With places like Forever 21 or Urban Outfitters gobbling up artists’ ideas and designs and calling them their own, originality seems hard to find these days. As I was feeding my craving for handmade jewelry …
Posts by Justine Fein-Bursoni:
Mark Frauenfelder Interview; Lecture at Siebel Center Tonight
Tonight, thanks to the designmatters campus-wide initiative to inspire innovation, Mark Frauenfelder, the editor-in-chief of Make Magazine (an O’Reilly Media publication) and co-editor/co-founder of Boing Boing, will be giving a talk entitled, “A Brief History …
Total Lunar Eclipse Viewable at Parkland’s Staerkel Planetarium
On Aug. 28, 2007, Champaign-Urbana only had an opportunity to see half of a lunar eclipse. Since the eclipse began in the early morning hours, the sun came up before the eclipse was over. This …
A Call for Work
OPENSOURCE is encouraging artists to submit relevant work to a new exhibition, “The Audacity of Desperation,” coming to the Independent Media Center, located at 202 S. Broadway, in Urbana. The organizers, Jessica Lawless and Sarah …
Super Tuesday
Champaign voters got their first crack at democracy for 2008 this morning. At 11:58 a.m., 315 out of 900 people had already voted at the Holy Cross parish center, which covers the 11th and 12th …
Mood Modifiers
Stuck inside and slightly depressed today? Flowers can actually make you happy. How cliché. With the drab weather outdoors, a bright yellow chrysanthemum ($3.50 a stem) could keep you from going stir-crazy. Maybe. Pick one …
And Snow You Shall Have
The landmark we all know and love, Alma Mater, gets giddy over the inclement weather in Champaign-Urbana.
Art Mart Celebrates Fifty Years and Announces New Ownership
Since opening its doors in 1958, local retailer Art Mart has been an integral and important part of the economic and cultural fabric in downtown Urbana. The store, which is located in Lincoln Square Village, …
Grab a Shaker and Countdown to 2008
If tonight’s your big night out on the town, make sure you know what you’re doing, how you’ll get around, what you’ll wear, where you’ll be dining and who you will smooch at the stroke …
Snow-deprived
All the snow has melted. This year, the chance of having a white Christmas is slim to none. We were so close.