And it’s about damned time. Expect a full review of Urbana’s newest coffee shop (serving Intelligentsia!) coming soon to SP.com.
Posts by Seth Fein:
Harvest Moon Drive-In needs your help
When movie theaters make the transition to digital, officially in 2013, there stands to be a drop off in classic cinemas that simply can’t afford to buy the new required equipment. Drive-in theaters will likely …
Champaign Center Partnership debuts Mobile App
… and Smile Politely is a corporate sponsor. You should check it out; Android should be available on Wednesday. http://www.champaigncenter.com/#!home|mainPage
T.G.I.C.
Thank Goodness It’s Closing: http://www.news-gazette.com/news/business/restaurants/2012-04-07/tgi-fridays-champaign-closing.html Of course, I’m not actually glad about it, since those are people’s jobs and livelihoods at stake. But the food was terrible, and the outfits those waiters had to wear …
EbertFest single show tickets on sale at 10 a.m.
Used to be that you had to stand in line for like, an hour and shit, to get single show tickets to EbertFest films. Now, you can read about Rob McColley being discussed on the …
Bruce Weber on his way to Manhattan
Kansas, that is: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7758565/kansas-state-wildcats-hiring-bruce-weber-men-basketball-coach
ESPN reporting Groce to Illinois
No surprise here: http://espn.go.com/chicago/ncb/story/_/id/7749743/ohio-bobcats-john-groce-agrees-coach-illinois-fighting-illini
Illinois to announce new women’s basketball coach
By 11 a.m. we should know who will replace Jolette Law as the next coach of the Fighting Illini for women’s basketball. Stay tuned.
This is just mean
Credit to Paul Farahvar for the video link and the title, but man — that’s about the best way of putting it:
Boing Boing props up Urbana graffiti “artist”
$10 to anyone who can tell where this is?* http://boingboing.net/2012/02/06/graffiti-artist-in-urbana-ill.html *Paid in hugs and kisses.