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Champaign-Urbana’s community magazine FREE WEEK OF DECEMBER 6 , 2012 more on THE NUTCRACKER'S BALLERINA 5 MUST LOVE DOGS 5 THE PERFECT POTLUCK 7 READBUZZ.COM VOL10 NO50 DECB EM ER 6, 2012 IN THIS ISSUE EDITOR’S NOTE S AMANTHA BAKALL Every year around this time, my mom asks me for a Christ- mas list so she can send it to Santa. Yes, A GUIDE TO SPIRITS 06 I am 22 years old and still believe in Santa. What are you going to do about it? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having whimsical visions of Santa coming down my chimney, taking a bite out of a cookie that I left out on the requisite “Santa plate,” (my house has a plate specifically for Santa. I don’t really know what it’s from, but it just became a tradition) leaving boxes of unwrapped gifts from Amazon and climbing back up to deliver presents to the other good little boys and girls. My brother is 15 and I am 22. I’m sure we still LO-CAL MUSIC EGGNOGGED fall within that demographic. 10 06 As I’ve gotten older, coming up with things to put on my list has become increasingly difficult. After a certain point, I’ve stopped needing things. Or maybe I finally matured enough to realize that YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE SUCKS the things I need I really don’t need. So this year RESTURANT FOR VEGET04 when my mom asked for Santa’s list in her Face- Is Donnie Darko all cult and nothing more? book inbox, I didn’t have anything to put on it. For a moment, I thought about being humor- ous and asking Santa for 1. A job, 2. Financial BREAKFAST FOOD security and 3. An apartment of my own that is GET TO KNOW not connected to my parents abode, but then I 11 buzz sits down with Enta figured Santa probably doesn’t work with non- GREEN BUSINESS material goods, which is a shame. So I had to Missed the rethink my heart’s desires. Over winter break, I plan on having a play date CALENDAR with a good friend of mine who is a boss in the BESTBEST OF CU 2012? 12 kitchen. We’re going to sous vide the shit out NEW BUSINESSYour guide to this week's events in CU of everything in sight and so I figured, in most resale practical terms, I should just ask for some ba- Don’t Sweat! dass ingredients to cook with. So, here goes: SHOPwe’ve gotB ARBEQUEyou covered. ON READBUZZ.COM Dear Santa, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Check out two reviews of one of the holiday season’s You might remember me from a few years ago. Find the winners forPLA most renowned theater productions, A Christmas Carol. It’s been a long time since I’ve addressed you di- CU’s best eateries, rectly. Usually my mom forwards you my wishes hangouts, & more DESSERFOOD & DRINK: Head on over to readbuzz.com and click on the “reviews” subsection because I’m busy, but I’ve got some time this year. PIZZA under Food & Drink to catch up on restaurant recommendations for around Chambana. Not that you don’t deserve my direct attention. I’m not looking for too much. I pretty much have everything I need. All I’m asking for this year is MOV IES & TV: No film is off limits. Check out our new feature Your Favorite Movie Sucks! Online at some coin to purchase some killer ingredients for LIVEreadbuzz.com! MUSIC VENUE cooking with a good friend. If we’re successful, COMMUNITY: Crazy stuff has been happening around CU lately. Make sure to check out which of course we will be, we’ll save you a plate. the internet for more details. And you can count on that. Thanks for being such a swell guy. Stay golden, pony boy. SMOKE BUY MUSICMUSIC: Check out our interview with Victoria Bergsman of Taken by Trees. Yours truly, SHOP HAIR SALON Samantha 2 buzz December 6 - 12 , 2012 Winter Blends: Volume One HEADS UP! LIKES, GRIPES & YIKES Like JOYCE FAMAKINWA JASMINE LEE LIKEJoyce FamakinwaMovies & TV Editor LIKELike Food & Drink Editor Movies & TV Editor Jasmine Lee » Yasiin Bey’s (aka Mos Def) »Christmas movies all day, list of dislikes: I feel like I was every day: Usually, during this just having a conversation with time of year, I am subjected to a friend about how lately hip hop the whims of ABC Family and hasn’t excited me like it did when Lifetime and Hallmark’s sched- START OF HANUKKAH I was younger (what music fan ules of Christmas movies, but BY THOMAS THOREN hasn’t taken part in this cliché of a conversation?) this year, thanks to my roommates’ seemingly Recently artists like Kendrick Lamar and Angel endless collection of them, I can indulge in the Hey, did you know it isn’t all pine trees, and red Haze have been able to change that. As far as not-so-predictable catalog of fi lms. One can only and green lights this time of year for some people? songs go, a track that has my undivided atten- see Snow so many times before I start to want to In case you didn’t know, it turns out there is an- tion right now is Yasiin Bey’s rhyme over Chief strangle the main girl lead for being too perfect. other reason for the season. Hanukkah begins Keef’s summer hit “I Don’t Like.” This was already But by changing things up with a Jingle All the Way this Saturday, Dec. 8, at sundown and runs for a song that kind of needed a little a push, and only or ..., I can justify the endless hours I spend curled eight days and nights until ending the evening improved with the addition of Pusha T and Kanye up on the sofa, gleefully living vicariously through of Sunday, Dec. 16. So now is the perfect time West. Now Yasiin Bey joins in on the fun with this the cheesy lives of picture-perfect protagonists. to learn about this Jewish holiday. And since it list of things he is not feeling, not here for, and in And what’s my favorite Christmas movie? While comes before any other major holiday this month, general just doesn’t co-sign. Things like white su- Love, Actually is close and dear to my heart, the you know it must be the best of all! premacy, cackling, caroling, petty internet rumors No. 1 spot goes to Surviving Christmas, in all its Luckily there are plenty of ways to celebrate and and the rent (it’s too high). The best line, “Yuck, zany, slapstick, ridiculous glory. Seriously, the learn about Hanukkah and all that it stands for. If you suck go away you’re always talking and you scene where Ben Affl eck falls off his childhood you don’t know what it's all about, you could just never have much to say.” He delivers this line; banister keeps me laughing everytime. walk into Sinai Temple at 3104 W. Windsor Road, which kind of reminds you of something a fi ctional Champaign, and ask, “What’s it all about?” I’m sure teenager on a CW night time soap would say, in » Holiday drinks: Two drinks make me weep with they’re friendly enough to educate you. such a harsh and disdainful manner. The best part joy that it’s fi nally December: Starbuck’s Caramel Alternatively, you could go to the Illini Union bowl- is that this song has an effortless quality; in fact it Brulee latte and Espresso Royale’s Gingerbread ing alley at 6 p.m. Sunday for a special Hanukkah- sounds like something he did during a lunch break. Chai Latte. themed evening hosted by the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University. They’ll have snacks and Jordan Ramos JORDAN RAMOS Like TYLER SCHMIDT prizes, probably for the highest score, but maybe CopyLIKE Chief Copy Chief TylerLIKE Schmidt Asst. Art Director also for making friends in the Jewish community. Likes Assistant Art Director Oh wait, that’s a prize all by itself! » Anniversaries: My (now) boy- » Disney Chanel Original Mov- Complete your Jewish trifecta by swinging by Illini friend fi rst asked me to a Cubs ies: As a '90s kid, Disney Chan- Hillel at 503 E. John St., Champaign, to see what game on June 27, 2011 (That fell nel Original Movies weren't just University students are doing for CU. through, but I still count it be- a fun thing to watch, they were a There are plenty of ways to learn about Judaism cause he did technically ask me lifestyle. In Disney's pre-That's and Hanukkah beyond your favorite comedians from out.) Our fi rst actual date was So Raven hay day, they pumped New York, so just get out there and do it! July 21. First kiss? July 24. Our actual, legitimate out a few new ones each year, every one just as anniversary? Aug. 16. And the date he fi rst told good, if not better, than the last. As a fi fth grader, me he was falling in love with me was Oct. 18. I wanted to be a true soul skater for Team Pup BUZZ STAFF So, on the 16, 18, 21, 24 and 27 of every month, and Suds with Brink. In middle school I learned COVER DESIGN Yoojin Hong it sets off an internal alarm in my head.