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Prayer, Healing, and You!

“Discover that the solutions we’re looking for are found in a deeper understanding of God’s loving, spiritual nature.”

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

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IN THIS ISSUE FILM REVIEW

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master

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National speaker, Ricardo Saldivar, is a practitioner of Christian Science healing and a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

“God’s Love Answers All Your Needs” Saturday, Oct. 6th, at 10 AM Champaign Public Library 200 W. Green St.

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DECADENTS 11 ON READBUZZ.COM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Ever wonder what people are thinking of you when you make awkward eye contact with them? Get inside the mind of columnist Jennifer Haare and read about what she’s thinking when she makes eye contact with people around town.

FOOD & DRINK In the mood for soup? Check out an oldie from Jasmine’s column, a new take on chicken pot pie: made individual, in muffin tins.

COMMUNITY Have you been trying to take out that sweet gal or handsome lad on a date?

Check out Karolina’s guide to date night around the CU area.

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Come check out a new Selected Song on Sundowner’s “Midsummer Classic” along with a new records we missed on Algernon Cadwallader’s Some Kind of Cadwallader. buzz

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Art at the YMCA program debuts unique exhibit

MOVIES & TV Check out Ben’s column on controversial film. His latest entry examines the film, Requiem for a Dream.

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Your guide to this week’s events in CU

EDITOR’S NOTE SAMANTHA BAKALL

I know this topic is totally overblown (foreshadowing!) and over-done, but I’m going to talk about it anyway. In case you haven’t noticed, and I’ve noticed that some of you didn’t, it’s fall. So for all of you people wearing Tshirts and shorts still, get with the picture! It’s chilly!

Put a sweater on or something.

I really only noticed that it was truly fall a couple mornings ago when I was biking around and realized that many of the trees in my neighborhood had already started changing colors. It was a wonderfully pleasant sight. Nothing makes me smile quite like a cool, crisp morning complete with orange and red trees and a light breeze. It makes an entire summer of painful humidity seem years away.

Fall is a hard season to try and find. These days, pumpkins start arriving in full orange force way too early to be considered fall. Also, I’ve already started seeing Christmas decorations out in stores.

What?! It’s October! Go back to storage until at least next month!

I would say that I love fall, and everything about it, more than most. However, there are still some things about the changing of seasons that I haven’t been able to appreciate quite yet. Mainly, in this case, the increase in wind speed. It’s like mother nature held her breath all summer, stifling the Earth with unrelenting heat to then let it out from September - November, just to mess with us. I love a hardy breeze as much as the next gal, and it’s great for such activities as kite-flying, sailing and paragliding. It’s not so great for trying to bike 20 miles and not realizing that the reason you got to Philo so fast was because you had a real nice tailwind that has now become a real irritating headwind, and your parents are supposed to be arriving in 30 minutes because you left late, but you’re tired because it’s windy.

Sound familiar? Maybe not. This happened to me this past weekend.

Regardless of my physical struggles, fall still ranks pretty high in my book. Not only is the weather super awesome, but now I can consume all the fall produce and fall-related foods that I want. Everything can have pumpkin added to it. Literally. I made a pumpkin alfredo sauce a couple days ago. It’s pure bliss.

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44 PLAYS FOR 44 PRESIDENTS

by Ellie Brzezenski

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In case you haven’t turned on the TV, stepped outside or been on the Internet at all, it’s election season! As a nation, we begin to slowly count down the days until Nov. 6 when we cast our vote for the next president, and when those awful campaign commercials stop running. Before that day comes, however, take a break from the usual election mania and get your America on in a different way.

This month make sure to check out “44 Plays for 44 Presidents,” a look into the successes and failures of our nation’s leaders, at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts starting Oct. 4. The original production, “43 Plays for 43 Presidents,” was premiered by the Neo-Futurists of Chicago, a theater troupe, back in 2002. Since then, its popularity has spread throughout Chicago and the nation. The play, now including a 44th play for President Obama, is part of the Plays for Presidents Festival 2012.

Across the nation, at least 44 theaters, colleges and schools will perform the plays in the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election. The production gives a brief look into the lives of the former (and current) leaders of our nation in a performance that is part comedy, part drama and wholly unique. Performers switch off wearing a bedazzled jacket to enact the role of each president. Through these plays, audience members are given a chance to examine the changing role of the presidency as well as their own participation in American politics. “44 Plays for 44 Presidents” is scheduled to run from Oct. 4-14.

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» Chicago, the musical: Well, actually, the 2002 film version of the musical, starring the insanely sexy Catherine Zeta Jones. Yes, I know that Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, Christine Baranski, Taye Diggs, and a whole slew of other ridiculously talented people share the stage with her, but whatever. I heart Velma and everything about her, from her swinging bob and her ability to entrance the audience with a quirk of her lips to her sultry bitchiness and mean-girls scheming. My mom told me I saw the movie when it first came out, but I have no memory of it, and when my roommate suggested watching it one night after a strenuous day of shopping and dining at 301 Mongolia, I was like, sigh, even though Zellweger not as Bridget Jones makes me cringe and want to throw things, I was like, why not? AND MY GOD. I fell in love. I have a special, special place in my heart for musicals, and one of my absolute favorites is Thoroughly Modern Millie. Chicago is like the gritty, sexed up, criminal version of Millie, with an equally delicious soundtrack and a costume wardrobe that makes me make grabby hands and wish I lived in the 1920s. Anyone who hasn’t experienced this — and I emphasize experience, because I was on the edge of my seat clutching my pillow for the mystery crime drama parts of it, and bursting into applause after every musical number — should immediately rent the movie (or, better yet, see the Broadway play) and then get back to me about how much they loved it and then we can gush over Velma, gripe about Roxie, and discuss the not-so-subtextual issues of gender and gender performance that permeate the entire film.

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GRIPES » Puppy Sermons: Jeez, I get it already! I should devote my mortal soul to baby dogs! I’m a dirty lonely man without a puppy to call his own! I’ve heard it all before! Quit barking about it! » NFL Lobotomies: Have you guys heard about this? The National Football League is forcing everyone to get their frontal lobe removed! The whole lobe! They say it will increase ad sales. I say it stinks! Vote NO! on Proposition 6969420666! » Mail Away Grandparents: I am so tired of those constant popups! “Send us $100 & wheel send U a NEW Grandpa!” I don’t want some sad Russian Grandpa clogging up my couch! I know they’re just going to get some Gulag goon to come and tell me stories about his floppy old commune. I don’t need some Wall-Humper in my life begging for the times of GorpBahChoff and eating all my plain spaghetti! No, old man, we don’t eat sauce in this house — it hurts the teeth. Now get back to the attic and practice your chess! buzz

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Getting to know paul thomas anderson A Four Film Introduction

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ith The Master, aka the film about Scientology that’s not really about Scientology, in theaters, it’s the perfect time to explore the work of director Paul Thomas Anderson. While comparisons to the legendary Stanley Kubrick have been made, Anderson has been able to make his own mark in the film world.

Hard Eight (1996) Anderson’s slow burning first feature began his working relationships with Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman (who has a small but incredibly well-executed role).

Sydney (Hall) is a well-dressed, mysterious oldtimer on the Vegas strip who takes interest in helping a homeless man, John (Reilly). When Sydney also extends his charity to a spry cocktail waitress, Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow), and introduces her to John, the two drag Sydney into a jam that manages to bring the true nature of all their characters to light. Hard Eight’s bedrock of mouth-watering suspense supports a sometimes meandering plot. It is still a character study of the kind that we would come to love from Anderson — and we get all those badass mobster tropes to boot.

—Ben Mueller Boogie Nights (1997) The film that really caught the critics’ attention

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Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Jarring, vibrant, hilarious, contentious — these words could describe any movie of Anderson’s career, but especially his 2002 self-proclaimed “Adam Sandler art-house film” Punch-Drunk Love.

Sandler plays Barry Egan, a pathologically shy office man dominated by his seven sisters, who runs into trouble with a call girl scam and just may have found the love of his life. As Barry yearns for change in his life from small details such as his new blue suit to his growing manic rage, Sandler works in dimensions unseen in anything else he’s done.

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is Boogie Nights. Set in 1977, the story revolves around teenager Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) and his journey to the top of the porn industry.

Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) is the well known director that discovers Adam’s unique “talent.”

From that moment forward, Adams undergoes a transformation from broke busboy into the face of porn’s golden age. With the help of a prestigious cast (Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, Reilly, Hoffman, Don Cheadle and more), Anderson creates a guiltily entertaining feature.

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land with oil springs underneath. The film is a raw, poetic portrayal of megalomaniac Plainview in decline, and it’s manifested in Plainview’s transformation from man to the beast within.

Anderson’s theme of father-son complexity is prominent, as Plainview builds bonds with an orphan and subjects himself to unwanted religious zeal from a young pastor — and yet breaks those bonds viciously through money. There Will Be Blood reaches the breadth of Anderson’s style and artfully places a ruin of a man as a cautionary tale against all-consuming greed.

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et’s forget the trivial comparisons to Scientology. Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is fittingly about something much more universal: the state of man. It’s about the modern man reduced to his most primitive state of being by a massively destructive war, and his subsequent journey to find structure and guidance in temporarily post-war America.

By D.J. Dennis When World War II ends, Naval soldier Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) begins to drift through life until he sneaks onboard a ship “commanded” by Lancaster Dodd, aka the Master (Philip Seymour Hoffman), leader of a cult movement called “the Cause.” Dodd and Quell form a strong bond, as Dodd attempts to cure alcoholic Quell of his “insanity” (earlier implied as post-traumatic stress disorder) and assimilate him into a full-fledged member of the Cause, all the while trying to legitimize the movement despite strong outside dissention.

This intriguingly bizarre drama excels with Anderson’s construction of a complex, multilayered narrative of two strong-willed, yet oppositely driven men searching for both the individual and collective role of man through one peculiar spiritual movement.

The Master’s backbone is the relationship of Quell and Dodd. Anderson’s continual ability to visually contrast these two seemingly compatible characters provides great intrigue into their mysterious motivations. Quell and Dodd like one another very much but are unaware of the other’s core self, so Anderson explains these differences visually. Intensely shot scenes between Quell and Dodd amplify Quell’s animalism, contrasting Dodd’s elegant calm.

Of course, it helps to have actors the caliber of Phoenix and Hoffman, both of whom turn out great performances — especially Phoenix, who embodies

the physical and mental nature of the character.

One thing Anderson has explored in several of his films is the animalistic nature of man, and he does so more in The Master than any other project.

In There Will Be Blood (2007), greed-driven Daniel Plainview is so morally degraded by the film’s end that he hunts a man inside of his home with a bowling pin and bashes in his skull with cavemanlike precision. From the outset, The Master exhibits the most primal instincts possible of modern man through Quell’s relentless sexual prowess, penchant for chemical-laden alcoholic concoctions and impulsively violent reactions to emotional situations. The crux of The Master’s plot is Quell’s journey in finding acceptance the way he is, not the gradual moral and behavioral erosion depicted in There Will Be Blood.

“Man is not an animal. We are not a part of the Animal Kingdom. We are not ruled by emotions,” lectures Dodd. That is the basic conflict in The Master — the relationship between man and spirituality. However, Anderson, a writer capable of great complexity, further broadens the conflict by creating a character deeply affected by war.

From this conflict arises a common concern that makes The Master, despite all of its eccentricities, a universally appealing film. Do people need a Master? The Master doesn’t answer this question — it only asks it.

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Today, everyone will like me

the next chapter Youth Literature Festival brings authors to local schools

By Maggie Su

Photo by Folake Osibodu

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alk into any middle school lunchroom these days and you are more likely to find a teenager checking Facebook on an iPhone than reading a good book. With the rise of technological entertainment, reading for pleasure is in danger of becoming obsolete. The University’s College of Education is trying their hardest to prevent that from happening.

This Thursday, Oct. 4, marks the beginning of the third Youth Literature Festival, put on every other year, which “celebrates the value of literature in the lives of youth,” according to its website. During the first two days, 16 authors, illustrators, poets and storytellers visit more than 50 schools and libraries in ChampaignUrbana and the surrounding counties. The festival culminates on Saturday with a community celebration that is free to the public and includes hands-on activities, performances and author presentations.

Dan Keding, a local storyteller, author and folk musician, has participated in the festival since

its creation. He said his most rewarding memory occurred at a school performance during the festival’s first year. After his show, a third grader approached him and proclaimed that he thought being a writer was “so cool.”

“Kids worship sports heroes and movie stars and comic book characters, but for them to start thinking of an author as being cool … that’s really great,” Keding said.

In addition to shaping the minds of young students, Keding’s experience at schools also illustrates the power of storytelling to elicit action.

Upon a librarian’s request, Keding read old English folktales such as King Arthur and Robin Hood to a class full of high schoolers and was later informed that all the copies of the books from his reading had been checked out.

“Storytelling inspires people to go back and get excited about reading,” he said.

The effectiveness of the festival in kick-starting a love of literature in young audiences hinges on the authors’ performances. For Janice Harrington,

a children’s writer and fellow veteran of the festival, no audience is more responsive than children.

“If you capture their attention, they will let you know what they think of your book,” she said.

“I’ve known a few kindergarteners who will tug on your hem and ask for a hug, if they really liked your story.”

Both Keding and Harrington agree that the role of a professional storyteller is not only to advocate for reading, but also to stress creativity. Keding’s style of performance “invites the listener to become part of the story” by deliberately omitting descriptive details in order to inspire listeners to “use the images in their mind,” he said.

“Children who hear stories want to read, and they want to tell their own stories,” Harrington said.

The Youth Literature Festival encourages students to tell their own stories and engage with the performances. Through activities including assemblies, book discussions, readings and writing workshops, the school visits

provide opportunities for students to interact with authors.

In order to reach and inspire as many students as possible, the College of Education placed great importance on gathering an array of talent.

“We want to be able to celebrate literature with a diversity of authors,” said Beth Vredenburg, the special project coordinator for the College of Education.

Vredenburg’s search valued not only finding writers of different specialties, but also authors who were diverse within themselves. By showcasing a “large range of writing,” she said the festival aims to speak effectively to all the students within their targeted demographic of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

The author’s role as the heart of the festival is a relatively new development.

“At the beginning, the community day included lots of activities, but we’ve narrowed it so our authors are the highlight,” Vredenburg said.

Indeed, the process of running the festival has been a learning experience in and of itself. According to Keding, the festival’s first community day suffered from being “too spread out,” with programs all through campus and the community. The scattered venues resulted in some performances drawing only a few audience members.

However, the 2010 festival consolidated the ending celebration to one location, and authors were able to perform for a full house.

Despite its transformation, the school visits remain an integral part of the festival and a special point of pride for the College of Education.

“The rewarding thing is being able to provide authors to many different schools and libraries who wouldn’t be able to have the authors there without it,” Vredenburg said.

Indeed, Harrington described the “noisy, exuberant enthusiasm” as her favorite part of the festival.

“At every school, the students and teachers have read the author’s books and are eager to listen,” she said.

Without question, the importance of the Youth Literature Festival is not lost on the community.

With the increase in attendance of the community day, as well as the numerous schools participating, the future of the festival looks bright.

“It’s growing, and the excitement is spreading,” Harrington said. “We’re reaching so many students. The festival, the stories and books presented — the author visits are investments in the future of our children.”

So, what can CU citizens and University students do to help support the festival?

“Come on out!” exclaimed Vredenburg. “Enjoy the festival, look up the books that you find fascinating and come and enjoy it.”

The community day for the Youth Literature Festival is open to children and adults of all ages and will take place on Oct. 6 at the iHotel and Convention Center, 1900 S. First St., from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. buzz

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utumn: leaves are falling, the wind is cool and hot drinks are craved. It’s time for the frilly iced coffees and lemonades to give way to heart- (and hand-) warming beverages. The only time of year when burning your entire mouth on a hot cup of joe is worth it for a little warm up. You can admit it ­­— some hot cocoa definitely smooths that harsh transition from a beloved season of shorts and flip-flops to one of chunky mittens, scarves and sweaters.

The famed Pumpkin Spice Latte hailing from the Starbucks Empire has arrived yet again to tantalize your taste buds. This season, Starbucks also features Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate, Salted Caramel Mocha and — for those pumpkin-loving slash coffee-hating customers out there — a Pumpkin Spice Creme Frappucino. (Did somebody say sugar-high?)

If you’re still looking for a sweet treat with your drink, try their Pumpkin Scones, Pumpkin Bread, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins or the new Salted Caramel Cake Pop. If by some miracle the chain does not have an establishment on your street, check out their website for locations and merchandise.

Pumpkin Spice from Starbucks may be a fall tradition, but what else does the Chambana area have to offer? Coffee Houses have sprouted (and happily thrive) all over the area, including Urbana’s Caffé Paradiso at 801 S. Lincoln Avenue.

“People come here for the quality and care we put into the drinks. And the Intelligentsia coffee,” said worker Jordan Trammell, adding, “My favorite’s a small cappuccino.”

The independent, locally owned café favors local fair as well, such as Mirabelle’s Pastries and Breads. Their most popular drinks include their Chai Latte and Vanilla Latte. New fall features include their own Pumpkin Spice Latte, Maple Spice Latte, hot apple cider and more. Open from 7 a.m.-11 p.m., seven days a week, there are plenty of opportunities to experience this eclectic hot spot. The funky atmosphere presents an ironically homey feel. It’s a pleasant change from the mundane. Other features of Caffé Paradiso include readily available outlets for your electronics, free wi-fi and cozy seating arrangements perfect for studying or relaxing. Check out their website for more details at caffeparadiso.wordpress.com.

Not willing to break from tradition just yet?

Try North Beach, San Francisco native Espresso Royale. Claiming to be “the C-U’s first sidewalk café,” this espresso bar offers all the intimacy of a local café in a trusted chain found all across the nation. For those less interested in “grab ‘n go” coffees, their outdoor seating invites casual conversation. Deceivingly small from the outside, Espresso Royale also features intimate downstairs seating with plenty of room for coffee enthusiasts to study or relax. Stemming

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from their original café at California’s Berkeley, they have expanded to include several cafés in the Urbana-Champaign area open 7 a.m.midnight. (Check out their website for all their locations at espressoroyale.com.)

The diverse atmosphere is a favorite of the regulars like Anna Bazaka, who remarks, “The coffee is better here … The layout is better [too].”

She prefers this chain over others in the area because, in her opinion, the others are “too overbranded.” Her favorite drink at Espresso Royale is a simple cappuccino.

When asked why people would choose to come to Espresso Royale, new employee Robert Amador said, “We have a ton of options here, and we are willing to make [other drinks upon request].”

The employees also named their Caramel Vanilla

Latte as their most popular this season, aside from their regular coffee. Other features include various pastries and sandwiches.

Whether you prefer a cozy vibe or a more traditional, modern setting, hot drink lovers must unite over some things. Freshman Katie Anderson said, “A nice warm cup of hot chocolate on a cool fall or freezing winter day does more than warm me up. It sounds silly, but it reminds me of the warmth of my family and friends at home and makes me more comfortable out here in the cold.”

Short of that blasted cup of just-a-little-toohot cocoa, few things make a homesick college student, or a resident out and about, feel more at home — the caffeine doesn’t hurt an overtired population either.

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Urbana’s International Beer Tasting and Chili Cook-Off Returns for its 11th year!

by Auffy Birjandi his upcoming Saturday, Jay Goldberg Events and Entertainment will be holding their Annual International Beer Tasting and Chili Cook-Off in Urbana. This marks the 11th year of the event.

Offering an array of more than 150 specialty and import beers, the cook off has something for even the most selective of beer drinkers. Each year, the chili cook off allows amateur teams, composed of friends or families, to concoct piping hot and delicious chili for the masses to sample in the hopes of winning a $500 cash prize. While the second and third place prizes are smaller cash amounts, each team also has the chance to compete for a people’s choice award. When entering the cookoff’s gates, each individual receives a ballot ticket.

The idea is that the cook-off’s patrons sample all or most of the various chilis offered. Each cooking team has a bucket to collect ballots. The buckets in question are kept out until the last chili team runs out of chili. The team with the most votes is awarded this prestigious title and the right to brag excessively about its accomplishment.

Throughout the years, the cook off has changed in various ways. In its inaugural year, the event first began inside of Lincoln Square Mall. Shortly after this, it was held in the Lincoln Square Mall parking lot for the next two consecutive years.

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However, for the past eight years, the cook-off has been hosted in the parking deck on the corner of Main and Broadway in Urbana.

Every year, the cook-off competition has primarily been composed of amateur chili chefs. While the event is open to professional teams as well, the relaxed atmosphere appeals to amateur chefs who are looking for a fun afternoon comprised of drink and merriment. Although the gates do not open until 3 p.m., these devoted chefs begin setting up shop around 8 a.m. and begin making their tasty recipes around 10 a.m. All of the food prep and cooking occurs right on site. As soon as the gates open, official samples are collected for judging. The judging panel is usually a mix of local radio personalities, business owners, food critics and other members of the CU community. In the last couple of years, the winners of the cook-off have all been local teams.

The cook-off is an event that Jay Goldberg Events and Entertainment does in conjunction with the Urbana Business Association. Spending almost all of the year producing and promoting concerts and music festivals, the beer and chili cook-off allows the production company to do something a little different in the community.

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desires. Each chili sample is about two or three ounces in size. Beer samples are redeemable for a four-ounce drink sample. While most of the beers cost just one ticket, some of the especially tasty micro-brews offered cost two. The first 500 people to walk through the gate receive a complimentary, limited edition souvenir glass. Glasses are only offered to individuals who are of legal drinking age.

Tickets for the cook-off are available on the JayTV website for just $5. Prices go up to $8

at the door, so be sure to snag your ticket well in advance. If online ticket ordering is not your thing, tickets are also available at The Canopy Club, Exile on Main Street, Manolo’s Pizza and Empanadas, The Blind Pig or Crane Alley.

Doors open at 3 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 6 on Main and Broadway in downtown Urbana. For more information on the cook-off, check out http:// jaytv.com/urbanas-annual-international-beertasting-and-chili-cook-off/.

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underrepresented artists, Black Comix and Out of Sequence, as well as his website Eye Trauma Comix. Currently, he’s working on a webcomic, “BlackJack: Heart of Evil,” “Blue Hand Mojo,” a supernatural detective story set in Chicago, and “On the Road,” with much-lauded sci-fi writer Nnedi Okorafor. Check out his lecture on leadership in the arts on Oct. 9 in Levis Faculty Center at 7 p.m. » buzz: What was the first comic book you read ?

Who was the first character you remember drawing?

When did you realize you wanted to be an artist? » John Jennings: I think it was a Batman or Superman comic; I know it was DC first, because I remember reading a Marvel comic and it blew my mind. I already understood what a superhero was. Thor was a big influence on me because I was reading Norse mythology, and when my mom bought me Thor, it blew my mind. Then I got addicted to Spiderman, Fantastic Four and the rest of Marvel. They were doing really advanced things with superheroes at the time. I’ve also always been a fan of horror and science fiction comics, which were published

by DC at the time.

The first thing I started drawing was Thor. I remember my pathetic little attempts. My uncle used to draw for me a lot, too, and he’d draw Spiderman for me. I remember copying his work and feeling better about my work. But I think it was about 8 or 9 when I started realizing I have some talent, and drawing wasn’t so frustrating anymore. Up until I went to college, I was selftaught. I’d just practice and use books like How To Draw The Marvel Way and Dynamic Anatomy, the classics of comic art books. It wasn’t until I actually went to college when I learned fine drawing methods and becoming a fine artist.

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to expose the inequity in comic books and American culture at large, while simultaneously reinvigorating the comic form. Jennings has an original graphic novel (with writer Damian Duffy) called “The Hole: Consumer Culture,” which juxtaposes Vodun religion with hyperadvertised consumerism. Also with Duffy, Jennings released two books exhibiting black and

» buzz: What is the relationship between comics and race/gender? » JJ: Comic racial identity construction started off really poor because they were directly related to blackface minstrelsy. Lots of derogatory characters reflecting the zeitgeist of the times that were, more or less, overwhelmingly negative feelings toward African Americans in general. For example, Ebony White, created by Will Eisner in “The Spirit,” is an African American caricature, as well as Whitewash, appearing in early “Young Allies” comics as sidekicks for Captain America. Then, a more positive turn came with George Evans, a Philadelphia newspaper man who, with the help of his siblings, created the first African American comic anthology, “All-Negro Comics” in 1947. George Herriman, creator of “Krazy Kat,” is a particularly influential cartoonist who happened to be of mixed heritage, but his characters were animals rather than superheroes.

Superheroes create a particular masculinity

because men are constructed as hyperphysical. Plus, there aren’t many female superheroes, and the few there are are hypersexualized. This polarizes masculinity in comics. In part, black superheroes are problematic because they stem from the buck stereotype, or the angry black man stereotype — the inherent construction of how black men are violent and will hurt you.

But as the comic universes responded to social changes, new representations arise and some are quite positive [Editor’s note: see sidebar].

Now, we’re dealing with the problem of underrepresentation, because if there are black characters, they’re token members of teams, they don’t have their own books, and if they do get a book, it’s quickly canceled. Like the New 52’s “Static Shock” or Vertigo’s “Voodoo.” » buzz: How did you get the idea for Black Kirby? » JJ: Black Kirby is an entity between myself and Stacy Robinson, another African American designer, artist and activist. It was a response to what happened last summer when the Kirby family tried to get some remuneration over the characters Jack Kirby helped create: Silver Surfer, X-Men, Fantastic Four. People call Marvel “The House that Jack Built.” Stan Lee gets a nice pension every year because he had connections to Marvel publishing, but Kirby, under a work-for-hire clause, was paid freelance and the publisher owns that work. Even if you make up something totally brilliant and the company makes millions of dollars off it, you don’t have any claim to it under this contract. Of course, I don’t want to diminish Lee’s accomplishments ­— he’s a genius — but besides the people in the know, people don’t realize Jack Kirby was coming up with these great ideas. Lee was at the front of Marvel, almost like the carnival caller, saying, “Step right up!” whereas Kirby was the workforce in the corner drawing all the time.

He rarely spoke about his work, but he was undoubtedly brilliant.

How people from different underclasses — sex, race, religion, whatever — have been mistreated under a corporate system. This led us to thinking about the relationship between black comic creators and Jewish comic creators. Jack Kirby’s real name was Jacob Kurtzberg and Stan Lee’s was Stanley Lieber, which lends itself well to a “passing narrative” where these creators had to “become” white Americans in order to function in the corporate world. Contrast that to African Americans in post-slavery America where race is highly constructed in relation to skin color: An African American of mixed heritage could pass as white if their skin was light enough — they could pass for white, almost like a superpower. Consider also that Kirby and Lee created the Black Panther. The first black superhero was created by two Jewish guys. Not to mention, a lot of people read X-Men as an

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Comparison between the original INCREDIBLE HULK cover and Jenning’s UNKILLABLE BUCK remix/homage.

allegory to race relations in the 1960s where Professor Xavier is a stand in for Martin Luther King Jr. and Magneto for pre-Mecca Malcolm X. The Marvel comics seem to be stories of “otherness” of outsiders.

The similar connections between Jewish American experience and Black American experience led us to thinking of combination from an Afro-Futurist standpoint. We asked, what if we could go back in time and write these characters as African American, rewriting history with a more equitable distribution of characters. Even the stuff Kirby was writing in his Fourth World series weaves connections to African American culture. The motherbox, a living, connecting energy computer that draws all the characters together, is strikingly similar to Parliament Funkadelic’s Mothership mythology, where all music is connected to funk. It’s almost like a black power fantasy that uses Jack Kirby as the genre. » buzz: You often use the term, “visual literacy.” What do you mean by that, and why do you think it’s important? » JJ: When people think about literacy, for some reason they only consider written text. Which, if you think about it, text is visual, it’s symbolic communication based on sounds transmitted through symbols we call alphabets. But “literacy” essentially means having facility with different types of media. If you’re good with computers, that’s computer literacy.

There’s historical literacy and social literacy, but visual literacy, specifically, is how we read and interpret images. Most images we see are in tandem with text because we live in such a corporate, marketed environment. We see images in advertisements, on the news. This produces

multi-modal literacy, different modes of exchange for information calling upon different types of literacies.

Comics have always been multi-modal in nature. They’re a fusion of image and text that produces a new way to carry information because it’s two modes playing off one another. Most of the time you don’t get visual literacy training until college with media studies classes. Yet, we’re bombarded with images in our society, and schools don’t teach how to interpret them. I’m very much a proponent of teaching kids at an early age that images have power and meaning, and you need to know how to decipher them. » buzz: What advice would you give for aspiring cartoonists? » JJ: The first thing about being a comic artist is you can’t give up. You have to keep making comics and learn as much about the craft. It’s a very exacting process. Also, be open to critique. Anyone who’s gotten better at anything has gone through the humbling process of being told what needs to be better about their work. If you’re an artist outside the mainstream, maybe black, female, gay or lesbian, whatever, make art about your experience. You have nothing to lose. With Internet technology, you can find your own audience. But be true to who you are and make comics about your particular experience. It takes a lot of time and effort. I’ve wanted to be a comic artist for as long as I can remember. But as I’m just turning 42, I’m finally getting to the point where I feel like I’ve made it as a legitimate comic book artist. That’s saying something. We live in a push button culture where there’s an app for everything, but there’s no app for being good at something.

Most black superheroes first appeared in the 1960s. Jennings explained, “There’s a strong connection between these characters and blaxploitation films in the late ‘70s.” Since then, more have emerged, but still, the number of white superheroes far outweighs their non-white counterparts.

Below are a few noteworthy black superheroes.

Black Panther - Jennings marks Black Panther as the first black superhero, first appearing in Fantastic Four #52, July, 1966. Strangely, the superhero predates the founding of the Black Panther Party by four months. Black Panther received his powers from a meteorite that fell in his fictional African country, Wakanda. Eventually, he dated Storm from X-Men. Luke Cage - Luke Cage began as a rather problematic representation of black heroes — in the 1970s, Cage was a jive-talking former prisoner who volunteered for a medical experiment that went awry, leaving him with steel hard skin and mega-muscles. However, Cage resonated with readers and creators, and was amended in the 1990s. In post-Civil War Marvel, Cage refounded the Avengers with Spiderman, Wolverine, Iron Fist and Spiderwoman.

Mister Terrific - A self-made millionaire with a photographic memory, Olympian athletics, martial arts mastery and “like 14 phDs,” Mister Terrific is one of the most accomplished superheroes in the DC universe. Terrific uses brain more often than brawn with the invention of strange oscillating balls that protect/project from his body.

While Terrific is, by all accounts, terrific, this did not stop his New 52 series from being canceled after eight issues.

Miles Morales - “Marvel really promoted Miles as a biracial Spiderman, but that actually already happened with Spiderman 2099,” Jennings said.

Miles is still a young hero both literally (in the book, he’s 13) and actually (he first appeared in 2011). The design of Miles resulted from the controversy of Donald Glover not being considered for the casting for the new Spiderman movie (the comic character looks strikingly similar to Glover). Jennings remarked, “After electing a biracial president, they significantly played up that Miles is of mixed heritage.” Spiderman’s new power includes invisibility (perhaps a nod to Ellison), and a cool paralyzing shock touch that’s like a venom bite.

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Recorded this past June, the EP features six new songs produced by Scot Stewart, who also produces Chicago band Mike Golden & Friends.

The 92s will join Golden & Friends this Thursday at the Canopy Club for Void’s release show, something The 92s are anxiously looking forward to.

“I recorded this in June, and I’ve kinda been sitting on it. I’m super excited to put it out,” said Dan Durley, frontman of The 92s. Durley is also as assistant music editor here at buzz.

Void marks a new beginning for The 92s, with the EP being the first physical record the band has put out.

“I’m really excited to actually be able to give something to somebody,” Durley said. “I just want as many people to hear the record as possible.”

The show also marks the first Canopy Club appearance for Mike Golden & Friends, who have headlined venues like the House of Blues in Chicago.

“I’ve been trying to play Canopy Club for a couple of years now,” said lead singer Mike Golden. “Since I’m not from there, I’m from Chicago, they’ve never been up for giving me a show because they didn’t know if I would have a draw there, so I’m really excited.”

The 92s have intentionally drawn a lot of their style from the raw sounds and instrumentation often found in the records of Golden & Friends.

“I wanted our records to sound similar to that. So I went with Scot [Stewart],” said Durley. “I feel like I owe a little to that band, so I want to try to help [Mike] out as much as possible in Champaign.”

Aside from sharing a producer, the bands are also known for their unique performing styles. Golden & Friends produce and record their records with mostly old and homemade equipment and like to maintain that sound in their live shows, using everything from boxes to empty beer bottles as instruments.

“We’re going to try to take everything up a notch. We always try to do that at every show,” said Golden. “We’ll have the beer bottles ready, and we’ll be doing everything exactly how you’ve heard about us, unconventional or whatnot.”

And although they’re quickly climbing their way up the musical ladder, The 92s still enjoy keeping the spontaneity alive in their live shows through the lack of a set list.

“The last couple shows I’ve kind of been forced to make a set list because they’ve been bigger shows, and I don’t want to fuck up, “ confesses Durley. “But I’m gonna try to preserve that as much as possible. Even though it makes things pretty chaotic. I just wanna be loose. I don’t wanna be tied down to something.”

While The 92s are just releasing new material, Golden & Friends are in the process of recording songs for their new album, tentatively called For Tired Eyes, some of which could be featured at the show Thursday.

“I’ll say you might probably hear [a song],” Golden said. “We have a House of Blues show in December, and that’s going to be be our record release show.”

Despite the big name venues, both The 92s and Mike Golden & Friends work hard to make sure you know who they are and what they’re about.

“I wanna try and get down [to Champaign] and promote [the show] as much as I can,” said

Golden, who studied PR and marketing at Purdue University.

Durley, who is studying business here at the University of Illinois, also knows the importance of promoting and managing the band.

“I wanted to go into business school strictly for music,” says Durley. “The schooling I’ve gotten here has definitely helped me with handling my own business on the music front.”

With all the education and promotion backing them up, The 92s and Golden & Friends both hope to bring in a massive crowd to Canopy, something they’ve proven shouldn’t be too difficult for them.

“The number one thing is that I want as many people to show up [as possible],” Durley said.

“I want as many people to get the record and just have a good time and sing along.”

With established records behind them and resumés that include venues some bands only dream of, it’s difficult to imagine Canopy not being packed for this show. And if you’re lucky, you might be able to help Mike empty those beer bottles before they get used as back-up percussion. Check out The 92s and Mike Golden at The Canopy Club this Thursday, Oct. 4.

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fter two years of letting Champaign know that classic rock isn’t dead, Decadents deliver a debut album that’s chock-full of the crunchy riffs and sludgy goodness that one would expect from a deep-rooted influence like Zeppelin. The record’s a stripped down, hard-rock jamboree at its core with an exterior that doesn’t waste its time with gimmicky pop-rock anthems. It follows its formula too closely, but Decadents’ consistency proves itself as a solid first entry for these heavy hitters from Champaign.

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The album knows when to tone down the set as well, presenting a sublime, Santana-like take on the much cleaner-sounding “Doll’s Eyes.” But there’s definitely enough harder rock here to appease any classic rock enthusiast.

The album verges on the more formulaic side of the spectrum, which is not uncommon for records that generally play it safe. While something that isn’t broken shouldn’t be tampered with, hitting listeners with a little experimenting here and there never hurt anyone. “Look At You Now” has a refreshing

alt-rock vibe that almost plays like a Killers tune, but it doesn’t seem to come outside to play. “Kitchen Floor,” which is otherwise one of the album’s finest tracks, suffers from the same sense of six-minute continuity. When the band strays out of its comfort zone, the performance is always welcomed, but the pattern-breaking element shies away.

Even though it stays within its boundaries, Decadents breaks through on some levels and shows off its teeth, with an invigorating confidence that many other debuts lack.

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Anyone who wants a full day of family-friendly autumnal fun, get ready! There’s Curtis Orchard for apple and pumpkin picking, and the corn maze at the reindeer farm, but this year, there’s a new way to indulge. The Champaign Center Partnership is hosting a Fall Festival full of food, pumpkin judging, scarecrow decorating, costumes and ghost stories. Before filling up on chili and beer later in the day at Urbana’s International Beer Tasting and Chili Cook Off, head to Boneyard Basin and have a rip roaring time. —Jasmine Lee

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Don’t touch the sad man’s cake...

making art behind bars

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New Beyond Lines exhibit features art from incarcerated men

by Katie Gamble

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ake a moment to picture an incarcerated man, otherwise known as a “prisoner.”

What comes to mind? Surely it’s not an artist painting a beautiful picture or a writer penning a moving poem. But prisoners at Danville Correctional Center are doing just that: creating art. That art is now on display at Beyond Lines, a very atypical exhibit.

Beyond Lines, a collaboration between the Art at the YMCA program, the University of Illinois’ Education Justice Project and Books to Prisoners, is an exhibit featuring work created by incarcerated men from the Danville Correctional Center. Viewers expecting anything short of fantastic art will be pleasantly surprised. The exhibit, which runs through Oct. 14, asks us to look beyond our preconceived stereotypes of what it means to be a prisoner, as well as what it means to be an artist.

“We refer to the artwork as made by ‘men who are incarcerated’ rather than ‘prisoners,’” said Ann Rasmus, Art at the YMCA coordinator. “Our language is important when we’re describing this.”

Rasmus knows that the term “prisoner” is a loaded word; it’s associated with false stereotypes that tend to ignore the humanity of incarcerated persons.

“I don’t think of myself as a ‘prison writer,’” wrote Rob Garite, an incarcerated man from Danville, in his essay “When and Why I Write.”

“I write as a human being who feels moved to express in words what my heart has to say. I write to make better sense of the past, to understand more deeply the man I am today, and to dream about who I can become in the future.

Like many other Danville writers, my initial audience is mostly myself.”

Exhibit attendees can read Garite’s essay among others in a booklet showcased at the exhibit. Visitors will also have the chance to hear Education Justice Project members read the artists’ work aloud as well as watch videotaped readings performed by the incarcerated authors themselves. The event, titled Literary Harvest: Writings from Danville Prison, will take place on Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. in the gallery space at the YMCA. Literary Harvest is one of several events associated with this exhibit, all of which will be videotaped for the artists’ viewing so they can still be a part of the exhibit even though they cannot be there physically.

“They’re so excited,” said Rebecca Ginsburg, Director of the Education Justice Project, of the Danville artists.

“Part of the mission for Art at the Y is to show artwork that has meaningful things to say about social justice issues, and so the exhibition is important in both that’s it’s giving a voice to the artists who are incarcerated at Danville and giving them a way to show their artwork in a public space that’s seen by a lot of different, interested people,” said Rasmus. “It’s also a way for the audience who comes to not only see the artwork but think about issues related to incarceration — many of those issues having to do with social justice.”

These men are putting themselves out there to share their passion with us, and it’s something you definitely don’t want to miss. For more information about the exhibit and the Education Justice Project in general, check out their website at http://www.educationjustice.net.

Artwork on display at the YMCA. Photo by Animah Boakye

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44 Changed an area of town from residential to commercial, e.g.

46 They’re collected in passports 48 Coffee dispensers 49 Cartoonist Guisewite, or her comic strip 51 Faith that emphasizes the oneness of humanity 53 Rapper ___ Def 54 Walkway on an airplane 58 Bullfighting cheer 59 Neil Armstrong went on one 62 Homer’s outburst 63 It’s tossed after a wedding 64 Charity benefit, say 65 View 66 Doesn’t eat for a while 67 Bridge’s length

Down 1 Like some checks: abbr.

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11 Prefix for byte meaning “one billion”

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30 Three, in Germany 31 Completely devour 32 ___ fatty acids 35 Troy’s friend on “Community” 36 Under the weather 39 ___ salon 43 Well-known quotations 45 “Are you a man ___ mouse?”

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FRUGAL FALL FUN

Festivities should leave memories, not an empty wallet

by Victoria Wiggins

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lunging into mountains of richly hued autumn leaves is a childhood memory often reminisced upon as the summertime heat begins to wane. As fall is in full swing, bundle up and plan a day to take part in the many low-cost fall activities the area has to offer.

No fall season would be complete without the presence of pumpkin. Pumpkin lattes, pumpkin pies, pumpkin bars — instead of buying these delicacies, you should venture out to Curtis Orchard to pick a shiny, plump pumpkin to sit on your doorstep. Or pick one up to create these wonderful edible concoctions at home. Curtis Orchard is only a quick 15-minute drive from the heart of town.

More inexpensive entertainment can be found at Curtis Orchard’s “Giant Corn Maze.” Spend hours getting lost in this massive tangle of corn stalks. The corn maze is only $4 per person and is open weekdays from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3-6 p.m. After reaching the end of the corn maze, venture inside the country store for a toasty cup of hot apple cider.

The fall season also results in a breathtaking array of striking landscapes. Take this opportunity to get outside and soak up nature. Fewer than 20 miles outside of Champaign — located

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in Monticello — is Allerton Park and Retreat Center, one of the “Seven Wonders of Illinois,” according to the Illinois Office of Tourism. It boasts 14 miles of hiking trails, more than 100 outdoor sculptures, natural prairies and more. The picturesque park is free of charge and is open daily from 8 a.m. to sunset.

As Halloween is creeping up on us, Champaign hosts a variety of options to satisfy your desire for fright. Every year, nearly 100 University of Illinois and Parkland College students assist with presenting the Wesley Haunted House. This

fright-filled experience occurs in the Neo-Gothic building of the Wesley Foundation from Oct. 2528, 7-11 p.m. All proceeds go to support Wesley Evening Food Pantry.

Further fright is available this fall for athletes through the “Zombie Run,” a two-mile race offered by the Champaign Park District. Runners navigate the course while fleeing from zombies, checking in at safe points and gathering the essential survival supplies. For those fortunate enough to survive the monsters, a post-race party follows (in the safe zone, of course). The

run takes place in Dodds Park on Oct. 20 from 3-7 p.m., and if you register before Oct. 5, you also get a free T-shirt. The deadline for registration is Oct. 17.

No fall season would be complete without the presence of football. Half the fun of watching the big game is getting together with friends and family to tailgate beforehand. Bring your pregame partying to the parking lot or even hit up a nearby campus bar before heading off to cheer your team to victory.

Autumn cheer is not just for humans, though — man’s best friend can celebrate, too. On Oct. 28, dress your pooch in its finest costume or come to watch as the doggie costume contest and parade unfold at the Champaign Bark District Dog Park on Windsor Road between Rising and Staley roads. Prizes will be offered to the top two dogs in each of the following sections: best group costume, best costume on a dog less than 25 pounds, best costume on a dog more than 25 pounds, best costume on a puppy and best costume on a human. The parade begins at 2 p.m., and costume judging at 2:30 p.m.

Autumn hosts a variety of enjoyable and inexpensive activities, so be sure to take advantage of them to make your fall full of exciting memories.