Registration ongoing for Boneyard Fest
Artists and venues still have a couple weeks left to register for participation in 40 North | 88 West’s Boneyard Arts Fest. It’s Year 7 for the shindig, which is now four days long (April …
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Bike parking at County Market
FYI … The new County Market at Fourth and Springfield has decent bike parking on the north side:
Pollution alert
This begs the question: is the smokestack or the electric billboard producing more pollution?
Things you probably do(n’t) need
How about this? (In this recurring post, we’ll be suggesting items for sale on Champaign-Urbana’s Craigslist that you really shouldn’t have to live without.)
Braid plays to a lame crowd
Here’s an old video of Braid playing on the University of Illinois campus, but we can’t tell where. (Can you?) Our guess is this footage is from 1998, when the “Please Drive Faster” single came …
Illini open baseball season with a win
Illinois capitalized on a slew of errors to beat Iowa in its season opener, 8–3, says the Baseball Zealot over at his new blog, the Illinois Baseball Report. After losing 14–7 in game two of …
Klezmer music comes to C-U, says lbotp
Read all about it.
On this day in 1982 …
U2 played at the “University of Illinois Auditorium” (a.k.a. Foellinger Auditorium). In his typical interactive nature, Bono grabbed a camera from a photographer in the front row and took a picture of the audience, then …
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!
Best edit ever. And a good excuse to make a hint, hint that Smile Politely will be sponsoring some Lebowski action here in C-U this April. Stay tuned …
Sulking in Illinois has different take on Xinh Xinh
I assure you that my meal was good when I went there, but I can see where she’s coming from. (Our review.)