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Xtending an Invitation
By Natalie Durst
University a cappella group Xtension Chords are back with its Xfest, which will have more variety, laughs and giveaways than ever before.
Check out Rebecca Cho’s Halloween comic for tricks, treats, and everything in-between!
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Who doesn't love guac? Celebrate the Mexican condiment that packs nutrition and flavor into one smooth package with us.
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MOVIES & TV
In the next installment of Found on Netflix, Josh dishes on V/H/S: Viral, a horror gem tucked neatly within the menus of Netflix that marries horror with found footage in several short films.
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Run the Jewels 2 Review
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V/H/S : Viral By Josh Peterson
Killer Mike and El-P have delivered on an album that will hopefully be enough to tide us over until Meow the Jewels drops.
I am more than civically active. I might be civically obsessive. The late October day that early voting opened in Illinois, I traveled home to cast my ballot because I knew I would not have a chance to on Nov. 4 (shout-out to federally subsidized trainlines for being the absolute best). Tuesday night, when I was not checking my go-to numbers-crunching national election data blog Five Thirty Eight, I was alternating between my go-to numbers-crunching Illinois election data blog, IllinoisElectionData.com, and Pitchfork’s reviews of that day’s new releases (I am a man of many obsessions, sorry). I was not surprised by the re-election of our Senator Durbin. I was not surprised–although a little disappointed–by the loss of Democratic congressional nominee Clay Aiken in North Carolina’s 2nd district. I am still in a bit of shock that the Rauner campaign clinched the gubernatorial race (but in greater shock that Quinn took so long to concede). I do have a few thoughts, on that race and others: In order to win, Rauner needed to make gains in Chicago and its suburbs while maintaing the downstate electorate typically won by Republican candidates. Upstate, Rauner claimed an acceptable improvement (two percentage points) over Brady’s 2010 results, largely due to low voter turnout (decreases of 6.5 and 7 percent from 2012 numbers in suburban Cook County and the city, respectively). Midterms do usually see lower turnout from minority, women and youth voters, demographics that often lean left. Downstate, results stayed roughly consistent with the 2010 race. It seems Rauner’s message failed to inspire and Quinn’s cuts to government services did minimal harm. Rather than engaging in punditry, the better explanation may be that the American electorate is, and has always been, deeply partisan; we only recently began to measure it in ways so closely tied to political science. Even if it isn’t socially acceptable to say, at least Madigan held on to his veto-proof majority. Whatever regressive policies the Rauner administration pursues—privatizing schools, rolling back income and corporate tax rates without a contingency plan–Illinois voters have set up a safeguard. Plus, we might finally get that minimum wage increase for which Quinn fought so hard.
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BOARD MUCH? BY LAUREN EIDEN Forget about a lazy Sunday! Switch it up and relax over board game this Friday, Nov. 8. Every second Saturday of the month, the Urbana Free Library hosts a day filled with an array of different board games that guest of all ages can play. From 2 to 6 p.m. in the MacFarlane-Hood Reading Room on the first floor, participants can stop by for a round or stay until closing. Available games at the library include classics, such as Go and Backgammon, as well as new board games such as Dominion, 7 Wonder and Terra Mystica. Not familiar with the games or unsure of exactly how to play? That’s okay. The Urbana Free Library has staff and volunteers throughout the event to help teach or demonstrate the games. With a café conveniently located in the library, Second Saturday Board Games is a pleasant way to spend a weekend with family and friends. BUZZ STAFF
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powerful: There I was, stretching into the wee hours of the morning, menaced by a desk stained with coffee rings and the harsh glare of a blank page searing into my retinas from a computer screen. The cursor blinked mercilessly, a cruelly precise winking in and out of existence giving me just enough comfort to relish its presence before it disappeared again and left the page the color of virgin snow. What I fool I was to think that loading up the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s “Her” would make me more productive. What a fool indeed.
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hen video cameras and VCRs became widespread in the mid ‘80s to the early ‘90s, anyone with a little spare change and some free time could put themselves up on the small screen. A home video renaissance followed: Some films were poignant, some realistic and some downright strange. Former researcher on the Late Show with David Letterman Nick Prueher and contributing writer for The Onion Joe Pickett will bring attendants the crème de la crème of the last category at the Champaign stop of their Found Footage Festival tour on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at the Art Theater Co-op. Since 2004, the duo have been travelling the country and beyond in search of the oddest, most unintentionally hilarious videotapes created by mankind. It all started when Prueher found an old training tape while working at McDonald’s during high school in Wisconsin. “I found a video in the break room called ‘Inside and Outside Custodial Duties,’ and the tape was just collecting dust, so I popped it in out of boredom,” Prueher said. “I was amazed—there were cuttle little puns, it was about a trainee’s first day on the job and he was so comically excited to start cleaning the bathroms. It was so ridiculous that I had to show it to the world.”
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Prueher and Pickett started circulating the tape among their friends and together nurtured an obsession with comically poor footage. In 2004, they decided to make it official and launched the Found Footage Festival in New York. Since then, their shows have attracted audiences of hundreds across the nation, and the duo has taken its performances to venues throughout the world such as in France, Norway and Sweden. At the festival itself, Pickett and Prueher play selections from videotapes found in thrift shops and moldy attics nationwide, hunted down by the duo and submitted by fans of the festival. Highlights of the show are the wonderfully redundant “How to Have Cybersex on the Internet,” a charmingly poor instructional video that purports to teach viewers the basics of finding a partner in a chatroom and doing the dirty, and scenes from a pet show filmed in Long Island unfortunately titled Petpourri, in which the owners of a local pet store attempt to show viewers how to take care of various pets but end up subjects of a violent melee between a ferret, a pug and a lizard. The videos shown are also often as odd as they are entertaining, if not more so. In the past, Prueher and Pickett have shown a video detailing how to use a hypodermic needle treatment to stimulate an erection. They had professional disagree-
ments over how much of the video to show at the festival and would often leave the decision up to festival crowds as to whether or not the full footage needed to be shown. “Sometimes the crowd would go for it, but they really didn’t know what they were getting into,” Prueher said, chuckling. “When the shot reached the needle entering the penis, the whole crowd just stood there, horrified. We never showed that video again.” Prueher and Pickett go thorugh hundreds of videotapes together when choosing what to play at the festival, and acknowledge that at times, it can be grueling. Sitting through hours upon hours of instructional footage and sometimes footage that seems far more disturbing than it needs to be. For instance, in one video Prueher and Pickett picked detailing the finer points of elderly bowel care, the duo looks for a very specific kind of humor in picking the videos, one that is as much a product of ineptitude as it is of sincerity. “I think the appeal for me in these videos is just how earnest everyone is,” Prueher said. “The makers are all trying to do the best the can, but something always goes awry between their ideas and the video, either with poor writing to begin with or just terrible execution, and there’s an element of humanity to these videos as a result of that.”
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CRAFTY CRINGLE
Illinois Heartland Decorative Artists are back with their annual holiday craft show OLIVIA CATUARA
A festive display at last year's Chris Cringle Craft Show. Photo by Becky Smith
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his weekend, the 35th Annual Chris Cringle Arts & Crafts Show returns to in Champaign. Artists from around the area gather to raise money for many of the projects of Heartland Decorative Artists. The Illinois Heartland Decorative Artists is a group of 68 painters who sponsor different events, such as Chris Cringle. “This is our 35th year. That is a long time for an arts and crafts show to survive. We have to think that we are doing something right,” Chairman of the show Sondra Sipes said. This year, the show is at Fluid Event Center, located at 601 N. Country Fair Drive, Champaign. This Friday, Nov. 7, the show starts and 3 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m. On Saturday, the show begins 9 a.m. and will close by 5 p.m. Admission is $5, and each attendee will receive five tickets to be used for the door-prize drawings. Children 12 and under get in for free with a parent. Tickets are available at the ticket office of the Fluid Event Center, which will open at 2:30 p.m. on Friday and at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. Sipes says a portion of the proceeds from the
event will go to an art scholarship that the Heartland Decorative Artist supports each year. The scholarship is for high school seniors who will be entering college as Art majors, and application letters will go out in the spring to high schools throughout Illinois. Interested students can then apply and send in art samples. A selection committee will choose the winner, and the scholarship money is sent directly to the school that the winner attends. The Heartland Decorative Artists sponsor a number of local programs and causes, including area food banks, school back pack program, nursing home activity programs, art exhibits at county fairs, art seminars and painting displays to promote decorative art. “We have quality vendors who offer quality products for sale to the visitors to our show,” Sipes said. “We have vendors who have been with the show for a lot of years and have changed and improved their product over the years to keep up with the times.” There will be 155 booths and 90 vendors, and more than half of the vendors are returning to
the fair after participating last year. Returning vendors to the show are displaying products such as: graphic art work, leather work, wooded items, Christmas ornaments, decorated Christmas trees, doll clothes, painted items, pet treats, metal art, floral arrangements, journals, rugs, jewelry, painted gourds, cards, magnets, hair bows, quilts, decorated sweat shirts, stained glass, baby accessories, carved duck decoys and paper crafts. The Fluid Event Center is located on a single level, and there will be a rest area, as well as some refreshments at the show. “I think the show has improved over the years. As our reputation has grown and spread, more vendors hear about the show and want to be part of the Chris Cringle experience. We try to make it a great experience for the vendor and the customer alike. We hope that we are doing our job,” Sipes said. Sipes added that there will be a quilt raffle at the show. Each year, a hand-painted quilt is raffled off. This year’s quilt is decorated with snowmen and will be on display at the show.
In the weeks leading up to the show, the Chris Cringle Arts & Craft Show Facebook page has had contests in which they have given away crafts like the ones that will be available at the show. To enter each contest, participants liked the Chris Cringle Facebook page, shared the picture of the craft and tagged as many friends as they wanted in the picture. The winner of each contest will pick up their prize during the show at the Illinois Heartland Decorative Artist Chapter Booth. The Illinois Heartland Decorative Artist website, http://ihda.us/chriscringle.html, features event information, along with vendors' photographs of their handcrafted goods. Their Facebook page provides a glimpse of hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind gifts available for purchase for loved ones or to deck your own halls for the holidays. The Chris Cringle Arts & Crafts Show will take place at the Fluid Event Center on Friday, Nov. 7, from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children under 12. November 7-13, 2014 buzz 5
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FEEL IT IN YOUR BONES
Two recent UIUC graduates pursue deep connections with Sobotka Literary Magazine AALIYAH GIBSON
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t all started at a bus stop. If you’re a student at the University, you’ve probably found yourself at this stop once or twice. It’s a commonly used one, placed across the street from the Illini Union in front of the Engineering Quad. But unlike its usual job of offering seats for students that can no longer handle the weight of their backpacks, it gave two students a landmark for the birth of an idea that would bring together writers from the Midwest and beyond. Nick Rossi and Kathy Klimentowski were just two students at the University, much like any of us here now; they majored in History and English, respectively, as some of us chose to do. Most importantly, they did something we all are capable of doing (if we find the time between classes and excessive hours of sleeping): They created. Sobotka Literary Magazine, a magazine of
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prose, poetry and creative work, was a dream Rossi and Klimentowski brought—from words exchanged at a bus stop—to the hands of anyone with a knack for creativity. “The magazine is short; it’s about 50 pages of prose and poetry, and we were open to doing creative non-fiction essays,” Rossi said. “It’s very young—just a brainchild of me and Kathy. We created and printed it ourselves. Long story short, it’s a short literary magazine independently produced and published.” Rossi and Klimentowski’s friendship is a tale in itself, responsible for the creation of the literary magazine. “Kathy is a year younger than me... She lived across the hall from my girlfriend and her roommate in the dorms, and that’s how we met in 2010,” Rossi said. “Until about 2012, we were kicking
around the idea of writing a book of short stories together and what the theme might be. I would write a short story, and she would read it and write a response story that went along with the theme I used. Then I would respond to her stories, and we would come up with this big elaborate short story collection. But that didn’t quite materialize.” As two students with a love for creative writing who were pursuing majors in two different fields, writing and editing stories from one another was an intriguing yet time-consuming activity. Finding time to submit work to other literary magazines was its own struggle. So, Rossi and Klimentowski went with the next big step: they created their own. “I remember sitting there at the bus stop and we were like, ‘Why don’t we just make our own literary magazine instead of struggling to try to submit our work to stuff?’” Rossi said. “We said,
'Let’s focus on editing and putting together our own magazine. Hell, why not?' Then we did.” The stages of forming a literary magazine had begun. “After we discussed ways to actually start the literary magazine, I went online and looked up what to do when you start (a project),” Rossi said. “One of the first things I did was make a WordPress for the magazine.” Like most new creative inventions, a title that captured the meaning behind the literary magazine was next on the to-do list for Rossi and Klimentowski. But a dilemma interfered with the original plan. “We kicked around names like we were in a band, and we chose Bonfire. We had this big explanation for why we would go along with that title because bonfires are bright and warm, and they bring people together even in the darkness
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and stuff like that,” Rossi said. “Little did we know that Smile Politely already had a section called Bonfire. I made the WordPress and a Twitter and Facebook for it; we posted it on Facebook and within 15 minutes, people were replying saying it was already a thing! So, we went back and we realized we had to change it.” Luckily, Rossi and Klimentowski’s Polish backgrounds helped in this scenario. “Sobotka is Polish for an event that occurs at the end of July, where young girls put reefs into water and young boys try to find the matching reef. Everyone would be together, and there would be readings and dancing around the fire,” Klimentowski said.“ It brings about the feeling of togetherness.” Thus, Sobotka Literary Magazine was born, and the real work followed. “We did this independently. We really had no
idea how we were getting it all started,” Rossi said. “We started promoting it and saying we were accepting admissions. We had to make up all of our guidelines and deadlines, and people submitted, which was awesome. That was the biggest worry. Neither of us really have had a creative venture like this, so we were afraid people wouldn’t submit anything. But in the last couple weeks or so, we got a lot of quality submissions. We were psyched.” With a title, Rossi’s father’s job as a printer, Rossi’s relocation from Urbana to Nashville and submissions of prose and poetry from authors, Rossi and Klimentowski moved forward, using the power of the internet to the best of their abilities. Together, they reviewed, edited and chose a list of entries that would be the best fit for the magazine’s first issue. Next was choosing cover art for the magazine
that was not only beautiful but a creative depiction of what the magazine entails. “The cover art is a picture that I took while I was visiting family in Poland,” Klimentowski said. “I was a photography kid, so for my senior project, I just took a ton of pictures and told my grandma and cousin to sit there. Everyone is a part of this, and I want our magazine to convey that.” The last step was to write an editor’s note that would not only encourage readers to keep reading but for writers to keep writing. “You feel more human and less alone in this world knowing that there are people out there that make the world a little less scary and dark,” Rossi said. “In today’s society, it can be really easy to feel alone and disconnected from the world even when you are connected. So writing is a way to connect. Very rarely do you hear students being encouraged to
pursue writing or poetry. We want (reading the magazine) to feel like you’re having a conversation with the author. It can be easy to feel lonely, but it’s nice to connect with people, and our literary magazine is our way of doing that.” The first issue of the Sobotka Literary Magazine is out and available for readers of all sorts. Submissions for the next issue will be opening up soon but, in the meantime, Klimentowski has a few words for writers—or for the next inventive person sitting at a chilly bus stop. “Don’t to be afraid of rejection or mistakes or people telling you to rewrite things,” said Klimentowski. “Just do it. Just go for it. I commend people who put their work out there. It takes a lot of courage.” For more information about Sobotka Literary Magazine, visit http://sobotkalitmag.wordpress.com. November 7-13, 2014 buzz 7
FOOD & DRINK
HOMONYM HOAGIES
Green Street Looks to Welcome Its Latest Sandwich Shop, Which Wich? PAUL ANGELILLO
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lthough Campustown has seen new ramen, new froyo and notorious golden arches all set up shop the past few months, it wouldn’t be a real year without a new challenger in the lunchtime battle of buns, meats and cheeses. Joining Subway, Jimmy John’s, Potbelly, Penn Station, Silver Mine Subs and Jersey Mike’s (and that’s only counting dedicated sandwich shops) Dallasbased Which Wich? Superior Sandwiches looks to spice up a lucrative but crowded market. The new location, across the aisle from Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt, marks the chains rapid expansion in the state of Illinois and a fearless foray into the heart of Green’s dining scene. When it comes to the real meat of the matter, however, Which Wich is looking to cash in by offering options, many of which, consequently, replace meat. Turkey, ham, beef and chicken cover the first four categories of the new spot’s menu, each with its own combinations like “The Cuban” (pork,
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sliced ham and pickles) and “Corned Beef Reuben” (corned beef, sauerkraut and Thousand Island dressing). From there, however, the options stretch to include gyro meat, tuna, crab salad and a range of vegetarian choices like black beans, hummus and artichoke heart sandwiches. Then come the accompaniments: 10 kinds of cheeses, six spreads, four mustards, three types of onion and more than 16 additional veggies. This doesn’t even touch on some of the other options on offer like dressings and oils and others extras. It is certainly a dizzying array with some bizzare options (Cheez Whiz), but the general thoughtfulness of the options and attraction to multiple palates makes it a strong draw. Also of note is the menu’s clear consideration of vegan offerings and ingredients, a touch not generally seen at a sandwich shop. All these combinations can be tucked into a bowl, a lettuce wrap and white or wheat bread that can be left cold or toasted—
a formidable array of mediums that manages to compete with all the surrounding sandwich shops and even Chipotle. With sweets and six milkshakes also on the menu, it might begin to seem, however, like speed might be sacrificed for variety. The ordering system, a hands-off method that looks quite similar to that offered at local spot Mia Za’s, could prove a crucial edge when it comes to accurately and quickly serving customers. Rather than trying to piece together your order verbally while simultaneously reading from a crowded menu board, Which Wich has patrons tick boxes off on a bag from their desired category. This not only speeds up the movement of the line, but eases the application of such a variety of sandwich ingredients at once. Price wise, a 7” sub will cost diners around $6.25, with a 10.5” for $9.00 and a 14” for $12. Only extras like bacon, sliced egg and avocado cost an additional dollar to add on. When it comes to the art of sandwich-building
“Lucky Number Seven”--for the 700th Jonesin’ puzzle. Across 1 Upsilon’s follower 4 Talking-animal tale 9 WWII general ___ Arnold 12 Bottom of a parking garage 15 Spare parts? 16 1998 Bryan Adams album 18 Dinner ingredient? 19 Home to Hercules’s lion 20 OB/___ 21 Competitions like those in “8 Mile” 26 “His Master’s Voice” label 27 “Just let me finish” 30 Round body 31 Cop’s request before “I’m going in” 32 Get the bad guy 33 You, to Christoph Waltz 34 One who’ll leave a
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and ordering, it seems as though Which Wich has thought of everything. It’s looked at a market where many sandwich shops entice customers with one or two items and decided to instead offer everything and then a bit more. That might not mean delivery like Jimmy John’s or any more unique of a side than bags of chips, but Which Wich promises an unparalleled amount of sandwiches and an ever more efficient and expedited manner of ordering and receiving them. Another sandwich shop might not mean Green Street is progressing or expanding in its tastes, but it hopes to show that the lines of lunchtime customers want a more tailored meal even if they’re not ordering a burrito. It might be ironic that the latest shop in a field that’s spoilt for choices is centered on the number of ingredient choices, but if even a few of those combinations are tasty it will be a welcome addition to CU. Which Wich? Superior Sandwiches will be located at 512 E. Green St., Suite C and is set to open later this month.
mark 35 “La la la can’t hear you,” for short 36 Punctured tire sound 37 Desert after an Italian meal 38 ___ Majesty 39 One side of a bilingual store sign 41 Former “Tonight Show” announcer Hall 42 He pitched the only World Series perfect game 43 Pit stop stuff 44 Mercredi preceder 45 “Who’s a good boy?” response 46 It’s sometimes added to table salt 53 Like scuffed CDs 54 Secure locales 55 A degree of success? 56 Singer/songwriter Jones 57 Freshmen-to-be, perhaps: abbr.
Down 1 Mideast grp. 2 Apple variety created in Minnesota 3 Song that starts “Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours to go” 4 Lobster ___ Diavolo 5 Actress Michalka 6 ___ Paese (semisoft cheese) 7 2022’s Super Bowl (if they keep using Roman numerals) 8 “Mouse!” 9 Is stealthy like a snake 10 Quatrain rhyme scheme 11 Korean sensation 13 Mag VIPs 14 Slowly, on sheet music 15 “Star-crossed” lover 17 Laurelin’s partner in Tolkien’s Two Trees of Valinor 20 Brazil’s Mato ___
21 Stand-up comedians’ supporters 22 1980s Hostess product 23 Oktoberfest locale 24 Thwarting type 25 Nightmare visions 28 Called in honor of, as a relative 29 Famed Fords 40 Missile-warning gp. 44 Dance in a pit 45 Freddy formerly of D.C. United 46 Baby seal 47 Singer Janis 48 Ship passing in the night? 49 Cousteau’s sea 50 Ex-Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James 51 “Well, look at you!” 52 Count follower
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LIVING & DREAMING
The husband-wife duo of Slingshot Dakota play Error Records Sunday night SEAN NEUMANN
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lingshot Dakota makes bracing indie pop driven by drums, keyboards and lead singer Carly Comando’s voice. The Bethlehem, Pa. band will play at Error Records in Urbana on Sunday night with Springfield’s Looming and Champaign-Urbana twee pop band, Nectar. buzz caught up with the other half of the duo, drummer Tom Patterson, during a break from the band’s national tour. buzz: How did you and Carly meet? Tom Patterson: Well, (original drummer) Pat Schramm was also a member of the band Latterman and kind of had a conflicting schedule a lot, so I came on as their touring drummer. By the end of the tour, (original guitarist) Jeff Cunningham and Carly decided that it was working with me better and decided to keep me on full time. So me and Carly started writing songs together and, when Jeff decided to leave the band, we just continued with the songs we had written as a two-piece band setup. buzz: Speaking of that, you guys fit into this long history of male-female duos. What effect do you think that chemistry has on the songwriting process? TP: Well, Carly really handles most of the songwriting process, and so when she has an idea on where she wants a song to go she only has to bounce those ideas off of one other person. I definitely think that has some advantages to it, like not having to deal with a lot of other people’s egos and a bunch of conflicting ideas about what the song should be. It’s just her and I, and I have a lot of respect for what she wants to do with the
songs. She usually writes drum parts, too, so she kind of has a master plan a lot. Sometimes we jam stuff out at practice a lot; sometimes, I’ll lay down a drumbeat, and she’ll write a song for it. There’s really no one set way we write songs. buzz: Any favorite male-female duos? TP: Oh yeah, I really like Mates of State. I think they’re great. There’s this other band called Jucifer that I love too, they’re kind of this really heavy husband-and-wife duo and they’re really interesting. buzz: The contrast between Carly’s voice and keys and you drumming is pretty distinct. What can you say about the influences on your playing style? TP: When I first started playing drums, I was in a lot of punk and hardcore bands in my hometown (Lehigh Valley, Pa.), so that really informed my playing style. Dave Grohl had a huge influence on me as well. I learned how to play drums by playing Pearl Jam’s first record too, so I always had this harder, simple, aggressive style that just works with what Carly does. buzz: Are there any shows that stick out in your mind? TP: There’s so many! One of the most memorable was definitely playing Gilman Street (in Berkeley, Calif.). It was this venue where a lot of bay area bands played when they were coming up, you know like Green Day, Operation Ivy and AFI, just a lot of bands that I really looked up to growing up. Playing there just made me feel like what I was doing was really worth it. Slingshot Dakota is playing at Error Records in Urbana on Sunday, Nov. 9 with Looming and Nectar. The show starts at 8 p.m. and costs $8. November 7-13, 2014 buzz 9
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
COMMUNITY PUBLIC SAFETY CAREER EXPO Wednesday, Nov. 12; 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Urbana City Building (400 S. Vine St.); free
COMEDY KARAOKE Thursday, Nov. 13; 9-10:30 p.m., The Clark Bar (207 W. Clark St.); free
If you would like to secure one of the 12 spots for this open mic night, contact Jesse Tuttle at jesse@ cucomedy.com. Otherwise, be sure to support the local comedy scene and enjoy a few laughs!
CHRIS CRINGLE CRAFT SHOW Friday, Nov. 7-Saturday, Nov. 8; 3 p.m.-9 p.m. and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fluid Event Center (601 N. County Fair Dr.); $5
CRANKSGIVING C-U IMPROV Saturday, Nov. 8; 12 p.m. FESTIVAL The Bike Project (202 S. Broadway Ave.); $5 minimum
Friday, Nov. 14-15, 8 p.m., 10 p.m.; SoDo Theater, 111 S. Neil St., Champaign; $25 for workshop
CU ASTRONOMICAL GALLERY SOCIETY TALK: GLOBAL MEETING GROOVE, VIDEO Thursday, Nov. 13; ECOLOGY 7-8:30 p.m. Staerkel Planetarium (2400 W. Bradley Ave.); free
Tuesday, Nov. 11; 12-1 p.m. Krannert Art Museum; free (suggested donation = $3)
32ND ANNUAL ART FAIR Saturday, Nov. 15, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Urbana Civic Center 108 E. Water St., Urbana; free
The Craft League of Champaign-Urbana presents its annual Art Fair featuring the work of 33 artists exhibiting brand-new works in a variety of materials and media. The juried show is competitive—over 50 artists in more than a dozen art disciplines applied. Exhibitors and attendees visit from across the Midwest.
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MOVIES & TV MARKET MONDAY MENU AT BACARO Monday, Nov. 10; 5-11 p.m. 113 N. Walnut St., Champaign; $50
THE HOLIDAY MARKET Saturday, Nov. 8; 8 a.m.–1 p.m., Lincoln Square, Urbana; free
RED HERRING VEGAN FUSION DINNER: HUNGARIAN
Just because Urbana’s Market at the Square has closed up shop for the season doesn’t mean you Wednesday, Nov. 12; have to miss out on any amazingly fresh offerings! Sample the best in local produce, scrumptious baked 5–8 p.m., 1209 W. Oregon goods and handmade crafts—all in the very same St., Urbana; $8 a plate spot as the popular May through September market.
CUSR CUPCAKE 5K Sunday, Nov. 9; 9 a.m.–12 p.m. 2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign; register online
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BIRDMAN Friday, Nov. 7-8; 5, 8, 11 p.m., The Art Theater Co-op, Champaign
Thursday, Nov. 13; 5–7 p.m. Michael Keaton plays a washed-up superhero actor Riggan in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s response to Krannert Center Stage 5; free the rash of modern comic book hero films. After several big-budget successes as “The Birdman” and a
subsequent descent into anonymity, Riggan decides to mount a comeback of Birdman as a Broadway musical, much to the ire of the modern theatre-going public. As much a tale of redemption as it is a commentary on the relevance of superheroes in a jaded, ironic modern age, Iñárritu’s Birdman enthralls audiences with its surreal visual splendor and stellar performances by Keaton and Emma Stone as his daughter Sam.
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FERAL STATES Saturday, Nov. 8; 8 p.m. Mike ‘N’ Molly’s; $7
Saturday, Nov. 8; 6 p.m. Error Records; $5
BOOKMOBILE! Friday, Nov. 7; 9 p.m., Mike ‘N’ Molly’s; $7
The last time Bookmobile! played Mike ‘N’ Molly’s, the show got so crazy the venue shut the band off near the end of its set. Look for the local punk band to bring more of the same energy on Friday night, something the trio has become known for since forming last year.
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BOBBY LANE QUINTET Friday, Nov. 7; 9 p.m. The Red Herring; $5
DECADENTS Friday, Nov. 7; 9 p.m. Memphis on Main; $5
UI WIND ORCHESTRA: A CALL TO DUTY, HONOR AND COUNTRY: A VETERAN’S DAY CONCERT Tuesday, Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m., Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; $10 (Current military personnel and veterans who attend in uniform or mention their service get in for free)
Featuring pieces such as The “Star-Spangled Banner,” “America the Beautiful,” “Armed Forces Salute” and “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” this concert is part of the campus commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I and is sure to be memorable.