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Every year, right around this time, I start thinking about Christmas a lot (I’m already way ahead on the Christmas music.) When I was home in Chicago over break, I got a real taste of the holidays. Every store I visited was decked out in red, green, blue, silver, fake snow and glitter. Empty street corners had been renovated into mini Christmas tree and wreath emporiums. The Salvation Army volunteers’ bells were a-ringing. The Nutcracker at the Joffrey Ballet and A Christmas Carol at the Goodman signs/advertisements decked State Street. The Targets, Walmarts and Meijers of the world were (probably) already advertising and selling Valentine's Day decorations and candy (speculation, but I wouldn't put it past them these days). What I most look forward to every holiday season are baking Christmas cookies, even though these days, I hardly have time to make more than one or two kinds. We have one book at home that is essentially the cookie bible. It’s called Rose’s Christmas Cookies, written by Rose Levy Beranbaum and published (coincidentally) in my year of birth. Our copy at home is looking pretty rough these days. The middle section of pages has separated from the binding. It might be from copious opening and closing, or maybe the book is just groaning from the weight of all the Post-it notes that I’ve stuck notating all the cookies that I want to make, which at this point, is pretty much all of them. In the very back of the book, the last recipe, is a behemoth, unbelievable, beautiful, mindbogglingly intricate and I assume, delicious, gingerbread cathedral. CATHEDRAL. It’s a gingerbread Notre Dame. Complete with candy stained-glass windows and buttresses. Bring that shit to your Aunt Betty’s Christmas dinner and dare her to ask you about your future. I’ve wanted to construct this edifice for years, but so far, I get enough kick out of just reading the ingredient list, which includes ridiculous amounts of everything (10 pounds of flour, somewhere in the ballpark of 8 pounds of butter, probably the entire molasses selection at your local grocery store, no big). In addition to the basic photos of the cathedral, it also comes with pages of architectural outlines to use when making your very own Notre Dame. Naturally, few, if any, will attempt this superstructure, which is why the recipe is prefaced with a short, but sweet, note from Rose about how it’s in the book for the few who may attempt it, but really for those who love to dream.

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WORLD AIDS DAY BY THOMAS THOREN This Saturday, Dec. 1, is the 25th annual World AIDS Day. The day was created to commemorate those who have died as a result of HIV and AIDS and to support those currently battling the condition. This year’s theme, “Getting to Zero,” will see several local organizations taking part in the celebration of World AIDS Day. At 2 p.m. on Saturday, the University’s LGBT Resource Center will screen “Sex in an Epidemic,” a documentary about the history of AIDS and HIV and their current effects on society. The Asian American Cultural Center, located at 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana, will host the screening. Later on Saturday, at 4:30 p.m., the Greater Community AIDS Project of East Central Illinois will hold a candlelight vigil at West Side Park in Champaign. It will honor the victims of HIV and AIDS, and will also show support for living victims. The organization also hopes to raise awareness for the importance of more treatment and help for those who are suffering. On Monday at noon, the University’s LGBT Resource Center will also feature a lecture about World AIDS Day by Dr. Mildred Williamson of the Illinois Department of Public Health. This will be the final lecture in the Resource Center’s Quench lecture series for this fall. Williamson will speak in room 314A of the Illini Union. Take time out of your Saturday to celebrate World AIDS Day by learning more about the pandemic, removing the stigma associated with its victims and supporting those who have been affected by it. BUZZ STAFF

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» Hair conditioner: I mistook hair conditioner for shampoo a few months ago in what has turned out to be the happiest mistake of my entire life. Until now, I had never experienced the sensual satisfaction I get from a hair conditioner’s soft caress. The way it instantly makes my hair silky smooth makes me want to run my hand through my hair all day, every day. If you see me twirling my hair like I am trying to play shy and flirt with somebody, well, I am. I’m flirting with myself. » Making strange foods into snack foods: About a week before Thanksgiving, I realized I had not eaten a Little Debbie snack in at least 10 years. So I added Zebra Cakes to the Thanksgiving shopping list and I ate four of these on my train ride home last weekend. While on that same shopping trip, I realized the French’s fried onions are just like tiny onion rings, so I snacked on them while making the green bean casserole. Finally, I snacked on the marshmallows while preparing the candied yams. After eating all of my Zebra Cakes for lunch on my train ride, I realized I was out of food for dinner, so I ate marshmallows. My teeth hurt a lot the next morning. » Holiday packaging: How else am I supposed to know it is the holiday season? If you throw a Santa on a product’s label, not only will it give me holiday cheer, but it will make me want to buy 10 of them right away. I don’t drink Starbucks, but man do I wish I could drink everything out of those red coffee cups just to remind myself that it is almost December. Jasmine Lee Food & Drink Editor JASMINE LEE Yikes Food & Drink Editor

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» Movie trilogies: Now, I am not a movie snob by any means. However, my relationship with movie trilogies is pretty much straightforward: I far prefer them to dynasties like Star Wars or James Bond, and for the most part, ensure that at least a terrible sequel will be fixed by a relatively better triquel (Is that a word?) The Ocean's Eleven/ Twelve/Thirteen trilogy is a guilty pleasure of mine, and I will watch those movies for days. My roommate owning all three Back to the Future movies finally compelled me to watch numbers two and three, and I heart the bejeezus out of the Wild Wild West one. But The Lord of the Rings trilogy intimidates the crap out of me and the sheer amount of mythology and fandom lore from those films have kept me from actually watching any of them. Also, I have a tendency to switch camp and favor reboots; see: My fanaticism for The Bourne Legacy as opposed to my lukewarm interest in the original Matt Damon Bourne movies. Anyhoo. This is a yike, more because I think I've dug myself into a hole and made a few film buffs aggrieved. If anyone has any other thoughts, let's chat.

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ow that Thanksgiving is over, the countdown to Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa has begun. No matter what you celebrate, BUZZ this is theTHURSDAY time of year for family, and while we love them, family can sometimes bring out the NOVEMBER 29 worst in corp you.note...keep What dothisyou expect from people same size always who have known you all your life and know just 1 X your 5.417 how to push buttons? But things could be much worse. Check out five fictional families (and 1/8th page one real family) that would make you reconsider going home for the holidays. We Need to Talk About Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin has a wonderfully understated title, considering the much more apt We Need to Talk About Taking Kevin Out Back with a Loaded Shotgun. We follow Kevin’s mother, Eva (Tilda Swinton), as she struggles hopelessly to forge an affectionate connection with her demonlike son. She now lives alone, curiously without her daughter and husband (John C. Reilly), and we trace her mental unhinging in tandem with Kevin’s heinous behavior. We Need to Talk About Kevin is easily a horror film about the enigma of parenting; it explores the elusive line between the malleable parts of a child’s personality, the ones vulnerable to a mother’s influence, and then that deep psyche that is impossible for her to touch. We all want our families to be united by love, but in writer/director Lynne Ramsay’s film, Eva’s efforts with Kevin are both unwittingly destructive and completely futile. —Ben Mueller Capturing the Friedmans All seems fine and well with the well-to-do Friedmans until Arnold Friedman, the father of the family, is arrested for child molestation, along with his 18-year-old son, Jesse, just before Thanksgiving day. Further examination of the

case shows that both may belong to the Twilight Zone realm, as each new claim, either from family member or police officer, contradicts the one previous to it. But one truth that remains throughout the film is the family’s devastation. Elaine, Arthur’s wife, tries to look at the case fairly, but home video footage only shows bitter arguments with her sons, who viciously accuse her of being unsupportive. And whatever life that filled Arnold before the criminal charges has left him. Once the zealous one behind the family camera, he can only muster a few words when the lens points toward his way. “Dysfunctional?” a brother-in-law jokes. “Numero uno.” —Adlai Stevenson The Squid and the Whale After 17 years of marriage, parents Bernard (Jeff Daniels) and Joan Berkman (Laura Linney) decide to divorce. Set in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s with their two boys, Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and Frank (Owen Kline), who are coming-of-age with their own problems, the divorce only steepens each son’s abnormal behaviors. Unsure of who they are, each boy turns to the parent more reflective of their own personality in attempts to have some explanation of their lives. With each parent exploring new partners in a means to cope, Walt turns to plagiarism, and Frank to continuous public masturbation. It is only with the slow process of trial-and-error within their daily lives that each boy begins to take a less-biased look into who their parents are, and ultimately themselves. The Squid and the Whale manages to honestly reflect the loud and vastly uncomfortable reaches of what accepting change really means, while simultaneously allowing a quiet introspection to try and understand growing up. And it serves a good reminder to viewers of divorced families:

You might be messed up, but at least you don’t climax in a school library book to cope! (It could always be worse.) —Kaitlin Penn Cyrus John (John C. Riley) is divorced, single, lonely and recently, looking for love in all the right places. Initially. He meets the beautiful and adorable Molly (Marisa Tomei) at a party and they hit it off. After two surprisingly great dates, John learns that Molly is hiding a big secret in her life and her house: her 21-year-old son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill). Cyrus is an aspiring musician who uses wave sounds instead of actual instruments and still needs a tuck in every night from mother dearest. He is completely neurotic and doesn’t sit well with the idea of letting another man in the house. A completely destructive relationship between Cyrus and John jeopardizes the loving relationship that John and Molly now have. Hill perfectly toes the line between creepy and insanely hysterical as the only child in a family that could seriously use a father figure. Cyrus is dysfunction at its best from all members of this messed up “family.” — Patrick Filbin American Beauty A darkly comic take on the dark underbelly of the American suburbia, American Beauty features one of the more dysfunctional families to grace the big screen. On the outside, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) along with his wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), and his daughter, Jane, appear to be the perfect example of the American Dream. However, we quickly learn that looks can be deceiving. Lester goes through an intense mid-life crisis and decides to drastically change both his body and his life. Carolyn projects an outward image of being put together and in complete control of her life. In reality, she feels empty and desperate, leading to her having an affair with a handsome local real estate king. Jane suffers from incredibly low self-esteem, in part due to the beauty of her model/cheerleader best friend, Angela. Lester falls into uncontrollable lust for Angela as a part of his plan to change his life. Unsurprisingly, the Burnhams’ collective neuroses lead to the gradual unraveling of the family in a beautifully tragic way. —Jamila Tyler Rachel Getting Married Rachel Getting Married follows recovering addict Kym (Anne Hathaway) who’s out of rehab and thrust right into her sister, Rachel’s, wedding. A celebration of love and commitment shifts to the background as Kym’s troubled past and cynical outlook crash into the deep set troubles and unresolved feelings faced by the entire family. Directed by Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married places the audience in between a dysfunctional family that needs to get their past untangled and resolved or else threaten new beginnings, a much more realistic narrative than a cheesy romantic comedy featuring a wedding crasher who falls in love with a bridesmaid. —Sneha Shukla

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the changing landscape of Labor TRades Employers struggle to fill skilled trade jobs across the country by Jessica Bourque

The Electrical Computer Engineering Science Building is currently under construction. Photo by Zach Dalzell.

he sharp sound of hammers slamming into steel reverberates down Clark and Wright streets. Construction crews are hard at work building what will be the new 230,000 square foot Electrical Computer Engineering Sciences Building. Soon, there will be enough college students to flood the halls of the new state-of-the-art facility. Whether or not there will be enough laborers to actually build it, and other campus buildings, is another story. College degrees carry considerable cachet in today’s society, which is perhaps why college enrollment rates in the past five years are the highest they have ever been in U.S. history. According to a Bureau of Labor and Statistics report released in April of this year, more than 68 percent of last year’s high school graduates — roughly 2.1 million students — were enrolled in college or university, a percentage that is projected to increase in the coming years. And yet, by the year 2020, “more than two-thirds of all job openings are expected to be in occupations that typically do not need postsecondary education for entry,” according to a different Bureau of Labor and Statistics report released in February of this year. In short, jobs that don’t need a college education are going unfilled while increasingly more students are pursuing degrees. One of the vocations facing talent shortages as a result of this trend are the skilled labor trades, which were ranked fourth among America’s most difficult profes-

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sions for employers to fill, according to a recent ManPowerGroup survey. “People today put so much emphasis on sending their kids to college but there isn’t much talk about what they can do otherwise,” said Mike Herbert, board member on Champaign Urbana’s Workforce Development Board. Herbert, who is also a trustee on the East Central Illinois Building and Construction Trades Council and head of the local electrical union, said that while skilled trade jobs in Champaign haven’t faced any noticeable talent shortages just yet, there has been a drastic drop in applications to union apprenticeship programs. “Before the economy fell down a few years ago, we had anywhere from 100-120 people applying to our [the electrical union’s] program each year,” said Herbert. “Now, we’re really lucky if we get 50." Representatives from ManPowerGroup and Express Employment Professionals, two local employment agencies, echoed Herbert’s sentiment. “I have a client looking to hire 14 carpenters. I don’t think I’ll have trouble finding the right guys for the job, but the pool of workers to pick from has gotten smaller over the past few years,” said Paige Amacher, a staffing consultant at Express Employment. Cathy Stalter, Department Chair for Parkland’s Engineering Sciences and Technologies said that she has also seen a decrease in applicants to Parkland’s apprenticeship programs. However, while the overall

number of applications is decreasing, the number of applicants with previous education experience and college degrees is dramatically increasing. “I would say about 80 percent of our most recent applicants had college experience,” Stalter said. “It’s really fascinating. The past few years we’ve seen more and more people with college degrees wanting to come back and work in the trades.” Financially speaking, the trend Stalter is witnessing makes sense. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports that the average annual wage for those working in the construction and extraction occupations in CU is $55,160, significantly higher than $46,940, the average annual wage for all occupations in Champaign-Urbana. What is more, those going into skilled labor trades will not have to accrue any substantial student loan debt. “Our apprenticeship programs are all paid for. The only thing students buy are their books,” Herbert said. “On top of that, they’re actually getting paid for their work. It’s like getting paid to go to school.” Base pay for apprentices in Champaign-Urbana starts at around $17 per hour with a 5 percent increase every six months, given that they are completing their work and school hours. Parkland’s apprenticeship program is one of nine throughout the state that receives funding from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). “IDOT realized that they’re going to be hurting for construction workers in the next 10 or so years,” said R.J. Rowland, Program Manager of the Highway and Construction Crews Training Program at Parkland College. “It’s all baby boomers out there. Once they’re all gone, there will be a lot of jobs opening up and not enough people to fill them.” Members of IDOT’s training programs learn basic math and communication skills to help prepare them for entry into full apprenticeship programs. These training programs are also intended to help minorities and women enter the trades, a field predominantly occupied by white males. Herbert thinks that high school graduates are another minority group that should be reached out to.

“It’s different from when I was coming up. Everyone who was applying then was usually just out of school,” said Herbert. “But now we see a lot of people in their late twenties and even thirties and forties." Herbert cited the decline of vocational programs being taught in schools as part of the problem. These classes, which involved learning the basics of construction, have been eliminated from ChampaignUrbana schools’ curriculums and are only sparsely taught in rural schools throughout the county. To help offset the lack of vocational exposure in schools, the Workforce Development Board in conjunction with local school boards have created a five-week summer school program in which students are taught labor education. Enrolled students work five hour days, four days a week at a smallscale worksite. By the end, “they will have actually built something” Herbert said. The 4-year-old program is offered to juniors and seniors at Champaign, Urbana, Gibson City and Rantoul high schools. The evident disinterest in the skilled trades could also be accredited to the physical nature of the job. “The hours are long and it is hard, physical labor. Plus in a job that relies on your physicality, there’s always the risk that every day could be your last,” Herbert said. Perhaps the real culprit behind the recent skilled trade shortages are the college educations that Americans hold so dear. But the relationship between degree-centric jobs and labor-centric jobs isn’t so simple, especially in a college town like Champaign, where laborers depend on the university’s new infrastructure investments to keep them employed. “You now have about 13-15 buildings going to be built along that corridor going in behind I-Hotel. That agreement was just put in place this last summer and will probably employ thousands of tradesmen over the next 10 years,” Herbert said. “As long as they can get the Caterpillars, the Yahoos and the Googles to come to town, hiring promising students to help them with their research, then we laborers can keep building.”

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Four new recipes that effectively use up your Thanksgiving leftovers by Jasmine Lee Leftovers the day after Thanksgiving is just as traditional as turkey day itself. There should be an algorithm out in the universe that can ensure that all the food made on Thursday will be eaten on Thursday, but where’s the fun in that? I, for one, expect that the leftovers will last me for days, if not weeks, following. POTATO HASH WITH HAM OR TURKEY There are two kinds of hash: Hash that was made to be eaten with the likes of biscuits, gravy and eggs, and hash that is browned and charred with corned beef or any other meat. My personal favorite is the kind of hash that combines those two together, especially when dotted with over-easy eggs. And luckily, this is a recipe that doesn’t really require strict measurements. »Heat two tablespoons of oil in a skillet. Add Brussels sprouts, garlic, onions and potatoes, and cook, stirring occasionally until onions become translucent and potatoes begin to brown, about five minutes. Add chopped up ham or pulled turkey meat, chili or hot sauce, dash of salt and pepper, and stir until combined. Press mixture into bottom of pan and leave alone until crust forms, about two minutes. Scrape up hash, mix and repeat until hash is well charred throughout, about ten minutes total. Make two or three wells in the hash and crack one egg per well. Cover pan and cook until eggs reach

desired doneness, about five to seven more minutes. CORN CAKES While chowder is a tempting dish to prepare from leftover corn, it might be a good idea to go a little lighter after the week of holiday eating. The overflowing cups of corn manage to cancel out the effects of the two sticks of butter that go in this recipe. »Add two cups of corn into a food processor and puree. Toss in two sticks of softened butter, 1/3 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. Blend. Stir in 1 cup of masa harina, 1/4 cup of flour and blend. Fold in remaining cup of corn kernels. Heat 1 tablespoon of butter over medium-high heat in a skillet. Scoop up corn batter with an ice cream scoop and drop them into the hot skillet. Press the scoops down with a spatula to form patties, and cook cakes until they’re golden brown on one side. Flip over and continue cooking until cakes are golden brown on both sides. CRANBERRY SALSA Here is a unique recipe that is tasty and easy to make. »In a food processor, combine 1/2 cup of cranberry sauce, 1/4 cup chopped cilantro, zest and juice of one lime, a coarsely chopped jalapeno, 1/2 cup of chopped onion, 1/2 cup of chopped bell pepper, 1/2 cup chopped tomato, and salt and pepper. Pulse

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until blended but still chunky. TURKEY SHEPHERD’S PIE Pot pie seems like the easiest thing to make with Thanksgiving leftovers, managing to use up all those pesky vegetables and wine that take a bit longer to finish. However, Shepherd’s Pie is an even better alternative to pot pie. » Sauté chopped onions, garlic and carrots in

oil in a skillet until they begin to color and soften. Add shredded turkey and any other vegetables on hand and cook until browned. Add red wine and cook until wine reduces and evaporates. Add tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper. Transfer filling to a 9x13 or 8x8 pan, spread mashed potatoes on top, and bake for 10-12 minutes at 400 degrees until browned.

shop local saturdays, holiday edition A buzz writer hangs out at the Holiday Market by Sean Harrigan

Urbana Holiday Fair. Photo by Sean Harrigan.

hile my Saturday mornings usually consist of sleeping in or watching the Illini struggle to complete a pass, I chose to do something different this weekend. Lincoln Square Mall’s Holiday Market began Nov. 10, and it is definitely worth checking out. Normally the weekly Farmer’s Market occupies this space, but there is now all manner of crafts, gifts and holiday decorations in addition to produce and baked treats. The vendors I spoke to were outgoing and enthusi-

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astic about participating in the fair. Many were also very liberal with the free samples, which was a nice. One man, the proprietor of C.K. Almonds, won me over right away with a free roasted almond. On the way out, I couldn’t help myself and picked up a bag of almonds and a bag of chocolate-covered pecans. I also tried some face moisturizer by Rodan & Fields, but unfortunately didn’t have the money to purchase the complete “Lucky and Lovely PerSKINality Kit.” The Holiday Fair is an excellent place to go if you’re looking for unique holiday gifts for those relatives

you don’t see that often. There are handmade Christmas tree ornaments, personalized jewelry and custom drink cozies, just to name a few. Many vendors, such as Premier Designs, will also give you catalogues of their wares in case you wish to order something they don’t have in stock. Also, be on the lookout for the free wine tasting; a handpicked bottle of wine could make a nice personalized gift. Another interesting aspect of the Holiday Fair is that many of the businesses represented give the customer the option to host demonstrations of their own. Companies like Thirty-One are looking to expand their customer base by letting individuals market their product for them. While I won’t be having my friends over anytime soon to sell them cute purses and winter bags, it’s an option if I ever wanted to. In addition to all the crafts and gift ideas, the Holiday Fair boasts a wide variety of food, all made or grown locally, of course. Need a bag of homegrown beets and greens? You’re golden. Want an oversized bear claw or chocolate croissant? They’ve got that, too. I already mentioned C.K. Almonds, which had a variety of chocolate covered nuts, as well as very tasty homemade gummy worms. One of my favorite tables was Earthly Pleasures baked

goods. I’ve never seen so many kinds of bread. I ended up spending $10 on a loaf of pumpkin bread, half of which I promptly ate when I got home. Since the Holiday Fair will be running every Saturday until Dec. 15, many of the vendors are employing a raffle system to try and get repeat business. When you buy an item, you can fill out a form where you specify another item that you’d like to receive. In a few Saturdays, the raffle will be drawn and the winner will receive the prize. I was told that even if the item you requested is not available at the time of drawing, they will get it to you as soon as possible. My idea of what the Holiday Fair would be was a few tables thrown together in the middle of the mall. There would be a woman selling pictures of cats with clever sayings on them and maybe there’d be a chocolate pretzel table, if I was lucky. However, while there was the life lesson cat-lady, there was also much more than I had anticipated. I walked around for a good 45 minutes and left with $40 less in my pocket. So, if you’re looking for a way to spend a Saturday morning, I’d suggest driving to Lincoln Square Mall in Urbana and try knocking out that Christmas list early.

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shaken or stirred? The martini, dissected by Jasmine Lee

Dirty Martini, Photo by Jasmine Lee.

he martini is a legend. It also, incidentally, undergoes surges in popularity and favor throughout history, and is somewhat of a gauge

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of masculinity, wholly in thanks to Ian Fleming’s James Bond. The Martinez, first made in 19th century California, is one of the possible originators of today’s martini: A wine glass full of dry vermouth, a shot of gin, cherry juice and a slice of lemon, all stirred together, then strained over ice. Another martini legend was that during the Gold Rush, a bartender served a shot of gin and vermouth to a disgruntled miner to make up for a lackluster barrel of whiskey. Because of this, a traditional classic martini consists of 1 1/2 ounces of gin and a 1/2 ounce of vermouth, stirred and served with an olive. Mentalfloss.com reports that “the drink quickly gained in popularity, but it wasn’t until Prohibition that the martini became the American cocktail. When booze was legal, Americans on the whole preferred drinking whiskey. But it takes skill and time to make good whiskey, whereas” during Prohibition, a time for homebrewed and home distilled liquors, gin and fortified wine was easier to produce. Vermouth was specifically added to cheap gin to better its taste; this is also a possible explanation for the addition of the salty olive garnish. While James Bond made the martini iconic, he’s

actually a non-traditionalist, drinking them shaken and with vodka. A valid reason for that is that warm vodka tastes much like lighter fluid, and shaking a drink chills it much more than stirring does. However, there is a long history behind the act of stirring a martini. English playwright W. Somerset Maugham’s opinion was that “a martini should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the molecules lie sensuously on top of one another.” Additionally, Winston Churchill took his martinis exceedingly dry: He poured gin over ice and then drank it whilst looking at a bottle of vermouth from across the bar. Let’s break the iconic martini down, shall we? We’ve already discussed the merits of vodka and gin in a martini and its garnishes range from olives to lemon peels. Now onto what exactly vermouth is. Sweet vermouth is Italian and red. Dry vermouth is French and white. Drinkboy.com chimes in that “for quite a while the only Vermouth that was used for cocktails was Italian Vermouth. It was much later that a new Vermouth came onto the scene from France.” However, should a modern day bartender ask you about the dryness of martini, take note that he’s actually referring to the quantity of vermouth to

be put in the drink. The blog Kitchen Riffs says that “the classic Dry Martini of the 1920s and ‘30s was made with a ratio of four or five parts gin to one part vermouth. The less vermouth you use, the 'drier' the drink.” The Food Republic’s “Great Mysteries of the Martini, Solved” article explains that “essentially, the more vermouth, the wetter it is. Martinis with just a splash of vermouth would be considered very dry. A lot of people prefer 50/50s which are half vermouth, half gin. Originally, martinis were all wet — and in later centuries the trend was to make very dry martinis.” What does the iconic quote “shaken, not stirred” refer to? Shaken will dilute the drink and allegedly “bruise” the gin, which is the breaking down of flavors and oils. Stirred martinis guarantee a clearer drink because 20 or 30 stirs don’t really disturb the spirits. There is also such a thing as a naked martini, which requires all ingredients to be kept in the freezer and then poured straight into a chilled tumbler. Which brings us to the two possible ways to enjoy a martini: in the requisite martini glass or on the rocks. The best places to get quality martinis in Champaign-Urbana are Boltini Lounge and Emerald City Lounge.

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Catching Up With Eoto

Experimental EDM group returns to Canopy Club by Maddie Rehaye m

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the 1970s, electronic music meant “disco.” In the ‘80s and ‘90s, “techno” came to mind. Presently, though, it can mean anything from house to trance to dubstep. Improvisational electronic duo EOTO has mastered the art of mixing all of these genres, past and present, into a futuristic jam act that is a feast for the ears and the eyes, no matter if you are a die hard Bassnectar fan or grew up on east coast hardcore. EOTO is the duo of Michael Travis and Jason Hann who, before starting the project, found success in famed jam-band, The String Cheese Incident. They’re no strangers to Canopy Club or to Illinois, having played multiple Urbana shows and Summer Camp Festivals, and singer and percussionist Hann found some time to once again chat with buzz about the duo’s musical journey, as well as their on-stage approach. » buzz: How long have you been making music as EOTO? » Jason Hann: We started, not with the intention of putting a project together, but probably 2005 we started messing around with instruments and just jamming on different instruments from like 10:00 at night until 4 or 5 in the morning, and just hanging out, listening to music in between, and when we would jam, it just seemed like it was more fun just to jam over electronic type beats like drum and bass or down-tempo or something that felt more in that zone. For some reason, that was a lot more fun between just the two of us than rock or something like that. So as we kept going on that sort of path,

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we kept trying to find interesting ways to make it more fun for us, so eventually it involved the computer, because with a computer we have access to both stacking tracks on top of each and being able to manipulate them: Speed them up or slow them down or throw effects on them. So it’s just kind of this natural progression that kept happening. And then at some point we just decided 'Hey, let’s just book a show.' » buzz: Would you say the key difference between EOTO and your other project, The String Cheese Incident, is that this is more electronic and dance music? » JH: That’s definitely the biggest stylistic difference, and also that in String Cheese, we play a bunch of songs on a nightly basis and we make a setlist and we rehearse for those particular songs and if we jam we use those songs as a framework to take it somewhere else. And then in EOTO, we don’t have any songs and we don’t practice or anything and we’re just going for it. We completely make everything up on the spot. » buzz: So there’s no framework for it whatsoever? » JH: Only in that we’re stylistically gonna do some glitch hop or we’re stylistically gonna do dubstep or some trap or drum stuff or electro. So stylistically there’s some framework, but as far as like the actual things that we’re playing there’s no framework. » buzz: Has your sound evolved? » JH: It evolves little by little every night that we play, but also we’ve definitely had some moments, like back in 2008, when we were first starting to get into trying to play dubstep, we had this thing where we just heard all kinds of music. We really weren’t do-

ing anything close to that, we were just doing more breakbeat and more mellow stuff, and trip-hop and stuff, and then all of a sudden that was actually a big point where we were like, 'OK, let’s go for this really aggressive sound and try to pull it off live ‘cause there’s definitely no live bands doing that.' And then just recently as trap music has become a little bit bigger and more intriguing, we’re like, 'Well there’s no live bands doing that, let’s see what we can do to do that.' But at the same time, we’ve also come full circle where we go back into the way we used to play before with more house music and more ‘70s types of grooves. So we’re just kind of all over the place, and it’s been really fun doing that journey between doing all these super modern styles of electronic dance music and then doing some older styles. » buzz: How do you choose what to go with on any given night? » JH: We don’t really choose, it just sort of happens. One thing that we tend to do is we tend to, if we’re at a certain tempo, hang out at that tempo and we’ll try to play something that fits that tempo. So if we’re at 120 bpm, chances are we’re playing house or electro or something like that, and if we go to transition from that to something else, we might take that tempo up to 140 bpm, which puts us in either faster, trance zone or we can do a big drop and go right into dubstep, so it’s something we really don’t think about. Even me telling you this right now feels like that’s way too much to think about [laughs] so we just sort of do it live, in the moment. We’re at almost 800 shows in our career. It’s been six years, so we have a lot of intuition that just kind of works. » buzz: What instruments do you use? » JH: I do drums and percussion and sing, and Travis does keyboard, bass and guitar, and he also has an iPad instrument called Animoog, so there’s just all sorts of toys to play with. I also have three iPads on stage that I have all these controlling functions that allow me to control both of our computers for live remixing or putting different effects onto what we’re playing. » buzz: Do you remix more recognizable music into your shows? » JH: Yeah. Well, kind of the way that we do it is it’s still all live. I’m the one singing or rapping, so if it sounds like something that’s familiar, it’s still us doing it on stage. A lot of people ask if we use a cappellas or something, but I think I put enough effects on my voice to make it sound different each time that I’m playing something. And then when we do that. We treat that as a remix because chances are the music underneath it doesn’t sound anything like the original and it gives people some kind of familiarity to hold on to during our set. » buzz: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever remixed? » JH: Wow, that’s a good question. What even falls into weird? Well I guess one of the not-so-expecting ones would be “Easy Lover,” by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey. That one jumps out. There’s also — like we’re playing in Baltimore tomorrow night, and almost

every time I come to Baltimore, I’ll put in a Bad Brains song, because I was a huge Bad Brains fan growing up. You’ll see three people in the audience go like 'Yeeeeah!' and everyone else goes “What? What is that?” [laughs] So that’s cool. I tend to enjoy going for the not-so-obvious. I’ll do some modern sort of R&B stuff, that is something to latch onto. But I’m not necessarily trying to do a Top 40 display. It’s just like, stuff that I sing, and if it goes good and feels like it’s gonna go good over the music, then those are my things that a lot of times it doesn’t work out. Sometimes I’m thinking 'Oh, that’ll be good' and then it’s like, 'Why did I do that?' and then I’m already in the middle of it so I can’t really back out. » buzz: I’ve heard about your stage designs, are you bringing all of that to Canopy Club? » JH: We’re doing our lotus projection mapping. We’re bringing that down so that’s gonna look great in Canopy Club, too, just a big open stage with all those images there. We’re really looking forward to that and we really like bringing that around. It’s such a visual treat and our projectionist always has a team of animators working on new and fresh images so that’s gonna be great. » buzz: Are all the visuals improvised as well? » JH: Yeah. Zebbler [aka Peter Berdovsky] is our projectionist that runs it, and at this point we’ve done so many shows he just tries to get a feel for where we’re going or what we’re doing and when we’re doing certain drops or certain effects, he’s very much on the spot as well. It’s pretty remarkable how it works together, just an all improvised show and he pulls it off amazingly. » buzz: Do you know what’s going to be different this Friday at Canopy Club versus last time you were here? » JH: Stylistically, the kind of journey we’re gonna go on is gonna be incorporating a lot of older styles of electronic dance music into the newer styles of electronic dance music. At this point, we really enjoy going through the whole journey of all these different styles. It feels really good being able to break it down to some sort of sexy, R&B ‘70s type of groove, or being able to do a drop into trap music for a little bit and just kind of going all over the place, but it’s still uniquely us. I think that’s something we’re able to pull off that even most DJs aren’t able to pull off because, since we’re doing it live and we have this sort of sound, the sound kind of melds into different styles, whereas DJs, when they’re playing just the music, if you play a disco track after a dubstep track, it kinda jerks the crowd around a little bit more because the texture is so different and the vibe is so different. But that’s the part that we feel like we sort of excel at — being able to mix up some styles, but have it feel like a very fluid night of dancing. » buzz: Anything else you’d like it say? » JH: If people want to hear our past shows or anything, we have all of our shows recorded at livedownload.com. You can do a search for EOTO and there is over 500 shows online there, too, so you can listen to shows back from 2008.

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Catching up with Adam Barnett buzz checks in with Pizza.fm by F. Am and a Tugade

Some of the folks who made Pizza.fm possible including Adam Barnett (second from right). Photo by Zach Dalzell.

ormer Music Editor for buzz, Adam Barnett is now the head honcho of an upcoming, noncommercial, college-oriented radio station called Pizza.fm. Buzz got a chance to talk with Adam about being “professionally, unprofessional,” hopes of streaming in January 2013 and Pizzapalooza, Pizza.fm’s fundraising benefit show on Friday, Nov. 30 at Mike ‘N’ Molly’s. » buzz: How did you come up with Pizza.fm? » Adam Barnett: So in May 2011, I was thinking to myself like 'Hey, University of Illinois does not really have a true college radio station.' We have a student-run radio station that’s more of a professional setting, but we don’t really have like a corky, free-form noncommercial college radio station like a lot of universities have. That’s coming from when I went to Drexel University my freshman year of college, and they had a really good college station that won CMJ Award for “Station of the Year” for a couple years in a row. That was a lot of fun, and that was why I wanted to bring the experience to U of I. Yeah, we got a group together over that summer, and we worked at it really, really hard. And we kind of went really slow, and then, we got a new group of people that rotated in at the start of last year. Our big thing was trying to make a website and building awareness for what we wanted to do. » buzz: What are a couple of challenges that you’ve had to face with creating and setting up the radio station? » AB: A big thing with that was trying to get a space for the station. And we had one or two fundraisers, and it got us a little bit of money, but it didn’t really do much in terms of getting a space. But it did help us get our website that we have now. We have two websites. So, there’s one website that started in January of last year

and this past summer we started a new website, Pizzafm.org. We’ve been doing video interviews, shows calendar, our music blog and all that stuff. At around the same time that we were coming up with a new website, somebody in our group was like 'Hey! How come we haven’t talked to Allen Hall about getting a space?' And I was like 'Wait, why haven’t we thought of that?' Because it felt like it would be pretty aligned with what we were doing. So, May 2012 of this year, we started talking to Laura Haber, who’s the head of unit one of Allen Hall. We started talking to her about getting the space, and we were working on negotiations for a really long time through the summer. Finally, somewhere around where the semester started, we finalized agreements, and we got a space in Room 66 of Allen Hall. The fact that we have the space is kind of the reason we’re able to do all of this stuff now because now we have some kind of legitimacy that we’re started. » buzz: Besides being a non-commercial radio station, what makes you different than WPGU and other radio stations around the CU area? » AB: I think that we’re kind of a “niche.” So, you got WPGU, and that’s this ultra professional station. They want to be looked at and they are what would be considered a real radio station. They’re fully commercial; they have format; they have a rotation. Everyone there is business-minded. So, I’m pretty sure WPGU, even though it’s studentrun, they don’t want it to seem student-run. And there are other stations like WEFT, the Champaign community’s radio station. They’ve got a lot of specialty shows, like a lot of world music. They’ve got some talk shows and some other programs. WRFU is Urbana’s version of that. Both of those, I’m pretty sure, you have to pay to be a member. It’s a lot more community oriented, and that’s where a lot of the townies go when

they want a radio show. With Pizza, we’re kind of going more the route of WPCD, which is Parkland’s radio station, which is a lot more of a Top 40 station. They have an alternative format, indie scene. What we’re trying to do is make a station for the University of Illinois where any University of Illinois student can be a DJ or do whatever they want to do. I guess that the phrase I’ve been using a lot is that Pizza.fm is going to be “professionally unprofessional,” which is we want to be quirky. We want people to know we’re college students because college is really the only chance that you have to have a free-form, noncommercial radio station without it being really, really difficult — not that it hasn’t been difficult, but we can kind of fuck around and do what we want. And people will think it’s great because we’re college students. But on top of that, we’re going to want to do that in the most marketable, most professional way possible. So, we’ve got our whole free-formed thing going on, which is basically like DJs get to play whatever music they want to play. Except our catch is they can’t play “popular music,” so no Top 40 or anything that would be typically heard on regular radio stations. So that’s that in a nutshell. » buzz: I read on your website that you weren’t sure why you called the radio station Pizza.fm. What’s the story behind the name? » AB: So, the true origin of Pizza.fm, of the name, comes from our good friend Matt Lurie, and we were just sitting around my apartment one day, trying to come up with the name for the radio station. We’re sitting around and throwing around all these different things and he’s like, 'Hey guys. Why don’t we just call it Pizza.fm? Because everyone likes pizza.' And we thought about it for awhile, and it actually makes a lot of sense. That’s really what it is. It was just a random name that someone came up with, and it really made sense

for what we’re trying to do, which is this whole quirky, idealistic college kids who like pizza. And we don’t mean to exclude anybody who might not like pizza. So, I’m sorry for those people who don’t like pizza. » buzz: Can you tell me about the fundraising event that you’re having on Friday, Nov. 30? » AB: So, we’ve been doing a few fundraisers. Our Indiegogo campaign is just finishing up, and we got it funded. We just got funded for being an RSO. So, this is kind of a last push for the money we’ll need for our equipment, licenses and whatever else we need to get the station started at the beginning of 2013. So, this show is at Mike ‘N’ Molly’s, and the doors are opening at 7:30 p.m. I am God is starting off the show to replace Har-di-Har, and they’re playing at 8. The 92’s is playing at 9, and Single Player, which is kind of an Easter off-shoot, is playing at 10. Hank is playing at 11, a band from Chicago called War Brides is closing out the show at midnight. It’s going to be all ages, which is cool. » buzz: What are you hoping for the outcome of Pizza.fm? » AB: Down the line, I want it to be known as the college radio station for the University of Illinois. I’ve been trying to figure out how to go about and actually become affiliated with the university, which is a slow process, but I think I’m breaking some ground. I want people to come to U of I and see that we have this radio station and we have this really, really cool local music scene. I want them to get excited about music at the University of Illinois. Obviously, in terms of the music school, it’s cool, but I’m specifically talking about pop music, rock or whatever you want to call whatever is out there. And I want people to realize that the University of Illinois is very music savvy. Check out pizzafm.org for more information. November 29-December 5, 2012 buzz 9

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Crafting on a Budget: Holiday Edition How to have the best sweater at this season’s ugly sweater parties by Ali se ars

ally knit, they are heavy. When you cut them, the weight of the sweater will drag it down, making the cuts seem larger than you actually made. My suggestion is to cut your sweater just a little at a time and try it on between cuts to make sure you don’t overdo it.

The Tacky Christmas Sweater. Photo by Ali Sears.

he holiday season is here, and you know what that means: ugly sweater parties! Now, finding an ugly holiday sweater in Chambana is not the easiest task. Most of the time if you find a good one, it costs more than you’re willing to spend. The best solution is to make your own. With just a few decorations on an old thrift store sweater, it’s easy to become the belle (or beau) of the ball! Finding a sweater to decorate is crucial to the activity, so make sure that you have one first! Thrifting is the best route because the sweater will be inexpensive, usually large (which you want for a holiday sweater) and preferably tacky! You will want to check out the local thrift stores. Some of the best bang-foryour-buck options include the Salvation Army stores around town and the Goodwill at 912 W. Anthony Drive, Champaign. If you are looking for a nicer quality sweater, you may want to check out Le Shoppe or Dandelion in Champaign. But just remember, you’ll be covering it up, so it doesn’t have to be that nice! While finding a sweater is exciting, looking for decorations is the really fun part. This is when you will start to create the look of your holiday sweater in your head. For my decorations, I went to Target’s holiday section and picked up everything out of the $1 buckets. Another fun place to check for supplies is the I.D.E.A.

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Store on 28 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign. It has a ton of cool things that you could work into your sweater design, and they are priced very reasonably.

The Tacky Christmas Sweater For all of those ugly Christmas sweater parties, you’ll want to make your sweater colorful! Playing up the greens and reds accomplishes this pretty well. As you can see, I started with a green sweater. The decorations I used included assorted plastic ornaments in red and green, cotton balls and ornaments, including a snowman head, a mini stocking, a snowflake and some bells (What are more obnoxious than bells?!) Beginning with the front, I laid out my design. For the round ornaments, I hot glued the balls on the neckline. Later, I decided that they could come off, so I also used a little needle and thread to weave through the part where the hooks are and tied them to the sweater. For the heavier snowflake on the pocket, I used the ornament’s string to tie in between the knitting. This is the nice thing about getting knit sweaters: When pulled apart, you can slip string through the holes and make sure that it’s permanently attached. In addition to this, I used some extra string around some of the branches of the snowflake. Once dry, I flipped the sweater

to the back and laid out a bunch of cotton balls to make a snowman in snow! Tip: If you roll the cotton balls between your hands, they become more spherical, rather than a cylindrical shape. And voilà! The Hanukkah Sweater We couldn’t forget about the Hanukkah sweater! For this one, I used a black sweater with silver, blue and white accents. For decorations, I used tinsel (which is great because it manipulates well and is really shiny), chocolate gold (don’t leave them on forever, though!), cotton balls and a hand-drawn dreidel (I used the Gimel side because it is the one that wins!) Hot glue worked for everything except the tinsel, which I tied to the sweater with thread. The Classy Christmas Sweater I found this little gem at a thrift store in Chicago. While seemingly simple, this reindeer is really a pocket! We like to call it the “rein-beer” as it is great for holding things. I bought this one, but it is really simple to make if you know how to knit or have a great scrap of fabric you can use. To create the pocket, first cut or knit (a stockinette stitch will also do) a square for the head. You can hot glue or sew it onto the sweater. Next, cut out or knit a triangle that will act as the reindeer’s nose. Hot glue or sew this right above the square patch and let it dry. Finally, make it look real by adding googly eyes and antlers!

What you’ll need: » A sweater of any style you like » Decorations — try to go for things that will work together, but are still tacky. Some examples include ornaments, tinsel, cotton balls, markers, paper, and string or ribbon » Adhesive things like a hot glue gun (this will be your best friend and make decorating very quick), needle and thread, a stapler and safety pins » Scissors The project For whichever project you choose, you will want to try to be as organized as possible. Trust me, it is very frustrating when you get glitter everywhere! Before you begin decorating, feel free to cut your sweater. For example, if you think that the neckline is too high, then cut off the collar or make it into a V-neck. If the sweater is too long, you can cut off a few inches from the bottom as well. This season, slits and cage cutouts have been very popular, so if you’re feeling risky, try something more daring like that! One warning, however: Because sweaters are usu-

The Hanukkah Sweater. Photo by Ali Sears.

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You Say Holiday, I say Birthday A look at some people who share their birthdays with more well-known dates

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verybody shares their birthday with somebody, whether it’s a distant cousin, Albert Einstein or that popular kid in school who always got more “Happy Birthday” wishes than you. Some people are lucky enough to not know who they share a birthday with, meaning that their day is extra special and dedicated solely to them. However, some people are also lucky (or unlucky) enough to share birthdays with some of the biggest national celebrations. For some, Father’s Day means more than getting your dad a gift. It means he needs to get you one as well. For others, Halloween is a day when you’re the only person you know who gets gifts. And for others yet, it means feeling unappreciated when you happen to share a birthday with Baby Jesus. Christian Orozco, a junior studying architecture at the University, is a Christmas baby. When he was younger, he thought sharing his birthday with such a big holiday was the greatest thing ever, but he soon found out differently. “Just thinking of celebrating two big events seems sweet,” he said. “I never got any extra presents. People who would give me gifts would say that that’s your birthday and Christmas gift.” Nicolette King, a junior studying community health at the University, shares her birthday with Valentine’s Day. Every year, she gets showered with extra gifts. Along with traditional Valentine’s Day gifts such as chocolate hearts and red roses, her family and boyfriend also give her birthday presents, which is what makes her love sharing her birthday with this holiday. “I wouldn’t trade my birthday for any other day in the world,” King said. “I believe (my birthday) makes me unique, special and different from others.” She loves the attention she gets from others on this day. Her only real complaint is that every restaurant in town is overcrowded and nearly impossible to book a reservation at due to so many couples celebrating the holiday. “I celebrate my birthday by having a party with family and friends,” she said. “After I got a boyfriend, my parents backed off a bit and let me spend that time with him.” Sarah Rector, a sophomore studying biology and Spanish at the University, never shared her birthday with any other event until the events of Sept. 11 happened. Since then, her birthday has fallen on the same day many people across the nation are in remembrance of the tragic events. “It sort of stinks sharing your birthday with 9/11 because everyone is more focused on the (event) than your birthday,” she said. “Plus, when you talk about it being your birthday, people are like, ‘Oh, that sucks.’” Although not everybody is at their cheeriest on her birthday, Rector makes the most of it and

said she wouldn’t want to move her birthday. She joked that her birthday came before the events. However, because of the events that happened on that day, she usually does not have a birthday celebration on the 11th and instead moves the celebration around. Some people move their birthday celebration around every year because sometimes their birthday falls on a holiday, and other years it does not. The date of Thanksgiving changes every year, and Louis Pukelis, a sophomore studying engineering at the University, likes the way his birthday changes every year. “It falls on different days of the week every year, so it’s always a little different,” he said. “Other than Thanksgiving, it can also fall on Black Friday, which is how it is this year. I enjoy telling people, ‘Yeah, my birthday is on Thanksgiving,’ or, ‘Yeah, my birthday is on Black Friday this year,’ because it gives my birthday some uniqueness.” According to Pukelis, another perk to sharing a birthday with a holiday is that everyone will always remember when your birthday is. Although the day his birthday falls on is different every year, Pukelis always celebrates it on Thanksgiving with his family because everyone gets together anyway to celebrate the holiday. He celebrates with friends the following weekend, and said he is thankful that his birthday usually falls during fall break. However, not everyone is thankful to have their birthday fall on a holiday because many people usually have family plans that they'd like to get out of. Jaily Zeng, a sophomore studying computer science at the University, shares her birthday with Father’s Day and would rather not have to share the day with everybody's dads. “When I did have a party, usually people couldn’t make it due to the fact that it was Father’s Day, so they’d be spending that day with their family instead,” she said. However, the slight inconvenience was never that big of a deal because Father’s Day is not as big of a deal in Chinese culture as it is in others. Sharing a birthday with a major holiday means a lot of different things to different people. Whether you are ecstatic that you get extra chocolates on Valentine’s Day, or a little disappointed that you’re not the center of attention on your Christmas birthday, birthdays are meant to be fun and a day of celebrating your emergence into the world. Although sometimes it seems like the holiday comes before your birthday, that doesn’t mean you still won’t have a great time celebrating your special day, even if it means your presents get wrapped in leftover reindeer paper.

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Ongoing Events Yarn N Yak Rantoul Public Library 7pm

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Egungun! Power Concealed Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 9am Expressions in Color: Selections from the 20th-Century Collection Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion Classes, lectures, & 9am workshops Fashioning Traditions CSM - Music Together of Japan Krannert Art Museum (ages birth-5 yrs) and Kinkead Pavilion Champaign School of 9am Music Fields of Indigo: Instal5:15pm lation by Rowland Live music & karaoke Ricketts with Sound by Norbert Herber Chillax with DJ Belly Krannert Art Museum and Matt Harsh and Kinkead Pavilion Radio Maria, 10pm 9am Krannert Uncorked Wealth of Notions: Krannert Center for Economists in Conflict Performing Arts The Rare Book and 5pm UI University Band and Manuscript Library 8:30am UI Campus Band Krannert Center for Classes, lectures, & Performing Arts workshops 7:30pm Live Karaoke Band 2012 Prairie Lightning Boomerang’s Bar and Symposium Grill I-Hotel & Conference 9pm Center, 9am

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braham Lincoln will forever be labeled as one of the greatest Americans of all time. I got nervous when the news broke that a film about him was in the works. Last time this happened, the box office sold tickets to an adaptation of a novel portraying our 16th president as a vampire slayer. Deceased history buffs rolled over in their graves while the living ones got sick to their stomachs. This time would be different. My nervousness subsided when I discovered that Steven Spielberg would be directing. Soon thereafter, I discovered that Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot) would be portraying the great “Honest Abe.” I now felt at ease and no longer needed to boycott my local movie theater. With this mentality and high hopes, I entered the show equipped with nothing but my high school history knowledge of Lincoln. The movie covers the era of Lincoln’s life that took place during the end of The Civil War. At the same time, Lincoln is doing everything in his power to pass the 13th Amendment. As if this is not large enough obstacle, Lincoln is struggling with his son’s desire to enlist and his wife’s sanity. His conflict within his family troubles him but does not phase his duty to keep America on track. With a nation waging war against itself, Lincoln prevails and the most crucial point in his life is

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