humor.

The CGI blood is deliberately exaggerated, but proves to be more distracting than anything else. Nonetheless, the swordplay exchanges are ferocious, and Kitano’s exemplary use of sound makes it all the more hard-hitting: the crunches and squelches so visceral as to augment the realism without making it unpleasant. But Kitano delves into a plane of which most directors are unaware when he effortlessly incorporates rhythmic sounds into the score. His comedic eccentricities are prevalent, especially with regard to a couple of inexplicably bizarre characters.Yet it is the engaging character at the center of this piece, and the unenviable conflict he endures, that makes this so interesting.

Kitano received the blessing and encouragement of one of original Zatoichi Katsu’s close friends, and his performance is definitively faithful to Katsu’s portrayal of the character, down to subtle mannerisms and features of his voice. Meanwhile, Asano provides Zatoichi’s most formidable opponent since he took on Yojimbo. Asano has perfected his bad guy routine with a string of memorable roles, such as in Miike’s Ichi The Killer, and though here he is certainly a more cerebral antagonist, he is no less intimidating.

The resolution of the film has a few missteps, most obviously an indulgent and unnecessary, albeit colorful, dance sequence. But those aside, this has everything an action film should: intriguing characters, exciting set-pieces and an abundance of style. Kitano has made it clear he does not intend to offer up a sequel, disappointing since this version of the Zatoichi saga is fresh and imaginative, and well worth checking out.

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Jaime Foxx & Tom Cruise The true standouts of Collateral are the individual sequences Mann creates. The film is ripe with spontaneity. Characters shoot at unexpected moments, make

It should come to no one’s surprise that this movie fails to be an effective prequel to one of the most effective horror films of all time. After two unimpressive sequels, John Boorman’s Exorcist II—the Heretic and author William Peter Blatty’s own directed Exorcist III, Renny Harlin was given the dubious distinction of directing this tale of the early days of Father Lancaster Merrin’s pursuit of the demon Pazuzu. (Syd Slobodnik) Now showing at Beverly GARDEN STATE 3.5 stars

Zach Braff & Natalie Portman It’s a hear tfelt fantasy of cosmic collision, a love stor y so silly and strange you might not notice Garden State’s soft spot until it takes you by surprise and touches your hear t. It’s this year’s Lost in Translation, redefining “lost” as a place that doesn’t feel like home even when it is and “translation” as the transition from youth to adulthood, from dreamy optimism to a sad, disappointed reality. (Matt Pais) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy HERO 4 stars

Jet Li Hero is being deceptively advertised by many print media like it’s some conventional martial arts action film featuring Jet Li. Those who watch this spectacular film with only that set of expectations will likely be misled and disappointed. Hero is a visually impressive reevaluation of the martial arts film by a director most noted for his sensitive and visually expressive art films. (Syd Slobodnik) Now showing at Beverly and Savoy

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MR. 3000 Bernie Mac & Angela Bassett After getting his 3,000th hit and, with it, a spot in the Hall of Fame, Stan Ross (Mac) hangs up his cleats and retires. Unfortunately for him, he’s actually three hits away from the elusive 3,000. What is he to do? Go back as an older guy to try to get three hits. Maybe this humbling experience will change his arrogant ways ... at least that’s what we expect from movies: morals. (Paul Wagner) SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW Jude Law & Gwyneth Paltrow After many delays, this film is finally hitting the big screen. The world’s top scientists have gone missing, a mad scientist has created flying robots and some guy who calls himself “Sky Captain” (Law) flies around shooting stuff. Paltrow plays a reporter who, with Law, has to save the planet. Oh, and the film is set in 1939 in New York City. Flying robots in 1939? What ever happened to the good ol’ days? (Paul Wagner) WIMBLEDON Kirsten Dunst & Paul Bettany Boy tennis player loses focus and stops playing well. Gorgeous, successful, dominating girl tennis player meets struggling boy tennis player, and his focus is suddenly found. His game gets better, hers is somehow affected, and they start winning like crazy. But in the game of love, does anyone ever really win?

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The only problem is that the Urbana Public Television Commission is committed to airing locally-generated material.

But, what is public television? Is this idea limited to what is generated by members of the community to promote Urbana and its residents? On Monday, more than 600 signatures were presented in support of the nationally syndicated program being aired in Urbana.

I understand the concern that this action could open a floodgate of nationally syndicated television, replacing local commentary and ideas that are all too important for any thriving community.

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