Smile Politely is co-sponsoring the inaugural Skeletal Lightning Fest, which is happening this weekend over at the Channing-Murray Foundation and the Red Herring. A two day even full of great music should be enough to …
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Roger Ebert’s cancer returns, announces “leave of presence”
Some sad news comes this morning from Roger Ebert, the acclaimed film critic, C-U native and U of I alum, who has revealed his relapse of cancer. According to his column on the Sun-Times blog, …
The Overture: April 2–7
Once again, many, many shows this week, including the inaugural Skeletal Lightning Fest going down at Channing-Murray & The Red Herring this weekend.
Krannert Center 2013 Debut Artist announced: Moye Chen, piano
From the press release: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 2013 Debut Artist Announced: Moye Chen, piano The dual roles of Krannert Center as a professional performing arts center and a training facility for students …
Error Records opens storefront last Friday, realizes physical music industry is dying
After their hard work raising the funds to open a storefront and all-ages venue in C-U (which opened last Friday), Error Records suddently realized that no one is buying music anymore. The record distro came to …
Error Records storefront opening tomorrow
According to a post on Error Records’ Facebook page, the storefront is set to open tomorrow at 10 a.m. This comes after the fundraising campaign successfully executed by Nathan Landolt a month or so ago. Here’s …
Assembly Hall releases renovation details
Here’s some information coming from the Fighting Illini Loyalty board that unveils serious detail about the upcoming renovations to Assembly Hall. Construction: March 2014 — November 2016 Project cost: $160M. Student floor seating will increase from …
40 North announces Sky Gallery winners
From the press release: MAKING ART A LANDMARK Champaign County is an incredibly creative community overflowing with talent. Adams Outdoor Advertising and 40 North | 88 West wanted to feed those creative flames by creating …
Elsinore releases teaser for new record, tour dates
Elsinore has been hard at work over about the last year or so working on their follow up to Yes Yes Yes, their locally-acclaimed debut from a few years back. Three years ago that was! Madness. …
“DIY is my religion”: a discussion with Greg Clow
There are a lot of great things going on in C-U. Greg Clow is one of those people that holds the do-it-yourself ethic very close, and demonstrates it in our cities.