Grandkids are set to start recording a debut full-length for a spring release, and are asking for your help funding it. Head over to their Kickstarter for all the details (they’ll make you dinner!), plus a …
Singer Urbana-Champaign (played by Shangela) debuts on NBC’s Community tonight. Can you feel Pierce Hawthorne’s (Chevy Chase) enthusiasm? Read more here. Photo taken from aoltv.com by NBC.
Well, that was quick. Stream/purchase Night Air on the Midway here. Evil Tents play midnight Friday at the Iron Post as part of C-U Folk and Roots.
…and it seems to poke some pretty gaping holes in Miller’s story. See it here.
Tonight on Smile Politely Radio, and just in time for Halloween weekend, we chat with Illinois folklore expert and author of spooky things, Michael Kleen. Michael latest publication is Haunting Illinois: A Tourist’s Guide to …
… an additional $200,000 per year, bumping his salary to $1.5 M If any of you feels capable of guiding the Illini basketball team to no more than 14 losses per season, and is willing …
If you’re shopping in Champaign or Urbana, you’re now paying a tithe. The county schools tax bumped our rate to 8.75%, by referendum in April 2009. I don’t know where the additional percent came from, …
Starting Jan. 1, 2012, it will be illegal in Illinois to throw certain electronics into the trash. Residents and haulers could be fined for violating the law. From the News Gazette: What: Countywide …
This lurker waited a long time to get in the building. Evidently, he headed straight for the women’s showers.
Fellow citizens… Tom Waits has dropped a new album, Bad as Me. Exile on Main St and local musicians are celebrating this by throwing a free show downtown tonight. Here’s the list of talent throwing …
I had just recently discovered that AnSun sported the best variety of drafts in West Champaign, and this sudden closing seems to have the ring of finality. (Not just a CUPHD temporary order). I still …
Open House + Cookout + Live Music Please join us as we celebrate at our Fall Hootenanny this Friday, the 28th. Check out our new line of amps, which are being made by us right …
Updated 10/25 The following email was sent to all Unit 4 staff this morning. To all staff members on behalf of Dr. Robert Malito, Interim Superintendent: From Beth Shepperd: I have resigned my position …
There’s not much information out there, but I learned this morning that Terry Masar has passed away. On a personal note, Terry represented Urbana so well, as a venue owner in Nature’s Table — the …
…whatever the hell that means. Read all about it, right here.
We get a lot of emails asking us to cover music going on in C-U, and some of them are insulting, but few are as entertaining as this one that we got last night: didn’t …
Today on Smile Politely Radio we talk to Ben Hay, Manager at Analog Outfitters in Champaign, about building a business around vintage sound equipment and repair. We chat with Ben about how the company got …
Psychic Joker Entertainment has put together ten full days of magic and mystery, to be presented at SoDo Theatre in downtown Champaign starting this Friday, October 21 and running through Halloween Night. The fun begins …
Relatively new local band, Psychic Twin, has made its first public recording available on its bandcamp page. Fans of Erin Fein and Brett Sanderson’s former band, Headlights, will probably find a lot to like in …
From the you-didn’t-hear-it-from-me file comes the text of an email from Champaign Deputy Police Chief John Murphy: I came to the conclusion a few weeks ago that I would be expected to make some accommodations …
Now, who can find Mysterious McDade?
If it wasn’t apparent that Volition Inc.’s new game, Saints Row The Third, is destined for greatness, well, People magazine reports: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20536841,00.html And for good measure: Seriously, though: congrats to our local video game moguls …
Time: Saturday, Oct. 22, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.Location: Jane Addams Bookshop In Search of the Fuller Brush Man is the the debut novel from a previous local, Doug B. Carlyle. From the Facebook Event page: …
Saturday, Oct. 15, 11:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m. WEFT to West Side Park113 N Market St (WEFT)Champaign, IL This march and rally is in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in NYC. Please bring protest signs and any …
Today on Smile Politely Radio, we will talk to Molly Poganski from the soon to be opened to the public Living Letter Press. The Living Letter Press is new print shop that’s mission is “to …
Join Jane Addams Book Shop in welcoming Deborah Neimann on Saturday, October 15 for a talk and reception where she will talk about her new book “Homegrown and Handmade”. We will start with a talk …
He nearly ripped my head off once, during a contentious football practice. Good guy though. Boisterous sense of humor, two fake hips and a chronic lip balm addiction. If you own stock in Carmex, now …
Lynn and Margaret O’Brien will be performing a “boat load of new songs” at Exile on Main Street tomorrow night, Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:00–9:00 p.m. The show is free. Go here for more information. …
Man… this one is no holds barred: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7086592/ron-zook-russell-wilson-other-second-half-storylines-watch-forde-yard-dash
Michelle Hagopian at C-U Citizen Access did some digging and ranked the top Twitter accounts in Champaign-Urbana by a Twitter grade, which takes into account number of followers and frequency of updates. The list is …
From the FB page (slightly edited): Peaceful demonstrations at noon, seven days a week at the corner of University and Randolph in Champaign, with a main event on Oct 15th, Westside Park. …
If you couldn’t make it to last Sunday’s Stories & Beer, here’s a little taste of what you missed. So go pop yourself some popcorn, open up a nice bottle of Coca-Cola and enjoy. In …
Today on Smile Politely Radio we welcome DJ Belly, one of C-U’s most well-known electronic dickerers. We will talk to him about the local DJ scene, his music and his live performance. Plus, he will …
The Station Theatre in Urbana is now accepting online reservations via a beta system: http://tinyurl.com/StationReservations The Celebration Company’s 40th season of live theatre opens this Thursday, October 6, with Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage,” directed …
This was spotted at a local Jimmy Johns. It seems a little out of date, given Buffett’s famous new rule: 11. Wealthy Americans should pay a tax rate at least as high as the middle …
From the City of Urbana website: The City of Urbana has installed a Dero Bike Fix-It bicycle repair station in downtown Urbana, just inside the Main Street entrance of the downtown Urbana parking garage. The …
Today on Smile Politely Radio we welcome Gail Rost, Store Manager of The I.D.E.A. Store. The I.D.E.A. Store is celebrating their first anniversary this week. Tune in to WEFT (90.1 FM) today at 5:30 p.m. …
Becky Stern is an artist and tutorial maker whose work combines traditional crafts like embroidery, knitting, and jewelry-making with electronics and physical computing technologies like Arduino. She is a Video Producer for MAKE, the preeminent …
Parents, if you haven’t talked to your kids about men in vans offering candy to your kids, now’s the time. From the News-Gazette: “According to police, a 12-year-old girl was walking home from school in …
Former Illini offensive coordinator Mike Locksley was fired by the University of New Mexico Sunday. Locksley had been the Lobos head football coach for the last three years. His teams won twice. The firing was …
Stories & Beer | The Iron Post | Sunday | 4:00 p.m. | Free Dear Champaign–Urbana, It’s been a few months since our last reading, and in that time, we’ve discovered how much we love …
2012 combo guard Mike La Tulip accepted a preferred walk-on offer to join the Illini basketball team next fall. La Tulip plays point for Prospect High (Mount Prospect) but is known as a sharpshooter. Check …
This year’s annual Fritz Miericke Ride to the Depot and Race to the Woods in White Heath will be Oct. 2nd and will benefit the TIMES Center Bike Fund and the White Heath Community Club. …
Urbana Public Television is proud to present three broadcasts of Urbana native Nina Paley’s critically-acclaimed film “Sita Sings the Blues.” The animated classic combines stories from the Ramayana and Paley’s personal life with the music …
Frank is out, and unless something magical happens, it would appear that former state rep Rick Winkel is in. Read all about it.
The Art Theater will be showing the award-winning documentary Bag It on Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at 7 PM. The event is co-sponsored by Prairie Rivers Network*, Champaign Surplus and The Common Ground Food Co-op. …
Apparently they don’t dig his look.
Today on Smile Politely Radio, Kelly White, Interim Director at 40 North | 88 West joins us in the studio to talk art in Champaign, and the upcoming ACE Awards that recognize individuals, artists, businesses, …
