Feels like about 20 years ago, but here is a really great song by a Champaign band circa mid-late-ninties, The Suede Chain. Also feels like it could have had a radio edit, but the strings …
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bacaro’s Thad Morrow is cooking dinner with Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali… in Florida
You might know that owner / executive chef of bacaro Thad Morrow once interned under Mario Batali at Poe, the celebrity chef’s first NYC restaurant. Evidently, they are still really tight. And now, he’s in …
Keep Central Central signs missing “by the dozen”
When something is a terrible idea, and a community organizes to fight back against it, there’s generally a moment of desperation for those who proposed it and support it to begin with. In recent weeks, …
Ash Wednesday service at Centennial found to be “not permissible”
Last month, a teacher at Centennial High School posted to Facebook about an Ash Wednesday service that Fr. Joel Phelps was providing to students before leaving on a class field trip. Today, it was learned …
Let’s all study a bit more and be a little more careful, shall we?
Whether or not a teacher bringing a priest into a public school for Ash Wednesday is legal or not, Seth owns up to his shortcomings and challenges those who pray to do it like Jesus asked them to. Also, a note on the nature of punishment, and forgiveness.
A teacher at Centennial had a priest conduct Ash Wednesday service in school today; UPDATED
In a city that is known for having played host to the landmark trial defending the 1st Amendment right to the Separation of Church and State (McCollum v. Board of Education), it is with a …
After improbable Illini win, Mayor Gerard gets the last laugh
Say what you will about the fact that Gerard hasn’t raised one red cent for his campaign this quarter. Or make fun of him for his peculiar social moments during his tenure as Mayor, both …
News-Gazette temporarily stops publishing recently jailed booking photos
Back in January, I took the buffoon at the News-Gazoo to task about publishing the photos from the Champaign County jail for recent arrests. After all, these folks are innocent until proven guilty. What’s worse …
Petition for Dodds Park circulating on the Information Superhighway
This just in: there’s a new petition via change.org asking the Champaign Park District Board to reconsider allowing a trade for Dodds Park as a place to put the new Central High School. Will this …
Blind Pig to start bottling beer in 2015
From the horse’s (Chris Knight) mouth: This is a very very good thing. The new facility will be opening on the corner of Market and Washington in north Downtown Champaign. And with what we hear …