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eU oiL criSiS Charts showing top importers of Iranian oil, January-June 2011, and imports by EU countries during the same period. The EU has tentatively agreed to ban Iranaian oil imports last week as part of a multi-lateral aggreement.

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Let it SNoW Carolyn Joy shovels snow as another big snow fall hit the Anchorage, Alaska area on Thursday. Anchorage has received an official 81.3 inches of snow at the airport measuring station as of Tuesday. M e t e o r o l o g i s t Shaun Baines said that makes it the snowiest period for Anchorage since records have been kept.

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SeArcHiNG For SUrvivorS Rescuers work to enter the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia in search of more survivors on Sunday. The ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, has been jailed on suspicion of wrong doing.

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droNe StriKeS coNtiNUe Charts show the number of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2011, the estimated deaths of militants and others, 2004-2010; map shows the tribal areas that had the most strikes in 2011. There were two apparent U.S. drone attacks last week on militant targets in Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan very likely signal the resumption of joint counterintel l igence operations by the CIA and Pakistan’s military spy agency, security analysts said in Islamabad, Pakistan. The joint effort goes against previous anti-U.S. rhetoric from the Pakistani regime following drone attacks that allegedly killed civilians.

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Gop bAttLe coNtiNUeS Republican presidential candidates, from left, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul take the stage for the Fox News debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Monday ahead of the third GOP primary Jan. 31.

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voter id bAttLe Attorney General Eric Holder declared minority voting rights might be in danger while speaking at a Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday event in Columbia, South Carolina, Monday. Holder said some states have filed lawsuits to challenge provisions of the Voting Rights Act and approved new voting laws that would make it difficult for some minorities to register and cast ballots in 2012, five decades after King and other civil rights leaders fought for access to the ballot box.

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Thursday, Jan. 12 What: Assault, not aggravatedWhen: 6 p.m.Where: 234 Goodman St.Suspect arrested

What: Drug trafficking When: 10:14 p.m.Where: 234 Goodman St.No arrest made

Wednesday, Jan. 11What: Sexual imposition (forcible fondling)When: 3:15 p.m. Where: 2610 McMicken CircleNo arrest made

Tuesday, Jan. 10 What: Theft from a motor vehicleWhen: 6:30 a.m.Where: 3223 Eden Ave.No arrest made

What: Criminal damaging When: 3:30 p.m.Where: 2900 Reading RoadNo arrest made

What: Possession of drugsWhen: 9:45 p.m. Where: 234 Goodman St. No arrest made{ Friday, Jan. 13

What: TheftWhen: 2:05 p.m.Where: 2842 Campus Way

No arrest made

What: Aggravated robberyWhen: 8:30 p.m.Where: 2100 block of Stratford Ave. Two suspects showed a gun and tried to take the victim’s vehicle, but couldn’t drive a stick shift. Instead, the suspects took the victim’s cash.No arrests made.

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The University of Cincinnati community can now nominate those who they believe have made an impact on campus.

Every year, the Just Community — an initiative to create an appreciation for diversity and a sense of pride at UC — hosts the Just Community Awards, and this year’s Diversity Conference is slated for April 18.

These awards are given to students, faculty and staff members who were nominated by the UC community and alumni for their excellence in making the UC Community a better place.

Past winners have worked throughout UC with programs such as UC Smiles, The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and Racial Awareness Pilot Project (RAPP). There are usually at least three winners to be recognized at the Diversity Conference.

“The Just Community Awards recognize people or organizations at UC that have basically made a mark on the University,” said 2004 Just Community award winner and field service professor of communications, Lisa Newman.

Students can nominate their mentors,

student organization leader, or a faculty member.

“Students have the power to say, ‘Wow my voice can be heard in recognizing someone’s contribution

that has impacted my world and they could be a Just Community Award winner,’ ” Newman said.

Along with the nomination form, the UC community

m e m b e r s should also provide a letter stating why that person they picked should be nominated.

“The cool thing about any kind of nominations for awards is that there is diversity and the kind of contribution that people make here,” Newman said. “There is not one right answer to be in the best award winner in any given year because the nomination letters that are given in support tell a story, and the stories of the award winners themselves are really great.”

To nominate someone, visit www.uc.edu/justcommunity.com and fill out the nomination form. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 29.

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Three assistant professors of English at the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont branch campus, have been honored for their creative writing.

Phoebe Reeves’ poem “The Folly of Mercutio in a Pacifist Town,” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize – the most honored literary project in America.

This is the second time she has been nominated for the prize.

Mike Hampton’s short story “Simmers,” has been nominated for the Best American Short Stories 2012.

In addition, Joel Peckham’s essay, “Please Take What You Want,” was listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2011.

“It’s really great knowing not only did your editor like your work, but enough to nominate it,” Reeves said.

Peckham, whose recent book “Resisting Elegy: On Grief and Recovery” was a finalist for the New Rivers MVP prize, said he enjoys the support UC gives to its professors.

“I was hired for American literature

and composition, so if I write books of poetry, they are not counted toward tenure,” Peckham said. “Except at UC I can; all my personal endeavors are supported, even allowing us to teach courses related to our interest.”

“I always feel, here, I am supported by peers,” Peckham said. “At other colleges, professor see it as more of a competition.”

Other UC Clermont staff agreed that the college’s department certainly has some strength among its faculty.

“I think we have a stunning collection of creative writing professors here at Clermont,” said Linda Walvoord, an associate professor of English at UC Clermont, who has written 11 children’s books over the past three decades.

“We are very fortunate to have this caliber of faculty who not only teach at UC Clermont college, but are continually working on their craft and publishing their work,” said Kim Jacobs-Beck, chair of the English Languages and Fine Arts Department.

Just Community awards open for UC nominations

UC Clermont shows that pen is mightier

Saturday, Jan. 14What: Warrant for another police departmentWhen: 6:30 p.m.Where: 2700 Campus Way.Suspect arrested

What: Theft from a motor vehicleWhen: 9:30 p.m. Where: 40 West university Ave.No arrest made

What: RobberyWhen: 10:50 p.m.Where: 2200 block of Stratford Ave. Two suspects showed a gun and took the victim’s maroon 2003 Saturn Ion. Suspects were described as black males, in their 20s, both 5’9” to 5’11”. No arrests made.

Sunday, Jan. 15What: Disorderly conductWhen: 1:25 a.m. Where: 45 West Daniels St.No arrest made

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF MOONBEAM STUDIOS

CALLING THE SHOTS Moonbeam Studios covers everything from senior photos to band portraits and concert coverage. [Top left]: Datum Point poses for a photo [Bottom left]: A senior photo [Below]: Tim Neumann, Dan Marque and Stephen Sargent prep for a video (photo by Danielle Koval for Verge Magazine)

WOODROW GOLDSMITH | FOR VERGE MAGAZINE

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T wenty-three miles north of his Cincinnati home, Stephen

Sargent’s friends and Moonbeam Studios business partners are unloading tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment into a small tent on the right side of William Mason High School’s massive football fi eld.

The multimedia production company has only a couple of hours to set up their materials before marching bands from around the state take the fi eld for competition.

At 8:30 a.m., however, Sargent is still asleep. In his defense, it is Saturday morning, and his Friday

night was not exactly what you’d call “quiet.” Having barely made it home the night before, Sargent — a third-year University of Cincinnati student and Moonbeam Studios’ co-founder — is catching up on sleep, but not for the reasons you might expect.

Sargent fi nally went to sleep at 4:30 Saturday morning. That night, he had not been up late doing homework, and he had not been partying or living it up.

Instead, he’d been working at a local, nonprofi t concert venue called The Underground.

In addition to being part of The Waking Point, one of the featured bands of the evening, Sargent had been in full Moonbeam mode: He was in charge of 30 to 40 high school s t u d e n t

workers, nine digital SLR (single lens refl ex) cameras, and a show streaming live on the club’s website, which focuses on the people and the performances of The Underground.

On the night before a job, Sargent and the Moonbeam crew spend endless hours preparing equipment and assembling materials, making sure everything is gathered and ready to go. That’s how every job has gone since the beginning.

Sargent began making movies with his friends in eighth grade and started taking senior photographs with a professional-grade camera his junior year of high school.

His technological interests expanded when friend and bandmate Dan Marque wanted to record their music with Marque’s family-owned sound equipment. Another of Sargent’s friends, Kyle Ebersole, expressed his interest in design and graphics.

“Dan wanted to do recording for our band, On A Basic Thursday,” Sargent says. “Then we thought, ‘We should do this for other bands.’ I did video stuff as w e l l .

Kyle liked Photoshop and did

that. He pursued it in college and began to make designs. Boom.

Moonbeam.”The three friends put their skills to use on the new

endeavor in every way possible. Sargent, who started working at the Underground around this time, met Micah Simms and invited him to bring his video expertise to the

company. The foursome set out with very little startup cash;

Sargent was still borrowing equipment and taking senior pictures of his friends to generate operating funds. But as the group’s reputation spread among Sargent’s photography clients, Moonbeam began getting more jobs.

The group began to collaborate frequently on photography projects, videos and recordings, and soon Moonbeam Studios grew into a legitimate business entity. In summer 2010, the group acquired its LLC (limited liability company) status, and in fall of that year, received a federal tax ID. Moonbeam Studios was offi cially a professional organization.

But there’s nothing professional about being late. On this particular Saturday morning, Sargent’s business partners are frustrated that he has yet to arrive for the

marching band shoot.

By 10:20 a.m., he appears, and nobody is happy to see him. The team sees

no use in arguing, though, so the atmosphere calms. It’s a cloudless November morning, and the

temperature is hovering in the mid-40s. It’s chilly, but far from intolerable.

One of the tables set up under their tent is covered with Starburst wrappers and taped-on signs, while the Moonbeam crew’s backpacks, computers and monitors are sprawled across both the table and the area surrounding it.

It’s not the best working environment for an aspiring professional media organization, but it will do.

“I hope to ha ve a company one day that doesn’t duct-tape their prices to the table,” Ebersole says.

Between fall 2009 and summer 2010, Moonbeam Studios made just under $1,000. In 2011, the group raked in more than $15,000.

The crew is used to setting up cameras for the event, because they worked the same competition last year. They were not, however, prepared to run video on every band’s show. They got the gig after Mr. Video, Mason High School’s preferred videographer outfi t, gave up the job.

Sargent looks calm and pleased with the work of his team. He’s somewhat imposing with his height and broad shoulders — he used to dive for his high school — but the smile on his face eliminates any threat.

He doesn’t look like the head of a company: He wears worn-out jeans, a worn-out black pea coat and worn-out gray shoes. He also looks worn out; the blond stubble on his face and disheveled, uncombed hair give testament to his late night. And his hair only gets messier every time he runs up and down the bleachers, but Sargent remains focused.

Each D-SLR can only record 12 minutes per clip, so two cameras have to be prepared so each show can be captured in its entirety. While he’s in charge of these two video cameras today, Sargent prefers to take photographs — a job taken over by Ebersole and Simms, who are snapping images for an on-site slideshow of band

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SAY GOOD LIGHT Kyle Ebersole holds up a piece of tissue paper to help defuse the light in the scene.

Young entrepreneurs launch a home-grown video-production

company in Cincinnati and brew big plans for the future.

Check out a music video by Moonbeam Studios and a slideshow @NEWSRECORD.ORG

members in action. The camera that sparked Sargent’s interest in

photography was one owned by his girlfriend’s mom. Four years later, Sargent’s girlfriend might not have changed, but his gear has. A short time after that initial experience, he bought his own camera, a Canon 7D, and after working with the equipment and starting to take senior pictures for his friends, Sargent realized that there was a part of him that wanted to start a company.

“I’m a perfectionist; I like perfecting images,” he says. “ [I liked] the idea of working for myself and doing my own work and getting paid for it. You really feel ownership.

Y o u create yourself.”

Suddenly, Sargent decides he wants to get Starbucks

coffee for the crew as an apology for being late. He darts downstairs and out of sight.

One performance later, Sargent reappears without coffee and slowly walks to the center of the stands, where his cameras are set up. Marque and Ebersole didn’t want him to leave, he says.

“We had a crisis down there,” he says with a sigh. But there’s a smile on his face, too. His relaxed demeanor sets him apart. Everyone else is stressed, angry and frustrated with this new environment and new set of challenges, but Sargent seems to relish in the pressure and in the novelty of shooting a marching band competition.

“Heading a project sometimes is exciting for me because … I don’t know how to explain it,” Sargent says. “It’s exciting to be in charge of a bigger thing, especially if it’s something new.”

Although running Moonbeam Studios is hardly something new for Sargent, his formal education as an entrepreneur began only this year.

Sargent came to UC as an engineering student and switched to business with a focus in entrepreneurship at the beginning of his junior year.

“I liked engineering, but it didn’t hold my attention,” Sargent says. “I knew I liked business, because I had been running Moonbeam for a year and a half. I’m probably going to be in school longer than necessary, but I don’t mind.”

Although Sargent is the managing partner and producer of Moonbeam Studios (as well as a co-founder), confl ict sometimes bubbles up over who is in charge of what.

“A lot of the learning process in Moonbeam is learning to work together,” he says. “Once you learn to do that, you can move forward. Kyle and I are similar. Naturally, we butt heads a lot. If we arrange a project, usually I’m in charge, and usually Dan and Tim [Neumann, the fi fth member of Moonbeam] are second in charge.

“We’ve learned to defi ne roles before we do a fi lm. If there’s ambiguity, there’s fi ghting. We like to be clear [about] who is in charge of what. You can’t have multiple people in charge of the same thing. It works out really well once you learn to do what you do, because there’s a lot of potential.”

Luckily, Moonbeam is operating like a well-oiled machine. Ebersole and Marque are uploading the pictures to fl at-screen monitors outside the tent, while

Neumann handles pre-orders of videos and Simms sits for a quick break.

Sargent is overseeing the operation, smiling again. This is his element. By the end of the day, Moonbeam will

h a v e collected $700 in video pre-orders; more money will roll in later in the week from the high school bands’ picture pre-orders.

The business cards and coupons set out on the table at the beginning of the day are almost gone, and the crowd has died down to only a handful of people. The crew is laughing, reminiscing over a time Sargent threw a Starburst at a young boy looking at pictures.

“He was looking right at me!” Sargent yells in his defense as he and the group roar with laughter.

Prospects are looking good for Moonbeam: It won’t always be band competitions and senior pictures, Starburst fi ghts and duct-taped signs, D-SLRs and late-arrival Starbucks. Sargent and the crew hope to make enough money to live off this company’s income and make an imprint in this media-oriented world.

“Our long-term goal is to make enough money to hire people to take pictures and to do jobs that we don’t want to do,” Sargent says. “We want to make music videos and movies with story lines. We enjoy the creative aspects, which sometimes don’t come out in senior pictures. We like to create as a team, but we have to make money, build our business. We do our best to be creative but our goal is to create our own stuff.”

But right now, Sargent and the Moonbeam team still have work left to do as another band takes the fi eld. Two Mason faculty members approach the crew and inform them that Mr. Video ended its contract with Mason and will not be doing any of the school’s future band competitions. This is good news for Moonbeam Studios, which could become Mason’s go-to all-purpose media production company.

In the background, Olentangy High School’s marching band appears on one of the fl at-screen monitors the Moonbeam team has set up on the table.

“It is said that every great journey starts with a single step,” echoes the monitor as a precursor to the show.

Sargent smiles again. Boom: Moonbeam Studios just got a little bigger.

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KEITH BIERYGOLICK | ENTERTAINMENT EDITORSome days he’s classical, and enjoys listening to

Brahms and Beethoven. On other days he’s a hipster, who enjoys listening to Radiohead and Animal Collective. But on Jan. 21 at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, William Brittelle gets to be both.

Performing Saturday night with cellist Clarice Jensen and violist Nadia Sirota as a part of Future Shock, Brittelle hopes to stretch chamber music to its limits by combining rhythms and instruments (like synthesizers and heavy drum beats) that are usually associated with electronic music.

Brittelle said he’s interested in creating music that requires a high level of technical ability to play, but at the same time, is incredibly visceral and accessible.

“It’s the idea of music, emotion music,” said Brittelle. “I work with a lot of content with pop hooks that you

can really sink your teeth into,” he explained. “I think it will be stunning to see performed live — our performers really are just incredible — but it’s all music that is very inviting to the listener and immediately engaging.”

The desire to engage listeners cannot be faked, and, by trying to meld two completely different musical worlds together, Brittelle has set himself up for failure. But because of his unique background in the orchestral and rock fi elds, there is an authenticity about his music that cannot be faked.

In 2000, Brittelle moved to New York to go to graduate school for classical music, but quickly got involved in other things when bands like the Strokes and Interpol started to blow up in the most exciting musical scene since Seattle circa fl annel T-shirts and Nirvana.

“I actually worked as a booker at a rock club during that time when a lot of bands like TV on the Radio, Animal Collective and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played some of their earliest shows,” Brittelle said.

His own band, the Blondes, was on the verge of major-label success when Brittelle blew out his voice during a show. A strained vocal cord, aggravated by severe acid refl ux, left him unable to even speak — let alone sing.

“I had to move out of the city, I couldn’t talk for six

months, so I had to move home.”

Secluded from the budding New York scene and hidden away in the mountains of North Carolina, Brittelle had nothing to do but sit at a grand piano and write. What he found coming out was a return to classical music.

But rock-and-roll was in his blood, so the worlds began to collide.

Two well-received solo albums and seven years later, Brittelle will be working the electronics while bringing his adventurous amalgamation of musical genres to Cincinnati. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are only $10.

Extreme electro-chamber music

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The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team defeated the Villanova Wildcats 82-78 Saturday afternoon at Fifth Third Arena in front of 10,255 screaming fans — the largest crowd at a UC home game this season.

Villanova junior guard Maalik Wayns scored a game-high 39 points, but it wasn’t enough, as UC held on for the win.

Cincinnati senior guard Dion Dixon led the Bearcats, shooting 7-of-19 from the field to finish with a team-high 22 points.

Three other Bearcats also scored in double figures. Senior forward Yancy Gates had 16 points, junior Cashmere Wright had 11, and sophomore Sean Kilpatrick finished with 14 points.

Cincinnati (14-4, 4-1 Big East), tied a school record for fewest turnovers in a game with three.

On the other side of the court, turnovers haunted Villanova (8-10, 2-4 Big East), as the Bearcats’ defense forced 17 with 11 in the second half alone.

The Bearcats took advantage of the opportunity, scoring 20 points off turnovers, while the Wildcats scored just five.

The importance of the game was emphasized by

head coach Mick Cronin. “In my opinion, this is the most talented team we’ve

played this year by far,” Cronin said. “Anybody who watched it would agree that Maalik Wayns is the best player we’ve played this year. We took their best shot. You’ve got to give our kids credit.”

Villanova led by as many as 10 points early in the first half, but the Bearcats responded with a 22-6 run to take the lead by seven with 11:22 remaining before halftime.

Despite Cincinnati’s mid-half run, the Wildcats took a 45-40 lead to end the first half, thanks in large part to stellar 3-point shooting. Villanova went 10-of-16 from behind the arc, with five coming from Wayns who was 5-of-6 from downtown.

In the second half, however, Villanova couldn’t keep up its hot shooting from the outside, mainly due to Cincinnati’s defensive pressure.

In the final 20 minutes of play, the Wildcats went 2-of-14 from 3-point range.

Wayns’ 39 points set an all-time record for most points scored by an opposing player at Fifth Third Arena.

“I’d trade all 39 points to get the win,” Wayns said.Cincinnati travels to Connecticut Wednesday

to face the defending national champion Huskies at 7 p.m.

brittany york | spORTs edITOR

The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team defeated the Villanova Wildcats — a team that head coach Mick Cronin characterized as the “most talented” opponent the team has played this season — in a 82-78 victory at Fifth Third Arena Saturday.

The Bearcats only committed three turnovers during the game — tying the school’s record — while forcing the Wildcats to turn the ball over 17 times.

Even though UC forced turnovers and took care of the ball, the Cats were outrebounded 46-30.

“We have got to get that rectified,” Cronin said, emphasizing that a plus-14 turnover margin paired with minus-16 on the glass does not balance out.

The Cats are 4-1 in the Big East right now; but in the next week, they have a stretch of three games where Cronin says they “play the three best rebounding teams.”

UC travels to the University of Connecticut Wednesday to take on the defending national champions, followed by a trip to West Virginia to play a team that Cronin says has the best rebounding coach in the nation, capped by a home-game against No. 1 Syracuse — a team that is still undefeated.

“I told you guys when the schedule came out that I might take a vacation in January,” Cronin said jokingly. “We’re going to have fun preparing for them. First of all, all we worry about is who we play Wednesday. That’s all that matters. You can’t get too far ahead.”

The last time the Bearcats met UConn was in the third round of last year’s NCAA Tournament, when the Cats were knocked out by the Huskies with a score of 69-58.

UConn is currently ranked 13th in the nation with a record of 14-3 overall. The Huskies are 4-2 in the Big East, with losses to Rutgers and Seton Hall.

The Cats will look to avenge last year’s loss to the Huskies, but they’ll have to

make sure they can rebound the ball, as they’re currently ranked 157th in the nation in overall boards, while UConn is ranked 44th.

Senior forward Yancy Gates leads the team in rebounds, averaging 8.9 per game.

Cronin says the team has “improved tremendously offensively,” but that they are still “struggling on the glass,” and that he started Justin Jackson against Villanova to gain some size underneath the basket.

The Cats will look for defensive boards, second-chance points and their fifth Big East win Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Storrs, Conn.

Cincinnati wins cat fight 82-78

Rebounding necessary for Bearcats

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hittinG the boarDS University of Cincinnati senior forward Yancy Gates has grabbed a team-high 107 rebounds this season, averaging 8.9 per game.

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leaDinG the way Cincinnati’s sean Kilpatrick (23) and dion Dixon (3) react in the first half of the Saturday afternoon game after dixon shot four 3-pointers in a row. dixon scored a team-high of 22 pionts. Yancy Gates, Cashmere Wright and sean Kilpatrick also scored in double figures, with Gates leading with 16 points.

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Over the last 50 years, country music has provided us with some of the greatest male and female duos in music history — and no, I’m not talking about Lady Antebellum.

I’m talking about country music legends like Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, and probably the most well-known duo, June Carter and Johnny Cash.

On Saturday night at the Madison Theater, The Civil Wars solidified themselves among the ranks of these former country superstars with neatly perfected harmonies and a stage presence rivaled by only a select few other artists.

Opening act, The Staves, who hail from the United Kingdom and consist of three women singers, brought their own brand of folk — containing remnants of Sandy Denny and her band, Fairport Convention — to Madison attendees.

Although these female voices melded together flawlessly over the backdrop of soft acoustic guitar, after about 45

minutes, they seemed to put the crowd to sleep with an on-stage lullaby that was as boring as it was well-played.

The mood quickly turned from sleepy to ecstatic when, after a 30-minute wait, the headliners came on. The crowd erupted with a wave of applause and screams as the first-time Grammy nominees took the stage.

As I watched The Civil Wars’ John Paul White and Joy Williams execute their set, I was completely blown away, but not for the usual reasons.

It wasn’t because of the harmonies, or the fact that their voices sounded even more beautiful live than they do on the record. It wasn’t because of White’s musical virtuosity or Williams’ unattainable vocal range. It wasn’t even because Joy Williams looked sexy in that little black dress. It was because of their chemistry on stage.

Throughout the concert when either Williams or White would begin to improvise, whether vocally or musically, the other wouldn’t miss a beat. The Civil Wars were so in tune with each other

that it seemed as if they had been doing this together all their lives — not just since 2008.

Not only was the chemistry onstage immaculate, but the duo ultimately set up a fun-loving atmosphere for the crowd as well. While performing their hit “Barton Hallow,” from their album of the same name, you could feel how excited the band was to be playing it.

With funny quips and a grateful-yet-confident demeanor, The Civil Wars’ show reminded me of the good-old days in country — before everything was about tractors, drinking beer and “honky-tonk badonkadonks.”

Williams and White are pure entertainers whose passion and love for their job vividly shined through during their performance.

Unfortunately, bands like this are few and far between, yet with two Grammy nods and growing popularity in the mainstream world, The Civil Wars could very well be America’s next June Carter and Johnny Cash.

Battle with The Civil Wars

Charley Harper: A Bird’s Eye View

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maRISa WhITakeR | Staff reporter

This past September, I strolled past groups participating in Cincinnati’s StreetScapes, where each ensemble used chalk in an attempt to recreate select pieces of art onto the street, when suddenly a particular piece made me stop in my tracks.

It was bright, bold, geometric and portrayed wildlife in a way I had never seen before — or since. I stooped over to ask one of the craftpersons, “Who is the original artist of this piece?”

“Charley Harper,” she replied. Since then, my love for his work has grown into something that can only be described as a torrid affair.

To my elation, on Thursday, Jan. 12, the Reed Gallery in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning hosted an event comprised entirely of Harper’s work, from his early beginnings to his

most iconic pieces.Harper’s aforementioned bright

colors, geometric depictions and unique style coated the initial walls.

Aaron Cowan, the directory of the DAAP galleries, was gracious enough to speak with me about Harper’s life.

We began by discussing Harper’s move from Virginia to Cincinnati to answer his artistic calling and go to school.

World War II later interrupted Harper’s formal schooling, but it did not deter the artist from his practice.

He diverged from his simplified style and learned how to produce illustrations of the world around him under extreme circumstances.

After the war, Harper returned to Cincinnati to finish school, marry his wife and travel around the world. Most of the work Harper composed was intended for media outside of the canvas.

His bolder works have even been

intriguing enough to be worked out as designs for skateboards.

Harper’s impact on the wildlife art world was immense, as his most iconic works continue to be his ladybugs and birds.

Mingling around the exhibit, I found a running theme about what the attendants admired most in Charley Harper’s work: Simplicity, bright colors and geometric wildlife.

The visitors ranged from first-timers to 20-year-old fans. Kim Cochran, a first-time observer, pointed out that the various eras of his work didn’t even seem as though the same artist created them.

Harper’s condensed and geometric style has earned his work quite the reputation.

But if you have never seen any other aspects of his artistic talent, I implore you to check out the Reed Gallery in DAAP.

The event is going on now and runs through Feb. 16.

Stop in and be prepared for a positively fascinating journey.

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