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ALL ABOUT BARNUM — THE PLAY

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FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL THIS WEEK AT BOARDMAN’S

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Cover Design • Brittany Bindrim Editor in chief • Erin Scottberg Art Director • Brittany Bindrim Copy Chief • Meghan Whalen Listen, Hear • Anna Statham Stage, Screen & in Between • Elyse Russo Around Town • Tatyana Safronova CU Calendar • Annette Gonzalez Photography Editor • Austin Happel Designers • Hank Patton, Monica Betel Calendar Coordinator • Brian McGovern Photography • Austin Happel Copy Editors • Emily Ciaglia, Ilana Katz, Whitney Harris, Lisa Fisherkeller Staff Writers • Brian McGovern, Carlye Wisel, Amy Meyer Contributing Writers • Michael Coulter, Seth Fein, Mike Ingram, Kim Rice, Kate Ruin Sales Manager • Mark Nattier Marketing/Distribution • Brandi Wills Publisher • Mary Cory

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INTRO This Modern World • Tom Tomorrow Life in Hell • Matt Groening First Things First • Michael Coulter

AROUND TOWN Authentic Asian Food • Laura Sullivan Community Spotlight with “Barnum” • Andy Seifert The Local Sniff • Seth Fein

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erin scottberg EDITOR’S NOTE

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lip over this magazine and check out the back cover. That there is the official ballot for buzz’s annual Best of CU. We want to celebrate all these twin cities have to offer, and who better to decide who gets the gold than you?

There’s a lot to celebrate around here: You only have to be 18 to get into the Urbana bars and downtown Champaign is a much-needed reminder of what a small town’s city-center should be. Also, legend has it (or rather, the Internet) that there’s a actually a law forbidding a monster to enter the corporate limits of Urbana — and it’s illegal to pee in your neighbor’s mouth in Champaign. I don’t think there are many other towns that protect their residents from monsters and mouthfuls of urine. We’re pretty lucky.

Coming up with the final categories was a complicated process; there couldn’t be too many but there had to be enough to aptly cover all the unique and quirky assets of Champaign-Urbana.

The list came about like this: the buzz staff filled our office one Sunday night, ate some sloppy enchiladas and yelled out everything that came to mind that could possibly be a “best-of.”

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“Best place to see drunk underage girls make out with each other, only to see the same girls make out with your roommate twenty minutes later, only to have your roommate wake up with their puke in his bed.”

And others, still, simply revealed information that we know you don’t want to divulge, like the “Best place to smoke a hitter on campus” or “Best place to have sex in public and not get caught.” This last category particularly got too raunchy when staffers started telling their own stories (“This one time, on the Alma Mater…”).

We’ll leave that to The Booze News.

The final list is one I think you’ll be happy with — we’re really trying to make buzz’s Best of CU an issue you’ll keep around for a while, if not to refer back to when looking for a new Thai restaurant, at least to line your puppy’s kennel with (although we’re really hoping for the former).

Voting is easy. Fill out the ballot, drop it off at the Illini Media building (the one with the loud music blaring out of it, across from Coldstone Creamery), stick a stamp on it and put it in the mail or just get online and visit www.readbuzz.com.

And, just to make it that much sweeter, one lucky voter will win a $100 gift certificate to the Illini Apple Center. That’s 100 iTunes songs or 1/10 of a MacBook. Or a lot in between.

Really, I’m surprised you’re still reading.

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michael coulter FIRST THINGS FIRST

The season for sickness Nothing a little codeine cough syrup can’t cure

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ey everybody. I hate to seem like a little bitch, but my ass is dragging. It’s not the usual self-inf licted punishment either. I think I’m getting sick. Holy crap, it’s probably been about a year since it happened for real, but it still seems like yesterday. Seriously, if I were a biblical figure and they were writing a crapass musical about me, it would be called “Coulter and His Amazing Technicolor Mucus.” I mean, seriously, the trees this time of year don’t have as much color as the shit I spat down the sink this past weekend. This illness has been a pesky little bastard and also sort of hard to predict from day to day.

I should say right now that I’m not surprised in any way that I’m afflicted with the malaise.

First of all, 40 percent of the people I talked to in the last week have said they think they might be coming down with something. Wow, thanks a whole hell of a lot for shaking my hand before you brought that up, jackass. Second of all, let’s face it, I really don’t take all that good of care of myself.

My only possible saving grace is that I would imagine it’s hard for any sort of thing to live in my bloodstream for very long before it is eaten away by all the whiskey. Still, let’s face it again, it’s pretty hard to say killing bacteria with whiskey is a form of taking care of yourself.

So, my lifestyle sucks and probably doesn’t do much to detour illness. Sure, I’ve grown accustomed to having a little cough here and there, but damn, I’m on the verge of making the cough an art form. In the middle of the night last Saturday, I developed a theory that if I coughed enough my throat would eventually become numb. I held onto this until well into the next day. Really, it’s not a very good theory.

Yet with all the coughing and all the crap, I was, almost sadly, still sort of functional. Oh sure, I’d get sweaty and kind of have a shiver here and there, but I could do things. That sort of illness purgatory sucks the big one. After a day or so, I yelled to God ... maybe Satan ... whoever does the sickness thing, and said “Jesus H. Christ, c’mon, one way or the other. If I’m gonna get sick then let’s do it already, huh.” It was a few

minutes after this ultimatum that got really sick and started screaming “I take it back. I take it back.” It didn’t seem to work.

The coughing wouldn’t stop so much, my head felt like a big swollen maraca, and my muscles ached like one of those old Replacements ballads.

Oh, hey, that’s awesome. I’m perpetually shivering now. Well, I’m officially sick. I stood up and I was sort of dizzy. Fantastic, now I get to bang into walls every time I try to get another glass of ginger ale. This wasn’t going to be one of those things you ride out for a couple of days.

I sucked it up and went to the doctor. He said it was bronchitis and that it had been going around.

He did say, however, that he’d only seen one case worse than mine so far. Score. I mean, I’m not number one, but there’s still a chance I could get worse and take the lead. He asked if my ears were bothering me. Strangely, they weren’t until he mentioned it. Now, it felt like there was a vacuum on each one of them. He wished me luck, but I was sort of hoping I wouldn’t need it.

I got my prescription filled, some antibiotic and some crazy-ass codeine cough syrup I’ve had before. It totally freaks me out, but I don’t mind that much. I laid everything I could possibly need out on my night stand, a book, a couple of magazines, six boxes of Kleenex, a thermometer, a bottle of water, and my remote control. I figured I was probably forgetting something and I also figured whatever that was, I could probably do without it until I was back among the living.

I pulled my shivering ass into bed, took a big swig of cough syrup, and waited until I fell asleep. After about 10 minutes the cough syrup was working and my mind started to wander. I thought I was having a dream where I couldn’t stop coughing. I don’t think that was really a dream though. Then I dreamed a clown was chasing me through a grocer y store. Man, that liquid codeine is some creepy stuff. This has got to be a dream, right? It’s so weird it’s almost entertaining.

Ask Ward — So, you picked Oakland to win the World Series last week and are now looking pretty smart. Are you sticking? “I do like that young Tiger ball-club up in Detroit Rock City... but I’m still picking the low-payroll A’s over them and the crap-ass NL.”

OOPS! WE MADE A MISTAKE • Although buzz strives for accuracy, we sometimes make mistakes. If you catch something we didn’t,

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AUTHENTIC ASIAN FOOD: THE QUEST OF A CONNOISSEUR LAURA SULLIVAN • CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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au ra Su l l iva n t rek ked, t u k-t u k ’ed a nd ate her way t h roug h roug h ly 53,50 0 m i les of A s i a a nd Ocea n i a over t he last t h ree yea rs. She was i nducted to t h e Z i a t r i b e d e e p i n t h e j u n g le of Papu a New Gu i nea a nd cau g ht d en g ue fever d u r i n g a p r olo n g e d s t ay a t a n i s l a nd h i p p ie com mu n it y i n souther n T ha i la nd, a mong other odd it ies. She at tended Ch ia ng Ma i T ha i Cooker y School a nd ha s worked i n t he rest au ra nt business for seven years. Her articles have appeared i n t he At la nta Jou r na l- Const it ut ion, Japa nzi ne a nd Travel mag. “T h ree yea rs of combi ng Asia lef t me w it h some biza r re stor ies, some g reat j e we l r y a n d a p e n c h a n t f o r d e l i c i ou s A s i a n food. O nce a ga i n usi ng my t a ste bud s a s my gu ide, I put Urba na- Cha mpa ig n’s Asia n restaura nts to t he test a nd fou nd a few sh i n i ng gems: the sush i spot K a ma ku ra, the r ich ly-spiced Basmat i a nd t he dow ntow n Urba na rock st a r Sia m Ter race.”

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Thai: Siam Terrace

In the northern mountains of Thailand, young male monks wearing draping, burnt-orange clothing often rove the markets after their morning alms and prayers, creating a demand for vegetarian food. Crammed in a corner market with the silent, brightly-colored monks, I discovered the perfect Pad Thai, ending a search long in the making. The dish achieved perfection by balance. The spicy Thai chilies, sweet sauce, tangy lime and salty peanuts served as counterpoints for each other. I nodded to the monk next to me, and he knew that I knew.

Downtown Urbana’s Thai restaurant, Siam Terrace (212 W. Main St.) stays true to the Thai tradition of balancing strong sweet, spicy, sour and salty flavors, say its owners. The restaurant is the brainchild of husband and wife team, Worapot Tangmunarunkit and Ratha Darawankul. Darawankul grew up in her family’s restaurant in Thailand and dreamed of opening her own place one day.

Some of the recipes are borrowed from their family and friends and some are unique creations. “We try to make things interesting,” says Tangmunrunkit, who also goes by Eddy. The result is entrees, salads and soups that assault the taste buds from all directions.

A traditional silk print and single fresh flower on each table gives Siam Terrace a warm, inviting feeling and introduces customers to the Thai aesthetic.

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dishes on the menu, according to the owners. The vegetarian Summer Rolls are a crisp, fresh introduction to Thai cuisine, and they are served with the restaurant’s “signature sauce.”

Hot and tangy Tom Yun Goong soup with mushrooms, cilantro, shrimp and red chilies is a great starter. Young Papaya Salad is initially sweet and tangy, but later packs a punch of tingling Thai chili. Halved long beans, crushed peanuts, cherry tomatoes and carrots simmer the flavors down a bit. Massaman curry absolutely melts in the mouth, with thick coconut red curry paste and hearty carrots, potatoes and white onions, with your choice of chicken, seafood or tofu.

The presentation is artistic but understated, true to Thai tradition. It is the best Thai food I’ve had outside of Thailand.

ON A SCALE OF 1-10 (10 being the best): AMBIANCE: 8 SERVICE: 7 TASTE: 10+ AUTHENTICITY: 10 COST: Siam Terrace is a great value, with appetizers from $2.50$8.99 and entrees from $7.99-$12.99.

ALSO TRY: Thara Thai and Basil Thai are other tasty options in the area. Also, I highly recommend the Y Café for cheap, nofrills Thai on weekdays for lunch. Five pre-made dishes rotate daily, along with a limited menu of extras, including super-sweet Thai coffee, known in my circle as “liquid crack”. sounds from the scene

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On a camel safari in the Thar Desert, close to the India-Pakistan border, locals showed me how simple an impromptu meal of the Indian staples dhal and roti can be — as long as you have the right spices. The camel cowboy-cumchefs unpacked the simple ingredients: beans, flour and fresh vegetables. I was following right along, until one of the “chefs” broke out a can of spices. When I asked him what was in the “masala,” a name for any Indian spice mixture, he rattled off an exhausting list off about 30 different spices. I saw a very smelly suitcase in my future.

At Basmati (302 S. First St., Champaign) undulating Hindi music sets the scene for richly-spiced Indian cuisine. Manager Vincent Rodriques has worked in restaurants, including some in India’s most prestigious hotels, for 26 years and borrows recipes from his Indian heritage, using his family’s “preparation style, just in bulk.”

Rodriques wants to stay true to Indian tastes and says, “We cook as we eat it in India.” The spices are purchased from a Chicago importer and the myriad of colors in Basmati’s kitchen remind me of the brightly-colored markets tucked in every alley in India. Most of the cuisine is northern Indian and cooked in a “tandoori” clay oven, decribed by Rodriques as a “dry food barbeque pit.”

The vegetable pakoras are a great starter. Curried spinach, onions and potatoes are dipped in a chickpea batter and fried. Charred Garlic Nan, topped with a generous heaping of diced garlic and cooked in the Tandoori oven, goes great with just about anything on the menu. sounds from the scene

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Japanese: Kamakura (715 S. Neil St., Champaign)

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The special Thursday and Sunday night dinner buffet, despite the drawback of being a little less fresh, allows patrons a taste of India they may not have known before. Fiery Mango Chutney, cooling yogurt Raita and a sticky sweet julienne carrot dessert called Gajar Halwa balance the eight featured entrees that rotate daily.

A b out h a l f of t he me nu e nt r e e s a r e vegetarian. Aloo Baigan’s roasted eggplant soak up thick red curry sauce with sumptuous results. Channa Pindi is a popular dish with chickpeas, potatoes and onions in a slightly creamy sauce. It is a good choice that is a bit less spicy.

Finish off with milky, spiced Chai tea, the perfect end to any Indian dining experience. It puts me back on the streets of Bombay, hunched on a kindergarten-sized plastic chair with the colorful carnival of life passing by.

Service is quick and friendly. The servers seem to cherish their many regular customers by remembering their drink orders and names.

ON A SCALE OF 1-10 (10 being the best): AMBIANCE: 4 SERVICE: 9 TASTE: 8 AUTHENTICITY: 10 COST: Entrees range from $8.99-$14.99. Extras like Nan bread ($2.49) and Chai tea ($1.49) hike the check up a little.

ALSO TRY: Though Urbana-Champaign lacks many Indian options, Bombay is a great bet for lunch.

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In the vibrant green rice paddies of Japan, a portly grandma challenged me to a sushi eating competition. She piled plate after plate in front of me and, because I can’t turn down a challenge, I learned about the extensive variety of sushi available in Japan. We both gobbled down fermented soy beans, salty mackerel and scallops, to name a few. The competition drew quite a crowd but when she sat a plate of watery brown crab brains in front of me, I lost.

The competition is less fierce in Urbana-Champaign. Kamakura (715 S. Neil St., Champaign) takes customers straight to heart of Japan and is the only Japanese-owned restaurant in UrbanaChampaign, says owner Hiro Niizuma. Niizuma named Kamakura after his hometown, a wellknown temple city nestled beside the ocean just south of Tokyo. His recipes are family favorites, and those he picked up while working in Tokyo’s swank hotel industry and at his family’s other restaurants in the U.S. Rice paper “shoji” screens soften the dining room and lend a subtle moodiness completely appropriate for the clean, understated food.

On the sushi menu, the generous portion of sweet Kani (crab) is a great bet. The Hamachi (yellowtail) is mildly salty and rich in flavor. Green onions and white sesame seeds lightly sprinkled on top are a fantastic touch. Tuna is imported from Japan every week, according to Alexandria Harney, a ten-year manger at Kamakura.

Su sh i rol l s, l i ke t he Dr a gon Rol l (tempura-battered shr imp, cucumber and avocado served with eel on top) are a popular choice, according to Harney.

The sushi bar is currently under construction and will be twice its current size when completed in a few weeks. The “expanding tastes”

of Urbana-Champaign residents and the recent popularity of sushi drove the renovation.

High-quality sushi compliments other classic Japanese dishes, like Sukiyaki, a dish of thinly-sliced beef and tofu stir-fried with vegetables and noodles in a sweet, tangy sauce, and Ebi-fry, a tempura-battered shrimp dish hugely popular in Japan.

Kamakura stresses handmade and homemade food. All of the sauces and dressings are the owner’s original creations and made in-house daily. Gyoza, steamed Chinese dumplings that have become a staple of Japanese cuisine, are also hand-wrapped every morning.

If you like sweet drinks, try the Ume-shu (plum wine). About the same strength as sake, it makes you pucker a bit and is a favorite of the ladies in Japan.

Niizuma says the restaurant caters to all tastes, from the newcomer in Japanese cuisine to the well-acquainted families who are regulars at Kamakura.

ON A SCALE OF 1-10 (10 being the best): AMBIANCE: 8 SERVICE: 6 TASTE: 10 AUTHENTICITY: 10 COST: Appetizers are cheap from $3.75-$6.00.

Entrees range from $11.25-$17.75. Sushi can get a little pricey. Two-piece nigiri sushi can be ordered a la carte for $3.95-$7.25 and combination platters range from $16.50-$23.95. Lunch combo meals served in a traditional lunch box are a great value at $5.50-$8.00.

ALSO TRY: Sex y “fusion” crowd-pleasers KoFusion and Miko serve a variety of sushi with a creative twist. buzz

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Doug Young is the star and guest director of the Champaign-Urbana Theater Company’s production of ‘Barnum’ during a practice at the Busey Center in Urbana on Thursday night. Young has a history with the National Circus Project which gave him an esoteric insight for the production.

Sneak into the Busey Center on a weekday night and you’ll walk into a jungle of circus amateurs. Sitting cool and calm in the corner, behind the soccer mom trying to juggle and the high school teen attempting to walk on two-and-ahalf-foot stilts, sits a Wolf. Greg Wolf, that is.

Wolf is the seasoned veteran among the cast of the Virginia Theatre’s play Barnum, which consists mostly of members of the community who have had little experience in theater. Wolf, however, is a 20-year theater professional, a consistent member of the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, who is slated to direct Beauty and the Beast for the company in 2007.

Wolf reclines in his seat collectedly; his mouth only opening when he is ready to strike the quest ions posed to h im w ith a ferocious articulateness, as the rest of the ensemble busily tries to master its tricks.

“Except for (Doug Young, who plays P.T. Barnum), we have no circus skills,” he says.

“That’s the hardest part … we have to master these skills so we’re not dropping balls and throwing flaming batons at the audience.” Wolf admits he doesn’t usually work with cast members who have little experience in drama, but that doesn’t seem to bother him.

“It’s very different, but I’m used to working with pros who take their paychecks and then leave,” he says. “These people are coming after nine-to-five jobs, and there’s a lot more joking. They enjoy themselves for the three hours of rehearsal.”

Certainly as one looks around the rehearsal room, the collection of people could easily resemble a family reunion as well as circus performers. With the exception of the elderly,

every age group is represented, down to the young Kate Myers, who has already managed to steady herself on a large plastic ball while twirling around a ribbon.

“Hey, Kate, how old are you again?” Wolf asks her as she gets off the ball.

“E le ve n ,” s he s ay s . “ S o on t o b e 12 next week.”

“Circus party!” says Doug Young, and Kate smiles accordingly. The comradery between Young and the rest of cast is remarkable seeing as he just met them two days ago. Young, who recently arrived from New Jersey to do the show, is responsible for teaching virtually every circus trick to the rest of the amateur cast and for playing the lead role of famous circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum. Young has been going to schools to teach circus skills as part of physical education with the National Circus Project. He sports a tall, slender, muscular body and a short suave haircut that contrasts directly with P.T. Barnum’s signature balding head.

When asked whether he has any memories of the circus from his childhood, Young responds, “Ooo. Wow. Nope.” Instead, playing Barnum well depends on understanding the Barnum character. Young has that part down.

“He’s a very complex character because he’s very larger than life,” Young says. “But there are moments in the show when life hits him hard.

It’s a very thin line from taking it too far and keeping it human.”

The rest of the cast, meanwhile, is occupied as Wolf leads them in acting exercises. One exercise is a “sixth-sense” game, which Wolf says is designed to help “expand your awareness.”

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eyes closed, while one member who is “it” tries to find and tag every other member.

“We’re not trying to achieve a Zen-like state of being. Just sort of relaxing,” Wolf says. After another acting exercise, the cast discusses the history of misquoted P.T. Barnum, who apparently never said, “There’s a sucker born every minute” (It was falsely attributed to him in a newspaper, but Barnum didn’t dispute it because he liked the free publicity). Much more heart-tugging, however, is the story of the fate of Barnum’s famed Jumbo the Elephant; it was crushed by a locomotive, allegedly to save a younger elephant.

The cast may be unprofessional, but their discussion about the history of Barnum proves they have passion for the stage and for the characters. They may lack degrees in theater, but they’ll at least go out there with poor Jumbo in their hearts.

Young says that while some people may downplay community theater, the result is usually still a quality show. “(The actors) still take it quite seriously trying to memorize lines and keep it real,” Young says adding that people will nevertheless be drawn to the circus atmosphere.

“As Barnum says, ‘It’s the color.’ I mean that both physically and metaphysically,” he says. “Fire-engine red and butterscotch yellow … it’s that vibrancy. Applied to life, you want that excitement in your life. That’s what draws people to circuses. You don’t know what’s going to happen next.”

And as for the show itself, the eloquent and articulate Wolf puts it best: “It’s gonna be pretty crazy.”

Barnum runs at the Virginia Theatre from October 26-29. To order tickets, call the Virginia Theatre Box Office at (217) 356-9063

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MARKET AT THE SQUARE Over 150 Illinois Vendors

Sharon Shelley, a member of the C-U DIVAs (Champaign-Urbana Downtown Independent Volunteer Association), is holding SPEEDY, a playful calico cat who is up for adoption at the Champaign County Humane Society. The C-U DIVAs are sponsoring their 2nd annual “Kittens, Canines and Karaoke” at the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

Enjoy the music of “The Live Karaoke Band” and appetizers from Classic Events. Proceeds from the event will benefit animals at the Humane Society just like Speedy so please join us for a fun evening and a great cause! Suggested donation is $3.

Every Saturday Morning thru Nov. 11 Corner of Illinois & Vine Streets Downtown Urbana (217) 384-2319 kalarson@city.urbana.il.us

Can’t make it to your favorite Chicago salon?

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seth fein THE LOCAL SNIFF

Sniffer has likes and gripes too, dammit!

IMC liberals burn copy editor at stake; FOX reports inconsistency.

FIRST SNIFF So, this should just be stated from the get-fucking-go. I never ever, in a million years, or in a dream, would have written and then publ ished someth i ng a s untruthful as “The best I can do is remind you that there are still alternative outlets from which to obtain your news, with the Independent Media Center being gone now,” which is what ran last week.

I wrote something entirely different, in fact.

What I wrote was this: “The best I can do is remind you that there are alternative outlets from which to obtain your news. And I will say it until I leave, the Independent Media Center is the place to learn about all of it.”

Bottom line is that my copy editor fucked up royally. So, to the mass of you who inundated my inbox demanding a retraction, let me be the fi rst to acknowledge the error and remind you what a HUGE fan I am of the Center. It is most defi nitely OPEN and providing our community with something that you generally can’t fi nd anywhere else: The Truth.

LIKES AND GRIPES SNIFFER STYLE When I met with our fabulous editor-in-chief (not copy chief ), Erin Scottberg, at the beginning of the semester to discuss the coming fall, I asked her if I could get to do a Likes and Gripes thing too. I really think it’s a rad idea and I wanted to be a part of it. But alas, she told me that it was reserved for editors and designers and that I have my own version of Likes and Gripes every week.

I understood and told her so.

So, I am thinking about it now, and you know, she makes a good point. I can do pretty much whatever I want to do with this column, so, this week I am here to present to you: What the Sniffer Likes and Things that Make the Sniffer Gripe.

SETH FEIN COLUMNIST LIKES 1) Curtis Orchard: It’s the finest place in Champaign- Urbana in the autumn. There is something so fun and simple about picking apples or a pumpkin, feeding goats and watching c hil d r e n h ave f u n w i t h o u t a v i d e o g a m e controller. My girlfriend and I go ever y year and I was proud to feel just like a kid again last Thursday.

2) Rose Marshack: All us scenesters know her as the bassist of Poster Children and Salaryman, but my God is she so much more! In addition to being a wonderful mom and a wife, she also curates events at Krannert Art Museum.

This Saturday she is putting on an event that should be noted as being one of the finest artistic juxtapositions in its history. This Saturday from 1 sounds from the scene

to 4 p.m., the KAM will host the first ever CU Martial Arts Festival: And yes, it’s happening amidst the fine works of art that they have on display.

Here is more info: http://cu-martial-arts-festival. pbwiki.com.

3) Rose Marshack: What? Twice? How can it be?

Am I just kissing ass? The answer is no. Rose is also putting on an amazing concert this Sunday at the YMCA with The Evens. Holy shit! For those of you who don’t know, The Evens are Ian McKaye’s newest band. For those of you who don’t know who Ian McKaye is, well, you are a dumbass. OK, that was harsh. He started Dischord and spear-headed the DIY indie punk movement out of DC and played in Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Dude is a hero. For real.

4) Texas de Brazil: It’s a Brazilian steakhouse that costs a lot of money. But, if I were you, I would save the dough and do it up if you are ever in NW suburbs. It’s a delight.

5) Kalamazoo: What a great little college town with a big heart. We went to see RJD2 and Spankrock at the State Theatre there on Saturday because one of the artists I represent, Canada, was opening for them. The show was paid for and put on by the college station WIDR. Oh, how I wish that our college station would … nah. Nevermind.

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GRIPES 1) City of Urbana Parking Division: I got a ticket.

It was a total mistake on my part, but that mistake was caused by negligence on the city’s part.

I contested and was denied for reasons that are complete and utter bullshit. You can have my $15, Jerry Rabbitt.

2) Riding bikes on the sidewalk: Hey! It’s called a sidewalk, not a sideRIDE, dumbasses. I dream of the day where I pull one off as they ride by and belittle them in front of a crowd of pedestrians to a round of applause.

3) The Hub being gone: I miss it, I really do. It’s not that it was that great of a paper. Neither is this one. But it enriched our culture. I got an anonymous e-mail from someone telling me that he overheard the owner in the summer talking about how it was going to undergo a massive reconstruction. So, it seems like it could be under development. I do hope so.

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THE CHICAGO AFROBEAT PROJECT: HELPING THE WORLD GET DOWN WITH ITS BAD SELF SINCE 2002 CAITLIN CREMER • STAFF WRITER

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After three years of touring, CAbP’s visit to Champaign-Urbana will be their second performance at the Canopy Club. With their last visit in mind, anyone can expect an all-night dancing groove-a-thon (they are rumored to have people dancing until 5 a.m.!) — no energy drinks or alcohol required.

The band itself is a fusion of well-matched musicians who have successfully combined the Chicago experimental music scene with the resurfaced Afrobeat funk. The band includes drums, guitar, keyboards, trombone, baritone sax, tenor sax, bass guitar and congas — as well as a few other unique instruments that appear in select shows.

Although the band is so large in number, no one musician has developed as the frontman. This is especially evident in the band’s extended jam songs. Throughout any given performance, each member emerges as the band’s lead in a “musical burst” and then blends back into the collective music to let another member step forward. Through improvisation, the band members create a distinct personality for each of their songs.

“The roots of our music is of course Afrobeat, so we compose with the idea of writing Afrobeat, but our individual influences from the other styles of music we’ve played and listened to throughout our life come into effect guitar, as well as as well,” Marshall Greenhouse said.

CAbP began practicing their music in a third-story loft on Lake Street in downtown Chicago before officially coming together as a band in 2002.

Since then, the band has developed a network of supporters and friends who frequently appear as guest performers, dancers and musicians in select shows.

In tandem with spreading the sound of Afrobeat around the globe, CAbP has also infused itself into the Journalists Against AIDS Nigeria foundation (NAAIDS) by donating a percentage of all sales from their new album. NAAIDS is a non-profit organization that battles the AIDS epidemic in Nigeria by establishing communication programs through media-based and non-governmental advocacies. With the Nigerian legend Fela Kuti in mind, the CAbP remains connected to Afrobeat roots by returning to the community from which their music emerged.

With a steadily growing following around the world, CAbP has successfully established reverberating fan appraisal.

As best articulated by the West Virginian Graffiti: “[CAbP] have this creepy funk core to them that radiates through a thick African groove. You would have to be dead not to tap your foot to those guys.”

CAbP at any given time consists of anywhere between 7 to 14 members, including a full percussion and horn section, bass, keyboard and guest dancers and performers at select shows.

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et ready CU — it’s time to get funky. This Saturday, the riled up rhythms and jazz-groove music of Afrobeat are hitting the Canopy Club via a Chicago-infused, nine-member band called the Chicago Afrobeat Project.

The genre of Afrobeat, originated and popularized in the late ’60s, is a three-part African percussion, jazz and funk rhythms .

Generally, the band is a fairly large group of members playing an assortment of instruments with varying vocal styles.

“These styles really attracted me because of their untamed and raw sound that was similar to the music I grew up listening to,” Percussionist Marshall Greenhouse said when asked what attracted him to Afrobeat.

The genre of Afrobeat was birthed by the funk-jazz guru of Nigeria, Fela Kuti, who was influenced by the American free-jazz movement. Deeply inspired by political concerns, Fela Kuti sent controversial messages of injustice and government corruption through his music, oftentimes improvising, thus paving the way for the essential part of the Afrobeat sound: improvisation.

Recently, the genre of Afrobeat has experienced a surge in popularity owing in part to modern Afrobeat performers such as the Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP), who have resurfaced the compellingly energetic, and completely dance-worthy, funk-groove music.

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The new generation of Afrobeat has evolved as a re-introduction to funky beats. More properly called Afropop or Groove, this more contemporary version of Afrobeat includes a DJ who re-mixes Afrobeat songs. Although CAbP has many musicians, they do not have a steady DJ. CAbP is still dedicated to Afrobeat roots, consisting only of instrumental musicians who have refreshed the Afrobeat scene through contemporary and Chicago twists.

“There are so many great musicians and styles of music out there from all over the world that most people here in the states don’t know about. CAbP, and other Afrobeat groups in the US, are helping spread the Afrobeat sound to new audiences,” said Marshall Greenhouse. “Of course, I really like it when people see us that are familiar with the genre, but what excites me the most is when someone hears us for the first time and loves the sound so much they begin to check out artists such as Fela Kuti.”

In celebration of their first album release, the self-titled Chicago Afrobeat Project, the CAbP has most recently been performing a fusion of their own songs with covers by Fela Kuti and other Afrobeat versions of hip-hop and rock classics.

The CAbP’s first release has been charted for the past nine weeks and is currently at its peak at #10 on the CMJ New World Music Charts.

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Kate Hathaway is currently working on the release of a project with her brother. In the meantime, she plays acoustic sets around CU, like this Saturday at Mike ‘n Molly’s as part of “Writers in the Round.�

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echnology is admittedly convenient. It enables modern music artists to cram a plethora of recorded vocals, a menagerie of differently-tuned guitar lines and a flood of drum samples into one jumbled sound and loop the entire piece over itself repeatedly on top of feedback and a synthesizer riff.

Acoustic playing does not permit such sound mixing, but it does facilitate collaboration between artists. An example of such a collaboration is this weekend’s “Writers in the Round� acoustic show at Mike ’n Molly’s featuring local artists Megan Johns, Kate Hathaway, G. Lee and newcomer Briana. “The show the four of us are playing together is going to be relaxed,� Johns said. “All four of us singer/songwriters have a great respect for each other.�

G. Lee, just returning to the music scene after a hiatus, developed the idea of the four artists each playing a short acoustic set at Mike ’n Molly’s, and they were quick to comply.

Hathaway and Johns are particularly notable due to their current projects. Johns is near the terminus of her recording an album with The Greytones; it is a heavier, darker sound fronted by jazzy prose. Hathaway, voted Best Female Artist at the Champaign-Urbana Music Awards in 2005, is in the midst of writing songs with her younger brother James. Their kinship and profound friendship capacitate them to write two-part harmonies and lyrics together with fluency. The Hathaways plan to fully flesh out their new sound with a fresh lineup consisting potentially of an additional bassist, keyboardist and drummer.

Despite their novel endeavors, both entertainers thoroughly enjoy playing by themselves. “I have thrown out songs that do not sound right when I play them solo and acoustically,� Johns commented. “I love how raw unaccompanied music can sound.� sounds from the scene

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Hathaway added, “If a song is stripped-down and still sounds good, then you know it’s great.�

Acoustic sets typically attract a less-noisy crowd than if the performers were backed by a band, so every note, every chord, every pluck is very comprehensible to the audience.

Not just the sonority, but lyrics can also be more penetrating when displayed in a live acoustic set. People have the luxury of being just a few feet away from the singers whose words are then very easily absorbed. For these artists, this is a lucky phenomenon because both women sing about very personal matters.

Johns crafts character sketches of people involved with mental illness, homelessness and death. She strums her guitar until a particular chord triggers melodies and words that combine in her head to form the beginnings of a sentence.

This sentence emerges as an entire song later as she continues this intuitive process.

In her lyrics, Hathaway shifts from her own worries to abstract ideas not possible to summarize. She does not have a specific fashion for her craft, but knows that the music surrounding her is an indirect influence. Hathaway adores artists like Fiona Apple and Neko Case for their original deftness.

Hathaway and Johns actually met when in the thick of their first full-length production. Both were recording with Andy Lund, who introduced them to each other. Johns’ solo CD was composed when she was still enrolled in a Champaign high school and had little experience with a full band sound. She plans to continue doing at least some solo work for the rest of her life. Hathaway’s Sprout Don’t Pout was released two summers ago and has received airplay on multiple ChampaignUrbana radio stations.

This Saturday night at Mike ’n Molly’s, Johns, Hathaway, Lee and Brianna are coming together to bring you “Writers in the Round.� Each of the four will take turns exemplifying their stirring, stringed inventiveness. Come out for an hour to glimpse a bit of each artist, or the whole night for the full flavor.

As Hathaway put it, “Acoustic sets are very intimate, because you have nothing to hide behind.�

Come out to Mike ’n Molly’s (105 N. Market St. in downtown Champaign) Saturday, Oct. 14 at 9:30 p.m. for “Writers in the Round,� featuring G. Lee, Megan Johns, Kate Hathaway and Briana. The show is 21+ and tickets are $4.

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t seems that I have a fan site that’s devoted almost entirely to me. I’ve been peek ing in on openingbla nd s.blog spot.com for awhile now, and for a while I thought it was a cute little site. A person who remains nameless makes semi-bitey remarks and posts pictures that look a lot like local musicians. There were some funny entries. I was a big fan of posts about The Beauty Shop, Matt Talbot, myself and others. But now the site seems to have strayed, with most recent posts having to do in some way or another with myself and buzz columnist Seth Fein. It’s cute to think that there’s someone out there thinking about me so much — someone who has seemingly been wronged by me somehow. Oh no! And what can I do to resolve the issue? I mean, the person won’t even let anyone know who he/she is. What’s a boy to do? I would usually invite the person to step out from behind the curtain and discuss things like an adult, but it seems clear that whoever it is, is afraid of letting people know his/her identity. It’s safe out there on the Internet, you know. You can say anonymously the things that you apparently can’t handle saying to someone’s face. Some people enjoy that level of comfort. Everyone should go to the page and start reading from the bottom. It’s pretty fun to watch it start out so promisingly and then spiral into a mess of bitterness and bitchiness.

Tonight offers a pretty wide variety of shows.

If you’re in the mood to see an actual washboard being used as an instrument, well then the Canopy Club is the place for you. Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band makes another stop in CU to rock the place, and to lay to waste any other beards that dare challenge the Revs. You heard me, Josh Lucas. They play with Cornmeal, and the show fires up at around 8 p.m.

— cover is $6. If you’d rather go indie, hit up the Courtyard for Chin Up Chin Up/Oceans (8 pm, $5). Over at Cowboy Monkey, you can catch Roberta Sparrow, one of the scene’s finest hardcore bands (10 p.m., $5).

Friday night is also a great night to head out.

For happy hour, Cowboy Monkey offers Javelinas for only $2, with a 5:30 p.m. start time.

Javelinas is made up of John Tubbs and Bruce “Bruiser” Rummenie (Bruiser and the Virtues, The Impalas). I’ve long been a fan of Bruiser’s work, and this project is excellent.

Shortly after the happy hour show, Kaki King shows The Highdive a thing or two about the guitar (7:30 p.m., $12). Kaki, known for writing amazing instrumental songs on the acoustic guitar, played last year’s Wall 2 Wall Guitar Festival at Krannert. At the same time, across town at the IMC in downtown Urbana’s old post office, Beirut will perform (8 p.m., $10).

I didn’t know much about the band before they were booked, but I’m pretty hooked.

Check out myspace.com/beruit (yes, the site is spelled differently).

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L a t e r (a nd r i g ht d ow n t he block f rom t he I MC ), L o r e n z o G o e t z w i l l play at the Iron Post. Oh no, here I go again, talking about what a great place the Iron Post is. Maybe I just like the place! LG front man Larry Gates has long been a big supporter of the idea of doing stuff yourself, and has been t h i n k i n g a b out i m pa r t i n g s ome of h i s wisdom onto some of the younger people in the scene. Ask him a question and gather your friends in a circle as wise ol’ Larry tells another stor y. Take that, Aesop — your stories are nice, but you don’t know shit about getting your band booked.

Urbana wins again on Saturday with The Beauty Shop at the Iron Post (there I go again!)

(10 p.m., $5). Also on the show: New Ruins and Bellcaster. If you haven’t seen The Beauty Shop in a while, you’ll be happy to learn that they have CDs for sale again! After a debacle that involved a European label that wouldn’t get off its ass to get the Crisis Helpline album released here in the States, a new label has come knocking and a new deal has been figured out. You can get a copy of the new Yard Sale album, which includes songs from Crisis, as well as songs from Yr Money or Yr Life. There are also CD singles available that come with B-sides — collect all three.

Early on Saturday at the IMC, there is a benefit show for Equal Marriage Illinois, featuring Angie Heaton, Darling Disarm and I’m told Dawna Nelson, possessor of the oft-named best voice in CU. Dawna has a drink holder that clips onto her mic stand. It makes other musicians insanely jealous. She can also kick your ass. Anyway, there will be plenty of people from Equal Marriage Illinois there with info about what we can do here in our state to start sorting out the mess we’re in. The show starts at 8 p.m., and there will be some sort of donation involved at the door.

Rose Marshack (Poster Children, Salaryman) is excited. Sunday night, The Evens will play at the Univeristy YMCA, and you have her to thank for it. The Evens is made up of Ian MacKaye (of Fugazi) and Amy Farina. This w i l l be the f irst time Ian has per for med in this town in ten years. The Evens put out a f a n t a s t ic s e l f- t it le d r e c o r d i n 2 0 0 5 , and have a new album coming this fall titled Get Evens. This show is all ages, and will start promptly at 7 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. — $5 to get in. Check out whyamistillawake.com/evens for more info.

Coming soon: Who, or what, is Tritone!?!?!

Mike Ingram could use a new fight song. He resides in Champaign and spends his days booking shows and playing on Myspace. His life’s ambition is to be able to hit the high note before the guitar solo in Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” So close!

He is the local music director at 90.1 WEFT, where he books WEFT Sessions, and he can be reached at forgottenwords@gmail.com. sounds from the scene

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This column is pretty self-explanatory. Basically, Carlye and Brian are full of opinions, and sometimes they just want to let loose on shit. Hey, a wise man once said, “Developing a column idea while at a bar together is a wonderful idea.� Or something like that.

We’re absolutely positive that someone kinda sorta smart-ish said it, though. (cough-cough-Carlye-coughcough). Brian’s favorite band predictably would want to suck blood, and Carlye’s favorite band predictably has a blood relative in it. Ah, it’s aclever ruse, so clever that you’ll have to start reading ... right now.

Carlye: Dave and Steve!

I consider myself to be quite a blatant person, so I’m just going to be up front and not confuse you with, “Wait, do a lot of people have the last name Wisel?�

My favorite local act is Dave and Steve, the “acoustic guitar and vocal duo� cover band, as they professionally refer to themselves. Yes, Dave Teplinsky and Steve Wisel, the latter being the first occupant of the womb in which I was later raised. Or, in non-confusing and slightly less nauseating terms — my older brother.

See, usually when Steve slyly tells me to plug him and Dave, I tell him to fuck off. But, to be honest, these guys deserve some public recognition, and that’s not just because I might get grounded if I don’t write about them in the column soon.

This past Friday, Brian and I saw them play a Power Hour at an undisclosed Campustown bar,

in which they covered a new song every minute.

There was some classic rock, some TV themes, a Bulls starting lineup in there somewhere and ... well, I don’t remember much after that. But my new digital camera tells me I had a phenomenal time.

Just to quickly redeem myself a bit, I should mention that my actual favorite local band (that writes their own music) would have to be Headlights. Their music is relaxing, yet catchy; Erin Fein is adorable on stage (self-admitted girl crush); and I’m super-pissed that I missed their show last Saturday because Ko Fusion has horrible service and took forever to serve raw fish, a piece of chicken and two steaks to us at my friend Erica’s birthday dinner. (I feel like Seth Fein right now, complaining about Champaign and ... I love it.)

Well, I bet you all thought I was done, but I’m not. I guess I just can’t stop thinking about good, live music and shots of beer from a forty of Bud Light at 6 p.m., being hungover by 9, and passed out by 10. Apologies all around for my musical product-placement, but visit www. daveandsteve.net so you don’t miss out on their next Power Hour and/or me being drunk and obnoxious in public — I promise both will be worth it.

Brian: Probably Vampires Sur pr isingly enough, my favorite local band is not my brother’s, unlike that of some other writer.

Though my brother does make music, I don’t feel it

necessar y to shamelessly plug him (though check out his label at www.oicrecords.com).

Any way ... it’s so hard to pick a favor ite band from the area because there is a lot of solid talent.

In my opinion though, there is much more than just pure, pristine talent that should be factored into what makes a good local band. High energ y and enthusiasm is a must. Lots of unnecessary flailing is also good. Next, I’d say looking dirty/kind of dangerous is important too. But, at the same time the band should be appealing in a sick, wet puppy kind of way. If the band has maybe one or two too many members, that’s a plus too. I guess the songs being alright helps as well.

When you add this al l up you get one clear winner in my book — Probably Vampires. With a kind of stupid name you might expect a kind of stupid band, but it’s quite the opposite. A throwback to old psychedelic rock w ith a l ittle nod to punk here and there, PV is nostalgic and smart in their song wr iting. A tongue-in-cheek environment welcomes you from stage as the sextet bounds and bounces into each other during their rollicking numbers. Maybe not technically brilliant or ultra-hip, Probably Vampires is a sort of Little Giants of music — a ragtag ensemble of unlikely characters coming together to get the job done.

P u r e f u n a n d n o p s e u d o - q u i r k y, pseudo-dumb covers, Probably Vampires are probably the best local band in the local area ... probably.

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he Pogues, Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys are some of the biggest names in the genre. The Tossers are Chicago’s own breed of Irish folk punk. “In the world of popular music ... it’s not often that you see six or seven people get up on stage with acoustic instruments [and play as fast as a punk band],� Mike Pawula, guitarist for The Tossers, said.

The Tossers will be pulling into Champaign for two shows on Saturday and Sunday at Cowboy Monkey. These shows are the last on their national headlining tour with The Siderunners.

T h e To s s e r s a r e a s e ve n - p i e c e u n i t consisting of bass, accordion, mandolin, guitar, tin whistle, banjo, fiddle and drums. The range of instruments gives the band their distinct style.

The tour is in support of The Tosser’s latest album, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, released in October 2005. The album is their f ifthful l-release and their f irst with Vicsounds from the scene

tor y Records, which they joined last St. Patrick’s Day. “We’ve been on the road for almost 100 days since last September,� Pawula said. However, this is their first headlining tour in that stretch.

The Siderunners, also from Chicago, give off more of a straight-up folk-rock vibe, stretching over into country. Their latest release, a live acoustic album, dons a title that speaks to their influences (Sabbath. Country. Sabbath.). Basically, they’re playing country for rock fans.

Pawula said playing with them has been like going out to a show before playing their own set. The bands have been on the road together since the tour kicked off in Pittsburgh on September 20th.

Pawula said playing two consecutive nights at the same venue is a rarity. He said the band plans to mix up the set list for anyone coming out to both shows.

As intimate a venue as Cowboy Monkey is, these shows are sure to pack plenty of people in

for two nights of singing, dancing and merriment.

After the tour, The Tossers have a couple more shows in November, as wel l as plans to get to work on t hei r next album.

Pawula said the band wil l star t recording in November. He said a lot of the songs are already put together, but the band needs to get together to practice and do more work on them.

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Check out The Tossers and The Siderunners this weekend on Oct. 14 and 15. Both shows are at Cowboy Monkey. Saturday’s show begins at 10 p.m. and Sunday’s show begins at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.

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With Meloy’s consistent lyrical invention and progressive, polished instrumentation, The Crane Wife is a rocking addition to the Decemberists catalogue that everyone can — and should — appreciate.

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In the Decemberists’ latest installment of their signature literary pop, indie rock’s most celebrated lexicon chronicles the ever-relevant themes of love, greed and war between the outstretched wings of The Crane Wife. Consistent with the rest of the Decemberists’ oeuvre, Colin Meloy’s latest batch of lyrical fiction is written within an array of theatrical and historical constructs.

Most notable is The Crane Wife’s foray into Far-Eastern literary tradition, as Meloy conceptually frames — and names — the album with an ancient Japanese folk story. In the story of the Crane Wife, the main character finds an injured crane and nurses it to health, knowing that it would “stand to fly away.” The crane returns one day in the form of a beautiful woman, who becomes the man’s wife and helps him to grow prosperous by selling her homemade tapestries, with the stipulation that the man never sees her weaving them.

“The Crane Wife 1 and 2” is Meloy’s vivid and candid take on the tale’s exposition, full of scenic ornamentation, sung in patient, mid-tempo sobriety. “The Crane Wife 3” is the first track of the album and climax of the tale, in which the man peeks at his beloved wife one moonlit evening, who is once again in crane form and is using her own feathers for thread. Betrayed, she flies away. “Crane Wife 3” captures the man’s shame perfectly in the chorus’s only lyrics, “I will hang my head low,” words that gain poignancy with every repetition. Beginning with three chords played simply by dulcimer and guitar, the song’s tone establishes a retrospective and regretful clarity that pervades much of the rest of the album’s wartime theme.

In “Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then),” Meloy duets with Laura Veirs, posing as a Civil War soldier separated from his sweetheart by Appalachian battlefields. The duo breathes soft harmonies between the verses of this hopeful tune, as Meloy promises to one day return “on the breath of the wind.” A different portrait of a soldier, “When The War Came,” propagates a justified greed to the listener, echoing “all the grain of Babylon” in its concluding two-note vamp.

The battle cry is sonically reminiscent of tank construction, as the Decemberists, newly armed with electric guitars and lyrics that cry “a terrible autonomy,” seem to bludgeon the listener into submission.

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Corrina Repp is one of those female vocalists you don’t soon forget. The vocals on her new album The Absent and the Distant are reminiscent of Cat Power’s Chan Marshall on Moon Pix — calm, yet ceaselessly attention-inducing.

Repp heightens the serenity of her vocals and emotive lyrics with a great mix of ambient piano, classical strings and guitar. It’s not all about ambience on this CD however, as many songs capture the spirit of folk and gospel music.

Repp has been pretty much off the mainstream music radar until now, with only a small following in the Portland, Ore. area. But she’s the only full-time musician signed to Caldo Verde Records; it’s obvious someone thinks she has the kind of talent more people should be exposed to. She was recently in town playing a gig at Cowboy Monkey to promote this album and is gaining listeners everywhere she goes. Whether she’ll attain commercial success with her new release or not is debatable, but The Absent and the Distant is definitely worth a listen. The title of the album couldn’t be more fitting, considering the content.

A standout song on the album is “I’ll Walk You Out.” Repp’s heavy lyrics and calming singing style perfectly capture the feeling of this album.

The Brian Eno-esque synth pads add to the overall ambience of the piece. It’s less folk-driven than some other songs like “Afloat” but more complex, layered and sedative.

The polished sound of “I’ll Walk You Out” is countered by the rough vocals and simple g uitar melody of “Heaven ly Place.” This song def initely has the feel of homegrown A mer ic a n fol k , a t h rowback to Repp’s inf luences like Neil Simon. The album is relatively short at only about a half hour long, but the var iet y of sound s and relaxing melodic textures presented on The Absent and the Distant make that half hour incredibly diverse. Any fan of the singing styles of Chan Marshall, Regina Spektor or even Kim Gordon could take something away from this album. sounds from the scene

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This album is so good, I think I’ve listened to it, oh, five times today.

With each album the funky (to say the least) Of Montreal creates, the band’s ability to make you dance, sing along, or whatever you do when you just love a CD, increases. Sunlandic Twins will forever hold a place in your memory with its intense catchiness and, in my opinion, is their best effort to date.

Not only is this album a masterpiece in its own right, but it is a great album to start with for those of you who are new to the whole Of Montreal craze. If you’re anything like me, this album just may make you go out and buy their other nine albums, their T-shirts and their posters.

The fi rst song of the album, “Requiem for O.M.M.2,� instantly captures the listener’s attention with its fun beat and great lyrics. The next few songs give the listener a sense of the band’s signature style — atypical lyrics and incredibly uplifting beats. By the end of the album, if you aren’t hooked to the trip that is Of Montreal, there must be something mentally, emotionally or physically wrong with you. With so many different sounds in each song, its no wonder Of Montreal is able to generate so many fans.

LPs, each receiving moderate critical acclaim, and added keyboardist Jeff Sheinkopf and drummer Chris Egan III to his lo-fi romping. Impeccable Blahs flushes out his band in its finest: weaving a sinister concept album about vampires and disguising it as a carefree indie-pop piece. Melodies are so catchy here that it is very difficult to differentiate between the spook and the spunk.

The record’s wistful opener, “These Fangs,� introduces the tale. It is the least objectionable track with its instantly familiar key chords and gentle strumming, and Elbogen uses its universal appeal to let listeners know that he empathizes: “I don’t mind if you want to hide your fangs, too.�

Elbogen recorded Impeccable Blahs in his own bedroom, and this proves to correspond well with the overall messages of the work. Vampires do not need technology to thrive; they thirst for blood.

Elbogen is particularly fond of a jilted lover’s blood, and he states that exactly in “Blah Blah Blah� in a looped chorus over some delicate snare work. His supernatural style is continually evoked; the synth in “Angels and Darlas� could come directly from a slasher fl ick, while the barely whispered vocals in “Sweet Sweet Heartkiller� seem to be his last words as he is vanquished by the same lover whose blood he earlier drained.

Some key components of vampirism — invisibility, blood and darkness — are also decidedly human in that peoples’ romances often involve these ideas.

Elbogen’s twisted lyrics can be applied to any situation in which one has sucked the life out of someone else, and he writes them with such eloquence and evilness that they are hard to ignore.

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cause/She’s my man.�), is another success. The carefree melody makes the listener want to join in on whatever fun Shears is having ... although maybe not the choking stuff.

On “I Can’t Decide,� the Scissor Sisters blend several genres and deliver a great song that features a truly rocking banjo. Similarly, “Lights� and “Ooh� offer some deliciously funky guitar grooves that would do Gibb and his brothers proud.

However, the band’s attempts at slower tunes, “Land of a Thousand Words� and “The Other Side,� fall short. They rely too heavily on eerie synthesizer parts, and the band appears to be taking themselves too seriously on these songs.

The Sisters redeem themselves on “Paul McCartney,� an homage to the former Beatle.

While the song sounds nothing like anything with which McCartney would be involved, it’s still catchy. In fact, “catchy� seems to be the word to describe the Scissor Sister’s latest release, and with its unabashed disco sound, Ta-Dah is bound to become America’s newest guilty pleasure.

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SON, WHEN YOU PARTICIPATE IN SPORTING EVENTS, IT’S NOT WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE; IT’S HOW DRUNK YOU GET.

If it were biologically possible for Elton John and Barry Gibb to spawn, the resulting love child would without a doubt be Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears. On the band’s sophomore album TaDah, Shears and company unleash a new batch of songs that force their listeners to ponder whether disco really died in the ’70s.

The album kicks off with the ridiculously catchy “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’,� which incidentally features Elton John on piano. John simply does what he’s been doing for years, but his piano adds just enough to Shears’ falsetto to create an extremely dance-able track reminiscent of the grooves that once echoed within Studio 54. “She’s My Man,� despite some questionable lyrics (Try pondering the deeper meaning of “As I lie between these covers/I wanna tell her that I love it/when she chokes me in the/backseat of her riverboat

On 1999’s seminal I See A Darkness, Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince� Billy) created a stark and desolate place where broken dreams where outlined by light emerging from shadow. It was and is the pinnacle of his career as a songwriter, and an album of simply gorgeous melodies that were ironically hopeful despite their blackened outer trappings.

Seven years on Oldham has offered a counterpart to the “darkness� personified on that album’s title track. On The Letting Go, the “Prince� tells the story of love gained and then lost, orchestrated by emotive strings and subtlety beautiful duets with Dawn McCarthy, who serves as a counterpart to Oldham’s haunting world-weary voice.

On opening track “Love Comes To Me,� Oldham pronounces right away a new sonic approach, with the strings taking center stage before a quiet acoustic melody strums in. But Oldham’s voice remains the perfect compliment to his lyrics, either augmenting the impending dread of his words or questioning the beauty behind them.

Thus, this hopeful tune about the start of love automatically foreshadows the theme of the work — an overcoming of loss. So when he sings, “Love comes and all/It’s my hands, my heart, my lips, and that is all,� you don’t know if the tears are welling up out of joy or sadness. And that’s precisely the beauty of his art, and what makes The Letting Go another gem in Oldham’s oeuvre.

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THU. OCT 12 Live Bands G. Lee, Anthony Gravino Aroma Cafe, 8pm, free Cornmeal, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Canopy Club, 8pm, $6 Oxford Collapse, Chin Up Chin Up, Oceans Courtyard Cafe 8pm, $5 Caleb Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, no cover

Mitch Paliga Quartet Zorba’s Restaurant, 9:30pm, $3 Cealed Kasket, Roberta Sparrow Cowboy Monkey 10:30pm, $5 Adam Wolfe [Live acoustic] Potbelly Sandwich Works, 12pm Concerts “Arnaldo Cohen, piano” [Cohen presents classic piano repertoire by Schumann, Chopin and Brahms.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 7:30pm, $20 students/$35

Sudden Sounds Concert featuring Bloom Krannert Art Museum, 7:30pm DBR & The Mission [Blends modern classical music, jazz and hiphop into a rich musical mosaic in the club-style setting of the Studio Theatre.] Kranner t Center for the Performing Ar ts, 7:30pm, $15 students/$28

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DJ Zen Thursdays: DJ Asiatic Soma Ultralounge, 9pm no cover DJ Dice, DJ Smoooth V Lava 9pm, $3/$5 after 11pm Limbs [Hip-hop, breaks and party music.] Boltini Lounge, 10:30pm, no cover Dancing Free Swing Dance McKinley Church and Foundation 9:30pm

Lectures/Discussions “Original Research On Application of Information Theory to the Nervous System” [Presented by Todd Coleman.]

Beckman Institute, 4pm Working Towards a Hate-Free Campus [Interactive tools to build awareness. Special presentation by the AntiDefamation League.] Allen Residence Hall, 7pm Protecting Freedoms in Champaign County Scott Tapley, a Champaign County Board member, will speak.] Urbana Free Library, 7pm, free “Discussion with Dada” [Dada Madhuvidyananda, a Yogic Monk, will present a lecture series on Eastern Thought and Practices.] Ananda Liina Yoga & Meditation Center, 7:30pm

Beirut A Hawk and a Handsaw Animal Hospital

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Independent Media Center, $10/$12 at the door

“Snatches of Conversation: Music of the Postwar Japanese Avant-Garde” [Featuring Rei Hotodda of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.] Music Building, 7:30pm “Social and Ethnic Conflict in Colonial Peru: A Historical Sociolinguistic Analysis” [Presented by Anna Maria Escobar, UIUC.] International Studies Building 12pm, free

this potluck. There will be a contest for the cutest, ugliest and oldest bear.

Bring a new small teddy or stuffed animal to donate to the Champaign Fire Department for distribution to a child who has been the victim of disaster.] Hays Recreation Center, 12pm, free

Film “Superman Returns” Virginia Theatre, 7pm, $3 IDF Film Series presents “Iraq For Sale” [This documentary is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war and takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Bob Naiman, the national coordinator for Just Foreign Policy, will be facilitating the discussion.] Illinois Disciples Foundation, 7pm

Live Bands Billy Galt Live at Blues BBQ Blues Barbecue, 11:30am Javelinas Cowboy Monkey 5:30pm, $2 Kaki King, Christine Baze Highdive, 7:30pm, $10 in advance/$12 Beirut, A Hawk and A Hacksaw, Animal Hospital Independent Media Center, 8pm, $10 Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 cover Ludo, Last Fast Action (formerly The Dog and Everything), The Year After Canopy Club 9pm, $5 Kilborn Alley Fat City Saloon 9pm, cover Lorenzo Goetz, The Pomonas Iron Post, 9pm, cover

Workshops Finding a Major that Fits Workshop Career Center, 3pm Recreation Lake of the Woods Field Trip [Phil Hult will lead a tour of the Buffalo Trace prairie restoration project at Lake of the Woods.] Anita Purves Nature Center, 7:30am

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Miscellaneous Japan House Tea Ceremony [Make a reservation for parties of two or more. Socks highly recommended.]

Japan House, 2pm, $5 per person Cafe Ivrit [Come have conversation all in Hebrew.]

Espresso Royale Café 6:30pm

BEIRUT The greatest accomplishment I’ve had as a 19-year-old thus far has been getting into campus bars with my own ID. For Zach Condon, the brain behind Beirut, the greatest thing he’s done with his last year of teenagedom was to release one of the best, critically acclaimed debuts of 2006.

It’s hard to believe that this piece of gypsy/folk/orchestral pop was created by a kid from New Mexico. A crooning voice a la Jens Lekman soars over beats and melodies that conjure visions of belly dancers and weird stringed instruments whose names are unpronounceable. Traveling with a crew of accordion pushers and horn blowers, his folk extravaganza will not only be unique but stunning as well.

Jeremy Barnes, Condon’s partner in crime, helped arrange and perform much of Beirut’s album and will also be performing with his band, A Hawk and a Handsaw. Barnes was a member of the indisputably best band ever, Neutral Milk Hotel, and his new project delves down similar depths.

A show with more instruments than a middle school marching band and more talent than a whole parade, the IMC in the heart of Urbana will be the place to be. This Friday will give you a chance to redeem yourself after dropping a 20 on the Everclear show last weekend. Don’t pretend it was an act of irony, you loved it.

—Brian McGovern

Meetings International Students Support Group [A forum for international students to offer and receive suppor t in the process of navigating their experiences at the University and in US culture.]

Student Ser vices Arcade Building 4:45pm Queer Women of Color [Provides a safe space and friendly environment for all LGBTQA women of color to share, listen, discuss and express themselves.] Illini Union, 9pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard [Apples, pumpkins, gourds, squash: both instore and pick-your-own.

Country store with specialty products and gift items, including butters, preserves, snacks and cider. Petting zoo, inflatable slides & corn maze.]

Curtis Orchard, 9am Seniors Teddy Bear Potluck [In addition to a dish to share, bring your favorite teddy bear to

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Concerts “Jonathan Keeble, flute with guests Johnathan Dee, Timothy McGovern, and Ann Yeung” [An eclectic myriad of works ranging from the flashy and fast, to the dark and despondent, to the humorous.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $2 students/$8 DBR & The Mission Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $15 students/$28

“Alien” (1979) [A mining ship, investigating an SOS, lands on a distant planet.]

Virginia Theatre, 7pm, $5 Film Series Gregory Hall 7pm, $2 UIUC ID/$3 Film Series Gregory Hall 9:30pm, $2 UIUC ID/$3 Sporting events Women’s Volleyball v. Ohio State Huff Hall, 7pm Illini Men’s Hockey vs. Oklahoma Ice Arena, 7pm Recreation Public Skate Ice Arena 11:15am Adult Rat Hockey Ice Arena, 3:15pm 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 Miscellaneous Miss Latina UIUC 2006 Illini Union, 7pm Illinites [Free prizes such as iPods, DVD sets and CDs, 25 cent Sbarro pizza, henna, stepper set, bull riding competition, karaoke and much more.] Illini Union, 9pm, free Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

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Lectures/Discussions “Self-Similarity: From Fractals to Splines” [Michael Unser, Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland hosts.] Beckman Institute, 11am “Writing a Life: Notes of a Doctor-Writer” [Presented by Cardiologist Dr. John Stone.]

Spurlock Museum, 7pm “Reinventing Environmental Justice: Neoliberal Nature and the Political Ecology of Social Justice” [Presented by Ken Salo, Asst. Prof. Natural Resources and Environmental Science.] University YMCA, 12pm

Live Bands Stanton McConnell [Live acoustic] Potbelly Sandwich Works, 5pm Prairie Dogs Hubers, 8pm no cover “Equal Marriage Illinois Benefit Concert” [Dawna Nelson & Peter Roubal (from the Impalas), Kayla Brown and Mike Ingram (from Darling Disarm) and Angie Heaton.] Independent Media Center, 8pm, $5 suggested donation Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 cover Chicago Afrobeat Project [Brings an eclectic blend of world-beat funk.] Canopy Club, 9pm Lowry, Bailey, Triple Whip Courtyard Cafe, 9pm, $5 Writers In The Round Mike ‘N Molly’s, 9:30pm G. Lee, Kate Hathaway, Megan Johns, Briana Mike ‘N Molly’s 9:30 p.m, $4 New Ruins, The Beauty Shop The Iron Post, 10pm Tossers, The Siderunners Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $10 The Beauty Shop, New Ruins, Bellcaster Iron Post 10pm, $5 Adam Wolfe [Live acoustic] Potbelly Sandwich Works, 12pm

Film National Depression Screening Day [Attendees will see an educational video on depression, complete a confidential written screening test, discuss the results with a mental health professional, and, if necessary, learn where to go for additional help.] Illini Union Ballroom A, 11am

Concerts “And That has Made all the Difference” [The Parkland Chorus, the Parkland Chamber Singers and the Metamora Junior High Chorus will be performing.]

Parkland College, 2:30pm donations accepted Luther College Concert Band Urbana Middle School, 7:30pm

DJ DJ Mertz Boltini Lounge 10pm, free DJ Stifler Highdive 10pm, $5 Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke American Legion Post 71 8pm, free

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venues Assembly Hall | First & Florida, Champaign 3335000 American Legion Post 24 | 705 W Bloomington, Champaign 356-5144 American Legion Post 71 | 107 N Broadway, Urbana 367-3121 Barfly | 120 N Neil, Champaign 352-9756 Boltini Lounge | 211 N Neil, Champaign 3788001 Boardman’s Art Theater | 126 W Church, Champaign 351-0068 The Brass Rail | 15 E University, Champaign 352-7512 The Canopy Club | 708 S Goodwin, Urbana 367-3140 Channing-Murray Foundation | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana CIVITAS | 112 Main St., Urbana The Courtyard | Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana 333-4666 Cowboy Monkey | 6 Taylor, Champaign 398-2688 Curtis Orchard | 3902 S Duncan, Champaign 359-5565 D.R. Diggers | 604 S Country Fair, Champaign 356-0888 Embassy Tavern & Grill | 114 S Race, Urbana 384-9526 Esquire Lounge | 106 N Walnut, Champaign 398-5858 Fallon’s Ice House | 703 N Prospect, Champaign 398-5760 Fat City Saloon | 505 S Chestnut, Champaign

DBR & The Mission Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 7:30pm, $15 students/$28 DJ DJ Tim Williams Highdive 10pm, $5 Dancing Intercollegiate Ballroom Dance Competition Illini Union, 9am UIUC students free/$5 Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, 9pm Festivals Martial Arts Festival [The arts stress form, function and aesthetics in their practice. Some of the demos will incorporate music as well as movement.] Krannert Art Museum, 1pm Great Moon Festival Gala [Showcase of cultural performances from both mainland China and other parts of the world, followed by mooncake appreciation ceremony and party.] Foellinger Auditorium, 7pm, free Lectures/Discussions “Economic Survival Skills for Artists with Beth Amsbary” [Beth Amsbary, a University Department of Theatre alum and writer/performer of this season’s performance of “Bones in the Building,” will be joined by local artists Nathaniel Banks, Jan

356-7100 The Great Impasta | 114 W Church, Champaign 359-7377 The Highdive | 51 Main, Champaign 359-4444 Huber’s | 1312 W Church, Champaign 352-0606 Illinois Disciples Foundation | 610 E Springfield, Champaign 352-8721 Independent Media Center | S. Broadway, Urbana 344-8820 The Iron Post | 120 S Race, Urbana 3377678 Jackson’s Ribs-n-tips | 116 N First, Champaign 355-2916 Joe’s Brewery | 706 S Fifth, Champaign 3841790 Krannert Art Museum | 500 E Peabody, Champaign 333-1861 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts | 500 S Goodwin, Urbana Tickets: 333-6280, 800-KCPATIX La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W Nevada, Urbana 333-4950 Lincoln Castle | 209 S Broadway, Urbana 344-7720 Mike ‘n Molly’s | 105 N Market, Champaign 355-1236 Nargile | 207 W Clark, Champaign The Office | 214 W Main, Urbana 344-7608 OPENSOURCE |12 E. Washington, Champaign http://opensource.boxwith. com Parkland College | 2400

W Bradley, Champaign 351-2528 Phoenix | 215 S Neil, Champaign 355-7866 Pia’s of Rantoul | Route 136 E, Rantoul 893-8244 Red Herring/Channing-Murray Foundation | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana 344-1176 Rose Bowl Tavern | 106 N Race, Urbana 367-7031 Springer Cultural Center | 301 N Randolph, Champaign 398-2376 Spurlock Museum | 600 S Gregory, Urbana, 333-2360 The Station Theatre | 223 N Broadway, Urbana 3844000 Strawberry Fields Cafe | 306 W Springfield, Urbana 328-1655 TK Wendl’s | 1901 S Highcross, Urbana 2555328 Chief’s | 123 S Mattis, Country Fair Shopping Center 359-2177 TRACKS | 116 N Chestnut, Champaign 762-8116 University YMCA | 1001 S Wright, Champaign 344-0721 URBANA CIVIC Center | 108 Water St., Urbana Verde/Verdant | 17 E Taylor, Champaign 366-3204 Virginia Theatre | 203 W Park Ave, Champaign 356-9053 White Horse Inn | 112 1/2 E Green, Champaign 352-5945 Zorba’s | 627 E Green, Champaign

Erkert and Sasha Rubel in a panel discussion about creative economy.]

Smith Memorial Hall 2pm, free Film “Alien” (1979) Virginia Theatre, 1pm, $5 Sporting events Illini Football vs. Ohio Memorial Stadium, 6pm $42/$24 Illini Men’s Hockey v. Oklahoma Ice Arena, 7pm Recreation Cosmic Bowling Illini Union Recreation Room, 8pm Fundraisers Champaign Public Library Bi-Annual Book Sale [Thousands of books available for $1 or less. Videos, DVDs and CDs also available for $1.50. All proceeds benefit Champaign Public Library.] JBJ Centre, 9am Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard [Live music, wagon rides, pony rides, mining for gems, kettle corn making and face painting.] Cur tis Orchard, 9am Martial Arts Festival Krannert Art Museum, 1pm Spanish Stor ytime [Enjoy stories, songs and activities.] Urbana Free Librar y, 2pm

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SUN. OCT 15 Live Bands Live Music at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 2pm Desafinado Urbana Free Library 2pm, free Denny Kay Curtis Orchard 2pm, free Angie Heaton, Kayla Brown, G. Lee Highdive, 5pm, $5 The Evens University YMCA 7pm Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover Hotter Than June, Victorian Falls, What For, Call The Medic Canopy Club, 9pm, $7 Tossers, The Siderunners Cowboy Monkey, 9:30pm, $10 Concerts “University Philharmonia with Louis Bergonzi conducting” Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 3pm, $2 students/$8 Marching Illini in Concert Assembly Hall, 3pm, $7 in advance/$9 Dancing UC Hip Hop Congress [Come to practice/learn from our team members.] Allen Residence Hall, 2pm Sporting events Women’s Volleyball v. Penn State Huff Hall, 1pm Fundraisers Champaign Public Library Bi-Annual Book Sale JBJ Centre, 9am BACHtoberfest XI [A traditional Oktoberfest with Bavarian beer, brats, wine tasting, live

MONEY IS BETTER THAN POVERTY, IF ONLY FOR FINANCIAL REASONS. oompah music and German delicacies with a silent auction. Afterwards, enjoy an effervescent concert of Vivaldi concertos presented by the BACH orchestra and conductor Chester Alwes.]

Urbana Golf and Country Club, 6:30pm, $50 Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am Pumpkinpalooza [Games and other activities, plus craft vendors, demonstrations, hayrack rides, a scarecrow-building contest, food and pumpkins and gourds for sale.] Allerton Park, free

MON. OCT 16 Live Bands Michael Davis Bentley’s Pub, 7pm Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey 10pm, free ghost Weft 90.1 FM 10:30pm, free DJ DJ Delayney [Hip-Hop/Soul] Barfly, 10pm Lectures/Discussions Women @ Work: a series of professional lectures [Featuring Dr. Suzanne Trupin, OB/GYN and CEO of the Women’s Health Practice and UIUC faculty from the College of Medicine.] Medical Sciences Building, 7pm AASRP Brown Bag [David Goldberg, AASRP Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow will speak.]

African-American Studies Building, 12pm

Workshops Library Online Catalog Workshops Undergraduate LIbrary, 1pm Comedy DeBono Improv Comedy Troupe Courtyard Cafe, 9pm, free Meetings Colors of Pride Meeting [A safe space and friendly environment for all LGBT students of color to share, listen, discuss and express themselves.] Illini Union, 8pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

TUE. OCT 17 Live Bands Billy Galt Live at Blues BBQ Blues Barbecue, 11:30am Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover The Appleseed Cast Canopy Club, 9pm Elsinore Canopy Club 11:30pm, free Concerts Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company [Combines powerful dance, colorful costumes and engaging rhythms.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7pm, $30-$32 DJ DJs Hoff and Bambino [Hard Rock/Punk] Mike ‘N Molly’s 10pm DJ Tremblin BG Barfly, 10pm

DJ TwinScin, DJ Evily Highdive 10pm, $2 DJ Delayney Cowboy Monkey 10pm, free Chris O Boltini Lounge 10:30pm, no cover Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s 9pm Karaoke with Randy Miller Bentley’s Pub, 9:30pm, free Lectures/Discussions “Corn, Community and Tales of Delightful Growth” [Presented by the University YMCA featuring Beth Amsbary, UI Department of Theatre Alum.]

University YMCA, 12pm “Israeli Writers Reflect on War and Army Service” [Gail Hareven presents.] Foreign Languages Building, 12pm Workshops Finding a Major that Fits Workshop Career Center, 7pm Recreation Red Pin Tuesdays Illini Union Recreation Room, 6:30pm Meetings Women’s Support Group [A support group for female students who have experienced sexual assualt/abuse within a relationship.] Women’s Studies House, 6:30pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

WED. OCT 18 Live Bands Irish Traditional Music Session Bentley’s Pub, 7pm Ryan Groff (of Elsinore) Silvercreek Restaurant, 7:30pm free Fuedin’ Hillbilly’s Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover Michael David Fat City Saloon 9pm, free Chef Ra’s Reggae Cowboy Monkey, 10:30pm, free DJ DJ Stifler Highdive, 8pm, free Chef Ra [Roots/Reggae] Barfly 10pm DJ Bozak Boltini Lounge 10:30pm, free

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SubUrbia [In a parking lot of a mini-mall convenience store in suburban USA, three men in their twenties, Jeff, Buff and Tim, talk trash, harass the Pakistani store owner and revel in their old high school glory days while drinking beer, getting high and eating Oreos. The arrival of an old high school chum, who has become semi-famous fronting for a superstar rock band, stirs up anger and jealousy within the group that ends with violence and absurdity. As the next day dawns, some of them have found their way out while the others are left to deal with the tragedy that could have been any of them. By Eric Bogosian and directed by Jason McCain.] Station Theatre through Oct. 14 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 Side Park, painting, drawing and writing works that are meditations on human life tinged with humor and a selfproclaimed “cosmic consciousness.”]

Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 15 Tournées French Film Festival [The Tournées Festival was conceived to encourage schools to begin their own self-sustaining French film festivals.

Since its inception, the program has partnered with hundreds of universities and made it possible for more than 250,000 students to discover Frenchlanguage films. The University of Illinois in cooperation with Parkland College and Boardman’s Art Theatre will present the film festival.] Boardman’s Art Theatre, Oct. 13 through Oct. 19

Karaoke U of I Idol Competition with Live Karaoke Band [Participants wanted.] Canopy Club, 9pm

First Call For Help connects families and individuals in need of help to many community resources, such as financial assistance, emergency food assistance and shelter, affordable housing, abuse/neglect, child care, disability, employment, health/medical care, mental health and more. Using a carefully maintained, comprehensive database, First Call assists clients (and those organizations working to help them) to obtain proper help in a timely fashion. Volunteers are needed to assist with updating information for the database, deliver bundles of Help Books to local agencies, assist with follow-up phone calls and work on typing and stuffing envelopes. This is an ongoing opportunity and only requires one day a week, Monday through Friday.

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Into the Mystic 2006 [Spirituality and its expression has been connected to artistic expression throughout history.

Whether the expression is individual or through organized religion, art and music are an integral part of the communication of religious and spiritual symbols and ideology.]

Verde Gallery through Oct. 21 Touch and Circumstance: New Ceramic Work by Malcolm Mobutu Smith [Solo exhibition of ceramic work

by Malcolm Mobutu Smith, an assistant professor at the University of Indiana. His studio interests include both ceramics and drawing.

His clay work is inspired in equal part by archetypal vessel forms, the varied intersections of line and form, letterform, graffiti and jazz. In addition, Smith pulls from traditional sources of the figure and landscape. His current bodies of work are following a theme he calls Rigmarole, involving cup-like vessels that play with graphic cloud images, graffiti and his African American spirit.] Parkland Art Gallery through Oct. 26 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

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FEATURED EVENTS The Spirit of Fès Marquee Uniting the sounds and souls of the world’s diverse religions in order to build bridges between faiths, this Fès Festival of World Sacred Music tour seeks “Paths to Hope” as it features artists from three Abrahamic faiths—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism: vocalists Aruna Sairam and Susan Hellauer (a long-time member of Anonymous 4), percussionist Jamey Haddad, singer Gerard Edery and oudist Zafer Tawil, and The Daqqa of Taroudant, an all-male Sufi music and dance group.

Friday-Saturday, October 20-21 at 7:30pm Tryon Festival Theatre Flex: $24 / SC & Stu 19 / UI & Yth 14 Single: $26 / SC & Stu 21 / UI & Yth 16 Endowed Sponsor Emily and James Gillespie Estate IPRH Curtain Call Discussion: Lobby, following the October 21 performance, free Mass

By Leonard Bernstein Eduardo Diazmuñoz, conductor James Zager, director John Dayger, choreographer School of Music Opera Program Based on the Roman Catholic Mass from the point of view of a celebrant in a crisis of faith, Bernstein’s Mass reflects the composer’s eclectic genius and his exuberant love of humanity.

More than 200 performers—including an orchestra, a rock-blues-jazz combo, choirs, vocal soloists, dancers, and quadraphonic tapes—from the U of I Music, Dance, and Theatre programs collaborate to bring this production to life in celebration of the College of Fine and Applied Arts’ 75th anniversary.

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Economic Survival Skills for Artists with Beth Amsbary 2pm, free (ticket required)

Know Your University Lecture Series: Beth Amsbary 12pm, free

Smith Memorial Hall, Room 25 805 S. Matthews, Urbana

University YMCA 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

Beth Amsbary: Bones of the Building: The Biography of a Dream Home 7:30pm, $10-$22

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Arnaldo Cohen, piano 7:30pm, $10-$35 Patron Sponsors Elizabeth SandageMussey and Robert Mussey Patron Co-sponsors David Sansone Susan and Victor Stone James Russell Vaky Anonymous

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Batsheva Dance Company 7:30pm, $14-$32

Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company 7pm, $14-$32

DBR & THE MISSION 7:30pm, $13-$28

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Art in Conversation with Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) 5pm, free Creative Intersections Sponsor

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Jonathan Keeble, flute 7:30pm, $2-$8

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Beth Amsbary Bones of the Building: The Biography of a Dream Home 7:30pm, $10-$22

DBR & THE MISSION 7:30pm, $13-$28

UI Philharmonia 3pm, $2-$8

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DBR & THE MISSION 7:30pm, $13-$28

Th Oct 19 Krannert Uncorked with Jane Boxall, marimba 5pm, free The Lark 7:30pm, $6-$13

Patron Co-sponsors Alice and Donald Dodds Corporate Silver Sponsor

Saturday-Sunday, October 21-22 at 3pm Foellinger Great Hall Flex: $20 / SC & Stu 18 / UI & Yth 8 Single: $22 / SC & Stu 20 / UI & Yth 10

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Marquee performances are supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council— a state agency which recognizes Krannert Center in its Partners in Excellence Program.

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Dancing with Tere O’Connor

The University of Illinois dance department welcomes Tere O’Connor, world-renowned teacher and choreographer, to their faculty.

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n a society where most people are trying to “fit in” somewhere, there is always someone who praises individuality and strives to find it in what he or she does.

This is not uncommon among artists, who use this sort of thinking to create a body of work and, they hope, a career as a result. One such person is the newest addition to the University’s dance program, Tere O’Connor.

“I would have never made it in an office-type situation. I’m so glad that I have been able to find this individualized lifestyle, that allows me to make a career out of dance. I can do what I do without having to deal with those linear structures that would have made this sort of thing difficult,” Mr. O’Connor said.

O’Connor is beginning his work at the University within the next year, where he is part of a specialized program that a l lows h im to stay in Champaign and teach current students on campus, and then live in New York City in the spring to be a professional liaison for undergraduates in New York. Th is not on ly benefits the students, but the teacher as well.

For t he pa st 2 5 ye a r s , O’Connor has choreographed for t he Lyon s Oper a Ba llet and a new solo piece for Mikhal Baryshnikov, and has taught at universities such as N YU, Ohio State, Arizona S t a t e Un i ve r s it y a nd t he Un iver s it y of M i n ne sot a .

He has become one of the most sought-after teachers/ choreographers for modern dance in a professional and student setting because of this and has since created his own company in New York City. After being so successful on the East Coast, one would f ind it strange for O’Connor to come to the Midwest for teaching, but he believes otherwise.

“The members of the dance department and I have very similar ideas about what needs to be done, and what needs to change in a university setting in relation to dance. I’ve done some projects here in the past, and I feel that this is a strong and intense department.

I also find that they are really respectful of artists, by allowing me to work with my company and conduct my own research for the second semester. Not many universities really allow that sort of thing to happen,” O’Connor said. The Midwest is really not a problem for him, he says, because “the Internet has seemed to really widen people’s perspectives, regardless of where they live. Now you can live in a really small town and have a really big idea of the world, because there isn’t a need to travel everywhere anymore.”

Just as important to O’Connor as working in places other than the East Coast is the interaction between the professional choreog rapher and the undergraduate dancer.

“I think as a choreographer, it is important to me to teach also, because it gives me an opportunity to work with the younger generation. They are the ones who are beginning to shape the world, and their views and experiences are very important to my art. It gives me another way to see the world.”

Although O’Connor has yet to begin his tenure at the University, there is quite a bit of excitement surrounding O’Connor’s inf luence on the department for students and faculty alike.

“I am really excited to hear that he’s teaching. He’s going to be a great contact after we graduate, and he just brings so many new ideas to student dancers,” says Kim McCarthy, a sophomore in the dance program.

Professor Sara Hook, Interim Head of the Dance Department couldn’t agree with McCarthy more: “Having O’Connor on faculty here will serve to help make ChampaignUrbana a top destination for intelligent young artists; we will be viewed in the field as more than a reliably excellent training ground, but rather a vital center of innovative contemporary thought and practice.”

Tere O’Connor’s love and achievement of individuality, from his work to his life, is already being felt on campus, and will without a doubt continue for the rest of his time here.

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Tere O’Connor Most Recent Choreographing Achievements: A solo piece for Mikhail Baryshnikov named Indoor Man, and a new piece for the Lyons Opera Ballet in France.

Teaching Background: Ballet instructor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Artist-In-Residence at Ohio State University, Movement Research Studio in NYC, University of Minnesota and many others.

Company: Tere O’Connor Dance Company in New York City.

Project In The Works: Rammed Earth, a piece focusing on the exploration and breaking down of walls through dance.

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tarting this Friday, Oct. 13, the University of Illinois and Parkland College will help host the TournĂŠes French Film Festival at Boardmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Theatre in downtown Champaign.

The event is being made possible with grants from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French American Cultural Exchange, or FACE. The programs sponsor TournĂŠes Film Festivals at universities and colleges across the nation in order to help encourage students to explore French cinema outside the classroom.

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Maggie Flinn, an assistant professor for the departments of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, helped organize the festival.

She said the University and Parkland decided to put on the event â&#x20AC;&#x153;to promote French film and French culture.â&#x20AC;? Some professors have decided to use the festival to their advantage and are using the films as

Friday 10/13 7:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Little Jerusalem Introduced by Prof. Brett Kaplan, UIUC Comparative & World Literature 9:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clean Saturday 10/14 1:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mondovino 5:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Far Side of the Moon 7:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kings and Queen 10:15pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Side Sunday 10/15 1:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Little Jerusalem 3:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Far Side of the Moon 5:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Side 7:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clean 9:45pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mondovino Monday 10/16 4:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kings and Queen 7:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Far Side of the Moon 9:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clean According to Flinn, Boardmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Theatre and Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rentertainment â&#x20AC;&#x153;basically keep foreign and independent film alive in our community, [and] itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that students go to these businesses.â&#x20AC;? While French films can be rented at any time at Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rentertainment, Boardmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Theatre is offering multiple screenings of each film previously mentioned for one week.

Tuesday 10/17 5:15pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Little Jerusalem 7:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Side 9:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kings and Queen Wednesday 10/18 4:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mondovino 7:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Little Jerusalem 9:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Side Thursday 10/19 4:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kings and Queen 7:30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clean Introduced by Prof. Nancy Blake, UIUC Comparative & World Literature 9:45pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Far Side of the Moon

Film S chedule prov ided by Margaret C. F linn. For a full scheudle of f ilm introductions and post-film discussions, check out www.readbuzz.com This is an enriching and rare opportunity to view French cinema and learn more about French culture. Tickets sell fast, so get yours now.

The TournĂŠes French Film Festival runs from Friday, Oct. 13 to Thursday, Oct. 19. Dates and times for specific films can be found online at www. boardmansarttheatre.com. The event is open to the public and tickets can be bought in advance either in person, at Boardmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Theatre or online.

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This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival will include six recent films that were initially released in France. They are all in their original language with English subtitles. Two of the films are multilingual.

The first, Clean, has a mix of French, English and Chinese inf luences. The lead character, Emily (Maggie Cheung), spends six months in prison after she is charged with possession. Upon release, she is determined to get her son back by coming â&#x20AC;&#x153;clean.â&#x20AC;? The second multilingual film is Mondovino and was filmed in France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil and the United States over a period of three years. It is a documentary about the production of wine and the conflicts and alliances that arise from it.

La Petite Jerusalem (Little Jerusalem), Rois et Reine (Kings and Queen), La Face Cachee de la Lune (The Far Side of the Moon) and Wild Side are the four other films being shown. These films are not multilingual, but have just as much to offer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit of something for everyone within the realm of six films,â&#x20AC;? Filnn said. The Far Side of the Moon is in QuĂŠbĂŠcois and is a quirky, funny film about two brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reconciliation.

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I suppose many men under the age of 25 have wondered who that gal is dancing to the AC/ DC tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back in Blackâ&#x20AC;? in the new GAP Keep it Simple television commercial. Those older, and those interested in Donald Spotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compelling new biography Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn, will know she was one of Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most elegant and likable stars. Audrey Hepburn was the icon of chic and starred in some of the most romantic films of the 1950s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s: Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Two for the Road.

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In this age of cinematic unoriginality, defined almost exclusively by sequels and remakes, you know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on to something when you sit down to watch a prequel to a remake. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, director Jonathan Liebesman has created something of an anomaly. The fi lm lives up to its title by providing one gruesome execution after another. The problem with this bloodbath, though, is that it is not frightening.

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Ermey). Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the story of the slaughterers. Now, on to the slaughtered.

On one last fl ing before making their tour of Vietnam, brothers Dean (Taylor Handley) and Eric (Matthew Bomer) take their girlfriends on a road trip. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about all we learn of the foursome before they are taken victim to the torture, that only Hoyt and Leatherface can truly deliver.

The details are only for those with strong stomachs and short attention spans.

Too many horror directors, producers and writers have somehow reached the unfortunate conclusion that watching people die is scary. The creators of these films are right to think that such a concept could be scary, but a horror movie canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t survive on murders alone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just as an action movie canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t survive on action alone.

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Shepherd, however, f inds the right blend of humor, creepiness and cockiness to play the nasty Vince. It is fun to watch this cast, even if you know where the plot is going.

I never expected this movie to be comically ambitious â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t marketed that way, and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect it to be on par with something as original as Anchorman. However unoriginal, EOTM follows its formula well, and offers some good laughs from its supporting characters, who contribute a whole star to this movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rating.

Dane Cook isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only funny guy in Employee of the Month; the cast is full of comic geniuses. The ones pictured here (left to right) are Andy Dick, Dane Cook, Brian George I and Harland Williams.

Mar t in Scorsese impresses w ith h is latest action-packed crime thriller, The Departed, w it h a n a l l- st a r c a st st a r r i n g L e on a rdo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson.

It is the story of two Boston cops, on different sides of the law with different identities from everyone surrounding them.

DiCaprio is an undercover cop â&#x20AC;&#x201D; known to only two men in the world â&#x20AC;&#x201D; infiltrating Irish mafia boss Frank Costello (Nicholson), while Damon is Costelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s man in the state police department heading investigations on Costello and providing protection. Once it becomes apparent that there are rats on each side, it becomes a heart-pounding film, with the police and mafia doing everything in their power to find and dispose of the rats.

Scorsese is incredibly clever at showing multiple charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stories within the film, all surrounding the intense nature of the state police trying to bring down one man. The acting is topnotch, showing the fast paced and dangerous lives of the characters often living in constant fear.

There is always a sense that someone is going to get caught, yet there are continuously little loopholes out of the situations.

The whole story and film practically surrounds the aura of Nicholson.10/2/06 He plays a7:42 chilling YUT06CHMa.qxd AMvillain, Page that commands the screen and brings intensity to

the film. His charisma and character brings a unique look into the world of a crime boss and everything that comes with that form of power.

It would not be a Scorsese film without a little blood, and The Departed is no exception. As identities are revealed and trust is questioned, bloodshed ensues. The last 30 minutes will keep audiencesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eyes glued to the screen when everything falls apart and comes together at the same time.

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I have seen Employee of the Month before, except that last time Adam Sandler starred, and the movie was about playing golf instead of working for perks at Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club. Not to compare the two movies, but they had similar plots with the same slacker-protagonists, villainous over-achievers and screwy supporting players. Predictable the whole way through, this f ilm was just another formulaic exercise going through the motions of a standard comedy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as if we really need one. I guess Dane Cook does, at least to begin his transition from stand-up comedy to Hollywood movies.

Directed by Greg Coolidge, EOTM is a safe little B-movie test-vehicle for Cook, who as the lazy Zack spends the movie competing with fellow worker Vince for the title of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Employee of the Month.â&#x20AC;? Throw in Jessica Simpson for eye-candy, spice it up with a few older comedians and voila â&#x20AC;&#x201D; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got yourself a standard comedy.

Surprisingly, Cook isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the funniest man in the picture. The supporting cast, including Andy Dick, Harland Williams and Tim Bagley and Danny Woodburn as two brother-executives cleverly named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glen Garyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glen Ross,â&#x20AC;? steal the show from Dane, who is reduced to playing the straight man. In this PG-13 movie, there is little room for Cook to break out into his trademark of crude stand-up humor. Dax

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Born in 1945, Lloyd Kaufman is an independent American film director, producer and documentarian.Along with Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment, the longest-running independent movie studio in the history of film. Mr. Kaufman has produced various cult classics such as The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo & Juliet and Terror Firmer. In addition to his film credits, Llyod has released three novels: All I Needed To Know About Filmmaking I Learned FromTheToxic Avenger, Make Your Own Damn Movie! and TheToxic Avenger: The Novel. He is currently in post-production for his latest film, Poultrygeist. Despite having never broken into the “mainstream,” Lloyd Kaufman remains an important and influential figure in American cinema.

What is it about independent film attracts you?

The auteur theory of filmmaking.

The idea being, that the art of film requires that the f ilmmaker be in control of the film. That’s art — when the soul of the maker is infused into the object. I quickly understood that if I was to have total control over my art, I would have to be independent. I knew I would have to stay out of the mainstream.

Do you have a favorite Troma movie?

Poultrygeist. It’s not finished, but I think it’s my best film.

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Poultrygeist star ted when a McDonald’s moved in next door.

We found rats in the building shortly after and we never had them before McDonald’s moved in. So I quickly started to hate McDonald’s, and then began to hate the whole world of fast food because of a book called Fast Food Nation. Then one of our supervising editors suggested that we make a satire of the fast food business. Poultrygeist grew from there; it’s a satire about the evils of the fast Movie Poster for one of Kaufman’s cult classics, The Toxic food business. It’s about a fast food Avenger, part one in the Toxic Avenger Quadrilogy. chicken establishment that is built on an ancient Indian graveyard. The spirits from the was pretty rude. And then he has the nerve to try slaughtered chickens and the spirits of the slaughtered and make a Troma-like movie called Snakes on a Indians meld together and come up into the fast-food Plane. And it flopped. It was a huge flop. You can’t restaurant and create Poultrygeist. There’s some sing- manufacture a cold film. They tried to buy their way into our world. What he should have done was ing and dancing in the movie too! get together with us and say “Here’s what I want You’ve given many actors and directors their to do,” but instead they started drinking their own starts: James Gunn, Kevin Costner, Matt Stone wine and making shit. Hollywood always tries to and Trey Parker, etc. Is there a sense of indebtbuy its way in and it rarely works. edness there? What kind of relationship do you have with these actors and directors now that they’ve broken into the mainstream?

Eli Roth’s pretty cool. He’s a Troma fan. He recommended Poultrygeist to the Toronto Film Festival. James Gunn put me in Slither ... and paid me. But most of these guys don’t give a fuck. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are nice to us too. I’ve acted in one of their films (Orgazmo).

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Are there any actors or directors who have broken into the mainstream who you have a bad relationship with? People who are complete assholes or someone who ignores that they started out in a Troma film?

Not really, but I always felt bad that Samuel L. Jackson didn’t do anything for Troma. We put up the money for one of his first movies, Def By Temptation. It couldn’t have been made without our money, but he went on one of those talk shows and they brought up Def By Temptation and rather than say “Hey, that was a cool low budget movie,” he kind of ridiculed us and dismissed us and I thought that

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Of the Toxic Avenger quadrilogy, which is your favorite?

Well, it would be a tie between the f irst and the fourth. The f irst one obviously had some kind of magic and it has a life of its own. Something we did, that was to some ex tent acc ident a l. Somet h i ng m ade t h at movie famous. There’s still kids today going to conventions and just discovering the Toxic Avenger for the f irst time and it was made before they were even born. There’s some kind of chemistry in that film, that I wasn’t aware of when I made it. However, with Citizen Toxie [the fourth f ilm], I tried to make a much more profound movie. I think it’s a better movie.

It’s got a lot more going on. There’s more ambition and courage risk-taking with Citizen Toxie. But the original is a classic. I can’t really decide which one I like best.

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hat comes to mind when you think of leather?

Possibly images of James Dean, 1950s greasers, cowboys, punk rockers, Madonna, metal heads, hustlers, pimps, bikers with leather chaps, caps and cuffs … it seems leather has universal sex appeal.

Perhaps part of leather’s timeless and expansive popularity has to do with its versatility. It can be soft like a second skin, or buffed to a shine; it can be tanned into an array of colors and is always available in classic black.

Leather is worn by soldiers in uniform as well as misfits and outlaws — and can easily be incorporated into just about any sexual fantasy.

And speaking of the sexual, in addition to costumes, leather makes for some fantastic props including whips, bondage gear, harnesses, slings, riding crops and many BDSM (bondage discipline / dominance submission / sadism masochism) “tools of the trade.” And just to clear up any potential confusion, being a leather enthusiast does not necessarily mean you’re into BDSM or vice versa.

Leather enthusiasts may be into leather for any number of reasons, including those listed above, or countless others. We’re no experts on the leather community but we do know that it’s very diverse and it’s growing all the time. We decided to share a bit of leather history with ya’ll this week. Enjoy!

The 1950s were characterized by suburbanization and the phenomenon of “white-picketfence” communities inhabited by Valium-sedated housewives and husbands recently returned from military service.

Some gay men looking for an alternative to this white-bread lifestyle created their own communities. A subculture of (mostly gay) men into leather, called leathermen, was forming and gaining popularity, but remained largely underground. However, it had enough members that the first leather bar opened in Chicago in 1958 under the name The Gold Coast.

The ’60s saw the birth of leather chaps and a liberalization of the more puritan views enforced in the ’50s. Gay people were tired of being persecuted for their sexual expression and were on the front lines of the battle for sexual liberation. The Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969 paved the way for many people to “come out of the closet” including folks in the leather community, gay, straight and bi-sexual.

Leather culture started to explode in the 1970s.

In ’72 The Leatherman’s Handbook was published and met with instant popularity among many gay men who had been seeking a connection to the underground leather culture. This now classic book served as an introduction to gay leathersex, leather culture, etiquette and techniques.

By this time there were many men and women involved in the flourishing leather community,

but a couple stand out as helping to shape the iconic image of the big, buff leatherman.

We particularly like the art of Tom of Finland (www.tomoffinland.com) that depicts “proud men having happy sex” often wearing leather.

1972 was also the year Nights in Black Leather, starring the legendary gay porn icon Peter Berlin, played to packed theaters.

The Leather Pride Flag was developed by Tony DeBlase and first presented to the public at the International Mr. Leather contest in 1989. It consists of horizontal alternating black and blue lines, with a white line in the center. In the top left corner (where the stars would be if it was a USA flag) there is a big red heart — check out Wikipedia for an image.

Don’t ask us what the colors and graphics of this flag mean, because the artist said “I will leave it to the viewer to interpret the colors and symbols.”

Today you’ll see this f lag f lown outside of leather clubs in most major cities and at gay pride events. The leather flag is not an explicitly gay symbol and there are loads of straight folks in the leather community. However, many members of the gay community have played a key role in shaping the history of leather, and many leather bars are supported by gay men.

San Francisco celebrates the last week of September as “Leather Pride Week,” which culminates in the Folsom Street Fair. This event, attended by people from across the globe, and sanctioned by the city mayor, is a great example of the diversity within the leather community.

Leather enthusiasts are known for throwing some of the most creative charity events. At this year’s Folsom Street Fair, participants could partake in a public “spanking for charity” and in all, the Fair raised more than $250,000.

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The first Leatherman contest was held in Chicago in 1979, with over 400 people attending.

The 2007 International Mr. Leather contest will take place in Chicago May 24 to 28. Go to www.imrl.com for more information.

Next time you’re up in the Windy City, head over to the Leather Archives & Museum, 6418 N. Greenview Ave., to check out the history, archives and memorabilia of leather.

How do you interpret the meaning of the colors and symbols of the leather pride flag? Send Kim & Kate your interpretations: riceandruin@yahoo.com

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free will astrology OCT.12 — OCT. 18 ARIES

March 21 – April 19

According to the Midwest Book Review, David Foster Wallace’s 1,088-page book Infinite Jest is “perhaps the most innovative novel in the English language since James Joyce’s Ulysses.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction calls Infinite Jest a vast comic epic, adding that it’s “so brilliant you need sunglasses to read it.” On the other hand, critic Dan Schneider (Cosmoetica.com) believes Infinite Jest “might be the worst novel ever written.”

I expect that there will be a similar diversity of opinion about you and your efforts in the coming week, Aries. My advice?

Ignore everyone’s assessment but your own and that of the person who knows you best.

T A U RU S

April 20 – May 20

Roy Rivenburg writes in the *L.A. Times* that there has recently been a rash of mannequin assaults. He cites four people who have been struck by falling dummies while shopping in clothes stores. For example, one victim was hit in the head by a mannequin’s arm when a clerk tried to remove its shirt.

I mention this for two reasons, Taurus. First, the planets are aligned in such a way as to suggest that you could, if you’re not careful, get in a tangle with a doll, statue, puppet, robot, or scarecrow in the coming week. Second, you should minimize your interactions with anyone whose expression never changes, whose behavior seems mechanical, or whose actions seem controlled by someone else.

GEMINI

May 21 – June 20

Growing up in Montreal, musician Rufus Wainwright was steeped in the mystique of that city’s legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen. As a young adult, Wainwright finally got to meet Cohen.

The great man’s daughter brought him to her family’s home. To Wainwright’s surprise, Cohen was in his underwear in the kitchen cooking up tiny sausages, which he was chewing, regurgitating, and feeding to a weak baby bird he had found and was trying to revive. I predict that you’ll soon have a comparable experience, Gemini: A revered source of magic and myth will confound your fantasies in a poignant and delightful way. You may even cry with amazement and laugh with mournful bliss. (Thanks to the film I’m Your Man for Wainwright’s story.)

CANCER

June 21 – July 22

“It’s my job to be emotional,” rock music goddess Bjork told Nylon magazine. “Doctors cure diseases and shoemakers make shoes. It’s my job to go through emotions and describe them to other people.” By my astrological reckoning, this is also an apt description of the role you should play in the coming weeks, my fellow Cancerian. It’s a perfect time for you to commune with every feeling on your vast palette, as well as to add some new colors and textures you’ve never imagined before. One more piece of advice: As you express the richness of your inner world to interested parties, be artistic and entertaining, never self-indulgent or sloppy.

LEO

July 23 – Aug. 22

Here’s some advice I bet you won’t get from any other astrologer, therapist, or counselor: Get ungrounded for a while. You heard me, Leo. Detach from your moorings. Sail up into the stratosphere and exult in having your head in the clouds. Be dreamy and floaty and airy-fairy (except when driving or operating heavy machinery, of course). For best results, you might also want to throw off your chains.

VIRGO

Aug. 23 – Sept. 22

LIBRA

Sept. 23 – Oct.22

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

Medical researchers have discovered an innovative technique for fighting brain cancer: radioactive scorpion venom. Injected into tumors, it attacks the malignancy with remarkable efficiency. I mention this, Scorpio, because it’s a good metaphor for an opportunity that’s now presenting itself to you. If invoked and applied in small doses, a normally toxic part of your Scorpio nature can catalyze a breakthrough that will lead to a deep healing.

This would be a perfect moment to fly to Afghanistan and volunteer to play with refugee children whose mothers are suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. It would also be an excellent time to bring vitality and wisdom to a dispute among your family members that’s challenging for you to deal with. In fact, pretty much anything you do to help people who are difficult to help would, in ways impossible to foresee, energize your own ambitions. Being a humble, selfless saint for a while would turn out to be a tremendous spur to your personal goals.

My Hollywood spies tell me that one of the new products placed in the gift bags for the celebrities at the Emmy Awards show was Oxyfresh’s Pet Oral Hygiene Solution, a breath-freshening spray for dogs, cats, monkeys, and other beloved animals. It would be a good week, astrologically speaking, for you to obtain this product for the creatures in your life. More than that, though, it will also be a favorable time for you to scout out promotional opportunities for your own unique product or talent. How can you get your specialty into the hands of ripe prospects who don’t know about it yet?

King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) was deposed after being designated as insane by a team of psychiatrists. Among the evidence they cited as proof that Ludwig was crazy were his blueprints for a flying vehicle that would resemble a peacock.

In recent months, however, a German engineer named Dalibor Karacic has examined Mad King Ludwig’s plans and declared that they are feasible. The steam-powered peacock would have indeed been capable of flight. Ludwig, says Karacic, was ahead of his time. Take heart from this correction, Aquarius. If you relentlessly nurture your faith in your frontier ideas--notions that others might call fairy tales--you will ultimately be vindicated.

PISCES

Feb. 19 – March 20

Your addiction is obstructing you from your destiny, and yet it’s also your ally. How can both be true? On the downside, your addiction diverts your energy from a deeper desire that it superficially resembles. For instance, if you’re an alcoholic, your urge to get loaded is probably an inferior substitute for and a poor imitation of your buried longing to commune with spiritual mysteries. On the upside, your addiction is also your ally, because it dares you to get strong and smart enough to wrestle free of its grip on you; it pushes you to summon the fierce willpower necessary to defeat the darkness within you that would obstruct you from your destiny. (P.S. Don’t tell me you have no addictions. Each of us is addicted to some sensation, feeling, thought, or action, if not to an actual substance.)

Homework: Test this hypothesis - The answer to your most pressing question will come within 72 hours after you do a ritual in which you ask for clarity. Go to http://realastrology. com and click on “Email Rob.”

Astute salesmen from the British store Fortnum & Mason took full advantage of the Crimean War back in the 1850s. They sold picnic lunches to officers who were leading the battles at the siege of Sebastapol on the Black Sea coast. In the coming weeks, Virgo, you too can capitalize on a conflict you’re not directly involved in. For best results, make sure you don’t get caught in the crossfire. Cultivate neutrality, doing absolutely nothing to feed the flames of hostility. Ply your skills and offer your services with impeccable timing, slipping in and out with understated efficiency during lulls in the uproar.

You’re renowned for your balancing acts, Libra. Seeing both sides of every story is your specialty. Striving to make opposites attract is an inclination you were born to cultivate. You may not always be in the mood to fight for harmony, and you may not always succeed at maintaining equilibrium, but you work harder at these fine arts than any other sign of the zodiac. Having said all that, though, I will now advise you to rebel against your usual shtick. It’s time for you to try out a new unbalancing act-to go to extremes without worrying about covering your ass.

The cosmos is giving you permission to be unapologetically vivacious and mischievously blunt as you say, “It’s my way or the highway.” (P.S. You might want to study the style of your Aries acquaintances.)

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MONICA BETEL Designer LIKES 1) Midterms are over: I was going crazy with work last week.

It’s nice to get a little breathing room.

2) Weather: T he weather’s been so nice lately! I know it’s going to get cold soon but that’s not too bad since I get to break out my awesome winter coats.

3) Having visitors: It’s so much fun to hang out with someone different every now and then and visitors are perfect for that. My best friend visited this week and next week my parents are coming — I can’t wait!

MEGHAN WHALEN Copy Chief GRIPES 1) The beef indus tr y: Reading “Fast Food Nation” has turned me off of McDonald’s hamburgers — a feat I previ ously thought impossible. My Quarter Pounder has what in it?! Ew. 2) Famous -for- being-famous celebrities: Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Kristin Cavallari — the list seems ever-increasing. Didn’t you used to have to ac tually do something to become a big deal?

3) Crocs: Why these shoes became popular is a mystery beyond my comprehension. Ill-fitting, blindingly colorful and looking good on absolutely no one, these are hands-down the fugliest shoes I’ve ever seen.

ERIN SCOTTBERG Editor in Chief LIKES 1) The night staf f at Perkins: Perkins is the best place to study, hands - down. Lack of Internet access theoretically keeps your head in your book and the night manager and waitresses are always there to keep you focused on the task at hand and your coffee pot filled — oh yeah, they give you your own pot. They’ll even seat you at an outlet if need be. Thanks, Perkins, for helping me cram for exams.

2) Caffe Paradiso: Usually I get stir- crazy studying somewhere for more than a few hours, but I can spend eight-hours or more at Paradiso — and they have the best food of any coffee shop in town.

3) Cookies and milk: As long as it’s either blue-bag Chips Ahoy or my mom’s homemade Toll House, nothing helps me deal with the agony of midterms more — except maybe the thought of how good a beer or two is going to taste when the damned test is finally over.

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HANK PATTON Designer LIKES 1) New Cd’s By Your Favorite Bands: Nothing is as great as when one of your favorite bands puts out a new CD and it lives up to your expectations.

2) A Break in the Action: It doesn’t happen often, but when all of your classes slow down at once, and you can go out of town guilt free its a sweet thing.

3) Sweatshirts: The only thing I like about cold weather is getting to wear sweatshirts. I love the extra pocket space.

AUSTIN HAPPEL Photo Editor GRIPES 1) Not sleeping because school owns me: School + job on the side = no life.

2) Being a bicyclist: Yo u g e t n o r e s p e c t when you ride a bike. I get yelled at by peo ple when I ride in the street and by people when I ride on the sidewalk! Where else is there, when there’s no bike path?

3) People walking on designated bike paths: Get out of the way or get hit.

ANNETTE GONZALEZ Calendar editor LIKES 1) Silent ring tone commercials: Ok, so I was still up at 4 a.m. watching T V and this commercial came on, it was during an episode of Wild n’ Out. I thought it was just a spoof but it was an actual commercial promoting the “silent ringtone”.

It gave me this whole spiel about how this ring tone they’re selling is a high frequency sound that only some people can hear. They actually played it, but everyone in my living room agreed that they couldn’t hear anything. Why would you pay $2.50 for a silent ringtone? I thought it was funny — and I know there are people out there who will buy it. Suckers.

2) Boneless buffalo wings: Some friends and I were over at Buffalo Wild Wings and let me just tell you that the chicken was awesome. I ordered the HOT sauce for my boneless wings and loved every minute of it – even though my tongue was ablaze.

It even cleared up my nasal congestion.

3) Steve and Barry’s: So I finally went there for the first time and wish I had heard of it sooner.

I’ve been pretty broke lately and it was refreshing to find a store where everything is $7.98. I couldn’t believe it! Coats, skirts, small children, EVERYTHING was $7.98! I don’t really know too much about the quality, for all I know the sleeve will fall off while wearing it, but who cares when the coat was the same price as my dinner.

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