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Sick of always saying “yes” for fear of disappointing others? Now is the time to stop. Take a breath and do something for yourself — take a long drive, or watch an entire season of Netflix in a single weekend. Something like that. Libra 9/23-10/22 Be open to the advice others give you in the coming weeks, especially regarding relationships. Your way is not always the best way, and by seeing others’ perspectives you’ll only strengthen bonds.
Scorpio 10/23-11/21 It’s easy to fall into the routine of TV dinners and quick, processed snacks during this busy time. But apples are also easy, and so is a one-pot pasta concoction. Plus, you’ll feel better afterward!
Sagittarius 11/22-12/21 This funk you’ve been in can be cured with one simple phone call. Whether it’s to your best friend back home, your grandma or an old teacher, a little catching up will do you both some good.
Capricorn 12/22-1/19 Your luck with washing machines has been anything but exemplary for a while now, mostly due to these massive loads you’ve been shoving
in there. Maybe laundry should become more than just a monthly activity …
Aquarius 1/20-2/18 Time to speak up. You have something to say, and it’s worth mustering the courage to let it out. You don’t have to make a scene to change the scene.
Pisces 2/19-3/20 Belligerence is not attractive, and constant opposition is exhausting. You’re turning away potential new friendships thanks to your recent desire to argue constantly. When in doubt, let it go.
Aries 3/21-4/19 You’ve been on a roll lately with so many things – planning your future, being a great friend, saving money. How do you do it? Keep this rhythm up until, well, the stars change.
Taurus 4/20-5/20 The way you decorate your living space not only
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says something about who you are, but it can also shift your whole demeanor. Warm colors will do wonders for your mood.
Gemini 5/21-6/21 Purchasing gifts for others has never been your forte, but with this new burst of income you’ve acquired, maybe it’s time to get something for your mom. Honestly, she won’t care what it is. It’s the thought that counts.
Cancer 6/22-7/22 Music will play a big role in your semester, whether it’s your major or not. Make a “Morning Jams” playlist to get ready to, or burn a mix CD for a friend. Amazing things can be found beneath the “Browse” folder in Spotify.
Leo 7/23-8/22 You’re known to be a smooth talker, typically getting what you want when you want it. Be careful, Leo, because one of these days that will backfire. Don’t cut corners, and do your best to be genuine.
Nothing but the drums If the movie “Whiplash” taught us anything, it’s that playing the drums is tough. A lot of people think it’s easy, but a great drummer must be focused and in tune. Here are some great songs with drummers that were just that.
“Falling” by HAIM
“Fix Up, Look Sharp” by Dizzee Rascal
This British rapper does away with the traditional rap beat and instead goes for nonstop drumming to back up his rhymes. The result is a fun, addicting and energizing song.
The Haim sisters play all “Rescue” by The Summer their own instruments Bradley Set and on the opener to their Burgess This young band’s female Rawr celebrated album “Days Are drummer kills this love song with Gone,” they immediately her catchy drumbeat, enhancing demonstrate their skill with this song’s enjoyment factor. percussion with an infectious drum “The Takedown” by Yellowcard beat, only complemented by their Yellowcard’s song fires on all cylinders cool vocals and guitar licks.
here, with relentless drumming and guitar, plus a violin for good measure. It’s everything cool in one song.
“Novocaine” by Fall Out Boy FOB’s newest album features many great anthems, but this one in particular impresses with hypnotic drumming accompanied by “Na na nas” that will be in your head for days.
“Spin” by Taking Back Sunday The band’s heaviest song to date, “Spin” showcases drummer Mark O’Connell as one of the best in the business when he fires away on this head-banger that would leave any other drummer exhausted.
“You’re The One” by Sugarcult This short but sweet song rockets along
at lightspeed and never apologizes for it. Not that we want it to because the drumming and guitar work is first class.
“Get Back Up” by Barenaked Ladies The Ladies’ uplifting power song features fun lyrics, a cool chorus and, yes, great drums. What more do you need? Bradley Burgess can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
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“Evolve” moved too slow Frustrating shooter squanders potential “Evolve” has perhaps one of the coolest video game concepts around — four human players, each with special guns and gadgets, take on a giant monster in an epic hunting match. Now, that’s really cool. Unfortunately, “Evolve’s” restrictive gameplay and controller-hurling progression system makes one feel like much of the opportunity for a great gaming experience was removed from the game. Starting on the Hunters’ side, there are four roles for players — assault, medic, trapper and support. Each one has different gadgets that can be
used to trap the Monster. On paper, Sounds easy, right? Well, when a game this sounds cool, but the game is so starts, the Monster is dropped right heavy handedly team focused that it’s where the Hunters drop in and they near impossible to play this game as a are trying to find him. single player. The Monster must distance Each of the four Hunters is so himself from players, which is symbiotic with each other, that harder than it sounds when if one person is not on point, the every move the monster makes entire game is kaput. Unless you gives away his position. have three friends with a copy of Even more frustrating is the game all playing at the same the game’s progression system. time, which is very impractical, When you start the game, you your game will suck. only have three or four of the Bradley You’d think the Monster side game’s 15 characters to use. Burgess of things would be better, but The rest are locked behind a alas, the Monster has even more counter — productive progresproblems. The Monster begins a match sion system that forces you to use useat its weakest state and must find food less abilities to level up your character. to evolve to a more powerful form. The progress bar moves so slowly
that it’ll take months before all the characters are at your disposal. Without every single character unlocked from the get go, the game feels very limited. Apparently, there is a version of the game with all characters unlocked — for $100. “Evolve” sounded like it would be a fun game, but its over-reliance on a team experience and annoying progression, or lack thereof, throws its ambition out the window. It’s simply frustrating to play, which is a shame considering how hyped this game was and how impressive it sounded. Bradley Burgess can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
The Colossally Amazing Adventures of Norbert (and Friends) by Samantha Brownell GRRRRAAAHHHH!!!!!! Well, we survived band camp, the first week of classes, and are completely unpacked! Yep!
... Do you remember unpacking a gremlin? No ...
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Performing with passion UI theater students and alumni perform surreal play about love and loss
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Maiya Corral, in scene with Michael Brandt and Kevin O'Connell, plays the role of a widow who can't let go of her husband's memory in the play "Vigils."
UI Theater students Kevin O'Connell, Maiya Corral and alumnus Micheal Smith perform Noah Haidle's "Vigils" at the Prichard Art Gallery.
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Corrin Bond Rawr Love, loss and tragedy in a box is the story of “Vigils,” the play produced by University of Idaho students and alumni and performed at the Prichard Art Gallery last week. The show, a quirky dark comedy about a woman who loses her husband and can’t let go of his memory while trying to move on, was directed by UI senior Kadin McGreevy and ran Aug. 19-21. “The play centers around a woman who loses her husband in a fire — his soul leaves his body and starts to rise to Heaven,” McGreevy said. “His wife pulls his soul back down and keeps him in a box because she’s not ready to let go.” McGreevy said the play and its central conflicts begin two years after the death of the widow’s husband, when she decides to go on her first date since the fire. “The soul and the body are still there, they’ve just been living in her memories for two years,” he said. “All of these things finally come to the present moment when she goes on a date with a good friend of her late husband’s from the fire department ... It’s a big mess of a thing that plays a lot with the rules of death.” McGreevy first directed a scene from “Vigils” at the region seven Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, where he won the regional award for the scene. From regionals, McGreevy went on to receive a Stage Directing and Choreographers National Directing Fellowship at the national level as well as a week-long internship with the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. “I was kind of the Dwight Schrute of this playwriting internship,” McGreevy said. “I would learn and watch these directors do work with writers, but I’d mostly just watch and be quiet and observe the process.”
McGreevy said the more work intensive sides of the internship helped him develop the full “Vigils” performance in two weeks. “At night, we had these four hour long director intensives where we would have three minutes to create a one minute play,” he said. “We didn’t solidify the cast of “Vigils” until two weeks before we opened which was terrifying and really intense but coming off of learning how to make a play in two minutes, two weeks feels like a long time.” The Kennedy American College Theater Festival is where Maiya Corral, the cast member who played the role of the widow, first became friends with McGreevy. “I had met Kadin briefly a year before and in a really magical moment we both directed the same scene from Vigils for the festival,” she said. “We connected when it came to working on the play because we both love it so much.” Corral, a BFA theater student who transferred to UI this year, said her role in the play challenged her as a performer. “During rehearsal, I would have to sort of turn off my director brain, the analytical part of me, and live in the heart of the character,” Corral said. “I’ve been focused on directing for years so that was a challenge but I love the story so much I feel like I can understand the characters.” Corral said she was excited to see how the audience responded to such a personal play performed in a space as intimate as the one provided by the Prichard. “For this performance, I’m most excited for the audience to be a part of the story because I think it’s extremely accessible,” she said. “It’s sort of a fairytale, otherworldly type story but there’s so much in it that really connects to our hearts.” Corral, who moved to Moscow two weeks before joining the “Vigils” cast, said one of the highlights of the play has been the overwhelming
support she and her cast members have received from the community. “It’s amazing to me how much I’ve been welcomed here, I’ve never been so welcomed into a community before,” she said. “The faculty and students are so supportive of the arts and theater and the community has shown nothing but love and support for us.” McGreevy said both the community support and the support from his fellow cast members has been the best part of producing and performing the play. “This cast has challenged me completely and shaken everything I knew about theater,” he said. “The entire play was a collaboration and it has created a better story because it’s everyone who has contributed to this play and it’s an honor to be working with these people.” McGreevy said the performance differed from anything he and the other cast members have ever done because of how independently driven the play’s development was. “The process has been entirely our own which has been pretty crazy, especially when you’ve invested your heart and you’ve worked every single bit of it and it’s become this collective thing,” he said. “The hardest part of being a director is letting that collaborative process happen and letting the actors take over the performance when your heart is in it too.” McGreevy said the experience of producing “Vigils” was all about the cast members and those involved in the collaborative process. “My experience in Washington, D.C. was great and because of it, the play has kind of been drawn back to me but it’s not about me at all,” he said. “Everyone I’m working with, this play is really their thing and I’m just a part of it, maybe even a voice for it, but it’s really about them — my people.” Corrin Bond can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
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Keeping up calories Claire Whitley Crumbs I realized a few weeks ago that I don’t eat enough. I skipped lunch almost every day and only ate meager breakfasts and dinners. If that was happening in the summer, what would happen during the school year? Well, with the help of campus dietician Marissa Rudley, I came up with a plan. Hide snacks and meal supplies around my office. Not every student has an office, I know, but the idea is easily transferable to a backpack, a duffel bag or even a purse. Just replenish the stash every night before hitting the hay. Granola bars are good to keep in a backpack. For the last two years, I had at least one granola bar in a pocket every day. It is especially nice to pop open a granola bar and munch on it while taking notes during that 2 p.m. class that seems to drag on forever. Of course, be sure to check if it is okay with the professor before
just nom-ing away. If it gets harder and harder to get to Bob’s Place or the Idaho Commons Food Court for lunch, it might be handy to replace that granola bar with a heartier CLIF Bar or LUNA Bar. CLIF Bars have about 250 calories per bar and, while that isn’t a pure meal substitute, it can tide someone over for an hour long class. Another great snack food is trail mix or mixed nuts. They sell ingredients for both, or premixed, in bulk at WinCo and the Moscow Co-Op, and there may even be some at Rosauers. It is super easy to keep little Ziploc bags filled with the crunchy snack. With the right ingredients, it can pack a huge protein punch. Nuts in particular will be a great way to get calories, healthy fats and protein. Again, this isn’t a meal substitute, just something to munch on between classes or during a lunchtime class. Some fruits are also great at sur-
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viving in a backpack. Oranges are particularly good, offering a strong source of Vitamin C. They can be peeled on the spot or beforehand, if you don’t want to smell like an orange in class. Bananas are a good source of potassium, but can get a little bruised in a backpack. Unless they get squished by a textbook, they should still be solid by snack time. Of course, none of these are better than actually finding the time to eat lunch. Sitting down to have a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich would take little time and is actually a substantial calorie load to get through those afternoon classes. Just do yourself and your body a favor this year, and stay sustained. If hungry, eat something, anything, even if it is just a snack. Claire Whitley can be reached at crumbs@uidaho.edu or on Twitter @Cewhitley24
A Crumbs recipe Stacked enchiladas Stacked enchiladas is a great recipe because it tastes great and is extremely versatile. If you do not like the meat that we have in this recipe you can easily substitute it with something else. Everything in this recipe can be changed to make it more relatable to your taste buds, which allows it to suit everyone you are trying to serve.
Ingredients n 3 cups red enchilada sauce n 18 small corn tortillas n 1 15 ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained n 1 15 ounce can whole kernel corn, drained n 6 green onions, thinly sliced n 1/2 pound of Chorizo n 2 1/4 cups shredded Moterey Jack or Mexican blend cheese n 1/2 cup loosely-packed chopped fresh cilantro
Directions 1. Heat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare a 9x13inch baking dish with cooking spray 2. Pour about 3/4 cup enchilada sauce in the baking dish, and spread until the bottom of the dish is coated 3. Top with a layer of about 6 corn tortilla
so that the entire dish is covered 4. Sprinkle evenly with about 1 cup black beans, 1/2 cup corn, 1/4 cup cilantro, 1/2 cup of chorizo, 1/2 of the green onions and about 3/4 cup shredded cheese 5. Repeat with a second layer of tortillas, then sauce, then beans, corn, cilantro, chorizo, green
onions and cheese 6. Then a final layer of tortillas, sauce and cheese 7. Cover the pan with aluminum foil, then bake for 20 minutes 8. Remove aluminum foil and place in oven uncovered and bake for 10 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly 9. Serve warm
Jordan Hollingshead can be reached at crumbs@uidaho.edu
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Playing for a cause Musical father-daughter duo raise money for Imagine No Malaria Lyndsie Kiebert rawr Jeff Lowery and his 10-year-old daughter, Paige, are a musical duo from Veneta, Oregon, that call themselves the Functional Monkeys. They write, perform and record original music. All proceeds from shows and album sales go toward Imagine No Malaria, a campaign dedicated to raising awareness about the devastating but treatable disease. The Functional Monkeys will perform in Moscow this weekend, so Rawr interviewed Jeff and Paige about their passion for music and how they are making their personal mark on the world. Rawr: “Tell me about the brainstorming session that resulted in the creation of the Functional Monkeys. Was it a spur-of-the-moment idea or something the two of you had always wanted to pursue? Has music always been a family affair?” Paige: “When I was about five, my parents and I went to Annual Conference, a yearly meeting of leaders of the United Methodist church. We listened to the bishop give a sermon about a boy who made paper cranes and sold them for money to give to charity. I wanted to do that too, so on the car ride home I said, ‘If that boy can give, so can I.’ Instead of paper cranes, we decided to make an album.” Jeff: “Paige and I have been doing music together since she was a tiny baby and she has always been very musical. Music is a family affair for us; my mom is a church organist and music teacher so it feels like passing a gift down to the next generation.” Rawr: “Why “The Functional Monkeys”? What’s behind the name? Who came up with it?” Paige: “My dad and I ‘wrote’ songs together when I was about 4. He played guitar and I made up the words. One of the songs, ‘Animals,’ had a line that said monkeys are functional. We decided it would be a great band name and used it.”
Rawr: “Jeff, how does it feel performing with your daughter? What is that experience like?” Jeff: “Working on this project and performing with Paige has been a wonderful experience. It has been great to see her grow and learn in the process and to see how confident she is in front of a crowd. I worried a little at first that I would book us a bunch of gigs and she wouldn’t like it but after our first house concert she immediately asked, ‘When can we do that again?’” Rawr: “Paige, what is your favorite part about performing with your dad?” Paige: “My favorite part of performing with my dad is that we have a time to bond and do one of our favorite things.” Rawr: “How would you describe the support you’ve found so far?” Jeff: “We have been very pleased by the many ways that we have [been] supported. When we put the word out about our album we raised $1,500 through an Indiegogo campaign to help us manufacture the CDs. Because of that, 100 percent of the money from CD sales goes straight to Imagine No Malaria. We also have been very supported by folks coming out to hear us play, buy our music and invite us to. So far, we have gigs in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and California booked.” Rawr: “Paige, what made you decide to support Imagine No Malaria? Do you have any personal connection to the cause? What inspired you to pick that specific one?” Paige: “We decided on Imagine No Malaria because when I went to Suttle Lake camp last summer we were learning a ton about the program. When I came home, I told my dad that we should raise money to help Imagine No Malaria. He agreed. I do have one personal connection with the cause. At the camp, one of the girls lived in Africa. We became friends and she spoke [to] the whole camp about Malaria and how it affects her family.” Rawr: “Is there any specific gig so far that you really loved? (Maybe a funny story, or a really supportive crowd, something like that.)” Jeff: “When Paige was in 1st grade her teacher invited me to come and lead her class in singing. Paige would
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Jeff and Paige Lowery make up the father - daughter duo, the Functional Monkeys. help me. We decided to write some of our first songs on topics that she was learning in class. The first song was called ‘Magic E.’ Last year we wrote a song about the Portland bridges (something all third graders in Portland learn about). We wrote the song for the school talent show and performed it to a rousing crowd. After the show we were walking towards our car and heard some little girls singing ‘Bridgetown baby, rocking over Portland tonight.’ We were a hit!” Rawr: “How would you describe your musical style? What type of audience are you targeting?” Jeff: “I would describe our music as folky rock. Folky, because we tell stories through song and are mostly acoustic. We also have a bit of a rock edge. Paige’s favorite singers are Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar and Taylor Swift. Our songs are also rooted in the United Methodist faith tradition. Six of our songs are based on bible stories and
two are from the school talent shows. I think our music can connect with people of all ages.” Rawr: “How do you envision the future of the Functional Monkeys?” Jeff: “We are writing songs for our second CD, including a song about Lewis and Clark for the fifth grade talent show. We also hope to do as many shows as possible in the next year to get the word out and raise money for Imagine No Malaria. Also, Paige thinks we should buy a tour bus.” Rawr: “Is there anything else you’d like to add?” Jeff. “You can listen to some of our music at www.jefflowerymusic.com and find out ways to support Imagine No Malaria here www.imaginenomalaria.org” The Fuctional Monkeys will perform at 7 p.m. Friday in Moscow First United Methodist Church. Lyndsie Kiebert can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
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