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Traumatic hurricane season draws to a close in Florida BILL KACZOR • ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — One of the most traumatic hurricane seasons in Florida history officially ended Tuesday with Gov. Jeb Bush calling the occasion a time for “reflection and celebration.” Florida was hit by an unprecedented four hurricanes in a single season, a two-month barrage of storms that triggered the nation’s biggest naturaldisaster response. The hurricanes took 117 lives in Florida, destroyed more than 25,000 homes and heavily damaged 4,600 more. Damage was estimated at $42 billion, surpassing the $34.9 billion caused in 1992 by Hurricane Andrew, the nation’s single most costly storm. Bush toured some of the most severely affected areas, beginning at Escambia County’s new emergency operations center. “This was a historic time,” Bush said. “As a state we learned a lot about ourselves and it’s important to reflect on that. I think Florida is a better place and a stronger place because of this.” The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. Hurricane Charley plowed into southwestern Florida in mid-August, and Frances, Ivan and Jeanne slammed the state in September. Escambia County Public Safety Director Janice Kilgore’s announcement that the hurricane season was officially over drew a cheer as she introduced the governor, but nature does not always adhere to that schedule: Capping off the freakish year, Tropical Storm Otto formed on the last day of the season far in the central Atlantic, about 800 miles east of Bermuda. It posed no threat to land. National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield urged people to begin planning now for the next hurricane season. “People that had a hurricane plan did better than those that did not,” he said in Miami. The center will release its prediction for the 2005 season on May 16, but Mayfield said it is likely that a trend of increasing activity will continue. “We have had more tropical storms and more hurricanes since 1995 than any consecutive 10-year period on the record,” Mayfield said. In 2004, counting Otto, there were 15 named storms in the Atlantic region, including nine hurricanes, six of them major. Photos of buildings with walls and roofs missing and storm-driven white sand covering roads, yards, homes and vehicles like huge snowdrifts flashed on a large screen behind Bush as he spoke. He praised emergency workers, neighbors who helped neighbors and about 140,000 volunteers from around the world. “It’s important to take that creative compassion that I saw during the storms as people responded to that and use it in everyday life to improve people’s lives,” Bush said. While the hurricane season may be over, the misery is not. In the Panhandle alone, about 1,000 residents are waiting for mobile homes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.The statewide total of people living in government trailers is expected to reach 15,000, Bush said. Bush said he would push during a special legislative session for passage of tax relief for people who lost their homes and the elimination of multiple deductibles on insurance policies for those who had damage from more than one hurricane. buzz

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I THINK FOOSBALL IS A COMBINATION OF SOCCER AND SHISH KABOBS. spots on an old woman’s hands and Helen’s wet hair after she and the kids fall in the ocean, the film creates a continuously dazzling world in which computergenerated pictures are as lifelike as live action and twice as absorbing. It relies on characters, not circumstance and misunderstanding, to drive the plot, and it’s the first family film in a while that allows for genuinely complex relationships between its stars. (Matt Pais) NATIONAL TREASURE

ALFIE 2.5 stars Jude Law & Marisa Tomei Alfie, a limo driver with big plans, is a consummate playboy, gleefully bed-hopping through beautiful women’s lives by virtue of his swaggering attitude and dangerous good looks. He’s irresistible and calculating; he knows just what to say to get a woman in bed and just what to do to get her to make him breakfast in the morning. And the women, charmed by his accent and smartly placed compliments, are always willing to satisfy him. (John Loos) BEING JULIA 3 stars Annette Bening & Jeremy Irons Annette Bening’s surprisingly natural and vibrant performance raises this film above its many worn, if not cliched, turns of theatrical traumas. In her most effective role since The Grifters, Bening’s emotional gusto and believable British accent make for a realistic view of a middle-aged woman in doubt With all the care put into establishing various rich characters and conflicts, what Being Julia lacks is a more satisfying conclusion. (Syd Slobodnik) THE INCREDIBLES 3.5 Stars

Holly Hunter & Craig T. Nelson The Incredibles is the studio’s most visually inventive outing, full of gorgeous, intensely vivid sequences and amazingly ar tistic details. Right down to the

2 STARS Nicholas Cage & Diane Kruger There’s definitely some fun to be had here, and adventure-seekers will get their fill from countless chase scenes and action sequences. For a while, it even makes history seem cool, as if knowing mundane facts about the Liberty Bell could be the key to an exciting, intellectual life. Ultimately, though, National Treasure is so implausible that it borders on offending the intelligence of not just the U.S. government, but the people who created the government itself. You won’t be bored, but this sure is one trivial pursuit. (Matt Pais) RAY 3 stars

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CLOSER Jude Law & Natalie Portman Natalie Por tman plays a stripper. Jude Law is her lover. Right off the bat, do you need another reason to see this film? OK, there’s more. Julia Rober ts is also in the flick. Two couples are doing fine until they all meet and form a dir ty little love quadrangle. As simple as the plot sounds, the cast is incredible and the film looks excellent. And Jude Law is in it! (Paul Wagner)

VERA DRAKE Imelda Staunton & Richard Graham Playing at Boardman’s Ar t Theatre, hailed by Roger Eber t as an Oscar-wor thy per formance by Imelda Staunton and winner of best picture at the Venice Film Festival, Vera Drake tells the stor y of a 1950s British abor tionist who finds that societal norms and values don’t quite fit with her secret profession. Vera is a selfless woman who spends her life helping others, but the abor tions she per forms are illegal, and when the authorities find her out, her world is thrown into upheaval. (Paul Wagner) Opening at Boardman’s

I AM DAVID Ben Tibberv & James Caviezel Based off of Anne Holm’s novel North to Freedom, this film tells the story of 12-year-old David, who escapes from a Communist concentration camp with a loaf of bread, a compass and a letter that he is told to take

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to Copenhagen. At first David trusts no one, but he eventually learns that all humanity is not as bad as the life he escaped. However, the world is not kind to a small boy on his own for the first time. Will his spirit be broken while traveling across Europe? (Paul Wagner)

Jaime Foxx & Kerry Washington Ray has an undeniable rhythm and lively spunk that feels as good as Charles’ music; it jumps, jives and wails with toe-tapping energy and hip-swiveling sass. Some churchgoing folks call Charles’ blend of R&B and gospel “devil’s music,” but there’s nothing devilish about a movie that makes you appreciate your ears as much as your eyes. (Matt Pais)

3.5 stars Tom Kenny & Bill Fagerbakke Through the story, the audience is shown that cheating, feelings of inferiority and ruling with an iron fist are all wrong ways to view the world. Morals are taught subtly in this movie and the main lesson that comes out is that you must find the hero in yourself in order to be a hero. Overall, SpongeBob is for all ages, and although not a classic film, an enjoyable one that will leave you feeling lighthearted and optimistic. (Lauren Bridgewater)

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sually, when I think of Champaign-Urbana, I don’t think of the flourishing Downtown Champaign area—although, I do spend plenty of time there. I usually think of the state streets of Urbana, and the surrounding area. Don’t get me wrong, to play, I love downtown Champaign and downtown Urbana. But, Urbana is home. Even after that passionate monologue, I have to admit, east Urbana is not the first place I think of when I want to go shopping. It’s not that I usually think of the mall or the driving mess of Prospect Avenue. But, most often I find myself roaming around the Walnut and Neil Street vicinity—which I love. But today, I want to give a little love to the east Urbana studios and shops as they put on a holiday show and sale. The Old East End Art HooHa will showcase some old favorites in Urbana like Griggs Street Potters and new additions like Butterfly Beads, ChampaignUrbana’s only bead store, and Firefly Jewels new location. For you, here is a list of the shops and shows that will be showcased and their addresses to aid in your shopping and browsing off the typical beaten path.

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CHICAGO (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Painter Ed Paschke, one of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-known artists of the past half century, has died at age 65. Paschke died in his sleep on Thanksgiving at the home he shared with his daughter, Sharon, who said heart problems ran in the family and that physicians had noted a murmur in her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart. The son of a Northwest Side bakery truck driver, Paschke studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was steeped in the abstract expressionism that was the dominant American art movement in the 1950s. But when he emerged as an artist in the early 1960s, Paschke became a leader of a new school called the Chicago Imagists. Although Paschke and his colleagues rejected pure abstraction to return their focus on the human body and other recognizable imagery, their paintings often took on a mysterious look, mingling elements of dreamlike surrealism, non-Western artistic

traditions and the icons of popular culture. Paschke, who was considered to be the best known of the Imagists, was known for his bright, almost phosphorescent colors. He had his first solo show in Chicago in 1970, and his first Paris show in 1974. His 1989-90 retrospective at the Art Institute was the first the museum granted to a living alumnus from its school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His work is what people think of when they think about art in Chicago,â&#x20AC;? said fellow artist Tony Fitzpatrick.â&#x20AC;&#x153;He leaves behind an enormous and amazing body of work. His output in his lifetime was staggering and groundbreaking. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best artist Chicago ever produced.â&#x20AC;? His works are in public collections from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to the Musee dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Art Moderne Nationale in Paris. Despite the success, Paschke was modest.

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Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Ukraine over that countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent presidential elections. Supporters of pro-Western liberal opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko allege that the election that appointed the presidency to pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovich, supported by Russian president Vladimir Putin, was marred by widespread fraud on election day. Much of the confusion might have been avoided if Ukrainian ballots had not listed the presidential race as Viktor Y. vs. Viktor Y. The White House, as well as numerous world governments, including France, Germany, Canada and representatives of the EU, called for a serious re-evaluation of the Ukrainian presidential election, citing evidence of fraud and voterigging supported by the findings of independent election commissions. So the White House is calling out the Ukraine for a fishy election. Captain Irony strikes again! A 25-year-old program that allows Illinois teachers under the age of 60 to retire early and maintain full benefits may be cut as Illinois House leaders have placed a proposed five-year extension of the program on hold in order to review whether or not the state can afford the cost. Yeah, screw all those filthy rich educators! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time they stopped leeching off the system, lining their pockets with cash and contributing diddly shit to society! Thank you, Illinois lawmakers!

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pending Christmas with the Kranks is about as ill-advised as spending Christmas in a bear cave, covered in fresh meat, snuggling up next to those hibernating grizzlies, all while tickling their cute little black noses from time to time. At least with the bears, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have an interesting story to tell. If you manage to make it through Christmas with the Kranks, on the other hand, all youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be left with is a depressed, achy feeling that lingers around for far longer than the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 99-minute run time. And those 99 minutes are so devoid of humor, of fun, of anything the least bit amusing, that saying Schindlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s List is a funnier film than Christmas with the Kranks is not a trivialization of Spielbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immensely depressing account of the Holocaust. Unfortunately, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the complete lack of humor that makes Christmas with the Kranks so atrocious. Based upon the merits of this film, it is not unreasonable to conclude that screenwriter Chris Columbus and director Joe Roth have taken it upon themselvesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with all the maliciousness and cold-heartedness of a modern-day Grinchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to ruin the spirit of Christmas. This error of comedy begins when Chicago suburbanites Luther and Nora Krank (played by Tim Allen and Jaime Lee Curtis, respectively) decide to skip Christmas.After all, their only child, Blair, is going off to Peru with the Peace Corps over the holidays, and what better way to cure s o u n d s

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empty-nest syndrome than go off on a Caribbean cruise? It costs the Kranks $6,000 to celebrate Christmas normally, what with the annual Christmas party they throw for all of Hemlock Street to attend, plus the required festive lighting, decorations and 5-foot plastic Frosty on the roof. The thing is, Hemlock Street has always celebrated Christmas with as many costly decorations as possible. And what happens when one of those homes threatens to break from tradition and actuallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gasp!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;skip Christmas? No party? No decorations? No Frosty? Hemlock Street residents let their disapproval be known; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what happens. Led by conformity champion Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Aykroyd), the citizens harass the Kranks: singing Christmas carols endlessly outside of their home, staring at them from across the street with binoculars and giving them the cold shoulder, culminating in a massive campaign to â&#x20AC;&#x153;free Frostyâ&#x20AC;? from the Kranksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; basement and return him to the Kranksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roof, where he belongs. The premise actually has quite a bit of potential.A humorous commentary on the commercialization of Christmas with expensive, meaningless decorations would be in order. Instead, when Blair discovers she will be coming home for Christmas after all, Luther and Nora set out to throw their party and set up their decorations, all in the name of the true spirit of Christmas.Which is â&#x20AC;Ś giving in to the creepy, oppressive neighbors? Christmas with the Kranks seems to be telling audiences that if they try celebrating Christmas in any way other than the traditional lights-on-thehouse, tree-in-the-den, Frosty-on-the-roof manner, they are inherently un-American, and their neighbors have the right, nay, the duty, to pester them until they right their wrongs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a truly unsettling moral to the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Christmas with the Kranks is, in many ways, more frightening than a night alone with the grizzlies.

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he magical message behind Peter Pan is that if children truly believe in something—from the existence of fairies to the ability to fly—then illusion becomes reality. The trouble with Finding Neverland, a semi-biographical story about how Scottish author J.M. Barrie came up with the classic story of the boy who never grows up, is that it believes it can fly but never leaves the ground.This is a movie that desperately wants to charm us with a message about the innocence of childhood and the importance of keeping that spirit alive into adulthood, but it’s lacking in pixie dust. Johnny Depp is superb (as always) as Barrie, a quiet man who immerses himself in the lives of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four children after meeting them during a stroll in the park. He gives them a paternal figure they haven’t had since their father died, and they offer him an escape from an boring marriage and stalwart career.

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W hen I first saw Bridget Jones’s Diary, I wasn’t the biggest fan of the film. I compared the character of Bridget to Ally McBeal if she were to be shipped to the UK: She was a quirky single female in the city looking for love. The movie was fun, but I left the theater taking nothing out of it. What is interesting about the sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, is that it isn’t just a rehash of the events from the first film. It actually develops further into Bridget’s neuroses and insecurities. While the first movie showed that being single was a trial on its own, maintaining a relationship is even more tiresome. The whole gang from the first movie is back. Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant reprise their roles as Bridget Jones, Mark

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Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, respectively.As in the first film, they all disappear into their characters, creating a universe outside the norm but still plausible enough to believe. In a hilarious scene, the film shows the effects of globalization as Bridget and inmates in a Thai prison do a rendition of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.” The first film ends with Bridget and Mark exchanging a passionate kiss, supposedly starting a relationship full of nothing but love, happiness and understanding. Unfortunately, things haven’t turned out as happy as the lovers hoped. Mark and Bridget’s relationship seems to be hitting road bumps just about everywhere except

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come off as overly sentimental, which the film often does. Dustin Hoffman is also splendid as Barrie’s producer, but he doesn’t make nearly as lasting an impression as Geoffrey Rush’s hilarious turn in Shakespeare in Love. This is a movie about holding onto life’s simple pleasures and the thrill of fantasy in the face of jaded, adult reality.Yet Finding Neverland doesn’t so much find these ideas as arrive at them; in the film’s emotional climax, we feel dulled by this monotonous, heavy story rather than moved by its weight. Director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) provides a few strong images—the construction of Neverland inside a house is just as delightful as it’s meant to be—but the movie never captures the physical and emotional flight of its featured fictional character.

There certainly appears to be a bittersweet yet uplifting story behind the legend of Peter Pan, but you won’t find it here. Finding Neverland isn’t a total croc; it just needs a hook. in the bedroom. Bridget can’t wrap her brain around the possibility that Mark could be having an affair, and, on top of that, Daniel Cleaver has come back into her life, irritating and seducing Bridget in her time of weakness. That is what is so interesting about this sequel. It takes the romantic conclusion of the first movie and shows that it just is not enough. Though Bridget and Mark love each other, they are separated by social differences. Bridget is a blue-collar girl, while Mark is an upper-class playboy. The relationship cannot sustain solely on love, and this is where Bridget sees the faults in it. She shoots herself in the foot by making poor decisions one after another, but she endures them all with wit and her irresistible button-cute charm. Like any sequel for a comedy, the story isn’t as much fun the second time around.The jokes aren’t that fresh and the same gags are repeated throughout the movie. However, there are solid laughs to be had here, and fans of the first will at least have smiles on their faces when they watch it in theaters. It’s not as fresh as when Bridget Jones’s Diary came out, but it still passes as fun entertainment for audiences that love romantic comedies.

Sharon Stone’s new hobby is marr ying people. After receiving her mail-order certificate, with the power vested in her, she joined in holy matrimony restaurateur Michael Bourseau and stylist Brenda Swanson, with Jack Nicholson and Robert Wagner present as witnesses. This was her first official ceremony, but the Sliver seductress plans to pursue this new career direction. Though it’ll be hard for grooms not to imagine the 46-year-old naked, one can only imagine how this may affect plans for her long-awaited return as Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct 2: Legs Wide Shut. Say goodbye to William H. Macy as you know him. One of the best supporting actors around has decided to unashamedly sell out: “My ass is for sale and I want to do big movies that pay a lot of money to shoot in L.A.” He wants “to do big, fat movies,” so expect less Fargo and Magnolia and more Seabiscuit and Jurassic Park III. Citing having to take care of his wife and two kids, the whiny moustache has apologized in advance for his forthcoming films and promises to take his daughters on the requisite guilt trip when they are old enough to understand. Mel Gibson has put his hand on a Bible and sworn not to spend any money on advertising his infamous biblical gore-fest ahead of its Oscar campaign, instead relying on faith. Hopefully, divine intervention can prevent it receiving any accolades so we are not subjected to a sermon from the father of seven and sibling of 10 (in case that ever comes up in Trivial Pursuit). The Passion of the Christ made over $600 million worldwide, which is more than all versions of The Ten Commandments combined; it told the story of Christ’s last 12 hours in real time. Kind of.

Eccentric British rock musician Genesis POrridge (born Neil Megson) and his wife and partner, Lady Jaye Breyer, are gradually transforming themselves surgically into gender-neutral human beings (“pandrogynous”) resembling each other, so that eventually they will be indistinguishable, to demonstrate how overrated gender is as a point of reference. (For example, he wore a lace dress at their wedding, and she dressed as a biker guy, with moustache, and for Valentine’s Day 2003, each got breast implants.) P-Orridge told SF Weekly in October that their goal is to jointly become a third person, distinct from either of them.

THINGS PEOPLE BELIEVE In November, former mayor Diana Cortez of La Grulla, Texas, and the town’s former bookkeeper pleaded guilty to taking $53,700 in federal community grant money and spending it all on psychic consultations. And in August, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association fired psychic David Levin after seven years’ service, during which time it paid him $1.4 million in fees and expenses. Levin’s business card read “executive coach,” and the association president admitted Levin had “uncanny” abilities, but Levin prominently attributed his astuteness to his spiritual powers, which he said he has in common with his wife and 15-year-old son.

LIFE IS TOO LONG — Showstopping designs for women during October’s Fashion Week in Paris this year included (according to a report in London’s Daily Mirror) a formal, plastic, nearly transparent bag, about 3 feet by 4 feet, designed to be worn over the head (from Dutch designers Viktor and Rolf); a set of deluxe armor plates resembling football shoulder pads (and helmet) (from Alexander McQueen); and an outfit seemingly consisting of more than a dozen foot-long black tied bows extending from the shoulders to below the waist (Viktor and Rolf). — Mr. Ilker Yilmaz, 28, of Istanbul, inspired to bring pride to Turkey by achieving a Guinness Book world record, decided to challenge Canadian Mark Moraal’s 8.7-foot mark for squirting milk out of his eye. In October, exploiting what he called an anomaly in his tear gland, he sucked milk up his nose and pinched it 9.223 feet out of an eye socket in front of several witnesses and is now awaiting official recognition. COPYRIGHT 2004 Chuck Shepherd Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate

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Yet the movie never goes deep enough into Barrie’s psyche.We know that he’s an insecure playwright desperate for a hit, and a vulnerable man forever scarred by the childhood death of his older brother. But the change enacted on him by his time with the Davies boys is given emphasis without shape; Barrie clearly takes a shine to their youthful vigor, but the film doesn’t effectively nail down their role in the creative process.Vague events spark Barrie’s imagination and eventually compose the framework for Peter Pan, but David Magee’s script, adapted from the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee, requires us to assume the evolution of the story rather than illustrating it for us. While Shakespeare in Love gloriously envisioned the creation of a masterpiece alongside an equally compelling story of its own, Finding Neverland gets bogged down in melodrama that never rises to poetry. There are several moments of kids acting cute and adults acting stuffy, but the messages behind the significance of having an inner child never go deeper than that.There are several characters, Barrie included, forced to grow up sooner than they should, but the film’s connection between their loss of innocence and the conception of Peter Pan is tenuous at best. Without question, the strongest scenes are between Depp and the children, marvelously played by Freddie Highmore, Joe Prospero, Nick Roud and Luke Spill.The actor may have another Best Actor nomination headed his way, but the kids match him step for step in roles that could have

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at the end of October this year, so we had our Thanksgiving on Halloween.With a few days off, I considered cooking a big turkey dinner for myself, but I punked out. It seemed like a lot of work for just me and the dog. I had a roast instead. The turkeys still make me a little gun shy, and there’s a good reason for it. My dad used to go turkey hunting in Southern Missouri every year. They called it hunting, anyway. My mother and I suspected it was nothing more than a group of guys camping out in the woods and getting drunker than a monkey for a six-day period. Out of the countless years he went on this trip, only once did my dad every return with a turkey. Even in his moment of victory, my mother was convinced he purchased it at a store on his way home. We still tease him about his lack of turkey production, and I think he finds this annoying. The teasing is nothing compared to the hell he put us through as he prepared for his annual trip. He had cassette tapes of a world-class turkey caller that he bought from the back of a hunting magazine. I swear, each one of those damned things lasted about two hours, and it was something like a 10-tape box. I’m sure he hated it when I played my first Ramones record over and over again, but that recording only lasted something like 28 minutes.Those turkey-calling tapes were a freaking miniseries. When he first began turkey calling, he used a small wooden box with a lid that slid back and forth to produce a noise that was supposed to sound like a turkey. Did it sound like a turkey? That’s hard to say. Dad thought it did, but on the other hand, it’s not as if he was luring them anywhere close to him. If he had been, we might have had turkey from his trip more than just that one time. The box was pretty simple, but it produced some alarming sounds. Sometimes, dad would slowly slide the lid back and forth so it produced a quiet screeching, or gobbling, noise. Apparently, this was to slowly coax the turkey within my father’s shooting range. Apparently, he never really mastered this sound. He would also shake the box furiously to produce a wild, loud gobbling noise. I never liked that sound much. I was around 12 years old then and spent most of my time in my room shaking something else furiously, so the infernal noise did nothing to help

my concentration. Eventually, this cumbersome box was replaced with a tiny piece of plastic that he put in his mouth. It was called a diaphragm and it looked like, well, like those other diaphragms that aren’t used for calling turkeys. I’m assuming that IUDs and condoms would have been used to call geese and ducks respectively. The diaphragm was much better, though, because it allowed dad to practice “hands-free” calling no matter what else he was doing. On the way to church, during a commercial, Michael Coulter working in the garage, there was is a videographvirtually no time he wasn’t mak- er, comedian ing what he thought was a and can be turkey noise. heard on WPGU When the day of departure 107.1 Thursdays finally came, the fellas were giddy at 5 with Ricker workin’ it. with excitement. As the last truck door slammed, my father would push in volume one of his turkey-calling tapes as he and his buddies slid their diaphragms in their mouths. As he backed out of the driveway, Mom and I could hear the infernal impressions of a wild turkey coming from the truck cab, six of them all in unison, a little redneck chorus of gobblings. From what I understand, the calling tapes were all the guys listened to on the way to Missouri. Six whole hours of it. I would have dove from the vehicle after 10 minutes. With that much practice, you would think the turkeys would be attacking the truck when they pulled into the camping spot, but they never were.You would also think one or two of the guys would snap like Jack Nicholson in The Shining after six hours of that crap. I guess they were too busy not shooting turkeys. So, it was either a protest against those turkey calls or a show of allegiance for my father, but I stayed away from the turkey this year. The Coulter boys just don’t have much luck with turkeys unless we encounter them at the grocery store. Even then we’re not really sure what to do with them, so we usually just hand them to my mother so she can cook them. She never went hunting in her life and she’s had more turkey experience than any of the men in the family. God love her. Also, I’ll be at The Iron Post this Saturday night around 9 p.m. It’ll be a comedy show like usual, but there’ll be some new stuff and a special reading of my holiday classic, Midget Christmas. It’s fun for all, and they’ve got liquor too. It’s like that Bing Crosby Christmas Special except it’s really filthy and there’s no singing. Maybe it’s like the Redd Foxx Christmas Special that never happened.

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n early December of 2002 not too long after her 21st birthday, Michelle found out she was adopted. Instead of her adoptive parents telling her the news; Michelle’s former roommate broke the news to her after her roommate found out from her grandparents in Florida. Michelle and her former roommate’s grandparents were friends at the time of her adoption. Michelle, 23, grew up in a small suburb of Chicago. She had suspicions that she was adopted even before she started kindergarten, she said.A neighbor told her she was adopted, children at her grade school teased her about being adopted and she didn’t even think she looked like anyone in her family. Her parents denied that she was adopted when she posed the question to them as a child. She never questioned it after her parents reassured her, but the topic stayed in the back of her mind. “I was always afraid to ask because I was afraid that I was adopted, and then I’d find out that all my suspicions were correct,” she said. Immediately after finding out, Michelle wanted to know about her history and find some clues about her birth parents. With the influence Democratic state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, who is also an adoptee, the Illinois Adoption Act pertaining to Confidential

Intermediary service was passed and went into effect on January 1, 2004.The act states that an adopted person 21 and over or with consent of parent can search or be searched by petitioning a court to appoint a Confidential Intermediary.The act allows exchanging medical information, obtaining identifying information or arranging contact between biological relatives through an intermediary. Some adoptees say there should be a greater increase to the access of information. Others oppose and say that birth parents have the right to their privacy. Glenna Weith, adoption attorney in Champaign thinks the increase of access to information is minimal because information is still confidential. However, she believes it is a good compromise between those searching and those who want privacy. “The law has it about as good as it can get,” she said,“unless you want all adoptee rights.” Michelle thinks the search for birth parents is frustrating, and that information should be easily accessible to people searching. “It seems like a right,” she said. “Everyone should be able to know who they are.” Michelle said she began to look up as much information as she could. She tried an internet search but did not know where to begin. She was unfamiliar with the term adoptee which made her search difficult. She tried searching the library at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. She found two books published in the 1970s that discouraged searching for birth parents. She knew that she needed to know more information about the adoption itself before she could find anything else. She avoided

ing foods. If you haven’t given much thought to the kind of oil you use to cook or make dressings, marinades or sauces, or if the only oil you have in your house is something called “vegetable oil,” you may be missing out on a great way to add dimension and depth to your foods. Not all oils are meant for cooking. If an oil has a low smoke point (the temperature at which it “burns”), then it should be used mainly to flavor foods. For example, sesame oil has a low smoke point and is best used when added to foods after cooking or to lightly sauté foods. Mainly used in Asian cooking, sesame oil has a strong “nutty”

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telling her parents that she found out about the adoption and spoke to family friends instead to gather information. But this wasn’t enough. “I wasn’t planning on telling my dad that I knew,” she said,“but the only way I could get more information was to ask him.” Even though she is close with her father, Michelle said it was difficult to approach him.The conversation proved to be emotional, and Michelle’s father was regretful that her adoption was kept secret for so long. They agreed not to tell her mother that she had found out, and Michelle was able to look through the family safe where information about her adoption was kept. Though much information was blacked out or destroyed, Michelle was able to find out that she had a private adoption, which was not handled by a child welfare agency. She also found the name of the attorney that handled the adoption and the name and location of the hospital where she was born. Illinois law states that adoptees may request “non-identifying” medical and social background information if the adoption was from a private agency. This infor-

mation may provide the searcher with such information as physical characteristics, education, health and nationality. An adoptee may request that the judge open the adoption file, however, according to case worker of Midwest Adoption Center (MAC), Diana Hunt, it is extremely unlikely that a court file will contain medical or social information. Adoptees, who are 21 and over, can file a petition for the Court to appoint a Confidential Intermediary to locate a sought after relative. Midwest Adoption Center is one of few agencies in Illinois that provides Confidential Intermediary services. Confidential Intermediary have access to vital records kept by the Department of Public Health and all records of the Court or any adoption agency, public or private, which relate to the adoption or the identity and location of persons involved, according to Illinois law. However, if adopted parent does not want information shared or refuses contact, the Confidential Intermediary must discontinue the search and inform the petitioning person. Michelle said she does not necessarily want to make contact, but she does want to know information about her birth parents. s o u n d s

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but imparts a lot of flavor to foods. If you want a more lightly flavored frying oil, try sunflower or canola oil. Olive oil has enjoyed a great surge in popularity over the past decade or so, and has now found a place in most American kitchens. However, olive oil is really a blanket term and doesn’t begin to address this product’s complexity and variations. For starters, take advantage of extra-virgin olive oil’s wonderful flavor by using it mainly for sautéing and flavoring and as a dressing or marinade. If you want, you could buy unfiltered olive oil for more flavorful dressings and for eating “asis” with bread, and filtered oil for use in sautéing and roasting. Use virgin olive oil for frying as it will impart less flavor than extra-virgin olive oil. When shopping for olive oil, you might be struck by the vast selection available. I recommend choosing by color (the greener, the more fruity; the more golden, the more buttery and mellow); location (American producers in California and Oregon are making great oils that may be more recently bottled than those of European producers and less expensive as well); and taste (several local stores have hosted olive-oil tastings). This last criterion applies to all oils. Try to experiment with different oils, especially for ethnic cooking. Several stores in town, such as Euro-Mart, ArtMart and World Harvest, have a great

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selection and knowledgeable staff. Once you find some oils to your liking, observe these general rules: 1.) unless refrigeration is required, store oils in a dark, cool place; 2.) smell your oil before using it to ensure it hasn’t become rancid (there will be a decidedly “off ” odor); 3.) oil that has been used for frying can be reused as long as it hasn’t darkened in color or turned rancid; 4.) be careful when deep-frying, and never leave a pot unattended. Recycled oils can lose stability and may burn at a temperature lower than the usual smoke point. Once you’ve tried some new oils, you may want to spread the joy a little. Try making some infused oils at home—a great present for the cooks in your family.All you need are some decorative glass bottles (sterilize them in boiling hot water before filling with oil), an oil of your choice (choose flavor-neutral oils; grapeseed, safflower and sunflower oils are good choices) and herbs, chilies or spices. Gently bruise fresh, whole herbs (or add toasted spices or chilies), place in the bottle, top with the oil and let infuse for several weeks in a cool, dark place. Herbs and other additions should be removed after infusion and infused oils should be used fairly quickly to avoid deteriorating flavor. Amanda Kolling can be reached at AmandaKolling@readbuzz.com.

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David Husom, a successful photographer, has had exhibits throughout the United States and Japan, including the Minneapolis Institutes of Art and J. Paul Getty Museum of Art. He was featured in Aperture Magazine and Architecture Minnesota and has done numerous university lectures and conferences. Husom’s main bodies of work have focused on fairground architecture (for which he won an award from the Society of Publication Designers), small towns along the Mississippi River, Japan in the new millennium, and a photographic and written journal of his travel around the world. Husom is currently being featured at Parkland College’s art gallery in its “Eclectic Visions” exhibit. How did you decide to focus on photography?

I have taken photographs pretty much since I learned to walk. I was making prints by junior high. But, it was only when I took a photography class in college that I realized that it could be an art medium. I had always been torn between art and technology. I drifted from engineering to architecture to painting and was never quite satisfied until I realized that photography could combine all of these. Who is your favorite artist?

Walker Evans has been a longtime favorite, but I have also been influenced by painters like Frank Stella and minimalist sculptors like Don Flavin and Don Judd. Of contemporary artists, I like the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher and their many former students like Candida Hofer and Thomas Ruff. Also, Reinke Dijkstra’s portraits I really like.

What advice can you give to aspiring art students?

Don’t sit around trying to think of the next great clever thing that no one has done before. You have to get out there and shoot, or get into the studio and start working on the things you have a passion for. It has taken me a long time to realize, however, that very few artists can create 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. (Picasso may have been a rare exception.) You will have periods of intense creativity where the work just flows. Other times you don’t want to get off the couch. And that is OK, just as long as you make the most of the creative periods and they are not too far apart.

Lingerie because LIX has the most unique selection in the area if you want something funky. I also have booths at horror conventions mostly on the East Coast. The most popular items there are the horror t-shirts because my selection is exclusive and horror fans are definitely fanatics! What sort of events has LIX put on?

LIX hosts some crazy fashion

What are some of the goals you have for the business?

shows. I like to think of them more of very entertaining variety shows with cool clothing. I also host horror movies at the Art theater downtown. In the past we have painted people as zombies, given away horror memorabilia, dressed up as movie characters etc., and we want to do more! LIX has not run any haunted houses but we have sponsored, reviewed and volunteered at a few over the years. You sell some movies at the store. What is your favorite movie? Why?

Well, Hellraiser is my favorite movie. The director, Clive Barker, is my favorite author and director and a wonderful artist.There are so many

Expand online and possibly open an all hor ror store in Philadelphia with a friend. What do you like to do when you aren't working at the store?

Dance, dance, dance, go to horror conventions, watch movies, read, pet the cats and spend time with my wonderful friends and family, oh and work more. I hear you are interested in horror movies and haunted houses. Have you personally experienced any spooky encounters?

I wish I could say yes, but I have tried and nothing. I even went to a "Ghost Hunt" at Ohio State Reformatory. It’s an old reformatory from the late 1800s where

708 S. Goodwin 18+ Urbana, IL 344≠ BAND Every Tuesday! they allow (for a fee) customers to explore the entire complex overnight. It is such a fascinating experience. Anyway, no ghosts! I prefer to think maybe it’s personal abilities to see that kind of stuff and I am just not capable, which is probably good because I would be scared out of my mind. But I just said I like being scared…hmm.

For me, photography is great in that you are out in the world doing it. My camera has taken me to every county in Minnesota, most of Iowa and Wisconsin and through 40 states and nearly 20 countries. I sat on the floor of a 400year-old farmhouse in Japan and ate oranges and watched Saturday morning cartoons with a family that had never met a foreigner before. I was in the library of a former Minnesota governor (who died this week at 95 and is being eulogized as one of the greatest Minnesotans of all times) and talked about how my photographs could help him prevent the commercial development of one of the most important geological areas in the world on the shore of Lake Superior. On the downside, there is still a feeling that photography is easy and anyone can do it.The critic A. D. Coleman once said that buying ballet slippers doesn’t make one a dancer, but everyone who owns a camera can be a photographer. What are you trying to achieve with your art?

My artwork is a personal exploration. It is a discovery of the subject—vernacular architecture being a favorite—and form. Color has always been one of my primary interests. I work for myself, but it is also very satisfying that others find meaning and beauty in what I do.

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LIX carries a lot of items that many people don't realize like CDs, guy's clothes, an awesome selection of tights and hosiery, collectible toys, a very unique selection of DVDs and t-shirts (bands, movies, Adult Swim, etc.) and even really funny children's clothing. I think LIX still has this stigma of being an S&M shop (which it never was) so people are scared to come in.While I can still order that kind of stuff, I carry little to none of it.

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What are your art and life inspirations?

I find inspiration everywhere, from my own work to the work of artists I know and those I only see in publications and museums. I am also a big movie buff and I find things in the cinema that affect me all the time. Music also inspires me, from Miles Davis and Bob Dylan, to Bonnie Raitt and Puccini, to offbeat stuff like Black 47. When I am out shooting, the light—natural or artificial—often inspires me to photograph a place.

What are some of the most popular things sold at your store? Why do you think that is?

reasons but one that might be easiest to understand is that I was completely fascinated by the film, and it still gives me chills to this day. One of my favorite states is being scared.

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Thursday, Dec 9 “I should be given the option through an intermediary to try and contact (parents) and if they would want contact with me,” she said. “And if they didn’t that would be fine, but just the fact that it’s really hard to even get that option is really frustrating.” For most people, petitioning a court is intimidating, Michelle said. People must give a reason why they are petitioning. Even after petitioning, the adoptee may not even be granted the search through an intermediary. Medical information is a popular reason for many people petitioning for information, said Hunt of MAC. It is also a reason the court is most likely to grant the petitioners request. Michelle doesn’t think adoptees should necessarily be able to contact birth parents, but she thinks that information should be readily available for any reason. For Michelle there are a number of reasons medically unrelated, for why she would like to find information about her birth parents. She thinks that genetics plays a part with who people become. “I feel like a part of me was missing if I didn’t find that,” she said.“I don’t think that it makes my parents not my parents, and I’m not looking to replace my parents or runaway from who I am.” Michelle grew up being proud of what she thought was her Welsh background. She gave reports about Welsh culture in school, and thought about possible trips to visit relatives in

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Wales. Now, she wonders what ethnicity she could be. She would also like to meet someone with whom she is blood-related. “When I think about it, the only person I will ever meet that I’m related to will be if I have children,” she said. “It’s really hard for me to think about.” Michelle has researched on adoptee rights and posted her information on adoptee message boards on the internet and has registered with the Illinois Adoption Registry, a confidential cross-reference file of birth parents, adult adoptees and siblings. She has not yet petitioned the Court for further information. Earlier this year, Michelle’s mother discovered that her daughter found out about the adoption. Michelle said that her mother is feeling very insecure now that she knows. Her mother tells Michelle that all information related to her adoption was destroyed, which Michelle found was false. Jeanine Berlocher, former president of OURS, a support group for adoptive parents, said that it is inevitable for adoptees to want to search for birth parents. It may be difficult for the parents, but they must under-

stand that the children will still love them. In many cases, the search has brought the adoptive family together, she said. Michelle said she understands if birth parents want to remain anonymous, but she also feels she has a right to know her history and that adoptive children are taken advantage of because they have no choice over their own information. She feels the intermediary system is a good compromise between the two parties, but feels that information should be easily accessible. “It’s frustrating to think that it’s so hard to find your parents,” she said.“I mean, it’s my history and it’s my right to know exactly where I came from.” buzz At the request of the main source, last name remains undisclosed.

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argile’s One Year Anniversary this Saturday is more like Thanksgiving than the birthday party you’d expect. Not to say it won’t be a great party, but founder Garenne Bigby has a lot to be thankful for on Dec. 4. Bigby dropped out of the University of Illinois in spring 2003.While he worked as a manager at Barfly, he made plans for his own place. On Dec. 5 last year, Nargile opened its doors for the first time.The amazing thing is that only five days before, the previous owners had closed Ruby’s, the local bar that Nargile replaced.With the help of community volunteers and the sponsorship of two major beverage companies, the large establishment was wired, furnished and decorated in record time. Not many businesses have that sort of community support before they open, but then again, Nargile isn’t your average bar. Bigby emphasizes the social aspect of Nargile. “At a bar,” he says, “You and your friends get your drinks, then go off to do your own thing.”To counter that, plush furniture and hookahs are waiting in the large lounge to get people sitting together and talking. A comfy stage in another room is for some of the best local and national acts around, and speakers are located all around the building, allowing good hearing from any location. Downstairs, there’s another bar, and the possibility for more musicians on the same night. Even that wasn’t social enough for Bigby’s style, though. To get started, booking agent Seth Fein focused on national

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colony governed by a monarchy. During this time, when the golden textiles were created, they were considered important symbols of the upper classes and nobility. Not only did certain textiles illustrate stature, but they were displayed in various ceremonies like weddings, funerals and festivals. The exhibit shows the immense affluence and traditions that occurred in these monarchial societies. Included in the exhibit is a large tapestry made to hang in a temple. The blueand-white cloth from Java is covered with gold-leaf glue work (called prada or telepok), in which the gold parts are glued onto the fabric.This method is used mostly to save time instead of weaving the shapes with thread wrapped in gold. The gold shapes that are spread throughout the textile are Chinese-inspired symbols con-

sisting of the dragon, phoenix, bird-fish and money. There are five “selendang” textiles, which were used for various purposes, such as a shoulder cloth, waist sash (usually for men), head covering or sling in which women could carry their babies. The selendang was important in ceremonies; it was used in specific dances, given as a wedding gift or offered by paternal grandparents to their grandchild for their first hair-cutting. These textiles include a wide array of colored fabrics, specifically different shades of red. The selendangs were created using gold-leaf work or gold-wrapped thread. Before World War II, 14-carat, high-quality gold was used for the textiles, typically from India or China. One of the selendangs was made specifi-

cally for the court of the Rajah of Badoeng. Another featured crude patterns of images of mountains, bamboo shoots (bamboo was considered the tree of life) and human figures.What appear to be geometric patterns in one of the pieces are actually symbols of different flora and fauna from the area, such as fern tendrils, rice stalks and areca nut trees. This particular selendang is heavily patterned with gold, to the point that the underlying fabric is hard to distinguish from the immense rays of thread.The fourth textile has orange-and-red silk bands that incorporate gender characters. Male symbols are triangular or arrow-shaped, while female ones are more circular. However, Asian elders believe that the female symbols represent ceremonial rice cakes and the male shapes signify bamboo shots or human figures.

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Nargile was the first hookah bar to open in the Champaign-Urbana area last year, and will be celebrating its one-year anniversary this Saturday. that is, for his guitar amp.With no beats to follow, he and the crowd were able to keep the Scribes’ rhymes coming until the power came back on. Phillip Bec works for Red Bull, which promotes Nargile.The club was an obvious choice because it puts a “different twist on the traditional nightlife” of beer monoculture. Nargile is not only the sort of place that can convince patrons to dress up in white or black formalwear (the White Affair and Black Affair, respectively), but also encourages people to try a new drink. Both Bec and Bigby have found that in business, image can be more important than volume. Bigby notes, “Both bands and fans traditionally have had a bad relationship with the venues.”As dysfunctional as the record company and band partnership is, the venue has

control over both musicians and fans. Getting booked is everything for young bands, and it’s the bouncers, not the label bigwigs, who throw out the rowdy fans at a show. Nargile provides a vision of the benevolent venue, and with the extensive merging of record companies and regional radio, this can be a revolutionary “new record label.” This is all to say that there’s a lot to be thankful for. On Dec. 4, while musicians and fans can give thanks for all that Nargile provides, Bigby will be thanking the staff, musicians and patrons who helped Nargile survive its first eventful year. buzz The One Year Anniversary begins at 10 p.m. on Dec. 4 at Nargile in Champaign. Music will be provided by the Goldfronts, featuring DJ Bozak.

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Garenne Bigby, a student in speech communication at U of I, drops out of school. He works as a manager at Barfly, and makes plans.

Nargile Lounge opens. The first night features music by Orphans (formerly Absinthe Blind).

Seth Fein retires his role of booking manager. Nargile turns its focus toward local musicians, and toward more “social” urban music.

Nargile proudly celebrates its first anniversary with music by the Gold Fronts, featuring DJ Bozak.

December 18, 2003 December 1, 2003 Ruby’s, a bar in downtown Champaign, closes its doors for good. With the help of volunteers, Bigby moves in.

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pencer and Lena Ewing, who donated the collection to the University of Illinois’ art and design department in 1944, visited Southeast Asia three times in the 1930s, collecting ceramics, ceremonial knives, wooden carvings and textiles. Spencer was an attorney, but his wife was deeply involved in international matters. However, “Opulent Display” almost didn’t happen, as the pieces were in storage until Connor discovered them, unused since the Spurlock Museum’s exhibit in the 1980s. Though there are only seven pieces in the exhibit, the textiles speak volumes of Asian society before World War II, when kings and sultans still flourished. Thailand was under a constitutional monarchy and parts of Indonesia were ruled by native princes, but the rest was in control of the Dutch. Even Cambodia was a French

independent rock acts. This caused two problems. Bigby is a great fan of indie rock (his group, Goldfronts, portrayed post-punk legends New Order at the Great Cover Up), but he felt the culture created a lessthan-social atmosphere at the club. Also, it was necessary to charge at the door to help pay for these acts. “People hate paying cover!” says Bigby. To reconcile these issues, the lounge began in spring 2004 to book more urban acts, particularly local talent, not only hip hop, but also reggae and salsa music. “The DJ has it easy: He can play what the people want to hear at any time,” Bigby notes. DJs also mean lower or no cover charges, so they are an obvious choice for Nargile.The result is a venue that’s not only social, but also inclusive; it’s one of the few places downtown where minorities are sometimes in the majority. It’s also one of the few places where you’ll see townies and college kids set down their plowshares and sometimes even share a table or bar.This change of focus has yielded a Nargile more in touch with Bigby’s vision, and he can honestly say that he’s “proud of all the changes Nargile has gone through.” Local band The Apollo Project play every Wednesday at Nargile. Guitarist Billie Kirst praises the club, which combines “a punk-rock-like venue at a small, intimate scale.” Candles, wall hangings, paintings by local artist Chris Davis, and the red motif create the impression of a “mother’s womb.” Kirst tells the story of sitting in with local hip-hop group Melodic Scribes at a Nargile party, when, all of a sudden, all the power in the building went off. Except,

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End of the semester. Plans to close for remodeling fall through when it becomes apparent that the revenue is needed.

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The Castanets Cathedral Asthmatic Kitty BY LOGAN MOORE

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band that realizes that long before country was associated with the glitz of Nashville, it was a folk music that expressed the shadowy underbelly of a hopelessly destitute underclass, a catalogue of drunken love songs, murder ballads and desperate paeans to God for salvation from all the sins that occurred between Monday and Saturday.And although psychedelia and country have rarely found themselves in the same room since the “cosmic cowboy” music of the ‘60s, the Castanets intertwine the mournful roots of country with a

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dark, druggy atmosphere far removed from the backward guitars of a half-decade ago, putting them closer to the shadowy folk of contemporaries like The No Neck Blues Band. The Castanets play music for the drowning; banjoes and organs swirling in a druggy miasma, blending with the mysterious clanks and staccato scrapes of metal on metal, fading out into nothingness as one sinks to the bottom of some primordial swamp. “Cathedral 2 (Your Feet On The Floor Sounding Like The Rain)” opens the album perfectly; a fog of organs creeps out from the stereo pierced by the wild howling of a distorted saxophone. It’s a ghostly funeral dirge of a song with minimal percussion and the subdued voice of lead singer-songwriter Raymond Raposa, assuring us that it’s “All right to want more than this,” although the vacant despair in his voice seems to assure us that this longing is a futile one. Cathedral continues along in a similarly chilling and mesmerizing fashion. In between the zombie horn section and phantom pianos of “You Are the Blood” through to the subtly expansive gospel of “Cathedral 4 (The Unbreaking Branch and Song)” there is a tenuous hope that offsets the pervasive desolation of Cathedral. The songs themselves reflect that hope is an unpredictable beast. At any moment they can drift into ethereal beauty or just as easily descend into droning feedback and rusty, sinking-ship percussion. In fact, the only misstep on Cathedral comes with the rather conventional statement of content, “As You Do,” a more typical country ballad that, while pretty and serviceable, breaks the claustrophobic tension that distinguishes The Castanets from their alt-country peers. Still, Cathedral is an alluring, desolate album that convincingly explores the ambiguous intersection of a despair born of human fallibility and the fragile faith which holds the key to deliverance, just as the ancient gospels and austere ballads of country music did a century ago.

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The Invisible’s second full-length offering, Invisibility, is comprised of 12 songs that display an array of influence. From stoned-out psychedelic rockers to down-tempo acoustic songs and instrumental hip-hop jams, the tracks here follow a quality as varied as their influences. On opener “The Art of Deception,” lead singer Kris Bauer sings in a slurred whisper that changes within the music, verse to chorus, from belligerent to weepy angst-ridden falsetto in the vein of This Heat or other protypical 1980s post rock outfits.The song is catchy in both its musical derivativeness as well as in its lo-fi production that accentuates the organic interplay of the band members. Some of the comparable “rocking” songs, however, are not as infectious; “Drama Queen,” for instance, rides a regurgitated surf-rock guitar line that swells up in a sickeningly atrocious punched out chorus of “drama queen!” Perhaps this outlines the overlying problem with a majority of the songs that at the end of listening seem weak or inconsistent: a combination of derivative musical tactics with inferior lyri-

cal sentimentality or emotional value. The better material on this record focuses on a collective sound that is founded upon 1960s psychedelic rock music, garage rock, grunge and revivalist folk in the vein of Beck and The Beat Happening. On “If I Fall In Love,” a near perfect acoustic ballad, Bauer sings in a baritone over a seemingly simple acoustic and drum line, with a melody that is both romantically centered around rhythm and blues and adjacently unfamiliar with its raspy lead vocals, reminiscent of Beck’s “One Foot in the Grave.” The simple acoustic guitar, drums and bass setup is routinely used on Invisibility. For the most part, the setup is effective, as heard on tracks like “Bigger Picture,” which sounds flat-out down home country, and “Hell to Pay,” where Bauer’s voice ascends to the ethereal in a song that matches the sublime rock offered by acoustic Alice in Chains and early Primus. Overall, the album’s strengths are outlined on the songs that sound most organic, where the overall sonic power of the guitars and drums coincide with the lead vocalists singing; its flaws lie in overbearing cliched lyrics that fall just short of sentimentality. Invisibility is currently available exclusively through CDBaby. More information about The Invisible and Invisibility can be found on their Web site: www.theinvisible.biz.

Presidents of the United States of America Love Everybody Pusa Music BY BRIAN KLEIN

Apparently, when it comes to being lame, the Presidents of the United States of America know quite a bit. In fact, they know so much that they can tell exactly where the Lame Line is and how to get as close to it as they possibly can without actually crossing over.The Presidents’ new album, Love Everybody, comes very close to the Line, somehow pulling up short to provide an enjoyable collection of songs. The Presidents make an art of toeing the Line, at times prompting you to ask yourself what you’re listening to. Love Everybody features tracks with such inane

titles (and content) as “Munky River,” “Clean Machine” and “Poke and Destroy.”You soon realize the brilliance in it all. The album is a collection of short two-and-a-half- to three-minute songs that beg the listener to lighten up and not worry about it. Each track is a high-energy, lighthearted composition that uses its title as a hook. All you’re going to remember from these songs is their two-word title repeated over and over again. What keeps the songs from monotony is the short length and frequent change of pace. The majority of the songs change melody throughout the three minutes. Basically the album is a bunch of goofy songs that aren’t really about anything important. Lyrics can be funny, but not entirely comical. It’s mostly stuff like “I would love to float/On/Munky River,” and “All I’ve got to show are shreds of boa.” I know what you’re thinking. It sounds lame. But somehow it’s not.

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(March 21-April 19):

The seeds of some trees are so tightly compacted within their protective cones that only flames can free them and allow them to sprout. The lodgepole pine and jack pine can't reproduce, in other words, without the help of forest fires. I suspect that you will have a resemblance to those fire-dependent, fire-resistant seeds in the coming months, Aries. Your ability to prosper and flourish may require you to spend time in the metaphorical equivalent of a large blaze. Don't worry for your sanity or safety. Just as the seeds in jack pine cones can tolerate temperatures of 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, you will be very hardy. P.S. Your first trial by fire may begin any minute now.

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(April 20-May 20):

Your soul is the best friend you keep forgetting you have. It's closer than your breath and older than death. It dreams like a mountain, laughs like a river, and communicates with you in the exuberantly mysterious style of animals and gods. You are alive because of your soul! It loves you with nonstop unconditional ingenuity. Isn't it right, then, to devote at least one special day each year to honoring it and giving thanks for its blessings? From an astrological perspective, this is a perfect time to do just that. Schedule Soul Celebration Day for sometime this week.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20):

It's an excellent time for you to fuel your urge to compete. But wait! Before you start working yourself into a frenzy about your rivals and adversaries, before you erupt with a surge of jealous fantasies, read this quote from ballet superstar, Mikhail Baryshnikov: "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." That's the special kind of competitive zeal I advise you to stoke in the coming weeks, Gemini.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22):

"Centuries of travel lore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun." So says Phil Cousineau in his book, The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred. I hope that's a perfect description of your current state, Cancerian. It may not be obvious yet, but losing your direction is the best gift you could have possibly been given. Being unsure of your next move is a crucial development in your life story, and a virtual guarantee that you will be in the right place at the right time for a divine intervention a few weeks from now.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22):

One good way to celebrate your astrological Season of Rapture would be to acquire the book Sexual Energy Ecstasy: A Practical Guide to Lovemaking Secrets of the East and West, by David and Ellen Ramsdale. Carry out any of the exercises between pages 333 and 339, including these: 1. Imagine that your house is burning down around you while you're making love; you're too blissfully engrossed to flee, and die in each other's arms. 2. As

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VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Don't fight the inevitable. Don't resist it and bitch about it and curse it. On the other hand, don't just lie down and let it roll on over you, relinquishing your will and losing your spunk. Instead, Virgo, have fun with the inevitable. Tease it and question it. Influence it through the ingenuity of your playfulness. Develop a relationship with it that allows you to be true to yourself even as you learn to love it.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

My house isn't big enough to hold all my stuff, so I keep some of it at a local storage facility. My room there is number 417. It's in the middle of a long hall lined with rooms that other people have rented for their junk. The sequence of numbered doors is odd; it goes 415 to 416 to 417 to 752 to 418 to 419 to 420. How did 752 get in there? It's a mystery--sort of like your life in the coming week, Libra. I predict that you'll soon experience a comparable interruption in the orderly flow of things. But that shouldn't be a problem for you as long as you don't worry about it. I suggest that you just glide through the seemingly out-of-place event, having faith that the regularly scheduled flow will return after a relatively brief blip.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

In 1964, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional "war on poverty." It was an enlightened use of martial force--an unprecedented attempt to channel the macho might of the federal government into an onslaught of benevolence. Now I call on you to pull off a comparable trick. In the coming weeks, convince your inner warrior to turn away from all temptations to express rage and destruction. Reprogram him or her to fight wildly in behalf of beauty, truth, justice, and love.

S AG I T TA R I U S

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Be here now. That's usually pretty good advice. It means reeling your mind in from its distracted daydreaming about the past and future so that you can be fully attentive to the present moment.To really be here now, you have to stop fantasizing about what might happen or what could have been, and instead focus on what's actually unfolding right in front of you. Having said all that, however, I'm going to give you astrological permission to spend an inordinate amount of time in the coming week following a different mandate. For a limited time only, Sagittarius, you can and should be there then: Vividly imagine yourself in a desirable future scenario as if it were already happening. Feel the feelings you'll have when it materializes.

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Dr. Ivan Goldberg (http://psychcentral.com/maniaquiz.htm) has created a questionnaire to help excitable people stay alert for when they may be about to go over the edge. For instance, he advises them to be wary if they're thinking things like, "My mind has never been sharper," "I need less sleep than usual," "I have more new ideas than I can handle," "I have been feeling particularly playful," or "I have been feeling like 'the life of the party.'" The weird thing is, Aquarius, that you're expressing many of the symptoms he names, only in you it's a sign of extraordinary vitality. Now please tap into the generosity and joy you've got in such abundance right now, and make the following affirmation, which is number 15 on Goldberg's list: I have special plans for the world.

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For far too long, Pisces, you have been overly tolerant of sober, solemn approaches. You have allowed business-like people with a lack of emotional riches to define important questions. You have acted as if the absurdly literal mindset that views everything in black and white is strong and authoritative. What better time than now, therefore, to launch a strike in the name of irreverence, hilarity, and wildly poetic justice?

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The blues has been a constant influence in the musical landscape of

America—shaping and inspiring the musical endeavors of rock ‘n’ roll greats with its distinctly fervent vocals and singular guitar riffs.The result—a timeless style of music, so pure, one gets the sense it has always been there—and always will be. Even the most inconsequential rock ‘n’ roll names remain at the tip of our tongues for decades,but blues newcomers have to pay their dues before they can be listed with the true greats like B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Bobby “Blue” Bland, among a long list of others. Recording artist and performer Murali Coryell has recently had the opportunity to play on the same stage as Buddy Guy at his club in Chicago, an impromptu guest on stage at Coryell’s scheduled gig at Legend’s.With a strong resume of tourmates like King and Bland, the future of blues looks bright. This Thursday, Coryell and Art Thunder will take the stage in Champaign at Jackson’s Ribs ‘n Tips Lounge, located at 116 N. First St. in Champaign. Don’t miss the urban jazz, blues, funk and soul played by these rising artists. Doors open at 8 p.m. and cover is $5.

Apparently, a few members of the London state boys choir who added their vocals to the infamous, “We don’t need no education,” chorus of Pink Floyd’s ubiquitous mega-anthem “Another Brick in the Wall” are looking for some compensatory cash. A lawyer representing the grown-up lads has filed a claim with the Music Royalties society claiming no one in the choir was paid any royalties for his vocals. Now if only we could get some bucks for those “It’s a Small World After All” animatronic kids, all the world’s wrongs would be righted.

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February at Schubas in Chicago. Show time is 8 p.m., and cover is $6. Saturday, Shipwreck resurfaces, twice. First is at Mike ‘n Molly’s to open for Drawl and Tractor Kings. Drawl is a Chicago rock band begun by Jordan McCormack and Ryan Hennessy in winter 2002. Show time is 10 p.m., and cover is $4. Second is at The Void for an unofficial release party for the album Invisibility by The Invisible. Invisibility was mastered last month with Jonathan Pines at Private Studios and will go on sale for only $5 at this show. Sound samples are available at the new Web site, www.theinvisible.biz. Show time is 11:45 p.m., no cover. Also Saturday, Troubled Hubble headline a last-minute show at the Courtyard Cafe, very early at 7 p.m. And at Nargile at 10 p.m., Goldfronts and DJ Bozak provide entertainment for the hip-hop and old-school crowd at a Nargile one-year-anniversary party. For anyone unaware, NOX is a dance night that specializes in goth and industrial music, every Tuesday at The Highdive. DJ ZoZo, aka Jason Pitzl-Waters, retires from NOX next week, and his last night looks to be big. Beside his recordings, two bands will play: local heroes i:scintilla and Die Warzau. Die Warzau formed as a performance-art group in Chicago in 1988 and attained cult status in 1995 with Engine. Die Warzau recently established their own label, Pulseback, and officially issue their first studio album in eight years, Convenience, Dec. 11 at Club NEO in Chicago. Die Warzau bills the show Dec. 7 at The Highdive as “Bloody Prom Night.”The morbid merriment starts at 9:30 p.m., with live music at 11 p.m., and cover is $5. Todd J. Hunter hosts “WEFT Sessions” and “Champaign Local 901,” two hours of local music every Monday night at 10 p.m. on 90.1 FM. Send news to soundground@excite.com.

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DJ DJ J-Phlip [house] Barfly 10pm, free DJ Bozak [hip hop and other soulful beats] Boltini 10:30pm, free Euro Thursdays DJ Surge [eurodance, house, vocal trance] Cafe Hookah 10pm-3am, free Karaoke "G" Force Karaoke Pia's of Rantoul 9pm-1am, free Dancing UIUC Swing Society McKinley Foundation 9:30pm-midnight, free Performances Drink...Drank...Drunk [Inner Voices Social Issues Theatre] Allen Hall 8pm, free

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Live Music The Prairie Dogs The Iron Post 5-7pm, TBA Al Ierardi Tommy G's 5-7pm, TBA Jo Pollock, The Humans Wake the Dead Cafe 7-11pm, free Teem Spirit [Nirvana tribute band] The Canopy Club 9pm, TBA IDF Anti-War Benefit: The Idle Hours, The Situation,

jigGsaw, Cameron McGill, Shipwreck Cowboy Monkey 9pm, $5 Bochman's Euphio, Free Space The Iron Post 9pm, TBA Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, $1 The Delta Kings [rock and blues] The Phoenix 9pm-1am, TBA Elsinore White Horse Inn 9:30pm, free 160 Proof [southern rock, classic rock] Tommy G's 10pm, $2

Slam Fest: Nonthought, SixColorPress, Forbidden Alibi, Low as I, TBA Wake the Dead Cafe 6-11pm, $6 Shinedown, Future Leaders of the World The Canopy Club 9pm, $15 in advance Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, $1 Tractor Kings, Drawl, Shipwreck Mike 'n Molly's 10pm, $4 Blues Deacons Tommy G's 10pm, $3 Exorna [Irish pub music] Bentley’s Pub 10pm-1am, free

DJ DJ Bozak [hip hop, downtempo] Barfly 10pm, free DJ Lil Big Bass Boltini 10pm, free DJ Vamp, DJ Tim Williams [hip hop, house, top 40 dance] The Highdive 10pm, $5

DJ DJ Resonate [hip hop] Barfly 10pm, free DJ Limbs [hip hop, soul, dance] Boltini 10pm, free One Year Anniversary Part: Goldfronts, DJ Bozak [old school, retro, hip hop] Nargile 10pm, free DJ Tim Williams [hip hop, house, top 40 dance] The Highdive 10pm, $5

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Live Music Benefit Show for St. Jude’s Children's Hospital: Blame Twilight, Winter In Alaska,Emerging from Van Doors, The Forecast, None Taken, Omelas, Midnight Fall, Scouts Honor ISU Bowling and Billiards Center 5pm, $5

DJ Randall Ellison [Hi-NRG classics and Eurodance videos] White Horse Inn 10pm, free Comedy Mike Coulter, Loren Guy, Aaron Hurley, Chris Schlichting, Greg Larson,

Bob Tell, TBA The Iron Post 8pm, $3

Meetings Sunday Zen Meditation Prairie Zen Center 9am-noon, free

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Speaker Doug Wilson of Trading Spaces [author’s corner] Illini Union Bookstore 1pm, free

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Live Music Disciple, Kwench, Fire By Nite Virginia Theatre 6pm, $10 Crystal River Rose Bowl Tavern 8:30pm, free Adam Wolfe, Guido Esteves, Jess Greenlee Cowboy Monkey 9pm, free Sunday Mass: Sinckwhole, Midshift, Justify the Means [blues] Tommy G's 9pm, free Kilborn Alley Jackson’s Ribs-n-Tips Restaurant and Lounge 8-11pm, $5 Traditional Irish Music Mike ‘n Molly’s 5pm, free

DJ DJ Delayney Barfly 10pm, free DJ Resonate [underground and mainstream hip hop, lounge] Cowboy Monkey 10pm, free Industry Night: DJ Paul Anthony Nargile 10pm, free DJ Bozak [hip hop and other soulful beats] Boltini 10:30pm, free

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DJ Randall Ellison [Hi-NRG classics and Eurodance videos] White Horse Inn 10pm, free Comedy Mike Coulter, Loren Guy, Aaron Hurley, Chris Schlichting, Greg Larson,

Bob Tell, TBA The Iron Post 8pm, $3

Meetings Sunday Zen Meditation Prairie Zen Center 9am-noon, free

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Speaker Doug Wilson of Trading Spaces [author’s corner] Illini Union Bookstore 1pm, free

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Nargile Lounge opens. The first night features music by Orphans (formerly Absinthe Blind).

Seth Fein retires his role of booking manager. Nargile turns its focus toward local musicians, and toward more “social” urban music.

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