Happy Birthday, Lil Nas X. Here’s a nice interaction between the “Old Town Road” phenom and Polyvinyl’s American Football: spending my birthday alone in quarantine and that’s ok pic.twitter.com/fx3YHhpZfF — nope (@LilNasX) March 16, 2020 …
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Krannert Center cancels remaining performances for spring semester
From the press release: KRANNERT CENTER PERFORMANCES CANCELED Ticket Returns To Be Issued Promenade, Intermezzo Cafe, and Ticket Office Remain Open Urbana, IL—On March 11, the University of Illinois communicated new guidelines for university operations, enacted …
Ebertfest 2020 has been cancelled
The 22nd annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, scheduled for April 15-18 at the Virginia Theater, has been cancelled. A few films and guests had been announced at this point in time, but not the full …
Illinois Marathon has been postponed
One of C-U’s biggest annual events has been postponed until the second half of this year: the Illinois Marathon. The race weekend was scheduled for April 23-25. You can see their post below via their …
SoDo Theatre is closing, will become a “bar and axe-throwing venue”
SoDo Theatre, located at 111 S. Walnut in Downtown Champaign, will soon close. The space has been home to many theatre performances and groups over the years, just take a scroll through our Arts section and …
Watch C-U’s Alex Manard this Sunday on Discovery’s Naked & Afraid
If you’re unfamiliar with this show I’m talking about, Naked and Afraid is something else. The concept of the show is this: two constestants, typically a man and a woman, are taken to various remote places, …
The Beach Boys slated for Champaign County Fair on July 23rd
The Beach Boys are slated to headline the 2020 Champaign County Fair on Friday, Thursday, July 23rd at the Champaign County Fairgrounds. Though this show won’t feature Brian Wilson, Al Jardine or David Marks, this is …
I can’t stop watching Trent Frazier drain this shot from way beyond half court
Fighting Illini Men’s Basketball just took down Nebraska at home by the score of 71-59, though I’m still stuck up on this shot by Trent Frazier that closed out the first half: …
Here are renderings from the new development at Sixth and Daniel
At Tuesday’s Champaign City Council meeting, the new development at Sixth & Daniel was a point of discussion, and now you can see what the new area of Campustown will look like (in some capacity). …
Here’s some footage from the St. Valentine’s Day Ice Storm of 1990
Although we’ve been experiencing some cold temps in C-U over the last week or so, thankfuly we’re not experiencing what happened 30 years ago. Although the dates were February 14-15, 1990, the St. Valentine’s Day …