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ight now, there’s a letter from my landlord stuck on my refrigerator declaring that if my roommates and I want to keep our house next year, we have to re-sign our lease

by October 1. After that, our address gets thrown back into the slush-pile of poorly maintained and overpriced student housing.

It’s friggin’ September! It’s like, as soon as you’re done unpacking they’re asking for another twelve months of your life — as if the twelve they already have isn’t good enough. Most people don’t even know if they’re going to finish the semester with the classes in which they’re currently enrolled, let alone where they’ll be next year. For goodness sake!

I remember freaking out about this as a freshman, tucked away in the minimal security convent that is Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall (ok, it wasn’t really that innocent, we had just as many whores as the six-pack — it just didn’t smell as bad). Four weeks in the dorm was enough to make me realize that communal living was not for me.

I was borderline neurotic during my fi rst offcampus housing search. I labored over a little spreadsheet where I listed addresses, amenities and rent to prove to my parents it wasn’t going to be astronomically expensive to live off-campus (I’d say it’s cheaper). I went to the Tenant Union to get the complaint records of all my potential landlords. I went through each showing, notebook in hand, opening closets and flushing toilets as if I was actually buying the place. I was so responsible back then.

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and a homey front porch on a street full of likeminded individuals who didn’t mind if our front yard was covered in beer cans all the time … probably because they helped empty them.

However, October of my junior year, when the leaves started changing and I could no longer sleep with open windows, that inevitable piece of mail arrived: Dear tenants, You have to decide right this second where you want to live next year.

Thanks, Your loving landlord.

Not knowing who was studying abroad, who was graduating early — hell, some of us were questioning whether we were even going to stay in school — we decided not to re-sign, therefore subjugating ourselves to a fate worse than losing the entire security deposit: we had to begin the housing hunt again (and we were kicking ourselves the next year, and during move out week, for not re-signing).

I’ve since adopted a better attitude toward the search: let someone else do it. There are always going to be people who rent big houses hoping to fi ll it with friends-of-friends and other vagabonds that make their way to this campus. Or maybe that’s just Urbana.

The bottom line is, as much as landlords want you to think all the housing will be gone come spring, there will always be someplace to live.

This year, let’s stick it to landlords of CU. No one sign a lease until January. That way we’ll all get a chance to relax and enjoy our current homes before it’s time to fi nd a new one.

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t was a sad day at the Coulter house last week when I finally received my last issue of Playboy magazine. I’m not sure why I chose this point of my life to not renew the subscription, but it really seemed like the right thing to do. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about porn and it’s a fine magazine and all, but for the first time in my life, I really began to feel that the naked women were taking away from the whole reading experience. Magazines are a tricky thing.

It doesn’t seem r ight to continue to get Playboy if I’ve gotten to a point where I’m more concerned with who they interviewed this month than I am with the large rack on the centerfold. It’s more than that though; it’s almost emotional in some way. I can’t help but read the center fold ’s little prof ile and after that, I can’t help but sort of hate them.

Wow, it’s a hot, large-breasted 19-year-old whose turn-ons are family get-togethers and whose turn-offs are dirty ashtrays and sarcastic people. Seriously, it’s easier for me to imagine smacking her stupid ass in the head with a mallet than it is to imagine me having sex with her.

A sad day indeed. I’ve managed to get to a point where I actually have to like a woman in order to f ind her attractive. The monthly Playboy was doing nothing but confusing me about myself, so that’s the end of that subscription. I cancelled my subscription to Harpers about six months ago because I really felt stupid not enjoying intelligent articles quite as much as I imagined I would. Apparently, I’m incapable of reading anything that makes me think about myself or anything else.

I still get some other magazines, so I’ll be just fine, but honestly, I don’t really like them much either and I’m not sure they fit in with my lifestyle all that much.

What the crap though, I gotta read something.

I still subscribe to Vanity Fair. Yeah, I don’t understand that either. It all started because my friend, Sue, always had one lying around the house. Every time I’d be there, I would pick it up and furiously flip through the pages. I really enjoyed it at another home, but it just doesn’t seem to translate if I read it at my place. Somewhere else, it’s like a lovely little glimpse into the world of fancy-shmancy people. At my house, it’s nothing more than a painful reminder that rich folks don’t use an empty box of returnable Pabst bottles as furniture.

There’s usually some “true crime” story in there, maybe a few cool photographs, and that’s about it ... well, and a bunch of advertisements.

I mean, really, a bunch of freaking ads.

I would think that if you’re advertising clothes you would want them on the actual models, but I guess that’s why I don’t lay out magazines. Evidently, it’s much more alluring to the high-end consumer if the models are pretty much naked and the clothing is featured somewhere in the deep background. Some of them don’t even have clothes in the picture. It’s almost like advertising for the sake of advertising, not because you want to sell somebody something.

Also, this magazine usually stinks to high heaven ... literally. You combine 20 different perfume and cologne ads with rub-on samples between three hundred pages and it’s enough to gag an untouchable. Are there folks out there who rub these pages on themselves before they go out for the evening?

“Wow, you sure smell like ass. Really, great, that means its working.” See that’s why I shouldn’t get this magazine. Such inserts would only be useful to me if Speed Stick advertised in there and I really don’t think they do, or ever will.

I’ve subscribed to Interview magazine for quite some time now. That really doesn’t seem to apply much to my life either, but I must confess I really like reading it. Not many publications will feature film maker Kevin Smith talking to that guy from Scrubs, but it sort of comes across as two people having a conversation rather than a formal sort of sit-down interview so it’s voyeuristic and entertaining. There are some pretty cool photographs in there also, usually at least sort of creative, if not necessarily attractive. Plus, it’s just a physically large magazine so its sort of fun to hold while you’re reading.

I’ve gotten Esquire magazine for years also.

I don’t even read it much any more since I hardly ever have a need to know the proper belt to wear with seersucker slacks. I mean, I’ve only really got the one belt anyway, so why feel bad about being wrong. Chuck Klosterman writes a column in there and once I read that, it’s pretty much over. Frankly, even he’s getting on my nerves lately.

Finally, I get The Sporting News every week.

I read it from cover to cover most of the time. I know it’s not the greatest thing for me, but like a crappy frozen pizza, it makes me happy and I usually can’t help but finish it in one sitting. What more could I really need? It talks about ball games that have already been played and about games that will be played in the future. Honestly, even it’s getting a little too smart for my taste.

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tudents often hear phrases like: “A little volunteer work goes a long way” and “A second language will provide opportunities in the job market.” The University of Illinois provides them with the opportunity to do just that, merging volunteer work and language skills to help the growing Latino population in Champaign County.

Many students enter the University of Illinois each year with that inevitable foreign language requirement over hovering their heads — students must graduate with either three years of a foreign language in their high school record, or take three semesters of a language at the University.

With 1500 to 2000 undergraduate students enrolled in a Spanish language class every semester, according to the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Spanish continues to be one of the most popular languages with students who want to fulfill their requirement. However, what prospective Spanish students might not realize is that outside the Foreign Language Building and even past the grounds of the University of Illinois campus, there is a grand variety of opportunities for students to use Spanish.

Practical experience is one of the crucial aspects to anyone hoping to understand more about their community and nonprofit organizations. Ann Abbott, assistant professor at the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, believes that volunteer work also benefits students who are considering continuation of a language to an advanced level. While thinking about certain career paths, “some kids are interested in social services and education,” Professor Abbott explains. “And they can find that experience as volunteers for local schools or the Refugee Center.”

Abbot t developed t he Com mu n it y-Ba sed L ea r n i ng program for her Intensive Spoken Spanish class, with the intention of bringing awareness to volunteer work that is offered in the community. The Community-Based Learning curriculum is designed to connect students with off-campus service, as well as get them involved with the social issues in their nearby organizations.

Abbott’s focus has three objectives: to provide students with a volunteer opportunity, to help them gain experience from a community partnership and to receive University credit for the skills developed in the semester-long service.

Practice and improvement of conversational Spanish is also presumed objective for the students in the class. Her partnerships for the learning program branch out to many places in the Champaign-Urbana community, including the public school system, where a lot of volunteer work is needed for tutoring and peer mentors.

Ann Bishop, a faculty member of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University, was the founder of Booker T. Washington Elementary School’s afterschool library program, where volunteers come in to help kids with their homework, reading, writing and enrichment activities.

Professor Ann Abbott discusses an in-class activity with her Spanish 232 students in Gregory Hall on Tuesday Sept. 19.

The after-school program was started in February of this year, after Bishop met with Latino families to discuss ways to improve their children’s success in school.

“Children speak English very well by the adaptation of the language from classmates,” in some cases, says Bishop, “but they still lack those skills of reading and comprehension,” a shortcoming which puts them behind in reading levels. Volunteers — both undergraduate and graduate students — come in to assist these second to fifth-graders, many of whom are recent immigrants.

Bishop designed a Community Service course similar to Abbott’s Spanish class for her students, where they also earn class credit for their volunteer work. It’s a wonderful experience that comes with helping an under-served community in the school, Bishop said, especially when the volunteer to student ratio is about one to three for the program. This ratio encourages a close relationship with the children and immersion in their culture.

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learn from. Booker T. Washington’s after-school reading program is funded and supported in part by the local Latino Partnership of Champaign Count y, whose mission is to provide more ser vices and aide for the g rowing Latino community in the area.

Lat ino Par tner sh ip has faci l itated com mun it y activities and programs for Latinos, and Bishop says her a f ter-school prog ra m a i m s to develop a more posit ive identit y among young elementar y students and a stronger sense of conf idence. The program not only promotes better reading ability and math skills, but also by connecting “school knowledge” with family background in subjects like horticulture, art and religion, it makes children feel more at home in a new com munit y and more aware of their strengths.

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for community service to work within their local community.

In her Spanish class, Ann Abbott says the students’ feelings towards volunteer work are a combination of excitement and fear. Abbott explains that if “students build up the courage to work past that fear, and get to know the people they work with, it makes the volunteer experience all the more benef icial.”

Enthusiasm and dedication are crucial for students who volunteer at the East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center in Urbana. Sue Feldman, a bilingual counselor at the center, says that nervous students always approach her at the beginning of volunteer work, especially if they don’t feel confi dent about the language. The Refugee Center asks for volunteer assistance in Spanish — as well as for other languages such as French, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian — to help carry out tasks for immigrants within the ChampaignUrbana community.

Volunteers in the Refugee Center help immigrants breach the language barrier, aiding them in tasks such as fi nding a local doctor or putting their kids into a good day care center. Sue Feldman explains that Latinos come from the Chiapas and Puebla states in Mexico, from Guatemala, Honduras, as well as many other countries to try and make a living here in Champaign-Urbana. The main goal for the Refugee Center is to help make that transition to the United States a much easier and smoother process, by helping immigrants understand the language and the customs.

One senior Spanish bilingual counselor, Guadalupe Abreu, who started working at the Ref ugee Center seven years ago, was instrumental in expanding the center’s services to outlying Latino communities within the county. People at the center work with clients who are gradually learning how to f it in with the customs in the country and provide help with skills other people might take for granted, like opening up a credit account.

Feldman recalls that a friend of hers described this agency as “a bridge transition” for immigrants who are new to a culture, learning how to f it in with mainstream America.

Amy Kunkel, a University of Illinois senior majoring in Sociology and Spanish, spends two hours every week in the center, translating legal documents from Spanish to English for clients, answering phone calls and taking messages for the bilingual counselors. This volunteer experience has helped her gain a more hands-on approach to what it feels like to be someone in an unfamiliar country.

“For a long time I have really respected what immigrants have to go through to get here and how much hardship they go through once they arrive,” Kunkel says, “but talking to someone about it personally really raised the level of respect that I have for immigrants in general.”

Kunkel also says that had she known about this volunteer opportunity earlier in her college career, she would have taken advantage of it, and she plans to continue volunteering with the center after this semester, because “it offers a great opportunity to get out of the campus

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With enough ef for t and excitement for volunteer work, students can not only receive school credit and gain valuable job skills, but they can also discover the intellectual and rewarding experience that comes with any community service. What’s more exciting is that a little volunteer work experience can go a long way.

Professor Abbott recalls one student, Sarah Leone, who took one of Abbot’s classes and volunteered at the Refuge Center. Becoming ver y interested in the Latino com munit y, she eventually took another one of Abbott’s classes, “Spanish and Social Entrepreneurship,” to combineher knowledge and Spanish skills and help out more with the Refugee Center, even launching a Web site for them: www.ecirmac.org. Sarah continued to have that drive for helping Latinos all throughout college, and she now works in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, with Social Services with other communities.

Since the establishment of the CommunityBased Learning program in 2004, Ann Abbott continues to make numerous partnerships with non-prof it, social service and education organizations for her classes. The class began with about 12 students in each class, volunteering at the Refugee Center, but it has since then branched out into other service opportunities, allowing Spanish immigrants to make a smoother transition to the Champaig nUrbana community. buzz

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FIRST SNIFF Hey! Look at that! New headshot. Lookin’ good, eh? I will sorely miss people coming up to me and asking, “Why are you smelling your fingers?” Well, first off, I wasn’t smelling my fingers — it was a cigarette. Secondly, look above you.

It’s called the Local Sniff. Put two and two together my dear readers because you know that, generally, I won’t.

Yuri Sohn and Mügé Dizen demonstrate salsa dancing in between dance classes at the Mckinley Presbyterian Foundation friday evening Sept. 15, 2006.

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trains of Latin music can be heard every Tuesday and Friday night, creeping out from the McKinley Foundation on the corner of Fifth and Daniel Streets. It’s the kind of music that just gives people the urge to dance—if only they knew how.

That’s where Yuri Sohn and Mügé Dizen come in. The two friends have been instructing salsa together for four years and teaching students and community members from every race and culture how to dance salsa, merengue and bachata.

Despite many missteps, Sohn and Dizen seem to have infinite patience with their beginner class.

Each time the partners teach the class new steps they move with grace and elegance—impressive,

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considering Dizen just entered her ninth month of pregnancy.

Her first child is due on Halloween and she beams as she says, “It’s a boy.” Dizen hopes he will grow up to be a dancer, because he’s already been exposed to the dance culture.

The classes are held in a large, gymnasiumtype room. Chandeliers hang from the high ceilings, adding a bit of charm to the otherwise u n a s su m i ng space, a nd Soh n a nd Di zen instruct from the stage, usually with Sohn directing steps and Dizen counting the steps, “1-2-3…5-6-7.”

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A LITTLE SURVEY… JUST FOR FUN… What would you all like to see me report on?

I am curious — after three years as a columnist, is there is anything that you are hoping that I might write about in addition to the local issues that I already try to tackle? I am always open to suggestions.

Last week a man I respect more than he knows asked me a pretty pointed question and I started to consider if I needed to cut out some of the fluff (which I adore) and start adding in some real hard hitting investigative journalism (which takes work). I considered it. And I still am.

Certainly, with some of the literature that he gave me, it seems as if something may be rotten in Denmark. Denmark, being the Urbana Police Department. I think that I might have to stroll on down there and ask a few questions about a certain officer allegedly sodomizing incarcerated people with a taser gun. Sound crazy? Well it very well might be real. Anyhow, I think it’s worth looking into.

THE PROBLEM WITH SPORTS I don’t want to believe I am being teased by my beloved Chicago Bears right now, but dammit if it doesn’t look like they could march their asses into the Big Game and take home a big metal football. I have been burnt my whole life by the teams that I love and support. The only team that I was ever truly proud of was the Bulls in the ’90s. Purdue, the Cubs and the Bears are like every girl I tried to date in high school — not really that interested in closing the deal.

But I am thinking this year could be different.

Defense looks as solid as we expected and the offense is bringing the A game.

See, Illinois fans? It’s not a total loss from the gridiron this year. But that 4-8 record that the DI predicted is quickly slipping away and looking like 1-11. Hey Zook — Monster.com. Learn it and love it.

REUNION RECAP Last weekend was a ball of fun for a guy like me, who got the chance to see not one but two legendary bands from around these parts reunite and rock the stage like they were 22 all over again.

Both The Vertebrats and The Didjits took the town by storm on Friday and Saturday. And I

must say, for being out of practice for that long, these bands really proved that playing with old friends is like riding a bicycle.

The Highdive played host to The Didjits, who reunited as a result of the 25-year anniversary of Touch and Go Records in Chicago two weeks ago. Kudos to Ward for making that happen.

I was highly impressed with just how good they actually were/are.

The Iron Post cleared out the tables and chairs to make room for sold out back to back nights in downtown Urbana. It was radical seeing all the people drinking and dancing and having a ball.

I caught wind of a couple downtown Champaign dissenters talking about how The Iron Post wasn’t fit to host such a show, but anyone who was there who didn’t have butt plugs in their eyes would attest to the fact that it went down perfectly.

Downtown Champaign elitists. They make for easy targets because they forget that Urbana, in the end, made them what they are today.

BUSINESS OF THE WEEK We eat at Jerusalem on Wright St. at least once a month, but based on the fact that the owner/ lone employee has bigger huevos than everyone on campus combined, I think I will be giving my dirty US dollars over to him a little more. If you are pro-war/pro-Bush, don’t bother going in, because the literature and the flyers on the wall will make you lose your appetite (which should already be gone from your sick moral stances on the state of the world). The owner, Hamid, speaks his mind without saying more than a couple words to you when he takes your order. Everywhere you look, you can find out about the injustices that the US has laid out for the rest of the world and to those who enjoy Middle Eastern cuisine, this is a fast food joint that tastes great. I highly recommend it. When the revolution goes down, this will be the meeting place for all of us radicals.

SHOW OF THE WEEK… Um… there are a couple good shows this weekend.

But, I wouldn’t know anything about that.

FINAL WHIFF Have you been to the Independent Media Center in downtown Urbana yet? If you haven’t, you ought to go by and take a look. The place is really coming together nicely and based on the fact that they are committed to allowing performances happen on a regular basis, something tells me that this will be the best spot to see some of the most crucial up and coming bands in the years to come. http://www.ucimc.org for more info.

Seth Fein is from Urbana. If you see him this weekend and he doesn’t say hi, don’t fault him for it. His head will be spinning. Cut him some slack. He can be reached at sethfein1@gmail.com.

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THE ONE THING ISU HAS THAT U OF I DOESN’T PHIL COLLINS • STAFF WRITER

Where did you record your new album?

Tell me a little bit about the process.

Lynn O’Brien has been performing in the CU area for two years at places such as The Iron Post.

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A s far as A mer ican Idols g o, C h a m p a i g n - Ur b a n a h a s a l ready found their s, r ight in the recesses of central Illinois.

Lynn O’Brien, a sophomore in music therapy at Illinois State University, has been playing shows around the Champaign-Urbana area for the past two years. With the impending release of her f irst f u l l-leng t h a lbu m Umbrella, O’Br ien proves that she is capable of making the turnover from s m a l l - t ow n id ol a t r y t o s ome t h i n g bi g g e r.

Recently, O’Brien took the time out of her busy schedule to talk with Buzz about her debut album and her longstanding passion for music.

I recorded it at Eighth Day Sound in Urbana, Ill., with Eric Gross. He is a very talented recording engineer who I met several years ago, and he actually asked me toward the end of the spring semester if I was interested in putting together an album. That was pretty much when we started. The project was definitely a learning experience. It took about two and a half months, and it features piano, tons of vocals, viola, cello, flute, [brass instruments], accordion, percussion, guitar ... The most exciting part of it all, for me, was getting to work with all these other musicians and learning about their instruments and backgrounds. They really breathed new life into my songs! It took a lot of stamina and endurance, but I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to do this project and to work with Eric.

Simply put, Lynn O’Brien has

Do you like to collaborate with other artists in the studio or on stage?

I actually got my first taste of collaboration this summer in the studio, and next Saturday night will be my first real taste on the stage, so I’ll let you know. So far, I’ve had fun just playing with one other person.

I read that you are studying music therapy at Illinois State.

What does that program involve?

Music therapy requires all the work of a music major, plus a lot of psychology. I am learning how to work as a therapist with a number of populations — special education programs, hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, in schools, prisons... I’ll work with a client, and try to improve their quality of life by using music as a tool to improve physical or emotional well-being. It truly is my passion.

Is there anything in the works for the future?

Well, I’m going to try to sell as many CDs as I can, and meanwhile I’m learning guitar. New songs are already sprouting for the next album. I’m looking into studying music/music therapy abroad, and I start my practicum as a beginning music therapist in the fall. Who knows where I’ll be in a year?

Check out Lynn O’Brien’s CD release party (with special guest collaborators Alix Schmidt, Matt Spencer, Eric Gross, Ben Leddy, Elaine Fine, David Madden, Jake Stimmel, and the O’Brien family) Saturday, as a part of Pygmalion Music Festival, Saturday, Sept. 23 at the Illini Union Courtyard at 9 p.m. Copies of Umbrella will be available for sale throughout the evening.

vocal talents in ChampaignUrbana’s recent history.

— 2006.pygmalionmusicfestival.com And now, with all of these new, finished CDs sitting in my living room, I feel completely thrilled. What an experience.

What should CU-ers expect from your record release show?

I was lucky enough to have a musical family growing up, so that began very early on. I was singing and harmonizing with my family right off the bat, and I think I picked up piano around age five, followed by flute a few years later. I wrote my first song when I was nine.

I can’t wait! They can expect a very enthusiastic group of people playing songs off the album. I will be playing and singing, and my lovely family will also be singing, plus Dad on guitar).

My boyfriend will be playing brass, a few other friends of mine will be playing cello, viola, and percussion ... I’m so excited I can barely stand it. I hope CU-ers leave with happy ears.

How would you describe your sound?

Do you have a favorite place to play in Champaign-Urbana?

Your guess is as good as mine. Soulful folk? Soulfolk? I love to sing jazz, so I suppose there might be a subtle jazz influence in my voice.

Totally depends. I haven’t played at the Courtyard before, but I’ve wanted to for a long time. I have a feeling it might be the new favorite.

How long have you been making music?

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hen this issue hits you r hot l it t le hands, the second annual Pygmalion Music Festival will have kicked off. Over Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, book-ended by opening and closing shows on Wednesday and Sunday, the festival will invade several venues around town.

Bands and fans from all over the country will be wandering around the twin cities. Feel free to take in a stray for the weekend. Musicians are cute, cuddly and best of all, many have no other skills with which to earn their keep as your guest.

This mag has already run a comprehensive guide to the fest, so I’ll just give a short rundown of what I’m looking forward to the most. Check out pygmalionmusicfestival.com for all the info there is to be had.

Thursday night at the Canopy Club, the band

that has reigned supreme on my iTunes and lastfm

plays for the last year, Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s, returns. It’s hard to describe just how perfect their music is to me, but a few things to note: amazing harmonies, killer songwriting and a stage bursting with musicians. If you

haven’t had the pleasure of hearing the band, work er check out myspace.com/margotandthenuclearsoandsos. Headlining the show is Murder By Death, another Indiana band that’s garnering national buzz. Ever seen the rock brought by a cello? Even if you answer yes, I doubt you’ve seen it like this, and by such a lovely person. Local rockers Shipwreck, along with Low Skies, The Metal Hearts, and Unwed Sailor round out the bill. The show is $10 in advance, and $12 at the door, unless you were smart and bought a festival wristband!

Friday my heart lies at Cowboy Monkey, but mainly just because Darling Disarm is playing, and I’m in that band. But don’t go just because you want to see my smiling face. Also playing is 2006 CU Local Music Awards winner for best live band, elsinore, St. Louis indie kids Gentleman Auction House, and Howling Hex (10 p.m., $7). The early Krannert show with Danielson and Dave Bazan (of Pedro the Lion, Headphones) will be a good place to hipster watch.

Urbana is hot on Saturday, with the Polyvinyl Show at the Canopy (of Montreal, Headlights, Owen, and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin). Over at the Iron Post you can catch U OF I ASSEMBLY HALL two of my absolute favorites, the Wandering Sons and the Elanors. The way the crowds have Tickets available at the Assembly Hall Box OfďŹ ce, Ticket Central, all Ticketmaster outlets including ticketmaster.com been building every time the Sons play in CU is or charge by phone at 217/333-5000. For more information visit www.uoďŹ assemblyhall.com. a testament to just how amazing they are. And, having recently added the Elanors’ Adriel Harris to the lineup, the Sons will have some new arrangements to show off. The Elanors make their first post-CD release stop here, after having hit the road with Husky Rescue after last month’s

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Highdive show. Don’t let Noah Harris’ lack of a sales pitch while on stage fool you, he has a brand new CD to sell you, and it’s fantastic.

Rounding out the bill are Judah Johnson and Ellestel (9 p.m., $7).

Sunday night is the post-show at the Iron Post (ha, post) in Urbana. It’s free, and will feature Casey Daniel and Water Between Continents, as well as several surprise sets.

What’s the moral of this story? Get out and see some music this weekend. We’re lucky to have something like this happening in our little burg. The wristband is a good call if you’re going to try to hit a ton of shows, but even if you only have time for one or two, do your best to make it. Head honcho Seth Fein will be running around like a madman at the Urbana shows, while the esteemed veep, Mike Ingram, will be cracking the whip in Champaign. Say hi to us, but don’t be offended if we don’t stop for small talk — it’s a busy time. However, Seth will probably say something that actually will offend you. Don’t worry, he’ll apologize in his column next week. Again, check out pygmalionmusicfestival.com for tons of info about the bands that are playing. You might just stumble upon a new band to treasure.

A nd f i na l ly, a word about the S a r a h Michelson’s bar guide in the Kitchen Sync. It seems to be all anyone can talk about lately, so I thought I would add my two cents, which no one asked for. Yes, we all love the Blind Pig, and yes, we all have our own problems with service, drinks, decor (wait, what? decor?) and “the vibe,� so it’s not really worth it to comment on that.

My only real problem with the reviews was the lack of specifics involved when things like music were brought up. Saying that Cowboy Monkey is, “mediocre for live music,� without expanding on it seemed a tad irresponsible to me. What’s mediocre about it? Are the bands not good, or is it the sound system? Sure, there was a limit to the amount of words that she could turn in, I imagine — but if that’s the case, why bother to scratch the surface so meekly like that? Some of the comments just seemed unneeded, and as if they didn’t have much knowledge on the subject to back the words. The sound is muddy at the Canopy Club? But I want to know more!! Oh well, I guess that’s just what you get when you try to squeeze all there is to know about a bar into a tiny paragraph. Regardless, I like Sarah, and look forward to reading things from her that go into more detail.

Mike Ingram wants American TV to be more like Japanese TV. He encourages you to head to YouTube and search “Japanese Tongue Twister.� He is a musician and booking agent, and the Local Music Director at 90.1 WEFT, where he books WEFT Sessions. He brakes for most animals, but tries to run over opossum. You can reach him at forgottenwords@gmail.com.

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Life is made up of a million possibilities. It’s like a large scale choose-your-own-adventure novel. Everyday choices can alter your very existence. By going to the store and flipping to page 190, you could find the love of your life, by flipping to page 180 you end up eaten by wolves. hose pages were metaphorical by the way.

This week Carlye, the Jewish princess, and Brian, the Gentile giant, have some big decisions of their own ... will taking the road less traveled make all the difference?

Carlye: Jack’s Mannequin, or Rosh Hashanah?

I’ve got a pret t y roug h decision ahead of me t h i s weekend . You see, tomorrow night is the first Star Course show of the year — Jack’s Mannequin (Andrew McMahon from Something Corporate’s side project). However, it’s also the first night of Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year.

It’s a hard decision because I’m basically obligated to go to both Jack’s Mannequin (I’m a junior manager for Star-Course) and RoshHashanah services (I’m a Jew and my family will kill me if I don’t go). So, although it may seem counter-intuitive, I’ve designed a Jack’s Mannequin ( JM) vs. Rosh Hashanah (RH) point-counterpoint-within-a-point-counterpoint for your reading pleasure: THE MUSIC: JM: Sounds like Relient K and Ben Folds’ (sans his style of lyrics) musical love child.

RH: Traditional blowing of the Shofar — an instrument made out of a ram’s horn.

The winner? Rosh Hashanah. A man is specif ically trained to blow a horn for as long as he physically can — I can’t knock a dude with stamina.

THE SCENE: JM: Even though you probably sit there through many torturous anthro lectures, Foellinger Auditorium is a surprisingly good concert venue.

RH: Families, friends, hours of praying and lots of brunettes.

The winner? Jack’s Mannequin. Music in English is easier to understand than prayers in Hebrew.

THE EXTRAS: JM: With three openers (Daphne Loves Derby, The Hush Sound and Copeland), it’s like a mini-music-festival.

RH: Binge-eating challah bread (absolutely amazing), matzo ball soup and apples with honey the entire weekend ... yum.

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THE FINAL WINNER? It was a hard decision but ... I think it’s going to have to be Jack’s Mannequin. (After all, what kind of music section would this be if I advised you against seeing a concert?) But, feel free to join me at Hillel on Saturday and Sunday afternoon while I make up for lost time from the night before — we’ll break bread together. Or, in this case, challah.

Br ian: Ludacris or Indie Cred?

I can’t wait for this weekend; Pygmalion is the culminating moment of my life. I’m going to get so many one-inch buttons to put on my messenger bag.

People will be so impressed by the variety of bands they never heard of which decorate my satchel.

Most uber-pumped for? Man Man. They’re on Friday and are the least accessible at the fest; no Garden State-poseur-lame asses there. Man Man has four drummers and they drum with more drums instead of drumsticks; I’m uber-pumped...

I wanna li-li-li-lick you from your head to yo’ toes

Wait, what was that? Ludacris? Oh man, he’s playing at the Assembly Hall on Friday too. I put him in my mixes between Pavement and Mount Eerie for a chuckle, but that’s it.

We can do it in a library, on a pile of books, but you can’t be too loud

Hmm, that’s kind of cool...er... anyway, Man Man at Pitchfork Fest this summer screamed for like 30 minutes. Hmm, that doesn’t sound as cool as it initially did. I want to dance this Friday all of the sudden; dance in a bump and grinding motion.

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No! Get out of my head! I can’t go see you; I hate arena concerts, mainstream music and Crash, the movie you co-starred in. Nothing about you is appealing, nothing but your mad flow and crazy beats and ability to make music both hilarious and insightful. No, I need to see Man Man and wear girls’ blazers and drink PBR. I need to ... I need to...

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I feel like I need to begin by stating that I do not own any albums by The White Stripes, The Greenhor nes or Blanche — bands in which current members of The Raconteurs previously performed. As a matter of fact, the only exposure that I have from a band l ike The W hite Str ipes comes f rom what I hear on the radio. With that said, it should be clear that there are no biases here when I say that The Raconteurs rock. Their debut album Broken Boy Soldiers introduces itself to the world with a fuzzy storm of guitars in the whirlwind single “Steady, As She Goes.”

From here the listener is treated to the harmony-soaked “Hands” in which voca l ists Brendan Benson and Jack White both create sur pr isingly catchy melodies that tap into a vocal presence similarly produced by Robert Plant. Lyrically, the album f luctuates between a variet y of sentiments that go from making its listener feel completely lovestr uck to simply dumbstruck. (The following lyric from “Intimate Secretary” def initely left me scratching my head: Then on rubble of scummiest malarkey/Down with luck we’ll see Ecclesiarchy.)

For the most part, though, Broken Boy Soldiers prog resses w ith a somewhat monotonous energy. It does, however, suggest that The Raconteurs have distinct potential to generate their ver y own intr ig uing and ref reshing brand of rock ‘n roll.

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Contrary to what the recent tabloid headlines regarding his mystery relationship with Jessica Simpson may indicate, John Mayer has matured.

His new album picks up where Try! left off, completing Mayer’s shift from radio-friendly pop hits to jazzier guitar riffs, heavier blues and classic rock influences (Continuum includes a great cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Bold as Love”) and a newfound social awareness.

The lead track, “Waiting on the World to Change” addresses Generation Y’s lack of concern and activism in the face of the current political climate, and includes lyrics like And when you trust your television/what you get is what you got/ cause when they own the information, oh/they can bend it all they want.

Mayer’s good musicianship and songwriting skills are very apparent on the beautiful ballads “Dreaming With A Broken Heart” and “I’m Gonna Find Another You.” The latter is the closing track and arguably the best song on the album. However, even with Mayer’s talents, the CD does contain a couple sleepers (“Belief ” and “The Heart of Life”) that aren’t worth the listener’s time. Despite this, the album as a whole remains a triumph for Mayer.

With Continuum, John Mayer has successfully launched himself into a new phase of his career as he leaves the pop world behind and heads into the realm of adult contemporary. You might not hear these songs on MTV, but go ahead and pop in this CD, close your eyes, and get acquainted with the smooth sounds of a new John Mayer — all grown up.

We all have that one friend of whom we can only take so much. You know exactly who I’m talking about. Admit it. You know, the one who somehow works what new pet-name she has for her boyfriend into every conversation or complains about how much her parents love her when all you want to talk about is your love/hate relationship with Taco Bell. Well, Trentalange’s Photo Album of Complex Relationships is exactly like that friend: small doses are recommended.

The album cover of the CD seems to narrate its lyrical content. Hands bound by rope and head hanging low, Barbara Trentalange, lead vocalist, casts a haunting and gloomy shadow over the majority of the songs while a combination of cello, flute, piano and drums work to give each song that beautifully depressing feel. Her voice is one for getting used to, lying somewhere between the darkness of Evanescence’s Amy Lee and the pretty, simplistic sound of the girls from Eisley.

Trentalange does bring a unique sound to the music world with her haunting vocals and simple, yet profound lyrics, but if you’re looking for a female artist or band to overdose on, I’d suggest looking elsewhere.

Chief Kamachi’s new album, Concrete Gospel, is a mix of generic drum loops, unpolished vocals and trite, sometimes illogical lyrics. The album is hard to listen to, not only due to the aforementioned points, but also because it seems to battle itself being spiritual and blasphemous at the same time. All the tracks are similar and blend together as you listen to the album; in fact, the only real way to tell you are hearing a new song is to listen for Chief Kamachi to repeat his name.

He opens many songs this way in the event a listener forgets who he is hearing or simply out of pure vanity. Overall, this album is a muddled and predictable piece of garbage. If you want good underground rap and hip hop there are better routes to take — the group K-os on the Astralwerks label, for instance. Kamachi simply doesn’t supply the goods.

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FEATURED EVENTS The Builders Association & dbox: Super Vision Marquee In this multi-layered production, the issues of privacy and surveillance in our post-9/11 world are explored. Advanced digital animation, new video techniques, and the technologies of surveillance itself are used to tell the intertwining tales of three different people caught in a world where human lives are often reduced to data.

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Pygmalion Festival: Danielson with opening guest David Bazan 7:30pm, $12-$18

Talkback after the October 6 show, free Afterglow with the The Delta Kings: lobby, after the October 6 show, free

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Joy Thornton Walter and John Walter, in honor of Planned Parenthood Chaplain Reverend Ignacio Castuera

Pacifica Quartet with Menahem Pressler, piano Marquee Pairing Beaux Arts Trio founder Menahem Pressler with the skilled musicians of the U of I quartet-inresidence makes for an incendiary musical evening. The Pacifica bookends Dvorák’s Piano Quintet, Op. 81 with string quartets by Smetana and Dutilleux.

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Dancing Free Swing Dance McKinley Church and Foundation, 9:30pm Lectures/Discussions “Role of Oxygen and Light in the Regulation of Gene Expression in Rhodobactersphaeroides: The Nature of Genome Complexity in Microrganisms” [Speaker Samuel Kaplan, U. of Texas, Houston.]

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A non-fool’s tongue, or as some say ‘undumbs’, would suggest that maybe these bands are of a caliber higher than most and deserve my many and frequent accolades. Once again, agreeing with me proves to be the correct course of action. Standing alone, all these acts were noteworthy and together, like a sort of musical Voltron, they fuse in a powerful and unbeatable bond.

Not only is this concert the highlight of the Pygmalion Festival, but it is also the 10th anniversary party for Champaign-based indie label Polyvinyl.The label is home to bands like, well, the four bands performing.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is a great new indie band, but is a huge pain when it comes to writing articles less than 400 words. The first half of that last sentence took up about a third of my allotted space. All syntactical-beef aside, SSLYBY’s impressive debut “Broom” is the perfect mix of pop rock and indie flavor.

Of Montreal, on the other hand, is the perfect mix of indie flavor and angel dust. There’s a reason they’re headlining and there’s a reason I predict their set to be the best show of the semester.

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I realized as I began typing up this pick that I’ve endorsed all of these bands on separate occasions. One may say that I need to diversify my tastes and recommendations, but a fool’s tongue could only conjure such words.

Check out the show even if you’re not too familiar. Not only will it be a party both literally and figuratively, but the event serves is a perfect opportunity to redeem yourself after seeing the Jack’s Mannequin show the night before. Be undumb, U-C, undumb.

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Illini Union, 3pm, free Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Dance Fusion” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 2pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Cardio Fusion” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3:10pm Trail Trekkers [All are welcome to join Allerton staff for recreational hikes around Allerton grounds.]

Allerton Park, 4pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick Your Abs” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4:15pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Core and More” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 5:15pm Cosmic Bowling Illini Union Recreation Room, 8pm Miscellaneous TechShow 2006 [A showcase of Champaign county’s high tech sector.] Holiday Inn & Conference Center, 4pm Ribbon Cutting [Ribbon Cutting for the new Amber Glen Alzheimer’s Special Care Center.] Amber Glen Alzheimer’s Special Care Center, 4pm “Speak Cafe” Krannert Art Museum, 7pm Meetings Medicare Part-D Community Meeting [Community meeting to learn more about the current Part D program, what you can do to support legislative improvements to create a better Medicare prescription drug benefit and provide testimony on your experiences with Part D.] The Urbana Civic Center, 10am

Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard [Apples, pumpkins, gourds, squash: both in-store and pick-your-own. Country store with specialty products & gifts items, including butters, preserves, snacks & our own cider. Try the new Flying Monkey Cafe for lunch and have donuts, pies & cobblers from our bakery.

We also have a petting zoo, inflatable slides & corn maze.] Curtis Orchard, 9am Mind /Body / Spirit “Bringing Balance to Your Life Using Earth, Air, Fire & Water” [Instructor Rev. Jenny Hunt is a Reiki Master Practitioner and Trainer. Jenny is a certified and registered hypnotherapist, with additional certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Psycholinguistics, and Time-Line Therapy.]

IllumiNation Institute, 7pm, $9 members/$10

FRI. SEP 22 Live Bands Billy Galt Live at Blues BBQ Blues Barbecue, 11:30am Boneyard Jazz Quintet Iron Post, 5pm, free Steve Adleman Jazz Quartet Cowboy Monkey, 5:30pm, free Jack’s Mannequin [Presented

by StarCourse.] Foellinger Auditorium, 7pm, $20 students/$23 Pygmalion Festival: Danielson [On tour with their newest album and single (Ships) and in the wake of a featurelength documentary that spans a five-year history of the family’s music-making, the band kicks off this year’s Pygmalion Festival of alternative/rock/indie bands in Urbana-Champaign.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm Big Bang Theory Fat City Saloon, 7:30pm, cover Ari Hest, Gran Bel Fisher The Highdive, 7:45pm, $10 in advance/$12 Martini Brothers Hubers, 8pm Make Believe, Valina, Hello I’m Victor, A Light Sleeper Courtyard Cafe, 8pm, free Pygmalion Festival: Man Man, The Life & Times with Canada, The Living Blue, Watery Domestic Canopy Club, 9pm Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 Panacea Phoenix, 9pm, $3 Will Rogers Band Chief’s Bar and Grill, 9:30pm Howling Hex, Elsinore, Gentlemen Auction House, Darling Disarm Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $10

Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke American Legion Post 71, 8pm, free Lectures/Discussions “Whose Nature? Whose Rights?” [Presented by Zsuzsa Gille, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Sociology UIUC.] University YMCA, 12pm “Images of the Aging Mind” [Denise Park, UI Psychology.]

Beckman Institute, 12pm “Idiosyncratic Tuning of tRNAs in Translation” [By Olke Uhlenbeck, Northwestern University.] Chemical and Life Science Laboratory (B and C), 12pm Friday Forum Series: “What on Earth are We Doing? Prospects for a Healthy Planet” [The first lecture in the Friday Forum Series is entitled “Global Warming: Are We Reaching a (Political) Tipping Point?” by Robert Cox, Former President, Sierra Club and Professor at the University of North Carolina.]

University YMCA, 12:15pm Film Film Series: “Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Curse of the Black Pearl” Gregory Hall, 7pm, $2 student/$3 Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam” Krannert Art Museum, 9am Graduate College Brown Bag: Time Management [Monthly lunch session for grad students, facilitated by Greg Lambeth of the Counseling Center.] Coble Hall, 12pm Sporting events Women’s Volleyball v. Wisconsin Huff Hall, 7pm Recreation Learn to Play Pinochle Hays Recreation Center, 1pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Treadfit” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 2pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Cardio Express” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3pm TGIF Lunch & Bowling [$32 buys four people rental shoes, bowling, fountain drinks, and a large 18” pizza from Sbarro. Reserve your lane at least one day in advance.] Illini Union, 12pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Triple Threat” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 12:05pm Miscellaneous Coffee Hour: Arabia Cosmopolitan Club, 7:30pm Illinites [There will be Mr./Ms. Multicultural pageant cosponsored with TEAM with a pageant after-party. Features music and glowsticks, Spoken Four cover band in Courtyard Cafe, Super Smash Bros. tournament for cash prizes, Comedy Showcase featuring the campus’ best student improv groups, henna, nail art, 25 cent Sbarro pizza, pictures, prizes and more!] Illini Union, 9pm

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Cosmic Bowling Illini Union Recreation Room, 8pm

Head Start Early Childhood Programs Volunteer: Gardener If gardening is one of your hobbies, why not consider using your hobby to benefit the community? Head Start Early Childhood programs need gardens tended to at two of their Champaign County locations: 809 N. Neil in Champaign and 104 W. Nightingale in Rantoul. This is an ongoing volunteer opportunity for someone who enjoys spending time outside and working with flowers. Helpers are needed to tend each garden throughout the rest of the fall season at least once a week to keep them looking beautiful. Interested?

Contact Kelly Russell at 328-3313.

Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

SAT. SEP 23 Live Bands Stanton McConnell Potbelly Sandwich Works, 5pm, free Lynn O’Brien, The Bowmans, Casados, Christopher Bernhard Courtyard Cafe, 7pm, $5 Jazz Mayhem Alto Vineyards, 7:30pm, $3 Salaryman, Bailey The Highdive, 7:45pm, $8 in advance/$10 R & M Karaoke Hubers, 8pm The Wandering Sons, Elanors, Judah Johnson, Ellestel Iron Post, 8pm, $7 “Grass Roots Revival” [Bluegrass and Classic Country.]

Pages for All Ages, 8pm Pygmalion Festival: Of Montreal, Polyvinyl 10th Anniversary Party with Headlights, Owen, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Canopy Club, 9pm Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 New Ruins, Bellcaster, Rusty Pipes, Tractor Kings Mike ‘N Molly’s, 9pm, $5 Jonesful, Quadremedy Phoenix, 9pm, $3 Will Rogers Band Chief’s Bar and Grill, 9:30pm Lorenzo Goetz, Probably Vampires, Weird Weeds, Pulsar47 Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $7 Adam Wolfe Potbelly Sandwich Works, 12pm Concerts Music In Nature Concert: Jazz [Desafinado plays jazz standards, Brazilian bossa nova, followed by Prairie Dogs playing bluegrass. Bring blanket and chairs.] Allerton Park Visitor Center, 5pm Korean Cultural Center Grand Opening Benefit Concert [Listen to the music from “One Tree Hill” live! In addition to Susie Suh’s jazzy stage, you can hear dance-mixing performance of rain, modern arranged piano solo/duo soft R&B stage, and powerful hiphop musical performance.]

Foellinger Auditorium, 7pm, $7 students/$15 Liz Lerman on Ferocious Beauty: Genome [For Liz Lerman, dance is more than artistic expression; it’s a tool for communicating ideas, starting

conversations, and bridging the gap between seemingly divergent worlds. With “Ferocious Beauty,” she has created a performance and a national dialogue that communicates complex ideas of science, ethics, religion, and more through the simple movements of the human form.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $14 students/$30 Sinfonia da Camera [Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, music director Ian Hobson, Sinfonia da Camera, and Pacifica Quartet violinist Masumi Rostad premiere a new work by former faculty members Keeril Makan. Rostad is joined by guest violinist Graeme Jennings for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and the orchestra presents works

by Schumann and Shostakovich on this celebratory evening.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $12 students/$33 Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, 9pm Lectures/Discussions “Corked Bats and Rising Fastballs: Using Physics to Debunk Some Myths of Baseball” [Presented by Alan Nathan.]

Loomis Laboratory, 10:15am Film Film Series: “Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Curse of the Black Pearl” Gregory Hall, 7pm, $2 student/$3 Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam” Krannert Art Museum, 9am

Comedy “Friends of Bob & Tom Show Comedy Tour” [Presents The Ineligible Bachelors featuring headliner Mike Birbiglia with co-stars Auggie Smith, Greg Warren, Henry Phillips with host Mike Macrae.] Virginia Theatre, 8pm, $28.50 Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard [Live music, wagon rides, pony rides, mining for gems, kettle corn making and face painting.] Curtis Orchard, 9am

SUN. SEP 24 Live Bands “Live Music at Curtis Orchard” [Denny Kay sings country & gospel.] Curtis Orchard, 2pm Steel Guitar Jam Rose Bowl Tavern, 3pm, $3 “Dave Dickey Big Band” [All-star 17-piece big band featuring all of the University jazz faculty and the top jazz musicians in east and central Illinois.]

Iron Post, 5:30pm Open Mic Night [Open stage with host Adam Wolfe.

Performers recieve free sandwich.] Potbelly Sandwich Works, 6pm NDMO White Horse Inn, 7pm, free Community/Campus Women’s Music Series, Concert I Independent Media Center, 8pm Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover FCAB [With The Dakota and TBA.] Canopy Club, 9pm, $5

Lectures/Discussions SAS Festival: Lunch and Learn Foreign Languages Building, 10am “Understanding People’s Experience with Technology at Work and Play” [Anne Galloway will be speaking.] Krannert Art Museum, 5pm, free “The 1994 Rwandan Refugee Crisis” [The 1994 Rwandan refugee crisis was one of modern history’s most complex humanitarian crises. In addition to the political, cultural and military background refugee camps in Zaire. This talk looks at the role earth scientists played in mitigating the volcano threat to the 800,000 Rwandan refugees who fled their country and settled temporarily in Zaire.]

Levis Faculty Center, 7:30pm “Collection in Context Lectures with Marcel Franciscono” [Lecture on “Die Brucke: E.L. Kirchner.”] Krannert Art Museum, 12pm Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam” Krannert Art Museum, 9am Sporting events Men’s Golf Fighting Illini Invitational Olympia Fields C.C., 9am Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Belly Dancing” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick Your Abs” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick and Crunch” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 5:20pm

“Fitness Drop-in Course: Athletic Conditioning” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 6:30pm Comedy DeBono Improv Comedy Troupe Courtyard Cafe, 9pm, free Miscellaneous Illinites [Inflatables, mocktails, karaoke, digital photo-shoots and Sbarro pizza for 25 cents.] Illini Union, 9pm Meetings Pre-Law General Info for Freshman and Transfer Students Gregory Hall, 4pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

TUE. SEP 26 Live Bands Billy Galt Live at Blues BBQ Blues Barbecue, 11:30am Treologic [Rehearsal Space in the Void Room.] Canopy Club, 12am, no cover Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover Jack Ingram, Matt Poss and the Wild Bunch The Highdive, 9pm, $15in advance/$18 Chris O [A blend of downtempo and deep house.] Boltini Lounge, 10:30pm, no cover Concerts Kiri Te Kanawa and Frederica von Stade [Two legends of opera and concert stages return to Krannert Center for a sensational evening of songs, arias, and duets from operas and concerts works by Mozart, Berlioz, Continued on page 14

Concerts University Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band I Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $2 students/$8 Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam” Krannert Art Museum, 9am Sporting events Men’s Golf Fighting Illini Invitational Olympia Fields C.C., 9am Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Intro to Mediation” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick Your Abs” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4:15pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Hip Hop N’ Groove” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 7pm

Sporting events Illinois Football v. Iowa Memorial Stadium, 11am Women’s Volleyball v. Minnesota Huff Hall, 7pm

Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick and Crunch” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 10am “Fitness Drop-in Course: Step Blast” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 11:20am “Fitness Drop-in Course: Pure Pilates” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 2pm

Live Bands Michael Davis [Singer/ Keyboardist] Bentley’s Pub, 7pm Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

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DJ DJ Delayney [Hip-Hop/Soul] Barfly, 10pm

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Live Bands Rock For Research Benefit Show: Spitalfield, Junior Varsity, 2* Sweet, Missing the Point, Kirkland, Crown Atlantic Courtyard Cafe, 7pm, $10 Pygmalion Festival: Murder by Death, Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s with Shipwreck, Low

Adam Wolfe [Live Acoustic] Potbelly Sandwich Works, 12pm

Concerts Ludacris with Special Guest Yung Joc [Rapper and Champaign-native will return to Assembly Hall for a full hall concert.] Assembly Hall, 7:30pm, $35

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Skies, Metal Hearts, Unwed Sailor Canopy Club, 9pm Backyard BBQ Band [Acoustic set of lively blues, honkytonk western swing music & more.] Aroma Cafe, 9pm Caleb Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover Scurvine, Triple Whip, Ghost in Light, Exit Clov, Coco Coca, Darrin Drda Cowboy Monkey, 9pm, $5 Ear Doctor Zorba’s Restaurant, 9:30pm, $3

College of Communication Informational Meeting [Students interested in advertising, media studies, broadcast journalism or news-editorial journalism are encouraged to attend.]

Gregory Hall, 4:30pm “Cozad Business Plan Competition Kickoff reception” [Have an idea to start a business?

Do you want to place your business idea in a competition for money? Come learn about our competition and how your business can compete for money.] NCSA Auditorium, 5:30pm

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Chemical and Life Science Laboratory (B and C), 4pm Loose Womyn Discussion Group [There will be a discussion of the book “A Weekend to Change Your Life” by Joan Anderson. Hosted by Jo Pauly, MSW, Whole Life Coach.] Borders Books Music & Cafe, 7pm “Highlights of Eight Decades of Archaeology in the Illinois Country” [This lecture by Alan D. Harn, Curator of Anthropology at Dickson Mounds Museum, highlights important archaeological excavations undertaken in the central Illinois region over the past eight decades.

Rare historical photographs from early excavations set the interpretive stage for an examination of recent work.]

Urbana Free Library, 7pm “Discussion with Dada” [Dada Madhuvidyananda, a Yogic Monk will present a lecture series on Eastern Thought and Practices. Each session will include a lecture on some aspect of eastern spirituality, a collective meditation and a group discussion.] Ananda Liina Yoga & Meditation Center, 7:30pm

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Wonder of the World [Nothing will prepare you for the strange little secret Cass discovers in her husband’s sweater drawer. It is so shocking that our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on. It’s a wild ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of laughs as Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter, all of which pushes her perilously close to the water’s edge.

By David Lindsy-Abaire with Director David N. Morgan.] Parkland College Theatre, Sept. 27, 29, 30, 8 p.m.

Poulenc, Canteloube, Britten, Copland and others.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $28 students/$47 DJ DJs Hoff and Bambino [Hard Rock/ Punk] Mike ‘N Molly’s, 10pm DJ Tremblin BG Barfly, 10pm Dancing Salsa Dance Lessons Independent Media Center, 9pm, $40/6 weeks Argentine Tango Fundamentals [Smooth soled shoes recommended.] Channing Murray Foundation, 9pm, $60/10 weeks Subversion: DJ TwinScin and DJ Evily [Industrial/EBM/Darkwave dance party.] The Highdive, 10pm, $2 Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, 9pm Karaoke [With Randy Miller.]

Bentley’s Pub, 9:30pm, free Lectures/Discussions “The December 26, 2004, Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami�

[Field perspectives on the impacts to the peoples, cultures, politics, and economics of one of the world’s most vibrant regions. In addition to the tens of thousands of relief workers who responded to the Sumatran earthquake and the related tsunami, earth scientists, including those in the USGS, were part of the post-disaster assessment and recovery planning efforts.] Spurlock Museum, 4pm

Speed Sketchings and Paper Tearing Artworks by Hua Nian [Hua Nian is an active exhibiting artist and art instructor in Champaign-Urbana. Her paintings appear in international and national art exhibitions, winning awards at local, state and national shows.] Pages for All Ages through Sept. 30 Pour la Victoire: French Posters and Photographs of the Great War [Graphically charged lithographic posters from the World-War-I era depict the place of women in the war effort, the need for personal sacrifice on the home front and the position of French colonial subjects. The exhibition is drawn from University Archive holdings and is accompanied by documentary photographs from the Rare Book Library. Guest Curators: David O’Brien and Emily Evans] Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 15 Cosmic Consciousness: The Work of Robert Bannister [Born in 1911, this outsider artist, a native of Urbana, spent his early years convalescing in a local sanitarium. In 1950, stricken with anemia, he left the home of foster grandparents to enter the Champaign County Nursing Home, where an occupational therapist introduced him to carving and drawing. After his release in 1961, he lived in one room near West

Nutrition, Epigenetics and Disease Susceptibility Animal Sciences Laboratory, 4pm “Rapid Signaling of Estradiol Influencing Brain Function� Beckman Institute, 4pm The Repair of Broken Societies Begins at Home [Paul Street (researcher, writer, speaker, and historian) will give a critique of US foreign policy with analysis of worsening social conditions and erosion of democracy at home.] Community United Church, 7pm “Jazz Music: The Expression of a People� University YMCA, 12pm “I Saw it All Along�: The Hindsight Bias in Visual Perception [A picture is worth a thousand words. Although visual information is often superior to verbal information in conveying complex ideas, there are important exceptions. Research on hindsight bias reveals one such exception, particularly when complex events are reconstructed using computer animation.]

Beckman Institute, 12pm, free

Dancing Tango Dancing [Lesson at 7:30pm followed by tango dancing from 8-10:30pm then salsa dancing until 2am.] Cowboy Monkey, 7:30pm, no cover

David Svensson/SpaceLight [This is the first U.S. museum presentation of the work of emerging Swedish artist David Svensson, who draws from the modernist aesthetic in joining the practices of art and design.

Seven glowing sculptural works will be exhibited in the glass-walled link between the museum and the School of Art and Design.] Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 22

Lectures/Discussions Modeling Complex Systems: Examples from Human Health and Agriculture Animal Sciences Laboratory, 4pm Book Discussion: “The Tortilla Curtain� Pages for All Ages, 7pm Film Ushpizin Film [Winner of the 2004 Best Actor award at the 2004 Israeli Film Academy for writer-star Shuli Rand, Ushpizin is a heart warming and light hearted look at the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. With an introduction by Gail Harevan, vising Israeli author.] Armory Building, 7:30pm, free

Surrealist Interventions: Selections from Krannert Art Museum and the University of Illinois Library [This exhibition pairs Surrealist paintings, photographs, prints and drawings from the Krannert Art Museum collection with the movement’s experiments in print culture–from manifestos and singlepage tracts to elaborately designed serials and limited-edition books on loan from the University of Illinois Library. Collaboration across media and continual reinvention in the face of controversy have contributed to Surrealism’s reputation as one of the most vital and enduring avantgarde practices of the twentieth century.] Krannert Art Museum through Dec. 31

Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Sunrise Yoga� Campus Recreation (CRCE), 7am “Fitness Drop-in Course: Dance Fusion� Campus Recreation (CRCE), 2pm Trail Trekkers Allerton Park, 4pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Core and More� Campus Recreation (CRCE), 5:15pm Red Pin Tuesdays Illini Union Recreation Room, 6:30pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Cardio Camp�

Campus Recreation (CRCE), 8pm

Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam� Krannert Art Museum, 9am

“Fitness Drop-in Course: Strength, Lengthen, & Balance� Campus Recreation (CRCE), 9:15pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

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Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Sunrise Pilates� Campus Recreation (CRCE), 6:45am “Fitness Drop-in Course: Guided Relaxation and Breathwork� Campus Recreation (CRCE), 10am Learn to Play Pinochle Hays Recreation Center, 1pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Belly Dancing�

Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Cardio Express� Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick Your Abs�

Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Step Blast�

Campus Recreation (CRCE), 5pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am Teddy Bear Picnic Toddler Time [Children 2-4 with an adult are invited to bring a teddy bear for stories, songs, and activities.

We’ll supply a special treat.]

Urbana Free Library, 10:30am

Live Bands Ryan Groff Silvercreek Restaurant, 6:30, free Irish Traditional Music Session Bentley’s Pub, 7pm, free Musekewa Ohingodza Iron Post, 7pm, $3

Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “WaterYam� Krannert Art Museum, 9am

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Side Park, painting, drawing and writing works that are meditations on human life tinged with humor and a self-proclaimed “cosmic consciousness.�] Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 15

Interviewing Skills for Academic Jobs Workshop Illini Union, 3pm, free

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CLASSICAL MUSIC DIVAS ROCK OUT AT KRANNERT Buzz spreads the word about sopranos Kiri te Kanawa and Frederica von Stade.

Soprano Frederica von Stade.

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he world of classical music has its share of superstars and some cross over into the popular imagination.

Such could be said about the near rock star status of sopranos Kiri te Kanawa and Frederica von Stade.

Our community will be treated to performances by both of them on Sept. 26 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. von Stade and te Kanawa’s music ranges from operatic leads to Gershwin songs to classic Broadway musicals, and their Sept. 26 concert will ref lect that diversity of song. Accompanied by Warren Jones on the piano, they will treat Krannert audiences to operatic excerpts and popular songs in Italian, French and English. Composers from Berlioz to Mozart to Cole Porter will be heard, with the 18th through the 20th centuries on display.

Frederica von Stade, despite her very Teutonic name, was born in New Jersey and started her professional career as a mezzo-soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in 1970. Her professional reputation grew with such distinction that in 1995 the Met debuted a new production of The Merry Widow specif ically for her. Modern operas like The Aspen Papers and

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For opera fans, von Stade has two def ining moments: her 1970s recording with conductor John Pritchard of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel, and her many performances as the lead in Debussy’s Pelleas and Melisande. The former fantasy def ined her early career as well as assisting her in getting to know one of her co-stars, Kiri te Kanawa. Fortunately, this wonderful Hansel and Gretel is available on a CD, but her highly praised 2000 reprise of Hansel and Gretel is only on an out-of-print DVD that collectors drool over.

For lover s of Debu s s y’s on l y oper a (a nd von St ade i s one of t he m), s he h a s t wo r e cor d i n g s ava i l a ble on C D of Pell ea s a nd Melisande. Unfortunately, no DVD exists of any of her performances, there are about half a dozen DVDs feat ur i ng her i n other roles. Of particular note are two excellent Mozart recordings of The Marriage of Figaro (with Kiri Te Kanawa) and Idemeneo, where you can see and hear this diva in action.

The other woman in this soprano duo is Kiri te Kanawa. She was born in New Zealand and her name indicates her partial native Maori blood.

She began her professional singing and record ing career at the age of 20 after moving to London. In a meteoric career of operatic leads mixed with popular vocal music, Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.

she was named a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1982. From Don Giovanni to West Side Story to Brahms’ German Requiem, her mastery of the soprano range has dazzled audiences for decades.

Te Kanawa reached many of her defining moments with the music of the 20th century. Her incredible performances of the lead roles in the operas of Richard Strauss have been captured on CD and DVD for Arabella, Der Rosenkavalier and Capriccio. If you think the 20th century has shortchanged grand opera, give these artists your attention and you might change your mind.

Ms. Te Kanawa’s real icebreakers with the public have been what the classical world calls the “crossover” indulgences.

Her Mar ia in West Side Story is the only recording that Leonard Bernstein himself ever recorded of his legendary stage musical. This wonderful studio moment can be heard on both CD and DVD. These women truly have earned “rock star status.” When Paul McCartney made a feint into the classical world with a rock oratorio, The Liverpool Oratorio, he got Kiri Te Kanawa for the lead. There are many oppor tun ities to view Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Frederica von Stade on DVD, but nothing beats seeing them both live and here in Champaign-Urbana.

Kiri te Kanawa and Frederica von Stade will be performing at the Krannert Center on Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Check out www.krannertcenter.com or call 333-6280 for more information. buzz

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ay-Z, P Diddy, Vin Diesel, Shaquille O’Neal, Xzibit, Bobby Brown and Ja Rule — what do all these men have in common? If you’re thinking “Duh, they’re celebrities,” then we have a lot of talking to do. These men and many more compose the list of all the men Karrine Steffans “has had,” if you know what I mean.

Karrine Steffans’ autobiography Confessions of a Video Vixen reveals what goes on behind the scenes in celebrities’ lives. Appearing in numerous rap videos with nothing but a bikini on, Karrine sought to let woman all over the world know that sometimes, the only person you can depend on is yourself.

This book outlines her many travesties such as being abused by her mother and lovers, raped, mistreated and left in drug houses to f ind her way home. We also learn that Karrine abused herself by using ecstasy and becoming hooked on numerous drugs.

All these incidents in Karrine’s life shaped the type of woman she would grow up to be. Her whole life, she looked for someone to tell her she was pretty because her mother had not. She wanted someone to love her and be with her; she cared less about the fact that many of the men (Bobby Brown, Shaquille O’Neal, Ja Rule and others whose names are not well-known) were married or in relationships and were still sleeping around with her.

Karrine Steffans book is not a “must-read.”

The book makes you feel sor r y for her at f irst, but then you ask yourself why she kept making the same mistakes over and over again.

Yes, people make mistakes, but how many times? And despite her mistakes, she shows no remorse. If you don’t want to know ludicrous and overbearing details about Steffans’ physical relationships with almost every man in the hip-hop music industry, then def initely don’t read her book. This Video Vixen was out to confess every person, place, event, drug, touch, kiss and thought that went on in her video girl world.

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If you’ve played Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, then you really won’t miss much with this one. Like its predecessor, this game offers the same unusual game play dynamics as you would expect from such a title. Generate your own town, haul ass to pay off your mortgage, hack down some trees, talk to the townies about absolutely nothing — you get the picture.

For those of you who don’t know, this “game” is something of a life simulation where you play an unusual looking character living in a world whose residents are animals. You perform random everyday tasks just to get by but have no real purpose other than to take away precious minutes of your life. As much as I enjoyed the Gamecube version years ago, this version for Nintendo DS certainly let me down. This game had so much potential, especially on the DS where the stylus could have been used for a little more than menu navigation and awkward movement across the game screens. If you have played the original, unless you are a hardcore Animal Crossing fan, I would steer clear of this video game.

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After being embarrassed, the Wolfhouse brothers return to America to form a team and train for an entire year to defend their family and their country. (Kevin Olsen) THE COVENANT Director Renny Harlin has made something here, but any accurate categorization can be evasive for a movie that resembles a haunted Lexus commercial, with fight scenes and a plot coherency equivalent to a porno. Ostensibly, The Covenant is about four Massachusetts, old money prep school seniors (the Sons of Ipswich) with a special â&#x20AC;&#x153;powerâ&#x20AC;? passed down from their early-settling Protestant forebears. The boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; power, both unexplained and inexplicable, consists of hand waving, eye flashing and the usual telepathy, along with floating, flying and what seems just for the hell of it, conjuring up clear, waxy fireballs to heave at each other. (Tim Peters) CRANK In the over-the-top style and humor of Luc Bessonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Transporter series, Crank has a ridiculous premise that unsuccessfully attempts to woo over its viewers with intense action sequences, outrageous sex scenes and staple Statham kill

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phrases. The only saving grace of this movie is, as it is in many of his non-Guy Ritchie/Luc Besson films, Stathamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence. Despite his common role as a professional killer on some sort of mission, Statham manages to continuously play it with an entertaining, light style that does not seem to get old. Much like Ron Perlman, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a fun (and relatively unknown) stage presence to watch. (Jeff Gross)

iveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suicidal and intellectual uncle Frank (Steve Carell), brother Dwayne (Paul Dano), who does not talk and reads Nietzsche, and grandfather (Alan Arkin), who is a rude narcotics user. (Dan Brunner)

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Where the hell is my elephant?â&#x20AC;? demands Kham (Tony Jaa), dubbed over and out of sync. This quote basically sums up the entire plot of the very gritty movie The Protector. As detailed in the film, Thai history says that elephants represent power in a battle; if your elephant dies, so do you. As a result, people were trained to protect these sacred animals from harm. Kham grew up with this mentality despite its outdatedness. As a result, when Khamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elephant is stolen by the villainous Johnny (Johnny Nguyen), he needs to go to Australia to reclaim this family member. (Scott Frankel)

Adrien Brody stars as Louis Simo, a low-budget private investigator who is quickly attracted to the sensationalized media coverage of Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; death â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reeves was known mostly for playing Superman/Clark Kent in the 1950s television show The Adventures of Superman. The Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tale is told in fl ashbacks, with a surprisingly lively interpretation of the troubled actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life by Ben Affleck. As Simo speculates alternative theories on who may have killed Reeves, scenes of Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; short life are continually interspersed with an effectively expressive, moody film noir visual style. (Syd Slobodnik) INVINCIBLE In the movie Invincible, Mark Wahlberg stars as Vince Papale, a bar tender living in southern Philadelphia during the summer of 1976. For most of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working class, including Vince, the Eagles football team is one of their only real joys, in spite of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s losing record. Eager to arouse some more excitement for the team, Eagles coach Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) holds open tryouts for new players. After being nudged by his friends, Vince goes to the tryouts, despite having played only one year of high school football. With a bit of luck and a lot of heart, Vince makes his way onto the NFL team. (Alice Huddleston) LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE After being a well-received entry in the Sundance Film Festival, Little Miss Sunshine was grabbed by Fox Searchlight and distributed to hundreds of theaters across the country. Little Miss Sunshine follows a family encountering setbacks on a trip from Albuquerque to California. Olive (Abigail Breslin), the daughter of Richard (Greg Kinnear) and Sheryl (Toni Collette), is given a spot in a Little Miss Sunshine contest. They cram into a VW minivan with Ol-

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STEP UP Newcomers Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan lead the cast in Step Up, a feel good, quintessential chick flick that comes straight off the heels of other dance themerelated movies for our generation, such as Save the Last Dance, Center Stage and Take the Lead. The plot is always the same in these films; an unlucky kid hopes to make it in the world of dance, drama ensues and they usually achieve their dream. The ending is tied up in a pretty little package for you! Step Up offers good entertainment and a few laughs. I left the theater seeing what I expected to see, nothing extraordinary but definitely satisfying. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tight on cash though, save your money and wait for this to come out on DVD. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be missing much. (Katie Devine)

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PULSE Pulse is the latest entry in the series of abysmal remakes of Japanese horror films. While retaining the visual aura and spooky atmosphere of Kairo, its Asian predecessor, it dies (no pun intended) by way of its lame story and lack of scares; two elements that are kind of essential in any horror movie. As far as plot is concerned, Pulse is yet another Japanese parable about haunted or possessed technology where-in a group of idiot kids stumble across an evil Web site. Ghoulish beings from â&#x20AC;&#x153;beyondâ&#x20AC;? are the Web administrators seeking to escape their world and enter ours in the form of a computer virus.

SNAKES ON A PLANE Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have expected a film with such a ridiculously simple and all-telling title as Snakes on a Plane to actually turn out so well? Self-aware films tend to be more stupid than campy. Alas, Snakes on a Plane delivers what it promises and much, much more. On top of classic Samuel L. Jackson (and his oh-so-famous line) and a plane full of snakes, the film is riddled with some great murder scenes. As Jackson himself would say, these mothaf**kinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; snakes are mothaf**kinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vicious. They slither, leap and bite in the worst places. (Jeff Gross)

Will Ferrell shines in his latest role as a NASCAR driver in the laugh-out-loud comedy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Ferrell plays Ricky Bobby, a dim witted, southern race car driver who lives by the motto â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t first, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re last.â&#x20AC;? With this motto, Bobby finds himself in the victory lane most of the time with the help of life-long best friend and driving partner Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly) creating the formidable duo â&#x20AC;&#x153;shake and bake.â&#x20AC;? (Kevin Olsen)

WORLD TRADE CENTER Oliver Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Trade Center is an emotional film that honors the story of two Port Authority police officers that were trapped in the rubble of the 9/11 aftermath for 24 hours. The movie recognizes the major tragedy that has occurred and puts all politics aside to simply tell the inspiring and true account of Officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Micheal Pena).The day starts at 4:29 a.m. like any other; then at 8:46 a.m., a shadow of a plane can be seen flying lower into the city. From here, McLoughlin leads his Port Authority officers in an evacuation of the North Tower. As the morning goes on, the buildings fall and McLoughlin and Jimeno are buried underneath. (Mrugesh Bavda)

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At its core, this show goes beyond just finding a new Pussycat Doll; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about female empowerment, selfdiscovery and personal transformation.

One lucky young woman will get her big break to join one of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular musical groups, The Pussycat Dolls.

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The Black Dahlia is the latest film from director Brian DePalma (The Untouchables). Unfortunately, it’s also the latest film by screenwriter Josh Friedman (War Of The Worlds), who couldn’t adapt a great story if it was dropped into his lap ... which it was.

The Black Dahlia is a great example of how you can have almost all of the elements of a great film — the cinematography, acting, slick plot, etc — and still fail to make a great movie.

Why? The film lacks a simple, key element to the noir/neo-noir construct: the mystery. The movie moves along as though it’s building up to some big, lurking mystery behind Tinsel Town (think Blue Velvet), only there isn’t.

L.A. Confidential set a bar for James Elroy movies that The Black Dahlia fails to clear. We know he has the talent, so who is to blame? I place it squarely on Friedman. War Of The Worlds was the worst film of 2005 and it reflects here; maybe if The Black Dahlia was played off as a summer release teen-noir instead of the first “serious” good film of the year, then maybe my interpretation of the quality of this film would have been different.

Despite my chidings, this movie is amusing at many points and Hilary Swank is surprisingly not annoying. However, these fun, catchy scenes are

trumped by longer, more trite scenes that make you wish you’d gone to see something else.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention the plot: It’s about two 1940s L.A. cops ( Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart) who head up the hunt for the killer of aspiring “starlet” Elizabeth Short.

That’s about as complex as the movie gets. If you’re looking for a good neo-noir, don’t waste your time. Rent L.A. Confidential, Chinatown and Blue Velvet instead.

Kay Lake (Scarlett Johannson) and Officer Dwight “Bucky” Bleichert” ( Josh Hartnett) in the neo-noir film gone awry, The Black Dahlia.

Director Tony Goldwyn’s The Last Kiss is an engaging tale of a near-30-year-old’s angst, relationships and infidelity. Written by Paul Haggis, hot screenwr iter of Million Dollar Baby and Crash, The Last Kiss more generally concerns four male friends, still in a state of delayed adolescence, who can’t commit to lasting relationships. Haggis adapts this dramatic and comedic tale from the screenplay of a recent Italian f ilm, which neatly echoes the classic Federico Fellini film I Vitelloni.

The Last Kiss develops a strongly male-oriented narrative, while using much of the style and tone of the comedy/romances of Edward Burns, like The Brothers McMullen and She’s The One. Where Goldwyn and Haggis vary is that their male buddy characters are not nearly as sympathetic, or in the least charming.

Zach Braff is Michael, an up-and-coming architect who has the ideal loving fiancé (Jacinda Barrett) who is pregnant and wants nothing more than to settle into a loving marriage. But Michael doesn’t like how programmed his life is now becoming and strays into a f ling with a sexy college co-ed from the nearby University of Wisconsin. Chris is Michael’s married friend with an infant son who cannot find a happy moment with his calculating wife. Another depressed pal,

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fiancée to be a volunteer, who just so happens to be Sophie. The story unfolds as Eisenheim tries to win Sophie back while at the same time undermining the royal family of Vienna.

The f ilm is a brilliant adaptation of the short story Eisenheim, the Illusionist by Steven Millhauser. Unlike many other movies that are far less appealing than the novels, The Illusionist is an exceptional film with a surprise ending that will shock most viewers.

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After a summer of mostly forgettable hits, The Illusionist offers a breath of fresh air. This is the type of film that launches a director’s career, and Neil Berger directs what can only be described as a masterpiece. Shot entirely in the Czech Republic, the backgrounds in this film are both befitting and gorgeous. The dimly lit scenes fit perfectly for a film that is set in Vienna in the early 1900s. It also has a definite “film noir” feel and can be seen as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock.

The f ilm stars the always great Edward Norton in the role of Eisenheim the magician.

Paul Giamatti also gives a strong performance as Chief Inspector Uhl, and Rufus Sewell is believable as Crown Prince Leopold. Jessica Biel also stars and plays the Duchess Sophie Von Teschen — she looks amazing in the film, but her acting is not on par with her co-stars. Thankfully, her lines are kept to a minimum as to not distract from her beauty.

The film’s plot revolves around the love between Eisenheim and Sophie, childhood friends who are forced to separate because Sophie is royalty and he is a commoner. Eisenheim leaves Vienna, only to return years later performing his act. While conducting his illusions, he asks for a volunteer from the audience. Prince Leopold then offers his

Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and Sophie ( Jessica Biel) making magic on stage in The Illusionist.

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Picture this: you’re walking down the street with your friend when suddenly you hear an aged engine roar. You turn around and see a car full of people shouting and hanging out the window. Someone in the car pulls out a small silver gun and starts shooting at you.

You’re literally running for your life, dodging bullets and hopping over fences—not fair, right? All you wanted was milk from the grocery store.

This is the environment that juveniles deal with daily in the Gridiron Gang — a “ based on a true story” movie directed by Phil Joanou about young, troubled boys in a juvenile detention center. They must try to face their fears, overcome their dif ferences and prejudices toward one another and learn how to work together to form a successful football team in order to become “winners,” as put by their football coach/security guard Shaun (played

by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson).

The Rock’s performance in the movie is outstanding; he has a good sense of humor but also knows when to be extremely serious. He is the first to believe in the boys and tells them that by playing football well, they can prove to the world that “even though you are locked up, you are somebody.”

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Izzy, has just been dumped by a long time lover.

Bartender Kenny, who thinks of himself as a stud that can have any gal for a one-nighter, rounds out the group.

Like Goldwyn’s under-appreciated A Walk on the Moon, this film has a wonderful ensemble cast, including Tom Wilkinson, Casey Aff leck and newcomer Rachel Bilson. It also has several wonderfully played scenes with Barrett and Blythe Danner, who share much needed advice about men who tend to be jerks and disrespect the women committed to them. I’d just wish Goldwyn had chosen a stronger lead than Braff, who’s not only unsympathetic, but his Ray Romano acting style cheapens the film in a TV sitcom way.

Zach Braff as Michael, a thirty-something who’s lost in love and life.

Xzibit’s supporting role is also impressive.

Every word he says is powerful and encouraging to the boys. Both “The Rock” and Xzibit’s positive attitudes and tough love help the boys gain some self-esteem and encourage them to start focusing on teamwork, their futures and fulfilling their dreams.

Whether you’re a romance, action or comedy lover, Gridiron Gang has something for ever yone. Go see this motivating movie as soon as you can: you’ll learn and grow with the boys at the juven i le detent ion center — seriously.

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Without false modesty, I will tell you that I am among the best known f ilm scholars of the Japanese cinema and Criterion simply found me or was aware of my work because of this.

The Tokyo Story commentary came about, however, in a particular way: Donald Richie and Roger Ebert had already done commentary on the two versions of Ozu’s Story of Floating Weeds, but Criterion did not want to lead with this set as their first release of an Ozu film. Instead, they thought, rightly, that Tokyo Story is a more important and better-known film.

Would you rather participate in a commentary track or write a book, and what do you believe are the benefits of each format?

At this point in my academic career, I have learned that academic/scholarly books have a limited audience, whereas the commentary track on a DVD can take advantage of my scholarly background and approach, but reach far more people. Still, they are very different med ia a nd each ha s it s adva nt ages. The commentary track for Tokyo Story, for instance, amounted to 60 pages of text and some adlibbed stuff; a typical academic book will be 250 to 300 pages. Clearly I can go into far more detail and raise far more issues in a book than on a DVD. And the very nature of the DVD — geared to film fans and collectors — means that the kinds of things I can bring up and discuss are very different than I would in a book aimed at scholars and students of cinema and Asian studies. Still, the DVD commentary track represents the next generation, so to speak, in the dissemination of film scholarship and I am very proud to be associated with two of the greatest films ever made and with Criterion, whose reputation for technical and scholarly excellence is unmatched.

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David Desser serves as Director of the Unit for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois. He is also a professor of Comparative Literature and works in association with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Institute of Communications Research and the Committee on Jewish Culture and Society. Over the course of his career, Dr. Desser has published nine books, including Ozu’s Tokyo Story and The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa, both of which prove his great knowledge of Japanese cinema. Three years ago that knowledge earned Dr. Desser a position on the Criterion DVD commentary track for Yasujiro Ozu’s film Tokyo Story. Since then, he has been hard at work on his next book and starting this month can be heard on the commentary track of the new three-disc Criterion Collection edition of Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai.

What are your five favorite films?

David Desser What initially drew you to Kurosawa’s films?

I saw Seven Samurai on a public television series devoted to the classics of world cinema when I was in high school. I liked it immediately and was instantly drawn to Kurosawa’s cinema and the Japanese period/samurai film genre. As I was living in New York City at that time, there was, in fact, a movie theater which specialized in Japanese films with English subtitles. So I could see many Japanese movies and Kurosawa’s films were among the many I saw.

How did you become involved with doing commentary tracks for a group as esteemed as Criterion?

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This is a tough question to answer and it makes me uneasy, because I have different sorts of “favorite” films. There are films I love for the emotions they stir in me; films that I love for their evident artistry and brilliance; and films that I simply enjoy for reasons that I couldn’t begin to understand. But I’ll take a shot at this question anyway, but the five films are in no particular order: The Searchers ( John Ford), Masculin-Feminin ( Jean-Luc Godard), Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu), Touch of Zen (King Hu) and Five Fingers of Death (Cheng Chang Ho).

(Above) Sukichi (Chishu Ryu) and Tomi (Chieko Higashiyama) in Ozu’s Tokyo Story.

(Right) Starting this month, David Desser can be heard on the commentary track of the new threedisc Criterion Collection edition of Kurosawaa’s Seven Samurai.

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his column is dedicated to all of us who have tried hormonal birth control like the pill, the shot and the patch and have stopped using it because it affects our moods. Does pregnancy prevention always have to come with the compromise of feeling crabby, irritable or sad?

It’s not uncommon to experience some sort of mood change after you’ve started hormonal birth control. Some mood irregularity is normal especially during the first three months you are on a new form of birth control. Your body needs this time to adjust to the levels of hormones. For most, emotional side effects subside after three months.

For others, the emotional changes can be intense and may not go away until you get off hormonal birth control.

What can you do?

Before swearing off hormonal birth control forever, talk to your health care provider about pills that have a lower dose of hormones. Back in the 1960s when the pill first came out, the levels of estrogen and progestin were extremely high. Today, there are several “low dose” options on the market including “mini-pills” that contain progestin, but no estrogen. These low-dose pills may have less effect on your emotional well-being.

Another option is the Intrauterine Device, commonly called the IUD, which is one of the most reliable methods of birth control available.

It’s a small plastic device that is surgically inserted into the uterus. It’s 99 percent effective in preventing pregnancy.

There are two types of IUDs, one contains progestin (so it’s a hormonal form of birth control) and the other only contains copper (it’s a nonhormonal method). The most commonly used IUD in the United States reports a 1 percent or less pregnancy rate per year and a low rate of side effects. The copper IUD can be left in place, providing pregnancy prevention for 10 years. The progestin IUD needs to be replaced every five years.

The IUD works by interrupting the movement of the sperm and therefore stopping the sperm from fertilizing an egg. The IUD also causes changes to the uterine lining, making implantation more difficult. It doesn’t require much upkeep once it’s in and it doesn’t interrupt the “spontaneity” of sex!

However, as with any other form of pregnancy prevention, there are some drawbacks and side effects that you and your healthcare provider should talk about.

One possible side effect is an increase in painful menstrual bleeding. This usually subsides after a few months of use and some women experience less menstrual bleeding with continued IUD use.

One major drawback is that the IUD provides no protection from STIs, including HIV. We want to stress that these IUD complications are relatively rare, and most women who use the IUD really like it and experience minimal or no unwanted side effects.

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Condoms: You’ve got a lot of choices today with respect to condoms — from the material condoms are made with (latex, polyurethane/plastic) to colors, sizes, shapes, and added features (studded, ribbed, pleasure pouch etc.). To increase pleasure and effectiveness, use lots of lubrication both inside and outside the condom. Male condoms can be up to 97% effective in preventing pregnancy.

Natural-membrane (lamb skin) condoms provide some protection against pregnancy but no protection against STIs. Female condoms are up to 95% effective in preventing pregnancy.

Spermicides: This chemical (nonoxynol-9) is inserted into the vagina (towards the opening of the cervix) and prevents pregnancy by blocking and immobilizing sperm. If used alone, it’s not very effective in preventing pregnancy. In addition, many people experience an allergic reaction to nonoxynol9 so it can be uncomfortable to use, or can cause micro-abrasions in the vagina, increasing susceptibility to infections.

Spermicides are available in different forms: the sponge, suppositories, creams, jellies, even a type of film called vaginal contraceptive film (VCF). Check your pharmacy for spermicides… they’re available without a prescription.

Fertility Awareness Method (FAM): This is an involved method that is beyond the scope of this column. It includes charting your vaginal secretions, the position of your cervix, and your basil body temperature every single day. Don’t know about you, but our schedules don’t allow for all that. For more information on FAM, check out Taking Charge OfYour Fertility by Toni Weschler.

Withdrawal: What can we say… it’s better than not using anything at all, but don’t rely on this method if you don’t want to get pregnant, because chances are you will.

Hormones in birth control aren’t the only consideration when thinking about your emotional well-being! If you’re not using birth control, or you’re using a method that’s not highly effective (like withdrawal), the stress of worrying about an unwanted pregnancy can also be a lot to deal with.

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Write to riceandruin@yahoo.com. Kim Rice and Kate Ruin are professional sex educators.

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free will astrology SEP. 21 — SEP. 27 ARIES

March 21 – April 19

Go against the flow. Buck the system. Push the river. Entertain the possibility that everything you know is at least half-wrong.

Do you catch my drift, Aries? What I’m trying to tell you is, champion the underdog. Ignore the obvious. Disprove the conventional wisdom. Bet on the dark horse. Be a devil’s advocate.

Shall I continue my rant until you have absolutely no doubt what your mission is? Buy a new goldfish and name it “Jaws.” Figure out a way to lick your own elbow. Eat with your non-dominant hand. Say prayers while you’re having sex. Acquire a pet mosquito. Watch TV while standing on your head.

T A U RU S

April 20 – May 20

GEMINI

May 21 – June 20

Very few raindrops are actually raindrop-shaped. A far greater number take the form of doughnuts. These doughnutty raindrops are your power objects, Taurus--your magical symbols.

I hope they inspire you to look for the wide-open spaces in the middle of every stormy downpour. I trust they will alert you to the possibility that there’ll be windows of opportunities at the heart of the drizzle.

The more time you spend playing games in the coming days, the smarter you’ll be. Miniature golf, Monopoly, Twister, gin rummy, paintball, scavenger hunts, tag, Dungeons and Dragons--doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it moves you to engage in exuberant fun for no other reason than because it feels so good. Playing games will be the Truth and the Way, the secret to enlightenment, the key to cultivating robust health and making good decisions. Make this Chinese proverb your motto: A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

CANCER

June 21 – July 22

For years, I lived 13 miles from the top of Mt. Tamalpais, the highest peak in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every day I gazed at it from afar through my window or while riding my bike in the hills, marveling as it glided through its ever-shifting relationship with the sky. It was a remote yet familiar beacon, an awe-inspiring touchstone against which I could measure my own undulating rhythms. Now I’ve moved to a new home at the foot of Mt. Tam. I feel as if I’ve become part of it--am embedded in its protective and majestic aura. It’s no longer an objective gauge, but rather an intimate tone and texture in my subjective experience of myself. I predict that you will soon undergo a comparable shift, Cancerian: from being there to being here; from outside to inside; from strength absorbed at a distance to power felt up close.

LEO

July 23 – Aug. 22

Biologists say the speed of thought in the human brain is normally 150 miles per hour. But I’m guessing that in the coming weeks, ideas and intuitions will be zipping around your grey matter at a higher rate. It’s even possible they’ll break the sound barrier on a regular basis (761 miles per hour), meaning you may hear sonic booms coming from inside your skull. Don’t be alarmed if this occurs; in fact, be excited. It’s a sign that your intelligence is heating up, burning off tired old beliefs and outmoded theories in the process.

VIRGO

Aug. 23 – Sept. 22

Acting on the authority vested in me by the Prophets for Profit Syndicate, and speaking on behalf of the planetary rhythms, I can assure you of this: If your cash flow has been too slow and you remain passive about it in the coming weeks, it will corrode your mental health. If you lift a finger to upgrade your relationship with money, on the other hand, cosmic forces will rush to your aid with unexpected support. Therefore, in the name of all that’s holy, I hereby declare the beginning of a new age in which you conspire and agitate and work hard for a new wage.

LIBRA

SCORPIO

Oct. 23 – Nov. 21

S AG I T TA R I U S

Nov. 22 – Dec. 21

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22 – Jan. 19

AQUA R I U S

Jan. 20 – Feb. 18

“Women are traps that lay for men everywhere,” said Franz Kafka, “in order to drag them into the infinite.” If you find this idea sexist or heterosexist, formulate your own version. One way or another, you need to get lured or yanked into a bracing experience of boundless possibilities . . . into a delightfully shocking immersion in eternal truth . . . into a whirlwind tour of sublime, brain-scrambling beauty. If an uncanny woman will do the job for you, great. If an amazing man works better, or maybe a magical member of an in-between gender, seek that person out. Play hard with the limitless, Scorpio.

According to the esoteric spiritual tradition of Western hermeticism, you have a personal Holy Guardian Angel who’s always ready to give you help, as well as to lovingly kick your ass. Modern scientists snort derisively at this notion. They’re fundamentalist materialists, denying the possibility that something can exist if it’s not perceptible by our five senses or by instruments that humans have invented. If your temperament and training align you with the scientists’ ideology, I’ll ask you to temporarily suspend your skepticism so that you might join other Sagittarians in trying the following experiment: Act as if you have a personal Holy Guardian Angel whose job it is to help you lose your illusions, liberate you from suffering, and make you smarter. What clarifying questions will you ask the HGA? What precise assistance will you request?

In May 1941, Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess made an unauthorized attempt to seek peace with Britain. He flew there alone from Germany, parachuting onto a Scottish farm as his plane crashed. According to some accounts, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was quickly informed of Hess’s odd visitation, but deferred taking action because he was too absorbed in a Marx Brothers movie. I expect there’ll soon be a metaphorically comparable event in your sphere, Capricorn. My advice? Be like Churchill. If loose cannons or obsessed messengers or self-important proselytizers demand your attention, put them on hold and stay engrossed in whatever’s amusing you.

In 2000, I logged 34,000 miles during my travels across America to meet my readers. During a three-year stretch earlier in my life, I was a homeless gypsy, sponging off friends and staying in hostels from Vermont to South Carolina, from Italy to Greece. But in recent years I’ve gone on extensive pilgrimages of another kind, carried out through imaginal exercises, lucid dreams, and shamanic meditations. According to my reading of the omens, Aquarius, you can generate rich blessings for yourself by getting away from it all in either of these two directions. What’s better, to head out into far-flung places in the outer world or the inner world? It doesn’t matter.

PISCES

Feb. 19 – March 20

One historian has figured out that during the last three and a half millennia, humans have been at peace throughout the world for only 230 years--less than seven percent of the time. How would you rate your own personal proportions of war and peace, Pisces? I certainly hope you’re serene, centered, and secure far more than seven percent of your life. But whether or not you are, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to boost your average dramatically. The actions you take and the attitudes you adjust could set in motion changes that will make peace a more common everyday experience. How hard you willing to work to establish a Pax Pisces?

Homework: Who’s the person you’d most like to meet and have a drink with? Why? Testify at http://freewillastrology.com.

Sept. 23 – Oct.22

“Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo,” writes the poet Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks. “You might say, ‘The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheat fields and mountain passes and orchards in bloom.

At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding.’ You ask the embryo why he or she stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed.

Listen to the answer. ‘There is no other world. I only know what I’ve experienced. You must be hallucinating.’” Now I say to you, Libra, that you are the embryo Rumi and Barks are addressing. Consider the possibility that they’re telling the truth. Come out and take a look around.

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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT CONTINUED FROM PG. 6 Dizen was born in Turkey and came to the University of Illinois ten years ago as an exchange student. She decided to stay and applied for graduate school. Dizen now has her doctorate in psychology and is working on her post-doctorate at the Division of Rehabilitation and Educational Services at the University.

She first learned to dance when a friend took her to a salsa dance during her f irst week at the University.

“It was the first thing I did in Champaign probably” Dizen said.

And she hasn’t stopped dancing since. “Salsa is a lot of fun,” she said, describing the dance as “active, social, engaging.” “(There are) no barriers between people.” After she mastered her own salsa skills, she started teaching a class about seven years ago after her friend, a salsa instructor, left Champaign. Once she and Sohn met and became friends, they joined talents to teach the class.

Sohn, who was born in Hawaii and raised in Australia, came to Champaign for graduate school and now works full-time as the director of tennis for the Champaign Park District.

He started dancing with the Dancing Illini organization on campus, where he learned a combination of salsa, waltz and swing dances. At the time, Sohn said he was “heavy into swing,” but eventually “swing died down, but salsa stayed strong.” After two years of dancing, he was asked to teach.

Now, Sohn and Dizen are quite the combination and their classes seem to be very popular.

“It varies from class to class, usually the beginner class is the biggest,” Dizen said. Beginner classes

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University of Illinois students aren’t the only ones who can participate in these classes. Sohn and Dizen advertise through the Hub, a Central Illinois weekly, and put up f lyers around town. They have said, however, that their best advertisement is through word of mouth, and when Sohn asked the students in his classes how they found out about the lessons, many people said that they found out about the classes through friends.

Now, after many years of dancing, Sohn and Dizen get invited to different events in the Champaign area. They recently attended the Krannert opening party on Sept. 9 and performed with a live salsa band. They have also appeared locally at the Taste of Champaign, an annual event that brings together local restaurants to showcase their food to the public.

Sohn and Dizen encourage their students to talk to one another and get together outside of class and go dancing to practice the steps they learned the past week; on different days of the week, sounds of salsa fill clubs and restaurants in the late evenings, like the Soma dance club on Wednesdays and the KoFusion restaurant of Saturdays. The instructors also help to initiate the communication by hosting practice sessions on Tuesday nights at the McKinley Foundation for only a dollar.

Whether it’s to unwind or just for fun, there’s a place to learn and to practice the dance.

“If you had a bad day, you go out and salsa dance,” Sohn said. Once the endorphins get going, he added, “It makes you feel better.”

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ELYSE RUSSO Arts and entertainment editor GRIPES 1) The toilet spider scam: If you received that for warded e-mail about the spiders that crawl up the toilet and bite you with their deadly venom, totally false.

Apparently it was a hoax — not nice!

2) Asparagus: I really like to eat it, but why does it make my pee smell?

3) My dad claiming he “brought sexy back”: I keep telling him that it was Justin Timberlake who brought sexy back. Dad, just because you listen to the song does not mean that you did it too!

ANNA STATHAM Music editor LIKES 1) 7th Heaven: The morals I have learned from watching this show over the years are right up there in terms of profound value with those I have learned from watching Full House.

2) Penn Station East Coast Subs: Excellent artichoke sandwich, even better Chicken Teriyaki sandwich, fresh-cut fries (cooked in cholesterolfree peanut oil!), and fresh-squeezed lemonade ... delightful.

3) Scrunchies: If anyone is making a timeless fashion statement, it’s definitely the middle-aged moms walking through the quad with their children every Saturday afternoon with a nicely decorated blue and orange U of I-patterned piece of fabric wrapped around their ponytails.

MONICA BEDEL Designer GRIPES 1) Oversleeping and missing plans with friends: Lately, I’ve been sleeping through my alarm more and more and missing all the fun stuff I had planned for the day (Sunday I missed a dim sum lunch)! Perhaps I need to find a better alarm clock...

2. Trying to get drunk people to get somewhere: We were pre-gaming at a friend’s house last weekend and I was trying to get them to leave so we could head to Murphy’s for a friend’s birthday but they wouldn’t leave! It seriously took me like 20 minutes and a lot of pushing to get everyone going.

3. Colds that aren’t full-blown: Last week I had a bit of a cold, but it was only a slightly stuffy nose and a tiny tickle in the back of my throat. I didn’t feel it bothered me enough to take any medicine but it bothered me just enough to be annoying.

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