Sometimes the cornfields can get you down. I have many antidotes (several involving vodka and olives), but when my liver needs a break and my soul longs for tranquility, C-U provides me a surprising sanctuary: …
Posts by Laura Bandy:
Performance Poet Patrick Rosal Visits C-U Today
Play every note loud — especially the wrong ones. – Dizzy Gillespie Poet Patrick Rosal visits Author’s Corner at the Illini Union Bookstore today as a guest artist in the University of Illinois’s Carr Reading …
SAFE House Creative Writing Event Tonight at Espresso Royale
The Canaan Baptist Church is a fixture in Urbana. Take a leisurely stroll down Main Street on your way to Strawberry Fields or the Farmer’s Market, and you’ll see it on your left: a pleasantly …
Kip Knutzen Descends on Urbana Later This Week
Shows at Urbana’s cozy Station Theatre are always a treat. The intimate, theatre-in-the-round setting makes the spectator feel nearly a part of the performance. Certain shows lend themselves better to this atmosphere than others of …
New Exhibit Opens With a Bang
Art museums sometimes get a bad rap. Maybe this is caused by flashbacks to unpleasant school excursions from our youth, when we were shepherded through boring exhibits while pretentious docents blathered on about Etruscan art. …
Things Abound at Link Gallery Art Show
There’s always something hanging at the Link Gallery. But because the space also serves as the only corridor between the Krannert Art Museum and the School of Art + Design, it can be easy to …
My Town
Last night I was walking to Champaign’s Brass Rail, talking about Chicago, and how my friends there had referred to me as “country mouse” when I moved to Andersonville in 2000. “Bright lights, big city,” …