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Dear Manhattan,

School is right around the corner, but July still has plenty of fun events for you here in MHK. Of course the main event this week is The Riley County Fair; you can find out all about it on pg. 4 and 5. Be sure to check out some of our Voices and Reviews this week, though, there are some great movies, video games, food out there for y’all to tackle at the behest of our Hypesters.

Speaking of Hypesters, if you want to get involved with writing, shooting, or even just telling us what we should be writing about here in Manhattan, don’t miss our weekly pitch meeting every Monday at 730pm at Auntie Mae’s Parlor in Aggieville. You don’t have to be 21, journalistically trained, or right handed.

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This issue of The Hype Weekly kept from spewing outour nose while going mach 3 around the

tilt-a-whirl by:jimbo ivy, sarah sullivan, George Wame Matthews, Chad Howard,

Keegan D. Hudspeth, julie ivy, Sam Sargent, Rio McCarthy, demetra kopulos, Ken Matthiesen, ben shields, John L. Matthiesen, Marcus Jay,

and AS always the mysterious hypester.

Special Thanks to:our amazing families, Auntie Mae’s Parlor, Sisters of sound, on the wildside, Z 96.3, olson’s shoe repair, Action Pact Development, THE People’s Grocery, the manhattan arts center, claflin books, T-LA-Re, the columbian theatre,

Arts in the park, Aggieville Bars, strecker nelson, Shear Dynamics, evan tuttle, and the man, Jeff Denney.

COver by JImbo Ivy

The Good Bits(The Reason Most Folks Read Newspapers)

15 -Happy Valley Foodie Review

- Kriminal Kakuro- Evil Sudoku

The Centerfold(Your Weekly Calender made of 100% Awesome)

2 - Us to You3 - Stop The Presses!

The Slant(Voices, yours and ours)

The hype(Smug reviews and appraisals)

The Voices(100% Right, 50% of the Time)

The Beat(Stories you tell us to write)4 - Let’s Go to the Fair!

6 - It’s A Song’s LIfe

10 - Just There: Interruption 2 11 - Ban All The Things!

- Lolipop Chainsaw Review

12 - Capsule Reviews: Best of 2012 So Far

14 - Movies By Marcus13 - Sponsor Spotlight: Shear Dynamics

- Kimberly Akimbo Review

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Stop the Presses!

Good Bits Solutions for 7-19-12

If you or a loved one are confused about Medicare and Medicaid

two essential programs in our nation’s health care system—you aren’t alone.

In co-sponsorship:Manhattan Alliance for Peace & Justice (MAPJ),

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI, Manhattan Chapter), and

North Central Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging (NC-FH AAA) for the 3rd Annual MAPJ Healthcare Forum:

Please join us for a free event with our featured speaker, Janet Witt, a Grassroots Manager for The

National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, to get the facts and ask questions.

Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:00 PM

Manhattan Public Library Auditorium

“What’s Happening with Medicare and Medicaid”

THERE WILL ALSO BE A REPORT OF THE STATUS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT FOLLOWING THE RECENT COURT RULINGS.

DROP IT OFF OR TAKE IT HOME: FURNITURE AMNESTY

DAY JULY 27 IN CITY PARK

MANHATTAN -- Manhattan Good Neighbors and the city of Manhat-tan are hosts of the fourth Furniture Amnesty Day on Friday, July 27. The event will take place in the parking lot by the Wilson baseball fields in Man-hattan's City Park.

Furniture Amnesty Day is a chance for community members to not only donate their unwanted furniture, but to also take home some free furni-ture. This event serves as a friendly reminder and encourages community members to properly dispose of their household items and to keep furniture out of landfills as a result, said Alex Anderson, program coordinator for HandsOn Kansas State, which orga-nizes the event.

"Last year we provided furniture for more than 200 households," Anderson said. "We also had a mini Furniture Amnesty Day in the spring, and people were already talking about returning for our summer event."

Anyone can drop off furniture from 8 a.m. until noon July 27, and then the public can check out and take home furniture from noon until 5 p.m. If you would like to donate your fur-niture but are unable to drop it off, you can contact the city to schedule a pick up on the day of the event. Email [email protected] or call 785-

587-2404 for pick up arrangements.

"I am looking forward to this year because we have targeted even more parts of the Manhattan community and invited them to this year's Fur-niture Amnesty Day," Anderson said. "This event is geared toward all com-munity members, and I can’t wait to help even more people give up some-thing old and find something new."

Manhattan Good Neighbors is a part of HandsOn Kansas State, which is a program housed in the School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University that creates opportuni-ties for people to volunteer, learn and lead in their communities. Manhattan Good Neighbors specifically focuses on neighborhoods around the K-State campus and allows students and per-manent residents to build and main-tain positive relationships through service.

Hoo Haw veterans to headline annual showing at the

Columbian Theatre

WAMEGO, Kan—Director Troy Hemphill is bringing familiar faces back to the Columbian Theatre stage for his annual production of Hoo Haw held Aug. 3-5, 10-12 and 17-18, 2012. The KORN county residents’ side-splitting antics will be accompanied by classic and contemporary gospel songs played by the live band. Drew

and Christie Horton, Brad Voth, Mindy Theirolf and Shelley Rickstrew are set to headline the performance yet again and are sure to prove why they have such devoted falling of fans.

The band, Pott. County Posse, led by John McQuillen will be joining them as well as two new additions; Krysten Day and Mark Portell. Our show tickets are $15. The Friday and Saturday evening shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased online at columbiantheatre.tix.com, over the phone at 800-899-1893 or at the Columbian Theatre. The box office is open Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Aggiefest 2012 is Now Seeking Bands!

Want to be a part of one of the big-gest local music festivals in the state? Aggiefest boasts over 100 bands in 10 venues across two days of musical awesome and we need your music to make that happen! This year’s Aggief-est will go down September 28th-29th!

Why get your band in Aggiefest? Over 2,500 people came to last year’s Ag-giefest! Also, The Hype Weekly does an entire issue on Aggiefest, providing profiles and exposure for every single artist!

Email [email protected] to start the process for being a part of this year’s Aggiefest!


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That’s right Manhattanites, it’s

time for The Riley County Fair!This year’s event has everything fair-going folk love: food, fun, flair and plenty of family friendly events to keep you and yours busy all weekend long! Fair-goers can participate in everything from pedal tractor pulls to Riley County’s version of American Idol or just kick back and indulge in those fair favorites: funnel cake and fantastic rides! The Kaw

Valley Rodeo is, of course, an integral event for the weekend, but we don’t want you to miss a thing so we’ve got the whole shindig mapped out for ya here at

The Hype Weekly!

!The Fair

The Food

County fairs and food go hand in and hand, and the Riley County Fair is no exception. Sample delicious local baked goods during the 4H Bake Sale Wednesday evening and Thursday until they’re gone! Hit the patio of Potthorf Hall on Friday from 5-7pm for some of the best pork burgers in the state, grilled up by the Blue Valley Pork Producers. Of course, throughout the fairgrounds will be traditional vendors offering up all the hotdogs, nachos, and coveted funnel cake that we all love. Want to try your hand at some food contests? There are plenty; like the Farm Fresh Salsa Contest on Saturday morning. Think your salsa is the best? Bring it to the Riley County Fair on Sat-urday, July 28 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and find out! Contest Rules: 1. Limit one entry per person. 2. Recipe must include at least 2 fresh ingredients grown locally in Kansas. 3. All entries must be made fresh and brought in a standard pint canning jar. 4. Salsa MUST be refrigerated at all times, including transportation to the fair. If salsa feels warm, it will not be accepted. 5. Recipe is required.

The Rides

The classic call of a county fair: the carnival. This year the rides are provided by the Midwest’s premiere traveling carnival, Ottaway Amusements. With rides for everyone from fraidy cats to the most stomach-sturdy thrill seeker, the Fair will shake, rattle and

by Jimbo Ivy


The Beatroll you all night long! Why I myself

may have shot liquefied cotton candy all over the operator of this terrify-ing contraption called “The Spider” when I was a boy at the Fair. It may or may not still haunt my dreams. Also, shouldn’t something with six legs be called the Beetle, since beetles have six legs but spiders have eight. And I over-thinking this? Maybe.

Wednesday, July 253pm - 6pm

Enter and Judge Open Class Food Preservation Exhibits, Open Class

Cake Decorating in Pottorf Hall3pm - 6pm

Enter and Judge 4-H Food Preserva-tion Exhibits, Cake Decorating, and Food Preservation in Pottorf Hall

4pm - 7pm4-H Bake Sale Pottorf Hall

There's nothing better than fresh homemade baked goods! Cakes, cook-ies, breads and pies will be available. Wednesday, July 25, 4-7 pm. Thurs-

day, July 26, 8 am until they are gone. Proceeds from the sale benefit the

Riley County 4-H Council

Thursday, July 26Military Family Night

5:30 p.m. - Free picnic at Cico Park 8:00 p.m. - Free Admission to the Ro-deo for military members and fami-lies with a ticket. Limited number of tickets available. For more informa-tion contact Alison atl 785-776-8829

ext. 252 for details.8am - 12pm

Enter all 4-H and cloverbud exhibits in Pottorf Hall5pm - 8pm

Enter quilts for Open Quilt Exhibition in Pottorf Hall6pm - 8pm

Riley County Fair Parade Poyntz Ave, downtown Manhattan

6pm - 11pmOttaway Amusement Carnival

7:30pm - 9:30pmPedal Tractor Pull - Hurlburt Barn

8pm - 10pmKaw Valley Rodeo, Kids Night & Mili-

tary Appreciation Night

Friday, July 278am - 11am

Accept all 4-H Livestock Fairgrounds5pm - 7pm

Blue Valley Pork Producers Barbeque$6.00. Enjoy a pork burger, baked beans, chips, ice cream and drink.

5pm - 8pmEnter Open Class Clothing, Arts and

Handiwork and Photography6pm - 10pm

Ottaway Amusement Carnival6pm - 9pm

Riley County IdolLocal entertainers can compete for cash prizes in the 6th Annual Riley

County Idol Contest.

7pm - 10pmJudge Sheep show - Hurlburt Barn

7pm - 10pmKaw Valley Rodeo - Wells Arena

Saturday, July 288am - 9amDairy Show

8am - 12pmRabbit Show Judging8:30am - 9:30am

Bucket Calf Interview Judging with showmanship following

9am - 11amGoat Show Judging

10am - 12pmHorticultural Judging Contest

10 am- 11amFarm Fresh Salsa Contest

12:30pm - 1:30pmCloverbuds Show-N-Share

2pm - 3pmFair Factor - Hurlburt Barn


6pm - 9pmRiley County Idol

Local entertainers can compete for cash prizes in the 6th Annual Riley

County Idol Contest.7pm - 10pm

Judge Swine Show - Hurlburt Barn8pm - 12am

Kaw Valley Rodeo - Wells Arena10pm

Peoples choice voting ends for Open Class quilts

Sunday, July 2910am - 10:30am

People's Choice Award announced for Open Quilts Exhibition

1pm - 3pm4-H Livestock judging contest

5pm - 6:30pmShepherds Lead Contest


6:30pm - 9:30pm4-H Beef Judging - Hurlburt Barn

Monday, July 3010am - 11:30am

Round Robin Jr and Sr Showmanship Contest


6:30pm - 7pmFood Project Auction - Hurlburt Barn

7pm - 10pm4-H Livestock Auction

The Rodeo

The Kaw Valley Rodeo Association is looking for cowboys and cowgirls who are tough enough to wear pink. The Kaw Valley Rodeo Association will host its sixth annual Tough Enough to Wear Pink night at the Kaw Val-ley Rodeo on Friday, July 27, to raise

awareness of breast and other cancers and to raise funds for Kansas State University’s Johnson Cancer Research Center.The Kaw Valley Rodeo, July 26-28, is in conjunction with the Riley County Fair, and will start at 8 p.m. at Wells Arena in Manhattan’s CiCo Park.

Audience members and rodeo partici-pants are encouraged to wear pink. Pink T-shirts, bandanas and more will be sold at the rodeo, with all proceeds going to the cancer research center.

The cancer research center’s mission is to further the understanding of can-cers by funding cancer research and supporting higher education, training and public outreach. All of its programs are supported by private donations. More information about the center is athttp://www.cancer.k-state.edu.

The Idol

The Sixth Annual Riley County Idol showcases the singing talent of our community with age groups from tikes to teens to grown ups. All prelims (ex-cept for ages 21 and over) will be held on Friday, July 27nd starting at 6pm. Prelims for the 21 and over group will be held at Kite’s Bar and Grill on July 10th, 17th, and 24th. Four finalists from each age group will be selected and will compete for Riley County Idol for each age group during the Satur-day evening competition to be held July 28th from 6 – 9 p.m.

The fair

The Riley County Fair is a great chance to get out and see some of the great traditions of our area represent-ed by the competitions, diversions, and culinary arts of the county fair. While we’ve provided a basic rundown of the events, there is a ton more info at www.rileycountyfair.com, including an awesome PDF that shows every-thing ever called “The Fair Book”. Check out the lower left corner of the site for a download link. Whatever you do, make sure and get out and enjoy/support this great event with your family and friends! Like we always say, if you want cool things in MHK, go support them and they’ll stay!


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easy. Turn on the radio and a song just magically comes on. Or pop a CD into your player and crank up your favorite song. If you’re at the gym switch on

your MP3 player, press in your ear buds, jump on the tread mill and let the beat of the music inspire your workout. Maybe you’re in an Aggieville bar and some dude is strum-ming on a six string over in the corner singing some song you know you’ve heard before. Man, songs are easy, right? If ya really think so, then I have some land in …..

A song, any song, from the moment some songwriter somewhere conceives the ini-tial concept for the song all the way up to the point where someone downloads it off of iTunes is an incredible journey, not too unlike the journey of a salmon spawn run upstream, where more fish make it than songs. It actually takes an average of over three years in the conventional music industry for a song that does ‘make it’ to turn from that idea stage into a completed project ready for market. There may very well be a songwriter in each one of us, but if your middle name is not Patience, you might want to find a dif-ferent way to vent your feelings.

The initial concept of “My Dog In Heaven” song came about a month or so before we actually started on it when Curtis Lee, a guy I co-write with on Monday evenings, brought up the subject of a dog that he used to have, named Fender, dying a couple years ago and he wondered about it being in heaven. I have had several heated debates with animal owners about animals in heaven and I know what a passionate subject this can be. Being a songwriter, I recognize a good ‘hook’ or song idea when I hear one, so we scribbled down a few lines. Dillon Cowing, a young singer /songwriter who recently joined Nash-ville Songwriters Association International, was with us down in Curtis’s basement that evening.

As we began scratching out lines and messing with melodies I knew this song had the potential to go some place. A veteran of hundreds of song writes, I sensed something

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special. Music publishers are looking for songs that have ‘feel’ to them, and this one was feeling good right off the bat. Now, if we could just not mess it up. And of course my analytical mind immediately started crunching the profits from poten-tial record sales. I had recently heard that’s seventy-six percent of homes in the United States have dogs as pets so the potential audience is huge. A good song subject, and I’m thinking Country Western genre right away. For the record, I am not a dog owner, but I fully know and understand the passion between families and their dogs, so I am sensitive to it and appreci-ate it. In the back of my mind I’m thinking this song goes out to my sister in Kansas City who rescues, saves, and finds homes for abandoned dogs, and chooses this work over other much higher paying jobs without batting an eye.

The story behind this song is simple enough. A small boy, from a rural com-munity, goes with his dad to look at some puppies. The boy gets attached to the littlest one, the runt, and despite his dad’s concern that it might not ever grow up to be much, the boy selects the puppy and wheels it home in his wagon. The boy and dog grow up together and after fifteen loyal

years, the dog dies, leaving the now young man alone and grieving, wondering if his dog goes to heaven.

Most country songs are written verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus in structure, and this song follows that for-mat. We went through three re-write ses-sions ourselves over the next three weeks. We carefully tweaked the verses, and the chorus was significantly modified each re-write, and the bridge was out, then in, then tweaked, and then totally re-written again. As a songwriter you learn that great songs are not written, they are re-written, and re-written, and re-written. At this time Curtis started nailing down an acoustic guitar melody. His chorus was solid, a good melodic lift from the still generic verse melody. The bridge melody had yet to be considered. The bridge plays a very important part in a song, usually drifting you away from the baseline of the song and then bringing you back to it. A bridge can make a fun song more fun, a sad song sadder, a love song mushier, etc. With this song, the need was to get from sad to real sad, then back to just sad.

Lyrics in hand, I went to Kansas City for the monthly NSAI meeting for their chapter. Part of each N.S.A.I. meeting is

an evaluation period by the members of any new song you want to bounce off them. In our Manhattan group we call this “Demo Derby”. The Kansas City group thought it was a great idea and the lyrics were not tweaked at all as a result of their individual evaluations, though there were a couple of fairly minor suggestions or ques-tions. The song lyric and structure was actually very well received by the group. This was a good sign, because peer review can be brutal at times. What did happen, which I think is a good thing, is that every-body started talking about dogs going to heaven, their own experiences losing their pet dogs. It was obvi-ous that this was a good song concept. Our local Manhattan NSAI group meets a week after the Kansas City group. We presented the same ‘lyrics only’ version to our group and received the same response as I did in Kansas City. The song had now been critiqued by about twenty other songwriters

and no one had bashed it to pieces. Hmmmmmm….maybe we are on to something. Happy with the results of the two NSAI meetings, I sent the lyrics only, no melody as of yet, to Nashville for a pro evaluation through NSAI. One of the membership benefits of belonging to NSAI is that you get twelve free song evaluations each year. Evaluators can move really great, not really good, really great songs up the N.S.A.I. ladder if they like a song. Each quarter N.S.A.I. puts on a luncheon attended by publishers, A&R reps, label reps, etc., and a select hand picked few of the thousands of songs that are submitted are awarded this very high exposure. These guys in the N.S.A.I. office, and through out Nash-ville, are very good, the crème de la crème of the world. Seeing the multiple songwriting awards certifying millions of record sales with top recording artists hanging on their office walls when you visit them confirms it. This evaluation process takes several days, even up to two weeks or better sometimes. Here are the lyrics as sent to Nashville NSAI for evaluation:

My Dog In HeavenWritten by Cowing, Lee, Matthiesen 06/04/2012 copyright 2012 rewrites 6/5, 6/11

The puppy wasn’t much, when I picked him up…for the first timeThe runt of the bunch, daddy said he wasn’t worth…one thin dimeBut when he looked at me his tail was a waggin’ He licked my chin as I put him in, my rusty pull wagonA country boy and his dog, headed home

(chorus)Somebody tell me there’s room for my dog in heavenI’m praying so, cause mine headed that way last nightFifteen years of being right here, partners twenty-four sevenMy lonely runs deeper than I can ever hideSomebody tell me there’s room for my dog in heaven

More than best friends, that dog was part of the family Never wore a blue ribbon, just an old leather collar we got for freeThere by my side, like a shadow of mine, he was always raring to goI’d drop the tail gate, he’d jump in and we’d hit the roadJust me and my dog and a fishin’ pole

(Repeat chorus)

(Bridge)Tonight I sit on the porch, alone, try hard not to cryHolding his empty collar I now realizeHe was worth every cent of that thin dime

(Repeat chorus)

This country man loved his dog, and it shows

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Ongoing AttractionsMonday Through Friday9AM-5PM

Weekend Hours May Vary

Quiet Symmetry: The Art of Yoshiro Ikeda@The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of ArtAn internationally known artist in clay and a Distinguished Professor of Ceramics at Kansas State University, Yoshiro Ikeda has for nearly four decades produced sculptural vessels that reflect on an ultimate harmony in nature. “Quiet Symmetry: The Ceramic Art of Yoshiro Ikeda” features work by this master artist which will be on display until September 2, 2012.

Jane Booth: DNA Series- June 15 - July 28@Strecker-Nelson Gallery“The Owl and the Pussycat” featuring: Jane Booth - abstract paintings. Also featuring these exhibitors: Linda Ganstrom - ceramic figures, Bowie Croisant - porcelain, Martha Pettigrew - paintings, and Del Pettigrew - bronze sculpture. “Under Kansas Skies” featuring exhibitors: Kim Casebeer, Cally Krallman, Joseph Loganbill, Judith Mackey, and Jerry Moon.

The 2012 Sunflower State Games @Topeka, KSThe 23rd Annual sports festival will take place in Topeka on July 13-15, 20-22, and 27-29. A record 49 sports will be offered for participants of all ages and skill levels. Complete event informa-tion and registration procedures can be found at www.sunflow-ergames.com.

River Trails Beginner Mountain Bike Ride @Big Poppi BicycleDistance: 1-2 laps/4-8 miles. At this ride you will have the oppor-tunity to learn how to ride on off road trails and trail etiquette.

6:00PM

Toddler Time@Manhattan Public Library Storytime RoomA storytime for young children with their parents or caregivers.

11:00AM

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Sunset Friday Night Lights River Trails MTB Ride@Big Poppi BicyclesDistance: 1-3 laps/6-18 miles. Why not join us for a ride on your mountain bike at night? REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR LIGHTS!!!

SUNSET

Arts in the Park: Streetside@City ParkK-State and MHS alumni perform A Capella Doo-Wop from the 50’s and 60’s.

8:00PM

Zoofari Tails at the Manhattan Public Library@Manhattan Public LibrarySlither into reading with Sunset Zoo and the Manhattan Public Library! On the last Friday of every month Sunset Zoo will bring to life an animal themed children’s story.

10:00AM

Manhattan Area Photographers Exhibition@MACThis juried exhibit features work from local and regional photographers.

12:00PM

7:30PM Performance: Theatre - Mauritius@MACMauritius follows a set of half-sisters who inherit a stamp col-lection which might be worth a fortune, but which sister is the rightful heir? Between the three stamp dealers and the sisters, who can be trusted?

The Camera Connection- July 24 - July 29@Clay County Historical Museum This annual, fundraising photography show features dozens of local photographers’ work. The one week show will also hold a workshop at the museum, July 26th, at 7:00 pm for amateur photographers. Anyone in Clay County is welcome to exhibit their photos. To submit photographs please contact Libby Mellies at 969-1304, Linda Cunningham at 944-3642 or the museum at 632-3786.

Summer Sidewalk Sale@Manhattan Town CenterCome check out great summer deals!

ALL DAY

Riley County Fair@Riley County Fair GroundsFair goers can participate in one of the manyactivities such as the pedal tractor pull or indulge in some great fair food, or ride the rides at the Ottaway Amusement’s Carnival.

ALL DAY


ALL DAY

Reckless Rebellion@Bobby T’sTheir shows are fun-filled, full of dancing, and full of a wide range of country music!!!

11:00AM

Riley County Fair Parade@3rd & PoyntzThe Riley County Fair Parade route begins at 3rd & Poyntz, then runs down Poyntz Avenue to City Park.

6:00PM

Furniture Amnesty Day @Wilson Baseball FieldFAD is a chance for community members to donate their un-wanted furniture and to take home free furniture. This event is to encourage proper disposal of household items throughout the community, and also keeps many pieces of furniture out of our landfill. Put Furniture Amnesty Day on your calendar because the early bird gets the best couch!

11:00AM


7:00PM Into the Woods@Nichols TheatreWhen a Baker and his Wife learn they’ve been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell while swindling, lying, and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel, and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Tickets can be purchased through McCain Auditorium (785) 532-6428.

Rodeo Reading Round-up@Manhattan Public LibraryHear fun cowboy and cowgirl stories, and meet Miss Rodeo K-State, Abbey Pomeroy.

10:00AM


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Saturday 28Pagan Coffee@ Bluestem BistroPagan? Pagan-curious? Pagan-friendly? Come join Manhattan’s longest running pan-pagan social group.

6:00PM

7:30PM The Hype Weekly Pitch Meeting@Auntie Mae’s ParlorCome give us your ideas, your concerns, your comments and questions! If you want to write, shoot, draw or work for The Hype, this is step one.

Downtown Saturday Farmers' Market of Manhattan@5th & HumboltThese vendors come from all over Northeast Kansas bringin fresh produce, meat, eggs, crafts, jams & jellies, etc.

8:00AM

Paws on the Patio@AJ’s New York Pizzeria PatioAJ’s New York Pizzeria and The Mutt School invite you and your dog to AJ’s patio, where you can enjoy pizza and your dog can enjoy the great smells, special pizza crust treats and the com-pany of other canines.

5:00PM

Sunday Jazz Brunch@Bluestem BistroLive jazz every Sunday morning during brunch.

11:00AM

Sing-A-Long with Mr. Steve@Bluestem BistroIf you want to bring your kids in for a fun activity, come join us in our meeting room as our manager, Mr. Steve, plays silly kid’s songs!

9:00AM

Downtown Wednesday Farmers’ Market of Manhattan@CICO ParkThese vendors come from all over Northeast Kansas bringing fresh produce, meat, eggs, crafts, jams & jellies, etc.

4:00PM

9:00AM Linear Trail Historical Lifestyle Ride@Big Poppi BikesDistance: 5-10 miles. Join Big Poppi Bicycle Co and the Flint Hills Area Bike Club each Saturday morning for a casual ride on Linear Trail.

Toddler Time@Manhattan Public Library Storytime RoomA storytime for young children with their parents or caregivers.

11:00AM

SUNSET Monday Night Lights River Trails MTB Ride@Big Poppi BikesDistance: 1-3 laps/6-18 miles. Tired of Monday Night Football? Why not join us for a ride on your mountain bike at night?

Women’s-Mountain/Cyclocross Bikes Gravel Ride@Big Poppi BikesDistance: 10-15 miles. Calling all LADIES! Come join us for a gravel ride as we enjoy the Flint Hills and an incredible Kansas sunset. Bring your headlights and taillights just in case.

6:00PM


ALL DAY

Backyard BBQ@Famous Dave’sAll proceeds from non-alcoholic beverages will be donated to the Eric Moore family for financial assistance with his battle with cancer. There will also be a silent auction.

ALL DAY

Downtown Saturday Farmers' Market of Manhattan@5th & HumboltThese vendors come from all over Northeast Kansas bringin fresh produce, meat, eggs, crafts, jams & jellies, etc.

8:00AM

8:00AM Iris Sale@KSU GardensHundreds of locally grown varieties (many award winners) of beautiful iris to choose from. Proceeds benefit the KSU Gardens.

Flint Hills Pride General Membership Meeting@Xcalibur Club, Junction City, KSCome show your pride by becoming a member.

7:00PM

Movie Night at the Flint Hills Discovery Center@The Flint Hills Discover CenterExperience a movie like never before in the Flint Hills Discovery Center’s Immersive Experience Theater.

7:00PM


5:00PM Around the World Dinner@Bluestem Bistro Try something new and tasty from a different country! For only $5 you can sample excellent cuisine from all around the world!

The Brandinos@Bobby T’sIf you don’t know the Brandon Clark Band yet, now is the time to make their acquaintance and join the party.

10:00PM


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Interruption Number Two I’m glad that I was reminded by my mother that her story was already written, as it fits right in to the theme of this piece. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have your school bombed out, or to have to carry around a gas mask. As I have received and read these stories, I realized how much I didn’t know about my own parents. All we ever know is our own safe little world as we were growing up, and most of that time really is just taken for granted. The more I read, the more I am dumbfounded by my ignorance. How could I have not known? I guess as much as my dad never said, I never asked, until now. The one or two page stories kept on coming.

Crossing the Atlantic The trip to the docks was largely uneventful. After leaving the train, we formed up in platoons and marched the two blocks to the loading ramps. It was interesting that our hike took us through Fulton’s fish market. It covered more than two city blocks. I had never seen live lobster before. These were eighteen inches long and looked ferocious. At one side farm-

ers with pick-up trucks were loading lobster with pitchforks. They were damaged in the trawling for them and unsaleable. The truck farmers around the city ground them up and used them for fertilizer. We had New York-ers in our outfit who knew everything. We boarded the Queen Eliza-beth at one of the lower ramps which took us to “C” deck, just above the wa-ter line. Fourteen thousand troops ‘en-joyed’ Elizabethan accommodations. Our stateroom, built for a couple, had three triple bunks in it. To turn over, you had to get out and reenter with the other side down. We were six days at sea. It was two thousand, three hundred eighty miles from New York to Grenock, Scotland. For the first eight hundred miles, we had air cover as we cruised along at 20 or 25 knots. PB-Y’s and dirigibles flew overhead scanning the ocean depths for menac-ing shadows. They carried fifty-pound bombs to disable any German subs that showed up. They covered a lane four miles on either side of the ship’s path. At the other end of the trip, Brit-ish planes and blimps offered a similar service. The middle four or five hun-dred miles, we were on our own. The

QE could manage 38 knots and the zig-zag course pattern used up most of our six-days trip time. One evening, up on deck, the breeze was quite cool and great chunks of ice were all around us. The next morning, up on deck, the breeze was quite warm and the water be-low seemed an odd brown color. The scuttlebutt had it that in the night, we made a huge detour because word had come through that a sub pack was stretched out across our former path waiting for us to come along. Our speed was about ten times that of a sub under water so their only hope of launching a torpedo was to catch us going by. I was happy to disappoint them. The brown sea color was the Gulf Stream. The next day, we were favored with a huge storm. It was the edge of a hurricane. Most memorable was when the ship dropped into a trough, the waves seemed taller than the bridge and superstructure. When we topped the crest of the waves, the ship’s propellers were out of the water for an instant when they would speed up. Back in the water again, the ship would give a great jerk that was disconcerting. There were two spare screws lashed to the deck. The monstrous things were twelve feet across. The center hole to take the drive shaft was nearly two feet across. The blade edges were two inches thick. They were solid brass and must have weighed a lot. Mess call was at six to eight in the morning and noon to three in the afternoon. The lines were long. We kept hearing strange noises behind the paneling in our stateroom. One of the men had a Swiss Army knife, so he unscrewed the section of paneling

to examine the cause. It was a kind of elevator that lifted stores from the hold to the galleys above. We helped ourselves to a case of oranges, a carton of Hershey bars and two cases of Pepsi, thinking we could stay out of that long chow line. We were right but not for the reason we thought. Along the corridors, on each deck, spread out the length of the ship, were fifty gallon G.I. cans. We soon learned what they were for. Even before the storm hit, there were men who became seasick and during the storm, it became wide-spread. Imagine rows of fifty-gallon G.I. cans full of puke on five decks – the product of several thousand distressed stomachs. I wasn’t bothered too much; I spent all the time I could on the upper decks. The huge seas, the pitch, yaw and roll of our ship both-ered most of its passengers and filled the cans in the corridors. One product of the storm, I was told, was a water spout we passed through; it dumped tons of tiny squid all over the ship. As soon as it was safe to be on deck, crew members were out with hoses, clean-ing up. That was fortunate because in just a few minutes, the smell was hor-rible. The rest of the trip was largely uneventful, or at least we didn’t know what hazards we missed. Keep in mind that fully a third of the lend-lease material the U. S. shipped overseas went to the bottom of the ocean. That is how infested with German subs the Atlantic had been. We made it! What a tribute to our British crew who trans-ported us!

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BAN ALL THE THINGS!the wake of the attack in Aurora, CO, debate has escalated over gun control, mental health and society. As always, in such situations, fervor is high. The

likely result will be that some unhelpful law will be passed so that legislators appear to be DO-ING SOMETHING and then the rousing of the rabble will cease until a new event strikes the media’s fancy and the cycle begins anew. The biggest kerfuffle, of course, is over the issue of gun control. “Why does a normal person need an AR-15?”ask the naysayers. “They can’t take errrrrrrrr guns!”proclaim the gun enthusiasts. Demands are made for stricter gun control laws. Meanwhile, anyone who passes a rudimentary skills exam is allowed to purchase and operate a car. Automobile accidents killed over 36,000 people in 2009, nearly 100 per day, 3x the number of people killed in gun related homicides. Why aren’t psychiatric exams required to operate a motor vehicle? Why does anyone need a car that drives over 30 mph? If we limit cars (excepting emergency ve-hicles and highway-based public transportation) to 30 mph, we would save tens-of-thousands of lives. It would make it much more difficult for criminals to flee the scene of a crime. Society would slow down. Quality of life would go up. We would have time to enjoy the small things, to stop and smell the roses, to live. Eliminating cars would immediately introduce a very real

benefit to the world with the only cost being convenience. Removing guns from society, however, would bring about negligible improvement at best. It might save a few lives, but exponentially more would be saved by removing unhealthy food and drinks. If every gun in the world were to disappear, the likelihood of mass murder would not diminish. Would you accept the elimination of every potential agent of mass destruction? If so, say goodbye to your precious car. It won’t be moving too quickly without fuel. The other question repeatedly posed as people discuss the shooting in Aurora is “Why don’t we talk about mental health?”What most people don’t consciously realize is that what they are really asking is “Why don’t we have a national discussion about mental health in the media?”The answer to that question is simple: The media thrives on poor mental health. If we start discussing things like schizo-phrenia, it might lead to us more closely exam-

ining other aspects of our mental health, which could lead to realizations regarding concepts such as consumerism. The media doesn’t want that. The government doesn’t want that. The corporations don’t want that. And they’re doing everything in their power to convince us that we don’t want it either. It isn’t coincidental that the two mental health problems most discussed on television, depression and anxiety, have spawned multibillion dollar pharmaceutical

industries. As soon as they have an occasion-ally successful pill to treat schizophrenia or anorexia, those conditions will become media darlings as well. So when discussing the tragedy in Aurora, strive to eliminate scapegoats from the conver-sation. Look beyond the tools used to perpetu-ate the incident and take a long hard look at the underlying cause. There is always another way, but there isn’t necessarily always another reason.

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Chainsaw by Rio McCarthy

A cheerleader who has her boyfriend’s head as a keychain, hacking up zombies with a chainsaw, and glorious music of the 80s and today? Yeah, you can definitely get your kicks with mostly anything that tickles your fancy in this game, as long as you’re not easily offended. If naughty curse words and wiener jokes offend you, then you probably should look elsewhere already. Have we gotten rid of the easily offended? Good. Now, let’s have some fun! We start with Juliet Starling, who is our

butt kicker extraordinare. It’s her 18th birthday, and she’s a cheerleader on the San Romero High School cheer squad. She’s on her way to meet her boyfriend, Nick, when there’s a zombie outbreak. The story goes on to get more crazy from there. If you haven’t been privy to playing a Suda 51 game yet, first; what’s wrong with you? Second, be prepared for a great story covered with perverted jokes and foul language. I warned you about it earlier, but when you get to the first boss, Zed, who is voiced by Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indul-

gence, you’ll truly see what I mean, as he literally assaults you with words. The gameplay itself is fairly simply, and I sup-pose you could go around just mashing buttons and probably make your way through the game fairly easily, but the combos aren’t hard to memo-rize. You’ll only need to master a handful of them, and the rest you can easily get lucky with. There is a small amount of aiming you’ll have to do for certain attacks you get, and you’ll have to get used to some quick time events, but even as someone who usually hates them I found myself having no

problems. The only problem I ever found myself having was that I wanted to collect EVERYTHING. Clearly this isn’t an actual problem, because if you’re into earning achievements or trophies, you’ll be having to do the same thing. There are a ton of outfits, combos, upgrades, MP3s and concept artwork you can unlock with the zombie medals you collect while playing the game. All of them are a nice in-centive for wanting to do your best while you play. Speaking of outfits, I’m sure you’ve seen all of the hubbub surrounding the game and talking about how misogynistic it is. Well, I honestly don’t see a single instance of where that would come to play in the story as a whole, granted some of the things the zombies yell at you could be seen that way. Sure, she’s put into a cheerleader outfit (or a slew of others that you can unlock) but.. she’s a cheerleader. Plain and simple. You use cheerlead-ing moves as part of your arsenal, so I really don’t see why this is a problem. Sure, there’s fanservice, but that didn’t stop Bayonetta from kicking butt either.Now when it comes to story, that’s when you really need to pay attention. I would almost advise you to play this game by yourself the first time through just so that you can catch all of the jokes and refer-ences that are made. If you truly pay attention to

the entire story, and not just catch the jokes on the surface, you might end up actually shedding tears toward the ending of the game. Yes! I will admit that as a grown woman I cried at the ending of Lollipop Chainsaw. Say what you will, but I actually found myself getting sucked into this silly world, and enjoyed myself immensely for it. That’s the point I try to make with this review. Enjoy yourself. Shut your brain off, put your mind on a brain vacation and just sit back and enjoy this game for the fun it was meant to bring. It’s not a serious mind bending thinker, and it’s far from perfect, but you know what? You’re going to have fun. As much as you try to hate the game, and you try to find all the flaws, at the end of the day it’s fun. I enjoyed myself while playing this game more than I have, in I can’t even recall how long. That’s what made this game perfect to me, the fact that I could just relax and have fun like the old days of my childhood. Where else can you enjoy references of Stephen Hawking, Warren G. Harding, Fist of the North Star, My Little Pony, Evil Dead, Tony Basil, Buckner and Garcia, along with nearly any video game under the sun? Well, I have yet to ever see anywhere else. That’s why I’ll go so far as to say this is my game of the year. Do yourself a favor and pick this game up, make a little ‘me time’ and play this game all the way through. Worst case scenario? You’re going to have fun! Now where’s that bag of lollipops..?


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The year is more than half over, and looking at the CD cases littered all over my car and living room floor, it’s hard to pick which ones are the best of the best (unless it’s the Die Antwoord album--why is that still in my possession?). 2012 has turned out to be an excellent year for music in all genres, from sludge metal to old school rap to R&B slow jams. The finest record of the year (so far) is Liar’s WIXIW, an album that reveals new pleasures with every listen and possibly the high point of the band’s already remarkable career. Other than that, the fol-lowing list is unranked and should serve as a guide to the most essential and non-essential releases of the year so far. Die Antwoord fans, move along now.

The Best: WIXIW--Liars: An amazing footnote to Kid A that paints humanity as a gloriously ugly picture only Liars could make. Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables--Todd Snider: The anti-Bruce Springsteen set of working-class tunes; a rare blend of no bullshit and no cynicism. Reign of Terror--Sleigh Bells: This is a story about a girl named Lucky who just bought her first Def Leppard album. Looking 4 Myself--Usher: This record has been sci-entifically engineered so that anyone who listens to

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“We get a lot of people who come by, stick their heads in and say, ‘Ev-erything’s changed, but you’re still here; same place, same name!’” says Snyder. Starting in 1984 with 650 square feet and four chairs, Shear Dynamics has expanded both their size and services over the years to include everything a modern full-service salon and spa offers. Shear offers everything from cuts and

nails to waxing, massage, skin treatments and full product lines. But with 28 years of business, it’s pret-ty obvious that the people keep com-ing back because of the service and attitude of the la-dies at Shear. “We get a lot of people that come back; to football games or other events. They’ve moved off in the world, but they always come see us when they’re in town,” Snyder says.

To celebrate their 28 years of salon awesomeness, Shear will be offer-

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Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Ha-thaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Morgan Freeman,

Marion Cotillard and Gary OldmanScreenplay by: Jonathan Nolan and

Christopher NolanDirected by: Christopher Nolan

Vladimir Lenin once wrote, “The scientific concept of dictatorship means nothing else but this—power without limits, resting directly upon force, restrained by no laws, absolutely unrestrained by rules.” This is the essential message of Christopher Nolan’s epic trilogy opus The Dark Knight Rises. The villain, Bane, is brute force, unmitigated by morals or reason. He is the literal representation of George Orwell’s idea of authoritarianism, “a boot stamping on a hu-man face—forever.” Bane is the boot and Gotham City is the face being stamped upon. Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne is living in seclusion, hobbled and battled scarred from his time spent waging a one-man battle on crime. Wayne is effectively re-tired as the Caped Crusader, due to taking the rap for the crimes of Harvey Dent/Two-Face. In the interim, Gotham has lionized Harvey Dent, passing the Dent Act to crack down on organized crime. Commissioner Gordon is beginning to regret his role in covering up the truth about Dent and agonizes over whether he should tell Gotham’s citizens what really happened. Meanwhile, Bane, a gas mask wearing, highly intelligent monster is headed towards Gotham with the goal of destroying it and rebuilding the city by subjugating the upper class and freeing the repressed. Batman must come out of retirement to face this new threat, while sparring with slinky cat burglar Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), mentoring an idealistic young cop, John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and

The Dark Knight Risesentertaining romance with Wayne Enterprises board member Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard). In the four years since 2008’s The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan has upped the ante even further than he did previously. Bane isn’t necessarily a more compelling villain than Heath Ledger’s Joker, but he is more terrifying. Bane is a figure of brute force. While the Joker considered himself an “agent of chaos,” Bane wants something worse: to level society, specifically Gotham City, and bring rule under his sole control. He does this by upending the social strata and freeing and arming all of Gotham’s criminals. Tom Hardy’s Bane isn’t as flashy as the Joker, but he’s frightening in the pure, elemental force he represents. As Bruce Wayne/Batman, Christian Bale is a gaunt, haunted figure. He’s lost Rachel Dawes, the love of his life, he’s been crippled and destroyed by his crime fighting and the city he’s sworn to protect considers his alter ego a villain. As Bruce Wayne remakes himself into a weapon for justice, we are hyper-aware, more than usual, that a real person is underneath the batsuit. Anne Hathaway is in ultra seductive mode as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. She’s a thief with a tar-nished heart of gold and she awakens something in Bruce Wayne that he hasn’t felt in a long time. The other female lead, Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, never quite reaches the level of enjoy-ment we get from Hathaway’s Catwoman. Cotillard’s character, by nature is less overtly sexual than Hathaway’s. However, she makes an interesting love interest for Bruce Wayne and she is more than meets the eye. One of the best things about Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, is how keyed in it has been with the present times, and yet, has never commented on any of the issues directly. Nolan is content to throw a ball in the air and leave the viewer to catch it. The Dark Knight Rises is rooted in the pres-ent day and Nolan positions the story in a world that is recognizably our own. We’re in the world of Barack Obama’s class warfare rhetoric and Mitt Romney’s empire building jingoism, a world where myth can overtake reality. It’s no wonder that the citizens of Gotham, fed a lie about Harvey Dent’s heroism, so easily turn back to Batman after thinking him a villain. They’re us. Instead of holding fast to an ideal, we look for men who will make us extravagant promises. When these promises don’t hold up, we turn towards another person who offers unrealistic promises. Nolan’s trilogy lays this truth bare. This is what a Batman film should be. As the most human of superheroes, Batman is perfectly positioned to offer commentary on our current state of affairs.

Christopher Nolan has concluded this trilogy with a brilliant final chapter that doesn’t pull any punches. This is spectacularly epic filmmaking at its best.

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Kimberly Levaco is sixteen going on seventy-two in this depiction of a startlingly dysfunctional family. Mary Elizabeth Atwood starred as Levaco. Atwood perfectly embodied an angst-ridden teen in search of normalcy despite her extreme aging condition. This type of insight I assume can only come from not only having been a teenage girl but also going through the difficult process of raising one. Her aged appearance is ironic considering she is most definitely the most mature of her clan at times. Which includes her pregnant dim-witted mother, drunken blue-collar father, and scheming lesbian aunt who round out the cast of outwardly psychologically damaged adults. Let’s not forget the shy and babbling sixteen-year-old boy who develops a crush of sorts on Kimberly. Kimberly struggles to find normalcy despite her aging condition, and spends much of the play begging her parents to at least act the part. Her parents Buddy and Pattie, played by Jared Clark and Krista Foster opt to ignore their daughter’s birthday, knowing that her condition will likely take her from them at such a young age. Clark’s portrayal of a drunken concerned father was spot on. He was able to display the typical overprotective nature expected from a father while still having the flip side that consisted of drowning himself in alcohol as to help glaze over his reality. Clark was fantasti-cally negative and gave the audience plenty of laughs, as did Krista Foster. Foster, who played the pregnant wishful mother whose optimism and uncontrollable cursing made the audience simulta-neously sympathize and root for her made quite the couple. Although the two were constantly badgering one another, they had their sweet reflective mo-

ments as well. This wonderfully damaged family wouldn’t have been quite as entertaining without Debra, played by Mary Renee Shirk. Every time Shirk took the stage the audience knew they were in for a laugh. Whether plotting out her next fraud, or defending her niece, Shirk balanced her talent for laughs with being frightfully intimidating to Kimberly’s crush, Jeff. Jeff was played by J. Ryan Roberts, who put up with Kimberly’s dysfunctional family quite well considering he was being threatened by one of them at all times. Roberts does well reverting back to the teenage stage full of awkward moments with the other sex and discovering who to befriend doesn’t always have to be based off looks. He proves to be a friend and more to Kimberly. This play was extremely entertain-ing; especially for those who can relate to having a family that is less than perfect. The plot brings up a resemblance to Sixteen Candles in a way. Like the classic eighties movie, it was equipped with both a lack of remembrance and a boy there to save the day, even if it is for a homework assign-ment. When everything falls into place towards the end, the audience almost feels as though there is a chance of a happily ever after for these characters. It is clear that dysfunction is the new nor-mal. This was my first experience at the Manhattan Arts Center, and not knowing what to expect I can confidently say just how talented my professors and neighbors are.

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While celebrated by its loyal and sizable fan base, Happy Valley Chinese Restaurant is not without its faults. And while it ranks among the better Chinese restaurants in town, it is by no means the best. Formerly of Aggieville, the local favorite is now located at 2307 Tuttle Creek Boulevard in the Blue Hills Shopping Center. The modestly sized restaurant is festooned with enough Chinese decorations to get the point across, though none of the trappings really scream authenticity – an Icelandic restaurateur in Brazil would most likely decorate her Chinese restaurant in a similar fashion. An old episode of “Monk” showing on the large TV did not add to the ambiance. I do commend Happy Valley for their use of silk-like drapes that separate the single dining room into smaller sections without breaking the flow of the space. Diners can be afforded a modicum of privacy even at peak dining times.

However, you probably don’t want to be there at peak dining times anyway. My first visit to the new Happy Valley

occurred during the dinner rush when the restaurant first opened, and it was not handled well. Our waitress that night was harried and unforgiving, at one point telling my party of five that if we weren’t prepared to order at that moment, our food would take more than 40 minutes to prepare. My most recent visit went much better. The meal was

able to go at a relaxed pace and our waitress was much friend-lier. Still, I found the restaurant’s menu has both treasures and pitfalls. I ordered two appetizers this time around, the four-piece crab Rangoon ($3.95) that our waitress recommend and an order of egg rolls (two for $1.95). The rolls were outstanding – easily the best I’ve had in Manhattan. The Rangoon, however, was a complete let down. Seemingly devoid of crab meat of any kind, the crab Rangoon tasted like watered-down cream cheese fried in dough. For my main course, I was told by a Happy Valley fan to ask for the Moo Shu Pork (a substitution of Moo Shu Beef that’s not on the menu, despite my waitress insisting that it was). This came hot with a dark sauce and two Chinese pancakes for $12.95 and was some of the best Chinese food I’ve ever had. This mouthwa-tering, savory concoction delicious and something I’ll be back for again. I was doubly glad, as this dish more than topped the lacklus-ter Moo Goo Gai Pan ($10.95) I ordered on my last visit. Bland and featuring very little chicken, the dish (which our waitress called “chicken and vegetables” upon delivery) didn’t say much about the kitchen’s prowess at the time. My friends seemed to enjoy their entries, which included the $10.95 Lemon Chicken and $11.95 Shrimp with Mushrooms. As a whole, we were unimpressed with the sides that accompanied each dish, such as the subpar egg drop soup and confusing fried rice, which was plain and bared little resemblance to what one normally expects from fried rice. The meal ended with fortune cookies and a smile from our gracious waitress, who was a real

credit to her profession. Friendly and helpful, she made every effort to ensure we had a good time. Happy Valley is not a consistent restaurant. Depending on your server, the time you go and what you happen to order, you could have a great night out or a disappointing evening. And without a friend (or me) to point out what’s good and what’s not, there’s no way to tell if you’ll be lucky or unfortunate. Happy Valley Chinese Restaurant can be a great restaurant. There are options on the menu that delight and servers who excel. However, for every delicious dish there seems to be one that’s marinated in mediocrity, and for every caring waitress there seems to be one eager to rush you out the door. I will continue to go to Happy Valley, as I can see the res-taurant improving over time. But it’s not always your best option, and it’s not yet living up to its potential.

J Parker Roberts is a local writer and food critic. More of his work about dining out and staying healthy can be found at littleapplefoodie.wordpress.com.

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