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4th Annual ACE Awards

REO Speedwagon

Little Shop of Horrors

Come watch as seven awards are handed out for achievement in art, culture, and entertainment at the Highdive at 5:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20, and this year’s event will include an after-party.

Originally formed at the University, the group that brought you power ballads like “Keep On Loving You” and “Can’t Fight This Feeling” returns to its old stomping grounds at 7:30 p.m. on the Assembly Hall stage.

Tickets range from $27.75 to $49.75.

Head to the Virginia Theatre at 7:30 p.m. to catch this musical about a lovesick florist and the foul-mouthed, carnivorous plant that brings him fame and fortune.

Tickets are $19 for the general public.

the217.com Food: Check out the top five trick-or-treat candies and the wine column on Monday.

Life: Next Monday, check out the five best halloween candies.

Movies: Review of Saw V and Highschool Musical 3 on Saturday.

Music:

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Rock the House for Habitat for Humanity

OneRepublic

Celebrating a Decade with Japan House

This karaoke contest will allow patrons at the Highdive to vote for their favorite singer by putting their money where their mouthes are. A $5 donation is requested, and all proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity.

“Stop and stare” at this band as they take the stage at Assembly Hall at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $25 for students.

Cynthia Voelkl, assistant director of Japan House, will give an overview of the cultural center and its mission at the University YMCA at noon.

Look right now for an interview with Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons

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Likes & Gripes Drake Baer Arts Editor GRIPES

1) Waifs: Dear ladies, eat a cheeseburger. We like it.

2) “Funny” Halloween: Heath and Don’t Taze Me Bro need not apply.

3) Self-promotional Gchat Statuses: You know who you are.

wednesday 29 Bonnie Stiernberg Calendar Editor LIKES

Atmosphere This legendary hip-hop group will perform at Canopy Club tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are $18.

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E D I T O R ’ S N O T E by Stephanie Prather This week I couldn’t decide what to write about, so I decided to write an extended version of Likes and Gripes. You’ll notice it’s basically a list of rejected column topics.

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1) Halloween Candy: I brought some to the office to get the staff in the Halloween spirit, and to remind them that they’ll miss me when I’m gone.

2) Yonder Mountain String Band: I’m seeing them today at the Canopy Club with my best friend.

There’s something about bluegrass music that makes you feel great. Plus it’s the perfect live show to see in the fall.

3) Watching reality TV for class: This week I had to watch reality TV for my Popular Culture class.

Wait, don’t I do that anyway? Best. Class. Ever.

1) Turning projects in early: I have to finish the most cumbersome project of the semester two days earlier than the rest of the class because I’ll be in Kansas City next weekend to (hopefully) accept an award for buzz. I should get started now.

2) Crazy drivers: Hey you, that ran the red light near the mall yesterday. Suck it. You almost killed me.

3)Missing buttons: If anyone has an extra leather, teal-colored button with white stitching that I can use to fix the cuff of my jacket, please email me at buzz@readbuzz.com.

1) Donut burgers: It sounds vile, I know. But Fat Sandwich has expanded my culinary horizons.

2) Rock of Love Charm School: I’m a sucker for trashy reality shows.

If it involves desert islands, D-list celebrities looking for love, and/or copious amounts of booze-fueled fighting, chances are it’s programmed into my DVR. 3) Democracy: My absentee ballot came in the mail today, and I can’t wait to do my civic duty and fill it out. Only three more weeks of hearing about Joe the Plumber!

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food & drink Cultural Dish

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Eastern Mediterranean food

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There is something innately special about Mediterranean cuisine. Perhaps it’s the fresh organic ingredients or the simplistic dishes traditionally prepared to enhance individual flavors.

Or maybe it’s the fact that so many different cultures seem to borrow and share one large ingredient list. Indeed, Mediterranean cuisine is defined by all of these things, and what’s more, the food is just plain good.

Mediterranean cuisine is a general title given to the coastal parts of countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. Oftentimes, Greece or Italy are the first countries that comes to mind when thinking of Mediterranean cuisine. Many people tend to forget that Turkish and Israeli cuisine also fall under the category of Mediterranean. Luckily, CU is home to a few restaurants that are keeping up with the traditional ingredients and food customs of these countries.

Pasha, located at 2506 Village Green Place in Champaign, is a restaurant that specializes in Turkish cuisine. Chef Hakan Cevher was a chef

in Turkey until he moved to America and became the co-owner of Pasha. Together, Cevher and Colleen Hatton created Pasha’s menu in an attempt to stay true to Turkish cuisine.

“For us, it is all about spices. It relies heavily on produce and spices,” Hatton said.

Not only does Turkish cuisine use things such as olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper, ingredients shared by all Mediterranean nations, but they also use sumac, paprika and cumin.

Pasha also uses a special spice that comes directly from Turkey. This is what complements all the vegetables, lamb and lentils on the menu, or it can be put into yogurt.

Cevher said that along with appetizers, it is customary to drink a wine such as raki. This can be compared to Greece’s tradition of drinking uzzo or Italy’s grapa with meals. Desserts, another important aspect of Turkish food, are more light and fluffy pastries rather than rich sweets.

“We have nothing like chocolate in the kitchen,” said Cevher. “For most of the Arabic countries, we

have differences in desserts. Turkish desserts use more sugar while other cultures use more honey.”

When asked about Pasha’s chefs, Hatton said, “For them, it’s more of a family occasion. We have recipes, but it’s what they grew up with. They’re doing what their moms taught them.”

Family and hospitality is something shared by most Mediterranean cultures and is oftentimes expressed through food. In Turkey, Turkish coffee is used as a symbol. Offering a cup of coffee represents 40 years of hospitality.

Israel is another eastern Mediterranean culture that uses food to bring people together. Owner of Jerusalem Café, located at 601 Wright St. in Champaign, Hamid Alkaddo said, “Usually families have to eat together, parents and their kids.”

Israel’s food has evolved by borrowing from so many neighboring cultures that its food is extremely eclectic. Alkaddo agreed that his menu is a combination of foods from the Gulf states such as Syria as well as North Africa and would prefer to call the cuisine Middle Eastern. The menu is highlighted by falafel, kebabs, vegetable salads, rice and dried beans.

Like all Mediterranean cuisine, the freshness of the ingredients is a key component to meals.

Modernly, it is easy to store food for long periods of time, but Mediterranean cultures have built their meals off of fresh produce and meats that are bought and cooked the same day.

When asked about food customs in Israel, Alkaddo said, “It’s not like here. You have small shops in-between houses. Usually the mothers will go and pick their own vegetables.”

Part of this custom, for Israel, is based off of a kosher tradition. However, it is customary in many other Mediterranean areas to buy food and cook it that same day. It is underlying practices like these that in a way tie together the Mediterranean’s coastal cultures. Turkey and Israel are by far not the only Mediterranean countries that have distinguished food cultures. However, it is a place to start, comparing two neighboring cultures in relation to their spin on Mediterranean food.

by Caleb Ganzer Walking into a good wine store is like walking into a packed singles’ bar — there’s a lot of variety from which to choose, regarding who you’ll be going home with at the end of the night. Both people and wines of similar caliber and styles tend to group themselves together.

In one corner, you have the well-dressed, highly perfumed individuals who bolster their looks with makeup. They’re popular individuals, the celebrities if you will, within their peer groups. Constant write-ups fill the tabloids about these high rollers, and they have quite a legion of emulators.

Across the room, huddled in a densely packed booth, sits a cosmopolitan group of people, tastefully dressed and modestly so, who exude personality and charisma. These individuals are highly opinionated, and while not everyone agrees with the statements that pour from their mouths, they are, nonetheless, still greatly admired.

Scattered around the room are the outliers.

Some are attempting conversation with those from the previous two groups, some are content with simply soaking up the atmosphere at their table, a vacant seat to their right. They don’t have hundreds of names and numbers in their contact list, but they do stay in touch with the few that are there.

Fads and styles come and go. Clothing changes, but at the core, the people remain the same. The trick to picking a good partner for dining, or simply for enjoying each other’s company, is to know yourself before you attempt to get to know others. Know what you like. You can take the opinions of your friends into account, but the next morning, it’s just going to be the two of you.

Drink and date around, certainly. In the end, you’ll likely find your perfect match. Though it is often better to do so by following one’s own compass.

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Trash to Fashion The Green House Fashion Show amazes all

by Elyse Schmidt Saturday, the 6 p.m. Green House Fashion Show started promptly at ... well, 6:30 p.m.

Running late could have thrown off the entire show — you know, the usual: confusion, stress, rushing, tripping. But it didn’t. That half-hour wait? So worth it.

As the lights dimmed, a green spotlight lit the black runway, and an almost full house of onlookers cheered, awaiting the first look to emerge from the unknown of backstage. Mystical harmonies accompanied by a haunting voice played in the background, taking you, if only for a second, somewhere not in this time or place.

And then from the darkness appeared a flowing garment, all white, a cap-sleeved coat that grazed the ground with a train that swept the floor behind it. Pieces of material individually attached to the bodice of the coat

gave it volume and detail. It looked impeccably made with impeccable fabric.

It was a coat of coffee filters. Fooled me.

For its first show ever, the newly created organization, Runway, not even a year old, wanted to make a statement. “We wanted something out of the ordinary,” said co-president Pooja Desai. A collection of 24 looks made entirely out of recyclable material, fitted on the models by household items such as duct tape and staples, certainly falls under the umbrella of what most would call out of the ordinary.

The materials that followed each beat the one before it: garbage bags ranging from white to black to the high-tech Hefty stretch kind; newspapers that were either cut up randomly, Velcroed onto cloth, spray-painted neon colors or folded intricately; curtains lined with duct tape; POWERade bottles and Zebra Cakes wrappers

stuffed with tissue paper to create volume and clear, pink and light blue bubble wrap twisted to form different shapes.

Colors waltzed down the runway — but only those that were worth it. Bright blues, yellows and lime greens were accented by metallic gold and silver and contrasted by black. Bodies sparkled in the spotlight, sprinkled from head to toe with silver glitter. Hair was sleek and pulled back, twisted tightly in order for funky hats and elaborate bows to sit quietly but prominently on the models’ heads. Thin metal wire was wrapped around the legs of each of them, from ankle to knee.

But out of all of this chaos, all of this color, all of this junk, came genius.

Thin, clear garbage bags were woven into a structured corset top; spray-painted newspaper formed a long, rectangular clutch; stretch Hefty

bags were spray-painted and formed into a bathing suit, adorned with three circular folded fans, a marble of golds, silvers, blues and greens attached to the front. Bubble wrap transformed into a strapless top, detailed with a bow in front and paired with a chic, bright blue bubble skirt that could have been a perfect advertisement for POWERade. A dress made solely out of newspapers had a shape and structure that followed the likes of designers’ on the red carpet: Triangular pieces of paper were attached individually to make the skirt pleated and full, while other pieces were folded to make a design just below the single strap that arced over the right shoulder. Sienna Miller would wear it in a heartbeat.

It was completely unexpected but utterly impressive, totally cohesive but futuristically unique.

In one word: success.

Funky and Fun Furniture Lounge opens its second location in CU

by Abby Wilson Amanda McWilliams and Scott Schaub, owners of the Furniture Lounge, 9 E. University Ave. in Champaign, decided it was time to open another store in Urbana to share the wealth of their retro modern furniture collection.

The new store is located at 126 W. Main St. in Urbana and is 1,000 square feet larger than the Champaign location, McWilliams said.

According to Schaub, the Furniture Lounge needed more space and better parking than the Champaign location offered. “Clients were complaining about the parking rate increase and will only come on weekends when they don’t have to pay the higher rates,” Schaub said.

McWilliams said the new Urbana location will be focusing more on consignment, gently used furniture quality and home décor. “Both stores offer ever-

changing inventory for the alternative shopper with a decidedly ‘vintage modern’ style,” Schaub added.

A great advantage to the Urbana location is the UP-Stairs Art Gallery, which is located on the second floor of the new building. McWilliams and Schaub want to feature local artists in the space, but that project is still in the planning stages.

Something that both stores offer is McWilliams’ and Schaub’s knowledge of furniture design.

“Since we are collectors ourselves, we provide not only a place to shop but also an informative store where you can learn more about furniture design and its history,” McWilliams said.

What is the price range of their furniture? The answer ended up being both a number and a fun bit of trivia as well: Most of the items are marked $5 and up, but what would a sofa, chair

and ottoman identical to those in the famous Jungle Room of Elvis’ Graceland Mansion go for? According to Schaub, this Jungle Room look-alike set is priced at the higher end of the spectrum. The sofa is marked at $1,450, and the chair and ottoman are priced at $950.

These items may be pricey, but you won’t find them anywhere else.

All the items offered in both locations aren’t ordered through a catalog or ordered from large furniture stores. The furniture inventory that McWilliams and Schaub feature are sought out by them by searching at other shops like theirs.

One of the most important things McWilliams and Schaub keep in mind when looking for their inventory are earth-friendly materials; the Furniture Lounge has been going green since 2002.

“We try to carry a little of everything, whether it’s unique, well-designed or just plain ridiculous,” McWilliams said. “There is always something new and fun to look at on a weekly basis.”

Opening the Urbana store and keeping up with the Champaign location has been strenuous, McWilliams and Schaub said, but they are pleased with the end result. “People in Urbana are eager to see new businesses in the downtown area and have been so welcoming,” McWilliams said. “We are glad to be a part of downtown Urbana.”

Next time you’re looking for retro, hip furniture that no one else has, stop by one of the two locations of the Furniture Lounge; you may find yourself a few funky treasures.

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music Explaining Those Golden Lemons Atmosphere’s Slug talks lyrics, storytelling and the Midwest

by Drake Baer “My life is definitely better than it was 10 years ago. Let’s face it; if I was closing down the bar every night and going home with fucking random women at 36, that would be kind of pathetic,” says Sean Daley, better known as Slug, the gregariously self-deprecating half of the Minnesotan emcee-dj duo Atmosphere. After 15 years in the game, their newest, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, has a level of focus absent in previous work. “I think the greatest change is that both of us have gotten older, and within having gotten older, priorities shift and change, and I think we both feel as if we need to be communicating something,” Slug says. “We don’t really like to make pointless shit.

I mean, we do like to make pointless shit, we just don’t like to put that shit on the record.”

He, Ant and the band will be heading back to Urbana on Wednesday, ready to populate the Canopy Club with rough-handed wanderers, workers and waitresses. New to Lemons is a shift to the third person rather than characters springing out of the multitudes of Slug.

“They’re the same characters that have been in all of my songs; they’re the people around me, they’re the people in my city, the people I encounter,” he says. “I’ve got my years in, I’ve put my time in, I’ve got my seniority in this, but it’s the same as if I was working in a factory and I’ve got my seniority in that; that’s how I see what me and

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Ant do. In the entertainment world, if you were to break it down, we’re in the blue-collar sector.”

“I have the writing skills of the average eighth grader. I never really learned how to write in third person. I never really learned how to put resolution at the end of the song. I got tired of people coming up to me and treating me like all those old songs were true stories. It was like in my head, I was just writing songs with a point. I was using myself as the character

because that’s what I was trained to do by Slick Rick and Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane and KRS-One,” he says. “In this weird pseudo-keepit-real mentality times that we live in in hip-hop, people expect your songs to be real if you say ‘me’ or ‘I’ — they really believe that you lived that. They weren’t allowing those old songs for me to be stories; everybody thought they were autobiographical, and it was frustrating. It’s like, ‘Look man, if these songs were real, I’d be dead from alcohol poisoning.’ If those songs were real, you probably wouldn’t like me as a person, and so I wanted to shed a little of that, to make it a little more obvious that the songs that we make are not true stories, no more than 50 Cent songs are true stories.”

Slug sees a lot of himself in the CU crowd. “It’s a college crowd, but it’s also Midwest. There’s a certain type of pride that comes along with that because I’m from Minneapolis, which isn’t that different from any town in Illinois. There’s a handful of people there that look at us and say, ‘And if they can do it, we can do it.’ I think there’s a camaraderie side of that. Most of these Midwest towns, there’s a different kind of connection than there is if you go to Florida or if you go to L.A. or if you go to New York. I think the connection is we all kind of came up with the insecurity that we’re from a town that nobody’s ever heard of.”

C U S O U N D R E V I E W by Mike Ingram

Odin’s beard! Another Zep tribute band lands in CU You know, I’ve often made my distaste for tribute bands known, but fuck it, this band is called Winds of Thor, which is amazing. And it’s a Zeppelin tribute, so at least it’s the mimicry of a band that you can’t see touring the country regularly (I’m looking at you, shitty DMB tribute acts). So it’s with a caveat or two that I endorse Friday’s show at Chief’s from the Cincinnati band. Chief’s (123 S. Mattis Ave. in Champaign) is basically at the corner of Mattis and University in the strip mall. The Chief’s show is listed as a 10 p.m. start, and while I’m sure there is a cover, I can’t find any info on what it is. Call the bar 359-2177 the day of to see what the story is.

First up in the non-’70s rock world is Mike ‘n Molly’s, which will host the action-packed lineup of New Ruins, Tractor Kings and the

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Championship starting at 9 p.m. Tractor Kings’ new record, Homesick, is out now, and if you haven’t picked it up, you really need to. New Ruins has a new album, We Make Our Own Bad Luck, in the can with a release to come shortly. The Championship is from Milwaukee and has hit CU on several occasions, so this equates to a very solid lineup that will surely pack the upstairs of MnM’s. Expect a cover of five-ish bucks.

Over at Cowboy Monkey, you can catch Elsinore, who return to the CM stage after a long hiatus.

The band will share the stage with Chicago act Oh My God, featuring the guitar talents of former Temple of Low Men short guy Anthony Gravino.

The band is quirky in all the right places and will fit in nicely between Elsinore and fast-rising newcomers Post Historic (opening the show at 10 p.m.). The show will cost you $7.

Mike ‘n Molly’s is the place again on Saturday as Curb Service heads up a bill also featuring local pop-sters Lucky Mulholland along with Carta Marina and John Boy’s Courage. Slide

on over around 9 p.m., drop your $5 and enjoy the excellent selection of both good beers and cheap beers, along with the bevy of heaters in the beer garden.

Kayla Brown will make her first trip home from Nashville this weekend to settle into her old habits of playing epic cover gigs with this columnist around the central Illinois area. Look for her around town, including playing at the Route 45 Wayside in Pesotum on Saturday at 4 p.m. and at the Cowboy Monkey open mic night on Tuesday. Check out http://www.myspace. com/kaylabrownmusic for more info on her trip home and also to see what it is she’s doing down there in Nashville.

In one of scheduling’s cruelest jokes ever, Atmosphere is playing The Canopy Club next Wednesday opposite mega-fan Larry Gates’ weekly DJ residency at Boltini (where he spins some pretty great stuff, from old R&B to newer hip-hop). Will Gates send in a ringer? I’m certainly interested to find out

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Broken Social Scene at Foellinger, Oct. 19

by Jaron Birkan Though the auditorium was far from packed, Broken Social Scene never allowed its sound to come short of filling the entire room. Equally exuberant and laid-back, the group thrilled the audience with well-played selections from their full-lengths as well as some excerpts from side projects and solo albums.

Calling Broken Social Scene a band, though, would clearly be a misnomer. More akin to a collective or a supergroup, it was conceived by musicians Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew almost a decade ago. The two are supported by a revolving section of musicians (Feist, Amy Millan of Stars) that contribute to an ever-changing sound that always sticks to the heuristics of being large and noisy.

Because those artists cannot always tour with the group, the danger is that the original material can be hard to translate well to the live stage. Drew acknowledged it when he turned down a request to play “Swimmers,” a song too defined by Emily Haines’ (Metric) singing to be played without her. To their benefit, though, the musicians never sounded like a cover band.

Both of those characteristics were on full view on Sunday night. “Looks Just Like the Sun,” perhaps the group’s simplest song, was expanded with a twinkling synthesizer line and thrusting drums.

“7/4 (Shoreline)” created vast momentum with its intertwining riffs and clever vocal play (between Drew and Feist stand-in Elizabeth Powell from the opener, Land of Talk). That energy carried through the vociferous and determined crowd.

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The band was also not averse to letting the members other than Drew or Canning play their own music. Some of it was quite ham-handed; a bit with a saxophone playing over a vocal recording only seemed to rile the crowd as it preceded the encore and “Stars and Sons.”

However, the benefit of a loose band, as Broken Social Scene demonstrated, was that the songs never seem forced or rushed. Lead guitar lines alternated, lending each song a strong originality.

Drew and Canning also gave each other freedom to direct their own songs while appearing as

opposites onstage. Canning was friendly with the audience (and frequently mentioned a love of tequila), while Drew took time to warm up, getting much more gregarious as the night went on.

“Major Label Debut,” which finished the set before the encore, showed what the band can do best. A song satirizing the rock star life, it pulled toward the noisy rock of My Bloody Valentine while retaining a strong melody. It revealed how the group’s disparate songs and styles represent indie rock today: messy, ironic, strange and always searching for meaning.

A Q uickie With ... The Girls Next Door

by Tricia Scully Contrary to the indie-rock, indie-folk, hip-hop and jam-band scene that’s much cultivated at The Canopy Club, the venue will change its tune this Friday as an a cappella group will be showcasing its talents with a biannual cabaret show. This high-class event will be put on and performed by the student-run Girls Next Door (yes, all of them are your neighbors from childhood whom you just couldn’t muster up the courage to say hello to), an a cappella group that will razzle and dazzle you until the very last note. buzz caught up with business manager of the group, Hannah Newman, who let us know everything we’ve always wanted to know about what happens next door: buzz: How many girls can you have in Girls Next Door?

Newman: We now have 10, but it always used to be nine — well, it used to be eight, actually.

They wanted to differentiate between the other girls’ groups. It’s a very different sound compared to having a lot of girls. Plus, we sing a lot of different genres, where the other groups sing more pop and rock. We do a lot of jazz stuff, and it gets a lot harder to do those tight jazz chords

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when there are a lot of people, so we always wanted to have a smaller group. buzz: Do you have any shows coming up?

Newman: We have a big show on Friday, Oct. 24 at The Canopy Club. It’s our cabaret show.

Each girl sings two songs with the band [named Honey Honey], and we do a cappella between songs, kind of like transition songs. It’s cabaret style, so it’s very relaxed; we set up tables, and it’s got a lounge-y feel. It’s only our second time doing this, and it was probably our biggest show last year; we had over 200 people. buzz: Do you have many shows per year?

Newman: We have four big shows every year.

We have our winter and spring shows at Lincoln Hall, then our Canopy shows. With the smaller shows, it averages out to a show a week. We do a lot of little University shows; sometimes we do charity events too. buzz: How do you choose your songs?

Newman: It’s our director’s sole responsibility in the end [Marie Lemke, junior at the U of I]; they have the final say technically on what songs we do, but it really comes down to who wants to

arrange the songs. We arrange all of our music on our own, or we pull from files of girls who were in the previous group, so they’re all arranged by us or for us by friends. buzz: Have you arranged any songs for this year?

Newman: I arranged “Silver Lining” by Rilo Kiley; we just finished learning it. I’m really excited, it was the first one I arranged. When I got to hear everyone singing it, it was the coolest thing ever because I worked on it for so long. buzz: Do you have any plans of recording?

Newman: This year, we’re going to record a whole album. Nobody in the group currently has ever been on a Girls Next Door album, and there are six or seven of them. We’re starting to record Oct. 30. For this album, since we learn songs throughout the year, recording will have to be sporadic; we hope to release it in April.

The show begins at 6:30 on Friday, Oct. 24 at The Canopy Club. Advanced tickets can be purchased through Hannah and the girls for $5, or it’s $7 at the door. Bring your parents, grandparents, friends and especially your neighbors.

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Little Shop of Horrors centers around Seymour Krelborn, a nerdy, insecure florist from skid row who discovers a plant with a craving for human blood, which he names Audrey II. Audrey II turns out to be a foul-mouthed, R&B singing alien that claims he can bring Seymour fame and fortune but is actually planning to conquer the world.

The story also revolves around the awkward attraction between Seymour and the naïve yet likeable Audrey, an equally insecure co-worker of Seymour who is dating a sadistic dentist. Both Seymour and Audrey are secretly in love with each other but struggle to get together due to mutual feelings of not being good enough for the other.

Playing the roles of Seymour and Audrey are Josh Bough and Leanne Noland. Bough became involved with CUTC in the 2003 production of Peter Pan after having heard about it from one of his high school teachers. He has played minor roles in several productions since. He wanted to do this play because it was the work that got him interested in theater. “But I wasn’t expecting much when I came to auditions,” he said.

Opposite of Bough is Leanne Noland. Noland had done

many plays in her hometown of St. Louis but had not done any since moving to the Champaign-Urbana area five years ago. Noland was looking to become more involved in theater again and decided to audition for Little Shop, this being her first audition.

Directing the production is Jeff Chandler, a four-year board member and current president of CUTC who has been involved with the company since age 12 singing in children’s choruses. “Last year, I directed a show that was very deep and meaningful — not that this show isn’t meaningful, it’s just fun to be as corny and over the top as possible,” Chandler said.

The Champaign Urbana Theatre Company’s production of Little Shop of Horrors will run from Thursday, Oct. 23 to Sunday, Oct. 26 at the Virginia Theatre. Tickets can be purchased at the Virginia Theatre box office or by phone at 356-9063.

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A New Approach to Shakespeare What You Will meets Two Gents

by Liza Booker Imagine two best friends, drunken servants, a dog and an array of adventures. This is what you will witness when you are watching What You Will Shakespeare Company’s new production Two Gents, from The Two Gentlemen from Verona.

The original Shakespeare is the story of two men, Valentine and Proteus, who are best friends. Valentine is leaving Verona in order to explore the world, leaving behind Proteus, who decides to stay in Verona because of his love for a woman named Julia. After the tearful departure of Valentine, both men experience a new adventure in their lives filled with unfamiliar situations.

This may be Shakespeare’s version. However, things are a little different for Two Gents. “There are actually supposed to be only two female parts, but I changed that,” says Caitlin Megginson, the director of the play. All of the roles are played by women. “I play a man,” says Natalie Wolosowicz, who plays Antonia and Thurio. “I am glad because it is different from the other roles I’ve played.”

There is also the exploration of bisexuality in the play. “Sylvia chooses between being married to a man and being married to a woman,” says Megginson. This seemingly little but drastic change to the play may come as a shock to people who know

of the Shakespeare version. However, Alyssa Venere, who plays Valentine says, “You don’t have to appreciate love of the same sex; it’s just showing love for what it is.”

In addition to more female roles, the play is set in the gender-bender Roaring ’20s, and there are two foreign exchange students in the play: Christina Stadler from Austria and Elspeth Renfrew from Scotland. “We don’t have theater-based groups back home like here,” says Renfrew.

When asked about the motivation to direct the play, Megginson says, “I think it is an undervalued play. It has a lot of beautiful language and a lot of awesome characters with a lot of depth.” Eric Krull, assistant director of the play, agrees. “I like the fact that it is not Othello, not Hamlet, not Romeo and Juliet,” says Krull. “The play has so many elements in it that make it stand out from all of the other shows.”

The cast is very energetic and uplifting as they rehearse. They are enthusiastic while reciting lines and are excited about the show. “I love my cast,” says Megginson. “They’re very talented and very passionate.” The play will be performed in Lincoln Hall Auditorium Oct. 24 and 25 at 8 p.m.

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by Matt Carey As a big fan of Adam Carolla, I was very excited to hear that he was going to be making his own film. My admiration for Adam started when I began listening to “Loveline,” the latenight, syndicated radio show in which Adam and Dr. Drew Pinsky star. If you haven’t heard Adam’s work on “Loveline,” you’re missing out on what could arguably be called the funniest radio show ever. When Adam left “Loveline” in 2005 after a 10-year stint to take over Howard Stern’s spot when Stern left for SIRIUS, Adam’s name got bigger, and he was eventually given the opportunity to write and star in the lowbudget boxing comedy The Hammer.

Jerry Ferro (Carolla) is a 40-year-old construction worker whose life is going nowhere.

His girlfriend recently broke up with him because of his lack of direction, and the only part of his life that he truly enjoys is teaching the middle-aged ladies’ class at the local boxing gym. A once-promising amateur boxer, Jerry eventually catches the eye of an Olympic boxing coach looking for recruits. With the help of his boxing student and love interest Lindsay (Heather Juergensen) and his best friend Ozzie (Oswaldo Castillo), Jerry decides to step back in the ring one last time to defeat the odds and get the Olympic gold.

If you like Adam Carolla, then you’ll love this movie since he’s essentially playing himself. But

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if you’ve never heard of Carolla or don’t like him, this is still a surprisingly sweet low-budget romantic comedy. Carolla is an effective romantic lead but is also able to sell the jokes well. He should also get credit for writing a sports movie script that isn’t too clichéd and has some interesting twists to it.

It was easy to miss The Hammer when it came out in theaters earlier this year since it was showing on the West Coast only, but now that it’s on DVD, there’s no reason not to see the best movie no one’s talking about.

YouTube Pick of the Week Bad guys in college gear

by Stephanie Poquette Team building exercises, check. Decorated bulletin board, check. Over the top enthusiastic attitude, check.

The comedy geniuses at College Humor have done it again. Only this time, they have captured a freshman’s worst nightmare on film — an “All R.A. Floor.” This perky group is so wrapped up in creating fun floor activities, they haven’t noticed their one similarity. You’d think they would figure it out when each R.A. leads

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discussion or decorates the bulletin board, but they just make everyone else wish craft paper and glitter pens had never been invented for the thing at all. We can only hope no one stumbles upon this magical land of R.A. fun.

From a team exercise gone wrong — “Remember, staff isn’t allowed to help” — to bulletin drama, to a bodily incident in the shower, your R.A. is not trying to be the bad guy. Search YouTube for “All R.A. Floor,” or search for it on College Humor.

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zArtistic Archipelago Sensual delight at Japan house’s 10th year anniversary show

by Dipika Mallya Photos by Abby Toms

Nestled within the lush gardens of the Arboretum, Japan House offers a peaceful, tranquil environment where one can learn more about Japanese culture, traditions and art forms. Since its inception 10 years ago, Japan House has served as an academic and cultural learning center, offering courses in many Japanese traditions such as tea ceremonies, ikebana (flower arranging) and origami (paper folding). To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Japan House, a performance entitled “Hidden Beauty: Yugen in Tea, Noh and Contemporary Washi Art” is to be held at Krannert Center Saturday, Oct. 25.

This performance is a unique combination of three Japanese art forms, namely Noh, washi (paper) artwork and the tea ceremony. Noh is a traditional, well-known Japanese theatrical form, whose origins can be traced back to 14th century Japan. Based on folk tales and Japanese mythology, Noh performances generally feature elaborate costumes, masks and music. Indeed, “yugen,” or that which lies beneath the surface, is a term often used to describe a Noh performance, as Noh performances are symbolic of grace, nobility, elegance and power.

The backdrop for the Noh performance is the contemporary washi artwork by Kyoko Ibe. Ibe is a well-known international artist who is re-

nowned for constructing innovative sculptured paper artwork using Japanese handmade paper or washi. Though washi is often thought to be a traditional art form, Ibe is a pioneer in the field as she fuses the old with the new in her work, resulting in contemporary structures which can be up to thousands of feet in length. Her work is currently on display at the Krannert Museum. Thus “Hidden Beauty: Yugen in Tea, Noh and Contemporary Washi Art” will feature the traditional Noh performance enacted within the modernistic framework of Ibe’s washi artwork in order to integrate the ancient Japanese cultural traditions with more technologically designed artistic expressions.

The performance will also feature an authentic tea ceremony dedicated to peace, performed by Souyu Izumimoto. This elaborate ceremony is representative of harmony, serenity and tranquility.

The three elements of the performance are linked together in a collaborative effort to showcase some of Japan’s most celebrated traditions.

Tickets for this performance are available at the Krannert box office. Other events to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Japan House include demonstrations of tea ceremonies at Japan House and a family program with Masaji Terasawa performing the ancient art of Amezaiku (sculpture).

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Cutting (Social) Class Gregory Residence Hall, C, 8pm A discussion with the audience follows.

Dying City The Station Theatre, U, 8pm, $12 Dreaming Dead U.S. Tour 2008 Memphis on Main, C, 8pm

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Krannert Uncorked live music Krannert Center for the 40 North’s ACE Awards Performing Arts, U, 5pm Highdive, C, 5:30pm Beverages may be tasted Acoustic Pearls free of charge and will The Embassy Tavern & Ages crawling-7. be available for purchase Grill, U, 7:30pm Nature Walk Series by the glass at a special Andy Moreillon Champaign Public Library, discounted price during Memphis on Main, C, C, 9:45am, 10:45am the tasting. No tickets 9pm Each week, make a craft required.

Big Naturals and take home a free Cocktail & Food Pairing Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., book.

Dinner holidays U, 9pm Baby Time Seven Saints, C, 7pm, $50 Hate Chamber, Seven Negangard Pumpkin Douglass Branch Library, per person Year Existance, Dreaming Patch C, 10:30am Dead, & Lineage Negangard Pumpkin ARTfusion FRI, OCT 24 Memphis on Main, C, Patch, Sidney, 9am Douglass Branch Library, live music 9pm, $5 Sells pumpkins, squash, C, 4pm Zorbas Jazz gourds, corn stalks, indi23rd Annual Halloween Happy Hour and Live Zorba’s, C, 9:30pm, $3 ana corn, staw bales and FunFest Music lots more.

Market Place Shopping Silvercreek, U, 5pm dj Halloween at Rockome Center, C, 6pm The Impalas featuring Rockome Gardens, Arco- Urbana and Champaign Kathy Harden Disco Thursdays Park Districts are celHuber’s West End Store, Fallon’s Ice House Tavern, la, 7:30pm, $12, children under 6 free ebrating with fun carnival C, 8pm C, 6pm games, trick-or-treating High Maintenance Featuring Troy the roller- A haunted barn, cave, hayride, corn maze, tiny and a haunted house de- Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., skating bartender. goblins play area and a signed for young children. U, 9pm DJ Halfdead Spirits Garden (must be Candy Foster & Shades Radmaker’s Rock & Roll 21 to enter). Featuring up fundraisers of Blue Tavern, Tolono, 8pm to 90 professional scare UC Books to Prisoners The Embassy Tavern & Free Swing Dance actors roaming over 20 work session Grill, U, 9pm, $5 McKinley Presbyterian acres of scare area.

Urbana-Champaign InDave Lindsey Church and Foundation, dependent Media Center, Memphis on Main, C, 9pm C, 9:30pm art exhibit U, 2pm The Show DJ Bob Bass Urbana-Champaign InSoma Ultralounge, C, 10pm Illinois Glass Art Exhibit UC Books to Prisoners Cinema Gallery, U, 10am is an Urbana, IL based dependent Media Center, DJ Belly A show of work by glass project providing books to U, 10pm Boltini Lounge, C, artists living and working Illinois inmates at no cost. The Show is a 2 hour live 10:30pm in Illinois.

Volunteer at the work radio program broadcast dance music Masque Appeal session. on WRFU-LP, Urbana Heartland Gallery, U, Cups for Koby 104.5 FM every Friday @ Country DJ and Line 10am Joe’s Brewery, C, 9pm, $3 10 PM. Dancing Lessons Masks and other works by wristbands Ian Procell, DJ ReFlex, Radmaker’s Rock & Roll Gregory Slawko.

This cup night will celD.O.M. Tavern, Tolono, 8pm ebrate the end of the Boltini Lounge, C, 10pm Friday Salsa Cafe “Flags for Peace” week.

Bar Guiliani, C, 9pm lectures The money raised for this dj concert The Flute Player: Moving event will be donated to DJ and Dancing the Camp Koby, a theraRichard Goode Beyond the Madness of Joe’s Brewery, C, 8:30pm, peutic camp in Israel for Krannert Center for War $5 children who have lost the Performing Arts, U, Spurlock Museum, U, Mechanical Bull with loved ones to terrorism.

7:30pm, $39, $34 seniors, 7pm country DJ $25 students, $20 UI and Lecture and performance Radmaker’s Rock & Roll miscellaneous youth

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Tavern, Tolono, 9pm Yonder Mountain String Universal Language of Japan House Tours Country Dancing at Band Dreams Japan House, U, 1pm Bradley’s II Canopy Club, U, 9pm, Champaign Public Library, Bradley’s II, C, 9pm, $5 Free to the public, no $20 in advance C, 7:30pm cover DJ Delayney karaoke government reservations required. Radio Maria, C, 10pm Karaoke and DJ Champaign Tomorrow Tea Ceremonies DJ and Dancing Tumble Inn Tavern, C, — Public Input Meeting Japan House, U, 2pm, $5 Highdive, C, 10pm, $5 (no 8:30pm Illinois Terminal, C, The Bike Project Open cover before 11 with stuKaraoke 6:30pm Shop Hours dent ID) Senator’s Bar & Grill, SaThe meeting will include Urbana-Champaign InDJ Tim Williams voy, 9pm brief presentations on the dependent Media Center, Soma Ultralounge, C, last 50 years in ChamU, 6pm 10pm, $5 cover stage paign and key issues fac- Check out the tools and ing the City today. work stands you can use concert Hamlet to fix your own bike and Krannert Center for The XX Annual Tagore enviromental tour their massive collec- Festival 2008 Cultural the Performing Arts, U, tion of parts, spares and 7:30pm, $15, $14 seniors issues Events Pumpkins used bikes. and students, $9 UI and Channing-Murray FounAnita Purves Nature Brazil Coffee Hour youth dation, U, 6pm, $12 for dinCenter, U, 10am, $10-$12 Cosmopolitan Club at the ner only; other events free Little Shop of Horrors residents, $16-24 nonUniversity of Illinois, C, Virginia Theatre, C, REO Speedwagon with residents 7:30pm 7:30pm, $19, $17 stuSpecial Guest Tons ‘O’ Get messy and look at Coffee, tea, and homedents, $6 children Fun Band A musical spoof of 1950s what’s inside a pumpkin. made ethnic desserts are Assembly Hall, C, served. sci-fi movies.

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Discovery Room Savoy Recreational Center, Savoy, $2/Residents and Members, $3/NR

Railroad Earth as well as ways ChristianCanopy Club, U, 10pm, $20 ity could influcence public life and the ways in which stage it should.

Little Shop of Horrors recreation Virginia Theatre, C, 7:30pm, $19, $17 stuAll Hallows Illinites dents, $6 children Illini Union, U, 9pm A musical spoof of 1950s kids & families sci-fi movies.

Hamlet Discovery Room Krannert Center for Savoy Recreational Centhe Performing Arts, U, ter, Savoy, $2/Residents 7:30pm, $15, $14 seniors and Members, $3/NR and students, $9 UI and youth Ages crawling-7.

Dying City Tales for Twos The Station Theatre, U, Douglass Branch Library, 8pm, $15 C, 10:30am Closer—a play Enjoy stories, songs, and Illini Union, U, 10pm, movement activities for $3 students, $5 general children aged two, with a public caregiver.

The original playscript miscellaneous that inspired the 2004 film starring Jude Law, A Night of Horrors Julia Roberts, Clive Owen William M. Staerkel Planand Natalie Portman. etarium, C, 9:30pm, $5 Our Halloween thriller reholidays turns for two nights only.

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Patch Negangard Pumpkin SAT, OCT 25 Patch, Sidney, 9am live music Sells pumpkins, squash, gourds, corn stalks, indiJonathan Richman ana corn, staw bales and Highdive, C, 7pm lots more.

New Twang City Halloween at Rockome Huber’s West End Store, Rockome Gardens, Arco- C, 8pm la, 7:30pm, $12, children Keri Noble at Sleepy under 6 free Creek Vineyards A haunted barn, cave, Sleepy Creek Vineyards, hayride, corn maze, tiny Fairmount, 8pm, $15 goblins play area and a Chip McNeill’s Jazz QuarSpirits Garden (must be tet and Swing Dance 21 to enter). Featuring up McKinley Presbyterian to 90 professional scare Church and Foundation, actors roaming over 20 C, 8:30pm, $10 acres of scare area.

Street Level Doppler The Embassy Tavern & art exhibit Grill, U, 9pm Illinois Glass Art Exhibit Curb Service Cinema Gallery, U, 10am Mike ‘n’ Molly’s, C, 9pm, $3 A show of work by glass artists living and working High Maintenance Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., in Illinois.

U, 9pm Masque Appeal Kilborn Alley Heartland Gallery, U, Memphis on Main, C, 10am Masks and other works by 9pm Gregory Slawko.

All Hallows Illinites ILLINI UNION, OCT. 24

Celebrate Hallween early at the Illini Union. Co-sponsored by Students for Positive Choices, October Lovers and the InterFraternity Council, this event will feature an appearance by famed ghosthunter Patrick Burns.

If his supernatural findings are too spooky for you, there will be a movie screening, performances by the cast of the IUB Musical Jekyl and Hyde, live band karaoke, crafts and a chance to learn the Thriller dance.

For those brave enough to venture outside, there will be fire performances and a Quidditch match on the Quad.

The festivities kick off at 9 p.m.

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Karaoke Senator’s Bar & Grill, Savoy, 9pm Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, U, 9pm

Diwali Night Illini Union, U, 5pm, $13 members, $15 non-members Diwali Night is one of the biggest cultural shows on campus, with a delicious Indian dinner preceding a show featuring a variety of student groups.

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Hamlet Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, U, 7:30pm, $15, $14 seniors and students, $9 UI and youth Little Shop of Horrors Virginia Theatre, C, 7:30pm, $19, $17 students, $6 children A musical spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies.

Dying City The Station Theatre, U, 8pm, $15 Hidden Beauty: Yugen in Tea, Noh, and Contempodj rary Washi Art art DJ and Dancing Krannert Center for the Joe’s Brewery, C, 8:30pm, Performing Arts, U, 2pm, The Next Panel: Illinois $5 Small Press Comic Expo $20, $15 seniors and stuDJ Tim Williams Krannert Art Museum dents, $10 UI and youth Highdive, C, 10pm, $5 and Kinkead Pavilion, C, This gala event will exStudents free before 10am plore one of the key aes10:30p.m.

This event is free and thetic ideals of Japanese DJ Mertz open to the public. traditional arts through Boltini Lounge, C, 10pm three very different art lectures Kosmo at Soma forms: Tea Ceremony, Friday Forums: Faith and Soma Ultralounge, C, Noh theatre, and contemPolitcs: The ‘08 Election 10pm porary washi (Japanese and Beyond Saturday is Distinto y paper) artwork by Kyoko University YMCA, C, Diferente Ibe. 12pm Great Impasta, C, 11pm, Dessert and ConversaWayne Boulton reviews $3 a person or $5 a couple tion: Hamlet some of the ways ChrisMake this Saturday stand Krannert Center for tian conviction has had an out with music by DJ Andri- the Performing Arts, U, impact on our public life ano with Mambo Italiano.

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holidays Negangard Pumpkin Patch Negangard Pumpkin Patch, Sidney, 9am Sells pumpkins, squash, gourds, corn stalks, indiana corn, staw bales and lots more.

Halloween at Rockome Rockome Gardens, Arcola, 7:30pm, $12, children under 6 free A haunted barn, cave, hayride, corn maze, tiny goblins play area and a Spirits Garden (must be 21 to enter). Featuring up to 90 professional scare actors roaming over 20 acres of scare area.

The Haunted Museum Chanute Air Museum, Rantoul, 5pm, $5 adults, $3 children See the museum as never before, complete with scary creatures, prizes, contests and movies.

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Illinois Glass Art Exhibit Cinema Gallery, U, 10am A show of work by glass artists living and working in Illinois.

Masque Appeal Heartland Gallery, U, 10am Masks and other works by Gregory Slawko.

Illinois Brass Quintet Halloween Spooktacular Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, U, 3pm, $10, $7 seniors, $4 students

kids & families Open Mic Night The Library Friends sell used books for $1 or less.

Discovery Room Cowboy Monkey, C, 10pm All sales benefit the library. Savoy Recreational CenHosted by Mike Ingram. ter, Savoy, $2/Residents miscellaneous holidays and Members, $3/NR The Bike Project Open Negangard Pumpkin Shop Hours Ages crawling-7.

Patch Urbana-Champaign InRemarkable Rodents Negangard Pumpkin karaoke dependent Media Center, Homer Lake Forest PrePatch, Sidney, 9am Rock the House for Habi- U, 2pm serve, Homer, $5 per child Sells pumpkins, squash, tat for Humanity Check out the tools and O Baby! gourds, corn stalks, indiart Highdive, C, 6pm, $5 work stands you can use Champaign Public Library, ana corn, staw bales and The Next Panel: Illinois Liquid Courage Karaoke to fix your own bike and C, 9:45am, 10:30am lots more.

Small Press Comic Expo Geo’s, U, 7pm tour their massive collec- No registration required. lectures Krannert Art Museum tion of parts, spares and 23rd Annual Halloween stage and Kinkead Pavilion, C, used bikes.

Funfest Celebrating a Decade 10am Little Shop of Horrors Market Place Shopping with Japan House This event is free and Virginia Theatre, C, MON, OCT 27 Center, C, 6pm University YMCA, C, open to the public.

2:30pm, $19, $17 stuAges 2-11.

12pm live music “One Stop Lift” Perfordents, $6 children Family Reading Night Cynthia Voelkl will give an mance A musical spoof of 1950s Jazz Jam Hosted by MRS Douglass Branch Library, overview of the cultural Main Library, U, 5pm sci-fi movies.

Trio C, 6pm center and its mission, as “One Stop Lift” is a site Iron Post, U, 7pm well as what is planned auditions specific dance work diFingaLickin TUE, OCT 28 for the 10th anniversary rected and conceived by Open auditions for A The Embassy Tavern & celebration. live music Hope Goldman.

Christmas Carol Grill, U, 8pm Election ‘08: Rhetoric, Parkland College Theatre, Monday Night Miracle Politics, and Public AfInterval: U of I Varsity literary C, 1pm with Zmick fairs Men’s Glee Club Director J.W. Morrissette Canopy Club, U, 9pm IPRH - Illinois Program for Author Talk: Barbara Krannert Center for the is casting actors and singKeaton Performing Arts, U, 12pm Research in Humanities, dj U, 4pm Douglass Branch Library, ers ages 8 to 80 to play Acoustic Tuesday with various roles.

C, 1pm Abattoir: LIX-periment Jeremy Harper literary Author Barbara Keaton in Fear Memphis on Main, C, sporting event will talk about her latest Chester Street, C, 9pm, $5 7:30pm CultureTalk Reception fiction title.

Illinois Women’s Tennis Look forward to spooky Jeff Kerr and Billy Galt Main Library, U, 1pm vs. Ohio Sate skits and fun games, raffle The Embassy Tavern & The Rare Book and Manukids & families Atkins Tennis Center, U, drawings, a costume con- Grill, U, 8pm script Library will host a Discovery Room 1pm test and more.

Amy Ray w/Arizona reception for W.S. MerSavoy Recreational CenIllinois Women’s Soccer ‘80s night with DJ Highdive, C, 8pm win, whose papers are ter, Savoy, $2/Residents vs Ohio State Mingram Corn Desert Ramblers held at the library. and Members, $3/NR Soccer and Track Stadium, Highdive, C, 10pm Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., Between the Lines Book Ages crawling-7.

C, 1pm, $5, $4 faculty, U, 9pm Club concert Nightmare on Grove $2 youth, students with The Piano Man Champaign Public Library, Street OneRepublic with special Canopy Club, U, 9pm ID free C, 7pm Douglass Park, C, 1pm guest Augustana MBB Orange & Blue karaoke kids & families Ages 3-11.

Assembly Hall, C, 7pm, Scrimmage Mara-Giri: West African Assembly Hall, C, 4:30pm $30 Liquid Courage Karaoke Discovery Room Drum and Dance Geo’s, U, 9pm Savoy Recreational Cenholidays Champaign Public Library, holidays Karaoke with Randy ter, Savoy, $2/Residents C, 2pm Miller and Members, $3/NR Negangard Pumpkin Negangard Pumpkin Bentley’s Pub, C, 9:30pm (per visit, per child) Patch Patch miscellaneous Ages crawling-7.

Negangard Pumpkin Negangard Pumpkin open mic Tuesday Twos The Bike Project Open Patch, Sidney, 9am Patch, Sidney, 9am Shop Hours Sells pumpkins, squash, Sells pumpkins, squash, Original Music Showcase Champaign Public Library, Urbana-Champaign Ingourds, corn stalks, indigourds, corn stalks, IndiEspresso Royale, U, 8pm C, 9:45am, 10:30am, 11:15am dependent Media Center, ana corn, staw bales and ana corn, staw bales and Open Mic Night U, 2pm lots more. lots more.

Memphis on Main, C, 8pm Enjoy stories, songs, and Check out the tools and work stands you can use lectures to fix your own bike and Ancient Art of Amezaiku tour their massive collec- Japan House, U, 2pm tion of parts, spares and Family program with Maused bikes. saji Terasawa performing A Night of Horrors the ancient art of amezaiWilliam M. Staerkel Plan- ku, a method of sculpting etarium, C, 9:30pm, $5 hot taffy-like candy into Our Halloween thriller fantastic shapes. returns for two nights 9pm–10pm 10pm–11pm only. Not for young chil- fundraisers dren.

UC Books to Prisoners Your weekly destination for 60 minutes=60 songs.

Survival Shelters work session jack-assery, tom foolery, 1 minute each. When you Homer Lake Forest PreUrbana-Champaign Inserve, Homer, 2pm, $2 dependent Media Center, damn fool boobery. Turn us hear a new song, you know per person U, 12pm in and we’ll freak you out. what to do.

Learn how to make a sur- UC Books to Prisoners vival shelter from natural is an Urbana, IL based materials that will keep project providing books to you warm and dry. Reg- Illinois inmates at no cost. istration required.

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Amateur Comedy Night Memphis on Main, C, 8:30pm Original material only.

Open-Mic Night Radio Maria, C, 10:30pm

Negangard Pumpkin Patch Donnie Heitler Negangard Pumpkin Great Impasta, C, 6pm Patch, Sidney, 9am Traditional Irish Music Sells pumpkins, squash, Session gourds, corn stalks, indiBentley’s Pub, C, ana corn, staw bales and 7pm lots more.

Rocket Science At Halloween at Rockome Senator’s Inn Pub Rockome Gardens, ArcoSenator’s Bar & Grill, Sala, 7:30pm, $12, children voy, 8pm under 6 free Atmosphere, Abstract A haunted barn, cave, Rude, Blueprint, DJ Rare hayride, corn maze, tiny Groove goblins play area and a Canopy Club, U, 9pm, $18 Spirits Garden. FeaturPre-Halloween Bash with ing up to 90 professional Surfabilly Freakout scare actors roaming over Mike ‘n’ Molly’s, C, 20 acres of scare area.

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karaoke Paul Faber Dragon Karaoke The Embassy Tavern & Grill, U, 9pm Liquid Courage Karaoke Geovanti’s, C, 10pm

Illinois Glass Art Exhibit Cinema Gallery, U, 10am A show of work by glass artists living and working in Illinois.

Masque Appeal Heartland Gallery, U, 10am Masks and other works by Gregory Slawko.

Storyshop Champaign Public Library, C, 9:45am, 10:30am Stories, music, and movement are featured in this weekly storytime for preschoolers.

Pumpkin Patch Party Champaign Public Library, C, 9:45am, 10:30am Wear your costume and join the annual indoor Pumpkin Patch Parade.

Dare to Be Scared 2 Douglass Branch Library, C, 6pm Come to this return of the haunted story time if you dare.

miscellaneous The Bike Project Open Shop Hours Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, U, 6:30pm Check out the tools and work stands you can use to fix your own bike and tour their massive collection of parts, spares and used bikes.

kids & families Discovery Room Savoy Recreational Center, Savoy, $2/Residents and Members, $3/NR (per visit, per child) Ages crawling-7.

Around the World Wednesdays Spurlock Museum, U, 9:30am, $2 donation Children and their parents are invited to drop in for a wide variety of culture-based crafts and activities.

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D O I N ’ I T W E L L by Kim Rice & Ross Wantland

The Value of Virginity Does touching yourself count?

Last month, a California college student made headlines by auctioning off her virginity to help her pay for college. As she was quoted, “We live in a capitalist society. Why shouldn’t I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?” The owner of the brothel where both the auction and consummation were to take place added, “Why lose it to some guy in the backseat of a Toyota when you can pay for your education?” Besides the vast economic pressures that might make having sex to pay for school the best option, Doin’ It Well wanted to also discuss the definitions and assumptions of virginity in our society.

A virgin is a person who has not had sexual (usually penile-vaginal) intercourse. Aside from clinical definitions of sexual inexperience, virginity is also a value-laden word that implies “purity,” “innocence” or being “untouched.” When virginity is discussed, the focus is on “saving,” “protecting” and “cherishing” one’s virginity before eventually “giving” it to someone. With all these things tied to what it means to be a virgin and the high value placed on that, people can become confused about their sexual feelings and try to preserve a concept of purity at all costs. For example, we hear people say, “If I’m a virgin, I can’t get an STD.” Meanwhile, many virgins are engaging in oral and anal sex in an effort to protect themselves physically, spirituality and emotionally from the consequences of “losing their virginity.”

Am I a Virgin?

Virginity. Chastity. Purity. Abstinence. These words get tossed around, but it’s not clear what precisely they mean — although there is a lot of pressure to uphold them. In many ways, the focus on virginity narrows our views of sexuality, keeping it in a tight box, controlled and defined by others.

If someone masturbates, are they pure? If two men perform oral sex on each other, are they virgins? If a straight couple makes love to each other without penetration, have they preserved virginity? If a young lesbian couple enjoys mutual masturbation, are they still virgins? In addition, because of the narrow definition of virginity, many women who have experienced sexual violence may no longer consider themselves virgins because the sex act, not their freely given choice, is what defines their virginity. This is the problem when a narrow definition is used to categorize and place value or worth on people based on their sexual behaviors.

buzz 19 instance, is an example of this, in which women go under the knife to recreate physical virginity, usually as a “gift” for her husband’s birthday or an anniversary. Along with this return to purity, some suggest a “second virginity” — abstaining from sex after one has already been sexually active in order to reclaim a “spiritual” virginity because, of course, the physical one has already been “ruined.”

Abstinence Ambivalence We live in a culture that provides many different messages about sex. Sex is described as pure, disgusting, hot, dirty, passionate and sacred. There is pressure to both be sexual and to deny one’s sexuality. There is an assumption and value placed on abstaining from sex — this is seen as the “right” and “normal” behavior. In addition, the freedom of sexual expression is granted only within the context of heterosexual marriage.

However, what we know is that most individuals in late adolescence are engaging in some sexual behavior, either by themselves or with a partner.

In fact, sexual behavior prior to marriage is the norm, not abstinence. Because these messages also don’t get applied to men and women equally, this also promotes a double standard between men and women’s sexuality. Yet we continue to see messages that suggest we need a “return to purity” — a time that frankly has never existed.

them should be celebrated too. A higher or lesser value shouldn’t be placed on the sexual decisions that people make. Instead, focus should be paid to how we are developing sexually and whether or not it is positive and healthy.

Each and every one of us, whether we are choosing to have sex or choosing to be abstinent, are sexual beings. Sexuality is an important aspect of our identities. And sexuality includes everything from our sexual behaviors to the ways in which we understand ourselves and our emotions. It is important that pressures to abstain don’t limit our abilities to develop into sexually healthy individuals and that we are free to choose to be or not to be sexually active for a variety of reasons that feel good to us and not simply to meet some external expectation of what is “right,” “pure” or “worthy.”

It’s time we place the highest value on what it means to be sexually healthy and to live within a sexually healthy society and not simply rely on one word or concept to define our worth.

Sex 411: Touching on Virginity Blank, H. Virginity: The Untouched History

A Million-Dollar Price Tag Some people seemed shocked that a young woman might auction off her virginity, but we’re not that surprised, given the high value that is placed on sexual purity, particularly of women. This virginity auction is not the only example of the concept of “my virginity is a gift.” Reconstructive vaginal surgery, for

What’s Wrong with Sex? We often hear that people who choose not to have sex should be supported and their decisions celebrated. We wholeheartedly agree. At the same time, those who choose to be sexual in ways that are healthy, normal and feel good to

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Free Will Astrology ARIES

March 21-April 19

Our government spends an obscene fortune on its armed forces -- almost as much as do all the other nations of the world combined. In fact, we are by far the most weaponized empire in the history of the world, with 761 military bases in over 100 countries. If our military costs were cut down to a more reasonable size -- say the same as China’s -- we’d have a trillion-dollar bonus to deal with the financial infection that erupted here and sent toxic ripples throughout the world. Keeping that in mind as a metaphor, Aries, make this your hypothesis: By reducing the hostility, combativeness, and judgmental ire that you personally generate, you’ll be far more likely to navigate your way toward prosperity.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20

The days leading up to the national election feature a rare opposition between Saturn and Uranus. Since Saturn symbolizes the past and Uranus the future, we might expect there to be a showdown between what has been and what will be, not only on a collective level but also in our personal realms. In what areas of your life do you think that will materialize, Taurus? Identify those hotspots, then get to work coordinating synergistic interactions between the seemingly contrary forces.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20

Write the number ten followed by eleven zeroes. Our Milky Way Galaxy has that many stars. Write a ten followed by twelve zeroes. That’s the size of America’s national debt in dollars. Now promise me that for the next month, you will avoid absorbing any scary, overwhelming data like the kind I just threw at you. Worrying about the big financial picture would not only be fruitless, it would also distract you from your main tasks, which are as follows: Regard the crisis as an excellent opportunity to shed materialistic obsessions and live more humbly and creatively. Sublimate your buy-ological urges into biological urges. Stretch yourself to get into closer touch with your spiritual core.

CANCER

June 21-July 22

As the stock markets came crashing down, a different kind of global devastation received scant notice. The World Conservation Congress revealed that 25 percent of the planet’s mammal species and one out of eight birds are on close to extinction. We’re not just talking about exotic animals in remote hideaways, but rabbits and deer and cardinals and turtledoves. As you meditate on how to reinvent yourself in the wake of the financial chaos, Cancerian, please hold a vigil in your heart for the endangered creatures. The two crises are related, after all.

The greed to turn everything into a means of generating money has led humans to both despoil nature and risk the crazy gambles that have savaged the economy. The more you understand that, the better your intuition will be as you make personal decisions affecting your future relationship with money.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22

TV’s “The Daily Show” did a mock biography of your fellow Leo, Barack Obama, poking fun at the adoration he inspires in millions of people around the world. Every time he speaks, said the narrator, “an angel has an orgasm.”

According to my analysis, you now have a scaled-down version of that power. You may not incite the same intensity of pleasure in the heavenly hosts, but you could definitely unleash eruptions of raw enthusiasm in numerous humans. I suggest that like Obama, you channel it in service to a cause beyond your own selfish interests.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

When the planet Uranus comes into play, as it is now, it’s a good time to initiate experiments that will expedite the arrival of future blessings. Pushing beyond comforting habits, you thrive by going in quest of bracing truths, unfashionable beauty, and wild justice. The symbolic nature of Saturn is different. It invites you to creatively limit and discipline yourself so that fate isn’t forced to limit and discipline you in unpleasant ways. It so happens, Virgo, that Uranus and Saturn are now poised in opposition to each other. Will they work at cross-purposes, spawning a sticky mess? Or is there a way for you to get them to work together? More than you imagine, you have the power to affect how they interact in your personal sphere. www.the217.com

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LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22

“I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.” So wrote Jane Kenyon, translating Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. At this juncture in history, that’s a feeling many of us have. Part of the time we’re on the verge of freaking out, half-expecting some new calamity to befall the world. Other times we’re awash in wonder and awe, catching glimpses of the miraculous flow that’s hidden just below the surface of everyday chaos; we’re tantalizingly close to understanding that everything is proceeding exactly as it should. In the coming weeks, this excruciating poignancy will peak, especially for you. Regard it as a gift -- as a difficult blessing that has the potential to free you of your illusions.

SCORPIO

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

What do you do when you’re squeezed between the demands of authority and the healthy need to rebel? How do you respond when the past and future are at odds?

What resources do you draw on when the person you have always been starts to evolve into an interesting new form that you don’t recognize? You’ve come to a fork in the road, Scorpio, when you will be asked to deal with these questions on a larger scale than before. My advice?

Study your past so thoroughly that you’ll be able to keep it from repeating itself, and open your mind to possibilities you’ve rarely considered.

SAGITTARIUS

Nov. 22-Dec. 21

The world is poised at the threshold of a great choice: Should we stick with what has worked for us, even though it’s not working any more? Or should we experiment with possibilities that may work for us in the future, even though they don’t have a track record? You, Sagittarius, can and should be a leader in this epic adventure.

The best way to do that is to summon your dormant courage as you apply the big questions I just posed to the specific circumstances of your personal life.

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AQUARIUS

Jan. 20-Feb. 18

The planet Saturn symbolizes the preservative and conservative tendencies of evolution. It teaches us to learn from the past and keeps us from rushing into the frontier before we’re ready. Uranus, on the other hand, represents future shocks, both the disturbing and benevolent kinds.

It disturbs our sleep in order to wake us up and energizes us to reinvent ourselves on the fly. What happens when these two planets slip into an intimate dynamic, as they are now? Will one of them prevail over the other in a great battle? Or will they coordinate their efforts artfully in a riveting, gorgeous dance? Amazingly enough, the outcome depends in part on you.

No faking allowed, Aquarius. I mean it. You must do no pretending, tell no dirty lies, and never act as if you know things you don’t truly know. Instead, say exactly what you mean; be more real than you have ever dared to be; be nothing more and nothing less than who you actually are. Why is this authenticity crusade so important right now? Because in the coming weeks, you’ll be setting your life’s tone for months to come. You will be planting more seeds than you can imagine.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20

Uranus symbolizes your instinct for freedom, your drive to express your dormant genius, and your attunement with your intuition. Saturn represents structure and responsibility; when it’s prominent, it’s time to get back to basics and cut down on distractions and excesses. So what should you do when these two planets are in exact opposition, as they are now? Here’s one hint: We’re all being squeezed between a mandate to head toward the frontier and the pressure to play it safe. To keep from being paralyzed, some of us may have to choose one way over the other. In my opinion, you Pisceans are likely to profit by choosing the Uranian path.

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It’s That Time of Year Again ... ... Cold and flu season I went for a little walk on Sunday evening, and it reminded me of just how beautiful this time of year actually is. It was just cold enough to pull up the hood on my sweatshirt, but it was far from that upcoming sort of cold that chaps your face the first two seconds you’re outside.

I could smell fire pits, fireplaces and possibly a few unruly folks burning leaves, you know, like people used to do before it became the crime of the century. It’s just that wonderful time of year when I don’t quite fear winter’s wrath and the heat of summer still sounds unpleasant. I also felt like I was ahead of the game since I’d already had my first sickness of the year.

This particular sickness was some sort of sinus infection that involved a crazy headache, facial puffiness and wads of snot the size of tennis balls leaving my nose at five-minute intervals for about five days in a row. It was pretty much what a person should expect from an illness except this one came with its own sequel attached. I was sick, then for some reason thought I was just fine and then got sick again. Here’s a simple reminder: The absolute second you begin to feel better is not the absolute second you should reach for the Absolut bottle.

For some reason, I have this romanticized notion of sickness. I see myself lying on the couch all covered up, sipping 7-Up and slurping chicken soup, watching old movies all damned day. It sounds awesome because I always forget about the coughing, nose blowing, fever and general malaise. Right now, the bad parts of sick are fresh in my mind, and I’m pitifully vowing never to get ill again. In fact, I even looked up some tips to make this happen.

The No. 1 tip is to wash your hands. Well, fine, that seems like pretty good advice, doesn’t it?

When I really think about it, though, it seems like I should really wash everyone else’s hands. I know where my hands have been, and if it’s somewhere nasty, I’m scrubbing them like crazy. The problem is all those door handles, tables and glassware that other people are touching with their vile little hands. Outside of drinking, I’m fairly sure I’ve never actually gotten myself sick. It’s really those other bastards that need to mind their hands.

Another tip is to not cover up your sneezes and coughs with your hands. I should quickly point out

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this doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be covered at all, so let’s not all just start spraying stuff around willy-nilly. It means use a tissue to cover it, and then throw it away immediately. If for some reason you don’t have a tissue, feel free to use the shirttail of the person standing nearest you. If no one is around, sneeze on the nearest doorknob.

It’s also never a good idea to touch your face.

Most viruses enter through the eyes, nose or mouth, so don’t even scratch your nose or brush away an eyelash. In fact, what might be a fine idea during the cold and flu season is to take a plastic bag and wrap it snuggly around your head, sealing it tightly at your neck with a rubber band.

It’s uncomfortable at first, but this will keep you from contracting a virus from your face. It will also prevent your dumb ass from sneezing on a door knob that I’ll touch later.

It’s also a good idea to drink plenty of fluids. As I painfully found out last week, liquor is not considered a fluid in this particular instance ... even if it happens to have juice mixed in with it. They say you should have at least eight, eight oz. glasses of water a day. Another way to tell if you’re getting enough water is to make sure your urine is clear.

If it is, you may then feel free to wipe your hand on the doorknob each of the 20 times you leave the restroom that day.

Lastly, they say it’s just a good idea to relax. OK, fine advice, but relaxing would be a hell of a lot easier to do if there weren’t all these damned viruses floating around all the time. Anyway, there’s evidence that if you can teach yourself to relax, you can activate your immune system on demand.

They say you should train yourself to picture an image you find relaxing, and then think of this for 30 minutes a day for several months.

Whatever, dudes. I’m not sure just how much time these freaking doctors think I have to spare, but sitting down and relaxing for 30 minutes a day really doesn’t fit in with my schedule, especially if I’m peeing and washing my hands all the time.

I’m sure most of these tips were sort of common sense, but then again, like they say, that sort of sense ain’t all that common anymore. If you do find yourself ill, just suck it up and stay the hell away from the rest of us. There’s no reason to be a hero this time of year, so instead, be a martyr.

Keep your ass home, and call the rest of us every 20 minutes or so to tell us how bad you’re feeling. You’ll get tons of much-needed sympathy, and maybe everyone else can stop washing their hands all the damned time.

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