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group The National.

Has someone told you to fi nd a hobby lately? If so, Cham-paign-Urbana Stamp Club’s 41st Philatelic Exhibition might be just what you need.

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Records We Missed: Øde Vinter - Glass Caskets

We review the black metal band’s summer EP release and see if it’s up to snuff, as the impending Halloween holiday approaches.

So Many Pumpkinsby Paul Angelillo

Thinking of throwing out your failed jack-o-lanterns and beaten down display pumpkins? Instead, learn how to take all that plump, orange goodness and craft stunning fall dishes that are sure to be a “treat.”

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Laughter is one of the few universal ex-pressions that does not change much across different lan-guages and cultures. We may laugh for a variety of reasons, but our ha-ha’s and

ho-ho’s will remain constant, no matter who you are. So perhaps it is no surprise that Champaign-Urbana has produced a gener-ous number of comedians and funny people.

But from reading this magazine, our sister publication The Daily Illini or even our friends over at Smile Politely, you would have almost no idea that a comedy scene existed in our community. I will be the first to admit that we have not done as great a job covering this scene as (we like to think) we do when cov-ering the local music, arts or food scenes, but this issue marks what I hope will be the beginning of a long and productive relation-ship between buzz and those involved with C-U Comedy.

I am beyond excited that this first annual C-U Comedy Festival is happening. I have known members of the group, including my buddy Matt Shancer, for many years and hope this event and C-U Comedy’s continued suc-cess will garner these funny folks more well-deserved attention.

So, go to the shows this week and experi-ence the C-U Comedy Festival. Keep seeing these guys at the weekly open mic nights at Canopy Club and Memphis on Main. Hell, you’re already reading our magazine, so go check out our interview with C-U Comedy leader Jesse Tuttle on page six. There is a wealth of talented folks calling Champaign-Urbana home, but we will not foster a creative environment and a comedy scene unless the audience is there to support them. I’ll see you all out there this weekend.

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» My Coffee Addiction: In recent weeks, I have grown increasingly fond of coffee. I have hated the stuff all my life until this past sum-mer when sitting in a cubicle for 40 hours a week finally forced me

to crack. I started out small with a cup of boiling hot coffee and after a few sips I decided that hot coffee was not for me. Fortunately coffee is served in a va-riety of ways leaving me with plenty of alternatives. The next day, I decided to go for an iced coffee and I was hooked. Soon a cup a day turned into four and I was never going back. Now that I’m back at school and not working where coffee is free I am having trouble satisfying my cravings while saving money. I’m quickly starting to realize that maybe despising coffee wasn’t such a bad thing after all.

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For some reason, many people love a good ghost story to scare them right out of their pants. Hal-loween is coming up, and Spurlock Museum is starting the festivities with a boom. This Satur-day, Oct. 25, Spurlock will host two ghost story-telling events. The first is from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. called “Gruesome, Gory, and Ghastly Ghosts and Ghouls,” and it will be more kid friendly—stories the whole family can enjoy. The Spurlock Museum website says, “The children will leave with bags of candy to start their trick-or-treating off right.” The event is free with a $5 suggested donation.

The second event will be at 7:30 p.m. and is called “Stories from the Other Side.” This will be for all those folks out there who can handle a real ghost story. Geared toward adults 16 and over, the event features more adult themes, and the fear factors are escalated. But don’t worry; the website clearly states that everyone will still get their candy. The admission will be $6 for students and $8 for adults. All of the donations and fees will go toward the museum’s programs.

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FROYO FACEOFFOrange Leaf brings new flavors and top-pings to Green StreetBY SHRUTI SRIKUMAR

J ust this October, Green Street welcomed yet another fine establishment to its already vast

multitude of enticing eateries. Located in the first floor of the Illini Media Building, Green Street’s new-est member also happens to be its second froyo franchise: Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt. Though it would seem somewhat redundant for the Oklaho-ma-based chain to open another frozen yogurt joint right around the corner from Wright Street’s popular Cocomero, Orange Leaf does have a few deviances from the old CU favorite.

While both stores feature the same sort of bright, comfortable ambiance and familiar self-serve format, Orange Leaf most noticeably shakes things up in the flavor department, introducing a nice variety of new froyo flavors to campus. A couple of the mouthwatering options that im-mediately stand out include brownie batter, cinnamon roll, chocolate salted caramel and “spoon-in-the-jar-good” peanut butter. Overall, Orange Leaf carries a rather decedent array of froyo flavors compared to the fruitier, more down-to-Earth offerings of the nearby Cocomero. In place of chocolate, peanut butter and caramel delights over at Cocomero, you’ll find refreshing honeydew, earthy taro root and tangy pineapple. Orange Leaf, in turn, makes do with its namesake orange as well as pineapple, peach and straw-berry flavors. Of course, both stores stay true to the healthy philosophy of any good froyo shop

with various sugar-free, dairy-free (and might I add: guilt-free) options available to all.

In addition to these usual year round flavors, Orange Leaf and Cocomero are jumping on the autumn-themed bandwagon by introducing seasonal fall yogurts. At Cocomero you’ll find pungent, brightly-colored Pumpkin Spice soft serve that packs a satisfyingly strong cinnamon punch. Whereas at Orange Leaf, you can savor the milder Pumpkin Pie yogurt which contains muted albeit equally pleasing hints of classic fall tastes. Also noteworthy is Orange Leaf’s online presence, with their website allowing customers to check out a full list of the current flavors in a specific store location. The site also lets users vote on which flavor graces the shop next, with the current showdown being between strawberry cheesecake and Oreo cookie cake. The increased interactivity with customers is a nice touch, yet the vote options underline Orange Leaf’s focus on “dessert” flavors rather than fruitier fare.

Even though the flavors between Orange Leaf and Cocomero largely differ, thankfully both froyo places have one similarity: a huge variety of top-ping choices. Both stores have everything from sweet coconut to gummy candies to delicious fresh fruit. Personal favorites of mine include the tiny turtle-shaped chocolate treats at Orange Leaf and the fresh mango, strawberry and kiwi down at Cocomero—if only because it’s incredibly dif-

ficult to find fresh fruits anywhere else on campus.Other noteworthy differences between the two

frozen yogurt shops include Cocomero’s exten-sive selection of bubble tea, which remains unique to Cocomero alone, and Orange Leaf’s smaller-sized cups. I know it’s a seemingly inconsequen-tial difference, but I have to say that Orange Leaf’s small cups are really handy when you’re just not in the mood for a whole cup of froyo and don’t want to deal with the sight of a sad little dollop of froyo in the corner of your too-big Cocomero cup. Also of note is that Orange Leaf stays open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, one hour later than its Wright Street rival. This extra hour and the store’s more central location among Green Street’s bars could prove to be a notable feat for the “drunk food” crowd.

All in all, Orange Leaf looks to be a pleasant addition to campus with a new, tasty selection of frozen yogurt flavors and toppings. Moreover, with such little distance between them and such similarity in design and format, Orange Leaf and Cocomero appear to be a complementary pair, allowing students and staff to now indulge in their sweet tooth twice as often. The cold weather might be coming, but there’s no better time to seek out a frozen treat in CU.

Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt is located at 512 E. Green Street. A full list of flavors can be found online at http://orangeleafyogurt.com.

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TV REVIEWBY AMANDA WIELGUS

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GOTHAM

TV14Starting a new TV series is always a gamble, espe-

cially when it’s on Fox. Not only is the show’s qual-ity in question, as it is with any network, but when you’re dealing with a show on Fox, who knows how long it’ll last before they pull the plug and cancel it. That said, as long as Gotham is pulling in decent enough ratings, I imagine Fox won’t want to let it go.

Based on the characters of DC Comics’ Batman universe, Gotham is a cop drama set in the years before Bruce Wayne dons the cape and cowl. The series primarily follows a young James Gordon, still in his early days with the Gotham City Police Depart-ment, as well as introducing many of the people who will one day become the iconic villains of Batman’s rogues gallery.

After watching the first two episodes, Gotham still has potential to become something great, but so far, I’m pretty disappointed with what we’ve gotten. Tell-ing the story of Bruce Wayne’s youth and depicting the state of Gotham before Batman arrived on the scene could be really interesting, as most adapta-tions of the Batman story seem to jump from the death of Bruce Wayne’s parents to his training as an adult. Creating a series to bridge that gap offers

a myriad of possibilities for stories and a number of different directions to take the show.

However, a show can’t coast on concept alone, and in its execution, Gotham seems lazy. In the pi-lot episode alone, it feels like the writers need to remind the audience that it’s a Batman show. We’ve already been introduced to the people that will one day become Catwoman, the Penguin, the Riddler and Poison Ivy, and it’s painfully over-the-top how

obvious these characters’ futures are. I wouldn’t have minded a few casual references here and there to leave me speculating as to who these characters might be, but it feels like they’re beating us over the head with it right out of the gate. I would have liked the characters to be defined by their personalities rather than having to announce their identities prac-tically every time they appear on screen.

Tonally, this show is all over the place. I would have

liked it to take a darker tone to reflect the gravity of Gotham City’s crime-ridden state, but the show doesn’t commit enough to that tone. Some of the actors play their roles straight and serious to re-flect that, but others are positively cartoonish in their performances. It’s difficult to get wrapped up in the development of the serious stories when it’s simultaneously so silly, and it’s hard to have fun with the show’s silliness in the spirit of the campy Adam West TV series because Gotham deals with darker subject matter.

Unfortunately, Gotham is not exactly what I had hoped it would be so far. Most of the leads are ser-viceable in their respective roles, and I think it could possibly turn out to be a really interesting take on the characters eventually. However, these first episodes didn’t do it for me. It doesn’t establish its own tone, the references to the comics are incredibly forced and the stories it tells feel pretty standard. For all I know, I could end up singing this show’s praises at the end of the season. Plenty of good shows have gotten off to rocky starts before figuring out what works for them. I just hope that Gotham gets better soon because I don’t know if I’ll be staying along for the ride much longer.

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UNCENSORED EXPOSURECU’s first comedy fest guarantees community chucklesNATALIE CZARNOTA

C hampaign-Urbana Comedy has been around for the past four years, successfully attract-

ing crowds and collecting a fanbase. As the scene grew, comedian Jesse Tuttle decided to take the CU comedy scene to the next level this year with the first ever C-U Comedy Festival.

“There’s something about the word ‘festival’ that gets people more behind it. The weekly shows are usually crowded, and I wanted to promote more awareness on the local scene,” Tuttle said.

There will be a wide range of people performing in the shows. Tuttle himself will participate in a few shows, the biggest one being the Suits and Ties show from Thursday night.

“(Suits and Ties) is my longest show and prob-ably my favorite show, mostly because it’s an excuse to wear a suit with no reason,” Tuttle said.

However, he wanted to host for most of the shows to showcase the talent participating, which will consist of both out-of-town and local come-dians. Tuttle wanted to use mostly local people in order to expose them to bigger crowds and get their talents out there. One of those performers is Esteban Gast, who is also helping Tuttle coor-dinate the event. Gast started participating in the local comedy scene a few years ago, but he has gotten serious about it in the past year. He goes to shows every week, with about three or four shows a week. Gast will perform every night of the event and will even host a show. He agrees with Tuttle that the festival will provide exposure to the local talent.

“I think it’s a huge opportunity to show how great of a comedy scene we have. Being part of the movement is so great, and CU is lucky to have such a great comedy scene,” Gast said.

The festival began on Tuesday and will con-tinue into Friday and Saturday night at vari-ous venues. Most of the venues are where the weekly shows usually take place, and so they

jumped on board with the festival very quickly. This Friday night, there will be a show 8 p.m. at Venue 51 and at 10 p.m. show at Exile on Main. On Saturday night, the 8 p.m. show will be at Memphis on Main, and the 10 p.m. show will be at Clark Bar. The late night show this Friday will be Shot It Up, where the performers will take three shots before the show. The late night show Saturday night—the last show of the festival—is named The Dirty Show. This is not the show for people who are easily offended, as the comedians are promoted to be as filthy as possible. Joe Roderick, one of the house com-ics of the Jukebox Comedy Club in Peoria, will travel to CU for the Saturday show at Memphis on Main. When Roderick performed in his first Memphis on Main show, he drove out an hour and a half in snowstorm to perform, and there were only three people in the audience.

“My first out of town gig was at Memphis on Main, and when I heard they were doing a Com-edy Festival, I got really jealous because I really wanted to perform but was afraid to ask. So when Jesse and Justin Tuttle asked me to be on the fes-tival, where I started growing my road feet, I was thrilled,” Roderick said.

“I’m super excited about how stacked of a line up it is, and I really can’t wait to see the looks on people’s faces when they see how funny these folks are that they’ve never heard of. The faces you see Saturday night will be the faces of the comedians you’ll be watching on TV real soon,” Roderick said.

Overall, the next two nights of the festival will be filled with laughs for all who come out to get a taste of the great comedy scene in the area.

“The festival is a big push to show people to look at all the great comedy in Champaign-Urbana. I expect it to jumpstart the comedy culture in the area even more,” Gast said. Comedian Jessie Tuttle gives an opening set at the Canopy Club. Urbana, IL. October 21, 2014. Photo by Diana Diggs


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SOMETHING TO BARK ABOUTThe Champaign Park District hosts its annual dog costume contestHANA HONG

E very dog has its day, and Howl’oween may just be your pup’s chance to shine. Residents are

double-dog dared to bring their costumed cutie to join in on the Halloween festivities during a Cham-paign Park District sponsored costume contest on Saturday, Oct. 26 in Champaign.

Registration for the Fourth Annual Dog Day Howl’oween is onsite and starts at 1 p.m. at the Champaign “Bark” District, located on the south side of Windsor Road between Rising Road and Staley Road. Dogs in costume will parade on leashes around the “small dog” section of the dog park while the “large dog” section will be open for free play. The lineup starts promptly at 2 p.m., and costume judging will immediately follow. Judged areas will feature four categories: Best Costume on a Dog Over 25 Pounds, Best Costume on a Dog Under 25 Pounds, Best Costume on a Puppy (six months or younger) and Best Matching Pair (entries of two dogs dressed to match or human and pup dressed to match).

“Last year, there was a little Chihuahua that dressed up as Superman,” said Jimmy Gleason, Champaign Park District events coordinator. “The owner would try to get the dog to jump up in the air to make it look like it was fl ying. That was pretty good.”

All canine entrants must be members of the Champaign or Urbana dog parks prior to Oct. 26. No membership registrations will be avail-able on the day of the event, and the entry fee is $5 per dog. Gleason informed that the turnout is usually about 25 dogs and 50 to 75 residents. The Dogs Over 25 Pounds category typically has the most participants.

“It’s a free event that people can go to as long as they’re dog park members,” Gleason said. “It’s also free for spectators, so it’s a great way to just pull people together.”

All dog park rules will apply during this event—no bones about it. No humans under the age of six years will be allowed in the park, no pups under the

age of four months and no more than three dogs per person will be permitted. Gleason stressed that the best thing one entering the competition can do is opt for creativity over the conventional, and to “be unique. A decent amount of people get costumes from Petco or PetPlus, but usually the people who win are the one who make their own costumes or make a unique pairing.”

Prizes—including dog treats, food, free dog ex-ams and free pampering—are sponsored by the Animal Hospital at the Crossing and will be given for fi rst and second place within each category. They will be selected by a panel of judges, con-sisting of community members like veterinarians, animal hospital workers and other district staff. Dr. Tegan Stoerger, DVM for the Animal Hospital at the Crossing, will be hosting with her husband as well. At the very end of the event, scores are rounded up and averaged. According to Gleason, the best way to make your dog memorable is to go for a quirky, untraditional combination.

“Last year, there was a fi refi ghter with a fi refi ghting dog,” Gleason said. “Someone also came as Charlie Brown with their dog as the Great Pumpkin.”

Gleason says the event is a fun way to interact with other dog owners and enjoy the community of other dog park members.

“It’s just another way to pull people together for a good time and I think generally, dog owners like to socialize and connect with one another,” he said. “(My favorite part is) seeing all the creative people out there passing with (their) dogs and how much they get into it. It pulls people together by letting them meet people with dogs so they can share that passion and connection.”

So whether you have the cutest pup-kin in the patch or the most terror-ifi c terrier in the hood, don’t be a ‘fraidy cat and join the Howl’oween march dedicated just for man’s best friend.

Champaign Park District’s Fourth Annual Dog Day Howl’oween will be held on Saturday, Oct. 26 begin-ning at 2 p.m.

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EXPANDING THE EMPIREEmpires look to show off their debut albumELIAS TRACY

E mpires have been flirting with national prominence since competing in Rolling

Stone’s 2011 “Choose the Cover” contest. Al-though the Chicago-based indie rock outfit ul-timately lost, a decisive march forward would be set into motion, culminating in a major-label record contract and a performance on the Late Show with David Letterman. We caught up with guitarist Tom Conrad prior to Empires’s upcom-ing show at The Channing Murray Foundation in Urbana to discuss the band’s growing success, their DIY ideology and the trade-offs therein.

buzz: How’s tour going?Tom Conrad: Good. We’re actually just wrap-

ping up week number five right now, so it gets a little tiring. But so far, it’s been great!

buzz: Orphan is the band’s major label debut. How do you guys maintain your DIY ethics in light of your recent success?

TC: As far as I’m concerned, it’s very much still there. There hasn’t really been too much outside input, so in the past when we’ve worn that badge it was very much been about self-recording, every-thing from our work to, you know, everything. Being a self-sufficient moving machine—I think this time around, we are still heavily involved in the process. There really wasn’t that many outside people weigh-ing in and throwing their weight around. We’re all very lucky to go do the record that we wanted to make. We began writing and demoing out Orphan way before we even had a contract or a producer in mind, so all those other things just fell into place along the journey as we still thought up what we

were doing. I mean “Orphan,” the song, was record-ed by our guitar player, and it’s still sung by myself. There’s nobody else weighing in on it other than a producer that we trusted, regardless of the label, that we wanted to work with. Even if we weren’t on Island or Chop Shop Records, we would have sought out to work with them eventually.

buzz: How about on a smaller scale? Are you still actively making the album art and flyers?

TC: Yeah, I mean all that shit—the artwork to show ads to the artwork for the releases. Man, I got a lot of time to kill in that van driving around half the country, you know what I mean?

buzz: Traditionally, bands relinquish control as they move up the ladder, so to speak. Would you make that trade-off to potentially garner more success?

TC: You only bring in outside influence if it’s an opinion or a thought or when you absolutely need that outside input. You need that second opinion sometimes. It’s very easy when you’re inside your-self, to get this weird tunnel vision and in your head you’re getting somewhere, but you’re actually go-ing down this creepy rabbit hole. I think creatively, unless something is holding you back and you’re wasting all your time on something extremely dumb—that is now hindering your art—I think that’s about the time that you should relinquish power and hand it over to somebody else. As far as I’m concerned, all of us are very much involved in every part of this band, and we do a pretty good job of juggling it. When somebody gets a little off, we pick it up. I think that’s the only time you’d ever want to hand it over to somebody, just to test other things.

I don’t think we’re there yet, and I don’t think we’ll ever get there. As long as we got good heads on our shoulders, we can work ourselves through it.

buzz: How are songs typically written for Empires?TC: Sean (Van Vleet), our singer, very much

comes together with a skeleton—a rough draft or a sketch. That could be something that is sometimes extremely fleshed out or it’s very minimal. And we are all very selfless when it comes to songs; I think all of us collectively have gotten to a point not only in our careers, but as musicians, that we do what the song needs—what’s best for it. So depending on the song, a lot of it is rearranging parts or, if it straight up needs a bridge, we’ll write something for it, or everyone will do their homework adding to it. It really does vary track to track, and I think that’s what makes writing stuff exciting. Every song has its own story in terms of how it came together.

buzz: Recently, Empires was on Letterman. How was that experience?

TC: Pretty surreal, man. It’s strange; we found out about that thing months prior, and it came up pretty quickly. I don’t think any of us really knew quite what to expect. I would see a show like David Letterman’s that’s been around forever, and everybody there has been working on that production for so long that they feel so comfortable. They know that you are excited, or nervous, or anxious or whatever it may be, and they do a very good job of making you feel at home and making it be a very comfortable experi-ence. It was very surreal but also very comfortable in a strange, weird way.

buzz: What’s next for the band?

TC: Well, we got another week of touring or so, and we got a music video for “Please Don’t Tell My Lover” coming out very shortly. Just more touring, playing and just pushing Orphan.

buzz: Have you guys been writing any new music while on tour?

TC: We’ve actually just been starting to kick around ideas. It’s funny. I guess what’s always kind of been the cycle of the whole writing, re-cording and releasing thing is working through a good amount of time to put it all together. I think I had final mixes sequenced and mastered in like March of this year, and it didn’t get released until this September. I would listen to the record and I would come back to it if I was travelling on the subway in New York or if I was driving, or if I was in a good mood that day, I would just randomly put it on. There’s a point where you’re still learning the songs—you’re still feeling them out and just understanding them in your own brain before it’s released. But once the record is released, all of us have the feeling of like, “I don’t want to hear it again.” You just let it go, you release it. It’s free. It’s up to somebody else to do what they want with it, dissect it, understand it or whatever it may be. Once the record came out on Sept. 23, now we’re starting to actually get through it and move onto the next. So it wasn’t until recently that there was talk about new songs.

Catch Empires this Friday at the Channing Murray Foundation in Urbana. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets cost $12 online.


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