Japan House is looking for some gardening enthusiasts to help maintain their gardens through the spring and summer months. They are looking for help Monday and Friday afternoons from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., but …
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You can tour the County Clerk’s office this Friday
Want to see the inner workings of the County Clerk’s office? The UIUC chapter of League of Women Voters and Champaign County Clerk’s office is hosting a tour this Friday from 3 to 4:15 p.m. …
Beginning this Saturday, Chester’s BBQ will be on the patio at Bentley’s
If you’re at Bentley’s on a Saturday night and need some late night bites, you will now have Chester’s BBQ food truck at your disposal on the Bentley’s patio. They will be around from 11 …
Common Ground is having a book drive for U-C Books to Prisoners
Throughout the month of April, you can bring those books you’re no longer reading to the Co-op to donate to Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners. April 7th, 13th, 20th, and 28th between 10 a.m. and noon …
Author David McCraw will be giving a talk at Allerton on Friday
McCraw is a native of Monticello, and he is currently Deputy General Counsel at the New York Times. He’s written a rather timely book, Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age …
Sign up for Electronics Recycling beginning April 8th
The spring Residential Electronics Recycling event is coming up on May 18th at Parkland College, and sign up for drop off times opens at 8 a.m. on Monday, April 8th. Currently, those living in Bondville, Champaign, …
“Discover the Night Sky” at Middle Fork River Forest Preserve on April 13th
This week is International Dark Sky Week, which calls attention to the effects of light pollution. We just happen to have Illinois’ only Dark Sky Park just a ways down the road at Middle Fork …
Did you know there’s a beer class every Monday at Barrelhouse?
The concept is pretty straightforward. Ten beers, $10, 10 p.m. Virgil Grider, who knows some things about beer, selects each week’s line up for drinking and learning. Sometimes there’s a theme, sometime’s there isn’t. Sometimes …
NCSA co-produced a cool science documentary called Birth of Planet Earth
In cooperation with the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spitz Creative Media, and Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc., and in association with Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, our own …
Triptych and Broadway Food Hall are teaming up for Taste of Broadway
Broadway Food Hall has done a few of these “Taste of Broadway” events to give people an opportunity to try all they have to offer, but this time they’ve brought in Triptych to take things …