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BRING THE FAIR FOODS HOME Ah, the smell of fair food; the thick scent of com dogs and elephant ears fried to perfection. Carnival treats invite attendees to indulge from every comer, satisfying the craving for all things unhealthy that the fair seems to amplify. Fortunately for your taste buds (not so for your waistline), fair favorites can easily be prepared at home year round, i Most of the foods can be made using a surprisingly small number of ingredients. The taste and smell of the State Fair can indeed be enjoyed mid-March should your taste buds so desire. Start your carnival recipe collection with the following two favorites: CORN DOGS Ingredients: 1 pound of hot dogs 1 cup of flour 1 cup of cornmeal 1 tablespoon of sugar 1 tablespoon of baking powder 1 teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of chili powder 1 cup of milk 2 eggs 1/4 cup of vegetable oil Oil for deep-frying Directions: 1. Combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and chili powder in a large mixing bowl. 2. Beat eggs in small bowl with milk and vegetable oil. 3. Pour liquid ingredients into large bowl and whisk mixture until smooth. 4. In a deep fryer, heat oil to 360 degrees. 5. Stick a popsicle stick into each hotdog, and then coat each one in the batter. 6. Fry the hot dogs - more than one can be dope at a time - for 3 to 5 minutes or until golden brown. ELEPHANT EARS Ingredients: 1 package of puff pastry dough, thawed 1/2 cup of sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon legg Directions: 1. Grease two cookie sheets for baking. 2. in a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon. Beat the single egg. Set the mixture and the egg aside for later use. 3. Spread two sheets of dough out side by side on the counter. Merge the sheets in the middle by pinching the seam. 4. Brush the dough with the beaten egg and then sprinkle it with the cinnamon and sugar. 5. Roll the outside edges of the joined sheets inward until they reach the middle. Then, cut the dough into 12 pieces. 6. Cover the sides of the slices in beaten egg and sprinkle them with more cinnamon and sugar. 7. Place them on the cookie sheets and bake them at 325 degrees for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Allow the elephant ears to cool for 5 minutes in the oven before removing. COMPILED BY MEG MOORE Fair CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 wares will assuredly be intrigu ing to see. The State Fair main tains its agricultural roots through its yearly contests with the inclusion of events such as livestock judging and horticul tural competitions. Regional and student-produced art will also be exhibited and judged during the fair. For some, such skill-oriented events are the highlight of the State Fair experience. “We always enter the baking and art contests.” Ginny Kint, a second-year classics student said. “I love the animals and watching the 4H shows. One year we saw a baby calf being bom.” And then there is the high light of many people’s fondest fair memories — the rides and the midway. Whether taking a leisurely Ferris wheel ride or at tempting to win a giant stuffed animal, the State Fair experience largely involves the fair areas parents love to hate — the ones that require tickets. Yet, ar guably, one has not truly experi enced the State Fair until he or she has battled it out with friends at carnival games or lost his or . her lunch on one of the many rides. As one of the few (but usually strident) fair-goers who pur posefully avoids the rides, third year Baccalaureus student Megan Ivey said that she attends the fair, but has her set limits. “I refuse to ride down any thing that goes up and down in six hours,” she said. Like all State Fair fans, though, Ivey has her favorite as pect that keeps her coming back. “The elephant ears are worth the trip,” she said. Whether you enjoy spending all afternoon on the midway or prefer taking in the many ex hibits showcasing local talent, the 2003 South Carolina State Fair promises to deliver yet an other 10 days of fun in the newly minted autumn air. — Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@fwtmail.com www.dailygamecock.com Read it. Vice President's Corner: Clean Carolina will be on October 21st, from 2-3pm on Greene Street. Sign up now and come out with your organization to earn points for Homecoming!! ■CD REVIEW Dressy Bessy pleases indie-pop lovers with sweet, sugary sound I ■ “DRESSY BESSY” Wes Wolfe out of ☆☆☆☆☆ The Colorado-based indie-pop band Dressy Bessy is out with a new album, which comes with a DVD that includes studio footage of the band and plenty of other ex tras. This is the band’s third full length album in four years, fol lowing 1999’s “Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons” and 2002’s “Sound Go Round.” Dressy Bessy is fronted by Tammy Ealom, who gives each song the feel of a Sunday car ride, lending breeziness and warmth to her lyrics. Guitarist John Hill of Apples in Stereo contributes a sol id lead guitar to the four-person band, which also includes Darren Albert on drums and Rob Greene on bass. While Rolling Stone has com pared Dressy Bessy’s effort on this latest album to such early ’90s bands as the Breeders and Letters to Cleo, this band is still distinctly different. The female fronted rock bands from a decade ago had a definite deepness to their sound that the pop-centered sound of Dressy Bessy departs from. Ms. Ealom’s troupe has such a sugar-sweet sound that after hear ing this album, listeners will feel as if they have eaten a little too much candy. Too much treble is clearly a bad thing. But the sugary sound is more indicative of indie-pop 3' a genre, not just of Dressy Bes: in particular. So if you’re into indie-pop, Dressy Bessy does it as well as anyone else. Plus, the band mem bers dress in immaculate ’60s styles that can only help to jazz up the music and give a good vibe to the album. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockmixeditorfahotmail. com Dido tries to follow up success of debut album with ‘Life For Rent’ BY DAVID BAUDER TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — No one, including her music producer brother, paid much attention to Dido when she made her first album. Twelve million copies later, the British singer-songwriter has re placed obscurity with the pressure of proving that she’s more than a one-time sensation who owes her success to an Eminem sample. Her follow-up album, “Life For Rent,” is out Tuesday. It’s an im portant day for Dido and her record company, Arista, which is eager for a big seller over the holidays in a year of slumping music sales. Dido’s boss ratchets up the pres sure even more. “We firmly believe we have maybe the best lyric writer in the business today,” said Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Arista president and a top songwriter himself in the 1980s. “I would challenge anybody to write as well as her in modem music.” Dido Armstrong, the 31-year-old daughter of a poet and a publish er who uses her first name profes sionally, returned to the same British studio to make the new al bum. She worked again with her brother, Rollo, a member of.the group Faithless. “It took a lot of the paranoia out of it, really,” she said. “Obviously, I put a lot of pressure on myself be cause I wanted to make it great and not disappoint people.” “I just want to make a great, classic pop song.” Her first album, “No Angel,” was recorded between 1996 and 1998. Dido sneaked into the studio, often late at night, when her broth er wasn’t working on his own ma terial or the studio wasn’t booked. “Any way that people hear mJ sic, it’s good, and if it’s on a qualii., track like ‘Stan,’ even better,” Dido said. “If it had been some thing really (lousy), I’d probably feel worse about it, but it was a great, great track. I felt like I was part of something special.” Some skeDtics mieht wonder. “No Angel” however, if the was en route to «We f jrm|y be| jeve we Eminemconnec modest success ' tion put an as in the United have the best lync writer terisk on her States, and in the business today.” success. After hadn’t even all, friends and beenreleasedin neighbors in Europe, when Britain couldn’t Dido received even buy Dido’s an unexpected package in the record until after “Stan” became a mail. hit. It was from Eminem. One of the rap star’s friends had heard Dido’s song “Thank You” in the movie “Sliding Doors.” Eminem sampled a portion of the song for the cho rus of “Stan,” his own epic story of a suicidal fan. He wanted Dido’s permission to use it. Dido was thrilled. She figured it would make her hip among her friends. She had no problem giv ing the OK, and even acted in the “Stan” video as Eminem’s preg nant girlfriend. No one could have anticipated that music fans—millions of them — would be so intrigued by the six lines of “Thank You” in Eminem’s song that they would buy Dido’s own disc. “If I felt like people had been disappointed when they bought the album — if they bought it 1 cause of that—then maybe I’d feei as if I had something to prove,” she said. “But I didn’t get that feeling ” Reid also rejects the idea that Dido’s success wasn’t her own. “How many times does an artist get sampled and that sample turns into 12 million sales?” he asked. “That never happens.” If it did, Reid said, then Earth, Wind & Fire would be at the top of the charts. “Life For Rent” follows the same blueprint as Dido’s first al bum: strong, singer-songwriter era tunes with a touch of electronica that creates a hip sheen. Hollywood implements ban on ‘screened copies for Oscar voting BY DAVID GERMAIN THE ASSOCIATED I’HESS LOS ANGELES — Academy Awards voters will have to catch most of their movies on the big screen after Hollywood imple mented a plan Tuesday to ban spe cial DVDs and videotapes of Oscar contenders. Fearing that “screener” copies could be used by video bootleggers to mass produce pirated DVDs and tapes, the major studios and their trade group, the Motion Picture Association of America, worked out an agreement. “We know these screeners are a small part of piracy, but I aim to close every kind of hole in the dike I can find on piracy,” Jack Valenti, head of the MPAA, told The Associated Press. The agreement would include MPAA’s seven studio members — Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and MGM—plus their affiliates such as New Line, Miramax, Focus Features and Sony Pictures Classics. DreamWorks, though not an MPAA member, also agreed to the screener ban. Critics — mainly executives for studio-owned film banners that distribute smaller, independent minded pictures such as recent Oscar winners “The Pianist” and “Pollock” — say the plan will crip ple awards prospects for their movies. Videotapes and DVDs of poten tial Oscar films have become com monplace during awards season as studios try to make sure as many of the 5,600 Oscar voters as possible see their movies. Opponents of the ban say screener copies help level the play ing field between high-profile stu dio flicks and smaller movies that lack big budgets for theatrical screenings aimed at Oscar voters and ads in Hollywood trade papers to promote the films. The plan also would benefit tru ly independent distributors such as Lions Gate, Newmarket or IF > Films, which have no corporate links to MPAA studios and are not bound by the ban. “If implemented the way it’s be ing discussed, it will be one of the greatest boons to some of the more freelance companies,” said James Schamus, co-president of Focus Features, the Universal banner that released “The Pianist.” 803.425.7676 f> www.bluesbash.com/camden Presented by the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County Sponsored by ||§ CAROLINA FIRST James Ervin Toyota Franklin D. Plumbing & Gas Service Company Progress Energy • Budweiser of Columbia Best Western Camden West