Champaign-Urbana’s community magazine FREE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 15, 2012 more on JEAN-LUC GODARD FILMS 4 DROPKICK MURPHYS 6 PEANUT BUTTER LOVERS 9 READBUZZ.COM RESTURANT FOR VEGET VOL10 NO47 BREAKFAST FOOD NOVEMBER 15, 2012 GREEN BUSINESS Missed the IN THIS ISSUE EDITOR’S NOTE BESTBEST OFNEW CU 2012? BUSINESS SAMANTHA BAKALL resaleDon’t Sweat! we’ve got you covered. SHOP BARBEQUE There are some things about the holi- days that can never Find the winners forPLA KIDS THESE DAYS ALBUM REVIEW 15 come too early : snow, fireworks, candy (spe- CU’s best eateries, cifically Reese’s), PIZZAhangouts, & more DESSER Peeps, themed-funfetti products, ornaments. 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PIMP MY PUMPKIN The only thing that gets me down about the 11 Ideas for your post-Halloween pumpkin Christmas season is Delilah. Do any of you lis- ten to the Light FM? Then you know exactly who I’m talking about. Nothing ruins my Christ- mas joy like Delilah’s droll commentary about CALENDAR the wonders of the holiday season. I want to 12 Your guide to this week's events in CU hear about some real magic, lady. Let’s talk about the selflessness of people during the holidays, how people help one another out, and ON the community that the holidays foster. I don’t READBUZZ.COM want to hear about how you love the next song. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT I’m not sure where my never-ending love for Take your old Illini gear and twist it into something new! Check out the Fashion on a Christmas music came from. It might be from Budget column! all the years I sang in choir and we started re- hearsing the music in November to prepare for our holiday concerts, or maybe I have a natural FOOD & DRINK affinity towards it. Did you pick up last week’s Best of CU? If not, never fear! You can find the winners What I do know is that I’ve only had good online at readbuzz.com. memories from Christmas music, specifically, listening to the Light (hey, it’s the only station MOVIES & TV that plays it continuously post-Thanksgiving) Make our See it Now column your go-to place for film recommendations. This month with my dad while we redid the kitchen togeth- we are looking at In Bruges. er. I was pretty young, maybe 12 or 13, but all I remember is Christmas music, power tools and some quality time with my popsicle. COMMUNITY It’s totally unacceptable to listen to holiday Feeling stressed with the upcoming holiday season? Ariel suggests an activity that tunes in say March or April, not saying that I can soothe the busy routine. haven’t done that or anything, and I know that. But when this time comes around, the bound- MUSIC aries of acceptability are a little murky. Who Check out our review of Taylor Swift’s new album, Red. cares if I’m listening now? I don’t! You better not, either! 2 buzz November 15 - 20, 2012 Careful of Doritos. They're hazardous. 708 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana | 18+ | 344-Band HEADS UP! Tickets: The Canopy Club, Manolo’s Pizza & Empanadas LIKES, GRIPES & YIKES & Exile On Main St | 1.800.514.ETIX | canopyclub.com JASMINE LEE wore it despite the implications of being willing to LIKE Food & Drink Editor sleep with middle aged men. Simply enough, I liked the way “Lolita” sounded when said spoken aloud » Eating up leftovers before (Amirite? Or is that just me and my inexplicable love Thanksgiving break: Consider- for the sound of the letter “L”?) Years later when I fi - ing I have about 10 cookbooks nally realized what it meant, I was, and still continue stacked on top of one another in to be, horrifi ed. It’s one of those things that keeps my bedroom and a million reci- me up at night. Horrifi ed. HORRIFIED. THANKSGIVING pes bookmarked on my computer, BY MAGGIE SU this year hasn't yielded quite so many baking and TYLER SCHMIDT cooking opportunities as I had anticipated. It's only GRIPE Asst. Art Director The leaves have fallen, the sun sets at 4 p.m. when I have the fear of leaving my apartment for an and the grocery store is full of decorative gourds. extended period of time that I am cajoled (read: I » Chronic Bitch Face: Like many Thanksgiving season. Around this time of year in scolded myself) into actually turning on my stove surprisingly not depressed people 1621, the Wampanoag Indians sat down to eat with and oven and poring over recipes for tonight's din- in the world, I suffer from Chronic the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. For four days, ner. This, of course, is appropriate since for the next Bitch Face. Maybe it's due to my they feasted, shared both food and knowledge, week, I will be out of my Champaign apartment thick eyebrows or utter lack of chin and probably discussed their excitement over the and into the welcoming arms of my extended fam- defi nition, but I often appear to oth- upcoming Hobbit movie. What occurred afterward ily, which translates to: CLEAN OUT THE FRIDGE ers as though something is deeply wrong. I walk into a was nothing as simple as what is performed every AND/OR PANTRY. Interestingly, this dilemma is room and a friend will ask me "What happened? Are year in elementary school plays; let’s just say the less a yike and gripe and more a like, because for you OK?" Sadly no, my friend, I am completely happy Pilgrims and Indians ended up having some pretty the past week, I've been cooking up a tasty storm. at this moment. This effect has another downside as extreme differences of opinion. I've made bacon cheddar biscuits, bulgogi hot well, as apparently strangers fi nd any aspects of my Nonetheless, there exists something within pot, corn and cheddar chowder, breakfast tortillas politeness to be a complete shock, and deem it to be this historic moment, the peaceful meeting of (made up of scrambled eggs, barbecue sauce and a potentially laughing matter. two distinct worlds, which continues to captivate bacon), and biscuits and gravy. As I type this, I now the American imagination. Even today, the fi rst realize that I have a slight carnivorous problem. Ah, JORDAN RAMOS Thanksgiving makes me wonder if maybe this holi- well. I've managed to empty quite a bit of the refrig- GRIPE Copy Chief day isn’t so much about giving thanks as it is about erator — so, job well done, Jasmine. Now, when I tolerance. Tolerance of oddly congealed cranberry get back from break, I can totally justify poaching » Chronic Bitch Face: I, too, suffer sauce, tolerance of your aunt who bombards you off my mom when grocery shopping. from Chronic Bitch Face. Unlike with questions about your love life, tolerance of most females, my eyebrows have your uncle’s drunken political rants, tolerance of Michael Zhang MICHAEL ZHANG no natural arch, even in the slight- your brother who vomits in the car after overdoing ArtLIKE Director Art Director est (This is your fault, grandma!) Blackout Wednesday. This year as you sit down to Like Consequently, I always look like I eat with your family, look around the table at the » Honeycomb tile: I can't explain have furrowed eyebrows, giving off the impression I wonderfully fl awed people in your life and choose why, but I have always had a hate the world. Plus, I got thin lips. Both are working to accept them as they are, just as they do for you. strange obsession with honey- against me, making me come off as a frigid bitch. I'm In a world chock-full of division, there is something comb tile. It's just one of those usually quite a lovely person, but when my face is beautiful about a day of tolerance and understand- little things that make the world in its most natural form, it tells everyone to stay the ing. All in the name of turkey, of course. a better place to live in, along with hell away from me. Traitor. Please love me anyway. exposed brick walls, copper kettles, mason jars and bars of soap wrapped in paper. On top of that, Samantha Bakall SAMANTHA BAKALL BUZZ STAFF whenever I walk on a fl oor tiled with honeycomb, I Editor-in-ChiefLIKE Editor-in-Chief COVER DESIGN Dane Georges EDITOR IN CHIEF Samantha Bakall feel like a boss, partly because I imagine that I am Likes MANAGING EDITOR Nick Martin in a gangster fl ick and I'm about to kick down a door » '80s music: If there was any era ART DIRECTOR Michael Zhang COPY CHIEF Jordan Ramos with my tommy gun in hand, and party because I that I felt the most connection to ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: Tyler Schmidt PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Zach Dalzell feel like I'm walking on a beehive, except it's less and unfortunately never had the IMAGE EDITOR Nick Martin dangerous and more hip.