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In Cahoots

Anwen Parott

The artist behing the current exhibit t the University YMCA, Durango Mendoza answers some of buzz's questions.

So Many MarinadesMari Lopez

Looking to brighten up that steak or chicken breast? Learn the carefully blended brines that can liven up your favorite proteins. It’s a very small step that can elevate your cooking.

The Stars of SundanceJosh Peterson

After the Oscars, Sundance emerges as the next venue to recognize great up-and-coming fi lm. Josh gives you the rundown on what won big at the latest fi lm festival.

Weezer: WillThey Rise Again?Elias J. Tracy

The fi rst in our new “Will They Rise Again?” series, we take a retrospective look at Weezer and see if the pop rock band will be able to attain their emo-era levels of notoriety and fame.

With al l due respect, what is Gov-ernor Raun-er thinking? Never before have I used a texting ac-ronym with more sincer-ity, but a $10 m i n i m u m wage . . . in

7 years? LOL. I struggle to imagine a State of the State address which could have been more anti-union, anti-worker and anti-Illinois. What follows here is a brief rundown of the most of-fensive policy suggestions made Wednesday night.

“Increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour over the next 7 years” – This is simply insuf-ficient. By the time the minimum wage finally hits the $10 mark in 2022, it will be just as in-adequate as $8.25 is now.

“Employee empowerment zones” – as if dress-ing up right-to-work policies make them any more appetizing.

The base of our tax system is “too narrow” – instead of bleeding the state’s lowest earners to afford “property tax freezes” for the highest earners, Illinois needs to adopt a progressive tax system.

Prohibiting campaign contributions by unions – not only do union workers represent a real interest which deserves a legitimate voice in government. Furthermore, two Koch brothers together donate more than double the top ten union contributions combined – union contribu-tions are not an issue and Rauner needs to stop diverting attention.

There are other policy areas on which Rauner is misguided. On Monday, the governor ex-pressed his desire to limit the ability of public employees to collectively bargain for wages or pensions. Rauner’s enthusiasm for expanding Illinois’ charter schools is well-documented and wrong. Senator Michael Noland introduced a bill Tuesday that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana – an overwhelmingly popular reform which Rauner has threatened to veto. Ironically, our uptight venture capitalist gover-nor could probably benefit from a toke or two.

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»PAYING IT FORWARD:COFFEE EDITIONOccasionally at work, an older man comes in and buys a small cup of coffee. However, he buys something else: the next per-

son's cup of coffee. The amount of unbridled sur-prise and sheer joy that the next random, coffee-buying stranger experiences is /delightful/ to watch. I am jazzed whenever this old man comes in and gets his small cup of coffee and asks, "Can I also buy the next small coffee for someone?" An additional perk to this token of kindness is watch-ing its trickle-down effect. Sometimes the next person down the line continues the gesture, buy-ing the next cup of coffee for a stranger. If you're feeling fanciful and want to make someone's day, try paying it forward, coffee style.

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Today, people across the country and right here in the community are showing support for women’s cardiac care. National Wear Red Day is held on the first Friday of February each year and is used to help raise awareness about the number one killer of women: heart disease.

The American Heart Association and Go Red For Women are two organizations that work to fight against heart disease. In 2003, they an-nounced the first National Wear Red Day and have made numerous accomplishments since then. Since the event has begun, almost 90 per-cent of women have made at least one healthy behavioral change and one third of women have had conversations with their doctors about cre-ating heart health plans, according to Go Red For Women.

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There are a few options to show your sup-port and participate in Champaign. On Feb. 13, Champaign Go Red For Women is hosting a Luncheon at the Hilton Garden Inn & Con-ference Center. At the Luncheon, women will learn how to reduce their risk of hear disease and stroke while raising money through dona-tions and auction items. On campus during the second week of March, the local Alpha Phi International Sorority chapter will be hosting a variety of events towards raising money for women’s cardiac care including a broomball tournament, a taco dinner and a “King of Hearts” male pageant.

According to Go Red For Women, 80 per-cent of cardiac events can be prevented with education and lifestyle changes. From wearing red today to attending one of the cardiac care events in Champaign, there are many ways to help women overcome heart disease.

»CU MUSIC SCENEI was lucky enough to work with 18 Champaign-Urbana artists this winter and release buzz Magazine's Covering Our Tracks compilation this morn-

ing. When you're exposed to something for so long, it's easy to let it get swept under the rug. While the CU music scene is one of the most historic and vibrant in the Midwest, it's diffi cult to remember what you're surrounded by on a day-to-day basis. Today, though, I hope we're all reminded of the history in our town and the future scene we continue to build towards.

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THE nominations for this year’s Academy Award for Best Picture are out, and it’s

only a matter of time before one of the fi lms wraps its celluloid fi ngers around Oscar gold. Before the offi cials make their call, we’ve picked the best of the past year’s best, both on the list of nominees and off it, that we would love to see taking home the top Academy Award.

The LunchboxDirector Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox is the fi lmic

equivalent of a perfect cup of chai. Like an accom-plished chai wallah, mixing spices and tea leaves over a slow boil, Batra has concocted a love story that stirs passion, regret and longing into a subtle, potent blend. It starts with Mumbai housewife Ila preparing her husband’s daily lunchbox, hand-ing it off to a citywide delivery network of trains, rickshaws and footpaths. One day, an error sends the lunchbox instead to the desk of elderly Saajan. Once they realize the mistake, the two start trad-ing notes through the lunchbox, and their friend-ship warms into a touching epistolary romance. Though Saajan and Ila almost never meet, their shared passion runs deep through a narrative full of near misses and almost-happenings. Watch-ing their love bloom is reminiscent of Rushdie’s story of an indirect kiss in Midnight’s Children, in which a screen couple is forbidden from kissing on screen due to censors’ restrictons and instead project their love for each other onto an apple: “Pia kissed an apple sensuously, with the rich full-ness of her painted lips; then passed it to Nayyar, who planted upon its opposite face a virilely pas-sionate mouth.” Ila and Saajan’s relationship is as beautiful as it is understated, just as the love of Pia

and Nayyar, restricted by fi lm censors, expressed itself in indirect kisses to apples, mangoes and steaming cups of spiced tea. –Ash Valentine

BirdmanAfter the credits rolled, it took 20 minutes for me

and my friends to notice that there still hadn’t been a cutaway shot in the entire fi lm, and another 10 minutes of arguing before we looked up whether or the entire movie had actually been fi lmed in one take. If it had been, I wouldn’t have been surprised: It’s a sensory masterpiece. Michael Keaton is re-vived through his portrayal of washed up superhero actor Riggan Thomson, Edward Norton is hilariously disturbing and Emma Stone’s 30-second outburst might be enough on its own to win her Best Support-ing Actress. These performances, combined with the screenplay’s tongue-in-cheek satire of showbiz, are enough to garner a Best Picture nomination on their own. But the way the camera sweeps from scene to scene, leaving the viewer breathless, is what separates this fi lm from the pack. Birdman traps its audience, entrancing them with its visuals so that their attention stays with the story. The fi lm feels huge, whether it be when the throbbing reoc-curring drums propel the story through the dark hallways of the theatre, or when the camera soars with Thomas’ superhuman delusion through the streets of New York. All these aspects of the fi lm come together perfectly to form a work of art with the visceral intensity of the theatre and the stunning visual quality of a Best Picture. –Josh Peterson

WildIn this fi lm based on a true story, Reese Wither-

spoon (nominated for Best Actress for this role)

plays Cheryl Strayed, a distraught woman who decides to hike over 1,000 miles on the Pacifi c Crest Trail to prove to herself she is the woman her mother raised. She grew up in an abusive household, then left for a life with her single moth-er struggling to get by. When her mother later died, Cheryl turns to drugs and promiscuity to fi ll the void her mother left, despite the fact that she was married. The movie shows Cheryl hiking the PCT, and we learn all of the background informa-tion about her life in fl ashbacks through the fi lm. It was very inspiring to see this woman who had such a diffi cult upbringing and who struggled her entire life fi nally take control of herself. The fi lm leaves you thinking about the relationships you have with people, and ultimately, how temporary life can be. –Anisa McClinton

American SniperOf the fi ve nominees for Best Picture that I’ve

seen, American Sniper immediately stands out as a winner. The movie is gripping, intense and timely. Clint Eastwood captures all of the suspense and heartbreak of this harrowing tale of war, and Bradley Cooper punctuates it with a strong per-formance as Chris Kyle. The movie is a fast-paced emotional roller coaster, juxtaposing cringe-induc-ing scenes of violence and terror with Kyle’s read-justment into home life with PTSD and a growing family. American Sniper pays high respect to men in uniform and, regardless of the viewer’s political background, you will be left speechless at the end credits with much to think about and to be thank-ful for. If 2009’s The Hurt Locker is deserving of the Academy’s top prize, American Sniper should be a shoo-in. –David Robertson

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ON Wednesday, Feb. 11, the Student Life and Culture Archives at Illinois and the Cham-

paign County Historical Archives will continue their Town & Gown Speaker Series, a project which highlights the local history of Champaign-Urbana through material held by both archives.

This event will focus on African-American history in Champaign County. Presentations by Tamara Hoff, Ray Cunningham and Barb Garvey will take place at the Douglas Branch Library in Champaign, located at 504 E. Grove St., Champaign at 6 p.m.buzz got a chance to speak with Amanda

Raklovits, a children’s librarian at the Douglas Branch, as well as Anna Trammell, a graduate student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and one of the se-ries’ coordinators.

The Douglas Branch tends to host many after-school programs for local students. While it currently has an adult book club, Raklovits men-tioned that the Speaker Series seemed like a way

to expand their programming and bring in more residents and University students.

buzz: How did the Town & Gown Series get start-ed? What has your role been in the process?Anna Trammell: Last summer, I approached Ellen Swain, the Archivist for Student Life and Culture, about completing a practicum. This is a way for students to gain course credit while working in a library or archives. Ellen thought that this event would be a good project for me to work on. At that point, the series was in its very early stages. Ellen and Anke Voss, the director of the Cham-paign County Historical Archives at the Urbana Free Library, had made a basic plan for topics they wanted to include in the series but needed help researching the topics, finding speakers and marketing the event. Since then, I have managed the series.

The Student Life and Culture Archives and the Champaign County Historical Archives have worked together on projects in the past, but not

a series of events like this. Ellen and Anke really wanted plan events around topics of historical significance to the campus and the community to highlight the materials held by the archives.

This is the first year, but we do plan to continue the series in the future.buzz: What has been the structure of these talks and where have they typically taken place?AT: The first event of the series was held in Sep-tember. We have planned a total of five events for this academic year. We held two events last semester: one on the topic of the local story of World War I… and the other included a compi-lation of films held by the archives with the as-sistance of UIUC Media Preservation coordina-tor Josh Harris. The events are held at different locations. We hope to reach a wider audience by holding the events at multiple locations in the community. Our upcoming events will be held at the Douglass Branch Library, the Urbana Free Library and the University YMCA. buzz: This is the first time the event has happened

at Douglas Library. Why was their location cho-sen? Who typically attends these events? Who is encouraged to attend?AT: A goal of the series is to involve many commu-nity and campus organizations in the events. The Douglass Branch is a venue with strong ties to the African-American community and (its members) were eager to partner with us for this event. Ev-eryone is encouraged to attend. We want to make the series accessible and relevant to members of the campus and the community and highlight our shared history. Our events last semester were attended by students, faculty and staff from the University as well as community members. It’s a really interesting audience. At our film event, for example, we had students who may not be from this area, but are interested in the history of the community and locals who have lived here their whole lives and remember growing up in the Champaign-Urbana displayed in some of the film clips. Continue reading at www.readbuzz.com


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IT was hard to ignore the bigger picture when I heard Isaac Arms repeat the words of Com-

mon Loon’s Matthew Campbell: “I’ve got a notion of circular motion hovering over me.”

Arms’ voice mimicked Campbell’s pattern but re-mained unique in its inflection, managing to build on what the past had already laid out for him. It happened again when Emily Otnes repeated the words of HUM’s Matt Talbott with added clarity, and again when Champaign Mayor Don Gerard took Bill Johnson’s aggressive vocals on Honcho Overload’s “Miserable” and stripped them down across an un-expected cushion of violin.

Champaign-Urbana’s music scene has built itself around every turn of the year, creating communities and a history that outlasts its cyclical supply of musi-cians—whether they’re the ones who moved here for it, the ones who stumbled upon it through the University or the ones who were born into it, lucky enough to grow up in the artistic breeding grounds of the CU area. It’s easy to focus in and celebrate the individual accomplishments throughout the towns’ history, but it’s hard to ignore the collective accom-plishment of the history itself.

buzz Magazine’s Covering Our Tracks compila-tion extends the collaborative nature of the town’s great musical background. The 18-track compila-tion features CU artists covering other CU artists of past and present eras. From historic bands like The Poster Children and HUM to more recent suc-cesses in Grandkids and The Fights, listeners are able to absorb an audible history lesson on one of the most successful and productive music scenes in the history of the Midwest.

Running just over 66 minutes, Covering Our Tracks features both current and reformed CU bands performing covers of their favorite local tracks, including The Fights, Tara Terra, Withershins, Eas-ter, Motes, Feral States, The Phantom Broadcast, Sad Man, Morgan Orion, Paul Koetheimer, Kenna Mae, Boycut, Finer Feelings, Jeremiah Fisher, Walt

Falbo & the Falbonauts, Mike Ingram, Penny Horses and the Self-Righteous Brothers. The artists on the compilation vary in their interpretations of the original songs. Noise artist Jeremiah Fisher takes a bending, industrial approach on Didjits’ 1988 punk track “Joliet,” while The Fights’ take a naturally straight-forward trip through The Beauty Shop’s “A Desperate Cry for Help.”

“The Beauty Shop had songs that were soulful in the strictest sense of the word,” said The Fights frontman Cole Rabenort. “The heart and thought that they put into their songs is something that should be remembered. Saying so much with so few words is what every aspiring writer aims to do, but The Beauty Shop couldn’t help but do it.”

Thirty-two CU artists’ work are found on the com-pilation, spanning four decades of the area’s history. Many of the covers include bands who are still active in the CU scene—or ones that have reemerged for reunions in recent years (American Football, HUM). Artists from the area are also featured in the com-pilation’s production. Arms (Withershins) helped organize the effort and Tara Terra’s Colin

Althaus mastered the collection. Local singer-songwriter Morgan Orion’s cover of Kenna Mae’s track “Worst Kind” also featured mixing from Champaign emcee Shannon Swords (Swords and the Shady Perrys).

“(Kenna Mae’s ‘Worst Kind’) struck me at The Rosebowl’s Hootenanny one night in Urbana, and I was floored,” Orion said. “I feel like every time I see Kenna, she has one great song—the sort of song that stands the test of time. And then the next time I see her, she has one even better than that.”

It’s this immortality Orion touches upon that el-evates the CU music scene. In a college town where the people and their surroundings are changing year-to-year, the area’s musical past and present can be relied upon, and from time-to-time, cel-ebrated in a balanced entanglement of what was and what’s to come.

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"I chose the song because I love the little mantra that Eli repeats at the end over and over, "it's okay to be sad." It's a really pleasant melody and idea, and it reprises a song that comes earlier on the tape. Eli (Sad Man) is one of my best friends in the world who I was lucky to become close with when I was stuck home from school in 2013. I love the band and songs because I love him and I feel that they embody him well." -Kyle Lang of Easter

on Sad Man's "Ghost"

"'A Desperate Cry for Help' is a well-written and hilarious song about a plain-ole' guy going through plain-ole' life, except it feels like a million pounds and The Fights can dig on that. The Beauty Shop had songs that were soulful in the strictest sense of the word. The heart and thought that they put into their songs is something that should be remem-bered. Saying so much with so few words is what every aspiring writer aims to do, but The Beauty Shop couldn't help but do it."-Cole Rabenort of The Fights

on The Beauty Shop's "A Desperate Cry for Help"

"I've always harassed the Common Loon dudes about this song, because they don't play it live. Which has been tragic for me, as it's one of my very favorites from their full-length. Common Loon is always fresh and huge and tight and set a bar for songwriting and recording production. This song in particular is very dreamy, very deep, and intertwines melodies and themes in the way that Common Loon are so brilliant at."-Isaac Arms of Withershins

on Common Loon's "Greenland"


SACCHARINESTREET

EREN FRANCO

STARTING Feb. 11, folks can satisfy that proverbial sweet tooth with

Kamila Glowacki’s “Saccharine” exhibition. Every month, the Women’s Resource Center

holds exhibitions featuring student artwork by women artists, showcasing artwork that exam-ines topics related to gender, identity or feminism. “Kamila Glowacki’s work is playful, unique, and illustrative,” Assistant Director of the Women’s Resource Center Rachel Storm said. “We were drawn to it for her use of color and her engage-ment in printmaking for many local events in Champaign-Urbana.”

Glowacki received her BFA in Art Education and Painting from the University in 2013 and is cur-rently an education coordinator at Krannert Art Museum. She’s also active in the CU music scene and has designed concert posters and album cov-ers. buzz had a chance to catch up with the artist before the premiere of her exhibition.buzz: Tell me a bit about yourself. I know you’re involved in the CU music scene. How does that relate to your artwork?Kamila Glowacki: During my time in school, I was always wondering what my art practice would be like once I (graduated). Like, am I really going to have a studio space and make

paintings and sculptures and things like that? Or am I going to do something more practi-cal with it? What I ended up doing mostly was what I expected. I make fliers for shows, al-bum artwork and artwork for t-shirts for bands, things like that. It’s been a really nice way to just tie together my interest of playing music and playing in bands as well as creating art. When this opportunity came to me through Rachel Storm to have this art show, originally I thought I’d just (exhibit) past work, like all my flyers and things I’ve made for the music scene. But then I thought: Why not use this as an opportunity to push myself to create new artwork that isn’t made specifically for a product or a purpose, but just for art itself?buzz: What’s the signifi cance behind the exhibi-tion’s title, “Saccharine”?KG: I basically wanted a title that got across the idea of something that is sickly sweet, almost so sweet that it would make your teeth hurt. Also, I wanted something a little sentimental, or some-thing that brings back memories and emotions in some way.buzz: How does “Saccharine” connect to the Women’s Resource Center?KG: A lot of the themes that the work is kind of

dealing with, as far as relation to the Women’s Resource Center, (are due to the fact) that I am a female artist and that I’m active in these different scenes, like the music scene and the art scene and even education. The art doesn’t necessarily have a specifi c lens toward gender or feminism. It’s very simple, just about fi nding pleasure in stuff, and the weird balance between something that’s sickly sweet with things that are repulsive, like bugs and rotten food. But I guess in some ways it does deal with gender in that it’s really bright, attractive, almost even feminine things that are being taking out of their original context and changed in some way. You’re attracted to it, but you’re also dealing with feelings of being repelled by it.buzz: Where did you draw your inspiration for “Saccharine”?KG: The inspiration came from two different strains in art history. The fi rst is 17th century Dutch still lifes that are called vanitas. They have the same idea of this food that’s painted in a state of decay. They kind of address the brevity of life and how life is short, so you don’t need to focus on these earthly pleasures that will not always last. I was always interested in those par-ticular still lifes because normally you paint or

take pictures of something in its most beautiful state—but they’re fi nding things at their worst state and painting them. I think there’s a pop art infl uence in there as well, with Andy Warhol and that idea of mass production and mass consum-erism: the idea that you want to get one in every fl avor or you want one in every color. There’s a kind of advertisement quality to the artwork. It’s got really bright, attractive colors because again, I’m trying to attract people, but also repel them in some ways.buzz: What do you hope people will take away from this exhibition? KG: When I made this work there really wasn’t a big message or a super deep reason behind. It’s really just a fun and very simple show. The take away is the same idea with the vanitas, to just enjoy life. It was what I wanted to draw, what I thought was fun to draw. The take away is to have fun and enjoy it.buzz: How would you convince people to check out Saccharine?KG: The refreshments that are being provided kind of go with the show. So we’re going to have lots of candy! There will be doughnuts and other things that are over-the-top sweet. It’s going to be like a fi ve-year-old’s sugar-high dream.

Mixed media works by Kamila Glowacki in her exhibit, "Saccharine." Champaign, IL. Photo by Diana Diggs


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Across1 The P of PBR6 “How do you measure,

measure ___?” (“Rent” lyric)

11 Org. for pinheads?14 Birth country of Amy

Adams and Rose McGowan

15 Music in some “Weird Al” Yankovic medleys

16 Cafeteria coffee holder17 She got a Worst Actress

nomination for a 10-Down for “The Other Woman”

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Songs of 201428 Absolute last-minute day

for shopping29 Formal footwear30 Bicycle shorts material33 Go after flies35 Aspirations38 Reptilian squeezer

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Moe ___43 It’s not worth much45 Facts46 Out there48 “The Golden Notebook”

author Lessing50 Anti matter?51 “Conscious Uncoupling”

person of 2014, instead of just saying “divorce”

57 Muslim veil58 NYC thoroughfare59 “Am ___ only one?”61 “I ___ Rock”62 John Travolta

mispronunciation that made Rolling Stone’s “Worst TV Moments of 2014”

66 “Morning Edition” producer

67 Big top figure68 2006 movie subtitled

“Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”

69 Eeyore, for one

70 “The Waste Land” poet T.S.

71 Apartments, e.g.

Down1 12-point type2 In any way3 Animated ruminant4 ___-Kinney (band with

Carrie Brownstein of “Portlandia”)

5 Norse god6 Breathing interruption7 Climber’s calling?8 Whitney with a gin9 “Alias” equivalent10 Award celebrating bad

movies11 Bring into a private

conversation12 Author of “The Cat

Who...” mysteries13 Teen turmoil18 Fearsome sort23 The Daily Bruin publisher25 “Thirteen” actress ___

Rachel Wood26 ___ apso

27 Rumored Himalayan beast

30 “Selma” role31 “Oh, it’s ___”32 Glass containers33 Chart-topper34 Soaked36 Mal de ___ (seasickness)37 Turn from liquid to Jell-O40 Use Pro Tools, say41 Santa’s laundry problem44 Coffee coast of Hawaii47 “Can you hear me now?”

company49 Mail-in offer50 Ran off51 Accra’s country52 Scaredy-cats53 Caveman diet54 Prevent, as a disaster55 “SNL” alumna Cheri56 ___ Thins60 911 responders63 The Mavericks, on

scoreboards64 “Never Mind the

Bollocks” closer (or label)65 “Aladdin” monkey

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WHEN my guests and I arrived at Kran-nert this past Friday, we were quite

unsure how a wine tasting of such magnitude was supposed to work. We knew the Wine Gala was organized as a fundraiser for Champaign’s Orpheum Children’s Science Museum and that our ticket got us entry and a free wine glass (one that would elicit some strange stares on the bus ride home). We also knew that wine events are not exactly uncommon around CU. Nevertheless, while those weekly Krannert Uncorked events are always a pleasant time, the promise of over 200 wines from around the world and the opportunity (or challenge) to taste them all was simply an oenophile’s dream.

Arriving just a few minutes past starting time, we entered into the main area of Krannert’s lobby and surveyed some 18 tables, brimming with bot-tles and manned by smartly dressed purveyors. It was early enough that only a handful of the tables were serving the dozen or so guests and, though the crowd was polite and engaged, the sparseness threatened to subdue the night’s energy.

By the time we left, however, each tasting table

had a throng of eager guests waiting for their next pour. Wine distributors (and even a Master of Wine) polished and plied their bottles, sharing big, bold reds and sparkling whites with glee. Hors d’oeuvres–tasty ones–were flying into patrons’ mouths and onto the floor. The reserved and cul-tured mood of the gala’s opening moments gave way to a raucous energy, as students and locals alike tested the limits of exactly how much wine could be tasted for 20 dollars. It was a surprising and special evening.

Krannert has previously partnered with Urba-na’s (now closed) Corkscrew Wine Emporium to run annual Wine Galas supporting Orpheum, but this past Friday marked the first incarnation part-nering with Art Mart. Though Art Mart’s name might not reveal it to outsiders, the shop, started in 1958 and calling Lincoln Square Village home since 1979, has long prided itself on carrying an “excellent” selection of wine rather than simply a broad one. Add in a similarly discriminating taste for the finest oils, sauces, cheeses and deli meats alongside some famous, fresh baked croissants, and it is easy to see why the eclectic Urbana spot

is a natural fit to present the Gala. Art Mart has even hosted a previous Wine and Cheese event at Krannert supporting Cunningham Children’s Home which itself had over 100 wines to sample.

Benefitting from all of Krannert’s happy drink-ers, the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum opened in December of 1994 in what was once the historic Orpheum Theatre. The theatre, itself a one-third scale model of Versailles’s famous opera house, found early success with vaudeville in the 1910s and 1920s before shifting toward screening motion pictures and eventually closing in the late 1980s. Thanks to the efforts of the local Preservation and Conservation Association as well as a grant from the National Park Service, the old Orpheum Theatre has transformed into the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, an edu-cational exploration of the arts and sciences that makes use of the historic building. All proceeds from the gala, including silent auction items as well as a percentage of all wine orders placed by patrons, went toward continued museum expan-sion and renovation of facilities.

Despite a bit of an opening lull as guests arrived

and warmed to their first tastes of rosé, the Gala was a polished, lively and immensely enjoyable event. The table-based format did not just or-ganize wines by purveyors (and thus regions), but intuitively managed the flow of tastings as the event grew busier. Adventurous and perhaps more boisterous drinkers could wait through line, approach the table and fully interact with and draw on the pourer’s knowledge and suggestions. This meant, for example, getting to taste seven different varieties of Bodega Catena Zapata’s wonderful Argentinian wines in one go while a brand manager talks you through the flavor notes and growing conditions of each bottle.

Just as easily, however, one could duck the crowds, approach the side of the tables and get off with a taste of one or two of the wines on show. With more bottles being offered than any reason-able person could hope to make it through in three hours, it was nice to be able to slip in and out with a pour of that $99.99 a bottle 2005 Marques de Grinon “Emeritus.”

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PRESENTLY ABSENT: PAINTINGS BY TOM BERNZ Monday, Feb. 9; 6-8 p.m., Giertz Gallery at Parkland College; free

Join a gallery talk by artist Tom Berenz, an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

CIRCUS OZ: BUT WAIT... THERE’S MOREThursday, feb. 12-Friday, Feb. 13; 7 p.m.Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; $10-34

COMMUNITY CRAFTING: VALENTINESSaturday, Feb. 7; 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Urbana Free Library (210 W. Green St.); free

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