48 = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THIS AND THAT --- WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 2001 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS We Buy, Sell & Trade USED & NEW Sports Equipment 841-PLAY 1029 Massachusetts Just off campus... Cedarwood Apartments - Studios $325 * 1 bedroom $360 * 2 bedroom $460 - Quiet,clean environment - Quiet, clean environment. • Close to campus, KU bus stop • 1 block SE of 23rd and Iowa • Walk to restaurants, stores • AC, Laundry, Pool, Balconies • Well-lit parking, night patrol • On-site manager...we care! Call 843-1116 or visit us 2411 Cedarwood Ave. CAUTION jayHAWK CROSSING Wednesdays Wednesdays $I Anything,$I Big Beers, $I Drinks:Captain Morgan,Jack,Crown, Southern Comfort,Stoli & more $ I SHOTS:Rumplemitz,Goldrush, Tequila Rose & More The KU School of Fine Arts and Kansas Union present Brown Bag Classics Make your lunch a classic. Join the Music & Dance Department for free. noon-time performances. Just bring your lunch because drinks are on the Kansas Union. September 5 September 12 September 19 October 3 October 10 October 17 October 24 Student Artist Allyson Walters, Piano Professor Alice Downs Faculty Artist Michael Hall, Trombone Student Artist Pelien Wu, Piano Professor Alice Downs Faculty Artist Margaret Marco, Oobee Student Artist Susan Andrade, Sopranc Professor John Stephens Faculty Artist Alan Hawkins, Bassoon Student Artist Kathryn Koscho, Piano Professor Jack Winerock The Kansas Woodwinds Student Artist Hugo Vera, Tenor Professor John Stephens KU Saxophone Quartet I Faculty Artists Ben Sayevich Violin and Toni Marie Montgomery, Piano SFA Roundtable: Creativity The Opera Workshop October 31 November 7 November 14 November 28 December 5 December 12 Wednesdays, 12:30 pm to 1 pm, Alderson Auditorium, Level 4, Kansas Union Piano courtesy of Vaccare's Piano and Organ of Overland Park School of Fine Arts University of Kansas WEATHER FORECAST 60 54 Scattered showers early, clearing late. TODAY TOMORROW 52 35 Mostly sunny and cooler. FRIDAY KUJH-TV News Newscasts are every hour on the half hour starting at 5:30 p.m. 50 29 Partly cloudy and comfortable. TIMOTHY BUSN/DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES GONGFARMER BY RANDY REIGER DVD sets let fans relive favorites The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Want the whole of Monty Python's Flying Circus at your fingertips? Feel like shutting yourself in for a private marathon of The X-Files? Care to relive an entire season of America's favorite wise guy family, The Sopranos? The DVD format allows studios and distributors to put whole seasons of TV series in consumers' hands in compact boxes set loaded with behind-the-scenes material and other extras for serious fans. With the number of DVD players in U.S. houses approaching 25 million, collectible boxed sets have grown in popularity, and distributors have put out a rush of new sets in time for holiday shopping season. On DVD, a full season requires just an inch or two of space, with bonuses such as cast interviews, deleted scenes, series trivia, director and writer commentary tracks and other features. DVDs also are more durable, provide better sound and images and eliminate the pesky task of rewinding videotapes. "From a hard-core fan point of view, it enables them to get more into the series," said Peter Staddon, senior vice president for home-video marketing at Thea Century Fox, which launched the TV series boxed-set business with The X-Files first season DVD release last year. The studio has worked its way up to season four, released last month, with plans to issue two seasons a year until it hits the end of the show's run. Fox has been a leader in mining its television catalog for DVD, and other studios and distributors have quickly followed. Stargaze SG-1. BBC Video released the full run of Faulty Towers. Show time issues the first season of Queer as Folk in January. Artisan Entertainment this month comes out with the first season of Twin Peaks. HBO has issued the first two seasons of The Sopranos and Sex and the City and will follow with the first season of *Oz* next year. MGM has put out season one of The latter series is one of those TV rariages, a short-lived series that still has a devoted fan base 10 years after it went off the network schedule. Distributors shy away from releasing sales figures but say some sets have sold in the hundreds of thousands, bringing in tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Shows that top the Nielsen ratings are not necessarily the top candidates for complete-season release on DVD. Warner Bros. has taken a different approach for its hit series Friends, putting out two-disc "best-of" sets rather than a full season episodes. Crossword ACROSS 1 African equine 6 Option word 10 Fabled also-ran 4 Rhone River delta 15 Ages and ages and ages 16 Asian range 17 Lunch times 18 After-bath powder 19 Heavy hammer 20 High regard 22 Tangible 24 French state 26 Wet forecast 27 Video-game shot 30 Docking spot 32 Acts like a detective 36 Seth's son 38 Orbit-shaped 40 Pinball miscues 42 Poetic contraction 43 Fred's first dance partner 44 Repeat initial sounds 47 Ditto 48 Six-line poem 49 Christmas decoration 51 "King" Cole 52 Support group 54 Stew pot 56 Sere 60 Israel natives 64 Farm measure 65 Fighting tooth and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 $ \textcircled{c} $ 2001 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. 12/05/01 67 One sense 68 Mover and shaker 69 St. crossers 70 Comic Murphy 71 Jet-black 72 Riga resident 73 "Mr." Goes to "Town" DOWN 1 Writer Grey 2 Piccadilly Circus statue 3 Smudge 4 Actress Adoree 5 Balance sheet items 6 End hunger 7 Hurdle 8 Clean power 9 Embrace 10 Mankind's nearest relatives? 11 Semite 12 Actor Julia 13 Fashion magazine 21 Stag or hart, for example 23 Nina's sister ship 25 Masonic doorkeeper 27 Greek letters 28 Old-womanish 29 Voice votes 31 Fold in a drape 33 Briny deep 34 Majorca island city 35 Rain ice 37 Needlework 37 Theme song 41 Cubic meter 45 Everlasting 46 Snigglers' prey Solutions to yesterday's puzzle 50 In high spirits 51 Bob's partner? 55 Domicile 56 Dry ravine in Africa 57 Laptop image 58 Difficult journey 59 Middle management? 61 Boorish 62 Vitriol 63 Females of the species 66 WWII craft --- .