In honor of Restaurant Week, we talk to two SP food writers about new restaurants in Champaign. Find out all of the hits and misses.
Posts by John Steinbacher:
Today on SP Radio: Your audio guide to new C-U restaurants
Today on SP Radio, we are joined by Smile Politely food writers Susanna Kline and Seth Fein. They will talk about the ever changing landscape for local cuisine. We’ll be discussing the emergence of new …
SP Radio Podcast: Drew Phillips, Uncle John and local bluegrass
In advance of this Sunday's Bluegrass Roots Extravaganza at the Iron Post, we talk to Uncle John and Big Bluestem's Drew Phillips about local string music.
U of I’s corpse plant (and rivers of animal feces) featured on Modern Marvels
The other night, my spouse, who is an academic in the field of plant biology, made me watch an episode of the show Modern Marvels about “Stink” on H2 (or history to the deuce as …
Former locals explain the art of a tactful academic rejection
Two former University of Illinois Dept. of English PhD. students made the front page of The Chronicle of Higher Education with their thoughts on being turned down for countless jobs. While this is an especially …
Today on SP Radio: Drew Phillips from Big Bluestem Band
Today on SP Radio we’ll have Drew Phillips from Big Bluestem Band. We will discuss the band, it’s musical repetoire and the local string band music scene. Plus we’ll probably play some actual music! Big …
Today on SP Radio: Ward Gollings and The Great Cover Up
Today on Smile Politely Radio, we are joined by local concert booker Ward Gallings. He will be in studio to discuss the 2012 edition of the Great Cover Up, which is celebrating its 21st year …
SP Radio Podcast: The art of storytelling
We talk and listen to three of the storytellers from the upcoming For a Cold Winter's Night performance at Indi Go Artist Co-op.
Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray and Extra hearts Easter
Apparently Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray, the televesion show Extra) has taken a shining to local band Easter. According to Easter’s Facebook page, a friend of the band sent McGrath a link to a video of …
NPR picks The Dirty Feathers as one of the 5 best Bandcamp albums of 2011
NPR’s Bruce Warren picked his five favorite Bandcamp discoveries for 2011 and C-U’s very own Dirty Feathers made the cut. The songs all sound familiar (a little Doors here, a little White Stripes there, a …