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Alex gives suggestions for awesome off-campus places in the CU area to spend an afternoon or even the whole day!

Catch up on the latest in fall style with this week’s column. Is burnt orange the new burgandy? Find out!

Records We Missed: The Su-perior State — Four Walls

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National Pasta DayBy Monique Archer

From bucatini and fusilli to spaghetti and penne, everyone has their favorite pasta noodle. Celebrate National Pasta Day today with a countdown of some of CU’s top spots to slurp up an al dente delight.

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I have written about my mom a few times before. I wrote about how she bought me my fi rst magazine sub-scription and going to my fi rst concert with her. There have been editor’s notes about

our spring cleaning rituals and the fi rst CD she bought me (NSYNC’s Celebrity). She’s even been featured as a guest contributor on readbuzz.com, writing about her favorite song (A-ha’s “Take On Me”). My mom is one of the most important people in my life, and without her guidance and friendship I am not sure where I would be today. In that spirit, here are two of the top lessons I have learned from my mom, Sandy:

1. It’s always worth it, for the sake of the storyFor a merit badge (I think it was Citizenship in

the Commuminty?), I was required to attend a city council meeting. Too nervous to go by myself, my mom agreed to sit through it with me. I can’t remember exactly what was discussed, there was something about an ATM being built in a grocery store parking lot and some local crazy probably shouted about something. Instead, I remember my mom and I suppressing our ceaseless, uncon-trollable laughter (maybe we noticed ourselves on the closed circuit monitor behind our mayor, maybe it was just that self-conscious, nervous laughter). Regardless, once we were out of there, we were telling everyone about the adventure for weeks.

2. Be willing to laugh at yourselfMy mom can cook exceptionally well, and there

are plenty of dishes I am always in the mood for (stuffed peppers, chicken alfredo, literally any sweets), but over the years, she’s also had a few mishaps. There was the time she decided to test out her new fondue machine and accidentally cre-ated blocks of a silly putty-like substance which we lovingly referred to as “rubber cheese,” or the time she lost track of the fi let mignon and it caught fi re (we referred to that creation as “fl am-ingnon”). Despite it all, my mom just laughed, ordered a pizza and moved on.

Happy birthday, mom. I love you.

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» Professors Who Look at Me During Group Critiques: I get it. I’m supposed to be giving feed back and participate in class, blah blah blah. I can see that that those font choices were a little lazy. And

I am well aware that the imagery in this infographic deserves praise, but at the same time the design style does seem a little questionable for the context of the product. I’m not an ignorant designer. I am what one might call an painfully awkward introvert. I know the questions to ask and I know the com-ments to give and, so help me goodness, I know how to be constructively critical. But as soon as I open my mouth, all my brain turns into a barren cupboard of pure stupidity. All that can come out is words that I hope sound like sane sentences. I don’t speak in public settings very well. Understatement of the century. So please, Sir and Madame Profes-sors, stop trying to make eye contact with me to say something. It’s not happening.

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Donate them to Elk’s Annual Kids Coat Drive. Starting Monday, Oct. 20, and running until Sunday, Oct. 26, CU will have the opportunity to help our community’s children stay warm this winter. Elk’s members and volunteers will be collecting coats at the Elk Lodge from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25, for boys and girls, sizes 5-16. The coats should be either new or in good condition.

Don’t worry if you can’t make it on Saturday, be-cause you can stop by to drop off a coat anytime between 3 and 8 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. The coats will be given to children throughout elemen-tary schools in CU, Tolono Unit 7 District and Urbana Early Childhood whose families can’t afford them.

Elk’s Lodge is located at 903 N. Dunlap Ave. in Savoy. For further information, contact Elk’s Lodge at 359-2497 or Event Coordinator Mary Leming at [email protected].

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cooked for 72 hours and slipped right out of their bones. Steaks, even cheap flank or skirt steaks, so perfectly medium rare and buttery they belong in an Outback Steakhouse ad. Even a whole dry rubbed, ten pound pork butt that sweat and sim-mered 48 hours before melting apart like the best Black Dog has to offer. My roommate and I have never cooked more – or eaten better – while we’ve been in CU, and that’s all while barely breaking a sweat with our prep work. Sous-vide seems to be the perfect solution for a generation that loves being “foodies” but gets nervous around an open flame or a sharp knife. It emphasizes precision and science where traditional means of cooking demand experience and intuition. As someone lucky enough to have that intuition, I thought my sous-vide machine would become just a novelty. Instead, it’s become my closest kitchen friend, and it should be yours too.

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LIVE IN WATSON’S WORLDDoby Watson releases his new album at Error RecordsBY SEAN NEUMANN

He’s a ways from home, but Doby Watson may find that to be a good thing.

The Kansas City singer-songwriter will be re-leasing his new record Live-In Son through Ur-bana label Error Records this Friday night. The album—a nine-track memory of a dark time in Watson’s life , having moved back in with his par-ents and dealing with the effects of substance abuse—is currently streaming on readbuzz.com. buzz caught up with Watson before Friday’s release show to talk about the new record and the musi-cian’s long DIY career.

»buzz: How long did it take to write Live-In Son?»Doby Watson: Honestly, I don’t remember writing the songs. Most days I sit down with a guitar, make some sounds, sometimes I remember those sounds and overtime they become songs, sometimes I for-get them forever. Once I have a batch of songs that fit a particular theme, I reach out to people I think would play well on the songs. On this record, as with most, I try to record it as simply.»buzz: Listening to this record and thinking back to your last EP, Watson & May, your last few releases have sounded really full compared to older stuff where the quality was more lo-fi. What’s the differ-ence between now and then?»DW: I used to record and mostly play everything myself. Starting with Twenty Two—when I switched from going by Boo Hiss to my own name—I started having other folks record me, and other folks play with me. I try to be very intentional and thoughtful about who I have recording and playing on a par-ticular batch of songs.

»buzz: Were some of these songs tracks that you didn’t use for Watson & May or all new stuff?»DW: Definitely separate. The two albums were recorded within weeks of each other, but due to the nature of how Live-In Son was recorded, it took lon-ger. I have a bit of a stockpile of songs I’ve written, so I try to simplify it by grouping songs into themes and going from there. Although with a split—like Watson & May—the theme is that there is no theme, and I use songs that I haven’t yet grouped into a theme. »buzz: The record seems to have a lot of nostalgia laced in the lyrics at times, and with titles like Live-in Son and “Family Mattress,” it seems like there’s a lot about fam-ily. Did you set out to write about a few certain topics or do you often find yourself falling back to certain topics when writing lyrics?»DW: I didn’t set out to write about it, but there were a few pretty rough years where I moved back in with my parents, was drinking a lot, wasn’t playing or writing much music and really, not doing much of anything with my life except wallowing and being very self destructive. Naturally, when I felt motivated to write again, a handful of the songs were about that time and thus the album Live-In Son was made. And honestly, if I didn’t feel that what I came up with offered some kind of possible motivation either to avoid that kind of life, or better themselves, I would not have taken the time to document and share the songs. No point in trying to sell folks a counterpro-ductive pity party, right?»buzz: You’ve been making music for a long time now, since you were a teenager. Do you see yourself continu-ing to make music throughout your life?»DW: You’re speaking to why most of my relation-

ships have failed, why I’m nearing 30 and sleeping on friends’ couches most nights, why I will probably never have a retirement fund, a credit card, sign a lease, get a degree or have health insurance, etc. Conforming is hard for folks like me. I’ve tried it be-fore, and I became a miserable, bitter mess, which is precisely what lead to the years Live-In Son is at-tempting to document. I have no plans to ever stop making music, not until I die—even if it means I’ll al-ways be poor and have to live like some hybrid-hobo teenager. Some folks just aren’t able to or meant to function in that way, and I’m one of those folks.»buzz: How did you get in contact with Nathan and Error Records?»DW: I don’t remember how I met Nathan. I just knew him. But I don’t usually remember how I’ve met anyone, I just know that I know them. I had always found Nathan to be a really nice, down-to-Earth guy who works hard and does an amazing job at everything I’ve ever seen him do. When I had decided to go ahead and attempt to release these songs, I immediately sent him an email asking if he’d like to do a tape for me, and he said yes. It’s been a great partnership. Seriously, the man is a dream to work with and has an awesome attitude about just about everything.

»buzz: Is it hard to release a record/tape through a label that’s located a bit away from your location?»DW: Not at all. When you’re working with great people, it doesn’t matter where they are. »buzz: A lot of your older stuff was just you and a guitar, but this newer stuff has pianos and electric guitars in the background. What made you want to start including this stuff? »DW: Mark Sarich once suggested to me after a show at Lemp Neighborhood Arts (in St. Louis) that while he was a fan of what I was doing, he suggested letting the uniqueness of other talented people’s perspectives on my songs might be even more in-teresting, so I gave it a try, and he was right. It was very interesting and has been a wonderful tool to create variety and broaden the palate of my songs. You can catch Doby Watson this Friday at Error Records in Urbana. The show starts at 8 p.m. and costs $5.

“I HAVE NO PLANS TO EVER STOP MAKING MUSIC, NOT UNTIL I DIE—EVEN IF IT MEANS I’LL ALWAYS BE POOR AND HAVE TO LIVE LIKE SOME HYBRID-HOBO TEEN-AGER.” —DOBY WATSON

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ANNABELLE-LOVE IT OR HATE IT?Two fans of The Conjuring duke it out over the new spino! BY DAVID ROBERTSON AND JOSH PETERSON

LOVE IT!With all of the ads for the new horror movie Anna-

belle referencing last year’s outstanding fright fl ick The Conjuring, Warner Brothers gave audiences high expectations for the doll-centered spinoff. In many aspects, Annabelle lives up to its predecessor but overall falls short.

The fi lm chronicles the origins of the eponymous evil doll, focusing on a couple with a newborn in Santa Monica, Calif. As a gift, John (Ward Horton) gives his wife Mia (Annabelle Wallis) an antique porcelain doll that she had been searching for since childhood (why anyone would seek out a doll so ugly in the fi rst place will no doubt baffl e most au-dience members). All is well until a satanic cult breaks into John and Mia’s home, attempting to murder the couple and steal the doll. The police save John and Mia, but cult member Annabelle dies with the doll in her arms. This leads to the possession of the doll by an evil entity and, soon enough, all hell breaks loose for John, Mia and their baby Leah. The movie’s conclusion is a bit lazy and certainly borrows from some better horror fi lms, but there are only so many solutions to standard demonic scenarios. Even so, the journey to the

ho-hum climax is worth the price of admission, featuring some of the most frightening moments of this year’s horror crop.

Unfortunately, the movie is not directed by Hol-lywood’s latest horror great, James Wan, but An-nabelle boasts the same feel as his previous hits Insidious and The Conjuring because his usual direc-tor of photography John R. Leonetti is at the helm. Though the pacing is slow at the start, Leonetti and the editors have crafted some topnotch scares, including one in which the ghost of a young girl charges at Mia and undergoes an immediate trans-formation into an adult. That moment is enough to keep viewers awake for the fi lm’s 98-minute running time (and at night). Adding to these jolts is a dark, gloomy atmosphere that harks back to the old-fashioned ghost stories of the '70s and '80s.

Overall, the performances are substandard but passable. At the end of the day, horror fans aren’t fl ocking to the movie to see some uptight white folks moan about spiritual woes. They’re in the the-ater for Annabelle and her demon friends, with the sole intention of seeing shit hit the fan. Even if it’s no Saw or Insidious, Annabelle is just good enough to establish a new horror icon. Wan and Leonetti are

building a captivating, nightmarish universe around Ed and Lorraine Warren’s catalogue of work,leaving audiences wanting more. —David Robertson

HATE IT!Unlike many Hollywood fi lms that spawn unwar-

ranted sequels left and right, The Conjuring opened up a whole world of possibilities by introducing Ed and Lorraine Warren, two paranormal investiga-tors whose catalogue of cases fi lled an entire room with haunted objects. Annabelle didn’t have to be a lazy cash-in on The Conjuring’s popularity; it had the opportunity to do something in the same vein, without being bogged down by the script and char-acter constraints that apply to true sequels. The only question was if director John R. Leonetti would be able to have his own vision that lived up to The Conjuring’s director James Wan’s (Saw, Insidious) impressive fi rst outing.

Annabelle is actually at its strongest when it imi-tates The Conjuring. Sadly, there is far more imi-tation than need be. While Leonetti attempts to capture the same style that made The Conjuring so terrifying, too often he relies on cheap scares stolen from worse fi lms instead of Wan’s haunting ten-sion. The beginning of the movie is suitably disturb-

ing and, for a while, you fear that the movie is about to one-up Game of Thrones and kill everyone off before the half-hour mark has even been reached. Instead, it just leads to a change of scenery that the director only occasionally uses well. One basement sequence in particular is legitimately terrifying, relying on the fear of the unseen and the tension that comes from being helpless instead of pop-out scares or twisted demon faces.

From predictable lines uttered by a possessed priest, a haunted sowing machine to a seriously questionable CGI used to show the demon, the whole fi lm feels rushed and cheesy. Worse, a script that starts out strong slowly deteriorates until, by the end of the movie, there is no real sense of any progression; the scenes fail as a coherent story, instead seeming pieced together from a plethora of horror tropes. Annabelle also commits the number one crime of horror fi lms: failing to make you to care about the main characters.

Overall, Annabelle is not a bad fi lm, simply a dis-appointing one. However, the occasional haunting moment can’t save the fi lm from its incoherent free-fall in quality toward the climax.—Josh Peterson

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VIDEO GOES GLOBALKrannert Art Museum showcases the history and modern manifestation of video artsBY ALEXANDRA TURCIOS

Video has transcended visual arts in a way that no other art form has. Filmmakers

and other artists are increasingly using digital video today, and the evolution of digital video images has progressed to become a ubiquitous art form.

In light of this transformative art form, Kran-nert Art Museum will be hosting “Global Groove 1973/2012” from Oct. 17 through Dec. 23. The event will explore the intersection of art history and the advent of video art. “Global Groove” provides a unique opportunity to learn about the pioneers of video art and its unique history. It also gives a glimpse into the post-modern manifestation of the art form.

“Video is an important medium for artists due to its formal qualities, which means that artists are invested in experimenting with what kinds of images they can achieve by manipulating video technology,” said Amy Powell, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Krannert Art Museum.

Our globalized culture has transformed the meaning of video art. More often, artists are able to lead their innovations by creating an individualistic message.

“They’re committed to developing an underly-

ing political context, as video allows artists to challenge the power dynamics over who con-trols the image and to reflect on our image-saturated and obsessed culture,” Powell said.

The event will pay homage to the phenomenon of video art and will highlight the late Korean-American artist Nam June Paik in particular. Paik is considered the founder of video art, and his most famous piece gives this event its name.

To set the tone for the event, Krannert Art Mu-seum will screen Paik’s 1973 avant-garde video Global Groove. Considered one of Paik’s most influential and innovative videos, Global Groove casted a prophetic message for the future. Paik sought to make video and broadcast television a medium for participation. He achieved this goal by having the video shown on public televi-sion in New York City.

The 29-minute video will be screened con-tinuously on a loop in the gallery space.

“Audiences will find that watching a given work for just a moment or until it loops around to the time they began watching will give them a sense of how artists are manipulating video as a medium and how elements of narrative, sound and composition are constructed,” Powell said.

Video differs from photography and film in

the sense that it is more accessible and more quickly manipulated. Video is related to the history of broadcast television and the Internet. It also has a very different and newer history than film and photography. The event will allow viewers to reflect upon the use of video and its ability to quickly infiltrate society.

“The artists in this exhibition are dialoguing with the history of video and not really with film,” Powell said.

Paik’s prediction of future “video cities,” like New York City and Shanghai, showcased vid-eo’s growing prominence and its adaptability to any audience. Paik’s work facilitated the use of video as a creative and artistic outlet and gave birth to an emerging medium of art still prevalent today. Websites such as YouTube and Vine have made video a pervasive element of our modern life.

Global Groove will be used as a springboard to explore and dissect the current forms and trends of video art throughout the international community. It will highlight the various artistic approaches from low-tech to highly cinematic, as well as political and challenging expressions of the human condition. The event also offers an international sampling of 13 different artists

who work in the field of video art. Artists from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States will be featured.

“It is rare that so many works from such di-verse countries come together in an exhibi-tion. Each of the represented countries has a different history of video production, and so it will be interesting to note their similarities and differences, especially in terms of the artists’ political motivations,” Powell said.

The exhibit offers the opportunity to inter-act with these artists’ visions, each of which is crafted with its own distinct ideology.

“Some of the works are quite beautiful and cinematic,” Powell said.

Students, regardless of major, are encouraged to attend. Video has become a global medium with a large pool of participation.

Hayan Kim, a PhD candidate in Art History and an expert on Paik’s work, will speak about the exhibition on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 12 to 1 p.m.

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to visit the exhibition and gain a multi-cultural perspective of video art in our postmodern society.

“Global Groove 1973/2012” is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Michael Rush.

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W ith only two weeks to go until CU ditches its boots and raincoats for costumes and

masks, it’s time to start thinking about the real star every October 31: the candy. With the loom-ing threat of a “trick” hanging over residents’ heads, the familiar orange and black wrappers fly off store shelves.

Some stick to the classic kinds of chocolate bars, parading variety packs filled with musketeers and peanut butter cups to their guests. Others turn away from chocolately delights and embrace neon-colored fruit flavors and twisted ropes of licorice. And then there are the strange few souls buying up the stocks of candy buttons and circus peanuts rued by each and every trick-or-treater. While we all might have our favorite brand and flavor, each one of these options is wrong.

If we so eagerly celebrate the most creative and well-crafted Halloween costumes, why shouldn’t we apply the same logic to the pounds and pounds of processed sugar we haul back to our homes every holiday? Diners will wait in CU’s lines for hours upon hours in search of that suc-culent platter of burnt ends or gleefully glazed donut, yet they settle on the same old processed candies. Nostalgia might be a strong motivator

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Directions:1. In a small saucepan, combine the chocolate

chips and shortening. Place over low heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth.

2. Take top paper cup from stack and coat with 1 teaspoon of the melted chocolate using a cooking brush or small spatula. Coat the inside of the cup evenly, going to the top but not over the edge. Repeat for all 30 cups and refrigerate.

3. In a medium saucepan, combine butter and peanut butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until melted. Stir in confectioners’ sugar and graham crackers. Press about 1/2 table-spoon of the filling into each of the 30 cups.

4.Pour about 1/2 teaspoon melted chocolate on top of the filling and smooth out. Freeze until firm (about 2 hours), and peel out of cups to enjoy.

Though Reese’s and Snickers both place in the

top three most popular Halloween candy bars, those who can’t eat peanuts need not worry. Mars’s Twix bar, rather than creamy peanut but-ter, is filled with oozing caramel and a crunchy cookie finger. The following homemade recipe takes Twix’s chocolate/caramel combo and uses shortbread cookie as a canvas. The result is square-shaped delight perfect for parties and truly reminiscent of the chew treat.

CARAMEL SHORTBREAD SQUARESPreparation time: 35 minutesServings: 1 9x9 inch pan

Ingredients:2/3 cup butter, softened1/4 cup white sugar1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour1/2 cup butter1/2 cup packed light brown sugar2 tablespoons light corn syrup1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips

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Z ombies! Run!

It’s pitch dark out: You’re tired of running, but you know time is running out. You feel the sweat running down your forehead, and your heart con-tinues to pound. Gasping for air, you know some-thing might jump out at you any minute—you feel it in the twisting pit of your stomach. The thought of becoming infected by one of “them” makes you anxious. Oh, no! A zombie!

There’s no better way to celebrate Halloween than with a zombie race. This Saturday, Oct. 18, the Champaign Park District will be hosting its Zombie Run for the third year.

The race consists of a 2.5-mile course. Race participants must sign up for a wave start time, and they will be sent off in waves of 20-50 par-ticipants at a time. The each racer will experi-ence an adrenaline rush as they try to dodge the brain-thirsty undead, while attempting to com-plete bumpy obstacles. There will also be safe points where participants are able to check into

and will have the opportunity to receive help from the outbreak of the zombie infection in the area.

Do you have what it takes to survive the zom-bie pandemic that is rapidly pushing mankind towards extinction? For more information, visit http://visitchampaigncounty.org/calendar/date/zombie-run-crew. —Lola Garcia

Wading and WaitingThe Zombie Run has a complex course that takes

a lot of time and work to design and put together. The course usually consists of local landscapes.

Joe Kearfott, who helps set up the course, said it takes about eight months in advance to begin brainstorming such an intense and well-thought out course.

Kearfott said the process goes as follows: “First, we decide which park we plan on using. This year, we are using mostly Dodds Park and little bit of Parkland College’s property. Next, we determine where we want our race to begin and end. Then, we start to map out a route between those two points that en-compasses all of the features that we want to use.”

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The course usually consists of 60 zombies and, at most, 15 staff members for course safety. Rac-ers are expected to run for about 40 minutes, with no idea what each setting will contain.

“Sometimes we are looking for good open spaces for people to run, but other times we are looking for tight, tree-filled areas to give that more-creepy feel where zombies could be lurking. We also like to look for different terrain to utilize, like hills or low areas, as well as already existing trails or even ponds that we could potentially have people wade through,” Kearfott said.

The setting will contain caution tape so run-ners do not wander too far off course because,

as Kearfott says, “Keeping a course clearly marked is crucial when you have racers run-ning around not knowing in advance where they are headed. The last thing that we want is for a racer to get lost.”

The obstacle course staff said that the most difficult part isn’t brainstorming, setting up or tearing down, but it is the waiting. “Our team is so excited to put on these events that we just want it to be race day, so we can witness all our racers and volunteers having a good time.”

The team definitely puts a lot of hard work and dedication into the course, and it continues to be worth the wait. —Brittany Monaco


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DUCK TAPE HALLOWEEN T!SHIRTSSunday, Oct. 19; 1-4 p.m.Micheal’s (2109 N.Prospect); Purchase shirt there to participate

TRICK OR TREATING WITH THE STARSSunday, Oct. 19; 3-5 p.m.Ubben Basketball Practice Complex (1750 S. Fourth St.);

HOUR READING GROUPTuesday, Oct. 2; 6-7 p.m.Douglass Branch Library (504 E. Grove St.); free

THE LIFE & MIMES "& ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE# OF RIPPER THE CLOWN BOOK READINGSaturday, Oct. 18; 4-7 p.m.Boneyard (75 Chester St.); CU COMEDY FEST

Tuesday, Oct. 21-Saturday, Oct. 25, Various locations; $0-$5

Check out local laugh-inducers at CU’s first comedy festival! Visit http://cucomedy.com for venues and performer details.

STAND!UP COMEDY SHOWCASEWednesday, Oct. 22; 8 p.m., Memphis on Main; free

$%&' BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARDSThursday, Oct. 23; 6 p.m.Fluid Events Center, Champaign; $35

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETHThursday, Oct. 23–Sunday Oct. 26; 7 p.m., Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; $10-20

The 1943 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama was described by playwright Thornton Wilder as a story about a family who endures “fire, pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the black pox and the double feature, a dozen wars and as many depressions.”

URBANA’S MARKET AT THE SQUARESaturday, Oct. 18; 7 a.m.-12 p.m., Corner of Illinois & Vine; free admission

Looking to ditch traditional Halloween candy and indulge in some truly special fall sweets? Urbana’s Market at the Square doesn’t just offer the freshest local produce, but muffins, donuts, chocolates and just about any other fresh baked good a sugar fiend could wish for. Be sure to arrive early, as some of CU’s favorites are known to sell out quickly!

WEEKLY TASTING PARTY AT WORLD HARVEST FOODSSaturday, Oct. 18; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.519 E. University Ave., Champaign; free

RED HERRING VEGAN FUSION DINNER: JEWISHWednesday, Oct. 22; 5-8 p.m., 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana; $8 a plate

THE EXORCISTArt Theater Co-op, Champaign, Friday, Oct. 17; 10 p.m.

Arguably one of the most terrifying films of all time, The Exorcist makes its return to the big screen this Friday at the Art. When an innocent girl starts acting erratically, her mother at first suspects rebellion normally found with a child. But as the signs grow worse and become increasingly supernatural, it’s revealed that the girl is possessed by a powerful demon, and two priests put their lives on the line to save the girl’s soul by exorcising the evil spirit within.

PALLBEARER W/ TOMBSSunday, Oct. 19; 8 p.m., The HighDive; $13 (online)

The Arkansas metal band comes to Champaign with support from Tombs as part of the Pygmalion Music series. There’s also an aftershow with local bands Resinater and Earth Witch at Memphis on Main for just $5 (or $3 with a Pallbearer ticket).

DOBY WATSON "TAPE RELEASE SHOW#Friday, Oct. 17; 8 p.m.Error Records; $5

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Thursday, Oct. 23; 7 p.m., Canopy Club; $5-$7

LiNK UIUC Rescue Team plans to raise awareness of the situation in North Korea, in addition to raising at least $3,000 to save one refugee escaping North Korea. This fundraiser/variety show will feature a raffle, No Strings Attached, Modern Dialect, Cheef, Pat Barry, TASC Special Ops, poetry slams and more.

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