<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Calibri><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Satirical songwriter</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"> <B>Roy Zimmerman</B> brings his one-man show <B>"Roy Zimmerman: Real American"</B> to Allen Hall!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Friday, April 9 <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W Gregory Drive. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Free and open to the public<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri size=4>Roy's YouTube videos have garnered over four million views and tens of thousands of comments, many of them coherent. His songs are heard on NPR and Air America and he's a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">“Real American” is 90 minutes of Zimmerman’s funny songs and comic commentary, a tuneful examination of the American political landscape in the era of Hope and Change. Health care, the economy, same-sex marriage, climate change, Creationism, guns, taxes, abstinence and, yes, Obama all come under satirical scrutiny.<BR><BR>The Los Angeles Times says, “Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer.”</SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Check out one of his Youtube videos here (It is only 1 minute and 40 seconds!): </FONT><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-c3VgHCUQ"><FONT face=Calibri color=#800080>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-c3VgHCUQ</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">Laura Haber<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">Program Director of Unit One<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">University of Illinois<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">68 Allen Hall MC-050<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">1005 W. Gregory Drive<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">Urbana, IL 61801<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">(217) 244-2317<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas"><A href="mailto:lhaber@uiuc.edu">lhaber@illinois.edu</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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