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Virgo 8/23 – 9/22There are too many fresh-men, too much home-work, not enough sleep. You deserve a lollipop.

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hor!cope"Libra 9/23 – 10/22New nickname: Master of Home-work. Congratulations on your cur-rent academic achievements.

Scorpio 10/23 – 11/21Woah, Nellie. Cool it on the body spray. Just because you sweat bullets while walking campus in 80 degree weather does not mean you should cover it up with potent perfume.

Sagittarius 11/22 – 12/21Forgot the number of margaritas you had last two-for-one Wednesday? Might want to tally ‘em up next time so you don’t find yourself face-planted in your roommate’s trash bin again.

Capricorn 12/22 – 1/19Don’t get your panties in a bunch. Your professor had homework once too … or so we think.

Aquarius 1/20 – 2/18Although you may be convinced an elephant lives above you, be mindful of the noise you make at 3 a.m. when playing Dance Dance Revolution. Nobody likes a hypocrite.

Pisces 2/19 – 3/20Hey, love bird. Don’t give up quite yet. Your everyday efforts to open the door for your crush have not gone unnoticed by their significant other.

Aries 3/21 - 4/19Explore your inner chef this week when your paycheck doesn’t show up. Leftover Top Ra-men, whipped cream and pickles, maybe.

Taurus 4/20 – 5/20You may want to pack a sweatshirt this week. Cool weather? Nah. Bird poop plop on your head? It’s possible.

Gemini 5/21 – 6/20That thing you’ve been putting off? Get there early. There will be a line.

Cancer 6/21 – 7/22Your chocolate cravings are out of hand. Better make a trek to WinCo for strawberries, marsh-mallows and chocolate chips.

Leo 7/23 – 8/22You may think you won’t forget that interview you’ve been waiting for all month, but if you don’t pencil it into your planner at 7 a.m., you may just show up at 7 p.m. instead.

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m%-tap&“There’s a Class for This” by Cute Is What We Aim ForThis is an epic punk rock anthem that will never leave your head. Lead singer Shaant sells his reveal-ing lyrics, while Jeff Czum’s guitar anthem makes the song feel larger than life. Perfect for a night out or skating down the block.

“The Permanent Rain” by The Dangerous Summer This song showcases the perfect harmony between the key players: AJ Perdomo’s heartfelt vocals and the glorious guitar of Bryan Czap go hand in hand here, creating a beautiful song that just makes you feel good.

“Hills and Valleys” by The Rocket Summer One man operation Bryce Avary AKA The Rocket Summer combines a heartfelt love song with a road trip sing along in this song. The result is a wonderful example of Avary’s creativity with the feelings he creates through sounds.

“Waste Myself” by This Providence Seattle’s indie rock outing This Providence has a habit of making catchy tunes out of love messes. Case in point: This song, which was no doubt inspired by an ex flame, yet creates a short but sweet song that will have you beg-ging for more.

“How You Love Me Now” by Hey Monday Though Hey Monday are still work-ing on getting into the spotlight, they put more than enough effort into getting our attention. This tune is a fresh sound that stays upbeat throughout, with vocalist Cassadee Pope keeping up with the fast paced anthem. While they may not be household names yet, gosh darn it if they don’t keep trying.

“New High” by Diffuser Rock group Diffuser have never been much for subtlety. “New High” is a bombastic head banger that will get you in the mood to go crazy. And we wouldn’t want it any

other way…

“Like We Did (Windows Down)” by The Maine By the time Arizona’s quintet The Maine got around to their third album Pioneer in 2011, they had matured as a band and therefore their sound. “Like We Did” is a showcase for their new sound, combin-ing John O’Callaghan’s mature voice with lyrics that take us back to summer memories. The result sticks with you, which is probably how The Maine planned it all along. “Kiss Me” by Sick of Sarah

As we all know, girls just wanna have fun. So it’s only natural that all this female rock outfit would go all barrels blazing for their song “Kiss Me”, which oozes catchiness and creative lyrics together in one fun song.

“A Little Faster” by There For Tomorrow There For Tomorrow is always pushing the limit of their sounds. They’ve dabbled in many different experimental songs that keep the listener on their toes. This tune was the song that got everyone’s at-tention with its’ relentless intensity and vocalist Maika Maile’s give-it-you’re-all delivery.

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On the cover: University of Idaho student Abigail Toevs stands on a stack of logs in a lumbermill located between Coeur d’Alene and Moscow.

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These boys made me fall in love with the banjo all over again.

I used to cringe and change the radio station, fear-

ing their cacophony of fiddles and banjos and whatever else

banging, tinny racket.

to be my most-hated band in the world, but this summer inspired an absolute epiphany — making them one of my most favorite and treasured bands.

The band formed

a small EP to cir-culate throughout

No More,” their first studio album, is where the magic really happens.

Lead singer, mandolinist, guitarist and occasional drum-mer Marcus Mumford’s vocals keep the entire album honest. Pure honesty can be a rare gem in a treasure trove of folk

is overflowing with blatant,

beautiful truth.

It’s the most delicate song of murder, an element of both soft and harsh thrown together to find which sur-vives longer. It’s the sight of blue sky after a dull

Idaho winter.Mumford &

tell sorrowful, dramatic stories as well as — if not better than — the

you really feel something. This is in no way an al-

bum you can passively listen to while doing homework. I find myself invested in it, hanging on each and every word, following the jumping mandolin and absorbing the steady pulses of each stanza.

Another song from the

a song that has a distinctly worship-like feeling. It has a mellow adoration of the

broken heart and praise of a dismissed love. The song not only illustrates, but builds brick-by-brick the tangible barrier between the life of the loved and the desperation of the lonely — putting that feeling into words is near impossible. It would be much better to write said feeling within heartbeats and heart-aches than words.

This album is somewhat of a blessed time bomb. It will only give itself to you when you’re ready, keeping it’s meanings and dynamic creations tucked away until

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A sport for

With more than 200 ASUI recognized clubs and organizations, it’s hard to be-lieve something might have been missing from the spectrum of opportunities avail-able. But for the first time, the University of Idaho is now home to an official Quid-ditch team.

Andrew Wilson, the club’s founder and current president, said Quidditch is a sport that anyone can play and being a fan of the books is not a requirement.

“You don’t have to like Harry Potter to like Quidditch,” Wilson said. “I kind of disassociate them myself anymore because I don’t spend a lot of time reading Harry Potter but I spend a lot of time thinking about Quidditch.”

Wilson said he began playing Quidditch in high school when he and some friends learned about the sport online.

“My friends and I got together and actually played it in high school and I’ve just been meaning to bring it here,” Wilson said.

The sport of Quidditch was adapted in 2005 by students at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt. and is now played at more than 300 universities and high schools in the U.S. and 12 countries.

The International Quidditch Association

(IQA) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for developing and maintaining the rules, regulations and safety guidelines for the sport. The 172-page IQA handbook includes the full set of rules for the sport, information about starting and maintain-ing a team, hoop construction guidelines, a referee guidebook and a complete list of referee signals.

“You play it just like the sport in the books and in the movies except you play it on the ground obviously,” Wilson said. “You do still have brooms … you have the same seven positions on each team. The only real major difference is an extra bludger which works for balancing the game, and the snitch is a human and when you touch it it’s only worth 30 points.”

In the Harry Potter series, the Snitch is a small gold ball that flies and acts on it’s own. A player known as the seeker is responsible for chasing the snitch and at-tempting to capture it. In the live sport of Quidditch the snitch is a person.

“He or she lives outside the game … they don’t have to follow the rules. They can throw you down,” Wilson said.

“Whoever wants to be the snitch can be the snitch because they do get to have the most fun … it’s never really a problem to find a snitch,” Wilson said.

The IQA posts the rankings for all teams on it’s website and eligible teams may

qualify for the Quidditch World Cup, hosted by the IQA.

Wilson said that if there is enough interest, the team will compete against schools from around the region. He said he is currently communicating with Gon-zaga University and several universities in Utah about possible match-ups. He said the team has also been invited to several tournaments already.

“I want to make sure we’re going to make sure we have enough people to play before I commit to playing other teams,” Wilson said. “At this point – until we have the meeting – there’s no official club mem-bers. I’m organizing it and I gathered all the equipment so that we can play as soon as we’re ready.”

The first Quidditch team meeting took place Sept. 6, but students who were un-able to attend still have the opportunity to participate even if they don’t know anything about the game.

“You don’t really need to know any-thing. We’re going to teach everyone the game,” Wilson said. “If you don’t like Harry Potter you might still like the sport of real life Quidditch and if you do like Harry Potter that just adds to the excite-ment of playing.”

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RulesQuidditch is a contact sport

with seven athletes per team that play four different positions and use three different balls, according to the International Qudditch Association. Every player has a broom between their legs at all times.

Three players per side are called chasers. Their objective is to score 10-point goals with a quaffle — or volleyball. They can run with it, pass it or kick it. Each team has a keeper, who defends the goal hoops from chasers.

Two players per side are called beaters. They use three bludgers, or dodgeballs, to disrupt the flow of the game by “knocking out” other players. Knocked out players are temporarily removed and must drop any balls, return and touch their side's goal before re-entering.

Each team has a seeker whose job it is to snatch the snitch. The snitch is a tennis ball inside a yellow sock which is tucked into the waistband of the snitch runner, much like a flag football.

The snitch runner is not on either team, does not use a broom, and can use any means to avoid “capture,” including physical contact like wrestling takedowns or trickery.

Players who commit fouls dur-ing the game face consequences depending on the severity.

A game of quidditch does not end until the snitch has been cleanly snatched, which earns the team an extra thirty points. If the score is tied after the snatch, the match proceeds into overtime.

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jesse hart | rawr Kevin Melkonian, Quidditch club member, makes a shot for 10 points Sept. 8 at Guy Wicks field. The first Quidditch team meeting took place Sept. 6 and club founder Andrew Wilson said he hopes to compete with other teams around the region.

The quaffle is played by the chasers whose goal is to throw it through the hoop, earning the team 10 points.

QuaffleThe bludgers are played by the beat-ers and are thrown to disrupt the flow of the match by "knocking out" other players. If a beater catches a bludger thrown at them by an opponent, the knockout effect does not occur.

Bludger

In the muggle game, a snitch is a tennis ball inside a sock, tucked into the waistband of a snitch runner. The snitch runner can use any means to avoid capture. Once the seeker captures the snitch, a game of Quidditch ends and earns a team an extra thirty points.

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Roller derby is a basic game played with a million rules, Liz Domeris from the Rolling Hills Derby Dames said. Her alter-ego for roller derby is “Lesley Crusher.”

Each game is called a “bout.” Each bout is divided into two halves.

A jam, or a play, can last up to two minutes, but the “jammer” who makes it through the pack first, can call it off.

The “jammer” wears something called a “star panty” on her head. She is the player trying to lap the players of the opposing team, scoring points.

One “blocker”, called a pivot, serves as the communicator on the track, Domeris said. She loves the sport itself and skating fast.

“That’s what I really like to do,” she said. “The camaraderie that we have between the girls on our team and even other girls on different teams. It’s pretty hard to top that.”

She said people come from all different walks of life. There are people on her team she never expected to be hanging out with and caring about so much.

She said it’s a sport that brings everybody together.

Morgan Sherwood, also known as “Heck No Techno”and Domeris are “derby wives.”

“For us it just has to do with the fact that we connect well on the track,” Sherwood said. “We started on the same day. We passed fresh meat together. We had our

first bout together and so we sort of have like an unconditional love for each other that has everything to do

with roller derby.”Sherwood said one of the

best parts about roller derby is the “boutfit”, which is the outfit women choose to wear at a bout.

“So much of roller derby is the theatrical spectacle part

of it and dressing up in ways that you don’t usually get to do,”

Sherwood said. “The girls will plan weeks to months in advance

to coordinate with their partners or team. That’s always a very exciting part

of a bout.”“Derby love” is another term that

means a team can play a bout with another team they do not know and the two teams can

completely cream each other on the track. “But then at the after party you’re all

drinking together, you’re all best friends — it’s like you’ve known each other for

years,” Sherwood said. The next bout for the Roll-

ing Hills Derby Dames, the Fall Brawl, will be on Sept. 21 in

Washington State’s Beasley Coliseum. Doors open at 6 pm and the bout starts at 7 pm. Donations are accepted, including non-

perishable food items.Molly Spencer can be reached at

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There aren’t many metal bands around Moscow and Pullman, but groups like The Persevering Promise and Strychnine stick it out for the love of the music.

Matt Hoos, lead vocalist for the Moscow-based metal out-fit The Persevering Promise, said the metal scene in the re-gion is practically nonexistent and most of their shows are performed in Spokane because there’s no venue here.

“It’s very ‘pacific North-west,’ very ‘six hours away from Seattle,’” Hoos said. “Ev-erybody’s a prolific songwriter who is going to change the course of the world like Bob Dylan.”

Erik Snider, drummer for Pullman-based death metal act Strychnine, said it’s tough to get gigs in Moscow, in part because his band’s music genre was never meant to be popular.

Strychnine vocalist and guitarist Christopher Snider said they’ve played sets at the Moscow Moose Lodge and a few other places in Moscow and Pullman, but the stereotypes and pop-culture do damage to the common mindset about metal.

“It is kind of humiliating at times, and it’s definitely dif-ficult to actually get anyone interested, and when people show up it’s definitely cool,” he said.

Jesse Barton, TPP screamer and guitarist, said the only

metal scene is what they made by attracting people to their shows in Spokane and occasional performances in Pullman. Barton said he brought 170 viewers to a Pull-man show last year, and he frequently tries to gather Uni-versity of Idaho audiences to their Spokane performances.

Barton said there is a handful of people throughout the region who work hard to book shows and gather audi-ences for various local and national bands, including their agent with Spokane’s Monu-mental Booking.

“The scene is weird but it keeps growing,” Barton said. “Most scenes just die, so the fact that Spokane has what it does is kind of impressive.”

Despite the relative strength of the Spokane at-mosphere, Barton said the city doesn’t have all the answers and won’t sustain a band with national ambitions. Reach-ing for outside resources and networking throughout the country are crucial steps to success, he said. Particularly in an age when record labels no longer invest funding, ever-decreased by digital down-loads, into new acts.

Hoos said industry agents no longer have the money to attend local venues and search for talent, and a band’s industry success boils down to a proactive attitude. He said he and Barton have been working for three years to develop themselves and they

Learn the languageThe ins and outs of roller derby lingo

ricky scuderi | rawrMorgan Sher-wood, nicknamed Heck No Techno, participates in an ex-ercise at roller derby practice on Monday night at the Palouse Ice Rink. The team Rolling Hills Derby Dames is pre-paring for their u p c o m i n g bout next week.

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haven’t yet seen finan-cial profit.

“Dressing for the job you want, not for the job you have — that’s really what it comes down to,” he said. “There’s no easier way to have somebody (of-fer) to put their name on your product than if you’re already doing the work, and the only thing they have to do is sit back and make money.”

Barton said they fol-lowed the Vans Warped Tour 18,000 miles across the country last summer to sell merchandise to the massive crowds at each city’s concert. The group raised $20,000 in sales and left the tour with only $2,000. They’ve purchased all of their own gear and transportation through the years, he said, as well as production services such as $500 promotional photo cards.

Erik Snider said most of the metal music he listens to is made by bands that get no radio play but fund themselves on the road with gigs and merchandise sales.

Christopher Snider said right now Strychnine plays metal for its own sake, and the band is getting known through its Myspace and Facebook pages, as well

as conversations and experiences with friends. Strychnine’s gigs are usu-ally set up when someone else contacts the band.

The gigs and the people they meet “(break) up the monotony” of his day job.

“You play your gig and you go to work,” he said.

Despite the struggles of the location, he said the Palouse offers its own sort of inspiration for their work. Being in this isolated location helps them hone their particular sound outside the influences of other bands. In a city like Seattle, he said, they’d just be another act.

“(Just) being down on the river, the quietness and the solitude definitely makes one clear and able to think about certain things, (unlike) being in a town where it’s constantly noisy. It definitely gives you time to breathe,” he said.

Erik Snider said the fact that metal isn’t too popular here makes the good com-ments from concert-goers more meaningful for him. Those who don’t usually listen to metal, he said, are more honest with their praise than some other bands.

He said the struggle to land gigs in an area not conducive to their art is a positive challenge.

“No gigs have really ever been just handed to us,” he said. “We have to

fight for all the gigs we’ve had. That somewhat keeps us motivated and drives us to … just play better and be better than what we’ve been in the past.”

TPP has played sets with big-time metalers A Skylit Drive, Breathe Carolina, Sleeping With Sirens, I See Stars and others, Barton said, but none of their opportunities would’ve been possible if they hadn’t made them happen.

“We’re spending every dime we have, we’re eating beans every day,” Barton said. “Our diet this sum-mer was just trash because we had three dollars max to spend every meal and there were three of us. It’s not always the best but we love it, man. (We) won’t ever quit.”

Christopher Snider said metal music “transcends the time” in which it began. The most important thing for Strychnine “is not to play the game by anyone else’s rules” but their own, and they’re going to keep working their sound.

Barton said music will never fail them.

“Music is the one love that will never, ever turn its back on you or ever let you down,” he said. “If you can find that … in Moscow, you’ve got something going on right.”

Matt Maw can be reached at

arg-arts@uidaho.edu

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Eating out with friends can be one of the best weekend pastimes, whether sharing a plate of na-chos, splitting a beer pitcher or laughing over the latest football woes. But for the vegan or vegetarian friend, it also creates a mealtime challenge: Where’s the veg?

Moscow restau-rants house some of the most delicious food — or so I’ve

been told. From Gambino’s Chicago

Pot Pie to Nectar’s burger with caramelized on-ions and sweet pickle aioli, from Blue’s Brew and BBQ’s pulled pork sand-wich to La Casa Lopez’s Mole Poblano, this little town sure knows how to cook meat right.

But as for vegetar-ian options, an iceberg

salad with cheddar cheese just doesn’t top the charts. Hold the

cheese please, local vegans say. And don’t even get started on bar food options: fries, fries and more fries. Vegetarians are bet-ter off cooking at home.

This isn’t to say that Moscow should stop cooking meat and throw some veggies on the grill — restaurants just need to get more creative. They’re stuck in a meat grilling rut.

Some of these restaurants are going in the right direction, though. NY Johnny’s introduced a grilled veggie sandwich to

their menu, which is unfortu-nately grilled in the same area as the meat. And some nights, Nectar’s featured soup is a vegetable broth base. Add some bread and salad and your meal isn’t half bad. The new food shack, Vlad’s Souvlakia, offers meat, as well as tofu, on a stick. “A” for effort, guys. Almost ev-ery restaurant has one meatless option and the guest can always request their meal without the chicken, pork or beef.

But one or two items on

each menu gets tiresome. You’re friends want to go to their fa-vorite restaurant? Looks like it’s a side order of fries again.

Moscow restaurants are doing their job. They’re feeding the masses and pleasing them. Most college kids like meat. Love it, actually. But it would never hurt to try something new, introduce it to the menu and see it take off. Meat eaters like vegetables too.

Lindsey Treffry can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

“Assmosis”Assmosis: N. The act of

getting warm by sitting in a chair from which someone else got up.

Example: “After Kendra got up from her chair, I sat in it and got warm from assmosis.”

Friday Sept. 14The Avengers in the Borah Theater (FREE)

Vandal Entertainment will also offer free pizza at the event. Show-ings are at 7 and 9:30 pm.

Wes Anderson Film Festival $6/adults, $3/children 12 and under

Moonrise Kingdom 8 pm, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are set to run away together. Various groups of the town go in search for the two, meanwhile the town is turned com-pletely upside down.

Saturday Sept. 15The Avengers in the Borah Theater (FREE)

Vandal Entertainment will also offer free pizza at the event. Show-ings are at 2:30 and 9 pm.

Wes Anderson Film FestivalMoonrise Kingdom at the Ken-

worthy 5:30 and 8 p.m.

Sunday Sept. 16Wes Anderson Film Festival

Moonrise Kingdom at the Ken-worthy 4:30 and 7 pm

Tuesday Sept. 18Allen Stone Concert

Doors open at 7 p.m. Bart Budwig will open for Stone at 7:30 p.m.

The free concert will be held in the Student Union Building Ballroom on the second floor of the SUB.

French Film Festival $4/individual tickets or $15/Film Festival Pass

Kenworthy, Les femmes du 6eme etage. Film begins at 7 p.m. New films every week.

Wednesday Sept. 19Food For Thought Film Festival $4/Co-op members, $6/general admis-sion

The Moscow Food Co-op presents a documentary about the big busi-ness of bottled water.

Where’s the veg? Scarcity of vegetarian friendly food shows lack of creativity in Moscow restaurants

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