So, I needed to drive to Chicago to pick up my brother and his wife at O’Hare today, and I saw that both Common Loon and World’s First Flying Machine were playing shows in the …
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Cranksgiving tops last year
More than 30 people on bikes collected nearly 900 pounds of food for Eastern Illinois Food Bank last Saturday.
Banner-dropping at the Union in support of UC protests
An anonymous tipster sent the above photos earlier this morning. The banner is in support of protests and demonstrations at the University of California campuses, where their Board of Regents voted in a 32 percent …
Caught between a rock and a…
Cross Canadian Ragweed is a rock band with an Oklahoma twang that plies their trade for a country label. Check out these Red Dirt ramblers at Canopy tonight.
Spirit of the Sixers
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers bring their straightforward music and sunny dispositions to Highdive Wednesday night.
Unit 4 schools prepare to go into “soft lockdown,” if necessary
I was forwarded the following email sent last Friday by an assistant principal of a west Champaign elementary school: Staff, In the next few weeks we may need to go into a soft lockdown due …
Speakers in C-U, November 16 – 22
Author roundtables, efficiently moving cargo by rail, and the state of the post-Soviet countryside, all for you this week.
N-G casually reveals name of juvenile defendant
Well, at least it wasn’t in the headline, I guess. After a month of coverage of the Kiwane Carrington case in which the News-Gazette respected the anonymity of a juvenile defendant, he was suddenly identified …
Livening up the airwaves
Carly Nix is charged with helping the UCIMC’s news media groups. She’s already made an impact, and looks forward to the coming year.
