Whether you’re actually looking to pledge your allegiance to Satan or not, you are probably willing to pledge your alliegance to coffee. That’s something I think most of us are able to get behind, at …
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Some positive news from C-U Public Health District: “Keep flattening the curve Champaign County”
As we mentioned earlier this week in our Editorial, being a good citizen during the pandemic in part involves listening to the information that comes from Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. Here’s a nice piece of …
Hogchute releases Hogchute Homestead Quarantine 2020 Mix
While Hogchute’s summer installment, Hogchute Opry, is tentatively planned for June 6th, in the interim they’ve provided us with some tunes to get us through this COVID-19 time. Hogchute has compiled 15 songs from a variety of …
John Prine has passed away at 73; Revisit his 2018 performance at the Virginia Theatre
Yesterday, legendary singer-songwriter John Prine passed away due to complications with COVID-19 at the age of 73. Just two years ago, Prine performed at the Virginia Theatre to a packed house, and you can revisit …
For some reason, Dr. Tom Pliura is posting alleged COVID-19 test results to Facebook
Dr. Tom Pliura has entered the local news cycle lately after he, an independent physician, acquired 8,000 COVID-19 tests to administer to those who wanted to get tested in the community. Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and city …
Illini Basketball’s Kofi Cockburn declares for the 2020 NBA Draft
Illinois Men’s Basketball will potentially lose star freshman center Kofi Cockburn after one season with the team, as he has declared for the 2020 NBA Draft, Champaign Room is reporting. It’s possible that he is just “testing the …
Ramona Sullivan wins democratic primary race for Circuit Judge
Ramona Sullivan has won the democratic primary race for Circuit Judge in Champaign County after it was too close to call back on March 18th. The closest contender was Ruth Wyman, who conceeded the race to …
Little Black Spiders release new EP let’s pretend this really happened
Little Black Spiders is a crunchy rock project made up of Scott Kimble (Terminus Victor), Lisa Powers, and Dave Domal. They’ve been playing more shows recently, well, before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out at least. …
Polyvinyl and a few of their artists nominated for five A2IM Libera Awards
Polyvinyl Record Company and a few artists on the label — Jay Som, Julia Jacklin, and American Football — have been nominated in the 2020 A2IM Libera Awards, Billboard reports this morning. The C-U hometown label is …
Check out this photo of Green Street taken 100 years ago
Mike Pearson, contributor to News-Gazette, FightingIllini.com, and more, posted this photo from U of I Archives of Green Street from 100 years ago. If you scroll through his timeline a bit, you can see a ton …