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You should probably attach your friends who are under 5 feet, 4 inches tall to a leash to prevent them from becoming lost in a snowdrift. Pisces 2/19 - 3/20 Bust out those awful mittens your grandmother knit for you. They might be heinous, but what’s worse is frostbite. Aries 3/21 – 4/19 Go make a snowman. It’s the only time people will find your sense of childlike wonder endearing.
Taurus 4/20 - 5/20 Pride cometh before a fall. Avoid hubris and slipping on the ice. Gemini 5/21 - 6/20 Your entire lecture class can smell exactly how “Irish” your coffee is. Cancer 6/21 - 7/22 When they said, “layering is in,” they didn’t mean the 5 pounds of pizza and hot wings currently resideing on top of your abdominal muscles. Leo 7/23 - 8/22 It’s February. People know that your “tan” came from copious applications of self-tanner.
Virgo 8/23 - 9/22 For the love of God, take down the Christmas tree. Libra 9/23 - 10/22 If you leave your room, you will be crushed in an avalanche. Scorpio 10/23 - 11/21 Start wearing a helmet to prevent death by icicle. Sagittarius 11/22 – 12/21 Wearing Bermuda shorts to class isn’t going to make winter end sooner, but don’t stop. Everyone needs something to laugh at. Capricorn 12/22 – 1/19 Time to stock up on canned tuna and Tang, because if it snows any more you might not be able to find WinCo.
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The ‘80’s were awesome. It’s true. Some may say it was a terrible decade. Those people are mistaken. I might have grown up in the ‘90s and ‘00s, but I’m still an ‘80s girl in so many ways and for quite a few reasons, including these five movies.
“Footloose” (1984) All right folks, this movie has it all — love, rebellion, rock ‘n’ roll, an old school VW Bug and Kevin Bacon. It’s a no-brainer. Who doesn’t want to “fight the man” and get a school dance? We should all “cut footloose” a little more often.
“When Harry Met Sally...” (1989) It does not matter what anyone else says, this movie teaches a life lesson that will always be true — boys and girls cannot just be friends. We can deny it as much as we want, and many of us do, but it’s just like Billy Crystal said to Meg Ryan — the sex factor is always there.
“Dirty Dancing” (1987) I hate to break it to the teenagers of 2004 who thought “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” was amazing, but it has nothing on the original. Nobody does it better than Swayze, and “nobody puts Baby in a corner.” What famous line does Diego Luna have?
“Grease” (1978) OK, fine, this one is not actually from the ‘80s, but what’s two years? Plus, cliché or not, it’s a classic and for good reasons. It’s a musical, so there are clearly awesome songs, and that’s great news. It’s funny, a cute love story, and there’s a carnival at the end. “Top Gun” (1986) This movie is responsible for the most cliché and awesome set of wingmen, and wingwomen (that’s right, girls use them too) names ever. Few people can deny that they have a Maverick or a Goose — even if they’re not huge fans of Tom Cruise. In fact, pretty sure I have multiple Gooses.
more information Listen to Elizabeth Rudd and Dylan Brown discuss this week’s Movie Reel at uiargonaut.com
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Showing, not telling joanna wilson rawr The fingerprints of visual communicators are on billboards, magazines, posters, and every hour of TV. “Everything you see,” said Greg Turner-Rahman, a University of Idaho professor in the college of art and architecture. “They are probably designed by someone who has gone through graphic design training. The purpose of it is to impart information and also to be an emotional connection between viewers and whoever is trying to communicate something.” Communicators include corporations, businesses and research institutions. “Anyone who has a message and wants to get it across in a way that’s really powerful,” Turner-Rahman said. “That’s accurate. That’s emotive. They really should rely on a graphic designer.”
The components For a simple poster, such as one advertising a local concert or the Renaissance Fair, the main body could be an illustration. Ethan Kimberling, UI studio art senior, said the type might be placed around the picture in a way calculated to draw the eye. “That’s more rule-oriented,” Kimberling said. “You want the viewer to see something first, like a specific header, then guide them through so they get all the information quickly and efficiently.” Branding is another facet of the field, which only starts with a logo, and reaches to include everything associated with that product or organization, he said. “Like with Apple Computers, the little apple is their logo, but their brand is all the stuff you associate with them,” Kimberling said. “So that’s design in a broader sense.” Kimberling said the illustration component is involved with conception and the more traditional form of art. “And graphic design is more concerned with type and more systematic approaches to art,” Kimberling said.
The process Most visual communicators, whether they are involved with part of the process such as illustration, or with graphic design as a whole, use physical sketches and computer work, TurnerRahman said. “There’s a dialectic conversation between what is done by hand and what is done on the machine,” TurnerRahman said. The most basic advantage of the computer is the undo, redo and delete buttons. “If you add an undo button, you can go back and constantly change it,” Turner-Rahman said. “What’s happened is a lot of artists will tweak their work constantly.” Before computers, artists had to plan a project out completely before starting. “You had to go through different processes,” Turner-Rahman said. “To get something printed had to go through several people ... Now one person can do it and be constantly be revising it.” But even so, Turner-Rahman said he encourages his students to start with simple drawings on paper. “It’s just faster — cheaper. Maybe more initially, a quicker way to get a composition worked out,” TurnerRahman said.
“We ask them to draw little thumbnails. Maybe do little preparatory sketches.” Kimberling begins on paper and then scans his drawing into the computer to work with it in Photoshop or Illustrator. On the screen he may erase or add whole components to the original sketch. “There’s also a non-photo blue pencil if you want to do a quick sketch on paper, and when you ink it to outline it, and when you scan it, it just sees the ink and not the initial sketch,” Kimberling said. Turner-Rahman said he teaches his students to analyze their work as it takes shape. “They have to think about everything that’s happening there,” he said. “How does this feel? Does it express what I’m trying to say? Is it clear?” Turner-Rahman said some students who come into his classes are nervous about using computers. “All it takes is doing a little project where they can play around and see
how expressive the technology can be,” Turner-Rahman said. Delphine Keim-Campbell, UI art and architecture professor, said the human mind — not the medium — is the limiting factor for illustration and design. “I think that you can do an awful lot with either one, and I think (it depends on) the media that the person has become comfortably conversant in,” Keim-Campbell said. From precise and sterile to rough and abstract. “They can emulate each other in different ways,” Keim-Campbell said. “You can create something that looks screen printed completely on the computer that’s never been burned into a screen. Never having been pulled through the screen.” Keim-Campbell said either media can produce a warm, human quality. “It’s only dependent on the skill level and the imagination of the artist,” she said.
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Living without fear Cast of ‘Monologues’ talk about stories, acting expereances isla brazzil rawr “The Vagina Monologues” is ready to pack seats once again. Five returning actresses and 18 newcomers make up this year’s emotionally engaged cast. The cast had an all-day retreat to discuss the play’s spotlight campaign — drawing attention to the abuse of women and children. Lysa Salsbury has produced “The Vagina Monologues” for four years and will appear onstage reading a monologue for the first time. “I think all of us at one point of our life has received unwanted sexual attention. It’s something that’s extremely prevalent, and almost a part of being a woman and that’s so wrong,” Salsbury said. The play spotlights regions that have experienced a period of social and economic instability as a result of a natural disaster — Haiti, New Orleans and Democratic of Congo, Salsbury said. “It’s an emotional rollercoaster to watch the show because it makes you
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Lois Descault studies her script during a dress rehersal for the Vagina Monologues at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre Tuesday. The play is comprised of a number of monologues that aim to bring women-related topics and issues to the forefront. Descault said the play is everything viewers want and need wether they know it or not. The show opened Thursday and will be performed tonight and Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Kenworthy.
think so many different things,” Salsbury said. The play develops differently every year, and varied interpretations the actresses bring are remarkable when paired with the director’s vision. Salsbury said some monologues are hilarious, moving, powerful, warm, fuzzy, tragic, and shocking. University of Idaho junior Marguerite Medina has been acting in “The Vagina Monologues” since her freshman year. Originally inspired by her sex and culture CORE class, Medina said she fell in love with the activist side because it sparked her passion for social justice. “It’s shocking and I want people to go away with being shocked by what is said,” Medina said. “A lot of the subject matter is things that people don’t usually talk about. In a good way.” Last year’s cast didn’t memorize many lines, but this year, more work will arise from the acting aspect. Medina has a bigger monologue this year, which she said will be more of a challenge. “To me personally, it’s the same every year, opening the eyes of the
general public of things that happen to the women and little girls and children in other countries, and even within our country,” Medina said. Fresh to “The Vagina Monologues” this year, UI freshman Amber EvansPinel, will read one of the show’s more intense monologues. “It’s one of the more risqué pieces in ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ but will add humor and interesting insight,” Evans-Pinel said. “Last year was a lot of standing on one place, this is more of a stage with acting and tenses.” Lois Descault, house mother at Kappa Alpha Theta, is 70 years old and will be participating in the show for the fourth year. “The first time I did it at the dress rehearsal, there was a young man doing our lights and sound, walked through curtain call, walked out backstage applauding and said to us, ‘every man should see this show,’” Descault said. Every monologue is derived from events that really happened and interviews with real people. Louis said she feels privileged to participate. Acting since she was 14 years old, Louis said
“The Vagina Monologues” is about violence against women, but it also shows good things that happen to women. “Some of the stories are the most gut-wrenching and horrific, but people have to hear them,” Descault said. Her part in the play is the last monologue and will be a spotlight poem to the women of Haiti, New Orleans and the Republic of Congo. “Good things you don’t even think about,” Descault said. “It’s funny how people were raised and how open and how much better it is now.”
more information The Vagina Monologues will be performed at 7 p.m., tonight and Saturday, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are $10 at the Women’s Center in Memorial Gym or at Eclectica in downtown Moscow, and $15 at the door.
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Tap: it’s a street dance kristen koester-smith rawr What comes to mind when you think of tap dancing? Fred Astaire, Shirley Temple or even River Dancing? It’s true, tap hasn’t been featured on MTV and there isn’t such a thing as “Tapping With the Stars.” Yet, tap dancers from the University of Idaho’s dance program continue to perform and love tap. Senior interior design major Fawn Youngdahl said many people never experience the modern, rhythmic type of tap dancing. Youngdahl said last year after her performance with dance theatre, some
friends told her it was more captivating than they had expected and completely changed their outlook on tapping. “It was kind of more of a rhythmic tap and they’ve never seen that before, so they were just kind of expecting the classical, everyone is together type tap,” Youngdahl said. She said she really started to love tap when she became advanced enough to create and expand rhythms of her own. Morgan Trewin, UI junior dance major who teaches the beginning tap class this semester, said she also prefers a heavier tap style, in which the sounds are more clearly defined.
“It gets in more with the natural rhythms of your body, like your heartbeat,” Trewin said. Trewin said when she taps, she’s not only dancing to music, but creating music. Sara Skinner, UI recreation senior, said she feels that when a dancer gets older and more advanced they can graduate from classical tap dancing and move onto the more rhythmic tap. “You’re playing with rhythms and doing things on the off-count, on the weird count — syncopated type rhythms,” Skinner said. “I like both but I like the challenges of different rhythms now.” Tap might appear hard to
learn because of the added dimension of sound in steps, but Trewin said that’s not true. “It’s great for people who get nervous when they first start dancing — you can fake it until you make it … just make noise until you get it,” Trewin said. Youngdahl said it’s much easier to teach college students because they are more willing to learn and can pick it up pretty easily and she’s had a lot of fun teaching at UI. As a teacher, Youngdahl said, it’s rewarding to watch people struggle through steps over and over and then finally see them perfect it. Skinner agreed that it’s easier to teach more mature
students. She said teaching children can be challenging because they don’t have a lot of retention and have to be taught steps over and over. However, she loves to watch her students perform what they once struggled to learn. Despite the struggles of younger students, Skinner said tap is an easier form of dance for some people to learn because they only have to pay attention to one part of the body — feet. This isn’t the only thing that separates tap from jazz or ballet though, Skinner said tap also has a different history, something comparable to hip-hop. “(Tap) came from the streets, it’s a street dance. It’s not something you learn at a ballet bar and you have completely proper technique,” Skinner said. Trewin said tap’s mishmashed history is one of the reasons she loves it so much. She did a lot of research about tap for a communications class and discovered how the history of tap is different from the blackand-white evolution of other forms. It’s more of a collage, Trewin said, because it is so dependent on music, which is always changing. Youngdahl, Trewin and Skinner all said dancing is a method of stress relief. Skinner said it satisfied her constant desire to move, and that she even taps quietly under her desk during class. Trewin said she often slips into her own world when she is dancing. “Everyone has their outlets and dance is mine. It’s like you get to turn off your brain for a moment and only focus on the moment,” Trewin said. Skinner said there’s nothing quite like performing for an audience, because they can really enjoy what she’s enjoying and feel what she’s feeling. “I think that they can feel the passion,” Skinner said. “You can definitely tell those people who love it apart from those who are doing it because they can, or doing it because they’re good at something.”
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Nikolas Camis, "Kid Kasino," mixes music to entertain his friends. Camis and the other members of the Worldz Againzt Uz Muzic Productionz will be mixing 8 p.m. Feb. 10 at the BellTower in Pullman.
Music has progressed in variety of ways during the last half century, and technology plays a big part in every aspect of modern culture, including music. Jesse Sanchez is studying music education at the University of Idaho and has been playing the trumpet for 12 years. Sanchez believes singers aren’t required to be talented at all anymore because Auto-Tune can be used to make a poor singer sound good. “There’s always going to be the argument between, “yeah they’re not real musicians” – but it’s still an art so you still have to respect that if you are a true musician,” he said. Technology obviously plays a big role in music, he said. “For example, the recording studios — they didn’t have stuff like Logic or Pro Tools. Now you can have your own studio at home and it sounds just as legit as if you go and pay studio time in a professional studio,” Sanchez said. Sanchez said 50 years ago trios like Diana Ross and the Supremes reigned, well, supreme. “You have stuff like that again like Jason Mraz. He has him by himself, and then he has backup singers still which I think is pretty cool,” Sanchez said. “I think we’ve progressed a lot and I think the biggest area probably would be in technology.” Kara Teats, who’s studying music education, said she started playing instruments in fifth grade and has been singing in choirs for as long as she can remember. The way she sees it, music
has gone from being something an entire family can listen to, to what is popular now. “There’s a lot of music out there that I can’t imagine my grandparents listen to and it’s interesting to me that popular culture definitely sticks with the generation that’s in the now, rather than branching over multiple generations,” Teats said. Over time, she said, some genres of music have evolved and some haven’t changed at all. “When it comes to country music, yeah it hasn’t really changed much. It’s stayed consistent in that pretty much anybody can listen to it,” she said. “Whereas popular music in my eyes has definitely gotten a lot more raunchy in a way.” Teats said a lot of artists have lost their touch using electronics to produce music. “It’s cool what you can do with a lot of these programs that are out there, but in reality, it’s making what used to be a really true art form into something that anybody can do on a weekend,” Teats said. Leonard Garrison, flute professor at UI since 2006, said becoming a musician in classical music is very competitive. He made the choice at an early age to become a musician. “I started the piano when I was in fourth grade and then I started the flute the next year,” Garrison said. “And that’s part of the reason I haven’t followed popular music. You just get involved with what you’re doing.” The overwhelming number of genres and sub-genres, Garrison said, make it difficult to keep up. He has noticed that the boundary line between classical and popular music has become a
gray area over the decades. For example, as a classically trained flutist, Garrison developed a technique of beatboxing while playing his flute. “Another piece that I play is very much Chicago Blues style, even though it’s a classical piece,” Garrison said. “There’s blurring of the boundaries between jazz and classical.” Garrison said a major change over the generations is the format that music is bought on. “Some people think the CD is dead,” he said. “Younger people are not buying CDs, they just download songs either legally or illegally. I grew up with the concept of an album on an LP.” All the songs the Beatles put on their albums really fit together, Garrison said. He feels there is less of a sense of designing an album that fits together because people just tend to buy one song at a time. “The sales of vinyl records have gone up in the past few years, because people just like having the artwork, and they like to have something in their hands,” Garrison said. YouTube started as a place for amateurs to share videos, but it’s constantly adding more professional content, Garrison said. “In cable you can have maybe have 100 channels. YouTube, the number of channels is limitless,” he said. “There’s going to be channels for people who like horseback riding. It’s all going to be specialized and so music is like that too, it’s just more specialized in all these different styles.” Garrison said in a way, the specialization of music is a shame because it’s harder to share the things you love with others.
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The power of pretend(ing) matt maw rawr Make a reference to “The Sopranos,” “The Simpsons” or Shakespeare and chances are that most people will know what you’re talking about. Characters from these worlds have gripped us, amused us and inspired us for years. Joy Passanante, associate director of creative writing at the University of Idaho, said our attraction to characters stems from the vicarious freedom they allow us. “Sometimes characters give us permission to do things we’d never do ourselves,” she said. “(There’s) enough connection between us and the characters that it’s a little bit of an escape from your own rib cage.” While some characters enable us to live out the impulses or actions we normally wouldn’t, others represent a lifestyle we would have liked to have. Walter Hesford, UI English professor, said the fascination changes as we age, and many in academia shift their affections from favored stories to beloved authors. Hesford said he enjoyed being Jonah in “Jonah and the Whale” plays as a child, and has grown into a fondness for 19th century author Henry David Thoreau, writer of “Walden” and works on philosophy, nature, slavery and other topics. The author’s gusto for life and scientific acumen drew Hesford to Thoreau, he said, though he admits his image of the writer is glossed by fantasy. “I, myself, spend hours reading Thoreau’s journals,” Hesford said. “I love the guy, and even though I’m very different, he (lived) the life and wrote
in a way that I, in my fantasy, would like to have done.” UI freshman Connor Jones said characters may be inspirational and stories may have morals, but it’s important to retain realistic expectations. Characters should never be role models, he said, because life doesn’t operate the way imagined worlds do. Jones’ favorite characters are Ian Fleming’s James Bond and Tony Stark/Iron Man from the “Iron Man” franchise. These characters have special skills, social status and material wealth that are enviable, but Jones said he wouldn’t model his behavior off Stark. “I wouldn’t strive to be exactly like him,” he said. “Everything he does isn’t a positive impact, so I wouldn’t say I would try to be like him, but it might be cool having what he has.” Jones said he connects with characters that live in ways he can appreciate and relate to, or have the same interests he does. Villains don’t resonate with him no matter how powerful they are, he said, as with the treacherous magic-wielder Voldemort from the “Harry Potter” series. Hesford said characters aren’t often studied at academic institutions because of the focus on critical theory and textual analysis. Ruminations on characters can be seen as childish in such an atmosphere, and he said the critical process can squash enthusiasm. “You make the literature dead for people who might otherwise enjoy it,” he said. “There is that danger.” Hesford said there’s another concern that children’s imaginations will be handicapped if their only experience of charac-
ter is supplied through TV and computer screens. It’s important for them to role-play cops, robbers and superheroes. He said intimacy with characters — whether they affirm our morality or give outlet to our impulses — creates tight bonds, and the most vivid characters for people are the ones they embody as children. As children grow into young adults, they explore their identities and seek group validation. Such longings drive some of the zombie and vampire trends, Hesford said. Fascination can be a problem if people can’t distance themselves from the characters. Despite such phenomenon, he said simple roleplaying isn’t likely dangerous. “I think most people who run around playing ‘zombie tag’ (aren’t) under the delusion they’re zombies,” he said. “At least I hope they’re not.”
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The fast food industry feeds about 25 percent of our population on a daily basis — even in Moscow. It has earned $178 billion last year and employs almost 4 million Americans, college students included. So what do the Vandals think of fast food success? As the journey toward real life continues, are some students’ minds changing? University of Idaho junior Stephanie Bidondo said fast foods are poor in quality, low in price and high in grease. She also said that Subway does not count as a fast food. “McDonald’s and Taco Bell, I live for them,”Bidondo said. UI senior Wilson Yates said he enjoys and eats fast food about three or four days a week, and spends around $20. By eating in moderation and keeping a gym routine, he said he has no problems with his health. “They’re convenient and even though it’s processed, it’s super good,” Yates said. “The real issue is that people abuse it. Some people just can’t stop eating it.” Yates said he enjoys them all. “Two cheeseburgers at McDonald’s, Wendy’s for spicy chicken, Jack in the Box for tacos and Taco Bell for volcanic burrito,” Yates said. Other students have a different take. Senior Chris Behrens said in his experience, fast food is not often worth the gas it takes to get there. “I always get sick after eating fast food, especially restaurants like Taco Bell and Zips. Bloating is always a factor as well because of all the sodium,” Behrens said. “It’s actually really disgusting when you look at the ingredients, like the McDonald’s McRib sandwich, with sauce that has an ingredient in it that is also
used to make yoga mats.” He said it definitely sounds good sometimes, especially to college students who are often pressed for time and need something quick, tasty and cheap. “Sure it tastes good, but at what cost? Your abs, your butt, love handles,” Behrens said. It’s true that expenses are in order when it comes to grabbing a quick meal. If students have a side commitment such as sports, a job or are just not home often, spending money to eat out is a no-brainer. Chipotle was the most favored fast food in a 2011 survey based on Facebook “likes.” McDonald’s was second, followed by Taco Bell, KFC and Burger King. “Chipotle is a bit better than Qudoba because it tastes more authentic,” student-athlete Gary Walker said. Since Moscow doesn’t have a Chipotle, Walker’s favorite place to eat around town is A&W. Walker said he would definitely want Chipotle, Chic Fillet and an In-N-Out in Moscow. UI student Andy Read’s favorite spots include Panda Express and Qudoba. Qudoba, KFC, Taco Bell, Burger King, Wendy’s, Jack in the Box, McDonald’s and Pita Pit are among the popular fast food spots in Moscow. Some students, like Yates, drive to Pullman for Panda Express. Read said the fast food industry was made for students because it’s food on the run for busy, hungry people. Many students have found that a cost effective and healthy way of eating at home is to plan meals that share common ingredients. “It is easier and cheaper to eat at home rather than go out to eat,” Read said. “Eating out throws it off. Lunch is the money spender.”
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propriate for little girls, but there are sure to be millions of women (and some men) eager to see or buy these movies. If we loved the animated fairy tales when we were younger, we hope to love the film versions as adults. Surely there will always be a place in our hearts for the innocence of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Cinderella” of the past. Yet, the classics probably hold higher morals (women were revered for being kind and men were still gentlemen) and hope for finding true love than the new films. Maybe instead of always trying to sex and dramatize things up, we should look at the world from a child’s eyes once in a while and wait for our prince (or princess) to come.
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Toy stores everywhere stock princess Barbies, princess dress-up clothes and princess computer games. Walk through any children’s décor section, and you will find princess bedding and lampshades. There are even princess vitamins. Little girls are consistently drawn to the princess motif, but a new kristen trend has koester-smith the theme rawr aimed at older girls and women. Recent princess and fairy tale films, with live actors, up the anti for classic cartoons comedy staring Natalie and challenge the inPortman, James Franco nocent archetype of fairy and Danny Mcbride, took tales. an R rating for sexual “Enchanted,” a 2007 content, language, and Disney film, wasn’t based some drug use. Like on any particular Disney “Enchanted,” it’s a parody princess, but parodied the of the classic princeprincess genre as a whole. saves-princess story, but The lighthearted movie the comedy in this film is was rated PG and was crude instead of lightappropriate for all those hearted – a fairy tale for little girls who love Disney the college-aged man. princess cartoons. Two more fairy tale Before that, Hilary films tailored for adult Duff’s 2004 appearance in audiences are slated to “A Cinderella Story” also hit theaters this spring. earned a PG rating. Lily Collins and Julia More recently though, Roberts star in “Mirror, “Red Riding Hood,” was Mirror,” a comedic, but deemed too graphic for a definitely mature, retellPG rating and went PGing of “Snow White” that 13. This movie has a sex opens in March. Trailers scene, graphic and bloody for “Snow White and the fight scenes, and is, frank- Huntsman,” set to prely, a little creepy, even mier in June, have a feel for an older audience. I that is creepy and dark. would not recommend it The dark twists and for any girls under 13. mature content in these “Your Highness” a films might not be ap-
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toasted hazelnuts (from Foodnetwork. Quinoa (keen-wah) is a grain-like com) seed first cultivated in the Andes Ingredients: 2 tbsp. extra-virgin Mountains. Quinoa and related species are widespread throughout the North- olive oil; 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced; ern Hemisphere, though most of what 1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes; 1 pound kale, trimmed and is commercially available in chopped; 2 3/4 cups vegthe U.S. is still grown in the etable broth; 3 cups peeled Andes. and cubed winter squash; While it’s more closely kosher salt; 1 tbsp. apple related to spinach than cider vinegar; 1 1/4 cups wheat, it’s culinarily used as quinoa; 1 tbsp. chopped a grain. Quinoa is glutenparsley; 1/3 cup toasted free, has a low glycemic inchopped hazelnuts. dex and is a source of iron, Directions: 1. Heat phosphorus, and riboflavin 1-tablespoon oil over me(about 12, 23 and 50 percent nicole dium heat. Add the garlic daily values per serving). It lichtenberg and pepper flakes and cook also boasts all eight amino rawr until the garlic begins to acids, making it a complete brown, 2 minutes. Add the protein source (6 grams per kale, tossing well. Add 1-cup broth and serving). Furthermore, quinoa is low in 1/2-cup water. Cover and cook until fat and sodium, and a good source of wilted, 5 minutes. Add the squash, dietary fiber. Quinoa is available in orseason with salt and reduce heat to ganic forms, and is around $3 a pound. a simmer. Continue to cook, covered, Quinoa is most simply used as a until the kale and squash are tender, rice substitute. According to pack12 to 15 minutes. Uncover and stir in age instructions on Truroots Organic the vinegar. Quinoa: Combine one-half cup quinoa 2. Meanwhile, in a medium saucewith one cup water or broth in a pot. pan over medium heat add the quinoa, Bring to a boil, turn heat on low, cover remaining 1 3/4 cups broth, and 1-cup and cook for 15 minutes. Let cool for water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat five minutes and fluff with a fork. and simmer, gently stirring once or Serves two. twice, until the quinoa is tender and However, quinoa can also be used the liquid has been absorbed, about 15 in every meal from breakfast to desminutes. Let stand 5 minutes. sert. It makes a protein-rich substitute 3. Fluff the quinoa with a fork for oatmeal, can be added to salads, and then stir in the chopped parsley, tossed with sauteed vegetables for a remaining 1-tablespoon olive oil and side dish and made into cake, doughseason with salt. nuts, and pudding. One cup of cooked 4. To serve, top the quinoa with quinoa can even be added to most the braised kale and squash and their smoothie recipes. juices and sprinkle with the toasted How to: chopped hazelnuts. Quinoa and braised kale with
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student poetry — fiction — nonfiction
illustration by ashley alsterlund
Making lemonade ashley alsterlund Mr. Orange and Miss Lemon were in love and had dated for many years. But one day, Miss Lemon met Mr. Lime and so began the scandalous sex-capades between them. Mr. Orange, Miss Lemon’s boyfriend, had no idea he was being cheated on. Mr. Lime was always on Miss Lemon’s mind and she became ever distant from Mr. Orange thought she just needed some space and gave it to her. One day, Miss Lemon decided to break it off with Mr. Orange for Mr. Lime. Mr. Orange was devastated and disappeared. Miss Lemon didn’t care though — she had Mr. Lime. They made Lemon-Lime all the time.
A couple months later, Miss Lemon came home and found Mr. Lime cheating on her with Miss Blueberry. Miss Lemon cursed Mr. Lime and hoped he got squeezed and Miss Blueberry baked. Devastated, she ran away from FRUITLAND and through GRAINLAND and even through DAIRYLAND, which by the way is home to the infamous Chocolate Milk. She finally grew weary and found herself in VEGETABLE LAND. Veggie Land seemed like a good place to start over. All the vegetables were very friendly, and Mrs. Tomato and Mr. Carrot took Miss Lemon in. Mrs. Tomato and Mr. Carrot were very accommodating, but Miss Lemon felt empty inside. As much as Mrs. Tomato and Mr. Carrot asked Miss Lemon to
stay, she thanked them and continued on her way. All the vegetable people she stayed with were very kind, but Miss Lemon was beginning to feel very out of place and lonely — being the only fruit there. She went on her way to MEATLAND, Home of Rogues and Murderers. But not all meat-men were bad. Sir Steak from the Round Tip was an honorable meat-man and had a soft spot for runaways. He took Miss Lemon in and warned: “Do not go out alone or at night. There are rogues who will squeeze you for all you’re worth.” Miss Lemon was not paying attention though; her eyes were absorbing the scenery of MEATLAND. You may think that MEATLAND would be all bloody ... continued at uiargonaut.com.
artist bio Making lemonade Ashley Alsterlund is a senior majoring in elementary education at the University of Idaho. Growing up, she enjoyed three things above all else: horseback riding, reading and writing. Most of her writing has been for the entertainment of friends and family members who have found her short, illustrated stories to be funny, even if they bordered on absurd.
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