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After Han Solo is frozen in carbonite and handed over to Boba Fett, the fate of Leia and Chewbacca is up in the air. The un-certainty lingers just long enough to be un-comfortable, nervous but not quite stifling,

before Lando Calrissian steps in to ensure the safety of his friends. Darth Vader instructs the card player, gambler and scoundrel Calrissian to take the princess and the Wookiee to his ship. Calrissian’s response (“you said they’d be left at the city under my supervision!”) prompts one of the most iconic Vader lines ever: “I am al-tering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.” That’s kind of what dealing with the decline of print is like.

Last week in this space, I waxed poetic on my first magazine subscription to Rolling Stone. While Rolling Stone may have once seemed un-stoppable, even the hippie juggernaut was not impervious to the one-two punch of slouching ad revenues and the shift to digital journalism; in 2008, after nearly three decades printing 10”x12”, Rolling Stone was forced to drop their oversized pages in favor of more standard magazine dimensions. It wasn’t a seismic shift, and certainly had no effect on their content. buzz’s own change in size this week is more subtle (about an inch-and-a-half off the top), but hopefully just as graceful as Rolling Stone’s.

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Jack White “Lazaretto” reviewBy Elias Tracy

Courage Connection, formerly The Center for Women in Transition, recently changed its name. Although it may seem like a small change, it has a big impact throughout the orga-nization, as well as the community.

For over 40 years, Parkland’s Fine and Applied Arts Department has been filling its permanent collection with the photographs, drawings and paintings produced by its most talented students. Learn more about this exhibition online! By Anwen Parrott

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Dido Elizabeth Belle, a mixed-race lady in 19th century aristocratic Britain, experiences the struggles of preju-dice, even at the highest ranks of privilege in her society.

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» Francium: Look, I get that el-ements are totally important, since they kinda sorta compose everything in the natural uni-verse's existence. Having said that, I just can't get down with

francium still holding its 87 spot on the periodic table so far into today's day and age. Because francium has such a low half-life of merely min-utes, the element isn't even okay with people viewing it in normally sized quantities. Gener-ally speaking, I'm okay with not being able to properly view elements since MVPs like oxygen and nitrogen work their butts off keeping things alive and stuff, but francium can't even come up with a practical use for itself. If an element is going to have the gall to not be physically visible—in addition to not really doing much outside of existing—it's just being difficult.

» Becoming an adult: My boss told me yesterday that you become an adult when eating and sleeping actually become activities you view as enjoyable. Observing just how much I look

forward to my meager supper and, how much I cherish the ideal of a good night's sleep, it seems evident that the transformation is un-der way. Pretty soon, I'll be ironing my socks and laughing at dad jokes. Un-ironically. Yikes indeed.

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» Wedge salads: For start-ers, what's up with them? If I wanted to cut a head of lettuce in half and eat it, I wouldn't pay for a salad. Since when is it so-cially acceptable to use a fork

and steak knife for a salad? If you want a lazy person's salad, get a wedge salad. Otherwise, just don't. They are confusing and overpriced and don't make much sense but seem to be all the rage with all the kids these days. I feel like it's more calories to actually consume it than what it's worth.

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Filled with a rich and intriguing history, The Urbana Free Library is celebrating its 140th birthday. Established on July 2, 1874, by the City Council of Urbana, The Urbana Free Library became a memorable landmark in Urbana. In honor of its birthday, the library asks that all the members CU join the celebration.

On Sunday, June 22 at 2 p.m., the celebration kicks off with a special live UFLive! concert from Don’t Ask. Don’t Ask will play Klezmer music, which reflects the spirit of early Eastern Europe’s Jewish village string bands and includes Middle Eastern and Balkan influences, but will have other surprises thrown in the mix. Music, birthday cake and beverages will all be available at the birthday bash, including Cherry Alley iced tea.

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BANDS WITH BENEFITSCU metal bands raise money for American Cancer SocietyANWEN PARROTT

A ndrew Russell works hard. When he’s not taking classes, raising a family or work-

ing two jobs, he’s booking metal bands in the Champaign area and recording music with his own band, Eminent Slaughter. While others would find Russell’s workload crushing, he en-joys it: the opportunity to introduce the music he loves to the local scene he cares deeply for is one he simply can’t pass up.

On Saturday, Eminent Slaughter will be playing at Error Records’ with 11 other bands at Heavy as Hell Cancer Benefit Fest, an all-day music event which gives all proceeds to the American Cancer Society. buzz had a chance to catch up with the musician before Eminent Slaughter plays this Saturday.

»buzz: Could you tell me a bit about Eminent Slaughter? »Andrew Russell: We’re a death metal band based out of Champaign. We started in 2011 and throughout the past three years, we’ve played numerous shows across the Midwest. We’re pretty heavy compared to some of the other bands in town, although there’s a lot of up-and-coming metal bands in Champaign nowadays. We’ve been through a couple lineup changes over the years but there have been three core members: Jamie (Basham), myself, and Dylan (Dalton). Our new singer is named

Adam (Grubb), and we have a new guitarist coming in named Jay (Havard).»buzz: What are some of the challenges unique to playing in a metal band, particularly those challenges unique to playing in a metal band based in Champaign?»AR: Turnout is probably the biggest challenge. Getting people to come to shows and things like that. This seems to be a trend universally: I know a lot of people in the metal scene have trouble get-ting people to actually come out to shows, espe-cially when it’s so easy to get on YouTube and look something up. But that would be about it. We get pretty good responses from the bars that we book at—there are some bars that don’t want to book metal, but there are enough places in town that we can book at with no problem.»buzz: What is turnout like for the average metal show?»AR: Well, I guess it varies from nobody (which doesn’t happen very often, thankfully) to usually around 20-40 people. We’ve gotten up to a couple hundred people before. We had a show over this past weekend that netted 70 people, and that was a great turnout for us. We aren’t the most popular band in Champaign, but we don’t mind that.»buzz: And what are some of the best parts about playing in a metal band?»AR: Definitely the brotherhood. Our members are all really close, and we get along really well. One of the best parts about being into metal is that there’s this huge metal community throughout the

world, and generally everyone is very open with eachother. Everyone’s pretty nice and tends to get along. And we’re able to trade shows back and forth with different bands, so we’ll book a band here and they’ll book us wherever they’re from. It gets different bands to play in different markets and it works pretty well; it gels.

»buzz: From the perspective of someone in a metal band, how do you feel about the local music scene? Do you think that there’s a difference or a detachment be-tween the metal scene and the local scene in general? »AR: There are a couple of different answers for that. You know, there’s a metal community here in Champaign. It’s not very big. It was big at one time, and I think that’s true for every genre here. Champaign used to be a big hub for music, and

it slowly died out over the years... This town has produced a lot of great bands, but there’s that probably 5-10 year period of time from the mid-2000s to now where that really kind of died. I’m not sure why that happened; I know it hurts people when they don’t have jobs and they don’t have money to go out and see shows. But now I’ve seen a really big resurgence in all music in Champaign-Urbana and especially in metal—there’s many more active metal bands here now than there were even a couple of years ago. As far as a disconnect or a difference between dif-ferent scenes, there’s a lot of resources for bands in Champaign-Urbana, whether it be print or media or advertising in that respect, but a lot of that is geared towards more popular genres. For example, places like The Canopy Club will book us for shows during the summertime, but when it comes to winter—unless it’s a break from school and the students are gone—there’s no metal going on there. They have to pay the bills too and when the students are in town, they get big turnouts for a lot of dubstep or electronica or jam bands, but we definitely do well at Canopy in the summer. And while there is maybe a dis-connect between different genres, it seems to all be coming around full circle and becoming a well-rounded community.

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“ONE OF THE BEST PARTS ABOUT BEING INTO METAL IS THAT THERE’S THIS HUGE METAL COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD...”

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FOOD & DRINK

RETURN OF THE RESIDENTSCU draws the community back to Campustown with 13 Thursdays of great dealsBY AMIRAH ZAVERI

W ith some 11 participating businesses and just over a dozen chances for savings,

13 Thursdays returned to CU on May 22. Spear-headed by the Champaign Center Partnership, the program aims to entice CU residents who normally avoid Campustown to visit by promising “endless deals” with the added bonus “while students are away!” Taking advantage of a lull in activity in the area, residents can venture to restaurants and stores normally plagued with larger crowds and shop at specially reduced prices. Further, 13 Thursdays uses the draw of special discounts as a way to familiarize non-student residents with the traffic patterns and parking areas of Campustown. In this way, residents can better learn the streets without the congestion and bustle of students,

greatly increasing the chances of return trips even through the start of classes.

For businesses, it’s a win-win: supplementing the reduced business caused by summer vacation in the short-term while adding the opportunity to impress and gain more long-term customers. Further, prize drawings at each location help ensure customers make it through the door, even if they otherwise hadn’t planned on buying anything at a certain location. Meanwhile, there’s no mandate against the students who remain in Campustown for the summer taking advantage of the same deals, giving them reason to revisit some of their favorite spots or possibly even try somewhere for the first time.

Some of the deals are quite specific to a cer-tain need, like Illini Eyecare Express’s “30% off a

complete pair of glasses.” Others, however, give a good bargain, with Gameday Spirit offering “five t-shirts for only $10” and Apricot Lane Boutique giving “13% off your purchase.” Those looking to grab a bite to eat can get a grilled chicken or Hazmat wrap plus a side for only $4.99 with the purchase of a drink at Firehaus, a free dessert with any purchase at Q Smokehouse, free fries with the purchase of any sandwich or wrap at Murphy’s Pub or 13% off any entire order at Fat Sandwich. Meanwhile, $2 domestic drafts at Legends help wash down whatever meal you choose.

The program’s success, nonetheless, is worth questioning, as the number of vendors has near-ly halved in the past two years. While some of the former participating businesses have since

moved or closed, Insomnia Cookies, FlatTop Grill, Noodles & Company, Penn Station, Joe’s, Sushi Rock and Spoon House are all conspicuously ab-sent from this year’s list despite their previous inclusion. This year’s participating restaurants, though offering great deals, all more or less serve sandwiches/burgers and hardly showcase any particularly unique food. With many bars serving great—if not absolutely better–food outside of Campustown, it seems, ironically, that Thursdays might do a better job enticing the usual student population than its target audience.

13 Thursdays continues through August 21. More information on the program can be found at http://champaigncenter.com/#!blank/cp3r

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REEL IT UP AT THE ART THEATERLGBT-focused films show every Tuesday at the ArtBY ASH VALENTINE

As community members watch and join in the throngs of revelers thundering

through the streets of Chicago at its annual Pride Parade, audiences in Champaign relax in their seats at the Art Theater, as a variety of LGBT-focused films weave stories and raise issues before their eyes.

The Reel it UP film festival, organized by the United Pride Center of Champaign County, is showing several films dealing with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and (LGBT) related is-sues every Tuesday night in June at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign.

Now in its fifth year running, the festival aims to promote conversations about issues in the community, while simultaneously entertain-ing viewers with excellent films. According to UP Center Administrator Heath Petersen, “We want to get to the truth of what’s out there so we can have real conversations about LGBTQ issues, so we tried get both movies that spoke to a truth in things that need to be discussed in the community, and also have great movies you can sit back and enjoy.”

The festival is in its last week of showings at the Art Theater, and the two films playing on Tuesday night are Such Good People and Interior. Leather Bar.

Such Good People, showing at 7:30 p.m., is a hilarious romp featuring Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) and Randy Harrison (Queer as Folk), as Richard and Alex, a young gay couple who stumble upon a hidden mound of money while

house-sitting for their rich friends traveling abroad. When their friends unexpectedly die during their travels, the couple is stuck with the decision of what to do with the money that they have found. While at first sure of their convic-tions in using it for good, they can’t help blow-ing it on less-than-altruistic ends.

The film is notable for a variety of aspects, ranging from its being crowdfunded on Kick-starter to its premise of a screwball comedy that happens to be about a gay couple.

“We set out to write a movie where the gay part of the movie is totally incidental to the plot,” writer David Michael Barrett said in a video on the film’s Kickstarter page. “I don’t see this as a gay movie at all. In fact, I just see it as a comedy.”

This idea of normalcy of a gay couple in a film is what ultimately is notable about Such Good People and could be seen as another step in a progressive society in which movies about gay couples do not always have to be seen necessarily as gay movies, but rather that gay couples can be part of generic film plots in the same ways that heterosexual ones can. It is a visionary film precisely because it does not try to be visionary: rather, its prem-ise of a gay couple being incidental to the plot could be the start of a tradition in film of greater acceptance of same-sex relationships and their integration into what audiences see as normal couples in different kinds of movies.

Interior. Leather Bar., directed by James Franco and Travis Matthews, is a docufiction film that

stars James Franco and Travis Matthews as direc-tors trying to create a film that takes place within a missing 40-minute gay S&M scene of footage of another film, Cruising. The missing scene in Cruising was set inside a gay bar and featured unsimulated gay sex between actors, and was ultimately cut from the film so that it could avoid an X-rating. The majority of Interior. Leather Bar.’s plot deals not with the scene itself, but with the struggle of the film’s lead actor, Val Lauren, to come to terms with and expand his boundaries while filming this scene, and with Franco and Mat-thews’s experience directing the scene.

There are multiple layers of plot to be found in Interior. Leather Bar., a movie about the making of a movie which itself is set inside the plot of Cruising. The base layer features Franco and Matthews as directors giving instructions to the cast and crew, and Lauren dealing with his boundaries regarding gay sex as it happens all around him. The next layer of plot is the scene itself, which, while masterfully shot, only en-compasses a few minutes of screen time in Interior. Leather Bar, and the final layer of plot is the scene as it actually fits within Cruising.

Interior. Leather Bar. is a complex narrative that, while discussing societal issues such as censorship and homophobia in the mainstream media, ultimately also deals with a very simple paradox: how people who may be accepting of the idea of gay rights can still be uncomfortable with the act of gay sex itself.

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DALLAS & CO. PRESENTS: SUMMER CARNIVALLegendary costume, magic (and much more) shop host its first carnivalBY MELISA PUTHENMADOM

D allas & Co. is hosting its first annual Car-nival this Saturday, June 21 and Sunday,

June 22, from 12-4 p.m., promising “fun for the whole family!” Games, prizes, popcorn, bal-loons and face-painting are only the start.

Carnivàle Debauche, a local Burlesque/Vaudeville group, is slotted for (family-friendly) performances throughout the event. In addi-tion to their identity as a troupe of dancers and musicians, their talents include hoopers and poi spinners. Weather permitting, they might even throw some fire into the mix.

Employee Laura, one of the friendly faces in the store, explained starting the event, “We wanted to do something for the community, for them to come hang out and have fun.”

Founded by Andy Dallas in 1974, Dallas & Co. has practically become an institution in the CU area—and not just because it is a great place for Halloween costumes. “Costumes and Magic,” its humble subtitle, only describes a few of the vast variety of products that cover every inch of the store space today.

In essence, the company is hosting the carnival because "we just decided to have a weekend to bring out and use our own stuff," Dallas said.

The last thing one might expect when walking into the shop is to be introduced to Dallas, but those are words from the man, himself.

The carnival is a great way to show off the

unique nature of the business. This weekend’s plans include a dunk tank (which it regularly offer for rental) and tours of the store, including the famous Haunted Room.

The Haunted Room is normally open to the public during the month of October, but Dallas & Co. is offering a sneak peak to carnival-goers.

With a firm handshake and an excited grin, Dallas offers to show the Haunted Room while it undergoes some last-minute repairs.

It lies behind an employees-only door, one which also functions as an advertising board for local per-formers’ business cards, including ones for hypno-tists, clowns and balloon animal-specialists. “I feel like Andy knows everyone,” Laura said.

The Room uses pneumatics (pressurized air) to operate, Dallas explained, boasting around $35,000 of props and equipment. Sure, getting jumped at by actors in zombie makeup is ter-rifying for most, but there is a certain macabre artistry to these hand-picked, intricate and life-like props.

As he lists prices for these props—some vin-tage, some one-of-a-kind—that casually reach into the thousands, it becomes clear that Dallas is invested in his passion, as he off-handedly men-tions that he has even built some of the terrifying, slightly gory figures. He estimated that the oldest prop in use is around 18 years old, though he owns several unique props from the '60s, including a

seven-foot Frankenstein and his bride.Near the end of the room, he pointed to a spot

on the floor where he invites guests to stand and look straight ahead. Many might think they know what is coming, but are then distracted by the decaying, open-mouthed zombie that flies at them with its hands outstretched, banging on the thin fishnet fence between them. Dallas definitely has a flair for the dramatic.

Though this trip was just to see what the car-nival was going to include, Dallas asked, “Do you have time for more?”

And so, Dallas leads the way upstairs. “Sto-rytelling with Andy is probably the best part of working here,” Laura said, and so the stories, oddities and mysteries of the second floor are for readers to ask Dallas about.

Dallas is a world-renowned magician, the first escape artist to hold the position of president of the Society of American Magicians (2006-2007) since Harry Houdini (1917-1926). It is no surprise that when he starts talking about the items from his various collections, he does it with plenty of showmanship.

What really made this trip was the chance to peak into his office. Dallas has two authentic carnival games from the '50s and '60s—the scissor bucket and the red box game, which he called “Over the Rail.” Thankfully, these two will not be included in this year’s carnival.

“Over the Rail” asks the player to roll a ball down a vertical slope so that it bounces off the bottom and over (that’s right) a wooden rail. There is a platform that catches the ball on the other side. After getting the ball successfully over each time, it was easy to think, “This is easy.”

Then Dallas said, “I’ll give you five bucks, if you make it over this time.”

Imagine the surprise when the ball hit the bot-tom of the slope like a deadweight. Turns out, the game is rigged—every time it hits that end-ing platform, it resets the bottom of the slope, where a sheet of wood is placed underneath to determine the ball’s bounciness. Dallas was catching the ball mid-flight just before he had bet money on the last shot.

The June 21-22 carnival should be a great way to increase Dallas & Co.’s foot traffic. There are gems from Dallas’ personal collection hidden in plain sight throughout the store, items which speak to decades of dedication to putting on a show and having a good time.

If one is ever in the store to ask about renting a gorilla suit, he or she should ask about some-thing else—like the gigantic, crane-lifted gorilla looking over the customers (Laura referred to him as “King,” a $30,000 behemoth that is, regrettably, not for sale).

Visitors are guaranteed to find much more to explore at Dallas & Co’s carnival.

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FROM WASTEFUL TO WONDERFULDiscarded materials are given a second life at indi goBY KELSEY BARRY

An innovative and unique exhibit is arriv-ing at indi go Artist Co-op on June 20.

Curated by James Barham of indi go and orga-nized by artist Sally Walsh, “Outstanding in Our Field: 7 Central Illinois Artists Transforming Trash into Art” is a thought-provoking platform for art-ists to illustrate the conversion of trash into art.

The exhibit will display various pieces of art that utilize different materials that have been thrown away, hopefully prompting viewers to reflect on the every day items that they might discard. These materials range from plastic bags and empty beer bottles to second-hand furniture and farm implement parts.

The seven artists on display are John McDevitt, Melissa Mitchell, Cindy Sampson, Melody Moore-Carlson, Eric Walsh, Sally Walsh and Phil Strang.

McDevitt, owner and founder of both Yellow Dog Studio and the Vault Arts Collective in Tuscola, will exhibit furniture and home decor built from sal-vaged and recycled lumber. His work was exhibited earlier this year in the Decatur Area Arts Council’s exhibition “Reclaim. Recycle. Repurpose.”

Having spent 30 years as an Arts and Health Sciences writer and editor as well as a media-relations specialist at the University of Illinois News Bureau, Melissa Mitchell shifted her focus to making art after her retirement in 2009. Since then, her creative-reuse art has been showcased in other juried and invited exhibitions, including the I.D.E.A. Store’s 2013 and 2014 “Hatch” exhi-bition and the Decatur Area Arts Council’s 2014 show “Reclaim. Recycle. Repurpose.” Mitchell’s photography has been featured on billboards and

other festival promotional materials, which led to her being named the 2012 Boneyard Festival Signature Artist. Her photography appeared on area billboards again in 2013 when her digital im-age “Aloft” was selected as one of six winning entries in 40 North|88 West’s “Sky Gallery.” In the “Outstanding” show, she will be exhibiting collages and whimsical sculptural works made from lamp parts, architectural salvage, recycled paper, fabrics and ephemera.

Cindy Sampson creates jewelry and two- and three-dimensional art from cast-off materials. She is also regarded as on e of the top folk artists in the world. Her work has been published in national mag-azines and featured on television programs includ-ing HGTV’s “Room by Room” and TLC’s “While You Were Out” and “Trading Spaces.” Her installation for “Outstanding in Our Field,” titled “The Tighty Whit-ey Boys,” promises to be one of the largest pieces at the event. It will be suspended from the ground and main floors of the gallery and have the “boys” hovering in front of a painted canvas.

“I live, eat, sleep and breathe art and I’m very lucky that what I love doing is a sustainable act,” Sampson says. “I’m saving wonderful things—some folks call it junk—from going into a landfill. No matter what you call it, whether it’s being fru-gal, making do, or being thrifty or economical, we all do this in some way. I just have fun rescuing your old stuff and making it into art!”

Since retiring from the insurance industry five years ago, Melody Moore-Carlson has been cre-ating shopping bags, purses, water-bottle hold-ers and other items from reused plastic bags, or

“plarn.” Her creations will be on display for view-ers to see during the show.

“My husband was a retired garbage truck driv-er and loved that I was recycling these bags,” Moore-Carlson said. “He told me they last in the landfill forever.”

Eric Walsh is a student in Parkland College’s Automotive Repair and Welding programs and will exhibit a number of sculptural creatures made by welding together various parts of dis-carded farm implements.

Sally Walsh has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Art Education from Eastern Illinois University and the University of Illinois, respectively. She currently teaches art at both Richland Community College in Decatur and Heartland Community College in Bloomington. Her work in the “Out-standing” exhibition will include painted “found” furniture, painted saws and recycled paper and papier mâché sculptural pieces.

Phil Strang, who is the manager of the University of Illinois’ Foellinger Auditorium, started painting while in the ninth grade. After painting a mural, writing a book, recording two records, performing in more than 50 plays and playing in two bands, he returned to painting 10 years ago when the music store he co-owned went out of business. The “Outstanding” show will feature Strang’s paintings on unusual surfaces, such as empty beer bottles and glassware. He will also exhibit fused glass made from glass scraps and “splashed paintings” created with reclaimed acrylics used onstage by Janelle Monáe during a performance at the Foellinger Auditorium.

James Barham opened indi go five years ago, in order to provide a venue for both emerging artists who have yet to acquire mainstream exposure and established artists who wish to enrich the CU community by displaying in a lo-cal space. indi go specializes in showcasing the work of artists who reach beyond the bound-aries of the mainstream, focusing on various branches of contemporary art.

The opening of “Outstanding in Our Field” marks the first time an exhibition with this group of art-ists has been coordinated. However, The I.D.E.A. Store in Champaign has had an annual JURIED art exhibit with indi go for the past two years as a part of “Hatch,” a creative-reuse art fair.

An opening reception and party are scheduled for Friday, June 20, while two accompanying receptions are also scheduled throughout the exhibition’s time at indi go. All events are free to the public and will include live music and refreshments.

Regular gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 5-8 p.m.Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

Musical guests and receptions:June 20 (Friday), 5-9 p.m., McMahon & CassidyJune 25 (Wednesday), 5-9 p.m., David HowieJune 28 (Saturday), 5-9 p.m., John Coppess

“Outstanding in Our Field” will be featured at indigo from June 20 to June 28.

"Little Monkey Drummer Boy" Mixed media wall assemblage. Used with permission from indi go. "Green Man" Mixed media assemblage.Used with permission from indi go.

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"Bird Belly"Mixed media wall assemblage. Used with permission from indi go.Splatter paintings using the salvaged paint. Used with permission from indi go.

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ILLINI SERVICE DOGSThursday, June 26; 3-3:45

Champaign Public Library (200 W. Green St.), free

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Sholem Aquatic Center

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URBANA’S MARKET AT THE SQUARESaturday, June 21;

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KRANNERT UNCORKED WITH THE CURSESThursday, June 26; 5-7 p.m.

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THE IMMIGRANTThe Art Theater Co-op, Champaign

Friday, June 20; 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

Against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, Ewa Cybulska (Marion Cotillard) leaves Poland and arrives in New York, looking for a new life with her sister. However, her situation soon deteriorates when her sister is quarantined, and Ewa is forced into selling her body on the streets of Manhattan. While preyed upon by her pimp Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix), Ewa soon runs into and falls for charming magician Orlando (Jeremy Renner), who appears to be the ticket out of her miserable existence.

HEAVY AS HELL CANCER BENEFITSaturday, June 21; 1 p.m.

Error Records, $5

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ELSINORE/WITHERSHINS/ACTION CAMP/FIONA KIMBLE/WILLIAM GILLESPIE &POETRY'Friday, June 20; 7:30 p.m.

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WE THE ANIMALS/DANIEL AND THE LION/CAPTAIN CHUNKFriday, June 20; 10 p.m.

Cowboy Monkey, $5

NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHTS CONCERT WITH SUSIE & THE SHY GUYSWednesday, June 25; 6:30-8 p.m.

prarie park; free

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8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

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SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERSFriday, June 20 & Sunday, June 22

Parkland College Theatre; $12-16

The Ninth Annual Kathy Murphy Student Production features talented area youth aged 18 and younger. This year's production will showcase the rollicking musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers running two consecutive weekends at Parkland College Theatre. Set in Oregon in the 1850s, this dance-filled, barn-raising, all-ends-well musical has an equal number of male and female leads plus a strong chorus, providing opportunities for many young singers, dancers and actors across Central Illinois.