1 . e s r 108~-- The Michigan 'Daily Weeken~d M azine - Thursday, Octobe&r 22 , 1998 0 The Michigan ba Weeketld Magazi ............. Q Road-Trip of the Week Dry campus leads to creative student body at Northwestern Oct, 22: Painting the Town Purple '/Wlhere: Evanston, t '*ow: Ta*e 1-94 West to Chicago. Continue through the city, then follow signs for Evanston and Skokie, It. Exit onto the very curvy Sheridan Road to the heart of campus near Chicago A venue and Davis Street. A number of parking strut- tures are located on Sheridan and the surrounding side streets. /How Long: 4-4:30 hours, depending on traffic /What's There: See a college town in the middle of one of the Midwest's most exciting cities. Evanston features a cozy but beautiful campus that is short on alcohol but not on inter- esting attractions. There's lots to see and you can always hop on "the L" or jump in your car for the short trip to the heart of the Windy city if you get bored in Wildcat Town. Market has everything from apples to artwork I; By Will Weissert Weekend, Etc. Editor EVANSTON - The high-browed, green-grassed, bike-racked home of Northwestern University is much like Ann Arbor's Central Campus - except for one notable exception. The structures, surroundings and peo- ple certainly fit the mold. There are a multitude of ancient stone-exterior cam- pus buildings as close-set as they are stereotypically academic. There are ever-present students who hurry from asphalt sidewalk to grassy enclaves on their way to quad-shaped dorms or heavy-doored libraries. But while Evanston is not short on university apparel, it lacks everything else that makes a college town furi - namely dive-restaurants, shabby movie theaters, dusty used CD shops and bars. "This town has no bars, no restaurants - where do they go to have fun?" asked Engineering senior Joseph Black, while scouring the post-dusk Evanston streets in search of beer the night before Saturday's football contest with Northwestern. "No wonder they study so much." The stomping grounds of some of the nation's most famous historical prohibi-. tionists, grass-roots political action has ensured Evanston as a dry town for decades. Bars are allowed outside the town's small city limits, but are nowhere to be found near Northwestern's cam- pus. ' But, to their credit, the 28,000-plus students who call Evanston home for four years have seemed to have adapted to their sterile good-time environment by making their own unique party scenes. One of the only bars to be found is the crotchety and drunken-middle-age- men-filled The Keg, located past the elevated-train tracks and outside Evanston's city limits. But, 15 minutes away in an open-air atrium at Northwestern's Kellogg Business School, a Friday-night mixer features five kegs of Sam Adams, a DJ, and more pizza and chips than the 200 sophisticat- ed Business students present can eat. While such a display of free and read- ily accessible alcohol in a University building in Ann Arbor would cause a riot the instant thirsty undergrads got wind of the scent of lager - in Evanston it seems to be standard operat- ing procedure. Kellogg students say they throw a similar party most Friday nights and even come equipped with special purple and white plastic cups to cut down on the waste of disposal beer cups. Additionally, although Northwestern's union, the Noris Student Center, has the Friday-evening liveliness of a post-1996 Election victory party for Bob Dole, just a short distance to the East on Northwestern's Fraternity row, lots of students seem to be having a gen- uinely good time. Fraternity houses in Evanston all share the same block, in terrain once occupied by Lake Michigan but since filled in to make room for student sprawl. Most Northwestern students seem to agree that the area, known to locals simply as "the Lake-fill," with its strong Greek ties and strange sense of man triumphing over - or at least treading over - nature is a great place to find a little fun. But while Northwestern students may have to be a bit creative in finding a party worth their time, they have no trouble finding a coffee house to occupy for a few hours ... Sound familiar? The Wildcat favorite seems to be Kafine's, on Chicago Street near South Campus. Competing with the java-fueled student hangout are a couple of Evanston-loca- tion Starbucks - a coffee company, which apparently inked some deal with Chicago's city fathers guaranteeing them a coffee house location on every single Chicago block and at least 500,000 stores in the metro area. Evanston and Ann Arbor have one other very important difference, of course. The University of Michigan is 45 minutes by car from Detroit-- a city which is filled with fun and improving its image every day but is still made ref- erence to by the travel book Let's Go USA 1998 as "America's first third- world city." Northwestern, on the other hand, is 35 minutes by car, 45 minutes by train, from the Loop in the heart of Chicago. For $1.50 students can jump on "the U' and pass historic Wrigley Field on their way to such touristy favorites as the Sears Tower and the Magnificent Mile, a shopper's paradise. Evanston's close proximity to Chicago proper also helps brighten the social prospects of the drab college berg. Trains that seem to be safe well after dark bring students from Evanston to the Loop until after Midnight and bring them back within a short cab-ride of campus all night. If a car is at your disposal, free parking on the street and light traffic in both Evanston and Chicago seems to abound after 5 or 6 p.m. Once in Chicago, authentic neigh- borhood bars and restaurants like the kind you saw on "Perfect Strangers" and "About Last Night" are within walking distance of the more commercial down- town tourist attractions. Spending time in Evanston gives you a nice mix of Chicago's excitement and Evanston's espresso-sipping professors, stressed-student college Mecca. While Ann Arbor and Evanston may be cut from the same cloth, there is definitely more to the home of Northwestern than watching 3 1/2 rain-pelted-hours of Wolverine football there, as so many University faithful did this past Saturday. .y Sasha Higgins For the Daily There can be more to buying veg- etables than a quick browse through the frozen foods aisle at the super- market. In fact, the world of vegetables exceeds many of our imaginations at Ann Arbor's very own Farmer's Market, located in Kerrytown, on the corner of North Fourth Street and East Kingsley Avenue. At the Farmer's Market, fruit and vegetables dominate. Potatoes come in a multitude of shapes and colors, tomatoes overflow from their bags onto the tables, cartons of fresh ones I bring with me:' There are not many places where one can savor a giant size caramel apple while walking through a maze of stalls, each one offering some- thing to tempt the palate or inspire the artist within. The Market has it all - from crystallized insects and ceramic tiles to organic greens and homemade apple pies to handmade leather bags and pine furniture. Even the most discriminating of shoppers is bound to find something to buy here. One stand boasts 20 dif- ferent kinds of apples, packaged and ready to take home; another offers an interesting display of Michigan hats. picked raspberries are lined up next For plant lovers, to each other, and pumpkins come in painted Even the moist and unpainted varieties. One discriminating of stall displays s front of shoppers is bound its onions announcing to finld somehing "Sweet Sp anish Onions - Eat to buy here. them like apples." Rocco Garritano, a farmer from the Market traffic Howell, has had a stand at the mar- that the vendors" ket for seven years. His colorful sales from studen array of vegetables attracts many Fincannon's s customers to his stand - in large wife's work, hasa part owing to his selection of 36 dif- paintings, doorma ferent kinds of hot peppers. And work has picke chances are, those of us who fre- theme" as can be quent the Mexican restaurants on cats, and goldfish campus have sampled some of Mr. "My wife paint Garritano's delicacies, wants really, but a "I sell only at the market here," her to do," said Fit said Garritano, "but many of the into her personalit restaurateurs in the area come by whimsical." and purchase my peppers." The Farmer's N Students can also be seen at the exact word to mi stands, examining the ethnic jewel- One can sample ry, or eyeing the super size rice try on an unusual krispie treats. Tina Mascarentias, a and pick out a n second-year Rackham student, while listening to comes to the Farmer's Market every who stands att Saturday to buy vegetables. square dancing "I know students come here," she thought one could said. "I just only seem to see the bles and enjoy the ,there is a very impressive selection of cacti, sunflow- ers and chrysan- themums. P au Fincannon comes to the F a r m e r 's Market every Saturday. He said that since classes began has increased, but "don't get a lot of its." stand, selling his a colorful array of ats, and tiles. Her d up an "animal seen in the dogs, in her work. s anything anyone animals are fun for ncannon. "They fit ty which is kind of Market brings that ind - whimsical. a flavored honey, I piece of jewelry, new plant, all the the violin player the side playing music. Whoever have their vegeta- m too? Couresy o fNorthwestern MediaServices The Northwestern University campus, full of lvycovered buildings and students hur- rying to class, looks a lot like this University's Central Campus. The sInIladties end there, however - Ann Arbor and Evanston are very different citIes. I ANUI MAIU/Uay Bill and Rose Herschflield sell produce at the farmers' market.