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Sweetcorn Festival a bust! Local Chapter of Scientologists "stressed out"

SETH FEIN • CONTRIBUTING WRITER

FIRST SNIFF

In retrospect, I can look back onthe Sweetcorn Festival with a certainamount of delight and awe. When Iwas a child, it was one of my favoritethings to go to with my dad.The rea-sons are endless, but one of the main

ones was because the corn was free.And man did we eat corn. I swear, I was shitting out corn for

weeks.You would go up to the people running the stand andthey’d ask, “How many do you want?”You could say, “Thirty-eight, please,” and with a smile, someone would hand you the 38ears of corn, drenched in butter and wrapped in wax paper. Imean, it’s corn, for crying out loud, not saffron.

But now, it’s a load of bullshit. $1 for ONE ear of corn? Whatis that, a joke? Not to mention the fact that the corn was broughtto us by ...Wal-Mart.And it's shipped in from … Colorado?

And what was with the booth placement? Who is in chargeof that anyway? How come all the "liberal" organizations likeWRFU and Anti-War Movement were clumped together in alow traffic area while the "Honor The Chief" booth was frontand center in the middle of the flippin’ intersection? Oh yeah -a real "liberal" community we live in here.

Very nice, Urbana.Very nice. I suppose that, based on the waythat Tod Satterthwaite ran the city into the ground for 12 years,it’s no one’s fault really. But let’s hope that next year, we can getcorn prices down, and maybe, just maybe, we could contractsome local farmers to grow sweet corn for us. Perhaps we couldfind some parity in the way that booth locations are determinedas well. Once again, it seems as though Urbana is in serious needof some help.

I believe in Laurel though. Don't you worry. Prussingwill take care of it. Doesn’t seem like it would be too muchtrouble, does it?

TOM CRUISE – YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE A BUNCH OF

SNIFFERS...I suppose that the only good part of the day for me was when

I went to the Scientology booth. They were giving away freeStress Tests as a way to promote their “Bible” - Dianetics by thatguy named Mother Hubbard. It seemed interesting enoughanyway, so I sat down next to a lady with a machine that lookedlike it had been bought at Radio Shack in the bargain bin. Itconspicuously had the name Hubbard on it. I was asked to grabon to two metal cylinder things and she asked me to think ofsomeone in my life. Naturally, I thought of a few people – mygirlfriend, my mom, my brother, my boss, etc. etc. Allow me torecreate the dialogue for you so that you can get a sense of thegenius behind this machine. There are three characters to this

one act: Seth Fein,Woman and Man, identified by acronym.W:Are you thinking of someone? SF:Yes.W: Do you see how

the needle is moving? SF:Yes, I do. W:That means that you feelsome degree of stress about them. SF: Of course I do.They areimportant to me. W: Wouldn’t you like to not feel stress aboutthem? SF: Uh.That’s impossible. M: It’s not impossible.You justdon’t want to learn.You don’t want to listen. SF: Do you ever feelstress about anything? W: No.We have learned how to rid our-selves of our “Reactive Mind.” SF: So, have you ever been in arelationship? M: How is that relevant? SF:Well, if you have everbeen in one, you would know that it can get stressful at somepoints. Say,when you are trying to conceive and you can’t,maybe?Not that I am, but I know people who have been through that....M: (interrupting) With Dianetics, you can accomplish anything.SF:Yes, but… M (interrupting): See! You just don’t want to listen!You don’t care! SF: Sir, I am trying to have a dialogue here. If youwould just hear my… M: (interrupting) You know what?!? This ismy booth and you can just leave then! (He is yelling at me by thispoint!) SF: Oh yeah.You seem calm.You’re already yelling at mefor simply asking questions?

I left. And so, in case any of you were wondering aboutwhether or not Scientology reduces stress and as a result, willhelp you lose weight - it doesn’t. Everyone at the booth wasyelling at people and was fat. So, go get yourself a treadmill anda day at the spa. Same thing – only without the brainwashing.

FINAL WHIFF

It is worth noting that we here in C-U have a growing number of blog-gers with many different opinions.Personally, I have never “blogged”about anything. But I suppose thatwhen you write a column in a weekly,there is not much need for it. But noteveryone is as lucky as I. But dammit ifthey aren’t great reads throughout theday – and deserve just as much atten-tion as the rest of us going out on alimb to spread opinion and fodder forthe community! And allow me to state this: It can get prettyheated when someone starts to rip into a certain local colum-nist. (Hint: it wasn’t me)

In any event, people should be reading these guys and gals.They have copious knowledge about these little cities of oursand every now and again, something pops up that makes peo-ple electronically freak out. I did on Saturday night. It was ablast! But remember: If you are going to post something inflam-matory about another person, do us all a favor, grow a pair anduse your own name.Those of you who post anonymously arejust like the Scientologists: a bunch of scared ass jicks, afraid toface the realities of life.

seth fein

Seth Fein is fromUrbana. He and his

girlfriend laughedall the way toSchnucks on

Saturday wherethey bought 10ears of corn for

$2.00. He can bereached at seth-

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A R I E S (March 21-April 19)Here's how rock critic Aidin Vaziri described the tage set whenhip-hop artist 50 Cent played in San Jose: "an urban waste-land that looked like it was designed by Disney (complete withan overturned police car, graffiti-covered trashcans and thedecapitated head of the Statue of Liberty)." I hope you don'ttake this the wrong way, Aries, but there's a certain resem-blance between that environment and yours. The so-calledchaos you're surrounded by is either imaginary or artificial orboth. It may be seductively well-made, and therefore hard toresist, but you can walk away from it any time you choose.

T A U R U S (April 20-May 20)You have the potential to be a great wizard in the coming week.Here's how to fulfill that promise: (1) Renounce grandiose fan-tasies of transforming lead into gold or frogs into soul mates. (2) Think small, be specific, get extremely pragmatic, and don'tmake up stories based on inconclusive evidence. (3) Take every-thing that's dreamy and hazy and bring it down to earth. (4) Don't bitch about the limitations; love them and use them toyour advantage. (5) Treat idealism as a distraction unless it canbe translated into concrete acts that do some good for actual human beings.

G E M I N I (May 21-June 20) A respected medical journal reports that one out of four people thinks that "scientists have already found a cure forcancer, but that this cure is being withheld by the health careindustry because it makes more money treating the illness."There are a lot of paranoid theories like this going around.Millions believe in the existence of elite puppet masters whomanipulate our shared resources to serve their own power andwealth rather than the public good. I'm not smart or crazyenough to evaluate these theories. But I do know that for youright now, Gemini, it's crucial to be extremely skeptical of everyauthority, expert, and leader. You should express similar dis-cernment toward those who present themselves as hip, high-status, or special. It will be to your advantage to disrespecthierarchies and become a devotee of pure democracy.

C A N C E R (June 21-July 22)"All I learned in the three colleges I attended," says my friendDavey, "was how to beat the system by using its own rulesagainst it." "All I learned in college," declares author MiraviBhuna-Giva, "was how to make up sh--." "All I learned in college," asserts late-night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel,"was how to drink while standing on my head." All these edu-cational experiences are highly recommended for you in thecoming weeks, Cancerian. You're in a phase when you'll haveluck and grace if you act like an eager student, whether you'retrying to perfect the art of squeezing more perks out of thegame of life or mastering goofy tricks that will make more peo-ple want to invite you to their parties.

L E O (July 23-Aug. 22)Do you have total confidence in your ability to swing lawn chairsaround with your teeth? Can you safely eat broken glass, with-stand people riding bicycles over your belly, and smash brickswith your head? If so, you don't need my advice this week. Butif you're not sure you're capable of pulling off the kinds of featsI named, please resist the temptation to try them. For that mat-ter, don't even think of submitting to other strenuous tests thatare at the edge of your ability. This is a time for you to lay lowand recharge, not throw yourself into trials by fire. Be modestand self-protective, not brazen and reckless.

V I R G O (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)You have weathered a turning point in your relationship withdarkness, and will never again be tempted by its strangeattractions. Did you hear what I said? You have had your lastencounters with hellish monsters that unleash torment for thefun of it. You will never again get mixed up with events thatresemble crawling through caverns filled with the souls of thedamned. In the future, you may on occasion have weirddreams about owls and spiders and snakes, but they will begood weird. Congrats, Virgo.

L I B R A (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)"If the Angel decides to come it will be because you have con-vinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to bealways beginning; to be a beginner." So said the poet RainerMaria Rilke, as if speaking to your exact needs right now. Letme offer this addendum: The Angel wants to come very badly.She is passionate about offering you the novel assistance shehas dreamed up just for you.

S C O R P I O (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) departed so recklesslyfrom the traditions of his art form that some critics believed hethreatened to undermine civilization. That seems unbelievableto us today. Can you imagine any modern painter, musician,writer, or filmmaker being accorded power like that? I can't.Those whose creative expression carries the greatest clout dotheir work in the areas of business and technology. Having saidthat, I'll now make an exception: You currently have the poten-tial to wield a dramatic influence with your creativity in everyrealm except business and technology.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21)"Dear Rob: Two years ago I had intimate relations with a moun-tain. I was driving toward the Cascades when I became awareof a physical longing for Bonanza Peak, which lay ahead of me.As I got closer, I rolled down the windows and sucked in thecool air. I had the exact same sensation as loving someoneso deeply that breathing in their breath fills me with eroticimages and naughty tingles and lusty compassion. I thoughtyou should know. -Earth Lover" Dear Earth Lover: Thanks for your testimony. It's the perfectmessage for Sagittarians to hear right now, so I'm advisingthem to learn from your example.

C A P R I C O R N (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)There's a connection between Al Qaeda and actor Kevin Bacon,according to Tatsuya Ishida at www.sinfest.net. Al Qaeda wastrained by the CIA, he says, which was established by PresidentHarry Truman, who dropped the atom bomb which was cookedup by the Manhattan Project, which was the name of a moviestarring John Lithgow, who was in the film "Footloose" withKevin Bacon. I invite you to make liberal of this kind of logic in

the coming days, Capricorn. The astrological omens say it willbe healthy for you to let your imagination run away with you aslong as you don't take as gospel truth all the conclusions it leads you to. So please feel free to ramble down the fine linebetween creative storytelling and total BS.

A Q U A R I U S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

When your plane takes off and the flight attendants give youtheir lecture on what to do in case of emergency, they remindyou that "your nearest exit may be behind you." That's goodadvice for you to keep in mind during the coming week,Aquarius. I don't mean to imply that you'll be facing some lit-eral danger that will require you to make a quick escape. What I do suggest is that you remove yourself, at least temporarily,from a certain process that's barreling full-speed ahead. Thebest way to do it is to go backward, into the past, or in reverse.

P I S C E S (Feb. 19-March 20)When I went to a hard-core rock festival recently, all but one ofthe bands made abundant use of the f-word. They invoked it sooften, both in their songs and between-song patter, that it gotboring. The lone group that departed from the norm didexpress gleeful rage, but it was with a phrase I rarely hear any-more. "I don't give a damn," the singer shouted at the end ofone song. I chuckled at the archaic modesty of the expression,but it stayed with me more than the histrionics the other bandspreferred. That brings me to the advice I have for you, Pisces:Get to the root of your anger and then render it with an under-stated craft that sets it apart from the overwrought ventingthat everyone has grown numb to.

Homework: What do you want so badly that you're driving it away?How can you fix the problem? Testify at www.freewillastrology.

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Across1 Stage actress Hagen4 Triathlete's need8 It's said with a sigh14 They ease the pain of

death16 Fix the punctuation

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destroying a marijuana farm?

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purees22 Seuss book where

the main character listens to noodle soup?

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tub plaything30 Lint trap, so to speak

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48 Seuss book about a musical breakfast?

52 Like many rescues53 Tiny bit54 Spotter's phrase57 Seuss book arguing

in favor of libertarianism?

60 La Quinta alternative61 Work (against)62 Company named for

its founder, Adolf Dassler

63 Princess visited by Dorothy in the book series

64 "Queer Eye" food & wine expert

Down1 "I agree"2 Like pitches that head

for the feet3 "That's why I carry

_____"4 Recycling receptacle5 Rap group with trade

mark makeup, for short

6 Retirement plan for the self-employed

7 Cosmetics queen Lauder

8 Swedish city west of Stockholm

9 What Galileo was nearly convicted of

10 Be ready to eat lobster

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12 It's not true13 Inc., overseas15 Florence's ___

Vecchio21 Warning on video

games with lots of gore

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ner Mandlikova27 Tiebreaker rounds:

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far from the self32 Diminutive Italian suf

fix34 Host Ken of MTV's

"Remote Control"35 Lymphatic mass36 Moron37 Man Ray's genre38 Tree of Knowledge's

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towards47 Become something

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Visas)54 George Gershwin's

brother55 Pathetic56 Virgin rival58 Shady figure?59 ___ Fail (palindromic

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EDITOR’S NOTEPAUL WAGNER • EDITOR IN CHIEF

Lately, I’ve been readingthe New York Times at nightand the other night I cameacross a story that I found

more than slightly disturbing, and now you allget to hear about it.

The story comes from Nebraska. Heregoes.The names will be left out because youshould read the story to find them out. A22-year-old man is being charged withstatutory rape.

Why is this covered in the NY Times, youask? Because the state of Nebraska is charginghim for having sex with his 14-year-oldWIFE. What kind of evidence can the statepossibly produce, you ask? The happy couplehas a child.

Yep, that’s right, a 14-year-old girl had a babyfathered by a 22-year-old man. But the legalage of consent in Nebraska is 17. Therefore,they couldn’t get married in their home state.

And this is where the story takes a turn forthe worse.They traveled to Kansas to get mar-ried. An odd place for marriage at best, butthe legal age of consent in Kansas is, you’renever going to believe this, 12.

A 12-year-old in Kansas can legally haveconsenting sex with anyone. I cannot evenbegin to describe just how repulsive that is tome. And apparently the governor of Kansas

was outraged that a 14-year-old could getmarried in her state.

The story continues, though. The par-ents of the girl and the man are both happyas clams that their kids got hitched. Themom of the man is actually quite proud ofhim. Apparently he was a bit of a scumbag(really?), but he’s now sticking with the kidhe knocked up instead of running awayfrom the problem.

The parents of the girl are just happy thatshe’s happy.Which seems a bit weird to me. Ifthis were my sister, I’d probably kill the ass-hole, my dad would likely back me up. Hell,my mom would attack the guy.There’s just somuch wrong with this.

Luckily, the guy is being charged by thestate and could face up to 50 years in prison.Sometimes I think charging consenting peo-ple for statutory rape is ridiculous. But that’sfor high schoolers that are of similar age.Maybe two juniors go to prom and have con-senting sex afterwards, but they’re 16 and 17.Charging either of them with statutory rapewould piss me off. But a 22-year-old with a14-year-old? I hope you’re all as pissed aboutthis as me. It’s atrocious.

Honestly, I’m not sure why I told thisstory; I just find it horrible, so do with it whatyou will.

- PaulPS: I promised a friend I would do this, soHappy Birthday Kate Gleason!

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A couple of years ago, I washeaded towards Esquire tohave a couple of beers (i.e., 15or 16), when a guy stopped meand asked for $10. He wasn’t

begging and explained his story. He had nomoney on him and had just broken his key offin the door lock of his car and needed to take ataxi home to get his spare set of keys. For crap-sake, he even had a broken key in his hand.Obviously, the cab ride would be about $10,and he would pay me back when he returnedfor his car. He was dressed like a guy who hadbeen working all day so I gave him ten bucksand went inside to drink and wait for hisreturn. Roughly a minute later it occurred tome that he wasn’t coming back.

I was pissed about the incident, but I wasn’treally sure who I was pissed at. I suppose I wasmostly pissed at myself for being one of thesuckers born every minute. Usually I’m a bigrat bastard when it comes to things like that,but for some reason this guy got through mydefenses. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t enjoybeing grifted, but at the same time, I had to

give the guy credit. At least he had a skill.For reasons of self preservation, I decided

to look at it this way. I didn’t lose $10 to acon man, but instead, I paid $10 for a lessonabout how you should never trust otherpeople. A harsh reminder such as that isworth at least $10. Even after all the sucker-ing, I preferred him to the beggars who justask you for money.

I don’t know what it is about pan handlers,but they aggravate me. In all fairness, not all ofthem do, but most of them. Last time I was inMexico, there was a little girl playing an accor-dion. Actually, to call it “playing” would be agross overstatement, but she was doing her best.She asked no one for money, but she had apaper cup sitting beside her. Most everyonewho passed dropped some change into her cup.Sure, she was cute and everything, but I don’tthink that’s why people gave her money. I thinkit was because she was at least making an effort.It didn’t seem like begging.

For the record, I’m not advocating thathomeless people should jump up and dance forthe alms they’re given and I’m in no way sug-gesting that they all arm themselves with accor-dions so the rest of us feel better about giving

them money. Still, simply scampering from per-son to person asking for money doesn’t seemlike an especially productive way to spend yourday either, not to mention the discomfort itcauses the people who are asked for money.

The city council of Atlanta approved a meas-ure last week that they think will help the mat-ter, making it illegal for anyone to ask strangersfor food or money near its downtown museumsand the Martin Luther King Jr. NationalHistorical Site.The business owners around theareas feel that the aggressive beggars are hurtingnot only their businesses, but also the generalimage of the area. I’m not completely heartless,but you know what? They’re right. Confine allthe pan handlers to one specific street and thensee how much general traffic goes down on thatstreet. I bet it won’t be much.

Like I said, I’m not heartless about the problem of homelessness. Some people getdown on their luck, some people have mentalproblems, some people just need a helping handto right their ship. I feel sorry for these people.In fact, most people feel more than sorry forthese people. Our community has severalresources to get homeless people back on trackand help them with things such as employment

and housing, some through churches, somethrough government agencies, some throughprivate programs.

If you’re willing to make any sort of effortto better yourself, there are people to who arehappy to help.The problem I have is with thedown on their luck people who make noeffort whatsoever. It’s hard forme to justify giving a guy onthe street money to help himout when it’s the same guy I’veseen on the same street for thelast ten years. Obviously givinghim money hasn’t really helpedhim out so much.

It’s a tough thing, and even asI write this, I sort of cringe atthe callousness of some of mystatements. I’m not sure banningbeggars from a particular area isthe answer, but I’m not surewhat a better alternative is. It seems like givingthem free reign only perpetuates the problem.I’m happy as hell to give people money so theycan improve their lives. I just think there’s a bigdifference between asking for money to get bet-ter and asking for money so you never have to.

Michael Coulteris a videograph-er, comedianand sort of asmart-ass. Butwe love him any-way, and don’tknow why.Probablybecause he’s sodamn funny.

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After a lengthy hiatus, visionary director TerryGilliam makes his triumphant return with TheBrothers Grimm, an uneven though inspired fairytale. It’s been seven years since Gilliam took us onthe drug-fueled odyssey that was Fear andLoathing in Las Vegas. Notorious for fighting withthe studios over his astronomical budgets, thecreative genius came roaring back in 2005 withnot one, but two films (the other being Tideland,which will be released later this year). It’s good tohave him back.

Once upon a time Wilhelm (Matt Damon) andJacob (Heath Ledger) Grimm went barn-stormingthrough Germany eradicating curses and spectersfrom local villages and collecting a decent pay-check for it. Unbeknownst to the scared villagers,the brothers are actually con artists and all thosebumps in the night are rigged.

Things are going pretty smoothly until theFrench soldiers discover the brothers’ ruse andthreaten to destroy their reputation. Under thecare of the French General’s (Jonathon Pryce)villainous lackey, Cavaldi (Peter Stormare), thebrothers are sent to a village under a real curse,and for once find themselves in real danger.

Eleven young girls have gone missing fromthe village and the townspeople know they havedisappeared into the cursed woods.The forest isunder the spell of an evil queen (MonicaBellucci) who needs the blood of 12 virgins toregain her vitality and stay young forever. Withthe help of Angelika (LenaHeady), a tough-as-nailstownie, the brothers embarkon a quest to stop the evildoings of the wicked queen.

It’s fun to see all thosefairy tales we know so wellcome to life on the bigscreen. Elements f romGrimm classics like Little RedRiding Hood, Rapunzel, andHansel and Gretel are clev-erly interspersed throughoutthe movie.The world in TheBrothers Grimm is one wherefantasy and reality tread athin line. Watching theevents of the film unfoldwhile Jake Grimm carefullydocuments them furtherblurs that line.

As the former animatorfor the notorious Britishcomedy troupe, MontyPython, Gilliam has extraor-dinary visual sensibilitiesand they certainly rise to theforefront of The BrothersGrimm. His worlds aresimultaneously dark andbeautiful. Despite their dirt

and grime, they are richly detailed and alivewith colorful characters.

Gilliam’s unique view doesn’t come cheap,and his legendary battles with studio big-wigsover films like The Adventures of Baron Munchausenhave become a cautionary tale to fledgling direc-tors. Nevertheless, Gilliam fights for his vision tomake its way to the screen and when it does it’sworth the price of a ticket alone.

So how does a director seemingly focused onvisuals work with his actors? Pretty well, it seems.Some of the performances might be a little overthe top, but for the most part there are smartactors giving delicately nuanced performances.

Heath Ledger particularly stands out as thenebbish Grimm brother, absorbed in his worldof fantasy and magic. After Ledger’s usuallysuave and slick roles, it’s fun to see him playagainst type. He provides the foil to Damon’sWill.Will Grimm has no time for the petty fan-tasy world of his younger brother. He’s moreconcerned with making a fast buck and landingeven faster women.

These characters are nothing new to Gilliam.He has been forever flirting with the fantasy vs.reality theme and the people populating his filmsevoke one idea or the other. From his nightmar-ish sci-fi film, Brazil to his New York fairy tale,The Fisher King, Gilliam has consistently createdworlds where characters are in love with anideal—whether attainable or not—and drift fromthe harsh truth of reality to something filled withmagical innocence and childlike awe.

If nothing else, The Brothers Grimm is a visualfeast likely to keep the audience fully satiated.Unfortunately, this film suffers where so manydo: story.The plot is paper thin and lacks the pureexcitement a movie of this caliber should have. Itseems too simple and the events unravel tooquickly.And remember it’s a fairy tale; you betterbelieve everyone lives happily ever after.


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With school back in session, students are once againpreparing for another semester of studying and cramming.Accompanying them on their journey are wizards, superheroes,space pirates and even a corpse bride.That’s right, this is the fallmovie preview. So just sit back, relax and forget about school fora while as you take a cinematic journey of upcoming movies.

Though the fall movie schedule typically has fewer blockbustersthan the summer, there are several movies that have the potentialto stand out. Kicking things off is the Sept. 2 release of The

Transporter 2. Jason Statham (TheItalian Job, Snatch) reprises his role asFrank Martin.Think of Frank Martinas a cross between James Bond andVin Diesel’s XXX. If you enjoy classic action movies and haven’t seenthe first Transporter, check it out.Theoriginal featured car chases, martialarts, gunfights and the second install-ment promises to deliver as much, ifnot more action. Be forewarnedthough; this movie will probablyrequire that you turn your brain offfor a couple of hours.

Fans of swashbuckling adventureshave the second feature film of thenew Zorro franchise. Both AntonioBanderas and Catherine Zeta Jonesreturn in Legend of Zorro. Maybe Zorro2 didn’t sound good to the producers.Well, either that or it was too much

sword slashing for Zorro to slash out a Z and then a 2 on everysingle defeated opponent’s jacket. Whatever the case, Zorro is atimeless hero, and if the Legend of Zorro is as fun and entertainingas the Mask of Zorro, this sequel should be a safe bet.

Fall sees no shortage of animated movies. Tim Burton fansdelight as Sept. 23 marks the release of The Corpse Bride (so ifyou are keeping score, that is two Tim Burton movies in lessthan six months). Those who remember The Nightmare BeforeChristmas should be familiar with this unique style of

animation. From the looks of thepreview, The Corpse Bride could onlyhave been delivered by the mind ofTim Burton, which is reason enoughto see it. If you need additionalincentive, then go check it out tohear Johnny Depp’s voiceovers andthe score by Danny Elfman.

After many years of trying to get a movie made, Wallace and Gromitfinally bring their brand of comedyto theatrical release on October 7thin Wallace and Gromit: The Curse ofthe Were-Rabbit. More animation fol-lows on Nov. 4 when Disney releas-es the classic tale of Chicken Little.This is Disney’s first non-Pixar CGmovie, so it will no doubt be undera lot of scrutiny as Disney looks toreclaim their position as box officepowerhouse. Nonetheless, from the

previews the movie appears to capture all the glory that wasshared with Pixar.

On Sept. 30 comes the movie that sci-fi fans are looking for-ward to with much anticipation. Based on the Firefly televisionseries, Serenity hits the big screen. Most fans of the series wouldagree that Firefly was canceled too early, so fanboys should bedelighted to see this show in theatres.This movie is really some-thing to be excited about. The previews not only show aglimpse of fantastic special effects, but also promise to deliver a great story in addition to all the eye candy. Those unfamiliar with the TV series need not worry, as the movie willclue in non-fans to the back story.

Those who haven’t gotten their fill of sci-fi adventure afterSerenity can prepare themselves for the film version of the clas-sic PC game Doom. The only reason to see this movie is The Rock.That’s right folks, the great one himself captains thecast of Space Marines in this adventure. While The Rock is charismatic and has stolen the show in every single movie he has been in, one can’t help but think that this latest videogame to movie adaptation is a lot like tennis and golf-a lot morefun to play than to watch.

The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobehits the big screen on Dec. 9. This long-awaited adaptation ofthe first book in C.S. Lewis’ classic series features a cast com-prised largely of unkowns (the most recognizable stars toAmerican audiences might be the voices of Rupert Everett andBrian Cox).The Narnia books are family-friendly tales of magicand adventure, so movie executives are undoubtedly hoping totap into the huge Harry Potter audience. With seven books inthe series, the will be no shortage of sequels to come should TheLion, the Witch and the Wardrobe become a blockbuster.

Speaking of Harry Potter, audiences are surely waiting forhis fourth adventure on the silver screen this November:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The original cast has allreturned, minus of course Richard Harris (Dumbledore), whopassed away between the second and third movies and wasreplaced by Michael Gamdon. Mike Newell has taken overdirecting the newest installment of this franchise from AlfonsoCuaron. In Goblet of Fire, Harry is in his fourth year atHogwarts and is competing in the Tri-Wizard Tournament.What’s great about the Harry Potter series is that as the audi-ence grows older, the stories also grow up, becoming a littledarker and more interesting with each new chapter. As theactors have aged, their performances have improved. Of allthe movies on this fall preview, Harry Potter is easily the mostanticipated. These movies are phenomenal adaptations of thealready classic books.

From sci-fi to animation, and action to drama, there will be noshortage of film entertainment this fall semester to distract studentsfrom their studies. But only time will tell if these movies will beas successful as Batman Begins or crash and burn like Stealth.

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When Urbana held its first Sweetcorn Festival nearly30 years ago, it was merely a tool to promote the downtownarea. Since then, the festival has grown immensely. This year’sfree event included an antique car show, two stages with livemusic and numerous child-friendly attractions. For a town witharound 38,000 citizens, the annual Sweetcorn Festival is trulyan amazing feat.

How Urbana can afford to hold such an event every yearwithout charging an entrance fee or raising taxes is hard to imag-ine. Similar events are held in the suburbs of Chicago with vary-ing results, but the Sweetcorn Festival continues to grow andchange. Companies come year after year and make a profit onthe goods and services they offer at the festival. It continues tobe popular and well attended even without the luxury of beingin a densely populated area.

Corporate sponsors are a large part of making the SweetcornFestival a success. Through the donation of goods, services andmoney, local businesses and corporations get their names out tothousands of potential customers. Their donations are basicallyglorified advertising fees, but the public gains fun experiencesfrom the combined efforts of the businesses and those who setup and run the event.

While it would be nice to not see huge corporate banners all around the festival, theyare a fact of life. WithoutWal-Mart, Urbana wouldnot have the means to provide the 20,000 ears ofcorn the corporation donated. Nor would it bepossible to provide children’sentertainment like the petting zoo and actioninflatables without the monetary donations fromlocal radiostations and other businesses. The SweetcornFestival would also not bepossible without the helpand cooperation of theCity of Urbana and the people who live there.

Nine years ago, the firstMotor Muster antique carshow took place. Theshow, which features cars

from every decade between 1910 and the 1980, was a big hitfrom its beginning and continues to draw car enthusiasts andcurious novices to the festival. While the number of entrieseach year has not increased drastically, there are new cars shownevery year. Co-sponsored by the Illini Collector Car Club, acore of around 35 to 40 cars appear at each year’s show and anadditional 30 to 40 cars are brought by people of all ages.A young man who just got his driver’s license last year broughthis Chevolet Bel-Air, while many older car lovers brought carsthey’ve owned for many years.

Norm Comer, a member of the Illini Collector Car Club anda participant in each of th nine Motor Muster shows, brought hiscompletely original 1912 Maxwell Mascotte. Comer, whobought the car in 1968, is the vehicle’s fourth owner.When thecar was first introduced to the public, it cost $980 and came withan optional windshield.

“Every year we get new entries from people in the area,”Comer said. This is why people keep coming back to look atand talk about vintage vehicles. Many of the older viewers rem-inisced about seeing these models when they were firstreleased. Others chatted with the owners of the cars aboutwhat was under the hood and the restoration process that they

had gone through to make them look brand new. Many enthu-siastic parents brought their children along to share their loveof antique and muscle cars. Some brought cameras to docu-ment the rarities on display.

Comer said he enjoyed telling people about his car and therestoration process he went through to keep it in such good con-dition. He even started the car up for a couple of minutes toshow curious onlookers how different the driving experiencewas when cars were just beginning to be made, a unique oppor-tunity that many people would never think about, let aloneexperience. Even a casual car lover could learn much fromComer and his fellow participants.

For those kids who were more interested in taking a ridethan looking at one didn’t have to go far. One of the manyattractions aimed at children was a ride in a miniature trainthrough downtown Urabana. Seeing the multi-colored train coupled with the smiles on the faces of the children as theyrode was just one of the many candid joys over the weekend.

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Another attraction for the youngsters was thecluster of inflatable toys that were used asslides, trampolines and other playground appa-ratuses. The screaming and laughter comingfrom the enclosed inflatable that doubled as atrampoline showed that the festival had some-thing for all ages.

The festival also included an ArtsBoulevard, which allowed local artists toshowcase their art and get their names out tothe community.

Two stages of music provided great tunes andadded to the general festival atmosphere. TheMain Stage attracted bigger bands such as TheFamily Stone Experience, featuring membersof the 70’s funk band Sly and the Family Stone.The Elm Street Stage, on the other hand,focused more on the thriving Champaign-Urbana music scene and featured local fanfavorites such as Eclectic Theory and 2-1-7.

According to Melissa Paraf, an intern at theUrbana Business Association, all of the donat-ed corn was eaten by hungry attendees andnearly all of the beer was gone as well.While the festival is technically run by a smallnumber of local business owners, City ofUrbana workers, community members andinterns, it would not be possible without thehelp of numerous volunteers who helped set

up the festival and made sure that it ransmoothly. Paraf also said that sponsorship was way up this year which helped bring better attractions.

The Sweetcorn Festival has changed quite abit since it began in 1982. The first one wassponsored solely by Busey Bank and whileBusey is still a sponsor, the massive amount ofsponsorship from other companies and institu-tions shows how much the festival has grown.It was the first street festival ever to take placein Champaign County and there has been noother festival of it’s kind to be so successful.While it continues to be a fund-raiser for thelocal businesses, the sheer volume of local talentand unique attractions, such as antique cars andwell-bred dogs, is what really drives theSweetcorn Festival’s success.

This year, the festival brought an estimated40,000 people to the downtown Urbana area,up from the usual 30,000 to 35,000. “The lastfew years have been great, but this year’sturnout really exceeded expectations,” Parafsaid. While the Sweetcorn Festival would notbe possible without the generous donationsfrom companies in the Champaign-Urbanaarea, the people and attractions are what reallymake the festival a success, year after year.And oh, don’t forget the corn. buzz

CONSTANCE BEITZEL • ARTS EDITOR

I’ve spent all day trying to decide the perfect way tointroduce all the new students to the glory that is C-U. I have pages full of admonitions, advice, etcabout doing your homework, getting out of yourdorm room and basically enjoying college. Then mybest friend from high school calls me. Our friendwas just killed; hit by a car while riding his bike tomy friend’s house after a tennis game. So instead ofmaking fun of smelly bars and frat brothers, let mejust give you all one stellar piece of advice: Enjoypeople. Don’t be afraid to go meet everyone yousee. Whatever you are going to do just make sure itis with people that you love. Open your dorm roomdoors, sit with lots of different people in the cafete-ria and strike up a conversation with whoever is sit-ting next to you in your lectures.

Everyone is going to tell you that your collegeyears will be the best years of your life.This is becauseover the next four years you will all meet best friends,lovers, study buddies, bar buddies, the best man atyour wedding and right now you have no idea whothey are. Those people you see around the Quad willsave your life, break your heart, help you with math.So go do things with these people.

Also, realize that you are paying for the privilege of going to this University. You are paying a lot ofmoney. So learn something. Find something youreally enjoy studying and then do that for four years.And gen-eds suck, but pay attention in them. Theyare usually a pretty easy A. I guess what I am saying isdon’t get a C based on apathy and laziness. If you aregoing to fail something, let it be because you aredumb. Take pride in having your grades reflect your

mental ability, not your excessive partying. Beingwell-rounded is not such a bad thing. Don’t spaz outfor a semester and do poorly when you are smartenough to do really well. In four years you willhave to put that GPA front and center on the topof your resume.

Chambana is a great place to explore all yourinterests. If you like theater, join the Penny DreadfulPlayers. If you like music, form a band:you’ll be play-ing White Horse (at least) by the time you graduate.There is improv comedy, poetry readings, art shows,museums, independent movies, copious amounts ofawesome local bands, even humourous adaptations of Hamlet, going on all the time. If you like writingand art come write for me here at the Buzz. No,real-ly I’m serious, email me at [email protected] I guess what I am saying is enjoy every momentand every person because you could be killed instant-ly by a minivan. Oh, and do your homework; thereis really no excuse to not do your homework.Work hard, play hard and enjoy the hell out of yournext four years.

of their three annual wine festivals.In between visits or shows this is a great fallvacation stop. Get details at www.nia-garawinefestival.com.

Featured at the Shaw Festival isCanadian Ann-Marie MacDonald's BelleMoral (to Oct. 7), a powerful drama set inlate 19th century Scotland. Alisa Palmer'sdirection gives us a rich character studythat goes beyond gothic melodrama. TwoAmerican plays,Wiliiam Inge's Bus Stop (toNov. 27) and Lillian Hellman's, The AutumnGarden (to October 8) are rich multiplecharacter studies that the splendid ensem-ble of the Shaw Festival brings to life.Directors Jackie Maxwell and MarthaHenry seem to have an intuitive sense ofthese American characters and settings.

Shaw's Major Barbara (to Oct. 29) as direct-ed by Joseph Ziegler, is a stylish but talkystudy of good and evil.This lengthy classic haschallenged many a director, and here the dis-cussions seem a bit too endless and void ofreal meaning. Another British import is thegem of the Festival; R.C. Sheriff's superbWorld War I play Journey's End (to Oct. 8).University of Illinois graduate, ChristopherNewton, in top form as director, wrings every

bit of drama and meaning from this 1928masterpiece. Rarely has an 80-year-old anti-war play seemed so vivid and relevant.

For information check: www.shawfest.com orcall: 1-800-511-SHAW. Be sure to bringproof of citizenship when you visit Canada.


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Rob Lauren McColley is a local musicianwho fronts his own band called, alternative-ly, “A Boy Named Laurie,” and “RobMcColley and the Heather.” His latestalbum, “Insults to an Ex-Girlfriend” is hisself-proclaimed,“fervent vituperative vitriol,”delivering exactly what it promises in itstitle. McColley was born and raised in

Champaign-Urbana and currently works as a bartender. Both of hisparents were humanities professors,“so there was lots of vocabulary, lit-tle to eat.” McColley has worked as an intern for NPR’s “MorningEdition” in Washington, his music has been featured in MTV’s“Sorority Life,” and he also portrayed “the interviewer” in PosterChildren’s dvd docudrama “Zero Stars.”

Who is Laurie?Among my favourite Lauries are Hugh, Piper and the boy from

the Shirley Jackson short story. Hugh did a foppish, brilliantineWooster to Stephen Fry’s Jeeves about 15 years ago. Lately, I’ve beenmore concerned with their BBC 4 successor duo: Armstrong &Miller. I hope, for the sake of recommendation, you go to print intime for everyone to catch the reruns of their hilari-ous music critic spoof The Children’s Hour on Thursdays.http://bbc.co.uk/bbc7

What are your plans for the future?If the heart and lung machine can be extrapolated to function as

skin, feet, and liver; I hope to continue pub-crawling through themillennia. I’ll point out that my song “Beta Babies,” from the thirdrecord, has already recognized the inherent overpopulation problem

extant within any scientifically rendered ultra-longevity scheme:Meritocracy by popular demand is the only way I can see our waythrough. But I’m not sufficiently noble to get picked, so my strategyis to be indispensably clever. Like The Onion.

What bands/ songwriters have you been influenced by?Terry Pratchett. Garrison Keillor. Dirk McQuickly.And they’re

all British, except Keillor. Heather’s favourite band is VirginiaWoolf. Or at least that’s what’s on her turntable for the last six orseven renewal periods. She’s also been listening repeatedly toPatricia Cornwell’s 11 disc testimony against Victorian slice ‘n dicepainter Walter Sickert. He sometimes sat in with The Virgina Woolfgang, you know. But evidently, he only cut up sex workers -because he didn’t have a penis. I recommend that one, because itdefines and demonstrates the often misused term “psychopathy.”It states that excessively brilliant people with physical infirmities orshortcomings get a thrill from abusing (taunting or slicing up) theirinferiors. Luckily, society has devised liquor licensing schemes todivert their energies.

What is your favorite place (venue) to play?We keep a 5” x 5” traveling DKNY (I’m not kidding) chess set

with us on the road. We also keep it with us at home, but we tendto use the regular-sized set at home on account of its being facilere: fumbling fingers. I’ve always preferred to play while drinking,see, because I’m not very good anyhow. Ask anybody. I think theHotel Intercontinental, Montreal, had the best seating/smalltable/interesting nuts combination. Heather even smoked a cigarette there – because the Francophones pretend they can’tspeak English sometimes, probably to keep things interesting.There’s something about speaking French that makes nativelyVirginian tobacco blends seem frightfully chic. Smoking is cool.Of course, I can’t do it anymore. (Laments.)

What is your favorite book?I spell “favourite” with a U. Did you notice? I suppose it’s odd,

in that any coach worth his or her salt would insist “there’s no U infavourite.” But coaches are usually erstwhile players, and players losea lot of salt. I listen to a lot of books-on-disc. There are some booksthat I find easy to read, but a lot of books are tricky for me.Listening to people read is immediately comprehensible to me because I simply can’t listen to my own thoughts at the sametime. And I think that’s the trouble with readers’ block: distraction.

Rob McColley

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L ooking for a fall tripwith some class? There are lateopenings at the Stratford andShaw Theater Festivals in addi-tion to a wine festival nearbythat can accommodate all tastes.As September begins, let's lookat all three options:

Stratford, Ontario is aboutten hours from east centralIllinois and is going strongthrough Nov. 6. Shakespeare

remains the cornerstone of this fifty-year-old institution and thislate season you can catch The Tempest (to Oct. 28) and Measure forMeasure (to Sept. 24). Richard Monette's fine direction in TheTempest gives us a magical and smooth production with the leg-endary actor,William Hutt, as a Prospero worthy of any acting leg-end. Leon Rubin's hard edged production of Measure for Measurelends the Bard's story of political and sexual corruption a verymodern look. These fine young actors show the timeless power ofthis poetic parable.

The plays of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) are almost for-gotten.A contemporary of Shakespeare, he died at 29 at the peak ofhis popularity. His violent and poetic tales are somewhat long andseemingly less subtle than the Bard's, but still very worthwhile.None are more worthwhile than Edward II, a brutal tale of politicalincompetence. Director Richard Monette provides the appropriateclarifications that bring this 14th century story into the modern

world without losing poetic impact (until Sept. 24).Two adaptations are causing a good deal of discussion on the

Stratford Stages-The Brother's Karamazov, from the Dostoevsky novelas interpreted by Jason Sherman, and The Lark, from Jean Anouilh'splay by Lillian Hellman. Richard Rose's direction, with instantscene changes and simultaneous scenes manages to flesh out thismajor novel in under three hours with fine ensemble acting(through Sept. 24). While Amanda Plummer is simply brilliant asJoan of Arc in Ms. Hellman's treatment of Anouilh's in your facecharacter study of a teenage warrior, nationalist, and saint, she getsconsiderable help from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg and a fine supporting cast (to Oct. 29).

Three hours away in the Niagara wine country are two wonder-ful events, the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake and NiagaraWine Festival, headquartered in St. Catharines. The Niagara regionis famous for Niagara Falls, its wonderful wine country, and theShaw Festival. From Sept. 16 -25, St. Catharines will sponsor one

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Council” and the “Love Glove Dub” remix of Natural Rhythm’s“Dancefloor Jazz” bring in sophomoric but charming humorrelated to sex.This is all by design according to the duo.

While their humor may be base, their tunes are regarded withhigh esteem by DJs.

“The production value and creativity on Sound Republicrecords is higher than 95 percent of the records I own,” Mertzsaid.“Every cut also has great sound quality.”

Mork and Monacella are no strangers to central Illinois.They met when they were both students at Illinois State

University in Bloomington-Normal, Ill.“I was friends with some raver kids in

Bloomington that knew Frankie,” Mork said.“I wanted to learn how to spin hip hop anddrum ‘n’ bass so I got in touch with Frankie.That was in 1998.”

Monacella had already been doing live per-formances of house music and spinning drum ‘n’bass. Soon Mork picked up enough skills to startplaying out. But early on, both Monacella andMork didn’t have much of a scene to play to.

“People were only casually going to raves.There might have been only been about 15people at the start, but it grew more and moreeach year,” Mork stated.

The duo joined with other Bloomington DJsto form the Central Illinois Alliance (CIA). In afew short years CIA turned Bloomington intothe hottest spot for raves and electronic music incentral Illinois.

“Near the end we stood back and saw howwe turned all these college kids into face-chew-ing raver kids,” Mork said with a laugh. “It waskinda scary.”

Over those years, Monacella changed hissounds between drum ‘n’ bass, two step, breaks

before eventually returning to house. And while each has thetalent and experience to stake out in the DJ world on theirown, they both realize the benefits of working as a duo.

“It is really hard to do this thing by yourself,” Monacella said.“There is a lot more to it than playing records.There is hand-shaking and being a part of a scene.”

“Two are better than one for accomplishing all of that. I don’tunderstand how people do it all by themselves.”

In addition to performing their own music, The SoundRepublic is hosting a monthly night in Chicago at Lava that hashosted big names in house such as Swirl People and Jonene.Called Grizzled, it has a definite sweaty house party feel whereaverage club goers can share a seat next to the bar with world-wide stars like Derrick Carter and Justin Long.

Despite the jokes, the sweaty nights and the party atmosphere,Mertz expects The Sound Republic to be a perfect fit at Soma’sposh settings. Even with Thursday night being an extra specialwhite party where guests are encouraged to wear white.

“They’re going to cover the ‘party’ part of the white party andI suspect make a lot of fans in Champaign,” Mertz said.

Humorous to the end, Mork offers fashion advice to thosewould be fans on how to dress in white.

“Wear polar bear suits,” Mork said.Maybe that crack thing isn’t a joke after all.

The Sound Republic will appear at Soma Sept.1 with DJs Mertzand J-Phlip

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Crack.World domination. More crack.These are The Sound Republic’s self-described

plans starting Sept. 2. And while the crack part ismost likely a product of their offbeat and mostlyoff-color humor, this DJ duo from Chicago seemsto already be on the path towards domination ofthe world of house music.

Within the past year, John Mork and Frankie J.Monacella have made a name for themselves in theunderground house world as The Sound Republic.They released several singles, remixed tracks for estab-lished figures in the house world, hosted club nights inChicago, and played across the country.Yet for all thesuccess, the focal point for these longtime friends hasalways been about fun.

“Some people get really seriously deep with theirhouse music,” Monacella said.“We want to make it funagain and bring things people forgot and make themhave a good time.”

When The Sound Republic gets behind the decks,the emphasis again goes back to having a good time but also onkeeping things fresh.

“We like to play a lot of new music, including things that haven’teven been officially released yet,” Monacella said.

“It isn’t all about upfront music though,” Mork said.“We do playa lot of stuff that isn’t out yet, but we also drop in classic tracks thathook people in.”

Planning may go into the preparation, but actually playing findsThe Sound Republic in a mental groove.

“We focus on working a room,” Mork said. “Usually I’m notthinking about anything specific-except maybe ‘This is why I dothis’-and then I am worrying about what I am going to play nextto keep people moving.”

And The Sound Republic sound definitely has kept peoplemoving, not only by playing other people’s music, but by creatingtheir own. The Sound Republic’s records have sold all over theworld and received heavy play from DJ superstars such as MarkFarina, Heather, Joey Youngman and The Swirl People. Theirmusic has also found fans in Champaign, especially fromlocal DJs.

“Their music makes you want to jump up and down,” said J Phlip, who usually plays two or three The Sound Republicsongs in her weekly sets.

The song that really got crowds going, and jump started The SoundRepublic’s production career was a bootleg remix of Irfane’s “Just ALittle Lovin.” They called their version “Just a Little Oven” and gave

themselves the fake names of Francis Jilla and Johnny Drama becausethey did not clear the original Sarah Vaughn sample.The track, withits waltz tempo breakdown, became an instant hit.

“Oven” was relentlessly played and often referred to as the bestsong of the 2005 Winter Music Conference, the largest dancemusic event in the world. The Sound Republic’s reaction to theresponse for their “little” tune?

“Shock and awe,” Mork said.“It really was the beginning for us and opened a lot of doors for

us,” Monacella said.Since “Oven,” The Sound Republic has been able to release

their first EP (The Scrambles McSuperstuff EP) which was a topseller online and flew out of nearly all American house recordshops. The duo has also done remixes for Natural Rhythm,Eastbound and Bryan Jones.

The Sound Republic cuts are usually frantic, jam-packed withdrum fills, odd sounds and funky basslines. They write their trackssolely with software and the process is always collaborative.

“We take a folder full of samples and crap and then work on coming up with a beat. Sometimes it is really wack,” Monacella said.

“It is trial and error with bringing samples into our framework,” Mork said. “Once we get it where we like it, we polish and tweak the track.”

Most Sound Republic tracks and remixes revolve around onetheme, and that theme often can be unusual. The “GovernmentCheese” remix of Chris Grant’s “Jimmy Jam” contains bizarre spo-ken samples about food. Other remixes and tracks such as “Up The

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Ravish Momin’s Trio TaranaClimbing The Banyan TreeClean Fee

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Ravish Momin didn’t begin playing music until 18and even then didn’t study music full-time. “I knew right away that I wouldn’t have the same ‘natural’approach as someone who’s been playing since they were five years-old,” says Momin. “So, I was able to think more aboutapplying different kinds of beats consciously...instead of simply having ‘muscle memory,’ I approached it morementally at first.” Ravish accomplishes this difficult merging of cultures in his music without kitsch or staleoverconceptualization despite his unassuming background.

Trio Tarana is Momin’s project in acoustic Eastern jazz.Though there’s a consistent Eastern focus, with both folksongs and original material, no song is without a sense ofswing. Momin studied with drummer Bob Moses, whotaught him the importance of groove in music, something he

injects into these unconventional pieces. Momin’sfills are never the natural, legato lines one wouldexpect; he utilizies uncommon techniques such asthe press roll to the point of minimalism;. At thisjuncture, they become a natural part of his sound.

Violinist Jason Kao Hwang is a source of electricity.Hwang applies sheets of sound to his normally lin-ear instrument, using truly every resource availableto him. Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (of Jewish jazzcombo Satlah) plays bass and oud, the latter aninstrument that rarely appears in jazz - contrary topopular belief, Ahmed Abdul-Malik didn’t play oudat Coltrane’s Village Vanguard residency, but rathertamboura. The default configuration of the triounfortunately lacks one important element: the

power of human breath in music. Momin must haveobserved this, because he introduces his voice into the mix.Climbing The Banyan Tree is a excellent distillation of manymusical cultures, and thanks to the Trio’s work, is evenenjoyable for those unaware of the music’s background.

Ravish Momin and the Trio Tarana will be appearing tonight atthe Krannert Art Museum as part of their Sudden Sound series.The free show begins at 7:30.

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SUNDAY September 4

Live MusicThe Crystal River BandRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeMichelle Latimer Quintet [jazz]Iron Post, 8:30pm, $3Dropsixx, Justify the Means, Machines TheThinkThe Highdive, 10pm, $5

DJDJ Wesjile [hip hop]Barfly, 10pm, freeLabor Day PartyNargile, 9pm, $5Mike Rocks [live concert videos and localmusic]Tommy G's, 9:30pm, TBAJon Meske [house]Boltini, 10:30pm, free

MONDAY September 5

Live MusicLove & Joy [comedy and live R&B]Canopy Club, 10pm, $3Motown Mondays: As IsNargile, 7pm, $5Jazz Jam with ParaDocsIron Post, 8-11pm, TBAChris and Jim [cover band]White Horse Inn, 10pm, freeFinga Lickin'The Office, 10:30pm, free

Quad Remedy [classic rock]Tommy G’s, 10pm, freeOpen Mic Night hosted by Brandon T.WashingtonCowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

DJDJ Delayney [hip hop/soul]Barfly, 10pm, freeMixtape Mondays: DJ Elise, TBA [house]Boltini, 10pm, free

TUESDAY September 6

Live MusicBluegrass JamVerde Gallery, 7-9:30pm, freeOpen Jam/Open Mic hosted by Brandon T.WashingtonCanopy Club, 9pm, 21+/free, $2/under 21The Crystal River BandRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeAdam Wolfe's Acoustic Night with JessGreenleeTommy G's, 10pm, freeOpen StageEspresso Royale, Goodwin & Oregon, 8pm, freeLarry Gates [acoustic]White Horse Inn, 10pm, free

DJDJ Reaganomics [80’s requests]Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, freeSubversion: DJ ZoZo, DJ Evily, DJ TwinScin[goth/industrial/electro]The Highdive, 10pm, $2

Tremblin BGBarfly, 10pm, freeDJ JB [hip hop music videos]Nargile, 9pm, free DJ J-Phlip [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeCFK [house]Chester St., 10pm, TBA

Karaoke"G" Force Karaoke Neil St. Pub, 8pm-12am, freeLiquid Courage Karaoke Geo's, 9pm-1am, freeLiquid Courage Karaoke and DJ Track's, 9pm-1am

KidsStorytimePages for All Ages, 7pm, freeBabies’ Lap Time [songs, stories andrhymes for the youngest patrons, birth-24mo., with an adult]Urbana Free Library, 10:30-11am, free

Support GroupsDepression and Bipolar Support AllianceHeritage Room, Provena Hospital, 7pm,free

WEDNESDAY September 7

Live Music Apollo PoeticsNargile, 10pm, free

Chambana Jackson’s Ribs-n-Tips, 8-10pmEd O'Hara and FriendsRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeBlues Night: Kilborn AlleyTommy G's, 10pm, freeUrbana Booking Co. presents: The BeautyShop, The Reputation, ShipwreckCanopy Club, doors at 9pm, show at 10pm,$5Green Mountain GrassIron Post, 9pm, TBA

DJChef Ra [roots, reggae]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ JB [roots, reggae]Barfly, 10pm, freeContact: DJ Rapheal Kroshay, TBA [drumn’ bass night]Nargile, 9pm, freeDJ MissusMike n' Molly's, 10pm, TBA

KaraokeLiquid Courage KaraokeGeovanti's, 10pm-2am, freeOutlaw KaraokeWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, free

DancingTango DancingCowboy Monkey, 7:30pm, freeSalsa Dancing [salsa/mambo/bachata]Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

Lectures, Meetings, WorkshopsOpen Poetry Night [writers may read theirown work or just listen]Illini Union Bookstore,7-8 pm

FitnessYogaIllini Union Room 304, 7pm, free

Annual Parkland Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Parkland Art Gallery through September 22

Possibilities [works by U of I Alum and local ar tistSandra Ahten]Illini Union Art Gallery through SeptemberArtist reception September 1, 5:30-7:30pm

Backstage Pass [a series of limited edition entertainmentphotos taken by Paul Idleman in Colorado between 1978and 2000. Some of the biggest names in the biz are rep-resented: Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis,Sam Kinison, John Hartford, Jay Leno, etc.] Cinema Gallery through September 24

Living Language: Painting and Poetry Unite by Marie Mamaril[watercolor and acrylic on canvas]Pages for All Ages through September 14

Andy Warhol: The Complete 1979 Diamond Dust ShadowSeries, Editions I-V and The Shadow and Other Self-Potraits, 1977-1981University Gallery in Normal, IL through October 2Exhibition tour led by director Barry BlindermanSeptember 7, 7pm

Art With Intention Open Studio [Individually directed drop-in stu-dio time allowing adults to explore their creative voices.Instructed by Sandra Ahten]Thursdays, 4-9pm Visit www.spiritofsandra.com for details and location

Call for Fine Art and Crafts Donations [Donations of anysize, medium or style are needed for the Hands of HopeArt Auction to benefit the Illinois Chapter of the Leukemiaand Lymphoma Society. New works that represent ourtheme of hope, healing or transformation are encouragedbut not required. Contact Rebecca Plummer Rohloff at328-3059 or [email protected] for more information.]

Aroma Cafe is looking for artists to exhibit their work. If you are interested in exhibiting your art, please contactAmanda Bickel, art coordinator at Aroma Cafe, [email protected]

My Masterpiece Will Be a BurningMuseum (MMWBABM) goes beyond the grittyguitars, skull beating drum and guttural screamsof the hardcore music scene. They’re hardcore innot practicing and in throwing dodge balls intheir performances. And though some say theband started off as a whimsical project, the mem-bers of MMWBABM will swear on their giantdice that they are serious musicians.

MMWBABM played their first show inthe basement of guitarist Will Zeiger’s Urbana

house for a Halloween party. The band 's debut was a headline gig for an all hard-core show. Lead singer Matt Yasecko dressed as a bumblebee that drank honeyfrom a bear between songs. The band tossed giant black and silver dice into thecrowd to decide the tempo of their songs. The crowd swayed and danced violentlyto express their enjoyment. From then on MMWBABM developed a following thatseems to grow with each show.“We have a lack of fear. A lot of hardcore bands live in fear of their fans,” Yaseckosaid, “ And we just totally despise our fans. So one of our main goals is to angereveryone we can, because that’s what hardcore’s about.”

“We’re pretty sick of the fans who just come to listen. I mean music is just morethan listening. It’s an active thing,” Zeiger said. “So if you come to one of our shows,we expect you to be immersed in it, to be as much a part of it as we are.”

Some of the live show antics include dividing the audience for a dodge ball game,passing out shakers for an audience percussion section and rolling dice to decide theband’s next move. The band also comes out with a homemade Mad-Lib sheet oflyrics for the audience to complete the chorus of a song.

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much merriment. After solid sets by Thee Shams and LorenzoGoetz, American Minor plowed through 14 and a half songs;many more elaborate than usual thanks to inclusion of special

intros and outros. Additional personnel included Jesse Greenlee (LorenzoGoetz) on percussion and Paul Lyons on organ and keyboards. Highlightsincluded a medley of “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” the non-album track“Movin’ on Up,” and power ballad “All My Time” which included a pianointro. American Minor played everything on their album and ended with awell-received cover of “Whipping Post” by The Allman Brothers Band.All this despite the fact American Minor frontman Robert McCutcheon hadinjured his hand hours before; not to be outdone, Lorenzo Goetz guitaristJosh Miethe had outright broken his.

Triple Whip spent August 19-26 at Pogo Studio recording its Snake CreepsDown EP with Mark Rubel, mastered by original drummer Brett Sanderson.Triple Whip and Innocent Words Records separated, and the upcoming EPwill be a self-release. On Aug. 29, the trio recorded a live set for WEFTSessions. Triple Whip next performs Sept. 30 at Cowboy Monkey withLorenzo Goetz, The Championship, and elsinore. Show time is 9 p.m., andcover is $5. The release party for Snake Creeps Down, doubling as a Halloweenbash, will be held Oct. 29 with Dianogah (last here Summer 2002) andNonagon. Show time is 9 p.m.

OpeningBands.com resumes its showcases tonight at Cowboy Monkey, thefirst installment in a monthly series features Eclectic Theory, Sick Day,Stilline and mad mardigan.The four bands will appear on a full-length albumtogether, covering one another’s songs. In addition, Sick Day will issue a follow-up to its Garage Sale and Happy Ending EPs to include the set staple“Jenny.” Show time is 9 p.m., and cover is $5. This is the first mad mardiganshow; the second is Saturday at The Iron Post with Adam Wolfe and TheStereotypes. Show time is 10 p.m. mad mardigan features guitarist-vocalistJack Marck, bassist Rory Grennan, and drummer Joe Funderburk.

Also Saturday at 10 p.m.: Mike ‘n Molly’s hosts its last outdoor show of theyear with Anomic, JigGsaw, and Friends of Steve (ex-Balisong). Anomicmixed its EP Sunday and only needs to master and package it for release.JigGsaw is due to issue Zero Generation on Playing Field Recordings next year.This is Friends of Steve’s first show. Cover is $4.

Wednesday at The Canopy Club, The Reputation (ex-Sarge) kicks off an eleven-state tour. The Beauty Shop and Shipwreck round out the bill.Show time is 10 p.m., and cover is $5.

Todd J. Hunter hosts WEFT Sessions and Champaign Local 901, two hours oflive local music every Monday night at 10 p.m. on 90.1 FM. Send news [email protected].

TODD J. HUNTER • STAFF WRITER

THURSDAY September 1

Live MusicShovelrackWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, freeCalebRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeWill Rogers Band[country/Southern rockcovers/originals]Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, freeUrbana Booking Co. presents:Process of a Still LifeCanopy Club, 7pm, freeU of I Jazz CombosIron Post, 7pm, TBAAcoustic at Aroma: Chad Reipel[folk/alt/rock]Burning Love Letters, My MasterpieceWill Be a Burning MuseumThe Courtyard, 8pm, TBAUrbana Booking Co. presents: OfMontreal, The ManagementCanopy Club, 10pm, $10Openingbands.com Showcase:mad mardigan, Stilline, Sick Day,Eclectic TheoryCowboy Monkey, 8pm, $5Green Mountain GrassMike n' Molly's, 9pm, $4Chambana [jazz]Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3Kilborn Alley

Joe's Brewery, 8-11pm, TBARavish Momin's Trio TaranaKrannert Art Museum, 7:30pm

DJGeneric DJJackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 8pm, TBADJ Bozak [broken beat, house,electro]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ Elise [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeSolace: DJ J-Phlip, DJ Mertz, TheSound Republic [deep house]Soma, 10pm, freeLadies’ Night: featuring LuisVasquez, DJ Res Tuly, DJ Black Ice[hip hop, dance, reggae, reggae-ton, salsa]Nargile, 9pm, Ladies free before$9, Men $5DJ Stiffler [80's hair metal]Tommy G's, 9pm, free

Karaoke"G" Force KaraokePia's of Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

DancingUIUC Swing SocietyMcKinley Foundation9:30pm-12am, free

Health and FitnessGroup MeditationAnanda Liina, 2308 N. High CrossRd., Urbana, 5:30pm, free

Wine TastingKrannert UncorkedKrannert Art Center Lobby5pm, free

Lectures, Meetings, DiscussionsCosmopolitan Club Coffee Hour[Sample coffee, tea and home-made ethnic desserts from Israel]Cosmopolitan Club, 307 E. JohnSt., 7:30-9:30pm, freeEnvironmental Action Night [featuringStudents for Environmental Concerns,the Alaska Coalition, Red Bison,Campus Greens, Sierra Club and oth-ers]University YMCA, 6-9pm, free

KidsFunfare [stories, songs, puppets,and films for children and theircaregivers] Urbana Free Library10:30-11am, free

FRIDAY September 2

Live MusicCountry ConnectionRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1Eclectic TheoryWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, freeWill Rogers Band[country/Southern rockcovers/originals]Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3Holly Holmes Quartet [jazz]Mike n' Molly's, 5-7pm, $3The Prairie DogsIron Post, 5-7pm, TBAJammin' Jimmy BeanTommy G's, 5-7pm, freeDesafinado [bossanova]Cowboy Monkey, 5:30pm, freeFirst Friday Art Show: As One,Kilborn Alley, Jiggsaw, Green LightGo, Eclectic Theory, Krukid v.Sanya N' kanta, Apollo Project, DJMotion, DJ Impact, DJ RaphaelKroshay, TBANargile, 6pm, $8"The Best of Broadway" present-ed by the Indianapolis JazzOrchestraVirginia Theatre, 7:30pm$15 adults, $13 studentsRyan Groff, Darrin Drda, LarryGates, Joni Laurence [in the round]Jackson Ave. Coffeehouse, 8pm, freeBobby Conn, Animate Objects,1900'sThe Courtyard, 9pm, $3 UIUC students, $5 publicLifehouse, Rocco DelucaCanopy Club, 10pm, $15 inadvance, $17 at the doorPirates of the Boneyard[southern rock/classic rock covers]Tommy G's, 10pm, cover

DJDJ Elise[deep house, broken beat]Boltini, 6-10pm, freeDJ J-Phlip [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeDJ Mighty DogJackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm-2amDJ Bonsu, DJ Impact [hip hop,Chicago deep house]Nargile, 9pm, TBADJ Delayney [hip hop, soul]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ Bozak [broken beat, house,soul]Soma, 10pm, coverDJ Tim Williams[top 40/hip hop/house/dance]The Highdive, 10:30pm, $5Circuit Pulse: DJ Randall Ellison[Hi-NRG, Eurodance, hard house]Chester St., 10pm, $3

Support GroupsDepression and Bipolar Support AllianceHeritage Room, Provena Hospital,7pm, free

KaraokeLiquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 10pm-2am, TBAKaraokeAmerican Legion, 8pm-1am, TBA

SATURDAY September 3

Live MusicCountry ConnectionRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1Will Rogers Band [country/south-ern rock covers/originals]Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3Holly HolmesBorders, 8pm, freeJaded Kayne, From These Remains,Seven Year Existence, AralayusCanopy Club, 9pm, $5Lorenzo Goetz, Hockey Night, 1900'sThe Courtyard, 9pm, $3 UIUC stu-dents, $5 general publicCandy Foster and Shades of BlueCowboy Monkey, 9:30pm, $4Jiggsaw, Friends of Steve, AnomicMike 'n Molly's, 10pm, $4Adam Wolfe, The Stereotypes, MadMardiganIron Post, 10pm, TBACemetery Gates [Pantera tribute band],Rebels Without Applause [metal]Tommy G's, 10pm, cover

DJDJ Asiatic, DJ Dice [R&B, hip hop]

Nargile, 10pmDJ Mighty DogJackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm, TBADJ NightPaulie's, 9pm, freeDJ Resonate [hip hop]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ Tim Williams[top 40/hip hop/house/dance]The Highdive, 10pm, $5DJ Elise [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeDJWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, free"G" Force DJ The Brickhouse, 10pm-2amDJ Bozak [broken beat, house, soul]Soma, 10pm, cover

KaraokeLiquid Courage Karaoke Geo's, 9pm-1am, free

KidsStorytimePages for All Ages, 11am, free

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-Cassie Conner

Doors open at 9pm show at 10pm, $10

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THURSDAY September 1

Live MusicShovelrackWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, freeCalebRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeWill Rogers Band[country/Southern rockcovers/originals]Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, freeUrbana Booking Co. presents:Process of a Still LifeCanopy Club, 7pm, freeU of I Jazz CombosIron Post, 7pm, TBAAcoustic at Aroma: Chad Reipel[folk/alt/rock]Burning Love Letters, My MasterpieceWill Be a Burning MuseumThe Courtyard, 8pm, TBAUrbana Booking Co. presents: OfMontreal, The ManagementCanopy Club, 10pm, $10Openingbands.com Showcase:mad mardigan, Stilline, Sick Day,Eclectic TheoryCowboy Monkey, 8pm, $5Green Mountain GrassMike n' Molly's, 9pm, $4Chambana [jazz]Zorba's, 9:30pm, $3Kilborn Alley

Joe's Brewery, 8-11pm, TBARavish Momin's Trio TaranaKrannert Art Museum, 7:30pm

DJGeneric DJJackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 8pm, TBADJ Bozak [broken beat, house,electro]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ Elise [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeSolace: DJ J-Phlip, DJ Mertz, TheSound Republic [deep house]Soma, 10pm, freeLadies’ Night: featuring LuisVasquez, DJ Res Tuly, DJ Black Ice[hip hop, dance, reggae, reggae-ton, salsa]Nargile, 9pm, Ladies free before$9, Men $5DJ Stiffler [80's hair metal]Tommy G's, 9pm, free

Karaoke"G" Force KaraokePia's of Rantoul, 9pm-1am, free

DancingUIUC Swing SocietyMcKinley Foundation9:30pm-12am, free

Health and FitnessGroup MeditationAnanda Liina, 2308 N. High CrossRd., Urbana, 5:30pm, free

Wine TastingKrannert UncorkedKrannert Art Center Lobby5pm, free

Lectures, Meetings, DiscussionsCosmopolitan Club Coffee Hour[Sample coffee, tea and home-made ethnic desserts from Israel]Cosmopolitan Club, 307 E. JohnSt., 7:30-9:30pm, freeEnvironmental Action Night [featuringStudents for Environmental Concerns,the Alaska Coalition, Red Bison,Campus Greens, Sierra Club and oth-ers]University YMCA, 6-9pm, free

KidsFunfare [stories, songs, puppets,and films for children and theircaregivers] Urbana Free Library10:30-11am, free

FRIDAY September 2

Live MusicCountry ConnectionRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1Eclectic TheoryWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, freeWill Rogers Band[country/Southern rockcovers/originals]Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3Holly Holmes Quartet [jazz]Mike n' Molly's, 5-7pm, $3The Prairie DogsIron Post, 5-7pm, TBAJammin' Jimmy BeanTommy G's, 5-7pm, freeDesafinado [bossanova]Cowboy Monkey, 5:30pm, freeFirst Friday Art Show: As One,Kilborn Alley, Jiggsaw, Green LightGo, Eclectic Theory, Krukid v.Sanya N' kanta, Apollo Project, DJMotion, DJ Impact, DJ RaphaelKroshay, TBANargile, 6pm, $8"The Best of Broadway" present-ed by the Indianapolis JazzOrchestraVirginia Theatre, 7:30pm$15 adults, $13 studentsRyan Groff, Darrin Drda, LarryGates, Joni Laurence [in the round]Jackson Ave. Coffeehouse, 8pm, freeBobby Conn, Animate Objects,1900'sThe Courtyard, 9pm, $3 UIUC students, $5 publicLifehouse, Rocco DelucaCanopy Club, 10pm, $15 inadvance, $17 at the doorPirates of the Boneyard[southern rock/classic rock covers]Tommy G's, 10pm, cover

DJDJ Elise[deep house, broken beat]Boltini, 6-10pm, freeDJ J-Phlip [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeDJ Mighty DogJackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm-2amDJ Bonsu, DJ Impact [hip hop,Chicago deep house]Nargile, 9pm, TBADJ Delayney [hip hop, soul]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ Bozak [broken beat, house,soul]Soma, 10pm, coverDJ Tim Williams[top 40/hip hop/house/dance]The Highdive, 10:30pm, $5Circuit Pulse: DJ Randall Ellison[Hi-NRG, Eurodance, hard house]Chester St., 10pm, $3

Support GroupsDepression and Bipolar Support AllianceHeritage Room, Provena Hospital,7pm, free

KaraokeLiquid Courage Karaoke The Brickhouse, 10pm-2am, TBAKaraokeAmerican Legion, 8pm-1am, TBA

SATURDAY September 3

Live MusicCountry ConnectionRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1Will Rogers Band [country/south-ern rock covers/originals]Neil St. Pub, 10pm-2am, $3Holly HolmesBorders, 8pm, freeJaded Kayne, From These Remains,Seven Year Existence, AralayusCanopy Club, 9pm, $5Lorenzo Goetz, Hockey Night, 1900'sThe Courtyard, 9pm, $3 UIUC stu-dents, $5 general publicCandy Foster and Shades of BlueCowboy Monkey, 9:30pm, $4Jiggsaw, Friends of Steve, AnomicMike 'n Molly's, 10pm, $4Adam Wolfe, The Stereotypes, MadMardiganIron Post, 10pm, TBACemetery Gates [Pantera tribute band],Rebels Without Applause [metal]Tommy G's, 10pm, cover

DJDJ Asiatic, DJ Dice [R&B, hip hop]

Nargile, 10pmDJ Mighty DogJackson's Ribs-N-Tips, 9pm, TBADJ NightPaulie's, 9pm, freeDJ Resonate [hip hop]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ Tim Williams[top 40/hip hop/house/dance]The Highdive, 10pm, $5DJ Elise [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeDJWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, free"G" Force DJ The Brickhouse, 10pm-2amDJ Bozak [broken beat, house, soul]Soma, 10pm, cover

KaraokeLiquid Courage Karaoke Geo's, 9pm-1am, free

KidsStorytimePages for All Ages, 11am, free

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-Cassie Conner

Doors open at 9pm show at 10pm, $10

Of Montreal and The Managementat The Canopy Club

Friday, September 1

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SUNDAY September 4

Live MusicThe Crystal River BandRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeMichelle Latimer Quintet [jazz]Iron Post, 8:30pm, $3Dropsixx, Justify the Means, Machines TheThinkThe Highdive, 10pm, $5

DJDJ Wesjile [hip hop]Barfly, 10pm, freeLabor Day PartyNargile, 9pm, $5Mike Rocks [live concert videos and localmusic]Tommy G's, 9:30pm, TBAJon Meske [house]Boltini, 10:30pm, free

MONDAY September 5

Live MusicLove & Joy [comedy and live R&B]Canopy Club, 10pm, $3Motown Mondays: As IsNargile, 7pm, $5Jazz Jam with ParaDocsIron Post, 8-11pm, TBAChris and Jim [cover band]White Horse Inn, 10pm, freeFinga Lickin'The Office, 10:30pm, free

Quad Remedy [classic rock]Tommy G’s, 10pm, freeOpen Mic Night hosted by Brandon T.WashingtonCowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

DJDJ Delayney [hip hop/soul]Barfly, 10pm, freeMixtape Mondays: DJ Elise, TBA [house]Boltini, 10pm, free

TUESDAY September 6

Live MusicBluegrass JamVerde Gallery, 7-9:30pm, freeOpen Jam/Open Mic hosted by Brandon T.WashingtonCanopy Club, 9pm, 21+/free, $2/under 21The Crystal River BandRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeAdam Wolfe's Acoustic Night with JessGreenleeTommy G's, 10pm, freeOpen StageEspresso Royale, Goodwin & Oregon, 8pm, freeLarry Gates [acoustic]White Horse Inn, 10pm, free

DJDJ Reaganomics [80’s requests]Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, freeSubversion: DJ ZoZo, DJ Evily, DJ TwinScin[goth/industrial/electro]The Highdive, 10pm, $2

Tremblin BGBarfly, 10pm, freeDJ JB [hip hop music videos]Nargile, 9pm, free DJ J-Phlip [house]Boltini, 10pm, freeCFK [house]Chester St., 10pm, TBA

Karaoke"G" Force Karaoke Neil St. Pub, 8pm-12am, freeLiquid Courage Karaoke Geo's, 9pm-1am, freeLiquid Courage Karaoke and DJ Track's, 9pm-1am

KidsStorytimePages for All Ages, 7pm, freeBabies’ Lap Time [songs, stories andrhymes for the youngest patrons, birth-24mo., with an adult]Urbana Free Library, 10:30-11am, free

Support GroupsDepression and Bipolar Support AllianceHeritage Room, Provena Hospital, 7pm,free

WEDNESDAY September 7

Live Music Apollo PoeticsNargile, 10pm, free

Chambana Jackson’s Ribs-n-Tips, 8-10pmEd O'Hara and FriendsRose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, freeBlues Night: Kilborn AlleyTommy G's, 10pm, freeUrbana Booking Co. presents: The BeautyShop, The Reputation, ShipwreckCanopy Club, doors at 9pm, show at 10pm,$5Green Mountain GrassIron Post, 9pm, TBA

DJChef Ra [roots, reggae]Barfly, 10pm, freeDJ JB [roots, reggae]Barfly, 10pm, freeContact: DJ Rapheal Kroshay, TBA [drumn’ bass night]Nargile, 9pm, freeDJ MissusMike n' Molly's, 10pm, TBA

KaraokeLiquid Courage KaraokeGeovanti's, 10pm-2am, freeOutlaw KaraokeWhite Horse Inn, 10pm, free

DancingTango DancingCowboy Monkey, 7:30pm, freeSalsa Dancing [salsa/mambo/bachata]Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free

Lectures, Meetings, WorkshopsOpen Poetry Night [writers may read theirown work or just listen]Illini Union Bookstore,7-8 pm

FitnessYogaIllini Union Room 304, 7pm, free

Annual Parkland Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Parkland Art Gallery through September 22

Possibilities [works by U of I Alum and local ar tistSandra Ahten]Illini Union Art Gallery through SeptemberArtist reception September 1, 5:30-7:30pm

Backstage Pass [a series of limited edition entertainmentphotos taken by Paul Idleman in Colorado between 1978and 2000. Some of the biggest names in the biz are rep-resented: Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis,Sam Kinison, John Hartford, Jay Leno, etc.] Cinema Gallery through September 24

Living Language: Painting and Poetry Unite by Marie Mamaril[watercolor and acrylic on canvas]Pages for All Ages through September 14

Andy Warhol: The Complete 1979 Diamond Dust ShadowSeries, Editions I-V and The Shadow and Other Self-Potraits, 1977-1981University Gallery in Normal, IL through October 2Exhibition tour led by director Barry BlindermanSeptember 7, 7pm

Art With Intention Open Studio [Individually directed drop-in stu-dio time allowing adults to explore their creative voices.Instructed by Sandra Ahten]Thursdays, 4-9pm Visit www.spiritofsandra.com for details and location

Call for Fine Art and Crafts Donations [Donations of anysize, medium or style are needed for the Hands of HopeArt Auction to benefit the Illinois Chapter of the Leukemiaand Lymphoma Society. New works that represent ourtheme of hope, healing or transformation are encouragedbut not required. Contact Rebecca Plummer Rohloff at328-3059 or [email protected] for more information.]

Aroma Cafe is looking for artists to exhibit their work. If you are interested in exhibiting your art, please contactAmanda Bickel, art coordinator at Aroma Cafe, [email protected]

My Masterpiece Will Be a BurningMuseum (MMWBABM) goes beyond the grittyguitars, skull beating drum and guttural screamsof the hardcore music scene. They’re hardcore innot practicing and in throwing dodge balls intheir performances. And though some say theband started off as a whimsical project, the mem-bers of MMWBABM will swear on their giantdice that they are serious musicians.

MMWBABM played their first show inthe basement of guitarist Will Zeiger’s Urbana

house for a Halloween party. The band 's debut was a headline gig for an all hard-core show. Lead singer Matt Yasecko dressed as a bumblebee that drank honeyfrom a bear between songs. The band tossed giant black and silver dice into thecrowd to decide the tempo of their songs. The crowd swayed and danced violentlyto express their enjoyment. From then on MMWBABM developed a following thatseems to grow with each show.“We have a lack of fear. A lot of hardcore bands live in fear of their fans,” Yaseckosaid, “ And we just totally despise our fans. So one of our main goals is to angereveryone we can, because that’s what hardcore’s about.”

“We’re pretty sick of the fans who just come to listen. I mean music is just morethan listening. It’s an active thing,” Zeiger said. “So if you come to one of our shows,we expect you to be immersed in it, to be as much a part of it as we are.”

Some of the live show antics include dividing the audience for a dodge ball game,passing out shakers for an audience percussion section and rolling dice to decide theband’s next move. The band also comes out with a homemade Mad-Lib sheet oflyrics for the audience to complete the chorus of a song.

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#91Last Friday, American Minor released its self-titled album amid

much merriment. After solid sets by Thee Shams and LorenzoGoetz, American Minor plowed through 14 and a half songs;many more elaborate than usual thanks to inclusion of special

intros and outros. Additional personnel included Jesse Greenlee (LorenzoGoetz) on percussion and Paul Lyons on organ and keyboards. Highlightsincluded a medley of “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” the non-album track“Movin’ on Up,” and power ballad “All My Time” which included a pianointro. American Minor played everything on their album and ended with awell-received cover of “Whipping Post” by The Allman Brothers Band.All this despite the fact American Minor frontman Robert McCutcheon hadinjured his hand hours before; not to be outdone, Lorenzo Goetz guitaristJosh Miethe had outright broken his.

Triple Whip spent August 19-26 at Pogo Studio recording its Snake CreepsDown EP with Mark Rubel, mastered by original drummer Brett Sanderson.Triple Whip and Innocent Words Records separated, and the upcoming EPwill be a self-release. On Aug. 29, the trio recorded a live set for WEFTSessions. Triple Whip next performs Sept. 30 at Cowboy Monkey withLorenzo Goetz, The Championship, and elsinore. Show time is 9 p.m., andcover is $5. The release party for Snake Creeps Down, doubling as a Halloweenbash, will be held Oct. 29 with Dianogah (last here Summer 2002) andNonagon. Show time is 9 p.m.

OpeningBands.com resumes its showcases tonight at Cowboy Monkey, thefirst installment in a monthly series features Eclectic Theory, Sick Day,Stilline and mad mardigan.The four bands will appear on a full-length albumtogether, covering one another’s songs. In addition, Sick Day will issue a follow-up to its Garage Sale and Happy Ending EPs to include the set staple“Jenny.” Show time is 9 p.m., and cover is $5. This is the first mad mardiganshow; the second is Saturday at The Iron Post with Adam Wolfe and TheStereotypes. Show time is 10 p.m. mad mardigan features guitarist-vocalistJack Marck, bassist Rory Grennan, and drummer Joe Funderburk.

Also Saturday at 10 p.m.: Mike ‘n Molly’s hosts its last outdoor show of theyear with Anomic, JigGsaw, and Friends of Steve (ex-Balisong). Anomicmixed its EP Sunday and only needs to master and package it for release.JigGsaw is due to issue Zero Generation on Playing Field Recordings next year.This is Friends of Steve’s first show. Cover is $4.

Wednesday at The Canopy Club, The Reputation (ex-Sarge) kicks off an eleven-state tour. The Beauty Shop and Shipwreck round out the bill.Show time is 10 p.m., and cover is $5.

Todd J. Hunter hosts WEFT Sessions and Champaign Local 901, two hours oflive local music every Monday night at 10 p.m. on 90.1 FM. Send news [email protected].

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Ravish Momin didn’t begin playing music until 18and even then didn’t study music full-time. “I knew right away that I wouldn’t have the same ‘natural’approach as someone who’s been playing since they were five years-old,” says Momin. “So, I was able to think more aboutapplying different kinds of beats consciously...instead of simply having ‘muscle memory,’ I approached it morementally at first.” Ravish accomplishes this difficult merging of cultures in his music without kitsch or staleoverconceptualization despite his unassuming background.

Trio Tarana is Momin’s project in acoustic Eastern jazz.Though there’s a consistent Eastern focus, with both folksongs and original material, no song is without a sense ofswing. Momin studied with drummer Bob Moses, whotaught him the importance of groove in music, something he

injects into these unconventional pieces. Momin’sfills are never the natural, legato lines one wouldexpect; he utilizies uncommon techniques such asthe press roll to the point of minimalism;. At thisjuncture, they become a natural part of his sound.

Violinist Jason Kao Hwang is a source of electricity.Hwang applies sheets of sound to his normally lin-ear instrument, using truly every resource availableto him. Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (of Jewish jazzcombo Satlah) plays bass and oud, the latter aninstrument that rarely appears in jazz - contrary topopular belief, Ahmed Abdul-Malik didn’t play oudat Coltrane’s Village Vanguard residency, but rathertamboura. The default configuration of the triounfortunately lacks one important element: the

power of human breath in music. Momin must haveobserved this, because he introduces his voice into the mix.Climbing The Banyan Tree is a excellent distillation of manymusical cultures, and thanks to the Trio’s work, is evenenjoyable for those unaware of the music’s background.

Ravish Momin and the Trio Tarana will be appearing tonight atthe Krannert Art Museum as part of their Sudden Sound series.The free show begins at 7:30.

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Rob Lauren McColley is a local musicianwho fronts his own band called, alternative-ly, “A Boy Named Laurie,” and “RobMcColley and the Heather.” His latestalbum, “Insults to an Ex-Girlfriend” is hisself-proclaimed,“fervent vituperative vitriol,”delivering exactly what it promises in itstitle. McColley was born and raised in

Champaign-Urbana and currently works as a bartender. Both of hisparents were humanities professors,“so there was lots of vocabulary, lit-tle to eat.” McColley has worked as an intern for NPR’s “MorningEdition” in Washington, his music has been featured in MTV’s“Sorority Life,” and he also portrayed “the interviewer” in PosterChildren’s dvd docudrama “Zero Stars.”

Who is Laurie?Among my favourite Lauries are Hugh, Piper and the boy from

the Shirley Jackson short story. Hugh did a foppish, brilliantineWooster to Stephen Fry’s Jeeves about 15 years ago. Lately, I’ve beenmore concerned with their BBC 4 successor duo: Armstrong &Miller. I hope, for the sake of recommendation, you go to print intime for everyone to catch the reruns of their hilari-ous music critic spoof The Children’s Hour on Thursdays.http://bbc.co.uk/bbc7

What are your plans for the future?If the heart and lung machine can be extrapolated to function as

skin, feet, and liver; I hope to continue pub-crawling through themillennia. I’ll point out that my song “Beta Babies,” from the thirdrecord, has already recognized the inherent overpopulation problem

extant within any scientifically rendered ultra-longevity scheme:Meritocracy by popular demand is the only way I can see our waythrough. But I’m not sufficiently noble to get picked, so my strategyis to be indispensably clever. Like The Onion.

What bands/ songwriters have you been influenced by?Terry Pratchett. Garrison Keillor. Dirk McQuickly.And they’re

all British, except Keillor. Heather’s favourite band is VirginiaWoolf. Or at least that’s what’s on her turntable for the last six orseven renewal periods. She’s also been listening repeatedly toPatricia Cornwell’s 11 disc testimony against Victorian slice ‘n dicepainter Walter Sickert. He sometimes sat in with The Virgina Woolfgang, you know. But evidently, he only cut up sex workers -because he didn’t have a penis. I recommend that one, because itdefines and demonstrates the often misused term “psychopathy.”It states that excessively brilliant people with physical infirmities orshortcomings get a thrill from abusing (taunting or slicing up) theirinferiors. Luckily, society has devised liquor licensing schemes todivert their energies.

What is your favorite place (venue) to play?We keep a 5” x 5” traveling DKNY (I’m not kidding) chess set

with us on the road. We also keep it with us at home, but we tendto use the regular-sized set at home on account of its being facilere: fumbling fingers. I’ve always preferred to play while drinking,see, because I’m not very good anyhow. Ask anybody. I think theHotel Intercontinental, Montreal, had the best seating/smalltable/interesting nuts combination. Heather even smoked a cigarette there – because the Francophones pretend they can’tspeak English sometimes, probably to keep things interesting.There’s something about speaking French that makes nativelyVirginian tobacco blends seem frightfully chic. Smoking is cool.Of course, I can’t do it anymore. (Laments.)

What is your favorite book?I spell “favourite” with a U. Did you notice? I suppose it’s odd,

in that any coach worth his or her salt would insist “there’s no U infavourite.” But coaches are usually erstwhile players, and players losea lot of salt. I listen to a lot of books-on-disc. There are some booksthat I find easy to read, but a lot of books are tricky for me.Listening to people read is immediately comprehensible to me because I simply can’t listen to my own thoughts at the sametime. And I think that’s the trouble with readers’ block: distraction.

Rob McColley

JEFF NELSON • CONTRIBUTING WRITER

L ooking for a fall tripwith some class? There are lateopenings at the Stratford andShaw Theater Festivals in addi-tion to a wine festival nearbythat can accommodate all tastes.As September begins, let's lookat all three options:

Stratford, Ontario is aboutten hours from east centralIllinois and is going strongthrough Nov. 6. Shakespeare

remains the cornerstone of this fifty-year-old institution and thislate season you can catch The Tempest (to Oct. 28) and Measure forMeasure (to Sept. 24). Richard Monette's fine direction in TheTempest gives us a magical and smooth production with the leg-endary actor,William Hutt, as a Prospero worthy of any acting leg-end. Leon Rubin's hard edged production of Measure for Measurelends the Bard's story of political and sexual corruption a verymodern look. These fine young actors show the timeless power ofthis poetic parable.

The plays of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) are almost for-gotten.A contemporary of Shakespeare, he died at 29 at the peak ofhis popularity. His violent and poetic tales are somewhat long andseemingly less subtle than the Bard's, but still very worthwhile.None are more worthwhile than Edward II, a brutal tale of politicalincompetence. Director Richard Monette provides the appropriateclarifications that bring this 14th century story into the modern

world without losing poetic impact (until Sept. 24).Two adaptations are causing a good deal of discussion on the

Stratford Stages-The Brother's Karamazov, from the Dostoevsky novelas interpreted by Jason Sherman, and The Lark, from Jean Anouilh'splay by Lillian Hellman. Richard Rose's direction, with instantscene changes and simultaneous scenes manages to flesh out thismajor novel in under three hours with fine ensemble acting(through Sept. 24). While Amanda Plummer is simply brilliant asJoan of Arc in Ms. Hellman's treatment of Anouilh's in your facecharacter study of a teenage warrior, nationalist, and saint, she getsconsiderable help from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg and a fine supporting cast (to Oct. 29).

Three hours away in the Niagara wine country are two wonder-ful events, the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake and NiagaraWine Festival, headquartered in St. Catharines. The Niagara regionis famous for Niagara Falls, its wonderful wine country, and theShaw Festival. From Sept. 16 -25, St. Catharines will sponsor one

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Council” and the “Love Glove Dub” remix of Natural Rhythm’s“Dancefloor Jazz” bring in sophomoric but charming humorrelated to sex.This is all by design according to the duo.

While their humor may be base, their tunes are regarded withhigh esteem by DJs.

“The production value and creativity on Sound Republicrecords is higher than 95 percent of the records I own,” Mertzsaid.“Every cut also has great sound quality.”

Mork and Monacella are no strangers to central Illinois.They met when they were both students at Illinois State

University in Bloomington-Normal, Ill.“I was friends with some raver kids in

Bloomington that knew Frankie,” Mork said.“I wanted to learn how to spin hip hop anddrum ‘n’ bass so I got in touch with Frankie.That was in 1998.”

Monacella had already been doing live per-formances of house music and spinning drum ‘n’bass. Soon Mork picked up enough skills to startplaying out. But early on, both Monacella andMork didn’t have much of a scene to play to.

“People were only casually going to raves.There might have been only been about 15people at the start, but it grew more and moreeach year,” Mork stated.

The duo joined with other Bloomington DJsto form the Central Illinois Alliance (CIA). In afew short years CIA turned Bloomington intothe hottest spot for raves and electronic music incentral Illinois.

“Near the end we stood back and saw howwe turned all these college kids into face-chew-ing raver kids,” Mork said with a laugh. “It waskinda scary.”

Over those years, Monacella changed hissounds between drum ‘n’ bass, two step, breaks

before eventually returning to house. And while each has thetalent and experience to stake out in the DJ world on theirown, they both realize the benefits of working as a duo.

“It is really hard to do this thing by yourself,” Monacella said.“There is a lot more to it than playing records.There is hand-shaking and being a part of a scene.”

“Two are better than one for accomplishing all of that. I don’tunderstand how people do it all by themselves.”

In addition to performing their own music, The SoundRepublic is hosting a monthly night in Chicago at Lava that hashosted big names in house such as Swirl People and Jonene.Called Grizzled, it has a definite sweaty house party feel whereaverage club goers can share a seat next to the bar with world-wide stars like Derrick Carter and Justin Long.

Despite the jokes, the sweaty nights and the party atmosphere,Mertz expects The Sound Republic to be a perfect fit at Soma’sposh settings. Even with Thursday night being an extra specialwhite party where guests are encouraged to wear white.

“They’re going to cover the ‘party’ part of the white party andI suspect make a lot of fans in Champaign,” Mertz said.

Humorous to the end, Mork offers fashion advice to thosewould be fans on how to dress in white.

“Wear polar bear suits,” Mork said.Maybe that crack thing isn’t a joke after all.

The Sound Republic will appear at Soma Sept.1 with DJs Mertzand J-Phlip

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Crack.World domination. More crack.These are The Sound Republic’s self-described

plans starting Sept. 2. And while the crack part ismost likely a product of their offbeat and mostlyoff-color humor, this DJ duo from Chicago seemsto already be on the path towards domination ofthe world of house music.

Within the past year, John Mork and Frankie J.Monacella have made a name for themselves in theunderground house world as The Sound Republic.They released several singles, remixed tracks for estab-lished figures in the house world, hosted club nights inChicago, and played across the country.Yet for all thesuccess, the focal point for these longtime friends hasalways been about fun.

“Some people get really seriously deep with theirhouse music,” Monacella said.“We want to make it funagain and bring things people forgot and make themhave a good time.”

When The Sound Republic gets behind the decks,the emphasis again goes back to having a good time but also onkeeping things fresh.

“We like to play a lot of new music, including things that haven’teven been officially released yet,” Monacella said.

“It isn’t all about upfront music though,” Mork said.“We do playa lot of stuff that isn’t out yet, but we also drop in classic tracks thathook people in.”

Planning may go into the preparation, but actually playing findsThe Sound Republic in a mental groove.

“We focus on working a room,” Mork said. “Usually I’m notthinking about anything specific-except maybe ‘This is why I dothis’-and then I am worrying about what I am going to play nextto keep people moving.”

And The Sound Republic sound definitely has kept peoplemoving, not only by playing other people’s music, but by creatingtheir own. The Sound Republic’s records have sold all over theworld and received heavy play from DJ superstars such as MarkFarina, Heather, Joey Youngman and The Swirl People. Theirmusic has also found fans in Champaign, especially fromlocal DJs.

“Their music makes you want to jump up and down,” said J Phlip, who usually plays two or three The Sound Republicsongs in her weekly sets.

The song that really got crowds going, and jump started The SoundRepublic’s production career was a bootleg remix of Irfane’s “Just ALittle Lovin.” They called their version “Just a Little Oven” and gave

themselves the fake names of Francis Jilla and Johnny Drama becausethey did not clear the original Sarah Vaughn sample.The track, withits waltz tempo breakdown, became an instant hit.

“Oven” was relentlessly played and often referred to as the bestsong of the 2005 Winter Music Conference, the largest dancemusic event in the world. The Sound Republic’s reaction to theresponse for their “little” tune?

“Shock and awe,” Mork said.“It really was the beginning for us and opened a lot of doors for

us,” Monacella said.Since “Oven,” The Sound Republic has been able to release

their first EP (The Scrambles McSuperstuff EP) which was a topseller online and flew out of nearly all American house recordshops. The duo has also done remixes for Natural Rhythm,Eastbound and Bryan Jones.

The Sound Republic cuts are usually frantic, jam-packed withdrum fills, odd sounds and funky basslines. They write their trackssolely with software and the process is always collaborative.

“We take a folder full of samples and crap and then work on coming up with a beat. Sometimes it is really wack,” Monacella said.

“It is trial and error with bringing samples into our framework,” Mork said. “Once we get it where we like it, we polish and tweak the track.”

Most Sound Republic tracks and remixes revolve around onetheme, and that theme often can be unusual. The “GovernmentCheese” remix of Chris Grant’s “Jimmy Jam” contains bizarre spo-ken samples about food. Other remixes and tracks such as “Up The

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Another attraction for the youngsters was thecluster of inflatable toys that were used asslides, trampolines and other playground appa-ratuses. The screaming and laughter comingfrom the enclosed inflatable that doubled as atrampoline showed that the festival had some-thing for all ages.

The festival also included an ArtsBoulevard, which allowed local artists toshowcase their art and get their names out tothe community.

Two stages of music provided great tunes andadded to the general festival atmosphere. TheMain Stage attracted bigger bands such as TheFamily Stone Experience, featuring membersof the 70’s funk band Sly and the Family Stone.The Elm Street Stage, on the other hand,focused more on the thriving Champaign-Urbana music scene and featured local fanfavorites such as Eclectic Theory and 2-1-7.

According to Melissa Paraf, an intern at theUrbana Business Association, all of the donat-ed corn was eaten by hungry attendees andnearly all of the beer was gone as well.While the festival is technically run by a smallnumber of local business owners, City ofUrbana workers, community members andinterns, it would not be possible without thehelp of numerous volunteers who helped set

up the festival and made sure that it ransmoothly. Paraf also said that sponsorship was way up this year which helped bring better attractions.

The Sweetcorn Festival has changed quite abit since it began in 1982. The first one wassponsored solely by Busey Bank and whileBusey is still a sponsor, the massive amount ofsponsorship from other companies and institu-tions shows how much the festival has grown.It was the first street festival ever to take placein Champaign County and there has been noother festival of it’s kind to be so successful.While it continues to be a fund-raiser for thelocal businesses, the sheer volume of local talentand unique attractions, such as antique cars andwell-bred dogs, is what really drives theSweetcorn Festival’s success.

This year, the festival brought an estimated40,000 people to the downtown Urbana area,up from the usual 30,000 to 35,000. “The lastfew years have been great, but this year’sturnout really exceeded expectations,” Parafsaid. While the Sweetcorn Festival would notbe possible without the generous donationsfrom companies in the Champaign-Urbanaarea, the people and attractions are what reallymake the festival a success, year after year.And oh, don’t forget the corn. buzz


I’ve spent all day trying to decide the perfect way tointroduce all the new students to the glory that is C-U. I have pages full of admonitions, advice, etcabout doing your homework, getting out of yourdorm room and basically enjoying college. Then mybest friend from high school calls me. Our friendwas just killed; hit by a car while riding his bike tomy friend’s house after a tennis game. So instead ofmaking fun of smelly bars and frat brothers, let mejust give you all one stellar piece of advice: Enjoypeople. Don’t be afraid to go meet everyone yousee. Whatever you are going to do just make sure itis with people that you love. Open your dorm roomdoors, sit with lots of different people in the cafete-ria and strike up a conversation with whoever is sit-ting next to you in your lectures.

Everyone is going to tell you that your collegeyears will be the best years of your life.This is becauseover the next four years you will all meet best friends,lovers, study buddies, bar buddies, the best man atyour wedding and right now you have no idea whothey are. Those people you see around the Quad willsave your life, break your heart, help you with math.So go do things with these people.

Also, realize that you are paying for the privilege of going to this University. You are paying a lot ofmoney. So learn something. Find something youreally enjoy studying and then do that for four years.And gen-eds suck, but pay attention in them. Theyare usually a pretty easy A. I guess what I am saying isdon’t get a C based on apathy and laziness. If you aregoing to fail something, let it be because you aredumb. Take pride in having your grades reflect your

mental ability, not your excessive partying. Beingwell-rounded is not such a bad thing. Don’t spaz outfor a semester and do poorly when you are smartenough to do really well. In four years you willhave to put that GPA front and center on the topof your resume.

Chambana is a great place to explore all yourinterests. If you like theater, join the Penny DreadfulPlayers. If you like music, form a band:you’ll be play-ing White Horse (at least) by the time you graduate.There is improv comedy, poetry readings, art shows,museums, independent movies, copious amounts ofawesome local bands, even humourous adaptations of Hamlet, going on all the time. If you like writingand art come write for me here at the Buzz. No,real-ly I’m serious, email me at [email protected] I guess what I am saying is enjoy every momentand every person because you could be killed instant-ly by a minivan. Oh, and do your homework; thereis really no excuse to not do your homework.Work hard, play hard and enjoy the hell out of yournext four years.

of their three annual wine festivals.In between visits or shows this is a great fallvacation stop. Get details at www.nia-garawinefestival.com.

Featured at the Shaw Festival isCanadian Ann-Marie MacDonald's BelleMoral (to Oct. 7), a powerful drama set inlate 19th century Scotland. Alisa Palmer'sdirection gives us a rich character studythat goes beyond gothic melodrama. TwoAmerican plays,Wiliiam Inge's Bus Stop (toNov. 27) and Lillian Hellman's, The AutumnGarden (to October 8) are rich multiplecharacter studies that the splendid ensem-ble of the Shaw Festival brings to life.Directors Jackie Maxwell and MarthaHenry seem to have an intuitive sense ofthese American characters and settings.

Shaw's Major Barbara (to Oct. 29) as direct-ed by Joseph Ziegler, is a stylish but talkystudy of good and evil.This lengthy classic haschallenged many a director, and here the dis-cussions seem a bit too endless and void ofreal meaning. Another British import is thegem of the Festival; R.C. Sheriff's superbWorld War I play Journey's End (to Oct. 8).University of Illinois graduate, ChristopherNewton, in top form as director, wrings every

bit of drama and meaning from this 1928masterpiece. Rarely has an 80-year-old anti-war play seemed so vivid and relevant.

For information check: www.shawfest.com orcall: 1-800-511-SHAW. Be sure to bringproof of citizenship when you visit Canada.


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With school back in session, students are once againpreparing for another semester of studying and cramming.Accompanying them on their journey are wizards, superheroes,space pirates and even a corpse bride.That’s right, this is the fallmovie preview. So just sit back, relax and forget about school fora while as you take a cinematic journey of upcoming movies.

Though the fall movie schedule typically has fewer blockbustersthan the summer, there are several movies that have the potentialto stand out. Kicking things off is the Sept. 2 release of The

Transporter 2. Jason Statham (TheItalian Job, Snatch) reprises his role asFrank Martin.Think of Frank Martinas a cross between James Bond andVin Diesel’s XXX. If you enjoy classic action movies and haven’t seenthe first Transporter, check it out.Theoriginal featured car chases, martialarts, gunfights and the second install-ment promises to deliver as much, ifnot more action. Be forewarnedthough; this movie will probablyrequire that you turn your brain offfor a couple of hours.

Fans of swashbuckling adventureshave the second feature film of thenew Zorro franchise. Both AntonioBanderas and Catherine Zeta Jonesreturn in Legend of Zorro. Maybe Zorro2 didn’t sound good to the producers.Well, either that or it was too much

sword slashing for Zorro to slash out a Z and then a 2 on everysingle defeated opponent’s jacket. Whatever the case, Zorro is atimeless hero, and if the Legend of Zorro is as fun and entertainingas the Mask of Zorro, this sequel should be a safe bet.

Fall sees no shortage of animated movies. Tim Burton fansdelight as Sept. 23 marks the release of The Corpse Bride (so ifyou are keeping score, that is two Tim Burton movies in lessthan six months). Those who remember The Nightmare BeforeChristmas should be familiar with this unique style of

animation. From the looks of thepreview, The Corpse Bride could onlyhave been delivered by the mind ofTim Burton, which is reason enoughto see it. If you need additionalincentive, then go check it out tohear Johnny Depp’s voiceovers andthe score by Danny Elfman.

After many years of trying to get a movie made, Wallace and Gromitfinally bring their brand of comedyto theatrical release on October 7thin Wallace and Gromit: The Curse ofthe Were-Rabbit. More animation fol-lows on Nov. 4 when Disney releas-es the classic tale of Chicken Little.This is Disney’s first non-Pixar CGmovie, so it will no doubt be undera lot of scrutiny as Disney looks toreclaim their position as box officepowerhouse. Nonetheless, from the

previews the movie appears to capture all the glory that wasshared with Pixar.

On Sept. 30 comes the movie that sci-fi fans are looking for-ward to with much anticipation. Based on the Firefly televisionseries, Serenity hits the big screen. Most fans of the series wouldagree that Firefly was canceled too early, so fanboys should bedelighted to see this show in theatres.This movie is really some-thing to be excited about. The previews not only show aglimpse of fantastic special effects, but also promise to deliver a great story in addition to all the eye candy. Those unfamiliar with the TV series need not worry, as the movie willclue in non-fans to the back story.

Those who haven’t gotten their fill of sci-fi adventure afterSerenity can prepare themselves for the film version of the clas-sic PC game Doom. The only reason to see this movie is The Rock.That’s right folks, the great one himself captains thecast of Space Marines in this adventure. While The Rock is charismatic and has stolen the show in every single movie he has been in, one can’t help but think that this latest videogame to movie adaptation is a lot like tennis and golf-a lot morefun to play than to watch.

The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobehits the big screen on Dec. 9. This long-awaited adaptation ofthe first book in C.S. Lewis’ classic series features a cast com-prised largely of unkowns (the most recognizable stars toAmerican audiences might be the voices of Rupert Everett andBrian Cox).The Narnia books are family-friendly tales of magicand adventure, so movie executives are undoubtedly hoping totap into the huge Harry Potter audience. With seven books inthe series, the will be no shortage of sequels to come should TheLion, the Witch and the Wardrobe become a blockbuster.

Speaking of Harry Potter, audiences are surely waiting forhis fourth adventure on the silver screen this November:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The original cast has allreturned, minus of course Richard Harris (Dumbledore), whopassed away between the second and third movies and wasreplaced by Michael Gamdon. Mike Newell has taken overdirecting the newest installment of this franchise from AlfonsoCuaron. In Goblet of Fire, Harry is in his fourth year atHogwarts and is competing in the Tri-Wizard Tournament.What’s great about the Harry Potter series is that as the audi-ence grows older, the stories also grow up, becoming a littledarker and more interesting with each new chapter. As theactors have aged, their performances have improved. Of allthe movies on this fall preview, Harry Potter is easily the mostanticipated. These movies are phenomenal adaptations of thealready classic books.

From sci-fi to animation, and action to drama, there will be noshortage of film entertainment this fall semester to distract studentsfrom their studies. But only time will tell if these movies will beas successful as Batman Begins or crash and burn like Stealth.

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When Urbana held its first Sweetcorn Festival nearly30 years ago, it was merely a tool to promote the downtownarea. Since then, the festival has grown immensely. This year’sfree event included an antique car show, two stages with livemusic and numerous child-friendly attractions. For a town witharound 38,000 citizens, the annual Sweetcorn Festival is trulyan amazing feat.

How Urbana can afford to hold such an event every yearwithout charging an entrance fee or raising taxes is hard to imag-ine. Similar events are held in the suburbs of Chicago with vary-ing results, but the Sweetcorn Festival continues to grow andchange. Companies come year after year and make a profit onthe goods and services they offer at the festival. It continues tobe popular and well attended even without the luxury of beingin a densely populated area.

Corporate sponsors are a large part of making the SweetcornFestival a success. Through the donation of goods, services andmoney, local businesses and corporations get their names out tothousands of potential customers. Their donations are basicallyglorified advertising fees, but the public gains fun experiencesfrom the combined efforts of the businesses and those who setup and run the event.

While it would be nice to not see huge corporate banners all around the festival, theyare a fact of life. WithoutWal-Mart, Urbana wouldnot have the means to provide the 20,000 ears ofcorn the corporation donated. Nor would it bepossible to provide children’sentertainment like the petting zoo and actioninflatables without the monetary donations fromlocal radiostations and other businesses. The SweetcornFestival would also not bepossible without the helpand cooperation of theCity of Urbana and the people who live there.

Nine years ago, the firstMotor Muster antique carshow took place. Theshow, which features cars

from every decade between 1910 and the 1980, was a big hitfrom its beginning and continues to draw car enthusiasts andcurious novices to the festival. While the number of entrieseach year has not increased drastically, there are new cars shownevery year. Co-sponsored by the Illini Collector Car Club, acore of around 35 to 40 cars appear at each year’s show and anadditional 30 to 40 cars are brought by people of all ages.A young man who just got his driver’s license last year broughthis Chevolet Bel-Air, while many older car lovers brought carsthey’ve owned for many years.

Norm Comer, a member of the Illini Collector Car Club anda participant in each of th nine Motor Muster shows, brought hiscompletely original 1912 Maxwell Mascotte. Comer, whobought the car in 1968, is the vehicle’s fourth owner.When thecar was first introduced to the public, it cost $980 and came withan optional windshield.

“Every year we get new entries from people in the area,”Comer said. This is why people keep coming back to look atand talk about vintage vehicles. Many of the older viewers rem-inisced about seeing these models when they were firstreleased. Others chatted with the owners of the cars aboutwhat was under the hood and the restoration process that they

had gone through to make them look brand new. Many enthu-siastic parents brought their children along to share their loveof antique and muscle cars. Some brought cameras to docu-ment the rarities on display.

Comer said he enjoyed telling people about his car and therestoration process he went through to keep it in such good con-dition. He even started the car up for a couple of minutes toshow curious onlookers how different the driving experiencewas when cars were just beginning to be made, a unique oppor-tunity that many people would never think about, let aloneexperience. Even a casual car lover could learn much fromComer and his fellow participants.

For those kids who were more interested in taking a ridethan looking at one didn’t have to go far. One of the manyattractions aimed at children was a ride in a miniature trainthrough downtown Urabana. Seeing the multi-colored train coupled with the smiles on the faces of the children as theyrode was just one of the many candid joys over the weekend.

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A couple of years ago, I washeaded towards Esquire tohave a couple of beers (i.e., 15or 16), when a guy stopped meand asked for $10. He wasn’t

begging and explained his story. He had nomoney on him and had just broken his key offin the door lock of his car and needed to take ataxi home to get his spare set of keys. For crap-sake, he even had a broken key in his hand.Obviously, the cab ride would be about $10,and he would pay me back when he returnedfor his car. He was dressed like a guy who hadbeen working all day so I gave him ten bucksand went inside to drink and wait for hisreturn. Roughly a minute later it occurred tome that he wasn’t coming back.

I was pissed about the incident, but I wasn’treally sure who I was pissed at. I suppose I wasmostly pissed at myself for being one of thesuckers born every minute. Usually I’m a bigrat bastard when it comes to things like that,but for some reason this guy got through mydefenses. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t enjoybeing grifted, but at the same time, I had to

give the guy credit. At least he had a skill.For reasons of self preservation, I decided

to look at it this way. I didn’t lose $10 to acon man, but instead, I paid $10 for a lessonabout how you should never trust otherpeople. A harsh reminder such as that isworth at least $10. Even after all the sucker-ing, I preferred him to the beggars who justask you for money.

I don’t know what it is about pan handlers,but they aggravate me. In all fairness, not all ofthem do, but most of them. Last time I was inMexico, there was a little girl playing an accor-dion. Actually, to call it “playing” would be agross overstatement, but she was doing her best.She asked no one for money, but she had apaper cup sitting beside her. Most everyonewho passed dropped some change into her cup.Sure, she was cute and everything, but I don’tthink that’s why people gave her money. I thinkit was because she was at least making an effort.It didn’t seem like begging.

For the record, I’m not advocating thathomeless people should jump up and dance forthe alms they’re given and I’m in no way sug-gesting that they all arm themselves with accor-dions so the rest of us feel better about giving

them money. Still, simply scampering from per-son to person asking for money doesn’t seemlike an especially productive way to spend yourday either, not to mention the discomfort itcauses the people who are asked for money.

The city council of Atlanta approved a meas-ure last week that they think will help the mat-ter, making it illegal for anyone to ask strangersfor food or money near its downtown museumsand the Martin Luther King Jr. NationalHistorical Site.The business owners around theareas feel that the aggressive beggars are hurtingnot only their businesses, but also the generalimage of the area. I’m not completely heartless,but you know what? They’re right. Confine allthe pan handlers to one specific street and thensee how much general traffic goes down on thatstreet. I bet it won’t be much.

Like I said, I’m not heartless about the problem of homelessness. Some people getdown on their luck, some people have mentalproblems, some people just need a helping handto right their ship. I feel sorry for these people.In fact, most people feel more than sorry forthese people. Our community has severalresources to get homeless people back on trackand help them with things such as employment

and housing, some through churches, somethrough government agencies, some throughprivate programs.

If you’re willing to make any sort of effortto better yourself, there are people to who arehappy to help.The problem I have is with thedown on their luck people who make noeffort whatsoever. It’s hard forme to justify giving a guy onthe street money to help himout when it’s the same guy I’veseen on the same street for thelast ten years. Obviously givinghim money hasn’t really helpedhim out so much.

It’s a tough thing, and even asI write this, I sort of cringe atthe callousness of some of mystatements. I’m not sure banningbeggars from a particular area isthe answer, but I’m not surewhat a better alternative is. It seems like givingthem free reign only perpetuates the problem.I’m happy as hell to give people money so theycan improve their lives. I just think there’s a bigdifference between asking for money to get bet-ter and asking for money so you never have to.

Michael Coulteris a videograph-er, comedianand sort of asmart-ass. Butwe love him any-way, and don’tknow why.Probablybecause he’s sodamn funny.

How I learned to not trust peopleExcept that accordian playing little girl in Mexico, I trusted her ... but the accordian gave her credibility

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After a lengthy hiatus, visionary director TerryGilliam makes his triumphant return with TheBrothers Grimm, an uneven though inspired fairytale. It’s been seven years since Gilliam took us onthe drug-fueled odyssey that was Fear andLoathing in Las Vegas. Notorious for fighting withthe studios over his astronomical budgets, thecreative genius came roaring back in 2005 withnot one, but two films (the other being Tideland,which will be released later this year). It’s good tohave him back.

Once upon a time Wilhelm (Matt Damon) andJacob (Heath Ledger) Grimm went barn-stormingthrough Germany eradicating curses and spectersfrom local villages and collecting a decent pay-check for it. Unbeknownst to the scared villagers,the brothers are actually con artists and all thosebumps in the night are rigged.

Things are going pretty smoothly until theFrench soldiers discover the brothers’ ruse andthreaten to destroy their reputation. Under thecare of the French General’s (Jonathon Pryce)villainous lackey, Cavaldi (Peter Stormare), thebrothers are sent to a village under a real curse,and for once find themselves in real danger.

Eleven young girls have gone missing fromthe village and the townspeople know they havedisappeared into the cursed woods.The forest isunder the spell of an evil queen (MonicaBellucci) who needs the blood of 12 virgins toregain her vitality and stay young forever. Withthe help of Angelika (LenaHeady), a tough-as-nailstownie, the brothers embarkon a quest to stop the evildoings of the wicked queen.

It’s fun to see all thosefairy tales we know so wellcome to life on the bigscreen. Elements f romGrimm classics like Little RedRiding Hood, Rapunzel, andHansel and Gretel are clev-erly interspersed throughoutthe movie.The world in TheBrothers Grimm is one wherefantasy and reality tread athin line. Watching theevents of the film unfoldwhile Jake Grimm carefullydocuments them furtherblurs that line.

As the former animatorfor the notorious Britishcomedy troupe, MontyPython, Gilliam has extraor-dinary visual sensibilitiesand they certainly rise to theforefront of The BrothersGrimm. His worlds aresimultaneously dark andbeautiful. Despite their dirt

and grime, they are richly detailed and alivewith colorful characters.

Gilliam’s unique view doesn’t come cheap,and his legendary battles with studio big-wigsover films like The Adventures of Baron Munchausenhave become a cautionary tale to fledgling direc-tors. Nevertheless, Gilliam fights for his vision tomake its way to the screen and when it does it’sworth the price of a ticket alone.

So how does a director seemingly focused onvisuals work with his actors? Pretty well, it seems.Some of the performances might be a little overthe top, but for the most part there are smartactors giving delicately nuanced performances.

Heath Ledger particularly stands out as thenebbish Grimm brother, absorbed in his worldof fantasy and magic. After Ledger’s usuallysuave and slick roles, it’s fun to see him playagainst type. He provides the foil to Damon’sWill.Will Grimm has no time for the petty fan-tasy world of his younger brother. He’s moreconcerned with making a fast buck and landingeven faster women.

These characters are nothing new to Gilliam.He has been forever flirting with the fantasy vs.reality theme and the people populating his filmsevoke one idea or the other. From his nightmar-ish sci-fi film, Brazil to his New York fairy tale,The Fisher King, Gilliam has consistently createdworlds where characters are in love with anideal—whether attainable or not—and drift fromthe harsh truth of reality to something filled withmagical innocence and childlike awe.

If nothing else, The Brothers Grimm is a visualfeast likely to keep the audience fully satiated.Unfortunately, this film suffers where so manydo: story.The plot is paper thin and lacks the pureexcitement a movie of this caliber should have. Itseems too simple and the events unravel tooquickly.And remember it’s a fairy tale; you betterbelieve everyone lives happily ever after.


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CHARLIE & CHOCOLATE(PG)Fri. 1:25 4:00 7:00 9:3512:00Sat. 11:00 1:25 4:00 7:009:35 12:00Sun. - Thu. 1:25 4:00 7:009:35SKY HIGH(PG)Fri. & Sun. -Thu. 1:55 4:25Sat. 11:30 1:55 4:25MUST LOVE DOGS(PG–13)Fri. & Sat. 7:10 9:30 11:40Sun. - Thu. 7:10 9:30WEDDING CRASHERS (R)Fri. & Sun. - Thu. 1:40 4:157:10 9:50Sat. 11:10 1:40 4:15 7:109:50RED EYE (PG–13) Fri. 1:253:30 5:35 7:10 9:45 11:45Sat. 11:20 1:25 3:30 5:357:10 9:45 11:45Sun. - Thu. 1:25 3:30 5:357:10 9:45BROTHERS GRIMM(PG–13)Fri. & Mon. - Thu. 1:30 4:157:00 9:45Sat. 11:00 1:30 4:15 9:45Sun. 1:30 4:15 9:45THE GREAT RAID (R) Fri. -Thu. 1:10 4:05 7:00 9:55SKELETON KEY (PG–13)Fri. 1:55 4:30 7:10 9:4012:05Sat. 11:10 1:55 4:30 7:109:40 12:05Sun. - Thu. 1:55 4:30 7:109:4040 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (R)Fri. & Sat. 1:10 4:10 7:109:40 12:05Sun. - Thu. 1:10 4:10 7:109:40THE CAVE (PG–13) Fri.1:00 3:15 5:30 7:45 10:00Sat. 11:00 1:00 3:15 5:307:45 10:00 Sun. - Thu.1:00 3:15 5:30 7:45 10:00A SOUND OFTHUNDER (PG–13) Fri. &Sat. 1:45 4:15 7:00 9:3011:45Sun. - Thu. 1:45 4:15 7:009:30

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A R I E S (March 21-April 19)Here's how rock critic Aidin Vaziri described the tage set whenhip-hop artist 50 Cent played in San Jose: "an urban waste-land that looked like it was designed by Disney (complete withan overturned police car, graffiti-covered trashcans and thedecapitated head of the Statue of Liberty)." I hope you don'ttake this the wrong way, Aries, but there's a certain resem-blance between that environment and yours. The so-calledchaos you're surrounded by is either imaginary or artificial orboth. It may be seductively well-made, and therefore hard toresist, but you can walk away from it any time you choose.

T A U R U S (April 20-May 20)You have the potential to be a great wizard in the coming week.Here's how to fulfill that promise: (1) Renounce grandiose fan-tasies of transforming lead into gold or frogs into soul mates. (2) Think small, be specific, get extremely pragmatic, and don'tmake up stories based on inconclusive evidence. (3) Take every-thing that's dreamy and hazy and bring it down to earth. (4) Don't bitch about the limitations; love them and use them toyour advantage. (5) Treat idealism as a distraction unless it canbe translated into concrete acts that do some good for actual human beings.

G E M I N I (May 21-June 20) A respected medical journal reports that one out of four people thinks that "scientists have already found a cure forcancer, but that this cure is being withheld by the health careindustry because it makes more money treating the illness."There are a lot of paranoid theories like this going around.Millions believe in the existence of elite puppet masters whomanipulate our shared resources to serve their own power andwealth rather than the public good. I'm not smart or crazyenough to evaluate these theories. But I do know that for youright now, Gemini, it's crucial to be extremely skeptical of everyauthority, expert, and leader. You should express similar dis-cernment toward those who present themselves as hip, high-status, or special. It will be to your advantage to disrespecthierarchies and become a devotee of pure democracy.

C A N C E R (June 21-July 22)"All I learned in the three colleges I attended," says my friendDavey, "was how to beat the system by using its own rulesagainst it." "All I learned in college," declares author MiraviBhuna-Giva, "was how to make up sh--." "All I learned in college," asserts late-night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel,"was how to drink while standing on my head." All these edu-cational experiences are highly recommended for you in thecoming weeks, Cancerian. You're in a phase when you'll haveluck and grace if you act like an eager student, whether you'retrying to perfect the art of squeezing more perks out of thegame of life or mastering goofy tricks that will make more peo-ple want to invite you to their parties.

L E O (July 23-Aug. 22)Do you have total confidence in your ability to swing lawn chairsaround with your teeth? Can you safely eat broken glass, with-stand people riding bicycles over your belly, and smash brickswith your head? If so, you don't need my advice this week. Butif you're not sure you're capable of pulling off the kinds of featsI named, please resist the temptation to try them. For that mat-ter, don't even think of submitting to other strenuous tests thatare at the edge of your ability. This is a time for you to lay lowand recharge, not throw yourself into trials by fire. Be modestand self-protective, not brazen and reckless.

V I R G O (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)You have weathered a turning point in your relationship withdarkness, and will never again be tempted by its strangeattractions. Did you hear what I said? You have had your lastencounters with hellish monsters that unleash torment for thefun of it. You will never again get mixed up with events thatresemble crawling through caverns filled with the souls of thedamned. In the future, you may on occasion have weirddreams about owls and spiders and snakes, but they will begood weird. Congrats, Virgo.

L I B R A (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)"If the Angel decides to come it will be because you have con-vinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to bealways beginning; to be a beginner." So said the poet RainerMaria Rilke, as if speaking to your exact needs right now. Letme offer this addendum: The Angel wants to come very badly.She is passionate about offering you the novel assistance shehas dreamed up just for you.

S C O R P I O (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) departed so recklesslyfrom the traditions of his art form that some critics believed hethreatened to undermine civilization. That seems unbelievableto us today. Can you imagine any modern painter, musician,writer, or filmmaker being accorded power like that? I can't.Those whose creative expression carries the greatest clout dotheir work in the areas of business and technology. Having saidthat, I'll now make an exception: You currently have the poten-tial to wield a dramatic influence with your creativity in everyrealm except business and technology.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21)"Dear Rob: Two years ago I had intimate relations with a moun-tain. I was driving toward the Cascades when I became awareof a physical longing for Bonanza Peak, which lay ahead of me.As I got closer, I rolled down the windows and sucked in thecool air. I had the exact same sensation as loving someoneso deeply that breathing in their breath fills me with eroticimages and naughty tingles and lusty compassion. I thoughtyou should know. -Earth Lover" Dear Earth Lover: Thanks for your testimony. It's the perfectmessage for Sagittarians to hear right now, so I'm advisingthem to learn from your example.

C A P R I C O R N (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)There's a connection between Al Qaeda and actor Kevin Bacon,according to Tatsuya Ishida at www.sinfest.net. Al Qaeda wastrained by the CIA, he says, which was established by PresidentHarry Truman, who dropped the atom bomb which was cookedup by the Manhattan Project, which was the name of a moviestarring John Lithgow, who was in the film "Footloose" withKevin Bacon. I invite you to make liberal of this kind of logic in

the coming days, Capricorn. The astrological omens say it willbe healthy for you to let your imagination run away with you aslong as you don't take as gospel truth all the conclusions it leads you to. So please feel free to ramble down the fine linebetween creative storytelling and total BS.

A Q U A R I U S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

When your plane takes off and the flight attendants give youtheir lecture on what to do in case of emergency, they remindyou that "your nearest exit may be behind you." That's goodadvice for you to keep in mind during the coming week,Aquarius. I don't mean to imply that you'll be facing some lit-eral danger that will require you to make a quick escape. What I do suggest is that you remove yourself, at least temporarily,from a certain process that's barreling full-speed ahead. Thebest way to do it is to go backward, into the past, or in reverse.

P I S C E S (Feb. 19-March 20)When I went to a hard-core rock festival recently, all but one ofthe bands made abundant use of the f-word. They invoked it sooften, both in their songs and between-song patter, that it gotboring. The lone group that departed from the norm didexpress gleeful rage, but it was with a phrase I rarely hear any-more. "I don't give a damn," the singer shouted at the end ofone song. I chuckled at the archaic modesty of the expression,but it stayed with me more than the histrionics the other bandspreferred. That brings me to the advice I have for you, Pisces:Get to the root of your anger and then render it with an under-stated craft that sets it apart from the overwrought ventingthat everyone has grown numb to.

Homework: What do you want so badly that you're driving it away?How can you fix the problem? Testify at www.freewillastrology.

j o n e s i n c r o s s w o r d p u z z l e Hilarity in Seuss

Across1 Stage actress Hagen4 Triathlete's need8 It's said with a sigh14 They ease the pain of

death16 Fix the punctuation

once more17 Seuss book about

destroying a marijuana farm?

18 Shook an Etch A Sketch

19 Bator, Mongolia20 Brand best known for

purees22 Seuss book where

the main character listens to noodle soup?

28 Overgrown29 Tongue-twisting bath

tub plaything30 Lint trap, so to speak

33 Particles with a charge

34 Seuss book about surpassing actress Winger?

39 "Peek-___!"40 Wanderer41 Rudolph feature44 Belief that God creat

ed the world, but does not intervene in it

48 Seuss book about a musical breakfast?

52 Like many rescues53 Tiny bit54 Spotter's phrase57 Seuss book arguing

in favor of libertarianism?

60 La Quinta alternative61 Work (against)62 Company named for

its founder, Adolf Dassler

63 Princess visited by Dorothy in the book series

64 "Queer Eye" food & wine expert

Down1 "I agree"2 Like pitches that head

for the feet3 "That's why I carry

_____"4 Recycling receptacle5 Rap group with trade

mark makeup, for short

6 Retirement plan for the self-employed

7 Cosmetics queen Lauder

8 Swedish city west of Stockholm

9 What Galileo was nearly convicted of

10 Be ready to eat lobster

11 Bradley and Begley, for two

12 It's not true13 Inc., overseas15 Florence's ___

Vecchio21 Warning on video

games with lots of gore

23 "Garfield" movie role played by a real dog

24 Abbr. in a Broadway address

25 Worthy of a D26 1985 U.S. Open win

ner Mandlikova27 Tiebreaker rounds:

abbr.31 Part of the conscious

far from the self32 Diminutive Italian suf

fix34 Host Ken of MTV's

"Remote Control"35 Lymphatic mass36 Moron37 Man Ray's genre38 Tree of Knowledge's

spot39 Braz. neighbor42 Silver company that

shares its name with an Indian tribe

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towards47 Become something

else entirely49 Camp X-Ray locale,

slangily50 Combining form

meaning "split"51 ___ out (like some

Visas)54 George Gershwin's

brother55 Pathetic56 Virgin rival58 Shady figure?59 ___ Fail (palindromic

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EDITOR’S NOTEPAUL WAGNER • EDITOR IN CHIEF

Lately, I’ve been readingthe New York Times at nightand the other night I cameacross a story that I found

more than slightly disturbing, and now you allget to hear about it.

The story comes from Nebraska. Heregoes.The names will be left out because youshould read the story to find them out. A22-year-old man is being charged withstatutory rape.

Why is this covered in the NY Times, youask? Because the state of Nebraska is charginghim for having sex with his 14-year-oldWIFE. What kind of evidence can the statepossibly produce, you ask? The happy couplehas a child.

Yep, that’s right, a 14-year-old girl had a babyfathered by a 22-year-old man. But the legalage of consent in Nebraska is 17. Therefore,they couldn’t get married in their home state.

And this is where the story takes a turn forthe worse.They traveled to Kansas to get mar-ried. An odd place for marriage at best, butthe legal age of consent in Kansas is, you’renever going to believe this, 12.

A 12-year-old in Kansas can legally haveconsenting sex with anyone. I cannot evenbegin to describe just how repulsive that is tome. And apparently the governor of Kansas

was outraged that a 14-year-old could getmarried in her state.

The story continues, though. The par-ents of the girl and the man are both happyas clams that their kids got hitched. Themom of the man is actually quite proud ofhim. Apparently he was a bit of a scumbag(really?), but he’s now sticking with the kidhe knocked up instead of running awayfrom the problem.

The parents of the girl are just happy thatshe’s happy.Which seems a bit weird to me. Ifthis were my sister, I’d probably kill the ass-hole, my dad would likely back me up. Hell,my mom would attack the guy.There’s just somuch wrong with this.

Luckily, the guy is being charged by thestate and could face up to 50 years in prison.Sometimes I think charging consenting peo-ple for statutory rape is ridiculous. But that’sfor high schoolers that are of similar age.Maybe two juniors go to prom and have con-senting sex afterwards, but they’re 16 and 17.Charging either of them with statutory rapewould piss me off. But a 22-year-old with a14-year-old? I hope you’re all as pissed aboutthis as me. It’s atrocious.

Honestly, I’m not sure why I told thisstory; I just find it horrible, so do with it whatyou will.

- PaulPS: I promised a friend I would do this, soHappy Birthday Kate Gleason!

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Sweetcorn Festival a bust! Local Chapter of Scientologists "stressed out"

SETH FEIN • CONTRIBUTING WRITER

FIRST SNIFF

In retrospect, I can look back onthe Sweetcorn Festival with a certainamount of delight and awe. When Iwas a child, it was one of my favoritethings to go to with my dad.The rea-sons are endless, but one of the main

ones was because the corn was free.And man did we eat corn. I swear, I was shitting out corn for

weeks.You would go up to the people running the stand andthey’d ask, “How many do you want?”You could say, “Thirty-eight, please,” and with a smile, someone would hand you the 38ears of corn, drenched in butter and wrapped in wax paper. Imean, it’s corn, for crying out loud, not saffron.

But now, it’s a load of bullshit. $1 for ONE ear of corn? Whatis that, a joke? Not to mention the fact that the corn was broughtto us by ...Wal-Mart.And it's shipped in from … Colorado?

And what was with the booth placement? Who is in chargeof that anyway? How come all the "liberal" organizations likeWRFU and Anti-War Movement were clumped together in alow traffic area while the "Honor The Chief" booth was frontand center in the middle of the flippin’ intersection? Oh yeah -a real "liberal" community we live in here.

Very nice, Urbana.Very nice. I suppose that, based on the waythat Tod Satterthwaite ran the city into the ground for 12 years,it’s no one’s fault really. But let’s hope that next year, we can getcorn prices down, and maybe, just maybe, we could contractsome local farmers to grow sweet corn for us. Perhaps we couldfind some parity in the way that booth locations are determinedas well. Once again, it seems as though Urbana is in serious needof some help.

I believe in Laurel though. Don't you worry. Prussingwill take care of it. Doesn’t seem like it would be too muchtrouble, does it?

TOM CRUISE – YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE A BUNCH OF

SNIFFERS...I suppose that the only good part of the day for me was when

I went to the Scientology booth. They were giving away freeStress Tests as a way to promote their “Bible” - Dianetics by thatguy named Mother Hubbard. It seemed interesting enoughanyway, so I sat down next to a lady with a machine that lookedlike it had been bought at Radio Shack in the bargain bin. Itconspicuously had the name Hubbard on it. I was asked to grabon to two metal cylinder things and she asked me to think ofsomeone in my life. Naturally, I thought of a few people – mygirlfriend, my mom, my brother, my boss, etc. etc. Allow me torecreate the dialogue for you so that you can get a sense of thegenius behind this machine. There are three characters to this

one act: Seth Fein,Woman and Man, identified by acronym.W:Are you thinking of someone? SF:Yes.W: Do you see how

the needle is moving? SF:Yes, I do. W:That means that you feelsome degree of stress about them. SF: Of course I do.They areimportant to me. W: Wouldn’t you like to not feel stress aboutthem? SF: Uh.That’s impossible. M: It’s not impossible.You justdon’t want to learn.You don’t want to listen. SF: Do you ever feelstress about anything? W: No.We have learned how to rid our-selves of our “Reactive Mind.” SF: So, have you ever been in arelationship? M: How is that relevant? SF:Well, if you have everbeen in one, you would know that it can get stressful at somepoints. Say,when you are trying to conceive and you can’t,maybe?Not that I am, but I know people who have been through that....M: (interrupting) With Dianetics, you can accomplish anything.SF:Yes, but… M (interrupting): See! You just don’t want to listen!You don’t care! SF: Sir, I am trying to have a dialogue here. If youwould just hear my… M: (interrupting) You know what?!? This ismy booth and you can just leave then! (He is yelling at me by thispoint!) SF: Oh yeah.You seem calm.You’re already yelling at mefor simply asking questions?

I left. And so, in case any of you were wondering aboutwhether or not Scientology reduces stress and as a result, willhelp you lose weight - it doesn’t. Everyone at the booth wasyelling at people and was fat. So, go get yourself a treadmill anda day at the spa. Same thing – only without the brainwashing.

FINAL WHIFF

It is worth noting that we here in C-U have a growing number of blog-gers with many different opinions.Personally, I have never “blogged”about anything. But I suppose thatwhen you write a column in a weekly,there is not much need for it. But noteveryone is as lucky as I. But dammit ifthey aren’t great reads throughout theday – and deserve just as much atten-tion as the rest of us going out on alimb to spread opinion and fodder forthe community! And allow me to state this: It can get prettyheated when someone starts to rip into a certain local colum-nist. (Hint: it wasn’t me)

In any event, people should be reading these guys and gals.They have copious knowledge about these little cities of oursand every now and again, something pops up that makes peo-ple electronically freak out. I did on Saturday night. It was ablast! But remember: If you are going to post something inflam-matory about another person, do us all a favor, grow a pair anduse your own name.Those of you who post anonymously arejust like the Scientologists: a bunch of scared ass jicks, afraid toface the realities of life.

seth fein

Seth Fein is fromUrbana. He and his

girlfriend laughedall the way toSchnucks on

Saturday wherethey bought 10ears of corn for

$2.00. He can bereached at seth-

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