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[UPDATE] Sentinel - Nov 10 - Maitland, Champaign

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cassandra
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[UPDATE] Sentinel - Nov 10 - Maitland, Champaign

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Maitland Planning Counterpoint Exhibit
By LUCAS VOORHIES

Bryan Felder, curator of the Maitland Museum, has unveiled plans for the most comprehensive modern-era art exhibit ever held. The collection, to be called "Perplex City Today," will focus predominantly on influential pieces from the last 200 years, and showcase new and challenging works by several famed artists. The pieces slated for display include landmark paintings from the controversial Felix Varn, and some never-before-shown works by puzzle scribe Aiko Entrescore.

Felder announced the goal of the exhibit was to "embrace our city and the Perplexian way of life." He explained: "Over the last few years, our people have been turning away from Perplexian culture and lifestyles as this fascination with Earth grows. ... We are in danger of losing our own identity. This collection is of paramount importance, not just to highlight the fascinating and beautiful work produced by our own native artists, but also to remind us of who we are, separate from the influence of Earth."

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Felder denied suggestions that the theme was chosen to capitalise on the escalating animosity toward the newly opened war exhibit at the Academy Museum. He insisted, instead, that the two exhibits will be complementary. "I see it as a counterpoint," he said. "Instead of focusing on negative topics, we choose to look at the development of the great city we know today. Instead of looking back to a sad period of history, we look forward to a bright future."

A calculatedly Perplexian approach is already planned for the exhibit. The famed gallery maze will make a welcome return, with the layout changing daily to allow visitors to encounter paintings and sculptures they might otherwise have missed. Large interactive displays are to be installed in the museum's recently refurbished Taversen Hall, encouraging the public to engage more deeply with interactive pieces on exhibit.

The exhibit will kick off with a red carpet extravaganza, rumoured to be budgeted at several million lecks, though the exact figures remain a secret. Felder expects more than fifty thousand visitors are expected in the opening month, over five times the museum's most recent numbers.

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Iona Interviews...
Myra Champaign
By IONA RODIE

Myra Champaign, the controversial prodigy who has taken the PCAG by storm, lives with her father Klaus Lowrie in a quiet flat in the Artist's Quarter. Lowrie lets me in and shows me to Champaign's room. "Be nice," he warns me. I notice that, although Champaign and I are left alone, the door remains ajar, Lowrie reading quietly in the next room.

Champaign herself bounces up from her desk when she sees me, then invites me to sit. She sits cross-legged on her neatly-made bed and leans forward. "Sorry it's a bit of a wreck," she says. "I was going to try to tidy up, but I guess I ran out of time." Champaign's bedroom seems like a part of her brain spread out for ready view: cluttered with brightly-coloured projects, puzzles, and the inevitable detritus of schoolwork. A poster of Roll for Damage singer Alejo Jackson hangs on her wall -- signed.

She blushes when I ask her about it. "Alejo is the best," she gushes. "He sent it to me after my first match, you know, with Terpening. ... He'd heard I'm a big fan, and he sent the sweetest note about how he felt bad for me." She points to the note, which is stuck to her mirror, right by a spray of dried wildflowers.

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She refers, of course, to her first PCAG match against Mikhail Terpening. She was admitted to the PCAG only after a long delay, while a specially-convened committee investigated allegations that she should not be allowed to play due to prior cognitive enhancement. During her first match, a particularly vehement group - the Alliance for Clean Players - subjected her to jeers and name-calling before they were removed from the audience. Despite the PCAG's formal acceptance of Champaign into play, there are still protests at many of Champaign's matches. How can she continue to defend herself against such opposition? And is there a grain of truth to their claims?

Champaign's shoulders bow as she struggles to find words. "I understand that there are people who are afraid. They know that I had Walker's Syndrome, and now I'm, well, I guess I'm pretty sharp." She smiles, her enthusiasm and pride in her own performance breaking through. Then she frowns. "They don't see how that could be unless I'm cheating. The whole thing is just so unfair," she says. "I've put my medical records out for public view, and if anybody cares to look at them, they can see that all of my treatments were discontinued by the time I was eight, and that at no point were any of my levels elevated above a perfectly normal range. ... I was treated for a disease, and now that I'm the person I was supposed to be, these people think I'm doing something terrible."

Her eyes shine, perhaps a little too brightly. "If Jonas Sawgrass would bother to look at the trials for my treatment, he'd see that it's been shown that they have no effect on someone without Walker's to begin with," she says. Then she swipes at her eyes with a sleeve. "It's clear Jonas doesn't care about me as a person, anyway," she says. "He's just got his pet cause, and I'm an easy target because I'm young."

Young as she is, Myra has had more than her fair share of media attention, and it shows in her careful answers to my questions. Now that she is in the PCAG, comparisons are inevitable -- she's most widely compared to reigning champion and PCAG darling Serena Duncan. How does Champaign feel she stacks up?

"I can't even say how flattering that is," Champaign says. "I mean, all of this 'best young player since Serena' kind of talk is so exciting. And Serena was already seventeen when she first began play, [Champaign recently turned 15] so to have all of the pundits talking like that already is, well, it's kind of unreal."

All the same, Champaign is clearly not going to take the championship anytime soon. As the season progresses, competition gets only more intense, and with her current standing, Champaign is unlikely to make it into December. She shakes her head. "No, that's right," she says. "I've played very hard, but I'm definitely losing ground the last few weeks. It's all right, it doesn't hurt my feelings or anything." She tosses her hair back over her shoulder and grins. "Anyway, my schoolwork needs a little more attention, so it's just as well."

And have the protests had an effect? Or will she be entering the PCAG again next year? She takes a deep breath and raises her eyebrows, suddenly looking every inch the naughty 15-year-old.

"Oh no," she says, "I'm going to enter again next year. And, sometime soon, I'm going to win."

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Rudon-Birch Pens Memoirs

Society matron Paulina Rudon-Birch has announced plans to write and publish her memoirs, sure to include juicy details of her many decades of experience at love and hatred in the highest echelons of wealth. Rudon-Birch has not yet struck a deal with any one publisher, but she says that her agent is already fielding several offers.

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ADVICE FOR THE ACADEMY MUSEUM

May I say, as a citizen of Earth, I am academically interested in the war exhibit at The Academy. I couldn't agree more with the general populace on the subject's distaste. War is heinous and unpleasant, and I dare say no-one would argue this point. However I'm quick to add: Every thinking person in both worlds must consider it their duty to study the history behind their civilisation. History is not a subject we are meant to look back on gleefully and think how grand everything used to be. We are meant to look at the fFailings [sic] and successes of those who came before, and learn fFrom [sic] them. Therefore, I would like to encourage and invite the Academy to extend some of their exhibits to the Earth audience, so we may all gain a deeper understanding of the matter at hand. Certainly a pictorial gallery may be considered.
Scott Myers, Earth

I had occasion to visit the new exhibit at the Academy Museum this week, and I think every citizen of the city should consider seeing it. While the journey can be emotional -- even very painful -- it only gives one a greater appreciation for where we stand as Perplexians and as human beings today. The exhibit does not seek to tear down the accomplishments we have made. Rather, it shows all the more how astonishing it is that we could have come so far. I hope the museum continues in this important work.
Brianna Fiore

Weeks pass, and the crowd of protesters in front of the Academy Museum grows ever larger. The time is coming when the City Council will be forced to step in and intervene. It has become very clear that this exhibit is unpopular, and there is, after all, an election coming. If it is the will of the people that the past should be left in peace, then that will should be done -- even if it takes voting out the entire council to get there. To Anja Marlowe: Now is a good time to start planning your next career, because your curatorship will be coming to a swift end.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:30 pm

[PCGF]Jay
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Scott? Why on Earth do you have to type fF in any words that begin with F?

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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:07 am

Scott
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hey hey, fFirst time they've not edited me, there.

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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:02 pm

Mokey Fraggle
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Scott wrote:

hey hey, fFirst time they've not edited me, there.

*highfive* That's right, Scott! Don't let them hold you down!!! Rock On

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:08 pm

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Scott wrote:

hey hey, fFirst time they've not edited me, there.

Well, I assume that you didn't add the [sic]'s yourself? But at least they didn't remove them like before.

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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:11 pm

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Daffy889 wrote:

Scott wrote:

hey hey, fFirst time they've not edited me, there.

Well, I assume that you didn't add the [sic]'s yourself? But at least they didn't remove them like before.

scott works for fFyfFes bBaNnanNas ???

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