Feel the need to tango? Check out this sextet at the Independent Media Center tomorrow night.
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Heathens on the rise
Fresh off an appearance on Austin City Limits, Austin’s Band of Heathens rolls into town tomorrow night for a show at Highdive.
Speakers in C-U, November 9 – 15
A symposium on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, and more!
Everything’s coming up Dillon
You & Yourn have a new name, a new album, an opening slot for Andrew Bird, and the world on a string, sitting on a rainbow.
See Top Chefs in action today at Illinois Street residence halls
From the U of I Housing announcement: Top Chef Master Rick Bayless to Join Judges Panel at Chef’s ChallengeThursday, November 5, 4 to 7 p.m. at ISR Dining Room and Atrium See your professional chefs …
Setting the stage
As the All Ages Performance Venue Coordinator at the UC-IMC, Katy Vizdal is working to keep things hopping in their performance space.
Hersh to accept Illinois journalism award in D.C.
Man, when I first saw this, I thought maybe the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh was coming to C-U, but alas: “The prize will be awarded Saturday (Nov. 7) at the National Press Club in Washington, …
That’s a lot of weed
When officers searched the truck further, they found 1,455 pounds of marijuana concealed inside furniture in the truck. Police said the marijuana had a street value of about $6 million. — From the N-G article, …
Sins of the mother
Kaylie Jones, daughter of acclaimed author James Jones, will be in town tomorrow to read from her new book, Lies My Mother Never Told Me.
Common Loon does Halloween up right
Common Loon got pretty into the whole Halloween thing for their gig with Pomegranates and Headlights at the Iron Post on Saturday night. They looked a little too creepy, so it was worth documenting, which …