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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015
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arts & features
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
HOROSCOPES
Imagine a delicious future. Don't inaugurate a new trick or fall for a tall tale. Complete a project that's been slow. You're especially powerful this next month with Venus in Pisces.
Allow yourself more quiet time. Discipline is required. Don't gossip or get stopped by past failures. Imagine the right circumstances.Maintain balance amid upheaval.Postpone expansion over the next few weeks with Venus in Pisces.
Germini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 7
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Follow an expert's plans. Increase your area of influence this week. Take on more responsibility over the next month with Venus in Pisces. Watch for career opportunities. Assume authority.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Cancer (June 21- July 22)
Today is an 8
Stand up for what you love.
Financially it could get tense.
No need to overdo. Create a detailed budget. Travel, explore and study this next month with Venus in Pisces. Set goals, and plan your next adventure.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Review shared finances this month with Venus in Pisces, and discover ways to save. Increase your assets. Re-affirm a commitment. There may be a conflict anyway. Take calm authority, and persuade co-workers.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
today is an 8 Partnership's flow with greater ease this next month with Venus in Pisces. Collaborate on creative projects. Nobody understands your work better than you.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Todav is a 7
Everything seems possible. There's more work coming in over the next month with Venus in Pisces, and it's the kind you like.
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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Do something nice for your partner (or someone you'd like to know better). You're luckier in love this month with Venus in Pisces. Explore new ways to create beauty.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Be patient and evaluate the situation. Your place can become a love nest. You're more domestic over the next month with Venus in Pisces. Focus on home and family. Increase the comfort level. Learn from a child.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Trust your own heart to lead you.
You love learning this month with Venus in Pisces. Study gets fun. You're even smarter than usual.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Gather new income. The next month with Venus in Pisces can get quite profitable.
Discover your peak professional performance zone. Prove your latest hypothesis. Don't believe everything you hear. Expand your influence.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
You feel especially beloved for the next month with Venus in your sign. Add some glamour to your personal presentation, with a new style or look. You're irresistible.
Hank Charcuterie hosts Local Table tonight
MACKENZIE CLARK
@mclark59
They've traded their foils for carving knives, but their friendship remains intact.
Vaughn Good, owner and chef, and Juan Carlos Tovar-Ballagh, sous chef, work together at Hank Charcuterie. Both raised in Lawrence, their friendship extends beyond their involvement in the local culinary scene.
"We worked together at Pachamamas, but I've also known [Tovar-Ballagh] since elementary school," Good said. "We used to fence together in a fencing club."
When Good was in the process of creating Hank Charcuterie last year, he asked Tovar-Ballagh if he would be interested in the sous chef position.
"We designed this place to kind of be open, so people can see what's going on."
VAUGHN GOOD
Owner of Hank Charcuterie
Hank Charcuterie will host a collaborative dinner with other chefs tonight in a group called Lawrence Local Table. The 10-course Hearth & Field Dinner is prepared by Good and Towar-Ballagh along with other chefs from establishments such as 715, Decade, Wood + Salt and 1900 Barker, a bakery that has yet to open.
"He's been here since day one." Good said.
The idea for Lawrence Local Table developed when Good and Tovar-Ballagh were talking with Zach Thompson, a chef at 715.
"It's kind of a trending thing that's happening in a lot of food scenes, with different chefs coming together and doing dinners," Good said.
Tenight's dinner will be the third event the chefs of Lawrence Local Table have hosted.
"We're going to try and keep doing events;" Good
The charcuterie aims to let people know where their food comes from. All of the animals come fresh from local farms and are butchered onsite, after being processed through a designated slaughter facility. Good said. The public can watch demonstrations of butchering a hog every other Wednesday and a lamb every other Saturday.
said. "We're already throwing around ideas for our next one"
In a process TovarBallagh said is "quite tiring," he first breaks the animals into primal cuts.
from there, he breaks it into subprimal cuts and smaller cuts, such as lamb chops. The chefs use every part of each animal: meat that isn't part of a choice cut becomes sausage, and bones are used to make broths.
"We designed this place to kind of be open, so people can see what's going on," Good said.
The chefs can also provide specific cuts upon customer request. Some holidays, for example, Good estimated he would receive enough requests to need at least three lambs.
A charcuterie differs from a butcher shop because its primary focus is cured and smoked meats, such as sausages and bacon, Good said. Everything sold at Hank Charcuterie is handmade.
"There are definitely more efficient, more economical ways to make sausage," Good said. "I'd just rather be really authentic about it and make a better handmade product."
Good said there is "nothing like" Hank Charcuterie in Lawrence, but that wasn't his only reason for opening the business in his hometown.
"We have great resources in this area." Good said, referring to produce and other goods from local farmers.
If you visit Hank Charcuterie, don't make the rookie mistake of asking for Hank — which happens all the time, Good said. A "hank" is a coil of sausage casings.
Edited by Kayla Schartz
Juan Carlos Tovar-Ballagh, the sous chef at Hank Charcuterie, breaks a lamb into primal cuts using a bone saw. The chefs at the charcuterie allow the public to watch butchering demonstrations every other Wednesday and Saturday.
MACKENZIE CLARK/KANSAN
'Furious 7' puts ridiculous car thrills on overdrive
@Lambcannon
ALEX LAMB
"Furious 7" offers an emotional goodbye scene to Paul Walker, who died in a 2013 car accident. Walker played Brian O'Conner in the "Fast and Furious" franchise.
"Furious 7" won't fulfill Vin Diesel's prediction of winning best picture, but as far as ridiculous blockbuster entertainment goes, it has virtually everything an action fan could want. It's basically the cinematic version of a greasy, triple bacon cheeseburger with onion rings and a zesty special sauce on it.
Starting with "Fast Five," the "Fast and Furious" franchise has grown gleefully overthe-top and surprisingly spectacular, and this entry takes the craziness to an even higher level than the vehicular warfare of the last installment. Cars literally fly, first skydiving and later soaring through multiple skyscrapers, and a drone rips through the streets of Los Angeles with explosions galore. Then at the end of this outrageous film, the gears shift to an emotional goodbye to Paul Walker that is guaranteed to get viewers at least a little teary-eyed.
Adding to the awesomeness of "Furious 7" is a handful of new fighters in various roles. Chiefly among them, the unstoppable Jason Statham as villain Deckard Shaw hunts Dominic Toretto (Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Walker) and their crew for taking down his brother in the last movie.
Statham is a perfect fit for a bad guy in this series, and after his glorified entrance in the cheeky opening, he and The Rock duke it out in a rowdy fight scene to immediately get
the adrenaline flowing.
MMA fighter Ronda Rousey makes a featured appearance going toe-to-toe with Michelle Rodriguez while Thai martial arts star Tony Jaa plays the main henchman and has a couple frenetic fights with Walker. They're cool to see here, but Kurt Russell brings the most straightforward charisma of the new additions, playing a government official who recruits the heroes to rescue a
The 15-minute rescue set piece then doubles down on insanity with delirious stunts and superb car action that cares little for believability but a lot for entralling choreography. First, Toretto and his crew skydive their cars onto a winding mountain road, then attack an armored bus that fires back with miniguns and subsequently deal with all sorts of other intense complications that keep viewers on the edge of
hacker (Nathalie Emmanuel) and retrieve her powerful God's Eye program from the wrong hands. The God's Eye program can use all technology as a surveillance weapon, although it feels dopey in the context of this film. However, that kind of silliness is part of the charm of "Furious 7."
A prince's party that the team crashes in Abu Dahbi offers music video party stylings turned up with extremely enjoyable swankiness, even including dancing women entirely painted gold. Then in ludicrous yet satisfying fashion, it turns into absolute mayhem with a supercar that has no place to go but out the window, jumping to the next building.
Horror director James Wan transitions to this capac project with an effective action eye, exciting with car stunts and speed from the driver's seat all the way to fantastic aerial shots. He also manages to squeeze more real emotion out of the sentimental "family" themes these characters live by
that usually feel pretty silly in this series. Part of that comes from the outside knowledge of Walker's death, but overall it's refreshing that more of the family aspect comes across genuinely than previous entries.
The lengthy final set piece back in L.A. goes even more deadly and destructive than the tank in the previous film by bringing in a drone that destroys cars faster than they can be counted and never lets up on the gas.
their seats, wide-eyed and jaws dropped.
The evolution of this series into something so bonkers and delightfully entertaining is truly a remarkable example of the Hollywood machine going full steam. So strap in, turn off your brain and go on the wildest ride vet.
Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
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