Steve Dolinsky is a journalist and personality in the food and drink world, and resides in Chicago. His daughter attends the University of Illinois, so he and his ABC crew headed down to check out …
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Illini Basketball lands five-star recruit PG Ayo Dosunmu
Illini Basketball will be here soon, thankfully enough, because Illinois Football is trash. That said, Brad Underwood has landed a massive recruit — Ayo Dosunmu out of Morgan Park High School in Chicago. As the …
Visual culture expert Prof. Claudia Swan presenting tonight at Krannert Art Museum
From the email blast from Krannert Art Museum: Claudia Swan is a professor of Art History at Northwestern University and an expert in visual culture in Dutch history. Her presentation is the Philipp Fehl Memorial Lecture in Art History. Hope …
Thad Morrow returns to cook in C-U October 20th at MIGA
Thad Morrow, former owner of bacaro (and Carmon’s), moved away to become the Wine Director for Blue Apron a few years back. He’s back in town here and there, but he’s returning to cook in …
Common Ground’s 2017 turkey pre-order is now available
Common Ground has opened up pre-orders for the 2017 holiday season, and it is turkey time. Check out the pre-order page on their website — they have Triple S Turkeys in a variety of options, which …
Check out Bacaro’s menu for this Friday’s Cooking with Friends
A former Bacaro chef returns to the kitchen to cook in this installment of Cooking with Friends — Michael Miller is the esteemed guest chef. This is the next edition of this series — first …
“Weird Al” Yankovic coming to Virginia Theatre March 30th, 2018
“Weird Al” Yankovic is coming to Champaign in 2018 — March 30th at the Virginia Theatre. 2018 seems like a ways off at this point, but we’re almost there. You might know Weird Al from …
Allerton hosting tree care and pruning workshop Saturday, October 21st
If you want to learn how to properly prune and maintain your trees — this is a good opportunity heading into the fall. Allerton is hosting a workshop (which only costs $5) with their Park …
Take a look at MIGA’s new, expansive sushi menu
MIGA in Downtown Champaign announced that they would be adding a sushi bar and a new sushi chef at the beginning of this month, so a group of us went and checked out their new …
Rodney Davis loves Creed’s “Higher” and I am so happy about it
How can this get any better? Representative Rodney Davis — IL 13’s representative that we’ve been following very closely over the course of the last year or so — has some interesting taste in music. …